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34,266,285 | 34,265,900 | 1 | 2 | 34,265,392 | train | <story><title>Kerbal Space Program free on Epic</title><url>https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/kerbal-space-program</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mabbo</author><text>The key lesson you need to remember about orbit (in KSP or real life) is that orbit is <i>sideways</i> speed, not <i>up</i> distance or <i>up</i> speed. Going up, you will come back down. Go sideways fast enough, you&#x27;ll come down but keep missing the planet below you, so you stay in space.<p>The most efficient way to do this would be to just go sideways really fast from the ground. Problem: there&#x27;s a lot of air in the way. So the right thing to do (again, both in Kerbal and in real life) is to initially go just up, but as the air reduces, gradually switch to moving sideways instead.<p>Then once you&#x27;re up there, you need to know the basics of manipulating orbits. Lesson number 1: you can increase the height of your orbit <i>on the opposite side of the planet</i> by increasing your speed in the direction you&#x27;re currently going. So once you get your apoapsis (highest point) above 100km or so, you can turn off your engines, wait until you get there, then burn hard in the direction you&#x27;re going and your periapsis (the lowest point of the orbit) will raise up like magic.<p>You&#x27;ll be orbiting in no time.</text></item><item><author>Loughla</author><text>I like this game, but I still can&#x27;t even get shit into orbit. Pardon my language.<p>It makes me feel like I&#x27;m just an idiot. I don&#x27;t think I am. But maybe I am. Who knows. All I know is that I feel bad for killing all of those little guys. They didn&#x27;t even die in the pursuit of knowledge. They just died for my own hubris and naivety.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmd</author><text>&quot;East takes you Out, Out takes you West, West takes you In, In takes you East.&quot;
- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Smoke_Ring_(novel)#:~:text=Humans%20moving%20in%20the%20Smoke,South%20bring%20you%20back%22" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Smoke_Ring_(novel)#:~:text...</a>).</text></comment> | <story><title>Kerbal Space Program free on Epic</title><url>https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/kerbal-space-program</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mabbo</author><text>The key lesson you need to remember about orbit (in KSP or real life) is that orbit is <i>sideways</i> speed, not <i>up</i> distance or <i>up</i> speed. Going up, you will come back down. Go sideways fast enough, you&#x27;ll come down but keep missing the planet below you, so you stay in space.<p>The most efficient way to do this would be to just go sideways really fast from the ground. Problem: there&#x27;s a lot of air in the way. So the right thing to do (again, both in Kerbal and in real life) is to initially go just up, but as the air reduces, gradually switch to moving sideways instead.<p>Then once you&#x27;re up there, you need to know the basics of manipulating orbits. Lesson number 1: you can increase the height of your orbit <i>on the opposite side of the planet</i> by increasing your speed in the direction you&#x27;re currently going. So once you get your apoapsis (highest point) above 100km or so, you can turn off your engines, wait until you get there, then burn hard in the direction you&#x27;re going and your periapsis (the lowest point of the orbit) will raise up like magic.<p>You&#x27;ll be orbiting in no time.</text></item><item><author>Loughla</author><text>I like this game, but I still can&#x27;t even get shit into orbit. Pardon my language.<p>It makes me feel like I&#x27;m just an idiot. I don&#x27;t think I am. But maybe I am. Who knows. All I know is that I feel bad for killing all of those little guys. They didn&#x27;t even die in the pursuit of knowledge. They just died for my own hubris and naivety.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eunoia</author><text>What a fantastic comment. Really highlights what a good job KSP does teaching orbital dynamics through practice and RUDs (imo).</text></comment> |
29,195,995 | 29,195,839 | 1 | 3 | 29,191,186 | train | <story><title>PlayDate Fulfillment Delayed</title><url>https://lists.play.date/w/C1CCc0cxLPvgKc6tC8jVmg</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>laydn</author><text>The lead times for the STM microcontrollers have gone way beyond unreasonable. &quot;730 days&quot; I think is a polite way of saying &quot;we may never supply you with this chip&quot;.<p>I may be way off here but my observation is that chips that are very configurable are the hardest to purchase. For example, the STM32 series have something like ~3000 SKUs ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.digikey.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;products&#x2F;filter&#x2F;embedded-microcontrollers&#x2F;685?s=N4IgTCBcDaIM4BcC2BmCBdAvkA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.digikey.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;products&#x2F;filter&#x2F;embedded-microcon...</a> ).<p>Normally, this allows every designer to pick the most suitable part and have the lowest total BoM cost. However, in today&#x27;s challenging supply&#x2F;demand environment, the total number of unique parts that must be manufactured must be causing a huge problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>negative_zero</author><text>A little bit off. If you are interested:
The link you have there includes several different ways of ordering the same part but packaged differently: Cut Tape, Reels, Tubes, Trays etc. Some of those have will different sizes of packaging (eg tray of 50 vs tray of 200). I&#x27;d divide that 3000 by 3-5.<p>Other filters will be same part but different temperature range; same MCU but different footprint (which would require a board re-spin but not normally the end of the world).<p>You&#x27;ll also get SKUs where different peripherals and flash is available which is generally the same die, but not everything worked when tested at the fab so it will get binned appropriately.<p>There&#x27;s other filters but I guess I am saying the total number of SKUs of die that are getting made is not anywhere near 3000.<p>You are right with the 730 day lead time. Actually anything beyond a year you can interpret that way.<p>Even when there is stock, the parts will be on allocation anyway. Normally the biggest existing customers get first dibs and everyone outside of that circle is given an absurd lead time. Sometimes you can push your way in if your order is big enough.<p>I feel for the PlayDate team. It&#x27;s not a fun time when this happens. Even my usual rule of &quot;make sure there are at least two alternatives if possible&quot; is failing in this shortage.<p>We&#x27;ve even resorted to ordering dev kits and scavenging parts from there which is good fun :)</text></comment> | <story><title>PlayDate Fulfillment Delayed</title><url>https://lists.play.date/w/C1CCc0cxLPvgKc6tC8jVmg</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>laydn</author><text>The lead times for the STM microcontrollers have gone way beyond unreasonable. &quot;730 days&quot; I think is a polite way of saying &quot;we may never supply you with this chip&quot;.<p>I may be way off here but my observation is that chips that are very configurable are the hardest to purchase. For example, the STM32 series have something like ~3000 SKUs ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.digikey.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;products&#x2F;filter&#x2F;embedded-microcontrollers&#x2F;685?s=N4IgTCBcDaIM4BcC2BmCBdAvkA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.digikey.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;products&#x2F;filter&#x2F;embedded-microcon...</a> ).<p>Normally, this allows every designer to pick the most suitable part and have the lowest total BoM cost. However, in today&#x27;s challenging supply&#x2F;demand environment, the total number of unique parts that must be manufactured must be causing a huge problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>quesera</author><text>&quot;730 days&quot; is, of course, exactly two non-leap years.<p>So it seems possible that &quot;two years&quot; is just an overflow in inventory management restocking projections.<p>I.e. &quot;more than we can measure&quot;, &quot;unknown but not soon&quot;, etc.</text></comment> |
24,876,663 | 24,876,639 | 1 | 3 | 24,870,807 | train | <story><title>Deprecating SHA1</title><url>https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/openpgp/Rp-inhYKT8A9H5E34iLTrc9I0gc/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mkj</author><text>In case anyone else is wondering, it looks like this will show if any SHA1 signatures are involved (brew or apt install pgpdump).<p><pre><code> gpg --export -a {keyname} | pgpdump
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Surprised it isn&#x27;t in gpg itself - maybe that&#x27;s why Debian developers hadn&#x27;t noticed.</text></comment> | <story><title>Deprecating SHA1</title><url>https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/openpgp/Rp-inhYKT8A9H5E34iLTrc9I0gc/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tgsovlerkhgsel</author><text>This is one of the many ways that shows how broken (in the &quot;defective software&quot; sense, not necessarily directly the cryptographic sense, yet) the entire PGP&#x2F;GPG ecosystem is.</text></comment> |
22,202,331 | 22,200,256 | 1 | 3 | 22,190,815 | train | <story><title>JVM Anatomy Quarks</title><url>https://shipilev.net/jvm/anatomy-quarks/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jnordwick</author><text>I have been reading Aleksey Shipilev for a decade now, and his insight in high performance Java was been a well worth the time. He is also the maintainer of JMH, Java Microbenchmarking Harness, a tool I miss in about every other language especially Go. Because writing microbenchmarks is really difficult especially on a JIT that wants to rewritw and optimize things behind your back a couple times. Hotspot can be both brilliant and maddening.<p>Thanks to much of his writings and the rest of the Java performance community (pretty large in the fintech sector), I can write faster Java than most people can with C++. It just takes some effort, but the control and performance you can get from Java is really impressive.<p>I&#x27;ve had to deep dive into Go a little more lately, and I really miss some of the Java support. I&#x27;ve found Go to be much slower when you have to do anything interesting. In high performance Java you often rewrite a lot of the base libraries in a very different style that gives you tight control over escape analysis, GC, call site inlining, etc. You actually have a decent amount of control for such a high-level language.<p>In Go, I haven&#x27;t been able to find that control. The Go team seems to have taken an opposite approach and removed your control (I often joke about Go just being short for &quot;Go Fuck Yourself&quot; because of its attitude against developer control and the teams&#x27;s &quot;if we don&#x27;t need it you don&#x27;t need it&quot; attitude).<p>It is resources like this that really make Java shine in its pro high performance developer attitude. (Current Go issue, getting select and channels to operate anywhere remotely efficiently and trying to find a way to keep high CPU goroutines on different OS threads - so far not much luck).</text></comment> | <story><title>JVM Anatomy Quarks</title><url>https://shipilev.net/jvm/anatomy-quarks/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wiradikusuma</author><text>Man, I always use String.intern() for synchronized(theString). -- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shipilev.net&#x2F;jvm&#x2F;anatomy-quarks&#x2F;10-string-intern&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shipilev.net&#x2F;jvm&#x2F;anatomy-quarks&#x2F;10-string-intern&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
24,706,088 | 24,705,967 | 1 | 3 | 24,704,298 | train | <story><title>USB3: Why it's a bit harder than USB2</title><url>https://lab.ktemkin.com/post/why-is-usb3-harder/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>usr1106</author><text>We are using Intel Realsense cameras in our product. Sometimes the USB connection fails completely, sometimes it is USB2 only and the camera cannot work. Sometimes a reboot helps, but sometimes power cycling is required. This is without plugging the cable, plugging adds its own unreliability. From reading the product support forums we are not alone.<p>As a SW engineer my interpretation has always been that USB3 speeds are just too high to work really reliably with consumer grade hardware. This article gives technical details that tell me I have been correct.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colechristensen</author><text>&gt; As a SW engineer my interpretation has always been that USB3 speeds are just too high to work really reliably with consumer grade hardware. This article gives technical details that tell me I have been correct.<p>The last section of the article is the most relevant: the hardware, tools, and documentation for USB3 are of mediocre quality. The whole history of moving bits over cables is adding and adapting tricks for getting more and more data through, we’ve always been at the point where poorly implemented solutions would cause problems, and we’re several orders of magnitude away from it being possible for a novice to implement a hardware and software solution from scratch (bit banging a serial interface on a microcontroller GPIO is possible for a reasonable person to do in a week to achieve less than a megabit connection). Super fast data rates are all over and most of them are very reliable, USB isn’t up to the same quality. You can make any speed reliable and fool proof, you just have to do it.</text></comment> | <story><title>USB3: Why it's a bit harder than USB2</title><url>https://lab.ktemkin.com/post/why-is-usb3-harder/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>usr1106</author><text>We are using Intel Realsense cameras in our product. Sometimes the USB connection fails completely, sometimes it is USB2 only and the camera cannot work. Sometimes a reboot helps, but sometimes power cycling is required. This is without plugging the cable, plugging adds its own unreliability. From reading the product support forums we are not alone.<p>As a SW engineer my interpretation has always been that USB3 speeds are just too high to work really reliably with consumer grade hardware. This article gives technical details that tell me I have been correct.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MrBuddyCasino</author><text>Apple&#x2F;Intel Thunderbolt does not have this problem in my experience. USB has always been the cheapest alternative (remember Firewire?). Add to that the sheer incompetence of the USB committee (see the USB PD spec, or USB Audio) and its a miracle anything works at all.</text></comment> |
11,827,891 | 11,824,842 | 1 | 3 | 11,824,372 | train | <story><title>Carts without horses</title><url>http://www.aaronkharris.com/carts-without-horses</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>donw</author><text>Having lived in Japan for quite some time, it is sort of amazing how often companies come here and blow not insignificant amounts of time and money simply because they assumed their business model could cross the border without being detained and thoroughly questioned.<p>For example, a personal-transportation company pitched up in Japan offering better alternative to the traditional taxi, because they are &quot;safe&quot;, &quot;clean&quot;, and &quot;convenient&quot;.<p>While this offering makes <i>complete</i> sense in most of the US -- where very different adjectives would be required to describe the average taxi experience -- it doesn&#x27;t really fly in Tokyo.<p>Taxi drivers in Japan wear white gloves, which should give some idea just how clean the taxis are. The doors open automatically so that you don&#x27;t have to touch the door handles. The same goes for safety and convenience, but more importantly, the taxi companies here do a solid job of serving the local population.<p>There is no adversarial relationship to exploit, and a slightly better app experience isn&#x27;t going to turn the market on its head.<p>It honestly doesn&#x27;t take much to be successful in Japan -- Fastly looks to be a great example of Doing It Right -- but you do need to start with the idea that it&#x27;s a foreign market, and that the business model is going to be different than Back Home.</text></comment> | <story><title>Carts without horses</title><url>http://www.aaronkharris.com/carts-without-horses</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eloff</author><text>One also saw this in the developing world where many countries, lacking the existing telecommunications infrastructure based on landlines, skipped a step and jumped straight to mobile infrastructure. For a while some developing countries had mobile infrastructure and coverage that surpassed developed nations (one could argue that some still do, with no equivalent to M-PESA in developed countries.)</text></comment> |
38,901,217 | 38,901,069 | 1 | 2 | 38,900,577 | train | <story><title>Things engineers believe about Web development</title><url>https://birtles.blog/2024/01/06/weird-things-engineers-believe-about-development/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryanbrunner</author><text>The refrain against the &quot;we should go back to MPA apps with server rendered HTML&quot; is often &quot;well what about Figma and Photoshop&quot;, which of course, yes those don&#x27;t really work in the MPA, server rendered HTML model.<p>The problem isn&#x27;t so much those but how most developers lump themselves in with the incredibly interactive sites because it sounds sexier and cooler to work on something complex than something simple. The phrase becomes &quot;well, what about Figma and Photoshop (and my mostly CRUD SaaS)?&quot;<p>I think a valuable insight that the MPA &#x2F; minimal JS crowd is bringing to the table is the idea is that you shouldn&#x27;t strive for cool and complicated tools, you should strive for the simplest tool possible, and even further, you should strive to make solutions that require the simplest tools possible whenever you can.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jayceedenton</author><text>This is motte-and-bailey argumentation in my opinion.<p>The motte: SPAs are a good way to write highly complex applications in the browser, like Photoshop and Figma, to compete with desktop apps.<p>The bailey: SPAs are a good way to write most web applications.<p>If you attack the bailey, proponents retreat to the motte, which is hard to disagree with. With the motte successfully defended, proponents return to the bailey, beneficial for those enthusiastic about SPAs but much harder to defend.<p>The only way to tease this issue apart is to stick to specifics and avoid casting SPAs or MPAs as universally good or bad. Show me the use-case and we can decide which route is best.</text></comment> | <story><title>Things engineers believe about Web development</title><url>https://birtles.blog/2024/01/06/weird-things-engineers-believe-about-development/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryanbrunner</author><text>The refrain against the &quot;we should go back to MPA apps with server rendered HTML&quot; is often &quot;well what about Figma and Photoshop&quot;, which of course, yes those don&#x27;t really work in the MPA, server rendered HTML model.<p>The problem isn&#x27;t so much those but how most developers lump themselves in with the incredibly interactive sites because it sounds sexier and cooler to work on something complex than something simple. The phrase becomes &quot;well, what about Figma and Photoshop (and my mostly CRUD SaaS)?&quot;<p>I think a valuable insight that the MPA &#x2F; minimal JS crowd is bringing to the table is the idea is that you shouldn&#x27;t strive for cool and complicated tools, you should strive for the simplest tool possible, and even further, you should strive to make solutions that require the simplest tools possible whenever you can.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>christophilus</author><text>That’s not why. In my experience, applications accumulate interactivity over time. At some point, they hit a threshold where you (as a developer— not an end user) wish you had gone with an interactive development model.<p>Also, for me, the statically typed, component-based approach to UI development that I get with Preact is my favorite way to build UIs. I’ve used Rails, PHP, ASP (the og), ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, along with old-school native windows development in VB6, C# Winforms, whatever garbage Microsoft came up with after Winforms (I forget what it was called), and probably other stacks I’m forgetting. VB6 and C# Winforms were the peak of my productivity. But for the web, the UI model of Preact is my favorite.</text></comment> |
28,505,426 | 28,505,653 | 1 | 3 | 28,503,820 | train | <story><title>17B life years could be saved if air pollution was reduced to WHO standards</title><url>https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/09/fossil-fuel-capitalism-is-cutting-our-lives-short</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>krisoft</author><text>I’m from europe and i have no idea what a leaf blower is. Our family didn’t have one nor did any family I know of. My family always had a garden with trees, and it was often my chore as a kid to rake the leaves together. Is the leaf blower an alternative to that?<p>Just asking because I want to understand how prevealent this form of polution is where you live.</text></item><item><author>amluto</author><text>There might be better bang for the buck by starting with the more highly polluting things. Other than CO2, things like leaf blowers are _vastly_ worse than cars. Also, excellent electric leaf blowers are widely available and appear (at least at my local Home Depot) to be _less_ expensive than their gas equivalents. I see no reason for a 5-year phaseout — one year ought to be plenty.</text></item><item><author>tgsovlerkhgsel</author><text>I expect pollution to be as much of a driver of the push for electric cars as climate change. It&#x27;s something that affects people directly, immediately and noticeably - it stinks.<p>If I had a vote whether to ban combustion engines from my city (cars, trucks, mopeds, leaf blowers - everything), with a relatively short transition period (say 5 years), I&#x27;d be in favor.<p>It would probably initially drive up prices of goods due to a shortage of electric delivery vehicles or the need to repack everything onto smaller local trucks outside the city, but I think it&#x27;d be worth it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>version_five</author><text>I&#x27;ve lived in a few different places, and mostly really only encountered leaf blowers either for some larger scale work like cleaning up leaves on a university campus, or for cleaning debris from parking lots.<p>I&#x27;ve recently moved to an area with single family or attached homes on small lots, and inexplicably, everyone has a leaf blower. Most houses have a driveway and parking area, and about 10 square feet of lawn, but for some reason all the guys are out blowing leaves around... I&#x27;m supposing there must be pockets where culturally that&#x27;s what people do, I certainly don&#x27;t get it</text></comment> | <story><title>17B life years could be saved if air pollution was reduced to WHO standards</title><url>https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/09/fossil-fuel-capitalism-is-cutting-our-lives-short</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>krisoft</author><text>I’m from europe and i have no idea what a leaf blower is. Our family didn’t have one nor did any family I know of. My family always had a garden with trees, and it was often my chore as a kid to rake the leaves together. Is the leaf blower an alternative to that?<p>Just asking because I want to understand how prevealent this form of polution is where you live.</text></item><item><author>amluto</author><text>There might be better bang for the buck by starting with the more highly polluting things. Other than CO2, things like leaf blowers are _vastly_ worse than cars. Also, excellent electric leaf blowers are widely available and appear (at least at my local Home Depot) to be _less_ expensive than their gas equivalents. I see no reason for a 5-year phaseout — one year ought to be plenty.</text></item><item><author>tgsovlerkhgsel</author><text>I expect pollution to be as much of a driver of the push for electric cars as climate change. It&#x27;s something that affects people directly, immediately and noticeably - it stinks.<p>If I had a vote whether to ban combustion engines from my city (cars, trucks, mopeds, leaf blowers - everything), with a relatively short transition period (say 5 years), I&#x27;d be in favor.<p>It would probably initially drive up prices of goods due to a shortage of electric delivery vehicles or the need to repack everything onto smaller local trucks outside the city, but I think it&#x27;d be worth it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cederfjard</author><text>I’m also ”from Europe”, and I’ve seen leaf blowers used by both private individuals and local government for the last 15 years at least. Did I see it to the extent that it was ”_vastly_ worse than cars” in terms of pollution? No, not even close. But it’s been there.</text></comment> |
1,615,823 | 1,615,531 | 1 | 3 | 1,615,182 | train | <story><title>Why Clojure?</title><url>http://thecleancoder.blogspot.com/2010/08/why-clojure.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Raphael_Amiard</author><text>Î really love clojure, but this article is <i>not</i> a good plaidoyer, for a lots of reasons, the first and most pregnant being the ability of the author to vastly traverse subject he is probably not an expert about.<p>&#62; Functional programming, of the kind shown in SICP, is a way to write code that does not manage the state of variables, and could therefore be partitioned to run in parallel on as many processors as you like<p>This is kind of true, but totally misleading, because very few tasks are actually easily paralelizable this way. When you stumble on one, you know it, and replacing map with pmap certainly <i>is</i> a joyful exercise, but this kind of parallelization are easy to do in <i></i>any<i></i> languages. The hard parts are those when you need to access shared state across threads. The facilities that clojure provide in this respect, while innovative and enlightening , have benefits that largely remain to be proven.<p>&#62; languages like F# and Scala which have a complexity and "quirkiness" reminiscent of C++<p>Erm, sorry, what, F# reminiscent of C++, did you even try to read some code written in F# ? F# has one of the tersest syntax you're likely to find in any language. As an ML descendant it does already have a very clean syntax, and the addition of significant whitespace only adds to that.<p>&#62; You can write Clojure code that derives from Java classes and overrides Java methods. In short, if you can do it in Java, you can do it in Clojure.<p>Yeah sure, but in practice, most people that says that didn't ever had to <i>really</i> handle a non trivial project with java interaction in it. I did. And frankly it can get ugly. It's good to have it, but ideally, all should be encapsulated in idiomatic clojure wrappers. While this is not that hard because java interaction is very well thought, it's a long and boring process, and when you're in the middle of a project and just needs some bit of functionnality that isn't in a clojure lib (and trust me there are still a lot of those), you tend to just use the java interop in place. And then you get back and read your code, and you cry.<p>In short, this is just a rehashing of what you usually hear about clojure, but with no insight of real use. My (uninformed) guess, is that the author probably didn't use clojure a lot, and frankly, this kind of stereotyped talk gets old.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Clojure?</title><url>http://thecleancoder.blogspot.com/2010/08/why-clojure.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mhd</author><text>I wish someone would take the compiler infrastructure of Go and would make native Clojure with it, with an easy access to C instead of Java. I need a good exit path from things like Java, not something to just ease the pain.</text></comment> |
28,026,894 | 28,026,672 | 1 | 2 | 28,026,184 | train | <story><title>Big tech companies are at war with employees over remote work</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/vaccines-reopenings-and-worker-revolts-big-techs-contentious-return-to-the-office/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>todd3834</author><text>I’ve been part of a lot of these conversations and it is important to note that there is a significant percentage of employees that want to go back to the office. The trick is how to please everyone. It is easy to say, let those who want to come back come and those who don’t stay home. However those that want to go back say it is because they want to be surrounded by their coworkers. Having gone back to the office voluntarily for a day recently I can confirm that going back while the majority of the team is remote is not the same.<p>Things seem to be hardest for younger single employees who don’t always have great work from home environments and are also sometimes lonely. Also, some of my coworkers with kids are having a hard time being productive with pressures from kids or spouses that don’t respect the working from home boundaries. Then there are people who can’t manage the work life balance and relied on a commute to tell their brain the work day is over.<p>Finally, there will always be under-performers who are desperately searching for a scape goat when they fail to deliver. I’ve seen this so many times after an org change, architectural change or anything that will give someone an excuse for failing to preform. These people may or may not like their new freedom but they do like their paycheck and will use any excuse for their poor performance.<p>Many of these problems seem solvable without forcing employees who want to work remote to come in. I personally love working remote and would never go back to mandatory days in the office if I didn’t have to. I think the trick is for executives to wrangle all of these new challenges at once. It is so much easier to just say “make things go back to where they were” so their jobs can be less complicated. People haven’t been trained how to make this new world work. In a public company it is one more unknown to juggle when they have a responsibility to shareholders to maximize profits.<p>So let’s start proposing solutions and promoting them. How do we make our execs feel more comfortable to let those who want to work home do so? How do we make it so easy that no exec has to worry about losing their job because they agreed to something that didn’t use to be normal?<p>That’s how we make this work for everyone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cratermoon</author><text>I&#x27;d happily go back to working in the office. <i>If I had an actual office</i>, not a 4-foot wide folding table that&#x27;s part of a line of eight of them in 12 rows in a room the size of a basketball court.<p>I haven&#x27;t had an &quot;office&quot; to go to work in since 2000. I&#x27;ve shared spaces with anywhere from three to all of my co-workers. &quot;Recent research shows that such offices result in 73 per cent less face-to-face interaction, and a 67 per cent increase in email interaction&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.entrepreneur.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;325959" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.entrepreneur.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;325959</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Big tech companies are at war with employees over remote work</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/vaccines-reopenings-and-worker-revolts-big-techs-contentious-return-to-the-office/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>todd3834</author><text>I’ve been part of a lot of these conversations and it is important to note that there is a significant percentage of employees that want to go back to the office. The trick is how to please everyone. It is easy to say, let those who want to come back come and those who don’t stay home. However those that want to go back say it is because they want to be surrounded by their coworkers. Having gone back to the office voluntarily for a day recently I can confirm that going back while the majority of the team is remote is not the same.<p>Things seem to be hardest for younger single employees who don’t always have great work from home environments and are also sometimes lonely. Also, some of my coworkers with kids are having a hard time being productive with pressures from kids or spouses that don’t respect the working from home boundaries. Then there are people who can’t manage the work life balance and relied on a commute to tell their brain the work day is over.<p>Finally, there will always be under-performers who are desperately searching for a scape goat when they fail to deliver. I’ve seen this so many times after an org change, architectural change or anything that will give someone an excuse for failing to preform. These people may or may not like their new freedom but they do like their paycheck and will use any excuse for their poor performance.<p>Many of these problems seem solvable without forcing employees who want to work remote to come in. I personally love working remote and would never go back to mandatory days in the office if I didn’t have to. I think the trick is for executives to wrangle all of these new challenges at once. It is so much easier to just say “make things go back to where they were” so their jobs can be less complicated. People haven’t been trained how to make this new world work. In a public company it is one more unknown to juggle when they have a responsibility to shareholders to maximize profits.<p>So let’s start proposing solutions and promoting them. How do we make our execs feel more comfortable to let those who want to work home do so? How do we make it so easy that no exec has to worry about losing their job because they agreed to something that didn’t use to be normal?<p>That’s how we make this work for everyone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sugarpile</author><text>While I truly do appreciate the cooperative tone, as someone who never intends to set foot in an office again except by choice (outside of onboarding), I think this is a rare event that has reduced the power asymmetry and should be taken advantage of.<p>How do we make execs more comfortable? Simple, we make it so they have no choice to be uncomfortable with. Allow full remote or lose a significant portion of your workforce in the middle of a hiring crunch with already existing insane hiring demand. This may not play at Apple, for example, but it’s what I’ve already seen play out at my company (including for me specifically) and I see no reason it wouldn’t work at any non-FANG. It’s not a bluff or bluster, I’d leave if my company doubled down on forcing people back on a hybrid schedule and truthfully I may leave anyway over frustration with their initial attempts to do so despite exempting me and others.<p>My team and office is in a very precarious position with two of our best engineers having left over the initial attempts to force hybrid. I truly think if it was forced again my the fallout may be fatal for my team.</text></comment> |
21,207,051 | 21,206,929 | 1 | 3 | 21,206,142 | train | <story><title>IRS issues additional guidance on tax treatment for cryptocurrency</title><url>https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/virtual-currency-irs-issues-additional-guidance-on-tax-treatment-and-reminds-taxpayers-of-reporting-obligations</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lacker</author><text>So if you get a new coin from a hard fork, you owe taxes on the fair market value of that new coin you get. This seems pretty dangerous - if the fair market value is high on the first day of trading, but declines a lot, you could get taxed on value that you never realized.<p>It seems like this will incentivize people to sell off new tokens immediately, in order to pay the taxes they incurred during the fork.<p>To me it seems very unintuitive to tax a hard fork. It is like taxing a stock split. Your asset hasn&#x27;t really changed, it is just now represented in a different way.<p>Another weird thing about these taxes is that they assume that one of the forks is the &quot;real asset&quot; and the other fork is the &quot;new asset&quot;. In practice, it seems like a lot of times a fork happens along with a lot of argument about which side of the fork is the &quot;real&quot; one.<p>Well, I guess the IRS does not see cryptocurrency the same way as my intuition would.</text></comment> | <story><title>IRS issues additional guidance on tax treatment for cryptocurrency</title><url>https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/virtual-currency-irs-issues-additional-guidance-on-tax-treatment-and-reminds-taxpayers-of-reporting-obligations</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>floatingatoll</author><text>If you hold pre-fork currency, and there is a hard fork: IF you gain any of the new currency THEN it&#x27;s income ELSE it&#x27;s not.<p>To quote the final paragraph, emphasis mine:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.irs.gov&#x2F;pub&#x2F;irs-drop&#x2F;rr-19-24.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.irs.gov&#x2F;pub&#x2F;irs-drop&#x2F;rr-19-24.pdf</a><p>HOLDINGS<p>(1) A taxpayer <i>does not</i> have gross income under § 61 as a result of a hard fork of a cryptocurrency the taxpayer owns <i>if</i> the taxpayer <i>does not receive</i> units of a <i>new cryptocurrency</i>.<p>(2) A taxpayer <i>has</i> gross income, ordinary in character, under § 61 as a result of an airdrop of a new cryptocurrency following a hard fork <i>if</i> the taxpayer <i>receives units of new cryptocurrency</i>.</text></comment> |
16,789,747 | 16,789,624 | 1 | 2 | 16,788,830 | train | <story><title>Smartphone Security: You'll Never Guess Who Just Messaged You</title><url>http://jordansmith.io/address-book-contact-security/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>raise_throw</author><text>A variant of the &#x27;single non-root user&#x27; problem on Unix systems.<p>A non-root user (hopefully) can&#x27;t root the system or rm -rf &#x2F;root.<p>But everything interesting is stored in that user&#x27;s home folder with implicit RW permissions anyway.<p>On Android apps just request everything. I imagine (without explicit knowledge) that an app given permissions could rewrite, erase, or pull down over the network contacts &#x2F; photos &#x2F; etc in the background.</text></item><item><author>mirimir</author><text>I really don&#x27;t get the security model for smartphones. It seems horribly brittle. I mean, the fundamental protection is using apps from trusted sources, basically Google or Apple. Anything not trusted can&#x27;t install, unless you&#x27;ve rooted the phone. And so old-school Windows-style malware is blocked.<p>However, when trusted apps are installed, they often demand all sorts of privileged access. And if they&#x27;re malicious, there&#x27;s no way to protect against them. Except that they get reported to Google&#x2F;Apple and become unavailable. But that doesn&#x27;t help people who already got pwned.<p>What am I missing?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>duxup</author><text>I remember learning Unix on my school&#x27;s big Unix system. Lots of talk about how important root was. I understood it from a system standpoint sure.<p>Yet I was confused, because as a user all I cared about was my stuff that was ... right there in a non root account.<p>As you say all the stuff I was concerned about was right there, but nobody talked about how important that was.</text></comment> | <story><title>Smartphone Security: You'll Never Guess Who Just Messaged You</title><url>http://jordansmith.io/address-book-contact-security/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>raise_throw</author><text>A variant of the &#x27;single non-root user&#x27; problem on Unix systems.<p>A non-root user (hopefully) can&#x27;t root the system or rm -rf &#x2F;root.<p>But everything interesting is stored in that user&#x27;s home folder with implicit RW permissions anyway.<p>On Android apps just request everything. I imagine (without explicit knowledge) that an app given permissions could rewrite, erase, or pull down over the network contacts &#x2F; photos &#x2F; etc in the background.</text></item><item><author>mirimir</author><text>I really don&#x27;t get the security model for smartphones. It seems horribly brittle. I mean, the fundamental protection is using apps from trusted sources, basically Google or Apple. Anything not trusted can&#x27;t install, unless you&#x27;ve rooted the phone. And so old-school Windows-style malware is blocked.<p>However, when trusted apps are installed, they often demand all sorts of privileged access. And if they&#x27;re malicious, there&#x27;s no way to protect against them. Except that they get reported to Google&#x2F;Apple and become unavailable. But that doesn&#x27;t help people who already got pwned.<p>What am I missing?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hoppa_liza</author><text>&gt; On Android apps just request everything<p>That was true up to Marshmallow (Android 6), when finer grained permissions were added.</text></comment> |
35,654,826 | 35,653,678 | 1 | 3 | 35,652,434 | train | <story><title>ChatGPT could cost over $700k per day to operate</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-chatgpt-costs-openai-to-run-estimate-report-2023-4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pluijzer</author><text>As a side, I am a bit shocked by these numbers. Is this an American thing? I understand myself to be good software engineer with good well rounded experience of 14+ years. Yet my income, in Europe, is really above 100k.<p>What I am wondering, for those earning 500k, how big is your work load&#x2F;stress. Would this be a 9-5 job you leave at the office when going home. Or does a job that earns so much consume your life?</text></item><item><author>pdksam</author><text>200k is too small, strong sde1s at Amazon get paid that much in hcol areas. Closer to 500k.</text></item><item><author>Dave3of5</author><text>Interesting numbers. That roughly equates to about $250 million per year plus I don&#x27;t know how much training is costing them to keep the model up to date and suchlike.<p>The company also has about 375 employees. I&#x27;ve no idea how much they get paid but I used $200k as a yearly cost and that comes to $75 million.<p>That&#x27;s about 3:1 cost of operating the services to paying employees. That seems quite high as I&#x27;ve never been at a company that had 1:1 costs for running servers vs employee costs but I could entirely be off base here.<p>Given Sam Altman&#x27;s recent comments on the days of these LLM being over I think maybe Microsoft or whomever is basically saying that they can&#x27;t spend that much money and they need to control costs much more heavily.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Sohcahtoa82</author><text>American SWE salaries can be insane, but I&#x27;m shocked at how <i>low</i> SWE salaries are in Europe.<p>I was expecting salaries to cool off a bit with the massive wave of layoffs across the industry, but from what I&#x27;ve seen, that hasn&#x27;t happened.</text></comment> | <story><title>ChatGPT could cost over $700k per day to operate</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-chatgpt-costs-openai-to-run-estimate-report-2023-4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pluijzer</author><text>As a side, I am a bit shocked by these numbers. Is this an American thing? I understand myself to be good software engineer with good well rounded experience of 14+ years. Yet my income, in Europe, is really above 100k.<p>What I am wondering, for those earning 500k, how big is your work load&#x2F;stress. Would this be a 9-5 job you leave at the office when going home. Or does a job that earns so much consume your life?</text></item><item><author>pdksam</author><text>200k is too small, strong sde1s at Amazon get paid that much in hcol areas. Closer to 500k.</text></item><item><author>Dave3of5</author><text>Interesting numbers. That roughly equates to about $250 million per year plus I don&#x27;t know how much training is costing them to keep the model up to date and suchlike.<p>The company also has about 375 employees. I&#x27;ve no idea how much they get paid but I used $200k as a yearly cost and that comes to $75 million.<p>That&#x27;s about 3:1 cost of operating the services to paying employees. That seems quite high as I&#x27;ve never been at a company that had 1:1 costs for running servers vs employee costs but I could entirely be off base here.<p>Given Sam Altman&#x27;s recent comments on the days of these LLM being over I think maybe Microsoft or whomever is basically saying that they can&#x27;t spend that much money and they need to control costs much more heavily.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lightbendover</author><text>I’ve been through both horror (endless 100 hour weeks) and bliss (just attending meetings and not really stressing about much of anything) in that range. It’s highly variable.</text></comment> |
1,817,002 | 1,817,017 | 1 | 3 | 1,816,788 | train | <story><title>Facelette: On TechCrunch in Three Hours and $0</title><url>http://zachholman.com/2010/10/facelette-on-techcrunch-in-three-hours-and-zero-dollars/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cyen</author><text>I like this quote best -<p><i>I’ve also come to loathe this mentality, at times. It’s the same mentality where someone whips up a two-page website and asks people to “review their startup!” I think startup is a phrase that’s been abused. You’ve made a project, or a mashup, or a hack, not a startup.<p>And that’s cool! Embrace that. More people need to do stupid shit. I mean that from the bottom of my heart. Don’t do it to make money. Don’t even do it to learn hip new technology X. Do it for the sake of doing something stupid</i></text></comment> | <story><title>Facelette: On TechCrunch in Three Hours and $0</title><url>http://zachholman.com/2010/10/facelette-on-techcrunch-in-three-hours-and-zero-dollars/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tgriesser</author><text><i>I’ve also come to loathe this mentality, at times. It’s the same mentality where someone whips up a two-page website and asks people to “review their startup!” I think startup is a phrase that’s been abused. You’ve made a project, or a mashup, or a hack, not a startup.</i><p>I think this is so true. A startup seems to imply that it will at least in theory become a business at some point. I bet that Facebook didn't even call itsself a "web startup" when it started out at Harvard until it started to spread and raised some real money.<p>To call every little project that someone hacks together in a weekend a startup is a misnomer, similar to the tendency for founders to give themselves C-Level titles in their startup companies which consist of nothing more than a prototye and a pitch, rather than just calling themselves 'founders'.</text></comment> |
14,535,176 | 14,535,005 | 1 | 2 | 14,534,276 | train | <story><title>Forecasting at Uber with RNNs</title><url>https://eng.uber.com/neural-networks/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eggie5</author><text>I wish the diagrams were bigger, they are hard to read and a bit blurry.<p>One of the interesting points, that is often overlooked in ML is model deployment. They mention tensorflow, which has a model export feature that you can use as long as your client can run the tensorflow runtime. But they don&#x27;t seem to be using that b&#x2F;c they said they just exported the weights and are using it go which would seem to imply you did some type of agnostic export of raw weight values. The nice part of the TF export feature is that it can be used to recreate your architecture on the client. Bu they did mention Keras too which allows you to export your architecture in a more agnostic way as it can work on many platform such as Apples new CoreML which can run Keras models.</text></comment> | <story><title>Forecasting at Uber with RNNs</title><url>https://eng.uber.com/neural-networks/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>siliconc0w</author><text>I wonder how much they could enlist others to solve this by creating something like an &#x27;Uber Auction House&#x27; to basically buy and sell the right to reap Uber&#x27;s cut for a ride. They could clean up on exchange fees while everyone solves this problem for them.</text></comment> |
29,998,930 | 29,995,958 | 1 | 2 | 29,993,961 | train | <story><title>1Password Has Raised $620M</title><url>https://blog.1password.com/future-of-1password/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>samgranieri</author><text>I really wish they weren&#x27;t doing away with 1password classic and the native mac app. I like the fact I bought a license, that I can store the data on dropbox or icloud, and it works just fine.<p>Yes, this is old news and sour grapes on my part. I just don&#x27;t yet feel like migrating to bitwarden.<p>I&#x27;ve been using 1password for 12 years since I saw it on a tutorial on peepcode.com. I actually taught my mother how to use it, she&#x27;s been using it for 9 years, and last weekend she was upgrading all her passwords to use 2fa with the QR code capturing facility.<p>We had to go find the 1password classic browser extension (something stopped working, needed to reinstall it) and that took a bit of doing. 1password is not making it easy to find anymore, and when she contacted customer support (before talking to me), their response was to upgrade to a paid account and store your passwords on a server.<p>Ugh.<p>Honestly, now that they&#x27;ve raised this much cash, would it really be that big of an inconvenience or lift for them to give mac users a native app instead of the electron one and keep allowing legacy users like me to use 1password with our existing licenses and dropbox?<p>I think they&#x27;d be able to hire some additional developers and product&#x2F;project people to make it happen. Not continuing to work on the classic project just feels like a kick in the shins.<p>Now, I&#x27;m building out my kubernetes cluster at home, and bitwarden is something I&#x27;m going to experiment with as a backup, but 1password 7 works fine and I just don&#x27;t want to migrate to a paid account.<p>C&#x27;mon 1password, make your legacy customers happy!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jeffrallen</author><text>They should take 20 million, endow a foundation, and have the foundation hire a couple of their original devs to make a clean room, open-source equivalent to 1Password 6. Then those of us who actually just want a self hosted password manager, not a massive whacky cloud secret factory, can use that.<p>Sigh, what a stupid world we live in, where greed destroys everything good.</text></comment> | <story><title>1Password Has Raised $620M</title><url>https://blog.1password.com/future-of-1password/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>samgranieri</author><text>I really wish they weren&#x27;t doing away with 1password classic and the native mac app. I like the fact I bought a license, that I can store the data on dropbox or icloud, and it works just fine.<p>Yes, this is old news and sour grapes on my part. I just don&#x27;t yet feel like migrating to bitwarden.<p>I&#x27;ve been using 1password for 12 years since I saw it on a tutorial on peepcode.com. I actually taught my mother how to use it, she&#x27;s been using it for 9 years, and last weekend she was upgrading all her passwords to use 2fa with the QR code capturing facility.<p>We had to go find the 1password classic browser extension (something stopped working, needed to reinstall it) and that took a bit of doing. 1password is not making it easy to find anymore, and when she contacted customer support (before talking to me), their response was to upgrade to a paid account and store your passwords on a server.<p>Ugh.<p>Honestly, now that they&#x27;ve raised this much cash, would it really be that big of an inconvenience or lift for them to give mac users a native app instead of the electron one and keep allowing legacy users like me to use 1password with our existing licenses and dropbox?<p>I think they&#x27;d be able to hire some additional developers and product&#x2F;project people to make it happen. Not continuing to work on the classic project just feels like a kick in the shins.<p>Now, I&#x27;m building out my kubernetes cluster at home, and bitwarden is something I&#x27;m going to experiment with as a backup, but 1password 7 works fine and I just don&#x27;t want to migrate to a paid account.<p>C&#x27;mon 1password, make your legacy customers happy!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eric-hu</author><text>Migrate to Bitwarden. I owned a 1 password 6 license and hung onto it for dear life until last year. I technically had a 1 password subscription from work, and when that ended last year, my password experience hit a brick wall. I couldn’t add passwords from Windows. My Mac client refused to work, I had to uninstall multiple times and delete a data directory to erase any sign that 1 password subscription was on the system.<p>I’m so glad I made the switch now. No pestering pop ups, equally usable on windows and Mac and iOS.</text></comment> |
37,209,799 | 37,209,711 | 1 | 3 | 37,197,921 | train | <story><title>Transcoding Latin 1 strings to UTF-8 strings at 12 GB/s using AVX-512</title><url>https://lemire.me/blog/2023/08/18/transcoding-latin-1-strings-to-utf-8-strings-at-12-gb-s-using-avx-512/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ko27</author><text>&gt; Latin 1 standard is still in widespread inside some systems (such as browsers)<p>That doesn&#x27;t seem to be correct. UTF-8 is used by 98% of all the websites. I am not sure if it&#x27;s even worth the trouble for libraries to implement this algorithm, since Latin-1 encoding is being phased out.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;w3techs.com&#x2F;technologies&#x2F;details&#x2F;en-utf8" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;w3techs.com&#x2F;technologies&#x2F;details&#x2F;en-utf8</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Transcoding Latin 1 strings to UTF-8 strings at 12 GB/s using AVX-512</title><url>https://lemire.me/blog/2023/08/18/transcoding-latin-1-strings-to-utf-8-strings-at-12-gb-s-using-avx-512/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>redox99</author><text>12GB&#x2F;s seems a bit slow. I&#x27;d expect the only bottleneck to be memory bandwidth.<p>A dual channel DDR4 system memory bandwidth is ~40GB&#x2F;s, and DDR5 ~80GB&#x2F;s.<p>Since this operation requires both a read and a write, you&#x27;d expect half that.</text></comment> |
19,247,965 | 19,247,814 | 1 | 2 | 19,241,427 | train | <story><title>Fearless Concurrency: Clojure, Rust, Pony, Erlang and Dart</title><url>https://sites.google.com/a/athaydes.com/renato-athaydes/posts/fearlessconcurrencyhowclojurerustponyerlanganddartletyouachievethat</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tombert</author><text>I&#x27;m a bit surprised that there didn&#x27;t appear to be any mention of Clojure&#x27;s built-in concurrency support outside of basic immutability. core.async gives a nice channel-based system, agents give an actor-ish system, and STM&#x2F;atoms let you mutate the variable safely, without having to manually work with locks.<p>This is definitely a good high-level article, just something I was surprised by, since core.async is what drove me (and several other people I know) to start using Clojure.<p>EDIT: Just a note that I know core.async isn&#x27;t built in, that was a mistake. It <i>is</i> a first-party library, however.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jwr</author><text>Yes, core.async should definitely be mentioned. It&#x27;s also much more than a nice channel-based system, but you have to dive in to appreciate how good it is. For example, you have to write real systems to appreciate the fact that core.async channels can be used both from &quot;go-threads&quot; and real threads. That&#x27;s really useful when your async work involves both quickly sending responses to clients (where lightweight go-threads shine) and doing heavy I&#x2F;O for database updates (where you want a thread to pick up the work). You use the same channels for all types of work, which is really neat.</text></comment> | <story><title>Fearless Concurrency: Clojure, Rust, Pony, Erlang and Dart</title><url>https://sites.google.com/a/athaydes.com/renato-athaydes/posts/fearlessconcurrencyhowclojurerustponyerlanganddartletyouachievethat</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tombert</author><text>I&#x27;m a bit surprised that there didn&#x27;t appear to be any mention of Clojure&#x27;s built-in concurrency support outside of basic immutability. core.async gives a nice channel-based system, agents give an actor-ish system, and STM&#x2F;atoms let you mutate the variable safely, without having to manually work with locks.<p>This is definitely a good high-level article, just something I was surprised by, since core.async is what drove me (and several other people I know) to start using Clojure.<p>EDIT: Just a note that I know core.async isn&#x27;t built in, that was a mistake. It <i>is</i> a first-party library, however.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stingraycharles</author><text>It’s also worth noting that almost nobody uses agents or STM (except for some highly specific use cases, but I’ve never seen them in years), and core.async is a library, not a part of Clojure (which is a good thing, because it promotes choice and keeps the language small).</text></comment> |
20,514,082 | 20,513,583 | 1 | 2 | 20,510,933 | train | <story><title>The Man with the Golden Airline Ticket</title><url>https://narratively.com/the-man-with-the-golden-airline-ticket/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>serpix</author><text>We have unlimited, uncapped 4G plans in Finland and probably most of Europe does.</text></item><item><author>171243</author><text>I once had a superpower like this. I bought the Verizon Unlimited 4G internet plan before throttling or data caps were a thing in roughly 2010.<p>I had the Droid Razr Maxx and later Samsung Galaxy S5 with 1 5 dollar app that turned my phone into a hotspot (FoxFi) that the Verizon could neither detect, prevent, or charge extra for. I used 200+ GB&#x27;s of blazing fast internet over the air for something like $50 a month for about 5 years.<p>It was an insanely good deal. The only rules were I was not allowed to make any modifications to the plan because it was taken off the market and I was considered &quot;grandfathered&quot; in. The &quot;unlimited&quot; plans of today are nothing like that plan was. They have data caps, are throttled, and traffic get reprioritized.<p>It was just as much a part of me as this ticket was for this gentleman (well not quite that much, but you get the point). Eventually Verizon just flat out upped the price to over $100 per month and it became unsustainable. Glorious while it lasted, sorely missed.</text></item><item><author>majormajor</author><text>There&#x27;s an interesting angle here of what a &quot;superpower&quot; does to someone&#x27;s psychology. He internalized the ability to do these extraordinary things - including using the phone staff as a therapist line - as such a part of his identity, that he was devastated by having to live normally again. It&#x27;s hard for myself to imagine myself getting to the point where I think I&#x27;m that special, but I&#x27;m not so naive to think that if I had a bunch of money and&#x2F;or privilege for decades it couldn&#x27;t happen to me too.<p>&gt; “So in my incoherent state,” he writes, “I would book a seat for Dan or Laurie just imagining that they might come. I was making reservations and didn’t know whether I was even going. Here is why. I was up and [alone] in my home office and bored. So I would call the 800 number for the AAirpass desk and talk to the agent about the news or the weather or about Paris or little London. Then, after an hour of nothing they had to hang up. So I would make a reservation and ask them to fax it to me. Then the next day I would take the fax and cancel the reservation. I needed someone to talk to at midnight. The 800 number was open.”<p>Even his son says up front that he doesn&#x27;t see what his dad was doing as such a sensational, extraordinary thing, that that description &quot;doesn’t quite land,&quot; which is astonishing too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mgoetzke</author><text>well, Germany at least doesn&#x27;t as far as I know. 20GB Telekom LTE at ~80EUR&#x2F;m, after that it is throttled. They do offer an unlimited, while network neutrality bending, youtube&#x2F;netflix unlimited streaming option.<p>PS: I stand corrected. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.telekom.de&#x2F;unterwegs&#x2F;tarife-und-optionen&#x2F;smartphone-tarife" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.telekom.de&#x2F;unterwegs&#x2F;tarife-und-optionen&#x2F;smartph...</a><p>They do offer them now</text></comment> | <story><title>The Man with the Golden Airline Ticket</title><url>https://narratively.com/the-man-with-the-golden-airline-ticket/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>serpix</author><text>We have unlimited, uncapped 4G plans in Finland and probably most of Europe does.</text></item><item><author>171243</author><text>I once had a superpower like this. I bought the Verizon Unlimited 4G internet plan before throttling or data caps were a thing in roughly 2010.<p>I had the Droid Razr Maxx and later Samsung Galaxy S5 with 1 5 dollar app that turned my phone into a hotspot (FoxFi) that the Verizon could neither detect, prevent, or charge extra for. I used 200+ GB&#x27;s of blazing fast internet over the air for something like $50 a month for about 5 years.<p>It was an insanely good deal. The only rules were I was not allowed to make any modifications to the plan because it was taken off the market and I was considered &quot;grandfathered&quot; in. The &quot;unlimited&quot; plans of today are nothing like that plan was. They have data caps, are throttled, and traffic get reprioritized.<p>It was just as much a part of me as this ticket was for this gentleman (well not quite that much, but you get the point). Eventually Verizon just flat out upped the price to over $100 per month and it became unsustainable. Glorious while it lasted, sorely missed.</text></item><item><author>majormajor</author><text>There&#x27;s an interesting angle here of what a &quot;superpower&quot; does to someone&#x27;s psychology. He internalized the ability to do these extraordinary things - including using the phone staff as a therapist line - as such a part of his identity, that he was devastated by having to live normally again. It&#x27;s hard for myself to imagine myself getting to the point where I think I&#x27;m that special, but I&#x27;m not so naive to think that if I had a bunch of money and&#x2F;or privilege for decades it couldn&#x27;t happen to me too.<p>&gt; “So in my incoherent state,” he writes, “I would book a seat for Dan or Laurie just imagining that they might come. I was making reservations and didn’t know whether I was even going. Here is why. I was up and [alone] in my home office and bored. So I would call the 800 number for the AAirpass desk and talk to the agent about the news or the weather or about Paris or little London. Then, after an hour of nothing they had to hang up. So I would make a reservation and ask them to fax it to me. Then the next day I would take the fax and cancel the reservation. I needed someone to talk to at midnight. The 800 number was open.”<p>Even his son says up front that he doesn&#x27;t see what his dad was doing as such a sensational, extraordinary thing, that that description &quot;doesn’t quite land,&quot; which is astonishing too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philjohn</author><text>Same in the UK ... Three UK does an unlimited sim-only plan for £20 a month which includes overseas roaming, including the US (but not Canada), albeit you&#x27;re limited to 12GB a month when overseas, which is still a great deal.<p>I don&#x27;t listen to DAB radio anymore in my car as it&#x27;s mono and sounds awful, I use the various radio station apps and have far fewer drop outs than with DAB to boot in addition to the far greater audio quality.<p>Looking at my usage for the last month I&#x27;ve used well over 50GB.<p>Home broadband tends to be unlimited as well, I&#x27;m on a 384Mbps down 37Mbps up cable connection and regularly transfer 2TB+ in a month when working from home, and nary a peep from my provider.</text></comment> |
29,970,907 | 29,970,448 | 1 | 2 | 29,966,603 | train | <story><title>Netflix’s Prices Are Rising Faster Than Cable</title><url>https://www.interneteconomist.com/netflix-and-cable-prices/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pnathan</author><text>After having sampled Disney+, HBOMax, Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime a fair bit in the past year, my take is that Netflix has the UX nailed. I can, for instance, &quot;thumbs down&quot; a recommendation. Some offerings I never want to see. Their catalog tends to the darker themes, and I&#x27;m not fond of that.<p>Hulu and Amazon Prime are mostly irrelevant to me. I&#x27;ll probably axe the Hulu sub.<p>HBO has a few things I like. Disney+ targets the kids&#x2F;family&#x2F;lighter theme demographic tightly.<p>I think that the general provider landscape is a bit overdone; some consolidation would be welcomed by consumers, and any competitor that falls behind in offerings will crash exponentially.</text></item><item><author>samwillis</author><text>While I don&#x27;t entirely agree with you I do think the price of Netflix is getting a little higher than the value we personally get out of it. Our personal breakdown this year (in the UK):<p>Adults in the house, we are quite picky but if we love it then we will keep watching:<p><pre><code> Netflix @£9.99: 2 tv shows, 4-5 films
Apple TV+ @£4.99: 3 tv shows, 2 films
Disney Plus @£7.99: 1 tv show, Loads of movies
Amazon Prime @£7.99: 3 tv shows, quite a few films, plus &quot;free&quot; shipping!
</code></pre>
Kids (3 and 7):<p><pre><code> Netflix: They watch quite quite allot but we don&#x27;t give them free access even to the kids profile (*see note)
Apple TV+: Only 1 tv show, but haven&#x27;t really explored.
Disney Plus: All of it, I think they have &quot;completed&quot; it!...
Amazon Prime: None
</code></pre>
Disney is by far the best value for money for us as a family, Apple TV+ for us grownups is best value. I don&#x27;t think we would get rid of any but Netflix is probably now the least value.<p>Point is, Netflix know from their retention metrics that you only need a couple of shows that a customer loves to keep them subscribed. Add in some content to amuse their kids and it&#x27;s a done deal.<p>*Note: <i>Netflix seems to still show image for adult shows in search results in the kids profile even if not available when clicked on, some of this images can be quite aggressive. Hence not giving the kids free access</i></text></item><item><author>discardable_dan</author><text>I said this again recently, but it&#x27;s worth repeating: Netflix is on the very fast downward slope. Their catalog is wilting, the space is heating up with well-established competitors moving in and serving the precise content that Netflix originally built their brand on, and their efforts to fund a new catalog with new IP (and taking ownership of old IP) is destroying the business model that made them so appealing in the first place. The writing is very nearly on the wall. At one point, long ago, the Netflix CEO (?) said they were trying to become HBO before HBO became them. And, frankly, they failed. They are still the industry leader, but only for a moment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sedatk</author><text>UX is a night and day difference between Netflix and its competitors. It&#x27;s mind-boggling that the giants like Disney and HBO can&#x27;t even get close. It&#x27;s especially more noticeable on slow devices like Smart TV&#x27;s.</text></comment> | <story><title>Netflix’s Prices Are Rising Faster Than Cable</title><url>https://www.interneteconomist.com/netflix-and-cable-prices/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pnathan</author><text>After having sampled Disney+, HBOMax, Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime a fair bit in the past year, my take is that Netflix has the UX nailed. I can, for instance, &quot;thumbs down&quot; a recommendation. Some offerings I never want to see. Their catalog tends to the darker themes, and I&#x27;m not fond of that.<p>Hulu and Amazon Prime are mostly irrelevant to me. I&#x27;ll probably axe the Hulu sub.<p>HBO has a few things I like. Disney+ targets the kids&#x2F;family&#x2F;lighter theme demographic tightly.<p>I think that the general provider landscape is a bit overdone; some consolidation would be welcomed by consumers, and any competitor that falls behind in offerings will crash exponentially.</text></item><item><author>samwillis</author><text>While I don&#x27;t entirely agree with you I do think the price of Netflix is getting a little higher than the value we personally get out of it. Our personal breakdown this year (in the UK):<p>Adults in the house, we are quite picky but if we love it then we will keep watching:<p><pre><code> Netflix @£9.99: 2 tv shows, 4-5 films
Apple TV+ @£4.99: 3 tv shows, 2 films
Disney Plus @£7.99: 1 tv show, Loads of movies
Amazon Prime @£7.99: 3 tv shows, quite a few films, plus &quot;free&quot; shipping!
</code></pre>
Kids (3 and 7):<p><pre><code> Netflix: They watch quite quite allot but we don&#x27;t give them free access even to the kids profile (*see note)
Apple TV+: Only 1 tv show, but haven&#x27;t really explored.
Disney Plus: All of it, I think they have &quot;completed&quot; it!...
Amazon Prime: None
</code></pre>
Disney is by far the best value for money for us as a family, Apple TV+ for us grownups is best value. I don&#x27;t think we would get rid of any but Netflix is probably now the least value.<p>Point is, Netflix know from their retention metrics that you only need a couple of shows that a customer loves to keep them subscribed. Add in some content to amuse their kids and it&#x27;s a done deal.<p>*Note: <i>Netflix seems to still show image for adult shows in search results in the kids profile even if not available when clicked on, some of this images can be quite aggressive. Hence not giving the kids free access</i></text></item><item><author>discardable_dan</author><text>I said this again recently, but it&#x27;s worth repeating: Netflix is on the very fast downward slope. Their catalog is wilting, the space is heating up with well-established competitors moving in and serving the precise content that Netflix originally built their brand on, and their efforts to fund a new catalog with new IP (and taking ownership of old IP) is destroying the business model that made them so appealing in the first place. The writing is very nearly on the wall. At one point, long ago, the Netflix CEO (?) said they were trying to become HBO before HBO became them. And, frankly, they failed. They are still the industry leader, but only for a moment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yskchu</author><text>I agree with you that the Netflix UI is superb for browsing, however I have one major gripe - on Android TV they broke the back button.<p>I had to hardcode a kill app shortcut just for them.<p>For all other android tv apps that I have been using so far, the back button works normally, exiting the app at the topmost layer. However, repeated clicks of the back button in netflix UI just re-triggers the menu - part of their dark patterns to make it harder to quit the app...</text></comment> |
20,307,952 | 20,307,089 | 1 | 2 | 20,303,418 | train | <story><title>Without a GUI: How to Live Entirely in a Terminal</title><url>https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/without-gui-how-live-entirely-terminal</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fortran77</author><text>These realizations are humorous to software folks of my generation who started on Punch Cards, then IBM 3270s, then VT100s and&#x2F;or teletypes and Decwriters.<p>I see kids look at my two screen setup, which is on Windows 10, but basically a bunch of terminal windows open and think I&#x27;m some sort of l337 h4x0r when really I&#x27;m just an old coot who can&#x27;t deal with change.<p>Even on Windows, I do everything in Powershell. Even things like installing Windows Updates. (Get-WindowsUpdate)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>greenyoda</author><text>&gt; These realizations are humorous to software folks of my generation who started on Punch Cards, then IBM 3270s, then VT100s and&#x2F;or teletypes and Decwriters.<p>As someone who is also old enough to have used all these ancient technologies, I&#x27;m mystified as to why people today would want to go back to doing everything from a command line interface. Some things are really better done in GUIs. For example, why should I use diff if I can use kdiff3 instead?</text></comment> | <story><title>Without a GUI: How to Live Entirely in a Terminal</title><url>https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/without-gui-how-live-entirely-terminal</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fortran77</author><text>These realizations are humorous to software folks of my generation who started on Punch Cards, then IBM 3270s, then VT100s and&#x2F;or teletypes and Decwriters.<p>I see kids look at my two screen setup, which is on Windows 10, but basically a bunch of terminal windows open and think I&#x27;m some sort of l337 h4x0r when really I&#x27;m just an old coot who can&#x27;t deal with change.<p>Even on Windows, I do everything in Powershell. Even things like installing Windows Updates. (Get-WindowsUpdate)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>red75prime</author><text>I tried to `curl -Method Post -Headers ...` my answer but it was too much work. Impressive.</text></comment> |
19,867,211 | 19,865,784 | 1 | 3 | 19,845,934 | train | <story><title>How Hackers and Scammers Break into iCloud-Locked iPhones</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xyq8v/how-to-unlock-icloud-stolen-iphone</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zensavona</author><text>Interestingly enough I was in Vietnam last week and had my iPhone XR snatched out of my hands by a guy on a motorbike. I locked it immediately from my partner&#x27;s phone and noted that it had been immediately switched off. I figured it was surely gone forever and pretty much straight away went and bought a new iPhone.<p>When I was setting up my new phone I restored my latest backup from iCloud and upon doing so, my old stolen phone was no longer trackable since iCloud recognises the new one <i>as being the old one</i>.<p>Although I am far from an Apple fanboy, I feel that their phones are the least-bad choice at the moment but I am really starting to question that after this experience. Not very happy about that, Apple. I am interested to know if by doing that the phone is now unlocked, or what the deal is, but I can&#x27;t, since it&#x27;s no longer trackable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Terretta</author><text>Don’t think this is correct. My list of devices is littered with the old devices I restored backups from onto new devices. I have to do extra steps to wipe and remove a device to be able to be adopted by new homes.<p>That said, it is a pet peeve of mine that the new phone from old backup workflow doesn’t prompt for a new device name or to rename the old device. Reusing the name can be confusing if&#x2F;when you still have both devices.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Hackers and Scammers Break into iCloud-Locked iPhones</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xyq8v/how-to-unlock-icloud-stolen-iphone</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zensavona</author><text>Interestingly enough I was in Vietnam last week and had my iPhone XR snatched out of my hands by a guy on a motorbike. I locked it immediately from my partner&#x27;s phone and noted that it had been immediately switched off. I figured it was surely gone forever and pretty much straight away went and bought a new iPhone.<p>When I was setting up my new phone I restored my latest backup from iCloud and upon doing so, my old stolen phone was no longer trackable since iCloud recognises the new one <i>as being the old one</i>.<p>Although I am far from an Apple fanboy, I feel that their phones are the least-bad choice at the moment but I am really starting to question that after this experience. Not very happy about that, Apple. I am interested to know if by doing that the phone is now unlocked, or what the deal is, but I can&#x27;t, since it&#x27;s no longer trackable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>londons_explore</author><text>It&#x27;s probably no longer trackable not because you added a new phone to the account, but instead because the thief just used one of these tricks to remove your old phone.</text></comment> |
14,958,373 | 14,958,395 | 1 | 2 | 14,958,117 | train | <story><title>Amazon owns a whole collection of secret brands</title><url>https://qz.com/1039381/amazon-owns-a-whole-collection-of-secret-brands/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>x2398dh1</author><text>What&#x27;s funny about this article is:<p>1. It&#x27;s obvious clickbait - &quot;secret&quot; brands - how salacious! Yeah, as though a company wants to keep things it sells secret.<p>2. Each time you click on a link from the Quartz article, you are given a url with a link tracker tag. For example, for the Arabella brand, you get:<p>16352060011?tag=quartz07-20<p>So basically someone sat there behind a computer, authoring an article while using words like, &quot;expose&quot; and &quot;clandestine&quot; brands, and &quot;attacking small brands,&quot; while simultaneously setting up ad links on their Amazon account so that they would make money from Amazon every time someone clicked on said brands.<p>Now that is journalistic integrity at its finest, and emblematic of the world of manipulating people&#x27;s fears and worries for profit that we live in.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon owns a whole collection of secret brands</title><url>https://qz.com/1039381/amazon-owns-a-whole-collection-of-secret-brands/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>olympus</author><text>Amazon isn&#x27;t doing some sneaky business here, just regular business. I&#x27;m not going to wear an Amazon branded polo, but I might wear a GoodThreads branded polo.<p>Lots of stores have house brands and others have manufacturers make a specific product line for their store. Walmart has the Great Value house brand and several others [1]. Kohls has a licensing deal with Rock &amp; Republic jeans to sell a &quot;budget&quot; version [2]. Target recently announced that they are dropping their Mossimo brand for a dozen new brands [3]. Best Buy owns the Insignia brand [3]. Amazon isn&#x27;t doing some sneaky business here, just regular business. I&#x27;m not going to wear an Amazon branded polo, but I might wear a GoodThreads branded polo.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_Walmart_brands" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_Walmart_brands</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rock_and_Republic" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rock_and_Republic</a>
[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;finance.yahoo.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;target-ditching-merona-mossimo-clothing-193426952.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;finance.yahoo.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;target-ditching-merona-mossim...</a>
[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.insigniaproducts.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.insigniaproducts.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
40,018,987 | 40,018,179 | 1 | 2 | 40,014,892 | train | <story><title>Google threatens to cut off news after California proposes paying media outlets</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/12/24128363/google-cjpa-news-removal-california</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notatoad</author><text>&gt;I have sympathy for news publishers<p>i have very little sympathy for news publishers. I have sympathy for the journalists actually doing journalism, but <i>news publishers</i> have spent the last couple decades making their websites absolutely unusable, so that unless somebody links to an article externally there&#x27;s almost no point in going to their site directly. And even after you&#x27;ve followed that link it&#x27;s almost impossible to read an article around the ads, login prompts, and chumboxes. News websites are terrible, and it&#x27;s their own fault. Giving them more money to do the thing they&#x27;ve spent so long failing at isn&#x27;t going to solve this problem.<p>&gt;directly tax the platforms and then redistribute the revenue to a fund created by government for news journalism themselves<p>yes. and specifically, make sure the fund is actually funding journalism. a link tax that gets paid out to news sites only incentivizes them to do the bare minimum amount of journalism to still qualify as a news site, and then fill up the rest of the site with SEO clickbait to maximize their clicks for the link tax.</text></item><item><author>zmmmmm</author><text>I have sympathy for news publishers but I worry a lot about the principle of asserting that <i>linking to something</i> is an act that the link target has proprietary rights to over. At some level, it is almost a free speech issue. If I can&#x27;t refer to what you are saying, without owing you something, you have power over not just my speech, but a power to limit how your work is subjected to criticism and debate. It&#x27;s effectively an extension of copyright law to expand copyright holder&#x27;s rights.<p>Obviously all this is hyperbolic based the actual text of the law. The law doesn&#x27;t directly apply any sort of link tax, and it is shamelessly targeted only at Google and Facebook (to the point that they wrote Facebook in there by name, which is kind of stupid if you ask me). But if you drill into the reasoning it hits at the foundational level on this basic logic, and it&#x27;s pretty concerning if we assume then that this <i>will</i> be significantly extrapolated and expanded - as has been the history with all other aspects of copyright in the past.<p>Honestly I would rather that governments come clean and just admit that the problem they are trying to solve is actually a &quot;social good&quot; outcome, and therefore directly tax the platforms and then redistribute the revenue to a fund created by government for news journalism themselves. Trying to artificially construct that through introduction of significant new precedents in copyright law engenders huge risks of unintended consequences and potential future extrapolation and abuse of this principle.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cush</author><text>&gt; news publishers have spent the last couple decades making their websites absolutely unusable<p>To appease Google…<p>Conversely, NYTs site is stellar. It’s fast and gorgeous and the articles are well-written and not full of clickbait and SEO spam. The games have no ads and there’s nothing pushing you to read more. No feed. No algorithm. NYT got the hell away from SEO and focus on the customers, who decide with their wallets</text></comment> | <story><title>Google threatens to cut off news after California proposes paying media outlets</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/12/24128363/google-cjpa-news-removal-california</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notatoad</author><text>&gt;I have sympathy for news publishers<p>i have very little sympathy for news publishers. I have sympathy for the journalists actually doing journalism, but <i>news publishers</i> have spent the last couple decades making their websites absolutely unusable, so that unless somebody links to an article externally there&#x27;s almost no point in going to their site directly. And even after you&#x27;ve followed that link it&#x27;s almost impossible to read an article around the ads, login prompts, and chumboxes. News websites are terrible, and it&#x27;s their own fault. Giving them more money to do the thing they&#x27;ve spent so long failing at isn&#x27;t going to solve this problem.<p>&gt;directly tax the platforms and then redistribute the revenue to a fund created by government for news journalism themselves<p>yes. and specifically, make sure the fund is actually funding journalism. a link tax that gets paid out to news sites only incentivizes them to do the bare minimum amount of journalism to still qualify as a news site, and then fill up the rest of the site with SEO clickbait to maximize their clicks for the link tax.</text></item><item><author>zmmmmm</author><text>I have sympathy for news publishers but I worry a lot about the principle of asserting that <i>linking to something</i> is an act that the link target has proprietary rights to over. At some level, it is almost a free speech issue. If I can&#x27;t refer to what you are saying, without owing you something, you have power over not just my speech, but a power to limit how your work is subjected to criticism and debate. It&#x27;s effectively an extension of copyright law to expand copyright holder&#x27;s rights.<p>Obviously all this is hyperbolic based the actual text of the law. The law doesn&#x27;t directly apply any sort of link tax, and it is shamelessly targeted only at Google and Facebook (to the point that they wrote Facebook in there by name, which is kind of stupid if you ask me). But if you drill into the reasoning it hits at the foundational level on this basic logic, and it&#x27;s pretty concerning if we assume then that this <i>will</i> be significantly extrapolated and expanded - as has been the history with all other aspects of copyright in the past.<p>Honestly I would rather that governments come clean and just admit that the problem they are trying to solve is actually a &quot;social good&quot; outcome, and therefore directly tax the platforms and then redistribute the revenue to a fund created by government for news journalism themselves. Trying to artificially construct that through introduction of significant new precedents in copyright law engenders huge risks of unintended consequences and potential future extrapolation and abuse of this principle.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>akira2501</author><text>&gt; News websites are terrible, and it&#x27;s their own fault.<p>To be fair they were just playing the game Google asked them to play.<p>&gt; make sure the fund is actually funding journalism<p>I don&#x27;t think you can do that. Journalism is publishing articles, sure, but it&#x27;s also doing research, arranging interviews, travelling to get documents, it&#x27;s a lot of street work, and a lot of it needs to be paid up front. How a fund can manage this relationship correctly based on view counts is beyond me.<p>Let alone.. do we want &quot;clicks&quot; to substitute for editorial process?<p>The deeply sad part about all of this is News and Broadcast have traditionally had very strong commission based internal sales operations. They have the people to go out, get advertisers, take their money, and then just &#x2F;inline&#x2F; all the advertisements. They spent decades refusing to retrain or retarget this staff for the new market place.<p>Out of all industries that _didn&#x27;t_ have to make a deal with Google Ads, it was theirs, and they just completely blew it.</text></comment> |
18,694,979 | 18,694,830 | 1 | 3 | 18,694,006 | train | <story><title>Can Repelling Magnets Replace the Spring in a Pogo Stick?</title><url>https://www.kjmagnetics.com/blog.asp?p=pogo-stick-spring</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>weberc2</author><text>Pretty much every critical system in a vanilla Toyota is already software-controlled, not to mention the legion of critical systems involved in air travel, elevators, medical equipment (e.g., pacemakers), etc. Not sure that this should bring comfort, but at least you need not be <i>particularly</i> frightened by your Tesla. :)</text></item><item><author>azhenley</author><text>About as scary as my Tesla on autopilot going around a curve at 75mph. Every time I ask myself, what if there is a bug or if it turns off...</text></item><item><author>umvi</author><text>Seems like electromagnets could help compensate for distance by drawing more current when far apart, and less when close together. A microcontroller could essentially make the force linear like a spring. Of course, then you need wires hooked up to your pogo, and that might be scary if the microcontroller has a bug (or somehow fails) since you are now essentially hopping onto a railgun.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Retric</author><text>Elevators use simple physical safety systems.<p>Which is why you see headlines like: &quot;Skyscraper elevator plunges 84 floors — and everyone survives&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbc.ca&#x2F;news&#x2F;world&#x2F;elevator-plunge-chicago-1.4913707" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbc.ca&#x2F;news&#x2F;world&#x2F;elevator-plunge-chicago-1.4913...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Can Repelling Magnets Replace the Spring in a Pogo Stick?</title><url>https://www.kjmagnetics.com/blog.asp?p=pogo-stick-spring</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>weberc2</author><text>Pretty much every critical system in a vanilla Toyota is already software-controlled, not to mention the legion of critical systems involved in air travel, elevators, medical equipment (e.g., pacemakers), etc. Not sure that this should bring comfort, but at least you need not be <i>particularly</i> frightened by your Tesla. :)</text></item><item><author>azhenley</author><text>About as scary as my Tesla on autopilot going around a curve at 75mph. Every time I ask myself, what if there is a bug or if it turns off...</text></item><item><author>umvi</author><text>Seems like electromagnets could help compensate for distance by drawing more current when far apart, and less when close together. A microcontroller could essentially make the force linear like a spring. Of course, then you need wires hooked up to your pogo, and that might be scary if the microcontroller has a bug (or somehow fails) since you are now essentially hopping onto a railgun.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mhh__</author><text>Driving a car on the road with other cars is - factoring in the age of the tech, lack of regulation, involvement of humans and the consequences if it goes wrong - more difficult that what&#x27;s mentioned on your list.</text></comment> |
28,131,720 | 28,131,932 | 1 | 2 | 28,128,178 | train | <story><title>The World’s Biggest Tire Graveyard in Kuwait Is on Fire</title><url>https://scoopempire.com/kuwait-tire-graveyards/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rasz</author><text>Maybe they were ordered to clean up. This is a popular hazardous substances disposal scheme in EU:<p>You rent a warehouse&#x2F;piece of land in Poland claiming to be a transportation&#x2F;construction&#x2F;recycling company usually using forged documents or homeless person fronting whole thing.<p>You get paid to remove hazardous waste from UK&#x2F;Scandinavia&#x2F;Germany, you stockpile until the place is full.<p>Finally you either set the place on fire to cover your tracks, or the owner stops receiving payments, discovers whats stored on his property and decides to take insurance hit instead of having his assets blocked for several years while courts try to figure out if&#x2F;what&#x2F;who is going to pay for lawful disposal.<p>Just 2 days ago <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wielun.naszemiasto.pl&#x2F;kolejny-pozar-skladowiska-w-naszym-regionie-tym-razem-w&#x2F;ar&#x2F;c1-8401231" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wielun.naszemiasto.pl&#x2F;kolejny-pozar-skladowiska-w-na...</a> already mentions one from one week earlier. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;portalkomunalny.pl&#x2F;gospodarka-odpadami&#x2F;pozary-skladowiska-odpady&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;portalkomunalny.pl&#x2F;gospodarka-odpadami&#x2F;pozary-sklado...</a> Usually couple a month up to one a week, year after year for the last &gt;10 year. Seemingly no political will to fight this scheme.</text></comment> | <story><title>The World’s Biggest Tire Graveyard in Kuwait Is on Fire</title><url>https://scoopempire.com/kuwait-tire-graveyards/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tpmx</author><text>Hmm, this (or a previous) fire is already visible in the Google Maps satellite view.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;maps&#x2F;place&#x2F;Sulaibiya,+Kuwait&#x2F;@29.2573457,47.6764983,1350m&#x2F;data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x3fcf92708a4cfae9:0x4b72a44a48f05d7a!8m2!3d29.2855773!4d47.818038" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;maps&#x2F;place&#x2F;Sulaibiya,+Kuwait&#x2F;@29.2573...</a><p>However, the tire pile arrangements look different than in the photo in the article...</text></comment> |
20,918,024 | 20,918,176 | 1 | 3 | 20,917,742 | train | <story><title>ProjectPSX – A C# coded emulator of the original Playstation</title><url>https://github.com/BluestormDNA/ProjectPSX</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rvz</author><text>&gt; ProjectPSX dosn&#x27;t use any external dependency and uses rather simplistic C# code.<p>Very impressive. This makes it more interesting to see how the drawing code and the controls were implemented in addition to the possibility of it being cross-platform if it using .NET Core.</text></comment> | <story><title>ProjectPSX – A C# coded emulator of the original Playstation</title><url>https://github.com/BluestormDNA/ProjectPSX</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>numlock86</author><text>This is great. It would be almost perfect if it didn&#x27;t rely on WinForms (1) and was built on .NET core from the ground up. Anyway, great project I will keep checking out.<p>(1) instead it could be a runtime that just gives you an interface to the frame buffer somehow and it&#x27;s up to the integrator to use WinForms&#x2F;WPF&#x2F;Qt etc.</text></comment> |
23,870,496 | 23,869,949 | 1 | 3 | 23,868,756 | train | <story><title>Inside the Coronavirus</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/interactive/inside-the-coronavirus/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gdubs</author><text>Around the point in the interactive where it shows how the virus swings sugar molecules around to distract the immune system I paused and marveled at the tiny universe inside our bodies.<p>The first time I recall feeling similarly was when I first watched Cosmos as a kid, and Carl Sagan juxtaposes time lapse photography of cities against the bustling activity of cells inside the human body.<p>We walk around every day thinking of ourselves as solid objects in a Newtonian world, like balls on a billiards table. But when we actually take a minute to reflect on all of it, it’s clearly so much more complex than that.</text></comment> | <story><title>Inside the Coronavirus</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/interactive/inside-the-coronavirus/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>acqq</author><text>One of very interesting properties of SARS-CoV (2003) and SARS-Cov-2 (2019) is that they have their &quot;proofreading&quot; replication mechanisms, or in the terms of people working with computers these viruses have an &quot;error correction device&quot; active during the copying that allows them to have a relatively long genome which won&#x27;t mutate too fast:<p>NYT interactive April 2020, also a good visualization of some &quot;building blocks&quot;:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;interactive&#x2F;2020&#x2F;04&#x2F;03&#x2F;science&#x2F;coronavirus-genome-bad-news-wrapped-in-protein.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;interactive&#x2F;2020&#x2F;04&#x2F;03&#x2F;science&#x2F;coron...</a><p>2015 paper:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pnas.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;112&#x2F;30&#x2F;9436" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pnas.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;112&#x2F;30&#x2F;9436</a><p>2013 paper:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.plos.org&#x2F;plospathogens&#x2F;article?id=10.1371&#x2F;journal.ppat.1003760" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.plos.org&#x2F;plospathogens&#x2F;article?id=10.1371&#x2F;j...</a><p>2006 paper:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC1458802&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC1458802&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
24,535,019 | 24,534,991 | 1 | 3 | 24,534,186 | train | <story><title>Yelp: Local Economic Impact Report</title><url>https://www.yelpeconomicaverage.com/business-closures-update-sep-2020.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>booleandilemma</author><text>I think the problem with our response to covid in the US was that all our policies were half-assed.<p>The result has been that we’ve had this 7 month period of semi-lockdown (can eat outside, but not indoors; we’re going to send a support check, but only 1, etc.) while China was able to have a full lockdown for a few weeks and mostly eradicate it.<p>Meanwhile people are still dying here because people don’t want to wear masks because freedom, or something.</text></comment> | <story><title>Yelp: Local Economic Impact Report</title><url>https://www.yelpeconomicaverage.com/business-closures-update-sep-2020.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mrfusion</author><text>These words of CS Lewis seem appropriate in our time of COVID as well! Here’s what he said in 1948 about the mental shift required by living with the threat of the atomic bomb:<p>In one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb. “How are we to live in an atomic age?” I am tempted to reply: “Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your throat any night; or indeed, as you are already living in an age of cancer, an age of syphilis, an age of paralysis, an age of air raids, an age of railway accidents, an age of motor accidents.”</text></comment> |
15,764,765 | 15,763,024 | 1 | 3 | 15,761,537 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Gophercises – Coding Exercises for Budding Gophers</title><url>https://gophercises.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fefe23</author><text>You lost me at &quot;you need to create an account&quot;.
Creating an account is a big step for me, I don&#x27;t open accounts on a whim. I need to be committed to something to be willing to open account with them.<p>Your site wants me to open an account before it is willing to show me something that would commit me.<p>Also, to be perfectly homest, I would never open an account to see some videos. The only player in that area who can generate enough commitment from me is Netflix.<p>Why, if I may ask, are you even asking me to open an account? Is this about you teaching me Go or is it about you trying to monetize me? What are you logging about me? Why not make account creation optional? I don&#x27;t want your site tracking my progress anyway (I&#x27;m paranoid that way).</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Gophercises – Coding Exercises for Budding Gophers</title><url>https://gophercises.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>decker</author><text>Write 20 different variants of mapping elements in a slice from one type to another. This will give you a fairly reasonable approximation of golang development.</text></comment> |
25,714,656 | 25,714,872 | 1 | 2 | 25,714,093 | train | <story><title>Terms of Service; Didn’t Read</title><url>https://tosdr.org/en/frontpage</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gorgoiler</author><text>If a website knows I didn&#x27;t <i>really</i> read a contract, can they claim I am bound by it?<p>I like to hope that the <i>time-spent-reading</i> is logged somewhere. Should it come up in court, Website.com would be required to disclose their logs which would show that I spent all of 1.35s reading their terms and conditions, most of which was spent scrolling.<p>Another puerile hack of mine is to sign a document with the name &quot;I do not agree&quot; and then press accept, and see if they agreed to let me use the service anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>albertgoeswoof</author><text>This is why they’re non enforceable in a real court. If I put the rights to your inheritance in a tos no judge is actually going to enforce that, because no one would reasonably sign that away for access to a website.<p>In reality only things which you would reasonably expect to be in a tos or privacy policy could be enforced, given 99% of users don’t read them, or understand them.</text></comment> | <story><title>Terms of Service; Didn’t Read</title><url>https://tosdr.org/en/frontpage</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gorgoiler</author><text>If a website knows I didn&#x27;t <i>really</i> read a contract, can they claim I am bound by it?<p>I like to hope that the <i>time-spent-reading</i> is logged somewhere. Should it come up in court, Website.com would be required to disclose their logs which would show that I spent all of 1.35s reading their terms and conditions, most of which was spent scrolling.<p>Another puerile hack of mine is to sign a document with the name &quot;I do not agree&quot; and then press accept, and see if they agreed to let me use the service anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alsetmusic</author><text>I don’t think time spent would matter if someone took the deliberate action of clicking “Accept.” It’s like arguing that you didn’t read a contract before you signed. You still signed.<p>I’m not arguing in favor of TOS. I just don’t buy this.<p>The “I do not agree,” method reminds me of the tactics of “sovereign citizens.” They try to game things via highly specific language. People think they can loophole the system, but still get snared. SCs still go to jail.</text></comment> |
39,911,397 | 39,911,560 | 1 | 3 | 39,908,579 | train | <story><title>Amazon ditches 'just walk out' checkouts at its grocery stores</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditches-just-walk-out-grocery-stores-1851381116</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smugma</author><text>Uniqlo (in Japan and at least in SF) has a cool checkout method.<p>You drop your clothes into a big bin (I’ve always done it one piece at a time, didn’t think to do all at once) and it adds up all your items. I’ve used this maybe 8 times, 100% accurate so far.<p>Not sure how it works but I guessed RFID and quick Google appears to confirm:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;uniqlos-parent-company-bets-big-on-tiny-rfid-chips-600b124f" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;uniqlos-parent-company-bets-big...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>awelxtr</author><text>Self checkout systems based on RFID are very convenient, quick and quite accurate compared to self checkout on grocery stores&#x27;l. The main problem on groceries is that the tags are expensive compared to the product (tags prices are in the order of tens of cents depending on manufacturer and size)<p>Disclaimer: I work on a RFID reader manufacturing company</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon ditches 'just walk out' checkouts at its grocery stores</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditches-just-walk-out-grocery-stores-1851381116</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smugma</author><text>Uniqlo (in Japan and at least in SF) has a cool checkout method.<p>You drop your clothes into a big bin (I’ve always done it one piece at a time, didn’t think to do all at once) and it adds up all your items. I’ve used this maybe 8 times, 100% accurate so far.<p>Not sure how it works but I guessed RFID and quick Google appears to confirm:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;uniqlos-parent-company-bets-big-on-tiny-rfid-chips-600b124f" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;uniqlos-parent-company-bets-big...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>a_random_canuck</author><text>As far as I can tell, every Uniqlo has this. And you’re right, this is by far the best checkout experience. It’s what Amazon wishes they’d built.<p>I can’t imagine there’s that much untapped profit in the grocery business that Amazon could turn a profit with such an expensive and unreliable mess like Just Walk Out and I find it’s so typical Amazon to find out that the man behind the curtain is actually a bunch of offshore workers in India.</text></comment> |
30,956,751 | 30,955,175 | 1 | 3 | 30,953,744 | train | <story><title>You may not need Cloudflare Tunnel. Linux is fine</title><url>https://kiwiziti.com/~matt/wireguard/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>omnicognate</author><text>What&#x27;s actually being done here is buried in a mass of analogies. AFAICT it&#x27;s:<p>* Exposing a server running on the home network (behind NAT on a dynamic IP) to the internet.<p>* Doing so by renting a cheap VPS and using wireguard to forward traffic to the server at home.<p>I love wireguard and use it continuously. My phone has always on wireguard to my home network so all my phone traffic goes through my home router&#x2F;dns, I can access the various private servers I have at home, get dns based ad blocking etc. I use an ISP that give me a static IP so it was easy to set up. It works like a dream.<p>That said when I want to run a public server I just rent a VPS and run it on that. I don&#x27;t want anything I don&#x27;t own initiating connections to anything on my home network in any way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>perrygeo</author><text>&gt; That said when I want to run a public server I just rent a VPS and run it on that<p>I have a setup similar to the OP and there&#x27;s a really good reason for it: cost. For $2k in hardware (one time) and a VPS + electricity at $20&#x2F;mo, I can run a 64 core, 192Gb, 24TB server. Let&#x27;s call that $4400 over the course of 10 years. You would burn through that budget in roughly 1 month to get the same specs on AWS.<p>Obviously I&#x27;m neglecting the impact and cost of network, if it&#x27;s a hobby you can just reuse your existing connection but you can always buy a dedicated line (and adjust the cost calculation accordingly)<p>In terms of security, you can mitigate the surface area by running a reverse proxy on the VPS. I&#x27;ve got nginx on the front line which does TLS then proxy_passes to my basement server at its wireguard IP address. So it&#x27;s strictly limited to http, no direct database or ssh access.<p>I don&#x27;t know if I&#x27;d ever run a &quot;real&quot; website this way but it&#x27;s great for hobbies and side projects.</text></comment> | <story><title>You may not need Cloudflare Tunnel. Linux is fine</title><url>https://kiwiziti.com/~matt/wireguard/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>omnicognate</author><text>What&#x27;s actually being done here is buried in a mass of analogies. AFAICT it&#x27;s:<p>* Exposing a server running on the home network (behind NAT on a dynamic IP) to the internet.<p>* Doing so by renting a cheap VPS and using wireguard to forward traffic to the server at home.<p>I love wireguard and use it continuously. My phone has always on wireguard to my home network so all my phone traffic goes through my home router&#x2F;dns, I can access the various private servers I have at home, get dns based ad blocking etc. I use an ISP that give me a static IP so it was easy to set up. It works like a dream.<p>That said when I want to run a public server I just rent a VPS and run it on that. I don&#x27;t want anything I don&#x27;t own initiating connections to anything on my home network in any way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BlueTemplar</author><text>These days, your ISP would (hopefully) give you at least a whole (static) &#x2F;56, so you can always reserve some prefixes for your not-really-home networks ?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ripe.net&#x2F;publications&#x2F;docs&#x2F;ripe-690#4-2-3--prefixes--longer-than--56" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ripe.net&#x2F;publications&#x2F;docs&#x2F;ripe-690#4-2-3--prefi...</a></text></comment> |
10,483,624 | 10,483,206 | 1 | 3 | 10,482,577 | train | <story><title>Snapchat’s new ‘scary’ privacy policy</title><url>http://www.marketwatch.com/story/snapchats-new-scary-privacy-policy-has-left-users-outraged-2015-10-29</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simonw</author><text>“You grant Snapchat a world-wide, perpetual, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license to host, store, use, display, reproduce, modify, adapt, edit, publish, create derivative works from, publicly perform, broadcast, distribute, syndicate, promote, exhibit, and publicly display that content in any form and in any and all media or distribution methods”<p>This exact language shows up in almost every ToS, and every six months or so a dumb news story blows up because someone who isn&#x27;t a lawyer reads it and gets angry.<p>I&#x27;m not a lawyer either, but I&#x27;m going to try to translate it anyway:<p>&quot;You grant Snapchat a world-wide, perpetual, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license&quot; - you agree that when you upload something to Snapchat you can&#x27;t turn round later and claim they owe you money for doing so.<p>&quot;to host, store, use, display, reproduce&quot; = to store the data that you upload and show it back to you (or to other people, presumably based on the semantics of how sharing works within the application)<p>&quot;modify, adapt, edit, publish, create derivative works from&quot; = create thumbnails. Provide you with an editing interface. Update records in a database relating to the content you uploaded. Build features akin to retweeting on Twitter or resharing or tools that let you add mustaches to your photos or whatever.<p>&quot;publicly perform, broadcast, distribute, syndicate, promote, exhibit and publicly display that content&quot; = show your content to other people (again, based on the semantics of how those features work in the app).<p>&quot;in any form and in any and all media or distribution methods&quot; = again, thumbnails, format conversions etc. If someone invents a new media or distribution method, Snapchat should be allowed to build it into their applications without getting you to re-approve the ToS.<p>I think the fundamental problem here is that ToS need to be written to be as generic as possible. If Snapchat wrote a ToS that legally bound them to the exact way that their app works today, they would have to get a lawyer involved with literally every feature change they make (or feature experiment they run) in the future.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>forgottenpass</author><text><i>I think the fundamental problem here is that ToS need to be written to be as generic as possible. If Snapchat wrote a ToS that legally bound them to the exact way that their app works today, they would have to get a lawyer involved with literally every feature change they make (or feature experiment they run) in the future.</i><p>The very reason most people use snapchat in the first place is that they expect a very limited featureset with tight controls.<p>It rightly should be a cause for concern that they&#x27;re making way for expanding the scope of the service.</text></comment> | <story><title>Snapchat’s new ‘scary’ privacy policy</title><url>http://www.marketwatch.com/story/snapchats-new-scary-privacy-policy-has-left-users-outraged-2015-10-29</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simonw</author><text>“You grant Snapchat a world-wide, perpetual, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license to host, store, use, display, reproduce, modify, adapt, edit, publish, create derivative works from, publicly perform, broadcast, distribute, syndicate, promote, exhibit, and publicly display that content in any form and in any and all media or distribution methods”<p>This exact language shows up in almost every ToS, and every six months or so a dumb news story blows up because someone who isn&#x27;t a lawyer reads it and gets angry.<p>I&#x27;m not a lawyer either, but I&#x27;m going to try to translate it anyway:<p>&quot;You grant Snapchat a world-wide, perpetual, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license&quot; - you agree that when you upload something to Snapchat you can&#x27;t turn round later and claim they owe you money for doing so.<p>&quot;to host, store, use, display, reproduce&quot; = to store the data that you upload and show it back to you (or to other people, presumably based on the semantics of how sharing works within the application)<p>&quot;modify, adapt, edit, publish, create derivative works from&quot; = create thumbnails. Provide you with an editing interface. Update records in a database relating to the content you uploaded. Build features akin to retweeting on Twitter or resharing or tools that let you add mustaches to your photos or whatever.<p>&quot;publicly perform, broadcast, distribute, syndicate, promote, exhibit and publicly display that content&quot; = show your content to other people (again, based on the semantics of how those features work in the app).<p>&quot;in any form and in any and all media or distribution methods&quot; = again, thumbnails, format conversions etc. If someone invents a new media or distribution method, Snapchat should be allowed to build it into their applications without getting you to re-approve the ToS.<p>I think the fundamental problem here is that ToS need to be written to be as generic as possible. If Snapchat wrote a ToS that legally bound them to the exact way that their app works today, they would have to get a lawyer involved with literally every feature change they make (or feature experiment they run) in the future.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>celticninja</author><text>Great, so they have the best of intentions but what happens when they go broke and their data is sold off, the new owners have no obligation to the old users they just own all the pictures and could do whatever they want with it.<p>Additionally who is to say that they don&#x27;t decide down the line that using user pics for profit is fine and something they want to do. How often do we saw laws enacted for what appears to be good reason and then used for other purposes. Why do we think a for profit company would be better at this sort of thing than a government?</text></comment> |
10,851,555 | 10,851,097 | 1 | 2 | 10,850,410 | train | <story><title>Two Brothers Making Millions Off the Refugee Crisis in Scandinavia</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-norway-refugee-crisis-profiteers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kauffj</author><text>Many people seem to hold an intuition or belief that it is wrong to profit, or profit &quot;excessively&quot; when providing certain types of services, particularly related to &quot;care&quot;, survival, or necessities (e.g. &quot;price gouging&quot; laws).<p>I think this is misguided for (at least) two reasons:<p>1. Profit allows for the services to be sustainable, rather than charity-dependent.<p>2. The more profit, the stronger the incentive for entrepreneurs to enter the market and&#x2F;or innovate.<p>Figuring out a way to profit and reduce the problems of refugees in any way is win&#x2F;win for everyone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>clarkmoody</author><text>&gt; 2. The more profit, the stronger the incentive for entrepreneurs to enter the market and&#x2F;or innovate.<p>3. The more entrepreneurs in the market, the tighter the margins will become, due to competition. The price for the service will fall as a result, and the companies will become more efficient.</text></comment> | <story><title>Two Brothers Making Millions Off the Refugee Crisis in Scandinavia</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-norway-refugee-crisis-profiteers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kauffj</author><text>Many people seem to hold an intuition or belief that it is wrong to profit, or profit &quot;excessively&quot; when providing certain types of services, particularly related to &quot;care&quot;, survival, or necessities (e.g. &quot;price gouging&quot; laws).<p>I think this is misguided for (at least) two reasons:<p>1. Profit allows for the services to be sustainable, rather than charity-dependent.<p>2. The more profit, the stronger the incentive for entrepreneurs to enter the market and&#x2F;or innovate.<p>Figuring out a way to profit and reduce the problems of refugees in any way is win&#x2F;win for everyone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lentil_soup</author><text>until because of the profit you are tempted to support the continuation of the problem</text></comment> |
40,380,560 | 40,376,965 | 1 | 2 | 40,375,548 | train | <story><title>VCs aren’t your friends</title><url>https://www.openvc.app/blog/vcs-arent-your-friends</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>michaelt</author><text><i>&gt; the recipient was not their first choice (ouch, you can hear the ego taking a glancing hit)</i><p>It baffles me that a person successful enough to get put in charge of an investment fund can have such incredibly thin skin.<p>How would you even function in the real world if you were so easily offended?</text></item><item><author>fsloth</author><text>In the tweet the wrong date was not a red flag due to lack of detail as such, but because it signaled:<p>a) they had been raising for a while now<p>b) the recipient was not their first choice (ouch, you can hear the ego taking a glancing hit)<p>So ”the market” did not consider the startup investable, and they did not think about their sales pitch strategically enough … this VC would have liked to be sold to, not just a source of funds.<p>The implied peer signaling is the key thing here IMO.</text></item><item><author>keiferski</author><text>The way VCs filter out potential investments seems fairly similar to the way Ivy League schools filter out potential students. (Probably because they are comprised of the same people.) It is not really about technical brilliance, or innovation, or anything that is written on their website as a core value. It&#x27;s more about whether you&#x27;re smart <i>enough</i> and can follow instructions and fit into the overarching institutional structure of school and work.<p>For companies that are at the point of raising venture capital, this might be what is actually needed. But it certainly seems like it filters out a lot of the more idiosyncratic, brilliant types that aren&#x27;t concerned with (from their perspective, irrelevant) details, like the date on a pitch deck. It seems like a good way to get institutional operators, not rare but not-quite-conformist innovators. I can&#x27;t imagine someone like Steve Jobs or Nikola Tesla passing these VC&#x2F;Ivy League kinds of tests.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>balls187</author><text>Not to defend the VC in this case, but thin skin assumes that the VC did not take the meeting because they were offended by not being picked first. VCs and Investors are more often than not lemmings with strong FOMO bias, and perceiving no other VC is interested is enough of a signal to not waste time.<p>From my own experience having met with VC&#x27;s and investors is that most are inundated with pitches, and the old addage of &#x27;Take every meeting you can&#x27; has been replaced with &#x27;Say No by default.&#x27; There is no exact science, and so there are proxy signals they use in their heuristic.<p>It reminds me of the scene in money ball where the scouts are complaining about a baseball player who does not date an attractive women, so therefore they should not sign him because he doesn&#x27;t have confidence. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=6naO8n6HsqE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=6naO8n6HsqE</a></text></comment> | <story><title>VCs aren’t your friends</title><url>https://www.openvc.app/blog/vcs-arent-your-friends</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>michaelt</author><text><i>&gt; the recipient was not their first choice (ouch, you can hear the ego taking a glancing hit)</i><p>It baffles me that a person successful enough to get put in charge of an investment fund can have such incredibly thin skin.<p>How would you even function in the real world if you were so easily offended?</text></item><item><author>fsloth</author><text>In the tweet the wrong date was not a red flag due to lack of detail as such, but because it signaled:<p>a) they had been raising for a while now<p>b) the recipient was not their first choice (ouch, you can hear the ego taking a glancing hit)<p>So ”the market” did not consider the startup investable, and they did not think about their sales pitch strategically enough … this VC would have liked to be sold to, not just a source of funds.<p>The implied peer signaling is the key thing here IMO.</text></item><item><author>keiferski</author><text>The way VCs filter out potential investments seems fairly similar to the way Ivy League schools filter out potential students. (Probably because they are comprised of the same people.) It is not really about technical brilliance, or innovation, or anything that is written on their website as a core value. It&#x27;s more about whether you&#x27;re smart <i>enough</i> and can follow instructions and fit into the overarching institutional structure of school and work.<p>For companies that are at the point of raising venture capital, this might be what is actually needed. But it certainly seems like it filters out a lot of the more idiosyncratic, brilliant types that aren&#x27;t concerned with (from their perspective, irrelevant) details, like the date on a pitch deck. It seems like a good way to get institutional operators, not rare but not-quite-conformist innovators. I can&#x27;t imagine someone like Steve Jobs or Nikola Tesla passing these VC&#x2F;Ivy League kinds of tests.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>csomar</author><text>&gt; It baffles me that a person successful enough to get put in charge of an investment fund<p>Not necessarily ROI successful, though certainly successful in making connections to get the job. It seems, however, from their website that some of their capital made it into big companies. It&#x27;s not clear whether they disclose the previous funds performances.</text></comment> |
31,073,859 | 31,066,913 | 1 | 2 | 31,066,534 | train | <story><title>Twitter takeover battle: Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey turn up pressure on board</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2022/04/17/twitter-takeover-musk-dorsey-board-tweets/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rmatt2000</author><text>The entire board ex-Jack owns a little more than 1% of Twitter. It sure sounds like their interests are not well-aligned with those of the company owners.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>memish</author><text>Correct. Their interest is more aligned with cultural power and country club status.<p>They also draw huge salaries for what amounts to a nice part time job. Elon&#x27;s response to that:<p>&quot;Board salary will be $0 if my bid succeeds, so that’s ~$3M&#x2F;year saved right there&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;elonmusk&#x2F;status&#x2F;1516056299376623626" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;elonmusk&#x2F;status&#x2F;1516056299376623626</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Twitter takeover battle: Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey turn up pressure on board</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2022/04/17/twitter-takeover-musk-dorsey-board-tweets/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rmatt2000</author><text>The entire board ex-Jack owns a little more than 1% of Twitter. It sure sounds like their interests are not well-aligned with those of the company owners.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mongol</author><text>I don&#x27;t completely understand that argument. If a board member owns let&#x27;s say 0.1 % of total shares, but that represents 90 % of his private fortune, he will be very incentivized to increase the value of the company. On the other hand, if it represents 1 % of his total fortune, I can see the point.</text></comment> |
35,903,091 | 35,903,131 | 1 | 3 | 35,901,889 | train | <story><title>Majority of gig economy workers are earning below minimum wage: research</title><url>https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2023/may/gig-economy-worker-research.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>darkwater</author><text>I agree on the spirit of your take but then you should count the commuting hours for the rest of workers as well. If you need 1 hour to get to work and 1 to get back, you are already working (or giving your time to your work place) 50 hours a week</text></item><item><author>CraigJPerry</author><text>&gt;&gt; an average of 28 hours<p>I wonder if this hours figure is calculated the same way the gig companies calculate minimum wage.<p>I.e. that 28 hours represents only time spent in performing the delivery task. Any waiting around beforehand when not assigned a task is not counted as working hours for the purposes of min wage calculation. If this is true (and that needs verifying) then this 28 might be a 40 hours where the person was unable to get on with their other life duties even if they weren’t technically working.</text></item><item><author>KMnO4</author><text>I can’t tell how to interpret this. Doing gig work doesn’t pay well, but respondents are doing an average of 28 hours of work per week.<p>Something is missing from the picture. If the takeaway is that gig workers are struggling to pay living expenses, I would expect that to be reflected by working 50-60+ hours per week.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>EatingWithForks</author><text>I don&#x27;t think this is quite the same, because a gig worker would also have commuting costs to populations that have enough of a customer base. It would more be like you have 4 30min meetings today all with 20 minutes apart (so not enough time to really switch tasks to anything useful) and somehow your workplace doesn&#x27;t count those waiting periods as work and therefore only pay you for 2 hrs work, even though you had to also wait 1 hr collectively during the in-between meetings.</text></comment> | <story><title>Majority of gig economy workers are earning below minimum wage: research</title><url>https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2023/may/gig-economy-worker-research.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>darkwater</author><text>I agree on the spirit of your take but then you should count the commuting hours for the rest of workers as well. If you need 1 hour to get to work and 1 to get back, you are already working (or giving your time to your work place) 50 hours a week</text></item><item><author>CraigJPerry</author><text>&gt;&gt; an average of 28 hours<p>I wonder if this hours figure is calculated the same way the gig companies calculate minimum wage.<p>I.e. that 28 hours represents only time spent in performing the delivery task. Any waiting around beforehand when not assigned a task is not counted as working hours for the purposes of min wage calculation. If this is true (and that needs verifying) then this 28 might be a 40 hours where the person was unable to get on with their other life duties even if they weren’t technically working.</text></item><item><author>KMnO4</author><text>I can’t tell how to interpret this. Doing gig work doesn’t pay well, but respondents are doing an average of 28 hours of work per week.<p>Something is missing from the picture. If the takeaway is that gig workers are struggling to pay living expenses, I would expect that to be reflected by working 50-60+ hours per week.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SuperGent</author><text>I think the op here was pointing out that in some gig jobs, you only get paid whilst doing the task (eg delivering the food) rather than the time they are available to work, such as waiting for a food order. The worker can&#x27;t do anything else whilst waiting, but still doesn&#x27;t get paid.</text></comment> |
40,321,400 | 40,321,007 | 1 | 2 | 40,320,166 | train | <story><title>KeePassXC Debian maintainer has removed all network features</title><url>https://fosstodon.org/@keepassxc/112417353193348720</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>theamk</author><text>Looks like pretty reasonable decision to me - network features and browser integrations are huge potential holes &#x2F; exploit entry points. And without network-related features and only running the trusted databases, the tool should be impossible to exploit even if exploits are found, which is a very desirable trait for something as important as password manager. Even original maintainer agrees [1].<p>Remember, the full network-enabled package is present in debian as well - so all the network features are &quot;apt install keepassxc-full&quot; away, for users that want it.<p>Two minor comments: calling your upstream &quot;crappy&quot;[0] is probably not the most productive way for package maintainer to act. Also, I am not sure if the package names (keepassxc vs keepassxc-full) are best for Debian users - something like keepassxc-lite and keepassxc-full might be more informative.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;keepassxreboot&#x2F;keepassxc&#x2F;issues&#x2F;10725#issuecomment-2104401817">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;keepassxreboot&#x2F;keepassxc&#x2F;issues&#x2F;10725#iss...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;keepassxreboot&#x2F;keepassxc&#x2F;issues&#x2F;10725#issuecomment-2104512907">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;keepassxreboot&#x2F;keepassxc&#x2F;issues&#x2F;10725#iss...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arp242</author><text>Lots of things are a huge potential hole and&#x2F;or exploit entry point. Lots of these things are also useful.<p>And &quot;being useful&quot; can <i>increase</i> security because if password managers are hard to use then people stop using them.<p>And looking at this a bit more, it&#x27;s not clear to me that using the clipboard is necessarily more secure than the browser integration. Copy&#x2F;paste accidents alone would offset quite a bit of the security footprint of a browser integration.<p>Many years ago I did some contracting for a fairly large company.[1] The laptops of their account managers had a disk encryption passwords, Windows login password, and AD login password. They all had to be different. They all had to be changed every few months. They all had &quot;must contain at least two capitals, at least 4 non-letter&#x2F;digits, and at least one 11 digit prime number&quot;-type requirements.<p>Every single laptop I ever saw had a post-it note with all three passwords. Without exception.<p>My point here is: hypothetical security nerd security does not equal actual real-world security. Or at least not always. There are real trade-offs to be made here.<p>[1]: We did some maintenance of the laptops as an external contractor for some of the guys. They weren&#x27;t really supposed to, but it was tons faster and easier because less bureaucracy, as doing it by their own IT system took forever. It was that type of company. This, on its own, was of course also a &quot;security risk&quot; because random tech guys from a computer store shouldn&#x27;t really be on their laptops with super-secret company data (I don&#x27;t think there wasn&#x27;t that much to protect, other than sales&#x2F;customer numbers which is only useful for a very select group of people).</text></comment> | <story><title>KeePassXC Debian maintainer has removed all network features</title><url>https://fosstodon.org/@keepassxc/112417353193348720</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>theamk</author><text>Looks like pretty reasonable decision to me - network features and browser integrations are huge potential holes &#x2F; exploit entry points. And without network-related features and only running the trusted databases, the tool should be impossible to exploit even if exploits are found, which is a very desirable trait for something as important as password manager. Even original maintainer agrees [1].<p>Remember, the full network-enabled package is present in debian as well - so all the network features are &quot;apt install keepassxc-full&quot; away, for users that want it.<p>Two minor comments: calling your upstream &quot;crappy&quot;[0] is probably not the most productive way for package maintainer to act. Also, I am not sure if the package names (keepassxc vs keepassxc-full) are best for Debian users - something like keepassxc-lite and keepassxc-full might be more informative.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;keepassxreboot&#x2F;keepassxc&#x2F;issues&#x2F;10725#issuecomment-2104401817">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;keepassxreboot&#x2F;keepassxc&#x2F;issues&#x2F;10725#iss...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;keepassxreboot&#x2F;keepassxc&#x2F;issues&#x2F;10725#issuecomment-2104512907">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;keepassxreboot&#x2F;keepassxc&#x2F;issues&#x2F;10725#iss...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Arnavion</author><text>There&#x27;s one way in which browser integration improves security vs not using it, which is that the browser extension checks the page URL before filling in the credentials, while the approach of manually copy-pasting credentials is vulnerable to typo- and homoglyph-phishing.</text></comment> |
30,500,021 | 30,499,901 | 1 | 3 | 30,499,150 | train | <story><title>A planned EU regulation about website certificates is causing concern</title><url>https://www.feistyduck.com/bulletproof-tls-newsletter/issue_86_eu_plans_to_mandate_less_secure_certificates_in_browsers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AnIdiotOnTheNet</author><text>Probably browsers will remove it anyway and deal with EU in court if they make a stink about it.<p>As it is, browser companies[0] are the sole authority on what is and isn&#x27;t a valid CA. At least the EU leadership is elected.<p>[0] and let&#x27;s be realistic here, this means Google.</text></item><item><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>&gt; In practice, this would simply move a little bit of control over the list of accepted authorities from browser vendors to EU institutions, which is not terribly unreasonable a stance.<p>And what happens when one of those institutions violates existing widespread CA policy, such as by issuing a certificate for MITM purposes, or otherwise making the web less secure? Right now, browsers can simply remove such CAs based on their established policy. (This isn&#x27;t a hypothetical; browsers <i>have</i> had to remove CAs for such misbehavior in the past.)</text></item><item><author>toyg</author><text>This title is clickbait. The proposed amendment to the framework is just excessively bureaucratic around the management of cert authorities. This might potentially result in browsers accepting certificates from authorities with a slightly dubious track record (according to browser vendors), yes, but the certificates themselves will not necessarily be &quot;less secure&quot; - which the layman typically interprets as &quot;cryptographically weaker&quot;.<p>In practice, this would simply move a little bit of control over the list of accepted authorities from browser vendors to EU institutions, which is not terribly unreasonable a stance.<p>In fact, as time passes and authorities become more and more tech savvy, I expect this sort of thing to happen more and more. There is a lot of unaccountable authority (eh) in internet infrastructure, with special companies like Google and Microsoft (and yes, Mozilla too) effectively holding the keys to many kingdoms. Even if such power is used scarcely and wisely, there <i>is</i> a question of legitimacy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcranmer</author><text>&gt; and let&#x27;s be realistic here, this means Google.<p>Actually, it doesn&#x27;t. There are four main browser CA root stores: Apple, Microsoft, Mozilla, and Google, and these are also the root stores of their respective operating systems (if you&#x27;re on Linux, you&#x27;re using Mozilla&#x27;s root store, because distros do not want to run anything themselves).<p>Furthermore, the Microsoft, Google, and Mozilla root stores all also require inclusion in the common CA database, which is run by Mozilla. Also, Mozilla (and maybe Google) require CAs to participate in Mozilla&#x27;s public lists, especially when it comes to notifying people of big CA security oopsies--all of the big CA issues have come to light on that list, and the coordination of the responses by browsers has been done by Mozilla.<p>So the biggest authority on who a valid CA is? <i>Mozilla</i>.</text></comment> | <story><title>A planned EU regulation about website certificates is causing concern</title><url>https://www.feistyduck.com/bulletproof-tls-newsletter/issue_86_eu_plans_to_mandate_less_secure_certificates_in_browsers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AnIdiotOnTheNet</author><text>Probably browsers will remove it anyway and deal with EU in court if they make a stink about it.<p>As it is, browser companies[0] are the sole authority on what is and isn&#x27;t a valid CA. At least the EU leadership is elected.<p>[0] and let&#x27;s be realistic here, this means Google.</text></item><item><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>&gt; In practice, this would simply move a little bit of control over the list of accepted authorities from browser vendors to EU institutions, which is not terribly unreasonable a stance.<p>And what happens when one of those institutions violates existing widespread CA policy, such as by issuing a certificate for MITM purposes, or otherwise making the web less secure? Right now, browsers can simply remove such CAs based on their established policy. (This isn&#x27;t a hypothetical; browsers <i>have</i> had to remove CAs for such misbehavior in the past.)</text></item><item><author>toyg</author><text>This title is clickbait. The proposed amendment to the framework is just excessively bureaucratic around the management of cert authorities. This might potentially result in browsers accepting certificates from authorities with a slightly dubious track record (according to browser vendors), yes, but the certificates themselves will not necessarily be &quot;less secure&quot; - which the layman typically interprets as &quot;cryptographically weaker&quot;.<p>In practice, this would simply move a little bit of control over the list of accepted authorities from browser vendors to EU institutions, which is not terribly unreasonable a stance.<p>In fact, as time passes and authorities become more and more tech savvy, I expect this sort of thing to happen more and more. There is a lot of unaccountable authority (eh) in internet infrastructure, with special companies like Google and Microsoft (and yes, Mozilla too) effectively holding the keys to many kingdoms. Even if such power is used scarcely and wisely, there <i>is</i> a question of legitimacy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dane-pgp</author><text>&gt; Probably browsers will remove it anyway and deal with EU in court if they make a stink about it.<p>A more direct and confrontational approach would be for browser companies to do what website owners have effectively done, which is to agree in advance to implement some sort of annoying pop-up (shown every time the browser updates) saying &quot;Do you want the EU to weaken your security and enable spying? [Yes] [No]&quot;, like those annoying cookie pop-ups.<p>The difference being, of course, that the cookie pop-ups are designed to dark-pattern users into giving away their rights, and to blame the EU unfairly, whereas these browser pop-ups would be to help protect users&#x27; rights and to correctly blame the EU (assuming the regulation passes).</text></comment> |
10,910,126 | 10,910,306 | 1 | 3 | 10,909,901 | train | <story><title>French drug trial leaves six hospitalized, one brain-dead</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/16/world/europe/french-drug-trial-hospitalization.html?_r=0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kauffj</author><text>The unfortunate nature of the seen and the unseen is that we will always notice the times we approved a drug too early or tested too aggressively, but we will never notice the deaths that happen because we were too timid or cautious in our approach.<p>While this case should be studied to ascertain whether process changes could prevent it, the solution is absolutely not further testing, control, and regulation. Hundreds of thousands of people already die or suffer every year because of the paternalistic, conservative policies governing medicine.</text></comment> | <story><title>French drug trial leaves six hospitalized, one brain-dead</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/16/world/europe/french-drug-trial-hospitalization.html?_r=0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cstross</author><text>Note from the NYTimes:<p><i>Contrary to several reports in the French news media, the drug was not a cannabis-based painkiller, Ms. Touraine said.</i><p>Early reports in The Guardian, the BBC, and elsewhere called it a cannabinoid-based painkiller. (That sounded rather implausible because (a) cannabinoids have a <i>ridiculously</i> high therapeutic index -- ratio of medically effective dose to toxic dose -- and (b) with cannabis decriminalization spreading internationally, the commercial benefit of patenting a drug in the same space as a cheap non-proprietary alternative would appear to be small.)<p>Edit: The Guardian amended their piece to state that it was a monoclonal antibody targeting the brain&#x27;s endocannabinoid receptors. (Interesting idea, but Mabs have some really lethal failure modes, notably triggering a cytokine storm in some cases, cf. TGN1412.)</text></comment> |
17,402,265 | 17,400,925 | 1 | 3 | 17,400,164 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Mimicking the Bloomberg menu widget without JavaScript</title><url>https://dosyago-coder-0.github.io/mimic-bloomberg-menu-no-js</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dosy</author><text>Context: I like the Bloomberg site and their drop-down menu is cool. Purely as a challenge, I set out to mimick the styles and behaviour of that menu without using JavaScript and trying to keep the HTML&#x2F;CSS as minimal as possible. Their menu widget does not work if you switch of JS (but this was not a motivation for me to make this).<p>Tested on IE 11, Edge 12, latest Chrome stable and Firefox dev on Windows 10.<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dosyago-coder-0&#x2F;mimic-bloomberg-menu-no-js" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dosyago-coder-0&#x2F;mimic-bloomberg-menu-no-j...</a><p>Maybe this post should be a Medium post titled &quot;How I mimicked the Bloomberg menu widget without JavaScript.&quot; I might write one if many people want that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>analogmemory</author><text>Great job mimicking the menu with just pure CSS! You even got the fade&#x2F;slide down effect mostly there.<p>From a UX perspective there&#x27;s a reason they used Javascript. For example, if you hover over &quot;Politics&quot; and want to click on &quot;2018 Women Candidates&quot; naturally you move your mouse at an angle. Which causes you to lose the menu when it mouses over &quot;Technology&quot;. This is solved by tracking the mouse movement and holding the current menu open if the movement is at a specific angle<p>I&#x27;d like to read your write up if you do it :)</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Mimicking the Bloomberg menu widget without JavaScript</title><url>https://dosyago-coder-0.github.io/mimic-bloomberg-menu-no-js</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dosy</author><text>Context: I like the Bloomberg site and their drop-down menu is cool. Purely as a challenge, I set out to mimick the styles and behaviour of that menu without using JavaScript and trying to keep the HTML&#x2F;CSS as minimal as possible. Their menu widget does not work if you switch of JS (but this was not a motivation for me to make this).<p>Tested on IE 11, Edge 12, latest Chrome stable and Firefox dev on Windows 10.<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dosyago-coder-0&#x2F;mimic-bloomberg-menu-no-js" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dosyago-coder-0&#x2F;mimic-bloomberg-menu-no-j...</a><p>Maybe this post should be a Medium post titled &quot;How I mimicked the Bloomberg menu widget without JavaScript.&quot; I might write one if many people want that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrismorgan</author><text>The menu is functionally <i>completely broken</i>. Because panel visibility is determined purely by :hover or :focus, as soon as you try to click on an item in the panel, that focus is lost and the panel disappears, taking your attempted click with it.<p>There are only three approaches that you can reasonably use here (they can be combined, too):<p>① Labels, which allow some rather nifty structure-breaking tricks on :hover;<p>② Change the .bmenu &gt; a things from links (because you can’t nest links), and put the panel contents inside that node, then use :hover;<p>③ Use radio buttons and :checked.</text></comment> |
25,214,085 | 25,213,800 | 1 | 2 | 25,209,773 | train | <story><title>AWS Cognito is having issues and health dashboards are still green</title><url>https://status.aws.amazon.com/##</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>piewzko</author><text>Now is probably a good time to plug some of the open source alternatives to vendor locked in identity solutions:<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ory" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ory</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dexidp&#x2F;dex" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dexidp&#x2F;dex</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;authelia&#x2F;authelia" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;authelia&#x2F;authelia</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;keycloak&#x2F;keycloak" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;keycloak&#x2F;keycloak</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gluu.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gluu.org&#x2F;</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;accounts-js&#x2F;accounts" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;accounts-js&#x2F;accounts</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grinich</author><text>Shameless plug for WorkOS. (I&#x27;m the founder. Hope that&#x27;s still ok on HN!)<p>We&#x27;re like Stripe for SSO&#x2F;SAML auth. Docs here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;workos.com&#x2F;docs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;workos.com&#x2F;docs</a><p>Here&#x27;s our HN launch: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22607402" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22607402</a></text></comment> | <story><title>AWS Cognito is having issues and health dashboards are still green</title><url>https://status.aws.amazon.com/##</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>piewzko</author><text>Now is probably a good time to plug some of the open source alternatives to vendor locked in identity solutions:<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ory" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ory</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dexidp&#x2F;dex" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dexidp&#x2F;dex</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;authelia&#x2F;authelia" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;authelia&#x2F;authelia</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;keycloak&#x2F;keycloak" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;keycloak&#x2F;keycloak</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gluu.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gluu.org&#x2F;</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;accounts-js&#x2F;accounts" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;accounts-js&#x2F;accounts</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kevindong</author><text>I&#x27;d expect Amazon to be better able to maintain uptime than a self-hosted option at most (but not all) companies.</text></comment> |
9,501,634 | 9,501,559 | 1 | 3 | 9,498,830 | train | <story><title>Lenovo: researchers find 'massive security risk'</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-32607618</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pXMzR2A</author><text>&gt; opening the box was unscrew the case and change the drive for an SSD<p>Does that not void the warranty?</text></item><item><author>dheera</author><text>In my case, when I received my Lenovo the first thing I did after opening the box was unscrew the case and change the drive for an SSD. Before even powering it on once. But yeah, if I used the default HDD, I&#x27;d at least reformat it first thing. I&#x27;m a Linux user though, so I&#x27;d have to reformat it anyway, but I&#x27;d still reformat it even if I were a Windows user.<p>Microsoft, Google, Apple, Ubuntu, et al. all make decent OSes that are designed to, um, work. I don&#x27;t get why manufacturers don&#x27;t get this simple fact and always have to tamper with stuff. For the less-technical people out there, can&#x27;t we have a &quot;Nexus&quot; sort of PC manufacturer who prides themselves in selling with ONLY vanilla OSes and as-standard-as-possible hardware components?</text></item><item><author>orthecreedence</author><text>It seems from the article that the best way to handle this is to uninstall all the trash that comes with a new computer (or hell, reinstall windows from scratch). Do I need Lenovo&#x27;s power management tools? No. Do I need its Wifi connection manager? No. Windows has all this stuff already and it works really, really well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ptaipale</author><text>This might depend on country, but in most countries that have some consumer protection, replacing a hard disk and similar reasonable operations are considered to be normal use of the machine, and the consumer law says that the consumer may not be prevented from doing this.<p>When the customer is not a consumer but a company, then things might be different (companies may be able to give away their rights in a way that consumers may not).<p>In EU countries, a manufacturer may offer a warranty, but this is just supposed to be an extra service; the seller is at least required to provide defect liability (i.e. a device must fixed if broken when it is sold and it must last for a reasonable time in reasonable use).</text></comment> | <story><title>Lenovo: researchers find 'massive security risk'</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-32607618</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pXMzR2A</author><text>&gt; opening the box was unscrew the case and change the drive for an SSD<p>Does that not void the warranty?</text></item><item><author>dheera</author><text>In my case, when I received my Lenovo the first thing I did after opening the box was unscrew the case and change the drive for an SSD. Before even powering it on once. But yeah, if I used the default HDD, I&#x27;d at least reformat it first thing. I&#x27;m a Linux user though, so I&#x27;d have to reformat it anyway, but I&#x27;d still reformat it even if I were a Windows user.<p>Microsoft, Google, Apple, Ubuntu, et al. all make decent OSes that are designed to, um, work. I don&#x27;t get why manufacturers don&#x27;t get this simple fact and always have to tamper with stuff. For the less-technical people out there, can&#x27;t we have a &quot;Nexus&quot; sort of PC manufacturer who prides themselves in selling with ONLY vanilla OSes and as-standard-as-possible hardware components?</text></item><item><author>orthecreedence</author><text>It seems from the article that the best way to handle this is to uninstall all the trash that comes with a new computer (or hell, reinstall windows from scratch). Do I need Lenovo&#x27;s power management tools? No. Do I need its Wifi connection manager? No. Windows has all this stuff already and it works really, really well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mikeb85</author><text>Depends on the laptop. Often &#x27;Lenovo&#x27; translates to &#x27;ThinkPad&#x27;, where nearly every component is meant to be accessible and easy to switch out.</text></comment> |
7,415,615 | 7,415,185 | 1 | 2 | 7,414,030 | train | <story><title>MH370: A different point of view</title><url>https://plus.google.com/106271056358366282907/posts/GoeVjHJaGBz</url><text>This seems like a simpler explanation.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>PaulRobinson</author><text>Sequence of events this implies when coupled with other information:<p>1. Electrical fire starts, takes out ADS-B transponder, pilots unaware and continue the flight as normal
2. They radio a goodbye as they leave ATC, still unaware of anything which means that a fire has taken out a transponder and they are unaware of that fact
3. The fire is discovered. The crew put on full-face oxygen masks and the pilot makes for that airport either by dialling in a bearing into the autopilot or disengaging it and flying for it.
4. They attempt communication but fail because the systems are out due to the fire<p>At that point, we then have a lot of things to consider: was it pilot input or autopilot that took them to FL450? When did the pilots lose the ability to land, either because of control surface damage or because they were incapacitated? In the event of being alive but unable to fly the aircraft because control surfaces were no longer responsive to cockpit or autopilot input, is there anything else they could&#x2F;would do other than do some maths and work out when the inevitable crash was coming? If they could control some surfaces but not others would they use that to buy themselves more time, e.g. climbing to ceiling (FL450), or would they get low quick?<p>This theory raises quite a few questions then, but it&#x27;s a perfectly valid hypothesis: the issue for me around it is understanding why the pilots didn&#x27;t go on to make the landing suggesting loss of control or their own lives by that point. The only way we&#x27;ll get to understand that is by finding the black box which of course would explain the whole thing anyway.<p>This theory also suggests a likely ditching or crash into the water, and if that were the case then I would expect sonar operators over a large part of the region to hear the black box locator, pretty much as they did with the Air France crash.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Arjuna</author><text><i>&quot;The only way we&#x27;ll get to understand that is by finding the black box which of course would explain the whole thing anyway.&quot;</i><p>I appreciate that there are technical challenges and costs associated with the following idea, but it would be quite an interesting project to create a system that would transmit Flight Data Recorder (FDR) information to a ground location.<p>Off the top of my head, it would need to be flexible, perhaps recording more detailed telemetry in cases where cellular networks were available, to being able to provide critical, but perhaps less-detailed telemetry, in cases where only satellite communications were available. In addition, data monitoring systems could be programmed with the intelligence to transmit more detailed telemetry in the event of an anomaly (e.g., the &quot;left turn&quot; with regard to MH370). This would be an attempt to find the right balance of data fidelity, with regard to available transmission capabilities and associated costs.<p>Sadly, as it is now, we are left with relying on essentially locating the proverbial &quot;needle in a haystack&quot; with regard to locating the FDR. Another example is the case with AF447 [1]. Although the FDR was recovered, it was not until nearly 2 years after the incident.<p>My heart goes out to those that lost loved ones. Not having closure is an extremely painful and difficult process to endure.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Air_France_Flight_447</a></text></comment> | <story><title>MH370: A different point of view</title><url>https://plus.google.com/106271056358366282907/posts/GoeVjHJaGBz</url><text>This seems like a simpler explanation.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>PaulRobinson</author><text>Sequence of events this implies when coupled with other information:<p>1. Electrical fire starts, takes out ADS-B transponder, pilots unaware and continue the flight as normal
2. They radio a goodbye as they leave ATC, still unaware of anything which means that a fire has taken out a transponder and they are unaware of that fact
3. The fire is discovered. The crew put on full-face oxygen masks and the pilot makes for that airport either by dialling in a bearing into the autopilot or disengaging it and flying for it.
4. They attempt communication but fail because the systems are out due to the fire<p>At that point, we then have a lot of things to consider: was it pilot input or autopilot that took them to FL450? When did the pilots lose the ability to land, either because of control surface damage or because they were incapacitated? In the event of being alive but unable to fly the aircraft because control surfaces were no longer responsive to cockpit or autopilot input, is there anything else they could&#x2F;would do other than do some maths and work out when the inevitable crash was coming? If they could control some surfaces but not others would they use that to buy themselves more time, e.g. climbing to ceiling (FL450), or would they get low quick?<p>This theory raises quite a few questions then, but it&#x27;s a perfectly valid hypothesis: the issue for me around it is understanding why the pilots didn&#x27;t go on to make the landing suggesting loss of control or their own lives by that point. The only way we&#x27;ll get to understand that is by finding the black box which of course would explain the whole thing anyway.<p>This theory also suggests a likely ditching or crash into the water, and if that were the case then I would expect sonar operators over a large part of the region to hear the black box locator, pretty much as they did with the Air France crash.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>graeham</author><text>This requires the pilots to discover the fire at the exact time when switching from Malaysian Air Traffic Control to Vietnamese Air Traffic Control. The fire then incapacitates the radio or the pilots before they have a chance to call in the incident. Seems overly coincidental to me.</text></comment> |
41,195,542 | 41,195,707 | 1 | 3 | 41,195,124 | train | <story><title>Intel's Immiseration</title><url>https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/intels-immiseration</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PaulHoule</author><text>The biggest problem I&#x27;ve seen with Intel is that they are &quot;getting high on their own supply&quot; and the whole tech press enables them with the sole exception of Charlie Demerjian.<p>They should pick a few random people out of the phone book and pay them handsomely for their advice, this way they might start to &quot;see themselves as other see them&quot;. Most of all they need to recognize the phenomenon of &quot;brand destruction&quot; which has manifest in clueless campaigns such as &quot;Ultrabooks&quot;, brands that should have been killed off years ago (&quot;Celeron&quot;, sorry, low performance brands have a shelf life, there&#x27;s a reason why Honda is still making the Civic but GM is not making the Chevette) and that they should write it in their bylaws that they are getting out of the GPU business permanently (they&#x27;ve made so many awful products it will take 15 years for people to get the idea that an Intel GPU adds value, instead it&#x27;s this awful thing you have to turn off so that it won&#x27;t screw up graphics in your web browser when you&#x27;re using a Discrete GPU.) People might get their heads around the idea that an Intel CPU is a premium brand <i>if</i> it had a GPU chiplet from a reputable manufacturer like AMD or NVIDIA.<p>(Oddly when Intel has had a truly premium brand, as in SSDs, they&#x27;ve ignored it. Hardly anybody noticed the great 95% latency performance that of Intel SSDs because hardly anybody realizes that 95% latency is <i>what you feel when your computer feels slow</i>. Intel SSDs were one Intel product that I would seek out by name, at least until they sold their SSD division. Most people who&#x27;ve run a lot of Intel SSDs swear by them.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Miraste</author><text>A lot of these are symptoms of the root cause: a bad product. Ultrabooks aren&#x27;t a terrible concept; they&#x27;re the Wintel version of Macbook Airs. Making a non-Apple Apple device is a fine business strategy, and Samsung has made plenty of money off of it. The problem was that Intel chips continually crippled them, making them hot and slow with no battery life. People don&#x27;t like Celerons and iGPUs because they all run at the speed of molasses.<p>Any of these branding decisions would have worked fine, if the products did. But no amount of marketing will fix bad engineering.</text></comment> | <story><title>Intel's Immiseration</title><url>https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/intels-immiseration</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PaulHoule</author><text>The biggest problem I&#x27;ve seen with Intel is that they are &quot;getting high on their own supply&quot; and the whole tech press enables them with the sole exception of Charlie Demerjian.<p>They should pick a few random people out of the phone book and pay them handsomely for their advice, this way they might start to &quot;see themselves as other see them&quot;. Most of all they need to recognize the phenomenon of &quot;brand destruction&quot; which has manifest in clueless campaigns such as &quot;Ultrabooks&quot;, brands that should have been killed off years ago (&quot;Celeron&quot;, sorry, low performance brands have a shelf life, there&#x27;s a reason why Honda is still making the Civic but GM is not making the Chevette) and that they should write it in their bylaws that they are getting out of the GPU business permanently (they&#x27;ve made so many awful products it will take 15 years for people to get the idea that an Intel GPU adds value, instead it&#x27;s this awful thing you have to turn off so that it won&#x27;t screw up graphics in your web browser when you&#x27;re using a Discrete GPU.) People might get their heads around the idea that an Intel CPU is a premium brand <i>if</i> it had a GPU chiplet from a reputable manufacturer like AMD or NVIDIA.<p>(Oddly when Intel has had a truly premium brand, as in SSDs, they&#x27;ve ignored it. Hardly anybody noticed the great 95% latency performance that of Intel SSDs because hardly anybody realizes that 95% latency is <i>what you feel when your computer feels slow</i>. Intel SSDs were one Intel product that I would seek out by name, at least until they sold their SSD division. Most people who&#x27;ve run a lot of Intel SSDs swear by them.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>immibis</author><text>I have an Arc A770 and it seems to work fine so far... though I&#x27;ve only had it for a month. There are some tolerable teething problems: I can&#x27;t set the fan curve from Linux so I had to duct tape some extra fans, and it&#x27;s incompatible with BIOS boot (requires UEFI) which should be considered acceptable in 2024. For presumably the same reason, there&#x27;s no graphics output in early Linux boot until the GPU driver is loaded.<p>The IGPU in my previous machine&#x27;s i7-6700K (Skylake) was also just fine. Intel Graphics Media Accelerator, yeah that really sucked, but that was like 15 years ago?</text></comment> |
15,165,489 | 15,165,524 | 1 | 2 | 15,164,769 | train | <story><title>Flat UI Elements Attract Less Attention and Cause Uncertainty</title><url>https://www.nngroup.com/articles/flat-ui-less-attention-cause-uncertainty/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chenster</author><text>Thank you, Lord! My prayers have been heard. I&#x27;m just happy that I am not the only one who got rants about the flat UI. It really should go away. The flat design was born from Microsoft Windows phone Metro UI, if I recall correctly, then other designers quickly jumped on the wagon and claiming it&#x27;s the next greatest and neatest &quot;UI revolution&quot;. What a joke! It totally sacrifices usability. The outcome? A horrible user experience, and job security for the designers.<p>Link to Flat design:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Flat_design" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Flat_design</a> It was indeed first introduced by Microsoft with the name Metro Design.<p>Microsoft is moving away from the notorious Flat UI to Fluent Design: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.firstpost.com&#x2F;tech&#x2F;news-analysis&#x2F;build-2017-microsoft-evolves-beyond-flat-ui-with-its-fluent-design-language-3702669.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.firstpost.com&#x2F;tech&#x2F;news-analysis&#x2F;build-2017-micro...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rdtsc</author><text>&gt; It really should go away.<p>It will. Designers will come up with a new thing pretty quickly. In that respect I guess they are probably no different than developers. Nobody likes to end the year with &quot;yeah I just maintained this piece of code last year&quot;, instead it has to be &quot;yeah the code the last team wrote was crap, so we tore it all out, replaced with a fancier later framework, added some features on top, etc&quot;.<p>Presumably people in charge of design at these big companies get paid decently, so there is some internal pressure to deliver something. So no matter how good, fast, clean the current interface, is there will be an unveiling of a &quot;cooler &#x2F; newer &#x2F; fresher&quot; interface. But I think the fundamental reason reason is most likely because of a need to create work to justify salaries.<p>This happens in software, in design, and probably many other fields. Managers, department heads, directors, CEOs they all play this game. Sometimes everyone in the game realizes what&#x27;s happening but they just go along because it works out for them (well sometimes it doesn&#x27;t work out, but then they blame the customers ;-) )</text></comment> | <story><title>Flat UI Elements Attract Less Attention and Cause Uncertainty</title><url>https://www.nngroup.com/articles/flat-ui-less-attention-cause-uncertainty/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chenster</author><text>Thank you, Lord! My prayers have been heard. I&#x27;m just happy that I am not the only one who got rants about the flat UI. It really should go away. The flat design was born from Microsoft Windows phone Metro UI, if I recall correctly, then other designers quickly jumped on the wagon and claiming it&#x27;s the next greatest and neatest &quot;UI revolution&quot;. What a joke! It totally sacrifices usability. The outcome? A horrible user experience, and job security for the designers.<p>Link to Flat design:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Flat_design" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Flat_design</a> It was indeed first introduced by Microsoft with the name Metro Design.<p>Microsoft is moving away from the notorious Flat UI to Fluent Design: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.firstpost.com&#x2F;tech&#x2F;news-analysis&#x2F;build-2017-microsoft-evolves-beyond-flat-ui-with-its-fluent-design-language-3702669.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.firstpost.com&#x2F;tech&#x2F;news-analysis&#x2F;build-2017-micro...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>copx</author><text>I have always hated this fashion with passion too. For <i>me</i> it makes UIs less aesthetically pleasing <i>and</i> harder to use.<p>One of the reasons why I still use Windows 7 is that I like its 3D transparent glass-like look and utterly hate the flat design of later versions which I would call soulless and ugly. And the UI elements are harder to distinguish for me.<p>That being said, many people <i>do</i> like it, and I am not aware of any studies about how many people like it &#x2F; don&#x27;t like &#x2F; don&#x27;t care in general.<p>Fortunately for us flat UI haters, that horrible design trend will go away the same way it came - as a fashion. Fashion by definition does not last. Sooner or later flat design will inevitability be considered old and unhip too.</text></comment> |
30,230,872 | 30,230,330 | 1 | 2 | 30,229,393 | train | <story><title>Web3 doesn’t care about privacy</title><url>https://coinsights.substack.com/p/the-duality-of-web3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>endymi0n</author><text>Web3 also doesn‘t care about anything else than holding up just enough hype and credibility so the original creators of the Ponzi scheme can cash out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baxtr</author><text>This is becoming a meme. Anyone can post a comment containing the words web3, ponzi, scam, hype and add literally no value but still get upvoted.<p>My take on crypto at this point is very simple: At least we have the transparency. There are so many scams going on in the financial industry. But it&#x27;s hard to undercover, because all is opaque.<p>It is the same with energy costs. Has anyone dared to calculate the CO2 release of traditional core banking systems or even running a large network of physical branches. No, because it&#x27;s difficult and opaque. With the public blockchain these things actually can be calculated, which is a good thing I believe.<p>Same with art. Is the broad public aware of the crazy price tags paid in the art scene over the last two decades? NFTs make this public.<p>If more people would embrace the transparency created instead of complaining about the space all the time, we would create a better world.</text></comment> | <story><title>Web3 doesn’t care about privacy</title><url>https://coinsights.substack.com/p/the-duality-of-web3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>endymi0n</author><text>Web3 also doesn‘t care about anything else than holding up just enough hype and credibility so the original creators of the Ponzi scheme can cash out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>After several months of reading Reddit&#x27;s r&#x2F;metaverse, I have to agree. The number of crypto-related projects which have actually produced a working 3D world is very small. Most don&#x27;t even try. The ones that work are mostly some web browser thing that looks like a Shockwave Flash game from 1999 or so.<p>I&#x27;m interested in large 3D virtual worlds with user created content.
I&#x27;ve read at least twenty metaverse &quot;white papers&quot; and &quot;roadmaps&quot; which go on and on about their &quot;tokenomics&quot; but have little or no info about how they actually intend to build a 3D world.
The contribution of the crypto crowd to actually making it happen is near zero. I&#x27;m disappointed. I&#x27;ve seen &quot;fake it til you make it&quot; before, but a lot of those guys aren&#x27;t even trying.</text></comment> |
36,938,780 | 36,936,340 | 1 | 2 | 36,934,135 | train | <story><title>Reasons Not to Be a Manager (2019)</title><url>https://charity.wtf/2019/09/08/reasons-not-to-be-a-manager/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>baz00</author><text>A finding I had when I took a management role was that it&#x27;s really hard actually getting anyone to do a good job of something. This is utterly frustrating. So many people actually don&#x27;t give a fuck if what they do works or is of merchantable quality as long as it&#x27;s perceived they are working for the hours required. I&#x27;ve found that the teams usually divide into functional elites that do the work unattended and I&#x27;m dealing with micromanaging the rest and trying to educate them.<p>I&#x27;ve spoken to managers in other sectors and it&#x27;s the same for them too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scottLobster</author><text>It&#x27;s an issue of incentives, and sadly my experience is it&#x27;s often not the immediate management that&#x27;s the problem, it&#x27;s structural issues with the company that low-level managers have little if any say in.<p>Speaking for my own experience, program-level and above management often doesn&#x27;t put their money where their mouth is. Maintenance is chronically under-funded, well-articulated and respectful feedback is ignored with a thank-you. Hell more than once I&#x27;ve been forced to spend an entire day in a conference room with all the other relevant devs to do a &quot;Root Cause Analysis&quot; of a given recent crisis, and we took it seriously each time and came up with genuine solutions. But said solutions required more hardware, more maintenance, more stuff that no one wanted to budget for.<p>You work in that environment long enough, you learn to clock in and clock out. If you allow yourself to give a shit you&#x27;ll just be constantly tearing your hair out. Those of us with some objective sense of professionalism usually evolve into the functional elites you mention, but I completely understand those who go the other way.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reasons Not to Be a Manager (2019)</title><url>https://charity.wtf/2019/09/08/reasons-not-to-be-a-manager/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>baz00</author><text>A finding I had when I took a management role was that it&#x27;s really hard actually getting anyone to do a good job of something. This is utterly frustrating. So many people actually don&#x27;t give a fuck if what they do works or is of merchantable quality as long as it&#x27;s perceived they are working for the hours required. I&#x27;ve found that the teams usually divide into functional elites that do the work unattended and I&#x27;m dealing with micromanaging the rest and trying to educate them.<p>I&#x27;ve spoken to managers in other sectors and it&#x27;s the same for them too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rndmwlk</author><text>&gt;So many people actually don&#x27;t give a fuck if what they do works or is of merchantable quality as long as it&#x27;s perceived they are working for the hours required.<p>I&#x27;ve found that&#x27;s due to completely backwards incentives. Most people don&#x27;t give a fuck because they aren&#x27;t rewarded properly. If I do an excellent job and complete whatever task I&#x27;m given well ahead of schedule the only reward I get is more work. Even if I sandbag a bit and do an excellent job and complete on time, often the reward for being &quot;better&quot; is more responsibility or more difficult tasks (without compensation). Some folks want that, many do not. Dollars to doughnuts if your team members know that quality work on schedule will be actually rewarded then you&#x27;ll find more of those members capable of producing that quality of work.</text></comment> |
8,630,176 | 8,630,267 | 1 | 2 | 8,629,885 | train | <story><title>Ian Jackson Resigns from Debian Technical Committee</title><url>https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/11/msg00091.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danieldk</author><text>You missed some:<p><a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/621895/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lwn.net&#x2F;Articles&#x2F;621895&#x2F;</a>
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<a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/619749/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lwn.net&#x2F;Articles&#x2F;619749&#x2F;</a><p>They are related in the sense that are all fall-out of the struggle to integrate or block systemd in Debian and&#x2F;or how it exposed some problems with the Debian constitution.<p>It&#x27;s a shame to see that so much talent is lost and frustrated over what in my eyes seems to be a small issue. systemd and Upstart are both a large improvement over the System V init scripts. So, it&#x27;s quite logical that it should be replaced at some point. Since systemd seems to have the most traction in other major distributions and upstream software, it makes sense to make that the default, while making it still possible to switch to Upstart et al. if someone wants to (at the risk of losing support for some upstream software).<p>If it turns out in three years that systemd is a dead-end, rip it out, and use whatever is better then. Distributions did that with devfs, the old hotplug scripts, egcs (which was merged back in mainline), etc.</text></item><item><author>privong</author><text>Can someone provide context for this? I am not familiar with Debian and do not know the back-story.<p>Also, I assume this is not directly related to the recent resignation[0] of Heen. But does the resignation of two people (whose resignations were deemed worthy of being voted to near the top of the HN front page) within a few day span suggest concernening structural issues or is this just poisson statistics at work?<p>[0] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8617874" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8617874</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zaphar</author><text>I get the impression which is admittedly informed by very cursory examination of the issues that ripping systemd out may be far more difficult than ripping say, Upstart. Systemd seems to have taken the approach of owning far more than just the Systemv init stuff and that removing it might entail sweeping changes to huge parts of a linux distribution. Systemd does seem to be pushing somewhat of a lock-in strategy and for many in the linux community that rubs them the wrong way.<p>Personally I don&#x27;t really care much either way.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ian Jackson Resigns from Debian Technical Committee</title><url>https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/11/msg00091.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danieldk</author><text>You missed some:<p><a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/621895/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lwn.net&#x2F;Articles&#x2F;621895&#x2F;</a>
<a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/621003/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lwn.net&#x2F;Articles&#x2F;621003&#x2F;</a>
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<a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/619749/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lwn.net&#x2F;Articles&#x2F;619749&#x2F;</a><p>They are related in the sense that are all fall-out of the struggle to integrate or block systemd in Debian and&#x2F;or how it exposed some problems with the Debian constitution.<p>It&#x27;s a shame to see that so much talent is lost and frustrated over what in my eyes seems to be a small issue. systemd and Upstart are both a large improvement over the System V init scripts. So, it&#x27;s quite logical that it should be replaced at some point. Since systemd seems to have the most traction in other major distributions and upstream software, it makes sense to make that the default, while making it still possible to switch to Upstart et al. if someone wants to (at the risk of losing support for some upstream software).<p>If it turns out in three years that systemd is a dead-end, rip it out, and use whatever is better then. Distributions did that with devfs, the old hotplug scripts, egcs (which was merged back in mainline), etc.</text></item><item><author>privong</author><text>Can someone provide context for this? I am not familiar with Debian and do not know the back-story.<p>Also, I assume this is not directly related to the recent resignation[0] of Heen. But does the resignation of two people (whose resignations were deemed worthy of being voted to near the top of the HN front page) within a few day span suggest concernening structural issues or is this just poisson statistics at work?<p>[0] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8617874" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8617874</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Shish2k</author><text>I&#x27;m starting to wonder if this is a problem with modern culture in general -- all over the place I&#x27;m seeing less &quot;let&#x27;s try our different approaches and see who has the best end result&quot; and more &quot;I will rape you to death with a flaming donkey for not running your project my way&quot;. It&#x27;s like nobody wants to do any work to demonstrate that their way is superior, they just want to sit back and bitch about how the other way is inferior, until the other team gives up and our overall result is nothing :-&#x2F;<p>(See also: both sides on pretty much any political issue in the past few years)</text></comment> |
36,076,861 | 36,076,457 | 1 | 2 | 36,073,379 | train | <story><title>Intel mulls cutting 16 and 32-bit support, booting straight into 64-bit mode</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/25/intel_proposes_dropping_16_bit_mode/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shpx</author><text>I care. I want to learn the entire thing I&#x27;m using, which means I appreciate things that are simpler and faster to learn. You can say I am a stupid or irrational person not worthy of consideration for wanting this but I am who I am and I want to spend money on computers that cater to me.</text></item><item><author>jeffbee</author><text>Yeah but who, other than the person responsible for the firmware that boots the system, cares? These simplifications will have zero observable benefits to you. They won’t save a lot of die space or cost.<p>The complexity of the far past is so small that it is inconsequential today. The PS1 was implemented in spare die area of the PS2’s USB controller. Time marches on and die space becomes free.</text></item><item><author>danudey</author><text>It still blows my mind that a 64-bit i9-13900K with 24 cores, 36 MB of cache, and a turbo speed of 5.8 GHz has to pretend to be a 16-bit 8086, which had a clock speed of 5-10 MHz and was discontinued in 1998, just to properly boot itself.<p>(An exaggerated oversimplification I know, but still)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>citrin_ru</author><text>It very similar to chip die space - modern technologies are so complex that to learn how 8086 works is a very small effort compare to learning how the latest intel CPUs work. And emulation of older generations is a small part of this complexity.</text></comment> | <story><title>Intel mulls cutting 16 and 32-bit support, booting straight into 64-bit mode</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/25/intel_proposes_dropping_16_bit_mode/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shpx</author><text>I care. I want to learn the entire thing I&#x27;m using, which means I appreciate things that are simpler and faster to learn. You can say I am a stupid or irrational person not worthy of consideration for wanting this but I am who I am and I want to spend money on computers that cater to me.</text></item><item><author>jeffbee</author><text>Yeah but who, other than the person responsible for the firmware that boots the system, cares? These simplifications will have zero observable benefits to you. They won’t save a lot of die space or cost.<p>The complexity of the far past is so small that it is inconsequential today. The PS1 was implemented in spare die area of the PS2’s USB controller. Time marches on and die space becomes free.</text></item><item><author>danudey</author><text>It still blows my mind that a 64-bit i9-13900K with 24 cores, 36 MB of cache, and a turbo speed of 5.8 GHz has to pretend to be a 16-bit 8086, which had a clock speed of 5-10 MHz and was discontinued in 1998, just to properly boot itself.<p>(An exaggerated oversimplification I know, but still)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phendrenad2</author><text>When people say &quot;who cares?&quot; they generally mean &quot;what non-vanishingly-small percentage of people care?&quot; and I think that&#x27;s still an unanswered question!</text></comment> |
32,660,262 | 32,659,988 | 1 | 3 | 32,654,734 | train | <story><title>Mikhail Gorbachev has died</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/mikhail-gorbachev-who-ended-cold-war-dies-aged-92-agencies-2022-08-30/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rixrax</author><text>But the dissolution of soviet union is not over yet. You can see this nowhere as clearly as in russias attack on Ukraine[0] where imperialistic russians that dream of restoring the glory and borders of soviet union[1] are waging their genocidal war. Meanwhile they are using hunger[2] and energy as their weapons against the rest of the world[3].<p>If the russians are not stopped in Ukraine, then there is no reason to believe that they wouldn&#x27;t rinse and repeat in Baltic states, Kazakhstan, Moldova, and all other now independent former russian states. Including Alaska[4], should opportunity represent itself.<p>To truly secure Gorbachevs place in history, world must decisively say no to the russians agressions in Ukraine, and help Ukraine deliver a humiliating defeat to the russians and the dissolution of soviet union reach it&#x27;s logical conclusion by stripping russia and their dreams off of any status as military, or world power.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;edition.cnn.com&#x2F;europe&#x2F;live-news&#x2F;russia-ukraine-war-news-08-30-22&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;edition.cnn.com&#x2F;europe&#x2F;live-news&#x2F;russia-ukraine-war-...</a>
[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;magazine-26769481" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;magazine-26769481</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theweek.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-news&#x2F;russia&#x2F;957367&#x2F;russia-uses-hunger-as-a-weapon-of-war-in-ukraine" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theweek.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-news&#x2F;russia&#x2F;957367&#x2F;russ...</a>
[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.atlanticcouncil.org&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;ukrainealert&#x2F;putins-energy-weapon-europe-must-be-ready-for-russian-gas-blackmail&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.atlanticcouncil.org&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;ukrainealert&#x2F;putins-en...</a>
[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.snopes.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2022&#x2F;03&#x2F;19&#x2F;does-russia-want-alaska-back&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.snopes.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2022&#x2F;03&#x2F;19&#x2F;does-russia-want-alas...</a></text></item><item><author>idlewords</author><text>Gorbachev secured his place in history by what he <i>didn&#x27;t</i> do. While never endorsing the end of the eastern bloc, he made it clear beginning in the late 1980&#x27;s that unlike his predecessors, he would not oppose democratic reforms in Eastern Europe by force. To general astonishment, he kept this promise, and with the regrettable exception of Lithuania this commitment to not repeating the crimes of his predecessors is Gorbachev&#x27;s greatest legacy. In 1988 you would have been hard pressed to find anyone who could imagine the mostly peaceful collapse of the Eastern Bloc, but Gorbachev had the moral courage to accept this once unimaginable consequence of his policy and to see it through.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kunagi7</author><text>First of all, RIP Gorbachev.<p>The Soviet Union ceased to exist in December 26, 1991 [0]. Russia is not the USSR, and it&#x27;s almost impossible it will never be anything remotely close.<p>Most of the former USSR industrial capabilities where either abandoned, razed or looted.<p>Russia&#x27;s modern industry (including military) depends heavily on European (now sanctioned and obtained via third countries) and Chinese imports. This means that most of their industrial machinery, oil&#x2F;gas extraction sector, automotive industry, chips... is now strained. They&#x27;ve almost stopped producing cars.<p>Russia is mostly burning the gigantic former USSR reserves until they dry out. And Ukraine is way bigger than Abkhazia, Ossetia or Transnistria so it has the largest burn rate since Afghanistan.<p>Just look up at their modern attempts of modernization. The T-14 Armata was expected to have over 100 of them built before 2020 [1] but only a few experimental units can be seen in the wild. Even the Iskander is a USSR design.<p>The &quot;humiliation&quot; is happening on both sides every day as we speak. No one will either &quot;win&quot; or &quot;lose&quot; the Russia-Ukraine war. It&#x27;s just an endless attrition warfare [2] were both sides consume their huge military storage (Ukraine using a mix of exUSSR and NATO material and Russia using exUSSR material).<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Unio...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;T-14_Armata" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;T-14_Armata</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Attrition_warfare" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Attrition_warfare</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Mikhail Gorbachev has died</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/mikhail-gorbachev-who-ended-cold-war-dies-aged-92-agencies-2022-08-30/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rixrax</author><text>But the dissolution of soviet union is not over yet. You can see this nowhere as clearly as in russias attack on Ukraine[0] where imperialistic russians that dream of restoring the glory and borders of soviet union[1] are waging their genocidal war. Meanwhile they are using hunger[2] and energy as their weapons against the rest of the world[3].<p>If the russians are not stopped in Ukraine, then there is no reason to believe that they wouldn&#x27;t rinse and repeat in Baltic states, Kazakhstan, Moldova, and all other now independent former russian states. Including Alaska[4], should opportunity represent itself.<p>To truly secure Gorbachevs place in history, world must decisively say no to the russians agressions in Ukraine, and help Ukraine deliver a humiliating defeat to the russians and the dissolution of soviet union reach it&#x27;s logical conclusion by stripping russia and their dreams off of any status as military, or world power.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;edition.cnn.com&#x2F;europe&#x2F;live-news&#x2F;russia-ukraine-war-news-08-30-22&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;edition.cnn.com&#x2F;europe&#x2F;live-news&#x2F;russia-ukraine-war-...</a>
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[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.snopes.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2022&#x2F;03&#x2F;19&#x2F;does-russia-want-alaska-back&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.snopes.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2022&#x2F;03&#x2F;19&#x2F;does-russia-want-alas...</a></text></item><item><author>idlewords</author><text>Gorbachev secured his place in history by what he <i>didn&#x27;t</i> do. While never endorsing the end of the eastern bloc, he made it clear beginning in the late 1980&#x27;s that unlike his predecessors, he would not oppose democratic reforms in Eastern Europe by force. To general astonishment, he kept this promise, and with the regrettable exception of Lithuania this commitment to not repeating the crimes of his predecessors is Gorbachev&#x27;s greatest legacy. In 1988 you would have been hard pressed to find anyone who could imagine the mostly peaceful collapse of the Eastern Bloc, but Gorbachev had the moral courage to accept this once unimaginable consequence of his policy and to see it through.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KingOfCoders</author><text>Small nitpick, &quot;glory and borders of soviet union&quot;. Putin compares himself with the Tsar [1] and wants to reestablish Russia in it&#x27;s imperial borders.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;2022&#x2F;jun&#x2F;10&#x2F;putin-compares-himself-to-peter-the-great-in-quest-to-take-back-russian-lands" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;2022&#x2F;jun&#x2F;10&#x2F;putin-compares...</a></text></comment> |
8,627,059 | 8,624,972 | 1 | 3 | 8,624,160 | train | <story><title>Launching in 2015: A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/certificate-authority-encrypt-entire-web</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pilif</author><text><i>&gt; A self signed certificate warning means &quot;Warning! The admin on the site you&#x27;re connecting to wants this conversation to be private but it hasn&#x27;t been proven that he has 200 bucks for us to say he&#x27;s cool&quot;</i><p>no. It means &quot;even though this connection is encrypted, there is no way to tell you whether you are currently talking to that site or to NSA which is forwarding all of your traffic to the site you&#x27;re on&quot;.<p>Treating this as a grave error IMHO is right because by accepting the connection over SSL, you state that the conversation between the user agent and the server is meant to be private.<p>Unfortunately, there is no way to guarantee that to be true if the identity of the server certificate can&#x27;t somehow be tied to the identity of the server.<p>So when you accept the connection unencrypted, you tell the user agent &quot;hey - everything is ok here - I don&#x27;t care about this conversation to be private&quot;, so no error message is shown.<p>But the moment you accept the connection over ssl, the user agent assumes the connection to be intended to be private and failure to assert identity becomes a terminal issue.<p>This doesn&#x27;t mean that the CA way of doing things is the right way - far from it. It&#x27;s just the best that we currently have.<p>The solution is absolutely not to have browsers accept self-signed certificates though. The solution is something nobody hasn&#x27;t quite come up with.</text></item><item><author>digitalsushi</author><text>This certificate industry has been such a racket. It&#x27;s not even tacit that there are two completely separate issues that certificates and encryption solve. They get conflated and non technical users rightly get confused about which thing is trying to solve a problem they aren&#x27;t sure why they have.<p>The certificate authorities are quite in love that the self-signed certificate errors are turning redder, bolder, and bigger. A self signed certificate warning means &quot;Warning! The admin on the site you&#x27;re connecting to wants this conversation to be private but it hasn&#x27;t been proven that he has 200 bucks for us to say he&#x27;s cool&quot;.<p>But so what if he&#x27;s cool? Yeah I like my banking website to be &quot;cool&quot; but for 200 bucks I can be just as &quot;cool&quot;. A few years back the browsers started putting extra bling on the URL bar if the coolness factor was high enough - if a bank pays 10,000 bucks for a really cool verification, they get a giant green pulsating URL badge. And they should, that means someone had to fax over vials of blood with the governor&#x27;s seal that it&#x27;s a legitimate institute in that state or province. But my little 200 dollar, not pulsating but still green certificate means &quot;yeah digitalsushi definitely had 200 bucks and a fax machine, or at least was [email protected] for damned sure&quot;.<p>And that is good enough for users. No errors? It&#x27;s legit.<p>What&#x27;s the difference between me coughing up 200 bucks to make that URL bar green, and then bright red with klaxons cause I didn&#x27;t cough up the 200 bucks to be sure I am the owner of a personal domain? Like I said, a racket. The certificate authorities love causing a panic. But don&#x27;t tell me users are any safer just &#x27;cause I had 200 bucks. They&#x27;re not.<p>The cert is just for warm and fuzzies. The encryption is to keep snoops out. If I made a browser, I would have 200 dollar &quot;hostmaster&quot; verification be some orange, cautious URL bar - &quot;this person has a site that we have verified to the laziest extent possible without getting sued for not even doing anything at all&quot;. But then I probably wouldn&#x27;t be getting any tips in my jar from the CAs at the end of the day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>moe</author><text><i>The solution is something nobody hasn&#x27;t quite come up with.</i><p>SSH has. It tells me:<p>WARNING, You are connecting to this site (fi:ng:er:pr:in:t) for the first time. Do your homework now. IF you deem it trustworthy right now then I will never bother you again UNLESS someone tries to impersonate it in the future.<p>That model isn&#x27;t perfect either but it is much preferable over the model that we currently have, which is: Blindly trust everyone who manages to exert control over any one of the 200+ &quot;Certificate Authorities&quot; that someone chose to bake into my browser.</text></comment> | <story><title>Launching in 2015: A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/certificate-authority-encrypt-entire-web</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pilif</author><text><i>&gt; A self signed certificate warning means &quot;Warning! The admin on the site you&#x27;re connecting to wants this conversation to be private but it hasn&#x27;t been proven that he has 200 bucks for us to say he&#x27;s cool&quot;</i><p>no. It means &quot;even though this connection is encrypted, there is no way to tell you whether you are currently talking to that site or to NSA which is forwarding all of your traffic to the site you&#x27;re on&quot;.<p>Treating this as a grave error IMHO is right because by accepting the connection over SSL, you state that the conversation between the user agent and the server is meant to be private.<p>Unfortunately, there is no way to guarantee that to be true if the identity of the server certificate can&#x27;t somehow be tied to the identity of the server.<p>So when you accept the connection unencrypted, you tell the user agent &quot;hey - everything is ok here - I don&#x27;t care about this conversation to be private&quot;, so no error message is shown.<p>But the moment you accept the connection over ssl, the user agent assumes the connection to be intended to be private and failure to assert identity becomes a terminal issue.<p>This doesn&#x27;t mean that the CA way of doing things is the right way - far from it. It&#x27;s just the best that we currently have.<p>The solution is absolutely not to have browsers accept self-signed certificates though. The solution is something nobody hasn&#x27;t quite come up with.</text></item><item><author>digitalsushi</author><text>This certificate industry has been such a racket. It&#x27;s not even tacit that there are two completely separate issues that certificates and encryption solve. They get conflated and non technical users rightly get confused about which thing is trying to solve a problem they aren&#x27;t sure why they have.<p>The certificate authorities are quite in love that the self-signed certificate errors are turning redder, bolder, and bigger. A self signed certificate warning means &quot;Warning! The admin on the site you&#x27;re connecting to wants this conversation to be private but it hasn&#x27;t been proven that he has 200 bucks for us to say he&#x27;s cool&quot;.<p>But so what if he&#x27;s cool? Yeah I like my banking website to be &quot;cool&quot; but for 200 bucks I can be just as &quot;cool&quot;. A few years back the browsers started putting extra bling on the URL bar if the coolness factor was high enough - if a bank pays 10,000 bucks for a really cool verification, they get a giant green pulsating URL badge. And they should, that means someone had to fax over vials of blood with the governor&#x27;s seal that it&#x27;s a legitimate institute in that state or province. But my little 200 dollar, not pulsating but still green certificate means &quot;yeah digitalsushi definitely had 200 bucks and a fax machine, or at least was [email protected] for damned sure&quot;.<p>And that is good enough for users. No errors? It&#x27;s legit.<p>What&#x27;s the difference between me coughing up 200 bucks to make that URL bar green, and then bright red with klaxons cause I didn&#x27;t cough up the 200 bucks to be sure I am the owner of a personal domain? Like I said, a racket. The certificate authorities love causing a panic. But don&#x27;t tell me users are any safer just &#x27;cause I had 200 bucks. They&#x27;re not.<p>The cert is just for warm and fuzzies. The encryption is to keep snoops out. If I made a browser, I would have 200 dollar &quot;hostmaster&quot; verification be some orange, cautious URL bar - &quot;this person has a site that we have verified to the laziest extent possible without getting sued for not even doing anything at all&quot;. But then I probably wouldn&#x27;t be getting any tips in my jar from the CAs at the end of the day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krick</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s just the best that we currently have.<p>No, I wouldn&#x27;t say so. Having SSL is better than having nothing pretty much on any site. But if you don&#x27;t want to pay $200 somebody for <i>nothing</i>, you would probably consider using http by default on your site, because it just looks &quot;safer&quot; to the user that knows nothing about cryptography because of how browsers behave. Which is nonsense. It&#x27;s worse than nothing.<p>And CA are not &quot;authorities&quot; at all. They could lie to you, they could be compromised. Of course, the fact that this certificate has been confirmed by &quot;somebody&quot; makes it a little more reliable than if it never was confirmed by anyone at all, but these &quot;somebodies&quot;, CA, don&#x27;t have any control over the situation, it&#x27;s just some guys that came up with idea to make money like that early enough. You are as good CA as Symantec is, you can just start selling certificates and it would be the same — except, well, you are just some guy, so browsers wouldn&#x27;t accept these certificates so it&#x27;s worth nothing. It&#x27;s all just about trust, and I&#x27;m not sure I trust Symantec more than I trust you. (And I don&#x27;t mean I actually trust you, by the way.)<p>For everyone else it&#x27;s not really about SSL, security and CAs, it&#x27;s just about how popular browsers behave.<p>So, no, monopolies existing for the reason they are <i>allowed</i> to do something are never good. Only if they do it for free.</text></comment> |
29,018,506 | 29,017,301 | 1 | 2 | 29,014,649 | train | <story><title>New MacBook Pro has first ‘DIY-friendly’ battery replacement design since 2012</title><url>https://www.ifixit.com/News/54122/macbook-pro-2021-teardown</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stack_framer</author><text>&gt; This is pure speculation, ungrounded from any evidence.<p>It&#x27;s not ungrounded from the <i>anecdotal</i> evidence that these changes are coming after Ive&#x27;s departure.<p>&gt; I have seen no evidence that Jony Ive was its patron, and no evidence that including it had anything to with making laptops expensive as a goal.<p>Holy, evidence Batman! Leadership 101: When your title is &quot;Chief Design Officer&quot;, the design buck stops with you. When your company releases an updated design to an existing product, you had some kind of say in that design. Period. Even if your &quot;say&quot; was just that you were aware of it, and didn&#x27;t veto it.</text></item><item><author>jacobolus</author><text>This is pure speculation, ungrounded from any evidence.<p>The touch bar is a very flexible (effectively) analog input + rich display device. If adequately supported by software it can be an amazing input, affording a range of useful functions not replicable with discrete buttons. In general, I really wish modern computers had more analog inputs available. Analog knobs, jog wheels, sliders, trackballs, etc. are tragically missing.<p>I have seen no evidence that Jony Ive was its patron, and no evidence that including it had anything to with making laptops expensive as a goal.<p>The problem with the touch bar is that (a) it only shipped on a limited subset of devices so software authors could not depend on it, (b) after its initial functions, Apple made limited effort to adopt it in all of their own software, improve its integration into the system, or push boundaries of what it could do as an input device.<p>&gt; <i>The butterfly keyboard was Ive shaving off 0.5mm of the width for a worse user experience with a higher production cost and less reliability.</i><p>No, this was some Apple-internal mechanical engineering group trying to design the best extremely thin keyboard they could, but getting bitten hard by a mismatch between reliability in a prototype vs. full-scale factory production + poor estimation of reliability in a wide variety of contexts over a longer period of time. Nobody ever set out to make a “worse experience” or higher cost.<p>There are many suboptimal features of the common rubber dome + scissor stabilizer laptop keyboards, and I wish more companies were brave enough to experiment with alternative designs in search of improvements. (Disclaimer: my favorite &quot;laptop&quot; keyboards are <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;IBM_PS&#x2F;2_portable_computers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;IBM_PS&#x2F;2_portable_computers</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Macintosh_Portable" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Macintosh_Portable</a>)</text></item><item><author>cletus</author><text>The 2016 wasn&#x27;t leadership, it was Johnny Ive without Steve Jobs bringing him back to reality.<p>Touch Bar? This was nothing more than adding expense to raise the ASP (Average Selling Price) of Macbooks, that had fallen precipitously low from a shareholder perspective because of the superb value-for-money proposition that was the 13&quot; Macbook Air.<p>The butterfly keyboard was Ive shaving off 0.5mm of the width for a worse user experience with a higher production cost and less reliability.<p>USB-C only was a philosophical move rather than a practical one that forced people everywhere to carry dongles. The USB-C cable situation was and continues to be a nightmare as different cables support different subsets of data, power and video and, worse yet, different versions of each of those. Worst of all, it was the loss of the much-beloved MagSafe. Also, the ports weren&#x27;t all the same. You were better off charging from the right (IIRC) rather than the left.<p>Replaceable RAM and SSD being lost is still painful. Personally I don&#x27;t believe this was about forcing users to pay for upgrades primarily. It was about shaving off a small amount of volume.<p>Ive is gone and every one of those decisions has been reversed or at least significantly amended. This is no accident.</text></item><item><author>tobyjsullivan</author><text>A lot of comments seem focused on the incentives to apple and what&#x27;s motivating the change. All fair questions. To me, though, it feels like just a radically different approach this year.<p>2016 macbook felt like leadership got in a room and said &quot;okay, let&#x27;s make a list of all the sexy things we can think of that would make the macbook unique&quot;. This netted things like thin-beyond-practicality, touchbar, removing all the ports, etc.<p>2021 macbook feels like leadership got in a room and said &quot;okay, let&#x27;s make a list of all the top things everybody is complaining about most.&quot; And they just fixed everything (well, most things) on that list one-by-one.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>karaterobot</author><text>&gt; When your title is &quot;Chief Design Officer&quot;, the design buck stops with you.<p>Agreed with this. When you&#x27;re coming to the CDO position after 20 years of being a hands-on designer at that company, most recently as the head of both human interface and industrial design across the entire organization, and having been described as being the person with the most operational power at Apple, after Steve Jobs himself, <i>even before being promoted</i>, my guess is that these design changes did not sneak under his radar. It is most likely that he set the goals that produced these designs, and that he was aware of and approved of them from the beginning. And I suspect that as a new C-level, he was probably even more hands on than that.<p>But since in this thread we are being asked to hold ourselves to a very high standard of rigor, I should note that I have not submitted this comment to peer review, or made my data available for replication at this time. I&#x27;m just basing this on, you know, how jobs work.</text></comment> | <story><title>New MacBook Pro has first ‘DIY-friendly’ battery replacement design since 2012</title><url>https://www.ifixit.com/News/54122/macbook-pro-2021-teardown</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stack_framer</author><text>&gt; This is pure speculation, ungrounded from any evidence.<p>It&#x27;s not ungrounded from the <i>anecdotal</i> evidence that these changes are coming after Ive&#x27;s departure.<p>&gt; I have seen no evidence that Jony Ive was its patron, and no evidence that including it had anything to with making laptops expensive as a goal.<p>Holy, evidence Batman! Leadership 101: When your title is &quot;Chief Design Officer&quot;, the design buck stops with you. When your company releases an updated design to an existing product, you had some kind of say in that design. Period. Even if your &quot;say&quot; was just that you were aware of it, and didn&#x27;t veto it.</text></item><item><author>jacobolus</author><text>This is pure speculation, ungrounded from any evidence.<p>The touch bar is a very flexible (effectively) analog input + rich display device. If adequately supported by software it can be an amazing input, affording a range of useful functions not replicable with discrete buttons. In general, I really wish modern computers had more analog inputs available. Analog knobs, jog wheels, sliders, trackballs, etc. are tragically missing.<p>I have seen no evidence that Jony Ive was its patron, and no evidence that including it had anything to with making laptops expensive as a goal.<p>The problem with the touch bar is that (a) it only shipped on a limited subset of devices so software authors could not depend on it, (b) after its initial functions, Apple made limited effort to adopt it in all of their own software, improve its integration into the system, or push boundaries of what it could do as an input device.<p>&gt; <i>The butterfly keyboard was Ive shaving off 0.5mm of the width for a worse user experience with a higher production cost and less reliability.</i><p>No, this was some Apple-internal mechanical engineering group trying to design the best extremely thin keyboard they could, but getting bitten hard by a mismatch between reliability in a prototype vs. full-scale factory production + poor estimation of reliability in a wide variety of contexts over a longer period of time. Nobody ever set out to make a “worse experience” or higher cost.<p>There are many suboptimal features of the common rubber dome + scissor stabilizer laptop keyboards, and I wish more companies were brave enough to experiment with alternative designs in search of improvements. (Disclaimer: my favorite &quot;laptop&quot; keyboards are <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;IBM_PS&#x2F;2_portable_computers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;IBM_PS&#x2F;2_portable_computers</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Macintosh_Portable" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Macintosh_Portable</a>)</text></item><item><author>cletus</author><text>The 2016 wasn&#x27;t leadership, it was Johnny Ive without Steve Jobs bringing him back to reality.<p>Touch Bar? This was nothing more than adding expense to raise the ASP (Average Selling Price) of Macbooks, that had fallen precipitously low from a shareholder perspective because of the superb value-for-money proposition that was the 13&quot; Macbook Air.<p>The butterfly keyboard was Ive shaving off 0.5mm of the width for a worse user experience with a higher production cost and less reliability.<p>USB-C only was a philosophical move rather than a practical one that forced people everywhere to carry dongles. The USB-C cable situation was and continues to be a nightmare as different cables support different subsets of data, power and video and, worse yet, different versions of each of those. Worst of all, it was the loss of the much-beloved MagSafe. Also, the ports weren&#x27;t all the same. You were better off charging from the right (IIRC) rather than the left.<p>Replaceable RAM and SSD being lost is still painful. Personally I don&#x27;t believe this was about forcing users to pay for upgrades primarily. It was about shaving off a small amount of volume.<p>Ive is gone and every one of those decisions has been reversed or at least significantly amended. This is no accident.</text></item><item><author>tobyjsullivan</author><text>A lot of comments seem focused on the incentives to apple and what&#x27;s motivating the change. All fair questions. To me, though, it feels like just a radically different approach this year.<p>2016 macbook felt like leadership got in a room and said &quot;okay, let&#x27;s make a list of all the sexy things we can think of that would make the macbook unique&quot;. This netted things like thin-beyond-practicality, touchbar, removing all the ports, etc.<p>2021 macbook feels like leadership got in a room and said &quot;okay, let&#x27;s make a list of all the top things everybody is complaining about most.&quot; And they just fixed everything (well, most things) on that list one-by-one.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danaris</author><text>There&#x27;s a big difference between &quot;Jony Ive, as CDO, must have signed off on this, and thus bears responsibility for it&quot; and &quot;Jony Ive was pushing for this, for these specific reasons&quot;.</text></comment> |
9,996,081 | 9,996,005 | 1 | 3 | 9,994,966 | train | <story><title>Wind turbines in Denmark reached record level in 2014</title><url>http://energinet.dk/EN/El/Nyheder/Sider/Vindmoeller-slog-rekord-i-2014.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>Scotland (and other countries besides) has a lot of &#x27;pumped storage&#x27;, lakes at a relatively high point that are fed from lakes at a lower point by running pumps that push the water from the lower lake to the higher one when energy is cheap and then back into the grid when it is more expensive (when there is a scarcity).<p>The net effect of this is that electricity originally generated by nuclear plants and other fossil fuel plants gets &#x27;converted&#x27; into (more expensive!) &#x27;green&#x27; energy.<p>It&#x27;s a kind of white-washing for electrons. The price difference can be substantial more than making up for the cost of the pumping and subsequent re-generation.<p>And of course it&#x27;s the energy sold to the public that matters, not how it was originally generated so by double counting this energy it changes the balance considerably without there actually being more renewable energy to begin with.</text></item><item><author>teh_klev</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand what you mean by that. Could you explain?</text></item><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>Beware of double-counting pumped storage.</text></item><item><author>teh_klev</author><text>Scotland does pretty well with regards to renewables with ~49.8% of energy consumption sourced from renewable sources (17.1k GWh wind&#x2F;hydro out of 19k GWh total renewables).<p>This puts wind and hydro at around 42%.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scottishrenewables.com&#x2F;sectors&#x2F;renewables-in-numbers&#x2F;#chart5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scottishrenewables.com&#x2F;sectors&#x2F;renewables-in-num...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gov.scot&#x2F;Resource&#x2F;0048&#x2F;00480365.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gov.scot&#x2F;Resource&#x2F;0048&#x2F;00480365.pdf</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jsingleton</author><text>Pumped storage is typically reported separately from Hydro. So much so that Hydro is officially referred to as &quot;Non-pumped storage Hydro&quot;. Pumped isn&#x27;t included as a renewable because the energy mix will depend on when it&#x27;s recharging as a consumer of the grid. Typically this is overnight so usually nuclear power and wind is used as coal and gas spin down then.<p>Currently both pumped and hydro are making up about 1% of the UK grid each: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk</a><p>It&#x27;s only useful to think about it in the short term as long term it adds nothing. It just functions as a buffer.<p>You can go round one in Wales: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.electricmountain.co.uk" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.electricmountain.co.uk</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Wind turbines in Denmark reached record level in 2014</title><url>http://energinet.dk/EN/El/Nyheder/Sider/Vindmoeller-slog-rekord-i-2014.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>Scotland (and other countries besides) has a lot of &#x27;pumped storage&#x27;, lakes at a relatively high point that are fed from lakes at a lower point by running pumps that push the water from the lower lake to the higher one when energy is cheap and then back into the grid when it is more expensive (when there is a scarcity).<p>The net effect of this is that electricity originally generated by nuclear plants and other fossil fuel plants gets &#x27;converted&#x27; into (more expensive!) &#x27;green&#x27; energy.<p>It&#x27;s a kind of white-washing for electrons. The price difference can be substantial more than making up for the cost of the pumping and subsequent re-generation.<p>And of course it&#x27;s the energy sold to the public that matters, not how it was originally generated so by double counting this energy it changes the balance considerably without there actually being more renewable energy to begin with.</text></item><item><author>teh_klev</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand what you mean by that. Could you explain?</text></item><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>Beware of double-counting pumped storage.</text></item><item><author>teh_klev</author><text>Scotland does pretty well with regards to renewables with ~49.8% of energy consumption sourced from renewable sources (17.1k GWh wind&#x2F;hydro out of 19k GWh total renewables).<p>This puts wind and hydro at around 42%.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scottishrenewables.com&#x2F;sectors&#x2F;renewables-in-numbers&#x2F;#chart5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scottishrenewables.com&#x2F;sectors&#x2F;renewables-in-num...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gov.scot&#x2F;Resource&#x2F;0048&#x2F;00480365.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gov.scot&#x2F;Resource&#x2F;0048&#x2F;00480365.pdf</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>teh_klev</author><text>Scotland only has one pumped storage scheme (Cruachan). It&#x27;s annual generation was only 705 Gwh (as at 2009), which is only 13% of total hydro generation. Sure there might be &quot;green electron&quot; washing going on, but it&#x27;s probably not significant.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cruachan_Power_Station" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cruachan_Power_Station</a></text></comment> |
3,277,981 | 3,278,049 | 1 | 3 | 3,277,219 | train | <story><title>Python Facts</title><url>http://facts.learnpython.org/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>callahad</author><text>As far as I can tell, Python has a <i>much</i> broader base than Ruby, at least in the english-speaking world, but is generally quieter about it. As a few examples:<p>Thanks to SciPy, NumPy, Sage, and so on, Python is extremely popular in scientific computing and academia in general, drawing hundreds each year to Enthought's Scientific Python conference.<p>Apple's iCal Server is written in Python with the aid of the Twisted async library, the same library used by LucasFilm for communications in its render farm, or Justin.tv's caching engine.<p>Google has found great success with Python: YouTube, for instance, is written in Python.<p>Thousands of undergraduates have their introduction to computer science each year taught in Python, even at MIT.<p>And let's not forget the sizable Django, Pyramid, and Plone web development communities, all of which seem to have surprisingly little overlap.<p>The thing is, Python's been around for a long time -- longer than Java -- and it's been useful for a similarly long time, especially in the same domains that Perl traditionally excelled at. Thus, its growth was bottom-up: Many sysadmins were eventually expected to simply know Python just as they were expected to know Shell and Perl, and thus being functionally proficient in Python wasn't really a defining characteristic.<p>In this way, Python's expansion has been more of a slow burn as it creeps into more and more corners of software development. Rails, by contrast, came coupled with a wonderful promoter in DHH, and brought scores of front-end talent and PHP refugees into the fold from day one. That audience seems to simply be more innately talented at vocalizing the cool things they're doing, and making sure they mention that they did it all "...with Ruby!"<p>So while I'd wager that the Python community is larger than the Ruby community, it certainly seems less concentrated, and less vocal about it.<p>To wit, did you know that Dropbox is primarily written in Python? And that the same goes for Eve Online?</text></item><item><author>pace</author><text>Can it be true that the Python coverage on HN is overproportional compared to its real world usage?<p>If I look around the world is full of Ruby and Rails. Sites, libs, meetups, developers, everything is on Ruby or Ruby on Rails. Python and Django devs are so damn rare in real world -- I just know two of 100.<p>Not that I don't like Python but I am really wondering why Python gets such a strong coverage on HN. Every second day there's some Python thing on HN. BTW with Clojure it's the same but Clojure is something new, so I understand the visibility there.<p>Please don't downvote -- it's nothing against Python, I just want to see if the Python base increased or something happend I've missed. Thanks<p>How can it be?<p>EDIT: Thanks to all for the replies. What's interesting about this thread: I got tons of downvotes (besides upvotes) for the first comment. So, I assume this Python vs Ruby discussion seems to be a very emotional topic. Thanks to the replies I have now a better understanding that Python is older and dominant in a many non-web environments. My impression is still that especially in web environments we have much more pace and development in Rails than Django (just compare what DHH put in 3.1, Coffee, Sass, etc. -- no flame war just a questions dear downvoters, don't freak out again)--Rails feels just more vibrant regarding web dev. But Rails is not Ruby ;-) It's just that I see all the Python stuff on HN -- which is slightly focussed on online/web/Internet -- and I really considered learning Python for web dev until I checked <a href="http://www.google.de/trends?q=python+django%2C+ruby+rails&#38;ctab=0&#38;geo=all&#38;date=all&#38;sort=0" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.de/trends?q=python+django%2C+ruby+rails&#3...</a><p>EDIT2: but there's a new rising star:
<a href="http://www.google.de/trends?q=python+django%2C+ruby+rails%2C+node.js&#38;ctab=0&#38;geo=all&#38;date=all&#38;sort=0" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.de/trends?q=python+django%2C+ruby+rails%2C...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joeyespo</author><text>&#62; but is generally quieter about it<p>As someone who uses Python (as well as C# and various others where appropriate) often outside work, this has been exactly my experience.<p>I only recently discovered a Python meetup in my area and have been extremely impressed with everybody there.<p>Python is an amazing language with a powerful module system and vast community to rapidly prototype and research almost anything. That said, I care less about its "beauty" and more about its minimalist, lack-of-magic Pythonic philosophy backing the language that lets me get things done quickly and collaborate with others with little overhead.</text></comment> | <story><title>Python Facts</title><url>http://facts.learnpython.org/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>callahad</author><text>As far as I can tell, Python has a <i>much</i> broader base than Ruby, at least in the english-speaking world, but is generally quieter about it. As a few examples:<p>Thanks to SciPy, NumPy, Sage, and so on, Python is extremely popular in scientific computing and academia in general, drawing hundreds each year to Enthought's Scientific Python conference.<p>Apple's iCal Server is written in Python with the aid of the Twisted async library, the same library used by LucasFilm for communications in its render farm, or Justin.tv's caching engine.<p>Google has found great success with Python: YouTube, for instance, is written in Python.<p>Thousands of undergraduates have their introduction to computer science each year taught in Python, even at MIT.<p>And let's not forget the sizable Django, Pyramid, and Plone web development communities, all of which seem to have surprisingly little overlap.<p>The thing is, Python's been around for a long time -- longer than Java -- and it's been useful for a similarly long time, especially in the same domains that Perl traditionally excelled at. Thus, its growth was bottom-up: Many sysadmins were eventually expected to simply know Python just as they were expected to know Shell and Perl, and thus being functionally proficient in Python wasn't really a defining characteristic.<p>In this way, Python's expansion has been more of a slow burn as it creeps into more and more corners of software development. Rails, by contrast, came coupled with a wonderful promoter in DHH, and brought scores of front-end talent and PHP refugees into the fold from day one. That audience seems to simply be more innately talented at vocalizing the cool things they're doing, and making sure they mention that they did it all "...with Ruby!"<p>So while I'd wager that the Python community is larger than the Ruby community, it certainly seems less concentrated, and less vocal about it.<p>To wit, did you know that Dropbox is primarily written in Python? And that the same goes for Eve Online?</text></item><item><author>pace</author><text>Can it be true that the Python coverage on HN is overproportional compared to its real world usage?<p>If I look around the world is full of Ruby and Rails. Sites, libs, meetups, developers, everything is on Ruby or Ruby on Rails. Python and Django devs are so damn rare in real world -- I just know two of 100.<p>Not that I don't like Python but I am really wondering why Python gets such a strong coverage on HN. Every second day there's some Python thing on HN. BTW with Clojure it's the same but Clojure is something new, so I understand the visibility there.<p>Please don't downvote -- it's nothing against Python, I just want to see if the Python base increased or something happend I've missed. Thanks<p>How can it be?<p>EDIT: Thanks to all for the replies. What's interesting about this thread: I got tons of downvotes (besides upvotes) for the first comment. So, I assume this Python vs Ruby discussion seems to be a very emotional topic. Thanks to the replies I have now a better understanding that Python is older and dominant in a many non-web environments. My impression is still that especially in web environments we have much more pace and development in Rails than Django (just compare what DHH put in 3.1, Coffee, Sass, etc. -- no flame war just a questions dear downvoters, don't freak out again)--Rails feels just more vibrant regarding web dev. But Rails is not Ruby ;-) It's just that I see all the Python stuff on HN -- which is slightly focussed on online/web/Internet -- and I really considered learning Python for web dev until I checked <a href="http://www.google.de/trends?q=python+django%2C+ruby+rails&#38;ctab=0&#38;geo=all&#38;date=all&#38;sort=0" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.de/trends?q=python+django%2C+ruby+rails&#3...</a><p>EDIT2: but there's a new rising star:
<a href="http://www.google.de/trends?q=python+django%2C+ruby+rails%2C+node.js&#38;ctab=0&#38;geo=all&#38;date=all&#38;sort=0" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.de/trends?q=python+django%2C+ruby+rails%2C...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ludwigvan</author><text>Google, the search engine, was written in Python for a period of time, after an initial attempt in Java.<p>See <a href="http://www.quora.com/Code-Quality/What-was-the-code-quality-of-the-initial-version-of-Google" rel="nofollow">http://www.quora.com/Code-Quality/What-was-the-code-quality-...</a></text></comment> |
24,924,548 | 24,924,541 | 1 | 2 | 24,922,578 | train | <story><title>Dear Facebook: Withdraw Your Cease and Desist to NYU</title><url>https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/dear-mr-zuckerberg/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>freeopinion</author><text>&gt; Ad Observer only collects information about the ads people see, not personal posts or users’ personal information.<p>This statement seems to be contradicted within the article itself.<p>For instance, Mozilla claims the tool is used by a newsroom in Utah, linking to an article titled &quot;ksl-investigates-who-is-behind-the-millions-in-facebook-political-ads-targeting-utah.&quot; So presumably the tool identifies the location of the target.<p>The article also claims that the tool proves that Facebook is still selling discriminatory ads. Does this mean that the tool knows things like race, gender, religion, etc. about the user?<p>If a user has willingly shared such information with the tool, I don&#x27;t see a problem. I&#x27;m not sure how Facebook would even have any standing in a legal case. But the article does seem to contradict itself about user privacy.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dear Facebook: Withdraw Your Cease and Desist to NYU</title><url>https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/dear-mr-zuckerberg/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nickff</author><text>This may be addressed to Facebook, but it&#x27;s clearly written for a different audience. Accusing Facebook of impure motives and outright deception may feel good for Mozilla&#x27;s staff, but it won&#x27;t convince Facebook to change their stance. And let&#x27;s not forget, Facebook is trying to draw a clear line against data exfiltration, to prevent another Cambridge Analytica disaster.<p>I really think this is just more posturing by Mozilla.</text></comment> |
6,849,563 | 6,849,722 | 1 | 2 | 6,847,218 | train | <story><title>Google Acquires Seven Robot Companies, Wants Big Role in Robotics</title><url>http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/google-acquisition-seven-robotics-companies</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Wohlf</author><text>From my roots in a Michigan automotive city, the first thing this makes me think about is the massive amount of jobs this will eliminate if successful. We will need drastic changes in social policy to make up for it, and I have absolutely no faith in the government and voters to make it happen. I find the idea of replacing millions of labor and service jobs with cheap robotics before the world is ready to accept the consequences terrifying.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jpatokal</author><text>If a job is so simple, repetitive and brainless that it can be automated, it&#x27;s in humanity&#x27;s best interest that it gets automated, and people are freed to do something more useful. Yes, this will suck if you&#x27;re 50 years old and get laid off the assembly line, but we&#x27;ve been automating jobs out of existence for a few centuries now and the overall consequences have not been particularly terrifying.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Acquires Seven Robot Companies, Wants Big Role in Robotics</title><url>http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/google-acquisition-seven-robotics-companies</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Wohlf</author><text>From my roots in a Michigan automotive city, the first thing this makes me think about is the massive amount of jobs this will eliminate if successful. We will need drastic changes in social policy to make up for it, and I have absolutely no faith in the government and voters to make it happen. I find the idea of replacing millions of labor and service jobs with cheap robotics before the world is ready to accept the consequences terrifying.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pedalpete</author><text>If you look at the history, I believe you&#x27;ll see that automation of any sort has resulted in the movement of jobs, not a lack of jobs.<p>Think back to the Horse &amp; Buggy days, when cars came along, I&#x27;m sure people were saying &quot;with all these cars not needing horses, all those people that care for and breed horses will be out of work&quot;, but look at all the jobs that were created, and particularly the jobs you&#x27;re now concerned have been lost in Detroit.<p>I think Detroit may be a bit of a special case as the population boom there was driven by the growth of the Automotive industry at a time when everything needed to be centralised. Almost everything was decentralised before (with the majority of jobs being in Agriculture I believe), so we had a short period of history with mass centralisation and we are now able to decentralise again, so the places that amassed workers geographically look so much worse off by comparison, while going through massive change.<p>Unemployment may be high now (tough to get a good number showing the difference over the last century, but at least one of the brilliant people on HN knows how to do it), but I suspect that if you exclude the last 5 years, unemployment was fairly flat as a percentage over the last century.</text></comment> |
41,623,418 | 41,622,796 | 1 | 3 | 41,621,020 | train | <story><title>London saw a surprising benefit to ultra-low emissions zone: More active kids</title><url>https://grist.org/cities/london-fining-polluting-cars-more-active-kids/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danieldk</author><text>This. Though it doesn’t stop at road design. You also have to change the regulations so that car drivers are (partially) legally responsible for accidents, even when a cyclist or pedestrian made the error. Pedestrians and cyclists are orders of magnitude more vulnerable. Putting much more of the legal burden on car drivers makes them more careful.<p>The hard part is that you also need to build a cycling culture. Most car drivers in NL are more mindful of cyclists, because they are cyclists themselves as well.<p>Circling back to road design. In our mid-sized Dutch city, it’s often faster to go from A to B than by bike than by car because of the excellent biking infrastructure and car-free city center. Everything is designed around cycling, some traffic lights will even give bikes a green light more often when it’s raining.</text></item><item><author>w3news</author><text>Emission zone shouldnt be the issue, it is about the amount of cars and road safety for every user.
Check e.g. the Dutch road design, where many kids ride bikes.
This is already for decades, and has nothing to do with emission zones.
But another road design can also help reducing emissions.
It is about how many people can travel safe, and with big cities, you have to reduce cars to increase the amount of people that can travel safe, like bikes, walking, and public transport.
Road and city design is very important for a livable city.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>magicalhippo</author><text>&gt; car drivers are (partially) legally responsible for accidents, even when a cyclist or pedestrian made the error<p>Here in Norway the traffic law states[1] that everyone should be considerate, heedful and careful to avoid harm, and this stands above everything else.<p>So you can indeed get (partial) blame even if the rest of the rules and regulations say you did nothing wrong.<p>For example you can&#x27;t just ram a cyclist or a pedestrian if you have the right of way, but you saw them, or should have seen them, in time to take avoiding action.<p>Having a quick look at the NYS traffic rules[2] as a semi-random point of comparison, I&#x27;m assuming most states have something similar, it does say at the start that &quot;no person shall operate a vehicle in a manner that will endanger any person or property&quot;.<p>This seems to be similar in spirit but not quite the same. I guess I could see the NY courts could find in favor of the driver where the Norwegian courts would not, depending on how they draw the line of endangering.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lovdata.no&#x2F;lov&#x2F;1965-06-18-4&#x2F;§3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lovdata.no&#x2F;lov&#x2F;1965-06-18-4&#x2F;§3</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nyc.gov&#x2F;html&#x2F;dot&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;trafrule.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nyc.gov&#x2F;html&#x2F;dot&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;trafrule.pdf</a></text></comment> | <story><title>London saw a surprising benefit to ultra-low emissions zone: More active kids</title><url>https://grist.org/cities/london-fining-polluting-cars-more-active-kids/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danieldk</author><text>This. Though it doesn’t stop at road design. You also have to change the regulations so that car drivers are (partially) legally responsible for accidents, even when a cyclist or pedestrian made the error. Pedestrians and cyclists are orders of magnitude more vulnerable. Putting much more of the legal burden on car drivers makes them more careful.<p>The hard part is that you also need to build a cycling culture. Most car drivers in NL are more mindful of cyclists, because they are cyclists themselves as well.<p>Circling back to road design. In our mid-sized Dutch city, it’s often faster to go from A to B than by bike than by car because of the excellent biking infrastructure and car-free city center. Everything is designed around cycling, some traffic lights will even give bikes a green light more often when it’s raining.</text></item><item><author>w3news</author><text>Emission zone shouldnt be the issue, it is about the amount of cars and road safety for every user.
Check e.g. the Dutch road design, where many kids ride bikes.
This is already for decades, and has nothing to do with emission zones.
But another road design can also help reducing emissions.
It is about how many people can travel safe, and with big cities, you have to reduce cars to increase the amount of people that can travel safe, like bikes, walking, and public transport.
Road and city design is very important for a livable city.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>richardw</author><text>I wonder if the flatness of the country plays a part? I live on a hill and am surrounded by hills. A 3km ride in any direction and back is hard work. Lots of e-bikes here, and lots of mountain biking. But when I suggested getting a bike to my SO for her to get to the closest bus stop faster, the hills were the reason why she’d rather walk.</text></comment> |
40,883,469 | 40,882,338 | 1 | 3 | 40,882,077 | train | <story><title>I was at AMD in the mid-late 2000s helping design CPU/APU/GPUs</title><url>https://twitter.com/mohapatrahemant/status/1809135345683841050</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>basilgohar</author><text>I love this insider view into this interesting point in computing history, especially about AMD. However, I was a little put off by the glorification of nVidia&#x27;s shady practices and lock-in policies as key to their current leading position. While technically true, I dislike &quot;ends justify the means&quot;-style thinking.<p>All this as the OP glorifies AMD&#x27;s engineering and grit-based culture to drive through all though tough missteps and missed opportunities.<p>To expand on that, I really do feel AMD has great engineering culture but they keep falling to the same traps. They do not invest strongly enough in software support nor vendor relationships. Neither of these necessitate the more evil monopolistic practices of vendor lock-in and proprietary, non-free (as in libre) software. If they can navigate that without turning evil, they&#x27;d be a company for the ages.<p>And I can&#x27;t close with mad respect to Dr. Lisa Su for her admirable leadership, itself bookworthy. Also, quick fact, she and Jensen are cousins!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gymbeaux</author><text>On the other hand, AMD was on the brink of bankruptcy and Lisa Su led them out of it and into a triple-digit share price. Most companies with that much debt and that little revenue would have gone bankrupt.<p>Lest we forget the Intel IPC advantages over comparable AMD CPUs was due to some shortcuts that exposed major vulnerabilities in Intel CPUs made from ~2011 to 2019. I’d be curious to see how a Spectre and Meltdown-patched Intel CPU fares against its AMD competitor <i>NOW</i>. Some of the performance hits were <i>brutal</i>- 20%+ in some workloads.<p>Nvidia was pushing AMD out of the GPU market back when GPUs were effectively only used for gaming and while GameWorks was predatory, you can’t really blame them for having the cooler-running, quieter, more energy-efficient GPUs going back to the Maxwell line (GTX 9x0). CUDA didn’t screw AMD until recently… but in 2014, people were picking Nvidia because the GPUs were considerably “better”. AMD had the best bang for buck back then, but you’d have more power consumption and heat output, and the drivers tended to be buggy. The bugs would be fixed, but it really sucked for people trying to play games on release day.</text></comment> | <story><title>I was at AMD in the mid-late 2000s helping design CPU/APU/GPUs</title><url>https://twitter.com/mohapatrahemant/status/1809135345683841050</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>basilgohar</author><text>I love this insider view into this interesting point in computing history, especially about AMD. However, I was a little put off by the glorification of nVidia&#x27;s shady practices and lock-in policies as key to their current leading position. While technically true, I dislike &quot;ends justify the means&quot;-style thinking.<p>All this as the OP glorifies AMD&#x27;s engineering and grit-based culture to drive through all though tough missteps and missed opportunities.<p>To expand on that, I really do feel AMD has great engineering culture but they keep falling to the same traps. They do not invest strongly enough in software support nor vendor relationships. Neither of these necessitate the more evil monopolistic practices of vendor lock-in and proprietary, non-free (as in libre) software. If they can navigate that without turning evil, they&#x27;d be a company for the ages.<p>And I can&#x27;t close with mad respect to Dr. Lisa Su for her admirable leadership, itself bookworthy. Also, quick fact, she and Jensen are cousins!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>belter</author><text>On the GPU area AMD lost, and will continue to lose to Nvidia, because they don&#x27;t seem to get a grip on Software and Drivers. And that does not bode well for their long time CEO.</text></comment> |
17,069,438 | 17,069,326 | 1 | 2 | 17,045,777 | train | <story><title>Does Clean Laundry Have Germs?</title><url>http://www.stopthestomachflu.com/does-clean-laundry-have-germs-1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bbitmaster</author><text>The issue I suspect caused this is all of the newer energy efficient washers&#x2F; dryers. The author tested a Samsung dryer. I recently lived in apartment with a similar model, and it was terrible. When visiting parents I was stunned at how well their older washer&#x2F;dryer worked. The clothes came out much more clean too.<p>In my experience the newer energy efficent washers&#x2F;dryers are almost total garbage compared to the older ones. I would love to see this experiment repeated with an older 90&#x27;s kenmore or whirlpool or really any brand from the 90&#x27;s or before.<p>I love the idea of saving energy, and energy efficient laundry sounds like a great idea on the surface, but what I think happened was the government put regulations in place without really considering the actual impact this would have on the quality of the washers&#x2F;dryers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rsynnott</author><text>The likes of Comsumer Report have tended to find that modern front-loading machines are almost universally more effective than the old low-efficiency top loaders popular in the US, and can also attain much higher temperatures (fairly basic models can do a &gt;90 degree C wash, say). So that’s probably not it.<p>Though there might be an element of misuse. My machine warns in the manual to do a 60or 90 degree wash with no clothes every couple of months to clean the machine. I suspect most people don’t do this.</text></comment> | <story><title>Does Clean Laundry Have Germs?</title><url>http://www.stopthestomachflu.com/does-clean-laundry-have-germs-1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bbitmaster</author><text>The issue I suspect caused this is all of the newer energy efficient washers&#x2F; dryers. The author tested a Samsung dryer. I recently lived in apartment with a similar model, and it was terrible. When visiting parents I was stunned at how well their older washer&#x2F;dryer worked. The clothes came out much more clean too.<p>In my experience the newer energy efficent washers&#x2F;dryers are almost total garbage compared to the older ones. I would love to see this experiment repeated with an older 90&#x27;s kenmore or whirlpool or really any brand from the 90&#x27;s or before.<p>I love the idea of saving energy, and energy efficient laundry sounds like a great idea on the surface, but what I think happened was the government put regulations in place without really considering the actual impact this would have on the quality of the washers&#x2F;dryers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yongjik</author><text>Growing up in Korea, and living in the US for 5+ years now, what I&#x27;ve heard is that American washer models are so forceful that they wear clothes out. If you are accustomed to such washers (and clothes made with such expectation) I can see how you think the newer models are not as good. But I would choose a Samsung&#x2F;LG washer over Whirlpool any day, if the prices were the same.</text></comment> |
21,473,358 | 21,472,137 | 1 | 2 | 21,469,295 | train | <story><title>Comparing Parallel Rust and C++</title><url>https://parallel-rust-cpp.github.io/introduction.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>keldaris</author><text>I mostly use C++ for numerical simulations in physics and associated code (analysis, some visualization, etc.). That means my primary consideration is the ease and convenience of writing high performance code for a narrow set of hardware. I care about the quality of tooling, especially for performance analysis (including things like likwid [1]) and GPGPU computation. I do not care about safety (memory or otherwise) - my code doesn&#x27;t take arbitrary input, run on shared hardware, do much of anything over networks or have memory safety crashes.<p>From this rather narrow point of view, Rust does very little to help and quite a lot to hinder me. Rust is very much about memory safety - an issue extremely far down my list of concerns - and to me the borrow checker is an anti-feature I&#x27;d love to turn off. None of this is in any way an indictment of Rust - it looks like a very well designed language that knows what it wants to accomplish. It just happens to want the exact opposite things from what I want, and that&#x27;s fine. I know I&#x27;m in a weird minority (most of the people who think like I do seem to be game engine developers).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;RRZE-HPC&#x2F;likwid" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;RRZE-HPC&#x2F;likwid</a></text></item><item><author>dgellow</author><text>&gt; reading this has further convinced me that, for all of its disadvantages, I much prefer C++ to Rust for my needs.<p>What are your needs, if I may ask? I&#x27;m not asking this to start a thread &quot;rust&#x2F;C++ is better&quot;, I&#x27;m just curious regarding situations in which someone decides that one language matches their needs more than another, it&#x27;s always interesting to see what boundaries people consider for those decisions.</text></item><item><author>keldaris</author><text>This is a wonderfully written comparison benchmark and it deserves attention even for that reason alone. It knows its target audience, explains what&#x27;s going on succinctly but completely, and avoids most of the usual benchmark pitfalls that result in comparing apples to oranges. Great job.<p>The one glaring issue that is ignored is the floating point model used. I understand Rust still doesn&#x27;t have a usable equivalent to -ffast-math, so I assume it wasn&#x27;t used for that reason. Some discussion of whether it&#x27;s permissible in this algorithm (I believe so?) and how much advantage that might give to C++ seems crucial when performance is a priority.<p>Ironically, reading this has further convinced me that, for all of its disadvantages, I much prefer C++ to Rust for my needs. I&#x27;m sure others will draw the opposite conclusion and that&#x27;s great. Rust is a language that clearly knows what it wants and if your priorities are aligned with that, the performance gap is shrinking and implementation-related reasons to avoid it are rapidly decreasing in number.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pdpi</author><text>&gt; I do not care about safety (memory or otherwise) - my code doesn&#x27;t take arbitrary input, run on shared hardware, do much of anything over networks or have memory safety crashes.<p>This is a common misconception — safety and security are different things. If your simulations make extensive use of parallelism (and I can only assume they do), memory safety also helps you ensure correctness.<p>I can absolutely appreciate that you might lose other things to achieve that, and that this is not a trivial tradeoff to make (and I&#x27;ll take you on your word that it is the wrong tradeoff for you!), but it&#x27;s not as clear cut as &quot;I don&#x27;t need safety features because I have no security exposure&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Comparing Parallel Rust and C++</title><url>https://parallel-rust-cpp.github.io/introduction.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>keldaris</author><text>I mostly use C++ for numerical simulations in physics and associated code (analysis, some visualization, etc.). That means my primary consideration is the ease and convenience of writing high performance code for a narrow set of hardware. I care about the quality of tooling, especially for performance analysis (including things like likwid [1]) and GPGPU computation. I do not care about safety (memory or otherwise) - my code doesn&#x27;t take arbitrary input, run on shared hardware, do much of anything over networks or have memory safety crashes.<p>From this rather narrow point of view, Rust does very little to help and quite a lot to hinder me. Rust is very much about memory safety - an issue extremely far down my list of concerns - and to me the borrow checker is an anti-feature I&#x27;d love to turn off. None of this is in any way an indictment of Rust - it looks like a very well designed language that knows what it wants to accomplish. It just happens to want the exact opposite things from what I want, and that&#x27;s fine. I know I&#x27;m in a weird minority (most of the people who think like I do seem to be game engine developers).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;RRZE-HPC&#x2F;likwid" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;RRZE-HPC&#x2F;likwid</a></text></item><item><author>dgellow</author><text>&gt; reading this has further convinced me that, for all of its disadvantages, I much prefer C++ to Rust for my needs.<p>What are your needs, if I may ask? I&#x27;m not asking this to start a thread &quot;rust&#x2F;C++ is better&quot;, I&#x27;m just curious regarding situations in which someone decides that one language matches their needs more than another, it&#x27;s always interesting to see what boundaries people consider for those decisions.</text></item><item><author>keldaris</author><text>This is a wonderfully written comparison benchmark and it deserves attention even for that reason alone. It knows its target audience, explains what&#x27;s going on succinctly but completely, and avoids most of the usual benchmark pitfalls that result in comparing apples to oranges. Great job.<p>The one glaring issue that is ignored is the floating point model used. I understand Rust still doesn&#x27;t have a usable equivalent to -ffast-math, so I assume it wasn&#x27;t used for that reason. Some discussion of whether it&#x27;s permissible in this algorithm (I believe so?) and how much advantage that might give to C++ seems crucial when performance is a priority.<p>Ironically, reading this has further convinced me that, for all of its disadvantages, I much prefer C++ to Rust for my needs. I&#x27;m sure others will draw the opposite conclusion and that&#x27;s great. Rust is a language that clearly knows what it wants and if your priorities are aligned with that, the performance gap is shrinking and implementation-related reasons to avoid it are rapidly decreasing in number.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>filmor</author><text>When I was working in LQCD (lattice quantum chromodynamics), people were fighting quite a bit with corrupted memory, which only resulted in a crash in the best of all cases, usually it led to very or (worse) slightly weird results.</text></comment> |
31,987,187 | 31,985,855 | 1 | 2 | 31,985,142 | train | <story><title>Apple ][ "Lemmings" Proof of Concept</title><url>http://www.deater.net/weave/vmwprod/lemm/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lioeters</author><text>My goodness, the whole site is a gem, an old-school &quot;hacker&quot; in the best sense of the word.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.deater.net&#x2F;weave&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.deater.net&#x2F;weave&#x2F;</a><p>Pages go back to 1996!<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.deater.net&#x2F;weave&#x2F;whatsnew1996.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.deater.net&#x2F;weave&#x2F;whatsnew1996.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Apple ][ "Lemmings" Proof of Concept</title><url>http://www.deater.net/weave/vmwprod/lemm/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>masswerk</author><text>BTW, there&#x27;s also Lemmings for the PET by Jim Orlando, all PETSCII-graphics.<p>Demo video: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=d6aA5Y1SRd0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=d6aA5Y1SRd0</a><p>Homepage: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jimbo.itch.io&#x2F;petscii-lemmings-for-commodore-pet" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jimbo.itch.io&#x2F;petscii-lemmings-for-commodore-pet</a><p>Online emulation: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.masswerk.at&#x2F;pet&#x2F;?prg=pzlmgs&amp;ram=32k&amp;rom=2&amp;repeat=off" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.masswerk.at&#x2F;pet&#x2F;?prg=pzlmgs&amp;ram=32k&amp;rom=2&amp;repeat...</a><p>For more PET-ports by Jim Orlando, see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.masswerk.at&#x2F;pet&#x2F;prgs&#x2F;#jim_orlando" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.masswerk.at&#x2F;pet&#x2F;prgs&#x2F;#jim_orlando</a></text></comment> |
5,896,679 | 5,894,860 | 1 | 3 | 5,893,218 | train | <story><title>We're Too Cheap to Fly Faster</title><url>https://medium.com/we-live-in-the-future/7885a299bca2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pyre</author><text>Trains have degraded security though. Once a plane leaves, someone has to be <i>on</i> the plane or have had access to it beforehand to affect the flight. You can defend against this through security at those specific points. On a train, the entire trip is over miles of tracks which &#x27;anyone&#x27; can access. Security at boarding doesn&#x27;t affect the attack surface area as much.<p>That said, I might prefer train travel to flying.</text></item><item><author>GhotiFish</author><text>this is my position. If I have internet and a power outlet, one place is as good as another, why take the hit on degrading security, exorbitant fee&#x27;s, and cramped conditions for a few extra hours? Trains are efficient. We need to use them more.</text></item><item><author>bergie</author><text>Exactly the reason why the (much slower) train often makes more sense. Sure, the train from Amsterdam to Berlin is six hours. But you only have to be at the station to catch it before it leaves, and it both leaves and arrives right in the center.<p>We tried this returning from a conference there last fall, and the hotel-door-to-home-door advantage of flying was less than 30 minutes. And on train there was more space, better food, and a bar. Not to mention that there was power and nobody told me to shut down my laptop at any point :-)</text></item><item><author>TheAnimus</author><text>It&#x27;s not just a case of being too cheap, but also it having negligable effect.<p>If I have to be at Heathrow 90 min before departure, and it takes me 45 min to drive there, or 90 min on public transport, then at the other end it takes 30 mins for my bag to get on the belt, clear port control, and another 30-60 min to get to the city. I have a good 4 hours of fixed time involved with my flight. If the flight is just 8 hours, making it 7 hours isn&#x27;t really going to change things, I&#x27;ve still lost the most of the day.<p>So I&#x27;d sooner be able to sleep comfortably (ie space!) or be able to do some work (11 vaio Pro, 22 hours battery).<p>Then we have the issue that even going supersonic, we can&#x27;t just upsticks and do it. We have to get out to see. Climbing to FL390 takes a lot of time, descending from it does as well, otherwise people generally find it rather un-appealing. Add in busy hub airport traffic and we&#x27;ve got at least 2 hours that we can&#x27;t really speed up.<p>So our 12 hour total journy (4 hours travelling too &#x2F; waiting at airports, 6 hours of cruise, 2 hours of holding an NDB) speeding up that 6 hours, doesn&#x27;t have much effect. Hell go nuts, make it take 2 hours, go for mach 3. It is still going to take me, door to door, 8 hours. 8 vs 12 for the cost of that just isn&#x27;t going to be worth it. Because ultimately I&#x27;ll have my own work schedule, I&#x27;m not rich enough to have a private jet, and the stuff I fly you wouldn&#x27;t want to be in for more than 4 hours anyway (well the fuel would run out too). So that means I want a regular, frequent service. I don&#x27;t care that superfastjet leaves everyday at 1pm. I need to be around till 5pm. Obviously the geek in me would take the fast one, but I couldn&#x27;t do that everytime.<p><i></i>TLDR<i></i> It isn&#x27;t just about being cheaper. It is recognising the deminishing impact speed is having on being the deciding factor. We look at door to door time, not cruise performance. We want a frequent schedule, not one speedbird a day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>snogglethorpe</author><text>&gt; <i>On a train, the entire trip is over miles of tracks which &#x27;anyone&#x27; can access</i><p>Indeed, but trains, even high speed ones, are also very robust compared to airplanes.<p>Even if somebody does manage to get access to the track (not so trivial in many cases), and trigger an explosion on the track with good enough timing to catch the train as it goes by, and manage to derail it, there&#x27;s <i>still</i> a good chance that all or most passengers would survive the crash.<p>Similarly, with the size of bomb one might smuggle on board a train, the likely effect would be to just kill a few passengers in the immediate vicinity of the explosion; the train itself would probably be just fine. So basically not much different than setting off an explosion at a random restaurant...<p>For a terrorist, the odds just aren&#x27;t all that great with trains, which presumably is why there have been so few attempts at doing such a thing. One of the reasons terrorism is so scary on airplanes is that they feel (and are) so fragile that it magnifies the effect of any attack greatly.</text></comment> | <story><title>We're Too Cheap to Fly Faster</title><url>https://medium.com/we-live-in-the-future/7885a299bca2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pyre</author><text>Trains have degraded security though. Once a plane leaves, someone has to be <i>on</i> the plane or have had access to it beforehand to affect the flight. You can defend against this through security at those specific points. On a train, the entire trip is over miles of tracks which &#x27;anyone&#x27; can access. Security at boarding doesn&#x27;t affect the attack surface area as much.<p>That said, I might prefer train travel to flying.</text></item><item><author>GhotiFish</author><text>this is my position. If I have internet and a power outlet, one place is as good as another, why take the hit on degrading security, exorbitant fee&#x27;s, and cramped conditions for a few extra hours? Trains are efficient. We need to use them more.</text></item><item><author>bergie</author><text>Exactly the reason why the (much slower) train often makes more sense. Sure, the train from Amsterdam to Berlin is six hours. But you only have to be at the station to catch it before it leaves, and it both leaves and arrives right in the center.<p>We tried this returning from a conference there last fall, and the hotel-door-to-home-door advantage of flying was less than 30 minutes. And on train there was more space, better food, and a bar. Not to mention that there was power and nobody told me to shut down my laptop at any point :-)</text></item><item><author>TheAnimus</author><text>It&#x27;s not just a case of being too cheap, but also it having negligable effect.<p>If I have to be at Heathrow 90 min before departure, and it takes me 45 min to drive there, or 90 min on public transport, then at the other end it takes 30 mins for my bag to get on the belt, clear port control, and another 30-60 min to get to the city. I have a good 4 hours of fixed time involved with my flight. If the flight is just 8 hours, making it 7 hours isn&#x27;t really going to change things, I&#x27;ve still lost the most of the day.<p>So I&#x27;d sooner be able to sleep comfortably (ie space!) or be able to do some work (11 vaio Pro, 22 hours battery).<p>Then we have the issue that even going supersonic, we can&#x27;t just upsticks and do it. We have to get out to see. Climbing to FL390 takes a lot of time, descending from it does as well, otherwise people generally find it rather un-appealing. Add in busy hub airport traffic and we&#x27;ve got at least 2 hours that we can&#x27;t really speed up.<p>So our 12 hour total journy (4 hours travelling too &#x2F; waiting at airports, 6 hours of cruise, 2 hours of holding an NDB) speeding up that 6 hours, doesn&#x27;t have much effect. Hell go nuts, make it take 2 hours, go for mach 3. It is still going to take me, door to door, 8 hours. 8 vs 12 for the cost of that just isn&#x27;t going to be worth it. Because ultimately I&#x27;ll have my own work schedule, I&#x27;m not rich enough to have a private jet, and the stuff I fly you wouldn&#x27;t want to be in for more than 4 hours anyway (well the fuel would run out too). So that means I want a regular, frequent service. I don&#x27;t care that superfastjet leaves everyday at 1pm. I need to be around till 5pm. Obviously the geek in me would take the fast one, but I couldn&#x27;t do that everytime.<p><i></i>TLDR<i></i> It isn&#x27;t just about being cheaper. It is recognising the deminishing impact speed is having on being the deciding factor. We look at door to door time, not cruise performance. We want a frequent schedule, not one speedbird a day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PanMan</author><text>On the other hand, if there is an issue with a train, it can break. Stopping a plane when there is an issue is a lot more hassle.</text></comment> |
13,145,918 | 13,143,407 | 1 | 3 | 13,142,327 | train | <story><title>Developers’ side projects</title><url>https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2016/12/09/developers-side-projects/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ImTalking</author><text>You don&#x27;t quite understand Joel&#x27;s point. Regardless of whether you are legally right, a larger company could sue you for the sake of suing, and make your life very miserable. And if the fight continues and you run out of money, what then?<p>I had exactly that thing. I was being bought-out and a small client decided (against the contract that they had signed) that the changes we had made to our mortgage broker commission system were their own IP, and that they would suffer damage if those changes were part of the overall IP we were selling to our prospective buyers. And it was absolute nonsense since their changes were just a collection of reports and small features which were part of the public domain since whenever. It took weeks to iron-out the agreement and obviously could have scuttled the buyout.<p>And when I left the company that bought me out to start another project, I made sure that I had a release to say that I&#x27;m indemnified against any future legal actions and I started the project the day after I got that release.<p>The old adage is correct: plan for the worst, hope for the best.</text></item><item><author>alxmng</author><text>&gt; Not related to your employer’s line of work. Um, wait. What’s the definition of related? [...] I don’t know. It’s a big enough ambiguity that you could drive a truck through it.<p>No, it&#x27;s not that ambiguous at all. The courts rarely side with the company, and only in cases where it&#x27;s quite obvious the work was directly related. If your side project isn&#x27;t directly related to the work you are doing, then you don&#x27;t need to worry.<p>Don&#x27;t let Joel or any other tech CEO scare you into not working on side-projects. Don&#x27;t even tell your employer about side projects. Leave them out of the loop entirely.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tharkun</author><text>&gt; You don&#x27;t quite understand Joel&#x27;s point. Regardless of whether you are legally right, a larger company could sue you for the sake of suing, and make your life very miserable. And if the fight continues and you run out of money, what then?<p>Don&#x27;t work for companies that are dicks. If there&#x27;s crap about them wanting to own you or your thoughts, don&#x27;t sign it and get a different job elsewhere.<p>Remember when little kids would die in factories doing dangerous jobs? No? Me neither. Know why? Because at some point people had enough, went on strike, attitudes and laws changed. If you live in an area where your employer can make your life miserable for no apparent reason, or where your employer can own you outside of work, then you need to help put a stop to that madness.</text></comment> | <story><title>Developers’ side projects</title><url>https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2016/12/09/developers-side-projects/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ImTalking</author><text>You don&#x27;t quite understand Joel&#x27;s point. Regardless of whether you are legally right, a larger company could sue you for the sake of suing, and make your life very miserable. And if the fight continues and you run out of money, what then?<p>I had exactly that thing. I was being bought-out and a small client decided (against the contract that they had signed) that the changes we had made to our mortgage broker commission system were their own IP, and that they would suffer damage if those changes were part of the overall IP we were selling to our prospective buyers. And it was absolute nonsense since their changes were just a collection of reports and small features which were part of the public domain since whenever. It took weeks to iron-out the agreement and obviously could have scuttled the buyout.<p>And when I left the company that bought me out to start another project, I made sure that I had a release to say that I&#x27;m indemnified against any future legal actions and I started the project the day after I got that release.<p>The old adage is correct: plan for the worst, hope for the best.</text></item><item><author>alxmng</author><text>&gt; Not related to your employer’s line of work. Um, wait. What’s the definition of related? [...] I don’t know. It’s a big enough ambiguity that you could drive a truck through it.<p>No, it&#x27;s not that ambiguous at all. The courts rarely side with the company, and only in cases where it&#x27;s quite obvious the work was directly related. If your side project isn&#x27;t directly related to the work you are doing, then you don&#x27;t need to worry.<p>Don&#x27;t let Joel or any other tech CEO scare you into not working on side-projects. Don&#x27;t even tell your employer about side projects. Leave them out of the loop entirely.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>isubkhankulov</author><text><i>I made sure that I had a release to say that I&#x27;m indemnified against any future legal actions</i><p>This is great advice</text></comment> |
9,560,716 | 9,560,551 | 1 | 3 | 9,559,731 | train | <story><title>No Longer Wanting to Die</title><url>http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com//2015/05/16/no-longer-wanting-to-die/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eli_gottlieb</author><text>&gt;having no friends for 14 years can be disruptive<p>WHAT THE UNHOLY FLYING FUCK!?<p>How are you not dead? No actual personal relationships closer than coworker or acquaintance, other than possibly your parents? Near-total personal isolation? FOR 14 YEARS!?<p>That would have broken me in mere months.</text></item><item><author>Chinmayh</author><text>I am not surprised that a treatment that is so effective to the author has remained unknown to him for so long. I have had feelings of suicide for the last 14 years. I personally hate meeting psychologists, because they can be so unpredictable. Some of the better ones prescribed me medicine, some of the worse ones, told me I had to stop crying and find solutions to my problems, that I was lazy. I was also told because I could do my job and earn a good living, I had nothing wrong. Few acknowledge that having no friends for 14 years can be disruptive. I am in a state where every moment is sad, but over the years at least I have learnt to keep a happy face on the outside and wait for something to happen. I just wished psychologists be more scientific and stop considering everything trial and error!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Chinmayh</author><text>&quot;How are you not dead?&quot;
And what would you have me do about it - Kill myself. Not really a solution. is it?<p>Most rich people will break if they are forced to live in poverty. Most people take what they have for granted. Rarely realizing, how lucky they are.</text></comment> | <story><title>No Longer Wanting to Die</title><url>http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com//2015/05/16/no-longer-wanting-to-die/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eli_gottlieb</author><text>&gt;having no friends for 14 years can be disruptive<p>WHAT THE UNHOLY FLYING FUCK!?<p>How are you not dead? No actual personal relationships closer than coworker or acquaintance, other than possibly your parents? Near-total personal isolation? FOR 14 YEARS!?<p>That would have broken me in mere months.</text></item><item><author>Chinmayh</author><text>I am not surprised that a treatment that is so effective to the author has remained unknown to him for so long. I have had feelings of suicide for the last 14 years. I personally hate meeting psychologists, because they can be so unpredictable. Some of the better ones prescribed me medicine, some of the worse ones, told me I had to stop crying and find solutions to my problems, that I was lazy. I was also told because I could do my job and earn a good living, I had nothing wrong. Few acknowledge that having no friends for 14 years can be disruptive. I am in a state where every moment is sad, but over the years at least I have learnt to keep a happy face on the outside and wait for something to happen. I just wished psychologists be more scientific and stop considering everything trial and error!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maxerickson</author><text>If this is really what you want to say, maybe try to spend a bit more effort saying it.</text></comment> |
16,452,584 | 16,452,472 | 1 | 2 | 16,452,430 | train | <story><title>21 Years of Income as a Software Engineer in San Francisco</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/7zsfhz/21_years_of_income_as_a_software_engineer_in_san/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>walrus01</author><text>Meanwhile, Vancouver BC boasted about the famously low salaries of its software engineers and people with similar skill sets, in a failed bid to attract Amazon HQ2:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=vancouver+amazon+hq+bid+salary&amp;num=100&amp;client=ubuntu&amp;hs=4WZ&amp;channel=fs&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=nws&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwiWjcnCp77ZAhUG2GMKHYE3CH4Q_AUICigB&amp;biw=1337&amp;bih=1301" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=vancouver+amazon+hq+bid+sala...</a><p>In my opinion a pretty stupid thing to do, considering the low probability of Amazon choosing either Portland or Vancouver as second headquarters. Too close to Seattle and still within the same regional talent pool, and regional market demand.</text></comment> | <story><title>21 Years of Income as a Software Engineer in San Francisco</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/7zsfhz/21_years_of_income_as_a_software_engineer_in_san/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>montrose</author><text>The graph seems related to the graph of venture funding over the same period:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;File:US_VC_funding.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;File:US_VC_funding.png</a><p>Which is not surprising considering that salaries are the number one thing venture funding is spent on.</text></comment> |
11,402,514 | 11,402,540 | 1 | 2 | 11,402,101 | train | <story><title>Model 3 Unveiling [video]</title><url>https://model3.tesla.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aresant</author><text>I love Tesla the company and respect the hell out of Elon.<p>But his presentation style is hard to watch - he is literally stammering through what feels like a dry script.<p>I&#x27;ve never seen him live before is this par for the course or nerves?<p>Edit - wow that is a better looking car than I expected. You can be as awkward serving as you like if that&#x27;s the main course!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>valine</author><text>I rather like his presentation style. For some reason it strikes me as genuine, like he&#x27;s someone I can relate with and look up to. He doesn&#x27;t need to be a flashy salesman because his projects will sell themselves.</text></comment> | <story><title>Model 3 Unveiling [video]</title><url>https://model3.tesla.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aresant</author><text>I love Tesla the company and respect the hell out of Elon.<p>But his presentation style is hard to watch - he is literally stammering through what feels like a dry script.<p>I&#x27;ve never seen him live before is this par for the course or nerves?<p>Edit - wow that is a better looking car than I expected. You can be as awkward serving as you like if that&#x27;s the main course!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shirro</author><text>He is always like this. I think his words are generally quite precise and economical even if his delivery seems all over the place. I like it. It seems genuine. And I tend to drift off when things are too smooth and scripted.<p>He might have some sort of speech impediment and it would be a shit of a world if he were judged on that instead of his achievements.</text></comment> |
16,935,074 | 16,934,173 | 1 | 3 | 16,932,581 | train | <story><title>F-Secure Hack Can Unlock Millions of Hotel Rooms with Handheld Device</title><url>https://www.extremetech.com/internet/268263-f-secure-hack-unlocks-millions-of-hotel-rooms-with-handheld-device</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>duxup</author><text>Physical access dynamics area always interesting. I used to visit data centers with high security to work on some equipment. I almost always had more access to more areas than the local employees. I had the magic hand that could open all doors. Many server guys couldn&#x27;t physically access the data center floor, but I could, and I didn&#x27;t even work for the company.<p>The only guys who had more access than I did.... their $15 an hour security guys and ... the janitors. Every room had a garbage can somewhere, someone had to get it... funny how that works.</text></item><item><author>djrogers</author><text>In a large hotel&#x2F;resort, there are literally hundreds of people with access to your hotel room at any given time. There&#x27;s a reason hotel room doors have deadbolts and chains in addition to the keycard - they&#x27;ve never been considered &#x27;secure&#x27;...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sbuttgereit</author><text>:-)<p>In the early 00&#x27;s we were looking for data centers to host our infrastructure and I remember a couple of the tours we took. On all the tours we saw the man-traps and the fancy hand scanning bio-metric locks as they touted how seriously they took the security of our servers...<p>...but as we were touring one of the facilities, a large back door was wide open to the outside directly into the main server room. As far as we could see it was unattended. To be fair, I&#x27;m sure there was someone around... somewhere... and that the door couldn&#x27;t have been left open like that for long (forget about access controls, environmental controls were compromised by that one, too!)<p>At another facility during that same RFP, the sales guy was trying to get us into a room and the fancy hand scanner wasn&#x27;t accepting his hand for entry. So in a fit of frustration he just opened the door... it actually wasn&#x27;t locked at all.<p>Ah... good times...</text></comment> | <story><title>F-Secure Hack Can Unlock Millions of Hotel Rooms with Handheld Device</title><url>https://www.extremetech.com/internet/268263-f-secure-hack-unlocks-millions-of-hotel-rooms-with-handheld-device</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>duxup</author><text>Physical access dynamics area always interesting. I used to visit data centers with high security to work on some equipment. I almost always had more access to more areas than the local employees. I had the magic hand that could open all doors. Many server guys couldn&#x27;t physically access the data center floor, but I could, and I didn&#x27;t even work for the company.<p>The only guys who had more access than I did.... their $15 an hour security guys and ... the janitors. Every room had a garbage can somewhere, someone had to get it... funny how that works.</text></item><item><author>djrogers</author><text>In a large hotel&#x2F;resort, there are literally hundreds of people with access to your hotel room at any given time. There&#x27;s a reason hotel room doors have deadbolts and chains in addition to the keycard - they&#x27;ve never been considered &#x27;secure&#x27;...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jschwartzi</author><text>At one company I worked at we had to take our garbage cans outside the room if we wanted them emptied because the janitor did not have access to our office.</text></comment> |
16,618,188 | 16,617,654 | 1 | 2 | 16,617,136 | train | <story><title>An Analysis of the Impact of Arbitrary Blockchain Content on Bitcoin [pdf]</title><url>https://fc18.ifca.ai/preproceedings/6.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ddalex</author><text>So the obvious bit here is that an adversarial actor can poison the blockchain with bits that make downloading, storing and processing the blockchain a highly illegal act.<p>This may have a chilling effect on participating in the network, thus reducing the number of nodes, and undermining the trust on the blockchain and in the coin because the reduced requirement of computing power needed to mutate the blockchain.<p>Accordingly a determined actor with enough resources (e.g. a nation-state) can render the bitcoin value-less and use-less at will....</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jasode</author><text><i>&gt;an adversarial actor can poison the blockchain with bits that make downloading, storing and processing the blockchain a highly illegal act.</i><p>Exactly. I brought up the same scenario recently.[1]<p>The top 2 replies to my comment was basically, <i>&quot;unless you&#x27;re looking for illegal data, it&#x27;s not a problem.&quot;</i><p>That head-in-the-sand ignorance completely misses the point. It&#x27;s not about how _you_ specifically ignore illegal data and therefore, you have absolution of guilt. It&#x27;s about the <i>whole world&#x27;s response</i> to bad data in the blockchain.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14434786" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14434786</a></text></comment> | <story><title>An Analysis of the Impact of Arbitrary Blockchain Content on Bitcoin [pdf]</title><url>https://fc18.ifca.ai/preproceedings/6.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ddalex</author><text>So the obvious bit here is that an adversarial actor can poison the blockchain with bits that make downloading, storing and processing the blockchain a highly illegal act.<p>This may have a chilling effect on participating in the network, thus reducing the number of nodes, and undermining the trust on the blockchain and in the coin because the reduced requirement of computing power needed to mutate the blockchain.<p>Accordingly a determined actor with enough resources (e.g. a nation-state) can render the bitcoin value-less and use-less at will....</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phkahler</author><text>In addition to illegal content, one could just put a huge amount of data in there to accelerate what seems to be a built in problem of ever increasing storage requirements.</text></comment> |
11,425,733 | 11,425,493 | 1 | 3 | 11,424,154 | train | <story><title>A Basic Income Is Smarter Than a Minimum Wage</title><url>http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-04-01/a-basic-income-is-smarter-than-minimum-wages</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>QuotedForTruth</author><text>The counter argument is that human labor has an actual cost. That is the cost to keep a human alive and in some level of comfort. Government benefits of many different types have &quot;artificially&quot; lowered this cost. Where employees refuse to pay enough for a human to live on, the government picks up the slack. Raising the minimum wage may be &quot;artificial,&quot; but its not the first control placed on some otherwise natural labor market.</text></item><item><author>kough</author><text>&gt; No one wants to hire them at a high minimum wage, especially when locals are readily available<p>The main drawback to a minimum wage is that it artificially increases the cost of labor, to the point where it&#x27;s no longer worth it to an employer to hire a low-output employee. I think we&#x27;d all agree that increasing employment is a good goal, but an increased minimum wage actually hinders progress on that front. As the minimum wage increases, robots and other non-human investments start to look much, much more attractive. Many businesses would be happy to hire workers for less than minimum wage, but legally cannot, and so do not hire.<p>Of course, it&#x27;s a complicated issue. Look at the employment of those with disabilities like Down Syndrome [0], for example. Are these employees worth hiring at $7.50&#x2F;hour? No, for the most part, they&#x27;re not. Are some? Sure, but on average there&#x27;s no way. But are they worth hiring at $2.00&#x2F;hour? Yes, and they and their families are willing for them to work at that wage, because there are huge benefits to being productively employed.<p>Recently these programs are coming &quot;under attack&quot; in various states. New Hampshire just made this practice illegal, for example [1]. We&#x27;ll see how it plays out -- my bet is that a) few news outlets will follow up in a few years and see how many of these disabled workers are able to find new employment, and b) few disabled workers will be able to do so.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.witf.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2014&#x2F;07&#x2F;thousands-of-disabled-workers-in-pa-paid-far-below-minimum-wage.php" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.witf.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2014&#x2F;07&#x2F;thousands-of-disabled-worke...</a><p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.care2.com&#x2F;causes&#x2F;new-hampshire-bans-subminimum-wage-for-people-with-disabilities.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.care2.com&#x2F;causes&#x2F;new-hampshire-bans-subminimum-wa...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dredmorbius</author><text>Read Smith. &quot;A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikisource.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Wealth_of_Nations&#x2F;Book_I&#x2F;Chapter_8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikisource.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Wealth_of_Nations&#x2F;Book_...</a><p>An enterprise which cannot pay the full cost of its inputs isn&#x27;t an economically viable activity. It&#x27;s a charity benefiting its owner.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Basic Income Is Smarter Than a Minimum Wage</title><url>http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-04-01/a-basic-income-is-smarter-than-minimum-wages</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>QuotedForTruth</author><text>The counter argument is that human labor has an actual cost. That is the cost to keep a human alive and in some level of comfort. Government benefits of many different types have &quot;artificially&quot; lowered this cost. Where employees refuse to pay enough for a human to live on, the government picks up the slack. Raising the minimum wage may be &quot;artificial,&quot; but its not the first control placed on some otherwise natural labor market.</text></item><item><author>kough</author><text>&gt; No one wants to hire them at a high minimum wage, especially when locals are readily available<p>The main drawback to a minimum wage is that it artificially increases the cost of labor, to the point where it&#x27;s no longer worth it to an employer to hire a low-output employee. I think we&#x27;d all agree that increasing employment is a good goal, but an increased minimum wage actually hinders progress on that front. As the minimum wage increases, robots and other non-human investments start to look much, much more attractive. Many businesses would be happy to hire workers for less than minimum wage, but legally cannot, and so do not hire.<p>Of course, it&#x27;s a complicated issue. Look at the employment of those with disabilities like Down Syndrome [0], for example. Are these employees worth hiring at $7.50&#x2F;hour? No, for the most part, they&#x27;re not. Are some? Sure, but on average there&#x27;s no way. But are they worth hiring at $2.00&#x2F;hour? Yes, and they and their families are willing for them to work at that wage, because there are huge benefits to being productively employed.<p>Recently these programs are coming &quot;under attack&quot; in various states. New Hampshire just made this practice illegal, for example [1]. We&#x27;ll see how it plays out -- my bet is that a) few news outlets will follow up in a few years and see how many of these disabled workers are able to find new employment, and b) few disabled workers will be able to do so.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.witf.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2014&#x2F;07&#x2F;thousands-of-disabled-workers-in-pa-paid-far-below-minimum-wage.php" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.witf.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2014&#x2F;07&#x2F;thousands-of-disabled-worke...</a><p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.care2.com&#x2F;causes&#x2F;new-hampshire-bans-subminimum-wage-for-people-with-disabilities.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.care2.com&#x2F;causes&#x2F;new-hampshire-bans-subminimum-wa...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RyanZAG</author><text>Sure, but it&#x27;s a low paying job vs no job.<p>Minimum wage is stupid - if you need people to get a higher income than the value they can output, you need to supply that additional income through social grants. Forcing them out of work by allowing robots to undercut them is idiotic when they are willing to work.</text></comment> |
29,031,126 | 29,030,291 | 1 | 3 | 29,024,808 | train | <story><title>Post-SSRI sexual dysfunction</title><url>https://rxisk.org/post-ssri-sexual-dysfunction-pssd/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lost-found</author><text>You ever look into ketamine for treating depression?<p>Self medicated this past weekend and had some major breakthroughs with my long time depression&#x2F;suicidal intrusive thoughts. Nice thing is you don’t have to stay on it unlike other antidepressants—I would never do a medication that you have to constantly take.</text></item><item><author>ljm</author><text>This was one of the factors that made me think twice about going back on anti-depressants, until I made peace with the fact that my ability to orgasm wasn&#x27;t going to pull me out of the hole I was in. It&#x27;s a shitty choice but the desire to not be suicidal forces your hand.<p>It&#x27;s literally like flipping a switch. One day, the plumbing works. The next day, it doesn&#x27;t. Many times I&#x27;d just give up, out of boredom.<p>The side-effects are clearly stated but to use myself as an example, I vastly underestimated just how strong they would be.<p>That said, if you&#x27;re dealing with the big black dog as it were, don&#x27;t use it as a reason to avoid anti-depressants if you really need them. Keep your doctor up to date about the side-effects so they can adjust your prescription. And don&#x27;t be shy just because you&#x27;re talking about your private parts.<p>And make sure you have a therapist too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ljm</author><text>I appreciate the concern but, honestly, it&#x27;s exhausting to keep fielding &#x27;have you tried...&#x27;, &#x27;have you looked into...&#x27;, &#x27;have you explored...&#x27; questions.<p>I get that it comes from a good place, but I&#x27;m sharing my experience, not asking for advice.<p>The best help you and others can offer is to just listen, instead of offering another solution.<p>There are two replies to me in the &#x27;have you tried&#x27; vein. I&#x27;m not aiming it at you specifically, just trying to stop a pattern.</text></comment> | <story><title>Post-SSRI sexual dysfunction</title><url>https://rxisk.org/post-ssri-sexual-dysfunction-pssd/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lost-found</author><text>You ever look into ketamine for treating depression?<p>Self medicated this past weekend and had some major breakthroughs with my long time depression&#x2F;suicidal intrusive thoughts. Nice thing is you don’t have to stay on it unlike other antidepressants—I would never do a medication that you have to constantly take.</text></item><item><author>ljm</author><text>This was one of the factors that made me think twice about going back on anti-depressants, until I made peace with the fact that my ability to orgasm wasn&#x27;t going to pull me out of the hole I was in. It&#x27;s a shitty choice but the desire to not be suicidal forces your hand.<p>It&#x27;s literally like flipping a switch. One day, the plumbing works. The next day, it doesn&#x27;t. Many times I&#x27;d just give up, out of boredom.<p>The side-effects are clearly stated but to use myself as an example, I vastly underestimated just how strong they would be.<p>That said, if you&#x27;re dealing with the big black dog as it were, don&#x27;t use it as a reason to avoid anti-depressants if you really need them. Keep your doctor up to date about the side-effects so they can adjust your prescription. And don&#x27;t be shy just because you&#x27;re talking about your private parts.<p>And make sure you have a therapist too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ghostbrainalpha</author><text>I just lost a friend to Ketamine, and there is another thread on the front page about someone famous who destroyed their life with it.<p>Ketamine seems like a miracle but a ton of people cant control their usage of it at all. Even if you think you know how addiction works, Ketamine sneaks up on you in a way cocaine, heroin, and oxytocin do not.<p>Please be careful.</text></comment> |
34,080,519 | 34,079,882 | 1 | 3 | 34,078,222 | train | <story><title>Stable Diffusion on AMD RDNA3</title><url>https://nod.ai/sd-on-rdna3/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chem83</author><text>&gt; SHARK is an open source cross platform (Windows, macOS and Linux) Machine Learning Distribution packaged with torch-mlir (for seamless PyTorch integration), LLVM&#x2F;MLIR for re-targetable compiler technologies along with IREE (for efficient codegen, compilation and runtime) and Nod.ai’s tuning. IREE is part of the OpenXLA Project<p>Google has been doing a good job advancing the IREE ML compiler project, which I think is what will bring other hw platforms like AMD and Intel to the ML game. Industry only has to benefit from increased hardware portability.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stable Diffusion on AMD RDNA3</title><url>https://nod.ai/sd-on-rdna3/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lalaland1125</author><text>I really wish more GPU libraries had focused on vulkan instead of CUDA ...</text></comment> |
28,280,221 | 28,280,254 | 1 | 2 | 28,272,410 | train | <story><title>The only skin care that works? science video response (2020)</title><url>https://labmuffin.com/the-only-skincare-that-works-according-to-science-asap-science-video-response/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_gohp</author><text>I need something to reasonably explain to my wife that all these things don&#x27;t work, the brand indoctrination is profound and the credit card bills hefty.
Any good study on all the things that don&#x27;t work?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>goostavos</author><text>I think if you&#x27;re coming at it from an angle where you&#x27;re going to sit your wife down on the couch, show her some studies, and then wait for the &quot;thank you for clarifying my thinking!&quot; to roll in, you&#x27;re doomed to fail &#x2F; upset your SO.<p>I think the personality types you generally find in tech, which are so focused on what we can produce &#x2F; output, don&#x27;t understand that <i>consumption</i> is a perfectly valid hobby or interest for people to have.<p>I&#x27;d wager very few people actually buy the miracle claims on the products. I think they instead just find it fun. I gave my SO a lot of crap before realizing that some people just find stewardship of an object enjoyable. There&#x27;s a whole subculture related to it. The ownership, displaying, and usage _is_ the hobby.</text></comment> | <story><title>The only skin care that works? science video response (2020)</title><url>https://labmuffin.com/the-only-skincare-that-works-according-to-science-asap-science-video-response/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_gohp</author><text>I need something to reasonably explain to my wife that all these things don&#x27;t work, the brand indoctrination is profound and the credit card bills hefty.
Any good study on all the things that don&#x27;t work?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostromo</author><text>Check out Examine, they also cover skin care topics.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;examine.com&#x2F;topics&#x2F;wrinkles&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;examine.com&#x2F;topics&#x2F;wrinkles&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;examine.com&#x2F;topics&#x2F;skin-quality&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;examine.com&#x2F;topics&#x2F;skin-quality&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;examine.com&#x2F;topics&#x2F;skin-elasticity&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;examine.com&#x2F;topics&#x2F;skin-elasticity&#x2F;</a><p>... among others.<p>Unfortunately there&#x27;s not a lot of great science out there, which is crazy given that the cosmetics industry is nearing $0.5T annually.</text></comment> |
24,031,475 | 24,031,166 | 1 | 3 | 24,030,654 | train | <story><title>NASA Astronauts in SpaceX Capsule Make First Water Landing Since 1975</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/02/science/spacex-nasa-return.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>inamberclad</author><text>Random boats swarming is absolutely insane<p>This is a RESCUE operation and they&#x27;re getting in the way.<p>Not to mention, there&#x27;s still plenty of extremely poisonous UDMH on that thing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jccooper</author><text>All previous splashdowns have been much further from shore and, moreover, done by squadrons of US Navy ships, so this really hasn&#x27;t come up before. You don&#x27;t really take your bass boat up to an aircraft carrier a few hundred miles offshore.<p>I expect they&#x27;ll have more than one Coast Guard vessel on hand next time, and will probably look into not publicizing the landing zone.</text></comment> | <story><title>NASA Astronauts in SpaceX Capsule Make First Water Landing Since 1975</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/02/science/spacex-nasa-return.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>inamberclad</author><text>Random boats swarming is absolutely insane<p>This is a RESCUE operation and they&#x27;re getting in the way.<p>Not to mention, there&#x27;s still plenty of extremely poisonous UDMH on that thing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>savrajsingh</author><text>Shocking to see private boats next to the capsule right after it had splashed down. Where’s the common sense to remain at a safe distance?</text></comment> |
850,984 | 850,956 | 1 | 2 | 850,857 | train | <story><title>The Most Important Writing Lesson I Ever Learned</title><url>http://blog.stevenpressfield.com/2009/07/writing-wednesdays-2-the-most-important-writing-lession-i-ever-learned/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>edw519</author><text>Hacker's Corollary:<p>"The Most Important Programming Lesson I Ever Learned"<p>Nobody wants to run your shit.<p>Make it simple. Make it easy. Make it fun (to the extent that you can). Make it intuitive. Make it do exactly what needs to be done.<p>Your user is too busy for anything else.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Most Important Writing Lesson I Ever Learned</title><url>http://blog.stevenpressfield.com/2009/07/writing-wednesdays-2-the-most-important-writing-lession-i-ever-learned/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bk</author><text>"Have you ever noticed how other people's stuff is shit, and your own shit is stuff?" - George Carlin</text></comment> |
24,892,425 | 24,891,382 | 1 | 2 | 24,890,463 | train | <story><title>Standard ML in 2020</title><url>https://notes.eatonphil.com/standard-ml-in-2020.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hajile</author><text>StandardML really hits a nice sweet spot in language design.<p>The syntax is super-easy to learn (The BNF for the whole fits in a mere 2 pages[0]), but contains a lot of features in that small package. Rather than tacking on functional features (eg, Java with lambdas), these features have been carefully considered and streamlined and include bits like proper tail calls and currying.<p>You get nice bits like actually sound types (hindley-milner types as Milner was also one of the SML spec authors), generics (way better than typical interfaces), type inference that actually works, and modules (super-powerful encapsulation). Pattern matching in all it&#x27;s awesomeness is also on display.<p>SML has an amazing concurrency story (CML is rather like golang channels, but better with better typing and a bit more flexibility) and compilers like PolyML or Mlton are very fast (once again, around the same as golang).<p>Despite this, the language <i>doesn&#x27;t</i> have the academic flaws of its descendants like Haskell.<p>SML isn&#x27;t a lazy language, so reasoning about performance is much easier than some other functional languages.
SML doesn&#x27;t pretend the world is a pure function. You are free to make functions that have side effects.
While most primitives and data structures are immutable by default, they either have mutable variants (eg, vector and array) or can be used as if mutable with refs (something like typesafe pointers without all the reference&#x2F;dereference bits).<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cse.buffalo.edu&#x2F;~regan&#x2F;cse305&#x2F;MLBNF.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cse.buffalo.edu&#x2F;~regan&#x2F;cse305&#x2F;MLBNF.pdf</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jberryman</author><text>&gt; doesn&#x27;t pretend the world is a pure function.<p>At a first approximation, Haskell pretends the world is a piece of state, not a pure function.</text></comment> | <story><title>Standard ML in 2020</title><url>https://notes.eatonphil.com/standard-ml-in-2020.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hajile</author><text>StandardML really hits a nice sweet spot in language design.<p>The syntax is super-easy to learn (The BNF for the whole fits in a mere 2 pages[0]), but contains a lot of features in that small package. Rather than tacking on functional features (eg, Java with lambdas), these features have been carefully considered and streamlined and include bits like proper tail calls and currying.<p>You get nice bits like actually sound types (hindley-milner types as Milner was also one of the SML spec authors), generics (way better than typical interfaces), type inference that actually works, and modules (super-powerful encapsulation). Pattern matching in all it&#x27;s awesomeness is also on display.<p>SML has an amazing concurrency story (CML is rather like golang channels, but better with better typing and a bit more flexibility) and compilers like PolyML or Mlton are very fast (once again, around the same as golang).<p>Despite this, the language <i>doesn&#x27;t</i> have the academic flaws of its descendants like Haskell.<p>SML isn&#x27;t a lazy language, so reasoning about performance is much easier than some other functional languages.
SML doesn&#x27;t pretend the world is a pure function. You are free to make functions that have side effects.
While most primitives and data structures are immutable by default, they either have mutable variants (eg, vector and array) or can be used as if mutable with refs (something like typesafe pointers without all the reference&#x2F;dereference bits).<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cse.buffalo.edu&#x2F;~regan&#x2F;cse305&#x2F;MLBNF.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cse.buffalo.edu&#x2F;~regan&#x2F;cse305&#x2F;MLBNF.pdf</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skissane</author><text>&gt; Despite this, the language doesn&#x27;t have the academic flaws of its descendants like Haskell.<p>Can you elaborate on what those flaws are?</text></comment> |
39,422,145 | 39,419,788 | 1 | 2 | 39,419,210 | train | <story><title>USGS Historical Topographic Maps</title><url>https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-living-atlas/mapping/access-over-181000-usgs-historical-topographic-maps/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jedberg</author><text>I went on a tour of the USGS in Palo Alto in 2012. They used to keep all the Bay Area Topo maps there. The curator of the museum had a burning hatred for Google (which was basically across the street).<p>He told us that Google is 100% to blame for the cancellation of the USGS topographic maps program. Their management told him &quot;Google is capturing it all now, so we don&#x27;t need to do it anymore&quot;. He hated them with a burning passion because he was told to turn over all of his maps to Google for digitization into Google Maps because they would be shutting down the paper archives that he was in charge of.<p>He wasn&#x27;t mad because his job was going away (they were going to reassign him anyway) -- he was mad because he felt that it wasn&#x27;t right for Google to be in charge of archiving and controlling access to what was public information. He was also mad because Google&#x27;s maps weren&#x27;t nearly as good as his.<p>I hope that guy is still around and happy to see that the topographic maps live on and are freely available now.</text></comment> | <story><title>USGS Historical Topographic Maps</title><url>https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-living-atlas/mapping/access-over-181000-usgs-historical-topographic-maps/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nullhole</author><text>The maps are available directly through the USGS as well, if you want to avoid the 3rd party viewer:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ngmdb.usgs.gov&#x2F;topoview&#x2F;viewer&#x2F;#4&#x2F;40.01&#x2F;-100.06" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ngmdb.usgs.gov&#x2F;topoview&#x2F;viewer&#x2F;#4&#x2F;40.01&#x2F;-100.06</a></text></comment> |
16,902,988 | 16,902,897 | 1 | 2 | 16,902,361 | train | <story><title>How Windmills as Wide as Jumbo Jets Are Making Clean Energy Mainstream</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/23/business/energy-environment/big-windmills.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shaqbert</author><text>As the production costs with windpower decrease due to the technological progress, the question of grid storage and grid interconnection becomes more pressing.<p>E.g. in Germany, they frequently have days of negative energy prices, where producers need to pay to feed energy into the greed because of overproduction of energy on windy&#x2F;sunny days [0](in German). Without storage and grid interconnection, there is only so much renewable energy from intermittent sources like wind and solar you can handle.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.energybrainpool.com&#x2F;bereits-103-mal-in-2017-negative-preise-am-stromspotmarkt&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.energybrainpool.com&#x2F;bereits-103-mal-in-2017-neg...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vidarh</author><text>Germany has at least one example of an aluminium producer testing dialing the power use of their melter up&#x2F;down by 25% in response to input from the grid [1]:<p>&gt; Trimet says that implementing its technology across Germany’s four aluminum smelters, three of which it owns, could provide a demand response capacity equal to a third of Germany’s 40 gigawatt-hours of pumped hydro storage.<p>There was a lot of confusion about this one when it was published, but as the article points out, they&#x27;re not using their molten aluminium pools as a liquid battery - they&#x27;re merely dynamically adjusting the electricity usage of their hydrolysis cells, which also requires some other adjustments to keep the process going, but it&#x27;s still a lot of power and more responsive than what they do today (which involves taking the smelters entirely offline for short periods).<p>It helps that their test plant is near Hamburg in the North, &quot;close&quot; to most of Germany&#x27;s wind turbine capacity which helps alleviate transmission&#x2F;interconnection problems to the South.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.greentechmedia.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;read&#x2F;german-firm-turns-aluminum-smelter-into-huge-battery#gs.aOAMAos" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.greentechmedia.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;read&#x2F;german-firm-tur...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How Windmills as Wide as Jumbo Jets Are Making Clean Energy Mainstream</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/23/business/energy-environment/big-windmills.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shaqbert</author><text>As the production costs with windpower decrease due to the technological progress, the question of grid storage and grid interconnection becomes more pressing.<p>E.g. in Germany, they frequently have days of negative energy prices, where producers need to pay to feed energy into the greed because of overproduction of energy on windy&#x2F;sunny days [0](in German). Without storage and grid interconnection, there is only so much renewable energy from intermittent sources like wind and solar you can handle.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.energybrainpool.com&#x2F;bereits-103-mal-in-2017-negative-preise-am-stromspotmarkt&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.energybrainpool.com&#x2F;bereits-103-mal-in-2017-neg...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Brakenshire</author><text>As turbines get larger, not only do the costs go down, but the reliability of supply goes up. It becomes more economical to place them out at sea, where winds are more reliable, and the size allows them to run more effectively off low speed winds. These turbines are claiming 60%+ capacity factor, compared to 20-30% for smaller, onshore turbines.<p>The UK is already up to about 15% of its electricity from wind right now, these developments will open that up significantly more. Obviously at high levels of penetration there are going to be issues, we&#x27;ll just have to see how far we can go, but even 25-40% of electricity would be a huge contribution.<p>Combine that with the new and existing nuclear, another 15%, some biomass and tidal lagoons, with the rest from gas (which produces half as much CO2 as coal) and it will go a long way towards meeting the UK&#x27;s 80% CO2 reduction target from 1990 to 2050.</text></comment> |
13,215,734 | 13,215,200 | 1 | 3 | 13,214,768 | train | <story><title>A No-Nonsense Machiavelli</title><url>http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/12/18/no-nonsense-machiavelli-the-prince/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rrggrr</author><text>We often forget The Prince was a job application, from an exiled and impoverished Machiavelli to the court of Medici. Parks seems to forget this inconvenient fact. Parks also forgets to mention that it was Machiavelli&#x27;s Discourses on Livy, a book that disagrees with The Prince with numerological precision, that screams Machiavelli&#x27;s love of a Republic over a monarchical or despotic rule, and that defines virtue in idealized, classical terms most embrace today.<p>As Parks implicitly states, the difference between a man&#x27;s message and his mission depends a great deal on who is reporting it. It is this difference, between The Prince and The Discourses, between marketing and motive, where Park may learn Trump, like Machiavelli, is no fan of Princes but is instead very much a man of the Signora and the Guild to the great benefit of a Republic. Park&#x27;s piece is straight from the Medici playbook.</text></comment> | <story><title>A No-Nonsense Machiavelli</title><url>http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/12/18/no-nonsense-machiavelli-the-prince/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>h4nkoslo</author><text>This is by far the best explanation I&#x27;ve read of where Machiavelli is metaphysically coming from: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.exurbe.com&#x2F;?p=1429" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.exurbe.com&#x2F;?p=1429</a> . He was a true patriot for his people.</text></comment> |
11,620,096 | 11,619,840 | 1 | 2 | 11,614,752 | train | <story><title>Validating Satoshi (Or Not)</title><url>https://dankaminsky.com/2016/05/02/validating-satoshi-or-not/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blowski</author><text>Seems to me like there are two possible scenarios here:<p>1. Craig Wright is telling the truth, but has released a bad proof to misdirect everyone into believing he is not Satoshi. Maybe he&#x27;s just having a laugh.<p>2. Craig Wright is lying.<p>Even if he&#x27;s not Satoshi, he seems smart enough to know he wouldn&#x27;t get away with releasing shoddy proofs. Perhaps he thought the mainstream media would say &quot;Craig Wright invented Bitcoin&quot; and anyone that disagreed would be called a conspiracy nut.<p>Perhaps this was a kind of pump-and-dump where he expected the price to change significantly and make a killing out of doing it. He doesn&#x27;t care what people think of him if he&#x27;s just made $20 million. Could it have anything to do with his ongoing legal troubles with the tax authorities in Australia?<p>At this stage, I&#x27;m seeing plenty of people saying &quot;Here&#x27;s why Craig Wright isn&#x27;t Satoshi&quot; and that&#x27;s interesting and useful. But I haven&#x27;t seen anyone establish why Craig Wright would be lying.<p>Also, it&#x27;s interesting that &quot;The Real Satoshi&quot; has not posted something saying he&#x27;s not Craig Wright, as we have seen with previous &quot;exposés&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway7767</author><text>&gt; Also, it&#x27;s interesting that &quot;The Real Satoshi&quot; has not posted something saying he&#x27;s not Craig Wright, as we have seen with previous &quot;exposés&quot;.<p>AFAIK that&#x27;s only happened once, in the Dorian case. In that case, the media and papparazzos were hounding a frail old man who was clearly very uncomfortable with the whole thing.<p>Craig Wright seems to just love being in the spotlight. So there&#x27;s no reason to deny the claims for empathic reasons. It would suck for the real Satoshi to create an expectation that he&#x27;ll have to individually refute all these claims, I imagine he has other things to do.</text></comment> | <story><title>Validating Satoshi (Or Not)</title><url>https://dankaminsky.com/2016/05/02/validating-satoshi-or-not/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blowski</author><text>Seems to me like there are two possible scenarios here:<p>1. Craig Wright is telling the truth, but has released a bad proof to misdirect everyone into believing he is not Satoshi. Maybe he&#x27;s just having a laugh.<p>2. Craig Wright is lying.<p>Even if he&#x27;s not Satoshi, he seems smart enough to know he wouldn&#x27;t get away with releasing shoddy proofs. Perhaps he thought the mainstream media would say &quot;Craig Wright invented Bitcoin&quot; and anyone that disagreed would be called a conspiracy nut.<p>Perhaps this was a kind of pump-and-dump where he expected the price to change significantly and make a killing out of doing it. He doesn&#x27;t care what people think of him if he&#x27;s just made $20 million. Could it have anything to do with his ongoing legal troubles with the tax authorities in Australia?<p>At this stage, I&#x27;m seeing plenty of people saying &quot;Here&#x27;s why Craig Wright isn&#x27;t Satoshi&quot; and that&#x27;s interesting and useful. But I haven&#x27;t seen anyone establish why Craig Wright would be lying.<p>Also, it&#x27;s interesting that &quot;The Real Satoshi&quot; has not posted something saying he&#x27;s not Craig Wright, as we have seen with previous &quot;exposés&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acqq</author><text>&gt; I haven&#x27;t seen anyone establish why Craig Wright would be lying.<p>If you don&#x27;t understand, I&#x27;m actually in possession of 400 million dollars bound to a trust, not available to me until 2020, but if you send me your bank details and help me in current affairs I promise I&#x27;ll compensate you with the 10 percent of the whole sum.<p>I&#x27;m also famous, maybe they&#x27;ll even get me a Nobel prize, I&#x27;m playing I&#x27;m hard to get, anyway, and you can be too if you confirm that I proved to you too I&#x27;m the one who I claim to be. Think about it, there will be even a Hollywood movie about us. For the start, see I&#x27;ve already agreed for more exclusives.<p>And oh, I can help your case for introducing bigger blocks to Bitcoin. There&#x27;s going to be this nice conference in NY where you can present your argument exactly on the first day of my &quot;big announcement.&quot;</text></comment> |
29,570,408 | 29,570,552 | 1 | 2 | 29,569,017 | train | <story><title>JFK Assassination Records – 2021 Additional Documents Release</title><url>https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/release2021</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>duxup</author><text>A weird dude acting alone seems entirely plausible and not surprising historically.</text></item><item><author>beepbooptheory</author><text>You spend so long researching this and learning about the CIA and Allan Dulles and Fair Play for Cuba, you kind of forget that some people still actually believe Lee Harvey Oswald was just some crazy guy acting alone.<p>Edit: I don&#x27;t mean to be too snarky, I encourage anyone to do their own research. Its just with things like this... there are always few dozen &quot;smaller&quot; conspiracies attached or related to it, that I truly believe a rational person would easily accept: that the CIA, for example, used certain people as actors to help rally Cuba antagonism, that JFK was himself considered a threat by the establishment at the time, that the CIA has deep connections to crime (for practical purposes). All these things, are believable and motivated by real things, and fit reality better than the official narrative. I think it&#x27;s understandable though, when confronted with the &quot;big&quot; conspiracy, to hesitate, to be like &quot;Well c&#x27;mon lets not be crazy.&quot; But really, I implore the diligent, tell me how this thing is NOT the sum of its parts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>miles</author><text>But then a man like Jack Ruby killing Oswald under such circumstances doesn&#x27;t make any sense:<p>Who Was Jack Ruby? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.texasmonthly.com&#x2F;news-politics&#x2F;who-was-jack-ruby&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.texasmonthly.com&#x2F;news-politics&#x2F;who-was-jack-ruby...</a><p>Why Jack Ruby Killed JFK&#x27;s Assassin <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;history.howstuffworks.com&#x2F;historical-figures&#x2F;jack-ruby.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;history.howstuffworks.com&#x2F;historical-figures&#x2F;jack-ru...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>JFK Assassination Records – 2021 Additional Documents Release</title><url>https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/release2021</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>duxup</author><text>A weird dude acting alone seems entirely plausible and not surprising historically.</text></item><item><author>beepbooptheory</author><text>You spend so long researching this and learning about the CIA and Allan Dulles and Fair Play for Cuba, you kind of forget that some people still actually believe Lee Harvey Oswald was just some crazy guy acting alone.<p>Edit: I don&#x27;t mean to be too snarky, I encourage anyone to do their own research. Its just with things like this... there are always few dozen &quot;smaller&quot; conspiracies attached or related to it, that I truly believe a rational person would easily accept: that the CIA, for example, used certain people as actors to help rally Cuba antagonism, that JFK was himself considered a threat by the establishment at the time, that the CIA has deep connections to crime (for practical purposes). All these things, are believable and motivated by real things, and fit reality better than the official narrative. I think it&#x27;s understandable though, when confronted with the &quot;big&quot; conspiracy, to hesitate, to be like &quot;Well c&#x27;mon lets not be crazy.&quot; But really, I implore the diligent, tell me how this thing is NOT the sum of its parts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adam12</author><text>&gt; A weird dude acting alone seems entirely plausible and not surprising historically.<p>*A weird dude that could break the laws of physics with 3 bullets and a rifle.</text></comment> |
28,619,217 | 28,619,555 | 1 | 2 | 28,618,102 | train | <story><title>Spook: Side channel attack which could read the memory from password managers</title><url>https://www.spookjs.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bee_rider</author><text>This title seems a bit over-broad. The attack is based on using the built-in chrome credential manager. Further, it seems to depend either on the user installing an evil chrome plugin (in which case, you are already doomed, right?), or confusing a website like Tumblr into mixing up the user content and the login page, and getting the autofill info there.<p>The second attack seems limited to just the site that is being messed with. The fact that sites like Tumblr which apparently (?) host random unvetted javascript for bloggers aren&#x27;t protected by site isolation is not that surprising, right?<p>Anyway, autofill and built-in password managers have always seemed suspicious to me. People should stick to stuff like keepass I guess.</text></comment> | <story><title>Spook: Side channel attack which could read the memory from password managers</title><url>https://www.spookjs.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bananaportfolio</author><text>It looks like they were able to exploit the Last Level Cache of Intel and Apple processors, but failed to do so against an AMD processor using the Zen architecture. Instead of plainly saying as much, the authors simulate a theoretical leakage rate for AMD processors by way of making V8 expose clflush in absence of a practical LLC eviction mechanism.</text></comment> |
8,460,431 | 8,460,250 | 1 | 3 | 8,460,073 | train | <story><title>Apple Accidentally reveals iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3</title><url>https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/id917481145?mt=11</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>walru</author><text>At first I thought this was an &#x27;accidental&#x27; leak. As in, a response to steal Google&#x27;s thunder.<p>Then it hit me, and it will become immediately clear to anyone who&#x27;s ever pushed an app to the App Store, this highlights their broken process for pushing apps to the store. Who ever was in charge of submitting this particular app probably didn&#x27;t click the right button and just had it set to release upon approval.<p>Hilarious.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Accidentally reveals iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3</title><url>https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/id917481145?mt=11</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lambdasquirrel</author><text>Does it strike anyone else that Apple&#x27;s product line is starting to sound complicated?</text></comment> |
35,335,921 | 35,332,526 | 1 | 3 | 35,330,438 | train | <story><title>Employees are feeding sensitive data to ChatGPT, raising security fears</title><url>https://www.darkreading.com/risk/employees-feeding-sensitive-business-data-chatgpt-raising-security-fears</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jackson1442</author><text>I think this is different in that ChatGPT is expressly using your data as training in a probabilistic model. This means:<p>* Their contractors can (and do!) see your chat data to tune the model<p>* If the model is trained on your confidential data, it may start returning this data to other users (as we&#x27;ve seen with Github Copilot regurgitating licensed software)<p>* The site even _tells you_ not to put confidential data in for these reasons.<p>Until OpenAI makes a version that you can stick on a server in your own datacenter, I wouldn&#x27;t trust it with anything confidential.</text></item><item><author>wantsanagent</author><text>We saw these same fears with the release of Gmail. Why would you trust your <i>email</i> to <i>Google?!!</i> Aren&#x27;t they going to train their spam filters on all your data? Aren&#x27;t they going to sell it, or use it to sell you ads?<p>Corporations constantly put their most sensitive data in 3rd party tools. The executive in the article was probably copying his company strategy from Google docs.<p>Yes, there are good reasons for concern, but the power of the tool is simply too great to ignore.<p>Banning these tools will go the same way as prohibition did in the US, people will simply ignore it until it becomes too absurd to maintain and too profitable to not participate in.<p>Companies which are able to operate <i>without</i> these fears will move faster, grow more quickly, and ultimately challenge companies restricted to operate without.<p>Now I think the article <i>should</i> be a wake-up call for OpenAI. Messaging around what is and what is not used for training could be improved. Corporate accounts for Chat with clearer privacy policies would be great and warnings that, yes, LLMs do memorize data and you should treat anything you put into a free product on the web as fair game for someone&#x27;s training algorithm.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>&gt; I think this is different in that ChatGPT is expressly using your data as training in a probabilistic model.<p>Google tries hard to sell you on their auto-answers for emails (&#x27;smart reply&#x27;), wonder how those got trained...</text></comment> | <story><title>Employees are feeding sensitive data to ChatGPT, raising security fears</title><url>https://www.darkreading.com/risk/employees-feeding-sensitive-business-data-chatgpt-raising-security-fears</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jackson1442</author><text>I think this is different in that ChatGPT is expressly using your data as training in a probabilistic model. This means:<p>* Their contractors can (and do!) see your chat data to tune the model<p>* If the model is trained on your confidential data, it may start returning this data to other users (as we&#x27;ve seen with Github Copilot regurgitating licensed software)<p>* The site even _tells you_ not to put confidential data in for these reasons.<p>Until OpenAI makes a version that you can stick on a server in your own datacenter, I wouldn&#x27;t trust it with anything confidential.</text></item><item><author>wantsanagent</author><text>We saw these same fears with the release of Gmail. Why would you trust your <i>email</i> to <i>Google?!!</i> Aren&#x27;t they going to train their spam filters on all your data? Aren&#x27;t they going to sell it, or use it to sell you ads?<p>Corporations constantly put their most sensitive data in 3rd party tools. The executive in the article was probably copying his company strategy from Google docs.<p>Yes, there are good reasons for concern, but the power of the tool is simply too great to ignore.<p>Banning these tools will go the same way as prohibition did in the US, people will simply ignore it until it becomes too absurd to maintain and too profitable to not participate in.<p>Companies which are able to operate <i>without</i> these fears will move faster, grow more quickly, and ultimately challenge companies restricted to operate without.<p>Now I think the article <i>should</i> be a wake-up call for OpenAI. Messaging around what is and what is not used for training could be improved. Corporate accounts for Chat with clearer privacy policies would be great and warnings that, yes, LLMs do memorize data and you should treat anything you put into a free product on the web as fair game for someone&#x27;s training algorithm.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>renewiltord</author><text>Not that I don&#x27;t expect them to do this, but how is it expressly said to be so?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.openai.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;articles&#x2F;5722486-how-your-data-is-used-to-improve-model-performance" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.openai.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;articles&#x2F;5722486-how-your-data-is...</a><p>&gt; <i>OpenAI does not use data submitted by customers via our API to train OpenAI models or improve OpenAI’s service offering. In order to support the continuous improvement of our models, you can fill out this form to opt-in to share your data with us. Sharing your data with us not only helps our models become more accurate and better at solving your specific problem, it also helps improve their general capabilities and safety.</i></text></comment> |
11,639,419 | 11,639,062 | 1 | 3 | 11,638,925 | train | <story><title>Introducing a new, advanced Visual C++ code optimizer</title><url>https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/05/04/new-code-optimizer/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kibwen</author><text>Undefined behavior notice:<p><pre><code> &gt; Historically, Visual C++ did not take advantage of the
&gt; fact that the C and C++ standards consider the result
&gt; of overflowing signed operations undefined. Other
&gt; compilers are very aggressive in this regard, which
&gt; motivated the decision to implement some patterns which
&gt; take advantage of undefined integer overflow behavior.
&gt; We implemented the ones we thought were safe and didn’t
&gt; impose any unnecessary security risks in generated code.
&gt; A new undocumented compiler flag has been added to
&gt; disable these optimizations, in case an application
&gt; that is not standard-conformant fails:
&gt; -d2SSAOptimizerUndefinedIntOverflow-. Due to security
&gt; concerns, we have seen cases where these patterns
&gt; should not be optimized, even though following the C
&gt; and C++ standards allows us to [...]
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It sounds like they&#x27;re not doing anything that GCC&#x2F;Clang aren&#x27;t already, but if you&#x27;ve only ever compiled with MSVC then be careful not to overlook this.</text></comment> | <story><title>Introducing a new, advanced Visual C++ code optimizer</title><url>https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/05/04/new-code-optimizer/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mrich</author><text>Thumbs up to Microsoft for investing that much into their C&#x2F;C++ toolchain.</text></comment> |
1,308,724 | 1,308,138 | 1 | 2 | 1,307,689 | train | <story><title>Apple is just Microsoft with better marketing</title><url>http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/posts/apple-is-just-microsoft-with-better-marketing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RyanMcGreal</author><text>That's a ridiculous comparison. Apple is <i>far</i> more closed and controlling than Microsoft ever was.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcromartie</author><text>I have to think that, for the last 10 years, they have been open <i>and</i> closed in just the right places.<p>If you look at it objectively, Apple use far more open standards than Microsoft, and rarely resort to inventing standards to implement the closed systems that they want to.<p>Look at their open source releases: <a href="http://www.opensource.apple.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.opensource.apple.com/</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Apple is just Microsoft with better marketing</title><url>http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/posts/apple-is-just-microsoft-with-better-marketing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RyanMcGreal</author><text>That's a ridiculous comparison. Apple is <i>far</i> more closed and controlling than Microsoft ever was.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>antipaganda</author><text>That's why I'm confused - I agree with you, Apple is way out of line on this. So why are they doing this, when they're not a monopoly? Do they think that having a walled garden of approved apps and the best UI will work forever?<p>It didn't work for their desktop business 20 years ago, why should it work now?</text></comment> |
4,075,842 | 4,075,573 | 1 | 2 | 4,075,347 | train | <story><title>LeakedIn</title><url>http://leakedin.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pbreit</author><text>Now there's a great idea! Provide your password to some random site purporting to check if your password's been compromised.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jerf</author><text><a href="http://www.inutile.ens.fr/estatis/password-security-checker/" rel="nofollow">http://www.inutile.ens.fr/estatis/password-security-checker/</a><p>(BTW, be sure to type some gibberish into the provided box and hit submit, so you can see why I think this is a very relevant link.)</text></comment> | <story><title>LeakedIn</title><url>http://leakedin.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pbreit</author><text>Now there's a great idea! Provide your password to some random site purporting to check if your password's been compromised.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joshuahedlund</author><text>Even if you don't check the source code to verify that it's harmless, you should assume your password has been compromised and have already changed it anyway. This just lowers the cost of checking the list and could help us learn more about the compromise.</text></comment> |
13,065,268 | 13,065,267 | 1 | 3 | 13,064,643 | train | <story><title>Useful Perl one-liners (2013)</title><url>http://www.catonmat.net/download/perl1line.txt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jxy</author><text>What is the advantage of this over sed?</text></item><item><author>shanemhansen</author><text>My favorite perl one liner is a globbed search and replace. It even has it&#x27;s own website: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;perlpie.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;perlpie.com&#x2F;</a><p><pre><code> perl -p -i -e &#x27;s&#x2F;foo&#x2F;bar&#x2F;gi&#x27; .&#x2F;*.txt</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paulmd</author><text>They&#x27;re functionally interchangeable for simple usage (minus some perl-specific stuff like PCRE).<p>As I note below, escape behavior is a little different because sed wants you to escape +&#x27;s to have the normal regex semantics (&quot;one or more matches&quot;). And I actually think Perl is correct here and you should only need to escape those characters if you want <i>literal matches</i>, but I have a weird environment (Cygwin) and it&#x27;s possible the sed build there is a little messed up.<p>The major difference for me is that Perl can match across multiple lines using the -0777 flag. I&#x27;ve been doing a lot of regex-based mass manipulation of source code lately and most people write functions across multiple lines. You can&#x27;t do that with sed without multi-line appending and it gets really ugly really fast. Sed is pretty much just single line matches only.<p>For example, I had 100-odd classes with getters for certain values but not setters. So I did:<p><pre><code> grep -rle &quot;getAddTime&quot; | while read line; do if ! grep -q &quot;setAddTime&quot; $line ; then echo $line; perl -i -0777 -pe &#x27;s&#x2F;public\s+Date\s+getAddTime\s*\(\s*\)\s*\{[\s\w=;]+\}&#x2F;$&amp;\n\n public void setAddTime(Date addTime) { this.addTime = addTime; }&#x2F;&#x27; $line; fi done
</code></pre>
translation: look for files that contain getAddTime, if they do not contain setAddTime then find the string &quot;public Date getAddTime() {...} and append the setter after that&quot;. There are a few edge cases you could hit there but it was close enough to work on my codebase.<p>I wish Perl would do an inplace edit of a file without creating a backup, though. I am under source control so there&#x27;s no harm in just operating right on the files. It&#x27;s not the end of the world to follow up with a rm -r *.bak I guess, but it&#x27;s annoying. At least they&#x27;re in my git-ignore which helps a little.</text></comment> | <story><title>Useful Perl one-liners (2013)</title><url>http://www.catonmat.net/download/perl1line.txt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jxy</author><text>What is the advantage of this over sed?</text></item><item><author>shanemhansen</author><text>My favorite perl one liner is a globbed search and replace. It even has it&#x27;s own website: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;perlpie.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;perlpie.com&#x2F;</a><p><pre><code> perl -p -i -e &#x27;s&#x2F;foo&#x2F;bar&#x2F;gi&#x27; .&#x2F;*.txt</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dozzie</author><text>&gt; What is the advantage of [perl -pi -e &#x27;s&#x2F;&#x2F;&#x2F;&#x27;] over sed?<p>PCRE and &#x2F;e flag.</text></comment> |
26,771,680 | 26,770,918 | 1 | 3 | 26,770,562 | train | <story><title>The Ponzi Career</title><url>https://www.drorpoleg.com/the-ponzi-career/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mattzito</author><text>There’s literally nothing in this article that you couldn’t replace “token” or “coin” with “contract” or “membership” and have it work exactly the same. The idea of selling contracts against future income is interesting but putting the blockchain here is yet another solution in search of a problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tjs8rj</author><text>I’m usually in total agreement about blockchain just being stuffed anywhere, but observationally, there must be a good reason why blockchain shows up in these situations so often. There’s definitely the hype factor, but blockchain does have value in that it’s reasonably trusted by average people (perhaps unlike signing a contract everytime you wanted to purchase a piece of a creator - coins gamify it), and it’s easy to setup trust systems - Alex setup his own token in a weekend for a “human IPO”, rather than running through the cost and time of properly setting it up with a lawyer and contracts.<p>Maybe blockchain’s biggest value proposition right now is that it’s lightly regulated and has hype, so using it greases the wheels when growing an audience or building a usually regulated product.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Ponzi Career</title><url>https://www.drorpoleg.com/the-ponzi-career/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mattzito</author><text>There’s literally nothing in this article that you couldn’t replace “token” or “coin” with “contract” or “membership” and have it work exactly the same. The idea of selling contracts against future income is interesting but putting the blockchain here is yet another solution in search of a problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seibelj</author><text>It’s protocol-ized finance. Sure you can do it all old school, but that takes a ton of effort and makes your situation a unique snowflake. If you do it the way everyone has agreed on with tokens, all of your tokens plug into the existing infrastructure, is standardized, and makes the cost of capital go down.<p>Why people continually can’t understand this, and keep saying “buh buh buh mysql and lawyer fees! No need for blockchain!” is a failure of imagination.</text></comment> |
18,444,773 | 18,440,891 | 1 | 2 | 18,440,082 | train | <story><title>BlackRock shelves unexplainable AI liquidity models</title><url>https://www.risk.net/asset-management/6119616/blackrock-shelves-unexplainable-ai-liquidity-models</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>michaelbuckbee</author><text>I learned a new term in the context of AI recently: &quot;Specification Gaming&quot;.<p>There&#x27;s a big list here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;t.co&#x2F;OqoYN8MvMN" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;t.co&#x2F;OqoYN8MvMN</a><p>But it&#x27;s stuff like:<p>- Evolved algorithm for landing aircraft exploited overflow errors in the physics simulator by creating large forces that were estimated to be zero, resulting in a perfect score<p>- A cooperative GAN architecture for converting images from one genre to another (eg horses&lt;-&gt;zebras) has a loss function that rewards accurate reconstruction of images from its transformed version; CycleGAN turns out to partially solve the task by, in addition to the cross-domain analogies it learns, steganographically hiding autoencoder-style data about the original image invisibly inside the transformed image to assist the reconstruction of details.<p>- Simulated pancake making robot learned to throw the pancake as high in the air as possible in order to maximize time away from the ground<p>- Robot hand pretending to grasp an object by moving between the camera and the object<p>- Self-driving car rewarded for speed learns to spin in circles<p>All of which leads me to think that if you can&#x27;t at some level explain how&#x2F;what&#x2F;why it&#x27;s reaching a certain conclusion that it may be reaching a radically different end than you&#x27;re anticipating.</text></comment> | <story><title>BlackRock shelves unexplainable AI liquidity models</title><url>https://www.risk.net/asset-management/6119616/blackrock-shelves-unexplainable-ai-liquidity-models</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>agentofoblivion</author><text>I hear this a lot. In my opinion, people overestimate their ability to “understand” non-neural net models.<p>For instance, take the go-to classification model: Logistic Regression. Many people think they can draw insight by looking at the coefficients on the variables. If it’s 2.0 for variable A and 1.0 for variable B, then A must move the needle twice as much.<p>But not so fast. B, for instance, might be correlated with A. In this case, the coefficients are also correlated and interpretability becomes much more nuanced. And this isn’t the exception, it’s the rule. If you have a lot of features, chances are many of them are correlated.<p>In addition, your variables likely operate at different scales, so you’ll have needed to normalize and scale everything, which makes another layer of abstraction between you and interpretation. This becomes even more complicated when you consider encoded categorical variables. Are you trying to interpret each category independently, or assess their importance as a group? Not obvious how to make these aggregations. The story only gets more complicated for e.g. Random Forests.<p>I think it’s best to accept that you can’t interpret these models very well in general. At least in the case of some models (like neural nets), they approximate a Bayesian posterior, which has some nice properties.</text></comment> |
4,096,988 | 4,096,585 | 1 | 2 | 4,096,439 | train | <story><title>Chromium Blog: A Tale Of Two Pwnies (Part 2)</title><url>http://blog.chromium.org/2012/06/tale-of-two-pwnies-part-2.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jmillikin</author><text>Is anyone else dismayed by the implicit view of these sorts of articles, that browsers should be complicated and full of all these insecure features?<p>It reminds me strongly of PDF and Acrobat. PDF is great for mailing around print-ready documents, which are more-or-less guaranteed to look the same for every viewer. Writing a PDF renderer is not easy, but it is straightforward, and there are multiple stable implementations without significant security problems.<p>Then Adobe comes along and they add forms, and 3D charts, or Javascript, or multimedia, and Acrobat grows from a document viewer into what is essentially a backdoor on every Windows computer.<p>A similar thing is happening with browsers. The core purpose of a web browser is the ability to render HTML+CSS into a human-readable document. Then browser vendors added forms and Javascript, so XSS was invented. They added persistent data storage, so looking at cat pictures can compromise my bank account. And now, Chrome+Firefox are /competing/ to see who can add more features, security be damned.<p>WebGL exposes your graphics drivers (never security-audited before) to the internet. &#60;audio&#62; and &#60;video&#62; expose multimedia codecs, which in the past have caused numerous security problems. Flash is, essentially, a cross-platform way to let arbitrary people run exploits on your machine.<p>When will it stop? When will browser vendors take a collective breath, look around, and realize the insanity they've been perpetrating?</text></comment> | <story><title>Chromium Blog: A Tale Of Two Pwnies (Part 2)</title><url>http://blog.chromium.org/2012/06/tale-of-two-pwnies-part-2.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>Once again, there's two ways of reading this story. One way is from the attacker's perspective, baffling yourself as to how Glazunov could have found all these bugs and assembled them in the right order. The other is from the defender's perspective, gaining an appreciation for how well the security model is working that it takes an exploit this intricate to break it.<p>Either way, you're doing something right when your documentation of a security vulnerability in your product actually serves to market the security of that product. The Chrome security team is doing a lot of stuff right.</text></comment> |
27,148,401 | 27,148,193 | 1 | 2 | 27,143,898 | train | <story><title>Golden Handcuffs</title><url>https://avc.com/2021/05/golden-handcuffs-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>heavyset_go</author><text>&gt; <i>Employees deserve high-quality equity on par with investors.</i><p>There is no reason that labor and time couldn&#x27;t build equity, it&#x27;s just that our current system favors those who use capital to build wealth over those who need to sell their time and labor to build wealth.<p>A common reason I hear for the fact that investors get more equity is because of the &quot;risk&quot; they take on, as if losing some money is the only risk on the table should a business go under. What is ignored, or outright dismissed, is the risk borne by those who invest their time and labor in a business for little to no equity.<p>When a business goes under, the employees have just lost their abilities to feed themselves, keep a roof over their heads, see doctors, buy medicine and provide for their families.<p>Workers sacrifice time that they can never get back working for one business when they could have spent that time working at another. While money invested can be earned back, employees can never earn their time back. Sometimes, those workers are paid below market rate while they help make a business successful, but don&#x27;t see much or any equity as a result.<p>It seems to me that there is more risk on the shoulders of employees than those of investors, and they should be compensated accordingly.</text></item><item><author>choppaface</author><text>The C-level to IC comp ratio is still way too astronomical. If a VC is telling you he feels there’s a better way to comp, he has a financial interest in ensuring your loss.<p>Do not support investor-focused comp models like backweighted vesting (Amazon) or outright fraud like a start-up giving you a stock offer with no percentage or no 409A.<p>Employees deserve high-quality equity on par with investors. The OP’s suggestion is a major step back in one of the greediest economies in history. Complete non-starter. Don’t let this guy live in your thoughts rent-free.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nonameiguess</author><text>The more amusing (or disturbing thing) is that we have created an environment where, practically speaking, investors have less risk than everyone else. We were just hit with one of the largest global disasters of the past century last year and the immediate reaction was flood equity markets with $3 trillion to prop up financial markets. Owners of capital cannot lose.<p>Even before these last few years of craziness, what I will never be able to get out of my mind is the story of Frank McCourt. I&#x27;m a lifelong Los Angeles Dodgers fan. He bought the team from Fox in 2004 and proceeded to treat a storied franchise in the nation&#x27;s second largest city like it was his personal credit card. He didn&#x27;t even use his own money to make the purchase. It was entirely with loans. He then proceeded to spend 8 years gradually bankrupting the organization until the league kicked him out and forced him to sell.<p>What was his loss? Nothing. The team sold for 8 times what he originally paid, not because of anything he had done, but just because television contracts for the entire league had become so much more lucrative over that time. The man put up $0 of his own money and made $2 billion by being one of the worst team owners of all time and making the organization he owned literally bankrupt.<p>I will never again in my life accept these econ theory gibberish about all the &quot;risk&quot; faced by business owners. If you own a salon or a restaurant or something, fine, I accept you might actually be out on the street. But if you&#x27;re the right class of person that the banking system has accepted into the club, you can get infinite loans to buy whatever you want with no collateral, drive a business into the ground while spending the bulk of your time with hookers and blow, and make out with billions anyway.</text></comment> | <story><title>Golden Handcuffs</title><url>https://avc.com/2021/05/golden-handcuffs-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>heavyset_go</author><text>&gt; <i>Employees deserve high-quality equity on par with investors.</i><p>There is no reason that labor and time couldn&#x27;t build equity, it&#x27;s just that our current system favors those who use capital to build wealth over those who need to sell their time and labor to build wealth.<p>A common reason I hear for the fact that investors get more equity is because of the &quot;risk&quot; they take on, as if losing some money is the only risk on the table should a business go under. What is ignored, or outright dismissed, is the risk borne by those who invest their time and labor in a business for little to no equity.<p>When a business goes under, the employees have just lost their abilities to feed themselves, keep a roof over their heads, see doctors, buy medicine and provide for their families.<p>Workers sacrifice time that they can never get back working for one business when they could have spent that time working at another. While money invested can be earned back, employees can never earn their time back. Sometimes, those workers are paid below market rate while they help make a business successful, but don&#x27;t see much or any equity as a result.<p>It seems to me that there is more risk on the shoulders of employees than those of investors, and they should be compensated accordingly.</text></item><item><author>choppaface</author><text>The C-level to IC comp ratio is still way too astronomical. If a VC is telling you he feels there’s a better way to comp, he has a financial interest in ensuring your loss.<p>Do not support investor-focused comp models like backweighted vesting (Amazon) or outright fraud like a start-up giving you a stock offer with no percentage or no 409A.<p>Employees deserve high-quality equity on par with investors. The OP’s suggestion is a major step back in one of the greediest economies in history. Complete non-starter. Don’t let this guy live in your thoughts rent-free.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>daveidol</author><text>&gt; <i>When a business goes under, the employees have just lost their abilities to feed themselves, keep a roof over their heads, see doctors, buy medicine and provide for their families.</i><p>Yes, but that&#x27;s always the risk of working at any company (and it&#x27;s a risk the investor may also have if the company goes under). You can typically just get a new job and get these things back.<p>I think an even more compelling argument here is the one of opportunity cost when working for a startup vs big FAANG company.<p>Early startup tech employees not only invest their time but also lose out on <i>real</i> money they would have earned at another (bigger) company.</text></comment> |
22,095,012 | 22,094,730 | 1 | 2 | 22,091,944 | train | <story><title>How is search so bad? A case study</title><url>https://svilentodorov.xyz/blog/bad-search/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zackees</author><text>The real reason why search is so bad is that Google is downranking the internet.<p>I should know - I blew the whistle on the whole censorship regime and walked 950 pages to the DOJ and media outlets.<p>--&gt; zachvorhies.com &lt;--<p>What did I disclose? That Google was using a project called &quot;Machine Learning Faireness&quot; to rerank the entire internet.<p>Part of this beast has to do with a secret Page Rank score that Google&#x27;s army of workers assign to many of the web pages on the internet.<p>If wikipedia contains cherry picked slander against a person, topic or website then the raters are instructed to provide a low page rank score. This isn&#x27;t some conspiracy but something openly admitted by Google itself:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;static.googleusercontent.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;guidelines.raterhub.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;&#x2F;searchqualityevaluatorguidelines.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;static.googleusercontent.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;guidelines.raterh...</a><p>See section 3.2 for the &quot;Expertise, Authoritativeness and Trustworthiness&quot; score.<p>Despite the fact that I&#x27;ve had around 50 interviews and countless articles written about my disclosure, my website zachvorhies.com doesn&#x27;t show up on Google&#x27;s search index, even when using the exact url as a query! Yet bing and duckduckgo return my URL just fine.<p>Don&#x27;t listen to the people who say that&#x27;s its some emergent behavior from bad SEO. This deliberate sabotage of Google&#x27;s own search engine in order to achieve the political agenda of the controllers. The stock holders of Google should band together in a class action lawsuit and sue the C-Level executives of negligence.<p>If you want your internet search to be better then stop using Google search. Other search engines don&#x27;t have this problem: I&#x27;m looking at qwant, swisscows, duckduckgo, bing and others.<p>~Z~</text></item><item><author>rahulchhabra07</author><text>I have been thinking about the same problem since a few weeks.
The real problem with search engines is the fact that so many websites have hacked SEO that there is no meritocracy left. Results are not sorted based on relevance or quality but by SEO experts&#x27; efforts at making the search results favor themselves. I can possibly not find anything deep enough about any topic by searching on Google anymore. It&#x27;s just surface-level knowledge that I get from competing websites who just want to make money off pageviews.<p>It kills my curiosity and intent with fake knowledge and bad experience. I need something better.<p>However, it will be interesting to figure the heuristics to deliver better quality search results today. When Google started, it had a breakthrough algorithm - to rank page results based on number of pages linking to it. Which is completely meritocratic as long as people don&#x27;t game for higher rankings.<p>A new breakthrough heuristic today will look something totally different, just as meritocratic and possibly resistant to gaming.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>preommr</author><text>Google&#x27;s search rankings are based on opinions held by other credible sources. This isn&#x27;t really blowing the whistle when, as you admitted, Google admits this openly.<p>And maybe your site doesn&#x27;t get ranked well because it&#x27;s directly tied to project veritas. I don&#x27;t like being too political, especially on hn and on an account tied to my real identity, but project veritas and it&#x27;s associates exhibit appalling behavior in duplicity and misdirection. I would hope that trash like this does get pushed to the bottom.</text></comment> | <story><title>How is search so bad? A case study</title><url>https://svilentodorov.xyz/blog/bad-search/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zackees</author><text>The real reason why search is so bad is that Google is downranking the internet.<p>I should know - I blew the whistle on the whole censorship regime and walked 950 pages to the DOJ and media outlets.<p>--&gt; zachvorhies.com &lt;--<p>What did I disclose? That Google was using a project called &quot;Machine Learning Faireness&quot; to rerank the entire internet.<p>Part of this beast has to do with a secret Page Rank score that Google&#x27;s army of workers assign to many of the web pages on the internet.<p>If wikipedia contains cherry picked slander against a person, topic or website then the raters are instructed to provide a low page rank score. This isn&#x27;t some conspiracy but something openly admitted by Google itself:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;static.googleusercontent.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;guidelines.raterhub.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;&#x2F;searchqualityevaluatorguidelines.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;static.googleusercontent.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;guidelines.raterh...</a><p>See section 3.2 for the &quot;Expertise, Authoritativeness and Trustworthiness&quot; score.<p>Despite the fact that I&#x27;ve had around 50 interviews and countless articles written about my disclosure, my website zachvorhies.com doesn&#x27;t show up on Google&#x27;s search index, even when using the exact url as a query! Yet bing and duckduckgo return my URL just fine.<p>Don&#x27;t listen to the people who say that&#x27;s its some emergent behavior from bad SEO. This deliberate sabotage of Google&#x27;s own search engine in order to achieve the political agenda of the controllers. The stock holders of Google should band together in a class action lawsuit and sue the C-Level executives of negligence.<p>If you want your internet search to be better then stop using Google search. Other search engines don&#x27;t have this problem: I&#x27;m looking at qwant, swisscows, duckduckgo, bing and others.<p>~Z~</text></item><item><author>rahulchhabra07</author><text>I have been thinking about the same problem since a few weeks.
The real problem with search engines is the fact that so many websites have hacked SEO that there is no meritocracy left. Results are not sorted based on relevance or quality but by SEO experts&#x27; efforts at making the search results favor themselves. I can possibly not find anything deep enough about any topic by searching on Google anymore. It&#x27;s just surface-level knowledge that I get from competing websites who just want to make money off pageviews.<p>It kills my curiosity and intent with fake knowledge and bad experience. I need something better.<p>However, it will be interesting to figure the heuristics to deliver better quality search results today. When Google started, it had a breakthrough algorithm - to rank page results based on number of pages linking to it. Which is completely meritocratic as long as people don&#x27;t game for higher rankings.<p>A new breakthrough heuristic today will look something totally different, just as meritocratic and possibly resistant to gaming.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>creato</author><text>&gt; Despite the fact that I&#x27;ve had around 50 interviews and countless articles written about my disclosure, my website zachvorhies.com doesn&#x27;t show up on Google&#x27;s search index, even when using the exact url as a query!<p>I just tried it, it&#x27;s just showing results for &quot;zach vorhies&quot; instead, which it thinks you meant. I just tried a few other random &quot;people&#x27;s names as URL&quot; websites I could find, sometimes it does this, sometimes it doesn&#x27;t.<p>Furthermore, the results that do appear are hardly unsympathetic to you. If google is censoring you&#x2F;your opinions, they&#x27;re doing a very poor job of it.</text></comment> |
13,981,078 | 13,980,898 | 1 | 2 | 13,980,600 | train | <story><title>I’m Not “Black Enough” for Inc. Magazine</title><url>https://facesoffounders.org/im-not-black-enough-for-inc-magazine-337569d54a6b</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BadassFractal</author><text>The guy doesn&#x27;t fit the narrative that&#x27;s currently oh-so-trendy, thus he is not deemed valuable to the media. Makes you realize how much intentional selective bias there is in these publications&#x27; portrayals of the world.<p>&quot;Can we cause outrage with this? Nope? Ok, discard this dude, find someone who supports our hypothesis so we get more page views&quot;<p>Remember, the media are not in the business of keeping the public informed, they&#x27;re first and foremost interested in putting bread on their own tables, like any other business out there. They like having a job, and these days, given how high our tolerance for absurdity has become, their job requires they come up with the most dramatic and outrageous content they can in order to keep people hooked.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TorKlingberg</author><text>On the other hand, this article is on HN because it fits an other narrative. There is never just one &quot;the narrative&quot;. There are always two or more competing narratives and people publish, share and upvote stories that fit the one they prefer.</text></comment> | <story><title>I’m Not “Black Enough” for Inc. Magazine</title><url>https://facesoffounders.org/im-not-black-enough-for-inc-magazine-337569d54a6b</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BadassFractal</author><text>The guy doesn&#x27;t fit the narrative that&#x27;s currently oh-so-trendy, thus he is not deemed valuable to the media. Makes you realize how much intentional selective bias there is in these publications&#x27; portrayals of the world.<p>&quot;Can we cause outrage with this? Nope? Ok, discard this dude, find someone who supports our hypothesis so we get more page views&quot;<p>Remember, the media are not in the business of keeping the public informed, they&#x27;re first and foremost interested in putting bread on their own tables, like any other business out there. They like having a job, and these days, given how high our tolerance for absurdity has become, their job requires they come up with the most dramatic and outrageous content they can in order to keep people hooked.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomlock</author><text>Similarly - when reading an article that has a single-line quote from a magazine - people can read all sorts of nefarious motivations into it which conveniently fit their worldview.</text></comment> |
38,691,231 | 38,691,330 | 1 | 3 | 38,691,025 | train | <story><title>Unbricking my MacBook took an email to Tim Cook</title><url>https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/unbricking-my-macbook-took-an-email-to-tim-cook</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qingcharles</author><text>Whenever I have an issue with a product that support can&#x27;t&#x2F;won&#x27;t resolve I go to one of those sites where you can buy contact info and purchase the CEO&#x27;s email addresses and phone numbers then go at them. I just had to do it for the recent Google class action payout (got me my check overnighted).<p>I did it with Cash App though and it backfired (&quot;Your account has been terminated for contacting employees outside of the support system&quot;)<p>Now, how much is Sundar Pichai&#x27;s cellphone number going to cost me? I just want to get into my Google account that I have the username, password and recovery email for, but not the old phone number.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwup238</author><text><i>&gt; I did it with Cash App though and it backfired (&quot;Your account has been terminated for contacting employees outside of the support system&quot;)</i><p>Write the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. They&#x27;ll get you sorted right quick.</text></comment> | <story><title>Unbricking my MacBook took an email to Tim Cook</title><url>https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/unbricking-my-macbook-took-an-email-to-tim-cook</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qingcharles</author><text>Whenever I have an issue with a product that support can&#x27;t&#x2F;won&#x27;t resolve I go to one of those sites where you can buy contact info and purchase the CEO&#x27;s email addresses and phone numbers then go at them. I just had to do it for the recent Google class action payout (got me my check overnighted).<p>I did it with Cash App though and it backfired (&quot;Your account has been terminated for contacting employees outside of the support system&quot;)<p>Now, how much is Sundar Pichai&#x27;s cellphone number going to cost me? I just want to get into my Google account that I have the username, password and recovery email for, but not the old phone number.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thejosh</author><text>Here in Australia we have the ACCC (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission) which is designed to help consumers, we also have pretty good consumer laws - this has stopped various companies from expanding here due to not wanting to deal with our Government, however given Australians spend $$, they need to dance to their tune.</text></comment> |
40,907,644 | 40,906,786 | 1 | 2 | 40,906,401 | train | <story><title>1JPM: A Maven/Gradle alternative in a single Java file</title><url>https://github.com/Osiris-Team/1JPM</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>whartung</author><text>I like the clever use of the &quot;java prog.java&quot; style.<p>I don&#x27;t know how many folks know, although its been there for a bit, that you no longer have to specifically compile single file java programs.<p>You can just run them with with &quot;java prog.java&quot;.<p>(Honestly, I haven&#x27;t used the technique myself, still old school -- even with silly small x.java tests and such. Muscle memory and all that.)</text></comment> | <story><title>1JPM: A Maven/Gradle alternative in a single Java file</title><url>https://github.com/Osiris-Team/1JPM</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>spullara</author><text>As much as I hate adding more build tools to the Java ecosystem this one is pretty interesting since it is entirely Java based and version controllable without any additional dependencies to install. Obviously this won&#x27;t solve all build problems but its simplicity is attractive.<p>(my hate for new build tools <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;javarants.com&#x2F;why-your-new-jvm-build-tool-is-making-things-worse-aka-use-maven-to-execute-your-build-a22ef66baa74" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;javarants.com&#x2F;why-your-new-jvm-build-tool-is-making-...</a>)</text></comment> |
14,490,622 | 14,490,973 | 1 | 2 | 14,490,239 | train | <story><title>Apple enters the augmented reality fray with ARKit for iOS</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/05/apple-enters-the-augmented-reality-fray-with-arkit-for-ios/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>synaesthesisx</author><text>They&#x27;re paving the way for their revolutionary consumer AR eyewear (which may be delayed now apparently). Although maybe we&#x27;ll see tech from some of their recent AR acquisitions (PrimeSense&#x2F;Metaio) integrated into the upcoming iPhone, possibly in the form of an advanced depth&#x2F;surface mapping sensor of sorts.<p>What&#x27;s fascinating is Apple has a large team focusing on HCI &amp; AR - what &quot;pinch-to-zoom&quot; and multitouch did for smartphones is what Apple will need to successfully pull off the &quot;big bang&quot; for consumer AR.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple enters the augmented reality fray with ARKit for iOS</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/05/apple-enters-the-augmented-reality-fray-with-arkit-for-ios/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>roymurdock</author><text>Studied the market for AR development solutions recently. A few thoughts:<p>- Probably using a lot of Metaio tech, a leading AR dev solutions provider Apple acquired&#x2F;shuttered in May 2015<p>- Unfortunate naming. Sounds extremely similar to ARToolkit [1], the leading open source&#x2F;free AR dev solution.<p>- Markerless is the future of AR, so good on Apple for getting this markerless tech out to compete with Google Tango and Microsoft Hololens. The status quo is currently marker-based recognition using &quot;tags&quot; or QR codes. It&#x27;s also much harder than marker-based, or &quot;on body&quot; (Snapchat, Facebook AR Studio) recognition. I&#x27;d say Google Tango has some of the most impressive SDKs out there for tracking, area learning, and depth perception, but it does require specialized smartphone hardware from Lenovo or Asus, which significantly limits its utility and mkt penetration at this point. Google was just too early with Glass and got burned, but it needs a stronger hardware platform, which is something that Apple can deliver.<p>- The Unreal-engine AR video demo was cool and the graphics seemed decent for real-time rendering on an iPad, but the real future of AR applications (read: $$$) will come from industrial applications on wearable devices or head mounted displays such as the Hololens, Vuzix, Daqri, or Epson Moverio devices. Examples of industrial&#x2F;enterprise AR applications: Remote help, complex assembly, pick &amp; pack, line monitoring, materials handling, systems training, etc. This is the market Microsoft and PTC (Vuforia, ThingWorx) are targeting, not the consumer gaming&#x2F;advertising markets, which use more &quot;basic&quot; forms of AR. This is not to say Pokemon Go&#x2F;Snapchat do not generate a lot of revenue, but it&#x27;s very debatable if they can be considered true AR applications.<p>- Other vendors in the AR development solutions space include: Aurasma (HPE), Blippar, Catchoom, EON Reality, Kudan, Pikkart, Wikitude, among others.<p>- In conclusion, Apple is currently stuck between a rock and a hard place. It&#x27;s somewhat late to market with ARKit, will have to compete with Facebook, Google, and Snapchat for consumer AR-oriented developer mindshare, and will have no play at the industrial&#x2F;enterprise market if it limits its tools to development for the iOS family.<p>- The best way for Apple to alleviate this jam is to release its own AR glasses&#x2F;headset, which it is widely rumored to be developing.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;artoolkit.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;artoolkit.org&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
36,954,041 | 36,953,493 | 1 | 3 | 36,952,894 | train | <story><title>Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor LK-99 preprint revision 2</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12037</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>saberdancer</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;targum.video&#x2F;v&#x2F;2023&#x2F;8&#x2F;1&#x2F;2534a4408ccce9c13a811e94f16d1543&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;targum.video&#x2F;v&#x2F;2023&#x2F;8&#x2F;1&#x2F;2534a4408ccce9c13a811e94f16d...</a><p>Targum translation. From the comments and video it seems he claims levitation of a micron sized particle. Not sure if it is fake or not.</text></item><item><author>est</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bilibili.com&#x2F;video&#x2F;BV14p4y1V7kS&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bilibili.com&#x2F;video&#x2F;BV14p4y1V7kS&#x2F;</a><p>Latest update: the diamagnetism has been confirmed from a tiny LK-99 replica sample. The Author posted:<p>&gt; Under the guidance of Professor Haixin Chang, postdoctor Hao Wu and PhD student Li Yang from the School of Materials Science and Technology of Huazhong University of Science and Technology successfully for the first time verified the LK-99 crystal that can be magnetically levitated with larger levitated angle than Sukbae Lee‘s sample at room temperature. It is expected to realize the true potential of room temperature, non-contact superconducting magnetic levitation.<p>Update: second video showing it&#x27;s not paramagnetic<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bilibili.com&#x2F;video&#x2F;BV13k4y1G7i1&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bilibili.com&#x2F;video&#x2F;BV13k4y1G7i1&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ProtoAES256</author><text>He repeatedly stated that the sample stands up(become straight) when the object is nearing it, and drop down when its far. The same applies for the negative polarity(same behaviour on N&#x2F;S).
Source: Native Mandarin speaker.</text></comment> | <story><title>Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor LK-99 preprint revision 2</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12037</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>saberdancer</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;targum.video&#x2F;v&#x2F;2023&#x2F;8&#x2F;1&#x2F;2534a4408ccce9c13a811e94f16d1543&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;targum.video&#x2F;v&#x2F;2023&#x2F;8&#x2F;1&#x2F;2534a4408ccce9c13a811e94f16d...</a><p>Targum translation. From the comments and video it seems he claims levitation of a micron sized particle. Not sure if it is fake or not.</text></item><item><author>est</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bilibili.com&#x2F;video&#x2F;BV14p4y1V7kS&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bilibili.com&#x2F;video&#x2F;BV14p4y1V7kS&#x2F;</a><p>Latest update: the diamagnetism has been confirmed from a tiny LK-99 replica sample. The Author posted:<p>&gt; Under the guidance of Professor Haixin Chang, postdoctor Hao Wu and PhD student Li Yang from the School of Materials Science and Technology of Huazhong University of Science and Technology successfully for the first time verified the LK-99 crystal that can be magnetically levitated with larger levitated angle than Sukbae Lee‘s sample at room temperature. It is expected to realize the true potential of room temperature, non-contact superconducting magnetic levitation.<p>Update: second video showing it&#x27;s not paramagnetic<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bilibili.com&#x2F;video&#x2F;BV13k4y1G7i1&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bilibili.com&#x2F;video&#x2F;BV13k4y1G7i1&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>psychoslave</author><text>Automatic subtitled translation is &quot;furiously&quot; laughable. :)</text></comment> |
28,494,644 | 28,494,916 | 1 | 2 | 28,493,431 | train | <story><title>No More Medium – Build Your Own Site (2019)</title><url>https://nomedium.dev/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smoldesu</author><text>For what it&#x27;s worth, you&#x27;re currently losing <i>my</i> discoverability by using a platform that I don&#x27;t. Me (and many, many other people) will get redirected to your site, see a big intrusive banner on our screen, and leave. It doesn&#x27;t matter if you were about to disclose the panacea or secrets to life, there&#x27;s simply no writing on Medium that&#x27;s worth the royal asspain of stepping through your digital metal detector.<p>You&#x27;re increasing the amount of complexity in your reader&#x27;s stack to reduce the complexity of your stack. Much like how nobody clicks the &#x27;Reddit is better in the app!&#x27; button, you should be conscious that most people nope-out when they click a link and don&#x27;t get your article.</text></item><item><author>aoleinik</author><text>I write on medium [1] and I don’t think switching to a stand alone website would be good for me at all.<p>Medium has “publications” where my work gets sent out to hundreds of readers that are reading about a topic, not necessarily from me - I’m not notable at all in the field so I’d have a rather hard time getting people to subscribe to __me__.<p>If I were to make my own website, I’d lose a ton of discoverability.<p>Plus, the monetization on medium is fantastic. Nowhere else would I get that return per view - I’m currently averaging around 25k views a month with a $500 return.<p>I do have my gripes with the platform, but in my case, Medium is the worst platform for writing besides all the rest.
[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;anth-oleinik.medium.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;anth-oleinik.medium.com&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shados</author><text>Yes, they&#x27;re losing yours, but that&#x27;s a small cost to pay vs NO ONE discovering their stuff.<p>Basically what this comes down to is that there&#x27;s a market for something like Medium&#x27;s earlier days, back when it was decent. Someone just needs to figure out a better way to monetize it, while still having the mind share Medium used to have.</text></comment> | <story><title>No More Medium – Build Your Own Site (2019)</title><url>https://nomedium.dev/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smoldesu</author><text>For what it&#x27;s worth, you&#x27;re currently losing <i>my</i> discoverability by using a platform that I don&#x27;t. Me (and many, many other people) will get redirected to your site, see a big intrusive banner on our screen, and leave. It doesn&#x27;t matter if you were about to disclose the panacea or secrets to life, there&#x27;s simply no writing on Medium that&#x27;s worth the royal asspain of stepping through your digital metal detector.<p>You&#x27;re increasing the amount of complexity in your reader&#x27;s stack to reduce the complexity of your stack. Much like how nobody clicks the &#x27;Reddit is better in the app!&#x27; button, you should be conscious that most people nope-out when they click a link and don&#x27;t get your article.</text></item><item><author>aoleinik</author><text>I write on medium [1] and I don’t think switching to a stand alone website would be good for me at all.<p>Medium has “publications” where my work gets sent out to hundreds of readers that are reading about a topic, not necessarily from me - I’m not notable at all in the field so I’d have a rather hard time getting people to subscribe to __me__.<p>If I were to make my own website, I’d lose a ton of discoverability.<p>Plus, the monetization on medium is fantastic. Nowhere else would I get that return per view - I’m currently averaging around 25k views a month with a $500 return.<p>I do have my gripes with the platform, but in my case, Medium is the worst platform for writing besides all the rest.
[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;anth-oleinik.medium.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;anth-oleinik.medium.com&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>1123581321</author><text>Your observation is worth nothing because you also aren’t reading his personal blog, or wherever he would publish instead. You don’t even try to suggest other places you’d happily read.</text></comment> |
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