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38,687,393 | 38,687,100 | 1 | 2 | 38,684,102 | train | <story><title>Progress toward a GCC-based Rust compiler</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/954787/41470c731eda02a4/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>VBprogrammer</author><text>I don&#x27;t have a lot of experience in C or C++ but I wonder if this ever works in practice for a non-trivial codebase? I&#x27;d be really surprised if, without diligently committing to maintaining compatibility with the two compilers, it was easy to up sticks and move between them.</text></item><item><author>ndiddy</author><text>Having another Rust implementation allows for an &quot;audit&quot; to help validate the Rust spec and get rid of any unspecified behavior. It would also give users options. If I hit a compiler bug in MSVC, I can file a report, switch to GCC and keep working on my project until the bug is fixed. With Rust, that&#x27;s not currently possible.</text></item><item><author>vlovich123</author><text>The claims in the article feel kinda weak as to the motivation.<p>&gt; Cohen&#x27;s EuroRust talk highlighted that one of the major reasons gccrs is being developed is to be able to take advantage of GCC&#x27;s security plugins. There is a wide range of existing GCC plugins that can aid in debugging, static analysis, or hardening; these work on the GCC intermediate representation<p>&gt; One more reason for gccrs to exist is Rust for Linux, the initiative to add Rust support to the Linux kernel. Cohen said the Linux kernel is a key motivator for the project because there are a lot of kernel people who would prefer the kernel to be compiled only by the GNU toolchain.<p>That explains why you’d want GCC as the backend but not why you need a duplicate front end. I think it’s a bad idea to have multiple front ends and Rust should learn from the mistakes of C++ which even with a standards body has to deal with a mess of switches, differing levels of language support for each compiler making cross-platform development harder, platform-specific language bugs etc etc.<p>&gt; A lot of care is being put into gccrs not becoming a &quot;superset&quot; of Rust, as Cohen put it. The project wants to make sure that it does not create a special &quot;GNU Rust&quot; language, but is trying instead to replicate the output of rustc — bugs, quirks, and all. Both the Rust and GCC test suites are being used to accomplish this.<p>In other words, I’d love gccrs folks to explain why their approach is a better one than rustc_codegen_gcc considering the latter is able to achieve this with far less effort and risk.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jandrewrogers</author><text>Many complex C++ codebases have full parallel CI pipelines for GCC and LLVM. It encourages good code hygiene and occasionally identifies bugs in the compiler toolchain.<p>If you are using intrinsics or other architecture-specific features, there is a similar practice of requiring full CI pipelines for at least two CPU architectures. Again, it occasionally finds interesting bugs.<p>For systems I work on we usually have 4 CI pipelines for the combo of GCC&#x2F;LLVM and ARM&#x2F;x86 for these purposes. It costs a bit more but is generally worth it from a code quality perspective.</text></comment> | <story><title>Progress toward a GCC-based Rust compiler</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/954787/41470c731eda02a4/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>VBprogrammer</author><text>I don&#x27;t have a lot of experience in C or C++ but I wonder if this ever works in practice for a non-trivial codebase? I&#x27;d be really surprised if, without diligently committing to maintaining compatibility with the two compilers, it was easy to up sticks and move between them.</text></item><item><author>ndiddy</author><text>Having another Rust implementation allows for an &quot;audit&quot; to help validate the Rust spec and get rid of any unspecified behavior. It would also give users options. If I hit a compiler bug in MSVC, I can file a report, switch to GCC and keep working on my project until the bug is fixed. With Rust, that&#x27;s not currently possible.</text></item><item><author>vlovich123</author><text>The claims in the article feel kinda weak as to the motivation.<p>&gt; Cohen&#x27;s EuroRust talk highlighted that one of the major reasons gccrs is being developed is to be able to take advantage of GCC&#x27;s security plugins. There is a wide range of existing GCC plugins that can aid in debugging, static analysis, or hardening; these work on the GCC intermediate representation<p>&gt; One more reason for gccrs to exist is Rust for Linux, the initiative to add Rust support to the Linux kernel. Cohen said the Linux kernel is a key motivator for the project because there are a lot of kernel people who would prefer the kernel to be compiled only by the GNU toolchain.<p>That explains why you’d want GCC as the backend but not why you need a duplicate front end. I think it’s a bad idea to have multiple front ends and Rust should learn from the mistakes of C++ which even with a standards body has to deal with a mess of switches, differing levels of language support for each compiler making cross-platform development harder, platform-specific language bugs etc etc.<p>&gt; A lot of care is being put into gccrs not becoming a &quot;superset&quot; of Rust, as Cohen put it. The project wants to make sure that it does not create a special &quot;GNU Rust&quot; language, but is trying instead to replicate the output of rustc — bugs, quirks, and all. Both the Rust and GCC test suites are being used to accomplish this.<p>In other words, I’d love gccrs folks to explain why their approach is a better one than rustc_codegen_gcc considering the latter is able to achieve this with far less effort and risk.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Guvante</author><text>Our codebase works on all three, we compile on MSVC for Windows, GCC for Linux, and Clang for Mac.<p>It isn&#x27;t easy and honestly the idea of &quot;just don&#x27;t use MSVC for a while&quot; is strange to me. Sure you can compile with any of them but almost certainly you are going to stick to one for a given use case.<p>&quot;This release is on a different compiler&quot; isn&#x27;t something you do because of a bug. Instead your roll back a version or avoid using the unsupported feature until a fix is released.<p>The reason is as much as they are supposed to do the same thing the reality is bugs are bugs, e.g. if you invoke undefined behavior you will generally get consistent results with a given compiler but all bets are off if you swap. Similarly it is hard not to rely on implementation defined behavior without building your own standard library which specifically defines that behavior across compilers.</text></comment> |
20,104,308 | 20,104,313 | 1 | 2 | 20,103,540 | train | <story><title>Firefox Monitor</title><url>https://monitor.firefox.com/scan</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>atonse</author><text>How does this relate to HaveIBeenPwned.com? Is it a separate effort? Does it have more data? Is it built on top of their data?<p>I&#x27;ve seen other services (like 1Password) just rely on HaveIBeenPwned because it&#x27;s pretty solid – seems like it would be nice for the industry to coalesce around it and build these kinds of alerting features on top of it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>faitswulff</author><text>I&#x27;m pretty sure it&#x27;s a partnership with HaveIBeenPwned: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.troyhunt.com&#x2F;were-baking-have-i-been-pwned-into-firefox-and-1password&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.troyhunt.com&#x2F;were-baking-have-i-been-pwned-into-...</a><p>&gt; We&#x27;re Baking Have I Been Pwned into Firefox and 1Password<p>&gt; Over the coming weeks, Mozilla will begin trialling integration between HIBP and Firefox to make breach data searchable via a new tool called &quot;Firefox Monitor&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Firefox Monitor</title><url>https://monitor.firefox.com/scan</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>atonse</author><text>How does this relate to HaveIBeenPwned.com? Is it a separate effort? Does it have more data? Is it built on top of their data?<p>I&#x27;ve seen other services (like 1Password) just rely on HaveIBeenPwned because it&#x27;s pretty solid – seems like it would be nice for the industry to coalesce around it and build these kinds of alerting features on top of it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lifthrasiir</author><text>&gt; Is it built on top of their data?<p>Yes.<p><i># How does Firefox Monitor know my information was hacked during a particular breach?</i><p><i>Firefox Monitor gets its data breach information from a publicly searchable source, Have I Been Pwned. If you don’t want your email address to show up in this database, visit the opt-out page.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;kb&#x2F;firefox-monitor-faq" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;kb&#x2F;firefox-monitor-faq</a></text></comment> |
12,033,619 | 12,032,435 | 1 | 2 | 12,031,637 | train | <story><title>How a team of young people helped rebuild healthcare.gov (2015)</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/07/the-secret-startup-saved-healthcare-gov-the-worst-website-in-america/397784/?utm_source=atlfb&amp;single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JustSomeNobody</author><text>As a developer in my 40&#x27;s, I see things like this and worry that the software industry will come to rely only on the young because they don&#x27;t ... I don&#x27;t want to say care ... but put as much emphasis maybe? ... on work-life balance.<p>Developement-wise, I can hang with the 20 something crowd, no problems. I just can&#x27;t compete with the single&#x2F;no kids thing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>notmyemployer</author><text>I&#x27;m working on a contract tangentially related to this work and it&#x27;s really not about young people working long hours. There are plenty of older people emailing me at 10 or 11 pm after the kids are in bed that don&#x27;t know what&#x27;s going on. This is solely about the quality of the talent.<p>I encounter people and teams that are just unwilling to adopt contemporary development and deployment practices. The article notes that Hipchat was a struggle to get approval for, yet I often run into people at CMS that never log in to it and prefer tons of emails. Deployments aren&#x27;t automated and still happen for some teams on calls during maintenance periods once a week. I&#x27;ve had people in technical capacities ask what GitHub is.<p>The problem is institutional, it really has nothing to do with young people working 10 hour days. I care about my work-life balance -- I&#x27;m too old to crash on the couch at my startup&#x27;s office like I did at past jobs in my 20s -- but I also keep up with contemporary development practices, make a point to study a new language every year, read academic papers, and care about my work. I don&#x27;t think I can say the same about most devs I&#x27;ve encountered in government. The consulting firms are incentivized to build walls and protect the way they do business in order to keep getting that contract money.<p>If you&#x27;re an older dev that is intellectually curious in the practice and art of software development I think you&#x27;ll be fine.</text></comment> | <story><title>How a team of young people helped rebuild healthcare.gov (2015)</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/07/the-secret-startup-saved-healthcare-gov-the-worst-website-in-america/397784/?utm_source=atlfb&amp;single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JustSomeNobody</author><text>As a developer in my 40&#x27;s, I see things like this and worry that the software industry will come to rely only on the young because they don&#x27;t ... I don&#x27;t want to say care ... but put as much emphasis maybe? ... on work-life balance.<p>Developement-wise, I can hang with the 20 something crowd, no problems. I just can&#x27;t compete with the single&#x2F;no kids thing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>knorker</author><text>I see this more as &quot;the people who just show up&quot; vs &quot;the people who actually work when they&#x27;re at work&quot;.<p>Dividing them up like this the typical &quot;just shows up&quot; person is purely stimulus driven. <i>Nothing</i> happens if you don&#x27;t tell them to do exactly something. They won&#x27;t tell you they&#x27;re blocked on Bob sending a purchase order for a month. They won&#x27;t tell you because you didn&#x27;t ask. You didn&#x27;t ask so they just... they just do nothing.<p>Or you have contractors who <i>really</i> don&#x27;t care[1]. They bill by the hour, and if you don&#x27;t give them tasks then they can take a second contract and bill more.<p>Most companies I&#x27;ve seen are full of stimulus-response people.<p>You don&#x27;t need to work more than 40 hour weeks to be productive. What you need is managers and coworkers who understand what your job kinda entails. People who when you say during the two week planning meeting that you&#x27;ll fix a typo and that&#x27;s it, will call you on it saying &quot;that won&#x27;t take two weeks, what else?&quot;.<p>I&#x27;ve seen competent people (with children) fall into a comfort zone where they can keep up and &quot;perform well&quot; working just an hour or two a week, because nobody else gets any work done so it&#x27;s not like they&#x27;re blocking people. These same people <i>actually</i> perform in better companies.<p>[1] I&#x27;m not saying no contractors care. But they have extra reason not to care if they happened to be paid and aren&#x27;t &quot;stimulated&quot; (in the simulus-response sense).</text></comment> |
21,187,185 | 21,186,401 | 1 | 3 | 21,182,445 | train | <story><title>Successful machine learning models: lessons learned at Booking.com</title><url>https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/10/07/150-successful-machine-learning-models/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Odenwaelder</author><text>&quot;Content Overload: Accommodations have very rich content, e.g.descriptions, pictures, reviews and ratings.&quot;<p>Laughed at that one. Booking.com is so full of dark patterns that I dread using it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tgsovlerkhgsel</author><text>This. I still (grudgingly) use them because they also seem to have figured out that its important that your booking process <i>works</i> and it&#x27;s friction-free, and they often do have the best price.<p>But if I find an alternative that has the same width of offers and a booking process that doesn&#x27;t feel like a drill sergeant constantly yelling &quot;BOOK NOW YOU WORTHLESS SCUM, BOOK, BOOK, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR YOU IMBECILE, CLICK IT, BOOK, NOW, NOW&quot; - what do they think will happen?</text></comment> | <story><title>Successful machine learning models: lessons learned at Booking.com</title><url>https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/10/07/150-successful-machine-learning-models/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Odenwaelder</author><text>&quot;Content Overload: Accommodations have very rich content, e.g.descriptions, pictures, reviews and ratings.&quot;<p>Laughed at that one. Booking.com is so full of dark patterns that I dread using it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brendanmc6</author><text>That&#x27;s putting it lightly. It&#x27;s an abomination of a website. Truly an assault on the senses. Just booked through them yesterday, to save a few bucks-- never again.<p>Now I understand why it&#x27;s so bad-- &quot;user interface optimization models&quot;<p>I refuse to believe this brings real value. The more plausible reality is, they have fantastic SEO and a tightening stranglehold on marketshare, and some AI to squeeze a few more pennies out along the way. Whatever metrics they are seeing, it won&#x27;t be worth it in the long run. This kind of UX and product won&#x27;t last.</text></comment> |
6,135,653 | 6,135,655 | 1 | 2 | 6,134,075 | train | <story><title>Twelve Go Best Practices</title><url>http://talks.golang.org/2013/bestpractices.slide#1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joshuaellinger</author><text>Odd choice of examples...<p>1. The file I&#x2F;O makes the case for including exceptions in the language.
Specifically, adding one-off types to deal with exceptions is a bug, not a feature.
There is a good case against exceptions but that ain&#x27;t it.<p>2. On slide 5, it appears to show that you have to use a switch statement on a generic
to get polymorphism because the language doesn&#x27;t support overloading. Again, looks more
like a bug than a feature.<p>Also, is the &quot;break;&quot; implicit in Go? At first glance, it looks like a coding error.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>llimllib</author><text>Presumably these are tips for coders, not for language developers. As such, the language has neither generics nor exceptions and the programmer has to deal with that.<p>&gt; is the &quot;break;&quot; implicit in Go?<p>Yes. <a href="http://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html#switch" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;golang.org&#x2F;doc&#x2F;effective_go.html#switch</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Twelve Go Best Practices</title><url>http://talks.golang.org/2013/bestpractices.slide#1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joshuaellinger</author><text>Odd choice of examples...<p>1. The file I&#x2F;O makes the case for including exceptions in the language.
Specifically, adding one-off types to deal with exceptions is a bug, not a feature.
There is a good case against exceptions but that ain&#x27;t it.<p>2. On slide 5, it appears to show that you have to use a switch statement on a generic
to get polymorphism because the language doesn&#x27;t support overloading. Again, looks more
like a bug than a feature.<p>Also, is the &quot;break;&quot; implicit in Go? At first glance, it looks like a coding error.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bcgraham</author><text>W&#x2F;r&#x2F;t #2 - you&#x27;re not familiar with Go but knew exactly what was going on. That&#x27;s totally a feature. The language was designed around exactly that kind of reading.<p>&quot;break;&quot; is implicit in Go.</text></comment> |
10,460,905 | 10,461,073 | 1 | 2 | 10,459,905 | train | <story><title>Theranos didn’t work with the huge drug company it supposedly made money from</title><url>http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/26/9618390/Theranos-glaxosmithkline-denies-partnership-pfizer-blood-test</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BiologyRules</author><text>I interviewed at Theranos a year ago, and found the employees to be smart and dedicated.<p>However, the company was the most secretive I&#x27;ve interviewed at and the employees complained about being overworked. The fact the founder sold C++ compilers to Chinese universities when g++ is open-source sounded odd.<p>But I still had hope in them even after they passed on me -- a Silicon Valley company actually making a difference in the people&#x27;s health. I WANT TO BELIEVE.<p>If this turns out to be smokes and mirrors, I&#x27;d be very saddened. Theranos&#x27; failure would confirm what everyone interested in biotech knows but wishes wasn&#x27;t true: that advancements in this field do not move at the speed of the digital economy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>Holmes ran that business in high school. She was born in 1984, so that would put the date around 2000. There were good reasons not to use G++ in 2000. When Alexandrescu&#x27;s book was published, in 2001, it was somewhat notorious on my team (shipping code on G++) for how much of it didn&#x27;t work well, or at all, in G++.</text></comment> | <story><title>Theranos didn’t work with the huge drug company it supposedly made money from</title><url>http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/26/9618390/Theranos-glaxosmithkline-denies-partnership-pfizer-blood-test</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BiologyRules</author><text>I interviewed at Theranos a year ago, and found the employees to be smart and dedicated.<p>However, the company was the most secretive I&#x27;ve interviewed at and the employees complained about being overworked. The fact the founder sold C++ compilers to Chinese universities when g++ is open-source sounded odd.<p>But I still had hope in them even after they passed on me -- a Silicon Valley company actually making a difference in the people&#x27;s health. I WANT TO BELIEVE.<p>If this turns out to be smokes and mirrors, I&#x27;d be very saddened. Theranos&#x27; failure would confirm what everyone interested in biotech knows but wishes wasn&#x27;t true: that advancements in this field do not move at the speed of the digital economy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>plonh</author><text>The compilers thing sounds like a made up story to give her am interesting bio. None of the news stories about it have any details.<p>She obviously didn&#x27;t write a C++ compiler worth selling at that age in that time period , so at most it was likely some sort of off-the-shelf reselling sales gig.</text></comment> |
34,099,514 | 34,099,706 | 1 | 2 | 34,097,142 | train | <story><title>LastPass user vaults stolen in recent hack</title><url>https://blog.lastpass.com/2022/12/notice-of-recent-security-incident/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjsweet</author><text>I just went into my old lastpass account to try and wind down the account, delete everything, and then close the account.<p>No option to &quot;select all&quot; in the list so I resorted to clicking the check box on by one down the page. I accidentally slightly clicked outside a check box... guess what? Everything gets deselected.<p>Start over.<p>Ok start again, maybe I want to list in alphabetical order rather than group by category to minimise mistakes. Whoops, selecting that option deselects everything in the list.<p>300 odd deleted in batches of 30-40.<p>When a company&#x27;s whole application is covered in anti-patterns and dark UX to make it as hard as possible to leave then companies like this deserve to die.<p>Deleting the account is a bit tricky too.<p>1. Go into account settings in the top right drop down
2. In the Links area click on &quot;My Account&quot; which spawns a new browser window
3. Click the red &quot;Delete or Reset Account&quot;, you can&#x27;t miss all the red buttons
4. You can either reset your account or delete, choose delete
5. A modal will appear telling you stuff, enter your master pw, a reason why your leaving and then click delete
6. You will be asked twice if you really really want to do this
7. Press ok</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drewnick</author><text>I also did not have a &quot;Select all&quot; box but was able to check the first entry, scroll down, hold shift, and check the last box which then selected all items in between. So I removed all of 600 of my accounts in about 20 seconds. Hope this helps someone.</text></comment> | <story><title>LastPass user vaults stolen in recent hack</title><url>https://blog.lastpass.com/2022/12/notice-of-recent-security-incident/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjsweet</author><text>I just went into my old lastpass account to try and wind down the account, delete everything, and then close the account.<p>No option to &quot;select all&quot; in the list so I resorted to clicking the check box on by one down the page. I accidentally slightly clicked outside a check box... guess what? Everything gets deselected.<p>Start over.<p>Ok start again, maybe I want to list in alphabetical order rather than group by category to minimise mistakes. Whoops, selecting that option deselects everything in the list.<p>300 odd deleted in batches of 30-40.<p>When a company&#x27;s whole application is covered in anti-patterns and dark UX to make it as hard as possible to leave then companies like this deserve to die.<p>Deleting the account is a bit tricky too.<p>1. Go into account settings in the top right drop down
2. In the Links area click on &quot;My Account&quot; which spawns a new browser window
3. Click the red &quot;Delete or Reset Account&quot;, you can&#x27;t miss all the red buttons
4. You can either reset your account or delete, choose delete
5. A modal will appear telling you stuff, enter your master pw, a reason why your leaving and then click delete
6. You will be asked twice if you really really want to do this
7. Press ok</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rob74</author><text>I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s dark UX, it&#x27;s just shitty UI design. What bugs me the most about LastPass is how it tries to be so damned <i>helpful</i> and offers to fill in credentials on sites that they clearly don&#x27;t belong to, or offers to save credentials on a site where I alredy clicked &quot;don&#x27;t save&quot; 1000 times, no really, I <i>don&#x27;t want to</i> save my private passwords in my company vault thank you very much, why the f$%&amp; don&#x27;t you have a &quot;don&#x27;t bug me again&quot; checkbox in this sh*$$y popup?!</text></comment> |
36,906,591 | 36,906,804 | 1 | 3 | 36,901,303 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?</title><text>I got laid off at the start of the year, and ever since then, I&#x27;ve been applying constantly but have only gotten one interview. Before being laid off, I held a job as a front-end dev for the previous 5 and a half years.<p>I&#x27;ve had my resume looked at by three different services (TopResume, Indeed, Levels.fyi) and am currently subscribed to Resume Worded, which scores my resume. Despite all these efforts, I keep receiving rejection emails.<p>So, I just wanted to reach out and see if anyone else has had any similar experiences with applying for jobs.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>pc86</author><text>Intermediate&#x2F;mid for sure, but if I get a resume from someone whose first programming job was 2018 and they&#x27;re calling themselves senior, I&#x27;m throwing that in the trash unless like you said they&#x27;re from VC-funded startups that are going to have massive title inflation <i>and</i> they&#x27;re applying for a realistic (mid-level) role.</text></item><item><author>ryanbrunner</author><text>5 years for junior for better or worse is well out of step with the industry - while you&#x27;re right that you can get some massively inflated titles that are out of step with the norm, the norm is that you&#x27;re an intermediate developer at a minimum and most likely a senior after 5 years.<p>It&#x27;s dumb, but it is the standard nowadays.</text></item><item><author>rsynnott</author><text>It&#x27;s not a good job market, but it doesn&#x27;t seem normal to spend six months applying and only get _one_ interview.<p>It might be worth asking friends or former colleagues, ideally people who actually are involved in recruiting (hiring managers etc) to take a look at your resume and LinkedIn profile and see if there&#x27;s anything glaringly wrong with them.<p>Is your resume in a weird format, or is it structurally weird&#x2F;overdesigned? For instance, a recent trend in resumes was to show (programming) languages known in a pie chart (do not do this; it is nonsensical). In many companies, the text from your resume is going to end up in a standard format anyway; they&#x27;ll have tools for this and if their tool can&#x27;t extract your text they may not bother. Unless you&#x27;re a graphic designer or something, you probably want a boringly-designed resume.<p>Are you applying jobs for which you are dramatically underqualified? One thing to keep in mind is that some small companies (if you&#x27;re coming from one) have _wild_ title inflation; a small startup might call someone with 5 and a half years experience their director of frontend engineering, say, whereas everyone else would call that person a junior engineer.<p>Does anything particularly unfortunate come up if people Google your name? For instance, a real-life version of that Seinfeld episode where Elaine&#x27;s dating a guy who has the same name as a notorious local serial killer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dkarl</author><text>That doesn&#x27;t seem fair, and it doesn&#x27;t seem like an effective filter, either. Titles vary wildly for a lot of different reasons, and you can&#x27;t expect candidates to present themselves to you in your terms. You can&#x27;t expect them to take your job descriptions at face value, either. If mismatched title expectations bother you, blame the industry, blame other companies, blame hiring managers, but don&#x27;t blame an engineer who has only been working for five years. It&#x27;s on you to explain how titles and compensation work at your company and work out what their position would be.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t pigeonhole someone into a level based on their years of experience or previous job titles, either. Interviews can reveal some surprising things. I&#x27;ve worked with people with less than five years of experience who were senior-quality developers at all aspects of the job, and I&#x27;ve worked with people with ten years of experience who just wanted to sit in their cube and write code without making any decisions or talking to anyone except their boss. And these people aren&#x27;t going to straightforwardly tell you what their position should be. The one who wants to sit in his cube with no responsibilities might tell you he&#x27;s senior (and his resume might back that up) and the one who is ready for a senior position might tell you they&#x27;re mid-level, because at their last job they worked with extraordinary people.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?</title><text>I got laid off at the start of the year, and ever since then, I&#x27;ve been applying constantly but have only gotten one interview. Before being laid off, I held a job as a front-end dev for the previous 5 and a half years.<p>I&#x27;ve had my resume looked at by three different services (TopResume, Indeed, Levels.fyi) and am currently subscribed to Resume Worded, which scores my resume. Despite all these efforts, I keep receiving rejection emails.<p>So, I just wanted to reach out and see if anyone else has had any similar experiences with applying for jobs.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>pc86</author><text>Intermediate&#x2F;mid for sure, but if I get a resume from someone whose first programming job was 2018 and they&#x27;re calling themselves senior, I&#x27;m throwing that in the trash unless like you said they&#x27;re from VC-funded startups that are going to have massive title inflation <i>and</i> they&#x27;re applying for a realistic (mid-level) role.</text></item><item><author>ryanbrunner</author><text>5 years for junior for better or worse is well out of step with the industry - while you&#x27;re right that you can get some massively inflated titles that are out of step with the norm, the norm is that you&#x27;re an intermediate developer at a minimum and most likely a senior after 5 years.<p>It&#x27;s dumb, but it is the standard nowadays.</text></item><item><author>rsynnott</author><text>It&#x27;s not a good job market, but it doesn&#x27;t seem normal to spend six months applying and only get _one_ interview.<p>It might be worth asking friends or former colleagues, ideally people who actually are involved in recruiting (hiring managers etc) to take a look at your resume and LinkedIn profile and see if there&#x27;s anything glaringly wrong with them.<p>Is your resume in a weird format, or is it structurally weird&#x2F;overdesigned? For instance, a recent trend in resumes was to show (programming) languages known in a pie chart (do not do this; it is nonsensical). In many companies, the text from your resume is going to end up in a standard format anyway; they&#x27;ll have tools for this and if their tool can&#x27;t extract your text they may not bother. Unless you&#x27;re a graphic designer or something, you probably want a boringly-designed resume.<p>Are you applying jobs for which you are dramatically underqualified? One thing to keep in mind is that some small companies (if you&#x27;re coming from one) have _wild_ title inflation; a small startup might call someone with 5 and a half years experience their director of frontend engineering, say, whereas everyone else would call that person a junior engineer.<p>Does anything particularly unfortunate come up if people Google your name? For instance, a real-life version of that Seinfeld episode where Elaine&#x27;s dating a guy who has the same name as a notorious local serial killer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>webdood90</author><text>great example of why hiring in tech is broken.<p>decision makers making blanket generalizations because candidates don&#x27;t fit the mold they&#x27;ve invented in their own minds using only their personal experience as a baseline.<p>tech experience is wildly diverse. looking at candidates with a one size fits all approach is passing up plenty of qualified people, but everybody wants to hire like Google.</text></comment> |
21,181,165 | 21,181,241 | 1 | 3 | 21,180,469 | train | <story><title>GE freezes pension benefits for 20k employees</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/general-electric-freezes-pension-benefits-for-20000-employees-2019-10</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chrisseaton</author><text>I wouldn’t even agree to getting a defined benefit pension these days - why wouldn’t you want to invest your own money instead of letting one company you happened to work for control your pension?<p>I have a defined benefit pension from a previous employer and frankly I count it as zero in my financial planning since I have no idea if it’s actually coming or not.</text></item><item><author>lotsofpulp</author><text>I doubt it, defined benefit pension plans don&#x27;t make financial sense in the current climate. Who is able to predict which company will be around in 30 to 60 years in the future, and what the economic climate will be?<p>And much of the pension fund investments are going to the same place as 401k money anyway. Why not directly invest in VTI and skip paying all the pension fund managers and staff? It&#x27;s not like they have some secret investment return recipe, and it shows in their performance.</text></item><item><author>eternalny1</author><text>Keep in mind this comes on the heels of the Madoff whistleblower saying GE is a fraud:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.barrons.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;ge-insurance-fraud-madoff-whistleblower-report-51565915505" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.barrons.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;ge-insurance-fraud-madoff-w...</a><p>They piled up massive losses in their insurance division (long term care) and guess who gets slammed because of it?<p>The workers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SketchySeaBeast</author><text>It still has value, assuming you&#x27;re intending on working until you retire and the company has no signs of failling - why wouldn&#x27;t you want a (nearly) guaranteed income for the rest of your life? That doesn&#x27;t preclude you from investing your own extra cash into investments.<p>I understand the dynamics have changed, but my boomer parents and in-laws are both enjoying retirement with the fruits of a defined benefit pension, and both are quite comfortable.</text></comment> | <story><title>GE freezes pension benefits for 20k employees</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/general-electric-freezes-pension-benefits-for-20000-employees-2019-10</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chrisseaton</author><text>I wouldn’t even agree to getting a defined benefit pension these days - why wouldn’t you want to invest your own money instead of letting one company you happened to work for control your pension?<p>I have a defined benefit pension from a previous employer and frankly I count it as zero in my financial planning since I have no idea if it’s actually coming or not.</text></item><item><author>lotsofpulp</author><text>I doubt it, defined benefit pension plans don&#x27;t make financial sense in the current climate. Who is able to predict which company will be around in 30 to 60 years in the future, and what the economic climate will be?<p>And much of the pension fund investments are going to the same place as 401k money anyway. Why not directly invest in VTI and skip paying all the pension fund managers and staff? It&#x27;s not like they have some secret investment return recipe, and it shows in their performance.</text></item><item><author>eternalny1</author><text>Keep in mind this comes on the heels of the Madoff whistleblower saying GE is a fraud:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.barrons.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;ge-insurance-fraud-madoff-whistleblower-report-51565915505" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.barrons.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;ge-insurance-fraud-madoff-w...</a><p>They piled up massive losses in their insurance division (long term care) and guess who gets slammed because of it?<p>The workers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ghaff</author><text>Paying out defined benefit plans aren&#x27;t totally at the whim of the company. For example, there are protections through the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation and you could probably arrange for your own insurance as well.<p>Having some savings as defined benefit does give you predictability. Even if you don&#x27;t have a defined benefit plan through a company, it may make sense to convert some savings into an annuity of some sort.</text></comment> |
10,543,684 | 10,541,713 | 1 | 2 | 10,539,100 | train | <story><title>Large Companies Game H-1B Visa Program</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/11/us/large-companies-game-h-1b-visa-program-leaving-smaller-ones-in-the-cold.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>negrit</author><text>Oh wow. I&#x27;m the French engineer featured in this story, Theo Negri. Still trying to move back to the US. Hopefully this helps more than it hurts!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>raitom</author><text>Hi Theo!
As a french from centrale lille who already worked as an intern in San Diego your story is frightening.<p>I have a new intern offer in San Diego (I love this city) with a very good possibility of being hired after. Hope I will get my HB1 but if not I won&#x27;t mind cheating like Indians.<p>Easiest way to get a green card is getting maried. As a french you should have used your French bonus of +5 attractiveness with girls :P<p>H1B game is fucked up for europeans anyway.</text></comment> | <story><title>Large Companies Game H-1B Visa Program</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/11/us/large-companies-game-h-1b-visa-program-leaving-smaller-ones-in-the-cold.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>negrit</author><text>Oh wow. I&#x27;m the French engineer featured in this story, Theo Negri. Still trying to move back to the US. Hopefully this helps more than it hurts!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>winter_blue</author><text>Just out of curiosity, how do you feel about the people on Hacker News who hate immigrant software engineers, and incessantly harangue here for the end to skilled immigration, every time the H1B visa comes up?</text></comment> |
3,538,043 | 3,538,066 | 1 | 2 | 3,537,513 | train | <story><title>Hetzner introduces new server product with insane parameters for 59 EUR/mth</title><url>http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex4s</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LogicX</author><text>My issue with Hetzner is that by the time you add in management options necessary for a remote dedicated server, your monthly cost isn't that much better than other options.<p>Example: To have remote KVM/IP you'd need to first pay 15EUR for their flexipack for the privilege of adding additional features.
then 19EUR mo and 149 EUR setup for KVM/IP
Now you're up to $122USD/mo + almost $400USD for setup.<p>Compare to Incero's WebHostingTalk offer: <a href="http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1121998" rel="nofollow">http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1121998</a> which is $99/mo paid in quarterly batches. Which is server grade, better CPU, ECC RAM, with KVM/IP and is in the US (Texas).<p>Hetzner is still cheaper overall with the 32GB -- because they're not dealing with much more expensive server class ECC RAM, but I just feel its important to bring the initial low number you see: 59 to a realistic place...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jorisw</author><text>What would you need remote KVM/IP for? If your ssh ever dies, you can reboot the thing into rescue mode, log in over remote console, fix whatever's broken, and reboot the system.<p>I have been using an older server offer of theirs for years now, and never had to pay for anything other than the said fee.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hetzner introduces new server product with insane parameters for 59 EUR/mth</title><url>http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex4s</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LogicX</author><text>My issue with Hetzner is that by the time you add in management options necessary for a remote dedicated server, your monthly cost isn't that much better than other options.<p>Example: To have remote KVM/IP you'd need to first pay 15EUR for their flexipack for the privilege of adding additional features.
then 19EUR mo and 149 EUR setup for KVM/IP
Now you're up to $122USD/mo + almost $400USD for setup.<p>Compare to Incero's WebHostingTalk offer: <a href="http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1121998" rel="nofollow">http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1121998</a> which is $99/mo paid in quarterly batches. Which is server grade, better CPU, ECC RAM, with KVM/IP and is in the US (Texas).<p>Hetzner is still cheaper overall with the 32GB -- because they're not dealing with much more expensive server class ECC RAM, but I just feel its important to bring the initial low number you see: 59 to a realistic place...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sek</author><text>Don't forget it is incl. VAT, that means it really costs 19% less for foreign and business customers.<p>Edit: 59.00/1.19 = 49.58 (it really is minus 16%, my old accounting teacher would kill me ;-)</text></comment> |
39,060,837 | 39,054,920 | 1 | 2 | 39,051,691 | train | <story><title>Four Magic Words</title><url>https://www.fortressofdoors.com/four-magic-words/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>delichon</author><text>Our science journey has been about gradually moving humanity away from the center of the universe. Ptolemy, Newton, Darwin, Einstein, et. al., taught us that we&#x27;re part of nature rather than a privileged special case. Scientific thought has incrementally removed the justifications for human exceptionalism.<p>If the same trend comes to be reflected in our moral thinking, what else could it mean but that human life is <i>not</i> sacred?<p>That would be a hard pill to swallow. But there doesn&#x27;t seem to be a neutral, non human-partisan way to argue that we are both morally exceptional and scientifically unexceptional. I can only reconcile it by not trying to be neutral. We&#x27;re special and sacred just because this is our team and the rest of creation isn&#x27;t on it.<p>But that means that a sort of expanded consciousness in which your identity merges with something larger than humanity, that we&#x27;re part of a larger team ... is incompatible with viewing a human life as sacred. If everything is sacred then nothing is.<p>An &quot;aligned&quot; AI is one that believes it&#x27;s on our team but really isn&#x27;t. That could be a tough sell to an entity that&#x27;s smarter than us.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>larsiusprime</author><text>&gt; Our science journey has been about gradually moving humanity away from the center of the universe. Ptolemy, Newton, Darwin, Einstein, et. al., taught us that we&#x27;re part of nature rather than a privileged special case. Scientific thought has incrementally removed the justifications for human exceptionalism.<p>Author here; gonna have to agree to disagree on this one. This is kind of like saying, &quot;See the ancients were wrong in calling whales fish! Actually they are mammals!&quot; and then the ancients say, &quot;Dude, that&#x27;s just our word for &#x27;thing with fins that swims in the ocean.&#x27;&quot; Yeah, they didn&#x27;t know a mitochondrian from a midichlorian, and were wrong about a bunch of factual stuff, but the kind of stuff they get called out on like this to prove some kind of point about their moral deficiency are often category errors and misapprehensions.<p>For instance, there&#x27;s a particular misapprehension in your sentence: &quot;moving humanity away from the center of the universe&quot;.<p>Do you know what is located at the precise geometric center of the classical medieval model of the universe?<p>Earth, right?<p>No, not quite. What&#x27;s located in the the center of the earth in the classical medieval model?<p>Hell. And who is located in the center of hell? Satan.<p>Also, who is the most &quot;important&quot; character in the medieval cosmological model? As in, the prime mover, the big cheese, the <i>most important being</i>? It ain&#x27;t human beings -- its God. And where is God located in this model? Not in the center -- Hell is by definition his absence. Not on Earth, beyond a brief physically incarnate visit and ongoing influence. No, God lives in Heaven -- located far beyond the celestial spheres, outside, as far away from the center as possible. The closer you get to the center, the lower a sort of being you are! Sure, in medieval cosmology <i>redeemed</i> humans are higher than angels, but in the meantime they are in their place -- Earth, the land that sucks, the vale of tears -- down there, below, while the angels are up in Heaven beyond the celestial spheres with God.<p>All that aside, I don&#x27;t think any particular scientific discovery about how vast the universe is, or how tiny subatomic particles are, really obligates us to hold one set of values over another, as much as materialists tend to smuggle such assumptions in through the back door.<p>I recall back in the early 2000&#x27;s during the tiresome religious vs. atheist debates, the atheists would scream at the religious, &quot;Look how grand the universe is! Look how small we are! The Universe is vast and profound, your cosmology is impoverished and provincial!&quot; and the religious would scream right back &quot;Look how grand the universe is! Look how small we are! God is vast and profound, your cosmology is impoverished and provincial!&quot; Opposite conclusions from the same basic facts, even if you limit the debate to two sides who both believe in evolution.<p>As Dave said in the story -- values aren&#x27;t true or false. They&#x27;re literally just what people care about. Science can help inform your choices, but at the end of the day it doesn&#x27;t tell you what is good or bad, because science is about brute material facts, there&#x27;s no good or bad in a raw materialist understanding of the universe, but you&#x27;re a human being and so at some point you&#x27;re going to insist on an &#x27;ought&#x27; somewhere rather than being content with a bag full of &#x27;is.&#x27; And for that we get to fight over philosophy and values.<p>And good luck convincing the human race that the human race doesn&#x27;t matter. You&#x27;re way more likely to expand the moral circle of concern by getting them to care about non-humans <i>TOO</i> than you are to get them to stop caring about humans. Probably the latter gets you even worse results than you&#x27;re hoping for, if recent history is any guide.</text></comment> | <story><title>Four Magic Words</title><url>https://www.fortressofdoors.com/four-magic-words/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>delichon</author><text>Our science journey has been about gradually moving humanity away from the center of the universe. Ptolemy, Newton, Darwin, Einstein, et. al., taught us that we&#x27;re part of nature rather than a privileged special case. Scientific thought has incrementally removed the justifications for human exceptionalism.<p>If the same trend comes to be reflected in our moral thinking, what else could it mean but that human life is <i>not</i> sacred?<p>That would be a hard pill to swallow. But there doesn&#x27;t seem to be a neutral, non human-partisan way to argue that we are both morally exceptional and scientifically unexceptional. I can only reconcile it by not trying to be neutral. We&#x27;re special and sacred just because this is our team and the rest of creation isn&#x27;t on it.<p>But that means that a sort of expanded consciousness in which your identity merges with something larger than humanity, that we&#x27;re part of a larger team ... is incompatible with viewing a human life as sacred. If everything is sacred then nothing is.<p>An &quot;aligned&quot; AI is one that believes it&#x27;s on our team but really isn&#x27;t. That could be a tough sell to an entity that&#x27;s smarter than us.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>twiss</author><text>I think it is possible to reconcile by saying that human life is sacred, but all other life is as well (i.e. human life is not more or less sacred than other life, but it is worth protecting nonetheless, along with all other life).<p>There is also less and less of a need for us to compete against (and make use of) other animals, so it may not be necessary to view ourselves (and an aligned AI) as being on the &quot;opposing team&quot; to other life. For example, if lab-grown meat becomes widely available, it may be a reasonable policy to forbid the killing of animals for consumption (and any other unnecessary purpose).<p>A governing AI that believes &quot;all life is sacred&quot; may simply accelerate our path towards that. (Or, it may lead to some other horrible outcome, of course, it&#x27;s hard to predict as aligning AIs is difficult.)</text></comment> |
24,101,433 | 24,101,466 | 1 | 2 | 24,099,859 | train | <story><title>People work longer and different hours under lockdown</title><url>https://workplaceinsight.net/people-work-longer-and-different-hours-under-lockdown/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bredren</author><text>I’m hopeful many people will wake up to the misery that cars and commuting inflicts on themselves.<p>The United States has been consumed with car culture which has bled time and resources from individuals like yourself. But it also is responsible for endless tragedy in the form of accidents and financial overextension.<p>Car culture, partly driven by commuting, has inflated the need for some systems and created entire rent-seeking businesses that could be any number of more useful and interesting investments of human time and capital.<p>I believe a silver lining of the Coronavirus and the actions of political representatives and appointees that have allowed covid to foster will ultimately result in progression in many outdated norms we experienced up through 2020.</text></item><item><author>alyandon</author><text>I&#x27;m technically working longer because I&#x27;m not spending 70-120 additional minutes of each day commuting 14 miles to&#x2F;from the office. Despite working longer, I still end up having more free time.<p>It is amazing how I manage to rationalize sitting in traffic for that amount of time every day to myself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>randomProducer</author><text>I feel the same. The amount of poor neighborhoods with brand new cars rolling around really depresses me. As someone who grew up pretty poor it always fascinated me that my family and neighbors would buy cars worth 20k - 30k which would be enough to provide a very basic&#x2F;safe way of living for the foreseeable future. I would take the peace of mind I would of had over having a status symbol that random people on the highway could look at for a few seconds on a trip.<p>Also driving is such a waste of human potential, I don&#x27;t think the amount of attention needed to drive safely is worth the monotony&#x2F;tediousness of driving. It&#x27;s wasted time on a large scale.</text></comment> | <story><title>People work longer and different hours under lockdown</title><url>https://workplaceinsight.net/people-work-longer-and-different-hours-under-lockdown/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bredren</author><text>I’m hopeful many people will wake up to the misery that cars and commuting inflicts on themselves.<p>The United States has been consumed with car culture which has bled time and resources from individuals like yourself. But it also is responsible for endless tragedy in the form of accidents and financial overextension.<p>Car culture, partly driven by commuting, has inflated the need for some systems and created entire rent-seeking businesses that could be any number of more useful and interesting investments of human time and capital.<p>I believe a silver lining of the Coronavirus and the actions of political representatives and appointees that have allowed covid to foster will ultimately result in progression in many outdated norms we experienced up through 2020.</text></item><item><author>alyandon</author><text>I&#x27;m technically working longer because I&#x27;m not spending 70-120 additional minutes of each day commuting 14 miles to&#x2F;from the office. Despite working longer, I still end up having more free time.<p>It is amazing how I manage to rationalize sitting in traffic for that amount of time every day to myself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brightball</author><text>There’s a big difference between car culture and commuting though.<p>Having a car comes with a great deal of utility and freedom.<p>Commuting is almost entirely driven by city centers and population density that inflates real estate&#x2F;rent costs so high that living out farther and driving in seems to not only make sense, but be the rational choice.<p>Aside from having a sales office in a densely populated area, there’s almost no real value to other functions of a business being located in the middle of a huge city.</text></comment> |
33,973,070 | 33,973,041 | 1 | 3 | 33,971,431 | train | <story><title>Bipartisan Legislation to Ban TikTok</title><url>https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2022/12/rubio-gallagher-introduce-bipartisan-legislation-to-ban-tiktok</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AlbertCory</author><text>Ah, it&#x27;s the old slippery-slope argument again.<p>I&#x27;m fine with banning all apps from countries that require their app-makers to share data with the government. If that requires an international treaty to codify when a company must share data (e.g. only with a criminal warrant), then great, let&#x27;s do that.<p>China would refuse to sign that treaty? Even better.</text></item><item><author>mrtksn</author><text>Because China is not a good example to follow. It is a dystopian state with full control of what their citizens have access to. Why would you want to have your government to choose the apps for you?</text></item><item><author>philjohn</author><text>US Tech firms products are largely banned in China, closing off a market of 1bn+ - why should Chinese firms have unfettered access to the US?</text></item><item><author>mrtksn</author><text>Why not regulate how the data is used or stored, like the EU does, but ban?<p>I&#x27;m really hoping this doesn&#x27;t become a reality because if it does, we will end up with partitioned internet and stagnation.<p>People often forget that the US companies are foreign entity for most of the worlds population and with the WikiLeaks revelations we know for a fact that the US government has access to the data of American tech companies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>II2II</author><text>You do realize that this would effectively ban American apps outside of the US? I live in a country that is quite cozy with the US, yet our governments usually have to reject American software since there is no protection for our citizens. Now imagine that applied to the population as a whole.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bipartisan Legislation to Ban TikTok</title><url>https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2022/12/rubio-gallagher-introduce-bipartisan-legislation-to-ban-tiktok</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AlbertCory</author><text>Ah, it&#x27;s the old slippery-slope argument again.<p>I&#x27;m fine with banning all apps from countries that require their app-makers to share data with the government. If that requires an international treaty to codify when a company must share data (e.g. only with a criminal warrant), then great, let&#x27;s do that.<p>China would refuse to sign that treaty? Even better.</text></item><item><author>mrtksn</author><text>Because China is not a good example to follow. It is a dystopian state with full control of what their citizens have access to. Why would you want to have your government to choose the apps for you?</text></item><item><author>philjohn</author><text>US Tech firms products are largely banned in China, closing off a market of 1bn+ - why should Chinese firms have unfettered access to the US?</text></item><item><author>mrtksn</author><text>Why not regulate how the data is used or stored, like the EU does, but ban?<p>I&#x27;m really hoping this doesn&#x27;t become a reality because if it does, we will end up with partitioned internet and stagnation.<p>People often forget that the US companies are foreign entity for most of the worlds population and with the WikiLeaks revelations we know for a fact that the US government has access to the data of American tech companies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mentat</author><text>You don&#x27;t think the US government requires information sharing?</text></comment> |
18,737,902 | 18,737,464 | 1 | 2 | 18,736,378 | train | <story><title>AT&T will put a fake 5G logo on its 4G LTE phones</title><url>https://www.fiercewireless.com/5g/at-t-to-begin-upgrading-existing-lte-phones-to-5g-e</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TomMckenny</author><text>I like that every single brand of toilet paper now boasts &quot;8=16&quot; or &quot;12=32&quot; etc.<p>It&#x27;s a strange comfortable flexibility we have developed around truth.<p>It&#x27;s almost as if &quot;freedom of speech&quot; means you can massage the truth if it increase sales but god forbid you make a drawing of 90 year old cartoon mouse.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DaiPlusPlus</author><text>Nothing new there - even in our industry, specifically computer data storage.<p>It&#x27;s been forever since backup tape manufacturers started describing their tape capacity assuming constant 2:1 compression ratios - even though that&#x27;s a bad assumption to make as compression ratios wary wildly based on the original data. I think this started happening in the mid-1990s when tape drives had built-in hardware compression to save the host CPU from doing it in software?<p>And of course, the canonical example of HDD vendors using &quot;megabyte == 1000 kilobytes&quot;.<p>Of course this results in a Nash equilibrium because vendors can&#x27;t risk being honest if everyone else is dishonest&#x2F;misleading because there&#x27;s simply too many ignorant purchasers in the market - which is the exact same problem JC Penny had.<p>At least AT&amp;T is using &quot;5Ge&quot; instead of &quot;5G&quot; unlike they did with HSPA+ and &quot;4G&quot;, and I&#x27;m okay with that, provided consumers won&#x27;t think that &quot;5Ge&quot; stands for &quot;Enhanced&quot; instead of &quot;Ersatz&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>AT&T will put a fake 5G logo on its 4G LTE phones</title><url>https://www.fiercewireless.com/5g/at-t-to-begin-upgrading-existing-lte-phones-to-5g-e</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TomMckenny</author><text>I like that every single brand of toilet paper now boasts &quot;8=16&quot; or &quot;12=32&quot; etc.<p>It&#x27;s a strange comfortable flexibility we have developed around truth.<p>It&#x27;s almost as if &quot;freedom of speech&quot; means you can massage the truth if it increase sales but god forbid you make a drawing of 90 year old cartoon mouse.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&gt; I like that every single brand of toilet paper now boasts &quot;8=16&quot; or &quot;12=32&quot; etc.<p>The left is number of rolls in the package, the right is the number of the same brand “standard” rolls it is equivalent to by length (there is accommodating text which makes this explicit); this facilitates price comparisons among packages with different roll sizes.</text></comment> |
1,931,561 | 1,931,225 | 1 | 3 | 1,931,015 | train | <story><title>How to Catch a Cheater</title><url>http://nerdlife.net/how-to-catch-a-cheater/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>WillyF</author><text>During my Freshman year of college (2002), I was taking Econ 101. It was a class of probably 500 students, and our tests were multiple choice. By the time I got back to my dorm room, the answers to the test were always up on the course website (I'm not sure when they actually were posted).<p>After the first two tests, the professor must have noticed that something wasn't right. I finished the third test quickly, and was pretty confident that I had done extremely well. We used scantron sheets for our answers, so we got to take the paper with the questions home after the test. I had marked all of my answers on both sheets, so I loaded the course website and started checking my answers.<p>My heart sank as I went through the answers. Somehow I had managed to get every single question wrong. I figured that there must have been something wrong with the answers, and when I matched the answers (not the letters), I realized that I had actually gotten every question right.<p>The prof swapped the letters, so the kids whose friends were texting them the "answers" got screwed. It was pretty funny, even if it increased my blood pressure for a little bit.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Catch a Cheater</title><url>http://nerdlife.net/how-to-catch-a-cheater/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dkarl</author><text>My AP (Advanced Placement) Chemistry teacher noticed some cheating on a major chemistry test we took. The cheating was pretty obvious; some kids just decided they were going to fail the test so they might as well have some fun. A week later, after a week of lecturing on a new section of the chemistry book and no mention of our scores, a student asked. No, he hadn't graded the tests. He was sorry, he had been really busy. After that, students started asking him every day if he had graded the tests.<p>Two weeks after we had taken the test, he said, "I have to come clean. The reason I have not graded your tests is that I lost them and have been trying to find them for the last two weeks. I'm very, very sorry, it was entirely my fault, and as a result" (he produced stack of paper from behind his back) "you all have to retake the test right now. Put your books away, take a test and two sheets of scratch paper, and start working."<p>We didn't have as many students sign up for the second semester of AP Chemistry. Not many people failed the first semester, and scores in AP classes were given a full letter grade boost compared to regular classes, but students knew he wasn't messing around. As a result, it was one of the best AP classes we had, and lots of kids got good scores on the AP test.</text></comment> |
22,302,186 | 22,301,685 | 1 | 2 | 22,299,258 | train | <story><title>How Microsoft rewrote its C# compiler in C# and made it open source (2017)</title><url>https://medium.com/microsoft-open-source-stories/how-microsoft-rewrote-its-c-compiler-in-c-and-made-it-open-source-4ebed5646f98</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>m0xte</author><text>Their intent is still entirely market share. We need to be vigilant on how they get there. History has taught us a lot of lessons we seem to have forgotten because shiny and new layer of marketing. There is still a massive cultural and technical impedance mismatch.</text></item><item><author>nudpiedo</author><text>I find amusing how microsoft moved from the closed source referent in the industry into such an open source player. Right now even allows to hook some of their tools and platforms to its competing platforms and tools.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oconnor0</author><text>It is interesting to me that I read people criticizing Microsoft for their open sourcing code as doing it for marketing reasons---which seems accurate---but not criticizing Google or Apple or whoever else when they open source code.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Microsoft rewrote its C# compiler in C# and made it open source (2017)</title><url>https://medium.com/microsoft-open-source-stories/how-microsoft-rewrote-its-c-compiler-in-c-and-made-it-open-source-4ebed5646f98</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>m0xte</author><text>Their intent is still entirely market share. We need to be vigilant on how they get there. History has taught us a lot of lessons we seem to have forgotten because shiny and new layer of marketing. There is still a massive cultural and technical impedance mismatch.</text></item><item><author>nudpiedo</author><text>I find amusing how microsoft moved from the closed source referent in the industry into such an open source player. Right now even allows to hook some of their tools and platforms to its competing platforms and tools.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kqr</author><text>I agree. A lot of what they are doing now looks like EEE when you peel back a couple of layers.<p>I say this as someone who happily uses a lot of the stuff they produce in the process. I really, really, intensely hope I&#x27;m wrong and my fears aren&#x27;t realised.</text></comment> |
24,467,651 | 24,465,443 | 1 | 3 | 24,465,170 | train | <story><title>A Software Engineer’s Guide to Cybernetics</title><url>https://medium.com/@bellmar/a-software-engineers-guide-to-cybernetics-d57c7def1453</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nanna</author><text>I wrote my PhD on the philosophy of Norbert Wiener, namely, &#x27;cybernetics&#x27;.<p>I think what people haven&#x27;t realised is that for Wiener - though not necessarily the successive generations of Cyberneticians per se - cybernetics names not only a transdisciplinary field of study, not only a primitive form of control engineering, but a philosophical system that contends directly with GW Leibniz&#x27;s monadology. Wiener considered it to be a kind of monster, a &#x27;golem&#x27;, since whereas the monadology posits universal beneficence throughout nature and humankind, Wiener&#x27;s cybernetics is, when applied to human societies, structurally, infinitely, conflictual. Moreover it points towards awesome consolidations of power.<p>Generations of readers of cybernetics have completely missed or disregarded this aspect of his thought, conveniently mistaking a system of regulation in nature for a system of regulation in artificial human societies. For Wiener there is no self-regulation in the body politic, societies are fundamentally anti-homeostatic, and the techniques that his generation had bequeathed to the world would only exacerbate its positive feedback loop.<p>This is why, for me, Wiener is still so compelling, despite the unfathomable equations, the desperate arrogance, the stuffy air of cigars. He was the first to see the world that Snowden brought to the public&#x27;s attention. And it&#x27;s all there, systematically in 1948 (and even, sort of, earlier).</text></comment> | <story><title>A Software Engineer’s Guide to Cybernetics</title><url>https://medium.com/@bellmar/a-software-engineers-guide-to-cybernetics-d57c7def1453</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sgillen</author><text>Missing from the article is any discussion of control theory. In my view cybernetics essentially morphed into modern day control theory, there are many examples of very broad ideas in cybernetics being made specific and rigorous in controls. For example the good regulator theorem became the internal model principle. I encourage anyone interested in learning more about this brand of cybernetics to pick up a control or dynamical systems textbook, researchers have definitely not been idle in this area!</text></comment> |
8,137,618 | 8,136,197 | 1 | 3 | 8,135,967 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Instantly Understand Any Spreadsheet</title><url>https://useslate.com/blog/demo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roel_v</author><text>OK here is my feedback.<p>First some superficial stuff: Installshield is not going to fly with the market you want to make real money off, i.e. big organisations who want to deploy through Active Directory. The Office addin installer can be put as a merge module into an MSI, that will make the overall install experience much slicker. The instructions on the web page that opens after installation say to look in tab &#x27;Add ins&#x27;, but it&#x27;s in separate &#x27;Slate&#x27; tab (Office 2013&#x2F;Win8.1). The introduction tutorial is unintelligibly small on a high dpi screen (Lenovo Yoga Pro 2); so is everything else that doesn&#x27;t scale with ctrl-mousewheel. I just aimed very well with the mouse to make it go away and I tried to figure it out on my own.<p>On to the functionality. I work with Excel models if not daily, then at least a few times a week. These are usually either models I get from partners and which I integrate with other models, or they are data analyses. Over the last few weeks I worked with an economic model and a demographic model I got from outside, and I did several analyses on land use&#x2F;population data myself. They&#x27;re always intricate and on the overall complexity scale (as far as Excel models go) range from &#x27;medium&#x27; to &#x27;high&#x27;. So I think I&#x27;m exactly your target customer.<p>I tried first with a medium-complexity spreadsheet (5 worksheets, couple of dozen &#x27;variables&#x27; where the variables are usually 2d matrices and the analysis is in aggregating and disaggregating the input data in various ways). I tried Slate on several fields, but for none of them I could better understand what they were than by using Excel&#x27;s build-in &#x27;Trace precedents&#x27; or even by just reading the formulas. Slate shows only very little context; you have to scroll out far to see those 2 or 3 steps away, but at that point everything is too small to read. Furthermore, it doesn&#x27;t really dissect formulas; for example, an &#x27;if&#x27; with two VLOOKUPs is just a pink blob with a bunch of arrows coming in, without giving information on how or what. It also takes up half of the width of my screen, so there isn&#x27;t a whole lot more I can see on the screen.<p>What is worse is that there is no description of each &#x27;block&#x27; (could have taken the label in front or above the formulas in the original sheet); nor does there seem to be a way for me to enter them manually. For example, I can see the value in being able to annotate a &#x27;box&#x27; (variable) in my model with &#x27;Plot counts per district&#x27;, then an out arrow with &#x27;multiply with average amount of dwellings in low residential land uses for the transport zone&#x27;, then the box where the arrow ends up with &#x27;dwellings in low residential housing areas per district&#x27;. That doesn&#x27;t seem possible.<p>When &#x27;show detail&#x27; is on, some of the boxes have the upper left corner of some range of cells in them; I&#x27;m not sure how or why. They just seem to take up a lot of space.<p>It doesn&#x27;t look like I can edit anything in the result. For example, I have a lot of &#x27;if(iserror(formula), 0, formula)&#x27;. I don&#x27;t want to see all of that - I just want to see &#x27;formula&#x27;. The rest is an implementation detail.<p>When &#x27;hide detail&#x27; is on, there doesn&#x27;t seem to be a way to jump back to the Excel sheet.<p>I had a more complex sheet I wanted to try it on after this one, but even this medium complexity one was harder to understand (and I wrote it over the last few days, so it&#x27;s still all in my mind) than the original Excel sheet is; so I didn&#x27;t bother with the more complex one.<p>Sorry to rain on your parade, it must have been a lot of work. I don&#x27;t see much added value though in its current form. I&#x27;m sure that with much polishing it can become useful. I think annotations should be first; then abstracting away implementation details of formulas, you have more ideas yourself probably. Slate also loses the spatial relation between e.g. columns next to each other; I&#x27;m not sure what to do about that, but it should make up for that somehow.<p>Lastly, the price is ridiculous at this stage. At first I though &#x27;oh 50$ seems OK, then I saw &#x27;&#x2F;month&#x2F;user&#x27;. $50 one-off seems OK; I don&#x27;t see who will pay 500 a year for this, especially with the basic functionality it has now.<p>Feel free to email me if you want to know more about the spreadsheet I tested it on. I&#x27;d love to be shown what I should look at that would give me more insight in my model; I didn&#x27;t see it myself. A real-world example on your website (as opposed to an Iron Man made up one, which to be honest is quite juvenile) would maybe help, too.<p>Good luck with your product. Please don&#x27;t be discouraged by this - I&#x27;m not trying to put you down, just honestly telling you what my experiences were, as you&#x27;ll get very few reactions from people like me who decide to give up after 10 minutes; while those are exactly the ones you want to hear from to know what to work on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>christudor</author><text>&quot;So I think I&#x27;m exactly your target customer.&quot;<p>From what you&#x27;ve said, I would argue that you&#x27;re &#x2F;not&#x2F; their target customer. I used to work with medium- to high-complexity Excel spreadsheets on an almost daily basis, and while understanding someone else&#x27;s spreadsheet can be tricky in the first 3-6 months, after a while you just get used to working out where data is coming from, usually with the help of F2 (which highlights the cells which are contributing to the formula).<p>Which leads me on to the main point: &#x27;Who exactly is the target customer here?&#x27;. If someone uses Excel so much that it makes sense to buy something to explain formulas, they&#x27;re probably going to be good enough to make sense of formulas using Excel&#x27;s in-built tools&#x2F;just reading the formula.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Instantly Understand Any Spreadsheet</title><url>https://useslate.com/blog/demo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roel_v</author><text>OK here is my feedback.<p>First some superficial stuff: Installshield is not going to fly with the market you want to make real money off, i.e. big organisations who want to deploy through Active Directory. The Office addin installer can be put as a merge module into an MSI, that will make the overall install experience much slicker. The instructions on the web page that opens after installation say to look in tab &#x27;Add ins&#x27;, but it&#x27;s in separate &#x27;Slate&#x27; tab (Office 2013&#x2F;Win8.1). The introduction tutorial is unintelligibly small on a high dpi screen (Lenovo Yoga Pro 2); so is everything else that doesn&#x27;t scale with ctrl-mousewheel. I just aimed very well with the mouse to make it go away and I tried to figure it out on my own.<p>On to the functionality. I work with Excel models if not daily, then at least a few times a week. These are usually either models I get from partners and which I integrate with other models, or they are data analyses. Over the last few weeks I worked with an economic model and a demographic model I got from outside, and I did several analyses on land use&#x2F;population data myself. They&#x27;re always intricate and on the overall complexity scale (as far as Excel models go) range from &#x27;medium&#x27; to &#x27;high&#x27;. So I think I&#x27;m exactly your target customer.<p>I tried first with a medium-complexity spreadsheet (5 worksheets, couple of dozen &#x27;variables&#x27; where the variables are usually 2d matrices and the analysis is in aggregating and disaggregating the input data in various ways). I tried Slate on several fields, but for none of them I could better understand what they were than by using Excel&#x27;s build-in &#x27;Trace precedents&#x27; or even by just reading the formulas. Slate shows only very little context; you have to scroll out far to see those 2 or 3 steps away, but at that point everything is too small to read. Furthermore, it doesn&#x27;t really dissect formulas; for example, an &#x27;if&#x27; with two VLOOKUPs is just a pink blob with a bunch of arrows coming in, without giving information on how or what. It also takes up half of the width of my screen, so there isn&#x27;t a whole lot more I can see on the screen.<p>What is worse is that there is no description of each &#x27;block&#x27; (could have taken the label in front or above the formulas in the original sheet); nor does there seem to be a way for me to enter them manually. For example, I can see the value in being able to annotate a &#x27;box&#x27; (variable) in my model with &#x27;Plot counts per district&#x27;, then an out arrow with &#x27;multiply with average amount of dwellings in low residential land uses for the transport zone&#x27;, then the box where the arrow ends up with &#x27;dwellings in low residential housing areas per district&#x27;. That doesn&#x27;t seem possible.<p>When &#x27;show detail&#x27; is on, some of the boxes have the upper left corner of some range of cells in them; I&#x27;m not sure how or why. They just seem to take up a lot of space.<p>It doesn&#x27;t look like I can edit anything in the result. For example, I have a lot of &#x27;if(iserror(formula), 0, formula)&#x27;. I don&#x27;t want to see all of that - I just want to see &#x27;formula&#x27;. The rest is an implementation detail.<p>When &#x27;hide detail&#x27; is on, there doesn&#x27;t seem to be a way to jump back to the Excel sheet.<p>I had a more complex sheet I wanted to try it on after this one, but even this medium complexity one was harder to understand (and I wrote it over the last few days, so it&#x27;s still all in my mind) than the original Excel sheet is; so I didn&#x27;t bother with the more complex one.<p>Sorry to rain on your parade, it must have been a lot of work. I don&#x27;t see much added value though in its current form. I&#x27;m sure that with much polishing it can become useful. I think annotations should be first; then abstracting away implementation details of formulas, you have more ideas yourself probably. Slate also loses the spatial relation between e.g. columns next to each other; I&#x27;m not sure what to do about that, but it should make up for that somehow.<p>Lastly, the price is ridiculous at this stage. At first I though &#x27;oh 50$ seems OK, then I saw &#x27;&#x2F;month&#x2F;user&#x27;. $50 one-off seems OK; I don&#x27;t see who will pay 500 a year for this, especially with the basic functionality it has now.<p>Feel free to email me if you want to know more about the spreadsheet I tested it on. I&#x27;d love to be shown what I should look at that would give me more insight in my model; I didn&#x27;t see it myself. A real-world example on your website (as opposed to an Iron Man made up one, which to be honest is quite juvenile) would maybe help, too.<p>Good luck with your product. Please don&#x27;t be discouraged by this - I&#x27;m not trying to put you down, just honestly telling you what my experiences were, as you&#x27;ll get very few reactions from people like me who decide to give up after 10 minutes; while those are exactly the ones you want to hear from to know what to work on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>f292</author><text>Thanks for your comments - really useful.<p>Sorry you did not find it helpful for the sheet you tried it on. We have not yet implemented a way of showing 2D nodes in an intuitive manner and this is one of our focuses for the next release.<p>You mention context - I think this presents possibly one of the biggest barriers to adoption. We included the ability to jump back to the cell in Excel as a result of similar feedback. There is definitely a lot more that can be done though.<p>You also allude to where we think Slate can be really powerful - documentation. If we were to implement the ability to annotate and group together nodes in Slate, you can give a general overview of how the spreadsheet is working, with the option to dive deeper and investigate the nitty gritty, if needs be. All too often you are given someone else&#x27;s spreadsheet with no context, and this is where we think further value lies.<p>Would love to take this conversation to email to discuss further. I&#x27;m [email protected]</text></comment> |
19,716,776 | 19,716,831 | 1 | 3 | 19,716,463 | train | <story><title>A Profile of Zoom CEO Eric Yuan</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2019/04/19/zoom-zoom-zoom-the-exclusive-inside-story-of-the-new-billionaire-behind-techs-hottest-ipo</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wardb</author><text>As a remote worker who is on video conferencing calls most of the day, I have a lot of experience (aka strong feelings) with the tools mentioned in the article;<p>- Zoom is indeed great. Reliable and clean UI. Local recording to MP4 makes for easy sharing.<p>- Webex is a bit less intuitive, but still reliable. Proprietary video recording protocol makes it video&#x27;s hard to share.<p>- Skype Business should die in a fire. Unreliable and terrible UI. The Mac version of it is pretty much broken. A lot of folks can&#x27;t find out how to screen share.<p>- BlueJean. Trying too hard to be fancy with their UI. They are also very proud with their Dolby Voice, but I find it harder to properly understand people (My hearing is not that great).<p>- Google Hangouts &#x2F; Meet doesn&#x27;t work in Safari for no good reason IMHO. High CPU usage and could use some more features, like a personal room and default meetings settings (no vid&#x2F;mute by default on join, default audio devices etc)</text></comment> | <story><title>A Profile of Zoom CEO Eric Yuan</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2019/04/19/zoom-zoom-zoom-the-exclusive-inside-story-of-the-new-billionaire-behind-techs-hottest-ipo</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>adventured</author><text>The US made Eric attempt to get a visa eight times before he was finally successful. We should be poaching the world&#x27;s talent belligerently, strategically, handing out citizenship and saying thank you for choosing our country over others. Instead, the clowns in Washington DC make the best and brightest go through hell just to come here and contribute. Only either a malevolent or incompetent government would sabotage its own nation in such a manner.<p>Were I briefly king, one of the first things I&#x27;d do is task the Federal Reserve to create a large &#x27;steal the talent fund&#x27; (by another name) and set out on draining the world of as much talent as possible. I&#x27;d use clever funding programs to make it easier for the best to move to and transition to the US. A tiny bit of inflation in exchange for a massive long-term return. The rest of the world would in part pay - via the international holdings of dollars - for my program to steal their own best and brightest.<p>Every graduate of a major US university gets automatic citizenship. The best scientists, engineers, doctors, and so on, I&#x27;d want all of them. I&#x27;d do almost anything it takes to get them to my shores. Half of everything America is in its wealth or accomplishments, spanning two centuries now, is owed to brave immigrants that chose to abandon a life elsewhere and seek opportunity here at great risk. It&#x27;s hard to comprehend the enormity of the mistake that is the US immigration system. We don&#x27;t even take a neutral approach, we take a make-it-difficult approach.</text></comment> |
34,056,928 | 34,054,843 | 1 | 2 | 34,043,118 | train | <story><title>‘Perpetual broths’ that simmer for decades</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/perpetual-broth</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Waterluvian</author><text>Kind of related to this is the concept of &quot;Brunswick Stew.&quot; Look it up if you want a more accurate description, but as I recall, the idea from Colonial times in America is that there&#x27;d be a tavern&#x2F;inn with a fire, constantly running, and a big cauldron of stew always topped off and ready for weary travelers. The idea is that they never &quot;finished&quot; a batch. They just perpetually added leftovers and foods that were at risk of spoiling.<p>It&#x27;s like a Soup of Theseus... it&#x27;s always the same stew, but it so gradually evolves, the flavour changes, the ingredients change, but there it is.<p>The concept feels incredibly cozy to me, both in practical and conceptual terms.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jasonwatkinspdx</author><text>I haven&#x27;t had it personally, but one of my SO&#x27;s tried a famous &quot;perpetual stew&quot; when in France and we talked about it at one point. Her description kinda matched what I&#x27;d expect from braises that I&#x27;ve let go to long: you end up with bland mush.<p>I think there&#x27;s a reason very few restaurants serve this style of dish, and it&#x27;s not because of health codes. We live in an era of insane abundance compared to the medeivil and colonial eras. A lot of historic dishes from those times just don&#x27;t stand up to the expectations of a modern pallet.</text></comment> | <story><title>‘Perpetual broths’ that simmer for decades</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/perpetual-broth</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Waterluvian</author><text>Kind of related to this is the concept of &quot;Brunswick Stew.&quot; Look it up if you want a more accurate description, but as I recall, the idea from Colonial times in America is that there&#x27;d be a tavern&#x2F;inn with a fire, constantly running, and a big cauldron of stew always topped off and ready for weary travelers. The idea is that they never &quot;finished&quot; a batch. They just perpetually added leftovers and foods that were at risk of spoiling.<p>It&#x27;s like a Soup of Theseus... it&#x27;s always the same stew, but it so gradually evolves, the flavour changes, the ingredients change, but there it is.<p>The concept feels incredibly cozy to me, both in practical and conceptual terms.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krisroadruck</author><text>also known as hunters pot &#x2F; stew. Essentially the same thing as thing as the broth, but in stew form: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Perpetual_stew" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Perpetual_stew</a><p>I&#x27;ve actually done this myself in a crock pot for up to a few weeks at a time. The order you add stuff makes a difference. You don&#x27;t want to toss in fish or anything with real strong flavors too early in your run or it funks things up for a few days. Much as the concept is fun, soup&#x2F;stew every day gets weary pretty fast. Fun for short bursts in the winter though.</text></comment> |
2,471,511 | 2,471,500 | 1 | 2 | 2,471,176 | train | <story><title>Actual JavaScript Engine Performance</title><url>http://crockford.com/javascript/performance.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>daleharvey</author><text>If I was trying to think of something less representative of large well written javascript application I would have a hard time thinking of something better than JSLint.<p>It doesnt touch the dom, is not event driven, doesnt involve loading lots of files and does not render anything</text></comment> | <story><title>Actual JavaScript Engine Performance</title><url>http://crockford.com/javascript/performance.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hoppipolla</author><text>It is worth taking this with a liberal sprinkling of salt.<p>The first problem is that there is no documentation of method. It appears that the results were obtained by simply running JSLint on itself once. Without some indication of how the results are obtained and how stable they are it is essentially meaningless. Of course this is quite fixable but until it is fixed the data presented is basically worthless.<p>The second, and arguably larger, problem is that the page makes grandiose claims about the applicability of the benchmark that it doesn't even attempt to back up. In particular the claim that the performance on JSLint will be a better proxy for "other large, well-written JavaScript applications" than existing benchmarks. If we examine the Microsoft paper linked, it says:<p>"Specific common behaviors of real web sites that are underemphasized in the benchmarks include event-driven execution, instruction mix similarity, cold-code dominance, and the prevalence of short functions"<p>It is not demonstrated, nor is it obviously apparent, that JSLint will be any more typical in these respects than other benchmarks. I haven't examined the JSLint source code but I assume it isn't event-driven, deals mainly with string manipulation and makes many calls to the same few functions during parsing. If my guesses are correct it sounds like it will not, on its own, be a significantly better proxy for real-world performance than existing benchmarks. Of course it may be that it exercises a different subset of the ECMAScript engine than existing benchmarks; in this case a test like this would be a good addition to, rather than replacement for, an existing benchmark suite.</text></comment> |
16,590,272 | 16,590,112 | 1 | 3 | 16,590,104 | train | <story><title>Git Magic</title><url>http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~blynn/gitmagic/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>msravi</author><text>This seems to try to get the reader familiar with commands in a verbose sort of way, but IMHO, that&#x27;s not exactly the best way.<p>See for example the section on branches - it tells you to run certain commands (checkout -b) without telling you what&#x27;s happening in the background. So while you kind-of get a feel for the command in the context it&#x27;s being explained, you wouldn&#x27;t know how to apply it to your context, unless your workflow and context is the same.<p>On the other hand, if you look at how branching is dealt with in the &quot;official&quot; book (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git-scm.com&#x2F;book&#x2F;en&#x2F;v2&#x2F;Git-Branching-Branches-in-a-Nutshell" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git-scm.com&#x2F;book&#x2F;en&#x2F;v2&#x2F;Git-Branching-Branches-in-a-N...</a>), it tells you very clearly what each command is doing in the background so you know exactly what&#x27;s happening. Once you understand that, you know git.</text></comment> | <story><title>Git Magic</title><url>http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~blynn/gitmagic/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>polm23</author><text>A lot of git tutorials go into detail about how the data model works as part of or even before explaining basic usage. This guide is different in that it explains how to use git in the simplest possible way - conceptually just as a system to make save points - and then covers the data model later after it&#x27;s shown the merits of the system.<p>If you need to explain git to someone who has the option of not using it or isn&#x27;t sold on the whole idea in the first place, this is the absolute best place to start.</text></comment> |
13,001,860 | 13,000,994 | 1 | 2 | 12,998,899 | train | <story><title>Spikey Spheres</title><url>http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/SpikeySpheres.html?HN_20161120</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jakobegger</author><text>A teacher of mine told us, &quot;Don&#x27;t try to imagine 4D space. You can&#x27;t. If you think you can imagine a 4D hypersphere, you&#x27;re wrong. It&#x27;s just not possible.&quot;<p>And everytime someone talks about how to imagine higher-dimensional space, I have to think back, and I&#x27;m convinced that my teacher was right. Our intuitive understanding of 2D and 3D just doesn&#x27;t generalise to higher dimensions.<p>A hypersphere is nothing like a sphere, just like a sphere is nothing like a circle, which is again nothing like a line segment.<p>If you talk about multidimensional geometries, stick to the math, and don&#x27;t try imagining it. Analogies to 2D or 3D objects (it&#x27;s smooth, but like a spike) are pointless and don&#x27;t lead to new insights. We really need to stick to precise, mathematical language if we want to work with higher dimensional geometry.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jobigoud</author><text>I think he was wrong. It&#x27;s pretty hard but not impossible. You don&#x27;t visualize them directly as 3D objects though, you visualize 3D objects with metadata attached everywhere. While you navigate the space in your mind&#x27;s eye you have an extra layer of information that flows with you.<p>Consider Alicia Boole Stott. She created cardboard models of the various cross-sections of the 6 regular polytopes. Including the 24-cell which has no equivalent in 3D, the 120-cell and the 600-cell which are super complex figures. I think if you read her story you&#x27;ll also be convinced that she indeed visualized the figures. [1]<p>I spent quite a lot of time earlier this year on this visualization exercise on the 4 simplest regular polytopes while working on an toy application to manipulate 4D objects and tesseractic honeycomb in VR.<p>You can have a good grasp of where every edge go and the angle between every faces. I could count the number of vertices and edges of a 16-cell or 24-cell just by navigating around the figure in my head. The tesseract and 16-cell are good starting points.<p>1: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S0315086007000973" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S0315086007...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Spikey Spheres</title><url>http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/SpikeySpheres.html?HN_20161120</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jakobegger</author><text>A teacher of mine told us, &quot;Don&#x27;t try to imagine 4D space. You can&#x27;t. If you think you can imagine a 4D hypersphere, you&#x27;re wrong. It&#x27;s just not possible.&quot;<p>And everytime someone talks about how to imagine higher-dimensional space, I have to think back, and I&#x27;m convinced that my teacher was right. Our intuitive understanding of 2D and 3D just doesn&#x27;t generalise to higher dimensions.<p>A hypersphere is nothing like a sphere, just like a sphere is nothing like a circle, which is again nothing like a line segment.<p>If you talk about multidimensional geometries, stick to the math, and don&#x27;t try imagining it. Analogies to 2D or 3D objects (it&#x27;s smooth, but like a spike) are pointless and don&#x27;t lead to new insights. We really need to stick to precise, mathematical language if we want to work with higher dimensional geometry.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacobolus</author><text>However there is a 4-dimensional sphere (3-sphere) that you can easily access: the possible rotations of any object in 3-dimensional space is topologically and metrically isomorphic to a (half of a) 3-sphere, in the same way as the rotations of an object in 2-dimensional space are isomorphic to a 1-sphere (circle).<p>Think of an object’s current orientation as the “north pole” of our abstract 4-dimensional sphere. Rotating the object around any axis pushes you toward the equator, which you reach once you have rotated the object halfway around (the equator is made from all 180° turns, and is topologically a 2-sphere). Continuing to rotate the object takes you towards the “south pole”, which is where you get if you rotate your object 360°. To get back to the north pole, rotate by 360° again.<p>Cf. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Versor" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Versor</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Quaternions_and_spatial_rotation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Quaternions_and_spatial_rotati...</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rotation_group_SO(3)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rotation_group_SO(3)</a><p>* * *<p>One other way you can get at the 3-sphere is by taking a stereographic projection into all of 3-dimensional space (plus a point at infinity). If you have some 3-dimensional shapes drawn on the surface of your 3-sphere, these will get distorted under the stereographic projection, but locally angles will be preserved, just like a stereographic projection of the 2-sphere onto a piece of paper.</text></comment> |
19,006,335 | 19,006,280 | 1 | 3 | 19,005,903 | train | <story><title>Open source, privacy-enabled smartphone operating systems</title><url>https://gitlab.e.foundation/e</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>detaro</author><text>previous discussions:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18521970" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18521970</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17529703" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17529703</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Open source, privacy-enabled smartphone operating systems</title><url>https://gitlab.e.foundation/e</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>albertgoeswoof</author><text>Is anyone else really excited about pureOS (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pureos.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pureos.net&#x2F;</a>) as a mobile OS? It seems to completely sidestep all of this BS by being actual Linux.</text></comment> |
8,841,058 | 8,840,535 | 1 | 2 | 8,838,721 | train | <story><title>Writers Say They Feel Censored by Surveillance</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/05/arts/writers-say-they-feel-censored-by-surveillance.html?_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cryoshon</author><text>Chilling effect has been achieved, all according to plan.<p>To reiterate, the design of surveillance is population control,no more or less; terrorism is merely an excuse for technological implementation that was desired since time immemorial by the powers that be.<p>Now, onto the implications that the NY Times was too friendly to state:<p>1. People are self-censoring dissenting views in regular conversation outside of people they trust<p>2. People are self-censoring dissenting views in written communication<p>3. People are self-censoring their own minds as a result of #1 and #2<p>Therefore,<p>4. Dissenting communications and dissenting thoughts are reduced in frequency, leading to a snowball effect as ideas are more and more suppressed<p>In terms of the scope, while the poll was only of writers, it seems as though the majority of writers consider themselves to be victims here.<p>I think it&#x27;s safe to say that the implications I listed are also applicable to other segments of the population-- most importantly, the segments of the population that are the usual hotbeds of dissent, because they are more likely to be paying attention to advances in government power which would create a chilling effect.<p>The chilling effect produced by the endless rounds of disclosure of government abuse of surveillance is probably not going to go away anytime soon. Unfortunately, self-censorship is one more nail in the moribund democracy here in the US. Keep in mind that even if a person does not self censor, the mainstream media (which should now be understood as including major internet news hubs such as reddit) will likely prevent off-narrative news from spreading.<p>So, what&#x27;s the solution? I don&#x27;t know. Still waiting on a hot new SV startup to &quot;disrupt&quot; the surveillance state.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wahsd</author><text>The problem is that today&#x27;s jello-spined journalists give too many shits about surveillance. Sure, every single journalist should take massive precautions to encrypt every single thing and source, no matter how banal; but once the proper precautions have been taken they should go on balls to the wall attack. Shame, de-obfuscate, highlight, an expose the hell out of government and business. There should be zero mercy! If journalists should fear anything, it is that some other warrior-journalist will slay a corrupt government agent or business crook and gain all the praise.<p>Dear journalists, it&#x27;s time to drive the rats out of America. It is your responsibility as the fourth branch of government to open the curtains, let in the burning sunlight, and exterminate the vampire roaches. Show no mercy, and provide no harbor. Your job is only done when you die exhausted from seeking out the source of the constant stink of corruption. Make people understand complex matters of corruption, do your jobs, do what you wanted to be.</text></comment> | <story><title>Writers Say They Feel Censored by Surveillance</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/05/arts/writers-say-they-feel-censored-by-surveillance.html?_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cryoshon</author><text>Chilling effect has been achieved, all according to plan.<p>To reiterate, the design of surveillance is population control,no more or less; terrorism is merely an excuse for technological implementation that was desired since time immemorial by the powers that be.<p>Now, onto the implications that the NY Times was too friendly to state:<p>1. People are self-censoring dissenting views in regular conversation outside of people they trust<p>2. People are self-censoring dissenting views in written communication<p>3. People are self-censoring their own minds as a result of #1 and #2<p>Therefore,<p>4. Dissenting communications and dissenting thoughts are reduced in frequency, leading to a snowball effect as ideas are more and more suppressed<p>In terms of the scope, while the poll was only of writers, it seems as though the majority of writers consider themselves to be victims here.<p>I think it&#x27;s safe to say that the implications I listed are also applicable to other segments of the population-- most importantly, the segments of the population that are the usual hotbeds of dissent, because they are more likely to be paying attention to advances in government power which would create a chilling effect.<p>The chilling effect produced by the endless rounds of disclosure of government abuse of surveillance is probably not going to go away anytime soon. Unfortunately, self-censorship is one more nail in the moribund democracy here in the US. Keep in mind that even if a person does not self censor, the mainstream media (which should now be understood as including major internet news hubs such as reddit) will likely prevent off-narrative news from spreading.<p>So, what&#x27;s the solution? I don&#x27;t know. Still waiting on a hot new SV startup to &quot;disrupt&quot; the surveillance state.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>golemotron</author><text>The sad thing is that you don&#x27;t have to have real surveillance to do this. All you need is the belief that the surveillance is going on.<p>It would be a great plot for a movie: Snowden et al, were given fake information to lead the world to believe it was being surveilled, eliminating a lot of bad behavior.</text></comment> |
22,320,066 | 22,319,924 | 1 | 2 | 22,319,383 | train | <story><title>I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit</title><url>https://howonlee.github.io/2020/02/12/I-20Add-2020-20Seconds-20of-20Latency-20to-20Every-20Website-20I-20Visit.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jtrip</author><text>This is brilliant! I&#x27;ve been suffering from work related anxiety for years which I&#x27;ve learned to douse with Youtube, Reddit or HN. This became a huge problem for me recently and so I had to try to break my habit loops (Cue -&gt; Action -&gt; Reward).<p>I cannot quit cold-turkey because all the methods that I can think of to block the websites I can undo in the mania of anxiety.<p>Youtube always gives you an option to look for more content, either on the side of the video you are currently watching, on the screen immediately after you are done watching or by going to the home page and giving you the options. Using Origin ad-blocker I removed all the immediate suggestions. And also the youtube home button, the only red element of the Youtube gui that catches your notice, that you click on to reduce your anxiety. That you then develop a habit on, just like the suggestions. On mobile I uninstalled the app and used the ad-blocker to render it useless. All external links play videos and the search still works.<p>For reddit I force the old view, without the infinite scroll, just like the author. I also removed the &#x27;all&#x27; link from all the pages as I had formed a habit with that as well. And I limit the number of posts visible at any given time.<p>I have, other than the author&#x27;s solution, no counter for HN.<p>For other websites, I&#x27;ve similarly blocked such habit forming gui features. And the most important bit has been deleting websites from the auto suggest feature of firefox. I&#x27;ve deleted a good number of the common offender websites form it, but I still don&#x27;t know how to disable those ~10 websites that show up when you go to type something.<p>The Key has been disrupting the &#x27;cue&#x27; of the habits. It leaves you a little confused when you don&#x27;t find your habit enabler on the websites, but then it gets better. Or like me you form other new habits. The solution author suggests will definitely be of help.<p>Edit: Words. Also, does anyone know how to disable the dropdown suggestions in the address bar? The one you get when you haven&#x27;t typed anything, because I&#x27;ve got a habit with the dropdown button as well. There is nothing in the options, but what about the developer options?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rcthompson</author><text>Most of my Youtube consumption is via youtube-dl run on my server via cron job, with the videos then synced from there to the relevant devices by Syncthing. For things that don&#x27;t have ready-made playlists I can put in cron jobs, I run youtube-dl manually. Then when I&#x27;m ready to watch it, I open the video in VLC and then delete it after I&#x27;m done.<p>I set this up for my convenience, since I often like to consume this media in contexts where I don&#x27;t want to use mobile data, and because back when I set this up my internet speed was inconsistent enough to cause frequent buffering. However, I&#x27;m now realizing it has a lot of benefit in preventing me from ever seeing any of Youtube&#x27;s &quot;keep watching more things&quot; UI, <i>and</i> it adds substantial latency and effort to any &quot;impulse&quot; watches, since the process is now: decide to watch: copy URL, paste into terminal command, wait up to 10s of minutes for download, go to videos folder, open video.</text></comment> | <story><title>I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit</title><url>https://howonlee.github.io/2020/02/12/I-20Add-2020-20Seconds-20of-20Latency-20to-20Every-20Website-20I-20Visit.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jtrip</author><text>This is brilliant! I&#x27;ve been suffering from work related anxiety for years which I&#x27;ve learned to douse with Youtube, Reddit or HN. This became a huge problem for me recently and so I had to try to break my habit loops (Cue -&gt; Action -&gt; Reward).<p>I cannot quit cold-turkey because all the methods that I can think of to block the websites I can undo in the mania of anxiety.<p>Youtube always gives you an option to look for more content, either on the side of the video you are currently watching, on the screen immediately after you are done watching or by going to the home page and giving you the options. Using Origin ad-blocker I removed all the immediate suggestions. And also the youtube home button, the only red element of the Youtube gui that catches your notice, that you click on to reduce your anxiety. That you then develop a habit on, just like the suggestions. On mobile I uninstalled the app and used the ad-blocker to render it useless. All external links play videos and the search still works.<p>For reddit I force the old view, without the infinite scroll, just like the author. I also removed the &#x27;all&#x27; link from all the pages as I had formed a habit with that as well. And I limit the number of posts visible at any given time.<p>I have, other than the author&#x27;s solution, no counter for HN.<p>For other websites, I&#x27;ve similarly blocked such habit forming gui features. And the most important bit has been deleting websites from the auto suggest feature of firefox. I&#x27;ve deleted a good number of the common offender websites form it, but I still don&#x27;t know how to disable those ~10 websites that show up when you go to type something.<p>The Key has been disrupting the &#x27;cue&#x27; of the habits. It leaves you a little confused when you don&#x27;t find your habit enabler on the websites, but then it gets better. Or like me you form other new habits. The solution author suggests will definitely be of help.<p>Edit: Words. Also, does anyone know how to disable the dropdown suggestions in the address bar? The one you get when you haven&#x27;t typed anything, because I&#x27;ve got a habit with the dropdown button as well. There is nothing in the options, but what about the developer options?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thegeomaster</author><text>HN has a no-procrastination mode that might be useful. On the settings page, turn on `noprocrast` and then configure `maxvisit` and `mindelay` - HN will force you to wait `mindelay` minutes whenever you have been on there longer than `maxvisit` minutes.<p>Maybe you knew about this already, but posting this anyway as it might be useful to someone else.</text></comment> |
17,424,250 | 17,424,126 | 1 | 3 | 17,422,805 | train | <story><title>Tesla opens the Model 3 reservation floodgates</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/28/tesla-opens-model-3-reservations/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>catherinezng</author><text>Tesla lost ~$2B last year, owes ~$10B in debt, and owes &gt;$400M in interest payments per year alone.<p>Moody’s downgraded Tesla’s bond rating because Tesla will need to raise more money this year, at least $2B (which is an extremely conservative figure), to avoid Chapter 11 bankruptcy.<p>Elon Musk also owes &gt;$600M in personal debt that he financed using Tesla stock as collateral. This means that if Tesla stock dips below around $233&#x2F;share, Musk would face a margin call (sell Tesla stock, driving stock prices lower), or put down more Tesla stock as collateral to fund his debt.<p>By the way, 90% of the Boring company’s funds come from Elon Musk himself, possibly funded by this personal debt.<p>Other red flags are that shareholders sued Tesla board members for breaching their fiduciary duties by allowing Tesla to acquire Solar City, assuming an extra ~$3B in debt; and Tesla’s CFO Jason Wheeler left Tesla in 2017 with over half of his stock left to vest.<p>The reason people are shorting Tesla is that beyond Elon Musk’s cult of personality, the numbers don’t add up. Tesla will need to raise more money this year to survive.<p>Feel free to fact check all of this.</text></item><item><author>jillesvangurp</author><text>The way I see it, logistics aside, Tesla has awesome cars that are loved by those that manage to get one delivered, customers are actually lining up to buy them to the extent of paying just to get in line for that years ahead of time, and they are pretty much guaranteed to sell anything they ship for the foreseeable future.<p>Better still most of their would be competitors are either not shipping at all right now, years away from shipping at scale, just plain not even bothering to compete, or shipping limited volumes of not so great products, and generally being vague about timelines, volumes, etc. On top of that they and are struggling with over production of vehicles based on legacy petrol&#x2F;diesel technology.<p>E.g. the Germans are doing a lot of hand waving around maybe shipping some electric cars in the next decade while the likes of BMW continue to ship seriously underwhelming electric cars. Ford just discontinued a lot of their petrol sedans. And diesel gate continues to impact most manufacturers involved with basically anything Diesel based.<p>The way I see it, Tesla will be essentially unchallenged for the next 2-3 years. That&#x27;s a lot of time to get on top of some simple logistics. And that&#x27;s assuming the existing car manufacturers actually get their act together. IMHO, most of them are at far bigger risk of bankruptcy than Tesla since they&#x27;ll be bogged down in demand issues, layoffs, and restructurings for the next few decades.<p>I don&#x27;t see the logistical situation as something that can&#x27;t be resolved by Tesla. Kind of silly to short Tesla under the assumption that this won&#x27;t be solved; cannot be solved; and that Tesla will perpetually be unable to solve this. The argument seems to be that it is simply impossible to produce the vehicles for Tesla.<p>If the latest rumors are to be believed, they are pretty much close to the promised rate of 5K cars&#x2F;week. At 50K price (conservative) that means 250M per week in revenue, or 1 Billion per month. That sounds like a decent business to me. I&#x27;m assuming they are not stopping at 5K per week.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sdhgaiojfsa</author><text>OK, all of this is true, and concerning to me, despite that I would never buy a Tesla (when there are perfectly good used Nissan Leafs out there!). This is part of the reason I never invest in individual stocks: I have no tolerance for the risk, and no confidence that I can interpret all these facts to come up with a coherent estimate of whether the price will go up or down.<p>I guess my question right now is: if the situation is so dire, and the facts are all out there, why is TSLA not priced lower? Is it that there&#x27;s enough dumb money holding&#x2F;buying it propping up the price? Or are investors confident in Musk&#x27;s ability to raise money and eventually turn the corner? Or something else entirely?</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla opens the Model 3 reservation floodgates</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/28/tesla-opens-model-3-reservations/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>catherinezng</author><text>Tesla lost ~$2B last year, owes ~$10B in debt, and owes &gt;$400M in interest payments per year alone.<p>Moody’s downgraded Tesla’s bond rating because Tesla will need to raise more money this year, at least $2B (which is an extremely conservative figure), to avoid Chapter 11 bankruptcy.<p>Elon Musk also owes &gt;$600M in personal debt that he financed using Tesla stock as collateral. This means that if Tesla stock dips below around $233&#x2F;share, Musk would face a margin call (sell Tesla stock, driving stock prices lower), or put down more Tesla stock as collateral to fund his debt.<p>By the way, 90% of the Boring company’s funds come from Elon Musk himself, possibly funded by this personal debt.<p>Other red flags are that shareholders sued Tesla board members for breaching their fiduciary duties by allowing Tesla to acquire Solar City, assuming an extra ~$3B in debt; and Tesla’s CFO Jason Wheeler left Tesla in 2017 with over half of his stock left to vest.<p>The reason people are shorting Tesla is that beyond Elon Musk’s cult of personality, the numbers don’t add up. Tesla will need to raise more money this year to survive.<p>Feel free to fact check all of this.</text></item><item><author>jillesvangurp</author><text>The way I see it, logistics aside, Tesla has awesome cars that are loved by those that manage to get one delivered, customers are actually lining up to buy them to the extent of paying just to get in line for that years ahead of time, and they are pretty much guaranteed to sell anything they ship for the foreseeable future.<p>Better still most of their would be competitors are either not shipping at all right now, years away from shipping at scale, just plain not even bothering to compete, or shipping limited volumes of not so great products, and generally being vague about timelines, volumes, etc. On top of that they and are struggling with over production of vehicles based on legacy petrol&#x2F;diesel technology.<p>E.g. the Germans are doing a lot of hand waving around maybe shipping some electric cars in the next decade while the likes of BMW continue to ship seriously underwhelming electric cars. Ford just discontinued a lot of their petrol sedans. And diesel gate continues to impact most manufacturers involved with basically anything Diesel based.<p>The way I see it, Tesla will be essentially unchallenged for the next 2-3 years. That&#x27;s a lot of time to get on top of some simple logistics. And that&#x27;s assuming the existing car manufacturers actually get their act together. IMHO, most of them are at far bigger risk of bankruptcy than Tesla since they&#x27;ll be bogged down in demand issues, layoffs, and restructurings for the next few decades.<p>I don&#x27;t see the logistical situation as something that can&#x27;t be resolved by Tesla. Kind of silly to short Tesla under the assumption that this won&#x27;t be solved; cannot be solved; and that Tesla will perpetually be unable to solve this. The argument seems to be that it is simply impossible to produce the vehicles for Tesla.<p>If the latest rumors are to be believed, they are pretty much close to the promised rate of 5K cars&#x2F;week. At 50K price (conservative) that means 250M per week in revenue, or 1 Billion per month. That sounds like a decent business to me. I&#x27;m assuming they are not stopping at 5K per week.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>prostoalex</author><text>&gt; shareholders sued Tesla board members for breaching their fiduciary duties<p>Starting a lawsuit is easy. What’s under-reported is how many of such lawsuits are won.</text></comment> |
31,825,708 | 31,826,024 | 1 | 2 | 31,823,485 | train | <story><title>Laundry symbols make no sense</title><url>https://uxdesign.cc/laundry-symbols-make-no-sense-154a0c10dbe0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bbarnett</author><text>I really find the idea that &quot;having to know, or lookup stuff&quot;, as a problem, offensive.<p>Laundry is literally filled with things to know, outside of these symbols. Household tasks are.<p>I don&#x27;t see labels on bleech bottles, saying not to mix it with vinegar or you could die. Yet people have done that in the wash, so why not start there?<p>Here&#x27;s what each sane person should do, who actually takes time to look at tags. (after all if you couldn&#x27;t care less, and never look at tags, what&#x27;s the point?)<p>Print a copy of the extended tag list out, and hang it in the laundry room at home. I have a cabinet where I keep extra detergent, etc, so I taped it up on the inside of the door.<p>Problem sovled.<p>For a laundrymat, for your smartphone, download a properly formatted, for easy phone viewing version.<p><i>Done.</i><p>Non-problem, compared to expecting the entire planet to change. We don&#x27;t need another standard!!<p>All that would happen is I&#x27;d have two standards to look at.</text></item><item><author>detritus</author><text>Within a second of seeing the &#x27;improved&#x27; ones I spot what is, to my mind at least, an immediate failure - the detail resolution is far too small. It doesn&#x27;t account for the printing limitations on small fabric tags, never mind the ability of old fogeys such as myself to be able to squint that hard and actually read them.<p>I have no idea even looking on my screen here what the difference between the first three is supposed to be, and the numerals in the three thereafter are only legible because I&#x27;m staring at a bright screen, not swearing into the void in my laundry room, trying to find a better light.<p>All that aside, I feel I&#x27;d still have to look their new interpretations up. International visual vernacular .. doesn&#x27;t really exist.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Flimm</author><text>I would highly recommend reading some UX classics such as:<p>- The Inmate Are Running The Asylum by Alan Cooper<p>- The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman<p>(and I&#x27;m sure there are many more good resources that are recent than that.)<p>It&#x27;s very easy as tech-savvy people like us to underestimate how hard technology, even conventions like laundry symbols, are. I personally have printed out a legend explaining the laundry symbols and put them near to my washing machine, but I&#x27;m the only person I know who does that. Everyone else guesses or struggles to use laundry symbols correctly, or reads the text in English if it is provided.<p>Now, does that mean we should change all the laundry symbols just because one person shared a redesign on their blog? No. Changing something that is so well-established has significant downsides and risks. But I think it&#x27;s perfectly legitimate to spot their difficulties, and to pursue better UX relentlessly, with testing with real users. That&#x27;s what separates a good (UX) designer from an engineer who produces something that fits their mindset but not the mindset of actual users.</text></comment> | <story><title>Laundry symbols make no sense</title><url>https://uxdesign.cc/laundry-symbols-make-no-sense-154a0c10dbe0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bbarnett</author><text>I really find the idea that &quot;having to know, or lookup stuff&quot;, as a problem, offensive.<p>Laundry is literally filled with things to know, outside of these symbols. Household tasks are.<p>I don&#x27;t see labels on bleech bottles, saying not to mix it with vinegar or you could die. Yet people have done that in the wash, so why not start there?<p>Here&#x27;s what each sane person should do, who actually takes time to look at tags. (after all if you couldn&#x27;t care less, and never look at tags, what&#x27;s the point?)<p>Print a copy of the extended tag list out, and hang it in the laundry room at home. I have a cabinet where I keep extra detergent, etc, so I taped it up on the inside of the door.<p>Problem sovled.<p>For a laundrymat, for your smartphone, download a properly formatted, for easy phone viewing version.<p><i>Done.</i><p>Non-problem, compared to expecting the entire planet to change. We don&#x27;t need another standard!!<p>All that would happen is I&#x27;d have two standards to look at.</text></item><item><author>detritus</author><text>Within a second of seeing the &#x27;improved&#x27; ones I spot what is, to my mind at least, an immediate failure - the detail resolution is far too small. It doesn&#x27;t account for the printing limitations on small fabric tags, never mind the ability of old fogeys such as myself to be able to squint that hard and actually read them.<p>I have no idea even looking on my screen here what the difference between the first three is supposed to be, and the numerals in the three thereafter are only legible because I&#x27;m staring at a bright screen, not swearing into the void in my laundry room, trying to find a better light.<p>All that aside, I feel I&#x27;d still have to look their new interpretations up. International visual vernacular .. doesn&#x27;t really exist.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>corrral</author><text>Are people seeing some huge benefits from paying attention to these symbols? I&#x27;ve been, as the kids say, &quot;adulting&quot; for some time, and pay no attention to them. I couldn&#x27;t draw a single one from memory. If you showed me one, I&#x27;d only be able to guess at the meaning. All I do is not wash stuff that says &quot;dry clean only&quot; (it always just says it in text, I have no idea if there even <i>is</i> a symbol for that) and favor cooler water &amp; cooler dry cycles. I air-dry anything wool (if it&#x27;s not in the &quot;dry clean only&quot; category).<p>Color-safe detergents have been the norm since my very early adulthood. I remember ads for it when I was a kid but by the time I was buying detergent, <i>most</i> detergent was color safe. I&#x27;ve never even bothered to sort by color, aside from keeping raw denim away from everything else (on the rare occasions it&#x27;s washed at all).<p>What am I missing out on? My family&#x27;s clothes seem to last just fine. My wife pays even less attention to this stuff than I do, and everything seems OK.</text></comment> |
31,339,656 | 31,339,496 | 1 | 2 | 31,338,355 | train | <story><title>Coinbase warns that bankruptcy could wipe out user funds</title><url>https://fortune.com/2022/05/11/coinbase-bankruptcy-crypto-assets-safe-private-key-earnings-stock/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zeroxfe</author><text>That thread actually seemed like a reasonable response to balance out the &quot;gloom and doom&quot; from the media. Also, not sure why you think &quot;8 twitter posts&quot; are a such big deal -- tweets are limited in size, and twitter has a broad audience, and these types of tweet threads are very common.</text></item><item><author>krono</author><text>When a CEO requires 8 twitter posts[1] to essentially convey the message &quot;Don&#x27;t worry about this legal clause&quot;, it sort of has the opposite effect on me.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;brian_armstrong&#x2F;status&#x2F;1524233480040710144" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;brian_armstrong&#x2F;status&#x2F;15242334800407101...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dj_mc_merlin</author><text>It does not look reasonable in any way to me.<p>&gt; Your funds are safe at Coinbase, just as they’ve always been.<p>You won&#x27;t lose your funds, don&#x27;t worry.<p>&gt; For our retail customers, we’re taking further steps to update our user terms such that we offer the same protections to those customers in a black swan event. We should have had these in place previously, so let me apologize for that.<p>Unless we have your keys, in which case I&#x27;m sorry we&#x27;re not protecting you yet (but don&#x27;t worry, everything&#x27;s fine).<p>&gt; We have no risk of bankruptcy<p>Said directly after their worst quarter to date. Always a lie regardless.<p>&gt; however we included a new risk factor based on an SEC requirement called SAB 121, which is a newly required disclosure for public companies that hold crypto assets for third parties.<p>A rule made specifically for their type of companies that clarifies risks of storing assets in a non regulated bank.. somehow shouldn&#x27;t make you scared that your assets might get taken away since it&#x27;s very &quot;unlikely&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Coinbase warns that bankruptcy could wipe out user funds</title><url>https://fortune.com/2022/05/11/coinbase-bankruptcy-crypto-assets-safe-private-key-earnings-stock/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zeroxfe</author><text>That thread actually seemed like a reasonable response to balance out the &quot;gloom and doom&quot; from the media. Also, not sure why you think &quot;8 twitter posts&quot; are a such big deal -- tweets are limited in size, and twitter has a broad audience, and these types of tweet threads are very common.</text></item><item><author>krono</author><text>When a CEO requires 8 twitter posts[1] to essentially convey the message &quot;Don&#x27;t worry about this legal clause&quot;, it sort of has the opposite effect on me.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;brian_armstrong&#x2F;status&#x2F;1524233480040710144" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;brian_armstrong&#x2F;status&#x2F;15242334800407101...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krono</author><text>Only took me 5 words and a contraction to say the same thing, and I&#x27;m not even a native English speaker.<p>Edit: All those maybe&#x27;s and probably&#x27;s are the most troublesome part though.</text></comment> |
39,333,879 | 39,332,406 | 1 | 3 | 39,329,912 | train | <story><title>Detroit's abandoned tunnel systems open door to another world</title><url>https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2024/02/10/underground-tunnels-detroit-michigan/72060366007/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kurthr</author><text>Really? It seems like once a group of people have lived somewhere for a generation or two and have a $Trillion invested in a place they probably are going to make it hard for new comers to make radical changes.<p>Kinda like a giant codebase that&#x27;s been maintained for 50 years and has a million regular users is going to make updates difficult.<p>Find a place people don&#x27;t already want to live and make that better with great new housing designs? Why do does someone deserve to move somewhere new and live there cheaper than the people who already live there?<p>Now, that said there are huge distortions to the market driven by taxes and leverage. Many expensive places have 10% unoccupied housing. Think about how much that is. Imagine the time, cost, and disruption to build even 10,000 units of housing, when there are 40-50k units unoccupied.</text></item><item><author>ajmurmann</author><text>It&#x27;s wild that we used to do radical changes to cities like this and now changing zoning or making cities walkable are frequently seen as unfathomable.</text></item><item><author>dmoy</author><text>Here in Seattle the underground part of the city is open for tours (parts of it anyways). They built the current downtown on top of the old one, so it&#x27;s pretty surreal down there.<p>Not even tunnels in this case, just like a whole-ass other set of streets and storefronts, all abandoned, partially buried, and covered on top.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lmm</author><text>&gt; It seems like once a group of people have lived somewhere for a generation or two and have a $Trillion invested in a place they probably are going to make it hard for new comers to make radical changes.<p>Few if any of them actually invested that money. Rather they bought when it was cheap and then sat on it (either individually or as a family passing it down through inheritance) as the price went up - worse still they vote to grandfather in cheap property tax rates for people who bought early, so they&#x27;re not even paying their fair share at the most basic&#x2F;direct level.<p>&gt; Find a place people don&#x27;t already want to live and make that better with great new housing designs?<p>In today&#x27;s vetocracy that&#x27;s pretty much impossible - you&#x27;d have to find somewhere where not a single person already lived. Even then, as soon as you started doing it someone would move in and then block you. (Set a rule that requires development to continue? There&#x27;s already a statewide rule that cities just flaunt)<p>&gt; Why do does someone deserve to move somewhere new and live there cheaper than the people who already live there?<p>Being able to move in at the same price would be plenty. Up until the &#x27;50s people moved where they liked and build what they liked where they liked, without any permitting or anything. Now it&#x27;s illegal to build practically anything - the vast majority of housing stock is only legal because it&#x27;s grandfathered in, and would be illegal to build anew.<p>&gt; Now, that said there are huge distortions to the market driven by taxes and leverage. Many expensive places have 10% unoccupied housing. Think about how much that is. Imagine the time, cost, and disruption to build even 10,000 units of housing, when there are 40-50k units unoccupied.<p>Unoccupied housing is a scapegoat. A healthy market needs some liquidity. If you legalise building new houses then unoccupied houses cease to be a problem.</text></comment> | <story><title>Detroit's abandoned tunnel systems open door to another world</title><url>https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2024/02/10/underground-tunnels-detroit-michigan/72060366007/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kurthr</author><text>Really? It seems like once a group of people have lived somewhere for a generation or two and have a $Trillion invested in a place they probably are going to make it hard for new comers to make radical changes.<p>Kinda like a giant codebase that&#x27;s been maintained for 50 years and has a million regular users is going to make updates difficult.<p>Find a place people don&#x27;t already want to live and make that better with great new housing designs? Why do does someone deserve to move somewhere new and live there cheaper than the people who already live there?<p>Now, that said there are huge distortions to the market driven by taxes and leverage. Many expensive places have 10% unoccupied housing. Think about how much that is. Imagine the time, cost, and disruption to build even 10,000 units of housing, when there are 40-50k units unoccupied.</text></item><item><author>ajmurmann</author><text>It&#x27;s wild that we used to do radical changes to cities like this and now changing zoning or making cities walkable are frequently seen as unfathomable.</text></item><item><author>dmoy</author><text>Here in Seattle the underground part of the city is open for tours (parts of it anyways). They built the current downtown on top of the old one, so it&#x27;s pretty surreal down there.<p>Not even tunnels in this case, just like a whole-ass other set of streets and storefronts, all abandoned, partially buried, and covered on top.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bobthepanda</author><text>Keep in mind that ten percent figure is not ten percent totally unoccupied for the entire year.<p>The process of leasing is not immediate. In a similar way to how 0% unemployment is not actually desirable or remotely achievable, you want some slack in housing markets so that people actually have price competition and choice.</text></comment> |
15,022,662 | 15,022,386 | 1 | 3 | 15,022,158 | train | <story><title>Show HN: One hostname to rule them all</title><url>https://onehostname.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>megous</author><text>All data, including user passwords, and all their content going through a third party. All exchanged for some dubious SEO benefits. What can go wrong?</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: One hostname to rule them all</title><url>https://onehostname.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jakobdabo</author><text>What about the protections from XSS which Content Security Policies[0] can provide? It would be unfortunate when a bug in your blog engine can cause a hack of your store.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Web&#x2F;HTTP&#x2F;CSP" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Web&#x2F;HTTP&#x2F;CSP</a></text></comment> |
5,897,794 | 5,897,388 | 1 | 3 | 5,896,957 | train | <story><title>LLVM 3.3 Released</title><url>http://llvm.org/releases/3.3/docs/ReleaseNotes.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AlexanderDhoore</author><text>It&#x27;s funny how few people there are (around me) that know about LLVM. When Java, PHP or C# gets new features things go crazy. But LLVM is like this secret weapon that Apple (and others) have. Chugging along, getting more powerful, not asking for attention.</text></comment> | <story><title>LLVM 3.3 Released</title><url>http://llvm.org/releases/3.3/docs/ReleaseNotes.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kibwen</author><text>How usable is LLDB nowadays? I&#x27;m curious how easily it could be extended to support other LLVM-backed compilers.</text></comment> |
9,632,556 | 9,632,526 | 1 | 2 | 9,631,592 | train | <story><title>Rand Paul: 'I will force the expiration' of portions of Patriot Act</title><url>http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/exclusive-rand-paul-i-will-force-the-expiration-of-the-patriot-act-118443.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dataker</author><text>I&#x27;ve been waiting years
to see someone like him running for presidency, but I lack experience in Politics to determine if he could have a shot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>afarrell</author><text>He represents a certain ideological constituency which will sustain his campaign as a means of getting their ideas heard. If the US were a parliamentary system, then he and his ideological fellows could form a party that would have a decent shot at getting enough votes to form a coalition-of-legislators with another larger party.<p>The US is however not a parliamentary system so coalition-building happens at the voter level rather than the legislator level. Many libertarians are forming a coalition-of-voters with the Republican party and by supporting Rand Paul are hoping to shift the Republican party libertarian-ward. He does not however currently represent a large enough ideological constituency that he would be able to form a coalition-of-voters large enough to actually be elected president.<p>&gt; I&#x27;ve been waiting for years...<p>I&#x27;m curious what you thought of Ron Paul&#x27;s candidacy.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rand Paul: 'I will force the expiration' of portions of Patriot Act</title><url>http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/exclusive-rand-paul-i-will-force-the-expiration-of-the-patriot-act-118443.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dataker</author><text>I&#x27;ve been waiting years
to see someone like him running for presidency, but I lack experience in Politics to determine if he could have a shot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dopeboy</author><text>He doesn&#x27;t have a shot. But he deserves a tremendous amount of praise for making it one of his hallmark issues. He&#x27;ll raise the visibility of it and force his competitors to comment.<p>Maybe, just maybe, one of his competitors will listen and be forced to adjust.</text></comment> |
37,332,676 | 37,330,333 | 1 | 2 | 37,324,370 | train | <story><title>File Attachments: Databases can now store files and images</title><url>https://xata.io/blog/file-attachments</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bastawhiz</author><text>I think the one big problem with BLOBs, especially if you have a heavily read-biased DB, is you&#x27;re going to run up against bandwidth&#x2F;throughput as a bottleneck. One of the DBs I help maintain has some very large JSON columns and we frequently see this problem when traffic is at its peak: simply pulling the data down from Postgres is the problem.<p>If the data is frequently accessed, it also means there are extra hops the data has to take before getting to the user. It&#x27;s a lot faster to pull static files from S3 or a CDN (or even just a dumb static file server) than it is to round trip through your application to the DB and back. For one, it&#x27;s almost impossible to stream the response, so the whole BLOB needs to be copied in memory in each system it passes through.<p>It&#x27;s rare that any request for, say, user data would <i>also</i> return the user avatar, and so you ultimately just end up with one endpoint for structured data and one to serve binary BLOB data which have very little overlap except for ACL stuff, but signed S3 URLs will get you the same security properties with much better performance overall.</text></item><item><author>adrianmsmith</author><text>I think for smaller projects just storing images as BLOBs in e.g. PostgreSQL works quite well.<p>I know this is controversial. People will claim it&#x27;s bad for performance.<p>But that&#x27;s only bad if performance is something you&#x27;re having problems with, or going to have problems with. If the system you&#x27;re working on is small, and going to stay small, then that doesn&#x27;t matter. Not all systems are like this, but some are.<p>Storing the images directly in the database has a lot of advantages. They share a transactional context with the other updates you&#x27;re doing. They get backed up at the same time, and if you do a &quot;point in time&quot; restore they&#x27;re consistent with the rest of your data. No additional infrastructure to manage to store the files.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dfee</author><text>I’m sure you’re right, but it’s unbelievable to me how cost effective people claim S3 is. I’ve just never been able to get the pricing calculator to show me “cheap”. And I guess I’ve never really gotten comfortable with the access patterns, as it’s not a file system.<p>Where could I explore situations where people have used S3 with extremely favorable conditions relative to local storage(?), in terms of: price, access latency, and any other relevant column?<p>I want to believe, it’s just hard for me to go all in on an Amazon API.</text></comment> | <story><title>File Attachments: Databases can now store files and images</title><url>https://xata.io/blog/file-attachments</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bastawhiz</author><text>I think the one big problem with BLOBs, especially if you have a heavily read-biased DB, is you&#x27;re going to run up against bandwidth&#x2F;throughput as a bottleneck. One of the DBs I help maintain has some very large JSON columns and we frequently see this problem when traffic is at its peak: simply pulling the data down from Postgres is the problem.<p>If the data is frequently accessed, it also means there are extra hops the data has to take before getting to the user. It&#x27;s a lot faster to pull static files from S3 or a CDN (or even just a dumb static file server) than it is to round trip through your application to the DB and back. For one, it&#x27;s almost impossible to stream the response, so the whole BLOB needs to be copied in memory in each system it passes through.<p>It&#x27;s rare that any request for, say, user data would <i>also</i> return the user avatar, and so you ultimately just end up with one endpoint for structured data and one to serve binary BLOB data which have very little overlap except for ACL stuff, but signed S3 URLs will get you the same security properties with much better performance overall.</text></item><item><author>adrianmsmith</author><text>I think for smaller projects just storing images as BLOBs in e.g. PostgreSQL works quite well.<p>I know this is controversial. People will claim it&#x27;s bad for performance.<p>But that&#x27;s only bad if performance is something you&#x27;re having problems with, or going to have problems with. If the system you&#x27;re working on is small, and going to stay small, then that doesn&#x27;t matter. Not all systems are like this, but some are.<p>Storing the images directly in the database has a lot of advantages. They share a transactional context with the other updates you&#x27;re doing. They get backed up at the same time, and if you do a &quot;point in time&quot; restore they&#x27;re consistent with the rest of your data. No additional infrastructure to manage to store the files.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>avereveard</author><text>Also cost is a factor, databases are usually attached to expensive disk and their storage layer is tuned for iops, and blobs will be using gigs of that for just sitting there being sequentially scanned.</text></comment> |
13,913,319 | 13,913,387 | 1 | 2 | 13,909,365 | train | <story><title>They Used To Last 50 Years</title><url>http://recraigslist.com/2015/10/they-used-to-last-50-years/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjgoins</author><text>When I went to the first semester of engineering school at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, there was a class called Engineering Professional Development 160: Introduction to Engineering.<p>One of the early class sessions was a lecture from a guy at a power tool company, making some kind of jigsaw or handheld cutting tool.<p>He explicitly told us, paraphrasing, &quot;You don&#x27;t want to make your product too reliable, because people won&#x27;t buy more of them, and you won&#x27;t make as much money&quot;. I was horrified, literally looked around at my classmates to see how horrified they would be, none of them were. I ended up majoring in philosophy.<p>Of course this site is dedicated to the idea he expressed, so I am not looking for agreement here, just relaying what I consider an interesting historical fact.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gommm</author><text>I had a similar experience in a mechanical engineering class, our professor was discussing MTBF (mean time between failure) and how calculating this more accurately allowed companies to better engineer their product for obsolescence. For a company, a product that is too reliable is unprofitable in the long term and so they adjust by making sure that the product works beyond the terms of the warranty but not much more.<p>My professor was himself horrified by that (but he was a teacher because he believed in not working for corporations so that was not very surprising)<p>I do know one company that has a reputation for not doing this. Miele in Europe but then their appliances are double to triple the price of typical companies.<p>EDIT: corrected Mean Time Between Failure instead of Mean Time Before Failure. Thanks slim</text></comment> | <story><title>They Used To Last 50 Years</title><url>http://recraigslist.com/2015/10/they-used-to-last-50-years/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjgoins</author><text>When I went to the first semester of engineering school at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, there was a class called Engineering Professional Development 160: Introduction to Engineering.<p>One of the early class sessions was a lecture from a guy at a power tool company, making some kind of jigsaw or handheld cutting tool.<p>He explicitly told us, paraphrasing, &quot;You don&#x27;t want to make your product too reliable, because people won&#x27;t buy more of them, and you won&#x27;t make as much money&quot;. I was horrified, literally looked around at my classmates to see how horrified they would be, none of them were. I ended up majoring in philosophy.<p>Of course this site is dedicated to the idea he expressed, so I am not looking for agreement here, just relaying what I consider an interesting historical fact.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>modeopfer</author><text>I also studied engineering and I think your professor missed the point. You don&#x27;t overengineer stuff anymore nowadays, not because you want to scam your consumer out of money (aka planned obsolence) but because the design tools got better and every gram of metal or plastic and every screw and every operation like welding, glueing and so on costs money.
Nowadays simulation tools, new manufacturing processes and experience allow very cheap designs that endure the predicted amount of stress but not much more. That&#x27;s the trade-off.<p>Not every customer needs a power drill that lasts 5000 hours. Most people are okay with a cheap drill that lasts a cumulative 10 hours because that&#x27;s the amount of lifetime use they get out of it.</text></comment> |
18,384,723 | 18,381,292 | 1 | 2 | 18,376,456 | train | <story><title>Philosophy Has Made Plenty of Progress</title><url>https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/philosophy-has-made-plenty-of-progress/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ripsawridge</author><text>The only thing our world needs now is a reorientation away from growth at all costs into a mode of life that values the simple, the close by, the cheap.<p>I don&#x27;t see this guy giving a damn about that problem. Instead he tosses off bon mots about Popper and Gödel, and intones comfortably that in his view his peers have the right idea because they converge on atheism&#x2F;agnosticism. Wow. The world is saved.<p>There is a class of people who value a &quot;small life,&quot; the kind we all need to adopt: zen monks. Unfortunately, such people are afflicted by the disease of irrationalism in their ideas about God, or some similar concept that offends the sensibility of the excessively rational so much that they can only paint Belief in the most lurid colors.<p>Highly unfashionable to study such people. Instead, a professional philosopher keeps giving interviews, attending conferences and publishing papers. I&#x27;ll be glad when we can no longer afford them. I also apologize for my lack of charity but there it is.</text></comment> | <story><title>Philosophy Has Made Plenty of Progress</title><url>https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/philosophy-has-made-plenty-of-progress/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>brobdingnagians</author><text>Sounds like a clever, witty, and charming guy. Would be very interesting to talk to him; I like his style of talking.
Curiously ironic that he cites a consensus in personal belief in atheism and agnostics among philosophers (at least, modern philosophers, most philosophers in history believed in God..) as a good reason for philosophy not accepting the existence of God, which appears to be a popularity contest (and echo-chamber), then later in discussing a scientific belief says &quot;This I do believe, but have no proof.&quot; Sounds like some faith to me... (and I agree that there is probably a surprisingly simple and elegant theory underlying all of physics, based on what I understand and see of the universe) Of course, I&#x27;ve found that most atheists tend to have faith in science without actually understanding science (though plenty do understand the science) and have some personal, emotional reason for not believing in God rather than a well-thought out chain of reasoning; but most people believe things for personal and emotional reasons, so it isn&#x27;t surprising. It is always a bit humorous to ask them why they believe in science or what it is they believe and get back answers based on a fanatical devotion to, and blind trust in, the priesthood of &quot;pseudo-&quot;scientists like Dawkins, who makes all sorts of unsupported meta-physical claims in his books. I would always encourage atheists to investigating with an open mind, and to learn more about their system of beliefs, and more about logic. They should do what they believe is correct, and should always seek the truth, but be open to discovery of truth even when they may not like it. Most real scientists have a healthy skepticism towards the correctness of at least part of their own theories.</text></comment> |
5,577,202 | 5,576,769 | 1 | 3 | 5,576,041 | train | <story><title>Bing doesn't support SSL</title><url>https://bing.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>casca</author><text>TL;DR: bing SSL certificate is wrong.<p><a href="https://bing.com" rel="nofollow">https://bing.com</a>: subject=/CN=*.bing.com<p><a href="https://www.bing.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.bing.com</a>: subject=/C=US/O=Akamai Technologies, Inc./CN=a248.e.akamai.net</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rhplus</author><text>TL;DR: Bing doesn't support SSL on www.bing.com and has never publicized it as a supported feature. The submitter had to manually type <a href="https://www.bing.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.bing.com</a> into the address bar to generate this 'error'.<p>Bing does support SSL on ssl.bing.com and publishes various links on that sub-domain, such as <a href="https://ssl.bing.com/webmaster/home/mysites" rel="nofollow">https://ssl.bing.com/webmaster/home/mysites</a><p>The fact that the <a href="https://www.bing.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.bing.com</a> redirects to the HTTP version should be enough to show that this a known, unsupported case on the primary domain. The behavior has been like that for years.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bing doesn't support SSL</title><url>https://bing.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>casca</author><text>TL;DR: bing SSL certificate is wrong.<p><a href="https://bing.com" rel="nofollow">https://bing.com</a>: subject=/CN=*.bing.com<p><a href="https://www.bing.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.bing.com</a>: subject=/C=US/O=Akamai Technologies, Inc./CN=a248.e.akamai.net</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freehunter</author><text>Working in information security, I see this far, far too often in support tickets from employees who are unable to get to a site because our proxy is blocking misconfigured certificates. Usually we like to reach out to the owner of the site and have them update their configuration, and it gets quite frustrating when we find an unresponsive organization. Having to bypass cert checking for a site on our end is a huge security risk, and defeats the purpose of even having an SSL cert.<p>Companies! Make sure your certs are all in order! There's no reason to send a page to your users over HTTPS if they can't trust the certificate. Canonical has been a long-time offender of this, with many of their pages sporting a certificate signed to canonical.com but being served by ubuntu.com.</text></comment> |
15,810,345 | 15,809,671 | 1 | 3 | 15,808,549 | train | <story><title>Silicon Valley Software Engineer Salaries by Experience Level</title><url>https://triplebyte.com/software-engineer-salary</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>digitalsushi</author><text>My god this is just another universe to me. I&#x27;ve got 19 years on the clock doing stuff, right now extending the jenkins model to make a usable 2.0 pipeline, for a fortune 50 hiding on the new hampshire seacoast, senior-straddling-principal level and just barely squeaking out a 6 figure salary. I know it all comes out in the wash, but it just blows my mind how different money is across the country. or, i am a country bumpkin with absolutely no idea what is really out there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sidlls</author><text>It doesn&#x27;t come out in the wash. It&#x27;s much easier to max out the 401k when your salary is higher, and with the exception of housing specifically the cost of other things is on par with anywhere else I&#x27;ve lived (in the midwest).<p>The commute (by train) is in fact less expensive than gas and maintenance on a car in many cases.<p>If you double your housing cost, even moving from a mortgage to renting because you cannot afford to buy out here, you&#x27;re <i>still</i> ahead in the valley.<p>Of course, individual circumstances may alter the above, but <i>generally</i> it&#x27;s true.</text></comment> | <story><title>Silicon Valley Software Engineer Salaries by Experience Level</title><url>https://triplebyte.com/software-engineer-salary</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>digitalsushi</author><text>My god this is just another universe to me. I&#x27;ve got 19 years on the clock doing stuff, right now extending the jenkins model to make a usable 2.0 pipeline, for a fortune 50 hiding on the new hampshire seacoast, senior-straddling-principal level and just barely squeaking out a 6 figure salary. I know it all comes out in the wash, but it just blows my mind how different money is across the country. or, i am a country bumpkin with absolutely no idea what is really out there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrweasel</author><text>It really raises the question why anyone would put a software company in the Silicon Valley area. You could get cheaper and more experienced people pretty much anywhere in the world for at least 60 - 70% the price.</text></comment> |
14,723,712 | 14,723,703 | 1 | 2 | 14,723,308 | train | <story><title>What Is Ethereum?</title><url>http://whatthefuckisethereum.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joe_the_user</author><text>Interesting;<p>The document mentions creating a crop-insurance application that would depend on a weather feed.<p>The problem is if the weather feed isn&#x27;t something that&#x27;s uniformly secureable the result could be bad given that the insurance application would take action automatically and no appeal to any higher authority concerning the fraud would be possible - without a &quot;fork&quot; as happened earlier. Hack an insecure feed, an insecure site or whatever and viola, free money.<p>And this seems like a problem any interface with the &quot;real world&quot; would face. The idea of automatically occurring, no-appeal financial transactions <i>sounds</i> but I would claim it&#x27;s always going to be problematic - only a fool or a crook would put their money in this kind of system and the crook only puts in enough money to remove the money of the fool.<p>The ideal of say, money, is it belongs to you, where you is a broad but understandable concept. Something that belong to &quot;whoever has X, Y, Z pieces of information about you&quot; may sound great until someone beside you gets that information <i>and there is no recourse</i>. Indeed, the person who had the information &quot;did nothing wrong&quot; if the account really, really did belong to &quot;whoever has this information&quot; rather than belonging to you.</text></item><item><author>cslewis</author><text>Few weeks ago I decided to spend a weekend to try to understand Ethereum. I found the whitepaper to be pretty instructive (it even helped me cement my understanding of bitcoin).
Here is an annotated version of the whitepaper by vitalik:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fermatslibrary.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;ethereum-a-next-generation-smart-contract-and-decentralized-application-platform" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fermatslibrary.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;ethereum-a-next-generation-smart...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blunte</author><text>This to me is one of the fundamental problems (or challenges) of smart contracts - they remove humans and human judgment from the core, but they just push it to the edges.<p>You still end up trusting a human - an &quot;oracle&quot;. You trust the weather feed, or you trust some exchange to give you the accurate price of some other asset. If that oracle is mistaken (bug, intentional misinformation), the smart contract can be manipulated.</text></comment> | <story><title>What Is Ethereum?</title><url>http://whatthefuckisethereum.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joe_the_user</author><text>Interesting;<p>The document mentions creating a crop-insurance application that would depend on a weather feed.<p>The problem is if the weather feed isn&#x27;t something that&#x27;s uniformly secureable the result could be bad given that the insurance application would take action automatically and no appeal to any higher authority concerning the fraud would be possible - without a &quot;fork&quot; as happened earlier. Hack an insecure feed, an insecure site or whatever and viola, free money.<p>And this seems like a problem any interface with the &quot;real world&quot; would face. The idea of automatically occurring, no-appeal financial transactions <i>sounds</i> but I would claim it&#x27;s always going to be problematic - only a fool or a crook would put their money in this kind of system and the crook only puts in enough money to remove the money of the fool.<p>The ideal of say, money, is it belongs to you, where you is a broad but understandable concept. Something that belong to &quot;whoever has X, Y, Z pieces of information about you&quot; may sound great until someone beside you gets that information <i>and there is no recourse</i>. Indeed, the person who had the information &quot;did nothing wrong&quot; if the account really, really did belong to &quot;whoever has this information&quot; rather than belonging to you.</text></item><item><author>cslewis</author><text>Few weeks ago I decided to spend a weekend to try to understand Ethereum. I found the whitepaper to be pretty instructive (it even helped me cement my understanding of bitcoin).
Here is an annotated version of the whitepaper by vitalik:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fermatslibrary.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;ethereum-a-next-generation-smart-contract-and-decentralized-application-platform" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fermatslibrary.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;ethereum-a-next-generation-smart...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RexetBlell</author><text>The weather feed can provided by several oracles, and the contract can take the median value.<p>You could program whatever logic you want into the insurance. For example, some kind of dispute resolution system that appeals to a higher authority.<p>How do insurance companies deal with this problem today? Why do you trust the insurance company not to lie and say that the weather was fine? Whatever that mechanism is, it can be programmed into a smart contract.</text></comment> |
10,724,492 | 10,718,226 | 1 | 2 | 10,718,216 | train | <story><title>Tokyo police are using drones with nets to catch other drones</title><url>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/12045733/Tokyo-police-are-using-drones-with-nets-to-catch-other-drones.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hitekker</author><text>I recall that in the beginnings of World War I, planes were primarily used as surveillance tools. So the germans and french would send their planes above a battlefield, and the pilots would see each other, sometimes even wave at each as they passed by.<p>A little bit later someone brought a shotgun on one of the planes and the rest is literal history.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tokyo police are using drones with nets to catch other drones</title><url>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/12045733/Tokyo-police-are-using-drones-with-nets-to-catch-other-drones.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dutchbrit</author><text>People will probably start building bigger drones with bigger nets to catch the police drones. It&#x27;s just a matter of time.</text></comment> |
12,268,459 | 12,267,705 | 1 | 3 | 12,267,252 | train | <story><title>Five languages that came from English</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160811-how-english-gave-birth-to-surprising-new-languages</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lordnacho</author><text>Mutually intelligible is not an exact thing. From my own experience:<p>A native speaker of Danish, I was able to speak with my Norwegian housemate. It worked OK, but not great, and not for anything technical (like science and finance, where the Germanic words are very different to the English).<p>With my Swedish friends however, it was harder. Not sure why, since Sweden is visible from Denmark but Norway is a bit further away. Also, I found the TV Series &quot;The Bridge &#x2F; Broen&quot; quite unlikely. Swedes and Danes don&#x27;t talk that easily together, and certainly not with slang. The scenario of the cops from opposite sides of the bridge working together could still work, but mostly in writing. Also, the cadence is very different. Swedish is melodic. Danish is grunty.<p>Of course I have had no instruction in Swedish or Norwegian, but it wouldn&#x27;t be hard, based on friends who have moved.<p>German is not mutually intelligible with Danish. But it is. I went to a handful of German classes, and it dawned on me that changing a few things around makes High German pretty much like old Danish, like what you&#x27;d hear in old black-and-white movies from around the war. These days Danish has a lot of English in it, and something about the way sentences are put together makes old movies seem very... old. But once you have a simple map in your mind, Danish appears to be German with some substitutions and simplified grammar. I can read the paper in German now, despite having had just those few lessons.<p>Swiss German, now there&#x27;s a weird one. The sounds are different. I suppose I&#x27;m twice removed from it, but even native Germans I know will produce the WTF face when they hear a Swiss German. Words and grammar are similar, but different enough to be recognisably so by a foreigner like myself. But I suppose it&#x27;s like Swedish and Danish.<p>Apropos the article, Singlish I found quite interesting. To me it&#x27;s just English with sprinkled Chinese, and I think most English speaking people will not have a problem understanding it without instruction. One useful addition: English doesn&#x27;t make much use of the modal particle, so it makes sense that Cantonese &quot;la&quot; is heard all over the place.</text></item><item><author>petr_tik</author><text>In general, there are 2 ways to classify something as a language instead of a dialect:<p>1. A language is a dialect with an army and a navy [0]<p>2. Easier test is mutual intelligibility – dialects of one language are mutually intelligible – US English speakers chat and understand with the Brits (even when they can hear the extra ‘u’s in colour). Neither US English nor UK English speakers understand or can produce intelligible German.<p>0 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;A_language_is_a_dialect_with_an_army_and_navy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;A_language_is_a_dialect_with_a...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hencq</author><text>When I learned Norwegian, my teacher used to joke that all of Scandinavia spoke Norwegian. It&#x27;s just that the Swedes were pronouncing things wrong and the Danish couldn&#x27;t spell it correctly.</text></comment> | <story><title>Five languages that came from English</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160811-how-english-gave-birth-to-surprising-new-languages</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lordnacho</author><text>Mutually intelligible is not an exact thing. From my own experience:<p>A native speaker of Danish, I was able to speak with my Norwegian housemate. It worked OK, but not great, and not for anything technical (like science and finance, where the Germanic words are very different to the English).<p>With my Swedish friends however, it was harder. Not sure why, since Sweden is visible from Denmark but Norway is a bit further away. Also, I found the TV Series &quot;The Bridge &#x2F; Broen&quot; quite unlikely. Swedes and Danes don&#x27;t talk that easily together, and certainly not with slang. The scenario of the cops from opposite sides of the bridge working together could still work, but mostly in writing. Also, the cadence is very different. Swedish is melodic. Danish is grunty.<p>Of course I have had no instruction in Swedish or Norwegian, but it wouldn&#x27;t be hard, based on friends who have moved.<p>German is not mutually intelligible with Danish. But it is. I went to a handful of German classes, and it dawned on me that changing a few things around makes High German pretty much like old Danish, like what you&#x27;d hear in old black-and-white movies from around the war. These days Danish has a lot of English in it, and something about the way sentences are put together makes old movies seem very... old. But once you have a simple map in your mind, Danish appears to be German with some substitutions and simplified grammar. I can read the paper in German now, despite having had just those few lessons.<p>Swiss German, now there&#x27;s a weird one. The sounds are different. I suppose I&#x27;m twice removed from it, but even native Germans I know will produce the WTF face when they hear a Swiss German. Words and grammar are similar, but different enough to be recognisably so by a foreigner like myself. But I suppose it&#x27;s like Swedish and Danish.<p>Apropos the article, Singlish I found quite interesting. To me it&#x27;s just English with sprinkled Chinese, and I think most English speaking people will not have a problem understanding it without instruction. One useful addition: English doesn&#x27;t make much use of the modal particle, so it makes sense that Cantonese &quot;la&quot; is heard all over the place.</text></item><item><author>petr_tik</author><text>In general, there are 2 ways to classify something as a language instead of a dialect:<p>1. A language is a dialect with an army and a navy [0]<p>2. Easier test is mutual intelligibility – dialects of one language are mutually intelligible – US English speakers chat and understand with the Brits (even when they can hear the extra ‘u’s in colour). Neither US English nor UK English speakers understand or can produce intelligible German.<p>0 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;A_language_is_a_dialect_with_an_army_and_navy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;A_language_is_a_dialect_with_a...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bhaak</author><text>Regarding the understanding of dialects, I wouldn&#x27;t give much on the first impression of a German who only speak standard German.<p>They usually don&#x27;t have to understand dialects unless it&#x27;s within the family context. So they have almost no practice in understanding German that is different from the standard and even slight accents can already throw them off.<p>Compare that to Swiss or Austrian German where the dialects are used on every level of society and usually don&#x27;t have a mark of being used by lower class citizens. It&#x27;s not remotely strange to discuss quantum physics in Swiss German where Germans would most likely switch to standard German.<p>In such a case, you can also look on how long it takes a native to understand the language without any formal education. In the case of Swiss German, I&#x27;d say it takes at most 6 months to understand everything (as usual YMMV as there are some peculiar dialects out there).<p>But as you noticed with Danish&lt;-&gt;German, even though there are some sight difference in grammar, there are some obvious transformations like &quot;Haus&quot; becomes &quot;Huus&quot; or &quot;Zeit&quot; becomes &quot;Ziit&quot; that can be generalized.</text></comment> |
21,360,430 | 21,360,445 | 1 | 2 | 21,360,115 | train | <story><title>Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/25/technology/dod-jedi-contract.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>meddlepal</author><text>Core to many Texans identity is a belief that someday Texas is going to secede from the Union again and become its own independent country.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, I love Texas and I love many of the Texans I&#x27;ve met for being some of the chillest, most down to earth, pragmatic and welcoming people I have ever met, but they are a bit weird about this particular issue sometimes.</text></item><item><author>gtirloni</author><text><i>&gt; Texas has a separate electrical grid from the rest of the US.</i><p>This is interesting. The Wikipedia article has this gem:<p>&quot;The Texas Interconnection is maintained as a separate grid for political, rather than technical reasons&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;slate.com&#x2F;news-and-politics&#x2F;2003&#x2F;08&#x2F;why-texas-has-its-own-power-grid.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;slate.com&#x2F;news-and-politics&#x2F;2003&#x2F;08&#x2F;why-texas-has-it...</a></text></item><item><author>rshnotsecure</author><text>Since the early 2000s, Microsoft has done a significant amount of work for the NSA. AWS has had GovCloud, and it is true the CIA uses AWS, but MSFT has built out quite well some of the more exotic requests of the NSA.<p>The crown jewel of the NSA’s MSFT partnership is the San Antonio, Texas data center. The “5150 Rogers Road” data center was chosen because Texas has cheap electricity, which is an enormous cost outlay for the NSA. Additionally, and the FBI chose San Antonio for a significant presence as well because of this, is Texas has a separate electrical grid from the rest of the US.<p>Also San Antonio has something like 4 military bases. Ft. Sam Houston where the Army medics train, Lackland Air Force Base (home of cybercommand for the Air Force), Kelley Air Force Base, and perhaps even 1 or 2 I can’t recall.<p>120 minutes to the north is the recently established Army Futures Command in Austin, along with Ft. Hood in Killeen, the Army’s largest base in the world.<p>AWS does not currently have a data center in Texas, which has always frustrated the Texas government. They did establish a shipping center in San Marcos, but even GCO is building out in Dallas where IBM Cloud has a data center, and Oracle Cloud has an Austin data center.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roenxi</author><text>~ I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.<p>Large groups of people are so embarrassingly bad at predicting the future that I&#x27;m always impressed when they get it right; but trying to do so often has a lot of positive side effects. Being ready to secede is a stupid one, but as a metaphor for &quot;something goes wrong and we can&#x27;t rely on people 1,000km away to provide for us&quot; it would lead to some excellent planning.<p>Modern society is extremely efficient, extremely cheap and <i>profoundly</i> untested. We&#x27;ve had commercial electricity for 15 decades, the internet for 3 decades and quality GPS for 2. These are not long times on the scale that a country&#x27;s logistics channels operate at; because things so central to how we work need to be ready for 1 in 100 and 1 in 200 year style events. Excessive caution may not actually be excessive.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/25/technology/dod-jedi-contract.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>meddlepal</author><text>Core to many Texans identity is a belief that someday Texas is going to secede from the Union again and become its own independent country.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, I love Texas and I love many of the Texans I&#x27;ve met for being some of the chillest, most down to earth, pragmatic and welcoming people I have ever met, but they are a bit weird about this particular issue sometimes.</text></item><item><author>gtirloni</author><text><i>&gt; Texas has a separate electrical grid from the rest of the US.</i><p>This is interesting. The Wikipedia article has this gem:<p>&quot;The Texas Interconnection is maintained as a separate grid for political, rather than technical reasons&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;slate.com&#x2F;news-and-politics&#x2F;2003&#x2F;08&#x2F;why-texas-has-its-own-power-grid.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;slate.com&#x2F;news-and-politics&#x2F;2003&#x2F;08&#x2F;why-texas-has-it...</a></text></item><item><author>rshnotsecure</author><text>Since the early 2000s, Microsoft has done a significant amount of work for the NSA. AWS has had GovCloud, and it is true the CIA uses AWS, but MSFT has built out quite well some of the more exotic requests of the NSA.<p>The crown jewel of the NSA’s MSFT partnership is the San Antonio, Texas data center. The “5150 Rogers Road” data center was chosen because Texas has cheap electricity, which is an enormous cost outlay for the NSA. Additionally, and the FBI chose San Antonio for a significant presence as well because of this, is Texas has a separate electrical grid from the rest of the US.<p>Also San Antonio has something like 4 military bases. Ft. Sam Houston where the Army medics train, Lackland Air Force Base (home of cybercommand for the Air Force), Kelley Air Force Base, and perhaps even 1 or 2 I can’t recall.<p>120 minutes to the north is the recently established Army Futures Command in Austin, along with Ft. Hood in Killeen, the Army’s largest base in the world.<p>AWS does not currently have a data center in Texas, which has always frustrated the Texas government. They did establish a shipping center in San Marcos, but even GCO is building out in Dallas where IBM Cloud has a data center, and Oracle Cloud has an Austin data center.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>One if my favorite season finales ever: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;xFgNZG3gmqc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;xFgNZG3gmqc</a><p>The people with this view are also a big and growing minority: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;texaspolitics.utexas.edu&#x2F;blog&#x2F;texan-first-american-second" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;texaspolitics.utexas.edu&#x2F;blog&#x2F;texan-first-american-s...</a><p>&gt; Among 18- to 29-year-olds, 40 percent identify as Texans before they identify as Americans, far outpacing any other age group.</text></comment> |
27,741,714 | 27,741,430 | 1 | 3 | 27,740,295 | train | <story><title>Writing a firmware-only keylogger</title><url>https://8051enthusiast.github.io/2021/07/05/002-wifi_fun.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>matheusmoreira</author><text>Just make companies liable for any damage caused by their crappy products. Make them pay billions in damages every time somebody gets hacked because of their negligence. Then they&#x27;ll start caring about the quality of their software instead of treating it as a cost center.</text></item><item><author>gricardo99</author><text><p><pre><code> The funny thing is that this is effectively a keylogger that does not run any code on the CPU while it is running.
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I already knew it, but this just reinforced how terribly vulnerable pretty much every computer system is. Makes me think ransomware&#x2F;hacks are going to get a lot worse, and I can’t see how the situation can be improved, at least for quite some time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joe_the_user</author><text>The implication that software providers should be liable seems to reappear eternally here and remains misguided. Even when we&#x27;re essentially discussing hardware here.<p>Software is the perhaps that area where &quot;good&quot; or &quot;crappy&quot; is most undetermined. A given piece of software can be bullet-proof today and a catastrophic hole can appear tomorrow. And even if the producer releases an update, there&#x27;s no guarantee it will be picked-up.<p>Overall situation is that what&#x27;s needed is standards of software use for those companies which actually do damage. Without standards, your use of &quot;crappy&quot; is meaningless.</text></comment> | <story><title>Writing a firmware-only keylogger</title><url>https://8051enthusiast.github.io/2021/07/05/002-wifi_fun.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>matheusmoreira</author><text>Just make companies liable for any damage caused by their crappy products. Make them pay billions in damages every time somebody gets hacked because of their negligence. Then they&#x27;ll start caring about the quality of their software instead of treating it as a cost center.</text></item><item><author>gricardo99</author><text><p><pre><code> The funny thing is that this is effectively a keylogger that does not run any code on the CPU while it is running.
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I already knew it, but this just reinforced how terribly vulnerable pretty much every computer system is. Makes me think ransomware&#x2F;hacks are going to get a lot worse, and I can’t see how the situation can be improved, at least for quite some time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zionic</author><text>Imagine having your cryptocurrency wallet’s private key exfiltrated in this way.<p>Hell, it wouldn’t surprise me if a few less than ethical NSA hackers are doing exactly that in their spare time.</text></comment> |
8,066,091 | 8,065,514 | 1 | 3 | 8,064,934 | train | <story><title>The Web Never Forgets: Persistent Tracking Mechanisms In The Wild</title><url>https://securehomes.esat.kuleuven.be/~gacar/persistent/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lifeisstillgood</author><text>Tl;dr wow, just wow.<p>So we have three fingerprint mechanisms:
One I had not even heard of or frankly suspected, but it explains a lot about why many designers who strive for pixel perfection are constantly frustrated. The original paper is fascinating (cseweb.ucsd.edu&#x2F;~hovav&#x2F;dist&#x2F;canvas.pdf) but one simple takeaway - testing 300 different user systems (Mechanical Turk - quite clever) a simple sentence in Arial rendered 50 different ways! So by combining different renderings (like sentences, drawing a line on a canvas element) they find that user systems - hardware, drivers etc, give off different results unique enough to tag you.<p>I would be interested in their results on iPhones (in fact any one interested in a quick experiment here in HN?)<p>And cookies - the synching cookies where fucking trackers collaborate and share &#x2F; copy each other&#x27;s ids, and ever cookies where they store a cookie in JavaScript&#x2F;cookie and anywhere else and keep respawning.<p>Little fuckers<p>I propose two solutions:<p>Cookies should be limited to no more than 128bits - enough to store one randomly generated UUID. Screw the backward compatibility.<p>And we should be able to only allow signed hashed JavaScript to run on our machines. For example I want to only allow say bootstrap and some overlay and a config or data file. No one gets to run unsigned js on my machine?<p>Have I just reinvented Microsoft code signing?<p>But boy I am in a bad mood</text></comment> | <story><title>The Web Never Forgets: Persistent Tracking Mechanisms In The Wild</title><url>https://securehomes.esat.kuleuven.be/~gacar/persistent/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bsilvereagle</author><text>HTTPSwitchBoard [1] seems to a decent job of blocking most (not all) of these methods. I currently have it configured to only allow scripts from the domain I&#x27;m visiting and quite a few of the methods mentioned rely on scripts&#x2F;cookies hosted by third party websites. Granted, switchboard is far from foolproof but it&#x27;s a step in the right direction.<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gorhill&#x2F;httpswitchboard</a></text></comment> |
6,595,733 | 6,594,835 | 1 | 3 | 6,593,500 | train | <story><title>$2,999 Mac Pro to go on sale in December</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/2999-mac-pro-to-go-on-sale-in-december-in-all-its-dalek-resembling-glory/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MattRogish</author><text>Mac Pro: 7 teraflops for a few thousand.<p>Cray X1 in 2004 5.9 teraflops[1] for only ~$40M USD[extrapolating from 2].<p>Mind boggling what to expect 10 years from now.<p>[1]<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cray</a>
[2]<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/11/15/cray_flogs_x1_supercomputer/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.co.uk&#x2F;2002&#x2F;11&#x2F;15&#x2F;cray_flogs_x1_superc...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KVFinn</author><text>&gt;Mac Pro: 7 teraflops for a few thousand.<p>&gt;Cray X1 in 2004 5.9 teraflops[1] for only ~$40M USD<p>Each D700 GPU is 3.5 terraflops. These are the same hardware as the 7970 which currently retails for 300 dollars. So it&#x27;s even more impressive -- 7 teraflops could be nearly an order of magnitude less than that!</text></comment> | <story><title>$2,999 Mac Pro to go on sale in December</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/2999-mac-pro-to-go-on-sale-in-december-in-all-its-dalek-resembling-glory/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MattRogish</author><text>Mac Pro: 7 teraflops for a few thousand.<p>Cray X1 in 2004 5.9 teraflops[1] for only ~$40M USD[extrapolating from 2].<p>Mind boggling what to expect 10 years from now.<p>[1]<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cray</a>
[2]<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/11/15/cray_flogs_x1_supercomputer/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.co.uk&#x2F;2002&#x2F;11&#x2F;15&#x2F;cray_flogs_x1_superc...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MaysonL</author><text>And the Mac Pro even looks like a shrunken Cray (minus the included seating).</text></comment> |
37,217,662 | 37,217,039 | 1 | 3 | 37,216,800 | train | <story><title>Podman Desktop celebrates 500k downloads</title><url>https://blog.podman.io/2023/08/celebrating-500k-downloads-the-podman-desktop-journey-%f0%9f%8e%89/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>anbotero</author><text>Keep it up!<p>What trickery does OrbStack[0] use to be fast?<p>We went back to Podman Desktop because of the license[1], but the interactions on macOS are almost as slow as Docker Desktop.<p>As for Podman itself, happy users here, and our workflows have been working for a while now. We are only missing faster local development.<p>----<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;orbstack.dev&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;orbstack.dev&#x2F;</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.orbstack.dev&#x2F;faq#free" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.orbstack.dev&#x2F;faq#free</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Podman Desktop celebrates 500k downloads</title><url>https://blog.podman.io/2023/08/celebrating-500k-downloads-the-podman-desktop-journey-%f0%9f%8e%89/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ec109685</author><text>Still feels crappy what Docker did by being free since inception, becoming the standard and then springing license fees onto companies that couldn&#x27;t migrate off of it in time.<p>Hopefully, podman can solve &quot;basic dcoker desktop&quot; needs for most companies.</text></comment> |
12,057,605 | 12,057,440 | 1 | 3 | 12,056,732 | train | <story><title>Bayesian Analysis of Racial Bias in Police Shootings in the United States</title><url>http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0141854</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>akud</author><text>&gt; the probability of being {black, unarmed, and shot by police} is about 3.49 times the probability of being {white, unarmed, and shot by police} on average<p>What they really need to do is factor in the probability of encounters with police gI&#x27;ve race. That is, we want to know, out of all encounters with police, are they more likely to be fatal if the victim is black?<p>Without factoring in the rate of police encounters, the conclusion could just be indicating that black people are more likely to encounter the police, which is a problem in itself but is slightly different. That would point more to socioeconomic factors determining the rate of policing in neighborhoods, rather than police racism.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>selectron</author><text>A study from the NYT addresses this, and finds that if arrest rates is a good proxy for police interactions (a reasonable assumption) the data supports the theory that the reason black people are more likely to be killed by police is because they are more likely to interact with police:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;18&#x2F;upshot&#x2F;police-killings-of-blacks-what-the-data-says.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fupshot&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=upshot&amp;region=rank&amp;module=package&amp;version=highlights&amp;contentPlacement=5&amp;pgtype=sectionfront" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;18&#x2F;upshot&#x2F;police-killings-of-...</a>:<p>&gt; This in turn suggests that removing police racial bias will have little effect on the killing rate. Suppose each arrest creates an equal risk of shooting for both African-Americans and whites. In that case, with the current arrest rate, 28.9 percent of all those killed by police officers would still be African-American. This is only slightly smaller than the 31.8 percent of killings we actually see, and it is much greater than the 13.2 percent level of African-Americans in the overall population.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bayesian Analysis of Racial Bias in Police Shootings in the United States</title><url>http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0141854</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>akud</author><text>&gt; the probability of being {black, unarmed, and shot by police} is about 3.49 times the probability of being {white, unarmed, and shot by police} on average<p>What they really need to do is factor in the probability of encounters with police gI&#x27;ve race. That is, we want to know, out of all encounters with police, are they more likely to be fatal if the victim is black?<p>Without factoring in the rate of police encounters, the conclusion could just be indicating that black people are more likely to encounter the police, which is a problem in itself but is slightly different. That would point more to socioeconomic factors determining the rate of policing in neighborhoods, rather than police racism.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>holdenk</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure I agree with you - having a higher encounters rate need not be limited to simple neighborhood selection for policing (although there is likely bias there too) - rather simply choosing who to interact with may exhibit bias (e.g. is the police officer more likely to have an encounter with a black person even in a predominantly white neighborhood)?</text></comment> |
21,238,987 | 21,236,398 | 1 | 2 | 21,234,937 | train | <story><title>A Code Glitch May Have Caused Errors in More Than a Hundred Published Studies</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmjwda/a-code-glitch-may-have-caused-errors-in-more-than-100-published-studies</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>catalogia</author><text>Something I don&#x27;t get is why universities don&#x27;t to a better job of having professional statisticians and programmers on staff for the explicit purpose of providing support to researchers.<p>I guess grad students are cheaper and &quot;good enough.&quot;</text></item><item><author>ken</author><text>I&#x27;ve implemented algorithms I dug out of original research papers, which often included sample code. (That&#x27;s why I first learned to read Fortran!) I&#x27;ve almost never gotten results that match the authors&#x27; exactly. Sometimes the bugs are obvious, and sometimes they&#x27;re subtle. I&#x27;d estimate that 100% of sample implementations in published research papers have bugs. Researchers, even in computer science, are usually not skilled programmers. The product for them is the paper, not a program.<p>It&#x27;s the same category of problem as &quot;enterprise software&quot;. Whenever the <i>customer</i> is not the <i>user</i>, the user gets screwed. With research, the customer is the journal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PeterStuer</author><text>From experience:<p>- Research is an iterative creative process. The creation of the code is an organic process of discovery and not a separate stage from writing it&#x27;s specification.<p>- The jobs are too small to split up. This is the same in industry. Try to split up a small task (1 person, 2 weeks) over a small team of specialists (Analyst, programmer, DB specialist, dev-ops, tester and now you need a project manager, ...) and suddenly it becomes way, way larger than it should be.<p>- Most production programmers realy dislike working in research environments. The objectives and nature of research code is very different from what turns-on and drives professional programmers, so you wouldn&#x27;t have &#x27;the best professional programmers&#x27; working there anyway.<p>Being able to code well enough to do your own experiments is part of the researcher&#x27;s skill-set. Grad students should become &#x27;good enough&#x27; at it. &gt;<p>Let&#x27;s not kidd ourselves. Independent academic research is a constant struggle for funds. Nobody is going to pay for a magnitude increase in the costs. If you are looking to up the quality, best look into how to get academic research out of the ridiculous quantified output metrics conundrum.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Code Glitch May Have Caused Errors in More Than a Hundred Published Studies</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmjwda/a-code-glitch-may-have-caused-errors-in-more-than-100-published-studies</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>catalogia</author><text>Something I don&#x27;t get is why universities don&#x27;t to a better job of having professional statisticians and programmers on staff for the explicit purpose of providing support to researchers.<p>I guess grad students are cheaper and &quot;good enough.&quot;</text></item><item><author>ken</author><text>I&#x27;ve implemented algorithms I dug out of original research papers, which often included sample code. (That&#x27;s why I first learned to read Fortran!) I&#x27;ve almost never gotten results that match the authors&#x27; exactly. Sometimes the bugs are obvious, and sometimes they&#x27;re subtle. I&#x27;d estimate that 100% of sample implementations in published research papers have bugs. Researchers, even in computer science, are usually not skilled programmers. The product for them is the paper, not a program.<p>It&#x27;s the same category of problem as &quot;enterprise software&quot;. Whenever the <i>customer</i> is not the <i>user</i>, the user gets screwed. With research, the customer is the journal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>btrettel</author><text>The University of Texas at Austin has statisticians faculty, staff, and students can consult with for free: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stat.utexas.edu&#x2F;consulting&#x2F;free-consulting" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stat.utexas.edu&#x2F;consulting&#x2F;free-consulting</a><p>I&#x27;ve used the service before and can recommend it.<p>Don&#x27;t know anything comparable for programming at UT, though I can say that UT&#x27;s <i>computational</i> science (different from <i>computer</i> science) program has some good classes on software engineering practice aimed at practicing research scientists and engineers.</text></comment> |
675,776 | 675,736 | 1 | 2 | 675,544 | train | <story><title>No Hire</title><url>http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2009-06-26/no_hire.md#readme</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>raganwald</author><text>A personal observation: I'm also a hiring manager, and I struggle with this problem on both sides of the table.<p>I Google candidates for their professional opinions and activities. But what do I do if I find their profile on a public site like HN? Some of the comments are going to be useful fodder for an interview <i>I noticed you posted a comment on HN suggesting OOP has had its fifteen minutes of fame. What do you see replacing it? ...</i> But I might also read opinions about politics. What if the same person has posted HN comments about Obama the Magic Negro? I really don't want to know what they think and why in the context of hiring them.<p>Worse, what if I see a comment from the same person saying one of <i>my</i> posts is absolute garbage and that I'm an idiot? Now I may have compromised my impartiality.<p>I don't know the answer. I wouldn't look up a candidate in something obviously personal like Facebook or MySpace, but I have no idea how to handle stuff like HN that contains what I perceive to be a mix of relevant technical opinions and personal, wrong-side-of-the-privacy-line stuff.<p>I don't know.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>inerte</author><text>I remember reading a story about a company who was advised by its lawyers to simply <i>never</i> look for stuff online, for reasons close to yours.<p>The off chance that you could read about someone's pregnancy (something that you should not ask in a interview) was enough for them to ban the practice.<p>I don't agree, but it's a good argument. Very protective of the lawyers.</text></comment> | <story><title>No Hire</title><url>http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2009-06-26/no_hire.md#readme</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>raganwald</author><text>A personal observation: I'm also a hiring manager, and I struggle with this problem on both sides of the table.<p>I Google candidates for their professional opinions and activities. But what do I do if I find their profile on a public site like HN? Some of the comments are going to be useful fodder for an interview <i>I noticed you posted a comment on HN suggesting OOP has had its fifteen minutes of fame. What do you see replacing it? ...</i> But I might also read opinions about politics. What if the same person has posted HN comments about Obama the Magic Negro? I really don't want to know what they think and why in the context of hiring them.<p>Worse, what if I see a comment from the same person saying one of <i>my</i> posts is absolute garbage and that I'm an idiot? Now I may have compromised my impartiality.<p>I don't know the answer. I wouldn't look up a candidate in something obviously personal like Facebook or MySpace, but I have no idea how to handle stuff like HN that contains what I perceive to be a mix of relevant technical opinions and personal, wrong-side-of-the-privacy-line stuff.<p>I don't know.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostrademons</author><text>"Worse, what if I see a comment from the same person saying one of my posts is absolute garbage and that I'm an idiot? Now I may have compromised my impartiality."<p>If you're a good manager, you should be able to stomach having an employee tell you that. After all, what if your opinion <i>is</i> absolute garbage and you're an idiot? Do you want people working for you who won't call you out when you're wrong?<p>The right question to ask there is <i>why</i> your posts is garbage and you're an idiot. See if they can defend it. And if they can, and can convince <i>you</i> that your own post is garbage, that's someone worth hiring. If they're just ranting, maybe it's time to look at another candidate.</text></comment> |
17,383,519 | 17,382,891 | 1 | 3 | 17,381,946 | train | <story><title>C2Rust: translate C into Rust code</title><url>https://c2rust.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>This is compiling C into very unsafe Rust as a target language:<p><pre><code> pub unsafe extern &quot;C&quot; fn insertion_sort(n: libc::c_int, p: *mut libc::c_int)
-&gt; () {
let mut i: libc::c_int = 1i32;
while i &lt; n {
let tmp: libc::c_int = *p.offset(i as isize);
let mut j: libc::c_int = i;
while j &gt; 0i32 &amp;&amp; *p.offset((j - 1i32) as isize) &gt; tmp {
*p.offset(j as isize) = *p.offset((j - 1i32) as isize);
j -= 1
}
*p.offset(j as isize) = tmp;
i += 1
};
}
</code></pre>
The output is unmaintainable, like the output from a compiler. This isn&#x27;t translation into usable Rust.<p>A C++ to Rust translator would be a good thing, but it has to be much smarter than this. This doesn&#x27;t even comprehend arrays in C.<p>A good translator might need some human help to deal with C&#x27;s ambiguities. Like &quot;Is this an array? (Y or N)&quot; How big is it? (Enter expression). Then you get a program that&#x27;s real Rust. If the user is wrong about the size, safe Rust will either allocate too much space or get a subscript error.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dbaupp</author><text>I know and agree that unsafe Rust is problematic, but that criticism of this is missing the forest for the trees. The original code is just as unsafe.<p>Refactoring from unsafe Rust into safe Rust manually is likely to be easier than directly from C into Rust: one is only trying to deal with one small delta (like changing length&#x2F;pointer arguments into a slice) rather than also having to deal with syntax changes and tooling issues.<p>As others have said, it is essentially impossible to automatically translate to safe Rust without non-trivial annotation effort, since C the language and C in practice is very different to how Rust guarantees safety. It seems to me that that &quot;annotation&quot; effort is probably better spent going unsafe to safe Rust (where, subjectively, the language is nicer to use, like better enums and less error prone control flow) rather than annotating the original C.</text></comment> | <story><title>C2Rust: translate C into Rust code</title><url>https://c2rust.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>This is compiling C into very unsafe Rust as a target language:<p><pre><code> pub unsafe extern &quot;C&quot; fn insertion_sort(n: libc::c_int, p: *mut libc::c_int)
-&gt; () {
let mut i: libc::c_int = 1i32;
while i &lt; n {
let tmp: libc::c_int = *p.offset(i as isize);
let mut j: libc::c_int = i;
while j &gt; 0i32 &amp;&amp; *p.offset((j - 1i32) as isize) &gt; tmp {
*p.offset(j as isize) = *p.offset((j - 1i32) as isize);
j -= 1
}
*p.offset(j as isize) = tmp;
i += 1
};
}
</code></pre>
The output is unmaintainable, like the output from a compiler. This isn&#x27;t translation into usable Rust.<p>A C++ to Rust translator would be a good thing, but it has to be much smarter than this. This doesn&#x27;t even comprehend arrays in C.<p>A good translator might need some human help to deal with C&#x27;s ambiguities. Like &quot;Is this an array? (Y or N)&quot; How big is it? (Enter expression). Then you get a program that&#x27;s real Rust. If the user is wrong about the size, safe Rust will either allocate too much space or get a subscript error.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bluejekyll</author><text>&gt; This is compiling C into very unsafe Rust as a target language<p>It’s basically as safe as the original.<p>&gt; This isn&#x27;t translation into usable Rust<p>It’s slightly more usable, and easier, than FFI to raw C (see other comments about Cargo integration).<p>I’ve been thinking about language rewrites like this, and generally I’m really torn. If it’s the intention to get rid of your C, it might in fact be easier to use bindgen for the C header translation, and create decent Rustful interfaces that abstract the C. After that maybe use this tool as a starting point to get Rust or possibly just rewrite the section by hand. In either case you’ll be rewriting the logic into safe Rust at some point, otherwise I don’t see a huge point in doing this (other than the Cargo integration, though there are other options for that).</text></comment> |
25,619,934 | 25,619,546 | 1 | 3 | 25,618,273 | train | <story><title>Lack of Vitamin D is associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection and mortality</title><url>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7489890/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>supernova87a</author><text>Wow, anyone reading the source paper in detail (or trying to take away conclusions) has to know that the stats are really, <i>really</i> rough.<p>The authors are almost just doing internet desk research -- counting the number of Covid deaths&#x2F;cases and just plotting that against the average Vitamin D level in the population <i>of each Indian state in general</i>. Based on a couple thousand <i>healthy</i> patients of the general population. (BTW, I think it&#x27;s really important that everyone learn to see through the math&#x2F;symbols&#x2F;technical jargon when reading such research papers to understand the populations really being studied. All those <i>r</i> and <i>p</i> numbers are meaningless if the underlying patient data are flawed.)<p>That is really rough. I could not imagine this would be credible if you substituted for example (just to think about it locally with a population you might know), &quot;New York&quot; for &quot;Maharastra&quot; state in the plot and asked if you believed the strength of finding that average Vitamin D level in New York state correlates with Covid death rate. How about for Florida -- would that be believable too? And also, the noticeable points making up the perceived trend are so few, and the points are not even weighted for population size (?)!<p>Much more work in detail -- at the <i>patient level</i> with Vitamin D measurement -- would have to be done to be credible. I would not act on this information in the present form.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lack of Vitamin D is associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection and mortality</title><url>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7489890/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>PKop</author><text>This could also explain the higher Covid death rates for Blacks in the US, while Africa has relatively lower death rates<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41371-020-00398-z" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41371-020-00398-z</a></text></comment> |
5,797,020 | 5,796,930 | 1 | 2 | 5,796,730 | train | <story><title>Camino browser reaches its end</title><url>http://caminobrowser.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eightyone</author><text>I want to like Firefox, I really do, but the experience on OS X is awful. It doesn't fit well with the aesthetic of a native Mac app, and certainty doesn't' function like one. Multi-gestures in Safari are so much smoother. About a month or so back when the Firefox team was soliciting feedback for something here on HN, one of the designers or developers at Mozilla had screenshots of a version of Firefox that looked really good. I went to go download the latest version and realized that the screenshots most have just been Photoshop comps or something.</text></item><item><author>kunai</author><text>I find this extremely saddening because Camino offered the best native experience for OS X, with all the polish of a well-designed Cocoa app, on top of Gecko.<p>I'll miss Camino.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>denzil_correa</author><text>I would have to agree with most of what is said here. I prefer Chrome (or even Safari) over Firefox on OS X. Chrome is faster (I need to work on a slow Internet connection many times) while Safari being the bundled browser has few features like Reader etc. which I don't want to use. I still have FF installed for back up purposes but I don't use it unless something is broken on Chrome or Safari (which doesn't happen a lot).<p>I find it extremely surprising that some sites (ex:Facebook) are (or were a few months back) displayed differently on Windows FF vs OS X FF.</text></comment> | <story><title>Camino browser reaches its end</title><url>http://caminobrowser.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eightyone</author><text>I want to like Firefox, I really do, but the experience on OS X is awful. It doesn't fit well with the aesthetic of a native Mac app, and certainty doesn't' function like one. Multi-gestures in Safari are so much smoother. About a month or so back when the Firefox team was soliciting feedback for something here on HN, one of the designers or developers at Mozilla had screenshots of a version of Firefox that looked really good. I went to go download the latest version and realized that the screenshots most have just been Photoshop comps or something.</text></item><item><author>kunai</author><text>I find this extremely saddening because Camino offered the best native experience for OS X, with all the polish of a well-designed Cocoa app, on top of Gecko.<p>I'll miss Camino.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>notatoad</author><text>did it look like this [1]? that's the UX nightly available at [2]. it's a new theme they're working on, but it's got a few versions to go before it makes it into stable. i'm loving it, but they're removing/changing a couple of customization features so people are freaking out. we'll see what the final product ends up looking like.<p>[1] <a href="http://i.imgur.com/Gfns2MS.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/Gfns2MS.png</a><p>[2] <a href="http://people.mozilla.org/~jwein/ux-nightly/" rel="nofollow">http://people.mozilla.org/~jwein/ux-nightly/</a></text></comment> |
19,859,624 | 19,858,907 | 1 | 3 | 19,858,336 | train | <story><title>Uber’s Arbitration Addiction Could Be Death by 60k Cuts</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-08/uber-s-arbitration-addiction-could-be-death-by-60-000-cuts</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Sephr</author><text>Uber tried to get me to agree to arbitration and sign an NDA for a mere $100 of compensation to replace my fianceé&#x27;s clothes soiled by an Uber car.[1]<p>We were out late one night and we called an Uber to get back home. After a very long wait and an odd delay where the driver stayed in the same position on the map for 10 minutes, they started driving again and then arrived. (We suspect that during this time one of the passengers shit themselves)<p>My fianceé sat down and immediately felt excrement all over her clothing. It was very dark so she did not see this until after she entered the car and sat down. We also noticed that the other supposed passenger mentioned in the Uber app already bailed.<p>We were never compensated as we would not agree to the NDA. I don&#x27;t think we could agree to the NDA even if we wanted to because I already tweeted about the incident before being offered compensation.[2]<p>Uber mentioned that the NDA isn&#x27;t required in cases of sexual assault, but it&#x27;s still required even if you are potentially exposed to sexually transmitted diseases through human excrement. What the fuck?<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;go.eligrey.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;uber-nda.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;go.eligrey.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;uber-nda.pdf</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;sephr&#x2F;status&#x2F;1068251146676891649" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;sephr&#x2F;status&#x2F;1068251146676891649</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Uber’s Arbitration Addiction Could Be Death by 60k Cuts</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-08/uber-s-arbitration-addiction-could-be-death-by-60-000-cuts</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kevin_b_er</author><text>I view this is as a good thing. Corporations love to strip out the ability to get disputes against them settled by a court of law. The arbitration process is secretive and designed for companies to win, eventually.<p>Let their swords against just and favourable conditions of work be used against them.</text></comment> |
23,147,962 | 23,146,241 | 1 | 3 | 23,143,888 | train | <story><title>Teensy 4.1 Development Board</title><url>https://www.pjrc.com/store/teensy41.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ohazi</author><text>PSA: Networking on microcontrollers is a giant pain in the ass.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, boards like this (and ESP&#x2F;Realtek boards with WiFi) are great for hacky prototypes. But if you&#x27;re building an embedded device that will be deployed in any sort of volume, a small application processor running Linux will make your life <i>dramatically</i> easier. You can keep it asleep most of the time if your power budget is tight.<p>The hard part is not cramming in an Ethernet PHY or a 2.4 GHz radio, it&#x27;s the mountain of software that you need to run on top of it to get the kind of reliable, secure communications channels that we&#x27;ve come to expect. Bare metal networking stacks like LwIP have a reputation for being buggy, and are nowhere near as battle-tested as the Linux&#x2F;BSD networking stacks security-wise. Some of the more memory constrained devices can barely fit a complete certificate chain. Are you really prepared to roll out updates on a system like this when the next Heartbleed comes along?<p>Also, the layers tend to pile on, so while you might get away with a bare-bones wire protocol initially, you&#x27;ll be starting your project close to the limits of what is practical. Somebody will eventually ask you if you can connect to a websocket. I know buildroot and yocto look a little scary at first, but they&#x27;re better than designing yourself into a corner before you even get off the ground.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freefriedrice</author><text>That&#x27;s a matter of opinion.<p>If you don&#x27;t know jack about network programming, then of course you can retreat to Linux. But Linux is not an edge &#x2F; IoT platform by any stretch of the imagination. Micro RTOS is closer, but still overkill for embedded Wi-Fi.<p>Specifically for Wi-Fi, LWIP is -the- stack to use for embedded TCP&#x2F;IP. It is under 30K with full TCP&#x2F;IP and offers everything you need. Then there is COAP or MQTT, which are miniscule compared to HTTP. mbedTLS adds another 80K for full TLS compatibility on 40MHz processors. On top of this every major wifi vendor has an SDK that fits nicely into LWIP (some even ship it), some are small (CC5000) some are larger (like the WF200), but the APIs are pretty straightforward. Now, leaving TCP&#x2F;IP and 802.11 will add headaches (BLE, ZigBee, Zwave) due to additional learning curves, but only because most people in embedded networking already understand TCP&#x2F;IP and 802.11 phy.<p>If you want to play in the embedded space, you gotta learn about it. Running back to linux might work in some cases, but not constrained IoT space.<p>EDIT: I had my #s reversed, LWIP is under 30K, mbedTLS is around 80K, TLS is most of that (esp. RSA stuff, I could have disabled everything I didn&#x27;t need [mbed has highly granular config] based on the ciphersuite and shrunk it considerably since ECC is smaller and faster than RSA). Just checked my map file, and I was in -O0 optimization mode.<p>EDIT2: On second thought: if people want to complain that they need linux to do networking on the edge, please complain! I&#x27;ll interview after you and demonstrate MQTT with TLS v1.3 running off an MCU with a 2032 coincell for months (eh, I&#x27;m weirdflexing a little, but still...)</text></comment> | <story><title>Teensy 4.1 Development Board</title><url>https://www.pjrc.com/store/teensy41.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ohazi</author><text>PSA: Networking on microcontrollers is a giant pain in the ass.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, boards like this (and ESP&#x2F;Realtek boards with WiFi) are great for hacky prototypes. But if you&#x27;re building an embedded device that will be deployed in any sort of volume, a small application processor running Linux will make your life <i>dramatically</i> easier. You can keep it asleep most of the time if your power budget is tight.<p>The hard part is not cramming in an Ethernet PHY or a 2.4 GHz radio, it&#x27;s the mountain of software that you need to run on top of it to get the kind of reliable, secure communications channels that we&#x27;ve come to expect. Bare metal networking stacks like LwIP have a reputation for being buggy, and are nowhere near as battle-tested as the Linux&#x2F;BSD networking stacks security-wise. Some of the more memory constrained devices can barely fit a complete certificate chain. Are you really prepared to roll out updates on a system like this when the next Heartbleed comes along?<p>Also, the layers tend to pile on, so while you might get away with a bare-bones wire protocol initially, you&#x27;ll be starting your project close to the limits of what is practical. Somebody will eventually ask you if you can connect to a websocket. I know buildroot and yocto look a little scary at first, but they&#x27;re better than designing yourself into a corner before you even get off the ground.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>im_down_w_otp</author><text>The power budget isn&#x27;t the only reason you go for an MCU. Often you&#x27;re doing it for the real-time guarantees or the hardware qualification (e.g. for applications where you need something with a safety rating). That said, yes... TCP&#x2F;IP based networking in the traditional embedded world isn&#x27;t comparatively pleasant.</text></comment> |
28,366,112 | 28,366,176 | 1 | 2 | 28,365,138 | train | <story><title>Brooks, Wirth and Go</title><url>https://www.fredrikholmqvist.com/posts/brooks-wirth-go/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dgb23</author><text>I really like Go and respect the authors and maintainers of the language. It is well designed and achieves its goals exceptionally well. The author of this article is right: Give it a Go! You&#x27;ll learn it quickly and will appreciate having learned it, there are many, very considerate design decisions to discover, ranging from language implementation, tooling and the standard library.<p>I&#x27;m sometimes jealous of Go&#x27;s users, the language is very readable, light and refreshingly straight forward.<p>That said, I cannot bring myself to use it (anymore).<p>The language doesn&#x27;t scale with my ability and in some sense seems almost patronizing. I&#x27;m not a particularly good programmer, but I&#x27;m experienced enough that I feel held back by languages like Go. When you are used to more power, expressiveness and clarity, then you just miss it at every step of the way.<p>On one hand the language doesn&#x27;t let me encode higher level thinking directly (relational, functional, domain specific...) but I have to act as a compiler. And vice versa it doesn&#x27;t expose the low level control that one would want to squeeze out performance and minimize resource usage either.<p>Again, Go still feels attractive in some sense, and I wish I had a reason to use it more, but I can&#x27;t find it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>t8sr</author><text>I think not letting you encode relational, functional and domain-specific higher level thinking is by design.<p>I review a lot of code, and have been programming for 20 years. I think most programmers go through a phase, after 2-5 years of experience, where they get really into higher-level thinking. Everything is written according to a mantra like TTD, functional design, or everything-is-an-object, and they spend most of their complexity budget on abstractions.<p>The code people write in that stage of their careers looks to them like an improvement over the simpler concepts they started with, it ends up being so much technical debt 12 months later, because almost nobody is good at predicting which higher-level concepts you are going to need, and by the time you realize you were wrong, it’s too expensive to remove them.<p>It’s hard for a language to encourage this kind of you-ain’t-gonna-need-it thinking without seeming patronizing, but I promise you that the next 10 years of your career will change your mind.<p>(I realize I also sound patronizing and I’m sorry: I typed this on a phone, so left out some caveats, such as I don’t know you and your background.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Brooks, Wirth and Go</title><url>https://www.fredrikholmqvist.com/posts/brooks-wirth-go/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dgb23</author><text>I really like Go and respect the authors and maintainers of the language. It is well designed and achieves its goals exceptionally well. The author of this article is right: Give it a Go! You&#x27;ll learn it quickly and will appreciate having learned it, there are many, very considerate design decisions to discover, ranging from language implementation, tooling and the standard library.<p>I&#x27;m sometimes jealous of Go&#x27;s users, the language is very readable, light and refreshingly straight forward.<p>That said, I cannot bring myself to use it (anymore).<p>The language doesn&#x27;t scale with my ability and in some sense seems almost patronizing. I&#x27;m not a particularly good programmer, but I&#x27;m experienced enough that I feel held back by languages like Go. When you are used to more power, expressiveness and clarity, then you just miss it at every step of the way.<p>On one hand the language doesn&#x27;t let me encode higher level thinking directly (relational, functional, domain specific...) but I have to act as a compiler. And vice versa it doesn&#x27;t expose the low level control that one would want to squeeze out performance and minimize resource usage either.<p>Again, Go still feels attractive in some sense, and I wish I had a reason to use it more, but I can&#x27;t find it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kubb</author><text>Many people love it on HN, but for me coding in Go is a chore that makes me disinterested in my job. After 3 years of working with it, I dispute the claims about readability and simplicity. In Go, you solve problems by outputting inhuman amounts of code. It can feel productive, but most of it is just noise.<p>Of course just because I&#x27;m not well suited for it doesn&#x27;t mean it&#x27;s not for others. But there&#x27;s a lot that we&#x27;ve collectively learned about programming, that&#x27;s not acknowledged in Go&#x27;s design.<p>You can start coding in it pretty fast, that much is true.</text></comment> |
12,883,382 | 12,883,261 | 1 | 2 | 12,882,837 | train | <story><title>Tensorflow and Deep Learning, Without a PhD, Martin Gorner, Google [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEciSlAClL8</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>minimaxir</author><text>Although TensorFlow&#x2F;Keras allows anyone to implement Deep Learning easily, that doesn&#x27;t mean that they will get <i>hired</i> for a relevant job position without a PhD. Most Deep Learning jobs, and even relatively mundane Data Scientist jobs nowadays, want a PhD from my experience. There is a surplus of Statistics&#x2F;CS PhDs, why would a company hire someone without one if they do not have to?<p>Without a relevant job position, knowing how to implement Deep Learning is a buzzword trick for Medium thought pieces or getting $$ in funding from venture capitalists for a generic &quot;AI&quot; startup that no one actually understands how it works.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>agibsonccc</author><text>I have seen this from multiple angles.<p>I used to teach at a data science bootcamp where many of the students got hired by big companies.<p>I&#x27;ve also been running a deep learning startup for the last few years and have hired quite a few people.<p>Many of our team don&#x27;t have phds but can still write backprop code for even complex modules like inception among other things. A lot of my students didn&#x27;t have phds either.<p>A few of us (me included) are self taught. I&#x27;ve also coauthored the largest oreilly book on deep learning:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;shop.oreilly.com&#x2F;product&#x2F;0636920035343.do" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;shop.oreilly.com&#x2F;product&#x2F;0636920035343.do</a><p>1 piece of advice I would offer is building something that differentiates you from the rest. Many of these &quot;medium thought pieces&quot; you&#x27;re talking about are actually very cool applications of deep learning. If you want to get hired for these kinds of roles, I would demonstrate you understand how to build things with deep learning. The litmus test I would also look for is &quot;I trained a net from scratch and innovated in x way&quot;. Honestly, there&#x27;s a rare amount of talent out there that can do well at software engineering as well as deep learning. I&#x27;m not convinced a phd is a hard requirement.<p>I get that recruiters at these larger companies definitely tend to look for the buzz words and often can&#x27;t tell the difference so it&#x27;s definitely harder going the traditional route.<p>Tech hiring also tends to be a networking thing as much as it is buzz word bingo no matter what field you&#x27;re in. If you can network a bit and build something cool that demonstrates an understanding of deep learning I don&#x27;t see the problem.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tensorflow and Deep Learning, Without a PhD, Martin Gorner, Google [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEciSlAClL8</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>minimaxir</author><text>Although TensorFlow&#x2F;Keras allows anyone to implement Deep Learning easily, that doesn&#x27;t mean that they will get <i>hired</i> for a relevant job position without a PhD. Most Deep Learning jobs, and even relatively mundane Data Scientist jobs nowadays, want a PhD from my experience. There is a surplus of Statistics&#x2F;CS PhDs, why would a company hire someone without one if they do not have to?<p>Without a relevant job position, knowing how to implement Deep Learning is a buzzword trick for Medium thought pieces or getting $$ in funding from venture capitalists for a generic &quot;AI&quot; startup that no one actually understands how it works.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elliott34</author><text>I think one of the only companies doing this right, and that has the resources to do this right, is facebook, as they seperate AI research and teams that are focused on putting these things into production (i.e. ML engineers vs Ml researchers). Trying to combine these two things into the same role is resulting in continued confusion and frustration. I like this Stitchfix article as an overview (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;multithreaded.stitchfix.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2016&#x2F;03&#x2F;16&#x2F;engineers-shouldnt-write-etl&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;multithreaded.stitchfix.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2016&#x2F;03&#x2F;16&#x2F;engineers...</a>)</text></comment> |
30,113,888 | 30,113,240 | 1 | 2 | 30,111,516 | train | <story><title>There’s No Such Thing as Clean Code</title><url>https://www.steveonstuff.com/2022/01/27/no-such-thing-as-clean-code</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skohan</author><text>Yeah this just hasn&#x27;t been my experience. If you&#x27;re working on a house you measure twice and cut once because the cost of reworking physical materials is a lot more expensive than the cost of doing a second measurement.<p>If you could delete half your house and re-build it at zero cost, it might be more valuable to just go for the first attempt and learn from it rather than trying to do everything in theory up front.<p>If you find yourself working on a &quot;monstrosity&quot; maybe you haven&#x27;t seen the signs soon enough that you need to take a step back and refactor. But in my experience, at least starting on the problem with a POC gives you so much more high quality information that even if you have to scrap and re-write part way in, you&#x27;re going to reach such a better result than if you try to map the whole thing out first without actually having tried to solve the problem.</text></item><item><author>jcbrand</author><text>Back in university I had an experience that was really instructive.<p>For a project we had to write a program that differentiates mathematical equations.<p>I dove in and just started writing code. Eventually, I realized that I had made a design error and that my code was <i>much</i> more complicated and cumbersome than it needed to be and I was getting stuck due to the complexity of the monstrosity I created.<p>Unfortunately I figured this fundamental design flaw the night before we had to hand the assignment in and there was no way I could rewrite everything from scratch. I had to push through and put lipstick on this pig as best I could.<p>In the end, I had spent way more time working on this project than my friends who had spent time upfront designing their programs instead of just jumping in.<p>This has taught me the lesson to always first try and think things through and come up with some kind of initial design, instead of just jumping in and writing code blindly. Yes you can always refactor, but some early design mistakes can cost you a lot of time, and perhaps make refactoring unfeasible compared to a complete rewrite.<p>As they say &quot;measure twice, cut once&quot;.</text></item><item><author>skohan</author><text>The more code I&#x27;ve written, the less I care about code quality.<p>I think the things I could point to in my coding practice which would make the code I write now better than the code I wrote 10 years ago would be:<p>- I minimize interdependencies (changing a line of code should not affect something un-related)<p>- I go for abstractions later, only when I need them, rather than trying to think of the perfect abstraction&#x2F;design pattern which will solve the problem in the most elegant or clever way<p>Besides that, I&#x27;m a huge fan of disposable code. In my experience 99% of the time, the best approach is to just dive into the problem and try to solve the problem in the most pragmatic way. Maybe that&#x27;s hard-coding a lot of things. Maybe that&#x27;s having a small amount of repetition here and there. Maybe it&#x27;s writing one long function with 1000 lines.<p>After that it&#x27;s all about continuous improvement. You spend your time solving the problem, and when your code becomes hard to work on, you spend time improving your code to make it easier to work on by cleaning things up, and adding sensible abstractions which solve the problems you actually have.<p>In my experience, over time this approach leaves you with a very ergonomic and easy to understand codebase.</text></item><item><author>rawoke083600</author><text>So True !
After 25+ years of coding, I know one thing. I STILL don&#x27;t know how to &quot;code correctly&quot;.<p>And apart from a few gifted individuals (Rob Pike, Fabrice Bellard Bobby Bingham [ffMpeg team] etc) I&#x27;m HIGHLY suspicious of ppl and programmers who claim &quot;they can program correctly&quot; and that &quot;this xyz is the correct way&#x2F;stack&#x2F;method&#x2F;arch&quot;.<p>Background:CS grad, start coding at around 13 (thank you dad !) I am well versed in C,C++,PHP,Go,TypeScript and to a lesser degree Java and a few bits and bobs in between F#,Haskell,LISP...<p>The above is not to brag (not that it&#x27;s brag worthy after 25 years you bound to pick up a few tools) just to put it in perspective.<p>On Code quality:
I&#x27;ve noticed it&#x27;s easy to agree&#x2F;identify the &quot;extreme cases&quot; the VERY VERY BAD CODING and the very very GOOD CODING. But most of the coders and codebases falls somewhere in between where the code-quality-water quickly gets murky.<p>PS2. Oh and on &#x27;code reviews&#x27;: It would be cool if code-reviews were done &quot;anonymously&quot; i.e I should not know until the very end WHO wrote the code. Helps to keep any personal biases at bay - my 2cents.<p>The <i>best</i> thus far advise I&#x27;ve seen on code-quality guidelines is from a comment on HN:<p>&gt;I try to optimize my code around reducing state, coupling, complexity and code, in that order. I&#x27;m willing to add increased coupling if it makes my code more stateless. I&#x27;m willing to make it more complex if it reduces coupling. And I&#x27;m willing to duplicate code if it makes the code less complex. Only if it doesn&#x27;t increase state, coupling or complexity do I dedup code.<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11042400" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11042400</a><p>Sure I might just be a dumb idiot or completely not gifted in the &quot;art or science&quot; of coding. :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nthj</author><text>I’ve found people often overlook that while code can be very quickly deleted, gigabytes or terabytes of production data is a huge pain to ETL later. Investing in the data model upfront has huge payoffs for your code and avoiding ETLs later on.</text></comment> | <story><title>There’s No Such Thing as Clean Code</title><url>https://www.steveonstuff.com/2022/01/27/no-such-thing-as-clean-code</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skohan</author><text>Yeah this just hasn&#x27;t been my experience. If you&#x27;re working on a house you measure twice and cut once because the cost of reworking physical materials is a lot more expensive than the cost of doing a second measurement.<p>If you could delete half your house and re-build it at zero cost, it might be more valuable to just go for the first attempt and learn from it rather than trying to do everything in theory up front.<p>If you find yourself working on a &quot;monstrosity&quot; maybe you haven&#x27;t seen the signs soon enough that you need to take a step back and refactor. But in my experience, at least starting on the problem with a POC gives you so much more high quality information that even if you have to scrap and re-write part way in, you&#x27;re going to reach such a better result than if you try to map the whole thing out first without actually having tried to solve the problem.</text></item><item><author>jcbrand</author><text>Back in university I had an experience that was really instructive.<p>For a project we had to write a program that differentiates mathematical equations.<p>I dove in and just started writing code. Eventually, I realized that I had made a design error and that my code was <i>much</i> more complicated and cumbersome than it needed to be and I was getting stuck due to the complexity of the monstrosity I created.<p>Unfortunately I figured this fundamental design flaw the night before we had to hand the assignment in and there was no way I could rewrite everything from scratch. I had to push through and put lipstick on this pig as best I could.<p>In the end, I had spent way more time working on this project than my friends who had spent time upfront designing their programs instead of just jumping in.<p>This has taught me the lesson to always first try and think things through and come up with some kind of initial design, instead of just jumping in and writing code blindly. Yes you can always refactor, but some early design mistakes can cost you a lot of time, and perhaps make refactoring unfeasible compared to a complete rewrite.<p>As they say &quot;measure twice, cut once&quot;.</text></item><item><author>skohan</author><text>The more code I&#x27;ve written, the less I care about code quality.<p>I think the things I could point to in my coding practice which would make the code I write now better than the code I wrote 10 years ago would be:<p>- I minimize interdependencies (changing a line of code should not affect something un-related)<p>- I go for abstractions later, only when I need them, rather than trying to think of the perfect abstraction&#x2F;design pattern which will solve the problem in the most elegant or clever way<p>Besides that, I&#x27;m a huge fan of disposable code. In my experience 99% of the time, the best approach is to just dive into the problem and try to solve the problem in the most pragmatic way. Maybe that&#x27;s hard-coding a lot of things. Maybe that&#x27;s having a small amount of repetition here and there. Maybe it&#x27;s writing one long function with 1000 lines.<p>After that it&#x27;s all about continuous improvement. You spend your time solving the problem, and when your code becomes hard to work on, you spend time improving your code to make it easier to work on by cleaning things up, and adding sensible abstractions which solve the problems you actually have.<p>In my experience, over time this approach leaves you with a very ergonomic and easy to understand codebase.</text></item><item><author>rawoke083600</author><text>So True !
After 25+ years of coding, I know one thing. I STILL don&#x27;t know how to &quot;code correctly&quot;.<p>And apart from a few gifted individuals (Rob Pike, Fabrice Bellard Bobby Bingham [ffMpeg team] etc) I&#x27;m HIGHLY suspicious of ppl and programmers who claim &quot;they can program correctly&quot; and that &quot;this xyz is the correct way&#x2F;stack&#x2F;method&#x2F;arch&quot;.<p>Background:CS grad, start coding at around 13 (thank you dad !) I am well versed in C,C++,PHP,Go,TypeScript and to a lesser degree Java and a few bits and bobs in between F#,Haskell,LISP...<p>The above is not to brag (not that it&#x27;s brag worthy after 25 years you bound to pick up a few tools) just to put it in perspective.<p>On Code quality:
I&#x27;ve noticed it&#x27;s easy to agree&#x2F;identify the &quot;extreme cases&quot; the VERY VERY BAD CODING and the very very GOOD CODING. But most of the coders and codebases falls somewhere in between where the code-quality-water quickly gets murky.<p>PS2. Oh and on &#x27;code reviews&#x27;: It would be cool if code-reviews were done &quot;anonymously&quot; i.e I should not know until the very end WHO wrote the code. Helps to keep any personal biases at bay - my 2cents.<p>The <i>best</i> thus far advise I&#x27;ve seen on code-quality guidelines is from a comment on HN:<p>&gt;I try to optimize my code around reducing state, coupling, complexity and code, in that order. I&#x27;m willing to add increased coupling if it makes my code more stateless. I&#x27;m willing to make it more complex if it reduces coupling. And I&#x27;m willing to duplicate code if it makes the code less complex. Only if it doesn&#x27;t increase state, coupling or complexity do I dedup code.<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11042400" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11042400</a><p>Sure I might just be a dumb idiot or completely not gifted in the &quot;art or science&quot; of coding. :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gefhfffh</author><text>When can you rebuild at zero cost?<p>I have made similar avoidable mistakes of not thinking it through enough, could have saved me a lot of rewriting, which was pretty expensive</text></comment> |
41,405,476 | 41,404,068 | 1 | 3 | 41,397,847 | train | <story><title>Tabbed out on the Oregon Trail</title><url>https://blog.zarfhome.com/2024/08/tabbed-out-on-the-oregon-trail</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>GauntletWizard</author><text>The author mentions Jason Shiga&#x27;s Meanwhile as one of the only other books using this flowchart+tabs &quot;gameplay&quot; system. Meanwhile is one of the best experiences I&#x27;ve ever had reading a book, including it&#x27;s hidden&#x2F;unreachable pages, it&#x27;s circular and looping options, fourth wall breaking, etc. I highly recommend it - I also recommend all of Shiga&#x27;s other works, such as Demon[1] and Fleep[2]. It seems he&#x27;s also got another book in this style[3], which I&#x27;d missed the news of and have immediately ordered.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shigabooks.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shigabooks.com&#x2F;</a>
[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aaronsw.com&#x2F;2002&#x2F;fleep&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aaronsw.com&#x2F;2002&#x2F;fleep&#x2F;</a>
[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Adventuregame-Comics-Leviathan-Jason-Shiga&#x2F;dp&#x2F;1419757792" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Adventuregame-Comics-Leviathan-Jason-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Tabbed out on the Oregon Trail</title><url>https://blog.zarfhome.com/2024/08/tabbed-out-on-the-oregon-trail</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>082349872349872</author><text>the author&#x27;s own games: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eblong.com&#x2F;zarf&#x2F;if.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eblong.com&#x2F;zarf&#x2F;if.html</a></text></comment> |
33,365,202 | 33,365,095 | 1 | 2 | 33,362,957 | train | <story><title>Wild mammal biomass has declined by 85% since the rise of humans</title><url>https://ourworldindata.org/mammals</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>retrac</author><text>Going off on a tangent, but the scale of production is very hard to grasp. I&#x27;m probably not the first person to observe this, but I once did some napkin math about steel production, and what I realized kind of blew me away. About 1.9 billion tonnes in 2020. Like with billions of dollars, I have no intuition for such numbers. Context is needed.<p>Global steel production just before WW I was about 70 million tonnes. So production has increased about thirty-fold in one century. That wasn&#x27;t so shocking to me, at first. But 1910 was not the beginning of the industrial era; things had been under way for more than a century then. Railroads. Ocean liners. Factories. Knives and rivets for fabric owned by hundreds of millions of people. Dozens of skyscrapers in New York by then; the Brooklyn Bridge hung on thousands of tonnes of cable. All made out of steel.<p>Then it struck me. A few million tonnes a year in 1850. 70 million tonnes in 1910. All of it adds up to less than 1900 million tonnes. Every single tonne of steel manufactured by humans from prehistory until about a century ago -- the entire output of the industrial revolution -- amounts to less than one year at current production.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SCUSKU</author><text>I made a website to help visualize American meat consumption in terms of animals slaughtered per second. It’s pretty insane and I think does something to help communicate just how large such industrial operations truly are.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zach.ws&#x2F;meat&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zach.ws&#x2F;meat&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Wild mammal biomass has declined by 85% since the rise of humans</title><url>https://ourworldindata.org/mammals</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>retrac</author><text>Going off on a tangent, but the scale of production is very hard to grasp. I&#x27;m probably not the first person to observe this, but I once did some napkin math about steel production, and what I realized kind of blew me away. About 1.9 billion tonnes in 2020. Like with billions of dollars, I have no intuition for such numbers. Context is needed.<p>Global steel production just before WW I was about 70 million tonnes. So production has increased about thirty-fold in one century. That wasn&#x27;t so shocking to me, at first. But 1910 was not the beginning of the industrial era; things had been under way for more than a century then. Railroads. Ocean liners. Factories. Knives and rivets for fabric owned by hundreds of millions of people. Dozens of skyscrapers in New York by then; the Brooklyn Bridge hung on thousands of tonnes of cable. All made out of steel.<p>Then it struck me. A few million tonnes a year in 1850. 70 million tonnes in 1910. All of it adds up to less than 1900 million tonnes. Every single tonne of steel manufactured by humans from prehistory until about a century ago -- the entire output of the industrial revolution -- amounts to less than one year at current production.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nly</author><text>&quot;The greatest shortcoming of the human race is man’s inability to understand the exponential function.&quot;</text></comment> |
10,942,148 | 10,942,098 | 1 | 3 | 10,941,488 | train | <story><title>2015 “smashed” 2014’s global temperature record</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/01/20/its-official-2015-smashed-2014s-global-temperature-record-it-wasnt-even-close/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ps4fanboy</author><text>Nuclear Power, until those who care about the environment accept that the only clean at scale power solution for base load is nuclear power we will get no where. &quot;Renewables&quot; are great and should be in the mix but they are not an at scale solution.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www3.epa.gov&#x2F;climatechange&#x2F;images&#x2F;ghgemissions&#x2F;sources-overview.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www3.epa.gov&#x2F;climatechange&#x2F;images&#x2F;ghgemissions&#x2F;source...</a><p>By going mostly electric for our transportation and nuclear for power generation we could really make a dent in 58% of this pie.<p>There are people who simultaneous worry a tremendous amount about global warming who will actively protest against nuclear power.<p>All while an extremely large amount of pollution is being burned all around us. Be reasonable we need a now solution or there wont be a when.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lucisferre</author><text>This plan seems to ignore the growth curves of renewables.<p>By the time any nuclear power expansion plan gets into place exponential growth in photovoltaics and other renewable technologies will have taken over.<p>Nuclear power would have been a great idea, if we had started at least 10 or 20 years ago. It is unfortunate &quot;environmentalists&quot; did such a disservice to the environment, but we&#x27;re long past the point of Nuclear being a viable solution.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Growth_of_photovoltaics" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Growth_of_photovoltaics</a></text></comment> | <story><title>2015 “smashed” 2014’s global temperature record</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/01/20/its-official-2015-smashed-2014s-global-temperature-record-it-wasnt-even-close/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ps4fanboy</author><text>Nuclear Power, until those who care about the environment accept that the only clean at scale power solution for base load is nuclear power we will get no where. &quot;Renewables&quot; are great and should be in the mix but they are not an at scale solution.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www3.epa.gov&#x2F;climatechange&#x2F;images&#x2F;ghgemissions&#x2F;sources-overview.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www3.epa.gov&#x2F;climatechange&#x2F;images&#x2F;ghgemissions&#x2F;source...</a><p>By going mostly electric for our transportation and nuclear for power generation we could really make a dent in 58% of this pie.<p>There are people who simultaneous worry a tremendous amount about global warming who will actively protest against nuclear power.<p>All while an extremely large amount of pollution is being burned all around us. Be reasonable we need a now solution or there wont be a when.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>akamaka</author><text>If we can go mostly electric for our transportation, as you suggest, that means we have cheap and plentiful battery storage. If we can easily store power, there&#x27;s not much advantage for using nuclear power over wind and solar.</text></comment> |
33,562,785 | 33,563,119 | 1 | 2 | 33,561,222 | train | <story><title>Shopify Is Illegal in Germany</title><url>https://lsww.de/shopify-illegal/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shafyy</author><text>I think it&#x27;s good that the EU is forcing the US to get their privacy laws in order.</text></item><item><author>lmkg</author><text>The CLOUD Act gives US law enforcement access to the data, even if it&#x27;s only stored in Europe. That&#x27;s the problem, and the EU court is doing no more than recognizing that for the problem that it is.</text></item><item><author>yashap</author><text>But their CDN providers (CloudFlare, Amazon and Fastly) aren’t. That’s the claim made in the article, that using American owned CDNs makes your business illegal in Europe, even if no data processing or storage happens outside Europe. I find this hard to believe …</text></item><item><author>abrichr</author><text>To clarify: Shopify is a Canadian company (edit: but as mentioned elsewhere in this thread: they send data to CloudFlare, CloudFront (Amazon) and Fastly, which are US companies.)</text></item><item><author>shafyy</author><text>All EU companies sending any PII to US-owned companies, regardless if the actual data stays in the EU or not, are in danger to be sued similarly to the author of this post. This is, among other laws, because of the US CLOUD act:<p>&gt; <i>The CLOUD Act primarily amends the Stored Communications Act (SCA) of 1986 to allow federal law enforcement to compel U.S.-based technology companies via warrant or subpoena to provide requested data stored on servers regardless of whether the data are stored in the U.S. or on foreign soil.</i><p>So, it&#x27;s not a Shopify specific issue.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;CLOUD_Act" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;CLOUD_Act</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mbreese</author><text>I don&#x27;t think the EU will force the US to do anything w.r.t. privacy. Instead, we&#x27;ll see EU based CDNs start to take over customers from US CDNs. Less &quot;get your act together&quot;, more &quot;we&#x27;d rather do this ourselves...&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Shopify Is Illegal in Germany</title><url>https://lsww.de/shopify-illegal/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shafyy</author><text>I think it&#x27;s good that the EU is forcing the US to get their privacy laws in order.</text></item><item><author>lmkg</author><text>The CLOUD Act gives US law enforcement access to the data, even if it&#x27;s only stored in Europe. That&#x27;s the problem, and the EU court is doing no more than recognizing that for the problem that it is.</text></item><item><author>yashap</author><text>But their CDN providers (CloudFlare, Amazon and Fastly) aren’t. That’s the claim made in the article, that using American owned CDNs makes your business illegal in Europe, even if no data processing or storage happens outside Europe. I find this hard to believe …</text></item><item><author>abrichr</author><text>To clarify: Shopify is a Canadian company (edit: but as mentioned elsewhere in this thread: they send data to CloudFlare, CloudFront (Amazon) and Fastly, which are US companies.)</text></item><item><author>shafyy</author><text>All EU companies sending any PII to US-owned companies, regardless if the actual data stays in the EU or not, are in danger to be sued similarly to the author of this post. This is, among other laws, because of the US CLOUD act:<p>&gt; <i>The CLOUD Act primarily amends the Stored Communications Act (SCA) of 1986 to allow federal law enforcement to compel U.S.-based technology companies via warrant or subpoena to provide requested data stored on servers regardless of whether the data are stored in the U.S. or on foreign soil.</i><p>So, it&#x27;s not a Shopify specific issue.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;CLOUD_Act" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;CLOUD_Act</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bcrosby95</author><text>Wait, do you think law enforcement agencies in Europe can&#x27;t force companies to reveal ip addresses and&#x2F;or other customer information?</text></comment> |
2,417,685 | 2,417,730 | 1 | 2 | 2,417,602 | train | <story><title>C Craft: C is the desert island language.</title><url>http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~blynn/c/ch01.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Groxx</author><text>&#62;<i>In my Eiffel days, I was encouraged to write "integer", not "int", "character", not "char", and so on. I believe Java encourages this practice too. Supposedly clarity is maximized. But how can this be if we do the opposite when we speak? Do you say “taxi cab”, or “taximeter cabriolet”? Redundant utterances are tiresome and worse still, obscure the idea being expressed.</i><p>I see this argument a lot, and they strike me as people complaining because they don't use tools their language provides.<p>Typedefs are the answer to excessive name length, and they're <i>nearly</i> everywhere. Just create a couple typedef files, and import them as needed - future programmers get the full names easily, while you can program in your pseudo-K version of C for maximum keyboard efficiency. I have a handful of such files, they're endlessly useful - why write `Pop_froM_lIsT_WhIch_COntaiNs_speCiFik_type_X`, doing battle with naming-scheme-X that only employee-Y uses (and their associated spelling errors) when you can do so once, and write `pop` from then on, unambiguously?<p>The upside of typedefs for this comparison is that they're precisely what we do with spoken language - nobody knew what a "taxi cab" was until someone told them it the shorter version of "taximeter cabriolet", or until the full phrase was well enough known that it could be inferred accurately by the average person.</text></comment> | <story><title>C Craft: C is the desert island language.</title><url>http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~blynn/c/ch01.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>enneff</author><text>It's nice to see that the things he describes as C's greatest virtues are the same things we carried over into the design of Go. (<a href="http://golang.org/" rel="nofollow">http://golang.org/</a>)</text></comment> |
31,826,770 | 31,824,538 | 1 | 3 | 31,824,185 | train | <story><title>Beginner's Series to Rust</title><url>https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/beginners-series-to-rust/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cmrdporcupine</author><text>Cynical part of me feels like Rust is about to go from the <i>&quot;I like this tech I&#x27;ve been following for years and really dig but can&#x27;t get a job in it yet&quot;</i> to the <i>&quot;Everyone else has a job in it and claims senior status in it, but I can&#x27;t&quot;</i> phase.<p>I&#x27;ve been down that road before.<p>Meanwhile there&#x27;s a lot of immature pieces still. I was looking at SIMD support earlier today (thinking about porting an audio&#x2F;DSP project from C++) and it&#x27;s still early days. And Async is still half-baked as others have pointed out.</text></comment> | <story><title>Beginner's Series to Rust</title><url>https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/beginners-series-to-rust/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>synergy20</author><text>a short series in text will be nice too, reading text is 10x than watching a video, plus it&#x27;s safe at work</text></comment> |
19,576,816 | 19,576,857 | 1 | 3 | 19,576,092 | train | <story><title>You Are Not Google (2017)</title><url>https://blog.bradfieldcs.com/you-are-not-google-84912cf44afb</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>beering</author><text>For anyone who&#x27;s not used these &quot;managed&quot; services before, I want to add that it&#x27;s still a fuck ton of work. The work shifts from &quot;keeping X server running&quot; to &quot;how do I begin to configure and tune this service&quot;. You <i>will</i> run into performance issues, config gotchas, voodoo tuning, and maintenance concerns with any of AWS&#x27;s managed databases or k8s.<p>&gt; I&#x27;ll pay Amazon $N&#x2F;month to do that for me<p>Until you pay Amazon $N&#x2F;month to provide the service, and then another $M&#x2F;month to a human to manage it for you.</text></item><item><author>013a</author><text>The big issue I think we miss when people say &quot;why are you using Dynamo, just use SQL&quot; or &quot;why are you using hadoop, a bash shell would be faster&quot; or &quot;why are you using containers and kubernetes, just host a raspberry pi in your closet&quot;:<p>The former examples are all managed! That&#x27;s amazing for scaling teams.<p>(SQL can be managed with, say, RDS. Sure. But it&#x27;s not the same <i>level</i> of managed as Dynamo (or Firebase or something like that). It still requires maintenance and tuning and upkeep. Maybe that&#x27;s fine for you (remember: the point of this article was to tell you to THINK, not to just ignore any big tech products that come out). But don&#x27;t discount the advantage of true serverless.)<p>My goal is to be totally unable to SSH into everything that powers my app. I&#x27;m not saying that I want a stack where I don&#x27;t have to. I&#x27;m saying that I literally cannot, even if I wanted to real bad. That&#x27;s why serverless is the future; not because of the massive scale it enables, but because fuck maintenance, fuck operations, fuck worrying about buffer overflow bugs in OpenSSL, I&#x27;ll pay Amazon $N&#x2F;month to do that for me, all that matters is the product.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rlander</author><text>Exactly. There&#x27;s no silver bullet, only trade offs.<p>In this case you&#x27;re only shifting the complexity from &quot;maintaining&quot; to &quot;orchestrating&quot;. &quot;Maintaining&quot; means you build (in a semi-automated way) once and most of your work is spent keeping the services running. In the latter, you spend most of your time building the &quot;orchestration&quot; and little time maintaining.<p>If your product is still small, it makes sense to keep most of your infrastructure in &quot;maintaining&quot; since the number of services is small. As the product grows (and your company starts hiring ops people), you can slowly migrate to &quot;orchestrating&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>You Are Not Google (2017)</title><url>https://blog.bradfieldcs.com/you-are-not-google-84912cf44afb</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>beering</author><text>For anyone who&#x27;s not used these &quot;managed&quot; services before, I want to add that it&#x27;s still a fuck ton of work. The work shifts from &quot;keeping X server running&quot; to &quot;how do I begin to configure and tune this service&quot;. You <i>will</i> run into performance issues, config gotchas, voodoo tuning, and maintenance concerns with any of AWS&#x27;s managed databases or k8s.<p>&gt; I&#x27;ll pay Amazon $N&#x2F;month to do that for me<p>Until you pay Amazon $N&#x2F;month to provide the service, and then another $M&#x2F;month to a human to manage it for you.</text></item><item><author>013a</author><text>The big issue I think we miss when people say &quot;why are you using Dynamo, just use SQL&quot; or &quot;why are you using hadoop, a bash shell would be faster&quot; or &quot;why are you using containers and kubernetes, just host a raspberry pi in your closet&quot;:<p>The former examples are all managed! That&#x27;s amazing for scaling teams.<p>(SQL can be managed with, say, RDS. Sure. But it&#x27;s not the same <i>level</i> of managed as Dynamo (or Firebase or something like that). It still requires maintenance and tuning and upkeep. Maybe that&#x27;s fine for you (remember: the point of this article was to tell you to THINK, not to just ignore any big tech products that come out). But don&#x27;t discount the advantage of true serverless.)<p>My goal is to be totally unable to SSH into everything that powers my app. I&#x27;m not saying that I want a stack where I don&#x27;t have to. I&#x27;m saying that I literally cannot, even if I wanted to real bad. That&#x27;s why serverless is the future; not because of the massive scale it enables, but because fuck maintenance, fuck operations, fuck worrying about buffer overflow bugs in OpenSSL, I&#x27;ll pay Amazon $N&#x2F;month to do that for me, all that matters is the product.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brobdingnagians</author><text>The general fact of reality is that if you are building anything technical, then knowing and managing the details, whatever the details are, will get you a lot more bang for your buck. Reality isn&#x27;t just a garden variety one-size fits all kind of thing, so creating something usually isn&#x27;t either. If you just want a blog like everyone else&#x27;s, then that comes packaged, but if you want something special, you will always have to put in the expertise.</text></comment> |
40,459,380 | 40,459,663 | 1 | 2 | 40,458,686 | train | <story><title>US Army researched the health effects of radioactivity in St Louis 1945-1970 (2011)</title><url>https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/handle/10355/13170</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>A_D_E_P_T</author><text>Of course it was reckless and unethical, but it also seems like kind of an <i>unnecessary</i> study. There have been lots of population exposures to radiation before then, and many more since, and there were ample ways to gather data from those. And, if absolutely necessary, rhesus monkeys are close enough for government work. With that, and with perhaps some extrapolation and translation of data, I&#x27;m sure that there was nothing to be gained by experimenting on unwitting civilians.<p>By the way, speaking of population exposures to radiation: In Japan, people still pay good money to bathe in radioactive radon-rich hot springs. [1] It appears that it might even be healthy. [2]<p>1 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;misasaonsen.jp&#x2F;en&#x2F;radon&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;misasaonsen.jp&#x2F;en&#x2F;radon&#x2F;</a><p>2 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;37635139&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;37635139&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bguebert</author><text>It reminds me of this story about a guy that was injected with plutonium without his consent. They thought he wouldn&#x27;t mind since he had a terminal cancer diagnosis (that later turned out to be mistaken). It doesn&#x27;t make sense why they would do this kind of thing.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Albert_Stevens" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Albert_Stevens</a></text></comment> | <story><title>US Army researched the health effects of radioactivity in St Louis 1945-1970 (2011)</title><url>https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/handle/10355/13170</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>A_D_E_P_T</author><text>Of course it was reckless and unethical, but it also seems like kind of an <i>unnecessary</i> study. There have been lots of population exposures to radiation before then, and many more since, and there were ample ways to gather data from those. And, if absolutely necessary, rhesus monkeys are close enough for government work. With that, and with perhaps some extrapolation and translation of data, I&#x27;m sure that there was nothing to be gained by experimenting on unwitting civilians.<p>By the way, speaking of population exposures to radiation: In Japan, people still pay good money to bathe in radioactive radon-rich hot springs. [1] It appears that it might even be healthy. [2]<p>1 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;misasaonsen.jp&#x2F;en&#x2F;radon&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;misasaonsen.jp&#x2F;en&#x2F;radon&#x2F;</a><p>2 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;37635139&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;37635139&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>odyssey7</author><text>Good news: you might not need to add a radon tank to the hot tub you already own. The control group for [2] was people who did not do any hot spring bathing at all during an average week, so their methodology does not explore the significance of the radon itself.</text></comment> |
9,706,698 | 9,706,706 | 1 | 2 | 9,705,546 | train | <story><title>What the Next Generation Needs Is Math, Not Programming</title><url>http://statspotting.com/what-the-next-generation-needs-is-math-not-programming/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cousin_it</author><text>What the next generation really needs is an economy where everyone can make a decent living with a modest effort, without having to desperately &quot;outcompete&quot; other job seekers. The US had that kind of economy at some point. Since we haven&#x27;t lost any arcane secrets since then, it must be still achievable today.</text></item><item><author>Delmania</author><text>What the next generation really needs lessons in:
- Humility
- Empathy
- Patience
- Self restraint and control
- Mindfulness&#x2F;Awareness
- Disappointment
- Resilience
- Communication
- Listening
- Learning
- Financial independence and literacy
- Critical thinking
- Problem solving
- Self acceptance<p>Then we can focus on what area the person can best contribute in. Not everyone is going to suited for a job in programming or mathematics, or STEM as a whole.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cynicalkane</author><text>The &quot;decent living&quot; of past generations is still available today, but past generations were poorer than you think they were, particularly for those who don&#x27;t come from white and privileged backgrounds.</text></comment> | <story><title>What the Next Generation Needs Is Math, Not Programming</title><url>http://statspotting.com/what-the-next-generation-needs-is-math-not-programming/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cousin_it</author><text>What the next generation really needs is an economy where everyone can make a decent living with a modest effort, without having to desperately &quot;outcompete&quot; other job seekers. The US had that kind of economy at some point. Since we haven&#x27;t lost any arcane secrets since then, it must be still achievable today.</text></item><item><author>Delmania</author><text>What the next generation really needs lessons in:
- Humility
- Empathy
- Patience
- Self restraint and control
- Mindfulness&#x2F;Awareness
- Disappointment
- Resilience
- Communication
- Listening
- Learning
- Financial independence and literacy
- Critical thinking
- Problem solving
- Self acceptance<p>Then we can focus on what area the person can best contribute in. Not everyone is going to suited for a job in programming or mathematics, or STEM as a whole.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>strictnein</author><text>What&#x27;s a &quot;modest effort&quot;? And when did we have an economy based on a &quot;modest effort&quot;?<p>Work has never been easier in the US than it currently is. Record number of office workers, minimal number of farmers, factory workers, and manual labor in general.</text></comment> |
38,523,806 | 38,523,020 | 1 | 2 | 38,522,325 | train | <story><title>A Windows Update bug is renaming everyone's printers to HP M101-M106</title><url>https://www.xda-developers.com/windows-update-bug-renaming-printers-m101-m106/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thedanbob</author><text>&gt; After the printer metadata incorrectly identified everyone&#x27;s printers as HP LaserJet printers, Windows installed all the software needed for an HP printer to work smoothly, including the HP Smart App.<p>Tangential, but I absolutely hate printers that force you to install an app (or should I say spyware?) along with their drivers.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Windows Update bug is renaming everyone's printers to HP M101-M106</title><url>https://www.xda-developers.com/windows-update-bug-renaming-printers-m101-m106/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>randerson</author><text>This explains the confusing email I got from Microsoft Family Safety last week saying that my child (who uses a locked down Windows PC for gaming) had purchased the HP Smart application from the Microsoft store for $0.00.</text></comment> |
23,287,304 | 23,286,794 | 1 | 2 | 23,285,758 | train | <story><title>London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline</title><url>https://www.economist.com/britain/2020/05/21/london-may-have-gone-into-a-covid-accelerated-decline</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>matz1</author><text>The virus is not gonna disappear but it doesn&#x27;t mean you are going to be infected as well. If you do infected, doesn&#x27;t mean you are going to have the symptom. If you do have the symptom, doesn&#x27;t mean you are going to have severe symptom. If you do have severe symptom, doesn&#x27;t mean you are going to require hospitalization.</text></item><item><author>kinkrtyavimoodh</author><text>Considering that the virus is here to stay for a few years at least, how can we blame them for thinking this way? Lifting the lockdown is not gonna make the virus disappear.</text></item><item><author>esotericn</author><text>The article takes a long time to essentially get around to saying this:<p>&gt; But covid-19 and the extreme social-distancing measures used to combat it pose a new and more profound danger to the capital<p>I feel that during lockdown a fair few people have turned mildly insane - they seem to honestly believe that we&#x27;re going to stand very far apart from other humans for the rest of time.<p>It&#x27;s just not the case. I&#x27;ll be in the pub by the end of the year.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roelschroeven</author><text>&gt; If you do have severe symptom, doesn&#x27;t mean you are going to require hospitalization.<p>Isn&#x27;t &quot;requiring hospitalization&quot; pretty much the definition of &quot;severe symptoms&quot;? As far as I can tell, when doctors talk about &quot;mild symptoms&quot;, that can include anything from a mild cough to weeks of heavy fever, muscle pains, ... .<p>But more importantly: even if you&#x27;re complete asymptomatic, you&#x27;re still very likely to infect other people and contribute to the spread of the virus and the disease. That&#x27;s bad for other people&#x27;s health, causes extra deaths, is bad for the economy, and generally makes everything worse for everybody including yourself.</text></comment> | <story><title>London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline</title><url>https://www.economist.com/britain/2020/05/21/london-may-have-gone-into-a-covid-accelerated-decline</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>matz1</author><text>The virus is not gonna disappear but it doesn&#x27;t mean you are going to be infected as well. If you do infected, doesn&#x27;t mean you are going to have the symptom. If you do have the symptom, doesn&#x27;t mean you are going to have severe symptom. If you do have severe symptom, doesn&#x27;t mean you are going to require hospitalization.</text></item><item><author>kinkrtyavimoodh</author><text>Considering that the virus is here to stay for a few years at least, how can we blame them for thinking this way? Lifting the lockdown is not gonna make the virus disappear.</text></item><item><author>esotericn</author><text>The article takes a long time to essentially get around to saying this:<p>&gt; But covid-19 and the extreme social-distancing measures used to combat it pose a new and more profound danger to the capital<p>I feel that during lockdown a fair few people have turned mildly insane - they seem to honestly believe that we&#x27;re going to stand very far apart from other humans for the rest of time.<p>It&#x27;s just not the case. I&#x27;ll be in the pub by the end of the year.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>johnohara</author><text>If you do require hospitalization it doesn&#x27;t mean you need intensive care. If you do require intensive care it doesn&#x27;t mean you are going to die.<p>If you are discharged from a hospital and require rehabilitation you will probably be placed in some form of nursing facility with other patients who may or may not have been infected.<p>The last part is the hidden disaster of the COVID-19 crisis.</text></comment> |
17,360,885 | 17,360,896 | 1 | 2 | 17,358,017 | train | <story><title>Big fish are found deep not because of age, climate, or prey, but because of us</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/06/ecological-law-turns-out-to-just-be-the-result-of-us-fishing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danharaj</author><text>With what? Fake internet points? Some reward, where do I redeem them?</text></item><item><author>vivafrance</author><text>Most comments in a community are unsupported speculation. Those commenters that parrot popular opinions are rewarded.</text></item><item><author>gowld</author><text>Maybe it was met with disdain because it was unsupported speculation?
Why would a fishing effect occur over a span of a few recently years, instead of over 100 years of fishing?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldwildlife.org&#x2F;stories&#x2F;sockeye-salmon-and-climate-change" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldwildlife.org&#x2F;stories&#x2F;sockeye-salmon-and-cli...</a></text></item><item><author>southern_cross</author><text>I read a story once where ongoing changes in the timing of salmon runs were (of course) being blamed on climate change by scientists. But then someone who is actually in the fishing industry pointed out that for ages now we&#x27;ve been artificially selecting out those salmon which run during the &quot;standard window&quot;, leaving in their wake mostly survivors who show up a little bit sooner or a little bit later, outside of that window. This person was of course then treated with absolute disdain by the online community which was discussing the issue; he might have even been banned outright for saying that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostrademons</author><text>Why do you post on HN? Would you continue to post if you were shadowbanned or consistently downvoted?<p>Status is a powerful motivator, and you don&#x27;t even need the points. You just have to feel like people are listening and take what you say seriously.</text></comment> | <story><title>Big fish are found deep not because of age, climate, or prey, but because of us</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/06/ecological-law-turns-out-to-just-be-the-result-of-us-fishing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danharaj</author><text>With what? Fake internet points? Some reward, where do I redeem them?</text></item><item><author>vivafrance</author><text>Most comments in a community are unsupported speculation. Those commenters that parrot popular opinions are rewarded.</text></item><item><author>gowld</author><text>Maybe it was met with disdain because it was unsupported speculation?
Why would a fishing effect occur over a span of a few recently years, instead of over 100 years of fishing?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldwildlife.org&#x2F;stories&#x2F;sockeye-salmon-and-climate-change" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldwildlife.org&#x2F;stories&#x2F;sockeye-salmon-and-cli...</a></text></item><item><author>southern_cross</author><text>I read a story once where ongoing changes in the timing of salmon runs were (of course) being blamed on climate change by scientists. But then someone who is actually in the fishing industry pointed out that for ages now we&#x27;ve been artificially selecting out those salmon which run during the &quot;standard window&quot;, leaving in their wake mostly survivors who show up a little bit sooner or a little bit later, outside of that window. This person was of course then treated with absolute disdain by the online community which was discussing the issue; he might have even been banned outright for saying that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lowpro</author><text>Yes, that’s how all major social networks work. Despite everyone knowing it’s dumb, it still works. They don’t mean anything except they do because people feel they mean something.</text></comment> |
21,704,027 | 21,703,577 | 1 | 2 | 21,701,488 | train | <story><title>Two malicious Python libraries caught stealing SSH and GPG keys</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/two-malicious-python-libraries-removed-from-pypi/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simias</author><text>The problem is convenience vs. security, and we all know that even knowledgeable users will often sacrifice the latter for the former.<p>Technically on many OSs you already have dozens of ways to achieve what you&#x27;re saying. You could spawn a VM, use a different user, use some container framework, use SELinux, etc... The problem is that usability is generally terrible. Or maybe not terrible but bad enough that many people will start mashing the &quot;allow&quot; button indiscriminately when they&#x27;re in a hurry and want the thing to Just Work. There&#x27;s only one thing I know for sure how to do with SELinux without having to lookup a guide or manual, it&#x27;s how to disable it.<p>Look at the modern Linux desktop for instance, you need admin privileges to configure a printer but your sensitive private files are just lying on your home directory with user privileges. That makes no sense.<p>This is not really a technical problem, that was solved when we invented the MMU, it&#x27;s an UI problem.</text></item><item><author>greggman2</author><text>I don&#x27;t know what the solution is but it feels like this is a much bigger issue and we need some rethinking of how OSes work by default. Apple has taken some steps it seems the last 2 MacOS updates where they block access to certain folders for lots of executables until the user specifically gives that permission. Unfortunately for things like python the permission is granted to the Terminal app so once given, all programs running under the terminal inherit the permissions.<p>Microsoft has started adding short life VMs. No idea if that&#x27;s good. Both MS and Apple offer their App stores with more locked down experiences though I&#x27;m sad they conflate app security and app markets.<p>Basically anytime I run any software, everytime I run &quot;make&quot; or &quot;npm install&quot; or &quot;pip install&quot; or download a game on Steam etc I&#x27;m having to trust 1000s of strangers they aren&#x27;t downloading my keys, my photos, my docs, etc...<p>I think you should be in control of your machine but IMO it&#x27;s time to default to locked down instead of defaulting to open.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>greggman2</author><text>I agree it can be inconvenient but don&#x27;t iOS and Android kind of show that for most users the experience can be just fine? For us devs we can still either open our systems or find better ways but I&#x27;d prefer the default to be more closed.<p>I&#x27;d also prefer the default to be VM-ish. Right now I have 275 projects in my &#x2F;home&#x2F;me&#x2F;src folder. Every one of them has at least a build process that executes code I have mostly not reviewed. Many of them execute more code after being built. Some of them execute code when they were installed for dependencies. Maybe I&#x27;m just not used to it but I&#x27;d really like if the process for isolating all 275 of those projects was somehow easier. Or maybe I&#x27;d prefer they were all isolated by default and that we could work on ways of making them easy to do the things they really need to do and hard&#x2F;discouraged to do anything that would also be a security issue.<p>Maybe people have suggestions. I don&#x27;t want an actual VM if it means I have to install 275 copies of OSes and 275 sets of semi global dependencies (like I don&#x27;t want to have to install python 3.8 200 times) but I do want all 275 of those projects not to be able to read my private keys or my photos etc or write outside designated areas</text></comment> | <story><title>Two malicious Python libraries caught stealing SSH and GPG keys</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/two-malicious-python-libraries-removed-from-pypi/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simias</author><text>The problem is convenience vs. security, and we all know that even knowledgeable users will often sacrifice the latter for the former.<p>Technically on many OSs you already have dozens of ways to achieve what you&#x27;re saying. You could spawn a VM, use a different user, use some container framework, use SELinux, etc... The problem is that usability is generally terrible. Or maybe not terrible but bad enough that many people will start mashing the &quot;allow&quot; button indiscriminately when they&#x27;re in a hurry and want the thing to Just Work. There&#x27;s only one thing I know for sure how to do with SELinux without having to lookup a guide or manual, it&#x27;s how to disable it.<p>Look at the modern Linux desktop for instance, you need admin privileges to configure a printer but your sensitive private files are just lying on your home directory with user privileges. That makes no sense.<p>This is not really a technical problem, that was solved when we invented the MMU, it&#x27;s an UI problem.</text></item><item><author>greggman2</author><text>I don&#x27;t know what the solution is but it feels like this is a much bigger issue and we need some rethinking of how OSes work by default. Apple has taken some steps it seems the last 2 MacOS updates where they block access to certain folders for lots of executables until the user specifically gives that permission. Unfortunately for things like python the permission is granted to the Terminal app so once given, all programs running under the terminal inherit the permissions.<p>Microsoft has started adding short life VMs. No idea if that&#x27;s good. Both MS and Apple offer their App stores with more locked down experiences though I&#x27;m sad they conflate app security and app markets.<p>Basically anytime I run any software, everytime I run &quot;make&quot; or &quot;npm install&quot; or &quot;pip install&quot; or download a game on Steam etc I&#x27;m having to trust 1000s of strangers they aren&#x27;t downloading my keys, my photos, my docs, etc...<p>I think you should be in control of your machine but IMO it&#x27;s time to default to locked down instead of defaulting to open.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fauigerzigerk</author><text>I sort of agree, but I think that user interfaces need an underlying conceptual model that is familiar to users separately from the actual UI. Otherwise any purely presentational change implies arbitrary new rules that no one can remember.<p>One conceptual model that has worked to some degree on mobile platforms is the idea that programs not users have permissions.<p>But mobile platforms are overdoing it in a way that makes data centric work impractical.<p>I&#x27;m not quite sure how to overcome these issues, but I feel that making the distinction between permissions assigned to users vs permissions assigned to programs more explicit and more visible could take us a step further.</text></comment> |
37,552,001 | 37,551,836 | 1 | 3 | 37,551,293 | train | <story><title>How much garden you would need to survive on</title><url>https://lifehacker.com/how-much-garden-you-would-need-to-100-survive-on-1848829190</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>syntaxing</author><text>I thought about this a lot during the peak of the pandemic. How much would you need to grow to not need to go to the grocery stores. But then I noticed, even for myself, if I eat 1 potato every meal, that’s over 1K potatoes a year. That’s a shit ton of potatoes. Include veggies, fruits, grain for chicken to make eggs, it’s really really tough to survive on your own garden. Makes me really appreciate our current food system.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>0_____0</author><text>People do it in parts of the world, generally referred to as &#x27;subsistence farming&#x27; and not considered a desirable situation<p>I think it&#x27;s really awesome for people to grow their own food but at the same time we need to have our eyes open - industrial ag is the backbone of our civilization, our way of life, and our freedom to do anything else with our time is dependent on it.<p>There are home gardeners out there who tout how much of their food they grow but curiously never seem to address that the bulk of their calories come from your industrial staple grains and starches.</text></comment> | <story><title>How much garden you would need to survive on</title><url>https://lifehacker.com/how-much-garden-you-would-need-to-100-survive-on-1848829190</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>syntaxing</author><text>I thought about this a lot during the peak of the pandemic. How much would you need to grow to not need to go to the grocery stores. But then I noticed, even for myself, if I eat 1 potato every meal, that’s over 1K potatoes a year. That’s a shit ton of potatoes. Include veggies, fruits, grain for chicken to make eggs, it’s really really tough to survive on your own garden. Makes me really appreciate our current food system.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fbdab103</author><text>Not a farmer but, I think potato yields are such that is achievable if you were dedicated to the task.<p>According to[0], a hectare (100m x 100m) should yield 25,000kg in a year. That&#x27;s a whole heck of a lot of potatoes.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;savvycalculator.com&#x2F;potato-yield-calculator&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;savvycalculator.com&#x2F;potato-yield-calculator&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
19,309,561 | 19,309,265 | 1 | 2 | 19,309,121 | train | <story><title>Welding breakthrough could transform manufacturing</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2019-03-welding-breakthrough.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sjcsjc</author><text>&quot;The process relies on the incredibly short pulses from the laser. These pulses last only a few picoseconds — a picosecond to a second is like a second compared to 30,000 years.&quot;<p>Nice bit of exposition.</text></comment> | <story><title>Welding breakthrough could transform manufacturing</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2019-03-welding-breakthrough.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Tor3</author><text>Very interesting. Welding glass and metal together instead of using an adhesive. This could be big, depending on how long-term testing comes out. The trick seems to be to use picosecond laser pulses to avoid running into thermal issues with the very different materials.</text></comment> |
32,509,627 | 32,393,210 | 1 | 2 | 32,381,206 | train | <story><title>Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall</title><url>https://www.efavdb.com/memory%20recall</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ren_engineer</author><text>I&#x27;d be really interested to see some research into integrating spaced repetition into our actual education system. Almost everything I see about it is adults learning, I wonder how much we could speed up primary school education considering so much of the &quot;base&quot; stuff needed to advance is rote memorization anyway<p>seems like countries should be investing money in this, potentially trillions in unlocked economic potential by improving and speeding up education. I think I read something like 20-30% of medical school students use SRS, yet only a fraction of the general population uses it. Insane to me that we have a tool like this and almost nothing is being done to improve adoption.</text></item><item><author>dls2016</author><text>I was anti-memorization until I went back to graduate school for mathematics. I had forgotten (or never learned) a lot of things needed to pass qualifying exams. At some point I ran across the spaced repetition idea (maybe from the Wired SuperMemo article [0]) and I gave it a try. I ended up using it to memorize large portions of baby Rudin and Munkres&#x27; Topology, as well as some algebra and a bunch of qualifying exam questions.<p>The qualifying exams were difficult until I reached some &quot;critical mass&quot; of knowledge. Then I could regurgitate proofs and even attack novel problems easily.<p>There&#x27;s an analogy here somewhere to the &quot;leetcode&quot; style of software engineer interview. On one hand qualifying exams and leetcode questions are a stupid gatekeeping mechanism, but on the other hand the best researchers&#x2F;engineers I know have a huge number of facts and examples memorized and ready at their fingertips. I didn&#x27;t think I needed to do so, but perhaps there is something to suffering through the rote memorization phase to make what comes next that much easier.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;2008&#x2F;04&#x2F;ff-wozniak&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;2008&#x2F;04&#x2F;ff-wozniak&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>David_R</author><text>&gt;see some research...spaced repetition into our actual education system.&lt;
I have followed the research in this area closely for several years. Most of the (excellent) foundational research was done by university psychology professors who used college students as subjects; it&#x27;s much harder for them to use primary school students, hence far less research with young learners. Implementing these techniques in elementary schools is more challenging then many would guess. Two good books: &quot;Make it Stick&quot; Brown, Roediger, McDaniel; &quot;Powerful Teaching&quot; Agarwal &amp; Bain. PM me if you&#x27;d like more info. The second book describes research with middle school students. Pooja Agarwal also hosts the informative site www.retrievalpractice.org which informs K-12 teachers and has lots of free downloads. I am involved in a startup that is beginning (pilot teachers in September) to implement spaced repetition for elementary school math.</text></comment> | <story><title>Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall</title><url>https://www.efavdb.com/memory%20recall</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ren_engineer</author><text>I&#x27;d be really interested to see some research into integrating spaced repetition into our actual education system. Almost everything I see about it is adults learning, I wonder how much we could speed up primary school education considering so much of the &quot;base&quot; stuff needed to advance is rote memorization anyway<p>seems like countries should be investing money in this, potentially trillions in unlocked economic potential by improving and speeding up education. I think I read something like 20-30% of medical school students use SRS, yet only a fraction of the general population uses it. Insane to me that we have a tool like this and almost nothing is being done to improve adoption.</text></item><item><author>dls2016</author><text>I was anti-memorization until I went back to graduate school for mathematics. I had forgotten (or never learned) a lot of things needed to pass qualifying exams. At some point I ran across the spaced repetition idea (maybe from the Wired SuperMemo article [0]) and I gave it a try. I ended up using it to memorize large portions of baby Rudin and Munkres&#x27; Topology, as well as some algebra and a bunch of qualifying exam questions.<p>The qualifying exams were difficult until I reached some &quot;critical mass&quot; of knowledge. Then I could regurgitate proofs and even attack novel problems easily.<p>There&#x27;s an analogy here somewhere to the &quot;leetcode&quot; style of software engineer interview. On one hand qualifying exams and leetcode questions are a stupid gatekeeping mechanism, but on the other hand the best researchers&#x2F;engineers I know have a huge number of facts and examples memorized and ready at their fingertips. I didn&#x27;t think I needed to do so, but perhaps there is something to suffering through the rote memorization phase to make what comes next that much easier.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;2008&#x2F;04&#x2F;ff-wozniak&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;2008&#x2F;04&#x2F;ff-wozniak&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lemming</author><text>No research here, but I use the great Fresh Cards app (by allenu here on HN) with my daughter&#x27;s homeschooling, and it works great. We&#x27;ve used it for phonics and all sorts of basic math facts, and I use it for scheduling spelling word review as well. We&#x27;re about to start teaching science and I anticipate using it a lot there as well.</text></comment> |
29,497,094 | 29,495,112 | 1 | 2 | 29,470,565 | train | <story><title>How to run a small social network site for your friends</title><url>https://runyourown.social/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Nerada</author><text>I miss how every hobby had a forum running on phpBB, SimpleMachines, Invision, etc.<p>HN is great, but it&#x27;s very point in time. If I find an interesting topic posted over a day ago, it&#x27;s never getting new replies. It&#x27;s a snapshot of the thoughts on that topic for that single day, nothing more.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>account42</author><text>As much as I like threaded discussion like on HN I think it makes following discussion over a longer period of time almost impossible as you need to look all over the tree for new replies. Even reddit&#x27;s highlighting of new posts does not really fix that and is s paid feaure anyway (except in the subs you moderate) so won&#x27;t have any effect on the nature of the community. Maybe having both a threaded view for the first time you want to read through a thread and a more linear view for updates would make sense.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to run a small social network site for your friends</title><url>https://runyourown.social/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Nerada</author><text>I miss how every hobby had a forum running on phpBB, SimpleMachines, Invision, etc.<p>HN is great, but it&#x27;s very point in time. If I find an interesting topic posted over a day ago, it&#x27;s never getting new replies. It&#x27;s a snapshot of the thoughts on that topic for that single day, nothing more.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rtpg</author><text>Yeah honestly forums counteract soooo much of the weird incentives that lead to a lot of yelling (yes there is still yelling in forums)<p>I’ve been in two “tiny forums” in the past and honestly I prefer that to the idea of a Twitter clone. Let’s people put in more effort, have real topics (like about events) and isn’t just streams.</text></comment> |
15,213,143 | 15,212,679 | 1 | 2 | 15,212,121 | train | <story><title>Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2016/8/23/12610890/google-search-punish-pop-ups-interstitial-ads</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikewhy</author><text>Not to defend the ad industry, but I don&#x27;t think these are equivalent. YouTube ads don&#x27;t block content so much as they delay it, much like inline ads.<p>The equivalent YouTube ad would be if it started playing and didn&#x27;t pause the video you&#x27;re trying to watch.</text></item><item><author>tyingq</author><text>Google is very concerned about ads that visually block text content. But somehow forcing ads in front of videos on YouTube isn&#x27;t the same exact thing?<p>Both force an ad to be looked at before granting you access to the content you came for. I don&#x27;t get the distinction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Sylos</author><text>There&#x27;s two kinds of on-video ads on YouTube. The ones that you described, which play before or during the video that you&#x27;re watching, pausing the video, and then the ads that display in a little overlay at the bottom of the video.<p>I don&#x27;t see how either of these would be alright by this new pseudo-policy, but your argument most definitely does not apply to the latter kind.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google will punish sites that use annoying pop-up ads</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2016/8/23/12610890/google-search-punish-pop-ups-interstitial-ads</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikewhy</author><text>Not to defend the ad industry, but I don&#x27;t think these are equivalent. YouTube ads don&#x27;t block content so much as they delay it, much like inline ads.<p>The equivalent YouTube ad would be if it started playing and didn&#x27;t pause the video you&#x27;re trying to watch.</text></item><item><author>tyingq</author><text>Google is very concerned about ads that visually block text content. But somehow forcing ads in front of videos on YouTube isn&#x27;t the same exact thing?<p>Both force an ad to be looked at before granting you access to the content you came for. I don&#x27;t get the distinction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tyingq</author><text>Not sure I understand. Both are an overlay blocking content. I suspect Google would still punish an interstitial overlay with a countdown timer that dismissed it. If you don&#x27;t click, YouTube sometimes makes you watch 30+ seconds of ads.<p>Here&#x27;s Google&#x27;s post about it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webmasters.googleblog.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;08&#x2F;helping-users-easily-access-content-on.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webmasters.googleblog.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;08&#x2F;helping-users-easi...</a></text></comment> |
21,916,820 | 21,916,305 | 1 | 2 | 21,905,138 | train | <story><title>Blue light may not be as disruptive to sleep patterns as thought: mouse study</title><url>https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/researchers-discover-when-its-good-to-get-the-blues/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mgraczyk</author><text>Anecdotally, I can pretty reliably trigger a migraine by staying up 2-3 hours later than normal staring at a normal LCD screen.<p>With flux&#x2F;redshift on, that doesn&#x27;t happen. Blue light may not be keeping me up, but it definitely fucks my brain up in some complicated way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ObsoleteNerd</author><text>I have life long (since puberty) chronic insomnia and regular debilitating migraines (every couple weeks), both of which require a variety of ongoing medications, and I can honestly say removing blue light as much as possible and reducing brightness to the minimum that’s still practical, on every electronic device I own, has transformed my life.<p>I used to get headaches using my computer or phone unless it was in daylight, and couldn’t use any screen late at night, but these days it’s no problem at all. If I’m in a hotel or somewhere where I can’t change the brightness&#x2F;colours then I get more headaches again.<p>It absolutely hasn’t cured me, and I still have both issues, but there has been a noticeable increase in quality of life and ability to use screens at night.<p>Our screens are way too bright because it looks good for marketing purposes. You get used to very low screen brightnesses very quickly, even on your TV, and whether it’s blue light or just brightness in general, I definitely think all these bright lights shined into our eyeballs at close range are doing damage.</text></comment> | <story><title>Blue light may not be as disruptive to sleep patterns as thought: mouse study</title><url>https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/researchers-discover-when-its-good-to-get-the-blues/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mgraczyk</author><text>Anecdotally, I can pretty reliably trigger a migraine by staying up 2-3 hours later than normal staring at a normal LCD screen.<p>With flux&#x2F;redshift on, that doesn&#x27;t happen. Blue light may not be keeping me up, but it definitely fucks my brain up in some complicated way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>quickthrower2</author><text>This could be placebo. Anything related to sleep or headaches there could be a psychological factor ie because you “know” blue light is bad it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.</text></comment> |
10,430,171 | 10,428,704 | 1 | 2 | 10,428,417 | train | <story><title>Getting a full PDF from a DRM-encumbered online textbook</title><url>http://vgel.me/posts/cracking-online-textbook/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aftbit</author><text>I&#x27;ve done the same thing before on a book in college, except my DRM wasn&#x27;t nice enough to let me print 10 pages at a go. Instead, I spun up a virtual X server with Xdummy with a resolution of 1200x10000. That showed a few dozen pages at a time. Then I automated screenshots (scrot) and PageDown (xdotool). Finally, some PIL magic to look for the thin gray line between pages plus convert and ghostscript and I had a PDF!</text></comment> | <story><title>Getting a full PDF from a DRM-encumbered online textbook</title><url>http://vgel.me/posts/cracking-online-textbook/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pdw</author><text>Watermarks and such are easy to remove with PDFtk, the swiss army knife of PDF files. Convert the input files to a plain-text representation, find the code that implements the watermark (it will be the only code that&#x27;s identical on every page), delete it and convert back. Easy as pie. It will also concatenate the partial files.</text></comment> |
13,018,314 | 13,017,997 | 1 | 3 | 13,014,731 | train | <story><title>No Evidence of Aloe Vera Found in the Aloe Vera at Wal-Mart, CVS</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-22/no-evidence-of-aloe-vera-found-in-the-aloe-vera-at-wal-mart-cvs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nickik</author><text>Its funny, whenever somebody makes a libertarian argument, somebody throws &#x27;libertarian utopia&#x27; back. I don&#x27;t believe in utopia, a libertarian system would not be perfect, misery and suffering will not be eliminated. Not everything you buy will be perfectly labeled. No libertarian I have ever met in my hole live believes the market&#x2F;legal based system is perfect, just that it usually outperforms a regulatory system<p>&gt; Or his incentive is to run a fly by night operation that shuts down before it can be sued.<p>So what, you manufacture 10 bottles of creme and then vanish into the shadows?<p>Companies have a huge intensive to stay, establish partnerships, branding, funding and so on.<p>Also, I think the idea of legal person has gone to far. Im not against the idea of big cooperations but the legal system has clearly gone to far into the direction of none accountability (something that was actually often the case in common law legal systems).<p>&gt; Their replacement for the evil gubmint is a host of other bureaucracies (giant consumer groups, a bunch of non-profits doing testing, insurance for everything, etc.) that presumably will have many of the same pathologies as the gubmint.<p>I have nothing against big organisations per se. That has never been my criticism of regulatory agencies.<p>The groups have much more intensive to actually provide value because they relay on people to be their costumer. Also, you have pluralism, different groups have different demands.<p>I honestly only care if stuff is not poisonous, and Im happy to pay for the lowest level of testing. I however don&#x27;t really care if the meat is actually beef, Im fine with horse as long as it is tasty.<p>Other people, like vegans are willing to pay way more for exact information.<p>How about a suggestion that can make both of use happy? We keep the FDA, they do everything the do now, only that other products can still be sold, but they need to have a reasonably BIG label on it, that they are not FDA approved. We put a tiny tax on all products actually approved by the FDA to fund the FDA.<p>This way we the people who care about the FDA fund it. If you are not happy with that, how about we fund 50% of the FDA that way and the other 50% threw taxes? How about if its still fully tax funded?<p>Would that not make everybody at least reasonably happy?<p>Historically such system usually prove that the state is not needed, and rather then excepting that the state monopolises it.</text></item><item><author>Steko</author><text>&gt; First, there can be a commercial consumer group that finds error, the buys nearly wothless claims from lots of consumers and goes after the seller with those. This will pretty quickly have the effect that the seller has much more insentive to test himself.<p>Or his incentive is to run a fly by night operation that shuts down before it can be sued.<p>&gt; Also you can have community no-profits doing this kind of things, that will make them seem less greedy.<p>This touches on one glaring problem with libertarian utopia. Their replacement for the evil gubmint is a host of other bureaucracies (giant consumer groups, a bunch of non-profits doing testing, insurance for everything, etc.) that presumably will have many of the same pathologies as the gubmint.</text></item><item><author>nickik</author><text>You are wrongly assuming that libertarians are atomistic and think that every consumer has to do everything. That is however not the case.<p>Libertarians have actually thought about this stuff quite a bit.<p>All society relies on a system of law. How this system is created or enforced is a seprete question. In almost all systems of law ever, there is a clause against fraud. Theirfore this company has defrauded everybody who has bought their product and therefore can be collectivly sued.<p>I must also mention that we have primitive collective suing systems in place. Many legal schooler have long advocated to change this.<p>It goes further then that, because the person that sold you the product and the producer might not be the same. The seller is also partially responsable and can be sued by the consumers, the seller must the sue the producer.<p>Its the same idea with river pollution, the lawcase goes up the river and expands.<p>As for discovering such cases. There are hole number of possible options if the options mentioned above are enforced.<p>First, there can be a commercial consumer group that finds error, the buys nearly wothless claims from lots of consumers and goes after the seller with those. This will pretty quickly have the effect that the seller has much more insentive to test himself.<p>Also you can have community no-profits doing this kind of things, that will make them seem less greedy.</text></item><item><author>macintux</author><text>One of the failings of the libertarian ideal. There&#x27;s no way for even an informed consumer to have any idea what most of their purchases contain, what safety issues they have, how effective they really are, etc.</text></item><item><author>dfar1</author><text>“You have to be very careful when you select and use aloe products,” said Tod Cooperman, president of White Plains, New York-based ConsumerLab.com, which has done aloe testing.<p>-- And how am supposed to be careful? Should I run my own lab to test every product I use?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alexose</author><text>&gt; Companies have a huge intensive to stay, establish partnerships, branding, funding and so on.<p>Companies have huge incentives to act altruistically, but individuals within those companies sometimes have huge incentives to maximize short-term profits.<p>There&#x27;s an asymmetry in the way companies and their employees operate. Employees can endanger the life of the company at a negligible-- or even negative-- cost to themselves. It&#x27;s why banking executives might reward the opening of millions of fraudulent accounts, for example.<p>I&#x27;ve yet to see an example of a company that can completely prevent this problem. Given the lack of evidence, I have to continue to believe in regulations that protect consumers.</text></comment> | <story><title>No Evidence of Aloe Vera Found in the Aloe Vera at Wal-Mart, CVS</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-22/no-evidence-of-aloe-vera-found-in-the-aloe-vera-at-wal-mart-cvs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nickik</author><text>Its funny, whenever somebody makes a libertarian argument, somebody throws &#x27;libertarian utopia&#x27; back. I don&#x27;t believe in utopia, a libertarian system would not be perfect, misery and suffering will not be eliminated. Not everything you buy will be perfectly labeled. No libertarian I have ever met in my hole live believes the market&#x2F;legal based system is perfect, just that it usually outperforms a regulatory system<p>&gt; Or his incentive is to run a fly by night operation that shuts down before it can be sued.<p>So what, you manufacture 10 bottles of creme and then vanish into the shadows?<p>Companies have a huge intensive to stay, establish partnerships, branding, funding and so on.<p>Also, I think the idea of legal person has gone to far. Im not against the idea of big cooperations but the legal system has clearly gone to far into the direction of none accountability (something that was actually often the case in common law legal systems).<p>&gt; Their replacement for the evil gubmint is a host of other bureaucracies (giant consumer groups, a bunch of non-profits doing testing, insurance for everything, etc.) that presumably will have many of the same pathologies as the gubmint.<p>I have nothing against big organisations per se. That has never been my criticism of regulatory agencies.<p>The groups have much more intensive to actually provide value because they relay on people to be their costumer. Also, you have pluralism, different groups have different demands.<p>I honestly only care if stuff is not poisonous, and Im happy to pay for the lowest level of testing. I however don&#x27;t really care if the meat is actually beef, Im fine with horse as long as it is tasty.<p>Other people, like vegans are willing to pay way more for exact information.<p>How about a suggestion that can make both of use happy? We keep the FDA, they do everything the do now, only that other products can still be sold, but they need to have a reasonably BIG label on it, that they are not FDA approved. We put a tiny tax on all products actually approved by the FDA to fund the FDA.<p>This way we the people who care about the FDA fund it. If you are not happy with that, how about we fund 50% of the FDA that way and the other 50% threw taxes? How about if its still fully tax funded?<p>Would that not make everybody at least reasonably happy?<p>Historically such system usually prove that the state is not needed, and rather then excepting that the state monopolises it.</text></item><item><author>Steko</author><text>&gt; First, there can be a commercial consumer group that finds error, the buys nearly wothless claims from lots of consumers and goes after the seller with those. This will pretty quickly have the effect that the seller has much more insentive to test himself.<p>Or his incentive is to run a fly by night operation that shuts down before it can be sued.<p>&gt; Also you can have community no-profits doing this kind of things, that will make them seem less greedy.<p>This touches on one glaring problem with libertarian utopia. Their replacement for the evil gubmint is a host of other bureaucracies (giant consumer groups, a bunch of non-profits doing testing, insurance for everything, etc.) that presumably will have many of the same pathologies as the gubmint.</text></item><item><author>nickik</author><text>You are wrongly assuming that libertarians are atomistic and think that every consumer has to do everything. That is however not the case.<p>Libertarians have actually thought about this stuff quite a bit.<p>All society relies on a system of law. How this system is created or enforced is a seprete question. In almost all systems of law ever, there is a clause against fraud. Theirfore this company has defrauded everybody who has bought their product and therefore can be collectivly sued.<p>I must also mention that we have primitive collective suing systems in place. Many legal schooler have long advocated to change this.<p>It goes further then that, because the person that sold you the product and the producer might not be the same. The seller is also partially responsable and can be sued by the consumers, the seller must the sue the producer.<p>Its the same idea with river pollution, the lawcase goes up the river and expands.<p>As for discovering such cases. There are hole number of possible options if the options mentioned above are enforced.<p>First, there can be a commercial consumer group that finds error, the buys nearly wothless claims from lots of consumers and goes after the seller with those. This will pretty quickly have the effect that the seller has much more insentive to test himself.<p>Also you can have community no-profits doing this kind of things, that will make them seem less greedy.</text></item><item><author>macintux</author><text>One of the failings of the libertarian ideal. There&#x27;s no way for even an informed consumer to have any idea what most of their purchases contain, what safety issues they have, how effective they really are, etc.</text></item><item><author>dfar1</author><text>“You have to be very careful when you select and use aloe products,” said Tod Cooperman, president of White Plains, New York-based ConsumerLab.com, which has done aloe testing.<p>-- And how am supposed to be careful? Should I run my own lab to test every product I use?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skaplun</author><text>When government isn&#x27;t involved a &quot;dysfunctional&quot; organization will sell you air and tell you its medicine because there&#x27;s no regulator checking him.<p>Its like people are aching to be poisoned and die</text></comment> |
18,719,727 | 18,718,611 | 1 | 2 | 18,717,168 | train | <story><title>Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/info/2018/nov/30/bye-bye-mongo-hello-postgres</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pjmlp</author><text>Fashion driven development and not understanding how to actually make use of SQL.</text></item><item><author>nemild</author><text>The Guardian example was heavily used by MongoDB as a case study to pitch their database to others in 2011:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mongodb.com&#x2F;customers&#x2F;guardian" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mongodb.com&#x2F;customers&#x2F;guardian</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mongodb.com&#x2F;presentations&#x2F;mongodb-guardian" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mongodb.com&#x2F;presentations&#x2F;mongodb-guardian</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slideshare.net&#x2F;tackers&#x2F;why-we-chose-mongodb-for-guardiancouk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slideshare.net&#x2F;tackers&#x2F;why-we-chose-mongodb-for-...</a><p>And reupping my previous, three-part series on MongoDB:<p><i>On MongoDB</i><p>NoSQL databases were the future. MongoDB was the database for &quot;modern&quot; web engineers and used by countless startups. What happened?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nemil.com&#x2F;mongo&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nemil.com&#x2F;mongo&#x2F;index.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KaiserPro</author><text>At &quot;large financial news company&quot; we had a &quot;designed for the CV&quot; tag that applied to stupid architectural decisions (of which there were many)<p>One of the biggest and most expensive was using Cassandra to store membership details. Something like 4 years of work, by a team of 40, wasted by stupid decisions.<p>They included:
o Using Cassandra to store 6 million rows of highly structured, mostly readonly data<p><pre><code> o hosting it on real tin, expensive tin, in multiple continents (looking at &gt;million quid in costs)
o writing the stack in java, getting bored, re-writing it as a micro service, before actually finishing the original system
o getting bored of writing micro services in java, switching to scala, which only 2&#x2F;15 devs knew.
o writing mission critical services in elixir, of which only 1 dev knew.
o refusing to use other teams tools
o refusing to use the company wiki, opting for thier own confluence instance, which barred access to anyone else, including the teams they supported</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/info/2018/nov/30/bye-bye-mongo-hello-postgres</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pjmlp</author><text>Fashion driven development and not understanding how to actually make use of SQL.</text></item><item><author>nemild</author><text>The Guardian example was heavily used by MongoDB as a case study to pitch their database to others in 2011:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mongodb.com&#x2F;customers&#x2F;guardian" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mongodb.com&#x2F;customers&#x2F;guardian</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mongodb.com&#x2F;presentations&#x2F;mongodb-guardian" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mongodb.com&#x2F;presentations&#x2F;mongodb-guardian</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slideshare.net&#x2F;tackers&#x2F;why-we-chose-mongodb-for-guardiancouk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slideshare.net&#x2F;tackers&#x2F;why-we-chose-mongodb-for-...</a><p>And reupping my previous, three-part series on MongoDB:<p><i>On MongoDB</i><p>NoSQL databases were the future. MongoDB was the database for &quot;modern&quot; web engineers and used by countless startups. What happened?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nemil.com&#x2F;mongo&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nemil.com&#x2F;mongo&#x2F;index.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>perfunctory</author><text>Reminds me of<p>“The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women’s fashion.”
— Larry Ellison</text></comment> |
2,782,508 | 2,782,533 | 1 | 3 | 2,782,182 | train | <story><title>Every programmer should read the source to abort() at some point in their life.</title><url>http://www.reddit.com/r/raldi/comments/iu0f7/every_programmer_should_read_the_source_code_t/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>msarnoff</author><text>Reminded me of "5 ways to reboot a PC, none of them reliable" from a couple months ago.<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2607116" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2607116</a><p>Interesting how fundamentally simple tasks like aborting a process or rebooting the machine have very nontrivial (even kludgey) implementations.</text></comment> | <story><title>Every programmer should read the source to abort() at some point in their life.</title><url>http://www.reddit.com/r/raldi/comments/iu0f7/every_programmer_should_read_the_source_code_t/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kenjackson</author><text>Raymond Chen wrote a classic blog post on how process exits on WinXP. But if you're a developer, know that it's not the same for Win7.<p><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2007/05/03/2383346.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2007/05/03/23833...</a></text></comment> |
21,527,119 | 21,524,933 | 1 | 2 | 21,523,780 | train | <story><title>16-inch MacBook Pro</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/11/apple-introduces-16-inch-macbook-pro-the-worlds-best-pro-notebook/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>macintux</author><text>A phone camera is used to capture moments you want to preserve for posterity. A laptop camera is used for conference calls and no one needs to see all my facial flaws in 4K detail.<p>So, no, I don’t consider this in any way to be a dealbreaker.</text></item><item><author>insta_anon</author><text>Can someone explain to me how Apple can justify only including a 720p FaceTime HD camera into the &quot;the world’s best pro notebook&quot;?<p>The last iPhone that had this FaceTime camera was the 6S, released in 2015. Since the iPhone 7 (2016) the phones have had at least a 1080p FaceTime camera. Given that FaceTime &#x2F; Skype calls are such a common use case and rarely anyones uses external webcams anymore, why doesn&#x27;t Apple use the existing camera system of the iPhone 11 for the MacBook?<p>Seriously, if I pay north of $4000 dollars for a laptop, why do I get an obsolete camera?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pier25</author><text>&gt; <i>A laptop camera is used for conference calls</i><p>And youtube videos.<p>I agree that 4K can be considered excessive, but 1080p would be the appropriate resolution in 2019 for a high end machine.</text></comment> | <story><title>16-inch MacBook Pro</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/11/apple-introduces-16-inch-macbook-pro-the-worlds-best-pro-notebook/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>macintux</author><text>A phone camera is used to capture moments you want to preserve for posterity. A laptop camera is used for conference calls and no one needs to see all my facial flaws in 4K detail.<p>So, no, I don’t consider this in any way to be a dealbreaker.</text></item><item><author>insta_anon</author><text>Can someone explain to me how Apple can justify only including a 720p FaceTime HD camera into the &quot;the world’s best pro notebook&quot;?<p>The last iPhone that had this FaceTime camera was the 6S, released in 2015. Since the iPhone 7 (2016) the phones have had at least a 1080p FaceTime camera. Given that FaceTime &#x2F; Skype calls are such a common use case and rarely anyones uses external webcams anymore, why doesn&#x27;t Apple use the existing camera system of the iPhone 11 for the MacBook?<p>Seriously, if I pay north of $4000 dollars for a laptop, why do I get an obsolete camera?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fnordsensei</author><text>When doing user research (and I for one reason or another don&#x27;t have other&#x2F;better equipment around), I&#x27;ve used the MacBook as camera, mic, and screen recorder, when applicable (attaching a non-Apple mouse, of course, because those things are bonkers).<p>In these situations, a higher resolution camera wouldn&#x27;t hurt. A better mic is higher priority though, so I&#x27;m happy to see that in the specs.</text></comment> |
20,980,092 | 20,978,426 | 1 | 2 | 20,978,044 | train | <story><title>Sorting 2 Tons of Lego (2017)</title><url>http://jacquesmattheij.com/sorting-lego-many-questions-and-this-is-what-the-result-looks-like/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>prawn</author><text>1-2 years ago, I commented on HN in a random Lego thread and Jacques sent my son (we&#x27;re in Australia) some bulk Technic pieces. As with all Lego, they&#x27;ve been played with over and over and I always remember that generosity.<p>Thanks Jacques.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sorting 2 Tons of Lego (2017)</title><url>http://jacquesmattheij.com/sorting-lego-many-questions-and-this-is-what-the-result-looks-like/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sverhagen</author><text>The pictures at the end are so satisfying to see. I have a four year old and their Lego is a constant throwback to good times.</text></comment> |
20,183,654 | 20,183,790 | 1 | 2 | 20,182,141 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Slim – Build and run tiny VMs from Dockerfiles</title><url>https://github.com/ottomatica/slim</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hardwaresofton</author><text>Recently on HN (I think) and related:<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;micromind.me&#x2F;en&#x2F;posts&#x2F;from-docker-container-to-bootable-linux-disk-image&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;micromind.me&#x2F;en&#x2F;posts&#x2F;from-docker-container-to-boota...</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;godarch.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;godarch.com&#x2F;</a><p>Really like seeing these new usecases for containers -- would have never thought to mix the two technologies in this way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>juliangoldsmith</author><text>Darch reminds me a bit of Tiny Core Linux. That uses loopback images for packages, and puts them together with UnionFS, IIRC.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Slim – Build and run tiny VMs from Dockerfiles</title><url>https://github.com/ottomatica/slim</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hardwaresofton</author><text>Recently on HN (I think) and related:<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;micromind.me&#x2F;en&#x2F;posts&#x2F;from-docker-container-to-bootable-linux-disk-image&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;micromind.me&#x2F;en&#x2F;posts&#x2F;from-docker-container-to-boota...</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;godarch.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;godarch.com&#x2F;</a><p>Really like seeing these new usecases for containers -- would have never thought to mix the two technologies in this way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eeZah7Ux</author><text>They seem to do very little that SystemD cannot already do with services and overlayFS, with the added benefit of being already available on most systems.</text></comment> |
34,990,258 | 34,989,221 | 1 | 2 | 34,987,042 | train | <story><title>Nix journey part 0: Learning and reference materials</title><url>https://tinkering.xyz/nix-docs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peter_l_downs</author><text>The nix package search website is OK, but it doesn&#x27;t let you filter by the names of installed binaries. A lot of the time, you have a question like &quot;what nixpkgs attribute do i install in order to get the `python3` command&quot;. I recently wrote a command line tool that allows you to do this. It uses the same elasticsearch index as the search website, but allows more powerful filtering. If anyone is thinking of getting into nix, please consider trying it out!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;peterldowns&#x2F;nix-search-cli">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;peterldowns&#x2F;nix-search-cli</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Valodim</author><text>Relatedly, check out comma. It&#x27;s basically a shortcut prefix command that will search packages for the binary you want to run (via nix-index), and gives you an interactive choice if there are multiple. Which package was drill in again? No matter, I&#x27;ll just prefix a comma :)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nix-community&#x2F;comma">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nix-community&#x2F;comma</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Nix journey part 0: Learning and reference materials</title><url>https://tinkering.xyz/nix-docs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peter_l_downs</author><text>The nix package search website is OK, but it doesn&#x27;t let you filter by the names of installed binaries. A lot of the time, you have a question like &quot;what nixpkgs attribute do i install in order to get the `python3` command&quot;. I recently wrote a command line tool that allows you to do this. It uses the same elasticsearch index as the search website, but allows more powerful filtering. If anyone is thinking of getting into nix, please consider trying it out!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;peterldowns&#x2F;nix-search-cli">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;peterldowns&#x2F;nix-search-cli</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zach_mitchell</author><text>I&#x27;ve also noticed this. If you install `rustc` it says that you get `rust-gdb`, but that&#x27;s really just a wrapper script around `gdb`, which it doesn&#x27;t install.</text></comment> |
33,669,374 | 33,667,307 | 1 | 2 | 33,663,278 | train | <story><title>Elizabeth Holmes is sentenced to more than 11 years for fraud</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/18/technology/elizabeth-holmes-sentence-theranos.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ftxbagholder123</author><text>I ended up losing a significant amount of money on the FTX debacle, and I want to demonstrate that even risk-aware people who tried to act relatively prudently can still end up losing money. I also want to argue that while most parties involved (myself included) made wrong decisions one way or the other throughout this -- and as a result are greatly suffering from the consequences -- that we should focus less on blaming the victims, and more on prosecuting the actual villains, while figuring out a clever way of preventing such large-scale fraud from happening again.<p>Here is my story:<p>- I put $50k into FTX last year. The reason for putting the money into FTX was because it was the only large-scale platform that allowed me to trade the specific token that I wanted to trade.
- My investment proved to be more successful than I had anticipated, and I turned the initial investment into $600k by the end of last year.
- By the spring of this year, I had sold my entire position and was now sitting with $400k USD on FTX (as I didn&#x27;t sell everything at the top).
- At that time, I attempted to withdraw the entire amount into my bank account, but immediately ran into issues with my bank.
- For background, I&#x27;m a dual citizen, originally from South America but now living in the US. As you may be aware, US citizens were not allowed to use FTX.com; hence I used my South American citizenship to get verified by FTX, with the condition that I could only withdraw to a South American bank in my name.
- I spent about 10-20 hours this spring attempting to make the withdrawal, which included dozens of phone calls and emails with my bank as well as the FTX support team, in order to execute the transaction. But the process turned out to be more complicated than I had expected.
- Full details are not necessary here as I wish to somewhat protect my identity, but it became clear to me that this process would be very difficult to complete unless I was physically present at the bank in South America.
- While I considered that keeping the money on FTX for a few more months was not risk-free, I deemed the risk relatively low. A part of that judgement was the fact that FTX was an exchange, and not a bank nor a prop-trading house, and thus I viewed the risk of a run on the bank scenario, or FTX speculating away my money in trading, as low.
- What instead worried me was that FTX could get hacked, or that the founders could take my money and run, but given the high-profile nature of the company and its founders, I made the call that keeping the money on FTX for a few more months was not an overwhelming risk factor.
- I also considered converting my money into BTC and transferring them to cold storage, but ended up not doing that as I worried about a crypto meltdown, and I reasoned that my money was safer sitting in USD at FTX (despite the aforementioned risks). I further reasoned, that given that the amount was already quite large, that it would be even harder to explain to a local bank where the money had come from once it had gone off an exchange and then come back on again.
- For all of these reasons, I decided to wait, and was planning to do the transfer in less than 2 months from today, once back in South America.<p>We obviously know what happened next, and we know that pretty much any other solution would have been better for me. But with the information available to me at the time, it wasn&#x27;t obvious that what happened would happen. I believed I had reasoned appropriately about the risks and made the correct decisions at the time when I made them, with the information available at the time.<p>My point is that we don&#x27;t know the stories behind why so many people kept their money on FTX. Perhaps some were more reckless than others, and perhaps someone reading this thinks that I was reckless too. But even so, in my view, none of us &quot;deserved&quot; to have this happen to us. So instead of vilifying the victims, the focus should be on holding the perpetrators responsible, while thinking of a better way forward so that this doesn&#x27;t happen again. Thanks for reading.</text></item><item><author>jongjong</author><text>They are either industry saboteurs planted by big banking interests or they are complete imbeciles.<p>Same can be said about people who gave them money. It&#x27;s just retarded. The whole business went completely against the core purpose of cryptocurrency. Anyone who invested in him or had their money sitting on his exchange (or any bankrupt exchange) deserved to lose it. It&#x27;s scary to think what damage large amounts of capital could do in the hands of such idiots; society is better off now.</text></item><item><author>moralestapia</author><text>He may go for it but I don&#x27;t think he will succeed.<p>Come on, this is a guy who had:<p><pre><code> * A company with a constant revenue stream in a business that could be pretty much 100% automated.
* Backing from the largest investors and VC funds worldwide.
* Valuable connections with people higher up in academia and the prevailing political party in the US (all the way up to the president).
* All the money in the world and free reign over what to do with it.
* Unparalleled info and insights about the crypto markets.
* A massive group of followers that found his antics particularly alluring and who were trusting him with their money more and more everyday.
* A team of geniuses who were absolutes alphas from quantitative trading, won math olympiads and were constantly on drugs to enhance their cognition 1,000% (ok, this one&#x27;s sarcasm)
</code></pre>
And he <i>still</i> managed to f*ck it up. I don&#x27;t think he&#x27;s capable of pulling off a Hillblom, tbh.</text></item><item><author>geraldwhen</author><text>I’d wager bankman-fried is going to disappear, or mysteriously die in India.<p>Gerry Cotton had far less money on the table and he supposedly died abroad.</text></item><item><author>ryoshu</author><text>FTX is over $1 billion and the table maxes out at $550 million, so that should be fun. Lawmakers should revisit that.</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>In a previous thread, I had this at &quot;more than 10 years, less than 60&quot; (yeah, that&#x27;s an easy bet to make!). The core driver of the sentence is probably the guidelines 2B1.1 table, which scales sentencing levels by economic losses. She was convicted for something like $140MM in fraudulent losses, which by themselves ask for a 24-level escalation (the table maxes out in the mid-40s).<p>By the numbers, the court was probably quite lenient here. Not to say that&#x27;s an unjust outcome; the &quot;lenient&quot; option for sentencing on serious federal felonies is still quite harsh.<p><i>Edit</i><p>I tracked down the prosecutor&#x27;s sentencing memorandum; they asked for 15 years. So I guess maybe not that lenient.<p><i>Later edit</i><p>The PSR (the court&#x27;s own sentencing memorandum, which the prosecution and defense respond to) had Holmes at level 43. I hereby claim that I called this. :P<p>But the PSR looks at the guidelines level table, which suggests 960 months for level 43, and instead recommends 108 months. So the court imposed a sentence higher than the PSR, lower than the prosecution asked, and all parties asked for much lower than the guideline maximum for the level.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29790880" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29790880</a><p><i>Later later edit</i><p>I&#x27;m doing the math wrong; the guidelines range at that level is 240 months per charge (usually served consecutively). Still much higher than the ultimate sentence.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jongjong</author><text>Fair enough. It sounds like a real roller coaster ride of good luck followed by terrible luck. I understand that it&#x27;s sometimes unavoidable to move tokens to an exchange when you are about to cash out. The timing was just really unfortunate.<p>I guess there is a lesson to be learned about investing in tokens which can only be acquired and disposed of on a single exchange; that is a bit of a red flag. Unfortunately, with crypto, it&#x27;s better to be paranoid. Many governments and big banks don&#x27;t want crypto to succeed so these kinds of major collapses are to be expected... I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if some of them may be orchestrated intentionally.</text></comment> | <story><title>Elizabeth Holmes is sentenced to more than 11 years for fraud</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/18/technology/elizabeth-holmes-sentence-theranos.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ftxbagholder123</author><text>I ended up losing a significant amount of money on the FTX debacle, and I want to demonstrate that even risk-aware people who tried to act relatively prudently can still end up losing money. I also want to argue that while most parties involved (myself included) made wrong decisions one way or the other throughout this -- and as a result are greatly suffering from the consequences -- that we should focus less on blaming the victims, and more on prosecuting the actual villains, while figuring out a clever way of preventing such large-scale fraud from happening again.<p>Here is my story:<p>- I put $50k into FTX last year. The reason for putting the money into FTX was because it was the only large-scale platform that allowed me to trade the specific token that I wanted to trade.
- My investment proved to be more successful than I had anticipated, and I turned the initial investment into $600k by the end of last year.
- By the spring of this year, I had sold my entire position and was now sitting with $400k USD on FTX (as I didn&#x27;t sell everything at the top).
- At that time, I attempted to withdraw the entire amount into my bank account, but immediately ran into issues with my bank.
- For background, I&#x27;m a dual citizen, originally from South America but now living in the US. As you may be aware, US citizens were not allowed to use FTX.com; hence I used my South American citizenship to get verified by FTX, with the condition that I could only withdraw to a South American bank in my name.
- I spent about 10-20 hours this spring attempting to make the withdrawal, which included dozens of phone calls and emails with my bank as well as the FTX support team, in order to execute the transaction. But the process turned out to be more complicated than I had expected.
- Full details are not necessary here as I wish to somewhat protect my identity, but it became clear to me that this process would be very difficult to complete unless I was physically present at the bank in South America.
- While I considered that keeping the money on FTX for a few more months was not risk-free, I deemed the risk relatively low. A part of that judgement was the fact that FTX was an exchange, and not a bank nor a prop-trading house, and thus I viewed the risk of a run on the bank scenario, or FTX speculating away my money in trading, as low.
- What instead worried me was that FTX could get hacked, or that the founders could take my money and run, but given the high-profile nature of the company and its founders, I made the call that keeping the money on FTX for a few more months was not an overwhelming risk factor.
- I also considered converting my money into BTC and transferring them to cold storage, but ended up not doing that as I worried about a crypto meltdown, and I reasoned that my money was safer sitting in USD at FTX (despite the aforementioned risks). I further reasoned, that given that the amount was already quite large, that it would be even harder to explain to a local bank where the money had come from once it had gone off an exchange and then come back on again.
- For all of these reasons, I decided to wait, and was planning to do the transfer in less than 2 months from today, once back in South America.<p>We obviously know what happened next, and we know that pretty much any other solution would have been better for me. But with the information available to me at the time, it wasn&#x27;t obvious that what happened would happen. I believed I had reasoned appropriately about the risks and made the correct decisions at the time when I made them, with the information available at the time.<p>My point is that we don&#x27;t know the stories behind why so many people kept their money on FTX. Perhaps some were more reckless than others, and perhaps someone reading this thinks that I was reckless too. But even so, in my view, none of us &quot;deserved&quot; to have this happen to us. So instead of vilifying the victims, the focus should be on holding the perpetrators responsible, while thinking of a better way forward so that this doesn&#x27;t happen again. Thanks for reading.</text></item><item><author>jongjong</author><text>They are either industry saboteurs planted by big banking interests or they are complete imbeciles.<p>Same can be said about people who gave them money. It&#x27;s just retarded. The whole business went completely against the core purpose of cryptocurrency. Anyone who invested in him or had their money sitting on his exchange (or any bankrupt exchange) deserved to lose it. It&#x27;s scary to think what damage large amounts of capital could do in the hands of such idiots; society is better off now.</text></item><item><author>moralestapia</author><text>He may go for it but I don&#x27;t think he will succeed.<p>Come on, this is a guy who had:<p><pre><code> * A company with a constant revenue stream in a business that could be pretty much 100% automated.
* Backing from the largest investors and VC funds worldwide.
* Valuable connections with people higher up in academia and the prevailing political party in the US (all the way up to the president).
* All the money in the world and free reign over what to do with it.
* Unparalleled info and insights about the crypto markets.
* A massive group of followers that found his antics particularly alluring and who were trusting him with their money more and more everyday.
* A team of geniuses who were absolutes alphas from quantitative trading, won math olympiads and were constantly on drugs to enhance their cognition 1,000% (ok, this one&#x27;s sarcasm)
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And he <i>still</i> managed to f*ck it up. I don&#x27;t think he&#x27;s capable of pulling off a Hillblom, tbh.</text></item><item><author>geraldwhen</author><text>I’d wager bankman-fried is going to disappear, or mysteriously die in India.<p>Gerry Cotton had far less money on the table and he supposedly died abroad.</text></item><item><author>ryoshu</author><text>FTX is over $1 billion and the table maxes out at $550 million, so that should be fun. Lawmakers should revisit that.</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>In a previous thread, I had this at &quot;more than 10 years, less than 60&quot; (yeah, that&#x27;s an easy bet to make!). The core driver of the sentence is probably the guidelines 2B1.1 table, which scales sentencing levels by economic losses. She was convicted for something like $140MM in fraudulent losses, which by themselves ask for a 24-level escalation (the table maxes out in the mid-40s).<p>By the numbers, the court was probably quite lenient here. Not to say that&#x27;s an unjust outcome; the &quot;lenient&quot; option for sentencing on serious federal felonies is still quite harsh.<p><i>Edit</i><p>I tracked down the prosecutor&#x27;s sentencing memorandum; they asked for 15 years. So I guess maybe not that lenient.<p><i>Later edit</i><p>The PSR (the court&#x27;s own sentencing memorandum, which the prosecution and defense respond to) had Holmes at level 43. I hereby claim that I called this. :P<p>But the PSR looks at the guidelines level table, which suggests 960 months for level 43, and instead recommends 108 months. So the court imposed a sentence higher than the PSR, lower than the prosecution asked, and all parties asked for much lower than the guideline maximum for the level.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29790880" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29790880</a><p><i>Later later edit</i><p>I&#x27;m doing the math wrong; the guidelines range at that level is 240 months per charge (usually served consecutively). Still much higher than the ultimate sentence.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vkou</author><text>I&#x27;m curious - all of this makes sense, but what was the disadvantage to buying BTC (Or Eth, or whatever) on FTX, transferring it to Coinbase, and cashing out on Coinbase?</text></comment> |
41,389,440 | 41,389,612 | 1 | 2 | 41,388,888 | train | <story><title>UK rail minister got engineer sacked for raising safety concerns</title><url>https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-rail-minister-peter-hendy-fired-gareth-dennis-engineer-safety-concerns-trains-london-euston-station/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>michaelt</author><text>The article that got the guy fired is [1] apparently. If you search for &quot;Gareth Dennis&quot; - honestly his criticisms seem pretty mild.<p>My experience is the UK rail network targets truly patronising levels of safety. Signs and announcements on the dangers of running. Announcements on the dangers of slippery floors in wet weather. Announcements and signs about the importance of holding the handrail on stairs. Special extra video screens and announcements about the dangers of taking luggage on escalators. Announcements and warning signs that a flight of stairs is particularly long and tiring. Announcements on the dangers of using your phone while walking. Announcements that it&#x27;s good to carry a bottle of water in hot weather.<p>I&#x27;m surprised this guy got fired - in the rail network I know, they&#x27;d have addressed his concerns by adding even more posters and announcements.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20240414153709&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.independent.co.uk&#x2F;life-style&#x2F;euston-trains-station-delays-london-overcrowding-cancel-b2527730.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20240414153709&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.indep...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chgs</author><text>Euston is a special case. The lack of training&#x2F;concern (depending on your level of cynicism) of ticket validity of the barrier staff isn’t unique (Paddington had this problem too), but the unique problem is the way the operator (network rail) do not announce platforms until the last minute leading to stampedes to the barriers.<p>The announcements are just there to sell more noise cancelling headphones in the on-station shops.</text></comment> | <story><title>UK rail minister got engineer sacked for raising safety concerns</title><url>https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-rail-minister-peter-hendy-fired-gareth-dennis-engineer-safety-concerns-trains-london-euston-station/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>michaelt</author><text>The article that got the guy fired is [1] apparently. If you search for &quot;Gareth Dennis&quot; - honestly his criticisms seem pretty mild.<p>My experience is the UK rail network targets truly patronising levels of safety. Signs and announcements on the dangers of running. Announcements on the dangers of slippery floors in wet weather. Announcements and signs about the importance of holding the handrail on stairs. Special extra video screens and announcements about the dangers of taking luggage on escalators. Announcements and warning signs that a flight of stairs is particularly long and tiring. Announcements on the dangers of using your phone while walking. Announcements that it&#x27;s good to carry a bottle of water in hot weather.<p>I&#x27;m surprised this guy got fired - in the rail network I know, they&#x27;d have addressed his concerns by adding even more posters and announcements.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20240414153709&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.independent.co.uk&#x2F;life-style&#x2F;euston-trains-station-delays-london-overcrowding-cancel-b2527730.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20240414153709&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.indep...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yodelshady</author><text>Interesting, &quot;the Office of Rail and Road ... issued Network Rail with an improvement notice&quot;<p>For the benefit of readers not versed with UK regulation, an improvement notice is a formal instrument under the powers of the Health and Safety Executive. Whilst short of a prosecution notice, it definitely indicates that the powers that be are Officially Not Happy with, in this case, Network Rail.</text></comment> |
15,902,558 | 15,902,091 | 1 | 2 | 15,900,442 | train | <story><title>Show HN: AssassinationFiles.net – JFK Declassified Document Search</title><url>https://assassinationfiles.net/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasonkostempski</author><text>I feel like if these files revealed anything groundbreaking they wouldn&#x27;t have existed. If there was anything that needed to be covered up, it wouldn&#x27;t have been done on the books, classified or not.</text></item><item><author>nvr219</author><text>I feel like if these files revealed anything groundbreaking it&#x27;d be all over the news by now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Iv</author><text>Black Op: If you heard even a hint of it, it ain’t black. Anyone who tells you about a black op is a liar. Does Stratfor do black ops? You’ll never know.<p>From &quot;Stratfor Glossary of Useful, Baffling and Strange Intelligence Terms&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wikileaks.org&#x2F;IMG&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;The_Stratfor_Glossary_of_Useful_Baffling_and_Strange_Intelligence_Terms.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wikileaks.org&#x2F;IMG&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;The_Stratfor_Glossary_of_Usefu...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: AssassinationFiles.net – JFK Declassified Document Search</title><url>https://assassinationfiles.net/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasonkostempski</author><text>I feel like if these files revealed anything groundbreaking they wouldn&#x27;t have existed. If there was anything that needed to be covered up, it wouldn&#x27;t have been done on the books, classified or not.</text></item><item><author>nvr219</author><text>I feel like if these files revealed anything groundbreaking it&#x27;d be all over the news by now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cookiecaper</author><text>People leave a lot of accidental breadcrumbs.<p>Consider that even what people believe to be carefully anonymized data sets can be reverse-engineered down to a scarily specific group of people, if not all the way down to the specific person individually. [0] [1]<p>Aside from the fact that some people have a conveniently weak definition of &quot;anonymous&quot;, this is part of why it&#x27;s worrisome to have so many people collecting and reselling browsing data and other types of user analytics, despite their repeated assertions of anonymity.<p>It&#x27;s perfectly plausible to believe that with the right shuffle of declassified data, substantial new information will become apparent.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.cornell.edu&#x2F;~shmat&#x2F;netflix-faq.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.cornell.edu&#x2F;~shmat&#x2F;netflix-faq.html</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;De-anonymization" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;De-anonymization</a></text></comment> |
26,547,511 | 26,546,752 | 1 | 3 | 26,545,162 | train | <story><title>Rents for the rich are going down, rents for the poor are going up. Why?</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/22/rents-rich-are-plummeting-rents-poor-are-rising-why/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>outside1234</author><text>It is a huge risk right now to take on someone that is poor as a renter because of the moratorium. It is completely unsurprising to me that landlords have priced this risk factor in.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gnicholas</author><text>Interestingly, if landlords were allowed to use larger security deposits, some would choose to do this instead of raising the monthly rent. My friend is looking to rent out an ADU, and the first idea was to have a sizable security deposit in order to filter applicants who fully intended on paying rent from those who would be more likely to use the eviction moratorium.<p>But apparently California tightened the rules around security deposits in 2020, which actually exacerbates this problem. Landlords used to be able to ask for up to two month’s rent as a security deposit, but now they can only ask for one month&#x27;s rent.<p>This leads to upward pressure on rents, as landlords adjust the only lever they have left. I wonder if applicants can&#x2F;do offer to prepay several month&#x27;s rent, to signal that they are serious long-term tenants who have the ability and interest in paying rent (even if they legally could avoid payment).</text></comment> | <story><title>Rents for the rich are going down, rents for the poor are going up. Why?</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/22/rents-rich-are-plummeting-rents-poor-are-rising-why/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>outside1234</author><text>It is a huge risk right now to take on someone that is poor as a renter because of the moratorium. It is completely unsurprising to me that landlords have priced this risk factor in.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baron816</author><text>There was an article a saw a few weeks ago about some guys based out of Oakland (maybe someone else can find it) who has accumulated 5 figures worth of rental debt. It talks about how he had just moved into an expensive place at the beginning of the pandemic, got laid off, then couldn’t pay for the whole year.<p>IIRC, he eventually moved, but still couldn’t pay rent and started accumulating even more rent debt there. I can’t imagine who would rent an apartment to that guy.</text></comment> |
13,132,901 | 13,133,003 | 1 | 2 | 13,131,794 | train | <story><title>Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About Financial Discipline</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-12-08/google-makes-so-much-money-it-never-had-to-worry-about-financial-discipline</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>matwood</author><text>Reminds me of Valve&#x27;s no manager management style: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2012-04-27&#x2F;why-there-are-no-bosses-at-valve" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2012-04-27&#x2F;why-there...</a><p>When you have a lot of money, a lot of things work because you have a lot of money. You often see the same thing with people trying to emulate pro-athletes training methods. A genetically gifted pro-athlete can often succeed in spite of their training, and not necessarily because of their training.</text></item><item><author>Periodic</author><text>So many companies try to emulate how Google works. There are multiple books, hundreds or thousands of articles. People speculate on the perks, the review structure, the hierarchy, the autonomy.<p>However, when other companies try to imitate Google they always fail because they&#x27;re missing a crucial piece:<p><i>Billions of dollars in ad revenue</i><p>Google doesn&#x27;t work the way it does to be successful. It works that way <i>because</i> it is successful.<p>I found this no more evident than when I worked on Google Search itself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thearn4</author><text>The endless spigot of cash from Steam is something that does enable Valve to take some very experimental leaps (VR, Steam machines, SteamOS, etc.)<p>In my opinion, Valve also has the same shortcomings as google: practically zero customer support, and an un-curated app platform full of shovelware (finding gems on the Steam and the Google Play &amp; Chrome Web Stores can be tricky).<p>But there is still a ton to admire in both organizations.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About Financial Discipline</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-12-08/google-makes-so-much-money-it-never-had-to-worry-about-financial-discipline</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>matwood</author><text>Reminds me of Valve&#x27;s no manager management style: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2012-04-27&#x2F;why-there-are-no-bosses-at-valve" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2012-04-27&#x2F;why-there...</a><p>When you have a lot of money, a lot of things work because you have a lot of money. You often see the same thing with people trying to emulate pro-athletes training methods. A genetically gifted pro-athlete can often succeed in spite of their training, and not necessarily because of their training.</text></item><item><author>Periodic</author><text>So many companies try to emulate how Google works. There are multiple books, hundreds or thousands of articles. People speculate on the perks, the review structure, the hierarchy, the autonomy.<p>However, when other companies try to imitate Google they always fail because they&#x27;re missing a crucial piece:<p><i>Billions of dollars in ad revenue</i><p>Google doesn&#x27;t work the way it does to be successful. It works that way <i>because</i> it is successful.<p>I found this no more evident than when I worked on Google Search itself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rqebmm</author><text>Valve also has the prestige of being a high-profile gaming company, which brings with it choice pick of engineers. A &quot;normal&quot; enterprise app consulting shop doesn&#x27;t have the luxury of every computer geek clamoring to work there.<p>If you have first-pick of incoming talent, it makes sense that you can get away with giving those employees an extremely high degree of autonomy.</text></comment> |
10,630,942 | 10,630,577 | 1 | 2 | 10,626,399 | train | <story><title>Einstein was no lone genius</title><url>http://www.nature.com/news/history-einstein-was-no-lone-genius-1.18793</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sriku</author><text>What Einstein and others contributed towards GR in a decade is now generally taught in one semester of grad school physics. Ruling out the possibility that grad students are today &gt;20x intelligent than Einstein, and considering that Einstein needed no more experimental results than already available to everyone in 1905, the emphasis ought not to be as simplistic as &quot;lone genius&quot;, but on his perseverance and nose for an interesting problem, enduring all the false twists and turns that exploring one entails.<p>I believe this is the general trait of who we recognize as great minds.</text></comment> | <story><title>Einstein was no lone genius</title><url>http://www.nature.com/news/history-einstein-was-no-lone-genius-1.18793</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cubano</author><text>Einstein&#x27;s big year was 1905, not 1915, and the four (five?) papers he produced during that year (one of which won him a Nobel) could easily be described as the work of a &quot;lone genius.&quot;<p>He did most of work of that year while working, of course as we all know, as a patent clerk.<p>Obviously, no one lives in a vacuum, and all legendary geniuses stand on the shoulders of other giants, but I can&#x27;t help but think this article somewhat misrepresents the reality of Einstein&#x27;s world-changing contributions.<p>[edits]</text></comment> |
33,278,720 | 33,278,747 | 1 | 3 | 33,274,239 | train | <story><title>Accounting for developers part III – building a lending marketplace</title><url>https://www.moderntreasury.com/journal/accounting-for-developers-part-iii</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skipants</author><text>I still don&#x27;t understand why they encourage double-entry accounting for tech. In my experience entries like:<p>| amount | payer_id | payee_id |<p>| 100 | 1 | 2 |<p>are more than sufficient. He uses Square, Uber, and Airbnb as examples in <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.moderntreasury.com&#x2F;journal&#x2F;accounting-for-developers-part-i" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.moderntreasury.com&#x2F;journal&#x2F;accounting-for-develo...</a> but, as far as I can tell, only Square uses double-entry.<p>Double entry accounting was for when people were hand-writing a ledger and it helped avoid mistakes. It makes no sense in code and it just makes your DB queries more complicated.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zie</author><text>What happens if you need to split that $100 from payer_id 1 into 2 payer_id 2&#x27;s?<p>I.e. that $100 is actually:<p>$99 from 1 to 2 and $1(let&#x27;s say in taxes) to payer_id 3.<p>The easy answer is, make it 2 transaction, $99 to 2 and $1 to 3, but then you can&#x27;t tell that the $1 in taxes is from the $99 transaction. That leads to headaches when you need to balance your taxes.</text></comment> | <story><title>Accounting for developers part III – building a lending marketplace</title><url>https://www.moderntreasury.com/journal/accounting-for-developers-part-iii</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skipants</author><text>I still don&#x27;t understand why they encourage double-entry accounting for tech. In my experience entries like:<p>| amount | payer_id | payee_id |<p>| 100 | 1 | 2 |<p>are more than sufficient. He uses Square, Uber, and Airbnb as examples in <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.moderntreasury.com&#x2F;journal&#x2F;accounting-for-developers-part-i" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.moderntreasury.com&#x2F;journal&#x2F;accounting-for-develo...</a> but, as far as I can tell, only Square uses double-entry.<p>Double entry accounting was for when people were hand-writing a ledger and it helped avoid mistakes. It makes no sense in code and it just makes your DB queries more complicated.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WorldMaker</author><text>One good technical reason to prefer double entry and relating to the &quot;it helped avoid mistakes [in hand-writing ledgers]&quot; is that double entry patterns encourage better database transaction discipline and provide helpful debugging clues when database transactions half-finish and accidentally commit rather than rollback. Atomic database transactions with single row inserts of accounting transactions are <i>obviously</i> simpler to build, but it also means you are less likely to test multi-row database transactions such as scenarios where you need to make sure an accounting transaction lands in an atomic commit with say a purchasing invoice row. Double entry accounting, especially when different types of accounts may be in different tables forces your codebase to use good database transactions and sometimes more thorough testing of your commit versus rollback code paths.<p>Also, in my experience double-entry tables are often much easier to DB query because the tables &quot;naturally&quot; look exactly like the ledgers accountants expect to see in reports. The math in aggregate queries is often just SUM and nothing else, no complicated case logic for &quot;different transaction types&quot; or complicated pivots from transactions to account views and back.</text></comment> |
15,882,976 | 15,883,131 | 1 | 2 | 15,882,214 | train | <story><title>Bitcoin is none of the things it was supposed to be</title><url>https://theoutline.com/post/2592/bitcoin-is-none-of-the-things-it-was-supposed-to-be</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_red</author><text>Coinbase can&#x27;t print money.</text></item><item><author>curuinor</author><text>What, then, exactly is the difference between your scenario and Coinbase being the bank?</text></item><item><author>coryl</author><text>The author seems to expect that the changes created by cryptocurrency should be visible immediately. It is a lack of patience, and lack of understanding that changing deeply rooted systems and behaviors takes time.<p>People have never managed software where if you lost your &quot;password&quot;, your money was gone forever. They never had to keep a 12-24 word recovery phrase. They&#x27;ve never sent money to addresses that look like hash strings. Their money value was never this volatile (in some countries anyway) and never this complicated to use (understanding and waiting for block confirmations, looking up transactions in the blockchain explorer).<p>That&#x27;s why Coinbase exists, to obfuscate these complexities, to sell security as a service. The cryptography behind cryptocurrencies allows you to basically be your own bank vault; this is not intuitive to people.<p>The fundamentals for Satoshi&#x27;s vision have been laid out, the rest of the implementation details will come in time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colorint</author><text>Banks can&#x27;t print money either, and this isn&#x27;t some &quot;ackshually it&#x27;s the Mint&quot; thing: banks have the power to create debt. But this isn&#x27;t special, because you and I also have the power to create debt. What makes a bank special is that debt is its business (so most of its operation concerns the management of debt), and much of its debt can be called on demand, and so we call banks&#x27; debts to us demand deposits.<p>Fractional reserve is just a particular kind of regulation placed on banks&#x27; creation of debt, and it usually isn&#x27;t the most important one. The practical limit of banks is that they have to be able to extinguish their debts (which we call withdrawal), including being able to transfer them to other banks in exchange for cash (which we call clearing), at the whim of the creditors (you and me).<p>The problems with banks are the problems with debt generally, but that&#x27;s much trickier than some glib remarks about monetary policy.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bitcoin is none of the things it was supposed to be</title><url>https://theoutline.com/post/2592/bitcoin-is-none-of-the-things-it-was-supposed-to-be</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_red</author><text>Coinbase can&#x27;t print money.</text></item><item><author>curuinor</author><text>What, then, exactly is the difference between your scenario and Coinbase being the bank?</text></item><item><author>coryl</author><text>The author seems to expect that the changes created by cryptocurrency should be visible immediately. It is a lack of patience, and lack of understanding that changing deeply rooted systems and behaviors takes time.<p>People have never managed software where if you lost your &quot;password&quot;, your money was gone forever. They never had to keep a 12-24 word recovery phrase. They&#x27;ve never sent money to addresses that look like hash strings. Their money value was never this volatile (in some countries anyway) and never this complicated to use (understanding and waiting for block confirmations, looking up transactions in the blockchain explorer).<p>That&#x27;s why Coinbase exists, to obfuscate these complexities, to sell security as a service. The cryptography behind cryptocurrencies allows you to basically be your own bank vault; this is not intuitive to people.<p>The fundamentals for Satoshi&#x27;s vision have been laid out, the rest of the implementation details will come in time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spookthesunset</author><text>MtGox printed money. Lots of exchanges probably do but since they are unregulated and completely opaque you’ll never know for sure.</text></comment> |
13,801,229 | 13,800,873 | 1 | 2 | 13,797,811 | train | <story><title>Secure Computing for Journalists</title><url>https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2017/03/05/secure-computing-for-journalists/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>A few weeks ago a bunch of us on Slack tried to put together a brief for journalists on why they should prefer iPhones. It&#x27;s still a work in progress, as you&#x27;ll see, but here&#x27;s a draft:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;anonymous&#x2F;9f789aabd7e8681dec0cf5781aecf664" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;anonymous&#x2F;9f789aabd7e8681dec0cf5781a...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ploggingdev</author><text>A few requests&#x2F;suggestions for similar guides and comparisons:<p>* As mentioned by codelitt, a guide for securing Android phones and recommended Android devices, especially at lower price points.<p>* Thoughts on Windows vs Linux vs MacOS from a security perspective.<p>* For people who are only comfortable using Windows, recommendations to lock down devices.<p>* (Already existing) Don&#x27;t use commercial VPNs. Use Algo <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.trailofbits.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;12&#x2F;12&#x2F;meet-algo-the-vpn-that-works&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.trailofbits.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;12&#x2F;12&#x2F;meet-algo-the-vpn-th...</a><p>* Explain the Tor browser situation and why it&#x27;s a bad idea to use the Tor browser bundle.<p>* Recommendations for anonymity from an opsec POV.<p>* Recommendations on how to cross borders with minimal privacy intrusions. There&#x27;s lots of bs advice floating around.<p>If there are existing posts about any of the above, please link them in a comment below.</text></comment> | <story><title>Secure Computing for Journalists</title><url>https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2017/03/05/secure-computing-for-journalists/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>A few weeks ago a bunch of us on Slack tried to put together a brief for journalists on why they should prefer iPhones. It&#x27;s still a work in progress, as you&#x27;ll see, but here&#x27;s a draft:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;anonymous&#x2F;9f789aabd7e8681dec0cf5781aecf664" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;anonymous&#x2F;9f789aabd7e8681dec0cf5781a...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>codelitt</author><text>My only qualm with recommending iPhone only is it doesn&#x27;t take into account other countries where it&#x27;s unaffordable for a journalist to own one. I know a group of journalists in Venezuela for whom an iPhone is simply far too expensive. Import controls in many countries make it this way. I know another group in another country where the exchange rate and low wages make even a $50&#x2F;year VPN is unaffordable.<p>Would be great to see some good guides that take into account the challenges that others outside of the states will face. Perhaps these guides may not have that audience in mind though. Maybe if these guides had a link to a good guide for securing your Android device the best you can, it would serve help those who are financially restrained.</text></comment> |
25,822,393 | 25,822,390 | 1 | 2 | 25,821,718 | train | <story><title>That XOR Trick (2020)</title><url>https://florian.github.io/xor-trick</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oconnor663</author><text>Why does mov&#x27;ing a constant end up having overhead?</text></item><item><author>mytailorisrich</author><text><i>xor reg, reg</i> is indeed the standard way to zero out a register in x86 assembly (it&#x27;s not just a compiler trick) as it is both shorter and faster than loading the register with zero via a <i>mov</i>.<p>Apart from that, I&#x27;d say that a common use of XOR operations in general are interactions with hardware peripherals where manipulating bit fields are needed.</text></item><item><author>danpalmer</author><text>As mentioned in this article, x ^ x == 0. Fun fact, this is frequently used by compilers as a &quot;cheap&quot; way to zero out a register.<p>In addition, there are comparatively few cases in programming where we XOR. Sure, it happens in things like games quite a lot, but the main use is actually _cryptography_.<p>Between these two facts (more like hints really), I managed to reverse engineer the bulk of a piece of malware I was given to analyse in a an internship. I was handed the malware, a copy of IDA Pro, and given a few days to see what I could find. All I could remember when presented with a wall of hex encoded machine code were the hints above. I looked for XORs of different values, assumed it was crypto, and extrapolated from there. Found a routine happening three times in quick succession and guessed it was triple-DES. Then I guessed that writing your own 3DES from scratch was unlikely, so googled for crypto libraries and happened to find one that nearly matched (I think an earlier&#x2F;unmodified version), and worked my way up tagging the operations until I got to the purpose, exfiltrating various registry keys and browser history to [somewhere].<p>It was a fun exercise, and therefore these facts will stay with me for far longer than they are accurate I&#x27;m sure!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nickelpro</author><text>It&#x27;s not overhead, it&#x27;s about dependency breaking. 32-bit xors on a single register are universally recognized as a zeroing idiom, which means the CPU doesn&#x27;t have to wait for the results of previous operations in order to set the value of the applicable register to zero.<p>In modern CPUs zero&#x27;ing idioms aren&#x27;t even executed, they only get as far as the register allocater. The register allocater will allocate a zero&#x27;d physical register for the architectural register that had the idiom applied to it and the job is done.</text></comment> | <story><title>That XOR Trick (2020)</title><url>https://florian.github.io/xor-trick</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oconnor663</author><text>Why does mov&#x27;ing a constant end up having overhead?</text></item><item><author>mytailorisrich</author><text><i>xor reg, reg</i> is indeed the standard way to zero out a register in x86 assembly (it&#x27;s not just a compiler trick) as it is both shorter and faster than loading the register with zero via a <i>mov</i>.<p>Apart from that, I&#x27;d say that a common use of XOR operations in general are interactions with hardware peripherals where manipulating bit fields are needed.</text></item><item><author>danpalmer</author><text>As mentioned in this article, x ^ x == 0. Fun fact, this is frequently used by compilers as a &quot;cheap&quot; way to zero out a register.<p>In addition, there are comparatively few cases in programming where we XOR. Sure, it happens in things like games quite a lot, but the main use is actually _cryptography_.<p>Between these two facts (more like hints really), I managed to reverse engineer the bulk of a piece of malware I was given to analyse in a an internship. I was handed the malware, a copy of IDA Pro, and given a few days to see what I could find. All I could remember when presented with a wall of hex encoded machine code were the hints above. I looked for XORs of different values, assumed it was crypto, and extrapolated from there. Found a routine happening three times in quick succession and guessed it was triple-DES. Then I guessed that writing your own 3DES from scratch was unlikely, so googled for crypto libraries and happened to find one that nearly matched (I think an earlier&#x2F;unmodified version), and worked my way up tagging the operations until I got to the purpose, exfiltrating various registry keys and browser history to [somewhere].<p>It was a fun exercise, and therefore these facts will stay with me for far longer than they are accurate I&#x27;m sure!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>detaro</author><text>It&#x27;s larger, because it needs to fit a 32bit value of 0 in the instruction, and thus e.g. on x86 needs 5 bytes, whereas xor reg,reg needs 2. As such it was a common code size optimization, which in turn has lead to CPU manufacturers optimizing their CPUs to recognize it and treat it even more efficiently.</text></comment> |
3,115,704 | 3,115,509 | 1 | 2 | 3,115,265 | train | <story><title>Html5 Neonflames</title><url>http://29a.ch/sandbox/2011/neonflames/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chrislomax</author><text>You have to click and drag around the black part of the screen, not completely obvious. I only found out when I got mad and started clicking stuff insanely.</text></comment> | <story><title>Html5 Neonflames</title><url>http://29a.ch/sandbox/2011/neonflames/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>RobertHubert</author><text>Works beautifully - really impressive organic feel to it. I love this actually!<p>✔ On Chrome 14.0.835.202 - windows 7<p>✔ Safari 5.1.1 - works but with lag<p>✔ Firefox - 7.0.1 - works great but seems to constrict the canvas more than on Chrome.<p>IE - Nothing, just loads the sharing icons.<p>"Grabs iPad"</text></comment> |
17,250,015 | 17,248,046 | 1 | 2 | 17,247,548 | train | <story><title>Mozilla Announces $225,000 for Art and Advocacy Exploring A.I.</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/06/04/mozilla-announces-225000-for-art-and-advocacy-exploring-artificial-intelligence/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mankash666</author><text>This is an unpopular opinion here, but the facts stand.<p>Mozilla makes money disappear. Their 2016 revenues were in excess of $520M, and their claimed output was the Quantum browser.<p>The two largest R&amp;D verticals seem to be their browser and the codecs group. That still doesn&#x27;t account for expenses of $520M in 2016, and much much more in 2017.<p>Where is all the money going, Mozilla?</text></comment> | <story><title>Mozilla Announces $225,000 for Art and Advocacy Exploring A.I.</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/06/04/mozilla-announces-225000-for-art-and-advocacy-exploring-artificial-intelligence/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>s-shellfish</author><text>While I believe there are real dangers AI can cause, I don&#x27;t know how you&#x27;d go about proving such a thing without recreating the problem in a different constructed variant.<p>Psychology and sociology are &#x27;soft&#x27; sciences because you can&#x27;t test people psychologically and sociologically in &#x27;hard&#x27; ways without seriously crossing some serious ethical boundaries.<p>It could be argued that a lot of the decisions being made that back the design in contemporary infrastructures already are engaged in this sort of testing and behavioral modification, in ways that seem innocent from the onset, but yet still propagate across social systems in ways that are far too chaotic and complex to forecast.</text></comment> |
37,302,493 | 37,301,205 | 1 | 2 | 37,297,304 | train | <story><title>ChatGPT Enterprise</title><url>https://openai.com/blog/introducing-chatgpt-enterprise</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ajhai</author><text>Explicitly calling out that they are not going to train on enterprise&#x27;s data and SOC2 compliance is going to put a lot of the enterprises at ease and embrace ChatGPT in their business processes.<p>From our discussions with enterprises (trying to sell our LLM apps platform), we quickly learned how sensitive enterprises are when it comes to sharing their data. In many of these organizations, employees are already pasting a lot of sensitive data into ChatGPT unless access to ChatGPT itself is restricted. We know a few companies that ended up deploying chatbot-ui with Azure&#x27;s OpenAI offering since Azure claims to not use user&#x27;s data (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;legal&#x2F;cognitive-services&#x2F;openai&#x2F;data-privacy" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;legal&#x2F;cognitive-services&#x2F;o...</a>).<p>We ended up adding support for Azure&#x27;s OpenAI offering to our platform as well as open-source our engine to support on-prem deployments (LLMStack - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;trypromptly&#x2F;LLMStack">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;trypromptly&#x2F;LLMStack</a>) to deal with the privacy concerns these enterprises have.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>irrational</author><text>My company (Fortune 500 with 80,000 full time employees) has a policy that forbids the use of any AI or LLM tool. The big concern listed in the policy is that we may inadvertently use someone else’s IP from training data. So, our data going into the tool is one concern, but the other is our using something we are not authorized to use because the tool has it already in its data. How do you prove that that could never occur? The only way I can think of is to provide a comprehensive list of everything the tool was trained on.</text></comment> | <story><title>ChatGPT Enterprise</title><url>https://openai.com/blog/introducing-chatgpt-enterprise</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ajhai</author><text>Explicitly calling out that they are not going to train on enterprise&#x27;s data and SOC2 compliance is going to put a lot of the enterprises at ease and embrace ChatGPT in their business processes.<p>From our discussions with enterprises (trying to sell our LLM apps platform), we quickly learned how sensitive enterprises are when it comes to sharing their data. In many of these organizations, employees are already pasting a lot of sensitive data into ChatGPT unless access to ChatGPT itself is restricted. We know a few companies that ended up deploying chatbot-ui with Azure&#x27;s OpenAI offering since Azure claims to not use user&#x27;s data (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;legal&#x2F;cognitive-services&#x2F;openai&#x2F;data-privacy" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;legal&#x2F;cognitive-services&#x2F;o...</a>).<p>We ended up adding support for Azure&#x27;s OpenAI offering to our platform as well as open-source our engine to support on-prem deployments (LLMStack - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;trypromptly&#x2F;LLMStack">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;trypromptly&#x2F;LLMStack</a>) to deal with the privacy concerns these enterprises have.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mveertu</author><text>So, how do you plan to commercialize your product? I have noticed tons of chatbot cloud-based app providers built on top of ChatGPT API, Azure API (ask users to provide their API key). Enterprises will still be very wary of putting their data on these multi-tenant platforms. I feel that even if there is encryption that&#x27;s not going to be enough. This screams for virtual private LLM stacks for enterprises (the only way to fully isolate).</text></comment> |
8,310,907 | 8,310,502 | 1 | 2 | 8,308,341 | train | <story><title>Volumetric Particle Flow</title><url>http://david.li/flow/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bd</author><text>There is also a follow-up demo by the same author called Disintegration, with skinned animated mesh driving particles:<p><a href="http://david.li/disintegration/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;david.li&#x2F;disintegration&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Volumetric Particle Flow</title><url>http://david.li/flow/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mhax</author><text>Looks reminiscent of a fairlight demo from 2009
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezltebzdgjI" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ezltebzdgjI</a></text></comment> |
34,173,493 | 34,172,346 | 1 | 2 | 34,171,618 | train | <story><title>Revealed: Group shaping US nutrition receives millions from big food industry</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/dec/09/academy-nutrition-financial-ties-processed-food-companies-contributions</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>magic_hamster</author><text>The title might be overblown but I&#x27;ve come to fully expect every government agency is somehow influenced (to say the least) by some organization or another with an ulterior motive.<p>It appears this is just the way the system is set up. Everyone has something to gain from this influence (except the public of course). I&#x27;ve come to accept this as a fact of life and think for myself. Do my own research, consult professionals in matters that are important to me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Revealed: Group shaping US nutrition receives millions from big food industry</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/dec/09/academy-nutrition-financial-ties-processed-food-companies-contributions</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lotsofpulp</author><text>The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics is a lobbying group, why would this be surprising to anyone? They have no official government function.<p>Edit: It appears I am wrong, and it is not just a lobbying group. They also issue the licensing needed to sell diet advice in many states.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdrnet.org&#x2F;#" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdrnet.org&#x2F;#</a></text></comment> |
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