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16,189,760 | 16,189,566 | 1 | 3 | 16,186,591 | train | <story><title>List of oldest companies: Before 1300</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies#Before_1300</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rconti</author><text>Lots of breweries. Belgian Abbeys; Grimbergen, Affligem... Can anyone opine on how similar today&#x27;s beers might taste to how they did &quot;back in the day?&quot; I&#x27;m sure some of the beers are based on the original recipes, and with the Reinheitsgebot, it&#x27;s fairly plausible that all of the ingredients in the German beers in particular are very similar. But I&#x27;m not sure how the process might have changed over the years, or how the ingredients might taste different now than they did a century ago.</text></item><item><author>navidfarhadi</author><text>The oldest name on this list that stood out to me is Weihenstephan brewery, founded in 1040 in Bavaria, Germany. They have some of the finest lagers I have ever tried. If you enjoy crisp, refreshing lager beers, I highly recommend their beers. My favorite one is probably the Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier, followed by the Hefeweissbier Dunkel.<p>Note: I am not affiliated in any way with the company, I just highly enjoy their beers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>soundwave106</author><text>The modern Trappist Belgium styles (&quot;dubbel, tripel&quot; etc.) were pretty much conceived by Westmalle in the 1920s-1930s. (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.homebrewersassociation.org&#x2F;how-to-brew&#x2F;a-brief-history-of-the-trappists&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.homebrewersassociation.org&#x2F;how-to-brew&#x2F;a-brief-h...</a>). Duvel is the template for the Belgium Golden Strong variety of beer -- that <i>also</i> was developed around the 1920s-1930s. (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;allaboutbeer.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;belgian-strong-golden-ale-2&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;allaboutbeer.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;belgian-strong-golden-ale-2&#x2F;</a>)<p>So, no, the beers back then did <i>not</i> taste similar to today&#x27;s beer. I would say that lambics might be the closest reflection to a style that is close to &quot;back in the day&quot;. (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lostbeers.com&#x2F;lambic-the-real-story&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lostbeers.com&#x2F;lambic-the-real-story&#x2F;</a>) Even then, the link between today&#x27;s lambic and the past only goes to the 1700s at best, and it&#x27;s not clear how representative it is (at least what I can see from skimming the linked blog with Google Translate&#x27;s help -- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lambik1801.wordpress.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lambik1801.wordpress.com&#x2F;</a>).<p>There are also plenty of technical differences between brewing now and brewing then that would make for a different taste. It was probably a bit sweeter (less attenuation), possibly spiced different before the 1600s, possibly smoky until coal drying came into the norm, probably dark until pale malt was developed in the 19th century, probably had more room for sour notes (before pure yeast cultures were developed in the late 19th-early 20th century), etc.</text></comment> | <story><title>List of oldest companies: Before 1300</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies#Before_1300</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rconti</author><text>Lots of breweries. Belgian Abbeys; Grimbergen, Affligem... Can anyone opine on how similar today&#x27;s beers might taste to how they did &quot;back in the day?&quot; I&#x27;m sure some of the beers are based on the original recipes, and with the Reinheitsgebot, it&#x27;s fairly plausible that all of the ingredients in the German beers in particular are very similar. But I&#x27;m not sure how the process might have changed over the years, or how the ingredients might taste different now than they did a century ago.</text></item><item><author>navidfarhadi</author><text>The oldest name on this list that stood out to me is Weihenstephan brewery, founded in 1040 in Bavaria, Germany. They have some of the finest lagers I have ever tried. If you enjoy crisp, refreshing lager beers, I highly recommend their beers. My favorite one is probably the Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier, followed by the Hefeweissbier Dunkel.<p>Note: I am not affiliated in any way with the company, I just highly enjoy their beers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>timcederman</author><text>I did a beer tour of Belgium and apparently all of their beers are very modern (at most ~100 years old), and the dates refer to either the first brewery in the area, or the abbey itself.<p>Not specific to Belgian&#x2F;German beers, but I found this interesting: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;AskHistorians&#x2F;comments&#x2F;2vo36v&#x2F;during_the_middle_ages_was_the_beer_they_drank&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;AskHistorians&#x2F;comments&#x2F;2vo36v&#x2F;durin...</a></text></comment> |
26,671,439 | 26,671,377 | 1 | 3 | 26,664,714 | train | <story><title>Zero click vulnerability in Apple’s macOS Mail</title><url>https://mikko-kenttala.medium.com/zero-click-vulnerability-in-apples-macos-mail-59e0c14b106c</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>philosopher1234</author><text>I like this idea.<p>1. Company verifies the bug<p>2. Assigns it a price according to impact<p>3. Keeps details hidden until Apple pays them, then reveals the bug. Thus Apple is forced to pay, but bad actors dont get access.<p>Different bug markets can compete to correctly price bugs.</text></item><item><author>Zhenya</author><text>It seems backwards that Apple acknowledges the issue, PATCHES it, but still hasn&#x27;t paid out.<p>Maybe a good business is bug escrow company.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fractionalhare</author><text>In all likelihood, Apple would just refuse to play ball and tell them to go ahead and sell it to someone else if they&#x27;re so confident. Zerodium and other markets already exist, and I don&#x27;t think people at Apple lose much sleep over it. And you better hope you close that deal before Google Project Zero finds it independently and tells Apple for free. Plus the mere mention that a vulnerability exists in a specific piece of software may lead Apple engineers to finding and patching it before you can sell it. Give away too many details and it&#x27;s burned.<p>People tend to vastly overestimate the economic impact of an exploited security vulnerability. A vulnerability which can be patched in a centralized manner has a low value half-life: it rapidly decreases in value over time. I would guess over 90% of active daily users of macOS already have the patch for this bug due to automatic updates. New buyers are essentially guaranteed not to have the vulnerability at all. The vulnerability would have to be absolutely catastrophic to be worth something, and in that case it would probably be used for targeted exploitation and burned after a short period of time.<p>Contrast with something like heartbleed, which is still around. That is a vulnerability with serious half-life and significant economic impact. The pool of available victims who can be exploited by heartbleed is nontrivial and persistent years later. Criminals will actually pay for something like that.</text></comment> | <story><title>Zero click vulnerability in Apple’s macOS Mail</title><url>https://mikko-kenttala.medium.com/zero-click-vulnerability-in-apples-macos-mail-59e0c14b106c</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>philosopher1234</author><text>I like this idea.<p>1. Company verifies the bug<p>2. Assigns it a price according to impact<p>3. Keeps details hidden until Apple pays them, then reveals the bug. Thus Apple is forced to pay, but bad actors dont get access.<p>Different bug markets can compete to correctly price bugs.</text></item><item><author>Zhenya</author><text>It seems backwards that Apple acknowledges the issue, PATCHES it, but still hasn&#x27;t paid out.<p>Maybe a good business is bug escrow company.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>twox2</author><text>Bug bounty doesn&#x27;t mean that the reporter is selling the bug they find for a reward. It&#x27;s a gesture of gratitude from the company. This whole conversation is coming from a place of entitlement.</text></comment> |
21,230,556 | 21,230,541 | 1 | 2 | 21,230,021 | train | <story><title>Slow walking at 45 'a sign of faster ageing'</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-50015982</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>greysphere</author><text>This sounds like one of the billion things correlated with having less money.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.citylab.com&#x2F;life&#x2F;2012&#x2F;03&#x2F;why-people-cities-walk-fast&#x2F;1550&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.citylab.com&#x2F;life&#x2F;2012&#x2F;03&#x2F;why-people-cities-walk-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Slow walking at 45 'a sign of faster ageing'</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-50015982</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Scoundreller</author><text>&gt; A number of treatments, from low-calorie diets to taking the drug metformin, are currently being investigated.<p>Everything I read about metformin is exciting: cheap, simple structure, causes weight loss, reduced all-cause mortality in diabetics (ie: they studied it long enough to make sure it works, not just to ensure it reduces blood sugar), reduces blood sugar without hypoglycemia and might prevent cancer.</text></comment> |
39,543,950 | 39,544,144 | 1 | 3 | 39,542,128 | train | <story><title>Julius Caesar's Year of Confusion</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240227-how-julius-caesar-made-the-longest-year-in-history-and-brought-us-leap-years</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jjtheblunt</author><text>What&#x27;s &quot;weird&quot; is i think we were taught in school that July and August were added by the Caesars (with their names), causing the 2 month shift you mention. Now i wonder where that idea came from, after this neat article.</text></item><item><author>jihadjihad</author><text>Nobody ever explained in school that the reason the numbers in the names of September, October, November, and December (7, 8, 9, 10) don&#x27;t match up to their actual month number (9, 10, 11, 12) is because the Roman calendar began in March, not January. If you start from March, they line up perfectly. It also explains why the seemingly arbitrary choice of storing the extra leap day in February makes sense--just tack it onto the end!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>perihelions</author><text>It&#x27;s weird our calendar is named after actual people. The 1st French Republic briefly reversed this, but their solution didn&#x27;t have staying power,<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;French_Republican_calendar#Months" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;French_Republican_calendar#Mon...</a><p>I wish everyone on HN a happy &quot;Windy&quot;! :)<p>edit: Oh a cool fact in this tangent: the astronomer who discovered Planet 7 <i>attempted</i> to name it after a human—his patron, the British monarch George III. That would be an entertaining alternate history if it had gone that way!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Uranus#Name" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Uranus#Name</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Julius Caesar's Year of Confusion</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240227-how-julius-caesar-made-the-longest-year-in-history-and-brought-us-leap-years</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jjtheblunt</author><text>What&#x27;s &quot;weird&quot; is i think we were taught in school that July and August were added by the Caesars (with their names), causing the 2 month shift you mention. Now i wonder where that idea came from, after this neat article.</text></item><item><author>jihadjihad</author><text>Nobody ever explained in school that the reason the numbers in the names of September, October, November, and December (7, 8, 9, 10) don&#x27;t match up to their actual month number (9, 10, 11, 12) is because the Roman calendar began in March, not January. If you start from March, they line up perfectly. It also explains why the seemingly arbitrary choice of storing the extra leap day in February makes sense--just tack it onto the end!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>erehweb</author><text>Also of interest - the Senate offered to rename November for Tiberius, but he declined, saying &quot;What will you do if you have 13 Caesars?&quot; (Cited from: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cointalk.com&#x2F;threads&#x2F;welcome-to-tiberius%E2%80%99month.349424&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cointalk.com&#x2F;threads&#x2F;welcome-to-tiberius%E2%80%9...</a>)</text></comment> |
7,808,741 | 7,807,935 | 1 | 2 | 7,806,499 | train | <story><title>Brokers use ‘billions’ of data points to profile Americans</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/brokers-use-billions-of-data-points-to-profile-americans/2014/05/27/b4207b96-e5b2-11e3-a86b-362fd5443d19_story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nthitz</author><text>Quick google search found this document detailing the various groups and clusters that one of these brokers uses.<p><a href="http://reference.mapinfo.com/software/anysite_segmentation/english/2_0_1/PersonicX_Binder.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;reference.mapinfo.com&#x2F;software&#x2F;anysite_segmentation&#x2F;e...</a> [pdf]<p>Which cluster do you fit in?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>superuser2</author><text>Slightly tangential, but I feel like a few people on HN would appreciate this Vienna Teng song, named for the company that wrote the document you posted.<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mvrKfcOnDg&amp;feature=kp" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=0mvrKfcOnDg&amp;feature=kp</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Brokers use ‘billions’ of data points to profile Americans</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/brokers-use-billions-of-data-points-to-profile-americans/2014/05/27/b4207b96-e5b2-11e3-a86b-362fd5443d19_story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nthitz</author><text>Quick google search found this document detailing the various groups and clusters that one of these brokers uses.<p><a href="http://reference.mapinfo.com/software/anysite_segmentation/english/2_0_1/PersonicX_Binder.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;reference.mapinfo.com&#x2F;software&#x2F;anysite_segmentation&#x2F;e...</a> [pdf]<p>Which cluster do you fit in?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ohhnoodont</author><text>I would assume that document to be satirical if it weren&#x27;t so thorough.</text></comment> |
23,801,685 | 23,792,875 | 1 | 3 | 23,792,527 | train | <story><title>Healthy Self-Doubt</title><url>https://nerdygirl.com/2020/07/02/healthy-self-doubt/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>TopHand</author><text>For most of my career I worked with a small group (20 to 30) group of highly educated and mostly brilliant people. I barely graduated high school. As the years passed and we all began to age, I realized that the amount of knowledge we all had obtained during our tenure was an irreplaceable resource for the company. In order to help the younger incoming people bypass this learning curve I set up a wiki where group members could publish articles that they thought may help others not to have to re-invent the wheel. What I discovered was that most of these brilliant people would not share a lot of their knowledge. I often wondered if even these brilliant people suffered imposter syndrome and that they didn&#x27;t share this knowledge for fear they would be found out.<p>What I did learn from the most brilliant members of the group was to never be afraid to ask a question, even if it sounded ignorant. Never be afraid to expose a gap in your knowledge. If you don&#x27;t, your missing an opportunity to increase your learning.</text></comment> | <story><title>Healthy Self-Doubt</title><url>https://nerdygirl.com/2020/07/02/healthy-self-doubt/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wilsocr88</author><text>I wonder how much of this ends up being from gender-based socialization. Maybe this individual got just the right balance of encouragement and luck in her upbringing to build a healthy balance of self-confidence in her abilities and self-doubt to encourage her to keep learning.<p>Meanwhile, a ton of men are insecure and scared, but they&#x27;re treated as &quot;the default choice,&quot; so in many cases they may not receive that formative boost of self-confidence. Thus, we get grown men convinced that they don&#x27;t belong in their own careers.</text></comment> |
41,182,353 | 41,181,516 | 1 | 2 | 41,180,976 | train | <story><title>AMD Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X Offer Excellent Linux Performance</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/review/ryzen-9600x-9700x</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>adrian_b</author><text>The Phoronix benchmarks show exactly the expected results.<p>However, there are some sites where the interpretation of similar results is ridiculous, for instance TechSpot.<p>On that site, the author complains that e.g. 9700X is faster than 7700X in the multi-threaded benchmarks by only a few percent. Nevertheless, the author fails to mention that 7700X is configured for an 105 W TDP, while 9700X is configured for a 65 W TDP.<p>For most of the new series, AMD has chosen a default configuration that favors energy efficiency over speed. Therefore, in the default configuration most of the improvements result in a much higher energy efficiency and an only slightly higher speed in multi-threaded benchmarks. The results measured by the reviewer were exactly as expected and the complaints make absolutely no sense.<p>After that, the reviewer notices that the new series show a lower power consumption by a few tens of watts, but then the reviewer complains that when compared to the entire computer system power consumption that means only around 10%, so it is not impressive.<p>However, the reviewer fails to point that this computer system includes an RTX 4090, which alone has a power consumption comparable with a couple of normal desktops. The reviewed computer has a power consumption around 500 W, many times greater than a normal desktop computer. Therefore a power saving that would be huge for a normal desktop appears modest for such a behemoth. Again, the complaints are ridiculous.<p>Moreover, the reviewer fails to notice that in single-threaded benchmarks the new Zen 5 CPUs match or even exceed the fastest Raptor Lake CPUs, despite the latter having much higher clock frequencies. That means that when the faster Zen 5 models will be launched next week, they will beat easily any Intel CPU in single-threaded benchmarks.<p>These results are excellent, and not a failure, like the weird reviewer concludes.<p>Moreover, that bad review has not tested the domains where Zen 5 has up to double performance when compared to any previous desktop CPU, like floating-point computations, cryptography or ML&#x2F;AI. These use cases alone are a good enough reason for upgrades for many of those who use such CPUs for professional purposes and not for games.</text></comment> | <story><title>AMD Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X Offer Excellent Linux Performance</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/review/ryzen-9600x-9700x</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jjice</author><text>AMD has been doing really well on their CPU side the last few years, but with Intel&#x27;s recent issues at the some time as Zen 5, I have to imagine this is going to be a good time for them going forward.<p>I remember when AMD was the budget choice that threw raw speed and cores at the problem with CPUs like the FX 83XX chips and Intel was the real player (memories of building my first computer in high school). I love the switch up. I hope Intel can get their comeback as well (without just throwing 240W at the processor). I love some competition in the x86 market.</text></comment> |
5,706,022 | 5,706,069 | 1 | 2 | 5,705,315 | train | <story><title>Come here and work on hard problems – except the ones on our doorstep</title><url>http://programmingisterrible.com/post/50421878989/come-here-and-work-on-hard-problems-except-the-ones</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>downandout</author><text>This speaks to a larger problem: The world simply doesn't need many of the people born into it. Parents in the US have children for recreational purposes - child birth rates do not fluctuate with the demand for labor. These kids grow up, and many of them wind up sleeping on the streets of their chosen city or more commonly just barely living paycheck-to-paycheck, because there is no societal need for them. This bears itself out in statistics: 25% of households have a net worth of zero or less (negative net worth). 22% of children in the US live in homes below the poverty line.<p>In our world, the needs of many can be met by the work of a few. Only those few will prosper, while the rest languish. The harsh reality is that prospective parents that don't have anything to pass onto their children need to take a hard look at whether they should be having children, given that going forward there may very well be no way for those children to earn a living.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>noonespecial</author><text>You need a great number of many to create a pool large enough to get those precious few that can advance humanity enough to do all of that providing by the few.<p>Humanity <i>could</i> be two people living in a grass hut finding just enough berries to eat each day, but it wouldn't be much fun.</text></comment> | <story><title>Come here and work on hard problems – except the ones on our doorstep</title><url>http://programmingisterrible.com/post/50421878989/come-here-and-work-on-hard-problems-except-the-ones</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>downandout</author><text>This speaks to a larger problem: The world simply doesn't need many of the people born into it. Parents in the US have children for recreational purposes - child birth rates do not fluctuate with the demand for labor. These kids grow up, and many of them wind up sleeping on the streets of their chosen city or more commonly just barely living paycheck-to-paycheck, because there is no societal need for them. This bears itself out in statistics: 25% of households have a net worth of zero or less (negative net worth). 22% of children in the US live in homes below the poverty line.<p>In our world, the needs of many can be met by the work of a few. Only those few will prosper, while the rest languish. The harsh reality is that prospective parents that don't have anything to pass onto their children need to take a hard look at whether they should be having children, given that going forward there may very well be no way for those children to earn a living.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>downandout</author><text>FYI whomever is downvoting this - you can downvote it all you want. It doesn't make it any less true. I'll take the hit on my karma points on the off chance it makes someone think, even for a second, about not perpetrating the selfish act of cruelty that is bringing a child into an impoverished existence.</text></comment> |
8,638,949 | 8,638,004 | 1 | 3 | 8,637,365 | train | <story><title>Google launches Contributor, a crowdfunding tool for publishers</title><url>https://gigaom.com/2014/11/20/google-launches-contributor-a-crowdfunding-tool-for-publishers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>munificent</author><text>One way to look at this is that you&#x27;re purchasing your own attention.<p>An ad supported site works like this:<p>1. They spend effort producing some content.
2. You want to give all of your attention to that content.
3. Advertisers also want your attention.
4. To support their efforts, the creator diverts a fraction of your attention away from the content to the ad and the advertiser pays them for it.<p>With this system, you basically bid and buy back that fraction of the attention diverted to advertising, and that money goes directly to the creator.<p>One really interesting aspect of this is determining what your own attention is &quot;worth&quot; on the open market. By building this on top of AdWords system, they can calculate that automatically. If advertisers decide your attention is worth more and want to keep those ads in front of your face, they have to pay more, which again goes to the content creator.<p>I think it&#x27;s brilliant.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google launches Contributor, a crowdfunding tool for publishers</title><url>https://gigaom.com/2014/11/20/google-launches-contributor-a-crowdfunding-tool-for-publishers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>minimaxir</author><text>&gt; <i>Google said the new feature is launching with 10 publishing partners, including Mashable, Imgur, WikiHow and Science Daily.</i><p>Er, aren&#x27;t most of the listed parters known for reposting unoriginal content from other parts of the web?<p>I&#x27;m a fan of Patreon because it helps facilitate good original content which the internet needs. This doesn&#x27;t.</text></comment> |
9,732,980 | 9,732,863 | 1 | 3 | 9,731,903 | train | <story><title>My Position On The Disney Layoffs</title><url>https://plus.google.com/+KeithBarrett/posts/PWA6BXs7dbS</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Frondo</author><text>No, because you can&#x27;t ship a Burger King job to China.</text></item><item><author>marknutter</author><text>Wouldn&#x27;t raising the minimum was make shipping jobs to China even more attractive?</text></item><item><author>melling</author><text>How do you determine what&#x27;s &quot;healthy&quot;? Millions of Americans are caught in an endless cycle of poverty and we&#x27;re fighting a $15 minimum wage. We&#x27;ve shipped millions of manufacturing jobs to China so it&#x27;s harder to get a good job without a college education. Now we want to reduce the salaries of well-paid jobs by onshoring them.<p>I&#x27;d say we should take a closer look at what we&#x27;re actually doing.</text></item><item><author>shas3</author><text>Protectionism doesn&#x27;t work. There is wide consensus among economists on comparative advantage [1]. Healthy, non-protectionist immigration policies have been proposed to have similar effects as free trade [2,3].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Comparative_advantage" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Comparative_advantage</a>
[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.economics.uci.edu&#x2F;files&#x2F;docs&#x2F;micro&#x2F;s07&#x2F;Peri.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.economics.uci.edu&#x2F;files&#x2F;docs&#x2F;micro&#x2F;s07&#x2F;Peri.pdf</a>
[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;SB10000872396390443477104577551250082215534" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;SB100008723963904434771045775512...</a></text></item><item><author>justizin</author><text>&quot;I&#x27;m sharing news about it because this experience has taught me the H-1B Visa program needs to change to protect others in the future.&quot;<p>Anyone who still supports FWD.us and believes that the US doesn&#x27;t produce enough professionals to satisfy the needs of our businesses is straight up, while they are reading this, actually holding a crack pipe to their mouth.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xienze</author><text>But you can turn a BK job into a robot job...</text></comment> | <story><title>My Position On The Disney Layoffs</title><url>https://plus.google.com/+KeithBarrett/posts/PWA6BXs7dbS</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Frondo</author><text>No, because you can&#x27;t ship a Burger King job to China.</text></item><item><author>marknutter</author><text>Wouldn&#x27;t raising the minimum was make shipping jobs to China even more attractive?</text></item><item><author>melling</author><text>How do you determine what&#x27;s &quot;healthy&quot;? Millions of Americans are caught in an endless cycle of poverty and we&#x27;re fighting a $15 minimum wage. We&#x27;ve shipped millions of manufacturing jobs to China so it&#x27;s harder to get a good job without a college education. Now we want to reduce the salaries of well-paid jobs by onshoring them.<p>I&#x27;d say we should take a closer look at what we&#x27;re actually doing.</text></item><item><author>shas3</author><text>Protectionism doesn&#x27;t work. There is wide consensus among economists on comparative advantage [1]. Healthy, non-protectionist immigration policies have been proposed to have similar effects as free trade [2,3].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Comparative_advantage" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Comparative_advantage</a>
[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.economics.uci.edu&#x2F;files&#x2F;docs&#x2F;micro&#x2F;s07&#x2F;Peri.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.economics.uci.edu&#x2F;files&#x2F;docs&#x2F;micro&#x2F;s07&#x2F;Peri.pdf</a>
[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;SB10000872396390443477104577551250082215534" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;SB100008723963904434771045775512...</a></text></item><item><author>justizin</author><text>&quot;I&#x27;m sharing news about it because this experience has taught me the H-1B Visa program needs to change to protect others in the future.&quot;<p>Anyone who still supports FWD.us and believes that the US doesn&#x27;t produce enough professionals to satisfy the needs of our businesses is straight up, while they are reading this, actually holding a crack pipe to their mouth.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>johnchristopher</author><text>Not that I agree with the parent but jobs that weren&#x27;t burger king like were actually shipped to China and others.</text></comment> |
33,007,062 | 33,004,705 | 1 | 3 | 33,003,245 | train | <story><title>Snakeware – Linux distro with Python userspace inspired by Commodore 64</title><url>https://github.com/joshiemoore/snakeware</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thesuperbigfrog</author><text>Very cool project.<p>There were similar ones done with Perl:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.foo.be&#x2F;docs&#x2F;tpj&#x2F;issues&#x2F;vol5_2&#x2F;tpj0502-0009.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.foo.be&#x2F;docs&#x2F;tpj&#x2F;issues&#x2F;vol5_2&#x2F;tpj0502-0009.html</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.sudobits.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;08&#x2F;18&#x2F;perl-linux-a-linux-distro-for-perl-lovers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.sudobits.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;08&#x2F;18&#x2F;perl-linux-a-linux-dist...</a><p>All of these projects seem to be reaching for an integrated programming language &#x2F; operating system like the Lisp machines of yore. It was before my time, so I never got to use one, but from what I have read, they were quite amazing to use.</text></comment> | <story><title>Snakeware – Linux distro with Python userspace inspired by Commodore 64</title><url>https://github.com/joshiemoore/snakeware</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bb88</author><text>Did xonsh ever take off?<p>I was using it briefly a while back, and I kinda sorta enjoyed being able to write python code directly in the shell.</text></comment> |
39,351,331 | 39,350,804 | 1 | 2 | 39,346,870 | train | <story><title>I applied for a software role at FedEx and was asked to take a personality test</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1ap1345/i_applied_for_a_software_role_at_fedex_and_was/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>squeaky-clean</author><text>I interviewed at Burger King in college, the manager told me I was the only applicant in their system to get above 80% on the personality test. It was incredibly easy things like, &quot;How many minutes are acceptable to show up late for your shift? 5 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, being late is unacceptable&quot;. Or &quot;If you knew there were no cameras able to see you, and no other employees around, how much money is okay to take from the register? $1, $5, $20, any amount is unacceptable&quot;<p>He said something along the lines of &quot;I know some employees are going to try to steal from the register, but why would they admit that in an interview?</text></item><item><author>vundercind</author><text>I’m convinced most use of these is actually testing for:<p>1) bright enough to answer to achieve just about any desired outcome (usually not a high bar),<p>2) socially&#x2F;politically aware enough to realize which outcomes will be good, and which will be bad; and,<p>3) agreeable&#x2F;compliant enough to go ahead and game the quiz to achieve a good outcome without raising a fuss.</text></item><item><author>niceice</author><text>You can take it here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fedexdataworksprod.traitify.com&#x2F;assessment&#x2F;31449c4a-2abe-42d1-b96c-38403abc5b23?survey_type=PERSONALITY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fedexdataworksprod.traitify.com&#x2F;assessment&#x2F;31449c4a-...</a><p>Each one has a title like &quot;Starter Not a Finisher&quot;, &quot;Frequently Change My Mind&quot;, &quot;Always Wonder Why&quot;, &quot;Easily Offended&quot;, &quot;Art Isn&#x27;t My Thing&quot;, &quot;Unstoppable&quot;, &quot;Make Friends Everywhere&quot;, &quot;Good Enough&quot;, &quot;Not My Job&quot;, &quot;Tend to Feel Sad&quot;, &quot;Volunteering&quot;, &quot;Believe the Best of People&quot;, &quot;Hard to Start a New Task&quot;, &quot;Loves the Social Scene&quot;, &quot;Chats in Elevators&quot;, &quot;Natural Leader&quot;, &quot;Sometimes Thoughtless&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kemayo</author><text>I took one once (at iZod, I think), which included some tripwire questions. The manager said afterwards that e.g. if you saw &quot;a customer left $0.02 in change on the counter when they left the store, what do you do?&quot; and you picked &quot;I chase them down the block to give it back&quot;, that&#x27;s a sign that you&#x27;re bullshitting the questions too hard.</text></comment> | <story><title>I applied for a software role at FedEx and was asked to take a personality test</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1ap1345/i_applied_for_a_software_role_at_fedex_and_was/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>squeaky-clean</author><text>I interviewed at Burger King in college, the manager told me I was the only applicant in their system to get above 80% on the personality test. It was incredibly easy things like, &quot;How many minutes are acceptable to show up late for your shift? 5 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, being late is unacceptable&quot;. Or &quot;If you knew there were no cameras able to see you, and no other employees around, how much money is okay to take from the register? $1, $5, $20, any amount is unacceptable&quot;<p>He said something along the lines of &quot;I know some employees are going to try to steal from the register, but why would they admit that in an interview?</text></item><item><author>vundercind</author><text>I’m convinced most use of these is actually testing for:<p>1) bright enough to answer to achieve just about any desired outcome (usually not a high bar),<p>2) socially&#x2F;politically aware enough to realize which outcomes will be good, and which will be bad; and,<p>3) agreeable&#x2F;compliant enough to go ahead and game the quiz to achieve a good outcome without raising a fuss.</text></item><item><author>niceice</author><text>You can take it here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fedexdataworksprod.traitify.com&#x2F;assessment&#x2F;31449c4a-2abe-42d1-b96c-38403abc5b23?survey_type=PERSONALITY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fedexdataworksprod.traitify.com&#x2F;assessment&#x2F;31449c4a-...</a><p>Each one has a title like &quot;Starter Not a Finisher&quot;, &quot;Frequently Change My Mind&quot;, &quot;Always Wonder Why&quot;, &quot;Easily Offended&quot;, &quot;Art Isn&#x27;t My Thing&quot;, &quot;Unstoppable&quot;, &quot;Make Friends Everywhere&quot;, &quot;Good Enough&quot;, &quot;Not My Job&quot;, &quot;Tend to Feel Sad&quot;, &quot;Volunteering&quot;, &quot;Believe the Best of People&quot;, &quot;Hard to Start a New Task&quot;, &quot;Loves the Social Scene&quot;, &quot;Chats in Elevators&quot;, &quot;Natural Leader&quot;, &quot;Sometimes Thoughtless&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>strictnein</author><text>In college I worked at Circuit City selling computers. Lots of similar questions. &quot;Is it okay to take display merchandise if others are doing it?&quot; type stuff. Definitely weeds out some people I guess.</text></comment> |
22,027,892 | 22,027,738 | 1 | 3 | 22,027,134 | train | <story><title>Rust DataBase Connectivity (RDBC)</title><url>https://andygrove.io/2020/01/rust-database-connectivity-rdbc/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CodesInChaos</author><text>1. Can `Box&lt;dyn RowAccessor&gt;` even work like that, considering it&#x27;s not object safe? My understanding is that adding the `Self:Sized` bound to `get` makes it compile, but also means that this method won&#x27;t be available in a dynamic context, so the accessor you get from the rowset is completely useless.<p>2. Why do the accessors return results? IO errors should already happen when loading into the rowset. So at that point the only error the column accessor could run into is an out of bounds index, which is a panic worthy programming error.<p>3. Why do the accessors return options? Shouldn&#x27;t that be absorbed into the generic `T` and only be used for nullable columns?<p>4. Why return owned accessors (boxes) instead of references?<p>5. Columnar datastorage without any low level access to the in-memory representation seems rather pointless, for a performance point of view. You can&#x27;t access it with SIMD instructions and incur an indirect call overhead for each accessed element. Do you expect people to downcast the column accessor to a specific type for high performance access?<p>IMO abstracting over storage formats via dynamic dispatch is the wrong approach. The proper way is making all types take a generic a parameter for the format.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rust DataBase Connectivity (RDBC)</title><url>https://andygrove.io/2020/01/rust-database-connectivity-rdbc/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pimeys</author><text>There are also other projects working solving similar problems.<p>The other is sqlx[0] serving as an asynchronous crate connecting to mysql and postgresql that validates the queries at compile time and is built as a new ground-up implementation using async&#x2F;await and async-std.<p>And our project is quaint[1] which builds on top of existing tokio-based database crates giving a unified interface and a query builder.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crates.io&#x2F;crates&#x2F;sqlx" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crates.io&#x2F;crates&#x2F;sqlx</a>
[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crates.io&#x2F;crates&#x2F;quaint&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crates.io&#x2F;crates&#x2F;quaint&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
41,452,070 | 41,451,405 | 1 | 2 | 41,447,758 | train | <story><title>The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in Hachette vs. Internet Archive</title><url>https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca2.60988/gov.uscourts.ca2.60988.306.1.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tombert</author><text>This is why I stopped donating to IA, and I will not donate until they get new leadership.<p>I&#x27;m a very big supporter of a lot of what IA does, but I feel if I donate, my money is just going to fund more and more legal defenses because Brewster Kahle is being stubborn, and I&#x27;m afraid it&#x27;s going to lead to the entire Archive being shut down.<p>I&#x27;ve mentioned this before, but there are lots of cases where IA will let you download full video games for the switch that are still being actively sold [1]. The same applies to a lot of movies and TV shows, available via torrents no less.<p>Before someone gives me a lecture about data harboring laws and fair use, I know that it is technically on the copyright holder to issue takedown requests for infringing material, but even still, I think they&#x27;d be smart to be a bit proactive about this. If <i>I</i> know that the Internet Archive is an easy place to get pirated material, then I&#x27;m quite confident that their staff does as well. If there&#x27;s even one employee email that implies that they know about pirated content but didn&#x27;t bother taking it down, then I think that&#x27;s grounds for a lawsuit (though I&#x27;m not a lawyer).<p>Much as I respect him for founding IA, I think that Kahle needs to be replaced as a leader.<p>[1] I&#x27;m not going to link it here because I&#x27;m not sure HN&#x27;s policy on potentially legally dubious material, but it is not hard to find.</text></item><item><author>ilamont</author><text>This has been playing out for many years. And it&#x27;s all because Brewster Kahle decided that an overly broad interpretation of the Internet Archive&#x27;s mission trumped the rights of authors and publishers, and the laws of the United States.<p>When IA was asked to stop CDL - many times - he continued. The National Writers Union tried to open a dialogue as early as 2010 but was ignored:<p><i>The Internet Archive says it would rather talk with writers individually than talk to the NWU or other writers’ organizations. But requests by NWU members to talk to or meet with the Internet Archive have been ignored or rebuffed.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nwu.org&#x2F;nwu-denounces-cdl&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nwu.org&#x2F;nwu-denounces-cdl&#x2F;</a><p>When the requests to abandon CDL turned into demands, Kahle dug in his heels. When the inevitable lawsuits followed, and IA lost, he insisted that he was still in the right and plowed ahead with appeals.<p>He also opened a new front in the court of public opinion. In his blog posts and interviews with U.S. media, Kahle portrays the court cases and legal judgements as a crusade against the Internet Archive and all librarians (see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.archive.org&#x2F;2023&#x2F;12&#x2F;15&#x2F;brewster-kahle-appeal-statement&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.archive.org&#x2F;2023&#x2F;12&#x2F;15&#x2F;brewster-kahle-appeal-st...</a>). It&#x27;s not. It&#x27;s the logical outcome of one man&#x27;s seemingly fanatical conviction against the law and the people who work very hard to bring new books into being.<p>In addition, there has been real collateral damage to the many noble aspects of the Internet Archive. Legal fees and judgements have diverted resources away from the Wayback Machine, the library of public domain works, and other IA programs that provide real value to society. I truly hope the organization can survive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>orbisvicis</author><text>So the IA should be forked; you can support the fork and people like me Brewster Kahle&#x27;s original.<p>People who frequent libraries think CDL at retail prices is just; others that it is an end-run around publisher&#x27;s rights.<p>But libraries pay so much for their limited-lending copies! Why isn&#x27;t there any support for regional or global libraries? Publishers are like a syndicate but there&#x27;s no opposing union so they run ramshod over the proletariat. Are libraries not good things? Beacons of culture and so forth? The IA clearly can&#x27;t afford to fund CDL at library rates, but can&#x27;t it get funding! Why won&#x27;t the government step in and decree a federal library? Depending on geography, you&#x27;re local library is probably already funded at the state and federal level.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in Hachette vs. Internet Archive</title><url>https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca2.60988/gov.uscourts.ca2.60988.306.1.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tombert</author><text>This is why I stopped donating to IA, and I will not donate until they get new leadership.<p>I&#x27;m a very big supporter of a lot of what IA does, but I feel if I donate, my money is just going to fund more and more legal defenses because Brewster Kahle is being stubborn, and I&#x27;m afraid it&#x27;s going to lead to the entire Archive being shut down.<p>I&#x27;ve mentioned this before, but there are lots of cases where IA will let you download full video games for the switch that are still being actively sold [1]. The same applies to a lot of movies and TV shows, available via torrents no less.<p>Before someone gives me a lecture about data harboring laws and fair use, I know that it is technically on the copyright holder to issue takedown requests for infringing material, but even still, I think they&#x27;d be smart to be a bit proactive about this. If <i>I</i> know that the Internet Archive is an easy place to get pirated material, then I&#x27;m quite confident that their staff does as well. If there&#x27;s even one employee email that implies that they know about pirated content but didn&#x27;t bother taking it down, then I think that&#x27;s grounds for a lawsuit (though I&#x27;m not a lawyer).<p>Much as I respect him for founding IA, I think that Kahle needs to be replaced as a leader.<p>[1] I&#x27;m not going to link it here because I&#x27;m not sure HN&#x27;s policy on potentially legally dubious material, but it is not hard to find.</text></item><item><author>ilamont</author><text>This has been playing out for many years. And it&#x27;s all because Brewster Kahle decided that an overly broad interpretation of the Internet Archive&#x27;s mission trumped the rights of authors and publishers, and the laws of the United States.<p>When IA was asked to stop CDL - many times - he continued. The National Writers Union tried to open a dialogue as early as 2010 but was ignored:<p><i>The Internet Archive says it would rather talk with writers individually than talk to the NWU or other writers’ organizations. But requests by NWU members to talk to or meet with the Internet Archive have been ignored or rebuffed.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nwu.org&#x2F;nwu-denounces-cdl&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nwu.org&#x2F;nwu-denounces-cdl&#x2F;</a><p>When the requests to abandon CDL turned into demands, Kahle dug in his heels. When the inevitable lawsuits followed, and IA lost, he insisted that he was still in the right and plowed ahead with appeals.<p>He also opened a new front in the court of public opinion. In his blog posts and interviews with U.S. media, Kahle portrays the court cases and legal judgements as a crusade against the Internet Archive and all librarians (see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.archive.org&#x2F;2023&#x2F;12&#x2F;15&#x2F;brewster-kahle-appeal-statement&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.archive.org&#x2F;2023&#x2F;12&#x2F;15&#x2F;brewster-kahle-appeal-st...</a>). It&#x27;s not. It&#x27;s the logical outcome of one man&#x27;s seemingly fanatical conviction against the law and the people who work very hard to bring new books into being.<p>In addition, there has been real collateral damage to the many noble aspects of the Internet Archive. Legal fees and judgements have diverted resources away from the Wayback Machine, the library of public domain works, and other IA programs that provide real value to society. I truly hope the organization can survive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jrflowers</author><text>&gt; IA will let you download full video games for the switch that are still being actively sold [1]<p>I am not seeing that anywhere. I see a file called “My Nintendo Switch games collection” and it is a big jpeg photo of a bookshelf. Is this what you mean?</text></comment> |
20,076,618 | 20,076,096 | 1 | 2 | 20,074,521 | train | <story><title>India heatwave temperatures pass 50 Celsius</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2019-06-india-heatwave-temperatures-celsius.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ajross</author><text>A tub will work, sure, as long as it&#x27;s pulled from a large body of water that hasn&#x27;t warmed up with the air. Hopping in the local lake is an obvious choice.<p>But in a detached demographic sense: effectively everyone lives in a city in the modern world, and while their housing might not be air conditioned most of the major buildings are. In an emergency like this everyone would just crowd into office buildings and shopping malls.<p>That&#x27;s not to say this wouldn&#x27;t be horrifying, but it&#x27;s not the kind of existential social crisis people tend to imagine. Cooling ourselves down in a heat wave, in the modern world, is a solved problem at least as far as keeping ourselves alive goes.</text></item><item><author>jobigoud</author><text>&gt; fatal even to fit and healthy people, unclothed in the shade next to a fan;<p>This is scary, what&#x27;s a good way to survive for someone that doesn&#x27;t have access to a bunker or AC? Immersing oneself in water in a bathtub?</text></item><item><author>Isinlor</author><text>These temperatures in high humidity can be deadly even to healthy and fit humans as our bodies are left without a way to cool down. Currently, they have humidity around 10-20% so it affects the most vulnerable, but global warming may lead to making parts of the world literally deadly to every human being...<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Wet-bulb_temperature" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Wet-bulb_temperature</a><p>The wet-bulb temperature (WBT) is the temperature read by a thermometer covered in water-soaked cloth (wet-bulb thermometer) over which air is passed.<p>Sustained wet-bulb temperature exceeding 35 °C (95 °F) is likely to be fatal even to fit and healthy people, unclothed in the shade next to a fan; at this temperature our bodies switch from shedding heat to the environment, to gaining heat from it.[8] Thus 35 °C (95 °F) is the threshold beyond which the body is no longer able to adequately cool itself. A study by NOAA from 2013 concluded that heat stress will reduce labor capacity considerably under current emissions scenarios.[9]<p>A 2010 study concluded that under a worst-case scenario for global warming with temperatures 12 °C (22 °F) higher than 2007, the wet-bulb temperature limit for humans could be exceeded around much of the world in future centuries.[10] A 2015 study concluded that parts of the globe could become uninhabitable.[11] An example of the threshold at which the human body is no longer able to cool itself and begins to overheat is a humidity level of 50% and a high heat of 46 °C (115 °F), as this would indicate a wet-bulb temperature of 35 °C (95 °F).<p>The 2015 Indian heat wave saw wet-bulb temperatures in Andhra Pradesh reach 30 °C (86 °F). A similar wet-bulb temperature was reached during the 1995 Chicago heat wave.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jogjayr</author><text>&gt; effectively everyone lives in a city in the modern world, and while their housing might not be air conditioned most of the major buildings are.<p>The states of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Uttar Pradesh lag the rest of the nation in economic development. This statement is very much not true in those places, and even elsewhere in India. Air-conditioning is still a luxury outside of relatively well-off people&#x27;s houses, corporate buildings, and malls.<p>&gt; Cooling ourselves down in a heat wave, in the modern world, is a solved problem at least as far as keeping ourselves alive goes.<p>People there can&#x27;t afford to not work. Sitting in an air-conditioned space for half the working day 4 months a year is not viable for them. A lot of the work is manual or farm labor that must necessarily be done outdoors.</text></comment> | <story><title>India heatwave temperatures pass 50 Celsius</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2019-06-india-heatwave-temperatures-celsius.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ajross</author><text>A tub will work, sure, as long as it&#x27;s pulled from a large body of water that hasn&#x27;t warmed up with the air. Hopping in the local lake is an obvious choice.<p>But in a detached demographic sense: effectively everyone lives in a city in the modern world, and while their housing might not be air conditioned most of the major buildings are. In an emergency like this everyone would just crowd into office buildings and shopping malls.<p>That&#x27;s not to say this wouldn&#x27;t be horrifying, but it&#x27;s not the kind of existential social crisis people tend to imagine. Cooling ourselves down in a heat wave, in the modern world, is a solved problem at least as far as keeping ourselves alive goes.</text></item><item><author>jobigoud</author><text>&gt; fatal even to fit and healthy people, unclothed in the shade next to a fan;<p>This is scary, what&#x27;s a good way to survive for someone that doesn&#x27;t have access to a bunker or AC? Immersing oneself in water in a bathtub?</text></item><item><author>Isinlor</author><text>These temperatures in high humidity can be deadly even to healthy and fit humans as our bodies are left without a way to cool down. Currently, they have humidity around 10-20% so it affects the most vulnerable, but global warming may lead to making parts of the world literally deadly to every human being...<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Wet-bulb_temperature" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Wet-bulb_temperature</a><p>The wet-bulb temperature (WBT) is the temperature read by a thermometer covered in water-soaked cloth (wet-bulb thermometer) over which air is passed.<p>Sustained wet-bulb temperature exceeding 35 °C (95 °F) is likely to be fatal even to fit and healthy people, unclothed in the shade next to a fan; at this temperature our bodies switch from shedding heat to the environment, to gaining heat from it.[8] Thus 35 °C (95 °F) is the threshold beyond which the body is no longer able to adequately cool itself. A study by NOAA from 2013 concluded that heat stress will reduce labor capacity considerably under current emissions scenarios.[9]<p>A 2010 study concluded that under a worst-case scenario for global warming with temperatures 12 °C (22 °F) higher than 2007, the wet-bulb temperature limit for humans could be exceeded around much of the world in future centuries.[10] A 2015 study concluded that parts of the globe could become uninhabitable.[11] An example of the threshold at which the human body is no longer able to cool itself and begins to overheat is a humidity level of 50% and a high heat of 46 °C (115 °F), as this would indicate a wet-bulb temperature of 35 °C (95 °F).<p>The 2015 Indian heat wave saw wet-bulb temperatures in Andhra Pradesh reach 30 °C (86 °F). A similar wet-bulb temperature was reached during the 1995 Chicago heat wave.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wongarsu</author><text>Every human is effectively a 100W space heater just from being alive. That means you need at least 30W of air conditioning capacity per human to keep the temperature constant (on top of what you need to counter heat from outside).<p>Unless these buildings are designed as emergency shelters for heat waves their air conditioning systems won&#x27;t be able to cope with all the people.</text></comment> |
24,066,064 | 24,065,896 | 1 | 2 | 24,061,268 | train | <story><title>Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/08/04/latest-firefox-rolls-out-enhanced-tracking-protection-2-0-blocking-redirect-trackers-by-default/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stiray</author><text>Protip #2, for what cant be traced using conventional methods, they will use fingerprinting and those add-ons take care about most common methods of fingerprinting - canvas, webgl, fonts and audio:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;canvas-fingerprint-defender" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;canvas-finger...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;webgl-fingerprint-defender" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;webgl-fingerp...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;font-fingerprint-defender" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;font-fingerpr...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;audioctx-fingerprint-defender" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;audioctx-fing...</a><p>I would really love to have more addins like this, doing one thing and doing it good. They will kill fingerprinting and as a proof, I was downvoted the next moment i posted the links in another post but I want you to know there is a way out.</text></item><item><author>typon</author><text>My friend who works in an adtech company:<p>&quot;Protip: Use Firefox instead of Chrome. We get very little data from Firefox users&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>surround</author><text>While these addons may help against help prevent <i>some</i> fingerprinting attempts, they do not adequately reduce the fingerprint to be non-unique. They certainly won’t hurt, though (many websites just take a hash of the canvas).<p>It’s very difficult to have a non-unique fingerprint. Your browser would have to be the exactly the same as a bunch of other people. At the moment (AFAIK), this is only possible with Tor (all Tor users have the same browser fingerprint.)<p>You don’t have to worry about this too much, though. Firefox and uBlock Origin blacklist many fingerprinting scripts.</text></comment> | <story><title>Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/08/04/latest-firefox-rolls-out-enhanced-tracking-protection-2-0-blocking-redirect-trackers-by-default/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stiray</author><text>Protip #2, for what cant be traced using conventional methods, they will use fingerprinting and those add-ons take care about most common methods of fingerprinting - canvas, webgl, fonts and audio:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;canvas-fingerprint-defender" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;canvas-finger...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;webgl-fingerprint-defender" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;webgl-fingerp...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;font-fingerprint-defender" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;font-fingerpr...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;audioctx-fingerprint-defender" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;audioctx-fing...</a><p>I would really love to have more addins like this, doing one thing and doing it good. They will kill fingerprinting and as a proof, I was downvoted the next moment i posted the links in another post but I want you to know there is a way out.</text></item><item><author>typon</author><text>My friend who works in an adtech company:<p>&quot;Protip: Use Firefox instead of Chrome. We get very little data from Firefox users&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PhantomGremlin</author><text>Protip #3: when all else fails, they will use your IP address to target you.<p>E.g. I usually use Firefox with NoScript. I frequently exit Firefox; when I do I clear everything using &quot;Clear history when Firefox closes&quot;.<p>When I want to visit a site that requires JavaScript I switch to Safari. I&#x27;m just as aggressive in Safari in clearing my history.<p>Consequently, about the only ads I do see (in Safari) are clothing ads for teenage girls. I have two teenage girls, they have their own computers, so it must be the shared IP address.<p>So far it hasn&#x27;t been worth the hassle for me to switch to a new IP address from Comcast more than about once a year. By default my firewall asks for the same IP address and even if it didn&#x27;t, Comcast will use my firewall&#x27;s MAC address to give me the same IP address.</text></comment> |
8,984,818 | 8,984,070 | 1 | 3 | 8,983,771 | train | <story><title>Heartbleed in Rust</title><url>http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/heartbleed-in-rust</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MichaelGG</author><text>As the offending commentor, I apologize. Particularly to the Rust team for generating this negative publicity, and to the person I replied to, for asserting a lie.<p>I misunderstood Heartbleed, exactly as Ted summarizes. I&#x27;ve no excuse other than commenting when I shouldn&#x27;t. I am happy though to have my idiocy corrected as I&#x27;ll comment better in the future.<p>The rest of the original thread does point out that I <i>did</i> examine every security advisory published by Microsoft over a year or two span, and that, from the descriptions, Rust would have prevented basically every serious (code exec) one. (Notable exceptions being failures in the sandboxed code loading, similar to the various Java in browser bugs.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Heartbleed in Rust</title><url>http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/heartbleed-in-rust</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simias</author><text>I mostly agree with the premise: logic errors are always going to be there, at least until the compiler is an IA strong enough to catch them for us (and by then we probably won&#x27;t need coders anyway...). There&#x27;s no silver bullet, bad coders are always going to produce. And I also don&#x27;t like it when people claim that bug X or vulnerability Y wouldn&#x27;t have happened if they had been technology Z, they&#x27;re just begging for that type of post.<p>That being said I&#x27;m a bit more skeptical of this part: &quot;code no true C programmer would write : heartbleed :: code no true rust programmer would write :: (exercise for the reader)&quot;<p>If I look at the examples in the acticle, the C version doesn&#x27;t look that terrible and contrieved to me. I wonder what the author means by &quot;Survey says no true C programmer would ever write a program like that, either.&quot; That looks like a lot of C code I&#x27;ve read, there&#x27;s nothing particularly weird about it.<p>On the other hand the rust version looks very foreign to me (and I&#x27;ve been writing quite a lot of rust lately). You basically have to go out of your way to create the same issue.<p>I guess my point is that while it&#x27;s true that as long as there&#x27;ll be coders there&#x27;ll be bugs and security vulnerabilities it doesn&#x27;t mean we shouldn&#x27;t try to make things better. And in my opinion Rust makes it much more difficult to shoot yourself in the foot than plain C.</text></comment> |
3,972,849 | 3,972,901 | 1 | 2 | 3,972,651 | train | <story><title>Plagiarism</title><url>http://notes.unwieldy.net/post/23049725899/plagiarism</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>petercooper</author><text>The old adage is you can't copyright facts and there was certainly no requirement for TNW to do any "original research" to share these findings.<p>However, when you copy/use facts, you wade into hot water if you also copy the structure and the way those facts were originally <i>expressed.</i> The original TNW article shown here seems to step over that line with a barely masked copy of the original paragraphs.<p>What bothers me more, though, is that seemingly a CEO of a media organization has failed to do any damage control based around a genuine grievance (that wasn't even aggressively delivered). Saying things like <i>"think it's pretty ridiculous that you're even getting the slightest bit annoyed about this"</i>, <i>"needless to say, we'll be staying well clear of anything ur involved with in future for fear of ridiculous reaction"</i> and using <i>"u do realise that about 50% of all publications is content sourced from other publications right?"</i> as a sort of defence is a horrible PR line for a proprietor to play, even if that's his honest opinion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jenius</author><text>Yeah for me the CEO's response is the absolute worst part about this... very aggressive and defensive, he could have just said sorry we should have asked. And they definitely should have - I'm sure the author wouldn't have said no.<p>In fact, he said on twitter: " I don’t have any problem with you sharing my post. By all means! But the last two paragraphs were barely rewritten." (<a href="https://twitter.com/#!/endtwist/status/202089166975148033" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/#!/endtwist/status/202089166975148033</a>)</text></comment> | <story><title>Plagiarism</title><url>http://notes.unwieldy.net/post/23049725899/plagiarism</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>petercooper</author><text>The old adage is you can't copyright facts and there was certainly no requirement for TNW to do any "original research" to share these findings.<p>However, when you copy/use facts, you wade into hot water if you also copy the structure and the way those facts were originally <i>expressed.</i> The original TNW article shown here seems to step over that line with a barely masked copy of the original paragraphs.<p>What bothers me more, though, is that seemingly a CEO of a media organization has failed to do any damage control based around a genuine grievance (that wasn't even aggressively delivered). Saying things like <i>"think it's pretty ridiculous that you're even getting the slightest bit annoyed about this"</i>, <i>"needless to say, we'll be staying well clear of anything ur involved with in future for fear of ridiculous reaction"</i> and using <i>"u do realise that about 50% of all publications is content sourced from other publications right?"</i> as a sort of defence is a horrible PR line for a proprietor to play, even if that's his honest opinion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>atakan_gurkan</author><text>Plagiarism is not about copyright, it is about citing properly. A direct quote has to be indicated as such, a paraphrasing has to include a reference.<p>I learned this in my freshman year in college, this is so basic that an "editor" cannot claim ignorance of these rules.</text></comment> |
32,905,215 | 32,904,742 | 1 | 2 | 32,902,938 | train | <story><title>There is no “software supply chain”</title><url>https://iliana.fyi/blog/software-supply-chain/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lrvick</author><text>I do software supply chain security consulting for several high risk companies and largely agree with this post that we must stop expecting devs to have any responsibility for code they produce. The responsibility is on those that consume it.<p>This will sound pretty harsh, but if your company chooses to use open source code that does not have capable, paid, full time professionals reviewing it for security and quality, then your company is signing up for that responsibility. If you make no reasonable attempt at vetting your supply chain and harm comes to users as a result, then IMO you should be liable for negligence just like a restaurant serving food with poisonous ingredients. Broadly normalized negligence is still negligence.<p>This should not be controversial, but it is. Washing hands in hospitals was once controversial too but those advocating for it had irrefutable evidence on their side. The medical industry did not want to pay the labor cost of hygiene, and we are seeing the same in the software industry.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nationalgeographic.com&#x2F;history&#x2F;article&#x2F;handwashing-once-controversial-medical-advice" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nationalgeographic.com&#x2F;history&#x2F;article&#x2F;handwashi...</a><p>Ask yourself if it cheaper to fully review, sign, compile, and maintain third party OSS code or to write something in-house focused on your needs on top of the standard library. Pick one. Both are real options. Some of my clients actually do (or pay others for) security review of every single NPM dependency they use in prod. If you can not afford to review 2000 dependencies then you can not afford 2000 dependencies. Find a leaner path.<p>Companies must stop expecting others to do their software review job for them. OSS devs already wrote the code for free because, ostensibly, it was fun. You are an ass if you ask them to do anything that is not fun, for free, to make your company safer or more money. Such actions make it not fun anymore, and make them stop entirely.<p>I do not know why companies have code review policies for code written by peers, but if the code is 2 million lines of NPM dependencies essentially copy&#x2F;pasted from randos on the internet it is suddenly okay to ship straight to prod and give said randos full control of the data or property of millions of people.<p>We need to start calling this out as the negligence that it is.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deathanatos</author><text>I want to first say: I agree with your comment.<p>I think the problem is that companies <i>would</i> say &quot;okay, let&#x27;s take the leaner path&quot;; they then proceed to implement their own (say) HTTP library, riddled with bugs which will never get fixed, because it will <i>never</i> have the same person-hours sunk into it that a (major&#x2F;respectable) FOSS HTTP library will.<p>(And the number of times I&#x27;ve watched a dev attempt to implement some standard while steadfastly refusing to read the standard. Then I proceed to find bug after bug, trivially … because I <i>am</i> reading the standard…)<p>But you&#x27;re right with your hospital analogy: it&#x27;s that the company does not want to put forth the resources to do the job <i>right</i>, either by doing it right themselves or by doing the verification work &amp; upstreaming fixes; they&#x27;d rather put forward a bare minimum to do shoddy work.<p>And in all my years of experience, I still am no closer to understanding how to fix that.<p>&gt; <i>We need to start calling this out as the negligence that it is.</i><p>People absolutely hate this, IME.</text></comment> | <story><title>There is no “software supply chain”</title><url>https://iliana.fyi/blog/software-supply-chain/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lrvick</author><text>I do software supply chain security consulting for several high risk companies and largely agree with this post that we must stop expecting devs to have any responsibility for code they produce. The responsibility is on those that consume it.<p>This will sound pretty harsh, but if your company chooses to use open source code that does not have capable, paid, full time professionals reviewing it for security and quality, then your company is signing up for that responsibility. If you make no reasonable attempt at vetting your supply chain and harm comes to users as a result, then IMO you should be liable for negligence just like a restaurant serving food with poisonous ingredients. Broadly normalized negligence is still negligence.<p>This should not be controversial, but it is. Washing hands in hospitals was once controversial too but those advocating for it had irrefutable evidence on their side. The medical industry did not want to pay the labor cost of hygiene, and we are seeing the same in the software industry.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nationalgeographic.com&#x2F;history&#x2F;article&#x2F;handwashing-once-controversial-medical-advice" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nationalgeographic.com&#x2F;history&#x2F;article&#x2F;handwashi...</a><p>Ask yourself if it cheaper to fully review, sign, compile, and maintain third party OSS code or to write something in-house focused on your needs on top of the standard library. Pick one. Both are real options. Some of my clients actually do (or pay others for) security review of every single NPM dependency they use in prod. If you can not afford to review 2000 dependencies then you can not afford 2000 dependencies. Find a leaner path.<p>Companies must stop expecting others to do their software review job for them. OSS devs already wrote the code for free because, ostensibly, it was fun. You are an ass if you ask them to do anything that is not fun, for free, to make your company safer or more money. Such actions make it not fun anymore, and make them stop entirely.<p>I do not know why companies have code review policies for code written by peers, but if the code is 2 million lines of NPM dependencies essentially copy&#x2F;pasted from randos on the internet it is suddenly okay to ship straight to prod and give said randos full control of the data or property of millions of people.<p>We need to start calling this out as the negligence that it is.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zmmmmm</author><text>&gt; Companies must stop expecting others to do their job for them. OSS devs already wrote the code for free because, ostensibly, it was fun<p>This is not really true. Open source is <i>much</i> more than hobbyists doing things in their spare time for fun. A huge amount of open source is developed by and released by paid software professionals as part of their jobs. Some of those companies are directly doing it as part of their actual business offering. Others are doing it because they value owning the mind share in a space. Then, a huge amount of other OSS is developed by people who want to enhance their professional reputations.<p>EDIT: I see the article actually confines itself to OSS software that was written as a hobby. In that case I think my words above are probably out of context. But by the same token, the whole article scope is diluted a lot. Yes, if you have pinned your project on something someone wrote on the weekend for fun with no intention to maintain it, you&#x27;ve got problems. But let&#x27;s not brand all of open source with that problem.</text></comment> |
27,909,712 | 27,909,686 | 1 | 2 | 27,906,886 | train | <story><title>Planning and estimating large-scale software projects</title><url>https://tomrussell.co.uk/writing/2021/07/19/estimating-large-scale-software-projects.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ColinHayhurst</author><text>&gt; Estimates are one of the hardest parts of software development.<p>And also fundamental. When I was directly estimating big software projects the key, for me, was to trust developers recommendations but apply a different multiplier for each developer. Multipliers ranged from x1 to x3. Those rare devs with x1 were, of course, a blessing. And those with x3 were not necessarily bad; they were often the ones working on the really hard problems. Of course, it meant getting to know those developers and a prior (which we set at x2, for new starters).<p>Individuals were remarkably consistent in terms of their actual performance; so a x1 developer would almost always be a x1; a x1.5 would almost always be x1.5.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mason55</author><text>One thing I’ve found to be helpful is to make it clear that <i>I won’t be mad about a long estimate</i><p>If that’s how long it’s going to take then that’s how long it’s going to take. I think there’s a group of people who are used to getting lots of pushback on their estimates and so they estimate low to avoid that conflict. The future conflict of things being late is not something they have to deal with right now and maybe they actually will get it done.<p>The key is backing it up continually and really not getting mad about estimates that are longer than I’d like. And, for people who I do think are sandbagging, asking more specific questions about the details of the estimate in a non-combative way.<p>And of course some people really are bad at estimating. But I find if they don’t improve with coaching then it’s a symptom of a bigger problem (not thinking things through all the way) which manifests in other ways beyond estimation (eg poor design)</text></comment> | <story><title>Planning and estimating large-scale software projects</title><url>https://tomrussell.co.uk/writing/2021/07/19/estimating-large-scale-software-projects.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ColinHayhurst</author><text>&gt; Estimates are one of the hardest parts of software development.<p>And also fundamental. When I was directly estimating big software projects the key, for me, was to trust developers recommendations but apply a different multiplier for each developer. Multipliers ranged from x1 to x3. Those rare devs with x1 were, of course, a blessing. And those with x3 were not necessarily bad; they were often the ones working on the really hard problems. Of course, it meant getting to know those developers and a prior (which we set at x2, for new starters).<p>Individuals were remarkably consistent in terms of their actual performance; so a x1 developer would almost always be a x1; a x1.5 would almost always be x1.5.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crooked-v</author><text>I&#x27;m reminded of the classic saying: &quot;The first 95% of the work takes 95% of the time, and the last 5% of the work takes the other 95% of the time.&quot;</text></comment> |
10,495,708 | 10,495,094 | 1 | 3 | 10,494,045 | train | <story><title>Lessig Ends Presidential Campaign</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/Lessig2016/videos/vb.832686670149581/909929802425267/?type=2&theater</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Serious question: given that he didn&#x27;t have a snowball&#x27;s chance, why did you give him money, as opposed to giving money to some other change agent that <i>does</i> have a chance?</text></item><item><author>dankohn1</author><text>I supported Lessig&#x27;s presidential campaign monetarily, even though I never thought he had a snowball&#x27;s chance and also didn&#x27;t think that his model of affecting change was fully thought through. As entrepreneurs, I think many of us can sympathize with the idea of knowing that there is a huge, massive problem that needs to be fixed, without necessarily having the solution fully formed.<p>It would have been so easy for Lessig to coast on the reputation of his extraordinary work with Creative Commons [0] and his professorship at Harvard. Instead, he (IMHO correctly) identified one of the greatest challenges of our time, political corruption. His first proposed solution, the MAYDAY PACn [1] (A SuperPAC to end SuperPACs), was a brilliant idea and an abject failure. So was his second, which was this presidential campaign. It is incorrect to say that he never had a chance, since you can see how close he was in polling [2] to qualifying for the debate, and getting into the debate would have had a huge impact on awareness of his ideas and potential solutions.<p>I do complain that he had fallen for the Green Lantern Theory of the Presidency [3], instead of understanding the complexity required for real change. But, I give him huge props for trying both of these approaches, and I can&#x27;t wait to see what his third attempt to take on political corruption will be.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Creative_Commons_license" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Creative_Commons_license</a>
[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mayday_PAC" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mayday_PAC</a>
[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;elections.huffingtonpost.com&#x2F;pollster&#x2F;2016-national-democratic-primary#!maxpct=60&amp;mindate=2015-09-01&amp;smoothing=less&amp;showpoints=yes&amp;estimate=custom&amp;selected=Biden,Clinton,Lessig,Sanders" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;elections.huffingtonpost.com&#x2F;pollster&#x2F;2016-national-d...</a>
[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;5&#x2F;20&#x2F;5732208&#x2F;the-green-lantern-theory-of-the-presidency-explained" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;5&#x2F;20&#x2F;5732208&#x2F;the-green-lantern-theor...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dankohn1</author><text>&gt; Serious question: given that he didn&#x27;t have a snowball&#x27;s chance, why did you give him money, as opposed to giving money to some other change agent that does have a chance?<p>@tptacek, I thought of funding Lessig as what an angel investor would describe as exploring the problem space. That is, I believe he has correctly identified a huge problem, I knew he was a smart guy who would adapt to what he learned, and I was happy to support that exploration. I&#x27;m also comfortable with him pulling the eject lever once he couldn&#x27;t see a path to moving his goals forward.<p>I will admit to seeing a relative dearth of alternative change agents.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lessig Ends Presidential Campaign</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/Lessig2016/videos/vb.832686670149581/909929802425267/?type=2&theater</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Serious question: given that he didn&#x27;t have a snowball&#x27;s chance, why did you give him money, as opposed to giving money to some other change agent that <i>does</i> have a chance?</text></item><item><author>dankohn1</author><text>I supported Lessig&#x27;s presidential campaign monetarily, even though I never thought he had a snowball&#x27;s chance and also didn&#x27;t think that his model of affecting change was fully thought through. As entrepreneurs, I think many of us can sympathize with the idea of knowing that there is a huge, massive problem that needs to be fixed, without necessarily having the solution fully formed.<p>It would have been so easy for Lessig to coast on the reputation of his extraordinary work with Creative Commons [0] and his professorship at Harvard. Instead, he (IMHO correctly) identified one of the greatest challenges of our time, political corruption. His first proposed solution, the MAYDAY PACn [1] (A SuperPAC to end SuperPACs), was a brilliant idea and an abject failure. So was his second, which was this presidential campaign. It is incorrect to say that he never had a chance, since you can see how close he was in polling [2] to qualifying for the debate, and getting into the debate would have had a huge impact on awareness of his ideas and potential solutions.<p>I do complain that he had fallen for the Green Lantern Theory of the Presidency [3], instead of understanding the complexity required for real change. But, I give him huge props for trying both of these approaches, and I can&#x27;t wait to see what his third attempt to take on political corruption will be.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Creative_Commons_license" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Creative_Commons_license</a>
[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mayday_PAC" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mayday_PAC</a>
[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;elections.huffingtonpost.com&#x2F;pollster&#x2F;2016-national-democratic-primary#!maxpct=60&amp;mindate=2015-09-01&amp;smoothing=less&amp;showpoints=yes&amp;estimate=custom&amp;selected=Biden,Clinton,Lessig,Sanders" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;elections.huffingtonpost.com&#x2F;pollster&#x2F;2016-national-d...</a>
[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;5&#x2F;20&#x2F;5732208&#x2F;the-green-lantern-theory-of-the-presidency-explained" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;5&#x2F;20&#x2F;5732208&#x2F;the-green-lantern-theor...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JoeAltmaier</author><text>Sometimes its about sending a message. After all, its not a horse race; you don&#x27;t win any prize by backing the winner.</text></comment> |
1,317,132 | 1,317,104 | 1 | 2 | 1,316,913 | train | <story><title>The Appalling Reaction to the Apple iPhone Leak</title><url>http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=10523213</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hammerdr</author><text>I think he brings up a point in his post which effectively nullifies his argument. Throughout the article, both explicitly and implicitly, he alludes to the fundamental nature of a strong free press in American society.<p>Occam's Razor; which is more likely? The American public has completely lost sight of the principle of a strong free press despite having held on to the ideal for 200 years. Or, that the American principle of a strong free press is still alive and kicking but the American ideal is not offended by this particular case.<p>I think, even for the most cynical among us, that the second seems more likely.<p>Why would that be? Well, there is the "distressing" issue of Gawker Media purchasing (known) stolen goods. There is also the general distaste that most Americans have for tabloid (yellow) journalism. Gawker Media is not very well respected by the American public. Combine this with the general attitude of Gizmodo (Look what we got! Na na na naa!) and the disgusting way that Gizmodo ousted the engineer involved in losing the prototype and we start to see a clearer picture of why getting the police involved doesn't offend too many people's free press sensibilities.<p>Consider, just for a moment, that Gruber had gotten pictures of an Apple product (legally) and posted those pictures on his blog. Do you think police would be breaking into his home?</text></comment> | <story><title>The Appalling Reaction to the Apple iPhone Leak</title><url>http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=10523213</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ugh</author><text>Hm, I’m not so sure whether Chen’s house was raided because he published information. After all, Engadget also posted photos of the prototype, even that same prototype, yet the police didn’t raid their editors’ homes.<p>Rather this seems to be a case of Gizmodo being clueless about how to do proper investigative reporting (i.e. don’t buy stolen stuff). Should journalists be allowed to buy things they know to be stolen? Sure, but not always. Memos which show government fraud? Hand over cash. Consumer electronic? Rather not.</text></comment> |
27,691,467 | 27,687,410 | 1 | 3 | 27,675,756 | train | <story><title>Learn by reading code: Python standard library design decisions explained</title><url>https://death.andgravity.com/stdlib</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ainzzorl</author><text>&gt; &quot;There are so many projects on GitHub – pick one you like and see how they did it.&quot; But most successful projects are quite large; where do you start from?<p>I&#x27;m working on a slightly similar project motivated by this problem: how do you learn from established open-source projects - most interesting ones are too big, too complex, to hard to get started with.<p>So I&#x27;m compiling a collection of interesting code examples from open-source projects and explaining&#x2F;annotating them. I&#x27;m trying to pick examples that are:<p>- Taken from popular, established open-source projects.<p>- Somewhat self-contained. They can be understood with little knowledge of the surrounding context.<p>- Small-ish. The can be understood in one sitting.<p>- Non-trivial.<p>- Instructive. They solve somewhat general problems, similar to what some other coders on some other projects could be facing.<p>- Good code, at least in my opinion.<p>I&#x27;m planning to share it in a few weeks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mttpgn</author><text>&gt; &gt; where do you start from?<p>My answer for this has been to scroll all the way through the git history of a repo structurally similar to something I want to do and read each of the first month-or-so of commits.</text></comment> | <story><title>Learn by reading code: Python standard library design decisions explained</title><url>https://death.andgravity.com/stdlib</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ainzzorl</author><text>&gt; &quot;There are so many projects on GitHub – pick one you like and see how they did it.&quot; But most successful projects are quite large; where do you start from?<p>I&#x27;m working on a slightly similar project motivated by this problem: how do you learn from established open-source projects - most interesting ones are too big, too complex, to hard to get started with.<p>So I&#x27;m compiling a collection of interesting code examples from open-source projects and explaining&#x2F;annotating them. I&#x27;m trying to pick examples that are:<p>- Taken from popular, established open-source projects.<p>- Somewhat self-contained. They can be understood with little knowledge of the surrounding context.<p>- Small-ish. The can be understood in one sitting.<p>- Non-trivial.<p>- Instructive. They solve somewhat general problems, similar to what some other coders on some other projects could be facing.<p>- Good code, at least in my opinion.<p>I&#x27;m planning to share it in a few weeks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheFreim</author><text>This is very interesting to me. Do you have a blog or some other way of keeping track of this?</text></comment> |
23,794,735 | 23,794,653 | 1 | 3 | 23,792,811 | train | <story><title>Microsoft and Google collaborate to make PWAs better</title><url>https://medium.com/pwabuilder/microsoft-and-google-team-up-to-make-pwas-better-in-the-play-store-b59710e487</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Abishek_Muthian</author><text>Nice, I like the way Microsoft chose to ignore the bad blood with Google regarding its apps for Windows Phone and has embraced Android.<p>PWA collaboration seems to be a step in the right direction, especially since Edge is using chromium and Microsoft seems to be building great PWA apps[1].<p>Although I&#x27;m not entirely sure about Google&#x27;s end game with PWA[2], I hope these kind of collaboration motivates industries to build more PWA apps and put pressure on Apple to properly support PWA APIs in Safari; then may be, just may be one day we&#x27;ll have fair grounds for new mobile operating systems to compete without this Playstore&#x2F;Appstore duopoly.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bing.com&#x2F;covid&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bing.com&#x2F;covid&#x2F;</a><p>[2]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23574697" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23574697</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>osrec</author><text>I agree. Apple is stifling innovation by not supporting certain APIs.<p>They need to stop doing this, or they will hurt themselves in the long run. As it is, most people use Safari on iOS because they are forced to - all other browsers on iOS are forced to use WKWebView, which basically means they are wrappers around Safari&#x27;s view.<p>To this day, I can&#x27;t understand why their users stand for this. In this regard, Apple reminds me of a cult leader brainwashing their followers into believing the cult&#x27;s way is the best way. Makes me a little sick actually.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft and Google collaborate to make PWAs better</title><url>https://medium.com/pwabuilder/microsoft-and-google-team-up-to-make-pwas-better-in-the-play-store-b59710e487</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Abishek_Muthian</author><text>Nice, I like the way Microsoft chose to ignore the bad blood with Google regarding its apps for Windows Phone and has embraced Android.<p>PWA collaboration seems to be a step in the right direction, especially since Edge is using chromium and Microsoft seems to be building great PWA apps[1].<p>Although I&#x27;m not entirely sure about Google&#x27;s end game with PWA[2], I hope these kind of collaboration motivates industries to build more PWA apps and put pressure on Apple to properly support PWA APIs in Safari; then may be, just may be one day we&#x27;ll have fair grounds for new mobile operating systems to compete without this Playstore&#x2F;Appstore duopoly.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bing.com&#x2F;covid&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bing.com&#x2F;covid&#x2F;</a><p>[2]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23574697" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23574697</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paxys</author><text>New leadership definitely helps. Satya seems to want to move past the old way of doing things at Microsoft as aggressively as possible.</text></comment> |
16,522,536 | 16,522,182 | 1 | 2 | 16,521,613 | train | <story><title>Is Loneliness a Health Epidemic?</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/09/opinion/sunday/loneliness-health.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hestipod</author><text>I am incredibly lonely. Health and financial circumstances pushed me into the worst possible social situation...isolated in rural unconnected America where the only two people I regularly see resent me and it has had a severely negative effect on my already miserable health over the years. Being middle aged it magnifies the issue as it&#x27;s harder to connect as you age anyway due to life&#x27;s progression. I saw huge numbers of older people in my previous work who were so terribly alone. It&#x27;s hard enough when young.<p>A &quot;remote social life&quot; is not even close to the same thing and chats online or the phone with &quot;disposable friends&quot; and strangers who have a clear and easy disconnect from your real life don&#x27;t fill the hole a lack of enduring, present human contact leaves and usually take precious energy with no real benefit. Even though I am an extremely introverted person by most standards I still need social connection to thrive and have felt the best living in big cites with lots of options but I can&#x27;t find a way back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>doughj3</author><text>&gt; A &quot;remote social life&quot; is not even close to the same thing and chats online or the phone with &quot;disposable friends&quot; and strangers who have a clear and easy disconnect from your real life don&#x27;t fill the hole a lack of enduring, present human contact leaves and usually take precious energy with no real benefit.<p>Maybe this is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Anecdotally, I and others I know have formed deep, meaningful relationships with people online. I think the hardest part of that is finding small communities - i.e, it&#x27;s hard to make meaningful connections in a sub-reddit filled with 100,000 people, but in niche forums and chatrooms, with userbases in the dozens, I think it&#x27;s much more feasible.</text></comment> | <story><title>Is Loneliness a Health Epidemic?</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/09/opinion/sunday/loneliness-health.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hestipod</author><text>I am incredibly lonely. Health and financial circumstances pushed me into the worst possible social situation...isolated in rural unconnected America where the only two people I regularly see resent me and it has had a severely negative effect on my already miserable health over the years. Being middle aged it magnifies the issue as it&#x27;s harder to connect as you age anyway due to life&#x27;s progression. I saw huge numbers of older people in my previous work who were so terribly alone. It&#x27;s hard enough when young.<p>A &quot;remote social life&quot; is not even close to the same thing and chats online or the phone with &quot;disposable friends&quot; and strangers who have a clear and easy disconnect from your real life don&#x27;t fill the hole a lack of enduring, present human contact leaves and usually take precious energy with no real benefit. Even though I am an extremely introverted person by most standards I still need social connection to thrive and have felt the best living in big cites with lots of options but I can&#x27;t find a way back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>snarf21</author><text>It is a real problem. I also think you can take baby steps to address this. Find a hobby whether gardening or board games or kayaking or whatever. It is hard to make friends as you get older <i>except</i> (imo) around hobbies. People will gladly talk endless about their favorite thing. This might not lead to a bff but it is a real human connection based on shared interest. This hobby might not be in your village, you may have to drive an hour but please do it. I think it will really really help.</text></comment> |
24,147,587 | 24,148,091 | 1 | 3 | 24,146,902 | train | <story><title>Apple removes Fortnite from App Store after Epic attempts to bypass fees</title><url>https://twitter.com/markgurman/status/1293984069722636288</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xoxoy</author><text>Fortnite of course expected this: seems like they’ve prepared a short video mocking Apple’s old super bowl ad 1984 to premiere in an hour <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;fortnitegame&#x2F;status&#x2F;1293984290326433792?s=21" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;fortnitegame&#x2F;status&#x2F;1293984290326433792?...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostrademons</author><text>They also just filed a lawsuit (see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24147486" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24147486</a>).<p>The strategist in me thinks that Epic Payments is a provocation rather than a product, they&#x27;ve been in touch with state attorney generals about Apple&#x27;s antitrust situation, and the real goal is to get that lawsuit out, bring the antitrust hammer down on Apple, and maybe get some free PR and marketing from the press cycle.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple removes Fortnite from App Store after Epic attempts to bypass fees</title><url>https://twitter.com/markgurman/status/1293984069722636288</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xoxoy</author><text>Fortnite of course expected this: seems like they’ve prepared a short video mocking Apple’s old super bowl ad 1984 to premiere in an hour <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;fortnitegame&#x2F;status&#x2F;1293984290326433792?s=21" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;fortnitegame&#x2F;status&#x2F;1293984290326433792?...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jedberg</author><text>Here&#x27;s the video: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=WqTNO8LTggI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=WqTNO8LTggI</a></text></comment> |
2,537,962 | 2,537,749 | 1 | 2 | 2,537,624 | train | <story><title>Why Donald Knuth Checks E-mail Only Once Every Three Months</title><url>http://calnewport.com/blog/2008/07/17/bonus-post-how-the-worlds-most-famous-computer-scientist-checks-e-mail-only-once-every-three-months/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lionhearted</author><text>Am I the only person that likes email and enjoys using my inbox? I get only two things there - correspondences that are mostly interesting, and reports that I specifically want.<p>It can be a drag when a <i>bunch</i> of correspondences come in at the same time, but I try to gently discourage people from sending me useless junk, so I'm mostly free of sifting through useless junk. Gmail/Google Apps is good enough about spam, and you can use a second email address if you need one to sign up for things like frequent flyer accounts that send spammy-ish reports.<p>Seriously, if you don't like your inbox, try registering a new Gmail or Google Apps account and give it out selectively to people who don't send stupid stuff, and use your old email for stuff that's overwhelming. This holds up pretty well even into the 20-40 replies per day required range, which is more than most people are going to get. The key is making sure junk doesn't get mixed in with your real email - when pretty much everything is something you'd enjoy or want to see, the inbox is not this evil cursed thing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Donald Knuth Checks E-mail Only Once Every Three Months</title><url>http://calnewport.com/blog/2008/07/17/bonus-post-how-the-worlds-most-famous-computer-scientist-checks-e-mail-only-once-every-three-months/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hugh3</author><text>I'm sure this works great, if you have:<p>a) A diligent secretary who stays on top of things for you, and<p>b) Tenure<p>Even (b) might not be enough if you're just a regular tenured professor rather than Donald Fricking Knuth.</text></comment> |
27,539,406 | 27,539,596 | 1 | 3 | 27,538,171 | train | <story><title>China Launches First Crew to Live on New Space Station</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2021/06/17/1007471106/china-launches-first-crew-to-live-on-new-space-station</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Clewza313</author><text>That used to be the case, but is not so much anymore: for example, Reuters filmed the launch today live. Wenchang spaceport, on China&#x27;s Hawaii-equivalent island of Hainan, which you can even visit visa-free in pre-COVID times, has become a major Cape Canaveral-style space tourism destination with rocket watchers gathering for launch picnics, streaming live, etc. Today&#x27;s launch was from the other major spaceport at Jiuquan though, which is the middle of nowhere deep in the Gobi Desert.<p>That said, the Chinese space program has deep military roots and every Chinese astronaut to date is an air force pilot, so we&#x27;re not going to see NASA-style transparency anytime soon.</text></item><item><author>ilamont</author><text>It gets a ton of press in the United States. Mars mission, manned launches, and other achievements have been featured prominently by the national broadcasters, the New York Times, and Internet outlets. A few years back there was a movie in which a Chinese space station was featured (based on a Russian template, which figured into the story).<p>What these reports don&#x27;t have are details. And that&#x27;s not surprising, because the Chinese government doesn&#x27;t share many details about its space program, or give any access to media outside of China.</text></item><item><author>Clewza313</author><text>The Chinese space program doesn&#x27;t get a lot of press, but much like the country itself, they&#x27;ve made stunning progress in a short period of time. It&#x27;s 18 years from their first manned space flight, and here they are successfully building a modular space station, returning samples from the Moon and landing a rover on Mars. They&#x27;re experimenting with a SpaceX-style reusable rocket, a Mars sample return mission and are planning to land a man on the Moon by the end of the decade, and unlike NASA&#x27;s plans, they appear serious about it too.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Chinese_space_program" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Chinese_space_program</a> (a mess of current and obsolete programs, but gives some idea of the breadth of their ambitions)<p>Things will get even more interesting next year if India launches their first manned spaceflight as planned.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gaganyaan" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gaganyaan</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>samsari</author><text>&gt;That said, the Chinese space program has deep military roots and every Chinese astronaut to date is an air force pilot<p>Is your implication that the American space programme somehow does <i>not</i> have deep military roots?</text></comment> | <story><title>China Launches First Crew to Live on New Space Station</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2021/06/17/1007471106/china-launches-first-crew-to-live-on-new-space-station</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Clewza313</author><text>That used to be the case, but is not so much anymore: for example, Reuters filmed the launch today live. Wenchang spaceport, on China&#x27;s Hawaii-equivalent island of Hainan, which you can even visit visa-free in pre-COVID times, has become a major Cape Canaveral-style space tourism destination with rocket watchers gathering for launch picnics, streaming live, etc. Today&#x27;s launch was from the other major spaceport at Jiuquan though, which is the middle of nowhere deep in the Gobi Desert.<p>That said, the Chinese space program has deep military roots and every Chinese astronaut to date is an air force pilot, so we&#x27;re not going to see NASA-style transparency anytime soon.</text></item><item><author>ilamont</author><text>It gets a ton of press in the United States. Mars mission, manned launches, and other achievements have been featured prominently by the national broadcasters, the New York Times, and Internet outlets. A few years back there was a movie in which a Chinese space station was featured (based on a Russian template, which figured into the story).<p>What these reports don&#x27;t have are details. And that&#x27;s not surprising, because the Chinese government doesn&#x27;t share many details about its space program, or give any access to media outside of China.</text></item><item><author>Clewza313</author><text>The Chinese space program doesn&#x27;t get a lot of press, but much like the country itself, they&#x27;ve made stunning progress in a short period of time. It&#x27;s 18 years from their first manned space flight, and here they are successfully building a modular space station, returning samples from the Moon and landing a rover on Mars. They&#x27;re experimenting with a SpaceX-style reusable rocket, a Mars sample return mission and are planning to land a man on the Moon by the end of the decade, and unlike NASA&#x27;s plans, they appear serious about it too.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Chinese_space_program" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Chinese_space_program</a> (a mess of current and obsolete programs, but gives some idea of the breadth of their ambitions)<p>Things will get even more interesting next year if India launches their first manned spaceflight as planned.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gaganyaan" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gaganyaan</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>triceratops</author><text>&gt; every Chinese astronaut to date is an air force pilot<p>IIRC most early American astronauts were also military aviators - either air force or navy.</text></comment> |
10,054,061 | 10,053,905 | 1 | 3 | 10,053,420 | train | <story><title>Every 30 minutes Windows 10 sends all typed text to Microsoft</title><url>https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=cs&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Faeronet.cz%2Fnews%2Fanalyza-windows-10-ve-svem-principu-jde-o-pouhy-terminal-na-sber-informaci-o-uzivateli-jeho-prstech-ocich-a-hlasu%2F</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Beltiras</author><text>It&#x27;s in the privacy policy. I didn&#x27;t believe what I was reading. Windows 10 is unusable for anyone handling any sensitive data. Think doctors, psychologists, anyone under an NDA.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;privacystatement&#x2F;default.aspx" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;privacystatement&#x2F;default.asp...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ewzimm</author><text>This would be too big an oversight for a company trying to get more business adoption. According to Microsoft, the data is anonymized and run through a virtual shredder before being sent. Here&#x27;s their statement on it:<p>“Some of this data is stored on your device and some is sent to Microsoft to help improve these services. Data sent to Microsoft for product improvement is put through rigorous, multi-pass scrubs to remove sensitive or identifiable fields (such as email addresses, passwords and alphanumeric data) and strings are chopped into very small bits and stripped of sequence data to prevent the information from being identified or put back together.”<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.laptopmag.com&#x2F;windows-10-privacy-issues-exaggerated" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.laptopmag.com&#x2F;windows-10-privacy-issues-exaggera...</a><p>It amazes me that this information isn&#x27;t easier to find and I end up being the one defending Microsoft. I definitely recommend using Free Software only if you want to be absolutely sure of confidentiality.</text></comment> | <story><title>Every 30 minutes Windows 10 sends all typed text to Microsoft</title><url>https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=cs&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Faeronet.cz%2Fnews%2Fanalyza-windows-10-ve-svem-principu-jde-o-pouhy-terminal-na-sber-informaci-o-uzivateli-jeho-prstech-ocich-a-hlasu%2F</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Beltiras</author><text>It&#x27;s in the privacy policy. I didn&#x27;t believe what I was reading. Windows 10 is unusable for anyone handling any sensitive data. Think doctors, psychologists, anyone under an NDA.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;privacystatement&#x2F;default.aspx" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;privacystatement&#x2F;default.asp...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bunderbunder</author><text>If this is true, then it really does flabber my gaster.<p>I&#x27;ve no problem with them doing this sort of thing, but it must be opt-in rather than opt-out. Like you say, this isn&#x27;t just about individual privacy concerns, it&#x27;s about important legal obligations that people may unwittingly be violating if they use Windows 10.</text></comment> |
7,894,258 | 7,893,114 | 1 | 2 | 7,892,745 | train | <story><title>Spreadsheet-like programming in Haskell</title><url>http://www.haskellforall.com/2014/06/spreadsheet-like-programming-in-haskell.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thinkpad20</author><text>The article claims to be about the power of Applicative (and&#x2F;or spreadsheets?), but I&#x27;ve been writing Haskell for about a year and am comfortable with all of the canonical Haskell abstractions including `Applicative`, and this made basically zero sense to me. Beyond familiarity with Applicative, the author also assumes the reader has facility with Controller, Fold, Managed, View, the Pipes library, Lens, and a host of functions I had never seen, such as last (not the Prelude version), stdinLines, tick, and runMVC. Assuming this, he throws out the definition of Updatable on top of that like it makes perfect sense (&quot;just a Fold sitting in front of a Managed Controller&quot;. Oh, well then.). Basically, two or three paragraphs in and I am already completely lost. I don&#x27;t even know what problem it is we&#x27;re trying to solve, and I have no idea what it has to do at all with spreadsheets.<p>This is one of the downsides of Haskell; with so much emphasis on abstraction, code often ends up being just that: so damn abstract that it&#x27;s practically inscrutable except to the very few who are familiar with what&#x27;s going on. I guess this article was written for an audience with very broad and detailed knowledge of some complicated Haskell libraries -- meaning it&#x27;s not so important that anyone else be able to make head or tails out of what he&#x27;s talking about. Which is ok, but it does add to the impression that Haskell is an exclusive club.<p>Also, this part sticks out as confusing: The type signature of `example` does not include IO (unless Updatable has IO on under the hood), and yet the language above suggests that it will change, i.e. that it is mutable:<p>&gt; example will update every time lastLine or seconds updates, caching and reusing portions that do not update. For example, if lastLine updates then only the first field of Example will change. Similarly, if seconds updates then only the second field of Example will change.<p>Can someone clear this up for me?</text></comment> | <story><title>Spreadsheet-like programming in Haskell</title><url>http://www.haskellforall.com/2014/06/spreadsheet-like-programming-in-haskell.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mtford</author><text>I know a few of the investment banks have this kind of thing internally, implemented as a DAG: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed_acyclic_graph" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Directed_acyclic_graph</a>. Cool stuff.</text></comment> |
5,372,962 | 5,373,034 | 1 | 2 | 5,372,698 | train | <story><title>$2 Million for ‘Veronica Mars’ Breaks Kickstarter Records</title><url>http://variety.com/2013/more/news/veronica-mars-kickstarter-reaches-1-million-in-funds-1200194274/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ComputerGuru</author><text>TFA does not have a link to the Kickstarter project page: <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/559914737/the-veronica-mars-movie-project" rel="nofollow">http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/559914737/the-veronica-m...</a><p>Currently at $2,335,670 with 37,676 backers and 29 days to go.<p>There are some really creative and interesting rewards for higher contributions. Personalized video message from the cast, personalized video message from Kristen Bell (much more expensive, obviously!), voicemail recordings, name a character after someone, have a local theatre rented out for a private showing possibly before the screenings, after-party tickets, be an extra, or even have a speaking role.<p>I presume that ultimate reward means this movie is outside the purview of SAG-AFTRA, as any speaking roles in SAG productions absolutely, positively must be performed by SAG guild members. This is going to be an official Warner Brothers product, and I wasn't aware WB was not fully in bed with SAG-AFTRA.<p>EDIT: What's up with Bell? She doesn't seem to understand the concept of Capital Letters aNd WHerE thEy bELONG In A Sentence. Or she's just being coy.</text></comment> | <story><title>$2 Million for ‘Veronica Mars’ Breaks Kickstarter Records</title><url>http://variety.com/2013/more/news/veronica-mars-kickstarter-reaches-1-million-in-funds-1200194274/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pasbesoin</author><text>Given that Warner Brothers is behind this and still owns the property (per what I read, elsewhere), I'm not particularly in favor of this.<p>They have plenty of money to "risk" and invest, and presumably will see the lion's share of any positive outcome of this initiative.<p>If and as such, I'm not favorably inclined towards their using the mechanism to... mitigate risk (yet further), I guess. It takes away from projects that don't have a "sugar daddy" sitting in the wings.<p>P.S. Or, even if it doesn't "take away" from other projects seeking funding, I'm... somehow still offended. Especially in light how how these same "big name" studios use severely restricted distribution options and other controls to screw over not only fans/customers but the shows that depend upon them.<p>Warner Brothers using Kickstarter -- or, "forcing" their property to do so? It just stinks, to me.</text></comment> |
18,813,339 | 18,813,403 | 1 | 2 | 18,812,961 | train | <story><title>Linux md maintainer, Shaohua Li, has died</title><url>https://www.spinics.net/lists/raid/msg61993.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sowbug</author><text>The post where he offered to step up as md maintainer: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lkml.org&#x2F;lkml&#x2F;2016&#x2F;1&#x2F;4&#x2F;455" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lkml.org&#x2F;lkml&#x2F;2016&#x2F;1&#x2F;4&#x2F;455</a> and discussion about the change: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linux-magazine.com&#x2F;Issues&#x2F;2016&#x2F;186&#x2F;Kernel-News" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linux-magazine.com&#x2F;Issues&#x2F;2016&#x2F;186&#x2F;Kernel-News</a><p>A very brief bio: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;raid.wiki.kernel.org&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;User:Shaohua_Li" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;raid.wiki.kernel.org&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;User:Shaohua_Li</a><p>Patches to Linux kernel while at Facebook: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git.kernel.org&#x2F;pub&#x2F;scm&#x2F;linux&#x2F;kernel&#x2F;git&#x2F;torvalds&#x2F;linux.git&#x2F;log&#x2F;?qt=author&amp;q=shli%40fb.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git.kernel.org&#x2F;pub&#x2F;scm&#x2F;linux&#x2F;kernel&#x2F;git&#x2F;torvalds&#x2F;lin...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Linux md maintainer, Shaohua Li, has died</title><url>https://www.spinics.net/lists/raid/msg61993.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jensv</author><text>md is multiple devices. It&#x27;s a RAID implementation in Linux kernel available since kernel release 2.0. It allows you to create RAID level 0, 10, 4, 5 and 6. It has various optimizations like utilizing SSE and MMX instructions. It&#x27;s a standard software RAID in Linux.</text></comment> |
28,180,482 | 28,180,667 | 1 | 2 | 28,180,074 | train | <story><title>Debian 11</title><url>https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/release-notes/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Shish2k</author><text>PHP 8.0 is 10 months old, and debian’s upcoming release will be upgrading from 7.3 to 7.4, which will make 7.4 the standard for the next ~3 years (even though it only gets upstream support for 1 more year)…<p>I am starting to reconsider my personal policy of “use debian-stable as a benchmark for what language runtimes I should build on top of”, now tending towards “use debian stable as the bare-metal OS, and build all my projects inside docker, using each language’s most recent stable release”</text></comment> | <story><title>Debian 11</title><url>https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/release-notes/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lebrad</author><text>We&#x27;re about to experience a dreamy period of numerical software versioning where Debian, Windows, and macOS have all gone to eleven</text></comment> |
22,121,873 | 22,122,094 | 1 | 3 | 22,120,378 | train | <story><title>U.S. surveillance laws have proven ineffective at countering terrorism</title><url>https://theprivacyissue.com/government-surveillance/united-states-of-surveillance-us-history-spying</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>54thr</author><text>The threat of terror gives power to the State. Power seeks more power. The State does not erode freedoms in support of safety. The State erodes freedoms to achieve more power. Terror is the excuse. It is the State&#x27;s greatest tool.</text></comment> | <story><title>U.S. surveillance laws have proven ineffective at countering terrorism</title><url>https://theprivacyissue.com/government-surveillance/united-states-of-surveillance-us-history-spying</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aquadrop</author><text>The only measure that needed to be done after 9&#x2F;11, and it&#x27;s surprising why this very effective measure wasn&#x27;t implemented before - securing access to the pilot&#x27;s cabin. Everything else is overreaction cause by power grabbing by &quot;security agencies&quot; and politicians trying to score. The whole security system of today&#x27;s world (especially in flying) is one pointless thing after another, holding on the a fear of &quot;what if&quot;.</text></comment> |
26,464,566 | 26,461,475 | 1 | 2 | 26,457,047 | train | <story><title>Israel's autonomous 'robo-snipers' and suicide drones raise ethical dilemma</title><url>https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/israel-s-autonomous-robo-snipers-and-suicide-drones-raise-ethical-dilemma-44557</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bsaul</author><text>It always amazes me how some people are unable to accept the fact that there are extremists ideologies in this world. The fact that you think that it’s possible to solve a conflict with diplomatic talks, no matter if the ideology in front of you is capable of sacrificing its own children in suicide bombings to kill other civilians ( which not even the nazis or the japanese kamikaze did), in a pure act of hate, should let you think twice about the best tactic.<p>Sometimes, it is really impossible to talk some sense to some people. It’s just very hard to accept for us, but it just is, and history has proved that sometimes force <i>is</i> , unfortunately, the wisest choice.</text></item><item><author>BobbyJo</author><text>It wasn&#x27;t an argument that one side should allow people to die, it was an argument that high mutual cost deters conflict and encourages diplomatic engagement. Which is true, see: nukes.</text></item><item><author>siculars</author><text>I&#x27;ve been here a long time. This may actually win the award for most ridiculous comment ever written on HN. To argue that a main should willingly sacrifice their people for... what exactly? Why do you think these systems were built? To keep their people from &quot;actually dying.&quot; Another route could be to indiscriminately return 10x fire for every indiscriminately fired inbound rocket. Would that be an appropriate response? I mean, it could &quot;push for a peaceful resolution faster.&quot;</text></item><item><author>jbob2000</author><text>You could argue that the Iron Dome has allowed the Israelis to perpetuate the conflict. If Israel citizens were faced with actually dying, they might push for a peaceful resolution faster.</text></item><item><author>fossuser</author><text>Reminds me in a weird way of this episode: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imdb.com&#x2F;title&#x2F;tt0708414&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imdb.com&#x2F;title&#x2F;tt0708414&#x2F;</a><p>A culture has computer simulated war and “casualties” must report to euthanasia chambers.<p>This was the end result agreed to to stop actual bombings.<p>Of course, the officers disrupt it in the end. But it’d be interesting if they returned and nothing was left but craters.<p>More on topic, iron dome is an automated missile interception system and works well to protect Israelis from missile attacks. Just because a system is automated doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a bad idea, but obviously there’s high risk.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Iron_Dome" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Iron_Dome</a></text></item><item><author>rossdavidh</author><text>So, I realize that lots of apocalyptic projections get made about AI that have a habit of not coming true, but this seems like an awful idea. Also, an awfully hard one to resist. If your opponent has fast-as-a-computer-can-pull-the-trigger firepower, it&#x27;s going to be pretty hard to resist the urge to get your own.<p>Once you have two sides with automated offensive capability, we are one bug away from the kind of mistakes that, during the Cold War, were intercepted by humans in the loop. I&#x27;m not sure how this can NOT end badly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vimacs2</author><text>It&#x27;s easy to dismantle this argument by realising that you&#x27;re making a fake comparison. Nobody (not even ISIS) is going to be stupid enough to give access to nukes to the kinds of people that they value little enough to send on suicide bomb attacks. This was also true for the Axis forces. Nobody was entrusting low level SS and Kamikaze grunts with nuclear codes and the same would be true for even a &quot;rogue&quot; state like North Korea or Iran.<p>You also clearly don&#x27;t understand what path would lead someone to resort to suicide bombing if you think you can reduce it to &quot;a pure act of hate&quot;. These are desperate people who have been brainwashed to the point that they think they would bring more net worth to the world by blowing themselves and their surroundings up than living on. What would help &quot;talk sense&quot; to people is to stop engaging in illegal invasive wars that (intentionally or unintentionally) destabilise their region.</text></comment> | <story><title>Israel's autonomous 'robo-snipers' and suicide drones raise ethical dilemma</title><url>https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/israel-s-autonomous-robo-snipers-and-suicide-drones-raise-ethical-dilemma-44557</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bsaul</author><text>It always amazes me how some people are unable to accept the fact that there are extremists ideologies in this world. The fact that you think that it’s possible to solve a conflict with diplomatic talks, no matter if the ideology in front of you is capable of sacrificing its own children in suicide bombings to kill other civilians ( which not even the nazis or the japanese kamikaze did), in a pure act of hate, should let you think twice about the best tactic.<p>Sometimes, it is really impossible to talk some sense to some people. It’s just very hard to accept for us, but it just is, and history has proved that sometimes force <i>is</i> , unfortunately, the wisest choice.</text></item><item><author>BobbyJo</author><text>It wasn&#x27;t an argument that one side should allow people to die, it was an argument that high mutual cost deters conflict and encourages diplomatic engagement. Which is true, see: nukes.</text></item><item><author>siculars</author><text>I&#x27;ve been here a long time. This may actually win the award for most ridiculous comment ever written on HN. To argue that a main should willingly sacrifice their people for... what exactly? Why do you think these systems were built? To keep their people from &quot;actually dying.&quot; Another route could be to indiscriminately return 10x fire for every indiscriminately fired inbound rocket. Would that be an appropriate response? I mean, it could &quot;push for a peaceful resolution faster.&quot;</text></item><item><author>jbob2000</author><text>You could argue that the Iron Dome has allowed the Israelis to perpetuate the conflict. If Israel citizens were faced with actually dying, they might push for a peaceful resolution faster.</text></item><item><author>fossuser</author><text>Reminds me in a weird way of this episode: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imdb.com&#x2F;title&#x2F;tt0708414&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imdb.com&#x2F;title&#x2F;tt0708414&#x2F;</a><p>A culture has computer simulated war and “casualties” must report to euthanasia chambers.<p>This was the end result agreed to to stop actual bombings.<p>Of course, the officers disrupt it in the end. But it’d be interesting if they returned and nothing was left but craters.<p>More on topic, iron dome is an automated missile interception system and works well to protect Israelis from missile attacks. Just because a system is automated doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a bad idea, but obviously there’s high risk.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Iron_Dome" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Iron_Dome</a></text></item><item><author>rossdavidh</author><text>So, I realize that lots of apocalyptic projections get made about AI that have a habit of not coming true, but this seems like an awful idea. Also, an awfully hard one to resist. If your opponent has fast-as-a-computer-can-pull-the-trigger firepower, it&#x27;s going to be pretty hard to resist the urge to get your own.<p>Once you have two sides with automated offensive capability, we are one bug away from the kind of mistakes that, during the Cold War, were intercepted by humans in the loop. I&#x27;m not sure how this can NOT end badly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BobbyJo</author><text>That&#x27;s a bit of an unrelated tangent no? I don&#x27;t think anyone in this thread was suggesting that force is never warranted.</text></comment> |
34,469,446 | 34,469,020 | 1 | 3 | 34,468,654 | train | <story><title>The McMurdo Webcams</title><url>https://www.usap.gov/videoclipsandmaps/mcmwebcam.cfm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dchristian</author><text>It&#x27;s amazing that they have the bandwidth for this. I assume there is a US or NZ based server that serves the world, but still.<p>I was there in the 92-93 season. We were lucky to have e-mail back then.<p>We did our own special internet link for a project that used spare bandwidth on a non commercial satellite. We had 1.544mbit up and 9600 down. We sent what would eventually be called motion jpeg for &quot;video&quot;. There was no audio. The satellite dish was pointed 3deg below the horizon; but we were on a mountain, so that was fine.<p>McMurdo is a fabulously weird place. The US Navy manages all the food&#x2F;fuel&#x2F;housing logistics. Then you get the researchers coming through to do projects. They may be working from McMurdo, but most are just be gearing up to go out on the ice. These are often grad students, researchers, and faculty. So the average IQ is much higher than your typical ski town.<p>The staff that works the station is there because they like the environment. You find people with college degrees doing maintenance and safety trainings. Most are just there for the summer season (which is now). Some will winter over.<p>Most of the fuel and cargo comes in once a year. The ice breaker is at the ice dock, so that can happen any time now.<p>Everything else is flown in&#x2F;out from NZ at considerable expense. Early in the season the ice is thick enough to land jets like the C-5 and C-17. While they are in the ground, they have to move them every few hours to keep the ice from cracking under all that weight. By this time in the season it&#x27;s probably just C-130s doing everything. Once the sun goes back down, all flights cease and there is nothing can get out for 9 months.</text></comment> | <story><title>The McMurdo Webcams</title><url>https://www.usap.gov/videoclipsandmaps/mcmwebcam.cfm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Nitrolo</author><text>I always imagined these antarctic stations as a kind of spaceship, with a lot of technology and effort poured into them but maybe a few dozen scientists at most operating everything.<p>Instead this is a whole town! Wikipedia says the population is 1000 people in the summer, which is probably 20 times more than I would have guessed.<p>Fascinating, thanks for the link!</text></comment> |
21,675,665 | 21,675,253 | 1 | 2 | 21,675,148 | train | <story><title>Physicists Have Identified a Metal That Conducts Electricity But Not Heat (2017)</title><url>https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-identify-a-metal-that-conducts-electricity-but-not-heat</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Iv</author><text>That article is weirdly written and it is not clear how the title relates to the content.<p>However if that metal has a good electricity conductivity and a low heat one, wouldn&#x27;t that make it an ideal candidate for seebeck-effect generators? My understanding was that the efficency of these cells is mostly limited by the heat conducted at the junction. If one of the metals at the junction is a heat insulator, it should work wonders, no?</text></comment> | <story><title>Physicists Have Identified a Metal That Conducts Electricity But Not Heat (2017)</title><url>https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-identify-a-metal-that-conducts-electricity-but-not-heat</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>liopleurodon</author><text>Apparently it&#x27;s transparent.<p>I&#x27;ll have to remember this the next time I need to build a whale tank</text></comment> |
29,548,085 | 29,547,729 | 1 | 2 | 29,547,458 | train | <story><title>California halts Pony.ai's driverless testing permit after accident</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/ponyai-autonomous-test-idCNL4N2SY4KG</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jensson</author><text>&gt; On Oct. 28, a Pony.ai vehicle operating in autonomous mode hit a road center divider and a traffic sign in Fremont after turning right<p>This is really bad, if their software can&#x27;t even avoid hitting a stationary object then it isn&#x27;t ready to test on public roads.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>randmeerkat</author><text>&gt; This is really bad, if their software can&#x27;t even avoid hitting a stationary object then it isn&#x27;t ready to test on public roads.<p>Almost as bad as a Tesla crashing into a stopped fire truck. Why is Tesla “autopilot” still allowed on Californian roads?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;tesla-autopilot-why-crash-radar&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;tesla-autopilot-why-crash-radar&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>California halts Pony.ai's driverless testing permit after accident</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/ponyai-autonomous-test-idCNL4N2SY4KG</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jensson</author><text>&gt; On Oct. 28, a Pony.ai vehicle operating in autonomous mode hit a road center divider and a traffic sign in Fremont after turning right<p>This is really bad, if their software can&#x27;t even avoid hitting a stationary object then it isn&#x27;t ready to test on public roads.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TaylorAlexander</author><text>I interviewed at a self driving car startup in 2016 that was testing their early prototypes on public roads! They were also using their investor money to rent out some ten million dollar home in the Silicon Valley hills as their office. Big red flags all around. I declined their request for a second round interview.</text></comment> |
28,180,786 | 28,178,821 | 1 | 2 | 28,178,257 | train | <story><title>Software Engineering's Greatest Hits [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrVtA-ue-x0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mikewarot</author><text>Well, this has a lot of practical knowledge on offer, and I intend to watch it a few more times for it all to sink in.<p>I&#x27;ve always believed that anyone can learn anything, if they and their teacher both believe it, and put in the effort. I&#x27;m glad to see that bias confirmed.<p>I was really surprised that nobody seems to actually handle errors. This does reflect my experience, in what I thought (until now) was an exception. In about 1985 I was taking a vendor taught course in PL&#x2F;N at the Norand company (who made hand-held computers used for inventory management). We got to the section of the course about error handling. They described the syntax for checking errors, and how to format things, etc. I asked what happened when you got an error, and both instructors had never been asked that question, and both had ZERO clue about it.<p>For all the arguments here about in and out of band error handling, this was shocking, and definitely did not confirm any bias.</text></comment> | <story><title>Software Engineering's Greatest Hits [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrVtA-ue-x0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fbr</author><text>Link to the slides: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;third-bit.com&#x2F;talks&#x2F;greatest-hits&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;third-bit.com&#x2F;talks&#x2F;greatest-hits&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
27,689,301 | 27,687,679 | 1 | 2 | 27,687,485 | train | <story><title>NASA Space Tourism Posters</title><url>https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/682/space-tourism-posters/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>circleit</author><text>Beautiful posters. I’m baffled as to why anyone would want to spend time on planets that don’t naturally support life for humans. What is the appeal of nothingness. Just go put on a special suit and hang out in a desert on earth. At least there you might even see bugs or snakes, etc. but another planet with nothing but rocks (minerals, whatever)…how is this appealing. The biodiversity on earth is incredible and is being destroyed at an insane pace. All this space talk and people wanting to yet out of here really makes me think humans are unable to 1) appreciate what they have and 2) are extremely selfish to the point where, when whittled down in this scenario, prefer nothing to a lot of things. Besides exploring space, which I think is somewhat different, can someone tell me what the appeal of living in nothingness is…</text></comment> | <story><title>NASA Space Tourism Posters</title><url>https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/682/space-tourism-posters/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>brettermeier</author><text>That are some beautfiful posters, but the download links for the high resolution versions lead to a 404 error page, like this one: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jpl.nasa.gov&#x2F;visions-of-the-future&#x2F;tif&#x2F;enceladus.tif" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jpl.nasa.gov&#x2F;visions-of-the-future&#x2F;tif&#x2F;enceladus...</a></text></comment> |
39,532,681 | 39,531,460 | 1 | 3 | 39,530,203 | train | <story><title>Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu</title><url>https://overkill.wtf/nintendo-sue-yuzu-emulator/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>robbiet480</author><text>I knew that Patreon would bite them some day. Any time money comes into a &quot;offensive&quot; open source project, whoever feels they are getting hurt can make a claim a lot easier. Somewhat surprised they haven&#x27;t yet sued Ryujinx (the other Switch emulator project) for also having a Patreon.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crtasm</author><text>Patreon about page begins:<p>&gt;yuzu is a Nintendo Switch emulator capable of running many games! With yuzu, you can play such games as Pokémon Sword &amp; Shield, Xenoblade Chronicles 3, Super Mario Odyssey, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Pokémon Legends: Arceus, Fire Emblem:Three Houses, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate — on your PC.<p>Regardless of the legal status of an emulator, I wouldn&#x27;t list game titles if I were writing that copy.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu</title><url>https://overkill.wtf/nintendo-sue-yuzu-emulator/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>robbiet480</author><text>I knew that Patreon would bite them some day. Any time money comes into a &quot;offensive&quot; open source project, whoever feels they are getting hurt can make a claim a lot easier. Somewhat surprised they haven&#x27;t yet sued Ryujinx (the other Switch emulator project) for also having a Patreon.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>judge2020</author><text>Making money is not a factor for fair use, but one factor is whether it’s a for-profit endeavor; you can be making money to fund an operation without doing so for profit. And even then, courts haven’t been too concerned with that aspect when other aspects are clearly met.</text></comment> |
5,810,921 | 5,810,916 | 1 | 3 | 5,810,742 | train | <story><title>QR Code in shopping cart handle</title><url>http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/26268/qr-code-in-shopping-cart-handle#</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>TheBiv</author><text>This screams marketing and engineering not being able to clearly communicate the problem statement. The problem statement was given to engineering as "How do we get a QR code inside of this handle thing?", when I am guessing their actual question was something like "How do we get the shopper to engage with our digital marketing efforts?"<p>I for sure know there are times when marketing has a clear thing of what they want, and you are not allowed to brainstorm the pro's and con's; but the con's seem to far outweigh the pro's in this specific strategy.<p>You're telling me that the shopper would have to contort their phone an unnaturally specific angle just to scan a QR code. Now the problem statement is back to the marketing team of "How do I tell the shopper to contort their phone at this angle?". I doubt that the marketing folks will like this being back on their lap.</text></comment> | <story><title>QR Code in shopping cart handle</title><url>http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/26268/qr-code-in-shopping-cart-handle#</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>paul9290</author><text>Are people using QR codes frequently here in the states or elsewhere?<p>To me I see them everywhere, but curiously most phones don't have them built into their camera apps (iPhone's camera doesn't have built in scanner) or have some quick an easy way to scan QR codes.<p>Rather you have to download an app and then later find that app, then fidget a bit too much to get the app to read the code.<p>Not the greatest user experience and I have found it frustrating!<p>What advances have been made and or are being made to make QR code scanning quick and painless?</text></comment> |
10,034,083 | 10,034,119 | 1 | 2 | 10,034,068 | train | <story><title>Ignition: V8 Interpreter</title><url>https://docs.google.com/document/d/11T2CRex9hXxoJwbYqVQ32yIPMh0uouUZLdyrtmMoL44/edit?pli=1#heading=h.6jz9dj3bnr8t</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hittaruki</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;andywingo&#x2F;status&#x2F;630705153922838528" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;andywingo&#x2F;status&#x2F;630705153922838528</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Ignition: V8 Interpreter</title><url>https://docs.google.com/document/d/11T2CRex9hXxoJwbYqVQ32yIPMh0uouUZLdyrtmMoL44/edit?pli=1#heading=h.6jz9dj3bnr8t</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pwg</author><text>See this: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.stanford.edu&#x2F;pub&#x2F;cstr&#x2F;reports&#x2F;cs&#x2F;tr&#x2F;94&#x2F;1520&#x2F;CS-TR-94-1520.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.stanford.edu&#x2F;pub&#x2F;cstr&#x2F;reports&#x2F;cs&#x2F;tr&#x2F;94&#x2F;1520&#x2F;CS-TR-9...</a> (ADAPTIVE OPTIMIZATION FOR SELF: RECONCILING HIGH PERFORMANCE WITH EXPLORATORY PROGRAMING)<p>Esp. section 5.3+ starting on physical pdf page 56.</text></comment> |
28,228,138 | 28,227,655 | 1 | 3 | 28,227,022 | train | <story><title>Apple’s device surveillance plan is a threat to user privacy – and press freedom</title><url>https://freedom.press/news/apples-device-surveillance-plan-is-a-threat-to-user-privacy-and-press-freedom/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>35803288</author><text>This technology will soon be out of Apple’s control. Higgins correctly highlights the immense pressure Apple will get from governments and other actors to bend the technology and use it for something else than csam. It will happen, people are probably already thinking how to apply such pressure. Sooner or later Apple will cave in and they will have only themselves to blame when freedom supports in Sudan or LGBTQ activists in Saudi Arabia will be jailed. The issue here is not where to draw the line, but who will draw it (spoiler: not Apple).</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple’s device surveillance plan is a threat to user privacy – and press freedom</title><url>https://freedom.press/news/apples-device-surveillance-plan-is-a-threat-to-user-privacy-and-press-freedom/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fmajid</author><text>Of course. Politicians and officials hate whistleblowers far more than pedophiles, and it&#x27;s obvious this mechanism will be used to find future Chelsea Mannings and Reality Winners with better opsec to make examples out of them.</text></comment> |
25,155,972 | 25,154,561 | 1 | 3 | 25,151,773 | train | <story><title>1MB Club</title><url>https://1mb.club/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SilasX</author><text>Yeah I was surprised they included pictures in the limit at all -- I mean, sometimes, you <i>need</i> those pictures, and for them to load slower is less important so long as you don&#x27;t need them to navigate the page.</text></item><item><author>charlesdaniels</author><text>At the risk of over-complicating things, perhaps there could be limits per resource type. 10Mb of images might be reasonable (e.g. for a photojournal), but only 128KB of JS, and 128KB for everything else. Something along those lines.</text></item><item><author>highmastdon</author><text>Don’t forget that also 1MB of JavaScript is much much more heavy on the client than 1MB image</text></item><item><author>yellowapple</author><text>I love it!<p>I feel like the 1MB limit is excessively generous, especially for text-only pages. But maybe that&#x27;s what makes it so damning when pages fail to adhere to it. I know at least one website I maintain fails it spectacularly (though in my defense it&#x27;s entirely because of that website being chock-full of photos, and full-res ones at that; pages without those are well under that 1MB mark), while other sites I&#x27;ve built consist entirely of pages within a fraction of that limit.<p>It&#x27;d be interesting to impose a stricter limitation to the 1MB Club: one where <i>all</i> pages on a given site are within that limit. This would disqualify Craigslist, for example (the listing search pages blow that limit out of the water, and the listings themselves sometimes do, too).<p>I also wonder how many sites 1mb.club would have to show on one page before it, too, ends up disqualifying itself. Might be worthwhile to start thinking about site categories sooner rather than later if everyone and their mothers starts spamming that GitHub issues page with sites (like I&#x27;m doing right now).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>corobo</author><text>Well if you need them you can&#x27;t be a part of this 1MB club.<p>It&#x27;s not a bad thing, it&#x27;s just a thing.</text></comment> | <story><title>1MB Club</title><url>https://1mb.club/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SilasX</author><text>Yeah I was surprised they included pictures in the limit at all -- I mean, sometimes, you <i>need</i> those pictures, and for them to load slower is less important so long as you don&#x27;t need them to navigate the page.</text></item><item><author>charlesdaniels</author><text>At the risk of over-complicating things, perhaps there could be limits per resource type. 10Mb of images might be reasonable (e.g. for a photojournal), but only 128KB of JS, and 128KB for everything else. Something along those lines.</text></item><item><author>highmastdon</author><text>Don’t forget that also 1MB of JavaScript is much much more heavy on the client than 1MB image</text></item><item><author>yellowapple</author><text>I love it!<p>I feel like the 1MB limit is excessively generous, especially for text-only pages. But maybe that&#x27;s what makes it so damning when pages fail to adhere to it. I know at least one website I maintain fails it spectacularly (though in my defense it&#x27;s entirely because of that website being chock-full of photos, and full-res ones at that; pages without those are well under that 1MB mark), while other sites I&#x27;ve built consist entirely of pages within a fraction of that limit.<p>It&#x27;d be interesting to impose a stricter limitation to the 1MB Club: one where <i>all</i> pages on a given site are within that limit. This would disqualify Craigslist, for example (the listing search pages blow that limit out of the water, and the listings themselves sometimes do, too).<p>I also wonder how many sites 1mb.club would have to show on one page before it, too, ends up disqualifying itself. Might be worthwhile to start thinking about site categories sooner rather than later if everyone and their mothers starts spamming that GitHub issues page with sites (like I&#x27;m doing right now).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Aeolun</author><text>I’m not surprised. The whole point of it is that you can reasonably load it over 3g.<p>If you have a few megs of images that never show up because they take too long to load, there is no point.</text></comment> |
25,757,864 | 25,757,800 | 1 | 2 | 25,757,712 | train | <story><title>Joint Chiefs remind U.S. forces that they defend the constitution</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/congress-electoral-college-tally-live-updates/2021/01/12/956170188/joint-chiefs-remind-u-s-forces-that-they-defend-the-constitution</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bostonsre</author><text>It&#x27;s incredibly reassuring to know that there are solid honorable people in our armed forces that eschew politics in favor of doing the right thing. I&#x27;m sure they don&#x27;t hear it enough, but thank you if any members read this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>Yes, incredible to read this. My family left Bangladesh when it was being run by a military government. We are so fortunate to have the military we do.<p>Its not an idea or a principle or a law. It’s culture. It’s a norm
that has been socialized into members of the military, especially the leadership, for hundreds of years. I live in Annapolis now by the Naval Academy and it’s quite a joy to see each new cohort of naval officers carry on the tradition.</text></comment> | <story><title>Joint Chiefs remind U.S. forces that they defend the constitution</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/congress-electoral-college-tally-live-updates/2021/01/12/956170188/joint-chiefs-remind-u-s-forces-that-they-defend-the-constitution</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bostonsre</author><text>It&#x27;s incredibly reassuring to know that there are solid honorable people in our armed forces that eschew politics in favor of doing the right thing. I&#x27;m sure they don&#x27;t hear it enough, but thank you if any members read this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MichaelApproved</author><text>At the same time, it’s pretty scary that things got so bad, the armed forces had to weigh in on a political matter.</text></comment> |
39,906,166 | 39,903,849 | 1 | 3 | 39,903,742 | train | <story><title>Debian Git Monorepo</title><url>https://blog.liw.fi/posts/2024/monorepo/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway2037</author><text>Putting aside that this is an April Fool&#x27;s joke, I like the last part:<p><pre><code> &gt; This time, I’m cruel to Git: can it handle a repository of this size? In 2009 it could not. In 2024 it can.
</code></pre>
That really hits home for me. Really: Think about this repo for a moment. 500 GB. 15 miiiiiiiiiiiiiiilion files. It is crazy to think that a &quot;vanilla&quot; git repo can handle it. Applause for the Git team!</text></comment> | <story><title>Debian Git Monorepo</title><url>https://blog.liw.fi/posts/2024/monorepo/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nolist_policy</author><text>April fool aside, what I <i>really</i> want is a Debian git monorepo of submodules, where each submodule points to the upstream git repository.</text></comment> |
32,149,873 | 32,149,590 | 1 | 2 | 32,148,463 | train | <story><title>To download from Google Drive, you must enable third party cookies?</title><url>https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2423534?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jefftk</author><text>This is wrong: try downloading something with Safari, which blocks third party cookies by default, and it works fine.<p>Instead, the problem is that downloading from Google Drive is using User-Agent sniffing to determine whether third party cookies are expected to be enabled, and choosing between implementations.<p>(Disclosure: I used to work at Google, but I don&#x27;t know anything internal on this)</text></comment> | <story><title>To download from Google Drive, you must enable third party cookies?</title><url>https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2423534?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>newscracker</author><text>If you’re anyway using Google Drive, you could use Firefox with the Google Container extension [1] to limit Google’s tracking activities across Google tabs to this container. Also install Cookie AutoDelete [2] and let the cookies, cache, local storage, etc., get cleared soon after you close the tabs.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;google-container&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;google-contai...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;cookie-autodelete&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;cookie-autode...</a></text></comment> |
16,311,474 | 16,311,334 | 1 | 2 | 16,309,622 | train | <story><title>3D Color Print</title><url>http://www8.hp.com/us/en/printers/3d-printers/3dcolorprint.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dolguldur</author><text>It&#x27;s funny how I and other people see hp and immediately think of bad business practices that lead to a bad experience with the brand.<p>Relates to the concept that you optimize for what you measure. Not factoring in that screwing over customers will have some impact down the line is also like some sort of debt (as in tech debt). It&#x27;s like long term brand debt.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gh02t</author><text>It&#x27;s a bit depressing too, considering what the HP brand used to be. They used to be synonymous with the some of the most cutting-edge, best engineered test equipment and other electronics gear you could buy. Gear from that era like the legendary HP3458 multimeter still commands very high prices on the used market ($5000 or more if calibrated).<p>Really that part of HP still exists at that level of quality, but they spun it off as Agilent and later Keysight. Hard to believe they squandered the original brand so completely, though.</text></comment> | <story><title>3D Color Print</title><url>http://www8.hp.com/us/en/printers/3d-printers/3dcolorprint.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dolguldur</author><text>It&#x27;s funny how I and other people see hp and immediately think of bad business practices that lead to a bad experience with the brand.<p>Relates to the concept that you optimize for what you measure. Not factoring in that screwing over customers will have some impact down the line is also like some sort of debt (as in tech debt). It&#x27;s like long term brand debt.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pacificmint</author><text>You seem to imply that they don&#x27;t realize something might have impact in the future (because it&#x27;s not what they measure).<p>It&#x27;s also possible that they are very aware of it, but just don&#x27;t care. The modern corporate system, especially in the US, is set up to incentivize favoring short term results over the long term.<p>If it will make their numbers look better this quarter at the cost of damaging the brand down the road, unfortunately many company will choose that path, even knowingly.</text></comment> |
38,647,724 | 38,647,547 | 1 | 2 | 38,638,580 | train | <story><title>How to clean chemistry glassware</title><url>https://www.chem.rochester.edu/notvoodoo/pages/how_to.php?page=clean_glassware</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rubicks</author><text>Ex-undergrad-assistant in a organic synthesis lab, here. I am extremely familiar with glass cleaning procedures, having done it nearly daily for one long semester.<p>Base bath is how you clean glassware.<p>The base bath was a _saturated_ solution of KOH (potassium hydroxide) in a 10-gallon PTFE (molded &quot;teflon&quot;). You knew it was saturated by the KOH precipitate at the bottom.<p>You take your &quot;dirties&quot;, making absolutely sure they had no residual acid on them, and ever so slowly, ease them into the bath. 24 or 36 hours later, remove them and repeat with the next batch.<p>After a few dozen cycles, you have to change out the base for fresh stuff. For that, you needed a face shield, shoulder gloves, and extremely steady hands.<p>Tedious, dangerous work.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to clean chemistry glassware</title><url>https://www.chem.rochester.edu/notvoodoo/pages/how_to.php?page=clean_glassware</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>showerst</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting to me how concentrated HF is just universally acknowledged as one of the &#x27;big bads&#x27; of chemistry labs.<p>I&#x27;ve run into &quot;Yes HF works here but SERIOUSLY DON&#x27;T&quot; in so many different contexts and processes. Sounds like a lovely thing to keep a nice distance from!</text></comment> |
8,419,298 | 8,418,945 | 1 | 2 | 8,416,393 | train | <story><title>Yahoo Hacked</title><url>http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:I8s8KmZhwXMJ:www.futuresouth.us/yahoo_hacked.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&client=firefox-a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>secalex</author><text>Howdy, Hacker News. I’m the CISO of Yahoo and I wanted to clear up some misconceptions.<p>Earlier today, we reported that we isolated a handful of servers that were detected to have been impacted by a security flaw. After investigating the situation fully, it turns out that the servers were in fact not affected by Shellshock.<p>Three of our Sports API servers had malicious code executed on them this weekend by attackers looking for vulnerable Shellshock servers. These attackers had mutated their exploit, likely with the goal of bypassing IDS&#x2F;IDP or WAF filters. This mutation happened to exactly fit a command injection bug in a monitoring script our Sports team was using at that moment to parse and debug their web logs.<p>Regardless of the cause our course of action remained the same: to isolate the servers at risk and protect our users&#x27; data. The affected API servers are used to provide live game streaming data to our Sports front-end and do not store user data. At this time we have found no evidence that the attackers compromised any other machines or that any user data was affected. This flaw was specific to a small number of machines and has been fixed, and we have added this pattern to our CI&#x2F;CD code scanners to catch future issues.<p>As you can imagine this episode caused some confusion in our team, since the servers in question had been successfully patched (twice!!) immediately after the Bash issue became public. Once we ensured that the impacted servers were isolated from the network, we conducted a comprehensive trace of the attack code through our entire stack which revealed the root cause: not Shellshock. Let this be a lesson to defenders and attackers alike: just because exploit code works doesn’t mean it triggered the bug you expected!<p>I also want to address another issue: Yahoo takes external security reports seriously and we strive to respond immediately to credible tips. We monitor our Bug Bounty (bugbounty.yahoo.com) and security aliases ([email protected]) 24x7, and our records show no attempt by this researcher to contact us using those means. Within an hour of our CEO being emailed directly we had isolated these systems and begun our investigation. We run one of the most successful Bug Bounty programs in the world and I hope everybody here will participate and help us keep our users safe.<p>We’re always looking for people who want to keep nearly a billion users safe at scale. [email protected]</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tszming</author><text>&gt;&gt; Yahoo takes external security reports seriously<p>Few weeks ago, I reported to your team that some of the yahoo servers&#x27; SSL cert were expired, acknowledged but no one want to fix it (until I post it here and finally get them updated...your site was showing security warning to your users for 2 weeks)<p>One of your awesome engineers replied the issue with expired SSL cert: &quot;there do not appear to be any security implications as a direct result of this behavior&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Yahoo Hacked</title><url>http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:I8s8KmZhwXMJ:www.futuresouth.us/yahoo_hacked.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&client=firefox-a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>secalex</author><text>Howdy, Hacker News. I’m the CISO of Yahoo and I wanted to clear up some misconceptions.<p>Earlier today, we reported that we isolated a handful of servers that were detected to have been impacted by a security flaw. After investigating the situation fully, it turns out that the servers were in fact not affected by Shellshock.<p>Three of our Sports API servers had malicious code executed on them this weekend by attackers looking for vulnerable Shellshock servers. These attackers had mutated their exploit, likely with the goal of bypassing IDS&#x2F;IDP or WAF filters. This mutation happened to exactly fit a command injection bug in a monitoring script our Sports team was using at that moment to parse and debug their web logs.<p>Regardless of the cause our course of action remained the same: to isolate the servers at risk and protect our users&#x27; data. The affected API servers are used to provide live game streaming data to our Sports front-end and do not store user data. At this time we have found no evidence that the attackers compromised any other machines or that any user data was affected. This flaw was specific to a small number of machines and has been fixed, and we have added this pattern to our CI&#x2F;CD code scanners to catch future issues.<p>As you can imagine this episode caused some confusion in our team, since the servers in question had been successfully patched (twice!!) immediately after the Bash issue became public. Once we ensured that the impacted servers were isolated from the network, we conducted a comprehensive trace of the attack code through our entire stack which revealed the root cause: not Shellshock. Let this be a lesson to defenders and attackers alike: just because exploit code works doesn’t mean it triggered the bug you expected!<p>I also want to address another issue: Yahoo takes external security reports seriously and we strive to respond immediately to credible tips. We monitor our Bug Bounty (bugbounty.yahoo.com) and security aliases ([email protected]) 24x7, and our records show no attempt by this researcher to contact us using those means. Within an hour of our CEO being emailed directly we had isolated these systems and begun our investigation. We run one of the most successful Bug Bounty programs in the world and I hope everybody here will participate and help us keep our users safe.<p>We’re always looking for people who want to keep nearly a billion users safe at scale. [email protected]</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>legohead</author><text>Patched twice? There are 7 known shellshock exploits (and 30 patches) so far.. <a href="https://shellshocker.net/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shellshocker.net&#x2F;</a><p>Not knocking on you or anything, just more interested to know if all exploits have been patched against, more than the # of patches applied.</text></comment> |
6,916,796 | 6,916,932 | 1 | 3 | 6,916,161 | train | <story><title>Why are you still building consumer apps? Enterprise pays 4x more</title><url>http://www.developereconomics.com/still-building-consumer-apps-enterprise-pays-4x/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bradleyland</author><text>We&#x27;re in the enterprise space. While I&#x27;m constantly amazed at how much we&#x27;re able to charge for our product, I&#x27;m equally amazed at the reasons deals go sideways.<p>In the consumer space, you&#x27;re working with averages over large quantities. The number of potential buyers is huge, so you need to build a product that, on-average, will result in more sales than non-sales when the customer reaches the point of making a decision. This decision point might happen tens of thousands of times -- sometimes millions -- a year for consumer products.<p>In the enterprise world, the number of sales opportunities are smaller by orders of magnitude. Every sale becomes a huge gamble, and as a result you tend to throw an immense amount of resources at every sale. This is also one of the primary reasons enterprise software ends up so bloated and unmanageable. On the front-end, the decision making process for purchasing enterprise software is driven by checklists and &quot;due diligence&quot; procedures that are horrible at accounting for software quality. You&#x27;re more likely to win an enterprise contract by saying &quot;sure, we&#x27;ll add that feature&quot; than you are carefully explaining how maintaining product focus results in a more usable product.<p>This makes enterprise software a high-stakes game. A sale results in windfall revenue, but a non-sale can severely strain cash-flows. At the end of the day, you&#x27;re still trying to beat the averages, but you&#x27;re working with a much smaller number of opportunities, so wins and losses move the needle in a big way. I think this is a significant incentive for small shops and independent devs to avoid the enterprise space. You need a larger bank roll to attack the enterprise market. We bootstrapped our company, and we hit several gut checks along the way. The days of writing large checks to my company are not quickly forgotten.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattzito</author><text>Exactly - at my last startup, revenue &quot;lumpiness&quot; was the worst part of the whole thing. In the early days, we&#x27;d have $0 in bookings one month, and then next month, a check for $800k would come in.<p>Building an enterprise sales funnel is also a challenge. It takes real discipline to be able to say &quot;100 leads-&gt;25 opportunities-&gt;5 POCs-&gt;3 deals at an ASP of 450k&quot;. With consumer apps, the volume is so much greater that you can have conversations about A&#x2F;B testing the homepage to drive a few extra percentage points - for enterprise apps, odds are not enough people will ever visit your website to be able to gather enough data to A&#x2F;B test anything.<p>And deals will fall apart for the most random reasons - a regime change at a big bank. A bigger company releases a product that uses some of the same words as yours, so the customer decides to evaluate it. Your EU channel partner gets bribed to tank a deal by a competitor. Anything can happen.<p>True story: we lost a deal once because the customer did a POC, and then fired the engineers who evaluated our software. With the departure of the engineers who evaluated the software, management lost the use case doc and evaluation criteria that was used by the fired engineers, so they wrote a new use case doc without telling us, scored us based on the new doc (despite never having used our software), then had a competitor come in and execute their POC with the new engineers and new use case doc. Unsurprisingly, the competitor &quot;won&quot;. The call with the customer was amazing:<p>Them: You lost because of X, Y, and Z reasons<p>Us: Those weren&#x27;t use cases in the pilot, but even if they were, we can do those things<p>Them: Well...we didn&#x27;t know that you could do them. But it doesn&#x27;t matter. We picked the other guys.<p>Us: Where are the people who looked at our software?<p>Them: We had to let them go. Unfortunately they didn&#x27;t have time to write a report before they left, so we based our evaluation of your software on your user manual.<p>This is one of the reasons why SaaS apps are so appealing on paper. They have:<p>- Recurring revenue stream<p>- Freemium models allow leads to self-select<p>- Less sales friction (no need to send a sales engineer onsite, just spin them up a free 2-week trial)<p>But there&#x27;s still a ton of money to be made in on-premise enterprise software, it&#x27;s just a long, annoying, dangerous sales process.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why are you still building consumer apps? Enterprise pays 4x more</title><url>http://www.developereconomics.com/still-building-consumer-apps-enterprise-pays-4x/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bradleyland</author><text>We&#x27;re in the enterprise space. While I&#x27;m constantly amazed at how much we&#x27;re able to charge for our product, I&#x27;m equally amazed at the reasons deals go sideways.<p>In the consumer space, you&#x27;re working with averages over large quantities. The number of potential buyers is huge, so you need to build a product that, on-average, will result in more sales than non-sales when the customer reaches the point of making a decision. This decision point might happen tens of thousands of times -- sometimes millions -- a year for consumer products.<p>In the enterprise world, the number of sales opportunities are smaller by orders of magnitude. Every sale becomes a huge gamble, and as a result you tend to throw an immense amount of resources at every sale. This is also one of the primary reasons enterprise software ends up so bloated and unmanageable. On the front-end, the decision making process for purchasing enterprise software is driven by checklists and &quot;due diligence&quot; procedures that are horrible at accounting for software quality. You&#x27;re more likely to win an enterprise contract by saying &quot;sure, we&#x27;ll add that feature&quot; than you are carefully explaining how maintaining product focus results in a more usable product.<p>This makes enterprise software a high-stakes game. A sale results in windfall revenue, but a non-sale can severely strain cash-flows. At the end of the day, you&#x27;re still trying to beat the averages, but you&#x27;re working with a much smaller number of opportunities, so wins and losses move the needle in a big way. I think this is a significant incentive for small shops and independent devs to avoid the enterprise space. You need a larger bank roll to attack the enterprise market. We bootstrapped our company, and we hit several gut checks along the way. The days of writing large checks to my company are not quickly forgotten.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nobodysfool</author><text>The many years of &quot;yea we&#x27;ll add that feature&quot; usually means a long lasting enterprise product ends up as a customize-able workflow tool with a customize-able rules engine that stores data as an EAV. It may be slow, but throw enough servers at it, and it can handle your workload. Then you just have presets for each market that you can pre-load the rules and workflows, and data if required. It&#x27;s absolutely crazy. You have to fight to keep your product from turning into an XML parser.</text></comment> |
7,449,616 | 7,449,361 | 1 | 3 | 7,447,510 | train | <story><title>Pending Comments</title><url>https://news.ycombinator.com/pending</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grannyg00se</author><text>I really appreciate the sentiment here, but at the same time I don&#x27;t want to see a thread with five hundred comments that say<p><pre><code> This.
</code></pre>
Or whatever trendy catch phrase is floating around the mindspace that month. And this system differs from what you describe in that there will be no set group of moderators. The community itself will decide what it wants to see and encourage the type of contribution it deems valid.</text></item><item><author>RogerL</author><text>I am currently spending my life working on signal processing - constructing a story of what is happening in the world from sensor data. And you know what - noise is good. You would perhaps think that the thing to do is to turn on the filters, crank &#x27;em up, and don&#x27;t ever let a noisy bit of data through.<p>But, of course, that does not work. Noise is helpful. It&#x27;s still signal. I can construct more information from a noisy signal than an overly filtered one.<p>Back to forums, I was a participant in several for a different niche area. One was obsessed with post &#x27;quality&#x27; - a horde of moderators swarming around, then after awhile they&#x27;d comb through every thread, deleting every comment they found not worthy so they would have some kind of pristine archive, and so on.<p>They utterly failed. Oh, they are still trundling along. But the sites with the industry leaders posting? Those are the ones with far less concern with &#x27;quality&#x27;. Why would an expert spend time crafting an answer to somebody when it is likely or possible that it will either not get approved to show up, or later deleted? It made no sense to them, they vocally complained, were again and again told this was for the greater good, and so they all left. Now, if you want to talk to an expert, you go to one of the other forums; if you want to talk to a complete amateur, but with never a post off topic, well, you go to the controlled one. You&#x27;ll get terrible advice, or no advice at all, but hey, it&#x27;s civil and on topic.<p>I&#x27;ve concluded nothing about HN yet, but I don&#x27;t forsee myself clicking away, endorsing post after post. This is mostly a &#x27;consume&#x27; site for me, and occasionally, post. I don&#x27;t want to spend my time endorsing and clicking away. I&#x27;ll upvote once in a while, and almost never downvote. I can&#x27;t see that changing much. I can&#x27;t see posting anymore; I am giving you value (or trying to), and you hold it hostage. Ya, okay, if that is how you feel, I&#x27;ll go elsewhere. I recognize that sounds petulant, but back to the site in the first paragraph - a lot of people stopped posting because so much did not survive the great purges that went on. Why go to this effort if others will silence you?<p>Noise is not the enemy of quality. It is not the enemy of value. It&#x27;s a wonderful side effect of free thinking, innovative thinking, of creation, of invention. It&#x27;s messy, it&#x27;s beautiful. I love noise for what it represents. Long live noise.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RogerL</author><text>We don&#x27;t have that problem here.<p>Notice my argument was not for anarchy. Back to signal processing for a moment, I used &#x27;noise&#x27; loosely. Signals of interest have noise and signal interspersed. It is often trivial to filter out pure noise, such as white noise. In forums, our white noise is &#x27;this&#x27; comments, and we trivially filter those out with downvoting, and I suspect it is not particularly hard to write some lisp code to require endorsement for, say, one word or one sentence replies, and prevent the &#x27;post&#x27; button from working if the text is &#x27;this&#x27; in any variant.<p>But if somebody puts a paragraph or more of time into a reply, well, that is not noise. It is signal. Sure, there may be snarkiness there, or not the most civil tone, but we have doing a good job of handling that on a personal level - in the form of replies such as &quot;RogerL, your post, while interesting, is a bit negative. We strive for better here&quot;. I see that all the time (well, not addressed to me, but you know what I mean). That is wonderful. Regardless, there is still a lot of signal there. I have my settings set so that I can see hellbanned people. They are all posting things of value, even the one person with the religious content occasionally posts something worth reading.<p>It is true that there will be no set group of moderators. I don&#x27;t see how that changes the fundamental equation, but it might. As I said, I haven&#x27;t formed any solid conclusion, but my gut reaction is that I don&#x27;t think I feel like participating in endorsement.<p>If we have a quality problem, it is one of submissions, of bad titles, not of &#x27;this&#x27; comments.</text></comment> | <story><title>Pending Comments</title><url>https://news.ycombinator.com/pending</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grannyg00se</author><text>I really appreciate the sentiment here, but at the same time I don&#x27;t want to see a thread with five hundred comments that say<p><pre><code> This.
</code></pre>
Or whatever trendy catch phrase is floating around the mindspace that month. And this system differs from what you describe in that there will be no set group of moderators. The community itself will decide what it wants to see and encourage the type of contribution it deems valid.</text></item><item><author>RogerL</author><text>I am currently spending my life working on signal processing - constructing a story of what is happening in the world from sensor data. And you know what - noise is good. You would perhaps think that the thing to do is to turn on the filters, crank &#x27;em up, and don&#x27;t ever let a noisy bit of data through.<p>But, of course, that does not work. Noise is helpful. It&#x27;s still signal. I can construct more information from a noisy signal than an overly filtered one.<p>Back to forums, I was a participant in several for a different niche area. One was obsessed with post &#x27;quality&#x27; - a horde of moderators swarming around, then after awhile they&#x27;d comb through every thread, deleting every comment they found not worthy so they would have some kind of pristine archive, and so on.<p>They utterly failed. Oh, they are still trundling along. But the sites with the industry leaders posting? Those are the ones with far less concern with &#x27;quality&#x27;. Why would an expert spend time crafting an answer to somebody when it is likely or possible that it will either not get approved to show up, or later deleted? It made no sense to them, they vocally complained, were again and again told this was for the greater good, and so they all left. Now, if you want to talk to an expert, you go to one of the other forums; if you want to talk to a complete amateur, but with never a post off topic, well, you go to the controlled one. You&#x27;ll get terrible advice, or no advice at all, but hey, it&#x27;s civil and on topic.<p>I&#x27;ve concluded nothing about HN yet, but I don&#x27;t forsee myself clicking away, endorsing post after post. This is mostly a &#x27;consume&#x27; site for me, and occasionally, post. I don&#x27;t want to spend my time endorsing and clicking away. I&#x27;ll upvote once in a while, and almost never downvote. I can&#x27;t see that changing much. I can&#x27;t see posting anymore; I am giving you value (or trying to), and you hold it hostage. Ya, okay, if that is how you feel, I&#x27;ll go elsewhere. I recognize that sounds petulant, but back to the site in the first paragraph - a lot of people stopped posting because so much did not survive the great purges that went on. Why go to this effort if others will silence you?<p>Noise is not the enemy of quality. It is not the enemy of value. It&#x27;s a wonderful side effect of free thinking, innovative thinking, of creation, of invention. It&#x27;s messy, it&#x27;s beautiful. I love noise for what it represents. Long live noise.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>virtuabhi</author><text>No offense but your argument is quite similar to UK&#x27;s internet censorship law. Hey you don&#x27;t want CP (in your case &quot;trendy catch phrase&quot;), so we should have a level of censorship (moderated comments). And in no time the system becomes the oppressor of free speech and flow of information.<p>Also please note that the earlier system had upvotes&#x2F;downvotes for comments. Through votes the community can decide the type of contribution it deems valid.</text></comment> |
4,652,763 | 4,651,357 | 1 | 2 | 4,651,353 | train | <story><title>Pattern - Web Mining Python lib</title><url>https://github.com/clips/pattern</url><text>More info here: http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/pages/pattern</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>languagehacker</author><text>Really cool library. I'm excited to take it for a spin! I liked that there was some work done already for Wikipedia. But as a note to people who want to work with Wikipedia data, it's not very hard to abstract your stuff to work with most wikis based on the MediaWiki platform. I've added a pull request to this project that also supports using the hundreds of thousands of wikis on Wikia. ( <a href="https://github.com/clips/pattern/pull/17" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/clips/pattern/pull/17</a> )</text></comment> | <story><title>Pattern - Web Mining Python lib</title><url>https://github.com/clips/pattern</url><text>More info here: http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/pages/pattern</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>interro</author><text>More info <a href="http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/pages/pattern" rel="nofollow">http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/pages/pattern</a></text></comment> |
10,953,789 | 10,953,486 | 1 | 2 | 10,949,163 | train | <story><title>More Air Force drones are crashing than ever as mysterious new problems emerge</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/01/19/more-u-s-military-drones-are-crashing-than-ever-as-new-problems-emerge/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sk8ingdom</author><text>This is relatively old &quot;news&quot; and the problem has since been resolved. It had to do with the coating used on one of the coils interfering with the software--as the article mentions, there is no redundancy for this system. The part was supplied by a subcontractor. General Atomics [1] is VERY vertically integrated (even making servos) and uses few COTS parts. Engines (and components), unfortunately, are pretty difficult to make--many of the engines were initially purchased second hand.<p>Once the problem was diagnosed, fielding the solution is &#x2F; was another challenge. Some of these aircraft are in pretty remote areas.<p>These aircraft gained popularity and rapid adoption because they&#x27;re substantially less expensive and VASTLY quicker to manufacture than any other option. Almost all customers prioritized cost and acquisition speed over long term reliability, which of course comes with a certain amount of risk. Testing and certifying an airframe to standards is expensive and time consuming [2] but has the advantage of improving reliability.<p>Also, this is just hogwash journalism.<p>&gt; Last year, the Army reported four major drone crashes, each involving the Gray Eagle — a model identical to the Predator.<p>Warrior &#x2F; Gray Eagle &#x2F; MQ-1C [3] is a 40% payload increase over Predator &#x2F; MQ-1 [4] and the airframe was almost completely redesigned. Hell, the engine is even different. It&#x27;s a different aircraft.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;General_Atomics_Aeronautical_Systems" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;General_Atomics_Aeronautical_S...</a>
[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ga-asi.com&#x2F;certifiable-predator-b" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ga-asi.com&#x2F;certifiable-predator-b</a>
[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;General_Atomics_MQ-1C_Gray_Eagle" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;General_Atomics_MQ-1C_Gray_Eag...</a>
[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;General_Atomics_MQ-1_Predator" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;General_Atomics_MQ-1_Predator</a></text></comment> | <story><title>More Air Force drones are crashing than ever as mysterious new problems emerge</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/01/19/more-u-s-military-drones-are-crashing-than-ever-as-new-problems-emerge/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>csours</author><text>&gt; The Air Force also has contracted out more drone missions to private companies to meet what one general called “a virtually insatiable appetite” from military commanders for airborne surveillance.<p>It sounds like for now, contractors are only running surveillance missions.<p>What if contractors:<p>* Fly the drone and release ordnance that kills someone.<p>* Fly the drone but military personnel pushes the button that kills someone.<p>Does the contractor as a civilian bear liability differently than a member of the armed forces? Could a foreign country try to extradite and prosecute them? Could a foreign country arrest them if they left the USA?</text></comment> |
18,586,986 | 18,586,390 | 1 | 3 | 18,583,288 | train | <story><title>I quit Instagram and Facebook and it made me happier</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/01/social-media-detox-christina-farr-quits-instagram-facebook.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CamelCaseName</author><text>Please let me know if you have any ideas for reversing this.<p>I help moderate a mid-size subreddit (100,000-500,000 subscribers) and we&#x27;re completely overrun by low quality content.<p>We tried adding new rules, silently removing&#x2F;banning offending users, and making repeat announcements, but it seems like it&#x27;s too little too late. A rehashed joke post can easily receive 100+ points in an hour while a good post may receive, at most, 20 points in the same time.</text></item><item><author>Mediterraneo10</author><text>Even Reddit subs for niche interests can suck now, precisely because of Instagram culture. I follow some subs for certain outdoor hobbies, and while in the past we would discuss gear or the specifics of various routes, now all most people want to do is post selfies in impressive locations. Reddit has killed off many of the old forum websites, so it is not as if one can just go back to those to get substantive conversation. Indeed, substantive conversation seems to be dying out overall, because just posting selfies gets one more social appreciation.</text></item><item><author>vlunkr</author><text>I’m also tired of the “global” culture. Reddit is a terrible offender of this. The same opinions always prevail, and dissenting ideas are pushed out of sight. This applies to politics, religion, humor, pop culture, everything. It rewards conformity and it’s so boring. Smaller subs are usually lots better, simply because there are fewer people there to perform their predicatable voting.</text></item><item><author>propman</author><text>I deleted Instagram a few months ago and I’ve not missed it once. The people who post more take up most of my bandwidth and those people I sincerely do not care about but due to social etiquitte have to follow. As I grow older I find that I really don’t care about maintaining superficial relationships with acquaintances, many of whom I might not see ever.<p>Other negatives- I click on one picture of a scantily clad woman and my entire search feed turns into softcore porn for a month.<p>Culture is too vain. Selfies, blatantly showing off, spending hours on touch up apps were looked down upon in the entire history of the internet until that Ellen selfie photo that got huge. Apple, Facebook, Google, the media all advertised and made it socially accepted that the vanity is good. That had it’s pros and cons but I feel like we are crossed over on the cons side too much.<p>The culture is too global. Everyone’s opinions&#x2F;posts&#x2F;comments all converge to the same dumbed down pop culture accepted norms&#x2F;memes. Everyone tries to be funny in the exact same socially accepted way and there is no originality.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tokyodude</author><text>This is just an idea but ...<p>Don&#x27;t make voting visible and don&#x27;t show people their points. You still need voting so popular topics bubble to the top. You still maybe need user points so users who post bad content get bad scores? (maybe you don&#x27;t need this).<p>What you don&#x27;t need is for any of it to be visible. User&#x27;s seeing their points go up is a gamification technique that pushes their (and my) button. &quot;Oh! I just got 150pts!&quot; feels so good so I&#x27;m compelled to try to get more points.<p>I notice my point total here on HN. Every time I see it go up I&#x27;m conscious of a little pleasure bump I get &quot;oh, some people agreed with me or thought my post was useful!&quot;. I&#x27;ve thought about writing a browser extension to hide it from myself. Mostly the only thing I want to know is if I got replies.</text></comment> | <story><title>I quit Instagram and Facebook and it made me happier</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/01/social-media-detox-christina-farr-quits-instagram-facebook.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CamelCaseName</author><text>Please let me know if you have any ideas for reversing this.<p>I help moderate a mid-size subreddit (100,000-500,000 subscribers) and we&#x27;re completely overrun by low quality content.<p>We tried adding new rules, silently removing&#x2F;banning offending users, and making repeat announcements, but it seems like it&#x27;s too little too late. A rehashed joke post can easily receive 100+ points in an hour while a good post may receive, at most, 20 points in the same time.</text></item><item><author>Mediterraneo10</author><text>Even Reddit subs for niche interests can suck now, precisely because of Instagram culture. I follow some subs for certain outdoor hobbies, and while in the past we would discuss gear or the specifics of various routes, now all most people want to do is post selfies in impressive locations. Reddit has killed off many of the old forum websites, so it is not as if one can just go back to those to get substantive conversation. Indeed, substantive conversation seems to be dying out overall, because just posting selfies gets one more social appreciation.</text></item><item><author>vlunkr</author><text>I’m also tired of the “global” culture. Reddit is a terrible offender of this. The same opinions always prevail, and dissenting ideas are pushed out of sight. This applies to politics, religion, humor, pop culture, everything. It rewards conformity and it’s so boring. Smaller subs are usually lots better, simply because there are fewer people there to perform their predicatable voting.</text></item><item><author>propman</author><text>I deleted Instagram a few months ago and I’ve not missed it once. The people who post more take up most of my bandwidth and those people I sincerely do not care about but due to social etiquitte have to follow. As I grow older I find that I really don’t care about maintaining superficial relationships with acquaintances, many of whom I might not see ever.<p>Other negatives- I click on one picture of a scantily clad woman and my entire search feed turns into softcore porn for a month.<p>Culture is too vain. Selfies, blatantly showing off, spending hours on touch up apps were looked down upon in the entire history of the internet until that Ellen selfie photo that got huge. Apple, Facebook, Google, the media all advertised and made it socially accepted that the vanity is good. That had it’s pros and cons but I feel like we are crossed over on the cons side too much.<p>The culture is too global. Everyone’s opinions&#x2F;posts&#x2F;comments all converge to the same dumbed down pop culture accepted norms&#x2F;memes. Everyone tries to be funny in the exact same socially accepted way and there is no originality.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>laurieg</author><text>On another mid size sub we decided to take a hard line: Text posts only, automod flags on image links, banning people who break the rules.<p>It changed the sub significantly. Some people liked the more serious tone, some people felt like the fun had been sucked out. At the end of the day, you can&#x27;t please everyone.</text></comment> |
12,009,881 | 12,008,789 | 1 | 2 | 12,007,765 | train | <story><title>Learn JavaScript and artificial intelligence in a fun, interactive way</title><url>https://github.com/olistic/warriorjs</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vonnik</author><text>I really wish technical people would explain what they mean when they say AI, and quickly name which algorithms they&#x27;re using. If they don&#x27;t, it&#x27;s just clickbait.</text></comment> | <story><title>Learn JavaScript and artificial intelligence in a fun, interactive way</title><url>https://github.com/olistic/warriorjs</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>SamBam</author><text>Is there really a need to install, by my count, 208 node modules globally?<p>Would the longer second line in the instructions<p><pre><code> $ npm install warriorjs
.&#x2F;node_modules&#x2F;warriorjs&#x2F;bin&#x2F;warriorjs
</code></pre>
really have scared off that many people?</text></comment> |
33,477,754 | 33,477,618 | 1 | 3 | 33,476,960 | train | <story><title>60% of home compostable plastic doesn’t fully break down</title><url>https://blog.frontiersin.org/2022/11/03/60-of-home-compostable-plastic-doesnt-fully-break-down-ending-up-in-our-soil/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pfdietz</author><text>A local &quot;green&quot; grocery store replaced its plastic hot bar containers with compostable cardboard containers.<p>But when I looked at the maker of those containers, and dug a bit, I discovered they used polyfluorinated alkanoates (PFAs) to keep the hot greasy liquids from soaking into the cardboard.<p>Compost these things and you&#x27;ll get fluorinated forever chemicals in your garden.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jazzyjackson</author><text>Similarly I was very dissapointed to find paper coffee cups are almost always lined with plastic. In hindsight it&#x27;s obvious that paper is not going to hold boiling water, but I dunno, I&#x27;m not a paper cup engineer, I guess I thought someone figured it out. Of course I&#x27;ve been tossing the paper cup in the recycling this whole time, which is fine, since it all ends up in the landfill anyway.</text></comment> | <story><title>60% of home compostable plastic doesn’t fully break down</title><url>https://blog.frontiersin.org/2022/11/03/60-of-home-compostable-plastic-doesnt-fully-break-down-ending-up-in-our-soil/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pfdietz</author><text>A local &quot;green&quot; grocery store replaced its plastic hot bar containers with compostable cardboard containers.<p>But when I looked at the maker of those containers, and dug a bit, I discovered they used polyfluorinated alkanoates (PFAs) to keep the hot greasy liquids from soaking into the cardboard.<p>Compost these things and you&#x27;ll get fluorinated forever chemicals in your garden.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RetpolineDrama</author><text>I give it another 20 years before people rediscover the milkman model</text></comment> |
20,315,385 | 20,311,879 | 1 | 2 | 20,308,813 | train | <story><title>The International Space Station is growing mould, inside and outside</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/international-space-station-mould-1.5193970</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fucking_tragedy</author><text>Mars will never be able to be a &quot;second home&quot; for humanity: it lacks the ability to maintain an atmosphere that can support humans due to its weak magnetic field.<p>The bottom of the ocean would be far more habitable if we faced any type of extinction event.</text></item><item><author>CydeWeys</author><text>That&#x27;s fine though. Having a second home for humanity is more important than maximally preserving the ability to detect past life (note that we wouldn&#x27;t be eliminating that ability, just hindering it somewhat).<p>Also, we think we&#x27;d be able to tell pretty easily whether any life detected is from Earth (i.e. we brought it along with us). Life that isn&#x27;t descended from the same tree of life as us is likely to be radically different.</text></item><item><author>not2b</author><text>It would mean you have a much harder time finding out if Mars once had life, if instead you&#x27;re detecting mold that hitched a ride with your spacecraft.</text></item><item><author>CydeWeys</author><text>Seriously, is this a threat or is it the unexpected boon of getting a jump-start on terraforming? If you could press a button and &quot;contaminate&quot; Mars with life that would start spreading and generating an oxygen atmosphere, wouldn&#x27;t you?</text></item><item><author>wwwtyro</author><text>&quot;The research touches on this, and it warns astronauts to follow recommended planetary protection protocols designed to prevent visiting spacecraft from contaminating other planets and moons in our solar system with microorganisms from Earth. The study suggests that, because of the risk of contamination, these fungal spores may need to be considered a more serious threat.&quot;<p>This makes me wonder if we&#x27;ve accidentally already started terraforming Mars.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thirstywhimbrel</author><text>&gt; The bottom of the ocean would be far more habitable if we faced any type of extinction event.<p>Yeah, space has a coolness factor, and there are things about the origin of the universe we can&#x27;t learn from the bottom of the ocean, but an underwater station is one of the most underrated projects humanity could pursue.<p>Oceans are phenomenal shields against radiation, extreme weather, or even the temporary combustion of the atmosphere, should things get that bad. The opportunity to learn about groups surviving in isolated habitats, or about megastructures that have to survive hostile external environments, could even provide really useful lessons for space.</text></comment> | <story><title>The International Space Station is growing mould, inside and outside</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/international-space-station-mould-1.5193970</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fucking_tragedy</author><text>Mars will never be able to be a &quot;second home&quot; for humanity: it lacks the ability to maintain an atmosphere that can support humans due to its weak magnetic field.<p>The bottom of the ocean would be far more habitable if we faced any type of extinction event.</text></item><item><author>CydeWeys</author><text>That&#x27;s fine though. Having a second home for humanity is more important than maximally preserving the ability to detect past life (note that we wouldn&#x27;t be eliminating that ability, just hindering it somewhat).<p>Also, we think we&#x27;d be able to tell pretty easily whether any life detected is from Earth (i.e. we brought it along with us). Life that isn&#x27;t descended from the same tree of life as us is likely to be radically different.</text></item><item><author>not2b</author><text>It would mean you have a much harder time finding out if Mars once had life, if instead you&#x27;re detecting mold that hitched a ride with your spacecraft.</text></item><item><author>CydeWeys</author><text>Seriously, is this a threat or is it the unexpected boon of getting a jump-start on terraforming? If you could press a button and &quot;contaminate&quot; Mars with life that would start spreading and generating an oxygen atmosphere, wouldn&#x27;t you?</text></item><item><author>wwwtyro</author><text>&quot;The research touches on this, and it warns astronauts to follow recommended planetary protection protocols designed to prevent visiting spacecraft from contaminating other planets and moons in our solar system with microorganisms from Earth. The study suggests that, because of the risk of contamination, these fungal spores may need to be considered a more serious threat.&quot;<p>This makes me wonder if we&#x27;ve accidentally already started terraforming Mars.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bjelkeman-again</author><text>It may be possible to create a magnetic field to protect the atmosphere. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Terraforming_of_Mars#Protecting_the_atmosphere" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Terraforming_of_Mars#Protect...</a></text></comment> |
16,299,945 | 16,299,617 | 1 | 2 | 16,298,229 | train | <story><title>HiFive – RISC-V-based Linux development board</title><url>https://www.sifive.com/products/hifive-unleashed/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tux3</author><text>This is really cool, and I&#x27;d love to buy one, but it&#x27;s an order of magnitude too pricey for me to justify the purchase when I already have a (admittedly probably slightly weaker) raspberry pi gathering dust.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway2048</author><text>This board isn&#x27;t really intended to be a &quot;raspberry pi for everyone&quot; style release, its pretty much soley aimed at developers and companies that want to port their software to RISC-V so when the cheaper boards do arrive, they will have software to run on them.</text></comment> | <story><title>HiFive – RISC-V-based Linux development board</title><url>https://www.sifive.com/products/hifive-unleashed/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tux3</author><text>This is really cool, and I&#x27;d love to buy one, but it&#x27;s an order of magnitude too pricey for me to justify the purchase when I already have a (admittedly probably slightly weaker) raspberry pi gathering dust.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oneplane</author><text>While my Pi isn&#x27;t gathering dust, I too don&#x27;t have the budget for a 1k dev board... I get that they probably have a lot of cost to cover, but at this point only investors can really buy this hardware (i.e. a company needing open CPU hardware for research or future products might invest in a 1k board)</text></comment> |
17,548,507 | 17,548,524 | 1 | 2 | 17,548,270 | train | <story><title>Intel’s High-End Cascade Lake CPUs to Support 3.84 TB of Memory per Socket</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/13059/intels-upcoming-cascade-lake-cpus-to-support-384-tb-of-memory</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nordsieck</author><text>Case in point:<p>&gt; chips will support up to 3.84 TB of memory per socket ... due to combining 512 GB Optane DIMMs and 128GB DDR4 DIMMs<p>&gt; ...<p>&gt; in a 6 x Optane and 6 x DDR4 configuration, they will provide 3072 GB of 3D XPoint memory and 768 GB of DDR4 RAM for a total of 3.84 TB of memory<p>Optane DIMMs don&#x27;t really have the performance characteristics of traditional DRAM. It sounds like the real capacity per socket is 12 x 128GB = 1.53 GB, which is the same capacity as the previous generation.<p>That being said, I&#x27;m optimistic about Optane DIMMs - it seems like an interesting performance point in between DRAM and SSDs.</text></item><item><author>dantiberian</author><text>A few months ago Intel pulled a stunt where they showed a 28 core 5GHz CPU, implying it was a production CPU that would ship this year. They failed to mention that it was attached to an industrial compressor to supply the necessary cooling for the overclocked CPU, and that it was a server socket (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anandtech.com&#x2F;show&#x2F;12932&#x2F;intel-confirms-some-details-about-28core-5-ghz-demonstration" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anandtech.com&#x2F;show&#x2F;12932&#x2F;intel-confirms-some-det...</a>).<p>Since then, whenever I see a headline with Intel in it, I heavily discount it until I can verify the facts. They’ve damaged my trust, and I suspect many others.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>evfanknitram</author><text>Tiny correction: Should be 1.53 TB, not 1.53 GB</text></comment> | <story><title>Intel’s High-End Cascade Lake CPUs to Support 3.84 TB of Memory per Socket</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/13059/intels-upcoming-cascade-lake-cpus-to-support-384-tb-of-memory</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nordsieck</author><text>Case in point:<p>&gt; chips will support up to 3.84 TB of memory per socket ... due to combining 512 GB Optane DIMMs and 128GB DDR4 DIMMs<p>&gt; ...<p>&gt; in a 6 x Optane and 6 x DDR4 configuration, they will provide 3072 GB of 3D XPoint memory and 768 GB of DDR4 RAM for a total of 3.84 TB of memory<p>Optane DIMMs don&#x27;t really have the performance characteristics of traditional DRAM. It sounds like the real capacity per socket is 12 x 128GB = 1.53 GB, which is the same capacity as the previous generation.<p>That being said, I&#x27;m optimistic about Optane DIMMs - it seems like an interesting performance point in between DRAM and SSDs.</text></item><item><author>dantiberian</author><text>A few months ago Intel pulled a stunt where they showed a 28 core 5GHz CPU, implying it was a production CPU that would ship this year. They failed to mention that it was attached to an industrial compressor to supply the necessary cooling for the overclocked CPU, and that it was a server socket (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anandtech.com&#x2F;show&#x2F;12932&#x2F;intel-confirms-some-details-about-28core-5-ghz-demonstration" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anandtech.com&#x2F;show&#x2F;12932&#x2F;intel-confirms-some-det...</a>).<p>Since then, whenever I see a headline with Intel in it, I heavily discount it until I can verify the facts. They’ve damaged my trust, and I suspect many others.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nottorp</author><text>Yeah, marketing lies. Go AMD go!</text></comment> |
9,015,498 | 9,015,444 | 1 | 2 | 9,014,890 | train | <story><title>In search of the perfect JavaScript framework</title><url>https://dev.opera.com/articles/perfect-javascript-framework/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danabramov</author><text><i>&gt;We want to apply values to variables and get the DOM updated. The popular two-way data binding should not be a feature, but a must-have core functionality.</i><p>Strongly disagree. I find one-way bindings and one-way data flow much easier to reason about. A little less boilerplate code is not worth mental overhead, cascading updates and hunting down the source of wrong data in my experience.<p>What <i>is</i> important is <i>not updating the DOM from the code and instead describing it with a pure function</i>. React, Cycle, Mithril, Mercury do it, and it&#x27;s time we get used to this. <i>This</i> is the real timesaver, not two-way bindings.<p>`Object.observe` is the wrong way to approach this problem. If you own the data, why invent a complex approach to watch it, if you could update it in a centralized fashion in the first place? Here is a great presentation on that topic: <a href="http://markdalgleish.github.io/presentation-a-state-of-change-object-observe/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;markdalgleish.github.io&#x2F;presentation-a-state-of-chang...</a>. I strongly suggest you read it (&quot;Space&quot; to switch slides) if these ideas are still alien to you.<p>Even <i>Angular</i> is abandoning two-way bindings. <a href="http://victorsavkin.com/post/110170125256/change-detection-in-angular-2" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;victorsavkin.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;110170125256&#x2F;change-detection-i...</a><p>I, for one, welcome our new immutable overlords.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dustingetz</author><text>While I have been using React since it launched in May 2013 and I agree with a lot of what you said, using words like &quot;right&quot; and &quot;wrong&quot; doesn&#x27;t help. React is a great way to write applications but it isn&#x27;t the most mature library ever, and the junior developers I worked with had quite a bit of trouble working with it for a while because functional programming is so <i>different</i>. The ecosystem is filling in, things are great, but &quot;you are wrong and I am right&quot; harms as much as it helps.</text></comment> | <story><title>In search of the perfect JavaScript framework</title><url>https://dev.opera.com/articles/perfect-javascript-framework/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danabramov</author><text><i>&gt;We want to apply values to variables and get the DOM updated. The popular two-way data binding should not be a feature, but a must-have core functionality.</i><p>Strongly disagree. I find one-way bindings and one-way data flow much easier to reason about. A little less boilerplate code is not worth mental overhead, cascading updates and hunting down the source of wrong data in my experience.<p>What <i>is</i> important is <i>not updating the DOM from the code and instead describing it with a pure function</i>. React, Cycle, Mithril, Mercury do it, and it&#x27;s time we get used to this. <i>This</i> is the real timesaver, not two-way bindings.<p>`Object.observe` is the wrong way to approach this problem. If you own the data, why invent a complex approach to watch it, if you could update it in a centralized fashion in the first place? Here is a great presentation on that topic: <a href="http://markdalgleish.github.io/presentation-a-state-of-change-object-observe/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;markdalgleish.github.io&#x2F;presentation-a-state-of-chang...</a>. I strongly suggest you read it (&quot;Space&quot; to switch slides) if these ideas are still alien to you.<p>Even <i>Angular</i> is abandoning two-way bindings. <a href="http://victorsavkin.com/post/110170125256/change-detection-in-angular-2" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;victorsavkin.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;110170125256&#x2F;change-detection-i...</a><p>I, for one, welcome our new immutable overlords.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nilliams</author><text>Yep the Ember team also seem to have come to the same conclusion on 2-way bindings.<p>My dumb takeaway is something like &#x27;2-way bindings demo well but are rarely what you actually want in real apps&#x27;.<p>I think (not 100% sure) Tom &amp; Yehuda (of Ember) talk about how they became disenfranchised with 2-way bindings in their recent Changelog podcast episode on Ember 2 [1].<p>[1] <a href="http://thechangelog.com/131/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thechangelog.com&#x2F;131&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
11,370,287 | 11,370,122 | 1 | 3 | 11,369,777 | train | <story><title>Comprehensions in Python the Jedi way</title><url>https://gist.github.com/bearfrieze/a746c6f12d8bada03589</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>undershirt</author><text>I don&#x27;t think the author realizes how appropriate the Jedi tone for this article is. Comprehensions are the gateway drug to the dark side, away from imperative programming and toward languages that treat everything as expressions which snap together more freely. It hints at an idea of making a `for` loop and an `if` statement return a value (see CoffeeScript). But it also hints at the idea that useful idioms like the List Comprehension can merge&#x2F;simplify existing constructs into a new, easier syntax-- and that there are languages that allow you to do this freely (see Lisp).<p>Python showed me the Force, but I&#x27;m with the Dark Side now.</text></comment> | <story><title>Comprehensions in Python the Jedi way</title><url>https://gist.github.com/bearfrieze/a746c6f12d8bada03589</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>a_bonobo</author><text>One interesting side-thing with list comprehensions in Python 2 vs. Python 3:<p>Python 2.7:<p>&gt;list_of_numbers = [1,2,3]<p>&gt;[x&#x2F;2 for x in list_of_numbers]<p>&gt;print(x)<p>3<p>Python 3:<p>&gt;list_of_numbers = [1,2,3]<p>&gt;[x&#x2F;2 for x in list_of_numbers]<p>&gt;print(x)<p>NameError: name &#x27;x&#x27; is not defined<p>They &quot;leak&quot; their variables in Python 2, if you&#x27;re someone who reuses variables this can lead to an enormous headache!</text></comment> |
28,524,460 | 28,522,906 | 1 | 3 | 28,522,378 | train | <story><title>Intel is reducing server chip pricing in attempt to stem the AMD tide</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-reduces-server-pricing-to-fight-amd</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cletus</author><text>It&#x27;s amazing how far Intel has fallen.<p>The 10nm debacle exposed how far they&#x27;ve fallen behind on fabs to the point that they&#x27;re outsourcing to TSMC. Like, how humiliating must that be?<p>Intel completely missed the mobile revolution. They had a stake in that race but sold it (ie XScale).<p>Intel&#x27;s product segmentation is bewildering. They&#x27;ve also kept features &quot;enterprise&quot; only to prop up high server chip prices to the detriment to computing as a whole, most notably ECC support.<p>And on the server front, which I&#x27;m sure is what&#x27;s keeping them in business now, they face an existential threat in the form of ARM.<p>Intel had clearly shifted to a strategy of extracting as much money as possible from their captive market. I&#x27;m not sure price cuts here are necessarily about AMD but more than their previously captive market now has more options in general.<p>How the mighty have fallen.</text></comment> | <story><title>Intel is reducing server chip pricing in attempt to stem the AMD tide</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-reduces-server-pricing-to-fight-amd</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lvl100</author><text>Intel is NOT competing against AMD only. In the past couple of years, we’ve seen a number of big tech companies developing their own chips. Focusing on AMD would be quite myopic from a strategic pov. This market is only getting more competitive. Either you compete on performance or price.</text></comment> |
37,226,815 | 37,222,400 | 1 | 2 | 37,214,898 | train | <story><title>Kullback–Leibler divergence</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kullback%E2%80%93Leibler_divergence</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jwarden</author><text>Here&#x27;s how I describe KL Divergence, building up from simple to complex concepts.<p>surprisal: how surprised I am when I learn the value of X<p><pre><code> Suprisal(x) = -log p(X=x)
</code></pre>
entropy: how surprised I expect to be<p><pre><code> H(p) = 𝔼_X -log p(X)
= ∑_x p(X=x) * -log p(X=x)
</code></pre>
cross-entropy: how surprised I expect Bob to be (if Bob&#x27;s beliefs are q instead of p)<p><pre><code> H(p,q) = 𝔼_X -log q(X)
= ∑_x p(X=x) * -log q(X=x)
</code></pre>
KL divergence: how much *more* surprised I expect Bob to be than me<p><pre><code> Dkl(p || q) = H(p,q) - H(p,p)
= ∑_x p(X=x) * log p(X=x)&#x2F;q(X=x)
</code></pre>
information gain: how much less surprised I expect Bob to be if he knew that Y=y<p><pre><code> IG(q|Y=y) = Dkl(q(X|Y=y) || q(X))
</code></pre>
mutual information: how much information I expect to gain about X from learning the value of Y<p><pre><code> I(X;Y) = 𝔼_Y IG(q|Y=y)
𝔼_Y Dkl(q(X|Y=y) || q(X))</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>Kullback–Leibler divergence</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kullback%E2%80%93Leibler_divergence</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>golwengaud</author><text>I found <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lesswrong.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;no5jDTut5Byjqb4j5&#x2F;six-and-a-half-intuitions-for-kl-divergence" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lesswrong.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;no5jDTut5Byjqb4j5&#x2F;six-and-a-...</a> very helpful for getting intuition for what the K-L divergence is and why it&#x27;s useful. The six intuitions:<p><pre><code> 1. Expected surprise
2. Hypothesis testing
3. MLEs
4. Suboptimal coding
5a. Gambling games -- beating the house
5b. Gambling games -- gaming the lottery
6. Bregman divergence</code></pre></text></comment> |
28,361,402 | 28,361,384 | 1 | 2 | 28,360,987 | train | <story><title>NYC major crime complaints fell when cops took a break from ‘proactive policing’</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-proactive-policing-crime-20170925-story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nanis</author><text>&gt; The scientists found that civilian complaints of major crimes dropped by about 3% to 6% during the slowdown.<p>1. Why call the cops if you know they won&#x27;t do anything?<p>2. Relatedly, why &quot;snitch&quot; when you know there won&#x27;t be any cops around?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bkirwi</author><text>FWIW, this is addressed in the article and the paper it covers: the slowdown involved reduced &quot;proactive policing&quot; -- &quot;systematic and aggressive enforcement of low-level violations&quot; -- but the observed drop is in major crimes like burglary and assault. The authors also do some work to control for the overall crime reporting rate.</text></comment> | <story><title>NYC major crime complaints fell when cops took a break from ‘proactive policing’</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-proactive-policing-crime-20170925-story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nanis</author><text>&gt; The scientists found that civilian complaints of major crimes dropped by about 3% to 6% during the slowdown.<p>1. Why call the cops if you know they won&#x27;t do anything?<p>2. Relatedly, why &quot;snitch&quot; when you know there won&#x27;t be any cops around?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tus89</author><text>what does the word proactive mean to you?</text></comment> |
8,516,968 | 8,516,976 | 1 | 2 | 8,516,331 | train | <story><title>Rewriting Reddit (2005)</title><url>http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rewritingreddit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>web.py never really worked well, so we ended up rewriting it again. The interesting thing was that Django still wasn&#x27;t up to the task when we did that, mostly because it&#x27;s templating engine was too slow. So we chose Pylons instead.<p>It should be noted that Django has since fixed that issue.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swartkrans</author><text>Was there one specific problem with web.py or multiple issues? Was there ever a write up about what you guys learned from trying web.py? Would be an interesting read.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rewriting Reddit (2005)</title><url>http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rewritingreddit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>web.py never really worked well, so we ended up rewriting it again. The interesting thing was that Django still wasn&#x27;t up to the task when we did that, mostly because it&#x27;s templating engine was too slow. So we chose Pylons instead.<p>It should be noted that Django has since fixed that issue.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Igglyboo</author><text>Do you guys wish you were using Django right now?</text></comment> |
24,458,272 | 24,458,000 | 1 | 3 | 24,452,280 | train | <story><title>Why do so many people want us back in the office?</title><url>https://paulitaylor.com/2020/09/12/why-do-so-many-people-want-us-back-in-the-office/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>formercoder</author><text>That’s not the only factor. I have a home office and can’t wait to get back. I work in an industry that’s all about relationships and those are hard to build remotely. I just started a new role and there’s no way I could ever progress upward in this state.</text></item><item><author>syshum</author><text>While everything you listed is a factor, My experience it normally comes down to if you have a actual home office or not.<p>People that have the luxury of a dedicated office at home, an actual room that is just used as an office, not a corner of the kitchen or living room that has the &quot;family desk&quot; that everyone shares, is more apt for WFH<p>I know many people that do not have this space, and do not have the ability to create this space in their home. For them WFH is a challenge.<p>On the other hand, people like myself that do have a dedicated office space that is in many ways better than the office space at the commercial office find WFH to be great and prefer it, even when factoring in your list.<p>In my office I would say it was about 60-70% of people that preferred working in the office and did not want to work from home primarily because they did not have a dedicated working space nor could easily create one.</text></item><item><author>mancerayder</author><text>This is a complicated problem with different perspectives that no doubt will get muddled at some point. I&#x27;m confident at least the following is true:<p>Some people have long commutes and wfh is great<p>Others have small, expensive apartments they paid for shorter commutes and it&#x27;s suffocating 40-50 hours a week<p>Some people live in palaces and offices are a step down in comfort<p>Some people are happy with the online interactions<p>Some people are dissatisfied with the online interactions and prefer to talk to humans and not text strings from humans they can&#x27;t see or hear<p>Some people want to work from home some of the time, and go to the office some of the time, and they&#x27;ve wanted that before the apocalypse occurred (puts hand up)<p>Cities are nervous that business districts are devastated since no one buys coffee, lunches or walks home and steps into a shoe store or tailor, or to a bar for drinks with colleagues.<p>But like much else in our present world, things are presented in black and white, emotive ways.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cd00d</author><text>I think the current WFH and restrictions are especially hard on the sales teams. No more client dinners, golf, or travel for a demo, and it&#x27;s much harder to make the relationship over phone or zoom. Plus, the handshake is missing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why do so many people want us back in the office?</title><url>https://paulitaylor.com/2020/09/12/why-do-so-many-people-want-us-back-in-the-office/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>formercoder</author><text>That’s not the only factor. I have a home office and can’t wait to get back. I work in an industry that’s all about relationships and those are hard to build remotely. I just started a new role and there’s no way I could ever progress upward in this state.</text></item><item><author>syshum</author><text>While everything you listed is a factor, My experience it normally comes down to if you have a actual home office or not.<p>People that have the luxury of a dedicated office at home, an actual room that is just used as an office, not a corner of the kitchen or living room that has the &quot;family desk&quot; that everyone shares, is more apt for WFH<p>I know many people that do not have this space, and do not have the ability to create this space in their home. For them WFH is a challenge.<p>On the other hand, people like myself that do have a dedicated office space that is in many ways better than the office space at the commercial office find WFH to be great and prefer it, even when factoring in your list.<p>In my office I would say it was about 60-70% of people that preferred working in the office and did not want to work from home primarily because they did not have a dedicated working space nor could easily create one.</text></item><item><author>mancerayder</author><text>This is a complicated problem with different perspectives that no doubt will get muddled at some point. I&#x27;m confident at least the following is true:<p>Some people have long commutes and wfh is great<p>Others have small, expensive apartments they paid for shorter commutes and it&#x27;s suffocating 40-50 hours a week<p>Some people live in palaces and offices are a step down in comfort<p>Some people are happy with the online interactions<p>Some people are dissatisfied with the online interactions and prefer to talk to humans and not text strings from humans they can&#x27;t see or hear<p>Some people want to work from home some of the time, and go to the office some of the time, and they&#x27;ve wanted that before the apocalypse occurred (puts hand up)<p>Cities are nervous that business districts are devastated since no one buys coffee, lunches or walks home and steps into a shoe store or tailor, or to a bar for drinks with colleagues.<p>But like much else in our present world, things are presented in black and white, emotive ways.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mdoms</author><text>I don&#x27;t know why you&#x27;re being downvoted. It&#x27;s a valid opinion that I happen to share. I have a great home office but I still want to be around other humans.</text></comment> |
17,036,854 | 17,036,684 | 1 | 3 | 17,028,878 | train | <story><title>The Logical Disaster of Null</title><url>https://rob.conery.io/2018/05/01/the-logical-disaster-of-null/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasode</author><text><i>&gt;I’m not sure Null should have a place in programming. </i><p>The essay is conflating 2 different concepts of &quot;null.&quot;<p>The Tony Hoare quote is about null _references_ which is about <i>aliases</i> to computer memory. (E.g. the dreaded NPE or null pointer exception.) He&#x27;s not talking about _logical_ nulls such as &quot;tri-state booleans&quot; or &quot;missing data&quot;.<p>The logic-variant of Null usage for &quot;unknown&quot; &quot;missing&quot; &quot;invalid&quot; values is unavoidable in programming. This is why that null concept shows up repeatedly in different forms such as NaN in floating point, NULL in SQL language, etc. If you invented a theoretical language without logical Nulls, the users of your language would <i>reinvent nulls</i> using worse techniques such as homemade structs with an extra boolean &quot;HasValue&quot; field. E.g.:<p><pre><code> struct NullableInteger {
int x;
bool hasvalue;
}
</code></pre>
The &quot;hasvalue&quot; field becomes a &quot;null by convention&quot;. Other programmers might not even code a verbose extra boolean variable and instead use (dangerous) sentinel values such as INT_MAX &quot;32767&quot; or negative value such as &quot;-1&quot; as the &quot;pseudo null&quot; to represent missing data. A lot of old COBOL programs had 99999 as some out-of-range value to represent missing data. We need nulls in programming languages because they are useful to model real-world (lack of) information. All those other clunky techniques will reinvent the same kinds of &quot;null&quot; programming errors!<p>The orthogonal aspect is making the <i>type system</i> more powerfully <i>aware</i> of nulls so that the compiler sees that possible null conditions were not checked. A compiler error forces the programmer to put in the <i>explicit</i> defensive code to <i>handle the possibility of null values</i>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paulajohnson</author><text>The point is that option types let you explicitly state which values are nullable, but null references mean that every value is potentially null even if it doesn&#x27;t make sense.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Logical Disaster of Null</title><url>https://rob.conery.io/2018/05/01/the-logical-disaster-of-null/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasode</author><text><i>&gt;I’m not sure Null should have a place in programming. </i><p>The essay is conflating 2 different concepts of &quot;null.&quot;<p>The Tony Hoare quote is about null _references_ which is about <i>aliases</i> to computer memory. (E.g. the dreaded NPE or null pointer exception.) He&#x27;s not talking about _logical_ nulls such as &quot;tri-state booleans&quot; or &quot;missing data&quot;.<p>The logic-variant of Null usage for &quot;unknown&quot; &quot;missing&quot; &quot;invalid&quot; values is unavoidable in programming. This is why that null concept shows up repeatedly in different forms such as NaN in floating point, NULL in SQL language, etc. If you invented a theoretical language without logical Nulls, the users of your language would <i>reinvent nulls</i> using worse techniques such as homemade structs with an extra boolean &quot;HasValue&quot; field. E.g.:<p><pre><code> struct NullableInteger {
int x;
bool hasvalue;
}
</code></pre>
The &quot;hasvalue&quot; field becomes a &quot;null by convention&quot;. Other programmers might not even code a verbose extra boolean variable and instead use (dangerous) sentinel values such as INT_MAX &quot;32767&quot; or negative value such as &quot;-1&quot; as the &quot;pseudo null&quot; to represent missing data. A lot of old COBOL programs had 99999 as some out-of-range value to represent missing data. We need nulls in programming languages because they are useful to model real-world (lack of) information. All those other clunky techniques will reinvent the same kinds of &quot;null&quot; programming errors!<p>The orthogonal aspect is making the <i>type system</i> more powerfully <i>aware</i> of nulls so that the compiler sees that possible null conditions were not checked. A compiler error forces the programmer to put in the <i>explicit</i> defensive code to <i>handle the possibility of null values</i>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tathougies</author><text>&gt; If you invented a theoretical language without logical Nulls, the users of your language would reinvent nulls using worse techniques such as homemade structs with an extra boolean &quot;HasValue&quot; field.<p>Alternatively, you can only use languages which offer actual tagged unions, and avoid the ridiculousness of these &#x27;hasvalue&#x27; fields.</text></comment> |
14,977,872 | 14,974,467 | 1 | 2 | 14,973,126 | train | <story><title>As a Woman in Tech, I Realized: These Are Not My People</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-09/as-a-woman-in-tech-i-realized-these-are-not-my-people</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Mz</author><text><i>I was in the throes of a brief, doomed romance. I had attended a concert that Saturday night. I answered the question with an account of both. The guys stared blankly. Then silence. Then one of them said: “I built a fiber-channel network in my basement,” and our co-workers fell all over themselves asking him to describe every step in loving detail.<p>At that moment I realized that fundamentally, these are not my people. I liked the work. But I was never going to like it enough to blow a weekend doing more of it for free. Which meant that I was never going to be as good at that job as the guys around me.</i><p>I actually think some portion of this is strongly culturally determined. Women focus on the private stuff, and I don&#x27;t think it is just because our brains are full of estrogen. I think a large share of this is culturally&#x2F;experientially derived.<p>The guy who built the neural network? That may have been <i>his</i> means to deal with a failed romance. He just didn&#x27;t say that because his love life is not the business of his office mates. This is a distinction I think men are taught to make more than women: These people you work with? They aren&#x27;t your friends, your BFF, or your soul mates. These are just people you WORK with and if you bond with them, you need to bond over the WORK.<p>At least, that&#x27;s my current working hypothesis.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mcv</author><text>Also, just because one male engineer built a network in his weekend doesn&#x27;t mean we all do. I spend my weekends doing stuff with my kids.<p>Well, not last week, when I went to SHA-2017, but there was a surprising number of children there. 10% someone claimed, which is way more than I&#x27;d ever seen at previous hacker festivals. Clearly nerds and hackers are having love lives and kids these days. And although the majority was absolutely typical white male nerds like me, there were also a lot of women.<p>And that&#x27;s the core issue, I think. It doesn&#x27;t have to be a perfect 50&#x2F;50 split, but women and minorities do have to be welcome. Explicitly so, if there&#x27;s any history of sexism and prejudice. If women leave the industry because they don&#x27;t like the content of the work itself, that&#x27;s fine. But if they leave because they don&#x27;t like their co-workers or the atmosphere, then you&#x27;ve got a culture problem.</text></comment> | <story><title>As a Woman in Tech, I Realized: These Are Not My People</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-09/as-a-woman-in-tech-i-realized-these-are-not-my-people</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Mz</author><text><i>I was in the throes of a brief, doomed romance. I had attended a concert that Saturday night. I answered the question with an account of both. The guys stared blankly. Then silence. Then one of them said: “I built a fiber-channel network in my basement,” and our co-workers fell all over themselves asking him to describe every step in loving detail.<p>At that moment I realized that fundamentally, these are not my people. I liked the work. But I was never going to like it enough to blow a weekend doing more of it for free. Which meant that I was never going to be as good at that job as the guys around me.</i><p>I actually think some portion of this is strongly culturally determined. Women focus on the private stuff, and I don&#x27;t think it is just because our brains are full of estrogen. I think a large share of this is culturally&#x2F;experientially derived.<p>The guy who built the neural network? That may have been <i>his</i> means to deal with a failed romance. He just didn&#x27;t say that because his love life is not the business of his office mates. This is a distinction I think men are taught to make more than women: These people you work with? They aren&#x27;t your friends, your BFF, or your soul mates. These are just people you WORK with and if you bond with them, you need to bond over the WORK.<p>At least, that&#x27;s my current working hypothesis.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>msla</author><text>As a man, I&#x27;d never presume to talk too deeply with a coworker about their personal life.<p>It&#x27;s a gross violation of the boundaries in every sense of the term.<p>Long way of saying I agree with you, I suppose.</text></comment> |
25,952,852 | 25,950,772 | 1 | 3 | 25,948,391 | train | <story><title>Robinhood is automatically initiating GME sell orders on users' behalf</title><url>https://twitter.com/555sunny/status/1354854993946406917</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>runako</author><text>Obviously, margin calls are legitimate. But Robin Hood obviously played an important role in the price direction that led to the margin calls. I honestly don&#x27;t know how anyone could trust RH as a neutral party after this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MuffinFlavored</author><text>Did anybody confirm whether Robinhood was automatically initiating GME sell orders for those holding <i>not</i> on margin?</text></comment> | <story><title>Robinhood is automatically initiating GME sell orders on users' behalf</title><url>https://twitter.com/555sunny/status/1354854993946406917</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>runako</author><text>Obviously, margin calls are legitimate. But Robin Hood obviously played an important role in the price direction that led to the margin calls. I honestly don&#x27;t know how anyone could trust RH as a neutral party after this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ed25519FUUU</author><text>What brokerages hit you with a margin call when you&#x27;re UP on a stock? Margin calls are for when you fall BELOW a certain liquidity event.<p>His shares are for $118.93. He&#x27;s up over 60%.</text></comment> |
6,104,650 | 6,103,922 | 1 | 3 | 6,103,304 | train | <story><title>OVH launches 2.99€/mo dedicated servers (2G RAM, 500G disk)</title><url>https://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bravura</author><text>For the benefit of those of us who don&#x27;t know much about Atom, could you explain what the limitations are of using Atom for webserving?</text></item><item><author>ck2</author><text>Note these are atom based.<p>But I bet nginx could still crank out static files from them.<p>Translation: <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&amp;tl=en&amp;js=n&amp;prev=_t&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;&amp;act=url&amp;u=http://forum.ovh.com/showthread.php?t=89592" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;translate.google.com&#x2F;translate?sl=auto&amp;tl=en&amp;js=n&amp;pre...</a><p><pre><code> We have 3 servers in the KS series:
KS-2G ATOM powered with 2G of RAM, 500GB, 100Mbps 2.99e&#x2F;mois.
KS-4G 4GB of RAM, 2x500GB software raid 9.99e&#x2F;mois
KS-16G Core i5 with 16G, VT and 2x1TB 19.99e&#x2F;mois
</code></pre>
3 euros is $4 USD and 20 euros is $26.50 USD<p>They are also on the UK site:<p><a href="http://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ovh.co.uk&#x2F;dedicated_servers&#x2F;kimsufi.xml</a><p>That $26.50 server is currently $40 in the US (CA)<p><a href="http://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/kimsufi2.xml" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ovh.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;dedicated-servers&#x2F;kimsufi2.xml</a><p>The real deal here IMHO is the i5 for $26.50, that cpu can run laps around the atom and can run in &quot;turbo&quot; mode near 3.5ghz all day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hosay123</author><text>The other responses to this have been woefully speculative at best, plain wrong in others. The short answer is to rent one for a month and benchmark your particular application.<p>I was surprised to discover that with a workload composed entirely of XML parsing using Python+lxml, an OVH 1.8ghz Atom N2800 beat hands down my mid-2010 2.4ghz Macbook Pro. This isn&#x27;t a crazy result either. For instance, while the Macbook is equipped with dual cores, each core supports only one hardware thread, and thus is blocked while waiting to complete a load from RAM (a common occurrence when dealing with giant cache-unfriendly DOM trees that don&#x27;t benefit from the Core 2&#x27;s much increased L2).<p>In contrast the N2800 has 2 cores with 2 hardware threads each (hyperthreading), so each core can progress while its buddy thread is stalled. In my particular workload this was enough to beat by a significant margin a much faster, expensive and power-hungry processor.</text></comment> | <story><title>OVH launches 2.99€/mo dedicated servers (2G RAM, 500G disk)</title><url>https://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bravura</author><text>For the benefit of those of us who don&#x27;t know much about Atom, could you explain what the limitations are of using Atom for webserving?</text></item><item><author>ck2</author><text>Note these are atom based.<p>But I bet nginx could still crank out static files from them.<p>Translation: <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&amp;tl=en&amp;js=n&amp;prev=_t&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;&amp;act=url&amp;u=http://forum.ovh.com/showthread.php?t=89592" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;translate.google.com&#x2F;translate?sl=auto&amp;tl=en&amp;js=n&amp;pre...</a><p><pre><code> We have 3 servers in the KS series:
KS-2G ATOM powered with 2G of RAM, 500GB, 100Mbps 2.99e&#x2F;mois.
KS-4G 4GB of RAM, 2x500GB software raid 9.99e&#x2F;mois
KS-16G Core i5 with 16G, VT and 2x1TB 19.99e&#x2F;mois
</code></pre>
3 euros is $4 USD and 20 euros is $26.50 USD<p>They are also on the UK site:<p><a href="http://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ovh.co.uk&#x2F;dedicated_servers&#x2F;kimsufi.xml</a><p>That $26.50 server is currently $40 in the US (CA)<p><a href="http://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/kimsufi2.xml" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ovh.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;dedicated-servers&#x2F;kimsufi2.xml</a><p>The real deal here IMHO is the i5 for $26.50, that cpu can run laps around the atom and can run in &quot;turbo&quot; mode near 3.5ghz all day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>txutxu</author><text>If you web application could run ok (for the number of visitors) in a netbook with mechanical disk, then an Atom is ok.<p>Note that I&#x27;ve seen people running gnome on a netbook.<p>Still, I see this, and I think more about: &quot;backups&quot;, &quot;configuration management&quot;, &quot;shell access&quot;, &quot;VPN to other more powerful dedicated servers in OVH&quot;, &quot;personal storage&quot;, &quot;scheduled tasks&quot;, &quot;monitoring systems&quot;, &quot;status pages&quot;, etc...<p>The price is nothing, I still ask myself if it&#x27;s rentable because &quot;it&#x27;s an Atom&quot; and changes the power bill, or this is more a unprofitable product to attract you to other products.<p>Lets say 3€ * 12m = 36€ year, It takes some years to recover the hardware costs (without count electricity bills, company salaries, connectivity, taxes, etc).</text></comment> |
4,015,288 | 4,015,117 | 1 | 3 | 4,014,400 | train | <story><title>Verdict for Google in Oracle's patent infringement case</title><url>http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120523125023818</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>grellas</author><text>A few thoughts on this:<p>Google had pushed for a fall trial date at the earliest but Oracle argued vigorously (and successfully) for an immediate date on grounds that the case was ready with Google only playing for time. To induce the judge to give it an early trial date, Oracle offered to dismiss with prejudice all patents that had been rejected in a final office action by the USPTO subject to reinstatement in the event the PTO reversed itself prior to the start of trial. Trial started on April 16 and, lo and behold, the PTO did reverse itself concerning one significant patent (the '702 patent) such that Oracle would normally have been able to pursue its claims for infringement based on that patent. However, it did so a few days <i>after</i> the trial had started. As a result, that claim wound up being finally dismissed for purposes of this lawsuit. Oracle tried to renege and pushed the judge to reinstate the claim but the judge said no (decision here: (<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/91307218/Oracle-denied-using-revived-patent-vs-Google)[pdf]" rel="nofollow">http://www.scribd.com/doc/91307218/Oracle-denied-using-reviv...</a>).<p>Thus, Oracle screwed itself as a result of having charged full speed with tomahawk swinging wildly in the air. In pushing aggressively for tactical advantage, it essentially threw away the one patent claim that had any potential for viability (the two patent claims on which it lost at trial were in fact relatively weak, with one of the two patents about to go down before the USPTO and set in any event to expire in December, among other things).<p>Oracle now finds itself in a deep hole. It won a few crumbs in the copyright phase and got skunked on the patent phase. More copyright drama to follow as the judge rules on API copyrightability. Oracle <i>might</i> win on that issue, as it is a tricky one under Ninth Circuit law (see <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3980642" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3980642</a>), but it then faces a retrial in which the judge would give much more refined instructions on what it means to infringe the SSO of the Java APIs than he gave in the first trial - between that and the (I think, formidable) fair use defense that Google has, it is strictly an uphill fight for Oracle from here on out. (By the way, Google has done a <i>masterful</i> job of arguing the issue of why APIs should not be copyrightable and, for those inclined to read through a superb legal brief on the issues, here it is: <a href="http://www.groklaw.net/pdf3/OraGoogle-1137.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.groklaw.net/pdf3/OraGoogle-1137.pdf</a>).<p>Oracle may yet rally if a lot of things go its way. I wouldn't bet on it though. Much more likely, in my view, is that the case becomes a testament to what happens when a party makes a high-stakes opportunistic legal grab that goes badly awry. What Larry Ellison set out to justify as Oracle's vindication has instead become Oracle's folly.</text></comment> | <story><title>Verdict for Google in Oracle's patent infringement case</title><url>http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120523125023818</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Natsu</author><text>What I want to know now is where we go on the copyright. The judge is taking an incredibly long time working on that. The speculation I've read says that this may be good for Google, but who knows?<p>I saw a comment from Grellas on a prior story that said that the judge has some crazy precedents to deal with in his circuit and they can't freely adopt the Borland case's logic without dealing with them. I'd like to know how the request for briefs on Sony v. Connectix figures into that. Is that case from the same circuit? If so, that would really make me believe that he's working on a pro-Google ruling. After all, it shouldn't be that hard to come up with a finding of infringement. You only have a lot of justification to do if you want to find non-infringement.<p>Finally, I wonder what, if any, the impact of the juror telling us that is was 9-3 in favor of Google will be. Does that help support a finding of fair use or not?<p>That said, I'm glad to hear that Google has been cleared of infringing upon these absurd patents. I just hope they still get invalidated too, so that no one else ever has to worry about them.</text></comment> |
27,656,997 | 27,656,918 | 1 | 3 | 27,656,446 | train | <story><title>Problems with math rendering on the web (2020)</title><url>https://danilafe.com/blog/math_rendering_is_wrong/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kisonecat</author><text>I implemented a TeX engine in WebAssembly so you really can run TeX in the browser. You can see a demo of this at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tex.rossprogram.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tex.rossprogram.org&#x2F;</a> and at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kisonecat&#x2F;web2js" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kisonecat&#x2F;web2js</a> you can find a Pascal compiler that targets WebAssembly which can compile Knuth&#x27;s TeX. Interesting primitives like \directjs are also implemented, so you can execute javascript from inside TeX. The rendering is handled with <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kisonecat&#x2F;dvi2html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kisonecat&#x2F;dvi2html</a> for which I finally fixed some font problems.<p>To make it relatively fast, the TeX engine gets snapshotted and shipped to the browser with much of TeXlive already loaded. So even things like TikZ work reasonably well. There is of course a lot more to do! The plan is to convert ximera.osu.edu to this new backend by the fall.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phkahler</author><text>&gt;&gt; I implemented a TeX engine in WebAssembly so you really can run TeX in the browser.<p>Kinda misses the point of the blog post. The idea is to do that server side, preferably only once.</text></comment> | <story><title>Problems with math rendering on the web (2020)</title><url>https://danilafe.com/blog/math_rendering_is_wrong/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kisonecat</author><text>I implemented a TeX engine in WebAssembly so you really can run TeX in the browser. You can see a demo of this at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tex.rossprogram.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tex.rossprogram.org&#x2F;</a> and at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kisonecat&#x2F;web2js" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kisonecat&#x2F;web2js</a> you can find a Pascal compiler that targets WebAssembly which can compile Knuth&#x27;s TeX. Interesting primitives like \directjs are also implemented, so you can execute javascript from inside TeX. The rendering is handled with <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kisonecat&#x2F;dvi2html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kisonecat&#x2F;dvi2html</a> for which I finally fixed some font problems.<p>To make it relatively fast, the TeX engine gets snapshotted and shipped to the browser with much of TeXlive already loaded. So even things like TikZ work reasonably well. There is of course a lot more to do! The plan is to convert ximera.osu.edu to this new backend by the fall.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mwcampbell</author><text>&gt; The plan is to convert ximera.osu.edu to this new backend by the fall.<p>Have you verified that this will not be an accessibility regression for blind users?</text></comment> |
4,740,714 | 4,740,450 | 1 | 2 | 4,740,281 | train | <story><title>My IQ</title><url>http://blog.tanyakhovanova.com/?p=84</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paisawalla</author><text>Great insight.<p>Regarding Mensa itself, or any claims to intellectual superiority: one of the big lessons of my life has been that being intelligent has no intrinsic value. If you are unable to manifest your intelligence in a way that can substantially (disproportionate to your effort) improve your life or the lives of others, then your mind doesn't matter. It has no impact in the world, and I am not the first person to observe that having a powerful mind is at many times a burden.<p>You can see that other people may be more stupid than you, forwarding simpler arguments and relying on less rigorous thinking than yours, but if they don't want to be convinced of that, then you are powerless to make them see it. They go off blissfully, and you burn with anguish. Again, if you cannot manifest your intelligence in a way that forwards your agenda, who cares?<p>To phrase it in a more confrontational way: if nobody is forced to contend with your mind, nobody knows it exists. Or to summarize it in a quote:<p><i>"[Intelligence] is like being a lady: if you have to tell people you are, you aren't."</i>
-- Margaret Thatcher<p>This clicked for me during my final year of college, when a friend of mine was taking an LSAT preparation course. During a break, he was chatting with the instructor about realistic outcomes, and said earnestly that he hoped to get a score of 168 (which IIRC is a very high score.) The instructor, a man of maybe 30, who had been out of school for several years, scoffed and replied, "Good luck, I only got 165 and I'm a genius."<p>And what did the genius do when not teaching LSAT prep courses? Why, he worked at Target.<p>Edit: expanded a little on the first couple of paragraphs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gnosis</author><text><i>"And what did the genius do when not teaching LSAT prep courses? Why, he worked at Target."</i><p>Kafka was a clerk at an insurance company. Einstein was an assistant patent examiner. Wittgenstein was a gardener at a monastery and then a primary school teacher.<p>Van Gogh only ever sold one painting during his life, and that was to his brother.<p>There are hordes of other people widely regarded as "geniuses", who lived and died in dire poverty. Many others were cheated out of the fame and fortune they deserved by others who got the credit. And many more are probably still unrecognized.<p>The cold hard fact of the matter is that the world generally does not reward intelligence, "genius", or even hard work. True, some have the temperament and luck to scale the greasy pole of "success", but many others don't -- or choose to focus their energies elsewhere.</text></comment> | <story><title>My IQ</title><url>http://blog.tanyakhovanova.com/?p=84</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paisawalla</author><text>Great insight.<p>Regarding Mensa itself, or any claims to intellectual superiority: one of the big lessons of my life has been that being intelligent has no intrinsic value. If you are unable to manifest your intelligence in a way that can substantially (disproportionate to your effort) improve your life or the lives of others, then your mind doesn't matter. It has no impact in the world, and I am not the first person to observe that having a powerful mind is at many times a burden.<p>You can see that other people may be more stupid than you, forwarding simpler arguments and relying on less rigorous thinking than yours, but if they don't want to be convinced of that, then you are powerless to make them see it. They go off blissfully, and you burn with anguish. Again, if you cannot manifest your intelligence in a way that forwards your agenda, who cares?<p>To phrase it in a more confrontational way: if nobody is forced to contend with your mind, nobody knows it exists. Or to summarize it in a quote:<p><i>"[Intelligence] is like being a lady: if you have to tell people you are, you aren't."</i>
-- Margaret Thatcher<p>This clicked for me during my final year of college, when a friend of mine was taking an LSAT preparation course. During a break, he was chatting with the instructor about realistic outcomes, and said earnestly that he hoped to get a score of 168 (which IIRC is a very high score.) The instructor, a man of maybe 30, who had been out of school for several years, scoffed and replied, "Good luck, I only got 165 and I'm a genius."<p>And what did the genius do when not teaching LSAT prep courses? Why, he worked at Target.<p>Edit: expanded a little on the first couple of paragraphs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>salgernon</author><text>I met a genius that worked in the shipping department of the first software company I worked for. (Back when people shipped software.)<p>But working in the shipping department was only what he did in order to persue his passion, which was bird watching and photography. That is where he expressed his genius, although he couldn't make a living from it, it made him happy.<p>Reminds me of <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Bentley" rel="nofollow">http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Bentley</a> who first photographed snowflakes. His genius never gained him fortune.</text></comment> |
12,109,278 | 12,109,131 | 1 | 2 | 12,108,336 | train | <story><title>Microsoft Orleans – An approach to building distributed applications in .NET</title><url>http://dotnet.github.io/orleans/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>refulgentis</author><text>&quot;actors are called ‘grains’,&quot;<p>If you can write a sentence &quot;X are called Y&quot;, and X is more well-known, drop Y.<p>&quot;You can then send messages to the grain by creating a proxy object, and calling the methods:
var grain = GrainClient.GrainFactory.GetGrain&lt;IMyGrain&gt;(&quot;grain1&quot;); await grain.SayHello(&quot;World&quot;);&quot;<p>var brain = BrainClient.BrainFactory.GetBrain&lt;IMyBrain&gt;(&quot;brain1&quot;); await brain.Say(&quot;WTF&quot;);</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>theprotocol</author><text>I share your sentiment.<p>I&#x27;d been away from .NET&#x2F;C# for a few years and came back to find that they dialed the abstraction level to 11.<p>I adore C# as a language but I find myself increasingly alienated by its generally accepted coding style.<p>I find that Microsoft&#x27;s products have extremely unintuitive naming schemes at both a low level (language, standard libraries) and a high level (.NET product word salad naming schemes, Office 365 referring to a diverse and inconsistent range of products...).<p>The skeptic in me thinks that this may be an attempt at educational lock-in.<p>The lines between marketing and technology have definitely been blurred.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft Orleans – An approach to building distributed applications in .NET</title><url>http://dotnet.github.io/orleans/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>refulgentis</author><text>&quot;actors are called ‘grains’,&quot;<p>If you can write a sentence &quot;X are called Y&quot;, and X is more well-known, drop Y.<p>&quot;You can then send messages to the grain by creating a proxy object, and calling the methods:
var grain = GrainClient.GrainFactory.GetGrain&lt;IMyGrain&gt;(&quot;grain1&quot;); await grain.SayHello(&quot;World&quot;);&quot;<p>var brain = BrainClient.BrainFactory.GetBrain&lt;IMyBrain&gt;(&quot;brain1&quot;); await brain.Say(&quot;WTF&quot;);</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KirinDave</author><text>I suspect the F# interface will not only be more to your liking, and probably be trivial to tie in with MBrace which is a pretty damn great library.<p>All C#&#x2F;Java style static typing code not only looks like that, but often calls it &quot;best practice.&quot;<p>Worth noting that &quot;await&quot; use is quite elegant in what it does here.</text></comment> |
26,661,693 | 26,662,061 | 1 | 2 | 26,661,138 | train | <story><title>Ubiquiti accused of covering up ‘catastrophic’ breach– and it’s not denying it</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/31/22360409/ubiquiti-networking-data-breach-response-whistleblower-cybersecurity-incident</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>akersten</author><text>What I want to know is the likelihood that customer devices were compromised. Frankly, I could care less about whether my data&#x2F;password&#x2F;whatever were lost in the breach. Happens all the time, who cares. The problem with the Ubiquiti case is that this compromise has the potential to have poisoned official firmwares, with the silly source code&#x2F;customer data bitcoin ransom as a smokescreen.<p>Remember, there were VMs spun up in their cloud that they couldn&#x27;t account for. That doesn&#x27;t look like someone just tooling around to me, that looks like someone recreating a build process.<p>Is anyone monitoring their Ubiquiti devices in their homelabs to watch for any suspicious traffic? Being part of a nation-state botnet is not a very comforting idea.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>inetknght</author><text>&gt; <i>Is anyone monitoring their Ubiquiti devices in their homelabs to watch for any suspicious traffic?</i><p>With modern software good luck filtering suspicious noise from signal.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ubiquiti accused of covering up ‘catastrophic’ breach– and it’s not denying it</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/31/22360409/ubiquiti-networking-data-breach-response-whistleblower-cybersecurity-incident</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>akersten</author><text>What I want to know is the likelihood that customer devices were compromised. Frankly, I could care less about whether my data&#x2F;password&#x2F;whatever were lost in the breach. Happens all the time, who cares. The problem with the Ubiquiti case is that this compromise has the potential to have poisoned official firmwares, with the silly source code&#x2F;customer data bitcoin ransom as a smokescreen.<p>Remember, there were VMs spun up in their cloud that they couldn&#x27;t account for. That doesn&#x27;t look like someone just tooling around to me, that looks like someone recreating a build process.<p>Is anyone monitoring their Ubiquiti devices in their homelabs to watch for any suspicious traffic? Being part of a nation-state botnet is not a very comforting idea.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>count</author><text>Not to discount the threat, but &#x27;vms spun up in their cloud&#x27; is ...exactly what coinminining attackers do. It&#x27;s so frequent, it&#x27;s even called out as a &#x27;thing to watch your bill to notice&#x27; in amazon security talks&#x2F;etc.
Gain access, launch N VM&#x27;s, where N is as many as your credential and the cloud account limits in place allow, mine coins &#x27;for free&#x27;, and move on.</text></comment> |
6,058,308 | 6,058,175 | 1 | 2 | 6,057,714 | train | <story><title>Lifehacks from 100 Years Ago</title><url>http://www.mentalfloss.com/article/51702/10-lifehacks-100-years-ago</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ronaldx</author><text>Starbucks UK have taken the advice from #6 (&quot;How to keep your plants watered&quot;) and accurately applied it to their teabags:<p>&quot;Loosely plait two or three strands of wool together, immerse completely in water, and place one end in the pail, weighted, and touching the bottom.&quot;<p>Thanks to their kindness in this matter, I no longer need to worry so much about watering my own hands.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lifehacks from 100 Years Ago</title><url>http://www.mentalfloss.com/article/51702/10-lifehacks-100-years-ago</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neilkimmett</author><text>I love how the instructions for &quot;how to make a chair to cross a stream&quot; are:
1. swim across the stream
2. make a chair to cross the stream</text></comment> |
14,973,212 | 14,973,123 | 1 | 3 | 14,972,637 | train | <story><title>Swift 5: start your engines</title><url>https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20170807/038645.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>protomyth</author><text>One of the problems I find with Swift is that Apple doesn&#x27;t go back and properly update their sample code at developer.apple.com. They have examples that will not build. If you search you can find folks that have patch sets, but they really need to fix the examples.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Snackchez</author><text>This! I tried to learn Swift with the playground that came from &quot;A Swift Tour&quot;... A lot of examples didn&#x27;t compile and it took WAY too long to figure out that it wasn&#x27;t a problem on my end.<p>Definitely not a good way to introduce new programming languages to newbies.</text></comment> | <story><title>Swift 5: start your engines</title><url>https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20170807/038645.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>protomyth</author><text>One of the problems I find with Swift is that Apple doesn&#x27;t go back and properly update their sample code at developer.apple.com. They have examples that will not build. If you search you can find folks that have patch sets, but they really need to fix the examples.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saagarjha</author><text>File a Radar and someone will get around to fixing it: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugreport.apple.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugreport.apple.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
21,174,937 | 21,174,648 | 1 | 2 | 21,173,775 | train | <story><title>World's Best-Run Pension Funds Say It's Time to Start Worrying</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-06/world-s-best-run-pension-funds-say-it-s-time-to-start-worrying</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aazaa</author><text>&gt; The warning comes as pension firms across Europe struggle to generate the returns they need to cover their growing obligations. In Denmark, some funds saddled with legacy policies guaranteeing returns as high as 4.5% have had to use equity to meet their obligations.<p>Using equity to meet current obligations sounds a lot like a Ponzi scheme:<p>&gt; A Ponzi scheme ... is a form of fraud that lures investors and pays profits to earlier investors with funds from more recent investors.[2] The scheme leads victims to believe that profits are coming from product sales or other means, and they remain unaware that other investors are the source of funds.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ponzi_scheme" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ponzi_scheme</a><p>Provided that the equity drain is limited in scope, a pension fund can continue to fight another year.<p>The more interesting (or scary) question is what happens when tapping into the equity becomes the norm? At what point does the fund manager level with pensioners and inform them that the fund is in fact insolvent?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>notJim</author><text>In some sense, isn&#x27;t this inherently how something like a pension fund works?<p>Forget about the layers of obfuscation, and think about how the economy works. Some people work and produce stuff, some people do not. The norm (and a defensible one, IMO) is that young people work, and old people do not. This means that some of the output of the work that young people do has to be funneled to old people.<p>You can do that by building up vast stores of wealth and funneling it to people over time, or you can do it by directly taxing current production, but either way the effect is to direct resources from people who produce to those who don&#x27;t.<p>Theoretically, we take the store of wealth approach, but in actuality that store of wealth depends greatly on the economy backing it to be sufficiently productive that there are enough resources to go around. The pension funds don&#x27;t control the entire economy obviously, so they have to predict as best as they can. It seems extreme to call it a Ponzi scheme unless there was actual fraud occurring.<p>Edit: thrustvectoring[1] probably does a better job making the point I&#x27;m trying to make (or at least a related one.)<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21174917" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21174917</a></text></comment> | <story><title>World's Best-Run Pension Funds Say It's Time to Start Worrying</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-06/world-s-best-run-pension-funds-say-it-s-time-to-start-worrying</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aazaa</author><text>&gt; The warning comes as pension firms across Europe struggle to generate the returns they need to cover their growing obligations. In Denmark, some funds saddled with legacy policies guaranteeing returns as high as 4.5% have had to use equity to meet their obligations.<p>Using equity to meet current obligations sounds a lot like a Ponzi scheme:<p>&gt; A Ponzi scheme ... is a form of fraud that lures investors and pays profits to earlier investors with funds from more recent investors.[2] The scheme leads victims to believe that profits are coming from product sales or other means, and they remain unaware that other investors are the source of funds.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ponzi_scheme" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ponzi_scheme</a><p>Provided that the equity drain is limited in scope, a pension fund can continue to fight another year.<p>The more interesting (or scary) question is what happens when tapping into the equity becomes the norm? At what point does the fund manager level with pensioners and inform them that the fund is in fact insolvent?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>burmanm</author><text>Not sure why you were downvoted as technically you&#x27;re not that far from the truth. Most pensions do work this way, next one pays the previous ones.<p>For example in Finland the pension funds were started with the employees back then paying 1,5% of their salary to get pension. These days the rate is ~24% from salary, yet the gains are the same as those with 1,5%.<p>The risk is that current payers won&#x27;t get their pension if there&#x27;s no one in the future funding the system. Personally, I think it&#x27;s very likely that the current payers are getting screwed in the end (by getting their pension cut and those who never payed will keep receiving theirs until they die).</text></comment> |
19,208,176 | 19,206,767 | 1 | 2 | 19,205,457 | train | <story><title>Google says Nest’s built-in mic not listed in specs was not meant to be secret</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/nest-microphone-was-never-supposed-to-be-a-secret-2019-2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kmlx</author><text>Yes, I have 100% doubt anyone is spying on anyone. I think most of it is paranoia.<p>I also think this kind of paranoia is detrimental to our evolution as a species.<p>We should be sharing more, not hiding in our caves.</text></item><item><author>vermilingua</author><text>I think Google is well past conspiracy territory. They are a company whose bottom line depends on collecting as much user data as possible; in an economy that compels them to improve their bottom line by any means available.<p>Is there really any doubt that google can and will spy on you if given the slightest opportunity?</text></item><item><author>benbristow</author><text>That&#x27;s getting close to conspiracy territory</text></item><item><author>coldtea</author><text>&gt;<i>- 1. Google wants to spy on you with a hidden mic<p>- 2. They had future plans for the mic, but it was disabled, so it wasn&#x27;t mentioned by the marketing department</i><p>How about both 1. and 2.? Google wants to spy (for ad context etc) with a mic that will be enabled in due time?<p>And why move the Overton window to &quot;it&#x27;s ok to have hidden mics in a bloody thermostat, as long as they&#x27;re not enabled&quot;?</text></item><item><author>strictnein</author><text>Infosec dramas are getting more and more tiresome. Between this and the Singapore Airlines story, it just seems like people need to ratchet everything up to 11.<p>You have two options, choose one:<p>- 1. Google wants to spy on you with a hidden mic<p>- 2. They had future plans for the mic, but it was disabled, so it wasn&#x27;t mentioned by the marketing department<p>For the Singapore Airlines story, you have two options, choose one:<p>- 1. Singapore Airlines wants to record you<p>- 2. The infotainment devices in the seats are just off the shelf Android devices<p>One option gets you lots of clicks and let&#x27;s the infosec drama crowd tweet obnoxious things and sound insightful. The other is the pretty obvious explanation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jerf</author><text>&quot;Yes, I have 100% doubt anyone is spying on anyone.&quot;<p>You can not possibly examine the evidence and claim <i>100%</i> that there is no interest in spying on anyone.<p>Doubt that this particular case has that as the core issue? Sure. But be utterly convinced that <i>literally no one</i>, in any intelligence agency, against any target that might be near some sort of microphone-enabled device, has ever had the thought cross their mind that these things might be useful? No intelligence agency has ever looked at one of these companies hoovering up all the data they can get and installing all this stuff everywhere they can and stroked their chin for a moment?<p>You&#x27;re basically claiming the NSA, CIA, Mossad, KGB, MI5, and all other such things have never existed, do not exist, and will not exist. The evidence for this is pretty poor.<p>I&#x27;m not asking you to wake up tomorrow and worry about whether your toaster is secretly sending all your thoughts to the alien overlords, but come on. Live in the world a bit. We&#x27;re 7-ish billion people here on Planet Earth and they are not anywhere near all to a person nice, wholesome people who wish you all the best and would never even dream of exploiting you even a tiny little bit while they joyously enable you on your life journey of exploration and wonder. You&#x27;re begging for exploitation.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google says Nest’s built-in mic not listed in specs was not meant to be secret</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/nest-microphone-was-never-supposed-to-be-a-secret-2019-2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kmlx</author><text>Yes, I have 100% doubt anyone is spying on anyone. I think most of it is paranoia.<p>I also think this kind of paranoia is detrimental to our evolution as a species.<p>We should be sharing more, not hiding in our caves.</text></item><item><author>vermilingua</author><text>I think Google is well past conspiracy territory. They are a company whose bottom line depends on collecting as much user data as possible; in an economy that compels them to improve their bottom line by any means available.<p>Is there really any doubt that google can and will spy on you if given the slightest opportunity?</text></item><item><author>benbristow</author><text>That&#x27;s getting close to conspiracy territory</text></item><item><author>coldtea</author><text>&gt;<i>- 1. Google wants to spy on you with a hidden mic<p>- 2. They had future plans for the mic, but it was disabled, so it wasn&#x27;t mentioned by the marketing department</i><p>How about both 1. and 2.? Google wants to spy (for ad context etc) with a mic that will be enabled in due time?<p>And why move the Overton window to &quot;it&#x27;s ok to have hidden mics in a bloody thermostat, as long as they&#x27;re not enabled&quot;?</text></item><item><author>strictnein</author><text>Infosec dramas are getting more and more tiresome. Between this and the Singapore Airlines story, it just seems like people need to ratchet everything up to 11.<p>You have two options, choose one:<p>- 1. Google wants to spy on you with a hidden mic<p>- 2. They had future plans for the mic, but it was disabled, so it wasn&#x27;t mentioned by the marketing department<p>For the Singapore Airlines story, you have two options, choose one:<p>- 1. Singapore Airlines wants to record you<p>- 2. The infotainment devices in the seats are just off the shelf Android devices<p>One option gets you lots of clicks and let&#x27;s the infosec drama crowd tweet obnoxious things and sound insightful. The other is the pretty obvious explanation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reitanqild</author><text>&gt; We should be sharing more, not hiding in our caves.<p>I suggest you start, your profile here is even slimmer than mine.<p>More seriously: while there surely is some paranoia going on, recent events have made me more careful, not less.</text></comment> |
16,650,452 | 16,650,473 | 1 | 2 | 16,650,163 | train | <story><title>Circular Shock Acoustic Waves in Ionosphere Triggered by Launch of Formosat‐5</title><url>https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/2017SW001738</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eganist</author><text>I&#x27;m taking the liberty of reworking their &quot;plain language summary.&quot; I aimed for maintaining accuracy with relaxed precision, but please correct me if I&#x27;ve lost too much of either in the process.<p>I corrected a specific bit of imprecision in language in the source&#x27;s plaintext summary not clearly distinguishing between vertical&#x2F;y v. vertical&#x2F;z, something the technical abstract clarified by stating &quot;vertical altitude.&quot;<p>---<p>In <i>plainest</i> language, the rocket was lobbed up, not hurled forward, and this resulted in a shock wave that was followed some interesting reactions in the ionosphere between the rocket exhaust plume and the plasma in the ionosphere, all of which need further study because of potential risks to things like how accurate your GPS might be in the area around the &quot;hole&quot; caused by these reactions.<p>---<p>Plain(er) Language Summary<p>On 24 August 2017, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, carrying Taiwan&#x27;s FORMOSAT‐5 Earth observation satellite into orbit. The lightly weighted solo payload lets the rocket fly a path higher than the bare minimum to insert the payload directly where it needs to operate (the mission altitude), at 720 km. This unique nearly vertical path away from the ground is different from the usual satellite launches where rockets fly over horizontal paths more closely to the ground and insert satellites at 200 km above Earth and rely on orbit maneuvers to reach mission altitudes. Because of this lofty (more vertical) launch path, the rocket launch generated a gigantic circular shock wave in the ionosphere covering a wide area four times greater than California. It is followed by an ionospheric hole (plasma depletions) due to rapid chemical reactions of rocket exhaust plumes and ionospheric plasma. Large spatial gradients caused by these reactions and the resulting hole could lead to ~1 m range errors into GPS navigation and positioning system. Understanding how the rocket launches affect our upper atmosphere and space environment is important as these human-caused space weather events are expected to increase at an enormous rate in the near future.</text></comment> | <story><title>Circular Shock Acoustic Waves in Ionosphere Triggered by Launch of Formosat‐5</title><url>https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/2017SW001738</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>m3kw9</author><text>Even plainer language:<p>Rocket exhaust can have impact with atmosphere, we need to study it more on short and long term effects.</text></comment> |
22,422,773 | 22,422,342 | 1 | 3 | 22,422,077 | train | <story><title>Assange Hearing Day 2</title><url>https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/02/your-man-in-the-public-gallery-assange-hearing-day-2/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jonathanstrange</author><text>I think there is an important point missing in the debate. This is an extradition hearing. It doesn&#x27;t matter whether Assange is guilty of the alleged crimes the US has come up with or not, what matters is whether he is expected to receive a fair trial in the US and whether the potential sentences in the US would be roughly on a par with what he&#x27;d expect for the same alleged crimes in the UK. For all I can see, this is definitely not the case.<p>You can even make a case that almost nobody should be extradited to the US by any country, since the US justice system has serious flaws, might not be just at all (e.g. it has about 10 times longer maximum prison sentences than in the rest of the civilized world) and the US penal system constitutes a constant human rights violation. For example, the administrations of many US prisons are notoriously unable to prevent the raping and murdering of their inmates. I&#x27;ve even heard people from the US making jokes about prison rape, as if that was to be expected and part of the &quot;justice&quot;. As another example, a prison in Illinois was under 23 years of permanent lockdown, meaning that all inmates were in isolation for 23 years. There are credible accounts that Assange is facing imprisonment in high-security isolation facilities similar to what they did to Manning for a long time. I cannot understand why any civilized person would allow a treatment as inhumane as in US maximum security prisons with isolation, regardless of the crime.<p>Generally speaking, countries should review their extradition treaties. US justice is non-proportionality based on revenge and involves frequent human rights abuses. The same is true of other countries like Japan or Russia, but AFAIK extradition requests to these countries are much rarer.</text></comment> | <story><title>Assange Hearing Day 2</title><url>https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/02/your-man-in-the-public-gallery-assange-hearing-day-2/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>k1m</author><text>Murray&#x27;s report of the first day of the trial also worth reading: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.craigmurray.org.uk&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2020&#x2F;02&#x2F;your-man-in-the-public-gallery-assange-hearing-day-1&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.craigmurray.org.uk&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2020&#x2F;02&#x2F;your-man-in-...</a></text></comment> |
23,393,481 | 23,393,309 | 1 | 2 | 23,392,393 | train | <story><title>Lawmakers begin bipartisan push to cut off police access to military-style gear</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/us/politics/police-military-gear.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Shivetya</author><text>The equipment issue isn&#x27;t going to solve anything, this is just lip service to the real problem. Police Unions have effectively created a system by which officers are nearly immune from prosecution and even if successfully prosecuted their record cannot travel with them in many cases.<p>Now one fix that removing some of the equipment will do will reduce the amount of psychological impact it has on those wielding it, as in reduce the Rambo effect. The idea of attaching military style equipment to the current problems is only for political purposes, they needed to blame Trump for the violence.<p>However in the end, there are few alternatives to fixing the police and their application and misapplication of force<p>1) Restrict conditions that can be placed in union negotiated contracts regarding officer behavior, culpability, and indemnification.<p>2) If not 1) then make it illegal for the unions to exist with regards to any public servant who is armed<p>3) civilian oversight boards that are veto proof against the police they monitor. Not only would they review incidents which are questionable they would have to involved in any use of concentrated force to include no knock warrants; something which should be illegal except in the most incredible cases.<p>4) holding elected and appointed officials of the localities, city, county, or state, accountable for the harm caused by their police forces.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lawmakers begin bipartisan push to cut off police access to military-style gear</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/us/politics/police-military-gear.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rconti</author><text>A common response to the idea of &quot;police reform&quot; is that it will make it harder&#x2F;more expensive&#x2F;etc to hire police, which we all agree we need.<p>As an armchair economist who believes that everything DOES happen at the margins, we can&#x27;t completely ignore this, so I&#x27;m at least somewhat sympathetic to the argument.<p>But what really kills the argument is looking at how our medical professionals have stepped up and responded to COVID-19, putting their lives on the line every day, with utterly inadequate gear. And still they serve.<p>Yes, if the police are less militarized and have more personal liability&#x2F;responsibility, it will reduce the level of interest in the profession somewhat, but I think we have to not kid ourselves about the degree of such an impact.<p>This is before we get into whether we really even want &quot;those people&quot; (who are attracted to the militaristic side of policing) &#x27;serving&#x27; our communities at all.<p>Just as anti-pursuit policies have swept the nation to reduce officer-involved carnage, we can reduce escalation of violence.</text></comment> |
34,116,345 | 34,116,465 | 1 | 3 | 34,115,632 | train | <story><title>Things to argue about over the holidays instead of politics</title><url>https://dynomight.net/arguments/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roenxi</author><text>It says a lot about how confused political discourse gets that the author considers these things &quot;not politics&quot;. Politics is all about value judgements and arguing about where we are going.<p>If things like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5... don&#x27;t immediately become intensely political then somebody is being very ineffective at politics. There seems to be a weird assumption here that politics is fundamentally in bad faith and people aren&#x27;t acting from value judgements and reason.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kamq</author><text>&gt; It says a lot about how confused political discourse gets that the author considers these things &quot;not politics&quot;.<p>&quot;Politics&quot;, used in this context is used to mean: the set of topics that professional politicians and certain media figures are arguing about, that are liable to cause big arguments that leave everyone involved feeling bitter and not change anyone&#x27;s mind.<p>Interpreting the term in a literal manner is not useful.</text></comment> | <story><title>Things to argue about over the holidays instead of politics</title><url>https://dynomight.net/arguments/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roenxi</author><text>It says a lot about how confused political discourse gets that the author considers these things &quot;not politics&quot;. Politics is all about value judgements and arguing about where we are going.<p>If things like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5... don&#x27;t immediately become intensely political then somebody is being very ineffective at politics. There seems to be a weird assumption here that politics is fundamentally in bad faith and people aren&#x27;t acting from value judgements and reason.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throw827474737</author><text>&gt; It says a lot about how confused political discourse gets that the author considers these things &quot;not politics&quot;.<p>Another pro tip for argues over the holidays: don&#x27;t be that nit-picky... even if you are right on some level, I&#x27;m not sure who would call such topics current political discourse topics (:<p>Best tip though: keep the discussions away, delve in the happy shared past, dream about a better future, or just enjoy the moment! Merry christmas!</text></comment> |
30,599,226 | 30,599,217 | 1 | 2 | 30,593,302 | train | <story><title>Regrets of the Dying (2010)</title><url>https://bronnieware.com/blog/regrets-of-the-dying/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CaptArmchair</author><text>If only it were that easy.<p>Life goals and dreams are hard because of their innate complexity to achieve them. It&#x27;s easy to state &quot;I want to start a family&quot; or &quot;I want to become a business owner&quot; or &quot;I want to climb Everest&quot;. It&#x27;s the execution which is hard because that relies on so many variables most of which you don&#x27;t really control.<p>Social background, economic background, your health, your personality, your skills and abilities, your awareness of opportunities or lack thereof, ingrained beliefs and biases, education level, culture, current events, family dynamics, upbringing,...<p>The notion that you&#x27;re in control of what happens in your life is a convenient belief, not a hard fact. It&#x27;s only when that belief is shattered by hard reality that you start to understand that life doesn&#x27;t necessarily follow the script you had in mind when you&#x27;re young.<p>The kicker then is understanding that happiness isn&#x27;t to be found only when you reach the end of the rainbow, when you finally achieve the dream. It&#x27;s there along the road, between the rubble and troubles that life throws at you. It&#x27;s found in what you make out of each day you&#x27;re given in good health.</text></item><item><author>WheelsAtLarge</author><text>People should note that having dreams without figuring out how to get them accomplished is a sure way to have regrets. We are told that we should chase our dreams with the idea that if we wish hard enough they will come true - popular entertainment re-enforces it. I think that&#x27;s why there are so many people that buy lottery tickets hoping their dreams will come true once they have the instant money of a win. But the reality is that only a few people will win the lottery. It&#x27;s by design. The lottery is built with the idea that only a tiny percent will ever get the big money. This seems like it&#x27;s obvious but a large number of people just believe that dreams come true by luck. So keep in mind that most dreams are achievable you just have to work towards them by setting up a life plan.<p>-Define dream<p>-Set up a plan to the goal&#x2F;dream<p>-execute plan until achieved - but review on a set time table to make sure you are heading in the right direction.<p>Start, life really is short.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WastingMyTime89</author><text>You still have some amount of control.<p>As a 30-something, it has recently become apparent to me that it is very easy to live a life you don&#x27;t really care about. You start a job because it&#x27;s the thing people expect you to do with your degree, chase some promotions because it feels nice to improve your status and win more money and without really paying attention you end up doing a job you rescent to keep living a life you dislike.</text></comment> | <story><title>Regrets of the Dying (2010)</title><url>https://bronnieware.com/blog/regrets-of-the-dying/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CaptArmchair</author><text>If only it were that easy.<p>Life goals and dreams are hard because of their innate complexity to achieve them. It&#x27;s easy to state &quot;I want to start a family&quot; or &quot;I want to become a business owner&quot; or &quot;I want to climb Everest&quot;. It&#x27;s the execution which is hard because that relies on so many variables most of which you don&#x27;t really control.<p>Social background, economic background, your health, your personality, your skills and abilities, your awareness of opportunities or lack thereof, ingrained beliefs and biases, education level, culture, current events, family dynamics, upbringing,...<p>The notion that you&#x27;re in control of what happens in your life is a convenient belief, not a hard fact. It&#x27;s only when that belief is shattered by hard reality that you start to understand that life doesn&#x27;t necessarily follow the script you had in mind when you&#x27;re young.<p>The kicker then is understanding that happiness isn&#x27;t to be found only when you reach the end of the rainbow, when you finally achieve the dream. It&#x27;s there along the road, between the rubble and troubles that life throws at you. It&#x27;s found in what you make out of each day you&#x27;re given in good health.</text></item><item><author>WheelsAtLarge</author><text>People should note that having dreams without figuring out how to get them accomplished is a sure way to have regrets. We are told that we should chase our dreams with the idea that if we wish hard enough they will come true - popular entertainment re-enforces it. I think that&#x27;s why there are so many people that buy lottery tickets hoping their dreams will come true once they have the instant money of a win. But the reality is that only a few people will win the lottery. It&#x27;s by design. The lottery is built with the idea that only a tiny percent will ever get the big money. This seems like it&#x27;s obvious but a large number of people just believe that dreams come true by luck. So keep in mind that most dreams are achievable you just have to work towards them by setting up a life plan.<p>-Define dream<p>-Set up a plan to the goal&#x2F;dream<p>-execute plan until achieved - but review on a set time table to make sure you are heading in the right direction.<p>Start, life really is short.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tcgv</author><text>While I agree that there are a lot of factors we don&#x27;t control, we can put that into perspective for evaluating how feasible a &quot;life goal&quot; is.<p>There&#x27;s a culture that pushes us to &quot;dream big&quot; (e.g. build a unicorn startup, become a billionaire). That&#x27;s usually awfully ambitious, and as feasible as winning the lottery for most of us.<p>We should be pragmatic about our life goals. They should be ambitious, but achieavable.<p>Even if we don&#x27;t control a lot of factors in our lives we at least have the power to influence them, most of the time it comes in the form of &quot;trade-offs&quot;. So you&#x27;ve got to be prepared to make some sacrifices in the present for making progress towards a future goal.<p>I also acknowledge that some of us have a head start due to our social&#x2F;economical background, and we should be grateful for that.</text></comment> |
16,874,622 | 16,867,238 | 1 | 2 | 16,864,050 | train | <story><title>BBC Sound Effects made available to download for use under RemArc Licence</title><url>http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>oliwarner</author><text>We can leave the whether or not publicly-funded work like this should belong to the public (no not the Crown) so I understand that this is <i>theirs</i> to license how they see fit... but this license stinks.<p>It&#x27;s non-commercial. It has huge moral use clauses. It basically limits your use to the same standards the BBC is required to keep at broadcast.<p>And you have to give a credit. And you can&#x27;t use too much of it (lest somebody think you&#x27;re sponsored by the BBC). And you cannot denature the collection or remove tracking or branding from it.<p>AAAAAnd you have to remove files from your copy when they ask. This is a revocable license.</text></comment> | <story><title>BBC Sound Effects made available to download for use under RemArc Licence</title><url>http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>optimuspaul</author><text>Wow! Decades ago when I was a theatre sound designer I had those on vinyl and used them all the time. This brings back memories.</text></comment> |
2,398,805 | 2,398,813 | 1 | 2 | 2,398,618 | train | <story><title>Why I went with them and not you: feedback to an interviewer</title><url>http://jamesob.nfshost.com/2011/04/01/them-vs-you.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>j_baker</author><text><i>It may seem arbitrary, but the platform an organization uses is indicative to me of a whole lot.</i><p>Was anyone else a bit annoyed by this statement? It's a good, wholesome, and healthy thing to say "You guys use Windows and I like using Unix", but it's wrong to say "You guys use Windows, and that says something about your organization."<p>Why do techies have such a tendency to phrase "I don't like <i>x</i>" as "It is <i>wrong</i> to use x".</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dangero</author><text>I agree.<p>When my company is hiring, and we lose a candidate like this, I often send emails that are similar, "Sorry to hear you're not accepting our offer. Can I ask why you didn't choose us?" This is actually the potential hire's chance to pay me a compliment, give a small amount of feedback, and keep the door open for the future in case their other "better" option falls through.<p>I think this blog shows a terribly self absorbed reply. My response to receiving this would be to forward the reply to my team and say, "Glad that didn't work out for us... Blessing in disguise. See below."<p>Know your audience. Remember, the person you're emailing works there, so you're essentially telling them that their job and work environment sucks when you write something like this.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why I went with them and not you: feedback to an interviewer</title><url>http://jamesob.nfshost.com/2011/04/01/them-vs-you.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>j_baker</author><text><i>It may seem arbitrary, but the platform an organization uses is indicative to me of a whole lot.</i><p>Was anyone else a bit annoyed by this statement? It's a good, wholesome, and healthy thing to say "You guys use Windows and I like using Unix", but it's wrong to say "You guys use Windows, and that says something about your organization."<p>Why do techies have such a tendency to phrase "I don't like <i>x</i>" as "It is <i>wrong</i> to use x".</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lusis</author><text>It's not a matter of "it's wrong to use X". It's a matter of "I don't want to spend my time working in Windows and dealing with all of the headaches and banging my head against a wall with the differing OS paradigms."<p>True story. At my previous company, it wasn't made clear during the interview that Windows was the ONLY thing allowed on the network. Despite the fact that all of the servers were running Linux (this was a major financial institution), we were forced to use Windows XPSP3 and we couldn't even use VMware (that changed a month or so after I got there luckily).<p>Neglecting to mention that was a CONSCIOUS decision by the people doing the hiring because it cost them employees. Not only did it cost them employees who turned down the job based on that fact, they had people LEAVE once they found out about it (developers and operations folks alike).<p>Talented and skilled people can get a job anywhere. They don't have to put up with stupid bullshit illogicals like "You have to use Windows even though we trust the financial records of customers of EVERY MAJOR CREDIT CARD COMPANY to live on and be processed by Linux servers".</text></comment> |
32,399,549 | 32,397,027 | 1 | 2 | 32,395,518 | train | <story><title>Thank You, Firebug (2017)</title><url>https://getfirebug.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>annnoo</author><text>Wow, i almost forgot about Firebug.<p>From my point of view it was really a game changer. The first time debugging and understanding web-applications became accessible. Probably all browser dev tools were inspired by this tool</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hinkley</author><text>Firebug is the reason Firefox broke IE’s crown. On one project we had management tell us specifically <i>not</i> to support Mozilla. Fuck you man. We get the software running on Mozilla first because it’s the only place we can debug properly. Then we fix whatever IE bugs are left over by dead reconning. We’re still going to be Mozilla first, we just won’t tell you about it anymore. And you just lost some trustworthiness so good luck convincing us of something difficult next time.<p>I still think the Mozilla team did Firebug a dirty by reimplementing what was an inferior version instead of bringing it home.</text></comment> | <story><title>Thank You, Firebug (2017)</title><url>https://getfirebug.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>annnoo</author><text>Wow, i almost forgot about Firebug.<p>From my point of view it was really a game changer. The first time debugging and understanding web-applications became accessible. Probably all browser dev tools were inspired by this tool</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cxr</author><text>&gt; Probably all browser dev tools were inspired by this tool<p>Joe Hewitt begat DOM Inspector[1], which, after Hewitt left Netscape, begat Firebug (originally &quot;FireBug&quot;), and then pretty much every other Web developer tool began as an attempt to create something that could compete with what was available in the Mozilla ecosystem.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;DOM_Inspector" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;DOM_Inspector</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20060419170530&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joehewitt.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;firebug_a_love.php" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20060419170530&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joehew...</a></text></comment> |
27,908,675 | 27,908,316 | 1 | 2 | 27,905,644 | train | <story><title>BBEdit 14</title><url>https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/bbedit14.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cytzol</author><text>Thanks to using BBEdit for a decade now, I get bitterly disappointed whenever I re-open an application and it doesn&#x27;t restore the windows and state it had when it closed. I&#x27;ve tried switching to both Emacs and Vim, but no amount of configuration nor third-party plugins could get them to work like this effectively. BBEdit works exactly how I want it to work out of the box, and I commend it for that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thosakwe</author><text>Tim Pope has a plugin for that: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tpope&#x2F;vim-obsession" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tpope&#x2F;vim-obsession</a></text></comment> | <story><title>BBEdit 14</title><url>https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/bbedit14.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cytzol</author><text>Thanks to using BBEdit for a decade now, I get bitterly disappointed whenever I re-open an application and it doesn&#x27;t restore the windows and state it had when it closed. I&#x27;ve tried switching to both Emacs and Vim, but no amount of configuration nor third-party plugins could get them to work like this effectively. BBEdit works exactly how I want it to work out of the box, and I commend it for that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oritron</author><text>I don&#x27;t know about Vim, but Emacs will do this easily with `persp-mode`. To skip a bit of customization work, get doom-emacs and enable the `workspaces` module, which will save sessions for you by default.</text></comment> |
1,786,214 | 1,783,566 | 1 | 2 | 1,782,714 | train | <story><title>Brilliant design: RCA student radically improves the UK plug</title><url>http://www.iconeye.com/index.php?view=article&catid=1:latest-news&layout=news&id=3864:rca-student-radically-improves-the-uk-plug&option=com_content&Itemid=18&ref=nf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cstross</author><text>There's also a second reason British plugs are robust and fused: they're built to carry up to 3 kilowatts at 230 volts. (None of your wimpish American 110 volt mains juice here! Nothing quite makes your hair stand on end like accidentally touching a live pin carrying 230 volts and 13 amps ...)<p>To that end, the live and neutral contacts in a British socket are shuttered. The long earth pin on the plug makes contact before the live or neutral pins are in the socket, and once in contact, raises a shutter to permit live and neutral to make contact. And the nether regions of those pins are insulated so that if a plug is halfway into a socket and something bridges the pins, it can't make contact.<p>This is a great design -- for space heaters and ovens and server racks. It's a bit less useful for the low power consumption devices that have come to dominate the market (where maximum draw is well under 1Kw -- often under 0.1Kw).</text></item><item><author>ars</author><text>Tiny bit of history:<p>The reason plugs in the UK are so big is that each one must be individually fused. And the reason for that is something called a "ring circuit".<p>In a ring circuit you have, say, a 40 amp fuse at the mains/box. From this you send out two wires, each rated only for 20 amps, going in a circle around the house. You can now supply 40 amps worth of power using only cheaper 20 amp wires. (Since the current can flow over both wires at once.)<p>But this means that the wires going to an individual appliance are far too small for the main breaker, so each appliance gets a fuse in the plug.<p>Ring circuits have serious drawbacks, but they helped during a time when there was a copper shortage.<p>And ever since then the UK has been stuck with huge plugs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>masklinn</author><text>&#62; There's also a second reason British plugs are robust and fused: they're built to carry up to 3 kilowatts at 230 volts. (None of your wimpish American 110 volt mains juice here! Nothing quite makes your hair stand on end like accidentally touching a live pin carrying 230 volts and 13 amps ...)<p>Mainland european grounded plugs pretty much all handle 15A/230V, and none looks like a battlecruiser (see the well-known and widely used "CEE 7/7" aka "Type E/F hybrid": <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CEE_7-7.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CEE_7-7.jpg</a>)</text></comment> | <story><title>Brilliant design: RCA student radically improves the UK plug</title><url>http://www.iconeye.com/index.php?view=article&catid=1:latest-news&layout=news&id=3864:rca-student-radically-improves-the-uk-plug&option=com_content&Itemid=18&ref=nf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cstross</author><text>There's also a second reason British plugs are robust and fused: they're built to carry up to 3 kilowatts at 230 volts. (None of your wimpish American 110 volt mains juice here! Nothing quite makes your hair stand on end like accidentally touching a live pin carrying 230 volts and 13 amps ...)<p>To that end, the live and neutral contacts in a British socket are shuttered. The long earth pin on the plug makes contact before the live or neutral pins are in the socket, and once in contact, raises a shutter to permit live and neutral to make contact. And the nether regions of those pins are insulated so that if a plug is halfway into a socket and something bridges the pins, it can't make contact.<p>This is a great design -- for space heaters and ovens and server racks. It's a bit less useful for the low power consumption devices that have come to dominate the market (where maximum draw is well under 1Kw -- often under 0.1Kw).</text></item><item><author>ars</author><text>Tiny bit of history:<p>The reason plugs in the UK are so big is that each one must be individually fused. And the reason for that is something called a "ring circuit".<p>In a ring circuit you have, say, a 40 amp fuse at the mains/box. From this you send out two wires, each rated only for 20 amps, going in a circle around the house. You can now supply 40 amps worth of power using only cheaper 20 amp wires. (Since the current can flow over both wires at once.)<p>But this means that the wires going to an individual appliance are far too small for the main breaker, so each appliance gets a fuse in the plug.<p>Ring circuits have serious drawbacks, but they helped during a time when there was a copper shortage.<p>And ever since then the UK has been stuck with huge plugs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jergosh</author><text><i>And the nether regions of those pins are insulated so that if a plug is halfway into a socket and something bridges the pins, it can't make contact.</i><p>That's not really true, you can still get electrocuted if you put you finger on both bolts.<p>And that plug is <i>massive</i>. Luckily you can use any sticklike thing to allow continental plugs to be inserted (which incidentally I'm doing right now -- hello from Edinburgh)</text></comment> |
5,992,576 | 5,992,003 | 1 | 3 | 5,991,806 | train | <story><title>Clojure core.async and Go: A Code Comparison</title><url>http://blog.drewolson.org/blog/2013/07/04/clojure-core-dot-async-and-go-a-code-comparison/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nickik</author><text>This is very cool and intressting. I have to think about something to do with core.async.<p>This is also a good example why macros are just awesome. Go is a language design to work well with goroutins and channels, but the clojure code looks just as good and readable. You could simply not have such idiomatic use of these concepts without macros.<p>Or am I wrong, can a flexible language like scala or python be extended to look as good for that usecase? I dont know enougth of the tricks scala people use, I cant juge if it is possible.</text></comment> | <story><title>Clojure core.async and Go: A Code Comparison</title><url>http://blog.drewolson.org/blog/2013/07/04/clojure-core-dot-async-and-go-a-code-comparison/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hueyp</author><text>Are the clojure threads actually lightweight? Thread&#x2F;sleep is blocking so you&#x27;d need to occupy 10 threads right? If you wanted to sleep without blocking a real thread would you use an executor service to write to a channel after delay and block on that?</text></comment> |
4,204,057 | 4,203,726 | 1 | 2 | 4,203,612 | train | <story><title>ACLU launches phone app to help motorists secretly record police stops</title><url>http://www.autoblog.com/2012/07/05/aclu-launches-phone-app-to-help-motorists-secretly-record-police/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Mizza</author><text>Hi, I'm Rich, I run <a href="http://OpenWatch.net" rel="nofollow">http://OpenWatch.net</a>, we made this app for the ACLU. It is a fork of our Free and Open Source program, OpenWatch.<p>The really interesting part is that we get thousands of the recordings send back to us. The app has been out for more than a year and we have collected thousands of recordings.<p>We need people to help process all of the data. If you have any experience with audio processing, trans-coding audio, or data visualization, please get in touch! - [email protected]<p>(Source: <a href="https://github.com/Miserlou/OpenWatch---Android/network" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Miserlou/OpenWatch---Android/network</a><p>iPhone Version: <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cop-recorder/id433040863?mt=8" rel="nofollow">http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cop-recorder/id433040863?mt=8</a> )</text></comment> | <story><title>ACLU launches phone app to help motorists secretly record police stops</title><url>http://www.autoblog.com/2012/07/05/aclu-launches-phone-app-to-help-motorists-secretly-record-police/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ck2</author><text>Police should be required to record all audio/video when making any kind of stop.<p>It's an official action. Instant dismissal if such recording is purposely incomplete, tampered with or "lost".<p>ps. that ACLU video is just not good on so many levels - they should replace it with something to reflect how serious this is</text></comment> |
25,922,107 | 25,922,074 | 1 | 2 | 25,921,632 | train | <story><title>Facebook is bombarding rightwing users with combat gear ads. See for yourself</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/26/facebook-ads-combat-gear-rightwing-users</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jabroni_salad</author><text>I&#x27;m not completely sure this is just political people. Up until recently I only got ads for kickstarter doodads and airtable, but then it suddenly switched to gun stuff. I don&#x27;t browse any firearm or political communities, haven&#x27;t bought stuff, don&#x27;t watch firearm youtube videos, haven&#x27;t even been window shopping.<p>There were 5 million new gun owners last year. I think the ad networks just view it as a highly probable click since so many people are suddenly showing interest in firearms that weren&#x27;t before. Especially for people in my demo&#x2F;geo... I am white and rural.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>opwieurposiu</author><text>When I was working in the machine shop business around 2016 another shop owner called our shop asking if we had any work to sub out. I was surprised because his shop was running at max capacity the year before, making gun parts. Apparently when a republican becomes president the gun parts market dries up; when a democrat wins, the market booms.<p>I think the arms retailers are having a boom right now and have plenty of money for ads.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook is bombarding rightwing users with combat gear ads. See for yourself</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/26/facebook-ads-combat-gear-rightwing-users</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jabroni_salad</author><text>I&#x27;m not completely sure this is just political people. Up until recently I only got ads for kickstarter doodads and airtable, but then it suddenly switched to gun stuff. I don&#x27;t browse any firearm or political communities, haven&#x27;t bought stuff, don&#x27;t watch firearm youtube videos, haven&#x27;t even been window shopping.<p>There were 5 million new gun owners last year. I think the ad networks just view it as a highly probable click since so many people are suddenly showing interest in firearms that weren&#x27;t before. Especially for people in my demo&#x2F;geo... I am white and rural.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bonestamp2</author><text>There are a lot of variables that go into those ad network decisions. Are you in a red state or a localized area where guns are particularly popular? Are you friends likely to buy guns? Do you buy other crossover product categories that gun owners also tend to purchase (ex. certain survival or camping gear)? Lastly, price per bid and volume... If nobody else is targeting you, or not paying enough to target you, the untargeted ads might make their way to your feed if they&#x27;re bidding high enough or if facebook is simply trying to fulfill their ad volume.</text></comment> |
34,061,998 | 34,061,896 | 1 | 2 | 34,039,816 | train | <story><title>Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative</title><url>https://itcommunity.stanford.edu/ehli</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>testfoobar</author><text>They apparently spider and scan their own websites for &quot;harmful&quot; language:<p>I just find this wild. How and when did language itself become so dangerous to this degree? Along with most adults in my social circle, I care and think about my health, my family, my friends, my work, my dog, my environment, my community, etc. I could not give a flying fuck about language policing. Language isn&#x27;t going to protect me on my bike from speeding cars on my street. Language isn&#x27;t going to fill the dams in a drier and drier California. Language isn&#x27;t going to do jackshit about 400+ ppm CO2 levels. And on and on.<p>These language policing idiots, and I am choosing my language here, are fucking clueless about the real challenges we face as individuals and as a society. Even worse, they are redirecting valuable resources to stupider and stupider bullshit.<p>How do we close this Pandora&#x27;s box? How do we go back to debating meaningful problems and solutions and tell these language policing idiots to do something useful?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;itcommunity.stanford.edu&#x2F;news&#x2F;poc-it-2022-progress-and-looking-ahead-2023" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;itcommunity.stanford.edu&#x2F;news&#x2F;poc-it-2022-progress-a...</a><p>&quot;EHLI Scans
In addition to the educational website, EHLI involves scanning Stanford University domains and sites to determine where and how identified harmful language is being used. The end goal is to help individuals and units eliminate harmful language that could be perpetuating stereotypes, inequality, violence, and racism.<p>Seven web domains authorized by the CIOC were scanned in a pilot phase to test the process of receiving, analyzing, and addressing scan results. This pilot phase led to a change in how terms are categorized from the scans, using these three priority levels:<p>Most egregious terms that need to be addressed immediately
Terms we do not expect to find on our sites but will scan for due diligence
Terms that can be used in a non-harmful way, generating many false positive results
For the seven domains in the pilot, baseline scans have been recorded, and scan results are now recorded monthly. The process for working with content owners for remediation is still in a planning phase. Additional domains to be included in the scanning process are being evaluated, in close partnership with the CIOC.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Dalewyn</author><text>The thing more of us need to understand is this has never been about &quot;safety&quot;, it&#x27;s about power and control.<p>Becoming able to control someone&#x27;s thoughts is very, very powerful and sought after, and what are thoughts composed of? Language. Define the language and you define how people think.<p>Define people of latin origin should be referred to by &quot;latinx&quot; and nothing else and congratulations: An entire collection of cultures was removed of their identity and subjugated.<p>Define all environmental concerns as &quot;global warming&quot; and later &quot;climate change&quot; and congratulations: You just invalidated swaths of inventions and solutions created by our forefathers and turned entire fields of science into a handy little political tool to fling around for profit.<p>Define science as something to be unconditionally trusted and congratulations: You just turned science into a religion and gained one of the biggest religious forces known to man to use for profit.<p>The people behind all this are very ingenious and very dangerous; he who controls language owns the human world.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative</title><url>https://itcommunity.stanford.edu/ehli</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>testfoobar</author><text>They apparently spider and scan their own websites for &quot;harmful&quot; language:<p>I just find this wild. How and when did language itself become so dangerous to this degree? Along with most adults in my social circle, I care and think about my health, my family, my friends, my work, my dog, my environment, my community, etc. I could not give a flying fuck about language policing. Language isn&#x27;t going to protect me on my bike from speeding cars on my street. Language isn&#x27;t going to fill the dams in a drier and drier California. Language isn&#x27;t going to do jackshit about 400+ ppm CO2 levels. And on and on.<p>These language policing idiots, and I am choosing my language here, are fucking clueless about the real challenges we face as individuals and as a society. Even worse, they are redirecting valuable resources to stupider and stupider bullshit.<p>How do we close this Pandora&#x27;s box? How do we go back to debating meaningful problems and solutions and tell these language policing idiots to do something useful?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;itcommunity.stanford.edu&#x2F;news&#x2F;poc-it-2022-progress-and-looking-ahead-2023" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;itcommunity.stanford.edu&#x2F;news&#x2F;poc-it-2022-progress-a...</a><p>&quot;EHLI Scans
In addition to the educational website, EHLI involves scanning Stanford University domains and sites to determine where and how identified harmful language is being used. The end goal is to help individuals and units eliminate harmful language that could be perpetuating stereotypes, inequality, violence, and racism.<p>Seven web domains authorized by the CIOC were scanned in a pilot phase to test the process of receiving, analyzing, and addressing scan results. This pilot phase led to a change in how terms are categorized from the scans, using these three priority levels:<p>Most egregious terms that need to be addressed immediately
Terms we do not expect to find on our sites but will scan for due diligence
Terms that can be used in a non-harmful way, generating many false positive results
For the seven domains in the pilot, baseline scans have been recorded, and scan results are now recorded monthly. The process for working with content owners for remediation is still in a planning phase. Additional domains to be included in the scanning process are being evaluated, in close partnership with the CIOC.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>soundnote</author><text>&gt; These language policing idiots, and I am choosing my language here, are fucking clueless about the real challenges we face as individuals and as a society. Even worse, they are redirecting valuable resources to stupider and stupider bullshit.<p>This is spot on. They are cultural parasites who siphon resources and attention from their host.</text></comment> |
13,286,286 | 13,286,351 | 1 | 3 | 13,285,140 | train | <story><title>Dentsu CEO resigns after overworked employee commits suicide</title><url>http://money.cnn.com/2016/12/29/news/ceo-resign-employee-suicide-dentsu/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rjeli</author><text>Great blog post here recently on Japanese work culture: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kalzumeus.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;11&#x2F;07&#x2F;doing-business-in-japan&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kalzumeus.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;11&#x2F;07&#x2F;doing-business-in-japan&#x2F;</a><p>&quot;Traditionally, salarymen (and they are, by the way, mostly men) are hired into a particular company late in university and stay at that company or its affiliates until they retire.&quot;<p>&quot;The employee hereby promises the company: Your first obligation, in all things, will be to your company. You will work incredibly hard (90+ hour weeks barely even occasion comment) on their behalf.&quot;<p>&quot;Salarymen work large amounts of overtime, although much of it is for appearance’s sake rather than because it actually accomplishes more productive work. Depending on one’s company, this overtime may be compensated or “service overtime” — “service” in Japanese means “thrown in for free in the hopes of gaining one’s further custom”, so your favorite restaurant might throw in a “service” desert once in a while or you might do 8 hours of “service” overtime six nights a week for 15 years.&quot;<p>The whole post is a great read that comes from a first-hand experience.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dentsu CEO resigns after overworked employee commits suicide</title><url>http://money.cnn.com/2016/12/29/news/ceo-resign-employee-suicide-dentsu/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sologoub</author><text>For context, from the article: &quot;Takahashi had clocked about 105 hours of overtime in the month leading up to her death, authorities found.&quot;<p>Japan has a 40 hour work week and a max of overtime a person can volunteer for. In a month this limit is an additional 45 hours. An employee can agree to more overtime but the source refers to some labor safeguards that are supposed to kick in: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jetro.go.jp&#x2F;en&#x2F;invest&#x2F;setting_up&#x2F;laws&#x2F;section4&#x2F;page5.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jetro.go.jp&#x2F;en&#x2F;invest&#x2F;setting_up&#x2F;laws&#x2F;section4&#x2F;p...</a><p>So in essence, she worked more than double the allowed overtime (around 65 hours per week total work time).</text></comment> |
11,461,186 | 11,461,181 | 1 | 2 | 11,460,935 | train | <story><title>SpaceX just landed a rocket on a drone ship for the first time</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/08/spacex-just-landed-a-rocket-on-a-drone-ship-for-the-first-time/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crispyambulance</author><text>Here&#x27;s one thing I don&#x27;t understand... The rocket lands upon a floating platform in the ocean. Presumably the platform rocks along with the waves. How do they keep the rocket from tipping over after the landing? If it were as huge as an aircraft carrier I can imagine that it might be possible but the platform is relatively small.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JshWright</author><text>A rocket is basically a giant fuel tank with some very heavy engines at the bottom. By the time it lands, the tanks are almost empty, so the center of mass is _extremely_ low.<p>There are two main tanks in the stage, the top ~half is liquid oxygen, and the bottom ~half is kerosene. The liquid oxygen is lighter, and boils off pretty quickly once they open up the vents. So what little fuel is left (the kerosene in the bottom tank) also settles to the bottom, which helps push the CoM even lower.</text></comment> | <story><title>SpaceX just landed a rocket on a drone ship for the first time</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/08/spacex-just-landed-a-rocket-on-a-drone-ship-for-the-first-time/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crispyambulance</author><text>Here&#x27;s one thing I don&#x27;t understand... The rocket lands upon a floating platform in the ocean. Presumably the platform rocks along with the waves. How do they keep the rocket from tipping over after the landing? If it were as huge as an aircraft carrier I can imagine that it might be possible but the platform is relatively small.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pilsetnieks</author><text>The center of gravity for the rocket is actually very low. The engines are on the bottom, and the rest is just a light aluminum tube (with other smaller tubing and tanks inside but still.)<p>Also, after the landing they vent the remaining oxygen, and afterwards people come aboard to weld the rocket legs to the surface so it wouldn&#x27;t slide off.<p>Maybe very strong winds would be an issue, or very rough seas immediately after landing but they wouldn&#x27;t launch in rough weather anyway.</text></comment> |
15,472,596 | 15,472,316 | 1 | 2 | 15,471,745 | train | <story><title>F.lux v4</title><url>https://justgetflux.com/news/pages/v4/bigupdate/?v=4.55</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>internet2000</author><text>Reminder that both Mac OS and Windows include blue light reducing as a built-in feature. In case you don&#x27;t like installing applications for something the OS already does like me.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;HT207513" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;HT207513</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.howtogeek.com&#x2F;302186&#x2F;how-to-enable-night-light-on-windows-10&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.howtogeek.com&#x2F;302186&#x2F;how-to-enable-night-light-o...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gottebp</author><text>I use F.lux because they are the little guy, and first to this market by a long shot. Getting Sherlocked [1] by the big players after years of original work on a project is terrible. Lots of small businesses (or projects for that matter) is much preferable to a handful of large ones blatantly cloning ideas they did not originate.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sherlock_(software)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sherlock_(software)</a></text></comment> | <story><title>F.lux v4</title><url>https://justgetflux.com/news/pages/v4/bigupdate/?v=4.55</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>internet2000</author><text>Reminder that both Mac OS and Windows include blue light reducing as a built-in feature. In case you don&#x27;t like installing applications for something the OS already does like me.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;HT207513" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;HT207513</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.howtogeek.com&#x2F;302186&#x2F;how-to-enable-night-light-on-windows-10&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.howtogeek.com&#x2F;302186&#x2F;how-to-enable-night-light-o...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>azdle</author><text>Also built into Gnome since 3.24: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.omgubuntu.co.uk&#x2F;2017&#x2F;02&#x2F;gnome-night-light-blue-light-filter-linux" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.omgubuntu.co.uk&#x2F;2017&#x2F;02&#x2F;gnome-night-light-blue-li...</a></text></comment> |
13,250,814 | 13,248,965 | 1 | 2 | 13,248,862 | train | <story><title>The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing (1997)</title><url>http://www.dspguide.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>SonOfLilit</author><text>I can&#x27;t recommend this book highly enough to engineers, students and tinkerers interested in DSP for audio or data analysis.<p>Just the first chapter on sampling made so many things click for me (I already had a background in sound synthesis with synthesizers, bpt no theory), and it made it all seem so <i>beautiful</i> (I still think signal processing is one of the most beautiful fields of math, probably because of how the Fourier Transform &quot;happens&quot; to be almost identical to its inverse and this lets you do so much with such a small and simple set of tools).<p>The book was clearly written by a good engineer, as it is full of wisdom, tricks and intuition of the kind you only learn on the field. It has good exercises and very simple code for everything.<p>The book takes the discrete-only approach - it doesn&#x27;t even once show an integral, only sums on arrays of floating point numbers. This is a very good approach that I&#x27;m not aware of other texts taking.<p>I studied most of it while living with a friend who applied and taught DSP on his day job. Every evening we would sit in front of a whiteboard and compare my newly earned knowledge on a tool of discrete signals processing with the continuous version that he used and taught. Invariably, we ended with the conclusion that &quot;my&quot; version was much simpler and more intuitive while preserving all the needed power in practice. So I never even tried to grok the continuous Fourier Transform, and yet my intuition of linear systems has served me very well ever since.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing (1997)</title><url>http://www.dspguide.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>I would be interested in knowing how it compares to Practical Signal Processing (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Practical-Signal-Processing-Mark-Owen&#x2F;dp&#x2F;1107411823&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Practical-Signal-Processing-Mark-Owen...</a>)</text></comment> |
14,434,448 | 14,434,273 | 1 | 2 | 14,433,791 | train | <story><title>Realtime Bitcoin</title><url>https://realtimebitcoin.info</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>oskarth</author><text>I also recommend people check out the author&#x27;s website: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;johan-nordberg.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;johan-nordberg.com&#x2F;</a> - it has quite a neat realtime chat interface.</text></comment> | <story><title>Realtime Bitcoin</title><url>https://realtimebitcoin.info</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tsukaisute</author><text>Similar also beautiful page for the Ethereum network: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ethstats.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ethstats.net&#x2F;</a> (I&#x27;m not the author, just a user.)</text></comment> |
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