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31,546,531 | 31,546,511 | 1 | 2 | 31,544,997 | train | <story><title>In defense of coding interviews</title><url>https://biggestfish.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-coding-interviews</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>d--b</author><text>The dirty secret is that it’s never about the coding skills.<p>It’s about the person’s behavior, the way he&#x2F;she interacts with you. It’s about the person’s culture, tabs vs space, and that kind of things. And it’s mostly about whether you like the person or not.<p>And I think it’s fine. You mainly need to be sure that the person knows what a for loop is, other than that, most people are ok at programming. What really matters is that you can work with that person.<p>Unfortunately interviewers who don’t realize this will unconsciously tweak the interview to make it harder for people they don’t like and easier for people they do like. And then they have an “objective” reason to not hire the person: “oh my god, he didn’t know merge sort”.<p>I give all kinds of random questions. And many times I recommend hiring people who bombed it, and many times I recommended bailing on ones who nailed it (overconfidence, poor communication, etc).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>weatherlite</author><text>&gt; It’s about the person’s behavior, the way he&#x2F;she interacts with you. It’s about the person’s culture, tabs vs space, and that kind of things. And it’s mostly about whether you like the person or not<p>Not in FAANG or famous startups it&#x27;s not. You&#x27;re either gonna solve 3-6 medium hard Leetcode questions perfectly or you&#x27;re out. Sure, liking you will help you better not come off as a douche - but you&#x27;re not gonna get an offer without being able to solve (unless it&#x27;s some kind of a diversity hire).</text></comment> | <story><title>In defense of coding interviews</title><url>https://biggestfish.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-coding-interviews</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>d--b</author><text>The dirty secret is that it’s never about the coding skills.<p>It’s about the person’s behavior, the way he&#x2F;she interacts with you. It’s about the person’s culture, tabs vs space, and that kind of things. And it’s mostly about whether you like the person or not.<p>And I think it’s fine. You mainly need to be sure that the person knows what a for loop is, other than that, most people are ok at programming. What really matters is that you can work with that person.<p>Unfortunately interviewers who don’t realize this will unconsciously tweak the interview to make it harder for people they don’t like and easier for people they do like. And then they have an “objective” reason to not hire the person: “oh my god, he didn’t know merge sort”.<p>I give all kinds of random questions. And many times I recommend hiring people who bombed it, and many times I recommended bailing on ones who nailed it (overconfidence, poor communication, etc).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>quickthrower2</author><text>It is definitely about the coding skills. It is too easy to bullshit and there is a financial incentive to do so. Also many people with genunine 10 years of experience are not too good at coding.</text></comment> |
15,837,388 | 15,837,126 | 1 | 2 | 15,836,755 | train | <story><title>Termination of StartCom business</title><url>https://www.startcomca.com/index/News/newDetail?date=20171116</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pferde</author><text>Apparently, they also sent out an e-mail with the same text to their customers, with an addendum that they are going to try to get a certificate for each customer with other CAs, and that to opt-out, one has to send them an e-mail.<p>I found that addendum quite strange. Such thing should be opt-in, in my opinion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nvr219</author><text>I got the email. Here is the full text:<p>This is an automatically generated email, please do not reply.<p>Dear customer,<p>As you are surely aware, the browser makers distrusted StartCom around a year ago and therefore all the end entity certificates newly issued by StartCom are not trusted by default in browsers.<p>The browsers imposed some conditions in order for the certificates to be re-accepted. While StartCom believes that these conditions have been met, it appears there are still certain difficulties forthcoming. Considering this situation, the owners of StartCom have decided to terminate the company as a Certification Authority as mentioned in Startcom´s website.<p>StartCom will stop issuing new certificates starting from January 1st, 2018 and will provide only CRL and OCSP services for two more years.<p>StartCom would like to thank you for your support during this difficult time.<p>StartCom is contacting some other CAs to provide you with the certificates needed. In case you don´t want us to provide you an alternative, please, contact us at [email protected]<p>Please let us know if you need any further assistance with the transition process. We deeply apologize for any inconveniences that this may cause.<p>Best regards,<p>StartCom Certification Authority</text></comment> | <story><title>Termination of StartCom business</title><url>https://www.startcomca.com/index/News/newDetail?date=20171116</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pferde</author><text>Apparently, they also sent out an e-mail with the same text to their customers, with an addendum that they are going to try to get a certificate for each customer with other CAs, and that to opt-out, one has to send them an e-mail.<p>I found that addendum quite strange. Such thing should be opt-in, in my opinion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mike-cardwell</author><text>Probably just a roundabout way to say that they&#x27;re selling their customer data and you have to contact them to opt out.</text></comment> |
5,383,129 | 5,382,901 | 1 | 3 | 5,382,366 | train | <story><title>Google backslides on federated instant messaging, on purpose?</title><url>http://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/google-backslides-on-federated-instant-messaging-on-purpose</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cs702</author><text>The "unintended side effect of filtering spam" explanation makes no sense.<p>How likely is it that the same company which builds bleeding-edge machine-learning systems to track and predict our behavior online, and which uses these AI predictions constantly to maximize their ad revenue, somehow cannot find a better way to filter out spam invites?<p>How likely is it that the same company that houses the likes of Hinton, Norvig and Kurzweil under the same roof can't find a better way?<p>Google is <i>packed</i> with experts at solving the "spam filtering" (i.e., pattern recognition) problem.<p>It appears this was done on purpose[1], driven by a corporate culture that no longer cares as much about openness. <i>[Please read jholman's responses below. He's right, I went too far with this last sentence.]</i><p>--<p>[1] <a href="http://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/operators/2013-February/001571.html" rel="nofollow">http://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/operators/2013-February/001...</a><p>--<p>Edits: added "it appears" at the end, to tone down the language. Also, reworded and added sentences to make my point clearer, and corrected text to refer to invites, not messages (thanks for pointing that out, mdc!) and point out that this was indeed done on purpose.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jholman</author><text>I don't know what's going on, and I prefer to trust the FSF, but I notice that they are wilfully misrepresenting the statement by pergu@google on the operators@xmpp list, and so are you, cs702.<p>Per said, a month ago, "is there anything you can do about it in that case, otherwise we will have to institute very tight limits of invites per day being sent from federated domains", speaking about specific domains, and speculating about a possible future strategy.<p>FSF says (paraphrasing): "we have this symptom, we're convinced it's for this technical cause... " (so far so good) " ... "and this email thread says that Google is doing it on purpose". Bullshit, that thread says nothing of the kind. Stick to what you know.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google backslides on federated instant messaging, on purpose?</title><url>http://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/google-backslides-on-federated-instant-messaging-on-purpose</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cs702</author><text>The "unintended side effect of filtering spam" explanation makes no sense.<p>How likely is it that the same company which builds bleeding-edge machine-learning systems to track and predict our behavior online, and which uses these AI predictions constantly to maximize their ad revenue, somehow cannot find a better way to filter out spam invites?<p>How likely is it that the same company that houses the likes of Hinton, Norvig and Kurzweil under the same roof can't find a better way?<p>Google is <i>packed</i> with experts at solving the "spam filtering" (i.e., pattern recognition) problem.<p>It appears this was done on purpose[1], driven by a corporate culture that no longer cares as much about openness. <i>[Please read jholman's responses below. He's right, I went too far with this last sentence.]</i><p>--<p>[1] <a href="http://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/operators/2013-February/001571.html" rel="nofollow">http://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/operators/2013-February/001...</a><p>--<p>Edits: added "it appears" at the end, to tone down the language. Also, reworded and added sentences to make my point clearer, and corrected text to refer to invites, not messages (thanks for pointing that out, mdc!) and point out that this was indeed done on purpose.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cma</author><text>Maybe Hinton didn't make any progress on it yesterday so they decided to call it quits?<p>It does suck that they did this. I have been hit with many spam requests through Google Talk recently though. You should at least be able to whitelist people in your address book or something. Yeah, you can still send them an invite, but what if the third party's service adopted the same policy as Google?<p>They should at least let you opt in to requests.</text></comment> |
12,164,303 | 12,163,308 | 1 | 2 | 12,162,217 | train | <story><title>Time Management at Khan Academy</title><url>http://engineering.khanacademy.org/posts/time-management-multiple-authors.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zimbatm</author><text>I tried maybe times. Every system I put into place quickly bores me to death, it kills my creativity and my brain then tries really hard to escape from it. Anyone else in that situation?<p>The only trick that really stuck to me is to write down on a piece of paper where I&#x27;m at during a context switch. That really helps to pick it up again faster afterwards.</text></comment> | <story><title>Time Management at Khan Academy</title><url>http://engineering.khanacademy.org/posts/time-management-multiple-authors.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>twunde</author><text>I find this incredibly useful. I work on a relatively small tech team as a lead&#x2F;project manager&#x2F;manager and every so often I get very busy where I only have 1-2 hours a day to do my dev work. I&#x27;ve also seen other devs and sysadmins collapse under a work load where they were in meetings all day every day. It can be very tough to get a schedule set where you&#x27;re able to work on your top priorities, so I value these stories and techniques.</text></comment> |
2,046,171 | 2,046,177 | 1 | 2 | 2,045,982 | train | <story><title>After correcting for demographics, US schools fare better than EU/Asian schools</title><url>http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2010/12/amazing-truth-about-pisa-scores-usa.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cletus</author><text>There's something a little creepy about saying there's nothing wrong with the American education system by only looking at those in the US of European descent and excluding all others.<p>Basically it doesn't matter how well or badly the rest of the population does, it doesn't change the OP's hypothesis.<p>The point about immigrants scoring lower is well-taken but this is largely a language barrier. How exactly does this apply to, say, the African American segment of the population, many of whom have been in the US for hundreds of years and most of whom know no other language than English?<p>Socioeconomic factors, the education level of your parents and so on obviously come into play here but I read this post and read it like this: "if we exclude all the problems in the US education system, the US education system is fine!"<p>Perhaps that's not entirely fair but one must be very careful before discounting selection bias when drawing conclusions such as these.<p>Now I'm not claiming the US education system is bad. Frankly I have no personal experience with it (coming from the "negative gap" of Australia).<p>I will say one thing: the US has something we don't in Australia and that's a tenured teacher system that makes it (near-)impossible to fire teachers [1]. It's still not easy in Australia but it is easier. That strikes me as a problem.<p>[1]: <a href="http://reason.com/assets/db/12639308918768.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://reason.com/assets/db/12639308918768.pdf</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jerf</author><text>Step one in solving problems is <i>identify the problem</i>. Especially in the political sphere people <i>love</i> to skip over this step for a variety of reasons I hardly have to spell out.<p>If in fact our schooling policies are basically OK and the problem lies almost solely in the homes, then solutions involving throwing more money at school won't work. This is a worthy investigation.<p>My personal biases lead me to believe that if anything there's problems in both places, so my main point isn't that this person is necessarily right or wrong, my main point is Step One: Identify The Problem. It's often harder than you might think and often requires biases to be discarded.</text></comment> | <story><title>After correcting for demographics, US schools fare better than EU/Asian schools</title><url>http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2010/12/amazing-truth-about-pisa-scores-usa.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cletus</author><text>There's something a little creepy about saying there's nothing wrong with the American education system by only looking at those in the US of European descent and excluding all others.<p>Basically it doesn't matter how well or badly the rest of the population does, it doesn't change the OP's hypothesis.<p>The point about immigrants scoring lower is well-taken but this is largely a language barrier. How exactly does this apply to, say, the African American segment of the population, many of whom have been in the US for hundreds of years and most of whom know no other language than English?<p>Socioeconomic factors, the education level of your parents and so on obviously come into play here but I read this post and read it like this: "if we exclude all the problems in the US education system, the US education system is fine!"<p>Perhaps that's not entirely fair but one must be very careful before discounting selection bias when drawing conclusions such as these.<p>Now I'm not claiming the US education system is bad. Frankly I have no personal experience with it (coming from the "negative gap" of Australia).<p>I will say one thing: the US has something we don't in Australia and that's a tenured teacher system that makes it (near-)impossible to fire teachers [1]. It's still not easy in Australia but it is easier. That strikes me as a problem.<p>[1]: <a href="http://reason.com/assets/db/12639308918768.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://reason.com/assets/db/12639308918768.pdf</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>endtime</author><text>&#62;How exactly does this apply to, say, the African American segment of the population, many of whom have been in the US for hundreds of years and most of whom know no other language than English?<p>There's an extreme anti-education element to black culture in the US. Caring about and one's education and working hard in school is derided as "acting white". It doesn't apply to everyone, of course (I knew black Americans at Georgetown and Stanford), but it's significant enough to bring down aggregate measures quite a lot. I've also seen studies showing that black parents spend less time helping their children with schoolwork than white and Asian parents.<p>The US school system isn't perfect (the inability to fire bad teachers, largely because of unions, is, in my opinion, among the biggest problems in the country), but it's not totally or even primarily at fault for the education problems among black people.<p>Also:<p>&#62;There's something a little creepy about saying there's nothing wrong with the American education system by only looking at those in the US of European descent and excluding all others.<p>You're misrepresenting this, not sure if it's deliberate, but this is done for the sake of comparing the US to Europe, which is pretty reasonable and not crypto-racist as you imply.</text></comment> |
16,548,147 | 16,547,909 | 1 | 2 | 16,547,325 | train | <story><title>Permanent Daylight Saving Time? Florida Says Yes, but It’s Not So Simple</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/08/us/daylight-saving-time-florida.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bhauer</author><text>Yes! Bravo to Florida.<p>I don&#x27;t care what timezone California wants to be in—PST or MST—as long as we stop the nonsense of changing between two timezones every year. This coming Sunday is another DST change, and with it will come countless small nuisances, immeasurable drowsiness and lost productivity, and a non-trivial number of injuries or worse.<p>Just pick a timezone and stick with it!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>snarf21</author><text>I agree we should just pick one and move on. The one thing that gets forgotten is that noon was picked based on highest sun point (for some latitude) which is fine until we start to have a generally accepted day as 8-5. Noon is no longer in the <i>middle</i> of that day. It probably makes the most sense to just split the difference between EST and EDT and call it ENT (normalized) and never change again. This doesn&#x27;t swing winter or summer days anymore than needs be but still gets rid of having to ever change again. The retailers get the biggest benefit of all the time DXT.</text></comment> | <story><title>Permanent Daylight Saving Time? Florida Says Yes, but It’s Not So Simple</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/08/us/daylight-saving-time-florida.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bhauer</author><text>Yes! Bravo to Florida.<p>I don&#x27;t care what timezone California wants to be in—PST or MST—as long as we stop the nonsense of changing between two timezones every year. This coming Sunday is another DST change, and with it will come countless small nuisances, immeasurable drowsiness and lost productivity, and a non-trivial number of injuries or worse.<p>Just pick a timezone and stick with it!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FreeFull</author><text>DST can make sense if you&#x27;re sufficiently far north&#x2F;south, but definitely doesn&#x27;t if you&#x27;re closer to the equator. And for Florida DST probably never made sense.</text></comment> |
29,801,375 | 29,801,154 | 1 | 2 | 29,798,712 | train | <story><title>The UX on this small child is terrible</title><url>https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-ux-on-this-small-child-is-terrible</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>plaidfuji</author><text>How do I get new features added to the roadmap? I’ve been asking for an “eat vegetables” interface without the “offer dessert in exchange” workaround for over a year, no response, yet in the same time frame I’ve seen things like “climb top-heavy bookshelf” and “unfurl entire toilet paper roll” deployed… who is asking for these features??</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dylan604</author><text>&gt;who is asking for these features??<p>The project managers have had a look at some of the competing products, and felt that matching features would be more competitive vs fixing existing bugs.</text></comment> | <story><title>The UX on this small child is terrible</title><url>https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-ux-on-this-small-child-is-terrible</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>plaidfuji</author><text>How do I get new features added to the roadmap? I’ve been asking for an “eat vegetables” interface without the “offer dessert in exchange” workaround for over a year, no response, yet in the same time frame I’ve seen things like “climb top-heavy bookshelf” and “unfurl entire toilet paper roll” deployed… who is asking for these features??</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dvaun</author><text>We put everything on a plate and offer it to the child(ren). Then, if they become hungry later on, they can return to said plate and continue eating.<p>Dessert is considered &quot;equal&quot;, so we place it on their plate. However, that also means that they can&#x27;t raid the pantry for snacks afterward.<p>It seems to be working. Our oldest ate celery and peanut butter the other day, which is pretty unexpected to us.</text></comment> |
35,162,364 | 35,162,325 | 1 | 3 | 35,159,449 | train | <story><title>Georgia’s big new nuclear reactors could be the last built in the US</title><url>https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/nuclear/georgias-big-new-nuclear-reactors-could-be-the-last-built-in-the-us</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bmitc</author><text>I read the abstract and first part of the introduction. It seems that it is accepted as a foregone conclusion that helmet laws reduce cycling. Is that true? If so, is it because cyclists are less excited about cycling or over worry of the dangers because someone said it&#x27;s dangerous enough that they need a helmet?<p>I can&#x27;t imagine making policy (such as removing helmet laws) due to such flighty sentiments.<p>As a motorcyclist, bicyclists remain a mystery to me in their approach to safety.</text></item><item><author>m463</author><text>&gt; One could probably derive a similar statistic for how much harm nuclear over-regulation has caused.<p>That reminds me of bicycle helmet regulation, which can deter exercising.<p>the paper that tries to figure out if helmet laws might deter people from exercising, which could inadvertently increase mortality:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nacto.org&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2015&#x2F;07&#x2F;2012_de-Jong_Health-Impacts-of-Mandatory-Bicycle-Helmet-Laws.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nacto.org&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2015&#x2F;07&#x2F;2012_de-Jong_He...</a></text></item><item><author>fwlr</author><text>There’s a statistic that floats around the internet claiming more radioactivity harm from coal power than from nuclear power, based on the principle that coal power is essentially aerosolizing tons of particles with ever-so-slightly-higher-than-background radioactivity and there’s a lot more coal than nuclear.<p>One could probably derive a similar statistic for how much harm nuclear over-regulation has caused. Perhaps of the form “Chernobyl killed 60 people directly through acute radiation, killed 60,000 indirectly through elevated cancer rates due to spread of radioactive material, and killed 6,000,000* with its second-order effects of supporting nuclear over-regulation that caused increased use of coal and gas energy”. (* This number is completely made up)<p>It seems to me that changing over-regulation is nearly impossible, as it requires making suicidally unpopular arguments: “we <i>shouldn’t</i> weigh the risks”, “we should care <i>less</i> about safety”, “<i>don’t</i> think of the children”, etc. The workable solution is to find or make a receptive regulatory environment (perhaps in a small country with large reserves of nuclear fuel and large unpopulated areas to isolate reactors in, like say Australia), use massive banks of nuclear power to power commensurately massive carbon capture plants that turn airborne CO2 back into synthetic coal and synthetic gasoline, and then export these “completely clean conventional fuels” to the rest of the world.<p>Using synthetic coal to run a coal power plant is essentially a zero-capital plant retrofit achieving guaranteed zero emissions. Putting synthetic gasoline in a gas station is essentially an over-the-air upgrade to any conventional ICE vehicle making it guaranteed zero emissions. It’s sort of like carbon offset credits except it bakes the carbon offset directly into the product instead of relying on fragile and game-able links like “we planted a tree to offset this pound of coal”. A potent offering and one that’s hopefully hard to regulate against as well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dullcrisp</author><text>Biking with a helmet can be less convenient.<p>It’s usually not easy to lock up the helmet along with the bike so you’re left holding the helmet wherever you’re going. Bikeshares usually don’t have helmets and you have to bring your own.<p>These problems have fixes, but helmet laws generally don’t address them and can just make it easier to drive instead.</text></comment> | <story><title>Georgia’s big new nuclear reactors could be the last built in the US</title><url>https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/nuclear/georgias-big-new-nuclear-reactors-could-be-the-last-built-in-the-us</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bmitc</author><text>I read the abstract and first part of the introduction. It seems that it is accepted as a foregone conclusion that helmet laws reduce cycling. Is that true? If so, is it because cyclists are less excited about cycling or over worry of the dangers because someone said it&#x27;s dangerous enough that they need a helmet?<p>I can&#x27;t imagine making policy (such as removing helmet laws) due to such flighty sentiments.<p>As a motorcyclist, bicyclists remain a mystery to me in their approach to safety.</text></item><item><author>m463</author><text>&gt; One could probably derive a similar statistic for how much harm nuclear over-regulation has caused.<p>That reminds me of bicycle helmet regulation, which can deter exercising.<p>the paper that tries to figure out if helmet laws might deter people from exercising, which could inadvertently increase mortality:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nacto.org&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2015&#x2F;07&#x2F;2012_de-Jong_Health-Impacts-of-Mandatory-Bicycle-Helmet-Laws.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nacto.org&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2015&#x2F;07&#x2F;2012_de-Jong_He...</a></text></item><item><author>fwlr</author><text>There’s a statistic that floats around the internet claiming more radioactivity harm from coal power than from nuclear power, based on the principle that coal power is essentially aerosolizing tons of particles with ever-so-slightly-higher-than-background radioactivity and there’s a lot more coal than nuclear.<p>One could probably derive a similar statistic for how much harm nuclear over-regulation has caused. Perhaps of the form “Chernobyl killed 60 people directly through acute radiation, killed 60,000 indirectly through elevated cancer rates due to spread of radioactive material, and killed 6,000,000* with its second-order effects of supporting nuclear over-regulation that caused increased use of coal and gas energy”. (* This number is completely made up)<p>It seems to me that changing over-regulation is nearly impossible, as it requires making suicidally unpopular arguments: “we <i>shouldn’t</i> weigh the risks”, “we should care <i>less</i> about safety”, “<i>don’t</i> think of the children”, etc. The workable solution is to find or make a receptive regulatory environment (perhaps in a small country with large reserves of nuclear fuel and large unpopulated areas to isolate reactors in, like say Australia), use massive banks of nuclear power to power commensurately massive carbon capture plants that turn airborne CO2 back into synthetic coal and synthetic gasoline, and then export these “completely clean conventional fuels” to the rest of the world.<p>Using synthetic coal to run a coal power plant is essentially a zero-capital plant retrofit achieving guaranteed zero emissions. Putting synthetic gasoline in a gas station is essentially an over-the-air upgrade to any conventional ICE vehicle making it guaranteed zero emissions. It’s sort of like carbon offset credits except it bakes the carbon offset directly into the product instead of relying on fragile and game-able links like “we planted a tree to offset this pound of coal”. A potent offering and one that’s hopefully hard to regulate against as well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stefan_</author><text>That&#x27;s curious, seeing how motorcyclists are much more frequently seriously injured, and more often <i>as the result of their own actions</i>. I&#x27;m not sure there is much to emulate here.</text></comment> |
41,378,572 | 41,378,397 | 1 | 2 | 41,375,746 | train | <story><title>Covid-19 Intranasal Vaccine</title><url>https://news.griffith.edu.au/2024/08/27/game-changing-needle-free-covid-19-intranasal-vaccine/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sethammons</author><text>&gt; “Unlike the mRNA vaccine which targets only the spike protein, CDO-7N-1 induces immunity to all major SARS-CoV-2 proteins and is highly effective against all major variants to date.<p>&gt; “Importantly, the vaccine remains stable at 4°C for seven months, making it ideal for low- and middle-income countries.”<p>This being a more traditional vaccine, I wonder if any vaccine hold outs will be more receptive</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>francisofascii</author><text>I think there is a large percentage of people who got the original mRNA vaccine but don&#x27;t plan on getting it again, due to being sick for several days or from other &quot;long covid&quot; or vaccine injury fears. So I wonder if that group would be more receptive.</text></comment> | <story><title>Covid-19 Intranasal Vaccine</title><url>https://news.griffith.edu.au/2024/08/27/game-changing-needle-free-covid-19-intranasal-vaccine/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sethammons</author><text>&gt; “Unlike the mRNA vaccine which targets only the spike protein, CDO-7N-1 induces immunity to all major SARS-CoV-2 proteins and is highly effective against all major variants to date.<p>&gt; “Importantly, the vaccine remains stable at 4°C for seven months, making it ideal for low- and middle-income countries.”<p>This being a more traditional vaccine, I wonder if any vaccine hold outs will be more receptive</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ifyoubuildit</author><text>Is nasal delivery a traditional thing?<p>Assuming they actually mean that it would stop you from getting and transmitting covid with high probability, and that they&#x27;re correct, thats a pretty attractive selling point.<p>But like with any other pharma innovation, I&#x27;m not gonna be a part of the first commercial wave, or even the second or third unless I&#x27;m incredibly worried about the alternative, which I&#x27;m not at the moment (although let&#x27;s see how hard this thing is &quot;marketed&quot; - am I going to be able to live life without it?).</text></comment> |
3,613,508 | 3,612,312 | 1 | 2 | 3,612,200 | train | <story><title>Amon - server monitoring, simplified logging and error tracking for web apps</title><url>http://amon.cx</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>strags</author><text>Why is the trend today towards installations like this?<p>curl install.amon.cx | bash<p>I'm looking at you, rvm, npm et al. Yeah, I'd just love you to poop files randomly into my filesystem, with no tracking, and a completely non-standard uninstall process (if I'm lucky enough to have one at all).<p>We evolved package management for a reason - I know it's a pain to have to make a .deb, a .rpm and a .tar.gz - but is it really that much more work than making an entirely custom install script?</text></comment> | <story><title>Amon - server monitoring, simplified logging and error tracking for web apps</title><url>http://amon.cx</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ashamedlion</author><text>I commend you for making something that isn't SaaS -- it seems to be rare to have one-off payments now, so this makes it more attractive.<p>Also, it seems that your demo (<a href="http://live.amon.cx:2464/" rel="nofollow">http://live.amon.cx:2464/</a>) is down, which is a pity as I'd obviously like to try it before installing.<p>EDIT: And local monitoring is a big plus, too.</text></comment> |
9,068,369 | 9,068,043 | 1 | 3 | 9,067,355 | train | <story><title>Yanis Varoufakis: How I became an erratic Marxist (2013)</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/feb/18/yanis-varoufakis-how-i-became-an-erratic-marxist</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dandare</author><text>Why is it that there is not - nor never was - a single prosperous country build on Marxist principles? Is it possible that Marx&#x27;s theory is nonsense and all the rich mixed-capitalism economies are right?<p>(Spoiler: I am from the former communist block.)<p>EDIT:
(I hope you don&#x27;t mind if I reply to everyone here in my original comment.)<p>Philosophizing on what Marx meant by what he said is lot like Bible-reading study. It is nice to speculate on what God meant when he said &quot;You must kill those who worship another god [Exodus 22:20]&quot; but it is more important to know how those killing in His name understood it. In our context, one look at Syriza&#x27;s economic programme should end all discussions on what Marx really meant with the &quot;dictatorship of the proletariat&quot;. Raising wages, employing more people in the state sector, subventions, subsidies, free healthcare and education along with stiffening the labour market, nationalisation of industries and raising taxes up to 75%. That all obviously sponsored by new loans once they successfully ditch their current debt.<p>That brings us bak to my original point: there is not a single example of successful Marxist economy, regardless of what part of the Marxist wish-thinking you embrace.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grey-area</author><text><i>That brings us bak to my original point: there is not a single example of successful Marxist economy, regardless of what part of the Marxist wish-thinking you embrace.</i><p>There is also no example of a successful free market economy, because no such thing exists.<p>The abstract concepts of socialism and capitalism tend to be polluted very quickly by the humans who inhabit and implement these systems. This means both types of system collapse without regulation - in the west these regulations are an extensive set of laws against monopolies, manipulating markets, insider information etc. and yet we still see regular very destructive whole-market crashes and speculative bubbles which devastate our economies. It&#x27;s just the least worst system we know.<p>I can see how coming from a former communist block country where Marx was treated almost as a deity along with the likes of Lenin and Stalin would give you a healthy disrespect for him. However, Marx is a useful critique of capitalist dogma, even if you don&#x27;t agree with his prescriptions for a solution, or the solutions people made up in his name. When he was writing capitalism in the west was in one of its most brutal and pure states and was an obviously flawed and exploitative system with little hope of improvement in life for the majority - as recorded by Engels for example at around the same time [1]. So don&#x27;t mistake those who take his critique of capitalism seriously (like Varoufakis) for those who embrace every aspect of his thought or would support leninism or stalinism.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17306/17306-h/17306-h.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gutenberg.org&#x2F;files&#x2F;17306&#x2F;17306-h&#x2F;17306-h.htm</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Yanis Varoufakis: How I became an erratic Marxist (2013)</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/feb/18/yanis-varoufakis-how-i-became-an-erratic-marxist</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dandare</author><text>Why is it that there is not - nor never was - a single prosperous country build on Marxist principles? Is it possible that Marx&#x27;s theory is nonsense and all the rich mixed-capitalism economies are right?<p>(Spoiler: I am from the former communist block.)<p>EDIT:
(I hope you don&#x27;t mind if I reply to everyone here in my original comment.)<p>Philosophizing on what Marx meant by what he said is lot like Bible-reading study. It is nice to speculate on what God meant when he said &quot;You must kill those who worship another god [Exodus 22:20]&quot; but it is more important to know how those killing in His name understood it. In our context, one look at Syriza&#x27;s economic programme should end all discussions on what Marx really meant with the &quot;dictatorship of the proletariat&quot;. Raising wages, employing more people in the state sector, subventions, subsidies, free healthcare and education along with stiffening the labour market, nationalisation of industries and raising taxes up to 75%. That all obviously sponsored by new loans once they successfully ditch their current debt.<p>That brings us bak to my original point: there is not a single example of successful Marxist economy, regardless of what part of the Marxist wish-thinking you embrace.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drapper</author><text>I think most common way of thinking about Marx&#x27; work today is that he was often right in describing what&#x27;s wrong with the capitalism, but he was mostly wrong at the solutions.<p>Marx&#x27; apologists point out, not without a reason, that one of the problems with the attempts of bringing his theories to life is that those attempts were done in countries not well suited to do it. Marxism, according to Marx, was supposed to be another step in the evolution of capitalism, yet it was tried in countries that didn&#x27;t yet have any capitalism or had it in some very immature form, e.g. in post-tzar, soviet Russia.<p>On the other hand he was claiming that capitalism is unmaintainable and will fall by itself and that didn&#x27;t happen either.</text></comment> |
29,525,292 | 29,525,306 | 1 | 2 | 29,516,272 | train | <story><title>The Invention of Chinese</title><url>https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/invention-chinese</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ncmncm</author><text>Primarily Mandarin speakers I have known were taught, and believed, that the &quot;dialects&quot; were basically the same as Mandarin, just with different pronunciation.<p>They sincerely believed that when (e.g.) Cantonese speakers read and wrote, they were not wholesale translating from and to Mandarin, but simply, when writing, transcribing Cantonese using the universal ideographic calligraphy.<p>In fact, writing in dialect languages is not taught. The extremely elaborate system dictating which of usually several, often many syllabary characters that sound identical must be used in writing a word in Mandarin (very commonly mistaken for ideographic writing) cannot work for the other sinitic languages.<p>(Sinitic languages admit about 1200 distinct syllables, but the syllabary writing system uses many times that number, so many necessarily sound alike. Mandarin speakers are taught that the characters are not merely syllables with attached historical rules, but ideograms that represent distinct thoughts. (Numerous just-so examples are used to support the notion.) This has often led to belief that ancient documents using the characters could be read and understood without deep knowledge of the actual language and world of the writer, resulting in, at best, comical translations.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tracyhenry</author><text>I&#x27;m a native Mandarin speaker. I don&#x27;t know why you need to stress &quot;taught&quot; or &quot;believe&quot; so much. I&#x27;m not taught by anyone, nor believe that dialects are mostly similar. I experienced it. Most dialects, Cantonese included, use the same Chinese character system. In writing, we would use either simplified or traditional character sets. Note I&#x27;m only talking about modern communication.<p>&gt; could be read and understood without deep knowledge of the actual language and world of the writer, resulting in, at best, comical translations<p>I don&#x27;t know who you are talking about. I wouldn&#x27;t say that at all. Chinese students would spent 1&#x2F;3 of their high school studying complex ancient Chinese languages (文言文). Nobody would say it&#x27;s not deep knowledge - it&#x27;s so damn hard.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Invention of Chinese</title><url>https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/invention-chinese</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ncmncm</author><text>Primarily Mandarin speakers I have known were taught, and believed, that the &quot;dialects&quot; were basically the same as Mandarin, just with different pronunciation.<p>They sincerely believed that when (e.g.) Cantonese speakers read and wrote, they were not wholesale translating from and to Mandarin, but simply, when writing, transcribing Cantonese using the universal ideographic calligraphy.<p>In fact, writing in dialect languages is not taught. The extremely elaborate system dictating which of usually several, often many syllabary characters that sound identical must be used in writing a word in Mandarin (very commonly mistaken for ideographic writing) cannot work for the other sinitic languages.<p>(Sinitic languages admit about 1200 distinct syllables, but the syllabary writing system uses many times that number, so many necessarily sound alike. Mandarin speakers are taught that the characters are not merely syllables with attached historical rules, but ideograms that represent distinct thoughts. (Numerous just-so examples are used to support the notion.) This has often led to belief that ancient documents using the characters could be read and understood without deep knowledge of the actual language and world of the writer, resulting in, at best, comical translations.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yorwba</author><text>&gt; The extremely elaborate system dictating which of usually several, often many syllabary characters that sound identical must be used in writing a word in Mandarin (very commonly mistaken for ideographic writing) cannot work for the other sinitic languages.<p>It can work pretty much the same way, Mandarin isn&#x27;t special in that regard. The only difference is that the conventions for Mandarin are widely known and have been established for a long time.<p>But there was a time when writing in Mandarin was a radical new idea and people were unsure how to write many things, e.g. whether to use 的, 底 or 之 for the genitive particle <i>de</i>.<p>Most Sinitic languages are at a similar stage now: traditionally educated people know the pronunciations of many characters that are used e.g. in Classical Chinese poetry, but some frequently used words may not have any corresponding characters assigned, so people substitute others based on meaning and&#x2F;or pronunciation, or make up new ones (this is easier when handwriting).<p>Most likely it will also stay that way for most people, since the benefits of literacy in Sinitic languages other than Mandarin aren&#x27;t all that great, but there are also quite a few enthusiasts trying to make writing their mother tongues a thing, e.g. by developing input methods: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hanhngiox.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hanhngiox.net&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
20,842,644 | 20,840,426 | 1 | 3 | 20,839,478 | train | <story><title>BPF port-based firewall for systemd services</title><url>https://kailueke.gitlab.io/systemd-bpf-firewall-loader/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ldng</author><text>Maybe someone can enlighten me because I&#x27;m failing to see the relevance of SystemD here.<p>So the idea is, instead of having a central firewall managing all the host rules, each service define it&#x27;s own firewall policy ? How do I override a policy ?<p>I maybe missing something but somehow I&#x27;m not sure it&#x27;s the right place to do this.<p>I&#x27;ll end up joining the camp of SystemD does too much and breaks a lot of POSIX semantics making Linux systems hard to debug.<p>Lately it&#x27;s been getting more and more in my way. Things that I have problems with lately, DNS, cgroup and namespace. Every time I&#x27;ve lost a considerable amount of time because of poorly documented and mostly unexpected SystemD behavior.
Color me annoyed.<p>Edit: Hum, well, wasn&#x27;t supposed to but it end up into a rant</text></comment> | <story><title>BPF port-based firewall for systemd services</title><url>https://kailueke.gitlab.io/systemd-bpf-firewall-loader/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nailer</author><text>If you&#x27;re wondering what BPF is: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;linux-audit.com&#x2F;bpfilter-next-generation-linux-firewall&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;linux-audit.com&#x2F;bpfilter-next-generation-linux-firew...</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Berkeley_Packet_Filter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Berkeley_Packet_Filter</a></text></comment> |
21,365,287 | 21,364,885 | 1 | 2 | 21,363,217 | train | <story><title>A neural net solves the three-body problem 100M times faster</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614597/a-neural-net-solves-the-three-body-problem-100-million-times-faster/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>conistonwater</author><text>If I understood correctly, on page 2 they say they generated their training and test cases using random initial positions and velocities for the 3-body problem. But this is exactly the sort of case that a non-sophisticated solver should be able to handle easily as well. Brutus is special in the sense that it tries hard to give some sort of a guarantee about the accuracy of its solution to a chaotic problem. But the neural network solver provides no such guarantee, and has not been trained or evaluated on &quot;hard&quot; examples. I&#x27;m not sure the comparison is fair or particularly meaningful. I wonder if exactly the same sort of &quot;positive&quot; result could be achieved with a standard symplectic integrator, it&#x27;s not at all obvious from the paper that they have ruled that out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>knzhou</author><text>Yeah, this is classic neural network hype. I wish there were a way to automatically copy-paste my usual comment on trusting the MIT Tech Review, and <i>especially</i> its Emerging Technologies column, whenever such a link is submitted.</text></comment> | <story><title>A neural net solves the three-body problem 100M times faster</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614597/a-neural-net-solves-the-three-body-problem-100-million-times-faster/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>conistonwater</author><text>If I understood correctly, on page 2 they say they generated their training and test cases using random initial positions and velocities for the 3-body problem. But this is exactly the sort of case that a non-sophisticated solver should be able to handle easily as well. Brutus is special in the sense that it tries hard to give some sort of a guarantee about the accuracy of its solution to a chaotic problem. But the neural network solver provides no such guarantee, and has not been trained or evaluated on &quot;hard&quot; examples. I&#x27;m not sure the comparison is fair or particularly meaningful. I wonder if exactly the same sort of &quot;positive&quot; result could be achieved with a standard symplectic integrator, it&#x27;s not at all obvious from the paper that they have ruled that out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pixelpoet</author><text>Argh, just looked up Brutus and it&#x27;s pretty much <i>exactly</i> what I wanted to do on my own after quite a lot of reading on n-body simulations and finding nothing like it out there. I was (very naively, I realise) hoping to do some original research.<p>Oh well, time to study this intensively. Here&#x27;s a link for the curious: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1411.6671" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1411.6671</a></text></comment> |
36,728,567 | 36,724,599 | 1 | 3 | 36,723,382 | train | <story><title>Supermassive Dark Star candidates seen by JWST</title><url>https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2305762120</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jbotz</author><text>So, IIUC, this is an alternative to the paper that was discussed a couple of days ago saying the Universe might be twice as old as previously thought. The &quot;problem observations&quot; both of them try to address are what appear to be huge galaxies at an early time (according to redshift) when there shouldn&#x27;t have been such large galaxies yet. The aforementioned paper says maybe the Universe is actually much older. This paper says maybe those huge early galaxies aren&#x27;t actually galaxies but &quot;Dark Stars&quot; instead.</text></comment> | <story><title>Supermassive Dark Star candidates seen by JWST</title><url>https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2305762120</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Pxtl</author><text>I&#x27;m surprised to read an article with so much assumed knowledge about dark matter - about how it heats, etc. Is there a good place to read about the current best-guesses of the properties of dark matter?</text></comment> |
32,264,756 | 32,264,944 | 1 | 3 | 32,263,444 | train | <story><title>US Gross Domestic Product, Second Quarter 2022 (Advance Estimate)</title><url>https://www.bea.gov/news/2022/gross-domestic-product-second-quarter-2022-advance-estimate</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>melling</author><text>Doesn’t a Fed typically lower rates during a recession?<p>At least at some point, in order to bring a country out of the recession.</text></item><item><author>yuan43</author><text>&gt; Real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased at an annual rate of 0.9 percent in the second quarter of 2022 (table 1), according to the &quot;advance&quot; estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the first quarter, real GDP decreased 1.6 percent.<p>That makes two back-to-back quarters of real GDP contraction. To some, this is a recession, but it&#x27;s the NBER that puts the stamp on it. AFAIK, NBER has never failed to put the recession stamp on back-to-back drops in GDP.<p>It&#x27;s worth noting that yield curve inversion predicted recession four months ago:<p>&gt; The 2-year and 10-year Treasury yields inverted for the first time since 2019 on Thursday, sending a possible warning signal that a recession could be on the horizon.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;03&#x2F;31&#x2F;2-year-treasury-yield-tops-10-year-rate-a-yield-curve-inversion-that-could-signal-a-recession.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;03&#x2F;31&#x2F;2-year-treasury-yield-tops-1...</a><p>It&#x27;s also worth noting that 2y-10y yields have been deeply inverted (~20 basis points) for most of July and are in that state today.<p>Still one more thing to note: the earliest warning signal of them all appears to be an inversion of the eurodollar futures curve:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;finance&#x2F;eurodollar-futures-market-betting-hawkish-fed-could-ease-rates-slightly-2024-2022-02-18&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;finance&#x2F;eurodollar-futures-...</a><p>It started inverting last year. The inversion steepened. It is now in a very deep inversion in the long end that is marching steadily to lower maturities.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lumost</author><text>There have been predictions that the Fed would exhaust its capability to regulate the economy through monetary stimulus for years with the end result being inflation and recession. Anecdotally, over the course of my life the size of fiscal and monetary stimulus has only increased. During the 90s we would stimulate with a few points of interest reduction, then in the 2000s we had 08 leading into permanent QE through the 10&#x27;s. The 2020&#x27;s have seen stimulus activities far in excess of &#x27;08.</text></comment> | <story><title>US Gross Domestic Product, Second Quarter 2022 (Advance Estimate)</title><url>https://www.bea.gov/news/2022/gross-domestic-product-second-quarter-2022-advance-estimate</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>melling</author><text>Doesn’t a Fed typically lower rates during a recession?<p>At least at some point, in order to bring a country out of the recession.</text></item><item><author>yuan43</author><text>&gt; Real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased at an annual rate of 0.9 percent in the second quarter of 2022 (table 1), according to the &quot;advance&quot; estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the first quarter, real GDP decreased 1.6 percent.<p>That makes two back-to-back quarters of real GDP contraction. To some, this is a recession, but it&#x27;s the NBER that puts the stamp on it. AFAIK, NBER has never failed to put the recession stamp on back-to-back drops in GDP.<p>It&#x27;s worth noting that yield curve inversion predicted recession four months ago:<p>&gt; The 2-year and 10-year Treasury yields inverted for the first time since 2019 on Thursday, sending a possible warning signal that a recession could be on the horizon.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;03&#x2F;31&#x2F;2-year-treasury-yield-tops-10-year-rate-a-yield-curve-inversion-that-could-signal-a-recession.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;03&#x2F;31&#x2F;2-year-treasury-yield-tops-1...</a><p>It&#x27;s also worth noting that 2y-10y yields have been deeply inverted (~20 basis points) for most of July and are in that state today.<p>Still one more thing to note: the earliest warning signal of them all appears to be an inversion of the eurodollar futures curve:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;finance&#x2F;eurodollar-futures-market-betting-hawkish-fed-could-ease-rates-slightly-2024-2022-02-18&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;finance&#x2F;eurodollar-futures-...</a><p>It started inverting last year. The inversion steepened. It is now in a very deep inversion in the long end that is marching steadily to lower maturities.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tootie</author><text>The Fed lowers rates when lowering rates could plausibly help. The Fed has a dual mandate to control inflation and maximize employment. Employment remains incredibly strong while inflation is obviously too high which is the clearest possible signal to tighten. The Fed won&#x27;t&#x2F;can&#x27;t react to changes in the stock market, supply chain or foreign policy. It&#x27;s not just &quot;loosen during recession, tighten during expansion&quot;.</text></comment> |
3,437,195 | 3,436,978 | 1 | 3 | 3,436,489 | train | <story><title>Drone captured by Iran may mean military GPS RSA "red key" has been compromised</title><url>http://cryptome.org/2012/01/0016.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dextorious</author><text>Yeah, but he also adds: "Currently Iran is just the result of what happens if conservative fundamentals got ahold of the government of a country."<p>Well, not all can be explained by "conservative fundamentals getting ahold of the government". This amounts to "their people are really like us, it's their government that's bad".<p>There EXIST people/populations/countries that are conservative/unlike Americans in general, and have every right to live however the f<i></i>* they want to.<p>Western media turn a blind eye to millions of Iranian/whatever people that WANT to live like they do, and RESPECT their country's ideals, and instead celebrate a few hundred idiots with tweeter accounts and blogs that want to live like westerners and are totally unrepresentative of the general population -- a lot of them sponsored by foreign countries (at least with lectures, sponsorships etc).<p>What exactly is specifically bad about the Iranian government that other countries have not already did, including the US? US has: the death penalty (including teens), segregation until, what, the 60s (!!!), 500% more black people in jail than white, one of the largest prison populations in the world, hollier than thou attitude, tons of fundamentalists and bible yielders, tons of wars around the globe to secure oil and resources, huge corrupted multinationals, some 20% of the population below the poverty line, on of the lamest popular cultures worldwide, PIPA, SOPA, the Patriot Act, detention and/or murder of foreign nationals without trial, etc...</text></item><item><author>yid</author><text>Um...he was actually supporting your point.</text></item><item><author>mahmud</author><text>Do people earn their humanity by their proximity to Standard American Ideals? What about those who are very much unlike Americans? Do you they deserve to get nuked back to the $EPOCH?</text></item><item><author>ck2</author><text>Iran is not some backwater and it's not north korea.<p>When politicians sing about "bomb Iran" these are the innocent people they are talking about killing<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v6kF8i-mbw" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v6kF8i-mbw</a><p><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/01/a-view-inside-iran/100219/" rel="nofollow">http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/01/a-view-inside-ira...</a><p>Before 1970 you would not be able to identify pictures of iran from parts of the usa<p><a href="http://www.pagef30.com/2009/04/iran-in-1970s-before-islamic-revolution.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.pagef30.com/2009/04/iran-in-1970s-before-islamic-...</a><p>Currently Iran is just the result of what happens if conservative fundamentals got ahold of the government of a country.<p>Yeah the nuclear bomb makers and holocaust deniers have to be stopped, but let's show some care and understanding for innocent people under their rule first.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mseebach</author><text>&#62; millions of Iranian/whatever people that WANT to live like they do<p>It is really not an unreasonable assumption that the population living under a totalitarian regime, does, in fact, not want to.<p>&#62; What exactly is specifically bad about the Iranian government that other countries have not already did, including the US?<p>The rule of law. The rest amounts to rounding errors.</text></comment> | <story><title>Drone captured by Iran may mean military GPS RSA "red key" has been compromised</title><url>http://cryptome.org/2012/01/0016.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dextorious</author><text>Yeah, but he also adds: "Currently Iran is just the result of what happens if conservative fundamentals got ahold of the government of a country."<p>Well, not all can be explained by "conservative fundamentals getting ahold of the government". This amounts to "their people are really like us, it's their government that's bad".<p>There EXIST people/populations/countries that are conservative/unlike Americans in general, and have every right to live however the f<i></i>* they want to.<p>Western media turn a blind eye to millions of Iranian/whatever people that WANT to live like they do, and RESPECT their country's ideals, and instead celebrate a few hundred idiots with tweeter accounts and blogs that want to live like westerners and are totally unrepresentative of the general population -- a lot of them sponsored by foreign countries (at least with lectures, sponsorships etc).<p>What exactly is specifically bad about the Iranian government that other countries have not already did, including the US? US has: the death penalty (including teens), segregation until, what, the 60s (!!!), 500% more black people in jail than white, one of the largest prison populations in the world, hollier than thou attitude, tons of fundamentalists and bible yielders, tons of wars around the globe to secure oil and resources, huge corrupted multinationals, some 20% of the population below the poverty line, on of the lamest popular cultures worldwide, PIPA, SOPA, the Patriot Act, detention and/or murder of foreign nationals without trial, etc...</text></item><item><author>yid</author><text>Um...he was actually supporting your point.</text></item><item><author>mahmud</author><text>Do people earn their humanity by their proximity to Standard American Ideals? What about those who are very much unlike Americans? Do you they deserve to get nuked back to the $EPOCH?</text></item><item><author>ck2</author><text>Iran is not some backwater and it's not north korea.<p>When politicians sing about "bomb Iran" these are the innocent people they are talking about killing<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v6kF8i-mbw" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v6kF8i-mbw</a><p><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/01/a-view-inside-iran/100219/" rel="nofollow">http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/01/a-view-inside-ira...</a><p>Before 1970 you would not be able to identify pictures of iran from parts of the usa<p><a href="http://www.pagef30.com/2009/04/iran-in-1970s-before-islamic-revolution.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.pagef30.com/2009/04/iran-in-1970s-before-islamic-...</a><p>Currently Iran is just the result of what happens if conservative fundamentals got ahold of the government of a country.<p>Yeah the nuclear bomb makers and holocaust deniers have to be stopped, but let's show some care and understanding for innocent people under their rule first.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>beagle3</author><text>&#62; What exactly is specifically bad about the Iranian government that other countries have not already did, including the US?<p>Did you notice that Libya, Tunisia and Egypt already had a popular revolution, and that Syria is still having one? Would you have said, 12 months ago, that the majority of Tunisians, Egyptians and Libyans WANT to live like they do, and RESPECT their country's ideals?<p>If not, why not? and why is Iran different?<p>If so -- then, 12 months later, when you have proof positive that it wasn't the case 12 months earlier -- why do you think Iran is different (except in the sense that the popular green revolution has not succeeded)</text></comment> |
39,516,649 | 39,512,307 | 1 | 2 | 39,512,230 | train | <story><title>Final images of Ingenuity reveal an entire blade broke off the helicopter</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/02/final-images-of-ingenuity-reveal-an-entire-blade-broke-off-the-helicopter/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>EnigmaFlare</author><text>In case anyone wants to keep an eye on the ongoing stream of images from the rovers, Nasa has an easy API that gives you a JSON file describing each image for the day.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;api.nasa.gov&#x2F;mars-photos&#x2F;api&#x2F;v1&#x2F;rovers&#x2F;perseverance&#x2F;latest_photos?api_key=put-your-key-here" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;api.nasa.gov&#x2F;mars-photos&#x2F;api&#x2F;v1&#x2F;rovers&#x2F;perseverance&#x2F;...</a><p>Get an API key here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;api.nasa.gov&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;api.nasa.gov&#x2F;</a><p>For example, today&#x27;s record for a picture of the helicopter with the missing blade looks like this:<p><pre><code> {
&quot;id&quot;:1229137,
&quot;sol&quot;:1072,
&quot;camera&quot;:{&quot;id&quot;:48,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;SUPERCAM_RMI&quot;,&quot;rover_id&quot;:8,&quot;full_name&quot;:&quot;SuperCam Remote Micro Imager&quot;},
&quot;img_src&quot;:&quot;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mars.nasa.gov&#x2F;mars2020-raw-images&#x2F;pub&#x2F;ods&#x2F;surface&#x2F;sol&#x2F;01072&#x2F;ids&#x2F;edr&#x2F;browse&#x2F;scam&#x2F;LRE_1072_0762099726_099ECM_N0501618SCAM02072_0010I9J02_1200.jpg&quot;,
&quot;earth_date&quot;:&quot;2024-02-24&quot;,
&quot;rover&quot;:{&quot;id&quot;:8,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Perseverance&quot;,&quot;landing_date&quot;:&quot;2021-02-18&quot;,&quot;launch_date&quot;:&quot;2020-07-30&quot;,&quot;status&quot;:&quot;active&quot;,&quot;max_sol&quot;:1072,&quot;max_date&quot;:&quot;2024-02-24&quot;,&quot;total_photos&quot;:202033,&quot;cameras&quot;:[...]}
}</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>Final images of Ingenuity reveal an entire blade broke off the helicopter</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/02/final-images-of-ingenuity-reveal-an-entire-blade-broke-off-the-helicopter/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>h2odragon</author><text>The ultimate fate of all toy helicopters.<p>Wonder if the new &quot;silent propeller&quot; ring configuration shapes will be more durable. I recall the early Radio Shack toy helis had guard rings on their propellers, it helped immensely but they still were delicate and easy to kill.</text></comment> |
31,183,808 | 31,183,972 | 1 | 2 | 31,180,816 | train | <story><title>I got a computer science degree in 3 months for less than $5000 (2020)</title><url>https://miguelrochefort.com/blog/cs-degree/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blagie</author><text>As two points:<p>1) A GED would be trivial for this kid. So the high school diploma, I&#x27;m not worried about.<p>2) Kid started doing (real, not Scratch) programming in 1st grade. I&#x27;m not worried about coding experience or computer science background. I am worried about software engineering background, but that could come later.</text></item><item><author>suresk</author><text>I think that is a pretty fair and accurate assessment of it. For me, with a lot of experience, the credential + filling in some gaps were what I really needed and the WGU degree was a great way to take care of both.<p>As for recommending it to a super-gifted kid - I don&#x27;t think the program is setup to allow that. You have to have a high-school diploma and at least a bit of work experience to even be admitted. I also think that one drawback of the program is that you can graduate without having written a ton of code, which is fine for someone who&#x27;s been doing it for a long time, but less ideal for someone who hasn&#x27;t?</text></item><item><author>blagie</author><text>I didn&#x27;t read the article that way (although it&#x27;s clear many posters did).<p>The author learned a lot independently. There&#x27;s a question of what to do with that knowledge. A system like WGU does a few things:<p>1) Identify gaps and help fill them. Independent learners almost always develop gaps. One benefits from bringing that knowledge to a uniform &quot;undergrad CS degree&quot; level<p>2) Provide a certification once that&#x27;s done.<p>A traditional university degree takes 4 years, costs $200k, and has mixed quality. Being able to do 75% of that independently, and having an institution gap-fill for a few grand? That sounds awesome.<p>For brand recognition, I don&#x27;t see WGU as any better or worse than the 4500+ other random universities and colleges in the US. It doesn&#x27;t match the top few hundred, but that&#x27;s okay. Most don&#x27;t.<p>I&#x27;m not sure who would compare it to Phoenix, ITT Tech, DeVry, or other scams like that.<p>I&#x27;d much more place WGU as more a competitor to ASU. ASU is awesome, and is really trying to pioneer models of innovative, quality, low-cost, scalable education.<p>I hope one of them succeeds.<p>By the way, yourself being a former WGU student, would you recommend WGU to a super-gifted kid? E.g. having someone start college there at e.g. age 13? That, plus CMU OMSCS, seems like something they could finish by age 17. Socially, I&#x27;m not sure they&#x27;d do well starting traditional college early. Academically, middle &#x2F; high school seems like a waste of time.</text></item><item><author>AviationAtom</author><text>So, former WGU student here, though I hadn&#x27;t completed my degree.<p>Many WGU students HATE these types of articles, because they undermine the legitimacy of WGU.<p>WGU was not designed for traditional students, it was 100% designed for working professionals, where WGU will only admit you with a reasonable amount of experience in your field.<p>WGU is regionally accredited, not nationally, and it&#x27;s a non-profit. So it cannot be compared to University of Phoenix, ITT Tech, DeVry, etc.<p>It was founded by a group of governors out west, hence the name. They realized that there were many working adults who possessed a great depth of knowledge, from long working in their fields, yet they had no paper credentials to show for that knowledge.<p>Their model is competency-based, so you must demonstrate you posses knowledge in any given domain. If you can prove you do then you can test out right away, if you fail to then they offer a variety of resources to allow you to get up to par. In many cases classes are tied to obtaining industry certifications.<p>It&#x27;s not for everyone, but it is a far cry from a &quot;degree mill.&quot; Does it really matter if a person that has knowledge got it from sitting in a seat, paying ungodly amounts of tuition, or if they got it from life experience? As long as a bar is set, and you can meet it, then that should be what really matters.<p>Just my personal experience, from having attended the university. Unfortunately life sidetracked my completion, but I hope to return one day soon, and complete my program.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leoqa</author><text>I’d be more worried about social development. Of the small sample size of gifted people who didn’t want to be with their peers, how many have formed last relationships, friendships etc.<p>We had obviously gifted kids in my school and they came across as arrogant and entitled. 15 years later, most of them went on to get graduate degrees but don’t seem to be progressing socially (i.e. absent from reunions, weddings, small town bar run-ins)</text></comment> | <story><title>I got a computer science degree in 3 months for less than $5000 (2020)</title><url>https://miguelrochefort.com/blog/cs-degree/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blagie</author><text>As two points:<p>1) A GED would be trivial for this kid. So the high school diploma, I&#x27;m not worried about.<p>2) Kid started doing (real, not Scratch) programming in 1st grade. I&#x27;m not worried about coding experience or computer science background. I am worried about software engineering background, but that could come later.</text></item><item><author>suresk</author><text>I think that is a pretty fair and accurate assessment of it. For me, with a lot of experience, the credential + filling in some gaps were what I really needed and the WGU degree was a great way to take care of both.<p>As for recommending it to a super-gifted kid - I don&#x27;t think the program is setup to allow that. You have to have a high-school diploma and at least a bit of work experience to even be admitted. I also think that one drawback of the program is that you can graduate without having written a ton of code, which is fine for someone who&#x27;s been doing it for a long time, but less ideal for someone who hasn&#x27;t?</text></item><item><author>blagie</author><text>I didn&#x27;t read the article that way (although it&#x27;s clear many posters did).<p>The author learned a lot independently. There&#x27;s a question of what to do with that knowledge. A system like WGU does a few things:<p>1) Identify gaps and help fill them. Independent learners almost always develop gaps. One benefits from bringing that knowledge to a uniform &quot;undergrad CS degree&quot; level<p>2) Provide a certification once that&#x27;s done.<p>A traditional university degree takes 4 years, costs $200k, and has mixed quality. Being able to do 75% of that independently, and having an institution gap-fill for a few grand? That sounds awesome.<p>For brand recognition, I don&#x27;t see WGU as any better or worse than the 4500+ other random universities and colleges in the US. It doesn&#x27;t match the top few hundred, but that&#x27;s okay. Most don&#x27;t.<p>I&#x27;m not sure who would compare it to Phoenix, ITT Tech, DeVry, or other scams like that.<p>I&#x27;d much more place WGU as more a competitor to ASU. ASU is awesome, and is really trying to pioneer models of innovative, quality, low-cost, scalable education.<p>I hope one of them succeeds.<p>By the way, yourself being a former WGU student, would you recommend WGU to a super-gifted kid? E.g. having someone start college there at e.g. age 13? That, plus CMU OMSCS, seems like something they could finish by age 17. Socially, I&#x27;m not sure they&#x27;d do well starting traditional college early. Academically, middle &#x2F; high school seems like a waste of time.</text></item><item><author>AviationAtom</author><text>So, former WGU student here, though I hadn&#x27;t completed my degree.<p>Many WGU students HATE these types of articles, because they undermine the legitimacy of WGU.<p>WGU was not designed for traditional students, it was 100% designed for working professionals, where WGU will only admit you with a reasonable amount of experience in your field.<p>WGU is regionally accredited, not nationally, and it&#x27;s a non-profit. So it cannot be compared to University of Phoenix, ITT Tech, DeVry, etc.<p>It was founded by a group of governors out west, hence the name. They realized that there were many working adults who possessed a great depth of knowledge, from long working in their fields, yet they had no paper credentials to show for that knowledge.<p>Their model is competency-based, so you must demonstrate you posses knowledge in any given domain. If you can prove you do then you can test out right away, if you fail to then they offer a variety of resources to allow you to get up to par. In many cases classes are tied to obtaining industry certifications.<p>It&#x27;s not for everyone, but it is a far cry from a &quot;degree mill.&quot; Does it really matter if a person that has knowledge got it from sitting in a seat, paying ungodly amounts of tuition, or if they got it from life experience? As long as a bar is set, and you can meet it, then that should be what really matters.<p>Just my personal experience, from having attended the university. Unfortunately life sidetracked my completion, but I hope to return one day soon, and complete my program.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toast0</author><text>&gt; 1) A GED would be trivial for this kid. So the high school diploma, I&#x27;m not worried about.<p>The test might be trivial, but being able to take it isn&#x27;t trivial if you don&#x27;t meet the age requirements.</text></comment> |
16,789,094 | 16,787,825 | 1 | 2 | 16,787,247 | train | <story><title>Why I’m Using the Cerny Method of Game Development</title><url>https://spencerkr.com/post/172697996786/why-im-using-a-30-year-old-development-method-in</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>doomlaser</author><text>My method of game development usually consists of the gradual unfurling of a playground area where I create, test, and refine all the controls, mechanics, enemies, and environments in the game in a jumbled, haphazard mishmash.<p>Then I start incorporating them into production levels, build out an intro zone, etc.<p>The test zone pattern isn&#x27;t really a conscious decision, but it almost invariably develops in everything that I end up shipping.<p>I like Mark Cerny though. I wonder if the &#x27;Cerny Method&#x27; was used for Sonic 3 (as an aside, though Sonic 3 is a great game, it contains one of the single worst video game UX nightmares of all time — <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=FogRh7CALFY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=FogRh7CALFY</a>).</text></comment> | <story><title>Why I’m Using the Cerny Method of Game Development</title><url>https://spencerkr.com/post/172697996786/why-im-using-a-30-year-old-development-method-in</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jacques_chester</author><text>At least 43-years old, if the first edition of <i>The Mythical Man-Month</i> can be counted. Over 50 years if you consider the OS&#x2F;360 project that book was inspired by. Centuries if you consider prototyping generally as an engineering practice.<p>It&#x27;s pretty sound, in my view -- AAA budgets are gigantic. Spending a few million on a failed prototype is probably a wise investment compared to spending hundreds of millions on a failed product.<p>Edit: original title was &quot;Why I&#x27;m using a 30 year old method&quot;, hence my reference to the age of the method.</text></comment> |
11,238,343 | 11,238,375 | 1 | 2 | 11,235,316 | train | <story><title>Foreigners turn to India in search of cut-price, life-saving cures</title><url>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/06/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/desperate-foreigners-turn-india-search-cut-price-life-saving-cures/#.VtvsXMtX7qB</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>runholm</author><text>The issue is that with medicine, it cost vast amounts of money to develop and test a medicine. If there was nothing making sure the investment would pay of, there would be much less money spent developing medicine.<p>I am not saying the system is perfect, and some companies push the prices to the ridiculous to exploit people in need, but removing medical patents altogether would require some other equally strong economic incentive to keep development rolling.</text></item><item><author>dineshp2</author><text>I find the concept of intellectual property and patents ridiculous.<p>What would be the benefit of granting IP over an invention or innovation to a corporation or a group of individuals versus releasing the knowledge under the public domain? Except the corporation or inventor(s) making money off of it, I can&#x27;t think of anything significant. Instead, if the knowledge is made freely available under the public domain, the limitation becomes how well the innovation is used for the benefit of humanity instead of the limitation being access to the invention itself and IP.<p>Maybe the existence of IP and patents was important to get to the present as a way of rewarding innovation, but it&#x27;s high time to look for a better model.<p>I know this is a very complex issue for which there are no simple answers or solutions, but a good starting point might be to think about a society where the motivation for innovation is not financial reward.<p>Taking the example of patented drugs, how is it justified to keep access to life saving drugs beyond the reach of most people(including people in developed nations)?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gautamdivgi</author><text>I think you&#x27;re missing the point on both the money and the patent laws in India. According to the article
&quot;Successive governments have taken a view that patents should be granted only for major innovations, not updates to existing compounds — allowing domestic manufacturers to make generic versions of drugs at vastly lower cost.&quot; - which basically means you get a patent for real innovation, not minor cosmetic changes to keep your cash flow going.<p>The second - &quot;Pharmaceutical firms say India’s disregard for patents will stifle innovation or make drugs commercially unfeasible — Gilead paid $11 billion to buy the developer of Sovaldi in 2012.&quot;<p>Note that it didn&#x27;t cost $11B to research the drug but what it cost to buy the company. It is disingenuous to claim that their R&amp;D cost is that high.</text></comment> | <story><title>Foreigners turn to India in search of cut-price, life-saving cures</title><url>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/06/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/desperate-foreigners-turn-india-search-cut-price-life-saving-cures/#.VtvsXMtX7qB</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>runholm</author><text>The issue is that with medicine, it cost vast amounts of money to develop and test a medicine. If there was nothing making sure the investment would pay of, there would be much less money spent developing medicine.<p>I am not saying the system is perfect, and some companies push the prices to the ridiculous to exploit people in need, but removing medical patents altogether would require some other equally strong economic incentive to keep development rolling.</text></item><item><author>dineshp2</author><text>I find the concept of intellectual property and patents ridiculous.<p>What would be the benefit of granting IP over an invention or innovation to a corporation or a group of individuals versus releasing the knowledge under the public domain? Except the corporation or inventor(s) making money off of it, I can&#x27;t think of anything significant. Instead, if the knowledge is made freely available under the public domain, the limitation becomes how well the innovation is used for the benefit of humanity instead of the limitation being access to the invention itself and IP.<p>Maybe the existence of IP and patents was important to get to the present as a way of rewarding innovation, but it&#x27;s high time to look for a better model.<p>I know this is a very complex issue for which there are no simple answers or solutions, but a good starting point might be to think about a society where the motivation for innovation is not financial reward.<p>Taking the example of patented drugs, how is it justified to keep access to life saving drugs beyond the reach of most people(including people in developed nations)?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ekianjo</author><text>&gt; The issue is that with medicine, it cost vast amounts of money to develop and test a medicine.<p>If that is the real issue, then subsidize the costs of clinical research, instead of accepting that everyone pays the price of drugs 10 times what they should cost.</text></comment> |
12,549,150 | 12,549,338 | 1 | 3 | 12,547,353 | train | <story><title>Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013)</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22751415</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vlehto</author><text>The fine print in the book is education to completely clueless parent.<p>Basically how to bathe the baby, how to touch him&#x2F;her and how to play with him&#x2F;her. As a dude, I&#x27;d probably find that useful, as weird as it may sound. And it&#x27;s probably important for the baby now that I think of it. Sensory deprivation could hinder development. And that could happen if parent is clueless enough.</text></item><item><author>stevekemp</author><text>Posted because we just received our 2016 box, and I thought it was fascinating to see the contents as a Scottish man:<p>* <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;I0NYI" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;I0NYI</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>c22</author><text>&gt; As a dude, I&#x27;d probably find that useful, as weird as it may sound.<p>It only sounds weird because you prefaced it with &quot;as a dude&quot; implying what? That ladies have some sort of genetic knowledge of baby rearing techniques? That they receive special classes about it in highschool? I don&#x27;t know, sounds weird though.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013)</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22751415</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vlehto</author><text>The fine print in the book is education to completely clueless parent.<p>Basically how to bathe the baby, how to touch him&#x2F;her and how to play with him&#x2F;her. As a dude, I&#x27;d probably find that useful, as weird as it may sound. And it&#x27;s probably important for the baby now that I think of it. Sensory deprivation could hinder development. And that could happen if parent is clueless enough.</text></item><item><author>stevekemp</author><text>Posted because we just received our 2016 box, and I thought it was fascinating to see the contents as a Scottish man:<p>* <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;I0NYI" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;I0NYI</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seanmcdirmid</author><text>For the typical HN reader&#x2F;soon-to-be dad, I&#x27;m currently reading &quot;The Baby Owner Manual&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Baby-Owners-Manual-Instructions-Trouble-Shooting&#x2F;dp&#x2F;1594745978&#x2F;ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1474473179&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=the+baby%27s+owners+manual" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Baby-Owners-Manual-Instructions-Troub...</a><p>My wife got this for me, she knows me well.</text></comment> |
30,559,394 | 30,559,393 | 1 | 2 | 30,558,785 | train | <story><title>An ALS Protein, Revealed</title><url>https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/als-protein-revealed</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>StephenSmith</author><text>Both of my Grandmothers died of this terrible disease (My mom&#x27;s mom and my Dad&#x27;s mom, obviously no relation). One died well before I was born and the other when I was only 8. It takes away your ability to communicate pretty early on, as you slowly lose access to your muscles, all while your brain remains active. The inability for one to help themselves really makes this just horrible.<p>I often worry about the genetic implications of this. If the disease has any genetic predisposition, then I would certainly be out of luck. My mother and father are both well, approaching 60, but they would only have half of the genetic concern I do.<p>We just don&#x27;t know. The disease remains a serious mystery to us.<p>I hope that in my lifetime, we are able to understand more about the disease, what causes it, and hopefully find a cure.</text></comment> | <story><title>An ALS Protein, Revealed</title><url>https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/als-protein-revealed</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>flobosg</author><text>&gt; Remember, the protein-folding software works by analogy to known structures, which for the bulk of proteins can take you quite far (with ingenious software and lots of processing power). But they will not create new protein folds <i>ex nihilo</i>.<p>This is only true if you take AlphaFold or RosettaFold into consideration. However, there are protein design software suites (including Rosetta, which is part of RosettaFold) able to generate <i>de novo</i> protein folds not found in natural proteins[1]. Furthermore, many of those models have been demonstrated, using experimental methods, to adopt the desired structure in solution.<p>[1]: Here’s an early example - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.science.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1126&#x2F;science.1089427" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.science.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1126&#x2F;science.1089427</a></text></comment> |
13,910,233 | 13,910,201 | 1 | 2 | 13,909,365 | train | <story><title>They Used To Last 50 Years</title><url>http://recraigslist.com/2015/10/they-used-to-last-50-years/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>prodmerc</author><text>I&#x27;ve worked on hundreds of domestic appliances.<p>Newer ones from any manufacturer are indeed failing more often, and are designed worse.<p>The only explanation is that this is on purpose - just like cars or laptops or smartphones, they are designed to fail faster so you buy new ones. Planned obsolescence, plain and simple.<p>The best appliances today, by the way, are made by Bosch&#x2F;Siemens and Miele. None of the other manufacturers come close, period.<p>Interestingly, the high-end machines from Bosch&#x2F;Siemens made in Germany are higher quality than the ones made in Poland, China, Spain or Turkey.<p>Same design, but it seems they use lower quality electronics and metals, as the most common failures are with the motors, control boards and bearings.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>psadauskas</author><text>&quot;The only explanation...&quot;? What about &quot;never attribute to malice...&quot; and Occam&#x27;s Razor.<p>I think a more likely explanation is that in the majority of cases when shopping for an appliance and your choices are a $1500 one and a $2000 one, you buy the cheaper one. This forces manufacturers to compete on price, and to cut costs wherever possible to remain profitable.<p>Additionally, I just spent 30 seconds googling and a washer&#x2F;dryer set cost $495 in 1953, which is ~$4500 in today&#x27;s buying power. You can buy a cheap washer&#x2F;dryer set these days for $500 on sale, which is pretty incredible. I don&#x27;t know what super heavy duty high end washer&#x2F;dryer you could get these days for $4500, but I bet you could find one that would last 50 years.</text></comment> | <story><title>They Used To Last 50 Years</title><url>http://recraigslist.com/2015/10/they-used-to-last-50-years/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>prodmerc</author><text>I&#x27;ve worked on hundreds of domestic appliances.<p>Newer ones from any manufacturer are indeed failing more often, and are designed worse.<p>The only explanation is that this is on purpose - just like cars or laptops or smartphones, they are designed to fail faster so you buy new ones. Planned obsolescence, plain and simple.<p>The best appliances today, by the way, are made by Bosch&#x2F;Siemens and Miele. None of the other manufacturers come close, period.<p>Interestingly, the high-end machines from Bosch&#x2F;Siemens made in Germany are higher quality than the ones made in Poland, China, Spain or Turkey.<p>Same design, but it seems they use lower quality electronics and metals, as the most common failures are with the motors, control boards and bearings.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PuffinBlue</author><text>Sorry but I&#x27;m not drinking the Miele Kool-Aid any longer. Maybe in the past they were great (my MIL has a 20 years old washing machine that&#x27;s going great) but not the new stuff.<p>Both my washer and dryer failed within 2 months of each other after 6 years.<p>The dryers main board failed and price to repair was nearly £350 just for the part.<p>The washers pump and some kind of water sensor failed simultaneously, leading to a constantly filling drum that wouldn&#x27;t be emptied. Que the film style comedy of water vomiting forth from the soap dispenser tray all over the kitchen.<p>The warranty is only 2 years standard (thanks for that at least EU) but anything more is paid. No 10 year guarantee anymore!<p>And mine wasn&#x27;t the only newer Miele I&#x27;ve seen with expensive early failures as other friends have been caught too.<p>General consensus of the repair technicians I spoke with was all to get the cheapest non-condensing dryer (white-knight was mentioned as reliable but super cheap to repair if needed) you can and an LG washing machine for the sealed direct drive motor which comes with a 10 year [EDIT - seems they&#x27;ve dropped it to 5 years only now] guarantee.<p>Bosch dishwasher I&#x27;ll concede is still going strong after 7 years. And It&#x27;s really been abused (no filter cleaning for first 5 years!) so I take you point on that.</text></comment> |
5,298,927 | 5,298,739 | 1 | 3 | 5,298,451 | train | <story><title>Comet might hit Mars in 2014</title><url>http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/26/17107085-comet-just-might-hit-mars-in-2014</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>btilly</author><text>Wow. What are the odds?<p>Just doing quick ratios and squaring them, if the comet follows the initial projections, there are only about 230 large objects coming this close for every one that actually lands on Mars. (And Earth gets hit with about 3.5 of these for every one that hits Mars. Our last is estimated to be 65,957,000 +- 11,000 years ago.) This is literally a once in a million years near miss!<p>Of course the odds now are much higher than they normally would be. The fact that it is on a hyperbolic orbit means that it comes from outside of the Solar System. The density of such objects is much higher near the galactic plane than elsewhere. However the Sun bobs up and down, spending most of its time away from the galactic plane and crossing it every 30 million years or so. We last crossed it something like 100,000 years ago and are now heading away, so are still in a period where interstellar objects are more likely to come barreling through. So the odds are higher than they normally are, but even if you generously account for the currently increased risk, this is still a once in a civilization near miss.<p>Of course the initial estimate may be wrong. From the article the uncertainty is much bigger than the distance to Mars. If the uncertainty is the stated 650,000 miles, then we've got roughly a 1/24,000 chance of a direct impact. (I am sure that more informed people will come up with much better estimates in the not too distant future.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Comet might hit Mars in 2014</title><url>http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/26/17107085-comet-just-might-hit-mars-in-2014</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alexandros</author><text>Witnessing such an event could help get humanity serious about existential risk, from comets or otherwise. I, for one, am hoping for an impact.</text></comment> |
28,449,516 | 28,448,801 | 1 | 2 | 28,448,079 | train | <story><title>“It's open source! We’ll let our customers fix it.”</title><url>https://miles.land/posts/corporate-open-source/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tialaramex</author><text>Contrast the work I&#x27;m doing this week with Microsoft&#x27;s Graph API.<p>The C# library Microsoft provides for this is on GitHub, and their library docs it turns out are auto-generated ... But they aren&#x27;t automatically tested! So it&#x27;s possible for the docs to simply not work, and since they&#x27;re auto-generated they&#x27;re <i>automatically</i> kept not working. So GitHub issues about non-working docs get closed because even the maintainers can&#x27;t make small doc fixes. Brilliant &#x2F;s<p>I wanted to call this &quot;Continuous Disintegration&quot; but somebody already coined that phrase.</text></comment> | <story><title>“It's open source! We’ll let our customers fix it.”</title><url>https://miles.land/posts/corporate-open-source/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jzb</author><text>&quot;But if this issue goes unresolved for a long period of time, my employer might pay me to fix the issue myself and contribute the change upstream. That doesn’t sit well with me. We pay Google a lot of money to use their products, and having to fix bugs in those products ourselves isn’t what we signed up for.&quot;<p>I hear this, but I&#x27;m not sure that this is a case of Google expecting customers to fix bugs themselves or &quot;outsourcing&quot; to volunteers. I can think of a lot of instances where people would be thrilled if they even had the ability to fix a persistent issue with software that the company won&#x27;t fix itself.<p>If you pay a lot of money to Google and expect customer service, it seems to me that you should be filing a bug with Google around BigQuery if you expect Googlers to fix it vs. the Apache Project. (If Google has committers in that upstream then they can be assigned the work if it&#x27;s important enough.)<p>I guess what I&#x27;m saying is that filing a bug with the upstream feels like an indirect route if you expect customer service. I&#x27;d be filing the bug or discussing the flaw with my account rep &#x2F; salesperson as close to the vendor as possible.</text></comment> |
27,686,101 | 27,685,986 | 1 | 2 | 27,684,807 | train | <story><title>A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing</title><url>https://kleinbottle.com/#AMAZON%20BRAND%20HIJACKING</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CliffStoll</author><text>Guess I&#x27;d better say a few things.<p>First, I deeply appreciate that so many on Hacker News have come out for this. Enough to awaken me from a sound sleep on a Tuesday evening!<p>I don&#x27;t really care that much about selling Klein bottles over Amazon - it&#x27;s mainly to reach parents over the holidays. But I do wish that Amazon would do something about this kind of thing.<p>Finally, I&quot;m very low on stocks of glass Klein bottles. It&#x27;s weird for me to ask my friends not to buy the things I&#x27;ve worked so hard to make, but I guess I&#x27;d better. I hope to have more manifolds in mid to late summer.<p>Warm wishes all around,<p>-Cliff (way late on a cloudy Tuesday evening in Oakland)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CliffStoll</author><text>My reciprocal appreciation to Fury, Atlanta&#x2F;n, and Meester (and my many other friends on Hacker News).<p>I deeply appreciate the kindness and support of the hacker community - sends me back thirty five years to when I was fooling with a Unix workstation and stumbled on a small accounting error. Back then, I was surprised by the outpouring of help, suggestions, and collaboration from other computer folk.<p>At this moment, I again thank this community -- across decades and across the globe, I&#x27;m heartened and happy to be one of the gang.<p>Warm wishes all around,<p><pre><code> -Cliff</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing</title><url>https://kleinbottle.com/#AMAZON%20BRAND%20HIJACKING</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CliffStoll</author><text>Guess I&#x27;d better say a few things.<p>First, I deeply appreciate that so many on Hacker News have come out for this. Enough to awaken me from a sound sleep on a Tuesday evening!<p>I don&#x27;t really care that much about selling Klein bottles over Amazon - it&#x27;s mainly to reach parents over the holidays. But I do wish that Amazon would do something about this kind of thing.<p>Finally, I&quot;m very low on stocks of glass Klein bottles. It&#x27;s weird for me to ask my friends not to buy the things I&#x27;ve worked so hard to make, but I guess I&#x27;d better. I hope to have more manifolds in mid to late summer.<p>Warm wishes all around,<p>-Cliff (way late on a cloudy Tuesday evening in Oakland)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>furyg3</author><text>Hey Cliff, I just have to say thanks. I read the Cuckoo&#x27;s Egg in the early 90s and while I was already interested in computers, the idea that there were &quot;networks&quot; of them out there... well... it blew my mind.<p>I immediately went to my school librarian and said I wanted to try to connect computers together, or try to dial-up to library information services, etc. We started learning together.<p>You were a huge inspiration, thanks.</text></comment> |
21,990,660 | 21,990,697 | 1 | 2 | 21,990,228 | train | <story><title>Corundum: Open-source, high performance, FPGA-based NIC</title><url>https://github.com/ucsdsysnet/corundum</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sebastianconcpt</author><text><i>Corundum is an open-source, high-performance FPGA-based NIC. Features include a high performance datapath, 10G&#x2F;25G&#x2F;100G Ethernet, PCI express gen 3, a custom, high performance, tightly-integrated PCIe DMA engine, many (1000+) transmit, receive, completion, and event queues, MSI interrupts, multiple interfaces, multiple ports per interface, per-port transmit scheduling including high precision TDMA, flow hashing, RSS, checksum offloading, and native IEEE 1588 PTP timestamping. A Linux driver is included that integrates with the Linux networking stack. Development and debugging is facilitated by an extensive simulation framework that covers the entire system from a simulation model of the driver and PCI express interface on one side to the Ethernet interfaces on the other side.<p>Corundum has several unique architectural features. First, transmit, receive, completion, and event queue states are stored efficiently in block RAM or ultra RAM, enabling support for thousands of individually-controllable queues. These queues are associated with interfaces, and each interface can have multiple ports, each with its own independent scheduler. This enables extremely fine-grained control over packet transmission. Coupled with PTP time synchronization, this enables high precision TDMA.</i></text></comment> | <story><title>Corundum: Open-source, high performance, FPGA-based NIC</title><url>https://github.com/ucsdsysnet/corundum</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jdsnape</author><text>I&#x27;ve used NetFPGA (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;netfpga.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;netfpga.org&#x2F;</a> ) before which seems a little more complete, will be interesting to see how this compares.</text></comment> |
23,521,075 | 23,520,883 | 1 | 3 | 23,520,511 | train | <story><title>Engineers find neat way to turn waste carbon dioxide into useful material</title><url>https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/engineers-find-neat-way-turn-waste-carbon-dioxide-useful-material</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bit_logic</author><text>Every time there’s a discussion about synthetic carbon fuels, there’s the same frustrating replies. I want to reply to those with one statement: the whole point is to use excess power from solar&#x2F;wind. There’s always the same replies pointing out how it’s more efficient to use the power directly in EV batteries, laws of thermodynamics, and other similar things. Those completely miss the point. Solar&#x2F;wind is going exponential and we have a big problem of storing excess power. Massive really massive amounts of batteries is one option. But converting that into carbon fuels that work directly in existing infrastructure and is effectively carbon neutral is a good option too. That’s where the discussion should be, not pointless arguments about efficiency of EVs.</text></comment> | <story><title>Engineers find neat way to turn waste carbon dioxide into useful material</title><url>https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/engineers-find-neat-way-turn-waste-carbon-dioxide-useful-material</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text><i>“We used an open flame, which burns at 2000 degrees, to create nanoparticles of zinc oxide that can then be used to convert CO2, using electricity, into syngas.”</i><p>Is this a real catalyst? (That is, it doesn&#x27;t get used up in the process.) Or do they have to keep making more zinc oxide clouds to keep the process going? The paper summary is unclear about the energy inputs to this process.<p>Costs $10 to read the paper.</text></comment> |
7,682,441 | 7,682,292 | 1 | 2 | 7,681,973 | train | <story><title>Random JSON data generator</title><url>http://www.json-generator.com</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kolodny</author><text>Cache: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/uJUofyS.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;uJUofyS.png</a><p>For those wondering<p><pre><code> {{eval(String.fromCharCode(40,102,117,110,99,116,105,111,110,40,41,32,123,100,101,98,117,103,103,101,114,59,125,41,40,41))}}
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From:<p><pre><code> &#x27;String.fromCharCode(&#x27; + (&#x27;(function() {debugger;})()&#x27;.split(&#x27;&#x27;).map(function(c) { return c.charCodeAt(0) }).join()) + &#x27;)&#x27;</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>Random JSON data generator</title><url>http://www.json-generator.com</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>primitivesuave</author><text>Amazing. I didn&#x27;t even realize I was wasting time generating my own sample JSON data until I played with this.</text></comment> |
37,105,869 | 37,105,806 | 1 | 2 | 37,105,524 | train | <story><title>NixOS RFC 136 approved: A plan to stabilize the new CLI and Flakes incrementally</title><url>https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/136</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bongobingo1</author><text>Ive always loved the idea of nix, but feel like I&#x27;ve read numerous, if not horror, at least uncomfortable stories about the actual real-world experience after the initial &quot;setup yak shaving&quot; is done - which is often exciting for &quot;us&quot;, it&#x27;s the new project problem solving part before it falls into the boring &quot;work&quot; part.<p>If I have an arch system now, how useful is it to use Nix or Homemanager on a non-nixos <i>linux</i> system? I dont really want to dump a working system and duel booting always has whatever you need on the other system.<p>Do you <i>get</i> anything when not using NixOS to manage <i>everything</i>? What good is it if half my system is installed by pacman, half by asdf-per-project and the rest by nix? Has anyone gone down this route? What is the actual lived experience of half-assing it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nextos</author><text>It can get you two major things. Docker-like reproducibility for any development project in a much more convenient way. And the ability to try lots of software <i>without</i> installing it.<p>For me, the last one is a gamechanger, as I am no longer worried about littering my system with tons of dependencies. Say I want to convert an eBook I downloaded. I can quickly use Calibre for a one-off thing, with nix run nixpkgs#calibre.</text></comment> | <story><title>NixOS RFC 136 approved: A plan to stabilize the new CLI and Flakes incrementally</title><url>https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/136</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bongobingo1</author><text>Ive always loved the idea of nix, but feel like I&#x27;ve read numerous, if not horror, at least uncomfortable stories about the actual real-world experience after the initial &quot;setup yak shaving&quot; is done - which is often exciting for &quot;us&quot;, it&#x27;s the new project problem solving part before it falls into the boring &quot;work&quot; part.<p>If I have an arch system now, how useful is it to use Nix or Homemanager on a non-nixos <i>linux</i> system? I dont really want to dump a working system and duel booting always has whatever you need on the other system.<p>Do you <i>get</i> anything when not using NixOS to manage <i>everything</i>? What good is it if half my system is installed by pacman, half by asdf-per-project and the rest by nix? Has anyone gone down this route? What is the actual lived experience of half-assing it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pkulak</author><text>I don’t know the value of half-assing it, but committing your full ass is amazing. Don’t abandon a working system, but the next time you wait a whole three weeks to pacman -syu and your GPG keys are out of date and everything goes to hell… give it a shot.<p>Honestly, it’s Home Manager that really adds the maximum value, and getting all the way there takes a full weekend, but what were you gonna do anyway?</text></comment> |
16,574,914 | 16,574,208 | 1 | 3 | 16,573,627 | train | <story><title>Lossy GIF compressor</title><url>https://kornel.ski/lossygif</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nemothekid</author><text>Is this actually correct? If I distribute my app on the App Store, and provide a GitHub link in the description of the the full source code of the app, then it should comply with the GPL.</text></item><item><author>Arbalest</author><text>I like this part on the end<p>&gt; App Store terms and conditions forbid distribution of Free Software that grants users freedom to use the program any way they want. You&#x27;re not allowed to distribute this software with DRM applied to it.<p>Basically the essence of the GPL in one short paragraph.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rmc</author><text>The Free Software Foundation has some details on this[1]. This used to come up with the video player VLC, but they seem to have relicenced it, and it&#x27;s now possible.[2]<p>I&#x27;ve heard one reason is that the App Store requires users to agree to additional usage restrictions, which the GPL forbids distributors (in this case Apple) from applying.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fsf.org&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;licensing&#x2F;more-about-the-app-store-gpl-enforcement" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fsf.org&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;licensing&#x2F;more-about-the-app-store...</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.videolan.org&#x2F;vlc&#x2F;download-ios.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.videolan.org&#x2F;vlc&#x2F;download-ios.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Lossy GIF compressor</title><url>https://kornel.ski/lossygif</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nemothekid</author><text>Is this actually correct? If I distribute my app on the App Store, and provide a GitHub link in the description of the the full source code of the app, then it should comply with the GPL.</text></item><item><author>Arbalest</author><text>I like this part on the end<p>&gt; App Store terms and conditions forbid distribution of Free Software that grants users freedom to use the program any way they want. You&#x27;re not allowed to distribute this software with DRM applied to it.<p>Basically the essence of the GPL in one short paragraph.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chungy</author><text>Short answers: GPLv2, no; GPLv3, yes.<p>Apple&#x27;s App Store is identical to the TiVoization problem that GPLv3 was written to combat: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;licenses&#x2F;rms-why-gplv3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;licenses&#x2F;rms-why-gplv3</a></text></comment> |
30,431,851 | 30,431,487 | 1 | 3 | 30,430,041 | train | <story><title>Things you notice when you quit the news (2016)</title><url>https://www.raptitude.com/2016/12/five-things-you-notice-when-you-quit-the-news/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>flats</author><text>I strongly agree with this. I would, however, like to call out one TV program here in the U.S. that I think comes much closer to approximating the experience of “reading a 5,000-word article”: PBS NewsHour. It’s great, completely free and available to watch online, and you can even get most of what you need from their podcast alone (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pbs.org&#x2F;newshour&#x2F;feeds&#x2F;rss&#x2F;podcasts&#x2F;segments" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pbs.org&#x2F;newshour&#x2F;feeds&#x2F;rss&#x2F;podcasts&#x2F;segments</a>).<p>It consists of fairly in-depth, thoughtful coverage of both domestic and worldwide news topics, as well as a tiny bit of political analysis on Mondays and Fridays. It almost never devolves into the breathless, “the world is about to end”-type coverage found on basically all cable news programs. Judy Woodruff and her team are really great. I dearly miss Gwen Ifill and Jim Lehrer.<p>The Economist is also a great resource, as has been pointed out by other commenters here. They publish an audio edition of each week’s newspaper, too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jabroni_salad</author><text>I feel like PBS is one of the few orgs that prioritizes quality above all else and really means it. Between newshour, NOVA, and the kids programming, they get a lot of playtime in my home.</text></comment> | <story><title>Things you notice when you quit the news (2016)</title><url>https://www.raptitude.com/2016/12/five-things-you-notice-when-you-quit-the-news/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>flats</author><text>I strongly agree with this. I would, however, like to call out one TV program here in the U.S. that I think comes much closer to approximating the experience of “reading a 5,000-word article”: PBS NewsHour. It’s great, completely free and available to watch online, and you can even get most of what you need from their podcast alone (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pbs.org&#x2F;newshour&#x2F;feeds&#x2F;rss&#x2F;podcasts&#x2F;segments" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pbs.org&#x2F;newshour&#x2F;feeds&#x2F;rss&#x2F;podcasts&#x2F;segments</a>).<p>It consists of fairly in-depth, thoughtful coverage of both domestic and worldwide news topics, as well as a tiny bit of political analysis on Mondays and Fridays. It almost never devolves into the breathless, “the world is about to end”-type coverage found on basically all cable news programs. Judy Woodruff and her team are really great. I dearly miss Gwen Ifill and Jim Lehrer.<p>The Economist is also a great resource, as has been pointed out by other commenters here. They publish an audio edition of each week’s newspaper, too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joshstrange</author><text>PBS Newshour is a gem for sure and one of the few sources I trust almost fully. NPR is also high on my list.</text></comment> |
10,417,881 | 10,415,874 | 1 | 2 | 10,415,141 | train | <story><title>MariaDB 10.1 can do 1M queries per second</title><url>https://blog.mariadb.org/10-1-mio-qps/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bratao</author><text>MariaDB recently released the version 10.1 as GA.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.mariadb.org&#x2F;mariadb-10-1-is-stable-ga&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.mariadb.org&#x2F;mariadb-10-1-is-stable-ga&#x2F;</a><p>We been using it for a large dataset, and has been fantastic. Compared to MySQL 5.7 and PostgreSQL, it have the advantage of supporting the TokuDB engine out of box. My data uncompressed is 3TB, with it , we can fit in 300GB with all indexes.
Read Free Replication with TokuDB (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;percona&#x2F;tokudb-engine&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Read-Free-Replication-with-TokuDB" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;percona&#x2F;tokudb-engine&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Read-Free-Repl...</a>) also enable us to have a very cheap VPS as slave.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_Codemonkeyism</author><text>On the Postgres list<p>&quot;Sadly, fractal trees are an invention of Tokutek and are heavily and publically patented.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>MariaDB 10.1 can do 1M queries per second</title><url>https://blog.mariadb.org/10-1-mio-qps/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bratao</author><text>MariaDB recently released the version 10.1 as GA.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.mariadb.org&#x2F;mariadb-10-1-is-stable-ga&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.mariadb.org&#x2F;mariadb-10-1-is-stable-ga&#x2F;</a><p>We been using it for a large dataset, and has been fantastic. Compared to MySQL 5.7 and PostgreSQL, it have the advantage of supporting the TokuDB engine out of box. My data uncompressed is 3TB, with it , we can fit in 300GB with all indexes.
Read Free Replication with TokuDB (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;percona&#x2F;tokudb-engine&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Read-Free-Replication-with-TokuDB" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;percona&#x2F;tokudb-engine&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Read-Free-Repl...</a>) also enable us to have a very cheap VPS as slave.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>allan_s</author><text>About TokuDB and PostgreSQL<p>How does one ,by tunning a vanilla PostgreSQL (on a per instance or per database or per table basis) can get the same kind of advantages (and tradeoff) than in MySQL&#x2F;MariaDB by switching from InnoDB to TokuDB ?</text></comment> |
38,233,760 | 38,233,774 | 1 | 2 | 38,233,694 | train | <story><title>New Outlook sends passwords, mails and other data to Microsoft</title><url>https://mailbox.org/en/post/warning-new-outlook-sends-passwords-mails-and-other-data-to-microsoft?nl=e</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chrisbolt</author><text>Dupe:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38219568">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38219568</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38217457">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38217457</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38212453">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38212453</a></text></comment> | <story><title>New Outlook sends passwords, mails and other data to Microsoft</title><url>https://mailbox.org/en/post/warning-new-outlook-sends-passwords-mails-and-other-data-to-microsoft?nl=e</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neilv</author><text>Dupe of a dupe, but worth everyone seeing (maybe during the workweek rather than 3-day holiday for some): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38219568">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38219568</a></text></comment> |
5,905,793 | 5,905,815 | 1 | 2 | 5,905,391 | train | <story><title>Here’s Why Firefox is Still Years Behind Google Chrome</title><url>http://www.howtogeek.com/165264/heres-why-firefox-is-still-years-behind-google-chrome/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nathanb</author><text>This article is, in my opinion, not very good. It documents areas where Firefox differs from Chrome, yes, but it fails to make the case why I should care.<p>* I don&#x27;t want a multi-process architecture, I want it so one tab can&#x27;t kill my entire browser. If Firefox can get there in a different way than Chrome, so much the better.<p>* I don&#x27;t care whether or not my browser utilizes certain Windows features, since I run Linux. Have we seen an attack against Firefox which would have been stopped if it utilized this Windows feature? The article provides no evidence of this.<p>* I don&#x27;t want a desktop app store. addons.mozilla.org is, for all intents and purposes, Firefox&#x27;s app store. mozilla.org is Mozilla&#x27;s &quot;app store&quot;. This is kind of a silly request.<p>I use Firefox for the following reasons:<p>* There are extensions I like which have no equivalent (that I know of) in Chrome<p>* Inertia<p>* I like the Mozilla Foundation better than I like Google<p>I don&#x27;t expect these reasons to convince you. They are sufficient for convincing me. I&#x27;m not going to pretend like they present a compelling argument.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SeanDav</author><text>To this list you can add the deal breaker - Firefox is not mining your data and then passing it on to the NSA.</text></comment> | <story><title>Here’s Why Firefox is Still Years Behind Google Chrome</title><url>http://www.howtogeek.com/165264/heres-why-firefox-is-still-years-behind-google-chrome/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nathanb</author><text>This article is, in my opinion, not very good. It documents areas where Firefox differs from Chrome, yes, but it fails to make the case why I should care.<p>* I don&#x27;t want a multi-process architecture, I want it so one tab can&#x27;t kill my entire browser. If Firefox can get there in a different way than Chrome, so much the better.<p>* I don&#x27;t care whether or not my browser utilizes certain Windows features, since I run Linux. Have we seen an attack against Firefox which would have been stopped if it utilized this Windows feature? The article provides no evidence of this.<p>* I don&#x27;t want a desktop app store. addons.mozilla.org is, for all intents and purposes, Firefox&#x27;s app store. mozilla.org is Mozilla&#x27;s &quot;app store&quot;. This is kind of a silly request.<p>I use Firefox for the following reasons:<p>* There are extensions I like which have no equivalent (that I know of) in Chrome<p>* Inertia<p>* I like the Mozilla Foundation better than I like Google<p>I don&#x27;t expect these reasons to convince you. They are sufficient for convincing me. I&#x27;m not going to pretend like they present a compelling argument.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mtgx</author><text>Why wouldn&#x27;t you want a multi-process architecture? It&#x27;s bad enough that so many apps can utilize the quad core CPU&#x27;s we have in our PC&#x27;s. At least the browser is one app that can fully take advantage of multiple cores, unlike most apps out there.</text></comment> |
33,337,706 | 33,337,921 | 1 | 2 | 33,336,636 | train | <story><title>NY Supreme Court reinstates NYC's fired unvaccinated employees, orders backpay</title><url>https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=JK5E3gx5XV1/ku37jnWR_PLUS_w==&system=prod&TSPD_101_R0=08533cd43fab2000edb19601c775225bb3f6399e467eba468d5199c578db439f849eb7e40f10149908fdb0d7a514480063155165f24217998870310adf4e840d6f2dc7e02b7b4af121d79ec670c4468d9bd049aca6bd09e1e6afd8e75126fd352e140d96c7de44a910dd0fd70c45a64765c0ad37a316ee13</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>afarrell</author><text>&gt; At the core, all social structure is built on the threat of violence<p>Cripes. Nope.<p>If this was true, how do you explain backyard cookouts, pool parties, trick-or-treating, or Christmas present exchanges?<p>How do you explain folk dance festivals, buskers, and non-royal weddings?<p>How on earth do you explain hugs?</text></item><item><author>RC_ITR</author><text>&gt;where&#x27;s the penalty for committing those actions in the first place<p>You&#x27;ve hit the core problem of society&#x2F;government that countless generations have tried to obfuscate via an academic body that implies that social interactions can be studied&#x2F;understood like natural sciences.<p>At the core, all social structure is built on the threat of violence - Commit non-violent white collar crime? Show up to court, because if you don&#x27;t you&#x27;ll get arrested. Run from the police when they try to arrest you? You&#x27;ll get taken by force.<p>Reject Capitalism? Starve to death on the streets.<p>Sure, there&#x27;s political theory and economics can act like &quot;utility&quot; drives all things, but at the end of the day, it&#x27;s the threat of some sort of violently bad outcome that keeps society in check.<p>The recent rub is that we have (probably correctly) decided that violence is bad and we should all just be chill and work together <i>because it&#x27;s good for all of us.</i> We&#x27;ve also created <i>hyper</i> complex systems that couldn&#x27;t even theoretically be kept in check with violence (Who am I going to punch when I was duped by a crypto scam?).<p>So instead of angry mobs tarring and feathering bad politicians&#x2F;business people (probably bad) we just grouse on the Internet (bad but not <i>as</i> bad).<p>And stuff like this keeps happening, because an increasingly large number of people (especially the wealthy and politicians) are realizing the threat of violence isn&#x27;t that great anymore. Like look at Elon Musk - his whole <i>deal</i> is proving that there are no bad consequences to doing whatever he wants and he&#x27;s <i>revered</i> for it because people who still have a risk of violence in their lives are <i>jealous</i> but <i>believe they one day could get to a similar place.</i><p>There&#x27;s not really a solution other than figuring out how to may people be chill and cooperative on their own (good luck).</text></item><item><author>jakogut</author><text>Something I&#x27;ve been wondering in recent cases where courts are overturning recent government action, whether unconstitutional bills passed into law, or unconstitutional executive actions that overstep authority, is where&#x27;s the penalty for committing those actions in the first place?<p>The state of New York famously responded to the outcome of NYSRPA v. Bruen, which overturned the defacto ban on concealed carry, by declaring nearly all public spaces &quot;sensitive areas&quot; in which licensed individuals may not carry for their protection. Regardless of one&#x27;s opinion of said rights, how do courts blatantly ignore rulings and orders from higher courts with no repercussions?<p>How do courts declare certain executive orders unconstitutional, and yet the perpetrators, who took an oath to uphold and defend said rights and values, face no consequences?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jkhdigital</author><text>Social interaction which is based on mutual trust (whether from family or sustained direct interpersonal interaction) is not really what we&#x27;re talking about here. Folk dance festivals do not feed the world. The social structure of modern society is, by and large, about interactions between mutually distrusting strangers and their agents as they negotiate the exchange and distribution of economic resources. Basically everything you own and consume was produced by people you&#x27;ve never seen or interacted with.</text></comment> | <story><title>NY Supreme Court reinstates NYC's fired unvaccinated employees, orders backpay</title><url>https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=JK5E3gx5XV1/ku37jnWR_PLUS_w==&system=prod&TSPD_101_R0=08533cd43fab2000edb19601c775225bb3f6399e467eba468d5199c578db439f849eb7e40f10149908fdb0d7a514480063155165f24217998870310adf4e840d6f2dc7e02b7b4af121d79ec670c4468d9bd049aca6bd09e1e6afd8e75126fd352e140d96c7de44a910dd0fd70c45a64765c0ad37a316ee13</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>afarrell</author><text>&gt; At the core, all social structure is built on the threat of violence<p>Cripes. Nope.<p>If this was true, how do you explain backyard cookouts, pool parties, trick-or-treating, or Christmas present exchanges?<p>How do you explain folk dance festivals, buskers, and non-royal weddings?<p>How on earth do you explain hugs?</text></item><item><author>RC_ITR</author><text>&gt;where&#x27;s the penalty for committing those actions in the first place<p>You&#x27;ve hit the core problem of society&#x2F;government that countless generations have tried to obfuscate via an academic body that implies that social interactions can be studied&#x2F;understood like natural sciences.<p>At the core, all social structure is built on the threat of violence - Commit non-violent white collar crime? Show up to court, because if you don&#x27;t you&#x27;ll get arrested. Run from the police when they try to arrest you? You&#x27;ll get taken by force.<p>Reject Capitalism? Starve to death on the streets.<p>Sure, there&#x27;s political theory and economics can act like &quot;utility&quot; drives all things, but at the end of the day, it&#x27;s the threat of some sort of violently bad outcome that keeps society in check.<p>The recent rub is that we have (probably correctly) decided that violence is bad and we should all just be chill and work together <i>because it&#x27;s good for all of us.</i> We&#x27;ve also created <i>hyper</i> complex systems that couldn&#x27;t even theoretically be kept in check with violence (Who am I going to punch when I was duped by a crypto scam?).<p>So instead of angry mobs tarring and feathering bad politicians&#x2F;business people (probably bad) we just grouse on the Internet (bad but not <i>as</i> bad).<p>And stuff like this keeps happening, because an increasingly large number of people (especially the wealthy and politicians) are realizing the threat of violence isn&#x27;t that great anymore. Like look at Elon Musk - his whole <i>deal</i> is proving that there are no bad consequences to doing whatever he wants and he&#x27;s <i>revered</i> for it because people who still have a risk of violence in their lives are <i>jealous</i> but <i>believe they one day could get to a similar place.</i><p>There&#x27;s not really a solution other than figuring out how to may people be chill and cooperative on their own (good luck).</text></item><item><author>jakogut</author><text>Something I&#x27;ve been wondering in recent cases where courts are overturning recent government action, whether unconstitutional bills passed into law, or unconstitutional executive actions that overstep authority, is where&#x27;s the penalty for committing those actions in the first place?<p>The state of New York famously responded to the outcome of NYSRPA v. Bruen, which overturned the defacto ban on concealed carry, by declaring nearly all public spaces &quot;sensitive areas&quot; in which licensed individuals may not carry for their protection. Regardless of one&#x27;s opinion of said rights, how do courts blatantly ignore rulings and orders from higher courts with no repercussions?<p>How do courts declare certain executive orders unconstitutional, and yet the perpetrators, who took an oath to uphold and defend said rights and values, face no consequences?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whoopdedo</author><text>Because every stick needs a carrot.<p>Positive reinforcement is not antithetical to the threat of violence and can go hand-in-hand. If you&#x27;re good to me I&#x27;ll treat you like family. But violate that peace and me and my clan will come down on you with furious anger. That&#x27;s how people have lived for time immemorial.</text></comment> |
16,759,531 | 16,759,766 | 1 | 3 | 16,758,835 | train | <story><title>Wcc: The Witchcraft Compiler Collection</title><url>https://github.com/endrazine/wcc</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>BugsJustFindMe</author><text>I had to scroll way too far before encountering some basic description of wtf this is. &quot;binary black magic&quot; is cute and entirely unhelpful.<p>It appears to be:
&#x27;<i>The primary use of wcc is to &quot;unlink&quot; (undo the work of a linker) ELF binaries, either executables or shared libraries, back into relocatable shared objects.</i>&#x27;</text></comment> | <story><title>Wcc: The Witchcraft Compiler Collection</title><url>https://github.com/endrazine/wcc</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>voltagex_</author><text>Does anyone have real world use cases for this? The ls example ends too early but I think I know what they&#x27;re getting at.<p>wsh looks amazing for dynamic analysis though.</text></comment> |
11,243,362 | 11,243,335 | 1 | 2 | 11,243,207 | train | <story><title>Theranos Ran Tests Despite Quality Problems</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/theranos-ran-tests-despite-quality-problems-1457399479</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Asparagirl</author><text>Key takeaways from this new article, for people blocked by the WSJ paywall:<p>&quot;That letter cited “deficient practices” in five categories. In one of them, hematology, the problems found by inspectors posed “immediate jeopardy to patient health and safety,” regulators said.<p>The test that inspectors found Theranos kept doing despite the erratic quality-control results was a hematology test that measures how long it takes blood to clot, the people familiar with the matter said.<p>The test is an important part of the treatment regimen for patients who are at risk of strokes or have blood disorders...<p>People who have seen the Theranos inspection report said it seems to indicate the company ignored quality-control results for the blood-clotting test that fell short of its own criteria.<p>The results produced in the quality-control checks repeatedly deviated from the lab’s typical result by more than two standard deviations, those people said...<p>At Theranos, there were seven quality-control failures in a single day, said a person familiar with the report...<p>Dr. Hamill said any doctors who received prothrombin time test results from the Theranos lab during the six-month period shouldn’t rely on them and should have their patients retested as soon as possible. “Those results are not worth anything,” he said...<p>The federal inspectors also concluded that the Theranos lab in California used expired reagents, or substances added to blood samples to elicit chemical reactions, for some prothrombin time tests, according to the people familiar with the inspection report.<p>Those people said the report also found that the lab’s director didn’t have responsibility for the lab’s quality-control program and the lab’s quality-control manager was unqualified...&quot;<p>EDITED TO ADD: Actually, the really key sentence is this one: &quot;Theranos spokeswoman Brooke Buchanan said: “The PT&#x2F;INR issues identified by CMS related to tests run on conventional equipment using venipuncture samples.” A CMS spokeswoman declined to comment.&quot; Because that means that these quality control problems were <i>not</i> due to Theranos&#x27; &quot;revolutionary&quot; finger-prick tests, they were from regular old venipuncture tests running on a standard machine that were giving wildly incorrect results, expired reagents, no QC in the lab, etc. Bad data is worse than no data. If they couldn&#x27;t get old-fashioned labs right, no wonder they were having trouble with the finger-prick stuff.</text></comment> | <story><title>Theranos Ran Tests Despite Quality Problems</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/theranos-ran-tests-despite-quality-problems-1457399479</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>At what point here do people go to jail?
The FDA can and has done that for faking lab tests.[1][2]<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;1983&#x2F;10&#x2F;22&#x2F;us&#x2F;3-ex-officials-of-major-laboratory-convicted-of-falsifying-drug-tests.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;1983&#x2F;10&#x2F;22&#x2F;us&#x2F;3-ex-officials-of-major...</a>
[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubs.acs.org&#x2F;subscribe&#x2F;archive&#x2F;tcaw&#x2F;10&#x2F;i11&#x2F;html&#x2F;11regs.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubs.acs.org&#x2F;subscribe&#x2F;archive&#x2F;tcaw&#x2F;10&#x2F;i11&#x2F;html&#x2F;11reg...</a></text></comment> |
22,653,743 | 22,653,066 | 1 | 2 | 22,651,766 | train | <story><title>Covid-19’s stop-gap solution until vaccines and antivirals are ready</title><url>https://www.globalhealthnow.org/2020-03/covid-19s-stop-gap-solution-until-vaccines-and-antivirals-are-ready</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_bxg1</author><text>This crisis is the first event in my lifetime that&#x27;s given me any optimism about our ability, as a global civilization, to solve problems and get things done. I don&#x27;t feel like we&#x27;ve seen humanity at its best in several decades. Shame it always takes a catastrophe (and an immediate one at that; see climate change) to bring it out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nikofeyn</author><text>&gt; This crisis is the first event in my lifetime that&#x27;s given me any optimism about our ability, as a global civilization, to solve problems and get things done.<p>would you mind elaborating? because i find it extremely difficult how one could hold such an optimistic and apparent naive opinion.<p>from where i sit, this crisis is showing the exact opposite. there is very little international communication and cooperation, and even internal to countries, like in the u.s., there is very little communication and cooperation. aside from a few outliers, the while thing has just been wave after wave of delayed and reactive actions that were underprepared to begin with.<p>people keep thinking we&#x27;ll solve this with technology (the typical human way), but what would have been better is if everyone simply communicated, listened, and cooperated.<p>the human race could not face a <i>dumber</i> enemy. think about it. if everyone on earth just sat still for a couple of weeks, this thing would just vanish. can you imagine a more simple foe? and yet, this thing is crippling econmies, healthcare, and more.</text></comment> | <story><title>Covid-19’s stop-gap solution until vaccines and antivirals are ready</title><url>https://www.globalhealthnow.org/2020-03/covid-19s-stop-gap-solution-until-vaccines-and-antivirals-are-ready</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_bxg1</author><text>This crisis is the first event in my lifetime that&#x27;s given me any optimism about our ability, as a global civilization, to solve problems and get things done. I don&#x27;t feel like we&#x27;ve seen humanity at its best in several decades. Shame it always takes a catastrophe (and an immediate one at that; see climate change) to bring it out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ehsankia</author><text>I think it has the potential to, but so far, there hasn&#x27;t really much of it, or have I been missing it? Obviously progress is slow, but I think there&#x27;s also a lot of fluff being thrown around, so we won&#x27;t really know for some time.<p>I haven&#x27;t noticed any extra amount of cooperation though between countries, more so than the usual.</text></comment> |
27,917,083 | 27,914,028 | 1 | 2 | 27,909,608 | train | <story><title>Lost world revealed by human, Neanderthal relics washed up on North Sea beaches</title><url>https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/relics-washed-beaches-reveal-lost-world-beneath-north-sea</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ncmncm</author><text>This is fascinating. But I find it extremely odd that they talk only about Doggerland and, in passing, Beringia (connecting Alaska with Siberia) and &quot;archipelagos of Oceania&quot;. Meanwhile, they leave unmentioned literally <i>millions</i> of square miles of prime habitat occupied by modern humans for at least 50,000 years before it was inundated, now called Sundaland and Sahul.<p>Sundaland is now sea between Indonesian islands, reaching up along Vietnam and out to Taiwan (thus not an island), all the way up to Korea (thus not a peninsula). Sahul filled the gap between Australia and New Guinea.<p>They also leave unmentioned the Persian Gulf and the sea southeast of Pakistan, more thousands of square miles of recent land. The first cities (that we know of) were built immediately upstream from those parcels. Buildings were exposed in the latter parcel before the big recent tsunami, where fishermen&#x27;s nets have long got snagged.<p>Knowing that so much of what we think of as prehistory happened in places that are now flooded makes what we call &quot;Atlantis&quot; and &quot;Noah&#x27;s flood&quot; legends into legitimate oral history. The old question of where the water came from, and went afterward, is answered: from the glaciers, and it&#x27;s <i>all still there</i>. Australian oral histories record negotiated resolution of conflicts from people obliged to move uphill and crowd into where other people had lived for tens of thousands of years.<p>There were places the shore moved inland another meter each year, for centuries. Your grandparents&#x27; seaside village was always just offshore. It is easy to imagine how stories would have turned that into a dramatic deluge, over subsequent millennia.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simonh</author><text>This is an article about finds from Doggerland, not an article about your favourite flood mono-myth theory, hence a comprehensive discussion of global floods and associated myths is really out of scope and that&#x27;s why it&#x27;s not in the article. No confusion required.<p>We have no reason whatever to link the Atlantis story and the Noah&#x27;s Flood story the way you do. Not all stories about floods have to be about the same flood. Individual flood myths may well be legitimate oral history, but therefore Atlantis is a non sequitur.<p>As it happens we do have evidence that oral history can persist stories about events across tens of thousands of years. However we also know that floods are a very common phenomenon for unrelated reasons all over the world even now.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lost world revealed by human, Neanderthal relics washed up on North Sea beaches</title><url>https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/relics-washed-beaches-reveal-lost-world-beneath-north-sea</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ncmncm</author><text>This is fascinating. But I find it extremely odd that they talk only about Doggerland and, in passing, Beringia (connecting Alaska with Siberia) and &quot;archipelagos of Oceania&quot;. Meanwhile, they leave unmentioned literally <i>millions</i> of square miles of prime habitat occupied by modern humans for at least 50,000 years before it was inundated, now called Sundaland and Sahul.<p>Sundaland is now sea between Indonesian islands, reaching up along Vietnam and out to Taiwan (thus not an island), all the way up to Korea (thus not a peninsula). Sahul filled the gap between Australia and New Guinea.<p>They also leave unmentioned the Persian Gulf and the sea southeast of Pakistan, more thousands of square miles of recent land. The first cities (that we know of) were built immediately upstream from those parcels. Buildings were exposed in the latter parcel before the big recent tsunami, where fishermen&#x27;s nets have long got snagged.<p>Knowing that so much of what we think of as prehistory happened in places that are now flooded makes what we call &quot;Atlantis&quot; and &quot;Noah&#x27;s flood&quot; legends into legitimate oral history. The old question of where the water came from, and went afterward, is answered: from the glaciers, and it&#x27;s <i>all still there</i>. Australian oral histories record negotiated resolution of conflicts from people obliged to move uphill and crowd into where other people had lived for tens of thousands of years.<p>There were places the shore moved inland another meter each year, for centuries. Your grandparents&#x27; seaside village was always just offshore. It is easy to imagine how stories would have turned that into a dramatic deluge, over subsequent millennia.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>slongfield</author><text>My impression of the history of the &quot;Noah&#x27;s flood&quot; story is that mythologists tend to trace it back to the origin of civilization in the fertile crescent, a historic flood plain.<p>Specifically, there are very strong parallels between it and the Gilgamesh flood myth:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gilgamesh_flood_myth" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gilgamesh_flood_myth</a></text></comment> |
10,513,093 | 10,513,195 | 1 | 2 | 10,512,882 | train | <story><title>Text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership</title><url>http://tpp.mfat.govt.nz/text</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lighthawk</author><text>According to 18.37.3 and 4, microorganisms cannot be excluded from patentability. I assume this is to allow patenting of things like probiotics. However, all humans rely their skin, mouth, and gut floras to be healthy. If the bacteria and yeast in that flora can&#x27;t be excluded from patentability, are they considered not a part of the human animal? I understand that probiotics should be protected, but I wonder if someone could take advantage of this and claim patent on any naturally occurring microorganism by just isolating it and showing that it has some use.<p>Something else not specified in this section are viruses. Viruses are not strictly microorganisms, and no mention is made of them, but yet they can be manufactured and used for treatments- recently even for cancer:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mayo.edu&#x2F;research&#x2F;departments-divisions&#x2F;department-molecular-medicine&#x2F;harnessing-viruses-treat-cancer" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mayo.edu&#x2F;research&#x2F;departments-divisions&#x2F;departmen...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;society&#x2F;2015&#x2F;nov&#x2F;02&#x2F;fda-approval-imlygic-cancer-hunting-viral-treatment" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;society&#x2F;2015&#x2F;nov&#x2F;02&#x2F;fda-approval-...</a><p>If viruses could be excluded from patentability since they aren&#x27;t mentioned, then any research or manufacturing done would not be patentable, and therefore some companies may hesitate to invest too heavily in research.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aroch</author><text>I think the <i>spirit</i> of this to allow for drastically modified yeast that produce, say, anti-cancer drug X to be patented. To make the biological equivalent of an industrial methods patent. Otherwise you wouldn&#x27;t be able to protect your IP even though significant effort has gone into creating a chimeric yeast, because its just a collection of natural products (natural product&#x27;s are currently not patentable).<p>Still, seems a little odd &#x2F; slippery slope-y to me. On the one hand, I understand and, to some extent, agree with the need to protect &#x2F; profit off what you&#x27;ve developed. On the otherhand, USPTO is pretty bad at biological patent screening and I can see a huge landrush to patent bacteria for no good reason.<p>(Full disclosure, I am in the process of patenting a modified natural product made by a bacteria)</text></comment> | <story><title>Text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership</title><url>http://tpp.mfat.govt.nz/text</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lighthawk</author><text>According to 18.37.3 and 4, microorganisms cannot be excluded from patentability. I assume this is to allow patenting of things like probiotics. However, all humans rely their skin, mouth, and gut floras to be healthy. If the bacteria and yeast in that flora can&#x27;t be excluded from patentability, are they considered not a part of the human animal? I understand that probiotics should be protected, but I wonder if someone could take advantage of this and claim patent on any naturally occurring microorganism by just isolating it and showing that it has some use.<p>Something else not specified in this section are viruses. Viruses are not strictly microorganisms, and no mention is made of them, but yet they can be manufactured and used for treatments- recently even for cancer:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mayo.edu&#x2F;research&#x2F;departments-divisions&#x2F;department-molecular-medicine&#x2F;harnessing-viruses-treat-cancer" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mayo.edu&#x2F;research&#x2F;departments-divisions&#x2F;departmen...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;society&#x2F;2015&#x2F;nov&#x2F;02&#x2F;fda-approval-imlygic-cancer-hunting-viral-treatment" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;society&#x2F;2015&#x2F;nov&#x2F;02&#x2F;fda-approval-...</a><p>If viruses could be excluded from patentability since they aren&#x27;t mentioned, then any research or manufacturing done would not be patentable, and therefore some companies may hesitate to invest too heavily in research.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PythonicAlpha</author><text>This alone is a strike against humanity: Now local patent laws that are widely criticized are even protected by international contracts (and thus have to be implemented by all signers -- and can not be changed, even the US can not change it&#x27;s laws or regulations, when the top courts want to change patent ability regulations, they can&#x27;t.).<p>Is this about &quot;free trade&quot; or about profit-maximizing and guaranteeing for some big corporations?</text></comment> |
19,835,686 | 19,835,681 | 1 | 2 | 19,817,584 | train | <story><title>The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015 [pdf]</title><url>https://economics.harvard.edu/files/economics/files/ms28533.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pascalxus</author><text>Why is the real rate of return on real estate anything above 0? If so, it means we&#x27;re getting significantly worse at producing housing&#x2F;shelter. Sure, some of it can be chalked up to land value increase. But, much of america is not land locked in any way. If real estate really is returning greater than 0 real returns (not including rent&#x2F;dividend) then that is quite concerning for society. It means we haven&#x27;t achieved any progress in housing for 150+ years (sure electricity&#x2F;sewage&#x2F;pipes, but that goes in a different category, more like utilities). If this trend continues, greater and greater percentage of people&#x27;s incomes will go towards housing and more and more families will need to live in a given living space: the complete opposite of progress.<p>EDIT: I&#x27;m talking about ONLY the capital gain portion, not the rent port. The rent portion of course should be greater than 0.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zemo</author><text>... it&#x27;s literally the first sentence of the second paragraph of the introduction. The rate of return on real estate is the appreciation in its value plus the amount of rent you can charge for using it versus its cost to purchase. If you can buy a property for $100k and it yields $5k of yearly income, that&#x27;s a 5% rate of return. You can&#x27;t &quot;not include rent&quot;, that&#x27;s literally the function of a lot of real estate purchase.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015 [pdf]</title><url>https://economics.harvard.edu/files/economics/files/ms28533.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pascalxus</author><text>Why is the real rate of return on real estate anything above 0? If so, it means we&#x27;re getting significantly worse at producing housing&#x2F;shelter. Sure, some of it can be chalked up to land value increase. But, much of america is not land locked in any way. If real estate really is returning greater than 0 real returns (not including rent&#x2F;dividend) then that is quite concerning for society. It means we haven&#x27;t achieved any progress in housing for 150+ years (sure electricity&#x2F;sewage&#x2F;pipes, but that goes in a different category, more like utilities). If this trend continues, greater and greater percentage of people&#x27;s incomes will go towards housing and more and more families will need to live in a given living space: the complete opposite of progress.<p>EDIT: I&#x27;m talking about ONLY the capital gain portion, not the rent port. The rent portion of course should be greater than 0.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>purple-again</author><text>It turns out people have this strange obsession with living within x miles of their family. While the number of people living in New York City has greatly increased the amount of land has not. The more people demanding the same thing, the more it costs. Hence real estate in desirable areas continues to return a significant rate. Well unless you invested in Detroit of course.</text></comment> |
36,920,860 | 36,919,650 | 1 | 2 | 36,918,435 | train | <story><title>So you want to build your own open source chatbot</title><url>https://hacks.mozilla.org/2023/07/so-you-want-to-build-your-own-open-source-chatbot/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kykeonaut</author><text>If I am trying to contact a business, it is because I have a question that their site wasn&#x27;t able to answer, or I need to contact a representative to do something I can&#x27;t do on the website (think canceling a service).<p>Having a talking FAQ page is, in my opinion, trying to compensate for lacking UX practices, and chances are that if the business didn&#x27;t include the information I am seeking for in their website, they won&#x27;t include it in the chatbot.<p>That said, I think that chatbots could assist customers in getting in contact with the right representative, but trying to have chatbots as a wall between getting human help is imho an anti-pattern</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zlwaterfield</author><text>I’ve worked on a few support sites for companies over the years. In all my research I found &gt;40% of customers never look for the answer before contacting support. That’s why you’ll see sites add a bunch of questions with recommendations to answers based on your description before you can contact support. Even AWS support does this.<p>Bots may be annoying but they can also save the company tons in custer support costs. I’m for it if the UX is good and I can quickly contact an agent if the bot can’t answer my question. This is assuming the bot won’t hallucinate and just tell me random fake facts.</text></comment> | <story><title>So you want to build your own open source chatbot</title><url>https://hacks.mozilla.org/2023/07/so-you-want-to-build-your-own-open-source-chatbot/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kykeonaut</author><text>If I am trying to contact a business, it is because I have a question that their site wasn&#x27;t able to answer, or I need to contact a representative to do something I can&#x27;t do on the website (think canceling a service).<p>Having a talking FAQ page is, in my opinion, trying to compensate for lacking UX practices, and chances are that if the business didn&#x27;t include the information I am seeking for in their website, they won&#x27;t include it in the chatbot.<p>That said, I think that chatbots could assist customers in getting in contact with the right representative, but trying to have chatbots as a wall between getting human help is imho an anti-pattern</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thelastparadise</author><text>I operate a 4fig&#x2F;month micro SaaS.<p>We use a chat bot because we simply do not have the support staff to answer your questions.<p>So you get the bot --it&#x27;s either that or nothing.<p>But what we do do, is monitor the bot logs. If a function is missing from the product or website, we add it so that future users can fully self-service.<p>It&#x27;s important to note, users are free to cancel their account at any time and&#x2F;or get a refund.</text></comment> |
34,731,546 | 34,731,152 | 1 | 3 | 34,721,278 | train | <story><title>Emacs StackExchange</title><url>https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions?tab=Votes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dimitar</author><text>Is there a friendly and active chat community for Emacs? There are so many topics where asking for tips and opinions is valuable and doesn&#x27;t fit well wikis or Q&amp;A formats.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xenodium</author><text>Mastodon Emacs discussion is flourishing nicely. Lots going on at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;emacs.ch" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;emacs.ch</a> instance. I sometimes post Emacs things at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;indieweb.social&#x2F;@xenodium" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;indieweb.social&#x2F;@xenodium</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Emacs StackExchange</title><url>https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions?tab=Votes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dimitar</author><text>Is there a friendly and active chat community for Emacs? There are so many topics where asking for tips and opinions is valuable and doesn&#x27;t fit well wikis or Q&amp;A formats.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hprotagonist</author><text>#emacs on irc.libera.chat.<p>fsbot knows too many things.</text></comment> |
23,585,981 | 23,586,067 | 1 | 3 | 23,585,596 | train | <story><title>Executive order expected to suspend H-1B, other visas until end of year</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/06/20/881245867/trump-expected-to-suspend-h-1b-other-visas-until-end-of-year</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dx87</author><text>If H-1B visas were being used how they were intended, they would be a good thing, but we often see them used as a way to get cheap labor, or even directly replace American workers. The company I work at has H-1B junior web developers, hardly &quot;very niche, hard to fill&quot; positions that they can&#x27;t find any qualified Americans to do.</text></item><item><author>awillen</author><text>It&#x27;s just silly... even if you&#x27;re a nationalist, isn&#x27;t the prospect of bringing over talented people from foreign countries to work in America and help our companies profit plus deprive their home countries of their skills a really, really good thing?</text></item><item><author>BolexNOLA</author><text>This has gotten very old very fast (beyond the obvious cruelty). I have several friends who keep watching their colleagues just have to up and leave over this and it’s causing a ton of issues for businesses that employ folks on work visas in general. It’s just disruptive to be disruptive&#x2F;feed the base.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alexandercrohde</author><text>For a while I wasn&#x27;t sure if this was just some &quot;talking point.&quot; Then one day, on a hiking meetup, I met a guy who was ranting about his job that was to write &quot;oddly hyper-specific job descriptions that might seem to make no sense&quot; to bring in cheaper h1b candidates.<p>So yeah, it&#x27;s a problem.</text></comment> | <story><title>Executive order expected to suspend H-1B, other visas until end of year</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/06/20/881245867/trump-expected-to-suspend-h-1b-other-visas-until-end-of-year</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dx87</author><text>If H-1B visas were being used how they were intended, they would be a good thing, but we often see them used as a way to get cheap labor, or even directly replace American workers. The company I work at has H-1B junior web developers, hardly &quot;very niche, hard to fill&quot; positions that they can&#x27;t find any qualified Americans to do.</text></item><item><author>awillen</author><text>It&#x27;s just silly... even if you&#x27;re a nationalist, isn&#x27;t the prospect of bringing over talented people from foreign countries to work in America and help our companies profit plus deprive their home countries of their skills a really, really good thing?</text></item><item><author>BolexNOLA</author><text>This has gotten very old very fast (beyond the obvious cruelty). I have several friends who keep watching their colleagues just have to up and leave over this and it’s causing a ton of issues for businesses that employ folks on work visas in general. It’s just disruptive to be disruptive&#x2F;feed the base.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>untog</author><text>The answer here is to actually fix the system with compassion rather than suspend it and harm everyone using it.<p>I&#x27;m not unbiased: I&#x27;m a former H1B visa holder and wasn&#x27;t underpaid at all. I promise you we exist! It&#x27;s not a fun situation to be in... if you have a pending green card application (up to a certain point in the process) you can&#x27;t change jobs easily. And if you come from some countries (India, in particular) you have a wait of ten years or more before receiving your green card.<p>It feels like a collision of a bunch of otherwise unrelated decisions that ultimately harms both immigrant and native workers and only benefits companies. It&#x27;s all fixable, but like so many things in the US right now, not politically possible.</text></comment> |
27,516,130 | 27,513,061 | 1 | 3 | 27,506,550 | train | <story><title>Myths in cycling: wider tires are slower</title><url>https://www.renehersecycles.com/12-myths-in-cycling-1-wider-tires-are-slower/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rorykoehler</author><text>Don&#x27;t gravel bikes have much smaller gear ratios? There is no way a strong road cyclist would have the same times on a gravel bike as a road bike purely due to the size of the front chain ring. I run a semi-compact up front on my road bike and I can&#x27;t go faster than 53kmh on the flat without my cadence getting too high to sustain for longer periods of time.</text></item><item><author>plorkyeran</author><text>Yeah, when I first got my gravel bike I thought I&#x27;d be sacrificing some road performance for better flexibility and comfort, but that didn&#x27;t happen. The actual result was that my times on smooth segments were unchanged and I&#x27;ve beaten many of my personal bests on rougher roads (and obviously it&#x27;s much better on dirt).<p>It&#x27;s not a perfectly fair comparison because I did upgrade to a nicer bike in the process, but my previous bike was already into the territory of significant diminishing returns for someone who doesn&#x27;t race and doesn&#x27;t actually care about saving seconds.</text></item><item><author>haswell</author><text>This is one of the reasons I love the emergence of the &quot;Gravel&quot; category of bikes. They look and have geometry similar to a road bike, but they have enough clearance for nice fat gravel tires.<p>I ride in Chicago (shitty roads, potholes &amp; construction are everywhere), and love that I can put nice 38mm+ GravelKing Slick tires on the bike, and still have no problem keeping up with most road bikes. I&#x27;ve gotten funny looks from folks who&#x27;re unfamiliar with the concept, but it&#x27;s such a great setup.<p>Comfy&#x2F;soft ride too.<p>Edit: Cannondale Topstone if anyone is curious.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>plorkyeran</author><text>I run out of gears on flat terrain but that is a negligible portion of what I ride. I&#x27;d definitely expect a gravel bike to be a bigger handicap if you&#x27;re riding mostly flat terrain and actually care about your speed on those sections.</text></comment> | <story><title>Myths in cycling: wider tires are slower</title><url>https://www.renehersecycles.com/12-myths-in-cycling-1-wider-tires-are-slower/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rorykoehler</author><text>Don&#x27;t gravel bikes have much smaller gear ratios? There is no way a strong road cyclist would have the same times on a gravel bike as a road bike purely due to the size of the front chain ring. I run a semi-compact up front on my road bike and I can&#x27;t go faster than 53kmh on the flat without my cadence getting too high to sustain for longer periods of time.</text></item><item><author>plorkyeran</author><text>Yeah, when I first got my gravel bike I thought I&#x27;d be sacrificing some road performance for better flexibility and comfort, but that didn&#x27;t happen. The actual result was that my times on smooth segments were unchanged and I&#x27;ve beaten many of my personal bests on rougher roads (and obviously it&#x27;s much better on dirt).<p>It&#x27;s not a perfectly fair comparison because I did upgrade to a nicer bike in the process, but my previous bike was already into the territory of significant diminishing returns for someone who doesn&#x27;t race and doesn&#x27;t actually care about saving seconds.</text></item><item><author>haswell</author><text>This is one of the reasons I love the emergence of the &quot;Gravel&quot; category of bikes. They look and have geometry similar to a road bike, but they have enough clearance for nice fat gravel tires.<p>I ride in Chicago (shitty roads, potholes &amp; construction are everywhere), and love that I can put nice 38mm+ GravelKing Slick tires on the bike, and still have no problem keeping up with most road bikes. I&#x27;ve gotten funny looks from folks who&#x27;re unfamiliar with the concept, but it&#x27;s such a great setup.<p>Comfy&#x2F;soft ride too.<p>Edit: Cannondale Topstone if anyone is curious.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blakblakarak</author><text>If you can spin out a 50x11 or similar on the flat you&#x27;re in a very small minority of cyclists...</text></comment> |
36,525,507 | 36,525,650 | 1 | 3 | 36,525,015 | train | <story><title>The KDE Free Qt Foundation: 25 Years of Celebration</title><url>https://www.qt.io/blog/the-kde-free-qt-foundation-25-years-of-celebration</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mikae1</author><text>KDE Plasma made getting back to desktop Linux after 15 years of macOS an easy task. Despite GNOME often being described as closer to macOS and Plasma closer to Windows I&#x27;ve found that no DE comes close to the configurability and polish that Plasma has. Congratulations!</text></comment> | <story><title>The KDE Free Qt Foundation: 25 Years of Celebration</title><url>https://www.qt.io/blog/the-kde-free-qt-foundation-25-years-of-celebration</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MaxBarraclough</author><text>&gt; Qt is developed as a true open source project.<p>Apart from when they deliberately withhold features from the Open Source releases.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.qt.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;the-new-qt-quick-compiler-is-coming-in-qt" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.qt.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;the-new-qt-quick-compiler-is-coming-i...</a></text></comment> |
30,227,749 | 30,227,628 | 1 | 3 | 30,227,013 | train | <story><title>Younger Americans benefit less from booster shots than older people</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/health/covid-boosters-older-younger.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jurassic</author><text>I’m 34 and healthy. Each of my shots and the booster gave me severe flu-like side effects (chills, body aches, etc). I’ve lost 5-6 days over the last year to recovering from these side effects. Given my low risk from the actual virus, I don’t see myself getting another booster. I’m not anti-science, but there needs to be significant ROI for that level of discomfort and time lost to recovery.</text></comment> | <story><title>Younger Americans benefit less from booster shots than older people</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/health/covid-boosters-older-younger.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pessimizer</author><text>It brings your chances of death from vanishingly small down to undetectable. I didn&#x27;t think it was personally worth it; I might as well wait until my double vax decays a bit farther, more research is done, and new reformulations specifically targeting new variants that have gone around have been formulated.<p>As policy it&#x27;s definitely not worth it. We can pretend that we as a country care about covid, but if we&#x27;re stressing the importance of patents and boosting our own over vaccinating the world, we don&#x27;t really care. If we take years to send out masks, we clearly think more about masks as a public declaration of loyalty than disease prevention devices.<p>I hate that we&#x27;ve split into two groups, one of nationalistic bleach drinkers that don&#x27;t believe in the germ theory of disease, and the other of nationalistic OCD paternalists. Now I&#x27;m expected to believe that there&#x27;s no level of protection that is enough i.e. evidence that a booster helps is evidence that I should be taking a booster is evidence that everyone should be taking a booster. I&#x27;m worried about covid, <i>but I&#x27;m worried about things other than covid.</i><p>At least the NYT is staying pretty steadily rational about this.</text></comment> |
34,108,608 | 34,108,175 | 1 | 2 | 34,106,091 | train | <story><title>User Interface Design: Rules of Thumb</title><url>https://mannhowie.com/ui-design-web</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>happytoexplain</author><text>Spinner vs progress bar is not short vs long operation, it&#x27;s non-progressive vs progressive operation (though you may opt for a spinner if a progressive operation is <i>consistently, predictably</i> very short).<p>In the software world, designers need to be engineers (or work very closely with engineers, very early in the process). We recently had designers give us a nice looking progressive indicator for a non-progressive operation that <i>happened</i> to take a somewhat predictable amount of time. Business loved the look and visual feedback. Then we got use cases where the operation could be instantaneous. They didn&#x27;t want to skip the progress animation because they liked how it made the app feel like it was doing something, and also if the user got the result instantly, it was &quot;jarring&quot;. So now, even if the operation finishes instantly, we show the animation, wasting the user&#x27;s time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CharlesW</author><text>&gt; <i>Spinner vs progress bar is not short vs long operation, it&#x27;s non-progressive vs progressive operation…</i><p>Spinners are typically used for &quot;indeterminate&quot; operations while progress bars are typically used for &quot;determinate&quot; operations¹.<p>&quot;Progressive&quot; is a less useful adjective here because indeterminate operations progress too, and it&#x27;s just that their total duration can&#x27;t be usefully estimated.<p>And as you note these aren&#x27;t hard-and-fast rules, and a spinner is generally a perfectly fine choice for short determinate operations.<p>¹ Progress bar controls typically have an indeterminate flavor too, and these can be mixed. For example, you&#x27;ll typically see an indeterminate form of a progress bar until a total duration can be estimated, at which point the progress bar will change to its determinate form.</text></comment> | <story><title>User Interface Design: Rules of Thumb</title><url>https://mannhowie.com/ui-design-web</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>happytoexplain</author><text>Spinner vs progress bar is not short vs long operation, it&#x27;s non-progressive vs progressive operation (though you may opt for a spinner if a progressive operation is <i>consistently, predictably</i> very short).<p>In the software world, designers need to be engineers (or work very closely with engineers, very early in the process). We recently had designers give us a nice looking progressive indicator for a non-progressive operation that <i>happened</i> to take a somewhat predictable amount of time. Business loved the look and visual feedback. Then we got use cases where the operation could be instantaneous. They didn&#x27;t want to skip the progress animation because they liked how it made the app feel like it was doing something, and also if the user got the result instantly, it was &quot;jarring&quot;. So now, even if the operation finishes instantly, we show the animation, wasting the user&#x27;s time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lelandfe</author><text>&gt; though you may opt for a spinner if a progressive operation is consistently, predictably very short<p>For greater guidance on this, the Nielsen Norman Group spake thusly:<p>&gt; <i>Use a progress indicator for any action that takes longer than about 1.0 second.</i><p>&gt; <i>[A looped loading animation] should be reserved for actions that take between 2-10 seconds. For anything that takes less than 1 second to load, it is distracting to use a looped animation, because users cannot keep up with what happened and might feel anxious about whatever flashed on the screen</i><p>&gt; <i>Generally, percent-done progress indicators should be used for longer processes that take 10 or more seconds.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nngroup.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;progress-indicators&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nngroup.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;progress-indicators&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
17,323,020 | 17,323,247 | 1 | 3 | 17,321,921 | train | <story><title>GitLab Web IDE</title><url>https://about.gitlab.com/2018/06/15/introducing-gitlab-s-integrated-development-environment/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zachlatta</author><text>Wow, very cool. Lots of new players in this space: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repl.it" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repl.it</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;glitch.me" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;glitch.me</a>, and now GitLab (and I&#x27;d be surprised if GitHub doesn&#x27;t follow in tow).<p>Cloud9&#x27;s acquisition really left a big hole in the market. AFAIK there&#x27;s still nothing out there that gives you a decent code editor (edit multiple files, have multiple tabs open, etc) that also gives you access to a Linux shell and ability to expose ports like Cloud9 did.<p>Personally I&#x27;m most optimistic for <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repl.it" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repl.it</a>. They already have a core userbase in high school classrooms and have been adding a ton of support for serverside applications to make it more appealing outside of the classroom.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>styfle</author><text>I have been keeping a list[0] of Awesome Online IDEs that you might be interested in. It&#x27;s difficult to explain the differences between them (in one line of text) so you might have to try it out yourself.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;styfle&#x2F;awesome-online-ide" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;styfle&#x2F;awesome-online-ide</a></text></comment> | <story><title>GitLab Web IDE</title><url>https://about.gitlab.com/2018/06/15/introducing-gitlab-s-integrated-development-environment/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zachlatta</author><text>Wow, very cool. Lots of new players in this space: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repl.it" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repl.it</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;glitch.me" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;glitch.me</a>, and now GitLab (and I&#x27;d be surprised if GitHub doesn&#x27;t follow in tow).<p>Cloud9&#x27;s acquisition really left a big hole in the market. AFAIK there&#x27;s still nothing out there that gives you a decent code editor (edit multiple files, have multiple tabs open, etc) that also gives you access to a Linux shell and ability to expose ports like Cloud9 did.<p>Personally I&#x27;m most optimistic for <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repl.it" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repl.it</a>. They already have a core userbase in high school classrooms and have been adding a ton of support for serverside applications to make it more appealing outside of the classroom.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ehsankia</author><text>Honestly I generally don&#x27;t want to do my entire development on a Web IDE, but I do think it&#x27;s very useful for a repo hosting site to have editing tools, as I often find myself wanting to fix something quick away from my setup.<p>Web IDEs in general are a great concept though, mostly because developers generally love having their editor customized the way they like it, and from there, having it in the cloud accessible from any computer is a huge win. That being said, it&#x27;s hard to compete against the plugin model that Sublime&#x2F;Atom&#x2F;VSCode have.</text></comment> |
19,269,091 | 19,269,047 | 1 | 2 | 19,268,902 | train | <story><title>From Alex’s Family</title><url>https://alex.blog/2019/02/27/from-alexs-family/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bane</author><text>Feb 3, 2019: &quot;My oncologist did mention that if at any point I want to just stop treatment and make myself comfortable, that I should let them know as they won’t keep asking. I have zero intention of going that route, but it’s a scary situation to think about. It kind of makes it very real.&quot;<p>Feb 18, 2019: &quot;Despite my best efforts over the past two and a half years, the leukemia has won.&quot;<p>Feb 27, 2019: &quot;Alex was with his family when he passed peacefully earlier today, Wednesday, February 27th.&quot;<p>Man, it goes so fast. I think on the 3rd of this month I was looking at bicycles that were on sale and trying to figure out what groceries to buy for dinner.<p>I didn&#x27;t know Alex, or really about him until his blog showed up earlier this month. But I was really moved by his grace and sharing and how many people his work touched and made better. A beautiful life and mind, lost now to the fire of time.<p>I decided to read his last couple years of blog posts just to really try to grok him...just...really amazed. I wish I had half the maturity he did when he was facing such shitty shitty dice roles in life.<p>The post where I just lost it.<p>July 28th, 2018: &quot;Today marked the completion of my 34th trip around the sun.<p>I spent the day at home due to fatigue and just generally not feeling great due to this latest IV medication I’m on. One of my sisters was able to make it down from near Seattle though which was a cool surprise!<p>Here’s hoping my health issues are behind me when 35 rolls around. I certainly didn’t expect to still be dealing with this crap at this point.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>From Alex’s Family</title><url>https://alex.blog/2019/02/27/from-alexs-family/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Dangeranger</author><text>What strikes me most clearly about Alex is how quickly his disease progressed from managed, to life ending. He posted on February 3rd about his bone marrow samples coming back with a 20% cancer indicator, and sounded cautious but determined to defeat the disease. Unfortunately he did not.<p>Within two weeks his liver had failed due to graft-versus-host disease and he would not survive.<p>Life is a precious flame, it takes little to blow it out. Live each moment deeply. Tell your family you love them.</text></comment> |
22,953,034 | 22,953,116 | 1 | 3 | 22,946,092 | train | <story><title>Small business rescue earned banks $10B in fees</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/04/22/840678984/small-business-rescue-earned-banks-10-billion-in-fees</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LatteLazy</author><text>Finance is a very important industry that adds a lot of value. If you get a student loan, you can go to university tomorrow and earn more in a few years, that&#x27;s much more valuable than spending 20yrs at McDonald&#x27;s earning nothing and saving very slowly to pay for your degree upfront as you would have to otherwise. Ditto mortgages. Ditto getting a car or starting a business or basically anything finance permits.<p>The great recession after 2008 and the great depression both show what happens when finance stops working. The rest of the economy collapses without it. You can all the way back to medieval Kings to see how important it is.<p>I don&#x27;t know where people get this idea finance is not &quot;real&quot;. If it wasn&#x27;t useful, people wouldn&#x27;t be paying for the services it provides, they&#x27;re all optional.</text></item><item><author>JSavageOne</author><text>You outline the problem very well. The banking sector has an ENORMOUS amount of power over the economy&#x2F;society in a way that no other industry does because it literally has the ability to create money out of thin air (by loaning it into existence). The banking industry is the arbiter and credit in our society and decides where money get allocated.<p>This would be fine if it were their own money, but it&#x27;s not - it&#x27;s our bank accounts (ie. fractional reserve banking). Unfortunately individuals can&#x27;t opt out of this because unlike private banks, individuals aren&#x27;t allowed to open a bank account directly with the government (though these replies show that this is possible in countries like France).<p>The finance industry does not generate real wealth, it is a wealth extracting industry that profits off the spread between the interest rate decided by the central bank and the interest rates and fees it charges consumers. Banks do not create goods or services, they just decide who gets the money to do so, with money that&#x27;s not theirs. 80% of bank credit goes to mortgage loans (driving up housing prices and saddling homeowners in debt). Banks have gone from 2% of the U.S. economy in the 1950s to 8% by 2008, and 1.5% of the British economy in 1978 to 15% by 2008.<p>The first step to fixing this is to give citizens the ability to opt out of private banks and bank directly with the central bank. Private banks should not be the only ones with this privilege.</text></item><item><author>lordnacho</author><text>Gotta ask whether the banking system makes sense in its current form.<p>- Part of it is actually a utility. Payments, sending money from one place to another, making sure there&#x27;s an account at the other end of that number. Everyone needs this, yet being a huge international network there isn&#x27;t a whole lot that one bank offers that another cannot.<p>- Part of it is deciding who to lend money to. Makes sense for the bank to decide this with its own money.<p>- Part of it is regulatory. We don&#x27;t want money laundering. Have to ask whether this really ought to be up to law enforcement to do, or as it is now a massive burden on the banks, which also have bad incentives.<p>What if we had the central bank give everyone an account that was interoperable with the rest of the banking system? Then if you want to hand out money, you just do it. If you want to borrow money, find a lender.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JSavageOne</author><text>As the other commenter mentioned, most student loans are guaranteed by the federal government, meaning that the bank is compensated without taking any risk. Student loans in particular are insidious because non-payment can result in one&#x27;s wages and social security being garned, and it&#x27;s one of the few loans that doesn&#x27;t go away in bankruptcy.<p>Regarding mortgages, auto loans, business loans, the key point is that the money is created out of thin air. 80% of bank credit goes to mortgages, which ultimately drives up prices and fuels housing bubbles.<p>The Great Recession and Great Depression were <i>caused</i> by the finance sector. The Great Recession was the result of banks fueling a housing bubble by loosening lending standards, driven by the peddling of risky financial securities like CDOs, and leveraged to the tilt by derivatives like credit default swaps. When it all collapsed, they had to be bailed out (while Main St never got one). The Great Depression was preceded by a stock market bubble fueled by speculators trading on margin.<p>The banking industry does not create wealth. It is a middleman with the monopoly privilege of creating money out of thin air in exchange for dishing out collateral-backed loans of this funny money, and has 1. too much power, and is 2. overcompensated for it&#x27;s &quot;work&quot; 3. in the long-term will reduce our competitiveness and lead to our relative demise (eg. look at General Electric).<p>You&#x27;re failing to envision an alternative where credit is more democratically allocated, where finance isn&#x27;t so overcompensated and such a brain drain attracting our brightest minds, and where the government can offer $350b in small business loans during a crisis without some middlemen taking a ludicrous 3% fee for shuffling some papers.</text></comment> | <story><title>Small business rescue earned banks $10B in fees</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/04/22/840678984/small-business-rescue-earned-banks-10-billion-in-fees</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LatteLazy</author><text>Finance is a very important industry that adds a lot of value. If you get a student loan, you can go to university tomorrow and earn more in a few years, that&#x27;s much more valuable than spending 20yrs at McDonald&#x27;s earning nothing and saving very slowly to pay for your degree upfront as you would have to otherwise. Ditto mortgages. Ditto getting a car or starting a business or basically anything finance permits.<p>The great recession after 2008 and the great depression both show what happens when finance stops working. The rest of the economy collapses without it. You can all the way back to medieval Kings to see how important it is.<p>I don&#x27;t know where people get this idea finance is not &quot;real&quot;. If it wasn&#x27;t useful, people wouldn&#x27;t be paying for the services it provides, they&#x27;re all optional.</text></item><item><author>JSavageOne</author><text>You outline the problem very well. The banking sector has an ENORMOUS amount of power over the economy&#x2F;society in a way that no other industry does because it literally has the ability to create money out of thin air (by loaning it into existence). The banking industry is the arbiter and credit in our society and decides where money get allocated.<p>This would be fine if it were their own money, but it&#x27;s not - it&#x27;s our bank accounts (ie. fractional reserve banking). Unfortunately individuals can&#x27;t opt out of this because unlike private banks, individuals aren&#x27;t allowed to open a bank account directly with the government (though these replies show that this is possible in countries like France).<p>The finance industry does not generate real wealth, it is a wealth extracting industry that profits off the spread between the interest rate decided by the central bank and the interest rates and fees it charges consumers. Banks do not create goods or services, they just decide who gets the money to do so, with money that&#x27;s not theirs. 80% of bank credit goes to mortgage loans (driving up housing prices and saddling homeowners in debt). Banks have gone from 2% of the U.S. economy in the 1950s to 8% by 2008, and 1.5% of the British economy in 1978 to 15% by 2008.<p>The first step to fixing this is to give citizens the ability to opt out of private banks and bank directly with the central bank. Private banks should not be the only ones with this privilege.</text></item><item><author>lordnacho</author><text>Gotta ask whether the banking system makes sense in its current form.<p>- Part of it is actually a utility. Payments, sending money from one place to another, making sure there&#x27;s an account at the other end of that number. Everyone needs this, yet being a huge international network there isn&#x27;t a whole lot that one bank offers that another cannot.<p>- Part of it is deciding who to lend money to. Makes sense for the bank to decide this with its own money.<p>- Part of it is regulatory. We don&#x27;t want money laundering. Have to ask whether this really ought to be up to law enforcement to do, or as it is now a massive burden on the banks, which also have bad incentives.<p>What if we had the central bank give everyone an account that was interoperable with the rest of the banking system? Then if you want to hand out money, you just do it. If you want to borrow money, find a lender.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PeterStuer</author><text>You are basically arguing that the burglar that holds a gun to your head and threatens to pull the trigger if you stop giving him food is &#x27;essential&#x27; in your survival so you can not do without him.</text></comment> |
12,837,845 | 12,837,916 | 1 | 3 | 12,837,350 | train | <story><title>Peter Thiel Speaks at the National Press Club – Live Stream</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob-LJqPQEJ4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jonathanstrange</author><text>I cannot take anyone seriously who calls himself a libertarian. For Christ&#x27;s sake, learn something about the various traditions of right- and left-wing libertarianism, study the basics of anarchism (e.g. Stirner), and read some Adam Smith.<p>Libertarianism is either mislabeled right-wing liberalism, which has a long-standing tradition, or it turns out to be no more than a fairly inconsistent mix of classical liberal and anarchist ideas peppered with some generic right-wing gun-nuttery and diffuse anti-government sentiment. You know, in the end somebody has to pay for the military, police, firemen, ambulances, roads, drinking water, sanitation, food safety, consumer safety (like not getting electrocuted by your vacuum cleaner), schools, hospitals, ...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Analemma_</author><text>In general, I can take libertarians seriously... but not Peter Thiel. The depth of his convictions can be measured in microns. He&#x27;s the perfect example of the &quot;libertarian&quot; who espouses that philosophy not out of any genuine commitment to its ideals, but just because he wants lower taxes and more leeway for whatever despicable business practices he has in mind.<p>For instance, he founded a company whose, no joke, entire raison d&#x27;être is providing surveillance-as-a-service to increase the power of the State. This is something I wouldn&#x27;t even do, and I&#x27;m what might be derisively called a &quot;big-government liberal&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Peter Thiel Speaks at the National Press Club – Live Stream</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob-LJqPQEJ4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jonathanstrange</author><text>I cannot take anyone seriously who calls himself a libertarian. For Christ&#x27;s sake, learn something about the various traditions of right- and left-wing libertarianism, study the basics of anarchism (e.g. Stirner), and read some Adam Smith.<p>Libertarianism is either mislabeled right-wing liberalism, which has a long-standing tradition, or it turns out to be no more than a fairly inconsistent mix of classical liberal and anarchist ideas peppered with some generic right-wing gun-nuttery and diffuse anti-government sentiment. You know, in the end somebody has to pay for the military, police, firemen, ambulances, roads, drinking water, sanitation, food safety, consumer safety (like not getting electrocuted by your vacuum cleaner), schools, hospitals, ...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hyperpape</author><text>It&#x27;s a shame you weren&#x27;t around 15 years ago to tell Robert Nozick he was an idiot for calling himself a libertarian. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Anarchy,_State,_and_Utopia" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Anarchy,_State,_and_Utopia</a><p>(I&#x27;m not going to argue etymology with you, and I&#x27;m not inclined to defend libertarianism per se, I just think your condescension is gross).</text></comment> |
24,833,448 | 24,831,799 | 1 | 2 | 24,830,133 | train | <story><title>The Centralized Internet Is Inevitable</title><url>https://palladiummag.com/2020/10/19/the-centralized-internet-is-inevitable/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shadowgovt</author><text>Essentially, the tradeoffs don&#x27;t make it worthwhile for the average user: having to do <i>more</i> work to interoperate with <i>fewer</i> people? &quot;Sign me up,&quot; says almost nobody.</text></item><item><author>commandlinefan</author><text>Well, the author is talking about the &quot;mainstream internet&quot; that most people think of: we used to have to point out that the internet wasn&#x27;t the same thing as the world wide web, now we have to point out that it isn&#x27;t the same thing as facebook, twitter and amazon. There&#x27;s nothing <i>inevitable</i> about a centralized internet technologically: packet-switched networking is by it&#x27;s nature decentralized. However, my pipe dream of someday seeing a truly decentralized mesh network that nobody can ever control or censor gets less hopeful every day - not because it&#x27;s technically infeasible, but because it would require more people to get on board than I believe people have the will for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>austincheney</author><text>Actually, I am working on a technology to do exactly this. With the increased trust that comes from extreme privacy, simplified permissions management, and a new security model users can comfortably do things that aren’t available on the WWW.<p>When you continue to think in terms of social media where a centralized service extracts user data as a blunt financial weapon from a massive user count then decentralization doesn’t make any sense. When you turn this around to solving more practical problems the applications and revenue model change.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Centralized Internet Is Inevitable</title><url>https://palladiummag.com/2020/10/19/the-centralized-internet-is-inevitable/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shadowgovt</author><text>Essentially, the tradeoffs don&#x27;t make it worthwhile for the average user: having to do <i>more</i> work to interoperate with <i>fewer</i> people? &quot;Sign me up,&quot; says almost nobody.</text></item><item><author>commandlinefan</author><text>Well, the author is talking about the &quot;mainstream internet&quot; that most people think of: we used to have to point out that the internet wasn&#x27;t the same thing as the world wide web, now we have to point out that it isn&#x27;t the same thing as facebook, twitter and amazon. There&#x27;s nothing <i>inevitable</i> about a centralized internet technologically: packet-switched networking is by it&#x27;s nature decentralized. However, my pipe dream of someday seeing a truly decentralized mesh network that nobody can ever control or censor gets less hopeful every day - not because it&#x27;s technically infeasible, but because it would require more people to get on board than I believe people have the will for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mundo</author><text>And specifically, few people want to join services that are mostly populated by people who got kicked off of other services.</text></comment> |
31,548,349 | 31,548,428 | 1 | 2 | 31,547,879 | train | <story><title>High speed train between Paris and Berlin could start operating as soon as 2023</title><url>https://www.euronews.com/travel/2022/05/25/high-speed-train-between-paris-and-berlin-could-start-operating-as-soon-as-2023</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckNorris89</author><text><i>&gt;A big impediment is the federal structure of Germany, as high-speed trains need to have at least one stop in every federal state they cross for political reasons, which of course makes them slow.</i><p>This is absolutely insane to hear. Feels like the whole &quot;German efficiency&quot; trope is mostly a meme or it doesn&#x27;t apply to government&#x2F;national services and is in line with all the other negative things I heard about the infamous archaic German bureocracy in general.<p>I know even Ukrainian refugees were shocked at how archaic German paper based bureocracy was compared to their home country which moved to digital, as they expected Europe&#x27;s richest country to have much more efficient bureocracy than Europe&#x27;s poorest country. Boy were they in for a surprise.<p>And let&#x27;s not talk about Germany&#x27;s infamously abysmal infrastructure and service coverage for fiber and mobile internet that&#x27;s well behind Eastern Europe.</text></item><item><author>ThePhysicist</author><text>The connection Saarbrücken -&gt; Paris (around 500 km) only takes 1:45h. Currently the problem is getting to Saarbrücken from Berlin, which takes up to 7 hours depending on the connection. So yeah, lots of room for improvement, mostly on the German side though. A big impediment is the federal structure of Germany, as high-speed trains need to have at least one stop in every federal state they cross for political reasons, which of course makes them slow. In France, on the other hand, you have trains going from Paris to Marseille without a single stop in between, and in just 3:04h (for a whooping 780 km).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cedilla</author><text>It&#x27;s not insane at all. Every additional stop takes about 20 minutes - but there are a lot of people who actually use the stations between, say, Berlin and Cologne.<p>Germany is much less centralised than France. 20% of the population is in Paris. Only 2% of Germans live in Berlin. It would be insanity to mindlessly copy the French model when the circumstances are so different.</text></comment> | <story><title>High speed train between Paris and Berlin could start operating as soon as 2023</title><url>https://www.euronews.com/travel/2022/05/25/high-speed-train-between-paris-and-berlin-could-start-operating-as-soon-as-2023</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckNorris89</author><text><i>&gt;A big impediment is the federal structure of Germany, as high-speed trains need to have at least one stop in every federal state they cross for political reasons, which of course makes them slow.</i><p>This is absolutely insane to hear. Feels like the whole &quot;German efficiency&quot; trope is mostly a meme or it doesn&#x27;t apply to government&#x2F;national services and is in line with all the other negative things I heard about the infamous archaic German bureocracy in general.<p>I know even Ukrainian refugees were shocked at how archaic German paper based bureocracy was compared to their home country which moved to digital, as they expected Europe&#x27;s richest country to have much more efficient bureocracy than Europe&#x27;s poorest country. Boy were they in for a surprise.<p>And let&#x27;s not talk about Germany&#x27;s infamously abysmal infrastructure and service coverage for fiber and mobile internet that&#x27;s well behind Eastern Europe.</text></item><item><author>ThePhysicist</author><text>The connection Saarbrücken -&gt; Paris (around 500 km) only takes 1:45h. Currently the problem is getting to Saarbrücken from Berlin, which takes up to 7 hours depending on the connection. So yeah, lots of room for improvement, mostly on the German side though. A big impediment is the federal structure of Germany, as high-speed trains need to have at least one stop in every federal state they cross for political reasons, which of course makes them slow. In France, on the other hand, you have trains going from Paris to Marseille without a single stop in between, and in just 3:04h (for a whooping 780 km).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jseban</author><text>&gt; Feels like the whole &quot;German efficiency&quot; trope is mostly a meme<p>Yeah it&#x27;s really false, Germany is painfully bureaucratic, ceremonial and slow and dysfunctional, compared to other leading western nations.<p>German engineering, and german manufacturing, are really what deserves to have good reputation.</text></comment> |
12,734,475 | 12,734,654 | 1 | 2 | 12,734,377 | train | <story><title>Americans Work 25% More Than Europeans, Study Finds</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-18/americans-work-25-more-than-europeans-study-finds</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>webaholic</author><text>How happy are they working that extra 25%? They are richer, sure. But I don&#x27;t think being rich is an indicator of your overall state.<p>Looking at [1], you can see that people in european countries come out on top of the happiness index. One could argue that working less is actually better for productivity and overall happiness.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2015-04-23&#x2F;these-are-the-happiest-countries-in-the-world" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2015-04-23&#x2F;these-are-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mbillie1</author><text>It&#x27;s almost like working 60+ hour weeks churning out CRUD apps to get a rich person richer isn&#x27;t the secret path to happiness or something.</text></comment> | <story><title>Americans Work 25% More Than Europeans, Study Finds</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-18/americans-work-25-more-than-europeans-study-finds</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>webaholic</author><text>How happy are they working that extra 25%? They are richer, sure. But I don&#x27;t think being rich is an indicator of your overall state.<p>Looking at [1], you can see that people in european countries come out on top of the happiness index. One could argue that working less is actually better for productivity and overall happiness.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2015-04-23&#x2F;these-are-the-happiest-countries-in-the-world" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2015-04-23&#x2F;these-are-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AdmiralAsshat</author><text>Leaving aside Wall-street the Tech Bubble where people work grueling hours in the hopes of becoming a millionaire, the rest of the US works grueling hours because they <i>need to</i> in order to eat, pay their rent, etc. Telling someone who is working 40+ hours in order to make ends meet that they need to &quot;work less&quot; is tantamount to telling them to become homeless and destitute.</text></comment> |
40,805,498 | 40,805,525 | 1 | 3 | 40,802,676 | train | <story><title>Figma Slides</title><url>https://www.figma.com/slides/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>timr</author><text>All of the things you mentioned (save maybe layer lists) are why I fell in love with Keynote, and wish I could use it for all presentations.<p>Sadly, 99% of my time is spent in Google slides, which is like banging rocks together. Keynote&#x27;s ability to do things like introspect into postscript&#x2F;vector objects and align on lines <i>within the object</i> is one of those things that makes you re-evaluate how software should work.<p>I just wanted to praise Keynote, since it gets so little love.</text></item><item><author>yoz</author><text>At my previous job we used Google Slides, and I rapidly came to hate it. Here&#x27;s why Figma Slides has me excited:<p>- I use animation a lot, for many reasons, such as keeping audience focus on parts of the slide and visually explaining information changes and multi-step processes. It&#x27;s particularly helpful for video. Figma already has much better tools for this; Google&#x27;s are not particularly powerful and buggy as hell.<p>- Consistency. Google Slides will sometimes render the same text object with wrapping at different points on different machines. I shouldn&#x27;t have to manually add line breaks to deal with this.<p>- Precision and flexibility. Google Slides just isn&#x27;t anywhere near as smooth at design work as Figma. I don&#x27;t even consider myself a designer and yet I regularly hit Google Slides&#x27;s limitations.<p>- Layer&#x2F;object lists. (Note: I don&#x27;t see this in the Figma Slides demos, but I assume it&#x27;s available in design mode?) Once you have a bunch of shapes on a slide, especially grouped, it makes selection so much easier. I don&#x27;t want to play click roulette when trying to select one object from a pile.<p>(If you&#x27;re wondering why I&#x27;m focused on Google Slides: Apple Keynote is great but can&#x27;t collaborate through Google Workspace. I haven&#x27;t used PowerPoint much, it&#x27;s okay.)<p>UPDATE: I&#x27;ve now done a little playing with Figma Slides.<p>The good news is that it has an object list. But it&#x27;s only in Design Mode. (So it won&#x27;t be available to free or non-designer accounts - that&#x27;s a Figma thing.)<p>The bad news is that <i>in this beta</i> the animation tools are even less flexible than Google Slides: you can only choose from a limited set of transitions; those transitions apply to the entire slide, not to individual objects; and there&#x27;s no way to change the timing or easing. However, &quot;smart animate&quot; is one of the transitions, which does a Magic-Move-like &quot;move the objects in slide 1 to their positions in slide 2&quot;.<p>(Note the emphasis on <i>this beta</i>. Figma Slides won&#x27;t be considered GA until next year, so I&#x27;m hoping that all the animation tools from regular Figma will be available by then.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>al_borland</author><text>I sometimes wonder if Keynote will suffer now that Jobs is gone and the Apple keynotes have gone to using videos ever since the pandemic. I don’t think Cook ever liked doing the live demos, so the videos are likely here to stay. The presentations Jobs did were a big driver of Keynote’s development.<p>If you haven’t seen it, there is an interview with the guy who put those presentations together for 20 years. It’s pretty interesting.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20210205063616&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cake.co&#x2F;conversations&#x2F;jNZlq6j&#x2F;the-man-who-produced-steve-jobs-keynotes-for-20-years" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20210205063616&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cake....</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Figma Slides</title><url>https://www.figma.com/slides/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>timr</author><text>All of the things you mentioned (save maybe layer lists) are why I fell in love with Keynote, and wish I could use it for all presentations.<p>Sadly, 99% of my time is spent in Google slides, which is like banging rocks together. Keynote&#x27;s ability to do things like introspect into postscript&#x2F;vector objects and align on lines <i>within the object</i> is one of those things that makes you re-evaluate how software should work.<p>I just wanted to praise Keynote, since it gets so little love.</text></item><item><author>yoz</author><text>At my previous job we used Google Slides, and I rapidly came to hate it. Here&#x27;s why Figma Slides has me excited:<p>- I use animation a lot, for many reasons, such as keeping audience focus on parts of the slide and visually explaining information changes and multi-step processes. It&#x27;s particularly helpful for video. Figma already has much better tools for this; Google&#x27;s are not particularly powerful and buggy as hell.<p>- Consistency. Google Slides will sometimes render the same text object with wrapping at different points on different machines. I shouldn&#x27;t have to manually add line breaks to deal with this.<p>- Precision and flexibility. Google Slides just isn&#x27;t anywhere near as smooth at design work as Figma. I don&#x27;t even consider myself a designer and yet I regularly hit Google Slides&#x27;s limitations.<p>- Layer&#x2F;object lists. (Note: I don&#x27;t see this in the Figma Slides demos, but I assume it&#x27;s available in design mode?) Once you have a bunch of shapes on a slide, especially grouped, it makes selection so much easier. I don&#x27;t want to play click roulette when trying to select one object from a pile.<p>(If you&#x27;re wondering why I&#x27;m focused on Google Slides: Apple Keynote is great but can&#x27;t collaborate through Google Workspace. I haven&#x27;t used PowerPoint much, it&#x27;s okay.)<p>UPDATE: I&#x27;ve now done a little playing with Figma Slides.<p>The good news is that it has an object list. But it&#x27;s only in Design Mode. (So it won&#x27;t be available to free or non-designer accounts - that&#x27;s a Figma thing.)<p>The bad news is that <i>in this beta</i> the animation tools are even less flexible than Google Slides: you can only choose from a limited set of transitions; those transitions apply to the entire slide, not to individual objects; and there&#x27;s no way to change the timing or easing. However, &quot;smart animate&quot; is one of the transitions, which does a Magic-Move-like &quot;move the objects in slide 1 to their positions in slide 2&quot;.<p>(Note the emphasis on <i>this beta</i>. Figma Slides won&#x27;t be considered GA until next year, so I&#x27;m hoping that all the animation tools from regular Figma will be available by then.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>insane_dreamer</author><text>In my experience of many years, not only is Keynote fantastic, but Pages is better than Word and Numbers is better than Excel (though not the extensive Excel ecosystem).</text></comment> |
8,567,566 | 8,565,853 | 1 | 3 | 8,565,459 | train | <story><title>The Sixth Stage of Grief Is Retro-Computing</title><url>https://medium.com/message/networks-without-networks-7644933a3100/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kraig911</author><text>This really got to me and made me want to make an account just to comment that I am finding myself doing the same. I run the same old SNES emulator of FFVI(FF3) on SNES to play a hacked saved rom file I made to try and feel that energy I felt when I was just a boy with my best friend. Now I&#x27;m just a man that is caught up in habits of telling my wife I love her and pays the bills and all.<p>I feel no amount of planning an getaway vacation or getting a great project at work etc can bring me back that feeling of just kicking back with my friend jacking around with HIMEM.SYS to play Falcon 3.0 while we waited for duck tales to come on...<p>I miss you Nick - I wish you never found that gun.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>morganvachon</author><text>This tears at me. I lost my little brother to suicide just over nine years ago. We grew up in the late 80s&#x2F;early 90s playing NES&#x2F;SNES and Genesis games together. He was always the more competitive one, kicking my ass at fighting games like Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter, and beating me to the ending of Final Fantasy and Dragon Warrior titles by several weeks. He was always the jokester, the &quot;Loki&quot; of our gang of friends, and he would make up silly or perverted names for RPG characters whenever possible.<p>Later, after he got home from serving six years in the Air Force, he would still come by my place and want to play Final Fantasy VII and Soul Calibur together. Those were some of our strongest bonding periods in all those years of dealing with opposite personalities. We never got along one hundred percent of the time, but we loved each other the way all brothers should just the same, and enjoyed that time spent on our favorite pastime.<p>We still don&#x27;t know why he took is life; he never left a note or any clues that anything was wrong. But he left a hole in our hearts that will never be filled.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Sixth Stage of Grief Is Retro-Computing</title><url>https://medium.com/message/networks-without-networks-7644933a3100/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kraig911</author><text>This really got to me and made me want to make an account just to comment that I am finding myself doing the same. I run the same old SNES emulator of FFVI(FF3) on SNES to play a hacked saved rom file I made to try and feel that energy I felt when I was just a boy with my best friend. Now I&#x27;m just a man that is caught up in habits of telling my wife I love her and pays the bills and all.<p>I feel no amount of planning an getaway vacation or getting a great project at work etc can bring me back that feeling of just kicking back with my friend jacking around with HIMEM.SYS to play Falcon 3.0 while we waited for duck tales to come on...<p>I miss you Nick - I wish you never found that gun.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Aloha</author><text>this made me cry.</text></comment> |
9,751,748 | 9,751,384 | 1 | 2 | 9,750,460 | train | <story><title>Breaking the Zyzzyva encryption</title><url>https://medium.com/@14domino/breaking-the-zyzzyva-encryption-f00360b695d1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Hello71</author><text>&gt; The real hackers will know that as soon as I found evidence of sqlite3_key_v2 in the Zyzzyva dylib file that getting the key was inevitable. I don’t actually know the steps for removing debug symbols from compiled code off the top of my head, but I bet if this had been done, this would have made my job much, much harder.<p>I&#x27;m not entirely sure about OS X, but at least on Linux, system-assisted dynamic linking (i.e. not mmap(PROT_EXEC)) requires that all required symbols are exposed so that relocation can be done in the original executable; in other words, the OS needs to know where the functions in the library are so that it can tell the program how to call them.<p>Of course, you could obfuscate the function names, but then tracebacks wouldn&#x27;t work properly and at that point you&#x27;d be better off just statically linking the whole program.<p>Debug symbols are completely different; if you have those, you can simply do &quot;frame variables&quot; which shows the args with names.<p>&gt; Yesss. Time to get out the x86 assembly hats.<p>You don&#x27;t even really need to do that. Since you know the function signature, you can assume (since it is in a separate library) that the function uses the standard System V AMD64 ABI where &quot;the first six integer or pointer arguments are passed in registers RDI, RSI, RDX, RCX, R8, and R9&quot; [0], meaning that the pKey pointer is probably in RDX. I know that the author said that it was in RAX, but since that is caller-saved, there must have been some copying or processing done to it inside the function.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;X86_calling_conventions#System_V_AMD64_ABI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;X86_calling_conventions#System...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Breaking the Zyzzyva encryption</title><url>https://medium.com/@14domino/breaking-the-zyzzyva-encryption-f00360b695d1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>miles</author><text>From <i>Who Owns Scrabble’s Word List?</i>[1]:<p>&quot;Dictionaries enjoy copyright protection for two main reasons: Their creators make judgments about what words to include, and entries feature definitions and other original material. (Just last week, a federal court in Massachusetts ruled against[2] a plaintiff who wanted to copy and repurpose the bulk of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate, including definitions, for his own dictionary.) But in 1991, in <i>Feist Publications Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co.</i>[3], the Supreme Court decided that a phone company wasn’t entitled to a copyright on its white pages. That’s because the list of names and numbers lacked an important requirement: originality.&quot;<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slate.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;life&#x2F;gaming&#x2F;2014&#x2F;09&#x2F;major_scrabble_brouhaha_can_you_copyright_a_list_of_words.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slate.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;life&#x2F;gaming&#x2F;2014&#x2F;09&#x2F;major_scra...</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scribd.com&#x2F;doc&#x2F;241384392&#x2F;Richards-v-Webster" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scribd.com&#x2F;doc&#x2F;241384392&#x2F;Richards-v-Webster</a><p>[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;scholar.google.com&#x2F;scholar_case?case=1195336269698056315&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=6&amp;as_vis=1&amp;oi=scholarr" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;scholar.google.com&#x2F;scholar_case?case=1195336269698056...</a></text></comment> |
34,612,264 | 34,611,946 | 1 | 2 | 34,611,412 | train | <story><title>Academia’s culture of overwork almost broke me, so I’m working to undo it</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00241-8</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>photochemsyn</author><text>Back when I was in grad school there was a whole set of research people who just lived at the university - but I noticed, they&#x27;d didn&#x27;t really do a whole lot of work. They were just always there, always on hand when the tenured PI showed up to be noticed, and so on. They&#x27;d mastered the art of appearing to be dogged 24-7 nose-to-the-grindstone researchers, but it was really just a relaxed little club. Most of their energy was going into cultivating relationships that would aid their career trajectories, rather than into doing groundbreaking innovative research.<p>They were often quite resentful of people who showed up, worked hard and got results, but who didn&#x27;t hang around for the social interaction game as they had other things to do with their free time.<p>The real problem with academics (at least for me) was the lack of any real academic freedom - working 24-7 on something and making sacrifices towards a goal you think is really useful and worthwhile is one thing, but doing it just because there&#x27;s a pool of funding available for something? That&#x27;s not worth the bother. In that case it&#x27;s just a job, a means of earning a living doing some tedious repetitive work, and why spend more than 30-40 hours a week on that?<p>Academic funding is all controlled by government bureaucrats and corporate executives, and maybe some politicians with special interests, and if they&#x27;re not interested in supporting research into your field of interest, you might as well forget about it, unless you can finance a million-dollar-a-year research lab on your own. I suppose it&#x27;s possible, but not very common.<p>Regardless, not many people seem to end up making money doing something they really care about, unfortunately. Overwork and risking burnout might be part of the price you have to pay to get there, at least in our rather dystopian modern American society. (Notably, the author of this piece relocated from UK to Norway...)</text></comment> | <story><title>Academia’s culture of overwork almost broke me, so I’m working to undo it</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00241-8</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thwayunion</author><text>The author is too optimistic. There are going to be continuous waves of mass firings of tenured faculty in the 2030s and 2040s.<p>The overwork and stress culture are going to get much worse over the next quarter century. The problem is structural, not cultural, and there isn&#x27;t much that academics are going to be able to do in order to combat the problem.<p>Specific to the USA, but also true in much of the west:<p>1. Revenue is a huge problem, which means academia will become a zero-sum game even (especially!) for higher-compensated labor. Academia&#x27;s revenue streams come from three sources that are decreasing in real terms. Those revenue streams will likely begin decreasing even in nominal terms even as inflation reaches a higher steady-state! Government budgets for higher education and academic R&amp;D are more likely to decrease than to increase, and even if they increase almost certainly won&#x27;t keep up with inflation. Meanwhile, due to demographics, the USA in particular is about to enter a period of decreasing college enrollments (unless the percent of the college-going population can increase substantially, which is unlikely).<p>2. There is an oversupply of academic labor and labor is the primary controllable expense.<p>3. Some of these problems used to be manageable because academics controlled the institutions that employed them. But the management culture of universities is becoming professionalized. This means that academics are losing institutional influence that would allow them to maintain good working conditions even in the face of unfavorable market conditions.<p>I don&#x27;t think we should give young academics feel good advice like &quot;don&#x27;t work too hard&quot;. What we should be telling them is that even if they bust their ass and get tenure, it&#x27;s very likely that their pay will languish and they will live in fear of layoffs <i>despite being tenured and working at a steep discount to pay in other industries</i>.<p>Academia is just another industry, and it&#x27;s entering a period of secular decline. That situation is never fun for the foot soldiers.</text></comment> |
15,518,787 | 15,518,278 | 1 | 2 | 15,517,949 | train | <story><title>MasterCard Ending Signature Requirements</title><url>https://consumerist.com/2017/10/19/mastercard-ending-signature-requirements/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pmoriarty</author><text><i>&quot;Personally, I have been known to sign on the dotted line with a doodle of a piece of tofu and no one has ever stopped me, because signatures mean very little in this digital age.&quot;</i><p>This has absolutely nothing to do with us being in a so-called &quot;digital age&quot;. Signatures have been completely ignored by virtually everyone except autograph hunters since basically forever.<p>The problem is that the person receiving your signature usually has no way to verify that the signature belongs to the person authorized to whatever it is you signed for. In the case of credit card signatures, the best they can do is try to match your signature to the one on the back of the card. I think I&#x27;ve had that happen exactly once in my life.<p>Even there, the possessor of the card can easily replace the signature on the back with another one with minimal forgery skills, or even scrawl something vaguely resembling the signature on the back of the card and get away with it. Nothing &quot;digital&quot; about this forgery or the lack of attention or care from the people receiving it.<p>Banks are really in the best position to verify signatures on checks that they get. They could potentially access a huge database of authentic signatures from previously cashed checks and do some sort of AI pattern-matching against the signatures they get before cashing them. But do they? I don&#x27;t know. But I very much doubt it.<p>Besides, at least in my case, my own signatures vary pretty widely from other ones I&#x27;ve signed in the past. Sure, there&#x27;s some resemblance, but they&#x27;re far from exact copies of each other, and a forger wouldn&#x27;t have to try very hard to sign a similar one after glancing at a sample.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joecot</author><text>Your bank is the only one who would be verifying your signature.<p>When you call to dispute a charge, your credit card company contacts the original merchant. They can either request information from them about the purchase, or just immediately side with you (a chargeback). If they perform a chargeback, the money gets removed from their merchant account and deducted from your bill, and they get hit with a chargeback fee.<p>One of the reasons merchants collect the signature is to have more data to give to the credit card company during an inquiry, or so they can try to dispute the chargeback. If you claim you never made the purchase, having your signature on a slip helps the merchant with the dispute, as would having you on video signing for it. Credit card companies side with the customer a vast majority of the time, but if the merchant has reasonable proof that you knowingly made the charge (which might include that signed slip), the merchant can win those disputes.<p>Previously not having a signed credit card slip usually meant the credit card company automatically sided with the customer over the merchant. I doubt dropping this requirement will make it easier for merchants to win chargeback disputes, though.</text></comment> | <story><title>MasterCard Ending Signature Requirements</title><url>https://consumerist.com/2017/10/19/mastercard-ending-signature-requirements/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pmoriarty</author><text><i>&quot;Personally, I have been known to sign on the dotted line with a doodle of a piece of tofu and no one has ever stopped me, because signatures mean very little in this digital age.&quot;</i><p>This has absolutely nothing to do with us being in a so-called &quot;digital age&quot;. Signatures have been completely ignored by virtually everyone except autograph hunters since basically forever.<p>The problem is that the person receiving your signature usually has no way to verify that the signature belongs to the person authorized to whatever it is you signed for. In the case of credit card signatures, the best they can do is try to match your signature to the one on the back of the card. I think I&#x27;ve had that happen exactly once in my life.<p>Even there, the possessor of the card can easily replace the signature on the back with another one with minimal forgery skills, or even scrawl something vaguely resembling the signature on the back of the card and get away with it. Nothing &quot;digital&quot; about this forgery or the lack of attention or care from the people receiving it.<p>Banks are really in the best position to verify signatures on checks that they get. They could potentially access a huge database of authentic signatures from previously cashed checks and do some sort of AI pattern-matching against the signatures they get before cashing them. But do they? I don&#x27;t know. But I very much doubt it.<p>Besides, at least in my case, my own signatures vary pretty widely from other ones I&#x27;ve signed in the past. Sure, there&#x27;s some resemblance, but they&#x27;re far from exact copies of each other, and a forger wouldn&#x27;t have to try very hard to sign a similar one after glancing at a sample.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikestew</author><text><i>In the case of credit card signatures, the best they can do is try to match your signature to the one on the back of the card.</i><p>And even that &quot;best&quot; attempt is pathetic on the face of it. What, the person behind the counter at 7-11 is now supposed to be an expert in graphoanalysis? &quot;In between cleaning the bathrooms and stocking Coke, you have to verify the authenticity of the signatures on these contracts.&quot;</text></comment> |
25,401,209 | 25,401,162 | 1 | 3 | 25,383,511 | train | <story><title>The Piet-GPU Vision</title><url>https://github.com/linebender/piet-gpu/blob/master/doc/vision.md</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>littlestymaar</author><text>I have one question in case Raph passes by:<p>Isn&#x27;t that a bit risky to go this deep? If I understand things correctly, you are currently trying to build a font editor in Rust(runebender). Because there is no good UI library in Rust, and there&#x27;s good reason to think Rust is a good fit for this, you want to build your own (Druid). So far so good. But, now you are also trying to build your own 2D renderer and not a basic one: you want to advance the state of the art in that field too.<p>Not that I&#x27;m not exited, because if all this lands, it will be super great for the Rust ecosystem, but sometimes because you&#x27;re so deep in the rabbit hole, I&#x27;m afraid you get burned-out (or bored) and that everything would be lost because nothing would be polished enough to be usable at that point.<p>Is that a risk you&#x27;re taking on purpose? Or is it just that you have a plan to avoid it?<p>Thanks in advance.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Piet-GPU Vision</title><url>https://github.com/linebender/piet-gpu/blob/master/doc/vision.md</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nemo1618</author><text>Gotta say, I was hoping this was an implementation of Piet that ran on the GPU: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dangermouse.net&#x2F;esoteric&#x2F;piet.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dangermouse.net&#x2F;esoteric&#x2F;piet.html</a></text></comment> |
22,792,851 | 22,792,742 | 1 | 2 | 22,791,382 | train | <story><title>Swedish hospital suspends Covid-19 treatment with chloroquine</title><url>https://www.gp.se/nyheter/g%C3%B6teborg/sahlgrenska-stoppar-behandling-med-malariamedicin-mot-covid-19-1.26236140</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bobowzki</author><text>Ok so I&#x27;m a Swedish intensivist working i Göteborg.<p>We currently don&#x27;t use chloroquine&#x2F;hydroxychloroquine in the treatment of Covid-19 because:<p>1. We tried it and have not noticed any obvious positive effect.
2. No serious study have been able to replicate the success of the first French (severly flawed) study.
3. Potential severe sideeffects.<p>Awaiting the completion of ongoing studies we are using other treatment protocols. Should chloroquine&#x2F;hydroxychloroquine be shown to improve outcome we will of course use it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Swedish hospital suspends Covid-19 treatment with chloroquine</title><url>https://www.gp.se/nyheter/g%C3%B6teborg/sahlgrenska-stoppar-behandling-med-malariamedicin-mot-covid-19-1.26236140</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>capableweb</author><text>&gt; – Det började komma rapporter om misstänkta svårare biverkningar än vi först trodde. Vi kan inte utesluta svåra biverkningar, framförallt från hjärtat, och det är ett svårdoserat läkemedel. Dessutom har vi inga starka bevis på att klorokin har effekt vid covid-19.<p>&quot;There started coming reports about suspicious serious side-effects than we first thought. We can&#x27;t conclude it doesn&#x27;t have strong side-effects, particularly from the heart, and the drug is hard to dosage correct. Also, we don&#x27;t have any strong evidence that Chloroquine has an effect with [SIC] covid-19&quot;<p>Reporter asks: &quot;Har ni haft fall med svåra biverkningar?&quot; &quot;Have you had cases with strong side-effects?&quot;<p>Answer: &quot;– Inte som jag känner till i Göteborg, men det finns rapporterat misstänkta fall från andra kliniker.&quot; &quot;Not as far as I know in Gothenburg, but there is reports of suspicious cases from other clinics&quot;.<p>&gt; Alla sjukhus i Västra Götalandsregionen följer Sahlgrenskas exempel. Men de är än så länge ganska ensamma. På de stora sjukhusen i Stockholm ges fortfarande klorokin.<p>&quot;All hospitals in <i>swedish region</i> follows Sahlgrensk&#x27;s example. But they are currently pretty alone. They still give patients Chloroquine in the big hospitals in Stockholm&quot;<p>Let me know with a reply if you want other parts translated, bit busy but can at least provide this for now.</text></comment> |
19,860,702 | 19,860,152 | 1 | 2 | 19,858,336 | train | <story><title>Uber’s Arbitration Addiction Could Be Death by 60k Cuts</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-08/uber-s-arbitration-addiction-could-be-death-by-60-000-cuts</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Sephr</author><text>Uber tried to get me to agree to arbitration and sign an NDA for a mere $100 of compensation to replace my fianceé&#x27;s clothes soiled by an Uber car.[1]<p>We were out late one night and we called an Uber to get back home. After a very long wait and an odd delay where the driver stayed in the same position on the map for 10 minutes, they started driving again and then arrived. (We suspect that during this time one of the passengers shit themselves)<p>My fianceé sat down and immediately felt excrement all over her clothing. It was very dark so she did not see this until after she entered the car and sat down. We also noticed that the other supposed passenger mentioned in the Uber app already bailed.<p>We were never compensated as we would not agree to the NDA. I don&#x27;t think we could agree to the NDA even if we wanted to because I already tweeted about the incident before being offered compensation.[2]<p>Uber mentioned that the NDA isn&#x27;t required in cases of sexual assault, but it&#x27;s still required even if you are potentially exposed to sexually transmitted diseases through human excrement. What the fuck?<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;go.eligrey.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;uber-nda.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;go.eligrey.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;uber-nda.pdf</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;sephr&#x2F;status&#x2F;1068251146676891649" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;sephr&#x2F;status&#x2F;1068251146676891649</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elliekelly</author><text>I nearly fell off my chair reading that agreement. The scope is unreal. <i>Especially</i> considering the settlement amount is a mere $100. For example, the non-disparagement clause <i>isn&#x27;t</i> limited to the incident. You&#x27;d have keep any negative opinions about Uber to yourself for the rest of eternity.<p>I thought it was odd that only you were a party to the agreement and not your fiance and then I got to paragraph 5 and realized their request is even crazier... they want <i>you</i> to indemnify, defend, and hold them harmless from any other liabilities that might arise from the incident. If it turned out your fiance contracted a deadly illness from her contact with human waste and she sued Uber (or worse, her insurance company sued Uber for reimbursement) not only would you be on the hook for the damages, <i>you</i> would have to pay all of their legal fees during the process.<p>For a $100 settlement.<p>I have to imagine you are in the small minority of people who even <i>reads</i> these contracts of adhesion so I&#x27;d bet most people who sign these have no idea what they&#x27;re giving up.<p>That is truly unconscionable.</text></comment> | <story><title>Uber’s Arbitration Addiction Could Be Death by 60k Cuts</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-08/uber-s-arbitration-addiction-could-be-death-by-60-000-cuts</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Sephr</author><text>Uber tried to get me to agree to arbitration and sign an NDA for a mere $100 of compensation to replace my fianceé&#x27;s clothes soiled by an Uber car.[1]<p>We were out late one night and we called an Uber to get back home. After a very long wait and an odd delay where the driver stayed in the same position on the map for 10 minutes, they started driving again and then arrived. (We suspect that during this time one of the passengers shit themselves)<p>My fianceé sat down and immediately felt excrement all over her clothing. It was very dark so she did not see this until after she entered the car and sat down. We also noticed that the other supposed passenger mentioned in the Uber app already bailed.<p>We were never compensated as we would not agree to the NDA. I don&#x27;t think we could agree to the NDA even if we wanted to because I already tweeted about the incident before being offered compensation.[2]<p>Uber mentioned that the NDA isn&#x27;t required in cases of sexual assault, but it&#x27;s still required even if you are potentially exposed to sexually transmitted diseases through human excrement. What the fuck?<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;go.eligrey.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;uber-nda.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;go.eligrey.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;uber-nda.pdf</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;sephr&#x2F;status&#x2F;1068251146676891649" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;sephr&#x2F;status&#x2F;1068251146676891649</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&gt; <i>I don&#x27;t think we could agree to the NDA even if we wanted to because I already tweeted about the incident before being offered compensation</i><p>NDAs usually exclude from the definition of confidential information anything disclosed before the fact. They also don’t typically restrict you from letting regulators, <i>et cetera</i> know things.<p>Unless you were planning on writing a book about the experience, the NDA probably wasn’t restricting you. Unless you were planning on going to court, the arbitration clause probably made your ability to seek redress cheaper.<p><i>Note: I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice.</i></text></comment> |
16,271,176 | 16,269,853 | 1 | 3 | 16,269,444 | train | <story><title>Kodak’s Dubious Blockchain Gamble</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/30/technology/kodak-blockchain-bitcoin.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Ftechnology&action=click&contentCollection=technology&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TaylorGood</author><text>The real gamble was Kodak offering their namesake in a token project for &quot;no direct revenue from the public offering... receive a minority stake in WENN Digital, 3 percent of all KodakCoins issued and a royalty on future revenue.&quot;<p>Minority ownership in a random company owned by a former fraudster and 3% of the tokens with their own name on it? So many things wrong with this. Where is the secret deal that made this happen? Did the Kodak CEO get 40% of the tokens in his personal wallet? For a multi-decade, legacy brand to entrust that guy with their future is rather bizarre. If this fails, it is quite possibly the last nail for Kodak..</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toomanybeersies</author><text>Kodak died 6 years ago when they went bankrupt, and split into 2 Kodaks: Alaris and Eastman. EastMan Kodak is the one that we&#x27;re talking about here. They mostly make money by selling their brand name. That Kodak phone that came out a couple of years back was made entirely by another company, and Kodak just slapped their brand name on it for some cash.<p>Kodak Alaris is the company that makes photographic film (but not cinema film, that&#x27;s Eastman). They&#x27;re not going anywhere fast. I think that the number of film shooters, and demand for film, is going to stay relatively constant for the next decade.</text></comment> | <story><title>Kodak’s Dubious Blockchain Gamble</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/30/technology/kodak-blockchain-bitcoin.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Ftechnology&action=click&contentCollection=technology&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TaylorGood</author><text>The real gamble was Kodak offering their namesake in a token project for &quot;no direct revenue from the public offering... receive a minority stake in WENN Digital, 3 percent of all KodakCoins issued and a royalty on future revenue.&quot;<p>Minority ownership in a random company owned by a former fraudster and 3% of the tokens with their own name on it? So many things wrong with this. Where is the secret deal that made this happen? Did the Kodak CEO get 40% of the tokens in his personal wallet? For a multi-decade, legacy brand to entrust that guy with their future is rather bizarre. If this fails, it is quite possibly the last nail for Kodak..</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mv4</author><text>Exactly. For them, to team up with WENN on this was insane.</text></comment> |
40,577,217 | 40,577,291 | 1 | 2 | 40,569,385 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Allocate poker chips optimally with mixed-integer nonlinear programming</title><url>https://github.com/jstrieb/poker-chipper</url><text>Every time I play a casual cash poker game with friends, we spend the first several minutes struggling to figure out chip denominations. I built this to automate that process.<p>Try it out here (the submitted link goes to the GitHub repo): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jstrieb.github.io&#x2F;poker-chipper&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jstrieb.github.io&#x2F;poker-chipper&#x2F;</a><p>It turns out that picking chip denominations optimally—such that as many chips are distributed as possible, and such that the denominations are nice—is hard (in the computational complexity sense). Upon reflection, the problem seemed to be a perfect fit for constrained optimization.<p>I first got a CLI prototype working with Z3 (an SMT solver with optimization capabilities <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Z3Prover&#x2F;z3">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Z3Prover&#x2F;z3</a>) in Python. Then, I cross-compiled SCIP (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scipopt.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scipopt.org&#x2F;</a>) to web assembly, and ported my code to use SCIP instead of Z3 so it could run in the browser.<p>The web interface is designed to be fast and easy to use on desktop and mobile.<p>I would love to answer questions and discuss design choices. I&#x27;m also open to feedback and bug reports. Thanks for taking a look!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ShaggyPE</author><text>You&#x27;ve solved the problem with an incorrect assumption. You have assumed that the ideal situation is to use all of the chips in your collection. A better solution is to ask, what is the most playable breakdown for the poker games I am playing. If I am playing 25c&#x2F;50c no limit hold&#x27;em with 8 players... and a typical buy-in of $20 per player... as an experienced poker host at these limits, I maintain that the ideal breakdown is:
12x 25c
12x $1
1x $5<p>If you have a set with 100x of white, blue, red, green, etc... your total number of chips used for 8 players is:
96x white (25c)
96x blue ($1)
8x red ($5)<p>If players lose all of their chips... they can re-buy with $5 (red) chips and make change from the players that have all of the lower denomination chips.<p>What I have proposed above is a proper solution if you want to play poker.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Raidion</author><text>Also an experienced poker player, and this is 100% correct.<p>Ideally you want to use common casino chip colors (though these are somewhat fungible) and just shift orders of magnitudes.<p>If 1BI is 20 bucks, you can make it equivalent to a $200 BI at the casino, which really only uses 2 colors 95% of the time: whites for 1 dollar, reds for $5. Deeper games might need a $25 (green) or even $100 (black chip). So whites in your home game are 10c, reds are 50c, greens are $2.50, blacks $10.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Allocate poker chips optimally with mixed-integer nonlinear programming</title><url>https://github.com/jstrieb/poker-chipper</url><text>Every time I play a casual cash poker game with friends, we spend the first several minutes struggling to figure out chip denominations. I built this to automate that process.<p>Try it out here (the submitted link goes to the GitHub repo): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jstrieb.github.io&#x2F;poker-chipper&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jstrieb.github.io&#x2F;poker-chipper&#x2F;</a><p>It turns out that picking chip denominations optimally—such that as many chips are distributed as possible, and such that the denominations are nice—is hard (in the computational complexity sense). Upon reflection, the problem seemed to be a perfect fit for constrained optimization.<p>I first got a CLI prototype working with Z3 (an SMT solver with optimization capabilities <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Z3Prover&#x2F;z3">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Z3Prover&#x2F;z3</a>) in Python. Then, I cross-compiled SCIP (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scipopt.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scipopt.org&#x2F;</a>) to web assembly, and ported my code to use SCIP instead of Z3 so it could run in the browser.<p>The web interface is designed to be fast and easy to use on desktop and mobile.<p>I would love to answer questions and discuss design choices. I&#x27;m also open to feedback and bug reports. Thanks for taking a look!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ShaggyPE</author><text>You&#x27;ve solved the problem with an incorrect assumption. You have assumed that the ideal situation is to use all of the chips in your collection. A better solution is to ask, what is the most playable breakdown for the poker games I am playing. If I am playing 25c&#x2F;50c no limit hold&#x27;em with 8 players... and a typical buy-in of $20 per player... as an experienced poker host at these limits, I maintain that the ideal breakdown is:
12x 25c
12x $1
1x $5<p>If you have a set with 100x of white, blue, red, green, etc... your total number of chips used for 8 players is:
96x white (25c)
96x blue ($1)
8x red ($5)<p>If players lose all of their chips... they can re-buy with $5 (red) chips and make change from the players that have all of the lower denomination chips.<p>What I have proposed above is a proper solution if you want to play poker.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MaxfordAndSons</author><text>Yea the &quot;optimal&quot; solution shown by the default input is pretty silly. You&#x27;re giving everyone 5 chips with which they can post blinds, and they&#x27;re going to use 3 of them per turn through the blinds, so after 1 turn through the blinds someone who has won no hands will need to make change with someone else. And making change from the next smallest denomination will require 5 of that persons small chips!<p>Other, less important usability consideration is that you would typically want &quot;round&quot; amounts of chips, ideally stacks of 10 or 20, though having a few big chips in odd amounts is fine. Not as big a deal, but again, very much diverging from typical poker ux expectations.<p>Neat project technically, but highly impractical for actually playing poker.<p>edit: to be fair, just saw the advanced options, which would allow it to produce a more useful result, so that&#x27;s cool. maybe just update the defaults :)</text></comment> |
13,126,418 | 13,126,412 | 1 | 3 | 13,125,254 | train | <story><title>Show HN: PyFilesystem 2.0 – A Python interface to filesystems of all kinds</title><url>https://www.willmcgugan.com/blog/tech/post/announcing-pyfilesystem-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amyjess</author><text>Oh, this looks really nice. Thank you for posting it!<p>A while back, I had an idea for modelling a filesystem as a dict, so maybe this will inspire me to get off my ass and actually write it.<p>Basically, the idea is that this:<p><pre><code> foo = rootfs[&#x27;home&#x27;][&#x27;amyjess&#x27;][&#x27;stuff&#x27;][&#x27;foo.txt&#x27;]
rootfs[&#x27;home&#x27;][&#x27;amyjess&#x27;][&#x27;stuff&#x27;][&#x27;bar.txt&#x27;] = bar
</code></pre>
would be equivalent to this:<p><pre><code> with open(&#x27;&#x2F;home&#x2F;amyjess&#x2F;stuff&#x2F;foo.txt&#x27;, &#x27;r&#x27;) as foo_file:
foo = foo_file.read()
with open(&#x27;&#x2F;home&#x2F;amyjess&#x2F;stuff&#x2F;bar.txt&#x27;, &#x27;w&#x27;) as bar_file:
bar_file.write(bar)
</code></pre>
I really want to implement that now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>existencebox</author><text>It&#x27;s funny you mention that, I have literally that functionality in my &quot;blob storage&quot; python wrapper. Currently it&#x27;s just like 50 lines of code I use for internal ad-hoc storage because as it turns out, reasoning about storage as a hierarchy is really nice. (I also let you index with a list, where the list is the hierarchical path; the key part being composibility, which I imagine you can do reasonably with both models).<p>Interesting to know that it&#x27;s a more common pattern. I will have to think a bit on where that may go. I had always shot down any &quot;value&quot; with &quot;it&#x27;s just a thin transformation on top of path.join&quot;. (yay self-deprecation or something?)</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: PyFilesystem 2.0 – A Python interface to filesystems of all kinds</title><url>https://www.willmcgugan.com/blog/tech/post/announcing-pyfilesystem-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amyjess</author><text>Oh, this looks really nice. Thank you for posting it!<p>A while back, I had an idea for modelling a filesystem as a dict, so maybe this will inspire me to get off my ass and actually write it.<p>Basically, the idea is that this:<p><pre><code> foo = rootfs[&#x27;home&#x27;][&#x27;amyjess&#x27;][&#x27;stuff&#x27;][&#x27;foo.txt&#x27;]
rootfs[&#x27;home&#x27;][&#x27;amyjess&#x27;][&#x27;stuff&#x27;][&#x27;bar.txt&#x27;] = bar
</code></pre>
would be equivalent to this:<p><pre><code> with open(&#x27;&#x2F;home&#x2F;amyjess&#x2F;stuff&#x2F;foo.txt&#x27;, &#x27;r&#x27;) as foo_file:
foo = foo_file.read()
with open(&#x27;&#x2F;home&#x2F;amyjess&#x2F;stuff&#x2F;bar.txt&#x27;, &#x27;w&#x27;) as bar_file:
bar_file.write(bar)
</code></pre>
I really want to implement that now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dom0</author><text>You might want to look at pathlib:<p><pre><code> with (Path.home() &#x2F; &#x27;.config&#x27; &#x2F; &#x27;1234.conf&#x27;).open() as fd:
print(&#x27;Hello&#x27;, file=fd)
</code></pre>
Granted, with &#x2F; precedence you&#x27;ll often need parens to group &#x2F; before .</text></comment> |
24,729,745 | 24,729,199 | 1 | 2 | 24,728,887 | train | <story><title>Microsoft is letting employees work from home permanently</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/9/21508964/microsoft-remote-work-from-home-covid-19-coronavirus</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckNorris89</author><text>IMHO companies need to either embrace WFH fully or not at all.<p>This current <i>&quot;we&#x27;re kinda mostly WFH but not really sometimes&quot;</i> is the worst, as you have archaic processes still in place from pre WFH days that are still enforced, and most importantly, if management is in the office and you&#x27;re not, over time, the colleagues who will be in the office will seem to get really lucky in regards to promotions and opportunities for some reason and you&#x27;ll be left out because you&#x27;ll miss the coffee&#x2F;water cooler&#x2F;cigarette chit-chat where future projects&#x2F;directions are discussed casually and off the record without you.<p>Example: I once ran into my boss talking to a colleague at a coffee break about a potential project with a new customer and volunteered to work on it as I liked the tech. Months later, I got it. If I would have been remote that day I would have never heard about it as stuff like new projects and new customers is pretty hush-hush until the ink dries on the contract so they&#x27;re never written about in public slack channels until then, but then it&#x27;s usually too late to call dibs as the pieces are already in motion.<p>Not to mention, you can&#x27;t really move far away from the office either since you could at any time be expected to show up in the office for $IMPORTANT_MEETING.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>everdrive</author><text>&gt;the colleagues who will be in the office will seem to get really lucky in regards to promotions and opportunities for some reason and you&#x27;ll be left out because you&#x27;ll miss the coffee&#x2F;water cooler&#x2F;cigarette chit-chat where future projects&#x2F;directions are discussed casually and off the record without you<p>The reality is that merit is only one of many reasons that promotions happen. And often not the primary reason.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft is letting employees work from home permanently</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/9/21508964/microsoft-remote-work-from-home-covid-19-coronavirus</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckNorris89</author><text>IMHO companies need to either embrace WFH fully or not at all.<p>This current <i>&quot;we&#x27;re kinda mostly WFH but not really sometimes&quot;</i> is the worst, as you have archaic processes still in place from pre WFH days that are still enforced, and most importantly, if management is in the office and you&#x27;re not, over time, the colleagues who will be in the office will seem to get really lucky in regards to promotions and opportunities for some reason and you&#x27;ll be left out because you&#x27;ll miss the coffee&#x2F;water cooler&#x2F;cigarette chit-chat where future projects&#x2F;directions are discussed casually and off the record without you.<p>Example: I once ran into my boss talking to a colleague at a coffee break about a potential project with a new customer and volunteered to work on it as I liked the tech. Months later, I got it. If I would have been remote that day I would have never heard about it as stuff like new projects and new customers is pretty hush-hush until the ink dries on the contract so they&#x27;re never written about in public slack channels until then, but then it&#x27;s usually too late to call dibs as the pieces are already in motion.<p>Not to mention, you can&#x27;t really move far away from the office either since you could at any time be expected to show up in the office for $IMPORTANT_MEETING.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>st1x7</author><text>Yes - for someone living in a big city half office, half WFH is the worst of everything. It means that I have to maintain an expensive home office, don&#x27;t get all the benefits of working in an office with other people (which I prefer) and I can&#x27;t move out of the big city.</text></comment> |
8,492,887 | 8,492,860 | 1 | 2 | 8,492,269 | train | <story><title>Erlang and IBM Power8 in the cloud: super-high single-system parallelism</title><url>http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2014-October/081407.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jacques_chester</author><text>For those as confused as I was at first, the critical line is &quot;total time&quot;. 2.8s for the P8 vs 38.7s for the x86.<p>Otherwise the x86 comes out looking a lot better -- lower 95th percentile, lower max, lower average.<p>(Modulo usual complaints about benchmark porn: single run, lack of standard deviation, unknown configuration differences etc etc).</text></comment> | <story><title>Erlang and IBM Power8 in the cloud: super-high single-system parallelism</title><url>http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2014-October/081407.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway_yy2Di</author><text>How does POWER8 compare to x86, e.g. Haswell? Just skimming some of the architecture details...<p>* 4x hardware threads per core (8-way SMT vs. 2)<p>* 1&#x2F;4th FP throughput per core (8 SP flops&#x2F;cycle vs. 32)<p>* 3x bandwidth to RAM (230 GB&#x2F;s vs. 68) [edit: updated for Haswell-EP]<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER8#Specifications" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;POWER8#Specifications</a><p><a href="http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/tips1153.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.redbooks.ibm.com&#x2F;abstracts&#x2F;tips1153.html</a><p>What is it good for?</text></comment> |
3,703,168 | 3,703,107 | 1 | 2 | 3,702,892 | train | <story><title>Minix 3.2.0: One step closer to the promise of highly reliable OS</title><url>https://groups.google.com/d/msg/minix3/LZvqtjhMTas/7kDbH7PYoUYJ</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ef4</author><text>The monolithic kernel vs microkernel debate has always come down to performance vs simplicity &#38; reliability.<p>Simplicity I'll grant, but the reliability argument doesn't really strike me as relevant. Having overseen many thousands of server years worth of uptime, it's almost never the kernel's fault when something breaks. Linux is pretty solid. Most of us are far more limited by the reliability of our applications.<p>There are niches where higher-assurance kernels are worth it, and maybe that's where microkernels can shine.</text></comment> | <story><title>Minix 3.2.0: One step closer to the promise of highly reliable OS</title><url>https://groups.google.com/d/msg/minix3/LZvqtjhMTas/7kDbH7PYoUYJ</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>parley</author><text>Many software engineers strive for modularity and component decoupling, sacrificing some things (e.g. performance, to a varying degree) and gaining others. I agree with this line of thinking, and I see no reason not to apply it to OS kernels as well. The MMU is a <i>really</i> good friend to have, and I think most systems in this world should appreciate reliability more than performance, especially when it comes to the kernel. I always get a bit sad as I think of the general state of things, remembering that a decade ago I thought today everything would be properly divided and sandboxed with a minimum of necessary privileges. I guess user experience trumps it in many cases.</text></comment> |
17,894,685 | 17,894,779 | 1 | 2 | 17,893,865 | train | <story><title>Carlo Rovelli on challenging our common-sense notion of time</title><url>http://nautil.us/blog/forget-everything-you-think-you-know-about-time</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jnurmine</author><text>I am not really skilled in physics and have never understood why time would be a tangible dimension like, say, width or height, instead of a mathematical construction to argue about change.<p>I get it that it is convenient to talk of change in something, like movement from state a to state b, under the guise of wrapping it in &quot;time&quot;, but is there some physical argument in support of time in general? Honest question.<p>Living beings getting older is their cells becoming more and more inefficient in division and cell repair. One could likely achieve the same effects with chemicals, but doing so would not mean time has run faster.<p>The concept of time for humans seems to be all about observable change, which needs an observer with a memory to compare the current state with previous state to be able to say: time has passed.<p>A rock changes via erosion and such, but it has no memory, and cannot observe anything. Does a rock feel time? Of course not. Does it exist &quot;in time&quot;? Does it, without an observer that somehow measures the flow of time (via changes in Cesium atoms or something)? Or is the rock just existing and under the whims of all forces of nature that might impact it and change it into smaller pieces and eventually to sand, and so on.<p>I guess my question is: what exactly is time, physically, and why should it have to exist as some sort of a physical process in the first place.</text></comment> | <story><title>Carlo Rovelli on challenging our common-sense notion of time</title><url>http://nautil.us/blog/forget-everything-you-think-you-know-about-time</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mathgenius</author><text>&gt; Unlike general relativity, quantum mechanics, and particle physics, thermodynamics embeds a direction of time.<p>This is the bit that irks me. Quantum mechanics, the real QM that physicists actually use, involves collapse of the wavefunction. This is absolutely time-asymmetric. But in all these discussions of &quot;why is time one-way?&quot; this never seems to be mentioned. Apparently QM is not a real theory, and just a placeholder until we can work something out properly. Irk!</text></comment> |
32,814,324 | 32,814,115 | 1 | 2 | 32,813,358 | train | <story><title>How to Learn Modern Rust</title><url>https://github.com/joaocarvalhoopen/How_to_learn_modern_Rust</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>serial_dev</author><text>This looks like a great resource, starred and upvoted.<p>I&#x27;m planning to learn Rust next, going to start in a week after a job interview I had already lined up at Google.<p>I worked with many languages professionally (JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Python, Go, and now Dart) and many others at the university (C, C++, C#)...<p>...and Rust is very appealing to me. It&#x27;s a modern language where the dev tools are straightforward, no need to deal with learning 30 years of legacy conventions, great performance that&#x27;s on pair with C&#x2F;C++, yet, at the same time high level and easy to read and reason about. The language is still young enough to make a dent in the ecosystem and build stuff for fun without people whining about JavaScript fatigue. It&#x27;s versatile, so it can be used (at least theoretically) for web backend, frontend, desktop apps, command line tools, systems programming. It has all the good parts from OOP and FP.<p>Yes, I&#x27;m at least partially responsible for having &quot;xyz rewritten in Rust&quot; almost every day in the top list on HN.<p>One thing in a bit worried about is the job market, I&#x27;ve been paying attention to job adverts for months and I didn&#x27;t see many companies that I&#x27;d like to join that use Rust in my area (Germany).<p>Learning it and doubling down on Rust feel like a gamble, but at the same time, I can&#x27;t imagine that Rust will not be one of the most important languages of the next decade.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Learn Modern Rust</title><url>https://github.com/joaocarvalhoopen/How_to_learn_modern_Rust</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>givemeethekeys</author><text>This is a good list, although it contains a lot of redundancy - at least, the first &quot;how to learn&quot; links - the youtube videos cover the same material over and over again. They are good - you may not need to watch every one in order as the author suggested.<p>My approach has been considerably, uhh.. lazier, if you will:<p>I just read through the rust book available on <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rust-lang.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rust-lang.org</a>.
It is easy to follow although, sometimes it doesn&#x27;t fully explain the &quot;why&quot; behind certain things to idiots like me. For that, I turned to a quick online search, which brought up helpful blog posts, Reddit and Stack Overflow posts.<p>Thats it. Next, I&#x27;ll try to wrap my head around Actix to create a web server.</text></comment> |
1,358,508 | 1,358,517 | 1 | 2 | 1,358,446 | train | <story><title>Tell HN: Someone deleted a submission re Wakemate</title><url></url><text>A few minutes ago I stumbled upon a submission chastising WakeMate for still not shipping. There were 6 comments. I hit refresh and the title changed to [dead] and the submission was removed from the front page. What is going on?<p>At this URL the comments can still be found: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1358309</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>Hacker News is not fair when it comes to YC companies. This would have been a valid post if it concerned some other well-known company. It probably won't be for Wakemate. I don't know that it's Graham killing the stories (there's a pronounced YC bias here, for obvious reasons, and most of us can "flag"), but that doesn't matter; the effect is the same.<p>I don't like it, but I accept it. There aren't so many important YC companies right now that this is a real problem. I suggest: write a blog post with your open letter, promote it on Twitter, here, and Reddit, and let it pick up steam that way.<p>Hacker News isn't a complaint board for YC companies, so start by refactoring your story so that it doesn't appear like you're trying to use the site that way.<p>Or, you know, get on with your life. I've written off Wakemate. They can keep my $5. Best of luck.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tell HN: Someone deleted a submission re Wakemate</title><url></url><text>A few minutes ago I stumbled upon a submission chastising WakeMate for still not shipping. There were 6 comments. I hit refresh and the title changed to [dead] and the submission was removed from the front page. What is going on?<p>At this URL the comments can still be found: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1358309</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>petercooper</author><text>It's worth having "showdead" set to "yes" on your HN options page for this very reason. It's still "on the front page" for me, despite being dead :-) You get to see some rather.. interesting things stick around with this option on (and surprisingly little trash, unless you hang around /newest a lot).<p>That aside, there seems to be a lot of assumption that the post was deleted. This <i>may</i> not be so. Enough "flag"s can do it too, of course, but I get the impression that there are super users who can dead a post in one strike :-)</text></comment> |
11,534,457 | 11,534,622 | 1 | 2 | 11,533,528 | train | <story><title>Off the Grid</title><url>http://www.stephenfry.com/2016/04/off-the-grid/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>darkclarity</author><text>I have gone through a similar phase. Got rid of social media, switched back to a feature phone, am reading real books, listening to music on physical media, using cash where possible and whatever else.<p>The Internet has gone from a place with a high barrier of entry (and the interesting characters that self selected for that barrier), to an all encompassing entity with a load of moralisers, businesses and governments fighting over the ability to call the shots.<p>In its current state, I think it&#x27;s better to take a step back. View the Internet as an occasional tool for getting things done, rather than a place to live within and rely upon. Let the masses have their addictions fulfilled, while technology enthusiasts move on and enjoy real life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>icebraining</author><text><i>a load of moralisers</i>...<i>let the masses have their addictions fulfilled, while technology enthusiasts move on and enjoy real life.</i><p>Physician, heal thyself!</text></comment> | <story><title>Off the Grid</title><url>http://www.stephenfry.com/2016/04/off-the-grid/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>darkclarity</author><text>I have gone through a similar phase. Got rid of social media, switched back to a feature phone, am reading real books, listening to music on physical media, using cash where possible and whatever else.<p>The Internet has gone from a place with a high barrier of entry (and the interesting characters that self selected for that barrier), to an all encompassing entity with a load of moralisers, businesses and governments fighting over the ability to call the shots.<p>In its current state, I think it&#x27;s better to take a step back. View the Internet as an occasional tool for getting things done, rather than a place to live within and rely upon. Let the masses have their addictions fulfilled, while technology enthusiasts move on and enjoy real life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>debacle</author><text>What feature phone are you using? For the life of me I can&#x27;t find one these days that isn&#x27;t a cheap piece of crap.</text></comment> |
26,569,571 | 26,569,225 | 1 | 2 | 26,567,842 | train | <story><title>Over twenty subreddits have gone private</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/mbq12a/over_twenty_subreddits_including_cringetopia/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>breakfastduck</author><text>It&#x27;s absurd to me that you consider this person to be &#x27;pro-pedophilia&#x27; - where on earth do you get that from?</text></item><item><author>blackearl</author><text>The idea that this person got through HR without a cursory google search is crazy, or worse, the idea that they hired them knowing their history is frightening.<p>Being trans is not a free pass to be pro-pedophilia and it&#x27;s absurd that this could be considered a controversial take.</text></item><item><author>ronsor</author><text>The Reddit administration continues to make terrible decisions as usual. The site&#x27;s a far cry from how it was 10 years ago.<p>Perhaps what makes this case most interesting is they&#x27;re in a &quot;damned if you do, damned if you don&#x27;t&quot; situation. If they fire the admin, they&#x27;ll likely be labeled as *-phobic, but if they don&#x27;t, they&#x27;ll likely be branded as pedophile supporters.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blackearl</author><text>If you marry someone who &quot;...under the account name Nathaniel Knight said: “I fantasise about children having sex, sometimes with adults, sometimes with other children, sometimes kidnapped and forced into bad situations.”&quot; you are pro-pedophile.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thetimes.co.uk&#x2F;article&#x2F;lib-dems-suspend-trans-campaigner-over-tweets-jcsg0tdtq" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thetimes.co.uk&#x2F;article&#x2F;lib-dems-suspend-trans-ca...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Over twenty subreddits have gone private</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/mbq12a/over_twenty_subreddits_including_cringetopia/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>breakfastduck</author><text>It&#x27;s absurd to me that you consider this person to be &#x27;pro-pedophilia&#x27; - where on earth do you get that from?</text></item><item><author>blackearl</author><text>The idea that this person got through HR without a cursory google search is crazy, or worse, the idea that they hired them knowing their history is frightening.<p>Being trans is not a free pass to be pro-pedophilia and it&#x27;s absurd that this could be considered a controversial take.</text></item><item><author>ronsor</author><text>The Reddit administration continues to make terrible decisions as usual. The site&#x27;s a far cry from how it was 10 years ago.<p>Perhaps what makes this case most interesting is they&#x27;re in a &quot;damned if you do, damned if you don&#x27;t&quot; situation. If they fire the admin, they&#x27;ll likely be labeled as *-phobic, but if they don&#x27;t, they&#x27;ll likely be branded as pedophile supporters.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CodeGlitch</author><text>You need to do more research around said person. Who they married specifically.</text></comment> |
18,586,986 | 18,586,202 | 1 | 2 | 18,583,288 | train | <story><title>I quit Instagram and Facebook and it made me happier</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/01/social-media-detox-christina-farr-quits-instagram-facebook.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CamelCaseName</author><text>Please let me know if you have any ideas for reversing this.<p>I help moderate a mid-size subreddit (100,000-500,000 subscribers) and we&#x27;re completely overrun by low quality content.<p>We tried adding new rules, silently removing&#x2F;banning offending users, and making repeat announcements, but it seems like it&#x27;s too little too late. A rehashed joke post can easily receive 100+ points in an hour while a good post may receive, at most, 20 points in the same time.</text></item><item><author>Mediterraneo10</author><text>Even Reddit subs for niche interests can suck now, precisely because of Instagram culture. I follow some subs for certain outdoor hobbies, and while in the past we would discuss gear or the specifics of various routes, now all most people want to do is post selfies in impressive locations. Reddit has killed off many of the old forum websites, so it is not as if one can just go back to those to get substantive conversation. Indeed, substantive conversation seems to be dying out overall, because just posting selfies gets one more social appreciation.</text></item><item><author>vlunkr</author><text>I’m also tired of the “global” culture. Reddit is a terrible offender of this. The same opinions always prevail, and dissenting ideas are pushed out of sight. This applies to politics, religion, humor, pop culture, everything. It rewards conformity and it’s so boring. Smaller subs are usually lots better, simply because there are fewer people there to perform their predicatable voting.</text></item><item><author>propman</author><text>I deleted Instagram a few months ago and I’ve not missed it once. The people who post more take up most of my bandwidth and those people I sincerely do not care about but due to social etiquitte have to follow. As I grow older I find that I really don’t care about maintaining superficial relationships with acquaintances, many of whom I might not see ever.<p>Other negatives- I click on one picture of a scantily clad woman and my entire search feed turns into softcore porn for a month.<p>Culture is too vain. Selfies, blatantly showing off, spending hours on touch up apps were looked down upon in the entire history of the internet until that Ellen selfie photo that got huge. Apple, Facebook, Google, the media all advertised and made it socially accepted that the vanity is good. That had it’s pros and cons but I feel like we are crossed over on the cons side too much.<p>The culture is too global. Everyone’s opinions&#x2F;posts&#x2F;comments all converge to the same dumbed down pop culture accepted norms&#x2F;memes. Everyone tries to be funny in the exact same socially accepted way and there is no originality.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tokyodude</author><text>This is just an idea but ...<p>Don&#x27;t make voting visible and don&#x27;t show people their points. You still need voting so popular topics bubble to the top. You still maybe need user points so users who post bad content get bad scores? (maybe you don&#x27;t need this).<p>What you don&#x27;t need is for any of it to be visible. User&#x27;s seeing their points go up is a gamification technique that pushes their (and my) button. &quot;Oh! I just got 150pts!&quot; feels so good so I&#x27;m compelled to try to get more points.<p>I notice my point total here on HN. Every time I see it go up I&#x27;m conscious of a little pleasure bump I get &quot;oh, some people agreed with me or thought my post was useful!&quot;. I&#x27;ve thought about writing a browser extension to hide it from myself. Mostly the only thing I want to know is if I got replies.</text></comment> | <story><title>I quit Instagram and Facebook and it made me happier</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/01/social-media-detox-christina-farr-quits-instagram-facebook.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CamelCaseName</author><text>Please let me know if you have any ideas for reversing this.<p>I help moderate a mid-size subreddit (100,000-500,000 subscribers) and we&#x27;re completely overrun by low quality content.<p>We tried adding new rules, silently removing&#x2F;banning offending users, and making repeat announcements, but it seems like it&#x27;s too little too late. A rehashed joke post can easily receive 100+ points in an hour while a good post may receive, at most, 20 points in the same time.</text></item><item><author>Mediterraneo10</author><text>Even Reddit subs for niche interests can suck now, precisely because of Instagram culture. I follow some subs for certain outdoor hobbies, and while in the past we would discuss gear or the specifics of various routes, now all most people want to do is post selfies in impressive locations. Reddit has killed off many of the old forum websites, so it is not as if one can just go back to those to get substantive conversation. Indeed, substantive conversation seems to be dying out overall, because just posting selfies gets one more social appreciation.</text></item><item><author>vlunkr</author><text>I’m also tired of the “global” culture. Reddit is a terrible offender of this. The same opinions always prevail, and dissenting ideas are pushed out of sight. This applies to politics, religion, humor, pop culture, everything. It rewards conformity and it’s so boring. Smaller subs are usually lots better, simply because there are fewer people there to perform their predicatable voting.</text></item><item><author>propman</author><text>I deleted Instagram a few months ago and I’ve not missed it once. The people who post more take up most of my bandwidth and those people I sincerely do not care about but due to social etiquitte have to follow. As I grow older I find that I really don’t care about maintaining superficial relationships with acquaintances, many of whom I might not see ever.<p>Other negatives- I click on one picture of a scantily clad woman and my entire search feed turns into softcore porn for a month.<p>Culture is too vain. Selfies, blatantly showing off, spending hours on touch up apps were looked down upon in the entire history of the internet until that Ellen selfie photo that got huge. Apple, Facebook, Google, the media all advertised and made it socially accepted that the vanity is good. That had it’s pros and cons but I feel like we are crossed over on the cons side too much.<p>The culture is too global. Everyone’s opinions&#x2F;posts&#x2F;comments all converge to the same dumbed down pop culture accepted norms&#x2F;memes. Everyone tries to be funny in the exact same socially accepted way and there is no originality.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>narrator</author><text>The problem with reddit is putting together a deep thoughtful piece is worthless because it will be yesterday&#x27;s news and confined to obscurity in a matter of hours. This didn&#x27;t happen on forums where the topic got bumped every time there was a reply.</text></comment> |
25,143,063 | 25,143,042 | 1 | 2 | 25,137,202 | train | <story><title>My daughter was a creative genius, and then we bought her an iPhone</title><url>https://medium.com/modern-parent/my-daughter-was-a-creative-genius-then-we-bought-her-an-iphone-bf617c0b6ca0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adrianb</author><text>Honestly, so much of this sounded familiar to me ... but from my own teenage years. My parents were appalled at the amount of time I was spending at a MS-DOS PC (not only playing games but also learning programming).<p>So I&#x27;d say that no, it&#x27;s not that phones are like crack. There seems to be a disconnect on the parent&#x27;s expectations when children discover the possibilities of a technology that&#x27;s unfamiliar to them. In the article they&#x27;re talking about the ease of controlling TV time but that doesn&#x27;t even compare in possibilities of communication, entertainment and education.<p>Heck... I&#x27;m sure if you could go back in time you&#x27;d discover the first generation to grow up with books, and their desperate parents noticing how the kids aren&#x27;t ... working the fields and feeding the cattle, I guess.</text></item><item><author>lqet</author><text>&gt; I realize with horror that she’s spent nine hours on the phone that day. She was only awake at 11.<p>&gt; My daughter doesn’t make collages or jewelry or sew anymore. A child who used to read in the bath won’t pick up a book unless threatened with the loss of her phone.<p>&gt; Getting her to make a card for a family member — something she once did for fun — is like getting her to clean her room<p>&gt; Yet still, each day is a battle over only one thing.<p>&gt; And little by little, our daughter has chipped away at our rules and resolve.<p>Congratulations, your child is now in puberty.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ur-whale</author><text>Now is <i>really</i> not like back then.<p>I was like you, spending inordinate amounts of time with computers during my teenage years.<p>But back then, I was <i>learning</i> useful skills from it.<p>The computer I owned had almost no games for it. All you could do was program it in either basic or assembly.<p>Move forward 15 years, my kid who owned a PC from around age 10 was <i>never</i> interested in using it as anything but an entertainment platform.<p>There was simply way more interesting things to do with it than understanding how it worked and bending the hardware to your will.<p>And this was pre-social networks.</text></comment> | <story><title>My daughter was a creative genius, and then we bought her an iPhone</title><url>https://medium.com/modern-parent/my-daughter-was-a-creative-genius-then-we-bought-her-an-iphone-bf617c0b6ca0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adrianb</author><text>Honestly, so much of this sounded familiar to me ... but from my own teenage years. My parents were appalled at the amount of time I was spending at a MS-DOS PC (not only playing games but also learning programming).<p>So I&#x27;d say that no, it&#x27;s not that phones are like crack. There seems to be a disconnect on the parent&#x27;s expectations when children discover the possibilities of a technology that&#x27;s unfamiliar to them. In the article they&#x27;re talking about the ease of controlling TV time but that doesn&#x27;t even compare in possibilities of communication, entertainment and education.<p>Heck... I&#x27;m sure if you could go back in time you&#x27;d discover the first generation to grow up with books, and their desperate parents noticing how the kids aren&#x27;t ... working the fields and feeding the cattle, I guess.</text></item><item><author>lqet</author><text>&gt; I realize with horror that she’s spent nine hours on the phone that day. She was only awake at 11.<p>&gt; My daughter doesn’t make collages or jewelry or sew anymore. A child who used to read in the bath won’t pick up a book unless threatened with the loss of her phone.<p>&gt; Getting her to make a card for a family member — something she once did for fun — is like getting her to clean her room<p>&gt; Yet still, each day is a battle over only one thing.<p>&gt; And little by little, our daughter has chipped away at our rules and resolve.<p>Congratulations, your child is now in puberty.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ertian</author><text>Yup. There was a moral panic about fiction specifically in the early-to-mid 1800s. Kids (and women, too) were sitting around staring at these made-up stories instead of going out and doing real things.</text></comment> |
25,057,736 | 25,057,373 | 1 | 2 | 25,057,153 | train | <story><title>Charles Darwin’s hunch about early life was probably right</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201110-charles-darwin-early-life-theory</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cblconfederate</author><text>for those impatient like me (aaargh!):<p>&gt; Darwin was proposing that life began, not in the open ocean, but in a smaller body of water on land, which was rich in chemicals</text></comment> | <story><title>Charles Darwin’s hunch about early life was probably right</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201110-charles-darwin-early-life-theory</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rakkhi</author><text>I&#x27;m more partial to the idea that a metabolic system to harness energy had to develop before replication and that life started in alkaline hydrothermal vents rather than ponds due to the delivery of energy and concentration of chemicals. Really enjoyed Nick Lane&#x27;s writing on this topic, highly recommend his books.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nick-lane.net&#x2F;publications&#x2F;origin-life-alkaline-hydrothermal-vents-2&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nick-lane.net&#x2F;publications&#x2F;origin-life-alkaline-hydr...</a></text></comment> |
20,478,850 | 20,478,447 | 1 | 3 | 20,474,878 | train | <story><title>Talk: An open-source commenting platform focused on better conversation</title><url>https://coralproject.net/talk/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>olah_1</author><text>&gt;In our study of gender nonbinary people of color, women of color, and online commentary, participants talked about having to constantly run a cost-benefit analysis on participation in any online conversations, based on the likelihood that they would be attacked, merely for participation.<p>4chan solved this problem a decade ago. Put your content before your identity rather than the other way around.<p>In many spaces today, being a straight white man is far more inflammatory than being a non-binary person of color. This is especially true in the open-source community.<p>The solution is to stop pushing your identity onto people when it&#x27;s completely irrelevant. I&#x27;m not saying hide who you are. But it&#x27;s simply not relevant to the vast majority of discussions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jmcqk6</author><text>&gt;In many spaces today, being a straight white man is far more inflammatory than being a non-binary person of color.<p>As a straight white man, this is bullshit. I have many close friends who are part of the LGBT community, so I can see their experiences compared to my own. They don&#x27;t go around &quot;pushing their identity onto people&quot; and neither do I. We&#x27;re all just normal people trying to build cool things.<p>And I see my experiences are much more positive than theirs.</text></comment> | <story><title>Talk: An open-source commenting platform focused on better conversation</title><url>https://coralproject.net/talk/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>olah_1</author><text>&gt;In our study of gender nonbinary people of color, women of color, and online commentary, participants talked about having to constantly run a cost-benefit analysis on participation in any online conversations, based on the likelihood that they would be attacked, merely for participation.<p>4chan solved this problem a decade ago. Put your content before your identity rather than the other way around.<p>In many spaces today, being a straight white man is far more inflammatory than being a non-binary person of color. This is especially true in the open-source community.<p>The solution is to stop pushing your identity onto people when it&#x27;s completely irrelevant. I&#x27;m not saying hide who you are. But it&#x27;s simply not relevant to the vast majority of discussions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gdubs</author><text>Did they, though? The only demographics I could find on 4chan are their advertising stats, and according to that the site is 70% men under 35, mostly from the US and a handful of European countries. [1]<p>Doesn’t really sound like a thriving wellspring of diverse opinions.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.4chan.org&#x2F;advertise" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.4chan.org&#x2F;advertise</a></text></comment> |
36,103,955 | 36,100,553 | 1 | 2 | 36,096,652 | train | <story><title>Tarkovsky's films online for free</title><url>https://kottke.org/23/05/watch-tarkovskys-best-films-online-for-free</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kamranjon</author><text>I&#x27;ve tried twice now to watch Solaris and fell asleep both times - someone let me know if it&#x27;s worth it! I&#x27;ve seen every other Tarkovsky film and love his work, this one just felt particularly difficult for me.</text></item><item><author>dr_kiszonka</author><text>Stalker is a beautiful movie but perhaps not the easiest one to watch, especially if you are not used to 10 min long shots of nature (e.g., water in a stream). Possibly Solaris, which you recommend too, would be an easier movie to watch first.</text></item><item><author>Jun8</author><text>IMHO, if you’ll be watching your first Tarkovsky film start with <i>Stalker</i>, which is how my girlfriend (now wife of 27 years), introduced me to him many years ago. I was very much a Fellini person, and the Bergman-Tarkovsky school seemed cryptic (at best) at the time. When finished, ask yourself (1) if you would have gone into the room and (2) what the dreamlike sequences with Stalker’s son meant.<p>Second one should be <i>Solaris</i>, if you’re into SciFi or <i>The Mirror</i> if you’re not of if you’d like a challenge. I think <i>The Mirror</i> is the better movie, the woman (stand in for T’s mom) looking at the wheat field (T had these <i>specifically</i> planted for the film!) haunts me to this day.<p>I personally couldn’t relate to The Sacrifice, perhaps his most personal film. His earlier films (Ivan and Rublev) I could not watch at all.<p>To be a genius artist like him in the Soviet Union meant privileges unheard for art film directors in Europe (let alone US), eg see the wheat field thing above. It also meant you’re at the mercy of the “masses”. I had read an article once that included a comment for <i>The Mirror</i> from a regular filmgoer, saying after 30mins it caused such a headache! The funding was based on such feedback and the movie was labeled as elitist (it is) which greatly impacted his career. It’s infuriating to think T lost time due to such petty interference (OTOH, I could only finish the film on my third try, falling asleep in first two attempts! So she had a point)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>biztos</author><text>You could — at the risk of being burned at the stake by purists — try the other one [0] which is faster paced but touches on the same ideas. Then if you’re really intrigued by that, go back to the original.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Solaris_(2002_film)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Solaris_(2002_film)</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Tarkovsky's films online for free</title><url>https://kottke.org/23/05/watch-tarkovskys-best-films-online-for-free</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kamranjon</author><text>I&#x27;ve tried twice now to watch Solaris and fell asleep both times - someone let me know if it&#x27;s worth it! I&#x27;ve seen every other Tarkovsky film and love his work, this one just felt particularly difficult for me.</text></item><item><author>dr_kiszonka</author><text>Stalker is a beautiful movie but perhaps not the easiest one to watch, especially if you are not used to 10 min long shots of nature (e.g., water in a stream). Possibly Solaris, which you recommend too, would be an easier movie to watch first.</text></item><item><author>Jun8</author><text>IMHO, if you’ll be watching your first Tarkovsky film start with <i>Stalker</i>, which is how my girlfriend (now wife of 27 years), introduced me to him many years ago. I was very much a Fellini person, and the Bergman-Tarkovsky school seemed cryptic (at best) at the time. When finished, ask yourself (1) if you would have gone into the room and (2) what the dreamlike sequences with Stalker’s son meant.<p>Second one should be <i>Solaris</i>, if you’re into SciFi or <i>The Mirror</i> if you’re not of if you’d like a challenge. I think <i>The Mirror</i> is the better movie, the woman (stand in for T’s mom) looking at the wheat field (T had these <i>specifically</i> planted for the film!) haunts me to this day.<p>I personally couldn’t relate to The Sacrifice, perhaps his most personal film. His earlier films (Ivan and Rublev) I could not watch at all.<p>To be a genius artist like him in the Soviet Union meant privileges unheard for art film directors in Europe (let alone US), eg see the wheat field thing above. It also meant you’re at the mercy of the “masses”. I had read an article once that included a comment for <i>The Mirror</i> from a regular filmgoer, saying after 30mins it caused such a headache! The funding was based on such feedback and the movie was labeled as elitist (it is) which greatly impacted his career. It’s infuriating to think T lost time due to such petty interference (OTOH, I could only finish the film on my third try, falling asleep in first two attempts! So she had a point)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tleilaxu</author><text>The Mirror is one of my favourite films but I always fall asleep 2-3 times while watching it!<p>I find it so relaxing that I’ve just learnt to enjoy the whole experience and enjoy the dozing as part of the experience of watching the film.</text></comment> |
6,161,130 | 6,160,618 | 1 | 2 | 6,160,337 | train | <story><title>Why I'll be a solo founder next time</title><url>http://dennybritz.com/blog/2013/08/05/why-i-will-be-a-solo-founder-next-time/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RyanZAG</author><text>Interesting points, but a lot of it is contradictory to the advice you hear from successful startups, so I&#x27;d take this with a grain of salt.<p><i>&quot;I believe that my previous two ventures failed mainly because of the founding team (which I’m included in). How do I know? Because companies with almost identical products and value propositions succeeded afterwards.</i>&quot;<p>I&#x27;m not sure if you&#x27;re drawing the correct lesson there. Sounds more like implementation issues. I&#x27;d recommend you spend some effort improving your ability to implement &#x2F; find people who can implement and then try again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>regal</author><text>I&#x27;ll chime in here and say that reading this article sounded exactly like reading about my own 3 previous (failed) partnerships.<p>My sole successful venture has been solo all along (not including employees), and has outlasted the rises and falls of the other businesses (during the amateur entrepreneur &quot;too many fingers in too many pies&quot; phase). I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;d do a partnership again. But maybe I just don&#x27;t play well with others?<p>Anyway, can&#x27;t speak for the OP, but when intelligent, ambitious friends around you see that you work your tail off and already have succeeded at building a profitable business from scratch, they suddenly get really excited about starting new businesses with you that often sound great. At least in my experience though, many of these people turn out to see themselves as &quot;the visionary&quot; who kinda sorta checks in from time to time and you as &quot;the worker,&quot; which, if that isn&#x27;t the role you&#x27;re interested in, causes things to unravel rather fast.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why I'll be a solo founder next time</title><url>http://dennybritz.com/blog/2013/08/05/why-i-will-be-a-solo-founder-next-time/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RyanZAG</author><text>Interesting points, but a lot of it is contradictory to the advice you hear from successful startups, so I&#x27;d take this with a grain of salt.<p><i>&quot;I believe that my previous two ventures failed mainly because of the founding team (which I’m included in). How do I know? Because companies with almost identical products and value propositions succeeded afterwards.</i>&quot;<p>I&#x27;m not sure if you&#x27;re drawing the correct lesson there. Sounds more like implementation issues. I&#x27;d recommend you spend some effort improving your ability to implement &#x2F; find people who can implement and then try again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dennybritz</author><text>You&#x27;re right, correlation doesn&#x27;t equal causation. However, in my specific case the implementation issues were came from issues in the team. In the end, implementation comes down to team.<p>(Hindsight is always 20&#x2F;20, but everything we did wrong had to do with marketing and building and audience)</text></comment> |
30,499,956 | 30,499,734 | 1 | 2 | 30,499,143 | train | <story><title>Panasonic to begin mass producing new 4680 Tesla battery by March 2024</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/panasonic-begin-mass-producing-new-tesla-battery-by-end-march-2022-02-28/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Gravityloss</author><text>This cylindrical form factor might make sense for batteries that have thermal runaway potential, to keep the unit size small so that the whole battery doesn&#x27;t go into thermal runaway, only one cell.<p>But for LFP or iron based batteries which don&#x27;t have such issues, the blade design should be cheaper, more maintainable, more space and weight efficient etc. There&#x27;s no glue so you can actually just switch individual blades. Cooling channels can be straight.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vardump</author><text>Isn&#x27;t cylindrical form factor simply easier and cheaper to manufacture? Decades of industry experience manufacturing a ton of cylindrical products.</text></comment> | <story><title>Panasonic to begin mass producing new 4680 Tesla battery by March 2024</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/panasonic-begin-mass-producing-new-tesla-battery-by-end-march-2022-02-28/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Gravityloss</author><text>This cylindrical form factor might make sense for batteries that have thermal runaway potential, to keep the unit size small so that the whole battery doesn&#x27;t go into thermal runaway, only one cell.<p>But for LFP or iron based batteries which don&#x27;t have such issues, the blade design should be cheaper, more maintainable, more space and weight efficient etc. There&#x27;s no glue so you can actually just switch individual blades. Cooling channels can be straight.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colejohnson66</author><text>Assuming this image I found online is of 4680s, there’s quite a bit of wasted space: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.teslarati.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2021&#x2F;01&#x2F;tesla-4680-battery-cells.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.teslarati.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2021&#x2F;01&#x2F;tesla-4...</a></text></comment> |
30,333,472 | 30,330,877 | 1 | 3 | 30,330,565 | train | <story><title>20 Years of .NET</title><url>https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Dave3of5</author><text>Well it has kept me employee for quite some time now so that&#x27;s something to celebrate.<p>The opposite side to that it I think every commercial .Net system I&#x27;ve ever worked with &#x2F; on has been an absolute mess. Not sure if it&#x27;s .Net or the companies but something there seems to attract devs to make ill performing, over abstracted, confusing, massive architecture systems that in reality could be simplified down to a bunch of data forms.<p>As I say I shouldn&#x27;t complain keeping these things running pays my bills.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>torginus</author><text>It makes me really sad to read things like this. .NET&#x2F;C# gives you the tools to write elegant, performant code in any domain, and really rewards high level of expertise, with stuff like advanced parallelism support, and optimizing things like memory layout with structs, really great native interop story, or the ability to write Source Generators&#x2F;Analyzers, so you can develop AST-parsing compiler plugins to do stuff like automated code generation&#x2F;analysis.<p>Imo it has a way higher skill ceiling, than something like, say NodeJS, which is supposedly part of the cool kids club.<p>I have literally had conversations with hardcore devs that had the &#x27;enterprise offshore-bait&#x27; perception of the language and were surprised when I showed them all the awesome stuff you can do with it.</text></comment> | <story><title>20 Years of .NET</title><url>https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Dave3of5</author><text>Well it has kept me employee for quite some time now so that&#x27;s something to celebrate.<p>The opposite side to that it I think every commercial .Net system I&#x27;ve ever worked with &#x2F; on has been an absolute mess. Not sure if it&#x27;s .Net or the companies but something there seems to attract devs to make ill performing, over abstracted, confusing, massive architecture systems that in reality could be simplified down to a bunch of data forms.<p>As I say I shouldn&#x27;t complain keeping these things running pays my bills.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hughrr</author><text>Same here. I&#x27;m sitting here debugging some 15 year old c# at the moment in the middle of a mega shit show.<p>I got paid. That&#x27;s all the good stuff I can say about it.</text></comment> |
22,530,666 | 22,529,646 | 1 | 3 | 22,526,589 | train | <story><title>“Just walk out” technology by Amazon</title><url>https://justwalkout.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>boublepop</author><text>Aaaand there’s the play. Amazon wasn’t trying to compete with other retails stores by leveraging their tech edge, they were positioning themselves to becoming the single provider of retail checkout solutions for the future. You either opt-in to giving Amazon all your retail data, or you become the only old fashioned “wait in line to get served” store on the street.<p>And where is the competition? Is there anyone at all who can provide something like this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>inkaudio</author><text>There are number of tech companies directly competing in this space:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;standard.ai&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;standard.ai&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;grabango.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;grabango.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.getzippin.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.getzippin.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.v7labs.com&#x2F;retail" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.v7labs.com&#x2F;retail</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.getzippin.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.getzippin.com&#x2F;</a><p>There are competitive options, if you’re in retail you do not have to give Amazon all your “retail data” or use their tech.</text></comment> | <story><title>“Just walk out” technology by Amazon</title><url>https://justwalkout.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>boublepop</author><text>Aaaand there’s the play. Amazon wasn’t trying to compete with other retails stores by leveraging their tech edge, they were positioning themselves to becoming the single provider of retail checkout solutions for the future. You either opt-in to giving Amazon all your retail data, or you become the only old fashioned “wait in line to get served” store on the street.<p>And where is the competition? Is there anyone at all who can provide something like this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>milofeynman</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting that they rolled this out as a thing, but didn&#x27;t start retrofitting all of their Whole Foods with it. Does it have problems with grocery stores? How does it handle fruits by weight, etc.</text></comment> |
22,447,465 | 22,447,416 | 1 | 2 | 22,447,083 | train | <story><title>Beware of criminals pretending to be WHO</title><url>https://www.who.int/about/communications/cyber-security</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hk__2</author><text>&gt; Make sure the link starts with &#x27;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.who.int&#x27;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.who.int&#x27;</a><p>This should include a trailing slash, otherwise something like &#x27;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.who.int.example.com&#x27;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.who.int.example.com&#x27;</a> qualifies as “starts with &#x27;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.who.int" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.who.int</a> &#x27;”.<p>Edit: strangely, if I try to edit my comment above to remove the space between .int and &#x27;, HN serves me a 502 Bad Gateway.</text></comment> | <story><title>Beware of criminals pretending to be WHO</title><url>https://www.who.int/about/communications/cyber-security</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ademars94</author><text>Don&#x27;t worry, we won&#x27;t be fooled again.</text></comment> |
35,685,389 | 35,685,236 | 1 | 3 | 35,684,432 | train | <story><title>Windows 11’s taskbar is finally getting labels and never combine app icons</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/20/23690960/microsoft-windows-11-taskbar-never-combine-app-icons-labels-features</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AstralStorm</author><text>Still no vertical taskbar. Horizontal is a waste of precious screen estate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Springtime</author><text>Vertical has always been much wider than the horizontal layout is tall, at least when using the small taskbar icons setting. However the third-party utility 7+ Taskbar Tweaker allows narrower vertical taskbars, which actually makes the vertical orientation ideal if placed on the left-hand side (the least interacted with edge of a desktop, ie: less likely to be accidentally interacted with).</text></comment> | <story><title>Windows 11’s taskbar is finally getting labels and never combine app icons</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/20/23690960/microsoft-windows-11-taskbar-never-combine-app-icons-labels-features</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AstralStorm</author><text>Still no vertical taskbar. Horizontal is a waste of precious screen estate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Semaphor</author><text>If you are willing to use a commercial (though cheap with $5) app, I use StartAllBack [0] for this.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.startallback.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.startallback.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
23,072,558 | 23,072,421 | 1 | 3 | 23,071,190 | train | <story><title>Hacker Bribed 'Roblox' Insider to Access User Data</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qj4ddw/hacker-bribed-roblox-insider-accessed-user-data-reset-passwords</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>UI_at_80x24</author><text>The real takeaway from this:<p>Do your threat models include your staff?
Of course, nobody has admin access.<p>Do your threat models include your staff accessing restricted information that they need to access?
How do you stop somebody from doing their job?<p>IME this is a great interview question to ask potential employers. The rabbit hole that you are required to go down will open eyes.<p>The answer is: you can&#x27;t.
But how you mitigate damage (with data silos) and engage in disaster recovery after the fact puts you in excellent condition to weather any storm.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kbenson</author><text>&gt; IME this is a great interview question to ask potential employers.<p>That also sounds like an easy way to immediately exclude yourself and cut the interview short. It&#x27;s sort of like interviewing someone for a security position, and them asking &quot;by the way, what brand of locks and safes do you use, and what&#x27;s your alarm company and specs?&quot; It&#x27;s not hard to see how it could be taken the wrong way, and giving information about internal security procedures (even generalities) to someone not contractually obligated to the company in some way doesn&#x27;t seem a good idea to me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hacker Bribed 'Roblox' Insider to Access User Data</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qj4ddw/hacker-bribed-roblox-insider-accessed-user-data-reset-passwords</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>UI_at_80x24</author><text>The real takeaway from this:<p>Do your threat models include your staff?
Of course, nobody has admin access.<p>Do your threat models include your staff accessing restricted information that they need to access?
How do you stop somebody from doing their job?<p>IME this is a great interview question to ask potential employers. The rabbit hole that you are required to go down will open eyes.<p>The answer is: you can&#x27;t.
But how you mitigate damage (with data silos) and engage in disaster recovery after the fact puts you in excellent condition to weather any storm.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>munchbunny</author><text><i>Do your threat models include your staff accessing restricted information that they need to access? How do you stop somebody from doing their job?</i><p>That&#x27;s precisely the hard question, but I think you can reframe that question: &quot;How can you tell when somebody is accessing data that isn&#x27;t necessary to do their job, in a given specific case?&quot;<p>For example, could you correlate access logs to support tickets to make sure a support agent was only accessing sensitive data corresponding to the customer whose ticket they were working on? Could you do that in a mostly transparent way? What if the customer has to explicitly grant access before the agent can open the account for investigation? (None of these ideas are silver bullets, they&#x27;re all situational possibilities.)<p>I don&#x27;t think there are any easy answers, but I do think there&#x27;s some granularity to how hard any given company finds it reasonable to try to guard against this issue at a behavioral level.</text></comment> |
24,341,280 | 24,341,198 | 1 | 3 | 24,339,860 | train | <story><title>Why we are suing the Administration</title><url>https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/tiktok-files-lawsuit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ArchD</author><text>Are you saying that CPC gets to ban Google, Facebook, Twitter &amp; a ton of other non-Chinese online companies but the US government does not get to ban Chinese online companies, even in the name of fairness both in terms of trade and information flow? Chinese companies have to obey the CPC&#x27;s orders that infringe users&#x27; privacy. Whether or not it is right for a country&#x27;s government to spy on its citizens, the current arrangement is assymetric.<p>If TikTok were made in India, then you would have a good point.</text></item><item><author>badRNG</author><text>Regardless of what you think about TikTok, the banning of an app in the interest of &quot;national security&quot; is largely unprecedented.<p>The jump from banning Huawei from building critical public infrastructure to banning an app that hasn&#x27;t even conclusively been proven to behave in any uniquely dangerous ways seems to be an intense, unjustified escalation of this conflict. [1]<p>You may disagree with me on the strict security-related merits of banning TikTok, and I am willing to concede all of them, however this will, either way, establish a precedent of an app&#x27;s coverage by 1st amendment free speech protections, and of what standards the government needs to do to ban an app, whether it be a Chinese social media app or an end-to-end encrypted messaging app. [2]<p>If the standard is simply to claim that it&#x27;s &quot;a national security threat&quot; without requiring any further evidence (besides the fact that it&#x27;s Chinese) then that might be cause for concern.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@fs0c131y&#x2F;tiktok-logs-logs-logs-e93e8162647a" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@fs0c131y&#x2F;tiktok-logs-logs-logs-e93e81626...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2020&#x2F;08&#x2F;tiktok-ban-seed-genuine-security-concern-wrapped-thick-layer-censorship" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2020&#x2F;08&#x2F;tiktok-ban-seed-genuin...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>badRNG</author><text>&gt;Are you saying that CPC gets to ban Google, Facebook, Twitter &amp; a ton of other non-Chinese online companies but the US government does not get to ban Chinese online companies, even in the name of fairness both in terms of trade and information flow?<p>Yes I am.<p>My concerns center the precedent of banning software. If banning software to further the interests of national security is established as a precedent, it is reasonable to assume this will be weaponized against end-to-end encrypted messaging apps like Signal. This would erode a strong, hard fought for precedent that code is speech. The <i>Bernstein v. Department of Justice</i> decision ended Export Control of encryption on the basis of <i>software as speech.</i> [1] Courts affirmed this right again in a ruling against a California law banning the sale of violent video games to minors, as it infringed on the speech of video game companies. [2]<p>Since you brought up China&#x27;s policies, they also happen to ban end-to-end encrypted apps as there is a strong precedent for doing so in the interests of national security. [3] These simply aren&#x27;t policies worth emulating.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;press&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2008&#x2F;04&#x2F;21-40" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;press&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2008&#x2F;04&#x2F;21-40</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.law.cornell.edu&#x2F;supct&#x2F;html&#x2F;08-1448.ZS.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.law.cornell.edu&#x2F;supct&#x2F;html&#x2F;08-1448.ZS.html</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;09&#x2F;25&#x2F;business&#x2F;china-whatsapp-blocked.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;09&#x2F;25&#x2F;business&#x2F;china-whatsapp-b...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Why we are suing the Administration</title><url>https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/tiktok-files-lawsuit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ArchD</author><text>Are you saying that CPC gets to ban Google, Facebook, Twitter &amp; a ton of other non-Chinese online companies but the US government does not get to ban Chinese online companies, even in the name of fairness both in terms of trade and information flow? Chinese companies have to obey the CPC&#x27;s orders that infringe users&#x27; privacy. Whether or not it is right for a country&#x27;s government to spy on its citizens, the current arrangement is assymetric.<p>If TikTok were made in India, then you would have a good point.</text></item><item><author>badRNG</author><text>Regardless of what you think about TikTok, the banning of an app in the interest of &quot;national security&quot; is largely unprecedented.<p>The jump from banning Huawei from building critical public infrastructure to banning an app that hasn&#x27;t even conclusively been proven to behave in any uniquely dangerous ways seems to be an intense, unjustified escalation of this conflict. [1]<p>You may disagree with me on the strict security-related merits of banning TikTok, and I am willing to concede all of them, however this will, either way, establish a precedent of an app&#x27;s coverage by 1st amendment free speech protections, and of what standards the government needs to do to ban an app, whether it be a Chinese social media app or an end-to-end encrypted messaging app. [2]<p>If the standard is simply to claim that it&#x27;s &quot;a national security threat&quot; without requiring any further evidence (besides the fact that it&#x27;s Chinese) then that might be cause for concern.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@fs0c131y&#x2F;tiktok-logs-logs-logs-e93e8162647a" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@fs0c131y&#x2F;tiktok-logs-logs-logs-e93e81626...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2020&#x2F;08&#x2F;tiktok-ban-seed-genuine-security-concern-wrapped-thick-layer-censorship" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2020&#x2F;08&#x2F;tiktok-ban-seed-genuin...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DiogenesKynikos</author><text>Are you saying that China gets to ban free speech but the US doesn&#x27;t?<p>The US has the 1st Amendment. China doesn&#x27;t (but should).<p>If we&#x27;re just talking about investment, then things are not as asymmetric as you claim. Chinese investment in the US has historically been tiny compared to US investment in China. That only began to change a few years ago, as China began to invest abroad, but the US&#x27; protectionist policies have now essentially ended Chinese investment in the US.</text></comment> |
23,766,427 | 23,766,558 | 1 | 3 | 23,761,058 | train | <story><title>Sweden: higher Covid-19 death rate while failing to collect on economic gains</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/business/sweden-economy-coronavirus.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bbarnett</author><text>Will you force them with a gun? To forgo all friends, family, comforts of home, and be literally trapped at work for months?<p>Money doesn&#x27;t just buy people.<p>You&#x27;d essentially be drafting them.</text></item><item><author>dvdplm</author><text>This is exactly what needed to be done, in Sweden and elsewhere. Pay staff triple and have them stay with the old folks and get everything delivered by externals with as little contact as possible. And no new admissions into the care homes.</text></item><item><author>vondur</author><text>I believe there was one place in France where the care workers moved into the facilities and then the movement of people and items into it were strictly controlled. I believe no one died from Covid-19 at the facility.</text></item><item><author>usrusr</author><text>How do you completely lock down a care home? It&#x27;s a labor-intensive industry and you can&#x27;t just put care on hold for a few weeks like you could with an assembly line. The only way to keep a virus like this away from care homes is to keep it away from friends and families of caretakers and from their friends and families. You can&#x27;t focus prevention when you are dealing with presymptomatic spread.</text></item><item><author>frereubu</author><text>One thing missing from this report is that a large proportion of the deaths were in care homes, and ministers have publicly stated that not entirely locking down care homes from the outset was a big mistake. If they had done this, the figures may well not look nearly as bad.<p>Also, what will count is not the first few months but the entire lifetime of this pandemic. I&#x27;ll be interested to see where countries are a year or two from now.<p>This isn&#x27;t to say I support the Swedish government&#x27;s strategy - I don&#x27;t feel like I know enough to say what the best strategy is, although I do think that that the worst strategy is to have no strategy, seemingly like the USA and UK.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nmfisher</author><text>&gt; Will you force them with a gun? To forgo all friends, family, comforts of home, and be literally trapped at work for months?<p>Seems far more reasonable than locking down <i>entire countries for months</i>, asking people to forego friends and family (without even mentioning the consequent unemployment).<p>You wouldn&#x27;t need to force anyone with a gun. A five-fold increase in wages - untaxed - would be more than enough incentive. The cost would be a drop in the ocean compared to the damage wrought by the measures adopted so far.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sweden: higher Covid-19 death rate while failing to collect on economic gains</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/business/sweden-economy-coronavirus.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bbarnett</author><text>Will you force them with a gun? To forgo all friends, family, comforts of home, and be literally trapped at work for months?<p>Money doesn&#x27;t just buy people.<p>You&#x27;d essentially be drafting them.</text></item><item><author>dvdplm</author><text>This is exactly what needed to be done, in Sweden and elsewhere. Pay staff triple and have them stay with the old folks and get everything delivered by externals with as little contact as possible. And no new admissions into the care homes.</text></item><item><author>vondur</author><text>I believe there was one place in France where the care workers moved into the facilities and then the movement of people and items into it were strictly controlled. I believe no one died from Covid-19 at the facility.</text></item><item><author>usrusr</author><text>How do you completely lock down a care home? It&#x27;s a labor-intensive industry and you can&#x27;t just put care on hold for a few weeks like you could with an assembly line. The only way to keep a virus like this away from care homes is to keep it away from friends and families of caretakers and from their friends and families. You can&#x27;t focus prevention when you are dealing with presymptomatic spread.</text></item><item><author>frereubu</author><text>One thing missing from this report is that a large proportion of the deaths were in care homes, and ministers have publicly stated that not entirely locking down care homes from the outset was a big mistake. If they had done this, the figures may well not look nearly as bad.<p>Also, what will count is not the first few months but the entire lifetime of this pandemic. I&#x27;ll be interested to see where countries are a year or two from now.<p>This isn&#x27;t to say I support the Swedish government&#x27;s strategy - I don&#x27;t feel like I know enough to say what the best strategy is, although I do think that that the worst strategy is to have no strategy, seemingly like the USA and UK.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jessaustin</author><text>GP said &quot;pay staff triple&quot;. For 70% of nursing home workers in USA, that would be enough to get it done. The other 30% aren&#x27;t rich enough to ignore tripled income, but rather they have family situations that would make it impossible. It&#x27;s a pipe dream anyway, since our Congress is only capable of giving public money to rich people.</text></comment> |
27,013,521 | 26,932,189 | 1 | 2 | 26,929,588 | train | <story><title>Show HN: hackernews_tui – A Terminal UI to browse Hacker News discussions</title><url>https://github.com/aome510/hackernews-TUI</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hliyan</author><text>What I really want is a reader view on the terminal -- something that cuts out all layout, formatting and images and shows me the raw article text in a fixed with font. Ditto for comments. I&#x27;ve already tried the &quot;hn&quot; [1] command line tool, but it doesn&#x27;t strip out navigation menus, heads and footers from articles. It&#x27;s also a bit slow.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;donnemartin&#x2F;haxor-news" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;donnemartin&#x2F;haxor-news</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aome510</author><text>&gt; something that cuts out all layout, formatting and images and shows me the raw article text in a fixed with font.<p>FYI, I have implemented a reader view for `hackernews_tui v0.6.0` [0] which seems to satisfy most of the conditions above. Judging from my experience, this reader view works quite well and can cover many use cases.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;aome510&#x2F;hackernews-TUI&#x2F;releases&#x2F;tag&#x2F;v0.6.0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;aome510&#x2F;hackernews-TUI&#x2F;releases&#x2F;tag&#x2F;v0.6....</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: hackernews_tui – A Terminal UI to browse Hacker News discussions</title><url>https://github.com/aome510/hackernews-TUI</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hliyan</author><text>What I really want is a reader view on the terminal -- something that cuts out all layout, formatting and images and shows me the raw article text in a fixed with font. Ditto for comments. I&#x27;ve already tried the &quot;hn&quot; [1] command line tool, but it doesn&#x27;t strip out navigation menus, heads and footers from articles. It&#x27;s also a bit slow.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;donnemartin&#x2F;haxor-news" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;donnemartin&#x2F;haxor-news</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xianx</author><text>I use Newsboat and newspaper3k for that, works pretty well.<p>Example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hund.tty1.se&#x2F;2020&#x2F;07&#x2F;29&#x2F;an-introduction-to-the-web-feed-client-newsboat.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hund.tty1.se&#x2F;2020&#x2F;07&#x2F;29&#x2F;an-introduction-to-the-web-f...</a><p>You can add the HN feed with hnrss: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hnrss.github.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hnrss.github.io&#x2F;</a><p>Maybe not the best solution, but I&#x27;ve been using it for a couple of weeks and it works.</text></comment> |
19,947,282 | 19,946,828 | 1 | 2 | 19,946,664 | train | <story><title>Birds are being vacuumed up as part of olive harvesting in the Mediterranean</title><url>https://www.birdguides.com/news/millions-of-birds-vacuumed-to-death-annually-in-mediterranean/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chicob</author><text>I&#x27;m an olive producer in Portugal.<p>I suspect the main reason behind the need for harvesting at night is that the demand exceeds the supply for super high density harvesting service, and contractors harvest day and night in order to face the demand.<p>As soon as there are enough providers, working extra hours will become less interesting and this kind of practice will go away. This kind of harvesting is a lot quicker than previous practices, so harvesting during the day will be more than enough.<p>Harvesting is done usually in the winter (ranging from November to January) so only non-migratory birds are afected, and even then only those nesting in super high density orchards.<p>The harvesters are quite expensive, and usually only larger producers own them. This kind of investment is tricky, because for the most part of the year there is nothing to harvest (although there are some other crops where the harvesters are being tried in order to recover the investment more quickly).<p>Of course no farmer wants to needlessly kill harmless birds, but I will wait for more data, since there has been some hype regarding super high density orchards in the past months, usually portraying them as something horrible and bad to the environment.<p>By the way, birds to not get into the oil presses, because olives pass through a mesh in order to remove branches and leaves. Then they&#x27;re washed, so there is no risk of contamination with dead birds.<p>I also suspect the decline of bird populations in the south has something to do with the big fires of past years, that forced northern predatory birds to come searching for food at lower latitudes. I have never seen so many eagles like this year.<p>Or the other side, the Eurasian magpie populations seem to be doing fine, as well as the once endangered storks.<p>Edit to add: the research cited in the article is not research but an information notice by the Environment Council of the government of Andalucia.</text></comment> | <story><title>Birds are being vacuumed up as part of olive harvesting in the Mediterranean</title><url>https://www.birdguides.com/news/millions-of-birds-vacuumed-to-death-annually-in-mediterranean/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ak39</author><text>This article and the pics of the dead birds broke my heart. :-(<p>I can’t understand any human not pausing to think twice and to find alternatives when faced with such horrendous death of innocent creatures. Yeah it’s cheap and efficient but it kills millions of birds. Find another way! I don’t want your fancy olives if you don’t care about what you’re doing to the birds.</text></comment> |
22,598,588 | 22,596,235 | 1 | 2 | 22,590,686 | train | <story><title>Mishap during experiment led quantum researchers to crack a 58-year-old puzzle</title><url>https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/engineers-crack-58-year-old-puzzle-way-quantum-breakthrough</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nitrogen</author><text>The whole article is worth reading, but my favorite part is the fact that the &quot;mishap&quot; mentioned in the title was inadvertently overloading a magnetic antenna, causing it to break and by coincidence become an electric antenna.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mishap during experiment led quantum researchers to crack a 58-year-old puzzle</title><url>https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/engineers-crack-58-year-old-puzzle-way-quantum-breakthrough</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>infogulch</author><text>This is pretty interesting, if it is truly tiny and simple enough to reproduce, what impact does it have on quantum computing devices? This example is designed for a single atom, so not applicable for multi-qbit computations, but it seems to break open the floodgates for new research into using electric fields to directly interact with quantum systems cheaply, which sounds potentially huge in my layman opinion.</text></comment> |
40,815,198 | 40,813,427 | 1 | 3 | 40,798,740 | train | <story><title>gRPC: The Bad Parts</title><url>https://kmcd.dev/posts/grpc-the-bad-parts/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bunderbunder</author><text>All good points. But I&#x27;d argue that the single worst part of gRPC is the impenetrability of its ecosystem. And I think that, in turn, is born of complexity. The thing is so packed with features and behaviors and temporal coupling and whatnot that it&#x27;s difficult to produce a compatible third-party implementation. That means that, in effect, the only true gRPC implementation is the one that Google maintains. Which, in turn, means that the only languages with good enough gRPC support to allow betting your business on it are the ones that Google supports.<p>And a lot of these features arguably have a poor cost&#x2F;benefit tradeoff for anyone who isn&#x27;t trying to solve Google problems. Or they introduce painful constraints such as not being consumable from client-side code in the browser.<p>I keep wishing for an alternative project that only specifies a simpler, more compatible, easier-to-grok subset of gRPC&#x27;s feature set. There&#x27;s almost zero overlap between the features that I love about gRPC, and the features that make it difficult to advocate for adopting it at work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jakjak123</author><text>As someone in a very small company, no affiliation with any Google employees, gRPC and protobuf has been a godsend in many, many ways. My only complaint is that protoc is cumbersome af to use, and that is almost solved by buf.build. Except for our most used language, Java.<p>Protobufs has allowed us to version, build and deliver native language bindings for a multitude of languages and platforms in a tiny team for years now, without a single fault. We have the power to refactor and design our platform and apis in a way that we never had before. We love it.</text></comment> | <story><title>gRPC: The Bad Parts</title><url>https://kmcd.dev/posts/grpc-the-bad-parts/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bunderbunder</author><text>All good points. But I&#x27;d argue that the single worst part of gRPC is the impenetrability of its ecosystem. And I think that, in turn, is born of complexity. The thing is so packed with features and behaviors and temporal coupling and whatnot that it&#x27;s difficult to produce a compatible third-party implementation. That means that, in effect, the only true gRPC implementation is the one that Google maintains. Which, in turn, means that the only languages with good enough gRPC support to allow betting your business on it are the ones that Google supports.<p>And a lot of these features arguably have a poor cost&#x2F;benefit tradeoff for anyone who isn&#x27;t trying to solve Google problems. Or they introduce painful constraints such as not being consumable from client-side code in the browser.<p>I keep wishing for an alternative project that only specifies a simpler, more compatible, easier-to-grok subset of gRPC&#x27;s feature set. There&#x27;s almost zero overlap between the features that I love about gRPC, and the features that make it difficult to advocate for adopting it at work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PaulHoule</author><text>People complain about any system which is more complex and performant than plain ordinary JSON. Remember how Microsoft pushed &quot;Web Services&quot; and introduced AJAX where the last letter was supposed to be XML?<p>Microsoft could make the case that many many features in Web Services were essential to making them work but people figured out you could just exchange JSON documents in a half-baked way and... it works.</text></comment> |
5,789,844 | 5,789,882 | 1 | 2 | 5,789,396 | train | <story><title>EFF Makes Formal Objection to DRM in HTML5</title><url>https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-makes-formal-objection-drm-html5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alipang</author><text>DRM allows you to volontarily give up whatever control of your machine you're talking about.<p>As painful as it is, one part of living in a capitalist society is to exercise your right/power as a consumer. Don't like it? Don't use it.<p>To me, DRM is not something that infringes on your freedom, though I'm very glad we have the EFF when they spend their time combatting things like surveillance, that are not opt-in.</text></item><item><author>duncan_bayne</author><text>I've made this point already on the W3C CEO's blog, but it bears repeating here:<p>DRM removes control of certain aspects of a device that I own, and places it in the hands of another. It does so in a manner that could not be less trustworthy: most DRM solutions are proprietary, closed-source applications.<p>This means that I can't rely on others to audit it for me (as with FOSS) and I can't audit it myself.<p>Some DRM implementations in the past have been so aggressive in their usurpation of control that they have qualified as malware; the Sony rootkit is a particularly egregious example of this.<p>DRM actively reduces the trustworthiness and security of all machines on which it is installed. It has to by design: its stated purpose is to restrict the capabilities of a general purpose computer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>duncan_bayne</author><text>&#62; As painful as it is, one part of living in a capitalist<p>&#62; society is to exercise your right/power as a consumer.<p>&#62; Don't like it? Don't use it.<p>I agree, but there's more to it than that. From the W3C site:<p>"The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community that develops open standards to ensure the long-term growth of the Web."<p>... and ...<p>"One of W3C's primary goals is to make these benefits available to all people, whatever their hardware, software, network infrastructure, native language, culture, geographical location, or physical or mental ability."<p>Therefore it's perfectly reasonable, in the context of a capitalist society, to lobby the W3C to refuse the addition of EME. It is inimical to their own stated goals (there are other conflicts too; see <a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/mission.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.w3.org/Consortium/mission.html</a> for details).<p>To be clear, I'm not arguing for the initiation of force. Companies should be free to build their own DRM systems, and others to use or not use them as they choose.<p>But the W3C should have no part of that, and the HTML5 standard should not be crippled by the inclusion of DRM.<p>Another angle to consider is our cultural heritage. More and more of that is moving to the Web; if we tie it up with DRM, bitrot will mean that in a generation or two most of it will be inaccessible.</text></comment> | <story><title>EFF Makes Formal Objection to DRM in HTML5</title><url>https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-makes-formal-objection-drm-html5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alipang</author><text>DRM allows you to volontarily give up whatever control of your machine you're talking about.<p>As painful as it is, one part of living in a capitalist society is to exercise your right/power as a consumer. Don't like it? Don't use it.<p>To me, DRM is not something that infringes on your freedom, though I'm very glad we have the EFF when they spend their time combatting things like surveillance, that are not opt-in.</text></item><item><author>duncan_bayne</author><text>I've made this point already on the W3C CEO's blog, but it bears repeating here:<p>DRM removes control of certain aspects of a device that I own, and places it in the hands of another. It does so in a manner that could not be less trustworthy: most DRM solutions are proprietary, closed-source applications.<p>This means that I can't rely on others to audit it for me (as with FOSS) and I can't audit it myself.<p>Some DRM implementations in the past have been so aggressive in their usurpation of control that they have qualified as malware; the Sony rootkit is a particularly egregious example of this.<p>DRM actively reduces the trustworthiness and security of all machines on which it is installed. It has to by design: its stated purpose is to restrict the capabilities of a general purpose computer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>duncan_bayne</author><text>&#62; I don't see how DRM is incompatible with their goals.<p>From my post on their blog (I'd link there, but their anchors are broken):<p>DRM is software that is designed to restrict a user from playing content on certain devices, in certain ways, and in certain locations. I think that is the very definition of a walled garden. I genuinely do not understand how you believe that supporting DRM will elminate walled gardens.<p>In the best case we will have moved from an ad-hoc collection of walled gardens, to an ad-hoc collection of walled gardens with the support and moral endorsement of the W3C.<p>If your concern is genuinely to eliminate the need for apps, and the enclosue of content in walled gardens, why not use your considerable influence in opposition of DRM altogether?<p>"Frankly, I don't understand the question about insisting that compliant implementation respect geographic location. As a general rule, we don't provide conformance testing and have no way of insisting what people implement."<p>That was my point :). The W3Cs mission states that:<p>"One of W3C's primary goals is to make these benefits available to all people, whatever their hardware, software, network infrastructure, native language, culture, geographical location, or physical or mental ability."<p>Breaking down that list, we see that DRM is inimical to several goals:<p>* hardware: DRM implementations are known for being hardware-locked; Netflix is the most prominent recent example, re. the ARM-based Chromebook<p>* software: existing DRM implementations are tied to specific browsers and operating systems<p>* geographical location: many (most?) DRM implementations implement geographical segregation (a.k.a. region encoding)<p>That is, by lending support to DRM, the W3C is helping to ensure that at least some web content is restricted by hardware, software, and geopgraphical location. This is in direct opposition to several of your stated goals.</text></comment> |
25,434,039 | 25,433,663 | 1 | 3 | 25,432,540 | train | <story><title>Record Breaking Number of Journalists Arrested in the U.S. This Year</title><url>https://freedom.press/news/2020-report-journalists-arrested-us/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>indigochill</author><text>One line from the report jumped out at me as I was skimming it:<p>&gt; About half the journalists here are freelancers, who may lack the institutional support of a newsroom and the financial resources for a potentially expensive legal defense.<p>I hadn&#x27;t really thought of the value of legal defense from journalism institutions (as opposed to non-institutional platforms like Substack) before.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>riazrizvi</author><text>Isn&#x27;t it common knowledge that Gawker was a media company that irreverently covered silicon valley until it was bankrupted through litigation? The law courts are the main way that journalism is attacked in non-autocratic countries. Strong freedom of the press laws are celebrated, because they are constantly under siege by powerful people, who once targeted, would rather not have them.</text></comment> | <story><title>Record Breaking Number of Journalists Arrested in the U.S. This Year</title><url>https://freedom.press/news/2020-report-journalists-arrested-us/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>indigochill</author><text>One line from the report jumped out at me as I was skimming it:<p>&gt; About half the journalists here are freelancers, who may lack the institutional support of a newsroom and the financial resources for a potentially expensive legal defense.<p>I hadn&#x27;t really thought of the value of legal defense from journalism institutions (as opposed to non-institutional platforms like Substack) before.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>i_haz_rabies</author><text>We will look back on the ruination of journalism as a profession as one of the most consequential changes of these last two decades.</text></comment> |
32,143,339 | 32,141,499 | 1 | 3 | 32,141,358 | train | <story><title>Tell HN: Internet Archive is facing a Big 4 Publishers lawsuit</title><text>Not sure why this isn&#x27;t more prominently highlighted, but this is a very culturally significant project and a custodian of a tremendous amount of Internet and WWW-oriented history. I would imagine HN would put this at the forefront of the discussions happening here.<p>I&#x27;m not affiliated, but I am a concerned netizen. All of us here have benefited from The IA. Please help raise awareness as to what is happening.<p>Read more here, and elsewhere - https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsws.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2022&#x2F;07&#x2F;14&#x2F;cucd-j14.html<p>&gt; In June 2020, four major publishers—John Wiley &amp; Sons and three of the big five US publishers, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins and Penguin Random House—filed a lawsuit against the Internet Archive, claiming the non-profit organization, “is engaged in willful mass copyright infringement.”<p>&gt; The lawsuit stems from the corporate publishers response to an innovative temporary initiative launched by the Internet Archive during the first months of the coronavirus pandemic called the National Emergency Library. Given the impact of the public health emergency, the Internet Archive decided to ease its book lending restrictions and allow multiple people to check out the same digital copy of a book at once.<p>&gt; Up to that point, the Internet Archive had established a practice of purchasing copies of printed books, digitizing them and lending them to borrowers one at a time. When it kicked-off the emergency lending program, the Internet Archive made it clear that this policy would be in effect until the end of the pandemic. Furthermore, the archive’s publishers said that this program was in response to library doors being closed to the public during the pandemic. Under conditions where the Internet Archive was the only means of access to titles for many people, the policy was justified and a creative response to COVID-19.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gojomo</author><text>Some people here say they like the Internet Archive, and resent copyright maximalism, but wish IA would be more legally conservative around copyright law: &quot;follow the law!&quot; &quot;ask permission!&quot; &quot;work through other libraries!&quot;<p>They may not understand that none of what they like about the Internet Archive would&#x27;ve been possible without a bold willingness to probe the boundaries of copyright law.<p>If you&#x27;d asked any mainstream copyright law authority in the 1990s, they&#x27;d have likely said the entire Wayback Machine was illegal under the letter-of-the-law, and advised against even trying it. &quot;Reckless!&quot;<p>Only by IA actually doing it – &amp; demonstrating the indispensibility of such a historical record to academics, policymakers, culture, &amp; the courts – were people&#x27;s mental models gradually upgraded. Now, even with little change to statutory law, most see that the <i>best</i> interpretation of the various traditional categories, exceptions, &amp; affordances of copyright law is the one that finds legal space for a Wayback Machine.<p>Bulk-scanning books-still-in-copyright, even for private preservation&#x2F;use? Was legally iffy when Google &amp; IA started doing it; now better recognized as legitimate.<p>Accepting user&#x2F;collector uploads of live concerts? Storing, serving, &amp; providing emulated environments for old still-in-copyright retail PC&#x2F;game&#x2F;arcade software? Bulk-archiving &amp; replaying TV news broadcasts? All iffy when IA started doing them, becoming accepted as reasonable over time by the demonstration-of-utility.<p>An Internet Archive that waited for legal clarity before starting such projects would still be waiting today – and we&#x27;d have neither the valuable projects, nor the accumulated experience&#x2F;clarity, from the actual doing, about what is reasonable &amp; beneficial.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tell HN: Internet Archive is facing a Big 4 Publishers lawsuit</title><text>Not sure why this isn&#x27;t more prominently highlighted, but this is a very culturally significant project and a custodian of a tremendous amount of Internet and WWW-oriented history. I would imagine HN would put this at the forefront of the discussions happening here.<p>I&#x27;m not affiliated, but I am a concerned netizen. All of us here have benefited from The IA. Please help raise awareness as to what is happening.<p>Read more here, and elsewhere - https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsws.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2022&#x2F;07&#x2F;14&#x2F;cucd-j14.html<p>&gt; In June 2020, four major publishers—John Wiley &amp; Sons and three of the big five US publishers, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins and Penguin Random House—filed a lawsuit against the Internet Archive, claiming the non-profit organization, “is engaged in willful mass copyright infringement.”<p>&gt; The lawsuit stems from the corporate publishers response to an innovative temporary initiative launched by the Internet Archive during the first months of the coronavirus pandemic called the National Emergency Library. Given the impact of the public health emergency, the Internet Archive decided to ease its book lending restrictions and allow multiple people to check out the same digital copy of a book at once.<p>&gt; Up to that point, the Internet Archive had established a practice of purchasing copies of printed books, digitizing them and lending them to borrowers one at a time. When it kicked-off the emergency lending program, the Internet Archive made it clear that this policy would be in effect until the end of the pandemic. Furthermore, the archive’s publishers said that this program was in response to library doors being closed to the public during the pandemic. Under conditions where the Internet Archive was the only means of access to titles for many people, the policy was justified and a creative response to COVID-19.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>capableweb</author><text>I love the Internet Archive and frequently donate to them (2 times so far this year).<p>What I&#x27;d love to see improved is the ability to be less &quot;fragile&quot;. Currently it&#x27;s all located in the US and they have a huge focus on the US, both technically and politically.<p>But why not try to replicate it all over the world? There seems to have been some smaller efforts inside the Internet Archive to make it more decentralized, but it feels like it should be a much bigger focus on it.</text></comment> |
33,547,749 | 33,547,456 | 1 | 2 | 33,546,852 | train | <story><title>Oxford University Press’s new logo is unfathomably bad</title><url>https://joukovsky.substack.com/p/oxford-university-presss-new-logo</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>frakt0x90</author><text>Who cares? It says Oxford University Press which is the important part. The little image above it is just fluff and literally doesn&#x27;t matter. I certainly wouldn&#x27;t call it &#x27;unfathomably bad&#x27; considering it&#x27;s not a child&#x27;s drawing or a some obscene gesture.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tablespoon</author><text>&gt; Who cares? It says Oxford University Press which is the important part. The little image above it is just fluff and literally doesn&#x27;t matter. I certainly wouldn&#x27;t call it &#x27;unfathomably bad&#x27; considering it&#x27;s not a child&#x27;s drawing or a some obscene gesture.<p>It&#x27;s modernist, minimalist crap, indistinguishable from all the other modernist, minimalist crap. Everyone might as well rebrand as solid-color circle distinguished by a numerically unique RGB value.<p>Their old logo was much better, since it harkens back to a literal coat of arms, which isn&#x27;t something you see every day.</text></comment> | <story><title>Oxford University Press’s new logo is unfathomably bad</title><url>https://joukovsky.substack.com/p/oxford-university-presss-new-logo</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>frakt0x90</author><text>Who cares? It says Oxford University Press which is the important part. The little image above it is just fluff and literally doesn&#x27;t matter. I certainly wouldn&#x27;t call it &#x27;unfathomably bad&#x27; considering it&#x27;s not a child&#x27;s drawing or a some obscene gesture.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hackeraccount</author><text>It&#x27;s probably good for a few seconds of confusion on the part of people who see the logo and don&#x27;t recognize it because it looks like a zillion other logos and has no continuity with the old logo.<p>So no big deal.<p>Although. There is Steve Jobs line. Where&#x27;s he&#x27;s trying to get engineers on the original Mac to eek out just a slight faster boot. We&#x27;re going to sell 100 million of these things, can you make it boot 25 seconds faster? If you do that will save cumulatively 90 years worth of time. That&#x27;s a human life. Can you save a human life!<p>I mean it&#x27;s dumb and maybe funny but a minor annoyance over a long enough time and enough people could be worth complaining about.</text></comment> |
32,237,164 | 32,237,086 | 1 | 2 | 32,236,965 | train | <story><title>Denmark bans Gmail and Co from schools due to privacy concerns</title><url>https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/denmark-bans-google-email-and-cloud-services-due-to-privacy-concerns/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dx034</author><text>I&#x27;d have to disagree here. Teaching kids how to use Word and Excel will help them for the majority of office jobs out there.</text></item><item><author>wiz21c</author><text>Now let&#x27;s ban MSFT Office365 too. It&#x27;s of zero use to teach whatever to the kids.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lrvick</author><text>Should we teach kids to use TikTok and Facebook so they will be better prepared to help with future office marketing tasks too?<p>This line of thinking is poison and will only amplify the monopolisic power of whatever select companies make the taught-in-schools list.<p>Proprietary technology has no place in educational institutions.</text></comment> | <story><title>Denmark bans Gmail and Co from schools due to privacy concerns</title><url>https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/denmark-bans-google-email-and-cloud-services-due-to-privacy-concerns/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dx034</author><text>I&#x27;d have to disagree here. Teaching kids how to use Word and Excel will help them for the majority of office jobs out there.</text></item><item><author>wiz21c</author><text>Now let&#x27;s ban MSFT Office365 too. It&#x27;s of zero use to teach whatever to the kids.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rgrieselhuber</author><text>Plenty of open source options that will teach them 90% of what most people will need to know. Taxpayer money should not be going to these corporations.</text></comment> |
14,833,290 | 14,833,102 | 1 | 3 | 14,831,918 | train | <story><title>Why Are Coding Bootcamps Going Out of Business?</title><url>http://hackeducation.com/2017/07/22/bootcamp-bust</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>austenallred</author><text>There are so many things wrong with this that I don&#x27;t know where to start.<p>First, to say there&#x27;s no skills gap is insanity. I refuse to believe anyone in the industry actually believes that - even the worst bootcamps are placing folks, they just place folks that are not well prepared and shift the burden of training to the company. I&#x27;m constantly blown away that some of those people get jobs, and they somehow keep them, as the companies just start training from almost scratch. That really sucks, and a lot of companies are (rightly) wary of that, and a lot of companies throw bootcamp resumes straight in the trash can, but there are enough that won&#x27;t that it doesn&#x27;t matter.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, most of the skills gap is for <i>capable</i> engineers, and if you understand data structures, algorithms, architecture, memory management, etc. you&#x27;ll get a job very quickly. We&#x27;re talking within a week. But most bootcamp grads don&#x27;t know any of that stuff, so the market is flooded with junior rails devs. (And even those folks still slowly get OK jobs).<p>There are audited, standardized reports from an organization called CIRR. Look at them - you&#x27;ll see 90%+ placement rates, audited and from third parties. Granted there are a lot of lies on the home pages of bootcamp grad websites, but the perception HN has is much worse than reality at the good bootcamps.<p>I know the internal financials of quite a few bootcamps, and most are making a killing. It&#x27;s really not hard to make money by charging $10,000&#x2F;head so long as you keep demand. Iron Yard got out ahead of its skis and tried to open 16 locations at once. I have no idea what happened to Dev Bootcamp but the <i>only</i> way they could be losing money is if their expenses were absurd. They were bought for $80 million. I think the most likely scenario is the acquirer tried to change things up and killed everything.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JCzynski</author><text>&gt;Don&#x27;t get me wrong, most of the skills gap is for capable engineers, and if you understand data structures, algorithms, architecture, memory management, etc. you&#x27;ll get a job very quickly. We&#x27;re talking within a week.<p>Empirically, that&#x27;s totally false. The people I knew who went to the same bootcamp (App Academy) as me and had the strongest skills took longer, not shorter, to get jobs. The average was around 9 months.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Are Coding Bootcamps Going Out of Business?</title><url>http://hackeducation.com/2017/07/22/bootcamp-bust</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>austenallred</author><text>There are so many things wrong with this that I don&#x27;t know where to start.<p>First, to say there&#x27;s no skills gap is insanity. I refuse to believe anyone in the industry actually believes that - even the worst bootcamps are placing folks, they just place folks that are not well prepared and shift the burden of training to the company. I&#x27;m constantly blown away that some of those people get jobs, and they somehow keep them, as the companies just start training from almost scratch. That really sucks, and a lot of companies are (rightly) wary of that, and a lot of companies throw bootcamp resumes straight in the trash can, but there are enough that won&#x27;t that it doesn&#x27;t matter.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, most of the skills gap is for <i>capable</i> engineers, and if you understand data structures, algorithms, architecture, memory management, etc. you&#x27;ll get a job very quickly. We&#x27;re talking within a week. But most bootcamp grads don&#x27;t know any of that stuff, so the market is flooded with junior rails devs. (And even those folks still slowly get OK jobs).<p>There are audited, standardized reports from an organization called CIRR. Look at them - you&#x27;ll see 90%+ placement rates, audited and from third parties. Granted there are a lot of lies on the home pages of bootcamp grad websites, but the perception HN has is much worse than reality at the good bootcamps.<p>I know the internal financials of quite a few bootcamps, and most are making a killing. It&#x27;s really not hard to make money by charging $10,000&#x2F;head so long as you keep demand. Iron Yard got out ahead of its skis and tried to open 16 locations at once. I have no idea what happened to Dev Bootcamp but the <i>only</i> way they could be losing money is if their expenses were absurd. They were bought for $80 million. I think the most likely scenario is the acquirer tried to change things up and killed everything.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hasenj</author><text>&gt; There are so many things wrong with this that I don&#x27;t know where to start.<p>Exactly my thoughts. The whole premise if false. It conflates people coming fresh off a coding bootcamp with &quot;competent programmers&quot;. It&#x27;s not even funny.</text></comment> |
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