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41,757,757 | 41,756,575 | 1 | 3 | 41,756,346 | train | <story><title>When Earth had rings</title><url>https://nautil.us/when-earth-had-rings-920177/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>GolfPopper</author><text>I find myself, perhaps irrationally, quite irked that the picture headlining the article uses a picture of <i>current</i> Earth with rings, when Earth&#x27;s surface 466 million years ago looked much different[1]. The paper itself [2] does have a map, although (understandably) not an artist&#x27;s depiction. Most other sources covering the paper appear to have repurposed &quot;ringed terrestrial planet&quot; artwork, but I found one has an artist&#x27;s rendition[3] to mollify myself.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dinosaurpictures.org&#x2F;ancient-earth#450" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dinosaurpictures.org&#x2F;ancient-earth#450</a>
2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S0012821X24004230" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S0012821X2...</a>
3. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.yahoo.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;earth-had-saturn-rings-466-182200620.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.yahoo.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;earth-had-saturn-rings-466-182200...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>When Earth had rings</title><url>https://nautil.us/when-earth-had-rings-920177/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>forgot-im-old</author><text>May see rings around Earth again.. it&#x27;s the expected state that space debris settles into after Kessler Syndrome.</text></comment> |
4,549,432 | 4,549,125 | 1 | 2 | 4,548,071 | train | <story><title>New Apple maps app under fire from users</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19659736</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>enraged_camel</author><text>The only real complaints people tend to have about their old iPhones is slow performance, and that's pretty normal. IPhones do not have the "apps randomly breaking or giving odd error messages" issue.</text></item><item><author>eavc</author><text>Is it a Galaxy Nexus? Because if not, you're talking about a pretty old device, and I hear people complain about their two+ year old iPhones all the time.</text></item><item><author>anu_gupta</author><text>I have an Android device and I really don't like it. It's a Nexus.<p>Oh, and to be honest as well, I don't hear many complaints from the iPhone crowd.</text></item><item><author>lawdawg</author><text>I hear stories like this all the time, but every single person I know that has an Android has very few, if any, problems (most own Samsungs or Nexus phones though). I mean to be honest, I hear a lot more complaining from the iPhone crowd, but that might be more because they expect more and things like the battery dying after 10 hours of moderate use really piss them off.</text></item><item><author>GBKS</author><text>I'd also recommend to base your decision on the overall service you get over the 1-2 years you'll own your phone. I've had an Android phone the past 2 years and am completely disillusioned with Android/Google/HTC. Everything is great for a few months, then issue after issue kept piling up.<p>For example, the first system update my phone had problems installing. It took two weeks of Googling and Verizon store visits to figure out that I had to do a factory reset for it to work. The second system update has been lingering on my phone for about 3 months. The install process simply never finishes, no matter what I do.<p>Second, apps simply stop working one by one. Flipboard doesn't manage to load images anymore. Wunderlist can't sync anymore. Installing Instagram breaks the built-in camera and gallery completely. Lots of random errors in other apps. The weather app stopped automatically refreshing. The alarm app doesn't go off anymore. Not to mention the application cache limitation to 150MB. So even though I have 500MB available storage, I can't install more apps, since they don't have room for temporary files. If that's full, apps simply stop working (only fix I found was a 1-hour phone-rooting process).<p>The touchscreen sometimes stops responding (off/on fixes that). Tapping a bookmark on my home screen loads the browser, but not the actual link. The phone randomly restarts at times. The unlock screen started misbehaving recently. And on and on.<p>In comparison, my 4 year old iPod Touch is more reliable and more fun to use than my 2-year old HTC. My 3.5 year old MacBook just upgraded to iOS6 and everything runs smooth as butter.<p>So my experience is that Android phones get worse over time, and Apple devices get better over time (or at least stay the same). Of course, your experience may differ, and maybe Android is more mature by now. But I'd highly recommend not to base a switch on a few features, but to take the overall service you will receive over two years into consideration.</text></item><item><author>cletus</author><text>Since the passing of Steve Jobs there has understandably been a lot of speculation about what will happen to Apple given Steve's laser-like focus on user experience above almost all else. Some self-proclaimed "power users" did of course rail against the Apple ecosystem but like most things Apple does (did?) it was right most of the time for most users.<p>I've been an avid iPhone user since the iPhone 4 and have bought every iPad so far. iOS 6 may mark a turning point to me such that the 4S that I have now may well be my last iPhone. My phone for me is probably beyond anything else a way of getting places (ie maps). Even more than phone calls, SMS or the Internet.<p>I sympathize with the position that Apple wants to control the entire experience but I really am dumbfounded that they've sacrificed user experience to do it. So much so that I don't think I want to update to iOS 6.<p>When compared to Android, the one remaining pillar for the iPhone for me is battery life. The 4S simply trumps any Android I've used or witnessed to date. I typically have to charge my phone only every 2-3 days. The Droid I have (which admittedly was a terrible phone) is lucky to last a day. The Galaxy S3 is better but still...<p>I look forward to the next Android phone running out-of-the-box 4.1 (or whatever the latest release is at that point).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rustynails</author><text>See my post above. In many ways, I regret buying an iphone4. My wife's experience with nexus s has been much more hassle free than mine.
There are definitely things I prefer on iPhone. One case in point is that although I often see crashes on apps, they just shut down quietly and I restart. Android let's my wife know that an app has crashed.
I also upgraded my wife's phone to android 4.1. It took 5-10 mins total. I'm dreading my IOS6 update which I am estimating will take me 8h (inc. reinstall of my purchases via cydia - which I am forced to do if I want the functionality that I WANT vs what apple lets me have).</text></comment> | <story><title>New Apple maps app under fire from users</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19659736</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>enraged_camel</author><text>The only real complaints people tend to have about their old iPhones is slow performance, and that's pretty normal. IPhones do not have the "apps randomly breaking or giving odd error messages" issue.</text></item><item><author>eavc</author><text>Is it a Galaxy Nexus? Because if not, you're talking about a pretty old device, and I hear people complain about their two+ year old iPhones all the time.</text></item><item><author>anu_gupta</author><text>I have an Android device and I really don't like it. It's a Nexus.<p>Oh, and to be honest as well, I don't hear many complaints from the iPhone crowd.</text></item><item><author>lawdawg</author><text>I hear stories like this all the time, but every single person I know that has an Android has very few, if any, problems (most own Samsungs or Nexus phones though). I mean to be honest, I hear a lot more complaining from the iPhone crowd, but that might be more because they expect more and things like the battery dying after 10 hours of moderate use really piss them off.</text></item><item><author>GBKS</author><text>I'd also recommend to base your decision on the overall service you get over the 1-2 years you'll own your phone. I've had an Android phone the past 2 years and am completely disillusioned with Android/Google/HTC. Everything is great for a few months, then issue after issue kept piling up.<p>For example, the first system update my phone had problems installing. It took two weeks of Googling and Verizon store visits to figure out that I had to do a factory reset for it to work. The second system update has been lingering on my phone for about 3 months. The install process simply never finishes, no matter what I do.<p>Second, apps simply stop working one by one. Flipboard doesn't manage to load images anymore. Wunderlist can't sync anymore. Installing Instagram breaks the built-in camera and gallery completely. Lots of random errors in other apps. The weather app stopped automatically refreshing. The alarm app doesn't go off anymore. Not to mention the application cache limitation to 150MB. So even though I have 500MB available storage, I can't install more apps, since they don't have room for temporary files. If that's full, apps simply stop working (only fix I found was a 1-hour phone-rooting process).<p>The touchscreen sometimes stops responding (off/on fixes that). Tapping a bookmark on my home screen loads the browser, but not the actual link. The phone randomly restarts at times. The unlock screen started misbehaving recently. And on and on.<p>In comparison, my 4 year old iPod Touch is more reliable and more fun to use than my 2-year old HTC. My 3.5 year old MacBook just upgraded to iOS6 and everything runs smooth as butter.<p>So my experience is that Android phones get worse over time, and Apple devices get better over time (or at least stay the same). Of course, your experience may differ, and maybe Android is more mature by now. But I'd highly recommend not to base a switch on a few features, but to take the overall service you will receive over two years into consideration.</text></item><item><author>cletus</author><text>Since the passing of Steve Jobs there has understandably been a lot of speculation about what will happen to Apple given Steve's laser-like focus on user experience above almost all else. Some self-proclaimed "power users" did of course rail against the Apple ecosystem but like most things Apple does (did?) it was right most of the time for most users.<p>I've been an avid iPhone user since the iPhone 4 and have bought every iPad so far. iOS 6 may mark a turning point to me such that the 4S that I have now may well be my last iPhone. My phone for me is probably beyond anything else a way of getting places (ie maps). Even more than phone calls, SMS or the Internet.<p>I sympathize with the position that Apple wants to control the entire experience but I really am dumbfounded that they've sacrificed user experience to do it. So much so that I don't think I want to update to iOS 6.<p>When compared to Android, the one remaining pillar for the iPhone for me is battery life. The 4S simply trumps any Android I've used or witnessed to date. I typically have to charge my phone only every 2-3 days. The Droid I have (which admittedly was a terrible phone) is lucky to last a day. The Galaxy S3 is better but still...<p>I look forward to the next Android phone running out-of-the-box 4.1 (or whatever the latest release is at that point).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mladenkovacevic</author><text>Wasn't there a study done recently where they determined that applications on iPhones actually crash more often than on an average Android, except that no error messages are thrown up at all.. you're just sent back to the home screen so the user thinks "Oh I must've pressed the Home button by accident"<p>My own anecdotal Nexus experience (I own the Google updated GSM version): no crashes (although there was a brief syncing outage last night), updates are smooth and fast, and the whole "it just works" thing applies.</text></comment> |
17,638,442 | 17,637,390 | 1 | 2 | 17,635,247 | train | <story><title>If you put chalk under a powerful microscope</title><url>https://twitter.com/ferrisjabr/status/1022534132415356928</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>perl4ever</author><text>Re &quot;big&quot; numbers, I can&#x27;t help thinking of Richard Feynman&#x27;s comment &quot;There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it&#x27;s only a hundred billion. It&#x27;s less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.&quot;<p>The entire universe probably contains around 10^80 protons, yet Google&#x27;s founders casually referred to the number 10^100 to indicate their ambitions for information processing.<p>A carbon atom is 0.3 nm in diameter, so only about 3.3 million can fit in 1 mm. There are well over twice the number of people in NYC!<p>All in all, numbers that describe the natural world aren&#x27;t all that impressive compared to the human world.</text></item><item><author>latch</author><text>I read Dragon&#x27;s Egg recently, and one of the key leap from barbarian to civilization that the neutron star aliens make is (simplistically) to count past &quot;many&quot; and think of quantities &#x2F; numbers abstractly.<p>Our ability to track distinct objects is impressive by our own standard, and we&#x27;re pretty good at understanding &quot;big&quot; numbers, say somewhere between a million and a billion. But in the scale of things, we&#x27;re much closer to the hunter knowing his kill will feed his tribe for many moons versus being a starfaring race.</text></item><item><author>dwaltrip</author><text>Each &quot;star&quot; in the Hubble Deep Field image is actually an entire galaxy... The vastness of the universe is difficult to comprehend.</text></item><item><author>nikanj</author><text>Contrast this with the Hubble Deep Field image, which is an extremely tiny patch of the night sky. It’s sizeis equivalent to a tennis ball at a distance of 100 metres, or ~110 yards.<p>And my god, it’s full of stars. There’s endless detail in the universe, whether you zoom in, or zoom out.<p>See: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;commons&#x2F;6&#x2F;69&#x2F;NASA-HS201427a-HubbleUltraDeepField2014-20140603.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;commons&#x2F;6&#x2F;69&#x2F;NASA-HS2...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>majewsky</author><text>&gt; A carbon atom is 0.3 nm in diameter, so only about 3.3 million can fit in 1 mm.<p>Sure, but about 70 quintillion of them fit in 1 mm^3.</text></comment> | <story><title>If you put chalk under a powerful microscope</title><url>https://twitter.com/ferrisjabr/status/1022534132415356928</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>perl4ever</author><text>Re &quot;big&quot; numbers, I can&#x27;t help thinking of Richard Feynman&#x27;s comment &quot;There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it&#x27;s only a hundred billion. It&#x27;s less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.&quot;<p>The entire universe probably contains around 10^80 protons, yet Google&#x27;s founders casually referred to the number 10^100 to indicate their ambitions for information processing.<p>A carbon atom is 0.3 nm in diameter, so only about 3.3 million can fit in 1 mm. There are well over twice the number of people in NYC!<p>All in all, numbers that describe the natural world aren&#x27;t all that impressive compared to the human world.</text></item><item><author>latch</author><text>I read Dragon&#x27;s Egg recently, and one of the key leap from barbarian to civilization that the neutron star aliens make is (simplistically) to count past &quot;many&quot; and think of quantities &#x2F; numbers abstractly.<p>Our ability to track distinct objects is impressive by our own standard, and we&#x27;re pretty good at understanding &quot;big&quot; numbers, say somewhere between a million and a billion. But in the scale of things, we&#x27;re much closer to the hunter knowing his kill will feed his tribe for many moons versus being a starfaring race.</text></item><item><author>dwaltrip</author><text>Each &quot;star&quot; in the Hubble Deep Field image is actually an entire galaxy... The vastness of the universe is difficult to comprehend.</text></item><item><author>nikanj</author><text>Contrast this with the Hubble Deep Field image, which is an extremely tiny patch of the night sky. It’s sizeis equivalent to a tennis ball at a distance of 100 metres, or ~110 yards.<p>And my god, it’s full of stars. There’s endless detail in the universe, whether you zoom in, or zoom out.<p>See: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;commons&#x2F;6&#x2F;69&#x2F;NASA-HS201427a-HubbleUltraDeepField2014-20140603.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;commons&#x2F;6&#x2F;69&#x2F;NASA-HS2...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tim333</author><text>&gt;The entire universe probably contains around 10^80 protons<p>The entire visible universe that is. It could well be infinite and hence contain a larger number of them.</text></comment> |
37,437,203 | 37,436,070 | 1 | 2 | 37,433,495 | train | <story><title>Apple vs. Meta: The Illusion of Privacy</title><url>https://growth.design/case-studies/apple-privacy-policy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>2Gkashmiri</author><text>I don&#x27;t own an apple device now but why does app store have ads ? After paying upwards of $1000+ on a iPhone, why can&#x27;t you expect an ad free experience on a first party app store?</text></item><item><author>kaba0</author><text>Also, not all ads are the same from an ethical standpoint.<p>Displaying an app ad in the appstore upon searching for a similar term is very different than displaying ads based on your whole life, collected in malicious ways.</text></item><item><author>innagadadavida</author><text>&gt; In 2022, Apple generated 4.7 billion U.S. dollars with its global advertising business.<p>&gt; By 2022, Facebook&#x27;s ad revenues had hit $135.94 billion.<p>$4.7B is not a small number but no where close to Facebook’s.</text></item><item><author>nicce</author><text>Apple&#x27;s ad business, however, is growing all the time. And in significant margins.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.co.uk&#x2F;article&#x2F;apple-is-an-ad-company-now" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.co.uk&#x2F;article&#x2F;apple-is-an-ad-company-now</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;statistics&#x2F;1330127&#x2F;apple-ad-revenue-worldwide&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;statistics&#x2F;1330127&#x2F;apple-ad-revenue...</a></text></item><item><author>goalieca</author><text>Apple does not have a tracking pixel on half the popular web. Apple&#x27;s main source of income is through luxury hardware and subscription services. Facebook sells your information and attention to willing buyers.</text></item><item><author>daft_pink</author><text>I think it&#x27;s unfair to compare Facebook actively screwing us to Apple not adopting your proposed metric on their product and passively allowing a very popular app in their app store.<p>Not a huge fan of Apple, but they aren&#x27;t Facebook.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LexGray</author><text>Perhaps there is some sort of pressure by stockholders to have the ability to promote their own products and services on the device or just some sort of backroom dealings.<p>My personal hope is that Apple course corrects at some point that they do not need to extract the extra cash while damaging the customer experience. The company feels much less customer oriented now and has lost a lot of the premium feel. I have already stopped using their TV app because they have made it nearly non-functional with the amount of promoted content. The News app has an exceptional number of subscription only items in the feed to where I am about to go back to pure RSS. The feeling is like what Google would have done with Google Reader if it was still going stuffing in promotions.<p>I agree first party apps should be advertisement free if they are advertised as being included in the price of the phone. Otherwise it is a hidden bill you are paying with hours or days of your life that you can&#x27;t get back.<p>I would pay for a service that just disabled all first party promotions advertisements. Give me the real price instead of wasting my valuable time with advertisements I would never click.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple vs. Meta: The Illusion of Privacy</title><url>https://growth.design/case-studies/apple-privacy-policy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>2Gkashmiri</author><text>I don&#x27;t own an apple device now but why does app store have ads ? After paying upwards of $1000+ on a iPhone, why can&#x27;t you expect an ad free experience on a first party app store?</text></item><item><author>kaba0</author><text>Also, not all ads are the same from an ethical standpoint.<p>Displaying an app ad in the appstore upon searching for a similar term is very different than displaying ads based on your whole life, collected in malicious ways.</text></item><item><author>innagadadavida</author><text>&gt; In 2022, Apple generated 4.7 billion U.S. dollars with its global advertising business.<p>&gt; By 2022, Facebook&#x27;s ad revenues had hit $135.94 billion.<p>$4.7B is not a small number but no where close to Facebook’s.</text></item><item><author>nicce</author><text>Apple&#x27;s ad business, however, is growing all the time. And in significant margins.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.co.uk&#x2F;article&#x2F;apple-is-an-ad-company-now" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.co.uk&#x2F;article&#x2F;apple-is-an-ad-company-now</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;statistics&#x2F;1330127&#x2F;apple-ad-revenue-worldwide&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;statistics&#x2F;1330127&#x2F;apple-ad-revenue...</a></text></item><item><author>goalieca</author><text>Apple does not have a tracking pixel on half the popular web. Apple&#x27;s main source of income is through luxury hardware and subscription services. Facebook sells your information and attention to willing buyers.</text></item><item><author>daft_pink</author><text>I think it&#x27;s unfair to compare Facebook actively screwing us to Apple not adopting your proposed metric on their product and passively allowing a very popular app in their app store.<p>Not a huge fan of Apple, but they aren&#x27;t Facebook.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>csallen</author><text>Because Apple has decided so, because it makes them lots of money, and it isn&#x27;t a big enough dealbreaker for consumers to not buy iPhones. I believe the Google Play Store has ads, too.</text></comment> |
20,070,814 | 20,070,775 | 1 | 3 | 20,070,551 | train | <story><title>Police Post Racist and Violent Messages on Facebook, a Review Shows</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilyhoerner/police-facebook-racist-violent-posts-comments-philadelphia</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pizza</author><text>&gt; &quot;Two studies have found that at least 40% of police officer families experience domestic violence, in contrast to 10% of families in the general population,&quot; the National Center for Women &amp; Policing says. &quot;A third study of older and more experienced officers found a rate of 24%, indicating that domestic violence is 2-4 times more common among police families than American families in general.&quot;<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;womenandpolicing.com&#x2F;violenceFS.asp#notes" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;womenandpolicing.com&#x2F;violenceFS.asp#notes</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Police Post Racist and Violent Messages on Facebook, a Review Shows</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilyhoerner/police-facebook-racist-violent-posts-comments-philadelphia</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>some-guy</author><text>Direct link to The Plain View Project itself: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.plainviewproject.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.plainviewproject.org&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
5,999,577 | 5,999,348 | 1 | 2 | 5,999,210 | train | <story><title>Vim 7.4a ready for beta testing </title><url>https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vim_use/N8jzif4e9L8</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vito</author><text>And just like that, a new MacVim snapshot:<p><a href="https://code.google.com/p/macvim/downloads/detail?name=MacVim-snapshot-67.tbz&amp;can=2&amp;q=" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.google.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;macvim&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;detail?name=MacVi...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Vim 7.4a ready for beta testing </title><url>https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vim_use/N8jzif4e9L8</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>TallboyOne</author><text>Nice! How long does vim usually stay in beta? I&#x27;m not familiar with Vim&#x27;s release cycle</text></comment> |
2,820,753 | 2,820,419 | 1 | 2 | 2,820,204 | train | <story><title>Don't use Java 7 for anything, unless you have no loops in your program</title><url>http://www.lucidimagination.com/blog/2011/07/28/dont-use-java-7-for-anything/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gjm11</author><text>"These problems were detected only 5 days before the official Java 7 release, so Oracle had no time to fix those bugs" -- this is very, very broken. They had time to <i>not release a version of Java with known wrong-code and crashing bugs affecting real code</i>.</text></comment> | <story><title>Don't use Java 7 for anything, unless you have no loops in your program</title><url>http://www.lucidimagination.com/blog/2011/07/28/dont-use-java-7-for-anything/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jbellis</author><text>Workaround: run with -XX:-UseLoopPredicate. (<a href="http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-compiler-dev/2011-July/005971.html" rel="nofollow">http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-compiler-dev/...</a>)<p>But yeah, pretty bad bug.</text></comment> |
10,564,171 | 10,563,860 | 1 | 2 | 10,563,540 | train | <story><title>Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/14/world/europe/paris-shooting-attacks.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>djfm</author><text>I live in Paris and was spending the night in the middle of the hot zone. I was a few hundred meters from the Bataclan but fortunately the area I was in was spared. I tried to get a Uber but they were unavailable, &quot;State of emergency, please stay home&quot;, the app said. I took a city bike home, rode about 10kms and barely saw anyone in the streets all the way home. It was really, really weird. I&#x27;m awfully sad that people can be proud of having killed a hundred innocents. I&#x27;m not afraid, I&#x27;m just terribly sad. Please stop this pointless killing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>noobermin</author><text>I wanted to get back to your comment given that this thread has erupted into a political discussion. I just wish you the best, and I hope that I am correct in saying that a lot of us have our thoughts with you and the rest of you in Paris.</text></comment> | <story><title>Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/14/world/europe/paris-shooting-attacks.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>djfm</author><text>I live in Paris and was spending the night in the middle of the hot zone. I was a few hundred meters from the Bataclan but fortunately the area I was in was spared. I tried to get a Uber but they were unavailable, &quot;State of emergency, please stay home&quot;, the app said. I took a city bike home, rode about 10kms and barely saw anyone in the streets all the way home. It was really, really weird. I&#x27;m awfully sad that people can be proud of having killed a hundred innocents. I&#x27;m not afraid, I&#x27;m just terribly sad. Please stop this pointless killing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Fluid_Mechanics</author><text>If we didn&#x27;t need to secure their oil by supporting&#x2F;deposing despots in the region, and didn&#x27;t want to provide the Israelis with military&#x2F;political&#x2F;financial support then we would not be dealing with any of this carnage.<p>Their attempts to fight back will only escalate the situation, and the carnage will continue.<p>Edit: I&#x27;m not advocating that we not support Israel. I&#x27;m simply stating a hard truth regarding &quot;why they hate us&quot;.</text></comment> |
39,053,846 | 39,053,865 | 1 | 2 | 39,049,217 | train | <story><title>YouTube and Spotify won't launch Apple Vision Pro apps, joining Netflix</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-18/youtube-and-spotify-join-netflix-in-not-launching-apple-vision-pro-apps</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>worthless-trash</author><text>Apple maps is ... pretty bad though.</text></item><item><author>GeekyBear</author><text>&gt; Apple has an opportunity here I think to make next-generation video site that favors material that works well for VisionPro and whatever follows it<p>I certainly remember the period when Apple didn&#x27;t want to hand over the user IDs for users while they were accessing Google&#x27;s map data and Google refusing to allow turn by turn driving directions on iOS until they did.<p>Apple&#x27;s solution was to spend a fortune to develop their own Map data.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t bet against them rolling their own 3D video sharing site.</text></item><item><author>sircastor</author><text>I don&#x27;t know that they&#x27;ve made the effort (or would want to) but Apple has an opportunity here I think to make next-generation video site that favors material that works well for VisionPro and whatever follows it. If YouTube isn&#x27;t willing to encourage content for the platform, and someone else is, they risk ending up as an also-ran.<p>It&#x27;s a small population, no doubt. But it&#x27;s also a population that&#x27;s willing to spend a substantial amount of money, and if you can get people creating content for your platform (&quot;VPTube&quot; or whatever you&#x27;d call it) then it&#x27;s going to be harder to pull those content creators back to YouTube after that wait and see period. They&#x27;re dealing with that problem with TikTok right now.</text></item><item><author>paxys</author><text>Considering most of these companies are in the middle of budget cuts and layoffs (including specifically in the YouTube division), it should be obvious that they aren’t going to be rushing to staff up teams to build an app for an untested device that will probably be in the hands of a few thousand people at launch. “Wait and see” is the best approach right now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dijit</author><text>Apple maps was <i>worse at launch</i> than Google Maps was at the time.<p>However I welcomed the change as it was Google which was preventing Siri from working outside of north america (&quot;find restaurant near me&quot;; didn&#x27;t work in the UK until after Apple Maps)<p>Today the landscape is different. Google Maps is positively <i>littered</i> with ads which makes it in some cases very annoying to use.<p>Turn-by-turn navigation, if you have carplay is much superior with apple maps.<p>They have comparably updated maps data.<p>So, it&#x27;s a marginally better usability in some cases and equivalent in most.<p>Google has two advantages: Reviews and more accurate points of interest (if they are businesses).</text></comment> | <story><title>YouTube and Spotify won't launch Apple Vision Pro apps, joining Netflix</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-18/youtube-and-spotify-join-netflix-in-not-launching-apple-vision-pro-apps</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>worthless-trash</author><text>Apple maps is ... pretty bad though.</text></item><item><author>GeekyBear</author><text>&gt; Apple has an opportunity here I think to make next-generation video site that favors material that works well for VisionPro and whatever follows it<p>I certainly remember the period when Apple didn&#x27;t want to hand over the user IDs for users while they were accessing Google&#x27;s map data and Google refusing to allow turn by turn driving directions on iOS until they did.<p>Apple&#x27;s solution was to spend a fortune to develop their own Map data.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t bet against them rolling their own 3D video sharing site.</text></item><item><author>sircastor</author><text>I don&#x27;t know that they&#x27;ve made the effort (or would want to) but Apple has an opportunity here I think to make next-generation video site that favors material that works well for VisionPro and whatever follows it. If YouTube isn&#x27;t willing to encourage content for the platform, and someone else is, they risk ending up as an also-ran.<p>It&#x27;s a small population, no doubt. But it&#x27;s also a population that&#x27;s willing to spend a substantial amount of money, and if you can get people creating content for your platform (&quot;VPTube&quot; or whatever you&#x27;d call it) then it&#x27;s going to be harder to pull those content creators back to YouTube after that wait and see period. They&#x27;re dealing with that problem with TikTok right now.</text></item><item><author>paxys</author><text>Considering most of these companies are in the middle of budget cuts and layoffs (including specifically in the YouTube division), it should be obvious that they aren’t going to be rushing to staff up teams to build an app for an untested device that will probably be in the hands of a few thousand people at launch. “Wait and see” is the best approach right now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Modified3019</author><text>It was certainly horrific for a while, I work in agriculture across a large area and we &quot;banned&quot; a coworker from using it because <i>all</i> of the pins they would send us would end up a mile away somehow, whereas they didn&#x27;t have that problem with google maps.<p>However it is very much improved these days, and workable enough. Definitely worth a re-evaluation.<p>Incidentally, I encounter two intermittent bugs in google maps:<p>- This past year there&#x27;s a bug that mirrors the old apple maps problem of sending me somewhere way off from my destination in some rare and particular (barely inhabited) areas, like an AI is trying to snap the point to something normal people would recognize as a destination. But no, my destination really is the side of a field. I find I can get around this by doing a longer hold press when setting the location which seems to force the coordinates. It&#x27;s always important to double check the destination didn&#x27;t change on me.<p>- Sometimes when clicking &quot;Start&quot;, the app will get stuck presenting some kind of text only directions with no way to get away from that damned useless white screen until I kill the app and re-enter the destination.</text></comment> |
5,451,287 | 5,450,669 | 1 | 3 | 5,450,459 | train | <story><title>19 Year Old Flees America and Skips College to Bootstrap a Startup in Bosnia</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/cameronkeng/2013/03/27/the-anti-yahoo-wunderkind-19-year-old-flees-america-and-skips-college-to-bootstrap-a-real-startup-thats-profitable-in-bosnia/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bitcartel</author><text>The start-up scene is, in a way, kind of sad.<p>The tech media and mainstream press routinely salivate over stories of 13... 15... 17... and 19 year old whiz kid entrepreneurs.<p>Yet there was a time when teenagers and young adults wrote software and tinkered with hardware, sharing their creations with friends and peers, on a journey of computing discovery.<p>There was a time when 'Demo Day' literally meant getting a group of friends together, travelling to a new city, and showing off your coding and artistic skills. The prizes were prestige and peer recognition. <a href="http://archive.assembly.org/1992" rel="nofollow">http://archive.assembly.org/1992</a><p>Now, kids and teenagers are being schooled to hustle and score big money. Where is the pure joy of discovery? Something has been lost.<p>EDIT: Just wanted to add, it's amazing what you can do in just 4kb (4096 byte executable, no external data files). This should inspire programmers of all ages.<p>2012 Fireflies: <a href="http://archive.assembly.org/2012/4k-intro/fireflies-by-blobtrox" rel="nofollow">http://archive.assembly.org/2012/4k-intro/fireflies-by-blobt...</a><p>2009 Muon Baryon: <a href="http://archive.assembly.org/2009/4k-intro/muon-baryon-by-youth-uprising" rel="nofollow">http://archive.assembly.org/2009/4k-intro/muon-baryon-by-you...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>19 Year Old Flees America and Skips College to Bootstrap a Startup in Bosnia</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/cameronkeng/2013/03/27/the-anti-yahoo-wunderkind-19-year-old-flees-america-and-skips-college-to-bootstrap-a-real-startup-thats-profitable-in-bosnia/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>Very interesting and cool story. But that article was dreadfully written. Just because you're writing about a teenager doesn't mean you have to write like a teenager.</text></comment> |
12,432,900 | 12,432,902 | 1 | 3 | 12,432,079 | train | <story><title>Legendary Apple Engineer Gets Rejected for Genius Bar Job</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com.au/jk-scheinberg-apple-engineer-rejected-job-apple-store-genius-bar-2016-9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asuffield</author><text>(Tedious disclaimer: my opinion only, not speaking for anybody else. I&#x27;m an SRE at Google.)<p>We expect and accept a high false-negative rate. Our interview process is optimised for zero false-positives at the cost of many false-negatives. This is a deliberate choice. So yes, I would expect to see a significant rate of rejections of people who are clearly qualified.<p>The sort of people that we want to hire are likely to come back for another try anyway, and the long-term effect of this process seems to be doing what it was supposed to.</text></item><item><author>aluminussoma</author><text>I have wanted to run an experiment of famous programmers or computer scientists applying to jobs at Google&#x2F;Facebook&#x2F;Etc (under an assumed identity) and seeing if they get rejected. My hypothesis is that there would be several notable rejections.<p>Unfortunately, I do not not anyone well enough to conduct this experiment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joosters</author><text>I&#x27;ve often heard this, and it seems a poor excuse for a terrible interview process&#x2F;terrible hiring figures. Why do you not try to improve your interview process to lower the false-negative rate? Doing so in an intelligent way need not raise the false-positives rate (unless you somehow believe that the interview process is already perfected by Google...)</text></comment> | <story><title>Legendary Apple Engineer Gets Rejected for Genius Bar Job</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com.au/jk-scheinberg-apple-engineer-rejected-job-apple-store-genius-bar-2016-9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asuffield</author><text>(Tedious disclaimer: my opinion only, not speaking for anybody else. I&#x27;m an SRE at Google.)<p>We expect and accept a high false-negative rate. Our interview process is optimised for zero false-positives at the cost of many false-negatives. This is a deliberate choice. So yes, I would expect to see a significant rate of rejections of people who are clearly qualified.<p>The sort of people that we want to hire are likely to come back for another try anyway, and the long-term effect of this process seems to be doing what it was supposed to.</text></item><item><author>aluminussoma</author><text>I have wanted to run an experiment of famous programmers or computer scientists applying to jobs at Google&#x2F;Facebook&#x2F;Etc (under an assumed identity) and seeing if they get rejected. My hypothesis is that there would be several notable rejections.<p>Unfortunately, I do not not anyone well enough to conduct this experiment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eridius</author><text>Why are you optimizing for zero false-positives? That&#x27;s what I&#x27;d expect from an early startup, where every employee is critical, not from a large company.</text></comment> |
27,090,262 | 27,089,174 | 1 | 2 | 27,088,377 | train | <story><title>ZA̡͊͠͝LGΌ causes "Invalid MD5 checksum on messages"</title><url>https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-js-v3/issues/2362</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>foxbarrington</author><text>For anyone who doesn&#x27;t get the reference: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;1732348&#x2F;regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags&#x2F;1732454#1732454" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;1732348&#x2F;regex-match-open...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mintplant</author><text>Worth mentioning that Zalgo predates the StackOverflow post (a̷nd̡ t̕h͟i̡s u̕niver͠s͠e̵).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Zalgo_text" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Zalgo_text</a></text></comment> | <story><title>ZA̡͊͠͝LGΌ causes "Invalid MD5 checksum on messages"</title><url>https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-js-v3/issues/2362</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>foxbarrington</author><text>For anyone who doesn&#x27;t get the reference: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;1732348&#x2F;regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags&#x2F;1732454#1732454" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;1732348&#x2F;regex-match-open...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Dylan16807</author><text>Which is a fun reference but this isn&#x27;t exactly parsing and I think using one regex to process escapes would actually <i>fix</i> the problem.<p>Edit: The function in the fix does in fact appear to be a straightforward implementation based around a regex. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mathiasbynens&#x2F;he&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;he.js" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mathiasbynens&#x2F;he&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;he.js</a></text></comment> |
13,446,820 | 13,446,439 | 1 | 3 | 13,446,020 | train | <story><title>Why Small Businesses Aren’t Spending More on Tech</title><url>https://www.comptia.org/about-us/newsroom/blog/comptia-blog/2017/01/19/how-to-get-small-businesses-more-excited-about-new-tech</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LoSboccacc</author><text>Exactly this. Big names want big money which small businnes don&#x27;t have and small businnes already got burned badly by fresh internet startups last time around.<p>Also, few bigs target small business because, let&#x27;s be honest, they&#x27;re a pain to work with at scale, each one of them brings variations to the base product flavor but no budget to implement them.<p>Hence, loads of them run off custom excel sheets.<p>I once proposed to have a sort of web excel with security controls and a way to let authenticated guests to work on a subset of cells as a way to move small businness online leaving control to them of their process implementation but couldn&#x27;t find a sponsor.</text></item><item><author>joemi</author><text>All the small businesses I&#x27;ve worked at have another huge factor to consider, when it comes to new tech: Will the tech be supported long enough for it to be worth dealing with?<p>Anecdotal example: A few years ago, my workplace at the time (a bookstore near a university in NYC) decided to try that payment method Square used to have that let you check in to Square when you enter a store and then just &quot;pay with your face&quot; or whatever. Sounded neat, I knew some folks who loved to pay for things that way in NYC at coffee shops and such, and the Square rep told us about all the other places near us that were adopting this. So we figured what the hell, jumped on in, got some iPad bundles from Square to use for this, and I was tasked with setting it up. Just a few weeks (!) after we had set it up, Square discontinued that service. Needless to say, ever since then, that bookstore has been very apprehensive about &quot;new tech&quot;. Why bother investing time and effort into something new if it could vanish at any moment?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>canadian_voter</author><text><i>Also, few bigs target small business because, let&#x27;s be honest, they&#x27;re a pain to work with at scale</i><p>Absolutely. A big business has the clout to request features and demand support. A small business might not even be able to get anyone on the phone, let alone get an on-site rep or have a feature added.<p><i>Hence, loads of them run off custom excel sheets.</i><p>We use a few spreadsheets and a custom POS system developed in house by me on top of OSS. It&#x27;s portable and endlessly customizable. I don&#x27;t have to worry about propriety file formats, services outages, changing terms or cost increases.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Small Businesses Aren’t Spending More on Tech</title><url>https://www.comptia.org/about-us/newsroom/blog/comptia-blog/2017/01/19/how-to-get-small-businesses-more-excited-about-new-tech</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LoSboccacc</author><text>Exactly this. Big names want big money which small businnes don&#x27;t have and small businnes already got burned badly by fresh internet startups last time around.<p>Also, few bigs target small business because, let&#x27;s be honest, they&#x27;re a pain to work with at scale, each one of them brings variations to the base product flavor but no budget to implement them.<p>Hence, loads of them run off custom excel sheets.<p>I once proposed to have a sort of web excel with security controls and a way to let authenticated guests to work on a subset of cells as a way to move small businness online leaving control to them of their process implementation but couldn&#x27;t find a sponsor.</text></item><item><author>joemi</author><text>All the small businesses I&#x27;ve worked at have another huge factor to consider, when it comes to new tech: Will the tech be supported long enough for it to be worth dealing with?<p>Anecdotal example: A few years ago, my workplace at the time (a bookstore near a university in NYC) decided to try that payment method Square used to have that let you check in to Square when you enter a store and then just &quot;pay with your face&quot; or whatever. Sounded neat, I knew some folks who loved to pay for things that way in NYC at coffee shops and such, and the Square rep told us about all the other places near us that were adopting this. So we figured what the hell, jumped on in, got some iPad bundles from Square to use for this, and I was tasked with setting it up. Just a few weeks (!) after we had set it up, Square discontinued that service. Needless to say, ever since then, that bookstore has been very apprehensive about &quot;new tech&quot;. Why bother investing time and effort into something new if it could vanish at any moment?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>samirillian</author><text>The non-profit I work for has been using airtable+zapier for precisely these needs.<p>I think a fundamental grasp of relational databases is a very handy skill.</text></comment> |
8,050,835 | 8,049,247 | 1 | 3 | 8,047,647 | train | <story><title>Product Hunt Is in Current Y Combinator Batch</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/17/product-hunt-the-popular-tech-product-discovery-site-is-in-current-y-combinator-batch/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>untog</author><text>How is Product Hunt even a business? It&#x27;s a fine site, but this feels like a development similar to VC firms investing in PandoDaily - control the overall message, ensure Silicon Valley becomes more and more of an insider&#x27;s club.<p>Another disappointing move - I want the YCombinator that requested startups working in energy, robotics, healthcare and internet infrastructure back:<p><a href="http://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ycombinator.com&#x2F;rfs&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mbesto</author><text>Having been a fairly active member of HN, I&#x27;ve noticed the following trends about companies they choose to invest. Companies generally get bucketed into the following:<p>1. Company did something relatively novel with regards to growth hacking and&#x2F;or digital hustling (&quot;these guys got 10,000 users in a day&quot;)<p>2. Company&#x2F;founder built an MVP with little technology experience, but got massive demand by using something off the shelf and wants to scale it with technology (&quot;this girl sold these items using wufoo as an e-commerce and wants to scale now&quot;)<p>3. Company&#x2F;founder did something important in tech before (sold a company) or had a role in a company people from YC alumni generally have an affinity for (&quot;this guy was the head of marketing for X company, it grew to 100 million users and sold to Google for X million&quot;)<p>4. Founders are from MIT&#x2F;Stanford&#x2F;etc and did something cool while they were there (&quot;AngelList says &#x27;TEAM = STANFORD&#x27; and one of the founders built a robot&quot;)<p>5. Founders have some sort of extensive domain knowledge in a market that can be a billion dollar business (platform&#x2F;data play) (&quot;No one is building farm tech ($XXbil industry), but these 6 guys from Iowa are&quot;)<p>6. Company&#x2F;founders don&#x27;t fully meet 1-5, but have inklings of one or more and have the potential for a billion dollar business (&quot;Smart scrappy guys who are building the next big messaging app&quot;)<p>There are of course exceptions to all of this, but the general theme is that (1) the business model doesn&#x27;t necessarily matter (they&#x27;ll figure it out, all 6 situations make these individuals smart) and (2) the makeup of the team matters more than anything else.<p>I&#x27;d put PH in bucket number 1.</text></comment> | <story><title>Product Hunt Is in Current Y Combinator Batch</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/17/product-hunt-the-popular-tech-product-discovery-site-is-in-current-y-combinator-batch/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>untog</author><text>How is Product Hunt even a business? It&#x27;s a fine site, but this feels like a development similar to VC firms investing in PandoDaily - control the overall message, ensure Silicon Valley becomes more and more of an insider&#x27;s club.<p>Another disappointing move - I want the YCombinator that requested startups working in energy, robotics, healthcare and internet infrastructure back:<p><a href="http://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ycombinator.com&#x2F;rfs&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>suhail</author><text>Companies evolve with time. Not every business has to look like a traditional revenue-generating machine out the gate. Great products and ideas can take time to be big.</text></comment> |
8,531,725 | 8,529,438 | 1 | 3 | 8,527,861 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Professional sound effects for UI projects</title><url>https://soundkit.io/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>GuiA</author><text>I just bought this. I was very excited about it - it seemed like the sounds would be varied and of good quality; and for $18 it would be a complete steal.<p>Sadly for UI work the selection and quality are just not there.<p>First of all, a lot of sounds (especially those in the MUSICAL TONES &#x2F; RHYTHMIC &#x2F; SPACEY folders) are more than a second long and use more than one note&#x2F;sound. This is extremely distracting and out of place for UI - the sounds have too much &quot;story&quot; to them already. In UIs, the sound should subtly accompany the action, give it some weight, and that&#x27;s it. It should definitely not become the user&#x27;s center of attention or even be noticeable at all. That&#x27;s a really hard thing to do, that even the big players fuck up - a lot of alert sounds on major operating systems are terrible, if not down right terrifying (one of my favorites ~good~ examples, as a contrast is Tweetbot 2).<p>There is also the problem that a lot of sounds have audible static&#x2F;background noise. A very noticeable one is Air Pop.wav in INPUTS. On my K240s it&#x27;s borderline painful.<p>The names of the folders are quite disappointing. SPACEY? LOOPS? RHYTHMIC? A solid set of UI sounds would have folders like APERTURE SOUNDS (with sounds from dozens of existing cameras + synthesized ones), CLICKS (with sounds from a variety buttons, some clicky, some soft, some very short, some a bit longer , some plastic-y, some metal-ly, etc.), SLIDERS (same as buttons but with sliders), and so on. Those are the sounds that UI designers need.<p>The best ones are in INPUTS - some amount are usable, some could be usable with some editing (e.g. the slider sounds that&#x27;d need to be split into 3-4 distinct sounds for each file and then mapped to a slider), but some remain completely useless for UI work (e.g. Twangy.wav, which would make any interface feel like Microsoft Bob, or Reverse Woodpecker.wav which would make the user feel like their computer is glitching).<p>I&#x27;m disappointed because I feel like what I&#x27;ve bought has nothing to do with what I, as a UI designer, was led to believe I&#x27;d get :(</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Professional sound effects for UI projects</title><url>https://soundkit.io/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jrochkind1</author><text>Neat. The license terms make it difficult&#x2F;impossible to use for something created by a business, or other kind of team, rather than a single individual:<p>&gt; The maximum number of users of this sound effects library is limited to ONE. It is unlawful to distribute any of the audio files to ANY ADDITIONAL USERS. This license allows ONE individual...<p>So... if a company (or university department, or non-profit entity, or small volunteer team) wants to use it, they need a license for... every employee that has access to the source code repo? And another one for every new hire? Or...?</text></comment> |
8,102,248 | 8,102,394 | 1 | 3 | 8,100,579 | train | <story><title>Steel worker reveals blocking view of U.S. aircraft on day of atomic bombing</title><url>http://mainichi.jp/english/english/features/news/20140726p2a00m0na014000c.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colanderman</author><text>97 <i>square</i> kilometers? 97 kilometer <i>radius</i>? tsk tsk Wikipedia…</text></item><item><author>FatalLogic</author><text>I wanted to know if this was plausible, so I located the Yawata Steel Works (the source of the smoke screen) and the Kokura Arsenal (the aiming point for the bomb) on a map. They were about 4.4km apart.<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/nJaJtH7.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;nJaJtH7.png</a> (the site of the Steel Works is on the left)<p>Interesting, but I still don&#x27;t know if it&#x27;s true.<p>edit: Wikipedia&#x27;s page on Smokescreens says &quot;One 50 gallon drum of fog oil can obscure 60 miles (97 km) of land in 15 minutes&quot;, so I suppose it was easily possible for them to have hidden the target if the wind direction was right<p>Google Maps link: <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/%E4%B8%AD%E5%A4%96%E7%82%89%E5%B7%A5%E6%A5%AD%EF%BC%88%E6%A0%AA%EF%BC%89+%E5%B0%8F%E5%80%89%E5%B7%A5%E5%A0%B4/@33.8999819,130.8525735,13z/data=!4m7!1m4!3m3!1s0x0:0x0!2zMzPCsDU0JzEwLjAiTiAxMzDCsDQ5JzQ4LjAiRQ!3b1!3m1!1s0x0:0x6a522cb4a3d20415?hl=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;maps&#x2F;place&#x2F;%E4%B8%AD%E5%A4%96%E7%82%8...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FatalLogic</author><text>I assume it means 97 square kilometers, because covering a circle of 97 km radius in 15 minutes would require a 776 km&#x2F;hour wind :)<p>But it is written very unclearly, and it&#x27;s not clear what is wikipedia&#x27;s source, sadly.<p>It just seemed plausible that there could be plenty of smoke coverage for the scenario under discussion</text></comment> | <story><title>Steel worker reveals blocking view of U.S. aircraft on day of atomic bombing</title><url>http://mainichi.jp/english/english/features/news/20140726p2a00m0na014000c.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colanderman</author><text>97 <i>square</i> kilometers? 97 kilometer <i>radius</i>? tsk tsk Wikipedia…</text></item><item><author>FatalLogic</author><text>I wanted to know if this was plausible, so I located the Yawata Steel Works (the source of the smoke screen) and the Kokura Arsenal (the aiming point for the bomb) on a map. They were about 4.4km apart.<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/nJaJtH7.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;nJaJtH7.png</a> (the site of the Steel Works is on the left)<p>Interesting, but I still don&#x27;t know if it&#x27;s true.<p>edit: Wikipedia&#x27;s page on Smokescreens says &quot;One 50 gallon drum of fog oil can obscure 60 miles (97 km) of land in 15 minutes&quot;, so I suppose it was easily possible for them to have hidden the target if the wind direction was right<p>Google Maps link: <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/%E4%B8%AD%E5%A4%96%E7%82%89%E5%B7%A5%E6%A5%AD%EF%BC%88%E6%A0%AA%EF%BC%89+%E5%B0%8F%E5%80%89%E5%B7%A5%E5%A0%B4/@33.8999819,130.8525735,13z/data=!4m7!1m4!3m3!1s0x0:0x0!2zMzPCsDU0JzEwLjAiTiAxMzDCsDQ5JzQ4LjAiRQ!3b1!3m1!1s0x0:0x6a522cb4a3d20415?hl=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;maps&#x2F;place&#x2F;%E4%B8%AD%E5%A4%96%E7%82%8...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cdwhite</author><text>So I read this as &quot;within 15 minutes, land up to 60 miles downwind of the generator is obscured.&quot;</text></comment> |
41,313,365 | 41,312,584 | 1 | 2 | 41,308,599 | train | <story><title>I've built my first successful side project, and I hate it</title><url>https://switowski.com/blog/i-have-built-my-first-successful-side-project-and-i-hate-it/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>7bit</author><text>I find it hard to believe that this is true. For 100$ a month I expect a far more polished product than for 20$, where I can look over a lot of missing features.<p>If features don&#x27;t work as advertised, I will absolutely make no distinction between a 500$ or 1$ product, and will demand a fix. But I will more likely have more patient if the service is cheap, before migrating away.<p>And then, if your customers are businesses, do you think the employees really care how much the product costs? No.</text></item><item><author>siliconc0w</author><text>One suggestion is simply increase the price. Price is strongly correlated with quality of customer. Price also acts as signaling that this is a tool for professionals who make actual money and so shouldn&#x27;t be bothered coughing up something trivial like $100 for a subscription. You end up making more with far less customer support.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>levocardia</author><text>&gt;For 100$ a month I expect a far more polished product than for 20$<p>I hate to put you on blast but this is <i>exactly</i> why people charge $100&#x2F;mo instead of $20&#x2F;mo. They do not want the customers who feel (sorry for the term) &quot;entitled&quot; to a heroic level of features, support, polish, etc. They want people who have a hair-on-fire emergency that is so awful that they&#x27;d gladly pay $1000&#x2F;mo for it, and are thankful that your software - klunky as it is - is giving them $900&#x2F;mo of free value.</text></comment> | <story><title>I've built my first successful side project, and I hate it</title><url>https://switowski.com/blog/i-have-built-my-first-successful-side-project-and-i-hate-it/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>7bit</author><text>I find it hard to believe that this is true. For 100$ a month I expect a far more polished product than for 20$, where I can look over a lot of missing features.<p>If features don&#x27;t work as advertised, I will absolutely make no distinction between a 500$ or 1$ product, and will demand a fix. But I will more likely have more patient if the service is cheap, before migrating away.<p>And then, if your customers are businesses, do you think the employees really care how much the product costs? No.</text></item><item><author>siliconc0w</author><text>One suggestion is simply increase the price. Price is strongly correlated with quality of customer. Price also acts as signaling that this is a tool for professionals who make actual money and so shouldn&#x27;t be bothered coughing up something trivial like $100 for a subscription. You end up making more with far less customer support.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dghlsakjg</author><text>Having run my own tourism business (so dealing with consumers directly, rather than b2b), and having spoken to many other business owners, this is counterintuitively true.<p>My worst customers were the ones that ask for discounts, or are otherwise looking for a deal. My theory is that people that happily fork out for an expensive product have already seen the value.<p>There are exceptions, but a lot of business owners see the same pattern.</text></comment> |
40,693,882 | 40,693,772 | 1 | 3 | 40,693,500 | train | <story><title>SQLite is likely used more than all other database engines combined</title><url>https://sqlite.org/mostdeployed.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TZubiri</author><text>In terms of installations, sure.<p>In terms of total data, probably not.<p>In terms of important data, 100% not. Important data needs guarantees, and its privacy is second to its longevity.<p>Server side and centralized beats client side decentralized for all but sensitive consumer data.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simonw</author><text>You may be shocked to learn how much of the world&#x27;s &quot;important data&quot; lives in Excel files.</text></comment> | <story><title>SQLite is likely used more than all other database engines combined</title><url>https://sqlite.org/mostdeployed.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TZubiri</author><text>In terms of installations, sure.<p>In terms of total data, probably not.<p>In terms of important data, 100% not. Important data needs guarantees, and its privacy is second to its longevity.<p>Server side and centralized beats client side decentralized for all but sensitive consumer data.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alganet</author><text>How would you go about measuring that, or determining what&#x27;s important?<p>Huge SQL for servers is just a different use case.<p>Someone&#x27;s temporary browser data or settings for my android alarm app could be just as important and sensitive as an average record on those big servers.<p>Fortunatelly, SQL fits the role of a small transactional engine very well to support those small use cases for a large number of applications. It deserves the good reputation.</text></comment> |
19,540,550 | 19,540,506 | 1 | 2 | 19,539,255 | train | <story><title>DeepMind readies first commercial product</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/0e099914-514a-11e9-9c76-bf4a0ce37d49</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>melling</author><text>AI is being developed to make MRI scans 10x faster.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;samshead&#x2F;2018&#x2F;08&#x2F;20&#x2F;facebook-aims-to-make-mri-scans-10x-faster-with-nyu&#x2F;#5a5f7fd87a04" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;samshead&#x2F;2018&#x2F;08&#x2F;20&#x2F;facebook-ai...</a><p>If DeepMind is trained on millions of MRI’s, we might have better preventative medicine.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dontreact</author><text>I have talked at length with several people in the FastMRI project and in my opinion it is actually very dangerous. There is no feasible way to validate that such a model will not hallucinate normal tissue in the presence of a rare abnormality. The argument often used is that advanced reconstruction techniques such as compressed sensing have not required validating against very rare abnormalities, however when deep neural networks get involved you have a nearly universal function approximator whose behavior is nowhere near as bounded.<p>The FDA will probably set the low bar of validating that the reconstruction algorithm fares well in the face of a few abnormalities and call it a day, instead of the proper (admittedly infeasible) validation of testing against all abnormalities that the reconstruction algorithm will encounter. Facebook will probably happily jump over this low bar, and patients will get hurt.</text></comment> | <story><title>DeepMind readies first commercial product</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/0e099914-514a-11e9-9c76-bf4a0ce37d49</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>melling</author><text>AI is being developed to make MRI scans 10x faster.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;samshead&#x2F;2018&#x2F;08&#x2F;20&#x2F;facebook-aims-to-make-mri-scans-10x-faster-with-nyu&#x2F;#5a5f7fd87a04" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;samshead&#x2F;2018&#x2F;08&#x2F;20&#x2F;facebook-ai...</a><p>If DeepMind is trained on millions of MRI’s, we might have better preventative medicine.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krapht</author><text>&quot;Using AI, it may be possible to capture less data and therefore scan faster, while preserving or even enhancing the rich information content of magnetic resonance images, says Facebook.<p>The key will be to train artificial neural networks to recognise the underlying structure of the images in order to fill in detail omitted from an accelerated scan.&quot;<p>Ah, right, what I want is for an ANN to invent information in a medical image. It&#x27;s one thing to upscale textures in a game, but I can&#x27;t see the use for this at all in a medical imaging device.</text></comment> |
24,646,941 | 24,643,817 | 1 | 3 | 24,637,799 | train | <story><title>Why Forth Isn't Slow (1985)</title><url>https://archive.org/details/Forth_Dimension_Volume_06_Number_5/page/n29/mode/2up</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_ph_</author><text>In the good old days, one would buy and read a computer magazines equally for its content as well as the ads. They were an important source of information in a day and age without the WWW.<p>Of course, the advertising back then used a trick which seems to escape all modern advertising think tanks: they had great user targetting without shady tracking schemes, by advertising things a magazine reader would be interested in. Imagine this trick being used in todays web :p.</text></item><item><author>klyrs</author><text>Browsing the web: ignores every ad, installs blockers<p>Reading old computer magazines: reads every ad, considers if copies of ancient literature still exist</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pmoriarty</author><text>I learned to distrust ads from an early age.<p>Back in those days cover art and ads for games often had art drawn by artists in physical media, or photographs, which the 8-bit games of the day never had a snowball&#x27;s chance in hell of living up to.<p>The blurbs in ads could never really tell you whether the gameplay was any good.<p>And, most of all, ads almost always lied.<p>I learned that marketers and advertisers would say anything to make a sale, and that it was best to just ignore them.<p>As a result, I never ever bought anything based on an ad... however, an ad might make me aware that something existed and entice me to investigate further.<p>Then I&#x27;d read reviews, which too often were almost as bad as the ads, especially in the popular gaming&#x2F;software magazines which preferred to write puff pieces about everything they reviewed... probably to stay on the good side of advertisers and to keep getting sent free products to review.<p>It was rare to find honest reviews, and even then it was hard to ultimately know whether the product was actually any good until you tried it yourself, and did so for an extended period of time.<p>I&#x27;ve wasted so much money on products which seemed to be good at first but ultimately turned out to be trash or not what I actually wanted&#x2F;needed.<p>Advertising rarely makes any of this any better. Usually it makes it worse.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Forth Isn't Slow (1985)</title><url>https://archive.org/details/Forth_Dimension_Volume_06_Number_5/page/n29/mode/2up</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_ph_</author><text>In the good old days, one would buy and read a computer magazines equally for its content as well as the ads. They were an important source of information in a day and age without the WWW.<p>Of course, the advertising back then used a trick which seems to escape all modern advertising think tanks: they had great user targetting without shady tracking schemes, by advertising things a magazine reader would be interested in. Imagine this trick being used in todays web :p.</text></item><item><author>klyrs</author><text>Browsing the web: ignores every ad, installs blockers<p>Reading old computer magazines: reads every ad, considers if copies of ancient literature still exist</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>failuser</author><text>There was a report that targeting article contents yielded better revenue than targeting the audience for some European company, but I can’t find a link right away.</text></comment> |
17,486,041 | 17,485,937 | 1 | 2 | 17,484,707 | train | <story><title>Having Alzheimer’s at 38 (2015)</title><url>http://site.macleans.ca/longform/alzheimers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>entropy_</author><text>My wife&#x27;s family has a different disease running through it, though one with very similar outcomes. Huntington&#x27;s.<p>It&#x27;s genetic and dominant (so a parent having it means 50&#x2F;50 for the children). Average age of onset is 38. Symptoms are a mixture of Alzheimer&#x27;s and Parkinson&#x27;s (both dementia and motor control issues).<p>Her uncle was diagnosed at 38, her mother at 50. I wasn&#x27;t around for the first one, but have been there for most of the latter case (her mother is now 60).<p>Watching someone you love deteriorate before your eyes and become a different person week by week is one of the most harrowing experiences one can go through.<p>&quot;You pick up the phone, you talk to your mom, you don’t have to say anything. It’s a mom&quot;. My wife had to go through discovering motherhood without that and she still can&#x27;t adjust to the fact that her mother is not the same person anymore, it&#x27;s a constant heartbreak.<p>I&#x27;m just glad there&#x27;s a simple test for this and that both my wife and her one brother tested negative. So I&#x27;ll never have to go through what Robin did but that possibly was something I had to contemplate for a while and just the thought of it (and those 2 months waiting for the test results) almost broke me</text></comment> | <story><title>Having Alzheimer’s at 38 (2015)</title><url>http://site.macleans.ca/longform/alzheimers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>FlyingSideKick</author><text>My Mother started experiencing dementia at 57 and it has been difficult to see such a brilliant, adventurous worldly woman change. She is still the person whom she was but now she is a creature of habit and does the same thing and the same time everyday of the week. Leaving her neighborhood and visiting new places including restaurants and parks makes her uncomfortable. She used to love traveling to places like Kenya, Portugal and Indonesia but now she just wants to stay local. She was quite a sculptor too but gave that up to raise five children and now that all of us are out of the house she doesn’t have the capacity to peruse her old passion any longer. Moreover our conversations have progressively become shorter and shorter over the years and lost a lot of depth. As her son it’s very difficult to deal with. Moreover I’m in constant fear I will be afflicted too as my grandmother had Alzheimer’s as well. Maybe AI or some other tool will be utilized to develop medications and treatments to halt and reverse the disease in the future, fingers crossed.</text></comment> |
23,783,082 | 23,780,092 | 1 | 2 | 23,778,631 | train | <story><title>Nvidia is now worth more than Intel</title><url>https://www.techspot.com/news/85932-nvidia-passes-intel-most-valuable-us-chipmaker.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ksec</author><text>While I think CUDA has very little competition and seems to be de facto standard in the ML industry, judging from the comment on CUDA 11 post[1] Nvidia still have some low hanging fruit to fix.<p>I am still waiting for Nvidia to make their play in CPU Market. May be a move in ARM Server CPU space. They have AI&#x2F;ML with GPGPU, High performance networking with Mellanox. Surely the next logical step should be HPC CPU? Or at least reselling ARM&#x27;s N1 blueprint solution.<p>Nvidia has a Forward Earning Ratio of about 41. Which seems reasonable ( Comparatively Speaking in today&#x27;s market ).<p>Meanwhile Intel has limited upside. On the Client Computing Side Around 7% of revenue will vanished due to Apple switching to their own Silicon. And for the first time ever they have real competition in Notebook market ( AMD was never really in the Notebook market segment in its entire history ). In DataCenter they will be facing threats from Zen 3 and ARM. And I am very skeptical of their GPU moves. The market is still expanding so there is the possibility for them to sustain their revenue, I just dont see how they could grow its current record revenue in the next few years.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23772245" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23772245</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kkielhofner</author><text>Nvidia has been producing their own ARM cores since at least 2014:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Project_Denver" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Project_Denver</a><p>The ARM core performance hasn&#x27;t been spectacular vs the latest and greatest from Samsung and Apple but combined with CUDA and tensor cores it can provide pretty incredible results considering the cost, form factor, and power consumption. Carmel is also at least two years old at this point...<p>Their project Denver announcement from 2011 discusses plans for server and HPC applications:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.nvidia.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2011&#x2F;01&#x2F;05&#x2F;project-denver-processor-to-usher-in-new-era-of-computing&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.nvidia.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2011&#x2F;01&#x2F;05&#x2F;project-denver-proc...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Nvidia is now worth more than Intel</title><url>https://www.techspot.com/news/85932-nvidia-passes-intel-most-valuable-us-chipmaker.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ksec</author><text>While I think CUDA has very little competition and seems to be de facto standard in the ML industry, judging from the comment on CUDA 11 post[1] Nvidia still have some low hanging fruit to fix.<p>I am still waiting for Nvidia to make their play in CPU Market. May be a move in ARM Server CPU space. They have AI&#x2F;ML with GPGPU, High performance networking with Mellanox. Surely the next logical step should be HPC CPU? Or at least reselling ARM&#x27;s N1 blueprint solution.<p>Nvidia has a Forward Earning Ratio of about 41. Which seems reasonable ( Comparatively Speaking in today&#x27;s market ).<p>Meanwhile Intel has limited upside. On the Client Computing Side Around 7% of revenue will vanished due to Apple switching to their own Silicon. And for the first time ever they have real competition in Notebook market ( AMD was never really in the Notebook market segment in its entire history ). In DataCenter they will be facing threats from Zen 3 and ARM. And I am very skeptical of their GPU moves. The market is still expanding so there is the possibility for them to sustain their revenue, I just dont see how they could grow its current record revenue in the next few years.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23772245" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23772245</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>klelatti</author><text>Very succinct summary - with the contrast (from an investor perspective) magnified by the fact that Nvidia has stable management that has delivered over a number of years, compared to Intel&#x27;s untested CEO and recent history of significant mis-steps.</text></comment> |
24,117,201 | 24,113,716 | 1 | 2 | 24,108,950 | train | <story><title>PDF: Still unfit for human consumption, 20 years later</title><url>https://www.nngroup.com/articles/pdf-unfit-for-human-consumption/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jcrawfordor</author><text>Any complaint about the PDF format tends to be hard to address because the PDF format is so complicated and so flexible---except, of course, for the argument that the PDF format is too complicated and flexible, which tends to be the one enduring criticism since it has lead to a history of various security, compatibility, and performance issues related to PDFs.<p>The major attempts to replace PDF have largely failed, though. DjVu is relatively limited in scope. Postscript (as a document display format) has never been well-supported on Windows and is increasingly poorly supported on Linux due to rarity. XPS is perhaps the most direct &quot;PDF replacement&quot; but is nearly equally complicated (being based on the MS Office OOXML formats, giving it a similar cursed heritage to PDF&#x27;s basis in the Photoshop PSD format), and there was never really a compelling argument to switch to it.<p>What I don&#x27;t get is the suggestion that PDF should be replaced by HTML. The purposes of the two formats are basically orthogonal and replacing one with the other is doomed to failure. The author&#x27;s argument seems more akin to &quot;print-layout documents should be replaced by hypertext,&quot; and perhaps this is true in some cases, but it&#x27;s definitely a different matter and one that the author&#x27;s arguments don&#x27;t really support that well.<p>In my opinion, hopefully more humble than the author&#x27;s, PDF&#x27;s main downside is the remarkable unevenness of the quality of the creation and reading tools, considering its supposedly &quot;reads everywhere&quot; nature. The &quot;reference implementation&quot; is a commercial product and supports a huge list of features that are rarely or never supported by third-party commercial or open-source implementations. The Linux toolchain still widely used with PDF (e.g. Ghostscript) is decidedly outdated and hard to work with, but there&#x27;s not a lot of momentum towards development of more modern tools. All of these issues are likely rooted in the basic fact that the PDF format is extremely complicated, and so thoroughly implementing it is a massive undertaking.<p>The author&#x27;s complaints about performance in particular reflect the flexibility and complexity of the format. Web browsers have mostly switched over to using pdf.js to render PDFs, which is completely satisfactory for documents that consist of text or images (like scanned documents), but can be absolutely unusable when dealing with extremely vector-heavy PDFs like GIS exports.<p>Even printing PDFs can become rather frustrating as the complexity of the format means that parse-related printing issues are relatively common. Even Acrobat, for a long time, would munge certain characters when printing due to some sort of inconsistency with how different generators and readers implemented font embedding leading to Acrobat not being able to locate the embedded character font. This seemed most common with the letter &quot;l&quot; but maybe I&#x27;m imagining that... but also maybe it reflects some frightening detail of the format or implementation behavior.<p>One of the most common issues around PDF consistency comes down to file size... different PDF generators are prone to create representations of the same document that are significantly different sizes. Scanners are often an extreme example, some combination of not &quot;knowing the tricks&quot; for PDF optimization and a probably very low-performance compression implementation means that low-end network scanners often produce PDFs that are hilariously large. Opening them in Acrobat and using the &quot;optimize file&quot; tool can reduce file size by 90% without apparent visual impact... the whole fact that Acrobat has an &quot;optimize&quot; tool (and that Acrobat Distiller used to exist) speaks to the scale of this problem. Inspecting PDFs that are &quot;optimized&quot; by Acrobat can be an alarming experience, as well. You may remember that this played a strange role in Obama&#x27;s birth certificate some years back, as Acrobat seems to normally split PDFs into all kinds of different layers and apply strange transformations to them when it &quot;optimizes.&quot; It&#x27;s hard to know how much of this is actually &quot;best practice&quot; versus just a result of Acrobat accumulating decades of eccentricities.<p>So the bottom line is... PDF is too complicated for its own good, but then so are a great deal of other formats in widespread usage, like modern webpages which require complex parsing of multiple formats to render, and a great deal of historic cruft brought along with them. I&#x27;m not sure that there&#x27;s any sound technical argument that PDF or web pages are a &quot;better format,&quot; it&#x27;s all a matter of opinion over whether you prefer print-format documents or hypertext, and that&#x27;s going to be very application-specific.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Thorentis</author><text>&gt; PDF&#x27;s main downside is the remarkable unevenness of the quality of the creation and reading tools<p>Funny enough, I think one of the reasons PDF became so popular, is because it was originally seen as a &quot;difficult &#x2F; impossible to modify file that can be downloaded as a file and read in a static way&quot;. The lack of editing tools in the most popular PDF reader for a long time (Acrobat Reader) was the reason it became such a widely used format. Especially compared to distributing a .doc or .docx where the user can easily accidentally change something.</text></comment> | <story><title>PDF: Still unfit for human consumption, 20 years later</title><url>https://www.nngroup.com/articles/pdf-unfit-for-human-consumption/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jcrawfordor</author><text>Any complaint about the PDF format tends to be hard to address because the PDF format is so complicated and so flexible---except, of course, for the argument that the PDF format is too complicated and flexible, which tends to be the one enduring criticism since it has lead to a history of various security, compatibility, and performance issues related to PDFs.<p>The major attempts to replace PDF have largely failed, though. DjVu is relatively limited in scope. Postscript (as a document display format) has never been well-supported on Windows and is increasingly poorly supported on Linux due to rarity. XPS is perhaps the most direct &quot;PDF replacement&quot; but is nearly equally complicated (being based on the MS Office OOXML formats, giving it a similar cursed heritage to PDF&#x27;s basis in the Photoshop PSD format), and there was never really a compelling argument to switch to it.<p>What I don&#x27;t get is the suggestion that PDF should be replaced by HTML. The purposes of the two formats are basically orthogonal and replacing one with the other is doomed to failure. The author&#x27;s argument seems more akin to &quot;print-layout documents should be replaced by hypertext,&quot; and perhaps this is true in some cases, but it&#x27;s definitely a different matter and one that the author&#x27;s arguments don&#x27;t really support that well.<p>In my opinion, hopefully more humble than the author&#x27;s, PDF&#x27;s main downside is the remarkable unevenness of the quality of the creation and reading tools, considering its supposedly &quot;reads everywhere&quot; nature. The &quot;reference implementation&quot; is a commercial product and supports a huge list of features that are rarely or never supported by third-party commercial or open-source implementations. The Linux toolchain still widely used with PDF (e.g. Ghostscript) is decidedly outdated and hard to work with, but there&#x27;s not a lot of momentum towards development of more modern tools. All of these issues are likely rooted in the basic fact that the PDF format is extremely complicated, and so thoroughly implementing it is a massive undertaking.<p>The author&#x27;s complaints about performance in particular reflect the flexibility and complexity of the format. Web browsers have mostly switched over to using pdf.js to render PDFs, which is completely satisfactory for documents that consist of text or images (like scanned documents), but can be absolutely unusable when dealing with extremely vector-heavy PDFs like GIS exports.<p>Even printing PDFs can become rather frustrating as the complexity of the format means that parse-related printing issues are relatively common. Even Acrobat, for a long time, would munge certain characters when printing due to some sort of inconsistency with how different generators and readers implemented font embedding leading to Acrobat not being able to locate the embedded character font. This seemed most common with the letter &quot;l&quot; but maybe I&#x27;m imagining that... but also maybe it reflects some frightening detail of the format or implementation behavior.<p>One of the most common issues around PDF consistency comes down to file size... different PDF generators are prone to create representations of the same document that are significantly different sizes. Scanners are often an extreme example, some combination of not &quot;knowing the tricks&quot; for PDF optimization and a probably very low-performance compression implementation means that low-end network scanners often produce PDFs that are hilariously large. Opening them in Acrobat and using the &quot;optimize file&quot; tool can reduce file size by 90% without apparent visual impact... the whole fact that Acrobat has an &quot;optimize&quot; tool (and that Acrobat Distiller used to exist) speaks to the scale of this problem. Inspecting PDFs that are &quot;optimized&quot; by Acrobat can be an alarming experience, as well. You may remember that this played a strange role in Obama&#x27;s birth certificate some years back, as Acrobat seems to normally split PDFs into all kinds of different layers and apply strange transformations to them when it &quot;optimizes.&quot; It&#x27;s hard to know how much of this is actually &quot;best practice&quot; versus just a result of Acrobat accumulating decades of eccentricities.<p>So the bottom line is... PDF is too complicated for its own good, but then so are a great deal of other formats in widespread usage, like modern webpages which require complex parsing of multiple formats to render, and a great deal of historic cruft brought along with them. I&#x27;m not sure that there&#x27;s any sound technical argument that PDF or web pages are a &quot;better format,&quot; it&#x27;s all a matter of opinion over whether you prefer print-format documents or hypertext, and that&#x27;s going to be very application-specific.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chipotle_coyote</author><text>&gt; What I don&#x27;t get is the suggestion that PDF should be replaced by HTML. The purposes of the two formats are basically orthogonal and replacing one with the other is doomed to failure.<p>Isn&#x27;t &quot;the purposes of the two formats are basically orthogonal&quot; actually the entire point the article is making? Literally the first line of the summary:<p>&gt; Research spanning 20 years proves PDFs are problematic for online reading. Yet they’re still prevalent and users continue to get lost in them.<p>From the second paragraph:<p>&gt; The [PDF] format is intended and optimized for print. It’s inherently inaccessible, unpleasant to read, and cumbersome to navigate online.<p>The bolded statement in the second paragraph that&#x27;s clearly meant to be the One Important Thing to Take Away:<p>&gt; Do not use PDFs to present digital content that could and should otherwise be a web page.<p>Your comment here is eloquent, but the article&#x27;s argument is not &quot;print-layout documents should be replaced by hypertext,&quot; it&#x27;s &quot;print-layout documents are a poor fit for reading on screen-layout devices.&quot; When you conclude:<p>&gt; It&#x27;s all a matter of opinion over whether you prefer print-format documents or hypertext, and that&#x27;s going to be very application-specific.<p>Aren&#x27;t you essentially restating the article&#x27;s thesis?<p>I don&#x27;t want to read an article online that&#x27;s a PDF for largely the same reason that I don&#x27;t want to print the web version of the same article rather than a PDF. It&#x27;s generally going to be clunky. The print page size and dimensions are not going to be my screen&#x2F;window size and dimensions. I certainly don&#x27;t want to read two- or three-column text on screen, which may require zooming in and out and scrolling back and forth on the same &quot;print&quot; page. And God help me if I&#x27;m trying to do that on my phone or iPad mini.<p>The article isn&#x27;t saying &quot;PDF is terrible and nobody should ever use it&quot;; it&#x27;s saying &quot;PDFs were meant for specific applications and in nearly all circumstances, online reading is not it.&quot;</text></comment> |
36,235,915 | 36,235,824 | 1 | 2 | 36,235,444 | train | <story><title>Hashicorp lays off 8% of staff</title><url>https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1666569977300647938</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mabbo</author><text>When I was laid off by Shopify last month, it was almost done perfectly.<p>The day started. Everyone got an email saying what was happening and whether or not they were impacted. I was. I was given access to slack to say farewells for a few hours. I had a quick meeting with my senior manager. Then all access was cut and my personal email got all the needed details on what&#x27;s next.<p>It sucked, but it was pretty humane.<p>But...<p>There was a leak two days before that it was coming. The dread of knowing you might be laid off is worse than being laid off. And everyone had it for 48 hours. It was brutal and the company ground to a halt.<p>I&#x27;m not mad at the leaker. They probably felt it was better that people know. But I don&#x27;t think they were right.<p>I don&#x27;t think telling investors about the layoff before the people being laid off is right. But I also don&#x27;t think dragging it out for many days or weeks is healthy for anyone.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hashicorp lays off 8% of staff</title><url>https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1666569977300647938</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>candiddevmike</author><text>Hopefully they realize their products are too expensive for the value they provide beyond the open core offering. The recent Terraform Cloud pricing changes are not going in the right direction, please hire folks who understand how to price and capture value for your customers appropriately.</text></comment> |
18,119,191 | 18,118,970 | 1 | 3 | 18,115,729 | train | <story><title>I.R.S. Tax Fraud Cases Plummet After Budget Cuts</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/business/economy/irs-tax-fraud-audit.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gamblor956</author><text>I&#x27;m sure he did, but I don&#x27;t know any clients that were audited over &quot;minor and non-malicious&quot; issues. There&#x27;s a materiality threshold in place before the IRS will initiate audits, due to the resources required.</text></item><item><author>dsfyu404ed</author><text>&gt;I can count on one hand how many former clients out of hundreds that had done &quot;absolutely nothing wrong&quot;<p>I think the person you&#x27;re replying to means &quot;violated the tax code in a minor and non-malicious way&quot; whereas you mean &quot;literally did not violate the tax code at all&quot;.</text></item><item><author>gamblor956</author><text>As one of those former professional services providers, I can count on one hand how many former clients out of hundreds that had done &quot;absolutely nothing wrong&quot; and of those few clients, I can&#x27;t name any that spent anywhere close to hundreds of thousands of dollars to deal with the audit.</text></item><item><author>grapehut</author><text>That is ignoring the enormous externalized costs. I have known business to have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in professional services when being investigated that have done absolutely nothing wrong.</text></item><item><author>therein</author><text>I remember reading a while ago that every $1 that goes into IRS to fund tax fraud cases yielded $1.2 in return. When that&#x27;s the case, it seems like a no-brainer that it should be well-funded.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>schmookeeg</author><text>Too bad I wasn&#x27;t your client, you&#x27;d have experienced one. :)<p>I owned a business that was randomly selected for an NRP audit a few years back. Spent 35 grand on CPAs and defense. After 4 months of an &quot;up to the elbow&quot; exam of our books, received this from the IRS:<p>&quot;After our audit, we are making the following changes to your return:<p>&quot;<p>...that was it. Nothing. No changes. Not even embarrassment or &quot;lol just doing my job, them&#x27;s the breaks kid&quot; attitude. A total goat rodeo, the entire process. Imagine having to justify every cent on the books in OR out -- for a $2MM revenue business -- 3 years after the return was filed. Seriously impossible. Worse, just before the above letter, we were offered a settlement offer from the IRS for $20K -- to make them just go away. We declined.</text></comment> | <story><title>I.R.S. Tax Fraud Cases Plummet After Budget Cuts</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/business/economy/irs-tax-fraud-audit.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gamblor956</author><text>I&#x27;m sure he did, but I don&#x27;t know any clients that were audited over &quot;minor and non-malicious&quot; issues. There&#x27;s a materiality threshold in place before the IRS will initiate audits, due to the resources required.</text></item><item><author>dsfyu404ed</author><text>&gt;I can count on one hand how many former clients out of hundreds that had done &quot;absolutely nothing wrong&quot;<p>I think the person you&#x27;re replying to means &quot;violated the tax code in a minor and non-malicious way&quot; whereas you mean &quot;literally did not violate the tax code at all&quot;.</text></item><item><author>gamblor956</author><text>As one of those former professional services providers, I can count on one hand how many former clients out of hundreds that had done &quot;absolutely nothing wrong&quot; and of those few clients, I can&#x27;t name any that spent anywhere close to hundreds of thousands of dollars to deal with the audit.</text></item><item><author>grapehut</author><text>That is ignoring the enormous externalized costs. I have known business to have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in professional services when being investigated that have done absolutely nothing wrong.</text></item><item><author>therein</author><text>I remember reading a while ago that every $1 that goes into IRS to fund tax fraud cases yielded $1.2 in return. When that&#x27;s the case, it seems like a no-brainer that it should be well-funded.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdavis703</author><text>I was audited for a mistake in the $1,000 range. I had forgotten to report one of the many 1099 forms I received one year. It seems like the IRS has systems in place to detect this kind of mistake. I paid the ~$300 I owed and went on my way.</text></comment> |
4,703,962 | 4,703,912 | 1 | 2 | 4,703,613 | train | <story><title>10,000,000,000,000,000 bytes archived</title><url>http://blog.archive.org/2012/10/26/10000000000000000-bytes-archived/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>The internet archive is a wonderful thing. I recovered much of my web site when my server burned in a fire, it was cheaper than the $2400 to try to pull it off the melted hard drives. It has also provided fodder for a ton of lawsuits, of the patent/IP/he-said vs she-said varieties.<p>Given the latter use, and subsequent 'retro-takedowns' that have occurred on the archive, I wonder if there is a market for 'a copy of the archive right now' which would be hard to retro-actively modify? And I wonder what the legal theory would be around having a tape archive of something that was 'clear' at the time you took it, but then later 'redacted'. Could you use your copy of the unredacted information?</text></comment> | <story><title>10,000,000,000,000,000 bytes archived</title><url>http://blog.archive.org/2012/10/26/10000000000000000-bytes-archived/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Zenst</author><text>I do wonder what the best form of compression would be and given there web pages if some form of customed compression that was optimised for HTML would be useful.<p>There again with that volume of data, what would CERN do for storage/access for a data pool that size and still be useable.<p>Reason being if you wanted to back that lot of up ship copies for research purposes then with todays technology the humble memory stick, even the biggest would fail to even handle the file index on this scale. Scary amount of data. But certainly a data set many would like to play with and try things out, being the geeks we are.</text></comment> |
18,118,882 | 18,117,929 | 1 | 2 | 18,111,034 | train | <story><title>The annoying habits of highly effective people</title><url>https://www.economist.com/node/21751671</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phakding</author><text>Never understood people&#x27;s infatuation with reading CEO biographies. I&#x27;ve read a few and never found anything in it that could relate to. May be I am not meant to be one of those people. Even if I worked hard, got in at work at 5 am every day, I don&#x27;t think I could go from being a lowely team lead to cto or CEO of a multi billion dollar corporation. I don&#x27;t think it just works that way. I could be very wrong, but that&#x27;s my experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>manigandham</author><text>You&#x27;re focused on the actions rather than the results. Common mistake.<p>People become leaders by creating and commanding change that positively affects the company. Land a major deal or create a new product line that doubles revenue? You&#x27;re getting to the top.<p>Working harder than the others is part of this process, and sometimes that means you come in at 5am, but it&#x27;s not a requirement nor is it something that anyone in that position actually focuses on as more than just a means to an end.</text></comment> | <story><title>The annoying habits of highly effective people</title><url>https://www.economist.com/node/21751671</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phakding</author><text>Never understood people&#x27;s infatuation with reading CEO biographies. I&#x27;ve read a few and never found anything in it that could relate to. May be I am not meant to be one of those people. Even if I worked hard, got in at work at 5 am every day, I don&#x27;t think I could go from being a lowely team lead to cto or CEO of a multi billion dollar corporation. I don&#x27;t think it just works that way. I could be very wrong, but that&#x27;s my experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jjoonathan</author><text>Same appeal as any other type of cargo-culting: it&#x27;s a lot easier to get up at 5am, shake hands firmly, and dress for success than it is to spot an extreme growth opportunity, bet everything on it, and be correct.</text></comment> |
40,938,371 | 40,938,553 | 1 | 2 | 40,934,495 | train | <story><title>Second factor SMS: Worse than its reputation</title><url>https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2024/2fa-sms</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slothtrop</author><text>Why isn&#x27;t there any market fulfillment for &quot;safe, non-intrusive ads&quot;, on the part of a vendor? Is it because it&#x27;s not possible, or not worth the overhead either because of cost or no effect on consumer behavior&#x2F;blocking?<p>This seems like it ought to be low-hanging fruit. I would have less aversion to clicking on ads if I did not default to it being a security risk.</text></item><item><author>AegirLeet</author><text>Turns out ads aren&#x27;t just annoying little acts of psychological terrorism that eat up a lot of bandwidth and computing power, they are also the #1 vector for spreading scams and malware on the web.<p>In other words: If you&#x27;re trying to improve your security posture, installing an ad-blocker is one of the best things you can do. If you have less tech-savvy friends and relatives, I would strongly recommend setting up uBlock Origin for them.</text></item><item><author>dools</author><text>A family friend of ours recently fell victim to a phishing attack perpetrated by an attacker who paid for Google Ads for a search term like &quot;BANKNAME login&quot;. The site was an immaculate knock off, with a replay attack in the background. She entered her 2fa code from the app on her phone but the interface rejected the code and asked her for another one. In the background, this 2nd code was actually to authorise the addition of a new &quot;pay anyone&quot; payee, and with that her money was gone[0].<p>I have accounts with 2 banks, one uses SMS 2fa and the other uses an app which generates a token. I had thought that the app was by default a better choice because of the inherent lack of security in SMS as a protcol BUT in the above attack the bank that sends the SMS would have been better because they send a <i>different</i> message when you&#x27;re doing a transfer to a new payee than when you&#x27;re logging in.<p>So really the ideal is not just having an app that generates a token but one that generates a specific type of token depending on what type of transaction you&#x27;re performing and won&#x27;t accept, for example, a login token when adding a new payee. I haven&#x27;t seen any bank with that level of 2fa yet, has anyone else?<p>I guess perhaps passkeys make this obsolete anyway since it establishes a local physical connection to a piece of hardware.<p>[0] Ron Howard voice: &quot;she eventually got it back&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RandallBrown</author><text>I feel like this was one of the original selling points of Google&#x27;s ads. They were pretty simple, unobtrusive, mostly text, ads.</text></comment> | <story><title>Second factor SMS: Worse than its reputation</title><url>https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2024/2fa-sms</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slothtrop</author><text>Why isn&#x27;t there any market fulfillment for &quot;safe, non-intrusive ads&quot;, on the part of a vendor? Is it because it&#x27;s not possible, or not worth the overhead either because of cost or no effect on consumer behavior&#x2F;blocking?<p>This seems like it ought to be low-hanging fruit. I would have less aversion to clicking on ads if I did not default to it being a security risk.</text></item><item><author>AegirLeet</author><text>Turns out ads aren&#x27;t just annoying little acts of psychological terrorism that eat up a lot of bandwidth and computing power, they are also the #1 vector for spreading scams and malware on the web.<p>In other words: If you&#x27;re trying to improve your security posture, installing an ad-blocker is one of the best things you can do. If you have less tech-savvy friends and relatives, I would strongly recommend setting up uBlock Origin for them.</text></item><item><author>dools</author><text>A family friend of ours recently fell victim to a phishing attack perpetrated by an attacker who paid for Google Ads for a search term like &quot;BANKNAME login&quot;. The site was an immaculate knock off, with a replay attack in the background. She entered her 2fa code from the app on her phone but the interface rejected the code and asked her for another one. In the background, this 2nd code was actually to authorise the addition of a new &quot;pay anyone&quot; payee, and with that her money was gone[0].<p>I have accounts with 2 banks, one uses SMS 2fa and the other uses an app which generates a token. I had thought that the app was by default a better choice because of the inherent lack of security in SMS as a protcol BUT in the above attack the bank that sends the SMS would have been better because they send a <i>different</i> message when you&#x27;re doing a transfer to a new payee than when you&#x27;re logging in.<p>So really the ideal is not just having an app that generates a token but one that generates a specific type of token depending on what type of transaction you&#x27;re performing and won&#x27;t accept, for example, a login token when adding a new payee. I haven&#x27;t seen any bank with that level of 2fa yet, has anyone else?<p>I guess perhaps passkeys make this obsolete anyway since it establishes a local physical connection to a piece of hardware.<p>[0] Ron Howard voice: &quot;she eventually got it back&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rurp</author><text>Intrusive ads are more profitable for the ad company, while the costs are largely born by other parties. A strategy to privatize the gains and socialize the costs is common in a lot of sleazy industries.</text></comment> |
4,287,735 | 4,287,021 | 1 | 3 | 4,285,171 | train | <story><title>Just pay me.</title><url>http://blog.samuellevy.com/index.php?p=post&id=21</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rwhitman</author><text>Late fees are critical. In some businesses the accounting department will manage debt by paying off vendors in the order of who charges the most interest. If you don't have a late fee, you get shuffled to the bottom of the pile and stay there. Accountants are generally hardwired to avoid penalties, so if they see there are penalties they'll pay before the penalty period (provided they have the money).<p>However I have found that if your late fee is high, they will simply pay the invoice and "forget" the late fee. And then you're left squabbling over the late fee, which is quite annoying.<p>Also note that I disagree with OP's interest scheme - in my case its a flat 1-2%. For a freelancer you don't want to tip the scales into lawyer-worthy disputes...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>larrys</author><text>"Late fees are critical."<p>In theory you can assess late fees and you might actually collect some.<p>But the truth is if someone is jerking you around on payment and they offer to pay <i>sans</i> the late fees most vendors will accept that and move on. In fact I've had people who claim to be filing bankruptcy (claim) and offer x cents on the dollar for any amount owed. In the end you make a decision do you want to take the money or go for door number two.<p>Legally entitled really means very little. What counts is the cost of enforcing the contract and the time it takes and any leverage that you have (like a kill switch as OP had mentioned)</text></comment> | <story><title>Just pay me.</title><url>http://blog.samuellevy.com/index.php?p=post&id=21</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rwhitman</author><text>Late fees are critical. In some businesses the accounting department will manage debt by paying off vendors in the order of who charges the most interest. If you don't have a late fee, you get shuffled to the bottom of the pile and stay there. Accountants are generally hardwired to avoid penalties, so if they see there are penalties they'll pay before the penalty period (provided they have the money).<p>However I have found that if your late fee is high, they will simply pay the invoice and "forget" the late fee. And then you're left squabbling over the late fee, which is quite annoying.<p>Also note that I disagree with OP's interest scheme - in my case its a flat 1-2%. For a freelancer you don't want to tip the scales into lawyer-worthy disputes...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jvc26</author><text>I'd go further than disagreeing with his scheme, there is a reasonable chance it is illegal to charge such an extortionate interest rate, and may constitute usury...</text></comment> |
18,992,458 | 18,991,867 | 1 | 3 | 18,991,688 | train | <story><title>Tensorflow 2.0 Preview</title><url>https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r2.0/api_docs/python/tf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yingw787</author><text>A guy from Google Brain came over to a Capital One meetup and talked at length about the `autograph` module; check it out! I remember they did some neat things with extending Python&#x27;s operator overloading in order to generate Tensorflow graph code.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tensorflow 2.0 Preview</title><url>https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r2.0/api_docs/python/tf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>minimaxir</author><text>Are the changes between ~1.13 and 2.0 finalized yet? Last I checked they were <i>still</i> in flux, outside of a few blog posts which state that config defaults changed: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;tensorflow&#x2F;whats-coming-in-tensorflow-2-0-d3663832e9b8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;tensorflow&#x2F;whats-coming-in-tensorflow-2-0...</a><p>Biggest change for me is it seems like there&#x27;s more of an incentive to use tf.keras instead of external Keras, for simplicity.</text></comment> |
31,214,868 | 31,214,947 | 1 | 2 | 31,214,253 | train | <story><title>Achieving 5M persistent connections with Project Loom virtual threads</title><url>https://github.com/ebarlas/project-loom-c5m</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cheradenine_uk</author><text>I think a lot of people are missing the point.<p>Go look at the sourcecode. Look at how simple it is - anyone who has created a thread with java knows what&#x27;s happening. With only minor tweaks, this means your pre-existing code can take advantage of this with, basically, no effort. And it retains all the debuggability of traditional java thread (I.e: a stack trace that makes sense!)<p>If you&#x27;ve spent any time at all dealing with the horrors of c# async&#x2F;await (Why am I here? Oh, no idea) and it&#x27;s doubling of your APIs to support function colouring - or, you&#x27;ve fought with the complexities of reactive solutions in the Java space -- often, frankly, in the name of &quot;scalability&quot; that will never be practically required -- this is a big deal.<p>You no longer have to worry about any of that.</text></comment> | <story><title>Achieving 5M persistent connections with Project Loom virtual threads</title><url>https://github.com/ebarlas/project-loom-c5m</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pron</author><text>For more information about virtual threads see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openjdk.java.net&#x2F;jeps&#x2F;425" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openjdk.java.net&#x2F;jeps&#x2F;425</a> (planned to preview in JDK 19, out this September).<p>What&#x27;s remarkable about this experiment is that it uses simple 26-year-old (Java 1.0) networking APIs.</text></comment> |
14,357,496 | 14,357,427 | 1 | 2 | 14,356,409 | train | <story><title>A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to $1750 per month</title><url>https://medium.com/@contact_16315/firebase-costs-increased-by-7-000-81dc0a27271d</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mgkimsal</author><text>&gt; It really is appalling<p>Never quite understood what&#x27;s &quot;appalling&quot; about it. They&#x27;ve <i>never</i> had strong support for any dev&#x2F;cloud-oriented services. I know some folks who&#x27;ve had <i>good experiences</i>, but those were exceptions, not the rule.<p>I&#x27;ll say, I get the frustration with it, but it&#x27;s why I&#x27;ve never considered using their cloud services for anything. I had a client who asked me to migrate all their stuff to google &#x27;cloud compute&#x27; and their &#x27;sql cloud&#x27; offering last year. It was a performance disaster; queries that were minor .1ms on localhost or in the same network were suddenly 18-20ms hitting google cloud. Spent a few days trying to dig in, and a few responses from various groups were &quot;shouldn&#x27;t be that slow&quot; and &quot;works for me&quot; and that was about it. Gave up trying to get any real response from google (we may have got a &#x27;looking in to it&#x27; response - I don&#x27;t remember).<p>Thing was, I knew going in it wasn&#x27;t going to end well, I just wasn&#x27;t sure exactly why (maybe that&#x27;s just too cynical of a view, but I prefer &#x27;realistic&#x27;).</text></item><item><author>mstade</author><text>&gt; I bet they also have a &quot;community&quot; support forum or Google Group full of helpless people talking to a virtual wall.<p>This is Google support summed up perfectly in a single sentence. It really is appalling.</text></item><item><author>flipp3r</author><text>Reminds me of getting Bait-and-Switch&#x27;d by Google App Engine in 2011. From 10&#x27;s of euros to 1000&#x27;s.<p>&gt; They have no phone number to contact, no way to dispute this other than email — which they have ignored us for over a month now without replying to our continued requests. Trapped. Doomed. We have no further options.<p>Sounds like Google did a great job with Firebase. Definitely gives you that Google-feel of unresponsive support and no hope when you have problems with any of their services. I bet they also have a &quot;community&quot; support forum or Google Group full of helpless people talking to a virtual wall. (Edit: Yep, they recommend Stack Overflow, Quora, and then their Google Group.. lol. Some things never change)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mstade</author><text>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s fair you&#x27;re being down voted, I get your point of view, so I gave you an upvote. But the thing is, this isn&#x27;t some kid-in-a-basement free-but-ad-supported service where you-get-what-you-pay-for. Google&#x27;s cloud offering isn&#x27;t free (for any use beyond hello world anyway) and as a paying customer I&#x27;d expect:<p>1. Things to work
2. People to answer when things don&#x27;t work
3. Things to start working again in a timely manner, with timely and concise updates along the way<p>Points two and three carry a lot of nuance, but Google&#x27;s support does not. It&#x27;s a virtual wall that people cry to and get no response back from, except for the rare few occasions when the Google deities decide to grace forums or mailing lists with their presence. It&#x27;s just not a serious offering.<p>Now, you can pay extra for support, but even so it&#x27;s going to be appalling. You probably will get to talk to someone at least, but in my experience you rarely get ahold of anyone who&#x27;ll actually read what you&#x27;ve sent them, much less actually try to help.<p>My take away is that support and customer service is just not a priority for Google, what so ever. It&#x27;s not even a low priority thing, it&#x27;s a <i>no</i> priority thing.</text></comment> | <story><title>A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to $1750 per month</title><url>https://medium.com/@contact_16315/firebase-costs-increased-by-7-000-81dc0a27271d</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mgkimsal</author><text>&gt; It really is appalling<p>Never quite understood what&#x27;s &quot;appalling&quot; about it. They&#x27;ve <i>never</i> had strong support for any dev&#x2F;cloud-oriented services. I know some folks who&#x27;ve had <i>good experiences</i>, but those were exceptions, not the rule.<p>I&#x27;ll say, I get the frustration with it, but it&#x27;s why I&#x27;ve never considered using their cloud services for anything. I had a client who asked me to migrate all their stuff to google &#x27;cloud compute&#x27; and their &#x27;sql cloud&#x27; offering last year. It was a performance disaster; queries that were minor .1ms on localhost or in the same network were suddenly 18-20ms hitting google cloud. Spent a few days trying to dig in, and a few responses from various groups were &quot;shouldn&#x27;t be that slow&quot; and &quot;works for me&quot; and that was about it. Gave up trying to get any real response from google (we may have got a &#x27;looking in to it&#x27; response - I don&#x27;t remember).<p>Thing was, I knew going in it wasn&#x27;t going to end well, I just wasn&#x27;t sure exactly why (maybe that&#x27;s just too cynical of a view, but I prefer &#x27;realistic&#x27;).</text></item><item><author>mstade</author><text>&gt; I bet they also have a &quot;community&quot; support forum or Google Group full of helpless people talking to a virtual wall.<p>This is Google support summed up perfectly in a single sentence. It really is appalling.</text></item><item><author>flipp3r</author><text>Reminds me of getting Bait-and-Switch&#x27;d by Google App Engine in 2011. From 10&#x27;s of euros to 1000&#x27;s.<p>&gt; They have no phone number to contact, no way to dispute this other than email — which they have ignored us for over a month now without replying to our continued requests. Trapped. Doomed. We have no further options.<p>Sounds like Google did a great job with Firebase. Definitely gives you that Google-feel of unresponsive support and no hope when you have problems with any of their services. I bet they also have a &quot;community&quot; support forum or Google Group full of helpless people talking to a virtual wall. (Edit: Yep, they recommend Stack Overflow, Quora, and then their Google Group.. lol. Some things never change)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elorant</author><text>It&#x27;s appalling because you&#x27;re a paying customer. I can understand free services not having support, but any service that&#x27;s costing money should at the very least have a human being responding through email.</text></comment> |
15,607,526 | 15,607,525 | 1 | 3 | 15,607,339 | train | <story><title>Why Timber Towers Are on the Rise in France</title><url>https://www.citylab.com/design/2017/10/why-timber-towers-are-on-the-rise-in-france/544098/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thisisit</author><text>&quot;The production of cement, one of the main ingredients in concrete, generates an estimated 5 percent of the world’s carbon emissions. Trees, in contrast, capture CO2, helping offset emissions produced by a typical building process.&quot;<p>If I am reading this correctly it&#x27;s the trees and not timber, laminated or otherwise, which capture CO2. So what kind of advantage does timber offer in form of CO2 emission? Specially considering the tree is now gone and this article doesn&#x27;t cover if there is re-plantation - something like sow a 5 plants of each tree used for timber.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostoc</author><text>Timber is carbon that a tree has pulled from the atmosphere.<p>As long as it stays in a building, it&#x27;s not going back in the atmosphere.<p>Planting trees and turning them into timber is a form of carbon sequestration. As long as it doesn&#x27;t burn or decay...</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Timber Towers Are on the Rise in France</title><url>https://www.citylab.com/design/2017/10/why-timber-towers-are-on-the-rise-in-france/544098/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thisisit</author><text>&quot;The production of cement, one of the main ingredients in concrete, generates an estimated 5 percent of the world’s carbon emissions. Trees, in contrast, capture CO2, helping offset emissions produced by a typical building process.&quot;<p>If I am reading this correctly it&#x27;s the trees and not timber, laminated or otherwise, which capture CO2. So what kind of advantage does timber offer in form of CO2 emission? Specially considering the tree is now gone and this article doesn&#x27;t cover if there is re-plantation - something like sow a 5 plants of each tree used for timber.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seanmcdirmid</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tree_farm#Tree_farming_and_climate_change" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tree_farm#Tree_farming_and_cli...</a><p>&gt; Because tree farms are managed to enhance rapid growth, a tree farm tends to sequester carbon more quickly than an unmanaged forest, considering only the sequestration side of the equation and not the carbon release due to rot, fire, or harvest.[10] The fact that managed woodlands tend to be younger and younger trees grow faster and die less contributes to this distinction.[11]<p>&gt; While tree farms absorb large amounts of CO2, the long-term sequestration of this carbon depends on what is done with the harvested materials. Forests continue to absorb atmospheric carbon for centuries if left undisturbed.</text></comment> |
26,496,366 | 26,495,113 | 1 | 3 | 26,475,708 | train | <story><title>Phrack Magazine</title><url>http://phrack.org/issues/69/1.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>k1rcher</author><text>This is incredible to read n many years later. I was a per-pubescent adolescent around the time of the publication of the &quot;last great zines&quot;, and was only ever really exposed to a small subsection (HTP5, the MIT.edu and Linode incidents) through several mutual friends of mine who were, at the time, enthusiasts of and in the scene.<p>That era and community was without a doubt the foundation for who I am today as a young adult, and who I strive to be in all aspects of life. I have and no doubt will continue to consume all of this content I may have missed out on since then.<p>P.S. If I may call your attention to volume 0x0f, 0x45, part A of section 6 (Notes); wow. This, along with everything else, is enormously prophetic, profound, and intriguin:<p>&quot;--[ 6 - Notes<p>A) In respect to social networks, while they are a valid community-building
mechanism in nature, selfishness prevails in common usage, by means of the
indulgent pleasure that fuels chronic &quot;pluggedness&quot;, at times voyeur, at
times exhibitionist and needy.&quot;<p>- <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;phrack.org&#x2F;issues&#x2F;69&#x2F;6.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;phrack.org&#x2F;issues&#x2F;69&#x2F;6.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Phrack Magazine</title><url>http://phrack.org/issues/69/1.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>amenghra</author><text>A classic, been around since 1985.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;deadbits&#x2F;Zines" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;deadbits&#x2F;Zines</a> used to be an archive of tons of similar ezines, the repo has been disabled ¯\_(ツ)_&#x2F;¯. Some of the zines it used to have include HITB, PhineasFisher, TeaMp0isoN, ZF0, anti-anti-sec, anti-sec, b4b0, dikline, el8, h0no, htp, owned and exposed, phrack, pocorgtfo, uninformed.<p>On a more modern note, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pagedout.institute&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pagedout.institute&#x2F;</a> is great.</text></comment> |
4,268,424 | 4,268,253 | 1 | 3 | 4,266,983 | train | <story><title>Microsoft employee on stack ranking and its 'most universally hated exec'</title><url>http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/81017</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seiji</author><text>It's hilarious to see the exact opposite happen: an 80 person company with a multi-page visio org chart, six departments, seven VPs, five pages of expense report rules and regulations, meetings scheduled to plan when to schedule other meetings, and nobody listens to the people who know what to do next because the visionary VC-installed-CEO is Touched By God and can't be questioned even as the company nose dives into obsolescence.</text></item><item><author>Dove</author><text><i>pretty sure that if I ever started a company, I'd at least try to do it without any sort of formal management. </i><p>Valve does that:<p><pre><code> How could a 300-person company not have any formal
management? My observation is that it takes new hires
about six months before they fully accept that no one is
going to tell them what to do, that no manager is going
to give them a review, that there is no such thing as a
promotion or a job title or even a fixed role (although
there are generous raises and bonuses based on value to
the company, as assessed by peers). That it is their
responsibility, and theirs alone, to allocate the most
valuable resource in the company – their time – by
figuring out what it is that they can do that is most
valuable for the company, and then to go do it. That if
they decide that they should be doing something
different, there’s no manager to convince to let them
go; they just move their desk to the new group (the
desks are on wheels, with computers attached) and start
in on the new thing. (Obviously they should choose a
good point at which to do this, and coordinate with both
groups, but that’s common sense, not a rule, and isn’t
enforced in any way.) That everyone on a project team is
an individual contributor, doing coding, artwork, level
design, music, and so on, including the leads; there is
no such thing as a pure management or architect or
designer role. That any part of the company can change
direction instantly at any time, because there are no
managers to cling to their people and their territory,
no reorgs to plan, no budgets to work around. That there
are things that Gabe badly wants the company to do that
aren’t happening, because no one has signed up to do
them.
</code></pre>
<a href="http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/valve-how-i-got-here-what-its-like-and-what-im-doing-2/" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/valve-how-i-got-here-w...</a></text></item><item><author>pwny</author><text>I'm honestly wondering why we value management so much. It might be my lack of corporate experience but I have a lot of trouble seeing most management positions as important (in fact, my general feeling is that they're a hindrance most often than not).<p>Do companies really go down in flames if no one is there to try and measure, through various ineffective ways, the quality of other people's work (often in a field they don't even understand)?<p>Would a bunch of engineers really sit there doing nothing if they didn't have a manager to report to? Is said manager more apt at taking decisions than they are?<p>I'm curious and also pretty sure that if I ever started a company, I'd at least try to do it without any sort of formal management. At least to try.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>meepmorp</author><text>&#62; an 80 person company with a multi-page visio org chart, six departments, seven VPs<p>Pfft. I once worked at a place with 77 employees and 14 VPs. How we didn't wind up taking over the tech world still mystifies me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft employee on stack ranking and its 'most universally hated exec'</title><url>http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/81017</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seiji</author><text>It's hilarious to see the exact opposite happen: an 80 person company with a multi-page visio org chart, six departments, seven VPs, five pages of expense report rules and regulations, meetings scheduled to plan when to schedule other meetings, and nobody listens to the people who know what to do next because the visionary VC-installed-CEO is Touched By God and can't be questioned even as the company nose dives into obsolescence.</text></item><item><author>Dove</author><text><i>pretty sure that if I ever started a company, I'd at least try to do it without any sort of formal management. </i><p>Valve does that:<p><pre><code> How could a 300-person company not have any formal
management? My observation is that it takes new hires
about six months before they fully accept that no one is
going to tell them what to do, that no manager is going
to give them a review, that there is no such thing as a
promotion or a job title or even a fixed role (although
there are generous raises and bonuses based on value to
the company, as assessed by peers). That it is their
responsibility, and theirs alone, to allocate the most
valuable resource in the company – their time – by
figuring out what it is that they can do that is most
valuable for the company, and then to go do it. That if
they decide that they should be doing something
different, there’s no manager to convince to let them
go; they just move their desk to the new group (the
desks are on wheels, with computers attached) and start
in on the new thing. (Obviously they should choose a
good point at which to do this, and coordinate with both
groups, but that’s common sense, not a rule, and isn’t
enforced in any way.) That everyone on a project team is
an individual contributor, doing coding, artwork, level
design, music, and so on, including the leads; there is
no such thing as a pure management or architect or
designer role. That any part of the company can change
direction instantly at any time, because there are no
managers to cling to their people and their territory,
no reorgs to plan, no budgets to work around. That there
are things that Gabe badly wants the company to do that
aren’t happening, because no one has signed up to do
them.
</code></pre>
<a href="http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/valve-how-i-got-here-what-its-like-and-what-im-doing-2/" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/valve-how-i-got-here-w...</a></text></item><item><author>pwny</author><text>I'm honestly wondering why we value management so much. It might be my lack of corporate experience but I have a lot of trouble seeing most management positions as important (in fact, my general feeling is that they're a hindrance most often than not).<p>Do companies really go down in flames if no one is there to try and measure, through various ineffective ways, the quality of other people's work (often in a field they don't even understand)?<p>Would a bunch of engineers really sit there doing nothing if they didn't have a manager to report to? Is said manager more apt at taking decisions than they are?<p>I'm curious and also pretty sure that if I ever started a company, I'd at least try to do it without any sort of formal management. At least to try.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>notJim</author><text>Yup, I worked somewhere like that. All the top folks had come from the finance world and were so eager to duplicate the perfect organizational structure of a multinational financial corporation.<p>I didn't work there long.</text></comment> |
39,698,585 | 39,695,281 | 1 | 2 | 39,691,735 | train | <story><title>Paul Alexander, ‘the man in the iron lung’, has died</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68555051</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ParetoOptimal</author><text>Your implication that covid is unavoidable is false. I&#x27;ve avoided getting it by being purposefully covid conscious.</text></item><item><author>lr4444lr</author><text>COVID made its way to Antarctica. I have no doubt 4 years later that it would find its way to Paul Alexander&#x27;s home.</text></item><item><author>bonaldi</author><text>Curious that the story doesn&#x27;t mention he died of Covid – an infection that, you&#x27;d expect someone with his condition to be extremely keen to avoid, and who should have been able to, given reasonable precautions from his visitors.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kelnos</author><text>Your lack of COVID is certainly largely due to being purposeful and careful, but there&#x27;s still a component of luck. The only sure-fire way to avoid it is to stay locked up and away from all other humans and things other humans have potentially breathed on. Anything less and there&#x27;s always a decent chance you&#x27;ll get it despite your precautions.<p>Also, you may have gotten it, were asymptomatic, and didn&#x27;t notice. COVID is fun like that.</text></comment> | <story><title>Paul Alexander, ‘the man in the iron lung’, has died</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68555051</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ParetoOptimal</author><text>Your implication that covid is unavoidable is false. I&#x27;ve avoided getting it by being purposefully covid conscious.</text></item><item><author>lr4444lr</author><text>COVID made its way to Antarctica. I have no doubt 4 years later that it would find its way to Paul Alexander&#x27;s home.</text></item><item><author>bonaldi</author><text>Curious that the story doesn&#x27;t mention he died of Covid – an infection that, you&#x27;d expect someone with his condition to be extremely keen to avoid, and who should have been able to, given reasonable precautions from his visitors.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>unclad5968</author><text>You have no way of knowing that. Some people are asymptomatic.</text></comment> |
2,858,568 | 2,858,480 | 1 | 2 | 2,858,371 | train | <story><title>Developing Android Apps: it's really not so bad</title><url>http://www.bendmorris.com/2011/08/developing-android-apps-its-really-not.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>martythemaniak</author><text>Something interesting happens when you ignore hype and prejudice and start paying attention to results: reality manifests itself, sometimes with surprising results.<p>So let me give you some results: A bit over a year ago I became 1/4 of our new mobile team (2 android guys, 2 iOS guys) at work. We set out to write our apps, which have the same design, use the same visual elements, the same API, and have the same features etc. A year later, with thousands of lines of code and man hours behind them, both apps are still at the same level as each other, with neither being ahead of the other.<p>In short, anyone that tells you Android development is harder than iOS is lying, incompetent or has an agenda. Or simply mistakes his opinion for reality.</text></comment> | <story><title>Developing Android Apps: it's really not so bad</title><url>http://www.bendmorris.com/2011/08/developing-android-apps-its-really-not.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wallflower</author><text>With all due respect to the developer who wrote this post, standalone apps are relatively easy - you start jumping into the rabbit hole when you start getting into server API integration and doing processing off the main thread (AsyncTask, IntentService, Service, unit tests lions tigers oh my), layouts that don't suck, and custom animations... Making an Android app look sexy/good is an art in itself that I am still trying to learn.<p>At a certain point of app complexity, writing an Android app becomes less about writing an Android app and more about writing a well-structured, async/decoupled and performant app in Java.<p>Why is iPhone development relatively easy? Well, for one thing, the territory is well trodden. And it is based on the beautiful foundational framework of Cocoa, which has its roots in NeXTSTEP. Cocoa masters have been able to switch to iOS and tell people/show people how to code properly. Cocoa has been around for a while; the Android SDK is a WIP (but it has come a long, long way since Cupcake). Also, Java lacks compiler-level support for/doesn't have blocks and categories (two of the things that make Objective-C a joy). And, love it or hate it, you will start to miss CoreData when you don't have anything near equivalent on Android.<p>Some of my favorite resources for learning Android:<p>The best book for the money (frequently updated, author has huge SO reputation)<p><a href="http://commonsware.com/Android/" rel="nofollow">http://commonsware.com/Android/</a><p>Reto Meier's blog<p><a href="http://blog.radioactiveyak.com/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.radioactiveyak.com/</a><p>Styling Android blog<p><a href="http://blog.stylingandroid.com" rel="nofollow">http://blog.stylingandroid.com</a><p>Android UI Patterns<p><a href="http://androiduipatterns.com" rel="nofollow">http://androiduipatterns.com</a><p>The Google source (note, not all code is pretty but it shows one way of getting things done).<p>Android is known for its flexibility, power, and customization. There are many ways to setup/do things, some good, some bad. That just doesn't apply to the end user's experience but to developing apps for it.</text></comment> |
29,194,561 | 29,192,178 | 1 | 2 | 29,190,495 | train | <story><title>How trains could replace planes in Europe</title><url>https://www.economist.com/europe/2021/11/11/how-trains-could-replace-planes-in-europe</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>akamaka</author><text>The article should have mentioned some of the mega-projects that are already underway, which will improve rail links between European countries.<p>The Stuttgart 21 project will reconfigure the Stuttgart central station to create a direct line between Paris and Vienna.<p>Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link will build a new undersea rail tunnel between Denmark and Germany, allowing Sweden to operate night trains to Brussels.<p>In Switzerland, several new tunnels under the alps beginning operation this year will cut travel time to Italy.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Stuttgart_21" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Stuttgart_21</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fehmarn_Belt_Fixed_Link" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fehmarn_Belt_Fixed_Link</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gotthard_Base_Tunnel" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gotthard_Base_Tunnel</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ceneri_Base_Tunnel" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ceneri_Base_Tunnel</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andrewseanryan</author><text>I&#x27;ll add to your resources one more rail project. Rail Baltica which will connect Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Finland with Poland and therefore the rest of Europe. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rail_Baltica" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rail_Baltica</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How trains could replace planes in Europe</title><url>https://www.economist.com/europe/2021/11/11/how-trains-could-replace-planes-in-europe</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>akamaka</author><text>The article should have mentioned some of the mega-projects that are already underway, which will improve rail links between European countries.<p>The Stuttgart 21 project will reconfigure the Stuttgart central station to create a direct line between Paris and Vienna.<p>Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link will build a new undersea rail tunnel between Denmark and Germany, allowing Sweden to operate night trains to Brussels.<p>In Switzerland, several new tunnels under the alps beginning operation this year will cut travel time to Italy.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Stuttgart_21" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Stuttgart_21</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fehmarn_Belt_Fixed_Link" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fehmarn_Belt_Fixed_Link</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gotthard_Base_Tunnel" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gotthard_Base_Tunnel</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ceneri_Base_Tunnel" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ceneri_Base_Tunnel</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>R0b0t1</author><text>Rail is great for freight but what surprised me was that while I was in Europe flights were faster and cheaper. I don&#x27;t think the right reaction is to tax planes so that people don&#x27;t use them, as time has value.</text></comment> |
11,778,530 | 11,776,371 | 1 | 2 | 11,774,351 | train | <story><title>Housing in the Bay Area</title><url>http://blog.samaltman.com/housing-in-the-bay-area</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danjayh</author><text>With you all the way.<p>I have 11 acres, horses, a goat, cats, a dog, and I live 15 minutes from downtown and 17 minutes from work. This is in a mid-sized midwest city (Grand Rapids, MI). While I realize that I could achieve a substantial pay raise on one of the coasts, a similarly sized plot there would cost millions. I paid under 200k 5 years ago with a 1500sf house on it, and it&#x27;s still probably only worth the mid 200k range after we improved it (cleared 6 acres of trees, planted and fenced a bunch of pasture, made significant improvements to the house). I could not achieve a similar lifestyle on an engineer&#x27;s salary near a major urban center on a coast ... and I have no desire to move to one :).<p>Plus, I get to make avionics, which is on my short list of the best jobs ever.</text></item><item><author>jevinskie</author><text>There is so much pressure, career-wise, to move to either the Bay Area, the West Coast in general, or a major urban hub.<p>I honestly like living in a semi-rural part of the Midwest. I <i>like</i> seeing fields and forests while driving to work. If I want to get out to some wilderness, I can do so in 15-30 minutes. I travel in a car that, I feel, offers me freedom. To boot, I have a nice, reserved spot in the garage below my apartment. I live <i>downtown</i> and I still feel great freedom&#x2F;&quot;space&quot;. I cant imagine being able to do anything like this in a place like SF or even Chicago.<p>My cost of living is very cheap. My commute is 15 minutes. I live close to my family. Why should I want to leave?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>retro64</author><text>I think this endorsement should be qualified. While it&#x27;s true there is more space here in GR, there is a reason for that: people leave as soon as they can (for various reasons; the lack of sun (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www1.ncdc.noaa.gov&#x2F;pub&#x2F;data&#x2F;ccd-data&#x2F;pctposrank.txt" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www1.ncdc.noaa.gov&#x2F;pub&#x2F;data&#x2F;ccd-data&#x2F;pctposrank.txt</a>), lack of opportunity or even this vaguely defined yet very strong pressure to conform to an invisible fence of ideology. Change and outside ideas are slow to take root, to put it mildly.<p>I have worked in tech here for over 10 years and there are very few jobs. I&#x27;ve already used up Plans A, B and C. My next move will probably be somewhere else (if I&#x27;m still competitive). This is where you go to retire, not to advance your career.</text></comment> | <story><title>Housing in the Bay Area</title><url>http://blog.samaltman.com/housing-in-the-bay-area</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danjayh</author><text>With you all the way.<p>I have 11 acres, horses, a goat, cats, a dog, and I live 15 minutes from downtown and 17 minutes from work. This is in a mid-sized midwest city (Grand Rapids, MI). While I realize that I could achieve a substantial pay raise on one of the coasts, a similarly sized plot there would cost millions. I paid under 200k 5 years ago with a 1500sf house on it, and it&#x27;s still probably only worth the mid 200k range after we improved it (cleared 6 acres of trees, planted and fenced a bunch of pasture, made significant improvements to the house). I could not achieve a similar lifestyle on an engineer&#x27;s salary near a major urban center on a coast ... and I have no desire to move to one :).<p>Plus, I get to make avionics, which is on my short list of the best jobs ever.</text></item><item><author>jevinskie</author><text>There is so much pressure, career-wise, to move to either the Bay Area, the West Coast in general, or a major urban hub.<p>I honestly like living in a semi-rural part of the Midwest. I <i>like</i> seeing fields and forests while driving to work. If I want to get out to some wilderness, I can do so in 15-30 minutes. I travel in a car that, I feel, offers me freedom. To boot, I have a nice, reserved spot in the garage below my apartment. I live <i>downtown</i> and I still feel great freedom&#x2F;&quot;space&quot;. I cant imagine being able to do anything like this in a place like SF or even Chicago.<p>My cost of living is very cheap. My commute is 15 minutes. I live close to my family. Why should I want to leave?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ccarter84</author><text>That&#x27;s an awesome setup and cost of living. If most of family and friends didnt have deep roots here I&#x27;d totally consider saying screw this place. Actually, I still may, but gonna ride it out a bit longer.</text></comment> |
18,501,144 | 18,499,481 | 1 | 2 | 18,498,796 | train | <story><title>The Second Half of Watergate Was Bigger, Worse, and Forgotten by the Public</title><url>https://longreads.com/2018/11/20/the-second-half-of-watergate-was-bigger-worse-and-forgotten-by-the-public/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AndyMcConachie</author><text>Two things.<p>1) This wasn&#x27;t really forgotten by the public. There was a law passed by Congress meant to address this, which if anyone has worked in American corporate governance is well aware of. The article mentions the FCPA.<p>2) The much more interesting question about Watergate is what were the Plumbers looking for? Why did they conduct their break ins? This was not understood at the time.<p>We now know about Nixon&#x27;s successful attempt to torpedo the Vietnam peace talks in &#x27;68. Something Mark Felt didn&#x27;t even know. We also now know that LBJ knew about it as well right before the elections in &#x27;68. LBJ didn&#x27;t make it public, but instead kept a file on it that later came to be held in his presidential library. Nixon and the plumbers were likely looking for this file. They never found it and it wasn&#x27;t until a researcher in the mid-90&#x27;s discovered it in LBJ&#x27;s presidential library. This information, had it been made public, would have destroyed Nixon.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Second Half of Watergate Was Bigger, Worse, and Forgotten by the Public</title><url>https://longreads.com/2018/11/20/the-second-half-of-watergate-was-bigger-worse-and-forgotten-by-the-public/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>skybrian</author><text>re: &quot;The SEC filed an injunctive order against Gulf Oil on the grounds that their bribes were material information that should have been disclosed to investors, and that by failing to disclose them, it violated existing federal securities laws.&quot;<p>Huh, that looks like an early example of Matt Levine&#x27;s rule that everything bad is also securities fraud. (From before the anti-bribery law was passed.)</text></comment> |
24,197,380 | 24,195,994 | 1 | 2 | 24,194,747 | train | <story><title>2.5M Medical Records Leaked by AI Company</title><url>https://securethoughts.com/medical-data-of-auto-accident-victims-exposed-online/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maybelsyrup</author><text>I&#x27;m a medical researcher, and I&#x27;ve worked with exactly this sort of data. The number of hoops I had to jump through to even be allowed on the project was insane. Background checks, legal forms of all kinds, trainings on how to keep the data secure. Fingerprint locked rooms. Access control. And most importantly: the data themselves were air-gapped.<p>If I fucked up on this scale, jail would be the least of my worries. I&#x27;d never work again. I&#x27;d be professionally shunned forever, with no hope of redemption once my name is attached to the incident in some Google search. No more grants, no more collaborations, no nothing. I&#x27;d be ruined. Frankly I&#x27;d be begging to be let into prison; where else am I gonna be able to eat?<p>Nothing will happen to these people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sillysaurusx</author><text>This is a wild exaggeration. First of all, everyone is insecure. Work as a pentester, and you&#x27;ll see that the whole world is insecure. After the 30th project with an SQL injection vuln or misconfiguration, you&#x27;ll never be phased again.<p>Secondly, this seems to be a straightforward database misconfiguration. The database was set to public with no restrictions. It likely wasn&#x27;t accessible to anyone who wasn&#x27;t explicitly looking for it, i.e. security researchers or black hats. Yes, this was horrible, but nothing bad happened here. The database was simply set to private.<p>Third, my friend, chillax a bit. Yes, it&#x27;s extraordinarily important to protect people&#x27;s medical data. But no, you&#x27;re not personally liable if a fuckup happens. <i>Everyone</i> fucks up. That&#x27;s why the fuckups are covered by legal protections. You take your job seriously. Good! But you also take your job way too seriously. Bad. You&#x27;re gonna burn yourself out within a decade with this mindset.<p>None of this is to say that what happened didn&#x27;t matter. Of course it matters. But you are literally saying you&#x27;d be begging to be let into prison. That&#x27;s not proportionate, and feels like a reflection of the current social climate of retribution-as-forgiveness.</text></comment> | <story><title>2.5M Medical Records Leaked by AI Company</title><url>https://securethoughts.com/medical-data-of-auto-accident-victims-exposed-online/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maybelsyrup</author><text>I&#x27;m a medical researcher, and I&#x27;ve worked with exactly this sort of data. The number of hoops I had to jump through to even be allowed on the project was insane. Background checks, legal forms of all kinds, trainings on how to keep the data secure. Fingerprint locked rooms. Access control. And most importantly: the data themselves were air-gapped.<p>If I fucked up on this scale, jail would be the least of my worries. I&#x27;d never work again. I&#x27;d be professionally shunned forever, with no hope of redemption once my name is attached to the incident in some Google search. No more grants, no more collaborations, no nothing. I&#x27;d be ruined. Frankly I&#x27;d be begging to be let into prison; where else am I gonna be able to eat?<p>Nothing will happen to these people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>g_p</author><text>In contrast here, this data likely came from an insurance company, which got access to the data from their claims. They don&#x27;t inherently care about these people, because they&#x27;re all seen as &quot;costs&quot; to the balance sheet profits for the year. Sending their data out for &quot;AI&quot; to try and learn how to predict which claims can be rejected is a rational thing to do, in their eyes, whatever the cost (to those concerned and their data), since it might help improve their bottom line by rejecting claims faster.<p>At least there&#x27;s a cynical take on this. They have no inherent interest in protecting this data, absent external pressures or legislation that imposes penalties.<p>It strikes me the real issue is the lack of negative inventive for people and businesses who screw up with data. If you build something physical that falls down and hurts people, your investor money ends up paying compensation. In tech though, the goal seems to be to make the revenues without ever touching the responsibility.<p>The story over the weekend of Amazon trying to avoid being deemed liable as a seller for goods they ship, (often) deliver, warehouse, market, dispatch and receive seems to sum this up. A race to the bottom when it comes to protections - Amazon effectively is a shop selling goods from others, as it all happens on their terms. We see similar in physical retail where the manufacturer or reseller has a retention of title over goods in the store, and that doesn&#x27;t affect the store being responsible. It seems like the &quot;being responsible for what you build&quot; is very much lacking in tech companies, due to lack of external regulation to achieve it. Same here in this case.</text></comment> |
14,950,505 | 14,950,780 | 1 | 3 | 14,949,950 | train | <story><title>How to Stop Apologizing for My Stutter, and Other Important Lessons</title><url>https://longreads.com/2017/08/04/how-to-stop-apologizing-for-my-stutter-and-other-important-lessons/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>forthelove</author><text>Stutterer here. Was in speech therapy for a long time as a child; my sister actually became a speech therapist b&#x2F;c of that experience. It will always be a challenge (I&#x27;m 37 now), and it seems to rear its ugly head at random times not necessarily tied to stress. Two nights ago I made my first ever best man speech in front of about 150+ people and I maybe stammered once during the 5 or so minutes. Felt amazing and I had people asking me if I was a standup comic or spoke professionally. They have no clue the daily mental gymnastics I perform to master the stuttering.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Stop Apologizing for My Stutter, and Other Important Lessons</title><url>https://longreads.com/2017/08/04/how-to-stop-apologizing-for-my-stutter-and-other-important-lessons/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mcone</author><text>I&#x27;m also a stutterer. I wish I could share with you the overwhelming shame, humiliation, and ostracism I experienced as a child in my classroom environments. As a result I feel tremendous compassion for others with physical and mental limitations. Speech therapy really helped me help myself, but I still sometimes stutter.</text></comment> |
30,600,401 | 30,600,398 | 1 | 3 | 30,599,612 | train | <story><title>Steve Wozniak: Steve Jobs wasn’t a natural-born leader</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/07/steve-wozniak-steve-jobs-wasnt-really-capable-as-an-engineer.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notjustanymike</author><text>The most impactful class I ever took as a programmer was Theater. Because of theater, I can confidently demonstrate a new feature in front of 150 people, and effectively lead retros and sprint demos. Communication is the most undervalued skill by other engineers, and getting good at it sets you apart far quicker than technical growth alone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sdoering</author><text>I was in the theater group in school - and learned a lot about myself there. I broke down crying when playing the Andri in Andorra as it was maybe too near to my personal experience being bullied, being the outsider, being seen for something one is not. Being harassed because people just assume.<p>I also did my first presentation (voluntary) in 7th grade on the solar wind (we could chose our topics like &quot;our pet&quot;, &quot;my favorite book&quot;). And I did theater group while studying at university as well.<p>I learned to manage my nervousness.<p>But the most important part I learned from theater and presenting from an early age on was that to be really good, to be able to make it look easy, make it look natural, make the audience feel what I feel - to be able to do that, that was hard work.
Preparation. Knowing your lines. Working, working, working and also constantly asking for and receiving feedback and adapting. While not loosing your personal take on it out of sight. Not making it generic - staying true to yourself and laying something personal into it.<p>Imho you can only confidently improvise and regularly perform well, if the basics just flow. If you don&#x27;t need to think about, what comes next. If you can confidently get into that flow.<p>To me - this is what theater taught me: Work hard to make it look easy.
This not only applies to public speaking but to a lot of things in life imho.</text></comment> | <story><title>Steve Wozniak: Steve Jobs wasn’t a natural-born leader</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/07/steve-wozniak-steve-jobs-wasnt-really-capable-as-an-engineer.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notjustanymike</author><text>The most impactful class I ever took as a programmer was Theater. Because of theater, I can confidently demonstrate a new feature in front of 150 people, and effectively lead retros and sprint demos. Communication is the most undervalued skill by other engineers, and getting good at it sets you apart far quicker than technical growth alone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>liotier</author><text>Stance, breathing, eye contact, movement... I used to stand prostrate, sweating and watching my shoes as soon as I was in front of an audience - a theater class turned me into a microphone addict, at ease even improvised. And it is fun !</text></comment> |
32,756,325 | 32,755,759 | 1 | 2 | 32,754,781 | train | <story><title>iOS 16 Available September 12th</title><url>https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-16/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>avtar</author><text>Apple’s call and sms spam filtering remains subpar to say the least. When I had a Pixel, I had the option to let the OS transcribe what the potential spammer was saying and end the call. It’s puzzling why Apple isn’t doing more here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the_mar</author><text>Boy do i have a lifehack for you. Buy a phone number with a random area code, like ohio or something, all the spam calls come from surrounding area codes.</text></comment> | <story><title>iOS 16 Available September 12th</title><url>https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-16/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>avtar</author><text>Apple’s call and sms spam filtering remains subpar to say the least. When I had a Pixel, I had the option to let the OS transcribe what the potential spammer was saying and end the call. It’s puzzling why Apple isn’t doing more here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MR4D</author><text>Select &quot;Silence unknown callers&quot; and you&#x27;re done.<p>Last month I had a flurry of spam texts and calls. I moved the slider to the &quot;enable&quot; side a few weeks ago and have had zero issues since.</text></comment> |
2,632,282 | 2,631,580 | 1 | 3 | 2,631,378 | train | <story><title>Rubinius 2.0 Preview Release</title><url>http://rubini.us/2011/06/07/inside-rubinius-20-preview/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fijal</author><text>According to my very unscientific measurements (I didn't bother looking which files are potentially auto generated), I got:<p><pre><code> 182kloc of C (.c files)
110kloc of c++ (.h + .cpp files)
558kloc of ruby (.rb files)
</code></pre>
That puts C/C++ at roughly 40% of total. Unless proven otherwise I would say "ruby written in ruby" is a bit untrue.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rubinius 2.0 Preview Release</title><url>http://rubini.us/2011/06/07/inside-rubinius-20-preview/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ssmoot</author><text>Obviously great news. It dampens my enthusiasm a bit to know the same company funds development of JRuby however.<p>EngineYard really should clarify their vision behind maintaining two VMs. Going beyond the obvious "JRuby is for integration with existing J2EE infrastructure" angle would be nice.<p>Under what circumstances would they actually stand behind Rubinius as the better choice? Is the MRI C extension API compatibility an official feature now? Is it that I could switch from REE to Rubinius without having to worry about finding alternatives for all the libs I'm using that carry C-extension baggage?</text></comment> |
27,333,103 | 27,333,166 | 1 | 3 | 27,331,807 | train | <story><title>Please commit more blatant academic fraud</title><url>https://jacobbuckman.com/2021-05-29-please-commit-more-blatant-academic-fraud/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tlb</author><text>The idea that a field can be reformed by making it worse until it suddenly faces a reckoning and emerges much better is ... I don&#x27;t know where people keep getting the idea that this might work. It has never worked in any field ever in history.<p>The thing that can happen: fields gradually split into rigorous and non-rigorous camps. Like with evidence-based medicine, or chemistry&#x2F;alchemy. Depending on the field, either might prevail in the market. Medical research and bridge-building are mostly rigorous, programming is mostly non-rigorous.<p>AI&#x2F;ML has a range of rigor levels, from fairly good to total crap. I think people in the field have a reasonable idea which is which. It&#x27;s frustrating to people outside the field that think they can just take the technique with highest reported performance numbers and expect good results.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>raphlinus</author><text>I&#x27;ll give my reading, and a tip to the author.<p>To me, this did not read as a serious proposal to actually commit more fraud. Rather, it was a &quot;modest proposal&quot; in the tradition of Swift, in which the actual call to action was for the field to be more critical of papers, especially to be on the lookout for all fraud, both the obvious kind and the more subtle variants, the latter of which also do great damage to the field.<p>The tip: humor like this is fun and appreciated by people who run in the same circles as the author, but an essay like this will be read by a diverse cross-section of people. Some won&#x27;t have the cultural references, some won&#x27;t have English as a first language, etc. Almost always when I&#x27;ve snuck jokes into my writing, I&#x27;ve found it causes confusion.<p>So I might have written this a slightly different way, something along the lines of: the community is structurally more equipped to deal with blatant than subtle fraud. Ironically, now that we&#x27;re seeing more egregious examples of fraud, there&#x27;s a better chance that things will get better; we would have tolerated the subtle types for a long time, as lots of people benefit from the status quo.<p>If the author were actually legitimately calling for more fraud, then I apologize for misunderstanding.</text></comment> | <story><title>Please commit more blatant academic fraud</title><url>https://jacobbuckman.com/2021-05-29-please-commit-more-blatant-academic-fraud/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tlb</author><text>The idea that a field can be reformed by making it worse until it suddenly faces a reckoning and emerges much better is ... I don&#x27;t know where people keep getting the idea that this might work. It has never worked in any field ever in history.<p>The thing that can happen: fields gradually split into rigorous and non-rigorous camps. Like with evidence-based medicine, or chemistry&#x2F;alchemy. Depending on the field, either might prevail in the market. Medical research and bridge-building are mostly rigorous, programming is mostly non-rigorous.<p>AI&#x2F;ML has a range of rigor levels, from fairly good to total crap. I think people in the field have a reasonable idea which is which. It&#x27;s frustrating to people outside the field that think they can just take the technique with highest reported performance numbers and expect good results.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dalbasal</author><text>In politics and other areas, the concept is known as &quot;accelerationism.&quot;<p>It tends to be associated with political extremism... &quot;bring on the revolution&#x2F;war&#x2F;etc.&quot; As an angry or disillusioned response, I think it&#x27;s a close relative of nihilism. Cover for being destructive.<p>That&#x27;s not to say &quot;worse before better&quot; isn&#x27;t a thing... it&#x27;s just not a thing we can do usually.</text></comment> |
13,026,640 | 13,025,706 | 1 | 2 | 13,019,767 | train | <story><title>The Challenge of Consciousness</title><url>http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/11/21/challenge-of-defining-consciousness/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Florin_Andrei</author><text>EDIT: fixed stupid brain bug<p>Dennett&#x27;s approach is absurd. Consciousness is <i>the only thing in the Universe</i> that is self-evident in the strict sense. Everything else is at least second-hand stuff - see the brain in a vat hypothesis. To say that consciousness is an illusion is ridiculous; I can see how he gets there, but the conclusion is absurd. Somewhere along the way there&#x27;s a mistake; no, I don&#x27;t know where the mistake is, and I could not even begin to hypothesize. OP&#x27;s article points out this predicament very well. It is a hard problem indeed.<p>&gt; <i>One of the most promising theories (discussed in the podcast) assumes that consciousness is a fundamental attribute of reality, the other side of the coin (matter being the first one).</i><p>I can hear the objections being raised already, but it&#x27;s a neat promising step towards solving the hard problem. Suddenly the reducibility paradox vanishes.<p>It would also relieve another problem. If you can&#x27;t trivially reduce consciousness to neural activity, then how is it coupled with perception? There would appear to be a gap between the sensory chain and the fact of awareness. And then for consciousness to work, it would already have to be everywhere (in a sense, possibly even a somewhat metaphorical one, or at least non-trivial). The assumption you mention solves this problem.<p>&gt; <i>here&#x27;s a talk by Culadasa, very experienced meditator and a neuroscience professor</i><p>It&#x27;s very, very hard to agree with Dennett, and it&#x27;s getting harder the more you advance in the practice of meditation. As soon as you realize that you can peel off and disconnect layers upon layers of perception (external at first, then the many internal layers too), and also greatly reduce the waves of what is commonly called &quot;thinking&quot;, while consciousness does not diminish but instead becomes at once more vivid and more stable, more calm and more intense, less connected to external factors but more broad - all that talk about &quot;the illusion of consciousness&quot; starts to look extremely suspicious. It&#x27;s not perception, and it&#x27;s not thinking; it can relate to these things, but it&#x27;s fundamentally different. It can ultimately exist completely independent of inputs, either external (sensory) or internal (thoughts, mind activity in the trivial sense, even memory).<p>Don&#x27;t just read about it. Go ahead and have the experience yourself. It changes a lot of perspectives. You don&#x27;t even have to go all the way to the highest levels described in the literature - the intermediate stuff is revelatory enough already.</text></item><item><author>aaimnr</author><text>I always point to David Chalmers when someone wants to understand the problem of consciousness. I like how casual he is about possible solutions and gives credibility to all the options (unlike eg. Daniel Dennett, who seems almost religious about how revolutionary his &quot;there&#x27;s no problem at all&quot; approach is).<p>I really recommend this podcast in which Sam Harris talks with Chalmers about all the options currently in the game: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.samharris.org&#x2F;podcast&#x2F;item&#x2F;the-light-of-the-mind" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.samharris.org&#x2F;podcast&#x2F;item&#x2F;the-light-of-the-mind</a><p>One of the most promising theories (discussed in the podcast) assumes that consciousness is a fundamental attribute of reality, the other side of the coin (matter being the first one). Which leads to the conclusions, that consciousness is everywhere, but not as &#x27;condensed&#x27; as in the brain. Seems crazy at first, but the more you think about it the more plausible it seems.<p>Here&#x27;s a nice paper about it: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;370&#x2F;1668&#x2F;20140167" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;370&#x2F;1668&#x2F;2014...</a><p>Within this paradigm it starts to make sense to call the reality &quot;The Mind&quot;, as some Buddhist schools do. There&#x27;s also the crazy part, about how under some conditions it could potentially lead to experiencing other peoples&#x27; minds.<p>For the more adventurous, here&#x27;s a talk by Culadasa, very experienced meditator and a neuroscience professor, in which he shares some thoughts about the problem and also some of these crazy experiences he had: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;s3.amazonaws.com&#x2F;dharmatreasure&#x2F;150430-tcmc--culadasa--dharma-talk.mp3" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;s3.amazonaws.com&#x2F;dharmatreasure&#x2F;150430-tcmc--culadasa...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>IsaacL</author><text>I also practiced meditation (Vipassana) for several years, and, like you, realised that positing the non-existence of consciousness is a dead-end.<p>Buddhism seemed to go deeper than many other philosophical frameworkss for this reason. However, I looked into many philosophical systems, and I was extremely surprised to discover that the thinker with the most consistent views on reality and consciousness (both self-consistent and consistent with my own experiences) was <i>drumroll</i> Ayn Rand.<p>Though she&#x27;s known for her views on egoism and capitalism, she wrote a ton about consciousness, perception and concept-formation. If you look at my comment history you&#x27;ll see I talk about her a lot on HN, and that&#x27;s because I think computer scientists will gain immense value from studying her works. Introdution to Objectivist Epistemology and The Romantic Manifesto contain her deepest writings on consciousness and cognition and are the books I&#x27;d recommend. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;aynrandlexicon.com&#x2F;lexicon&#x2F;consciousness.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;aynrandlexicon.com&#x2F;lexicon&#x2F;consciousness.html</a> is a good taster.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;aynrandlexicon.com&#x2F;ayn-rand-works&#x2F;introduction-to-objectivist-epistemology.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;aynrandlexicon.com&#x2F;ayn-rand-works&#x2F;introduction-to-obj...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;aynrandlexicon.com&#x2F;ayn-rand-works&#x2F;the-romantic-manifesto.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;aynrandlexicon.com&#x2F;ayn-rand-works&#x2F;the-romantic-manife...</a><p>I&#x27;ve met a couple of other Objectivists who have practiced meditation - not many but they exist. I was very surprised to discover the connection between the two areas. Hopefully in a thread like this on a site like this, curious minds will read this comment and be persuaded to investigate further. It&#x27;s a fascinating journey!</text></comment> | <story><title>The Challenge of Consciousness</title><url>http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/11/21/challenge-of-defining-consciousness/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Florin_Andrei</author><text>EDIT: fixed stupid brain bug<p>Dennett&#x27;s approach is absurd. Consciousness is <i>the only thing in the Universe</i> that is self-evident in the strict sense. Everything else is at least second-hand stuff - see the brain in a vat hypothesis. To say that consciousness is an illusion is ridiculous; I can see how he gets there, but the conclusion is absurd. Somewhere along the way there&#x27;s a mistake; no, I don&#x27;t know where the mistake is, and I could not even begin to hypothesize. OP&#x27;s article points out this predicament very well. It is a hard problem indeed.<p>&gt; <i>One of the most promising theories (discussed in the podcast) assumes that consciousness is a fundamental attribute of reality, the other side of the coin (matter being the first one).</i><p>I can hear the objections being raised already, but it&#x27;s a neat promising step towards solving the hard problem. Suddenly the reducibility paradox vanishes.<p>It would also relieve another problem. If you can&#x27;t trivially reduce consciousness to neural activity, then how is it coupled with perception? There would appear to be a gap between the sensory chain and the fact of awareness. And then for consciousness to work, it would already have to be everywhere (in a sense, possibly even a somewhat metaphorical one, or at least non-trivial). The assumption you mention solves this problem.<p>&gt; <i>here&#x27;s a talk by Culadasa, very experienced meditator and a neuroscience professor</i><p>It&#x27;s very, very hard to agree with Dennett, and it&#x27;s getting harder the more you advance in the practice of meditation. As soon as you realize that you can peel off and disconnect layers upon layers of perception (external at first, then the many internal layers too), and also greatly reduce the waves of what is commonly called &quot;thinking&quot;, while consciousness does not diminish but instead becomes at once more vivid and more stable, more calm and more intense, less connected to external factors but more broad - all that talk about &quot;the illusion of consciousness&quot; starts to look extremely suspicious. It&#x27;s not perception, and it&#x27;s not thinking; it can relate to these things, but it&#x27;s fundamentally different. It can ultimately exist completely independent of inputs, either external (sensory) or internal (thoughts, mind activity in the trivial sense, even memory).<p>Don&#x27;t just read about it. Go ahead and have the experience yourself. It changes a lot of perspectives. You don&#x27;t even have to go all the way to the highest levels described in the literature - the intermediate stuff is revelatory enough already.</text></item><item><author>aaimnr</author><text>I always point to David Chalmers when someone wants to understand the problem of consciousness. I like how casual he is about possible solutions and gives credibility to all the options (unlike eg. Daniel Dennett, who seems almost religious about how revolutionary his &quot;there&#x27;s no problem at all&quot; approach is).<p>I really recommend this podcast in which Sam Harris talks with Chalmers about all the options currently in the game: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.samharris.org&#x2F;podcast&#x2F;item&#x2F;the-light-of-the-mind" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.samharris.org&#x2F;podcast&#x2F;item&#x2F;the-light-of-the-mind</a><p>One of the most promising theories (discussed in the podcast) assumes that consciousness is a fundamental attribute of reality, the other side of the coin (matter being the first one). Which leads to the conclusions, that consciousness is everywhere, but not as &#x27;condensed&#x27; as in the brain. Seems crazy at first, but the more you think about it the more plausible it seems.<p>Here&#x27;s a nice paper about it: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;370&#x2F;1668&#x2F;20140167" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;370&#x2F;1668&#x2F;2014...</a><p>Within this paradigm it starts to make sense to call the reality &quot;The Mind&quot;, as some Buddhist schools do. There&#x27;s also the crazy part, about how under some conditions it could potentially lead to experiencing other peoples&#x27; minds.<p>For the more adventurous, here&#x27;s a talk by Culadasa, very experienced meditator and a neuroscience professor, in which he shares some thoughts about the problem and also some of these crazy experiences he had: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;s3.amazonaws.com&#x2F;dharmatreasure&#x2F;150430-tcmc--culadasa--dharma-talk.mp3" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;s3.amazonaws.com&#x2F;dharmatreasure&#x2F;150430-tcmc--culadasa...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aaimnr</author><text>Did you mean Dennett, instead of Chalmers? I agree that the Dennett&#x27;s conclusions seems to be false almost on a logical level. The self is an illusion for sure, the consciousness for sure isn&#x27;t (EDIT: not saying here that there exists &#x27;pure consciousness without content&#x27;).<p>&gt; Don&#x27;t just read about it. Go ahead and have the experience yourself. It changes a lot of perspectives. You don&#x27;t even have to go all the way to the highest levels described in the literature - the intermediate stuff is revelatory enough already.<p>It is indeed. The more you meditate, the more you see that most of the things that you do &#x27;outside&#x27; are meaningless, just playing with your representations of the world and pretending they are real. Of course we can&#x27;t do anything to somehow reach the &#x27;real&#x27; world, but at least we can drop the pretending part.<p>The title of this book may seem both scary and beautiful in this regard: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.buddha-heute.de&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;treeriver.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.buddha-heute.de&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;treeriver.pdf</a>
Not sure I&#x27;d recommend it for beginners, but I just love the title.</text></comment> |
9,729,982 | 9,729,999 | 1 | 3 | 9,729,916 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Company got acquired, new contract seems oppressive</title><text>The company I work for (software engineer, advertising industry) was recently acquired by a larger company.<p>The new employment contract stipulates the usual oppressive confidential information and IP assignment things, detailing how the company owns anything I come up with. The state I&#x27;m in specifically protects my rights to things I create entirely independently (outside company time and equipment) but the contract also has a clause that says I must disclose any existing inventions or ideas to the company now and that anything not enumerated belongs to them and that by not listing I am acknowledging that the invention idea was not developed or conceived before the commencement of employment.<p>Assuming I were to sign and return without enumerating any specifics they would own the IP to anything I&#x27;ve done previous to this?<p>I&#x27;d love any advice anyone here has, but perhaps a better question would be-- Are there any &quot;uber for lawyers&quot; services online where I can pay to have someone with bonafides read through this for me?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>functional_test</author><text>Find an employment attorney. Pay that person for an hour or two to read the contract for you. They will be able to offer much better advice than HN.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dopamean</author><text>This is the correct answer.<p>I worked at a company that was acquired earlier this year and I didn&#x27;t care for the new employment contract. Unfortunately, the sale was contingent on a certain percentage of the team signing the new employment contract. I had a lawyer look at the whole thing and he told me that because of the way the deal was worded I could sign and quit without affecting things.<p>I looked at the contracts a ton myself and basically made no sense of it. The lawyer spent a couple hours and it was a big help.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Company got acquired, new contract seems oppressive</title><text>The company I work for (software engineer, advertising industry) was recently acquired by a larger company.<p>The new employment contract stipulates the usual oppressive confidential information and IP assignment things, detailing how the company owns anything I come up with. The state I&#x27;m in specifically protects my rights to things I create entirely independently (outside company time and equipment) but the contract also has a clause that says I must disclose any existing inventions or ideas to the company now and that anything not enumerated belongs to them and that by not listing I am acknowledging that the invention idea was not developed or conceived before the commencement of employment.<p>Assuming I were to sign and return without enumerating any specifics they would own the IP to anything I&#x27;ve done previous to this?<p>I&#x27;d love any advice anyone here has, but perhaps a better question would be-- Are there any &quot;uber for lawyers&quot; services online where I can pay to have someone with bonafides read through this for me?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>functional_test</author><text>Find an employment attorney. Pay that person for an hour or two to read the contract for you. They will be able to offer much better advice than HN.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ExhibitAClause2</author><text>Whats the best way to go about finding one on short notice in a generic major city?</text></comment> |
38,288,250 | 38,288,229 | 1 | 3 | 38,276,680 | train | <story><title>The Great Sphinx of Giza may have have started out as a natural formation</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/11/study-reveals-how-natural-processes-helped-sculpt-the-great-sphinx-of-giza/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tazjin</author><text>It&#x27;s ridiculous that everyone with alternative ideas is labeled a &quot;conspiracy theorist&quot;. For example, there&#x27;s a bunch of people with experience in engineering, material science and so on who&#x27;ve been spending a lot of time doing extensive analysis (high-resolution 3D scans, material analysis with state of the art tools etc.)[0][1][2] of ... granite vases from Egypt.<p>They&#x27;re not coming up with theories saying &quot;aliens made these vases!!!&quot; or something, they&#x27;re saying &quot;we don&#x27;t know how these were made, but with modern knowledge we believe it would not have been possible to make them by hand, and here&#x27;s a list of arguments for why&quot;.<p>Yet they&#x27;re labeled as conspiracy theorists and ridiculed, by people who&#x27;re convinced that whatever they learned in school 20 years ago is the immutable ground truth, or - worse - by people whose careers are based on this ground truth being correct.<p>Maybe another factor is that a lot of people involved in these projects are not from academic career backgrounds, so they&#x27;re excluded on the basis of elitism.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unchartedx.com&#x2F;site&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2023&#x2F;10&#x2F;Danville-Summary-Results-2023-10-01.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unchartedx.com&#x2F;site&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2023&#x2F;10&#x2F;Danvi...</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unchartedx.com&#x2F;site&#x2F;vase-scan-resources&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unchartedx.com&#x2F;site&#x2F;vase-scan-resources&#x2F;</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unsigned.io&#x2F;granite-artefact&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unsigned.io&#x2F;granite-artefact&#x2F;</a><p>EDIT: Added links for people who aren&#x27;t aware of these things going on.</text></item><item><author>dilippkumar</author><text>&gt; and that therefore wink and nudge something something aliens.<p>You had me till this.<p>The conspiracy theorists actually make very good points. They’ve been vindicated by discoveries at Gobekli Tepi and others that basically demolish the strongest argument the Egyptologists had against a significantly older Sphinx - that no other megalithic structure had been found till then.<p>This is one of those situations where the conspiracy theorists make a far more convincing argument than mainstream, and entertainingly, all the recent discoveries in archeology have only strengthened the positions of the conspiracy theorists.<p>I would look at them again with fresh eyes. The younger dryas impact hypothesis looks especially convincing.</text></item><item><author>presidentender</author><text>When I was a kid we had a pseudoscience documentary about the Sphinx, narrated by Charlton Heston. They took the appealing argument that the surface looks like it&#x27;s been eroded by water and extended that to conclude that it must have been carved by humans before undergoing water erosion, and that therefore it must be older than mainstream archaeology concludes. This, of course, means that every egyptologist is part of a massive conspiracy to hide the truth, and that therefore wink and nudge something something aliens.<p>I like this article better. Natural formation, carve a face on an existing head. No prehistoric levitation of massive stones.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DoItToMe81</author><text>We do know how the vast majority of these artifacts were made, though. Most of the people &quot;just asking questions&quot; are ignorant of craftsmanship and historical achievements, whereas the &#x27;academics&#x27; are not.<p>Quartz and diorite are harder than granite. Quartz sand abrasion, hand drills utilizing quartz, diorite smoothing tools and melting with hot coals are all techniques recorded by the Egyptians, and have been reperformed by scientists and engineers with similar results.<p>UnchartedX is run by absolute whackjobs who believe an ancient super civilization, despite no iron, no lithium, no artifacts indicating use of electricity, milled these hand crafts with computer guided drills. It&#x27;s even dumber than ancient aliens, because at least aliens could take the evidence of their existence with them.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Great Sphinx of Giza may have have started out as a natural formation</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/11/study-reveals-how-natural-processes-helped-sculpt-the-great-sphinx-of-giza/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tazjin</author><text>It&#x27;s ridiculous that everyone with alternative ideas is labeled a &quot;conspiracy theorist&quot;. For example, there&#x27;s a bunch of people with experience in engineering, material science and so on who&#x27;ve been spending a lot of time doing extensive analysis (high-resolution 3D scans, material analysis with state of the art tools etc.)[0][1][2] of ... granite vases from Egypt.<p>They&#x27;re not coming up with theories saying &quot;aliens made these vases!!!&quot; or something, they&#x27;re saying &quot;we don&#x27;t know how these were made, but with modern knowledge we believe it would not have been possible to make them by hand, and here&#x27;s a list of arguments for why&quot;.<p>Yet they&#x27;re labeled as conspiracy theorists and ridiculed, by people who&#x27;re convinced that whatever they learned in school 20 years ago is the immutable ground truth, or - worse - by people whose careers are based on this ground truth being correct.<p>Maybe another factor is that a lot of people involved in these projects are not from academic career backgrounds, so they&#x27;re excluded on the basis of elitism.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unchartedx.com&#x2F;site&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2023&#x2F;10&#x2F;Danville-Summary-Results-2023-10-01.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unchartedx.com&#x2F;site&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2023&#x2F;10&#x2F;Danvi...</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unchartedx.com&#x2F;site&#x2F;vase-scan-resources&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unchartedx.com&#x2F;site&#x2F;vase-scan-resources&#x2F;</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unsigned.io&#x2F;granite-artefact&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unsigned.io&#x2F;granite-artefact&#x2F;</a><p>EDIT: Added links for people who aren&#x27;t aware of these things going on.</text></item><item><author>dilippkumar</author><text>&gt; and that therefore wink and nudge something something aliens.<p>You had me till this.<p>The conspiracy theorists actually make very good points. They’ve been vindicated by discoveries at Gobekli Tepi and others that basically demolish the strongest argument the Egyptologists had against a significantly older Sphinx - that no other megalithic structure had been found till then.<p>This is one of those situations where the conspiracy theorists make a far more convincing argument than mainstream, and entertainingly, all the recent discoveries in archeology have only strengthened the positions of the conspiracy theorists.<p>I would look at them again with fresh eyes. The younger dryas impact hypothesis looks especially convincing.</text></item><item><author>presidentender</author><text>When I was a kid we had a pseudoscience documentary about the Sphinx, narrated by Charlton Heston. They took the appealing argument that the surface looks like it&#x27;s been eroded by water and extended that to conclude that it must have been carved by humans before undergoing water erosion, and that therefore it must be older than mainstream archaeology concludes. This, of course, means that every egyptologist is part of a massive conspiracy to hide the truth, and that therefore wink and nudge something something aliens.<p>I like this article better. Natural formation, carve a face on an existing head. No prehistoric levitation of massive stones.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>billyoyo</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.metabunk.org&#x2F;threads&#x2F;claim-ancient-egyptians-could-not-work-granite-without-high-tech-diamond-tools.12963&#x2F;#post-290360" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.metabunk.org&#x2F;threads&#x2F;claim-ancient-egyptians-cou...</a><p>Here&#x27;s a nice compilation of evidence showing it&#x27;s completely explainable how they could have made them.</text></comment> |
38,870,566 | 38,870,090 | 1 | 3 | 38,869,366 | train | <story><title>Project Oberon: Design of an operating system, a compiler, and a computer [pdf]</title><url>https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/ProjectOberon/PO.System.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>guidoism</author><text>I re-typeset the text in TeX and have a nicer looking PDF for those that care: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;guidoism&#x2F;tex-oberon">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;guidoism&#x2F;tex-oberon</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Project Oberon: Design of an operating system, a compiler, and a computer [pdf]</title><url>https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/ProjectOberon/PO.System.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>i_don_t_know</author><text>That&#x27;s only the first half of the book. You can find all parts and software at: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;people.inf.ethz.ch&#x2F;wirth&#x2F;ProjectOberon&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;people.inf.ethz.ch&#x2F;wirth&#x2F;ProjectOberon&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
34,659,666 | 34,624,461 | 1 | 2 | 34,624,112 | train | <story><title>Humans Need Play</title><url>https://allenpike.com/2023/humans-need-play</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rainsford</author><text>&gt; Nobody has the energy to learn how to play Axis &amp; Allies after working for 12 hours.<p>I&#x27;ve found that to be a very helpful heuristic in noticing when I&#x27;m pushing myself too hard. If I&#x27;m struggling to remember the last time I did something fun that was new or challenging, I&#x27;m probably putting too much energy into work or other serious stuff and not leaving enough left over for any other parts of my life. Sometimes that&#x27;s a deliberate choice to take care of something important. But often it seems like an easy trap to fall into without meaning to, and watching out for a lack of energy put into fun things is a good way to notice.</text></comment> | <story><title>Humans Need Play</title><url>https://allenpike.com/2023/humans-need-play</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>frozenwind</author><text>I remember having to write an essay in high school about playing &amp; the human being. Then I assumed that playing is a privilege of the kids and young adults. Now, later in life, I&#x27;ve changed jobs not only for a better pay, but also because I started feeling that everybody was becoming too serious at my last workplace.
Either that or I&#x27;ve lost my perspective, and to be honest I&#x27;ve always felt that I&#x27;m a bit too serious and that was alarming to me - I give too little space for playing and too much space to passive entertainment.<p>I&#x27;ve felt the vicious cycle the article tells too: not playing enough made me dull, depressed and that in turn makes you loose the appetite for playing.<p>It was a good reminder, thanks.</text></comment> |
29,313,712 | 29,313,405 | 1 | 2 | 29,296,353 | train | <story><title>Trackers: The Sound of 16-Bit [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roBkg-iPrbw</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pierrec</author><text>Trackers are underrated. In a way, I&#x27;m a bit sad that most of the time I see them mentioned, it seems to be in a historical context.<p>Modern production tools have mostly settled on the combination of pianoroll, automation curves, and visual placement of samples on the project timeline. That&#x27;s great for some types of music, but becomes really awkward in other cases. As a basic example, making a breakbeat sequence makes pretty much no sense with the above interface, but is perfectly represented by the &quot;series of commands&quot; approach of a tracker. I frequently go back to Buzz for that kind of thing (and was happy to see it mentioned in the video).</text></comment> | <story><title>Trackers: The Sound of 16-Bit [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roBkg-iPrbw</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>TrevorJ</author><text>Ahoy might be one of my favorite creators on youtube. His production value is truly &#x27;broadcast quality&#x27; while simultaneously including content that is so much more interesting and in depth than you&#x27;d ever see on television.</text></comment> |
24,478,932 | 24,478,811 | 1 | 2 | 24,476,300 | train | <story><title>Unusual Features of SARS-CoV-2 Genome Suggesting Sophisticated Lab Modification</title><url>https://zenodo.org/record/4028830#.X1_8aRb3bDu</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dannykwells</author><text>Not to ad hom the piece, but Miles Guo, funder of this work, is a controversial Steve Bannon associate and Chinese billionaire in exile. So, you know, might have an axe to grind.<p>Also, for a different, and published, perspective, see this piece:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41591-020-0820-9" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41591-020-0820-9</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mathw</author><text>I&#x27;ll definitely take the paper from Nature Medicine over the article by someone associated with Steve Bannon. I simply do not believe it is plausible that this many scientists are in on the massive cover-up that would be required to hide such evidence.</text></comment> | <story><title>Unusual Features of SARS-CoV-2 Genome Suggesting Sophisticated Lab Modification</title><url>https://zenodo.org/record/4028830#.X1_8aRb3bDu</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dannykwells</author><text>Not to ad hom the piece, but Miles Guo, funder of this work, is a controversial Steve Bannon associate and Chinese billionaire in exile. So, you know, might have an axe to grind.<p>Also, for a different, and published, perspective, see this piece:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41591-020-0820-9" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41591-020-0820-9</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>djaque</author><text>That&#x27;s not even ad hominem. It&#x27;s a pretty relevant piece of info and does change how I look at the article.</text></comment> |
6,923,103 | 6,923,036 | 1 | 3 | 6,921,950 | train | <story><title>Geneva drive</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_drive</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Arjuna</author><text>Original poster here. I thought you good people would find the Geneva drive interesting. It is so simple and elegant; similar in spirit to the elegance of a beautiful algorithm.<p>For further reading on the Geneva drive... don&#x27;t miss the <i>spherical</i> Geneva drive design, illustrated in figure 9-3:<p><a href="http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/k/kmoddl/pdf/002_010.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ebooks.library.cornell.edu&#x2F;k&#x2F;kmoddl&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;002_010.pdf</a><p>Although not Geneva drive related, if you want to combine your passion of horology with human spaceflight, you will truly enjoy &quot;John Glenn&#x27;s Heuer&quot;:<p><a href="http://www.onthedash.com/docs/Glenn.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.onthedash.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Glenn.html</a><p>Also, thank you all for the great, related links!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>noselasd</author><text>Reminds me of all the crazy gears they used in mechanical computers <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1i-dnAH9Y4" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=s1i-dnAH9Y4</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Geneva drive</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_drive</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Arjuna</author><text>Original poster here. I thought you good people would find the Geneva drive interesting. It is so simple and elegant; similar in spirit to the elegance of a beautiful algorithm.<p>For further reading on the Geneva drive... don&#x27;t miss the <i>spherical</i> Geneva drive design, illustrated in figure 9-3:<p><a href="http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/k/kmoddl/pdf/002_010.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ebooks.library.cornell.edu&#x2F;k&#x2F;kmoddl&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;002_010.pdf</a><p>Although not Geneva drive related, if you want to combine your passion of horology with human spaceflight, you will truly enjoy &quot;John Glenn&#x27;s Heuer&quot;:<p><a href="http://www.onthedash.com/docs/Glenn.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.onthedash.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Glenn.html</a><p>Also, thank you all for the great, related links!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>x0054</author><text>Thanks! For a moment there I was like &quot;what the hell is this.&quot; But then I found the article fascinating and then I remembered, this is what HN is all about.</text></comment> |
23,196,139 | 23,196,033 | 1 | 2 | 23,193,093 | train | <story><title>The DynamoDB Book: Data Modeling with NoSQL and DynamoDB</title><url>https://www.dynamodbbook.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DVassallo</author><text>If you treat DynamoDB as a DBMS, you’re going to be disappointed (for the reasons you mention). But if you think of it as a highly-durable immediately-consistent btree in the cloud, it’s amazing. DynamoDB is closer to Redis than MySQL. Amazon does it a disservice by putting it in the databases category.</text></item><item><author>arpinum</author><text>I bought the book, I read the book, I&#x27;ve used DynamoDB for awhile. It didn&#x27;t change my mind. DynamoDB makes tradeoffs in order to run at massive scale, but scale isn&#x27;t a problem many people need solving when 2TB of RAM fits in a single box. Meanwhile I need to handle eventual consistency, an analytics pipeline, another database for fuzzy search, another geo lookup database, Lambda functions to do aggregations, and a pile of custom code. All while giving up tooling so readily available for the RDBMS world.<p>In a world where Opex is much higher than Capex DynamoDB might make sense, but for me server costs are 5% of dev costs. And even if it works from a cost perspective, how many AWS services have the console experience ruined by DynamoDB? The UI tricks you into thinking its a data table with sortable columns, but no! DynamoDB limitations strike again and you are off on a journey of endless paging. The cost savings come at the expense of the user.<p>DynamoDB also isn&#x27;t fast. 20ms for a query isn&#x27;t fast, 30ms for an insert isn&#x27;t fast. Yes its amazingly consistent and faster than other systems holding 500TB, but that isn&#x27;t a use case for many users.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arpinum</author><text>The indexes are not immediately consistent.<p>Its not just that it is put in the database category, but that its champions at AWS make statements like &quot;if you are utilising RDBMS you are living in the past&quot;, or that &quot;there are very few use cases to choose Postgres over DynamoDB&quot;.<p>Btw, loved your AWS book!.</text></comment> | <story><title>The DynamoDB Book: Data Modeling with NoSQL and DynamoDB</title><url>https://www.dynamodbbook.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DVassallo</author><text>If you treat DynamoDB as a DBMS, you’re going to be disappointed (for the reasons you mention). But if you think of it as a highly-durable immediately-consistent btree in the cloud, it’s amazing. DynamoDB is closer to Redis than MySQL. Amazon does it a disservice by putting it in the databases category.</text></item><item><author>arpinum</author><text>I bought the book, I read the book, I&#x27;ve used DynamoDB for awhile. It didn&#x27;t change my mind. DynamoDB makes tradeoffs in order to run at massive scale, but scale isn&#x27;t a problem many people need solving when 2TB of RAM fits in a single box. Meanwhile I need to handle eventual consistency, an analytics pipeline, another database for fuzzy search, another geo lookup database, Lambda functions to do aggregations, and a pile of custom code. All while giving up tooling so readily available for the RDBMS world.<p>In a world where Opex is much higher than Capex DynamoDB might make sense, but for me server costs are 5% of dev costs. And even if it works from a cost perspective, how many AWS services have the console experience ruined by DynamoDB? The UI tricks you into thinking its a data table with sortable columns, but no! DynamoDB limitations strike again and you are off on a journey of endless paging. The cost savings come at the expense of the user.<p>DynamoDB also isn&#x27;t fast. 20ms for a query isn&#x27;t fast, 30ms for an insert isn&#x27;t fast. Yes its amazingly consistent and faster than other systems holding 500TB, but that isn&#x27;t a use case for many users.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>avip</author><text>DynamoDb is like redis without the fun data structures, the fantastic cli and discoverability, the usefull configurable tradeoff between fast and consistent, and really much-needed features s.a listing your keys.</text></comment> |
24,095,959 | 24,095,675 | 1 | 2 | 24,094,323 | train | <story><title>UPI: India's Unified Payments Interface</title><url>https://the-other-side.blog/upi-the-basics/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>filleduchaos</author><text>It amazes me how seemingly behind US banking is tech-wise. My home country for instance has the Nigerian Inter-Bank Settlement System for decades; it&#x27;s quite similar to the UPI but primarily led by the central bank (plus participation is mandatory for all banks&#x2F;bank-like institutions).<p>For anyone that&#x27;s curious, the platform&#x27;s home page at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nibss-plc.com.ng&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nibss-plc.com.ng&#x2F;</a> has a nice little statistics summary of both POS and account-to-account transactions (you might have to scroll past the fold). There&#x27;s five-minute and whole day numbers for total transactions and error rate broken down into types of errors - it&#x27;s a nice bit of transparency.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>inopinatus</author><text>&gt; It amazes me how seemingly behind US banking is tech-wise.<p>This is a statement true in other infrastructure domains, from plumbing to roads to healthcare. It was explained to me that although the US possesses world-class technology in practically every field, the deployment is mediated through a fragmented and diverse political economy.<p>That’s when I properly internalised how the US is federated not merely at the top level, but through many strata of localised governance, and the practical consequences thereof.<p>Couple this to the inertia of regulatory capture by entrenched wealth (which occurs in all human systems irrespective of political construct) and it’s easy to accept that US retail banking, which is approaching three centuries of uptime, will be a very late adopter of mass-market technology.</text></comment> | <story><title>UPI: India's Unified Payments Interface</title><url>https://the-other-side.blog/upi-the-basics/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>filleduchaos</author><text>It amazes me how seemingly behind US banking is tech-wise. My home country for instance has the Nigerian Inter-Bank Settlement System for decades; it&#x27;s quite similar to the UPI but primarily led by the central bank (plus participation is mandatory for all banks&#x2F;bank-like institutions).<p>For anyone that&#x27;s curious, the platform&#x27;s home page at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nibss-plc.com.ng&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nibss-plc.com.ng&#x2F;</a> has a nice little statistics summary of both POS and account-to-account transactions (you might have to scroll past the fold). There&#x27;s five-minute and whole day numbers for total transactions and error rate broken down into types of errors - it&#x27;s a nice bit of transparency.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blisseyGo</author><text>I think US (and other western countries like Canada, European countries etc) are VERY different from the Indian market. In US, Canada etc, everyone has an email and banks allow interactive payments already. I have yet to have a single time where I had problems paying someone for something. Interac etransfer works well. Even iMessage, FB messenger etc allow payments. Other services like PayPal, Stripe, Patreon cover the rest of the base.<p>India is a completely different market. There are millions of people there who don&#x27;t even have a bank account, nor do they have email. The road-side vendors use cash.</text></comment> |
8,420,881 | 8,421,011 | 1 | 2 | 8,420,274 | train | <story><title>SQLite 3.8.7 is 50% faster than 3.7.17</title><url>http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.sqlite.general/90549</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zamalek</author><text>I&#x27;m glad to see something like this. People often take the typical optimization mantra too far. The minute you mention optimization on most internet forums (especially StackOverflow) you get slammed for promoting &quot;premature optimization.&quot;<p>That&#x27;s not to say premature optimization doesn&#x27;t exist. Sometimes writing faster code is the difference between using a hash instead of a list. Sometimes it&#x27;s spending an entire day optimizing a function that&#x27;s called once. The former is performance aware, the later is premature. It seems as though most would have you believe that they both fall into the &quot;premature&quot; bucket.<p>It&#x27;s as though people are using it as an excuse for their personal ignorance and would rather continue to revel in this ignorance than expand what they know. As far as I am concerned these &quot;unimportant tidbits&quot; about performance are gifts that keep giving.<p>&#x2F;somewhat offtopic rant</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grokys</author><text>Yes, but it&#x27;s unlikely that someone asking &quot;is it faster to concatenate strings in C# using the + operator or StringBuilder&quot; on StackOverflow is someone that is writing a low-level database engine like SQLite. In my (totally anecdotal) experience the people who are more concerned about performance are beginners, because that is something that they can grasp, and this is where the &quot;don&#x27;t prematurely optimize&quot; people are coming from. Obviously someone who is writing a low-level database engine knows that performance matters, and likewise, is likely to be running benchmarks rather than asking vague questions on SO.</text></comment> | <story><title>SQLite 3.8.7 is 50% faster than 3.7.17</title><url>http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.sqlite.general/90549</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zamalek</author><text>I&#x27;m glad to see something like this. People often take the typical optimization mantra too far. The minute you mention optimization on most internet forums (especially StackOverflow) you get slammed for promoting &quot;premature optimization.&quot;<p>That&#x27;s not to say premature optimization doesn&#x27;t exist. Sometimes writing faster code is the difference between using a hash instead of a list. Sometimes it&#x27;s spending an entire day optimizing a function that&#x27;s called once. The former is performance aware, the later is premature. It seems as though most would have you believe that they both fall into the &quot;premature&quot; bucket.<p>It&#x27;s as though people are using it as an excuse for their personal ignorance and would rather continue to revel in this ignorance than expand what they know. As far as I am concerned these &quot;unimportant tidbits&quot; about performance are gifts that keep giving.<p>&#x2F;somewhat offtopic rant</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Shog9</author><text>The other response you&#x27;ll see all the time? &quot;Measure it!&quot;<p>Low-level optimization is not a task to be undertaken casually. If you don&#x27;t know where to look, you can end up just wasting a lot of programmer time for zero real-world benefit. If you don&#x27;t measure before <i>and</i> after, you may even make things worse...<p>The SQLite folks didn&#x27;t make these changes with a hope and a prayer; they carefully profiled, changed, and profiled again... And they invested <i>years</i> in building a test suite to ensure that such micro-optimizations don&#x27;t inadvertently break the logic. The results are impressive, but so was the time and effort invested in achieving them. If you&#x27;re not willing to be so diligent, &quot;premature optimization&quot; is exactly what you&#x27;re doing.</text></comment> |
32,550,064 | 32,549,942 | 1 | 2 | 32,549,653 | train | <story><title>Visualizing Toxic Air</title><url>https://www.propublica.org/nerds/visualizing-toxic-air</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nerdponx</author><text>For anyone wondering what value governments provide, it&#x27;s this. Yes, ProPublica is the one who did the analysis and data viz, but the federal government used some of our income taxes to collect this dataset. This is a clear case of the value that governments can provide with your tax money, and something that almost certainly would not be provided (free of charge!) by the free market.</text></comment> | <story><title>Visualizing Toxic Air</title><url>https://www.propublica.org/nerds/visualizing-toxic-air</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jefftk</author><text>The map: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;projects.propublica.org&#x2F;toxmap&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;projects.propublica.org&#x2F;toxmap&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
11,673,688 | 11,673,749 | 1 | 3 | 11,673,103 | train | <story><title>Introducing unlimited private repositories</title><url>https://github.com/blog/2164-introducing-unlimited-private-repositories</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TAForObvReasons</author><text>Can you clarify? Why is Bitbucket &quot;terrible&quot;?</text></item><item><author>teen</author><text>Bitbucket is terrible though, so what does it matter?</text></item><item><author>pron</author><text>Except that now GitHub is 9x more expensive than BitBucket (and for a team under 5 developers, GitHub is $25 vs. BitBucket&#x27;s $0).</text></item><item><author>mrweasel</author><text>We have a tons of repositories, most are currently on BItbucket, because GitHub was to expensive. Only our largest projects are on GitHub. Our team is maybe 8 developers, depending on consultants, interns and other temporary employments, but we have 20 - 30 repos.<p>I think for small companies that do all development in-house, having large number of repos, and few developer is a pretty normal.<p>The way I look at it, GitHub is moving to a model where they assume that the number of employees is more indicative to the amount you can afford to pay, compared to previously where having a large number of repos meant you could pay more.<p>It will certainly help attract smaller businesses to GitHub.</text></item><item><author>arnvald</author><text>A small comparison:<p>Team | Cost Before | Cost Now<p>1 repo, 5 users | $25 | $25<p>1 repo, 10 users | $25 | $70<p>11 repos, 5 users | $50 | $25<p>11 repos, 10 users | $50 | $70<p>5 repos, 50 users | $25 | $430<p>50 repos, 5 users | $100 | $25<p>50 repos, 50 users | $100 | $430<p>I&#x27;m not sure how common are organizations with few users and large number of repose - I guess software houses that keep old projects (for maintenance and future requests from clients) fall into this category, but who else?<p>The other case where it becomes cheaper is personal accounts.<p>In all the other cases - it just looks like a raise of prices.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>me_bx</author><text>He probably means in terms of general usability. This is the reason why I don&#x27;t use bitbucket at all, and I&#x27;m happy to give some money to github in exchange for their service.<p>Bitbucket&#x27;s issue tracker is such a pain to work with. I remember being redirected to a new page whenever I had to create a new tag. Then I&#x27;d loose the content of the issue I had started to write, something like that.</text></comment> | <story><title>Introducing unlimited private repositories</title><url>https://github.com/blog/2164-introducing-unlimited-private-repositories</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TAForObvReasons</author><text>Can you clarify? Why is Bitbucket &quot;terrible&quot;?</text></item><item><author>teen</author><text>Bitbucket is terrible though, so what does it matter?</text></item><item><author>pron</author><text>Except that now GitHub is 9x more expensive than BitBucket (and for a team under 5 developers, GitHub is $25 vs. BitBucket&#x27;s $0).</text></item><item><author>mrweasel</author><text>We have a tons of repositories, most are currently on BItbucket, because GitHub was to expensive. Only our largest projects are on GitHub. Our team is maybe 8 developers, depending on consultants, interns and other temporary employments, but we have 20 - 30 repos.<p>I think for small companies that do all development in-house, having large number of repos, and few developer is a pretty normal.<p>The way I look at it, GitHub is moving to a model where they assume that the number of employees is more indicative to the amount you can afford to pay, compared to previously where having a large number of repos meant you could pay more.<p>It will certainly help attract smaller businesses to GitHub.</text></item><item><author>arnvald</author><text>A small comparison:<p>Team | Cost Before | Cost Now<p>1 repo, 5 users | $25 | $25<p>1 repo, 10 users | $25 | $70<p>11 repos, 5 users | $50 | $25<p>11 repos, 10 users | $50 | $70<p>5 repos, 50 users | $25 | $430<p>50 repos, 5 users | $100 | $25<p>50 repos, 50 users | $100 | $430<p>I&#x27;m not sure how common are organizations with few users and large number of repose - I guess software houses that keep old projects (for maintenance and future requests from clients) fall into this category, but who else?<p>The other case where it becomes cheaper is personal accounts.<p>In all the other cases - it just looks like a raise of prices.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shadowmint</author><text>Dunno, we&#x27;ve had downtime every month for months.<p>Its slow as heck.<p>The UI is clunky.<p>The &#x27;projects&#x27; made it hard to find anything and broke bookmarks.<p>... but the downtime is the killer. Last week was the last one.</text></comment> |
29,469,543 | 29,468,925 | 1 | 2 | 29,465,668 | train | <story><title>CT scans of AirPods evolution</title><url>https://scanofthemonth.com/airpods</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kiwijamo</author><text>Funnily enough the exact same thing happened to my work Macbook. Display just stopped working one day. Work sent it back to Apple to repair which took them a few weeks.<p>I once owned a iBook (back in the PowerPC days) that had to go back to Apple on no less than four different occasions to fix faults. All repaired under AppleCare as I fortunately had the foresight to pay for it at the time of purchase.<p>I&#x27;ve also owned other brands of laptops and I&#x27;ve not had any with the amount nor the severity of faults I&#x27;ve observed on Apple laptops.<p>I write this on my own ex-lease Lenovo X1 Carbon which has survived a 1m drop with a corner hitting a hard surface. Thankfully the only issue is the occasional black&#x2F;darkening of an area of pixels on the lower-right corner of the LCD. I can 100% guarantee if it was a Macbook it would have been the end of it, no question whatsoever (given I&#x27;ve seen Macbook die from much less impact).</text></item><item><author>elzbardico</author><text>This is still the strongest apple advantage: design, engineering and build quality.<p>Recently I wanted to buy a second notebook so I could leave my MBPro at home in trips where I didn&#x27;t want to work, but still had a machine that run linux and windows for some quick idea or even some light gaming.<p>Decided for a Samsung Galaxy Book Pro. Expensive machine, but slightly cheaper than a MacBook Air. good i7 11gen processor, excellent battery life, very light but with surprisingly good thermals, 1tb SSD, but unfortunately no option to have it with more than 16GB RAM.<p>Anyway, was very satisfied with it, and it was so light that I was even booting it with linux and doing some programming on it.<p>But, one day I just opened the lid by the sides, heard a crack, and the gorgeous OLED screen had cracked.<p>Of course I didnt abuse it, I just opened it, without excessive force or speed. But the screen is very fragile, the lid is paper thin, but not rigid enough, it seems, to avoid this problem.<p>And of course, Samsung says it was my fault, and I will have to pay the fix.<p>And yes, I know people have plenty of complaints about apple, but I never had encountered such an obvious problem with an Apple product. Have they not stress-tested this stuff?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hultner</author><text>Actually for further anecdata I’ve dropped several of my MacBook Pros (unibody) from a meter or more, one open from a ladder bumping pretty hard to a few of the bottom steps. And I’ve never gotten more then scratches and bumps in the casing. Additionally I’ve never had Apple Care and the times I’ve had problems Apple have always repaired it free of charge under warranty, including a full battery replacement on my Retina MacBook Pro when it was 3 years old and got the battery service warning.<p>I’ve had the hinge of my old ThinkPad crack after about a year of normal use and been told it’s my fault. I’ve also had multiple screens go bad on my old HP Entreprise laptop&#x2F;mobile workstation. Both of these laptops were more expensive then all the MacBooks I owned prior to them.</text></comment> | <story><title>CT scans of AirPods evolution</title><url>https://scanofthemonth.com/airpods</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kiwijamo</author><text>Funnily enough the exact same thing happened to my work Macbook. Display just stopped working one day. Work sent it back to Apple to repair which took them a few weeks.<p>I once owned a iBook (back in the PowerPC days) that had to go back to Apple on no less than four different occasions to fix faults. All repaired under AppleCare as I fortunately had the foresight to pay for it at the time of purchase.<p>I&#x27;ve also owned other brands of laptops and I&#x27;ve not had any with the amount nor the severity of faults I&#x27;ve observed on Apple laptops.<p>I write this on my own ex-lease Lenovo X1 Carbon which has survived a 1m drop with a corner hitting a hard surface. Thankfully the only issue is the occasional black&#x2F;darkening of an area of pixels on the lower-right corner of the LCD. I can 100% guarantee if it was a Macbook it would have been the end of it, no question whatsoever (given I&#x27;ve seen Macbook die from much less impact).</text></item><item><author>elzbardico</author><text>This is still the strongest apple advantage: design, engineering and build quality.<p>Recently I wanted to buy a second notebook so I could leave my MBPro at home in trips where I didn&#x27;t want to work, but still had a machine that run linux and windows for some quick idea or even some light gaming.<p>Decided for a Samsung Galaxy Book Pro. Expensive machine, but slightly cheaper than a MacBook Air. good i7 11gen processor, excellent battery life, very light but with surprisingly good thermals, 1tb SSD, but unfortunately no option to have it with more than 16GB RAM.<p>Anyway, was very satisfied with it, and it was so light that I was even booting it with linux and doing some programming on it.<p>But, one day I just opened the lid by the sides, heard a crack, and the gorgeous OLED screen had cracked.<p>Of course I didnt abuse it, I just opened it, without excessive force or speed. But the screen is very fragile, the lid is paper thin, but not rigid enough, it seems, to avoid this problem.<p>And of course, Samsung says it was my fault, and I will have to pay the fix.<p>And yes, I know people have plenty of complaints about apple, but I never had encountered such an obvious problem with an Apple product. Have they not stress-tested this stuff?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sundvor</author><text>The engineering of the X1 Carbon is amazing. Durability is a design goal, it even has channels for directing liquid ingress away from the most vulnerable parts. Whilst not a guarantee against failures, it certainly doesn&#x27;t hurt!<p>My own OG X1 Carbon (i7&#x2F;8&#x2F;256) still works today, and, amazingly, receives firmware updates. It is 9 years old.</text></comment> |
15,693,038 | 15,691,843 | 1 | 2 | 15,691,435 | train | <story><title>There are over a billion outdated Android devices in use</title><url>https://danluu.com/android-updates/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>opportune</author><text>The flipside of this is that developers are forced to support versions of their apps that are compatible with previous operating systems. That&#x27;s bad for developers, but good for consumers.<p>iPhones shove updates down your throat as a user. They&#x27;re so persistent that inevitably most people will accept the new update - and even if you&#x27;re stubborn like me, eventually your apps will no longer be supported under the newer OS&#x27;s, and you are forced to update to keep using them. The problem is that the OS upgrades invariably slow down older phones, so even if you&#x27;re perfectly happy with your iPhone to begin with, it starts to act slow as it gets the newer OS&#x27;s. It&#x27;s good that Android users can at least avoid this particular kind of planned obsolescence</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>urda</author><text>&gt; iPhones shove updates down your throat as a user.<p>And we have the monster that was Windows XP because of users thinking &quot;updates&quot; are &quot;forced&quot; down throats.<p>iOS is correctly celebrated for having such a high adoption of the &quot;latest and greatest&quot;, and certainly hasn&#x27;t become the demon that is the unpatched Android landscape.<p>So thankfully, from NetSec to the end user, it&#x27;s a <i>fantastic</i> thing that iOS keeps devices more up to date than android.</text></comment> | <story><title>There are over a billion outdated Android devices in use</title><url>https://danluu.com/android-updates/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>opportune</author><text>The flipside of this is that developers are forced to support versions of their apps that are compatible with previous operating systems. That&#x27;s bad for developers, but good for consumers.<p>iPhones shove updates down your throat as a user. They&#x27;re so persistent that inevitably most people will accept the new update - and even if you&#x27;re stubborn like me, eventually your apps will no longer be supported under the newer OS&#x27;s, and you are forced to update to keep using them. The problem is that the OS upgrades invariably slow down older phones, so even if you&#x27;re perfectly happy with your iPhone to begin with, it starts to act slow as it gets the newer OS&#x27;s. It&#x27;s good that Android users can at least avoid this particular kind of planned obsolescence</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>userbinator</author><text><i>That&#x27;s bad for developers, but good for consumers.</i><p>Is it? I&#x27;m a developer --- <i>and</i> a consumer, as are most --- and have always kept to the principle of as much compatibility as possible, mostly by not gorging on new features for the sake of new features, and a &quot;do what you can with what you have&quot; approach. To me, spending a little extra effort to get much more compatibility is well worth it, since I&#x27;ve been on &quot;the other side&quot; and know the horrible experience of not being able to use something just because the developer didn&#x27;t bother to think about anything but the &quot;new and shiny&quot;; that seems to be something a lot of developers completely ignore or even oppose.</text></comment> |
10,157,143 | 10,155,248 | 1 | 3 | 10,154,367 | train | <story><title>Categories for Programmers: The Yoneda Lemma</title><url>http://bartoszmilewski.com/2015/09/01/the-yoneda-lemma/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jonnybgood</author><text>This reminded of an OCamlers critique of Haskell [1], which I think raises a very good point:<p><i>Yoneda-crazy: I know Haskell, I know some category theory, but I am highly sceptical that teaching the Yoneda Lemma to C++ programmers is actually useful in any way. I am the first to applaud the idea of scientific curiosity, of learning fun stuff of unclear usefulness just for the fun of it, but I think that a few excellent writers and tinkerers have given the Haskell community as a whole (and the foreigners that receive some of its TV shows by satellite) the wrong impression that the theoretical underpinning of typed functional programming is category theory. I would say that (1) it&#x27;s a gross over-simplification of what the theory of typed functional programming is about, emphasizing a small part of it that has enabled some people to do very interesting things and (2) it is highly likely to be absolutely useless to an overwhelming large majority of the readers of such popularization material. Category Theory is fashionable these days, and I find the fashion aspect irritating -- it may be that I&#x27;m just bitter? I&#x27;m worried that we may have a backslash at some point when, you know, people realize that unless your initials are E.K. you are wasting your time thinking about the co-density transformation. On the other hand, this category circus has been going on for years, and I believe nobody has been hurt so far, so maybe it&#x27;s just fine. </i><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;ocaml&#x2F;comments&#x2F;3ifwe9&#x2F;what_are_ocamlers_critiques_of_haskell&#x2F;cugbbbw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;ocaml&#x2F;comments&#x2F;3ifwe9&#x2F;what_are_ocam...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Categories for Programmers: The Yoneda Lemma</title><url>http://bartoszmilewski.com/2015/09/01/the-yoneda-lemma/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mordocai</author><text>Started reading this, was confused, thought &quot;WTH this is for programmers(not computer scientists)?&quot;. Then realized it is part 14. Oh well, guess I need to start at part 1...</text></comment> |
908,120 | 907,674 | 1 | 2 | 907,617 | train | <story><title>Want 50Mbps Internet in your town? Threaten to roll out your own</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/10/want-50mbps-internet-in-your-town-threaten-to-roll-out-your-own.ars</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text>Speaking as somebody on satellite, and not happy about it, there are two parts to this problem.<p>Part one is connecting fiber to every house back to some centralized switching station. This part can, and should, be financed and regulated by government in much the same way power lines are.<p>Part two is what happens at the switching stations -- who controls the service and bandwidth to the homes. This part should be as free and open as possible, and each home should have at <i>least</i> three available services competing for its business.<p>We seem to lump all of these problems together when we talk about the problem of internet connectivity. I don't know why. Maybe it's just easier that way. But it obfuscates certain parts of the discussion.<p>For instance, in this story things got very interesting once two suppliers were competing to connect fiber. Why? Because whoever connected the fiber would run the service, ie, have the business. It shows that as things stand, you physically have to be willing and able to take the fiber right into the house to make the current monopolistic providers increase their service.</text></comment> | <story><title>Want 50Mbps Internet in your town? Threaten to roll out your own</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/10/want-50mbps-internet-in-your-town-threaten-to-roll-out-your-own.ars</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nuclear_eclipse</author><text>And as I found out first hand, if the only internet provider in town starts to roll out bandwidth caps, just raise a ruckus until your senator drops legislation on the table banning caps, and then watch your ISP become a sour grape and refuse to roll out DOCSIS3 in retaliation...<p>Internet really needs to become a public utility operated by the city/state on cost, rather than to line the pockets of greedy corporations...</text></comment> |
24,917,602 | 24,917,425 | 1 | 3 | 24,915,887 | train | <story><title>When will web browsers be complete?</title><url>https://gist.github.com/lf94/ad72f1da36fbc965e4a1d4daeb1d6cb3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>&gt; <i>This essay could&#x27;ve been written in 2002...about Internet Explorer.</i><p>I&#x27;ve been reading a whitepaper from ~1997 on Microsoft&#x27;s Distributed COM (DCOM) last night, and as I was reading it, I couldn&#x27;t stop thinking: this is microservices. And it was really more than that - at least on the surface, this was microservices + orchestration + autoscaling + serverless, as well as, via Internet Explorer, component-based UIs with graceful degradation. That paper seems like a window to an alternate reality in which everything that&#x27;s currently hot in tech has been done 20 years ago, except programming language-agnostic, using saner (i.e. binary) protocols, offline-first, and with advanced security built in from the start. I don&#x27;t know why this is not our &quot;real&quot; reality, but I finally understand why MS was in a dominant position back then, and why IE was a hot thing.<p>EDIT: for the curious, the mentioned whitepaper is: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.softwaretoolbox.com&#x2F;dcom&#x2F;DCOM%20Technical%20Overview.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.softwaretoolbox.com&#x2F;dcom&#x2F;DCOM%20Technical%20Over...</a>.</text></item><item><author>madrox</author><text>When this essay started with &quot;As someone who has used the Web since 2007&quot; I immediately felt old, so thanks for that. As someone who has been using the Web since 1994 (and I feel like I was late to the game), I can assure the author their perspective has a lot of recency bias and this isn&#x27;t something to worry about, in the general sense. Or worry about it, because it already happened a while ago. Take your pick.<p>Local operating systems, which this essay says is the gold standard of feature sets, are not standing still. If you think of how long it will take for browsers to reach current parity, go back that amount of time and see how far the OS has come.<p>But let&#x27;s consider, for a moment, that browsers catch up. Let&#x27;s just look at native development in general, since this has had access to all local OS features since before the web. Has that never changed? It&#x27;s changing all the time. We&#x27;re finding higher abstractions to work with. We&#x27;re making it easier. I highly doubt Grid and Flexbox as they exist today will still be how web layout works in 20 years.<p>Google isn&#x27;t even the first to scare the world. This essay could&#x27;ve been written in 2002...about Internet Explorer. Stop laughing. It held even more dominance than Chrome does today, and was closed source. Somehow we survived...which is good, because VRML sucked.<p>However, even with all that aside, people have been rolling their own browsers for years. People fork chromium today. The dark web exists. Maybe in 20 years lots of people will be streaming everything from a private cloud supercomputer vis-a-vis Stadia. The internet is no more homogeneous than all the people of the world. Everyone is finding new ways to access it all the time. This is why open standards are more important than browsers. It means anyone can build their own at any time based on the documentation and it can all read the same documents.<p>So I wouldn&#x27;t worry about this coming to pass in quite the way you think. Though running your browser in a VM isn&#x27;t the worst idea.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AnIdiotOnTheNet</author><text>&gt; That paper seems like a window to an alternate reality in which everything that&#x27;s currently hot in tech has been done 20 years ago, except programming language-agnostic, using saner (i.e. binary) protocols, offline-first, and with advanced security built in from the start.<p>Honestly this happens all the time. Not only do we seem to reinvent the wheel but we almost invariably reinvent it worse. Take &#x27;dark mode&#x27; for instance. Everybody lauds that they can switch to a different theme that they feel is easier on their eyes, apparently oblivious to the fact that we could do that in Windows 95 with significantly greater and more granular control at the OS level. This industry is overrun with complexity fetishists who keep piling on more and more abstractions and calling it progress when they manage to catch up with the less-abstracted past.</text></comment> | <story><title>When will web browsers be complete?</title><url>https://gist.github.com/lf94/ad72f1da36fbc965e4a1d4daeb1d6cb3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>&gt; <i>This essay could&#x27;ve been written in 2002...about Internet Explorer.</i><p>I&#x27;ve been reading a whitepaper from ~1997 on Microsoft&#x27;s Distributed COM (DCOM) last night, and as I was reading it, I couldn&#x27;t stop thinking: this is microservices. And it was really more than that - at least on the surface, this was microservices + orchestration + autoscaling + serverless, as well as, via Internet Explorer, component-based UIs with graceful degradation. That paper seems like a window to an alternate reality in which everything that&#x27;s currently hot in tech has been done 20 years ago, except programming language-agnostic, using saner (i.e. binary) protocols, offline-first, and with advanced security built in from the start. I don&#x27;t know why this is not our &quot;real&quot; reality, but I finally understand why MS was in a dominant position back then, and why IE was a hot thing.<p>EDIT: for the curious, the mentioned whitepaper is: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.softwaretoolbox.com&#x2F;dcom&#x2F;DCOM%20Technical%20Overview.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.softwaretoolbox.com&#x2F;dcom&#x2F;DCOM%20Technical%20Over...</a>.</text></item><item><author>madrox</author><text>When this essay started with &quot;As someone who has used the Web since 2007&quot; I immediately felt old, so thanks for that. As someone who has been using the Web since 1994 (and I feel like I was late to the game), I can assure the author their perspective has a lot of recency bias and this isn&#x27;t something to worry about, in the general sense. Or worry about it, because it already happened a while ago. Take your pick.<p>Local operating systems, which this essay says is the gold standard of feature sets, are not standing still. If you think of how long it will take for browsers to reach current parity, go back that amount of time and see how far the OS has come.<p>But let&#x27;s consider, for a moment, that browsers catch up. Let&#x27;s just look at native development in general, since this has had access to all local OS features since before the web. Has that never changed? It&#x27;s changing all the time. We&#x27;re finding higher abstractions to work with. We&#x27;re making it easier. I highly doubt Grid and Flexbox as they exist today will still be how web layout works in 20 years.<p>Google isn&#x27;t even the first to scare the world. This essay could&#x27;ve been written in 2002...about Internet Explorer. Stop laughing. It held even more dominance than Chrome does today, and was closed source. Somehow we survived...which is good, because VRML sucked.<p>However, even with all that aside, people have been rolling their own browsers for years. People fork chromium today. The dark web exists. Maybe in 20 years lots of people will be streaming everything from a private cloud supercomputer vis-a-vis Stadia. The internet is no more homogeneous than all the people of the world. Everyone is finding new ways to access it all the time. This is why open standards are more important than browsers. It means anyone can build their own at any time based on the documentation and it can all read the same documents.<p>So I wouldn&#x27;t worry about this coming to pass in quite the way you think. Though running your browser in a VM isn&#x27;t the worst idea.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>projektfu</author><text>The thing holding DCOM back was that the protocol was closed source and unspecified. It’s very difficult to make Microsoft’s version of DCE RPC work with other implementations let alone their proprietary object extensions.<p>If they had wanted interoperability, they could have implemented something more standards based as IBM did with SOM. But requiring Windows for all parts of distributed systems is very limiting.</text></comment> |
2,386,142 | 2,385,204 | 1 | 2 | 2,383,857 | train | <story><title>How not to protect against SQL injection (view source)</title><url>http://www.cadw.wales.gov.uk/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mixmax</author><text>No offense, but I think you're a tad paranoid. If I was a mechanic and I saw someone at a gasstation driving a car that was obviously dangerous because of some kind of bad fixup I would tell him. This is no different, and I don't expect anyone to sue me for that.<p>Here's the mail I sent:<p>Hi there,<p>It appears that you have some pretty severe security problems on your site. This is a heads up so you can get it fixed. I would recommend doing so ASAP.<p>Your site has been posted to hacker news (which is a friendly programming site for start-up people and nerds) as an example of bad security practices. The link is here: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2383857" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2383857</a><p>It has also been posted to Reddit, which might be more of a problem since that site has a lot of 14 year old bored teens hanging around that know just enough about programming to do a lot of damage... Link: <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/gdviz/how_not_to_guard_against_sql_injections_view/" rel="nofollow">http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/gdviz/how_not_t...</a><p>It appears that your site is easy to compromise, which might lead to anything from defacement to someone stealing all your content, usernames, passwords, etc.<p>I have nothing to do with these postings, I just don't like to see innocent sites get in trouble, hence this mail. Feel free to contact me if you need anything or have questions.<p>Hope you get it fixed before someone breaks it.<p>Yours,<p>Max</text></item><item><author>derleth</author><text>If you're lucky, you aren't in the UK so they won't be able to arrest you instantly on the hacking charges.<p>If you're very lucky, the place you are in won't honor their demands for extradition on the hacking charges.</text></item><item><author>mixmax</author><text>I just fired off an e-mail to point out that they have a potentially serious security problem and they should get it fixed ASAP.<p>I see this as a civic duty, and think that this is the kind of action you're required to perform if you see a serious problem. Writing an e-mail takes ten seconds, but the potential damage could well cost serious money.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nowarninglabel</author><text>I wouldn't say they were paranoid. A few months back I showed a colleague what looked like the openings of a very serious data leak in a major company's site. He investigated further and then reported it up through the chain of command and then over to the company. At no point did he do anything other than what was done here, as in point out a publicly visible security flaw. He was nearly fired after the company threatened to sue. The company only relented when he agreed to keep quiet and his employers disciplined him. The employers didn't back him up. All this for solely reporting a flaw, absolutely zero use of said flaw.<p>I lost a lot of my faith in humanity that day.</text></comment> | <story><title>How not to protect against SQL injection (view source)</title><url>http://www.cadw.wales.gov.uk/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mixmax</author><text>No offense, but I think you're a tad paranoid. If I was a mechanic and I saw someone at a gasstation driving a car that was obviously dangerous because of some kind of bad fixup I would tell him. This is no different, and I don't expect anyone to sue me for that.<p>Here's the mail I sent:<p>Hi there,<p>It appears that you have some pretty severe security problems on your site. This is a heads up so you can get it fixed. I would recommend doing so ASAP.<p>Your site has been posted to hacker news (which is a friendly programming site for start-up people and nerds) as an example of bad security practices. The link is here: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2383857" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2383857</a><p>It has also been posted to Reddit, which might be more of a problem since that site has a lot of 14 year old bored teens hanging around that know just enough about programming to do a lot of damage... Link: <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/gdviz/how_not_to_guard_against_sql_injections_view/" rel="nofollow">http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/gdviz/how_not_t...</a><p>It appears that your site is easy to compromise, which might lead to anything from defacement to someone stealing all your content, usernames, passwords, etc.<p>I have nothing to do with these postings, I just don't like to see innocent sites get in trouble, hence this mail. Feel free to contact me if you need anything or have questions.<p>Hope you get it fixed before someone breaks it.<p>Yours,<p>Max</text></item><item><author>derleth</author><text>If you're lucky, you aren't in the UK so they won't be able to arrest you instantly on the hacking charges.<p>If you're very lucky, the place you are in won't honor their demands for extradition on the hacking charges.</text></item><item><author>mixmax</author><text>I just fired off an e-mail to point out that they have a potentially serious security problem and they should get it fixed ASAP.<p>I see this as a civic duty, and think that this is the kind of action you're required to perform if you see a serious problem. Writing an e-mail takes ten seconds, but the potential damage could well cost serious money.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Stormbringer</author><text>I've got $10 riding on "they see the word Hacker in 'Hacker News' and start freaking out". :D<p>Oh, <i>I</i> understand the word hacker in all its culturally and context relevant forms, and <i>you</i> understand the word hacker, but <i>they</i> do not understand the word hacker. :-(</text></comment> |
27,129,696 | 27,129,854 | 1 | 2 | 27,128,831 | train | <story><title>Volvo and Daimler bet on hydrogen truck boom this decade</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/05/volvo-and-daimler-bet-on-hydrogen-truck-boom-this-decade/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kasperni</author><text>The main thing hydrogen has going for it is the stored energy by weight which is around 142 MJ&#x2F;kg. Lithium batteries are less than 1 MJ&#x2F;kg. So around a factory 200x difference. Ir you want to find something better than hydrogen energy&#x2F;kg wise you have to go nuclear.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SigmundA</author><text>Look at volume instead of weight. Hydrogen is only 8 MJ&#x2F;L in liquid form vs 38MJ&#x2F;L for Diesel. Think of the space needed in the vehicle.<p>Next creating liquid hydrogen is a very energy intensive process compared to refining diesel.<p>Next energy in lithium batteries is converted to mechanical energy with +90% efficiency in a modern electrical motor. Fuel cells just like combustion engines are only 40-60%.</text></comment> | <story><title>Volvo and Daimler bet on hydrogen truck boom this decade</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/05/volvo-and-daimler-bet-on-hydrogen-truck-boom-this-decade/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kasperni</author><text>The main thing hydrogen has going for it is the stored energy by weight which is around 142 MJ&#x2F;kg. Lithium batteries are less than 1 MJ&#x2F;kg. So around a factory 200x difference. Ir you want to find something better than hydrogen energy&#x2F;kg wise you have to go nuclear.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davidrm</author><text>Yes, but that&#x27;s not the e2e efficiency of the hydrogen powertrain, a 120kW hydrogen stack found in Hyundai Nexo is as big as an average petrol engine and its energy efficiency is somewhere around 45%, so it&#x27;s not only the hydrogen tanks and the hydrogen inside it. If we&#x27;re going to analyze the volumetric and mass efficiency and compare it to a BEV, then we need to take everything into the account.<p>Majority of hydrogen produced is made from processing oil, the energy efficiency of &quot;green&quot; hydrogen (electrolysis) is very poor and thus expensive.<p>I believe there&#x27;s a strong chance of using hydrogen for long haul type of transportation, however, there are a lot of misconceptions about the technology and its general practicality.</text></comment> |
27,430,688 | 27,430,356 | 1 | 3 | 27,420,673 | train | <story><title>Jailbroken iOS can't run macOS apps. I spent a week to find out why</title><url>https://worthdoingbadly.com/macappsios/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rubyfan</author><text>I sort of wonder if they are going in the opposite direction. iOS on Mac seems like where they headed.</text></item><item><author>mmastrac</author><text>This is a wild ride - interesting to see how far apart they are. If Apple was planning on ever running OSX on iPads and time soon, you&#x27;d imagine that some of these differences would have been smoothed over already.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chipotle_coyote</author><text>I wrote about why I think that&#x27;s exceedingly unlikely back in April, knowing that there was a chance I&#x27;d be proven wrong just two months later (i.e., today). I wasn&#x27;t.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;micro.coyotetracks.org&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;21&#x2F;the-mac-and.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;micro.coyotetracks.org&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;21&#x2F;the-mac-and.html</a><p>My argument from there is that Apple has been demonstrating a consistent philosophy since the start of the iPad:<p>- Macs are general purpose computers<p>- iPads&#x2F;iPhones are application consoles, analogous to game consoles<p>That philosophy doesn&#x27;t preclude securing macOS in annoying ways, but it <i>does</i> preclude locking down macOS like iOS. The notion that Apple would force all Mac apps to be installed from the App Store because it would increase their revenue simply doesn&#x27;t hold water, because, as I noted then, the Venn diagram of &quot;users likely to walk over such a change&quot; and &quot;users likely to spend boggling amounts of money on Apple hardware&quot; is close to a perfect circle. Even if that&#x27;s only a few percent of those high-ticket users, that&#x27;s literally millions of lost unit sales.<p>Furthermore, I stand by my thoughts then that if Apple was ever going to try such a radical move, it would have been last year, with the introduction of Apple Silicon and the relatively radical redesign brought by macOS Big Sur.<p>The flip side of this philosophy, though, is that we&#x27;re probably not going to ever see iOS open the way macOS is any more than they must for technical, market, or regulatory reasons.<p>My suspicion is that in the long run there&#x27;s a new OS that will replace both macOS and iPadOS, and at that point, all bets may be off. But I don&#x27;t think we&#x27;re going to see that within the next few years.</text></comment> | <story><title>Jailbroken iOS can't run macOS apps. I spent a week to find out why</title><url>https://worthdoingbadly.com/macappsios/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rubyfan</author><text>I sort of wonder if they are going in the opposite direction. iOS on Mac seems like where they headed.</text></item><item><author>mmastrac</author><text>This is a wild ride - interesting to see how far apart they are. If Apple was planning on ever running OSX on iPads and time soon, you&#x27;d imagine that some of these differences would have been smoothed over already.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arthurcolle</author><text>Nightmare scenario</text></comment> |
35,065,152 | 35,057,251 | 1 | 3 | 35,055,843 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Bearer – Open-source code security scanning solution (SAST)</title><text>Hi HN,<p>we’re the co-founders of Bearer, and today we launch an open-source alternative to code security solutions such as Snyk Code, SonarQube, or Checkmarx. Essentially, we help security &amp; engineering teams to discover, filter and prioritize security risks and vulnerabilities in their codebase, with a unique approach through sensitive data (PII, PD, PHI).<p>Our website is at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bearer.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bearer.com</a> and our GitHub is here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bearer&#x2F;bearer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bearer&#x2F;bearer</a><p>We are not originally Security experts but have been software developers and engineering leaders for over 15 years now, and we thought we could provide a new perspective to security products with a strong emphasis on the developer experience, something we often found lacking for security tools.<p>In addition to building a true developer-friendly security solution, we’ve also heard a lot of teams complaining about how noisy their static code security solutions are. As a result, they often have difficulties triaging the most important issues, and ultimately it’s difficult to remediate them. We believe an important part of the problem lies in the fact that we lack a clear understanding of the real impact of any security issues. Without that understanding, it’s very difficult to ask developers to remediate critical security flaws.<p>We’ve built a unique approach to this problem, by looking at the impact of security issues through the lens of sensitive data. Interestingly, most security team ultimate responsibility today is to secure those sensitive data and protect their organization from costly data loss and leakage, but until today, that connection has never been made.<p>In practical terms, we provide a set of rules that assess the variety of ways known code vulnerabilities (CWE) ultimately impact your application security, and we reconcile it with your sensitive data flows. At the time of this writing, Bearer provides over 100 rules.<p>Here are some examples of what those rules can detect:
- Leakage of sensitive data through cookies, internal loggers, third-party logging services, and into analytics environments.
- Non-filtered user input that can lead to breaches of sensitive information.
- Usage of weak encryption libraries or misusage of encryption algorithms.
- Unencrypted incoming and outgoing communication (HTTP, FTP, SMTP) of sensitive information.
- Hard-coded secrets and tokens.
- And many you can find see here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.bearer.com&#x2F;reference&#x2F;rules&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.bearer.com&#x2F;reference&#x2F;rules&#x2F;</a><p>Rules are easily extendable to allow you to create your own, everything is YAML based. For example, some of our early users used this system to detect the leakage of sensitive data in their backup environments or missing application-level encryption of their health data.<p>I’m sure you are wondering how can we detect sensitive data flows just by looking at the code. Essentially, we also perform static code analysis to detect those. In a nutshell, we look for those sensitive data flows at two levels:
- Analyzing class names, methods, functions, variables, properties, and attributes. It then ties those together to detected data structures. It does variable reconciliation etc.
- Analyzing data structure definitions files such as OpenAPI, SQL, GraphQL, and Protobuf.<p>Then we pass this over to a classification engine that assess 120+ data types from sensitive data categories such as Personal Data (PD), Sensitive PD, Personally identifiable information (PII), and Personal Health Information (PHI). All of that is documented here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.bearer.com&#x2F;explanations&#x2F;discovery-and-classification&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.bearer.com&#x2F;explanations&#x2F;discovery-and-classific...</a><p>As we said before, developer experience is key, that’s why you can install Bearer in 15 seconds, from cURL, Homebrew, apt-get, yum, or as a docker image. Then you run it as a CLI locally, or as part of your CI&#x2F;CD.<p>We currently support JavaScript and Ruby stacks, but more will follow shortly!<p>Please let us know what you think and check out the repo here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Bearer&#x2F;bearer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Bearer&#x2F;bearer</a></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>Vote manipulation is against HN&#x27;s rules and will get you banned here, so please don&#x27;t do it again.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;g_montard&#x2F;status&#x2F;1633119734991405058" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;g_montard&#x2F;status&#x2F;1633119734991405058</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;g_montard&#x2F;status&#x2F;1633119274838392841" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;g_montard&#x2F;status&#x2F;1633119274838392841</a><p>This is the one point that&#x27;s in both the site guidelines and the FAQ:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsfaq.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsfaq.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Bearer – Open-source code security scanning solution (SAST)</title><text>Hi HN,<p>we’re the co-founders of Bearer, and today we launch an open-source alternative to code security solutions such as Snyk Code, SonarQube, or Checkmarx. Essentially, we help security &amp; engineering teams to discover, filter and prioritize security risks and vulnerabilities in their codebase, with a unique approach through sensitive data (PII, PD, PHI).<p>Our website is at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bearer.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bearer.com</a> and our GitHub is here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bearer&#x2F;bearer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bearer&#x2F;bearer</a><p>We are not originally Security experts but have been software developers and engineering leaders for over 15 years now, and we thought we could provide a new perspective to security products with a strong emphasis on the developer experience, something we often found lacking for security tools.<p>In addition to building a true developer-friendly security solution, we’ve also heard a lot of teams complaining about how noisy their static code security solutions are. As a result, they often have difficulties triaging the most important issues, and ultimately it’s difficult to remediate them. We believe an important part of the problem lies in the fact that we lack a clear understanding of the real impact of any security issues. Without that understanding, it’s very difficult to ask developers to remediate critical security flaws.<p>We’ve built a unique approach to this problem, by looking at the impact of security issues through the lens of sensitive data. Interestingly, most security team ultimate responsibility today is to secure those sensitive data and protect their organization from costly data loss and leakage, but until today, that connection has never been made.<p>In practical terms, we provide a set of rules that assess the variety of ways known code vulnerabilities (CWE) ultimately impact your application security, and we reconcile it with your sensitive data flows. At the time of this writing, Bearer provides over 100 rules.<p>Here are some examples of what those rules can detect:
- Leakage of sensitive data through cookies, internal loggers, third-party logging services, and into analytics environments.
- Non-filtered user input that can lead to breaches of sensitive information.
- Usage of weak encryption libraries or misusage of encryption algorithms.
- Unencrypted incoming and outgoing communication (HTTP, FTP, SMTP) of sensitive information.
- Hard-coded secrets and tokens.
- And many you can find see here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.bearer.com&#x2F;reference&#x2F;rules&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.bearer.com&#x2F;reference&#x2F;rules&#x2F;</a><p>Rules are easily extendable to allow you to create your own, everything is YAML based. For example, some of our early users used this system to detect the leakage of sensitive data in their backup environments or missing application-level encryption of their health data.<p>I’m sure you are wondering how can we detect sensitive data flows just by looking at the code. Essentially, we also perform static code analysis to detect those. In a nutshell, we look for those sensitive data flows at two levels:
- Analyzing class names, methods, functions, variables, properties, and attributes. It then ties those together to detected data structures. It does variable reconciliation etc.
- Analyzing data structure definitions files such as OpenAPI, SQL, GraphQL, and Protobuf.<p>Then we pass this over to a classification engine that assess 120+ data types from sensitive data categories such as Personal Data (PD), Sensitive PD, Personally identifiable information (PII), and Personal Health Information (PHI). All of that is documented here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.bearer.com&#x2F;explanations&#x2F;discovery-and-classification&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.bearer.com&#x2F;explanations&#x2F;discovery-and-classific...</a><p>As we said before, developer experience is key, that’s why you can install Bearer in 15 seconds, from cURL, Homebrew, apt-get, yum, or as a docker image. Then you run it as a CLI locally, or as part of your CI&#x2F;CD.<p>We currently support JavaScript and Ruby stacks, but more will follow shortly!<p>Please let us know what you think and check out the repo here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Bearer&#x2F;bearer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Bearer&#x2F;bearer</a></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mdaniel</author><text>Elastic 2, for those who care about such things: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Bearer&#x2F;bearer&#x2F;blob&#x2F;v1.0.0&#x2F;LICENSE.txt">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Bearer&#x2F;bearer&#x2F;blob&#x2F;v1.0.0&#x2F;LICENSE.txt</a></text></comment> |
28,134,539 | 28,134,217 | 1 | 2 | 28,133,017 | train | <story><title>TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/TikTok-overtakes-Facebook-as-world-s-most-downloaded-app</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reggieband</author><text>I like to think of TikTok as the crack cocaine of addictive social media. I used to think my dopamine receptors were burned out by the constant barrage of memes I received from reddit, Facebook and Twitter but TikTok proves they can refine that product to make it even more potent.<p>When I visit reddit now it feels behind in the same way Facebook used to feel behind. Facebook&#x27;s video feature (which they shove into my feed as the third or fourth card during scrolling) is 90% stuff stolen from and that I already saw a few days ago on TikTok. But absent their algorithm it isn&#x27;t nearly as effective.<p>I often have to remind myself how good TikTok&#x27;s algorithm is. After using it for just a couple of days I can tell it knows more about me than I am comfortable with, even though I just scroll the FYP (For You Page) without logging into an account. The unbelievably narrow category of content it serves me clearly panders to my personality in a way that almost lets me believe I have a majority opinion. It creates a nearly perfectly personally tailored media bubble.<p>A lot of people from my generation (Gen X) and even from the older Millennial&#x27;s don&#x27;t use it, thinking it is just for the kids. That is probably for the best. If you are susceptible to media addiction I suggest never downloading it. TikTok: Not Even Once.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cruano</author><text>&gt; I like to think of TikTok as the crack cocaine of addictive social media.<p>I&#x27;d compare it more to something like coffee, somehow every time I leave TikTok I&#x27;m happier than I was before. This did not happen with Facebook, Instagram, etc.</text></comment> | <story><title>TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/TikTok-overtakes-Facebook-as-world-s-most-downloaded-app</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>reggieband</author><text>I like to think of TikTok as the crack cocaine of addictive social media. I used to think my dopamine receptors were burned out by the constant barrage of memes I received from reddit, Facebook and Twitter but TikTok proves they can refine that product to make it even more potent.<p>When I visit reddit now it feels behind in the same way Facebook used to feel behind. Facebook&#x27;s video feature (which they shove into my feed as the third or fourth card during scrolling) is 90% stuff stolen from and that I already saw a few days ago on TikTok. But absent their algorithm it isn&#x27;t nearly as effective.<p>I often have to remind myself how good TikTok&#x27;s algorithm is. After using it for just a couple of days I can tell it knows more about me than I am comfortable with, even though I just scroll the FYP (For You Page) without logging into an account. The unbelievably narrow category of content it serves me clearly panders to my personality in a way that almost lets me believe I have a majority opinion. It creates a nearly perfectly personally tailored media bubble.<p>A lot of people from my generation (Gen X) and even from the older Millennial&#x27;s don&#x27;t use it, thinking it is just for the kids. That is probably for the best. If you are susceptible to media addiction I suggest never downloading it. TikTok: Not Even Once.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smoldesu</author><text>&gt;I like to think of TikTok as the crack cocaine of addictive social media.<p>&gt;If you are susceptible to media addiction I suggest never downloading it.<p>These are the two big takeaways I&#x27;ve had from using the app for a day. Everything about it is designed to be a sinkhole, like a modern casino where they&#x27;re gambling with your attention. I know a lot of people who use Facebook&#x2F;Instagram&#x2F;TikTok compulsively, and it ruins them to a degree. I think (or hope, at least) the future is headed towards more personal communique (a-la Discord, Slack, Matrix, etc.)</text></comment> |
23,903,225 | 23,901,628 | 1 | 2 | 23,897,705 | train | <story><title>Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure called “Cloudflare”</title><url>https://easydns.com/blog/2020/07/20/turns-out-half-the-internet-has-a-single-point-of-failure-called-cloudflare/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>renewiltord</author><text>It&#x27;s a bit of a sad story, but maybe you&#x27;ll like this read about one of the guys who laid the foundation for their tech and his sad decline: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;lee-holloway-devastating-decline-brilliant-young-coder&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;lee-holloway-devastating-decline...</a><p>I really liked the stories of his skill when he was in his prime. Very inspiring.</text></item><item><author>morrbo</author><text>II love cloudflare. It has really helped out with several sites&#x2F;projects that I have worked on and the service is top notch. I am also an investor. I tend to invest in stuff which I use a lot or trust&#x2F;respect the employees. Weirdly what made me really invest is the level of geekiness on the company. I remember seeing you guys using a lava lamp wall to generate entropy and just thought &quot;that&#x27;s awesome&quot;. I just wanted to say don&#x27;t change. Your lz4 implementation, aes gcm golang optimizations have directly benefitted me. Coupled with really high quality post mortem articles, articles on interesting things like compression, encryption, networking, a few random articles (the privacy focussed file system recently comes to mind, written at the same time I was making my own distributed fs) just leave me with a lot of respect for the culture there.<p>I was worried a bit when I saw the initial IPO that the free tier would leave (despite promises it wouldn&#x27;t) but that doesn&#x27;t seem to be the case. Literally the only bad thing I&#x27;ve seen on the site is recently you switched from recaptcha to a new one that I had a real tough time with logging in today - it was a bit glitchy on my pc. The only suggestion I thought of as well would be a simple &quot;maintenance mode&quot; similar to the &quot;I&#x27;m under attack mode&quot; which would allow those of us without super-ha to quickly toggle on something to pop up a &quot;sorry server&quot;&#x2F;site is down form maintenance page without having to mess with our proxies&#x2F;web servers.<p>Anyway I know this comes across as totally kissing-ass but I just wanted to say thanks to someone who actually works there. Everyone fat fingers stuff every now and again,don&#x27;t sweat it.</text></item><item><author>jgrahamc</author><text>Read our S-1, it&#x27;s all in there.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sec.gov&#x2F;Archives&#x2F;edgar&#x2F;data&#x2F;1477333&#x2F;000119312519222176&#x2F;d735023ds1.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sec.gov&#x2F;Archives&#x2F;edgar&#x2F;data&#x2F;1477333&#x2F;000119312519...</a></text></item><item><author>michaelbuckbee</author><text>Honest question: I&#x27;ve never really understood the back of the napkin math of how Cloudflare functions economically, which I feel would go a long way towards my understanding of why&#x2F;how they were able to become such an integral and generally positive part of the Internet.<p>Did they have some crazy in to get cheap bandwidth? Did they bet big on bandwidth prices falling? Did they figure something else out that nobody saw? Do they just to a tremendous job of migrating sites from free to paid plans?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ksec</author><text>I dont know how I missed the Cloudflare IPO and this Story. So thanks for posting it. Extremely good writing, though the story was very sad.<p>I wonder if there are any relationship between FTD and how clever a person or how much brain a person uses.</text></comment> | <story><title>Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure called “Cloudflare”</title><url>https://easydns.com/blog/2020/07/20/turns-out-half-the-internet-has-a-single-point-of-failure-called-cloudflare/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>renewiltord</author><text>It&#x27;s a bit of a sad story, but maybe you&#x27;ll like this read about one of the guys who laid the foundation for their tech and his sad decline: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;lee-holloway-devastating-decline-brilliant-young-coder&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;lee-holloway-devastating-decline...</a><p>I really liked the stories of his skill when he was in his prime. Very inspiring.</text></item><item><author>morrbo</author><text>II love cloudflare. It has really helped out with several sites&#x2F;projects that I have worked on and the service is top notch. I am also an investor. I tend to invest in stuff which I use a lot or trust&#x2F;respect the employees. Weirdly what made me really invest is the level of geekiness on the company. I remember seeing you guys using a lava lamp wall to generate entropy and just thought &quot;that&#x27;s awesome&quot;. I just wanted to say don&#x27;t change. Your lz4 implementation, aes gcm golang optimizations have directly benefitted me. Coupled with really high quality post mortem articles, articles on interesting things like compression, encryption, networking, a few random articles (the privacy focussed file system recently comes to mind, written at the same time I was making my own distributed fs) just leave me with a lot of respect for the culture there.<p>I was worried a bit when I saw the initial IPO that the free tier would leave (despite promises it wouldn&#x27;t) but that doesn&#x27;t seem to be the case. Literally the only bad thing I&#x27;ve seen on the site is recently you switched from recaptcha to a new one that I had a real tough time with logging in today - it was a bit glitchy on my pc. The only suggestion I thought of as well would be a simple &quot;maintenance mode&quot; similar to the &quot;I&#x27;m under attack mode&quot; which would allow those of us without super-ha to quickly toggle on something to pop up a &quot;sorry server&quot;&#x2F;site is down form maintenance page without having to mess with our proxies&#x2F;web servers.<p>Anyway I know this comes across as totally kissing-ass but I just wanted to say thanks to someone who actually works there. Everyone fat fingers stuff every now and again,don&#x27;t sweat it.</text></item><item><author>jgrahamc</author><text>Read our S-1, it&#x27;s all in there.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sec.gov&#x2F;Archives&#x2F;edgar&#x2F;data&#x2F;1477333&#x2F;000119312519222176&#x2F;d735023ds1.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sec.gov&#x2F;Archives&#x2F;edgar&#x2F;data&#x2F;1477333&#x2F;000119312519...</a></text></item><item><author>michaelbuckbee</author><text>Honest question: I&#x27;ve never really understood the back of the napkin math of how Cloudflare functions economically, which I feel would go a long way towards my understanding of why&#x2F;how they were able to become such an integral and generally positive part of the Internet.<p>Did they have some crazy in to get cheap bandwidth? Did they bet big on bandwidth prices falling? Did they figure something else out that nobody saw? Do they just to a tremendous job of migrating sites from free to paid plans?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>janee</author><text>Sounds lame but this story really touched me. I recently visited a family member who&#x27;s nearing the end and it broke my heart to see them in that condition.<p>I&#x27;m not sure what to take from this. But thank you for sharing it</text></comment> |
16,921,576 | 16,921,676 | 1 | 3 | 16,919,875 | train | <story><title>Google’s new Chat service shows contempt for Android users’ privacy</title><url>https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/04/googles-new-chat-service-shows-total-contempt-for-android-users-privacy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nmeofthestate</author><text>Reminder: millions of people send SMS&#x27;s and don&#x27;t care one bit about encryption, and they only use WhatsApp because it&#x27;s free to send messages, and pictures are supported.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ViViDboarder</author><text>Sure. That’s even more a reason why Google should be proactive.<p>Apple defaults to secure if iOS users are texting each other. Google has always done the opposite. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Google is the one who’s business model depends on sucking up as much content as possible.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google’s new Chat service shows contempt for Android users’ privacy</title><url>https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/04/googles-new-chat-service-shows-total-contempt-for-android-users-privacy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nmeofthestate</author><text>Reminder: millions of people send SMS&#x27;s and don&#x27;t care one bit about encryption, and they only use WhatsApp because it&#x27;s free to send messages, and pictures are supported.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fredley</author><text>Millions? Literally almost every user of WhatsApp. Those who care about encryption are a miniscule minority.</text></comment> |
12,345,562 | 12,345,649 | 1 | 2 | 12,345,283 | train | <story><title>Instapaper is joining Pinterest</title><url>http://blog.instapaper.com/post/149374303661</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brians</author><text>Bummer. I love and use instapaper, gathering articles for a few weeks to read at altitude. It&#x27;s a great product, and I paid for a subscription these last years in the hopes that I could therefore continue to enjoy it.<p>Now it&#x27;s sold to Pinterest, one of the two sites I don&#x27;t bother with links to—because I know Pinterest and Quora will require me to sign in rather than show me what they showed a search engine.<p>What else operates in this space? Pocket, I remember. ReadItLater used to exist, maybe still? Does Pinboard do this somehow, maybe with an RSS reader? Or do I have to pay for Paperback?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>disposition2</author><text>Wallabag (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wallabag.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wallabag.org&#x2F;</a>) if you want self-hosted.<p>Pinboard (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pinboard.in" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pinboard.in</a>) offers archiving for (I believe) $25 a year.<p>Or Pocket (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;getpocket.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;getpocket.com&#x2F;</a>) which used to be Read-It-Later.</text></comment> | <story><title>Instapaper is joining Pinterest</title><url>http://blog.instapaper.com/post/149374303661</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brians</author><text>Bummer. I love and use instapaper, gathering articles for a few weeks to read at altitude. It&#x27;s a great product, and I paid for a subscription these last years in the hopes that I could therefore continue to enjoy it.<p>Now it&#x27;s sold to Pinterest, one of the two sites I don&#x27;t bother with links to—because I know Pinterest and Quora will require me to sign in rather than show me what they showed a search engine.<p>What else operates in this space? Pocket, I remember. ReadItLater used to exist, maybe still? Does Pinboard do this somehow, maybe with an RSS reader? Or do I have to pay for Paperback?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>athenot</author><text>If you&#x27;re on macOS &#x2F; iOS, you can use the reading list. When you add items to your reading list from Safari, they get synced to your iOS device so you can read them offline from any of your devices.<p>It does require iCloud but nothing beyond that.</text></comment> |
36,631,899 | 36,632,109 | 1 | 2 | 36,630,906 | train | <story><title>Vit D supplementation and major cardiovascular events: D-Health randomised trial</title><url>https://www.bmj.com/content/381/bmj-2023-075230</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>candiddevmike</author><text>Take Vitamin K2 with Vitamin D: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC5613455&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC5613455&#x2F;</a><p>As an aside, starting Vitamin K2 a few months ago has given me a noticeable increase in energy and focus, make of that what you will. Vitamin K2 is one of those somewhat hard to get vitamins in a typical American diet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asow92</author><text>+1 for K2 + D, and for those who are looking for food sources of K2: fermented foods like sauerkraut, kimchi, and kefir are also good sources.</text></comment> | <story><title>Vit D supplementation and major cardiovascular events: D-Health randomised trial</title><url>https://www.bmj.com/content/381/bmj-2023-075230</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>candiddevmike</author><text>Take Vitamin K2 with Vitamin D: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC5613455&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC5613455&#x2F;</a><p>As an aside, starting Vitamin K2 a few months ago has given me a noticeable increase in energy and focus, make of that what you will. Vitamin K2 is one of those somewhat hard to get vitamins in a typical American diet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>psychphysic</author><text>OP article shows no clinical or statistical difference for heart disease.<p>Why not just take a multi vitamin and think not much of it.<p>Probably everyone is low on vitamin D atleast at some point in the year and it costs next to nothing to just have a few other vitamins along for the ride.</text></comment> |
23,086,090 | 23,082,439 | 1 | 2 | 23,078,078 | train | <story><title>Nintendo has reportedly suffered a significant legacy console leak</title><url>https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/nintendo-has-reportedly-suffered-a-significant-legacy-console-leak/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dehrmann</author><text>I have zero experience in the video game industry, but I&#x27;d think that since video games get ~zero attention after they&#x27;re shipped, writing maintainable code is less of a priority.<p>I&#x27;d be really curious to see how the Pokemon Red&#x2F;Blue split was done. Is it a C precompiler flag? Build config? Actual config? Cloned repo?</text></item><item><author>TheAceOfHearts</author><text>Modern Vintage Gamer just released a video [0] discussing this leak in greater detail along with its expected implications.<p>Anyone who&#x27;s curious can find the download links by backtracking through all the Pokemon Prototype General threads under the Pokemon board on 4chan.<p>One of the leaks that caught my attention was the source for Pokemon Blue, partially because of nostalgia and partially out of curiosity to see what an old game&#x27;s codebase even looks like. The first thing that stood out to me was the project&#x27;s flat folder structure, full of hundreds of files; I guess I was expecting things to be a bit more structured. The source is more readable and approachable than I expected, although I&#x27;ve only poked around in some of the more obvious places and definitions. I&#x27;d recommend watching The Ultimate Game Boy Talk [1] before trying to dive into any code.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=n8G7eq0GlQs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=n8G7eq0GlQs</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=HyzD8pNlpwI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=HyzD8pNlpwI</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheAceOfHearts</author><text>In the Pokemon Blue codebase they use 2 flag variables to distinguish between the different games, these are `pokemon_type` and `pokemon_type_blue`. The name of the second flag definitely hints that it was added later in development.<p>These are the values for each game:<p><pre><code> Green: pokemon_type=0 pokemon_type_blue=0
Red: pokemon_type=1 pokemon_type_blue=0
Blue: pokemon_type=1 pokemon_type_blue=1
</code></pre>
The general pattern for branching between game variations looks like this across the codebase:<p><pre><code> ifn pokemon_type
ifn pokemon_type_blue
; blue
else
; red
endif
else
; green
endif
</code></pre>
Conditional assembly directives like `ifn` are resolved statically during assembly, so only the code between matching conditions is included as part of the output. To anyone interested in exploring this a bit more, I&#x27;d recommend reading Chapter 8 Section 13 of the DOS version of The Art of Assembly Language Programming [0], which starts on page 43 of the linked PDF.<p>Bonus fun-fact: In the Pokemon Yellow codebase it says `pokemon_type=1` is yellow, while `pokemon_type=0` is pink! This suggests to me that the idea of Pokemon Pink with Jigglypuff as your starter was probably being floated around but it was eventually scrapped. (The only remaining options for a pink starter pokemon with a pink evolution in the original 151 would be Clefairy and Slowpoke, neither of which are very cute.) The idea of Jigglypuff as a starter is further supported by her appearance alongside Pikachu on the roster of the original Super Smash Bros. which seems rather unexpected unless they had bigger plans for her.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.plantation-productions.com&#x2F;Webster&#x2F;www.artofasm.com&#x2F;DOS&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;ch08.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.plantation-productions.com&#x2F;Webster&#x2F;www.artofasm.c...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Nintendo has reportedly suffered a significant legacy console leak</title><url>https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/nintendo-has-reportedly-suffered-a-significant-legacy-console-leak/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dehrmann</author><text>I have zero experience in the video game industry, but I&#x27;d think that since video games get ~zero attention after they&#x27;re shipped, writing maintainable code is less of a priority.<p>I&#x27;d be really curious to see how the Pokemon Red&#x2F;Blue split was done. Is it a C precompiler flag? Build config? Actual config? Cloned repo?</text></item><item><author>TheAceOfHearts</author><text>Modern Vintage Gamer just released a video [0] discussing this leak in greater detail along with its expected implications.<p>Anyone who&#x27;s curious can find the download links by backtracking through all the Pokemon Prototype General threads under the Pokemon board on 4chan.<p>One of the leaks that caught my attention was the source for Pokemon Blue, partially because of nostalgia and partially out of curiosity to see what an old game&#x27;s codebase even looks like. The first thing that stood out to me was the project&#x27;s flat folder structure, full of hundreds of files; I guess I was expecting things to be a bit more structured. The source is more readable and approachable than I expected, although I&#x27;ve only poked around in some of the more obvious places and definitions. I&#x27;d recommend watching The Ultimate Game Boy Talk [1] before trying to dive into any code.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=n8G7eq0GlQs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=n8G7eq0GlQs</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=HyzD8pNlpwI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=HyzD8pNlpwI</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ptmcc</author><text>In the old days that was probably more true than it is today, since so many games are &quot;as a service&quot; now with shared engines, online platforms, continual updates&#x2F;patches, tons of expansions and DLC, supporting mods, etc.<p>The downside is that we&#x27;ll never really be able to play today&#x27;s games nostalgically like we can with old burned-to-ROM games.<p>Online multiplayer games have a shelf life of sorts that depends on the servers being available and having other people to play with. There&#x27;s a few examples of community-driven projects to revive classic online multiplayer games with mixed success but it&#x27;ll just never be the same thing.</text></comment> |
25,793,550 | 25,793,373 | 1 | 3 | 25,788,229 | train | <story><title>Odroid-Go Super: $80 Games Console That Looks Like a Switch, but Runs Ubuntu</title><url>https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=187&t=41283</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>k__</author><text>Half-OT:<p>Can someone recommend a hand held console that runs NES&#x2F;SNES&#x2F;GB&#x2F;GBA&#x2F;DS games and has a good battery life or maybe even a replaceable battery?<p>I always get ads for such consoles, but the reviews are all bad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DCKing</author><text>For that list of systems, the Nintendo New 2&#x2F;3DS models are probably the best choice. They require some softmodding [1], but after that can natively play DS [2] and GBA [3] [4]. The New 3DS also has great emulators available for NES, SNES and Game Boy [5], and has native ports of a few Nintendo 64 games. Being mass market devices, their build quality and QA are much superior to cheap Chinese devices or DIY Korean ones, and they&#x27;re also widely and cheaply available on the second hand market in most western countries.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;3ds.hacks.guide" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;3ds.hacks.guide</a><p>[2]: Directly from the cartridge slot or using Twilight Menu <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;DS-Homebrew&#x2F;TWiLightMenu" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;DS-Homebrew&#x2F;TWiLightMenu</a><p>[3]: Using &quot;Virtual Console injects&quot;, see: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;3ds.eiphax.tech&#x2F;nsui" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;3ds.eiphax.tech&#x2F;nsui</a> . Virtual Console injects for the other systems on your list will also work, they will then run in Nintendo&#x27;s own emulators for those systems.<p>[4]: Just be sure to hold start&#x2F;select when launching DS or GBA games to avoid bad quality upscaling and run them at pixel accurate native resolution.<p>[5]: bubble2k16&#x27;s emulators can play pretty much anything on &gt;New&lt; 3DS models, use mGBA for Game Boy: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.gbatemp.net&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_3DS_homebrew_emulators" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.gbatemp.net&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_3DS_homebrew_emulators</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Odroid-Go Super: $80 Games Console That Looks Like a Switch, but Runs Ubuntu</title><url>https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=187&t=41283</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>k__</author><text>Half-OT:<p>Can someone recommend a hand held console that runs NES&#x2F;SNES&#x2F;GB&#x2F;GBA&#x2F;DS games and has a good battery life or maybe even a replaceable battery?<p>I always get ads for such consoles, but the reviews are all bad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shorts_theory</author><text>The 3DS (especially if you can pick up a used one) is actually an excellent choice for access to almost all of Nintendo&#x27;s handheld library after installing the custom firmware hack. DS and 3DS games are supported via cartridges and the rest can be found by installing the .cia files. I haven&#x27;t tried NES and SNES games, but it runs GBA and GB games great.</text></comment> |
32,309,942 | 32,309,920 | 1 | 3 | 32,308,553 | train | <story><title>AMD passes Intel in market cap</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/29/amd-passes-intel-in-market-cap.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mimikatz</author><text>Yes we do, that&#x27;s literally what a marketcap is. People who are sure it isn&#x27;t correct can beat against it and profit in the correction.</text></item><item><author>elromulous</author><text>So I&#x27;m very much in camp AMD. But, market cap has proven over and over again to be kind of bogus. E.g. do we really think Tesla is actually worth more than the rest of the top 10 or so automakers?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nicoburns</author><text>&gt; Yes we do, that&#x27;s literally what a marketcap is.<p>I mean in theory. In practice:<p>- You have to use a very specialised definition of &quot;we&quot;. Specifically, it&#x27;s what people think, <i>weighted by how much money they control</i>. So wealthy people have an outsized say in market cap. Controllers of hedge funds, pension funds, etc an even more outsized say.<p>- People&#x27;s pricing can be based on how they expect other people to price the stock in the future rather than how much they think it is truly worth based on the fundamentals of the business. If someone&#x27;s price is based on this, then it is no longer a reflection of how much they think it&#x27;s worth.</text></comment> | <story><title>AMD passes Intel in market cap</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/29/amd-passes-intel-in-market-cap.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mimikatz</author><text>Yes we do, that&#x27;s literally what a marketcap is. People who are sure it isn&#x27;t correct can beat against it and profit in the correction.</text></item><item><author>elromulous</author><text>So I&#x27;m very much in camp AMD. But, market cap has proven over and over again to be kind of bogus. E.g. do we really think Tesla is actually worth more than the rest of the top 10 or so automakers?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>googlryas</author><text>Not exactly, because you need to look at depth of market as well. If I find one idiot to buy 1 share of my stock (out of a trillion) for $1, that doesn&#x27;t mean I really have a $1T market cap.</text></comment> |
15,850,519 | 15,850,188 | 1 | 2 | 15,849,795 | train | <story><title>From Bezos to Walton, Big Investors Back Fund for ‘Flyover’ Startups</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/04/business/dealbook/midwest-start-ups.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mbesto</author><text>I live in SV and love the quality of here. Honestly though, the situation for early stage startups here is becoming untenable.<p>My theory is the following:<p>- Seed money is drying up (there&#x27;s legitimate data to support this) because it&#x27;s all being saturation in Series Alphabet companies that are all raising on legitimate growth or legitimate track records (but with zero growth and very good connections).<p>- The housing situation is atrocious, and the tech scene is getting older (read -&gt; having kids).<p>- This means employees are saturating towards Google&#x2F;FB&#x2F;Apple&#x2F;etc because that&#x27;s the only thing you can afford to do in the bay area. When you can afford pay hundreds and thousands of developers $500k all-in packages because your yearly profits alone can sustain the whole of the bay area (looking at you Apple) then it&#x27;s almost impossible to compete for talent in anything that isn&#x27;t Google&#x2F;FB&#x2F;Apple&#x2F;etc or a Series Alphabet with strong capital.<p>- The rest of the world has learned all of the failures and lessons of SV and caught up. And yes all of the &quot;inbound content&quot; you created was free consulting to the 5 man shop running out of Madison, WI who is now competing with 3 man Stanford drop-out of the mid 2000&#x27;s.<p>My bet is on this fund and other similar funds, like the middle market PE funds in tech (PSG, KKR, GSV, etc), Indie.vc, Venture for America, etc. This is the next big horizon in money making tech investing, not the next Instagram...those days are over.<p>It&#x27;s amazing how many tech companies no one here has heard of but are making very legitimate money and are based in very unconventional locations. Tampa Bay, Minneapolis, Charlotte (and the tech triangle), Knoxville, Orlando, Atlanta, Provo, Boise, St Louis, Denver...you name it. I think we&#x27;re gonna see many more Bandwidth.com&#x27;s, MailChimps, Kabbage&#x27;s, Outcome Healths, etc in the very near future.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>estreeper</author><text>I have a startup in a state which is very much a flyover: so much so that our license plates read &quot;New Mexico, USA&quot;, to assure people that we are, in fact, part of the union.<p>I moved from LA to Santa Fe a year and a half ago and started a company. Was able to buy a 3 bedroom house, big yard, nice neighborhood, walking distance to restaurants, brewpubs, and a grocery store for ~$1500&#x2F;month, and got a couple roommates which puts our monthly cost at $400. That&#x27;s a lot of runway.<p>There is a lot of underutilized talent here since there aren&#x27;t a lot of traditional jobs, and we have two national labs within an hour of us (Los Alamos and Sandia) that feed in a steady supply of engineers and scientists.<p>All of this has created a startup scene both here and in Albuquerque an hour away filled with companies doing really interesting things, none of which are trying to build the next great way to deliver more ads to people. And being able to get outside the city in 20 minutes to go hiking, skiing, etc. is pretty amazing after working through LA commutes.<p>There are things I miss about LA (the ocean!), but there are just so many advantages to having a startup here that now I couldn&#x27;t see it any other way.</text></comment> | <story><title>From Bezos to Walton, Big Investors Back Fund for ‘Flyover’ Startups</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/04/business/dealbook/midwest-start-ups.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mbesto</author><text>I live in SV and love the quality of here. Honestly though, the situation for early stage startups here is becoming untenable.<p>My theory is the following:<p>- Seed money is drying up (there&#x27;s legitimate data to support this) because it&#x27;s all being saturation in Series Alphabet companies that are all raising on legitimate growth or legitimate track records (but with zero growth and very good connections).<p>- The housing situation is atrocious, and the tech scene is getting older (read -&gt; having kids).<p>- This means employees are saturating towards Google&#x2F;FB&#x2F;Apple&#x2F;etc because that&#x27;s the only thing you can afford to do in the bay area. When you can afford pay hundreds and thousands of developers $500k all-in packages because your yearly profits alone can sustain the whole of the bay area (looking at you Apple) then it&#x27;s almost impossible to compete for talent in anything that isn&#x27;t Google&#x2F;FB&#x2F;Apple&#x2F;etc or a Series Alphabet with strong capital.<p>- The rest of the world has learned all of the failures and lessons of SV and caught up. And yes all of the &quot;inbound content&quot; you created was free consulting to the 5 man shop running out of Madison, WI who is now competing with 3 man Stanford drop-out of the mid 2000&#x27;s.<p>My bet is on this fund and other similar funds, like the middle market PE funds in tech (PSG, KKR, GSV, etc), Indie.vc, Venture for America, etc. This is the next big horizon in money making tech investing, not the next Instagram...those days are over.<p>It&#x27;s amazing how many tech companies no one here has heard of but are making very legitimate money and are based in very unconventional locations. Tampa Bay, Minneapolis, Charlotte (and the tech triangle), Knoxville, Orlando, Atlanta, Provo, Boise, St Louis, Denver...you name it. I think we&#x27;re gonna see many more Bandwidth.com&#x27;s, MailChimps, Kabbage&#x27;s, Outcome Healths, etc in the very near future.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thesmallestcat</author><text>The SV BigCorps have really poisoned the well out there. It&#x27;s depressing that the majority of good programmers in the bay area are obsessed with the compensation package. Not saying it&#x27;s the wrong decision, but like you said, it sucks the air out of everything else. I&#x27;d want to blow my fucking brains out if I had the typical Google SDE&#x2F;SRE&#x27;s job and the most interesting challenges were whether it was worth it to take the Google Bus to work or how to deftly navigate the D&#x27;Amore spiderweb, but that&#x27;s life if you want to work with good people out there. I&#x27;ve interviewed with &quot;top flight&quot; YC alum etc. startups in the area and came away hugely unimpressed. Maybe it was just luck of the draw, but as a startup guy, I have no reason at all to move out that way. Over time stuff like this will result in bland, money-driven talent with good pedigrees and hurt innovation, to echo your point again.</text></comment> |
13,838,604 | 13,838,279 | 1 | 3 | 13,837,860 | train | <story><title>Testing is a separate skill and that’s why it can be frustrating</title><url>https://medium.com/planet-arkency/testing-is-a-separate-skill-and-thats-why-you-are-frustrated-7239b1500a6c#.s23ovtlo5</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>koonsolo</author><text>The best testers that I know really enjoy breaking stuff. They have this special mission to break anything they get their hands on. They take great pride in finding the stuff that the developer probably didn&#x27;t think of. They smile when it behaves weird, they laugh when it crashes. Their ego rises when they tell the developer that they were smarter.<p>And therefore, the one who built is, is not the person who makes it his lives mission to break it. Breaking it means more work, more searching for bugs, and then testing again. And nobody likes doing that. Except for awesome testers. They love looking at the face of a desperate developer getting frustrated by a nasty bug.</text></comment> | <story><title>Testing is a separate skill and that’s why it can be frustrating</title><url>https://medium.com/planet-arkency/testing-is-a-separate-skill-and-thats-why-you-are-frustrated-7239b1500a6c#.s23ovtlo5</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>michaelfeathers</author><text>I don&#x27;t think this is a good way of framing things. In fact int can be counter-productive.<p>Automated testing is the process of writing code to understand your code. We already have to understand our code. Testing is being deliberate about that understanding and writing it down. The same design&#x2F;testing thoughts that lead us to edge cases can lead us their elimination without testing at all. It&#x27;s an integrated process, not something separate.</text></comment> |
31,838,737 | 31,838,754 | 1 | 3 | 31,837,460 | train | <story><title>The end of the world is just beginning for shipping</title><url>https://gcaptain.com/end-of-the-world-is-just-beginning-book-review/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yrgulation</author><text>&gt; Their populations will shrink with mathematical certainty.<p>Yeah you know why? Because both parents sitting in offices 8 hours a day have no means of looking after their kids. And a mother giving birth needs to return to work in a few months time, else she there&#x27;s no pay. Oh and neither parent can give up work to raise these future adults because living expenses are too high. I don&#x27;t know why everyone is so surprised by the raging population decline. Most of the western world is not child friendly, simple as that.</text></item><item><author>Barrera</author><text>Haven&#x27;t read the book, but for those who don&#x27;t know who Zeihan is, his work follows two threads of post-WWII history:<p>1. Deglobalization; and<p>2. Depopulation<p>The article focuses mostly on deglobalization, but depopulation is in the horse pulling the cart.<p>Many are familiar with the deglobalization idea from the last US presidential administration. The current administration kept those tariffs, and abided by the previous commitment to exit Afghanistan. Zeihan argues that this trend toward increasing isolationism goes back decades.<p>What may seem less familiar is the demographic implosion the entire world is undergoing - a baby bust. The vast majority of major countries with the exception of the US and Mexico have passed a point of no return demographically. Their populations will shrink with mathematical certainty. As their populations ebb, so will their economic growth prospects and place on the world stage. The problem is especially pronounced in Asia and Europe, but can be found everywhere.<p>The reason for the bust: people moved to cities. On a farm, kids are free labor. In a city, kids are expensive conversational pieces.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smt88</author><text>This is a popular theory on reddit, but it&#x27;s not true. Birth rates are extremely low even in countries that <i>paid parents to stay at home</i> with kids and generally have good work culture.<p>You would also expect birth rates to be lowest among people working 2-3 low-wage jobs, which is also not true.<p>As financial stability and safety increase, birth rates go down. That&#x27;s the only common driver of it.<p>Historically, children were sources of unpaid labor. They worked (either at the family business or outside the job), raised younger siblings, and took care of elderly parents.<p>In short, children were (and sometimes are) a social safety net. What happens in societies that try to eliminate poverty, take care of the elderly, and ban child labor? A lower birth rate.<p>Low birth rates are not a problem (and reflect enormous amounts of social progress). We just need to solve the Ponzi scheme of retirement and elder care, which I think is doable with automation.</text></comment> | <story><title>The end of the world is just beginning for shipping</title><url>https://gcaptain.com/end-of-the-world-is-just-beginning-book-review/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yrgulation</author><text>&gt; Their populations will shrink with mathematical certainty.<p>Yeah you know why? Because both parents sitting in offices 8 hours a day have no means of looking after their kids. And a mother giving birth needs to return to work in a few months time, else she there&#x27;s no pay. Oh and neither parent can give up work to raise these future adults because living expenses are too high. I don&#x27;t know why everyone is so surprised by the raging population decline. Most of the western world is not child friendly, simple as that.</text></item><item><author>Barrera</author><text>Haven&#x27;t read the book, but for those who don&#x27;t know who Zeihan is, his work follows two threads of post-WWII history:<p>1. Deglobalization; and<p>2. Depopulation<p>The article focuses mostly on deglobalization, but depopulation is in the horse pulling the cart.<p>Many are familiar with the deglobalization idea from the last US presidential administration. The current administration kept those tariffs, and abided by the previous commitment to exit Afghanistan. Zeihan argues that this trend toward increasing isolationism goes back decades.<p>What may seem less familiar is the demographic implosion the entire world is undergoing - a baby bust. The vast majority of major countries with the exception of the US and Mexico have passed a point of no return demographically. Their populations will shrink with mathematical certainty. As their populations ebb, so will their economic growth prospects and place on the world stage. The problem is especially pronounced in Asia and Europe, but can be found everywhere.<p>The reason for the bust: people moved to cities. On a farm, kids are free labor. In a city, kids are expensive conversational pieces.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ajuc</author><text>Nah. EU is &quot;the west&quot; too, and it&#x27;s more people than US. And maternity leaves here are around 6-12 months. Population still decreases. Significant part of EU was under communism and had baby booms then despite abysmal pay and much WORSE standards of living then than now. Now their populations go down despite the face they are much wealthier and well off. I live in Poland. There&#x27;s no comparison, when I look at photos and videos made in 80s in my country it looks like 3rd world. I haven&#x27;t realized then but now when I look back it&#x27;s crazy how much changed. But people had kids then and don&#x27;t have kids now.<p>What changed is perspectives. In communism you&#x27;d earn almost the same no matter where, how much, and how well you worked. And money mattered little anyway, you couldn&#x27;t buy anything with them, you had to have connections to &quot;arrange&quot; anything (even basic building materials were &quot;arranged&quot; through social networks not bought from a shop). So people invested in families and big social networks to survive. And had lots of kids cause there wasn&#x27;t much else to do. No career to sacrifice, no recreation other than drinking and partying. No internet. TV had 2 channels and most people had only black-and-white receivers. Culture was only accessible in big cities. Half the families had no car. You couldn&#x27;t travel abroad easily. There was censorship. There were blackouts at the night.<p>Why not have kids in these circumstances? What are you losing?<p>Now your standard of living depends mostly on your education and working ethic. And it can vary greatly. Sky is the limit. You can have a yacht. You can travel all over the world. You can be unemployed and live under the bridge. And anything in between.<p>You don&#x27;t need other people to survive. Money are very important. Career is an option. There&#x27;s LOTS of ways to spend time and money. Having a kid is a big sacrifice in this world. So people work more and have smaller families.<p>The parts of each country that are less wealthy are usually also the parts with highest natural growth.<p>Basically - economic growth and development reduces natural growth. Pro-family laws are nice, but they don&#x27;t change the basic calculation of pros vs cons as much as the changes in societies did.</text></comment> |
15,649,566 | 15,649,536 | 1 | 2 | 15,647,675 | train | <story><title>Tweeting Made Easier</title><url>https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/product/2017/tweetingmadeeasier.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PhilipA</author><text>They are a public traded company, and for us casual users of Twitter the only change that has been in the talk the last couple of years has been to increase the character limit. What other companies can have this little improvement over the time, and still be a public traded company on Nasdaq? (I acknowledge that they might improve internal &amp; marketing tools, but nothing us users sees)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ballenf</author><text>Comcast and other cable ISPs? They’ve increased their speeds to some but also my price has more than doubled.<p>In retail, Walmart, Target and most mainstream supermarkets have changed very little.<p>I think you mean to ask what tech company startup has ever remained relevant for so long without change, maybe?</text></comment> | <story><title>Tweeting Made Easier</title><url>https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/product/2017/tweetingmadeeasier.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PhilipA</author><text>They are a public traded company, and for us casual users of Twitter the only change that has been in the talk the last couple of years has been to increase the character limit. What other companies can have this little improvement over the time, and still be a public traded company on Nasdaq? (I acknowledge that they might improve internal &amp; marketing tools, but nothing us users sees)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gdulli</author><text>Change doesn&#x27;t need to happen for the sake of change. It was an amazing product and they&#x27;ve made it worse with changes like the algorithmic timeline, so the less they do the better, from my perspective. Though I have no opinion either way about 280 characters.</text></comment> |
38,618,664 | 38,618,909 | 1 | 2 | 38,618,111 | train | <story><title>Hasbro lays off nearly 20% of its workers</title><url>https://www.polygon.com/23998290/hasbro-layoffs-before-christmas</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>oflannabhra</author><text>Hasbro is essentially upside down, with huge losses across all their brands being subsidized by enormous growth from their subsidiary Wizards of the Coast. Even with that growth, they are significantly down.<p>There was a big investor push recently (led by Alta Fox) to get Hasbro to spin WotC out into an independent company [0], which failed. The big concern being that forcing growth on those properties (Magic: the Gathering and Dungeons &amp; Dragons) to continue to support failed strategies with legacy properties could risk ruining those properties through mismanagement for short-term gains.<p>I really don&#x27;t know where Hasbro goes from here. I don&#x27;t think the toy market will ever recover, and the board game world has completely passed by properties like Monopoly. Chris Cocks, the CEO is the former head of WotC, so I&#x27;m hoping there is some level of understanding of stewardship of the WotC properties, but I&#x27;m really not confident. Even the recent D&amp;D movie was disappointing from a business perspective (although surprisingly wonderful for fans). They also have a huge success in Baldur&#x27;s Gate 3, although it is also disappointing from a monetization perspective. Even those recent lukewarm wins are within the WotC umbrella.<p>[0] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wargamer.com&#x2F;dnd&#x2F;hasbro-wins-wizards-of-the-coast-spin-off" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wargamer.com&#x2F;dnd&#x2F;hasbro-wins-wizards-of-the-coas...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Hasbro lays off nearly 20% of its workers</title><url>https://www.polygon.com/23998290/hasbro-layoffs-before-christmas</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>roughly</author><text>Laying off the workers at the toy factory two weeks before Christmas is the thing the villain in an 80s kids movie would do.<p>I don&#x27;t mean that to be hyperbolic - like, literally, that&#x27;s the sort of thing that was culturally cast as villainous behavior a generation or two ago.</text></comment> |
16,024,242 | 16,024,218 | 1 | 2 | 16,023,685 | train | <story><title>SoftBank Succeeds in Tender Offer for Large Stake in Uber</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/softbank-succeeds-in-tender-offer-for-large-stake-in-uber-1514483283?mod=e2twd</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>robhunter</author><text>Are they not just buying common stock or Series Seed&#x2F;A&#x2F;B stock from existing investors?<p>I&#x27;m under the impression this is a totally different class of stock than the $70B valuation round?<p>Common stock at a $49B valuation is entirely different from preferred stock at a $70B valuation with what I&#x27;ll assume includes a lot of &quot;fine print&quot; around pro-rata and&#x2F;or liquidation preferences.<p>Feels a little clickbait-y to say the valuation took a haircut when we&#x27;re talking about different classes of stock.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eddieplan9</author><text>This. It’s not uncommon to price the common shares differently in tender offers. Facebook did almost the same thing in 2009: DST bought preferred share at $10B valuation and then tender offer at 6.5B [1]<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;kara.allthingsd.com&#x2F;20090713&#x2F;facebookers-start-cashing-out-with-new-100-million-investment&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;kara.allthingsd.com&#x2F;20090713&#x2F;facebookers-start-cashin...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>SoftBank Succeeds in Tender Offer for Large Stake in Uber</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/softbank-succeeds-in-tender-offer-for-large-stake-in-uber-1514483283?mod=e2twd</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>robhunter</author><text>Are they not just buying common stock or Series Seed&#x2F;A&#x2F;B stock from existing investors?<p>I&#x27;m under the impression this is a totally different class of stock than the $70B valuation round?<p>Common stock at a $49B valuation is entirely different from preferred stock at a $70B valuation with what I&#x27;ll assume includes a lot of &quot;fine print&quot; around pro-rata and&#x2F;or liquidation preferences.<p>Feels a little clickbait-y to say the valuation took a haircut when we&#x27;re talking about different classes of stock.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xyzzy_plugh</author><text>Indeed, they&#x27;re investing at the 70B valuation <i>and</i> buying existing shares through the tender offer, at a discount.<p>Given that the latter shares are being sold by existing stockholders, it doesn&#x27;t seem fair to call this a down round.<p>I&#x27;d expect their valuation to remain the same.</text></comment> |
17,064,114 | 17,062,112 | 1 | 3 | 17,061,713 | train | <story><title>How to start a Go project in 2018</title><url>https://boyter.org/posts/how-to-start-go-project-2018/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zimbatm</author><text>It&#x27;s distasteful of Go to impose a filesystem layout.<p>Any other language that I work with understands that dependencies should be self-contained within the project folder. Each project has it&#x27;s own set of dependencies that have been tested to work together. The user can select where to checkout the project, or even have multiple copies of the same project lying around.<p>To achieve the same thing with Go, one has to set a different GOPATH per project, and then checkout the project deep into that root. This is not convenient as a developer and as a software packager. Or give in and having to resolve dependencies that work with all the current projects. Given that Go doesn&#x27;t really do package versioning, finding the right set of commits that all work together is a exponential nightmare.<p>Now that since Go 1.6 each project can have its own vendor&#x2F; folder, GOPATH shouldn&#x27;t be required. I should be able to checkout the project where I want and then have the tools look into the vendor&#x2F; folder to resolve any dependencies. Please change it that way. The reason govendor and all these tools are complicated is because of this GOPATH madness. Synching dependencies between GOPATH and vendor&#x2F; should only be a problem for Google, not the rest of us.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to start a Go project in 2018</title><url>https://boyter.org/posts/how-to-start-go-project-2018/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aodin</author><text>If you&#x27;re using Go with Docker 17.05 or higher, I recommend a multi-stage Docker build. Official documentation here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.docker.com&#x2F;develop&#x2F;develop-images&#x2F;multistage-build&#x2F;#use-multi-stage-builds" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.docker.com&#x2F;develop&#x2F;develop-images&#x2F;multistage-bu...</a><p>The default Go Docker images include everything needed to compile Go. But once you have a binary, you really only need an image capable of running your binary. I&#x27;ve seen images sizes reduced by over 95%.<p>Revising the example in the article:<p><pre><code> FROM golang:1.10
COPY . &#x2F;go&#x2F;src&#x2F;bitbucket.code.company-name.com.au&#x2F;scm&#x2F;code
WORKDIR &#x2F;go&#x2F;src&#x2F;bitbucket.code.company-name.com.au&#x2F;scm&#x2F;code&#x2F;
RUN CGO_ENABLED=0 go build main.go
FROM alpine:3.7
RUN apk add --no-cache ca-certificates
COPY --from=0 &#x2F;go&#x2F;src&#x2F;bitbucket.code.company-name.com.au&#x2F;scm&#x2F;code&#x2F;main .
CMD [&quot;.&#x2F;main&quot;]
</code></pre>
The `CGO_ENABLED=0` and `apk` are oddities of Alpine Linux specifically. The image you choose to run your binary may not need these.</text></comment> |
39,756,220 | 39,755,409 | 1 | 3 | 39,755,267 | train | <story><title>Astronaut Thomas Stafford has died</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/apollo-10-astronaut-tom-stafford-18600e218bd145ce99a3605b35df7b8c</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>SpaceFarmer</author><text>When I was a sophomore in college and working an internship, I met a guy down the street who said he used to work for NASA. I was very interested in what he had done at NASA, and space in general. The next time I ran into him he gave me two photos, autographed to me by Thomas Stafford! One is him standing in front of the Saturn V, and the other is the picture of earth he took while flying around the moon. I was so blown away! They are hanging on my wall right now. Really meant a lot to me. The guy that gave me the photos and now Tom aren&#x27;t alive anymore, but I&#x27;ll treasure these photos and pass them to my kids.</text></comment> | <story><title>Astronaut Thomas Stafford has died</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/apollo-10-astronaut-tom-stafford-18600e218bd145ce99a3605b35df7b8c</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>toomuchtodo</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Thomas_P._Stafford" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Thomas_P._Stafford</a></text></comment> |
37,817,396 | 37,817,402 | 1 | 2 | 37,817,112 | train | <story><title>Bill to ban hidden fees in California signed into law</title><url>https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta%E2%80%99s-sponsored-bill-ban-hidden-fees-california-signed-law</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Doctor_Fegg</author><text>I never understand this argument at all. Your shops have computers with label printers, right?<p>At the Co-op supermarket in our little UK town (population 3000) they’ve even just replaced the shelf price tickets with tiny colour displays.</text></item><item><author>xmprt</author><text>Taxes are set at a multiple levels (federal, state, district, and city) so it&#x27;s pretty much impossible to show the post tax price on the label. Hidden fees are a completely different issue.</text></item><item><author>adasdasdas</author><text>I don&#x27;t know why we can&#x27;t just force everyone to show post tax&#x2F;fees price upfront. It&#x27;s complete bullshit that every restaurant bill comes with 3 different taxes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bcrosby95</author><text>It&#x27;s not really a problem in brick and mortar stores. It&#x27;s a problem in online stores because you can&#x27;t necessarily give someone the right price with taxes until you have their address.<p>And this problem is harder than some might think. I knew someone who lived on a street that was a &quot;dividing line&quot; for this stuff: same zip code, same city, but one side had a 9% sales tax, the other side had around 7%. We tested a lot of online stores and none of them got it right. Including Amazon.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bill to ban hidden fees in California signed into law</title><url>https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta%E2%80%99s-sponsored-bill-ban-hidden-fees-california-signed-law</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Doctor_Fegg</author><text>I never understand this argument at all. Your shops have computers with label printers, right?<p>At the Co-op supermarket in our little UK town (population 3000) they’ve even just replaced the shelf price tickets with tiny colour displays.</text></item><item><author>xmprt</author><text>Taxes are set at a multiple levels (federal, state, district, and city) so it&#x27;s pretty much impossible to show the post tax price on the label. Hidden fees are a completely different issue.</text></item><item><author>adasdasdas</author><text>I don&#x27;t know why we can&#x27;t just force everyone to show post tax&#x2F;fees price upfront. It&#x27;s complete bullshit that every restaurant bill comes with 3 different taxes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>olliej</author><text>Yeah, so in the US that doesn&#x27;t work. Most obviously for display, tv, or radio ads you cannot ensure correct taxes in the advertisement (this was a big eye opener when I first moved to the US).<p>It also doesn&#x27;t work for online sales, where the final price can depend on the final destination of the goods or service. e.g. the taxes <i>cannot</i> be displayed until you&#x27;ve been given a street level address.<p>For me for example even my zip code spans 3 different cities with different tax codes, my street is literally one block from a different city in one direction, and about 5 blocks to another. \o&#x2F;</text></comment> |
24,734,471 | 24,733,849 | 1 | 2 | 24,731,400 | train | <story><title>If pay had kept pace with productivity gains, minimum wage would be $24 an hour</title><url>https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/01/21/if-worker-pay-had-kept-pace-productivity-gains-1968-todays-minimum-wage-would-be-24</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>martin_bech</author><text>Hi from Scandinavia, we dont have a monopoly on anything, and no actual minimum wage, yet people make about $20+ at the lowest paying jobs, enjoy 5 weeks paid vacation, free healthcare and cheap childcare..</text></item><item><author>rmason</author><text>All these comparisons miss one thing: after WWII America had a monopoly. We had destroyed our competitors factories in Asia as well as in Europe. It took a while for them to build back and be truly competitive outside their home countries.<p>Here in Michigan we had a front row seat to this happening with manufacturing. Everything peaked in 1973 and has been on a slow decline ever since. Sure there have been booms but the long term trend has been down.<p>The Japanese started importing cheap motorcycles to the West coast, then cheap cars. We didn&#x27;t see them in Michigan and if auto execs did they would have laughed. The Big 3 saw VW and their Beetle as the big import threat. Suddenly those Japanese cars became better in quality. Then the Koreans went through the same cycle and Japan introduced luxury cars as well.<p>Because wages were much less in Asia even after accounting for shipping this exerted downward pressure on wages. Give America back the monopoly it had in the fifties and sixties and minimum wage would be $24 an hour.</text></item><item><author>michaelbuckbee</author><text>There&#x27;s a lot of reasons for this but one of the largest is the near invisible (to me) structural shift from direct hire to contractors for jobs at the lower end of the wage&#x2F;salary spectrum.<p>There is a fantastic long form article that articulates this better than I can at:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;highline.huffingtonpost.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;en&#x2F;poor-millennials-print&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;highline.huffingtonpost.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;en&#x2F;poor-millenn...</a><p>The portion relevant to this discussion:<p>&quot;Thirty years ago, she says, you could walk into any hotel in America and everyone in the building, from the cleaners to the security guards to the bartenders, was a direct hire, each worker on the same pay scale and enjoying the same benefits as everyone else. Today, they’re almost all indirect hires, employees of random, anonymous contracting companies: Laundry Inc., Rent-A-Guard Inc., Watery Margarita Inc. In 2015, the Government Accountability Office estimated that 40 percent of American workers were employed under some sort of “contingent” arrangement like this—from barbers to midwives to nuclear waste inspectors to symphony cellists. Since the downturn, the industry that has added the most jobs is not tech or retail or nursing. It is “temporary help services”—all the small, no-brand contractors who recruit workers and rent them out to bigger companies.<p>The effect of all this “domestic outsourcing”—and, let’s be honest, its actual purpose—is that workers get a lot less out of their jobs than they used to. One of Batt’s papers found that employees lose up to 40 percent of their salary when they’re “re-classified” as contractors. In 2013, the city of Memphis reportedly cut wages from $15 an hour to $10 after it fired its school bus drivers and forced them to reapply through a staffing agency. Some Walmart “lumpers,” the warehouse workers who carry boxes from trucks to shelves, have to show up every morning but only get paid if there’s enough work for them that day.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mortenjorck</author><text>The wild thing is that even if you were to apply Scandinavia&#x27;s highest tax bracket of 57% to this (which someone in the lowest tax bracket would never pay), you&#x27;d still come out above the US national minimum wage, out of which one is also expected to pay for healthcare and budget for unpaid time off.</text></comment> | <story><title>If pay had kept pace with productivity gains, minimum wage would be $24 an hour</title><url>https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/01/21/if-worker-pay-had-kept-pace-productivity-gains-1968-todays-minimum-wage-would-be-24</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>martin_bech</author><text>Hi from Scandinavia, we dont have a monopoly on anything, and no actual minimum wage, yet people make about $20+ at the lowest paying jobs, enjoy 5 weeks paid vacation, free healthcare and cheap childcare..</text></item><item><author>rmason</author><text>All these comparisons miss one thing: after WWII America had a monopoly. We had destroyed our competitors factories in Asia as well as in Europe. It took a while for them to build back and be truly competitive outside their home countries.<p>Here in Michigan we had a front row seat to this happening with manufacturing. Everything peaked in 1973 and has been on a slow decline ever since. Sure there have been booms but the long term trend has been down.<p>The Japanese started importing cheap motorcycles to the West coast, then cheap cars. We didn&#x27;t see them in Michigan and if auto execs did they would have laughed. The Big 3 saw VW and their Beetle as the big import threat. Suddenly those Japanese cars became better in quality. Then the Koreans went through the same cycle and Japan introduced luxury cars as well.<p>Because wages were much less in Asia even after accounting for shipping this exerted downward pressure on wages. Give America back the monopoly it had in the fifties and sixties and minimum wage would be $24 an hour.</text></item><item><author>michaelbuckbee</author><text>There&#x27;s a lot of reasons for this but one of the largest is the near invisible (to me) structural shift from direct hire to contractors for jobs at the lower end of the wage&#x2F;salary spectrum.<p>There is a fantastic long form article that articulates this better than I can at:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;highline.huffingtonpost.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;en&#x2F;poor-millennials-print&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;highline.huffingtonpost.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;en&#x2F;poor-millenn...</a><p>The portion relevant to this discussion:<p>&quot;Thirty years ago, she says, you could walk into any hotel in America and everyone in the building, from the cleaners to the security guards to the bartenders, was a direct hire, each worker on the same pay scale and enjoying the same benefits as everyone else. Today, they’re almost all indirect hires, employees of random, anonymous contracting companies: Laundry Inc., Rent-A-Guard Inc., Watery Margarita Inc. In 2015, the Government Accountability Office estimated that 40 percent of American workers were employed under some sort of “contingent” arrangement like this—from barbers to midwives to nuclear waste inspectors to symphony cellists. Since the downturn, the industry that has added the most jobs is not tech or retail or nursing. It is “temporary help services”—all the small, no-brand contractors who recruit workers and rent them out to bigger companies.<p>The effect of all this “domestic outsourcing”—and, let’s be honest, its actual purpose—is that workers get a lot less out of their jobs than they used to. One of Batt’s papers found that employees lose up to 40 percent of their salary when they’re “re-classified” as contractors. In 2013, the city of Memphis reportedly cut wages from $15 an hour to $10 after it fired its school bus drivers and forced them to reapply through a staffing agency. Some Walmart “lumpers,” the warehouse workers who carry boxes from trucks to shelves, have to show up every morning but only get paid if there’s enough work for them that day.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>burntoutfire</author><text>Don&#x27;t you have industry-wide agreements, negotiated with unions, on minimum wages in these industries though?</text></comment> |
30,535,754 | 30,535,167 | 1 | 3 | 30,533,540 | train | <story><title>Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other offices from April 4</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-mandates-workers-back-silicon-valley-other-offices-april-4-2022-03-02/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skybrian</author><text>I&#x27;ve worked at a startup where everyone being there was essential in how we worked. (We were all pair programming.) It was great. It beats code reviews any day. I learned a lot.<p>But when I was at Google, we would schedule VC meetings with people in a different part of campus just to avoid the walk. Also, I worked on teams that had people worked out in many offices, mostly not Mountain View. I was surrounded by Googlers in an open-plan office, but it was often lonely. I ate alone sometimes. It was often not worth the commute.<p>I think Google having a company-wide policy on this is nuts. Teams vary a lot. They should probably be left to make their own decisions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>carom</author><text>Lonely is an incredibly accurate way to describe working at Google. Everyone says the office perks are there to trick you to stay, but our work area was quieter than a library and no one hung around. If people were talking they&#x27;d legit catch themselves and be like, we should grab a conference room. Incredibly polite but also an uncomfortably quiet environment.<p>I think a lot of people just wanted to put in their hours and get home to their families. I love pool but never played with anyone on the table one floor down because it just wasn&#x27;t a make-friends environment. I think I shot the shit with someone when I got into work a handful of times in the more-than-a-year that I worked there. Huge reason I left.<p>This isn&#x27;t even coming from a social person. I prefer WFH. I don&#x27;t particularly like going out. However, if I&#x27;m gonna be forced to be around people I&#x27;d at least like it to be pleasant.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other offices from April 4</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-mandates-workers-back-silicon-valley-other-offices-april-4-2022-03-02/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skybrian</author><text>I&#x27;ve worked at a startup where everyone being there was essential in how we worked. (We were all pair programming.) It was great. It beats code reviews any day. I learned a lot.<p>But when I was at Google, we would schedule VC meetings with people in a different part of campus just to avoid the walk. Also, I worked on teams that had people worked out in many offices, mostly not Mountain View. I was surrounded by Googlers in an open-plan office, but it was often lonely. I ate alone sometimes. It was often not worth the commute.<p>I think Google having a company-wide policy on this is nuts. Teams vary a lot. They should probably be left to make their own decisions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>&gt; I think Google having a company-wide policy on this is nuts. Teams vary a lot. They should probably be left to make their own decisions.<p>This seems rational until you are actually responsible for managing a large organization.<p>First off, the article itself states that Google is giving a lot of flexibility (&quot;Employees not prepared to return April 4 also can seek a remote-work extension, Google said. Since last June, Google has approved nearly 14,000 employees globally to transfer to a new location or go fully remote, Casey said. About 15% of applications have been denied, he added.&quot;) But it get&#x27;s very difficult to manage a large company without at least some sort of consistent policy.</text></comment> |
37,900,911 | 37,900,570 | 1 | 2 | 37,899,478 | train | <story><title>OpenBSD 7.4</title><url>https://www.openbsd.org/74.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>merricksb</author><text>Earlier submission:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37899319">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37899319</a></text></comment> | <story><title>OpenBSD 7.4</title><url>https://www.openbsd.org/74.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>proxysna</author><text>Release image [1] is inspired by works of Louis Wain[2]. Name of the release image references one of his works[3].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openbsd.org&#x2F;images&#x2F;ImHappyBecauseEveryoneLovesMe.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openbsd.org&#x2F;images&#x2F;ImHappyBecauseEveryoneLovesMe...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Louis_Wain" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Louis_Wain</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arthive.com&#x2F;artists&#x2F;11470~Louis_Wain&#x2F;works&#x2F;466546~Im_happy_for_everyone_loves_me" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arthive.com&#x2F;artists&#x2F;11470~Louis_Wain&#x2F;works&#x2F;466546~Im...</a></text></comment> |
29,717,020 | 29,717,252 | 1 | 2 | 29,714,825 | train | <story><title>Gobolinux : Redefining Linux filesystem hierarchy</title><url>https://gobolinux.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>usrbinbash</author><text>This is actually a neat idea, and I am saying that as the archetypical, grumpy <i>&quot;I like my sys the way it is, thank you very much!&quot;</i> - kinda guy.<p>A lot of the directory structure of POSIX systems is completely obsolete in the 21st century. The difference between sbin and bin? Historical, for the most part, and irrelevant in the age of rescue systems.<p>One question that is nagging at my mind with this: What if two programs require the same lib, how is this resolved?<p>Because, when I install progA, the lib is symlinked into the index, so when I now install progB, the lib is installed again if I understood correctly. Storage is irrelevant, the pkg manager sees there is a symlink, so it stays in place, all is well.<p>But now I remove progA, so what happens? progB is still present, still requires the lib, it is also still installed, but now the symlink, which refered to &#x2F;Programs&#x2F;progA&#x2F;libs&#x2F;thelib.so is broken. How is this situation handled?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>infogulch</author><text>I think libs are installed in &#x2F;Programs too, and everything is versioned, and all libraries are linked to a central &#x2F;System&#x2F;Index&#x2F;lib directory, which is referenced by ld by default: ( See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gobolinux.org&#x2F;at_a_glance.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gobolinux.org&#x2F;at_a_glance.html</a> )<p><pre><code> ~] ls -l &#x2F;System&#x2F;Index&#x2F;lib
libgtk.so -&gt; &#x2F;Programs&#x2F;GTK+&#x2F;1.2.10&#x2F;lib&#x2F;libgtk-1.2.so.0.9.1
libgtk-1.2.so.0 -&gt; &#x2F;Programs&#x2F;GTK+&#x2F;1.2.10&#x2F;lib&#x2F;libgtk-1.2.so.0.9.1
libgtk-1.2.so.0.9.1 -&gt; &#x2F;Programs&#x2F;GTK+&#x2F;1.2.10&#x2F;lib&#x2F;libgtk-1.2.so.0.9.1
</code></pre>
Also:<p><pre><code> ~] cat &#x2F;etc&#x2F;ld.so.conf
&#x2F;System&#x2F;Index&#x2F;lib
</code></pre>
I guess it&#x27;s up to the package manager or application to reference the version of the library at the correct specificity. And then it&#x27;s up to the package manager to GC libs that aren&#x27;t referenced anymore.<p>Personally I think it would have been interesting to version the system index itself, like &#x2F;System&#x2F;Index&#x2F;Current|1.0|myappenv|etc&#x2F;lib|bin|etc, and each app is chrooted into their own system index by default.</text></comment> | <story><title>Gobolinux : Redefining Linux filesystem hierarchy</title><url>https://gobolinux.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>usrbinbash</author><text>This is actually a neat idea, and I am saying that as the archetypical, grumpy <i>&quot;I like my sys the way it is, thank you very much!&quot;</i> - kinda guy.<p>A lot of the directory structure of POSIX systems is completely obsolete in the 21st century. The difference between sbin and bin? Historical, for the most part, and irrelevant in the age of rescue systems.<p>One question that is nagging at my mind with this: What if two programs require the same lib, how is this resolved?<p>Because, when I install progA, the lib is symlinked into the index, so when I now install progB, the lib is installed again if I understood correctly. Storage is irrelevant, the pkg manager sees there is a symlink, so it stays in place, all is well.<p>But now I remove progA, so what happens? progB is still present, still requires the lib, it is also still installed, but now the symlink, which refered to &#x2F;Programs&#x2F;progA&#x2F;libs&#x2F;thelib.so is broken. How is this situation handled?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>codedokode</author><text>Sbin and bin separation actually causes problems with portability. A certain bluetooth-related utility wants to run iptables command [1] which can usually be found in `&#x2F;sbin`. But `&#x2F;sbin` is not in the PATH so they have hardcoded `&#x2F;sbin&#x2F;iptables` into the source. Now distributions that have iptables in `&#x2F;usr&#x2F;sbin` have to patch the program.<p>So it would be better if either there were no `&#x2F;sbin` or if it was always in the PATH.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;blueman-project&#x2F;blueman&#x2F;blob&#x2F;fcef83a01c80bec3bbee731a162ce18a0f4c097a&#x2F;blueman&#x2F;main&#x2F;NetConf.py#L365" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;blueman-project&#x2F;blueman&#x2F;blob&#x2F;fcef83a01c80...</a></text></comment> |
31,172,889 | 31,172,954 | 1 | 2 | 31,172,475 | train | <story><title>Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2022 Results</title><url>https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2022Q1_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf?cache=d9e9d97</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chollida1</author><text>Numbers:<p>- Q1 EPS $24.63 Est 25.71<p>- Q1 Add Rev $54.66B, Est $54.14B<p>- Q1 Cloud Loss of $931M, still not sure how they can&#x27;t compete with Azure and Amazon here? This is a slight improvement YoY. Though cloud revenue was up 43%<p>- Q1 Services Rev of 61.47B<p>- Q1 Other Bets lost $1.16B<p>- Q1 Other Bets Rev $440M<p>- Q1 Re $68.01, Est $67.98<p>- looks like they are reporting a loss(1.2B) this quarter, which is a big swing YoY where they made a profit of 4.9B<p>- youtube Add Rev 6.9B, bit of a miss here, TikTok is starting to affect google growth finally, they already have affected Meta&#x27;s add revenue, maybe related also to iPhone privacy changes?<p>- Authorized to buyback up to $70B in shares, that&#x27;s a large number and indicates someone at google thinks rev is slowing down, see TikTok<p>Misc:<p>- shares down slightly, but negligible.<p>- numbers for Q1 shouldn&#x27;t be affected by Russia but next quarter will be interesting<p>- want to see how their US vs rest numbers work out as that should indicate where they&#x27;ll hold cash and therefor where they&#x27;ll look for take over targets next.<p>- specifically for their cloud offering, sooner or later they&#x27;ll get it working<p>- note to watch Meta as alot of people will use GOOG advertising numbers as a proxy for how screwed META will be with the iPhone privacy changes going forward.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davidbarker</author><text>Anecdotally, I spend a reasonable amount of time on YouTube (perhaps an hour per day), and recently (6–12 months) the frequency of ads has noticeably increased.<p>It’s so notable that I can’t help but think overall watch time has flattened but they’re desperate to continue increasing revenue. Although at some point they’re likely to go into a downward spiral where they annoy too many users. I’m not there yet, but I’m on the trajectory.</text></comment> | <story><title>Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2022 Results</title><url>https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2022Q1_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf?cache=d9e9d97</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chollida1</author><text>Numbers:<p>- Q1 EPS $24.63 Est 25.71<p>- Q1 Add Rev $54.66B, Est $54.14B<p>- Q1 Cloud Loss of $931M, still not sure how they can&#x27;t compete with Azure and Amazon here? This is a slight improvement YoY. Though cloud revenue was up 43%<p>- Q1 Services Rev of 61.47B<p>- Q1 Other Bets lost $1.16B<p>- Q1 Other Bets Rev $440M<p>- Q1 Re $68.01, Est $67.98<p>- looks like they are reporting a loss(1.2B) this quarter, which is a big swing YoY where they made a profit of 4.9B<p>- youtube Add Rev 6.9B, bit of a miss here, TikTok is starting to affect google growth finally, they already have affected Meta&#x27;s add revenue, maybe related also to iPhone privacy changes?<p>- Authorized to buyback up to $70B in shares, that&#x27;s a large number and indicates someone at google thinks rev is slowing down, see TikTok<p>Misc:<p>- shares down slightly, but negligible.<p>- numbers for Q1 shouldn&#x27;t be affected by Russia but next quarter will be interesting<p>- want to see how their US vs rest numbers work out as that should indicate where they&#x27;ll hold cash and therefor where they&#x27;ll look for take over targets next.<p>- specifically for their cloud offering, sooner or later they&#x27;ll get it working<p>- note to watch Meta as alot of people will use GOOG advertising numbers as a proxy for how screwed META will be with the iPhone privacy changes going forward.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dijit</author><text>&gt; still not sure how they can&#x27;t compete with Azure and Amazon here?<p>People go AWS because it’s the default, easy to hire people who know it, AWS are willing to throw credits at you if you’re in the US and once you’re on the platform it’s a serious effort to get off due to weird lock-ins.<p>Azure has its niche in the windows market, a lot of smaller orgs are going AzureAD as a replacement (or in addition to) a normal on-prem AD solution, once you’re on the platform it’s easy to just use more of it and consume existing contracts.<p>It helps immeasurably that if you’re running windows workloads they “happen” to be reasonably priced, as opposed to other cloud providers.<p>It’s a shame, because google cloud is definitely my favourite of the public clouds, I hope it doesn’t go anywhere and I’d be extremely happy to go back to it after using AWS for a while now.</text></comment> |
35,733,462 | 35,733,165 | 1 | 3 | 35,732,225 | train | <story><title>Founders’ Email to Clubhouse Employees</title><url>https://blog.clubhouse.com/april-27-2023/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bkm</author><text>Sad to hear. In an alternate timeline they would have accepted the $4B+ Twitter offer and had a nice exit along the way.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;07&#x2F;twitter-said-to-have-held-acquisition-talks-with-clubhouse-on-potential-4b-deal&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;07&#x2F;twitter-said-to-have-held-...</a><p>The hard truth is software can&#x27;t be patented and Twitter could copy the concept verbatim without paying them a penny.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xwdv</author><text>Every time I hear of another founder passing on a multi-billion dollar offer, I think back to Tom from MySpace and how he sold MySpace off for a lot of money and went on to live happily ever after. Smartest guy in the social media game.</text></comment> | <story><title>Founders’ Email to Clubhouse Employees</title><url>https://blog.clubhouse.com/april-27-2023/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bkm</author><text>Sad to hear. In an alternate timeline they would have accepted the $4B+ Twitter offer and had a nice exit along the way.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;07&#x2F;twitter-said-to-have-held-acquisition-talks-with-clubhouse-on-potential-4b-deal&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;07&#x2F;twitter-said-to-have-held-...</a><p>The hard truth is software can&#x27;t be patented and Twitter could copy the concept verbatim without paying them a penny.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sosodev</author><text>The owners would have gotten a nice exit. The employees would have probably ended up laid off anyway, right?<p>edit:
actually looking at some posted salaries it seems some employees were given quite a lot of equity</text></comment> |
7,981,231 | 7,976,547 | 1 | 3 | 7,974,203 | train | <story><title>Why Everyone Should be Concerned By the Seizure of MyRedBook.com</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/07/whose-redbook-why-everyone-should-be-concerned-seizure-myredbookcom</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>davorak</author><text>&gt; The website is pretty clearly operating across state lines. If the website is based in California (just made that up), runs on servers in Texas, and it allows users in Michigan to solicit sex from users in Florida, it&#x27;s pretty clearly engaging in interstate commerce.<p>A web site has to police the addresses of user base for user to user interactions? Are their examples where ebay, amazon, or similar service has to proactively police its user or suffer criminal charges for user to user interactions?</text></item><item><author>learc83</author><text>&gt;Congress may regulate it as part of interstate commerce<p>The website is pretty clearly operating across state lines. If the website is based in California (just made that up), runs on servers in Texas, and it allows users in Michigan to solicit sex from users in Florida, it&#x27;s pretty clearly engaging in interstate commerce.<p>Even if the website limited users to just one state, the federal government could still potentially regulate it under the interstate commerce clause provided the intrastate commerce substantially affects interstate commerce.<p>-Note: the site by itself doesn&#x27;t have to have a substantial effect. It just has to be part of a potential substantial cumulative effect--that is to say, hundreds of intrastate sex advertisement websites would, together, have a substantial cumulative effect on interstate commerce, so congress would be justified in banning all sex advertising websites, even if individually they don&#x27;t engage in interstate commerce.<p>Edit: This comment assumes that the website was in fact facilitating prostitution. This may or may not be the case, I have no idea.</text></item><item><author>chillingeffect</author><text>I wish the EFF had stated the case as an issue of state&#x27;s rights.<p>From Wikipedia:<p>The regulation of prostitution in the United States is not among the enumerated powers of the federal government. Under the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, it is therefore exclusively the domain of the states to permit, prohibit, or otherwise regulate commercial sex, except insofar as Congress may regulate it as part of interstate commerce with laws like the Mann Act.<p>Furthermore, that site is also legal in parts of Nevada where prostitution is legal.<p>I don&#x27;t see how the federal government has jurisdiction in this matter. The Mann act is for interstate commerce. Perhaps this applies, but I think a real lawyer could share their related experience.<p>10th Amendment, btw: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people</text></item><item><author>tomasien</author><text>Thank you for posting this. EFF makes the site seem like purely a forum and it just wasn&#x27;t - it doesn&#x27;t change MY personal opinion of this matter (I am against the takedown STRONGLY) but it worries me when people with whom I agree seem to miss the mark on providing an accurate representation of the facts. I&#x27;m not suggesting it&#x27;s intentionally misleading, but I think it doesn&#x27;t get it exactly right.</text></item><item><author>panarky</author><text>This issue is more ethically ambiguous than the EFF acknowledged in their post. The EFF only links to the legal and health forums, while the FBI claims the sites &quot;were used to facilitate prostitution&quot; [0]:<p><pre><code> advertisements for prostitutes... menus of sexual services,
hourly and nightly rates, and customer reviews of the
prostitutes’ services.
</code></pre>
You can see an example of an advertisement here (NSFW): <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130521131010/http://forum.myredbook.com/dcforum2/DCForumID20/188351.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20130521131010&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.myre...</a><p>I&#x27;m not arguing for or against sex work, just illustrating that this takedown is not a clear-cut case of censoring a vulnerable community&#x27;s non-commercial political speech.<p>Is the EFF saying the FBI should have targeted specific illegal posts instead of taking down legal material as well? I support the EFF in their important work, but they&#x27;re more credible and effective when they tell the whole story, including the complicated part.<p>[0] <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/news/news_blog/operators-of-myredbook.com-website-arrested-on-prostitution-and-money-laundering-charges" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fbi.gov&#x2F;news&#x2F;news_blog&#x2F;operators-of-myredbook.com...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JorgeJetson</author><text>All counts of the indictment, including the money laundering, are based upon two conditions. Both must be true for any of the counts in the indictment to be judged a crime. These two conditions are:<p>a) use of interstate mail and communications for illegal activity<p>b) the illegal activity is specifically a violation of the California code prohibiting prostitution: facilitation of prostitution.<p>So the federal indictment is completely dependent upon the criminal violation of a state law. However, myredbook, or its owners, have never been indictment, let alone convicted, by the State of California. This is after more than a decade of operation.<p>Furthermore there is a federal law stating that web site owners &#x2F; operators do not take any legal responsibility for the content provided by others. It does not matter if the web site owners charge or not charge these other parties for using the site.<p>This seems to be a really really bad legal case. At minimum the feds are presuming that the owners of my redbook would be convicted of a state crime, if the state would just prosecute them. As we all know, the American legal system presumes innocence until being convicted in a court of law.<p>So legally the feds don&#x27;t seem to really have a case. All they seem to be doing is hassling the owners of myredbook with the intent of shutting the web site down.<p>So this totally appears to be someone in the justice department driving a moral or religious agenda and not really a legal one.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Everyone Should be Concerned By the Seizure of MyRedBook.com</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/07/whose-redbook-why-everyone-should-be-concerned-seizure-myredbookcom</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>davorak</author><text>&gt; The website is pretty clearly operating across state lines. If the website is based in California (just made that up), runs on servers in Texas, and it allows users in Michigan to solicit sex from users in Florida, it&#x27;s pretty clearly engaging in interstate commerce.<p>A web site has to police the addresses of user base for user to user interactions? Are their examples where ebay, amazon, or similar service has to proactively police its user or suffer criminal charges for user to user interactions?</text></item><item><author>learc83</author><text>&gt;Congress may regulate it as part of interstate commerce<p>The website is pretty clearly operating across state lines. If the website is based in California (just made that up), runs on servers in Texas, and it allows users in Michigan to solicit sex from users in Florida, it&#x27;s pretty clearly engaging in interstate commerce.<p>Even if the website limited users to just one state, the federal government could still potentially regulate it under the interstate commerce clause provided the intrastate commerce substantially affects interstate commerce.<p>-Note: the site by itself doesn&#x27;t have to have a substantial effect. It just has to be part of a potential substantial cumulative effect--that is to say, hundreds of intrastate sex advertisement websites would, together, have a substantial cumulative effect on interstate commerce, so congress would be justified in banning all sex advertising websites, even if individually they don&#x27;t engage in interstate commerce.<p>Edit: This comment assumes that the website was in fact facilitating prostitution. This may or may not be the case, I have no idea.</text></item><item><author>chillingeffect</author><text>I wish the EFF had stated the case as an issue of state&#x27;s rights.<p>From Wikipedia:<p>The regulation of prostitution in the United States is not among the enumerated powers of the federal government. Under the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, it is therefore exclusively the domain of the states to permit, prohibit, or otherwise regulate commercial sex, except insofar as Congress may regulate it as part of interstate commerce with laws like the Mann Act.<p>Furthermore, that site is also legal in parts of Nevada where prostitution is legal.<p>I don&#x27;t see how the federal government has jurisdiction in this matter. The Mann act is for interstate commerce. Perhaps this applies, but I think a real lawyer could share their related experience.<p>10th Amendment, btw: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people</text></item><item><author>tomasien</author><text>Thank you for posting this. EFF makes the site seem like purely a forum and it just wasn&#x27;t - it doesn&#x27;t change MY personal opinion of this matter (I am against the takedown STRONGLY) but it worries me when people with whom I agree seem to miss the mark on providing an accurate representation of the facts. I&#x27;m not suggesting it&#x27;s intentionally misleading, but I think it doesn&#x27;t get it exactly right.</text></item><item><author>panarky</author><text>This issue is more ethically ambiguous than the EFF acknowledged in their post. The EFF only links to the legal and health forums, while the FBI claims the sites &quot;were used to facilitate prostitution&quot; [0]:<p><pre><code> advertisements for prostitutes... menus of sexual services,
hourly and nightly rates, and customer reviews of the
prostitutes’ services.
</code></pre>
You can see an example of an advertisement here (NSFW): <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130521131010/http://forum.myredbook.com/dcforum2/DCForumID20/188351.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20130521131010&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.myre...</a><p>I&#x27;m not arguing for or against sex work, just illustrating that this takedown is not a clear-cut case of censoring a vulnerable community&#x27;s non-commercial political speech.<p>Is the EFF saying the FBI should have targeted specific illegal posts instead of taking down legal material as well? I support the EFF in their important work, but they&#x27;re more credible and effective when they tell the whole story, including the complicated part.<p>[0] <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/news/news_blog/operators-of-myredbook.com-website-arrested-on-prostitution-and-money-laundering-charges" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fbi.gov&#x2F;news&#x2F;news_blog&#x2F;operators-of-myredbook.com...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adzicg</author><text>Many European gambling sites filter and self regulate users by origin country - to prohibit US users from gambling. In most countries here online gambling is legal and regulated, but there were a few cases in 2005 where US police arrested UK citizens - company directors - coming through their borders, for being involved in online gambling. As a result, most gambling operators decised it&#x27;s safest to just block business from the US.</text></comment> |
34,140,585 | 34,140,572 | 1 | 2 | 34,137,990 | train | <story><title>Study finds AI assistants help developers produce code likely to be buggy</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/21/ai_assistants_bad_code/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>digitalsushi</author><text>If I had a little robot riding in the passenger seat that could tell me whether to go left, straight, or right, and it was correct 90% of the time, I&#x27;d think that was pretty great. I&#x27;d get where I needed to be, even with a couple mishaps.<p>ML code suggestions are the same thing to me. If I don&#x27;t know where I am going, I can just ask it for suggestions. And it&#x27;s probably going to be what I want.<p>In both cases, I am annoyed with myself for having started before I knew where I want to end up.</text></item><item><author>lumb63</author><text>Surprising. If only there were a way that we could have foreseen that an AI trained to write code in part by looking at people who, self-admittedly, don’t know how to write code, and people who write code for others with minimal context (Stack Overflow), would produce buggy code. It is a case of GIGO.<p>Most developers do not learn much from Stack Overflow. Why do we expect AI to fare better? In my experience, one in ten (optimistically) Stack Overflow answers give anything more than a code snippet with enough information to get the asker through their immediate issue. It can be beneficial if you have the necessary understanding already and only want the code snippet, but this is no way for humans or machines to learn.<p>Also, having an “AI Assistant” must lower programmers’ guards against buggy code. After all, it is an assistant - it must assist you, right? Subordinating humans to machines will not work in this domain until there is better training data and the machines can be taught the reason they are writing specific code. Until then, I have low hopes for AI-generated code.<p>Even if AI could generate correct, bug-free code the majority (say 99.9% of the time), I expect finding and correcting bugs will be difficult for humans. For example, how many bugs are found and corrected by the author of code during development, versus how many in peer review? I’m reminded of a saying akin to “ask someone to review 5,000 lines of code: no bugs. Ask someone to review 5 lines of code: 5 bugs”. We are poor critical reviewers, and AI cannot fix that. AI assistants probably worsen reviews, because reviewers will expect high-quality code from their AI assistants.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Salgat</author><text>The problem with ML is that it&#x27;s pattern recognition, it&#x27;s an approximation. Code is absolute, it&#x27;s logic that is interpreted very literally and very exactly. This is what makes it so dangerous for coding; it creates code that&#x27;s convincing to humans but with deviations that allow for all sorts of bugs. And the worst part is, since you didn&#x27;t write the code, you may not have the skills (or time) to figure out if those bugs exist, especially if the ML is extremely convincing&#x2F;clever in what it writes. I would argue that this overhead is even worse for productivity over just writing it yourself.</text></comment> | <story><title>Study finds AI assistants help developers produce code likely to be buggy</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/21/ai_assistants_bad_code/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>digitalsushi</author><text>If I had a little robot riding in the passenger seat that could tell me whether to go left, straight, or right, and it was correct 90% of the time, I&#x27;d think that was pretty great. I&#x27;d get where I needed to be, even with a couple mishaps.<p>ML code suggestions are the same thing to me. If I don&#x27;t know where I am going, I can just ask it for suggestions. And it&#x27;s probably going to be what I want.<p>In both cases, I am annoyed with myself for having started before I knew where I want to end up.</text></item><item><author>lumb63</author><text>Surprising. If only there were a way that we could have foreseen that an AI trained to write code in part by looking at people who, self-admittedly, don’t know how to write code, and people who write code for others with minimal context (Stack Overflow), would produce buggy code. It is a case of GIGO.<p>Most developers do not learn much from Stack Overflow. Why do we expect AI to fare better? In my experience, one in ten (optimistically) Stack Overflow answers give anything more than a code snippet with enough information to get the asker through their immediate issue. It can be beneficial if you have the necessary understanding already and only want the code snippet, but this is no way for humans or machines to learn.<p>Also, having an “AI Assistant” must lower programmers’ guards against buggy code. After all, it is an assistant - it must assist you, right? Subordinating humans to machines will not work in this domain until there is better training data and the machines can be taught the reason they are writing specific code. Until then, I have low hopes for AI-generated code.<p>Even if AI could generate correct, bug-free code the majority (say 99.9% of the time), I expect finding and correcting bugs will be difficult for humans. For example, how many bugs are found and corrected by the author of code during development, versus how many in peer review? I’m reminded of a saying akin to “ask someone to review 5,000 lines of code: no bugs. Ask someone to review 5 lines of code: 5 bugs”. We are poor critical reviewers, and AI cannot fix that. AI assistants probably worsen reviews, because reviewers will expect high-quality code from their AI assistants.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wolfram74</author><text>Your example hinges on at least two things<p>1) How many turns do you take on a particular trip<p>2) How do those wrong turns end up? if it&#x27;s &quot;travel time extended by 30 seconds&quot; or &quot;My car, the car I hit and the side of this building are all in shambles&quot; changes what a 10% failure rate means a lot.</text></comment> |
19,726,803 | 19,725,397 | 1 | 3 | 19,724,674 | train | <story><title>NPM staff fired after trying to unionize – complaints</title><url>https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/22/npm_fired_staff_union_complaints/#</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>evv</author><text>All of the drama around the npm firings has sparked an interesting discussion in the JS community: does it even make sense to trust a for-profit corporation with the world&#x27;s supply of JS?<p>One of the creators of unpkg.com is considering a fork of the registry: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;mjackson&#x2F;status&#x2F;1119355707055165441" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;mjackson&#x2F;status&#x2F;1119355707055165441</a><p>Meanwhile, yarn (a popular alternative to the npm client), uses a proxy to NPM so they can change the default registry of all yarn clients, if they choose to.<p>As it stands, npm is the centralized source of truth for all our JS packages, and historical versions. We have no guarantees about the future of npm. Aside from a relatively clean history, we have no reason to trust them. For every dollar of VC money that they have taken, we have a reason to believe the registry won&#x27;t last in its current form. This is scary.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krapp</author><text>&gt;does it even make sense to trust a for-profit corporation with the world&#x27;s supply of JS?<p>No. Javascript, despite its flaws, was already one of the freest, easily accessible and deployable programming languages in existence. It flourished throughout the web without any gatekeepers or centralized authority, and it never <i>needed</i> the ecosystem of overwrought complexity and BS that it has.<p>Not only does it not make sense for NPM to have de facto control over that language through a single, proprietary registry and a single package manager, it further makes no sense that in the intervening years, with all of the issues NPM has had, no serious attempt at competition or re-decentralization of the JS community has even been attempted.<p>Unfortunately, I feel like the baby has long ago been thrown out with the bathwater, and NPM&#x27;s ubiquity and network effect has made it &quot;too big to fail,&quot; despite failing constantly. Maybe we can just start over once NPM has finally burned to the ground and taken the web with it.</text></comment> | <story><title>NPM staff fired after trying to unionize – complaints</title><url>https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/22/npm_fired_staff_union_complaints/#</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>evv</author><text>All of the drama around the npm firings has sparked an interesting discussion in the JS community: does it even make sense to trust a for-profit corporation with the world&#x27;s supply of JS?<p>One of the creators of unpkg.com is considering a fork of the registry: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;mjackson&#x2F;status&#x2F;1119355707055165441" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;mjackson&#x2F;status&#x2F;1119355707055165441</a><p>Meanwhile, yarn (a popular alternative to the npm client), uses a proxy to NPM so they can change the default registry of all yarn clients, if they choose to.<p>As it stands, npm is the centralized source of truth for all our JS packages, and historical versions. We have no guarantees about the future of npm. Aside from a relatively clean history, we have no reason to trust them. For every dollar of VC money that they have taken, we have a reason to believe the registry won&#x27;t last in its current form. This is scary.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bellerose</author><text>I always star the main packages I use on GitHub but I realize I&#x27;m missing out on the required packages being used as well. It would be nice if an alternative sprung up that was p2p truly decentralized by developers and intertwined with where developers typically host their repositories.</text></comment> |
26,022,417 | 26,019,804 | 1 | 2 | 26,018,684 | train | <story><title>Asdf – An Extendable Version Manager</title><url>https://asdf-vm.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nikolay</author><text>I&#x27;ve been using it and has contributed to it, but I wish it supported out of the box GitHub-based release binaries as 90% of my code for different vendors was relatively the same, so, instead of having multiple identical repositories, I created one, which uses introspection [0].<p>I wish this was available out of the box to handle literary 90% of the tools.<p>Also, I typically pair it with direnv [1] for even more magic.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Banno&#x2F;asdf-hashicorp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Banno&#x2F;asdf-hashicorp</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;direnv.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;direnv.net&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philsnow</author><text>Seeing all the love for direnv makes me feel like I&#x27;m the only one taking crazy pills.<p>Direnv breaks referential transparency of the shell. I heavily use my shell history to riff on commandlines I&#x27;ve entered in the past. If direnv is in the mix, my shell pipelines sometimes have to have `cd` in them, often in subshells because that works better for me than pushd&#x2F;popd.<p>pyenv&#x2F;rbenv&#x2F;asdf do the same thing, but you can have a &quot;global&quot; version pinned and do all your shell-related package installs there, so it doesn&#x27;t end up being that bad. Though, this still breaks when I happen to be sitting in a directory on my system that has a .python-version file. All of a sudden my &quot;global&quot;ly installed python packages don&#x27;t work. I greatly prefer tools like pipx &#x2F; pipsi for this purpose (is there a language-agnostic pipx-alike? or is that nix?) because the shims they install usually work no matter what my shell environment&#x2F;CWD is.<p>.... Maybe most of my ire is because my only exposure to direnv is because at least one repo at my day job uses it. For me it&#x27;s not so much &quot;customize your environment any way you want&quot;, it&#x27;s &quot;oh did you run that command from projectdir&#x2F;foo instead of projectdir&#x2F;foo&#x2F;bar? That doesn&#x27;t work&quot;. Debugging the interactions between people&#x27;s individual poetry&#x2F;pipenv&#x2F;pip&#x2F;rbenv&#x2F;direnv&#x2F;etcetcetc setups and project-based setups is the bane of my work life.</text></comment> | <story><title>Asdf – An Extendable Version Manager</title><url>https://asdf-vm.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nikolay</author><text>I&#x27;ve been using it and has contributed to it, but I wish it supported out of the box GitHub-based release binaries as 90% of my code for different vendors was relatively the same, so, instead of having multiple identical repositories, I created one, which uses introspection [0].<p>I wish this was available out of the box to handle literary 90% of the tools.<p>Also, I typically pair it with direnv [1] for even more magic.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Banno&#x2F;asdf-hashicorp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Banno&#x2F;asdf-hashicorp</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;direnv.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;direnv.net&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mwudka1</author><text>Thank you for asdf-hashicorp. We use it at HashiCorp.</text></comment> |
20,131,027 | 20,130,998 | 1 | 2 | 20,129,833 | train | <story><title>The Celera 500L aircraft may fly soon</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28409/the-mysterious-and-potentially-revolutionary-celera-500l-aircraft-may-fly-soon</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>usaphp</author><text>What are the downsides of higher altitude flights?</text></item><item><author>asdfadsfgfdda</author><text>Less drag (lower air density) but also slower winds. Cruising at such a high altitude avoids the strongest jet stream winds.</text></item><item><author>dorfsmay</author><text>Why flying so high? Fuel economy?</text></item><item><author>skunkworker</author><text>If the claims about efficiency are correct, this aircraft has Prius-like levels of fuel efficiency. Incredible.<p>&quot;The patent goes on to describe a notional aircraft that would cruise between 460 and 510 miles per hour at an altitude of up to 65,000 feet, yielding a fuel efficiency rate of between 30 and 42 miles per gallon. To put this in perspective, the Pilatus PC-12, a popular light, single-engine turboprop aircraft has a service ceiling of 30,000 feet, a cruising speed just under 330 miles per hour, and still burns, on average, 66 gallons of jet fuel per hour, for a fuel economy of roughly five miles to the gallon. Even going to a Learjet 70, which has similar speed performance to what&#x27;s stated in the Celera patent documents, but still nowhere near as high a ceiling, we are talking about roughly three miles per gallon of gas at cruise.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DuskStar</author><text>In addition to the other listed issues, it&#x27;s above the altitude at which body temperature causes water to boil, commonly known as the Armstrong Limit. As you may imagine, this significantly complicates cabin depressurization incidents.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Celera 500L aircraft may fly soon</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28409/the-mysterious-and-potentially-revolutionary-celera-500l-aircraft-may-fly-soon</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>usaphp</author><text>What are the downsides of higher altitude flights?</text></item><item><author>asdfadsfgfdda</author><text>Less drag (lower air density) but also slower winds. Cruising at such a high altitude avoids the strongest jet stream winds.</text></item><item><author>dorfsmay</author><text>Why flying so high? Fuel economy?</text></item><item><author>skunkworker</author><text>If the claims about efficiency are correct, this aircraft has Prius-like levels of fuel efficiency. Incredible.<p>&quot;The patent goes on to describe a notional aircraft that would cruise between 460 and 510 miles per hour at an altitude of up to 65,000 feet, yielding a fuel efficiency rate of between 30 and 42 miles per gallon. To put this in perspective, the Pilatus PC-12, a popular light, single-engine turboprop aircraft has a service ceiling of 30,000 feet, a cruising speed just under 330 miles per hour, and still burns, on average, 66 gallons of jet fuel per hour, for a fuel economy of roughly five miles to the gallon. Even going to a Learjet 70, which has similar speed performance to what&#x27;s stated in the Celera patent documents, but still nowhere near as high a ceiling, we are talking about roughly three miles per gallon of gas at cruise.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bayesian_horse</author><text>Climbing that high takes time and fuel. Which you can recover somewhat on descent, but not totally, and under not-ideal circumstances like hiccups in the flight plan the plane even has to waste the potential energy.<p>I&#x27;d say that altitude is the reason for the focus on long distance.</text></comment> |
38,903,562 | 38,903,514 | 1 | 3 | 38,902,983 | train | <story><title>NHS to investigate Palantir influencer campaign as possible contract breach</title><url>https://goodlawproject.org/nhs-to-investigate-palantir-influencer-campaign-as-possible-contract-breach/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cedws</author><text>I just don&#x27;t get it. NHS needs a big data platform so they go to a... spy tech company? Why are they so insistent that it <i>must</i> be Palantir that builds this, instead of choosing from a dozen of other consulting companies that don&#x27;t have a dodgy track record?<p>Ideally the NHS would just build it in house, but sadly it&#x27;s a slow and bloated organisation unable to innovate (as most government managed things usually become).</text></comment> | <story><title>NHS to investigate Palantir influencer campaign as possible contract breach</title><url>https://goodlawproject.org/nhs-to-investigate-palantir-influencer-campaign-as-possible-contract-breach/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>walthamstow</author><text>&gt; Palantir’s Executive Vice President for UK and Europe, Louis Mosely<p>If you&#x27;re wondering, yes he is related to Oswald and Max</text></comment> |
21,398,134 | 21,397,455 | 1 | 2 | 21,397,041 | train | <story><title>Simple Does Not Mean Ugly</title><url>https://uglyduck.ca/simple-does-not-mean-ugly/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jonathanstrange</author><text>To be honest, I have never encountered a website so far that even remotely had the same level of usability of a really good desktop application around the year 2000 or so.<p>How many websites have user-definable menu shortcuts, unlimited undo, instant user-feedback for every operation, tooltips that can be switched on or off, full internal drag &amp; drop and OS-level drag and drop of files, standard user interface elements that work how the user expects them to work, a context-sensitive online help system, reconfigurable toolbars with user-definable icon sets, multiple open documents at once, movable and reconfigurable tool windows, manye internationalizations, and so on?<p>The web is still the future, I know, but web application UX designers are still re-inventing the wheel and without some enforced UI guidelines like Apple had in the 90s websites will never fully catch up with desktop apps in terms of usability.<p>To be fair, a comparison with modern desktop apps is much more favorable, because most of them have regressed in terms of usability.</text></comment> | <story><title>Simple Does Not Mean Ugly</title><url>https://uglyduck.ca/simple-does-not-mean-ugly/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>halgir</author><text>Very old and very relevant:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;motherfuckingwebsite.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;motherfuckingwebsite.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com&#x2F;</a><p>And if you search for &quot;motherfucking website&quot;, you&#x27;ll find a million similar, satirical versions of a website inspired by that first one.</text></comment> |
14,968,131 | 14,967,801 | 1 | 2 | 14,966,687 | train | <story><title>Pytest 3.2.0 released</title><url>https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/changelog.html#pytest-3-2-0-2017-07-30</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>giancarlostoro</author><text>I&#x27;m fairly new to Python and wondering of any reasons to use these as opposed to the standard unittest package that comes with Python?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>masklinn</author><text>It has an excellent runner and makes much better use of Python features:<p>* you can define tests as free functions (you don&#x27;t have to, it also supports classes and even regular unittest cases, you can use pytest to run your existing suite)<p>* exceptions aside it uses the standard `assert` statement<p>* fixtures are DI&#x27;d, independent from tests and much more flexible than the setUp&#x2F;tearDown dance<p>* tests are configured and fixtures are defined using decorators &amp; generators<p>* excellent support for data-driven tests (parametrized tests and fixtures)<p>* there is a wealth of reusable third-party plugins[0] ranging from framework helpers[1] to test parallelisation and distribution[2]<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;plugincompat.herokuapp.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;plugincompat.herokuapp.com</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pypi.python.org&#x2F;pypi&#x2F;pytest-tornado" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pypi.python.org&#x2F;pypi&#x2F;pytest-tornado</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pypi.python.org&#x2F;pypi&#x2F;pytest-xdist" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pypi.python.org&#x2F;pypi&#x2F;pytest-xdist</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Pytest 3.2.0 released</title><url>https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/changelog.html#pytest-3-2-0-2017-07-30</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>giancarlostoro</author><text>I&#x27;m fairly new to Python and wondering of any reasons to use these as opposed to the standard unittest package that comes with Python?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mivade</author><text>If for no other reason, pytest requires a lot less boilerplate.<p>Pytest fixtures are also quite a bit more flexible than unittest&#x27;s setUp and tearDown methods, although they take a little while to really understand (at least they did for me) since they use some magic.</text></comment> |
6,134,947 | 6,134,462 | 1 | 3 | 6,133,796 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Sketch, connect and simulate gears and chains</title><url>https://github.com/frankleenaars/gearsketch</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lifeformed</author><text>I&#x27;ve always wondered -
Consider the following gear arrangement: <a href="http://snag.gy/Tvsgi.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;snag.gy&#x2F;Tvsgi.jpg</a><p>The tiniest push on the gear on the left causes the gear on the right to fly at thousands of RPM. Of course, there would be a ton of friction in the system to overcome. However, what if the left gear was a pinion connected to a rack that was pushed by an extremely powerful, yet slow-moving source, such as a glacier or tectonic plate? With enough gears in this arrangement, an unstoppable force moving just 1mm&#x2F;year could spin tons of turbines.<p>Would this work?</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Sketch, connect and simulate gears and chains</title><url>https://github.com/frankleenaars/gearsketch</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>basicallydan</author><text>This is really cool!<p>The ability to save a configuration and share it would be pretty cool, but as well as that, other objects such as sticks which are attached to gears would be a lot of fun. But then I suppose you have to involve gravity :)</text></comment> |
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