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7,526,359 | 7,525,980 | 1 | 2 | 7,525,198 | train | <story><title>Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/03/brendan-eich-steps-down-as-mozilla-ceo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Crito</author><text>Nobodies&#x27; right to have different viewpoints is being taken away. Nobodies&#x27; right to donate to political causes is being taken away.<p>The only people in this entire story that were&#x2F;are trying to take away the rights of others were the people who pushed for Prop 8. The right to support legislation like Prop 8 remains intact. The right to not be criticized by others for doing so has never existed in the first place. There is no &quot;right to not be criticized&quot;.<p>[Edit] The voting swings on this comment indicate to me that it is controversial, so I will attempt clear some things up:<p>* Whether or not you believe that same sex couples <i>should</i> be allowed to marry, the fact is that before Prop 8 they <i>did</i> have the right to marry.<p>* The purpose of Prop 8 was to <i>remove</i> this right, because the supporters of Prop 8 felt that it should not be a right.<p>* After this entire series of events, Brendan remains free to donate to similar political causes in the future. He remains free to publicly hold these beliefs. He remains free to be a CEO.<p>* The general public remains free to criticize Brendan for anything that they please.<p>* The rest of the general public remains free to criticize those criticizing Brendan for his political beliefs.</text></item><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>This line of reasoning is very troubling to me, because 20 years ago it was pretty much unacceptable in the U.S. to hold the opinion that gays were entitled to full legal rights, let alone the ability to marry. That changed only because some very courageous people stuck their neck out, weathered all the flack and negative personal repercussions towards themselves, and gradually made the point of &quot;Why not?&quot;<p>I fully support gay marriage and I personally think Brendan is on the wrong side of this issue, but I also fully support the right of people to hold their own opinions, even when other people find them unpopular. If they weren&#x27;t allowed to hold unpopular opinions, then pretty much all the social progress we made in the last century - racial equality, feminism, gay rights, etc. - would never have happened.</text></item><item><author>danpalmer</author><text>I don&#x27;t think &#x27;integrity&#x27; in the face of an opinion that is becoming more and more unacceptable to hold in our culture is a good thing. Changing your views, and admitting you were wrong is the best thing you can do.</text></item><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>It speaks a lot to his integrity that he didn&#x27;t. Would you rather have a CEO who says one thing in public and then goes and does another thing surreptitiously, or one who stands up for his beliefs even when they&#x27;re unpopular?</text></item><item><author>phillmv</author><text>From the recode recap - <a href="http://recode.net/2014/04/03/mozilla-co-founder-brendan-eich-resigns-as-ceo-and-also-from-foundation-board/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;recode.net&#x2F;2014&#x2F;04&#x2F;03&#x2F;mozilla-co-founder-brendan-eich...</a><p>&gt;“It’s clear that Brendan cannot lead Mozilla in this setting,” said Baker, who added that she would not and could not speak for Eich. “The ability to lead — particularly for the CEO — is fundamental to the role and that is not possible here.”<p>The most damning aspect of this was their a) inability to predict this would be an issue and b) their inability to deal with it once it did.<p>All he had to do was lie and say &quot;I understand how my activities can be seen as divisive and wrong and inconsistent with my commitment to upholding the diverse values underpinning the Mozilla community and I apologize for my behaviour at the time. I will do everything in my power to make up for it and I hope the community can judge me based me on my record from this point onwards&quot;.<p>Then, find ways to anonymously engage in whatever political causes he supports, or wait till he&#x27;s no longer CEO.<p>The tone deafness of his last interview was kind of the last straw.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nilkn</author><text>I think you&#x27;re dismissing what has happened too lightly. The real issue here is mob mentality, and you&#x27;re underestimating the ways in which it can be dangerous and insidious.<p>People aren&#x27;t taking this seriously because in this case they disagree with Eich&#x27;s opinion, so they feel it&#x27;s all okay. They&#x27;re letting that blind them.<p>What if Eich actually had the &quot;right&quot; opinion? And this is hypothetical at this point--I&#x27;m not talking about gay rights anymore. Suppose you are an oracle and you know that the mob was wrong rather than right and Eich was right rather than wrong. Don&#x27;t fool yourself into thinking that things would be different. They wouldn&#x27;t, and this has caused extraordinary difficulty in righting many wrongs of the past, including slavery. It can severely impede the democratic process because people are afraid to hold dissenting opinions--not due to legal ramifications, but social ones.</text></comment> | <story><title>Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/03/brendan-eich-steps-down-as-mozilla-ceo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Crito</author><text>Nobodies&#x27; right to have different viewpoints is being taken away. Nobodies&#x27; right to donate to political causes is being taken away.<p>The only people in this entire story that were&#x2F;are trying to take away the rights of others were the people who pushed for Prop 8. The right to support legislation like Prop 8 remains intact. The right to not be criticized by others for doing so has never existed in the first place. There is no &quot;right to not be criticized&quot;.<p>[Edit] The voting swings on this comment indicate to me that it is controversial, so I will attempt clear some things up:<p>* Whether or not you believe that same sex couples <i>should</i> be allowed to marry, the fact is that before Prop 8 they <i>did</i> have the right to marry.<p>* The purpose of Prop 8 was to <i>remove</i> this right, because the supporters of Prop 8 felt that it should not be a right.<p>* After this entire series of events, Brendan remains free to donate to similar political causes in the future. He remains free to publicly hold these beliefs. He remains free to be a CEO.<p>* The general public remains free to criticize Brendan for anything that they please.<p>* The rest of the general public remains free to criticize those criticizing Brendan for his political beliefs.</text></item><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>This line of reasoning is very troubling to me, because 20 years ago it was pretty much unacceptable in the U.S. to hold the opinion that gays were entitled to full legal rights, let alone the ability to marry. That changed only because some very courageous people stuck their neck out, weathered all the flack and negative personal repercussions towards themselves, and gradually made the point of &quot;Why not?&quot;<p>I fully support gay marriage and I personally think Brendan is on the wrong side of this issue, but I also fully support the right of people to hold their own opinions, even when other people find them unpopular. If they weren&#x27;t allowed to hold unpopular opinions, then pretty much all the social progress we made in the last century - racial equality, feminism, gay rights, etc. - would never have happened.</text></item><item><author>danpalmer</author><text>I don&#x27;t think &#x27;integrity&#x27; in the face of an opinion that is becoming more and more unacceptable to hold in our culture is a good thing. Changing your views, and admitting you were wrong is the best thing you can do.</text></item><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>It speaks a lot to his integrity that he didn&#x27;t. Would you rather have a CEO who says one thing in public and then goes and does another thing surreptitiously, or one who stands up for his beliefs even when they&#x27;re unpopular?</text></item><item><author>phillmv</author><text>From the recode recap - <a href="http://recode.net/2014/04/03/mozilla-co-founder-brendan-eich-resigns-as-ceo-and-also-from-foundation-board/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;recode.net&#x2F;2014&#x2F;04&#x2F;03&#x2F;mozilla-co-founder-brendan-eich...</a><p>&gt;“It’s clear that Brendan cannot lead Mozilla in this setting,” said Baker, who added that she would not and could not speak for Eich. “The ability to lead — particularly for the CEO — is fundamental to the role and that is not possible here.”<p>The most damning aspect of this was their a) inability to predict this would be an issue and b) their inability to deal with it once it did.<p>All he had to do was lie and say &quot;I understand how my activities can be seen as divisive and wrong and inconsistent with my commitment to upholding the diverse values underpinning the Mozilla community and I apologize for my behaviour at the time. I will do everything in my power to make up for it and I hope the community can judge me based me on my record from this point onwards&quot;.<p>Then, find ways to anonymously engage in whatever political causes he supports, or wait till he&#x27;s no longer CEO.<p>The tone deafness of his last interview was kind of the last straw.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>malandrew</author><text>I&#x27;ll tell you what we should do. We shouldn&#x27;t give those rights to gay people <i>and we should take away those rights from straight people as well</i>. The status quo is a clear discrimination of people who choose not to marry, but may have others in their lives where it would be mutually beneficial to opt into an agreement where they share some of those rights&#x2F;benefits.<p>Each one of the rights currently afforded to people in a marriage or civil union should be split up and any two people for whatever reason should be able to opt into some, none or all of those rights.<p>I&#x27;m hoping that one day those pushing for additional rights afforded only to married people, straight or gay, get the exact same treatment that Eich did here.<p>Marriage shouldn&#x27;t even be within the purview of the government, only religions.</text></comment> |
4,071,327 | 4,070,467 | 1 | 3 | 4,069,613 | train | <story><title>Salt, We Misjudged You</title><url>http://nytimes.com/2012/06/03/opinion/sunday/we-only-think-we-know-the-truth-about-salt.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arn</author><text>So, I always cringe a little when I read medical conclusions in the mainstream media. And I'll be upfront. I'm probably biased on the side of medicine on this one. I'm a former nephrologist.<p>The one study this person mentions by name (and dismisses) is the DASH-Sodium Study.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DASH_diet#Study_Results" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DASH_diet#Study_Results</a><p>"Like the previous study, it was based on a large sample (412 participants) and was a multi-center, randomized, outpatient feeding study where the subjects were given all their food."<p>"The DASH-Sodium study found that reductions in sodium intake produced significantly lower systolic and diastolic blood pressures in both the control and DASH diets. Study results indicate that the quantity of dietary sodium in the control diet was twice as powerful in its effect on blood pressure as it was in the DASH diet."<p>So, positive conclusions (lower salt -&#62; lower blood pressure) in a seemingly well designed study. People were randomized, it was prospective, and people given all their food. So, change one thing and see what happens.<p>The author here seems to cite other studies to make the opposing case (low salt = bad), but doesn't give exact references. I did a quick google search and found this one: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/04/health/research/04salt.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/04/health/research/04salt.htm...</a> But you can already tell it's an inferior study. "It involved only those without high blood pressure at the start, was observational, considered at best suggestive and not conclusive."<p>So, let's try to compare apples to apples.<p>He points out that the DASH study didn't conclude anything about death or cardiovascular disease. Yes, that's true. So sure, there's a chance that despite blood pressure reductions a low salt diet could cause problems. But it's not the obvious conclusion. Anyone have any solid studies on this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joe_the_user</author><text>Uh,<p>He points out that the study followed people for <i>30 days</i>.<p>And made recommendations for life-long behavior.<p>And wasn't looking at final results but markers (blood pressure).<p>And was the main argument against salt consumption when we do have some data on people's life-long behaviors and their result.<p>And this wasn't "medicine" that spoke but a particular institution making recommendations.<p>Edit: removed possibly inflammatory point</text></comment> | <story><title>Salt, We Misjudged You</title><url>http://nytimes.com/2012/06/03/opinion/sunday/we-only-think-we-know-the-truth-about-salt.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arn</author><text>So, I always cringe a little when I read medical conclusions in the mainstream media. And I'll be upfront. I'm probably biased on the side of medicine on this one. I'm a former nephrologist.<p>The one study this person mentions by name (and dismisses) is the DASH-Sodium Study.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DASH_diet#Study_Results" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DASH_diet#Study_Results</a><p>"Like the previous study, it was based on a large sample (412 participants) and was a multi-center, randomized, outpatient feeding study where the subjects were given all their food."<p>"The DASH-Sodium study found that reductions in sodium intake produced significantly lower systolic and diastolic blood pressures in both the control and DASH diets. Study results indicate that the quantity of dietary sodium in the control diet was twice as powerful in its effect on blood pressure as it was in the DASH diet."<p>So, positive conclusions (lower salt -&#62; lower blood pressure) in a seemingly well designed study. People were randomized, it was prospective, and people given all their food. So, change one thing and see what happens.<p>The author here seems to cite other studies to make the opposing case (low salt = bad), but doesn't give exact references. I did a quick google search and found this one: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/04/health/research/04salt.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/04/health/research/04salt.htm...</a> But you can already tell it's an inferior study. "It involved only those without high blood pressure at the start, was observational, considered at best suggestive and not conclusive."<p>So, let's try to compare apples to apples.<p>He points out that the DASH study didn't conclude anything about death or cardiovascular disease. Yes, that's true. So sure, there's a chance that despite blood pressure reductions a low salt diet could cause problems. But it's not the obvious conclusion. Anyone have any solid studies on this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>streptomycin</author><text>&#62; I always cringe a little when I read medical conclusions in the mainstream media.<p>I usually do too, especially articles about nutrition which are notoriously unreliable due to the near complete lack of randomized, controlled, prospective studies and the abundance of observational studies, but this one doesn't seem too bad. In fact, the same author published a similar article in Science last millennium <a href="http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/users/rice/Stat2/salt.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/users/rice/Stat2/salt.html</a> so I don't think you can blame the mainstream media too much here if they're just printing an article similar to what would satisfy Science's editorial standards.</text></comment> |
28,818,325 | 28,817,876 | 1 | 2 | 28,817,477 | train | <story><title>Nix-GUI: Make NixOS usable for non-technical users through settings / GUI</title><url>https://github.com/nix-gui/nix-gui</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>suchar</author><text>I think NixOS would benefit from easily accessible collection of opinionated modules&#x2F;profiles&#x2F;configurations with minimal set of options. Something like gnome-desktop &#x2F; sway-desktop &#x2F; etc. Gnome actually does pretty good job here.<p>The point is: currently my NixOS and Home Manager configurations have over 2k LOC total. When you search for configurations on GitHub&#x2F;Google you are likely to find complex ones. For example, quick search for &quot;nixos gnome&quot; (Google) gives me link to NixOS Wiki (which describes only Gnome part) and blog post (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gvolpe.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;gnome3-on-nixos&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gvolpe.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;gnome3-on-nixos&#x2F;</a>) which is useful but links to really huge configuration (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gvolpe&#x2F;nix-config" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gvolpe&#x2F;nix-config</a>) that is overwhelming to any beginner.<p>Great example of such approach is nixos-hardware (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;NixOS&#x2F;nixos-hardware" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;NixOS&#x2F;nixos-hardware</a>) which provides one-line configuration covering hardware quirks.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nix-GUI: Make NixOS usable for non-technical users through settings / GUI</title><url>https://github.com/nix-gui/nix-gui</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xyzzy_plugh</author><text>A lot of odd Nix hate in here, or at least extreme dislike.<p>NixOS is so very usable. There are a lot of foot-guns but that&#x27;s true of Linux systems.<p>It takes some time to get comfortable with all the different ways to configure stuff. There&#x27;s a new language, a new build system, a new Linux distribution.<p>I&#x27;ve spent very little time relative to say, figuring out dpkg or systemd, or learning Bash or C or Perl, or learning the Linux FHS.<p>NixOS makes running deterministic systems driven from a single configuration incredibly easy.<p>Nix the language and tools allow you to build software deterministically and create environments where that software is available (e.g. on $PATH).<p>Nix Flakes is an experimental feature aimed at bringing reproducible and hermetic configurations of dependencies into the fold (i.e. lock files, ala Gem or Cargo or Go Modules).<p>Nix-the-tool&#x27;s interactive &quot;package manager&quot; should be deprecated, as it&#x27;s a huge pitfall for most developers. But it works and is frankly a good first step for folks coming from Apt or Homebrew.<p>Learning to write modules is probably the steepest learning curve, but compared to learning how to build RPMs or Dpkg or Brew recipes, it&#x27;s really not bad at all. I actually find it <i>easier</i> and I&#x27;ve been at this for less than a year. Sure, if you&#x27;re trying to get something working no one has figured out yet you may be in for a pickle, but that feels like it&#x27;s always been true. The difference is a lot of software breaks and bends the rules and boundaries constructed to keep things and people sane. Nix does not allow that, generally, which is a very good thing. Fixing other people&#x27;s garbage is the bane of any package system maintainer, it&#x27;s no different here.</text></comment> |
21,294,853 | 21,293,246 | 1 | 2 | 21,292,205 | train | <story><title>Email marketing regulations around the world</title><url>https://github.com/threeheartsdigital/email-marketing-regulations</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jermaustin1</author><text>What about notification of an actual account level feature like: &quot;We now support instant transfers between you, and your family&#x2F;friends!&quot;?<p>Would you still consider that a marketing email or a notification?</text></item><item><author>United857</author><text>I usually opt-out of all marketing emails whenever I can, but my pet peeve is when e.g. my bank tells me about a new feature in their mobile app or something otherwise trivial, and claims it&#x27;s a &quot;important account-related&quot; email that I can&#x27;t opt out of.<p>To me, important is &quot;We saw $5000 charges to your account from Elbonia, can you verify?&quot;. &quot;Download our new app with new redesigned UI!&quot; is not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kerkeslager</author><text>A marketing email.<p>Just because I am a user of some of your products is not permission to market me your other products.<p>Your example even reads like a marketing release. You&#x27;ve really somehow determined who my family and friends are, and you now support instant transfers to that specific group of people? If it were true it would be creepy, but it&#x27;s unlikely. The reality is probably that you support instant transfers to other accounts at the bank, or within a network of banks, which is obviously useful, but you have no idea who might own accounts I would transfer to, and you&#x27;re citing friends and family because it plays as more social. You know what the feature is, but you didn&#x27;t describe it accurately--that&#x27;s <i>not exactly</i> a lie, but it&#x27;s certainly not honest either. The reason you&#x27;re not just saying what you mean is because you&#x27;re trying to sell me something you know I&#x27;m not that interested in.</text></comment> | <story><title>Email marketing regulations around the world</title><url>https://github.com/threeheartsdigital/email-marketing-regulations</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jermaustin1</author><text>What about notification of an actual account level feature like: &quot;We now support instant transfers between you, and your family&#x2F;friends!&quot;?<p>Would you still consider that a marketing email or a notification?</text></item><item><author>United857</author><text>I usually opt-out of all marketing emails whenever I can, but my pet peeve is when e.g. my bank tells me about a new feature in their mobile app or something otherwise trivial, and claims it&#x27;s a &quot;important account-related&quot; email that I can&#x27;t opt out of.<p>To me, important is &quot;We saw $5000 charges to your account from Elbonia, can you verify?&quot;. &quot;Download our new app with new redesigned UI!&quot; is not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>United857</author><text>It&#x27;s marketing to me. It&#x27;s fine if you communicate it via your website or app when I log in. But do not send me email, SMS or push notifications about these things if I don&#x27;t want it, those should be reserved for &quot;action required&quot; things.</text></comment> |
13,528,736 | 13,527,237 | 1 | 3 | 13,525,993 | train | <story><title>Taxi Medallion Prices Are Plummeting, Endangering Loans</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-30/taxi-medallion-prices-are-plummeting-endangering-loans</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pfarnsworth</author><text>I wonder where all of a sudden all this mass sympathy for taxi drivers come from. I guess no one remembers how shitty and expensive trying to get a cab was in SF not even 10 years ago. I for one will be celebrating when the entire medallion system is completely dismantled and all the monopolists who exploited that system are bankrupt.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>moomin</author><text>Londoner here. From my perspective the medallion system always seemed crazy. Contrast with London, in which becoming a licensed cab driver requires you to pass examinations, health and character checks, but the actual ticket price is pretty cheap in comparison. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tfl.gov.uk&#x2F;info-for&#x2F;taxis-and-private-hire&#x2F;licensing&#x2F;apply-for-a-taxi-driver-licence#on-this-page-1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tfl.gov.uk&#x2F;info-for&#x2F;taxis-and-private-hire&#x2F;licensing...</a><p>The difference being: London saw a need for cab drivers and introduced licensing to ensure quality, New York (and other cities) saw a need for cab drivers and saw a revenue stream.</text></comment> | <story><title>Taxi Medallion Prices Are Plummeting, Endangering Loans</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-30/taxi-medallion-prices-are-plummeting-endangering-loans</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pfarnsworth</author><text>I wonder where all of a sudden all this mass sympathy for taxi drivers come from. I guess no one remembers how shitty and expensive trying to get a cab was in SF not even 10 years ago. I for one will be celebrating when the entire medallion system is completely dismantled and all the monopolists who exploited that system are bankrupt.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>benjaminjt</author><text>Wasn&#x27;t the system that you seem to be condemning at least in part exploiting taxi drivers? Why wouldn&#x27;t that earn them your sympathy?</text></comment> |
11,266,728 | 11,266,632 | 1 | 2 | 11,265,948 | train | <story><title>A SimCity inspired city builder where you design an MMO RPG</title><url>https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=50706.msg1188742</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nyandaber</author><text>Reminds me of Dungeon Keeper, a old PC game where you have to build your own dungeon, with rooms for your monsters, treasure room, magic room to research spells, etc. Heroes try to invade your dungeon, and you also have to fight neighbouring dungeons. One of the cool feature was that while monsters were controlled by an AI, you could take manual control of one, going to a first person view and playing like a FPS game.<p>So yeah, seeing this feels like Dungeon Keeper meets Minecraft. Which could be very interesting if executed properly, but it&#x27;s not going to be easy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>agumonkey</author><text>Not abandonware it seems <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gog.com&#x2F;game&#x2F;dungeon_keeper" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gog.com&#x2F;game&#x2F;dungeon_keeper</a> (5$)</text></comment> | <story><title>A SimCity inspired city builder where you design an MMO RPG</title><url>https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=50706.msg1188742</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nyandaber</author><text>Reminds me of Dungeon Keeper, a old PC game where you have to build your own dungeon, with rooms for your monsters, treasure room, magic room to research spells, etc. Heroes try to invade your dungeon, and you also have to fight neighbouring dungeons. One of the cool feature was that while monsters were controlled by an AI, you could take manual control of one, going to a first person view and playing like a FPS game.<p>So yeah, seeing this feels like Dungeon Keeper meets Minecraft. Which could be very interesting if executed properly, but it&#x27;s not going to be easy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thedaemon</author><text>Dungeon Keeper is still one of the best PC games ever. I still play it to this day. I wish they would come out with an updated version, like DK1.. not DK2.</text></comment> |
10,946,850 | 10,946,371 | 1 | 2 | 10,945,143 | train | <story><title>JavaScript web apps considered valuable</title><url>http://molily.de/javascript-web-apps/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TimJYoung</author><text>This is what I tell potential customers that are evaluating our product that creates single-page web applications where the JS dynamically creates all content: if you want search engines to crawl the content, then you&#x27;re not using the right product. It&#x27;s a surprisingly easy decision when viewed in those terms. Most SAAS products that likely would be implemented as SPAs do not care about public search engine access, and are only used by B2B customers where you can dictate a certain minimum standard in terms of browser versions (IE).<p>Everything else should be a traditional static web site with &quot;decorative&quot; JS, or &quot;progressive enhancement&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Wintamute</author><text>The &quot;holy grail&quot; architecture whereby the first request sends a fully formed HTML response which is then immediately hydrated with a JS frontend app that takes over routing and data gathering is now pretty technically feasible. It&#x27;s the best of all worlds ... fast static content for the first load, and then fast frontend routing thereafter. If you ward your clients away from this path you&#x27;re doing them a disservice. With this stack JS web apps no longer need to be app-like, they&#x27;re well suited to content-heavy sites too. They even work with JS turned off :)</text></comment> | <story><title>JavaScript web apps considered valuable</title><url>http://molily.de/javascript-web-apps/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TimJYoung</author><text>This is what I tell potential customers that are evaluating our product that creates single-page web applications where the JS dynamically creates all content: if you want search engines to crawl the content, then you&#x27;re not using the right product. It&#x27;s a surprisingly easy decision when viewed in those terms. Most SAAS products that likely would be implemented as SPAs do not care about public search engine access, and are only used by B2B customers where you can dictate a certain minimum standard in terms of browser versions (IE).<p>Everything else should be a traditional static web site with &quot;decorative&quot; JS, or &quot;progressive enhancement&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>onion2k</author><text>Google can and does crawl Javascript driven web apps. Last year they even deprecated the AJAX crawling scheme that they used to recommend on the basis that they can now crawl web apps: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;deprecating-our-ajax-crawling-scheme.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;deprec...</a></text></comment> |
23,014,748 | 23,014,763 | 1 | 3 | 23,014,461 | train | <story><title>Uber CTO resigns amidst 5400 employee layoff</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/28/thuan-pham-who-fled-vietnam-as-a-child-and-became-ubers-cto-in-2013-is-leaving-the-company/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>teruakohatu</author><text>&gt; and offering only a carp over their heads<p>Is this an American term? Or is it a typo for &#x27;tarp&#x27;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>partomniscient</author><text>I wondered the same thing. Sleeping under a fish just seems kind of odd.</text></comment> | <story><title>Uber CTO resigns amidst 5400 employee layoff</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/28/thuan-pham-who-fled-vietnam-as-a-child-and-became-ubers-cto-in-2013-is-leaving-the-company/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>teruakohatu</author><text>&gt; and offering only a carp over their heads<p>Is this an American term? Or is it a typo for &#x27;tarp&#x27;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>labster</author><text>Not an American term. Just a typo that, like everything about Uber, is a little too fishy.</text></comment> |
18,713,962 | 18,713,973 | 1 | 2 | 18,713,499 | train | <story><title>Man sues feds after being detained for refusing to unlock his phone at airport</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/12/man-sues-feds-after-being-detained-for-refusing-to-unlock-his-phone-at-airport/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bruceb</author><text>The problem with Customs and Border Protection is the attitude. They do have a challenging job. 99%+ of travelers are legit and doing nothing nefarious. They have to pick out the ones who are not legit&#x2F;up to no good. I have no problem with them asking questions of myself or other travelers, even a lot of questions.<p>The problem is the attitude and abusive nature of their conduct. I have had this experience a couple times and one time with my mother and I am a citizen.
Plenty of other countries have customs&#x2F;border agents that quiz you without attacking or belittling you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zachberger</author><text>I agree.<p>I went through the TSA checkpoint at the United Premier Access this last Tuesday. They have the new automated bin return system. Some of the people who travel less frequently were leaving the bins behind instead of putting them in the machine to be returned to the front. The TSA agent shouted at them repeatedly, &quot;do any of you read English? Can&#x27;t you read the damn sign?&quot; While he pointed at the instructions. He did this for the entire time I was near the checkpoint.<p>This is belittling. Not everyone flys frequently and knows this process. How about respecting them and teaching them the new way?<p>I wanted to say something to one of the other agents, but why risk ending up on a list especially when it&#x27;s this hard to get through now.</text></comment> | <story><title>Man sues feds after being detained for refusing to unlock his phone at airport</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/12/man-sues-feds-after-being-detained-for-refusing-to-unlock-his-phone-at-airport/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bruceb</author><text>The problem with Customs and Border Protection is the attitude. They do have a challenging job. 99%+ of travelers are legit and doing nothing nefarious. They have to pick out the ones who are not legit&#x2F;up to no good. I have no problem with them asking questions of myself or other travelers, even a lot of questions.<p>The problem is the attitude and abusive nature of their conduct. I have had this experience a couple times and one time with my mother and I am a citizen.
Plenty of other countries have customs&#x2F;border agents that quiz you without attacking or belittling you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bonestamp2</author><text>&gt; Plenty of other countries have customs&#x2F;border agents that quiz you without attacking or belittling you.<p>I agree. I am Canadian, but I went to school in the US. After school I returned to Canada. A couple years later I had a US work visa to train Americans on a particular technology that my company specialized in, and I was maybe the foremost expert in (outside of the manufacturer). I wasn&#x27;t taking anyone&#x27;s job, I was literally helping Americans keep their jobs instead of being replaced by me or someone like me.<p>Anyway, on one particular trip I was called to secondary inspection and the CBP officer who received me there went on a long tirade about how I should work in my own country for a change. I mean, I did work in my country most of the time (I was still well within the 183 day&#x2F;year tax treaty limit). He got so mad he actually walked away before he even asked me any questions. I was just standing there, confused, embarrassed and left feeling guilty even though I had done nothing illegal or immoral.<p>But, there are good people in the CBP too... one saw what happened and came over and profusely apologized. He asked a few questions, apologized again, and sent me on my way. On the flip side, I&#x27;ve had my computers and phones searched by Canadian Customs and they&#x27;ve done so with tact and compassion, which seems to be much more effective -- it&#x27;s amazing how much more cooperative people are when you treat them with compassion.<p>But that&#x27;s not just CBP, that&#x27;s true for every industry that I&#x27;ve worked in... there are a few assholes everywhere and everyone else who is cool is a lot more effective because they approach people like they&#x27;re working together rather than against each other.</text></comment> |
40,426,148 | 40,426,023 | 1 | 2 | 40,425,403 | train | <story><title>The OpenAI board was right</title><url>https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-openai-board-was-right</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>camillomiller</author><text>Why isn’t anyone stopping for a minute to think what happens in that darn movie?
Why is it even ok to want your AI to sound like the AI from her?
Why are the people leading AI and tech today so shallow when it comes to cultural depictions of their role?
Unless they would actually like to be the villain.</text></item><item><author>Y_Y</author><text>sama is a chancer, no doubt, but I take issue with this article&#x27;s angle.<p>Clearly they wanted something reminiscend of the film &quot;Her&quot;. Since Scarlett Johansson didn&#x27;t want to do they voice they hired someone else. The voice they used is that of their voice actor, not Scarlett Johansson. She owns her own voice, but I don&#x27;t think she has any rights to voices that merely sound like hers, when they&#x27;re not being used to fraudently imply that she&#x27;s involved.<p>So movies are really influential on culture, and I think there should be broad scope for &quot;taking inspiration&quot; as long as it stops short of plagiarism. Think how many works you&#x27;ve seen that are obviously heavily inspired by e.g. 2001: A Space Odyssey. I don&#x27;t think the vibe of &quot;I&#x27;m sorry Dave, I can&#x27;t let you do that&quot; as belonging to the voice actor Douglas Rain, or Kubrick or Clark. And that&#x27;s what a good thing! Producing cultural works must feed the production of future works and I&#x27;d like to permit all but the most blantant ripoffs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dTal</author><text>This observation is so widespread it now has a handy shorthand in the form of a meme, the &quot;Torment Nexus&quot;:<p>Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale<p>Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don&#x27;t Create The Torment Nexus<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;knowyourmeme.com&#x2F;memes&#x2F;torment-nexus" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;knowyourmeme.com&#x2F;memes&#x2F;torment-nexus</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The OpenAI board was right</title><url>https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-openai-board-was-right</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>camillomiller</author><text>Why isn’t anyone stopping for a minute to think what happens in that darn movie?
Why is it even ok to want your AI to sound like the AI from her?
Why are the people leading AI and tech today so shallow when it comes to cultural depictions of their role?
Unless they would actually like to be the villain.</text></item><item><author>Y_Y</author><text>sama is a chancer, no doubt, but I take issue with this article&#x27;s angle.<p>Clearly they wanted something reminiscend of the film &quot;Her&quot;. Since Scarlett Johansson didn&#x27;t want to do they voice they hired someone else. The voice they used is that of their voice actor, not Scarlett Johansson. She owns her own voice, but I don&#x27;t think she has any rights to voices that merely sound like hers, when they&#x27;re not being used to fraudently imply that she&#x27;s involved.<p>So movies are really influential on culture, and I think there should be broad scope for &quot;taking inspiration&quot; as long as it stops short of plagiarism. Think how many works you&#x27;ve seen that are obviously heavily inspired by e.g. 2001: A Space Odyssey. I don&#x27;t think the vibe of &quot;I&#x27;m sorry Dave, I can&#x27;t let you do that&quot; as belonging to the voice actor Douglas Rain, or Kubrick or Clark. And that&#x27;s what a good thing! Producing cultural works must feed the production of future works and I&#x27;d like to permit all but the most blantant ripoffs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tidenly</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen this take quite a lot around Twitter recently, which is confusing to me. Do you read Her as a &quot;AI assistants are bad&quot; story? I thought it was a much more subtle exploration of what our world would be like if such things existed, rather than outright condemning it, but it seems like lots of people saw only horror start to finish.</text></comment> |
12,747,353 | 12,745,971 | 1 | 2 | 12,744,737 | train | <story><title>Why the Film Industry Hasn't Been Disrupted Yet, Part 5</title><url>http://endcrawl.com/blog/film-not-disrupted-yet-part-5/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Keyframe</author><text>It&#x27;s a multi-tiered problem with each one with its own complexities. I don&#x27;t want to write a long story now, but I want to emphasise one and one thing only.<p>If you want to disrupt film and&#x2F;or tv industry then you have to disrupt people, not technology (by much). It&#x27;s a people problem.<p>It takes a lot of people in a collaborative manner to work on a product like that, with each person being skilled and expensive. You need a lot of people like that for a long time. You also need wood, nails, paint, cars, space, energy... lots of those in order to build sets. And someone to imagine them and someone to design them.<p>Having a fancy camera, grip, lenses is a tiny tiny proportion of any reasonable-sized budget. Most of the money goes to people and towards materials, rentals and space for sets.<p>It&#x27;s a lot of money too, if you want to make something reasonable. Not everything can be made on a small budget with innovative story. Some products can, but not majority.<p>What it means is that you need a lot of cash, and for that you need investors (or deep pockets and then you don&#x27;t care, maybe). With investors there are expectations of return on investment. And with that you&#x27;re in the realm of distribution.. and then real complexities come forward.<p>You can&#x27;t expect to raise anything moderate in crowd-funding for these types of products. It&#x27;s too much for the level where that is now.<p>Note: I work in this industry. I have or have access to free state-of-the-art cameras, grip, lenses, even studio facilities and more, yet I can&#x27;t make a movie just like that. I still need to pay lots of people to do their job and pay the materials for (at least some) sets or set dressing.<p>It&#x27;s a people problem. They need to eat and pay bills and they don&#x27;t care (much) about your grand vision if you&#x27;re not paying.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why the Film Industry Hasn't Been Disrupted Yet, Part 5</title><url>http://endcrawl.com/blog/film-not-disrupted-yet-part-5/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jasode</author><text>The article&#x27;s Part 1 refers to an old HN thread and buried in there is a good comment from
anactofgod about &quot;disrupting Hollywood&quot;:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=3491584" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=3491584</a><p>His analysis has similar to themes to the misunderstanding of &quot;gatekeepers&quot; like Netflix &#x2F; Amazon Video &#x2F; HBO and why they exist.<p>Gatekeepers are an <i>emergent property</i> of artists not having money to self-finance their projects -- and -- also not wanting to mess around with tasks that are unrelated to creativity such as managing a web server farm to distribute their videos to their fans.<p>There was a recent HN thread where people were frustrated that they had to pay for multiple streaming services (Netflix&#x2F;Hulu&#x2F;Amazon) to get <i>all</i> the shows they wanted. Several suggested that we need to move towards a decentralized P2P distribution platform. Unfortunately, as techies and programmers, we don&#x27;t consider the underlying economic forces that created the centralized gatekeepers in the first place. For example... if director&#x2F;producer David Fincher wants the highest payment for his project, he can go to Netflix execs and convince them give him $100 million[1]. How would he get that kind of payday from decentralized systems such as IPFS &#x2F; Sandstorm &#x2F; DECENT[2]?<p>[1]<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hollywoodreporter.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;netflix-outbids-hbo-david-fincher-167882" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hollywoodreporter.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;netflix-outbids-hbo-da...</a><p>[2]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;decent.ch&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;decent.ch&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
19,363,409 | 19,363,026 | 1 | 2 | 19,361,208 | train | <story><title>Beware the data science pin factory: The power of the data science generalist</title><url>https://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2019/03/11/FullStackDS-Generalists/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reilly3000</author><text>I really wish hiring managers read this. I am a data generalist, and have had no traction with obtaining even an interview for a data science job. I’ve setup a private JupyterHub where I run python ETL, interactive models, and dashboards. I deployed Metabase several times and have written hundreds of SQL queries. I’ve used Tableau with gigantic datasets. I built a front end serverless analytics pipeline from scratch with AWS that handles 30M events&#x2F;mo. I&#x27;ve demonstrably grown revenue and margins in multiple contexts with my data products. I’m working on making a fully dynamic frontend for content recommendations. I have self-taught all of these skills in the past 3 years after a decade in sales, marketing, and entrepreneurship. What I haven’t done: a CS&#x2F;math degree (mine was music), graduate work, or tech work at a household name. Lived in the Bay Area. Gotten an interview for any data job. Sigh.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sidlls</author><text>None of what you describe is something I&#x27;d hire into a data science role specifically. Some of those skills are skills I&#x27;d expect a data scientist to have (e.g. SQL skills). A data scientist in this context has to have an understanding of basic statistics generally: hypothesis testing, modelling techniques and their applications, and performance tuning and evaluation. They also need to understand how to devise and run experiments that collect and make use of data in practice (i.e. &quot;real world&quot; data). I wouldn&#x27;t necessarily expect a candidate to be able to derive the formulas involved, but it would be the odd candidate who truly grasped the nuances who could not do so.</text></comment> | <story><title>Beware the data science pin factory: The power of the data science generalist</title><url>https://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2019/03/11/FullStackDS-Generalists/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reilly3000</author><text>I really wish hiring managers read this. I am a data generalist, and have had no traction with obtaining even an interview for a data science job. I’ve setup a private JupyterHub where I run python ETL, interactive models, and dashboards. I deployed Metabase several times and have written hundreds of SQL queries. I’ve used Tableau with gigantic datasets. I built a front end serverless analytics pipeline from scratch with AWS that handles 30M events&#x2F;mo. I&#x27;ve demonstrably grown revenue and margins in multiple contexts with my data products. I’m working on making a fully dynamic frontend for content recommendations. I have self-taught all of these skills in the past 3 years after a decade in sales, marketing, and entrepreneurship. What I haven’t done: a CS&#x2F;math degree (mine was music), graduate work, or tech work at a household name. Lived in the Bay Area. Gotten an interview for any data job. Sigh.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>opportune</author><text>The one thing I see kind of missing is a math background or at least a project proving that that is in your skillset (recommendations sounds like it could fit this). There are a lot of people with a similar background to you and normally those are in &quot;business intelligence&#x2F;analytics&quot; or &quot;data engineering&quot; where they are mostly writing sql queries and interacting with dashboards&#x2F;OLAP cubes or setting up those dashboards&#x2F;cubes.<p>That&#x27;s perfectly fine but it&#x27;s not what traditionally is referred to as data science. I&#x27;m actually quite annoyed at what has been happening to the term data science lately - it&#x27;s supposed to be some stats-heavy&#x2F;applied-AI role but a lot of companies hiring &quot;data scientists&quot; are really just hiring SQL jockeys.<p>Personally I&#x27;ve done both data science and data infrastructure and I like infrastructure a lot more anyway. And it sounds like you are somewhat qualified for that with some of your pipeline work (although big data experience is also important). A LOT of data science departments have no idea what type of business value they are supposed to be adding, are doing shitty boring work with glorified titles, or are improperly integrated with the company at large (bad productionizing processes, poor data infrastructure). There&#x27;s always going to be a need for data infrastructure but the &quot;data science&quot; hype is going to fade once all the shitty data departments cut the fat.</text></comment> |
27,780,966 | 27,777,414 | 1 | 3 | 27,774,584 | train | <story><title>The Greatest Regex Trick Ever (2014)</title><url>http://rexegg.com/regex-best-trick.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jandrese</author><text>The more general tip is that a single regex isn&#x27;t the only tool you have. You don&#x27;t have to get your final product one one step. Almost every &quot;disaster&quot; regex comes from someone trying to do too much at once.<p>One other solution would have been to run the regex twice, once to pick up all instances of Tarzan, and a second on the results of the first to filter out all instances of &quot;Tarzan&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WJW</author><text>This is also often the problem with disaster SQL queries. I&#x27;ve seen some monsters that got hopelessly tangled up in their own JOIN constraints, trying to fetch all the data in one roundtrip because OMG LATENCY but then having to do full table scans over large-ish tables instead. Rewriting it as three small indexed queries reduced the runtime from 40 minutes (!) to less than a second.<p>Don&#x27;t do too much in one operation whether it&#x27;s regexes, SQL queries or OOP classes!</text></comment> | <story><title>The Greatest Regex Trick Ever (2014)</title><url>http://rexegg.com/regex-best-trick.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jandrese</author><text>The more general tip is that a single regex isn&#x27;t the only tool you have. You don&#x27;t have to get your final product one one step. Almost every &quot;disaster&quot; regex comes from someone trying to do too much at once.<p>One other solution would have been to run the regex twice, once to pick up all instances of Tarzan, and a second on the results of the first to filter out all instances of &quot;Tarzan&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>usrusr</author><text>A big source of trying to do too much is environments that offer easy regex-based transformations defined as a pair of regex and a single replacement string (that may contain references to matching groups) and make other transformations hard (&quot;while find + rest&quot;). When you have the option to provide a &quot;process match&quot; closure instead of the replacement string the lure of putting too much into a single regex almost collapses.</text></comment> |
35,305,411 | 35,305,623 | 1 | 3 | 35,305,079 | train | <story><title>Hospitals are reporting new mothers for neglect from poppyseed false positives</title><url>https://reason.com/2023/03/23/hospitals-are-still-reporting-new-mothers-for-neglect-based-on-drug-tests-triggered-by-poppy-seeds/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&gt; To guard against false positives, the Mandatory Guidelines for Federal Workplace Drug Testing Programs, published in 2017, require a codeine cutoff of 2,000 nanograms per milliliter of urine. But the Hackensack University Medical Center&#x27;s lab, according to Kate&#x27;s complaint, used a cutoff of 300 ng&#x2F;ml, less than one-sixth the federal standard. Virtua Voorhees Hospital&#x27;s lab, according to Kaitlin&#x27;s complaint, used a cutoff of just 10 ng&#x2F;ml, 99.5 percent lower than the recommended level.<p>Using a cutoff that is 200 times more strict than standard drug testing practices without giving the patient any warning that they’ll be tested (and guidance to avoid poppy seed foods) is asking for false positives.<p>Given that the other cases resulted in six-figure settlements, it’s surprising that this practice continues.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hospitals are reporting new mothers for neglect from poppyseed false positives</title><url>https://reason.com/2023/03/23/hospitals-are-still-reporting-new-mothers-for-neglect-based-on-drug-tests-triggered-by-poppy-seeds/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tristor</author><text>There are at least 5 separate issues at play here, but the one most front-and-center in my mind is that under no circumstance should any medical procedure be done on any person in the US without informed consent of the person, their guardian, or their medical PoA.<p>Even if a procedure is &quot;medically necessary&quot;, that does not give doctors the permission to do that procedure without your informed consent. When a procedure is not &quot;medically necessary&quot;, it&#x27;s even worse. There are people who refuse &quot;medically necessary&quot; procedures every day in this country on numerous different grounds, including religious grounds, and this is deeply legally protected and well upheld in case law.<p>There is no valid justification for the behavior of these hospitals.</text></comment> |
26,817,257 | 26,815,148 | 1 | 3 | 26,813,922 | train | <story><title>I am Sophie Zhang, Facebook whistleblower. Ask me anything</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/mqw86u/i_am_sophie_zhang_whistleblower_at_fb_i_worked_to/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rediguanayum</author><text>Sophie Zhang mentioned that there was a Guardian article where she publicly blows the whistle on Facebook management (and lack) of inauthentically published information. This appears to be that article: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;2021&#x2F;apr&#x2F;12&#x2F;facebook-fake-engagement-whistleblower-sophie-zhang" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;2021&#x2F;apr&#x2F;12&#x2F;facebook-...</a><p>FWIW I&#x27;m sad that this thread is full of trolling, negative comments. I for one am glad that Sophie took a stand to do right for society and the world in the capacity that she had in Facebook. A very small silver lining, is that her work is an example of abuses on social networks being fought successfully, if given resources. And perhaps her Guardian piece will provide leverage to get those resources.</text></comment> | <story><title>I am Sophie Zhang, Facebook whistleblower. Ask me anything</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/mqw86u/i_am_sophie_zhang_whistleblower_at_fb_i_worked_to/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>flowerlad</author><text>This shows how powerful social networks have become, and how that power is harming society. Regulation and supervision by independent entities is one solution.</text></comment> |
27,149,211 | 27,148,235 | 1 | 2 | 27,147,482 | train | <story><title>Fly’s Prometheus Metrics</title><url>https://fly.io/blog/measuring-fly/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hstaab</author><text>Does anyone here have experience using Fly? I’ve seen a few of their posts and it seems quite nice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jbarham</author><text>I recently started using Fly to host the anycast DNS name servers for my DNS hosting service SlickDNS (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slickdns.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slickdns.com&#x2F;</a>).<p>There were some initial teething issues as Fly only recently added UDP support, but they were very responsive to the various bugs I reported and fixed them. My name servers have been running problem free for several weeks now.<p>The Fly UX via the flyctl command-line app is excellent, very Heroku-like.<p>For apps that need anycast the only real alternative to Fly that I found is AWS Global Accelerator, but it limits you to two anycast IP addresses, it&#x27;s much more expensive than Fly and you&#x27;re fighting the AWS API the whole time.</text></comment> | <story><title>Fly’s Prometheus Metrics</title><url>https://fly.io/blog/measuring-fly/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hstaab</author><text>Does anyone here have experience using Fly? I’ve seen a few of their posts and it seems quite nice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrkurt</author><text>You can get a reasonable idea of the problems people run into on our community forum. I use Fly for everything but that may not be the best signal for you: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;community.fly.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;community.fly.io&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
28,407,750 | 28,405,321 | 1 | 3 | 28,403,727 | train | <story><title>Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2021/09/03/apple-delaying-rollout-of-child-safety-features/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>numair</author><text>For everyone who is saying that the technical community “won”... Nobody’s been fired. Rather, Apple’s senior execs <i>publicly doubled down</i> and basically labeled those of us who thought this scheme to be insane, as a bunch of uninformed idiots...<p>You can change a product decision in a day, but it takes a LONG time to change a culture that thinks these sort of insane product decisions make any sense whatsoever. Making a long-term bet on Apple has become precarious at best.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>livueta</author><text>Yeah. I think some celebration is warranted, but the &quot;disaster averted, my iPhone is back to being a trustworthy user agent&quot; take seems to be a bit myopic when the core problem is that Apple possesses enough control over the devices it sells to be able to implement something like this by fiat. Sure, Apple backed down today, but until users are able to exercise the four essential freedoms they&#x27;re living under the sword of Damocles.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2021/09/03/apple-delaying-rollout-of-child-safety-features/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>numair</author><text>For everyone who is saying that the technical community “won”... Nobody’s been fired. Rather, Apple’s senior execs <i>publicly doubled down</i> and basically labeled those of us who thought this scheme to be insane, as a bunch of uninformed idiots...<p>You can change a product decision in a day, but it takes a LONG time to change a culture that thinks these sort of insane product decisions make any sense whatsoever. Making a long-term bet on Apple has become precarious at best.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hughrr</author><text>Yeah the thing that really got me was the double down. They are not on my side.</text></comment> |
41,157,795 | 41,157,792 | 1 | 2 | 41,157,605 | train | <story><title>Japan stocks plunge as much as 7% as Asia shares extend sell-off</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/05/asia-markets.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bamboozled</author><text>Isn&#x27;t this just a little bit irrational?<p>It&#x27;s caused by the fact the bank of Japan put up their interest rate by 0.25% last week? The second rate hike in years.<p>Japanese are extremely cautious and change isn&#x27;t something they deal with on a frequent basis (Japan moves very slowly) so I think this freaked people out. I guess it might signal the end of the government prioritizing corporate profit over the well being of the populace, at least for a few years? Low interest rate, means the Yen would weaken further, which is great for major Japanese companies who deal heavily in exports. Any sign of this changing and it looks like investors run for the hills.<p>What else could be the cause ?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tru3_power</author><text>From what I understand (and I may be completely wrong so please someone correct me) is that these rate hikes are causing the “carry trade” (estimated to be 20+ trillion dollars) to come to an end and investors are unwinding their positions fueled by these low borrowing rates- which is why we’re seeing US stock prices being dragged down as a result as well. (Investors borrowing yen at low value, investing in higher yield equities aka S&amp;P500, and now owe yen at potentially higher than original cost, causing panic selling).</text></comment> | <story><title>Japan stocks plunge as much as 7% as Asia shares extend sell-off</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/05/asia-markets.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bamboozled</author><text>Isn&#x27;t this just a little bit irrational?<p>It&#x27;s caused by the fact the bank of Japan put up their interest rate by 0.25% last week? The second rate hike in years.<p>Japanese are extremely cautious and change isn&#x27;t something they deal with on a frequent basis (Japan moves very slowly) so I think this freaked people out. I guess it might signal the end of the government prioritizing corporate profit over the well being of the populace, at least for a few years? Low interest rate, means the Yen would weaken further, which is great for major Japanese companies who deal heavily in exports. Any sign of this changing and it looks like investors run for the hills.<p>What else could be the cause ?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rtpg</author><text>&gt; Japanese are extremely cautious and change isn&#x27;t something they deal with on a frequent basis (Japan moves very slowly) so I think this freaked people out.<p>I feel like if this is your level of analysis for the entire country you&#x27;re not going to have that many insights beyond &quot;interest rate movements matter more&quot;.<p>There&#x27;s a lot of economic difficulties right now in Japan due to high costs and a stubbornly weak yen. Of course it&#x27;s dangerous to make quantitative arguments with qualitative facts, and it makes it hard to counterbalance the above with a statement like &quot;the weak yen helps exporters&quot;. But if we&#x27;re going off of vibes, a lot of people in Japan are struggling with worse buying power, downstream of an economy that needs to import a lot of raw materials... and that can cause pressure.<p>And combining that with the tech news in the US... well... at least as a narrative there&#x27;s a lot to say!<p>I&#x27;d love to hear something more quantitative though. At the end of the day this all _might be_ vibes, but at one point the economy has to be somewhat linked to something a bit real, right?</text></comment> |
37,338,646 | 37,338,219 | 1 | 3 | 37,335,471 | train | <story><title>State Governments Can’t Resist the Siren Song of Censorship</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/30/state-governments-cant-resist-the-siren-song-of-censorship/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>In the US, minds are slowly changing on free speech. 40% of Millennials are OK with limiting speech offensive to minorities[1] and the trend by age cohort is very clear. We may disagree but we old people are aging out, and the newer generations are less likely to be free speech absolutists. Another poll[2] shows 61 percent of Americans agree that free speech should be restricted, and 51 percent believe that the First Amendment, ratified in 1791, should be rewritten to reflect the new cultural norms of today.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pewresearch.org&#x2F;short-reads&#x2F;2015&#x2F;11&#x2F;20&#x2F;40-of-millennials-ok-with-limiting-speech-offensive-to-minorities&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pewresearch.org&#x2F;short-reads&#x2F;2015&#x2F;11&#x2F;20&#x2F;40-of-mil...</a><p>2: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;campaignforfreespeech.org&#x2F;new-poll-free-speech-under-attack-majority-of-millennials-agree-jail-time-is-appropriate-for-certain-speech&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;campaignforfreespeech.org&#x2F;new-poll-free-speech-under-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>uLogMicheal</author><text>We live in an age of government driven perception management at scale. From all over the world there are efforts online trying to erode free speech by either making things bad enough to convince others action against fundamental rights is needed, or by other more subtle means of manipulation. Do the people polled understand the current and historical significance of freedom of speech or have they been attacked into submission from division manufactured by sources that want the repeal of common freedoms?</text></comment> | <story><title>State Governments Can’t Resist the Siren Song of Censorship</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/30/state-governments-cant-resist-the-siren-song-of-censorship/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>In the US, minds are slowly changing on free speech. 40% of Millennials are OK with limiting speech offensive to minorities[1] and the trend by age cohort is very clear. We may disagree but we old people are aging out, and the newer generations are less likely to be free speech absolutists. Another poll[2] shows 61 percent of Americans agree that free speech should be restricted, and 51 percent believe that the First Amendment, ratified in 1791, should be rewritten to reflect the new cultural norms of today.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pewresearch.org&#x2F;short-reads&#x2F;2015&#x2F;11&#x2F;20&#x2F;40-of-millennials-ok-with-limiting-speech-offensive-to-minorities&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pewresearch.org&#x2F;short-reads&#x2F;2015&#x2F;11&#x2F;20&#x2F;40-of-mil...</a><p>2: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;campaignforfreespeech.org&#x2F;new-poll-free-speech-under-attack-majority-of-millennials-agree-jail-time-is-appropriate-for-certain-speech&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;campaignforfreespeech.org&#x2F;new-poll-free-speech-under-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>logicchains</author><text>&gt; 40% of Millennials are OK with limiting speech offensive to minorities[1]<p>That poll is from 2015 (and the other from 2019), not necessarily representative of current views. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;06&#x2F;01&#x2F;upshot&#x2F;millennials-polling-politics-republicans.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;06&#x2F;01&#x2F;upshot&#x2F;millennials-pollin...</a> millennials are becoming more conservative as they age (and many were radicalised by the covid response).</text></comment> |
29,120,410 | 29,120,536 | 1 | 2 | 29,119,180 | train | <story><title>Helion</title><url>https://blog.samaltman.com/helion</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andrewcamel</author><text>This is the type of investing one (at least me) dreams of doing if you&#x27;re fortunate enough to get to $B+ in net worth. Sam knows enough people who knows how this tech works to get a read on quality &#x2F; achievability, and if he gets it right (however challenging&#x2F;unlikely), it means incredible things. If it doesn&#x27;t work, whatever -- at least he&#x27;s shooting at something interesting. And talk about something intellectually interesting to be involved with -- it must be a collection of great minds at this company.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>boringg</author><text>Completely agree with this. This is throwing money at an interesting problem with an incredibly low outcome of success.<p>Given the amount of public dollars already put into this without success and the amount of money they are going to have too continually pour into this to make it successful it seems like a serious hail mary. Even if they do have the brightest minds working on it. I wish them the greatest success - we need this.<p>To your point it&#x27;s an incredibly privileged investing position to be in and to be honest - he can take a lot of the gains he has already had in <i>relatively</i> uninteresting companies that have been successful and hope to something truly remarkable for humanity.</text></comment> | <story><title>Helion</title><url>https://blog.samaltman.com/helion</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andrewcamel</author><text>This is the type of investing one (at least me) dreams of doing if you&#x27;re fortunate enough to get to $B+ in net worth. Sam knows enough people who knows how this tech works to get a read on quality &#x2F; achievability, and if he gets it right (however challenging&#x2F;unlikely), it means incredible things. If it doesn&#x27;t work, whatever -- at least he&#x27;s shooting at something interesting. And talk about something intellectually interesting to be involved with -- it must be a collection of great minds at this company.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rotexo</author><text>I have been thinking a lot about this. I wish I could invest my paltry funds into climate-focused ventures as part of a crowd of like-minded small-scale investors. So I am investing in things like renewable energy ETFs. But my impression (correct me if I’m wrong) is that I am investing in companies deploying proven technologies, rather than moonshots. I want to invest in moonshots, given the fact that I think we need moonshots in order for human civilization to survive. But a) I would need significant funds to do so, and b) realistically, I wouldn’t be able to evaluate those moonshots for technical and economic feasibility. It is a discouraging realization.</text></comment> |
22,131,940 | 22,131,528 | 1 | 2 | 22,130,438 | train | <story><title>In India What We Are Seeing Is the Symptoms of Fascism: Noam Chomsky</title><url>https://countercurrents.org/2020/01/in-india-what-we-are-seeing-is-the-symptoms-of-fascism-noam-chomsky</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wtmt</author><text><i>&gt; NC: One thing that’s happened is the press has been pretty much muzzled. They are very uncritical.</i><p>This is a big issue with mass media in India that many don’t realize or want to realize. Between — a) most of the mainstream media houses (except a few) not asking tough questions (but supporting the government for everything), b) the Supreme Court ignoring important cases and not hearing them for years and c) the amount of fake news spread through WhatsApp — the liberal forums in India are filled with stories of how people are losing relationships or finding it difficult to digest the fact that their loved ones are close minded bigots.<p>Twitter has become a cesspool of bots, political party “IT Cells” and people copy pasting the same messages and hashtags, while WhatsApp has become the main source of truth (actually falsehood) for most people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_jal</author><text>I am beginning to think that fascism is mostly a runaway media effect. 100 years ago it was the beginnings of mass-media being understood and incorporated into politics; now it is the internet.<p>It seems like something akin to witchcraft crazes on a truly horrifying scale.</text></comment> | <story><title>In India What We Are Seeing Is the Symptoms of Fascism: Noam Chomsky</title><url>https://countercurrents.org/2020/01/in-india-what-we-are-seeing-is-the-symptoms-of-fascism-noam-chomsky</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wtmt</author><text><i>&gt; NC: One thing that’s happened is the press has been pretty much muzzled. They are very uncritical.</i><p>This is a big issue with mass media in India that many don’t realize or want to realize. Between — a) most of the mainstream media houses (except a few) not asking tough questions (but supporting the government for everything), b) the Supreme Court ignoring important cases and not hearing them for years and c) the amount of fake news spread through WhatsApp — the liberal forums in India are filled with stories of how people are losing relationships or finding it difficult to digest the fact that their loved ones are close minded bigots.<p>Twitter has become a cesspool of bots, political party “IT Cells” and people copy pasting the same messages and hashtags, while WhatsApp has become the main source of truth (actually falsehood) for most people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>president</author><text>I guess you could say the same in the US. Actual facts and critical discourse have to be actively sought out by people who actually care about these things while the vast majority are swimming in a sea of mainstream media noise.</text></comment> |
16,493,297 | 16,493,645 | 1 | 2 | 16,492,670 | train | <story><title>Determining the Average Apple Device Lifespan</title><url>http://www.asymco.com/2018/03/01/determining-the-average-apple-device-lifespan/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>oflannabhra</author><text>1) 2&#x2F;3 of devices Apple has ever sold remain in use today [0]<p>2) The average lifespan of an Apple device is 4.25 <i>years</i><p>That should put to rest the &quot;Apple&#x27;s planned obsolescence&quot; narrative, but I doubt it will. I think it has always been the case that Apple cares about building really good hardware that lasts. That&#x27;s not to say that they don&#x27;t make mistakes (they do), but they care most about making something good, regardless of the &quot;business case.&quot;<p>On the most recent earnings call, several investors had questions about how Apple&#x27;s new battery replacement program would affect business. For example, would the cost bring down profits, would the replacement prevent upgrades, etc. Tim&#x27;s response was:<p>&gt;On the battery, Toni, we did not consider it in any way, shape, or form what it would do to upgrade rates. We did it because we thought it was the right thing to do for our customers. And sitting here today, I don’t know what effect it will have. And again, it was not in our thought process of deciding to do what we’ve done. [1]<p>[0] - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.asymco.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;02&#x2F;27&#x2F;the-number&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.asymco.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;02&#x2F;27&#x2F;the-number&#x2F;</a> (this does not include iPods, I don&#x27;t think)
[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sixcolors.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;2018&#x2F;02&#x2F;this-is-tim-transcript-of-apples-q1-2018-earnings-call&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sixcolors.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;2018&#x2F;02&#x2F;this-is-tim-transcript-of...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Determining the Average Apple Device Lifespan</title><url>http://www.asymco.com/2018/03/01/determining-the-average-apple-device-lifespan/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>SpikeDad</author><text>My Apple &#x2F;&#x2F;e is still running. My Newton 2100 is still running. My iPhone 5s is still running on original batter (on iOS 11 to boot). My MBP 2011 is still running (albeit with new SSD).<p>Sadly my Macintosh Portable isn&#x27;t running but that&#x27;s only because the batteries are dead and I haven&#x27;t refurbished them yet.<p>No other hardware I&#x27;ve ever purchased has run for that long. My Palm Pilot is dead. My Treo is dead.<p>No one who says Apple builds in planned obsolescence has probably never used any Apple hardware.</text></comment> |
1,536,052 | 1,536,085 | 1 | 3 | 1,535,980 | train | <story><title>A Joke iPhone Sticker Turns Into a Business</title><url>http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/21/a-joke-iphone-sticker-turns-into-a-business/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dpcan</author><text>Freakin brilliant.<p>If there's one thing people love, whether they want to admit it or not, it's to show off that they have an iPhone.<p>Now there's a colorful band-aid that goes on the base of the iPhone 4. It might as well just say "Look, I have an iPhone" right on it.<p>Some iPhone owners would love a way for it to stand out even more that they have an iPhone - well, here you go.<p>With this product, the FLAW in the iPhone has become a way for people to decorate their phone so that EVERYONE will notice they have an iPhone, and not just any iPhone, the latest and greatest iPhone!<p>Little success stories like this are fantastic.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Joke iPhone Sticker Turns Into a Business</title><url>http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/21/a-joke-iphone-sticker-turns-into-a-business/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nixy</author><text>Not mentioned in the article, but this band aid style sticker is a reference to Job's joke at the press conference (from memory):<p><pre><code> We will be giving bumber cases until September 30th.
By then there might be some other solution, maybe Eminem
will release a band aid for the iPhone which everyone will
want to use.</code></pre></text></comment> |
24,358,931 | 24,359,171 | 1 | 2 | 24,356,978 | train | <story><title>Why is OOP still so widely spread?</title><url>https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/09/02/if-everyone-hates-it-why-is-oop-still-so-widely-spread/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>&gt; If everyone hates it, why is OOP still so widely spread?<p>Most importantly, not everyone hates it. There are definitely warts involved, and IMO the 2 biggest warts are now largely understood:<p>1. People understand the pitfalls of inheritance now, so you&#x27;ll see &quot;composition over inheritance&quot; MUCH more than you&#x27;ll see inheritance as the recommended way to do things.<p>2. I don&#x27;t know how widespread this feeling is, but as someone who moved from Java to Node&#x2F;Typescript a couple years ago, I feel like I can confidently say <i>structural</i> typing, in practice, is MUCH easier, better and fun to work with than <i>nominal</i> typing. I can think of times I literally spent days trying to work through some refactoring in Java that was a nightmare because of the constraints of nominal typing, where the structural typing approach of TypeScript makes it trivial.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seanmcdirmid</author><text>&gt; I feel like I can confidently say structural typing, in practice, is MUCH easier, better and fun to work with than nominal typing.<p>Structural typing is crazy flexible, but you pay for it with worse type error reporting (forgetting something in an interface is now 100 errors rather than 1) and the inability to encapsulate (a structure type can&#x27;t model private members, of course). There was a lot of research in addressing these problems in the 90s, but for some reason none of that work has made it into any mainstream structurally typed language today.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why is OOP still so widely spread?</title><url>https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/09/02/if-everyone-hates-it-why-is-oop-still-so-widely-spread/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>&gt; If everyone hates it, why is OOP still so widely spread?<p>Most importantly, not everyone hates it. There are definitely warts involved, and IMO the 2 biggest warts are now largely understood:<p>1. People understand the pitfalls of inheritance now, so you&#x27;ll see &quot;composition over inheritance&quot; MUCH more than you&#x27;ll see inheritance as the recommended way to do things.<p>2. I don&#x27;t know how widespread this feeling is, but as someone who moved from Java to Node&#x2F;Typescript a couple years ago, I feel like I can confidently say <i>structural</i> typing, in practice, is MUCH easier, better and fun to work with than <i>nominal</i> typing. I can think of times I literally spent days trying to work through some refactoring in Java that was a nightmare because of the constraints of nominal typing, where the structural typing approach of TypeScript makes it trivial.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wvenable</author><text>&gt; so you&#x27;ll see &quot;composition over inheritance&quot; MUCH more than you&#x27;ll see inheritance as the recommended way to do things.<p>So much that you&#x27;ll have people advocate doing inheritance using interfaces and composition which results in exactly the same thing with all the same pitfalls but at least it&#x27;s not &quot;inheritance&quot;.</text></comment> |
27,705,728 | 27,702,976 | 1 | 2 | 27,699,158 | train | <story><title>British right to repair law excludes smartphones and computers</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2021/07/01/british-right-to-repair-law/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>celestialcheese</author><text>In the US, at least, unlocking devices is legal as of 2015(?) through DMCA exemptions, which has been huge for recyclers and refurbishers.<p>Still couldn&#x27;t get game console unlocking through, but at least phones &#x2F; tablets &#x2F; other devices that are locked can be unlocked and resold.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;resource-recycling.com&#x2F;e-scrap&#x2F;2018&#x2F;11&#x2F;01&#x2F;digital-device-unlocking-allowances-renewed&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;resource-recycling.com&#x2F;e-scrap&#x2F;2018&#x2F;11&#x2F;01&#x2F;digital-de...</a></text></item><item><author>cunidev</author><text>Not even mentioning the hardware bits, I have been collaborating with postmarketOS for a while now, and believe that the main thing we need to make those devices longer-lasting would be an unlockable bootloader by law.<p>This sounds so logical (why cannot I run, by voiding the warranty, any code I want on my machine, whatever it is?), yet apparently so hard to make openly illegal, since the problem is barely acknowledged in general.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SkeuomorphicBee</author><text>The DMCA exception only means that the manufacturer can&#x27;t sue you for unlocking a device they meant to be unlockable. So, of you find a way to do it, it is not a crime to hack a device you own.<p>Right to repair laws are (would be) a whole different beast, it would mean the manufacturer would have to sell the devices unlocked or provide the unlock method themselves.<p>In other words, DMCA exception removes a legal hurdle for repeatability, but Right to Repair legislation would remove the technical hurdles (and some other legal hurdles).</text></comment> | <story><title>British right to repair law excludes smartphones and computers</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2021/07/01/british-right-to-repair-law/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>celestialcheese</author><text>In the US, at least, unlocking devices is legal as of 2015(?) through DMCA exemptions, which has been huge for recyclers and refurbishers.<p>Still couldn&#x27;t get game console unlocking through, but at least phones &#x2F; tablets &#x2F; other devices that are locked can be unlocked and resold.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;resource-recycling.com&#x2F;e-scrap&#x2F;2018&#x2F;11&#x2F;01&#x2F;digital-device-unlocking-allowances-renewed&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;resource-recycling.com&#x2F;e-scrap&#x2F;2018&#x2F;11&#x2F;01&#x2F;digital-de...</a></text></item><item><author>cunidev</author><text>Not even mentioning the hardware bits, I have been collaborating with postmarketOS for a while now, and believe that the main thing we need to make those devices longer-lasting would be an unlockable bootloader by law.<p>This sounds so logical (why cannot I run, by voiding the warranty, any code I want on my machine, whatever it is?), yet apparently so hard to make openly illegal, since the problem is barely acknowledged in general.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bosswipe</author><text>It&#x27;s meaningless if hackers can&#x27;t bypass the security, which is true more and more as the companies get better with their security. What we need is bootloader unlocking provided by the manufacturers.</text></comment> |
32,629,306 | 32,629,274 | 1 | 2 | 32,628,447 | train | <story><title>Insects become airborne, slowed down to a speed the human eye can appreciate</title><url>https://aeon.co/videos/how-insects-become-airborne-slowed-down-to-a-speed-the-human-eye-can-appreciate</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>synu</author><text>This seems to be a wrapper for the great content produced by Ant Lab: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;channel&#x2F;UCWxiO_Br1awgEjy79VItspQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;channel&#x2F;UCWxiO_Br1awgEjy79VItspQ</a>.<p>I really loved their most recent video with butterflies and moths taking flight: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=xCQoRpStF4M" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=xCQoRpStF4M</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Insects become airborne, slowed down to a speed the human eye can appreciate</title><url>https://aeon.co/videos/how-insects-become-airborne-slowed-down-to-a-speed-the-human-eye-can-appreciate</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>RcouF1uZ4gsC</author><text>What was really cool was how efficiently stores those wings could be when not being used. The wings are so thing and delicate looking that you can see through them, yet they are strong enough to get the insect airborn<p>Really cool!</text></comment> |
20,086,277 | 20,086,428 | 1 | 3 | 20,085,488 | train | <story><title>Roads with protected bike lanes make both cycling and driving safer: study</title><url>https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/06/protected-bike-lanes-safe-street-design-bicycle-road-safety/590722/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ben7799</author><text>As a long time long distance cyclist an awfully lot of these lanes, both protected and painted&#x2F;&quot;sharrow&quot; are really frightening.<p>There is an anti-car&#x2F;pro-bike lane group of researchers who want to push this style of road design super hard right now at all costs.<p>There are still major problems with their designs though, they are working from the assumption cyclists won&#x27;t learn to follow the rules of the road.<p>Tell me how I&#x27;m supposed to safely take a left out of one of these protected bike lanes in any way that is safe and time&#x2F;distance effective? They&#x27;ve stuck me in a &quot;protected&quot; lane on the far right side of the road and I can&#x27;t signal and get over to the left side turn lane without jumping a curb or plowing through some grass. Or they expect me to take a left from the far right side of multiple lanes of traffic? At least an unprotected lane doesn&#x27;t require mountain bike skills to exit.<p>Also how do they expect me to safely go straight through the intersection when they&#x27;ve locked me into a protected bike lane that is to the right of the &quot;right hand turn lane&quot; for the motor vehicles? If I was riding in the road I would signal left and move left into the &quot;go straight&quot; lane.<p>It seems they think all cyclists need to dismount and become pedestrians in the crosswalk at all intersections. That&#x27;s the only way to use these bike lanes safely. That is hardly time efficient compared to learning how to ride in the lanes. And most places outside of the city core there are no crosswalks anyway.<p>This stuff is plainly obvious when you&#x27;ve rode 10s or 100s of times more miles than the researchers. If they put more effort into educational programs it&#x27;d go a long way since city riders tend to break every law they can constantly and pull incredibly bone headed moves.<p>All their work is dedicated towards reducing the chances you get hit from behind by a car, which is the irrational fear. The real danger is getting hit from the side or the front at intersections.</text></comment> | <story><title>Roads with protected bike lanes make both cycling and driving safer: study</title><url>https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/06/protected-bike-lanes-safe-street-design-bicycle-road-safety/590722/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>godelski</author><text>I bike commute all the time and I want to share an experience from yesterday that EVERY cyclist will get. (I live in the PNW, so there are a lot of people that bike here)<p>I was sitting at a stop sign, in a lane that has sharrows. Waiting for a car to go by I feel a push from behind and get almost pushed into the car I&#x27;m waiting for (my hands aren&#x27;t on the breaks, by feet are on the ground). Adrenaline skyrockets, I look back see this guy not really concerned, I look down at my bike, then back up at him, and just say &quot;Dude, what the fuck?&quot; (not really yelling, trying to stay calm). The guy&#x27;s response &quot;Chill out, it was an accident.&quot; Of course at this point I flip out.<p>To be honest, this is one of the better experiences I&#x27;ve had when cars almost seriously injure me.[0] There is a frequent challenge of avoiding doors being opened on you while also not pissing off the car following you in the sharrow road. Of getting out of intersections as fast as possible (because getting hit at a stop sign is pretty common). Avoiding pedestrians that step right off the curb into you. I ride without headphones because I have to be aware.<p>I have found that riding in protected bike lanes, a lot of this decreases. There is extra space for me at stop signs&#x2F;lights, drivers have to stop sooner. Cars are parking out, and are more likely to look before they open their door. Pedestrians notice something is off and actually look both ways before stepping off the curb. I think the green painting helps too. Honestly I feel A LOT safer in a protected bike lane.<p>[0] worst experience is that this guy cut me off, almost hitting me, I flipped him off and he proceeded to try to hit me with his car. As in he got behind me and came over into the bike lane. I bailed into the sidewalk and he hit the curb, then he drives off.</text></comment> |
5,004,140 | 5,004,280 | 1 | 2 | 5,003,925 | train | <story><title>A Tor proxy that runs in your browser</title><url>https://crypto.stanford.edu/flashproxy/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jcoder</author><text>&#62; "Flash proxy" is a name that should make you think "quick" and "short-lived." Our implementation uses standard web technologies: JavaScript and WebSocket.<p>I get it, but there's another (widely reviled) in-browser technology that goes by the name Flash, and it's entirely plausible that this could be written with it. Sometimes you need to be able to let go of a name.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Tor proxy that runs in your browser</title><url>https://crypto.stanford.edu/flashproxy/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>arscan</author><text>Time for a stupid question: what prevents the censor from simply blocking the facilitator? It isn't ephemeral like the "flash proxy"... so it seems like you'd have the same problem as you have with the relays.</text></comment> |
38,597,062 | 38,597,001 | 1 | 3 | 38,596,191 | train | <story><title>High school math doesn't prepare most students for their college majors</title><url>https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-professors-say-high-school-math-doesnt-prepare-most-students-for-their-college-majors/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chongli</author><text>I agree in principle that statistics education should be given to all students. The problem I have with the proposal is that I have very little confidence that teachers are prepared to provide a rigorous and thorough statistical education.<p>For an example, the replication crisis in the social sciences. These studies, containing flawed statistics, are carried out by social scientists with PhDs who have been required to take courses in statistics designed for their discipline.<p>If they can’t get the statistics right, how can we expect it from teachers with far less education?</text></item><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>This is essentially the &quot;calculus vs. statistics&quot; debate that has been going on for some time now. I&#x27;m definitely on the side of making statistics mandatory, and then making pre-calc&#x2F;calc electives for motivated students who want to enter STEM fields. Primary reason for this is that I believe a base knowledge of statistics is so important for <i>everyone</i> in modern society, and it directly goes to better being able to evaluate the constant flood of information we are now all subjected to.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CrazyStat</author><text>&gt; For an example, the replication crisis in the social sciences. These studies, containing flawed statistics, are carried out by social scientists with PhDs who have been required to take courses in statistics designed for their discipline.<p>&gt; If they can’t get the statistics right, how can we expect it from teachers with far less education?<p>This isn’t really a statistics education issue, much like Enron wasn’t an accounting education issue.<p>Social scientists abuse statistics because the incentives are all aligned with abusing statistics. To get a good job you have to publish lots of papers. To publish you have to have statistically significant results. To get into top journals you need surprising results. You see other people in your field playing fast and loose with their data and getting rewarded for it. Why not exclude that one problematic subject from your data analysis? Without them the p-value (from a regression on a carefully chosen eight of your eleven measured variables) drops to .038, and you can publish...<p>It’s not that nobody thought to teach the scientists about corrections for multiple comparisons or the dangers of picking observations to exclude as outliers based on what gives you the result you want. They learned all those things. But it’s so much harder to get results when you’re not willing to play games with the data, and they need results. The people who do try to play by the rules wash out, either by choice after getting fed up with the fraud they see all around them or by failing to publish N papers in top journals.</text></comment> | <story><title>High school math doesn't prepare most students for their college majors</title><url>https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-professors-say-high-school-math-doesnt-prepare-most-students-for-their-college-majors/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chongli</author><text>I agree in principle that statistics education should be given to all students. The problem I have with the proposal is that I have very little confidence that teachers are prepared to provide a rigorous and thorough statistical education.<p>For an example, the replication crisis in the social sciences. These studies, containing flawed statistics, are carried out by social scientists with PhDs who have been required to take courses in statistics designed for their discipline.<p>If they can’t get the statistics right, how can we expect it from teachers with far less education?</text></item><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>This is essentially the &quot;calculus vs. statistics&quot; debate that has been going on for some time now. I&#x27;m definitely on the side of making statistics mandatory, and then making pre-calc&#x2F;calc electives for motivated students who want to enter STEM fields. Primary reason for this is that I believe a base knowledge of statistics is so important for <i>everyone</i> in modern society, and it directly goes to better being able to evaluate the constant flood of information we are now all subjected to.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mp05</author><text>My first <i>real</i> stats course was a 300-level engineering stats class that kicked my ass pretty well.<p>The class had a calc 3 prereq I found the computation generally the easiest part. Truly grasping the topic takes patience and work but it&#x27;s pretty rewarding. That said, it must be difficult to find genuinely insightful instructors who can make the material remotely interesting because good god it&#x27;s necessary.</text></comment> |
20,059,875 | 20,059,358 | 1 | 3 | 20,059,207 | train | <story><title>Billions wasted on Hadoop startups, the same will eventually be true of Docker</title><url>http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/billions-were-wasted-on-hadoop-startups-and-the-same-will-eventually-be-true-of-docker</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hardwaresofton</author><text>I am very much a fan of hot-takes, but this one is trash --<p>&gt; The money was wasted on hype. The same will eventually be said of Docker. I’ve yet to hear a single benefit attributed to Docker that isn’t also true of other VMs, but standard VMs allow the use of standard operating systems that solved all the hard problems decades ago, whereas Docker is struggling to solve those problems today.<p>Linux containerization (using the word &quot;docker&quot; for everything isn&#x27;t right either) is an isolation + sandboxing mechanism, NOT a virtual machine. Even if you talk about things like LXC (orchestrated by LXD), that&#x27;s basically just the addition of the user namespacing feature. A docker container is <i>not</i> a VM, it is a regular process, isolated with the use of cgroups and namespaces, possibly protected (like any other process) with selinux&#x2F;apparmor&#x2F;etc.<p>Containerization is almost objectively a better way of running applications -- there&#x27;s only one question, do you want your process to be isolated, or not. All the other stuff (using Dockerfiles, pulling images, the ease of running languages that require their own interpreters since you package the filesystem) is on top of this basic value propostion.<p>An easy way to tell that someone doesn&#x27;t know what they&#x27;re talking about when speaking about containerization is if they call it a VM (and don&#x27;t qualify&#x2F;note that they&#x27;re being fast and loose with terminology).<p>All this said -- I do think Docker will die, and it <i>should</i> die because Docker is no longer the only game in town for reasonably managing (see: podman,crictl) and running containers (see: containerd&#x2F;cri-o, libcontainer which turned into runc) .<p>[EDIT] - I want to point out that I do <i>not</i> mean the Docker the company or Docker the project will &quot;die&quot; -- they have done amazing things for the community and development as a whole that will literally go down in history as a paradigm shift. What I should have written was that &quot;docker &lt;x&gt;&quot; where x is &quot;image&quot;, &quot;container&quot;, &quot;registry&quot;, etc should be replaced by &quot;container &lt;x&gt;&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Billions wasted on Hadoop startups, the same will eventually be true of Docker</title><url>http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/billions-were-wasted-on-hadoop-startups-and-the-same-will-eventually-be-true-of-docker</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chime</author><text>&gt; The same will eventually be said of Docker. I’ve yet to hear a single benefit attributed to Docker that isn’t also true of other VMs,<p>I bought a Raspberry Pi and using a few commands, installed pre-configured Docker ARM images for 8-9 different media applications that would&#x27;ve taken me days to setup and manage individually. I didn&#x27;t have to worry about dependencies or compilations. It just worked.</text></comment> |
29,909,396 | 29,906,349 | 1 | 3 | 29,905,288 | train | <story><title>Amish Hackers (2009)</title><url>https://kk.org/thetechnium/amish-hackers-a/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adrianN</author><text>The Amish can evaluate the effects of new technology on their communities by having the rest of the world act as a guinea pig. I think society as a whole could benefit from thinking about the effects of new technology on communities before adopting it, but reasoning about that from first principles seems very hard and putting the genie back into the bottle after a technology has been widely deployed is essentially impossible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mystlix</author><text>But this is a very hypochritical way of living in my opinion.<p>Let&#x27;s take YouTube as an example: I am not addicted to YouTube; I use it sparingly, without an account, with an extension that blocks related videos and by flushing the cookies each time. I consider it of great value to me because when I need to search for a tutorial or a piece of information I&#x27;m almost sure to find a video that will meet my demand.
The problem here lies with the fact that the only reason why there are so many videos in the first place is because the majority of the userbase is indeed addicted to the service, so people are highly incentivized to make videos on the platform sharing their knowledge in order to capture a money earning audience. And even if you tell me that the vast majority of content is made without money taken into consideration you still have to admit that the service wouldn&#x27;t be free if there wasn&#x27;t that mass of money earning youtubers making the content free for everyone else.<p>Since I use YouTube in such an Amishly way, I believe I&#x27;m not earning people much money so I don&#x27;t feel that bad perpetuating the cycle, but I still have to admit to myself that if more and more people acted like me YouTube and many other platforms wouldn&#x27;t exist and my life would be a bit worse as a result.
I hope the Amish truly realize how lucky they are that they can exploit the rest of society when it suits their needs (e.g. they have no problem going to the hospital) and check out for the rest of the day unbothered while everyone else slaves away to mainting the system</text></comment> | <story><title>Amish Hackers (2009)</title><url>https://kk.org/thetechnium/amish-hackers-a/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adrianN</author><text>The Amish can evaluate the effects of new technology on their communities by having the rest of the world act as a guinea pig. I think society as a whole could benefit from thinking about the effects of new technology on communities before adopting it, but reasoning about that from first principles seems very hard and putting the genie back into the bottle after a technology has been widely deployed is essentially impossible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ballenf</author><text>I don&#x27;t think the article supports that position. Every new tech was evaluated by them based on the experience of people within their community who were approved early adopters. I didn&#x27;t see any argument of &quot;look what that tech is doing to the world&quot; as factoring into a decision.<p>Maybe I misread your point, but it seems like you&#x27;re saying they&#x27;re free loading off of the rest of society in some fundamentally greater way than other groups. I just don&#x27;t see that.</text></comment> |
12,208,241 | 12,208,216 | 1 | 2 | 12,207,970 | train | <story><title>Is There Any Room for the Not-Passionate Developer?</title><url>http://philippe.bourgau.net/is-there-any-room-for-the-not-passionate-developer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>daviross</author><text>This is always worrying to see when set as an expectation. I mean, I enjoy coding. My employer gets my 40-ish hours of attention. But I just can&#x27;t seem to get into after-hours or weekend coding side projects.<p>I have ideas to explore (Nothing I&#x27;d ever want to turn into a business, perish the thought), but I just... can&#x27;t find the motivation to spend more hours doing what I already spend about a third of my life doing. I enjoy reading articles and the like, sure, but if I wanted to work on side projects, I&#x27;d need to take extended time away from work to &quot;reset&quot; and get into something.<p>Does this make me destined to fall behind? I&#x27;m hoping not, but given how many people talk about needing one&#x27;s job to be their all-consuming passion, to be something they spend spare time and weekends on... I&#x27;m not always hopeful.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>greyskull</author><text>I was the same way. I spent my college years poring over HN, &#x2F;r&#x2F;programming, various blogs and articles. An older software engineer I knew was always surprised at how many <i>things</i> I knew and had opinions about, even though I was inexperienced. But I never actually wrote up a &quot;complete&quot; project in my own time, not a single one, I couldn&#x27;t stick to anything. And I kept worrying that it would make me less employable. Yet I got my offer at [large, popular software company] before I graduated, only on my merits.<p>I think the best that can be expected is that you do your work, do it well, and never stop growing. You don&#x27;t have to dump time into coding outside of work, just don&#x27;t get complacent. That&#x27;s assuming you don&#x27;t have crappy leadership, in which case you may want to consider a different team or company.<p>As an example: I know a guy who&#x27;s about to become a 3rd level developer at [large, popular software company] at the age of 28, which is a pretty big deal from a career development perspective. I don&#x27;t think he&#x27;s touched a line of code, or a single technical article, outside of work in the 5 years he&#x27;s been here. He regularly works 25-30 hour weeks. He&#x27;s just smart, puts out good projects, and is productive when he needs to be.</text></comment> | <story><title>Is There Any Room for the Not-Passionate Developer?</title><url>http://philippe.bourgau.net/is-there-any-room-for-the-not-passionate-developer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>daviross</author><text>This is always worrying to see when set as an expectation. I mean, I enjoy coding. My employer gets my 40-ish hours of attention. But I just can&#x27;t seem to get into after-hours or weekend coding side projects.<p>I have ideas to explore (Nothing I&#x27;d ever want to turn into a business, perish the thought), but I just... can&#x27;t find the motivation to spend more hours doing what I already spend about a third of my life doing. I enjoy reading articles and the like, sure, but if I wanted to work on side projects, I&#x27;d need to take extended time away from work to &quot;reset&quot; and get into something.<p>Does this make me destined to fall behind? I&#x27;m hoping not, but given how many people talk about needing one&#x27;s job to be their all-consuming passion, to be something they spend spare time and weekends on... I&#x27;m not always hopeful.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>keymon-o</author><text>I don&#x27;t think coding side projects should be anything more than a hobby. Difference between coding for work and coding as a hobby is that with hobby you don&#x27;t stress out yourself, but it relaxes you and makes you feel good.<p>If you take coding at home serious as you (presumably) do at work, like following deadlines, doing stuff you don&#x27;t enjoy, stress yourself out, then it is a very unhealthy expectation.</text></comment> |
37,412,846 | 37,412,215 | 1 | 2 | 37,407,331 | train | <story><title>Why Socialism? (1949)</title><url>https://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thiagoharry</author><text>&gt; Says who? The only &quot;requirement of capitalism&quot; is that individuals are allowed to have ownership rights. Outside of a few niche organizations that benefit from economic distress, I think you will find a general S&amp;P 500 consensus that low employment is a good thing for their stock prices.<p>If unemployment did not exist, the capitalist class would have no power to make workers work harder using the threat of losing their jobs. Of course, very high unemployment is not good for capitalism, nobody was arguing this. But very low unemployment below some threshold is also bad. Marx explained this, but if you do not believe him, capitalists themselves and their theorists say exactly the same thing, but with more gentle and less direct words: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.investopedia.com&#x2F;insights&#x2F;downside-low-unemployment&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.investopedia.com&#x2F;insights&#x2F;downside-low-unemploym...</a></text></item><item><author>legitster</author><text>&gt; Well, unemployment is kind of a requirement of capitalism.<p>Says who? The only &quot;requirement of capitalism&quot; is that individuals are allowed to have ownership rights. Outside of a few niche organizations that benefit from economic distress, I think you will find a general S&amp;P 500 consensus that low employment is a <i>good</i> thing for their stock prices.<p>&gt; There&#x27;s generally a target of 5% unemployment, which means capitalism has built-in waste.<p>That&#x27;s because, in a free society, we have discovered that it&#x27;s better to get people new and better jobs than be shackled to a milling machine from childhood.</text></item><item><author>mullingitover</author><text>&gt; Capitalism will make people stop working and be less productive? If anything we worry about the opposite problem.<p>Well, unemployment is kind of a <i>requirement</i> of capitalism. You can&#x27;t have the labor force calling the shots, it eats into profits. From the article:<p>&gt; There is no provision that all those able and willing to work will always be in a position to find employment; an “army of unemployed” almost always exists.<p>He&#x27;s being generous here, it&#x27;s not just that an &quot;army of the unemployed&quot; almost always exists, it&#x27;s a goal. Captains of industry in the current low-unemployment environment have been saying the quiet part out loud, that we need to <i>increase</i> unemployment. There&#x27;s generally a target of 5% unemployment, which means capitalism has built-in waste.</text></item><item><author>legitster</author><text>&gt; Nevertheless, it is necessary to remember that a planned economy is not yet socialism. A planned economy as such may be accompanied by the complete enslavement of the individual. The achievement of socialism requires the solution of some extremely difficult socio-political problems: how is it possible, in view of the far-reaching centralization of political and economic power, to prevent bureaucracy from becoming all-powerful and overweening? How can the rights of the individual be protected and therewith a democratic counterweight to the power of bureaucracy be assured?<p>It&#x27;s a pretty well written piece. I think people from all perspectives should take careful note of what he is actually advocating: discussing and figuring out the mechanisms of what a modern society should like rather than blindly following an agenda.<p>That said, this is a 70+ year old article, based on ideas and problems at the time. Capitalism will make people stop working and be less productive? If anything we worry about the opposite problem. College will only be a means to a career? Today academia is powerful and a political force unto itself. And we have so many welfare programs and safety nets and worker protects than Einstein was even able to dream about in 1949. In a way, we are living in a world he was advocating for.<p>If it was written today, I have no doubt Einstein would still care about inequality and education and politics and common &quot;workers&quot; enjoying life. But I also don&#x27;t think I would see him caring as much about Marxism and the labor theory of value specifically as a mechanism for understanding it anymore.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>randomdata</author><text><i>&gt; If unemployment did not exist, the capitalist class would have no power to make workers work harder using the threat of losing their jobs.</i><p>That may be true, but that is not a condition of capitalism. Like the parent said, capitalism only speaks to ownership rights.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Socialism? (1949)</title><url>https://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thiagoharry</author><text>&gt; Says who? The only &quot;requirement of capitalism&quot; is that individuals are allowed to have ownership rights. Outside of a few niche organizations that benefit from economic distress, I think you will find a general S&amp;P 500 consensus that low employment is a good thing for their stock prices.<p>If unemployment did not exist, the capitalist class would have no power to make workers work harder using the threat of losing their jobs. Of course, very high unemployment is not good for capitalism, nobody was arguing this. But very low unemployment below some threshold is also bad. Marx explained this, but if you do not believe him, capitalists themselves and their theorists say exactly the same thing, but with more gentle and less direct words: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.investopedia.com&#x2F;insights&#x2F;downside-low-unemployment&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.investopedia.com&#x2F;insights&#x2F;downside-low-unemploym...</a></text></item><item><author>legitster</author><text>&gt; Well, unemployment is kind of a requirement of capitalism.<p>Says who? The only &quot;requirement of capitalism&quot; is that individuals are allowed to have ownership rights. Outside of a few niche organizations that benefit from economic distress, I think you will find a general S&amp;P 500 consensus that low employment is a <i>good</i> thing for their stock prices.<p>&gt; There&#x27;s generally a target of 5% unemployment, which means capitalism has built-in waste.<p>That&#x27;s because, in a free society, we have discovered that it&#x27;s better to get people new and better jobs than be shackled to a milling machine from childhood.</text></item><item><author>mullingitover</author><text>&gt; Capitalism will make people stop working and be less productive? If anything we worry about the opposite problem.<p>Well, unemployment is kind of a <i>requirement</i> of capitalism. You can&#x27;t have the labor force calling the shots, it eats into profits. From the article:<p>&gt; There is no provision that all those able and willing to work will always be in a position to find employment; an “army of unemployed” almost always exists.<p>He&#x27;s being generous here, it&#x27;s not just that an &quot;army of the unemployed&quot; almost always exists, it&#x27;s a goal. Captains of industry in the current low-unemployment environment have been saying the quiet part out loud, that we need to <i>increase</i> unemployment. There&#x27;s generally a target of 5% unemployment, which means capitalism has built-in waste.</text></item><item><author>legitster</author><text>&gt; Nevertheless, it is necessary to remember that a planned economy is not yet socialism. A planned economy as such may be accompanied by the complete enslavement of the individual. The achievement of socialism requires the solution of some extremely difficult socio-political problems: how is it possible, in view of the far-reaching centralization of political and economic power, to prevent bureaucracy from becoming all-powerful and overweening? How can the rights of the individual be protected and therewith a democratic counterweight to the power of bureaucracy be assured?<p>It&#x27;s a pretty well written piece. I think people from all perspectives should take careful note of what he is actually advocating: discussing and figuring out the mechanisms of what a modern society should like rather than blindly following an agenda.<p>That said, this is a 70+ year old article, based on ideas and problems at the time. Capitalism will make people stop working and be less productive? If anything we worry about the opposite problem. College will only be a means to a career? Today academia is powerful and a political force unto itself. And we have so many welfare programs and safety nets and worker protects than Einstein was even able to dream about in 1949. In a way, we are living in a world he was advocating for.<p>If it was written today, I have no doubt Einstein would still care about inequality and education and politics and common &quot;workers&quot; enjoying life. But I also don&#x27;t think I would see him caring as much about Marxism and the labor theory of value specifically as a mechanism for understanding it anymore.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AnthonyMouse</author><text>&gt; If unemployment did not exist, the capitalist class would have no power to make workers work harder using the threat of losing their jobs.<p>How so?<p>There could be 0% unemployment and anyone could find another job easily, but the other job could pay less, or have less flexibility, or be in a less convenient location, so you still prefer the job you have now.<p>Suppose unemployment is low because prices are high, so no one can afford to go without a job and will take jobs under unfavorable terms in order to make rent.</text></comment> |
36,775,933 | 36,776,188 | 1 | 3 | 36,773,363 | train | <story><title>G/O media will make more AI-generated stories despite critics</title><url>https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/7/18/23798164/gizmodo-ai-g-o-bot-stories-jalopnik-av-club-peter-kafka-media-column</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>homami</author><text>I don&#x27;t lie either. I just spit out words that is in alignment with my mental model for optimizing my future.</text></item><item><author>gwright</author><text>I think it confuses things immensely to anthropomorphize large language models. LLMs don&#x27;t lie or tell the truth they just spit out text that is in alignment with the training model. Don&#x27;t give them agency they don&#x27;t have.</text></item><item><author>barbariangrunge</author><text>Those 60 people can have a new job: fact checking the lies that the new ais produce</text></item><item><author>boesboes</author><text>It&#x27;s the natural evolution of content marketing &amp; SEO. I work at an IT company where we have ~15 ppl building and managing a few SaaS apps for the travel industry, and we have 50-60 ppl doing marketing as a service for our customers.<p>They write page after page of content that barely get read. It all just exists to make the google bot happy. And that works. They bring in more customers &amp; revenue apparently. (honestly, I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if it&#x27;s all wasted and the added revenue is due to the better website and backoffice, but what do i know.)<p>So it seems only natural to have AI generate that content for the Google bot and stop wasting all this effort. Obviously I can&#x27;t prove nobody reads this content, but seriously.. A landing page about hot-tubs and how cool it is to have one in your holiday home? Doubt that anyone actually reads that..<p>EDIT: I guess my point is also: it&#x27;s already flooded with crap, just look at al the blog spam for things like &#x27;how to start nginx&#x27;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>svaha1728</author><text>“First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are…<p>But real barbarism begins when no one can any longer judge or know that what one does is barbaric.”
— Ryszard Kapuściński</text></comment> | <story><title>G/O media will make more AI-generated stories despite critics</title><url>https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/7/18/23798164/gizmodo-ai-g-o-bot-stories-jalopnik-av-club-peter-kafka-media-column</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>homami</author><text>I don&#x27;t lie either. I just spit out words that is in alignment with my mental model for optimizing my future.</text></item><item><author>gwright</author><text>I think it confuses things immensely to anthropomorphize large language models. LLMs don&#x27;t lie or tell the truth they just spit out text that is in alignment with the training model. Don&#x27;t give them agency they don&#x27;t have.</text></item><item><author>barbariangrunge</author><text>Those 60 people can have a new job: fact checking the lies that the new ais produce</text></item><item><author>boesboes</author><text>It&#x27;s the natural evolution of content marketing &amp; SEO. I work at an IT company where we have ~15 ppl building and managing a few SaaS apps for the travel industry, and we have 50-60 ppl doing marketing as a service for our customers.<p>They write page after page of content that barely get read. It all just exists to make the google bot happy. And that works. They bring in more customers &amp; revenue apparently. (honestly, I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if it&#x27;s all wasted and the added revenue is due to the better website and backoffice, but what do i know.)<p>So it seems only natural to have AI generate that content for the Google bot and stop wasting all this effort. Obviously I can&#x27;t prove nobody reads this content, but seriously.. A landing page about hot-tubs and how cool it is to have one in your holiday home? Doubt that anyone actually reads that..<p>EDIT: I guess my point is also: it&#x27;s already flooded with crap, just look at al the blog spam for things like &#x27;how to start nginx&#x27;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gwright</author><text>Maybe you are a large language model?</text></comment> |
6,389,673 | 6,389,033 | 1 | 2 | 6,388,637 | train | <story><title>How the US government inadvertently created Wikileaks</title><url>http://pandodaily.com/2013/09/14/how-the-us-government-inadvertently-created-wikileaks/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>njharman</author><text>Of course they (and other overly secret governments) did. Wikileaks reason for existence is transparency. US Government&#x27;s secrecy <i>forced</i> the eventual creation of wikileaks or things like it. Same with Snowden. Protesters, leakers, et al don&#x27;t spontaneously erupt. They are created by bad governments.</text></comment> | <story><title>How the US government inadvertently created Wikileaks</title><url>http://pandodaily.com/2013/09/14/how-the-us-government-inadvertently-created-wikileaks/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>devx</author><text>I guess you could call this another one of those &quot;blowbacks&quot; that US has been creating by being too aggressive with certain things or people.<p>When tons of documents start to become &quot;classified&quot;, when they shouldn&#x27;t be, this sort of thing is inevitable.</text></comment> |
36,792,506 | 36,791,898 | 1 | 3 | 36,788,274 | train | <story><title>Children of alumni no longer have admissions edge at Carnegie Mellon, Pitt</title><url>https://triblive.com/news/children-relatives-of-alumni-no-longer-have-admissions-edge-at-carnegie-mellon-pitt/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dionidium</author><text>&gt; <i>With the end of affirmative action, legacy status in admissions becomes much harder to justify.</i><p>I just don&#x27;t see this. In our society we believe it to be illegitimate to discriminate on the basis of race. We believe that to be a <i>special</i> kind of uniquely harmful prejudice, one that fractures the deepest structures of society, and that it therefore clears the very high bar required for limiting freedom of association. That is what is at issue in the case of affirmative action, the elimination of which was not a broad referendum on the right to form elite social clubs.</text></item><item><author>julienchastang</author><text>Good. With the end of affirmative action, legacy status in admissions becomes much harder to justify. [0] The number of kids entering elite universities via non-meritocratic avenues is incredible.<p>&gt; &quot;[The researchers] examined four kinds of nonracial preferences—for recruited athletes, and for children of Harvard graduates, financial donors and members of faculty and staff. The researchers found that more than 43% of white applicants admitted to Harvard between 2014-19 fell into one or more of these categories. Nearly three quarters of them would have been rejected if they had been subjected to the same standards as other white applicants.&quot;<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;end-college-legacy-preferences-harvard-sffa-racce-affirmative-action-13e90e30" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;end-college-legacy-preferences-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>s17n</author><text>The point is that legacy admissions have always been an egregious injustice. One effect of affirmative action was to (partially and imperfectly) ameliorate the admissions situation. Now that&#x27;s gone.<p>As far as the freedom of association goes, that&#x27;s not an argument in favor of legacy admissions but it is possibly an argument that the government should stay out of it. Given the central role that universities play in our society, and the fact that they depend on government support, I think it&#x27;s a complicated question. Ultimately I think it&#x27;s also an uninteresting question - the important thing is building a societal consensus legacy admissions are wrong and should end.</text></comment> | <story><title>Children of alumni no longer have admissions edge at Carnegie Mellon, Pitt</title><url>https://triblive.com/news/children-relatives-of-alumni-no-longer-have-admissions-edge-at-carnegie-mellon-pitt/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dionidium</author><text>&gt; <i>With the end of affirmative action, legacy status in admissions becomes much harder to justify.</i><p>I just don&#x27;t see this. In our society we believe it to be illegitimate to discriminate on the basis of race. We believe that to be a <i>special</i> kind of uniquely harmful prejudice, one that fractures the deepest structures of society, and that it therefore clears the very high bar required for limiting freedom of association. That is what is at issue in the case of affirmative action, the elimination of which was not a broad referendum on the right to form elite social clubs.</text></item><item><author>julienchastang</author><text>Good. With the end of affirmative action, legacy status in admissions becomes much harder to justify. [0] The number of kids entering elite universities via non-meritocratic avenues is incredible.<p>&gt; &quot;[The researchers] examined four kinds of nonracial preferences—for recruited athletes, and for children of Harvard graduates, financial donors and members of faculty and staff. The researchers found that more than 43% of white applicants admitted to Harvard between 2014-19 fell into one or more of these categories. Nearly three quarters of them would have been rejected if they had been subjected to the same standards as other white applicants.&quot;<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;end-college-legacy-preferences-harvard-sffa-racce-affirmative-action-13e90e30" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;end-college-legacy-preferences-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MisterBastahrd</author><text>We do not live in a perfect world.<p>Instead, we live in a world where a collection of individuals has had the fruits of their labor stolen from them for most of the past 400 years, served in wars where promises were made and not kept upon their return, and are still being discriminated against in representative democracy.<p>And when someone enumerates all the reasons that these people have been harmed, financially, spiritually, democratically, and physically... the people who are against attempts to rectify the situation given the tools available also have nothing but &quot;fairness&quot; to fall back on when attempting to justify their positions, because they&#x27;d rather sweep it under the rug and pretend like it&#x27;s something that we should never address.</text></comment> |
5,095,856 | 5,095,790 | 1 | 2 | 5,095,634 | train | <story><title>iPad Hack Statement Of Responsibility</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/21/ipad-hack-statement-of-responsibility/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zmanji</author><text>If anyone thinks weev deserves any sympathy, you don't know the full story. weev had malicious intent and wanted to harm AT&#38;T by exposing users data. Instead of doing anything remotely rational he took all the data and wanted to sell it.<p>Laws take into account indent (mens rea) and there is a lot of evidence in his indictment that he wanted to profit off this act. He shouldn't be compared to Aaron Swartz</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rdl</author><text>I know weev personally. He's "an unsympathetic defendant", and probably the 9th level Internet Troll, but his goal was fundamentally speech -- he wanted to draw a lot of attention to the issue, and embarrass ATT (hopefully enough that they'd stop being such fuckups about security), etc.<p>He wasn't trying to profit from this. If that had been his goal, he would have been a lot more stealthy.<p>It's arguable that he had "cleaner" motives in his act than aaronsw -- some people say aaronsw wanted to release all the files he recovered to the Internet (although there's no proof of that); weev just wanted ATT to suck less.<p>weev has <i>said</i> things far worse than what's alleged in this case (that they wanted to compile a list and direct market the users); yet, if you judge him by what he's actually done, he's just an asshole at times, but basically reasonable. Fortunately just being an ass isn't a federal crime (although I guess conspiracy to be an ass is).</text></comment> | <story><title>iPad Hack Statement Of Responsibility</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/21/ipad-hack-statement-of-responsibility/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zmanji</author><text>If anyone thinks weev deserves any sympathy, you don't know the full story. weev had malicious intent and wanted to harm AT&#38;T by exposing users data. Instead of doing anything remotely rational he took all the data and wanted to sell it.<p>Laws take into account indent (mens rea) and there is a lot of evidence in his indictment that he wanted to profit off this act. He shouldn't be compared to Aaron Swartz</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zyb09</author><text>Yeah but prison time, followed by secret service, not allowed to use computers, not allowed to take jobs... for what, compiling a list of email addresses that an public API was happily returning to him? Despite his questionable handling of the situation, I don't support that kind of draconian punishment.</text></comment> |
28,265,515 | 28,265,556 | 1 | 2 | 28,264,899 | train | <story><title>The prices hospitals negotiate with private insurers for patient services</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/08/22/upshot/hospital-prices.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bradleyjg</author><text>The problem is intractable in no small part because most people are unwilling to acknowledge where the vast bulk of the money is going—-healthcare workers. They keep on looking for bad guys like insurance or drug company executives. There are some of these, and they do make a lot of money, but in the face of nearly $4 trillion in spending they don’t move the needle. The one million doctors do. The 3.8 million nurses do.</text></item><item><author>recursivedoubts</author><text>Daily reminder that the US spends vastly more, per capita, in <i>government</i> heath expenditures[1], than any other country.<p>We pay for socialized healthcare, and then some, it&#x27;s just that most of us don&#x27;t get it.<p>I view the problem as impossible to solve until there is a collapse.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_countries_by_total_health_expenditure_per_capita#&#x2F;media&#x2F;File:OECD_health_expenditure_per_capita_by_country.svg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_countries_by_total_hea...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>himinlomax</author><text>Do you count the people who are paid to dispute every single insurance claim and fill insurer-specific forms as &quot;health care workers&quot;?</text></comment> | <story><title>The prices hospitals negotiate with private insurers for patient services</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/08/22/upshot/hospital-prices.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bradleyjg</author><text>The problem is intractable in no small part because most people are unwilling to acknowledge where the vast bulk of the money is going—-healthcare workers. They keep on looking for bad guys like insurance or drug company executives. There are some of these, and they do make a lot of money, but in the face of nearly $4 trillion in spending they don’t move the needle. The one million doctors do. The 3.8 million nurses do.</text></item><item><author>recursivedoubts</author><text>Daily reminder that the US spends vastly more, per capita, in <i>government</i> heath expenditures[1], than any other country.<p>We pay for socialized healthcare, and then some, it&#x27;s just that most of us don&#x27;t get it.<p>I view the problem as impossible to solve until there is a collapse.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_countries_by_total_health_expenditure_per_capita#&#x2F;media&#x2F;File:OECD_health_expenditure_per_capita_by_country.svg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_countries_by_total_hea...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sokoloff</author><text>That’s 4.8M people. I don’t know what “vast bulk of the money” would mean numerically, but let’s posit that it’s not less than half.<p>Half of $4T&#x2F;yr is $2T&#x2F;yr or over $415K&#x2F;yr for the average nurse or doctor.<p>So, either “vast bulk” is well under half, nurses make a ton more than I think, or some assumption above is incorrect.</text></comment> |
28,944,923 | 28,944,850 | 1 | 3 | 28,944,200 | train | <story><title>California tried to save the nation from tax filing, then Intuit stepped in</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-10-21/california-tried-to-save-the-nation-from-the-misery-of-tax-filing-then-intuit-stepped-in</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elthran</author><text>Not just Japan, also true for the UK with our Pay As You Earn system - you get assigned a tax code, and the appropriate amount is automatically deducted from your payslip. No need to file anything, and refunds&#x2F;demands get generated automatically each year if you&#x27;ve been changing jobs&#x2F;not working&#x2F;other odd circumstances meaning that the amount you paid doesn&#x27;t match what you were expected to</text></item><item><author>gigatexal</author><text>HEY! Fellow US ex-pat here in Germany. I do use germantaxes.de which offers a hand-holding experience and all in English but the fact that there&#x27;s a simple government provided solution is how it should be.<p>All this hate towards FB and others but we really should be reigning in the likes of Intuit because filing taxes should not cost anything for simple W-2&#x27;s.<p>I recall reading that in Japan if you have just wage income it&#x27;s more or less automatic. Imagine that!</text></item><item><author>junon</author><text>Intuit is such an evil company. Now that I&#x27;ve moved to Germany, I know what it feels like not to have to file every year (I still have to for the US but it&#x27;s trivial now due to FIEC).<p>There&#x27;s nobody hounding you here, no stress regarding your taxes unless you&#x27;re filing for a return or have extenuating circumstances, and even then there&#x27;s a government-provided online portal for direct communication with the Finanzamt (finance department).<p>Every American should be upset with Intuit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philjohn</author><text>And if you DO need to file a tax return (e.g. earning over 100k, certain types of income) you can (in most cases) do it for free on the HMRC website with a guided system.</text></comment> | <story><title>California tried to save the nation from tax filing, then Intuit stepped in</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-10-21/california-tried-to-save-the-nation-from-the-misery-of-tax-filing-then-intuit-stepped-in</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elthran</author><text>Not just Japan, also true for the UK with our Pay As You Earn system - you get assigned a tax code, and the appropriate amount is automatically deducted from your payslip. No need to file anything, and refunds&#x2F;demands get generated automatically each year if you&#x27;ve been changing jobs&#x2F;not working&#x2F;other odd circumstances meaning that the amount you paid doesn&#x27;t match what you were expected to</text></item><item><author>gigatexal</author><text>HEY! Fellow US ex-pat here in Germany. I do use germantaxes.de which offers a hand-holding experience and all in English but the fact that there&#x27;s a simple government provided solution is how it should be.<p>All this hate towards FB and others but we really should be reigning in the likes of Intuit because filing taxes should not cost anything for simple W-2&#x27;s.<p>I recall reading that in Japan if you have just wage income it&#x27;s more or less automatic. Imagine that!</text></item><item><author>junon</author><text>Intuit is such an evil company. Now that I&#x27;ve moved to Germany, I know what it feels like not to have to file every year (I still have to for the US but it&#x27;s trivial now due to FIEC).<p>There&#x27;s nobody hounding you here, no stress regarding your taxes unless you&#x27;re filing for a return or have extenuating circumstances, and even then there&#x27;s a government-provided online portal for direct communication with the Finanzamt (finance department).<p>Every American should be upset with Intuit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway898989</author><text>The &quot;Pay-As-You-Earn&quot; system was introduced in Australia and the UK during WW2 lol. The US has the same system its just been implemented extremely poorly</text></comment> |
27,685,637 | 27,685,395 | 1 | 2 | 27,684,807 | train | <story><title>A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing</title><url>https://kleinbottle.com/#AMAZON%20BRAND%20HIJACKING</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dflock</author><text>That sucks. Nice write-up of how this scam works, I wasn&#x27;t aware of the details previously.<p>Also, if anyone is unaware, this is this Clifford Stoll: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Clifford_Stoll" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Clifford_Stoll</a> - who wrote this brilliant (and true) book: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_(book)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_(book)</a> - which is a really good read and perfect for HN.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CliffStoll</author><text>Thanks, DFlock.
As you realize, writing up what happens is a necessary part of fixing a problem. That’s why I wrote Cuckoo’s Egg.
I’m gratified that my own community has responded; perhaps someone at Amazon will pick up on this.</text></comment> | <story><title>A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing</title><url>https://kleinbottle.com/#AMAZON%20BRAND%20HIJACKING</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dflock</author><text>That sucks. Nice write-up of how this scam works, I wasn&#x27;t aware of the details previously.<p>Also, if anyone is unaware, this is this Clifford Stoll: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Clifford_Stoll" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Clifford_Stoll</a> - who wrote this brilliant (and true) book: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_(book)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_(book)</a> - which is a really good read and perfect for HN.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mprovost</author><text>His TED talk is amazing, his energy for learning is so infectious. I just meant to post the link here but had to watch the whole thing again!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ted.com&#x2F;talks&#x2F;clifford_stoll_the_call_to_learn?language=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ted.com&#x2F;talks&#x2F;clifford_stoll_the_call_to_learn?l...</a></text></comment> |
33,794,725 | 33,793,184 | 1 | 2 | 33,789,940 | train | <story><title>Tales of the M1 GPU</title><url>https://asahilinux.org/2022/11/tales-of-the-m1-gpu/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anxiously</author><text>Can someone explain this vtoon trend to me? It doesn&#x27;t seem to be driven by anonymity because their real name is easily findable, so I assume it&#x27;s something else? It seems very common, especially in certain communities.</text></item><item><author>dimator</author><text>watching a virtual persona stream their development of their M1 GPU drivers is one of the most cyberpunk things I&#x27;ve ever seen! it&#x27;s easy to forget that this world is looking closer and closer to those dreamed up by Gibson, Stephenson, etc. what a time to be alive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LeonM</author><text>In case of Marcan&#x2F;Lina I got the impression that he created Lina just for fun. It started as an April fools joke (Lina &#x27;took over&#x27; Marcan&#x27;s live stream), but Marcan seems to enjoy it a lot, even going so far as contributing to the Inochi2D software (used to render Lina) to improve all sorts of facial features.<p>I don&#x27;t have the impression that in Marcan&#x27;s case it was ever about anonymity, it is more about a creative expression.<p>Up until Lina&#x27;s introduction on April 1st, I had never seen a vTuber stream, and I must say it is quite fun to watch. Though personally I wish Lina&#x27;s voice is tweaked a bit, because it can be hard to understand what she is saying.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tales of the M1 GPU</title><url>https://asahilinux.org/2022/11/tales-of-the-m1-gpu/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anxiously</author><text>Can someone explain this vtoon trend to me? It doesn&#x27;t seem to be driven by anonymity because their real name is easily findable, so I assume it&#x27;s something else? It seems very common, especially in certain communities.</text></item><item><author>dimator</author><text>watching a virtual persona stream their development of their M1 GPU drivers is one of the most cyberpunk things I&#x27;ve ever seen! it&#x27;s easy to forget that this world is looking closer and closer to those dreamed up by Gibson, Stephenson, etc. what a time to be alive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gburdell3</author><text>Some people just prefer their public persona to be in the form of an avatar instead of their real face. They want to have something there to represent themselves instead of just streaming a screen and nothing else, but they would rather that representation be an avatar or character rather than their physical selves.</text></comment> |
27,879,207 | 27,879,128 | 1 | 3 | 27,878,686 | train | <story><title>Visualizing all the vacant office space in San Francisco</title><url>https://socketsite.com/archives/2021/07/visualizing-all-the-vacant-office-space-in-san-francisco-2.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hirundo</author><text>At the same time there&#x27;s a huge shortage of residential space, where so many more people now work. Clearly mass conversion is necessary. I wonder if the city government can get out of the way of that.</text></comment> | <story><title>Visualizing all the vacant office space in San Francisco</title><url>https://socketsite.com/archives/2021/07/visualizing-all-the-vacant-office-space-in-san-francisco-2.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jeffbee</author><text>You know it might be nice if rents were to fall and existing companies could just spread out a little. The amount of space that an office worker gets has fallen so much in the last 20 years. The article gives Twitter as an example of high density but I know first-hand that Twitter packs them in much less than Google SF. Maybe people can have some dignity for a change.</text></comment> |
19,751,430 | 19,751,153 | 1 | 2 | 19,750,667 | train | <story><title>Americans Are Among the Most Stressed People in the World, Poll Finds</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/us/americans-stressful.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maxxxxx</author><text>From casual observation (living here since 2000) I believe that being stressed and &quot;busy&quot; is a badge of honor in the US. For example during Christmas time everybody complains about being stressed with it. I don&#x27;t remember that from living in Germany. Christmas was downtime not a source of stress.<p>For a while it was also popular to be &quot;outraged&quot; about stuff but that seems to have calmed down quite a bit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bpyne</author><text>Good observation. Not being busy is seen as being lazy in the US. Not working 10 hour days and commuting a couple of hours daily is seen as not being invested in your career. Not running your kids to two activities per night and all-weekend athletic tournaments is seen as being a bad parent. Then we spend money on stuff we don&#x27;t need as a reward for being so productive, such a good employee, and such a good parent.<p>My daughter decided to stop playing Spring basketball, which entailed two 1.5 hour practices during the week and four games a weekend with travel involved. She made the very mature decision that she didn&#x27;t want to sacrifice free time and friends to play a game. At first I was skeptical about her having so much downtime, but she&#x27;s happier, doing better in school, and has a tight-knit group of friends. I&#x27;m enjoying it quite a bit too since I don&#x27;t have to rush from work to drive her around and have every weekend tied up for months.<p>I have a feeling a counter-cultural movement is going to start. Maybe not yet, but soon.</text></comment> | <story><title>Americans Are Among the Most Stressed People in the World, Poll Finds</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/us/americans-stressful.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maxxxxx</author><text>From casual observation (living here since 2000) I believe that being stressed and &quot;busy&quot; is a badge of honor in the US. For example during Christmas time everybody complains about being stressed with it. I don&#x27;t remember that from living in Germany. Christmas was downtime not a source of stress.<p>For a while it was also popular to be &quot;outraged&quot; about stuff but that seems to have calmed down quite a bit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Zenst</author><text>People through history have always had an outraged culture, it is just that the goalposts of that outrage move, and occasionally rear up en-madd like a tidal wave over what for many is innocuous unless edge-case contextualized - which is often the case in outrage cultures.<p>There was a time in which people would be outraged at other people not wearing a hat, times change, yet the ability to be upset and project that upon others soldiers on regardless. Just today&#x27;s outrage culture has a more accessible platform to artificially embellish their outrage and societies ability to see 1% vocaly upset with outrage and presume the other 99% agree is a path that sadly still plays out from time to time.<p>But let&#x27;s not confuse outraged issues with real issues that don&#x27;t need to be blown up out of proportions to gain attention. That is the worrying issue today, that so many times a small event gets recontextualized to fulfil a narrative of outrage and promoted as such. Downing out real issues that fester without vocal champions.</text></comment> |
6,214,806 | 6,214,924 | 1 | 2 | 6,214,553 | train | <story><title>JavaScript right on the hardware</title><url>http://technical.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nawitus</author><text>From the title I expected the CPU to actually run JavaScript, like a certain decades old computer (of which name I can&#x27;t recall).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phpnode</author><text>you probably mean a Lisp Machine - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lisp_machine</a></text></comment> | <story><title>JavaScript right on the hardware</title><url>http://technical.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nawitus</author><text>From the title I expected the CPU to actually run JavaScript, like a certain decades old computer (of which name I can&#x27;t recall).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mbell</author><text>ARM tried this with Java, it was called Jazelle and was (is?) a complete disaster.</text></comment> |
3,335,473 | 3,335,219 | 1 | 2 | 3,333,827 | train | <story><title>We've invented waterfall</title><url>http://epicenterconsulting.com/method</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roc</author><text>Let me tell you why you don't see this happening more often.<p>I did this on a project a few years back. I replaced a paper workflow process that was taking up two people each in three departments with a web-based workflow that increased visibility, dropped turn-around time from days to minutes, increased accountability and accuracy and trimmed those 16 person hours of processing down to 1-2 per department.<p>Everyone who directly interacted with the new system loved it. Numerous edge cases that would have been lost in high-level review were caught and integrated from day 1 due to my actually watching people do the job for a day or two per department. The solution has been rock solid (minor maintenance only) for five years.<p>And I almost lost the job.<p>The people who sign the checks were furious. The balance of political power between departments were thrown for a loop. One head in particular treated the thing as a near-existential threat. His entire concept of his job revolved around being the authoritative interface for retrieving and maintaining pieces of data that were no longer exclusively under his control. Another flipped out because middle management saw the results as cause to reduce his headcount and budget, and thus importance.<p>These two departments fought for months, refusing to contribute their shares of budget that were pledged toward modernizing this system.<p>On a technical and practical level, it was the single best experience I've ever had as a consultant. On a personal and economic level, is was one of the worst. It was some of the hardest money I've ever tried to collect. It was some of the most time and energy I've put into the political and 'sales' side of a job (the part I treat as a necessary evil, but very much evil). The corporation has made out like a bandit in the long run. But I paid the price.<p>It's simply too easy and financially rewarding to allow a client's political nonsense to screw up every stage of a project. I have less stress, the people who pay me are happier and I bill far more hours.<p>As with most software, internally developed software included, you don't see better projects more often because the incentives are horribly perverted and stacked against it.</text></item><item><author>giberson</author><text>Here's what I would like to see from a consulting company for once. Don't interview the stake holders of the company, they don't use the software like their employees do. They have a high level overview based on feedback from their employees. When you interview them, you're getting second hand information that will likely be missing key points that they forgot to mention or just simply think is obvious and doesn't require mentioning.<p>So here's what you should do. Over the shoulder review of a representative employee of each department. HR, AP, AR etc. Actively watch and understand the processes they go through. FOR AN ENTIRE 8 HOUR SHIFT.<p>No, seriously.<p>Now, you've got a good idea of how its done current.<p>Then do the stake holder interview to find out what they want to do differently.<p>Then plan, develop and deploy your software.<p>I seriously don't get why despite there being a recognized need for understanding the problem scope which everyone one will invest hours in meetings and conference calls talking about, no one actually invests any (significant) time doing, or reviewing the actual process. It's the fastest most efficient way to understand the problem. It would totally diminish months of back and forth "here's what you asked for" "no, that's not what I asked for" development review process that almost _always_ occurs with consultant projects.<p>/rant</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Duff</author><text>My favorite thing like this for a purely technical topic was a project where there was a mandatory requirement to NOT support ethernet auto-negotiation.<p>Why? The company had a long-standing policy of manually setting speed and duplex to ensure that there were no duplex mismatches. The was a team of 6-7 people who would audit servers and check switchports, and they produced a report was issued every week, and reviewed by the CIO and other luminaries. People would be shamed for errant configurations, as only the auto-negotiation team could configure NICs.<p>The director who controlled the auto-negotiate squad was politically powerful, and got all sorts of power out of it -- including banning GigE. As late as 2010, this org was deploying dozens of 100MB NICs to ESX hosts to get sufficient bandwidth. They also purchased 100MB NICs for desktops.</text></comment> | <story><title>We've invented waterfall</title><url>http://epicenterconsulting.com/method</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roc</author><text>Let me tell you why you don't see this happening more often.<p>I did this on a project a few years back. I replaced a paper workflow process that was taking up two people each in three departments with a web-based workflow that increased visibility, dropped turn-around time from days to minutes, increased accountability and accuracy and trimmed those 16 person hours of processing down to 1-2 per department.<p>Everyone who directly interacted with the new system loved it. Numerous edge cases that would have been lost in high-level review were caught and integrated from day 1 due to my actually watching people do the job for a day or two per department. The solution has been rock solid (minor maintenance only) for five years.<p>And I almost lost the job.<p>The people who sign the checks were furious. The balance of political power between departments were thrown for a loop. One head in particular treated the thing as a near-existential threat. His entire concept of his job revolved around being the authoritative interface for retrieving and maintaining pieces of data that were no longer exclusively under his control. Another flipped out because middle management saw the results as cause to reduce his headcount and budget, and thus importance.<p>These two departments fought for months, refusing to contribute their shares of budget that were pledged toward modernizing this system.<p>On a technical and practical level, it was the single best experience I've ever had as a consultant. On a personal and economic level, is was one of the worst. It was some of the hardest money I've ever tried to collect. It was some of the most time and energy I've put into the political and 'sales' side of a job (the part I treat as a necessary evil, but very much evil). The corporation has made out like a bandit in the long run. But I paid the price.<p>It's simply too easy and financially rewarding to allow a client's political nonsense to screw up every stage of a project. I have less stress, the people who pay me are happier and I bill far more hours.<p>As with most software, internally developed software included, you don't see better projects more often because the incentives are horribly perverted and stacked against it.</text></item><item><author>giberson</author><text>Here's what I would like to see from a consulting company for once. Don't interview the stake holders of the company, they don't use the software like their employees do. They have a high level overview based on feedback from their employees. When you interview them, you're getting second hand information that will likely be missing key points that they forgot to mention or just simply think is obvious and doesn't require mentioning.<p>So here's what you should do. Over the shoulder review of a representative employee of each department. HR, AP, AR etc. Actively watch and understand the processes they go through. FOR AN ENTIRE 8 HOUR SHIFT.<p>No, seriously.<p>Now, you've got a good idea of how its done current.<p>Then do the stake holder interview to find out what they want to do differently.<p>Then plan, develop and deploy your software.<p>I seriously don't get why despite there being a recognized need for understanding the problem scope which everyone one will invest hours in meetings and conference calls talking about, no one actually invests any (significant) time doing, or reviewing the actual process. It's the fastest most efficient way to understand the problem. It would totally diminish months of back and forth "here's what you asked for" "no, that's not what I asked for" development review process that almost _always_ occurs with consultant projects.<p>/rant</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>theorique</author><text>Great anecdote that illustrates this principle observed by Upton Sinclair:<p>"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." (from <i>I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked</i>)</text></comment> |
2,388,409 | 2,387,279 | 1 | 3 | 2,386,575 | train | <story><title>Peter Norvig's Sudoku solver: Clojure & Python side by side</title><url>http://jkkramer.wordpress.com/2011/03/29/clojure-python-side-by-side/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>beagle3</author><text>It is not really comparable, yet, I will post Arthur Whitney's Sudoku solver (in the K language) , in its entirety here:<p><pre><code> p,:3/:_(p:9\:!81)%3
s:{*(,x)(,/{@[x;y;:;]'&#38;21=x[&#38;|/p[;y]=p]?!10}')/&#38;~x}
</code></pre>
( can be found with a test case in <a href="http://nsl.com/k/sudoku/aw3.k" rel="nofollow">http://nsl.com/k/sudoku/aw3.k</a> )<p>The Norvig code is smarter - it always tries to fill the square with the least options. The Whitney code is dumb - it just recursively tries everything that's not blocked by peers in order. Both backtrack on failure.<p>The codes are equally general - both work off a data driven peer list (peers, p). The K code runs much faster for most boards, but there are boards in which the Norvig heuristic makes a x100 difference.<p>Personally, I prefer the K version, although I'm aware I am in the minority.</text></comment> | <story><title>Peter Norvig's Sudoku solver: Clojure & Python side by side</title><url>http://jkkramer.wordpress.com/2011/03/29/clojure-python-side-by-side/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rdtsc</author><text>Same thing for Erlang implementation:
<a href="https://github.com/apauley/sudoku-in-erlang" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/apauley/sudoku-in-erlang</a><p>Initially Python was faster, however after some discussion and some performance optimisations Erlang got faster:
<a href="http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2011-March/057176.html" rel="nofollow">http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2011-March/0571...</a><p>Of course, it is worth keeping in mind that they didn't also go and try to optimize the Python version. So perhaps after doing that Python would win again.</text></comment> |
28,955,466 | 28,954,327 | 1 | 2 | 28,953,167 | train | <story><title>The 'impossible' crane shot from Soy Cuba (1964) [video]</title><url>https://twitter.com/nickdale/status/1450617359375343617</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>coolandsmartrr</author><text>Soy Cuba contains lush and gorgeous B&amp;W cinematography. The film opens up with the camera flying over the waters of Cuba; the reflection of the water is glistening in a way unlike other films. I believe they used an X-ray film strip to achieve this shot.<p>Mikhail Kalatozov has included another impressive shot at the end of his previous work, &quot;The Cranes Are Flying.&quot; (Palme d&#x27;Or at Cannes 1958) The camera follows the protagonist, then gets seamlessly lifted up by a crane to depict the entire street parading.<p>While Soviet-era films does not have much exposure in the English-speaking world, there are so many gems, critically and technically. The filmmakers were acutely aware of great filming techniques.<p>Also check out:<p>Walking the Streets of Moscow (1964)
- B-roll scenery contains another lush reflection of the Moscow waters<p>Ivan the Terrible (1944&#x2F;1958)
- Eisenstein is an ardent practitioner of the montage, and prefers to static camera shots. However, his compositions are very imaginative, and there is no shot you want to miss. His film also briefly experiments with color, and he exploits colored lighting to emphasize the characters&#x27; psyche.<p>Anything by Andrei Tarkovsky
- Tarkovsky is indisputably a master of Russian cinema after Eisenstein. He often shoots in nature, but no director shoots with such rich texture of the mud. His long shots emphasizes the bleakness inherent in the Russian psyche.<p>The Ascent (1977)
- Set in WWII, the film shows the resistance escaping the Nazis covered in snow and panting in the cold. Great snow photography.<p>Hard to Be a God (2013)
- A sci-fi story on the immigration of humans to a different planet, the colonizers inhabit the inhospitable environment. Like Tarkovsky, the slow dragging in the mud conveys the dreary lives.<p>These are recommendations I came up off the top of my head relating to cinematography, but there are definitely many more to appreciate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skhr0680</author><text>The shot from OP looks like IR film, it’s what makes it look “HDR” with plenty of detail in the shadows and sky. If it were shot on normal film then exposing for the sky would make the areas in shadow look black.</text></comment> | <story><title>The 'impossible' crane shot from Soy Cuba (1964) [video]</title><url>https://twitter.com/nickdale/status/1450617359375343617</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>coolandsmartrr</author><text>Soy Cuba contains lush and gorgeous B&amp;W cinematography. The film opens up with the camera flying over the waters of Cuba; the reflection of the water is glistening in a way unlike other films. I believe they used an X-ray film strip to achieve this shot.<p>Mikhail Kalatozov has included another impressive shot at the end of his previous work, &quot;The Cranes Are Flying.&quot; (Palme d&#x27;Or at Cannes 1958) The camera follows the protagonist, then gets seamlessly lifted up by a crane to depict the entire street parading.<p>While Soviet-era films does not have much exposure in the English-speaking world, there are so many gems, critically and technically. The filmmakers were acutely aware of great filming techniques.<p>Also check out:<p>Walking the Streets of Moscow (1964)
- B-roll scenery contains another lush reflection of the Moscow waters<p>Ivan the Terrible (1944&#x2F;1958)
- Eisenstein is an ardent practitioner of the montage, and prefers to static camera shots. However, his compositions are very imaginative, and there is no shot you want to miss. His film also briefly experiments with color, and he exploits colored lighting to emphasize the characters&#x27; psyche.<p>Anything by Andrei Tarkovsky
- Tarkovsky is indisputably a master of Russian cinema after Eisenstein. He often shoots in nature, but no director shoots with such rich texture of the mud. His long shots emphasizes the bleakness inherent in the Russian psyche.<p>The Ascent (1977)
- Set in WWII, the film shows the resistance escaping the Nazis covered in snow and panting in the cold. Great snow photography.<p>Hard to Be a God (2013)
- A sci-fi story on the immigration of humans to a different planet, the colonizers inhabit the inhospitable environment. Like Tarkovsky, the slow dragging in the mud conveys the dreary lives.<p>These are recommendations I came up off the top of my head relating to cinematography, but there are definitely many more to appreciate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rusanu</author><text>This scene from Cranes are Flying?
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;BeAmazed&#x2F;comments&#x2F;oqqgcl&#x2F;this_amazing_shot_from_the_1957_soviet_war_film&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;BeAmazed&#x2F;comments&#x2F;oqqgcl&#x2F;this_amazi...</a></text></comment> |
7,812,840 | 7,810,982 | 1 | 2 | 7,810,020 | train | <story><title> Apple Developer Indifference</title><url>http://blog.forecast.io/apple-developer-indifference/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>natch</author><text>&gt;We shot off an email to Apple Technical Support — one of the two free emails Apple allows developers to send (after which they cost $99 for a 2-pack).<p>Wow, this statement is such drama.<p>There is no &quot;allowance&quot; for how many emails you can send to Apple. The Apple developer evangelist email is public and emails to it are not limited. The author is confusing emails and TSIs (Technical Support Incidents).<p>You can also call the developer support line, which picks up after a couple rings with a live human. And you can file bugs. And you can tweet to the developer evangelists, which may be the fastest, most effective way to get an urgent problem like this on their radar.<p>The two TSIs that are free with your developer account (and then cost after that, if you ever even use your first two) are for code-level support, meaning &quot;how do I accomplish this with code.&quot; This is clearly spelled out (see <a href="https://developer.apple.com/support/technical/submit/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;support&#x2F;technical&#x2F;submit&#x2F;</a>).<p>They will get your question answered, if an answer is possible. Apple pulls out all the stops to get these resolved, and it&#x27;s a huge misunderstanding of their purpose to use them for an outage report, and further to claim that you can only send two emails to Apple without paying.<p>Far from being indifferent, the Apple developer relations team is hitting it way out of the park. Yes, outages happen, and that&#x27;s unfortunate. But there&#x27;s no need to make something out of it that it&#x27;s not.</text></comment> | <story><title> Apple Developer Indifference</title><url>http://blog.forecast.io/apple-developer-indifference/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>osipovas</author><text>A similar problem exists on the Android Platform. The Geocoding (forward and backward service) is non-reliable, sometimes requiring a device reboot. But, at least there is a public issue tracker!<p><a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/location/Geocoder.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.android.com&#x2F;reference&#x2F;android&#x2F;location&#x2F;Geoc...</a><p><a href="https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/list?can=2&amp;q=geocode&amp;colspec=ID+Type+Status+Owner+Summary+Stars&amp;cells=tiles" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.google.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;android&#x2F;issues&#x2F;list?can=2&amp;q=geocod...</a></text></comment> |
23,877,867 | 23,875,778 | 1 | 3 | 23,870,339 | train | <story><title>Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at risk</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/carolineodonovan/coronavirus-schools-teachers-fear-for-their-lives</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oramit</author><text>What we currently have going on right now is a complete collapse in confidence. So many commenters are debating the death rate, case counts, hospitalizations, etc, which is all besides the point.<p>Heres the thing: even if you believe people are being irrationally afraid, telling people they are stupid and should just suck it up isn&#x27;t going to get people to cooperate. Do you want to be smugly right, or do you want things to actually get better?
People are scared, that&#x27;s just a fact, and they need to feel confident that action is being taken in their best interest. Telling people that only 1% of them will die so it&#x27;s all okay is telling people you don&#x27;t care about them - they notice, they&#x27;re not dumb.<p>We all know that this is an exceptional event and that there will be missteps. People will forgive mistakes and setbacks and take on more risk if they are confident that there is a plan - but so far there isn&#x27;t one. We&#x27;re almost six months into this and the messaging is still chaos. The lack of a national strategy is what is causing this pandemic to worsen. The rot really does start at the top.<p>The United States is currently choosing the worst possible combination of options. We locked down - causing enormous financial damage, but we didn&#x27;t follow through with the lockdown nationally to actually stomp the virus. So we get to have the deaths and have the financial damage as well. Yay us!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spaetzleesser</author><text>“What we currently have going on right now is a complete collapse in confidence. So many commenters are debating the death rate, case counts, hospitalizations, etc, which is all besides the point.“<p>That’s what happens when political parties and now the president and his administration are spreading misinformation as long it helps their short term needs. Nobody believes anything anymore. I am already worried about the election. No matter the result, a significant part of the population will most likely not trust the results. I don’t think a country can survive such distrust without significant damage to its institutions.</text></comment> | <story><title>Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at risk</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/carolineodonovan/coronavirus-schools-teachers-fear-for-their-lives</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oramit</author><text>What we currently have going on right now is a complete collapse in confidence. So many commenters are debating the death rate, case counts, hospitalizations, etc, which is all besides the point.<p>Heres the thing: even if you believe people are being irrationally afraid, telling people they are stupid and should just suck it up isn&#x27;t going to get people to cooperate. Do you want to be smugly right, or do you want things to actually get better?
People are scared, that&#x27;s just a fact, and they need to feel confident that action is being taken in their best interest. Telling people that only 1% of them will die so it&#x27;s all okay is telling people you don&#x27;t care about them - they notice, they&#x27;re not dumb.<p>We all know that this is an exceptional event and that there will be missteps. People will forgive mistakes and setbacks and take on more risk if they are confident that there is a plan - but so far there isn&#x27;t one. We&#x27;re almost six months into this and the messaging is still chaos. The lack of a national strategy is what is causing this pandemic to worsen. The rot really does start at the top.<p>The United States is currently choosing the worst possible combination of options. We locked down - causing enormous financial damage, but we didn&#x27;t follow through with the lockdown nationally to actually stomp the virus. So we get to have the deaths and have the financial damage as well. Yay us!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marcell</author><text>&gt; we didn&#x27;t follow through with the lockdown nationally to actually stomp the virus<p>This statement implies that there&#x27;s a way to completely eradicate the virus, eg. if everyone in the world stays locked in their homes for 6 weeks, then the virus will be eradicated. That&#x27;s not realistic, the level of coordination required to make that happen does not exist.<p>So eradicating the virus was never on the table, no matter how much we lock down.</text></comment> |
32,024,597 | 32,024,614 | 1 | 2 | 32,023,868 | train | <story><title>Lenovo shipping new laptops that only boot Windows by default</title><url>https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/59931.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jenk</author><text>Because now a random fob jammed into your laptop won&#x27;t be loaded on boot without the explicit choice to load it.<p>This is defense-in-depth level stuff.</text></item><item><author>mjg59</author><text>How are ordinary everyday users protected by this?</text></item><item><author>Stratoscope</author><text>So they are protecting your ordinary everyday users, while still giving any of us who need to boot from a USB stick or another partition the ability to do that with a simple BIOS setting.<p>It doesn&#x27;t seem much different from the F12 menu that lets you select an alternate boot device.<p>How exactly does this mean they &quot;prevent booting alternative operating systems&quot;?</text></item><item><author>mjg59</author><text>There is such a firmware setting, hence &quot;by default&quot;. That doesn&#x27;t make it acceptable - the default security settings on a general purpose PC should not prevent booting alternative operating systems that don&#x27;t compromise the security model.</text></item><item><author>Stratoscope</author><text>&gt; &quot;by default&quot;<p>Hit Enter or F1 at the red Lenovo boot screen, go into the BIOS settings and find the setting and change it.<p>Until someone confirms that there is no such BIOS setting, there is no story here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mjg59</author><text>If an attacker is in a position to jam a random fob into your laptop then they can just enter the firmware and change the config to enable it. If you&#x27;re going to posit an attack scenario then please describe the entire sequence of events and where the attack would be prevented by this configuration.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lenovo shipping new laptops that only boot Windows by default</title><url>https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/59931.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jenk</author><text>Because now a random fob jammed into your laptop won&#x27;t be loaded on boot without the explicit choice to load it.<p>This is defense-in-depth level stuff.</text></item><item><author>mjg59</author><text>How are ordinary everyday users protected by this?</text></item><item><author>Stratoscope</author><text>So they are protecting your ordinary everyday users, while still giving any of us who need to boot from a USB stick or another partition the ability to do that with a simple BIOS setting.<p>It doesn&#x27;t seem much different from the F12 menu that lets you select an alternate boot device.<p>How exactly does this mean they &quot;prevent booting alternative operating systems&quot;?</text></item><item><author>mjg59</author><text>There is such a firmware setting, hence &quot;by default&quot;. That doesn&#x27;t make it acceptable - the default security settings on a general purpose PC should not prevent booting alternative operating systems that don&#x27;t compromise the security model.</text></item><item><author>Stratoscope</author><text>&gt; &quot;by default&quot;<p>Hit Enter or F1 at the red Lenovo boot screen, go into the BIOS settings and find the setting and change it.<p>Until someone confirms that there is no such BIOS setting, there is no story here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cthulhu_</author><text>&gt; This is defense-in-depth level stuff.<p>Wouldn&#x27;t even call it &quot;in depth&quot;, disallowing an alternative boot should be one of the first things any decent IT staff should do on any company machines, and therefore so should direct-to-consumer pre-installed tech like this.<p>99% of computer users are just consumers, nobody should have to think about security when they first get a new system beyond setting a password.</text></comment> |
18,708,661 | 18,706,183 | 1 | 3 | 18,705,527 | train | <story><title> “Farout”, the Farthest Object Ever Seen in the Solar System</title><url>https://www.universetoday.com/140901/just-discovered-farout-the-farthest-object-ever-seen-in-the-solar-system/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sctb</author><text>Previous discussion: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18700144" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18700144</a>.</text></comment> | <story><title> “Farout”, the Farthest Object Ever Seen in the Solar System</title><url>https://www.universetoday.com/140901/just-discovered-farout-the-farthest-object-ever-seen-in-the-solar-system/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>walrus01</author><text>Looking at the Wikipedia page there are a number of trans neptunian objects with much greater aphelions:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;2018_VG18" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;2018_VG18</a><p>It is just the farthest out <i>right now</i>.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Extreme_trans-Neptunian_object" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Extreme_trans-Neptunian_object</a><p>There are likely many, many more we haven&#x27;t found yet.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sednoid" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sednoid</a><p>For comparison it is often announced in the media that voyagers 1 and 2 have &quot;left the solar system&quot;. Voyager 1 is about 144AU out right now. There are things in orbit of the sun with aphelions from 1500 to 3000AU.</text></comment> |
32,295,209 | 32,295,315 | 1 | 2 | 32,285,375 | train | <story><title>Want to Start a Startup, as a Software Engineer? Sell Something Online</title><url>https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/want-to-start-a-startup-sell-something-online/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>The author of the Pragmatic Engineer once posted a list of his previous failed startup ideas. Nothing wrong with failing, of course, and it’s important to understand that it can take multiple attempts to find something successful.<p>However, it’s worth cautioning everyone to note how much his success revolves around newsletters, ebooks (as used as an example in this article), and the job boards that go along with his newsletter.<p>I generally like and appreciate Pragmatic Engineer content, but it needs to be taken with a grain of salt. The premise of this post is about starting a startup as a software engineer, but the example content is an information product (ebook) and the “startup” is just selling that ebook through content marketing. In fact this basically a cookie-cutter copy of the early 2000s self-help guru books where someone became successful selling books on how to become successful, but targeted at software engineers. This feels like someone read a Tim Ferriss book from the early 2000s and asked themselves how they could resell the same idea to software engineers.<p>The author does have some good resources explaining the internal processes at companies he has worked for (Uber), but lately a lot of his newsletter content is recycled from The Information and random Tweets. In fact, he had to retract a claim that he reported on recently because it turned out to be a completely untrue rumor that was circulating on Twitter, which he reported as a “scoop”. I suspect a lot of the quotes where he says “I interviewed an engineer at _____” might be just be sourced from random Tweets.<p>As with all content marketers selling advice, please take this all with a grain of salt. Some of the information is definitely accurate and actionable, but framing this ebook marketing story as “how to start a startup as a software engineer” is pure marketing spin.</text></comment> | <story><title>Want to Start a Startup, as a Software Engineer? Sell Something Online</title><url>https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/want-to-start-a-startup-sell-something-online/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gregdoesit</author><text>I&#x27;m the author of this article. Please note that 2020 should be added to the title, as I wrote it late 2020, after I left Uber and my plan back then was to start a startup some months later.<p>I had recently left Uber, and launched this e-book, and wrote this post with notes on what I thought might be useful skills as I go ahead with that startup.<p>Note that I did not go ahead with founding a startup, so most of this post should be taken as &quot;skills I thought would have been useful if I launched a venture-funded startup.&quot;<p>I do think you can learn things better if you have some skin in the game. Specifically, learning about entrepreneurship can be easier if you start a small venture, even if on the side.<p>Also, as PragmaticPulp pointed out, the title is misleading given my advice is based on a book launch, not a startup. I changed the title on the original blog post to &quot;Want to learn about entrepreneurship, as a software engineer? Sell something online.&quot;</text></comment> |
32,703,793 | 32,703,723 | 1 | 3 | 32,691,610 | train | <story><title>Why people make dumb financial decisions on purpose</title><url>https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2022/08/why-people-make-dumb-financial-decision-on-purpose/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>horsawlarway</author><text>Expected value doesn&#x27;t mean jack shit if the game can only be played once.<p>&gt; Expected value (also known as EV, expectation, average, or mean value) is a long-run average value of random variables.<p>If you can only press a button once - you should take the guaranteed money in almost all circumstances (assuming you have finances that look like most Americans - if you&#x27;re already a millionaire... do what you want, this game doesn&#x27;t matter much to you).<p>Basically - This is a dire misunderstanding of how statistics works in general. The population <i>at large</i> might be better off pressing the 50% at 50 million button (because then you are running this game many times and you will likely achieve the expected value) - but as an individual, who can only roll the dice once, you are much better off just taking the immediate and guaranteed win.<p>And that&#x27;s not even accounting for the drop off in marginal value of each dollar as you accumulate them - that first million is <i>far</i> more impactful than the next 49.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>UncleMeat</author><text>This is a key observation in more practical concerns like retirement planning. Often, maximizing expected value isn&#x27;t actually what you want. For somebody with a comfortable retirement portfolio you care a lot more about not running out of money than ending up with a huge amount when you die. So you&#x27;ll choose strategies that might have worse expected values but limit the frequency of worst case scenarios.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why people make dumb financial decisions on purpose</title><url>https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2022/08/why-people-make-dumb-financial-decision-on-purpose/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>horsawlarway</author><text>Expected value doesn&#x27;t mean jack shit if the game can only be played once.<p>&gt; Expected value (also known as EV, expectation, average, or mean value) is a long-run average value of random variables.<p>If you can only press a button once - you should take the guaranteed money in almost all circumstances (assuming you have finances that look like most Americans - if you&#x27;re already a millionaire... do what you want, this game doesn&#x27;t matter much to you).<p>Basically - This is a dire misunderstanding of how statistics works in general. The population <i>at large</i> might be better off pressing the 50% at 50 million button (because then you are running this game many times and you will likely achieve the expected value) - but as an individual, who can only roll the dice once, you are much better off just taking the immediate and guaranteed win.<p>And that&#x27;s not even accounting for the drop off in marginal value of each dollar as you accumulate them - that first million is <i>far</i> more impactful than the next 49.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrwh</author><text>Agreed.<p>And well, if <i>everyone</i> played the game, then the population at large would still be better off taking the million. I can well imagine there being fewer social problems if we all get a million fun bucks versus half of us getting fifty million. But then that&#x27;s a different effect kicking in.<p>Personally, a million would affect my life positively (I&#x27;d buy a house), 50 million negatively (I&#x27;d stop working).</text></comment> |
3,723,510 | 3,723,504 | 1 | 2 | 3,723,183 | train | <story><title>Mysterious giant objects discovered in center of our galaxy</title><url>http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/16mar_theedge/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>oscilloscope</author><text>These are theorized to be produced by relativistic jets from a black hole in the galactic nucleus. Astronomical entities eject streams of matter along their axis or rotation. The energy comes from infalling matter (accretion disks). In the case of our sun, the accretion disk turned into planets and no longer powers strong polar jets.<p>In the case of active galactic nuclei, an incredible amount of energy is released as matter falls into the black hole. Particles are ejected at a significant fraction of the speed of light, transferring energy to the interstellar medium.<p>Galaxies moving quickly relative to an intergalactic medium can have helical trails, rather than bubbles. The jets precess (wobble) like the Earth or a top, which produces two helical paths. Tracing these paths is used as a tool to study cluster mergers.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_jet" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_jet</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_jet" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_jet</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Mysterious giant objects discovered in center of our galaxy</title><url>http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/16mar_theedge/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ck2</author><text>Besides the black hole? Hmm.<p>We really need to get the James Webb telescope up there - if congress cancels that I will never forgive them.</text></comment> |
25,330,598 | 25,330,278 | 1 | 2 | 25,327,951 | train | <story><title>Falling Out of Love with Apple, Part 3: Content and Censorship</title><url>https://hardware.substack.com/p/falling-out-of-love-with-apple-part3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>john_minsk</author><text>I just paid for 12 months worth of Skype subscription which I have used for just 2 calls back in January.<p>I want ALL my subscriptions to go through Apple Pay and App store.<p>Once I subscribed to New York times. The newspaper that was advertised to me for years in all Hollywood movies as a place where honesty and freedom are of highest priority. I had to spend an hour on a phone with their representatives to cancel it refusing to accept discount or a free subscription.<p>I don&#x27;t trust many other companies. Especially if all my interactions with them are virtual and they are not specialized in information technology. At least big tech is quite rich to afford to think about users.<p>Each bank got their app and added some obvious features there: pay for utilities, for your phone etc. I want more progress here. I want to be able to see all my fees upfront in a clear format. I want to know my credit score. I want to be able to take this credit score to different organizations. etc. etc.<p>Big hope that fin tech will blow it up, but unfortunately start ups didn&#x27;t deliver. There are some successful ones, but I think finance is too regulated for them to have a shot at a serious scale. Apple and Google have a shot at that and they will create a road for smaller companies.<p>The situation in Belarus is bad. And believe me I know. I was concerned as well about my device security. But to be honest at the end of the day it can&#x27;t be Apple&#x27;s problem. Belarussian government must be replaced by Belarussian people and Apple has nothing to do with that. And on top of that - what choice do I have. Android devices in Russia are preinstalled with Russian software while Apple&#x27;s aren&#x27;t. That&#x27;s more important sign for me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>webmobdev</author><text>&gt; I want ALL my subscriptions to go through Apple Pay and App store.<p>You do so only because you believe have no choice as you know that your democracy is so crippled that you don&#x27;t expect them to protect your rights as a consumer any more!<p>Where as many Europeans and Asians, who also enjoy democratic rights, will tell you openly that we would prefer that our democratically elected government protect our consumer rights through regulations that bind all corporates to behave themselves.</text></comment> | <story><title>Falling Out of Love with Apple, Part 3: Content and Censorship</title><url>https://hardware.substack.com/p/falling-out-of-love-with-apple-part3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>john_minsk</author><text>I just paid for 12 months worth of Skype subscription which I have used for just 2 calls back in January.<p>I want ALL my subscriptions to go through Apple Pay and App store.<p>Once I subscribed to New York times. The newspaper that was advertised to me for years in all Hollywood movies as a place where honesty and freedom are of highest priority. I had to spend an hour on a phone with their representatives to cancel it refusing to accept discount or a free subscription.<p>I don&#x27;t trust many other companies. Especially if all my interactions with them are virtual and they are not specialized in information technology. At least big tech is quite rich to afford to think about users.<p>Each bank got their app and added some obvious features there: pay for utilities, for your phone etc. I want more progress here. I want to be able to see all my fees upfront in a clear format. I want to know my credit score. I want to be able to take this credit score to different organizations. etc. etc.<p>Big hope that fin tech will blow it up, but unfortunately start ups didn&#x27;t deliver. There are some successful ones, but I think finance is too regulated for them to have a shot at a serious scale. Apple and Google have a shot at that and they will create a road for smaller companies.<p>The situation in Belarus is bad. And believe me I know. I was concerned as well about my device security. But to be honest at the end of the day it can&#x27;t be Apple&#x27;s problem. Belarussian government must be replaced by Belarussian people and Apple has nothing to do with that. And on top of that - what choice do I have. Android devices in Russia are preinstalled with Russian software while Apple&#x27;s aren&#x27;t. That&#x27;s more important sign for me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Hokusai</author><text>&gt; I want ALL my subscriptions to go through Apple Pay and App store<p>What about defining a standard subscription protocol that allows any company to offer subscription management, and allow consumers to change their subscription manager if they are not happy?<p>Putting all your eggs in one nest because you currently like it is a very risky gamble.<p>Banking has worked with standards for decades that allow interoperability and competition.<p>&gt; But to be honest at the end of the day it can&#x27;t be Apple&#x27;s problem.<p>That&#x27;s why the trust in one company should be very limited. As a non USA consumer, I will prefer some one else managing my data.</text></comment> |
17,690,992 | 17,690,878 | 1 | 2 | 17,690,534 | train | <story><title>Firefox’s Trusted Recursive Resolver DNS feature is dangerous</title><url>https://blog.ungleich.ch/en-us/cms/blog/2018/08/04/mozillas-new-dns-resolution-is-dangerous/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nebulous1</author><text>The article doesn&#x27;t suggest there&#x27;s something sneaky going on. The article is suggesting that Mozilla are choosing to share your DNS queries with a third party service by default, which is exactly what they&#x27;re doing. It&#x27;s not about them choosing Cloudflare in particular, it&#x27;s about them choosing any particular service by default. And the article&#x27;s argument that, if you have to choose somebody to share this data with, it might as well be the people you already share it with, seems pretty valid to me.<p>edit: I have to point out that the article has backed away from the claim that this will be enabled by default in September. Looking at the Mozilla blog, they mention wanting to enable this by default but have no actual plan to do so (and more crucially doesn&#x27;t discuss at all what sort of form it would have to be in for them to enable it by default, it may look nothing like the cloudflare-default we&#x27;re discussing here).</text></item><item><author>jillesvangurp</author><text>DNS over HTTPS is a great idea. There&#x27;s nothing wrong with the protocol or Mozilla&#x27;s implementation of it. This article is all about Mozilla&#x27;s default choice for a DNS provider. I think Cloudflare is actually a reasonable choice though I&#x27;m not a big fan of their annoying captchas that I get served whenever I use vpns.<p>There&#x27;s nothing sneaky going on here; which the article seems to imply.<p>Currently there is no UI to configure any of this yet (other than about:config) but you can trivially select any DNS provider that implements this in the same place where you turn this on. The relevant setting is network.trr.uri. Also, you need to opt in to this to turn it on so you&#x27;d be reviewing this setting as well. Also you can configure how this is used, how and when it falls back to normal DNS, etc.<p>You can run your own server if you want; or use the one from your provider if&#x2F;when they implement this. For obvious reasons, there are not a lot of usable servers yet but it seems Google has implemented this as well. So I assume they plan to roll this out for Chrome at some point.<p>The premise of this article seems to be that you should trust your provider to do DNS and do it well. I&#x27;m sorry to say but for the vast majority of providers I have experience with the opposite is the case. I&#x27;ve had providers redirect dns failures to advertising pages in the past, shitty performance (600 ms or worse), and generally trying to rip me off with bad network infrastructure related outages while charging me a premium for bandwidth clearly not delivered via obviously very congested infrastructure. I have no reason whatsoever to trust them, at all. The less they can learn from my traffic the better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oxymoron</author><text>That’s simply not true. Mozilla is not sharing DNS queries with Cloudfare by default, nor are they overriding your configured DNS servers per default. This is an experimental opt-in feature, and they are also running an opt-in study. There has been no announcement of an ”on by default” for DOH. If you enable the experimental feature there is no default provided and you have to set your own server, but if you opt in to the study, you’ll get Cloudfare. This is almost pure FUD at this point.</text></comment> | <story><title>Firefox’s Trusted Recursive Resolver DNS feature is dangerous</title><url>https://blog.ungleich.ch/en-us/cms/blog/2018/08/04/mozillas-new-dns-resolution-is-dangerous/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nebulous1</author><text>The article doesn&#x27;t suggest there&#x27;s something sneaky going on. The article is suggesting that Mozilla are choosing to share your DNS queries with a third party service by default, which is exactly what they&#x27;re doing. It&#x27;s not about them choosing Cloudflare in particular, it&#x27;s about them choosing any particular service by default. And the article&#x27;s argument that, if you have to choose somebody to share this data with, it might as well be the people you already share it with, seems pretty valid to me.<p>edit: I have to point out that the article has backed away from the claim that this will be enabled by default in September. Looking at the Mozilla blog, they mention wanting to enable this by default but have no actual plan to do so (and more crucially doesn&#x27;t discuss at all what sort of form it would have to be in for them to enable it by default, it may look nothing like the cloudflare-default we&#x27;re discussing here).</text></item><item><author>jillesvangurp</author><text>DNS over HTTPS is a great idea. There&#x27;s nothing wrong with the protocol or Mozilla&#x27;s implementation of it. This article is all about Mozilla&#x27;s default choice for a DNS provider. I think Cloudflare is actually a reasonable choice though I&#x27;m not a big fan of their annoying captchas that I get served whenever I use vpns.<p>There&#x27;s nothing sneaky going on here; which the article seems to imply.<p>Currently there is no UI to configure any of this yet (other than about:config) but you can trivially select any DNS provider that implements this in the same place where you turn this on. The relevant setting is network.trr.uri. Also, you need to opt in to this to turn it on so you&#x27;d be reviewing this setting as well. Also you can configure how this is used, how and when it falls back to normal DNS, etc.<p>You can run your own server if you want; or use the one from your provider if&#x2F;when they implement this. For obvious reasons, there are not a lot of usable servers yet but it seems Google has implemented this as well. So I assume they plan to roll this out for Chrome at some point.<p>The premise of this article seems to be that you should trust your provider to do DNS and do it well. I&#x27;m sorry to say but for the vast majority of providers I have experience with the opposite is the case. I&#x27;ve had providers redirect dns failures to advertising pages in the past, shitty performance (600 ms or worse), and generally trying to rip me off with bad network infrastructure related outages while charging me a premium for bandwidth clearly not delivered via obviously very congested infrastructure. I have no reason whatsoever to trust them, at all. The less they can learn from my traffic the better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Xylakant</author><text>The default applies currently if you enable an experimental feature. They hammered out a tight privacy agreement for one service and use that as default while this is stabilized. You can pick any other resolver if you prefer. Seems a legit way of handling this.<p>&gt; And the article&#x27;s argument that, if you have to choose somebody to share this data with, it might as well be the people you already share it with, seems pretty valid to me.<p>The whole point of HTTPS and DNS-over-HTTPS is to not share any data at all with your provider. It’s not entirely working right now due to SNI being plaintext, but work is being done on that, too. So that’s really not a good argument.</text></comment> |
32,989,662 | 32,985,098 | 1 | 2 | 32,984,074 | train | <story><title>Playstation 2 Architecture</title><url>https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/playstation-2/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kaveh808</author><text>While leading the software R&amp;D team at Square USA (we made the &quot;Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within&quot; movie and one of the &quot;Animatrix&quot; shorts) our team got to develop some cool software both for the PS2 and the little known GSCube experimental machine.<p>The GSCube was 16 GS processors in a box, and could be configured to access the frame buffer as a 4x4 tile format or as 16 layers composited in real time.<p>For Siggraph 2000, we showed a demo of a shot from the movie running in real time, allowing the user to interactively change the surface materials of the character. The scene was Aki floating in zero gravity, and included individual hair strands.<p>My own memorable piece of geekery involved implementing Perlin Noise entirely on the VU1, and demoing a field of tall grass blowing in the wind.<p>Fun stuff.</text></comment> | <story><title>Playstation 2 Architecture</title><url>https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/playstation-2/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gumby</author><text>A correction: the “emotion engine” referred to (at least before launch — perhaps they changed it) the GPU itself, which was the only Sony-designed silicon in the original PS&#x2F;2. The TMPR and other silicon were designed and supplied by Toshiba.<p>Also notable: Original Playstation (AKA PS&#x2F;1) compatibility was provided by simply putting a whole PS&#x2F;1 on the board — I think it might even have been by then a single chip; if so likely Sony designed.<p>That was an insane project by an amazing team. I see a comment by me is top of the previous discussion, if you want some more snippets.</text></comment> |
14,957,209 | 14,954,891 | 1 | 3 | 14,952,787 | train | <story><title>Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-08/google-fires-employee-behind-controversial-diversity-memo</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sp527</author><text>There are a lot of holes in the arguments you&#x27;re laying out, but I&#x27;ll comment on just a few:<p>* Google is a profit-motivated entity. They have to act in the interest of their shareholders. Correcting for historical imbalances - to the extent that it negatively perverts hiring standards - doesn&#x27;t factor into the calculus of a responsible corporation.<p>* Jews were systematically exterminated in a historical event that was even more recent than slavery. Countless more were left destitute. Why are they any less deserving of positive bias?<p>* There are millions of White people across the Midwest who are dirt poor because manufacturing is no longer a meaningful economic sector in this country. What about them?<p>And more generally, believing that there&#x27;s a contemporary responsibility to correct for historical imbalances leads you down a fantastically absurd rabbit hole. We should instead be addressing the present socioeconomic condition (which will indirectly benefit many of the historically disenfranchised). And that is the job of government. Not corporations.</text></item><item><author>postnihilism</author><text>I appreciate where you are coming from. And I agree we should, &quot;strive towards a world in which we stop making exactly those kinds of distinctions and instead judge people on the content of their character and the value they can create.&quot; And I honestly believe that diversity and outreach programs are part of that process.<p>The economic and social structure of the United States is the result of historical processes that were driven by racism and sexism; disparities in wealth and power between these groups continue to exist today due to that legacy.<p>To take one example, &quot;If average black family wealth continues to grow at the same pace it has over the past three decades, it would take black families 228 years to amass the same amount of wealth white families have today.&quot; [0]<p>While it is a great sentiment that everyone should be treated purely as individuals and it is something to strive for, it completely ignores the economic reality of our country and is an ahistorical approach to public policy or the construction of a hiring pipeline.<p>We can argue about to what role public companies can or should play to reduce these historical inequities. I think that outreach and education at all levels to increase the number of candidates from underrepresented groups in the tech hiring pipeline is a great step and that reducing these inequities, beyond being ethical, will create a stronger workforce. Others might disagree and have good reasons to disagree. That is a conversation worth having, but it needs to happen in the historical context in which we find ourselves.<p>Writing a manifesto that claims that the disparity in tech is the result of biological differences that lead women to be inferior at performing in tech and leadership capacities is not the way to start this conversation. In fact this is the exact kind of sentiment that you call out by saying, &quot;I personally find it inflammatory to equate the concept of diversity with differences in sex and race in the first place.&quot;<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ips-dc.org&#x2F;report-ever-growing-gap&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ips-dc.org&#x2F;report-ever-growing-gap&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>sp527</author><text>&gt; Diversity programs are not about lowering the bar<p>As an Asian male who once upon a time had to apply to colleges, I&#x27;d like to see some evidence for that assertion.<p>To be clear, I (and hopefully many other people commenting here) have no problem with outreach, anti-harrassment, and other such workplace training initiatives. It&#x27;s unfortunate that we can&#x27;t all achieve a baseline level of civility that abstracts away a person&#x27;s biological character.<p>But I personally find it inflammatory to equate the concept of diversity with differences in sex and race in the first place. This tends disturbingly towards institutionalized stereotyping (e.g. &quot;all Asians are nerdy and softspoken, so we&#x27;re going to lump them into the same cohort and exert an implicit negative bias against them&quot;). It&#x27;s also particularly vacuous in that our notion of &#x27;diversity&#x27; is thereby premised chiefly on superficial appearances - &#x27;you look different, therefore you must be the kind of different we need&#x27;.<p>One would think the more equitable philosophy would be to strive towards a world in which we stop making exactly those kinds of distinctions and instead judge people on the content of their character and the value they can create.<p>I find it highly reductionist to conflate people challenging biased hiring practices with people challenging diversity more generally. There are likely some in the tech world who are genuinely bigoted and misogynist. I would hope, however, that a larger share are simply perplexed that hiring practices in engineering would be predicated on anything other than an assessment of raw merit.<p>My final point is this: as long as we continue to perpetuate diversity practices that emphasize sex and race in any way, some classes of people are going to be harmed. Sometimes that&#x27;s more obvious to the Asian male who grew up in a tough part of NYC under difficult circumstances than it is to the affluent Black female who grew up in a world willing to bias opportunities unfairly in her favor (when some other less fortunate Black female really needed the leg up).</text></item><item><author>postnihilism</author><text>This feels like the blue and black (white and gold) dress. It boggles my mind that people don&#x27;t see the fundamental and toxic misogyny in this &#x27;manifesto&#x27;. Please have a woman you care about in your life, preferably one in tech, read this and then ask their opinion of the piece.<p>The &quot;treat people as individuals, not as just another member of their group&quot; sentiment of the author is fine except that we have hundreds of years of doing just this in order to oppress and disenfranchise groups of people. Diversity programs are not about lowering the bar, they are about outreach and working against institutionalized racism and sexism which has created the distribution of wealth and education and work culture that we have today. Given the massive disparity we see in tech it&#x27;s ridiculous that this individual felt the need to lambast the relatively minimal amount of work being done to foster a more diverse and inclusive culture across the industry.<p>If one of the things you have to deal with as a woman in tech is seeing 10 page pseudo-intellectual manifestos about your inherent inferiority at performing in technical and leadership roles published at one of the premier tech companies in the world, and then see that piece supported on the most popular tech social sites then it&#x27;s no wonder we have the gender gap we see today.<p>When somebody&#x27;s views are being attacked for being misogynistic and alienating to their female colleagues, it is not suppression of free speech and diverse political opinion it is common decency. Nobody is infringing on your free speech but they will respond. All of these cries of &#x27;authoritarian left-wing thought-police&#x27; makes me think We need a manifesto on White Male Persecution Complex Culture in Tech.<p>[disclaimer: I work at Google, my words are my own and not my employers]</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>themacguffinman</author><text>* Google clearly doesn&#x27;t believe or intend for its diversity programs to negatively pervert its hiring standards. And while correcting historical imbalance isn&#x27;t inherently profitable, building a more diverse workforce is potentially profitable in the long term as it provides broader perspective and empathy, a valuable thing for a company with a diverse user-base. The positive PR doesn&#x27;t hurt either.<p>* This isn&#x27;t a competition. It seems that the Jewish people have collectively been more resilient to persecution and therefore need no assistance, but so what? Good for them, but it doesn&#x27;t diminish the fact that other minority groups still wear old wounds that hurt them today. Are you seriously suggesting that we shouldn&#x27;t help disadvantaged black Americans simply because disadvantaged Jewish Americans didn&#x27;t need it?<p>* Millions of white people across the Midwest are in bad shape, you&#x27;re right about that. I support programs and practices that will help them out. I also support programs and practices that support other disadvantaged race and gender groups. So I don&#x27;t know what to make of the question &quot;what about them?&quot;. I&#x27;d have to hand the question back to you: what about them?<p>* The government is definitely necessary to address much of this, but it&#x27;s ridiculous to ignore the role of corporations as the backbone of our capitalist society. The private sector is responsible for the majority of economic activity and employment in many countries; they exist at the heart of the problem. Not to mention that some corporate diversity initiatives are actually attempts to comply with government policy. The wider context to this memo is Google&#x27;s gender pay gap lawsuit filed by the US Department of Labor.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-08/google-fires-employee-behind-controversial-diversity-memo</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sp527</author><text>There are a lot of holes in the arguments you&#x27;re laying out, but I&#x27;ll comment on just a few:<p>* Google is a profit-motivated entity. They have to act in the interest of their shareholders. Correcting for historical imbalances - to the extent that it negatively perverts hiring standards - doesn&#x27;t factor into the calculus of a responsible corporation.<p>* Jews were systematically exterminated in a historical event that was even more recent than slavery. Countless more were left destitute. Why are they any less deserving of positive bias?<p>* There are millions of White people across the Midwest who are dirt poor because manufacturing is no longer a meaningful economic sector in this country. What about them?<p>And more generally, believing that there&#x27;s a contemporary responsibility to correct for historical imbalances leads you down a fantastically absurd rabbit hole. We should instead be addressing the present socioeconomic condition (which will indirectly benefit many of the historically disenfranchised). And that is the job of government. Not corporations.</text></item><item><author>postnihilism</author><text>I appreciate where you are coming from. And I agree we should, &quot;strive towards a world in which we stop making exactly those kinds of distinctions and instead judge people on the content of their character and the value they can create.&quot; And I honestly believe that diversity and outreach programs are part of that process.<p>The economic and social structure of the United States is the result of historical processes that were driven by racism and sexism; disparities in wealth and power between these groups continue to exist today due to that legacy.<p>To take one example, &quot;If average black family wealth continues to grow at the same pace it has over the past three decades, it would take black families 228 years to amass the same amount of wealth white families have today.&quot; [0]<p>While it is a great sentiment that everyone should be treated purely as individuals and it is something to strive for, it completely ignores the economic reality of our country and is an ahistorical approach to public policy or the construction of a hiring pipeline.<p>We can argue about to what role public companies can or should play to reduce these historical inequities. I think that outreach and education at all levels to increase the number of candidates from underrepresented groups in the tech hiring pipeline is a great step and that reducing these inequities, beyond being ethical, will create a stronger workforce. Others might disagree and have good reasons to disagree. That is a conversation worth having, but it needs to happen in the historical context in which we find ourselves.<p>Writing a manifesto that claims that the disparity in tech is the result of biological differences that lead women to be inferior at performing in tech and leadership capacities is not the way to start this conversation. In fact this is the exact kind of sentiment that you call out by saying, &quot;I personally find it inflammatory to equate the concept of diversity with differences in sex and race in the first place.&quot;<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ips-dc.org&#x2F;report-ever-growing-gap&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ips-dc.org&#x2F;report-ever-growing-gap&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>sp527</author><text>&gt; Diversity programs are not about lowering the bar<p>As an Asian male who once upon a time had to apply to colleges, I&#x27;d like to see some evidence for that assertion.<p>To be clear, I (and hopefully many other people commenting here) have no problem with outreach, anti-harrassment, and other such workplace training initiatives. It&#x27;s unfortunate that we can&#x27;t all achieve a baseline level of civility that abstracts away a person&#x27;s biological character.<p>But I personally find it inflammatory to equate the concept of diversity with differences in sex and race in the first place. This tends disturbingly towards institutionalized stereotyping (e.g. &quot;all Asians are nerdy and softspoken, so we&#x27;re going to lump them into the same cohort and exert an implicit negative bias against them&quot;). It&#x27;s also particularly vacuous in that our notion of &#x27;diversity&#x27; is thereby premised chiefly on superficial appearances - &#x27;you look different, therefore you must be the kind of different we need&#x27;.<p>One would think the more equitable philosophy would be to strive towards a world in which we stop making exactly those kinds of distinctions and instead judge people on the content of their character and the value they can create.<p>I find it highly reductionist to conflate people challenging biased hiring practices with people challenging diversity more generally. There are likely some in the tech world who are genuinely bigoted and misogynist. I would hope, however, that a larger share are simply perplexed that hiring practices in engineering would be predicated on anything other than an assessment of raw merit.<p>My final point is this: as long as we continue to perpetuate diversity practices that emphasize sex and race in any way, some classes of people are going to be harmed. Sometimes that&#x27;s more obvious to the Asian male who grew up in a tough part of NYC under difficult circumstances than it is to the affluent Black female who grew up in a world willing to bias opportunities unfairly in her favor (when some other less fortunate Black female really needed the leg up).</text></item><item><author>postnihilism</author><text>This feels like the blue and black (white and gold) dress. It boggles my mind that people don&#x27;t see the fundamental and toxic misogyny in this &#x27;manifesto&#x27;. Please have a woman you care about in your life, preferably one in tech, read this and then ask their opinion of the piece.<p>The &quot;treat people as individuals, not as just another member of their group&quot; sentiment of the author is fine except that we have hundreds of years of doing just this in order to oppress and disenfranchise groups of people. Diversity programs are not about lowering the bar, they are about outreach and working against institutionalized racism and sexism which has created the distribution of wealth and education and work culture that we have today. Given the massive disparity we see in tech it&#x27;s ridiculous that this individual felt the need to lambast the relatively minimal amount of work being done to foster a more diverse and inclusive culture across the industry.<p>If one of the things you have to deal with as a woman in tech is seeing 10 page pseudo-intellectual manifestos about your inherent inferiority at performing in technical and leadership roles published at one of the premier tech companies in the world, and then see that piece supported on the most popular tech social sites then it&#x27;s no wonder we have the gender gap we see today.<p>When somebody&#x27;s views are being attacked for being misogynistic and alienating to their female colleagues, it is not suppression of free speech and diverse political opinion it is common decency. Nobody is infringing on your free speech but they will respond. All of these cries of &#x27;authoritarian left-wing thought-police&#x27; makes me think We need a manifesto on White Male Persecution Complex Culture in Tech.<p>[disclaimer: I work at Google, my words are my own and not my employers]</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>someguydave</author><text>Your comment is well-written, I appreciate it.<p>Several states in the Midwest (Indiana, for example) are actually undergoing a manufacturing boom. Google may have just shot itself in the foot here by making it clear that Midwestern political views are not welcome. I would wager that a sizable chunk of Google&#x27;s technical workforce hail from the Midwest.</text></comment> |
9,471,494 | 9,471,194 | 1 | 2 | 9,469,266 | train | <story><title>Big companies are stopping Congress from fixing the patent system</title><url>http://www.vox.com/2015/4/30/8521263/patent-reform-trolls-quality</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bnolsen</author><text>The US congress was supposed to be made up of ordinary citizens who part of the time lived at home in their districts. ran their businesses and affairs and occasionally went to vote on federal government issues.<p>What we have is a political class that only does law and politics. Most of them look down on those of us who have to actually work and produce to make a living. Small business individually have almost no revenue or clout compared to these larger entities even though collectively we are the ones who represent most of the economy (or should be representing almost all of the economy if it&#x27;s healthy).</text></comment> | <story><title>Big companies are stopping Congress from fixing the patent system</title><url>http://www.vox.com/2015/4/30/8521263/patent-reform-trolls-quality</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nfc</author><text>Wouldn&#x27;t it make sense for small companies to commit their patents to a mutual &quot;patent fund&quot; that would protect them in case they are sued?, are there legal reasons why this has not been done?<p>An ideal version of this mechanism would work like this: once you commit a patent to the fund you can not use it offensively in the future (to avoid worsening the problem), but you&#x27;ll be protected by the &quot;patent fund&quot; when someone sues you. The sum of the patents of lots of small companies could quickly be enough to deter most suers that are not patent trolls.<p>Disclaimer: I&#x27;m not american so my knowledge of the patent system is quite superficial, perhaps a similar mechanism already exists?</text></comment> |
35,180,553 | 35,178,191 | 1 | 2 | 35,177,362 | train | <story><title>Venus is volcanically alive, new find shows</title><url>https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/venus-is-volcanically-alive</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bioemerl</author><text>Fun fact regarding Venus.<p>Unlike the earth which has all sorts of tectonics going on and constant interruptions releasing pressure, on Venus the pressure just builds and builds until the crust can&#x27;t take it anymore and it just pops and you get volcanic activity unlike anything we could probably even imagine.<p>Then it cools and the pressure starts building yet again.<p>I am 100% confident that should human society settle on the planet we will totally ignore the fact that&#x27;s going to happen one day and it will be a amazing catastrophe when it finally does occur.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Symmetry</author><text>So, if we were to establish settlements on Venus we&#x27;d almost certainly make floating ones. At 50 km above the surface you&#x27;ve got 1 G of gravity, 1 atmosphere of pressure, and 25 C temperatures so you could do outside in just a breath mask. And while the CO2 atmosphere is unbreathable we can tolerate small additions of CO2 to our atmosphere from leaks and evolution has equipped us to notice excess CO2 in our environment when it gets to dangerous levels.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.humans2venus.org&#x2F;why-venus" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.humans2venus.org&#x2F;why-venus</a><p>Would people floating 50 km up be able to just ignore that sort of vulkanism? I have no idea but I hope some science fiction author investigates and writes a story on the topic.</text></comment> | <story><title>Venus is volcanically alive, new find shows</title><url>https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/venus-is-volcanically-alive</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bioemerl</author><text>Fun fact regarding Venus.<p>Unlike the earth which has all sorts of tectonics going on and constant interruptions releasing pressure, on Venus the pressure just builds and builds until the crust can&#x27;t take it anymore and it just pops and you get volcanic activity unlike anything we could probably even imagine.<p>Then it cools and the pressure starts building yet again.<p>I am 100% confident that should human society settle on the planet we will totally ignore the fact that&#x27;s going to happen one day and it will be a amazing catastrophe when it finally does occur.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Shekelphile</author><text>&gt; I am 100% confident that should human society settle on the planet we will totally ignore the fact that&#x27;s going to happen one day and it will be a amazing catastrophe when it finally does occur.<p>Will never happen without major science fiction grade technology, the atmosphere is way too thick to even think about sending anything larger than a tiny probe into.</text></comment> |
37,346,481 | 37,345,233 | 1 | 2 | 37,340,314 | train | <story><title>Teaching with AI</title><url>https://openai.com/blog/teaching-with-ai</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hyperthesis</author><text>\devil&#x27;s advocate: If the augmented-student pair performs at the required level, what&#x27;s the problem? The test should be how good they are at using LLMs. Tools should be absorbed.<p>Similar to today, when grades are a proxy for ability, but private tutoring puts an average student in the 2% (Bloom&#x27;s 2σ problem) <i>for that stage</i>, but doesn&#x27;t boost the student&#x27;s general intelligence for the next stage. Also, hard work, self-discipline, and focus will increase grades but not GI. (Of course, stidents do learn that specific stage, necessary for the next stage, so this criticism is just for use as a proxy).<p>We might say what is really be evaluated is the ability to get good grades (duh) - whether through wealth or work.<p>The same argument can be applied to LLMs. Using they is an important ability... so let&#x27;s test that. This is the future. Similar to calculators and open-book exams.</text></item><item><author>theprivacydad</author><text>The main issue that is not addressed is that students need points to pass their subjects and get a high school diploma. LLMs are a magical shortcut to these points for many students, and therefore very tempting to use, for a number of normal reasons (time-shortage, laziness, fatigue, not comprehending, insecurity, parental pressure, status, etc.). This is the current, urgent problem with ChatGPT in schools that is not being addressed well.<p>Anyone who has spent some time with ChatGPT knows that the &#x27;show your work&#x27; (plan, outline, draft, etc.) argument is moot, because AI can retroactively produce all of these earlier drafts and plans.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acbart</author><text>I won&#x27;t speak about upper-division courses, but in the introductory computing courses, I&#x27;m dealing with students who still don&#x27;t know the fundamentals but want to use the LLMs to &quot;augment&quot; their skills. But it&#x27;s like trying to rely on a calculator before you learn how to do addition by hand... and the calculator sometimes misfires. They don&#x27;t know enough to debug the stuff coming out, because they still don&#x27;t yet have the fundamental problem-solving skills or understand the core programming techniques. In the hands of an expert (or even someone with moderate knowledge), I think these tools can be great. But there needs to be a period of development WITHOUT these tools too. &quot;If you&#x27;re nothing without the suit, then you shouldn&#x27;t have it.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Teaching with AI</title><url>https://openai.com/blog/teaching-with-ai</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hyperthesis</author><text>\devil&#x27;s advocate: If the augmented-student pair performs at the required level, what&#x27;s the problem? The test should be how good they are at using LLMs. Tools should be absorbed.<p>Similar to today, when grades are a proxy for ability, but private tutoring puts an average student in the 2% (Bloom&#x27;s 2σ problem) <i>for that stage</i>, but doesn&#x27;t boost the student&#x27;s general intelligence for the next stage. Also, hard work, self-discipline, and focus will increase grades but not GI. (Of course, stidents do learn that specific stage, necessary for the next stage, so this criticism is just for use as a proxy).<p>We might say what is really be evaluated is the ability to get good grades (duh) - whether through wealth or work.<p>The same argument can be applied to LLMs. Using they is an important ability... so let&#x27;s test that. This is the future. Similar to calculators and open-book exams.</text></item><item><author>theprivacydad</author><text>The main issue that is not addressed is that students need points to pass their subjects and get a high school diploma. LLMs are a magical shortcut to these points for many students, and therefore very tempting to use, for a number of normal reasons (time-shortage, laziness, fatigue, not comprehending, insecurity, parental pressure, status, etc.). This is the current, urgent problem with ChatGPT in schools that is not being addressed well.<p>Anyone who has spent some time with ChatGPT knows that the &#x27;show your work&#x27; (plan, outline, draft, etc.) argument is moot, because AI can retroactively produce all of these earlier drafts and plans.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Gimpei</author><text>Writing is as much about organizing your thoughts and learning how to build an argument as it is about putting words on the page. It is about learning how to think. If students rely on an LLM, they will never get a chance to practice this essential skill, and, in my opinion, will be a lot dumber as a result.</text></comment> |
15,261,222 | 15,260,969 | 1 | 2 | 15,260,932 | train | <story><title>Google Has Spent Over $1.1B on Self-Driving Tech</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self-driving/google-has-spent-over-11-billion-on-selfdriving-tech</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tuna-piano</author><text>I think by most accounts -<p>1) Google &#x2F; Waymo is by far the furthest ahead in self-driving tech.<p>2) Self-driving is possible in at least certain circumstances in the next decade or two (already is to an extent today).<p>3) Transportation &#x2F; automobiles is an absolutely massive industry. Even companies like Dana, Inc (maker of axles) have $4bil valuations. It&#x27;s easy to see how a self-driving tech maker would be worth far more than an axle maker.<p>4) Software tends to be a winner-take-most industry.<p>Given 1-4, $1.1B doesn&#x27;t seem like much. Even if by chance it doesn&#x27;t turn out to be a positive ROI, it seems crazy to think the $1.1B was a bad bet.<p>And given current prices for self-driving startups (example, Gm&#x27;s acquisition of Cruise for &gt;$1B), the current market value for Waymo would likely be &gt;$10B.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Has Spent Over $1.1B on Self-Driving Tech</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self-driving/google-has-spent-over-11-billion-on-selfdriving-tech</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Fricken</author><text>I wonder if this includes the &#x27;Fuck you money&#x27; engineers on project Chauffeur received for passing certain milestones. Earlier in the depositions it was disclosed that Levandowski was paid a 120 million dollar bonus, though it wasn&#x27;t revealed how much was given to others on the project.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2017-02-13&#x2F;one-reason-staffers-quit-google-s-car-project-the-company-paid-them-so-much" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2017-02-13&#x2F;one-reaso...</a></text></comment> |
7,099,763 | 7,099,372 | 1 | 3 | 7,098,737 | train | <story><title>SSL Labs: Stricter security requirements for 2014</title><url>http://blog.ivanristic.com/2014/01/ssl-labs-stricter-security-requirements-for-2014.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>I really wish it wasn&#x27;t possible to get an A- with RC4 enabled.</text></comment> | <story><title>SSL Labs: Stricter security requirements for 2014</title><url>http://blog.ivanristic.com/2014/01/ssl-labs-stricter-security-requirements-for-2014.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rbritton</author><text>I&#x27;m stuck at B because Fedora&#x27;s Apache and OpenSSL packages have not yet been updated to fix the items necessary to go beyond that. It&#x27;s not a high risk enough site to warrant compiling and maintaining the build myself.</text></comment> |
32,439,020 | 32,438,798 | 1 | 3 | 32,437,960 | train | <story><title>A new method boosts wind farms’ energy output, without new equipment</title><url>https://news.mit.edu/2022/wind-farm-optimization-energy-flow-0811</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>koheripbal</author><text>This only impacts wind farms when they are arranged such that the wind front passes over multiple turbines.<p>Often, wind turbines are arranged in a line across the usual wind front, so turbulence isn&#x27;t typically an issue.<p>So, in this case, when wind passes over multiple nearby turbines serially, then there is a 1.2% gain on efficiency.<p>Still a worthwhile deployment if the model is accurate. Needs to be tested.</text></comment> | <story><title>A new method boosts wind farms’ energy output, without new equipment</title><url>https://news.mit.edu/2022/wind-farm-optimization-energy-flow-0811</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>adrianN</author><text>Using global control instead of local control seems like such an obvious improvement that I wonder why it hasn&#x27;t been used earlier. I wonder whether the real difficulty lies in getting the simulations accurate enough to make useful predictions.</text></comment> |
21,970,766 | 21,970,681 | 1 | 3 | 21,969,997 | train | <story><title>New Cambridge Analytica Leaks</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/06/facebook-data-misuse-and-voter-manipulation-back-in-the-frame-with-latest-cambridge-analytica-leaks/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rossdavidh</author><text>While I agree with &quot;how malleable opinions are...&quot;, the actual answer is, &quot;not very malleable&quot;. Every well-designed study of political advertising I&#x27;ve ever seen has shown that it&#x27;s impact is very small, in some cases unmeasurably small. Thus, for example, the 2016 Clinton campaign raised a lot more $$ than the Trump campaign, whereas the Sanders primary campaign out-fundraised the Clinton one.<p>Now, the impact on the politicians of fundraising, is not at all small. The primary advantage of personalized advertising and fundraising, is to help a campaign rake in more cash, which is both legalized bribery, and an incentive to stoke your base&#x27;s outrate instead of reaching towards the middle.<p>The worst thing about the CA&#x2F;Facebook scandal, is that it&#x27;s become an excuse for a large swath of the Democratic party to decide that it didn&#x27;t make any mistakes in 2016 worth mentioning (or correcting).</text></item><item><author>shadowgovt</author><text>Probably the most useful takeaway from CA&#x27;s approach is that it&#x27;s useful to realize how malleable opinions are of large swaths of &quot;independent&quot; voters. Ad experts and entertainment companies have known this for decades, but I get the sense the average American citizen still thinks of themselves as a free and independent thinker and not a product of their environment.<p>Problem is, even if they are a free and independent thinker, voting populations are large enough that the &quot;average is the outcome&quot; phenomenon comes into play, and voters are on average demonstrably vulnerable to coercion. Not enough to flip people&#x27;s opinions 180 degrees, but enough to, say, get a reality TV star elected over a politician with a checkered history (that has itself been subject to decades of effort and millions spent to make said history checkered).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paganel</author><text>Because the Democrats don’t want to hear that they lost because they chose Hillary to run instead of almost anyone else. That “it’s her turn now” was complete BS that messed up things even for us people who have never set foot in the States. I can see the Democrats making the same mistake again with Michelle Obama in 4 years’ time if they don’t win this round, I only hope she’ll be smart enough to stay out of it. On the other side of the aisle the Republican base was smart enough to send Jeb Bush swinging early on during the primaries, that’s why they now hold the Presidency.</text></comment> | <story><title>New Cambridge Analytica Leaks</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/06/facebook-data-misuse-and-voter-manipulation-back-in-the-frame-with-latest-cambridge-analytica-leaks/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rossdavidh</author><text>While I agree with &quot;how malleable opinions are...&quot;, the actual answer is, &quot;not very malleable&quot;. Every well-designed study of political advertising I&#x27;ve ever seen has shown that it&#x27;s impact is very small, in some cases unmeasurably small. Thus, for example, the 2016 Clinton campaign raised a lot more $$ than the Trump campaign, whereas the Sanders primary campaign out-fundraised the Clinton one.<p>Now, the impact on the politicians of fundraising, is not at all small. The primary advantage of personalized advertising and fundraising, is to help a campaign rake in more cash, which is both legalized bribery, and an incentive to stoke your base&#x27;s outrate instead of reaching towards the middle.<p>The worst thing about the CA&#x2F;Facebook scandal, is that it&#x27;s become an excuse for a large swath of the Democratic party to decide that it didn&#x27;t make any mistakes in 2016 worth mentioning (or correcting).</text></item><item><author>shadowgovt</author><text>Probably the most useful takeaway from CA&#x27;s approach is that it&#x27;s useful to realize how malleable opinions are of large swaths of &quot;independent&quot; voters. Ad experts and entertainment companies have known this for decades, but I get the sense the average American citizen still thinks of themselves as a free and independent thinker and not a product of their environment.<p>Problem is, even if they are a free and independent thinker, voting populations are large enough that the &quot;average is the outcome&quot; phenomenon comes into play, and voters are on average demonstrably vulnerable to coercion. Not enough to flip people&#x27;s opinions 180 degrees, but enough to, say, get a reality TV star elected over a politician with a checkered history (that has itself been subject to decades of effort and millions spent to make said history checkered).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gregmac</author><text>&gt; Every well-designed study of political advertising<p>Wouldn&#x27;t that be misleading though? There are active disinformation campaigns that are linked to the same people and organizations doing political campaigning.<p>Cambridge Analytica has apparently been (at the least) tracking people via these networks [1] [2], and it&#x27;s not much of a stretch to assume some of the same targeting data used for traditional political ads would also be used for disinformation (which is often designed so it doesn&#x27;t appear to be political).<p>There are news and TV networks that constantly present confirmed lies (often stated by the politicians themselves) as &quot;news&quot;, so the fact they still have viewers and are still in business must mean this type of disinformation is somewhere between somewhat and extremely effective. Whether this is &quot;political advertising&quot; is maybe less clear, but it&#x27;s definitely designed to influence politics and political opinions.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thestar.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world&#x2F;2018&#x2F;03&#x2F;19&#x2F;cambridge-analytica-took-fake-news-to-the-next-level-with-facebook-data.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thestar.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world&#x2F;2018&#x2F;03&#x2F;19&#x2F;cambridge-anal...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;membership&#x2F;2018&#x2F;sep&#x2F;29&#x2F;cambridge-analytica-cadwalladr-observer-facebook-zuckerberg-wylie" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;membership&#x2F;2018&#x2F;sep&#x2F;29&#x2F;cambridge...</a></text></comment> |
919,318 | 919,248 | 1 | 3 | 919,144 | train | <story><title>Berkshire Hathaway buys Burlington Northern Santa Fe (a U.S. railroad) for $44B</title><url>http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/berkshire-to-buy-rest-of-burlington-northern-for-44-billion/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>johnohara</author><text>BNSF has the best end-to-end rail network in the country. They spent big $$ improving infrastructure when others like the CSX were dawdling with their logistical systems (does anyone remember the backlogs and delays in TX and AL during the early 2000's that required federal intervention?)<p>The hidden gem in this deal is the investment BNSF made in laying 24cnt fiber next to their track in continuous 4" pvc. I've always felt the decision to do that was a reflection on just how well-run the BN was as a company.<p>Large-scale packets on the rails, small-scale packets in the pipe.<p>Berkshire Hathaway doesn't just invest in well-run companies. It invests heavily in the management of well-run companies.</text></comment> | <story><title>Berkshire Hathaway buys Burlington Northern Santa Fe (a U.S. railroad) for $44B</title><url>http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/berkshire-to-buy-rest-of-burlington-northern-for-44-billion/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>edw519</author><text><i>Mr. Buffett said that the deal came together quickly...Mr. Rose took the proposal to his board - and got an answer in about 15 minutes.</i><p>Hell, it takes us longer to pick a font.</text></comment> |
13,186,801 | 13,186,785 | 1 | 2 | 13,186,225 | train | <story><title>Why numbering should start at zero (1982)</title><url>https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>randcraw</author><text>Dijkstra&#x27;s argument is obsolete. Iterators have largely replaced the explicit specification of integer ranges in loop control.<p>Also, the recent rise in programming with multidimensional data invites the question of why matrix integer indices <i>should</i> include zero, which Dijkstra&#x27;s essay doesn&#x27;t address.<p>Likewise, the increasing use of real variables in software invites asking whether an elegant syntax for specifying integer ranges applies equally well when used for real ranges, since &lt;= operators make less sense when constraining floats. Also not addressed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>avian</author><text>&gt; Iterators have largely replaced the explicit specification of integer ranges in loop control.<p>Yes, explicit indices are less common than they used to be due to iterator support in languages. However they are far from being obsolete. I&#x27;ve been recently going through a lot of code dealing with numerical calculations and there you see hardly any iterator use.<p>Also, MATLAB code, which uses 1-based indices, is an absolute pain to deal with compared to Python&#x2F;numpy, for example.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why numbering should start at zero (1982)</title><url>https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>randcraw</author><text>Dijkstra&#x27;s argument is obsolete. Iterators have largely replaced the explicit specification of integer ranges in loop control.<p>Also, the recent rise in programming with multidimensional data invites the question of why matrix integer indices <i>should</i> include zero, which Dijkstra&#x27;s essay doesn&#x27;t address.<p>Likewise, the increasing use of real variables in software invites asking whether an elegant syntax for specifying integer ranges applies equally well when used for real ranges, since &lt;= operators make less sense when constraining floats. Also not addressed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>EpicEng</author><text>There&#x27;s a whole lot of work that goes into the high level abstractions you take for granted. The people making those abstractions care about this, even if you don&#x27;t.</text></comment> |
7,100,513 | 7,100,510 | 1 | 3 | 7,099,855 | train | <story><title>How a Math Genius Hacked OkCupid to Find True Love</title><url>http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2014/01/how-to-hack-okcupid/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>It&#x27;s funny... doing all this &#x27;hacking&#x27; to create profiles with awesome match %&#x27;s... is pretty pointless. In my personal experience, a match below 80% is a red flag (serious incompatibilities), but above 85% there aren&#x27;t any big differences.<p>Like he said, he went on 55 dates, but only three second dates. The 55 dates really isn&#x27;t too hard to do without the hacking, it&#x27;s just a question of time. And the &quot;three second dates&quot; means his filter wasn&#x27;t even that great -- he probably would have done better just simply browsing on the site, and only directly messaging the girls he found interesting in the first place.<p>But the real interesting thing here is the clustering into 7 types of women -- that&#x27;s fantastic! I&#x27;d <i>love</i> to read more about that -- if he could write it up in a blog, OkTrends-style, I feel like it could get a huge number of hits. I think tons of people, including myself, would be interested in the details, especially if he did it for both men and women.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>keerthiko</author><text>I spent about one year on OkC @ approx 40minutes&#x2F;day on the site, and got about 20 first dates, 10 second dates, 2 third dates, and 2 fourth dates. They were almost all 85+% matches, and weren&#x27;t that hard to find. However, I would say that my manual filtering probably took way less time than he spent implementing his models.<p>He probably learned more engineering and advanced math while I learned how to read subtle messages of profiles, project the right ones of my own and know what&#x27;s worth talking about ahead of time by having conversation online first.<p>He probably got the satisfaction of &#x27;hacking&#x27; the system, while I had more efficient expenditure of money (dates can get expensive on average for guys when you decide to at least offer to pay).<p>None of my OkC prospects looked like they would work out long-term, though I&#x27;m still good online friends with over half of them. I flippantly shut down my account 3 months before I would have to leave the country, because even if I met someone I didn&#x27;t want to be in a long-distance relationship, so I decided to save myself the trouble.<p>And then met a girl the very next day (not kidding) that I really hit it off with when I wasn&#x27;t looking, and we&#x27;re planning to go traveling in Asia next month (it&#x27;s been 7 months).<p>I&#x27;m a diehard hacker and nerd and all, but when things like this happen, it&#x27;s hard to not wonder if the traditionalists do have a point when saying you can&#x27;t figure these things out with numbers. At least not when people are gaming their numbers :)<p>The math is super-fascinating though, and I hope OkC team does some research into it and integrates some of the ideas: obviously they wouldn&#x27;t want to support uber-profile optimization for multiple groups, but maybe help find the right groups, etc.<p>I do think his biggest win as a male on OkC was being able to generate all the inbound traffic he would want with no invested marketing on his part (besides writing his scripts). That&#x27;s something even the most skilled male OkC connoisseurs find difficult to do.<p>Edited: to add last thought.</text></comment> | <story><title>How a Math Genius Hacked OkCupid to Find True Love</title><url>http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2014/01/how-to-hack-okcupid/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>It&#x27;s funny... doing all this &#x27;hacking&#x27; to create profiles with awesome match %&#x27;s... is pretty pointless. In my personal experience, a match below 80% is a red flag (serious incompatibilities), but above 85% there aren&#x27;t any big differences.<p>Like he said, he went on 55 dates, but only three second dates. The 55 dates really isn&#x27;t too hard to do without the hacking, it&#x27;s just a question of time. And the &quot;three second dates&quot; means his filter wasn&#x27;t even that great -- he probably would have done better just simply browsing on the site, and only directly messaging the girls he found interesting in the first place.<p>But the real interesting thing here is the clustering into 7 types of women -- that&#x27;s fantastic! I&#x27;d <i>love</i> to read more about that -- if he could write it up in a blog, OkTrends-style, I feel like it could get a huge number of hits. I think tons of people, including myself, would be interested in the details, especially if he did it for both men and women.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Qworg</author><text>I thought HN of all places would celebrate this - a growth hack by a down and out mathematician. He just increased his inbound funnel by many multiples. He&#x27;s now &quot;killing it&quot; and has been acquihired by his target. ;)</text></comment> |
16,354,042 | 16,353,830 | 1 | 2 | 16,351,235 | train | <story><title>The Co-Founder Relationship</title><url>http://avc.com/2018/01/the-co-founder-relationship/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>csa</author><text>&gt; stepping into conversations in which you have no context and no skin in the game is a real fast way to get yourself shunned because you have shared NONE of the downside but you walk in the door like you have all the answers. quite frankly, that&#x27;s bullshit. and quite frankly, even if it isn&#x27;t, you don&#x27;t have any influence in that situation so it&#x27;s irrelevant.<p>If you have any good investors, and at this point I somehow doubt it, this comment just made them shit in their pants and&#x2F;or write off their investment in you.<p>I strongly encourage you to learn to listen to the folks around you carefully, especially the experienced ones. Sometimes the folks with no skin in the game are the only people who will give you an accurate picture of what’s going on.<p>If you are “shunning” any of your employees for any reason, then you’ve got major problems.<p>If you don’t think experienced (older) people don’t have at least some of the answers and treat them accordingly, then you’ve got major problems. This is true even if they don’t come in with a perfect attitude — note that attitude can usually be fixed with gentle prodding from a skilled leader.<p>If you think that one has to have (significant?) exposure to downsides to have any of the answers, then you’ve got major problems.<p>If you haven’t given your employees enough information and enough autonomy to help move your company in the right direction, then you’ve got major problems.<p>Best of luck... I’m afraid to say that I think you will need a healthy dose of it.</text></item><item><author>20180201</author><text>that&#x27;s a very pessimistic view, and one that doesn&#x27;t take into account the reality of being an executive or board member.<p>i&#x27;m a co-founder&#x2F;executive of a small technology company. i have employees that used to be in my position when they were younger, but now they want to just do their jobs and go home.<p>in other words, they don&#x27;t have intense, heated discussions about strategy, make firing and hiring decisions, make large spending decisions, discuss the financial bookkeeping side of the business, try to raise money from or sell to really unpleasant people, soothe angry customers and employees, because <i>they don&#x27;t want to</i>. they don&#x27;t want their work day interrupted by a bunch of anxiety-ridden executive half-conversations and rants with no real conclusions or answers.<p>almost none of their personal money is on the line, and very little of their potential income is on the line. they can go and find another 100k job tomorrow, they could possibly even make MORE money at their next job just by the dumb luck of losing their current one. did you ever think about that?<p>but... now here&#x27;s the part you won&#x27;t like: the reason you hold your opinion is because you want something more than what you have now. and that fundamental mis-alignment is going to cause you some level of frustration, because you think of yourself as a shot caller, when you aren&#x27;t (or, more specifically, don&#x27;t have to be). and when you&#x27;re told what to do you get resentful, because you think you know better. well, maybe you do, maybe you don&#x27;t. but you don&#x27;t write the checks, and that&#x27;s what a business is.<p>if you want to be involved at the upper levels, nothing is stopping you. you just need to either find that job, or create one for yourself.<p>stepping into conversations in which you have no context and no skin in the game is a real fast way to get yourself shunned because you have shared NONE of the downside but you walk in the door like you have all the answers. quite frankly, that&#x27;s bullshit. and quite frankly, even if it isn&#x27;t, you don&#x27;t have any influence in that situation so it&#x27;s irrelevant.</text></item><item><author>sillysaurus3</author><text>This comment bothers me, but I can&#x27;t quite put my finger on why. It&#x27;s not you – your intentions are quite good. It&#x27;s valuable information.<p>I think it&#x27;s bothersome because it&#x27;s true. And that reveals just how subservient employees actually are. If you&#x27;re an employee, you&#x27;re servile. It permeates everything you do, and the way you&#x27;re forced to interact and think with everyone around you. But especially those above and below you.<p>In fact, &quot;above&quot; and &quot;below&quot; you are artificial terms. We&#x27;re all people. Yet some people are more special than others.<p>It&#x27;s very hard to want to participate in such a system. But this is a personal flaw of mine.</text></item><item><author>neom</author><text>Speaking from experience. Talking to the board when you&#x27;re not a founder or on the board can be a very very delicate things and is likely to get you fired if you approach it incorrectly. I&#x27;d recommend taking <i>one</i> board member out for a coffee and really posing it as asking for advice, not asking the board to get involved. I would also advise against doing this behind the CEOs back. That being said, getting board advice can really help you see how to support the founders more meaningfully.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Spooky23</author><text>So you think it’s a good idea for employees to go to the board with a position out of sync with management and bypass the management chain?<p>I’ve never seen any place in business, non-profit or government where that was a scenario that would benefit the employee unless the employee was very politically savvy, was in a very senior position and had special circumstances (past relationships, etc)</text></comment> | <story><title>The Co-Founder Relationship</title><url>http://avc.com/2018/01/the-co-founder-relationship/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>csa</author><text>&gt; stepping into conversations in which you have no context and no skin in the game is a real fast way to get yourself shunned because you have shared NONE of the downside but you walk in the door like you have all the answers. quite frankly, that&#x27;s bullshit. and quite frankly, even if it isn&#x27;t, you don&#x27;t have any influence in that situation so it&#x27;s irrelevant.<p>If you have any good investors, and at this point I somehow doubt it, this comment just made them shit in their pants and&#x2F;or write off their investment in you.<p>I strongly encourage you to learn to listen to the folks around you carefully, especially the experienced ones. Sometimes the folks with no skin in the game are the only people who will give you an accurate picture of what’s going on.<p>If you are “shunning” any of your employees for any reason, then you’ve got major problems.<p>If you don’t think experienced (older) people don’t have at least some of the answers and treat them accordingly, then you’ve got major problems. This is true even if they don’t come in with a perfect attitude — note that attitude can usually be fixed with gentle prodding from a skilled leader.<p>If you think that one has to have (significant?) exposure to downsides to have any of the answers, then you’ve got major problems.<p>If you haven’t given your employees enough information and enough autonomy to help move your company in the right direction, then you’ve got major problems.<p>Best of luck... I’m afraid to say that I think you will need a healthy dose of it.</text></item><item><author>20180201</author><text>that&#x27;s a very pessimistic view, and one that doesn&#x27;t take into account the reality of being an executive or board member.<p>i&#x27;m a co-founder&#x2F;executive of a small technology company. i have employees that used to be in my position when they were younger, but now they want to just do their jobs and go home.<p>in other words, they don&#x27;t have intense, heated discussions about strategy, make firing and hiring decisions, make large spending decisions, discuss the financial bookkeeping side of the business, try to raise money from or sell to really unpleasant people, soothe angry customers and employees, because <i>they don&#x27;t want to</i>. they don&#x27;t want their work day interrupted by a bunch of anxiety-ridden executive half-conversations and rants with no real conclusions or answers.<p>almost none of their personal money is on the line, and very little of their potential income is on the line. they can go and find another 100k job tomorrow, they could possibly even make MORE money at their next job just by the dumb luck of losing their current one. did you ever think about that?<p>but... now here&#x27;s the part you won&#x27;t like: the reason you hold your opinion is because you want something more than what you have now. and that fundamental mis-alignment is going to cause you some level of frustration, because you think of yourself as a shot caller, when you aren&#x27;t (or, more specifically, don&#x27;t have to be). and when you&#x27;re told what to do you get resentful, because you think you know better. well, maybe you do, maybe you don&#x27;t. but you don&#x27;t write the checks, and that&#x27;s what a business is.<p>if you want to be involved at the upper levels, nothing is stopping you. you just need to either find that job, or create one for yourself.<p>stepping into conversations in which you have no context and no skin in the game is a real fast way to get yourself shunned because you have shared NONE of the downside but you walk in the door like you have all the answers. quite frankly, that&#x27;s bullshit. and quite frankly, even if it isn&#x27;t, you don&#x27;t have any influence in that situation so it&#x27;s irrelevant.</text></item><item><author>sillysaurus3</author><text>This comment bothers me, but I can&#x27;t quite put my finger on why. It&#x27;s not you – your intentions are quite good. It&#x27;s valuable information.<p>I think it&#x27;s bothersome because it&#x27;s true. And that reveals just how subservient employees actually are. If you&#x27;re an employee, you&#x27;re servile. It permeates everything you do, and the way you&#x27;re forced to interact and think with everyone around you. But especially those above and below you.<p>In fact, &quot;above&quot; and &quot;below&quot; you are artificial terms. We&#x27;re all people. Yet some people are more special than others.<p>It&#x27;s very hard to want to participate in such a system. But this is a personal flaw of mine.</text></item><item><author>neom</author><text>Speaking from experience. Talking to the board when you&#x27;re not a founder or on the board can be a very very delicate things and is likely to get you fired if you approach it incorrectly. I&#x27;d recommend taking <i>one</i> board member out for a coffee and really posing it as asking for advice, not asking the board to get involved. I would also advise against doing this behind the CEOs back. That being said, getting board advice can really help you see how to support the founders more meaningfully.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ABCLAW</author><text>This was the impression I got from reading the post as well.<p>Organizations are distributed human reasoning systems. If your culture, personalities or incentives prevent people from sharing key insights, you are hampering your ability to execute.</text></comment> |
14,819,093 | 14,818,579 | 1 | 2 | 14,818,290 | train | <story><title>Coq-based synthesis of Scala programs which are correct-by-construction [pdf]</title><url>https://cedric.cnam.fr/fichiers/art_4027.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tehmillhouse</author><text>If you&#x27;re interested in this kind of thing, note that Coq can also extract code in Haskell, Scheme and OCaml.<p>If Coq&#x27;s not quite your cup of tea, Isabelle&#x2F;HOL is another proof assistant with amazing (dare I say superior?) tooling and automation, and it supports code extraction in SML, OCaml, Haskell and Scala.<p>Microsoft Research&#x27;s Lean theorem prover is also promising in this regard. Work is almost complete on native code compilation (via C code extraction), allowing you to compile all the constructions you can formalize in Lean directly to native code. (see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;leanprover&#x2F;lean&#x2F;pull&#x2F;1241" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;leanprover&#x2F;lean&#x2F;pull&#x2F;1241</a> for progress)<p>(Note that none of those code extractors are verified to be correct themselves, lacking a formalization of the target language&#x27;s semantics. You don&#x27;t get a mathematical proof that the code you&#x27;re running does what you specified, but you get <i>pretty damn close</i>.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Coq-based synthesis of Scala programs which are correct-by-construction [pdf]</title><url>https://cedric.cnam.fr/fichiers/art_4027.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pharrington</author><text>The source repo is at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;JBakouny&#x2F;Scallina" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;JBakouny&#x2F;Scallina</a></text></comment> |
27,277,736 | 27,277,946 | 1 | 2 | 27,276,706 | train | <story><title>It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code (2020)</title><url>https://qntm.org/clean?tw=</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jugg1es</author><text>Finally! I&#x27;m glad to hear I&#x27;m not the only one. I&#x27;ve gone against &#x27;Clean Code&#x27; zealots that end up writing painfully warped abstractions in the effort to adhere to what is in this book. It&#x27;s OK to duplicate code in places where the abstractions are far enough apart that the alternative is worse. I&#x27;ve had developers use the &#x27;partial&#x27; feature in C# to meet Martin&#x27;s length restrictions to the point where I have to look through 10-15 files to see the full class.
The examples in this post are excellent examples of the flaws in Martin&#x27;s absolutism.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SassyGrapefruit</author><text>You were never alone Juggles. We&#x27;ve been here with you the whole time.<p>I have witnessed more people bend over backwards and do the most insane things in the name of avoiding &quot;Uncle Bob&#x27;s&quot; baleful stare.<p>It turns out that following &quot;Uncle Sassy&#x27;s&quot; rules will get you a lot further.<p>1. Understand your problem fully<p>2. Understand your constraints fully<p>3. Understand not just where you are but where you are headed<p>4. Write code that takes the above 3 into account and make sensible decisions. When something feels wrong ... don&#x27;t do it.<p>Quality issues are far more often planning, product management, strategic issues than something as easily remedied as the code itself.</text></comment> | <story><title>It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code (2020)</title><url>https://qntm.org/clean?tw=</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jugg1es</author><text>Finally! I&#x27;m glad to hear I&#x27;m not the only one. I&#x27;ve gone against &#x27;Clean Code&#x27; zealots that end up writing painfully warped abstractions in the effort to adhere to what is in this book. It&#x27;s OK to duplicate code in places where the abstractions are far enough apart that the alternative is worse. I&#x27;ve had developers use the &#x27;partial&#x27; feature in C# to meet Martin&#x27;s length restrictions to the point where I have to look through 10-15 files to see the full class.
The examples in this post are excellent examples of the flaws in Martin&#x27;s absolutism.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mumblemumble</author><text>My last company was very into Clean Code, to the point where all new hires were expected to do a book club on it.<p>My personal take away was that there were a few good ideas, all horribly mangled. The most painful one I remember was his treatment of the Law of Demeter, which, as I recall, was so shallow that he didn&#x27;t even really even thoroughly explain what the law was trying to accomplish. (Long story short, bounded contexts don&#x27;t mean much if you&#x27;re allowed to ignore the boundaries.) So most everyone who read the book came to earnestly believe that the Law of Demeter is about period-to-semicolon ratios, and proceeded to convert something like<p><pre><code> val frobnitz = Frobnitz.builder()
.withPixieDust()
.withMayonnaise()
.withTarget(worstTweetEver)
.build();
</code></pre>
into<p><pre><code> var frobnitzBuilder = Frobnitz.builder();
frobnitzBuilder = frobnitzBuilder.withPixieDust();
frobnitzBuilder = frobnitzBuilder.withMayonnaise();
frobnitzBuilder = frobnitzBuilder.withTarget(worstTweetEver);
val frobnitz = frobnitzBuilder.build();
</code></pre>
and somehow convince themselves that doing this was producing tangible business value, and congratulate themselves for substantially improving the long-term maintainability of the code.<p>Meanwhile, violations of the <i>actual</i> Law of Demeter ran rampant. They just had more semicolons.</text></comment> |
6,680,192 | 6,679,818 | 1 | 2 | 6,679,678 | train | <story><title>Tesla lost $38M in third quarter, stock tumbles over 12 percent</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/11/tesla-lost-38m-in-third-quarter-stock-tumbles-over-12-percent/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cs702</author><text>Tesla&#x27;s stock price at present reflects and is driven primarily by the exuberant optimism of its shareholders, not by mundane financial details like how many millions the company lost or how many cars were sold last quarter.<p>Consider that despite today&#x27;s drop, the stock price has gone up 4.6x this year (from $33.87 at year-end 2012 to around $155 right now), but over the same period the company&#x27;s quarterly revenues have increased only 1.4x (from $306 million in Q4 2012 to $431 million in Q3 2013).[1]<p>The future of a young, highly innovative company like Tesla is so uncertain that shareholders have little choice but to rely primarily on speculation and emotion rather than on analysis of (limited) facts to estimate the present value of the business.<p>--<p>PS. I&#x27;m a HUGE fan of the company and Elon Musk, and want them to succeed beyond their wildest dreams.<p>--<p>[1] Quarterly financial results are posted on <a href="http://ir.teslamotors.com/events.cfm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ir.teslamotors.com&#x2F;events.cfm</a><p>--<p>Edits: added third paragraph; grammar.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla lost $38M in third quarter, stock tumbles over 12 percent</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/11/tesla-lost-38m-in-third-quarter-stock-tumbles-over-12-percent/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>revelation</author><text>Their cash balance increased and gross margin is up to 21% from 14% last quarter on the Model S, with non-GAAP accounting. That&#x27;s a fantastic number for a car manufacturer.<p>Of course if you only care for the linkbait, feel free to go with the GAAP numbers and ignore underlying meaning.</text></comment> |
19,916,208 | 19,915,536 | 1 | 3 | 19,914,438 | train | <story><title>Uber Drivers Are Contractors, Not Employees, Labor Board Says</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/business/economy/nlrb-uber-drivers-contractors.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TheRealDunkirk</author><text>1. Deregulate the health insurance market so you can sell across state lines.
2. Employers start giving their employees the money they pay on their behalf.
3. People shop for the health insurance they want&#x2F;need.<p>In a year, every other advertisement on TV would be for health insurance, like it is with car insurance now.</text></item><item><author>dcosson</author><text>It’s sad that the idea of people being able to get by and live a comfortable life without the benefits from a full time job is so far outside the Overton window that it’s not even mentioned in these conversations.<p>That seems like such an obviously better outcome for everyone - what if we got rid of healthcare benefits and other types of favorable tax treatment that are tied to full time employment so that everyone is in the same boat? Then all contractors, including Uber and Lyft drivers could keep the freedom and flexibility of being contractors (which anecdotally, I have talked to a lot of drivers who really like this aspect of it), but also not struggle as much to get by?<p>(Universal healthcare is one path towards this world but not necessarily the only one, I think even the current healthcare system we have would work a lot better if premiums weren’t paid pre-tax by employers and people had actual choice and paid for their care with real money).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>timoth3y</author><text>&gt; 1. Deregulate the health insurance market so you can sell across state lines.<p>I&#x27;ve always found this suggestion a bit disingenuous.<p>First, there is no federal law that bans insurance from being sold across state lines. What they really mean (but can&#x27;t say because it is not politically appealing) is &quot;Don&#x27;t allow states to regulate insurance sold in their state.&quot;<p>State boards regulate insurance. They seem to do it well. No insurance companies failed during the 2009 financial crisis and the ones that came close (looking at you AIG) did so because of their activities and investments that fell outside of the state regulations.<p>Not allowing states to regulate insurance would reduce costs, but not for the reason you think. The cost of getting a product approved in a given market is predictable and a very small part of the cost of doing business.<p>By taking this right away from the individual states, we could see a race to the bottom where all insurance companies would incorporate in whatever state offered the lowest reserve requirements and loosest oversight. This would decrease the cost of policies and increase the profitability of the insurance companies.<p>It would be great until there was a hard year and the insurance companies would have the be bailed out by the taxpayers.<p>State regulation of insurance companies is a great thing. The states keep each other in line and they keep the industry solvent.<p>Edit:
BTW, auto insurance is also regulated on the state-level.</text></comment> | <story><title>Uber Drivers Are Contractors, Not Employees, Labor Board Says</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/business/economy/nlrb-uber-drivers-contractors.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TheRealDunkirk</author><text>1. Deregulate the health insurance market so you can sell across state lines.
2. Employers start giving their employees the money they pay on their behalf.
3. People shop for the health insurance they want&#x2F;need.<p>In a year, every other advertisement on TV would be for health insurance, like it is with car insurance now.</text></item><item><author>dcosson</author><text>It’s sad that the idea of people being able to get by and live a comfortable life without the benefits from a full time job is so far outside the Overton window that it’s not even mentioned in these conversations.<p>That seems like such an obviously better outcome for everyone - what if we got rid of healthcare benefits and other types of favorable tax treatment that are tied to full time employment so that everyone is in the same boat? Then all contractors, including Uber and Lyft drivers could keep the freedom and flexibility of being contractors (which anecdotally, I have talked to a lot of drivers who really like this aspect of it), but also not struggle as much to get by?<p>(Universal healthcare is one path towards this world but not necessarily the only one, I think even the current healthcare system we have would work a lot better if premiums weren’t paid pre-tax by employers and people had actual choice and paid for their care with real money).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fooey</author><text>It&#x27;s already legal in several states, but no insurance companies took them up on it.<p>Trump additionally signed an executive order to setup a national way to do it, but it died off as a policy proposal because the insurance companies aren&#x27;t interested<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncsl.org&#x2F;research&#x2F;health&#x2F;out-of-state-health-insurance-purchases.aspx" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncsl.org&#x2F;research&#x2F;health&#x2F;out-of-state-health-insu...</a></text></comment> |
30,135,488 | 30,135,571 | 1 | 3 | 30,129,571 | train | <story><title>How to avoid layout shifts caused by web fonts</title><url>https://simonhearne.com/2021/layout-shifts-webfonts/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>divbzero</author><text>The suggestion I like the most is <i>3.4) Use system fonts</i>:<p><pre><code> body {
font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont,
&quot;Segoe UI&quot;, &quot;Roboto&quot;, &quot;Oxygen&quot;, &quot;Ubuntu&quot;, &quot;Cantarell&quot;,
&quot;Fira Sans&quot;, &quot;Droid Sans&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,
sans-serif;
}
</code></pre>
Stack Overflow took this approach last year with the following font stack: [1]<p><pre><code> @ff-sans:
system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &#x2F;&#x2F; San Francisco on macOS and iOS
&quot;Segoe UI&quot;, &#x2F;&#x2F; Windows
&quot;Ubuntu&quot;, &#x2F;&#x2F; Ubuntu
&quot;Roboto&quot;, &quot;Noto Sans&quot;, &quot;Droid Sans&quot;, &#x2F;&#x2F; Chrome OS and Android with fallbacks
sans-serif; &#x2F;&#x2F; The final fallback for rendering in sans-serif.
@ff-serif: Georgia, Cambria, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif;
@ff-mono:
ui-monospace, &#x2F;&#x2F; San Francisco Mono on macOS and iOS
&quot;Cascadia Mono&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Mono&quot;, &#x2F;&#x2F; Newer Windows monospace fonts that are optionally installed. Most likely to be rendered in Consolas
&quot;Ubuntu Mono&quot;, &#x2F;&#x2F; Ubuntu
&quot;Roboto Mono&quot;, &#x2F;&#x2F; Chrome OS and Android
Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, &#x2F;&#x2F; A few sensible system font choices
monospace; &#x2F;&#x2F; The final fallback for rendering in monospace.
</code></pre>
[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;meta.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;364048&#x2F;we-are-switching-to-system-fonts-on-may-10-2021" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;meta.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;364048&#x2F;we-are-switc...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How to avoid layout shifts caused by web fonts</title><url>https://simonhearne.com/2021/layout-shifts-webfonts/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mattbee</author><text>He forgot one: inline the font data (evil cackle).<p>This made sense for me in conjunction with subsetting for a stopwatch app that only needs 10 digits and a colon.<p>I submit it&#x27;s not so bad if you inline it with the rest of your styling, at least that&#x27;s cacheable separate from the content.</text></comment> |
11,627,155 | 11,627,121 | 1 | 2 | 11,626,793 | train | <story><title>I wrote a small piece on planned death</title><url>http://hintjens.com/blog:116</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>buro9</author><text>I&#x27;ve chatted with friends about my desires should I get a cancer that is more likely to kill and not be treatable, to refuse chemo, and to live what remains of my life qualitatively rather than quantitatively.<p>I would plan how best to handle my death, and aim to enjoy every moment before a quick and severe pain takes over and does the job.<p>Some have said this is a selfish viewpoint, that I should stay around longer for the ones I love. But the reverse is true, it is selfish of those that love to demand quantity over quality, especially when it slowly strips away the very being of a person.<p>All we can do is live a life fully, but that isn&#x27;t &quot;as long as possible&quot;, it is &quot;as much as possible&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>notjosh</author><text>As a cancer survivor, I feel so conflicted about this. On one hand, I can completely understand where you&#x27;re coming from. But on the other hand, I think seeing things in such black and white terms is pretty shortsighted. When there&#x27;s a terminal prognosis, many&#x2F;most doctors will offer an array of treatments and therapies to help manage symptoms without trying to make you feel worse. There are several middle-grounds that can help <i>extend</i> life without <i>prolonging</i> it (a fairly semantic, but very important difference).<p>Which, of course, leads to my next major gripe: end of life treatments (even outside of cancer) are generally awful. Euthanasia and assisted suicide laws are sorely lacking. Palliative care systems tend to stretch people&#x27;s last days out so thin, it&#x27;s awful.<p>So, despite refusing treatment, you may still end up in palliative care in undignified and grim circumstances. That&#x27;s a tragedy. We need to do better.</text></comment> | <story><title>I wrote a small piece on planned death</title><url>http://hintjens.com/blog:116</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>buro9</author><text>I&#x27;ve chatted with friends about my desires should I get a cancer that is more likely to kill and not be treatable, to refuse chemo, and to live what remains of my life qualitatively rather than quantitatively.<p>I would plan how best to handle my death, and aim to enjoy every moment before a quick and severe pain takes over and does the job.<p>Some have said this is a selfish viewpoint, that I should stay around longer for the ones I love. But the reverse is true, it is selfish of those that love to demand quantity over quality, especially when it slowly strips away the very being of a person.<p>All we can do is live a life fully, but that isn&#x27;t &quot;as long as possible&quot;, it is &quot;as much as possible&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>teekert</author><text>Why would you let that pain even take over, why not gently increase Morphine as you go? That is how it&#x27;s done here in the Netherlands and, I guess also in Canada now.<p>A friend of mine (then 24) went home to die even though doctors still wanted to treat him. But as everyone else he didn&#x27;t want to die alone, in a hospital. He went home, had a cigarette, stared over the sea, drank a beer with his soccer mates. Within 2 weeks he died. His way. those two weeks were a lot more valuable than the 2 months just spend in isolation because of the absence of an immune system.<p>I&#x27;d definitely choose quality over quantity, it sounds bizarre to me that you yourself would not be the person allowed to make that choice in some countries.</text></comment> |
2,062,787 | 2,062,793 | 1 | 2 | 2,062,661 | train | <story><title>My server's been hacked</title><url>http://serverfault.com/questions/218005/my-servers-been-hacked-emergency</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>iwwr</author><text>That's a remarkable piece of advice for a very vague question. Though, unlikely to help the OP.</text></comment> | <story><title>My server's been hacked</title><url>http://serverfault.com/questions/218005/my-servers-been-hacked-emergency</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>piotrSikora</author><text>"Carefully explaining your problem is half of the solution."</text></comment> |
28,239,456 | 28,239,084 | 1 | 2 | 28,237,274 | train | <story><title>OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-19/onlyfans-to-block-sexually-explicit-videos-starting-in-october</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skrtskrt</author><text>This is going to be corporate suicide on a greater scale than Tumblr&#x27;s policy.<p>I say greater because OnlyFans is&#x2F;was still on a massive upswing whereas Tumblr was 10 years past its peak already when the nails went in the coffin.<p>Edit: I understand this is supposedly not their choice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wonderwonder</author><text>I honestly did not know they did anything besides porn. They have a really bad marketing department as I bet most people only know of them via porn (or I run in a slightly more degenerate circle).</text></comment> | <story><title>OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-19/onlyfans-to-block-sexually-explicit-videos-starting-in-october</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skrtskrt</author><text>This is going to be corporate suicide on a greater scale than Tumblr&#x27;s policy.<p>I say greater because OnlyFans is&#x2F;was still on a massive upswing whereas Tumblr was 10 years past its peak already when the nails went in the coffin.<p>Edit: I understand this is supposedly not their choice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sonicggg</author><text>Sounds like a great opportunity for another player to step in and fill the vacuum, given that OnlyFans already proved there&#x27;s a market for this. Just like Vine vs TikTok.<p>Also, weird that they would give up an entire market because of prude payment providers. Are these providers from Afghanistan? They should not have that much power over their customers.<p>Maybe a crypto spin off could work.</text></comment> |
4,190,620 | 4,188,090 | 1 | 3 | 4,187,628 | train | <story><title>GNU Make in Detail for Beginners</title><url>http://www.linuxforu.com/2012/06/gnu-make-in-detail-for-beginners/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exDM69</author><text>Thank you for a good article. Even I learned some new stuff. However, there was a major omission: automatic dependency generation. Every now and then I forget how it's done and try to find a good source on the net, but they're really scarce. On the other hand, there are tons of small "your first makefile" tutorials (this article is better than the average).<p>Here's my Makefile boilerplate. It build single executable from all .c files in this directory and scans for include file dependencies to properly cause recompilation when a header file is touched.<p><pre><code> INCS=-I./
LIBS=-lglfw -lGLEW
CFLAGS=-std=gnu99 -g -ggdb -W -Wall -Wextra -pedantic
CFLAGS+=$(INCS)
CFLAGS+=-march=native -mno-80387 -mfpmath=sse -O3
SRCS=$(wildcard *.c)
OBJS=$(SRCS:.c=.o)
DEPS=$(SRCS:.c=.d)
EXECUTABLE=main
.PHONY: all clean
all: $(EXECUTABLE)
$(EXECUTABLE): $(OBJS)
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LIBS) -o $@ $^
%.o: %.c
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c -o $@ $&#60;
%.d: %.c
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -MM -o $@ $&#60;
-include $(DEPS)
clean:
rm -f $(EXECUTABLE)
rm -f $(OBJS) $(DEPS)
</code></pre>
If anyone has a better one (preferably with out-of-source build to put .d and .o files to a better place), please share it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>__david__</author><text>A quick note:<p>&#62; INCS=-I./<p>This is generally a bad idea, unless you're explicitly trying to override #include &#60;stdio.h&#62; with a local file (and there are better ways to do that). &#60;&#62; are for system files, "" are for local files.<p>So off the bat, your makefile example is better than most makefiles out there. I still see things that look like some dumb IDE wrote them with explicit .d and x.c: x.o rules littered about.<p>Though I do note you aren't taking advantage of the built-in makefile rules (which are defined in POSIX), and you aren't taking advantage of gcc's -MMD flag, which does the dependencies during compilation instead of a separate step. That eliminates much of the file:<p><pre><code> LDLIBS=-lglfw -lGLEW
CFLAGS+=-std=gnu99 -g -ggdb -W -Wall -Wextra -pedantic
CFLAGS+=-MMD
CFLAGS+=$(INCS)
CFLAGS+=-march=native -mno-80387 -mfpmath=sse -O3
SRCS=$(wildcard *.c)
OBJS=$(SRCS:.c=.o)
EXECUTABLE=main
.PHONY: all clean
all: $(EXECUTABLE)
$(EXECUTABLE): $(OBJS)
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDLIBS) -o $@ $^
-include *.d
clean:
rm -f $(EXECUTABLE)
rm -f $(OBJS) *.d
</code></pre>
Furthermore, I like to name my objects explicitly instead of using * .c, which lets you order them on the command line, if you find that makes a difference. In particular, if your executable is named the same as one of your C source files then you don't even need the link line, as long as the C source file is the first dependency:<p><pre><code> LDLIBS=-lglfw -lGLEW
CFLAGS+=-std=gnu99 -g -ggdb -W -Wall -Wextra -pedantic
CFLAGS+=-MMD
CFLAGS+=$(INCS)
CFLAGS+=-march=native -mno-80387 -mfpmath=sse -O3
OBJS=main.o obj1.o obj2.o
.PHONY: all clean
all: main
main: $(OBJS)
-include *.d
clean:
rm -f $(EXECUTABLE)
rm -f $(OBJS) *.d
</code></pre>
I tend to like to prefix variables with the thing you are making so that different executables in the same Makefile can have (drastically) different compilation parameters:<p><pre><code> .PHONY: all clean
all: main
main: LDLIBS=-lglfw -lGLEW
main: CFLAGS+=-std=gnu99 -g -ggdb -W -Wall -Wextra -pedantic
main: CFLAGS+=-MMD
main: CFLAGS+=$(INCS)
main: CFLAGS+=-march=native -mno-80387 -mfpmath=sse -O3
main: OBJS=main.o obj1.o obj2.o
main: $(OBJS)
-include *.d
clean:
rm -f $(EXECUTABLE)
rm -f $(OBJS) *.d
</code></pre>
If you have an embedded project that needs both compiling and cross-compiling that trick can work wonders.</text></comment> | <story><title>GNU Make in Detail for Beginners</title><url>http://www.linuxforu.com/2012/06/gnu-make-in-detail-for-beginners/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exDM69</author><text>Thank you for a good article. Even I learned some new stuff. However, there was a major omission: automatic dependency generation. Every now and then I forget how it's done and try to find a good source on the net, but they're really scarce. On the other hand, there are tons of small "your first makefile" tutorials (this article is better than the average).<p>Here's my Makefile boilerplate. It build single executable from all .c files in this directory and scans for include file dependencies to properly cause recompilation when a header file is touched.<p><pre><code> INCS=-I./
LIBS=-lglfw -lGLEW
CFLAGS=-std=gnu99 -g -ggdb -W -Wall -Wextra -pedantic
CFLAGS+=$(INCS)
CFLAGS+=-march=native -mno-80387 -mfpmath=sse -O3
SRCS=$(wildcard *.c)
OBJS=$(SRCS:.c=.o)
DEPS=$(SRCS:.c=.d)
EXECUTABLE=main
.PHONY: all clean
all: $(EXECUTABLE)
$(EXECUTABLE): $(OBJS)
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LIBS) -o $@ $^
%.o: %.c
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c -o $@ $&#60;
%.d: %.c
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -MM -o $@ $&#60;
-include $(DEPS)
clean:
rm -f $(EXECUTABLE)
rm -f $(OBJS) $(DEPS)
</code></pre>
If anyone has a better one (preferably with out-of-source build to put .d and .o files to a better place), please share it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cygx</author><text>You might want to provide separate CFLAGS and LDFLAGS.<p>Also, I prefer adding -MMD to CFLAGS instead of having an additional rule for dependency generation: This way, you won't unnecessarily trigger dependency generation on targets which do not build objects like clean.</text></comment> |
22,593,369 | 22,592,693 | 1 | 2 | 22,591,507 | train | <story><title>I am mesmerized by our new robotic vacuum (2019)</title><url>https://dev.to/deciduously/i-am-mesmerized-by-our-new-robotic-vacuum-10pc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>raducu</author><text>I don&#x27;t like the cleaning I have to do before I let the robot loose -- pick up toys; I could vacuum much faster than the robot does and without heavy lifting of items in my crowded flat.<p>But I usually don&#x27;t vacuum, so overall I&#x27;m satisfied with my roborock.</text></item><item><author>aasasd</author><text>I bought a robotic vacuum more out of curiosity and to see if I should buy one as a gift for my parents. Just one of the cheapest models that still had good reviews.<p>It turned out that all deficiencies of such a vacuum are offset by its basic function: it keeps the apartment clean each day, every day. Dirty corners? Weak suction? Small container? Somewhat noisy? Not too smart? Gets stuck sometimes? I need to clean hairs out of the rotating brush? I still have to mop the place? Pffft, none of this matters when the carpet and the kitchen are dust-free <i>every day</i> without me doing the vacuuming. If it misses a spot today, it will get it tomorrow. After a few runs the floor is indeed cleaner than it ever was, and stays that way. No rogue crumbs stuck to my feet before the cleanup day. Still managed to find something unpleasant on the floor? Just give the robot a bit of work right here. It&#x27;s like SSDs after HDDs: you have to worry about having backups, but it&#x27;ll be amazing in the meantime.<p>Rather prophetically, the cheap production has shown itself when something got cooked in the electronic insides and the vac entered the eternity of ‘error 03’.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bonniemuffin</author><text>I love this feature! After a lifetime of throwing my socks on the floor, Roomba finally trained me to put them in the laundry hamper. I&#x27;ve learned to keep my floors tidy all the time, and my life is much better for it.</text></comment> | <story><title>I am mesmerized by our new robotic vacuum (2019)</title><url>https://dev.to/deciduously/i-am-mesmerized-by-our-new-robotic-vacuum-10pc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>raducu</author><text>I don&#x27;t like the cleaning I have to do before I let the robot loose -- pick up toys; I could vacuum much faster than the robot does and without heavy lifting of items in my crowded flat.<p>But I usually don&#x27;t vacuum, so overall I&#x27;m satisfied with my roborock.</text></item><item><author>aasasd</author><text>I bought a robotic vacuum more out of curiosity and to see if I should buy one as a gift for my parents. Just one of the cheapest models that still had good reviews.<p>It turned out that all deficiencies of such a vacuum are offset by its basic function: it keeps the apartment clean each day, every day. Dirty corners? Weak suction? Small container? Somewhat noisy? Not too smart? Gets stuck sometimes? I need to clean hairs out of the rotating brush? I still have to mop the place? Pffft, none of this matters when the carpet and the kitchen are dust-free <i>every day</i> without me doing the vacuuming. If it misses a spot today, it will get it tomorrow. After a few runs the floor is indeed cleaner than it ever was, and stays that way. No rogue crumbs stuck to my feet before the cleanup day. Still managed to find something unpleasant on the floor? Just give the robot a bit of work right here. It&#x27;s like SSDs after HDDs: you have to worry about having backups, but it&#x27;ll be amazing in the meantime.<p>Rather prophetically, the cheap production has shown itself when something got cooked in the electronic insides and the vac entered the eternity of ‘error 03’.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>minitoar</author><text>Same. I can no longer just schedule it to run unattended. First I must “prepare the house to be roomba’d”.</text></comment> |
19,967,651 | 19,967,499 | 1 | 3 | 19,966,135 | train | <story><title>The State of Apple's Developer Documentation</title><url>https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/05/20/the-state-of-apples-developer-documentation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gnachman</author><text>Some personal favorites, culled by searching my source code for swear words:<p>NSTitleBarAccessoryViewController lacked documentation from the time it was introduced in macOS 10.10 until recently (perhaps Mojave? That&#x27;s when I first found it). There was literally nothing except the header file and the announcment in the release notes for the OS. It was also full of bugs that rendered it unusable for my application.<p>Overriding -scrollWheel: has all kinds of nonsense side-effects. These are only documented in release notes. Scroll wheels in general are way more complex than you&#x27;d imagine. If it weren&#x27;t for Chrome&#x27;s open source Mac code, it would be a complete mystery. See the investigation here (search for &quot;of mice and men&quot;) for what Apple should have documented: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chromium.googlesource.com&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;blink&#x2F;+&#x2F;d40e271ac1613cea1a24eac3cca6efe173cd0696&#x2F;Source&#x2F;WebKit&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;src&#x2F;mac&#x2F;WebInputEventFactory.mm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chromium.googlesource.com&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;blink&#x2F;+&#x2F;d40e271ac...</a><p>Passing a constant buffer to a fragment shader will cause it to be truncated at 64k on some graphics drivers. Not a bug, just an undocumented limitation. Doesn&#x27;t happen on my computer. That was fun to figure out.<p>NSMapTable with weak keys and strong value leaks the values, according to an archived document. The main docs say nothing on the topic.<p>If you&#x27;d like to know why an exception was thrown, you have to print the value of the proper CPU register. On x86-64 it&#x27;s $rax. As far as I know this is an oral tradition, passed down from senior developer to junior developer.<p>If you want a daemon to survive the user logging out and logging in, you have to use a barely-documented function (bootstrap_parent) which is only mentioned in a now-archived tech note.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pcwalton</author><text>&gt; Passing a constant buffer to a fragment shader will cause it to be truncated at 64k on some graphics drivers. Not a bug, just an undocumented limitation. Doesn&#x27;t happen on my computer. That was fun to figure out.<p>That doesn&#x27;t even begin to scratch the surface of OpenGL bugs on Apple devices. Many more are documented here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;servo&#x2F;webrender&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Driver-issues" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;servo&#x2F;webrender&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Driver-issues</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The State of Apple's Developer Documentation</title><url>https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/05/20/the-state-of-apples-developer-documentation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gnachman</author><text>Some personal favorites, culled by searching my source code for swear words:<p>NSTitleBarAccessoryViewController lacked documentation from the time it was introduced in macOS 10.10 until recently (perhaps Mojave? That&#x27;s when I first found it). There was literally nothing except the header file and the announcment in the release notes for the OS. It was also full of bugs that rendered it unusable for my application.<p>Overriding -scrollWheel: has all kinds of nonsense side-effects. These are only documented in release notes. Scroll wheels in general are way more complex than you&#x27;d imagine. If it weren&#x27;t for Chrome&#x27;s open source Mac code, it would be a complete mystery. See the investigation here (search for &quot;of mice and men&quot;) for what Apple should have documented: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chromium.googlesource.com&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;blink&#x2F;+&#x2F;d40e271ac1613cea1a24eac3cca6efe173cd0696&#x2F;Source&#x2F;WebKit&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;src&#x2F;mac&#x2F;WebInputEventFactory.mm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chromium.googlesource.com&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;blink&#x2F;+&#x2F;d40e271ac...</a><p>Passing a constant buffer to a fragment shader will cause it to be truncated at 64k on some graphics drivers. Not a bug, just an undocumented limitation. Doesn&#x27;t happen on my computer. That was fun to figure out.<p>NSMapTable with weak keys and strong value leaks the values, according to an archived document. The main docs say nothing on the topic.<p>If you&#x27;d like to know why an exception was thrown, you have to print the value of the proper CPU register. On x86-64 it&#x27;s $rax. As far as I know this is an oral tradition, passed down from senior developer to junior developer.<p>If you want a daemon to survive the user logging out and logging in, you have to use a barely-documented function (bootstrap_parent) which is only mentioned in a now-archived tech note.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Klonoar</author><text>Yup! I mentioned in another comment here, but overriding scrollWheel can completely kill smooth scrolling and is only mentioned in some release notes.<p>It&#x27;s crazy.</text></comment> |
29,039,530 | 29,039,294 | 1 | 2 | 29,038,356 | train | <story><title>Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm</title><url>https://www.independent.com/2021/10/28/architect-resigns-in-protest-over-ucsb-mega-dorm/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>daniel-thompson</author><text>Munger also did the same thing for the University of Michigan&#x27;s graduate residence building^; 95% of the rooms have no windows.<p>^ <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;housing.umich.edu&#x2F;residence-hall&#x2F;munger&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;housing.umich.edu&#x2F;residence-hall&#x2F;munger&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pacbard</author><text>I had a friend living at Munger at Umich and visited a few times.<p>The vibe of the building is similar to an hotel. As you enter, there is a foyer with elevators. The upstairs floors have windowless corridors where you enter the suites.<p>Each suite has a long corridor with doors to the rooms (4 on each side, if I remember correctly). Each room is on the &quot;inside&quot; of the building, so they don&#x27;t have windows, but they have private bathrooms.<p>The living quarters have a shared double kitchen (two fridges, two cooking ranges, etc) and a double living room (two couches and two tvs). This room also has a wall of windows so there is plenty of sunlight there.<p>The suite I visited was coed and had graduate students from different schools living together. It was definitely an interesting vibe.<p>As any dorm, there are other amenities that are shared with everyone like a patio on the roof, a gym, rec room, and study spaces. Also, all the rooms are furnished, so it might be a good set up for someone that doesn&#x27;t have furniture or doesn&#x27;t want to worry about it.<p>When compared to other grad student housing options (Northwood 1-3 for single students or a shared room in Northwood 4-5), Munger is definitely an improvement (mostly it&#x27;s location and the fact that is a new construction, to be honest) but it is a little bit more expensive than NW offerings.</text></comment> | <story><title>Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm</title><url>https://www.independent.com/2021/10/28/architect-resigns-in-protest-over-ucsb-mega-dorm/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>daniel-thompson</author><text>Munger also did the same thing for the University of Michigan&#x27;s graduate residence building^; 95% of the rooms have no windows.<p>^ <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;housing.umich.edu&#x2F;residence-hall&#x2F;munger&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;housing.umich.edu&#x2F;residence-hall&#x2F;munger&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danso</author><text>Worth noting that the UM building is a significantly different scope and scape:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mlive.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;ann-arbor&#x2F;2015&#x2F;07&#x2F;heres_your_first_chance_to_see.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mlive.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;ann-arbor&#x2F;2015&#x2F;07&#x2F;heres_your_firs...</a><p>It houses 96 suites, 6—7 bedrooms each. Each bedroom is 16x9 with their own private bathroom. In one of the blueprints in the UCSB article, there appears to be 1 bathroom per 8 suites [1].<p>To be fair, graduate housing is supposed to be a bit better than undergrad dorms — especially in regards to not having to share a bedroom with a total stranger. And maybe the UCSB&#x27;s tiny single room design (windowless or not) will be a good tradeoff for not having to have a roommate as an undergrad.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=D_WUixhkwu4&amp;t=32s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=D_WUixhkwu4&amp;t=32s</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.independent.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2021&#x2F;10&#x2F;munger1.jpg?resize=1205%2C646?w=1024" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.independent.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2021&#x2F;10&#x2F;munge...</a></text></comment> |
11,224,525 | 11,223,954 | 1 | 3 | 11,223,384 | train | <story><title>Why IntelliJ IDEA is hailed as the most friendly Java IDE (many screenshots)</title><url>http://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2016/03/enjoying-java-and-being-more-productive-with-intellij-idea/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>incepted</author><text>&quot;Friendly&quot; is not the word I would use. Powerful, sure. But IDEA breaks quite a few universal GUI concepts and that takes a bit to get used to.<p>For example, Ctrl-w is a very important keybinding on IDEA, one that I use all the time (it expands the selection to the enclosing expression). It&#x27;s literally wired in my brain now. To the point that I now use it in Eclipse as well and I even started using it in other places (Sublime, etc...) and... closing the window as a result. Very annoying.<p>Another one is that Ctrl-n sometimes creates a new file (expected) and sometimes... something completely different depending on your current window. Again, not friendly. Optimized for development and a life saver on the long run, for sure, but it&#x27;s fairly user hostile.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why IntelliJ IDEA is hailed as the most friendly Java IDE (many screenshots)</title><url>http://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2016/03/enjoying-java-and-being-more-productive-with-intellij-idea/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sgt</author><text>Agreed. Switched to IntelliJ about 4-5 months ago. Haven&#x27;t looked back since. Interestingly, what caused me to look at IntelliJ wasn&#x27;t a lack of features in NetBeans, but rather the fact that still today NetBeans doesn&#x27;t work properly on a retina MacBook Pro.<i></i><p><i></i> To elaborate, on a MBP Retina, you&#x27;ll find that the UI lags slightly if typing fast, especially if a lot of syntax highlighting is happening on the screen. It does not happen if you are using NetBeans on an external monitor. The NetBeans team claims it&#x27;s a Java issue, so in the end I just didn&#x27;t want to wait anymore, and I downloaded IntelliJ.</text></comment> |
20,298,925 | 20,299,041 | 1 | 2 | 20,298,661 | train | <story><title>Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/06/jony-ive-to-form-independent-design-company-with-apple-as-client/?1561668811</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>Comments moved to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20298653" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20298653</a>.</text></comment> | <story><title>Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/06/jony-ive-to-form-independent-design-company-with-apple-as-client/?1561668811</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mrkstu</author><text>Hopefully this signals the end of the designers tyranny at Apple.<p>While physical design has been of paramount importance in Apple&#x27;s rise to the top, it has been more and more detrimental as Jony and his group wandered into worshipping at the altar of luxury and Platonic idealism.<p>When combined not ignoring other than luxury market segments and <i>usability</i> that was fine. But when Jony&#x27;s star was completely ascendant everything else was sacrificed at that altar (see butterfly keyboard, single port MacBook, escape key-less touch bars, no 32 GB MacBook Pros since that would require non-power-sipping RAM.)<p>I could have lived with this if the design of the <i>software</i> hadn&#x27;t also suffered in conjunction with the hardware. Jony was given responsibility for UX and it also started prioritizing abstract design principles over actual usability with extremely low contrast UI elements and other poor choices.<p>As we saw those points being walked back and Apple being responsive to the complaints, I&#x27;ve been wondering if Craig Federighi&#x27;s star was rising and if Jony&#x27;s was dimming, since I doubt he was a willing participant in the diminution of his artistic choices. Seeing the extreme effort he was putting into charity[0] and the spaceship campus, instead of his actual responsibilities, it all combined to me that he needed to either get re-focused by the CEO or get a new job.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dezeen.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;11&#x2F;16&#x2F;jony-ive-diamond-ring-marc-newson-red-auction&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dezeen.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;11&#x2F;16&#x2F;jony-ive-diamond-ring-marc...</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;petapixel.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;11&#x2F;24&#x2F;one-kind-jony-ive-red-leica-m-sells-whopping-1-8m-charity-auction&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;petapixel.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;11&#x2F;24&#x2F;one-kind-jony-ive-red-leica...</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;jony-ive-bono-sothebys-charity-auction-2013-9" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;jony-ive-bono-sothebys-chari...</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fastcompany.com&#x2F;3019896&#x2F;designed-by-friendship-jony-ive-and-marc-newsons-15-ton-desk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fastcompany.com&#x2F;3019896&#x2F;designed-by-friendship-j...</a></text></comment> |
23,775,642 | 23,773,051 | 1 | 3 | 23,771,847 | train | <story><title>Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/825005/6440c82feb745bbe/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>still_grokking</author><text>As a user I don&#x27;t like neither Snaps (that for sure as this is Cannonical only) nor FlatPaks (as they seem conceptually a &quot;80% solution&quot; which combines the problems of package systems with the problems of self-contianed apps, but don&#x27;t improve on anything).<p>For me the only acceptable solution besides proper .debs are AppImages. AppImage doesn&#x27;t try to &quot;replace&quot; the package management for desktop apps like the former two candidates. It tries to complement package systems for some special cases (like for example commercial software, or for the cases where the user &quot;just wants to try something out&quot; without &quot;polluting&quot; the whole system with a lot of dependencies).<p>For my desktop needs AppImage is like &quot;Docker, the good parts&quot;. A simple self contained format that runs everywhere without any further dependencies. Compared to that Snap and FlatPak are bloated annoyances.</text></item><item><author>lawl</author><text>&gt; but from the User perspective it seems like FlatPaks[1] are much better and address the issues that this article raises<p>This is interesting, because the last few days I was actually working on packaging an application of mine as a snap&#x2F;flatpak.<p>From my PoV, they both have their fair share of issues.<p>Snaps enforce a sandbox, which I think is actually a good idea, because the desktop security model is somewhat broken. If your application cannot run as a sandboxed app, you need to be granted special permissions by canonical after manual review (my app needs this), where they also discuss if they can make a new permission in a safe way for your usecase that everyone can use afterwards.<p>On one hand this sucks because I need to ask canonical for permission to publish something, and there&#x27;s no certainty that I will get these permissions as a nobody for a new app nobody ever heard of before. On the other hand, I think I like that they&#x27;re doing something about the desktop security model.<p>The next problem is, if this is denied, how do I ship updates? Provide a self updater? Easy to write, but if everyone does that, we can just go full windows and abandon package managers. Tell people to just curl | bash? That&#x27;s not more secure than a potentially shady snap.<p>But I do have to praise canonical for being very helpful in IRC and the forums for helping me debug issues and file bugs against snap stuff.<p>Now flatpak on the other hand, just feels kinda weird to me.<p>It sandboxes things, but every application can pretty much grant itself access to everything. This is a completely different philosophy, but if you rely on everyone tightly sandboxing their applications without granting themselves permissions for sandbox escape, I think something like landlock[0] (when it lands) or pledge is <i>much</i> more suited for this, and baked into the application.<p>Then there is this weird thing where flatpaks force a runtime on you. My application is a statically linked go binary. But flatpaks pretty much want to force me to add an entire freedesktop suite as a dependency, as you simply cannot choose no runtime.<p>(Community-)Support for building flatpaks? Pretty much non-existant.<p>So yeah, the entire linux upstream-packaging situation is still quite depressing honestly. And with the time and energy I have invested into this by now, I could have written a simple but sufficient self-updater about 10 times over.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;landlock.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;landlock.io&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>jonquark</author><text>I can see why Snap is like it is from Canonial&#x27;s perspective - but from the User perspective it seems like FlatPaks[1] are much better and address the issues that this article raises<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flathub.org&#x2F;home" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flathub.org&#x2F;home</a><p>(Disclaimer: I&#x27;m talking in a personal capacity but the company I work for in my day job now owns Red Hat - I don&#x27;t work on Linux Operating Systems).</text></item><item><author>psanford</author><text>From the linked announcement: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.linuxmint.com&#x2F;?p=3906" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.linuxmint.com&#x2F;?p=3906</a><p>&gt; Applications in this store cannot be patched, or pinned. You can’t audit them, hold them, modify them or even point snap to a different store. You’ve as much empowerment with this as if you were using proprietary software, i.e. none. This is in effect similar to a commercial proprietary solution, but with two major differences: It runs as root, and it installs itself without asking you.<p>This is a great summary of why people rightfully feel nervous about Snap. People run linux because they want visibility and control into what is happening on their systems. Canonical seems to want to take away that visibility and control from their users.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arminiusreturns</author><text>AppImages are the only thing I run also, as a full time linux user and admin. I just hate the proliferation of questionable services, especially in systemd land. A lot of my focus is on minimization of stack, and snap and flatpak just don&#x27;t stand up to scrutiny imho.</text></comment> | <story><title>Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/825005/6440c82feb745bbe/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>still_grokking</author><text>As a user I don&#x27;t like neither Snaps (that for sure as this is Cannonical only) nor FlatPaks (as they seem conceptually a &quot;80% solution&quot; which combines the problems of package systems with the problems of self-contianed apps, but don&#x27;t improve on anything).<p>For me the only acceptable solution besides proper .debs are AppImages. AppImage doesn&#x27;t try to &quot;replace&quot; the package management for desktop apps like the former two candidates. It tries to complement package systems for some special cases (like for example commercial software, or for the cases where the user &quot;just wants to try something out&quot; without &quot;polluting&quot; the whole system with a lot of dependencies).<p>For my desktop needs AppImage is like &quot;Docker, the good parts&quot;. A simple self contained format that runs everywhere without any further dependencies. Compared to that Snap and FlatPak are bloated annoyances.</text></item><item><author>lawl</author><text>&gt; but from the User perspective it seems like FlatPaks[1] are much better and address the issues that this article raises<p>This is interesting, because the last few days I was actually working on packaging an application of mine as a snap&#x2F;flatpak.<p>From my PoV, they both have their fair share of issues.<p>Snaps enforce a sandbox, which I think is actually a good idea, because the desktop security model is somewhat broken. If your application cannot run as a sandboxed app, you need to be granted special permissions by canonical after manual review (my app needs this), where they also discuss if they can make a new permission in a safe way for your usecase that everyone can use afterwards.<p>On one hand this sucks because I need to ask canonical for permission to publish something, and there&#x27;s no certainty that I will get these permissions as a nobody for a new app nobody ever heard of before. On the other hand, I think I like that they&#x27;re doing something about the desktop security model.<p>The next problem is, if this is denied, how do I ship updates? Provide a self updater? Easy to write, but if everyone does that, we can just go full windows and abandon package managers. Tell people to just curl | bash? That&#x27;s not more secure than a potentially shady snap.<p>But I do have to praise canonical for being very helpful in IRC and the forums for helping me debug issues and file bugs against snap stuff.<p>Now flatpak on the other hand, just feels kinda weird to me.<p>It sandboxes things, but every application can pretty much grant itself access to everything. This is a completely different philosophy, but if you rely on everyone tightly sandboxing their applications without granting themselves permissions for sandbox escape, I think something like landlock[0] (when it lands) or pledge is <i>much</i> more suited for this, and baked into the application.<p>Then there is this weird thing where flatpaks force a runtime on you. My application is a statically linked go binary. But flatpaks pretty much want to force me to add an entire freedesktop suite as a dependency, as you simply cannot choose no runtime.<p>(Community-)Support for building flatpaks? Pretty much non-existant.<p>So yeah, the entire linux upstream-packaging situation is still quite depressing honestly. And with the time and energy I have invested into this by now, I could have written a simple but sufficient self-updater about 10 times over.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;landlock.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;landlock.io&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>jonquark</author><text>I can see why Snap is like it is from Canonial&#x27;s perspective - but from the User perspective it seems like FlatPaks[1] are much better and address the issues that this article raises<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flathub.org&#x2F;home" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flathub.org&#x2F;home</a><p>(Disclaimer: I&#x27;m talking in a personal capacity but the company I work for in my day job now owns Red Hat - I don&#x27;t work on Linux Operating Systems).</text></item><item><author>psanford</author><text>From the linked announcement: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.linuxmint.com&#x2F;?p=3906" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.linuxmint.com&#x2F;?p=3906</a><p>&gt; Applications in this store cannot be patched, or pinned. You can’t audit them, hold them, modify them or even point snap to a different store. You’ve as much empowerment with this as if you were using proprietary software, i.e. none. This is in effect similar to a commercial proprietary solution, but with two major differences: It runs as root, and it installs itself without asking you.<p>This is a great summary of why people rightfully feel nervous about Snap. People run linux because they want visibility and control into what is happening on their systems. Canonical seems to want to take away that visibility and control from their users.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lawl</author><text>I tend to agree with you, but I really like updating all my software with one click&#x2F;command.<p>So out of curiosity:<p>My application is already self contained and statically linked, so no AppImage needed, but it behaves like one, you can just run download and run it everywhere. And so what you&#x27;re describing will be for sure an option for those who like it (in fact currently it&#x27;s the only option in alpha).<p>How would you like to get updates for something like this? Visit the website yourself occasionally to check for updates? Have the application notify you a new version is available? Have an integrated updater so the binary can update itself?</text></comment> |
11,356,357 | 11,356,117 | 1 | 2 | 11,355,976 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Teleport – SSH for Clusters and Teams</title><url>http://gravitational.com/teleport/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gfloyd</author><text>This looks like a really cool project. I&#x27;m excited to see it develop.<p>How would authentication work with configuration management? I see that new nodes are authenticated with a one-time token generated from the auth server, but that seems like it could be tricky to implement in a dynamic cluster (like an AWS auto scaling group).</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Teleport – SSH for Clusters and Teams</title><url>http://gravitational.com/teleport/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>old-gregg</author><text>Hello everyone, the Teleport team is here to answer any questions.<p>Internally we use Teleport as a library to connect multiple clusters into a structured system of doing ops with solid identity management, but we figured it deserves to be its own tool, especially because so many larger companies in the Valley have built something similar internally.</text></comment> |
20,628,267 | 20,628,442 | 1 | 2 | 20,627,863 | train | <story><title>AT&T employees were bribed to install phone unlocking malware on company network</title><url>https://www.geekwire.com/2019/seattle-area-att-employees-bribed-install-phone-unlocking-malware-company-network-authorities-say/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kiallmacinnes</author><text>&gt; “Now he will be held accountable for the fraud and the lives he has derailed.”<p>Whoa there. What? Yes, he&#x27;s committed a crime and should be held accountable for that. But..<p>Who&#x27;s lives has he derailed? If I was to accept a bribe to commit a crime, nobody is derailing my life but me - to say anything else suggests a level of intelligence bordering on inability to understand and take responsibility for my actions. Can I use this defence for non bribery related crimes? How about assassin for hire?<p>Prosecute him for the crimes he committed and prosecute those who accepted bribes for their crimes. Theres just no reason to exaggerate like this.<p>Edit: And, to add, I dislike the discount &#x2F; rental &#x2F; lock in model the carriers use, but it does sound like crimes were committed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>moftz</author><text>I guess you could consider all of the employees that got fired&#x2F;will get fired&#x2F;left before they got fired. Their lives got derailed but that&#x27;s on them. No one held a gun to their head, this guy was on the other side of the world and convinced some AT&amp;T techs to do this for money. If they were willing to install malware for money, AT&amp;T is just lucky the guy was only after unlocked phones. I&#x27;m sure the employee handbook doesn&#x27;t explicitly say &quot;don&#x27;t install malware for strange Pakistani men for money&quot; but I&#x27;m sure they had enough training to put all of the pieces together...</text></comment> | <story><title>AT&T employees were bribed to install phone unlocking malware on company network</title><url>https://www.geekwire.com/2019/seattle-area-att-employees-bribed-install-phone-unlocking-malware-company-network-authorities-say/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kiallmacinnes</author><text>&gt; “Now he will be held accountable for the fraud and the lives he has derailed.”<p>Whoa there. What? Yes, he&#x27;s committed a crime and should be held accountable for that. But..<p>Who&#x27;s lives has he derailed? If I was to accept a bribe to commit a crime, nobody is derailing my life but me - to say anything else suggests a level of intelligence bordering on inability to understand and take responsibility for my actions. Can I use this defence for non bribery related crimes? How about assassin for hire?<p>Prosecute him for the crimes he committed and prosecute those who accepted bribes for their crimes. Theres just no reason to exaggerate like this.<p>Edit: And, to add, I dislike the discount &#x2F; rental &#x2F; lock in model the carriers use, but it does sound like crimes were committed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brentm</author><text>Federal prosecutors love a good dramatic press conference.</text></comment> |
26,949,460 | 26,949,459 | 1 | 2 | 26,948,814 | train | <story><title>Experian’s credit freeze security is still a joke</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/04/experians-credit-freeze-security-is-still-a-joke/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&gt; <i>generating random passwords for answers and storing them in my password manager</i><p>My friend did this. We made a bet. I called his bank and, when challenged for the answers, laughed and said I&#x27;d mashed my keyboard and that it&#x27;s all gibberish. I got through and won a free drink.</text></item><item><author>kminehart</author><text>Security questions in general are a farce. I&#x27;ve started generating random passwords for answers and storing them in my password manager. that at least helps me feel slightly more secure about how ridiculous security questions are.</text></item><item><author>lhnz</author><text><p><pre><code> &gt; The best part about this lax authentication process is
&gt; that one can enter any email address to retrieve the
&gt; PIN — it doesn’t need to be tied to an existing account
&gt; at Equifax. Also, when the PIN is retrieved, Equifax
&gt; doesn’t bother notifying any other email addresses
&gt; already on file for that consumer.
</code></pre>
Hang on, so the attacker doesn&#x27;t even need to break into somebody&#x27;s email account first, they can just guess the questions and put in their own email address?! This is insane.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>senkora</author><text>The key is to generate incorrect answers that are reasonable matches to the question.<p>Like if they ask for a city, then give a city. If they ask for a name, give a name. Etc.</text></comment> | <story><title>Experian’s credit freeze security is still a joke</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/04/experians-credit-freeze-security-is-still-a-joke/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&gt; <i>generating random passwords for answers and storing them in my password manager</i><p>My friend did this. We made a bet. I called his bank and, when challenged for the answers, laughed and said I&#x27;d mashed my keyboard and that it&#x27;s all gibberish. I got through and won a free drink.</text></item><item><author>kminehart</author><text>Security questions in general are a farce. I&#x27;ve started generating random passwords for answers and storing them in my password manager. that at least helps me feel slightly more secure about how ridiculous security questions are.</text></item><item><author>lhnz</author><text><p><pre><code> &gt; The best part about this lax authentication process is
&gt; that one can enter any email address to retrieve the
&gt; PIN — it doesn’t need to be tied to an existing account
&gt; at Equifax. Also, when the PIN is retrieved, Equifax
&gt; doesn’t bother notifying any other email addresses
&gt; already on file for that consumer.
</code></pre>
Hang on, so the attacker doesn&#x27;t even need to break into somebody&#x27;s email account first, they can just guess the questions and put in their own email address?! This is insane.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ncallaway</author><text>I generate random 2-4 word phrases instead of random passwords specifically for this reason.</text></comment> |
32,468,140 | 32,467,623 | 1 | 3 | 32,467,288 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Depressed, need to leave web development, what can I do?</title><text>I&#x27;m an average developer. Been doing it 15 years. All the vacancies in my field now seem to have 300+ applicants.<p>~60% of the jobs are with outsourcing companies like toptal, gigster and so on.<p>My labour is a commodity but even lower paying jobs expects you to be a superstar leetcoder, with the wherewithal to go through 6-8 interviews and IQ test.<p>I don&#x27;t see progress in my career, i hate technology, i hate what this industry has become - it&#x27;s not something I want to do anymore.<p>Nearing my 40s, so my profile is less appealing to employers, this field is very oriented to young people.<p>Anyone managed to move from front-end to another role, while leveraging your existing work history?<p>Appreciate any guidance, thanks.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jaitaiwan</author><text>Seems like you’re experiencing burn-out and from what I’ve read and experienced, burn out is a function of emotional investment vs the emotional return.<p>So I see that you have two options both of which shouldn’t happen before first taking a small break:
1. Continue to work in the industry and reduce your emotional investment. Hint: great places for that are big corporates.
2. Continue to work while upskilling in another field or your current field depending on what you prefer.<p>Depression often comes with the temptation to catastrophise the situation, avoid that urge. Seek out others who can be objective and talk you through it, be prepared to hear their answers.<p>I started out front-end, did a lot of my own side projects to get backend stuff. PHP is pretty good despite the hate because not many people want to do it these days but a legit and easy way to get some backend experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text><i>&gt; PHP is pretty good despite the hate</i><p>I suspect the &quot;hate&quot; is rather localized.<p>I find the &quot;Fishtank Graph&quot;[0] to be a fairly good way to get my feet firmly planted back on the ground.<p>That said, I don&#x27;t <i>like</i> PHP, and avoid it, if possible. I use it for my backend work, and it does a great job, there. I just prefer writing apps in Swift.<p>The &quot;game-changer,&quot; for me, was retiring, and working on the stuff <i>I</i> want to work on, at <i>my</i> pace, and using <i>my</i> methodologies. No more insecure middle managers, pissing on my work, and no more insecure co-workers, fighting over every detail, and deliberately sabotaging team dynamics (to be fair, I spent a good part of my career, as a manager, which I <i>hated</i>, but it paid the bills).<p>I know that retiring is not an option for a lot of folks, and realize how fortunate I am (I didn&#x27;t feel that way, at first, though. My retirement was not by choice).<p>But it&#x27;s not work, if you love what you do.<p>These days (and for the last five years), I actually get more done, every day, by 10AM, than I used to get done, all day, in the office. My GH activity graph is solid green (no exaggeration), and it isn&#x27;t &quot;gamed,&quot; like so many of them. I do two things, every day:<p>1) I walk three miles, and<p>2) I write Swift code.<p>Life is good.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;w3techs.com&#x2F;technologies&#x2F;history_overview&#x2F;programming_language&#x2F;ms&#x2F;y" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;w3techs.com&#x2F;technologies&#x2F;history_overview&#x2F;programmin...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Depressed, need to leave web development, what can I do?</title><text>I&#x27;m an average developer. Been doing it 15 years. All the vacancies in my field now seem to have 300+ applicants.<p>~60% of the jobs are with outsourcing companies like toptal, gigster and so on.<p>My labour is a commodity but even lower paying jobs expects you to be a superstar leetcoder, with the wherewithal to go through 6-8 interviews and IQ test.<p>I don&#x27;t see progress in my career, i hate technology, i hate what this industry has become - it&#x27;s not something I want to do anymore.<p>Nearing my 40s, so my profile is less appealing to employers, this field is very oriented to young people.<p>Anyone managed to move from front-end to another role, while leveraging your existing work history?<p>Appreciate any guidance, thanks.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jaitaiwan</author><text>Seems like you’re experiencing burn-out and from what I’ve read and experienced, burn out is a function of emotional investment vs the emotional return.<p>So I see that you have two options both of which shouldn’t happen before first taking a small break:
1. Continue to work in the industry and reduce your emotional investment. Hint: great places for that are big corporates.
2. Continue to work while upskilling in another field or your current field depending on what you prefer.<p>Depression often comes with the temptation to catastrophise the situation, avoid that urge. Seek out others who can be objective and talk you through it, be prepared to hear their answers.<p>I started out front-end, did a lot of my own side projects to get backend stuff. PHP is pretty good despite the hate because not many people want to do it these days but a legit and easy way to get some backend experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spoiler</author><text>This is all excellent advice.<p>I&#x27;d just like to emphasize your point about being prepared to hear their answers. But <i>really</i> hear it. Don&#x27;t let the brain demons (depression warps perception) get to the words before you do!<p>Also, people often don&#x27;t know how to have difficulty conversations, so this is another thing that can just make hearing the message harder. Eg, they often try to encourage as a way of showing compassion, instead of just showing compassion. They&#x27;re stills being supportive, but it might not be the support you need. And <i>just</i> encouragement, without a good framework and a healthy mindset—which could have has been compromised by burnout—won&#x27;t be enough.<p>I wholeheartedly also recommend going to therapy (and people often think this takes years, but it can just be a couple of sessions).</text></comment> |
27,961,429 | 27,960,992 | 1 | 2 | 27,959,722 | train | <story><title>Japan pitches 'Society 5.0' to keep its edge in tech and science</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Science/Japan-pitches-Society-5.0-to-keep-its-edge-in-tech-and-science</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stopnamingnuts</author><text>I suspect I hit the sweet spot when I lived in Japan from 1993-1995 if I interpret your comment correctly. I remember being impressed by the tech. For example: ATMs into which one inserted not only a card, but also a transaction book which would be mechanically updated (versus spitting out a slip). I still have mine. We&#x27;re talking about Japan so, naturally, my bank book features Snoopy prominently on its cover.</text></item><item><author>drstewart</author><text>&gt;I think the state of digital technology is due to structural &#x2F; hierarchical social reasons that these initiatives don&#x27;t really address.<p>Maybe a trite &#x2F; cliche saying now, but the quote about Japan being the most futuristic society you could imagine in the 1990s just rung so true after visiting.</text></item><item><author>alephnan</author><text>Bank ATMs in Japan stop working between 6-9PM, and on weekends.<p>My debit card got de-magnetized ( like a flaky hotel room key ) and stopped working at the official bank ATM. It doesn&#x27;t work at most third party ATMs, but I&#x27;ve found the 7-11 ATMs are quite robust and is actually able to transact. Seems like a weird security mechanism if the official bank ATM can&#x27;t authenticate the card, but somehow 7-11 ATMs can bypass this and allow me to withdraw money.<p>The bank&#x27;s website also has a very strange username &#x2F; password rules. They can only contain numbers and letters, case insensitively. Also, you can&#x27;t have more than 2 consecutive numbers or letters. For example, &#x27;foo2bar&#x27; would not be valid, nor would &#x27;fo911baz&#x27;. &#x27;fo23ba23&#x27; works.<p>One of my friends in Japan is a doctor from Belarus, one of the poorest countries in Eastern Europe. She came to Japan thinking it was technologically advanced, and was shocked to find that in some aspects Belarus is more technologically modern.<p>I have a very cynical theory about why technology is seemingly archaic here. I think the state of digital technology is due to structural &#x2F; hierarchical social reasons that these initiatives don&#x27;t really address. Not directly related to the hierarchical constructs, but examples of traditional practices include:<p>- resumes must be hand-written<p>- the stack of paperwork you need to sign for an apartment is about 1 inches thick. If you&#x27;re purchasing a property, you&#x27;ll probably need a couple binders.<p>- you need to create Hanko ( personal seal stamp ) as your official signature for some paperwork</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cactus2093</author><text>I also lived in Japan in the mid 90&#x27;s. I was a kid so of course my memory is probably pretty skewed and I have no idea about grownup things like ATMs, but I remember the tech being absolutely amazing. All the game consoles were Japanese (nintendo, sega, playstation) and often got releases first before the US. The arcades were incredible, I remember playing arcade versions of essentially DDR and guitar hero&#x2F;rockband like 5 years before they caught on in the US. Cell phones also seemed to be a few years ahead of the US (back when flip phones were the rage and smaller was better). Complex vending machines were pretty common, e.g. making things like multi-step hot coffee drinks, I think it was probably a full 15 years later that I first saw one of these in the US.<p>It&#x27;s fascinating and also kind of sad to me how much less relevant Japan today seems to be as far as consumer tech goes.<p>Looking back, I also think a big part of it was Tokyo as a city just being on a totally different scale than anything else I had experienced. In the 90&#x27;s I don&#x27;t think there was anywhere in the US remotely similar to a place like Shinjuku. Now days I think parts of midtown Manhattan or perhaps in other ways the Vegas strip might have a little bit of a similar energy, but I had never been to either of those as a child, and back then they were much different than they are today anyway.<p>The ease of getting around by fast, reliable trains (and especially bullet trains) also seemed super futuristic to me back then. Of course that part is still pretty far ahead of the US to this day.</text></comment> | <story><title>Japan pitches 'Society 5.0' to keep its edge in tech and science</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Science/Japan-pitches-Society-5.0-to-keep-its-edge-in-tech-and-science</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stopnamingnuts</author><text>I suspect I hit the sweet spot when I lived in Japan from 1993-1995 if I interpret your comment correctly. I remember being impressed by the tech. For example: ATMs into which one inserted not only a card, but also a transaction book which would be mechanically updated (versus spitting out a slip). I still have mine. We&#x27;re talking about Japan so, naturally, my bank book features Snoopy prominently on its cover.</text></item><item><author>drstewart</author><text>&gt;I think the state of digital technology is due to structural &#x2F; hierarchical social reasons that these initiatives don&#x27;t really address.<p>Maybe a trite &#x2F; cliche saying now, but the quote about Japan being the most futuristic society you could imagine in the 1990s just rung so true after visiting.</text></item><item><author>alephnan</author><text>Bank ATMs in Japan stop working between 6-9PM, and on weekends.<p>My debit card got de-magnetized ( like a flaky hotel room key ) and stopped working at the official bank ATM. It doesn&#x27;t work at most third party ATMs, but I&#x27;ve found the 7-11 ATMs are quite robust and is actually able to transact. Seems like a weird security mechanism if the official bank ATM can&#x27;t authenticate the card, but somehow 7-11 ATMs can bypass this and allow me to withdraw money.<p>The bank&#x27;s website also has a very strange username &#x2F; password rules. They can only contain numbers and letters, case insensitively. Also, you can&#x27;t have more than 2 consecutive numbers or letters. For example, &#x27;foo2bar&#x27; would not be valid, nor would &#x27;fo911baz&#x27;. &#x27;fo23ba23&#x27; works.<p>One of my friends in Japan is a doctor from Belarus, one of the poorest countries in Eastern Europe. She came to Japan thinking it was technologically advanced, and was shocked to find that in some aspects Belarus is more technologically modern.<p>I have a very cynical theory about why technology is seemingly archaic here. I think the state of digital technology is due to structural &#x2F; hierarchical social reasons that these initiatives don&#x27;t really address. Not directly related to the hierarchical constructs, but examples of traditional practices include:<p>- resumes must be hand-written<p>- the stack of paperwork you need to sign for an apartment is about 1 inches thick. If you&#x27;re purchasing a property, you&#x27;ll probably need a couple binders.<p>- you need to create Hanko ( personal seal stamp ) as your official signature for some paperwork</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kace91</author><text>Wait, were those not universal?<p>I’m from Spain and I remember those transaction books from my childhood (I was born in 1991).<p>By the time I was old enough to get my first debit card they were long gone though.</text></comment> |
30,174,667 | 30,174,717 | 1 | 3 | 30,167,037 | train | <story><title>Cruise is opening driverless cars to the public in San Francisco</title><url>https://www.getcruise.com/news/welcome-riders/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>quadrifoliate</author><text>&gt; Can we just call out how incredibly awesome this is? We might stumble along the way but this is as big as moving from horse carts to cars.<p>I find it a bit hard to believe that people aren&#x27;t more concerned about calling out what exact legal framework this operation is being allowed under. Having a car without a driver in it driving around seems like a <i>massive</i> risk for the drivers, pedestrians, and bicyclists sharing the streets of San Francisco; they should be entitled to know <i>why</i> they are test cases for these car-driving programs.<p>The most I could find was that it <i>seems</i> to be this permit [1], and the link in it states:<p>&gt; Cruise’s permit is available at www.cpuc.ca.gov&#x2F;avcissued.<p>...which is a 404.<p>It also states:<p>&gt; More information on the CPUC’s Autonomous Vehicle Passenger Service Pilot Programs is
available at www.cpuc.ca.gov&#x2F;avcpilotinfo.<p>...which is <i>also</i> a 404.<p>This does not...inspire confidence, to say the least.<p>Given that official information about this seems to be a bit thin on the ground, I guess I&#x27;ll ask the obvious question – if the cars hit and injure someone, is Cruise&#x27;s CEO going to be held personally liable? The engineers who worked on the tech? The passengers in the car (who are the nearest thing to drivers)?<p>It&#x27;s not like this is an unexpected scenario, we have preexisting example of this happening [2]. Or is the plan to sweep real-life consequences under the carpet with euphemisms like &quot;stumble along the way&quot;?<p>----------------------------------------<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.cpuc.ca.gov&#x2F;PublishedDocs&#x2F;Published&#x2F;G000&#x2F;M387&#x2F;K064&#x2F;387064893.PDF" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.cpuc.ca.gov&#x2F;PublishedDocs&#x2F;Published&#x2F;G000&#x2F;M387&#x2F;K...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Death_of_Elaine_Herzberg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Death_of_Elaine_Herzberg</a></text></item><item><author>silentsea90</author><text>Can we just call out how incredibly awesome this is? We might stumble along the way but this is as big as moving from horse carts to cars. Respect to all of you working on self driving cars!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>silentsea90</author><text>I don&#x27;t know the answers. They&#x27;re definitely worth figuring out, but the legal questions do not take away from the sheer gall to dream and achieve. Figuring out liability is in the domain of law, which is easy compared to building such engineering marvels. I am sure we can figure it out. Self driving car companies take safety VERY VERY seriously not just for potential legal consequences but because a single incident would make consumers lose trust, which is a death knell for such companies.<p>For folks who think about Cruise&#x27;s achievement cynically (not directed at the commenter), please consider what your stance would have been back in the day in the following situations:
1) Cars being introduced to challenge horse carts in the late 1800s and early 1900s
2) Countries like India spending on a Space program while having a considerable population below poverty line, rise of SpaceX
3) The rise of the internet in the 90s with its trivial applications like radio, silly websites etc<p>If your answer is - oh of course I would cheer each of these, but view self driving cars cynically, good for you.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cruise is opening driverless cars to the public in San Francisco</title><url>https://www.getcruise.com/news/welcome-riders/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>quadrifoliate</author><text>&gt; Can we just call out how incredibly awesome this is? We might stumble along the way but this is as big as moving from horse carts to cars.<p>I find it a bit hard to believe that people aren&#x27;t more concerned about calling out what exact legal framework this operation is being allowed under. Having a car without a driver in it driving around seems like a <i>massive</i> risk for the drivers, pedestrians, and bicyclists sharing the streets of San Francisco; they should be entitled to know <i>why</i> they are test cases for these car-driving programs.<p>The most I could find was that it <i>seems</i> to be this permit [1], and the link in it states:<p>&gt; Cruise’s permit is available at www.cpuc.ca.gov&#x2F;avcissued.<p>...which is a 404.<p>It also states:<p>&gt; More information on the CPUC’s Autonomous Vehicle Passenger Service Pilot Programs is
available at www.cpuc.ca.gov&#x2F;avcpilotinfo.<p>...which is <i>also</i> a 404.<p>This does not...inspire confidence, to say the least.<p>Given that official information about this seems to be a bit thin on the ground, I guess I&#x27;ll ask the obvious question – if the cars hit and injure someone, is Cruise&#x27;s CEO going to be held personally liable? The engineers who worked on the tech? The passengers in the car (who are the nearest thing to drivers)?<p>It&#x27;s not like this is an unexpected scenario, we have preexisting example of this happening [2]. Or is the plan to sweep real-life consequences under the carpet with euphemisms like &quot;stumble along the way&quot;?<p>----------------------------------------<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.cpuc.ca.gov&#x2F;PublishedDocs&#x2F;Published&#x2F;G000&#x2F;M387&#x2F;K064&#x2F;387064893.PDF" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.cpuc.ca.gov&#x2F;PublishedDocs&#x2F;Published&#x2F;G000&#x2F;M387&#x2F;K...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Death_of_Elaine_Herzberg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Death_of_Elaine_Herzberg</a></text></item><item><author>silentsea90</author><text>Can we just call out how incredibly awesome this is? We might stumble along the way but this is as big as moving from horse carts to cars. Respect to all of you working on self driving cars!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lovehashbrowns</author><text>Cruise in particular has been around in San Francisco for a while. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;09&#x2F;cruise-begins-driverless-testing-in-san-francisco&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;09&#x2F;cruise-begins-driverless-t...</a><p>&gt; The California DMV, the agency that regulates autonomous vehicle testing in the state, issued Cruise a permit in October that allows the company to test five autonomous vehicles without a driver behind the wheel on specified streets within San Francisco. Cruise has had a permit to test autonomous vehicles with safety drivers behind the wheel since 2015.<p>I saw their cars a lot while I lived in San Francisco. But back then they had safety drivers and such.<p>Information about the permit can be found here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dmv.ca.gov&#x2F;portal&#x2F;vehicle-industry-services&#x2F;autonomous-vehicles&#x2F;autonomous-vehicle-deployment-program&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dmv.ca.gov&#x2F;portal&#x2F;vehicle-industry-services&#x2F;auto...</a></text></comment> |
9,830,931 | 9,830,933 | 1 | 2 | 9,830,675 | train | <story><title>Many Bitcoin wallets vulnerable to double-spending of confirmed transactions</title><url>https://bitcoin.org/en/alert/2015-07-04-spv-mining</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eblume</author><text>This seems to be further confirmation that the ONLY safe way to use bitcoin is to use a full blockchain wallet such as Bitcoin Core. Any software which attempts to &#x27;fake&#x27; it by not keeping the full blockchain has issues, exactly like this one being announced today.<p>This is a serious problem for Bitcoin, because right now it takes 2-3 <i>days</i> to download and verify the full block chain, and is fast approaching 10^H^H40 gigabytes in size.<p>There&#x27;s going to need to be some sort of mitigation for this at some point but I don&#x27;t see how that&#x27;s possible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zaroth</author><text>The unpruned blockchain is about 30GB. Of course, the slowest way to download it is through the P2P network using a standard client. There are torrents which let you bootstrap the full blockchain up to some recent date, then let the P2P client continue from that point, so it doesn&#x27;t have to take &quot;days&quot; to download, you can pull most of that 30GB at full line rate.<p>But more importantly, even to run as a &quot;full node&quot; all you need is the UTXO (unspent transactions) and you can throw away the rest. Bitcoin Core can be flagged to prune the blockchain as you go. Pruning just discards transactions after they are spent, keeping track of just enough headers to still provide &quot;full node&quot; validation strength. Basically all you need to know is what available &quot;outputs&quot; there are, aka the unspent outputs, because that is the universe of &quot;coins&quot; which can be used as inputs in new transactions.<p>I think the only thing that may be missing from all this is a way to download a proven pre-pruned blockchain to get started. That is possible, and it would bring startup costs of a full node down to about 1GB.<p>The trickier challenge is if you have a historical wallet and you want to download the full transaction history of the wallet, without any meta-data you are left to downloading the whole blockchain in order to discover them. But you would still be able to get your current wallet balance even with pruning.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Bitcoin&#x2F;comments&#x2F;33qv3a&#x2F;pruning_support_what_is_it_and_where_might_it&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Bitcoin&#x2F;comments&#x2F;33qv3a&#x2F;pruning_sup...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Many Bitcoin wallets vulnerable to double-spending of confirmed transactions</title><url>https://bitcoin.org/en/alert/2015-07-04-spv-mining</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eblume</author><text>This seems to be further confirmation that the ONLY safe way to use bitcoin is to use a full blockchain wallet such as Bitcoin Core. Any software which attempts to &#x27;fake&#x27; it by not keeping the full blockchain has issues, exactly like this one being announced today.<p>This is a serious problem for Bitcoin, because right now it takes 2-3 <i>days</i> to download and verify the full block chain, and is fast approaching 10^H^H40 gigabytes in size.<p>There&#x27;s going to need to be some sort of mitigation for this at some point but I don&#x27;t see how that&#x27;s possible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fanquake</author><text>Ever since headers-first sync was merged (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bitcoin&#x2F;bitcoin&#x2F;pull&#x2F;4468" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bitcoin&#x2F;bitcoin&#x2F;pull&#x2F;4468</a>), the entire blockchain download &amp; verification process can take as little as 3-4 hours.<p>In regards to the size of the blockchain, you might be interested in the recently merged Autoprune functionality (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bitcoin&#x2F;bitcoin&#x2F;pull&#x2F;5863" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bitcoin&#x2F;bitcoin&#x2F;pull&#x2F;5863</a>), which deletes block and undo files to keep the total space used by those files below a certain threshold.</text></comment> |
15,722,961 | 15,722,574 | 1 | 2 | 15,720,995 | train | <story><title>Amish Mutation Protects Against Diabetes and May Extend Life</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/15/well/live/amish-mutation-protects-against-diabetes-and-may-extend-life.html?ribbon-ad-idx=20&rref=health&module=Ribbon&version=context&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Health&pgtype=article</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Dowwie</author><text>I can&#x27;t imagine the Amish buy or make sugar-enriched foods, so a diet without those would also contribute to their health</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dsr_</author><text>The Amish love sugar as much as the next group along. Jams, jellies, preserves; pies, cakes, and cookies are all part of their diet.<p>They are probably less likely to consume large amounts of prepackaged desserts, sodas and snack foods than their &quot;English&quot; neighbors, but that varies from community to community.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amish Mutation Protects Against Diabetes and May Extend Life</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/15/well/live/amish-mutation-protects-against-diabetes-and-may-extend-life.html?ribbon-ad-idx=20&rref=health&module=Ribbon&version=context&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Health&pgtype=article</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Dowwie</author><text>I can&#x27;t imagine the Amish buy or make sugar-enriched foods, so a diet without those would also contribute to their health</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mamoswined</author><text>But they do! I have a sweet tooth and some of their stuff is just too sweet for me. It really depends on what part of the country they are in, but Pennsylvania Amish are known for their pies. One of the most famous types, Shoofly Pie, is basically sugar flavored sugar.</text></comment> |
34,317,591 | 34,317,427 | 1 | 2 | 34,316,618 | train | <story><title>The first time I'm aware that Meta is taking back signed, FTE offers</title><url>https://twitter.com/gergelyorosz/status/1612565777407938560</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>I just hope this emphasizes that individuals should <i>never</i> feel guilty or shameful if they need to back out of a job agreement that they made.<p>I&#x27;ve heard stories of folks that accepted job offers, only to have circumstances unexpectedly change shortly thereafter, or to have a better offer come along. And I&#x27;ve seen these people have a lot of stress and guilt about wanting to rescind their acceptance.<p>Just remember, it&#x27;s just business. I guarantee Meta (and all other companies) are just treating it as business, and you should do the same. I&#x27;m not at all saying be rude, and it&#x27;s important not to burn bridges, but remember that when push comes to shove a company will <i>never</i> show you loyalty beyond what makes economic sense and what is legally necessary, and you should do the same.</text></comment> | <story><title>The first time I'm aware that Meta is taking back signed, FTE offers</title><url>https://twitter.com/gergelyorosz/status/1612565777407938560</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Octokiddie</author><text>&gt; Meta&#x27;s position until now was that FTE offers are NOT at risk. Up to even a week ago.<p>This is the danger of fixating on the economic rearview mirror. And few things are more rearview than hiring and layoffs.<p>Leading financial indicators such as yield curves and oil futures are painting a very clear picture and it&#x27;s not good.</text></comment> |
38,228,594 | 38,227,056 | 1 | 3 | 38,224,217 | train | <story><title>Apple asked Amazon to block rival ads</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-gives-apple-special-treatment-while-others-suffer-junk-ads-2023-11</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>addicted</author><text>I returned my unopened Apple Watch to Amazon.<p>Getting my money back has been a massive pain. Usually Amazon literally returns the money when the delivery person picks up the item from my doorstep.<p>But with this Amazon required a scheduled pickup with UPS, did not acknowledge receiving the item even though UPS showed it as received and a few weeks later they are still asking me to wait for 1 month before contacting them for any information.<p>Well, I filed a chargeback with my credit card and automagically the errors in their system got resolved, and the item shows as received (on the correct date 2+ weeks ago), and they are promising a refund in a week (as opposed to 2.5 more weeks).<p>Looks like they’re not just giving Apple preferential treatment but going out of their way to protect Apple.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stouset</author><text>No, they’re protecting themselves against a significant volume of fraudsters who order genuine high-value goods and return counterfeits. These people are more than capable of re-shrinkwrapping boxes after opening them.<p>It’s likely there’s a significant queue of potential counterfeits that Amazon needs to go through. If you bought&#x2F;returned this during a period of otherwise-high volume (e.g., right after a release), there’s a particularly high chance that the volume of “real” returns temporarily swamped their normal capacity. Or maybe their capacity just lags behind what it ought to be.<p>Either way, they’re protecting themselves and this almost certainly has nothing to do with Apple specifically.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple asked Amazon to block rival ads</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-gives-apple-special-treatment-while-others-suffer-junk-ads-2023-11</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>addicted</author><text>I returned my unopened Apple Watch to Amazon.<p>Getting my money back has been a massive pain. Usually Amazon literally returns the money when the delivery person picks up the item from my doorstep.<p>But with this Amazon required a scheduled pickup with UPS, did not acknowledge receiving the item even though UPS showed it as received and a few weeks later they are still asking me to wait for 1 month before contacting them for any information.<p>Well, I filed a chargeback with my credit card and automagically the errors in their system got resolved, and the item shows as received (on the correct date 2+ weeks ago), and they are promising a refund in a week (as opposed to 2.5 more weeks).<p>Looks like they’re not just giving Apple preferential treatment but going out of their way to protect Apple.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spott</author><text>I think it is likely that they are trying to see if the watch you returned was counterfeit before they refunded you. This is probably a difficult process as the counterfeits of Apple products have gotten <i>really</i> good.<p>When you pushed them, they bumped yours to the front of the line.</text></comment> |
27,931,655 | 27,930,136 | 1 | 3 | 27,929,730 | train | <story><title>93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019)</title><url>https://www.mcmillen.dev/sigbovik/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>That&#x27;s a fun read.<p>I once wrote an entire CMS in Perl.<p>I still wake up, screaming, sometimes.<p><i>[UPDATE] It appears as if my flippant remark caused upset. I am sincerely sorry that this was the case. No offense was meant.<p>@peteretep, you have my sincere apology. It was a flippant remark. At the time I wrote it (mid-1990s), Perl was the best way to write portable server-side code. I took the time to learn it, and got fairly good at it.
Since then, I have found my muse in other languages, but I sincerely did not want to give offense. I doubt that deleting the comment would help.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iso1210</author><text>I recently had to work out why some nodejs monstrosity wasn&#x27;t working. Somewhere in the 68,746 files that made up the program there was a problem.<p>I rewrote it in a couple of hours in 393 lines of perl and 6 OS installed (so stable for the life of the OS) libraries.</text></comment> | <story><title>93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019)</title><url>https://www.mcmillen.dev/sigbovik/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>That&#x27;s a fun read.<p>I once wrote an entire CMS in Perl.<p>I still wake up, screaming, sometimes.<p><i>[UPDATE] It appears as if my flippant remark caused upset. I am sincerely sorry that this was the case. No offense was meant.<p>@peteretep, you have my sincere apology. It was a flippant remark. At the time I wrote it (mid-1990s), Perl was the best way to write portable server-side code. I took the time to learn it, and got fairly good at it.
Since then, I have found my muse in other languages, but I sincerely did not want to give offense. I doubt that deleting the comment would help.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colejohnson66</author><text>Fun fact: cPanel[0] is still written in Perl<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cpanel.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cpanel.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
32,453,374 | 32,452,620 | 1 | 2 | 32,452,080 | train | <story><title>Erg: a statically typed language that is Python compatible</title><url>https://github.com/erg-lang/erg</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>latenightcoding</author><text>At this point I&#x27;m open to try anything that will give me access to the python ecosystem without having to code in Python.
From the FAQ it looks like Erg code gets transpiled to python bytecode.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vonwoodson</author><text>Oh, man, have I got a treat for you: go checkout hylang.org -
Hy is a lisp that (ab)uses the python AST to give you access to the entirety of python, but gives you a pretty lisp syntax.</text></comment> | <story><title>Erg: a statically typed language that is Python compatible</title><url>https://github.com/erg-lang/erg</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>latenightcoding</author><text>At this point I&#x27;m open to try anything that will give me access to the python ecosystem without having to code in Python.
From the FAQ it looks like Erg code gets transpiled to python bytecode.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adenozine</author><text>Fable for F# is working on something like that.<p>a link: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fable.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2022&#x2F;2022-06-06-Snake_Island_alpha.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fable.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2022&#x2F;2022-06-06-Snake_Island_alpha.htm...</a></text></comment> |
7,792,857 | 7,792,267 | 1 | 2 | 7,789,378 | train | <story><title>CoreOS images are now available on Google Compute Engine</title><url>http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2014/05/official-coreos-images-are-now-available-on-google-compute-engine.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DoubleMalt</author><text>I&#x27;m anxiously waiting for it to come to DigitalOcean. But the momentum they built now seems to be really strong.</text></comment> | <story><title>CoreOS images are now available on Google Compute Engine</title><url>http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2014/05/official-coreos-images-are-now-available-on-google-compute-engine.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>brunoqc</author><text>Would it make sense to use CoreOS on just one machine or is it only useful with multiple machines?</text></comment> |
19,880,310 | 19,879,681 | 1 | 2 | 19,877,916 | train | <story><title>IT Runs on Java 8</title><url>https://veekaybee.github.io/2019/05/10/java8/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jsight</author><text>Are we just going to ignore the idea of paying $30k for a Civic? I hope noone is doing that.</text></item><item><author>mzkply</author><text>The HN front page is similar to any community. For example, a car site&#x27;s homepage will be listing the latest supercars, expensive turbos, rims, whatever... while most readers are driving a $30,000 Civic.<p>The best &amp; brightest in tech are working with the best tools on the biggest problems, and that&#x27;s what gets talked about, regardless of what the mass is doing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>debunn</author><text>If the poster was from Canada, $30K is actually about right for a 2019 Touring trim level (it would be even more after taxes):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;carcostcanada.com&#x2F;Canada&#x2F;Prices&#x2F;2019-Honda-Civic_Sedan&#x2F;32041" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;carcostcanada.com&#x2F;Canada&#x2F;Prices&#x2F;2019-Honda-Civic_Sed...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>IT Runs on Java 8</title><url>https://veekaybee.github.io/2019/05/10/java8/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jsight</author><text>Are we just going to ignore the idea of paying $30k for a Civic? I hope noone is doing that.</text></item><item><author>mzkply</author><text>The HN front page is similar to any community. For example, a car site&#x27;s homepage will be listing the latest supercars, expensive turbos, rims, whatever... while most readers are driving a $30,000 Civic.<p>The best &amp; brightest in tech are working with the best tools on the biggest problems, and that&#x27;s what gets talked about, regardless of what the mass is doing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zten</author><text>You could pull it off by buying a Civic Type-R, which I think fits the theme.</text></comment> |
3,357,073 | 3,356,358 | 1 | 2 | 3,355,876 | train | <story><title>Google Awarded Driverless Vehicle Patent</title><url>http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,078,349.PN.&OS=PN/8,078,349&RS=PN/8,078,349</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stbullard</author><text>Does anyone know how this works in practice?<p>Are any measures taken to prevent someone from spray-painting a rogue QR code on the ground to reroute traffic?</text></item><item><author>Wilya</author><text>The patent is about reading a symbol on the ground that triggers the reading of a QR-code to get precise GPS location. Roughly.<p>Actually, the QR-code (or equivalent) is used to fetch "instructions for performing the autonomous vehicle instruction" (which could be anything).<p>And the QR-code can be replaced by a lot of things (radio signal, etc).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mbell</author><text>Presumably based on the wording of the patent, the QR code just contains a URL from which to fetch the actually instructions for the car. Thus I would assume there are security measures built into the instruction retrieval, SSL or some other authentication/encryption scheme. Thus simply changing the QR code wouldn't allow forged instructions to be sent to the car, you'd have to break the security on the data link.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Awarded Driverless Vehicle Patent</title><url>http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,078,349.PN.&OS=PN/8,078,349&RS=PN/8,078,349</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stbullard</author><text>Does anyone know how this works in practice?<p>Are any measures taken to prevent someone from spray-painting a rogue QR code on the ground to reroute traffic?</text></item><item><author>Wilya</author><text>The patent is about reading a symbol on the ground that triggers the reading of a QR-code to get precise GPS location. Roughly.<p>Actually, the QR-code (or equivalent) is used to fetch "instructions for performing the autonomous vehicle instruction" (which could be anything).<p>And the QR-code can be replaced by a lot of things (radio signal, etc).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cjfont</author><text>Are there any measures in place today preventing someone from throwing road spikes on a busy interstate?</text></comment> |
13,090,711 | 13,088,712 | 1 | 3 | 13,087,272 | train | <story><title>The Ruby+OMR JIT</title><url>https://developer.ibm.com/open/2016/11/18/introducing-ruby-jit/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kweinber</author><text>Don&#x27;t count on Ruby getting 10x faster anytime soon. The meta-object model and method-missing reliance of many of the libraries make performance optimizations of JITs a very limited enterprise.</text></item><item><author>skeptic2718</author><text>I expected CPython to have something like this, especially in 3.x but nothing.<p>If Ruby can get faster than Python sooner, I&#x27;d switch focus to Ruby (and somewhat make Go less of a priority for us).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrisseaton</author><text>Optimising method-missing and the rest of the meta-object model in a JIT is now a solved problem - I solved it for my PhD <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrisseaton.com&#x2F;phd&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrisseaton.com&#x2F;phd&#x2F;</a><p>It is actually possible to completely remove the overhead of method-missing.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Ruby+OMR JIT</title><url>https://developer.ibm.com/open/2016/11/18/introducing-ruby-jit/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kweinber</author><text>Don&#x27;t count on Ruby getting 10x faster anytime soon. The meta-object model and method-missing reliance of many of the libraries make performance optimizations of JITs a very limited enterprise.</text></item><item><author>skeptic2718</author><text>I expected CPython to have something like this, especially in 3.x but nothing.<p>If Ruby can get faster than Python sooner, I&#x27;d switch focus to Ruby (and somewhat make Go less of a priority for us).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vidarh</author><text>It&#x27;s true that many libraries would perform poorly because of a reliance on method_missing. But what <i>can</i> be made quite fast is code that either uses define_method instead, or uses define_method on the first failed call.<p>In fact, a tracing jit could even make the method_missing case fast by automatically specialising and optimizing missing coupled with a vtable&#x2F;dispatch table.<p>My forever-in-progress ahead-of-time Ruby compiler uses vtable based dispatch for every method name that&#x27;s seen in the program at least once, and that&#x27;s usually most of them (unless people e.g. construct method names dynamically at runtime).<p>To handle method_missing, it creates thunks for each method name and fills the missing vtable slots with those, which is similar to what I suggest above - the next step of dynamically optimising method_missing for called symbols and replacing the vtable thunks would be a relatively minor step in a JIT.<p>I don&#x27;t think anyone expects Ruby to get dramatically faster in the very short term, but there&#x27;s <i>lots</i> of opportunity to make most Ruby code much faster in the medium term.<p>I think we&#x27;ll also start seeing implementations that do things like JIT influence how people write Ruby, because a lot of things won&#x27;t matter much for MRI performance but will be a huge deal for implementations that uses compilation techniques, so it&#x27;s possible to get a lot more &quot;compiler-friendly&quot; Ruby while still writing clean Ruby that runs well on other implementations.<p>e.g. the above &quot;define_method on method_missing&quot; basically boils down to (pseudo code):<p><pre><code> def method_missing sym, *args
raise suitable exception if sym doesn&#x27;t meet right criteria
define_method(sym, args...) do
... whatever ..
end
send(sym,*args)
end
</code></pre>
If it lets an implementation speed up its (ab)use of method_missing enough, you&#x27;ll see people adopt stuff like that.</text></comment> |
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