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10,197,457 | 10,196,847 | 1 | 2 | 10,195,091 | train | <story><title>The Hardest Program I've Ever Written</title><url>http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/09/08/the-hardest-program-ive-ever-written/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>greggman</author><text>Great blog post and super interesting.<p>My feeling though is the problem is they have a line limit. Maybe they should rethink their style. I&#x27;m serious.<p>Before I worked at Google, in 30 years of programming I never worked at a company that had a line limit. Adding a line limit at Google did not make me more productive. At first I thought &quot;hey, I guess 80 chars makes side by side comparison easier&quot; but then I thought back, hmm. I never had problems comparing code before when I didn&#x27;t have a line limit.<p>Instead what I found was that 80 character limit was a giant waste of time. The article just pointed out a year of wasted time. I can point to searching and replacing an identifier and then having to go manually reformat hundreds of lines of code all because of some arbitrary style guide. I also had code generators at google that had to generate code that followed the line limit. I too wasted days futsing with the generator to break the lines at the correct places all because of some arbitrary line limit.<p>That should be the real takeaway here. Make sure each rule of your style guide actually serves a purpose or that its supposed benefits outway its costs.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Hardest Program I've Ever Written</title><url>http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/09/08/the-hardest-program-ive-ever-written/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sytelus</author><text>I have tried few code formatters and almost always regretted it. The big problem is that code formatting contains a significant portion of intent and explanation. Sometimes I want to put two assignments on same line because it emphasizes relationship and atomicity but other times it&#x27;s better to keep them on separate lines for sparcity. There are actually quite a few times I wanted a line go well beyond 80 chars because I wanted to de-emphasize unimportant monotonous part taking away all attention and have far more more important steps immediately stand out to reader. I take code formatting very seriously and consider an integral part of my expression. Style guides are good but they shouldn&#x27;t be followed like a robot, let alone enforced by robot. In fact code formatting tells a lot about culture and philosophy of an author. For example K&amp;R C starts braces on same line to emphasis compactness as elegance, C# doesn&#x27;t to emphasize sparse code as elegance. In SQL sometime it&#x27;s great to put subquery on same line and sometime it doesn&#x27;t - it really depends on what you want to emphasize and convey rather than hard and fast rules on number of tokens and syntax analysis. Code formatting is not just set of fixed rules, it&#x27;s a communication mechanism that guides reader on what to focus, what is unimportant, where is a gasoline spill and where wild fires may burn. This is not to say everyone takes their formatting seriously which is where automate formatter would probably add value (and the case where you are importing&#x2F;copy pasting from somewhere else). I think K&amp;R C is likely the gold standard for code formatting. You should try out your formatter on those snippets ;).</text></comment> |
2,147,279 | 2,147,073 | 1 | 2 | 2,146,513 | train | <story><title>Tutorspree (YC W11) Is An Airbnb For Tutoring</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/26/tutorspree/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ImperatorLunae</author><text>From the FAQ:
"...only experienced educators - PhD's, high school teachers, special education instructors, and professors with real classroom experience - can list themselves on Tutorspree."<p>Really? This seems a little stringent. High school teachers are busy teaching high school; PhD's are busy conducting research or teaching their own classes. Of course, some of them are going to pick up tutoring on the side for some extra money, but you're screening out huge portions of the available pool of tutors.<p>Consider my position; I have a BS in Physics and currently tutor a few students--mostly in calculus and geometry. Of course, I don't have "classroom experience," but I've been tutoring students for a while. I know my stuff, and I know when my students don't. I know how to read their math, catch mistakes, and work through their errors with them. I know how to identify recurring mistakes students make and prescribe problems to remedy those errors. I'm not an educator, but I know the subjects I'm teaching. That's as good as any grad student working as a TA, and they're teaching at the university level.<p>Why the high requirements? I understand the need for quality, but I sense, more often than not, students are looking for someone who knows the material to correct and guide them. You don't need a PhD to do that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>Personally I like the Karate method: everybody teaches what they know all the time.<p>High requirements are a good way to get started though, that way you can set the bar high, guarantee good reviews and happy customers, then slowly relax the rules. The other way around wouldn't work nearly as well.<p>I'd say being a college student should allow you to help out high schoolers in the subject of your studies though, likely you are aware of the problems the high schoolers face better than anybody else, likewise high schoolers should be allowed to tutor grade schoolers.<p>There might be a nice 'certification' gig hidden in here somewhere.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tutorspree (YC W11) Is An Airbnb For Tutoring</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/26/tutorspree/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ImperatorLunae</author><text>From the FAQ:
"...only experienced educators - PhD's, high school teachers, special education instructors, and professors with real classroom experience - can list themselves on Tutorspree."<p>Really? This seems a little stringent. High school teachers are busy teaching high school; PhD's are busy conducting research or teaching their own classes. Of course, some of them are going to pick up tutoring on the side for some extra money, but you're screening out huge portions of the available pool of tutors.<p>Consider my position; I have a BS in Physics and currently tutor a few students--mostly in calculus and geometry. Of course, I don't have "classroom experience," but I've been tutoring students for a while. I know my stuff, and I know when my students don't. I know how to read their math, catch mistakes, and work through their errors with them. I know how to identify recurring mistakes students make and prescribe problems to remedy those errors. I'm not an educator, but I know the subjects I'm teaching. That's as good as any grad student working as a TA, and they're teaching at the university level.<p>Why the high requirements? I understand the need for quality, but I sense, more often than not, students are looking for someone who knows the material to correct and guide them. You don't need a PhD to do that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rottencupcakes</author><text>You gotta start somewhere. High education is probably a decent signal of quality, and thus a good, cheap way to verify quality early on. They could then increase the size of the tutor pool after they have enough highly rating, vouched for tutors to guarantee a quality experience.</text></comment> |
4,551,262 | 4,551,173 | 1 | 2 | 4,550,707 | train | <story><title>GoldieBlox: The Engineering Toy for Girls</title><url>http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/16029337/goldieblox-the-engineering-toy-for-girls?ref=friends_backed</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Tichy</author><text>So only 15% of girls liking engineering is a problem, but girls not liking pirates, batman and bio-alien-robots isn't? Where is the movement to get girls interested in bio-alien-robots?</text></item><item><author>jpxxx</author><text>Can't hate, I love it. Even the pink and cuddly bits. If this product instead had a blue ribbon and alien figurines with the title "Cyber Drivetrain Blast Kit" it wouldn't raise an eyebrow as a gendered or pandering toy.<p>Legos <i>are</i> for boys when 95% of what's on the Lego shelf is boy pirates, boy laserbros, boy Batman, boy bio-alien-robots tearing the shit out of boy bio-dino-robots, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MartinCron</author><text>It would be a problem if there were a profound shortage of talent and diversity in the pirate, batman, and bio-alien-robot industries.</text></comment> | <story><title>GoldieBlox: The Engineering Toy for Girls</title><url>http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/16029337/goldieblox-the-engineering-toy-for-girls?ref=friends_backed</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Tichy</author><text>So only 15% of girls liking engineering is a problem, but girls not liking pirates, batman and bio-alien-robots isn't? Where is the movement to get girls interested in bio-alien-robots?</text></item><item><author>jpxxx</author><text>Can't hate, I love it. Even the pink and cuddly bits. If this product instead had a blue ribbon and alien figurines with the title "Cyber Drivetrain Blast Kit" it wouldn't raise an eyebrow as a gendered or pandering toy.<p>Legos <i>are</i> for boys when 95% of what's on the Lego shelf is boy pirates, boy laserbros, boy Batman, boy bio-alien-robots tearing the shit out of boy bio-dino-robots, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SoftwareMaven</author><text>Why should girls have to be interested in bio-alien-robots? Gender differences are real, so instead of trying to overcome them, we should do what this toy is trying to do: recognize them and work within them.</text></comment> |
21,090,605 | 21,089,962 | 1 | 2 | 21,089,707 | train | <story><title>AMD's Upcoming Ryzen 9 3900 Listed with 12 Zen 2 Cores at 65W</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-ryzen-9-3900-specs-pro-cpu,40485.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pornel</author><text>According to [1] it appears that AMD rates CPU TDP for maximum load (overestimating), while Intel rates them for load without turbo boost (underestimating), so AMD&#x27;s 65W is <i>really</i> impressive.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=6u4ew6IT4Vo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=6u4ew6IT4Vo</a></text></comment> | <story><title>AMD's Upcoming Ryzen 9 3900 Listed with 12 Zen 2 Cores at 65W</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-ryzen-9-3900-specs-pro-cpu,40485.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pingyong</author><text>Are people still impressed by low TDP numbers? Everyone can manipulate that number to anything you want by changing the base clock. Intel could sell the 9900K with a 25 W TDP by saying the base clock is 1200 MHz, AMD could do the same. (I mean the 95 W TDP for the 9900K is already a meme.) It&#x27;s just gonna be exactly the same CPU as the 3900X, just a slightly worse binned version.</text></comment> |
13,456,501 | 13,456,385 | 1 | 3 | 13,455,232 | train | <story><title>OpenSSH Keys: A Walkthrough</title><url>https://kyleisom.net/articles/ssh_keys.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mkup</author><text><i>When most people think of SSH keys, they probably think of RSA if they’re aware of the underlying cryptography. Until recently, they would be right: RSA has been a mainstay of public key cryptography for some time now, and although it’s on the way out for new protocols and systems, it will be around for quite some time.</i><p>Why is RSA on the way out? This is news for me. Are there any (potential) weaknesses that have been discovered recently in the RSA? I know that elliptic curve cryptography has shorter (and hence somewhat more convenient) keys, but that fact alone hardly makes RSA obsolete. Are there anything else?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>benchaney</author><text>RSA is still secure with a few caveats.<p>1. It isn&#x27;t secure against quantum computing attacks. Granted neither are elliptical curve based cryptosystems, so this isn&#x27;t the motivation for switching.<p>2. It requires complicated padding schemes to prevent certain classes of attacks. The padding schemes do succeed at solving this problem, but they add a layer of complexity, and are often done incorrectly by inexperienced crypto users.<p>3. It is speculated that there are additional attacks based on math that hasn&#x27;t yet been discovered. There is some speculation that the NSA has&#x2F;is&#x2F;will break RSA using these types of attacks.<p>4. There are a huge number of potential side channel attacks based on weirdness with how RSA key&#x27;s affect the computation performed during encryption&#x2F;decryption. Like with #2, there are ways around it, but it can still cause problems.<p>That said, if you use reasonable sized keys (2048 bit or larger), use libraries implemented by professionals with the correct options enabled, and you are worried about garden variety attacks, not the NSA, you are probably fine with RSA. Some people are starting to think that they are a little to much to bear, particularly when elliptic curves solve a lot of the problems and have smaller key sizes and faster computation.<p>Side note: But for a few exceptions, any processor on the market today (including mobile&#x2F;embedded) could easily establish an SSH session using RSA without it being a significant cost. RSA (and Elliptic curve cryptography) is only used at the beginning of the session to establish a symmetric session key.</text></comment> | <story><title>OpenSSH Keys: A Walkthrough</title><url>https://kyleisom.net/articles/ssh_keys.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mkup</author><text><i>When most people think of SSH keys, they probably think of RSA if they’re aware of the underlying cryptography. Until recently, they would be right: RSA has been a mainstay of public key cryptography for some time now, and although it’s on the way out for new protocols and systems, it will be around for quite some time.</i><p>Why is RSA on the way out? This is news for me. Are there any (potential) weaknesses that have been discovered recently in the RSA? I know that elliptic curve cryptography has shorter (and hence somewhat more convenient) keys, but that fact alone hardly makes RSA obsolete. Are there anything else?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jvehent</author><text>RSA is safe. You should keep using it. Modern crypto is starting to use ECDSA because smaller key size means faster computation, but you wouldn&#x27;t notice the difference in SSH anyway.<p>More info: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.mozilla.org&#x2F;Security&#x2F;Guidelines&#x2F;OpenSSH" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.mozilla.org&#x2F;Security&#x2F;Guidelines&#x2F;OpenSSH</a></text></comment> |
20,099,305 | 20,097,034 | 1 | 2 | 20,095,004 | train | <story><title>Concurrency in Python: CSP and Coroutines</title><url>https://bytes.yingw787.com/posts/2019/02/09/concurrency_with_python_csp_and_coroutines/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>deckarep</author><text>About 6 or 7 years ago I was searching for a language that had great concurrency built in and a sane enough model of concurrency that would allow me to get things done.<p>Eventually I found and fell in love with gevent because I could write fairly straightforward code in a synchronous fashion and reason about the code a lot easier than other models. But then I found some warts with gevent: what about good community support? What about exploiting parallelism? Monkey patching 3rd party libs is a bit ugly and not 100% without faults.<p>So imagine how I felt when I found that Go offers this model of concurrency CSP with support for parallelism due to the M to N threading model. Also a not quite but close enough Python looking syntax and at that point I never looked back.<p>Sure there other models of concurrency and other languages that are also proving to be useful. But Go has been a good bet...at least for now.<p>And I know this is controversial...but Go’s time is running out...other languages are getting there with more advanced support for asynchronous programming...so I imagine in due time I’ll be onto the next thing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Concurrency in Python: CSP and Coroutines</title><url>https://bytes.yingw787.com/posts/2019/02/09/concurrency_with_python_csp_and_coroutines/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>anaphor</author><text>Check out <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pykka.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pykka.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;</a> as well which is based on the actor model. My understanding is that it&#x27;s used by <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mopidy.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mopidy.com&#x2F;</a> and actively developed by them.</text></comment> |
16,792,607 | 16,790,612 | 1 | 3 | 16,790,099 | train | <story><title>Original Windows File Manager with enhancements</title><url>https://github.com/Microsoft/winfile</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>m-p-3</author><text>Screenshot I&#x27;ve taken, since there&#x27;s none on the GitHub page<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;F9DtASh.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;F9DtASh.png</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Original Windows File Manager with enhancements</title><url>https://github.com/Microsoft/winfile</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>badsectoracula</author><text>I made a quick build: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;ZOcOBsl.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;ZOcOBsl.png</a><p>It is neat and i like how it remembers the sizing and open folders, but it really shows how much Microsoft has neglected Win32 and MDI in particular: the theme is still the same used 12 years ago in Vista and while i am not a fan of the Win8 nor the Win10 theme (my favorite theme is the classic theme), the inconsistency sticks out like a sore thumb. And of course beyond the lack of a visual update (that would take perhaps 1 hour to fix), there are visual glitches like this one: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;Vfm5ndc.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;Vfm5ndc.png</a> (notice the black corners on the window at the right - ironically they happen because of the non-rectangular shape of the titlebar, which would not be the case if the Windows 8 or 10 themes were used since those are rectangular). And i suppose at this point it doesn&#x27;t make much sense to mention missing features, like double clicking the top edge to maximize a window :-P.<p>Which sucks because i always liked MDI applications. I know that some studies or whatever have shown that novices often get confused, but personally i find the idea of having a &quot;group&quot; of windows inside the application that manage them to make more sense - especially for visual stuff, like image editors where i can open two views of the same document in different zoom levels. And i also find being able to move and resize the subwindows in any way i want (not limited to splits and such which i find more annoying and a waste of space than helpful).<p>Having said that i always <i>always</i> disliked, from the first day i saw it, the visual change from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95 to make minimized windows look like tiny titlebars (they were called buttons but there is nothing button-y about how they ever looked in any version of Windows from 95 to today) instead of icons. mIRC adding a taskbar-like panel was a much better idea (you could say that novices would again be confused, but from what i remember from the late 90s and early 2000s, that didn&#x27;t stop people from using mIRC :-P), but just sticking with icons would be fine too (i think icons inside the MDI area were supposed to be used for something else that i don&#x27;t remember now, but i do not think any program ever used that).<p>EDIT: added a tiny feature to search multiple wildcards separated by semicolons :-) - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;vi7BI7B.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;vi7BI7B.png</a><p>The code style is kinda weird though (3 spaces for each indentation level?) and seems that several comments are out of date :-P.</text></comment> |
25,126,102 | 25,125,751 | 1 | 2 | 25,124,050 | train | <story><title>Apple MacBook Pro with M1 Review</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/21570497/apple-macbook-pro-2020-m1-review</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zepto</author><text>“Apple’s insistence that reaching up to touch a laptop screen is too burdensome is just getting silly, especially when that is not a problem on the iPad and across the universe of Windows laptops, and most especially when these laptops can run iPhone and iPad apps natively.“<p>In a way Nilay is right - ultimately it makes no sense <i>not</i> to allow touch interaction.<p><i>However</i> Apple is also right in a different way. If apps are designed to work primarily with touch, reaching up all the time will negate the value of keyboard and touch pad and <i>will</i> be needlessly fatiguing.<p>Apps need to be designed to accommodate both kinds of usage.<p>Windows gets away with this because most apps are designed as laptop first.<p>By delaying the introduction of the touch screen, Apple is pressuring developers to make their Apps work in both contexts.<p>When they introduce a touch screen they’ll say something like “Back in 2020 most touch apps weren’t designed for the kinds of uses laptop and desktop users expect. Since then developers have done an amazing job of giving all our our users a great experience. Thanks in part to their hard work, today we’re proud to introduce the first computer that truly combines what we have learned about how to build great touch apps, with the decades of understanding that has gone into making MacOS into the worlds most advanced desktop operating system.”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pembrook</author><text>Not only is most desktop software not well suited to touch interactions, touchscreens on laptops are also an ergonomic nightmare.<p>Try reaching your hand up to touch your monitor and hold it there for a minute. Now try pretending you’ll do this for an 8 hour workday.<p>It’s a useless feature in search of a use-case.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple MacBook Pro with M1 Review</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/21570497/apple-macbook-pro-2020-m1-review</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zepto</author><text>“Apple’s insistence that reaching up to touch a laptop screen is too burdensome is just getting silly, especially when that is not a problem on the iPad and across the universe of Windows laptops, and most especially when these laptops can run iPhone and iPad apps natively.“<p>In a way Nilay is right - ultimately it makes no sense <i>not</i> to allow touch interaction.<p><i>However</i> Apple is also right in a different way. If apps are designed to work primarily with touch, reaching up all the time will negate the value of keyboard and touch pad and <i>will</i> be needlessly fatiguing.<p>Apps need to be designed to accommodate both kinds of usage.<p>Windows gets away with this because most apps are designed as laptop first.<p>By delaying the introduction of the touch screen, Apple is pressuring developers to make their Apps work in both contexts.<p>When they introduce a touch screen they’ll say something like “Back in 2020 most touch apps weren’t designed for the kinds of uses laptop and desktop users expect. Since then developers have done an amazing job of giving all our our users a great experience. Thanks in part to their hard work, today we’re proud to introduce the first computer that truly combines what we have learned about how to build great touch apps, with the decades of understanding that has gone into making MacOS into the worlds most advanced desktop operating system.”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>woah</author><text>I’ve used windows laptops with touchscreens a lot and never really used the touchscreen. There doesn’t seem to be a point.</text></comment> |
24,495,708 | 24,495,893 | 1 | 3 | 24,495,138 | train | <story><title>Oculus Quest 2</title><url>https://www.oculus.com/blog/introducing-oculus-quest-2-the-next-generation-of-all-in-one-vr-gaming/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ianlevesque</author><text>What is it with HN and trying to read between the lines so hard? There&#x27;s literally an Oculus Store app store for quest games. Probably they are just making money on game sales, like every other game console has for 35 years.</text></item><item><author>shajznnckfke</author><text>Really though? Facebook makes money by displaying targeted ads to users. What data from the Quest is being used to target ads? I’m not familiar with anything related to this in Facebook’s product for ad buyers, and can’t think of anything particularly useful that they could be doing.<p>You could think of Oculus as an effort to increase the amount of user attention inventory Facebook has in supply to rent out to advertisers. Also, they are positioning themselves as an intermediary for transactions in the future VR economy by being platform owner (a la Apple owning the App Store). My guess is the long-term plan is to make money here by displaying ads in VR and by getting a cut of goods and services sold though VR (see: Ready Player One).</text></item><item><author>dylan604</author><text>Facebook will makeup that subsidized $100 on selling the data the glean from the user while using the Quest 2.</text></item><item><author>wlesieutre</author><text>$300 is a pretty big deal for pricing on a VR headset, that feels very different from $400 for wide adoption.<p>Seems like this is also the end of the road for Rift, the Quest 2 is lower cost, more pixels, and they mentioned 90 hz screens for PCVR games over Link.<p>EDIT - review units went out in advance, so 3rd party reviews are already up. Here&#x27;s one from Tested: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_x6lux6f_6g" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_x6lux6f_6g</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wlesieutre</author><text>I do worry that Facebook will figure they might as well double dip on sales and advertising; future headsets are probably going to have eye tracking (ostensibly for foveated rendering and better avatars), and combining in-world advertising with exact data on how long people looked at them is a pretty compelling sell for what is fundamentally an advertising company.<p>They spent like 15 minutes of the presentation talking about how ethical they&#x27;re going to be (re: AR glasses) and how trust has to be earned, but their ethics track record isn&#x27;t exactly stellar.</text></comment> | <story><title>Oculus Quest 2</title><url>https://www.oculus.com/blog/introducing-oculus-quest-2-the-next-generation-of-all-in-one-vr-gaming/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ianlevesque</author><text>What is it with HN and trying to read between the lines so hard? There&#x27;s literally an Oculus Store app store for quest games. Probably they are just making money on game sales, like every other game console has for 35 years.</text></item><item><author>shajznnckfke</author><text>Really though? Facebook makes money by displaying targeted ads to users. What data from the Quest is being used to target ads? I’m not familiar with anything related to this in Facebook’s product for ad buyers, and can’t think of anything particularly useful that they could be doing.<p>You could think of Oculus as an effort to increase the amount of user attention inventory Facebook has in supply to rent out to advertisers. Also, they are positioning themselves as an intermediary for transactions in the future VR economy by being platform owner (a la Apple owning the App Store). My guess is the long-term plan is to make money here by displaying ads in VR and by getting a cut of goods and services sold though VR (see: Ready Player One).</text></item><item><author>dylan604</author><text>Facebook will makeup that subsidized $100 on selling the data the glean from the user while using the Quest 2.</text></item><item><author>wlesieutre</author><text>$300 is a pretty big deal for pricing on a VR headset, that feels very different from $400 for wide adoption.<p>Seems like this is also the end of the road for Rift, the Quest 2 is lower cost, more pixels, and they mentioned 90 hz screens for PCVR games over Link.<p>EDIT - review units went out in advance, so 3rd party reviews are already up. Here&#x27;s one from Tested: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_x6lux6f_6g" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_x6lux6f_6g</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kichik</author><text>If it were truly just about the games, they would let you keep using Oculus login. Why else would they force you to use a Facebook login? If they only cared about store profits, logins wouldn&#x27;t be required at all.</text></comment> |
20,519,346 | 20,519,560 | 1 | 2 | 20,517,144 | train | <story><title>Fast Software, the Best Software</title><url>https://craigmod.com/essays/fast_software/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>markdog12</author><text>Gmail is now <i>crazy</i> slow for me. Used to be nice and snappy, I dread even clicking a button in there now. I even pay for it with GSuite.<p>&gt; I sigh — actually sigh — whenever I have to open Photoshop<p>Yep, quad-core laptop with fast SSD and I dread opening it. I remember being an early adopter with an SSD and I just used to open PS to see how fast it opened. They took that feeling away.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asark</author><text>Use the &quot;basic HTML&quot; version and make it your default view. On mobile it&#x27;s even worth putting up with its more desktopy appearance to avoid the bloated crap that is modern Gmail.<p>The site takes so f*$%ing long to load you should have no problem clicking the &quot;Slow? Try the Basic HTML version&quot; link, maybe with 2-3 tries to figure out where it is (it&#x27;s a small link). Then you should see an option to set it as your default.<p>Bonus: you can actually leave it open in a tab without eating three figure MB of memory and sometimes slowing down your machine doing god-knows-what in the background. Only downside is no notifications for new mail, but 1) that assumes you consider that a downside, and 2) that&#x27;s what actual, native email clients are for.</text></comment> | <story><title>Fast Software, the Best Software</title><url>https://craigmod.com/essays/fast_software/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>markdog12</author><text>Gmail is now <i>crazy</i> slow for me. Used to be nice and snappy, I dread even clicking a button in there now. I even pay for it with GSuite.<p>&gt; I sigh — actually sigh — whenever I have to open Photoshop<p>Yep, quad-core laptop with fast SSD and I dread opening it. I remember being an early adopter with an SSD and I just used to open PS to see how fast it opened. They took that feeling away.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lph</author><text>It&#x27;s not just you. Gmail has become so slow to load for me that I wonder if they&#x27;ve deliberately sabotaged it on Firefox. Amazing how it&#x27;s 2019 and web apps somehow seem to be less usable than they were ten years ago. I miss fast desktop apps.</text></comment> |
21,989,079 | 21,988,709 | 1 | 2 | 21,979,350 | train | <story><title>How to Read a Paper (2016) [pdf]</title><url>https://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/keshav/home/Papers/data/07/paper-reading.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TrackerFF</author><text>I know there are a lot of ML researchers and practitioners here - and I have unfortunately only a very shallow experience with reading ML papers, more so with the recent output.<p>But, I have to ask, how do you get a feel that the content actually looks correct, and not just only quack? The improvements are usually in the 1% range, from old models to new models, and the models are complex. More often than not also lacking code, implementation &#x2F; experiment procedures, etc.<p>Basically, I have no idea if the paper is reproducible, if the results are cherry picked from hundreds &#x2F; thousands of runs, if the paper is just cleverly disguised BS with pumped up numbers to get grants, and so on.<p>As it is right now, I can only rely on expert assurance from those that peer review these papers - but even then, in the back of my mind, I&#x27;m wondering if they&#x27;ve had time to rigorously review a paper. The output of ML &#x2F; AI papers these days is staggering, and the systems are so complex that I&#x27;d be impressed if some single post. doc or researcher would have time to reproduce results.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dennybritz</author><text>You will never know the &quot;generative process&quot; of a paper, which makes it nearly impossible to properly evaluate it, even as an expert reviewer. If you are not a reviewer (or working on a competing paper), you are much better off NOT reading the newest papers. Instead, rely on the best proxy metric of all: Time. Wait until the paper has been battle-tested. See if people on social media are talking about it, what critics are saying, wait for reproduction results and open-source implementations, conference acceptances, and citations and comparisons. These give you a much better idea of the validity of the paper than its content can.<p>When reading the newest ML papers, I found it useful to not judge them, but instead use them as inspiration. Forget about the results. The paper may contain interesting ideas or viewpoints you didn&#x27;t consider before, and those are probably much more valuable than the result table.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Read a Paper (2016) [pdf]</title><url>https://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/keshav/home/Papers/data/07/paper-reading.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TrackerFF</author><text>I know there are a lot of ML researchers and practitioners here - and I have unfortunately only a very shallow experience with reading ML papers, more so with the recent output.<p>But, I have to ask, how do you get a feel that the content actually looks correct, and not just only quack? The improvements are usually in the 1% range, from old models to new models, and the models are complex. More often than not also lacking code, implementation &#x2F; experiment procedures, etc.<p>Basically, I have no idea if the paper is reproducible, if the results are cherry picked from hundreds &#x2F; thousands of runs, if the paper is just cleverly disguised BS with pumped up numbers to get grants, and so on.<p>As it is right now, I can only rely on expert assurance from those that peer review these papers - but even then, in the back of my mind, I&#x27;m wondering if they&#x27;ve had time to rigorously review a paper. The output of ML &#x2F; AI papers these days is staggering, and the systems are so complex that I&#x27;d be impressed if some single post. doc or researcher would have time to reproduce results.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ssivark</author><text>&gt; The improvements are usually in the 1% range, from old models to new models, and the models are complex. More often than not also lacking code, implementation &#x2F; experiment procedures, etc. [...] no idea if the paper is reproducible, if the results are cherry picked from hundreds &#x2F; thousands of runs, if the paper is just cleverly disguised BS with pumped up numbers to get grants, and so on.<p>Personally, I&#x27;m bearish about most deep learning papers for this reason.<p>I&#x27;m not driven by a particular task&#x2F;problem, so when I&#x27;m reading ML papers, it is primarily for new insights and ideas. Correspondingly, I prefer to read papers which have new perspectives on the problem (irrespective of whether they achieve SOTA performance). From what I&#x27;ve seen, most of the interesting (to me) ideas come from slightly adjacent fields. I care far more about interesting &amp; elegant ideas, and benchmarks to just sanity-check that the nice idea can also be made to work in practice.<p>As for the obsession with benchmark numbers, I can only quote Mark Twain: <i>“Most people use statistics like a drunk man uses a lamppost; more for support than illumination.”</i></text></comment> |
37,598,433 | 37,594,845 | 1 | 2 | 37,592,934 | train | <story><title>How Equifax Was Breached in 2017</title><url>https://blog.0x7d0.dev/history/how-equifax-was-breached-in-2017/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jiggawatts</author><text>I&#x27;ve worked with several senior people (&quot;Principal Enterprise Architect&quot;, etc...) who were music majors, and as a rule they were terrible at their jobs. They just... <i>didn&#x27;t care</i> about anything even vaguely related to computers. Without exception they got into their positions through nepotism, ass-kissing, or dirty politics. None got there through talent.<p>People who <i>like</i> computers do it as a hobby. They learn programming at a young age, they get a CS degree or a hard science degree, and then they spend their spare time on tech forums like HN.<p>People who <i>don&#x27;t like</i> computers play music, learn painting, or do something else. They get degrees in the arts or humanities. They spend their spare time playing music at the local pub, or whatever.<p>PS: One of the worst programmers I had ever met is also one of the best musicians I had ever met.</text></item><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>Not enough downvotes for this. I&#x27;m assuming this is all BS considering you got all the details wrong. It was the CEO who got a $3 million bonus in 2016, not the CIO. Susan Mauldin, who earned a music degree in college, was the Equifax CISO, not their CIO.<p>The reason I&#x27;m so salty about your response is when the breach happened, there were tons of news reports denigrating the CISO because she had a music degree. There may be a ton of reasons she wasn&#x27;t good at her job (though it&#x27;s hard to say as CISO is often a &quot;sacrificial lamb&quot; job anyway), and I&#x27;m certainly not defending Equifax, but I take major issue with the implication that a music degree makes someone unqualified for a tech job.<p>First, as she was CISO, she was presumably done with college many, many years ago. Lots of people have college degrees that aren&#x27;t necessarily directed to the career they end up in. More importantly, though, I&#x27;ve found that there is a <i>direct</i> correlation between highly trained musicians and great software engineers. I don&#x27;t know if it&#x27;s a &quot;same part of the brain&quot; thing or whatever, but I&#x27;m actually astounded at the sheer number of &quot;best of the best&quot; software engineers I&#x27;ve worked with that are classically trained musicians. It&#x27;s to the point that when hiring I give &quot;extra points&quot; if you will to musicians because, it my experience at least, the correlation is so strong.<p>So, frankly, you can take your &quot;she had a music degree&quot; shade and shove it.</text></item><item><author>RachelF</author><text>A tiny penalty.<p>The CIO got a $3M bonus, too. Odd thing is that she had a music degree and little experience in IT, but was an old friend of the board members.</text></item><item><author>justinclift</author><text>Didn&#x27;t Equifax receive practically no penalty for it though?<p>So, what would be the motivation to avoid future things like this happening again?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>electrondood</author><text>Sorry, this is utter bullshit. Got into engineering late, and this mindset is just typical engineer snobbery. It&#x27;s like the toxic &quot;10x engineer&quot; trope that also needs to die, as if taking an unconventional career path or not living and breathing open source contributions and tech blogs in your spare time means you aren&#x27;t a Real EngineerTM</text></comment> | <story><title>How Equifax Was Breached in 2017</title><url>https://blog.0x7d0.dev/history/how-equifax-was-breached-in-2017/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jiggawatts</author><text>I&#x27;ve worked with several senior people (&quot;Principal Enterprise Architect&quot;, etc...) who were music majors, and as a rule they were terrible at their jobs. They just... <i>didn&#x27;t care</i> about anything even vaguely related to computers. Without exception they got into their positions through nepotism, ass-kissing, or dirty politics. None got there through talent.<p>People who <i>like</i> computers do it as a hobby. They learn programming at a young age, they get a CS degree or a hard science degree, and then they spend their spare time on tech forums like HN.<p>People who <i>don&#x27;t like</i> computers play music, learn painting, or do something else. They get degrees in the arts or humanities. They spend their spare time playing music at the local pub, or whatever.<p>PS: One of the worst programmers I had ever met is also one of the best musicians I had ever met.</text></item><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>Not enough downvotes for this. I&#x27;m assuming this is all BS considering you got all the details wrong. It was the CEO who got a $3 million bonus in 2016, not the CIO. Susan Mauldin, who earned a music degree in college, was the Equifax CISO, not their CIO.<p>The reason I&#x27;m so salty about your response is when the breach happened, there were tons of news reports denigrating the CISO because she had a music degree. There may be a ton of reasons she wasn&#x27;t good at her job (though it&#x27;s hard to say as CISO is often a &quot;sacrificial lamb&quot; job anyway), and I&#x27;m certainly not defending Equifax, but I take major issue with the implication that a music degree makes someone unqualified for a tech job.<p>First, as she was CISO, she was presumably done with college many, many years ago. Lots of people have college degrees that aren&#x27;t necessarily directed to the career they end up in. More importantly, though, I&#x27;ve found that there is a <i>direct</i> correlation between highly trained musicians and great software engineers. I don&#x27;t know if it&#x27;s a &quot;same part of the brain&quot; thing or whatever, but I&#x27;m actually astounded at the sheer number of &quot;best of the best&quot; software engineers I&#x27;ve worked with that are classically trained musicians. It&#x27;s to the point that when hiring I give &quot;extra points&quot; if you will to musicians because, it my experience at least, the correlation is so strong.<p>So, frankly, you can take your &quot;she had a music degree&quot; shade and shove it.</text></item><item><author>RachelF</author><text>A tiny penalty.<p>The CIO got a $3M bonus, too. Odd thing is that she had a music degree and little experience in IT, but was an old friend of the board members.</text></item><item><author>justinclift</author><text>Didn&#x27;t Equifax receive practically no penalty for it though?<p>So, what would be the motivation to avoid future things like this happening again?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stef25</author><text>&gt; People who like computers do it as a hobby. They learn programming at a young age, they get a CS degree or a hard science degree, and then they spend their spare time on tech forums like HN.<p>Well that&#x27;s me and trust me, you don&#x27;t want me in charge of any IT department. Maybe it&#x27;s cause I also like music.</text></comment> |
40,429,465 | 40,425,444 | 1 | 3 | 40,390,941 | train | <story><title>The Vietnamese Computer Scientist Who Made Toy Story Possible</title><url>https://time.com/6974656/toy-story-vietnam-war/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kevinsync</author><text>Forever immortalized in ReBoot!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reboot.fandom.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Phong" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reboot.fandom.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Phong</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Vietnamese Computer Scientist Who Made Toy Story Possible</title><url>https://time.com/6974656/toy-story-vietnam-war/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>HEGalloway</author><text>I came across this guy last week when I was learning about implementing basic lighting in shaders and Phong lighting is the starter for that. So I looked him up and what a tragic story.</text></comment> |
29,563,439 | 29,563,386 | 1 | 2 | 29,562,785 | train | <story><title>Stanford Accelerated Intelligent Neuromodulation Therapy for Depression</title><url>https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.2019.19070720</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cupcake-unicorn</author><text>Why is the media doing this with old depression treatments that have been around for ages? First it was the deep brain stimulation article, now this? rTMS technology has been around since 2008. The picture they are using is the same magnetic figure 8 coil that they used on the first devices and not even the newer technology using the Brainsway or deep TMS device.<p>This article is incredibly frustrating. This is NOT new technology. It is a different modality called theta burst which they didn&#x27;t even mention the name of in the article. The benefit of using theta burst is that you can do TMS courses much faster. This is a major benefit but the technology is still the same. If you didn&#x27;t have remission with the prolonged rTMS course theta burst is not a magic bullet. The benefit is that it&#x27;s easier to do bilateral treatment and speed up the treatment quite a bit. Normally you have to come in every business day for a few months for 20 mins at a time.<p>It really sucks to have &quot;lay people&quot; in my life email me these articles like this is some new breakthrough. The articles often come out prior to FDA approval but these modalities have been around for 10+ years prior and I always knew about them with someone with treatment resistant depression. Remember, off label treatments are a thing, and theta burst was available well before this study came out.<p>I&#x27;m currently undergoing deep TMS treatment with the Brainsway device on my left hemisphere and they were able to boost the treatment by adding the theta burst with the figure 8 coil like in the picture to do my right hemisphere to improve chances of remission. It is a good trick and it boosts your chances of remission because it&#x27;s faster and easier to do bilateral but as I said there is nothing magical about theta burst other than it&#x27;s a very fast treatment. Those who didn&#x27;t have remission on long courses of TMS before unilaterally probably aren&#x27;t going to magically have remission on this. What we might end up seeing is some kind of threshhold that wasn&#x27;t achievable in the past, say that some people could reach remission but it&#x27;s not feasible to come into the office every day for 6 months.<p>Anyway TMS is great and should be used more but I just hate these dumb articles. Especially since it&#x27;s touting this as some magical new technology. No way. And we&#x27;re still a long way from TMS being prescribed in general cases - less side effects than meds but insurance wise you have to trial and fail several meds before it&#x27;s covered. Even SSRIs which are given out like candy can have severe side effects like GI bleeding. TMS is very, very safe with few side effects. For me it was just discomfort during the treatment but not after.<p>Also just got to say this quote summed up how ridiculous the article was for me: &quot;“This study is hopefully just the tip of the iceberg,” said Siddiqi. “I think we&#x27;re finally on the verge of a paradigm shift in how we think about psychiatric treatment, where we&#x27;ll supplement the conventional chemical imbalance and psychological conflict models with a new brain circuit model.” In other words, psychiatrists will use electricity instead of talk therapy and drugs to treat mental health disorders.&quot; No reason to make rTMS sound like some Frankenstein tech and no, rTMS will not be used &quot;instead of talk therapy and drugs&quot;.<p>TBH a little disappointed at hacker news, next time link to the study! I would love to see articles on NEW treatments for depression. Spoiler alert..there really haven&#x27;t been any for a long time now. Just me too drugs and this is a bit of a me too tech as well.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stanford Accelerated Intelligent Neuromodulation Therapy for Depression</title><url>https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.2019.19070720</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>depressionalt</author><text>This is very interesting. TMS has always been a no go for me on account of how much time it took and how expensive it was. 5 days is very dooable compared to 30 days, every day, for a month.<p>The most difficult thing about depression treatments is that most medications take 2-3 weeks to kick in and it&#x27;s hard to get motivated to see the treatment through.<p>Chemically here&#x27;s what worked for me:<p>1. Ketamine saved my life. It&#x27;s the only thing I&#x27;ve encountered that provides instant relief. If you&#x27;re in a particularly bad moment and buried by your thoughts, ask your psych to write you and Rx for Ketamine nose spray. It&#x27;s much cheaper than intravenous Ketamine and highly effective by my experience. There&#x27;s a pharma version of Ketamine on the market now (esketamine) but that require heavy doctor supervision and are also expensive. There are special pharmacies that synthesize the nose spray for you. The effect of those small, regulated doses of ketamine is like putting your brain in the sink and giving it a good wash. It helped me through some rough times. The best part about it is that it&#x27;s non-addictive. Once I got through the deepest of my doldrums, I stopped filling the Rx.<p>2. Wellbutrin. It&#x27;s the only pill that worked for me, with the fewest side effects. The only side effect is that my libido is now significantly higher (undesireable, for me).</text></comment> |
8,453,001 | 8,452,709 | 1 | 3 | 8,451,948 | train | <story><title>Stop and Seize</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2014/09/06/stop-and-seize/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>keerthiko</author><text>I didn&#x27;t find this listed, so obligatory Last Week Tonight with John Oliver link[0].<p>The extent to which authority figures intervene in normal citizen life in the US always seems like some medieval European feudal lord stuff to me.<p>[0] <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks&amp;list=PLmKbqjSZR8TZa7wyVoVq2XMHxxWREyiFc" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks&amp;list=PLmKbqjSZR8T...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Stop and Seize</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2014/09/06/stop-and-seize/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nateabele</author><text>Yet another reason why you <i>never</i> talk to the police, and <i>never</i> consent to a search.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc</a></text></comment> |
26,120,443 | 26,120,346 | 1 | 2 | 26,119,380 | train | <story><title>Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine</title><url>http://michaelyingling.com/random/calvin_and_hobbes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryantgtg</author><text>My wife and I aren’t having the greatest time reading them to our toddler (she’s probably too young for them, but she says she really likes them). Calvin’s parents don’t like him! I don’t like exposing her to parents who are resentful toward their kid.<p>Also, shortly after he retired Bill Watterson ate at my dad’s restaurant. My dad recognized his name on the check, and told him how much of a fan I was. Bill then drew Calvin on a napkin for me. And... I can’t find that sketch! Each time I visit my parents I spend half the visit digging through boxes for it.</text></item><item><author>roughly</author><text>I grew up on Calvin and Hobbes, but in retrospect it&#x27;s not terribly surprising Bill Watterson eventually decided to fuck off into the woods.</text></item><item><author>chmod600</author><text>Read this series (click next a few times to see them all):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gocomics.com&#x2F;calvinandhobbes&#x2F;1992&#x2F;05&#x2F;05" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gocomics.com&#x2F;calvinandhobbes&#x2F;1992&#x2F;05&#x2F;05</a><p>It looks like it was written yesterday, but it&#x27;s 30 years old.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>avalys</author><text>There are plenty of C&amp;H strips that show his parents love him. This one comes to mind, but there are many others: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.redd.it&#x2F;wgwm23u9k4sx.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.redd.it&#x2F;wgwm23u9k4sx.png</a><p>Kids are not stupid and you don&#x27;t need to insulate them from everything that isn&#x27;t 100% happy, fluffy and wonderful. As a former kid who had loving parents and loved C&amp;H, the only message I remember taking from the strip in this regard was that parents are people too and that things I do might annoy them.</text></comment> | <story><title>Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine</title><url>http://michaelyingling.com/random/calvin_and_hobbes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryantgtg</author><text>My wife and I aren’t having the greatest time reading them to our toddler (she’s probably too young for them, but she says she really likes them). Calvin’s parents don’t like him! I don’t like exposing her to parents who are resentful toward their kid.<p>Also, shortly after he retired Bill Watterson ate at my dad’s restaurant. My dad recognized his name on the check, and told him how much of a fan I was. Bill then drew Calvin on a napkin for me. And... I can’t find that sketch! Each time I visit my parents I spend half the visit digging through boxes for it.</text></item><item><author>roughly</author><text>I grew up on Calvin and Hobbes, but in retrospect it&#x27;s not terribly surprising Bill Watterson eventually decided to fuck off into the woods.</text></item><item><author>chmod600</author><text>Read this series (click next a few times to see them all):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gocomics.com&#x2F;calvinandhobbes&#x2F;1992&#x2F;05&#x2F;05" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gocomics.com&#x2F;calvinandhobbes&#x2F;1992&#x2F;05&#x2F;05</a><p>It looks like it was written yesterday, but it&#x27;s 30 years old.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the_af</author><text>I don&#x27;t get the sense that Calvin&#x27;s parents don&#x27;t like him. He is a force of nature and he overwhelms them, but they don&#x27;t dislike him.</text></comment> |
37,934,470 | 37,932,735 | 1 | 2 | 37,930,927 | train | <story><title>Amazon reaches 10k Rivian electric delivery vans in US</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/17/amazons-fleet-of-rivian-made-electric-delivery-vans-reaches-10000-in-us/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kypro</author><text>Marques Brownlee did a great review of the van recently that&#x27;s worth a watch,
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=gGrKVpYj_y4">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=gGrKVpYj_y4</a><p>It&#x27;s incredible how much thought they put into them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikeryan</author><text>As a happy Rivian R1T owner and a “product guy” I’ve been really impressed with what they’ve done from a product perspective.<p>The truck is awesome. You can tell they spent the time from initial prototyping to getting to production just hammering on it from a product perspective.<p>Most of its issues I’ve had are things that are going to take time and data to fine tune (it’s PAAK sensing for unlocking with your phone is a common complaint).<p>My biggest issue is the lack of CarPlay&#x2F;Android auto. And the only real pain point there is the bad traffic data for routing. I still use my phone to get directions on anything that would be traffic impacted.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon reaches 10k Rivian electric delivery vans in US</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/17/amazons-fleet-of-rivian-made-electric-delivery-vans-reaches-10000-in-us/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kypro</author><text>Marques Brownlee did a great review of the van recently that&#x27;s worth a watch,
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=gGrKVpYj_y4">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=gGrKVpYj_y4</a><p>It&#x27;s incredible how much thought they put into them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smithcoin</author><text>Doug Demuro also has a very in depth review I highly recommend: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=3CWCqJl0BEs">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=3CWCqJl0BEs</a></text></comment> |
9,718,453 | 9,718,398 | 1 | 2 | 9,717,553 | train | <story><title>Bling – the $ of jQuery without the jQuery</title><url>https://gist.github.com/paulirish/12fb951a8b893a454b32</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ceronman</author><text>Yes, you can re-implement jQuery in 10 lines of code... if you only support 0.1% of the functionality of jQuery.<p>jQuery was a game changer for web client side development. Thousands of work hours have been spent on it. It had a specially important role of dealing with all the inconsistencies between browsers. If you don&#x27;t use all the features, nowadays you can just create a custom build with the stuff you want.<p>If you don&#x27;t need jQuery, maybe because you only care about modern browsers, or you use another library or you don&#x27;t mind a bit of extra boilerplate for DOM manipulation, that&#x27;s perfectly fine. But these kind of posts seem like mockery on the developers of a library that has provided extreme value for thousands for developers over many years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>inglor</author><text>You are arguing against a strawman - no one is claiming otherwise. All paul_irish wanted to show is that people often use jQuery without realizing that most of what they do is also possible with the current browser APIs. jQuery does a ton more (animation, ajax etc) - the point was not to &quot;rewrite jQuery in 10 lines&quot; (that&#x27;s Zepto)</text></comment> | <story><title>Bling – the $ of jQuery without the jQuery</title><url>https://gist.github.com/paulirish/12fb951a8b893a454b32</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ceronman</author><text>Yes, you can re-implement jQuery in 10 lines of code... if you only support 0.1% of the functionality of jQuery.<p>jQuery was a game changer for web client side development. Thousands of work hours have been spent on it. It had a specially important role of dealing with all the inconsistencies between browsers. If you don&#x27;t use all the features, nowadays you can just create a custom build with the stuff you want.<p>If you don&#x27;t need jQuery, maybe because you only care about modern browsers, or you use another library or you don&#x27;t mind a bit of extra boilerplate for DOM manipulation, that&#x27;s perfectly fine. But these kind of posts seem like mockery on the developers of a library that has provided extreme value for thousands for developers over many years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>VeejayRampay</author><text>I would agree with your comment, but the author is not claiming to be reimplementing jQuery in 10 lines of code. He&#x27;s merely providing a way to benefit from the syntactic sugar ($) to avoid using the verbose vanilla JS API (document.querySelectorAll) and solve the issue of NodeList not supporting the functionality available on Arrays (forEach, map, etc), which doesn&#x27;t make any sense in the first place.</text></comment> |
13,127,082 | 13,126,661 | 1 | 3 | 13,119,986 | train | <story><title>A Guide to the Breads of India</title><url>http://luckypeach.com/guides/guide-breads-india/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>The process of baking is almost definitely not what makes a bread a bread. We had breads long before we had ovens, and we have things that are indisputably breads today that aren&#x27;t cooked inside ovens. Even today, we can readily cook breads that are typically cooked in an oven over a suitably large open fire or uncovered grill.<p>A bread is a solid stable foam created by heating a dough made primarily of milled plant matter and water. There are no breads that aren&#x27;t foams, and there are no breads I&#x27;m aware of that made primarily of something that isn&#x27;t plant matter or that hasn&#x27;t been crushed or otherwise processed to create a homogenous dough with a water-based liquid.</text></item><item><author>sean_patel</author><text>&gt; canonical definition of bread.<p>Love it! Spoken like a true engineer :)<p>The process of Baking is what makes a Bread a bread. If it&#x27;s not baked in an oven, it&#x27;s not Bread. I didn&#x27;t make that up, that what has defined a Bread since the beginning of time :)<p>Dosa is fried on a stovetop pan. Appam is cooked on a stovetop pan. Iddiappam is steamed on stovetop using water. None of these are baked at any time in the process.</text></item><item><author>jasim</author><text>Only if you believe that there is a canonical definition of bread, which refers to the things made out of wheat flour, whose only acceptable meaning is what the western hemisphere thinks of as bread.<p>Dosa, Appam, and Idiappam are breads, even though even in South India, if you ask for &quot;bread&quot; from your local grocer, they&#x27;d give you sliced loaves. We use the word bread to refer to these other staple breakfast dishes in an anglicized context, because it maps better than any other word to the meaning we want to convey. Which is why restaurant menus categorizes them under &quot;Indian Breads&quot;, and if you accept that language is mutable and responds to how people use it, this is as good an alternative meaning as it can get.</text></item><item><author>sean_patel</author><text>Nice writeup, but calling Dosa, Appam and Iddiappam &quot;Breads&quot; is more than a stretch. None of these 3 have the major ingredients of what makes a bread. And it&#x27;s missing the most important Indian bread - the Naan (despite the tagline saying &quot;go beyond the Naan&quot;).<p>1) Dosa - Crepe made from fermented lentil &amp; rice paste<p>2) Appam - Rice pancake<p>3) Iddiappam - Steamed rice noodles.<p>None of these are anywhere close to the traditional Bread as we know them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ars</author><text>&gt; A bread is a solid stable foam .... There are no breads that aren&#x27;t foams<p>So Matzo is what? It&#x27;s unquestionably bread, yet is not a foam.<p>And your definition is too broad - what about a pancake?</text></comment> | <story><title>A Guide to the Breads of India</title><url>http://luckypeach.com/guides/guide-breads-india/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>The process of baking is almost definitely not what makes a bread a bread. We had breads long before we had ovens, and we have things that are indisputably breads today that aren&#x27;t cooked inside ovens. Even today, we can readily cook breads that are typically cooked in an oven over a suitably large open fire or uncovered grill.<p>A bread is a solid stable foam created by heating a dough made primarily of milled plant matter and water. There are no breads that aren&#x27;t foams, and there are no breads I&#x27;m aware of that made primarily of something that isn&#x27;t plant matter or that hasn&#x27;t been crushed or otherwise processed to create a homogenous dough with a water-based liquid.</text></item><item><author>sean_patel</author><text>&gt; canonical definition of bread.<p>Love it! Spoken like a true engineer :)<p>The process of Baking is what makes a Bread a bread. If it&#x27;s not baked in an oven, it&#x27;s not Bread. I didn&#x27;t make that up, that what has defined a Bread since the beginning of time :)<p>Dosa is fried on a stovetop pan. Appam is cooked on a stovetop pan. Iddiappam is steamed on stovetop using water. None of these are baked at any time in the process.</text></item><item><author>jasim</author><text>Only if you believe that there is a canonical definition of bread, which refers to the things made out of wheat flour, whose only acceptable meaning is what the western hemisphere thinks of as bread.<p>Dosa, Appam, and Idiappam are breads, even though even in South India, if you ask for &quot;bread&quot; from your local grocer, they&#x27;d give you sliced loaves. We use the word bread to refer to these other staple breakfast dishes in an anglicized context, because it maps better than any other word to the meaning we want to convey. Which is why restaurant menus categorizes them under &quot;Indian Breads&quot;, and if you accept that language is mutable and responds to how people use it, this is as good an alternative meaning as it can get.</text></item><item><author>sean_patel</author><text>Nice writeup, but calling Dosa, Appam and Iddiappam &quot;Breads&quot; is more than a stretch. None of these 3 have the major ingredients of what makes a bread. And it&#x27;s missing the most important Indian bread - the Naan (despite the tagline saying &quot;go beyond the Naan&quot;).<p>1) Dosa - Crepe made from fermented lentil &amp; rice paste<p>2) Appam - Rice pancake<p>3) Iddiappam - Steamed rice noodles.<p>None of these are anywhere close to the traditional Bread as we know them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pcrh</author><text>&gt;A bread is a solid stable foam<p>Another engineer I&#x27;d bet :-)</text></comment> |
13,935,463 | 13,935,505 | 1 | 2 | 13,935,136 | train | <story><title>Golden powers are nearly integers</title><url>https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2017/03/22/golden-powers-are-nearly-integers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Sniffnoy</author><text>Specifically, they&#x27;re nearly Lucas numbers. For those unfamiliar, the Lucas numbers are defined by the recursion L_0 = 2, L_1 = 1, and L_n = L_{n-1} + L_n. (I.e., the Fibonacci recursion, but with different starting values.) They can also be given explicitly by L_n = phi^n + (-1&#x2F;phi)^n. Since (-1&#x2F;phi)^n goes rapidly to zero, phi^n will be very close to L_n. More specifically, for n&gt;=2, (1&#x2F;phi)^n &lt; 1&#x2F;2, so L_n will be the nearest integer to phi^n.<p>The Fibonacci numbers, meanwhile, can be given by the formula F_n = (phi^n - (-1&#x2F;phi)^n) &#x2F; sqrt(5). So a similar thing holds for them.<p>More generally, phi is a Pisot number: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Pisot%E2%80%93Vijayaraghavan_number" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Pisot%E2%80%93Vijayaraghavan_n...</a> Any Pisot number will have its powers approach integers at an exponential rate. (In that, the distance to the nearest integer decreases exponentially.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacobolus</author><text>Another way to get at this:<p><pre><code> φ^1 = φ
φ^2 = φ + 1 [this is the definition of φ]
φ^3 = φ(φ + 1) = 2φ + 1
φ^4 = φ(2φ + 1) = 3φ + 2
φ^5 = φ(3φ + 2) = 5φ + 3
φ^6 = φ(5φ + 3) = 8φ + 5
...
φ^n = F(n)φ + F(n-1)
</code></pre>
Note that F(n+1)&#x2F;F(n) → φ as n → ∞. Or flipped around, F(n)φ → F(n+1).<p>So φ^n = F(n)φ + F(n-1) → F(n+1) + F(n-1) = L(n) as n → ∞. This gets close to being an integer because F(n+1) and F(n-1) are both integers.</text></comment> | <story><title>Golden powers are nearly integers</title><url>https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2017/03/22/golden-powers-are-nearly-integers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Sniffnoy</author><text>Specifically, they&#x27;re nearly Lucas numbers. For those unfamiliar, the Lucas numbers are defined by the recursion L_0 = 2, L_1 = 1, and L_n = L_{n-1} + L_n. (I.e., the Fibonacci recursion, but with different starting values.) They can also be given explicitly by L_n = phi^n + (-1&#x2F;phi)^n. Since (-1&#x2F;phi)^n goes rapidly to zero, phi^n will be very close to L_n. More specifically, for n&gt;=2, (1&#x2F;phi)^n &lt; 1&#x2F;2, so L_n will be the nearest integer to phi^n.<p>The Fibonacci numbers, meanwhile, can be given by the formula F_n = (phi^n - (-1&#x2F;phi)^n) &#x2F; sqrt(5). So a similar thing holds for them.<p>More generally, phi is a Pisot number: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Pisot%E2%80%93Vijayaraghavan_number" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Pisot%E2%80%93Vijayaraghavan_n...</a> Any Pisot number will have its powers approach integers at an exponential rate. (In that, the distance to the nearest integer decreases exponentially.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tgb</author><text>I&#x27;ve always enjoyed that formula for the Fibonacci numbers, primarily because it&#x27;s so unintuitive that the right hand side would actually even be an integer. It&#x27;s a fun exercise to prove that (without resorting to the fact that the Fibonacci numbers are obviously integers). Hint: start with -1&#x2F;phi = 1-phi and use phi=(sqrt(5)+1)&#x2F;2.</text></comment> |
39,481,875 | 39,481,675 | 1 | 3 | 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>ivirshup</author><text>Most Germans live in apartments, and rent. The growing and processing does produce strong odors, which a landlord&#x2F; neighbors may not approve of.</text></comment> |
25,606,261 | 25,605,658 | 1 | 3 | 25,605,470 | train | <story><title>Artichoke is a Ruby made with Rust that compiles to WebAssembly</title><url>https://github.com/artichoke/artichoke</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>p4lindromica</author><text>Hi folks, Artichoke author here. I mostly post project updates on Twitter. Here&#x27;s a selection of some cool things I&#x27;ve been working on recently:<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;artichokeruby&#x2F;status&#x2F;1339581223119679493" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;artichokeruby&#x2F;status&#x2F;1339581223119679493</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;artichokeruby&#x2F;status&#x2F;1339578582222266368" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;artichokeruby&#x2F;status&#x2F;1339578582222266368</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;artichokeruby&#x2F;status&#x2F;1332772105126105089" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;artichokeruby&#x2F;status&#x2F;1332772105126105089</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;artichokeruby&#x2F;status&#x2F;1332880679655247872" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;artichokeruby&#x2F;status&#x2F;1332880679655247872</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Artichoke is a Ruby made with Rust that compiles to WebAssembly</title><url>https://github.com/artichoke/artichoke</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jtstanley</author><text>The use of traits here is really cool. It looks like the entire language implementation is defined as a trait, which allows for language backends to be swapped out while maintaining the same outward API.</text></comment> |
33,738,231 | 33,737,561 | 1 | 3 | 33,737,344 | train | <story><title>Show HN: A decentralized semantic web built atop Activity Pub</title><url>https://github.com/chatternet/chatternet-client-http</url><text>Chatter Net is a modern decentralized semantic web built atop self-sovereign identity.<p>This is a very early prototype. Help, comments, criticisms are all needed to help the project move forward.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gpm</author><text>How would moderation work here? Like, what prevents me from being literally inundated with people trying to sell me scamcoins, or viagra, or nudes, or whatever the latest thing is.<p>You say &quot;Self-moderating: a user has enough control over what they receive to reject spam content&quot;, but it&#x27;s unclear what that means. Are you telling me I&#x27;m going to have to keep saying &quot;I don&#x27;t want to hear from ViagraSupplier1493956&quot; every time ViagraSupplier1493957 makes a new account? Won&#x27;t they just automate creating new accounts so I continuously have to reject them?<p>Or is this an opt in system? That&#x27;s not what the word &quot;reject&quot; means to me, but it&#x27;s the other &quot;simple&quot; alternative that I could imagine this describing. If so, is there literally way for a new user to onboard to this network except to convince people to start &quot;listening&quot; to them via side channels (like asking friends on other social media to follow them)? That&#x27;s basically how things like substack work... I&#x27;m not sure I see it scaling.<p>I think it was one of the reddit founders who recently made the point that content moderation is fundamentally about increasing signal to noise ratio, and frankly I can&#x27;t think of a harder problem. When you&#x27;re trying to pitch a decentralized social network to me, it&#x27;s literally the first question I have.<p>PS. The readme links to &quot;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chatternet.github.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chatternet.github.io&#x2F;</a>&quot;, but that doesn&#x27;t exist.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: A decentralized semantic web built atop Activity Pub</title><url>https://github.com/chatternet/chatternet-client-http</url><text>Chatter Net is a modern decentralized semantic web built atop self-sovereign identity.<p>This is a very early prototype. Help, comments, criticisms are all needed to help the project move forward.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>RobotToaster</author><text>It certainly sounds interesting, especially the lack of server blacklists.<p>&gt;It closely follows (but is not fully compliant with) the Activity Pub protocol.<p>Are you aiming for posts from ChatterNet to be visible to the rest of the fediverse (mastodon et al)? How will that look from the POV of the mastodon server?</text></comment> |
18,548,727 | 18,546,242 | 1 | 2 | 18,540,125 | train | <story><title>Show HN: A tool to make a bot that speaks like you, learning from WhatsApp chats</title><url>https://github.com/Spandan-Madan/Me_Bot</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>spandan-madan</author><text>To everyone - I literally came back home from lab to find this blown up. Little overwhelming frankly.<p>I built the bot as a gift for a friend, and didn&#x27;t really see the Black Mirror angle, even though I have seen the series.<p>Anyway, if someone is interested in building extensions of this, please write to me at [email protected], I&#x27;d be happy to collaborate and guide :)</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: A tool to make a bot that speaks like you, learning from WhatsApp chats</title><url>https://github.com/Spandan-Madan/Me_Bot</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fractallyte</author><text>Better be careful with that...<p>From &quot;Bicycle Repairman&quot;, by Bruce Sterling (1996) (This is a spoiler, BTW!):<p>&quot;The mook speaks just like the Senator did, or the way the Senator used to speak, when he was in private and off the record. The way he spoke in his diaries. As far as we can tell, the mook was his diary.... It used to be his personal laptop computer. But he just kept transferring the files, and upgrading the software, and teaching it new tricks like voice recognition and speech-writing, and giving it power of attorney and such.... And then, one day the mook made a break for it. We think that the mook sincerely believes that it’s the Senator.&quot;<p>Oh, and just note that this was <i>way</i> before Black Mirror.</text></comment> |
11,616,532 | 11,616,561 | 1 | 2 | 11,615,526 | train | <story><title>After a year of using Node.js in production</title><url>http://geekforbrains.com/post/after-a-year-of-nodejs-in-production</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>beders</author><text>Now all of a sudden, having types and some standards to gather around doesn&#x27;t sound like a bad idea anymore ;)<p>I agree with one of the commenters: Lessons already learned by older engineers (who went through similar woes with other languages&#x2F;tools) are being re-learned again and again.<p>The software industry is in a sorry state.<p>Unless you are a very disciplined team with a very strong sense of writing modular code, don&#x27;t use Node.js for any larger project.
And even then, the single-most useful function in an IDE &#x27;Show Call Hierarchy&#x27; will never be available when using a dynamically typed language.<p>That is not an issue for smaller projects. However, long before you even get close to the the million lines of code project size, your tools will fail you.
Your debugging&#x2F;refactoring times will explode and adding a new feature will seem unsurmountable.<p>Instead, let&#x27;s just re-write everything from scratch because the cool hipster that wrote your backend a year ago has left for greener pastures...<p>I won&#x27;t even try to guess the amount of technical debt produced with Node.js and the likes each day in the bay area.<p>And, yes, I just used Node.js to write a Slack-bot. It was fun, took me two hours and got me up and running quickly.
That&#x27;s the beauty of it. Just be aware of the dangers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>athenot</author><text>Those are all very valid points.<p>However, having witnessed (different shapes of) the wheel being reinvented over the past 2 decades, my take is slightly different: each language&#x2F;environment has its strengths. If you have the luxury of having a senior team that&#x27;s decently versed in several environments, then you can have your cake and eat it too: for each tool, micro-service, component... use the right language for that. Then tie it all together on the network. Since the system as a whole is likely to be a network product anyways, embrace it to your advantage.<p>Joe Armstrong wrote a good post[1] about connecting programs a few months ago, that&#x27;s quite relevant.<p>Node.js is a great environment for many microservices. Got a task to do which is 80% done in some npm module? Make a node.js service around it. Same idea for Perl &amp; CPAN, C libs, Java tools, etc.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;joearms.github.io&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;28&#x2F;A-Badass-Way-To-Connect-Programs-Together.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;joearms.github.io&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;28&#x2F;A-Badass-Way-To-Connect-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>After a year of using Node.js in production</title><url>http://geekforbrains.com/post/after-a-year-of-nodejs-in-production</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>beders</author><text>Now all of a sudden, having types and some standards to gather around doesn&#x27;t sound like a bad idea anymore ;)<p>I agree with one of the commenters: Lessons already learned by older engineers (who went through similar woes with other languages&#x2F;tools) are being re-learned again and again.<p>The software industry is in a sorry state.<p>Unless you are a very disciplined team with a very strong sense of writing modular code, don&#x27;t use Node.js for any larger project.
And even then, the single-most useful function in an IDE &#x27;Show Call Hierarchy&#x27; will never be available when using a dynamically typed language.<p>That is not an issue for smaller projects. However, long before you even get close to the the million lines of code project size, your tools will fail you.
Your debugging&#x2F;refactoring times will explode and adding a new feature will seem unsurmountable.<p>Instead, let&#x27;s just re-write everything from scratch because the cool hipster that wrote your backend a year ago has left for greener pastures...<p>I won&#x27;t even try to guess the amount of technical debt produced with Node.js and the likes each day in the bay area.<p>And, yes, I just used Node.js to write a Slack-bot. It was fun, took me two hours and got me up and running quickly.
That&#x27;s the beauty of it. Just be aware of the dangers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>encoderer</author><text>I&#x27;ve worked in three million+ loc codebases, in PHP, Python and Java. I don&#x27;t share your opinion that you need static types in these circumstances. You need discipline, modularity, and most importantly you need to have been blessed with gardeners and maintainers throughout the life of a project and not just after a mess has already taken hold.</text></comment> |
29,831,173 | 29,831,157 | 1 | 3 | 29,829,887 | train | <story><title>CDC reports increase in human rabies cases linked to bats in the U.S.</title><url>https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2022/p0106-human-rabies.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tzs</author><text>Rabies is pretty damn scary--but please learn what animals carry rabies where you live.<p>I&#x27;ve seen people freak out because they&#x27;ve seen a raccoon in the daytime and think (1) raccoons are nocturnal so this one is acting strange, and (2) raccoons are rabies carriers, and so it is probably acting strange because it is rabid.<p>In fact in this part of the country (western Washington) from 1988-2020 rabies has not been found in any wild terrestrial mammal. The only mammals found to have rabies over that time have been 530 bats, 2 cats, 1 horse, and 1 llama.<p>There&#x27;s a nifty map here [1] showing what animal populations have rabies in which states.<p>So what does it mean when you see a raccoon in the daytime in western Washington? It almost always means they aren&#x27;t finding enough food at night so have to put in overtime foraging.<p>This is quite common around breeding time. The pregnant females need more food than normal and often will have to go out during the day to get it.<p>BTW, I believe it is not known <i>why</i> rabies is not found in wild terrestrial mammals here.<p>For squirrels there are at least three theories. (1) Squirrels are safely asleep in their nests when bats are out, so don&#x27;t get bitten by bats and if they get bitten by something else that something else is probably big enough that the encounter is fatal for the squirrel, (2) maybe squirrels have strong natural immunity so don&#x27;t get it even if they do get bitten, or (3) maybe squirrels are particularly vulnerable to it so if they get bitten by a bat they quickly die before they can spread it and since we don&#x27;t do autopsies on random dead squirrels we come across we never find out about the briefly rabid squirrels.<p>For raccoons, I don&#x27;t think it is clear why they aren&#x27;t picking it up from bats here.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;rabies&#x2F;location&#x2F;usa&#x2F;surveillance&#x2F;wild_animals.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;rabies&#x2F;location&#x2F;usa&#x2F;surveillance&#x2F;wild_an...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>CDC reports increase in human rabies cases linked to bats in the U.S.</title><url>https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2022/p0106-human-rabies.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>WaitWaitWha</author><text>I got bitten by a dog when I was a 13 years old, but the owner refused to provide details about the dog.<p>I had post-exposure prophylaxis for rabies. Five sets of shots into my torso.<p>This was less than pleasant.</text></comment> |
25,642,554 | 25,641,686 | 1 | 2 | 25,640,658 | train | <story><title>An experimental open source memristor / programmable “diode”</title><url>https://bigattichouse.medium.com/an-experimental-open-source-memristor-programmable-diode-4476c1874d72</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dexwiz</author><text>This and all the examples linked elsewhere in the thread seem to be electrochemical batteries where the anode or cathode are used as a resistor in another circuit. A current is applied and a metal oxidizes. It’s pretty well known that as a metal oxidizes, it’s resistive properties will change.<p>As most people know batteries have a limited number of cycles. Every reaction cycle adds some entropy&#x2F;side reactions, and eventually it will become irreversible. Magnetic storage reorients a crystal or metal, which is more repeatable than a chemical reaction. Our neurons have similar systems to “clean” themselves so they can reset.<p>I imagine finding a viable memresistor is more about its ability to cycle.</text></comment> | <story><title>An experimental open source memristor / programmable “diode”</title><url>https://bigattichouse.medium.com/an-experimental-open-source-memristor-programmable-diode-4476c1874d72</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>teruakohatu</author><text>The author has a lot more info here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@bigattichouse&#x2F;an-experimental-open-source-memristor-programmable-diode-4476c1874d72" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@bigattichouse&#x2F;an-experimental-open-sourc...</a></text></comment> |
4,671,108 | 4,670,955 | 1 | 2 | 4,670,870 | train | <story><title>Github: Major Service Outage</title><url>https://status.github.com/?a</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zheng</author><text>First off, as others have said, disabling port 80 is a great way to handle this, I don't really care that much if I can see/use github the website for a few hours, but I'd be much more upset if I couldn't pull my code.<p>Secondly, I kind of like when big sites go down when I'm not in desperate need because it means a really nice aftermath write up is on the way. Can't wait to hear more about this one.</text></comment> | <story><title>Github: Major Service Outage</title><url>https://status.github.com/?a</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>creativityhurts</author><text>They said they're under a DDoS attack <a href="https://twitter.com/github/statuses/259029493669310464" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/github/statuses/259029493669310464</a></text></comment> |
33,440,235 | 33,439,836 | 1 | 2 | 33,439,561 | train | <story><title>Coca-Cola increased plastic use ahead of COP27 summit it is sponsoring</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/662d4a0d-e8f5-4cd4-b03f-05b97e13e771</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mensetmanusman</author><text>The EU has done tons of studies on what methods of food packaging are the most environmentally friendly when you consider a large number of secondary and tertiary environmental impact scenarios.<p>Plastic composites still win until renewable energy is extremely abundant and transport costs go to zero.</text></comment> | <story><title>Coca-Cola increased plastic use ahead of COP27 summit it is sponsoring</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/662d4a0d-e8f5-4cd4-b03f-05b97e13e771</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nrki</author><text>The fact that Coca-Cola sponsors a climate conference is crazy to me. That a UN climate conference NEEDS a corporate sponsor is also ridiculous.</text></comment> |
19,652,845 | 19,652,595 | 1 | 2 | 19,632,412 | train | <story><title>Jailbreaking Subaru StarLink</title><url>https://github.com/sgayou/subaru-starlink-research/blob/master/doc/README.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>froindt</author><text>&gt;Do cars even come without &#x27;smart&#x27; options nowadays?<p>This will be much harder to find on new cars in the US. As our May 2018, all new cars are required to have backup cameras (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Backup_camera#Mandates" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Backup_camera#Mandates</a>). Now that a screen is required, it&#x27;s harder to financially justify putting in a head unit that includes physical dials. Instead we&#x27;re stuck with crap like &quot;find the button for volume on the screen, then tap it 15 times to adequately adjust it&quot;. I&#x27;m hanging on to my 2011 Honda Civic for the foreseeable future, and pray the UI won&#x27;t suck on newer vehicles or find a basic trim 2016-2018 that doesn&#x27;t do everything on the screen.<p>I appreciate the safety aspect, but hate the UI of every car I&#x27;ve interacted with.<p>Any recommendations for cars whose UI doesn&#x27;t suck?</text></item><item><author>dugditches</author><text>Do cars even come without &#x27;smart&#x27; options nowadays? As in, is it possible to buy a new basic trim car with a traditional radio&#x2F;without a screen? That can be removed or replaced?<p>I just wonder if this &#x27;smart tech&#x27; will become like when you find a CD changer in the trunk of a car. Except these smart dashes won&#x27;t be easily removable&#x2F;swappable like an old cassette deck.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bonniemuffin</author><text>Even though my 2019 Subaru is covered in screens, it also has physical knobs and buttons for the volume, air conditioning, and changing between radio station presets. I usually find that I don&#x27;t have to touch the touchscreen on an average car trip.</text></comment> | <story><title>Jailbreaking Subaru StarLink</title><url>https://github.com/sgayou/subaru-starlink-research/blob/master/doc/README.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>froindt</author><text>&gt;Do cars even come without &#x27;smart&#x27; options nowadays?<p>This will be much harder to find on new cars in the US. As our May 2018, all new cars are required to have backup cameras (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Backup_camera#Mandates" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Backup_camera#Mandates</a>). Now that a screen is required, it&#x27;s harder to financially justify putting in a head unit that includes physical dials. Instead we&#x27;re stuck with crap like &quot;find the button for volume on the screen, then tap it 15 times to adequately adjust it&quot;. I&#x27;m hanging on to my 2011 Honda Civic for the foreseeable future, and pray the UI won&#x27;t suck on newer vehicles or find a basic trim 2016-2018 that doesn&#x27;t do everything on the screen.<p>I appreciate the safety aspect, but hate the UI of every car I&#x27;ve interacted with.<p>Any recommendations for cars whose UI doesn&#x27;t suck?</text></item><item><author>dugditches</author><text>Do cars even come without &#x27;smart&#x27; options nowadays? As in, is it possible to buy a new basic trim car with a traditional radio&#x2F;without a screen? That can be removed or replaced?<p>I just wonder if this &#x27;smart tech&#x27; will become like when you find a CD changer in the trunk of a car. Except these smart dashes won&#x27;t be easily removable&#x2F;swappable like an old cassette deck.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sjwright</author><text>In the economy space, my vote is for the most recent stuff from Hyundai&#x2F;Kia. Not the world&#x27;s greatest system but the latest stuff is very responsive (i.e. no UI lag) and their implementation of CarPlay&#x2F;Android Auto is fairly bulletproof. (Good quality touchscreen, well positioned for finger input, doesn&#x27;t do anything too stupid to make CP&#x2F;AA frustrating.)<p>In the premium space, BMW has always maintained a medium-high bar with recent iterations of iDrive. (There have been many revisions and trim variations of their system, but approximate rule of thumb for acceptable tech is 8+ inch screen, 2013 onwards.) It&#x27;s not going to wow a UI nerd, but if you plan to own the car for multiple years, it&#x27;s slick and effortless once you&#x27;re familiar with it—especially as almost any menu item anywhere in the system can be programmed to one of the 8 or so preset buttons on the dashboard.<p>I therefore have dedicated buttons in my car for &quot;Call my wife&quot;, &quot;Trip computer details&quot;, &quot;Open destination address book&quot;, &quot;Spoken directions on&#x2F;off&quot;, and &quot;Begin navigating to home.&quot; And if you think that will get too complicated too quickly, BMW thought of that: each preset button has a capacitive sensor in them so if you place your finger on the button without pressing, the screen will remind you what that button is programmed to do. It&#x27;s nice.</text></comment> |
21,137,657 | 21,137,549 | 1 | 2 | 21,136,663 | train | <story><title>Y Combinator Top Companies List 2019</title><url>https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>screye</author><text>I am surprised that reddit is on #13.<p>It&#x27;s alexa rank in US social media websites is #2 behind Facebook. Apart form their redesign shenanigans, people actually like the product they offer (in contrast to facebook) and they are still growing.<p>I wish Reddit stays in the kind of &quot;grey&quot; area where it never gets as &quot;official&quot; as twitter, despite the popularity. If anything, that might be entirely its appeal.<p>That predicament will eternally present a glass ceiling for reddit&#x27;s revenue, but as a consumer I&#x27;d rather see that than it going the full facebook -&gt; hyper growth above anything else approach.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krn</author><text>&gt; I am surprised that reddit is on #13.<p>Reddit might be a #1 <i>project</i> out of all the startups ever funded by Y Combinator, but it&#x27;s unlikely to ever become a top 10 <i>company</i>.<p>Because as an ad business it can neither match Google at targeting audience by exact user intent, nor Facebook at targeting audience by exact user profile.<p>In fact, I see reddit more like Couchsurfing: a project which would do <i>much</i> better as a foundation rather than a corporation, based on the role it plays in the society.<p>At its essence, it&#x27;s a highly scalable CRUD application, which requires a simple user interface, respectful community moderation, and as little user tracking as possible.</text></comment> | <story><title>Y Combinator Top Companies List 2019</title><url>https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>screye</author><text>I am surprised that reddit is on #13.<p>It&#x27;s alexa rank in US social media websites is #2 behind Facebook. Apart form their redesign shenanigans, people actually like the product they offer (in contrast to facebook) and they are still growing.<p>I wish Reddit stays in the kind of &quot;grey&quot; area where it never gets as &quot;official&quot; as twitter, despite the popularity. If anything, that might be entirely its appeal.<p>That predicament will eternally present a glass ceiling for reddit&#x27;s revenue, but as a consumer I&#x27;d rather see that than it going the full facebook -&gt; hyper growth above anything else approach.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cm2012</author><text>Reddit traffic converts much worse than FB traffic for advertisers at scale. This is because besides certain subreddits (which are very low scale relatively) the targeting is very weak. Unlike on FB where you can profitably target all sorts of sub groups.</text></comment> |
477,335 | 477,109 | 1 | 2 | 477,046 | train | <story><title>Fun With HTTP Headers</title><url>http://www.nextthing.org/archives/2005/08/07/fun-with-http-headers</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>qw</author><text>The ultimate header is produced by a newspaper. Try running this line and see. It is a random line, so you might want to try it a few times :-)<p><pre><code> curl -i -s --head http://www.vg.no/ | grep N</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>Fun With HTTP Headers</title><url>http://www.nextthing.org/archives/2005/08/07/fun-with-http-headers</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aristus</author><text>the "Cneonction: close" thing is a quirk of Netscaler loadbalancers. It's done to nullify any "Connection: close" headers the webserver spits out, as the Netscaler wants to manage it better. It's scrambled instead of removed so that it doesn't have to regenerate packets (length is the same) and it's scrambled semi-randomly so that people don't just assume it's a misspelling and add compatibility for it.</text></comment> |
16,925,504 | 16,925,191 | 1 | 2 | 16,924,574 | train | <story><title>To censor the internet, 10 countries use Netsweeper filtering technology</title><url>http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/citizen-lab-netsweeper-internet-filtering-tech-censorship-1.4631243</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jeena</author><text>I live in a small city on the west coast of Sweden and we basically have only one bigger IT company which offers jobs which I find interesting from a engineering point of view.<p>Sadly they produce hard- and software which is used by China for deep package inspection which is one part of their great firewall.<p>I morally can&#x27;t bring myself to apply for a job there. Therefor I had to fird a job in Gothenburg to where I have to commute for 1 hour in the morning and 1 hour in the evening every day.</text></comment> | <story><title>To censor the internet, 10 countries use Netsweeper filtering technology</title><url>http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/citizen-lab-netsweeper-internet-filtering-tech-censorship-1.4631243</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>samfriedman</author><text>From the article:<p>&gt;<i>The UAE allegedly uses a preset category called &quot;alternative lifestyles&quot; to block websites of LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations, news, and educational resources, including Human Rights Campaign and The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association. The category is described by Netsweeper as a filter for content relating to &quot;the full range of non-traditional sexual practices, interests and orientations.&quot;</i><p>The preset in question is detailed on Netsweeper&#x27;s site (ctrl+F for &quot;alternative lifestyles&quot;): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;helpdesk.netsweeper.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;6.0&#x2F;Policy_Management&#x2F;06-PM-Categories&#x2F;Category_Definitions.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;helpdesk.netsweeper.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;6.0&#x2F;Policy_Management&#x2F;0...</a>
Quote:<p><pre><code> This includes sites that reference topics on habits or
behaviors related to social relations, dress,
expressions, or recreation that are important enough
to significantly influence the lives of a sector of
the population. It can include the full range of non
traditional sexual practices, interests and
orientations. Some sites may contain graphic images
or sexual material with no pornographic intent.
Examples:
http:&#x2F;&#x2F;denypagetests.netsweeper.com&#x2F;category&#x2F;catno&#x2F;41
http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gayguide.net
http:&#x2F;&#x2F;veganica.com
http:&#x2F;&#x2F;barefooters.org
http:&#x2F;&#x2F;eatveg.com
http:&#x2F;&#x2F;freegan.info
</code></pre>
So beyond the question of &quot;our customers may customize our product for this kind of filtering but that&#x27;s not our responsibility&quot;, the company itself does also provide tools in the product to do things the researchers in the article are opposing as unethical.</text></comment> |
21,749,104 | 21,749,109 | 1 | 2 | 21,747,217 | train | <story><title>Apple’s Ad-Targeting Crackdown Shakes Up Ad Market</title><url>https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apples-ad-targeting-crackdown-shakes-up-ad-market?pu=hackernews4qs3ac&utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=unlocka</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>snowwrestler</author><text>&gt; Only about 9% of Safari users on an iPhone allow outside companies to track where they go on the web<p>&gt; In comparison, 79% of people who use Google’s Chrome browser allow advertisers to track their browsing habits on mobile devices through cookies.<p>Something to keep in mind the next time you see someone from Google complaining about how Apple won’t allow Google Chrome to run natively on the iPhone.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple’s Ad-Targeting Crackdown Shakes Up Ad Market</title><url>https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apples-ad-targeting-crackdown-shakes-up-ad-market?pu=hackernews4qs3ac&utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=unlocka</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>faizanbhat</author><text>As someone who worked in ad tech for half a decade, I fail to understand the fuss about cookie based targeting. We&#x27;re speaking of databases mapping data to random numbers stored in a file that can easily be deleted. The real issue is ad targeting by a handful of large companies that have personally identifiable information.<p>It&#x27;s not like cookie based targeting is very effective either. It&#x27;s very difficult to get cookie based ad targeting right – you have to make significant investments into product, technical integrations and data buys. Given the fact that the cookies to which you are tying these investments can vanish at any time (and a large % do so regularly), it rarely makes business sense to make the right sort of investments. Instead most companies do the bare minimum and try to make a guess that is slightly better than a coin flip. I actually remember seeing a deck from a data company boasting how their gender data was ~ 60% accurate.<p>Why are we worried about this? Contextual targeting is far more effective. As an example, targeting an ad on Elle.com is more than 60% likely to reach women than an ad targeted based on cookie data.<p>Genuinely curious so would appreciate calm, non-aggressive responses. I&#x27;m wondering whether this is due to a generally poor understanding of cookie targeting effectiveness or if I&#x27;m missing something.</text></comment> |
36,693,996 | 36,693,636 | 1 | 2 | 36,690,895 | train | <story><title>Geddit: Open-source, Reddit client for Android without using API</title><url>https://github.com/kaangiray26/geddit-app</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>denysvitali</author><text>You can do the opposite: take the Reddit apps that aren&#x27;t working anymore, do a one line change [1] (to use <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;api.rings.social" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;api.rings.social</a>) and you&#x27;re now able to use a Reddit client to browse Rings [2][3] - a Reddit API compatible content-voting platform licensed as AGPLv3.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rings-social&#x2F;Infinity-For-Rings&#x2F;commit&#x2F;cd5a1d643fd72a409f4257158d6c7c531c3de37b">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rings-social&#x2F;Infinity-For-Rings&#x2F;commit&#x2F;cd...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rings.social" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rings.social</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rings-social">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rings-social</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rkangel</author><text>Surely the lesson from Reddit (and Twitter and every other commercial social media entity) is that we shouldn&#x27;t put our trust in a single organisation?<p>if you&#x27;re going to take the &quot;pain&quot; of moving away from the network effect of your existing walled garden, surely it would better to move to something with a better governance model, like a federated solution? Lemmy is far from perfect but I have found it to provide a lot of what I looked for in Reddit&#x27;s absence.<p>[I only really use Reddit on mobile, and so with the absence of decent mobile apps Reddit is effectively shut down for me]</text></comment> | <story><title>Geddit: Open-source, Reddit client for Android without using API</title><url>https://github.com/kaangiray26/geddit-app</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>denysvitali</author><text>You can do the opposite: take the Reddit apps that aren&#x27;t working anymore, do a one line change [1] (to use <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;api.rings.social" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;api.rings.social</a>) and you&#x27;re now able to use a Reddit client to browse Rings [2][3] - a Reddit API compatible content-voting platform licensed as AGPLv3.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rings-social&#x2F;Infinity-For-Rings&#x2F;commit&#x2F;cd5a1d643fd72a409f4257158d6c7c531c3de37b">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rings-social&#x2F;Infinity-For-Rings&#x2F;commit&#x2F;cd...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rings.social" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rings.social</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rings-social">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rings-social</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BoxOfRain</author><text>A cool variation of this would be a Reddit API to ActivityPub bridge which would make it compatible with Lemmy, Kbin etc. I saw a project for this a while ago but can&#x27;t remember what it&#x27;s called.</text></comment> |
7,655,692 | 7,655,763 | 1 | 3 | 7,655,457 | train | <story><title>Inside the ‘DarkMarket’ prototype, a Silk Road the FBI can't seize</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2014/04/darkmarket/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pmorici</author><text>What an unfortunate name. Not only does it share a name with a cyber crime forum taken down a few years back but it invokes the thought of trade in illicit goods. There was a thread on reddit a few days back talking about how they should have called it &quot;FreeMarket&quot; because it would be harder for politicians and media pundits to dismiss out of hand since it would sound like they were against one of the tenants of capitalism ie: the free market.</text></comment> | <story><title>Inside the ‘DarkMarket’ prototype, a Silk Road the FBI can't seize</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2014/04/darkmarket/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tokenadult</author><text>Never say never. The one thing the history of online networks teaches all of us is that some attack surfaces are very hard to imagine--until someone imagines the attack surface and uses it to interfere with the network. There is plenty of interest on the part of law enforcement authorities in figuring out ways of enforcing the law on networks like the proposed (not yet implemented) network described in the article kindly submitted here.<p>The article begins by saying, &quot;The Silk Road . . . still offered its enemies a single point of failure,&quot; referring to Silk Road being hosted on a single server. Well, that is the KNOWN point of failure for keeping Silk Road impervious to law enforcement, but there may have been other points of failure in Silk Road&#x27;s design. About the proposed DarkMarket, the article writes, &quot;DarkMarket, Taaki and its other developers admit, is still just an experimental demonstration. They have yet to integrate anonymity protections like Tor into the software; currently every user’s IP address is listed for every other user to see.&quot; The proposal needs a lot more work to become a practical proposal for attempting to evade law enforcement scrutiny. Whether or not DarkMarket is ever implemented, and whether or not it will work as expected if it is implemented, are still open questions. The biggest open question is whether or not there will be ways for law enforcement efforts to reach into the DarkMarket even if it works in practice as the proposals suggests it is meant to work.</text></comment> |
19,520,422 | 19,520,286 | 1 | 2 | 19,519,922 | train | <story><title>Call for testing: OpenSSH 8.0</title><url>https://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/2019-March/037672.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>segfaultbuserr</author><text>It includes an interesting comment on the scp vulnerability.<p>&gt; This release contains mitigation for a weakness in the scp(1) tool and protocol (CVE-2019-6111) [...] <i>The scp protocol is outdated, inflexible and not readily fixed. We recommend the use of more modern protocols like sftp and rsync for file transfer instead.</i><p>I think it&#x27;s the time to &quot;alias scp=sftp&quot;. If the developers officially believe that scp should be retired, let&#x27;s do the switch. Both are parts of OpenSSH and the commandline argument is almost identical.<p>Also, it has<p>&gt; <i>ssh(1), sshd(8): Add experimental quantum-computing resistant key exchange method, based on a combination of Streamlined NTRU Prime 4591^761 and X25519.</i><p>This is big. Together with XMSS signature, it means we already have a complete suite of post-quantum cryptography (experimentally) deployed in OpenSSH! It may be the first mass deployment of post-quantum cryptography in a major protocol.<p>One month ago, I commented that the introduction of XMSS post-quantum signature as &quot;useless&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19160739" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19160739</a>), as the decryption of key exchange is much more vulnerable than spoofing the signature. But now NTRU+X25519 is deployed, great progress here!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MayeulC</author><text>Frankly, I had not realized scp and sftp were two distinct protocols, despite my heavily using them. I thought sftp was an interactive client, while scp was meant for scripting, and never really bothered to dig further. I now will, thank you.<p>However, I expect plenty of people to be in the same case.</text></comment> | <story><title>Call for testing: OpenSSH 8.0</title><url>https://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/2019-March/037672.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>segfaultbuserr</author><text>It includes an interesting comment on the scp vulnerability.<p>&gt; This release contains mitigation for a weakness in the scp(1) tool and protocol (CVE-2019-6111) [...] <i>The scp protocol is outdated, inflexible and not readily fixed. We recommend the use of more modern protocols like sftp and rsync for file transfer instead.</i><p>I think it&#x27;s the time to &quot;alias scp=sftp&quot;. If the developers officially believe that scp should be retired, let&#x27;s do the switch. Both are parts of OpenSSH and the commandline argument is almost identical.<p>Also, it has<p>&gt; <i>ssh(1), sshd(8): Add experimental quantum-computing resistant key exchange method, based on a combination of Streamlined NTRU Prime 4591^761 and X25519.</i><p>This is big. Together with XMSS signature, it means we already have a complete suite of post-quantum cryptography (experimentally) deployed in OpenSSH! It may be the first mass deployment of post-quantum cryptography in a major protocol.<p>One month ago, I commented that the introduction of XMSS post-quantum signature as &quot;useless&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19160739" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19160739</a>), as the decryption of key exchange is much more vulnerable than spoofing the signature. But now NTRU+X25519 is deployed, great progress here!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bArray</author><text>Checking out the mitigation for CVE-2019-6111 [1], how does `sftp` help?<p><pre><code> * scp(1): Relating to the above changes to scp(1); the scp protocol
relies on the remote shell for wildcard expansion, so there is no
infallible way for the client&#x27;s wildcard matching to perfectly
reflect the server&#x27;s. If there is a difference between client and
server wildcard expansion, the client may refuse files from the
server. For this reason, we have provided a new &quot;-T&quot; flag to scp
that disables these client-side checks at the risk of
reintroducing the attack described above.
</code></pre>
You could just do a remote `ls` and then `sftp` all the files listed to your client - nothing stopping a malicious return from `ls`? Surely it&#x27;s the risk of running any kind of wild card copy? If the server is compromised then there&#x27;s no telling what will be returned from such a command?<p><pre><code> The scp protocol is outdated, inflexible and not readily fixed. We
recommend the use of more modern protocols like sftp and rsync for
file transfer instead.
</code></pre>
The protocol itself might be outdated, but surely one of the best aspects of `scp` comes from its simplicity [2]?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cve.mitre.org&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-6111" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cve.mitre.org&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-6111</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;openssh&#x2F;openssh-portable&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;scp.c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;openssh&#x2F;openssh-portable&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;scp....</a></text></comment> |
41,470,057 | 41,469,269 | 1 | 3 | 41,440,275 | train | <story><title>LSP: The good, the bad, and the ugly</title><url>https://www.michaelpj.com/blog/2024/09/03/lsp-good-bad-ugly.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aidenn0</author><text>RE: &quot;Not a truly open project.&quot;<p>If LSP isn&#x27;t truly open, then neither are most GNU projects. It was very common for the first 15+ years of GNU&#x27;s existence for the public development process of a project to be &quot;the single maintainer publishes a release archive whenever they feel like it&quot;<p>It&#x27;s a standard freely published and available for all to implement. If that&#x27;s not &quot;truly open&quot; then we have moved the goalposts way too far.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jchw</author><text>I think &quot;truly open&quot; is not specific enough. Not being developed &quot;in the open&quot; is one thing, not having &quot;open governance&quot; is another thing.<p>That said, I guess the problem here is that for standards it helps if well, you collaborate with the people for which the standard is meant to be used by, which is presumably a little hard if there&#x27;s a huge asymmetric relationship when it comes to Microsoft&#x27;s concerns vs the rest of the world&#x27;s concerns.<p>This is one of those cases where having a standards committee or consortium is the way to go. Committees have their problems, but I think it&#x27;s only reasonable. If you think about it, doesn&#x27;t it seem inevitable that eventually, big organizations that make editors would want a consortium of some sort to collaborate on protocols like this? LSP is really just the beginning, since there are plenty of things that editors would probably like to integrate deeper with, such as build systems.</text></comment> | <story><title>LSP: The good, the bad, and the ugly</title><url>https://www.michaelpj.com/blog/2024/09/03/lsp-good-bad-ugly.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aidenn0</author><text>RE: &quot;Not a truly open project.&quot;<p>If LSP isn&#x27;t truly open, then neither are most GNU projects. It was very common for the first 15+ years of GNU&#x27;s existence for the public development process of a project to be &quot;the single maintainer publishes a release archive whenever they feel like it&quot;<p>It&#x27;s a standard freely published and available for all to implement. If that&#x27;s not &quot;truly open&quot; then we have moved the goalposts way too far.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aithrowaway1987</author><text>But that is not the standard for current GNU projects in large part because of all the easily avoidable friction. &quot;If it was good enough for Richard Stallman in 1987, it&#x27;s good enough for Microsoft in 2024&quot; is just a dumb argument.<p>Not to mention you&#x27;re conflating apples with oranges, since a software <i>standard</i> is very different from an <i>application.</i> POSIX wasn&#x27;t just one Bell Labs employee working by himself.<p>From the article:<p>&gt; The LSP should be an open standard, like HTTP, with an open committee that represents the large community which is invested in LSP, and can offer their insight in how to evolve it.<p>There is no goalpost moving here.</text></comment> |
30,304,038 | 30,304,019 | 1 | 2 | 30,300,030 | train | <story><title>Binance is taking a $200M stake in Forbes</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/10/forbes-spac-binance-led-by-the-worlds-richest-crypto-billionaire-is-taking-a-200-million-stake-in-forbes-.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bko</author><text>I think you&#x27;re overstating the relative importance and influence of Forbes.<p>As a side note, I like Binance Smart Chain. It&#x27;s an EVM compliant alternative to Ethereum except with proof of stake and much lower fees. It costs about $0.12 to call a smart contract. To someone like me who is interested in the technology of smart contracts and doesn&#x27;t want to pay $40 to interact with a contract, this is a dream come true.</text></item><item><author>arcticbull</author><text>This has big &quot;Bernie Madoff when he was chairman of the NASDAQ&quot; vibes. [1]<p>[edit] For those following along at home, Binance was kicked out of - or saw significant regulatory pressure in - the UK, Japan, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Germany, Malaysia, Hong Kong, South Africa, Thailand, Ontario, Uganda, Malta ... and I think a few others?<p>They&#x27;re also under investigation by the <i>Cayman Islands Monetary Authority</i>. [2, 3] I am legitimately impressed, it&#x27;s not easy to get the attention of regulators in the Caymans.<p>It seems Forbes was hot on their tail a while back when they wanted to create strategic bait-and-switch entities in various jurisdictions including the US (&quot;Tai Chi Document&quot;). [4] Binance then sued them for defamation - then voluntarily dropped the suit.<p>I suspect such investigations will no longer be welcome.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bernie_Madoff" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bernie_Madoff</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cima.ky&#x2F;binance-not-regulated-by-cima" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cima.ky&#x2F;binance-not-regulated-by-cima</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theblockcrypto.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;110358&#x2F;cayman-islands-investigate-crypto-exchange-binance" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theblockcrypto.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;110358&#x2F;cayman-islands-in...</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;michaeldelcastillo&#x2F;2020&#x2F;10&#x2F;29&#x2F;leaked-tai-chi-document-reveals-binances-elaborate-scheme-to-evade-bitcoin-regulators&#x2F;?sh=7a8ce81f2a92" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;michaeldelcastillo&#x2F;2020&#x2F;10&#x2F;29&#x2F;l...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arcticbull</author><text>&gt; As a side note, I like Binance Smart Chain. It&#x27;s an EVM compliant alternative to Ethereum except with proof of stake and much lower fees. It costs about $0.12 to call a smart contract. To someone like me who is interested in the technology of smart contracts and doesn&#x27;t want to pay $40 to interact with a contract, this is a dream come true.<p>Right, it&#x27;s a centralized clone of ethereum operated by Binance. If you&#x27;re ok with centralization just fire up an EC2 instance. The free tier includes 750 hours per month.</text></comment> | <story><title>Binance is taking a $200M stake in Forbes</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/10/forbes-spac-binance-led-by-the-worlds-richest-crypto-billionaire-is-taking-a-200-million-stake-in-forbes-.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bko</author><text>I think you&#x27;re overstating the relative importance and influence of Forbes.<p>As a side note, I like Binance Smart Chain. It&#x27;s an EVM compliant alternative to Ethereum except with proof of stake and much lower fees. It costs about $0.12 to call a smart contract. To someone like me who is interested in the technology of smart contracts and doesn&#x27;t want to pay $40 to interact with a contract, this is a dream come true.</text></item><item><author>arcticbull</author><text>This has big &quot;Bernie Madoff when he was chairman of the NASDAQ&quot; vibes. [1]<p>[edit] For those following along at home, Binance was kicked out of - or saw significant regulatory pressure in - the UK, Japan, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Germany, Malaysia, Hong Kong, South Africa, Thailand, Ontario, Uganda, Malta ... and I think a few others?<p>They&#x27;re also under investigation by the <i>Cayman Islands Monetary Authority</i>. [2, 3] I am legitimately impressed, it&#x27;s not easy to get the attention of regulators in the Caymans.<p>It seems Forbes was hot on their tail a while back when they wanted to create strategic bait-and-switch entities in various jurisdictions including the US (&quot;Tai Chi Document&quot;). [4] Binance then sued them for defamation - then voluntarily dropped the suit.<p>I suspect such investigations will no longer be welcome.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bernie_Madoff" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bernie_Madoff</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cima.ky&#x2F;binance-not-regulated-by-cima" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cima.ky&#x2F;binance-not-regulated-by-cima</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theblockcrypto.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;110358&#x2F;cayman-islands-investigate-crypto-exchange-binance" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theblockcrypto.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;110358&#x2F;cayman-islands-in...</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;michaeldelcastillo&#x2F;2020&#x2F;10&#x2F;29&#x2F;leaked-tai-chi-document-reveals-binances-elaborate-scheme-to-evade-bitcoin-regulators&#x2F;?sh=7a8ce81f2a92" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;michaeldelcastillo&#x2F;2020&#x2F;10&#x2F;29&#x2F;l...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>magicjosh</author><text>I was curious about the importance of Forbes. It&#x27;s been linked over 1,000 times on Hacker News: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?q=Forbes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?q=Forbes</a></text></comment> |
36,960,799 | 36,959,823 | 1 | 2 | 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>ta1243</author><text>Everyone with half a brain in the US is working the ad-tech and data-mining industries, that&#x27;s where the money is.</text></item><item><author>fallingknife</author><text>Why are they all from China? Why are they able to replicate so much faster than US labs?</text></item><item><author>7moritz7</author><text>I have seen three now from China alone. Plus a calculation from some respected institute from today that confirms the theory</text></item><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>ska</author><text>This assumes everyone&#x27;s primary motivation is $, which just isn&#x27;t true. I&#x27;ve known super bright and talented people who gone off to wall street or FAANG for big $, but I&#x27;ve also known equally strong people who turned it down for low 6 figures doing the research they wanted to.<p>In both cases some are very happy with their choice, others not so much.</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>ta1243</author><text>Everyone with half a brain in the US is working the ad-tech and data-mining industries, that&#x27;s where the money is.</text></item><item><author>fallingknife</author><text>Why are they all from China? Why are they able to replicate so much faster than US labs?</text></item><item><author>7moritz7</author><text>I have seen three now from China alone. Plus a calculation from some respected institute from today that confirms the theory</text></item><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>ketzo</author><text>I suppose the researchers at Lawrence National Lab in Berkeley, whose analysis and pre-print replication effort is cited in the linked article, are working with, what, quarter-brains?</text></comment> |
31,675,373 | 31,675,071 | 1 | 3 | 31,672,754 | train | <story><title>TC39 Proposal: Type Annotations</title><url>https://github.com/tc39/proposal-type-annotations</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>klodolph</author><text>I love this.<p>Maybe it means that I don’t have to preprocess &#x2F; compile TypeScript before running it. This is a genuine win for me. The TypeScript compiler can continue doing what it does best—type checking—and then I can just run the code. Running the TypeScript compiler from a cold start takes a surprisingly long amount of time.<p>Currently, I have to figure out how to get a build system that compiles TypeScript once for bundling to the browser and once for running in Node, and the user experience around setting this up is just incredibly bad. It sucks. I make some change to how I build for browser and it turns out to be incompatible with whatever system I am using for Node. This solves part of that problem, and reduces friction. Type annotations can be just part of the JS and stripped out by minification.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>runarberg</author><text>I’ve been writing Vanilla JavaScript with JSDoc annotations and using TypeScript as a type checker (as opposed to a compiler) for some of my hobby-projects, and it is amazing breath of fresh air from the bundler tool chains of the past.<p>As pointed out by this proposal the JSDoc annotations are—to put it mildly—a bit cumbersome. The more complicated types are close to impossible to figure out how to write, if they are possible to write at all. And on Q&amp;A forums I constantly have to translate between the two syntaxes in my head, since most of the audience will probably not understand the JSDoc syntax.<p>Having a unified type annotation syntax which the runtime ignores will definitely make my life easier.</text></comment> | <story><title>TC39 Proposal: Type Annotations</title><url>https://github.com/tc39/proposal-type-annotations</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>klodolph</author><text>I love this.<p>Maybe it means that I don’t have to preprocess &#x2F; compile TypeScript before running it. This is a genuine win for me. The TypeScript compiler can continue doing what it does best—type checking—and then I can just run the code. Running the TypeScript compiler from a cold start takes a surprisingly long amount of time.<p>Currently, I have to figure out how to get a build system that compiles TypeScript once for bundling to the browser and once for running in Node, and the user experience around setting this up is just incredibly bad. It sucks. I make some change to how I build for browser and it turns out to be incompatible with whatever system I am using for Node. This solves part of that problem, and reduces friction. Type annotations can be just part of the JS and stripped out by minification.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>redox99</author><text>I don&#x27;t see what the issue is.<p>For backend node, you simply edit a couple of lines in the package.json to use ts-node during dev, and run tsc for shipping builds (a bit more performant than ts-node).<p>For frontend usually you literally don&#x27;t configure anything, Next.JS, CRA, or whatever already comes with typescript preconfigured if you select it. And if you do everything manually, considering you still need to setup babel, webpack etc, it makes almost no difference.<p>It seems quite extreme modifying javascript for this considering you still would want to remove types in order to reduce bundle size, and you would still need the actual compiler because you have things such as enums, annotations and more that JS doesn&#x27;t support either.</text></comment> |
7,585,161 | 7,585,090 | 1 | 2 | 7,584,900 | train | <story><title>Earth to Mozilla: Come back home</title><url>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2014/04/12/earth-to-mozilla-come-back-to-us/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kevingadd</author><text>As much as I identify with the motivations behind this post, it&#x27;s utterly out of touch. The author complains about the realities of ad-supported business when the truth is that the for-pay browser market died out over a decade ago because it simply was not a sustainable way to operate a business. Even if Microsoft hadn&#x27;t begun giving IE away for free, someone else would have eventually - they&#x27;d swoop in with their VC money, demolish the browser market entirely with a pricing race-to-the-bottom, and then explode like all startups do and leave us screwed. At least when Microsoft did this, they kept shipping their browser afterwards (other than that IE development pause... sigh.)<p>Ideas like intentionally fragmenting the userbase (with some absurd idea like &#x27;PrivateFox&#x27;) merely contribute to the issues he highlights; if revenue to fund development is scarce, why would you actively undermine your revenue base <i>and</i> waste resources on the product that is destroying your revenue? It&#x27;s absurd, no sane organizational leader - moral imperative or not - would ever do this. Mozilla cannot do this.<p>Hypothetical revenue sources like crowdfunding and intentcasting are great, but it would be utterly irrational for Mozilla to switch wholesale to some new unproven revenue model. Even if it works for a while, eventually they run the risk of scorching the earth (like how Zynga and co completely obliterated viral pathways on Facebook, effectively destroying their revenue streams).<p>If you want Mozilla to adopt a new business model, you&#x27;ll need to find a new business model that will actually work at their scale, then prove it works. They can&#x27;t afford to undermine their extremely important efforts (on Firefox, etc.) just to satisfy your curiosity and desires for an ideal world.</text></comment> | <story><title>Earth to Mozilla: Come back home</title><url>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2014/04/12/earth-to-mozilla-come-back-to-us/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kijin</author><text>It is indeed disturbing that Mozilla&#x27;s finances depend so much on advertising. No matter how well-intentioned the folks at Mozilla Foundation&#x2F;Corporation might be, it&#x27;s difficult for human beings to avoid getting side-tracked when their wallet are running thin and there&#x27;s easy money up for grabs out there.<p>But I don&#x27;t think the author&#x27;s suggestions are compatible what what we (or at least, I) want Firefox to be, either.<p>1. Spinning off a variant named PrivateFox just sends the message that the regular Firefox will no longer respect your privacy. It will also make regular, free, not-private Firefox users second-class citizens of the Internet. People deserve to have their privacy protected, regardless of whether they can pay or not. In fact, people who can&#x27;t pay (minors, the poor, citizens of oppressive third-world regimes, etc.) are often in need of the most protection. Moreover, even if you can afford PrivateFox, the payment creates a paper trail that might negate the benefit of using PrivateFox.<p>2. Crowdsourcing sounds cool, but only if everyone benefits. There&#x27;s no point in creating &quot;The World’s First Fully Private Browser&quot; and keeping it proprietary. If there exists technology to improve everyone&#x27;s privacy, it should be included in every copy of Firefox by default.<p>3. Intentcasting is an interesting concept, but in the context of a web browser it sounds like just another &quot;Ubuntu sends my searches to Amazon&quot; debacle waiting to happen. If I want good privacy, I probably don&#x27;t want to tell faceless multinational corporations what I want to buy, either.<p>Unfortunately, the only alternative that I can think of is a variant of Wikimedia Foundation&#x27;s annual donation drive. As a long-time Firefox fan, I would certainly donate as much as I can. (Is there someone at Mozilla who can give creepy stares in a banner ad as well as Jimmy Wales does?) But again there&#x27;s a problem: Mozilla&#x27;s budget is several times the size of Wikimedia&#x27;s (300MM vs. 80MM), and I&#x27;m not sure that the moral value of Firefox, although significant, exceeds that of Wikipedia. Mozilla needs to be seriously trimmed down if they&#x27;re ever going to be supported by donations.</text></comment> |
31,422,878 | 31,422,900 | 1 | 3 | 31,420,984 | train | <story><title>Python 3.11 beta vs. 3.10 benchmark</title><url>https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/blob/657830f1ab35466053634bb165f6582f6d788614/main-vs-310.rst</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>freediver</author><text>Compared speed to Python 3.9 using python-speed for those who want a simpler, more straight-forward benchmark. [1]<p>Basically one can expect overall 24% increase in performance &quot;for free&quot; in a typical application.<p>Improvements across the board in all major categories. Seriously impressive.<p>Stack usage and multiprocessing had the largest performance increase. Even regex had 21% increase. Just wow!<p>And this may be the first Python3 that will actually be faster (about 5%) than Python 2.7. We&#x27;ve waited 12 years for this... Excited about Python&#x27;s future!<p>-----<p>python-speed v1.3 using python v3.9.2<p>string&#x2F;mem: 2400.67 ms<p>pi calc&#x2F;math: 2996.1 ms<p>regex: 3201.59 ms<p>fibonnaci&#x2F;stack: 2487.13 ms<p>multiprocess: 812.37 ms<p>total: 11897.85 ms (lower is better)<p>-----<p>python-speed v1.3 using python v3.11.0<p>string&#x2F;mem: 2234.78 ms<p>pi calc&#x2F;math: 2667.84 ms<p>regex: 2548.81 ms<p>fibonnaci&#x2F;stack: 1149.57 ms<p>multiprocess: 480.25 ms<p>total: 9081.25 ms (lower is better)<p>-----<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vprelovac&#x2F;python-speed" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vprelovac&#x2F;python-speed</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Python 3.11 beta vs. 3.10 benchmark</title><url>https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/blob/657830f1ab35466053634bb165f6582f6d788614/main-vs-310.rst</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hexomancer</author><text>Python is so slow that I ironically don&#x27;t care about performance improvement that much, because if you are writing any performance-sensitive part of your software in python you are screwed anyway, 50% faster code isn&#x27;t going to help that much.</text></comment> |
21,532,603 | 21,532,335 | 1 | 2 | 21,531,673 | train | <story><title>Truckers sue California, say new gig economy law would kill 70k jobs</title><url>https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/truckers-sue-california-say-new-gig-economy-law-would-kill-70000-jobs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pmcginn</author><text>I&#x27;m in finished vehicle logistics, and I&#x27;ve worked directly with a wide variety of truckers, including three years in California. You are very right that the amount of cargo that needs to be moved will not change because of this law, but you are, in my opinion, wrong about everything else.<p>I don&#x27;t want to stereotype truckers because it is a diverse group. But I will say that in my anecdotal experience, this is a job that tends to attract people who want to be left alone. These are people who value freedom and hard work above everything else and many of them will change careers or retire if they are forced to work for big corporations. The average trucker is 55 years old, and many of them will just sell their and retire if AB5 is not overturned.<p>Supplying a $150,000 truck is not at all a barrier to entry. There is a major shortage of truckers and employers are offering free training, big sign on bonuses, and high starting pay to attract talent. Walmart, which is certainly not known for paying its employees well, pays truckers an average of almost $88,000 per year--and Walmart supplies the truck. The people spending $150,000 on a truck are doing it because they want to, not because they have to. This is not a medallion situation.<p>As for your &quot;wink wink&quot; comment, ELD&#x27;s have been mandated since the end of 2017, and even companies that are small enough to not legally be compelled to use one are often forced to comply due to customer contracts. (Shippers want the data the ELD provides to offer better ETAs to their customers.)<p>In my opinion, the most likely outcome of this law is that some truckers retire and sell their rigs to big corporations, some decide to work for big corporations, and prices go up for everyone who ships goods or buys shipped goods. Unless you&#x27;re in asset based trucking and looking to expand, the chances are that AB5 is going to hurt you, not help you.</text></item><item><author>crooked-v</author><text>The loads hauled by these truckers aren&#x27;t going to magically vanish because the employment laws have changed, which would strongly suggest there will be about the same number of jobs in the end, since the same amount of work still needs to be done.<p>&gt; Many would have to abandon $150,000 investments in clean trucks<p>I read this as: truckers will no longer be expect to supply their own $150,000 trucks to get into the business.<p>&gt; and the right to set their own schedules<p>I read this as: truckers will no longer be expected to &quot;comply with the laws, wink wink&quot; to meet impossible schedules in ways that legally aren&#x27;t the contracting company&#x27;s fault.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nradov</author><text>There is no &quot;shortage&quot; of truckers. Never has been and never will be. New truckers can be trained in a few months. Customers and employers just don&#x27;t want to pay.<p>Claiming that there is a shortage of workers in a particular field is generally nonsense. Is there a shortage of gold? No, I can buy as much as I want tomorrow ... at the market price.</text></comment> | <story><title>Truckers sue California, say new gig economy law would kill 70k jobs</title><url>https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/truckers-sue-california-say-new-gig-economy-law-would-kill-70000-jobs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pmcginn</author><text>I&#x27;m in finished vehicle logistics, and I&#x27;ve worked directly with a wide variety of truckers, including three years in California. You are very right that the amount of cargo that needs to be moved will not change because of this law, but you are, in my opinion, wrong about everything else.<p>I don&#x27;t want to stereotype truckers because it is a diverse group. But I will say that in my anecdotal experience, this is a job that tends to attract people who want to be left alone. These are people who value freedom and hard work above everything else and many of them will change careers or retire if they are forced to work for big corporations. The average trucker is 55 years old, and many of them will just sell their and retire if AB5 is not overturned.<p>Supplying a $150,000 truck is not at all a barrier to entry. There is a major shortage of truckers and employers are offering free training, big sign on bonuses, and high starting pay to attract talent. Walmart, which is certainly not known for paying its employees well, pays truckers an average of almost $88,000 per year--and Walmart supplies the truck. The people spending $150,000 on a truck are doing it because they want to, not because they have to. This is not a medallion situation.<p>As for your &quot;wink wink&quot; comment, ELD&#x27;s have been mandated since the end of 2017, and even companies that are small enough to not legally be compelled to use one are often forced to comply due to customer contracts. (Shippers want the data the ELD provides to offer better ETAs to their customers.)<p>In my opinion, the most likely outcome of this law is that some truckers retire and sell their rigs to big corporations, some decide to work for big corporations, and prices go up for everyone who ships goods or buys shipped goods. Unless you&#x27;re in asset based trucking and looking to expand, the chances are that AB5 is going to hurt you, not help you.</text></item><item><author>crooked-v</author><text>The loads hauled by these truckers aren&#x27;t going to magically vanish because the employment laws have changed, which would strongly suggest there will be about the same number of jobs in the end, since the same amount of work still needs to be done.<p>&gt; Many would have to abandon $150,000 investments in clean trucks<p>I read this as: truckers will no longer be expect to supply their own $150,000 trucks to get into the business.<p>&gt; and the right to set their own schedules<p>I read this as: truckers will no longer be expected to &quot;comply with the laws, wink wink&quot; to meet impossible schedules in ways that legally aren&#x27;t the contracting company&#x27;s fault.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BurningFrog</author><text>Note that if trucking prices do go up, the amount of cargo that gets moved <i>will</i> go down.</text></comment> |
36,543,045 | 36,540,804 | 1 | 3 | 36,517,238 | train | <story><title>YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers</title><url>https://www.androidpolice.com/youtube-ad-blockers-three-strikes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>makestuff</author><text>I pay for YT premium because the ads were getting ridiculous (I think this is partly their goal to push people to premium subscriptions) and I want to support the creators. However, now every video has a damn host read ad embedded in it. I find it incredibly frustrating that my $15&#x2F;mo isn&#x27;t enough. I watch on my TV mainly so I can&#x27;t use one of those plugins that skips host read ads. I just manually skip them. Maybe that makes me an asshole and anti-creator, but I already pay for premium and its getting ridiculous when a 10-15 minute video as a 60 second host read ad in the middle of it.</text></item><item><author>kitsunesoba</author><text>This doesn&#x27;t really affect me since I subscribe to premium, but something that a lot of ad-based services don&#x27;t seem to grasp is <i>why</i> people block ads.<p>It&#x27;s because they&#x27;ve become increasingly obnoxious. Nobody blocked ads when they were a simple column of links in the gutter or maybe an animated GIF banner with 3 frames. No, adblockers became popular because ads kept getting more loud (both visually and audibly), in your face, and resource hungry (remember those flash ads that&#x27;d keep your CPU pegged?). The web became unusable if you didn&#x27;t have a blocker installed.<p>Web advertisers seem like a classic case of taking miles when given an inch.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>belthesar</author><text>In general, I don&#x27;t mind sponsor reads in a video for a couple reasons:<p>1. They&#x27;re produced much more mindfully in context of the video your watching. At their most basic, they&#x27;re a small ad read at the beginning of a video, at their best, they&#x27;re a much more likely to be relevant to me (the consumer) ad that doesn&#x27;t cause me to lose focus on the video&#x27;s original context. When a YouTube ad plays on my iPad while I&#x27;m listening to something during my daily shower, I don&#x27;t really fear that a sponsor read is going to cause me to lose focus on the topic, largely because the automated ad inserter isn&#x27;t going to accidentally cut out a second or two before a natural break, or even worse, in the middle of a sentence.<p>2. I know the proceeds of the ad are going directly to the creator, instead of to a machine that does ads in a way that myself, and a slough of psychologists, believe is damaging to a human.<p>I would much rather pay for YT Premium, or other services for ad free content viewing, however a lack of job security has lead me to sock away that and other funds that would go to paying for content like this to my rainy day fund. If it were a binary choice of pay for YT or not right now, I wouldn&#x27;t, and I&#x27;d miss out on some fun, informative, and entertaining content, but in a way, I wish that was the case. It&#x27;d come with some awful consequences for an entire ecosystem of content creators, but ultimately that&#x27;s the consequences of pedaling tech drugs, and that&#x27;s a whole different conversation.</text></comment> | <story><title>YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers</title><url>https://www.androidpolice.com/youtube-ad-blockers-three-strikes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>makestuff</author><text>I pay for YT premium because the ads were getting ridiculous (I think this is partly their goal to push people to premium subscriptions) and I want to support the creators. However, now every video has a damn host read ad embedded in it. I find it incredibly frustrating that my $15&#x2F;mo isn&#x27;t enough. I watch on my TV mainly so I can&#x27;t use one of those plugins that skips host read ads. I just manually skip them. Maybe that makes me an asshole and anti-creator, but I already pay for premium and its getting ridiculous when a 10-15 minute video as a 60 second host read ad in the middle of it.</text></item><item><author>kitsunesoba</author><text>This doesn&#x27;t really affect me since I subscribe to premium, but something that a lot of ad-based services don&#x27;t seem to grasp is <i>why</i> people block ads.<p>It&#x27;s because they&#x27;ve become increasingly obnoxious. Nobody blocked ads when they were a simple column of links in the gutter or maybe an animated GIF banner with 3 frames. No, adblockers became popular because ads kept getting more loud (both visually and audibly), in your face, and resource hungry (remember those flash ads that&#x27;d keep your CPU pegged?). The web became unusable if you didn&#x27;t have a blocker installed.<p>Web advertisers seem like a classic case of taking miles when given an inch.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hippich</author><text>See if you can install <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;yuliskov&#x2F;SmartTubeNext">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;yuliskov&#x2F;SmartTubeNext</a> - it has sponsorblock in it</text></comment> |
40,033,000 | 40,032,022 | 1 | 2 | 40,031,256 | train | <story><title>Roku says hackers gained access to 576k accounts in latest data-breach incident</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/tech/roku-says-hackers-gained-access-to-576-000-accounts-in-latest-data-breach-incident-8f73ab15</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blackeyeblitzar</author><text>I have noticed an increasing trend of companies FORCING users into accepting aggressive terms of service by denying them the usage or ownership they&#x27;re already entitled to. Roku did this famously, but so did Activision Blizzard AKA Microsoft (you can&#x27;t access your games via Battle.net unless you accept terms), and so did TP Link (you can&#x27;t access the admin interface for your router unless you accept terms). It&#x27;s also getting worse in terms of ownership - Ubisoft recently shut down servers for a game called The Crew and then silently started deleting the game from players&#x27; libraries (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rockpapershotgun.com&#x2F;the-crew-has-started-disappearing-from-game-libraries-after-its-closure-last-month" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rockpapershotgun.com&#x2F;the-crew-has-started-disapp...</a>). People think they did this deletion to prevent some kind of workaround to use the game files and play the game locally, but either way, it is a huge violation of the notion of ownership.<p>This will keep continuing until there are consequences for executives and companies - meaning fines, including retroactive ones, and jail time. For now, we need to keep spreading awareness and then pressure lawmakers to do something about it. But techies can just stop paying these companies any more money too.</text></comment> | <story><title>Roku says hackers gained access to 576k accounts in latest data-breach incident</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/tech/roku-says-hackers-gained-access-to-576-000-accounts-in-latest-data-breach-incident-8f73ab15</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>financetechbro</author><text>How convenient for Roku to announce this breach soon after they forced an arbitration clause change in their ToS</text></comment> |
28,750,233 | 28,749,843 | 1 | 3 | 28,748,374 | train | <story><title>Why obsessively following successful people online is dangerous</title><url>https://durmonski.com/life-advice/following-people-online-is-dangerous/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>randycupertino</author><text>I have a friend who is going through a harrowing divorce, cheating on both sides, lots of family drama, she tried to light his car on fire, police called by neighbors for fighting, etc.<p>On Instagram he and his (soon to be ex) wife just tagged themselves this weekend putting up Halloween decorations, all smiley buying pumpkins and cooking truffle mac and cheese, liking each other&#x27;s posts.<p>Meanwhile he is calling me at 1:30am asking if he can come sleep on our couch. I kind of want to ask him about the discrepancy between his online persona vs real life, but I don&#x27;t want to offend him.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tombert</author><text>Obviously I don&#x27;t know your friend, but as someone who has dealt with depression and whatnot constantly for most of my life, and intermittently since I started medication four years ago, I can tell you that it&#x27;s not terribly hard to make yourself seem happy and content online.<p>It&#x27;s almost <i>easier</i> to appear happy online when you know you&#x27;re not; you don&#x27;t want people to try and offer you unsolicited advice about how &quot;exercise worked for them&quot; or &quot;changing to this particular diet changed my life&quot; or crap like that, so you fake it [1]. You only post things that you think are interesting, you minimize how much you talk about your personal life, and when you do it&#x27;s only to flex about something cool you did. Whenever I <i>did</i> open up to friends later about my mental health stuff, they were always really surprised to hear it, and that was by design.<p>[1] To be clear, I&#x27;m not knocking diet and exercise. If you&#x27;re feeling depressed, eating healthier and getting regular exercise is probably the best (and cheapest) place to start, and offers a bunch of other benefits too. My life <i>did</i> improve when I stopped eating Taco Bell ever day.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why obsessively following successful people online is dangerous</title><url>https://durmonski.com/life-advice/following-people-online-is-dangerous/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>randycupertino</author><text>I have a friend who is going through a harrowing divorce, cheating on both sides, lots of family drama, she tried to light his car on fire, police called by neighbors for fighting, etc.<p>On Instagram he and his (soon to be ex) wife just tagged themselves this weekend putting up Halloween decorations, all smiley buying pumpkins and cooking truffle mac and cheese, liking each other&#x27;s posts.<p>Meanwhile he is calling me at 1:30am asking if he can come sleep on our couch. I kind of want to ask him about the discrepancy between his online persona vs real life, but I don&#x27;t want to offend him.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bhouston</author><text>Perfect Instagram is a skill you can deploy and unrelated to whether you are actually happy. Case in point: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sltrib.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2021&#x2F;09&#x2F;16&#x2F;police-compare-notes&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sltrib.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2021&#x2F;09&#x2F;16&#x2F;police-compare-notes&#x2F;</a>. There were multiple photogenic posts of smiling people in the weeks leading up to the murder, when they were fighting a lot of the time.</text></comment> |
24,810,624 | 24,810,377 | 1 | 3 | 24,809,530 | train | <story><title>How to waste your career, one comfortable year at a time</title><url>https://apoorvagovind.substack.com/p/how-to-waste-your-career-one-comfortable</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>humanrebar</author><text>&gt; if you are in a happy position with a great work life balance that encourages and enables you to both improve yourself and - particularly - your non-worklife<p>Someone needs to write &quot;waste your personal life, one comfortable year at a time&quot;.</text></item><item><author>mellosouls</author><text>It&#x27;s worth remembering this article seems to come from a rather clichéd and narrow frame of reference - overly driven by money and perceived status - one which seems to drive a lot of very similar advisory posts.<p>That&#x27;s cool if it&#x27;s what you want to dedicate your life to, but if you are in a happy position with a great work life balance that encourages and enables you to both improve yourself and - particularly - your non-worklife then that&#x27;s a thing worth holding on to, whatever the article-heavy career gurus seem to be selling you.<p>Edit: as this comment has been significantly upvoted to visibility, I think I should acknowledge jasode&#x27;s (and others) fair point that the author doesn&#x27;t specifically focus on money. While I believe it is an implied strategic goal (which is fine) my concern is with the general over-focus on writing like this with careerism and the corresponding values which are definitely not shared by all. Thanks for the useful counterpoints to my reading.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ineedasername</author><text>Yes, this is much more important. I love my job, but I&#x27;m not defined by it. I long ago realized and decided that I had no interest in chasing the next step up if it meant never having a stable personal life.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to waste your career, one comfortable year at a time</title><url>https://apoorvagovind.substack.com/p/how-to-waste-your-career-one-comfortable</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>humanrebar</author><text>&gt; if you are in a happy position with a great work life balance that encourages and enables you to both improve yourself and - particularly - your non-worklife<p>Someone needs to write &quot;waste your personal life, one comfortable year at a time&quot;.</text></item><item><author>mellosouls</author><text>It&#x27;s worth remembering this article seems to come from a rather clichéd and narrow frame of reference - overly driven by money and perceived status - one which seems to drive a lot of very similar advisory posts.<p>That&#x27;s cool if it&#x27;s what you want to dedicate your life to, but if you are in a happy position with a great work life balance that encourages and enables you to both improve yourself and - particularly - your non-worklife then that&#x27;s a thing worth holding on to, whatever the article-heavy career gurus seem to be selling you.<p>Edit: as this comment has been significantly upvoted to visibility, I think I should acknowledge jasode&#x27;s (and others) fair point that the author doesn&#x27;t specifically focus on money. While I believe it is an implied strategic goal (which is fine) my concern is with the general over-focus on writing like this with careerism and the corresponding values which are definitely not shared by all. Thanks for the useful counterpoints to my reading.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ranit</author><text>&gt;&gt; Someone needs to write ...<p>And skip “comfortable” in the title.</text></comment> |
35,197,393 | 35,185,197 | 1 | 3 | 35,178,986 | train | <story><title>Google discontinues Google Glass for enterprise</title><url>https://www.google.com/glass/start/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phpisthebest</author><text>2 &quot;Seasons&quot; of a netflix show is not even 1 season of broadcast... Most Broadcast shows run 20-24 Episodes per Season. Netflix is 10 at the most, some 6 episodes. per &quot;season&quot;<p>That is part of their problem, and why the cancellations feel even more abrupt and why people do not want to invest time in them. it is hard to tell a compelling story in 6 episodes of TV. So if a netflix series get 2 seasons, 12 Episode. it is just starting... even though to netflix thinks it should have a captive audience. that would just be the midseason of a Broadcast show<p>Most of the popular shows on broadcast would never had made it to be popular under the netflix model of 1000 shows @ 6 episodes...</text></item><item><author>toyg</author><text>I don&#x27;t think Netflix has a particular problem; maintaining series for more than a couple of seasons has always been hard in broadcasting. It&#x27;s easier to spot now because people have complete visibility: instead of caring about a couple of series in key time slots, they can know care about <i>all</i> series, so it&#x27;s more noticeable that most series die a sad death. Addressing off-ramps in a nicer way would be an innovation. The problem is that production costs are so high, that keeping a losing franchise running is extremely expensive.<p>On the other hand, Google plays in a field where maintenance costs are a rounding error. You can basically freeze a product and keep it running forever for pennies, and these products get embedded in our daily lives, which is why killing it looks so bad - I can always pick up a new series with zero effort, whereas migrating off a productive service takes time and effort.</text></item><item><author>phpisthebest</author><text>google will never get a new service to a billion users right now<p>They have the netflix problem (or does nexflix have the Google problem)<p>they have killed off soo many projects that no one want to invest their time into new ones unless they reach the multi-year stage, and they can not reach the multi-year stage unless they get millions of users...<p>It is a catch 22, and neither company seems to want to address or even acknowledge is a problem for them</text></item><item><author>bla3</author><text>I think this is both obsolete and subtly wrong. Big corps want products with global impact. When a product is new, it&#x27;s evaluated for its potential. When it&#x27;s been around for a while, it&#x27;s evaluated on how well its growth is matching the estimated impact. Eventually, growth has stopped. If the product lands at an active base of a billion users or so, it&#x27;s a success and people definitely can make a career out of maintaining and improving it.<p>And to make working on new stuff a bit less incentivized, promotions to higher levels need to see at least some realized growth and not just getting v0 out these days as far as I know.</text></item><item><author>throwaw12</author><text>At this point, I think issue is not about products Google build, it is about how Google put their incentives in place.<p>- Build new shiny thing -&gt; promoted<p>- Support shiny thing -&gt; it&#x27;s not difficult, everyone can do it<p>This type of culture is influencing future direction of Google products, they put together awesome team, solve problem and get from 0 to 1, then team moves on, others don&#x27;t have incentive to make 1 to 100.<p>I feel like, if this was a startup which highly depends on the success of product for their existence they could have pivoted or come up better ideas for adoption. Maybe, Magic Leap was that company, or they got too much investment and thought they will exist for a quite while</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>soylentcola</author><text>I think the &quot;hard to tell a compelling story in 6 episodes&quot; thing just depends on the type of story. Previous replies mention several excellent shorter-run series.<p>Often, if I find out a show is a miniseries (or I guess they call them &quot;limited series&quot; nowadays) I am much more likely to watch it. Too many shows go the route of &quot;how many seasons can we get this to run&quot; instead of &quot;how long will it take to tell this story with good pacing to conclusion?&quot;<p>I get tired of watching shows that seem designed to run indefinitely. They all have the same sort of pacing that stretches things out unnecessarily just to pad seasons. Shows like that feel like basic cable to me when I watch them. I&#x27;ll take a good 6 or 8 episode arc over indefinite seasons any day.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google discontinues Google Glass for enterprise</title><url>https://www.google.com/glass/start/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phpisthebest</author><text>2 &quot;Seasons&quot; of a netflix show is not even 1 season of broadcast... Most Broadcast shows run 20-24 Episodes per Season. Netflix is 10 at the most, some 6 episodes. per &quot;season&quot;<p>That is part of their problem, and why the cancellations feel even more abrupt and why people do not want to invest time in them. it is hard to tell a compelling story in 6 episodes of TV. So if a netflix series get 2 seasons, 12 Episode. it is just starting... even though to netflix thinks it should have a captive audience. that would just be the midseason of a Broadcast show<p>Most of the popular shows on broadcast would never had made it to be popular under the netflix model of 1000 shows @ 6 episodes...</text></item><item><author>toyg</author><text>I don&#x27;t think Netflix has a particular problem; maintaining series for more than a couple of seasons has always been hard in broadcasting. It&#x27;s easier to spot now because people have complete visibility: instead of caring about a couple of series in key time slots, they can know care about <i>all</i> series, so it&#x27;s more noticeable that most series die a sad death. Addressing off-ramps in a nicer way would be an innovation. The problem is that production costs are so high, that keeping a losing franchise running is extremely expensive.<p>On the other hand, Google plays in a field where maintenance costs are a rounding error. You can basically freeze a product and keep it running forever for pennies, and these products get embedded in our daily lives, which is why killing it looks so bad - I can always pick up a new series with zero effort, whereas migrating off a productive service takes time and effort.</text></item><item><author>phpisthebest</author><text>google will never get a new service to a billion users right now<p>They have the netflix problem (or does nexflix have the Google problem)<p>they have killed off soo many projects that no one want to invest their time into new ones unless they reach the multi-year stage, and they can not reach the multi-year stage unless they get millions of users...<p>It is a catch 22, and neither company seems to want to address or even acknowledge is a problem for them</text></item><item><author>bla3</author><text>I think this is both obsolete and subtly wrong. Big corps want products with global impact. When a product is new, it&#x27;s evaluated for its potential. When it&#x27;s been around for a while, it&#x27;s evaluated on how well its growth is matching the estimated impact. Eventually, growth has stopped. If the product lands at an active base of a billion users or so, it&#x27;s a success and people definitely can make a career out of maintaining and improving it.<p>And to make working on new stuff a bit less incentivized, promotions to higher levels need to see at least some realized growth and not just getting v0 out these days as far as I know.</text></item><item><author>throwaw12</author><text>At this point, I think issue is not about products Google build, it is about how Google put their incentives in place.<p>- Build new shiny thing -&gt; promoted<p>- Support shiny thing -&gt; it&#x27;s not difficult, everyone can do it<p>This type of culture is influencing future direction of Google products, they put together awesome team, solve problem and get from 0 to 1, then team moves on, others don&#x27;t have incentive to make 1 to 100.<p>I feel like, if this was a startup which highly depends on the success of product for their existence they could have pivoted or come up better ideas for adoption. Maybe, Magic Leap was that company, or they got too much investment and thought they will exist for a quite while</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PaulDavisThe1st</author><text>&gt; So if a netflix series get 2 seasons, 12 Episode. it is just starting<p>True Detective season one: 8 episodes and done =&gt; one of the most acclaimed TV shows in many years.<p>Mare of Easttown: 7 episodes and done =&gt; one of the most acclaimed TV shows in many years<p>If you make actual stories instead of trying to create ongoing scenarios, you can hit it out of the park in less than 10 episodes.</text></comment> |
41,377,027 | 41,377,047 | 1 | 2 | 41,376,044 | train | <story><title>Are We Anti-Cheat Yet?</title><url>https://areweanticheatyet.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hexomancer</author><text>One thing I don&#x27;t understand and I would really appreciate if someone could explain this to me.<p>Why do we need separate anti-cheat programs? Can&#x27;t the operating systems simply have an option when creating a process that prevents all operations looking at the memory of the process (and maybe if such a process is about to be launched the user has to explicitly accept that by clicking a button)? Wouldn&#x27;t that stop almost all the cheats without needing separate anti cheat programs, since I assume those programs have to use OS facilities to mess with the game anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reportgunner</author><text>Cheats run on the cheater&#x27;s machine, not on the other players&#x27; machines. Of course the cheater would always click accept because it&#x27;s not an accident that the cheat is running on their machine.</text></comment> | <story><title>Are We Anti-Cheat Yet?</title><url>https://areweanticheatyet.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hexomancer</author><text>One thing I don&#x27;t understand and I would really appreciate if someone could explain this to me.<p>Why do we need separate anti-cheat programs? Can&#x27;t the operating systems simply have an option when creating a process that prevents all operations looking at the memory of the process (and maybe if such a process is about to be launched the user has to explicitly accept that by clicking a button)? Wouldn&#x27;t that stop almost all the cheats without needing separate anti cheat programs, since I assume those programs have to use OS facilities to mess with the game anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trustno2</author><text>It&#x27;s like DRM; on some level, the user is using computer how he is supposed to use it - interacting with memory and processor and the programs.<p>Of course nowadays DRMs are sort of baked-in, so I guess anti-cheats could be too?</text></comment> |
38,890,554 | 38,890,487 | 1 | 3 | 38,889,774 | train | <story><title>Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after mid-air window blowout</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/06/alaska-airlines-grounds-boeing-737-max-9-planes-after-mid-air-window-blowout</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MOARDONGZPLZ</author><text>For any other Americans like myself trying to conceptualize exactly how wide this hole was, imagine about 1&#x2F;150th of a football field.</text></item><item><author>w3ll_w3ll_w3ll</author><text>Passenger Diego Murillo, who had been on his way to Ontario, California, said the gap was &quot;as wide as a refrigerator&quot; and described hearing a &quot;really loud bang&quot; as the oxygen masks dropped from above.<p>He told KPTV: &quot;They said there was a kid in that row whose shirt was sucked off him and out of the plane and his mother was holding onto him to make sure he didn&#x27;t go with it.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-us-canada-67899564" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-us-canada-67899564</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sschueller</author><text>The refrigerator comparison also doesn&#x27;t help much because American fridges are much larger then European ones.</text></comment> | <story><title>Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after mid-air window blowout</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/06/alaska-airlines-grounds-boeing-737-max-9-planes-after-mid-air-window-blowout</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MOARDONGZPLZ</author><text>For any other Americans like myself trying to conceptualize exactly how wide this hole was, imagine about 1&#x2F;150th of a football field.</text></item><item><author>w3ll_w3ll_w3ll</author><text>Passenger Diego Murillo, who had been on his way to Ontario, California, said the gap was &quot;as wide as a refrigerator&quot; and described hearing a &quot;really loud bang&quot; as the oxygen masks dropped from above.<p>He told KPTV: &quot;They said there was a kid in that row whose shirt was sucked off him and out of the plane and his mother was holding onto him to make sure he didn&#x27;t go with it.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-us-canada-67899564" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-us-canada-67899564</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>louthy</author><text>Or, 3 bald eagles</text></comment> |
39,350,666 | 39,350,936 | 1 | 2 | 39,346,870 | train | <story><title>I applied for a software role at FedEx and was asked to take a personality test</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1ap1345/i_applied_for_a_software_role_at_fedex_and_was/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>doublebind</author><text>Two years ago, I had a similar experience with Chainlink. I underwent hours of interviews and completed an extensive work assignment, only to be offered the job _after a personality test_.
Simultaneously, I interviewed at a startup. There, I spent about an hour discussing my experience and providing feedback on their current system with the person who would become my manager.<p>I chose the startup, and it has been the best job decision I&#x27;ve ever made.<p>Personality tests can disclose a lot of personal information. It&#x27;s unclear where this data might end up or who might have access to it. I detest this practice and consider it a major red flag.<p>(edit: typos)</text></item><item><author>billy99k</author><text>I once had a SW interview with a job that had a 2-hour long personality test. No tech questions. Just random questions to test my personality. It started out simple, like &#x27;what was the last book you read&#x27; to more in-depth situations that had nothing to do with the job.<p>The manager interviewing me (who admit he basically just started managing a month prior) told me he just read a &#x27;great book on management&#x27; and wanted to &#x27;try this out&#x27;. I passed the first interview, but the second was going to be a 5-hour remote codeshare&#x2F;whiteboard interview with the team. I declined the second interview.<p>I ended up choosing the job that had no whiteboard interview or personality test. It was just a simple conversation with the tech lead about my previous experience and if I had the experience to work on their current system.<p>It was the best job I ever had and they are still my client almost 5 years later.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Beijinger</author><text>This reminds me when I tried incredibly hard to get a tiny scholarship to study abroad in country X and got rejected. In fact, there were several rounds and I didn&#x27;t even make the first one. My Prof. told me to go to country Y and I hesitated because of the immense administrative burden to apply again and since I was de facto not qualified for a postgraduate scholarship. But application was easy, I got it, and they stuffed me with money.<p>I always remember the words of my Professor: &quot;Don&#x27;t you know that everything where you have to invest a lot (I assume effort, time, money, energy) nothing ever comes out?<p>So if your IT job requires a letter of recommendation from the pope and even if you are able to get the letter, you are unlikely to get the job. :-)</text></comment> | <story><title>I applied for a software role at FedEx and was asked to take a personality test</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1ap1345/i_applied_for_a_software_role_at_fedex_and_was/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>doublebind</author><text>Two years ago, I had a similar experience with Chainlink. I underwent hours of interviews and completed an extensive work assignment, only to be offered the job _after a personality test_.
Simultaneously, I interviewed at a startup. There, I spent about an hour discussing my experience and providing feedback on their current system with the person who would become my manager.<p>I chose the startup, and it has been the best job decision I&#x27;ve ever made.<p>Personality tests can disclose a lot of personal information. It&#x27;s unclear where this data might end up or who might have access to it. I detest this practice and consider it a major red flag.<p>(edit: typos)</text></item><item><author>billy99k</author><text>I once had a SW interview with a job that had a 2-hour long personality test. No tech questions. Just random questions to test my personality. It started out simple, like &#x27;what was the last book you read&#x27; to more in-depth situations that had nothing to do with the job.<p>The manager interviewing me (who admit he basically just started managing a month prior) told me he just read a &#x27;great book on management&#x27; and wanted to &#x27;try this out&#x27;. I passed the first interview, but the second was going to be a 5-hour remote codeshare&#x2F;whiteboard interview with the team. I declined the second interview.<p>I ended up choosing the job that had no whiteboard interview or personality test. It was just a simple conversation with the tech lead about my previous experience and if I had the experience to work on their current system.<p>It was the best job I ever had and they are still my client almost 5 years later.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ipsento606</author><text>&gt; Personality tests can disclose a lot of personal information<p>In my experience the only thing personality tests disclose is how good the testee is at guessing which answers will be viewed most favorably</text></comment> |
17,051,456 | 17,051,561 | 1 | 2 | 17,051,336 | train | <story><title>The Last Slave Ship Survivor Gave an Interview in the 1930s</title><url>https://www.history.com/news/zora-neale-hurston-barracoon-slave-clotilda-survivor</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>goatherders</author><text>It is amazing to realize that in the grand scheme of things we are not far removed from this. Thanks for posting. Interesting read.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Last Slave Ship Survivor Gave an Interview in the 1930s</title><url>https://www.history.com/news/zora-neale-hurston-barracoon-slave-clotilda-survivor</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wthsx5</author><text>&gt; Our grief so heavy look lak we cain stand it. I think maybe I die in my sleep when I dream about my mama.<p>This is haunting.</text></comment> |
23,173,912 | 23,174,134 | 1 | 3 | 23,168,874 | train | <story><title>Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension</title><url>https://blog.pushbullet.com/2020/05/13/lets-guess-what-google-requires-in-14-days-or-they-kill-our-extension/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_jal</author><text>The rule still applies: if you build your business on someone else&#x27;s property, don&#x27;t act surprised when they they casually destroy you.<p>It has happened again and again and again. Building for FB or Google is you making yourself their serf, and you will be allowed to exist at their whim.</text></item><item><author>seanwilson</author><text>For people focusing their comments on this particular extension + the permissions it asks for, please take a quick look at the numerous recent posts in the official forum for Chrome extension developers to see it&#x27;s not an isolated issue:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;groups.google.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;chromium.org&#x2F;forum&#x2F;#!forum&#x2F;chromium-extensions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;groups.google.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;chromium.org&#x2F;forum&#x2F;#!forum&#x2F;chrom...</a><p>It&#x27;s a systematic issue that isn&#x27;t specific to anything Pushbullet is doing and it&#x27;s been like this before the pandemic:<p>- Reviews can take up to 3 weeks. This in alone would be crazy enough if you have an urgent bug to fix.<p>- Rejection emails are vague and don&#x27;t tell you what to fix.<p>- After you guess at what to fix, you&#x27;ve then got to join the up to 3 weeks review queue again.<p>- If you try too many times, your extension gets pulled.<p>- On top of this, they&#x27;ve recently disabled new Chrome Web Store paid items, and user reviews.<p>Can anyone from Google escalate this and help extension developers? I can&#x27;t speak for everyone but there&#x27;s lots of complaints in the forum and little action beyond &quot;we hear you and are looking to improve things&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chc</author><text>This isn&#x27;t very actionable advice, though, since there is basically no such thing as a software product that isn&#x27;t built on somebody else&#x27;s property.<p>You might think, &quot;Ah-ha, web apps!&quot; But no, Google can still casually destroy you there. Or you might think, &quot;Ah-ha, desktop apps!&quot; But the OS vendor can casually destroy you there.</text></comment> | <story><title>Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension</title><url>https://blog.pushbullet.com/2020/05/13/lets-guess-what-google-requires-in-14-days-or-they-kill-our-extension/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_jal</author><text>The rule still applies: if you build your business on someone else&#x27;s property, don&#x27;t act surprised when they they casually destroy you.<p>It has happened again and again and again. Building for FB or Google is you making yourself their serf, and you will be allowed to exist at their whim.</text></item><item><author>seanwilson</author><text>For people focusing their comments on this particular extension + the permissions it asks for, please take a quick look at the numerous recent posts in the official forum for Chrome extension developers to see it&#x27;s not an isolated issue:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;groups.google.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;chromium.org&#x2F;forum&#x2F;#!forum&#x2F;chromium-extensions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;groups.google.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;chromium.org&#x2F;forum&#x2F;#!forum&#x2F;chrom...</a><p>It&#x27;s a systematic issue that isn&#x27;t specific to anything Pushbullet is doing and it&#x27;s been like this before the pandemic:<p>- Reviews can take up to 3 weeks. This in alone would be crazy enough if you have an urgent bug to fix.<p>- Rejection emails are vague and don&#x27;t tell you what to fix.<p>- After you guess at what to fix, you&#x27;ve then got to join the up to 3 weeks review queue again.<p>- If you try too many times, your extension gets pulled.<p>- On top of this, they&#x27;ve recently disabled new Chrome Web Store paid items, and user reviews.<p>Can anyone from Google escalate this and help extension developers? I can&#x27;t speak for everyone but there&#x27;s lots of complaints in the forum and little action beyond &quot;we hear you and are looking to improve things&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>moron4hire</author><text>What business short of The Principality of Sealand&#x27;s data warehousing is <i>not</i> &quot;built on someone else&#x27;s property&quot;? Even a brick-and-mortar business needs to appease the taxman.</text></comment> |
29,962,482 | 29,962,244 | 1 | 2 | 29,960,279 | train | <story><title>Why isn't there a universal data format for résumés?</title><url>https://toot.cat/@woozle/107634232290378715</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vanusa</author><text><i>That&#x27;s very nice to think about but in the real world if people don&#x27;t match some exact keywords they get thrown away.</i><p>This isn&#x27;t the &quot;real world&quot; you&#x27;re referring to here -- it&#x27;s the <i>fin-de-big-tech</i> bubble world where everyone and their dog is not only sold, smack-down drunk on the idea that Algorithms and Data are the Solution to Your Problems. They aren&#x27;t of course -- it&#x27;s just a giant hornswoggle. This &quot;world&quot; needs to end, and it needs to end soon.<p>My belief is that it will. But until it does, companies that run crappy ATSs (like there&#x27;s any other kind) deserve the buzzword-gurgling, keyword-dropping candidate pool get. And developers who get &quot;rejected&quot; by these companies should be grateful for the sublime gift of this rejection -- and for the opportunity to laser focus on companies and teams that use their heads to hire, rather than a fleet of bots.<p>Snark aside - hiring managers that actually <i>read</i> resumes (and yes, actually at least skim each and every one -- really it ain&#x27;t that hard) are golden to work for (other factors being equal). Really, you don&#x27;t want to waste your time with companies that have drunken the ATS kool-aid. Really you don&#x27;t.<p>That said, however:<p><i>HR is looking for &quot;node.js&quot; but you wrote it like &quot;nodejs&quot;? Though luck pal, bye.</i><p>It&#x27;s &quot;Node.js&quot; with a dot. If you spell it &quot;nodejs&quot;, that&#x27;s a serious red flag and you shouldn&#x27;t be surprised if it gets you automatically discarded -- even by a human reviewer.<p>That&#x27;s what resumes used to be, after all -- a kind of a take-home test where you really do have enough time (and perfect knowledge) to get everything 100 percent right. And also a test of your awareness of the fact that, yes, in critical business communications at least -- this level of correctness does matter, and it matters a lot.</text></item><item><author>moralestapia</author><text>&gt;Documents like these shouldn&#x27;t be automatically processed, they should be reviewed by humans.<p>That&#x27;s very nice to think about but in the real world if people don&#x27;t match some exact keywords they get thrown away. HR is looking for &quot;node.js&quot; but you wrote it like &quot;nodejs&quot;? Though luck pal, bye. HR wants a &quot;computer scientist&quot; but you have a degree in &quot;computer science&quot;? Same, automatically discarded.<p>If anything, a standard format would at least allow people to classify themselves&#x2F;others correctly and without ambiguity.</text></item><item><author>jeroenhd</author><text>In my opinion, there shouldn&#x27;t be.<p>Documents like these shouldn&#x27;t be automatically processed, they should be reviewed by humans. Reducing someone&#x27;s life history to a list of educational institutions and employers feels robotic even for a software developer&#x27;s mindset.<p>I understand that there are real life problems because companies do use automated processing on applications, but that kind of behaviour shouldn&#x27;t be encouraged.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>threatofrain</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s &quot;Node.js&quot; with a dot. If you spell it &quot;nodejs&quot;, that&#x27;s a serious red flag and you shouldn&#x27;t be surprised if it gets you automatically discarded -- even by a human reviewer.<p>Yikes. “It’s not JavaScript it’s Ecmascript! What a RED FLAG.”</text></comment> | <story><title>Why isn't there a universal data format for résumés?</title><url>https://toot.cat/@woozle/107634232290378715</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vanusa</author><text><i>That&#x27;s very nice to think about but in the real world if people don&#x27;t match some exact keywords they get thrown away.</i><p>This isn&#x27;t the &quot;real world&quot; you&#x27;re referring to here -- it&#x27;s the <i>fin-de-big-tech</i> bubble world where everyone and their dog is not only sold, smack-down drunk on the idea that Algorithms and Data are the Solution to Your Problems. They aren&#x27;t of course -- it&#x27;s just a giant hornswoggle. This &quot;world&quot; needs to end, and it needs to end soon.<p>My belief is that it will. But until it does, companies that run crappy ATSs (like there&#x27;s any other kind) deserve the buzzword-gurgling, keyword-dropping candidate pool get. And developers who get &quot;rejected&quot; by these companies should be grateful for the sublime gift of this rejection -- and for the opportunity to laser focus on companies and teams that use their heads to hire, rather than a fleet of bots.<p>Snark aside - hiring managers that actually <i>read</i> resumes (and yes, actually at least skim each and every one -- really it ain&#x27;t that hard) are golden to work for (other factors being equal). Really, you don&#x27;t want to waste your time with companies that have drunken the ATS kool-aid. Really you don&#x27;t.<p>That said, however:<p><i>HR is looking for &quot;node.js&quot; but you wrote it like &quot;nodejs&quot;? Though luck pal, bye.</i><p>It&#x27;s &quot;Node.js&quot; with a dot. If you spell it &quot;nodejs&quot;, that&#x27;s a serious red flag and you shouldn&#x27;t be surprised if it gets you automatically discarded -- even by a human reviewer.<p>That&#x27;s what resumes used to be, after all -- a kind of a take-home test where you really do have enough time (and perfect knowledge) to get everything 100 percent right. And also a test of your awareness of the fact that, yes, in critical business communications at least -- this level of correctness does matter, and it matters a lot.</text></item><item><author>moralestapia</author><text>&gt;Documents like these shouldn&#x27;t be automatically processed, they should be reviewed by humans.<p>That&#x27;s very nice to think about but in the real world if people don&#x27;t match some exact keywords they get thrown away. HR is looking for &quot;node.js&quot; but you wrote it like &quot;nodejs&quot;? Though luck pal, bye. HR wants a &quot;computer scientist&quot; but you have a degree in &quot;computer science&quot;? Same, automatically discarded.<p>If anything, a standard format would at least allow people to classify themselves&#x2F;others correctly and without ambiguity.</text></item><item><author>jeroenhd</author><text>In my opinion, there shouldn&#x27;t be.<p>Documents like these shouldn&#x27;t be automatically processed, they should be reviewed by humans. Reducing someone&#x27;s life history to a list of educational institutions and employers feels robotic even for a software developer&#x27;s mindset.<p>I understand that there are real life problems because companies do use automated processing on applications, but that kind of behaviour shouldn&#x27;t be encouraged.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kortilla</author><text>&gt; That&#x27;s what resumes used to be, after all -- a kind of a take-home test where you really do have enough time (and perfect knowledge) to get everything 100 percent right.<p>The only thing this filters for is people who have been looking for a job for a long time and&#x2F;or are people focused on presentation instead of content, good luck with that.<p>We’ve hired incredible engineers across that have had typos and major resume mistakes many times and they had no communications problems on the job.<p>A resume is a background&#x2F;interests check for the hiring manager. Giving them a spell check is about as useful as measuring the ratio of times the letter ‘a’ appears relative to ‘e’.<p>&gt; critical business communications at least -- this level of correctness does matter, and it matters a lot.<p>This sounds like someone who is unable to contextualize when that would be relevant. Unless you’re writing user documentation there are zero times in an engineer’s day-to-day communications where writing nodejs instead of “Node.js” would have any impact at all.</text></comment> |
39,922,542 | 39,919,575 | 1 | 2 | 39,916,972 | train | <story><title>Cloudflare R2 IA storage tier</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/r2-events-gcs-migration-infrequent-access</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thrixton</author><text>So pricing is 1c &#x2F; GB-month, compared to S3 IA at 1.25c &#x2F; GB-month, a decent saving but not massive, no archive or deep archive options though, I wonder if &#x2F; when these will come.<p>What sort of negotiated rates can you get from AWS for bandwidth I wonder, at the moment, that’s seems like the only real benefit from CF I think.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cloudflare R2 IA storage tier</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/r2-events-gcs-migration-infrequent-access</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gavinsyancey</author><text>Backblaze B2 is cheaper than Cloudflare R2 IA. Hmmm</text></comment> |
41,474,794 | 41,471,423 | 1 | 3 | 41,470,074 | train | <story><title>Hardware Acceleration of LLMs: A comprehensive survey and comparison</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.03384</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bilsbie</author><text>Thanks for the background. Whatever happened to memristors and the promise of memory living alongside cpu?</text></item><item><author>refibrillator</author><text>This paper is light on background so I’ll offer some additional context:<p>As early as the 90s it was observed that CPU speed (FLOPs) was improving faster than memory bandwidth. In 1995 William Wulf and Sally Mckee predicted this divergence would lead to a “memory wall”, where most computations would be bottlenecked by data access rather than arithmetic operations.<p>Over the past 20 years peak server hardware FLOPS has been scaling at 3x every 2 years, outpacing the growth of DRAM and interconnect bandwidth, which have only scaled at 1.6 and 1.4 times every 2 years, respectively.<p>Thus for training and inference of LLMs, the performance bottleneck is increasingly shifting toward memory bandwidth. Particularly for autoregressive Transformer decoder models, it can be the <i>dominant</i> bottleneck.<p>This is driving the need for new tech like Compute-in-memory (CIM), also known as processing-in-memory (PIM). Hardware in which operations are performed directly on the data in memory, rather than transferring data to CPU registers first. Thereby improving latency and power consumption, and possibly sidestepping the great “memory wall”.<p>Notably to compare ASIC and FPGA hardware across varying semiconductor process sizes, the paper uses a fitted polynomial to extrapolate to a common denominator of 16nm:<p><i>&gt; Based on the article by Aaron Stillmaker and B.Baas titled ”Scaling equations for the accurate prediction of CMOS device performance from 180 nm to 7nm,” we extrapolated the performance and the energy efficiency on a 16nm technology to make a fair comparison</i><p>But extrapolation for CIM&#x2F;PIM is not done because they claim:<p><i>&gt; As the in-memory accelerators the performance is not based only on the process technology, the extrapolation is performed only on the FPGA and ASIC accelerators where the process technology affects significantly the performance of the systems.</i><p>Which strikes me as an odd claim at face value, but perhaps others here could offer further insight on that decision.<p>Links below for further reading.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2403.14123" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2403.14123</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;In-memory_processing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;In-memory_processing</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;vcl.ece.ucdavis.edu&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;2017.02.VLSIintegration.TechScale&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;vcl.ece.ucdavis.edu&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;2017.02.VLSIintegration.Tech...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chatmasta</author><text>I&#x27;m a layman on this topic, so I&#x27;m definitely about to say something wrong. But I recall an intriguing idea about a sort of &quot;reversion to analog,&quot; whereby we use the full range of voltage crossing a resistor. Instead of cutting it in half to produce binary (high voltage is 1, low voltage is 0), we could treat the voltage as a scalar weight within a network of resistors.<p>Has anyone else heard of this idea or have any insight on it?</text></comment> | <story><title>Hardware Acceleration of LLMs: A comprehensive survey and comparison</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.03384</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bilsbie</author><text>Thanks for the background. Whatever happened to memristors and the promise of memory living alongside cpu?</text></item><item><author>refibrillator</author><text>This paper is light on background so I’ll offer some additional context:<p>As early as the 90s it was observed that CPU speed (FLOPs) was improving faster than memory bandwidth. In 1995 William Wulf and Sally Mckee predicted this divergence would lead to a “memory wall”, where most computations would be bottlenecked by data access rather than arithmetic operations.<p>Over the past 20 years peak server hardware FLOPS has been scaling at 3x every 2 years, outpacing the growth of DRAM and interconnect bandwidth, which have only scaled at 1.6 and 1.4 times every 2 years, respectively.<p>Thus for training and inference of LLMs, the performance bottleneck is increasingly shifting toward memory bandwidth. Particularly for autoregressive Transformer decoder models, it can be the <i>dominant</i> bottleneck.<p>This is driving the need for new tech like Compute-in-memory (CIM), also known as processing-in-memory (PIM). Hardware in which operations are performed directly on the data in memory, rather than transferring data to CPU registers first. Thereby improving latency and power consumption, and possibly sidestepping the great “memory wall”.<p>Notably to compare ASIC and FPGA hardware across varying semiconductor process sizes, the paper uses a fitted polynomial to extrapolate to a common denominator of 16nm:<p><i>&gt; Based on the article by Aaron Stillmaker and B.Baas titled ”Scaling equations for the accurate prediction of CMOS device performance from 180 nm to 7nm,” we extrapolated the performance and the energy efficiency on a 16nm technology to make a fair comparison</i><p>But extrapolation for CIM&#x2F;PIM is not done because they claim:<p><i>&gt; As the in-memory accelerators the performance is not based only on the process technology, the extrapolation is performed only on the FPGA and ASIC accelerators where the process technology affects significantly the performance of the systems.</i><p>Which strikes me as an odd claim at face value, but perhaps others here could offer further insight on that decision.<p>Links below for further reading.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2403.14123" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2403.14123</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;In-memory_processing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;In-memory_processing</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;vcl.ece.ucdavis.edu&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;2017.02.VLSIintegration.TechScale&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;vcl.ece.ucdavis.edu&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;2017.02.VLSIintegration.Tech...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dewarrn1</author><text>That&#x27;s funny, I had thought that memristors were a solved problem based on this talk from a while back (2010!): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=bKGhvKyjgLY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=bKGhvKyjgLY</a>, but I gather HP never really commercialized the technology. More recently, there does seem to be interest in and research on the topic for the reasons you and the GP post noted (e.g., <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41586-023-05759-5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41586-023-05759-5</a>).</text></comment> |
9,628,683 | 9,628,677 | 1 | 2 | 9,628,416 | train | <story><title>“We are only collecting the list of applications you have installed.”</title><url>https://support.twitter.com/articles/20172069</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jotux</author><text>Apple should ban the app for this, right?<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;danielamitay.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2015&#x2F;5&#x2F;29&#x2F;shutting-down-a-500mm-requestsmonth-api" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;danielamitay.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2015&#x2F;5&#x2F;29&#x2F;shutting-down-a-500mm...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JohnTHaller</author><text>If Apple applied their rules evenly across publishers, they would.</text></comment> | <story><title>“We are only collecting the list of applications you have installed.”</title><url>https://support.twitter.com/articles/20172069</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jotux</author><text>Apple should ban the app for this, right?<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;danielamitay.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2015&#x2F;5&#x2F;29&#x2F;shutting-down-a-500mm-requestsmonth-api" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;danielamitay.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2015&#x2F;5&#x2F;29&#x2F;shutting-down-a-500mm...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cft</author><text>They are &quot;too big to ban&quot;.</text></comment> |
19,352,081 | 19,352,034 | 1 | 2 | 19,351,835 | train | <story><title>Ethiopian Airlines plane crash: No survivors among 157 on board</title><url>https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/03/ethiopian-airlines-flight-nairobi-crashes-deaths-reported-190310082515738.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>unionemployee</author><text>In response to future &#x27;trim system&#x2F;AOA sensor&#x27; comments: Transport aircraft have a procedure to cut out a runaway&#x2F;malfunctioning trim or stick pusher. Usually, this procedure is to press and hold the autopilot disconnect button on the yoke&#x2F;stick or the trim switch and then, later, deactivate the system. The pressing of the autopilot disconnect button or trim switch is a &#x27;memory item&#x27;, meaning that it should be performed immediately, without a checklist, upon recognizing that there&#x27;s a problem. Previously, this malfunction has been a rare occurrence, and so can be startling to pilots or not immediately recognized. I&#x27;ve seen pilots fail to apply the procedure and crash many times in the simulator, even after being told it was coming. It could be said that the pilots of the Lion Air aircraft and, potentially, this Ethiopian aircraft should have known the procedure and reacted properly, however, for Boeing to put them in this situation is, in my opinion, also quite hazardous. With so many hastily trained and low-competence airline pilots flying around, should we really rely on them to understand the technology and react properly?</text></comment> | <story><title>Ethiopian Airlines plane crash: No survivors among 157 on board</title><url>https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/03/ethiopian-airlines-flight-nairobi-crashes-deaths-reported-190310082515738.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>appleflaxen</author><text>I predict that this is going to end up being a software error related to the angle of attack sensor (Boeing reported possible problems with the AOA on 11&#x2F;7&#x2F;2018)<p>basis: none whatsoever; just a guess.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;airlines-that-fly-the-boeing-737-max-2018-11" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;airlines-that-fly-the-boeing...</a></text></comment> |
12,514,586 | 12,513,010 | 1 | 2 | 12,512,618 | train | <story><title>Bash 4.4 released</title><url>http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2016-09/msg00018.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>olau</author><text>A little anecdote: there was a case of O(N^2) in readline with long lines. Essentially a bug in the redisplay logic. It affected Bash, mysql&#x2F;psql, Python, etc.<p>After having suffered from this for some years, last year that annoyed me enough to start digging into readline to figure out what was causing it. In the end, that prompted Chet Ramey to come up with a fix which looks like it is now being released!<p>I promised myself that when this one was fixed, I&#x27;d look into why most readline shells can go nuts when you resize them - somehow they don&#x27;t always discover that the line width has changed.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bash 4.4 released</title><url>http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2016-09/msg00018.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>p4bl0</author><text>I really like this one:<p><pre><code> jj. New prompt string: PS0. Expanded and displayed by interactive
shells after reading a complete command but before executing it.
</code></pre>
I currently use my PS1 for a lot of dirty things that would have their place in such a PS0 :).<p>Now, I just have to wait until Bash 4.4 lands in Debian…</text></comment> |
10,087,219 | 10,086,056 | 1 | 3 | 10,085,700 | train | <story><title>Mozilla's Servo Engine Now Capable of Rendering GitHub</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mozilla-Servo-GitHub</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pcwalton</author><text>Also see Ars Technica rendered in Servo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;pcwalton&#x2F;status&#x2F;631961638304804864" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;pcwalton&#x2F;status&#x2F;631961638304804864</a><p>I&#x27;ve been working on knocking down layout bugs that affect the most popular sites lately. Please feel free to try it out and file GitHub issues, especially if you can minimize test cases! You&#x27;re definitely likely to see various degrees of brokenness on most sites, but the core CSS 2.1&#x2F;CSS3 layout is pretty solid at this point; there&#x27;s just a long tail of bugs and corner cases we&#x27;ve got to nail down. This is where finding and isolating the bugs that break the major Web sites is important!</text></comment> | <story><title>Mozilla's Servo Engine Now Capable of Rendering GitHub</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mozilla-Servo-GitHub</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>grayrest</author><text>If you&#x27;re interested in checking out the progress, the build process[0] is really easy.<p>Here&#x27;s the current page: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;NmRNaRz.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;NmRNaRz.png</a><p>If you want to poke around more, servo shell[1] lets you switch starting pages without having to re-run from the command line.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;servo&#x2F;servo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;servo&#x2F;servo</a>
[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;glennw&#x2F;servo-shell" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;glennw&#x2F;servo-shell</a></text></comment> |
31,117,969 | 31,118,087 | 1 | 2 | 31,114,554 | train | <story><title>Python’s “type hints” are a bit of a disappointment to me</title><url>https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2022-04-21/0/POSTING-en.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mountainriver</author><text>Not typing is kinda a crazy way to write programs when you think about it. It can be beneficial in certain niche use cases like data science where code is always terrible. For everything else, types are a huge boon for the developer and everyone consuming their work</text></item><item><author>linsomniac</author><text>Honestly, I&#x27;ve recently written a few 300-500 line programs in Python using type hints and I&#x27;m never going back. And I&#x27;m not even using mypy often, if ever.<p>My editor now has a fairly deep understanding of my code, and can tell me of all sorts of surprising errors I&#x27;m making before I run the code. There have been a few times where I found an error, went into the editor and saw I had missed a error message about that line. Shout out: Using LunarVim with LSP and TreeSitter.<p>The other thing I&#x27;m enjoying is that libraries can use them to make things happen more automatically. I believe it was Typer (the CLI argument parsing library) where if you declare an argument to a function as &quot;files: List[Path]&quot;, it understands that the argument will take one or more files, or &quot;-&quot; to mean stdin. If you just say &quot;file: Path&quot;, it understands it is a singular file.<p>I was curious about type hints when they first came out, wasn&#x27;t really expecting to use them but they seemed cool, but now I&#x27;m totally sold.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>waitlist</author><text>I think data science is a perfect example in favor of types -- the code is often terrible <i>because</i> of the lack of typing. Pandas has notoriously poor developer ergonomics, and I recall painfully poring over type errors across the board -- lists, dataframes, numpy arrays, etc. are all iterables, so they can be interchanged in some contexts, but not in others.<p>Had I had MyPy back when I was working in data science, I would&#x27;ve saved countless hours and headaches.</text></comment> | <story><title>Python’s “type hints” are a bit of a disappointment to me</title><url>https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2022-04-21/0/POSTING-en.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mountainriver</author><text>Not typing is kinda a crazy way to write programs when you think about it. It can be beneficial in certain niche use cases like data science where code is always terrible. For everything else, types are a huge boon for the developer and everyone consuming their work</text></item><item><author>linsomniac</author><text>Honestly, I&#x27;ve recently written a few 300-500 line programs in Python using type hints and I&#x27;m never going back. And I&#x27;m not even using mypy often, if ever.<p>My editor now has a fairly deep understanding of my code, and can tell me of all sorts of surprising errors I&#x27;m making before I run the code. There have been a few times where I found an error, went into the editor and saw I had missed a error message about that line. Shout out: Using LunarVim with LSP and TreeSitter.<p>The other thing I&#x27;m enjoying is that libraries can use them to make things happen more automatically. I believe it was Typer (the CLI argument parsing library) where if you declare an argument to a function as &quot;files: List[Path]&quot;, it understands that the argument will take one or more files, or &quot;-&quot; to mean stdin. If you just say &quot;file: Path&quot;, it understands it is a singular file.<p>I was curious about type hints when they first came out, wasn&#x27;t really expecting to use them but they seemed cool, but now I&#x27;m totally sold.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bayesian_horse</author><text>Have you tried it? Python has gained most of its popularity before type hints, and I would (wildly) guess 99% of Python programmers don&#x27;t even use type checking at all.<p>Static typing is completely viable and I hear those arguments mostly from those who didn&#x27;t use Python for a long time. The added productivity makes up for a little more debugging while the program is running.<p>I&#x27;d also posit that many Python codebases are somewhat less &quot;untyped&quot; than one might assume. Django for example does a lot in its ORM and Form classes to make sure the right stuff goes in the right slot.</text></comment> |
25,274,320 | 25,274,031 | 1 | 2 | 25,273,907 | train | <story><title>QBE vs. LLVM</title><url>https://c9x.me/compile/doc/llvm.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pjmlp</author><text>Also to note, LLVM isn&#x27;t the first compiler toolchain of its kind.<p>Notable mentions,<p>IBM&#x27;s research project on PL.8 while developing their first RISC designs.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rsim.cs.uiuc.edu&#x2F;arch&#x2F;qual_papers&#x2F;compilers&#x2F;auslander82.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rsim.cs.uiuc.edu&#x2F;arch&#x2F;qual_papers&#x2F;compilers&#x2F;auslande...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pdfs.semanticscholar.org&#x2F;3288&#x2F;fc042cd474f0ec93d67753565d0cc83ac575.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pdfs.semanticscholar.org&#x2F;3288&#x2F;fc042cd474f0ec93d67753...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rishiheerasing.net&#x2F;modules&#x2F;hca2102&#x2F;paper&#x2F;cocke.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rishiheerasing.net&#x2F;modules&#x2F;hca2102&#x2F;paper&#x2F;cocke.pdf</a><p>The Amsterdam Compiler Toolkit,<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tack.sourceforge.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tack.sourceforge.net&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;davidgiven&#x2F;ack" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;davidgiven&#x2F;ack</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;citeseerx.ist.psu.edu&#x2F;viewdoc&#x2F;download?doi=10.1.1.126.4591&amp;rep=rep1&amp;type=pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;citeseerx.ist.psu.edu&#x2F;viewdoc&#x2F;download?doi=10.1.1.12...</a><p>The more the merrier.</text></comment> | <story><title>QBE vs. LLVM</title><url>https://c9x.me/compile/doc/llvm.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chx</author><text>This needs a (2016) in the title. It&#x27;s not evident from the text but it is from the announcement: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;programming&#x2F;comments&#x2F;4fysrk&#x2F;qbe_my_homegrown_simple_compiler_backend&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;programming&#x2F;comments&#x2F;4fysrk&#x2F;qbe_my_...</a></text></comment> |
37,862,906 | 37,862,755 | 1 | 2 | 37,859,905 | train | <story><title>Automakers invented the crime of jaywalking (2015)</title><url>https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>trothamel</author><text>Note that like most laws, Jaywalking laws tend to make more sense when you read them. Here&#x27;s the law in New York:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;law.justia.com&#x2F;codes&#x2F;new-york&#x2F;2015&#x2F;vat&#x2F;title-7&#x2F;article-27&#x2F;1152" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;law.justia.com&#x2F;codes&#x2F;new-york&#x2F;2015&#x2F;vat&#x2F;title-7&#x2F;artic...</a><p><pre><code> 1152. Crossing at other than crosswalks.
(a) Every pedestrian
crossing a roadway at any point other than within a marked crosswalk or
within an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection shall yield the right of
way to all vehicles upon the roadway.
(b) Any pedestrian crossing a roadway at a point where a pedestrian
tunnel or overhead pedestrian crossing has been provided shall yield the
right of way to all vehicles upon the roadway.
(c) No pedestrian shall cross a roadway intersection diagonally unless
authorized by official traffic-control devices; and, when authorized to
cross diagonally, pedestrians shall cross only in accordance with the
official traffic-control devices pertaining to such crossing movements.
</code></pre>
So what&#x27;s criminalized isn&#x27;t crossing the road - it&#x27;s crossing without checking. Which seems like a good idea to me. Looking on the other side of the spectrum, Wyoming&#x27;s law is:<p><pre><code> (a) Every pedestrian crossing a roadway at any point other than within a marked crosswalk or within an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles upon the roadway.
(b) Any pedestrian crossing a roadway at a point where a pedestrian tunnel or overhead pedestrian crossing has been provided shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles upon the roadway.
(c) Between adjacent intersections at which traffic-control signals are in operation pedestrians shall not cross at any place except in a marked crosswalk.
(d) No pedestrian shall cross a roadway intersection diagonally unless authorized by official traffic-control devices. When authorized to cross diagonally, pedestrians shall cross only in accordance with the official traffic-control devices pertaining to the crossing movements.
</code></pre>
Which is similar, except for (c), which only matters when you&#x27;re close to a crosswalk - and almost certainly, on a busy road.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>digital-cygnet</author><text>I think you&#x27;ve misunderstood the law you&#x27;ve quoted. It&#x27;s not about &quot;crossing without checking&quot;, it&#x27;s about the pedestrian &quot;yield[ing] the right of way to all vehicles&quot;. It&#x27;s hard to imagine from a modern perspective, but until laws like this were passed roads were not, as today, universally perceived as places for cars to drive.<p>In cities in much of the developing world the pre-jaywalking regime remains: road users with cars, carts, bikes, trucks, or on foot instead are in a delicate and complex (and often dangerous) dance of theory-of-mind and courtesy (or a game of chicken, depending).<p>The &quot;right-of-way&quot; dominated way of thinking about roads is hard to argue with when you look at most roadways in the developed world (cars zooming around on multiple lanes with few pedestrians in sight). But the idea that every pedestrian must yield right of way to every car is much more questionable in dense cities like NYC, on small, residential streets, where one car trying to go from point A to point C is effectively given total preference over all the people trying to live their lives (and cross the street) in B.</text></comment> | <story><title>Automakers invented the crime of jaywalking (2015)</title><url>https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>trothamel</author><text>Note that like most laws, Jaywalking laws tend to make more sense when you read them. Here&#x27;s the law in New York:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;law.justia.com&#x2F;codes&#x2F;new-york&#x2F;2015&#x2F;vat&#x2F;title-7&#x2F;article-27&#x2F;1152" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;law.justia.com&#x2F;codes&#x2F;new-york&#x2F;2015&#x2F;vat&#x2F;title-7&#x2F;artic...</a><p><pre><code> 1152. Crossing at other than crosswalks.
(a) Every pedestrian
crossing a roadway at any point other than within a marked crosswalk or
within an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection shall yield the right of
way to all vehicles upon the roadway.
(b) Any pedestrian crossing a roadway at a point where a pedestrian
tunnel or overhead pedestrian crossing has been provided shall yield the
right of way to all vehicles upon the roadway.
(c) No pedestrian shall cross a roadway intersection diagonally unless
authorized by official traffic-control devices; and, when authorized to
cross diagonally, pedestrians shall cross only in accordance with the
official traffic-control devices pertaining to such crossing movements.
</code></pre>
So what&#x27;s criminalized isn&#x27;t crossing the road - it&#x27;s crossing without checking. Which seems like a good idea to me. Looking on the other side of the spectrum, Wyoming&#x27;s law is:<p><pre><code> (a) Every pedestrian crossing a roadway at any point other than within a marked crosswalk or within an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles upon the roadway.
(b) Any pedestrian crossing a roadway at a point where a pedestrian tunnel or overhead pedestrian crossing has been provided shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles upon the roadway.
(c) Between adjacent intersections at which traffic-control signals are in operation pedestrians shall not cross at any place except in a marked crosswalk.
(d) No pedestrian shall cross a roadway intersection diagonally unless authorized by official traffic-control devices. When authorized to cross diagonally, pedestrians shall cross only in accordance with the official traffic-control devices pertaining to the crossing movements.
</code></pre>
Which is similar, except for (c), which only matters when you&#x27;re close to a crosswalk - and almost certainly, on a busy road.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kasey_junk</author><text>Jaywalking laws, independent of how they are implemented only make sense if you start from a prior that the roads are specifically for vehicular use snd it’s pedestrians that are making exceptional use of them.<p>The article is pointing out that belief was a specific policy choice driven at least in part by automakers.</text></comment> |
23,309,687 | 23,308,520 | 1 | 2 | 23,305,111 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Has anybody shipped a web app at scale with 1 DB per account?</title><text>A common way of deploying a web application database at scale is to setup a MySQL or Postgres server, create one table for all customers, and have an account_id or owner_if field and let the application code handle security. This makes it easier to run database migrations and upgrade code per customer all at once.<p>I’m curious if anybody has taken the approach of provisioning one database per account? This means you’d have to run migrations per account and keep track of all the migration versions and statuses somewhere. Additionally, if an application has custom fields or columns, the differences would have to be tracked somehow and name space collisions managed.<p>Has anybody done this? Particularly with Rails? What kinda of tools or processes did you learn when you did it? Would you do it again? What are some interesting trade offs between the two approaches?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>sky_rw</author><text>My startup currently does just this &#x27;at scale&#x27;, which is for us ~150 b2b customers with a total database footprint of ~500 GB. We are using Rails and the Apartment gem to do mutli-tenancy via unique databases per account with a single master database holding some top-level tables.<p>This architecture decisions is one of my biggest regrets, and we are currently in the process of rebuilding into a single database model.<p>FWIW, this process has worked well for what it was originally intended to do. Data-security has a nice db level stopgap and we can keep customer data nicely isolated. It&#x27;s nice for extracting all data from a single customer if we have extended debugging work or unique data modeling work. It saves a lot of application layer logic and code. I&#x27;m sure for the most part it makes the system slightly faster.<p>However as we have grown this has become a huge headache. It is blocking major feature refactors and improvements. It restricts our data flexibility a lot. Operationally there are some killers. Data migrations take a long time, and if they fail you are left with multiple databases in different states and no clear sense of where the break occurred.<p>Lastly, if you use the Apartment gem, you are at the mercy of a poorly supported library that has deep ties into ActiveRecord. The company behind it abandoned this approach as described here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;influitive.io&#x2F;our-multi-tenancy-journey-with-postgres-schemas-and-apartment-6ecda151a21f" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;influitive.io&#x2F;our-multi-tenancy-journey-with-postgre...</a><p>Happy to expand on this if anybody is interested. It&#x27;s currently a cause of major frustration in my life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryanbrunner</author><text>Echoing this as well, I worked for Influitive and was one of the original authours of apartment (sorry!)<p>There are a lot of headaches involved with the &quot;tenant per schema&quot; approach. Certainly it was nice to never have to worry about the &quot;customer is seeing data from another customer&quot; bug (a death knell if you&#x27;re in enterprisish B2B software), but it added so many problems:<p>- Migrations become a very expensive and time-consuming process, and potentially fraught with errors. Doing continious-deployment style development that involves database schema changes is close to impossible without putting a LOT of effort into having super-safe migrations.<p>- You&#x27;ll run into weird edge cases due to the fact that you have an absolutely massive schema (since every table you have is multiplied by your number of tenants). We had to patch Rails to get around some column caching it was doing.<p>- Cloud DB hosting often doesn&#x27;t play nice with this solution. We continually saw weird performance issues on Heroku Postgres, particularly with backup &#x2F; restores (Heroku now has warnings against this approach in their docs)<p>- It doesn&#x27;t get you any closer to horizontal scalability, since connecting to a different server is significantly different than connecting to another schema.<p>- It will probably push the need for a dedicated BI &#x2F; DW environment earlier than you would otherwise need it, due to the inability to analyze data cross-schema.<p>I still think there&#x27;s maybe an interesting approach using partioning rather than schemas that eliminates a lot of these problems, but apartment probably isn&#x27;t the library to do it (for starters, migrations would be entirely different if partioning is used over schemas)</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Has anybody shipped a web app at scale with 1 DB per account?</title><text>A common way of deploying a web application database at scale is to setup a MySQL or Postgres server, create one table for all customers, and have an account_id or owner_if field and let the application code handle security. This makes it easier to run database migrations and upgrade code per customer all at once.<p>I’m curious if anybody has taken the approach of provisioning one database per account? This means you’d have to run migrations per account and keep track of all the migration versions and statuses somewhere. Additionally, if an application has custom fields or columns, the differences would have to be tracked somehow and name space collisions managed.<p>Has anybody done this? Particularly with Rails? What kinda of tools or processes did you learn when you did it? Would you do it again? What are some interesting trade offs between the two approaches?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>sky_rw</author><text>My startup currently does just this &#x27;at scale&#x27;, which is for us ~150 b2b customers with a total database footprint of ~500 GB. We are using Rails and the Apartment gem to do mutli-tenancy via unique databases per account with a single master database holding some top-level tables.<p>This architecture decisions is one of my biggest regrets, and we are currently in the process of rebuilding into a single database model.<p>FWIW, this process has worked well for what it was originally intended to do. Data-security has a nice db level stopgap and we can keep customer data nicely isolated. It&#x27;s nice for extracting all data from a single customer if we have extended debugging work or unique data modeling work. It saves a lot of application layer logic and code. I&#x27;m sure for the most part it makes the system slightly faster.<p>However as we have grown this has become a huge headache. It is blocking major feature refactors and improvements. It restricts our data flexibility a lot. Operationally there are some killers. Data migrations take a long time, and if they fail you are left with multiple databases in different states and no clear sense of where the break occurred.<p>Lastly, if you use the Apartment gem, you are at the mercy of a poorly supported library that has deep ties into ActiveRecord. The company behind it abandoned this approach as described here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;influitive.io&#x2F;our-multi-tenancy-journey-with-postgres-schemas-and-apartment-6ecda151a21f" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;influitive.io&#x2F;our-multi-tenancy-journey-with-postgre...</a><p>Happy to expand on this if anybody is interested. It&#x27;s currently a cause of major frustration in my life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pgt</author><text>Can confirm, here be dragons. I did a DB per tenant for a local franchise retailer and it was the worst design mistake I ever made, which of course seemed justified at the time (different tax rules, what not), but we never managed to get off it and I spent a significant amount of time working around it, building ETL sync processes to suck everything into one big DB, and so on.<p>Instead of a DB per tenant, or a table per tenant, just add a TenantId column on every table from day 1.</text></comment> |
31,887,285 | 31,886,931 | 1 | 3 | 31,883,373 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: GPT-3 reveals my full name – can I do anything?</title><text>Alternatively: What&#x27;s the current status of Personally Identifying Information and language models?<p>I try to hide my real name whenever possible, out of an abundance of caution. You can still find it if you search carefully, but in today&#x27;s hostile internet I see this kind of soft pseudonymity as my digital personal space, and expect to have it respected.<p>When playing around in GPT-3 I tried making sentences with my username. Imagine my surprise when I see it spitting out my (globally unique, unusual) full name!<p>Looking around, I found a paper that says language models spitting out personal information is a problem[1], a Google blog post that says there&#x27;s not much that can be done[2], and an article that says OpenAI might automatically replace phone numbers in the future but other types of PII are harder to remove[3]. But nothing on what is <i>actually</i> being done.<p>If I had found my personal information on Google search results, or Facebook, I could ask the information to be removed, but GPT-3 seems to have no such support. Are we supposed to accept that large language models may reveal private information, with no recourse?<p>I don&#x27;t care much about my <i>name</i> being public, but I don&#x27;t know what else it might have memorized (political affiliations? Sexual preferences? Posts from 13-year old me?). In the age of GDPR this feels like an enormous regression in privacy.<p>EDIT: a small thank you for everybody commenting so far for not directly linking to specific results or actually writing my name, however easy it might be.<p>If my request for pseudonymity sounds strange given my lax infosec:<p>- I&#x27;m more worried about the consequences of language models in general than my own case, and<p>- people have done a lot more for a lot less name information[4].<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2012.07805" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2012.07805</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ai.googleblog.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;privacy-considerations-in-large.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ai.googleblog.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;privacy-considerations-in-...</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;03&#x2F;18&#x2F;openai_gpt3_data&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;03&#x2F;18&#x2F;openai_gpt3_data&#x2F;</a><p>[4]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Slate_Star_Codex#New_York_Times_controversy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Slate_Star_Codex#New_York_Time...</a></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>aaaaaaaaata</author><text>&gt; In short, I don&#x27;t want to live in a society where everyone is anonymous.<p>You wear a name tag to the pub, or supermarket?</text></item><item><author>dcow</author><text>In short, I don&#x27;t want to live in a society where everyone is anonymous. That doesn&#x27;t sound very <i>social</i> at all and doesn&#x27;t work at scale. I want to live in a society where I can build strong respectful adult relationships with people and not immediately judge, shun, and twitter mob someone who says they don&#x27;t 100% agree with my lifestyle. Tolerating differences in viewpoints and lifestyles is true diversity. Diversity is not finding people with different physical features who all actually think the same and putting them on a magazine cover or in the same office together.</text></item><item><author>dcow</author><text>On top of that: anonymity <i>should not be required</i> to explore controversy <i>at all</i>. <i>That’s</i> the chilling effect. The issue is that as a society we have failed royally to internalize tolerating freedom of expression. Instead we choose to censor and silence people who wish to explore controversy even though we have laws in place that protect one’s freedom to express themselves however they desire without damaging recourse to their life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.<p>Anonymity is certainly a tool that can be used in dire situations when there are real credible threats and the stakes are high. However it takes a certain type of <i>courage</i> to express oneself freely which would be really nice to see in the majority of all other situations. Instead of exploring controversy anonymously, we should aim as a society to explore it normally and simply build up the intellectual maturity and capacity to tolerate controversy like adults and not children…</text></item><item><author>gentleman11</author><text>These are called “chilling effects,” they cause people to self censor when it comes to socially controversial positions. Historically, this would include womens suffrage, black rights, gay rights, various religious positions…<p>It’s not okay to be tracked so thoroughly that people stop feeling they can explore controversy online</text></item><item><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>I gave up anonymity. I just learned to lean into taking control of my ID. Some time ago, I realized that there&#x27;s no way for me to participate online, without things being attributed to me.<p>I learned this, by setting up a Disqus ID. I wanted to comment on a blog post, and started to set up an account.<p>After I started the process, it came back, with a list of random posts, from around the Internet (and some, <i>very</i> old), and said &quot;Are these yours? If so, would you like to associate them with your account?&quot;<p>I freaked. Many of them were outright troll comments (I was not always the haloed saint that you see before you) that I had <i>sworn</i> were done anonymously. They came from many different places (including DejaNews). I have no idea how Disqus found them.<p>Every single one of them was mine. Many, were ones that I had <i>sworn</i> were dead and buried in a deep grave in the mountains.<p>Needless to say, I do not have a Disqus ID.<p>Being non-anonymous means that I need to behave myself, online. I come across as a bit of a stuffy bore, but I suspect my IRL persona is that way, as well.<p>That&#x27;s OK.</text></item><item><author>jmillikin</author><text><p><pre><code> &gt; I try to hide my real name whenever possible, out of an
&gt; abundance of caution. You can still find it if you search
&gt; carefully, but in today&#x27;s hostile internet I see this kind
&gt; of soft pseudonymity as my digital personal space, and expect
&gt; to have it respected.
</code></pre>
Without judging whether the goal is good or not, I will gently point out that your current approach doesn&#x27;t seem to be effective. A Google search for &quot;BoppreH&quot; turned up several results on the first page with what appears to be your full name, along with other results linking to various emails that have been associated with that name. Results include Github commits, mailing list archives, and third-party code that cited your Github account as &quot;work by $NAME&quot;.<p>As a purely practical matter -- again, not going into whether this is how things <i>should</i> be, merely how they do be -- it is futile to want the internet as a whole to have a concept of privacy, or to respect the concept of a &quot;digital personal space&quot;. If your phone number or other PII has ever been associated with your identity, that association will be in place indefinitely and is probably available on multiple data broker sites.<p>The best way to be anonymous on the internet is to be <i>anonymous</i>, which means posting without any name or identifier at all. If that isn&#x27;t practical, then using a non-meaningful pseudonym and not posting anything personally identifiable is recommended.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>riffic</author><text>the cameras that track your every movement inside a supermarket (plus the software that labels your image with a unique identifier) have you pinned down pretty well already, no need for nametags.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: GPT-3 reveals my full name – can I do anything?</title><text>Alternatively: What&#x27;s the current status of Personally Identifying Information and language models?<p>I try to hide my real name whenever possible, out of an abundance of caution. You can still find it if you search carefully, but in today&#x27;s hostile internet I see this kind of soft pseudonymity as my digital personal space, and expect to have it respected.<p>When playing around in GPT-3 I tried making sentences with my username. Imagine my surprise when I see it spitting out my (globally unique, unusual) full name!<p>Looking around, I found a paper that says language models spitting out personal information is a problem[1], a Google blog post that says there&#x27;s not much that can be done[2], and an article that says OpenAI might automatically replace phone numbers in the future but other types of PII are harder to remove[3]. But nothing on what is <i>actually</i> being done.<p>If I had found my personal information on Google search results, or Facebook, I could ask the information to be removed, but GPT-3 seems to have no such support. Are we supposed to accept that large language models may reveal private information, with no recourse?<p>I don&#x27;t care much about my <i>name</i> being public, but I don&#x27;t know what else it might have memorized (political affiliations? Sexual preferences? Posts from 13-year old me?). In the age of GDPR this feels like an enormous regression in privacy.<p>EDIT: a small thank you for everybody commenting so far for not directly linking to specific results or actually writing my name, however easy it might be.<p>If my request for pseudonymity sounds strange given my lax infosec:<p>- I&#x27;m more worried about the consequences of language models in general than my own case, and<p>- people have done a lot more for a lot less name information[4].<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2012.07805" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2012.07805</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ai.googleblog.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;privacy-considerations-in-large.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ai.googleblog.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;privacy-considerations-in-...</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;03&#x2F;18&#x2F;openai_gpt3_data&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;03&#x2F;18&#x2F;openai_gpt3_data&#x2F;</a><p>[4]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Slate_Star_Codex#New_York_Times_controversy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Slate_Star_Codex#New_York_Time...</a></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>aaaaaaaaata</author><text>&gt; In short, I don&#x27;t want to live in a society where everyone is anonymous.<p>You wear a name tag to the pub, or supermarket?</text></item><item><author>dcow</author><text>In short, I don&#x27;t want to live in a society where everyone is anonymous. That doesn&#x27;t sound very <i>social</i> at all and doesn&#x27;t work at scale. I want to live in a society where I can build strong respectful adult relationships with people and not immediately judge, shun, and twitter mob someone who says they don&#x27;t 100% agree with my lifestyle. Tolerating differences in viewpoints and lifestyles is true diversity. Diversity is not finding people with different physical features who all actually think the same and putting them on a magazine cover or in the same office together.</text></item><item><author>dcow</author><text>On top of that: anonymity <i>should not be required</i> to explore controversy <i>at all</i>. <i>That’s</i> the chilling effect. The issue is that as a society we have failed royally to internalize tolerating freedom of expression. Instead we choose to censor and silence people who wish to explore controversy even though we have laws in place that protect one’s freedom to express themselves however they desire without damaging recourse to their life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.<p>Anonymity is certainly a tool that can be used in dire situations when there are real credible threats and the stakes are high. However it takes a certain type of <i>courage</i> to express oneself freely which would be really nice to see in the majority of all other situations. Instead of exploring controversy anonymously, we should aim as a society to explore it normally and simply build up the intellectual maturity and capacity to tolerate controversy like adults and not children…</text></item><item><author>gentleman11</author><text>These are called “chilling effects,” they cause people to self censor when it comes to socially controversial positions. Historically, this would include womens suffrage, black rights, gay rights, various religious positions…<p>It’s not okay to be tracked so thoroughly that people stop feeling they can explore controversy online</text></item><item><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>I gave up anonymity. I just learned to lean into taking control of my ID. Some time ago, I realized that there&#x27;s no way for me to participate online, without things being attributed to me.<p>I learned this, by setting up a Disqus ID. I wanted to comment on a blog post, and started to set up an account.<p>After I started the process, it came back, with a list of random posts, from around the Internet (and some, <i>very</i> old), and said &quot;Are these yours? If so, would you like to associate them with your account?&quot;<p>I freaked. Many of them were outright troll comments (I was not always the haloed saint that you see before you) that I had <i>sworn</i> were done anonymously. They came from many different places (including DejaNews). I have no idea how Disqus found them.<p>Every single one of them was mine. Many, were ones that I had <i>sworn</i> were dead and buried in a deep grave in the mountains.<p>Needless to say, I do not have a Disqus ID.<p>Being non-anonymous means that I need to behave myself, online. I come across as a bit of a stuffy bore, but I suspect my IRL persona is that way, as well.<p>That&#x27;s OK.</text></item><item><author>jmillikin</author><text><p><pre><code> &gt; I try to hide my real name whenever possible, out of an
&gt; abundance of caution. You can still find it if you search
&gt; carefully, but in today&#x27;s hostile internet I see this kind
&gt; of soft pseudonymity as my digital personal space, and expect
&gt; to have it respected.
</code></pre>
Without judging whether the goal is good or not, I will gently point out that your current approach doesn&#x27;t seem to be effective. A Google search for &quot;BoppreH&quot; turned up several results on the first page with what appears to be your full name, along with other results linking to various emails that have been associated with that name. Results include Github commits, mailing list archives, and third-party code that cited your Github account as &quot;work by $NAME&quot;.<p>As a purely practical matter -- again, not going into whether this is how things <i>should</i> be, merely how they do be -- it is futile to want the internet as a whole to have a concept of privacy, or to respect the concept of a &quot;digital personal space&quot;. If your phone number or other PII has ever been associated with your identity, that association will be in place indefinitely and is probably available on multiple data broker sites.<p>The best way to be anonymous on the internet is to be <i>anonymous</i>, which means posting without any name or identifier at all. If that isn&#x27;t practical, then using a non-meaningful pseudonym and not posting anything personally identifiable is recommended.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RandomBK</author><text>No, but I also don&#x27;t wear a mask that covers my face and I don&#x27;t use a voice changer to scramble my speech.<p>In meatspace, people use different modes of identification than just a name, so names aren&#x27;t as important to figuring out who&#x27;s who.</text></comment> |
17,525,030 | 17,525,253 | 1 | 3 | 17,523,978 | train | <story><title>Microsoft Urges Congress to Regulate Use of Facial Recognition</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/13/technology/microsoft-facial-recognition.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>madrox</author><text>Having worked at a large company that cares a great deal about COPPA, I&#x27;ve seen how regulation really can work for consumer benefit. I&#x27;m not sure if people appreciate how much COPPA cleaned up in child privacy. However, it&#x27;s definitely hurt the bottom lines of small businesses that liked playing fast and loose with data.<p>The sudden commodification of facial recognition means most of the companies racing to fill business needs are startups. Large corporations like Microsoft are much better positioned to deal with industry regulation. This may be a self-interested, anti-competitive move on Microsoft&#x27;s part, but I don&#x27;t care as long as I benefit as a consumer, too.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft Urges Congress to Regulate Use of Facial Recognition</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/13/technology/microsoft-facial-recognition.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mleland</author><text>Are they really only taking this stand because Amazon is looking to get a government contract for its Rekognition software, and Microsoft is trying to deter that?</text></comment> |
14,720,569 | 14,720,762 | 1 | 3 | 14,720,108 | train | <story><title>Most Waymo Patent Claims Dropped in Autonomous Car Fight with Uber</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-07/waymo-drops-most-patent-claims-in-autonomous-car-fight-with-uber</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mmanfrin</author><text>Title feels a little clickbaity, as it was a request from the Judge prior to going to a Jury:<p><pre><code> U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco has asked
Waymo to narrow its more than 100 trade secrets claims to
fewer than 10 to put in front of a jury.</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>myth_buster</author><text>Uber&#x27;s response to it is even more baffling!<p><i>&quot;Waymo’s retreat on three of their four patent claims is yet another sign
that they have overpromised and can’t deliver,&quot; Uber said in a statement.
&quot;Not only have they uncovered zero evidence of any of the 14,000 files in
question coming to Uber, they now admit that Uber’s LiDAR design is
actually very different than theirs. Faced with this hard truth, Waymo has
resorted to floating conspiracy theories not rooted in fact, doing
everything they can to put the focus on sensation rather than substance.&quot;</i></text></comment> | <story><title>Most Waymo Patent Claims Dropped in Autonomous Car Fight with Uber</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-07/waymo-drops-most-patent-claims-in-autonomous-car-fight-with-uber</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mmanfrin</author><text>Title feels a little clickbaity, as it was a request from the Judge prior to going to a Jury:<p><pre><code> U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco has asked
Waymo to narrow its more than 100 trade secrets claims to
fewer than 10 to put in front of a jury.</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acdx</author><text>The relevant quote from the judge is:<p><pre><code> I want to reiterate to the plaintiff here that you should think a lot
about just dropping the patent part of this case.</code></pre></text></comment> |
41,804,121 | 41,802,674 | 1 | 2 | 41,797,719 | train | <story><title>Helping wikis move away from Fandom</title><url>https://weirdgloop.org/blog/why-were-helping-more-wikis-move-away-from-fandom</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnklos</author><text>This illustrates a problem that I wish more people would see.<p>People, usually businesspeople, consider adding some craptastic thing such as intrusive ads, to make more money. Who doesn&#x27;t like more money? They add the thing, and revenue goes up!<p>What they don&#x27;t see is the effect that comes when fewer people visit the site because they&#x27;re too annoyed to come back over time. They see and take credit for the small increase, but of course they don&#x27;t take credit for the gradual decline afterwards, a decline that often enough leaves the site making the same or less money than it did before the craptastic ads.<p>If people and companies took the bigger picture in to account, they likely wouldn&#x27;t do these things.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MetaWhirledPeas</author><text>&gt; If people and companies took the bigger picture in to account, they likely wouldn&#x27;t do these things.<p>That&#x27;s part of the issue. There are very real financial rewards for short term gain; meanwhile <i>vision</i> and <i>legacy</i> have been greatly devalued at both the personal and corporate level.<p>How many CEOs do we honor for years of dedicated service and company growth? Respect is shown in the form of monetary compensation, and that&#x27;s granted based on short term shareholder results.<p>And it doesn&#x27;t help that some companies succeed in spite of their brand tanking (FAANG, etc.). Why would you care about your brand if it doesn&#x27;t seem to be affecting your bottom line? The brand at that point is <i>for the shareholders</i> first and foremost, and what&#x27;s a terrible brand to many consumers can be a great brand to investors (Facebook).</text></comment> | <story><title>Helping wikis move away from Fandom</title><url>https://weirdgloop.org/blog/why-were-helping-more-wikis-move-away-from-fandom</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnklos</author><text>This illustrates a problem that I wish more people would see.<p>People, usually businesspeople, consider adding some craptastic thing such as intrusive ads, to make more money. Who doesn&#x27;t like more money? They add the thing, and revenue goes up!<p>What they don&#x27;t see is the effect that comes when fewer people visit the site because they&#x27;re too annoyed to come back over time. They see and take credit for the small increase, but of course they don&#x27;t take credit for the gradual decline afterwards, a decline that often enough leaves the site making the same or less money than it did before the craptastic ads.<p>If people and companies took the bigger picture in to account, they likely wouldn&#x27;t do these things.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zhobbs</author><text>It&#x27;s usually due to incentives and the time horizon you&#x27;re optimizing for. If a manager is tasked with maximizing revenue over the next 12 months no matter what, then increasing the ad load is a lever you are probably going to pull.<p>If your goal is to create an enduring product that will slowly grow revenue and be around forever, then you&#x27;re probably not backed by VCs or private equity, or you have a cash machine (google search, etc).<p>The reality is that some businesses shouldn&#x27;t take VC money and shouldn&#x27;t get so big. Maybe a wiki farm should just be a wiki farm profitably run by 5 friends or something.</text></comment> |
1,604,093 | 1,604,011 | 1 | 3 | 1,603,872 | train | <story><title>Protesters Gather At Google; 600 Employees Sign Petition, Organizers Claim</title><url>http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2010/08/google_protest_net_neutrality.php</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gojomo</author><text>The internet does not need 'saving' by a bunch of people chanting outside Google with picket signs and petitions.<p>If the internet were as fragile as the neutrality-activists thought, it would have never gotten where it is today. Compuserve, Prodigy, and AOL would have won.<p>And the neut-advocates very worst nightmare scenarios -- rampant blocking and throttling by the last-mile incumbents -- would quickly provoke a necessary next-step emergence of new competitors and route-around technologies.<p>That is, <i>if</i> the nightmare scenarios ever happened. Which they won't, because even in a local duopoly, being known as the option which gives you less of the internet will be profit-destroying.<p>The alternative neut-advocates offer -- the FCC riding in as a white knight with new rules to save us -- is a dangerous child's fantasy. Any rulemaking by the feds will involve backroom deals between companies large enough to send lawyers to DC -- just like the Google-Verizon talks, hosted by the FCC!<p>Any rulemaking by the feds will generate stacks of hard-to-interpret regulations that inconvenience everyone -- but hinder novel services and upstarts that are hard-to-classify the most, so the giant incumbents won't mind them so much.<p>That is, neutrality rules would freeze into slow-changing, confusingly-enforced law a currently-fashionable, romanticized notion of the internet that manages to make big companies and the political establishment comfortable.<p>It only 'saves' the internet in the same way you could 'save' a wild animal by putting it in a cage. Don't let the FCC neuter my internet!</text></comment> | <story><title>Protesters Gather At Google; 600 Employees Sign Petition, Organizers Claim</title><url>http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2010/08/google_protest_net_neutrality.php</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tlrobinson</author><text>It would be amusing if this was one big Machiavellian plan by Google to rile up internet users to put more pressure on for net neutrality...</text></comment> |
5,319,931 | 5,320,013 | 1 | 2 | 5,319,577 | train | <story><title>White House Response to “Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal”</title><url>https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/make-unlocking-cell-phones-legal/1g9KhZG7?update</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sneak</author><text>No it's not.<p>I emigrated from the US after it became clear they weren't going to reinstate the rule of law. Your military-industrial complex is the reason that it's so hard to change things around... there.<p>This is why you have bullshit laws like the DMCA in the first place.</text></item><item><author>Cushman</author><text>If he just got off the phone with the White House, I'd imagine he has a pretty good idea of what their response was. Your cynicism is a big part of the reason it's so hard to change things around here.</text></item><item><author>sneak</author><text>I hate to break it to you, but their response was effectively: "we agree with you but we respect the process that brought us to this fucked-up state and look forward to continuing to work with congress".<p>Petitions don't have any effect other than getting a response that's designed to get you to stop complaining from a false sense of achievement. In that sense, they work perfectly.</text></item><item><author>sinak</author><text>Hey guys, petition starter here. Just wanted to thank anyone who signed for their support. I just got off the phone with the White House and they're really enthusiastic about getting this fixed. We also discussed fixing Section 1201 of the DMCA permanently, and they've agreed to continue the conversation on that.<p>When I originally posted this to HN at <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5112020" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5112020</a> there were a lot of very skeptical responses to the effect of "petitions don't have any effect". The optimist in me is glad they were wrong. The White House seem to be genuinely committed to helping push through a piece of legislation to fix this. If there's something about government that bugs you, it's worth trying to do something about it.<p>Also, we're launching a campaign to ask Congress to change Section 1201 of the DMCA, with backing from the EFF, Reddit and others.<p>Sign up at <a href="http://fixthedmca.org" rel="nofollow">http://fixthedmca.org</a> - should be launching the site tomorrow.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cushman</author><text>It's not? Normal people abdicating the political process is <i>exactly</i> what hinders change in democracies.<p>We just completed our one-hundred-thirteenth peaceful transition of power at the will of the people. The entrenched powers-that-be are only entrenched because we, as an electorate, keep voting for them. If everybody showed up to the polls, they'd be out in two years— but hey, why bother?</text></comment> | <story><title>White House Response to “Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal”</title><url>https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/make-unlocking-cell-phones-legal/1g9KhZG7?update</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sneak</author><text>No it's not.<p>I emigrated from the US after it became clear they weren't going to reinstate the rule of law. Your military-industrial complex is the reason that it's so hard to change things around... there.<p>This is why you have bullshit laws like the DMCA in the first place.</text></item><item><author>Cushman</author><text>If he just got off the phone with the White House, I'd imagine he has a pretty good idea of what their response was. Your cynicism is a big part of the reason it's so hard to change things around here.</text></item><item><author>sneak</author><text>I hate to break it to you, but their response was effectively: "we agree with you but we respect the process that brought us to this fucked-up state and look forward to continuing to work with congress".<p>Petitions don't have any effect other than getting a response that's designed to get you to stop complaining from a false sense of achievement. In that sense, they work perfectly.</text></item><item><author>sinak</author><text>Hey guys, petition starter here. Just wanted to thank anyone who signed for their support. I just got off the phone with the White House and they're really enthusiastic about getting this fixed. We also discussed fixing Section 1201 of the DMCA permanently, and they've agreed to continue the conversation on that.<p>When I originally posted this to HN at <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5112020" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5112020</a> there were a lot of very skeptical responses to the effect of "petitions don't have any effect". The optimist in me is glad they were wrong. The White House seem to be genuinely committed to helping push through a piece of legislation to fix this. If there's something about government that bugs you, it's worth trying to do something about it.<p>Also, we're launching a campaign to ask Congress to change Section 1201 of the DMCA, with backing from the EFF, Reddit and others.<p>Sign up at <a href="http://fixthedmca.org" rel="nofollow">http://fixthedmca.org</a> - should be launching the site tomorrow.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SeanLuke</author><text>&#62; Your military-industrial complex is the reason that it's so hard to change things around... there.<p>Wait..., what? The military-industrial complex has something to do with locking cell phones? Are you familiar with the origin of this phrase?</text></comment> |
14,380,990 | 14,380,816 | 1 | 2 | 14,380,625 | train | <story><title>Physician age and outcomes in elderly patients in hospital in the US</title><url>http://www.bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j1797</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ghufran_syed</author><text>The title should be &quot;hospital patients treated by low volume physicians are more likely to die&quot;. But that would have been less likely to get published. The &quot;high volume&quot; group was also really NOT high volume: 200 patients per year is around 4 patients per week. So the study really tells us about very &#x27;low volume&#x27; providers compared to <i>slightly</i> higher volume providers, it&#x27;s interesting that that was enough to get rid of any age-related effect. That in turn suggests the effect was pretty small.<p>Similarly, I&#x27;m pretty sure that &quot;code written by programmers who don&#x27;t program often is more likely to have bugs&quot;, and &quot;pilots who don&#x27;t fly often are more likely to crash&quot;.<p>(Strictly speaking, you&#x27;d want to normalize the risk of bugs &#x2F; crashes per some unit of output e.g. per hour flown for pilots.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Physician age and outcomes in elderly patients in hospital in the US</title><url>http://www.bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j1797</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tedmiston</author><text>Could it be that older (more experienced) physicians are more likely to get assigned to patients with more complex or serious conditions?<p>(I don&#x27;t mean to state the obvious but this wasn&#x27;t made explicitly clear enough to me.)<p>Edit: My initial comment here is probably wrong based on the detailed section &quot;Adjustment variables&quot;:<p>&gt; Patient characteristics included age in five year increments, sex, race or ethnic group (non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black, Hispanic, other), primary diagnosis (diagnosis related group), 27 comorbidities (Elixhauser comorbidity index22), median household income of zip code (in 10ths), an indicator for dual Medicare-Medicaid coverage, day of the week of the admission date (to account for the possibility that severity of illness of patients could be higher on specific days of the week), and year indicators.</text></comment> |
26,661,968 | 26,662,081 | 1 | 3 | 26,661,138 | train | <story><title>Ubiquiti accused of covering up ‘catastrophic’ breach– and it’s not denying it</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/31/22360409/ubiquiti-networking-data-breach-response-whistleblower-cybersecurity-incident</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kiwijamo</author><text>Yesteday I ordered new MicroTik gear to replace the last of my Ubiquiti gear only to find there&#x27;s a two week wait for it to be shipped! Looks like there&#x27;s been increased demand for products made by Ubiqiti&#x27;s competitors. Thanks Ubiquiti for a good few years but time to move on. You&#x27;ve lost my trust big time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wil421</author><text>MikroTik is always saying delayed shipping. Amazon has been the only place I’ve seen them in stock but from 3rd party sellers.<p>MikroTik isn’t even in the same league as UniFi. Their interfaces and docs are terrible. The only reason I ever considered buying something from them is because they had a good price for a 10gb switch. If you want a dumb device you can’t beat their price.<p>Check out a few of the reviews on Amazon. Seed and Don’s reviews are very critical.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B07NFXN4SS" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B07NFXN4SS</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Ubiquiti accused of covering up ‘catastrophic’ breach– and it’s not denying it</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/31/22360409/ubiquiti-networking-data-breach-response-whistleblower-cybersecurity-incident</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kiwijamo</author><text>Yesteday I ordered new MicroTik gear to replace the last of my Ubiquiti gear only to find there&#x27;s a two week wait for it to be shipped! Looks like there&#x27;s been increased demand for products made by Ubiqiti&#x27;s competitors. Thanks Ubiquiti for a good few years but time to move on. You&#x27;ve lost my trust big time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>duxup</author><text>That&#x27;s just MikroTik, their shipping is always wonky &#x2F; not what we&#x27;re used to with other consumer electronics.</text></comment> |
34,717,821 | 34,717,922 | 1 | 2 | 34,716,743 | train | <story><title>Vestas unveils solution to end landfill disposal for wind turbine blades</title><url>https://www.vestas.com/en/media/company-news/2023/vestas-unveils-circularity-solution-to-end-landfill-for-c3710818</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>paperwasp42</author><text>As someone who works in the energy field, I have been stoked to see these types of advancements in the past few years. When I first got into this field and would research green energy products, there was a limited field of players. Now there are so many start ups coming up with brilliant products that I can&#x27;t even keep track! What a wonderful problem to have.<p>One of my favorite books is &quot;The Wizard and the Prophet&quot;, and it&#x27;s great to see more and more companies following in Norman Borlaug&#x27;s footsteps and finding new ways the science&#x2F;tech fields can serve humanity.<p>If anyone out there is feeling a bit down about the general state of the tech industry, I highly encourage you to look into jobs in the green energy field. It&#x27;s an exciting space filled with lots of passionate, mission-driven folks. (And, in case you&#x27;re wondering, most of us aren&#x27;t the neurotic, perpetually angry types that dominate the activist space. We&#x27;re pretty chill people who just want a healthy and affordable planet.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Vestas unveils solution to end landfill disposal for wind turbine blades</title><url>https://www.vestas.com/en/media/company-news/2023/vestas-unveils-circularity-solution-to-end-landfill-for-c3710818</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>semi-extrinsic</author><text>FWIW, people have been researching how to recycle thermoset epoxy for at least a decade. Here is one example of an open access paper:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubs.acs.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;full&#x2F;10.1021&#x2F;acsapm.1c00896" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubs.acs.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;full&#x2F;10.1021&#x2F;acsapm.1c00896</a><p>From my reading of the press release, the novelty in this work is that they&#x27;ve found a process that works with &quot;ordinary&quot; chemicals, temperatures and pressures, so it can be scaled up economically.<p>I say &quot;ordinary&quot;, because it might very well be working with mildly toxic chemicals at 80°C and 7 bar pressure or whatnot, so far outside the range of (at least economic) feasibility in the home lab.</text></comment> |
11,486,516 | 11,486,255 | 1 | 2 | 11,485,918 | train | <story><title>Google Calendar now uses machine learning to help you accomplish your goals</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/12/google-calendar-goals/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>buro9</author><text>I wish they&#x27;d just fix search.<p>I use Google Calendar heavily, averaging ~10 entries per day for the last 5+ years, and then some entries per day all the way back to when it was launched.<p>I can put information in easily enough, and with a few IFTTT recipes I&#x27;m able to treat Google Calendar not just as a schedule for upcoming events, appointments and reminders, but as a historical log of everything I&#x27;ve done. It is a time based database of my life... a diary.<p>I&#x27;ve automated my diary taking into Google Calendar. The what, where and when of everything ends up in one of 12 calendars (each calendar is effectively a label to categorise a whole group of events that have occurred).<p>And it&#x27;s brilliant.<p>Except for the search.<p>It&#x27;s really difficult to get the information back out. If I search for something I know that has happened, or has happened frequently, Google will delightfully tell me that I have matched 200 results, and then show me a list of 9 or 10 of them, with no way to paginate the remainder or search the old ones (it only finds upcoming, not past).<p>Search is broken on Google Calendar, to the point of being almost totally useless.<p>Far better to rely on time as a search dimension and jump around dates until one manually finds whatever you were looking for. It&#x27;s that broken.<p>Compare to search on a product that has some love: Google Photos. Where now the miraculous occurs, I can search things like &quot;Felicity skiing&quot; and what will return are photos of my wife skiing, and an option to look at all other photos on those days. A simple search and all the results you want, and a single click to expand to view it in the wider context that makes sense.<p>Google Calendar really needs a decent search. It feels far too much like writing to &#x2F;dev&#x2F;null at the moment. Your information went in there, but the chances of you finding it when you wish to reference it are pretty non-existent.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Calendar now uses machine learning to help you accomplish your goals</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/12/google-calendar-goals/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>armaansarkar</author><text>Is this the Timeful acquisition playing out?
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;05&#x2F;04&#x2F;google-acquires-timeful-to-bring-smart-scheduling-to-google-apps&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;05&#x2F;04&#x2F;google-acquires-timeful-to-...</a></text></comment> |
16,214,124 | 16,214,175 | 1 | 2 | 16,202,335 | train | <story><title>Worked for 52 Years, Still Running: 1912 C-T 4WD Electric Truck</title><url>https://bringatrailer.com/2018/01/20/worked-for-52-years-still-running-1912-c-t-4wd-electric-truck/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_red</author><text>My good friend is a material scientist for Exxon. He is employed to find &quot;the next oil&quot;. As he says, its all about &quot;joules of energy per $1 landed cost&quot; everything else is just noise.<p>Currently, $1 (retail price) of gasoline delivers more joules of energy than any of the competition. The rise of fracking has made nat gas a contender, but gasoline is still dominates.<p>Most comparisons to electric vehicles are actually a comparison of a car that runs on gas vs a car that runs on coal, guess which one wins?</text></item><item><author>cornholio</author><text>So much for the &quot;big oil killed the electric car&quot; conspiracies. The electric cars were always a contender, and the companies producing them would have loved to kill petrol cars. They were simply unable to compete with the high energy density of dead dinosaurs gushing out of the ground to be burned carefreely.</text></item><item><author>r41nbowdash</author><text>At the beginning of the 20th century something around 40% American cars was electric, same with 20% of the Berlin taxis.<p>There&#x27;s a wonderful book &quot;The Shock of the Old&quot; about the meandering ways innovation takes.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Shock_of_the_Old" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Shock_of_the_Old</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>perl4ever</author><text>The vast majority (70%) of electricity in the US does not come from coal, and coal is even less used in states where electric cars are popular&#x2F;encouraged. Over 99% of electricity generated in my state (NY) does not come from coal.<p>Sources:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eia.gov&#x2F;energyexplained&#x2F;index.cfm?page=electricity_in_the_united_states" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eia.gov&#x2F;energyexplained&#x2F;index.cfm?page=electrici...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eia.gov&#x2F;state&#x2F;?sid=NY#tabs-4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eia.gov&#x2F;state&#x2F;?sid=NY#tabs-4</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Worked for 52 Years, Still Running: 1912 C-T 4WD Electric Truck</title><url>https://bringatrailer.com/2018/01/20/worked-for-52-years-still-running-1912-c-t-4wd-electric-truck/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_red</author><text>My good friend is a material scientist for Exxon. He is employed to find &quot;the next oil&quot;. As he says, its all about &quot;joules of energy per $1 landed cost&quot; everything else is just noise.<p>Currently, $1 (retail price) of gasoline delivers more joules of energy than any of the competition. The rise of fracking has made nat gas a contender, but gasoline is still dominates.<p>Most comparisons to electric vehicles are actually a comparison of a car that runs on gas vs a car that runs on coal, guess which one wins?</text></item><item><author>cornholio</author><text>So much for the &quot;big oil killed the electric car&quot; conspiracies. The electric cars were always a contender, and the companies producing them would have loved to kill petrol cars. They were simply unable to compete with the high energy density of dead dinosaurs gushing out of the ground to be burned carefreely.</text></item><item><author>r41nbowdash</author><text>At the beginning of the 20th century something around 40% American cars was electric, same with 20% of the Berlin taxis.<p>There&#x27;s a wonderful book &quot;The Shock of the Old&quot; about the meandering ways innovation takes.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Shock_of_the_Old" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Shock_of_the_Old</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sergiosgc</author><text>&gt; Most comparisons to electric vehicles are actually a comparison of a car that runs on gas vs a car that runs on coal, guess which one wins?<p>At least for Europe, this is not true. Electricity source varies by country, but it&#x27;s in general a mix of 30%-50% nuclear, the rest is thermal or renewable. For thermal power-plants, the large majority are natural gas. Renewable percentage varies wildly between countries, but breaching the 50% barrier on a given year is no longer newsworthy.</text></comment> |
30,201,623 | 30,200,799 | 1 | 2 | 30,200,644 | train | <story><title>Compensation Data and Trends in the USA</title><url>https://dataforest.sequoia.com/reports/compensation/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>SamvitJ</author><text>Note: this data is from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sequoia.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sequoia.com&#x2F;</a>, which is a company unrelated to Sequoia Capital.</text></comment> | <story><title>Compensation Data and Trends in the USA</title><url>https://dataforest.sequoia.com/reports/compensation/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gregdoesit</author><text>The data points on pay gap by gender and ethnicity are ones I’ve not seen before and it’s great that this dimension is visualised.<p>A surprising finding here - that doesn’t match what I would have expected - is how Engineering is compensated 90% in cash. I would have assumed equity is pretty heavy for software engineers, especially in senior and above positions.<p>I do wish there were more takeaways to what seems to be data confirming these:<p>1. Compensation is going up, and especially software engineering compensation.<p>2. Startups are starting to compete stronger on cash compensation (thanks to a strong funding environment, and the market).<p>3. Remote work is slowly eroding regional differences in the US (and, as a note, globally, as well).<p>Sadly, there’s no data on remote work here, nor is there anything on what % the market moved up the last year in various disciplines. At least for engineering, the past year has been a major jump upwards in compensation.</text></comment> |
41,593,408 | 41,593,322 | 1 | 3 | 41,591,622 | train | <story><title>Pivotal Tracker will shut down</title><url>https://www.pivotaltracker.com/blog/2024-09-18-end-of-life</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aantix</author><text>The thing that I always liked about Pivotal is that it was visibly obvious that there was only one queue.<p>It forced everyone to ruthlessly prioritize and make the hard decisions.<p>In this moment, do you want me working on this bug, or this new feature? You have to decide - you get one or the other.<p>It avoided the &quot;Everything is a high priority&quot; dilemma.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>teeray</author><text>I also loved that it was adamant about having specific, defined states with no customization. The issue is todo, in progress, done, delivered, accepted… that’s it. Custom issue states are a special kind of hell in JIRA.</text></comment> | <story><title>Pivotal Tracker will shut down</title><url>https://www.pivotaltracker.com/blog/2024-09-18-end-of-life</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aantix</author><text>The thing that I always liked about Pivotal is that it was visibly obvious that there was only one queue.<p>It forced everyone to ruthlessly prioritize and make the hard decisions.<p>In this moment, do you want me working on this bug, or this new feature? You have to decide - you get one or the other.<p>It avoided the &quot;Everything is a high priority&quot; dilemma.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cpeterso</author><text>An alternative to one big queue is a separate queue for each client (external customers, internal teams, the dev team&#x27;s own tech debt, etc) as described in &quot;JIT selection from independent streams: An alternative to the “big backlog” of work&quot;:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;longform.asmartbear.com&#x2F;jit-backlogs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;longform.asmartbear.com&#x2F;jit-backlogs&#x2F;</a><p>Each client manages their queue order, so the dev team just needs to focus on the head of each queue. (Of course, the dev team should also work with clients to clarify the requirements for the next few tasks in their queues so the head task will be shovel-ready). The dev team can then choose which queue heads to prioritize and maintain a balance, such as always have one tech debt task and X bug fix tasks in progress in addition to client work.</text></comment> |
13,316,251 | 13,316,248 | 1 | 2 | 13,315,987 | train | <story><title>Paris Eyes Luring 20K Bankers from London Amid Brexit Rupture</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-03/paris-eyes-luring-20-000-bankers-from-london-amid-brexit-rupture?cmpid=BBD010317_BIZ</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stock_toaster</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t France have fairly strong labor laws and high taxes?
I recall not long ago seeing headlines about &quot;the rich fleeing France&quot;.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t think that would be a big draw for finance types, especially when there are other markets in the EU that seem like they would be more tax friendly (Ireland, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Frankfurt), while still being close enough to other centers of power.</text></comment> | <story><title>Paris Eyes Luring 20K Bankers from London Amid Brexit Rupture</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-03/paris-eyes-luring-20-000-bankers-from-london-amid-brexit-rupture?cmpid=BBD010317_BIZ</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Roritharr</author><text>The Frankfurt Correspondent for the Magazin &quot;Capital&quot;:
&quot;Hey we have to do something, Frankfurt is in the news with their 10000 Bankers!&quot; &quot;Let&#x27;s just say 20000 to Paris.&quot;
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;kirchnerchris&#x2F;status&#x2F;816196993517289472" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;kirchnerchris&#x2F;status&#x2F;816196993517289472</a><p>Which kinda summarizes the facts this is based upon.</text></comment> |
18,456,750 | 18,456,010 | 1 | 2 | 18,455,077 | train | <story><title>Facebook hired PR firm that wrote negative articles about Apple and Google</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/14/facebook-hired-pr-firm-that-wrote-negative-articles-about-rivals-nyt.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>merricksb</author><text>Active discussion about the original NYT report from a few hours ago:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18453958" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18453958</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook hired PR firm that wrote negative articles about Apple and Google</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/14/facebook-hired-pr-firm-that-wrote-negative-articles-about-rivals-nyt.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>randycupertino</author><text>This reminds me of the youtube beauty gurus who will get paid 25k to give a positive review of the client&#x27;s product, but can make 85k from the same client for leaving a negative review of a competitor&#x27;s client.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.revelist.com&#x2F;beauty-news-&#x2F;beauty-influencer-negative-reviews&#x2F;13369" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.revelist.com&#x2F;beauty-news-&#x2F;beauty-influencer-nega...</a><p>Relevant quote, &quot;&quot;A brand I consulted with asked me to inquire about working with a top-level beauty influencer. The influencer&#x27;s management offered me these options: 1) $25K — product mention in a multi-branded product review. 2) $50K–$60K — dedicated product review (price determined by length of video). 3) $75K–$85K — dedicated negative review of a competitor&#x27;s product (price determined by length of video). 4) A minimum 10% affiliate link or code to use on IG and YT.&quot;</text></comment> |
19,973,444 | 19,972,244 | 1 | 2 | 19,970,544 | train | <story><title>When Boris Yeltsin Went Grocery Shopping in Clear Lake</title><url>https://www.nhregister.com/neighborhood/bayarea/news/article/When-Boris-Yeltsin-went-grocery-shopping-in-Clear-5759129.php#photo-6130393</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>smogcutter</author><text>Alright I got one:<p>So it&#x27;s a chilly Thursday morning in Brno, and everybody&#x27;s in line to buy meat. They&#x27;re waiting and waiting, and the line&#x27;s not moving at all.<p>Eventually a Party official comes out and says &quot;Due to the conspiracy of wreckers, there isn&#x27;t enough meat. All the Jews need to get off the line&quot;.<p>So the Jews all get off the line and go home, but still everyone&#x27;s waiting and there&#x27;s no meat. Hours pass, and eventually the Party official comes back: &quot;I&#x27;m sorry to report that there&#x27;s still not enough meat. Everyone who&#x27;s not a Party member needs to get off the line.&quot;<p>So all the non-party members get off the line and go home. But still all the Party members are waiting and waiting, no meat. After another two hours waiting in the cold the official comes back and says, &quot;We&#x27;re sorry but there&#x27;s no meat today. Everybody get off the line.&quot;<p>As they&#x27;re walking away from the line, one of the people who was waiting turns to the other and says: &quot;You see? The Jews always have it the best!&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>When Boris Yeltsin Went Grocery Shopping in Clear Lake</title><url>https://www.nhregister.com/neighborhood/bayarea/news/article/When-Boris-Yeltsin-went-grocery-shopping-in-Clear-5759129.php#photo-6130393</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dmix</author><text>The same thing happened in Venezuela in the early 2000s when they initiated price controls to make food more &quot;affordable&quot; for the poor. The variety of products was the first thing that dropped to only the necessities. Then even the necessities started to drop in supply:<p>&gt; Further yet, price controls, expropriation of numerous farmlands and various industries, among other disputable government policies including a near-total freeze on any access to foreign currency at reasonable &quot;official&quot; exchange rates, have resulted in severe shortages in Venezuela and steep price rises of all common goods, including food, water, household products, spare parts, tools and medical supplies; forcing many manufacturers to either cut production or close down, with many ultimately abandoning the country as has been the case with several technological firms and most automobile makers. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Economy_of_Venezuela#1999–2013" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Economy_of_Venezuela#1999–2013</a></text></comment> |
21,622,685 | 21,621,314 | 1 | 2 | 21,619,098 | train | <story><title>TikTok: Cheerfulness and censorship</title><url>https://netzpolitik.org/2019/cheerfulness-and-censorship/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pgeorgi</author><text>Their approach to moderation is unusual in that they don&#x27;t even pretend to be a neutral platform and as such it&#x27;s a powerful differentiator to businesses that are rooted in a &quot;free speech&quot; culture.<p>Shadow-banning individual posts (&quot;Visible to self&quot;) is relatively unusual and acts as a demotivator to publish controversial content because such content doesn&#x27;t drive engagement, as is actively demoting entire classes of content (like critical commentary on politics) from the start.<p>This approach seems to help ensure that there won&#x27;t ever be a subculture on their platform that grows, becomes controversial and at some point considers it their right to use the platform for their controversial content, avoiding all the outrage that late introduction of moderation brings with it. (see Twitter)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CPLX</author><text>I mean I’m as much a fan of free speech as the next guy, but there are some pretty key differences between the concepts of “free speech in the culture” and “a giant collection of unmoderated user generated internet content”.<p>I mean actual free speech would just be an endless collection of penis videos. Nobody is actually advocating for free speech.<p>I don’t think every app has to be about political issues. Where did that premise come from, just because it has Chinese origins?<p>It’s ok for there to be an app for kids to make dance videos, and to keep it light and positive.</text></comment> | <story><title>TikTok: Cheerfulness and censorship</title><url>https://netzpolitik.org/2019/cheerfulness-and-censorship/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pgeorgi</author><text>Their approach to moderation is unusual in that they don&#x27;t even pretend to be a neutral platform and as such it&#x27;s a powerful differentiator to businesses that are rooted in a &quot;free speech&quot; culture.<p>Shadow-banning individual posts (&quot;Visible to self&quot;) is relatively unusual and acts as a demotivator to publish controversial content because such content doesn&#x27;t drive engagement, as is actively demoting entire classes of content (like critical commentary on politics) from the start.<p>This approach seems to help ensure that there won&#x27;t ever be a subculture on their platform that grows, becomes controversial and at some point considers it their right to use the platform for their controversial content, avoiding all the outrage that late introduction of moderation brings with it. (see Twitter)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>booleandilemma</author><text><i>...as is actively demoting entire classes of content (like critical commentary on politics) from the start</i><p>The closest app TikTok is comparable to is Vine. What kind of critical commentary on politics are you expecting on these apps?<p>People watch these apps for the memes and hot girls.</text></comment> |
22,521,901 | 22,520,154 | 1 | 2 | 22,517,621 | train | <story><title>Pollution from tire wear is worse than exhaust emissions?</title><url>https://www.emissionsanalytics.com/news/pollution-tyre-wear-worse-exhaust-emissions</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kungtotte</author><text>They&#x27;re torn up from the road and rubbed off from the tyres themselves. The majority is obviously coming from the road.<p>There&#x27;s been studies done here in Sweden since we&#x27;ve banned studded winter tyres in some areas of Stockholm in an effort to reduce road wear and improve air quality. I don&#x27;t know of any sources in English off the top of my head though.<p>The last time I read an article about it though (2+ years ago, during Diesel-gate), the findings was that the danger in the particles comes from their size with smaller particles being more dangerous for humans. And that road particles were something like an order of magnitude larger than exhaust fume particles from diesel engines.<p>We&#x27;ve since banned diesel engines inside Stockholm as well so the whole thing is moot here.</text></item><item><author>ratel</author><text>Hold on:<p>The claim is this:<p>&gt; &quot;Using a popular family hatchback running on brand new, correctly inflated tyres, we found that the car emitted 5.8 grams per kilometer of particles.&quot;<p>It does not seem to be a mistake:<p>&gt; &quot;Compared with regulated exhaust emission limits of 4.5 milligrams per kilometer, the completely unregulated tyre wear emission is higher by a factor of over 1,000.&quot;<p>A tire might way up to 15 kilograms for a 20 inch type. Lets assume 10 kilograms for a normal tire which is on the high side. 4 tires is 40 kilograms. Even if we assume half of the particals are not coming from the tire (but from where?). That still leaves 40,000 &#x2F; 2.9 = 13793 kilometers for the tires to be completly consumed (weighing nothing anymore). That is definitely not happening.<p>So without an explanation on where the matter is coming from this does not read right.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bigiain</author><text>&gt;They&#x27;re torn up from the road and rubbed off from the tyres themselves. The majority is obviously coming from the road.<p>Not sure even that adds up to believable.<p>The Sydney Harbour Bridge is about 500m long between the pylons. It has &quot;more than 150,000 cars per day&quot; on it (according to the snippet from a google search). If all of that was from the road, that&#x27;d mean there&#x27;s about 160 tons of road getting torn up per year. It looks to be ~30m wide on Google Sat view, and &quot;google first hit&quot; research indicates road base weighs 1.9tons per cubic meter. It&#x27;s be losing almost 6cm of depth along the whole span every year if all those numbers hold, or 3cm per year if &quot;only half&quot; of that comes from the road and the rest from the tires. They don&#x27;t resurface it anything like often enough for that to be true...</text></comment> | <story><title>Pollution from tire wear is worse than exhaust emissions?</title><url>https://www.emissionsanalytics.com/news/pollution-tyre-wear-worse-exhaust-emissions</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kungtotte</author><text>They&#x27;re torn up from the road and rubbed off from the tyres themselves. The majority is obviously coming from the road.<p>There&#x27;s been studies done here in Sweden since we&#x27;ve banned studded winter tyres in some areas of Stockholm in an effort to reduce road wear and improve air quality. I don&#x27;t know of any sources in English off the top of my head though.<p>The last time I read an article about it though (2+ years ago, during Diesel-gate), the findings was that the danger in the particles comes from their size with smaller particles being more dangerous for humans. And that road particles were something like an order of magnitude larger than exhaust fume particles from diesel engines.<p>We&#x27;ve since banned diesel engines inside Stockholm as well so the whole thing is moot here.</text></item><item><author>ratel</author><text>Hold on:<p>The claim is this:<p>&gt; &quot;Using a popular family hatchback running on brand new, correctly inflated tyres, we found that the car emitted 5.8 grams per kilometer of particles.&quot;<p>It does not seem to be a mistake:<p>&gt; &quot;Compared with regulated exhaust emission limits of 4.5 milligrams per kilometer, the completely unregulated tyre wear emission is higher by a factor of over 1,000.&quot;<p>A tire might way up to 15 kilograms for a 20 inch type. Lets assume 10 kilograms for a normal tire which is on the high side. 4 tires is 40 kilograms. Even if we assume half of the particals are not coming from the tire (but from where?). That still leaves 40,000 &#x2F; 2.9 = 13793 kilometers for the tires to be completly consumed (weighing nothing anymore). That is definitely not happening.<p>So without an explanation on where the matter is coming from this does not read right.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saiya-jin</author><text>That doesn&#x27;t make sense to me either. Take a busy German highway (as I don&#x27;t know the average load on US ones), easily 100k cars per day. There are parts of highways which don&#x27;t get replaced for 20 years easily. Plus apart from tiny fraction of north europe (and maybe Canada?), nobody ever uses studs.<p>Back of the envelope math tells me 1 km of highway would lose some 730 tonnes of asphalt, per year (so 14,600 tonnes in 20 years). If we talk about normal car wear, this simply isn&#x27;t happening on those unkempt roads. It would leave huge lanes of deeper surface where asphalt is lacking. There isn&#x27;t visible wear on lanes that are used mostly by cars like that. Roads have mostly potholes.<p>What happens on those roads is, sticky asphalt is worn away (but not at the mentioned rate), and what remains are stones which basically don&#x27;t wear, and tires touch only that. At least highway surface I saw was like that.<p>What damages roads greatly are trucks, especially overloaded ones (say limit is 15 tonnes, they take 22 tonnes and hope to not be checked... welcome to east european mentality).</text></comment> |
41,796,653 | 41,790,294 | 1 | 2 | 41,787,647 | train | <story><title>Germans decry influence of English as 'idiot's apostrophe' gets approval</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/07/germany-influence-of-english-idiots-apostrophe</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wolframhempel</author><text>I feel that most people instinctively assume that some institution, e.g. the government or the dictionary publishers are the authority on what constitutes &quot;correct language&quot;. It&#x27;s important to emphasize that language (included spelling) is something that develops organically and that the role of these institutions is just to capture the status quo.<p>At least that should be the case in free societies. Language is power - and controlling it is an important aspect of exercising control.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BlindEyeHalo</author><text>If you want to maintain mutual intelligibility of a nation you need a standardised set of rules to teach kids at school.<p>If you just let it &quot;develop organically&quot; without any governing body you get a wide range of dialects that will drift further apart from another and it will be very difficult to read any text that is 50 years old.</text></comment> | <story><title>Germans decry influence of English as 'idiot's apostrophe' gets approval</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/07/germany-influence-of-english-idiots-apostrophe</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wolframhempel</author><text>I feel that most people instinctively assume that some institution, e.g. the government or the dictionary publishers are the authority on what constitutes &quot;correct language&quot;. It&#x27;s important to emphasize that language (included spelling) is something that develops organically and that the role of these institutions is just to capture the status quo.<p>At least that should be the case in free societies. Language is power - and controlling it is an important aspect of exercising control.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Eddy_Viscosity2</author><text>Indeed, dictionaries and governments are just writing down what&#x27;s already happening in the language.<p>In a way language is one of the only truly democratic institutions. We all vote for new words and new pronunciations by using them or not using them. The collective action of all these choices is the language.</text></comment> |
22,179,697 | 22,178,451 | 1 | 2 | 22,170,206 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Debugger that generates video visualizations for algorithm learning</title><url>https://github.com/CCExtractor/vardbg</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cjg</author><text>This could be a simple &#x2F; cheap way to get a time-travelling debugger. Run your code through vardbg generating a video. If that run results in unexpected behaviour then you can step back and forward through the video and see where things went wrong.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Debugger that generates video visualizations for algorithm learning</title><url>https://github.com/CCExtractor/vardbg</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>foreigner</author><text>I&#x27;ve always wanted a tool that can create a flowchart from the flow control of a piece of code. Ideally it would be bidirectional - you could drag and drop things in the flowchart and the text sourcecode would change, and vice versa. There are a million tools that do this with object or class diagrams, but I&#x27;ve never seen one that does it with imperative flow control code (if&#x2F;then, switch&#x2F;case, while &amp; for loops, etc.).</text></comment> |
19,948,215 | 19,947,875 | 1 | 2 | 19,947,362 | train | <story><title>Opposition to Sidewalk Labs in Toronto</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47815344</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>60654</author><text>The opposition to this is not just from the privacy perspective, there&#x27;s also the issue of data ownership, and giving all this data away to Google for free. And once it&#x27;s owned, both cities and citizens lose all control and oversight - you can&#x27;t get yourself removed from the dataset, impose restrictions on how this personal data will be used, etc.<p>There are some good quotes in this older Reuters story (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-canada-cities-privacy-feature&#x2F;green-paradise-or-data-stealing-dystopia-toronto-smart-city-sparks-debate-idUSKBN1QS25E" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-canada-cities-privacy-fea...</a>):<p>&gt; The proposal amounts to “permanent surveillance” and “massive data scraping” under the guise of fighting climate change, he said. “They are conducting an experiment in real time, in the real world: the privatization of our cities on a large scale. They will have intellectual property rights over all of this (data).”<p>&gt; “We live in a system that values property rights,” Orasch told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. “In that system, data is a valuable asset for an individual to have.”<p>And the developer asking for investment money and a cut of property taxes, on top of gathering all this private data and owning it forever without oversight, is just icing on the cake. :)</text></comment> | <story><title>Opposition to Sidewalk Labs in Toronto</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47815344</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ilaksh</author><text>To me the most of the ways that I can think of a city being smart are not related to surveillance.<p>If there is some system that is supposed to benefit the public then its designs should be public and subject to public approval.<p>What would be reasonable would be something like open source designs and protocols and maybe an electronic bidding system for projects.<p>But it sounds like its one company embedding whatever spy-tech they want and controlling everything over a large area behind closed doors.<p>I actually am really looking forward to smart cities. But smart as in high tech and advanced, not smart as in monopolistic surveillance dystopia.</text></comment> |
18,847,877 | 18,847,669 | 1 | 2 | 18,845,807 | train | <story><title>Nvidia Announces GeForce RTX 2060</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/13796/nvidia-announces-geforce-rtx-2060-349-dollars-january-15th</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wlesieutre</author><text>Have to wait for benchmarks to say anything definitive, but from the specs table it looks like performance is in the ballpark of the 1070. Same TFLOPS, faster memory clock but not as much memory, TDP is 10W higher.<p>At $350 that sounds like a tough sell over the 1070, which is finally down to $300 after rebate. Unless you&#x27;re really excited about the raytracing stuff.<p>I&#x27;m underwhelmed for 2.5 years of progress since the 1070 (mid 2016). Just sticking it out with my 970 until it dies, which will hopefully be until there&#x27;s something new worth upgrading to.<p>Maybe AMD has something more impressive up their sleeves in the mainstream price range.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>onli</author><text>For games, benchmarks are released. Computerbase for example has their review article online, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.computerbase.de&#x2F;2019-01&#x2F;nvidia-geforce-rtx-2060-test&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.computerbase.de&#x2F;2019-01&#x2F;nvidia-geforce-rtx-2060-...</a>. For that workload it&#x27;s at the level of a GTX 1080&#x2F;RTX 2070 when overclocked, only a bit lower on stock. Pretty good, and clearly faster than the 1070.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nvidia Announces GeForce RTX 2060</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/13796/nvidia-announces-geforce-rtx-2060-349-dollars-january-15th</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wlesieutre</author><text>Have to wait for benchmarks to say anything definitive, but from the specs table it looks like performance is in the ballpark of the 1070. Same TFLOPS, faster memory clock but not as much memory, TDP is 10W higher.<p>At $350 that sounds like a tough sell over the 1070, which is finally down to $300 after rebate. Unless you&#x27;re really excited about the raytracing stuff.<p>I&#x27;m underwhelmed for 2.5 years of progress since the 1070 (mid 2016). Just sticking it out with my 970 until it dies, which will hopefully be until there&#x27;s something new worth upgrading to.<p>Maybe AMD has something more impressive up their sleeves in the mainstream price range.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ohithereyou</author><text>RTX 2060 has Tensor cores on a mainstream, desktop offering, which might be of some interest if you want to play with deep learning at home<p>Edit: I&#x27;m also sticking with a GTX 970 right now, mainly because I game at 1080p. When I can&#x27;t get a consistent 1080p@30FPS (though I prefer 1080p@60FPS) then I will consider upgrading. Right now I&#x27;m CPU bound, not GPU bound, in any title where I get sub-60FPS.</text></comment> |
19,962,578 | 19,962,786 | 1 | 3 | 19,961,082 | train | <story><title>TempleOS: Installation</title><url>https://christine.website/blog/templeos-1-installation-and-basic-use-2019-05-20</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DavidAdams</author><text>Terry was a nut, but he did a pretty good job of getting the word out about his magnum opus. Over several years, he alternated between sincere advocacy and unhinged abuse in trying to get my website OSNews to cover his OS development efforts more widely. Eventually, one of our volunteer editors patiently worked with him to produce an article about it:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.osnews.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;23796&#x2F;recreational-programming-with-losethos&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.osnews.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;23796&#x2F;recreational-programming-...</a><p>I just spent a few minutes reviewing my email archive of correspondence with Terry, and it warms my heart a little, even though at the time is was kind of terrifying.</text></comment> | <story><title>TempleOS: Installation</title><url>https://christine.website/blog/templeos-1-installation-and-basic-use-2019-05-20</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fb03</author><text>I sincerely enjoyed Terry A. Davis&#x27; videos on youtube.<p>Yes, You need to actively remember that you are dealing with a person with severe and possibly badly treated&#x2F;untreated mental illness, and I say this because of the random bouts of aggressiveness and also blatant use of curse words such as n*gger and etc. Also his very skewed political views and whatnot.<p>But if you can keep that in mind (&quot;I am dealing with a sick person&quot;) and forgive his behavior during those bad events, you&#x27;ll be able to &quot;savor&quot; his videos in a very technical way. The guy was truly a genius on its own league, a fact that, together with his mental illness, probably hurled him further into loneliness<p>(I am sure several bright people here on HN can relate on how being different or bright sometimes equals loneliness, specially during early years).<p>So please, try to watch his videos with these guidelines in mind, you&#x27;ll surely be able to get some good lessons about delivering a vision, lowlevel compiler work or algorithms into your own craft.</text></comment> |
10,225,268 | 10,225,325 | 1 | 3 | 10,223,472 | train | <story><title>Things I was unprepared for as a lead developer</title><url>http://dev-human.com/entries/2015/09/07/things-i-was-unprepared-for/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>unoti</author><text>Probably the biggest surprise I&#x27;ve seen in my career as a team lead is how often people ostensibly work with the team, but actually want to see the team fail. It sounds ridiculous, I know, but it actually happens quite often.<p>Here are two quick examples where I see this happen often. Let&#x27;s say you&#x27;re a vendor deploying software at an organization, and one or more people that work at your client organization originally wanted to write their own solution for this software, and their bosses overrode their wishes, and now they&#x27;re forced to help implement your software. You need to use those disenfranchised IT people as part of your team to do the implementation, but they&#x27;d like to see the project fail, because they told their manager they could do it better themselves. Other variations of this occur whenever someone doesn&#x27;t get their way, and is forced to go implement things a different way -- now any delays that happen may demonstrate their sage wisdom in not wanting to do it this way.<p>I&#x27;ve also seen variations on this same theme where a company is working on a product that does what we&#x27;re implementing, but it&#x27;s not ready yet. Then a year down the road, when we&#x27;re doing the final rollout, their product is almost ready, so now they&#x27;d like to see us fail. And suddenly the alliance falls apart. Over the last 30 years working in IT, I&#x27;ve seen something like 20-30 variations on this theme.<p>Lots of times you need to work with people who really want to see your project fail. This came as a huge surprise to me, but I think any senior person should be careful and on the lookout. It&#x27;s often a significant project risk, and almost always overlooked.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stevoski</author><text>I&#x27;ve definitely been that person who didn&#x27;t want the project to succeed - and I was the key developer (and an external consultant). I was convinced that we were implementing the wrong thing. Even though I tried to suck it up and do the job, it was hard to do my best on something I was sure was going to fail.<p>I had to be talked out of quitting a couple of times. I think they might have been better letting me quit the first time, and getting a replacement who didn&#x27;t have so much ego affecting their work.</text></comment> | <story><title>Things I was unprepared for as a lead developer</title><url>http://dev-human.com/entries/2015/09/07/things-i-was-unprepared-for/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>unoti</author><text>Probably the biggest surprise I&#x27;ve seen in my career as a team lead is how often people ostensibly work with the team, but actually want to see the team fail. It sounds ridiculous, I know, but it actually happens quite often.<p>Here are two quick examples where I see this happen often. Let&#x27;s say you&#x27;re a vendor deploying software at an organization, and one or more people that work at your client organization originally wanted to write their own solution for this software, and their bosses overrode their wishes, and now they&#x27;re forced to help implement your software. You need to use those disenfranchised IT people as part of your team to do the implementation, but they&#x27;d like to see the project fail, because they told their manager they could do it better themselves. Other variations of this occur whenever someone doesn&#x27;t get their way, and is forced to go implement things a different way -- now any delays that happen may demonstrate their sage wisdom in not wanting to do it this way.<p>I&#x27;ve also seen variations on this same theme where a company is working on a product that does what we&#x27;re implementing, but it&#x27;s not ready yet. Then a year down the road, when we&#x27;re doing the final rollout, their product is almost ready, so now they&#x27;d like to see us fail. And suddenly the alliance falls apart. Over the last 30 years working in IT, I&#x27;ve seen something like 20-30 variations on this theme.<p>Lots of times you need to work with people who really want to see your project fail. This came as a huge surprise to me, but I think any senior person should be careful and on the lookout. It&#x27;s often a significant project risk, and almost always overlooked.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fit2rule</author><text>&gt;often people ostensibly work with the team, but actually want to see the team fail<p>I&#x27;ve definitely seen this as a very common proclivity of small, poorly structured teams, over 30+ years of software development experience.<p>&quot;Buy-in&quot;, or .. the phenomenon of staff actually buying into the project, and investing themselves in the effort required to realize a particular vision, actually requires them to agree with the project policies and strategy. If people in the team do not agree - like, actively, not just saying &#x27;I agree&#x27; - not much work ever really gets done.<p>People who feel they have to covertly work to make a team fail need to realize where the failure really starts: in the decision to do so, without communicating about it.<p>Whereas, on the other hand, teams who really like each other - enjoy the project - use the technology well - and are open about the things they do not like about their daily&#x2F;weekly work load - often accomplish amazing things.<p>It all starts with the decision to make something happen. If that decision is made for you by someone else, either buy the decision or don&#x27;t. Loitering around to &#x27;do the right thing and destroy the project&#x2F;be there when it &quot;inevitably fails&quot;&#x27; is quite a disastrous contribution, in my opinion. I encourage everyone I work for - subordinate or superior, or otherwise - to keep things clean. Work, or leave.</text></comment> |
29,016,086 | 29,014,095 | 1 | 2 | 29,013,687 | train | <story><title>Microsoft has detected nation-state activity associated with NOBELIUM</title><url>https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2021/10/25/nobelium-targeting-delegated-administrative-privileges-to-facilitate-broader-attacks/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lodovic</author><text>&quot;The targeted activity has been observed against organizations based in the United States and across Europe since May 2021. NOBELIUM is the same actor behind the SolarWinds compromise in 2020, and this latest activity shares the hallmarks of the actor’s compromise-one-to-compromise-many approach.&quot;<p>Just tell us which country.. It&#x27;s probably one of two options.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>schleck8</author><text>Russia, Mitre profile is here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;attack.mitre.org&#x2F;groups&#x2F;G0016&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;attack.mitre.org&#x2F;groups&#x2F;G0016&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft has detected nation-state activity associated with NOBELIUM</title><url>https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2021/10/25/nobelium-targeting-delegated-administrative-privileges-to-facilitate-broader-attacks/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lodovic</author><text>&quot;The targeted activity has been observed against organizations based in the United States and across Europe since May 2021. NOBELIUM is the same actor behind the SolarWinds compromise in 2020, and this latest activity shares the hallmarks of the actor’s compromise-one-to-compromise-many approach.&quot;<p>Just tell us which country.. It&#x27;s probably one of two options.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Keyframe</author><text>They did a few days ago: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.microsoft.com&#x2F;on-the-issues&#x2F;2021&#x2F;10&#x2F;24&#x2F;new-activity-from-russian-actor-nobelium&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.microsoft.com&#x2F;on-the-issues&#x2F;2021&#x2F;10&#x2F;24&#x2F;new-act...</a></text></comment> |
7,568,214 | 7,568,137 | 1 | 2 | 7,566,069 | train | <story><title>Drop Dropbox</title><url>http://www.drop-dropbox.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>janj</author><text>Starting an unnecessary war is a big deal. Denying due process and torturing detainees is a big deal. The Patriot Act was one of the most un-American acts of Congress. Rice had a significant role in destroying the values I once thought were vitally important in claiming American exceptionalism. We can never get that back. We are now a country that starts unnecessary wars, tortures detainees and denies due process and spends vast resources on surveilling every citizen and she had a role in that. We will never be the country we once were before Rice and the Bush administration. I am proud to have always been vocally against the war, torture and the Patriot Act. I will continue to oppose the people who led these efforts and oppose anything they are involved with, staying true to my own personal values requires this.</text></item><item><author>grellas</author><text>Think about what it means to the HN culture to have a subject that normally would have been flagged out of existence as overtly political suddenly be featured front and center in the apparent belief that ideological purity is now a litmus test for who can serve on a board of directors in the startup world.<p>In a free society, people can unite in their business ventures even though they might be far apart in how they view the world generally. Startup culture thirty years ago had a decidedly American flavor. Today, it does not because the world is big and diverse and because entrepreneurs today who do startups come from all sorts of cultures and backgrounds. Surely, those who come from such divergent backgrounds hold differing political and religious views. Some are conservative, others liberal, still others apolitical. Some are theists, others atheists. The variations are many but one thing is certain: <i>not all people think alike on political, religious, or social topics</i>. These are issues that inherently will divide.<p>What happens, then, when people attempt to set political, social, or religious tests as criteria for who can hold important positions in a business organization? Well, it gets about as ugly as it can get, just as such tests proved ugly when used historically by, say, Christians to exclude Jews from holding important positions in society or to punish atheists for not holding to some prescribed creed.<p>One might say, &quot;<i>this</i> is different&quot; because we are not holding to an arbitrary creed but rather to fundamental principles that ought to govern all humanity. Well, that is precisely how those who sought to impose thought control in other eras rationalized their conduct. &quot;Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party&quot; is a question that destroyed many careers as the blacklists proliferated back in the 1950s. That was indeed a repulsive set of events by which many innocent persons were hurt and today our national conscience wishes it could take back the damage done to them.<p>So why is this any different? It is easy enough to whip oneself up into a lather over Ms. Rice’s policies if one disagrees with them but what about the half of America (or whatever significant percentage) that does not. And why should this be relevant to board service?<p>Politics, religion, and social worldviews <i>divide</i> people and have no place as limiting tests in a business environment. Scolding and finger-wagging was bad enough coming from a first-grade teacher trying to promote sanctimonious values back in the 1950s. Do we really want a counterpart agenda now setting rules for who can be a founder, who can be an investor, who can be a director, who can be a CEO, or who can otherwise take a prominent role in the startup world? The answer should be an <i>emphatic</i> no.<p>Principle is more important here than a particular outcome. What happens with Ms. Rice is not the issue here. What matters is upholding the abiding principle (precious in a free society) that people can hold divergent views on such topics as politics, religion, and society without being punished for their views in a business context. People can and ought to be able to unite to form great companies without having to compare notes on how they voted in the last election or some similar matter having nothing whatever to do with whether someone can add value to the venture. This is central to startup culture. Let us not lose sight of something so basic.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MarkPNeyer</author><text>&gt; I am proud to have always been vocally against the war, torture and the Patriot Act. I will continue to oppose the people who led these efforts and oppose anything they are involved with, staying true to my own personal values requires this.<p>I hope this extends to opposing the Obama administration, which has continued and extended war, torture, and the patriot act. If the tech community dumps anyone from any party who supports these policies, that&#x27;s awesome.<p>Marissa Mayer at Yahoo, Mark Benoiff at SalesForce, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt at Google all gave large contributions to Obama, who extended the patriot act, defended bush torture, and maintains a &#x27;kill list&#x27; that took the life of an american citizen without trial. None of them are getting this kind of outrage.<p>I would love it if they were! I&#x27;d love it if we held these tech leaders accountable for the horrendous policies their supported leaders have put in place. You can&#x27;t say you value your users&#x27; privacy and then give money to candidates who don&#x27;t share that value, unless you say &quot;but these other policies that he supports matter more to me&quot; - and then fine, give us a list of what you value more than protecting my privacy. Show me where I fall on this list of yours. A president who decides he supports gave marriage when it&#x27;s poitically convient is not as important to me as a president who insists on defending my privacy.<p>So far this looks to be partisan. I hope it isn&#x27;t. To be honest, I miss having GWB as a president, because then the smart people were all outraged at the horrible stuff the president was doing. Now the president is still doing the same horrible stuff, plus some new stuff, but the smart people aren&#x27;t as upset anymore.</text></comment> | <story><title>Drop Dropbox</title><url>http://www.drop-dropbox.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>janj</author><text>Starting an unnecessary war is a big deal. Denying due process and torturing detainees is a big deal. The Patriot Act was one of the most un-American acts of Congress. Rice had a significant role in destroying the values I once thought were vitally important in claiming American exceptionalism. We can never get that back. We are now a country that starts unnecessary wars, tortures detainees and denies due process and spends vast resources on surveilling every citizen and she had a role in that. We will never be the country we once were before Rice and the Bush administration. I am proud to have always been vocally against the war, torture and the Patriot Act. I will continue to oppose the people who led these efforts and oppose anything they are involved with, staying true to my own personal values requires this.</text></item><item><author>grellas</author><text>Think about what it means to the HN culture to have a subject that normally would have been flagged out of existence as overtly political suddenly be featured front and center in the apparent belief that ideological purity is now a litmus test for who can serve on a board of directors in the startup world.<p>In a free society, people can unite in their business ventures even though they might be far apart in how they view the world generally. Startup culture thirty years ago had a decidedly American flavor. Today, it does not because the world is big and diverse and because entrepreneurs today who do startups come from all sorts of cultures and backgrounds. Surely, those who come from such divergent backgrounds hold differing political and religious views. Some are conservative, others liberal, still others apolitical. Some are theists, others atheists. The variations are many but one thing is certain: <i>not all people think alike on political, religious, or social topics</i>. These are issues that inherently will divide.<p>What happens, then, when people attempt to set political, social, or religious tests as criteria for who can hold important positions in a business organization? Well, it gets about as ugly as it can get, just as such tests proved ugly when used historically by, say, Christians to exclude Jews from holding important positions in society or to punish atheists for not holding to some prescribed creed.<p>One might say, &quot;<i>this</i> is different&quot; because we are not holding to an arbitrary creed but rather to fundamental principles that ought to govern all humanity. Well, that is precisely how those who sought to impose thought control in other eras rationalized their conduct. &quot;Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party&quot; is a question that destroyed many careers as the blacklists proliferated back in the 1950s. That was indeed a repulsive set of events by which many innocent persons were hurt and today our national conscience wishes it could take back the damage done to them.<p>So why is this any different? It is easy enough to whip oneself up into a lather over Ms. Rice’s policies if one disagrees with them but what about the half of America (or whatever significant percentage) that does not. And why should this be relevant to board service?<p>Politics, religion, and social worldviews <i>divide</i> people and have no place as limiting tests in a business environment. Scolding and finger-wagging was bad enough coming from a first-grade teacher trying to promote sanctimonious values back in the 1950s. Do we really want a counterpart agenda now setting rules for who can be a founder, who can be an investor, who can be a director, who can be a CEO, or who can otherwise take a prominent role in the startup world? The answer should be an <i>emphatic</i> no.<p>Principle is more important here than a particular outcome. What happens with Ms. Rice is not the issue here. What matters is upholding the abiding principle (precious in a free society) that people can hold divergent views on such topics as politics, religion, and society without being punished for their views in a business context. People can and ought to be able to unite to form great companies without having to compare notes on how they voted in the last election or some similar matter having nothing whatever to do with whether someone can add value to the venture. This is central to startup culture. Let us not lose sight of something so basic.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sergiosgc</author><text>Big deal as it may be, the parent comment was placing the discussion in a plane you totally missed in your response.<p>The type of blackballing practiced by this campaign is similar to the kind of blackballing that ousted Brendan Eich. It is also a slippery slope.<p>Slippery slopes are dangerous. At each step of the way, you can reason about your present decision and easily justify it. Add all the steps and the picture is suddenly not so pretty. That is where the parent comment author aimed its reasoning.<p>You can only reason about slippery slopes by taking the long view; seeing where the slope leads to. Your comment takes the short view.</text></comment> |
6,864,485 | 6,863,929 | 1 | 2 | 6,861,404 | train | <story><title>The Internet mystery that has the world baffled</title><url>http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/internet/Cicada+3301+online+mystery+enthralls+codebreakers/9211024/story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fchollet</author><text>Fascinating story, but that article reads like the journalist took troll stories from 4c as sources. Seriously, whoever wrote this appears to be clueless.<p>&gt; &quot;a robotic voice told them to find the prime numbers in the original image. By multiplying them together, the solvers found a new prime&quot;<p><i>Excuse</i> me?<p>&gt; &quot;TOR is an obscure routing network that allows anonymous access to the “darknet” — the vast, murky portion of the Internet that cannot be indexed by standard search engines. Estimated to be 5,000 times larger that the “surface” web, it’s in these recesses that you’ll find human-trafficking rings, black market drug markets and terrorist networks&quot;<p>Sure... the &quot;surface&quot; web is just the tip of the iceberg, right? Journalism at its best.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>archgoon</author><text>&gt;&gt; &quot;a robotic voice told them to find the prime numbers in the original image. By multiplying them together, the solvers found a new prime&quot;<p><pre><code> #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
int main() {
printf(&quot;%d\n&quot;,2147483629*2147483647);
}
$ gcc test.c -o test 2&gt; &#x2F;dev&#x2F;null
$ .&#x2F;test
19</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>The Internet mystery that has the world baffled</title><url>http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/internet/Cicada+3301+online+mystery+enthralls+codebreakers/9211024/story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fchollet</author><text>Fascinating story, but that article reads like the journalist took troll stories from 4c as sources. Seriously, whoever wrote this appears to be clueless.<p>&gt; &quot;a robotic voice told them to find the prime numbers in the original image. By multiplying them together, the solvers found a new prime&quot;<p><i>Excuse</i> me?<p>&gt; &quot;TOR is an obscure routing network that allows anonymous access to the “darknet” — the vast, murky portion of the Internet that cannot be indexed by standard search engines. Estimated to be 5,000 times larger that the “surface” web, it’s in these recesses that you’ll find human-trafficking rings, black market drug markets and terrorist networks&quot;<p>Sure... the &quot;surface&quot; web is just the tip of the iceberg, right? Journalism at its best.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>keithpeter</author><text><i>&quot;There, a robotic voice told them to find the prime numbers in the original image. By multiplying them together, the solvers found a new prime&quot;</i><p>That made my eyes bleed, but OA has given me a superb Maths revision lesson for some bored teenagers. I&#x27;d already planned to get them decoding a ROT13 text by reference to letter frequencies, and now this &#x27;quest&#x27; as well. Nice.</text></comment> |
10,448,248 | 10,448,254 | 1 | 2 | 10,447,890 | train | <story><title>Getting to “Philosophy”</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosophy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pierrec</author><text>A good friend of mine is a student of philosophy, and I often argue with him about the importance and usefulness of the discipline. His favorite metaphor on the matter goes like this: If each domain of science was a finger, philosophy would be the thumb. It&#x27;s the one that the others should rest upon when being used.<p>Of course, I always dismiss his metaphor as pie-in-the-sky ridiculous. But I must concede that this phenomenon occurring on Wikipedia gives a lot of weight to his argument.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colordrops</author><text>To believe that associating philosophy with science is pie-in-the-sky ridiculous is to profess ignorance of the foundations and history of science. Science is a descendant of philosophy and the decisions made on how we practice it and interpret its results are guided by different philosophies throughout the centuries. A book or course on the philosophy of science, which is offered by most major universities, is recommended.</text></comment> | <story><title>Getting to “Philosophy”</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosophy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pierrec</author><text>A good friend of mine is a student of philosophy, and I often argue with him about the importance and usefulness of the discipline. His favorite metaphor on the matter goes like this: If each domain of science was a finger, philosophy would be the thumb. It&#x27;s the one that the others should rest upon when being used.<p>Of course, I always dismiss his metaphor as pie-in-the-sky ridiculous. But I must concede that this phenomenon occurring on Wikipedia gives a lot of weight to his argument.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tunesmith</author><text>I don&#x27;t think you can get far in determining what people &quot;should&quot; do with various facts without diving into normative ethics and in turn philosophy. The question of what should be done can hinge entirely on what kind of philosophy people adopt.</text></comment> |
24,574,676 | 24,568,782 | 1 | 3 | 24,566,568 | train | <story><title>After simple dental surgery, a man lost his ability to form new memories</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150630-my-dentist-saved-my-tooth-but-stole-my-memory</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sliken</author><text>I ended up on a several hour car ride with an anesthesiologist, he mentioned that Dentists are often grandfathered in, and often end up doing serious procedures without an anesthesiologist involved. So while they are focusing on the procedure heart rate, breathing rate, O2, etc aren&#x27;t monitored nearly enough.<p>Apparently getting panicked calls from dentists was not unusual. In one particular case a 18 year old woman wouldn&#x27;t wake up, he helped as much as he could, but she was never the same.<p>Morale of the story, don&#x27;t let a dentist put you under without an actual anesthesiologist involved.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dathinab</author><text>Which is why a dentist in Germany can give you only a local anesthesia (i.e. you loose feeling in your mouth area but nothing more).<p>If you need a full anesthesia you need to go to a dentist clinic which has a anesthesiologist.<p>Or at last that&#x27;s is the idea, in practice things might not always be that clean cut.</text></comment> | <story><title>After simple dental surgery, a man lost his ability to form new memories</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150630-my-dentist-saved-my-tooth-but-stole-my-memory</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sliken</author><text>I ended up on a several hour car ride with an anesthesiologist, he mentioned that Dentists are often grandfathered in, and often end up doing serious procedures without an anesthesiologist involved. So while they are focusing on the procedure heart rate, breathing rate, O2, etc aren&#x27;t monitored nearly enough.<p>Apparently getting panicked calls from dentists was not unusual. In one particular case a 18 year old woman wouldn&#x27;t wake up, he helped as much as he could, but she was never the same.<p>Morale of the story, don&#x27;t let a dentist put you under without an actual anesthesiologist involved.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tachyonbeam</author><text>So I guess what might be going on here, is partial brain tissue death from lack of oxygen, or something like that? Holy fuck.</text></comment> |
20,432,287 | 20,431,006 | 1 | 3 | 20,430,802 | train | <story><title>One player spent 10 years exploring every corner of Eve Online</title><url>https://www.polygon.com/2019/4/2/18286977/eve-online-explorer-10-year-journey-katia-sae</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>murat124</author><text>&gt; The galaxy of New Eden is composed of nearly 8,000 star systems.<p>I loved Eve Online when I played it in the mid 2000s but its point and click mechanics as well as you&#x27;d have to wait days even weeks to acquire skills in some cases made me lose interest in the game. It has its addictive qualities too where you feel you could go on playing it forever while knowing you have got to stop playing it for your own good.<p>Years later I got introduced to Elite Dangerous and it&#x27;s been a lot more fun than Eve. Elite gives players the opportunity to fly by binary stars, fly through neutron star jet cones to overcharge fsd drives, combats close to stars, land on planets and even more simulated activities. If you have a VR the game becomes a unique experience. The game&#x27;s map is based on Milky Way galaxy and the systems are procedurally generated. I remember last year the devs announced approx 112000 individual systems were discovered and this is about 0.028% of the total. Anyway, a few months ago I solo traveled to Sag A* and returned later to the bubble (where Solar system and surrounding systems are). It took me 2 weeks to complete the trip and at times it was pretty boring. On the other hand it is the only game that let me experience the stress of flying near a black hole and I am grateful to the devs for making it possible.</text></comment> | <story><title>One player spent 10 years exploring every corner of Eve Online</title><url>https://www.polygon.com/2019/4/2/18286977/eve-online-explorer-10-year-journey-katia-sae</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>giancarlostoro</author><text>I wish I had enough time to learn every programming language, just as much as I wish I had enough time to play Eve online. The things we see here on HN and hear about in regards to Eve online are incredible. Even when listening to the Talk Python podcast one dev from the Eve Online crew came on to talk about it all.<p>It&#x27;s pretty incredible, and these articles are never not fun to read about. There&#x27;s also from time to time the World of Warcraft articles that pop up on HN.</text></comment> |
14,586,217 | 14,586,182 | 1 | 2 | 14,584,868 | train | <story><title>If companies interviewed tech recruiters the way they interview programmers</title><url>https://medium.com/@NTDF9/if-companies-interviewed-tech-recruiters-the-way-they-interview-programmers-f18e1a980cdd</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dsr_</author><text>I am, now and on occasion, a hiring manager. Naturally, every freelance recruiter wants to be my friend.<p>They often start cold calls with a description of a person&#x27;s technical abilities, and then ask if I would be interested in interviewing that person.<p>When that happens, I ask them to define one of the buzzwords that they have just used. &quot;Could you tell me what &#x27;big data&#x27; means?&quot; or &quot;What&#x27;s the difference between AWS and GCE?&quot;<p>I don&#x27;t do business with technical recruiters who aren&#x27;t familiar with the meanings of the terms that they throw around. They have never been more valuable than a regex.</text></comment> | <story><title>If companies interviewed tech recruiters the way they interview programmers</title><url>https://medium.com/@NTDF9/if-companies-interviewed-tech-recruiters-the-way-they-interview-programmers-f18e1a980cdd</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jordanpg</author><text>When I read articles like this, I tend to assume that they are exaggerations written by people who feel burned because they didn&#x27;t get the job they want and that the reason was unfair interview questions.<p>In other words, I simply don&#x27;t believe that interviewers are, as a group, so stupid that they regularly ask obscure Excel questions when they are plainly not relevant.<p>To continue with the recruiting example, I suspect what is more common is that interviewers are expecting candidates with some Excel experience, and ask questions to gauge some basic level of competency. And interviewees have conflated using it one time with any depth of experience.<p>I can attest to seeing this many times during programming interviews. If I see something towards the top of someone&#x27;s resume, I will ask a basic question to see if anything whatsoever is known about that thing. Yes, book knowledge. Stuff that you would know if you had actually read any docs.<p>I don&#x27;t want to work alongside someone who claims knowledge or experience of something and doesn&#x27;t know the basics. Or doesn&#x27;t know that they don&#x27;t know the basics.</text></comment> |
12,649,666 | 12,648,856 | 1 | 2 | 12,648,350 | train | <story><title>Why Are Politicians So Obsessed with Manufacturing?</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/09/magazine/why-are-politicians-so-obsessed-with-manufacturing.html?_r=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rfrank</author><text>Manufacturing also provides jobs for both high and low skill workers. As such can be seen as more valuable to a community than say, a software company that only hires engineers and a CS center in a different state. Manufacturing was one of the best roads for a low skill worker to earn good money and move up the rung economically - something that only seems to be getting harder as time goes on.</text></item><item><author>hueving</author><text>Manufacturing is a target because it&#x27;s easy for people to see concrete results. They can point at something and say, &quot;we made that&quot;, and it tends to generate some sense of pride. The same doesn&#x27;t really apply for service industries or innovation in the service industries: &quot;we produced consumer surplus by lowering transportation costs via automation&quot; doesn&#x27;t roll off the tongue as well. :)<p>The same problem exists for creating software. Massive software projects tend to be unimpressive to people not familiar with the IT industry because they don&#x27;t comprehend the scale or fundamental difficulties in computer science that were overcome to accomplish something.<p>Compare airplanes and wifi on airplanes. Most people are impressed by an A380, but they couldn&#x27;t give two shits about the incredible technology behind offering wifi 5 miles above the Atlantic ocean at 700MPH ground speed. They just trivialize it by saying, &quot;yeah, it comes from that little radio&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Inconel</author><text>You make a very important point with regards to manufacturing providing jobs for both high and low skill workers. I would add that it can also be a very good way to go from being a low skill worker to becoming a high skill worker on the job, meaning that you are being paid while improving your skills. If you&#x27;re already poor and don&#x27;t have any particular skills, it can be extremely difficult to improve upon your situation while trying to make enough money to survive. Many times additional schooling, either at the college&#x2F;university or trade school&#x2F;community college level, are out of reach, or at least made much more difficult, once you&#x27;ve already worked a 40-50 hour week.<p>I work as a technician in aerospace and when I started I had zero experience in this type of manufacturing environment. If I hadn&#x27;t gotten the opportunity to improve upon my skills while on the job I would most likely still be stuck in a much lower paid and less satisfactory low end retail or service job.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Are Politicians So Obsessed with Manufacturing?</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/09/magazine/why-are-politicians-so-obsessed-with-manufacturing.html?_r=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rfrank</author><text>Manufacturing also provides jobs for both high and low skill workers. As such can be seen as more valuable to a community than say, a software company that only hires engineers and a CS center in a different state. Manufacturing was one of the best roads for a low skill worker to earn good money and move up the rung economically - something that only seems to be getting harder as time goes on.</text></item><item><author>hueving</author><text>Manufacturing is a target because it&#x27;s easy for people to see concrete results. They can point at something and say, &quot;we made that&quot;, and it tends to generate some sense of pride. The same doesn&#x27;t really apply for service industries or innovation in the service industries: &quot;we produced consumer surplus by lowering transportation costs via automation&quot; doesn&#x27;t roll off the tongue as well. :)<p>The same problem exists for creating software. Massive software projects tend to be unimpressive to people not familiar with the IT industry because they don&#x27;t comprehend the scale or fundamental difficulties in computer science that were overcome to accomplish something.<p>Compare airplanes and wifi on airplanes. Most people are impressed by an A380, but they couldn&#x27;t give two shits about the incredible technology behind offering wifi 5 miles above the Atlantic ocean at 700MPH ground speed. They just trivialize it by saying, &quot;yeah, it comes from that little radio&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yummyfajitas</author><text>It may seem to be getting harder, but in reality it&#x27;s not. Rank based measures of mobility are stable. Since income inequality is up, <i>absolute</i> mobility has also increased.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eml.berkeley.edu&#x2F;~saez&#x2F;chettyetalAERPP2014.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eml.berkeley.edu&#x2F;~saez&#x2F;chettyetalAERPP2014.pdf</a></text></comment> |
29,594,484 | 29,594,229 | 1 | 2 | 29,591,819 | train | <story><title>The Third Web</title><url>https://tante.cc/2021/12/17/the-third-web/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>astoor</author><text>It is incredible how divisive web3 has made people. I don&#x27;t think I recall anything quite like it. I think it is because:<p>1. It is primarily about politics rather than technology. Those in favour of web3 typically come from the right-libertarian camp, often with a strong dislike of government, banks, taxes etc., which those against web3 associate with anti-social ideas such as anti-vax, permissive gun laws, conspiracy theories and the like.<p>2. It is an existential struggle. Those in favour of web3 have a vested interest now and don&#x27;t want to see the value of their coins and tokens fall, while those against web3 don&#x27;t want to see the last vestiges of the free and open web as we know it destroyed by the tokenisation and monetisation of every interaction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattdesl</author><text>It is possible to be left-leaning, support regulation + taxes + social structures, and still be in favour of web3&#x2F;crypto.<p>I agree #2 is a common issue, people become &quot;maxis&quot; of one protocol if they over-invest in it, or if they are holding it purely for speculative value.<p>To your last point: many in favour of web3 feel it is more &quot;free&quot; and &quot;open&quot; than advertising or subscription based models that extract tremendous value from creators (Instagram, Spotify, traditional art galleries, etc).</text></comment> | <story><title>The Third Web</title><url>https://tante.cc/2021/12/17/the-third-web/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>astoor</author><text>It is incredible how divisive web3 has made people. I don&#x27;t think I recall anything quite like it. I think it is because:<p>1. It is primarily about politics rather than technology. Those in favour of web3 typically come from the right-libertarian camp, often with a strong dislike of government, banks, taxes etc., which those against web3 associate with anti-social ideas such as anti-vax, permissive gun laws, conspiracy theories and the like.<p>2. It is an existential struggle. Those in favour of web3 have a vested interest now and don&#x27;t want to see the value of their coins and tokens fall, while those against web3 don&#x27;t want to see the last vestiges of the free and open web as we know it destroyed by the tokenisation and monetisation of every interaction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>volkk</author><text>&gt; while those against web3 don&#x27;t want to see the last vestiges of the free and open web as we know it destroyed by the tokenisation and monetisation of every interaction.<p>i&#x27;m confused here. isn&#x27;t the free and open web that we currently have already destroyed by monetization and data capture of your every click and move?</text></comment> |
20,712,271 | 20,711,607 | 1 | 3 | 20,708,026 | train | <story><title>Hiring Is Broken: What Do Developers Say About Technical Interviews?</title><url>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334448588_Hiring_is_Broken_What_Do_Developers_Say_About_Technical_Interviews</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alexmlamb</author><text>Is it just me or does this reasoning not make any sense?<p>&quot;NASA: 90% of our rocket scientists use the A&#x2F;C you just fixed, but you can&#x27;t explain how a rocket works so f* off&quot;<p>Presumably what matters is whether homebrew is technically significant or relevant, not just that they use it?</text></item><item><author>fatnoah</author><text>Or put more succinctly: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;mxcl&#x2F;status&#x2F;608682016205344768?lang=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;mxcl&#x2F;status&#x2F;608682016205344768?lang=en</a><p>&quot;Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but you can’t invert a binary tree on a whiteboard so f<i></i>* off.&quot;</text></item><item><author>palisade</author><text>I once interviewed at a company that had you write a traveling salesman program where you were planning the shortest path of flights between cities. It was a take home test where you were given at least a week to complete it. I completed the test in record setting time (3 days earlier than most), mine was the only one that was fully documented with comments (no one else bothered to do this), they said I had the most visually stunning user interface (most were ugly or unusable; I even animated the plane flying between cities), the program came to the outcome in the shortest runnable time, out of all the submitters they said my program was the most optimized solution (not the best ever made, but the best submitted to this company so far), and mine was the only one that actually worked correctly and ran without flaws. They then proceeded to have me come in for the 6 hour interview in which they asked questions like, &quot;Write a working hash table from scratch on the whiteboard.&quot; I got nervous and passed the question, they ended the interview early and rejected my application.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nimithryn</author><text>If anything it&#x27;s the reverse:
&quot;NASA: 90% of our rocket scientists use the rocket you designed, but you can&#x27;t fix an AC so f* off&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Hiring Is Broken: What Do Developers Say About Technical Interviews?</title><url>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334448588_Hiring_is_Broken_What_Do_Developers_Say_About_Technical_Interviews</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alexmlamb</author><text>Is it just me or does this reasoning not make any sense?<p>&quot;NASA: 90% of our rocket scientists use the A&#x2F;C you just fixed, but you can&#x27;t explain how a rocket works so f* off&quot;<p>Presumably what matters is whether homebrew is technically significant or relevant, not just that they use it?</text></item><item><author>fatnoah</author><text>Or put more succinctly: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;mxcl&#x2F;status&#x2F;608682016205344768?lang=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;mxcl&#x2F;status&#x2F;608682016205344768?lang=en</a><p>&quot;Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but you can’t invert a binary tree on a whiteboard so f<i></i>* off.&quot;</text></item><item><author>palisade</author><text>I once interviewed at a company that had you write a traveling salesman program where you were planning the shortest path of flights between cities. It was a take home test where you were given at least a week to complete it. I completed the test in record setting time (3 days earlier than most), mine was the only one that was fully documented with comments (no one else bothered to do this), they said I had the most visually stunning user interface (most were ugly or unusable; I even animated the plane flying between cities), the program came to the outcome in the shortest runnable time, out of all the submitters they said my program was the most optimized solution (not the best ever made, but the best submitted to this company so far), and mine was the only one that actually worked correctly and ran without flaws. They then proceeded to have me come in for the 6 hour interview in which they asked questions like, &quot;Write a working hash table from scratch on the whiteboard.&quot; I got nervous and passed the question, they ended the interview early and rejected my application.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>musicale</author><text>I think it&#x27;s just you.<p>0. The actual job of a software developer is usually to develop software with some real-world use and benefit, not to write cs101 code on a whiteboard while someone watches you and grades you for speed and accuracy.<p>1. Software is what Google does, and Google does tons of software from tools to infrastructure to services to games. If you created a key software tool that tons of people use at Google to do their jobs, it&#x27;s pretty relevant.<p>2. Software isn&#x27;t like doing routine maintenance on an existing A&#x2F;C system - it&#x27;s usually somewhere between inventing A&#x2F;C and creating a new design for data center A&#x2F;C systems then building, deploying, and operating it.</text></comment> |
10,871,729 | 10,871,854 | 1 | 3 | 10,870,892 | train | <story><title>Forbes asked readers to turn off adblockers then immediately served them malware</title><url>http://www.engadget.com/2016/01/08/you-say-advertising-i-say-block-that-malware/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>themartorana</author><text>Being that I make money from serving ads, I come at this a bit differently. In a lot of markets, it&#x27;s one of the most passive ways to make money, but to be sure, the creepiness factor has been advertisers&#x27; hubris-induced-downfall.<p>In any case, I haven&#x27;t seen anyone here mention the ad networks themselves. Every once and a while we would get a complaint about a bad ad - it wouldn&#x27;t dismiss, etc. Over time, we whittled down our network list to ad networks that strictly test and vet the ads they serve, no matter how much time that takes.<p>The networks blaming a &quot;rogue advertiser&quot; means they&#x27;re not even passing ads on their network through automated malware detection software, and so they have responsibility here.<p>Creepiness factor aside, the explosion of networks is a problem, because so very few are actually providing more than a basic service. We really should be holding networks responsible for their ads.<p>We did, and we haven&#x27;t had a complaint for a very long time.<p>Edit: this doesn&#x27;t absolve Forbes, especially if they did nothing to correct the problem.<p>Edit 2: by &quot;we should hold the networks responsible&quot; I mean &quot;we the publishers&quot; - and as that &quot;we&quot; we still have a responsibility to our users&#x2F;consumers. See Edit 1.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BlackFly</author><text>The problem isn&#x27;t advertisements per se, the problem is advertisement networks that track users and sell their profiles. The only thing I have installed that counts as an ad blocker is Ghostery. I still get served advertisements at conscientious websites like duckduckgo.com or any other place that doesn&#x27;t rely 100% on tracking networks.<p>Imagine if simply because you walked into Target, they hired a private investigator to follow you around and determine your personal habits, hobbies and other stores you visited. Imagine if they then used that information to attempt to lure you into the store, or sold that information to Best Buy so they could lure you into the store. I think most people would have a problem with such behavior. Making a more realistic physical analogy would be slipping an RFID token into your wallet without you noticing and only tracking you in stores that use the corresponding RFID reader.<p>In my opinion, tracking networks go the extra mile beyond a creepiness factor. My visit to your website isn&#x27;t tacit approval for you to peruse my browsing of other websites. I shouldn&#x27;t need to opt out of this behavior by installing Ghostery in the first place.</text></comment> | <story><title>Forbes asked readers to turn off adblockers then immediately served them malware</title><url>http://www.engadget.com/2016/01/08/you-say-advertising-i-say-block-that-malware/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>themartorana</author><text>Being that I make money from serving ads, I come at this a bit differently. In a lot of markets, it&#x27;s one of the most passive ways to make money, but to be sure, the creepiness factor has been advertisers&#x27; hubris-induced-downfall.<p>In any case, I haven&#x27;t seen anyone here mention the ad networks themselves. Every once and a while we would get a complaint about a bad ad - it wouldn&#x27;t dismiss, etc. Over time, we whittled down our network list to ad networks that strictly test and vet the ads they serve, no matter how much time that takes.<p>The networks blaming a &quot;rogue advertiser&quot; means they&#x27;re not even passing ads on their network through automated malware detection software, and so they have responsibility here.<p>Creepiness factor aside, the explosion of networks is a problem, because so very few are actually providing more than a basic service. We really should be holding networks responsible for their ads.<p>We did, and we haven&#x27;t had a complaint for a very long time.<p>Edit: this doesn&#x27;t absolve Forbes, especially if they did nothing to correct the problem.<p>Edit 2: by &quot;we should hold the networks responsible&quot; I mean &quot;we the publishers&quot; - and as that &quot;we&quot; we still have a responsibility to our users&#x2F;consumers. See Edit 1.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>geocar</author><text>&quot;Holding networks responsible&quot; sounds great, but the money chain isn&#x27;t transparent, so whether you hold them responsible or not is irrelevant: Users hold <i>you</i> responsible if they see your URL and have a bad day.<p>By the way, your website is down.</text></comment> |
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