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23,563,956 | 23,562,252 | 1 | 3 | 23,558,686 | train | <story><title>LibriVox: Free Public Domain Audiobooks</title><url>https://librivox.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>louniks</author><text>Hey, so I&#x27;m the very part time volunteer sysadmin for LibriVox, can I use this opportunity to ask for help?<p>I have a day job and two kids, the amount of time and energy I give to LibriVox is sufficient to keep the lights on, but not much else.<p>We don&#x27;t have money, in fact we don&#x27;t even have a legal entity, any donations we get are handled by Internet Archive, who also kindly provide us our two servers (yes, only two).<p>If you want to help and know PHP and CodeIgniter, we&#x27;d be very happy to have you on board! While I <i>am</i> a developper, it&#x27;s currently Python, and not at all web related. LibriVox&#x27;s tech sack has fallen woefully out of date (PH 5.6, CodeIgniter 2), and I can&#x27;t bring it up to date all by my self.<p>I&#x27;ll be honest, it&#x27;s not glamorous work. There&#x27;s no automated testing, anything we change has to be tested and validated by the volunteers themselves - who are awesome, by the way. But we&#x27;re a fantastic little nugget of Internet, and I think we should stick around on a solid tech stack for as long as possible ;)<p>All of our code is on GitHub: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;LibriVox&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;LibriVox&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>LibriVox: Free Public Domain Audiobooks</title><url>https://librivox.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>reedwolf</author><text>There are also a huge number of audiobooks available on YouTube.<p>I made a Reddit bot [0] that continually scans comments across the entire site for mentions of science fiction and fantasy book titles. It uses a dataset of book title&#x2F;author pairs that were scraped from the Speculative Fiction Database, a compendium of all known science fiction&#x2F;fantasy literary works.<p>If an SFF book title&#x2F;author pair is detected in a comment, the bot searches YouTube for an audiobook of the mentioned title, then replies with a link to it should one be found.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;EmotionalField" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;EmotionalField</a></text></comment> |
41,518,706 | 41,389,562 | 1 | 2 | 41,389,176 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Homemade automated solar concentrator</title><url>https://github.com/remipch/solar_concentrator</url><text>Hi HN!<p>I quit my job two years ago to have more time to work on my side projects.<p>The main one is an automated solar concentrator.<p>I&#x27;ve just open-sourced it, it&#x27;s not perfect nor finished, and I still have a lot of ideas for further development, but I&#x27;m interested in knowing what you think of it.<p>There are many applications where concentrated solar power could be a viable environmental and economic solution, I hope this technology will one day be more widely used.<p>Feel free to give any feedback and ask questions.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>julbaxter</author><text>Hi!<p>I&#x27;m really interested in your project! I&#x27;m a engineer in computer science and robotics, and in parallel, I&#x27;m going to run a workshop on building solar ovens at a recycling center. I&#x27;d love to base the workshop on your project and learn more about it.<p>Would it be possible to get your contact information so we can communicate further if you&#x27;re open to it?<p>Looking forward to your reply!<p>Best regards,
Julien (email in bio)</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Homemade automated solar concentrator</title><url>https://github.com/remipch/solar_concentrator</url><text>Hi HN!<p>I quit my job two years ago to have more time to work on my side projects.<p>The main one is an automated solar concentrator.<p>I&#x27;ve just open-sourced it, it&#x27;s not perfect nor finished, and I still have a lot of ideas for further development, but I&#x27;m interested in knowing what you think of it.<p>There are many applications where concentrated solar power could be a viable environmental and economic solution, I hope this technology will one day be more widely used.<p>Feel free to give any feedback and ask questions.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hakonjdjohnsen</author><text>Cool work! I do research in nonimaging optics, the optics of achieving high concentration ratios (or wide tolerances to errors) in solar concentrators.<p>I like that you are implementing closed-loop control. This is all the rage also in large-scale heliostat fields. Most traditional heliostats are controlled using open loop, which places very strict requirements on both the mechanical structure, the actuators, and on the kinematic model, leading to expensive and very stiff heliostats. People are therefore moving towards cheaper heliostats where the tracking precision is achieved through closed-loop control. Implementing closed-loop control is a little bit more tricky when you have overlapping focal spots from thousands of mirrors, but there are approaches that are being developed, e.g. having cameras around the target looking back out over the heliostat field (developed by Heliogen among others).<p>You mention the challenge of light only being focused for a few hours per day. This is also a problem with large helisotat fields, and is also a field of active research. There&#x27;s a group at University of Arizona with Professor Roger Angel developing heliostats that actively deform through the day to keep the perfect shape, and there&#x27;s also an Australian company (Heliosystems) building heliostats that passively deform from gravity to keep as correct shape as possible.<p>When you are only using a single heliostat, as in your project, you could also consider building it as a Scheffler reflector - placing it on a single-axis polar-aligned tracking axis that passes through your target. Then it only requires single-axis tracking through the day, with some (possibly manual) seasonal adjusting.<p>I am very happy to see that you are highlighting the inherent risks in concentrated sunlight. There are lots of stories about people accidentally settings stuff on fire if the tracking doen&#x27;t track correctly.</text></comment> |
6,957,080 | 6,956,970 | 1 | 2 | 6,956,818 | train | <story><title>An Open Letter to the Chiefs of EMC and RSA</title><url>http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002651.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Goopplesoft</author><text>Knew his name was familiar. Mikko Hypponen has some great Ted talks as well:<p><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/mikko_hypponen_how_the_nsa_betrayed_the_world_s_trust_time_to_act.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ted.com&#x2F;talks&#x2F;mikko_hypponen_how_the_nsa_betrayed...</a><p><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/mikko_hypponen_three_types_of_online_attack.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ted.com&#x2F;talks&#x2F;mikko_hypponen_three_types_of_onlin...</a><p><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/mikko_hypponen_fighting_viruses_defending_the_net.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ted.com&#x2F;talks&#x2F;mikko_hypponen_fighting_viruses_def...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>An Open Letter to the Chiefs of EMC and RSA</title><url>http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002651.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wavefunction</author><text>I&#x27;m an american and I care about widespread surveillance of foreigners.</text></comment> |
40,657,955 | 40,657,715 | 1 | 2 | 40,657,307 | train | <story><title>Study shows N95 masks near-perfect at blocking escape of airborne Covid-19</title><url>https://sph.umd.edu/news/study-shows-n95-masks-near-perfect-blocking-escape-airborne-covid-19</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>addicted</author><text>That’s because the U.S. population was strongly against masks. In the beginning the US public was strongly in favor of the vaccines. In fact the complaints were around the delay in vaccine availability and the way the rich and powerful could access them earlier.<p>It was only in late 2021 where certain people realized vaccine skepticism was lucrative and the Republicans needed something to rile up their base for the upcoming elections did vaccine skepticism become a thing.</text></item><item><author>caleblloyd</author><text>It always baffled me that the US government had a program to send everyone free COVID tests, but they didn’t have a program to send everyone free N95 masks, so we ended up wearing random materials that were far less effective.<p>With all of the mandates to wear a mask everywhere I at least would have liked to wear one that worked well. You would have thought if they could produce 6 free tests per household per month, they could produce 6 free N95 masks per household per month.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomp</author><text>You mixed up parties a bit.<p>Democrats were criticising Trump for rushing the vaccine, and flaming vaccine scepticism, helped by mainstream media.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;idUSKBN2671R8&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;idUSKBN2671R8&#x2F;</a> September 17, 20201<p><i>Democrat Biden warns against rushing out coronavirus vaccine, says Trump cannot be trusted</i></text></comment> | <story><title>Study shows N95 masks near-perfect at blocking escape of airborne Covid-19</title><url>https://sph.umd.edu/news/study-shows-n95-masks-near-perfect-blocking-escape-airborne-covid-19</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>addicted</author><text>That’s because the U.S. population was strongly against masks. In the beginning the US public was strongly in favor of the vaccines. In fact the complaints were around the delay in vaccine availability and the way the rich and powerful could access them earlier.<p>It was only in late 2021 where certain people realized vaccine skepticism was lucrative and the Republicans needed something to rile up their base for the upcoming elections did vaccine skepticism become a thing.</text></item><item><author>caleblloyd</author><text>It always baffled me that the US government had a program to send everyone free COVID tests, but they didn’t have a program to send everyone free N95 masks, so we ended up wearing random materials that were far less effective.<p>With all of the mandates to wear a mask everywhere I at least would have liked to wear one that worked well. You would have thought if they could produce 6 free tests per household per month, they could produce 6 free N95 masks per household per month.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>padjo</author><text>It’s truly insane that vaccine deniers are now voting for Trump, when he was the one to take credit for them in the first place (and perhaps with some small justification!)</text></comment> |
16,666,541 | 16,666,614 | 1 | 2 | 16,665,876 | train | <story><title>New research suggests new ways to nurture gifted children</title><url>https://www.economist.com/news/international/21739144-new-research-suggests-new-ways-nurture-gifted-children-how-and-why-search-young</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MsMowz</author><text>Despite going through gifted education programs myself, I&#x27;m deeply skeptical of the concept of them in general, and I&#x27;ve only become more skeptical as new research emerged. Here&#x27;s a good example for why I&#x27;m skeptical:<p>&gt;There is evidence that aspects of gifted education should influence education more broadly. Project Bright Idea, developed at Duke University, saw 10,000 typical nursery and primary-school pupils taught using methods often reserved for brainier kids—fostering high expectations, complex problem-solving and cultivating meta-cognition (or “thinking about thinking”). Nearly every one of them went on to do much better on tests than similar peers.<p>Another way to phrase this is that this study demonstrated that people may become &quot;high-achieving&quot; because of gifted education programs, and not the other way around. Or perhaps typical pupils can become high-achieving by exposure to high-achieving pupils.<p>The article&#x27;s refutation of these ideas is the King&#x27;s College study that determined that &quot;50% of the variance in intelligence is heritable.&quot; Plomin&#x27;s more recent (2015) research suggests this estimate was far too high, and should really be about 30% phenotypically, which makes me think there&#x27;s no point in trying to find young Einsteins. If students are of average or slightly above average intelligence, Bright Idea style programs will be best for them, and if they are truly a &quot;young Einstein,&quot; they&#x27;ll demonstrate it on their own, just like old Einstein did.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>majos</author><text>&gt; and if they are truly a &quot;young Einstein,&quot; they&#x27;ll demonstrate it on their own, just like old Einstein did.<p>I disagree with this. The fact that some young prodigies proved it early and eventually became productive adult geniuses is not, to me, evidence that young prodigies will show themselves. Rather, I would expect that there are <i>more</i> young Einsteins who do not receive adequate mentorship, resources, or opportunities to become old Einsteins.<p>Some make it anyway. Ramanujan is an interesting case. By Hardy&#x27;s estimate, he was one of the best mathematical minds of the 20th century, and he demonstrated clear mathematical talent by high school age. And he <i>still</i> barely made it, thanks to a fragile chain of people who recognized his talent and drive. It&#x27;s very easy for me to imagine a world in which Ramanujan stays in India and remains a bureaucrat doing math on the side.<p>But as I understand it, pedagogy for young Einsteins is still not that well understood.</text></comment> | <story><title>New research suggests new ways to nurture gifted children</title><url>https://www.economist.com/news/international/21739144-new-research-suggests-new-ways-nurture-gifted-children-how-and-why-search-young</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MsMowz</author><text>Despite going through gifted education programs myself, I&#x27;m deeply skeptical of the concept of them in general, and I&#x27;ve only become more skeptical as new research emerged. Here&#x27;s a good example for why I&#x27;m skeptical:<p>&gt;There is evidence that aspects of gifted education should influence education more broadly. Project Bright Idea, developed at Duke University, saw 10,000 typical nursery and primary-school pupils taught using methods often reserved for brainier kids—fostering high expectations, complex problem-solving and cultivating meta-cognition (or “thinking about thinking”). Nearly every one of them went on to do much better on tests than similar peers.<p>Another way to phrase this is that this study demonstrated that people may become &quot;high-achieving&quot; because of gifted education programs, and not the other way around. Or perhaps typical pupils can become high-achieving by exposure to high-achieving pupils.<p>The article&#x27;s refutation of these ideas is the King&#x27;s College study that determined that &quot;50% of the variance in intelligence is heritable.&quot; Plomin&#x27;s more recent (2015) research suggests this estimate was far too high, and should really be about 30% phenotypically, which makes me think there&#x27;s no point in trying to find young Einsteins. If students are of average or slightly above average intelligence, Bright Idea style programs will be best for them, and if they are truly a &quot;young Einstein,&quot; they&#x27;ll demonstrate it on their own, just like old Einstein did.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nopinsight</author><text>Einstein did receive good education and, perhaps more importantly, <i>personal mentorship</i> from his uncle and a family&#x27;s tutor, who was a medical student, from an early age. All evidence suggests that his family cared very much about the quality of his education.<p>His tutor went on to become a successful ophthalmologist who was well known for his success in treating cataracts. (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Max_Talmey" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Max_Talmey</a>)<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sparknotes.com&#x2F;biography&#x2F;einstein&#x2F;section1&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sparknotes.com&#x2F;biography&#x2F;einstein&#x2F;section1&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Albert_Einstein" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Albert_Einstein</a><p>I agree with a sibling comment that the world probably misses out on many potential Einsteins because of inadequate mentorship and nurturing of high-potential children.<p>I agree with you that many ideas from gifted programs should be implemented in curricula for &#x27;regular&#x27; and above average kids as well.</text></comment> |
21,640,083 | 21,640,339 | 1 | 3 | 21,639,215 | train | <story><title>It's 2019, but It Sure Feels a Lot Like 1998 for Stocks</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-11-26/2019-markets-and-economy-feel-like-1998-tech-bull-market</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikestew</author><text>I&#x27;m trying really hard to think of a recent IPO of a profitable company. Companies in 1998 had &quot;actual revenues and profits&quot;, Pets.com was just not one of them. I worked at Microsoft during that time, and they were making money hand-over-fist. Pretty sure Oracle was raking it in. Hell, even Sun wasn&#x27;t looking <i>bad</i>. Same deal today: MSFT is <i>still</i> making it by the semi-load, Apple is still making me money (and a dividend, which you weren&#x27;t getting in 1998). I could go on.<p>But you&#x27;re not wrong, there is a difference: crap like Uber doesn&#x27;t shoot to the moon on opening day. Or, as you put it, people aren&#x27;t throwing money at them, hence Uber (et. al) still sitting under IPO price. That&#x27;s what I think might save us from a repeat of early 2000s. Hair stylists aren&#x27;t giving me stock advice these days, either.</text></item><item><author>imgabe</author><text>I was only in high school in 1998, but at least old enough to be aware of things like the stock market. It doesn&#x27;t feel anything like the Internet 1.0 bubble. For one thing, the companies today have actual revenues and profits. People are not blindly throwing money at every .com IPO that comes out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Ididntdothis</author><text>“crap like Uber doesn&#x27;t shoot to the moon on opening day”<p>I think the main reason for this is that all the upside and speculation has already been taken by earlier investors and an IPO is done only when there is basically no upside left. In 1998 Uber would have gone IPO much earlier and retail investors would have driven up the price, not the VCs as it’s done now.<p>What’s common is that we have a lot of companies who don’t even have the slightest idea how to become profitable other than a miracle happening.<p>Not sure how this will end but judging from 2002 and following it won’t be pretty for a lot of people that are flying high in the current market.</text></comment> | <story><title>It's 2019, but It Sure Feels a Lot Like 1998 for Stocks</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-11-26/2019-markets-and-economy-feel-like-1998-tech-bull-market</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikestew</author><text>I&#x27;m trying really hard to think of a recent IPO of a profitable company. Companies in 1998 had &quot;actual revenues and profits&quot;, Pets.com was just not one of them. I worked at Microsoft during that time, and they were making money hand-over-fist. Pretty sure Oracle was raking it in. Hell, even Sun wasn&#x27;t looking <i>bad</i>. Same deal today: MSFT is <i>still</i> making it by the semi-load, Apple is still making me money (and a dividend, which you weren&#x27;t getting in 1998). I could go on.<p>But you&#x27;re not wrong, there is a difference: crap like Uber doesn&#x27;t shoot to the moon on opening day. Or, as you put it, people aren&#x27;t throwing money at them, hence Uber (et. al) still sitting under IPO price. That&#x27;s what I think might save us from a repeat of early 2000s. Hair stylists aren&#x27;t giving me stock advice these days, either.</text></item><item><author>imgabe</author><text>I was only in high school in 1998, but at least old enough to be aware of things like the stock market. It doesn&#x27;t feel anything like the Internet 1.0 bubble. For one thing, the companies today have actual revenues and profits. People are not blindly throwing money at every .com IPO that comes out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paulpauper</author><text>Uber did not shoot to the moon because all the gains were made in the private instead of public market.<p>Today&#x27;s companies , even if they have losses, are cash-flow positive. They are operating at a profit but reinvesting those profits on large capital expenditures, which produce losses. This is similar to Amazon, Tesla, Netflix, and Salesforce.</text></comment> |
10,716,872 | 10,716,357 | 1 | 2 | 10,715,149 | train | <story><title>Capital Is No Longer Scarce</title><url>http://continuations.com/post/134920840275/capital-is-no-longer-scarce</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jondubois</author><text>Misallocation is a massive problem. I think a significant amount of money is going into advertising, pointless startups, entertainment and social media.<p>Basically, we are spending huge amounts of money getting numbed out of our minds instead of solving real fundamental problems.<p>In general, I think it reveals a deeper problem about capitalism; none of us understand value anymore (we have more junk in our lives than we could possibly need)... So we struggle to allocate capital properly. We just blindly follow trends. The people who are getting rich now are not those who want to make the world a better place; the winners are those who just want to make quick cash (short-term thinkers who take insane risks).<p>Does society prefer Snapchat or a cure for cancer? In the current economic environment, investors prefer Snapchat because Snapchat is pretty likely to get a ROI within the next 5 years.<p>The return on investment for a cancer cure is probably small (especially given the large amount of recurring revenue that big pharmaceuticals are currently making by selling cancer drugs). Also, it&#x27;s much riskier than Snapchat... Could take 5 years, 10 years or 20 years.<p>Ultimately, we are satisfying people&#x27;s short-term &#x27;wants&#x27; at the expense of their long-term needs. We&#x27;re a society of addicts who just want to get a quick buzz.</text></comment> | <story><title>Capital Is No Longer Scarce</title><url>http://continuations.com/post/134920840275/capital-is-no-longer-scarce</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vlehto</author><text>High frequency trading gets shat on frequently. It&#x27;s stupid. This is only a tool that evens out price differences across geological distance. If someone buys significant amount of AAPL stock in New York, the price goes up in NY. Then someone from London can profit by buying small amount of AAPL stock in London and selling it in NY.<p>High frequency trading is this, but with very high speeds and lots of competition. This means they have to exert value out of almost infinitesimal price changes.<p>&gt;As HFT strategies become more widely used, it can be more difficult to deploy them profitably. According to an estimate from Frederi Viens of Purdue University, profits from HFT in the U.S. has been declining from an estimated peak of $5bn in 2009, to about $1.25bn in 2012.<p>That&#x27;s 0,007% of U.S. GDP. And probably going down.<p>&gt;&quot;DEFINITION OF HFT:
1. a strategy which trades for investment horizons of less than one day
2. a strategy which seeks to unwind all positions before the end of each trading day
thus HFTs can&#x27;t deploy large amounts of capital&quot;<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sec.gov&#x2F;comments&#x2F;s7-02-10&#x2F;s70210-129.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sec.gov&#x2F;comments&#x2F;s7-02-10&#x2F;s70210-129.pdf</a></text></comment> |
24,810,327 | 24,810,263 | 1 | 2 | 24,809,648 | train | <story><title>Experimental evidence for compositional syntax in bird calls (2016)</title><url>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4786783/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jungletime</author><text>I did a hike on a mountain ridge in Hawaii (Stairway to Heaven), and was very shocked by how loud the highway below was. I was maybe 3000 feet above. The sound was amplified from from the valley below, the mountain sides almost acting like walls of a speaker.<p>It&#x27;s something that I don&#x27;t think gets enough attention, the way light pollution does. But its&#x27; definitely a problem in some places. And I can see how it would disrupt bird calls.</text></comment> | <story><title>Experimental evidence for compositional syntax in bird calls (2016)</title><url>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4786783/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hirundo</author><text>Humans have tonal components to meaning, e.g. in English, &quot;You are hungry.&quot; doesn&#x27;t have the lift at the end as does &quot;You are hungry?&quot;. I wonder if any birds do something similar to distinguish, e.g. &quot;Predator!&quot; vs &quot;Predator?&quot;. Maybe someday an app on our phones will be able to translate as we walk through the woods, like &quot;A female Carolina chickadee in the sycamore at 10 o&#x27;clock says there&#x27;s a raven coming from the south&quot;.</text></comment> |
11,262,272 | 11,262,298 | 1 | 3 | 11,261,910 | train | <story><title>What the IBM Layoffs Look Like</title><url>http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/tech-careers/is-this-months-ibm-layoff-for-rebalancing-or-is-it-really-for-offshoring#.VuHU1fevtY4.hackernews</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>parfe</author><text>&gt;Until the tech industry wakes up to the reality that they _are_ labor<p>Never going to happen. The great conceit of the tech world peons is believing they&#x27;re above the simple garbage man or postal worker. After all they create such <i>value</i>. Admitting a union would help acknowledges they&#x27;re not special.</text></item><item><author>thenewwazoo</author><text>IBM has literally no disincentive to do this, either de jure or de facto. The threat of H1-B applications being denied is either laughable or [there aren&#x27;t enough of them anyway] depending on who you ask. And IBM employees, like most tech workers, don&#x27;t think they need to act (read: bargain) collectively and thus have no recourse. Until the tech industry wakes up to the reality that they _are_ labor, companies will continue to treat their employees as fungible, on an increasingly global scale.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oldmanjay</author><text>When you feel like you can sum up a few million opinions as the result of a stupidity that you personally do not suffer, the odds that you are correct in your assessment approach zero.</text></comment> | <story><title>What the IBM Layoffs Look Like</title><url>http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/tech-careers/is-this-months-ibm-layoff-for-rebalancing-or-is-it-really-for-offshoring#.VuHU1fevtY4.hackernews</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>parfe</author><text>&gt;Until the tech industry wakes up to the reality that they _are_ labor<p>Never going to happen. The great conceit of the tech world peons is believing they&#x27;re above the simple garbage man or postal worker. After all they create such <i>value</i>. Admitting a union would help acknowledges they&#x27;re not special.</text></item><item><author>thenewwazoo</author><text>IBM has literally no disincentive to do this, either de jure or de facto. The threat of H1-B applications being denied is either laughable or [there aren&#x27;t enough of them anyway] depending on who you ask. And IBM employees, like most tech workers, don&#x27;t think they need to act (read: bargain) collectively and thus have no recourse. Until the tech industry wakes up to the reality that they _are_ labor, companies will continue to treat their employees as fungible, on an increasingly global scale.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thenewwazoo</author><text>I disagree - I think that the right-wing opinion machine has been successfully busting unions and scapegoating labor for so long that the tech industry doesn&#x27;t see the value-add of the union itself. I view it a bit like the anti-vax movement. Nobody today is dying of polio, so the necessity and urgency are lost. (And Americans are spectacularly bad at learning from history because exceptionalism)</text></comment> |
7,909,626 | 7,909,472 | 1 | 2 | 7,909,201 | train | <story><title>Celery – Best Practices</title><url>https://denibertovic.com/posts/celery-best-practices/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xenator</author><text>In many projects Celery is overkill. Common scenario I saw:<p><pre><code> 1. We have problem, lets use Celery
2. Now we have one more problem.
</code></pre>
I found <a href="http://python-rq.org/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;python-rq.org&#x2F;</a> much more handy and cover most cases. It uses redis as query broker. Flask, Django integration included <a href="https://github.com/mattupstate/flask-rq/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mattupstate&#x2F;flask-rq&#x2F;</a> <a href="https://github.com/ui/django-rq" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ui&#x2F;django-rq</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Celery – Best Practices</title><url>https://denibertovic.com/posts/celery-best-practices/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mickeyp</author><text>Good, basic practices to follow. Here&#x27;s a few more:<p>- If you&#x27;re using AMQP&#x2F;RabbitMQ as your result back end it will create a lot of dead queues to store results in. This can easily overwhelm your RabbitMQ server if you don&#x27;t clear these out frequently. Newer releases of Celery will do this daily I think - but it&#x27;s worth keeping in mind if your RMQ instance falls over in prod.<p>- Use chaining to build up &quot;sequential&quot; tasks that need doing instead of calling one after another in the same task (or worse, doing a big mouthful of work) in one task as Celery can prioritise many tasks better than synchronously calling several tasks in a row from one &quot;master&quot; task.<p>- Try to keep a consistent module import pattern for celery tasks, or explicitly name them, as Celery does a lot of magic in the background so task spawning is seamless to the developer. This is very important as you should never mix relative and absolute importing when you are dealing with tasks. from foo import mytask may be picked up differently than &quot;import foo&quot; followed by &quot;foo.mytask&quot; would resulting in some tasks not being picked up by Celery(!)<p>- Never pass database objects, as OP says, is true; but go one step further and don&#x27;t pass complex objects at all if you can avoid it. I vaguely remember some of the urllib&#x2F;httplib exceptions in Python not being serializable and causing very cryptic errors if you didn&#x27;t capture the exception and sanitise it or re-raise your own.<p>- Use proper configuration management to set up and configure Celery plus what ever messaging broker&#x2F;backend. There&#x27;s nothing more frustrating than spending your time trying to replicate somebody&#x27;s half-assed Celery&#x2F;Rabbit configuration that they didn&#x27;t nail down and test properly in a clean-room environment.</text></comment> |
14,035,158 | 14,035,431 | 1 | 2 | 14,033,129 | train | <story><title>Jupyter Notebook 5.0</title><url>http://blog.jupyter.org/2017/04/04/jupyter-notebook-5-0/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>minimaxir</author><text>For those who use R, I strongly recommend looking into R Notebooks (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rmarkdown.rstudio.com&#x2F;r_notebooks.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rmarkdown.rstudio.com&#x2F;r_notebooks.html</a>), as there is a lot more versatility involved, especially over the Jupyter&#x2F;IRKernel approach. Although it&#x27;s R only, unfortunately (you <i>can</i> run Python code in it but not the way you expect)<p>I&#x27;d like to see some things ported into Jupyter from R Notebooks, like JavaScript data tables and the separation of code and output, making it easy to version control only the code. (Atleast this 5.0 release makes tables nonugly)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>carreau</author><text>It would be great to sit with the Rstudio-notebooks developers and user and discuss how we could get the two platform to converge and be more interoperable. I guess both team have a lot on their plate, and we would need more manpower, but understanding and collaborating with other project for the good of user is always something the Jupyter team is happy to do.</text></comment> | <story><title>Jupyter Notebook 5.0</title><url>http://blog.jupyter.org/2017/04/04/jupyter-notebook-5-0/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>minimaxir</author><text>For those who use R, I strongly recommend looking into R Notebooks (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rmarkdown.rstudio.com&#x2F;r_notebooks.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rmarkdown.rstudio.com&#x2F;r_notebooks.html</a>), as there is a lot more versatility involved, especially over the Jupyter&#x2F;IRKernel approach. Although it&#x27;s R only, unfortunately (you <i>can</i> run Python code in it but not the way you expect)<p>I&#x27;d like to see some things ported into Jupyter from R Notebooks, like JavaScript data tables and the separation of code and output, making it easy to version control only the code. (Atleast this 5.0 release makes tables nonugly)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>robbles</author><text>What does &quot;a lot more versatility&quot; mean? Just wondering what the advantages are.<p>Or do you just mean that R Notebooks are specifically better than the R support in Jupyter?</text></comment> |
26,690,573 | 26,688,324 | 1 | 2 | 26,687,871 | train | <story><title>Dflat: SQLite FlatBuffers</title><url>https://github.com/liuliu/dflat</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chrisballinger</author><text>Very interesting concept, but I&#x27;d recommend people check out GRDB[1] if you&#x27;re in search of a mature persistence layer for your iOS apps. It&#x27;s a modern SQLite wrapper with a lot of conveniences for application development like value types, Codable mapping, Combine observables, etc.<p>I&#x27;ve deployed it in production on a few apps so far, and it has been a real joy to use.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;groue&#x2F;GRDB.swift" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;groue&#x2F;GRDB.swift</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Dflat: SQLite FlatBuffers</title><url>https://github.com/liuliu/dflat</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tirrex</author><text>&gt; Row id<p>&gt; We can uniquely identify an object, even if it is deleted later, without worrying a new object could occupy the same rowid<p>I don’t know anything about mobile and not sure if it applies here but if you call vacuum on sqlite, it rewrites row ids. Is there a way to prevent that? If you have a column “PRIMARY KEY INTEGER”, it is your row id and it won’t change on vacuum, otherwise if you rely on automatic row id, you may have a surprise later.</text></comment> |
15,920,317 | 15,920,188 | 1 | 2 | 15,919,650 | train | <story><title>Don't get caught up in blockchain hype</title><url>https://blog.apnic.net/2017/12/14/dont-get-caught-blockchain-hype/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colordrops</author><text>From the article, about the supposed expert who is skeptical:<p>&gt; For all that she has learned, Radia is first to confess that she is by no means an expert in the technology — admitting that she cannot distinguish exactly what makes something blockchain technology<p>The article is right about one thing though - a lot of people are talking blockchains up without having any idea about what they are or how they work.<p>Conversely, a lot of people, like Radia in the article, are talking blockchains down, without understanding them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danblick</author><text>Ya know, Radia Perlman has decades of experience working on networking protocols, I&#x27;m willing to bet she understands blockchain as well as anybody. The statement &quot;I cannot distinguish exactly what makes something blockchain technology&quot; should probably translate as &quot;currently the term &#x27;blockchain&#x27; is thrown about so loosely its meaning is obscure.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Don't get caught up in blockchain hype</title><url>https://blog.apnic.net/2017/12/14/dont-get-caught-blockchain-hype/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colordrops</author><text>From the article, about the supposed expert who is skeptical:<p>&gt; For all that she has learned, Radia is first to confess that she is by no means an expert in the technology — admitting that she cannot distinguish exactly what makes something blockchain technology<p>The article is right about one thing though - a lot of people are talking blockchains up without having any idea about what they are or how they work.<p>Conversely, a lot of people, like Radia in the article, are talking blockchains down, without understanding them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cjhopman</author><text>People who &quot;understand blockchains&quot; don&#x27;t agree on what exactly distinguishes something as blockchain technology, and people (and companies) are claiming all kinds of things as using &quot;blockchain technology&quot;.</text></comment> |
37,497,722 | 37,497,690 | 1 | 3 | 37,497,199 | train | <story><title>Apple finally put USB-C in new iPhone, but limited to 23-year-old USB 2.0 speeds</title><url>https://www.pcgamer.com/apple-finally-put-usb-c-in-the-new-iphone-but-its-inexplicably-limited-to-23-year-old-usb-20-speeds/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Taylor_OD</author><text>Weird take. Who cares about data transfer speeds? Lots of people. Many parts of the world dont have the same cell service coverage or wifi stability you may have.</text></item><item><author>ryaneager</author><text>Honestly, who cares? Does anyone even transfers data via USB from their phone anymore? It’s been 4-5 years since I’ve done that. It’s all in synced via iCloud now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>frumper</author><text>It sounds pretty simple as a case of if it&#x27;s important for you, then you should seek out other options, like the pro. Android phones also come in a mix of 2.0&#x2F;3.0 speeds.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple finally put USB-C in new iPhone, but limited to 23-year-old USB 2.0 speeds</title><url>https://www.pcgamer.com/apple-finally-put-usb-c-in-the-new-iphone-but-its-inexplicably-limited-to-23-year-old-usb-20-speeds/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Taylor_OD</author><text>Weird take. Who cares about data transfer speeds? Lots of people. Many parts of the world dont have the same cell service coverage or wifi stability you may have.</text></item><item><author>ryaneager</author><text>Honestly, who cares? Does anyone even transfers data via USB from their phone anymore? It’s been 4-5 years since I’ve done that. It’s all in synced via iCloud now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>Genuine question: How does USB 2.0 compare to Bluetooth (Airdrop) and wifi (assume local network or ad hoc, not icloud or internet) speeds on the 15 line?<p>EDIT: TIL more about the underlying mechanics of Airdrop than I thought I would, appreciate the lesson.</text></comment> |
22,965,594 | 22,964,349 | 1 | 2 | 22,958,352 | train | <story><title>Preliminary test results suggest 21% of NYC residents have Covid antibodies</title><url>https://www.6sqft.com/new-york-covid-antibody-test-preliminary-results/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>koheripbal</author><text>As a (40-something) NYC resident, I don&#x27;t believe that is accurate. Half of the people I know are working from home and stocked up on 1-2 months of food at the outset of this. The other half left the city and are now staying with friends&#x2F;family in other states or have rented homes elsewhere.<p>Those that did stay and still need food (ie produce) are having it delivered.<p>People who are shopping in stores are absolutely a very biased sample.<p>Very specifically, this bias excludes older people who are locking themselves away very very judiciously.</text></item><item><author>mannykannot</author><text>NYC is not suburbia. I believe a higher percentage are still working outside of their homes (and, in many cases, that also means travelling on public transport), and a smaller percentage have the financial and transport resources to significantly reduce the frequency of their shopping trips. Apartment living means a greater exposure to your neighbors whenever you do enter or exit. The sampling in NYC, while far from ideal, may therefore be better than the other regions, in that shopping behaviour may not be as dominant a risk factor as you suppose.<p>For the same reasons, plus the likelehood that the virus arrived in NYC early and frequently, NYC&#x27;s figures cannot be extrapolated to the rest of the state or country.<p>I would like to see how these figures match up to the sewage-sampling method of estimation.</text></item><item><author>wtvanhest</author><text>&quot;Preliminary test results suggest 21% of NYC residents have Covid antibodies&quot;<p>Should be re-written as:<p>&quot;Preliminary test results suggest 21% of of people approached in a crowded grocery store and who would agree to give blood have Covid antibodies&quot;<p>All of these tests suffer the same sample bias, and that sample bias is massive.<p>People who are already in a grocery store (risky behavior), who are willing to give a blood sample (believes they may have been previously exposed) are not the same as people who are leaving their house only for very limited purposes and ordering food online.<p>If we assume that the % of people shopping in grocery stores and willing to take the test are in risk group A, and the people not shopping are in risk group B. We can run the following quick analysis.<p>First, assume risk group A is 5 times as likely to have had COVID than Risk group B (but plug any assumption in there necessary)<p>Then assume that risk group A is only 10% of the population, then rerun the numbers as follows:<p>For every 100 people in risk group A who tested, 21 were positive.<p>Risk group A is 100 people, and risk group B is 900.<p>Risk group A&#x27;s 100 were 21 prior positive.
Risk group B&#x27;s 900 could be estimated that 4.2 people per 100 were positive, so in total of the 900 people 37.8 were positive.<p>21+37.8 = 59 people of 1000, or 5.8%.<p>Plug any numbers you want in the analysis, but the assumptions drive huge variability in the % of New Yorkers infected. Without a less biased sample, we really don&#x27;t know much other than that way less than 21% of New Yorkers have anti-bodies.</text></item><item><author>TheBlight</author><text>Sure all of these studies are potentially flawed but they&#x27;re all generally pointing in the same direction. There are many more infections than we know about and the CFR is not anywhere close to the actual IFR.<p>NYC is an outlier with a 21% infection estimate but for the rest of NY (outside NYC metro&#x2F;Westchester&#x2F;LI) the estimate is 3.6%. Santa Clara estimate was 3%. LA County estimate was 4%. Seems like a trend is developing.</text></item><item><author>aazaa</author><text>&gt; In his press conference today, Governor Cuomo revealed the preliminary results of a first-phase antibody test that surveyed 3,000 New Yorkers over two days in 19 counties at 40 locations that included grocery and big-box stores. The sample suggests that 13.9% of New York State residents have the antibodies, meaning they had the virus at one point and recovered. Of the regions tested–Long Island, NYC, Westchester&#x2F;Rockland, and the rest of the State–New York City had the highest positive rate at 21.2%. The potential good news to come to light is that the death rate may be far lower than some estimates, at 0.5%.<p>This still is not a random sampling. It only samples from shoppers at grocery stores and big-box retailers. Imagine doing the same study, but of people who ordered groceries online only. Would you expect to see big differences in exposure rate? I think so.<p>The study itself isn&#x27;t linked anywhere, nor have I seen it elsewhere. Science is all about the details. It&#x27;s not hard to imagine half a dozen ways that the bottom line result of this study could have been skewed by decisions made by the study authors and ground team.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JackFr</author><text>&gt; Half of the people I know are working from home and stocked up on 1-2 months of food at the outset of this.<p>Seriously? Your personal network is evidence the this study is useless because of sampling bias?<p>Everyone I know voted for Hilary Clinton and yet here we are.<p>&gt; People who are shopping in stores are absolutely a very biased sample.<p>People who have jobs that allow them to work from home are a very biased sample. How many grocery stockers are there in NYC compared to let’s say, software developers? I suspect you haven’t a clue, since by your own admission you don’t know a single person who needs to leave their home to work. So maybe your mental model if who makes up the population is skewed.</text></comment> | <story><title>Preliminary test results suggest 21% of NYC residents have Covid antibodies</title><url>https://www.6sqft.com/new-york-covid-antibody-test-preliminary-results/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>koheripbal</author><text>As a (40-something) NYC resident, I don&#x27;t believe that is accurate. Half of the people I know are working from home and stocked up on 1-2 months of food at the outset of this. The other half left the city and are now staying with friends&#x2F;family in other states or have rented homes elsewhere.<p>Those that did stay and still need food (ie produce) are having it delivered.<p>People who are shopping in stores are absolutely a very biased sample.<p>Very specifically, this bias excludes older people who are locking themselves away very very judiciously.</text></item><item><author>mannykannot</author><text>NYC is not suburbia. I believe a higher percentage are still working outside of their homes (and, in many cases, that also means travelling on public transport), and a smaller percentage have the financial and transport resources to significantly reduce the frequency of their shopping trips. Apartment living means a greater exposure to your neighbors whenever you do enter or exit. The sampling in NYC, while far from ideal, may therefore be better than the other regions, in that shopping behaviour may not be as dominant a risk factor as you suppose.<p>For the same reasons, plus the likelehood that the virus arrived in NYC early and frequently, NYC&#x27;s figures cannot be extrapolated to the rest of the state or country.<p>I would like to see how these figures match up to the sewage-sampling method of estimation.</text></item><item><author>wtvanhest</author><text>&quot;Preliminary test results suggest 21% of NYC residents have Covid antibodies&quot;<p>Should be re-written as:<p>&quot;Preliminary test results suggest 21% of of people approached in a crowded grocery store and who would agree to give blood have Covid antibodies&quot;<p>All of these tests suffer the same sample bias, and that sample bias is massive.<p>People who are already in a grocery store (risky behavior), who are willing to give a blood sample (believes they may have been previously exposed) are not the same as people who are leaving their house only for very limited purposes and ordering food online.<p>If we assume that the % of people shopping in grocery stores and willing to take the test are in risk group A, and the people not shopping are in risk group B. We can run the following quick analysis.<p>First, assume risk group A is 5 times as likely to have had COVID than Risk group B (but plug any assumption in there necessary)<p>Then assume that risk group A is only 10% of the population, then rerun the numbers as follows:<p>For every 100 people in risk group A who tested, 21 were positive.<p>Risk group A is 100 people, and risk group B is 900.<p>Risk group A&#x27;s 100 were 21 prior positive.
Risk group B&#x27;s 900 could be estimated that 4.2 people per 100 were positive, so in total of the 900 people 37.8 were positive.<p>21+37.8 = 59 people of 1000, or 5.8%.<p>Plug any numbers you want in the analysis, but the assumptions drive huge variability in the % of New Yorkers infected. Without a less biased sample, we really don&#x27;t know much other than that way less than 21% of New Yorkers have anti-bodies.</text></item><item><author>TheBlight</author><text>Sure all of these studies are potentially flawed but they&#x27;re all generally pointing in the same direction. There are many more infections than we know about and the CFR is not anywhere close to the actual IFR.<p>NYC is an outlier with a 21% infection estimate but for the rest of NY (outside NYC metro&#x2F;Westchester&#x2F;LI) the estimate is 3.6%. Santa Clara estimate was 3%. LA County estimate was 4%. Seems like a trend is developing.</text></item><item><author>aazaa</author><text>&gt; In his press conference today, Governor Cuomo revealed the preliminary results of a first-phase antibody test that surveyed 3,000 New Yorkers over two days in 19 counties at 40 locations that included grocery and big-box stores. The sample suggests that 13.9% of New York State residents have the antibodies, meaning they had the virus at one point and recovered. Of the regions tested–Long Island, NYC, Westchester&#x2F;Rockland, and the rest of the State–New York City had the highest positive rate at 21.2%. The potential good news to come to light is that the death rate may be far lower than some estimates, at 0.5%.<p>This still is not a random sampling. It only samples from shoppers at grocery stores and big-box retailers. Imagine doing the same study, but of people who ordered groceries online only. Would you expect to see big differences in exposure rate? I think so.<p>The study itself isn&#x27;t linked anywhere, nor have I seen it elsewhere. Science is all about the details. It&#x27;s not hard to imagine half a dozen ways that the bottom line result of this study could have been skewed by decisions made by the study authors and ground team.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gwright</author><text>&gt; Half of the people I know are working from home and stocked up on 1-2 months of food at the outset of this.<p>This surprises me if for no other reason than it takes a lot of space to store 1-2 months of food. Might be true, but is certainly different than what is going on in suburban Connecticut based on my social network.</text></comment> |
19,581,994 | 19,579,299 | 1 | 3 | 19,570,819 | train | <story><title>Combine statistical and symbolic artificial intelligence techniques</title><url>http://news.mit.edu/2019/teaching-machines-to-reason-about-what-they-see-0402</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mark_l_watson</author><text>I work in the field of deep learning but in the 1980s and 1990s I used Common Lisp and worked on symbolic AI projects.<p>For several years, my gut instinct has been that the two technologies should be combined. Since neural nets are basically functions, I think it makes sense to compose functional programs using network models for perception, word and graph embedding, etc.<p>EDIT: I can’t wait to see the published results in May!
EDIT 2: another commenter reelin posted a link to the draft paper <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openreview.net&#x2F;pdf?id=rJgMlhRctm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openreview.net&#x2F;pdf?id=rJgMlhRctm</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Combine statistical and symbolic artificial intelligence techniques</title><url>http://news.mit.edu/2019/teaching-machines-to-reason-about-what-they-see-0402</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xvilka</author><text>There is an interesting project - DeepProbLog[1], based on the ProbLog[2] (a Prolog dialect with probabilistic reasoning) and Deep Learning combined. I only wish it was Rust, so it would have been safer, faster, and easier to embed in your programs. I have high hopes to the Scryer Prolog[3], and it seems[4] the author think about probabilistic extensions too.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitbucket.org&#x2F;problog&#x2F;deepproblog" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitbucket.org&#x2F;problog&#x2F;deepproblog</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dtai.cs.kuleuven.be&#x2F;problog&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dtai.cs.kuleuven.be&#x2F;problog&#x2F;</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mthom&#x2F;scryer-prolog" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mthom&#x2F;scryer-prolog</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mthom&#x2F;scryer-prolog&#x2F;issues&#x2F;69" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mthom&#x2F;scryer-prolog&#x2F;issues&#x2F;69</a></text></comment> |
16,507,438 | 16,507,022 | 1 | 2 | 16,505,568 | train | <story><title>Patent trolls are shaking us down for selling “rubies” in our game</title><url>https://www.clickerheroes2.com/patent_trolls.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roganartu</author><text>Insurance doesn&#x27;t mitigate damage, it amortizes it (typically across a group of entities). The expected average annual claims on an insurer&#x27;s policies need to be lower than the sum of the premiums or the insurer loses money.<p>This is why people in high risk categories pay more for insurance (eg young people and people with high performance cars have higher car insurance premiums because statistically they crash more often and&#x2F;or have higher rates of total loss)</text></item><item><author>gowld</author><text>The insurance firm isn&#x27;t exploitative. The patent troll is actively harmfully attacking people. The insurance firm (assuming they aren&#x27;t secretly creating demand for their product) is mitigating the damage.<p>Locksmiths and firefighters aren&#x27;t exploitative.</text></item><item><author>kelnos</author><text>It is ridiculously disheartening that this sort of thing even has to exist.<p>It&#x27;s just taking the money you&#x27;d be forced to pay some exploitative patent troll, and giving it (well, probably&#x2F;hopefully less of it, but still) to an exploitative insurance firm instead.</text></item><item><author>Kelbit</author><text>While it doesn&#x27;t help in this case (since there is already a looming legal threat from an NPE), you can buy patent troll insurance now: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rpxcorp.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rpxcorp.com&#x2F;</a>. This covers your legal fees in the event of litigation, which can scare off a patent troll who just wants a hit-and-run settlement.</text></item><item><author>jannotti</author><text>Trying to find other companies under the same threat is a great approach. In a similar situation, this allowed my company to fight a patent troll and share costs, so we didn&#x27;t cave under the, &quot;It&#x27;ll cost us this much in legal fees anyway&quot; argument.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>__s</author><text>The insurance being used to fight the patents seems good: it&#x27;s effectively a way for the group to pool resources towards not paying out to patent trolls. The success of the insurance company should be based on the reduction of payments to trolling, even when counting the insurance as paying to patent trolls<p>What&#x27;d be most disheartening is if the insurance was just to pay off the patent trolls</text></comment> | <story><title>Patent trolls are shaking us down for selling “rubies” in our game</title><url>https://www.clickerheroes2.com/patent_trolls.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roganartu</author><text>Insurance doesn&#x27;t mitigate damage, it amortizes it (typically across a group of entities). The expected average annual claims on an insurer&#x27;s policies need to be lower than the sum of the premiums or the insurer loses money.<p>This is why people in high risk categories pay more for insurance (eg young people and people with high performance cars have higher car insurance premiums because statistically they crash more often and&#x2F;or have higher rates of total loss)</text></item><item><author>gowld</author><text>The insurance firm isn&#x27;t exploitative. The patent troll is actively harmfully attacking people. The insurance firm (assuming they aren&#x27;t secretly creating demand for their product) is mitigating the damage.<p>Locksmiths and firefighters aren&#x27;t exploitative.</text></item><item><author>kelnos</author><text>It is ridiculously disheartening that this sort of thing even has to exist.<p>It&#x27;s just taking the money you&#x27;d be forced to pay some exploitative patent troll, and giving it (well, probably&#x2F;hopefully less of it, but still) to an exploitative insurance firm instead.</text></item><item><author>Kelbit</author><text>While it doesn&#x27;t help in this case (since there is already a looming legal threat from an NPE), you can buy patent troll insurance now: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rpxcorp.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rpxcorp.com&#x2F;</a>. This covers your legal fees in the event of litigation, which can scare off a patent troll who just wants a hit-and-run settlement.</text></item><item><author>jannotti</author><text>Trying to find other companies under the same threat is a great approach. In a similar situation, this allowed my company to fight a patent troll and share costs, so we didn&#x27;t cave under the, &quot;It&#x27;ll cost us this much in legal fees anyway&quot; argument.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cestith</author><text>&gt; The expected average annual claims on an insurer&#x27;s policies need to be lower than the sum of the premiums or the insurer loses money.<p>All this time I thought they invested the float.</text></comment> |
32,685,082 | 32,684,608 | 1 | 2 | 32,684,424 | train | <story><title>Notes on the SQLite DuckDB Paper</title><url>https://simonwillison.net/2022/Sep/1/sqlite-duckdb-paper/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simonw</author><text>I wish more people would publish this kind of content.<p>Academic papers aren&#x27;t really designed for casual reading - I always find them to be a bit of a slog. It would be great if it was much more common for people to share their notes like this.<p>I&#x27;m going to try and remember to write more of these in the future.<p>I should add that I found this particular paper to be a whole lot more readable than most!</text></comment> | <story><title>Notes on the SQLite DuckDB Paper</title><url>https://simonwillison.net/2022/Sep/1/sqlite-duckdb-paper/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zX41ZdbW</author><text>DuckDB is obviously faster than SQLite on analytical queries, from 10 to 11 000 times on a benchmark [1]. But in comparison to SQLite, DuckDB cannot run all the queries due to worse memory management. It cannot run 12 out of 43 queries.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;benchmark.clickhouse.com&#x2F;#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" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;benchmark.clickhouse.com&#x2F;#eyJzeXN0ZW0iOnsiQXRoZW5hIC...</a></text></comment> |
22,459,184 | 22,458,933 | 1 | 3 | 22,457,554 | train | <story><title>CAF: C++ Actor Framework</title><url>https://github.com/actor-framework/actor-framework</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Mofu-chan</author><text>I was bored so I added CAF to pkgsrc, which you can use to install CAF on NetBSD&#x2F;Linux&#x2F;macOS and a variety of other Unix-ey platforms that pkgsrc supports:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;NetBSD&#x2F;pkgsrc-wip&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;actor-framework" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;NetBSD&#x2F;pkgsrc-wip&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;actor-frame...</a><p><pre><code> git clone https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;NetBSD&#x2F;pkgsrc --depth 1 ~&#x2F;pkgsrc
git clone https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;NetBSD&#x2F;pkgsrc-wip --depth 1 ~&#x2F;pkgsrc&#x2F;wip
cd ~&#x2F;pkgsrc&#x2F;bootstrap
.&#x2F;bootstrap --unprivileged
cd ~&#x2F;pkgsrc&#x2F;wip&#x2F;actor-model
~&#x2F;pkg&#x2F;bin&#x2F;bmake install
~&#x2F;pkg&#x2F;sbin&#x2F;pkg_info -L actor-model
</code></pre>
That is all.</text></comment> | <story><title>CAF: C++ Actor Framework</title><url>https://github.com/actor-framework/actor-framework</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Koshkin</author><text>Honestly, the source code of the examples looks rather complicated, like something that should better be generated from a nicer high-level language that has a native actor concept. (Obviously, the power of C++ templates does not come for free - you pay with noisy code and increased cognitive load.)</text></comment> |
9,857,015 | 9,856,916 | 1 | 2 | 9,855,015 | train | <story><title>Russ Cox: Go, Open Source, Community</title><url>http://blog.golang.org/open-source</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EdiX</author><text>I agree that a code of conduct is a great idea but I&#x27;m really bummed to read that the Django CoC is going to be adopted by golang.<p>1. The Django CoC uses very vague language on what it is forbidden and explicitly tells you that &quot;this isn’t an exhaustive list of things that you can’t do&quot; just to be extra vague in what constitutes unacceptable behaviour.<p>2. It does not define what process will be used to address CoC violations, being ejected from an OS project for violating the CoC can be a serious thing with personal and professional ramifications but an accused is not given the right to face their accuser nor the right to an impartial jury (which would be hard to do anyway since the accusation could be something like &quot;he&#x27;s making me anxious&quot;)<p>3. It overextends itself &quot;violations of this code outside these spaces may affect a person&#x27;s ability to participate within them&quot; which means that not only you are under the scrutiny of the kangaroo court when you are posting on golang spaces but everywhere else: ycombinator, reddit, your personal blog, etc. Honestly I feel like just writing this criticism is painting a target on my forehead, talk about safe spaces.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t be making this comment if CoCs hadn&#x27;t already been used in bad faith to attempt to character assassinate OS contributors (for exmaple the Kubuntu debacle or this [1])<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;igurublog.wordpress.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;06&#x2F;04&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;igurublog.wordpress.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;06&#x2F;04&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zurn</author><text>There are good reasons why rules regulating human social behaviour (such as legislation) are written in this &quot;vague&quot; way, not attempting to be formal-verification-level complete but relying upon human interpretation. It follows that to work well it needs the people doing the interpretation (judges, committees, ombudsman, etc) to be competent, and be selected so that people can have faith in them.<p>Regarding your [1], the GNOME code of conduct referenced therein explicitly says &quot;There is no official enforcement of these principles, and this should not be interpreted like a legal document&quot;. So maybe that CoC is being applied contrary to its design there.</text></comment> | <story><title>Russ Cox: Go, Open Source, Community</title><url>http://blog.golang.org/open-source</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EdiX</author><text>I agree that a code of conduct is a great idea but I&#x27;m really bummed to read that the Django CoC is going to be adopted by golang.<p>1. The Django CoC uses very vague language on what it is forbidden and explicitly tells you that &quot;this isn’t an exhaustive list of things that you can’t do&quot; just to be extra vague in what constitutes unacceptable behaviour.<p>2. It does not define what process will be used to address CoC violations, being ejected from an OS project for violating the CoC can be a serious thing with personal and professional ramifications but an accused is not given the right to face their accuser nor the right to an impartial jury (which would be hard to do anyway since the accusation could be something like &quot;he&#x27;s making me anxious&quot;)<p>3. It overextends itself &quot;violations of this code outside these spaces may affect a person&#x27;s ability to participate within them&quot; which means that not only you are under the scrutiny of the kangaroo court when you are posting on golang spaces but everywhere else: ycombinator, reddit, your personal blog, etc. Honestly I feel like just writing this criticism is painting a target on my forehead, talk about safe spaces.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t be making this comment if CoCs hadn&#x27;t already been used in bad faith to attempt to character assassinate OS contributors (for exmaple the Kubuntu debacle or this [1])<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;igurublog.wordpress.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;06&#x2F;04&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;igurublog.wordpress.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;06&#x2F;04&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ta140604</author><text>Similar concerns (with more examples) have been raised in CoC discussion over on Reddit:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;golang&#x2F;comments&#x2F;3abyva&#x2F;a_code_of_conduct_for_the_go_community&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;golang&#x2F;comments&#x2F;3abyva&#x2F;a_code_of_co...</a></text></comment> |
30,678,424 | 30,678,625 | 1 | 3 | 30,677,466 | train | <story><title>Antarctic sea ice hits lowest minimum on record</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00550-4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arno_v</author><text>Surprisingly if you put it to 20 meters the effect globally seem insignificant. Although 80% of my own country would be flooded, so that&#x27;s not great.</text></item><item><author>gnatman</author><text>I just went looking for a map to see how different coastlines would look with a 200m sea level rise. It&#x27;s, unsurprisingly, significant!!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.floodmap.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.floodmap.net&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>Gravityloss</author><text>The scientists know this. Paleoclimatology is one big part of climatology. But the outcome is the opposite - you should be more scared, since it shows that climate can change massively. That affects things like agriculture or sea level. What would you assume the sea level was, when those plants were alive?<p>For example, with very quick search:<p>&quot;In general, world oceans were about 100 to 200 metres (330 to 660 feet) higher in the Early Cretaceous and roughly 200 to 250 metres (660 to 820 feet) higher in the Late Cretaceous than at present.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.britannica.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;Cretaceous-Period" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.britannica.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;Cretaceous-Period</a></text></item><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>I am not a &quot;denier&quot;, I can recognize that anthropomorphic activities are changing the climate over time and we&#x27;re not prepared to deal with that. But this sort of article annoys me because &quot;on record&quot; represents a nanosecond of geologic time. There are mountains, and <i>plant fossils</i>[1] under the ice at Antartica, so at some point in the geologic record there was little to no ice at all! And no humans likely either, which can happen again, but the relentless effort to drive anxiety of extinction through the human race just feels so non-helpful to me.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;oceanwide-expeditions.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;the-ancient-fossil-forests-of-antarctica" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;oceanwide-expeditions.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;the-ancient-fossil-fo...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jazzyjackson</author><text>I guess you mean the shape of the countries doesn&#x27;t change much? iirc the majority of Earth&#x27;s population lives on coastlines, most major cities will be inundated</text></comment> | <story><title>Antarctic sea ice hits lowest minimum on record</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00550-4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arno_v</author><text>Surprisingly if you put it to 20 meters the effect globally seem insignificant. Although 80% of my own country would be flooded, so that&#x27;s not great.</text></item><item><author>gnatman</author><text>I just went looking for a map to see how different coastlines would look with a 200m sea level rise. It&#x27;s, unsurprisingly, significant!!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.floodmap.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.floodmap.net&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>Gravityloss</author><text>The scientists know this. Paleoclimatology is one big part of climatology. But the outcome is the opposite - you should be more scared, since it shows that climate can change massively. That affects things like agriculture or sea level. What would you assume the sea level was, when those plants were alive?<p>For example, with very quick search:<p>&quot;In general, world oceans were about 100 to 200 metres (330 to 660 feet) higher in the Early Cretaceous and roughly 200 to 250 metres (660 to 820 feet) higher in the Late Cretaceous than at present.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.britannica.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;Cretaceous-Period" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.britannica.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;Cretaceous-Period</a></text></item><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>I am not a &quot;denier&quot;, I can recognize that anthropomorphic activities are changing the climate over time and we&#x27;re not prepared to deal with that. But this sort of article annoys me because &quot;on record&quot; represents a nanosecond of geologic time. There are mountains, and <i>plant fossils</i>[1] under the ice at Antartica, so at some point in the geologic record there was little to no ice at all! And no humans likely either, which can happen again, but the relentless effort to drive anxiety of extinction through the human race just feels so non-helpful to me.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;oceanwide-expeditions.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;the-ancient-fossil-forests-of-antarctica" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;oceanwide-expeditions.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;the-ancient-fossil-fo...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scruple</author><text>At 20 meters, the Bay Area, the Central Valley, Los Angeles, and parts of Orange county are significantly impacted.</text></comment> |
8,239,548 | 8,239,650 | 1 | 3 | 8,238,260 | train | <story><title>Citymapper is what happens when you understand user experience</title><url>https://medium.com/@zmh/bye-google-maps-ea3ea10f84dc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>buro9</author><text>Google Maps is for car drivers.<p>CityMapper is for multi-transportation within a few metropolis.<p>The UX of Google maps for routing when driving is incredible and beats everyone: Apple, TomTom, Garmin... everyone. Down to showing labels on side streets &quot;3 minutes slower&quot; allowing you to evaluate every decision you could make when faced with traffic.<p>But... for public transport, or mixed transport solutions like crossing a city when so many external factors are at play... CityMapper wins.<p>It&#x27;s not an either&#x2F;or, and it&#x27;s not that Google Maps don&#x27;t understand UX. Google Maps just has a different focus... the car.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cbsmith</author><text>Came here to say this. Saying someone doesn&#x27;t understand UX, when in fact they just have a different user context, suggests the one pointing fingers doesn&#x27;t understand UX.</text></comment> | <story><title>Citymapper is what happens when you understand user experience</title><url>https://medium.com/@zmh/bye-google-maps-ea3ea10f84dc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>buro9</author><text>Google Maps is for car drivers.<p>CityMapper is for multi-transportation within a few metropolis.<p>The UX of Google maps for routing when driving is incredible and beats everyone: Apple, TomTom, Garmin... everyone. Down to showing labels on side streets &quot;3 minutes slower&quot; allowing you to evaluate every decision you could make when faced with traffic.<p>But... for public transport, or mixed transport solutions like crossing a city when so many external factors are at play... CityMapper wins.<p>It&#x27;s not an either&#x2F;or, and it&#x27;s not that Google Maps don&#x27;t understand UX. Google Maps just has a different focus... the car.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aembleton</author><text>You should try Waze. That also has an excellent car driver focused UI. Now, bought by Google.</text></comment> |
19,409,983 | 19,409,950 | 1 | 3 | 19,409,513 | train | <story><title>The Secret to Becoming an Annoyingly Productive Early Morning Person</title><url>https://nickwignall.com/the-secret-to-productive-mornings/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ams6110</author><text>Yes, but they&#x27;re all single or otherwise have no family obligations. Once you have a family and have to deal with school and other activities it&#x27;s pretty hard to deviate much from the normal 9-5 workday.</text></item><item><author>Mizza</author><text>Fuck this. I&#x27;m a night time person and I feel like I&#x27;m constantly punished by a society that places a moral value on waking up early.<p>In all seriousness, I&#x27;m thinking about starting a &quot;night company&quot; for night time people. Come in at 2, work until 10. Is there anybody out there who&#x27;d be interested in something like that?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bobwaycott</author><text>Single dad, night-person here—I far prefer working at night once the kids are in bed over trying to squeeze meaningful productivity in between school hours, dinner, activities, father-son time, etc. I&#x27;ve trained myself to do <i>something</i> from 9-4, as those are my remaining school-age son&#x27;s school hours, but it&#x27;s nowhere near as satisfying as working at night when the world is asleep.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Secret to Becoming an Annoyingly Productive Early Morning Person</title><url>https://nickwignall.com/the-secret-to-productive-mornings/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ams6110</author><text>Yes, but they&#x27;re all single or otherwise have no family obligations. Once you have a family and have to deal with school and other activities it&#x27;s pretty hard to deviate much from the normal 9-5 workday.</text></item><item><author>Mizza</author><text>Fuck this. I&#x27;m a night time person and I feel like I&#x27;m constantly punished by a society that places a moral value on waking up early.<p>In all seriousness, I&#x27;m thinking about starting a &quot;night company&quot; for night time people. Come in at 2, work until 10. Is there anybody out there who&#x27;d be interested in something like that?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iRobbery</author><text>as a family obligated person, i think there is a demand. And i think it could help parents, one parent could work early or half a day, then come home take over child care, and then the other parent can do a full 2 - 10, 8 hour day without the need for day care or some.<p>i know people that dont do the math, and actually work to pay for the daycare...</text></comment> |
12,615,362 | 12,613,776 | 1 | 2 | 12,612,856 | train | <story><title>A Hoare Logic for Rust</title><url>http://ticki.github.io/blog/a-hoare-logic-for-rust/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>Nice. It makes sense to try to formalize the semantics of Rust&#x27;s new intermediate representation, MIR. It&#x27;s much easier to get unambiguous semantics at that level. All name issues such as shadowing are gone, type issues have been resolved, and operations are machine-level unambiguous (not &quot;+&quot;, &quot;32 bit unsigned add&quot;).<p>An old project I worked on, the Pascal-F verifier,[1] from the early 1980s, worked in a similar way. We took the output from the first pass of the compiler, which was something like Java bytecode, and verified from that.<p>I found some old 9-track tapes of the sources recently, and I&#x27;m going to run them through a data recovery service in Morgan Hill next week and see if I can bring the system back to life. It&#x27;s a historical curiosity, but should be fun to play with on today&#x27;s machines. It was just too slow in 1982. Meanwhile, I brought the original Boyer-Moore theorem prover back to life and put it on Github.[2]<p>Some of our lessons learned were:<p>1. Integrate the verification statements into the programming language. Don&#x27;t try to do it
with comments. You want the language&#x27;s regular syntax, type and variable checking to apply to the verification statements. We added the keywords ASSERT, ENTRY, EXIT, MEASURE, STATE, EFFECT, INVARIANT, DEPTH, and PROOF, EXTRA, and RULE.<p>2. Make verification program-like, not math-like. For example, if we wanted to verify the structure of a tree, we would add fields for a back-pointer and a tree depth to the data structure each node. We&#x27;d put in all the code to maintain them, and verify that the forward pointers and back pointers were consistent and that child objects always had a greater depth than their parents. This would all be done by writing ordinary-looking code
with ASSERT statements. But the new data fields would have the EXTRA attribute, and the code manipulating those fields would have PROOF in front of it. This meant it was there only for verification purposes. No executable code could depend on that data, so it could all be stripped out for execution.<p>3. Use two theorem provers. One prover was an Oppen-Nelson decision procedure. This is
fully automatic proving for integer +, -, multiplication by constants, inequalities, conditionals, logic operators, structures, and arrays. This subset of mathematics is decidable and there&#x27;s a fast, complete decision procedure for it. That knocks off all the easy stuff automatically. Easy stuff usually includes subscript checks and overflow checks.
The second prover was the Boyer-Moore prover, which is semi-automatic; you have to propose lemmas to help it along. This is hard. By using ASSERT statements to narrow the area
of trouble, you could reach the point where you had two successive ASSERTs, one of which should imply the other, but the Oppen-Nelson prover couldn&#x27;t prove it and there was no
previously proved rule on file to cover it. But now the problem had been narrowed to an abstract mathematical problem - prove the second ASSERT from the first. Someone could work on that in the Boyer-Moore prover and then export the rule for use in the main system.
This provided a separation of functions - you could have mathematically oriented people to struggle with the theorem prover, independent of the code. You could reuse
that rule elsewhere, and change other code without having to re-prove it. Today, we&#x27;d put files of useful theorems on Github. We never let the user add &quot;axioms&quot;. That opens a huge hole.<p>4. Expect to do a lot of compiler-type analysis and bookkeeping as part of the verification process. For example, the static analysis to determine that a function is pure (&quot;pure&quot; means x = y implies f(x) = f(y), and no side effects.) is something to do as a routine compiler operation. Potential aliasing has to be discovered. Do this using compiler techniques; don&#x27;t dump it into the theorems-to-be-proved mill, where it&#x27;s much harder to give the programmer good error messages.<p>5. Don&#x27;t fall in love with the formalism. Too much work in verification has been done by people who wanted to publish math papers, not kill program bugs. This is about creating bug-free code. I think people will get this now, but when I was doing this, everybody else involved was an academic.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.animats.com&#x2F;papers&#x2F;verifier&#x2F;verifiermanual.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.animats.com&#x2F;papers&#x2F;verifier&#x2F;verifiermanual.pdf</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;John-Nagle&#x2F;nqthm&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;nqthm-1992" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;John-Nagle&#x2F;nqthm&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;nqthm-1992</a></text></comment> | <story><title>A Hoare Logic for Rust</title><url>http://ticki.github.io/blog/a-hoare-logic-for-rust/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nickpsecurity</author><text>Nice description and first steps. Ideal moves would probably be the following:<p>1.Modifying front-end for Frama-C flow or similar tool to take a subset of Rust with specs, generate the VC’s, and feed them to supported provers. He seems to be doing something similar but Im sure there’s some good tools to build on.<p>2. For manual and high-assurance, embed Rust into Simpl&#x2F;HOL that seL4 used. Do an AutoCorres tool with that. You now have ability to pull similar effort with translation validation to machine code. Next, extend COGENT to generate Rust subset Simpl supports. You can now do, like their C example, a whole filesystem functionally that outputs verified Rust or machine code. Optionally extend the COGENT tool with QuickCheck, QuickSpec, etc esp where tests&#x2F;specs can translate to Rust to. Quite a foundation for other Rust developments to build on. Including redoing Rust compiler in COGENT at least for certified, reference version. ;)</text></comment> |
36,168,289 | 36,167,010 | 1 | 2 | 36,166,511 | train | <story><title>Skybox AI: Use AI to generate 3D worlds</title><url>https://skybox.blockadelabs.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>floren</author><text>One of the sneakiest EULAs I&#x27;ve seen: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;bWR8iw2.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;bWR8iw2.png</a><p>It&#x27;s titled &quot;What&#x27;s New At Blockade Labs&quot;, a title which continues to display even when you scroll down and find the terms of service below the news... which is presumably why the button is labeled &quot;Confirm&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Skybox AI: Use AI to generate 3D worlds</title><url>https://skybox.blockadelabs.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mdorazio</author><text>I was hoping someone had found a better way than radiance fields to generate actual 3D models. This is creating 360 panoramic <i>images</i>, which are not &quot;3D&quot; unless I&#x27;m missing something. Still impressive tech, though.</text></comment> |
31,962,701 | 31,960,470 | 1 | 2 | 31,957,210 | train | <story><title>Tracking Everything I Wore For 1 Year</title><url>https://andrenader.substack.com/p/nfc-clothes-tracker</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exceptione</author><text>This is peak HN; I am enjoying it. People boasting about how ones garderobe is more shitty and cheaper than the others. Next topic: why does no one wants to date me?<p>Clothing is not only functional, it can also help your appearance. Looking good does wonders for your mood. Sex appeal and all that.
Unfortunately, aesthetics is positively correlated with price. I wish it wasn´t true. I can easily spot your outfit was cheaply made. I am talking about casual wear.<p>Premium labels really go the extra mile. Fast, cheap fashion cuts lots of corners.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gernb</author><text>&gt; Premium labels really go the extra mile. Fast, cheap fashion cuts lots of corners.<p>I don&#x27;t disagree that there&#x27;s good fashion and shoddy fashion but I disagree &quot;premium labels&quot; is how to find good fashion. For me, And I know I&#x27;m in the minority here, I find any fashion that shows the branding to be horrible. A plain t-shirt that says nothing vs plain t-shirt with a tiny &quot;Boss&quot;, &quot;LV&quot;, &quot;Gucci&quot;, &quot;Prada&quot; branding on it for 5x to 10x the cost really says &quot;I hoping you&#x27;ll like my because I&#x27;m wearing expensive clothing&quot;. It does not say &quot;I have good fashion sense&quot;.<p>Taken to an extreme you get people covered in labels. This is not &quot;good fashion&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;img.5milesapp.com&#x2F;image&#x2F;upload&#x2F;f_auto,t_i800&#x2F;v1505983640&#x2F;ux1eacyjrmdzppautvpr.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;img.5milesapp.com&#x2F;image&#x2F;upload&#x2F;f_auto,t_i800&#x2F;v150598...</a><p>But it is &quot;premium labels&quot;<p>I certainly agree that dressing well (different definitions of well) generally has positive outcomes. Much of my family is fine wearing dirty old soiled t-shirts with holes in them and it bugs me. Especially when I want to take them somewhere and they&#x27;re clearly out of place in those clothes relative to the rest of the people around. At the same time they&#x27;re all doing fine and no care.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tracking Everything I Wore For 1 Year</title><url>https://andrenader.substack.com/p/nfc-clothes-tracker</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exceptione</author><text>This is peak HN; I am enjoying it. People boasting about how ones garderobe is more shitty and cheaper than the others. Next topic: why does no one wants to date me?<p>Clothing is not only functional, it can also help your appearance. Looking good does wonders for your mood. Sex appeal and all that.
Unfortunately, aesthetics is positively correlated with price. I wish it wasn´t true. I can easily spot your outfit was cheaply made. I am talking about casual wear.<p>Premium labels really go the extra mile. Fast, cheap fashion cuts lots of corners.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>teh_klev</author><text>&gt; Next topic: why does no one wants to date me?<p>&gt; Sex appeal and all that<p>That&#x27;s just nonsense. My wardrobe value has never exceeded ~GBP250. I buy new clothing probably once every 2-3 years and even then the average spend is around GBP40-60, usually when stuff has completely worn out. I&#x27;ve only owned one or two items of clothing that had a &quot;label&quot; and they were from TKMax.<p>As a bloke, despite cheaping out on my sartorial choices I&#x27;ve never had a problem with dates&#x2F;sex&#x2F;relationships. It&#x27;s all about personality, not being a dick and maintaining some semblance of basic personal hygiene.</text></comment> |
39,481,875 | 39,481,685 | 1 | 2 | 39,481,188 | train | <story><title>German Bundestag Passes Cannabis Legalization</title><url>https://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/textarchiv/2024/kw08-de-cannabis-990684</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Abroszka</author><text>The main benefit comes from knowing what you have if you grow it vs. buying something that looks like weed from the guy on the street.<p>Also growing it is super easy. If you can grow tomatoes then you are already overqualified.</text></item><item><author>lqet</author><text>Exactly, this is what I don&#x27;t buy in the &quot;black market will get extremely unattractive&quot; argument. The status quo is to buy illegally (but with very low risk for the buyer, and usually excellent anonymity) from established dealers, often people with a lot of knowledge in growing&#x2F;processing. The new legal approach would be to either grow yourself, or join a club [0]. I don&#x27;t consume cannabis, but if I would have to choose between joining a state-registered alcohol club, brewing my own beer, growing my own grapes, or just buying a bottle of wine illegally now and then from someone who has expertise in making it (and with nearly all risk on the seller side), I would definitely opt for the latter.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cannabis_Social_Club" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cannabis_Social_Club</a></text></item><item><author>brodo</author><text>It&#x27;s a big step and still a compromise. Let&#x27;s see how this whole non-commercial approach works out. I know some people who don&#x27;t want to get into growing and don&#x27;t want to join a club.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>monocasa</author><text>&gt; Also growing it is super easy. If you can grow tomatoes then you are already overqualified.<p>That&#x27;s a little overstated. It&#x27;s easy to grow very low quality weed. Growing something capable of being on a shelf to be sold is very much a skill that takes time, even for someone with a green thumb; the girls get too stressed very easily, and attract pests like you wouldn&#x27;t believe.</text></comment> | <story><title>German Bundestag Passes Cannabis Legalization</title><url>https://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/textarchiv/2024/kw08-de-cannabis-990684</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Abroszka</author><text>The main benefit comes from knowing what you have if you grow it vs. buying something that looks like weed from the guy on the street.<p>Also growing it is super easy. If you can grow tomatoes then you are already overqualified.</text></item><item><author>lqet</author><text>Exactly, this is what I don&#x27;t buy in the &quot;black market will get extremely unattractive&quot; argument. The status quo is to buy illegally (but with very low risk for the buyer, and usually excellent anonymity) from established dealers, often people with a lot of knowledge in growing&#x2F;processing. The new legal approach would be to either grow yourself, or join a club [0]. I don&#x27;t consume cannabis, but if I would have to choose between joining a state-registered alcohol club, brewing my own beer, growing my own grapes, or just buying a bottle of wine illegally now and then from someone who has expertise in making it (and with nearly all risk on the seller side), I would definitely opt for the latter.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cannabis_Social_Club" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cannabis_Social_Club</a></text></item><item><author>brodo</author><text>It&#x27;s a big step and still a compromise. Let&#x27;s see how this whole non-commercial approach works out. I know some people who don&#x27;t want to get into growing and don&#x27;t want to join a club.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lqet</author><text>That may be true, but it is still <i>much</i> more convenient and anonymous to just give someone you trust some money, especially if you live in an apartment, or have small children. I would be extremely hesitant to grow cannabis on our balcony. I am 100% sure neither my landlord, nor my neighbors would approve.</text></comment> |
33,480,496 | 33,479,813 | 1 | 2 | 33,478,751 | train | <story><title>Indian Air Force inducts natively developed light combat helicopter ‘Prachanda’</title><url>https://amritmahotsav.nic.in/spotlight-of-the-week-detail.htm?163</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Existenceblinks</author><text>As a thai whose nation adopted lots of Pali&#x2F;Sanskrit words, I have to look up the word origin <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wisdomlib.org&#x2F;definition&#x2F;pracanda" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wisdomlib.org&#x2F;definition&#x2F;pracanda</a> because I suddenly understand the meaning of &quot;Prachan&quot;, in thai it means &quot;confront&quot;. Indian naming always gives sci-fi kind of vibe.</text></comment> | <story><title>Indian Air Force inducts natively developed light combat helicopter ‘Prachanda’</title><url>https://amritmahotsav.nic.in/spotlight-of-the-week-detail.htm?163</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bee_rider</author><text>Where do attack helicopters fit into modern war, out of curiosity? From my very uninformed point of view -- seems like in a world where man-portable weapons are getting more and more capable, being in a relatively (compared to jets) slowly moving, lightly (?) armored flying vehicle would be pretty terrifying.</text></comment> |
34,727,652 | 34,726,449 | 1 | 2 | 34,723,275 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Are we sure LLMs are that useful in a web search application?</title><text>Idly chatting with the search box doesn&#x27;t strike me as the most productive use of my time.<p>Instant answers or whatever they&#x27;re called already produce direct answers plus they cite sources and provide links which is what everyone seems to think is the solution to the &quot;LLMs make stuff up&quot; problem.<p>Not to mention they&#x27;re faster and cheaper to run.<p>Only truly practical use case I can think of is summarizing articles or writing them which makes more sense as a word processor or browser add-ons</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>bbor</author><text>This is a perfect example of the popular view on here, and in my humble naive opinion it’s completely mistaken. The point isn’t “can an LLM replace google” the point is “can robots that can speak English and use logic improve the search experience” which I think basically everyone would answer “yes” to. Complaining that it gets stuff wrong when not hooked up to a web of resources to cite is, IMO, completely missing the point.<p>Also OP (not so much you) is way too caught up in the “chat” aspect - that is the first exciting UX that got popular, but these are much, much more than chatbots. Pretending that they’re human&#x2F;conscious&#x2F;in a conversation is fun, but having an invisible partner that knows you and tailors your search results… that’s powerful.<p>For example, you’ll never have to add “Reddit” again, or at least you’ll only have to tell it once. An LLM can easily identify the kind of questions where you want forum posts, read thousands of posts in a second, summarize all their content, and label each link with other information that helps you decide which threads to read in full.<p>I can’t wait!</text></item><item><author>agentultra</author><text>I think there are plenty of people that remain skeptical of their utility for this application.<p>People who want to get rich will tell you it&#x27;s the next greatest thing that will revolutionize the industry.<p>Personally, I&#x27;ve been annoyed at how confidently <i>wrong</i> ChatGPT can be. Even when you point out the error and ask it to correct the mistake it comes back with an even-more-wrong answer. And it frames it like the answer is completely, 100% correct and accurate. Because it&#x27;s essentially really deep auto-complete, it&#x27;s designed to generate text that sounds <i>plausible</i>. This isn&#x27;t useful in a search context when you want to find sources and truth.<p>I think there are useful applications for this technology but I think we should leave that to the people who understand LLM&#x27;s best and keep the charlatans out of it. LLM&#x27;s are really interesting and have come a long way by leaps and bounds... but I don&#x27;t see how replacing entire institutions and processes by something that is only well understood by a handful of people is a great idea. It&#x27;s like watering plants with gatorade.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tensor</author><text>As someone who understands how these models are built and what they do, let me just say that almost all of what you think these models can do is wrong.<p>For one, you can&#x27;t just &quot;hook up&quot; a language model to some other task, or to the web. ChatGPT is specifically built and trained to have good conversations. The fact that it can sort of appear to do other things is a happy coincidence.<p>To do any of what you want, new algorithms need to be built, and none of that is &quot;easy&quot;. And finally, these models take A LOT of cpu time. They are not going to be reading thousands of posts in a second without serious and expensive compute hardware backing it, and that level of compute isn&#x27;t remotely feasible to give out to individual users.<p>Even chatGPT, which is doing a fraction of the tasks you are listing, costs millions of dollars worth of hardware a day. The only reason it exists for free is because Microsoft has donated all that time.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Are we sure LLMs are that useful in a web search application?</title><text>Idly chatting with the search box doesn&#x27;t strike me as the most productive use of my time.<p>Instant answers or whatever they&#x27;re called already produce direct answers plus they cite sources and provide links which is what everyone seems to think is the solution to the &quot;LLMs make stuff up&quot; problem.<p>Not to mention they&#x27;re faster and cheaper to run.<p>Only truly practical use case I can think of is summarizing articles or writing them which makes more sense as a word processor or browser add-ons</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>bbor</author><text>This is a perfect example of the popular view on here, and in my humble naive opinion it’s completely mistaken. The point isn’t “can an LLM replace google” the point is “can robots that can speak English and use logic improve the search experience” which I think basically everyone would answer “yes” to. Complaining that it gets stuff wrong when not hooked up to a web of resources to cite is, IMO, completely missing the point.<p>Also OP (not so much you) is way too caught up in the “chat” aspect - that is the first exciting UX that got popular, but these are much, much more than chatbots. Pretending that they’re human&#x2F;conscious&#x2F;in a conversation is fun, but having an invisible partner that knows you and tailors your search results… that’s powerful.<p>For example, you’ll never have to add “Reddit” again, or at least you’ll only have to tell it once. An LLM can easily identify the kind of questions where you want forum posts, read thousands of posts in a second, summarize all their content, and label each link with other information that helps you decide which threads to read in full.<p>I can’t wait!</text></item><item><author>agentultra</author><text>I think there are plenty of people that remain skeptical of their utility for this application.<p>People who want to get rich will tell you it&#x27;s the next greatest thing that will revolutionize the industry.<p>Personally, I&#x27;ve been annoyed at how confidently <i>wrong</i> ChatGPT can be. Even when you point out the error and ask it to correct the mistake it comes back with an even-more-wrong answer. And it frames it like the answer is completely, 100% correct and accurate. Because it&#x27;s essentially really deep auto-complete, it&#x27;s designed to generate text that sounds <i>plausible</i>. This isn&#x27;t useful in a search context when you want to find sources and truth.<p>I think there are useful applications for this technology but I think we should leave that to the people who understand LLM&#x27;s best and keep the charlatans out of it. LLM&#x27;s are really interesting and have come a long way by leaps and bounds... but I don&#x27;t see how replacing entire institutions and processes by something that is only well understood by a handful of people is a great idea. It&#x27;s like watering plants with gatorade.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pwinnski</author><text>If the point isn&#x27;t how an LLM replace a search engine, then why is Bing using an LLM to replace their search engine?<p>When you ask whether speaking English and using logic can improve the search experience, I wonder what you consider the most important parts of the search experience? I think many people, most of the time, might say that &quot;accurate information&quot; is their highest expectation, with &quot;a pleasant conversation&quot; somewhere below that. Delivering a plausible-sounding and pleasant answer that&#x27;s completely wrong is... well, that&#x27;s not a search engine I can depend on, is it?<p>You&#x27;re hypothesizing a few things at the end that sound great! It&#x27;s completely unclear whether any of those things will actually end up happening, so I think the focus on what is available today, with Chat-GPT and Bing, is more apt than a focus on what could be.</text></comment> |
8,437,038 | 8,436,560 | 1 | 2 | 8,436,309 | train | <story><title>Rich Command Shells</title><url>http://waywardmonkeys.org/2014/10/10/rich-command-shells/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zorbo</author><text>Text is the universal interface. You can do things with it. You can strip it, cut it, transform it, send it to other places. Humans can read it, programs can read it, your printer can output it. It can be sent to web APIs, it can be stored anywhere. It&#x27;s compressible, can be colored and can be copy-pasted and is infinitely extendable. Thousands of protocols run over it.<p>The command line works with text. The command line remains the best interface I&#x27;ve ever used. It&#x27;s user friendly, composable and available everywhere. It&#x27;s easy to automate and easy to extend.<p>I wish the &quot;command line with pictures&quot; idea would just go away already. It adds nothing for the general public. I can already view pictures on remote machines with X forwarding.<p>Command line with pictures never made it, because there are ten competing standards. With text, everybody just agreed on ASCII and now Unicode&#x2F;UTF8. Text has hundreds of ugly clutches on top of it (Extended ASCII, ANSI, Escape codes, etc, etc). It still works. It&#x27;s still simple. It has its problems, but nowhere near as many problems as GUIs.<p>Those who don&#x27;t understand Unix are doomed to reimplement it... poorly.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rich Command Shells</title><url>http://waywardmonkeys.org/2014/10/10/rich-command-shells/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>josephg</author><text>I miss TermKit[1]. Its a real shame that the developer abandoned it after it got a lot of hype. There&#x27;s a huge opportunity for someone to come along and make either a new terminal encoding which allows rich, interactive output or extend VT somehow to which allows the same. If you could extend the terminal protocol, you might even be able to get it to work over SSH.<p>HTML+JS seem like the obvious way to do it - even though the web is an awful platform, its standard, cross-platform and fully featured. Its the perfect worse-is-better solution for this.<p>I think the hardest part would be figuring out how to reconcile browser-like UI events and file streams. Maybe you&#x27;d need to make a standardized event serialization format so your process could receive serialized events via stdin or something like that. I think it&#x27;ll be a really hard sell if we have to abandon our unix pipes entirely.<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/unconed/TermKit" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;unconed&#x2F;TermKit</a><p>Previous hackernews discussion around termkit: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2559734" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=2559734</a></text></comment> |
33,639,297 | 33,638,201 | 1 | 3 | 33,636,639 | train | <story><title>Demystifying Fourier analysis</title><url>https://dsego.github.io/demystifying-fourier/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>femto</author><text>A funky thing is that you can replace the &#x27;N&#x27; sin&#x2F;cos functions used in Fourier analysis with any set of &#x27;N&#x27; orthogonal functions (aka basis functions). In this context, a Fourier transform is just a bunch of correlations of the function to be analysed with each basis function. Two functions are orthogonal if their correlation is zero.<p>PCM is &quot;Fourier analysis&quot; with impulse functions in place of sin&#x2F;cos. CDMA replaces sin&#x2F;cos with a set of (almost) orthogonal functions with a wide bandwidth.<p>From an information perspective, orthogonality of the basis functions means each component&#x2F;coefficient is giving you new information about the signal. In real life you can only compute a finite number of coefficients, meaning you must have a finite amount of information, so there is an inherent uncertainty in the relationship between the signal being analysed and the output of Fourier analysis. (Physical quantities that have an uncertainty principle, such as position and momentum, are related to each other by a Fourier transform.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lupire</author><text>No! This is a huge misconception that misses the essence of quantum mechanics.
The Uncertainty is not due to finite information. It is an inherent property!<p>Uncertainty is due to (or better, &quot;modeled by&quot;, because FT is math, not physics, and you could use wavelets or something instead), Fourier (and similar transforms) is a (bidirectional) function that maps (local) points to (dispersed) waves, and vice versa. This holds true even with infinite precision&#x2F;information.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;math.uchicago.edu&#x2F;~may&#x2F;REU2021&#x2F;REUPapers&#x2F;Dubey.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;math.uchicago.edu&#x2F;~may&#x2F;REU2021&#x2F;REUPapers&#x2F;Dubey.pdf</a><p>&quot;Qualitatively, this means a narrow function has a wide Fourier transform, and a wide function has a narrow Fourier transform. In either domain, a wider function means there is literally a wide distribution of data, so there always exists uncertainty in one domain.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Demystifying Fourier analysis</title><url>https://dsego.github.io/demystifying-fourier/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>femto</author><text>A funky thing is that you can replace the &#x27;N&#x27; sin&#x2F;cos functions used in Fourier analysis with any set of &#x27;N&#x27; orthogonal functions (aka basis functions). In this context, a Fourier transform is just a bunch of correlations of the function to be analysed with each basis function. Two functions are orthogonal if their correlation is zero.<p>PCM is &quot;Fourier analysis&quot; with impulse functions in place of sin&#x2F;cos. CDMA replaces sin&#x2F;cos with a set of (almost) orthogonal functions with a wide bandwidth.<p>From an information perspective, orthogonality of the basis functions means each component&#x2F;coefficient is giving you new information about the signal. In real life you can only compute a finite number of coefficients, meaning you must have a finite amount of information, so there is an inherent uncertainty in the relationship between the signal being analysed and the output of Fourier analysis. (Physical quantities that have an uncertainty principle, such as position and momentum, are related to each other by a Fourier transform.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>djmips</author><text>From this perspective you can look at it as comparable to the dot product concept of &#x27;how much&#x27; of this thing is in that thing. You can also think of it as a &#x27;rotation&#x27; operation - a change of basis into the frequency domain. That insight I garnered from graphics pioneer James Blinn.<p>A related funky thing is that if you choose the right functions you can engineer the analysis to require only shifts and adds which was a boon for making bespoke compression schemes on limited hardware. An example is the Slant transform used in an early Intel video codec. IIRC the Hadamard transform was also similarly useful where the coefficients were all 1s and -1s. I also seem to recall that some modern codecs have modes that use transforms that avoid the traditional DCT.<p>One last thing, I might have dreamt this but I recall reading a NASA tech report from the 70s or 80s outlining a video compression scheme that used a non DCT approach that could be calculated with simpler hardware without multiplication. I remember thinking, wow they were out front but never commercialized that.</text></comment> |
36,789,843 | 36,789,844 | 1 | 2 | 36,788,708 | train | <story><title>Apple Tests ‘Apple GPT,’ Develops Generative AI Tools to Catch OpenAI</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-19/apple-preps-ajax-generative-ai-apple-gpt-to-rival-openai-and-google</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asdff</author><text>I&#x27;m hoping this means Siri will finally be intelligent enough to discern fifty from fifteen.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drooby</author><text>This is my experience with Siri for my HomePod.<p>Me: turn the music off<p>Siri: Got it, setting a timer for 5 minutes<p>Me: No! Stop!<p>Siri: There are not timers to stop right now.<p><i>me never using siri again</i></text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Tests ‘Apple GPT,’ Develops Generative AI Tools to Catch OpenAI</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-19/apple-preps-ajax-generative-ai-apple-gpt-to-rival-openai-and-google</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asdff</author><text>I&#x27;m hoping this means Siri will finally be intelligent enough to discern fifty from fifteen.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toxik</author><text>Siri is also getting worse. In my native language, I used to (often) say “Add milk to grocery list”, and it now replies “I’m sorry, but I don’t know which speaker you mean.”</text></comment> |
33,183,119 | 33,180,583 | 1 | 2 | 33,177,034 | train | <story><title>Apple is quietly pushing a TV ad product with media agencies</title><url>https://digiday.com/media/apple-is-quietly-pushing-a-tv-ad-product-with-media-agencies/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throw10920</author><text>Nobody has the right to obtain copyrighted entertainment products. Unlike, say, having access to food or water, or even education, there&#x27;s no coherent moral framework that says that you are obligated to the latest TV shows or movies under your own terms.<p>&gt; that are contributing a substantial part of how the society collectively feels and thinks<p>First of all, I straight-up don&#x27;t believe this. I had very little exposure to TV&#x2F;movies&#x2F;books&#x2F;the internet growing up, and yet I feel virtually no disconnect with my friends and co-workers - even when I don&#x27;t understand a particular cultural reference they make, they either explain it and we engage in a fun tangent about it, or we just laugh and move on.<p>Second, even if that were true - then the problem is that culture is being built off of copyrighted works in the first place. Solve <i>that</i>. Doing otherwise shows that this is just a convenient excuse to secure access to personal entertainment.</text></item><item><author>nscalf</author><text>I don&#x27;t find this particularly morally dubious. These companies are approaching monopoly powers and using it to squeeze consumers. Disney owns about 1&#x2F;3 of all box office revenue. The government has shown they&#x27;re unwilling to break up monopolies, or even really limit them in any meaningful way.<p>Also, I don&#x27;t quite know my feelings on this yet, but there is something real about some shows and movies being part of the milieu. Something doesn&#x27;t sit quite right about repeatedly increasing the pricing via anti-consumer acquisitions on products that are contributing a substantial part of how the society collectively feels and thinks. It feels like you have to make more money to live in the same society.</text></item><item><author>belval</author><text>I know it&#x27;s morally dubious, but I&#x27;m completely back in pirateland because of all the changes&#x2F;price hikes&#x2F;partitioning in the streaming space. My interests make it so I only watch 1-2 shows per platform so I&#x27;d be approaching ~100$&#x2F;month.<p>And even if I was swimming in money, it&#x27;s often easier to just download the shows I want and watch them on Plex&#x2F;Jellyfin than trying to navigate the (often ad-riddled) interfaces of the various platforms and finding <i>where</i> the content I want is.<p>One example is Rick and Morty, it&#x27;s made by Adult Swim, but they don&#x27;t have a streaming service in Canada. It seems to be on Primevideo but under a different system than their regular content. The other way to watch it is to buy it from my cable provider (I don&#x27;t have cable). So to watch a 20-minutes animated show I&#x27;d have to take a +40$ subscription.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>samatman</author><text>&gt; <i>there&#x27;s no coherent moral framework that says that you are obligated to the latest TV shows or movies under your own terms.</i><p>Copyright anarchy and copyright abolition are absolutely coherent moral frameworks.<p>I have a magnet link. It brings me information. You don&#x27;t want me to have that information? Up yours.<p>Oh you <i>made</i> it did you? Should&#x27;ve thought about my BATNA before deciding how to put it on the market.<p>For the record, I&#x27;m quite a bit more moderate than this would imply. But copyright is a weird wrinkle to &quot;encourage the useful arts and sciences&quot;, it&#x27;s has no basis in natural rights, the opposite in fact: the State intervenes in my natural right to do things with my own computer and the Internet connection I pay for, in order to encourage the making of more cinema and so on.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple is quietly pushing a TV ad product with media agencies</title><url>https://digiday.com/media/apple-is-quietly-pushing-a-tv-ad-product-with-media-agencies/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throw10920</author><text>Nobody has the right to obtain copyrighted entertainment products. Unlike, say, having access to food or water, or even education, there&#x27;s no coherent moral framework that says that you are obligated to the latest TV shows or movies under your own terms.<p>&gt; that are contributing a substantial part of how the society collectively feels and thinks<p>First of all, I straight-up don&#x27;t believe this. I had very little exposure to TV&#x2F;movies&#x2F;books&#x2F;the internet growing up, and yet I feel virtually no disconnect with my friends and co-workers - even when I don&#x27;t understand a particular cultural reference they make, they either explain it and we engage in a fun tangent about it, or we just laugh and move on.<p>Second, even if that were true - then the problem is that culture is being built off of copyrighted works in the first place. Solve <i>that</i>. Doing otherwise shows that this is just a convenient excuse to secure access to personal entertainment.</text></item><item><author>nscalf</author><text>I don&#x27;t find this particularly morally dubious. These companies are approaching monopoly powers and using it to squeeze consumers. Disney owns about 1&#x2F;3 of all box office revenue. The government has shown they&#x27;re unwilling to break up monopolies, or even really limit them in any meaningful way.<p>Also, I don&#x27;t quite know my feelings on this yet, but there is something real about some shows and movies being part of the milieu. Something doesn&#x27;t sit quite right about repeatedly increasing the pricing via anti-consumer acquisitions on products that are contributing a substantial part of how the society collectively feels and thinks. It feels like you have to make more money to live in the same society.</text></item><item><author>belval</author><text>I know it&#x27;s morally dubious, but I&#x27;m completely back in pirateland because of all the changes&#x2F;price hikes&#x2F;partitioning in the streaming space. My interests make it so I only watch 1-2 shows per platform so I&#x27;d be approaching ~100$&#x2F;month.<p>And even if I was swimming in money, it&#x27;s often easier to just download the shows I want and watch them on Plex&#x2F;Jellyfin than trying to navigate the (often ad-riddled) interfaces of the various platforms and finding <i>where</i> the content I want is.<p>One example is Rick and Morty, it&#x27;s made by Adult Swim, but they don&#x27;t have a streaming service in Canada. It seems to be on Primevideo but under a different system than their regular content. The other way to watch it is to buy it from my cable provider (I don&#x27;t have cable). So to watch a 20-minutes animated show I&#x27;d have to take a +40$ subscription.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>horsawlarway</author><text>&gt; Second, even if that were true - then the problem is that culture is being built off of copyrighted works in the first place. Solve that.<p>I mean - the natural state of these works has ALREADY solved that, they are easily copied and distributed. The only prevention is arbitrary law&#x2F;policy that says we (the royal one) shouldn&#x27;t.<p>So you&#x27;re essentially arguing that no one has the right to a product, but they do - in a natural state, copying and sharing those items IS THE DEFAULT.<p>In fact - copyright law is insanely new, as far as laws go - dating back only about 300 years (1710 - Statute of Anne).<p>Personally - I think the whole thing was a mistake, and we&#x27;ve seen complete erosion of public access to works of all sort (not to mention education) under these new laws. That said - they&#x27;re wildly successful if the goal is to subvert culture for private gains.</text></comment> |
26,375,689 | 26,375,800 | 1 | 2 | 26,374,755 | train | <story><title>Simple and privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytic</title><url>https://github.com/plausible/analytics</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eric4smith</author><text>I would posit that almost any remotely hosted analytics system (privacy oriented or not) is eventually a target for privacy centric browsers. If not now, then in the future.<p>I mean, let&#x27;s be honest - the days are fast coming when anything that looks like remotely hosted javascript is going to be blocked, no matter how benign it is.<p>So could it be that the future is home grown analytics subsystems that reside in your own stack?<p>That way people who need <i>deeper</i> types of tracking can do it, while those that need shallow analytics can do it too.<p>It certainly seems to be heading in that direction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>markosaric</author><text>We&#x27;re hoping to start a conversation with browsers such as Brave and Firefox and blocklist maintainers about this.<p>One way to incentivize even more sites to move from GA et al would be to create some kind of privacy criteria and whitelist those analytics that fulfill it (open source, minimal data, no personal data, no cookies&#x2F;persistent identifiers, no cross-site&#x2F;device tracking, no connection to adtech etc).<p>Site owners want analytics. We offer self-hosted service but most sites don&#x27;t want to deal with managing analytics server as it is not an easy job. So by blocking every analytics tool (good or bad) the incentive for site owners is more on trying to avoid being blocked rather than on moving to something more privacy-friendly.<p>(I&#x27;m the Plausible co-founder)</text></comment> | <story><title>Simple and privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytic</title><url>https://github.com/plausible/analytics</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eric4smith</author><text>I would posit that almost any remotely hosted analytics system (privacy oriented or not) is eventually a target for privacy centric browsers. If not now, then in the future.<p>I mean, let&#x27;s be honest - the days are fast coming when anything that looks like remotely hosted javascript is going to be blocked, no matter how benign it is.<p>So could it be that the future is home grown analytics subsystems that reside in your own stack?<p>That way people who need <i>deeper</i> types of tracking can do it, while those that need shallow analytics can do it too.<p>It certainly seems to be heading in that direction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>capableweb</author><text>&gt; I mean, let&#x27;s be honest - the days are fast coming when anything that looks like remotely hosted javascript is going to be blocked, no matter how benign it is.<p>I&#x27;m sorry but what? Remotely hosted JS seems to always be growing in popularity, at least in the SaaS business and related area. Can I ask what industry you&#x27;re in where you see more and more people blocking _all_ JS, not just analytics&#x2F;tracking? (The HN bubble doesn&#x27;t count as a &quot;industry&quot;)<p>I have a really hard time as seeing your statement as &quot;the truth&quot;. People today seem even more likely to accept arbitrary JS running in their browser, than how it used to be.</text></comment> |
34,226,547 | 34,226,233 | 1 | 2 | 34,216,118 | train | <story><title>Canada bans most foreigners from buying homes</title><url>https://www.voanews.com/a/canada-bans-most-foreigners-from-buying-homes/6899982.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Negitivefrags</author><text>There seems to be a general lack of political will for big projects in the west.<p>Looking at Asia now is like what the west used to be like.<p>I am unsure about the cause but I suspect that a lot of it is that people seem a lot more worried about consultation with locals and such.<p>In the past the government might just decide “we are building a highway here” or “we are building all this infrastructure for houses there” and there seemed to be a lot less consideration for how people affected would feel about it.<p>Media has gotten more pervasive, so we might imagine that politicians are more concerned about things flaring up there, but Asia has plenty of media access too, so that doesn’t really explain it.</text></item><item><author>plantain</author><text>I really don&#x27;t understand why governments around the globe just throw their hands in the air and pretend housing is an unsolvable problem for which they have no obligation to fix.<p>It wasn&#x27;t always like this - in 1922 in Australia we realised there was a shortage of 25,000 homes, so they just made it happen [1]. Why are we so impotent today? Do we just not care enough? Are the vested interests too powerful?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;FlSIML5aYAAVmvf?format=jpg&amp;name=large" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;FlSIML5aYAAVmvf?format=jpg&amp;name=...</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nla.gov.au&#x2F;nla.obj-2947838631&#x2F;view?sectionId=nla.obj-2959070613&amp;searchTerm=%22high+rent%22&amp;partId=nla.obj-2947971754#" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nla.gov.au&#x2F;nla.obj-2947838631&#x2F;view?sectionId=nla.obj...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>QIYGT</author><text>&gt; There seems to be a general lack of political will for big projects in the west.<p>We don&#x27;t need big projects. If popular US cities like Seattle and San Francisco simply allowed people to build 5-story apartment buildings in all the space that&#x27;s currently set aside for single-family detached homes, you&#x27;d see people building millions of small projects to easily meet the demand.</text></comment> | <story><title>Canada bans most foreigners from buying homes</title><url>https://www.voanews.com/a/canada-bans-most-foreigners-from-buying-homes/6899982.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Negitivefrags</author><text>There seems to be a general lack of political will for big projects in the west.<p>Looking at Asia now is like what the west used to be like.<p>I am unsure about the cause but I suspect that a lot of it is that people seem a lot more worried about consultation with locals and such.<p>In the past the government might just decide “we are building a highway here” or “we are building all this infrastructure for houses there” and there seemed to be a lot less consideration for how people affected would feel about it.<p>Media has gotten more pervasive, so we might imagine that politicians are more concerned about things flaring up there, but Asia has plenty of media access too, so that doesn’t really explain it.</text></item><item><author>plantain</author><text>I really don&#x27;t understand why governments around the globe just throw their hands in the air and pretend housing is an unsolvable problem for which they have no obligation to fix.<p>It wasn&#x27;t always like this - in 1922 in Australia we realised there was a shortage of 25,000 homes, so they just made it happen [1]. Why are we so impotent today? Do we just not care enough? Are the vested interests too powerful?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;FlSIML5aYAAVmvf?format=jpg&amp;name=large" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pbs.twimg.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;FlSIML5aYAAVmvf?format=jpg&amp;name=...</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nla.gov.au&#x2F;nla.obj-2947838631&#x2F;view?sectionId=nla.obj-2959070613&amp;searchTerm=%22high+rent%22&amp;partId=nla.obj-2947971754#" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nla.gov.au&#x2F;nla.obj-2947838631&#x2F;view?sectionId=nla.obj...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dionidium</author><text>&gt; <i>There seems to be a general lack of political will for big projects in the west.</i><p>The spectacular thing about the housing crisis is that you don&#x27;t even <i>need</i> any big government projects. It just needs to be <i>legal</i> for private actors to build housing. On most plots of land today it is not legal to build anything but a single-family home, so cities are no longer able to naturally densify over time (just like every single modern city did 100 years ago, so that they could become the cities they are today).</text></comment> |
23,354,990 | 23,353,399 | 1 | 2 | 23,347,155 | train | <story><title>Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”</title><url>https://twitter.com/bjoewolf/status/1266268435647852553</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>Twitter policy:<p><i>&quot;We start from a position of assuming that people do not intend to violate our Rules. Unless a violation is so egregious that we must immediately suspend an account, we first try to educate people about our Rules and give them a chance to correct their behavior. We show the violator the offending Tweet(s), explain which Rule was broken, and require them to remove the content before they can Tweet again. If someone repeatedly violates our Rules then our enforcement actions become stronger. This includes requiring violators to remove the Tweet(s) and taking additional actions like verifying account ownership and&#x2F;or temporarily limiting their ability to Tweet for a set period of time. If someone continues to violate Rules beyond that point then their account may be permanently suspended.&quot;</i><p>Somewhere a counter was just incremented. It&#x27;s going to be amusing if Twitter management simply lets the automated system do its thing. At some point, after warnings, the standard 48-hour suspension will trigger. Twitter management can simply simply say &quot;it is our policy not to comment on enforcement actions&quot;.<p>They&#x27;ve suspended the accounts of prominent people many times before.[1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Twitter_suspensions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Twitter_suspensions</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seesawtron</author><text>I would imagine that accounts of &quot;important&quot; people are handled personally rather than by automated algorithm. As Jack Dorsey points out in this[0] Joe Rogan podcast, the reported tweets by public or algorithm are manually checked at some point.<p>Approx. 4000 employees of Twitter all around the world. Every day 100k (edit: 100M) tweets are sent. The reports of tweets that violate the platform policy are (reported by public) enter a queue. These are then inspected by personnel hired by Twitter (number varies proportionally to the scale reports in the queue).<p>The personnel then go through a series of steps to take an action such as making you verify again, delete those tweets, suspending the account, or in the last resort ban the user permanently.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=DZCBRHOg3PQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=DZCBRHOg3PQ</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”</title><url>https://twitter.com/bjoewolf/status/1266268435647852553</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>Twitter policy:<p><i>&quot;We start from a position of assuming that people do not intend to violate our Rules. Unless a violation is so egregious that we must immediately suspend an account, we first try to educate people about our Rules and give them a chance to correct their behavior. We show the violator the offending Tweet(s), explain which Rule was broken, and require them to remove the content before they can Tweet again. If someone repeatedly violates our Rules then our enforcement actions become stronger. This includes requiring violators to remove the Tweet(s) and taking additional actions like verifying account ownership and&#x2F;or temporarily limiting their ability to Tweet for a set period of time. If someone continues to violate Rules beyond that point then their account may be permanently suspended.&quot;</i><p>Somewhere a counter was just incremented. It&#x27;s going to be amusing if Twitter management simply lets the automated system do its thing. At some point, after warnings, the standard 48-hour suspension will trigger. Twitter management can simply simply say &quot;it is our policy not to comment on enforcement actions&quot;.<p>They&#x27;ve suspended the accounts of prominent people many times before.[1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Twitter_suspensions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Twitter_suspensions</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bryanmgreen</author><text>Better leveraging Twitter&#x27;s reporting feature is probably the most neutral way to solve this.<p>When a tweet is deemed response-worthy, they should post the report numbers. Value in numbers shields them in many ways and could legitimize their actions as a neutral party. Then, if they miss something, they can simply say there weren&#x27;t enough reports. This will then empower the feature in the future.<p>I suggest this as active Reddit moderator with a community of 40,000+ subscribers who regularly has to enforce rules and uses auto-mod to help manage reports and shares that with the community.<p>-----------------------<p>You can report tweets for:<p>(1) Being not interested in it (you just get redirected to a mute or block button)<p>(2)It&#x27;s suspicious or spam<p>---&gt; The account is fake<p>---&gt; Includes a link to a potentially harmful or phishing site<p>---&gt; Hashtags are unrelated<p>---&gt; Uses the reply function to spam<p>---&gt; Something else<p>(3) It&#x27;s abusive or harmful<p>---&gt; It&#x27;s disrespectful<p>---&gt; Includes private information<p>---&gt; Includes targeted harassment<p>---&gt; It directs hate against a protected category (eg race, religions, gender, orientation, disability)<p>---&gt; Threatening violence<p>---&gt; They&#x27;re encouraging self-harm or suicide<p>(4) It&#x27;s misleading about politics or civic events<p>---&gt; It has false information about how to vote<p>---&gt; It intends to suppress or intimidate someone from voting<p>---&gt; It misrepresents it&#x27;s affiliation or impersonates an official<p>(5) It expresses intentions of self-harm or suicide.<p>-----------------------<p>It&#x27;s pretty good but I would suggest the very simple following updates:<p>- Updating the main issue (It&#x27;s abusive or harmful) to (It&#x27;s abusive or encourages violence or destruction of property)<p>- Adding a sub-issue to (It&#x27;s misleading about politics or civic events) with (A political official is supporting false or unsubstantiated information as definitive truth.)<p>- Adding a sub-issue to (It&#x27;s suspicious, spam, or false) with (It&#x27;s supporting false or unsubstantiated information as definitive truth.)<p>- Adding chevron icons (&gt;) as a visual cue that each main reporting issue has many sub-issues</text></comment> |
15,379,008 | 15,378,514 | 1 | 2 | 15,376,911 | train | <story><title>Could ayahuasca have health benefits?</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-41333172</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dnc</author><text>While I was on a retreat this year in a Peruvian village, I was told by several natives (Shipibo people) that, by their tradition (some estimations are that Shipibo tribes have been using Ayahuasca for millenias), Ayahuasca is orally taken in healing ceremonies by their shamans only. Traditionally, in the normal course of a healing ceremony, it is not a patient who takes &#x27;the medicine&#x27; or &#x27;the plant teacher&#x27; (Ayahuasca), but the shaman in order to learn from the plant what his patient illness is and how to go about healing it. Also traditionaly, Ayahuasca is taken during shamanic training (which takes years, if not a whole life) as a part of a special and very strict diet that can last between several weeks to a year or more, depending on a plant that one is dieting. During the diet shaman apprentice is supposed to take Ayahuasca, but only at the beginning and at the end of the diet, if it is a short one, or every once in couple of months if the diet is longer. The diet is a way to become familiar with the plant and learn what it has to teach you and Ayahuasca, the teacher plant, is used as a sort of a learning facilitator. From my understanding, a practice of organizing Ayahuasca ceremonies and giving the brew to foreigners in exchange for money has been relatively recently established with rising popularization of Ayahuasca and demand for it from abroad.</text></comment> | <story><title>Could ayahuasca have health benefits?</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-41333172</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nowherecat</author><text>Having had frequent ceremonies over the course of several months I stopped drinking the tea, because I find it is not helping being pulled from one extreme into another. Our western way of life makes it very difficult to integrate the profound experiences that one can get through this medicine and it requires major commitments to change..and it requires good helpers and facilitators. We, as westerners, are often times not equipped to integrate this lost wisdom into our lives. I know it is said it is not addictive but I know enough people that at least appear dependent on it and swear by it being the solution.<p>I personally believe that meditation and journeying inward without drugs brings about insights of a similar magnitude in a pace that we can cope with and integrate what we learn without jojo’ing between bliss and depression.<p>Ayahuasca has its place. It definitely helped us experience that there is much more to life than the material. But in my opinion I t’s a sledge Hammer that helps crack hard nuts or sets a direction. The work has to be done by oneself and the risk with ayahuasca is that one just keeps drinking the tea, thinking that that is enough.<p>Apart from that it is quite dangerous nowadays to do ceremonies with traveling “shamans”, because a lot of them don’t even brew the tea themselves and oftentimes facilitate in a way that it is bound to go wrong at some point.</text></comment> |
2,672,233 | 2,672,095 | 1 | 2 | 2,671,441 | train | <story><title>500k Bitcoins traded in 1h, Mt.Gox market hacked + crash</title><url>http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/chart.png?width=976&m=mtgoxUSD&k=&r=1&i=&c=0&s=&e=&Prev=&Next=&v=1&cv=0&ps=0&l=0&p=0&t=S&b=&a1=&m1=10&a2=&m2=25&x=0&i1=&i2=&i3=&i4=&SubmitButton=Draw&</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Hawramani</author><text>Where do programmers learn about this stuff? Is it taught at schools? Can anyone recommend good books on proper security procedures?</text></item><item><author>bradleyland</author><text>I hate to look down my nose at other programmers, because I understand that we all start somewhere, but if you are building a <i>financial exchange</i> and you encrypted passwords using unsalted MD5 at any point in the history of your product, you have proven to me that you are learning as you go, and there is no way in hell I'd trust you with any significant sum of money.</text></item><item><author>soult</author><text>I can confirm that the alleged dump is the real deal.<p>Some passwords are md5 hashes, some are salted md5 hashes (utilizing the crypt[0] function). I did not log in for a long time and my password was still unsalted, so I assume that converting to salted passwords was done either automatically on login or on password changes.<p>0: <a href="http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man3/crypt.3.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man3/crypt....</a></text></item><item><author>tlrobinson</author><text>There's an alleged database dump of Mt Gox floating around... <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/954/status/82531189705019392" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/#!/954/status/82531189705019392</a><p>UPDATE: looks legit.<p><a href="http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=19543.0" rel="nofollow">http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=19543.0</a><p><a href="https://support.mtgox.com/entries/20208066-huge-bitcoin-sell-off-due-to-a-compromised-account-rollback" rel="nofollow">https://support.mtgox.com/entries/20208066-huge-bitcoin-sell...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nokcha</author><text>For web security, I'd recommend checking out this question on Stack Overflow:
<a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/72394/what-should-a-developer-know-before-building-a-public-web-site" rel="nofollow">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/72394/what-should-a-devel...</a><p>Also the OWASP top ten vulnerabilities: <a href="https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Top_Ten_Project" rel="nofollow">https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Top_Ten_Proje...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>500k Bitcoins traded in 1h, Mt.Gox market hacked + crash</title><url>http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/chart.png?width=976&m=mtgoxUSD&k=&r=1&i=&c=0&s=&e=&Prev=&Next=&v=1&cv=0&ps=0&l=0&p=0&t=S&b=&a1=&m1=10&a2=&m2=25&x=0&i1=&i2=&i3=&i4=&SubmitButton=Draw&</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Hawramani</author><text>Where do programmers learn about this stuff? Is it taught at schools? Can anyone recommend good books on proper security procedures?</text></item><item><author>bradleyland</author><text>I hate to look down my nose at other programmers, because I understand that we all start somewhere, but if you are building a <i>financial exchange</i> and you encrypted passwords using unsalted MD5 at any point in the history of your product, you have proven to me that you are learning as you go, and there is no way in hell I'd trust you with any significant sum of money.</text></item><item><author>soult</author><text>I can confirm that the alleged dump is the real deal.<p>Some passwords are md5 hashes, some are salted md5 hashes (utilizing the crypt[0] function). I did not log in for a long time and my password was still unsalted, so I assume that converting to salted passwords was done either automatically on login or on password changes.<p>0: <a href="http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man3/crypt.3.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man3/crypt....</a></text></item><item><author>tlrobinson</author><text>There's an alleged database dump of Mt Gox floating around... <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/954/status/82531189705019392" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/#!/954/status/82531189705019392</a><p>UPDATE: looks legit.<p><a href="http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=19543.0" rel="nofollow">http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=19543.0</a><p><a href="https://support.mtgox.com/entries/20208066-huge-bitcoin-sell-off-due-to-a-compromised-account-rollback" rel="nofollow">https://support.mtgox.com/entries/20208066-huge-bitcoin-sell...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>michaelf</author><text>A great place to start is "Applied Cryptography" by Bruce Schneier.<p><a href="http://www.schneier.com/book-applied.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.schneier.com/book-applied.html</a><p>Edit: Note, this really barely scratches the surface for building secure software. AC says how to apply cryptographic primitives correctly. It won't teach you how to avoid vulnerabilities specific to particular application domains (like CSS, SQL injection, etc...).</text></comment> |
6,235,651 | 6,235,708 | 1 | 2 | 6,235,363 | train | <story><title>IronPigeon - Decentralized communication protocol for sending secure messages</title><url>https://github.com/aarnott/ironpigeon</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>Is this running RSA PKCS #1 v1.5 signatures on every message, and CBC-encrypting without a MAC? It&#x27;s a little hard to follow the code (the crypto specifics appear to be platform-specific).<p>Also, the WP8 code uses a CSPRNG for keys (good) but the insecure random number generator for IVs. Why?<p>Where do my peer&#x27;s pubkeys come from? How are they stored? How are they validated? Do I have one per peer, or one single RSA key I send to all my peers?<p>How screwed am I if I lose my RSA key to an attacker? Are all my old messages now decryptable?<p>Exactly what happens when an RSA verification fails? What about when decryption fails?</text></comment> | <story><title>IronPigeon - Decentralized communication protocol for sending secure messages</title><url>https://github.com/aarnott/ironpigeon</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>crazygringo</author><text>So how long will it be before someone comes up with a distributed decentralized solution for encrypted &quot;e-mail&quot;, much like a kind of BitTorrent+DHT+Tor for communications?<p>With some kind of intermediate &quot;routing&quot; where a few clients keep a message &quot;online&quot; until the intended recipient finally downloads it, or some kind of timeout expires?<p>But also supporting G-Chat-like functionality whenever both computers are online at the same time?<p>I mean, forget about interoperability with SMTP or existing e-mail addresses... just make it crypto-only, with client software just like BitTorrent programs like uTorrent, Transmission, Vuze, etc.</text></comment> |
36,092,557 | 36,092,503 | 1 | 2 | 36,090,344 | train | <story><title>418 I'm a teapot</title><url>https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/418</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geuis</author><text>Many years ago, some person misconfigured their squid proxy and was hitting <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jsonip.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jsonip.com</a> to the point my server at the time was turning green in the gills.<p>I started responding with 418 &quot;You are a tea kettle&quot; or something like that to those specific requests. The originating dev actually paid attention to their error messages and quickly resolved their config issue.<p>Fast forward to March this year. Some fucking numb nuts a-hole decided to add jsonip.com to an EXTREMELY widely used version of Dalvik&#x2F;Android software that gets deployed to hundreds of thousands or millions of devices.<p>Overnight my traffic levels increased by 300%. I&#x27;m a solo dev offering a free service for 12 years. That kind of increase in traffic costs me money I&#x27;ve never had to plan for.<p>I ended up switching to Cloudeflare to handle the load with a WAF filter on the offending android tvs and other devices.<p>However Cloudflare doesn&#x27;t properly route ipv4 address because &quot;ipv6 is cool so we only do that&quot; or something. Despite numerous support requests, that&#x27;s still <i>shmaybe</i> an enterprise level feature.<p>I apologize to any long time users of the service. This was completely unexpected after more than a decade. I&#x27;ve been trying different &quot;fixes&quot; for 2 months and have not resolved a way to block this garbage traffic and still provide the original services.<p>Yea sorry I turned this funny old internet post about the mit coffee pot into a thing happening to me.<p>But if for some ungodly reason you&#x27;re the dev or know who did it, REMOVE MY SERVICE ADDRESS FROM YOUR OUT OF DATE FROM TV&#x2F;SMART DEVICE ANDROID code. You&#x27;re literally fucking killing me. I&#x27;ve literally spend dozens of hours trying to find out if this was a contribution to a public source repo. Nothing.<p>Based on the Dalvik user agent, I only found a handful of references in Chinese repos. But google search is so terrible these days, even those are false flags.<p>So I have <i>no</i> idea who to contact about this. Some dipshit on your team(s) decided to abuse a free service as though there isn&#x27;t a single human person behind it absorbing the costs and making sure it runs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrweasel</author><text>Could you start returning wrong answers, &quot;country&quot;:&quot;TW&quot; should do it.<p>We had to deal with image scrapers who didn&#x27;t respond to requests to stop, even if we provided an API service. I configured nginx to just serve them images of a beaver and a few 1GB junk files, they stopped pretty quickly.</text></comment> | <story><title>418 I'm a teapot</title><url>https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/418</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geuis</author><text>Many years ago, some person misconfigured their squid proxy and was hitting <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jsonip.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jsonip.com</a> to the point my server at the time was turning green in the gills.<p>I started responding with 418 &quot;You are a tea kettle&quot; or something like that to those specific requests. The originating dev actually paid attention to their error messages and quickly resolved their config issue.<p>Fast forward to March this year. Some fucking numb nuts a-hole decided to add jsonip.com to an EXTREMELY widely used version of Dalvik&#x2F;Android software that gets deployed to hundreds of thousands or millions of devices.<p>Overnight my traffic levels increased by 300%. I&#x27;m a solo dev offering a free service for 12 years. That kind of increase in traffic costs me money I&#x27;ve never had to plan for.<p>I ended up switching to Cloudeflare to handle the load with a WAF filter on the offending android tvs and other devices.<p>However Cloudflare doesn&#x27;t properly route ipv4 address because &quot;ipv6 is cool so we only do that&quot; or something. Despite numerous support requests, that&#x27;s still <i>shmaybe</i> an enterprise level feature.<p>I apologize to any long time users of the service. This was completely unexpected after more than a decade. I&#x27;ve been trying different &quot;fixes&quot; for 2 months and have not resolved a way to block this garbage traffic and still provide the original services.<p>Yea sorry I turned this funny old internet post about the mit coffee pot into a thing happening to me.<p>But if for some ungodly reason you&#x27;re the dev or know who did it, REMOVE MY SERVICE ADDRESS FROM YOUR OUT OF DATE FROM TV&#x2F;SMART DEVICE ANDROID code. You&#x27;re literally fucking killing me. I&#x27;ve literally spend dozens of hours trying to find out if this was a contribution to a public source repo. Nothing.<p>Based on the Dalvik user agent, I only found a handful of references in Chinese repos. But google search is so terrible these days, even those are false flags.<p>So I have <i>no</i> idea who to contact about this. Some dipshit on your team(s) decided to abuse a free service as though there isn&#x27;t a single human person behind it absorbing the costs and making sure it runs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dannyw</author><text>Your website on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;getjsonip.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;getjsonip.com&#x2F;</a> says:<p>&gt; Supports unlimited requests and is free.<p>Maybe update that text? There is no guidance on acceptable thresholds, rate limits, etc.</text></comment> |
24,405,847 | 24,405,482 | 1 | 3 | 24,404,814 | train | <story><title>URL query parameters and how laxness creates de facto requirements on the web</title><url>https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/DeFactoQueryParameters</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>inoffensivename</author><text>Years ago I worked on Google Maps, we spent an inordinate amount of time making sure that we didn&#x27;t break backwards compatibility. Sometimes we would be trying to refactor some old code, but we&#x27;d get stuck trying to support some ancient client that was sending us like 4 requests a day with some wacky query parameters.<p>On the other hand, our Maps still worked on all 5 Blackberries that people were still using.</text></comment> | <story><title>URL query parameters and how laxness creates de facto requirements on the web</title><url>https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/DeFactoQueryParameters</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wereHamster</author><text>&gt; One of the ways that DWiki (the code behind Wandering Thoughts) is unusual is that it strictly validates the query parameters it receives on URLs, including on HTTP GET requests for ordinary pages. If a HTTP request has unexpected and unsupported query parameters, such a GET request will normally fail.<p>This goes counter to the robustness principle: Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Robustness_principle" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Robustness_principle</a>).</text></comment> |
27,515,624 | 27,515,847 | 1 | 2 | 27,514,188 | train | <story><title>Survey shows people no longer believe working hard will lead to a better life</title><url>https://insidermag.net/survey-shows-people-no-longer-believe-working-hard-will-lead-to-a-better-life/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dahart</author><text>&gt; How much social mobility we talking? ([...] only talking about the US)<p>My college US history course ~20 years ago very much drove home the fact that (at least at the time) social mobility in the US was the same as in India. The surprise, of course, was that India has a caste system, while the US narrative is freedom; if you work hard, you’ll get ahead.<p>I don’t remember the sources, but the rate of social mobility (up <i>and</i> down) we learned in class was ~20%, as defined by ending up in a different quintile than one was born in, meaning put people into 5 categories according to socioeconomic status, and see whether they ever change categories, for example going from middle class to upper middle class.<p>Wikipedia says that overall average social mobility in the US hasn’t changed since then.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Socioeconomic_mobility_in_the_United_States" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Socioeconomic_mobility_in_the_...</a></text></item><item><author>throwaway0a5e</author><text>How much social mobility we talking?<p>Statistically nobody goes from trailer park to billionare by working hard.<p>You have very, very, good odds of doing better than your parents if you manage to get to age 25 without incurring a felony record, addiction to something that will likely kill you or too many child support payments.<p>edit: I&#x27;m only talking about the US</text></item><item><author>wishigotitfree</author><text>Starting conditions (where one was born, levels of wealth and opportunity there, one&#x27;s parents&#x27; education and jobs) are shockingly predictive about an individual&#x27;s future. Hard work leading to social mobility has always been the exception, not the rule. Most will not beat the odds since if they did, those wouldn&#x27;t BE the odds. A lot of us are just so deluded by survivorship bias borne of listening only to success stories, but it seems more and more people are seeing through the illusion. In my opinion, that&#x27;s a good thing, as recognizing the true state of things is the first step to improving them, and this combination of consciousness and lived experience can prove to be potent immunization against bad faith actors who want to maintain the illusion of widespread social mobility.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Frost1x</author><text>Narrative is important because the language it provides frames a way of life for many who haven&#x27;t framed their own perspective based on the information they have and haven&#x27;t seen. It&#x27;s easy to pickup a narrative, it&#x27;s far more difficult to dig through and generate your own perspective. It&#x27;s even more critical because childhood education relies on providing narrative frameworks because children often don&#x27;t have enough information of processes yet to think critically.<p>The reason I say this is as you point out, in the US we frame everything as being highly mobile. The illusory framing of our society in &quot;the American dream&quot; in K-12 education and freedoms dangles this carrot of possibility of high social mobility to children. It&#x27;s not completely invalid, it is possible to make massive transitions in socioeconomic brakets, but it&#x27;s just a framing of the rare exceptions, not the norms.<p>Most of us are going to be the norms, so these narratives are a disservice to people about what their real socioeconomic mobility potential and <i>probability</i> is. It&#x27;s fine to dream, aim high, and shoot for the moon as a society-- that promotes growth and avoids stagnation. At the same time, we should be very clear what is and isn&#x27;t a moonshot that way many aren&#x27;t so resentful when they later discover what they thought was reasonable was actually incredibly difficult bordering on impossible. What&#x27;s possible and what&#x27;s probable need to be distinguished and the American dream framing doesn&#x27;t talk to probability.<p>There&#x27;s this whole lie painted to children that the US is somehow a meritocracy when it&#x27;s not. Merit can help, but it isn&#x27;t everything and we need people to understand this.</text></comment> | <story><title>Survey shows people no longer believe working hard will lead to a better life</title><url>https://insidermag.net/survey-shows-people-no-longer-believe-working-hard-will-lead-to-a-better-life/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dahart</author><text>&gt; How much social mobility we talking? ([...] only talking about the US)<p>My college US history course ~20 years ago very much drove home the fact that (at least at the time) social mobility in the US was the same as in India. The surprise, of course, was that India has a caste system, while the US narrative is freedom; if you work hard, you’ll get ahead.<p>I don’t remember the sources, but the rate of social mobility (up <i>and</i> down) we learned in class was ~20%, as defined by ending up in a different quintile than one was born in, meaning put people into 5 categories according to socioeconomic status, and see whether they ever change categories, for example going from middle class to upper middle class.<p>Wikipedia says that overall average social mobility in the US hasn’t changed since then.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Socioeconomic_mobility_in_the_United_States" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Socioeconomic_mobility_in_the_...</a></text></item><item><author>throwaway0a5e</author><text>How much social mobility we talking?<p>Statistically nobody goes from trailer park to billionare by working hard.<p>You have very, very, good odds of doing better than your parents if you manage to get to age 25 without incurring a felony record, addiction to something that will likely kill you or too many child support payments.<p>edit: I&#x27;m only talking about the US</text></item><item><author>wishigotitfree</author><text>Starting conditions (where one was born, levels of wealth and opportunity there, one&#x27;s parents&#x27; education and jobs) are shockingly predictive about an individual&#x27;s future. Hard work leading to social mobility has always been the exception, not the rule. Most will not beat the odds since if they did, those wouldn&#x27;t BE the odds. A lot of us are just so deluded by survivorship bias borne of listening only to success stories, but it seems more and more people are seeing through the illusion. In my opinion, that&#x27;s a good thing, as recognizing the true state of things is the first step to improving them, and this combination of consciousness and lived experience can prove to be potent immunization against bad faith actors who want to maintain the illusion of widespread social mobility.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bluGill</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen those reports myself. However they don&#x27;t note anything about the entire class changing. Today even the lowest cast things nothing about having an entire encyclopedia in their pocket (a smart phone), 40 years ago encyclopedias were something you needed to be middle class to have one in your house, and nobody could have them in a pocket (meaning you both could afford one, and the space to store it at home)<p>Going back farther, 120 years ago cars were the play thing of the super rich. Now the poor have much nicer cars (including options like electric start, not to mention the unheard of AC), that are fast and never break (by todays standard they break down all the time).</text></comment> |
13,700,970 | 13,700,588 | 1 | 3 | 13,700,235 | train | <story><title>NASA to Unveil New Exoplanet Discovery Tomorrow</title><url>http://www.space.com/35779-nasa-exoplanet-findings-announcement.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sctb</author><text>We&#x27;ve buried this post so that we can discuss the real thing tomorrow.</text></comment> | <story><title>NASA to Unveil New Exoplanet Discovery Tomorrow</title><url>http://www.space.com/35779-nasa-exoplanet-findings-announcement.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>binalpatel</author><text>It still blows my mind that we can detect planets orbiting an entirely different stars. And more so - that these tiny pixels that we can just barely detect, are full-fledged planets that may have atmospheres, water cycles, and who knows what else.</text></comment> |
34,980,940 | 34,978,826 | 1 | 3 | 34,977,360 | train | <story><title>How they filmed The Last of Us arcade scene</title><url>https://forums.arcade-museum.com/threads/last-of-us-arcade-scene.518996/page-3</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danbruc</author><text><i>Another fun fact. It is quite expensive to license some games to show in TV&#x2F;Movies.</i><p>What is the logic or justification here? It would never have occurred to me that you have to license games if you are filming in an arcade. Do you have to get a license if you film someone playing on a PlayStation? Playing a board game? Playing with LEGO bricks? Making coffee with a Bialetti? Standing next to a car with trademarked design elements? Is there somewhere some legal clause like you can play with your Game Boy but you can not film it without explicit permission? Is it because in the case of games - or software in general - you are not truly buying it but only getting a license to use it? Do I need a license to film someone using a browser or Photoshop? I mean, I can see that you have to license the music in a film if you make deliberate artistic decision and it really contributes to the scene, but what about some random music playing on a radio in the background? What about the radio in the background of a documentary film?</text></comment> | <story><title>How they filmed The Last of Us arcade scene</title><url>https://forums.arcade-museum.com/threads/last-of-us-arcade-scene.518996/page-3</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>no_butterscotch</author><text>&gt; Another fun fact. It is quite expensive to license some games to show in TV&#x2F;Movies.<p>&gt; We had some pinball machines and arcade games not make the cut because they were too expensive to license, or the IP owner wasn&#x27;t licensing that particular game for that use at that particular time. We had a Ms Pac-Man that wouldnt clear because they were not allowing a license at that time.<p>&gt; ...New titles from the 90s were all mostly too expensive to license or use<p>&gt; ...Some licenses only allowed for showing the game in the deep background, or couldn&#x27;t feature game play, but only attract modes (Street Fighter II for example).<p>&quot;New titles from the 90s&quot;<p>Can anyone on here explain why these IP owners would want to keep their product OUT of these shows? Why would they want to require an agreement&#x2F;or-money for licensing out when it is free advertising for some old ass IP that could get second life?</text></comment> |
16,497,247 | 16,497,141 | 1 | 2 | 16,493,770 | train | <story><title>How Big Deals Kill Companies</title><url>https://blog.ycombinator.com/big-deals/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>deckard1</author><text>&gt; First off, large companies have different priorities in pursuing these deals than small startups. The large company might be interested in the service offered because it will generate revenue or improve efficiency. On the other hand, the execs might be trying to figure out if your company is any good so that they can buy it. In most cases, the startups see this Deal as the only thing that matters. That creates mismatched expectations and goals that can’t be bridged.<p>I&#x27;d also point out that this can be a massive benefit for a startup. Consider this: Microsoft would not be where they are today if they didn&#x27;t take advantage of IBM not caring about exclusive rights to MS-DOS. Microsoft correctly banked on the idea (whether they fully knew it or not, I don&#x27;t recall) that IBM did not have a firm grasp on their technology, and that IBM clone PCs would soon take over the world.<p>Another example. George Lucas was able to convince 20th Century Fox to give up merchandising rights to Star Wars. 20th Century Fox and IBM both had different priorities at the time, allowing the small player to win big.<p>The trick, it seems, is to make a deal that seems like a Small Deal with the corporation (they will readily agree with it) that is actually a Big Deal if the startup has a way to leverage it.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Big Deals Kill Companies</title><url>https://blog.ycombinator.com/big-deals/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>baybal2</author><text>A real life story.<p>Once upon a time, in a far far Canada, there was a &quot;Smart LED lighting module&quot; startup. They had plan A and plan B: A - find a freaking huge buyer for the product, and forego all normal sales and marketing till late stage, B - start building up sales from scratch through a regular marketing&#x2F;sales push.<p>At the start, both plans were given go. Sales through plan B were going up, but a &quot;big name salesman&quot; from plan A camp also scored a kill - one of the biggest lighting supplies distributor in USA. Upon hearing that, happy C levels completely wrapped up all further product development&#x2F;marketing&#x2F;bd and waited for them to obediently sign a cheque.<p>But, not so easy! That sale was just for their trial run, which would&#x27;ve taken few month, and they wanted changes, and the company simply can&#x27;t pull out half million units from a Chinese contractor on a minute notice.<p>They eagerly put a bond for goods and dished out some cash for company&#x27;s equity.<p>Half a year later, they come and say: &quot;Ah we have kinda lost interest in that experimental thingy, and since we are in a financial crisis now, we have to wrap up all nonessential developments.&quot; They paid the bond, got their goods, and threw them into garbage and to liquidators. C-levels, investors, and the big distributor co. are still suing each other since 2014.<p>Morale of the story - all eggs in one basket is bad.</text></comment> |
12,195,372 | 12,195,037 | 1 | 3 | 12,194,106 | train | <story><title>Breakthrough solar cell captures CO2 and sunlight, produces burnable fuel</title><url>https://news.uic.edu/breakthrough-solar-cell-captures-co2-and-sunlight-produces-burnable-fuel</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>&quot;Nanotechnology&quot; again. It&#x27;s just surface chemistry, people. It&#x27;s nice that they can do this in the lab, but as usual, the PR is excessive. &quot;The ability to turn CO2 into fuel at a cost comparable to a gallon of gasoline would render fossil fuels obsolete.&quot; At least get to pilot plant stage before issuing statements like that.<p>Especially since UC Berkeley announced a similar breakthrough last year.[1] Wikipedia points out that artificial photosynthesis was first achieved in 1912, and some of the same claims were made back then. There are lots of artificial photosynthesis projects. One of the best was in 2011, the first &quot;artificial leaf&quot;[3]. It ran for 44 hours.<p>The usual questions apply. How efficient is this? Does the catalyst get used up, or crud up with contaminants, and if so, how fast? What limits the life of the system? What are the costs like? (Excessive catalyst cost has been a problem.)
Is this better than all the other groups doing similar work?<p>Artificial photosynthesis may be useful someday, but this probably isn&#x27;t the big breakthrough that makes it a commercial product. That may come, though.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;newscenter.lbl.gov&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;16&#x2F;major-advance-in-artificial-photosynthesis&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;newscenter.lbl.gov&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;16&#x2F;major-advance-in-artifi...</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Artificial_photosynthesis" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Artificial_photosynthesis</a>
[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.acs.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;acs&#x2F;en&#x2F;pressroom&#x2F;newsreleases&#x2F;2011&#x2F;march&#x2F;debut-of-the-first-practical-artificial-leaf.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.acs.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;acs&#x2F;en&#x2F;pressroom&#x2F;newsreleases&#x2F;20...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nhebb</author><text>&gt; as usual, the PR is excessive<p>I think articles that over hype lab results make it to the top of HN because there is no downvote button and flagging them doesn&#x27;t seem appropriate. I wish there was a &quot;meh&quot; option.</text></comment> | <story><title>Breakthrough solar cell captures CO2 and sunlight, produces burnable fuel</title><url>https://news.uic.edu/breakthrough-solar-cell-captures-co2-and-sunlight-produces-burnable-fuel</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>&quot;Nanotechnology&quot; again. It&#x27;s just surface chemistry, people. It&#x27;s nice that they can do this in the lab, but as usual, the PR is excessive. &quot;The ability to turn CO2 into fuel at a cost comparable to a gallon of gasoline would render fossil fuels obsolete.&quot; At least get to pilot plant stage before issuing statements like that.<p>Especially since UC Berkeley announced a similar breakthrough last year.[1] Wikipedia points out that artificial photosynthesis was first achieved in 1912, and some of the same claims were made back then. There are lots of artificial photosynthesis projects. One of the best was in 2011, the first &quot;artificial leaf&quot;[3]. It ran for 44 hours.<p>The usual questions apply. How efficient is this? Does the catalyst get used up, or crud up with contaminants, and if so, how fast? What limits the life of the system? What are the costs like? (Excessive catalyst cost has been a problem.)
Is this better than all the other groups doing similar work?<p>Artificial photosynthesis may be useful someday, but this probably isn&#x27;t the big breakthrough that makes it a commercial product. That may come, though.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;newscenter.lbl.gov&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;16&#x2F;major-advance-in-artificial-photosynthesis&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;newscenter.lbl.gov&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;16&#x2F;major-advance-in-artifi...</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Artificial_photosynthesis" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Artificial_photosynthesis</a>
[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.acs.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;acs&#x2F;en&#x2F;pressroom&#x2F;newsreleases&#x2F;2011&#x2F;march&#x2F;debut-of-the-first-practical-artificial-leaf.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.acs.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;acs&#x2F;en&#x2F;pressroom&#x2F;newsreleases&#x2F;20...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wongarsu</author><text>&gt;&quot;The ability to turn CO2 into fuel at a cost comparable to a gallon of gasoline would render fossil fuels obsolete.&quot; At least get to pilot plant stage before issuing statements like that.<p>They don&#x27;t really say that they are cost comparable to gasoline, they just make the obvious statement that if something were as cheap as gasoline that would be a big deal.<p>I guess hyping these advances is supposed to make it easier to get funding for further research in the area. The sceptic in me expects them to hit the market right after the first fusion power plant comes online (another technology that is hyped for decades as &quot;just around the corner&quot;).</text></comment> |
36,922,468 | 36,922,013 | 1 | 2 | 36,921,675 | train | <story><title>The world’s largest wind turbine has been switched on</title><url>https://www.iflscience.com/the-worlds-largest-wind-turbine-has-been-switched-on-70047</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ninkendo</author><text>123 meter blades, that’s insane. This means the tip of the blade travels 772 meters in a single rotation. The speed of sound is 340 meters per second, meaning if it travels more than 0.44 rotations in a second, the tips of the blades are breaking the sound barrier.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>walnutclosefarm</author><text>The GE Haliade X, smaller but not by a lot, maxes out at 7 rotations per minute, giving a rotor tip velocity in the vicinity of 80m&#x2F;s. Generally noise considerations mean you don&#x27;t aim for a tip velocity faster than that, although for a turbine that is only installed in offshore or other uninhabited locations, you might design for a higher tip velocity. Despite some advantages to higher velocity, though, considerations related to erosion caused by high speed impact of dust, water drops and ice particles become an issue long before you&#x27;d get to supersonic speeds.</text></comment> | <story><title>The world’s largest wind turbine has been switched on</title><url>https://www.iflscience.com/the-worlds-largest-wind-turbine-has-been-switched-on-70047</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ninkendo</author><text>123 meter blades, that’s insane. This means the tip of the blade travels 772 meters in a single rotation. The speed of sound is 340 meters per second, meaning if it travels more than 0.44 rotations in a second, the tips of the blades are breaking the sound barrier.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rcme</author><text>That is crazy, but, on the other hand, seeing this rotate faster than once every two seconds would be insanely fast.</text></comment> |
35,514,579 | 35,508,855 | 1 | 2 | 35,502,187 | train | <story><title>From deep to long learning?</title><url>https://hazyresearch.stanford.edu/blog/2023-03-27-long-learning</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cs702</author><text>This looks really interesting! If these guys succeed in bringing self-attention&#x27;s computational cost down from O(n²) to O(n log n), that would be a huge win. The quadratic cost makes it very difficult to increase sequence length on current hardware. I&#x27;m going to take a closer look.<p>There are other interesting ongoing efforts to increase sequence length. One that has worked for me is this dynamic routing algorithm, related to self-attention, that can handle sequences with 1M+ tokens in a single GPU: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;glassroom&#x2F;heinsen_routing">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;glassroom&#x2F;heinsen_routing</a> . Right now, you can take 1,000 sequences of hidden states computed by a pretrained transformer, each sequence with, say, 1024 tokens, concatenate them into a single ultra-long sequence with 1,024,000 hidden states, slap 1,024,000 position encodings on top, and feed the whole thing to that routing algorithm to predict the next token (or whatever other training objective you want to optimize for). It works. Search the README for &quot;Very Long Sequences&quot;.<p>If anyone here has other suggestions for working with long sequences (hundreds of thousands to millions of tokens), <i>I&#x27;d love to learn about them</i>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smaddox</author><text>Other approaches for long sequence lengths:<p>- &quot;Hyena Hierarchy: Towards Larger Convolutional Language Models&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;2302.10866.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;2302.10866.pdf</a><p>- &quot;Resurrecting Recurrent Neural Networks for Long Sequences&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;2303.06349.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;2303.06349.pdf</a><p>It&#x27;s unclear (at least to me) if any of these scale as well as transformers at this point.</text></comment> | <story><title>From deep to long learning?</title><url>https://hazyresearch.stanford.edu/blog/2023-03-27-long-learning</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cs702</author><text>This looks really interesting! If these guys succeed in bringing self-attention&#x27;s computational cost down from O(n²) to O(n log n), that would be a huge win. The quadratic cost makes it very difficult to increase sequence length on current hardware. I&#x27;m going to take a closer look.<p>There are other interesting ongoing efforts to increase sequence length. One that has worked for me is this dynamic routing algorithm, related to self-attention, that can handle sequences with 1M+ tokens in a single GPU: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;glassroom&#x2F;heinsen_routing">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;glassroom&#x2F;heinsen_routing</a> . Right now, you can take 1,000 sequences of hidden states computed by a pretrained transformer, each sequence with, say, 1024 tokens, concatenate them into a single ultra-long sequence with 1,024,000 hidden states, slap 1,024,000 position encodings on top, and feed the whole thing to that routing algorithm to predict the next token (or whatever other training objective you want to optimize for). It works. Search the README for &quot;Very Long Sequences&quot;.<p>If anyone here has other suggestions for working with long sequences (hundreds of thousands to millions of tokens), <i>I&#x27;d love to learn about them</i>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>logicchains</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;BlinkDL&#x2F;RWKV-LM">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;BlinkDL&#x2F;RWKV-LM</a> this claims to work well with long sequences.</text></comment> |
28,921,404 | 28,920,861 | 1 | 3 | 28,920,140 | train | <story><title>Google Pixel 6 Launch [video]</title><url>https://pixelevent.withgoogle.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>buro9</author><text>The store was down, but these are the links:<p>Overview: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.google.com&#x2F;product&#x2F;pixel_6_pro?hl=en-GB" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.google.com&#x2F;product&#x2F;pixel_6_pro?hl=en-GB</a><p>Buy: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.google.com&#x2F;config&#x2F;pixel_6_pro?hl=en-GB" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.google.com&#x2F;config&#x2F;pixel_6_pro?hl=en-GB</a><p>Weirdly I kept seeing an internal MOMA login page asking for an @google.com login. So clearly something is broken (I do not work at Google).<p>Edit: Past all of those problems... error R013 when trying to check out.<p>Edit: Oh well... I missed out. Sold out before I got past the R013 error.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yeaornay</author><text>Had black Pixel 6 Pro 512GB unlocked in my cart for the past 50 minutes. Spent that time constantly trying to check out but received Error code R013. Now, I just got a message that my cart is EMPTY and it&#x27;s sold out.<p>Edit: Product available every 10th refresh or so, but hangs on &quot;trade in&quot; screen. Bypassing trade-in and I now receive Error R008 when trying to check out.<p>Edit: Trade-in appears to be working again, but back to Error R013.<p>Edit: Neither Cart nor Checkout screen will load, website returns 500 Error. Not the best purchasing experience I&#x27;ve ever had. lol<p>Edit: Cart has been emptied again, and now Store website is returning 500 error. Oh, Google</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Pixel 6 Launch [video]</title><url>https://pixelevent.withgoogle.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>buro9</author><text>The store was down, but these are the links:<p>Overview: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.google.com&#x2F;product&#x2F;pixel_6_pro?hl=en-GB" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.google.com&#x2F;product&#x2F;pixel_6_pro?hl=en-GB</a><p>Buy: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.google.com&#x2F;config&#x2F;pixel_6_pro?hl=en-GB" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.google.com&#x2F;config&#x2F;pixel_6_pro?hl=en-GB</a><p>Weirdly I kept seeing an internal MOMA login page asking for an @google.com login. So clearly something is broken (I do not work at Google).<p>Edit: Past all of those problems... error R013 when trying to check out.<p>Edit: Oh well... I missed out. Sold out before I got past the R013 error.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TAKEMYMONEY</author><text>I finally got it in my cart but I can&#x27;t checkout (Error code: R013, or R008). Somehow the leather case is already &quot;sold out&quot; (not &quot;out of stock&quot;) so I guess <i>some</i> people can check out :(</text></comment> |
13,850,134 | 13,848,061 | 1 | 3 | 13,847,465 | train | <story><title>How to recover lost Python source code if it's still resident in-memory</title><url>https://gist.github.com/simonw/8aa492e59265c1a021f5c5618f9e6b12</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nisa</author><text>If it&#x27;s a single file can&#x27;t you just copy the deleted filehandle from procfs?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linux.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;bring-back-deleted-files-lsof" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linux.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;bring-back-deleted-files-lsof</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How to recover lost Python source code if it's still resident in-memory</title><url>https://gist.github.com/simonw/8aa492e59265c1a021f5c5618f9e6b12</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bdowling</author><text>The method described is for recovering and decompiling bytecode into equivalent Python code, which is not exactly the same thing as source code, since it won&#x27;t contain things like comments and unexported object names.<p>edit: made more accurate</text></comment> |
16,520,568 | 16,518,961 | 1 | 3 | 16,517,588 | train | <story><title>The Drugging of the American Boy (2014)</title><url>http://www.esquire.com/features/drugging-of-the-american-boy-0414</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>spodek</author><text>The comments here don&#x27;t seem to capture the importance of the &quot;Boy&quot; part. Imagine we were mostly drugging girls. The headlines and reactions would be greater.<p>The story recalls how when Michelle Obama publicized #BringBackOurGirls, laudably promoting saving many innocent girls from kidnapping and worse, Boko Haram had been burning alive and hacking to death many innocent boys for years to little western outcry.<p>We keep changing our culture from the world our emotional systems evolved to handle. Then we declare groups sick who can&#x27;t handle the change, which happen to be boys mostly, and drug them.<p>When we create problems for girls, we ask &quot;what have we done?&quot;, recognize we&#x27;re hurting them, and try to change the culture we created stop hurting them. We may take time, but we don&#x27;t want to hurt them.<p>When we create problems for boys, we say &quot;we&#x27;ll fix you,&quot; as if they were broken. If boys&#x27; behavior was adapted to a different world than sitting in rows for most of the day, why don&#x27;t we change the culture we created to stop hurting them?</text></comment> | <story><title>The Drugging of the American Boy (2014)</title><url>http://www.esquire.com/features/drugging-of-the-american-boy-0414</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>FlyingSideKick</author><text>I was diagnosed with ADHD as a child and given medication which made me feel numb and completely changed my personality. After a year or so my father decided to stop giving me the medication and I returned to normal which must’ve been hell for my teachers.<p>Besides science classes, I received Ds in every class through my sophomore year. At the time I looked like a failure but today Id consider myself happy and successful as I’ve travelled the world, become a father and started a number of innovative businesses.<p>ADD is a gift as it has enabled me to make creative connections that others simply don’t see.<p>If you have kids please focus on their long-term well being. Please love your kids and support the things they find interest in. Getting good grades being well behaved in class aren’t everything are not necessarily an indicator of future success.</text></comment> |
24,119,480 | 24,119,293 | 1 | 3 | 24,117,680 | train | <story><title>TikTok to Sue U.S. over Ban</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/08/08/900394707/tiktok-to-sue-trump-administration-over-ban-as-soon-as-tuesday</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>badrabbit</author><text>Is this not a freedom of speech issue? The right is guaranteed for foreingners in the US as well.<p>If they can ban tik tok, they can ban signal or briar because those also might send your encrypted data overseas or because their use among &quot;violent&quot; protestors is a risk. How about VPN apps that siphon your personal data to china and russia! Haha<p>Here&#x27;s the thing, US bigtech complies (in secret) with US intel community just like tik tok complies with CCP&#x27;s MSS. Matter of fact, I happen to know with certainty and with first hand accounts that the US intel community offensively uses american made apps and services to spy against naturalized law abiding americans on american soil just as they would with a foreigner working for the CCP in China.<p>You might say, China bans US media companies so US should as well. And I will say to you that&#x27;s absolute nonsense. China is a totalitarian orwelian nightmare state and the US is supposed to be a beacon of liberty and freedom in the world. The US can ban tiktok&#x27;s usage amongst US government and military and anyone that does business with them. But by what right do they get to restrict communication, an unregulated non-financial interaction between americans and anyone else?<p>If americans want to be spied on by China in exchange for being able to use tiktok it&#x27;s their right and this activity is beyond the reaches of any elected government. Even if there is a law allowing congress or the president to ban tiktok, this law is overriden by the bill of rights that restricts the government from making laws that constrain speech and communication between citizens and anyone,and that guarantees tiktok due process and a trial before being found of any wrongdoing. Congress can however restrict commerce, as in financial transaction and for profit activity with tiktok and advertisers, what congress or trump have no authority to do is to tell americans and tiktok they cannot communicate with each other. Freedom of speech is meaningless if no one is allowed to listen to you.<p>This needs to be done right. Do not throw away your rights by creating a precedent set by the supreme court that lets government restrict your speech. These sneaky bastards will always worm their way into slowly taking away rights from the people in order to preserve their social order.<p>I don&#x27;t like tiktok and if you care to go back far enough into my posting history you will see how much I hate the CCP.<p>What is given can be taken away (if your right to communicate with a foreign entity is given by the government). And if they can ban one app,banning others is a matter of legal mental gymnastics.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bhupy</author><text>The US President is granted wide-ranging authority to regulate international commerce<p>The executive order doesn&#x27;t outright ban the use of TikTok (the app), it just places a ban on &quot;any transactions subject to the jurisdiction of the United States with ByteDance&quot;, which in essence makes it impossible for people to find the app on an App store. It&#x27;s almost identical to the Huawei&#x2F;ZTE executive orders. It&#x27;s a bit like an economic sanction on a country, which may also include companies that engage in media&#x2F;speech.</text></comment> | <story><title>TikTok to Sue U.S. over Ban</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/08/08/900394707/tiktok-to-sue-trump-administration-over-ban-as-soon-as-tuesday</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>badrabbit</author><text>Is this not a freedom of speech issue? The right is guaranteed for foreingners in the US as well.<p>If they can ban tik tok, they can ban signal or briar because those also might send your encrypted data overseas or because their use among &quot;violent&quot; protestors is a risk. How about VPN apps that siphon your personal data to china and russia! Haha<p>Here&#x27;s the thing, US bigtech complies (in secret) with US intel community just like tik tok complies with CCP&#x27;s MSS. Matter of fact, I happen to know with certainty and with first hand accounts that the US intel community offensively uses american made apps and services to spy against naturalized law abiding americans on american soil just as they would with a foreigner working for the CCP in China.<p>You might say, China bans US media companies so US should as well. And I will say to you that&#x27;s absolute nonsense. China is a totalitarian orwelian nightmare state and the US is supposed to be a beacon of liberty and freedom in the world. The US can ban tiktok&#x27;s usage amongst US government and military and anyone that does business with them. But by what right do they get to restrict communication, an unregulated non-financial interaction between americans and anyone else?<p>If americans want to be spied on by China in exchange for being able to use tiktok it&#x27;s their right and this activity is beyond the reaches of any elected government. Even if there is a law allowing congress or the president to ban tiktok, this law is overriden by the bill of rights that restricts the government from making laws that constrain speech and communication between citizens and anyone,and that guarantees tiktok due process and a trial before being found of any wrongdoing. Congress can however restrict commerce, as in financial transaction and for profit activity with tiktok and advertisers, what congress or trump have no authority to do is to tell americans and tiktok they cannot communicate with each other. Freedom of speech is meaningless if no one is allowed to listen to you.<p>This needs to be done right. Do not throw away your rights by creating a precedent set by the supreme court that lets government restrict your speech. These sneaky bastards will always worm their way into slowly taking away rights from the people in order to preserve their social order.<p>I don&#x27;t like tiktok and if you care to go back far enough into my posting history you will see how much I hate the CCP.<p>What is given can be taken away (if your right to communicate with a foreign entity is given by the government). And if they can ban one app,banning others is a matter of legal mental gymnastics.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dguest</author><text>I&#x27;d like to see a similar approach to what happened with tobacco: test apps for spyware, put warning labels in big letters (or simple icons) right up front, teach kids about the dangers in school, but ultimately let everyone decide what they do.<p>Of course, just as with tobacco there are huge American companies which are going to oppose this sort of transparency. And of course rolling out teaching standards requires that some standardization for app privacy exist in the first place, so I don&#x27;t expect this to happen fast (if it could ever happen at all).</text></comment> |
22,716,776 | 22,713,512 | 1 | 2 | 22,712,699 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Mobile devs who added Apple Sign In, what conversion changes?</title><text>Curious if adding apple sign in substantially affected conversion rate for mobile apps, thanks.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>shadowgoat</author><text>Haven’t done anything with Apple sign in, but I worked with a lot of other providers before. If you have multiple options, users might forget what service they used. This becomes an even bigger problem if the paid for a service with a different provider and can’t find their purchase. If you do use something like this, only having one provider (only Apple) makes things less confusing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>m0dest</author><text>I worked on the design and rollout of multiple sign in providers on a popular app. There are best practices that avoid these issues (users forgetting which service they used), but they are rarely implemented.<p>The trick is to be very forgiving: If a user tries to sign in using provider X, and we discover an email address conflict with an account that uses provider Y, we would simply ask users to confirm by clicking a button to sign in with provider Y. From that point forward, both provider X and provider Y can be used to sign into the account.<p>So many apps miss the importance of this and cut corners by only allowing an account to be associated with 1 sign-in provider, or forcing users to create passwords for these accounts, or differentiating between login and signup.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Mobile devs who added Apple Sign In, what conversion changes?</title><text>Curious if adding apple sign in substantially affected conversion rate for mobile apps, thanks.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>shadowgoat</author><text>Haven’t done anything with Apple sign in, but I worked with a lot of other providers before. If you have multiple options, users might forget what service they used. This becomes an even bigger problem if the paid for a service with a different provider and can’t find their purchase. If you do use something like this, only having one provider (only Apple) makes things less confusing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cmroanirgo</author><text>This. I&#x27;m not a big user of SSO in general, but on the few sites that I did use it, I&#x27;d forget whether I used SSO or not. Also, using SSO locks you into using that vendor. I&#x27;ve a couple of accounts that I&#x27;d like to change to normal uname&#x2F;pwd but am locked into the SSO vendor (which I&#x27;m hoping to move away from)</text></comment> |
36,958,309 | 36,958,382 | 1 | 3 | 36,957,678 | train | <story><title>A room-temperature superconductor? New developments</title><url>https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/room-temperature-superconductor-new-developments</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drexlspivey</author><text>New replication video coming from China<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;lereguy&#x2F;status&#x2F;1686363900651151360" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;lereguy&#x2F;status&#x2F;1686363900651151360</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zevv</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nitter.net&#x2F;lereguy&#x2F;status&#x2F;1686363900651151360" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nitter.net&#x2F;lereguy&#x2F;status&#x2F;1686363900651151360</a></text></comment> | <story><title>A room-temperature superconductor? New developments</title><url>https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/room-temperature-superconductor-new-developments</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drexlspivey</author><text>New replication video coming from China<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;lereguy&#x2F;status&#x2F;1686363900651151360" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;lereguy&#x2F;status&#x2F;1686363900651151360</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RandallBrown</author><text>Can someone explain how this video shows superconductivity?</text></comment> |
15,316,030 | 15,314,531 | 1 | 2 | 15,313,257 | train | <story><title>How Logos are Remembered</title><url>https://www.signs.com/branded-in-memory/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>duncanawoods</author><text>Fascinating but it doesn&#x27;t seem to prove anything besides we struggle to draw complex logos from memory therefore the complex logos of Starbucks and Footlocker are at the bottom and the simpler logos of Target and Ikea at the top.<p>I don&#x27;t think anyone will struggle to recognise the Starbucks brand despite the difficulty in drawing mermaids. In someways its quite fitting - they want you to believe their coffee is so complex that its worth &gt;$5 and forget that you could make it at home for $0.20.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the_af</author><text>&gt; <i>Fascinating but it doesn&#x27;t seem to prove anything besides we struggle to draw complex logos from memory therefore the complex logos of Starbucks and Footlocker are at the bottom and the simpler logos of Target and Ikea at the top.</i><p>I&#x27;m unconvinced. Of course complex logos are harder to draw, but it doesn&#x27;t explain why so many people got extremely simple logos wrong, like Adidas&#x27; or Domino&#x27;s, while comparatively harder logos got better scores, like Burger King&#x27;s or 7-Eleven&#x27;s!<p>I think there&#x27;s something more at play than just logo complexity.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Logos are Remembered</title><url>https://www.signs.com/branded-in-memory/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>duncanawoods</author><text>Fascinating but it doesn&#x27;t seem to prove anything besides we struggle to draw complex logos from memory therefore the complex logos of Starbucks and Footlocker are at the bottom and the simpler logos of Target and Ikea at the top.<p>I don&#x27;t think anyone will struggle to recognise the Starbucks brand despite the difficulty in drawing mermaids. In someways its quite fitting - they want you to believe their coffee is so complex that its worth &gt;$5 and forget that you could make it at home for $0.20.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zodPod</author><text>Yeah this almost seems limited by drawing skill and effort. Like I wouldn&#x27;t bother trying to put a bunch of detail into the starbucks logo because it would end up looking bad so I&#x27;d probably just draw a quick approximation and call it done.</text></comment> |
12,651,763 | 12,650,772 | 1 | 3 | 12,650,682 | train | <story><title>The legacy of Pieter Hintjens</title><url>https://zombiecodekill.com/2016/10/06/the-legacy-of-pieter-hintjens/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>veli_joza</author><text>Pieter Hintjens is a huge inspiration to me, even though I&#x27;ve never met him in person. I have yet to find a statement of his that I don&#x27;t agree with. He writes technical documentation in a no-bullshit way that is very easy to read and understand. You really feel smarter after going through his writings.<p>His life-long accomplishments in building open source community and ZeroMQ legacy is impressive.<p>It was really painful to read his blogs for last few months, especially the Fighting Cancer piece (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hintjens.com&#x2F;blog:123" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hintjens.com&#x2F;blog:123</a>). I&#x27;m sad to see him gone.</text></comment> | <story><title>The legacy of Pieter Hintjens</title><url>https://zombiecodekill.com/2016/10/06/the-legacy-of-pieter-hintjens/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Insanity</author><text>Thank you for this, it was an interesting read. I did not know of him until some days ago, close to his death but I am going to check out some of his presentations. May he RIP.</text></comment> |
10,341,091 | 10,341,284 | 1 | 2 | 10,339,388 | train | <story><title>New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft</title><url>http://blogs.windows.com/devices/2015/10/06/a-new-era-of-windows-10-devices-from-microsoft/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aresant</author><text>Wow, this page is a mess - here&#x27;s an element based breakdown of the switching elements in their presentation:<p>MSFT:<p>- nav 1<p>- nav 2<p>- header with what sounds like a call to action, but no button to buy?<p>- hero image with text overlaid that has terrible contrast nobody will read<p>- inter-page menus with some insane zooming function that scared my browser<p>- another hero image<p>- 3 columns - maybe buttons? no not clickable.<p>- another hero image<p>- 3 more columns - maybe buttons? no not clickable.<p>- another hero image<p>- 3 more columns - maybe buttons? no not clickable.<p>- 2 columns marketing other products? maybe buttons? yes - those little &quot;&gt;&quot; things mean they&#x27;re clickable i guess.<p>- 3 more columns - maybe buttons? ok now they&#x27;re buttons. but there&#x27;s no &quot;&gt;&quot;?<p>- another hero image with a price action, no button to click to follow the action! WTF!<p>VS vs the iPad Pro <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;ipad-pro&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;ipad-pro&#x2F;</a> which is single column and nav consistent throughout.<p>As the old quote goes &quot;If I&#x27;d had more time I would have written a shorter letter.&quot;<p>Feels rushed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>liquidise</author><text>Page on a full sized browser on a 13&quot; screen with ublock:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dropbox.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;gmyi3jjwq25w0d1&#x2F;surface_book.png?dl=0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dropbox.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;gmyi3jjwq25w0d1&#x2F;surface_book.png?d...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft</title><url>http://blogs.windows.com/devices/2015/10/06/a-new-era-of-windows-10-devices-from-microsoft/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aresant</author><text>Wow, this page is a mess - here&#x27;s an element based breakdown of the switching elements in their presentation:<p>MSFT:<p>- nav 1<p>- nav 2<p>- header with what sounds like a call to action, but no button to buy?<p>- hero image with text overlaid that has terrible contrast nobody will read<p>- inter-page menus with some insane zooming function that scared my browser<p>- another hero image<p>- 3 columns - maybe buttons? no not clickable.<p>- another hero image<p>- 3 more columns - maybe buttons? no not clickable.<p>- another hero image<p>- 3 more columns - maybe buttons? no not clickable.<p>- 2 columns marketing other products? maybe buttons? yes - those little &quot;&gt;&quot; things mean they&#x27;re clickable i guess.<p>- 3 more columns - maybe buttons? ok now they&#x27;re buttons. but there&#x27;s no &quot;&gt;&quot;?<p>- another hero image with a price action, no button to click to follow the action! WTF!<p>VS vs the iPad Pro <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;ipad-pro&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;ipad-pro&#x2F;</a> which is single column and nav consistent throughout.<p>As the old quote goes &quot;If I&#x27;d had more time I would have written a shorter letter.&quot;<p>Feels rushed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smackfu</author><text>Apple isn&#x27;t exactly who I would point to as a good comparison. They have plenty of overdesigned pages: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;mac-pro&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;mac-pro&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
18,842,035 | 18,841,363 | 1 | 3 | 18,839,939 | train | <story><title>Tox – An encrypted P2P chat protocol that does not rely on central servers</title><url>https://tox.chat/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>woodruffw</author><text>I&#x27;ll be the downer here and point out that Tox (both the specification and the c-toxcore implementation) have never undergone a security evaluation, and there are well-understood weaknesses in its security model <i>right now</i>[1].<p>If you feel inclined to use Tox at all, you should do so <i>as a curiosity only</i>.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;TokTok&#x2F;c-toxcore&#x2F;issues&#x2F;426" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;TokTok&#x2F;c-toxcore&#x2F;issues&#x2F;426</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>giancarlostoro</author><text>Also weirdness with funds being stolen and team splits:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chefkochblog.wordpress.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;04&#x2F;05&#x2F;r-i-p-tox-messenger&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chefkochblog.wordpress.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;04&#x2F;05&#x2F;r-i-p-tox-mess...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Tox – An encrypted P2P chat protocol that does not rely on central servers</title><url>https://tox.chat/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>woodruffw</author><text>I&#x27;ll be the downer here and point out that Tox (both the specification and the c-toxcore implementation) have never undergone a security evaluation, and there are well-understood weaknesses in its security model <i>right now</i>[1].<p>If you feel inclined to use Tox at all, you should do so <i>as a curiosity only</i>.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;TokTok&#x2F;c-toxcore&#x2F;issues&#x2F;426" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;TokTok&#x2F;c-toxcore&#x2F;issues&#x2F;426</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>im3w1l</author><text>I read about 20 replies of that and it does sound a bit overblown. Yes - the protocol is not perfect, but the flaw is a minor one. It could even be considered a feature request - preserve semblance of security after key compromise. If it can be done sure, by all means! But does not necessitate panic or rushing things - that would be more dangerous.</text></comment> |
14,896,233 | 14,896,199 | 1 | 2 | 14,894,653 | train | <story><title>Show HN: TensorFire</title><url>https://tenso.rs/demos/fast-neural-style/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>antimatter15</author><text>Hey HN!<p>We&#x27;re really excited to finally share this with you all! This is the first of a series of demos that we&#x27;re working to release this week, and we&#x27;re hoping you&#x27;ll keep us to that promise :)<p>Sorry if it doesn&#x27;t work on your computer! There&#x27;s still a few glitches and browser compatibility problems that we need to iron out, and we&#x27;re collecting some telemetry data with LogRocket (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;logrocket.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;logrocket.com&#x2F;</a>) to help us do so (so you all know what kind of data is being collected).<p>We&#x27;ll open source the library under an MIT license once we finish writing up the API docs, and fixing these bugs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ZeroCool2u</author><text>Just wanted to note, I ran the kitten demo in Chrome on my Nexus 6P (Android O Beta) and it worked perfectly.<p>Extremely impressed. Keep it up!</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: TensorFire</title><url>https://tenso.rs/demos/fast-neural-style/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>antimatter15</author><text>Hey HN!<p>We&#x27;re really excited to finally share this with you all! This is the first of a series of demos that we&#x27;re working to release this week, and we&#x27;re hoping you&#x27;ll keep us to that promise :)<p>Sorry if it doesn&#x27;t work on your computer! There&#x27;s still a few glitches and browser compatibility problems that we need to iron out, and we&#x27;re collecting some telemetry data with LogRocket (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;logrocket.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;logrocket.com&#x2F;</a>) to help us do so (so you all know what kind of data is being collected).<p>We&#x27;ll open source the library under an MIT license once we finish writing up the API docs, and fixing these bugs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>incompatible</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure if it&#x27;s working with my browser or not. It says &quot;Compiling network&quot;, then shows a lot of flashing rectangles, then stops and displays a single grey rectangle. Is that what it&#x27;s supposed to do?</text></comment> |
22,246,977 | 22,247,057 | 1 | 2 | 22,246,734 | train | <story><title>Iowa Caucuses, the Blob, and the Democratic Party Cartel</title><url>https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/iowa-caucuses-the-blob-and-the-democratic</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CWuestefeld</author><text><i>The root cause of the Iowa fiasco is a nonprofit corporation called ACRONYM, which owns the technology company Shadow, Inc.</i><p>It&#x27;s not at all clear to me that this is the case. I mean, sure, there are obviously big problems with the app&#x27;s design and implementation. But there are ample signs of deeper problems with the customer (and indeed, TFA alludes to some of it).<p>The fact that the Party insisted on keeping specifics about the app secret until the last minute was the first big red flag to me. With the customer making such a demand about a product that&#x27;s intended to be widely distributed with zero ramp-up time, they had at least two strikes against them from the start.<p>Further mess-ups outside the app development, like using the same phone lines for support and for reporting, are mistakes that don&#x27;t obviously fall on the shoulders of the developer.<p>The customer - the Iowa Democratic Party - probably needs to bear at least part of the blame for this. It&#x27;s true that an experienced developer might have given their customer better guidance, but that doesn&#x27;t absolve the Party from these mistakes.</text></comment> | <story><title>Iowa Caucuses, the Blob, and the Democratic Party Cartel</title><url>https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/iowa-caucuses-the-blob-and-the-democratic</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zaroth</author><text>There’s an extremely interesting and important discussion to be had around what happened with an App in Iowa, but TFA seems like the wrong plank to walk off of to have it.<p>Maybe one day we will have an honest and true post mortem of what happened on Monday. Reports have been conflicting and non-sensical. No one that I can find has managed to actually show the app in question in detail, what numbers were meant to be reported, and how it actually all fell apart.<p>I’ve heard explanations ranging from caucus chairs unable to login to the app, to the result reports coming out of the app being corrupted. Days later we’re still at only 70% precincts reporting and a race still too close to call. For what was apparently, a fairly low turnout event.<p>We’re talking about a web form collecting like 6 integer values from 1,765 precincts, right?</text></comment> |
37,414,006 | 37,414,040 | 1 | 2 | 37,387,100 | train | <story><title>Blacksmithing is alive and well in Kentucky</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/19/special-series/blacksmith-craig-kaviar-louisville.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mkii</author><text>I&#x27;m hesitant to get into physical project hobbies (e.g. low-voltage electronics, wood-working, 3D printing) because I&#x27;m afraid of all the hazards that I don&#x27;t know about. Seeing these warnings (while greatly appreciated in a theoretical sense for me) just reinforces this fear I have.</text></item><item><author>1letterunixname</author><text>Cookie-dough coffee can forge*: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;FmEb1YZScxc" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;FmEb1YZScxc</a><p>DIY induction heater**: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;wKFnk4R54ZQ" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;wKFnk4R54ZQ</a><p>* Unsafe because it depends on combustion and creates nanofines&#x2F;ultrafines<p>** Unsafe because there&#x27;s no current limiting, no temperature limiting, no grounding, and no crucible confinement</text></item><item><author>bcks</author><text>Took my daughter to check out a blacksmithing class in Brooklyn and was pleasantly surprised to find there was no open fire at all. The iron and steel are heated by an induction machine. Just use the tongs to hold up your material near the coil and press the pedal and voila, it soon starts to glow red hot. The space is small, maybe 3 students at a time plus a teacher, but it was bright, tidy, and clean. Not at all the dark, sweaty cave of fire and fumes that I&#x27;d imagined, and interesting to see tech slightly more modern than fire.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mauvehaus</author><text>Do woodworking. The whirling blades are pretty apparent. Wear a dust mask while sanding, and take comfort that Jesus was a carpenter and didn&#x27;t die of respiratory illness&#x2F;failure.<p>Don&#x27;t do your own rigging or wiring, and you&#x27;ll probably be fine. I do much of my own on both and I&#x27;m still ok.<p>Watch the tommy bar on your vise, and mind your marking knife. The apparently harmless things will get you because you pay them less mind.<p>Source: am a furniture maker. I still have 10 fingers. Haven&#x27;t died of respiratory illness yet. Nor have I burned my shit down or crushed myself moving machinery. I have definitely made an unplanned trip for super glue after slicing myself with a marking knife.</text></comment> | <story><title>Blacksmithing is alive and well in Kentucky</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/19/special-series/blacksmith-craig-kaviar-louisville.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mkii</author><text>I&#x27;m hesitant to get into physical project hobbies (e.g. low-voltage electronics, wood-working, 3D printing) because I&#x27;m afraid of all the hazards that I don&#x27;t know about. Seeing these warnings (while greatly appreciated in a theoretical sense for me) just reinforces this fear I have.</text></item><item><author>1letterunixname</author><text>Cookie-dough coffee can forge*: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;FmEb1YZScxc" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;FmEb1YZScxc</a><p>DIY induction heater**: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;wKFnk4R54ZQ" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;wKFnk4R54ZQ</a><p>* Unsafe because it depends on combustion and creates nanofines&#x2F;ultrafines<p>** Unsafe because there&#x27;s no current limiting, no temperature limiting, no grounding, and no crucible confinement</text></item><item><author>bcks</author><text>Took my daughter to check out a blacksmithing class in Brooklyn and was pleasantly surprised to find there was no open fire at all. The iron and steel are heated by an induction machine. Just use the tongs to hold up your material near the coil and press the pedal and voila, it soon starts to glow red hot. The space is small, maybe 3 students at a time plus a teacher, but it was bright, tidy, and clean. Not at all the dark, sweaty cave of fire and fumes that I&#x27;d imagined, and interesting to see tech slightly more modern than fire.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seabird</author><text>Those hazards usually take a long time to kill you. It&#x27;s a problem for people who do it 40+ hours a week, but a hobbyist is going to struggle to reach the level of exposure needed for it to matter. You&#x27;ll learn about them and mitigate them long before it becomes an issue.<p>I&#x27;ve been swimming in all sorts automotive and manufacturing fluids and fumes and forces for years and it hasn&#x27;t caught up to me yet. I know a shitload of people that have done it for decades without a scratch, and a lot of them didn&#x27;t even try to be safe about it.</text></comment> |
20,112,007 | 20,108,301 | 1 | 3 | 20,105,567 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Bloom – A free and open source 'Google'</title><url>https://www.kerkour.fr/blog/bloom-a-free-and-open-source-google</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ddebernardy</author><text>It&#x27;s a laudable project but why are you accepting bitcoin if you&#x27;re so concerned about the ecological crisis? It seems kind of contradictory, given how bitcoin transactions are so computationally expensive now that they reportedly consume about the same amount of energy as Denmark.</text></item><item><author>z0mbie42</author><text>Hi HN, creator here!<p>Today is a good day, the achievement of months of works (but also the start of a great adventure ).<p>I&#x27;m very excited to announce Bloom: A free and Open source ‘Google’.<p>Our mission ? Empowering the world with open technologies.<p>Why? How? What? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kerkour.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;bloom-a-free-and-open-source-google" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kerkour.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;bloom-a-free-and-open-source-google</a><p>Website: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bloom.sh" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bloom.sh</a>
Android App: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=com.bloom42.bloomx" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=com.bloom42.bl...</a>
Code: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bloom42" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bloom42</a><p>All the backend and services are written in Rust (You can learn more on the rust forum why I written it in JavaScript, then rewritten in Go and finally in Rust: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;users.rust-lang.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;bloom-a-free-and-open-source-google-written-in-rust&#x2F;28981" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;users.rust-lang.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;bloom-a-free-and-open-source-g...</a>) and is entirely free and Open Source on GitHub. No opencore, no bullshit.<p>The project seems awesome and you want to help ?
- By spreading the word on Twitter: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;z0mbie42&#x2F;status&#x2F;1136297238387482625" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;z0mbie42&#x2F;status&#x2F;1136297238387482625</a>
- by contributing on GitLab: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;bloom42" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;bloom42</a>
- By becoming a patron: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.patreon.com&#x2F;bloom42" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.patreon.com&#x2F;bloom42</a>
- By becoming a sponsor: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bloom.sh&#x2F;become-a-sponsor" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bloom.sh&#x2F;become-a-sponsor</a><p>Let&#x27;s spread freedom<p>Sylvain Kerkour, a.k.a z0mbie42</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wyldfire</author><text>How would we know if that were too much? What if you were to describe the amount of energy consumed by the airline industry? Or all of the world&#x27;s motorcycles? Would that be more or less than Denmark? And if it were more than Denmark&#x27;s energy consumption, is that okay? Certainly more people benefit from the world&#x27;s motorcycles or airplanes than just the population of Denmark, so why is that the reference? IMO including an arbitrary reference like some country&#x27;s power consumption is the stuff of clickbait headlines, not useful discussion.<p>IMO a more constructive discussion point might be: &quot;the power consumption required for Bitcoin&#x27;s proof-of-work is 15x that of the power consumption of: { the equities markets + banking + US Treasury + EU Treasury }.&quot; The number I&#x27;ve cited is arbitrary, it could easily be 1&#x2F;15 of that, for all I know. But normalizing the energy in terms of the related&#x2F;baseline industry makes sense and would make for a clearer conversation on the topic.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Bloom – A free and open source 'Google'</title><url>https://www.kerkour.fr/blog/bloom-a-free-and-open-source-google</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ddebernardy</author><text>It&#x27;s a laudable project but why are you accepting bitcoin if you&#x27;re so concerned about the ecological crisis? It seems kind of contradictory, given how bitcoin transactions are so computationally expensive now that they reportedly consume about the same amount of energy as Denmark.</text></item><item><author>z0mbie42</author><text>Hi HN, creator here!<p>Today is a good day, the achievement of months of works (but also the start of a great adventure ).<p>I&#x27;m very excited to announce Bloom: A free and Open source ‘Google’.<p>Our mission ? Empowering the world with open technologies.<p>Why? How? What? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kerkour.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;bloom-a-free-and-open-source-google" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kerkour.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;bloom-a-free-and-open-source-google</a><p>Website: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bloom.sh" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bloom.sh</a>
Android App: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=com.bloom42.bloomx" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=com.bloom42.bl...</a>
Code: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bloom42" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bloom42</a><p>All the backend and services are written in Rust (You can learn more on the rust forum why I written it in JavaScript, then rewritten in Go and finally in Rust: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;users.rust-lang.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;bloom-a-free-and-open-source-google-written-in-rust&#x2F;28981" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;users.rust-lang.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;bloom-a-free-and-open-source-g...</a>) and is entirely free and Open Source on GitHub. No opencore, no bullshit.<p>The project seems awesome and you want to help ?
- By spreading the word on Twitter: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;z0mbie42&#x2F;status&#x2F;1136297238387482625" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;z0mbie42&#x2F;status&#x2F;1136297238387482625</a>
- by contributing on GitLab: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;bloom42" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;bloom42</a>
- By becoming a patron: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.patreon.com&#x2F;bloom42" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.patreon.com&#x2F;bloom42</a>
- By becoming a sponsor: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bloom.sh&#x2F;become-a-sponsor" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bloom.sh&#x2F;become-a-sponsor</a><p>Let&#x27;s spread freedom<p>Sylvain Kerkour, a.k.a z0mbie42</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wongarsu</author><text>I have a feeling that for Bitflow (the Bittorrent downloader) many customers will strongly prefer bitcoin. Offering it is not an arbitary choice but a requirement for success of that part of the product.</text></comment> |
39,091,921 | 39,091,943 | 1 | 3 | 39,085,238 | train | <story><title>Why Zig When There Is Already C++, D, and Rust?</title><url>https://ziglang.org/learn/why_zig_rust_d_cpp/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AndyKelley</author><text>I don&#x27;t know why this article keeps showing up on HN every other year but since it&#x27;s up, I took the time to read it and fix all the outdated facts.<p>Notably, when it was written before there was not a package manager available. Now there is, so I rewrote that section. It should finish deploying in a couple minutes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>david2ndaccount</author><text>Since you’re updating it anyway, the very first example says &quot;D has @property functions, which are methods that you call with what looks like field access, so in the above example, c.d might call a function.”<p>It is true that `c.d` might call a function, but it’s not because of @property functions (which exist but are discouraged), it’s because the parens are optional to call a function&#x2F;method if there are no arguments.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Zig When There Is Already C++, D, and Rust?</title><url>https://ziglang.org/learn/why_zig_rust_d_cpp/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AndyKelley</author><text>I don&#x27;t know why this article keeps showing up on HN every other year but since it&#x27;s up, I took the time to read it and fix all the outdated facts.<p>Notably, when it was written before there was not a package manager available. Now there is, so I rewrote that section. It should finish deploying in a couple minutes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brabel</author><text>Probably because it&#x27;s a sort of call to arms to those languages to try and improve things where Zig is currently on top :D.
Some of those can&#x27;t be fixed (e.g. hidden control flow, hidden allocations) but some can (e.g. I think D has an alternative allocator API, it can now compile C&#x2F;C++ code as well, and I believe its package manager is trying to add support for system dependencies as well).</text></comment> |
17,022,864 | 17,022,997 | 1 | 3 | 17,022,514 | train | <story><title>Google I/O'18: Keynote Livestream [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogfYd705cRs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ocdtrekkie</author><text>There is some dystopian crud in here in just the few minutes I&#x27;ve watched.<p>- Google will write your emails for you so you don&#x27;t have to. Is this Gmail user writing me an email or is Google? I no longer know.<p>- Google Assistant can now impose Google&#x27;s parenting values on your kids by making them say please. Combine with the mandatory Chromebooks in my school district for full-on indoctrination from childhood.<p>I am so uncomfortable with this. All the people cheering for it is even worse.<p>EDIT: HOLY CRUD, they&#x27;re unleashing their AI to call and harass people on the phone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anderber</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure I agree 100% with what you said, but I get the sentiment. If someone is worried about a dystopian crud, why would they purchase a Google Home or use the Google Assistant? Also, the parenting values I thought was nice, and optional to turn it on.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google I/O'18: Keynote Livestream [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogfYd705cRs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ocdtrekkie</author><text>There is some dystopian crud in here in just the few minutes I&#x27;ve watched.<p>- Google will write your emails for you so you don&#x27;t have to. Is this Gmail user writing me an email or is Google? I no longer know.<p>- Google Assistant can now impose Google&#x27;s parenting values on your kids by making them say please. Combine with the mandatory Chromebooks in my school district for full-on indoctrination from childhood.<p>I am so uncomfortable with this. All the people cheering for it is even worse.<p>EDIT: HOLY CRUD, they&#x27;re unleashing their AI to call and harass people on the phone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>threatofrain</author><text>The majority cheers for parental control. Having control over a child&#x27;s laptop comes as psychologically obvious to most parents.</text></comment> |
30,509,416 | 30,509,500 | 1 | 2 | 30,508,709 | train | <story><title>Updated rules on preparedness for nuclear explosion</title><url>https://www.ready.gov/nuclear-explosion</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geraldalewis</author><text>The comments here are silly.<p>You can absolutely prioritize your risks, which means you’re not precluded from taking sensible precautions if you’re able to. This isn’t rock&#x2F;paper&#x2F;scissors. If you’re far enough away from the point of impact and the winds are right, Covid might be more of a threat than a nuclear bomb.<p>If you’re two states away from where a bomb goes off, and insist on open-mouth kissing strangers as they cough on you, that’s up to you. But also you can just throw on a mask and step a few feet back from folks and be a little safer.<p>Also, really bad scenarios can often stem from a couple of things going wrong all at once. So just be safe and use as much good judgment as the situation allows. And lean on easy, automatic, strategies to help you not compound issues.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwawaylinux</author><text>No, what&#x27;s silly is filling people&#x27;s heads with rubbish about COVID in case of a nuclear disaster or other acute emergency.<p>Hand sanitizer is absolutely not the right thing to be concerned with. Masks perhaps, but not for COVID.<p>Storing clean water, minimizing your perishable food waste, securing your house&#x2F;shelter and making makeshift repairs to damage, using a radio (e.g., from your car) to listen for information, etc., keeping a basic first aid kit around and understand basic wound management, are all far more important.<p>Social distancing because of covid comes in at around number 32,238 of things to worry about.</text></comment> | <story><title>Updated rules on preparedness for nuclear explosion</title><url>https://www.ready.gov/nuclear-explosion</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geraldalewis</author><text>The comments here are silly.<p>You can absolutely prioritize your risks, which means you’re not precluded from taking sensible precautions if you’re able to. This isn’t rock&#x2F;paper&#x2F;scissors. If you’re far enough away from the point of impact and the winds are right, Covid might be more of a threat than a nuclear bomb.<p>If you’re two states away from where a bomb goes off, and insist on open-mouth kissing strangers as they cough on you, that’s up to you. But also you can just throw on a mask and step a few feet back from folks and be a little safer.<p>Also, really bad scenarios can often stem from a couple of things going wrong all at once. So just be safe and use as much good judgment as the situation allows. And lean on easy, automatic, strategies to help you not compound issues.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jillesvangurp</author><text>Wearing a mask also seems sensible to keep the radioactive fallout out of your lungs and thanks to Covid, most people have masks on their person most of the time right now. If you survive the initial blast, fallout is the thing that you need to be weary off and radioactive dust is just nasty. Your concern right after that should be staying safe, cleaning up, and minimizing the risk off radiation sickness, cancer, etc. The article does a good job of giving you some simple hints here of what might be helpful here. The covid thing is just ass coverage, I guess. It&#x27;s the modern equivalent of making sure the deck chairs are properly arranged on the Titanic. It&#x27;s not going to be a primary concern for anyone right after a nuclear attack.</text></comment> |
10,298,382 | 10,298,241 | 1 | 2 | 10,297,879 | train | <story><title>Google Nexus 5x and 6P</title><url>http://www.google.com/nexus/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AdmiralAsshat</author><text>Why did Google bother with all of that work to fix SD storage in Android M[0] if they&#x27;re still not going to put an SD card in their Nexus phones!?!<p>I was holding out hope that I would finally have a reason to buy a Nexus phone with the 5X or 6P, but now that we have the final spec sheet, I think I&#x27;m going to just grab an HTC One M9 or something. The lack of expandable storage really kills it for me.<p>[0]<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.android.gs&#x2F;android-m-feature-spotlight-sd-cards-can-be-used-as-internal-storage&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.android.gs&#x2F;android-m-feature-spotlight-sd-cards-c...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jewbacca</author><text>1. The Nexus line is supposed to be something like Google&#x27;s Android reference device, and implements the minimum common set of features -- up-to-date computing hardware and screen, reasonable-resolution cameras, standard set of sensors (GPS, acceleration, etc.). An SD card slot doesn&#x27;t really add any technical possibilities.<p>2. Google probably wants to push the idea that any storage beyond local apps should be to the cloud.<p>(which is comically unviable in Canada, where you&#x27;re paying $25-50 per 1 GB of mobile data)<p>---<p>A year ago, I got a Nexus 5 after a long search for a replacement for my stalwart iPhone 3GS. The lack of SD card was the primary sticking point, and caused me days of choice-agony. In the end, price and &quot;cleanliness&quot; (stock android, lack of shitware, doesn&#x27;t fight software customization very hard) won out.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Nexus 5x and 6P</title><url>http://www.google.com/nexus/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AdmiralAsshat</author><text>Why did Google bother with all of that work to fix SD storage in Android M[0] if they&#x27;re still not going to put an SD card in their Nexus phones!?!<p>I was holding out hope that I would finally have a reason to buy a Nexus phone with the 5X or 6P, but now that we have the final spec sheet, I think I&#x27;m going to just grab an HTC One M9 or something. The lack of expandable storage really kills it for me.<p>[0]<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.android.gs&#x2F;android-m-feature-spotlight-sd-cards-can-be-used-as-internal-storage&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.android.gs&#x2F;android-m-feature-spotlight-sd-cards-c...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BinaryIdiot</author><text>They did the work for third parties to keep it an an option for the lower end market. The higher end market has shown it doesn&#x27;t care about SD cards and, honestly, I think for good reason: their user experience has always been terrible.<p>Internal storage is faster and more reliable so I think you&#x27;re always going to see more and more phones, especially flagships, not offer expandable options.</text></comment> |
30,230,284 | 30,227,170 | 1 | 3 | 30,224,421 | train | <story><title>The EARN IT act is back, and it’s more dangerous than ever</title><url>http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2022/02/earn-it-act-back-and-it%E2%80%99s-more-dangerous-ever</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kragen</author><text>&gt; <i>These people seem incapable of understanding the existential threat to free society and democracy posed by limiting </i>everyone&#x27;s <i>ability to communicate private thoughts.</i><p>The existential threat this bill poses to free society and democracy is exactly why they&#x27;re supporting it. It&#x27;s not some accidental side effect.<p>They&#x27;re opposed to the existence of free society and democracy because it limits government power, which means letting criminals and terrorists run free. They want the police to have all the power they can get because, as far as they&#x27;re concerned, they&#x27;re the good guys, and giving the good guys more power helps them win against the bad guys.<p>Free society means limited government, and the only way for the government to be in favor of that is for the government to vote against its own interests. That requires the people in the government to identify more strongly with the people living under the government than with the government itself. This is precarious at the best of times. Why would the governing party want to make it easy to organize dissenting political parties and alternative centers of power? Power might fall into the wrong hands.<p>I know that sounds sarcastic, but try to see it from their perspective, even if you don&#x27;t agree with it.</text></item><item><author>mrandish</author><text>While this bill is strongly opposed by the Internet Society, ACLU, CDT, and EFF, the critiques I&#x27;ve read don&#x27;t get much into the real &quot;why&quot; behind this legislation continuing to be pushed so forcefully. The pretext is, of course, &quot;protect the children&quot; and more generally law-and-order with a bonus side-helping of &quot;stop those awful social media giants.&quot; While these justifications are (hopefully) obvious misdirection to most, I&#x27;d like to see more mainstream discussion about who this bill benefits and why. The legislation &#x27;coincidentally&#x27; achieves exactly the agenda proposed by the &quot;surveillance state&quot; (ie CIA, NSA, FBI, DHS, law enforcement lobby, state prosecutors, etc). While it doesn&#x27;t specifically prohibit public access to encryption, it seeks to create nearly the same effect by making it legally risky for large social media and platform companies to offer end-to-end encryption as a default to law-abiding citizens. It&#x27;s no accident that almost every version of the bill creates this exposure to essentially bottomless legal liability for platforms offering secure communications.<p>Frankly, this scares the crap out of me. These people seem incapable of understanding the existential threat to free society and democracy posed by limiting <i>everyone&#x27;s</i> ability to communicate private thoughts. While not explicitly outlawing untappable communications, it&#x27;s much easier to identify <i>who</i> is choosing to use end-to-end encryption when it&#x27;s not the typical default. This will ultimately put all of us who care about secure communications under default suspicion, whether our interest in private comms is a moral ideal, political principle or simply proper technical architecture and data hygiene. In today&#x27;s multi-national environment of nation-state, criminal and privateer (NSO etc) threat actors, insecure communications over Internet infrastructure should only be seen as an ill-advised risky behavior or a technical bug.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Joeri</author><text><i>Free society means limited government, and the only way for the government to be in favor of that is for the government to vote against its own interests.</i><p>I would argue that a free society protects people’s rights, and this is impossible without a strong government. As for voting against its own interests, the government in a true democracy is quite literally the will of the people. We get what we vote for. So if people in general are unhappy with the outcome it is democracy itself that has broken down. The solution to a broken democratic process is not to limit the consequences of that process by shrinking government, it is to fix what’s broken in the first place. In a healthy democracy the government will take up only the responsibilities people want it to take up, and no more than that.</text></comment> | <story><title>The EARN IT act is back, and it’s more dangerous than ever</title><url>http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2022/02/earn-it-act-back-and-it%E2%80%99s-more-dangerous-ever</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kragen</author><text>&gt; <i>These people seem incapable of understanding the existential threat to free society and democracy posed by limiting </i>everyone&#x27;s <i>ability to communicate private thoughts.</i><p>The existential threat this bill poses to free society and democracy is exactly why they&#x27;re supporting it. It&#x27;s not some accidental side effect.<p>They&#x27;re opposed to the existence of free society and democracy because it limits government power, which means letting criminals and terrorists run free. They want the police to have all the power they can get because, as far as they&#x27;re concerned, they&#x27;re the good guys, and giving the good guys more power helps them win against the bad guys.<p>Free society means limited government, and the only way for the government to be in favor of that is for the government to vote against its own interests. That requires the people in the government to identify more strongly with the people living under the government than with the government itself. This is precarious at the best of times. Why would the governing party want to make it easy to organize dissenting political parties and alternative centers of power? Power might fall into the wrong hands.<p>I know that sounds sarcastic, but try to see it from their perspective, even if you don&#x27;t agree with it.</text></item><item><author>mrandish</author><text>While this bill is strongly opposed by the Internet Society, ACLU, CDT, and EFF, the critiques I&#x27;ve read don&#x27;t get much into the real &quot;why&quot; behind this legislation continuing to be pushed so forcefully. The pretext is, of course, &quot;protect the children&quot; and more generally law-and-order with a bonus side-helping of &quot;stop those awful social media giants.&quot; While these justifications are (hopefully) obvious misdirection to most, I&#x27;d like to see more mainstream discussion about who this bill benefits and why. The legislation &#x27;coincidentally&#x27; achieves exactly the agenda proposed by the &quot;surveillance state&quot; (ie CIA, NSA, FBI, DHS, law enforcement lobby, state prosecutors, etc). While it doesn&#x27;t specifically prohibit public access to encryption, it seeks to create nearly the same effect by making it legally risky for large social media and platform companies to offer end-to-end encryption as a default to law-abiding citizens. It&#x27;s no accident that almost every version of the bill creates this exposure to essentially bottomless legal liability for platforms offering secure communications.<p>Frankly, this scares the crap out of me. These people seem incapable of understanding the existential threat to free society and democracy posed by limiting <i>everyone&#x27;s</i> ability to communicate private thoughts. While not explicitly outlawing untappable communications, it&#x27;s much easier to identify <i>who</i> is choosing to use end-to-end encryption when it&#x27;s not the typical default. This will ultimately put all of us who care about secure communications under default suspicion, whether our interest in private comms is a moral ideal, political principle or simply proper technical architecture and data hygiene. In today&#x27;s multi-national environment of nation-state, criminal and privateer (NSO etc) threat actors, insecure communications over Internet infrastructure should only be seen as an ill-advised risky behavior or a technical bug.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>treis</author><text>We had a free society and democracy before the internet.</text></comment> |
11,637,120 | 11,636,755 | 1 | 2 | 11,636,200 | train | <story><title>Feds announce final e-cigarette rule that nearly bans them</title><url>http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/05/05/feds-expected-announce-final-e-cigarette-rule-could-nearly-ban-them/83951786/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway_yy2Di</author><text>The article neglects to mention that the Congressional Act which forces (?) the FDA&#x27;s hand, was one that Phillip Morris sponsored and lobbied for. I think this is key to understanding why the FDA is acting like this, seemingly against public health, while benefiting incumbent cigarette makers.<p><pre><code> Passage, if it comes, may be politically impossible without
the negotiated support of Philip Morris, whose Marlboro
brand helps make it the American tobacco industry’s biggest
player.
The company’s central role, in fact, is a reason that some
antismoking activists worry that the bill is a deal with the
devil. Philip Morris’s support is also why other major
tobacco companies — none of which back the legislation — see
a cunning ploy by Marlboro’s maker to seal the company’s
dominant position.
</code></pre>
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;04&#x2F;01&#x2F;business&#x2F;01tobacco.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;04&#x2F;01&#x2F;business&#x2F;01tobacco.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>This is a great example of what lobbying is and isn&#x27;t. There are objectively good reasons to regulate e-cigarettes. And it&#x27;s undeniable that tobacco companies are much more heavily regulated than e-cigarette companies. But it&#x27;s also true that what hurts e-cigarette companies helps tobacco companies.</text></comment> | <story><title>Feds announce final e-cigarette rule that nearly bans them</title><url>http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/05/05/feds-expected-announce-final-e-cigarette-rule-could-nearly-ban-them/83951786/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway_yy2Di</author><text>The article neglects to mention that the Congressional Act which forces (?) the FDA&#x27;s hand, was one that Phillip Morris sponsored and lobbied for. I think this is key to understanding why the FDA is acting like this, seemingly against public health, while benefiting incumbent cigarette makers.<p><pre><code> Passage, if it comes, may be politically impossible without
the negotiated support of Philip Morris, whose Marlboro
brand helps make it the American tobacco industry’s biggest
player.
The company’s central role, in fact, is a reason that some
antismoking activists worry that the bill is a deal with the
devil. Philip Morris’s support is also why other major
tobacco companies — none of which back the legislation — see
a cunning ploy by Marlboro’s maker to seal the company’s
dominant position.
</code></pre>
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;04&#x2F;01&#x2F;business&#x2F;01tobacco.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;04&#x2F;01&#x2F;business&#x2F;01tobacco.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MBCook</author><text>How is it against public health to require all these inhaler devices to undergo some sort of real approval process?<p>Yeah the date chosen serves PM&#x27;s needs, but I don&#x27;t think it hurts public health.</text></comment> |
33,631,922 | 33,631,705 | 1 | 2 | 33,630,150 | train | <story><title>Sam Bankman-Fried tries to explain himself</title><url>https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23462333/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-cryptocurrency-effective-altruism-crypto-bahamas-philanthropy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ZephyrBlu</author><text>Author: &quot;so the ethics stuff - mostly a front?&quot;<p>SBF: &quot;yeah&quot;<p>Absolutely gobsmacked.<p>I saw these screenshots on Twitter and I thought they were fake until I read the article. The rest of the messages from him are pretty terrible as well.<p>I thought he just fucked up, but no. He was wilfully unethical and maintains he did nothing wrong: &quot;Sometimes life creeps up on you&quot;.<p>And the thing he regrets most is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy...<p>What a cruel fucking joke for all the people who invested with&#x2F;in FTX.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lovehashbrowns</author><text>The ethics discussion along with the FTX&#x2F;Alameda discussion is such a fascinating juxtaposition for me. It makes the article so much more interesting in my view.<p>On the one hand, you’ve got this ethics discussion, which in context happened previously, about the ethics of running an immoral business to do good things. Then an ethical discussion about how that answer was BS and all that really matters is perception, and how perception doesn’t mirror reality.<p>And here I’m trying to reflect on these topics. How do I feel about these things, how would I answer?<p>Then the next part begins soon after with “messy accounting.”<p>I view it the way I’d view Michelangelo’s David if it were displayed at a local county fair.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sam Bankman-Fried tries to explain himself</title><url>https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23462333/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-cryptocurrency-effective-altruism-crypto-bahamas-philanthropy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ZephyrBlu</author><text>Author: &quot;so the ethics stuff - mostly a front?&quot;<p>SBF: &quot;yeah&quot;<p>Absolutely gobsmacked.<p>I saw these screenshots on Twitter and I thought they were fake until I read the article. The rest of the messages from him are pretty terrible as well.<p>I thought he just fucked up, but no. He was wilfully unethical and maintains he did nothing wrong: &quot;Sometimes life creeps up on you&quot;.<p>And the thing he regrets most is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy...<p>What a cruel fucking joke for all the people who invested with&#x2F;in FTX.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>c7DJTLrn</author><text>I&#x27;m wondering if there is some kind of mass insanity occurring in the world right now with this and the behaviour of numerous influential figures.</text></comment> |
33,948,126 | 33,946,968 | 1 | 2 | 33,945,704 | train | <story><title>What's wrong with social science and how to fix it (2020)</title><url>https://fantasticanachronism.com/2020/09/11/whats-wrong-with-social-science-and-how-to-fix-it/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>poszlem</author><text>We absolutely need to change the way we do social sciences. My favourite pet peeve in social sciences is idea laundering.<p>&quot;It’s analogous to money laundering.
Here’s how it works: First, various academics have strong moral impulses about something. For example, they perceive negative attitudes about obesity in society, and they want to stop people from making the obese feel bad about their condition. In other words, they convince themselves that the clinical concept of obesity (a medical term) is merely a story we tell ourselves about fat (a descriptive term); it’s not true or false—in this particular case, it’s a story that exists within a social power dynamic that unjustly ascribes authority to medical knowledge.<p>Second, academics who share these sentiments start a peer-reviewed periodical such as Fat Studies—an actual academic journal. They organize Fat Studies like every other academic journal, with a board of directors, a codified submission process, special editions with guest editors, a pool of credentialed “experts” to vet submissions, and so on. The journal’s founders, allies and collaborators then publish articles in Fat Studies and “grow” their journal. Soon, other academics with similar beliefs submit papers, which are accepted or rejected. Ideas and moral impulses go in, knowledge comes out. Voilà!<p>Eventually, after activist scholars petition university libraries to carry the journal, making it financially viable for a large publisher like Taylor &amp; Francis, Fat Studies becomes established. Before long, there’s an extensive canon of academic work—ideas, prejudice, opinion and moral impulses—that has been laundered into “knowledge.” (source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;idea-laundering-in-academia-11574634492" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;idea-laundering-in-academia-115...</a>)<p>I was one of the extreme &quot;trust the science&quot; people, until I joined a startup that worked with academia. The amount of pettiness, vindictiveness, cutthroat power games I have seen surpassed even the most hardcore of startups.</text></comment> | <story><title>What's wrong with social science and how to fix it (2020)</title><url>https://fantasticanachronism.com/2020/09/11/whats-wrong-with-social-science-and-how-to-fix-it/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>matthewdgreen</author><text>Reading through this quickly I see several problems that make me wonder if the author has worked in academia.<p>1. <i>Publication venues aren’t created equal.</i> People outside of academia don’t understand that anyone can and will start a journal&#x2F;conference. If I want to launch the Proceedings of the of Confabulatory Results in Computer Science Conference, all I need is a cheap hosting account and I’m ready to go. In countries like the US this is explicitly protected speech, and the big for-profit sites run by Elsevier et al. will often go ahead and add my publications to their database as long as I make enough of an effort to make things look legitimate.<p>In any given field there are probably a handful of “top” venues that everyone in the field knows, and a vast long tail ranging from mid-tier to absolute fantasist for-profit crap. If you focus on the known conferences you might see bad results, but if you focus on the long tail you’re doing the equivalent of searching the 50th+ page of Google results for some term: that is, you’re deliberately selecting for SEO crap. And given the relatively high cost of peer-reviewing the good vs <i>not peer-reviewing</i> the bad, unfiltered searches will always be dominated by crap (surely this is a named “law”?) Within TFA I cannot tell if the author is filtering properly for decent venues (as any self-respecting expert would do) or if they’re just complaining about spam. Some mention is made of a DARPA project, so I’m hopeful it’s not <i>too</i> bad. However even small filtering errors will instantly make your results meaningless.<p>2. <i>Citations aren’t intended as a goddamn endorsement (or metric).</i> In science we cite papers liberally. We do not do this because we want people to get a cookie. We don’t do it because we’re endorsing every result. We do it because we’ve learned (or been told) about a <i>possibly relevant</i> result and we want the reader to know about it too. When it comes to citations, more is <i>usually</i> better. Just as it is much better to let many innocent people go free rather than imprison one guilty one, it is vastly better to cite a hundred mediocre or incorrect papers than to miss one important citation. Readers should not see a citation and infer correctness or importance unless <i>the author specifically states this in the text</i> at which point, sure, that’s an error. But most citation-counting metrics don’t actually read the citing papers, they just do text matching. Since most bulk citations are just reading lists, this also filters for citations that don’t mean much about the quality of a work.<p>The idea of using citation counts as a metric for research quality is a bad one that administrators (and the type of researchers who solve administrative problems) came up with. It is one of those “worst ideas except for any other” solutions: probably better than throwing darts at a board and certainly more scalable than reading every paper for quality. But the idea is artificial at best, and complaints like “why are people citing incorrect results” fundamentally ask citations to be something they&#x27;re not.<p>Overall there are many legitimate complaints about academia and replicability to be had out there. But salting them with potential nonsense does nobody any favors, and just makes the process of fixing these issues much less likely to succeed.</text></comment> |
15,594,739 | 15,593,650 | 1 | 3 | 15,593,305 | train | <story><title>A Pentagon-funded contest spawned many of today’s self-driving startups</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-10-30/it-s-been-10-years-since-robots-proved-they-could-drive</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aresant</author><text>Keeping up with Darpa&#x27;s challenges is a good way to see into the future a couple of their current projects:<p>1) A machine-learning competition to overcome scarcity in the radio frequency which is INSANELY fascinating and, if they pull it off, hugely impactful -&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;spectrumcollaborationchallenge.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;spectrumcollaborationchallenge.com</a><p>2) A program to build technology to drive “swarm sprint” exercises to inform tactics and technologies for large groups of unmanned air and ground robots in urban environments. Yes, like how do we build a collaborative air drone army.<p>And PS they are having a hacker fest in the bay in a couple of weeks, registration is closed but bet you can get in if you email via - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;darpahackfest.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;darpahackfest.com</a></text></comment> | <story><title>A Pentagon-funded contest spawned many of today’s self-driving startups</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-10-30/it-s-been-10-years-since-robots-proved-they-could-drive</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cschmidt</author><text>I would argue that the 2004 DARPA challenge was a failure with the best car, Sandstorm, only going 7 miles before getting stuck on a rock. That led to a do-over in 2005 that was really the first success.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;DARPA_Grand_Challenge#2004_Grand_Challenge" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;DARPA_Grand_Challenge#2004_Gra...</a></text></comment> |
32,213,761 | 32,212,242 | 1 | 2 | 32,211,576 | train | <story><title>How to drive away your best engineers</title><url>https://blog.hulacorn.com/2021/09/08/how-to-drive-away-your-best-engineers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>23B1</author><text>Like many engineers, the author of this article assumes all engineers are ethical, and perfectly suited to the assigned task. The author also assumes unlimited budgets, perfect control over a company&#x27;s hiring and resource management, and a perfect understanding of the software&#x27;s requirements.<p>These are the same complaints I hear from inexperienced engineers over and over and over again – and not just engineers, but anyone primarily responsible for &#x27;labor&#x27; vs. &#x27;management&#x27;.<p>The &#x27;best engineers&#x27; empathize with the perspective of &#x27;management,&#x27; that running a company is probabilistic, and that managers, co-workers, and other departments – like finance, recruiting, product, and marketing – are also duty bound by challenging constraints often beyond their control.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dasil003</author><text>Maybe it&#x27;s because I&#x27;ve always straddled the line between IC, EM and leadership roles, but in my mind engineers <i>are</i> managers. They are managers of software systems. The software systems are producing some economic output just as human or animal labor does in other domains or historical contexts. When you write code and deploy it to a production system, you are responsible for the behavior, cost and other implications of doing so.<p>Although I believe managing people is generally the harder of the two overall, managing software systems is uniquely demanding of being able to zoom into deep technical details and then back out to understand the big-picture implications and where different layers of abstraction may have failed. To call oneself a senior software engineer I believe you need both the technical understanding as well as the big picture view of what business value your code produces.<p>Many software engineers don&#x27;t want to think that way; they look to the Product Manager to tell them what to build, the QA Analyst to sign off on releases, the Ops Engineer to tell them what broke, and the Engineering Manager to prioritize their time. And of course those asks do align with the job descriptions and are not wrong per se. The problem is that the SWE is in a much better position to foresee the majority of problems, and can save the company as well as their team a tremendous amount of pain by trying on different hats and thinking at a higher level. Not all company cultures make this possible, but IMHO it is the key to the highest performing teams.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to drive away your best engineers</title><url>https://blog.hulacorn.com/2021/09/08/how-to-drive-away-your-best-engineers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>23B1</author><text>Like many engineers, the author of this article assumes all engineers are ethical, and perfectly suited to the assigned task. The author also assumes unlimited budgets, perfect control over a company&#x27;s hiring and resource management, and a perfect understanding of the software&#x27;s requirements.<p>These are the same complaints I hear from inexperienced engineers over and over and over again – and not just engineers, but anyone primarily responsible for &#x27;labor&#x27; vs. &#x27;management&#x27;.<p>The &#x27;best engineers&#x27; empathize with the perspective of &#x27;management,&#x27; that running a company is probabilistic, and that managers, co-workers, and other departments – like finance, recruiting, product, and marketing – are also duty bound by challenging constraints often beyond their control.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>astura</author><text>This article could be a parody with how shockingly naive it is.<p>The purpose of work is to solve business problems, not personal amusement and self-actualization. Business problems exist in the real world and have significant constraints. Many people will be much happier if they understood this.</text></comment> |
26,097,282 | 26,096,590 | 1 | 2 | 26,087,892 | train | <story><title>Show HN: I wrote an entire book to build a mouseless dev environment</title><url>https://themouseless.dev/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hartator</author><text>I never got the hate of mouse in the dev community. Isn’t most of work browsing code and Googling things? Making a mouse a way to navigate way more efficient than a keyboard? It seems retrograde.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mcqueenjordan</author><text>A mouse is an interface best suited for continuous-shaped requirement, e.g. aiming a pointer in games, drawing, and other inherently 2-dimensional arbitrary precision input modalities.<p>Textual interfaces (e.g. code), reading, navigating filesystems, etc. is inherently discrete (folders have files, files have words, words have letters). For discrete applications such as these, I (and many others) prefer mouseless modes of interaction. A mouse can point at many different precise points for a given character in a word, but it&#x27;s still the same logical place.<p>(Yes, I&#x27;m aware that pixels are finite and thus the continuous analogy is &quot;technically incorrect&quot;. Its validity stands.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: I wrote an entire book to build a mouseless dev environment</title><url>https://themouseless.dev/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hartator</author><text>I never got the hate of mouse in the dev community. Isn’t most of work browsing code and Googling things? Making a mouse a way to navigate way more efficient than a keyboard? It seems retrograde.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kace91</author><text>I&#x27;m somewhat skeptic regarding pro tools that take a lifetime to master (never got to like emacs for example, and I like MacOS dar more than customizing a Linux distro) but there are some mouseless skills that are such a game changer for me I almost can&#x27;t use a pc without them, everything else becomes too frustrating. Vimium to browse the web is a Godsend for example.<p>No need to learn for weeks, it&#x27;s:<p>-j&#x2F;k for scrolling<p>- J&#x2F;K move around tabs<p>- f to click a link<p>- gg&#x2F;G to go to the top&#x2F;bottom of the page<p>- o to enter new url<p>Not exactly the most intuitive keywords if you haven&#x27;t used vim, but you try that a couple hours and then using a mouse feels like clicking edit -&gt; copy instead of doing ctrl-C.</text></comment> |
12,206,530 | 12,206,027 | 1 | 3 | 12,205,024 | train | <story><title>Django 1.10 released</title><url>https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2016/aug/01/django-110-released/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>orf</author><text>Shame about Channels, but I see the logic in not including it. Django is pretty awesome as a backend, and while it&#x27;s not a &#x27;cool&#x27; framework anymore (I feel old!) it&#x27;s amazing for writing back-office applications.<p>I use it as an API backend with Django-rest-framework. The advantage is you get ridiculous amounts of packages that all integrate with Django that does pretty much anything you want. Also the ORM doesn&#x27;t suck now so that&#x27;s a bonus.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ubernostrum</author><text>Channels will get there. It just wasn&#x27;t quite ready on time for 1.10. Hopefully it will be ready on time for 1.11, and then it&#x27;ll ship in Django.</text></comment> | <story><title>Django 1.10 released</title><url>https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2016/aug/01/django-110-released/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>orf</author><text>Shame about Channels, but I see the logic in not including it. Django is pretty awesome as a backend, and while it&#x27;s not a &#x27;cool&#x27; framework anymore (I feel old!) it&#x27;s amazing for writing back-office applications.<p>I use it as an API backend with Django-rest-framework. The advantage is you get ridiculous amounts of packages that all integrate with Django that does pretty much anything you want. Also the ORM doesn&#x27;t suck now so that&#x27;s a bonus.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hrayr</author><text>Why a shame? What would Channels buy you if it were included into the framework?<p>I would love to see Django split up into smaller official external packages and repackaged as two or three different official starter packs (Traditional, API, SPA, etc.) with each containing a different set of packages that make sense (DRF, Channels, Models, Views, Forms, etc.).<p>I know this goes against the current &quot;Batteries are included&quot; model, but why can&#x27;t we treat Django as the standards body, and the various starter packs as the more targeted &quot;batteries are included&quot; frameworks.</text></comment> |
27,144,929 | 27,142,712 | 1 | 3 | 27,140,647 | train | <story><title>Movies every physics lover should watch (2020)</title><url>https://www.wondersofphysics.com/2020/04/best-physics-movies.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hnlmorg</author><text>I don&#x27;t get the love for Interstellar either. Their black hole rendering was about the only interesting thing about that movie. The rest of it was predictable and generic right up until the end at which point is felt like a jumping the shark movement with its ridiculousness.</text></item><item><author>ekianjo</author><text>Gravity is not for physics lovers. Its physics make no sense. And contact is more fantasy than anything else. A pretty poor list.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>beloch</author><text>Actual physicist here. Don&#x27;t get me started on Interstellar. There is so much needlessly dumb crap in this movie that I don&#x27;t even know where to start, and the fact that people <i>think</i> it&#x27;s realistic is just a kick in the pants.<p>Just for one example...<p>The crew being sent to save the Earth blasts off in a big ol&#x27; chemical rocket with stages. Yeah, fine. I guess rocket tech hasn&#x27;t advanced all that much in this future. Then they land a ship on a planet in a gravity well so intense that it causes big relative time differences (Note: the gravity alone should have killed them). Then they blast off with the same ship and no big clunky chemical rocket stages. Why didn&#x27;t this ship just blast off of Earth as is? The energy to get off Earth is nothing compared to getting out of a gravity well that deep! I guess Nolan thought an oldschool staged rocket looked cool.<p>The SFX people did some actual science to figure out the black hole visuals but, other than that, this is a far worse movie than Gravity as far as science is concerned. The new age emotions resolution was just a big ol&#x27; F U to the crowd. Lazy, sloppy writing.<p>There are plenty of unrealistic movies on this list, and that&#x27;s fine. Some are just damned fun movies (e.g. Back to the Future). Interstellar sticks out from the pack for it&#x27;s pretensions and underlying ridiculousness.</text></comment> | <story><title>Movies every physics lover should watch (2020)</title><url>https://www.wondersofphysics.com/2020/04/best-physics-movies.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hnlmorg</author><text>I don&#x27;t get the love for Interstellar either. Their black hole rendering was about the only interesting thing about that movie. The rest of it was predictable and generic right up until the end at which point is felt like a jumping the shark movement with its ridiculousness.</text></item><item><author>ekianjo</author><text>Gravity is not for physics lovers. Its physics make no sense. And contact is more fantasy than anything else. A pretty poor list.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gavinmckenzie</author><text>I love Interstellar despite some of the liberties it takes. For me the number one thing Interstellar did so well was communicate clearly that the universe does not care about us.<p>We are infinitesimally small and insignificant. I felt the scale of space and the unforgiving progress of time, as characters dealt with the emotional impact of time dilation on them, their colleagues, and family. And we, as viewers, get to experience it as we see minutes pass from our POV only to return to Endurance and realize Romilly has aged over 20 years in orbit, all alone; and Cooper’s kids have suddenly grown up without us noticing.<p>And as others have noted about the film before, it also relates to the phenomena we experience as we age and our perception of time accelerates. If you’re a parent, you feel yourself slipping farther and faster away from your children with each passing year. Chances are if you watched Interstellar as a parent, you felt the film deeply on another level.</text></comment> |
36,635,104 | 36,635,131 | 1 | 2 | 36,634,430 | train | <story><title>Gitlab.com is down</title><url>https://status.gitlab.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kunwon1</author><text>When that incident happened, Gitlab published an actual chat transcript of the incident response. It was a very interesting read. It had the real names of the engineers involved for the first 24 hours or so, then they anonymized it. At some later date they seem to have removed it entirely, which is a shame, as it was an educational read<p>All that I can find left online is this [1], which is still informative, but not nearly as interesting as I remember the chat transcript being<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.gitlab.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2017&#x2F;02&#x2F;10&#x2F;postmortem-of-database-outage-of-january-31&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.gitlab.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2017&#x2F;02&#x2F;10&#x2F;postmortem-of-datab...</a></text></item><item><author>trashburger</author><text>I hope they didn&#x27;t delete the production database again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jonatron</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20170527000404&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.google.com&#x2F;document&#x2F;d&#x2F;1GCK53YDcBWQveod9kfzW-VCxIABGiryG7_z_6jHdVik&#x2F;pub" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20170527000404&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.goog...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Gitlab.com is down</title><url>https://status.gitlab.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kunwon1</author><text>When that incident happened, Gitlab published an actual chat transcript of the incident response. It was a very interesting read. It had the real names of the engineers involved for the first 24 hours or so, then they anonymized it. At some later date they seem to have removed it entirely, which is a shame, as it was an educational read<p>All that I can find left online is this [1], which is still informative, but not nearly as interesting as I remember the chat transcript being<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.gitlab.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2017&#x2F;02&#x2F;10&#x2F;postmortem-of-database-outage-of-january-31&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.gitlab.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2017&#x2F;02&#x2F;10&#x2F;postmortem-of-datab...</a></text></item><item><author>trashburger</author><text>I hope they didn&#x27;t delete the production database again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mdaniel</author><text>is this the thing you&#x27;re referring to? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20170527000404&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.google.com&#x2F;document&#x2F;d&#x2F;1GCK53YDcBWQveod9kfzW-VCxIABGiryG7_z_6jHdVik&#x2F;pub" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20170527000404&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.goog...</a></text></comment> |
10,753,899 | 10,753,906 | 1 | 2 | 10,753,634 | train | <story><title>Martin Shkreli indictment [pdf]</title><url>http://www.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/USA_v_Shkreli_et_al_Docket_No_115cr00637_EDNY_Dec_14_2015_Court_D/1?1450368872</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amateur_soclgst</author><text>I found it funnier how they tried to short sell $1M of stock and somehow got $7M in the hole. Must have been some leverage on that deal :v</text></item><item><author>the_hangman</author><text>&gt; On or about December 2, 2010, Investor 1 [...] asked SHKRELI in an email
about, inter alia, the fund&#x27;s assets under management and the names of its independent auditor and fund administrator. SHKRELI told Investor 1 that MSMB Capital had $35 million in assets under management and that the fund&#x27;s independent auditor and administrator were Rothstein, Kass &amp; Company, P.C. and NAV Consulting Inc., respectively. At the time of this representation, MSMB Capital did not have an independent auditor or administrator, and SHKRELI had lost through trading the approximately $700,000 that had been invested by the four Capital Limited Partners. <i>In fact, as of November 30, 2010, the value of assets in MSMB Capital&#x27;s bank and brokerage accounts totaled approximately $700.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Actually that is very &quot;easy&quot; to do, first you short sell some stock (naked short) for $1M, then the stocks value goes up by $8M. You are asked to cover your short and even after your $1M you are still left holding $7M in liabilities.</text></comment> | <story><title>Martin Shkreli indictment [pdf]</title><url>http://www.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/USA_v_Shkreli_et_al_Docket_No_115cr00637_EDNY_Dec_14_2015_Court_D/1?1450368872</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amateur_soclgst</author><text>I found it funnier how they tried to short sell $1M of stock and somehow got $7M in the hole. Must have been some leverage on that deal :v</text></item><item><author>the_hangman</author><text>&gt; On or about December 2, 2010, Investor 1 [...] asked SHKRELI in an email
about, inter alia, the fund&#x27;s assets under management and the names of its independent auditor and fund administrator. SHKRELI told Investor 1 that MSMB Capital had $35 million in assets under management and that the fund&#x27;s independent auditor and administrator were Rothstein, Kass &amp; Company, P.C. and NAV Consulting Inc., respectively. At the time of this representation, MSMB Capital did not have an independent auditor or administrator, and SHKRELI had lost through trading the approximately $700,000 that had been invested by the four Capital Limited Partners. <i>In fact, as of November 30, 2010, the value of assets in MSMB Capital&#x27;s bank and brokerage accounts totaled approximately $700.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>prdonahue</author><text>Umm, you know how short sales work right? You&#x27;re borrowing shares to sell them at current prices and then have to return the <i>shares</i> later. If the price rises, you are out the difference between what you sold at and what you repurchase at for when the call to cover comes in.</text></comment> |
31,460,627 | 31,460,189 | 1 | 2 | 31,459,316 | train | <story><title>The balance has shifted away from SPAs</title><url>https://nolanlawson.com/2022/05/21/the-balance-has-shifted-away-from-spas/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>enra</author><text>Apps, not sites. It’s even in the name, Single Page Application. You probably shouldn’t build websites as SPAs but you probably should build most apps as SPAs.<p>Slack, Dropbox, Google, Notion, Spotify, superhuman, 1Password, Robinhood…<p>Basically most web tools&#x2F;apps are SPAs if they have been built in the last ~10years. Github, Reddit and Airbnb were founded ~15 years ago when Rails was still a thing.</text></item><item><author>TekMol</author><text>Where are those SPAs everybody is talking about?<p>All sites I use regularly are MPAs:<p>Hackernews, Amazon, AirBnB, Booking.com, Wikipedia, GithHub ...<p>Reddits new design is kind of a hybrid. It is MPA when you hop between subreddits and other pages. But it shows a post on the same page when you click on it in a subreddit feed. I actually are annoyed by the new Reddit enough to switch to old.reddit.com most of the time when I end up on Reddit. Not sure why. But maybe it tells something, that the only &quot;somewhat SPA&quot; I know makes me switch to its MPA version regularly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>s__s</author><text>&gt; You probably shouldn’t build websites as SPAs but you probably should build most apps as SPAs.<p>As a frontend dev this has always been my stance, but I’ve been consistently shunned for it.<p>How much of that was naïveté vs. misaligned incentives I’m not sure.<p>In any case, these thing always leave me with the feeling the industry is getting way too saturated with script kiddies. It just feels immature, and the culture that’s grown around web dev seems to reflect that. Or more likely I’m just bitter and old.</text></comment> | <story><title>The balance has shifted away from SPAs</title><url>https://nolanlawson.com/2022/05/21/the-balance-has-shifted-away-from-spas/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>enra</author><text>Apps, not sites. It’s even in the name, Single Page Application. You probably shouldn’t build websites as SPAs but you probably should build most apps as SPAs.<p>Slack, Dropbox, Google, Notion, Spotify, superhuman, 1Password, Robinhood…<p>Basically most web tools&#x2F;apps are SPAs if they have been built in the last ~10years. Github, Reddit and Airbnb were founded ~15 years ago when Rails was still a thing.</text></item><item><author>TekMol</author><text>Where are those SPAs everybody is talking about?<p>All sites I use regularly are MPAs:<p>Hackernews, Amazon, AirBnB, Booking.com, Wikipedia, GithHub ...<p>Reddits new design is kind of a hybrid. It is MPA when you hop between subreddits and other pages. But it shows a post on the same page when you click on it in a subreddit feed. I actually are annoyed by the new Reddit enough to switch to old.reddit.com most of the time when I end up on Reddit. Not sure why. But maybe it tells something, that the only &quot;somewhat SPA&quot; I know makes me switch to its MPA version regularly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mostlysimilar</author><text>Rails is still “a thing” and is better today than it has ever been.</text></comment> |
36,371,774 | 36,369,513 | 1 | 2 | 36,369,018 | train | <story><title>I don't need your query language</title><url>https://antonz.org/fancy-ql/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nicoburns</author><text>This is no longer true in database that have JSON support (which is most of them these days). You can aggregate the result of a subselect into a single column (the underling data doesn’t have to be stored as JSON, you can convert as part of the query)</text></item><item><author>DaiPlusPlus</author><text>SQL does have a significant drawback w.r.t. how databases are used today (imo): a SELECT query can only return a single resultset of uniform tuples: if you want to query a database for hetereogenous types with differing multiplicity (i.e. an object-graph) then you either have to use multiple SELECT queries for each object-class - or use JOINs which will result in the Cartesian Explosion problem[1] which also results in redundant output data due to the multiplicity mismatch - SQL JOINs also lack the ability to error-out early if the JOIN matches an unexpected number of rows.<p>And there are often problems when using multiple SELECT queries in a batched statement: you can&#x27;t re-use existing CTE queries. Not all client libraries support multiple result-sets. It&#x27;s essentially impossible to return metadata associated with a resultset (T-SQL and TDS doesn&#x27;t even support named result sets...), which means you can&#x27;t opportunistically skip or omit a SELECT query in a batch because your client reader won&#x27;t know how to parse&#x2F;interpret an out-of-order resultset, and most importantly: you need to be careful w.r.t. transactions otherwise you&#x27;ll run into concurrency issues if data changes between SELECT queries in the same batch ()<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;ef&#x2F;core&#x2F;performance&#x2F;efficient-querying#avoid-cartesian-explosion-when-loading-related-entities" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;ef&#x2F;core&#x2F;performance&#x2F;effici...</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;ef&#x2F;core&#x2F;querying&#x2F;single-split-queries" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;ef&#x2F;core&#x2F;querying&#x2F;single-sp...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>erikpukinskis</author><text>&gt; <i>You can aggregate the result of a subselect into a single column (the underling data doesn’t have to be stored as JSON, you can convert as part of the query)</i><p>For anyone (like me) who is not quite able to visualize this, here is an example:<p><pre><code> SELECT json_agg(trips)
FROM (
SELECT
json_agg(
json_build_object(
&#x27;recorded_at&#x27;, created_at,
&#x27;latitude&#x27;, latitude,
&#x27;longitude&#x27;, longitude
)
) as trips
FROM data_tracks
GROUP by trip_log_id
)s
</code></pre>
From StackOverflow user S-man <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;53087015" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;53087015</a></text></comment> | <story><title>I don't need your query language</title><url>https://antonz.org/fancy-ql/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nicoburns</author><text>This is no longer true in database that have JSON support (which is most of them these days). You can aggregate the result of a subselect into a single column (the underling data doesn’t have to be stored as JSON, you can convert as part of the query)</text></item><item><author>DaiPlusPlus</author><text>SQL does have a significant drawback w.r.t. how databases are used today (imo): a SELECT query can only return a single resultset of uniform tuples: if you want to query a database for hetereogenous types with differing multiplicity (i.e. an object-graph) then you either have to use multiple SELECT queries for each object-class - or use JOINs which will result in the Cartesian Explosion problem[1] which also results in redundant output data due to the multiplicity mismatch - SQL JOINs also lack the ability to error-out early if the JOIN matches an unexpected number of rows.<p>And there are often problems when using multiple SELECT queries in a batched statement: you can&#x27;t re-use existing CTE queries. Not all client libraries support multiple result-sets. It&#x27;s essentially impossible to return metadata associated with a resultset (T-SQL and TDS doesn&#x27;t even support named result sets...), which means you can&#x27;t opportunistically skip or omit a SELECT query in a batch because your client reader won&#x27;t know how to parse&#x2F;interpret an out-of-order resultset, and most importantly: you need to be careful w.r.t. transactions otherwise you&#x27;ll run into concurrency issues if data changes between SELECT queries in the same batch ()<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;ef&#x2F;core&#x2F;performance&#x2F;efficient-querying#avoid-cartesian-explosion-when-loading-related-entities" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;ef&#x2F;core&#x2F;performance&#x2F;effici...</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;ef&#x2F;core&#x2F;querying&#x2F;single-split-queries" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;ef&#x2F;core&#x2F;querying&#x2F;single-sp...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomnipotent</author><text>Absolutely. JSON serialization is so well optimized in most RDBMS vendors now it puts very little additional CPU work on the database, and duplicating data in the output for large graph-based results is a small price to pay to breaking out of set-based constraints.</text></comment> |
28,112,537 | 28,112,573 | 1 | 2 | 28,111,957 | train | <story><title>Amazon third-party sellers reportedly hound customers who leave bad reviews</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/heres-how-amazon-third-party-sellers-reportedly-hound-c-1847446648</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>antipodes123</author><text>Long time Amazon Seller here<p>It&#x27;s against Amazon TOS to contact Amazon&#x27;s customers outside the Amazon messaging system, and they are really heavy handed against sellers breaching this.<p>If you complain to Amazon that the seller is contacting you outside the Amazon messaging platform and harrassing you, then Amazon will close their seller account.<p>Alternatively you can threaten to report them to Amazon for this and they will go away.</text></item><item><author>blibble</author><text>I had this... a third-party seller started harassing me via email to submit feedback<p>so I did... I gave them a two star review with something along the lines of &quot;kept pestering me to leave feedback&quot;<p>then they started emailing me demanding that I remove it, which I ignored<p>then they started phoning the number for the delivery, which happened to be an elderly relative (as they were the order recipient)<p>contacted Amazon, who responded with &quot;we&#x27;ll deal with the issue and get back to you within 48 hours&quot;, which never happened<p>my prime subscription will now lapse (having been a prime member for more than a decade)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>greenyoda</author><text>&gt; <i>&quot;contacted Amazon, who responded with &quot;we&#x27;ll deal with the issue and get back to you within 48 hours&quot;, which never happened&quot;</i><p>Apparently, complaining to Amazon didn&#x27;t solve the problem.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon third-party sellers reportedly hound customers who leave bad reviews</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/heres-how-amazon-third-party-sellers-reportedly-hound-c-1847446648</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>antipodes123</author><text>Long time Amazon Seller here<p>It&#x27;s against Amazon TOS to contact Amazon&#x27;s customers outside the Amazon messaging system, and they are really heavy handed against sellers breaching this.<p>If you complain to Amazon that the seller is contacting you outside the Amazon messaging platform and harrassing you, then Amazon will close their seller account.<p>Alternatively you can threaten to report them to Amazon for this and they will go away.</text></item><item><author>blibble</author><text>I had this... a third-party seller started harassing me via email to submit feedback<p>so I did... I gave them a two star review with something along the lines of &quot;kept pestering me to leave feedback&quot;<p>then they started emailing me demanding that I remove it, which I ignored<p>then they started phoning the number for the delivery, which happened to be an elderly relative (as they were the order recipient)<p>contacted Amazon, who responded with &quot;we&#x27;ll deal with the issue and get back to you within 48 hours&quot;, which never happened<p>my prime subscription will now lapse (having been a prime member for more than a decade)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>plorkyeran</author><text>I have complained to Amazon several times about sellers contacting me and AFAICT it has never done anything.</text></comment> |
23,659,513 | 23,657,199 | 1 | 3 | 23,655,669 | train | <story><title>Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10112048980882521</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snapetom</author><text>Haha. Remember when we all thought that the internet was going to spread democracy, open ideas, and freedom? Good times, good times.</text></item><item><author>libraryatnight</author><text>If you&#x27;d asked teenage me in the 90s if the internet I loved then was going to turn into this, I&#x27;d have thrown my computer in the trash. As a convenience tool its grown leaps and bounds, but as a &quot;place&quot; it&#x27;s turned into a terrible neighborhood.</text></item><item><author>systemvoltage</author><text>Not sure if I have data to back this up but my theory around political turmoil and echo chambers is as follows:<p>- Before widespread internet use, say year 2000, all communities were local. News were local + nation wide, people still focused on their physical proximity of 20 miles that affected them the most. Today, none of my friends read local news. Local news outlets are being bankrupted left and right.<p>- Anonymity on the internet. People can say whatever they want without attaching their name, face and self-pride. This creates extremely unproductive conversations without consequences. Platforms such as Twitter propel this behavior to new heights. When it was local, you&#x27;d lose friends for being unpleasant, you&#x27;d lose credibility in your community for being inflammatory.<p>- Foreign interference - when internet use was not widespread, it was difficult to infiltrate a foreign election campaign and interfere with it.<p>- Data collection and manipulation - Targeted newsfeeds that feed these echo chambers could not possibly reach critical mass before the internet. Echo chambers were physical places to go to - Hells Angels or joining the Evangelical Christian church. No such limits exist now.<p>- Scale - The internet allows unprecedented scale to operate on. Echo chambers reverb into unimaginable self-resonance. Joe Rogan can say something and <i>millions</i> could hear it. +1M subscriber channels on YouTube span thousands. That was practically impossible unless you were on national TV.<p>The internet has lot of positives (free voice, commerce, sharing of ideas, services, etc.) and its drawbacks are now surfacing. I want to go back to 90&#x27;s when we had healthy debates between republicans and democrats. We were one country. One voice. And people debated about issues and not about other people&#x27;s clans.<p>We wanted internet to be the left&#x2F;middle of the Bosch&#x27;s The Garden of Earthly Delights [1] but ended up creating something thats not too far from the right side of the canvas. Total chaos and loss of decency and respect for each other.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hieronymus_Bosch#&#x2F;media&#x2F;File:The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights_by_Bosch_High_Resolution.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hieronymus_Bosch#&#x2F;media&#x2F;File:T...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>K0SM0S</author><text>World Wide Web (www or W³): (between 1992 and 2042) Technological economic subsystem designed to monetize the intelligence of a few to produce ignorance in many more others. Internet is a fertile space for baseless or futile controversies (see &quot;nihilistic relativism&quot;), bad faith arguments (see &quot;trolls&quot;) and personal attacks (see &quot;DOTA 2&quot;); it&#x27;s been shown to warm up populations to authoritarianism and speech control (see &quot;Xiism&quot;), and to generate the cannibalistic stock-splosions of the early 21st century. It was eventually replaced in 2042 by <i>radioweb</i>, a quantum mesh network which ultimately spanned forty-eight thousand stars centered on the Sun by the year 4000. The only remnant of the World Wide Web in use today is Javascript. Replicas of the W³ circa 2020 are commonly used in airgap VR settings, to train soldiers to resist torture, or as horror depiction in movies. Psycho-history estimates that the human race would have gone extinct by 2145 at the latest if the W³ &quot;experiment&quot; hadn&#x27;t been shut down prematurely by the Pixies.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10112048980882521</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snapetom</author><text>Haha. Remember when we all thought that the internet was going to spread democracy, open ideas, and freedom? Good times, good times.</text></item><item><author>libraryatnight</author><text>If you&#x27;d asked teenage me in the 90s if the internet I loved then was going to turn into this, I&#x27;d have thrown my computer in the trash. As a convenience tool its grown leaps and bounds, but as a &quot;place&quot; it&#x27;s turned into a terrible neighborhood.</text></item><item><author>systemvoltage</author><text>Not sure if I have data to back this up but my theory around political turmoil and echo chambers is as follows:<p>- Before widespread internet use, say year 2000, all communities were local. News were local + nation wide, people still focused on their physical proximity of 20 miles that affected them the most. Today, none of my friends read local news. Local news outlets are being bankrupted left and right.<p>- Anonymity on the internet. People can say whatever they want without attaching their name, face and self-pride. This creates extremely unproductive conversations without consequences. Platforms such as Twitter propel this behavior to new heights. When it was local, you&#x27;d lose friends for being unpleasant, you&#x27;d lose credibility in your community for being inflammatory.<p>- Foreign interference - when internet use was not widespread, it was difficult to infiltrate a foreign election campaign and interfere with it.<p>- Data collection and manipulation - Targeted newsfeeds that feed these echo chambers could not possibly reach critical mass before the internet. Echo chambers were physical places to go to - Hells Angels or joining the Evangelical Christian church. No such limits exist now.<p>- Scale - The internet allows unprecedented scale to operate on. Echo chambers reverb into unimaginable self-resonance. Joe Rogan can say something and <i>millions</i> could hear it. +1M subscriber channels on YouTube span thousands. That was practically impossible unless you were on national TV.<p>The internet has lot of positives (free voice, commerce, sharing of ideas, services, etc.) and its drawbacks are now surfacing. I want to go back to 90&#x27;s when we had healthy debates between republicans and democrats. We were one country. One voice. And people debated about issues and not about other people&#x27;s clans.<p>We wanted internet to be the left&#x2F;middle of the Bosch&#x27;s The Garden of Earthly Delights [1] but ended up creating something thats not too far from the right side of the canvas. Total chaos and loss of decency and respect for each other.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hieronymus_Bosch#&#x2F;media&#x2F;File:The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights_by_Bosch_High_Resolution.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hieronymus_Bosch#&#x2F;media&#x2F;File:T...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jungturk</author><text>I still think it will, but its also created opportunity for other innovators less devoted to liberalism.<p>In my area, every spring as the days get longer and the frost subsides my yard springs up weeds. Within a month the turf crowds it out despite its slow start. Every year the same thing - the weeds are just quicker on the draw than the grass.<p>I think we&#x27;re in the spring dawning of massive global connectivity - the nodes are online but they aren&#x27;t good at resisting infection, the networks are vast but not resilient to abuse, truth struggles against the speed and virality and appeal of propaganda - but humanity&#x27;s good at inventing approaches and institutions to improve on those things.<p>Asteroids, pandemics, and climate change on the other hand....</text></comment> |
33,471,568 | 33,470,812 | 1 | 2 | 33,469,493 | train | <story><title>Musk’s Twitter purchase was a leveraged buyout</title><text>Some people are giving Musk a pass for today’s layoffs because Twitter is unprofitable and needs to cut costs. But the real pressure for cost cutting and the layoffs is that Musk purchased Twitter via a leveraged buyout. He loaded the company with $10B of additional debt and now is facing annual $1B interest payments. The dramatic layoffs with no severance are thus the result of Musk’s decision to buy the company and the acquisition strategy of using a leveraged buyout.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>m348e912</author><text>I am actually curious how Musk is going to pull this off. Twitter is actually in a way worse financial situation than it was two weeks ago due to the massive amount of debt incurred in the buyout process (and the associated payments). Layoffs are a must and cutting infrastructure costs is also crucial, however it&#x27;s critical that twitter starts generating some serious revenue.<p>Some advertisers have paused buying, and the $8 blue check thing could help a little but there is major ground to make up and I don&#x27;t know how it get&#x27;s done in the short term. I&#x27;ll be getting some popcorn, but I am rooting for Musk to figure this one out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>csours</author><text>How much lifting can the check mark do?<p>Twitter has 450 million users that log in at least once a month.<p>450,000,000 MDAU * $8 * 12 months = 43.2 Billion&#x2F;year<p>But they won&#x27;t sell 450 M check marks. If we take that 100% down to 1% (4.5M), you&#x27;re back down to $432 MM &#x2F; year, which isn&#x27;t enough to cover the interest payment.<p>Are there even 4.5M who want a check mark? The current estimate is 420,000.
That would be $40 MM &#x2F; year. If you payed 10 people $200,000&#x2F;year to support and develop features for the check mark, that would be $2 MM&#x2F;year, and your profit would be down to $38 MM &#x2F; year.<p>Let&#x27;s say that you had one low wage screener for every 10,000 check marks (to make sure they have a good time and don&#x27;t see too much spam) That would be 42 employees, add another 3 for management (but they get paid more). The screeners cost $20,000 each because they&#x27;re offshore, so that&#x27;s $840,000. Add another $200,000 for their management and that&#x27;s another million a year down the drain.<p>If you want to run your own numbers, here&#x27;s a sheet (make a copy): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.google.com&#x2F;spreadsheets&#x2F;d&#x2F;15WtfofzrEWE65nQH63_ZQAZB6p6oGpq19ufBlzYJ8bs&#x2F;edit?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.google.com&#x2F;spreadsheets&#x2F;d&#x2F;15WtfofzrEWE65nQH63_Z...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Musk’s Twitter purchase was a leveraged buyout</title><text>Some people are giving Musk a pass for today’s layoffs because Twitter is unprofitable and needs to cut costs. But the real pressure for cost cutting and the layoffs is that Musk purchased Twitter via a leveraged buyout. He loaded the company with $10B of additional debt and now is facing annual $1B interest payments. The dramatic layoffs with no severance are thus the result of Musk’s decision to buy the company and the acquisition strategy of using a leveraged buyout.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>m348e912</author><text>I am actually curious how Musk is going to pull this off. Twitter is actually in a way worse financial situation than it was two weeks ago due to the massive amount of debt incurred in the buyout process (and the associated payments). Layoffs are a must and cutting infrastructure costs is also crucial, however it&#x27;s critical that twitter starts generating some serious revenue.<p>Some advertisers have paused buying, and the $8 blue check thing could help a little but there is major ground to make up and I don&#x27;t know how it get&#x27;s done in the short term. I&#x27;ll be getting some popcorn, but I am rooting for Musk to figure this one out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryandvm</author><text>Not me, I&#x27;m rooting for this guy to develop a little humility.</text></comment> |
28,425,768 | 28,424,194 | 1 | 3 | 28,423,843 | train | <story><title>Git-cliff – Generate changelog files from the Git history</title><url>https://github.com/orhun/git-cliff</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>epage</author><text>While auto-generated changelogs aren&#x27;t the best, they are better than nothing. Too often I&#x27;ve seen projects without a changelog which is especially annoying when dealing with breaking changes.<p>I&#x27;ve been considering switching to a changelog generator, either from Conventional Commits or from a folder of files just to avoid merge conflicts with the CHANGELOG file.<p>If people want enforcement of Conventional Commit, check out <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;crate-ci&#x2F;committed" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;crate-ci&#x2F;committed</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Git-cliff – Generate changelog files from the Git history</title><url>https://github.com/orhun/git-cliff</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joshuanapoli</author><text>We’ve been using charmixer&#x2F;auto-changelog-action to generate release notes. This action makes nice references to GitHub pull requests. The release notes are attached to a GitHub release by an action. This turns out to be an invaluable reference for SQA and Product Manager for testing and creating customer-facing release notes.<p>One downside is that we run into trouble with GitHub API rate-limiting.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;charmixer&#x2F;auto-changelog-action" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;charmixer&#x2F;auto-changelog-action</a></text></comment> |
36,329,676 | 36,329,246 | 1 | 2 | 36,326,956 | train | <story><title>33-46% of workers on MTurk used LLMs in a text production task</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.07899</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AndrewKemendo</author><text>The Turing Syndrome speeds up!<p>Turing Syndrome (Like the Kessler syndrome) is when the amount of AI generated data on the internet surpasses human generated content to the extent that it will eventually make it impossible to distinguish between the two</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>somenameforme</author><text>I think this is probably a poor metric for it. Mechanical Turk is full of people trying to race their way through surveys to make a few pennies. So there&#x27;s a motivation to just create some output that can&#x27;t be automatically filtered out, like missing a &#x27;please select D as the answer for this question&#x27; attention test, while otherwise just going as quickly as possible. It&#x27;s a dream scenario for any sort of automation, no matter how crude. It&#x27;s one step above MMO gold farming.<p>Tangentially related, Mechanical Turk and its various less well known clones which come down to the exact same thing, are increasingly the status quo for social science studies. They keep making really shocking discoveries with like 99.99999% statistical certainty given the huge sample sizes these services enable. Kind of weird how often they fail to replicate.</text></comment> | <story><title>33-46% of workers on MTurk used LLMs in a text production task</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.07899</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AndrewKemendo</author><text>The Turing Syndrome speeds up!<p>Turing Syndrome (Like the Kessler syndrome) is when the amount of AI generated data on the internet surpasses human generated content to the extent that it will eventually make it impossible to distinguish between the two</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>z3c0</author><text>Or maybe the complete opposite, as it will only be learning patterns created by AI, producing less variance at higher temperatures, ultimately overfitting onto the same bland jargon.</text></comment> |
21,693,779 | 21,693,859 | 1 | 3 | 21,692,679 | train | <story><title>Four fired workers file charges against Google</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/dec/03/google-is-no-longer-listening-four-fired-workers-file-charges-against-tech-giant</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>6gvONxR4sf7o</author><text>I figure others would be curious about Google&#x27;s side of it. Who is right or wrong doesn&#x27;t seem obvious to me. Apparently this is a memo about why these workers were fired[0]:<p>&gt; We’ve seen a recent increase in information being shared outside the company, including the names and details of our employees. Our teams are committed to investigating these issues, and today we’ve dismissed four employees for clear and repeated violations of our data security policies.<p>&gt; There’s been some misinformation circulating about this investigation, both internally and externally. We want to be clear that none of these individuals were fired for simply looking at documents or calendars during the ordinary course of their work.<p>&gt; To the contrary, our thorough investigation found the individuals were involved in systematic searches for other employees’ materials and work. This includes searching for, accessing, and distributing business information outside the scope of their jobs — repeating this conduct even after they were met with and reminded about our data security policies. This information, along with details of internal emails and inaccurate descriptions about Googlers’ work, was subsequently shared externally.<p>&gt; In one case, among other information they accessed and copied, an individual subscribed to the calendars of a wide range of employees outside of their work group. The individual set up notifications so that they received emails detailing the work and whereabouts of those employees, including personal matters such as 1:1s, medical appointments and family activities — all without those employees’ knowledge or consent. When the affected Googlers discovered this, many reported that they felt scared or unsafe, and requested to work from another location. Screenshots of some of their calendars, including their names and details, subsequently made their way outside the company.<p>&gt; We have always taken information security very seriously, and will not tolerate efforts to intimidate Googlers or undermine their work, nor actions that lead to the leak of sensitive business or customer information. This is not how Google’s open culture works or was ever intended to work. We expect every member of our community to abide by our data security policies.<p>&gt; Fortunately, these types of activities are rare. Thank you to everyone who does the right thing every day — doing amazing work, while inspiring and maintaining the trust of our users, partners, and each other.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2019-11-25&#x2F;google-fires-four-employees-citing-data-security-violations" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2019-11-25&#x2F;google-fi...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vlovich123</author><text>As someone who worked at Google I&#x27;d like to clarify this corporate speak &amp; I&#x27;m really disappointed as I thought Google had higher standards.<p>Google has traditionally embraced an open culture so accessing documents outside the scope of your job has traditionally been totally fine &amp; is the stated reason why every full time employee is considered an insider for trading purposes, with legal restrictions imposed on when you can trade.<p>&#x27;m guessing from memory (&amp; this would be from before my time so ex-Googlers with a better memory please remind me), but the data policy was introduced to deal with SREs looking at customer data they weren&#x27;t supposed to, not about the work product of coworkers.<p>In terms of people&#x27;s calendars I&#x27;m totally confused - it&#x27;s super-easy to change sharing permissions even on a per event level. Sounds like it&#x27;s a pretext - the reasonable approach would be A) Improve training about the available privacy settings B) Improve Google Calendar to make it easier to manage those privacy settings since I&#x27;m sure other workplaces have a similar problem.<p>So the calendar stalking is the bigger problem I think on the part of the fired employees but the &quot;accessing documents outside the scope of their jobs&quot; is total BS. The leaking &quot;sensitive business or customer information&quot; seems like pure FUD - seems like a lawyer-approved way to slander about what happened.<p>I&#x27;m really curious whose calendars were accessed &quot;inappropriately&quot; and who reported feeling threatened. Moreover just accessing a calendar is not something you&#x27;re notified about so that would indicate this is either BS on Google&#x27;s part or these people were doing a bit of active stalking on the side. Could come out that everyone is the asshole in this story but given how bad management&#x2F;labor relations have gone under Sundar, I&#x27;d wager that Google is definitely engaging in really shady shit on their own here.</text></comment> | <story><title>Four fired workers file charges against Google</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/dec/03/google-is-no-longer-listening-four-fired-workers-file-charges-against-tech-giant</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>6gvONxR4sf7o</author><text>I figure others would be curious about Google&#x27;s side of it. Who is right or wrong doesn&#x27;t seem obvious to me. Apparently this is a memo about why these workers were fired[0]:<p>&gt; We’ve seen a recent increase in information being shared outside the company, including the names and details of our employees. Our teams are committed to investigating these issues, and today we’ve dismissed four employees for clear and repeated violations of our data security policies.<p>&gt; There’s been some misinformation circulating about this investigation, both internally and externally. We want to be clear that none of these individuals were fired for simply looking at documents or calendars during the ordinary course of their work.<p>&gt; To the contrary, our thorough investigation found the individuals were involved in systematic searches for other employees’ materials and work. This includes searching for, accessing, and distributing business information outside the scope of their jobs — repeating this conduct even after they were met with and reminded about our data security policies. This information, along with details of internal emails and inaccurate descriptions about Googlers’ work, was subsequently shared externally.<p>&gt; In one case, among other information they accessed and copied, an individual subscribed to the calendars of a wide range of employees outside of their work group. The individual set up notifications so that they received emails detailing the work and whereabouts of those employees, including personal matters such as 1:1s, medical appointments and family activities — all without those employees’ knowledge or consent. When the affected Googlers discovered this, many reported that they felt scared or unsafe, and requested to work from another location. Screenshots of some of their calendars, including their names and details, subsequently made their way outside the company.<p>&gt; We have always taken information security very seriously, and will not tolerate efforts to intimidate Googlers or undermine their work, nor actions that lead to the leak of sensitive business or customer information. This is not how Google’s open culture works or was ever intended to work. We expect every member of our community to abide by our data security policies.<p>&gt; Fortunately, these types of activities are rare. Thank you to everyone who does the right thing every day — doing amazing work, while inspiring and maintaining the trust of our users, partners, and each other.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2019-11-25&#x2F;google-fires-four-employees-citing-data-security-violations" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2019-11-25&#x2F;google-fi...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brandmeyer</author><text>&gt; an individual subscribed to the calendars of a wide range of employees outside of their work group. The individual set up notifications so that they received emails detailing the work and whereabouts of those employees, including personal matters such as 1:1s, medical appointments and family activities — all without those employees’ knowledge or consent.<p>IMO, this is grey behavior. Certainly stalking people is creepy. But how is this different from accessing any other web page that isn&#x27;t behind a security boundary?<p>This is at least partially a Calendar problem. Its difficult to set up G Calendar to keep personal appointments private without lots of manual intervention.</text></comment> |
41,441,391 | 41,441,364 | 1 | 3 | 41,440,662 | train | <story><title>In a first, Phoenix hits 100 straight days of 100-degree heat</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/09/03/phoenix-100-degree-temperatures-record/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qiqitori</author><text>Hrm, everyone is different but I wouldn&#x27;t consider living in a place like that.<p>PSA: 100 F is 37.7778C. Here is a relatively simple way to convert Fahrenheit to Celsius in your head. You just need to remember three simple facts:<p>1. 32 F is exactly 0 C. 32 F is a nice round number that most people here probably come across a lot.<p>2. 50 F is exactly 10 C. Again, a nice and round number.<p>3. It&#x27;s a linear relationship.<p>So every 18 F the temperature goes up by 10 C.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Izkata</author><text>The equation is &quot;F = C * 9 &#x2F; 5 + 32&quot;, and reversed, &quot;C = (F - 32) * 5 &#x2F; 9&quot;<p>If you&#x27;re just quickly doing it in your head, &quot;F = C * 2 + 30&quot; and &quot;C = (F - 30) &#x2F; 2&quot; are pretty close.</text></comment> | <story><title>In a first, Phoenix hits 100 straight days of 100-degree heat</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/09/03/phoenix-100-degree-temperatures-record/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qiqitori</author><text>Hrm, everyone is different but I wouldn&#x27;t consider living in a place like that.<p>PSA: 100 F is 37.7778C. Here is a relatively simple way to convert Fahrenheit to Celsius in your head. You just need to remember three simple facts:<p>1. 32 F is exactly 0 C. 32 F is a nice round number that most people here probably come across a lot.<p>2. 50 F is exactly 10 C. Again, a nice and round number.<p>3. It&#x27;s a linear relationship.<p>So every 18 F the temperature goes up by 10 C.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>foobarian</author><text>Also handy if you live up north, -40C == -40F</text></comment> |
26,245,487 | 26,245,537 | 1 | 2 | 26,244,528 | train | <story><title>GameStop, Bitcoin and the Commoditization of Populist Rage</title><url>https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/gamestop.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Clewza313</author><text>&gt; <i>Everyday I see a world where many in my generation have simply given up all hope for opportunity of a family, a house, a stable career and forced to confront an uncertain future in a world that is slowly boiling itself to death.</i><p>South Korea and Japan are 10-20 years ahead of the same curve here. However, the result has been resignation and stagnation, not revolution.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sampo_generation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sampo_generation</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Satori_generation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Satori_generation</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostrademons</author><text>There&#x27;s a pretty big difference between East Asian cultures and contemporary American culture, though. The former tend to be shame-based cultures: &quot;I can&#x27;t succeed, and this is because I am personally a failure.&quot; The latter tends to be an anger-based culture: &quot;I can&#x27;t succeed, and this is because the government &#x2F; corporations &#x2F; landlords &#x2F; George Soros fucked me over.&quot;<p>Elsewhere in the world, this same generation also represents itself as ISIS and revolutionaries in Syria, cartels and gangs in Mexico &amp; central America, and pirates in Somalia. As a developed nation, demographic realities reached America after they reached those countries. We&#x27;ll see what form it takes here.</text></comment> | <story><title>GameStop, Bitcoin and the Commoditization of Populist Rage</title><url>https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/gamestop.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Clewza313</author><text>&gt; <i>Everyday I see a world where many in my generation have simply given up all hope for opportunity of a family, a house, a stable career and forced to confront an uncertain future in a world that is slowly boiling itself to death.</i><p>South Korea and Japan are 10-20 years ahead of the same curve here. However, the result has been resignation and stagnation, not revolution.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sampo_generation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sampo_generation</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Satori_generation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Satori_generation</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mc32</author><text>I think comfort is something that affects people.<p>People in poor countries, the Philippines for example, have fewer opportunities, less ability to save, yet somehow form families, raise kids and look to a better tomorrow.<p>In rich countries people feel like they’re missing something if they’re not keeping up with the Joneses.<p>In the Philippines not many people are ashamed of second hand clothing. In Korea that’s just not something people would do.<p>It’s not pride but it’s also not the best way to deal with reality.</text></comment> |
23,805,922 | 23,805,272 | 1 | 3 | 23,801,903 | train | <story><title>Why are toys such a bad business?</title><url>https://diff.substack.com/p/why-are-toys-such-a-bad-business</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ethbro</author><text>Because most toy companies don&#x27;t &#x2F; can&#x27;t understand vertical integration and increasing value capture.<p>Or, in other words, they don&#x27;t have their own version of this strategy chart: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;johnaugust.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2014&#x2F;07&#x2F;disney_chart.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;johnaugust.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2014&#x2F;07&#x2F;disney_cha...</a> (Disney corporate synergy, dated 1957)<p>Your primary consumer has the attention span of a 10-year-old, and no disposable income. Why are we surprised this is a terrible industry?<p>A smarter approach would be what Tim Sweeney is talking about with Fortnite (and Amazon infamously does): you have to do everything you can to pivot any initial success into a durable advantage, by aggressively expanding into adjacent opportunities, even if they&#x27;re very different businesses (e.g. movie theaters).<p>They&#x27;ve made token moves towards this with the physical toy + computer game mash-up genre, but from an external perspective I don&#x27;t think any of them quite <i>get</i> how it&#x27;s supposed to work. Efforts seem under -capitalized &#x2F; -resourced &#x2F; -inspired.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philwelch</author><text>&gt; Or, in other words, they don&#x27;t have their own version of this strategy chart: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;johnaugust.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2014&#x2F;07&#x2F;disney_cha.." rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;johnaugust.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2014&#x2F;07&#x2F;disney_cha...</a>. (Disney corporate synergy, dated 1957)<p>I really love that chart because it tells you so much about the company culture that drew it up. Almost any other company would draw this diagram in some depressingly corporate way, but Disney drew it as a cartoon with little characters running around. It&#x27;s a corporate strategy, expressed in concrete terms, in a way that demonstrates that the company was still run by artists.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why are toys such a bad business?</title><url>https://diff.substack.com/p/why-are-toys-such-a-bad-business</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ethbro</author><text>Because most toy companies don&#x27;t &#x2F; can&#x27;t understand vertical integration and increasing value capture.<p>Or, in other words, they don&#x27;t have their own version of this strategy chart: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;johnaugust.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2014&#x2F;07&#x2F;disney_chart.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;johnaugust.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2014&#x2F;07&#x2F;disney_cha...</a> (Disney corporate synergy, dated 1957)<p>Your primary consumer has the attention span of a 10-year-old, and no disposable income. Why are we surprised this is a terrible industry?<p>A smarter approach would be what Tim Sweeney is talking about with Fortnite (and Amazon infamously does): you have to do everything you can to pivot any initial success into a durable advantage, by aggressively expanding into adjacent opportunities, even if they&#x27;re very different businesses (e.g. movie theaters).<p>They&#x27;ve made token moves towards this with the physical toy + computer game mash-up genre, but from an external perspective I don&#x27;t think any of them quite <i>get</i> how it&#x27;s supposed to work. Efforts seem under -capitalized &#x2F; -resourced &#x2F; -inspired.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>desas</author><text>Lego have got this down pat. Rather than being solely reliant on external IP like Star Wars and Harry Potter where they only get one slice of the cake (and share that) they made their own IP. The most successful IP is Ninjago, there&#x27;s about a dozen TV series, one film, one computer game, a theme park ride, books serialising the TV series, &quot;fact books&quot;, clothing and the full range of merchandise.</text></comment> |
15,724,064 | 15,724,203 | 1 | 2 | 15,722,299 | train | <story><title>Brave expands Basic Attention Token platform to YouTube</title><url>https://basicattentiontoken.org/brave-expands-basic-attention-token-platform-to-youtube/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joshuamorton</author><text>It&#x27;s thrown into a hole in exactly the same way that my $30 I tipped btc is not mine, because I never got it out of the system.<p>Edit: I said it better in response to a sibling of yours: I think it&#x27;s unethical for a platform to accept payment on my behalf without my permission.</text></item><item><author>Ajedi32</author><text>The money doesn&#x27;t go &quot;into a hole&quot;. The funds are saved and a creator can retrieve them at any time once they sign up for an account: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brave.com&#x2F;publishers&#x2F;#getverified" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brave.com&#x2F;publishers&#x2F;#getverified</a> Basically, it&#x27;s their money, and whether they decide to withdraw it or not is entirely up to them.<p>IMO this is the right way to do it because it solves the chicken and egg problem that would normally exist with a universal funding method like this. Users don&#x27;t have to worry about what payment platforms their favorite creators support; they can just browse the web like normal and the platform takes care of the rest.</text></item><item><author>joshuamorton</author><text>(disclosure, I work at google, and previously at YouTube)<p>This allows a user to donate to a content creator even if that creator doesn&#x27;t have any way to get access the donations. That is, until youtubers start registering themselves in the payment tool, this is essentially watching someone&#x27;s video, and then throwing money into a hole.<p>With other patronage systems, like patreon, you cannot donate money until the creator has an account. To me, that feels super sketch.<p>Edit: It reminded me to go and check my old bitcointip and altcointip accounts on reddit, on which I apparently had combined closed to $30 in BTC at today&#x27;s prices, but which have both been shuttered and are now inaccessible. That&#x27;s not promising.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ProAm</author><text>It&#x27;s thrown into an account that the creator can retrieve at anytime. A hole incorrectly insinuates it&#x27;s never retrievable. This is a good way to get away from Googles monetization handcuffs.</text></comment> | <story><title>Brave expands Basic Attention Token platform to YouTube</title><url>https://basicattentiontoken.org/brave-expands-basic-attention-token-platform-to-youtube/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joshuamorton</author><text>It&#x27;s thrown into a hole in exactly the same way that my $30 I tipped btc is not mine, because I never got it out of the system.<p>Edit: I said it better in response to a sibling of yours: I think it&#x27;s unethical for a platform to accept payment on my behalf without my permission.</text></item><item><author>Ajedi32</author><text>The money doesn&#x27;t go &quot;into a hole&quot;. The funds are saved and a creator can retrieve them at any time once they sign up for an account: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brave.com&#x2F;publishers&#x2F;#getverified" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brave.com&#x2F;publishers&#x2F;#getverified</a> Basically, it&#x27;s their money, and whether they decide to withdraw it or not is entirely up to them.<p>IMO this is the right way to do it because it solves the chicken and egg problem that would normally exist with a universal funding method like this. Users don&#x27;t have to worry about what payment platforms their favorite creators support; they can just browse the web like normal and the platform takes care of the rest.</text></item><item><author>joshuamorton</author><text>(disclosure, I work at google, and previously at YouTube)<p>This allows a user to donate to a content creator even if that creator doesn&#x27;t have any way to get access the donations. That is, until youtubers start registering themselves in the payment tool, this is essentially watching someone&#x27;s video, and then throwing money into a hole.<p>With other patronage systems, like patreon, you cannot donate money until the creator has an account. To me, that feels super sketch.<p>Edit: It reminded me to go and check my old bitcointip and altcointip accounts on reddit, on which I apparently had combined closed to $30 in BTC at today&#x27;s prices, but which have both been shuttered and are now inaccessible. That&#x27;s not promising.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>33W</author><text>&gt; I think it&#x27;s unethical for a platform to accept payment on my behalf without my permission.<p>Would it be similarly unethical to accept donations to {charity} without first getting their approval?</text></comment> |
13,895,115 | 13,893,885 | 1 | 3 | 13,893,534 | train | <story><title>In search of a simple consensus algorithm</title><url>http://rystsov.info/2017/02/15/simple-consensus.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ReidZB</author><text>The article abuses Kolmogorov complexity...<p>&gt; When it is applied to the algorithms, it means that an algorithm with the shortest implementation is simpler.<p>That is misleading. Kolmogorov complexity is the length of the shortest program (in a pre-defined language) that produces a given object. So, if the <i>shortest program</i> that produces Algorithm A is smaller than the <i>shortest program</i> that produces Algorithm B, then the Algorithm A is less Kolmogorov-complex (&quot;simpler&quot;) than Algorithm A.<p>This does not mean you can take two existing implementations (in C, say) and compare the implementation length and declare one is &quot;simpler,&quot; unless you are claiming that both implementations are as short as possible. Since Kolmogorov complexity is not computable, that seems like a tall order.<p>Maybe they are right that Single-Decree Paxos is simpler (either in the sense of Kolmogorov complexity or in some other sense, who knows), but invoking Kolmogorov complexity here seems totally unwarranted -- it doesn&#x27;t add anything substantive.</text></comment> | <story><title>In search of a simple consensus algorithm</title><url>http://rystsov.info/2017/02/15/simple-consensus.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>irfansharif</author><text>It is my understanding that the motivation in seeking out consensus algorithms with strong leaders (or equivalent) as opposed to horizontally weighted peer-to-peer ones is due to the performance penalty imposed by the latter in the general case. Structuring the protocol to be a dissemination from the &#x27;leader&#x27; node down to the followers as opposed to a bottom-up approach fares better when your leader is long-lived, circumventing the cost of determining &#x27;consensus&#x27; every single time. It&#x27;s readily apparent that this would lend to a performance penalty in the pathological case, as is demonstrated here, when the leader node is taken down repeatedly - but I&#x27;m skeptical if this is true for workloads that systems like coreos&#x2F;etcd, cockroachdb&#x2F;cockroach were intended to handle.</text></comment> |
29,993,689 | 29,993,876 | 1 | 3 | 29,993,012 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Hebrew Wordle</title><url>https://wordleheb.web.app/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>compsciphd</author><text>I see your hebrew wordle and raise you yiddish wordle <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jiconway.com&#x2F;vertl&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jiconway.com&#x2F;vertl&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Hebrew Wordle</title><url>https://wordleheb.web.app/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bszupnick</author><text>Cool! How does it handle סופית letters like ך &#x2F;ח? Like totally separate letters?<p>For the non-Hebrew speakers, Hebrew has some letters that change form when placed at the end of the word. The Hebrew keyboard has these forms in their own key, but colloquially they&#x27;re the same letter.</text></comment> |
32,798,200 | 32,798,288 | 1 | 2 | 32,796,177 | train | <story><title>How does the land use of different electricity sources compare?</title><url>https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-per-energy-source</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cycomanic</author><text>The communications around nuclear at the moment are fascinating. I think we are really witnessing a massive PR campaign trying to take advantage of the war in Ukraine.<p>Everyone is talking about the gas imports from Russia, while nobody talks about oil imports which are not very different (using todays prices the EU imported around 300 billion euro worth of gas and 62 billion worth of oil in 2021. They are obviously over estimates because I used last year&#x27;s volumes with todays prices).<p>On top of that many publications talk as if electricity from other sources could easily replace gas, which is also incorrect. Germany which is often criticised generates less than 10% of electricity from gas, similar to France who are the nuclear poster child (that is because gas and nuclear are used for different purposes). Most of the gas in Germany is used for heating and industrial processes.<p>On top of that we see articles (this isn&#x27;t the first) who try to reframe the question of energy consumption around land use, which is a complete red hering, designed to make nuclear look more advantageous.<p>Finally, nobody talks how the situation at the Zaporizhzhia is an illustration of the significant security implications of nuclear. I mean Europe has not been this close to a nuclear disaster in more than 30 years and people arguing we should build more nuclear plants?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mdf</author><text>&gt; On top of that we see articles (this isn&#x27;t the first) who try to reframe the question of energy consumption around land use, which is a complete red hering, designed to make nuclear look more advantageous.<p>I wonder, what&#x27;s your opinion on these two matters:<p>- the sixth mass extinction<p>- carbon sinks<p>In my opinion as a concerned environmentalist, they are both extremely important and need immediate actions to have even a small chance of being somewhat remedied. Land use is an important facet of how exactly we are destroying the environment and as such it does make sense to consider it as one of the dimensions when planning energy production.<p>And to be clear, there are lots of species that don&#x27;t just accept any &quot;close enough&quot; environment as their living place. For example, willow tits in Finland are endangered because here they mainly live in old forests that include dead trees – unacceptable for timber and pulp industry.<p>Edit: I want to emphasize that I don&#x27;t see land use concerns as an attempt to reframe the question, limiting the dimensions the energy sector is thought of. Rather, IMO it&#x27;s a welcome important additional feature to think of.</text></comment> | <story><title>How does the land use of different electricity sources compare?</title><url>https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-per-energy-source</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cycomanic</author><text>The communications around nuclear at the moment are fascinating. I think we are really witnessing a massive PR campaign trying to take advantage of the war in Ukraine.<p>Everyone is talking about the gas imports from Russia, while nobody talks about oil imports which are not very different (using todays prices the EU imported around 300 billion euro worth of gas and 62 billion worth of oil in 2021. They are obviously over estimates because I used last year&#x27;s volumes with todays prices).<p>On top of that many publications talk as if electricity from other sources could easily replace gas, which is also incorrect. Germany which is often criticised generates less than 10% of electricity from gas, similar to France who are the nuclear poster child (that is because gas and nuclear are used for different purposes). Most of the gas in Germany is used for heating and industrial processes.<p>On top of that we see articles (this isn&#x27;t the first) who try to reframe the question of energy consumption around land use, which is a complete red hering, designed to make nuclear look more advantageous.<p>Finally, nobody talks how the situation at the Zaporizhzhia is an illustration of the significant security implications of nuclear. I mean Europe has not been this close to a nuclear disaster in more than 30 years and people arguing we should build more nuclear plants?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kleene_op</author><text>&gt; Finally, nobody talks how the situation at the Zaporizhzhia is an illustration of the significant security implications of nuclear.<p>It&#x27;s in Putin&#x27;s interest to entertain fear of nuclear in occidental countries. Him moving troops and shelling around Zaporizhzhia could be construed as his latest plan to prevent us from building more nuclear plants.<p>Anyway the point is moot since Russia is closer to Zaporizhzhia than the EU is and would suffer firsthand from a nuclear incident, so it&#x27;s not in Putin&#x27;s interest to actually act on it.</text></comment> |
30,515,337 | 30,515,456 | 1 | 3 | 30,514,944 | train | <story><title>Ericsson workers were kidnapped when telco sent them to negotiate with ISIS</title><url>https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/ericsson-workers-were-kidnapped-when-telco-sent-them-to-negotiate-with-isis/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>causi</author><text><i>The company is also believed to have bribed the terrorist group to allow it to use a fast route through ISIS territory that avoided government checkpoints.<p>The telco used sham contracts, inflated invoices, and falsified financial statements to funnel millions to ISIS and local power brokers, with millions still unaccounted for.</i><p>Oh damn. That&#x27;s going beyond just trying to maintain your infrastructure for the sake of the populace.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ericsson workers were kidnapped when telco sent them to negotiate with ISIS</title><url>https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/ericsson-workers-were-kidnapped-when-telco-sent-them-to-negotiate-with-isis/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Saint_Genet</author><text>Should probably have done what this swedish chemistry professor did<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thelocal.se&#x2F;20181213&#x2F;lund-professor-freed-student-from-islamic-state-warzone&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thelocal.se&#x2F;20181213&#x2F;lund-professor-freed-studen...</a></text></comment> |
27,641,806 | 27,641,842 | 1 | 3 | 27,641,010 | train | <story><title>Microsoft Teams 2 will use half the memory, dropping Electron for Edge Webview2</title><url>https://tomtalks.blog/2021/06/microsoft-teams-2-0-will-use-half-the-memory-dropping-electron-for-edge-webview2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>richardstephens</author><text>Drop Electron.... for Edge Webview2. I mean, okay sure, half the memory is an improvement. But what is going on in the chat industry that everyone&#x27;s converged on Electron? You&#x27;d think Microsoft of all companies would be able to figure out how to build native apps. If I want a chat service with native apps, it seems like my only option is IRC.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>slashdev</author><text>Native apps means essentially building at least 5 distinct apps: windows, mac, iOS, linux, android. What a mess to work with and maintain.<p>We already have cross-platfrom UI engines called browsers and they&#x27;re very advanced and reasonably pleasant to work with these days. If you bundle the browser (electron) then you don&#x27;t have to worry about differences between browsers. So electron makes plenty of sense to developers, even although it&#x27;s an egregious resource hog.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft Teams 2 will use half the memory, dropping Electron for Edge Webview2</title><url>https://tomtalks.blog/2021/06/microsoft-teams-2-0-will-use-half-the-memory-dropping-electron-for-edge-webview2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>richardstephens</author><text>Drop Electron.... for Edge Webview2. I mean, okay sure, half the memory is an improvement. But what is going on in the chat industry that everyone&#x27;s converged on Electron? You&#x27;d think Microsoft of all companies would be able to figure out how to build native apps. If I want a chat service with native apps, it seems like my only option is IRC.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nlitened</author><text>If I understand correctly, Telegram has native apps on all platforms, and they are super fast and slick.</text></comment> |
15,099,152 | 15,099,324 | 1 | 3 | 15,098,706 | train | <story><title>Aetna accidentally exposed customer HIV statuses in clear envelope windows</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/08/25/aetna-accidentally-exposed-customer-hiv-statuses-in-clear-envelope-windows/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sqeaky</author><text>You shouldn&#x27;t be downvoted for normal and reasonable questions, or even for self doubt.<p>Aetna is terrible. The lobby against healthcare reform at every turn. They didn&#x27;t want obamacare&#x2F;ACA they didn&#x27;t want to compete accross state lines, they want to be able to exempt people from pre-existing conditions, they want to give people the run-around.<p>They are not trustworthy and they are run by bad people. (don&#x27;t beat up on their phone agents though, they are just trying to make ends meets).</text></item><item><author>mabbo</author><text>Oh neat, I just signed up for Aetna (first time working in America since ACA).<p>Is this normal for them? Am I an idiot?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maxerickson</author><text>Competing across state lines means all insurance will be regulated by the state with rules that most favor the insurer, it isn&#x27;t all that likely to be good for consumers.<p>The banking renaissance in South Dakota is a result of a similar situation.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2013&#x2F;07&#x2F;how-citibank-made-south-dakota-the-top-state-in-the-us-for-business&#x2F;425661&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2013&#x2F;07&#x2F;how-cit...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Aetna accidentally exposed customer HIV statuses in clear envelope windows</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/08/25/aetna-accidentally-exposed-customer-hiv-statuses-in-clear-envelope-windows/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sqeaky</author><text>You shouldn&#x27;t be downvoted for normal and reasonable questions, or even for self doubt.<p>Aetna is terrible. The lobby against healthcare reform at every turn. They didn&#x27;t want obamacare&#x2F;ACA they didn&#x27;t want to compete accross state lines, they want to be able to exempt people from pre-existing conditions, they want to give people the run-around.<p>They are not trustworthy and they are run by bad people. (don&#x27;t beat up on their phone agents though, they are just trying to make ends meets).</text></item><item><author>mabbo</author><text>Oh neat, I just signed up for Aetna (first time working in America since ACA).<p>Is this normal for them? Am I an idiot?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>noonespecial</author><text>&gt;(don&#x27;t beat up on their phone agents though, they are just trying to make ends meets).<p>I&#x27;ve gotten very tired of this. Every time I&#x27;m on calls like this now I gently suggest to the phone agent that they know that what they are doing
contributes to a system that hurts people and that they should try to do something more with their lives.<p>Don&#x27;t scream or bluster. Do it with gentleness and respect and get ready to be occasionally very surprised at the results.</text></comment> |
20,740,552 | 20,740,538 | 1 | 2 | 20,739,907 | train | <story><title>Twitter is blocked in China, but its state news agency is buying promoted tweets</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/19/twitter-is-blocked-in-china-but-its-state-news-agency-is-buying-promoted-tweets-to-portray-hong-kong-protestors-as-violent/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rococode</author><text>Twitter just posted this statement: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.twitter.com&#x2F;en_us&#x2F;topics&#x2F;company&#x2F;2019&#x2F;information_operations_directed_at_Hong_Kong.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.twitter.com&#x2F;en_us&#x2F;topics&#x2F;company&#x2F;2019&#x2F;informati...</a><p>And a new policy banning all state-controlled media from advertising: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.twitter.com&#x2F;en_us&#x2F;topics&#x2F;company&#x2F;2019&#x2F;advertising_policies_on_state_media.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.twitter.com&#x2F;en_us&#x2F;topics&#x2F;company&#x2F;2019&#x2F;advertisi...</a><p>I think this is an interesting example of recent discussions about the disproportionate influence of social media companies on information. Obviously, it doesn&#x27;t seem right for a government to manipulate public conversation. But it&#x27;s also worrisome that a single company has the power to shut down an entire government trying to spread its ideas. In this instance it&#x27;s well justified, but it feels a little scary that the flow of information is policed by a couple private individuals with very little oversight. I don&#x27;t have any particular opinions here on what might need to change, if anything - just thinking out loud.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mcphage</author><text>&gt; But it&#x27;s also worrisome that a single company has the power to shut down an entire government trying to spread its ideas.<p>Twitter doesn&#x27;t have the power to shut down an entire government trying to spread its ideas. Not by a long shot—the very idea is laughable. Twitter has the power to shut down an entire government trying to spread its ideas <i>via twitter</i>. And that is in no way worrisome; that is a very good thing! If it were impossible for Twitter to do so, <i>that</i> would be worrisome.</text></comment> | <story><title>Twitter is blocked in China, but its state news agency is buying promoted tweets</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/19/twitter-is-blocked-in-china-but-its-state-news-agency-is-buying-promoted-tweets-to-portray-hong-kong-protestors-as-violent/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rococode</author><text>Twitter just posted this statement: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.twitter.com&#x2F;en_us&#x2F;topics&#x2F;company&#x2F;2019&#x2F;information_operations_directed_at_Hong_Kong.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.twitter.com&#x2F;en_us&#x2F;topics&#x2F;company&#x2F;2019&#x2F;informati...</a><p>And a new policy banning all state-controlled media from advertising: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.twitter.com&#x2F;en_us&#x2F;topics&#x2F;company&#x2F;2019&#x2F;advertising_policies_on_state_media.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.twitter.com&#x2F;en_us&#x2F;topics&#x2F;company&#x2F;2019&#x2F;advertisi...</a><p>I think this is an interesting example of recent discussions about the disproportionate influence of social media companies on information. Obviously, it doesn&#x27;t seem right for a government to manipulate public conversation. But it&#x27;s also worrisome that a single company has the power to shut down an entire government trying to spread its ideas. In this instance it&#x27;s well justified, but it feels a little scary that the flow of information is policed by a couple private individuals with very little oversight. I don&#x27;t have any particular opinions here on what might need to change, if anything - just thinking out loud.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SllX</author><text>Not to undermine your concerns, for you raise fair questions, but this is justifiable behavior on Twitter’s part for a simple reason: Twitter is blocked in PRC.<p>It seems fair to block the activities of even entire governments to operate on a platform that is itself blocked from operating normally in that country. Governments are not above reproach or criticism anymore than corporations are. If PRC will not subject itself to fair scrutiny or allow their subjects to participate on Twitter’s platform, then why should Twitter have to play or even allow PRC’s game on their platform, <i>especially</i> when they are blatantly breaking Twitter’s rules and intentionally trying to deceive Twitter’s users.</text></comment> |
20,327,930 | 20,328,020 | 1 | 3 | 20,326,909 | train | <story><title>Advanced Data Structures (2017)</title><url>https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.851/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pkaye</author><text>Curious has anyone made use of these advanced data structures in an production program?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mehrdadn</author><text>Not sure what you consider &quot;production&quot; but suffix arrays et al. are used fairly widely as far as these data structures go, but they aren&#x27;t particularly exotic. Curious to hear about some more exotic ones though.</text></comment> | <story><title>Advanced Data Structures (2017)</title><url>https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.851/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pkaye</author><text>Curious has anyone made use of these advanced data structures in an production program?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SolarNet</author><text>I mean I suspect we all have through compilers, standard libraries, and database query engines.</text></comment> |
15,026,121 | 15,025,931 | 1 | 2 | 15,024,646 | train | <story><title>Dwarf Fortress starting during apt-get upgrade</title><url>https://askubuntu.com/questions/938606/dwarf-fortress-starting-during-apt-get-upgrade</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pawadu</author><text>That&#x27;s how i feel about &quot;convert&quot; from imagemagick</text></item><item><author>grabcocque</author><text>The fact that the dwarf fortress binary is just &#x27;df&#x27; was asking for trouble. In hindsight seems amazing nobody reported this before.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sohkamyung</author><text>Which is why I use graphicsmagick [1] instead. The imagamagick executables becomes options behind the &#x27;gm&#x27; executable.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.graphicsmagick.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.graphicsmagick.org&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Dwarf Fortress starting during apt-get upgrade</title><url>https://askubuntu.com/questions/938606/dwarf-fortress-starting-during-apt-get-upgrade</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pawadu</author><text>That&#x27;s how i feel about &quot;convert&quot; from imagemagick</text></item><item><author>grabcocque</author><text>The fact that the dwarf fortress binary is just &#x27;df&#x27; was asking for trouble. In hindsight seems amazing nobody reported this before.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tome</author><text>And &quot;import&quot;!</text></comment> |
19,688,748 | 19,688,554 | 1 | 3 | 19,688,258 | train | <story><title>Donald E. Knuth: An Oral History (2018) [video]</title><url>https://purl.stanford.edu/jq248bz8097</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>janvdberg</author><text>Speaking about Knuth audiofiles, I recently created a RSS feed for the Knuth&#x27;s &quot;Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About&quot; audio files (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;j11g.com&#x2F;knuth.xml" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;j11g.com&#x2F;knuth.xml</a>). This way you can listen to it in your favorite podcast player. For example, I added the feed to Overcast: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;overcast.fm&#x2F;p1120847-YM0aS7" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;overcast.fm&#x2F;p1120847-YM0aS7</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Donald E. Knuth: An Oral History (2018) [video]</title><url>https://purl.stanford.edu/jq248bz8097</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bsilvereagle</author><text>Transcript: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stacks.stanford.edu&#x2F;file&#x2F;druid:jq248bz8097&#x2F;jq248bz8097_SC0932_s5_Knuth_script.pdf?download=true" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stacks.stanford.edu&#x2F;file&#x2F;druid:jq248bz8097&#x2F;jq248bz80...</a></text></comment> |
10,591,701 | 10,591,126 | 1 | 2 | 10,588,264 | train | <story><title>Visual Studio Code is now open source</title><url>https://code.visualstudio.com/updates#_vs-code-is-open-source</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simoncion</author><text>&gt; If they keep it up with actions such as these, there&#x27;s a good chance they&#x27;ll stand to be rewarded for it.<p>And -quickly enough- they&#x27;ll go back to being the old MSFT we all knew and loathed from top to bottom, and these olive branches will vanish quicker than a pile of shaved ice on a summer day. For many of us, this isn&#x27;t our first rodeo. :)</text></item><item><author>ckozlowski</author><text>&gt;Only losing market share and power has made Microsoft produce software with reasonable quality, flexibility, and interoperability.<p>And that, in my opinion, is the way it&#x27;s supposed to work. Vendor&#x27;s products gettin&#x27; ya down? Not being responsive to your needs and lacking in quality? Move elsewhere! Money talks.<p>A good kick in the ass can be a humbling experience, and a good opportunity for the open-minded. It was a long time in coming, but I&#x27;m glad to see MS is starting to take some of these lessons to heart. If they keep it up with actions such as these, there&#x27;s a good chance they&#x27;ll stand to be rewarded for it.</text></item><item><author>ploxiln</author><text>Only losing market share and power has made Microsoft produce software with reasonable quality, flexibility, and interoperability.<p>A lot of the credit for that goes to Apple&#x27;s crazy climb in popularity. But at least some of it also goes to technologists involved in networking, the internet, and the web, many of whom decided never to deal with any Microsoft stuff ever again. If you knew the frustration of Microsoft&#x27;s combination of lock-in and incompetence, back in 1995 - 2006 (my entire computing life at the time!) you wouldn&#x27;t blame them.</text></item><item><author>kup0</author><text>I wasn&#x27;t sure what to expect from VSC, especially going into it I was worried that it would just be a MS-branded, bloated version of an already-slow Atom.<p>My expectations were completely wrong, though. VSC is not bloated or slow. It&#x27;s well-made. There aren&#x27;t really any negative MS-flavored conventions as far as I can tell. This isn&#x27;t MS Office (which I guess has its place but has gone off the deep end, IMHO). It looks like it&#x27;s on a path towards becoming a pretty powerful tool, more than just a text editor, and more than just a clone of Atom.<p>The MS branding will unfortunately keep people away that like to judge books by their cover. But that says more about their own problems and unwillingness than it does about MS.<p>I don&#x27;t understand why we have to throw ourselves into brand &quot;camps&quot; and defend them to the death. It&#x27;s dumb. I like Linux, I use an assortment of operating systems depending on my needs, and I don&#x27;t see any reason why a decent effort&#x2F;product can&#x27;t be appreciated, no matter what company produces it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dbattaglia</author><text>Honest question: how many people from the embrace-extend-extinguish era are still at Microsoft? Once they are all gone, and the market has shifted several times since then, you would think that era would be over for them. Or, is it just deeply engrained in their corporate culture, which lives in longer than any individual employee? I kind of doubt it but it&#x27;s interesting to think about.</text></comment> | <story><title>Visual Studio Code is now open source</title><url>https://code.visualstudio.com/updates#_vs-code-is-open-source</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simoncion</author><text>&gt; If they keep it up with actions such as these, there&#x27;s a good chance they&#x27;ll stand to be rewarded for it.<p>And -quickly enough- they&#x27;ll go back to being the old MSFT we all knew and loathed from top to bottom, and these olive branches will vanish quicker than a pile of shaved ice on a summer day. For many of us, this isn&#x27;t our first rodeo. :)</text></item><item><author>ckozlowski</author><text>&gt;Only losing market share and power has made Microsoft produce software with reasonable quality, flexibility, and interoperability.<p>And that, in my opinion, is the way it&#x27;s supposed to work. Vendor&#x27;s products gettin&#x27; ya down? Not being responsive to your needs and lacking in quality? Move elsewhere! Money talks.<p>A good kick in the ass can be a humbling experience, and a good opportunity for the open-minded. It was a long time in coming, but I&#x27;m glad to see MS is starting to take some of these lessons to heart. If they keep it up with actions such as these, there&#x27;s a good chance they&#x27;ll stand to be rewarded for it.</text></item><item><author>ploxiln</author><text>Only losing market share and power has made Microsoft produce software with reasonable quality, flexibility, and interoperability.<p>A lot of the credit for that goes to Apple&#x27;s crazy climb in popularity. But at least some of it also goes to technologists involved in networking, the internet, and the web, many of whom decided never to deal with any Microsoft stuff ever again. If you knew the frustration of Microsoft&#x27;s combination of lock-in and incompetence, back in 1995 - 2006 (my entire computing life at the time!) you wouldn&#x27;t blame them.</text></item><item><author>kup0</author><text>I wasn&#x27;t sure what to expect from VSC, especially going into it I was worried that it would just be a MS-branded, bloated version of an already-slow Atom.<p>My expectations were completely wrong, though. VSC is not bloated or slow. It&#x27;s well-made. There aren&#x27;t really any negative MS-flavored conventions as far as I can tell. This isn&#x27;t MS Office (which I guess has its place but has gone off the deep end, IMHO). It looks like it&#x27;s on a path towards becoming a pretty powerful tool, more than just a text editor, and more than just a clone of Atom.<p>The MS branding will unfortunately keep people away that like to judge books by their cover. But that says more about their own problems and unwillingness than it does about MS.<p>I don&#x27;t understand why we have to throw ourselves into brand &quot;camps&quot; and defend them to the death. It&#x27;s dumb. I like Linux, I use an assortment of operating systems depending on my needs, and I don&#x27;t see any reason why a decent effort&#x2F;product can&#x27;t be appreciated, no matter what company produces it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thebaer</author><text>At least now we&#x27;ll have a decent editor we can continue to run ourselves when that happens. :)</text></comment> |
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