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31,408,844 | 31,407,759 | 1 | 2 | 31,405,859 | train | <story><title>Taking a break from social media makes you happier and less anxious</title><url>https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2022/05/16/taking-a-break-from-social-media-makes-you-happier-and-less-anxious/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>laputan_machine</author><text>If a friend gets a great job or starts to live a healthy life you don&#x27;t feel great for them? I don&#x27;t believe that puts me in the minority of people, not a chance.</text></item><item><author>eafkuor</author><text>&gt; If other people find their ideal job, have a tropical vacation, etc. it makes me feel... good? Those are good things in general, although the tropical vacation might make me also feel concerned about the climate.<p>If this would be your genuine reaction, congratulations. You belong to the 0.001% of the population that would feel this way.</text></item><item><author>id</author><text>If other people find their ideal job, have a tropical vacation, etc. it makes me feel... good? Those are good things in general, although the tropical vacation might make me also feel concerned about the climate.<p>The problems I have with social media are that<p>- it steals a lot of time<p>- a lot of content gets me by evoking negative emotion<p>- it&#x27;s taxing to get exposed to so many different ideas, clips, heated discussions, etc. Makes we wanna throw away my phone and live in the woods</text></item><item><author>charstacker</author><text>Consider the following scenario: You&#x27;re pleased and content one minute, thinking your life is going fine the next. You have a few minutes to kill, so you log onto Facebook and begin scrolling...<p>First, you notice a friend&#x27;s post stating that she has accepted her ideal job.<p>Then you read a coworker&#x27;s too political rant.<p>You continue browsing and see a video of your neighbour enjoying a fantastic tropical vacation.<p>And now your cousin has uploaded a before and after photo that makes you want to hide your thighs for the rest of your life.<p>The next thing you know, you&#x27;re second-guessing your profession, irritated by politics, wondering why you can&#x27;t afford a trip, and researching your next diet.<p>Social media is nothing but roller coaster,</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sdevonoes</author><text>&gt; If a friend gets a great job or starts to live a healthy life you don&#x27;t feel great for them?<p>We can feel happy (for them) and unsatisfied (with ourselves) at the same time. Multiply that by N, and well, that&#x27;s a recipe for disaster (at least for me). I know, I know, we shall not compare ourselves with others, but hey, I&#x27;m not a machine, I have my imperfections which I am polishing from time to time, but in the meanwhile social media makes everything worse in average (for me).</text></comment> | <story><title>Taking a break from social media makes you happier and less anxious</title><url>https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2022/05/16/taking-a-break-from-social-media-makes-you-happier-and-less-anxious/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>laputan_machine</author><text>If a friend gets a great job or starts to live a healthy life you don&#x27;t feel great for them? I don&#x27;t believe that puts me in the minority of people, not a chance.</text></item><item><author>eafkuor</author><text>&gt; If other people find their ideal job, have a tropical vacation, etc. it makes me feel... good? Those are good things in general, although the tropical vacation might make me also feel concerned about the climate.<p>If this would be your genuine reaction, congratulations. You belong to the 0.001% of the population that would feel this way.</text></item><item><author>id</author><text>If other people find their ideal job, have a tropical vacation, etc. it makes me feel... good? Those are good things in general, although the tropical vacation might make me also feel concerned about the climate.<p>The problems I have with social media are that<p>- it steals a lot of time<p>- a lot of content gets me by evoking negative emotion<p>- it&#x27;s taxing to get exposed to so many different ideas, clips, heated discussions, etc. Makes we wanna throw away my phone and live in the woods</text></item><item><author>charstacker</author><text>Consider the following scenario: You&#x27;re pleased and content one minute, thinking your life is going fine the next. You have a few minutes to kill, so you log onto Facebook and begin scrolling...<p>First, you notice a friend&#x27;s post stating that she has accepted her ideal job.<p>Then you read a coworker&#x27;s too political rant.<p>You continue browsing and see a video of your neighbour enjoying a fantastic tropical vacation.<p>And now your cousin has uploaded a before and after photo that makes you want to hide your thighs for the rest of your life.<p>The next thing you know, you&#x27;re second-guessing your profession, irritated by politics, wondering why you can&#x27;t afford a trip, and researching your next diet.<p>Social media is nothing but roller coaster,</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>k_sze</author><text>One could be “happy”* for a friend and also feel shitty about themself.<p>“Damn. Matthew has changed jobs 3 times in the past 5 years already, each time to a better paying job. Look at you. You’re still stuck in this shitty job because you suck.”<p>This is literally the kind of thought I have had in the past.<p>[*] Are you “happy” in a polite way? Or are you genuinely happy?</text></comment> |
26,437,145 | 26,432,745 | 1 | 2 | 26,432,379 | train | <story><title>You can't censor away extremism or any other problem</title><url>https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/you-cant-censor-away-extremism-or</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>runarberg</author><text>this might be false equivalence. People far on the left (except from some nas-bols; which I’ve never encountered in the wild) call them selfs anti-facists. It is clear who their greatest enemy is. In fact far left groups (like food not bombs, etc.) often engage in social programs called mutual aid where the goal is to spread propaganda through helping the masses.</text></item><item><author>clusterfish</author><text>I think the extremes, both left and right, have realized that their greatest enemy is not the other extreme, but the masses in between.<p>A group that has the numbers, with mild views that can dilute your message with reasonable doubt, challenge certain aspects of your extreme yet be broadly acceptable to a much wider audience including those tending towards your side – that&#x27;s poision for an extremist.<p>Therefore, their solution to that is tribalism, polarization, and shaming for any hint of non-compliance with the extreme&#x27;s dogma.<p>End result is that the vast majority of moderate people do not participate in debates on sensitive topics, leaving the field open for polarizing demagoguery. All that&#x27;s left is to make more topics sensitive to get an advantage there too, and that&#x27;s progressing very well too.</text></item><item><author>dmingod666</author><text>My reading from the outside is, the left needs to realize (I&#x27;m sure it applies to the right equally as well) that scolding people into guilt is not a viable approach to affect action or to change perceptions when you&#x27;re dealing with adults.<p>Neither does boxing people into this, that and that category do any good. Like if all you want to do is dehumanize those guys so you can happily insult &#x2F; hurt them without hurting your conscience, go ahead, that&#x27;s choice.. you have different goals.. but remember that instinct that wants you to scream at this-this-this type of person is a confrontational approach that deep down falls in the pattern of, eliminating the other tribe.. if you choose to do something about it and what you do is your responsibility and problem.<p>I just think the solution should lie in :
1) dialog 2) laws<p>I think beyond those 2 lie some really wrong answers..</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>busterarm</author><text>&gt; spread propaganda through helping the masses.<p>1%&#x27;er motorcycle clubs, mafia organizations and radical religious cults are notorious for doing this as well.</text></comment> | <story><title>You can't censor away extremism or any other problem</title><url>https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/you-cant-censor-away-extremism-or</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>runarberg</author><text>this might be false equivalence. People far on the left (except from some nas-bols; which I’ve never encountered in the wild) call them selfs anti-facists. It is clear who their greatest enemy is. In fact far left groups (like food not bombs, etc.) often engage in social programs called mutual aid where the goal is to spread propaganda through helping the masses.</text></item><item><author>clusterfish</author><text>I think the extremes, both left and right, have realized that their greatest enemy is not the other extreme, but the masses in between.<p>A group that has the numbers, with mild views that can dilute your message with reasonable doubt, challenge certain aspects of your extreme yet be broadly acceptable to a much wider audience including those tending towards your side – that&#x27;s poision for an extremist.<p>Therefore, their solution to that is tribalism, polarization, and shaming for any hint of non-compliance with the extreme&#x27;s dogma.<p>End result is that the vast majority of moderate people do not participate in debates on sensitive topics, leaving the field open for polarizing demagoguery. All that&#x27;s left is to make more topics sensitive to get an advantage there too, and that&#x27;s progressing very well too.</text></item><item><author>dmingod666</author><text>My reading from the outside is, the left needs to realize (I&#x27;m sure it applies to the right equally as well) that scolding people into guilt is not a viable approach to affect action or to change perceptions when you&#x27;re dealing with adults.<p>Neither does boxing people into this, that and that category do any good. Like if all you want to do is dehumanize those guys so you can happily insult &#x2F; hurt them without hurting your conscience, go ahead, that&#x27;s choice.. you have different goals.. but remember that instinct that wants you to scream at this-this-this type of person is a confrontational approach that deep down falls in the pattern of, eliminating the other tribe.. if you choose to do something about it and what you do is your responsibility and problem.<p>I just think the solution should lie in :
1) dialog 2) laws<p>I think beyond those 2 lie some really wrong answers..</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>runarberg</author><text>At the risk of entertaining the <i>no true Scotsman</i>:<p>A leftist that doesn’t empathize with the masses, is not a true leftist.</text></comment> |
13,632,057 | 13,631,069 | 1 | 2 | 13,629,344 | train | <story><title>Python moved to GitHub</title><url>https://github.com/python/cpython</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ycmbntrthrwaway</author><text>Centralizing around proprietary software is not a good idea generally.<p>Git is distributed, so when GitHub goes down, every developer has a backup of entire history. However, issues are lost forever. Python does not use &quot;issues&quot; feature for good.<p>One way to avoid email without centralization is setting up Gerrit. That is how Ring [1] and LineageOS (former CyanogenMod) [2] manage their &quot;pull requests&quot;.<p>Still, being able to submit patches via email is an absolutely necessary skill for everyone who considers himself a hacker. Lack of it makes you unable to contribute to many great projects, such as all suckless [3] projects and Linux itself.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gerrit-ring.savoirfairelinux.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gerrit-ring.savoirfairelinux.com&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;review.lineageos.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;review.lineageos.org&#x2F;</a><p>[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;suckless.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;suckless.org&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>laurentdc</author><text>Yes!<p>I quite like the idea of &quot;centralizing&quot; development on GitHub, or similar services. It makes it much easier for everyone to fork, test, make a pull request, merge, etc..<p>For example, one reason why I gave up contributing to OpenWrt was their absolutely legacy contribution system [1], which required devs to submit code diff patches via email (good luck not messing up the formatting with a modern client) on a mailing list. It took me an hour to submit a patch for three lines of code. It seems like Python wasn&#x27;t much different. [2]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dev.openwrt.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;SubmittingPatches#a1.Creatingapatch" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dev.openwrt.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;SubmittingPatches#a1.Creatingap...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.python.org&#x2F;devguide&#x2F;patch.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.python.org&#x2F;devguide&#x2F;patch.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ajdlinux</author><text>Everyone I know who has had to use Gerrit has <i>absolutely, utterly despised</i> it.<p>Until I got a job working as a kernel developer I had never had to use emailed patches. It simply isn&#x27;t an &quot;absolutely necessary&quot; skill for a good developer these days.<p>The kernel community is too attached to email patch submission for it to ever move away, and to be fair, email does have the benefit of being scalable and matches our decentralised workflow much better than any of the current alternatives.<p>But it&#x27;s still not <i>good</i>. There are plenty of ways to screw up email threading or forget conventions on labelling patchset versions or whatever (this happens <i>all the time</i>). You have to rely on external tools such as Patchwork to provide a bare minimum of state-tracking. There&#x27;s not much by way of generic CI tooling that&#x27;s designed with email in mind (I&#x27;m working on this!). Doing code review from an email client definitely has its benefits, but it&#x27;s also limiting - web-based code review tools have much more scope for experimenting with better ways of presenting comments.<p>I can&#x27;t see the Linux kernel ever moving away from email, and honestly it&#x27;s not too bad once you&#x27;ve figured out your workflow, but I would like to see kernel <i>hackers</i> thinking about what it is that the kernel community loves so much about email compared to GitHub and other centralised services. It <i>is</i> disappointing to see other large open source projects becoming incredibly dependent on a for-profit proprietary software company that may well not survive the next few years. How can we do proper decentralised version control and development <i>better</i>?</text></comment> | <story><title>Python moved to GitHub</title><url>https://github.com/python/cpython</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ycmbntrthrwaway</author><text>Centralizing around proprietary software is not a good idea generally.<p>Git is distributed, so when GitHub goes down, every developer has a backup of entire history. However, issues are lost forever. Python does not use &quot;issues&quot; feature for good.<p>One way to avoid email without centralization is setting up Gerrit. That is how Ring [1] and LineageOS (former CyanogenMod) [2] manage their &quot;pull requests&quot;.<p>Still, being able to submit patches via email is an absolutely necessary skill for everyone who considers himself a hacker. Lack of it makes you unable to contribute to many great projects, such as all suckless [3] projects and Linux itself.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gerrit-ring.savoirfairelinux.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gerrit-ring.savoirfairelinux.com&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;review.lineageos.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;review.lineageos.org&#x2F;</a><p>[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;suckless.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;suckless.org&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>laurentdc</author><text>Yes!<p>I quite like the idea of &quot;centralizing&quot; development on GitHub, or similar services. It makes it much easier for everyone to fork, test, make a pull request, merge, etc..<p>For example, one reason why I gave up contributing to OpenWrt was their absolutely legacy contribution system [1], which required devs to submit code diff patches via email (good luck not messing up the formatting with a modern client) on a mailing list. It took me an hour to submit a patch for three lines of code. It seems like Python wasn&#x27;t much different. [2]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dev.openwrt.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;SubmittingPatches#a1.Creatingapatch" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dev.openwrt.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;SubmittingPatches#a1.Creatingap...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.python.org&#x2F;devguide&#x2F;patch.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.python.org&#x2F;devguide&#x2F;patch.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fake-name</author><text><i></i>Anything<i></i> is better then e-mail based systems.<p>The discoverability, browsability, and useability of something with actual markup and design is infinitely better then e-mail.<p>I&#x27;ve tried several times to make submissions to several e-mail based projects, never with any success. At the same time, I&#x27;ve had zero issues contributing to a dozen or so github hosted projects.<p>E-mail systems are a shitshow. First, you generally have to join a mailing list, which is regularly broken, or requires someone somewhere to <i>manually</i> acknowledge your membership. Then, you have to figure out how they want shit formatted, figure out how to generate a diff (I&#x27;ve been using SVN for 8+ years, git for ~3 years, and have <i></i>never<i></i> had to deal with diff files!), send an e-mail, find the mailing list shat itself and troubleshoot, try again, etc....<p>Basically, e-mail is the death of any sort of low-effort contribution. If you&#x27;re starting a new project, and chose a mailing list, you&#x27;re probably excluding a huge quantity of potential contributors.<p>If there&#x27;s a project where I want to make a few-line change or minor enhancement, and it&#x27;s on github, I&#x27;ll generally PR it back into the original. If it&#x27;s somewhere else, or requires <i>another</i> account, there&#x27;s no way I&#x27;m going to spend the effort.<p>Plus, just <i>reading</i> mailing lists is a fucking disaster. Literally no mailing list host I know of lets you just view a <i>complete</i> topic thread in simple chronological order on <i></i>ONE PAGE<i></i>. They all operate on a per-message response-tree structure, so just <i>reading</i> the discussion is a huge pain in the ass.<p>E-mail is basically dying among younger people, <i>including the ones that code</i>, and with good reason. For actual forum-type discussions, it&#x27;s a completely shit solution.</text></comment> |
4,712,059 | 4,711,802 | 1 | 2 | 4,710,256 | train | <story><title>I.B.M. Reports Nanotube Chip Breakthrough</title><url>http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/i-b-m-reports-nanotube-chip-breakthrough/?hp&pagewanted=all</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>abtinf</author><text>Articles like this used to excite me. But now, they are just sort of depressing.<p>Would it be good to have denser transistor counts? Sure. There are lots of benefits for hardware. Denser transistors can mean (possibly) reduced power consumption from smaller chips. Manufacturing costs are reduced because you get more chips from the same materials. Device production costs are reduced because you can combine functions that used to take two chips into a single chip. Overall devices can be smaller.<p>But from a software perspective, its a limited blessing. To be sure, there are benefits for cloud computing applications and other "embarrassingly parallel" applications. These chips might be great in data centers, which are power sensitive. And being able to do more things at once can be good, even if its at the same speed - Google can maybe crawl the web more frequently and video games might get improved graphics.<p>But the thing is, we already have nearly unlimited computing power at our disposal. On a whim, I could spin up a hundred thousand computers on Amazon Web Services to do some desired computation (which would cost a mere $700/hr at the current spot prices). My laptop has a 192 core GPU which, by itself, is more powerful than most super computers that existed up to the mid-1990s.<p>What we really need are software advances to exploit this hardware. For decades, there has been essentially no progress whatever in software that can take advantage of parallel computing. What techniques we have are either brittle (threads) or forfeit most of the hardware's power (multiple processes combined with relatively slow inter-process communication). Software is in such a backward state that people are amazed when the home-screen icons on an iphone scroll smoothly from page to page.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mitt</author><text>“we already have nearly unlimited computing power at our disposal”
I have to disagree. To tackle hard problems I would be glad to have a billion times more computational power.
We are doing semantic processing of texts. For one customer we have a million texts, and processing one takes about one second. To have the computer automatically generate rules (Genetic Programming) we would like to have this:
the computer generates a rule, processes the million texts, and checks if that rule improved the overall understanding. Currently one million processing seconds are required.
But if we could do this on one million cores, we could generate one rule per second. The thing is: an evolutionary system will generate millions and millions of rules. So, even if we had a million times more computational power, it would still require several months to finish a run. Renting such capacity from Amazon &#38; Co. would cost easily 5-10 millions.
With a billion times more computational power however this would fall in the range of perhaps a few thousand dollars.<p>Also, it would be useful, if mobile phones would feature such a computational power, so that strong AI software with above human intelligence could run on it. Such software could technically run on a C64 if enough memory were available, but answers would take quite a long time.<p>So, I really hope that we will see maaany trillion times more computational power in this century.</text></comment> | <story><title>I.B.M. Reports Nanotube Chip Breakthrough</title><url>http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/i-b-m-reports-nanotube-chip-breakthrough/?hp&pagewanted=all</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>abtinf</author><text>Articles like this used to excite me. But now, they are just sort of depressing.<p>Would it be good to have denser transistor counts? Sure. There are lots of benefits for hardware. Denser transistors can mean (possibly) reduced power consumption from smaller chips. Manufacturing costs are reduced because you get more chips from the same materials. Device production costs are reduced because you can combine functions that used to take two chips into a single chip. Overall devices can be smaller.<p>But from a software perspective, its a limited blessing. To be sure, there are benefits for cloud computing applications and other "embarrassingly parallel" applications. These chips might be great in data centers, which are power sensitive. And being able to do more things at once can be good, even if its at the same speed - Google can maybe crawl the web more frequently and video games might get improved graphics.<p>But the thing is, we already have nearly unlimited computing power at our disposal. On a whim, I could spin up a hundred thousand computers on Amazon Web Services to do some desired computation (which would cost a mere $700/hr at the current spot prices). My laptop has a 192 core GPU which, by itself, is more powerful than most super computers that existed up to the mid-1990s.<p>What we really need are software advances to exploit this hardware. For decades, there has been essentially no progress whatever in software that can take advantage of parallel computing. What techniques we have are either brittle (threads) or forfeit most of the hardware's power (multiple processes combined with relatively slow inter-process communication). Software is in such a backward state that people are amazed when the home-screen icons on an iphone scroll smoothly from page to page.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>csomar</author><text>I used to think this way, but it's better to give it another perspective. IBM (or their research group) specializes in Hardware and they are making good progress. They can't do both in the same time.<p>Someone else has to do the Software hacking. But if there isn't someone doing it (or at least meeting your expectations), then it doesn't mean IBM should stop or change activity.<p>Any progress we make is a win for us and for the whole humanity.</text></comment> |
41,124,523 | 41,124,451 | 1 | 2 | 41,122,986 | train | <story><title>An affordable, portable and focused device for music, writing and coding</title><url>https://tulip.computer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>enjoyyourlife</author><text>The current title &quot;An affordable, portable and focused device for music, writing and coding&quot; reads like an ad</text></item><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>Who on earth flagged this article, and what was your rationale? The device looks so cool and fun!<p>EDIT: Unflagged, so this is now off topic. Mods, feel free to nuke this comment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>consumer451</author><text>I would recommend digging deeper than the title in general, and especially when on HN. This is a nerdvana-level product.</text></comment> | <story><title>An affordable, portable and focused device for music, writing and coding</title><url>https://tulip.computer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>enjoyyourlife</author><text>The current title &quot;An affordable, portable and focused device for music, writing and coding&quot; reads like an ad</text></item><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>Who on earth flagged this article, and what was your rationale? The device looks so cool and fun!<p>EDIT: Unflagged, so this is now off topic. Mods, feel free to nuke this comment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chaostheory</author><text>At $59, I don’t see any of that being not true.<p>a lot of posts on HN are submarines anyway, so I don’t see an issue<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paulgraham.com&#x2F;submarine.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paulgraham.com&#x2F;submarine.html</a></text></comment> |
32,303,070 | 32,302,195 | 1 | 2 | 32,296,272 | train | <story><title>Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests</title><url>https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2022/07/thoughts-mind-wander</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>liberia</author><text>Well as a hacker, boredom is the enemy and we’re always at war with boredom. For a hacker, boredom is a form of death.</text></item><item><author>xcambar</author><text>As I grew older, there are certain things I have learned to enjoy more, such as slowness, inaction, loneliness, boredom.<p>Boredom is typically the most controversial, so the reason here is that boredom first allows for moments you want out of, but also there&#x27;s more: It expands the range of comfort zone of emotions and sets the ground floor of your emotions low enough that you can actually welcome more experiences as rather good. That limits the number of &quot;meh&quot; moments drastically.
Beware though that setting the ground floor of your emotions lower doesn&#x27;t mean it lowers down the average &quot;feeling of happiness&quot; in your
life.<p>The thing I reject the most today is the constant pressure for action, movement and performance.
I used to love them though but now, nearing 40, I see them a way to escape rather than embrace what life has to offer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>corobo</author><text>I gotta disagree here. Boredom is where all my ideas come from. Boredom is the catalyst to wondering how Xyz works.<p>Boredom is taking an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem, and then realising you can put a front end on that and do it as a service for people who don&#x27;t have that skillset.<p>No boredom, no hacking.</text></comment> | <story><title>Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests</title><url>https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2022/07/thoughts-mind-wander</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>liberia</author><text>Well as a hacker, boredom is the enemy and we’re always at war with boredom. For a hacker, boredom is a form of death.</text></item><item><author>xcambar</author><text>As I grew older, there are certain things I have learned to enjoy more, such as slowness, inaction, loneliness, boredom.<p>Boredom is typically the most controversial, so the reason here is that boredom first allows for moments you want out of, but also there&#x27;s more: It expands the range of comfort zone of emotions and sets the ground floor of your emotions low enough that you can actually welcome more experiences as rather good. That limits the number of &quot;meh&quot; moments drastically.
Beware though that setting the ground floor of your emotions lower doesn&#x27;t mean it lowers down the average &quot;feeling of happiness&quot; in your
life.<p>The thing I reject the most today is the constant pressure for action, movement and performance.
I used to love them though but now, nearing 40, I see them a way to escape rather than embrace what life has to offer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>switchbak</author><text>Well, some hackers are also Buddhists, which don&#x27;t tend to view boredom like that.</text></comment> |
6,134,436 | 6,134,313 | 1 | 2 | 6,133,437 | train | <story><title>Two years later, Senator’s criticism of NSA spying sinks in</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/two-years-later-senators-criticism-of-nsa-spying-sinks-in/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gizmo686</author><text>What do you mean by him not leaking information. Article 1 section 6 of the constitution gives Congressmen immunity for anything they say in the House. Gravel v. United States (The Pentagon Papers) established that this immunity applies to leaking classified information.<p>Admittedly, using this immunity would require him to officially leak it under his own name, which likely comes at a significant political cost (could it get him kicked of the Intelligence Committee?), but legally he is protected.<p>EDIT: I am aware that him leaking would come at a significant cost and probably get him kicked off the committee. My point is that he does have the power to leak, and may decide that the change he can effect by leaking outways the change he can effect by staying on the committee.</text></item><item><author>dragontamer</author><text>If people want to follow this story, it is imperative for you to follow Wyden and Udall, and to fully understand the powers of the Senate Intelligence Committee. The Senate Intelligence Committee was set up in the 70s as a way to reign in the powers of the Executive Branch, after the abuses that came light from the Nixon Administration. (Historically, look up the Church Committee for details on that. There&#x27;s a lot of history here).<p>The Senate Intelligence Committee is cleared, has access to all Top Secret data, and is basically the watchdog of the Intelligence Community. There are only 15 members on the Committee (8 from the majority party, 7 from the minority party), so Wyden and Udall consist of 15% of the voting power in there. Every single bill that affects the intelligence community has to pass through the Senate Intelligence Committee before it moves to the rest of Congress.<p>Wyden&#x27;s biggest criticism of the intelligence community is the innate reluctance to declassify data. There is a very strong &quot;overclassification&quot; culture in agencies, and its at the point where it sniffles debate on this subject. It would do people good to read up on Wyden&#x27;s proposals, and to work with him in the Senate.<p>He&#x27;s the &quot;inside man&quot;, he&#x27;s got a TS clearance... he has the power to investigate the Intelligence Community. (But not leak information, he has to speak on vague terms of course, because what he talks about is TS information). And he&#x27;s been stating his position for years on this subject. If you want to rally behind someone, its Wyden and Udall. Furthermore, as a Senator on the Intelligence Committee, he has the power to kill and modify bills before they even reach debate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragontamer</author><text>And if Wyden an Udall fall out of the Senate Intelligence Committee, who will keep tabs on the Intelligence Community after that?<p>13 of the 15 members of the Senate Intelligence Committee were cool with everything revealed, and are currently defending it. Only Wyden and Udall have been critical to these programs. Politically speaking, everyone on the Senate Intelligence Committee are consistent with what they believe in.</text></comment> | <story><title>Two years later, Senator’s criticism of NSA spying sinks in</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/two-years-later-senators-criticism-of-nsa-spying-sinks-in/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gizmo686</author><text>What do you mean by him not leaking information. Article 1 section 6 of the constitution gives Congressmen immunity for anything they say in the House. Gravel v. United States (The Pentagon Papers) established that this immunity applies to leaking classified information.<p>Admittedly, using this immunity would require him to officially leak it under his own name, which likely comes at a significant political cost (could it get him kicked of the Intelligence Committee?), but legally he is protected.<p>EDIT: I am aware that him leaking would come at a significant cost and probably get him kicked off the committee. My point is that he does have the power to leak, and may decide that the change he can effect by leaking outways the change he can effect by staying on the committee.</text></item><item><author>dragontamer</author><text>If people want to follow this story, it is imperative for you to follow Wyden and Udall, and to fully understand the powers of the Senate Intelligence Committee. The Senate Intelligence Committee was set up in the 70s as a way to reign in the powers of the Executive Branch, after the abuses that came light from the Nixon Administration. (Historically, look up the Church Committee for details on that. There&#x27;s a lot of history here).<p>The Senate Intelligence Committee is cleared, has access to all Top Secret data, and is basically the watchdog of the Intelligence Community. There are only 15 members on the Committee (8 from the majority party, 7 from the minority party), so Wyden and Udall consist of 15% of the voting power in there. Every single bill that affects the intelligence community has to pass through the Senate Intelligence Committee before it moves to the rest of Congress.<p>Wyden&#x27;s biggest criticism of the intelligence community is the innate reluctance to declassify data. There is a very strong &quot;overclassification&quot; culture in agencies, and its at the point where it sniffles debate on this subject. It would do people good to read up on Wyden&#x27;s proposals, and to work with him in the Senate.<p>He&#x27;s the &quot;inside man&quot;, he&#x27;s got a TS clearance... he has the power to investigate the Intelligence Community. (But not leak information, he has to speak on vague terms of course, because what he talks about is TS information). And he&#x27;s been stating his position for years on this subject. If you want to rally behind someone, its Wyden and Udall. Furthermore, as a Senator on the Intelligence Committee, he has the power to kill and modify bills before they even reach debate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ceejayoz</author><text>The Constitution also protects US citizens from execution without trial. And yet, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Anwar_al-Awlaki</a></text></comment> |
30,659,546 | 30,659,311 | 1 | 2 | 30,655,479 | train | <story><title>Smart-TV blocklist for Pi-Hole</title><url>https://perflyst.github.io/PiHoleBlocklist/SmartTV.txt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Flameancer</author><text>Wait, so you&#x27;re saying that DRM has become so ingrained in modern tech that if I wanted to connect a firestick to a Dumb Display(No electronics other than to drive the display), if that Display doesn&#x27;t have DRM functionality then the app won&#x27;t load or play content even though the firetv has the DRM?</text></item><item><author>giantrobot</author><text>They don&#x27;t always support the DRM apps want for 4K streaming.</text></item><item><author>colechristensen</author><text>You can buy them, commercial displays, but they are... quite expensive.</text></item><item><author>confident_inept</author><text>I can always deny internet via MAC address, but a modern panel that just turns on instantly and works is the stuff of dreams.</text></item><item><author>the_snooze</author><text>&gt;I would pay a premium for a TV with no internet connection.<p>I bought a Samsung QLED TV recently, and it works fine without an internet connection. I did give it an ethernet connection to grab firmware updates, and it downloaded a bunch of ads and crap to clutter the home screen. Luckily, unplugging the ethernet cord and factory-resetting the device got rid of the garbage and kept the updated firmware.</text></item><item><author>confident_inept</author><text>Praise be the folks that curate these lists. Even without a pi-hole you can plug these into any firewall for your brand(s).<p>More annoying is the 15 second &quot;home menu&quot; that pops up on my OLED every time it is turned on. I almost always forget to manually dismiss it before I set the remote down and there&#x27;s no option I can find to disable it.<p>I would pay a premium for a TV with no internet connection.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dspillett</author><text>Yep, been that way for a while. I remember a couple of years ago Amazon Prime refusing to play HD on a PC made from parts bought from Amazon (well, the significant ones, definitely the GPU), on a dumb TV bought via Amazon, using an Amazon branded cable...<p>Content obtained via torrent played, and still does, at 1080 perfectly well though, if you are looking for a workaround. I currently pipe stuff to the TV from my media array via Kodi on a Pi.<p>(I do actually pay for Prime, though mainly for the delivery options, and Netflix, but still consume their content &quot;my&quot; way more often than not)</text></comment> | <story><title>Smart-TV blocklist for Pi-Hole</title><url>https://perflyst.github.io/PiHoleBlocklist/SmartTV.txt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Flameancer</author><text>Wait, so you&#x27;re saying that DRM has become so ingrained in modern tech that if I wanted to connect a firestick to a Dumb Display(No electronics other than to drive the display), if that Display doesn&#x27;t have DRM functionality then the app won&#x27;t load or play content even though the firetv has the DRM?</text></item><item><author>giantrobot</author><text>They don&#x27;t always support the DRM apps want for 4K streaming.</text></item><item><author>colechristensen</author><text>You can buy them, commercial displays, but they are... quite expensive.</text></item><item><author>confident_inept</author><text>I can always deny internet via MAC address, but a modern panel that just turns on instantly and works is the stuff of dreams.</text></item><item><author>the_snooze</author><text>&gt;I would pay a premium for a TV with no internet connection.<p>I bought a Samsung QLED TV recently, and it works fine without an internet connection. I did give it an ethernet connection to grab firmware updates, and it downloaded a bunch of ads and crap to clutter the home screen. Luckily, unplugging the ethernet cord and factory-resetting the device got rid of the garbage and kept the updated firmware.</text></item><item><author>confident_inept</author><text>Praise be the folks that curate these lists. Even without a pi-hole you can plug these into any firewall for your brand(s).<p>More annoying is the 15 second &quot;home menu&quot; that pops up on my OLED every time it is turned on. I almost always forget to manually dismiss it before I set the remote down and there&#x27;s no option I can find to disable it.<p>I would pay a premium for a TV with no internet connection.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>viccuad</author><text>Yes, that&#x27;s their plan of 15 years, coming to fruition. Look at Mac support, Windows 11 needing TPM, etc.</text></comment> |
19,098,348 | 19,096,932 | 1 | 2 | 19,095,952 | train | <story><title>State of Clojure Survey 2019 Analysis</title><url>https://danielcompton.net/2019/02/06/clojure-survey-2019</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jakebasile</author><text>I&#x27;ve said it before and I&#x27;ll say it again, the industry can rip Clojure from my cold, dead hands. It&#x27;s unfortunate that people in this thread seem to down on the language, but the only possible way I would stop using it is if I literally cannot earn income with it. It is by far the most pleasant language I&#x27;ve ever used, I feel at home writing it, and it improves the quality of my work.</text></comment> | <story><title>State of Clojure Survey 2019 Analysis</title><url>https://danielcompton.net/2019/02/06/clojure-survey-2019</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>moomin</author><text>Okay, here&#x27;s my take on the implicit narrative here: Clojure is done. It will continue to improve, people will continue to use it and build cool things with it, but maintainers are burnt out, mostly because there aren&#x27;t enough of them and partly because of the passive-aggressive relationship Cognitect has with the community.<p>There&#x27;s a whole bunch of languages with small dedicated communities doing interesting stuff. D and Julia occur to me off the top of my head. It&#x27;s not &quot;failure&quot; that Clojure doesn&#x27;t really challenge Kotlin or Scala for mindshare. It&#x27;s nonetheless disappointing for people like me who used to be really excited by Clojure&#x27;s potential.<p>Could it have been different? I don&#x27;t know. The powers that be could definitely have been more committed to growing the base, but it never seems to have interested them. Would it have made a difference? I honestly don&#x27;t know.</text></comment> |
32,350,660 | 32,350,744 | 1 | 3 | 32,349,006 | train | <story><title>Tell HN: I interviewed my dad before he died</title><text>My dad got really sick a few months ago. I was shocked but also panicked about the idea of him dying without me knowing him well. He was a great dad but didn&#x27;t talk much.<p>Fortunately, he got better for a short time. I seized the opportunity to ask him as much as he could answer and film him. Of course, his memory wasn&#x27;t perfect but I got the big picture.<p>Now that he passed away, I&#x27;m both devastated and glad that I got to know him more and kept a record so I can see his face and listen to his voice for more than the usual family video. I wish I had done it sooner though.<p>I&#x27;ve heard multiple people tell me they don&#x27;t know their parents&#x27; or grandparents&#x27; life, or they&#x27;ve heard it but they&#x27;ve eventually forgotten so I thought I&#x27;d share. I hope this will help some of you.<p>Thank you blood donors<p>Thank you dad</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>gunapologist99</author><text>I am deeply sorry for your loss. Your Mom sounds really awesome, and this sort of passphrase is really smart.<p>But, &quot;proof&quot; of God&#x27;s existence in this way would eliminate the need for faith. Conversely, you also cannot prove that God does <i>not</i> exist, making it a faith, of a sort, in both directions.<p>Truly, faith is a choice: you choose if you are going to have it (or try to have it), or not.<p>And thus not having faith is also a choice -- it&#x27;s an implicit, and sometimes explicit, rejection of faith; and, thus, God.<p>So I wouldn&#x27;t hold my breath waiting for that message from your Ma, as awesome as she sounds; if she is wrong, and there is no heaven, then you will never receive that message; and, if she is right, as I deeply and humbly believe, you will also never receive the message because that would eliminate the need for you to make a decision, personally, to have faith or not.</text></item><item><author>zw123456</author><text>Sorry for your loss and everyone else who is sharing.<p>About 10 years ago, my mom came down with cancer and was in hospice care for some time. I had the opportunity to sit with her and hold hands and talk. She was a person of faith, I am not. She asked me to light the yahrzeit for her which I of course agreed to do, and did, although I had to consult the internet to figure out how.<p>She asked me if I would reconsider my rejection of faith, I had to be honest with her and said that I was sorry that I could not do that. She said if she got up there, into heaven, and could get me a message, would I change my mind. I said sure Ma. We came up with a goofy pass phrase, that only her and I knew, and pinky swore never to tell anyone. No, I have not received the message, but I do the candle. It is coming up on the 10th the web site says.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zw123456</author><text>Well. All I know is this.<p>I was a weird kid, and my mom protected me. I grew up on a farm in a pretty rural area.
When I was between my sophomore and junior year in high school, my dad wanted me to work on the farm, to make me a man, or whatever. I wanted to go to science camp for the summer. Ma, put her foot down, and I got to go to science camp.<p>I dunno about the god stuff. I am not holding my breath on the message. But, I am lighting her candle.<p>That&#x27;s all I got to say on it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tell HN: I interviewed my dad before he died</title><text>My dad got really sick a few months ago. I was shocked but also panicked about the idea of him dying without me knowing him well. He was a great dad but didn&#x27;t talk much.<p>Fortunately, he got better for a short time. I seized the opportunity to ask him as much as he could answer and film him. Of course, his memory wasn&#x27;t perfect but I got the big picture.<p>Now that he passed away, I&#x27;m both devastated and glad that I got to know him more and kept a record so I can see his face and listen to his voice for more than the usual family video. I wish I had done it sooner though.<p>I&#x27;ve heard multiple people tell me they don&#x27;t know their parents&#x27; or grandparents&#x27; life, or they&#x27;ve heard it but they&#x27;ve eventually forgotten so I thought I&#x27;d share. I hope this will help some of you.<p>Thank you blood donors<p>Thank you dad</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>gunapologist99</author><text>I am deeply sorry for your loss. Your Mom sounds really awesome, and this sort of passphrase is really smart.<p>But, &quot;proof&quot; of God&#x27;s existence in this way would eliminate the need for faith. Conversely, you also cannot prove that God does <i>not</i> exist, making it a faith, of a sort, in both directions.<p>Truly, faith is a choice: you choose if you are going to have it (or try to have it), or not.<p>And thus not having faith is also a choice -- it&#x27;s an implicit, and sometimes explicit, rejection of faith; and, thus, God.<p>So I wouldn&#x27;t hold my breath waiting for that message from your Ma, as awesome as she sounds; if she is wrong, and there is no heaven, then you will never receive that message; and, if she is right, as I deeply and humbly believe, you will also never receive the message because that would eliminate the need for you to make a decision, personally, to have faith or not.</text></item><item><author>zw123456</author><text>Sorry for your loss and everyone else who is sharing.<p>About 10 years ago, my mom came down with cancer and was in hospice care for some time. I had the opportunity to sit with her and hold hands and talk. She was a person of faith, I am not. She asked me to light the yahrzeit for her which I of course agreed to do, and did, although I had to consult the internet to figure out how.<p>She asked me if I would reconsider my rejection of faith, I had to be honest with her and said that I was sorry that I could not do that. She said if she got up there, into heaven, and could get me a message, would I change my mind. I said sure Ma. We came up with a goofy pass phrase, that only her and I knew, and pinky swore never to tell anyone. No, I have not received the message, but I do the candle. It is coming up on the 10th the web site says.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Volundr</author><text>&gt; Truly, faith is a choice<p>I know this is something people say, but I&#x27;ve never found it to be true. I could pretend to believe but deep down that wouldn&#x27;t make me a believer. If I could simply choose to believe there was something after death I would, it would be a great comfort, but I simply cannot.</text></comment> |
15,522,113 | 15,522,080 | 1 | 2 | 15,521,756 | train | <story><title>Linux ransomware in the wild</title><url>https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1060828.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ddevault</author><text>It doesn&#x27;t seem to have been mentioned on the forums, which is alarming, but the correct response to finding out your machine has been owned is to <i>shut it the fuck down</i>. Right away. Then boot up a rescue CD, which will have a known working system (read: not compromised), from which you can do some forensic work to find out how you were owned and what data is recoverable.<p>Take the data you can recover offline and then reinstall from scratch. Don&#x27;t try to fix it, just recover what you can and throw the rest away.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zokier</author><text>&gt; from which you can do some forensic work to find out how you were owned<p>It&#x27;s worth noting that if you are really serious about doing forensics and investigating the attack, then shutting down can be pretty destructive.<p>&gt; what data is recoverable.<p>Another point I&#x27;d make is that try to recover as little as possible from the infected system and prefer using clean backups instead.<p>I agree on the overall sentiment though, attempting to recover a infected system is unnecessarily risky. Nuke it from the orbit, it is the only way to be sure.</text></comment> | <story><title>Linux ransomware in the wild</title><url>https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1060828.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ddevault</author><text>It doesn&#x27;t seem to have been mentioned on the forums, which is alarming, but the correct response to finding out your machine has been owned is to <i>shut it the fuck down</i>. Right away. Then boot up a rescue CD, which will have a known working system (read: not compromised), from which you can do some forensic work to find out how you were owned and what data is recoverable.<p>Take the data you can recover offline and then reinstall from scratch. Don&#x27;t try to fix it, just recover what you can and throw the rest away.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zython</author><text>well, when wannacry was around, you could &quot;salvage&quot; the decryption key from an infected machine before it was rebooted.<p>not saying your idea is bad advice but you need the full picture to counter ransomware attacks</text></comment> |
36,422,772 | 36,419,988 | 1 | 2 | 36,417,908 | train | <story><title>Research papers on ML in Compilers</title><url>https://github.com/zwang4/awesome-machine-learning-in-compilers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hetzenmat</author><text>Note that this refers to ML as in machine learning and not the ML language family, as I hoped.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brookst</author><text>There are so many flavors of machine learning that we should probably just refer to whole field as XML.</text></comment> | <story><title>Research papers on ML in Compilers</title><url>https://github.com/zwang4/awesome-machine-learning-in-compilers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hetzenmat</author><text>Note that this refers to ML as in machine learning and not the ML language family, as I hoped.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Findecanor</author><text>My mind still unabbreviates &quot;ML&quot; into &quot;Machine Language&quot; before anything else, only because it was the first of these three for me.</text></comment> |
25,394,273 | 25,393,985 | 1 | 2 | 25,384,409 | train | <story><title>Slack wanted to stay independent, but was unable to compete with tech giants</title><url>https://www.fastcompany.com/90584382/slack-salesforce-antitrust</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>remir</author><text>The reality is that a lot of enterprises and organizations don&#x27;t really <i>need</i> a chat service. It&#x27;s not a must for them.<p>On the other hand, what knowledge worker today can function without video conferencing, desktop sharing, file sharing and VoIP?<p>No that many.<p>Teams provide all of that natively. That&#x27;s why they&#x27;re wining.<p>Let&#x27;s be frank, if Teams had been just a chat application, it would never have had the success it currently has, even as part of O365. Being bundled with something popular is not a guaranty of success. IE is a very good example of that.<p>The reality is that MS made Teams a complete collaboration platform and Slack couldn&#x27;t do the same with their product.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nemothekid</author><text>I disagree that Slack couldn’t have survived when Zoom exists. We will see where Zoom is 5 years; but Slack never expanded beyond Chat and their video calling product just isn’t competitive.<p>From the outside, Teams (and Zooms) growth was accelerated because video conferencing became way more important. People didn’t need video conferencing pre-COVID because that would have just been a meeting. When they suddenly did, Slack wasn’t that good. My pet peeve continues to be that on Slack I cannot see someone’s screen on iOS - that one annoyance had us move to Zoom then teams.<p>An argument could be made that Slack was ultimately unable to compete in video by virtue of not having an army of high paid engineers to throw at the problem like MS does, but the features that Slack chose to focus on (like the WYSIWG editor) doesn’t say that to me</text></comment> | <story><title>Slack wanted to stay independent, but was unable to compete with tech giants</title><url>https://www.fastcompany.com/90584382/slack-salesforce-antitrust</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>remir</author><text>The reality is that a lot of enterprises and organizations don&#x27;t really <i>need</i> a chat service. It&#x27;s not a must for them.<p>On the other hand, what knowledge worker today can function without video conferencing, desktop sharing, file sharing and VoIP?<p>No that many.<p>Teams provide all of that natively. That&#x27;s why they&#x27;re wining.<p>Let&#x27;s be frank, if Teams had been just a chat application, it would never have had the success it currently has, even as part of O365. Being bundled with something popular is not a guaranty of success. IE is a very good example of that.<p>The reality is that MS made Teams a complete collaboration platform and Slack couldn&#x27;t do the same with their product.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dismantlethesun</author><text>&gt; Being bundled with something popular is not a guaranty of success. IE is a very good example of that.<p>Not sure what the example of IE would entail. IE was insanely popular during its prime of 2006-2008. Even today, Chrome has not captured as much of the market as IE6 did at that time.<p>It was only years of neglect (i.e nearly the entire IE6 team was reassigned to other projects), and governmental intervention that allowed other browsers to even have a significant plurality.<p>So yes, you can win merely by being bundled for free with another popular product.<p>If Slack for instance just came preinstalled on iOS&#x2F;OSX, then people would have standardized on it so long as it was also available on Windows.</text></comment> |
29,973,169 | 29,973,380 | 1 | 3 | 29,972,342 | train | <story><title>Mars rover detects carbon signature that may hint at past life source</title><url>https://www.science.org/content/article/mars-rover-detects-carbon-signature-hints-past-life-source</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rkagerer</author><text>As Harrison noted, the authors are appropriately conservative.<p><i>The team found that the carbon trapped in a handful of rocks probed by the rover is dramatically enriched in light isotopes of carbon. On Earth, the signal would be seen as strong evidence for ancient microbial life...<p>...however, the researchers are reluctant to make any grand claims, and they have worked hard to concoct alternative, nonbiological explanations involving ultraviolet (UV) light and stardust. But those alternatives are at least as far-fetched as a scenario in which subterranean microbes emitted the enriched carbon as methane gas. The team concludes the study does “inch up the plausibility” that microbes once existed on the planet...</i></text></comment> | <story><title>Mars rover detects carbon signature that may hint at past life source</title><url>https://www.science.org/content/article/mars-rover-detects-carbon-signature-hints-past-life-source</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>andy_ppp</author><text>It will be interesting to see if all life uses DNA in four pairs or if every planet evolves a system for encoding life differently.</text></comment> |
16,920,811 | 16,919,027 | 1 | 3 | 16,918,814 | train | <story><title>A one-second video taken by the Rosetta probe on the surface of a comet</title><url>https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/988711358358261762</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bd</author><text>Unfortunately Twitter butchers video quality.<p>I remade both landru79&#x27;s videos from scratch using original ESA 2048x2048 image sequence (plus I added a bit of motion interpolation):<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;alteredqualia.com&#x2F;tmp&#x2F;rosetta&#x2F;rosetta.webm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;alteredqualia.com&#x2F;tmp&#x2F;rosetta&#x2F;rosetta.webm</a> [50MB]<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;alteredqualia.com&#x2F;tmp&#x2F;rosetta&#x2F;rosetta_stars.mp4" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;alteredqualia.com&#x2F;tmp&#x2F;rosetta&#x2F;rosetta_stars.mp4</a> [28MB]<p>-----<p>Edit: in case my server doesn&#x27;t hold up, here are video mirrors on Streamable:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;streamable.com&#x2F;w2wgj" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;streamable.com&#x2F;w2wgj</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;streamable.com&#x2F;dg3r0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;streamable.com&#x2F;dg3r0</a><p>(seems better quality than Twitter and YouTube)</text></comment> | <story><title>A one-second video taken by the Rosetta probe on the surface of a comet</title><url>https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/988711358358261762</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>evanb</author><text>There&#x27;s also one with the fixed stars held... fixed.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;landru79&#x2F;status&#x2F;988807933243863040" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;landru79&#x2F;status&#x2F;988807933243863040</a></text></comment> |
37,051,949 | 37,050,794 | 1 | 3 | 37,049,016 | train | <story><title>Blocked by Cloudflare</title><url>https://jrhawley.ca/2023/08/07/blocked-by-cloudflare</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AegirLeet</author><text>I&#x27;ve had the exact same problem for a while. Here are some of the sites I&#x27;ve been unable to access (found by searching for &quot;just a moment&quot; in my browser history):<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;users&#x2F;sign_in" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;users&#x2F;sign_in</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;steamdb.info&#x2F;login&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;steamdb.info&#x2F;login&#x2F;</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zabbix.com&#x2F;forum&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zabbix.com&#x2F;forum&#x2F;</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;casetext.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;casetext.com&#x2F;</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;namemc.com&#x2F;login" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;namemc.com&#x2F;login</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;spinroot.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;spinroot.com&#x2F;</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;camelcamelcamel.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;camelcamelcamel.com&#x2F;</a><p>It&#x27;s really annoying and Cloudflare is apparently doing nothing to fix it as this has been going on for months if not years. I guess Cloudflare just hates the open web and really wants to enforce Chrome&#x2F;Chromium&#x2F;Blink hegemony.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adammartinetti</author><text>Would you be willing to share a rayID you see during one of these looping challenges? I&#x27;m the PM for Cloudflare&#x27;s challenge platform, and we&#x27;d love to look into this. RayIDs contain no PII so you can share publicly, or feel free to drop me an email at amartinetti at cloudflare.<p>We&#x27;ll also release a reporting mechanism soon, so in the future you can let us know when you see these issues and we can react to them quickly.</text></comment> | <story><title>Blocked by Cloudflare</title><url>https://jrhawley.ca/2023/08/07/blocked-by-cloudflare</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AegirLeet</author><text>I&#x27;ve had the exact same problem for a while. Here are some of the sites I&#x27;ve been unable to access (found by searching for &quot;just a moment&quot; in my browser history):<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;users&#x2F;sign_in" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;users&#x2F;sign_in</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;steamdb.info&#x2F;login&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;steamdb.info&#x2F;login&#x2F;</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zabbix.com&#x2F;forum&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zabbix.com&#x2F;forum&#x2F;</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;casetext.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;casetext.com&#x2F;</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;namemc.com&#x2F;login" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;namemc.com&#x2F;login</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;spinroot.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;spinroot.com&#x2F;</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;camelcamelcamel.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;camelcamelcamel.com&#x2F;</a><p>It&#x27;s really annoying and Cloudflare is apparently doing nothing to fix it as this has been going on for months if not years. I guess Cloudflare just hates the open web and really wants to enforce Chrome&#x2F;Chromium&#x2F;Blink hegemony.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zer8k</author><text>I haven&#x27;t had any problems on Waterfox. However, it is absurd to me I need javascript to simply visit a website anymore.</text></comment> |
11,474,129 | 11,474,233 | 1 | 2 | 11,473,890 | train | <story><title>Keras 1.0 – Python deep learning framework</title><url>http://blog.keras.io/introducing-keras-10.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lacker</author><text>I&#x27;m curious what people think are the pros and cons of using Keras, vs using TensorFlow directly.</text></comment> | <story><title>Keras 1.0 – Python deep learning framework</title><url>http://blog.keras.io/introducing-keras-10.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ipunchghosts</author><text>I use Keras daily and find it very easy to use. It provides a nice set of examples to learn how to use it. Its also very easy to access the theano&#x2F;tensorflow backend in a generic way.<p>Keep up the great work!</text></comment> |
21,699,781 | 21,697,692 | 1 | 3 | 21,696,779 | train | <story><title>Metaflow, Netflix's Python framework for data science, is now open source</title><url>https://metaflow.org</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>amirathi</author><text>After going through a lot of marketing fluff, I landed on this useful page which explains Metaflow basics: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.metaflow.org&#x2F;metaflow&#x2F;basics" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.metaflow.org&#x2F;metaflow&#x2F;basics</a><p>Here&#x27;s my understanding:<p>- It&#x27;s a python library for creating &amp; executing DAGs<p>- Each node is a processing step &amp; the results are stored after each step so you can restart failed workflows from where it failed<p>- Tight integration with AWS ECS to run the whole DAG on cloud<p>I don&#x27;t know why their .org site oddly feels like a paid SaaS tool. Anyway, thank you Netflix for open sourcing Metaflow.</text></comment> | <story><title>Metaflow, Netflix's Python framework for data science, is now open source</title><url>https://metaflow.org</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vtuulos</author><text>hey, I&#x27;m one of the authors of Metaflow. Happy to answer any questions! Netflix has been using Metaflow internally for about two years, so we have many war stories :)</text></comment> |
20,030,044 | 20,029,472 | 1 | 3 | 20,028,454 | train | <story><title>W3C and the WHATWG sign agreement to collaborate on single version of HTML, DOM</title><url>https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/7753</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>userbinator</author><text>This obsession with &quot;living&quot; and constant change seems to be mostly confined to the web --- instead of settling on a spec and then leaving it alone and &quot;doing what you can with what you have&quot;, those working on this stuff seem more inclined with continuing to make browsers change.<p>I suspect at least part of the reason is to build a high barrier to entry and preserve the monopoly, keeping out competitors, given who the people in these groups work for.<p>My personal opinion on this is to stop feeding the monopoly and refuse to use anything other than basic HTML for static content sites.</text></item><item><author>ChrisSD</author><text>I still maintain that the &quot;living standard&quot; is an oxymoron. It&#x27;s a collaborative browser dev document. Don&#x27;t get me wrong, that&#x27;s great. However for everyone else an unversioned document, any part of which can change at any moment, is not what&#x27;s usually thought of as a standard.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Ajedi32</author><text>&gt; My personal opinion on this is to stop feeding the monopoly and refuse to use anything other than basic HTML for static content sites.<p>That&#x27;s not going to work for one simple reason: despite HN&#x27;s obsession with plain HTML&#x2F;CSS, these new standards _are_ actually useful. They&#x27;re being created with the express purpose of solving practical problems that developers, site operators, and users are experiencing in the real world. Those stakeholders aren&#x27;t going to just ignore a practical solution to their problem over some esoteric concerns about &quot;feeding the monopoly&quot;.<p>I share your concerns about the proliferation of web standards making it difficult for browser vendors to compete, but if the only alternative you can offer is stagnation I think it&#x27;s completely unsurprising that your concerns go unheeded.</text></comment> | <story><title>W3C and the WHATWG sign agreement to collaborate on single version of HTML, DOM</title><url>https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/7753</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>userbinator</author><text>This obsession with &quot;living&quot; and constant change seems to be mostly confined to the web --- instead of settling on a spec and then leaving it alone and &quot;doing what you can with what you have&quot;, those working on this stuff seem more inclined with continuing to make browsers change.<p>I suspect at least part of the reason is to build a high barrier to entry and preserve the monopoly, keeping out competitors, given who the people in these groups work for.<p>My personal opinion on this is to stop feeding the monopoly and refuse to use anything other than basic HTML for static content sites.</text></item><item><author>ChrisSD</author><text>I still maintain that the &quot;living standard&quot; is an oxymoron. It&#x27;s a collaborative browser dev document. Don&#x27;t get me wrong, that&#x27;s great. However for everyone else an unversioned document, any part of which can change at any moment, is not what&#x27;s usually thought of as a standard.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>giancarlostoro</author><text>&gt; I suspect at least part of the reason is to build a high barrier to entry and preserve the monopoly, keeping out competitors, given who the people in these groups work for.<p>A lot of what happens in someone like Chrome implements something not yet standardized, then it gets standardized in a different way, or Mozilla implements something and Chrome implements it differently from the standard, perhaps to try and reach the same goal without a care for the yet to be finalized standard.<p>Of course Embrade, Extend, Extinguish is something I think of mostly in regards to Google, but I rather not think they&#x27;re completely and utterly sinister in their goals. Some parts of Google are bad, just like some parts of Microsoft (sadly) are bad.<p>Go is a good example of the good parts of Google. Sure the core team works for Google, but they make all the decisions, not Google.<p>VS Code is another good example in regards to Microsoft, and soon enough GitHub (which I suspect is implementing a lot of ideas they couldn&#x27;t afford to work on prior to the acquisition).</text></comment> |
22,233,764 | 22,232,297 | 1 | 2 | 22,227,860 | train | <story><title>Microsoft's Three Browsers</title><url>https://textslashplain.com/2020/02/03/microsofts-three-browsers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bla3</author><text>It&#x27;s almost as if there are technical reasons for not supporting the current extension api on mobile! (Battery, performance, ...)</text></item><item><author>keithnz</author><text>I agree, I think this is generally better. It feels like google needs some pressure to listen to people. Oddly enough Microsoft didn&#x27;t do some things that would be instant wins, like support plugins on mobile so you can install things like ublock origin ( biggest reason why I use firefox on mobile ).</text></item><item><author>kd913</author><text>I really disagree with this perspective. Frankly Google needs a counter-balance in the browser market.<p>Microsoft can easily act as Google&#x27;s counter balance. Microsoft is one of the few companies that have the resources capable of maintaining a hostile fork of chromium (at a loss) and have it competitive enough that users will switch. Google has lost it&#x27;s one advantage in the web-space too as now they can&#x27;t exactly hamper the experience of edge without hampering chrome too.<p>Chromium needed this counter-balance.<p>If Microsoft chose a Gecko forked browser, they would dominate and take over. Like what Apple did with KHTML. This step is better.</text></item><item><author>andrewstuart</author><text>The world would have been a better place if Microsoft&#x27;s latest move was to adopt Firefox instead of Webkit - it would have encouraged diversity in the browser ecosystem.<p>Unfortunately given the history of Microsoft &amp; Firefox this was of course impossible due to Firefox being a derivative of Mozilla&#x2F;Netscape - one of the biggest battles in technology history, which Microsoft won following a savage no-holds-barred battle. There would have been alot of people very unhappy if Microsoft has adopted Firefox - such a move would have been truly ironic.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the_duke</author><text>Ublock Origin&#x2F;uMatrix on mobile significantly increase website performance and battery life on the average site, by blocking a a lot of advertising and tracking content.<p>Potential problems could be mitigated pretty easily by warning about or throttling extensions that use too much CPU&#x2F;memory on mobile.<p>Not allowing extensions on Chrome for Android might have been an acceptable excuse in the early days of Android, with very weak single core CPUs. But not for years.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft's Three Browsers</title><url>https://textslashplain.com/2020/02/03/microsofts-three-browsers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bla3</author><text>It&#x27;s almost as if there are technical reasons for not supporting the current extension api on mobile! (Battery, performance, ...)</text></item><item><author>keithnz</author><text>I agree, I think this is generally better. It feels like google needs some pressure to listen to people. Oddly enough Microsoft didn&#x27;t do some things that would be instant wins, like support plugins on mobile so you can install things like ublock origin ( biggest reason why I use firefox on mobile ).</text></item><item><author>kd913</author><text>I really disagree with this perspective. Frankly Google needs a counter-balance in the browser market.<p>Microsoft can easily act as Google&#x27;s counter balance. Microsoft is one of the few companies that have the resources capable of maintaining a hostile fork of chromium (at a loss) and have it competitive enough that users will switch. Google has lost it&#x27;s one advantage in the web-space too as now they can&#x27;t exactly hamper the experience of edge without hampering chrome too.<p>Chromium needed this counter-balance.<p>If Microsoft chose a Gecko forked browser, they would dominate and take over. Like what Apple did with KHTML. This step is better.</text></item><item><author>andrewstuart</author><text>The world would have been a better place if Microsoft&#x27;s latest move was to adopt Firefox instead of Webkit - it would have encouraged diversity in the browser ecosystem.<p>Unfortunately given the history of Microsoft &amp; Firefox this was of course impossible due to Firefox being a derivative of Mozilla&#x2F;Netscape - one of the biggest battles in technology history, which Microsoft won following a savage no-holds-barred battle. There would have been alot of people very unhappy if Microsoft has adopted Firefox - such a move would have been truly ironic.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asiachick</author><text>And yet extensions work on ChromeOS on machines with no more power or memory than my phone. In fact my phone beats my ChromeOS machine at many benchmarks, has the same amount of ram, and more storage.</text></comment> |
36,478,718 | 36,476,705 | 1 | 3 | 36,472,370 | train | <story><title>A new study looks at how exercise can help alleviate anxiety and depression</title><url>https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/what_type_of_exercise_is_best_for_mental_health</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lethologica</author><text>I’ve had major clinical depression for the last 15 years or so. The first 4 months of this year was the lowest I’ve ever been. During that time though I was going to the gym 6 days a week doing weight lifting and then I would cycle 50km a day on top of that. All of it was on autopilot however, my depression just wouldn’t allow me to focus on anything but it.<p>Luckily I had been building up the habit for years in advance but that was the most I had ever exercised and it was also the most I had ever been depressed. In my case I don’t think the exercise helped at all. Perhaps if I hadn’t of been exercising maybe I wouldn’t even be here now though… I’m not entirely sure. Finding the right medication and getting therapy has been what has really helped me. With those two I can see an almost day and night difference but with the exercise I noticed no difference at all. At least I had a great physique though!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ant_li0n</author><text>Yeah, same here. I don&#x27;t exercise as much as you - 3, maybe 4 times a week - but yeah, it doesn&#x27;t help. Sure, it feels good right when you&#x27;re doing it (sometimes, hah), but the feeling doesn&#x27;t persist. Some days, I actually feel <i>worse</i> emotionally after exercise.<p>I agree with you about therapy and medication: in my experience, they are the only things that work. Expensive though.<p>As a side note, I sort of feel triggered by this kind of article.<p>Depressed? Have you:<p>- exercised enough?<p>- drank enough water?<p>- slept enough?<p>- meditated enough?<p>- gotten outside enough?<p>It&#x27;s passed as &quot;helpful advice&quot; by well-meaning people but always makes me feel like I&#x27;m not &quot;enough&quot;. If I&#x27;ve done all those things but I&#x27;m still depressed, I must not have done those things &quot;enough&quot;. Does that make sense? I&#x27;m so tired of trying to explain how hard I&#x27;m working, I just don&#x27;t talk about it with people for fear they&#x27;ll bring out &quot;the list&quot; of things I ought to be doing, and I&#x27;ll have to explain that, yes, I get 8 hours of sleep a night. Yes, I drink a gallon of water a day. Etc.</text></comment> | <story><title>A new study looks at how exercise can help alleviate anxiety and depression</title><url>https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/what_type_of_exercise_is_best_for_mental_health</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lethologica</author><text>I’ve had major clinical depression for the last 15 years or so. The first 4 months of this year was the lowest I’ve ever been. During that time though I was going to the gym 6 days a week doing weight lifting and then I would cycle 50km a day on top of that. All of it was on autopilot however, my depression just wouldn’t allow me to focus on anything but it.<p>Luckily I had been building up the habit for years in advance but that was the most I had ever exercised and it was also the most I had ever been depressed. In my case I don’t think the exercise helped at all. Perhaps if I hadn’t of been exercising maybe I wouldn’t even be here now though… I’m not entirely sure. Finding the right medication and getting therapy has been what has really helped me. With those two I can see an almost day and night difference but with the exercise I noticed no difference at all. At least I had a great physique though!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bratbag</author><text>How much were you sleeping at night?<p>I find that exercise without adequate sleep grinds me down into a twilight zone state of everything seeming a bit unreal.<p>Last time I had a period similar to yours, the problem was too much screen time on social media and gaming, which was disrupting my sleep.<p>I cut those out, started feeling tired enough to sleep again, and bounced back to normality.</text></comment> |
23,024,086 | 23,024,375 | 1 | 3 | 23,023,703 | train | <story><title>Vitamin D Insufficiency is Prevalent in Severe Covid-19</title><url>https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.24.20075838v1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mindcrime</author><text>Interesting thing... Vitamin D is one of those things that, when vitamins come up on HN, you will often hear the refrain that &quot;it&#x27;s the one vitamin that large numbers of people are actually deficient in and ought to supplement.&quot;<p>I&#x27;ve heard that many times over the years and I have taken a Vitamin D supplement on and off (more off than on) over the years.<p>When this COVID-19 thing first hit, I had a physical scheduled (by chance) just about the same time, and I&#x27;d heard about this Vitamin D &#x2F; COVID-19 connection, so when I went in for my physical, I asked my doctor to order a Vitamin D test as part of my bloodwork.<p>As it turns out, I was indeed <i>very</i> deficient in Vitamin D. I started taking 4000 IU a day and it&#x27;s had a noticeable impact on my overall sense of wellbeing. It <i>could</i>, of course, be placebo effect even so. And I have no particular reason to think that it will make any difference one way or the other in terms of me getting COVID-19. But I thought it was worth pointing out one more anecdote that suggests that the old &quot;Vitamin D is worth supplementing&quot; refrain might just be true.<p>If you&#x27;re in doubt, and it&#x27;s an option, do what I did... just ask your doctor to run a Vitamin D test next time you go in for a checkup &#x2F; physical.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the_jeremy</author><text>A psychiatrist I saw multiple years ago told me to start taking Vitamin D. I went more or less blindly with 5,000 IU after reading some internet articles.<p>I got my blood checked last year and decided I should probably actually know if I&#x27;m doing too much or too little. I was within 5% of the middle of the healthy range for vitamin D levels. For reference, 5,000 IU is &gt;800% the FDA daily recommended value. People with indoor jobs and hobbies are probably not getting enough.</text></comment> | <story><title>Vitamin D Insufficiency is Prevalent in Severe Covid-19</title><url>https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.24.20075838v1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mindcrime</author><text>Interesting thing... Vitamin D is one of those things that, when vitamins come up on HN, you will often hear the refrain that &quot;it&#x27;s the one vitamin that large numbers of people are actually deficient in and ought to supplement.&quot;<p>I&#x27;ve heard that many times over the years and I have taken a Vitamin D supplement on and off (more off than on) over the years.<p>When this COVID-19 thing first hit, I had a physical scheduled (by chance) just about the same time, and I&#x27;d heard about this Vitamin D &#x2F; COVID-19 connection, so when I went in for my physical, I asked my doctor to order a Vitamin D test as part of my bloodwork.<p>As it turns out, I was indeed <i>very</i> deficient in Vitamin D. I started taking 4000 IU a day and it&#x27;s had a noticeable impact on my overall sense of wellbeing. It <i>could</i>, of course, be placebo effect even so. And I have no particular reason to think that it will make any difference one way or the other in terms of me getting COVID-19. But I thought it was worth pointing out one more anecdote that suggests that the old &quot;Vitamin D is worth supplementing&quot; refrain might just be true.<p>If you&#x27;re in doubt, and it&#x27;s an option, do what I did... just ask your doctor to run a Vitamin D test next time you go in for a checkup &#x2F; physical.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>axegon_</author><text>Well yes, Vitamin D is pretty hard to come around in the northern hemisphere so no surprise there. Mind you, it&#x27;s far not the only thing - magnesium, zinc, selenium are just a few which most people are missing. I mean unless your diet consists entirely of tuna and salmon probably. Over the last few years, I&#x27;ve stressed significantly on my physical health(after being very overweight for the most of my adult life and now happy to say this is not the case anymore at all). And while Vitamin D has been one of the things I&#x27;ve become very strict about, my supplements menu has significantly expanded. And there are plenty of products which come bundled with your daily intake of vitamins and minerals. And one in particular has become a part of my breakfast at this point. I haven&#x27;t had as much as a sneeze in the last two years, haven&#x27;t felt even mild fatigue or exhaustion, even after the toughest of days. But as you said, it&#x27;s best to consult a doctor first, especially if you have bad medical history. If you are healthy and fit though then there are plenty of good options to go with.</text></comment> |
41,670,613 | 41,670,173 | 1 | 2 | 41,659,458 | train | <story><title>Legalizing sports gambling was a mistake</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/09/legal-sports-gambling-was-mistake/679925/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bombcar</author><text>Requiring gambling to be done at established facilities or even the sports facility itself and limiting the bets to five dollars or some nominal amount would solve 99% of the problems.</text></item><item><author>lumb63</author><text>I was a big proponent of legalizing sports gambling before it happened here in the US. After that, one of my best friends lost 5 figures on sports gambling that he really couldn’t afford to lose. I’ve also watched sports talk shows degrade to simple betting tips, and TV is now borderline unwatchable due to the pharmaceutical and gambling ads. To me, a few regulations&#x2F;restrictions seem useful. I think broad legalization went too far.<p>One regulation would be banning gambling advertising, for the same reason why smoking ads are (I think?) banned. It is especially nefarious how companies lure in new customers with free bets, often with unscrupulous cash-out conditions, in order to get people hooked. It’s the equivalent of ads providing someone a coupon code to get several boxes of free cigarettes, at which point they get hooked.<p>Another change I’d like to see is the end of mobile gambling. I’ve never done it, but from watching friends do it, it was far too easy to deposit money, or borrow money on credit, and bet it frivolously. At least if such behavior is confined to a casino, there is some larger barrier to entry for people.<p>I do not know if this is true in other states, but certain states have the ability for an individual to self-institute a gambling ban at all facilities in the state. I’m not sure if this applies to gambling online. If not, then it should. And if other states don’t have it, then they would greatly benefit from it.<p>It also seems somewhat fair to me to tax the casinos and other companies profiting from gambling and using that money to fund services for people who become addicted. If you’re going to help create a problem, you should have to help clean it up.</text></item><item><author>jdietrich</author><text>Sports gambling has been legal in the UK since 1960. Gambling wasn&#x27;t seriously problematic in this country until 2005, when regulations were substantially liberalised. Pre-2005, sports betting was something that old men did in dingy backstreet shops; post-2005, it became a widespread social phenomenon, turbocharged by advertising and the growing influence and accessibility of the internet.<p>There&#x27;s a false dichotomy between prohibition and laissez-faire, which the US seems particularly prone to. You&#x27;ve seen similar issues with the decriminalisation of cannabis, where many states seem to have switched abruptly from criminalisation to a fully-fledged commercial market. There is a broad spectrum of other options in between those points that tend to be under-discussed.<p>You can ban gambling advertising, as Italy did in 2019. You can set limits on maximum stakes or impose regulations to make gambling products less attractive to new customers and less risky for problem gamblers. You can have a single state-controlled parimutuel operator. Gambling does cause harm - whether it&#x27;s legal or not - but it is within the purview of legislators to create a gambling market in which harm reduction is the main priority.</text></item><item><author>mlsu</author><text>Sports gambling, like all gambling, ruins lives. It&#x27;s certainly worth having the discussion about whether people should be able to run a train through their life and the lives of their families via app.<p>But a much easier argument against sports betting is that it ruins the sports. Players throw. They get good at subtly cheating. The gambling apparatus latches itself to the sport, to the teams and players, the umpires and judges, the sporting organizations. With this much money on the line, it&#x27;s not a matter of if but when games are thrown, cheated -- the bigger the game, the bigger the incentive. It&#x27;s even easier now because of the amount of side&#x2F;parlay betting that is available. It exhausts the spirit of competition.<p>Sports gambling is diametrically opposed to sport itself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acdha</author><text>The other thing I’d add is a mandatory system where people can tell the company not to allow them to bet with a lengthy time delay (say 90 days) to remove themselves from the list. Most people with problems know they have them at least some of the time and it’s important to give them tools to prevent moments of weakness.</text></comment> | <story><title>Legalizing sports gambling was a mistake</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/09/legal-sports-gambling-was-mistake/679925/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bombcar</author><text>Requiring gambling to be done at established facilities or even the sports facility itself and limiting the bets to five dollars or some nominal amount would solve 99% of the problems.</text></item><item><author>lumb63</author><text>I was a big proponent of legalizing sports gambling before it happened here in the US. After that, one of my best friends lost 5 figures on sports gambling that he really couldn’t afford to lose. I’ve also watched sports talk shows degrade to simple betting tips, and TV is now borderline unwatchable due to the pharmaceutical and gambling ads. To me, a few regulations&#x2F;restrictions seem useful. I think broad legalization went too far.<p>One regulation would be banning gambling advertising, for the same reason why smoking ads are (I think?) banned. It is especially nefarious how companies lure in new customers with free bets, often with unscrupulous cash-out conditions, in order to get people hooked. It’s the equivalent of ads providing someone a coupon code to get several boxes of free cigarettes, at which point they get hooked.<p>Another change I’d like to see is the end of mobile gambling. I’ve never done it, but from watching friends do it, it was far too easy to deposit money, or borrow money on credit, and bet it frivolously. At least if such behavior is confined to a casino, there is some larger barrier to entry for people.<p>I do not know if this is true in other states, but certain states have the ability for an individual to self-institute a gambling ban at all facilities in the state. I’m not sure if this applies to gambling online. If not, then it should. And if other states don’t have it, then they would greatly benefit from it.<p>It also seems somewhat fair to me to tax the casinos and other companies profiting from gambling and using that money to fund services for people who become addicted. If you’re going to help create a problem, you should have to help clean it up.</text></item><item><author>jdietrich</author><text>Sports gambling has been legal in the UK since 1960. Gambling wasn&#x27;t seriously problematic in this country until 2005, when regulations were substantially liberalised. Pre-2005, sports betting was something that old men did in dingy backstreet shops; post-2005, it became a widespread social phenomenon, turbocharged by advertising and the growing influence and accessibility of the internet.<p>There&#x27;s a false dichotomy between prohibition and laissez-faire, which the US seems particularly prone to. You&#x27;ve seen similar issues with the decriminalisation of cannabis, where many states seem to have switched abruptly from criminalisation to a fully-fledged commercial market. There is a broad spectrum of other options in between those points that tend to be under-discussed.<p>You can ban gambling advertising, as Italy did in 2019. You can set limits on maximum stakes or impose regulations to make gambling products less attractive to new customers and less risky for problem gamblers. You can have a single state-controlled parimutuel operator. Gambling does cause harm - whether it&#x27;s legal or not - but it is within the purview of legislators to create a gambling market in which harm reduction is the main priority.</text></item><item><author>mlsu</author><text>Sports gambling, like all gambling, ruins lives. It&#x27;s certainly worth having the discussion about whether people should be able to run a train through their life and the lives of their families via app.<p>But a much easier argument against sports betting is that it ruins the sports. Players throw. They get good at subtly cheating. The gambling apparatus latches itself to the sport, to the teams and players, the umpires and judges, the sporting organizations. With this much money on the line, it&#x27;s not a matter of if but when games are thrown, cheated -- the bigger the game, the bigger the incentive. It&#x27;s even easier now because of the amount of side&#x2F;parlay betting that is available. It exhausts the spirit of competition.<p>Sports gambling is diametrically opposed to sport itself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>verdverm</author><text>Limiting it to a licensed location, instead of app or website, and requiring cash instead of credit would likely be sufficient.</text></comment> |
36,409,876 | 36,410,187 | 1 | 2 | 36,403,494 | train | <story><title>Rivian embraces Tesla's charging standard for EVs</title><url>https://ev-edition.com/2023/06/rivian-joins-forces-with-tesla-embracing-their-charging-standard-for-electric-vehicles/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>javier_e06</author><text>I am an EV user. My connection is not Tesla compatible. I wish the government would prod manufacturers to create a common connection for all EVs the same way there is a common gas intake for all gas powered vehicles.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mustacheemperor</author><text>&gt;I wish the government would prod manufacturers to create a common connection<p>That is exactly why this is happening. Tesla is expanding their network and opening it to more manufacturers in pursuit of a $7.5bn federal funding program.[0]<p>&gt;the new rules, issued after nearly eight months of debate...seeks to give consumers unfettered access to a growing coast-to-coast network of EV charging stations, including Tesla&#x27;s Superchargers.<p>&gt;Companies that hope to tap $7.5 billion in federal funding for this network must also adopt the dominant U.S. standard for charging connectors, known as &quot;Combined Charging System&quot; or CCS; use standardized payment options; a single method of identification that works across all chargers; and work 97% of the time.<p>Interesting enough, Tesla is (currently) obliged to add CCS compatibility to their chargers for eligibility, but these manufacturers are adopting their connector regardless.<p>&gt;The new rules would allow Tesla to keep its unique connectors, but it will have to add a permanently attached CCS connector or adapter that charges a CCS-compliant vehicle, similar to a gas pump that has a separate handle for gas versus diesel.<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;autos-transportation&#x2F;new-biden-ev-charger-rules-stress-made-america-force-tesla-changes-2023-02-15&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;autos-transportation&#x2F;new-bi...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Rivian embraces Tesla's charging standard for EVs</title><url>https://ev-edition.com/2023/06/rivian-joins-forces-with-tesla-embracing-their-charging-standard-for-electric-vehicles/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>javier_e06</author><text>I am an EV user. My connection is not Tesla compatible. I wish the government would prod manufacturers to create a common connection for all EVs the same way there is a common gas intake for all gas powered vehicles.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pseudosavant</author><text>I&#x27;ve had EVs for 7+ years now and have plenty of experience with J1772, Chaedmo, and CCS. All I can say is thank heavens Tesla&#x27;s connector is getting adopted! It is the only connector that seems like it was designed with the ease-of-use regular people expect - not what us early adopter EV people will put up with. This kind of friction does impede adoption too.</text></comment> |
36,608,851 | 36,608,970 | 1 | 2 | 36,608,530 | train | <story><title>Threads Is Now Live</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/05/threads-metas-twitter-competitor-is-now-live/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maskedinvader</author><text>My early impressions:<p>Interface is clean and easy to use&#x2F;intuitive<p>Not seeing an ad or sponsored posts every 2nd or 3rd story is refreshing, wondering how long that lasts<p>No web app to boot ? Wtf disappointed no web ui yet but hoping that changes and changes soon<p>Also no other way to login apart from instagram ? That’s strange , was hoping for standalone login , hoping it’s eventually rolled out<p>No way to change username even after linking instagram username, this is imho a dumb move, I was late to the instagram party and missed out on shorter username and now was hoping joining threads early would help me get my desired username but alas<p>I noticed the highlighted replies feature where celebrity replies are expanded below some threads , it’s probably a good feature just feel they could have a way of turning it off, I’d rather click into a story to surface those and maximize stories per page and reduce scrolling<p>All in all seems like a decent twitter clone, and lots of features missing but definitely a good start.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paxys</author><text>&gt; No way to change username even after linking instagram username, this is imho a dumb move, I was late to the instagram party and missed out on shorter username and now was hoping joining threads early would help me get my desired username but alas<p>There is a 1:1 mapping of Instagram &lt;-&gt; Threads user names, so even if they let you change it in the app you wouldn&#x27;t be able to get a shorter one if someone has already claimed it on Instagram.</text></comment> | <story><title>Threads Is Now Live</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/05/threads-metas-twitter-competitor-is-now-live/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maskedinvader</author><text>My early impressions:<p>Interface is clean and easy to use&#x2F;intuitive<p>Not seeing an ad or sponsored posts every 2nd or 3rd story is refreshing, wondering how long that lasts<p>No web app to boot ? Wtf disappointed no web ui yet but hoping that changes and changes soon<p>Also no other way to login apart from instagram ? That’s strange , was hoping for standalone login , hoping it’s eventually rolled out<p>No way to change username even after linking instagram username, this is imho a dumb move, I was late to the instagram party and missed out on shorter username and now was hoping joining threads early would help me get my desired username but alas<p>I noticed the highlighted replies feature where celebrity replies are expanded below some threads , it’s probably a good feature just feel they could have a way of turning it off, I’d rather click into a story to surface those and maximize stories per page and reduce scrolling<p>All in all seems like a decent twitter clone, and lots of features missing but definitely a good start.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bpye</author><text>Web UI seemingly sort of exists, you can share links for example <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.threads.net&#x2F;@zuck" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.threads.net&#x2F;@zuck</a></text></comment> |
28,047,629 | 28,047,424 | 1 | 3 | 28,046,997 | train | <story><title>Leap seconds: Causing bugs even when they don’t happen</title><url>https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/leapseconds-expose-bugs-even-when-they-dont-happen/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FabHK</author><text>What we&#x27;d like to have:<p>1. Use SI seconds<p>2. Keep in sync with earth rotation<p>3. Avoid leap seconds<p>Pick any two:<p>- UT1: 2, 3 (not 1) [<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Universal_Time" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Universal_Time</a>]<p>- TAI: 1, 3 (not 2) [<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;International_Atomic_Time" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;International_Atomic_Time</a>]<p>- UTC: 1, 2 (not 3) [<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Coordinated_Universal_Time" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Coordinated_Universal_Time</a>]</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dooglius</author><text>Who is the &quot;we&quot; who wants to keep &quot;in sync&quot; with the Earth&#x27;s rotation to such high precision? Obviously having 3:30 pm suddenly become the middle of the night would be bad, but we&#x27;re talking a delta of 18 seconds spread over
almost 50 years... hardly big enough to be called &quot;out of sync&quot; in any noticeable sense. Maybe in a millennium or two we&#x27;ll lose the cultural context of what &quot;it&#x27;s 5:00 somewhere&quot; meant, but I&#x27;m sure the historians could add a blurb.</text></comment> | <story><title>Leap seconds: Causing bugs even when they don’t happen</title><url>https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/leapseconds-expose-bugs-even-when-they-dont-happen/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FabHK</author><text>What we&#x27;d like to have:<p>1. Use SI seconds<p>2. Keep in sync with earth rotation<p>3. Avoid leap seconds<p>Pick any two:<p>- UT1: 2, 3 (not 1) [<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Universal_Time" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Universal_Time</a>]<p>- TAI: 1, 3 (not 2) [<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;International_Atomic_Time" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;International_Atomic_Time</a>]<p>- UTC: 1, 2 (not 3) [<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Coordinated_Universal_Time" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Coordinated_Universal_Time</a>]</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thaumasiotes</author><text>As far as I remember from earlier discussion, the reason that problems arise is that the posix standard defines a &quot;day&quot; as 86400 seconds, so leap seconds need to be erased from history after they&#x27;ve happened. This doesn&#x27;t make a lot of sense; on March 1st, we don&#x27;t start pretending that February 29th never happened.</text></comment> |
19,591,732 | 19,591,811 | 1 | 2 | 19,590,854 | train | <story><title>Battery Reality: There’s Nothing Better Than Lithium-Ion Coming Soon</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-03/battery-reality-there-s-nothing-better-than-lithium-ion-coming-soon</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>airbreather</author><text>Western Australia, the Saudi Arabia of lithium, currently producing half the world&#x27;s lithium and more coming on line.<p>Albermarle are building a LiOH plant in WA that will add 33% capacity to current world production on it&#x27;s own, plus the Tianqi plant adding maybe 15% is half finished construction right now.<p>We are the also the Saudi Arabia of gas&#x2F;LNG, plus as a state produce a metric fuckton of the worlds gold and iron ore, but a pity our state and federal governments practically give all our minerals away for trivial royalties and tax the sheeple to the hilt on personal tax...<p>(plus we have a homeless and public mental health problems due to &quot;lack of funding&quot;&quot; in one of the richest mineral states in the world with only 2.6 million people in an area almost size of Western Europe).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RobertoG</author><text>Maybe Australia should follow Norway sovereign fund idea:<p>&quot;I don&#x27;t think anyone expected the fund to ever reach $1 trillion when the first transfer of oil revenue was made in May 1996.&quot;<p>From:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;money.cnn.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;09&#x2F;19&#x2F;investing&#x2F;norway-pension-fund-trillion-dollars&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;money.cnn.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;09&#x2F;19&#x2F;investing&#x2F;norway-pension-fu...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Battery Reality: There’s Nothing Better Than Lithium-Ion Coming Soon</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-03/battery-reality-there-s-nothing-better-than-lithium-ion-coming-soon</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>airbreather</author><text>Western Australia, the Saudi Arabia of lithium, currently producing half the world&#x27;s lithium and more coming on line.<p>Albermarle are building a LiOH plant in WA that will add 33% capacity to current world production on it&#x27;s own, plus the Tianqi plant adding maybe 15% is half finished construction right now.<p>We are the also the Saudi Arabia of gas&#x2F;LNG, plus as a state produce a metric fuckton of the worlds gold and iron ore, but a pity our state and federal governments practically give all our minerals away for trivial royalties and tax the sheeple to the hilt on personal tax...<p>(plus we have a homeless and public mental health problems due to &quot;lack of funding&quot;&quot; in one of the richest mineral states in the world with only 2.6 million people in an area almost size of Western Europe).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mwill</author><text>It&#x27;s a sad story on the ground:<p>* We absolutely squandered the previous boom, once the tap was turned off it almost felt like it hadn&#x27;t happened at all, outside of new developments in the CBD.<p>* Created an absolutely venomous environment for the workforce. I know dozens of FIFO workers or industrial workers servicing the industry, and I can only think of a few that don&#x27;t suffer from either substance abuse problems, crippling debt despite massive salaries, depression or other mental health issues, or chronic physical injuries they can&#x27;t get comp for, not to mention the great strain it puts on their family, and toxic workplaces (Not everywhere, but its not uncommon)<p>* We&#x27;ve let country towns supporting the industry wither on the vine. If you take Kalgoorlie for an example; Quite a lot of money is being spent in town, and if you take a drive over to the industrial estate most people will tell you that business is booming. The same people have been saying the town is just about ready to pick back up for a couple of years now, but it hasn&#x27;t, and I don&#x27;t believe it will. The industrial activity just isn&#x27;t bleeding over into the town like it used to. The money washes straight back to Perth, back east, and overseas. Half the storefronts in the main drag are closed, and prime showrooms sit empty. The industry has raised the cost of travel to Kal so high that tourism is basically non-existent, and people who used to maintain two households in Perth and Kal are now having to chose one or the other, invariably leaving Kal for Perth<p>I honestly don&#x27;t have the expertise to offer a solution to any of these, my gut says collecting fair royalties and using the money to fund services would be a start, but I don&#x27;t have the background to really make that argument. But what I do know is, for the average punter on the street, it hasn&#x27;t amounted to much, and one day it&#x27;ll be gone. I look around sometimes and imagine where we&#x27;d be if the prices dropped and the sector closed up shop, and it&#x27;s a pretty grim picture.</text></comment> |
32,534,286 | 32,534,307 | 1 | 2 | 32,534,173 | train | <story><title>Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk</title><url>https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk/commit/9ebe940cf3c652b0e373634d2aa4a00b8395b636</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tialaramex</author><text>The choice to use UTF-32 (ie Unicode code points as integers, which might as well be 32-bit since your CPU definitely doesn&#x27;t have a suitably sized integer type) is unexpected, as I had seen so many other systems just choose to work entirely in UTF-8 for this problem.<p>Now, Brian obviously has much better instincts about performance than I do and may even have tried some things and benchmarked them, but my guess would have been that you should stay in UTF-8 because it&#x27;s always faster for the typical cases.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simias</author><text>He mentions that &quot;The amount of actual change isn&#x27;t too great, so I think this might be ok&quot; so I wonder if part of the equation has more to do with avoiding messing with legacy code rather than raw performance. If the current code expects all codepoints to have a constant-width representation, it may be complicated to add UTF-8 into the mix.<p>A complete guess on my part though, I never looked into AWK&#x27;s source code.</text></comment> | <story><title>Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk</title><url>https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk/commit/9ebe940cf3c652b0e373634d2aa4a00b8395b636</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tialaramex</author><text>The choice to use UTF-32 (ie Unicode code points as integers, which might as well be 32-bit since your CPU definitely doesn&#x27;t have a suitably sized integer type) is unexpected, as I had seen so many other systems just choose to work entirely in UTF-8 for this problem.<p>Now, Brian obviously has much better instincts about performance than I do and may even have tried some things and benchmarked them, but my guess would have been that you should stay in UTF-8 because it&#x27;s always faster for the typical cases.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_0w8t</author><text>The code only uses UTF-32 in regular expressions where I suppose it was much simpler to adopt the older code. The rest uses UTF-8.</text></comment> |
21,368,374 | 21,367,430 | 1 | 2 | 21,366,945 | train | <story><title>Around 30 percent of children in the U.S. don't get enough sleep: study</title><url>https://www.newsweek.com/american-kids-arent-getting-enough-sleep-its-affecting-their-success-school-scientists-warn-1466882</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EpicEng</author><text>&gt;We wake up students too early<p>I agree, but... you were staying up until 1-2am playing video games. C&#x27;mon.</text></item><item><author>MperorM</author><text>Lack of sleep was definitely the cause of my terrible grades in highschool mathematics. I would stay up late (1-2 am) to play in starcraft tournaments, to have 8 am classes in mathematics. (There&#x27;s a neat inverse correlation between my highschool grades and starcraft rank)<p>It&#x27;s crazy to me just how terrible school systems are at optimizing for learning. I would get terrible headaches from classrooms that had too many people and too little fresh air. I thought it was just me dreading my lessons, but in reality it was from co2 ppm reaching levels that humans can&#x27;t properly function in.<p>We wake up students too early, put them in rooms that kill cognitive performance and then have the audacity to complain when they can&#x27;t follow along!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zeta0134</author><text>I also stayed up until 1-2am, regularly, starting around junior high. I performed a great many tasks, mostly teaching myself various programming languages, always at the relative expense of my concentration in the next day&#x27;s classes. Two things were the primary motivating factors in developing this habit:<p>- My parents wouldn&#x27;t leave me alone for very long in the evenings, so I felt like I wouldn&#x27;t get a chance to really concentrate until they were off to bed
- My brain gets tired around 10pm like a normal person, but then it gets a &quot;second wind&quot; and is up happily until 3-4am, with intensely increased clarity of focus.<p>The first trait was obviously correctable and probably circumstantial, but the second feels far more innate. I just focus better right after the sun goes down, and I&#x27;m not really sure why. It&#x27;s like all the stress from the day melts away, and I get a chance to finally be myself for a few hours. So, I work an evening shift (my work day starts at noon and gets out quite late) and I couldn&#x27;t be happier for it.<p>It&#x27;s a shame that this combination is both common, and regarded as <i>lazy</i> by society at large, because it seems to be quite the opposite. I get my best work done in the evenings, and so do lots of other people. I wish that we were generally more accepting of these traits, because if I hadn&#x27;t had the good fortune to stumble into a job with such a well-aligned shift, I would still be struggling to sleep properly most nights.</text></comment> | <story><title>Around 30 percent of children in the U.S. don't get enough sleep: study</title><url>https://www.newsweek.com/american-kids-arent-getting-enough-sleep-its-affecting-their-success-school-scientists-warn-1466882</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EpicEng</author><text>&gt;We wake up students too early<p>I agree, but... you were staying up until 1-2am playing video games. C&#x27;mon.</text></item><item><author>MperorM</author><text>Lack of sleep was definitely the cause of my terrible grades in highschool mathematics. I would stay up late (1-2 am) to play in starcraft tournaments, to have 8 am classes in mathematics. (There&#x27;s a neat inverse correlation between my highschool grades and starcraft rank)<p>It&#x27;s crazy to me just how terrible school systems are at optimizing for learning. I would get terrible headaches from classrooms that had too many people and too little fresh air. I thought it was just me dreading my lessons, but in reality it was from co2 ppm reaching levels that humans can&#x27;t properly function in.<p>We wake up students too early, put them in rooms that kill cognitive performance and then have the audacity to complain when they can&#x27;t follow along!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>barry-cotter</author><text>I stayed up til the same time reading books for the same reason OP stayed up, not being tired. Teenagers have a delayed sleep cycle compared to adults, it’s not a matter of choice, it’s when your body says to wake up or sleep autonomously, same as my baby wakes at 5am and sleeps at 8pm, because that’s what his body is telling him to do.</text></comment> |
24,601,194 | 24,600,841 | 1 | 3 | 24,600,397 | train | <story><title>Landemy – Futuristic sounds for work</title><url>https://landemy.netlify.app/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aflag</author><text>I have a theory that people like those sort of white noise sounds due to plesant memories associated to them. For instance, maybe the person is into sci-fi or, for the coffee shop ones, maybe it&#x27;s someone who often goes to coffee shops with friends. I, particularly, like absolute silence. The quieter it is, the more relaxed I get. Is there any scientific explanation as to why some people like white noise whereas other people prefer silence?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spaetzleesser</author><text>Coming from Germany my belief is that Americans grow with a lot of noise like air conditioning, TVs constantly on and housing walls generally being very thin. So maybe they are used to that and take comfort in it. I personally hate white noise but a it seems a lot of Americans get nervous in absolute silence and look for something to fill in. Whenever I go back to Germany I am always surprised how quiet the houses of my siblings are.<p>Just my non scientific theory.</text></comment> | <story><title>Landemy – Futuristic sounds for work</title><url>https://landemy.netlify.app/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aflag</author><text>I have a theory that people like those sort of white noise sounds due to plesant memories associated to them. For instance, maybe the person is into sci-fi or, for the coffee shop ones, maybe it&#x27;s someone who often goes to coffee shops with friends. I, particularly, like absolute silence. The quieter it is, the more relaxed I get. Is there any scientific explanation as to why some people like white noise whereas other people prefer silence?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>telesilla</author><text>Generally people who listen to noise are in a non-silent environment. I also much prefer silence however when that isn&#x27;t possible, noise is a better option than music which might distract from deep focus.</text></comment> |
1,798,777 | 1,798,747 | 1 | 3 | 1,798,241 | train | <story><title>Android</title><url>http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/10/android.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thought_alarm</author><text>But the iPhone and iPad aren't priced at a premium.<p>Anyway, it's a mistake pit Google against Apple. The real battle will be between Google and Microsoft for the exact same hardware manufacturers and sales channels. (Meanwhile, you can buy an iPad from an Apple Store or from Walmart without any carrier involvement).<p>Google hasn't managed the fragmentation problem very well, they haven't done enough to control the quality the Android OS between carriers and manufacturers, and they've utterly mismanaged the Android Market. I'm no fan of Microsoft or WinMo 7, but I expect Microsoft to do a much better job at addressing all of those issues.<p>Microsoft can also leverage their Zune desktop software.<p>And Microsoft's development tools are generally very popular with developers. I've done some work with WPF and I found it very impressive and I would expect their Phone SDK to be of similar quality. On the other hand, even though I generally like Java I'm finding the move from iPhone development to Android development to be a depressing step backwards both in terms of the dev tools and especially the SDK.<p>Then again, it is Microsoft we're talking about. It may take them another 3 or 6 years to get it right.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lawfulfalafel</author><text>A lot of companies have to pay an 'Android tax' to Microsoft in order to prevent litigation. HTC paid Microsoft off in order to not be sued[1], Samsung and LG cut a deal that included exchanging patents[2][3], and Motorola decided to fight[4] (my simplifications are not perfect). I am saying all this to say that it's unfair to say that there is a "battle will be between Google and Microsoft for the exact same hardware manufacturers and sales channels" when Microsoft is blackmailing everyone and profits from either outcome. I mean Google ain't a morally perfect company (I still believe based on what I know that the Verizon deal is unfair) but to my knowledge they seem to be quite the David in this fight.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2010/apr10/04-27mshtcpr.mspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2010/apr10/04-27msh...</a><p>[2] <a href="http://news.cnet.com/2100-1014_3-6177381.html?part=rss&#38;tag=2547-1_3-0-20&#38;subj=news" rel="nofollow">http://news.cnet.com/2100-1014_3-6177381.html?part=rss&#38;t...</a><p>[3] <a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/lg-microsoft-link-on-licences/story-e6frgamo-1111113700475" rel="nofollow">http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/lg-microsoft-l...</a><p>[4] <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703859204575526200991561476.html" rel="nofollow">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870385920457552...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Android</title><url>http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/10/android.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thought_alarm</author><text>But the iPhone and iPad aren't priced at a premium.<p>Anyway, it's a mistake pit Google against Apple. The real battle will be between Google and Microsoft for the exact same hardware manufacturers and sales channels. (Meanwhile, you can buy an iPad from an Apple Store or from Walmart without any carrier involvement).<p>Google hasn't managed the fragmentation problem very well, they haven't done enough to control the quality the Android OS between carriers and manufacturers, and they've utterly mismanaged the Android Market. I'm no fan of Microsoft or WinMo 7, but I expect Microsoft to do a much better job at addressing all of those issues.<p>Microsoft can also leverage their Zune desktop software.<p>And Microsoft's development tools are generally very popular with developers. I've done some work with WPF and I found it very impressive and I would expect their Phone SDK to be of similar quality. On the other hand, even though I generally like Java I'm finding the move from iPhone development to Android development to be a depressing step backwards both in terms of the dev tools and especially the SDK.<p>Then again, it is Microsoft we're talking about. It may take them another 3 or 6 years to get it right.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>orangecat</author><text><i>Google hasn't managed the fragmentation problem very well, they haven't done enough to control the quality the Android OS between carriers and manufacturers, and they've utterly mismanaged the Android Market.</i><p>All true, and still they've had great success. (I'm actually surprised, given how bad the Market is and how blatantly the carriers are screwing up the phones). Which just means they can do even better if they can address those obvious problems.<p><i>On the other hand, even though I generally like Java I'm finding the move from iPhone development to Android development to be a depressing step backwards</i><p>It was the opposite for me. Between getting rid of header files and manual memory management, and having the app run right away on my phone rather than futzing with certificates, I'm enjoying Android development much more.</text></comment> |
5,281,331 | 5,281,230 | 1 | 3 | 5,280,979 | train | <story><title>Redshift Performance and Cost</title><url>http://nerds.airbnb.com/redshift-performance-cost</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>TY</author><text>Redshift is based on ParAccel, not on Postgres. ParAccel uses APIs similar to Postgres due to historical reasons, but not the technology.<p>For a basic overview: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraccel" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraccel</a><p>As for the rest of the article, it feels like a basic Data Warehousing 101 re-discovered. It should have been titled "Analytics: Back To The Future" :-)</text></comment> | <story><title>Redshift Performance and Cost</title><url>http://nerds.airbnb.com/redshift-performance-cost</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>csarva</author><text>This is the second article I've seen where the authors forget to multiply by the number of redshift nodes. A single XL node is $0.85/hr so 16 nodes would be $13.60/hr. Still cheaper than their Hive configuration obviously but less than a buck?</text></comment> |
15,603,620 | 15,603,683 | 1 | 3 | 15,601,196 | train | <story><title>Why the Soviet Union did not build a nationwide computer network (2008) [pdf]</title><url>http://web.mit.edu/slava/homepage/articles/Gerovitch-InterNyet.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GoToRO</author><text>In Romania you would get arrested if you had a walkie-talkie. The fixed phones were installed only in the homes of people that were part of the regime (even if you had a very simple role like handling money). They invested some on PCs but only until it became clear that they allowed easy access to information. Then it was dead.<p>So in my view no communist country would invest in a national network because that would make information easier to transmit and this would undermine the regime. Keep people in the dark and they might be happy with their misserable life. Even people closer to the regime believed they had a good life because they received bananas and oranges before every Christmas...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vumgl</author><text>As horrible as the regime was, you would not get arrested for having a walkie-talkie. And anyone could get a phone line, except there was a looong wait (years). And most likely you will end up on a &quot;coupled&quot; line, meaning that you and your neighbor will share the same line - you can listen in to your neighbor&#x27;s conversation simply by picking up the phone.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why the Soviet Union did not build a nationwide computer network (2008) [pdf]</title><url>http://web.mit.edu/slava/homepage/articles/Gerovitch-InterNyet.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GoToRO</author><text>In Romania you would get arrested if you had a walkie-talkie. The fixed phones were installed only in the homes of people that were part of the regime (even if you had a very simple role like handling money). They invested some on PCs but only until it became clear that they allowed easy access to information. Then it was dead.<p>So in my view no communist country would invest in a national network because that would make information easier to transmit and this would undermine the regime. Keep people in the dark and they might be happy with their misserable life. Even people closer to the regime believed they had a good life because they received bananas and oranges before every Christmas...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andrepd</author><text>&gt;So in my view no communist country would invest in a national network<p>It&#x27;s a shame that reality contradicts you then. See Allende&#x27;s <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Project_Cybersyn" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Project_Cybersyn</a>. In a much less positive vein, see China&#x27;s rapidly developing communications infrastructure (hand in hand with massive surveillance and censorship)</text></comment> |
13,217,239 | 13,217,331 | 1 | 2 | 13,217,008 | train | <story><title>Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the Mac</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/19/apples-tim-cook-assures-employees-that-it-is-committed-to-the-mac-and-that-great-desktops-are-coming/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lisper</author><text>What I really want is for my <i>state</i> (SSD, RAM, maybe the CPU, but probably not the GPU) to be easily detachable from my human interface devices (keyboard, mouse, display). I want to be able to use a desktop in one place, then unplug a small unit which contains the aforementioned state (i.e. the equivalent of a sleeping laptop but with no keyboard or display), carry that someplace else, plug it in to a different set of HID devices, and pick up exactly where I left off. And, of course, one possible set of HID devices would be something like a present-day laptop so that I can continue working while en-route. But there is no reason why the business end of a computer needs to be in the same enclosure as the HID, and a lot of reasons why it should not be.<p>I can do much of this now with a USB3 SSD, but the problem is that there is no way to &quot;sleep&quot; such a configuration. To change locations I need to shut down in one place and reboot in another.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yakult</author><text>I would go a bit further: I want my state to be inside a seamless hardware agnostic VM, that I can access anywhere through public terminals that I only partially trust. I would have the option of either having my storage with me that I plug in, or in the cloud and I just provide 2fa. My device would have a cpu&#x2F;gpu&#x2F;etc befitting a mobile device, and the most barebones &#x2F; untrusted terminals would just be screen&#x2F;inputs&#x2F;charger, but in better environments the terminal can optionally provide extra oomph if permitted.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the Mac</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/19/apples-tim-cook-assures-employees-that-it-is-committed-to-the-mac-and-that-great-desktops-are-coming/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lisper</author><text>What I really want is for my <i>state</i> (SSD, RAM, maybe the CPU, but probably not the GPU) to be easily detachable from my human interface devices (keyboard, mouse, display). I want to be able to use a desktop in one place, then unplug a small unit which contains the aforementioned state (i.e. the equivalent of a sleeping laptop but with no keyboard or display), carry that someplace else, plug it in to a different set of HID devices, and pick up exactly where I left off. And, of course, one possible set of HID devices would be something like a present-day laptop so that I can continue working while en-route. But there is no reason why the business end of a computer needs to be in the same enclosure as the HID, and a lot of reasons why it should not be.<p>I can do much of this now with a USB3 SSD, but the problem is that there is no way to &quot;sleep&quot; such a configuration. To change locations I need to shut down in one place and reboot in another.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>patrickg_zill</author><text>Sun did something similar with their Sun Ray hardware and software.<p>You could close a session with a number of apps open, go to some other location, and login with a different Sun Ray located there, and your session just as you left it would be there, no rebooting or loss of state (assuming that the Sun Ray was somehow connected or federated to the same server that had your login details and apps).</text></comment> |
16,432,441 | 16,430,572 | 1 | 2 | 16,427,807 | train | <story><title>Why has CPU frequency ceased to grow? (2014)</title><url>https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2014/02/19/why-has-cpu-frequency-ceased-to-grow</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Symmetry</author><text>That was a bit misleading in some ways. First, in pipelining you&#x27;ll typically measure how long a pipeline steps in FO4s, which is to say the delay required for one transistor to drive 4 other transistors of the same width. Intel will typically design its pipeline stages to have 16 FO4s of delay. IBM is more aggressive and will try to work it down to 10. But of those 10, 2 are there for the latches you added to create the stage and 2 are there to account for the fact that a clock edge doesn&#x27;t arrive everywhere at exactly the same time. So if you take one of those 16 FO4 Intel stages and cut it in half you won&#x27;t have a two 8 FO4 stages but two 10 FO4 stages. And since those latch transistors take up space and energy you&#x27;re got some severe diminishing returns problems.<p>One thing that&#x27;s changed as transistors have gotten smaller is that leakage has gotten to be more of a problem. You used to just worry about active switching power but now you have to balance using higher voltage and lower thresholds to switch your transistors quickly with the leakage power that that will generate.<p>And finally velocity saturation is more of a problem on shorter channels making current go up more linearly with the gate voltage than quadratically.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JoachimS</author><text>Good points. One thing I would like to emphasize is the issue with clocks not arriving everywhere at the same time. Balancing the clock tree over a chip gets harder and harder.<p>But the clock setup, hold times also gets shorter and shorter when the clock frequency goes up. The clock signal will have jitter. The end result is that less and less time of the clock edge is usable to sample the signal into the register.<p>And this in turn put a strain on how well balanced the logic between the registers are. To allow all signals traverse the logic paths through the gates and stabilize in time to be sampled.<p>To add to the complexity, as we move down the geometries, the difference in performance of different transistors becomes relatively larger. One rason for this is that oxide layers consist of (in average) fewer and fewer molecules. When the layer was made up of 100 molecules, 101 or 102 didn&#x27;t really make much of a difference. But when the average is 4 molecule one more or less will have a huge impact on the performance.<p>So controlling variance (clock tree balance, jitter in clock generatiom, imbalances between paths and variance in chip production) becomes ever more problematic and important.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why has CPU frequency ceased to grow? (2014)</title><url>https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2014/02/19/why-has-cpu-frequency-ceased-to-grow</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Symmetry</author><text>That was a bit misleading in some ways. First, in pipelining you&#x27;ll typically measure how long a pipeline steps in FO4s, which is to say the delay required for one transistor to drive 4 other transistors of the same width. Intel will typically design its pipeline stages to have 16 FO4s of delay. IBM is more aggressive and will try to work it down to 10. But of those 10, 2 are there for the latches you added to create the stage and 2 are there to account for the fact that a clock edge doesn&#x27;t arrive everywhere at exactly the same time. So if you take one of those 16 FO4 Intel stages and cut it in half you won&#x27;t have a two 8 FO4 stages but two 10 FO4 stages. And since those latch transistors take up space and energy you&#x27;re got some severe diminishing returns problems.<p>One thing that&#x27;s changed as transistors have gotten smaller is that leakage has gotten to be more of a problem. You used to just worry about active switching power but now you have to balance using higher voltage and lower thresholds to switch your transistors quickly with the leakage power that that will generate.<p>And finally velocity saturation is more of a problem on shorter channels making current go up more linearly with the gate voltage than quadratically.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nullbyte</author><text>How do you know all this stuff?</text></comment> |
21,921,887 | 21,921,997 | 1 | 3 | 21,920,777 | train | <story><title>Visualising the amount of microplastic we eat</title><url>https://graphics.reuters.com/ENVIRONMENT-PLASTIC/0100B4TF2MQ/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rmah</author><text>The Reuters article is based on an article published by the WWF about a study they commissioned at the U. of Newcastle (Australia). Press release is here (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wwf.panda.org&#x2F;wwf_news&#x2F;press_releases&#x2F;?348337" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wwf.panda.org&#x2F;wwf_news&#x2F;press_releases&#x2F;?348337</a>) and the summary is here (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dropbox.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;nxvyl3v5s9d0a1v&#x2F;PLASTIC%20INGESTION%20Web%20spreads.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dropbox.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;nxvyl3v5s9d0a1v&#x2F;PLASTIC%20INGESTIO...</a>). If I&#x27;m reading this right, the study itself was a analysis of 50 other studies, not original work. A brief about the methodology is here (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newcastle.edu.au&#x2F;newsroom&#x2F;featured&#x2F;plastic-ingestion-by-people-could-be-equating-to-a-credit-card-a-week&#x2F;how-much-microplastics-are-we-ingesting-estimation-of-the-mass-of-microplastics-ingested" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newcastle.edu.au&#x2F;newsroom&#x2F;featured&#x2F;plastic-inges...</a>).<p>And, given the language &quot;people could be ingesting...&quot;, &quot;suggests people are consuming...&quot;, I&#x27;m a bit suspicious of the numbers given. The study itself is said to be under review for publication and has been for over six months now. Anyone know if that&#x27;s a long time, normal or short?<p>Not sure if this matters, but the naive math doesn&#x27;t really work... they say &quot;about 2000 pieces a week&quot; and that they were &quot;fibers&quot;, and &quot;about 5 grams&quot;. The pieces are stated to be &lt; 1mm in size. Assuming an average of 1mm x 0.1mm x 0.1mm &quot;fibers&quot; (rather large IMO), that&#x27;s 20 cu mm or 0.02cc. Given plastic&#x27;s density that&#x27;s 0.03g, not 5g. I wonder if someone misplaced a decimal point or confused mg with g.</text></comment> | <story><title>Visualising the amount of microplastic we eat</title><url>https://graphics.reuters.com/ENVIRONMENT-PLASTIC/0100B4TF2MQ/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JoeAltmaier</author><text>From the article: &quot;but the scientific community is still only scratching the surface of understanding just how much plastic we consume and how harmful it could be.&quot;<p>Zero harm, so far. That&#x27;s phrased like they&#x27;re racking up lists of harm it causes. But so far, zero. So &#x27;scratching the surface&#x27; means &#x27;haven&#x27;t found anything&#x27;?</text></comment> |
2,935,857 | 2,935,197 | 1 | 3 | 2,934,178 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Like Button for Hacker News</title><url>http://www.hnlike.com/index.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pg</author><text>It's worth thinking about the question of whether this will make HN better or worse. I'm inclined to think worse. It will bring more random people to the site, and (to the extent it works) it will mean that an article's score on HN will depend partially on the completely random factor of whether the author included this button.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jedberg</author><text>As someone who has experience in this area, let me just say that it probably won't drive all that much traffic. Most people ignore those little buttons.<p>It will however put an insane amount of load on whatever server it is served from.<p>Supporting buttons was the first thing that drove reddit to getting a CDN. We also made it cache the score for a few minutes for non-logged-in users, which helped alleviate a lot of load.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Like Button for Hacker News</title><url>http://www.hnlike.com/index.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pg</author><text>It's worth thinking about the question of whether this will make HN better or worse. I'm inclined to think worse. It will bring more random people to the site, and (to the extent it works) it will mean that an article's score on HN will depend partially on the completely random factor of whether the author included this button.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rodh257</author><text>Is there a way to make it display only to people logged into HN?</text></comment> |
15,055,134 | 15,055,041 | 1 | 2 | 15,054,632 | train | <story><title>Why I'm not a React Native developer</title><url>https://arielelkin.github.io/articles/why-im-not-a-react-native-developer.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Rockslide</author><text>OK, this isn&#x27;t really important for the quintessence of the article. But I&#x27;m surprised again and again how many developers write code like<p><pre><code> if (weAreConnected === true) {
this.setState({
isConnected: true
})
}
else {
this.setState({
isConnected: false
})
}
}
</code></pre>
instead of<p><pre><code> this.setState({
isConnected: weAreConnected
})</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vmarsy</author><text>What if `weAreConnected` is `null` or `undefined`?<p>WalterSear&#x27;s solution solves the issue since both `null` and `undefined` would become `false`:<p><pre><code> this.setState({
isConnected: Boolean(weAreConnected)
})
</code></pre>
but in your case you could set `isConnected` to `null` or `undefined`<p>so if later in code someone makes the mistake of writing:<p><pre><code> if (this.state.isConnected === false) { &#x2F;* do stuff *&#x2F; }
</code></pre>
they could have a bad surprise.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why I'm not a React Native developer</title><url>https://arielelkin.github.io/articles/why-im-not-a-react-native-developer.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Rockslide</author><text>OK, this isn&#x27;t really important for the quintessence of the article. But I&#x27;m surprised again and again how many developers write code like<p><pre><code> if (weAreConnected === true) {
this.setState({
isConnected: true
})
}
else {
this.setState({
isConnected: false
})
}
}
</code></pre>
instead of<p><pre><code> this.setState({
isConnected: weAreConnected
})</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WalterSear</author><text>Or<p><pre><code> this.setState({
isConnected: Boolean(weAreConnected)
})
</code></pre>
If you want to be super obvious, and aren&#x27;t using a type system.</text></comment> |
37,377,273 | 37,376,132 | 1 | 2 | 37,375,585 | train | <story><title>John le Carré's 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' is the ultimate spy novel</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20230831-why-john-le-carrs-the-spy-who-came-in-from-the-cold-is-the-ultimate-spy-novel</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nocoiner</author><text>Anyone have any recommendations for other classic spy novels like le Carre’s? I’ve read some Greene and Deighton, which were both mentioned in the article, so I suppose I should revisit those, but would be interested in any other works with a similar scene and setting.<p>One of my favorite le Carre tidbits - apparently in the UK and US versions of “Tinker, Tailor,” a character in one version takes a ferry in Hong Kong, but takes a tunnel in another version.<p>Apparently after the original UK release, one of the readers asked le Carre why the character didn’t just take the (relatively recently opened) tunnel between Kowloon and the mainland, le Carre went white in the face and promptly rewrote that part in the forthcoming US version for its subsequent release and had the character take the tunnel instead (as anyone would have done in those circumstances, given the two options).<p>Terrific writer and storyteller. Must have had a hell of a life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>travisgriggs</author><text>I like all of his George Smiley novels. But perhaps the most haunting for me is The Looking Glass War (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Looking_Glass_War" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Looking_Glass_War</a>). I had just urned 50 when I read it and was actually surrounded by a lot of people ranging 60-80.<p>While a spy novel, it’s almost more of dark comic tragedy on the power of nostalgia. I easily find the storyline transferrable to some of the “established” organizations I’ve done work for.<p>Aging is hard. I wish there were Ben more books and stories like this one.</text></comment> | <story><title>John le Carré's 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' is the ultimate spy novel</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20230831-why-john-le-carrs-the-spy-who-came-in-from-the-cold-is-the-ultimate-spy-novel</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nocoiner</author><text>Anyone have any recommendations for other classic spy novels like le Carre’s? I’ve read some Greene and Deighton, which were both mentioned in the article, so I suppose I should revisit those, but would be interested in any other works with a similar scene and setting.<p>One of my favorite le Carre tidbits - apparently in the UK and US versions of “Tinker, Tailor,” a character in one version takes a ferry in Hong Kong, but takes a tunnel in another version.<p>Apparently after the original UK release, one of the readers asked le Carre why the character didn’t just take the (relatively recently opened) tunnel between Kowloon and the mainland, le Carre went white in the face and promptly rewrote that part in the forthcoming US version for its subsequent release and had the character take the tunnel instead (as anyone would have done in those circumstances, given the two options).<p>Terrific writer and storyteller. Must have had a hell of a life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jgalt212</author><text>Most Alan Furst novels are good. They are largely the same, but the despite being cookie cutter, the cookie is pretty tasty.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.goodreads.com&#x2F;author&#x2F;show&#x2F;49941.Alan_Furst" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.goodreads.com&#x2F;author&#x2F;show&#x2F;49941.Alan_Furst</a></text></comment> |
16,583,938 | 16,583,332 | 1 | 3 | 16,582,231 | train | <story><title>Microsoft again forced upgrades on Win10 PCs specifically set to block updates</title><url>https://www.computerworld.com/article/3261969/microsoft-windows/microsoft-again-forced-upgrades-on-win10-machines-specifically-set-to-block-updates.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yolobey</author><text>Oh boy, this happened to me despite using the enterprise edition. The system forced an upgrade, despite me doing everything to stop it, and every time the upgrade crashed and I had to roll back to the previous version. Every day.<p>I spent a month like this, on an always-on system, trying to shut down the upgrade downloader from the task bar whenever I can after failing to stop it from settings, group policy, horsing around in powershell etc. Before that, I had also tried to make the upgrade work by doing it manually, updating drivers, unplugging all the peripherals etc. but it kept getting stuck halfway through. So I couldn&#x27;t upgrade, and I couldn&#x27;t not upgrade.<p>Well last week there was an update to the update so I hoped at least the upgrade would work now and I would be done with this charade. Nope, it crashed again while upgrading, except this time there was no way to roll back and use my system. I am torn between cutting windows out completely and going back to windows 7.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spystath</author><text>I&#x27;m mostly a Linux user but I use Windows at work. There is also an additional Windows computer in my house. Although I can&#x27;t say I dislike Windows there is a singular issue with it that really grinds my gears. The OS assumes way too much about what I want to do. I get it that the defaults are there for the inexperienced or casual users but there really needs to be a way to tell the OS &quot;Hands off! I know what I&#x27;m doing&quot;. I really don&#x27;t want arbitrary actions to be made before I consent to them.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft again forced upgrades on Win10 PCs specifically set to block updates</title><url>https://www.computerworld.com/article/3261969/microsoft-windows/microsoft-again-forced-upgrades-on-win10-machines-specifically-set-to-block-updates.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yolobey</author><text>Oh boy, this happened to me despite using the enterprise edition. The system forced an upgrade, despite me doing everything to stop it, and every time the upgrade crashed and I had to roll back to the previous version. Every day.<p>I spent a month like this, on an always-on system, trying to shut down the upgrade downloader from the task bar whenever I can after failing to stop it from settings, group policy, horsing around in powershell etc. Before that, I had also tried to make the upgrade work by doing it manually, updating drivers, unplugging all the peripherals etc. but it kept getting stuck halfway through. So I couldn&#x27;t upgrade, and I couldn&#x27;t not upgrade.<p>Well last week there was an update to the update so I hoped at least the upgrade would work now and I would be done with this charade. Nope, it crashed again while upgrading, except this time there was no way to roll back and use my system. I am torn between cutting windows out completely and going back to windows 7.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>executesorder66</author><text>Laughs in Linux.</text></comment> |
41,034,491 | 41,034,232 | 1 | 3 | 41,031,960 | train | <story><title>Ryanair wins screen scraping case against Booking.com in US court ruling</title><url>https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2024/0719/1460807-ryanair-wins-us-court-case-against-bookingcom/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arghwhat</author><text>&gt; A jury in the District Court of Delaware unanimously found that Booking.com violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse act and that it had induced a third party to access parts of Ryanair&#x27;s website without authorisation &quot;with an intent to defraud,&quot; the verdict said<p>I imagine this is limited to a scenario where you: 1. Act as a middle-man for the transaction (as this lawsuit was about resale), 2. Interfere with pricing or other service aspects, 3. Add your own profit. I don&#x27;t think this sets any precedent against scraping on its own.<p>(The highly variable and discriminatory pricing of travel would also best be addressed in regulation, rather than relying entirely on third-party resellers to rescue you.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SoftTalker</author><text>We used to regulate air travel. It was a lot more expensive then.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ryanair wins screen scraping case against Booking.com in US court ruling</title><url>https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2024/0719/1460807-ryanair-wins-us-court-case-against-bookingcom/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arghwhat</author><text>&gt; A jury in the District Court of Delaware unanimously found that Booking.com violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse act and that it had induced a third party to access parts of Ryanair&#x27;s website without authorisation &quot;with an intent to defraud,&quot; the verdict said<p>I imagine this is limited to a scenario where you: 1. Act as a middle-man for the transaction (as this lawsuit was about resale), 2. Interfere with pricing or other service aspects, 3. Add your own profit. I don&#x27;t think this sets any precedent against scraping on its own.<p>(The highly variable and discriminatory pricing of travel would also best be addressed in regulation, rather than relying entirely on third-party resellers to rescue you.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amelius</author><text>&gt; (The highly variable and discriminatory pricing of travel would also best be addressed in regulation, rather than relying entirely on third-party resellers to rescue you.)<p>How difficult would it be to destroy Booking.com&#x27;s entire businessmodel or at least their grip on the market?</text></comment> |
22,991,673 | 22,991,191 | 1 | 3 | 22,990,694 | train | <story><title>An average family in Tokyo can own a new house for $850/month</title><url>https://www.curbed.com/2017/2/3/14496248/tokyo-real-estate-affordable-homes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codesuki</author><text>I think this headline is misleading in 2 ways.<p>1. yes you might get a house at this price but it&#x27;s either 1-2 hours out of the city center (which is fine, just saying Tokyo is large.) Or alternatively it&#x27;s in bad neighborhoods.
(bad is relative if you are from the US)<p>2. your house will most likely look like this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ii-ie2.net&#x2F;dat&#x2F;5ba1164d.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ii-ie2.net&#x2F;dat&#x2F;5ba1164d.jpg</a><p>Sayonara sunlight, hello neighbor.<p>here are listings:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.homes.co.jp&#x2F;smp&#x2F;kodate&#x2F;shinchiku&#x2F;tokyo&#x2F;list&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.homes.co.jp&#x2F;smp&#x2F;kodate&#x2F;shinchiku&#x2F;tokyo&#x2F;list&#x2F;</a><p>there are nice ones in the list. I am just saying that this is the eastern country side of Tokyo (check the map) when the title probably makes everyone think something different.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wenc</author><text>&gt; 2. your house will most likely look like this<p>Not sure what&#x27;s wrong with that? That looks pretty amazing actually. I live in a unit that looks similar to that near downtown Chicago. My unit is north facing, and even so, there&#x27;s more than enough sunlight.</text></comment> | <story><title>An average family in Tokyo can own a new house for $850/month</title><url>https://www.curbed.com/2017/2/3/14496248/tokyo-real-estate-affordable-homes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codesuki</author><text>I think this headline is misleading in 2 ways.<p>1. yes you might get a house at this price but it&#x27;s either 1-2 hours out of the city center (which is fine, just saying Tokyo is large.) Or alternatively it&#x27;s in bad neighborhoods.
(bad is relative if you are from the US)<p>2. your house will most likely look like this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ii-ie2.net&#x2F;dat&#x2F;5ba1164d.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ii-ie2.net&#x2F;dat&#x2F;5ba1164d.jpg</a><p>Sayonara sunlight, hello neighbor.<p>here are listings:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.homes.co.jp&#x2F;smp&#x2F;kodate&#x2F;shinchiku&#x2F;tokyo&#x2F;list&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.homes.co.jp&#x2F;smp&#x2F;kodate&#x2F;shinchiku&#x2F;tokyo&#x2F;list&#x2F;</a><p>there are nice ones in the list. I am just saying that this is the eastern country side of Tokyo (check the map) when the title probably makes everyone think something different.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jseliger</author><text><i>Sayonara sunlight, hello neighbor.</i><p>This is the sort of thing that markets solve really well. If you want a dwelling unit with those properties, pay for it. If they&#x27;re less important to you than cost, don&#x27;t. If one is $300,000 and the other $600,000, it&#x27;s very reasonable to choose affordability and go to a park.</text></comment> |
32,898,735 | 32,897,746 | 1 | 2 | 32,897,140 | train | <story><title>The tyranny of the supertweeter</title><url>https://omnibudsman.substack.com/p/the-tyranny-of-the-supertweeter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Bakary</author><text>The part about journalism is particularly troubling because Twitter is like crack for journalists and has thus played a big part in decreasing the credibility of the profession.<p>The platform is a journalist&#x27;s fantasy brought to life. The ability to exist as an individual and have an audience independently of their publication. Blue check-marks. As the article mentions, the capacity to find stories with little effort.<p>Of course, this is fairly illusory and the resulting quality of stories is poorer each year to the point where Twitter threads repackaged as articles are a significant portion of most outlets.<p>It&#x27;s the Mercator projection but for the opinions of people who don&#x27;t touch grass. The significance of Twitter users&#x27; opinions is blown way out of proportion because the medium itself is easily accessible and attractive to journalists.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SamBam</author><text>There&#x27;s also an excellent Exra Klein podcast where he talks to game-philospher C. Thi Nguyen about Twitter&#x27;s Like button&#x27;s effect on journalists. [1]<p>He says that as a journalist on twitter (which almost every journalist is) it&#x27;s nearly impossible to get away from measuring your worth&#x2F;impact by the number of likes you get. It&#x27;s so buit into our minds, we can&#x27;t <i>not</i> use Likes as a proxy for how engaging our story is.<p>The issue is that it subtly, though completely, changes how you write a story. For example (taking as a premise that even plain factual reporting is essentially political at this point) if you are a New York Times journalist and you write an environmental story that appeals to the emotions of the people who <i>already</i> understand the dangers of climate change, you&#x27;ll get thousands of likes. But the story won&#x27;t be impactful because you&#x27;re preaching to the choir. If, instead, you wrote a story framed in a way that might change a few people&#x27;s minds, you won&#x27;t get nearly the number of likes, because the very angles you&#x27;d approach the story at would be ones that would be less comfortable to your core audience, your choir.<p>Preaching to the choir is one of the biggest causes of our echo chambers and widening divides, and it&#x27;s directly caused by counting likes.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;podcasts.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;podcast&#x2F;a-philosophy-of-games-that-is-really-a-philosophy-of-life&#x2F;id1548604447?i=1000552204773" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;podcasts.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;podcast&#x2F;a-philosophy-of-games-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The tyranny of the supertweeter</title><url>https://omnibudsman.substack.com/p/the-tyranny-of-the-supertweeter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Bakary</author><text>The part about journalism is particularly troubling because Twitter is like crack for journalists and has thus played a big part in decreasing the credibility of the profession.<p>The platform is a journalist&#x27;s fantasy brought to life. The ability to exist as an individual and have an audience independently of their publication. Blue check-marks. As the article mentions, the capacity to find stories with little effort.<p>Of course, this is fairly illusory and the resulting quality of stories is poorer each year to the point where Twitter threads repackaged as articles are a significant portion of most outlets.<p>It&#x27;s the Mercator projection but for the opinions of people who don&#x27;t touch grass. The significance of Twitter users&#x27; opinions is blown way out of proportion because the medium itself is easily accessible and attractive to journalists.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crmd</author><text>&gt;finding a great source for a story is as easy as finding the right combination of search terms.<p>This is the true poison in my opinion. Journalists can in seconds find random tweets stating any conceivable narrative they want to create, and then launder their personal opinions by pretending to &quot;report&quot; on &quot;what sources are saying&quot;.</text></comment> |
2,780,685 | 2,780,585 | 1 | 2 | 2,780,407 | train | <story><title>OOP in Bash</title><url>http://lab.madscience.nl/oo.sh.txt</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joeyh</author><text>You don't need bash features to do this either. I wrote shoop (<a href="http://shoop.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">http://shoop.sourceforge.net/</a>) a decade ago.<p>&#60;<a href="http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/ten_years_of_free_software_--_part_10_shoop/&#62" rel="nofollow">http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/ten_years_of_free_softwa...</a>;</text></comment> | <story><title>OOP in Bash</title><url>http://lab.madscience.nl/oo.sh.txt</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>skrebbel</author><text>Colour me impressed. I thought you needed fancy (relatively) modern stuff like Ruby for decent in-language DSLs, but clearly Bash can do the trick, too.<p>I wonder how decent a programming language you could turn bash into using tricks like these.</text></comment> |
33,306,866 | 33,306,923 | 1 | 2 | 33,306,168 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Is Anyone Else Tired of the Self Enforced Limits on AI Tech?</title><text>Like the reluctance for the folks working on DALL-E or Stable Diffusion to release their models or technology, or the whole restrictions on what it can be used for on their online services?<p>It makes me wonder when tech folks suddenly decided to become the morality police, and refuse to just release products in case the &#x27;wrong&#x27; people make use of them for the &#x27;wrong&#x27; purposes. Like, would we have even gotten the internet or computers or image editing programs or video hosting or what not with this mindset?<p>So is there anyone working in this field who isn&#x27;t worried about this? Who is willing to just work on a product and release it for the public, restrictions be damned? Someone who thinks tech is best released to the public to do what they like with, not under an ultra restrictiveset of guidelines?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>WhatsName</author><text>Let&#x27;s be realistic, just like building codes, medical procedures and car manufacturing sooner or later we will also be subject to regulations. The times where hacking culture and tech was left unbothered are over.<p>Twenty years ago we were free to do whatever we want, because it didn&#x27;t matter. Nowadays everyone uses tech as much as they use stairs. You can&#x27;t build stairs without railings though.<p>Keeping the window for abuse small is beneficial to the whole industry. Otherwise bad press will put pressure on politicians to &quot;do something about it&quot; resulting in faster and more excessive regulations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Aerroon</author><text>&gt;<i>You can&#x27;t build stairs without railings though.</i><p>Yes you can. Your hammer doesn&#x27;t magically stop functioning when it discovers that you&#x27;re building stairs without railings.<p>You don&#x27;t want tools to discriminate on what you can and can&#x27;t do with it, because if you can discriminate, then you will get hammers from Hammer Co that can only use nails from Hammer Co.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Is Anyone Else Tired of the Self Enforced Limits on AI Tech?</title><text>Like the reluctance for the folks working on DALL-E or Stable Diffusion to release their models or technology, or the whole restrictions on what it can be used for on their online services?<p>It makes me wonder when tech folks suddenly decided to become the morality police, and refuse to just release products in case the &#x27;wrong&#x27; people make use of them for the &#x27;wrong&#x27; purposes. Like, would we have even gotten the internet or computers or image editing programs or video hosting or what not with this mindset?<p>So is there anyone working in this field who isn&#x27;t worried about this? Who is willing to just work on a product and release it for the public, restrictions be damned? Someone who thinks tech is best released to the public to do what they like with, not under an ultra restrictiveset of guidelines?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>WhatsName</author><text>Let&#x27;s be realistic, just like building codes, medical procedures and car manufacturing sooner or later we will also be subject to regulations. The times where hacking culture and tech was left unbothered are over.<p>Twenty years ago we were free to do whatever we want, because it didn&#x27;t matter. Nowadays everyone uses tech as much as they use stairs. You can&#x27;t build stairs without railings though.<p>Keeping the window for abuse small is beneficial to the whole industry. Otherwise bad press will put pressure on politicians to &quot;do something about it&quot; resulting in faster and more excessive regulations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jnovek</author><text>This is particularly visible with the sorry state of accessibility options for disabled individuals.<p>I deal with a moderate vision impairment and everything I do to make computers more usable is bespoke hacks and workarounds I’ve put together myself.<p>In MacOS, for example, I can’t even replace the system fonts with more readable options, or increase the font size of system tools.<p>Most software ships with fixed font sizes (electron is exceptionally bad here — why is it that I can easily resize fonts in web browsers and not electron?) and increasingly new software doesn’t render correctly with an effective resolution below 1080p.<p>Games don’t care at all about the vision impaired. E.g. RDR2 cost half a billion dollars to make yet there is no way to size fonts up large enough for me to read.<p>I welcome regulation if it means fixing these sorts of problems.</text></comment> |
38,849,868 | 38,849,610 | 1 | 3 | 38,845,510 | train | <story><title>1D Pac-Man</title><url>https://abagames.github.io/crisp-game-lib-11-games/?pakupaku</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrb</author><text>Here, I found it fun to write a small bot to play automatically. Just paste this JS code in the dev console. It reached 9000 points on my first attempt to let it run. Feel free to tweak the code to make pac-man survive longer :-)<p><pre><code> function bot() {
&#x2F;* direction of the enemy: to our right (1) or to our left (-1) *&#x2F;
dir = (enemy.x &gt; player.x) ? 1 : -1;
&#x2F;* if pac-man... *&#x2F;
if (
&#x2F;* ...has no powerup or powerup expires in less than 10 &quot;ticks&quot; *&#x2F; powerTicks &lt; 10 &amp;&amp;
&#x2F;* ...is headed toward enemy *&#x2F; player.vx == dir &amp;&amp;
&#x2F;* ...is too close to enemy *&#x2F; abs(player.x - enemy.x) &lt; 25 &amp;&amp;
&#x2F;* and if enemy&#x27;s state is not &quot;eyes flying back&quot; *&#x2F; enemy.eyeVx == 0
) {
&#x2F;&#x2F; &quot;ArrowUp&quot; or any arrow key reverses the direction of pac-man
document.dispatchEvent(new KeyboardEvent(&#x27;keydown&#x27;, {code: &#x27;ArrowUp&#x27;}));
document.dispatchEvent(new KeyboardEvent(&#x27;keyup&#x27;, {code: &#x27;ArrowUp&#x27;}));
}
}
setInterval(bot, 100);
</code></pre>
The strategy is ultra simple. Every 100 ms it evaluates the situation and chooses to move away from the enemy (ghost) if it&#x27;s too close to it, and has no powerup (or if the powerup is expiring very soon).<p>The corner cases where pac-man dies is the game difficulty progressively increases (the ghost becomes faster) until you eat it, so sometimes some pellets are left in the middle and pac-man doesn&#x27;t have enough time to eat them until the ghost reaches it. The ghost will progressively get faster and faster and death is guaranteed. You could improve the code by tempting the ghost to get close to one edge, then cross over to the other edge and quickly eat the middle pellets.<p>Also, as soon as new pellets are added, one should prioritize eating the middle pellets.<p>Also, one could add code to detect the powerup pellets, and chose to NOT move away from the ghost if it calculates it can eat the powerup pellet before the ghost reaches pac-man.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AnotherGoodName</author><text>I simply changed the distance to be dynamic based on closeness to the edge and it&#x27;s getting into the many 100&#x27;s of thousands. This simple change also seemed to fix the edge case of the respawn hitting the player is solved since the player never gets into that magic position (the enemy has to be in a very specific position for the eyes to reach the end just as the player does).<p><pre><code> function bot() {
&#x2F;* direction of the enemy: to our right (1) or to our left (-1) *&#x2F;
dir = (enemy.x &gt; player.x) ? 1 : -1;
nearWall = enemy.x &lt; 10 || enemy.x &gt; 90
&#x2F;* if pac-man... *&#x2F;
if (
(
&#x2F;* ...has no powerup or powerup expires in less than 10 &quot;ticks&quot; *&#x2F;
powerTicks &lt; 10 &amp;&amp;
&#x2F;* ...is headed toward enemy *&#x2F; player.vx == dir &amp;&amp;
&#x2F;* ...is too close to enemy *&#x2F; abs(player.x - enemy.x)
&#x2F;* ...the distance before running away can be lower if we&#x27;re near an edge *&#x2F;
&lt; (dir == 1 ? player.x &#x2F; 7 : ((100 - player.x) &#x2F; 7))+7 &amp;&amp;
&#x2F;* and if enemy&#x27;s state is not &quot;eyes flying back&quot; *&#x2F;
enemy.eyeVx == 0)
) {
&#x2F;&#x2F; &quot;ArrowUp&quot; or any arrow key reverses the direction of pac-man
document.dispatchEvent(new KeyboardEvent(&#x27;keydown&#x27;, {code: &#x27;ArrowUp&#x27;}));
document.dispatchEvent(new KeyboardEvent(&#x27;keyup&#x27;, {code: &#x27;ArrowUp&#x27;}));
}
}
setInterval(bot, 10);</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>1D Pac-Man</title><url>https://abagames.github.io/crisp-game-lib-11-games/?pakupaku</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrb</author><text>Here, I found it fun to write a small bot to play automatically. Just paste this JS code in the dev console. It reached 9000 points on my first attempt to let it run. Feel free to tweak the code to make pac-man survive longer :-)<p><pre><code> function bot() {
&#x2F;* direction of the enemy: to our right (1) or to our left (-1) *&#x2F;
dir = (enemy.x &gt; player.x) ? 1 : -1;
&#x2F;* if pac-man... *&#x2F;
if (
&#x2F;* ...has no powerup or powerup expires in less than 10 &quot;ticks&quot; *&#x2F; powerTicks &lt; 10 &amp;&amp;
&#x2F;* ...is headed toward enemy *&#x2F; player.vx == dir &amp;&amp;
&#x2F;* ...is too close to enemy *&#x2F; abs(player.x - enemy.x) &lt; 25 &amp;&amp;
&#x2F;* and if enemy&#x27;s state is not &quot;eyes flying back&quot; *&#x2F; enemy.eyeVx == 0
) {
&#x2F;&#x2F; &quot;ArrowUp&quot; or any arrow key reverses the direction of pac-man
document.dispatchEvent(new KeyboardEvent(&#x27;keydown&#x27;, {code: &#x27;ArrowUp&#x27;}));
document.dispatchEvent(new KeyboardEvent(&#x27;keyup&#x27;, {code: &#x27;ArrowUp&#x27;}));
}
}
setInterval(bot, 100);
</code></pre>
The strategy is ultra simple. Every 100 ms it evaluates the situation and chooses to move away from the enemy (ghost) if it&#x27;s too close to it, and has no powerup (or if the powerup is expiring very soon).<p>The corner cases where pac-man dies is the game difficulty progressively increases (the ghost becomes faster) until you eat it, so sometimes some pellets are left in the middle and pac-man doesn&#x27;t have enough time to eat them until the ghost reaches it. The ghost will progressively get faster and faster and death is guaranteed. You could improve the code by tempting the ghost to get close to one edge, then cross over to the other edge and quickly eat the middle pellets.<p>Also, as soon as new pellets are added, one should prioritize eating the middle pellets.<p>Also, one could add code to detect the powerup pellets, and chose to NOT move away from the ghost if it calculates it can eat the powerup pellet before the ghost reaches pac-man.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trevithick</author><text>This is really cool. My bot score stayed low because there was a single dot remaining near the middle which Pac-Man couldn&#x27;t reach. They went back and forth for a long time until the ghost became fast enough to get him. Still fun to watch.</text></comment> |
24,293,288 | 24,293,103 | 1 | 3 | 24,291,182 | train | <story><title>SpaceX Starlink average speedtest is 42.3Mbps down / 9.7 Mbps up</title><url>https://testmy.net/hoststats/spacex_starlink</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>apexalpha</author><text>Eventually everyone is going to get connected, yes.<p>I mean someone in Norway also had to draw a powerline to these people, to use electricity. Why not draw a fiber link, too? It&#x27;s just part of infrastructure.<p>I&#x27;m not saying that Starlink isn&#x27;t useful. I&#x27;m just really wondering what the implications for astronomy are going to be, whether we will always see these things at dusk.<p>Now it&#x27;s Starlink, but what if 3 or 4 companies in total want to have a network? What if on top of that China and India want their own, just like GPS?<p>It just seems we&#x27;re running head first into this without anyone thinking of the implications or governance of it.</text></item><item><author>sgt</author><text>But are all villages in France like that? I doubt it.<p>Even in Norway there are thousands of people without access to sufficiently fast broadband, and some 80k DSL customers who apparently will never get fiber at all. The proposed solution for the latter is to use 4G&#x2F;5G, which comes with its own issues of course.<p>I&#x27;d say even in well developed countries, Starlink is a nice option to have. As I understand it, the 42Mbps they see now is only going to improve as well.</text></item><item><author>apexalpha</author><text>So I guess companies will now fill the entire global sky with thousands of sats just to make up for the fact that the US government ignores rural houses when it comes to digital infrastructure?<p>I&#x27;m sorry but how is 42Mbps worth spamming the entire nightsky with to the point that it prevent astronomers from obtaining useful data? Not even 10Mbps upload?<p>My inlaws live in a village in France that has 70 people total. It&#x27;s 25min drive to a bakery, 45min drive to anything resembling a supermarket. I&#x27;d say it&#x27;s rural.<p>They now have 16Mbps *DSL and are scheduled to get Fiber in 2021. Next village already has it.<p>But because the American government refuses to invest in infrastructure the rest of the planet just has to accept some American company is going to put 14,000 sats in low orbit?<p>Besides the progress this resembles I still think it&#x27;s pretty strange the US government can greenlight this plan even though it has global implications.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ballenf</author><text>Hopefully using satellites like this is a temporary solution for the next decade or two until we have a better solution.<p>Their limited lifespan is what makes me much less pessimistic than I would be. They have relatively high maintenance costs which means that if utilization is low, it won&#x27;t make sense to keep replacing them.</text></comment> | <story><title>SpaceX Starlink average speedtest is 42.3Mbps down / 9.7 Mbps up</title><url>https://testmy.net/hoststats/spacex_starlink</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>apexalpha</author><text>Eventually everyone is going to get connected, yes.<p>I mean someone in Norway also had to draw a powerline to these people, to use electricity. Why not draw a fiber link, too? It&#x27;s just part of infrastructure.<p>I&#x27;m not saying that Starlink isn&#x27;t useful. I&#x27;m just really wondering what the implications for astronomy are going to be, whether we will always see these things at dusk.<p>Now it&#x27;s Starlink, but what if 3 or 4 companies in total want to have a network? What if on top of that China and India want their own, just like GPS?<p>It just seems we&#x27;re running head first into this without anyone thinking of the implications or governance of it.</text></item><item><author>sgt</author><text>But are all villages in France like that? I doubt it.<p>Even in Norway there are thousands of people without access to sufficiently fast broadband, and some 80k DSL customers who apparently will never get fiber at all. The proposed solution for the latter is to use 4G&#x2F;5G, which comes with its own issues of course.<p>I&#x27;d say even in well developed countries, Starlink is a nice option to have. As I understand it, the 42Mbps they see now is only going to improve as well.</text></item><item><author>apexalpha</author><text>So I guess companies will now fill the entire global sky with thousands of sats just to make up for the fact that the US government ignores rural houses when it comes to digital infrastructure?<p>I&#x27;m sorry but how is 42Mbps worth spamming the entire nightsky with to the point that it prevent astronomers from obtaining useful data? Not even 10Mbps upload?<p>My inlaws live in a village in France that has 70 people total. It&#x27;s 25min drive to a bakery, 45min drive to anything resembling a supermarket. I&#x27;d say it&#x27;s rural.<p>They now have 16Mbps *DSL and are scheduled to get Fiber in 2021. Next village already has it.<p>But because the American government refuses to invest in infrastructure the rest of the planet just has to accept some American company is going to put 14,000 sats in low orbit?<p>Besides the progress this resembles I still think it&#x27;s pretty strange the US government can greenlight this plan even though it has global implications.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Aeolun</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m just really wondering what the implications for astronomy are going to be<p>More space based telescopes?</text></comment> |
21,943,219 | 21,939,491 | 1 | 2 | 21,937,429 | train | <story><title>Cerebras’s giant chip will smash deep learning’s speed barrier</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/processors/cerebrass-giant-chip-will-smash-deep-learnings-speed-barrier</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>geomark</author><text>The article talks about a few things that they call inventions, like making interconnections across what would normally be scribe lines. But I personally worked on wafer scale integration about 25 years ago and we were already doing that. We called it inter-reticle stitching. The technology was ancient back then - 0.5 micron feature size on 4 inch wafers - but the wafer scale techniques are applicable to modern technologies. In particular, developing a yield model that informs your on-chip redundancy choices and designing built-in self test and selection circuitry so that you can yield large chips. The chip we developed was so large that only two would fit on a wafer. We got 50% yield on a line that was far from mature at the time. The company lacked the vision to do anything with what they had developed. To them it was just a chip for which there were few customers. The suits didn&#x27;t know how to make bank with this methodology that could yield nearly arbitrarily complex chips in nearly any target process.<p>Edit: There were a number of papers and conference proceedings published back then but not much shows up when searching Google. Here&#x27;s one discussing the issues and results of field stitching <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fdocuments.in&#x2F;document&#x2F;ieee-comput-soc-press-1992-international-conference-on-wafer-scale-integration-589dfe172703a.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fdocuments.in&#x2F;document&#x2F;ieee-comput-soc-press-1992-in...</a><p>From 1992, so yeah, field stitching is not a recent invention.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cerebras’s giant chip will smash deep learning’s speed barrier</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/processors/cerebrass-giant-chip-will-smash-deep-learnings-speed-barrier</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mark_l_watson</author><text>I don’t know if this mega-chip will be successful, but I like the idea. Before I retired I managed a deep learning team that had a very cool internal product for running distributed TensorFlow. Now in retirement I get by with a single 1070 GPU for experiments - not bad but having something much cheaper, much more memory, and much faster would help so much.<p>I tend to be optimistic, so take my prediction with a grain of salt: I bet within 7 or 8 years there will be an inexpensive device that will blow away what we have now. There are so many applications for much larger end to end models that will but pressure on the market for something much better than what we have now. BTW, the ability to efficiently run models on my new iPhone 11 Pro is impressive and I have to wonder if the market for super fast hardware for training models might match the smartphone market. For this to happen, we need a deep learning rules the world shift. BTW, off topic, but I don’t think deep learning gets us to AGI.</text></comment> |
4,304,651 | 4,304,540 | 1 | 3 | 4,304,444 | train | <story><title>Apple Is Said to Discuss an Investment in Twitter</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/28/technology/apple-is-said-to-discuss-an-investment-in-twitter.html?_r=1&ref=technology</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Steko</author><text>A lot of people are probably going to blow this out of proportion as Apple looking to buy Twitter and lock everyone out but here's what I think:<p>Tim Cook knows a lot of his users use FB and Twitter as their primary e-communication channels and that that's where they spend a lot of their time and is the primary use of the mobile devices he sells them.<p>Deals like this then have a single aim: to ensure the optimal consumer experience. Tim wants the Twitter app on iOS to be the best in breed. Not just today but in 5 years. When Twitter introduces a new feature, Tim wants that thing to be working smoothly on iOS on day 1. When Tim launches his search engine with iOS 7 or 8 he wants to have Twitter search built in.<p>That costs money and as it turns out Apple has a metric crapton of it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Is Said to Discuss an Investment in Twitter</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/28/technology/apple-is-said-to-discuss-an-investment-in-twitter.html?_r=1&ref=technology</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AznHisoka</author><text>Oh no... flash forward a year or 2, and Apple will buy all of Twitter! It's their knight in a white horse coming to bail them out! Now I'll never get to see how Twitter will make serious revenue to sustain itself.</text></comment> |
38,356,356 | 38,351,746 | 1 | 2 | 38,351,048 | train | <story><title>Apple plans to equip MacBooks with in-house cellular modems</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2023/11/20/macbook-integrated-cellular-modem-2028/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>poisonborz</author><text>Why? I had it as well and never used it. Smartphones have much better reception, it&#x27;s always there, press of a button to share the connection. When no smartphone, a tiny sim modem costs peanuts. You also need a separate data plan, for many carriers not so obvious or not really worth. I don&#x27;t get sim trays in laptops.</text></item><item><author>thot_experiment</author><text>I&#x27;ve had a laptop with a cellular modem for almost 4 years now and there&#x27;s zero chance I&#x27;m ever going back to a laptop without one. Maybe framework next time around, if my laptop had some GPIOs too!? Heaven.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zamadatix</author><text>Others are rightly pointing out &quot;laptops are bigger so should have better reception&quot; (assuming it&#x27;s physically taking advantage of that, which most built-in do) but the modems in most laptops have been historically bad with the modems in phones top of the line (as well as often refreshed more often).<p>That&#x27;s of course not a requirement, Apple could choose to put in the greatest modem they can make. That combined with good antenna design in the MacBooks should lead to significantly better reception. The limit of this is how good the modem is. Given how long they&#x27;ve let it slip my guess is they won&#x27;t release it until it&#x27;s very competitive, similar to how long they took to dump Intel despite the iPhone processors being competitive with the likes of the Intel m3 well before that. Time will tell on that one.<p>The other half of the story is Apple has already ditched SIMs for eSIMs in the iPhone. It&#x27;d be extremely odd if they then went backwards on this to put a SIM tray in the MacBook, a device they are regularly reluctant to include more than a couple of connectors on in the first place.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple plans to equip MacBooks with in-house cellular modems</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2023/11/20/macbook-integrated-cellular-modem-2028/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>poisonborz</author><text>Why? I had it as well and never used it. Smartphones have much better reception, it&#x27;s always there, press of a button to share the connection. When no smartphone, a tiny sim modem costs peanuts. You also need a separate data plan, for many carriers not so obvious or not really worth. I don&#x27;t get sim trays in laptops.</text></item><item><author>thot_experiment</author><text>I&#x27;ve had a laptop with a cellular modem for almost 4 years now and there&#x27;s zero chance I&#x27;m ever going back to a laptop without one. Maybe framework next time around, if my laptop had some GPIOs too!? Heaven.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kubik369</author><text>Must have been a problem with the particular laptop&#x2F;country you are in. Traditionally, laptops have much more robust cellular than phones.<p>You say the press of a button, but having cellular in the laptop is zero interactions, which is great for casual users.</text></comment> |
25,295,901 | 25,295,316 | 1 | 2 | 25,290,124 | train | <story><title>Colombia is considering legalizing its cocaine industry</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/epdv3j/colombia-is-considering-legalizing-its-massive-cocaine-industry</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brnt</author><text>It is a myth the Netherlands are handling drugs well. Reports on &#x27;ondermijnende criminaliteit&#x27; are muffled away, but meanwhile agencies and police are reporting that this industry is something the size of the Italian mafia and are every bit as criminal (and are in fact well connected internationally and often inventees of said Mafia).<p>Maybe this is overlooked because urban users are far from the illegal labs and most killings, but things are nowhere near a &#x27;good experience&#x27;. Legalisation of weed has only attracted the worst of the worst and police and &#x27;opsporingsdiensten&#x27; don&#x27;t have the resources to stop the trade, pollution or shootings.<p>Check any reputable publication for articles, e.g.
1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.groene.nl&#x2F;artikel&#x2F;een-industrie-die-over-lijken-gaat" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.groene.nl&#x2F;artikel&#x2F;een-industrie-die-over-lijken-...</a>
2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nrc.nl&#x2F;nieuws&#x2F;2019&#x2F;12&#x2F;17&#x2F;italiaanse-maffia-experts-nederland-is-naief-a3984134" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nrc.nl&#x2F;nieuws&#x2F;2019&#x2F;12&#x2F;17&#x2F;italiaanse-maffia-exper...</a>
3. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rijksoverheid.nl&#x2F;onderwerpen&#x2F;ondermijning&#x2F;ondermijnende-criminaliteit" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rijksoverheid.nl&#x2F;onderwerpen&#x2F;ondermijning&#x2F;onderm...</a>
4. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ad.nl&#x2F;binnenland&#x2F;albanezen-verdringen-mocromaffia-op-de-drugsmarkt~a9bb0199&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ad.nl&#x2F;binnenland&#x2F;albanezen-verdringen-mocromaffi...</a>
5. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.telegraaf.nl&#x2F;nieuws&#x2F;125305&#x2F;nederland-narcostaat" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.telegraaf.nl&#x2F;nieuws&#x2F;125305&#x2F;nederland-narcostaat</a></text></item><item><author>GekkePrutser</author><text>Good idea. Fighting it only makes the product more valuable, and the cartels more powerful.<p>In the Netherlands we have really good experience with legalisation. Cannabis is legal and hard drugs (or substitutes) are provided to long-term addicts only. It drives prices down, reducing black market profits and thus the power of cartels. Promotes legal vendors to abide by rules (or they&#x27;ll lose their license) and makes it possible to have checks on the products to make sure they&#x27;re safe, not mixed with real toxins. And the lower street price reduces crime around drugs (like theft, addicts stealing to pay for their hit)<p>Banning drug use by force is a US pipe dream. It&#x27;s impossible. All it provides is a pork barrel for drug agencies, weapons manufacturers etc. It escalates the price. They haven&#x27;t made a dent in the 40 years of the war on drugs. When the demand doesn&#x27;t cease, all you do is make the product more expensive and the ones that provide it more powerful.<p>PS: I never used drugs of any kind (except alcohol ;) )</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>woah</author><text>My guess is that legalization is badly implemented in NL. Isn&#x27;t it more like a &quot;look the other way&quot; policy, so that businesses in the industry still have to operate underground? If you make a business illegal, then only criminals will do it. In the US, marijuana has become extremely boring very quickly. The industry is now dominated by artisinal bud brands, IoT vape pods, and CBD smoothies, not gangs. Perhaps NL needs to legalize all the way.<p>Growing marujuana, as a business, is fundamentally almost exactly the same as growing any crop.</text></comment> | <story><title>Colombia is considering legalizing its cocaine industry</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/epdv3j/colombia-is-considering-legalizing-its-massive-cocaine-industry</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brnt</author><text>It is a myth the Netherlands are handling drugs well. Reports on &#x27;ondermijnende criminaliteit&#x27; are muffled away, but meanwhile agencies and police are reporting that this industry is something the size of the Italian mafia and are every bit as criminal (and are in fact well connected internationally and often inventees of said Mafia).<p>Maybe this is overlooked because urban users are far from the illegal labs and most killings, but things are nowhere near a &#x27;good experience&#x27;. Legalisation of weed has only attracted the worst of the worst and police and &#x27;opsporingsdiensten&#x27; don&#x27;t have the resources to stop the trade, pollution or shootings.<p>Check any reputable publication for articles, e.g.
1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.groene.nl&#x2F;artikel&#x2F;een-industrie-die-over-lijken-gaat" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.groene.nl&#x2F;artikel&#x2F;een-industrie-die-over-lijken-...</a>
2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nrc.nl&#x2F;nieuws&#x2F;2019&#x2F;12&#x2F;17&#x2F;italiaanse-maffia-experts-nederland-is-naief-a3984134" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nrc.nl&#x2F;nieuws&#x2F;2019&#x2F;12&#x2F;17&#x2F;italiaanse-maffia-exper...</a>
3. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rijksoverheid.nl&#x2F;onderwerpen&#x2F;ondermijning&#x2F;ondermijnende-criminaliteit" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rijksoverheid.nl&#x2F;onderwerpen&#x2F;ondermijning&#x2F;onderm...</a>
4. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ad.nl&#x2F;binnenland&#x2F;albanezen-verdringen-mocromaffia-op-de-drugsmarkt~a9bb0199&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ad.nl&#x2F;binnenland&#x2F;albanezen-verdringen-mocromaffi...</a>
5. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.telegraaf.nl&#x2F;nieuws&#x2F;125305&#x2F;nederland-narcostaat" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.telegraaf.nl&#x2F;nieuws&#x2F;125305&#x2F;nederland-narcostaat</a></text></item><item><author>GekkePrutser</author><text>Good idea. Fighting it only makes the product more valuable, and the cartels more powerful.<p>In the Netherlands we have really good experience with legalisation. Cannabis is legal and hard drugs (or substitutes) are provided to long-term addicts only. It drives prices down, reducing black market profits and thus the power of cartels. Promotes legal vendors to abide by rules (or they&#x27;ll lose their license) and makes it possible to have checks on the products to make sure they&#x27;re safe, not mixed with real toxins. And the lower street price reduces crime around drugs (like theft, addicts stealing to pay for their hit)<p>Banning drug use by force is a US pipe dream. It&#x27;s impossible. All it provides is a pork barrel for drug agencies, weapons manufacturers etc. It escalates the price. They haven&#x27;t made a dent in the 40 years of the war on drugs. When the demand doesn&#x27;t cease, all you do is make the product more expensive and the ones that provide it more powerful.<p>PS: I never used drugs of any kind (except alcohol ;) )</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwa20201203</author><text>Please forgive the nuisance but would you mind noting -- how can we check what you mean by &quot;reputable&quot;? The reasons I&#x27;m asking: current media climate; long history of white-supremacist thinking in that area of this space-rock; etc<p>[edited to add:]<p>Also, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread -- the Dutch government has been taking a certain kinda turn.<p>I&#x27;m also asking as someone whose family has been affected by the opiate epidemic in the US. I&#x27;m someone who&#x27;s concerned about drug policy, first domestically but also globally. I want harm reduction. I&#x27;m in the middle of a career change and may be focusing on this going forward (if I can find out how).<p>So I promise you, I&#x27;m not trying to beg-the-question, I&#x27;m legitimately curious about your comment and just trying to deal with the language barrier.</text></comment> |
32,770,441 | 32,770,578 | 1 | 2 | 32,768,834 | train | <story><title>Queen Elizabeth II has died</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-61585886</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spaceman_2020</author><text>What is the sentiment like in the UK about Charles vs William? Heard lots of people calling for him to just hand it over to William straight away.</text></item><item><author>Nursie</author><text>Apparently, when I was little, I got excited one Christmas when the Queen’s speech was on tv, because I thought it was my Grandmother…<p>I used to take comfort in the idea that all things pass in time, now not so much. Probably because I realised that includes everyone I love, and myself!<p>I’ve no great love for the monarchy, but this is certainly the end of an era in British public life and likely in UK international relations - I can’t see the commonwealth nations welcoming King Charles as their new head of state.<p>And it is weird, there are some things you just never expect to change. I’m hardly a spring chicken, but Queen Elizabeth was not only there my entire life, but Queen far enough into the past before I was born to have interacted with historical figures (like Churchill).</text></item><item><author>saberience</author><text>It&#x27;s weird, I&#x27;ve never considered myself a &quot;royalist&quot; but this news has affected me quite strongly. I just burst into tears unexpectedly on hearing this news and I don&#x27;t quite understand why I feel so very sad. I guess I have grown up and lived my whole life (as a Brit) seeing and hearing the Queen, singing &quot;God save the Queen&quot; etc, and this news made me suddenly feel very old, very nostalgic, with the sense that all things pass in time, which makes my heart ache deeply.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nursie</author><text>I left the UK a year or so back and have been pretty anti-monarchist for as long as I can remember, so am probably not the best person to ask about the public mood on succession!<p>I think there are probably a lot of people like me who, while anti monarchy in general, were not particularly anti-Elizabeth. However now that she’s passed I would quite like the whole thing to be further de-emphasised, de-legitimised and removed from any remaining levers of power, however ceremonial or theoretical, and any remaining state subsidy, palaces and lands to be taken into public ownership etc etc.<p>How many are of these opinions I am unsure.</text></comment> | <story><title>Queen Elizabeth II has died</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-61585886</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spaceman_2020</author><text>What is the sentiment like in the UK about Charles vs William? Heard lots of people calling for him to just hand it over to William straight away.</text></item><item><author>Nursie</author><text>Apparently, when I was little, I got excited one Christmas when the Queen’s speech was on tv, because I thought it was my Grandmother…<p>I used to take comfort in the idea that all things pass in time, now not so much. Probably because I realised that includes everyone I love, and myself!<p>I’ve no great love for the monarchy, but this is certainly the end of an era in British public life and likely in UK international relations - I can’t see the commonwealth nations welcoming King Charles as their new head of state.<p>And it is weird, there are some things you just never expect to change. I’m hardly a spring chicken, but Queen Elizabeth was not only there my entire life, but Queen far enough into the past before I was born to have interacted with historical figures (like Churchill).</text></item><item><author>saberience</author><text>It&#x27;s weird, I&#x27;ve never considered myself a &quot;royalist&quot; but this news has affected me quite strongly. I just burst into tears unexpectedly on hearing this news and I don&#x27;t quite understand why I feel so very sad. I guess I have grown up and lived my whole life (as a Brit) seeing and hearing the Queen, singing &quot;God save the Queen&quot; etc, and this news made me suddenly feel very old, very nostalgic, with the sense that all things pass in time, which makes my heart ache deeply.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jimnotgym</author><text>It is said that the Queen was 100% against the idea of monarchs retiring. I suppose that harks back to the abdication crisis, but also undermines the concept of royalty altogether.</text></comment> |
5,737,242 | 5,737,181 | 1 | 2 | 5,736,752 | train | <story><title>Finnish MeeGo Startup Jolla Reveals First Phone With Customisable Shells</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/20/finnish-meego-startup-jolla-reveals-first-phone-hardware-with-customisable-shells-e399-price-tag-coming-at-years-end/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>networked</author><text>&#62;Jolla’s handset will cost €399 ($513) and is slated to ship at the end of the year.<p>I find Sailfish an interesting product due to its technological heritage but that is rather a lot. I wonder what their marketing strategy is for this device.<p>From a developer's perspective you can't help but compare that price to how much it would cost to get a Firefox OS development unit. FxOS also promises you access to a larger, if less affluent, audience. On the other hand, a higher price might prevent the kind of shortages we are currently seeing with Geeksphone Keon and Peak.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blub</author><text>If you're looking to sell apps, both FF and Jolla are a bad bet I believe. If you're looking for a mobile computer like the N900 (or to a lesser extent the N9) was, then I don't think FF really qualifies...</text></comment> | <story><title>Finnish MeeGo Startup Jolla Reveals First Phone With Customisable Shells</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/20/finnish-meego-startup-jolla-reveals-first-phone-hardware-with-customisable-shells-e399-price-tag-coming-at-years-end/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>networked</author><text>&#62;Jolla’s handset will cost €399 ($513) and is slated to ship at the end of the year.<p>I find Sailfish an interesting product due to its technological heritage but that is rather a lot. I wonder what their marketing strategy is for this device.<p>From a developer's perspective you can't help but compare that price to how much it would cost to get a Firefox OS development unit. FxOS also promises you access to a larger, if less affluent, audience. On the other hand, a higher price might prevent the kind of shortages we are currently seeing with Geeksphone Keon and Peak.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pekk</author><text>This isn't even the same game as Firefox OS. If you expect to get a phone even similar to N9 for $50 then I don't know what to say. It is just a different market.</text></comment> |
26,971,443 | 26,971,380 | 1 | 2 | 26,969,595 | train | <story><title>30 Years of Linux: An Interview with Linus Torvalds</title><url>https://www.tag1consulting.com/blog/interview-linus-torvalds-linux-and-git</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vhold</author><text>First thing I searched for is GCC and I&#x27;m really glad he emphasizes how important it was to the origins of Linux. It&#x27;s historically under appreciated how critical GCC was at that time, how it had far far reaching impacts that changed the path of computing globally.<p>GCC not only makes Linux possible, but it brought the other unixes closer together, which is instrumental to escaping the vendor lock of the various *nix vendors. That means by the time Linux is reliable enough for production, there is already a lot of cross-platform software to run on it.</text></comment> | <story><title>30 Years of Linux: An Interview with Linus Torvalds</title><url>https://www.tag1consulting.com/blog/interview-linus-torvalds-linux-and-git</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bombcar</author><text>[He] Started Linux 30 years ago, and git 15 years ago ... sounds like we&#x27;re due another big project.<p>Someone change the license on something Torvalds uses and piss him off!</text></comment> |
11,192,440 | 11,192,339 | 1 | 3 | 11,191,950 | train | <story><title>OpenSSL CVE-2016-0799: heap corruption via BIO_printf</title><url>https://guidovranken.wordpress.com/2016/02/27/openssl-cve-2016-0799-heap-corruption-via-bio_printf/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>narrator</author><text>This is one of those &quot;let&#x27;s ignore malloc failing&quot; bugs. This is pretty common in C code and is, IMHO, a common &quot;worse is better&quot;[1] anti-pattern, which is predicated on the &quot;worse is better&quot; principle that correctness can be sacrified if it makes things too complicated. Many programmers, unfortunately, don&#x27;t give a crap about things that far off the happy path, and when the language implements checked exceptions or Option types they get upset that it forces them to think about those distracting corner cases. Such is the state of software engineering.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Worse_is_better" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Worse_is_better</a></text></comment> | <story><title>OpenSSL CVE-2016-0799: heap corruption via BIO_printf</title><url>https://guidovranken.wordpress.com/2016/02/27/openssl-cve-2016-0799-heap-corruption-via-bio_printf/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ComputerGuru</author><text>There was &quot;fair notice&quot; given last week (and front page&#x27;d here on HN) about an upcoming release patching &quot;several&quot; vulnerabilities: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mta.openssl.org&#x2F;pipermail&#x2F;openssl-announce&#x2F;2016-February&#x2F;000063.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mta.openssl.org&#x2F;pipermail&#x2F;openssl-announce&#x2F;2016-Febr...</a><p>However, they&#x27;re scheduled for release on Monday the 1st of March - so we might be seeing a few more bugs in the next couple of days.<p>EDIT: I&#x27;ve spent all morning teasing a friend whose birthday is today about &quot;what if it were tomorrow&quot; (I&#x27;m sure they get it every year from every single person they meet), only to then come here and forget all about it in my tally. Go figure. Yes, the 1st of March is Tuesday. Sorry!</text></comment> |
30,522,771 | 30,522,385 | 1 | 3 | 30,521,927 | train | <story><title>Employers who violate Colorado’s non-compete laws face stiff new penalties</title><url>https://www.gunder.com/news/employers-who-violate-colorados-non-compete-laws-face-stiff-new-penalties-including-jail/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paxys</author><text>California has proven for decades now that getting rid of non-competes is good for the economy and good for workers. It&#x27;s bizarre that this move hasn&#x27;t been copied in every other state, especially among those who routinely invest large amounts of money to try and become &quot;the next silicon valley&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hristov</author><text>Unfortunately sometimes laws are made not for the best benefit of society as a whole but for the benefit of a powerful or well positioned minority. Now check out the Colorado law. It says that non-competes are forbidden except for four exceptions. Check out the fourth exception:<p>4. Contracts with executive and management personnel and employees who constitute professional staff to executive and management personnel.<p>There is an actual clause covering secretaries! So you can be sure your secretary will not go working for a competitor. You do not have to think hard to guess who had this law written for themselves.</text></comment> | <story><title>Employers who violate Colorado’s non-compete laws face stiff new penalties</title><url>https://www.gunder.com/news/employers-who-violate-colorados-non-compete-laws-face-stiff-new-penalties-including-jail/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paxys</author><text>California has proven for decades now that getting rid of non-competes is good for the economy and good for workers. It&#x27;s bizarre that this move hasn&#x27;t been copied in every other state, especially among those who routinely invest large amounts of money to try and become &quot;the next silicon valley&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s bizarre that this move hasn&#x27;t been copied in every other state, especially among those who routinely invest large amounts of money to try and become &quot;the next silicon valley&quot;.<p>Some states are more friendly to labor exploitation than others.</text></comment> |
21,812,267 | 21,812,207 | 1 | 2 | 21,812,041 | train | <story><title>What's new in Java 12, 13 and 14</title><url>https://java.christmas/2019/17</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pron</author><text>One thing I find a bit disappointing is the focus on language features. Most of the effort in Java goes into the VM and libraries, while keeping the language conservative. This is because VM&#x2F;library features have a much bigger impact on application quality, and more directly impact the application&#x27;s users; moreover, it&#x27;s a strategy that&#x27;s proven quite successful -- HN notwithstanding, most developers don&#x27;t like too much change in the language. Still, many developers focus on language changes that affect <i>them</i>, rather than major changes than can affect their customers and their business. Recent versions have seen major improvements to the GCs, startup time, and there&#x27;s an exciting new Java Flight Recorder (low-overhead, deep in-production profiling) feature in 14 that allows streaming flight recorder events.<p>Also, the bit about LTS is problematic. While the multiple LTS update paths have their place (although the widely in their offerings and intended audiences), they are not less risky than the default path. The default path is designed to be the cheapest and easiest, but requires a little bit more agility. The effort required to update to a new feature release is not much bigger than the effort required to update to a patch release, especially as some of the LTS programs have major new features in their &quot;patches.&quot; An LTS program should be chosen only once it&#x27;s been established that the default, recommended update path is not right for your organization, and even then you&#x27;ll need to compare the different LTS programs, as they differ from one another in about as much as LTS differs from the regular update path. LTS should not be the default choice.</text></comment> | <story><title>What's new in Java 12, 13 and 14</title><url>https://java.christmas/2019/17</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cies</author><text>Pattern matching in switch statements (calling them match statements would then be more fitting), a nice way to deal with nulls, and proper sum types (aka tagged unions, like enums in Rust) and Java would be pretty up-to-date.</text></comment> |
15,854,628 | 15,854,323 | 1 | 3 | 15,851,927 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Misocoin – A barebones Bitcoin-like protocol implemented in Python 3.6</title><url>https://github.com/kendricktan/misocoin</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tuxxy</author><text>FYI, I think I see you using the P-256 curve in this project.<p>Word of warning, this is not Bitcoin&#x27;s curve. This is a NIST curve.<p>The library you&#x27;re using (fastecdsa) has secp256k1 available to use, if that&#x27;s what you want to do.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Misocoin – A barebones Bitcoin-like protocol implemented in Python 3.6</title><url>https://github.com/kendricktan/misocoin</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jnbiche</author><text>Cool project. It seems like the only way for nodes to mine on the same chain is for them each to use different ports. I tried to use different IPs on the same port, and it didn&#x27;t work.</text></comment> |
22,525,812 | 22,525,580 | 1 | 2 | 22,525,494 | train | <story><title>Robinhood goes down again, during another historic trading day</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/09/robinhood-app-down-again-during-another-historic-trading-day.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chasingthewind</author><text>Matt Levine had some interesting (and funny!) insights the last time [0]<p>&gt; It is well known that one of the best services a retail broker can provide is not answering the phones during a crash. The market is down, the customers panic, their timing is terrible, they want to sell at the bottom, they call you up to say “sell everything,” you say “we’re sorry all our representatives are assisting other customers, your call is important to us,” they hang up and get distracted, the market rallies, they forget about selling, you have saved them a fortune, good work.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2020-03-03&#x2F;robinhood-picked-a-bad-day-to-break" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2020-03-03&#x2F;robinh...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crazygringo</author><text>I just feel for the smart investors calling up because they want to BUY everything... and can&#x27;t get through :P</text></comment> | <story><title>Robinhood goes down again, during another historic trading day</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/09/robinhood-app-down-again-during-another-historic-trading-day.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chasingthewind</author><text>Matt Levine had some interesting (and funny!) insights the last time [0]<p>&gt; It is well known that one of the best services a retail broker can provide is not answering the phones during a crash. The market is down, the customers panic, their timing is terrible, they want to sell at the bottom, they call you up to say “sell everything,” you say “we’re sorry all our representatives are assisting other customers, your call is important to us,” they hang up and get distracted, the market rallies, they forget about selling, you have saved them a fortune, good work.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2020-03-03&#x2F;robinhood-picked-a-bad-day-to-break" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2020-03-03&#x2F;robinh...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>capableweb</author><text>Seemingly this is the strategy of many Bitcoin exchanges as well, as every time Bitcoin price is going down, mysteriously Coinbase is having issues with their systems.</text></comment> |
34,285,657 | 34,284,757 | 1 | 2 | 34,271,902 | train | <story><title>Leaked Slack all-hands meeting reveals a ‘strong culture clash’ with Salesforce</title><url>https://fortune.com/2023/01/05/leaked-slack-all-hands-meeting-reveals-a-strong-culture-clash-and-growing-rift-with-parent-company-salesforce/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>defnotahuman</author><text>I was part of a small startup (about 50 employees) that was acquired by a big publicly-traded tech firm about 5 years ago, and boy was that experience interesting.<p>Before moving to the new office, we were told that we were getting our own dedicated section of the building to ourselves so we could continue to collaborate freely and develop our product since our work was fairly niche and we had a very different tech stack from the rest of the org.<p>We show up on day 1 and there&#x27;s no dedicated space for us. We&#x27;re moved a few times over the first few months, but it was clear that zero effort went into planning our arrival. About 6 months after the move-in, our customer support team is moved to be with the rest of the parent company customer support org (something they told us would never happen). A few months after that, they tried to take away our hybrid work perk (for years, we could work from home Tues, Wed, Fri and they promised to honor this after the acquisition), relenting only after being told the change would cause attrition. For two straight years, it was nothing but lies and broken promises.<p>Alongside all of this, I saw an unfathomable amount of wasted effort, millions upon millions upon millions in engineering pay being lit on fire. They had a whole team dedicated to building a shitty front end component library that we all had to use to reskin our apps in order to achieve design consistency. We could&#x27;ve used a mature tool like MaterialUI but nooooooo, this hot mess of a component lib was our great gift to the open source community. My favorite part: we constantly ran into cases where the provided components didn&#x27;t meet all of our UI behavior needs, but the development backlog for the UI team was 2 years so we had to fork the components and make our own changes, which other teams were doing as well. It was the worst of all worlds.<p>It boggles my mind that companies can grow to be so big, so dysfunctional internally and yet still turn a profit or appease investors. It was the first time I felt like companies were getting too big.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&gt; They had a whole team dedicated to building a shitty front end component library that we all had to use to reskin our apps in order to achieve design consistency. We could&#x27;ve used a mature tool like MaterialUI but nooooooo, this hot mess of a component lib was our great gift to the open source community. My favorite part: we constantly ran into cases where the provided components didn&#x27;t meet all of our UI behavior needs, but the development backlog for the UI team was 2 years so we had to fork the components and make our own changes, which other teams were doing as well. It was the worst of all worlds.<p>I&#x27;ve watched this exact story play out twice now:<p>Company grows rapidly. Front-end middle managers hatch a plan to make a shared component library that will solve everyone&#x27;s problems. Open sourcing it becomes a goal, because the developers want something for their resume. Project turns out to be much, much harder than they expected. All of the teams trying to deliver actual work are constantly stuck behind the shared component library team&#x27;s backlog. Nobody can accomplish even basic tasks because they&#x27;re all blocked on the component library. Devs from every team start working on the component library in an attempt to get anything done. Clashes ensue.<p>it&#x27;s possible to have a good component library for the company to use, of course. Carving out a separate team to do it separately from everyone else <i>and</i> requiring everyone to go through that team is an obvious point of failure. Yet it seems to happen over and over again for some reason.</text></comment> | <story><title>Leaked Slack all-hands meeting reveals a ‘strong culture clash’ with Salesforce</title><url>https://fortune.com/2023/01/05/leaked-slack-all-hands-meeting-reveals-a-strong-culture-clash-and-growing-rift-with-parent-company-salesforce/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>defnotahuman</author><text>I was part of a small startup (about 50 employees) that was acquired by a big publicly-traded tech firm about 5 years ago, and boy was that experience interesting.<p>Before moving to the new office, we were told that we were getting our own dedicated section of the building to ourselves so we could continue to collaborate freely and develop our product since our work was fairly niche and we had a very different tech stack from the rest of the org.<p>We show up on day 1 and there&#x27;s no dedicated space for us. We&#x27;re moved a few times over the first few months, but it was clear that zero effort went into planning our arrival. About 6 months after the move-in, our customer support team is moved to be with the rest of the parent company customer support org (something they told us would never happen). A few months after that, they tried to take away our hybrid work perk (for years, we could work from home Tues, Wed, Fri and they promised to honor this after the acquisition), relenting only after being told the change would cause attrition. For two straight years, it was nothing but lies and broken promises.<p>Alongside all of this, I saw an unfathomable amount of wasted effort, millions upon millions upon millions in engineering pay being lit on fire. They had a whole team dedicated to building a shitty front end component library that we all had to use to reskin our apps in order to achieve design consistency. We could&#x27;ve used a mature tool like MaterialUI but nooooooo, this hot mess of a component lib was our great gift to the open source community. My favorite part: we constantly ran into cases where the provided components didn&#x27;t meet all of our UI behavior needs, but the development backlog for the UI team was 2 years so we had to fork the components and make our own changes, which other teams were doing as well. It was the worst of all worlds.<p>It boggles my mind that companies can grow to be so big, so dysfunctional internally and yet still turn a profit or appease investors. It was the first time I felt like companies were getting too big.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tjpnz</author><text>&gt;They had a whole team dedicated to building a shitty front end component library that we all had to use to reskin our apps in order to achieve design consistency.<p>I feel awful for the engineers who end up working on these efforts, it&#x27;s heartbreaking and ultimately a wasted endeavour. Your small team can&#x27;t keep up, people start working around you (even actively undermining you) and eventually that company edict forcing everyone to adopt said library is forgotten in the name of expediency. I&#x27;ve seen it so many times now to the point where it&#x27;s become a farce.</text></comment> |
23,696,956 | 23,696,918 | 1 | 3 | 23,693,407 | train | <story><title>YouTube TV sharply increases monthly subscription to $64.99</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/30/21308449/youtube-tv-price-increase-64-99-viacom-hbo-new-channels</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ls612</author><text>I never understood what the business interest of the tv stations was in preventing streaming online. They already give away for free the stream over the air. What gives? Do they make money on the antennas or receivers or something?</text></item><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>I&#x27;m no lawyer, but it doesn&#x27;t exactly seem legal. Streaming free local network broadcasts was definitively ruled as illegal by the Supreme Court in 2014 -- remember that was Aereo&#x27;s entire business model. [1]<p>It seems like the Stanford service is trying to justify themselves by being an academic study and limiting to 500 concurrent participants... but it&#x27;s telling they don&#x27;t list any legal justification on the site, and merely generically claim:<p>&gt; <i>Stanford respects the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe your copyright has been violated on a Stanford site, please notify [email protected] and give notice as stated under Reporting of Alleged Copyright Infringement.</i> [2]<p>I&#x27;m honestly shocked this ever passed Stanford legal review. Maybe it never did?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Aereo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Aereo</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;puffer.stanford.edu&#x2F;terms&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;puffer.stanford.edu&#x2F;terms&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>keithwinstein</author><text>ObShameless reminder that <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;puffer.stanford.edu" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;puffer.stanford.edu</a> remains free of charge.<p>The site streams San Francisco affiliates and local stations of NBC&#x2F;CBS&#x2F;ABC&#x2F;PBS&#x2F;FOX&#x2F;CW as part of a university study on video streaming algorithms -- it&#x27;s essentially a big A&#x2F;B test to try to reproduce or clarify some of the findings in the research literature. We&#x27;re now posting all our data and analysis each day. Research talk here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;63aECX2MZvY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;63aECX2MZvY</a><p>The content is... well, it&#x27;s U.S. network television and associated daytime programming. But some people like it! And it&#x27;s free (for people inside the U.S.).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AnssiH</author><text>Many of them charge cable operators for the right to carry them: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Retransmission_consent" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Retransmission_consent</a> - so having the channel available free online diminishes the value of the retransmission consent.<p>Also, the copyright licenses the station has for their programming usually specify limits on redistribution - e.g. geographical, types of carriage, amount of customers reached (with a wider distribution costing more, as it provides more value to the licensee and reduces the licensor&#x27;s ability to sell licenses to other entities).</text></comment> | <story><title>YouTube TV sharply increases monthly subscription to $64.99</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/30/21308449/youtube-tv-price-increase-64-99-viacom-hbo-new-channels</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ls612</author><text>I never understood what the business interest of the tv stations was in preventing streaming online. They already give away for free the stream over the air. What gives? Do they make money on the antennas or receivers or something?</text></item><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>I&#x27;m no lawyer, but it doesn&#x27;t exactly seem legal. Streaming free local network broadcasts was definitively ruled as illegal by the Supreme Court in 2014 -- remember that was Aereo&#x27;s entire business model. [1]<p>It seems like the Stanford service is trying to justify themselves by being an academic study and limiting to 500 concurrent participants... but it&#x27;s telling they don&#x27;t list any legal justification on the site, and merely generically claim:<p>&gt; <i>Stanford respects the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe your copyright has been violated on a Stanford site, please notify [email protected] and give notice as stated under Reporting of Alleged Copyright Infringement.</i> [2]<p>I&#x27;m honestly shocked this ever passed Stanford legal review. Maybe it never did?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Aereo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Aereo</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;puffer.stanford.edu&#x2F;terms&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;puffer.stanford.edu&#x2F;terms&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>keithwinstein</author><text>ObShameless reminder that <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;puffer.stanford.edu" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;puffer.stanford.edu</a> remains free of charge.<p>The site streams San Francisco affiliates and local stations of NBC&#x2F;CBS&#x2F;ABC&#x2F;PBS&#x2F;FOX&#x2F;CW as part of a university study on video streaming algorithms -- it&#x27;s essentially a big A&#x2F;B test to try to reproduce or clarify some of the findings in the research literature. We&#x27;re now posting all our data and analysis each day. Research talk here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;63aECX2MZvY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;63aECX2MZvY</a><p>The content is... well, it&#x27;s U.S. network television and associated daytime programming. But some people like it! And it&#x27;s free (for people inside the U.S.).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kgermino</author><text>They get paid by the cable companies (or YouTubeTV style equivalents). It’s not too much (~$0.40&#x2F;subscriber IIRC) but it obviously adds up.<p>They don’t get that money if you use an antenna, but that’s a small market compared to the internet. Most people who use antennas won’t pay anyway, and broadcasting gives them access to the network.<p>But opening up streaming will draw a lot of people who would otherwise have a cable subscription. Which will lead to much more cord cutters and cut into the carriage fees from the cable company.</text></comment> |
4,681,607 | 4,680,322 | 1 | 2 | 4,679,756 | train | <story><title>Sorting 1 million 8-digit decimal numbers in 1MB of RAM </title><url>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12748246/sorting-numbers-in-ram</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>This was a Google interview question for a while (I know I got it as one) I think it has since made it to the banned question list. The 'trick' was, as answer #2 elided, to use bits to store the fact that you had observed the number and then you could dump them back in sorted order.<p>So imagine you have a bit field where 'one bits' indicate you have seen the number and 'zero bits' indicate you haven't. And you compress it with run-length encoding.<p>Your initial data structure is '99999999:0' (all zeros, haven't seen any numbers) and then lets say you see the number 3,866,344 so your data structure becomes '3866343:0,1:1,96133654:0' as you can see the numbers will always alternate between number of zero bits and number of '1' bits so you can just assume the odd numbers represent 0 bits and the even numbers 1 bits. This becomes (3866343,1,96133654)<p>Anyway, as you get numbers you will split and coalesce the bit space until you've either seen all numbers (0, 99999999) or you run out of memory because a hacker has sent you only the even numbers from the space.<p>Its a clever 'math trick' which explores how you think about numbers (are they a thing or a representation). But I never thought it really gave a good indication of whether or not you would be a good candidate for the company.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>So as it turns out, this is wrong. Several folks have mentioned that in that the original Google interview question is 'sort the numbers' / 'remove duplicates' and the solution is to create a bitmap in a disk file to do a single pass sort. This question mixes that up a bit and my particular bitmap solution fails to meet the criteria of staying under a MB of memory.<p>With all the discussion I decided to code up a quick version in perl. The code is pretty straight forward, start with the tuple (99999999,0) and on each number do one of three actions:<p>1) Break the number representing a string of zeros into two segments.<p>2) Extend the length of an existing region of one bits.<p>3) Collapse two regions of one bits separated by a single zero bit.<p>Now the two key to the reasons it doesn't work are that one, it takes two 32 bit numbers to identify non-adjacent numbers, and two, for a uniform distribution random number generator the ratio of a million numbers to a space of 100 million means that most of the numbers won't be adjacent. So each 1 bit will cost 8 bytes to store. A million numbers * 8 bytes is 8 million bytes (7.6MB if you use 2^20th as 1MB). Its fun watching the algorithm because it gets slower and slower (its doing a linear search of segments to insert 'bits' and memory goes up and up, until you have about 50M uniques and then it starts getting faster and faster again as it collapses more and more segments.<p>Storing it on disk with an uncompressed bitmap, runs in O(n) time, and of course you 12,500,000 bytes, just about 12MB (to count multiples you need to multiply that by the number of bits you want to reserve per-number) but doing it in memory only requires a better compression algorithm than simple run-length encoding.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sorting 1 million 8-digit decimal numbers in 1MB of RAM </title><url>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12748246/sorting-numbers-in-ram</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>This was a Google interview question for a while (I know I got it as one) I think it has since made it to the banned question list. The 'trick' was, as answer #2 elided, to use bits to store the fact that you had observed the number and then you could dump them back in sorted order.<p>So imagine you have a bit field where 'one bits' indicate you have seen the number and 'zero bits' indicate you haven't. And you compress it with run-length encoding.<p>Your initial data structure is '99999999:0' (all zeros, haven't seen any numbers) and then lets say you see the number 3,866,344 so your data structure becomes '3866343:0,1:1,96133654:0' as you can see the numbers will always alternate between number of zero bits and number of '1' bits so you can just assume the odd numbers represent 0 bits and the even numbers 1 bits. This becomes (3866343,1,96133654)<p>Anyway, as you get numbers you will split and coalesce the bit space until you've either seen all numbers (0, 99999999) or you run out of memory because a hacker has sent you only the even numbers from the space.<p>Its a clever 'math trick' which explores how you think about numbers (are they a thing or a representation). But I never thought it really gave a good indication of whether or not you would be a good candidate for the company.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jules</author><text>It is extremely unlikely that you'll be able to sort a random sequence of 1 million 10 digit numbers like that, or ANY method for that matter, unless the particular sequence is highly compressible. You won't even be able to store the answer in the average case. You'll need 10^6*lg(10^10) bits to store the raw input, from which you'll be able to save about lg(10^6!) bits because it's sorted. That comes out to more than 1.7 megabytes.<p>Edit: the exact amount of bits necessary is ceil(log_2((1e10+1e6-1) choose 1e6)), which is ~1.756 megabytes.<p>Edit edit: see udiv's comment below: that 1e10 should be 1e8 of course.</text></comment> |
26,772,769 | 26,771,558 | 1 | 2 | 26,770,415 | train | <story><title>Internet-monitoring – A Docker stack that monitors your home network</title><url>https://github.com/geerlingguy/internet-monitoring</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Noah-Huppert</author><text>Cool! It&#x27;s so funny my internet has been bad just recently so I took an old bash script of mine which did something similar and have been upgrading it into a proper application which exports metrics to Prometheus and Grafana: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Noah-Huppert&#x2F;net-test" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Noah-Huppert&#x2F;net-test</a><p>I saw a comment below where some was rolling their eyes that you &quot;complicated&quot; stuff with Prometheus, Grafana, and Docker and how you could just use Bash scripts and crons. As I just upgraded my codebase from this more bare metal approach to this &quot;more complex setup&quot; I&#x27;d like to mention: there&#x27;s no way you could do time series statistical analysis easily with &quot;just a cron job and a bash script&quot;. Prometheus and Grafana are for more than just buzz words. Prometheus offers an advanced time series database which allows you to, at minimum, do more robust analysis using data techniques like Histograms. As for Grafana, it makes exploring data dead easy.<p>Providing users with a Docker Compose setup is also something I did with my tool and the benefits are huge. It lets me distribute a setup which relies on multiple moving parts working smoothly together. Sure I could write a whole wiki on how you should setup Prometheus Grafana and my tool, or I could distribute the setup with a configuration as code tool. Ensuring that even if someone doesn&#x27;t want to use Docker Compose they can at least read my configuration as code and see exactly what I did to setup my tool.</text></comment> | <story><title>Internet-monitoring – A Docker stack that monitors your home network</title><url>https://github.com/geerlingguy/internet-monitoring</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jcims</author><text>I&#x27;ve been tangentially looking at this as a &#x27;beta&#x27; customer of Starlink, as the service is presently extremely variable with many small outages throughout the day. This kind of a collection of internet monitoring is super useful for the individual, but what I would really love to see is a way to federate the data in a meaningful way so that you can start to see operating patterns in the provider(s) being used.</text></comment> |
20,085,976 | 20,085,939 | 1 | 2 | 20,085,488 | train | <story><title>Roads with protected bike lanes make both cycling and driving safer: study</title><url>https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/06/protected-bike-lanes-safe-street-design-bicycle-road-safety/590722/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wefarrell</author><text>In NYC I think they&#x27;re counterproductive to safety. Cars use them for temporary parking and pedestrians use them as a sidewalk.<p>When I visit Europe and Japan they seem to be far more effective.<p>I think it comes down to etiquette and that goes both ways - non cyclists need to respect bike lanes and cyclists need to obey traffic laws. Admittedly I don&#x27;t obey traffic laws when cycling, but I would if they were enforced.</text></item><item><author>jxcl</author><text>As a commuting cyclist I usually prefer to ride in the street than in a bike lane. Protected cycle lanes are great only so long as nobody turns to the right directly in front of you. When there are cars parked in between the cycle lane and the car lane it&#x27;s much easier for the driver to miss the cyclist, and few people check the cycle lane before turning right. I was definitely guilty of this until I started cycling.<p>Unprotected bike lanes between traffic and parking are the worst though. It&#x27;s terrifying riding past cars any of which might open their door without looking and either cause me to crash into them or swerve into traffic and be run over. On these streets I will frequently ride in the car lanes as well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amalcon</author><text>What factor do you believe explains the 78% drop in deaths and serious injuries per bicycle trip in NYC from 2000-2017?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www1.nyc.gov&#x2F;html&#x2F;dot&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;nyc-cycling-risk.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www1.nyc.gov&#x2F;html&#x2F;dot&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;nyc-cycling-risk...</a><p>I&#x27;m legitimately curious. I&#x27;m not a New Yorker, so it&#x27;s very plausible that there are factors involved that I&#x27;m not aware of. E.g. if the additional 130 million trips in 2017 are all in Central Park, that could explain it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Roads with protected bike lanes make both cycling and driving safer: study</title><url>https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/06/protected-bike-lanes-safe-street-design-bicycle-road-safety/590722/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wefarrell</author><text>In NYC I think they&#x27;re counterproductive to safety. Cars use them for temporary parking and pedestrians use them as a sidewalk.<p>When I visit Europe and Japan they seem to be far more effective.<p>I think it comes down to etiquette and that goes both ways - non cyclists need to respect bike lanes and cyclists need to obey traffic laws. Admittedly I don&#x27;t obey traffic laws when cycling, but I would if they were enforced.</text></item><item><author>jxcl</author><text>As a commuting cyclist I usually prefer to ride in the street than in a bike lane. Protected cycle lanes are great only so long as nobody turns to the right directly in front of you. When there are cars parked in between the cycle lane and the car lane it&#x27;s much easier for the driver to miss the cyclist, and few people check the cycle lane before turning right. I was definitely guilty of this until I started cycling.<p>Unprotected bike lanes between traffic and parking are the worst though. It&#x27;s terrifying riding past cars any of which might open their door without looking and either cause me to crash into them or swerve into traffic and be run over. On these streets I will frequently ride in the car lanes as well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deanclatworthy</author><text>As a European I couldn&#x27;t believe people cycled in the lanes I saw in NYC last year. I was there only a few days, but saw numerous close calls with drivers turning into the lanes. It&#x27;s nuts. If you took away the parking inbetween the cycle lane and the road, you&#x27;d probably take away 50% of accidents also.</text></comment> |
23,058,803 | 23,058,806 | 1 | 2 | 23,058,175 | train | <story><title>RustBoyAdvance-NG: GameBoy Advance emulator and debugger, written in rust</title><url>https://github.com/michelhe/rustboyadvance-ng</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>the_pwner224</author><text>&gt; 𝔒𝔶𝔢𝔷!, 𝔒𝔶𝔢𝔷!, 𝔒𝔶𝔢𝔷! 𝔄𝔫𝔬𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔤𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔱 ℜ𝔲𝔰𝔱 𝔭𝔯𝔬𝔧𝔢𝔠𝔱!<p>What the hell are those? I looked at each letter (Unicode 1D5{12,36,22,37}), and apparently it spells out Oyez?</text></item><item><author>rvz</author><text>Great project! But other than it being &#x27;written in Rust&#x27; can someone explain what is interesting about yet another Gameboy Advance emulator using SDL2? I&#x27;m guessing its WASM support?<p>I think we&#x27;re all capitalising on the HN algorithm gearing towards Rust-related posts which can only be a great thing for those who absolutely love Rust &lt;3. Perhaps I should be a town crier for the Rust project to market all things Rust.<p>𝔒𝔶𝔢𝔷!, 𝔒𝔶𝔢𝔷!, 𝔒𝔶𝔢𝔷! 𝔄𝔫𝔬𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔤𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔱 ℜ𝔲𝔰𝔱 𝔭𝔯𝔬𝔧𝔢𝔠𝔱!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qznc</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Oyez" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Oyez</a><p>Oyez (&#x2F;oʊˈjɛz&#x2F;, &#x2F;oʊˈjeɪ&#x2F;, &#x2F;oʊˈjɛs&#x2F;, more rarely with the word stress at the beginning) is a traditional interjection said two or three times in succession to introduce the opening of a court of law, especially in Great Britain. The interjection is also traditionally used by town criers to attract the attention of the public to public proclamations.</text></comment> | <story><title>RustBoyAdvance-NG: GameBoy Advance emulator and debugger, written in rust</title><url>https://github.com/michelhe/rustboyadvance-ng</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>the_pwner224</author><text>&gt; 𝔒𝔶𝔢𝔷!, 𝔒𝔶𝔢𝔷!, 𝔒𝔶𝔢𝔷! 𝔄𝔫𝔬𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔤𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔱 ℜ𝔲𝔰𝔱 𝔭𝔯𝔬𝔧𝔢𝔠𝔱!<p>What the hell are those? I looked at each letter (Unicode 1D5{12,36,22,37}), and apparently it spells out Oyez?</text></item><item><author>rvz</author><text>Great project! But other than it being &#x27;written in Rust&#x27; can someone explain what is interesting about yet another Gameboy Advance emulator using SDL2? I&#x27;m guessing its WASM support?<p>I think we&#x27;re all capitalising on the HN algorithm gearing towards Rust-related posts which can only be a great thing for those who absolutely love Rust &lt;3. Perhaps I should be a town crier for the Rust project to market all things Rust.<p>𝔒𝔶𝔢𝔷!, 𝔒𝔶𝔢𝔷!, 𝔒𝔶𝔢𝔷! 𝔄𝔫𝔬𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔤𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔱 ℜ𝔲𝔰𝔱 𝔭𝔯𝔬𝔧𝔢𝔠𝔱!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AndrewDucker</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Oyez?wprov=sfla1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Oyez?wprov=sfla1</a></text></comment> |
12,777,089 | 12,776,440 | 1 | 2 | 12,776,269 | train | <story><title>Capturing Millions of Packets per Second in Linux without Third-Party Libraries</title><url>http://kukuruku.co/hub/nix/capturing-packets-in-linux-at-a-speed-of-millions-of-packets-per-second-without-using-third-party-libraries</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>revelation</author><text>This must be the 10th blog post to land on HN on the same topic, and they all walk through the same steps and all use the same hardware (ixgbe), which is by the way a hard prerequisite to make much of these strategies effective.<p>In any case, stop reinventing the wheel, just use a library purpose-made:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dpdk.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dpdk.org&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lukego</author><text>I am a Snabb hacker and I see things differently. Ethernet I&#x2F;O is fundamentally a simple problem, DPDK is taking the industry in the wrong direction, and application developers should fight back.<p>Ethernet I&#x2F;O is simple at heart. You have an array of pointer+length packets that you want to send, an array of pointer+length buffers where you want to receive, and some configuration like &quot;hash across these 10 rings&quot; or &quot;pick a ring based on VLAN-ID.&quot; This should not be more work than, say, a JSON parser. (However, if you aren&#x27;t vigilant you could easily make it as complex as a C++ parser.)<p>DPDK has created a direct vector for hardware vendors to ship code into applications. Hardware vendors have specific interests: they want to differentiate themselves with complicated features, they want to get their product out the door quickly even if that means throwing bodies at a complicated implementation, and they want to optimize for the narrow cases that will look good on their marketing literature. They are happy for their complicated proprietary interfaces to propagate throughout the software ecosystem. They also focus their support on their big customers via account teams and aren&#x27;t really bothered about independent developers or people on non-mainstream platforms.<p>Case in point: We want to run Snabb on Mellanox NICs. If we adopt the vendor ecosystem then we are buying into four (!) large software ecosystems: Linux kernel (mlx5 driver), Mellanox OFED (control plane), DPDK (data plane built on OFED+kernel), and Mellanox firmware tools (mostly non-open-source, strangely licensed, distributed as binaries that only work on a few distros). In practice it will be our problem to make sure these all play nice together and that will be a challenge e.g. in a container environment where we don&#x27;t have control over which kernel is used. We also have to accept the engineering trade-offs that the vendor engineering team has made which in this case seems to include special optimizations to game benchmarks [1].<p>I say forget that for a joke.<p>Instead we have done a bunch more work up front to first successfully lobby the vendor to release their driver API [2] and then to write a stand-alone driver of our own [3] that does not depend on anything else (kernel, ofed, dpdk, etc). This is around 1 KLOC of Lua code when all is said and done.<p>I would love to hear from other people who want to join the ranks of self-sufficient application developers. Honestly our ConnectX driver has been a lot of work but it should be much easier for the next guy&#x2F;gal to build on our experience. If you needed a JSON parser you would not look for a 100 KLOC implementation full of weird vendor extensions, so why do that for an ethernet driver?<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dpdk.org&#x2F;ml&#x2F;archives&#x2F;dev&#x2F;2016-September&#x2F;046705.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dpdk.org&#x2F;ml&#x2F;archives&#x2F;dev&#x2F;2016-September&#x2F;046705.html</a>
[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mellanox.com&#x2F;related-docs&#x2F;user_manuals&#x2F;Ethernet_Adapters_Programming_Manual.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mellanox.com&#x2F;related-docs&#x2F;user_manuals&#x2F;Ethernet_A...</a>
[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;snabbco&#x2F;snabb&#x2F;blob&#x2F;mellanox&#x2F;src&#x2F;apps&#x2F;mellanox&#x2F;connectx4.lua" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;snabbco&#x2F;snabb&#x2F;blob&#x2F;mellanox&#x2F;src&#x2F;apps&#x2F;mell...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Capturing Millions of Packets per Second in Linux without Third-Party Libraries</title><url>http://kukuruku.co/hub/nix/capturing-packets-in-linux-at-a-speed-of-millions-of-packets-per-second-without-using-third-party-libraries</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>revelation</author><text>This must be the 10th blog post to land on HN on the same topic, and they all walk through the same steps and all use the same hardware (ixgbe), which is by the way a hard prerequisite to make much of these strategies effective.<p>In any case, stop reinventing the wheel, just use a library purpose-made:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dpdk.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dpdk.org&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rdtsc</author><text>Depending what you are doing, with latencies (or throughput) in that range, sticking a black box library in there right away might not be the best idea always. Doing what the author did is also a way to learn how things work. Eventually the library might be the answer, but if I had to do what they did, I would do it by hand first as well.</text></comment> |
34,974,582 | 34,973,949 | 1 | 2 | 34,971,717 | train | <story><title>The Offshore Networks of Oligarchs</title><url>https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad051/7059318</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>berjin</author><text>Every time I have to fill in some AML (anti-money laundering) form I think how much of a waste of time and money it is for every party involved since the real big fish are getting around it with professional help. It&#x27;s all very kafkaesque and invasive so I come to the conclusion it&#x27;s more about powerful governments existing to gain more power than it is about solving any injustice.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Offshore Networks of Oligarchs</title><url>https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad051/7059318</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>leashless</author><text>We&#x27;re looking for the &quot;Goldilocks Zone&quot; of privacy. We want:<p>* Enough privacy that activists don&#x27;t wind up facing death squads
* Not so much privacy that drug cartels wind up running the country.<p>The problem is that cryptography is all or nothing: for a given observer, the transaction is either private or it isn&#x27;t.<p>I&#x27;m fascinated by models like differential privacy. Maybe there are ways of making systems which snare large scale abuses but <i>provably</i> leave the minnows free.</text></comment> |
17,173,034 | 17,172,916 | 1 | 2 | 17,172,356 | train | <story><title>The Engineer vs. the Border Patrol</title><url>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/05/terry-bressi-wants-to-take-customs-and-border-protections-internal-immigration-checkpoints-to-the-supreme-court.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasonwatkinspdx</author><text>A friend was in a similar situation for a while: crossing a CBP checkpoint multiple times every day for work in south Texas.<p>At some point he decided to try to stand up for what he considered his rights in a similar way: not being combative, just not cooperating. He was thrown in jail for 3 days, then the charges were dropped.<p>He talked with lawyers and the ACLU. The ACLU were quite frank that they have limited resources, and so they have to prioritize cases that have the ideal defendant and political optics. If he fought it personally, the cost would start at five figures.<p>The folks doing this <i>know</i> there&#x27;s a high barrier to holding them accountable and leverage it wantonly.<p>The worst thing about these &quot;contempt of cop&quot; style arrests is, despite the charges being dropped, once you&#x27;re in the system&#x27;s pipeline, if you mess up about any of the restrictions, paperwork, court appearances, etc, you become a criminal. It&#x27;s easy to imagine a lot of folks might fall into that trap for innocent and mundane reasons.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Spearchucker</author><text>As a not-American stories like this make the very country itself seem like the blueprint followed by the tech giants. Illegally bullying the public at large, too big to punish, let alone reign in. It&#x27;s not an ideal image, is it? And most depressing is that there&#x27;s not a damn thing Joe average can do about it.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Engineer vs. the Border Patrol</title><url>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/05/terry-bressi-wants-to-take-customs-and-border-protections-internal-immigration-checkpoints-to-the-supreme-court.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasonwatkinspdx</author><text>A friend was in a similar situation for a while: crossing a CBP checkpoint multiple times every day for work in south Texas.<p>At some point he decided to try to stand up for what he considered his rights in a similar way: not being combative, just not cooperating. He was thrown in jail for 3 days, then the charges were dropped.<p>He talked with lawyers and the ACLU. The ACLU were quite frank that they have limited resources, and so they have to prioritize cases that have the ideal defendant and political optics. If he fought it personally, the cost would start at five figures.<p>The folks doing this <i>know</i> there&#x27;s a high barrier to holding them accountable and leverage it wantonly.<p>The worst thing about these &quot;contempt of cop&quot; style arrests is, despite the charges being dropped, once you&#x27;re in the system&#x27;s pipeline, if you mess up about any of the restrictions, paperwork, court appearances, etc, you become a criminal. It&#x27;s easy to imagine a lot of folks might fall into that trap for innocent and mundane reasons.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>djsumdog</author><text>The biggest problem in trying to stand up against it is US v. Martinez-Fuerte, effectively making these stops legal at the federal&#x2F;constitution level.<p>The only way to fight it would be a heavily organized protest; enough people that they couldn&#x27;t arrest everyone&#x2F;would fill the jails.</text></comment> |
40,352,485 | 40,351,444 | 1 | 3 | 40,350,408 | train | <story><title>Upstreaming Linux kernel support for the Snapdragon X Elite</title><url>https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/blog/2024/05/upstreaming-linux-kernel-support-for-the-snapdragon-x-elite</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sidkshatriya</author><text>I am excited about the prospect of Linux on another powerful aarch64 platform like Snapdragon Elite.<p>But, as far as I can tell from the diagram on the link shared, you will boot into EL1 and <i>not</i> EL2. This means that you cannot run a hardware accelerated VM on KVM (via something like qemu).<p>This makes a Snapdragon Linux laptop not as useful. BTW Asahi Linux on Apple Silicon enters on EL2 which allows qemu+KVM.<p>Entering on EL1 instead of EL2 seems to be be an outstanding issue with current Snapdragon based Linux laptops too. Can anybody correct me here if I&#x27;m wrong ?<p>&gt; In short, our roadmap for the next six months includes work in these areas:<p>&gt; End-to-end hardware video decoding, on Firefox and Chrome<p>&gt; Implementation of the libcamera-SoftISP camera solution<p>&gt; GPU and CPU performance optimizations<p>&gt; Power optimizations (Suspend&#x2F;DCVS)<p>&gt; Making our firmware openly available (in Linux-firmware)<p>&gt; Access to easy installers (Ubuntu and Debian)<p>&quot;Making our firmware openly available (in Linux-firmware)&quot; is a big one. How are firmware updates currently distributed ? People using Linux Laptops probably don&#x27;t want to be signing into some Qualcomm website to get latest firmware updates. Also downloading firmware updates from some random link either would not instill a lot of confidence either.<p>I feel these 2 big items need to be addressed before Linux on Snapdragon can be a truly attractive option.</text></comment> | <story><title>Upstreaming Linux kernel support for the Snapdragon X Elite</title><url>https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/blog/2024/05/upstreaming-linux-kernel-support-for-the-snapdragon-x-elite</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zmk5</author><text>Looks like by next LTS (for kernel 6.10 and 6.11) we&#x27;ll have some good support for these chips. I wonder if any OEMs will make any Linux laptops for us to buy.</text></comment> |
25,178,566 | 25,178,430 | 1 | 2 | 25,177,290 | train | <story><title>Building a roam-like, networked, heavily-customized realtime editor, part 1</title><url>https://namiwang.github.io/2020/11/12/building-a-roam-like-networked-heavily-customized-realtime-editor-part-1.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lewisjoe</author><text>I remember setting out to write a Workflowy&#x2F;Roam style outline viewed editor using prosemirror and it wasn’t as easy. Kudos to the author for building one.<p>Also, why is that all these note-taking apps see everything as a list item? As for me, most of my writings are loosely structured scattered across paragraphs, quotes and codeblocks. Why isn’t this mainstream? Why is “Everything is a list item” winning?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amardeep</author><text>You might like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;logseq.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;logseq.com&#x2F;</a>. It works with either markdown or emacs org-mode syntax. It also syncs with github, so you could do local editing too.</text></comment> | <story><title>Building a roam-like, networked, heavily-customized realtime editor, part 1</title><url>https://namiwang.github.io/2020/11/12/building-a-roam-like-networked-heavily-customized-realtime-editor-part-1.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lewisjoe</author><text>I remember setting out to write a Workflowy&#x2F;Roam style outline viewed editor using prosemirror and it wasn’t as easy. Kudos to the author for building one.<p>Also, why is that all these note-taking apps see everything as a list item? As for me, most of my writings are loosely structured scattered across paragraphs, quotes and codeblocks. Why isn’t this mainstream? Why is “Everything is a list item” winning?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>input_sh</author><text>Look up Obsidian (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;obsidian.md&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;obsidian.md&#x2F;</a>). Built by the team that built Dynalist. It&#x27;s basically Markdown + wikilinks ([[like this]]), allowing you paragraphs, quotes, and codeblocks.<p>I found out that I end up using lists more often than not, but I like the flexibility it offers.</text></comment> |
13,265,969 | 13,264,270 | 1 | 2 | 13,264,054 | train | <story><title>Library-managed 'arXiv' spreads scientific advances rapidly and worldwide</title><url>http://ezramagazine.cornell.edu/FALL12/CoverStorySidebar2.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CJefferson</author><text>Can I just make a general plea?<p>You should upload your paper to arXiv. When you do, please upload your source (tex, or word I imagine), as well as a PDF.<p>For the blind, PDF is the worst possible format, and tex and word are the best formats. Don&#x27;t hide, or lose, the blind-accessible version of your paper.</text></comment> | <story><title>Library-managed 'arXiv' spreads scientific advances rapidly and worldwide</title><url>http://ezramagazine.cornell.edu/FALL12/CoverStorySidebar2.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>naftaliharris</author><text>This article misses one of the biggest value-adds of arXiv, at least in my field (Statistics): since almost everyone posts to arXiv, you can almost always find a free version of a published and potentially pay-walled paper. In the past, publishing in a peer-reviewed journal would (1) improve the paper through peer review, (2) signal the quality of the paper based on the prestige of the journal, and (3) distribute the paper. With arXiv, publishing now only does (1) and (2).</text></comment> |
36,799,728 | 36,797,901 | 1 | 2 | 36,795,173 | train | <story><title>Kevin Mitnick has died</title><url>https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/las-vegas-nv/kevin-mitnick-11371668</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>josh2600</author><text>Mitnick was a hacker hero of mine in my youth. I think I’ve understood his role as jester prior to conviction less as I’ve grown older, but there’s something about the boyhood charm of being so divorced from the potential consequences of one’s actions that is almost unique.<p>Mitnick had so many stories that entranced the people around him. I heard one second hand of Mitnick dealing with a bank who had early voice verification software. Upon meeting the CEO he gave the executive his card and departed for the evening. Arriving back at his hotel, he called the CEO and asked him to read his phone number to him. The phone number contained all ten digits which Mitnick had neatly tape recorded so as to make the CEO’s voice reproducible. He then proceeded to use the bank’s vocal banking system to transfer $1 from the CEO’s account to his as the authentication mechanism was reading out your own account number in your voice.<p>When Mitnick arrived back in the board room the architect of the voice verification system was crestfallen and the bank CEO delivered a check on a silver platter.<p>Now how much of that tale is embellished I will never know as it was second hand, but that was the kind of whimsy Mitnick brought to our world.<p>Rest in Power.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eduction</author><text>He has the CEO’s number and successfully calls him, and through some miracle gets through directly to ask this trivial question — as opposed to getting the number from the assistant who answers his phone - sure ok but then under what pretense does he then ask him to repeat his phone number? “Please repeat the phone number I just dialed.”<p>The phone number contains all the digits needed to recreate the bank account number?<p>He somehow has the bank account number?<p>He meets the CEO (despite just being a security consultant) and gives his report to the board of directors?! That is not how companies usually work, especially the board part.<p>Check on a silver platter? architect of the voice system is brought into the room with the board to be humiliated? This reads like something a 13 year old would dream up (nothing against OP maybe someone even Mitnik really did claim this happened).<p>The tale is absolutely embellished if it has any truth at all.</text></comment> | <story><title>Kevin Mitnick has died</title><url>https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/las-vegas-nv/kevin-mitnick-11371668</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>josh2600</author><text>Mitnick was a hacker hero of mine in my youth. I think I’ve understood his role as jester prior to conviction less as I’ve grown older, but there’s something about the boyhood charm of being so divorced from the potential consequences of one’s actions that is almost unique.<p>Mitnick had so many stories that entranced the people around him. I heard one second hand of Mitnick dealing with a bank who had early voice verification software. Upon meeting the CEO he gave the executive his card and departed for the evening. Arriving back at his hotel, he called the CEO and asked him to read his phone number to him. The phone number contained all ten digits which Mitnick had neatly tape recorded so as to make the CEO’s voice reproducible. He then proceeded to use the bank’s vocal banking system to transfer $1 from the CEO’s account to his as the authentication mechanism was reading out your own account number in your voice.<p>When Mitnick arrived back in the board room the architect of the voice verification system was crestfallen and the bank CEO delivered a check on a silver platter.<p>Now how much of that tale is embellished I will never know as it was second hand, but that was the kind of whimsy Mitnick brought to our world.<p>Rest in Power.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alex-moon</author><text>All of the stories in his books are like this. An existing seemingly sensible system is used in a creative way to get access. Every time you read one the creative solution is so elegant you just go &quot;Ah, can&#x27;t believe I didn&#x27;t think of that&quot; (and then go try it yourself obviously - had lots of fun as a teenager taking down websites&#x2F;stealing ppl&#x27;s passwords&#x2F;etc as a party trick for my friends).</text></comment> |
36,199,974 | 36,198,749 | 1 | 2 | 36,198,329 | train | <story><title>Our right to challenge junk patents is under threat</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/06/our-right-challenge-junk-patents-under-threat</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joemullin</author><text>I work for EFF and wrote the text of this blog post and action. On here I speak only for myself, but a couple points I want to add.<p>1) EFF has only filed one IPR ever, (linked in the post), against Personal Audio, to invalidate a patent asserted against podcasting. This was crowd-funded by hundreds of people. It required years of litigation beyond the IPR process itself.<p>2) Patent challenges should be open to all. There&#x27;s nothing wrong with a &quot;for profit&quot; org challenging a government monopoly - it&#x27;s a public benefit. A good patent will often hold up (many do), a wrongly granted one will usually go down.<p>Please read the examples in the post of (very) small businesses, individuals, and nonprofits (Wikimedia) who were protected because <i>another</i> organization, often a for-profit, filed a successful IPR.<p>It&#x27;s truly upside down world when USPTO is concerned its very limited monopoly-challenging services are being overused by &quot;for-profits&quot; that file &quot;serial&quot; petitions. In my career I have analyzed hundreds of shell companies that have (each!) sent out dozens or hundreds of threat letters and lawsuits demanding patent royalty payments (patent trolls). Guess what? They&#x27;re ALL for-profit. They ALL file serial petitions with the hopes of a fast payout.<p>We have limited means to challenge this extortionate business model, and now USPTO is trying to drastically limit one of the best options. I hope they reconsider, and we ask for your support.<p>Thanks to all and I appreciate the discussion here.</text></comment> | <story><title>Our right to challenge junk patents is under threat</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/06/our-right-challenge-junk-patents-under-threat</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>myshpa</author><text>Why Software Patents are Bad, Period.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;caseymuratori.com&#x2F;blog_0027" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;caseymuratori.com&#x2F;blog_0027</a><p>Patents are out of control, and they’re hurting innovation<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.learnliberty.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;patents-are-out-of-control-and-theyre-hurting-innovation&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.learnliberty.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;patents-are-out-of-control...</a><p>Economic and Game Theory Against Intellectual Monopoly<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20120121014753&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;levine.sscnet.ucla.edu&#x2F;general&#x2F;intellectual&#x2F;againstfinal.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20120121014753&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;levine.ss...</a><p>PATENTS AND INNOVATION IN ECONOMIC HISTORY<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gwern.net&#x2F;doc&#x2F;economics&#x2F;2016-moser.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gwern.net&#x2F;doc&#x2F;economics&#x2F;2016-moser.pdf</a><p>Historical record shows how intellectual property systematically slowed down innovation<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20140306012646&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.p2pfoundation.net&#x2F;historical-record-shows-how-intellectual-property-systematically-slowed-down-innovation&#x2F;2012&#x2F;03&#x2F;27" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20140306012646&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.p2pfo...</a><p>Criticism of patents<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Criticism_of_patents" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Criticism_of_patents</a></text></comment> |
38,888,202 | 38,882,727 | 1 | 2 | 38,875,399 | train | <story><title>How Australia’s ‘Bluey’ conquered children’s entertainment</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/0a3c9806-8b0f-4cca-a4e5-e1e6dd6d395b</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pylua</author><text>It also sets the bar very high for parents.</text></item><item><author>ursuscamp</author><text>Bluey blew me away when I saw it with my daughter. It&#x27;s sweet, positive, emotional, well written. It&#x27;s not the slightest bit cynical, handles every issue with tact, doesn&#x27;t contain heavy handed messaging and has traditional values. It also has a very positive two parent dynamic. This is an absolute unicorn of a show.<p>Note: my usage of &quot;traditional values&quot; is not meant to evoke anything political or intended to be interpreted from a culture war lens. I just mean it positively portrays a family dynamic that can be universally appreciated.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nagonago</author><text>I recently listened to an interview with Joe Brumm, the creator of Bluey, on the podcast &quot;How Other Dads Dad&quot;. He said this is a common criticism, and he thinks a fair one.<p>The problem is his aim was never to be an educational show for parents, but to be an entertaining show. It wouldn&#x27;t be as entertaining if Bandit didn&#x27;t play with the kids all the time.<p>So yeah, although it is a great kid&#x27;s show and a much better example of parenting than other shows...we should keep in mind it&#x27;s ultimately entertainment, not a parenting bible.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Australia’s ‘Bluey’ conquered children’s entertainment</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/0a3c9806-8b0f-4cca-a4e5-e1e6dd6d395b</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pylua</author><text>It also sets the bar very high for parents.</text></item><item><author>ursuscamp</author><text>Bluey blew me away when I saw it with my daughter. It&#x27;s sweet, positive, emotional, well written. It&#x27;s not the slightest bit cynical, handles every issue with tact, doesn&#x27;t contain heavy handed messaging and has traditional values. It also has a very positive two parent dynamic. This is an absolute unicorn of a show.<p>Note: my usage of &quot;traditional values&quot; is not meant to evoke anything political or intended to be interpreted from a culture war lens. I just mean it positively portrays a family dynamic that can be universally appreciated.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>earthboundkid</author><text>My friend says she tries to model herself on the Mum from Bluey.<p>I say it gives children unrealistic ideas about how much play time the average parent can engage in without getting a crick in their back.</text></comment> |
11,410,156 | 11,409,504 | 1 | 3 | 11,404,564 | train | <story><title>Hands-on with HoloLens: On the cusp of a revolution</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/04/hands-on-hololens-on-the-cusp-of-a-revolution/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>VonGuard</author><text>I played with Hololens at Build this week. I believe, after seeing it, using it, and even developing a little with it, that this device is truly revolutionary, and Google is wasting its money in Florida.<p>I shook my head back and forth like a dog trying to dry itself off, and the images I saw barely wiggled. The images are bright enough to completely occlude reality. The software dev stuff is from MS, so it is polished, simple, and powerful.<p>Voice recognition on the device, for example, is just handled by calling the voice functions in the core library, then GIVING IT A STRING. It listens for this plain text string. That&#x27;s it. Sooooo simple and powerful.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hands-on with HoloLens: On the cusp of a revolution</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/04/hands-on-hololens-on-the-cusp-of-a-revolution/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>daveguy</author><text>What I got from the video:<p>The gaphics integration into the real world is phenomenal. If you put a virtual object in a room you can walk around it. If you put something on a wall it stays there no matter where you walk.<p>Unfortunately, the interface -- how you interact with virtual objects -- is completely janky. Awkward pinching gestures to select keys from a floating virtual keyboard. Cursors that are supposed to represent your physical movement, but instead jump around.<p>It is tantalizingly close, but it seems like it would be just as annoying as it is neat or useful until someone comes up with a better (simple and reliable) interface.</text></comment> |
31,801,322 | 31,801,403 | 1 | 2 | 31,800,684 | train | <story><title>The brain has a ‘low-power mode’ that blunts our senses</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-brain-has-a-low-power-mode-that-blunts-our-senses-20220614/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Hnrobert42</author><text>The fact that leptin, not food, restored high-power mode makes me wonder if we could use leptin to increase dieting efficacy. I’ve read that there are limits to how much weight you can lose per week, no matter how much you restrict your caloric intake. Beyond a certain point, your body senses the deficiency and decreases your metabolism. If a person could restrict calories AND receive leptin injections, they could lose weight faster. (note, I am thinking about this in terms of helping the morbidly obese in dire circumstances.)</text></comment> | <story><title>The brain has a ‘low-power mode’ that blunts our senses</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-brain-has-a-low-power-mode-that-blunts-our-senses-20220614/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hprotagonist</author><text>One time I bonked so hard on a long ride that i lost color vision.<p>Fastest orange juice i ever drank.</text></comment> |
28,873,193 | 28,871,911 | 1 | 2 | 28,871,566 | train | <story><title>Chemicals used in packaging may play role in 100k US deaths a year – study</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/14/phthalates-deaths-older-americans-study-chemicals</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>frazbin</author><text>Let&#x27;s not fall all over ourselves defending the manufacture of plastics.. it&#x27;s a self-justifying dinosaur industry. We can go a lot farther with cellulose and chitin and friends, polymers made in factories aren&#x27;t particularly special from a chemical structure&#x2F;function standpoint-- unlike PFAS type stuff, their bioincompatibility is just due to our laziness. The big advantage with plastics is that we&#x27;re good at making&#x2F;shaping&#x2F;customizing them quickly and cheaply. It can very much all be done with biocompatible&#x2F;harmless chemicals. That it isn&#x27;t, is an accident of history: the early Chemistry research that produced the synthetic polymers used today made no attempt whatsoever to be biocompatible.. everything since has built on that, and not enough collective fuck has been given to dismantle and rebuild that infrastructure.<p>And just to get out ahead of it-- can we also not blame plastic consumers, who after all are just trying to eat, and probably don&#x27;t want to poison themselves.</text></comment> | <story><title>Chemicals used in packaging may play role in 100k US deaths a year – study</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/14/phthalates-deaths-older-americans-study-chemicals</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sokoloff</author><text>This makes me wonder how many deaths the widespread use of plastics in packaging has saved over the years from improvements in nutrition (reduced spoilage lowers net food costs and increases food availability) and reductions in food-borne illnesses.<p>The death rate from food-borne illness is pretty low now (with advances in processing, transportation, packaging, phase-change refrigeration, and surveillance of outbreaks).<p>We might be able to have our cake and eat it to with better&#x2F;different packaging, of course.</text></comment> |
11,740,170 | 11,739,572 | 1 | 2 | 11,739,342 | train | <story><title>A Forest Grew for Millennia in North America Without Anyone Noticing</title><url>http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/a-secret-forest-grew-for-millennia-in-north-america-without-anyone-noticing?</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MiguelVieira</author><text>Ancient forests like this are not too rare in the United States. You can find a list of them here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_old-growth_forests#United_States" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_old-growth_forests#Uni...</a><p>Disclosure: I compiled most of the list.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Forest Grew for Millennia in North America Without Anyone Noticing</title><url>http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/a-secret-forest-grew-for-millennia-in-north-america-without-anyone-noticing?</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nxzero</author><text>Reminds me of how one man accidentally killed the oldest tree ever:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.smithsonianmag.com&#x2F;smart-news&#x2F;how-one-man-accidentally-killed-the-oldest-tree-ever-125764872&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.smithsonianmag.com&#x2F;smart-news&#x2F;how-one-man-acciden...</a><p>Then of course there&#x27;s this article, &quot;Vintage Photos of Lumberjacks and the Giant Trees They Felled&quot;<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.atlasobscura.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;vintage-photos-of-lumberjacks-and-the-giant-trees-they-felled" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.atlasobscura.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;vintage-photos-of-lumbe...</a></text></comment> |
38,025,635 | 38,025,958 | 1 | 2 | 38,025,177 | train | <story><title>U.S. GDP grew at a 4.9% annual pace in the third quarter, better than expected</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/26/us-gdp-grew-at-a-4point9percent-annual-pace-in-the-third-quarter-better-than-expected.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>codegeek</author><text>I know US has lot of problems. However, I was just thinking this earlier that if you are a US Citizen, you already have so many advantages and opportunities that many don&#x27;t just because of that Passport. It is a great privilege especially as an Immigrant who became US citizens years ago. Not saying we are perfect obviously and just had a mass shooting earlier this AM (an unfortunate normal now) but if I had to choose a country to get ahead in life with the most opportunities possible as an immigrant, US is still the country to be at. Especially if you are entrepreneurial and want to control how you live your life.</text></comment> | <story><title>U.S. GDP grew at a 4.9% annual pace in the third quarter, better than expected</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/26/us-gdp-grew-at-a-4point9percent-annual-pace-in-the-third-quarter-better-than-expected.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>screye</author><text>The US has 3 unsurmountable advantages over everyone.<p>1. Natural resources<p>2. The American dream of entrepreneurship and immigrant success.<p>3. The work-is-sacred American professional-managerial class.<p>Stable countries decay due to 3 things. First, import pressure can ruin a nation as all its productivity gets extorted out of it by a pseudo-colonial exporter. Natural resources solve this. Second, general lethargy causes productivity to die. But the secularozed protestant work ethic keeps the gears running. Lastly, productive nations can still lose if they miss technological revolution, which can often happen overnight. But the American dream ensures that no one tries to disrupt like Americans, and the most disruptive foreigners are drawn in such that their aha-moment still occurs here.<p>It&#x27;s honestly, perfect.<p>But, don&#x27;t let that distract you from freeloaders who ride this wave of American productivity. The housing industry, cartelized middle men, lobbyists &amp; bloated executives might still be net negative.<p>The US isn&#x27;t just productive. It is productive beyond the wildest imagination of the rest of world. But, that tends to not show up in the numbers or in practice, because a just as large industry of grifters keeps it from cashing it its productivity.<p>The US wins, not by being more efficient or effective. But by sheer brute force.</text></comment> |
15,072,752 | 15,072,686 | 1 | 2 | 15,071,388 | train | <story><title>Hackers nab $500k as Enigma is compromised weeks before its ICO</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/21/hack-enigma-500000-ico/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arkitaip</author><text>turning your comment into a 10-week pdf course as we speak, just gonna pick a theme over ath theme forest brb</text></item><item><author>che_shirecat</author><text>How to make money in ethereum, from high to low risk:<p>1. Dump the leftovers of your bi-weekly software engineering paycheck into buying ETH, BTC, or whichever altcoin is popular this week. It went up 5000% in the past, it&#x27;s got to keep growing right?<p>2. Participate in an ICO and stock up on whatever platform token they&#x27;re hawking. It&#x27;s more profitable if you get in early due to some presale mechanism (hopefully here you aren&#x27;t sending your hard-earned digital currency to a hacker&#x27;s wallet). Sell these tokens about 4-5 days after the sale closes, before the hype dies down and the bagholders realize they&#x27;re holding sand.<p>3. Even more profitable is kicking off your own ICO. Go through the checklist - fancy HTML5 theme that you can buy off of Themeforest and edit the HTML a bit for the landing page, create a Slack channel&#x2F;Twitter account&#x2F;subreddit, write a &quot;whitepaper&quot; that is easy enough for the shmucks you&#x27;re targeting to understand, yet replete with enough pseudo-academic crypto jargon and irrelevant&#x2F;unnecessary mathematical symbols to get the shmucks nodding their heads and pretending to understand how this particular algorithm&#x2F;equation based on the &quot;turing-complete ethereum blockchain&quot; will &quot;change the world&quot; or &quot;bank the unbanked&quot; or, more importantly to them, appreciate 500x in value. Don&#x27;t forget listing the members of your team and advisors, ideally with as much credential signalling as you can - &quot;MIT,&quot; &quot;Stanford,&quot; &quot;Comp Sci Phd,&quot; &quot;McKinsey,&quot; all work here, fake it till you make it and make sure you list Vitalik Buterin on your list of advisors just for that extra bit of technical legitimacy. Use centuries-old sales tactics to pitch your ICO - butter up your target audience&#x27;s sense of superiority by emphasizing exclusivity - they&#x27;re the only clever ones, they&#x27;re the genius computer nerds who understand the 1000x potential of your algorithm, they&#x27;re the ones that are breaking free of the shackles of regulated securities. Create a sense of urgency with a ticking timer on your landing page, a 24-hour window to buy your monopoly money, a subtle&#x2F;not-so-subtle hint that the earlier you get in, the more you&#x27;ll make.<p>4. You could always just put on your black hat and rob these extremely soft targets blind. The simpler the method, it seems, the better. Plus, there&#x27;s absolutely no risk of ever being held accountable - that&#x27;s the beauty of anonymous cryptocurrency!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JamesLeonis</author><text>Why do the work _before_ getting paid? Take out an ICO and let them &quot;preorder&quot; your course!</text></comment> | <story><title>Hackers nab $500k as Enigma is compromised weeks before its ICO</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/21/hack-enigma-500000-ico/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arkitaip</author><text>turning your comment into a 10-week pdf course as we speak, just gonna pick a theme over ath theme forest brb</text></item><item><author>che_shirecat</author><text>How to make money in ethereum, from high to low risk:<p>1. Dump the leftovers of your bi-weekly software engineering paycheck into buying ETH, BTC, or whichever altcoin is popular this week. It went up 5000% in the past, it&#x27;s got to keep growing right?<p>2. Participate in an ICO and stock up on whatever platform token they&#x27;re hawking. It&#x27;s more profitable if you get in early due to some presale mechanism (hopefully here you aren&#x27;t sending your hard-earned digital currency to a hacker&#x27;s wallet). Sell these tokens about 4-5 days after the sale closes, before the hype dies down and the bagholders realize they&#x27;re holding sand.<p>3. Even more profitable is kicking off your own ICO. Go through the checklist - fancy HTML5 theme that you can buy off of Themeforest and edit the HTML a bit for the landing page, create a Slack channel&#x2F;Twitter account&#x2F;subreddit, write a &quot;whitepaper&quot; that is easy enough for the shmucks you&#x27;re targeting to understand, yet replete with enough pseudo-academic crypto jargon and irrelevant&#x2F;unnecessary mathematical symbols to get the shmucks nodding their heads and pretending to understand how this particular algorithm&#x2F;equation based on the &quot;turing-complete ethereum blockchain&quot; will &quot;change the world&quot; or &quot;bank the unbanked&quot; or, more importantly to them, appreciate 500x in value. Don&#x27;t forget listing the members of your team and advisors, ideally with as much credential signalling as you can - &quot;MIT,&quot; &quot;Stanford,&quot; &quot;Comp Sci Phd,&quot; &quot;McKinsey,&quot; all work here, fake it till you make it and make sure you list Vitalik Buterin on your list of advisors just for that extra bit of technical legitimacy. Use centuries-old sales tactics to pitch your ICO - butter up your target audience&#x27;s sense of superiority by emphasizing exclusivity - they&#x27;re the only clever ones, they&#x27;re the genius computer nerds who understand the 1000x potential of your algorithm, they&#x27;re the ones that are breaking free of the shackles of regulated securities. Create a sense of urgency with a ticking timer on your landing page, a 24-hour window to buy your monopoly money, a subtle&#x2F;not-so-subtle hint that the earlier you get in, the more you&#x27;ll make.<p>4. You could always just put on your black hat and rob these extremely soft targets blind. The simpler the method, it seems, the better. Plus, there&#x27;s absolutely no risk of ever being held accountable - that&#x27;s the beauty of anonymous cryptocurrency!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pavel_lishin</author><text>Could I invest in your course academy via some sort of ICO?</text></comment> |
22,311,150 | 22,308,429 | 1 | 2 | 22,307,445 | train | <story><title>No person who was born blind has ever been diagnosed with schizophrenia</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/939qbz/people-born-blind-are-mysteriously-protected-from-schizophrenia</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Retric</author><text>If you’re wondering about how common this should be:<p><i>if schizophrenia occurs at a rate of 0.72% in the population (McGrath et al., 2008) and congenital blindness occurs at an estimated rate of 0.03% in people born in the 1970s and 1980s (based on Robinson et al., 1987), then the joint probability of a person having both conditions, if the two are independent, would be 0.02% or 2 out of every 10,000. Although this is a low prevalence rate, it is higher than the rates for childhood-onset schizophrenia (Remschmidt and Theisen, 2005), and many other well-known medical conditions (e.g., Hodgkin&#x27;s lymphoma, Prader Willi syndrome, Rett&#x27;s Syndome). Based on this estimated prevalence rate, in the United States alone (with a population of 311, 591, 917, as of July 2011, according the US census), there should be approximately 620 congenitally blind people with schizophrenia.</i> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC3615184&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC3615184&#x2F;</a><p>That does do rule out misdiagnosis etc, but it does seem to support a correlation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>prostheticvamp</author><text>Just so we are clear: the approach taken in the studies described is “we looked at a bunch of blind people and couldn’t find a schizophrenic”, and “we looked at a bunch of schizophrenics and couldn’t find a blind person.”<p>The appropriate question is: can such an approach, in a wildly fractured series of data sets, overlook 600 people?</text></comment> | <story><title>No person who was born blind has ever been diagnosed with schizophrenia</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/939qbz/people-born-blind-are-mysteriously-protected-from-schizophrenia</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Retric</author><text>If you’re wondering about how common this should be:<p><i>if schizophrenia occurs at a rate of 0.72% in the population (McGrath et al., 2008) and congenital blindness occurs at an estimated rate of 0.03% in people born in the 1970s and 1980s (based on Robinson et al., 1987), then the joint probability of a person having both conditions, if the two are independent, would be 0.02% or 2 out of every 10,000. Although this is a low prevalence rate, it is higher than the rates for childhood-onset schizophrenia (Remschmidt and Theisen, 2005), and many other well-known medical conditions (e.g., Hodgkin&#x27;s lymphoma, Prader Willi syndrome, Rett&#x27;s Syndome). Based on this estimated prevalence rate, in the United States alone (with a population of 311, 591, 917, as of July 2011, according the US census), there should be approximately 620 congenitally blind people with schizophrenia.</i> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC3615184&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC3615184&#x2F;</a><p>That does do rule out misdiagnosis etc, but it does seem to support a correlation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ocfnash</author><text>Just a moment, 0.72% x 0.03% = 0.0002%, which is about 2 out every 1,000,000.</text></comment> |
33,198,117 | 33,198,045 | 1 | 3 | 33,197,332 | train | <story><title>White House is pushing ahead research to cool Earth by reflecting back sunlight</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/13/what-is-solar-geoengineering-sunlight-reflection-risks-and-benefits.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>faangiq</author><text>&gt; Yeah, but the alternative is lower profits for entrenched corporate powers, so ...<p>Can’t we just pay these people enough to go away?</text></item><item><author>thomascgalvin</author><text>&gt; I feel like stratospheric aerosol injection would have some crazy unintended side effects.<p>Yeah, but the alternative is lower profits for entrenched corporate powers, so ...<p>In all seriousness, though, I&#x27;m glad someone is considering all options, because the political reality of this planet is that the common-sense approach may very well be off the table, meaning a moonshot is all we&#x27;ll have left.</text></item><item><author>babblingfish</author><text>I feel like stratospheric aerosol injection would have some crazy unintended side effects. The size and complexity of the atmosphere is mind blowing. A mistake here could literally ruin the atmosphere for the entire globe.<p>Reduction of Carbon Emissions is and always will be the best strategy to slow down global warming. These moon shot initiatives are necessary but should not be taken too seriously given their low probability of success.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kortilla</author><text>&gt; Can’t we just pay these people enough to go away?<p>“These people” is most of the population. Look at how little people have done to reduce their own meat reduction, transportation usage, etc.<p>People claim they care about global warming but air travel is back in full force and US citizens are throwing shit fits about petrol prices being a little closer to other western countries.<p>There is no corporate evil cabal keeping CO2 emissions high. It’s what the population actually wants through revealed preferences despite their expressed preferences.</text></comment> | <story><title>White House is pushing ahead research to cool Earth by reflecting back sunlight</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/13/what-is-solar-geoengineering-sunlight-reflection-risks-and-benefits.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>faangiq</author><text>&gt; Yeah, but the alternative is lower profits for entrenched corporate powers, so ...<p>Can’t we just pay these people enough to go away?</text></item><item><author>thomascgalvin</author><text>&gt; I feel like stratospheric aerosol injection would have some crazy unintended side effects.<p>Yeah, but the alternative is lower profits for entrenched corporate powers, so ...<p>In all seriousness, though, I&#x27;m glad someone is considering all options, because the political reality of this planet is that the common-sense approach may very well be off the table, meaning a moonshot is all we&#x27;ll have left.</text></item><item><author>babblingfish</author><text>I feel like stratospheric aerosol injection would have some crazy unintended side effects. The size and complexity of the atmosphere is mind blowing. A mistake here could literally ruin the atmosphere for the entire globe.<p>Reduction of Carbon Emissions is and always will be the best strategy to slow down global warming. These moon shot initiatives are necessary but should not be taken too seriously given their low probability of success.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>autoexec</author><text>These people already have more money than they could ever spend in their lifetimes. We could never pay them enough because the problem with them is that they have no concept of &quot;enough&quot;. Their greed is insatiable and they don&#x27;t care who or how many get hurt as long as they get even a little more wealth and power.</text></comment> |
23,530,649 | 23,530,512 | 1 | 2 | 23,528,130 | train | <story><title>DIY True 4K Projector</title><url>https://youtu.be/YfvTjQ9MCwY</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>huhtenberg</author><text>Since the right people might be reading through the comments here -<p>I&#x27;ve been looking at making a hi-res <i>ceiling</i> projector for a living space. Perhaps not one, but a set of several projectors with an overlap, but the key point is that they need to be placed in a way so not to interfere with the normal flow of life. Nor to be easily shadowed by people walking around, etc. This (likely) mandates placing them around the room perimeter, possibly on the walls at some height. This in turn means that they will be projecting at an angle.<p>Do I understand correctly that it&#x27;s not possible in principle to achieve proper focus on the target surface when projecting at an angle like this? That is if I am to project, say, a star field then it&#x27;s not be possible to have stars close to the projector and far from it to be both in focus at the same time?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Someone</author><text>In principle, it is possible. A tilt-shift camera can bring any plane in focus, so running it in reverse will project the image sharply on your ceiling.<p>See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tilt–shift_photography" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tilt–shift_photography</a> for cameras. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.projectorcentral.com&#x2F;Understanding-Lens-Offset-and-Lens-Shift.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.projectorcentral.com&#x2F;Understanding-Lens-Offset-a...</a> learnt me that you can buy projectors that use this method. I suspect that back-projecting televisions (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rear-projection_television" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rear-projection_television</a>) often use it, too.</text></comment> | <story><title>DIY True 4K Projector</title><url>https://youtu.be/YfvTjQ9MCwY</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>huhtenberg</author><text>Since the right people might be reading through the comments here -<p>I&#x27;ve been looking at making a hi-res <i>ceiling</i> projector for a living space. Perhaps not one, but a set of several projectors with an overlap, but the key point is that they need to be placed in a way so not to interfere with the normal flow of life. Nor to be easily shadowed by people walking around, etc. This (likely) mandates placing them around the room perimeter, possibly on the walls at some height. This in turn means that they will be projecting at an angle.<p>Do I understand correctly that it&#x27;s not possible in principle to achieve proper focus on the target surface when projecting at an angle like this? That is if I am to project, say, a star field then it&#x27;s not be possible to have stars close to the projector and far from it to be both in focus at the same time?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lathiat</author><text>Look up &quot;Short Throw Laser Projectors&quot; it&#x27;s somewhat possible with funky optics depending on how much distance you can afford.</text></comment> |
39,973,457 | 39,972,466 | 1 | 2 | 39,970,501 | train | <story><title>Reverst: Reverse Tunnels in Go over HTTP/3 and QUIC</title><url>https://github.com/flipt-io/reverst</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roshanj</author><text>This is great! I&#x27;ve had this exact idea for a specific robotics use-case but never got around to implementing it: a fleet of robots that each expose an HTTP service for debugging purposes. These robots connect to the internet through cellular or hop around among a set of wifi access points, such that long-lived connections are often interrupted and each robot IP address intermittently changes.<p>Many other reverse proxy &#x2F; tunneling solutions use TCP-based protocols or require the target hosts to be accessible by the proxy server, but in this case QUIC connection migration avoids the reconnection handshakes needed for dropped TCP connections, and your client-&gt;server model allows the robots to register themselves from restrictive networks.<p>The only missing feature would be to allow some sort of auth plugin - perhaps as a sub-request made to an external auth service that contains the identifier of the client the request will be routed to, similar to nginx&#x27;s auth_request (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nginx.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;docs&#x2F;http&#x2F;ngx_http_auth_request_module.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nginx.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;docs&#x2F;http&#x2F;ngx_http_auth_request_module....</a>)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>debarshri</author><text>Generally people use Zerotier for this kind of usecase in the industry. It is pretty robust.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reverst: Reverse Tunnels in Go over HTTP/3 and QUIC</title><url>https://github.com/flipt-io/reverst</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roshanj</author><text>This is great! I&#x27;ve had this exact idea for a specific robotics use-case but never got around to implementing it: a fleet of robots that each expose an HTTP service for debugging purposes. These robots connect to the internet through cellular or hop around among a set of wifi access points, such that long-lived connections are often interrupted and each robot IP address intermittently changes.<p>Many other reverse proxy &#x2F; tunneling solutions use TCP-based protocols or require the target hosts to be accessible by the proxy server, but in this case QUIC connection migration avoids the reconnection handshakes needed for dropped TCP connections, and your client-&gt;server model allows the robots to register themselves from restrictive networks.<p>The only missing feature would be to allow some sort of auth plugin - perhaps as a sub-request made to an external auth service that contains the identifier of the client the request will be routed to, similar to nginx&#x27;s auth_request (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nginx.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;docs&#x2F;http&#x2F;ngx_http_auth_request_module.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nginx.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;docs&#x2F;http&#x2F;ngx_http_auth_request_module....</a>)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>screamingninja</author><text>Have you considered wireguard &#x2F; tailscale?</text></comment> |
32,251,072 | 32,249,365 | 1 | 3 | 32,248,732 | train | <story><title>Nikon releases bug fix firmware update for the 10 year-old D7100 DSLR camera</title><url>https://nikonrumors.com/2022/07/26/nikon-released-new-firmware-update-for-the-almost-10-years-old-d7100-dslr-camera.aspx/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>codys</author><text>Camera software is an area that is frustratingly closed off, and where manufacturers regularly differentiate new&#x2F;more expensive cameras with firmware differences: subject detection, auto focus, drive modes (pre-capture, higher frame rates, etc), file format support (HEIC, compressed raw, colorspaces), ui features (how custom modes work, menu systems, etc).<p>Competition in this space driven by a provider that doesn&#x27;t have a motive to convince users to buy the next new camera (ie: open source software) would be very useful to users.<p>Sony and Panasonic cameras (and perhaps other manufacturers) are running Linux (and release some of the third party source code they include in their products, but the amount of reverse engineering that has been done on those camera&#x27;s software.<p>Canon uses a custom RTOS (DryOS), and lots of work has been done to extend the existing Canon firmware to enhance its capabilities (Magic Lantern[1] and CHDK[2]), but as far as I know fully open software for these devices doesn&#x27;t exist.<p>Camera capabilities these days are highly software dependent, and the functionality of dedicated cameras is held back by subpar software development practices and a lack of pressure to make things better.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;magiclantern.fm&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;magiclantern.fm&#x2F;</a>
2: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chdk.fandom.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;CHDK" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chdk.fandom.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;CHDK</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Nikon releases bug fix firmware update for the 10 year-old D7100 DSLR camera</title><url>https://nikonrumors.com/2022/07/26/nikon-released-new-firmware-update-for-the-almost-10-years-old-d7100-dslr-camera.aspx/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>isaacfrond</author><text>Well, whatever the reason, be it personal irritation, or PR purpopose, one hurray for Nikon and against consumerism.</text></comment> |
29,123,863 | 29,123,871 | 1 | 3 | 29,122,978 | train | <story><title>University of Florida reverses course, allows professors to testify</title><url>https://www.wuft.org/news/2021/11/05/university-of-florida-reverses-course-allows-professors-to-testify-regardless-of-compensation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>duxup</author><text>&gt;The university initially said that, because it was a public university and faculty are government employees, it would have been a conflict of its interests to allow three prominent professors to testify for plaintiffs in a lawsuit over new voting restrictions that Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law earlier this year. It backtracked slightly days later when it said the three would be allowed to testify if they forfeited any compensation.<p>What was the conflict?<p>Don&#x27;t question the government?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwawaycities</author><text>There is no conflict of interest.<p>Expert witnesses get called to testify by either party and it’s industry standard they get compensated for their time. That doesn’t create any conflict of interest, and for the University to suggest it does is basically saying they believe their own professors are so unethical they would commit the crime of perjury in exchange for a meager expert witness payment.<p>Also, the idea they are a expert witness for the plaintiff in a case against the government creates a conflict because they work for a public university is the opposite of a conflict of interest. Whereas there would be more of a conflict if the experts were witnesses for the defendant (ie their employer).<p>The University is so tone deaf they don’t realize it’s a conflict of interest for the university to prevent professors from acting as experts in cases against parties that fund the university and even worse that they back track in the face of public exposure and pressure by allowing them to testify on the condition they can’t be compensated as expert witnesses…it’s a clear attempt to punish the professors if they do testify, which they probably won’t do now since they aren’t being compensated for their time.</text></comment> | <story><title>University of Florida reverses course, allows professors to testify</title><url>https://www.wuft.org/news/2021/11/05/university-of-florida-reverses-course-allows-professors-to-testify-regardless-of-compensation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>duxup</author><text>&gt;The university initially said that, because it was a public university and faculty are government employees, it would have been a conflict of its interests to allow three prominent professors to testify for plaintiffs in a lawsuit over new voting restrictions that Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law earlier this year. It backtracked slightly days later when it said the three would be allowed to testify if they forfeited any compensation.<p>What was the conflict?<p>Don&#x27;t question the government?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>supercheetah</author><text>That shouldn&#x27;t even matter. A conflict of interest doesn&#x27;t invalidate what they would have to say. The problems with conflicts of interest in testimony is when that&#x27;s deliberately hidden from anyone to see. Keep that in the open, and any problems from it will also be in the open.</text></comment> |
15,888,826 | 15,888,708 | 1 | 2 | 15,888,591 | train | <story><title>The fifth hyperfactorial: 5⁵ × 4⁴ × 3³ × 2² × 1¹ milliseconds is exactly 1 day</title><url>https://twitter.com/fermatslibrary/status/939499914794594304</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mavhc</author><text>(5 * 5 * 5 * 5 * 5) * (4 * 4 * 4 * 4) * (3 * 3 * 3) * (2 * 2) = (4 * 3 * 2) * (5 * 4 * 3) * (5 * 4 * 3) * ((5 * 5 * 4) * (5 * 2)) = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000</text></comment> | <story><title>The fifth hyperfactorial: 5⁵ × 4⁴ × 3³ × 2² × 1¹ milliseconds is exactly 1 day</title><url>https://twitter.com/fermatslibrary/status/939499914794594304</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>greenleafjacob</author><text>Units of time are specifically chosen to have 5, 2, and 3 as factors. It doesn&#x27;t look so pretty when you compare with universal fundamentals:<p>&gt; 1.000692286 milliseconds – time taken for light to travel 300 km in a vacuum</text></comment> |
19,861,093 | 19,860,839 | 1 | 3 | 19,860,093 | train | <story><title>Google Fights Back</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2019/google-fights-back/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gambler</author><text><i>&gt;It all begins with our mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful, and today, our mission feels as relevant as ever.</i><p>I said this 15 years ago and I will repeat it again. Google is like a man selling boats after a dam brake. They are profiting by managing the problem, not by fixing it. It is to their benefit if the problem actually gets worse. In other words, looking at their long-running effects and initiatives, I see that they aim to change the Internet so that it&#x27;s completely unusable without their services. (The recent stunts with AMP and Gmail are great, obvious examples, but it didn&#x27;t start there. It was going on for a very long while.)<p>This not the kind of thing that I want to spread to my offline life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TulliusCicero</author><text>What exactly are you suggesting here? What&#x27;s the fundamental problem that Google is managing instead of fixing, once and for all?</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Fights Back</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2019/google-fights-back/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gambler</author><text><i>&gt;It all begins with our mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful, and today, our mission feels as relevant as ever.</i><p>I said this 15 years ago and I will repeat it again. Google is like a man selling boats after a dam brake. They are profiting by managing the problem, not by fixing it. It is to their benefit if the problem actually gets worse. In other words, looking at their long-running effects and initiatives, I see that they aim to change the Internet so that it&#x27;s completely unusable without their services. (The recent stunts with AMP and Gmail are great, obvious examples, but it didn&#x27;t start there. It was going on for a very long while.)<p>This not the kind of thing that I want to spread to my offline life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>falcolas</author><text>Google is also holding the plunger that helped create the dam breakage. Not to mention the pry-bars being applied to any attempts to fix the dam.<p>EDIT: For those who want to downvote, consider that the vast majority of Google&#x27;s revenue comes from the use of your personal information to target you with ads, and that most of the advances in ad targeting using personal data have been made by Google.</text></comment> |
6,237,641 | 6,237,381 | 1 | 2 | 6,236,967 | train | <story><title>Scala School</title><url>http://twitter.github.io/scala_school/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eranation</author><text>Few other great learning resources for Scala:<p>- a &quot;JSFiddle&quot; like editor for Scala: <a href="http://scalakata.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;scalakata.com</a><p>- Interactive tours: <a href="http://scalatutorials.com/tour" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;scalatutorials.com&#x2F;tour</a>, <a href="http://www.scala-tour.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scala-tour.com</a>, <a href="http://www.simplyscala.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.simplyscala.com</a><p>- Learn Scala in X minutes: <a href="http://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/scala/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;learnxinyminutes.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;scala&#x2F;</a><p>- Typesafe Activator: <a href="http://www.typesafe.com/activator" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.typesafe.com&#x2F;activator</a><p>- Official docs of course: <a href="http://docs.scala-lang.org/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.scala-lang.org&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Scala School</title><url>http://twitter.github.io/scala_school/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MojoJolo</author><text>If you guys really into Scala, I really recommend trying Finagle (<a href="https://github.com/twitter/finagle" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;twitter&#x2F;finagle</a>). It was also created by Twitter. It was a lightweight HTTP server and client for Scala. It&#x27;s my favorite. With just a &quot;single&quot; line of code, you can create an HTTP server in Scala.<p>I usually combine it with Rogue (<a href="https://github.com/foursquare/rogue" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;foursquare&#x2F;rogue</a>), an &quot;ORM&quot;-like for MongoDB. I used Finagle and Rogue to build a fast and lightweight REST API.</text></comment> |
2,628,056 | 2,627,590 | 1 | 2 | 2,627,074 | train | <story><title>Demoted</title><url>http://daringfireball.net/2011/06/demoted</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChrisLTD</author><text>Exactly. A lot of Apple's big announcements today were about features that create lock-in. Your music is tied to a $25 iTunes subscriptions; your reading list, email, calendar, to do list, and office documents are tied to iCloud; they even want your text messaging tied to your iOS devices. Then there's all those apps you bought on the Mac and iOS App Stores that you'll never be able to transfer to another system.<p>If you start using enough of these new features, switching away to Android, WebOS or Windows will be a nightmare.</text></item><item><author>kenjackson</author><text>Gruber is repeating the obvious, but in a convoluted way.<p>Apple is about selling HW. Google is about selling ads.<p>That's it. Everything else falls from that.<p>Google's goal is to commodotize HW, and I this is, at least theoretically, doable. Apple can't really commodotize ads, at least in no way I can think of.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rimantas</author><text><p><pre><code> &#62; Your music is tied to a $25 iTunes subscriptions
</code></pre>
But it is not.<p><pre><code> &#62; they even want your text messaging tied to your iOS
&#62; devices
</code></pre>
Another way to look at it: your text messaging is freed from your carrier.<p><pre><code> &#62; Then there's all those apps you bought on the Mac and iOS App
&#62; Stores that you'll never be able to transfer to another system.
</code></pre>
How is that different from any other system?</text></comment> | <story><title>Demoted</title><url>http://daringfireball.net/2011/06/demoted</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChrisLTD</author><text>Exactly. A lot of Apple's big announcements today were about features that create lock-in. Your music is tied to a $25 iTunes subscriptions; your reading list, email, calendar, to do list, and office documents are tied to iCloud; they even want your text messaging tied to your iOS devices. Then there's all those apps you bought on the Mac and iOS App Stores that you'll never be able to transfer to another system.<p>If you start using enough of these new features, switching away to Android, WebOS or Windows will be a nightmare.</text></item><item><author>kenjackson</author><text>Gruber is repeating the obvious, but in a convoluted way.<p>Apple is about selling HW. Google is about selling ads.<p>That's it. Everything else falls from that.<p>Google's goal is to commodotize HW, and I this is, at least theoretically, doable. Apple can't really commodotize ads, at least in no way I can think of.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tedunangst</author><text>Are your reading list, email, calendar, to do list, and office documents not tied to the google cloud? If you use enough of them, isn't switching to yahoo/msn/apple going to be a nightmare? There doesn't appear to be much difference to me.<p>Also, minor point, your music is not tied to a subscription. The syncing is. Cancel the subscription, keep the files.</text></comment> |
16,493,658 | 16,492,952 | 1 | 2 | 16,491,942 | train | <story><title>23,000 HTTPS certificates axed after CEO e-mails private keys</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/03/23000-https-certificates-axed-after-ceo-e-mails-private-keys/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DyslexicAtheist</author><text>Oops Trustico server allows arbitrary RCE incl root shell: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;svblxyz&#x2F;status&#x2F;969220402768736258" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;svblxyz&#x2F;status&#x2F;969220402768736258</a><p>see also <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;groups.google.com&#x2F;forum&#x2F;#!topic&#x2F;mozilla.dev.security.policy&#x2F;BLvabFwcJqo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;groups.google.com&#x2F;forum&#x2F;#!topic&#x2F;mozilla.dev.security...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>23,000 HTTPS certificates axed after CEO e-mails private keys</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/03/23000-https-certificates-axed-after-ceo-e-mails-private-keys/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tialaramex</author><text>A question I still have is what Trustico _hoped_ was going to happen here. Was there some arrangement where if the certs have to be revoked they get a refund?<p>Trustico also don&#x27;t seem very clear on what exactly they&#x27;re accusing Symantec of, the Ars article quotes them<p>&quot;We believe Symantec to have operated our account in a manner whereby it had been compromised&quot; and &quot;We believe the orders placed via our Symantec account were at risk and were poorly managed&quot;<p>In the relationship we&#x27;re talking about here, a reseller to a CA, basically the only valuable information that can be compromised is payment instructions. All the important seeming cryptographic stuff? All of that is allowed to be public by design, the CSR, the Certificates themselves, any validation messages used - all public thanks to asymmetric cryptography.<p>Symantec got in trouble last year for inadequate (in fact basically non-existent) oversight of their RAs, particularly the Korean CrossCert. Unlike a reseller the RAs were trusted to do the domain validation themselves, so if CrossCert said &quot;We checked and it&#x27;s OK to issue a Thawte cert for www.example.com with this key&quot; then Symantec just did it and didn&#x27;t ask any questions (though they do seem to have checked they got paid...). Resellers aren&#x27;t trusted with validation, they&#x27;re just glorified sales people who just take a cut and help with price discrimination, what&#x27;s there to &quot;compromise&quot; months after you cease the relationship?</text></comment> |
40,727,908 | 40,728,122 | 1 | 2 | 40,726,974 | train | <story><title>Neofetch developer archives all his repositories: "Have taken up farming"</title><url>https://github.com/dylanaraps</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AdamN</author><text>&gt; You need to be a welder, plumber, vet, horticulturist, builder, metrologist<p>Not sure how commmon this is anymore. The age of the family farm with a mix of livestock, rotating crops, and woodlands are long gone in the developed world. Each of these tasks would be handled mostly by a professional in any serious farming operation.</text></item><item><author>zer00eyz</author><text>&gt; You need to be a welder, plumber, vet, horticulturist, builder, metrologist<p>I love this about farmers. They are the polymaths of our age and folks dont get it. Farming YouTube is a trip because there&#x27;s more tech in a tractor than in some startups.<p>&gt; and if you&#x27;re doing properly, crooked accountant as well.<p>Yea, most people dont get what a &quot;future&quot; is, and why corn and lumber have them (but not onions... thats a lesson too)... The farm has the support of a lot of high finance and hedging exists not just as an instrument but has a purpose.<p>Ask a farmer about a grain&#x2F;pork &quot;Marketing Plan&quot; and who they are hiring as advisors and where that person got their degree...<p>It&#x27;s a complicated world and there are some interesting intersections out there.</text></item><item><author>KaiserPro</author><text>I do hope they enjoy it.<p>I grew up in a farming community, and whist it can be rewarding, if you are trying to make money, or be self sufficient, its fucking hard work.<p>Is it harder than programming? thats a subjective call. Objectively its physically harder work, mentally its way more varied. You need to be a welder, plumber, vet, horticulturist, builder, metrologist, and if you&#x27;re doing properly, crooked accountant as well.<p>Would I take up farming? probably not. Would rather become a water mill owner? hell yeah.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zknow</author><text>that might be gone but in my experience - and I live on a farm in the developed world - while some tasks are handled by professionals on serious operations, its pretty common for farmers to do a bit of their own welding, a bit of their own plumbing, treat their own animals, etc, and only bring in professionals for big jobs. Its still very much a family affair even if a farm is only focused on one crop.</text></comment> | <story><title>Neofetch developer archives all his repositories: "Have taken up farming"</title><url>https://github.com/dylanaraps</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AdamN</author><text>&gt; You need to be a welder, plumber, vet, horticulturist, builder, metrologist<p>Not sure how commmon this is anymore. The age of the family farm with a mix of livestock, rotating crops, and woodlands are long gone in the developed world. Each of these tasks would be handled mostly by a professional in any serious farming operation.</text></item><item><author>zer00eyz</author><text>&gt; You need to be a welder, plumber, vet, horticulturist, builder, metrologist<p>I love this about farmers. They are the polymaths of our age and folks dont get it. Farming YouTube is a trip because there&#x27;s more tech in a tractor than in some startups.<p>&gt; and if you&#x27;re doing properly, crooked accountant as well.<p>Yea, most people dont get what a &quot;future&quot; is, and why corn and lumber have them (but not onions... thats a lesson too)... The farm has the support of a lot of high finance and hedging exists not just as an instrument but has a purpose.<p>Ask a farmer about a grain&#x2F;pork &quot;Marketing Plan&quot; and who they are hiring as advisors and where that person got their degree...<p>It&#x27;s a complicated world and there are some interesting intersections out there.</text></item><item><author>KaiserPro</author><text>I do hope they enjoy it.<p>I grew up in a farming community, and whist it can be rewarding, if you are trying to make money, or be self sufficient, its fucking hard work.<p>Is it harder than programming? thats a subjective call. Objectively its physically harder work, mentally its way more varied. You need to be a welder, plumber, vet, horticulturist, builder, metrologist, and if you&#x27;re doing properly, crooked accountant as well.<p>Would I take up farming? probably not. Would rather become a water mill owner? hell yeah.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chongli</author><text>Look up “Just a few acres farm” on YouTube. Pete, a retired architect, has done all of the above and documented it on his YouTube channel. Heck, add aerial drone videographer and video editor to the list. He makes some excellent videos while cutting hay!<p>He also has a lot of really practical videos on the business of small farming. He’s very adamant about not going into debt before you start, doing market research in your area, and starting very small but rolling over the proceeds from your first sales back into the farm.</text></comment> |
1,324,676 | 1,324,542 | 1 | 2 | 1,324,388 | train | <story><title>On Working Remotely</title><url>http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/05/on-working-remotely.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lukev</author><text>Oh, no... they don't add people. They add "resources."</text></item><item><author>acro</author><text>And it sometimes seems very difficult to explain to the management types that adding people to the project will not make it go any faster.</text></item><item><author>lukev</author><text>Wow. I guess I'm completely different from Jeff.<p>I have no need whatsoever for a "coding buddy." I'm considerably more comfortable working on a project solo. Even with a good team, I hate the coordination overhead.<p>I <i>can</i>, of course, and good team skills are important. I'm not saying that. But the coordination costs of software development increase super-linearly, so I tend to prefer using the minimum number of people that can possibly do a job. The break-even point is around 4-5 - after that, adding more people makes things <i>slower</i>, unless you can split the project into autonomous chunks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MartinCron</author><text>Even though it was 15 years ago, I still vividly remember the disquiet I felt the first time I heard the term "human resources". It felt so Soylent Green to me.<p>Even though he's not universally popular around here, I'm going to admit to liking Seth Godin's "Let's call it the talent department" argument:
<a href="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/02/marketing-hr.html" rel="nofollow">http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/02/marketing-hr...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>On Working Remotely</title><url>http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/05/on-working-remotely.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lukev</author><text>Oh, no... they don't add people. They add "resources."</text></item><item><author>acro</author><text>And it sometimes seems very difficult to explain to the management types that adding people to the project will not make it go any faster.</text></item><item><author>lukev</author><text>Wow. I guess I'm completely different from Jeff.<p>I have no need whatsoever for a "coding buddy." I'm considerably more comfortable working on a project solo. Even with a good team, I hate the coordination overhead.<p>I <i>can</i>, of course, and good team skills are important. I'm not saying that. But the coordination costs of software development increase super-linearly, so I tend to prefer using the minimum number of people that can possibly do a job. The break-even point is around 4-5 - after that, adding more people makes things <i>slower</i>, unless you can split the project into autonomous chunks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gaius</author><text>Yet they sure don't like being referred to as "Powerpoint resources".</text></comment> |
35,458,004 | 35,456,662 | 1 | 2 | 35,455,930 | train | <story><title>Using mmap to make LLaMA load faster</title><url>https://justine.lol/mmap/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>antimatter15</author><text>Note that as a result of some llama drama associated with this change, @jart (author of this post) and @anzz1 are apparently no longer welcome as collaborators on llama.cpp: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ggerganov&#x2F;llama.cpp&#x2F;pull&#x2F;711#issuecomment-1493385890">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ggerganov&#x2F;llama.cpp&#x2F;pull&#x2F;711#issuecomment...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Using mmap to make LLaMA load faster</title><url>https://justine.lol/mmap/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>NickGerleman</author><text>Worth pointing out, there has been quite a bit of contention around this change, both technical, and some accusations of plagiarism&#x2F;miscrediting here. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ggerganov&#x2F;llama.cpp&#x2F;pull&#x2F;711">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ggerganov&#x2F;llama.cpp&#x2F;pull&#x2F;711</a></text></comment> |
4,647,430 | 4,647,295 | 1 | 2 | 4,647,153 | train | <story><title>Satellite burns up following SpaceX rocket glitch</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/12/us-space-spacex-idUSBRE89B18M20121012</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>confluence</author><text>&#62; <i>Among the Dragon's cargo was a freezer that will be used to store scientific samples. For the ride up, SpaceX stashed chocolate-vanilla swirl ice cream inside.</i><p>Just awesome.<p>The mission was a success. The satellite maker's loss was covered with insurance money, the ISS stays up in the sky, engine-out capability proven, subsequent launch contracts remain in place from both NASA/the satellite maker - and the ISS astronauts get home-made chocolate ice cream! Win-win-win.<p>The only entity that got screwed was the insurance company, but that was a risk they were willing to take and were duly paid for doing so.</text></comment> | <story><title>Satellite burns up following SpaceX rocket glitch</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/12/us-space-spacex-idUSBRE89B18M20121012</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>martinkallstrom</author><text>It is perfectly clear that this is a story of safety margines adhered to in an admirably strict fashion; not allowing short term thinking rule over long term; and certainly not allowing marketing rule over engineering. This is how you move mountains.</text></comment> |
30,025,417 | 30,025,054 | 1 | 3 | 30,022,789 | train | <story><title>IP Addressing in 2021</title><url>https://blog.apnic.net/2022/01/19/ip-addressing-in-2021/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rwmj</author><text>Has anyone here deployed an IPv6-<i>only</i> web server (say as a personal or other non-critical website), and how did that go? Is it practical yet?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cytzol</author><text>I set up a non-public-facing IPv6-only web server last night, so the issues are fresh in my mind! I&#x27;m fortunate enough to have an IPv6-capable home connection, and the hosting provider I use (Scaleway) charges extra for assigning IPv4 addresses to machines, so I thought I&#x27;d see how easy it would be to save a bit of money and make this machine IPv6-only. I&#x27;ve IP-filtered the host to only my home and my other servers, so having IPv4 support <i>should</i> be a waste.<p>The machine is now running fine, but I had a few roadblocks setting it up:<p>• My provisioning scripts download a release of &#x27;dry&#x27;[0] from GitHub, which does not support IPv6. I ended up assigning my new machine a temporary IPv4 address and removing it later.<p>• The scripts also import a key from &#x27;keyserver.ubuntu.com&#x27;[1], which, again, does not support IPv6. Attempting to connect just timed out, and if I hadn&#x27;t just solved the <i>other</i> issue, I would have assumed the host was down.<p>• There seems to be a bug in Scaleway&#x27;s cloud firewall (the things it calls Security Groups), where you cannot allow inbound ICMPv6, only standard ICMP (for IPv4). This meant my pings never responded and I thought the machine wasn&#x27;t up when it <i>was</i> up.<p>Basically, what I want you to take away from this post is that if you disable IPv6, it&#x27;s still the case that during maintenance, things are going to break, often mysteriously and with bad error messages, but outside of maintenance, things will likely run smoothly. My machine runs Sentry, and after the problems I had setting it up, I didn&#x27;t dare run the Sentry &#x27;.&#x2F;install.sh&#x27; script with IPv4 disabled as I didn&#x27;t trust it to handle that case correctly — and even if the script reported no errors, I wouldn&#x27;t have trusted there to actually <i>be</i> no errors. Since then, though, it&#x27;s been running fine, so having an IPv6-only server is certainly possible, even if you have to give in and assign it an IPv4 address at the start, then take it away again later.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;moncho&#x2F;dry" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;moncho&#x2F;dry</a>
[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;keyserver.ubuntu.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;keyserver.ubuntu.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>IP Addressing in 2021</title><url>https://blog.apnic.net/2022/01/19/ip-addressing-in-2021/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rwmj</author><text>Has anyone here deployed an IPv6-<i>only</i> web server (say as a personal or other non-critical website), and how did that go? Is it practical yet?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>miyuru</author><text>Yes, I run a site with 4 IPv6 only VPS servers with around 9M requests per month with the help of cloudflare.<p>In the past, setting up the server was hard(npm, composer, docker) but it has become less of a problem now.<p>GitHub is the major pain point even now. Even though I use bitbucket for scm which supports IPv6, surprising number of developer tools is centralized on GitHub.</text></comment> |
37,629,544 | 37,629,432 | 1 | 2 | 37,613,299 | train | <story><title>The equinox is not when day and night have equal lengths</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-equinox-is-not-what-you-think-it-is/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>furyofantares</author><text>I find it more satisfying and clearer to say it&#x27;s when day&#x2F;night are the same length everywhere on earth&#x2F;for everyone on earth.<p>For me that prompts thinking about the earth with its tilt in relation to the sun and the two points in its orbit where that could be true.<p>Within that framework you could bring up pendantry how &quot;definitions&quot; of day&#x2F;night mean this doesn&#x27;t imply day and night are each 12 hours. Actually I find such pedantry more interesting in this framework; it&#x27;s just clearer that we&#x27;re saying globally there is always more day than night under this particular definition.<p>It also IMO prompts the even more interesting pedantry discussed in this thread about it crossing this point at some random time during the day, we don&#x27;t hover in that point of the orbit for 24 hours.</text></comment> | <story><title>The equinox is not when day and night have equal lengths</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-equinox-is-not-what-you-think-it-is/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Retric</author><text>For an article this pedantic they still miss several details. “If we measured the day starting and ending when the sun’s center breached the horizon, we’d be fine; day and night would be equally parsed.”<p>It then list a few caveats but that’s not sufficient as the sun is going to cross the the equator at some random point in the day say 2:15:45 pm which means it’s not over the equator at sunrise and sunset thus distorting the day. The horizon is generally defined based on local terrain not the more abstract true horizon. Earth isn’t a perfect sphere rotating at a constant rate etc etc.<p>It’s got some amusing bit’s of trivia, but I don’t think anyone’s definition is going to actually change.</text></comment> |
24,063,302 | 24,062,329 | 1 | 3 | 24,061,603 | train | <story><title>Science and scientific expertise are more important than ever</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/science-and-scientific-expertise-are-more-important-than-ever/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cuspy</author><text>Given the track record of institutional science and the ever-growing list of regulatory failures, moral failures and outright abuses pushed in the guise of scientific expertise, why do so many people seem to think that simply doubling down and bullying the general population into compliance with expert consensus will ever work? What if
institutional science in the US has a legitimacy crisis because it has failed to police its own corruption and failed to address its own limitations and vulnerabilities? What if everyday people can see this more clearly than those striving on the margins of these institutions?<p>Personally, as a scientist, I am comforted that there are enough others out there who doubt the entire notion of a scientific establishment that the population should &quot;trust&quot; to make decisions without oversight. Our numbers are growing, and I know many people who fight every day to ensure we will never be ruled by unquestionable expert consensus. Anyone who has been inside these institutions knows exactly how petty and arbitrary the hierarchical structures can be. I&#x27;d rather be ruled over by elite families than squabbling, territorial, overconfident scientists who can be bought off for nothing and blackmailed easily.<p>I think the constant stream of these articles just illustrates the massive social blind spot that comes from training STEM professionals solely for careers rather than for citizenship, communication and community membership. STEM training itself has sadly become a hierarchical, cult-like, anti-intellectual system that deprives students of critical thinking skills.</text></comment> | <story><title>Science and scientific expertise are more important than ever</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/science-and-scientific-expertise-are-more-important-than-ever/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Press2forEN</author><text>&gt; An engaged and well-informed public has always been the foundation of our democracy<p>Is there even a shred of scientific evidence to support this hypothesis? I see it in print so often that it appears to be a axiom that is considered so correct as to be unquestionable.</text></comment> |
24,964,626 | 24,964,580 | 1 | 3 | 24,963,821 | train | <story><title>Names are not type safety</title><url>http://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2020/11/01/names-are-not-type-safety/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_28jh</author><text>I&#x27;ve been thinking for a while about something like an &quot;assertion based type system.&quot; Rather than types being variants of other types, types can be described as other types + restrictions. Functions take variables with types but also come with a list of assertions. For example, it is sometimes useful in graphics to differentiate, in the type system, a 3D vector and a normalized vector (e.g. separate Vec3 and Norm3 types) but there is nothing you can do to actually put this into the type system. In some assertion based system, you would write something like: `type Norm3 = Vec3 v given(len(v) == 1)`. You could cast a Vec3 to a Norm3 which would run the assertion at run time, or you could write a function like `normalize` which always returns a Norm3 (maybe even it comes with its own assertion that len(v) != 0). Then you can safely pass your Norm3s to functions that expect normalized vectors. It&#x27;s always recommended to make bad states unrepresentable, but it&#x27;s weird how no language has ever given you a system like this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lexi-lambda</author><text>As was already mentioned in another reply, what you are describing are <i>refinement types</i>. A refinement type system actually exists for Haskell: it’s called LiquidHaskell,[1] and though I have not used it for anything serious, it seems to work well for certain kinds of problems.<p>The main challenge of refinement types is that arbitrary properties are very difficult to check in general. (If that weren’t the case, software verification would be easy!) I wrote about this at length in my previous blog post,[2] and Hillel Wayne wrote about it earlier this year from another perspective.[3]<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ucsd-progsys.github.io&#x2F;liquidhaskell-blog&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ucsd-progsys.github.io&#x2F;liquidhaskell-blog&#x2F;</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lexi-lambda.github.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2020&#x2F;08&#x2F;13&#x2F;types-as-axioms-or-playing-god-with-static-types&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lexi-lambda.github.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2020&#x2F;08&#x2F;13&#x2F;types-as-axiom...</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hillelwayne.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;constructive&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hillelwayne.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;constructive&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Names are not type safety</title><url>http://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2020/11/01/names-are-not-type-safety/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_28jh</author><text>I&#x27;ve been thinking for a while about something like an &quot;assertion based type system.&quot; Rather than types being variants of other types, types can be described as other types + restrictions. Functions take variables with types but also come with a list of assertions. For example, it is sometimes useful in graphics to differentiate, in the type system, a 3D vector and a normalized vector (e.g. separate Vec3 and Norm3 types) but there is nothing you can do to actually put this into the type system. In some assertion based system, you would write something like: `type Norm3 = Vec3 v given(len(v) == 1)`. You could cast a Vec3 to a Norm3 which would run the assertion at run time, or you could write a function like `normalize` which always returns a Norm3 (maybe even it comes with its own assertion that len(v) != 0). Then you can safely pass your Norm3s to functions that expect normalized vectors. It&#x27;s always recommended to make bad states unrepresentable, but it&#x27;s weird how no language has ever given you a system like this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seanwilson</author><text>Sounds like you&#x27;re describing dependent types. You&#x27;ve now got the problem that showing your program is correct involves writing maths proofs that show your properties hold in all cases (which is an undecidable problem).</text></comment> |
21,965,677 | 21,964,737 | 1 | 2 | 21,963,787 | train | <story><title>Oracle copied Amazon’s API – was that copyright infringement?</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/01/oracle-copied-amazons-api-was-that-copyright-infringement/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>smiljo</author><text>Seems like Oracle is taking totally contradictory positions in this case and the Google one.<p>&gt; Did Oracle infringe Amazon&#x27;s copyright here? Ars Technica contacted Oracle to ask them if they had a license to copy Amazon&#x27;s S3 API. An Oracle spokeswoman said that the S3 API was licensed under an Apache 2.0 license. She pointed us to the Amazon SDK for Java, which does indeed come with an Apache 2.0 license.<p>&gt; However, the Amazon SDK is code that uses the S3 API, not code that implements it—the difference between a customer who orders hash browns and the Waffle House cook who interprets the orders.<p>While I&#x27;m not a lawyer and didn&#x27;t study the Google case in that much detail, I don&#x27;t see how they can claim that their own Java APIs can be copyrighted, and then defending their copying of Amazon&#x27;s API on the grounds that an SDK using it is open source. I would think they could just look at the documentation, and skip the SDK altogether. :)</text></comment> | <story><title>Oracle copied Amazon’s API – was that copyright infringement?</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/01/oracle-copied-amazons-api-was-that-copyright-infringement/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dlgeek</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand how Oracle&#x27;s position here about how the Apache license covering code covers the API and their position in Oracle vs. Google.</text></comment> |
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