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24,738,404 | 24,737,802 | 1 | 2 | 24,737,355 | train | <story><title>OPSEC critique of the Michigan Governor kidnap plot</title><url>https://twitter.com/thegrugq/status/1314237833276612609</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nabla9</author><text>What you see here is people doing serious crime without being fully cognizant. They have to collectively to suppress some lines of thought to be able to get into it. The line between weekend live action role-playing, tough talk, rebellion and reality has blurred with these people. They attended demonstrations, had fantasy plans based on movies they watched, and then started to act on them.<p>These guys are useful fools for those how ignite them.</text></comment> | <story><title>OPSEC critique of the Michigan Governor kidnap plot</title><url>https://twitter.com/thegrugq/status/1314237833276612609</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sebmellen</author><text>It always surprises me how hard it seems for people to take OpSec seriously (whether for terrorist plots or darknet markets). There are really a few basic ground rules that <i>always</i> seem to be violated, even by those with seemingly sufficient experience, like Ross Ulbricht.<p>On the note of OpSec, there&#x27;s an awesome project called USBKill, which probably would&#x27;ve saved Ross Ulbricht from prison.<p>&gt; <i>USBKill is anti-forensic software distributed via GitHub, written in Python for the BSD, Linux and OS X operating systems. It is designed to serve as a kill switch if the computer on which it is installed should fall under the control of individuals or entities the owner or operator does not wish it to. It is free software, available under the GNU General Public License.</i> [1]<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hephaest0s&#x2F;usbkill" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hephaest0s&#x2F;usbkill</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;USBKill" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;USBKill</a></text></comment> |
21,196,703 | 21,193,863 | 1 | 3 | 21,193,203 | train | <story><title>Experts who say we shouldn't worry about superintelligent AI are wrong?</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/many-experts-say-we-shouldnt-worry-about-superintelligent-ai-theyre-wrong</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cf</author><text>The real risk is that worrying about fantastical disaster scenarios distracts us from addressing the more immediate problems we already face with AI. Whether it is facial recognition being used by China to aid in ethnic cleansing of a minority group, or Tesla Autopilot regularly killing its passengers.<p>Even if you don&#x27;t like my particular examples I can highlight a dozen more problems AI software has created or exacerbated right now. Why all the focus on hypothetical problems?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simonh</author><text>Oh good grief, not another we should do this before we do that post. As if the entire human species is incapable of walking and also chewing gum simultaneously.<p>Let’s stop Nick Bostrom and a load of AI experts from doing their current work, put them all on a plane and send them to China to solve political oppression. I’m sure that will work.</text></comment> | <story><title>Experts who say we shouldn't worry about superintelligent AI are wrong?</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/many-experts-say-we-shouldnt-worry-about-superintelligent-ai-theyre-wrong</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cf</author><text>The real risk is that worrying about fantastical disaster scenarios distracts us from addressing the more immediate problems we already face with AI. Whether it is facial recognition being used by China to aid in ethnic cleansing of a minority group, or Tesla Autopilot regularly killing its passengers.<p>Even if you don&#x27;t like my particular examples I can highlight a dozen more problems AI software has created or exacerbated right now. Why all the focus on hypothetical problems?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>merpnderp</author><text>Or hyperbole needlessly scaring people. China doesn&#x27;t need facial recognition to repress minorities and Tesla&#x27;s autopilot is still safer than some rando on the road, who&#x27;s probably texting some juicy gossip to their friends instead of avoiding the car stopped in front of them.<p>AI is making things better.</text></comment> |
6,916,643 | 6,916,247 | 1 | 2 | 6,914,696 | train | <story><title>If a Drone Strike Hit an American Wedding We'd Ground Our Fleet</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/12/if-a-drone-strike-hit-an-american-wedding-wed-ground-our-fleet/282373/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cscurmudgeon</author><text>Arguments like this are logically wrong. I am glad you are not a judge in real life (hint: why is racial profiling wrong?)</text></item><item><author>glesica</author><text>It&#x27;s a simple economic analysis. People <i>tend</i> (this word is important) to follow their incentives. If a person on welfare faces a high effective marginal tax when they start working (due to paying taxes plus losing benefits) they will not start working. If a CEO is compensated exclusively based on short-term share price, they will ramp up the share price even if they have to hurt the company to do it.<p>We have seen mountains of evidence that people follow their incentives even when those incentives lead to perverse, counter-productive behaviors. It&#x27;s basically what the entire &quot;Freakonomics&quot; franchise is built on, for example.<p>We also know that the incentives faced by the military establishment are pushing toward more war, more violence. This is obvious, just look at the early &#x27;90s when we thought the world was going to be more peaceful. We cut back on military spending, military contractors howled and screamed.<p>So, while we have no direct evidence that anyone in the military establishment is willfully disregarding civilian casualties, we <i>do</i> have extremely strong inferential evidence that some people in the military establishment are likely to do so, now, in the past, and in the future.</text></item><item><author>cscurmudgeon</author><text>Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. You have made these accusations without any evidence. Be responsible and ethical and show us something real, if you have it. (note: I am not taking sides.)</text></item><item><author>rdtsc</author><text>It is profitable.<p>If terrorists disappeared tomorrow. Let&#x27;s say we use our surgical strike weapons to target every cell every member, and in one hour they are gone. What would happen? Billions of dollars disappear from the pockets of everyone in the chain. Military contractors, drone maintenance, promotions, bonuses, career advancements, no more completed missions, medals, no job to go to.<p>So the direct financial and career incentive for everyone in the chain is to always make sure there is a stream of new terrorists, new cells, new intelligence chatter about &quot;the Great Satan&quot;. And that is indirectly accomplished by indiscriminately bombing civilians. Everyone who is involved in picking the target and knows it is a funeral, will know civilians will die. I can&#x27;t help but think they also know it is job insurance as well. They would be stupid not to.<p>American public via media has been tested enough during releases of so many atrocities, torture tapes, lies, monitoring that by now, I think they&#x27;ve built an accurate model of how much outrage will be generated and how much will actually threaten future operations, funding, reelection and so on (so far not much).<p>The bottom line, I don&#x27;t even know and 100% believe them when they say these are all &quot;mistakes&quot;. The incentives and the motivation, especially in the long term, is for them not to really care if civilians get bombed.</text></item><item><author>sethbannon</author><text>The way America is conducting the war on terror is both self-defeating and morally repugnant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crpatino</author><text>Yes, the argument is logically wrong... but logic is not the only mental resource we have to make sense of the world. By example, if we agreed that the truth can only be called &quot;truth&quot; if it is derived by &quot;logic&quot;, there would be no scientific method, and we would still be killing each other with swords because there is no logical way to figure out, let alone unmanned flying devices, but any sort of flying machine heavier than air. Instead, you would be arguing that it is &quot;illogical&quot; for a simple peasant to be able to kill a noble knight that has been training in the art of war for his whole life... so those damned crossbow mercenaries are cheating and ought not to exist.<p>And for the example you offer, judges&#x27; very job description require them to narrow down on a case by case basis, and to make a decision based on the evidence available, beyond reasonable doubt. The ethical principle that requires this to be so is that the asymmetry of power between the individual and the State is so big that it is most fair for the whole process to start with a bias in favor of the individual.<p>Other situations require a different kind of analysis. And the consequence to apply this level of precision to political analysis is that no analysis (and no criticism to the de-facto policies that are guarantied to emerge anyways in this vacum of knowledge) is ever possible.</text></comment> | <story><title>If a Drone Strike Hit an American Wedding We'd Ground Our Fleet</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/12/if-a-drone-strike-hit-an-american-wedding-wed-ground-our-fleet/282373/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cscurmudgeon</author><text>Arguments like this are logically wrong. I am glad you are not a judge in real life (hint: why is racial profiling wrong?)</text></item><item><author>glesica</author><text>It&#x27;s a simple economic analysis. People <i>tend</i> (this word is important) to follow their incentives. If a person on welfare faces a high effective marginal tax when they start working (due to paying taxes plus losing benefits) they will not start working. If a CEO is compensated exclusively based on short-term share price, they will ramp up the share price even if they have to hurt the company to do it.<p>We have seen mountains of evidence that people follow their incentives even when those incentives lead to perverse, counter-productive behaviors. It&#x27;s basically what the entire &quot;Freakonomics&quot; franchise is built on, for example.<p>We also know that the incentives faced by the military establishment are pushing toward more war, more violence. This is obvious, just look at the early &#x27;90s when we thought the world was going to be more peaceful. We cut back on military spending, military contractors howled and screamed.<p>So, while we have no direct evidence that anyone in the military establishment is willfully disregarding civilian casualties, we <i>do</i> have extremely strong inferential evidence that some people in the military establishment are likely to do so, now, in the past, and in the future.</text></item><item><author>cscurmudgeon</author><text>Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. You have made these accusations without any evidence. Be responsible and ethical and show us something real, if you have it. (note: I am not taking sides.)</text></item><item><author>rdtsc</author><text>It is profitable.<p>If terrorists disappeared tomorrow. Let&#x27;s say we use our surgical strike weapons to target every cell every member, and in one hour they are gone. What would happen? Billions of dollars disappear from the pockets of everyone in the chain. Military contractors, drone maintenance, promotions, bonuses, career advancements, no more completed missions, medals, no job to go to.<p>So the direct financial and career incentive for everyone in the chain is to always make sure there is a stream of new terrorists, new cells, new intelligence chatter about &quot;the Great Satan&quot;. And that is indirectly accomplished by indiscriminately bombing civilians. Everyone who is involved in picking the target and knows it is a funeral, will know civilians will die. I can&#x27;t help but think they also know it is job insurance as well. They would be stupid not to.<p>American public via media has been tested enough during releases of so many atrocities, torture tapes, lies, monitoring that by now, I think they&#x27;ve built an accurate model of how much outrage will be generated and how much will actually threaten future operations, funding, reelection and so on (so far not much).<p>The bottom line, I don&#x27;t even know and 100% believe them when they say these are all &quot;mistakes&quot;. The incentives and the motivation, especially in the long term, is for them not to really care if civilians get bombed.</text></item><item><author>sethbannon</author><text>The way America is conducting the war on terror is both self-defeating and morally repugnant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cglee</author><text>Why is this logically wrong? I think it&#x27;s a given that people&#x2F;corporations follow economic incentives. We even have a legally binding phrase for that to protect shareholders. No one is making explicit accusations, just pointing out that privatizing certain industries (prisons, military, etc) can lead to perverse incentives.</text></comment> |
28,835,732 | 28,833,447 | 1 | 2 | 28,830,328 | train | <story><title>Android phones are sending significant amount of user data with no opt-out [pdf]</title><url>https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/Android_privacy_report.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nimbius</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=org.dslul.openboard.inputmethod.latin" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=org.dslul.open...</a><p>OpenBoard is a 100% foss keyboard based on AOSP, with no dependency on Google binaries, that respects your privacy.</text></item><item><author>autoexec</author><text>Last I checked the default keyboard samsung installs on their phones was collecting what you typed and sharing&#x2F;selling that data with third parties. I try not to store or access any personal information on my cell phones when i can avoid it, but at a certain point, just having one is enough to seriously compromise your privacy. Strong regulation with real sharp teeth is the only thing that can fix this situation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hbcondo714</author><text>Thanks for this, just installed it and when I click to enable in my settings, I get an Attention message:<p>&quot;OpenBoard may be able to collect all the text you type, including personal data such as passwords and credit card numbers&quot;<p>This appears to be from Samsung, trying to deter users from using keyboards other than their own.</text></comment> | <story><title>Android phones are sending significant amount of user data with no opt-out [pdf]</title><url>https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/Android_privacy_report.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nimbius</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=org.dslul.openboard.inputmethod.latin" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=org.dslul.open...</a><p>OpenBoard is a 100% foss keyboard based on AOSP, with no dependency on Google binaries, that respects your privacy.</text></item><item><author>autoexec</author><text>Last I checked the default keyboard samsung installs on their phones was collecting what you typed and sharing&#x2F;selling that data with third parties. I try not to store or access any personal information on my cell phones when i can avoid it, but at a certain point, just having one is enough to seriously compromise your privacy. Strong regulation with real sharp teeth is the only thing that can fix this situation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>autoexec</author><text>Once I realized what samsung was doing I switched to AnySoftKeyboard and I&#x27;m pretty happy with it. It&#x27;s got a lot of options.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;f-droid.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;packages&#x2F;com.menny.android.anysoftkeyboard&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;f-droid.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;packages&#x2F;com.menny.android.anysoftkey...</a></text></comment> |
22,799,251 | 22,798,746 | 1 | 2 | 22,785,100 | train | <story><title>How to Build 1 Bit of RAM Using Transistors</title><url>https://avrillion.com/stf/363/How-to-Build-1-Bit-of-RAM-Using-Transistors</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>userbinator</author><text>I&#x27;ve always wondered why most people seem to draw flip-flops with the crossed wires and both gates pointing the same way, when I think this representation makes it far clearer:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;cwZe7Zf.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;cwZe7Zf.png</a><p>When both inputs are low, the NORs are equivalent to NOTs and you can see they form a storage loop. When one input is high, it forces the loop into the corresponding state.<p>That said, I&#x27;m disappointed this article doesn&#x27;t show the transistor-level schematic, because trying to read from a breadboard is extremely difficult.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Build 1 Bit of RAM Using Transistors</title><url>https://avrillion.com/stf/363/How-to-Build-1-Bit-of-RAM-Using-Transistors</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>leggomylibro</author><text>I once made a single-transistor latch by accident. It acted as a single bit of memory and retained its value for weeks until I got bored with the project.<p>I had been making magnetic snap-together circuits, so I had a bunch of small PCBs with simple 2- and 3-pin footprints and holes that I soldered neodymium disc magnets into.<p>I put a big TO-220 N-fet on one of them, and stuck it to a laminated whiteboard so that the magnets stuck without shorting together, then I hooked it up to an LED as a simple high-side switch.<p>When I bent the transistor so that its metal plane rested against the magnetic whiteboard, its gate would latch after briefly tapping either V+ or ground to the magnet which was connected to the pin. When the transistor&#x27;s metal plane was perpendicular to the board, it didn&#x27;t latch. Disconnecting and reconnecting the LED didn&#x27;t perturb the &#x27;saved&#x27; value, and neither did removing power overnight. And the same thing happened with a similar P-fet connected as a low-side switch.<p>It probably wasn&#x27;t a &quot;real&quot; latch; it was a very over-sized transistor with low gate capacitance, and I didn&#x27;t try it with something like a 3904. I think it might have had something to do with the principles behind nonvolatile ferroelectric RAM, but I never did get to the bottom of it.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ferroelectric_RAM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ferroelectric_RAM</a></text></comment> |
21,407,198 | 21,406,645 | 1 | 3 | 21,401,973 | train | <story><title>Twitter to ban political advertising</title><url>https://twitter.com/jack/status/1189634360472829952</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ralusek</author><text>The lowest level of truth telling is stating facts, but even stating facts can be extremely manipulative.<p>If I were to say:<p>&quot;2x as many white Americans were killed by police as black Americans in 2018.&quot;<p>This a true fact.<p>If I take note of the fact that black Americans only constitute 13% of the population, then I can say<p>&quot;A black American is 2.3x as likely as a white American to be killed by police.&quot;<p>This is also a true fact.<p>So not only are facts capable of telling a narrative, but it gets much more complicated once you start introducing conclusions.<p>If you say &quot;A black person is 2.3x as likely as a white person to be killed by police in America. American police are being racially discriminatory when killing civilians.&quot;<p>This is a fact and a conclusion, and <i>most</i> news consists of facts and conclusions. Both the fact and the conclusion serve a particular narrative, and that&#x27;s an issue. The problem is that a news organization with a different set of objectives, or simply operating under a different framework, would be entirely capable of coming to an entirely different conclusion, or introduce entirely different facts alongside it.<p>&quot;A black person is 2.3x as likely as a white person to be killed by police in America. However, despite making up only 13% of the population, black Americans committed 36% of homicides, with an overall much higher representation in violent crime across the board. Only 5% of police shootings are with an unarmed victim, with the rest resulting from an armed altercation.&quot;<p>Different narrative.<p>In America, we understand that there is absolutely nothing more dangerous than an entity that feels entitled to control what is true. It might make things easier, and it might actually produce better results so long as the entity doing so is competent and benevolent, but nearly every structure in America is meant to serve as a bulwark for the cases in which the entity in power is precisely the sort that you do not want to be making those decisions. And to be frank, Europe should probably be more wary of that.</text></item><item><author>moksly</author><text>In Denmark we have laws in place that hold news paper editors responsible for printing truth. They don’t always succeed, but they try to, and when they do fail they admit it and apologise.<p>This is what has kept our society well informed and critical thinking for a hundred years. It’s also allowed for different sides of things, because you can interpret things like socioeconomic statistics and facts differently and write about them as such, but you can’t make up things.<p>This died with Facebook, YouTube and the non-editorial entertainment “news” and as a result we have anti-vaxxers, flat-earthers and what not.<p>I have no idea how to regulate it though, but I think we need to do something.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yoavm</author><text>But these really aren&#x27;t the type of lies that people consider fake news. Yeah, all the things you&#x27;ve written are facts, and their interpretations are what we call opinions. I agree with you that all of these statements, since they&#x27;re true, should be allowed without a question. People still need to think and be critical.<p>I just took a look at a long list of lies by your current President. It has nothing to do with facts like the ones you&#x27;ve stated above. These are simply lies. You can&#x27;t argue that it&#x27;s some interpretation, or just half of the picture or anything like that. It&#x27;s simply a bunch of words phrased as a fact but they never happened.<p>I can&#x27;t see anything good coming out of this for any country. It ruins the ability to have a real debate in a society, and I think it harmed America (not only of course) greatly.<p>And one last thing - yes, it probably shouldn&#x27;t be one person from one political side that decides what&#x27;s completely false and shouldn&#x27;t be published (or perhaps better, be corrected), but I don&#x27;t think it should be so impossibly complicated to create a system in which representatives from all sides can do this together. America already has structures like this implemented.</text></comment> | <story><title>Twitter to ban political advertising</title><url>https://twitter.com/jack/status/1189634360472829952</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ralusek</author><text>The lowest level of truth telling is stating facts, but even stating facts can be extremely manipulative.<p>If I were to say:<p>&quot;2x as many white Americans were killed by police as black Americans in 2018.&quot;<p>This a true fact.<p>If I take note of the fact that black Americans only constitute 13% of the population, then I can say<p>&quot;A black American is 2.3x as likely as a white American to be killed by police.&quot;<p>This is also a true fact.<p>So not only are facts capable of telling a narrative, but it gets much more complicated once you start introducing conclusions.<p>If you say &quot;A black person is 2.3x as likely as a white person to be killed by police in America. American police are being racially discriminatory when killing civilians.&quot;<p>This is a fact and a conclusion, and <i>most</i> news consists of facts and conclusions. Both the fact and the conclusion serve a particular narrative, and that&#x27;s an issue. The problem is that a news organization with a different set of objectives, or simply operating under a different framework, would be entirely capable of coming to an entirely different conclusion, or introduce entirely different facts alongside it.<p>&quot;A black person is 2.3x as likely as a white person to be killed by police in America. However, despite making up only 13% of the population, black Americans committed 36% of homicides, with an overall much higher representation in violent crime across the board. Only 5% of police shootings are with an unarmed victim, with the rest resulting from an armed altercation.&quot;<p>Different narrative.<p>In America, we understand that there is absolutely nothing more dangerous than an entity that feels entitled to control what is true. It might make things easier, and it might actually produce better results so long as the entity doing so is competent and benevolent, but nearly every structure in America is meant to serve as a bulwark for the cases in which the entity in power is precisely the sort that you do not want to be making those decisions. And to be frank, Europe should probably be more wary of that.</text></item><item><author>moksly</author><text>In Denmark we have laws in place that hold news paper editors responsible for printing truth. They don’t always succeed, but they try to, and when they do fail they admit it and apologise.<p>This is what has kept our society well informed and critical thinking for a hundred years. It’s also allowed for different sides of things, because you can interpret things like socioeconomic statistics and facts differently and write about them as such, but you can’t make up things.<p>This died with Facebook, YouTube and the non-editorial entertainment “news” and as a result we have anti-vaxxers, flat-earthers and what not.<p>I have no idea how to regulate it though, but I think we need to do something.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>silvester23</author><text>&gt; In America, we understand that there is absolutely nothing more dangerous than an entity that feels entitled to control what is true. It might make things easier, and it might actually produce better results so long as the entity doing so is competent and benevolent, but nearly every structure in America is meant to serve as a bulwark for the cases in which the entity in power is precisely the sort that you do not want to be making those decisions. And to be frank, Europe should probably be more wary of that.<p>I&#x27;m not trying to be snarky, but in all honesty, how do you feel this is working out for the US at this very moment?</text></comment> |
41,030,451 | 41,029,669 | 1 | 2 | 41,028,887 | train | <story><title>James C. Scott, author of Seeing Like a State, has died</title><url>https://nitter.poast.org/GerardoMunck/status/1815059432382067053</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sameoldtune</author><text>The concepts in Seeing Like A State are very relevant to programmers and to anyone trying to “change the world” with technology. One of the main points is that for a state to manage many people it tends to use power (hard and soft) to homogenize the populace. My belief is that tech necessarily does the same thing. Everyone in your app has permissions defined by some enum, a limited number of actions available, content moderation machinery.<p>This has effects that are inescapable, especially in the fields of medicine, mental health, education, social engagement. Tech makes our levers to move the Earth more efficient, but at the cost of a lack of diversity of thought, lifestyle, and value.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>strken</author><text>Depends which tech. I would argue that bash scripting or excel do almost the opposite.</text></comment> | <story><title>James C. Scott, author of Seeing Like a State, has died</title><url>https://nitter.poast.org/GerardoMunck/status/1815059432382067053</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sameoldtune</author><text>The concepts in Seeing Like A State are very relevant to programmers and to anyone trying to “change the world” with technology. One of the main points is that for a state to manage many people it tends to use power (hard and soft) to homogenize the populace. My belief is that tech necessarily does the same thing. Everyone in your app has permissions defined by some enum, a limited number of actions available, content moderation machinery.<p>This has effects that are inescapable, especially in the fields of medicine, mental health, education, social engagement. Tech makes our levers to move the Earth more efficient, but at the cost of a lack of diversity of thought, lifestyle, and value.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jagged-chisel</author><text>Diversity in [the featuresets of] software systems has led to reduced security. The only systems without the “rails” to keep the user on-track and out of danger zones are those that provide the user with the ability to program it themselves.<p>Must it be this way? Can we provide the complexity of flexibility while protecting our users’ finances and other important information? I don’t know if we can, but our track record isn’t good.</text></comment> |
28,129,248 | 28,129,560 | 1 | 2 | 28,128,305 | train | <story><title>Firefox 91</title><url>https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/91.0/releasenotes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shell0x</author><text>My favorite thing about Firefox is the &quot;Multi-Account Containers&quot; extension.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;multi-account-containers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;multi-account...</a><p>It&#x27;s really handy when having a private Microsoft account as well as an enterprise account. If I don&#x27;t use this, my MS sessions get all mixed up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>c618b9b695c4</author><text>Which is still missing a key feature - I want to be able to independently clear history&#x2F;cookies on a per container basis.<p>Give me a &#x27;garbage&#x27; container for general browsing that is flushed by default, but bespoke Netflix&#x2F;Github&#x2F;etc containers that retain cookies forever.</text></comment> | <story><title>Firefox 91</title><url>https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/91.0/releasenotes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shell0x</author><text>My favorite thing about Firefox is the &quot;Multi-Account Containers&quot; extension.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;multi-account-containers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;multi-account...</a><p>It&#x27;s really handy when having a private Microsoft account as well as an enterprise account. If I don&#x27;t use this, my MS sessions get all mixed up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sanatgersappa</author><text>My fav feature is the Temporary Containers extension. Using that, I never run out of my quota of &quot;free&quot; articles on news sites that keep count.</text></comment> |
32,253,254 | 32,253,299 | 1 | 3 | 32,251,328 | train | <story><title>Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan was early epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic</title><url>https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp8715</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ejb999</author><text>I wonder how many people who are seemingly willing to believe the self-serving CCP party-line on this, would be just as believing of the owners of a nuclear power plant in their town, once the drinking water became radioactive, claiming &quot;it didn&#x27;t come from the plant, someone else down the street must have done it&quot; - that is just about as believable as this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jeema101</author><text>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s a coincidence that the pandemic started in Wuhan, but probably not in the way you&#x27;re thinking: Wuhan is the largest railway hub in all of China [1]. And that&#x27;s likely the reason why both the institute and the market were situated there in the first place.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Wuhan_Railway_Hub" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Wuhan_Railway_Hub</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan was early epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic</title><url>https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp8715</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ejb999</author><text>I wonder how many people who are seemingly willing to believe the self-serving CCP party-line on this, would be just as believing of the owners of a nuclear power plant in their town, once the drinking water became radioactive, claiming &quot;it didn&#x27;t come from the plant, someone else down the street must have done it&quot; - that is just about as believable as this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anigbrowl</author><text>Pure emotional argument without substance.<p>You made no effort at all to criticize the methodology (which looks pretty standard to me, consistent with methods used to pinpoint the origin of other disease outbreaks besides COVID), or the raw data. Not one of the listed authors is Chinese, nor do any of them have any Chinese institutional affiliations.<p>What is your actual argument for why I should disregard this, beyond &#x27;CCP bad&#x27;?</text></comment> |
6,552,080 | 6,550,804 | 1 | 2 | 6,549,502 | train | <story><title>Google Fiber now allows servers for non-commercial use</title><url>http://googleprotest.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rsingel</author><text>I still don&#x27;t think this comports with the net neutrality rules, which focus on network management at a user&#x2F;protocol level. Commercial&#x2F;non-commercial is a business distinction -- which is exactly what net neutrality was meant to stop (e.g. Comcast throttling BitTorrent).<p>Google Fiber shouldn&#x27;t care a whit if my server is commercial or non-commercial (what does that even mean?) If my usage <i>hurts</i> the network, then GF can throttle my connection in some way that is disclosed as a policy and which is considered reasonable.<p>This is a half-assed compromise and it&#x27;s not in line with either the spirit or the clear language of net neutrality.<p>(Full Disclosure: I wrote the Wired article that set off this storm.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gcb0</author><text>It started as a contractual distinction. Home DSL is cheaper because it is not guaranteed to be up so you can&#x27;t sue your ISP for lost business, etc...<p>Then the big telcos got the game, and started to elaborate among themselves how to remove service and add fees.<p>Someone saw the non-commercial vanilla clause, and had the great idea of using that premise to shut down inbound connections by the most insanely idiotic assumption that a listening port is a server which is foolproof indication that you have a business.<p>Then everyone move to the telco that didn&#x27;t do that, free market at its best. for about 6 months. until all of them did. nobody had any option. and here we are today.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Fiber now allows servers for non-commercial use</title><url>http://googleprotest.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rsingel</author><text>I still don&#x27;t think this comports with the net neutrality rules, which focus on network management at a user&#x2F;protocol level. Commercial&#x2F;non-commercial is a business distinction -- which is exactly what net neutrality was meant to stop (e.g. Comcast throttling BitTorrent).<p>Google Fiber shouldn&#x27;t care a whit if my server is commercial or non-commercial (what does that even mean?) If my usage <i>hurts</i> the network, then GF can throttle my connection in some way that is disclosed as a policy and which is considered reasonable.<p>This is a half-assed compromise and it&#x27;s not in line with either the spirit or the clear language of net neutrality.<p>(Full Disclosure: I wrote the Wired article that set off this storm.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ape4</author><text>I run a very non-busy website on my home server. Its got ads so I guess its a business. Seems petty to ban such things. (Not on Google Fiber)</text></comment> |
23,115,420 | 23,114,105 | 1 | 2 | 23,112,866 | train | <story><title>Finland to abandon school subjects in favour of phenomenon-based learning (2016)</title><url>https://curiousmindmagazine.com/goodbye-subjects-finland-taking-revolution-education-step/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danenania</author><text>I believe that in Japan, they deal with this disparity by asking the top students to help teach others in the class. It seems like an interesting approach in that teaching something well requires a much higher bar of understanding than doing well on a test, <i>and</i> it’s an excellent way to reinforce knowledge for the one doing the teaching.<p>So the top students get a more difficult challenge than just coasting along, and the other students benefit as well. And, of course, it promotes teamwork and solidarity.<p>I’m sure there are downsides too. Perhaps it could create tension between the “teacher’s pets” and the others?</text></item><item><author>netjiro</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen test numbers where the top 5% group learn around 5-10x faster than the 50% group. The numbers hold for short term recall, long term recall, problem solving, critical and creative thinking, etc.<p>There is no way &quot;school&quot; can equalise this. There is no reason to keep stuffing everyone in one box.</text></item><item><author>kstenerud</author><text>The problem stems from trying to make a one-size-fits-all solution. You can never fit everyone into the same box, but people like simple solutions so we keep trying.<p>In the 2nd grade, I had a teacher who recognized potential in some of her students and separated them from the rest of the class to engage in self-directed learning. There were three of us chosen. I achieved grade 5 level proficiency in a number of subjects, while the smartest kid reached grade 7 in almost all of them. The following year, I changed schools, and spent the next 3 years re-doing the same boring shit over and over. My protestations were countered with &quot;Well, if you&#x27;ve already done it, then it should be easy to do it again!&quot; I learned my lesson, and my grades from that point on slipped from straight As to the minimum required to pass. I&#x27;d only apply myself when doing my own projects (mostly programming).<p>Like in anything else, if you want to see success, you need to hire teachers who can recognize and focus potential, and then give them the leeway to do so based on their good judgment.</text></item><item><author>tremguy</author><text>Finn here. Results have been negative on this so far, at least for students before high school [1]. Most children at that stage aren&#x27;t yet capable of self-directed learning. Problem is compounded by the distractive effect of digital equipment in class.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yle.fi&#x2F;uutiset&#x2F;osasto&#x2F;news&#x2F;finlands_digital-based_curriculum_impedes_learning_researcher_finds&#x2F;10514984" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yle.fi&#x2F;uutiset&#x2F;osasto&#x2F;news&#x2F;finlands_digital-based_cu...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vidarh</author><text>My two best teachers (this was in Norway) took two very different approaches. One basically gave me a free reign to move ahead of the rest of the class and brought in more advanced text books for me, let me suggest my own homework etc. It took extra work for her, so I was lucky she put in the effort.<p>The other did what you suggest, and would have me go around and help others as soon as finished my own work. It was useful as a means to learn to understand what other people found difficult and why. It might not have helped that much with my understanding of the subject (maths) itself, but it helped with problem solving skills - having to come up with different ways of explaining things or approach a problem from different angles to whichever one I thought was most obvious when that &quot;obvious&quot; angle didn&#x27;t work for someone else, and I think that was useful.</text></comment> | <story><title>Finland to abandon school subjects in favour of phenomenon-based learning (2016)</title><url>https://curiousmindmagazine.com/goodbye-subjects-finland-taking-revolution-education-step/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danenania</author><text>I believe that in Japan, they deal with this disparity by asking the top students to help teach others in the class. It seems like an interesting approach in that teaching something well requires a much higher bar of understanding than doing well on a test, <i>and</i> it’s an excellent way to reinforce knowledge for the one doing the teaching.<p>So the top students get a more difficult challenge than just coasting along, and the other students benefit as well. And, of course, it promotes teamwork and solidarity.<p>I’m sure there are downsides too. Perhaps it could create tension between the “teacher’s pets” and the others?</text></item><item><author>netjiro</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen test numbers where the top 5% group learn around 5-10x faster than the 50% group. The numbers hold for short term recall, long term recall, problem solving, critical and creative thinking, etc.<p>There is no way &quot;school&quot; can equalise this. There is no reason to keep stuffing everyone in one box.</text></item><item><author>kstenerud</author><text>The problem stems from trying to make a one-size-fits-all solution. You can never fit everyone into the same box, but people like simple solutions so we keep trying.<p>In the 2nd grade, I had a teacher who recognized potential in some of her students and separated them from the rest of the class to engage in self-directed learning. There were three of us chosen. I achieved grade 5 level proficiency in a number of subjects, while the smartest kid reached grade 7 in almost all of them. The following year, I changed schools, and spent the next 3 years re-doing the same boring shit over and over. My protestations were countered with &quot;Well, if you&#x27;ve already done it, then it should be easy to do it again!&quot; I learned my lesson, and my grades from that point on slipped from straight As to the minimum required to pass. I&#x27;d only apply myself when doing my own projects (mostly programming).<p>Like in anything else, if you want to see success, you need to hire teachers who can recognize and focus potential, and then give them the leeway to do so based on their good judgment.</text></item><item><author>tremguy</author><text>Finn here. Results have been negative on this so far, at least for students before high school [1]. Most children at that stage aren&#x27;t yet capable of self-directed learning. Problem is compounded by the distractive effect of digital equipment in class.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yle.fi&#x2F;uutiset&#x2F;osasto&#x2F;news&#x2F;finlands_digital-based_curriculum_impedes_learning_researcher_finds&#x2F;10514984" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yle.fi&#x2F;uutiset&#x2F;osasto&#x2F;news&#x2F;finlands_digital-based_cu...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kstenerud</author><text>This is also how the school houses of old worked. You&#x27;d have all ages present since the population was so small, and the older kids would teach the younger kids while also doing their own studies.<p>This was a big help for socializing skills and empathy, since you were no longer segregated by age or sex and were exposed to many age groups with their own challenges throughout your early schooling.</text></comment> |
37,821,423 | 37,821,388 | 1 | 2 | 37,819,114 | train | <story><title>Zimaboard: The closest thing to my dream home server setup</title><url>https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2023/10/09/zimaboard/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dominick-cc</author><text>If you want low power, check out the N100 systems that are out now. They use like 3W. I bought the N200 from this deal recently and it&#x27;s a great little machine that can handle a lot of Plex transcodes <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;slickdeals.net&#x2F;f&#x2F;16934029-msi-cubi-n-adl-dual-nic-intel-n100-or-n200-mini-pc-nuc-newegg-119-99" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;slickdeals.net&#x2F;f&#x2F;16934029-msi-cubi-n-adl-dual-nic-in...</a><p>It&#x27;s interesting that these N100 systems can cost less than some of the Zima products. So for me, I don&#x27;t see much of an upside of going with them.</text></item><item><author>alias_neo</author><text>We don&#x27;t all live in countries where electricity is near-free.<p>In the UK, it would cost more in electricity than the $200 Zimaboard to run one of those eBay machines for a single year.<p>e.g. 90W 24&#x2F;7 for a year is ~£212 (~$258 US), 60W 24&#x2F;7: ~£142 ($173 US)<p>In this price range, power-consumption is a _major_ decision factor.</text></item><item><author>justinclift</author><text>&gt; This variant of the board costs 200 USD ...<p>Doesn&#x27;t sound like a good deal when compared with 2nd hand microservers and small form factor PCs from Ebay.<p>Things like these:<p>∙ <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ebay.com&#x2F;itm&#x2F;175917817224" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ebay.com&#x2F;itm&#x2F;175917817224</a> ⇦ 2x NVMe slots<p>∙ <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ebay.com&#x2F;itm&#x2F;204477355543" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ebay.com&#x2F;itm&#x2F;204477355543</a> ⇦ 4x 3.5&quot; drives, ECC memory capable<p>Note - I don&#x27;t know those sellers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mmcgaha</author><text>N100 and N200 systems are perfect price&#x2F;performance for small servers. I am running a 7-year-old N3710 fanless laptop right now and it performs well enough for a few tiny sites and a postgresql database. I am pretty sure we reached this point ten years ago but I was too numb to notice it but low power devices have become powerful enough to replace the dedicated servers that we were spending tons of money on twenty years ago.</text></comment> | <story><title>Zimaboard: The closest thing to my dream home server setup</title><url>https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2023/10/09/zimaboard/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dominick-cc</author><text>If you want low power, check out the N100 systems that are out now. They use like 3W. I bought the N200 from this deal recently and it&#x27;s a great little machine that can handle a lot of Plex transcodes <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;slickdeals.net&#x2F;f&#x2F;16934029-msi-cubi-n-adl-dual-nic-intel-n100-or-n200-mini-pc-nuc-newegg-119-99" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;slickdeals.net&#x2F;f&#x2F;16934029-msi-cubi-n-adl-dual-nic-in...</a><p>It&#x27;s interesting that these N100 systems can cost less than some of the Zima products. So for me, I don&#x27;t see much of an upside of going with them.</text></item><item><author>alias_neo</author><text>We don&#x27;t all live in countries where electricity is near-free.<p>In the UK, it would cost more in electricity than the $200 Zimaboard to run one of those eBay machines for a single year.<p>e.g. 90W 24&#x2F;7 for a year is ~£212 (~$258 US), 60W 24&#x2F;7: ~£142 ($173 US)<p>In this price range, power-consumption is a _major_ decision factor.</text></item><item><author>justinclift</author><text>&gt; This variant of the board costs 200 USD ...<p>Doesn&#x27;t sound like a good deal when compared with 2nd hand microservers and small form factor PCs from Ebay.<p>Things like these:<p>∙ <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ebay.com&#x2F;itm&#x2F;175917817224" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ebay.com&#x2F;itm&#x2F;175917817224</a> ⇦ 2x NVMe slots<p>∙ <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ebay.com&#x2F;itm&#x2F;204477355543" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ebay.com&#x2F;itm&#x2F;204477355543</a> ⇦ 4x 3.5&quot; drives, ECC memory capable<p>Note - I don&#x27;t know those sellers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>doubled112</author><text>As I read through the article I came to exactly the same conclusion.<p>I have an N95 mini PC that was $195 CAD, which came with 16GB RAM and a 500GB NVMe. It will also hold one SATA drive. All in a single box, although it is slightly larger and has a fan.<p>The NVMe slot on the Orange Pi 5 I use also keeps that mess down to a minimum. Power + network and that&#x27;s a finished setup.<p>Edit: There are a TON of options in this space now. The value of 10 year old eBay gear is questionable at best.</text></comment> |
4,041,266 | 4,041,206 | 1 | 3 | 4,041,144 | train | <story><title>The lifestyle business bullshit (2009)</title><url>http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1686-the-lifestyle-business-bullshit</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>InclinedPlane</author><text>Some people don't realize the implications of hours worked on effective wages. If you work more for the same income you are giving yourself a pay cut, and worse a free time cut. If you work less then you are giving yourself a raise, and increasing your free time as well, a double whammy.<p>Most people have trouble thinking like this though. They lose themselves in their work, filling up their time with trivial and menial work (or even, as is typical, spending a lot of time in the office not actually working very much) instead of trying to maximize their effectiveness. They think that somehow they shouldn't work too little because of some sense of a work ethic based on economic systems that are now outmoded. And too they think that earning a high income while working only a little is too much like being actually "rich". Nobody likes being rich these days, they like the money well enough, but they don't like the idea, they want to justify their wealth with long hours at the office.</text></comment> | <story><title>The lifestyle business bullshit (2009)</title><url>http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1686-the-lifestyle-business-bullshit</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>timjahn</author><text>Amen. There's more to life than business.<p>If you want to devote your life to creating and running a world changing business, do it.<p>If you want to devote your life to your family and kids, and use a "lifestyle business" to fund it all, do it.<p>Just remember one is not better than the other. To each his /her own.</text></comment> |
32,543,666 | 32,543,134 | 1 | 2 | 32,542,791 | train | <story><title>Singapore will decriminalize sex between men, prime minister says</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/singapore-will-decriminalise-sex-between-men-pm-2022-08-21/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DominikPeters</author><text>Apparently this comes in a package with a constitutional amendment that enshrines marriage as exclusively opposite-sex, which will make legalising same-sex marriage harder down the road.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;kixes&#x2F;status&#x2F;1561334527808929793" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;kixes&#x2F;status&#x2F;1561334527808929793</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Singapore will decriminalize sex between men, prime minister says</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/singapore-will-decriminalise-sex-between-men-pm-2022-08-21/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pydry</author><text>I suspect they never did care about this issue at all but they&#x27;re trying to walk a tightrope trying not to piss off foreign investors (IIRC Goldman Sachs partners had something to say about this law) and the core PAP voter base, which tends to skew heavily in favor of &quot;conservative&#x2F;family values&quot; and against this.<p>Then again, times may be a a-changing.</text></comment> |
5,524,794 | 5,524,748 | 1 | 2 | 5,523,992 | train | <story><title>How can we get Google Support?</title><text>The Symfony project, an Open-Source project (http://symfony.com/), uses Google Groups to host its mailing-lists. The service is free and we really appreciate it, but for no reasons, Google closed our access to one of our mailing-lists (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/symfony2).<p>That happened a few weeks ago and thanks to some inside people at Google, the mailing-list reappeared. As the admin of the list, I received no email about the closing of the mailing-list, no explanations, and not even an email when the mailing-list reopened after a few days of black-out.<p>I was not happy with this situation but I thought it was just a glitch. But then, some days ago, they did it again. The mailing-list is not accessible anymore, not even by me (the admin).<p>There is no way to get support, no way to get in touch with someone at Google. This is really frustrating. Of course, this is a free service and Google can do whatever they want, but I would at least expect a way to get some kind of support (hell, I'm even ready to pay fot it)... or at least, some kind of email (even an automatic one) telling me what we did wrong (and I doubt that we did anything wrong as the mailing-list is moderated and we are only talking about yet another PHP framework).<p>HELP! How can I get in touch with someone at Google? How can we get by our mailing-list?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>swombat</author><text>I'm paying for our company's google email accounts. I did that solely so I could get access to their support.<p>The support experience was outstanding. There was a smart, informed person handling the case. It was a tricky case, there were a number of emails exchanged and several lengthy phone calls, and it turned out not to be Google's fault at all (it was Rackspace's fault), and yet they were courteous, helpful, intelligent, informed, hands on.<p>One of the best support experiences I've had - but it only happened after we started paying for our email accounts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JPKab</author><text><i>gasp</i> you mean you have to pay for something to expect support??? I'm glad you commented, because you bring a bit of reality to some of the other commenters who chime "Google doesn't offer support beause they don't have to." Umm, no, they don't offer support because only an idiot would offer support to customers who aren't paying for anything.<p>I get so tired of people who get "free" (yes, i know Google monetizes their use with ads) stuff wanting support. If you want support, you have to pay for it. The skilled person wearing the headset in the call center doesn't work for free.</text></comment> | <story><title>How can we get Google Support?</title><text>The Symfony project, an Open-Source project (http://symfony.com/), uses Google Groups to host its mailing-lists. The service is free and we really appreciate it, but for no reasons, Google closed our access to one of our mailing-lists (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/symfony2).<p>That happened a few weeks ago and thanks to some inside people at Google, the mailing-list reappeared. As the admin of the list, I received no email about the closing of the mailing-list, no explanations, and not even an email when the mailing-list reopened after a few days of black-out.<p>I was not happy with this situation but I thought it was just a glitch. But then, some days ago, they did it again. The mailing-list is not accessible anymore, not even by me (the admin).<p>There is no way to get support, no way to get in touch with someone at Google. This is really frustrating. Of course, this is a free service and Google can do whatever they want, but I would at least expect a way to get some kind of support (hell, I'm even ready to pay fot it)... or at least, some kind of email (even an automatic one) telling me what we did wrong (and I doubt that we did anything wrong as the mailing-list is moderated and we are only talking about yet another PHP framework).<p>HELP! How can I get in touch with someone at Google? How can we get by our mailing-list?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>swombat</author><text>I'm paying for our company's google email accounts. I did that solely so I could get access to their support.<p>The support experience was outstanding. There was a smart, informed person handling the case. It was a tricky case, there were a number of emails exchanged and several lengthy phone calls, and it turned out not to be Google's fault at all (it was Rackspace's fault), and yet they were courteous, helpful, intelligent, informed, hands on.<p>One of the best support experiences I've had - but it only happened after we started paying for our email accounts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jaredmcateer</author><text>I had a problem with my Nexus 4, the FS got corrupted and wouldn't recognize any sim card, no amount of reset to factory defaults or flashing the rom would help. I had one small hitch getting ahold of their support, you had to call. My cell is my only phone so calling them was problematic. I had to use a friend's phone to do it, but once I got past the gatekeeper, I just interacted with the techs via email. After some very simple troubleshooting they emailed me shipping labels whilst shipping me a new phone. I've never had a company ship me a replacement before they received the dud, that was quite refreshing.</text></comment> |
25,835,524 | 25,835,047 | 1 | 2 | 25,833,291 | train | <story><title>Woman Is Sentenced to 43 Years for Criticizing Thai Monarchy</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/19/world/asia/thailand-king-lese-majeste.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brightball</author><text>When reading through the Old Testament I came across something I hadn’t seen before, the Avenger of Blood. Essentially, a family member of a person who was murdered had every right to seek out the killer themselves. There were even rules around it.<p>If you watch the old Disney 3 Musketeers movie, that’s essentially what the man pursuing Countess de Winter for killing his brother is doing.<p>Just the first historical parallel that came to mind on reading this. Similar figures in a family were also responsible for helping other family members who couldn’t find work, gotten sick, etc.<p>The family unit structure historically accounts for a lot.</text></item><item><author>DyslexicAtheist</author><text>The way Thai&#x27;s feel about honor and defamation is a lot more complex and causes friction when the (existing Western) system tries to apply legal rules of how conflict is resolved (and punishment is applied) in an environment where the old values of honor are still valid.<p>when I still lived in the South of Thailand early 90ies we took people diving from Koh Samui, Koh Phan-gan, Koh Tao. The relationship between Thai&#x27;s and the law is a strange one. It&#x27;s almost like there are 2 systems. One for Thais one for &quot;Farang&quot;.<p>A Thai would not dare to speak ill of the monarchs. They leave the room if a &quot;farang&quot; has had one too many and says something critical (they&#x27;re peace loving but their love of peace might end there). This applies to both the very rich and the very poor.<p>We hired the captain from another region of the South to transport our divers. He was with the company since the day these islands were still 100% jungle and the place belonged to local fishermen. The reason why he left the region was because he had an argument and killed his neighbor. The deal was that he would not get killed only if he left the region and settled without ever returning to his family - this is considered not just shameful but seen as a huge disadvantage to make a living. They settled it without police, lawyer, bailiff, or judge, all among themselves.<p>Our other captain (in charge of the boat that left Koh Phangan) was also the right hand man of the most powerful person on the island. That guy was like a major, or village elder because he owned what was then the only &quot;super market&quot; on the island, and lot of the land. Our captain and &quot;right hand man&quot; to this guy was a devout monk (every year for several months left his wife to sweep the floor in silence in the monastery). He was a family man, highly respected within the community, and it was no secret among Thais that he was also heavily armed and had a body count of 12 people in his short life (late 20ies).<p>While murder is obviously illegal by law in Thailand, it is still used as a way by locals to settle disputes within rural areas of the South. The illegality isn&#x27;t even considered here since in this case they see it as their moral duty which still trumps whatever some judge&#x2F;lawyer&#x27;s definition of justice is who has never before left <i>Krung Thep</i>.<p>Long story short it&#x27;s quite complex to transform what is still in ways a tribal society into what we call &quot;law-abiding&quot; citizen. Especially when the law contradicts the values of society. And even more so when the existing police force is just a show for the tourists and to the urban population.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MontagFTB</author><text>The Bible is also rife with passages that talk about justice for the fatherless, the widow, the orphan, and the poor. These are categories of people that by and large have no access to the same channels of justice that strong, large family units had. So the community- especially those in power and able to do something about it- were called to step up and fill in that void.</text></comment> | <story><title>Woman Is Sentenced to 43 Years for Criticizing Thai Monarchy</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/19/world/asia/thailand-king-lese-majeste.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brightball</author><text>When reading through the Old Testament I came across something I hadn’t seen before, the Avenger of Blood. Essentially, a family member of a person who was murdered had every right to seek out the killer themselves. There were even rules around it.<p>If you watch the old Disney 3 Musketeers movie, that’s essentially what the man pursuing Countess de Winter for killing his brother is doing.<p>Just the first historical parallel that came to mind on reading this. Similar figures in a family were also responsible for helping other family members who couldn’t find work, gotten sick, etc.<p>The family unit structure historically accounts for a lot.</text></item><item><author>DyslexicAtheist</author><text>The way Thai&#x27;s feel about honor and defamation is a lot more complex and causes friction when the (existing Western) system tries to apply legal rules of how conflict is resolved (and punishment is applied) in an environment where the old values of honor are still valid.<p>when I still lived in the South of Thailand early 90ies we took people diving from Koh Samui, Koh Phan-gan, Koh Tao. The relationship between Thai&#x27;s and the law is a strange one. It&#x27;s almost like there are 2 systems. One for Thais one for &quot;Farang&quot;.<p>A Thai would not dare to speak ill of the monarchs. They leave the room if a &quot;farang&quot; has had one too many and says something critical (they&#x27;re peace loving but their love of peace might end there). This applies to both the very rich and the very poor.<p>We hired the captain from another region of the South to transport our divers. He was with the company since the day these islands were still 100% jungle and the place belonged to local fishermen. The reason why he left the region was because he had an argument and killed his neighbor. The deal was that he would not get killed only if he left the region and settled without ever returning to his family - this is considered not just shameful but seen as a huge disadvantage to make a living. They settled it without police, lawyer, bailiff, or judge, all among themselves.<p>Our other captain (in charge of the boat that left Koh Phangan) was also the right hand man of the most powerful person on the island. That guy was like a major, or village elder because he owned what was then the only &quot;super market&quot; on the island, and lot of the land. Our captain and &quot;right hand man&quot; to this guy was a devout monk (every year for several months left his wife to sweep the floor in silence in the monastery). He was a family man, highly respected within the community, and it was no secret among Thais that he was also heavily armed and had a body count of 12 people in his short life (late 20ies).<p>While murder is obviously illegal by law in Thailand, it is still used as a way by locals to settle disputes within rural areas of the South. The illegality isn&#x27;t even considered here since in this case they see it as their moral duty which still trumps whatever some judge&#x2F;lawyer&#x27;s definition of justice is who has never before left <i>Krung Thep</i>.<p>Long story short it&#x27;s quite complex to transform what is still in ways a tribal society into what we call &quot;law-abiding&quot; citizen. Especially when the law contradicts the values of society. And even more so when the existing police force is just a show for the tourists and to the urban population.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DyslexicAtheist</author><text>&gt; The family unit structure historically accounts for a lot.<p>indeed it is interesting how when we compare &quot;Western&quot; society with more tribal norms, how much the individual in the West expects the system to do the things for them where previously family was in charge of. Taking French or German late night news I don&#x27;t recall once that the word &quot;clan&quot; ever used in a positive way. It is always about criminal associations (often about Balkan families) where the attachment of individuals is still stronger within than (the trust) in the state. People are absolutely terrified by the idea of others belonging to a family that knows it&#x27;s roots since 300+ years with an also non-local footprint and reach. Also a clan is usually always a foreign group.</text></comment> |
13,140,388 | 13,140,256 | 1 | 2 | 13,139,978 | train | <story><title>Bose Hearphones</title><url>http://hearphones.bose.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_fs</author><text>I really wish someone was working to solve the problem of tinnitus. Would it be possible to generate anti phase wave out of these things to cancel out tinnitus? I would pay anything and&#x2F;or wear any goofy device in my ears to live life tinnitus free.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Certified</author><text>A project I worked on suggests vibrating the bone just under the earlobe at around 50kHz with a piezoelectric stack might help. 8 years or so ago I helped make a pocket sized and rechargeable medical device that operates on this principle. Last I checked it was still in FDA hell but helping the majority of sufferers in the trials. The theory of operation is that is breaks up tiny air bubbles stuck to the hairs in the inner ear.<p>An interesting side note is that you could &#x27;hear&#x27; a very high pitched sound when using the device even though 50kHz is far outside the standard human hearing range. We still are not sure but think we were hearing a lower harmonic of the tone bouncing around the skull.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bose Hearphones</title><url>http://hearphones.bose.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_fs</author><text>I really wish someone was working to solve the problem of tinnitus. Would it be possible to generate anti phase wave out of these things to cancel out tinnitus? I would pay anything and&#x2F;or wear any goofy device in my ears to live life tinnitus free.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ogig</author><text>I suddenly lost the hearing on one ear and it got replaced by a strong and permanent tinnitus. I quantify it as strong based on my talks with others with tinnitus.<p>What worked for me was stop fighting and start loving it. Now it&#x27;s a perma mantra. Some somatic malfunction that enables me to ear the hum inside of me or whatever poetry works for you. Try it maybe.</text></comment> |
32,488,169 | 32,487,639 | 1 | 2 | 32,486,642 | train | <story><title>Is El Salvador Up?</title><url>https://www.iselsalvadorup.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>superb-owl</author><text>To put the numbers in context:<p>- El Salvador has spent $104M on BTC<p>- They have lost about $47M on their investment<p>- They have a GDP of about $28B [1]<p>- They have an annual government budget of about $5.6B [2]<p>So they&#x27;ve blown about 1% of their annual budget on BTC. Far from catastrophic.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tradingeconomics.com&#x2F;el-salvador&#x2F;gdp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tradingeconomics.com&#x2F;el-salvador&#x2F;gdp</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tradingeconomics.com&#x2F;el-salvador&#x2F;government-spending" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tradingeconomics.com&#x2F;el-salvador&#x2F;government-spending</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>otto_ortega</author><text>Nope. As a Salvadorean the &quot;they&#x27;ve blown about 1% of their annual budget&quot; argument irritates me...<p>First of all: &quot;annual government budget of about $5.6B&quot; this is misleading, the government is 100% reliant on NEW debt to operate, there is NO &quot;disposable income&quot; not even a penny...<p>Heck, the goverment just approved a new $650M debt package to execute a &quot;last resort&quot; strategy and try to pay old debt by buying bonds expiring on early 2023 at below face-value price, because lenders have pretty much lost faith on the goverment having the capacity to pay, so they are &quot;cutting loses&quot;.<p>1% may look like nothing at face value, but when you are even a little bit informed about Salvadorean reality you know that $104M is A LOT of money for a country where the ICUs of the most important hospital of the public network get FLOODED every time there is a couple of hours of rain [1] and rebuilding the whole hospital would cost $170M...<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.elsalvador.com&#x2F;noticias&#x2F;nacional&#x2F;tormenta-bonnie-hospital-rosales-nayib-bukele-ministerio-de-obras-publicas-&#x2F;973541&#x2F;2022&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.elsalvador.com&#x2F;noticias&#x2F;nacional&#x2F;tormenta-bonnie...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Is El Salvador Up?</title><url>https://www.iselsalvadorup.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>superb-owl</author><text>To put the numbers in context:<p>- El Salvador has spent $104M on BTC<p>- They have lost about $47M on their investment<p>- They have a GDP of about $28B [1]<p>- They have an annual government budget of about $5.6B [2]<p>So they&#x27;ve blown about 1% of their annual budget on BTC. Far from catastrophic.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tradingeconomics.com&#x2F;el-salvador&#x2F;gdp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tradingeconomics.com&#x2F;el-salvador&#x2F;gdp</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tradingeconomics.com&#x2F;el-salvador&#x2F;government-spending" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tradingeconomics.com&#x2F;el-salvador&#x2F;government-spending</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&gt; <i>So they&#x27;ve blown about 1% of their annual budget on BTC. Far from catastrophic</i><p>The Bitcoin decision is single handedly marching San Salvador into a currency crisis [1]. Food and fuel are among their top imports, so that likely leads to political crisis.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32487630" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32487630</a></text></comment> |
20,191,880 | 20,191,694 | 1 | 2 | 20,190,902 | train | <story><title>The Touchscreen Infotainment Systems in New Cars Are a Distracting Mess</title><url>https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/car-technology/a26016348/car-infotainment-distraction/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>userbinator</author><text>I wonder if there will be a resurgence of &quot;dumb&quot; cars once people get tired of and become more aware of the disadvantages of these overly-complex systems, like has happened with phones; IMHO one of the very few things a touchscreen is useful for in a car is a GPS, because that&#x27;s a relatively complex system which can&#x27;t really be simplified to physical controls. Everything else should really be knobs and switches. How much of a market would there be for a &quot;dumb EV&quot;, basically the exact opposite of a Tesla but still electric, with only the bare minimum of electronics and software? Imagine a car whose interior looks like one from the late 70s&#x2F;early 80s, with all analogue controls and indicators, except that it&#x27;s actually an EV.<p>The other big disadvantage is the failure mode: if the screen fails, a whole set of functionality becomes inaccessible, whereas a single switch failure won&#x27;t affect any others.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andysinclair</author><text>&gt; The other big disadvantage is the failure mode: if the screen fails, a whole set of functionality becomes inaccessible<p>Yep, the touch screen in my car cracked recently and the AC got stuck on a very low setting and was constantly blowing out cold air - there was no way to adjust it without using the screen.<p>It is not only the single point of failure that is annoying but the fact that to control the AC you need to use the touch screen in AC mode which mean switching from GPS mode or radio mode etc. Very distracting when driving.<p>Car designers: Please give us more knobs!</text></comment> | <story><title>The Touchscreen Infotainment Systems in New Cars Are a Distracting Mess</title><url>https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/car-technology/a26016348/car-infotainment-distraction/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>userbinator</author><text>I wonder if there will be a resurgence of &quot;dumb&quot; cars once people get tired of and become more aware of the disadvantages of these overly-complex systems, like has happened with phones; IMHO one of the very few things a touchscreen is useful for in a car is a GPS, because that&#x27;s a relatively complex system which can&#x27;t really be simplified to physical controls. Everything else should really be knobs and switches. How much of a market would there be for a &quot;dumb EV&quot;, basically the exact opposite of a Tesla but still electric, with only the bare minimum of electronics and software? Imagine a car whose interior looks like one from the late 70s&#x2F;early 80s, with all analogue controls and indicators, except that it&#x27;s actually an EV.<p>The other big disadvantage is the failure mode: if the screen fails, a whole set of functionality becomes inaccessible, whereas a single switch failure won&#x27;t affect any others.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dpifke</author><text>&gt; Imagine a car whose interior looks like one from the late 70s&#x2F;early 80s, with all analogue controls and indicators, except that it&#x27;s actually an EV.<p>Something like this?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;transportation&#x2F;2017&#x2F;7&#x2F;27&#x2F;16052118&#x2F;bollinger-b1-electric-sport-truck-outdoors" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;transportation&#x2F;2017&#x2F;7&#x2F;27&#x2F;16052118&#x2F;b...</a></text></comment> |
16,485,327 | 16,485,359 | 1 | 2 | 16,484,461 | train | <story><title>Google Hangouts Chat</title><url>https://www.blog.google/products/g-suite/move-projects-forward-one-placehangouts-chat-now-available/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FreakyT</author><text>I already find Google&#x27;s handling of their chat software utterly nonsensical, but this one arguably takes the cake for ridiculousness, considering they <i>already have</i> a chat product called &quot;Hangouts&quot;.<p>There is definitely no chance of branding confusion there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chimeracoder</author><text>&gt; I already find Google&#x27;s handling of their chat software utterly nonsensical, but this one arguably takes the cake for ridiculousness, considering they already have a chat product called &quot;Hangouts&quot;.<p>Apparently this product (&quot;Google Hangouts Chat&quot;) is meant for work-related text chat targeted at businesses (I guess like Slack).<p>Not to be confused with Google Hangouts Meet, which is Hangouts <i>video</i> chat, but branded for businesses. Google Hangouts Meet is also known as Hangouts Meet, or just Meet, and even their official website can&#x27;t decide on which one to use, or even which one should show up in the Google search results: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;chimeracoder&#x2F;status&#x2F;968914718508371970" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;chimeracoder&#x2F;status&#x2F;968914718508371970</a><p>(Apologies for the self-link, but it&#x27;s easier than reuploading the image).</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Hangouts Chat</title><url>https://www.blog.google/products/g-suite/move-projects-forward-one-placehangouts-chat-now-available/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FreakyT</author><text>I already find Google&#x27;s handling of their chat software utterly nonsensical, but this one arguably takes the cake for ridiculousness, considering they <i>already have</i> a chat product called &quot;Hangouts&quot;.<p>There is definitely no chance of branding confusion there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JorgeGT</author><text>But now you can have <i>five</i> Google IM apps in your phone! Allo, Duo, Hangouts, Hangouts meet, Hangouts chat... am I missing any? Definitely Franz Kafka is alive and well as Google&#x27;s messaging PM.</text></comment> |
18,548,825 | 18,548,020 | 1 | 3 | 18,547,745 | train | <story><title>Two Cybercrime Rings and Eight Defendants Indicted for Digital Advertising Fraud</title><url>https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/two-international-cybercriminal-rings-dismantled-and-eight-defendants-indicted-causing</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jcampbell1</author><text>The interesting thing about ad fraud is the people that lose have no ability to police the problem. Ad networks get paid for fraud. Intelligent ad buyers that use cost-per-acquisition targeting, don&#x27;t care because they just bid lower if the traffic is a mix of fraud.<p>The losers are unsophisticated ad buyers such as the brand advertisers that use ad agencies to fill their ads with garbage traffic. Proctor and Gamble has recently figured that internet display is pretty much worthless. The other losers are legit publishers. I am perfectly happy to pay $0.50 a click with half the traffic being fraud, as I am willing to pay $1.00 a click for legit traffic from legit publishers. I get the same result, buy my money gets split 50&#x2F;50 between legit publishers and crooks.<p>I am mostly a dev, but have bought more than $1M in advertising on multiple platforms. The biggest joke I have ever seen was AppNexus. It was like 70% or more fraud, and it was the most obvious crap imaginable. For instance, all clicks coming from 8 month old user agents for evergreen browsers.<p>Google Adwords and Double Click have been mostly clean. I&#x27;d say 85-90%. I do see stuff that is obvious bullshit from time to time, and it goes away pretty quickly and but Google doesn&#x27;t refund the money. I don&#x27;t really care... they make it so we can police it pretty well. Facebook ads are completely clean, but they don&#x27;t run a network.<p>The simple rule for picking a ad platform is: if it isn&#x27;t loaded with performance advertisers (CPA), then stay the hell away.</text></comment> | <story><title>Two Cybercrime Rings and Eight Defendants Indicted for Digital Advertising Fraud</title><url>https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/two-international-cybercriminal-rings-dismantled-and-eight-defendants-indicted-causing</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>inetknght</author><text>&gt; <i>the defendants leased more than 650,000 Internet Protocol (“IP”) addresses</i><p>That&#x27;s... a not-insignificant number of IPs to have. I wonder how many different blocks were used and across which RIRs?</text></comment> |
18,215,729 | 18,215,692 | 1 | 2 | 18,215,231 | train | <story><title>Twitter is being investigated over data collection in its link-shortening system</title><url>http://fortune.com/2018/10/12/twitter-gdpr-investigation-tco-tracking/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hlandau</author><text>What&#x27;s particularly insidious about a lot of these link shorteners is the use of non-semantic redirects. That is, redirects which are not based on HTTP Location: headers but things like meta http-equiv=&quot;Refresh&quot;. I assume this is done to allow these pages to be loaded with tracking scripts.<p>Of course this is a completely broken way to implement a link shortener since it won&#x27;t work with non-browser tools such as curl. I tried a t.co URL with curl and it returns a Location: header, which means they&#x27;re doing user agent sniffing. If you need to use user agent sniffing to make something practical, it&#x27;s generally a good sign you shouldn&#x27;t be doing that thing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Twitter is being investigated over data collection in its link-shortening system</title><url>http://fortune.com/2018/10/12/twitter-gdpr-investigation-tco-tracking/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>saagarjha</author><text>I really hate it when websites use shortened links instead of real ones. Twitter’s not the only website that does this; everything from Google to Discourse seems to be doing this these days. Not only is this horrible for privacy, it also makes copying links really annoying.</text></comment> |
22,758,111 | 22,757,980 | 1 | 2 | 22,756,346 | train | <story><title>Hello, LineageOS 17.1</title><url>https://lineageos.org/Changelog-24/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pachico</author><text>Although possible, I wish installing operative systems in phones was as simple as it is for computers.
I&#x27;m already hearing experts saying it is the simple but it&#x27;s not :(</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pabs3</author><text>The main issue is phone vendors not sending their hardware support and other customisations upstream to the Linux kernel, bootloaders and AOSP, but the open source community sometimes does work on this. The second issue is boot security, but some companies allow unlocking and there are a lot of exploits for bootroms and kernels. The third issue is GPL violations and other binary-only hardware support (kernel drivers and userland daemons), but reverse engineering can help there.<p>It is definitely possible though, I&#x27;ve done it myself in 2012, but I pretty quickly gave up due to the above issues and the bugs I found in the hardware vendor code:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bonedaddy.net&#x2F;pabs3&#x2F;log&#x2F;2012&#x2F;12&#x2F;03&#x2F;debian-mobile&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bonedaddy.net&#x2F;pabs3&#x2F;log&#x2F;2012&#x2F;12&#x2F;03&#x2F;debian-mobile&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Hello, LineageOS 17.1</title><url>https://lineageos.org/Changelog-24/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pachico</author><text>Although possible, I wish installing operative systems in phones was as simple as it is for computers.
I&#x27;m already hearing experts saying it is the simple but it&#x27;s not :(</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>noisem4ker</author><text>There&#x27;s a full spectrum of possibilities here.<p>- Google lets you flash Android from the browser, using WebUSB: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flash.android.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flash.android.com</a>.<p>- Most Android phones can be unlocked and flashed with some command line tool.<p>- With Apple, you&#x27;re screwed.</text></comment> |
1,098,100 | 1,097,973 | 1 | 2 | 1,097,723 | train | <story><title>What Pythonistas Think of Ruby</title><url>http://blog.peepcode.com/tutorials/2010/what-pythonistas-think-of-ruby</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavelludiq</author><text>I am one of those people who accepted the lisp religion of "syntax is evil". I have a descent knowledge of python, and I've read a few ruby tutorials.<p>Neither python nor ruby are lisp. Python is not cool because of generators, list comprehensions, decorators or any other feature. Ruby is not cool because of blocks or monkey patching(im suspicions of anything called MONKEY patching). Ruby and python are cool because of really cool libraries and the way people use these languages, not because they have especially well designed syntax.<p>Instead of arguing about how cool your crappy syntax is, argue about which has the better libraries, which implementation is better, which is used for cooler projects. Non of these languages can top lisp when it comes to expressiveness and flexibility.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wvenable</author><text>Syntax is human. Syntax is ergonomics. A programming language is the bridge between man and machine. Lisp, I would argue, is far more about the machine than the man and that is the simple reason why it's not more popular.<p>Python was cool before the libraries; that's why those libraries got written in the first place. Lisp has been around forever and is still lacking in libraries and other support.</text></comment> | <story><title>What Pythonistas Think of Ruby</title><url>http://blog.peepcode.com/tutorials/2010/what-pythonistas-think-of-ruby</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavelludiq</author><text>I am one of those people who accepted the lisp religion of "syntax is evil". I have a descent knowledge of python, and I've read a few ruby tutorials.<p>Neither python nor ruby are lisp. Python is not cool because of generators, list comprehensions, decorators or any other feature. Ruby is not cool because of blocks or monkey patching(im suspicions of anything called MONKEY patching). Ruby and python are cool because of really cool libraries and the way people use these languages, not because they have especially well designed syntax.<p>Instead of arguing about how cool your crappy syntax is, argue about which has the better libraries, which implementation is better, which is used for cooler projects. Non of these languages can top lisp when it comes to expressiveness and flexibility.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>showell</author><text>I wholeheartedly agree that all languages should be judged on the quality of their libraries and implementation, as well as the success of the projects implemented on top of them. Ruby and Python have a pretty good track record there.<p>One of the themes of Gary's talk was that Ruby is more expressive/flexible than Python, and lisp was thrown into the discussion as sort of a "gold standard" of expressiveness/flexibility, without necessarily passing any judgment on overall merits of the three languages.<p>To the extent that Ruby strives for more flexibility, it is probably way more influenced by Perl than lisp.<p>As somebody who has used both Ruby and Python fairly extensively, I think Ruby is undeniably more expressive than Python at times, but also more arcane at others. Some of the differences probably come from irreconcilable tradeoffs, where you cannot have your cake and eat it too, but other tradeoffs are probably less necessary, which is why people continue to discuss it. In the case of Ruby, it's a pretty young language, so there are probably opportunities to make it more appealing to a Python mindset without losing its great flexibility, although I do not have specific proposals.<p>The conference Gary spoke at was a Python conference, so most people were more interested in ways that Python could learn from Ruby, without sacrificing Pythonicness. Gary seemed to reach the conclusion that the number one feature he envied in Ruby was blocks. Speaking for myself, I wish Python just had some kind of anonymous function syntax that was more rich than lambdas, even if it were not exactly semantically similar to Ruby blocks.</text></comment> |
5,011,852 | 5,011,652 | 1 | 2 | 5,011,477 | train | <story><title>Junior - A Native-Looking and Feeling Mobile HTML5 Front-End Framework</title><url>http://justspamjustin.github.com/junior/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>davidbanham</author><text>It looks great, but I'd call it a Native-Looking and Feeling <i>iOS</i> HTML5 Front-End Framework. Sure doesn't look native on Android, BlackBerry or Windows Phone.</text></comment> | <story><title>Junior - A Native-Looking and Feeling Mobile HTML5 Front-End Framework</title><url>http://justspamjustin.github.com/junior/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simonsarris</author><text>Lovely!<p>It might just be my pea brain, but it was not obvious at first that the phone on the right is a demo, even though it says so in the phone.<p>I'd strongly suggest putting the phone on the left of the page instead of the right, and additionally having some text in the intro mention that it is a live demo.</text></comment> |
27,822,233 | 27,818,498 | 1 | 3 | 27,798,764 | train | <story><title>A commemoration of Edsger Dijkstra [pdf]</title><url>https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/commemoration/EWD-commemoration-2021.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>doesnotexist</author><text>Dijkstra had a unique format for his undergraduate class where the entire grade basically came down to an interview at the end of the semester. During which he asked you to work out a solution to a problem in front of him one on one. A friend had the most memorable interaction with him during the interview&#x2F;final exam. Dijkstra explained the problem and they began furiously writing out a solution in pencil getting a few lines into the proof before realizing they had made a mistake and began to erase what was written. Dijkstra responded &quot;tsk tsk tsk, you are a rash mathematician&quot; and advised the student to &quot;Use a pen instead of pencil it will encourage you to spend more time with your thoughts before writing.&quot;<p>A couple years later I saw a quote that reminded me of that interaction and it goes
“I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself &quot;Dijkstra would not have liked this&quot;, well, that would be enough immortality for me.”<p>Dijkstra&#x27;s ghost haunts us all.</text></comment> | <story><title>A commemoration of Edsger Dijkstra [pdf]</title><url>https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/commemoration/EWD-commemoration-2021.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tomcam</author><text>Lovely. My favorite is by Klaus Wirth. One passage:<p>&gt; Occasionally he used a long “reading pipe”, until once, deep in thought, he bumped it into a door and hurt himself in the throat. Then he switched to cigarettes.</text></comment> |
7,469,710 | 7,469,640 | 1 | 2 | 7,469,115 | train | <story><title>Facebook acquires Oculus VR</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10101319050523971?stream_ref=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>s3r3nity</author><text>&gt; bottom-of-the-ethical-barrel<p>Again, this is silly sensationalist thinking -- companies aren&#x27;t people capable of &quot;good&quot; or &quot;evil&quot; choices. If they were, I&#x27;d note that Facebook was one of the only companies NOT conspiring to deflate the wages of half of the people that visit this site.<p>(Note: I don&#x27;t work for FB -- I just rail against silly hyperbolic thinking.)</text></item><item><author>pfraze</author><text>It&#x27;s not ridiculous - at all. Facebook is the kind of company that wants to control their market and their platform. The Oculus Rift was an exciting piece of tech that was untied to any platform, giving an open opportunity for software developers to explore VRUI. Now, it gives Facebook the opportunity to explore VRUI.<p>Of course, I&#x27;m afraid they&#x27;re going to tie the hardware to their awful, invasive Web platform. I&#x27;d be upset if it were Google, but Facebook is about as bottom-of-the-ethical-barrel as it gets.</text></item><item><author>s3r3nity</author><text>&gt;I am shattered right now.<p>Oh come on -- this is just ridiculous. They (Oculus) now have many many more times the resources at their disposal than before to make countless imaginative projects.<p>I know i&#x27;ll get down votes for saying this, but if Google was the buyer, there would be much more positive comments here. Use some rational analysis here, folks.</text></item><item><author>selmnoo</author><text>I am shattered right now. I was <i>so</i> happy for Oculus VR, I wanted it to become big, I wanted it to become something truly special.<p>And now this happens. I&#x27;m horrified and speechless.<p>This is the day I stop cheering for Oculus VR and get behind Sony&#x27;s Morpheus: <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/19/tech/gaming-gadgets/sony-morpheus-virtual-reality/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnn.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;03&#x2F;19&#x2F;tech&#x2F;gaming-gadgets&#x2F;sony-morph...</a><p>Notch on this deal: &quot;We were in talks about maybe bringing a version of Minecraft to Oculus. I just cancelled that deal. Facebook creeps me out.&quot; (<a href="https://twitter.com/notch/status/448586381565390848" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;notch&#x2F;status&#x2F;448586381565390848</a>).<p>Oh God why did this have to happen</text></item><item><author>lawl</author><text>Damn! I don&#x27;t like this.<p>I had hoped they jump in bed with valve.<p>Yes, I just really dislike facebook, so I hate to see them aquiring something i was really excited about.<p>Also from the article:<p>&gt; <i>After games, we&#x27;re going to make Oculus a platform for many other experiences. Imagine enjoying a court side seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world or consulting with a doctor face-to-face -- just by putting on goggles in your home.</i><p>Nah, I&#x27;d rather not, thank you. I prefer to actually visit my doctor where facebook doesn&#x27;t get all the data about it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vacri</author><text><i>companies aren&#x27;t people capable of &quot;good&quot; or &quot;evil&quot; choices</i><p>Their directors certainly are. A friend&#x27;s mother works in a high-level consultancy that is known for turning down lucrative-but-unethical projects. I&#x27;ve worked in a company where the CEO would always try to find a win-win, even if it cost the company financially. I&#x27;ve also worked in a company where the CEO&#x2F;majority owner vociferously abused the directors when he wasn&#x27;t allowed a vote when they were voting on his own payrise (the directors saying that it was <i>illegal</i> to do so). That company also played a lot of three-card monte with FDA auditors.<p>Companies can behave ethically; just because they&#x27;re not an organism doesn&#x27;t mean that they&#x27;re not under the control of something that can make those decisions. A car is just a lump of matter. Can&#x27;t do anything by itself. But stick a human into it, and it can do all sorts of things, from the mundane (collecting groceries) to the charitable (distributing meals) to the unethical (hit-and-run). A company is the same.<p>Add into this that Facebook has been shown to be openly selling fraudulent products, and it doesn&#x27;t make it sound like Facebook is the innocent you&#x27;re implying. Crack open youtube and search for &#x27;veritasium facebook&#x27;, there are a couple of videos - Facebook is essentially selling advertising with fake impressions.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook acquires Oculus VR</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10101319050523971?stream_ref=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>s3r3nity</author><text>&gt; bottom-of-the-ethical-barrel<p>Again, this is silly sensationalist thinking -- companies aren&#x27;t people capable of &quot;good&quot; or &quot;evil&quot; choices. If they were, I&#x27;d note that Facebook was one of the only companies NOT conspiring to deflate the wages of half of the people that visit this site.<p>(Note: I don&#x27;t work for FB -- I just rail against silly hyperbolic thinking.)</text></item><item><author>pfraze</author><text>It&#x27;s not ridiculous - at all. Facebook is the kind of company that wants to control their market and their platform. The Oculus Rift was an exciting piece of tech that was untied to any platform, giving an open opportunity for software developers to explore VRUI. Now, it gives Facebook the opportunity to explore VRUI.<p>Of course, I&#x27;m afraid they&#x27;re going to tie the hardware to their awful, invasive Web platform. I&#x27;d be upset if it were Google, but Facebook is about as bottom-of-the-ethical-barrel as it gets.</text></item><item><author>s3r3nity</author><text>&gt;I am shattered right now.<p>Oh come on -- this is just ridiculous. They (Oculus) now have many many more times the resources at their disposal than before to make countless imaginative projects.<p>I know i&#x27;ll get down votes for saying this, but if Google was the buyer, there would be much more positive comments here. Use some rational analysis here, folks.</text></item><item><author>selmnoo</author><text>I am shattered right now. I was <i>so</i> happy for Oculus VR, I wanted it to become big, I wanted it to become something truly special.<p>And now this happens. I&#x27;m horrified and speechless.<p>This is the day I stop cheering for Oculus VR and get behind Sony&#x27;s Morpheus: <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/19/tech/gaming-gadgets/sony-morpheus-virtual-reality/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnn.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;03&#x2F;19&#x2F;tech&#x2F;gaming-gadgets&#x2F;sony-morph...</a><p>Notch on this deal: &quot;We were in talks about maybe bringing a version of Minecraft to Oculus. I just cancelled that deal. Facebook creeps me out.&quot; (<a href="https://twitter.com/notch/status/448586381565390848" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;notch&#x2F;status&#x2F;448586381565390848</a>).<p>Oh God why did this have to happen</text></item><item><author>lawl</author><text>Damn! I don&#x27;t like this.<p>I had hoped they jump in bed with valve.<p>Yes, I just really dislike facebook, so I hate to see them aquiring something i was really excited about.<p>Also from the article:<p>&gt; <i>After games, we&#x27;re going to make Oculus a platform for many other experiences. Imagine enjoying a court side seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world or consulting with a doctor face-to-face -- just by putting on goggles in your home.</i><p>Nah, I&#x27;d rather not, thank you. I prefer to actually visit my doctor where facebook doesn&#x27;t get all the data about it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DerpDerpDerp</author><text>Groups of people are capable of collectively &quot;good&quot; or &quot;evil&quot; choices, and we often regard collective decisions in moral terms.<p>I&#x27;d argue that Facebook has made a lot of decisions that exploit users in pursuit of making more money and acquiring more personal data -- and that we don&#x27;t have to be happy a technology platform with a lot of promise is now tied to a company with a record of making such decisions.<p>I won&#x27;t welcome a Facebook platform in to my life the same way I would a standalone piece of technology, precisely because of the kind of decisions made by Facebook.</text></comment> |
17,120,648 | 17,120,285 | 1 | 2 | 17,119,938 | train | <story><title>Google sued for 'clandestine tracking' of UK iPhone users' browsing data</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/21/google-sued-tracking-44m-uk-iphone-users-browsing-data-apple-safari</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ams6110</author><text>While I don&#x27;t condone bypassing a users intent, I&#x27;m struggling to see the damage claim here. So some Safari users got more targeted ads than they would otherwise have seen. Does that merit financial compensation?</text></item><item><author>ocdtrekkie</author><text>&gt; Specifically, Google used a bit of JavaScript code – the workaround – to bypass Safari’s default blocking of third-party cookies (set by domains other than those being visited) in order to allow sites within its DoubleClick ad network to track users.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nakedsecurity.sophos.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;11&#x2F;30&#x2F;google-sued-over-iphone-safari-workaround-data-snooping&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nakedsecurity.sophos.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;11&#x2F;30&#x2F;google-sued-over...</a></text></item><item><author>Sephr</author><text>What does &quot;bypassed privacy settings of Apple’s Safari browser&quot; mean? Ignoring the DNT header? Setting third party cookies? Something about ITP?<p>This article has practically no details about the actual accusation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jhayward</author><text>&gt; So some Safari users got more targeted ads than they would otherwise have seen.<p>So, some users had their browsing habits illegally harvested, stored, analyzed, and sold to an unknown number of parties for an unknown number of purposes, many of them adverserial in nature to the well-being of the individual. So what?</text></comment> | <story><title>Google sued for 'clandestine tracking' of UK iPhone users' browsing data</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/21/google-sued-tracking-44m-uk-iphone-users-browsing-data-apple-safari</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ams6110</author><text>While I don&#x27;t condone bypassing a users intent, I&#x27;m struggling to see the damage claim here. So some Safari users got more targeted ads than they would otherwise have seen. Does that merit financial compensation?</text></item><item><author>ocdtrekkie</author><text>&gt; Specifically, Google used a bit of JavaScript code – the workaround – to bypass Safari’s default blocking of third-party cookies (set by domains other than those being visited) in order to allow sites within its DoubleClick ad network to track users.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nakedsecurity.sophos.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;11&#x2F;30&#x2F;google-sued-over-iphone-safari-workaround-data-snooping&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nakedsecurity.sophos.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;11&#x2F;30&#x2F;google-sued-over...</a></text></item><item><author>Sephr</author><text>What does &quot;bypassed privacy settings of Apple’s Safari browser&quot; mean? Ignoring the DNT header? Setting third party cookies? Something about ITP?<p>This article has practically no details about the actual accusation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>samb1729</author><text>&gt; So some Safari users got more targeted ads than they would otherwise have seen. Does that merit financial compensation?<p>Given that the way it occurs is by allowing Google to more accurately profile the users, I&#x27;d say yes.</text></comment> |
26,121,234 | 26,121,299 | 1 | 2 | 26,119,109 | train | <story><title>Ggwave: Tiny Data-over-Sound Library</title><url>https://github.com/ggerganov/ggwave</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ggerganov</author><text>Thanks for posting this - I&#x27;m the author.
I recently posted this to Show HN with a bit of background about the project [0].<p>My next goals for ggwave is to improve the mobile SDKs and provide more examples. If you want to help out - check out this issue [1].<p>I am also planning to add some even lower bit-rate protocols, but make them more robust and hopefully remove the sound markers.<p>- [0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25761016" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25761016</a><p>- [1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ggerganov&#x2F;ggwave&#x2F;issues&#x2F;2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ggerganov&#x2F;ggwave&#x2F;issues&#x2F;2</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Ggwave: Tiny Data-over-Sound Library</title><url>https://github.com/ggerganov/ggwave</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cheeaun</author><text>Any difference between this and the Quiet Modem Project? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;quiet&#x2F;quiet" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;quiet&#x2F;quiet</a><p>There are other data-over-sound libs listed here too <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ganny26&#x2F;awesome-audioqr" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ganny26&#x2F;awesome-audioqr</a></text></comment> |
41,164,934 | 41,163,259 | 1 | 3 | 41,162,676 | train | <story><title>A new type of neural network is more interpretable</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/kan-neural-network</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Ameo</author><text>I&#x27;ve tried out and written about[1] KANs on some small-scale modeling, comparing them to vanilla neural networks, as previously discussed here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40855028">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40855028</a>.<p>My main finding was that KANs are very tricky to train compared to NNs. It&#x27;s usually possible to get per-parameter loss roughly on par with NNs, but it requires a lot of hyperparameter tuning and extra tricks in the KAN architecture. In comparison, vanilla NNs were much easier to train and worked well under a much broader set of conditions.<p>Some people commented that we&#x27;ve invested an incredible amount of effort into getting really good at training NNs efficiently, and many of the things in ML libraries (optimizers like Adam, for example) are designed and optimized specifically for NNs. For that reason, it&#x27;s not really a good apples-to-apples comparison.<p>I think there&#x27;s definitely potential in KANs, but they aren&#x27;t a magic bullet. I&#x27;m also a bit dubious about interpretability claims; the splines that are usually used for KANs don&#x27;t really offer much more insight to me than just analyzing the output of a neuron in a lower layer of a NN.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cprimozic.net&#x2F;blog&#x2F;trying-out-kans&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cprimozic.net&#x2F;blog&#x2F;trying-out-kans&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>A new type of neural network is more interpretable</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/kan-neural-network</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yorwba</author><text>Previous discussion of Kolmogorov-Arnold networks: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40219205">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40219205</a></text></comment> |
20,632,823 | 20,632,451 | 1 | 3 | 20,630,319 | train | <story><title>Arend: Theorem Prover Based on Homotopy Type Theory by JetBrains</title><url>https://arend-lang.github.io/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jey</author><text>Wow, JetBrains has a whole HoTT and Dependent Types Research Group: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.jetbrains.org&#x2F;groups&#x2F;group-for-dependent-types-and-hott" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.jetbrains.org&#x2F;groups&#x2F;group-for-dependent-ty...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Arend: Theorem Prover Based on Homotopy Type Theory by JetBrains</title><url>https://arend-lang.github.io/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>namelosw</author><text>Wow. Finally a prover with serious IDE support.<p>I always believe this field would be very useful and evolving steadily in the industry. It just doesn&#x27;t attract eyeballs like machine learning and blockchains.</text></comment> |
3,564,356 | 3,564,099 | 1 | 2 | 3,563,700 | train | <story><title>How to Succeed as an Introvert</title><url>http://h30565.www3.hp.com/t5/Feature-Articles/How-to-Succeed-as-an-Introvert/ba-p/1522</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jonnathanson</author><text>As an introvert repeatedly flummoxed and exhausted by office politics in the earliest stages of my career, I very nearly resigned myself to always being overlooked. I didn't have the emotional energy to be schmoozing, wheeling, and dealing; I'd much rather have invested that same time and energy in learning, growing, and producing great work. Consciously, I realized that I was taking the sucker's bet -- that the schmoozers and bullshitters would always rise to the top, and that I'd be stuck in second gear. And so I came to adopt a mentality of learned helplessness: an overreliance on the hope that, someday, somehow, my ship would come in. I'd be recognized. My great work would produce outsized results, and all of my quiet toiling would be vindicated.<p>That day never came. What came, instead, was an eye-opening reversal. I had a very candid conversation with my boss about why I wasn't on track for promotion, despite a long string of big wins, and a consistent track record well above the expectations of my pay grade. And he told me that "Nobody outside of our group knows what you're working on." Note that he <i>didn't</i> tell me that I wasn't bullshitting or schmoozing hard enough. Rather, he told me that I was basically invisible to a large portion of the company. Maybe it's just the way I'm wired, but this was a nonobvious and nontrivial revelation to me. I suspect it may be for a lot of introverts.<p>To overcome this barrier, I adopted the "win a few key allies" strategy, as loosely advocated in the interview. I knew I wasn't going to be a world-class bullshitter. So, rather than try to bullshit clumsily and more frequently, I opted to find people in positions of power who were known to have similarly low tolerances for bullshit. And I volunteered to help these people. I made it my mission to knock it out of the park for them -- and, in so doing, to become known as the "no bullshit" guy who really delivered.<p>To this day, it's not all blue skies and roses. Even as a known commodity at your firm, you're still going to get lapped by the extroverts. But as an introvert, you really <i>do</i> have to step outside of your comfort zone if you want to advance your career. You don't have to out-BS the BSers, but you have to consciously devote time to getting noticed <i>and</i> staying noticed. Never assume that good work will get noticed on its own. If a tree falls in the woods, and no one's around to hear it, <i>it doesn't matter</i> if it makes a sound.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Succeed as an Introvert</title><url>http://h30565.www3.hp.com/t5/Feature-Articles/How-to-Succeed-as-an-Introvert/ba-p/1522</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eof</author><text>I would imagine the readership of HN is over represented by 'successful' 'introverts'.<p>I am not rich, but I am reasonably happy and by pretty much any reasonable measure have a 'successful' life. At 29 y/o I command an hourly wage that puts me in something like the top .05% of humanity, I have a gf I love, etc.<p>And, I am an introvert. I am <i>also</i> a tiny bit shy with folks I don't know.<p>I think my ability to navigate a loud, look-at-me world comes chiefly from self awareness and really just NGAF.<p>Put in a high-schoolesque way; the key to being a succesful introvert is by coming across as mysterious rather than boring. There can be an inherent urge to justify ones actions when confronted with things like 'why are you so quiet.. or you havent said much over there..'.<p>The difference between blubbering and trying to defend yourself with excuses and calmly showing your palms, or saying 'im just listening' is the difference between someone who knows who they are and someone who doesn't.<p>I think really though the title of this submission/article is generally implying something that isn't so true: that it is particularly difficult to succeed as an introvert. The advice for an introvert is really the same as an extrovert: do what you are good at and what you like to do; and don't spend so much time and effort on things you don't like.</text></comment> |
25,897,816 | 25,897,638 | 1 | 3 | 25,896,626 | train | <story><title>Military intelligence buys location data instead of getting warrants</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/military-intelligence-buys-location-data-instead-of-getting-warrants-memo-shows/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tppiotrowski</author><text>&quot;If your mobile device is turned on, our network is collecting data about the device location. We may use, provide access to, or disclose this network location data without your approval to provide and support our Services, including to route wireless communications, operate and improve our network and business, detect and prevent fraud, provide information to emergency responders about where to find you when you call public safety agencies, including through 911 or similar emergency services numbers, or as required by law.&quot; [1]<p>The wording here seems to suggest they can only use it for diagnosing their T-Mobile network, to emergency services or as required by law. Where is the loophole?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.t-mobile.com&#x2F;privacy-center&#x2F;our-practices&#x2F;privacy-policy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.t-mobile.com&#x2F;privacy-center&#x2F;our-practices&#x2F;privac...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>username90</author><text>&gt; We may use, provide access to, or disclose this network location data without your approval to provide and support our Services<p>That is the important part, everything else are just suggestions. If they view selling user data as one of their services then selling your data to someone else is a part of things the contract covers.</text></comment> | <story><title>Military intelligence buys location data instead of getting warrants</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/military-intelligence-buys-location-data-instead-of-getting-warrants-memo-shows/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tppiotrowski</author><text>&quot;If your mobile device is turned on, our network is collecting data about the device location. We may use, provide access to, or disclose this network location data without your approval to provide and support our Services, including to route wireless communications, operate and improve our network and business, detect and prevent fraud, provide information to emergency responders about where to find you when you call public safety agencies, including through 911 or similar emergency services numbers, or as required by law.&quot; [1]<p>The wording here seems to suggest they can only use it for diagnosing their T-Mobile network, to emergency services or as required by law. Where is the loophole?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.t-mobile.com&#x2F;privacy-center&#x2F;our-practices&#x2F;privacy-policy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.t-mobile.com&#x2F;privacy-center&#x2F;our-practices&#x2F;privac...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paxys</author><text>&gt; The DIA explains in the memo that it simply does not think the Carpenter ruling applies to it. &quot;DIA does not construe the Carpenter decision to require a judicial warrant endorsing purchase or use of commercially-available data for intelligence purposes,&quot; the agency wrote. &quot;DIA&#x27;s acquisition, use, and storage of commercial geolocation data is governed&quot; not by these civilian law enforcement rules but by the DoD&#x27;s own &quot;Attorney General-approved data handling requirements.&quot;<p>If the DoD thinks it has the right to this data then whatever agreement you have with T-Mobile doesn&#x27;t really matter. Ultimately that is what needs to be challenged in court.</text></comment> |
27,458,127 | 27,455,923 | 1 | 2 | 27,455,341 | train | <story><title>'Miraculous' mosquito hack cuts dengue by 77%</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-57417219</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>raynr</author><text>Me before reading the article: is it wolbachia?<p>Me after reading the article: it&#x27;s wolbachia.<p>We&#x27;ve been using these here in Singapore for a while now (looking at it since about 2016 [0]), and it&#x27;s not like it was a secret [1], hell even the BBC has reported on wolbachia before (by the same James Gallagher!) [2], so it&#x27;s a bit surprising that it is presented in this BBC article as something &quot;miraculous&quot; and new.<p>What&#x27;s curious to me is that the information presented in the BBC articles is slightly different from what has been reported here in Singapore. The BBC articles say that the wolbachia infection is passed on. Our reporting has been that male mosquitos infected with wolbachia that mate with females will not produce viable eggs, but otherwise, infected females will pass the wolbachia infection on. I wonder what the details are.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nea.gov.sg&#x2F;corporate-functions&#x2F;resources&#x2F;research&#x2F;wolbachia-aedes-mosquito-suppression-strategy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nea.gov.sg&#x2F;corporate-functions&#x2F;resources&#x2F;researc...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.channelnewsasia.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;singapore&#x2F;wolbachia-mosquitoes-new-facility-aedes-aegypti-dengue-12145012" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.channelnewsasia.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;singapore&#x2F;wolbachia-mos...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;health-50487724" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;health-50487724</a></text></comment> | <story><title>'Miraculous' mosquito hack cuts dengue by 77%</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-57417219</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>macintux</author><text>For anyone unfamiliar with dengue, among its more notorious aspects is that repeated infections over a victim’s lifetime can make its impact <i>worse</i>.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dengue_fever" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dengue_fever</a><p>Very happy to hear this news. Selfishly, with a warming climate the impact of the virus is likely to spread, and generally the more tropical diseases we can wipe out the better.</text></comment> |
12,999,613 | 12,999,262 | 1 | 3 | 12,998,163 | train | <story><title>I had a health crisis in France</title><url>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-lamar-french-healthcare-20161118-story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nothrabannosir</author><text><i>It&#x27;s just convenient to use the system. I even had multiple MRIs and dozens of XRays after minor sport injuries just to be sure.</i><p>I&#x27;m not sure where to draw the line, though. How do you determine when &quot;just in case&quot; costs too much?<p>Remember, all Austrians paid for your mris and X-rays. I don&#x27;t doubt it was worth it this specific case, but aren&#x27;t the incentives wrong?</text></item><item><author>cel1ne</author><text>It&#x27;s not just that the costs of getting healthy are taken care of.<p>Here in austria free, yearly &quot;health checkups&quot; are offered to you by every doctor. Meaning, when you go there because of a cold, he will tell you that you ought to do a checkup every year, which include blood tests, psychological screening for alcoholism and other individualized tests like prostate cancer for men.<p>It&#x27;s just convenient to use the system. I even had multiple MRIs and dozens of XRays after minor sport injuries just to be sure.</text></item><item><author>antirez</author><text>This is normal on all western Europe states. However France has very high standards in general about health care and is regarded as one of the best systems. I think it&#x27;s time for US citizens to accept that most of Europe has better life expectancy, lower infant mortality than US, and to be ill is not a financial tragedy. Moreover the treatment that a low-income and high-income citizen receives is very similar, so there is a lot less social discrimination. If this is not enough to show that the US system has issues, note that also in US, healthcare procedures are generally overpriced compared to their costs around the world. There is obviously a problem to fix and Obama was going in the right direction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stefs</author><text>&gt; How do you determine when &quot;just in case&quot; costs too much?<p>the physicians usually try to take the safe route just in case - if they deem it worth it. i&#x27;m still in the low risk category (~~young~~ not old, passably athletic) so my doctor told me more than once that it&#x27;s probably nothing and we don&#x27;t need to do the (expensive) X, the (cheap) Y is enough (maybe Y reveals something that justifies X).<p>it doesn&#x27;t always work; as a personal anecdote - my uncle suffered a debilitating headache once and was told to take aspirin for several days until my aunt had enough and drove him to the hospital on her own. turned out to be cerebral bleeding. he barely survived and is now mentally disabled.<p>this a) takes him out of the workforce, which looses the state money through reduced taxes and b) ensures him an invalidity pension, which costs the state money.<p>was it worth it to save the money? on paper it&#x27;s the additional cost of checking N people who&#x27;re having headaches plus the cost of treating M people who&#x27;re actually affected vs. the money he would have paid into the system plus the money he now costs the system over, say, 20 years. additionally he consumes less and his wife&#x27;s business is struggling because he&#x27;s not much help anymore.<p>for us, personally, it&#x27;s still a tragedy, but those cases happen. you have to draw the line somewhere. it&#x27;s not <i>just</i> additional costs though, it&#x27;s still a trade off.</text></comment> | <story><title>I had a health crisis in France</title><url>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-lamar-french-healthcare-20161118-story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nothrabannosir</author><text><i>It&#x27;s just convenient to use the system. I even had multiple MRIs and dozens of XRays after minor sport injuries just to be sure.</i><p>I&#x27;m not sure where to draw the line, though. How do you determine when &quot;just in case&quot; costs too much?<p>Remember, all Austrians paid for your mris and X-rays. I don&#x27;t doubt it was worth it this specific case, but aren&#x27;t the incentives wrong?</text></item><item><author>cel1ne</author><text>It&#x27;s not just that the costs of getting healthy are taken care of.<p>Here in austria free, yearly &quot;health checkups&quot; are offered to you by every doctor. Meaning, when you go there because of a cold, he will tell you that you ought to do a checkup every year, which include blood tests, psychological screening for alcoholism and other individualized tests like prostate cancer for men.<p>It&#x27;s just convenient to use the system. I even had multiple MRIs and dozens of XRays after minor sport injuries just to be sure.</text></item><item><author>antirez</author><text>This is normal on all western Europe states. However France has very high standards in general about health care and is regarded as one of the best systems. I think it&#x27;s time for US citizens to accept that most of Europe has better life expectancy, lower infant mortality than US, and to be ill is not a financial tragedy. Moreover the treatment that a low-income and high-income citizen receives is very similar, so there is a lot less social discrimination. If this is not enough to show that the US system has issues, note that also in US, healthcare procedures are generally overpriced compared to their costs around the world. There is obviously a problem to fix and Obama was going in the right direction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>peteretep</author><text><p><pre><code> &gt; How do you determine when
&gt; &quot;just in case&quot; costs too
&gt; much
</code></pre>
Generally <i>you</i> don&#x27;t in systems like this. The referring physician in association with national guidelines on cost and treatment plans does.</text></comment> |
28,048,467 | 28,047,588 | 1 | 2 | 28,046,491 | train | <story><title>Massachusetts couple suing eBay after employees harassed and stalked them</title><url>https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/07/31/business/it-has-be-known-what-was-done-us-natick-couple-harassed-by-ebay-tell-their-story-first-time/?p1=Article_Feed_ContentQuery</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>polytely</author><text>Makes you really wonder if this was an isolated incident or if there are other cases of these tactics that were successful in silencing the victims.<p>Makes me think of the series DEVS where a big Silicon Valley company also uses their security force in a similar manner, I never thought that would be the part that was the most accurate.<p>It&#x27;s scary that this happened at Ebay, I dread to think what kind of shit a company with the funds of google or facebook could pull off.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bdw5204</author><text>It wasn&#x27;t exactly successful in silencing the victim but one of the car companies did this to Ralph Nader when he was investigating their products for Unsafe at Any Speed.<p>I&#x27;m honestly surprised that any company would still do this sort of thing to critics after how that turned out back in the 60s. When the harassment of Nader was discovered, it put extra momentum behind the push for car safety legislation that cost the car companies lots of money and saved countless lives. Nader was then able to get lots of additional consumer safety laws passed in the 70s. Maybe they just think themselves so powerful after decades of successfully buying politicians that they think they can now get away with this kind of thing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Massachusetts couple suing eBay after employees harassed and stalked them</title><url>https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/07/31/business/it-has-be-known-what-was-done-us-natick-couple-harassed-by-ebay-tell-their-story-first-time/?p1=Article_Feed_ContentQuery</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>polytely</author><text>Makes you really wonder if this was an isolated incident or if there are other cases of these tactics that were successful in silencing the victims.<p>Makes me think of the series DEVS where a big Silicon Valley company also uses their security force in a similar manner, I never thought that would be the part that was the most accurate.<p>It&#x27;s scary that this happened at Ebay, I dread to think what kind of shit a company with the funds of google or facebook could pull off.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throw_m239339</author><text>It&#x27;s not uncommon for corporations to hire PI and target certain clients&#x2F;customers&#x2F;competitors ,for petty reasons or even to dig dirt on them, and it might count as stalking yes. One day when I&#x27;m retired I might tell my story.<p>But this case is just one step above all that. Who knows what these employees and executives did to others before, I hardly believe this was an isolated case at eBay.</text></comment> |
31,873,131 | 31,872,169 | 1 | 3 | 31,870,955 | train | <story><title>The Composition over Inheritance Principle (2020)</title><url>https://python-patterns.guide/gang-of-four/composition-over-inheritance/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ravenstine</author><text>Why even use a class in any of those cases? The if-statement example demonstrates precisely how OO classes can make code more complicated than it needs to be.<p>Just make a log() function that takes a target (file, socket, etc) and a message. Unless your logger needs to be so flexible as to work in 3rd party apps, why can&#x27;t it be just that simple?<p>Although the author&#x27;s take on composition is agreeable, it&#x27;s things like logging where I think custom classes usually don&#x27;t make things better in the first place. Just writing a function with conditional logic gets the job done and is plenty maintainable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>goto11</author><text>This is a general problem with code examples. You want the example to simple enough to easily understand. But many features only really makes sense in larger programs, so in a minimal example they seem overly complicated.<p>You don&#x27;t want the code which logs a message to be coupled to the logging mechanism. You should be able to transparently change the target (file&#x2F;socket&#x2F;database or a combination) without having to change code and dependencies every place a message is logged.<p>If you don&#x27;t need any of that, you just use print().</text></comment> | <story><title>The Composition over Inheritance Principle (2020)</title><url>https://python-patterns.guide/gang-of-four/composition-over-inheritance/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ravenstine</author><text>Why even use a class in any of those cases? The if-statement example demonstrates precisely how OO classes can make code more complicated than it needs to be.<p>Just make a log() function that takes a target (file, socket, etc) and a message. Unless your logger needs to be so flexible as to work in 3rd party apps, why can&#x27;t it be just that simple?<p>Although the author&#x27;s take on composition is agreeable, it&#x27;s things like logging where I think custom classes usually don&#x27;t make things better in the first place. Just writing a function with conditional logic gets the job done and is plenty maintainable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sevensor</author><text>&gt; Just make a log() function that takes a target (file, socket, etc) and a message. Unless your logger needs to be so flexible as to work in 3rd party apps, why can&#x27;t it be just that simple?<p>Of all the ways this could have been done, it seems like they chose the most complicated.<p>Python&#x27;s lambdas get a lot of grief, but<p><pre><code> def my_logger():
log1 = lambda msg: log(sys.stderr, msg)
log2 = lambda msg: log1(filter_function(msg))
return lambda msg: log2(other_filter_function(msg))
</code></pre>
seems like an entirely sane and uncomplicated way build up a logging function that does what you want it to. Sure, it&#x27;s not going to be high-performing code (these are Python lambdas after all), but it&#x27;s not like the article&#x27;s version is going to take home any prizes in that department either.</text></comment> |
20,065,836 | 20,066,003 | 1 | 2 | 20,065,153 | train | <story><title>Apple Plans End of iTunes</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-31/apple-s-future-ios-13-macos-10-15-watchos-6-tvos-13-mac-pro</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>saurik</author><text>&gt; Do I really need to bring up the “No Wireless. Less Space than a Nomad. Lame.” Meme and how geeks didn’t get the iPod?<p>People love to bring this up... but that product (pretty much) did fail, in no small part because it had less space than a Nomad. The iPod wasn&#x27;t successful until a couple revisions later and after the introduction of iTunes (which led to an end-to-end rethink of how you loaded music on these devices). No matter how hard Apple-acolytes want it to be true, if I come out with a bad product, and then later come out with a good product, it doesn&#x27;t make the bad product retroactively awesome.</text></item><item><author>scarface74</author><text>No you don’t.<p>With iTunes you could have smart playlists like “create a list of all of the songs I haven’t played in X days”.<p>Normal people didn’t want to tag songs and use the filesystem.<p>Do I really need to bring up the “No Wireless. Less Space than a Nomad. Lame.” Meme and how geeks didn’t get the iPod?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;slashdot.org&#x2F;story&#x2F;01&#x2F;10&#x2F;23&#x2F;1816257&#x2F;apple-releases-ipod" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;slashdot.org&#x2F;story&#x2F;01&#x2F;10&#x2F;23&#x2F;1816257&#x2F;apple-releases-i...</a></text></item><item><author>kvark</author><text>Minority here, I never understood why music players shifted towards iTune-ish style of owning and re-categorizing everything in their own way... I mean, OS has a file system, why not just rely on it? Throw some searchable tags in, and you get the same abilities but without obscurity.</text></item><item><author>nategri</author><text>I remember when iTunes came out for Windows ca. 2003. I had friends with Macs so I leapt at the chance to try it for myself---it just seemed lightyears ahead of whatever I was using to interface with my music library at the time (Winamp, probably).<p>And what a long, slow, weird, decline it&#x27;s been since then.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>corobo</author><text>On the other hand I know what an iPod is, only ever heard of a Nomad through the quoted quote<p>There was a winner</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Plans End of iTunes</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-31/apple-s-future-ios-13-macos-10-15-watchos-6-tvos-13-mac-pro</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>saurik</author><text>&gt; Do I really need to bring up the “No Wireless. Less Space than a Nomad. Lame.” Meme and how geeks didn’t get the iPod?<p>People love to bring this up... but that product (pretty much) did fail, in no small part because it had less space than a Nomad. The iPod wasn&#x27;t successful until a couple revisions later and after the introduction of iTunes (which led to an end-to-end rethink of how you loaded music on these devices). No matter how hard Apple-acolytes want it to be true, if I come out with a bad product, and then later come out with a good product, it doesn&#x27;t make the bad product retroactively awesome.</text></item><item><author>scarface74</author><text>No you don’t.<p>With iTunes you could have smart playlists like “create a list of all of the songs I haven’t played in X days”.<p>Normal people didn’t want to tag songs and use the filesystem.<p>Do I really need to bring up the “No Wireless. Less Space than a Nomad. Lame.” Meme and how geeks didn’t get the iPod?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;slashdot.org&#x2F;story&#x2F;01&#x2F;10&#x2F;23&#x2F;1816257&#x2F;apple-releases-ipod" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;slashdot.org&#x2F;story&#x2F;01&#x2F;10&#x2F;23&#x2F;1816257&#x2F;apple-releases-i...</a></text></item><item><author>kvark</author><text>Minority here, I never understood why music players shifted towards iTune-ish style of owning and re-categorizing everything in their own way... I mean, OS has a file system, why not just rely on it? Throw some searchable tags in, and you get the same abilities but without obscurity.</text></item><item><author>nategri</author><text>I remember when iTunes came out for Windows ca. 2003. I had friends with Macs so I leapt at the chance to try it for myself---it just seemed lightyears ahead of whatever I was using to interface with my music library at the time (Winamp, probably).<p>And what a long, slow, weird, decline it&#x27;s been since then.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>macintux</author><text>As pointed out, iTunes predates the iPod.<p>The major things that changed after the iPod was released: adding online music sales, switching from FireWire to USB for all the people stuck with the slower Windows hardware interface, and iTunes for Windows.<p>None of those changed the core iPod design; I don’t think the first one failed in any meaningful way.</text></comment> |
8,997,900 | 8,997,855 | 1 | 2 | 8,997,143 | train | <story><title>Non-blocking UI's with interface previews</title><url>http://www.callumhart.com/blog/non-blocking-uis-with-interface-previews</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>philfreo</author><text>Pinterest does something really clever related to this - not so much for data placeholder but for images. They have precomputed the dominant color for each image and show that color while the image loads.<p><a href="http://littlebigdetails.com/post/56782380031/pinterest-before-image-is-loaded-the-background" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;littlebigdetails.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;56782380031&#x2F;pinterest-befor...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Non-blocking UI's with interface previews</title><url>http://www.callumhart.com/blog/non-blocking-uis-with-interface-previews</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>delluminatus</author><text>Meteor -- the JS framework -- uses something much like this, which they call &quot;latency compensation&quot;. It&#x27;s a core part of their ideology. Data is prefetched or given default values that give the user at least something to look at until the actual data is fetched with AJAX.<p>Beyond just using spinners, Meteor will populate the fields with client-side cached data that might be a little old, and then when it receives a response from the server it updates the client-side DB with the new data and refreshes the view. If the data hasn&#x27;t changed at all, the process can be completely transparent -- just an instantaneous UI update.<p>Because the Meteor framework encompasses both the client and server side, this can be &quot;abstracted away&quot; from the app developer. The abstraction isn&#x27;t perfect of course but it makes it much easier to implement these kinds of ultra-responsive Web UIs.</text></comment> |
26,004,723 | 26,004,904 | 1 | 3 | 26,002,688 | train | <story><title>“WSB veterans know that they're making a suicide charge for the memes”</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l7bl3z/brokers_of_reddit_how_crazy_is_it_where_you_work/gl64yau/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lm28469</author><text>I still don&#x27;t understand how they successfully managed to make people think buying shares of a bankrupt company for $350 a pop was a good idea. They pitched it as the new BTC or TSLA but it really is just a text book example of pump and dump. They&#x27;re not &quot;owning wallstreet&quot;, at best they&#x27;re owning a few investors&#x2F;entities who took way to much risks, and that&#x27;s it. The smart ones bought their shares at $5 and sold last week at the peak, any one getting in from now is suffering from massive FOMO.<p>Ronbinhood &amp;co enabled this by gamifying trading, people are just one click away from betting their entire savings based on random social media posts amplified by mainstream media over coverage.<p>If you learn about something like this via mainstream medias or your friend who had no idea what trading was 2 days ago you can be 100% sure that you&#x27;re too late to the party<p>edit: ok, not bankrupt, but clearly not going in the right direction. Either way, not anywhere close to make investors rich quick<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gamerant.com&#x2F;gamestop-out-of-business-in-digital-age&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gamerant.com&#x2F;gamestop-out-of-business-in-digital-age...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gamerant.com&#x2F;is-gamestop-going-out-of-business-dying&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gamerant.com&#x2F;is-gamestop-going-out-of-business-dying...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;edition.cnn.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;09&#x2F;10&#x2F;investing&#x2F;gamestop-store-closures&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;edition.cnn.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;09&#x2F;10&#x2F;investing&#x2F;gamestop-store-...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ccn.com&#x2F;gamestops-ultimate-destiny-buyout-or-bankruptcy&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ccn.com&#x2F;gamestops-ultimate-destiny-buyout-or-ban...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Geee</author><text>No, they didn&#x27;t pitch it as a BTC or Tesla. Clearly you haven&#x27;t been following at all what is happening. The pitch was to cause a short squeeze and then selling when it happens. So that only losers would be the short selling hedge funds.</text></comment> | <story><title>“WSB veterans know that they're making a suicide charge for the memes”</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l7bl3z/brokers_of_reddit_how_crazy_is_it_where_you_work/gl64yau/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lm28469</author><text>I still don&#x27;t understand how they successfully managed to make people think buying shares of a bankrupt company for $350 a pop was a good idea. They pitched it as the new BTC or TSLA but it really is just a text book example of pump and dump. They&#x27;re not &quot;owning wallstreet&quot;, at best they&#x27;re owning a few investors&#x2F;entities who took way to much risks, and that&#x27;s it. The smart ones bought their shares at $5 and sold last week at the peak, any one getting in from now is suffering from massive FOMO.<p>Ronbinhood &amp;co enabled this by gamifying trading, people are just one click away from betting their entire savings based on random social media posts amplified by mainstream media over coverage.<p>If you learn about something like this via mainstream medias or your friend who had no idea what trading was 2 days ago you can be 100% sure that you&#x27;re too late to the party<p>edit: ok, not bankrupt, but clearly not going in the right direction. Either way, not anywhere close to make investors rich quick<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gamerant.com&#x2F;gamestop-out-of-business-in-digital-age&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gamerant.com&#x2F;gamestop-out-of-business-in-digital-age...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gamerant.com&#x2F;is-gamestop-going-out-of-business-dying&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gamerant.com&#x2F;is-gamestop-going-out-of-business-dying...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;edition.cnn.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;09&#x2F;10&#x2F;investing&#x2F;gamestop-store-closures&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;edition.cnn.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;09&#x2F;10&#x2F;investing&#x2F;gamestop-store-...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ccn.com&#x2F;gamestops-ultimate-destiny-buyout-or-bankruptcy&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ccn.com&#x2F;gamestops-ultimate-destiny-buyout-or-ban...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>soared</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=GZTr1-Gp74U" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=GZTr1-Gp74U</a><p>Roaring Kitty (Deep fing value)&#x27;s first video from 6 months ago on $GME answers your questions. It started as legitimate investing with some memes on the side, and then turned in memes with some legitimate investing on the side.</text></comment> |
18,597,140 | 18,596,335 | 1 | 3 | 18,588,727 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: What are your “brain hacks” that help you manage everyday situations?</title><text>I&#x27;m incredibly fortunate to have a chairman on our board who brings so much clarity of thought to the business.<p>He&#x27;s unemotional yet thoughtful. If he doesn&#x27;t have an immediate answer for something, he instinctively understands how to search for the answer. He has a natural sense of the real priority of work and discussions.<p>So I asked him for some of his favourite brain hacks...simple tricks he uses when he has a mental challenge to overcome. A couple of his insights were very useful to me, so I thought I&#x27;d share them here and ask HN for their personal brain hacks in response.<p><i></i> Artificial deadlines <i></i><p>He has a clever technique for bringing tough choices to a conclusion and avoiding procrastination. This is especially useful for life changing decisions such as moving country or taking that new job.<p>To put an end to the decision making process he sets a deadline for the decision to be made. Say 6pm on Monday. At five minutes to 6 he usually doesn&#x27;t know the answer but in those 5 minutes something clicks, and by 6pm the answer is always there.<p><i></i> 10&#x2F;10&#x2F;10 rule <i></i><p>This is something I&#x27;ve read before but he applies this. The 10&#x2F;10&#x2F;10 is the framing of the outcome of a decision across three timeframes:<p>How will he feel about the outcome 10 minutes from now?
How about 10 months from now?
How about 10 years from now?<p>The answers to these questions provide a different perspective and usually help him to find the correct answer without being misguided by circumstances at the time of making the decision.<p><i></i> This will all be over by 6pm <i></i><p>If there&#x27;s an important meeting with stakeholders, a scary appointment with the doctor or a tough chat with an employee - he simply keeps in mind the fact that by &quot;X time&quot;, the thing will have passed and won&#x27;t matter anymore.<p>If it doesn&#x27;t matter after X time, chances are it probably doesn&#x27;t matter now.<p>Edit: Formatting.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>nerpderp82</author><text>0) Keeping one&#x27;s mouth shut. Trying to not have an opinion until a) having enough information b) only voicing it if it is important. I am trying to spend more time perceiving instead of broadcasting.</text></item><item><author>cdicelico</author><text>My top 3, in order of how I try to apply them (i.e., if 1 doesn&#x27;t help, move on to 2, etc.). I learned these all from reading various philosophy works, by the way, so perhaps cognitive hack #1 should be &quot;read books&quot;.<p>1) Suspension of judgement (from Sextus Empiricus, Zhuang Zi, Ecclesiastes): avoid forming an opinion at all about things that are not evident. The way I do this is by thinking through an opposing argument or two, and using language like &quot;it seems&quot; or &quot;it appears&quot; rather than &quot;I know&quot;, &quot;I think&quot;, etc. This technique saves time and energy by helping me avoid getting wrapped up in opinion-based thinking and helps me develop equanimity.<p>2) Suspension of value-judgements (from Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Zhuang Zi, Ecclesiastes): being aware and in control of the value-judgement loop (this thing is good or bad). I do this by shifting the language in my mind from &quot;that is bad&quot; to &quot;I feel this way because...&quot; Again, like #1, this is about inverting the locus of control in my cognitive discourse such that my mind can easily go its own way from there, only on a more productive path.<p>3) Awareness of the mode of thinking I&#x27;m in, and the kind of learning that&#x27;s appropriate to the task or objective at hand (from Plato). There are several modes of thinking or learning (eikasia, pistis, dianoia, episteme, techne, phronesis, and noesis, for example). Simply being aware of which mode you should be in for a task is much more valuable than it might appear at first glance. I see these less as bins to put various kinds of thought in and more as tools to apply to a problem.<p>Reviewing this, a common thread is self-awareness developed to a point of disciplined introspection and intentional change by adopting these kinds of cognitive tricks. Also, reading is good for you. :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sizzle</author><text>I do this too and it works great in personal contexts cause people love sharing their opinions and hearing themselves talk generally speaking.<p>This is in stark contrast to the workplace where I&#x27;ve experienced that keeping my mouth shut in a meeting to gather my thoughts before contributing a well informed opinion, the loudest person in the room has already spoken a handful of times and left their mark and then continues to speak over people and dominate the conversation for better or worse (usually the latter unless they are a SME).<p>I&#x27;m then forced to revert to speaking ASAP to get a word in so I don&#x27;t walk away from a meeting being perceived as contributing little cause I was getting enough words.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s all in my head cause I&#x27;m an introvert and meetings drain my energy. Anyone else experience this? Got any tips?</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: What are your “brain hacks” that help you manage everyday situations?</title><text>I&#x27;m incredibly fortunate to have a chairman on our board who brings so much clarity of thought to the business.<p>He&#x27;s unemotional yet thoughtful. If he doesn&#x27;t have an immediate answer for something, he instinctively understands how to search for the answer. He has a natural sense of the real priority of work and discussions.<p>So I asked him for some of his favourite brain hacks...simple tricks he uses when he has a mental challenge to overcome. A couple of his insights were very useful to me, so I thought I&#x27;d share them here and ask HN for their personal brain hacks in response.<p><i></i> Artificial deadlines <i></i><p>He has a clever technique for bringing tough choices to a conclusion and avoiding procrastination. This is especially useful for life changing decisions such as moving country or taking that new job.<p>To put an end to the decision making process he sets a deadline for the decision to be made. Say 6pm on Monday. At five minutes to 6 he usually doesn&#x27;t know the answer but in those 5 minutes something clicks, and by 6pm the answer is always there.<p><i></i> 10&#x2F;10&#x2F;10 rule <i></i><p>This is something I&#x27;ve read before but he applies this. The 10&#x2F;10&#x2F;10 is the framing of the outcome of a decision across three timeframes:<p>How will he feel about the outcome 10 minutes from now?
How about 10 months from now?
How about 10 years from now?<p>The answers to these questions provide a different perspective and usually help him to find the correct answer without being misguided by circumstances at the time of making the decision.<p><i></i> This will all be over by 6pm <i></i><p>If there&#x27;s an important meeting with stakeholders, a scary appointment with the doctor or a tough chat with an employee - he simply keeps in mind the fact that by &quot;X time&quot;, the thing will have passed and won&#x27;t matter anymore.<p>If it doesn&#x27;t matter after X time, chances are it probably doesn&#x27;t matter now.<p>Edit: Formatting.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>nerpderp82</author><text>0) Keeping one&#x27;s mouth shut. Trying to not have an opinion until a) having enough information b) only voicing it if it is important. I am trying to spend more time perceiving instead of broadcasting.</text></item><item><author>cdicelico</author><text>My top 3, in order of how I try to apply them (i.e., if 1 doesn&#x27;t help, move on to 2, etc.). I learned these all from reading various philosophy works, by the way, so perhaps cognitive hack #1 should be &quot;read books&quot;.<p>1) Suspension of judgement (from Sextus Empiricus, Zhuang Zi, Ecclesiastes): avoid forming an opinion at all about things that are not evident. The way I do this is by thinking through an opposing argument or two, and using language like &quot;it seems&quot; or &quot;it appears&quot; rather than &quot;I know&quot;, &quot;I think&quot;, etc. This technique saves time and energy by helping me avoid getting wrapped up in opinion-based thinking and helps me develop equanimity.<p>2) Suspension of value-judgements (from Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Zhuang Zi, Ecclesiastes): being aware and in control of the value-judgement loop (this thing is good or bad). I do this by shifting the language in my mind from &quot;that is bad&quot; to &quot;I feel this way because...&quot; Again, like #1, this is about inverting the locus of control in my cognitive discourse such that my mind can easily go its own way from there, only on a more productive path.<p>3) Awareness of the mode of thinking I&#x27;m in, and the kind of learning that&#x27;s appropriate to the task or objective at hand (from Plato). There are several modes of thinking or learning (eikasia, pistis, dianoia, episteme, techne, phronesis, and noesis, for example). Simply being aware of which mode you should be in for a task is much more valuable than it might appear at first glance. I see these less as bins to put various kinds of thought in and more as tools to apply to a problem.<p>Reviewing this, a common thread is self-awareness developed to a point of disciplined introspection and intentional change by adopting these kinds of cognitive tricks. Also, reading is good for you. :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tootie</author><text>You should avoid voicing a judgment, but you can certainly air your thoughts and opinions as they arise. Just be open to being convinced.</text></comment> |
33,936,690 | 33,936,935 | 1 | 3 | 33,934,228 | train | <story><title>What causes Alzheimer's? Scientists are rethinking the answer</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-causes-alzheimers-scientists-are-rethinking-the-answer-20221208/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>personalityson</author><text>&quot;Scientists researching possible candidates for treating Alzheimer&#x27;s disease found exercise outperformed all tested drugs for the ability to reverse dysregulated gene expression.&quot;
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41598-022-22179-z" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41598-022-22179-z</a><p>&quot;High fitness in middle age reduces the chance of dementia by ninety percent&quot;
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ergo-log.com&#x2F;high-fitness-in-middle-age-reduces-chance-of-dementia-by-ninety-percent.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ergo-log.com&#x2F;high-fitness-in-middle-age-reduces-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ericmcer</author><text>I hate this because I want to believe technology and AI and will result in modern medicine where everyone has long healthy lives.<p>The reality that just eating right, sleeping and exercising is still our best health advice is humorous and disheartening.</text></comment> | <story><title>What causes Alzheimer's? Scientists are rethinking the answer</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-causes-alzheimers-scientists-are-rethinking-the-answer-20221208/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>personalityson</author><text>&quot;Scientists researching possible candidates for treating Alzheimer&#x27;s disease found exercise outperformed all tested drugs for the ability to reverse dysregulated gene expression.&quot;
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41598-022-22179-z" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41598-022-22179-z</a><p>&quot;High fitness in middle age reduces the chance of dementia by ninety percent&quot;
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ergo-log.com&#x2F;high-fitness-in-middle-age-reduces-chance-of-dementia-by-ninety-percent.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ergo-log.com&#x2F;high-fitness-in-middle-age-reduces-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwawaymaths</author><text>&gt; High fitness in middle age reduces the chance of dementia by ninety percent<p>Not to be a sourpuss but I believe that a reasonable theory on this is that physical activity, especially activity that uses brain power, causes neuronal development which reroutes function around damage, without necessarily preventing or mitigating damage itself.</text></comment> |
29,342,532 | 29,342,521 | 1 | 2 | 29,341,055 | train | <story><title>Underrated Reasons to Be Thankful</title><url>https://dynomight.net/thanks/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elil17</author><text>I’m thankful for yeast. It’s so, so convenient that we have a non-pathogenic bacteria which will eat pretty much any simple sugar, can be found on the surfaces of most fruits, and is essentially effortless to cultivate, which also does a bunch of useful things like leaven bread and make a bunch of delicious short chain fatty acids (both in bread and on their own, like in marmite) and make alcohol (although that one maybe does more harm than good)!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>butwhywhyoh</author><text>I&#x27;m thankful for oxygen because we can breathe it! And it can be found pretty much everywhere in the atmosphere of planet Earth. And I&#x27;m thankful for all the other elements that I&#x27;m composed of. They can even be used to do other miraculous things. Wonderful!</text></comment> | <story><title>Underrated Reasons to Be Thankful</title><url>https://dynomight.net/thanks/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elil17</author><text>I’m thankful for yeast. It’s so, so convenient that we have a non-pathogenic bacteria which will eat pretty much any simple sugar, can be found on the surfaces of most fruits, and is essentially effortless to cultivate, which also does a bunch of useful things like leaven bread and make a bunch of delicious short chain fatty acids (both in bread and on their own, like in marmite) and make alcohol (although that one maybe does more harm than good)!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pfdietz</author><text>Yeast are not bacteria. They are eukaryotes.</text></comment> |
25,927,822 | 25,926,781 | 1 | 3 | 25,926,022 | train | <story><title>Visual Tcl</title><url>http://vtcl.sourceforge.net/?x=screen</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>badsectoracula</author><text>I&#x27;ve only played briefly with it some years ago on a Linux installation but one thing that i found neat was that unlike something Visual Basic or Delphi (which were clear inspirations - i think this screenshot[0] with the entire UI makes it a bit more obvious than the windows in the linked site) is that it is a &quot;live&quot; environment (pretty much like tclsh and wish) you are working with (kinda like a Smalltalk, though probably not to the same extent).<p>(though FWIW classic VB is a sort of in-between because you are editing the actual forms and state you&#x27;d see running - which is most likely why you can&#x27;t edit a form while the program is running and the IDE even &quot;hides&quot; them - but there is an intentional distinction between &quot;running&quot; and &quot;editing&quot;)<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;a.fsdn.com&#x2F;con&#x2F;app&#x2F;proj&#x2F;vtcl&#x2F;screenshots&#x2F;49571.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;a.fsdn.com&#x2F;con&#x2F;app&#x2F;proj&#x2F;vtcl&#x2F;screenshots&#x2F;49571.jpg</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Visual Tcl</title><url>http://vtcl.sourceforge.net/?x=screen</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tluyben2</author><text>We used this back in the day to make a touchscreen PoS application. It was great as you can switch from running state to dev state without any friction. We quickly went from nothing to production because of visualtcl.</text></comment> |
5,674,050 | 5,674,183 | 1 | 2 | 5,673,948 | train | <story><title>Planar Choreographies: odd orbital mechanics</title><url>http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/~jm/Choreographies/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ColinWright</author><text>The paper is here: <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.0470" rel="nofollow">http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.0470</a><p><pre><code> Classification of symmetry groups for planar n-body choreographies
James Montaldi, Katrina Steckles
(Submitted on 2 May 2013)
Since the foundational work of Chenciner and Montgomery in 2000 there
has been a great deal of interest in choreographic solutions of the
n-body problem: periodic motions where the n bodies all follow one
another at regular intervals along a closed path. The principal approach
combines variational methods with symmetry properties. In this paper, we
give a systematic treatment of the symmetry aspect. In the first part we
classify all possible symmetry groups of planar n-body, collision-free
choreographies. These symmetry groups fall in to 2 infinite families and,
if n is odd, three exceptional groups. In the second part we develop the
equivariant fundamental group and use it to determine the topology of the
space of loops with a given symmetry, which we show is related to certain
cosets of the pure braid group in the full braid group, and to centralizers
of elements of the corresponding coset.</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>Planar Choreographies: odd orbital mechanics</title><url>http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/~jm/Choreographies/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>VLM</author><text>That's cool, and attractive, and visually appealing.<p>I do have a request. Look at stuff like "Belbruno Orbits" "Low energy transfer orbits" "ITN Interplanetary Transport Network". Then look at the nice clean easy to use visualizer we're linked to. Then do the obvious merger of the two...<p>Yes I already know there's a way to visualize Belbruno orbits with ORSA or other full fledged simulation packages, but its not quite as easy and convenient as this webpage.<p>You know what would make an interesting web standard or maybe startup idea? A universal internet standard free dynamics system. Not just for orbits but even physics 101 basic kinematics. Think of like the animated drawing blueprints on "Mythbusters" but simply include a javascript package of some type (or whatever) and then the end user merely provides three things: enumerated list of URL for sprite graphics, starting conditions for those objects both simple coordinates and maybe "hidden" variables, and the math equation(s) governing. Not general purpose "here's mathematica in node.js" just dynamics.</text></comment> |
32,688,232 | 32,687,863 | 1 | 3 | 32,686,750 | train | <story><title>Cops wanted to keep mass surveillance app secret; privacy advocates refused</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/09/cops-wanted-to-keep-mass-surveillance-app-secret-privacy-advocates-refused/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>choeger</author><text>So how does that work? I install some app that &quot;needs&quot; location data to function and in the EULA I &quot;consent&quot; to that data being sold. Police then buys this data via several proxies. So far so &quot;told you so years ago&quot;. But how does police use that data? How do they associate account IDs from all these apps to real persons? Is that data collected and sold as well, e.g., via the payment processing? Do they use the email address as key?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>News-Dog</author><text>When you power up a mobile&#x2F;cell phone, the handset transmits a handshake to all mobile&#x2F;cell bases it can hit.<p>Handshaking between mobile&#x2F;cell phone and mobile&#x2F;cell bases continues somewhere between every 10 to 20 minutes.<p>Data exchanged include; IMEI [1], IMSI [2], and both handset transmit power level, receiver power level to each mobile&#x2F;cell bases databases.<p>Coupling both the mobile&#x2F;cell bases databases and the locations topographical data allows RDF [3].<p>So even if you have location data turned off, you can still be tracked.<p>[1] International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;IMEI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;IMEI</a><p>[2] International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;International_mobile_subscriber_identity" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;International_mobile_subscri...</a><p>[3] Direction Finding (DF) (aka) Radio Direction Finding (RDF) : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Radio_direction_finder" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Radio_direction_finder</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Cops wanted to keep mass surveillance app secret; privacy advocates refused</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/09/cops-wanted-to-keep-mass-surveillance-app-secret-privacy-advocates-refused/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>choeger</author><text>So how does that work? I install some app that &quot;needs&quot; location data to function and in the EULA I &quot;consent&quot; to that data being sold. Police then buys this data via several proxies. So far so &quot;told you so years ago&quot;. But how does police use that data? How do they associate account IDs from all these apps to real persons? Is that data collected and sold as well, e.g., via the payment processing? Do they use the email address as key?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>charles_kaw</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;K-anonymity" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;K-anonymity</a><p>Basically, it only takes a few pointed datapoints to deanonymize a person. They are weaponizing this concept.</text></comment> |
1,414,638 | 1,414,591 | 1 | 2 | 1,414,370 | train | <story><title>Jason Fried: Never Read Another Resume</title><url>http://www.inc.com/magazine/20100601/never-read-another-resume_Printer_Friendly.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>Broken down to bullets:<p>* Don't hire until you've had to endure the pain of doing the job well yourself. If you don't know how to do the job right, you don't know how to hire for it.<p>* Don't hire just to capture talent. You'll only end up alienating the talent.<p>* Stay as small as you can.<p>* The resume form makes everyone look good, which means it doesn't tell you anything useful.<p>* Cover letters on the other hand tell you lots, and, incidentally, also tell you how well people can write.<p>* Sometimes the best candidates distinguish themselves with effort. Their most recent designer hire made this mini-site while applying: <a href="http://jasonzimdars.com/svn/" rel="nofollow">http://jasonzimdars.com/svn/</a><p>* Questions are good, but beware people who ask too many "how do I...?" questions as opposed to "why...?" questions.<p>* Test drive if you can. They hired designers for 1-week projects at $1500 before extending FT offers.<p>* Be flexible about where you hire (they're all over the place), if you can.</text></comment> | <story><title>Jason Fried: Never Read Another Resume</title><url>http://www.inc.com/magazine/20100601/never-read-another-resume_Printer_Friendly.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>anigbrowl</author><text>Ah, the joys of grammatical ambiguity.</text></comment> |
4,897,690 | 4,897,118 | 1 | 3 | 4,896,894 | train | <story><title>Facebook, Google, Zynga Ask Courts To Reject Patents On Abstract Ideas</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/09/reject-abstract-patents/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>grellas</author><text>The issue is more nuanced than depicted by the title of this piece: the courts already reject patents based on abstract ideas and the real issue is how they should go about determining whether something is patent-eligible (and, hence, potentially patentable) or a mere abstract idea (and, hence, ineligible). The issue is one of trying to get the Federal Circuit to follow where these large software companies believe the recent Supreme Court precedent is trending.<p>A while back, I posted my analysis on why the <i>CLS</i> case is important (<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4633950" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4633950</a>), which I repeat here for convenience:<p>"1. The <i>CLS Bank v. Alice</i> case, though raising an issue of vital importance, is not about 'whether software is patentable.'<p>2. Over the years, the Federal Circuit has notoriously broadened the scope of patent eligibility, most conspicuously in its 1998 <i>State Street</i> decision which essentially opened the floodgates to the modern rush of business method patents by holding that virtually any business method was patentable so long as 'it produces a useful, concrete and tangible result.' In 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court, in the <i>Bilski</i> case, repudiated the <i>State Street</i> test for patent eligibility and, though upholding software and business method patents generally, directed courts to be much more vigilant to ensure that no one gain patent rights to what are mere 'abstract ideas,' however much they may incidentally be tied to some computer mechanism in their implementation. In a follow-on decision (<i>Prometheus</i>), the U.S. Supreme Court similarly cut back sharply on the permissible scope of patent eligibility for claimed inventions that constituted nothing more than laws of nature.<p>3. In this <i>CLS Bank</i> case, the claimed patent involves a method for eliminating certain types of risk associated with an escrow closing and used a technological process by which to mimic a phantom version of the closing as a security check before allowing the real transaction to close. In essence, the technological aspect of this 'invention' is routine and so the question is whether anything beyond that is simply another way of trying to patent nothing more than an abstract idea. If so, it should fail under <i>Bilski</i>; if not, it would potentially pass the test for patent eligibility.<p>4. The lower court in <i>CLS Bank</i> held as a matter of law that the 'invention' was nothing more than an abstract idea and held it invalid as being ineligible for patent protection. On appeal, a divided panel of the Federal Circuit reversed and reinstated the patent. It did so, however, by setting out a brand new procedural rule whose effect would be to gut much of <i>Bilski</i> and reopen the floodgates to huge numbers of business method patents under a very loose standard - to wit, by holding, that, if it 'is not manifestly evident [my emphasis] that a claim is directed to a patent ineligible abstract idea,' then the court essentially treat the claim as eligible. What the Federal Circuit panel did, then, was to take the Supreme Court's directive for lower courts to be much stricter in evaluating dubious business method patents for patent eligibility and recast that directive in a form that said, if you as a court see that something is obviously nothing more than an abstract idea, then go ahead and reject it but you are otherwise to treat as being eligible for patent protection. In other words, the new strictness found in <i>Bilski</i> for evaluating such claims was once again to be transformed by the Federal Circuit into a loose standard that would let such claims coast by unimpeded.<p>5. Of course, this has set off alarm bells because, in effect, it represents yet one more revolt by the Federal Circuit against attempts by the Supreme Court to rein it in by bringing patent issues back to some semi-sane state. Following the panel decision (which was rendered over a sharp and stinging dissent), the losing party petitioned for a rehearing <i>en banc</i> (meaning by the full panoply of Federal Circuit judges as opposed to merely a 3-judge panel) and this was granted. Thus, we shall see whether the Federal Circuit is prepared once again to stick its thumb in the eye of the Supreme Court or whether it will temper its extreme pro-patent proclivities and follow the law as it has been directed.<p>So, this is a very important case affecting the trend of patent enforcement in a profound way but does nothing to challenge the idea of software or business methods being patentable in a general sense. For anything to change in that regard, Congress must act." [end of repost comments]<p>In filing this <i>amicus</i> brief, Google, et al. are waving the <i>Prometheus</i> decision up and down before the full <i>en banc</i> Federal Circuit and imploring it not to repeat the mistakes of the past. If they are successful, all U.S. courts will be in a much stronger position to strike down these sorts of "abstract idea" patents as invalid. The question, then, is a procedural one of how courts should go about making this determination but the results could go a long way toward tightening up standards if this is rightly decided. We shall see.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook, Google, Zynga Ask Courts To Reject Patents On Abstract Ideas</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/09/reject-abstract-patents/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>KerrickStaley</author><text>I like how Dell, Red Hat, and Rackspace are also cosignatories, but the article's title mentions Zynga.</text></comment> |
28,203,361 | 28,202,675 | 1 | 2 | 28,200,288 | train | <story><title>Discontinuing FlickType Keyboard for iPhone</title><url>https://twitter.com/FlickType/status/1427292830523744257</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mthoms</author><text>There&#x27;s another angle to the App Store scam: Family Sharing.<p>Most people don&#x27;t know this but the &quot;Parent&quot; (read:credit card holder) of a family sharing account can&#x27;t <i>see</i>, let alone cancel, <i>any</i> subscriptions a minor on the account has purchased.<p>Let that sink in for a second. Apple will happily charge the parents&#x27; credit card a <i>weekly</i> recurring fee but there is nowhere in their interface (on device nor on the web) where the parent can even <i>see</i> that subscription.[0]<p>Apple expects <i>the child</i> to go into their interface and cancel the recurring subscription. Something many (most?) adults find confusing. In my case, the child just deleted the App when the trial was over. Which is of course perfectly logical thinking. No bueno.<p>So if the child is away at school (as in my case), or the phone gets left at a friend&#x27;s house, or worse... stolen. The only way to get it cancelled is to call them.<p>There&#x27;s more to this story, including details on how the built in parental controls are intentionally crippled (IMHO) but I&#x27;ve got to run. In summary: The entire &quot;Family Sharing&quot; system is built to rip off people while still maintaining plausible deniability.<p>[0] A senior Apple rep told me this is for privacy reasons. But two things: the minor should have no expectation of privacy when spending their parents money (how is that a <i>good</i> thing?). And secondly, Apple <i>does</i> email a receipt for the subscription to the card holder... so the privacy excuse was pure bullshit. In my case I missed the email because I have more than 6 or 7 recurring Apple subscriptions. I do take partial blame because of that. But I&#x27;ve still not been given a good reason why a parent can&#x27;t easily cancel a childs subscription.</text></comment> | <story><title>Discontinuing FlickType Keyboard for iPhone</title><url>https://twitter.com/FlickType/status/1427292830523744257</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>makecheck</author><text>It’s such a “perfect” circle of non-communication that benefits only the fruit company, isn’t it?<p>- Can I update my app <i>inside</i> your store? Fruit company: No.<p>- Can I find out why? Fruit company: No.<p>- Can I find out who or what makes this decision? Fruit company: No.<p>- Can I update my app <i>outside</i> your store? Fruit company: No.<p>- Can I contact my customers? Fruit company: No.<p>- Can I even <i>identify</i> my customers in order to help them? Fruit company: No.<p>- Can I directly give my own customers a refund? Fruit company: No.<p>- Can I be removed from your list of featured apps? Fruit company: No.<p>- Can customers prevent this one app from being auto-updated into brokenness? Fruit company: No.<p>- Can you tell customers that this new brokenness is <i>your</i> fault and not the developer’s? Fruit company: No.<p>And on, and on, and on, and on.<p>This is a completely absurd system that has never, ever, <i>ever</i> benefited customers <i>or</i> developers nearly as much as fruit companies.<p>Congress can’t act soon enough.</text></comment> |
36,180,672 | 36,180,733 | 1 | 2 | 36,178,332 | train | <story><title>Running Apple 1 software on a breadboard computer (Wozmon) [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlLCtjJzHVI</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>russellbeattie</author><text>It&#x27;s been said many times here before, but Woz&#x27;s &quot;annus mirabilis&quot; from March 1975 to April 1977 when at just 26yo, he designed, implemented and launched the hardware, kernel, sound and color output as well as a BASIC interpreter (and much more) for the Apple I and II is one of history&#x27;s greatest technological achievements. It was a tour de force of talent which is astounding to this day.<p>And Ben Eater has taught me more about how computer hardware and software work at the lowest level than any other resource I&#x27;ve come across in my 25 years in the tech industry. Truly inspiring.</text></comment> | <story><title>Running Apple 1 software on a breadboard computer (Wozmon) [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlLCtjJzHVI</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>retrac</author><text>The Apple 1 ROM is quite a tight piece of coding. Just 256 bytes which implements basic console IO, and memory editing in hex. And still two bytes left over. Legend is Woz wrote it directly in machine language. One version with lots of comments: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jefftranter&#x2F;6502&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;asm&#x2F;wozmon&#x2F;wozmon.s">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jefftranter&#x2F;6502&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;asm&#x2F;wozmon&#x2F;w...</a><p>You can see a classic assembly language space optimizing trick at PRBYTE. It first prints the upper half of the byte in hex with call to the PRHEX procedure, then falls through to PRHEX again to print the second half.</text></comment> |
38,714,167 | 38,713,352 | 1 | 2 | 38,694,051 | train | <story><title>All code is technical debt</title><url>https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/all-code-is-technical-debt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ska</author><text>I think the author is basically diluting the term &quot;technical debt&quot; to the point it becomes meaningless. Much of what they are talking about is the inherent difficulty of managing complexity, mixed with the difficulty of understanding requirements&#x2F;defining features well.<p>I think &quot;technical debt&quot; as a term is overused and sometimes misapplied, but the core idea resonates with many developers, at least the way it is most often used - which isn&#x27;t exactly the original proposal as another commentpoints out. The key part of it is the analogy with an interest rate. I can decide do put 5k on the credit card for a last minute holiday, but for as long as I don&#x27;t pay that off, I&#x27;m paying 20-something percent, every month, forever. Similarly for example a rush to add features to hit a demo deadline can introduce brittleness and abstraction failures into your codebase that you pay for every time you make changes, add features, do nearly anything. The analogy is that some of your development is going to be wasted &quot;servicing the debt&quot; going forward until you fix that (pay off the debt). That doesn&#x27;t mean its the wrong move, for the same reasons that taking on debt can be the right move for a person or business.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ljm</author><text>I think it <i>could</i> make more sense if it&#x27;s rephrased to &#x27;all code is a liability&#x27;.<p>Then the equation is simpler. More code = more to maintain = more liability. It says nothing about the quality of the code, just the quantity.<p>Tech debt is a trade-off between near term and long term ambitions - it is literally impossible to build a successful project without accruing this kind of debt, simply because you cannot perfectly anticipate the future. In that sense, it&#x27;s not so much debt as it is a maintenance overhead.</text></comment> | <story><title>All code is technical debt</title><url>https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/all-code-is-technical-debt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ska</author><text>I think the author is basically diluting the term &quot;technical debt&quot; to the point it becomes meaningless. Much of what they are talking about is the inherent difficulty of managing complexity, mixed with the difficulty of understanding requirements&#x2F;defining features well.<p>I think &quot;technical debt&quot; as a term is overused and sometimes misapplied, but the core idea resonates with many developers, at least the way it is most often used - which isn&#x27;t exactly the original proposal as another commentpoints out. The key part of it is the analogy with an interest rate. I can decide do put 5k on the credit card for a last minute holiday, but for as long as I don&#x27;t pay that off, I&#x27;m paying 20-something percent, every month, forever. Similarly for example a rush to add features to hit a demo deadline can introduce brittleness and abstraction failures into your codebase that you pay for every time you make changes, add features, do nearly anything. The analogy is that some of your development is going to be wasted &quot;servicing the debt&quot; going forward until you fix that (pay off the debt). That doesn&#x27;t mean its the wrong move, for the same reasons that taking on debt can be the right move for a person or business.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Phiwise_</author><text>Absolutely agreed. Articles in this vein rather get my goat, especially because the analogy to real debt is <i>more</i> clear: If someone wrote a consumer finance article like &quot;All purchases of things other than cans of beans and Certificates of Deposit are like Mortgages, because what if your industry collapses tomorrow?&quot; most people have the good sense to complain that the usually decent advice of saving a bit for a rainy day was being way exaggerated. And yet pieces that run something like &quot;All programming of things other than washing machine microcontrollers are like technical debt, because what if your customer&#x27;s needs suddenly change entirely?&quot; get much more play. Sure, disasters <i>can</i> happen, and it pays to reserve some resources to be ready for them, but it also pays to use resources when times are good to expand. It seems to me Cunningham&#x27;s point was to <i>encourage a move towards</i> balance; headlines that don&#x27;t overshoot the mark.</text></comment> |
10,250,771 | 10,250,442 | 1 | 2 | 10,250,085 | train | <story><title>“This story is being previewed exclusively on Apple News until Tuesday”</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2015/09/bjarke-ingels-2-world-trade-center-wtc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>btown</author><text>It&#x27;s almost certain that Apple&#x27;s long game is to make this the norm. If there&#x27;s one surefire way to get people addicted to ad blockers, it&#x27;s to make them available on mobile devices. Once enough content creators start moving content behind News-walls, then Apple can roll out desktop versions of News. And as people then start asking each other &quot;how do I get ad blocking in my browser as well,&quot; Apple&#x27;s well positioned to be the only unblockable advertising platform, period. They could even use iTunes as a vector to deliver an Apple News desktop app to Windows machines.<p>It&#x27;s brilliant and will completely change the balance of power in online advertising. Google will not be happy...</text></item><item><author>JohnTHaller</author><text>Wired will be losing ad revenue due to Apple adding ad blocking abilities to mobile Safari. So, Wired moves content to Apple News which has ads that can&#x27;t be blocked (and Apple conveniently takes a nice juicy cut of).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>exodust</author><text>&quot;It&#x27;s brilliant&quot;<p>Locking away articles in native apps so people can&#x27;t block ads isn&#x27;t brilliant. Apple encouraging ad blocking on the web to &quot;nudge&quot; publishers into their exclusive native eco-system is nothing but typical tech giant arrogance.<p>Wired publishing stories that when clicked from Google go to place-holders with pointers to native <i>should</i> be penalised by Google search, and I hope they are. There is nothing on the Google results page to indicate the link is anything less than the content.<p>Native app &quot;content browsers&quot; are all about less control for users. Native has always been about that. Sometimes less control works for users. No distractions, just minimal concentrated function. Other times, like with news articles, users are missing out on basic things like bookmarking; sharing the link - there isn&#x27;t even a link; accessibility is out the window; copy and paste is out the window; discussion and comments are all but closed&#x2F;extinct; no choice of browser to access the article. It&#x27;s not good news for users.</text></comment> | <story><title>“This story is being previewed exclusively on Apple News until Tuesday”</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2015/09/bjarke-ingels-2-world-trade-center-wtc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>btown</author><text>It&#x27;s almost certain that Apple&#x27;s long game is to make this the norm. If there&#x27;s one surefire way to get people addicted to ad blockers, it&#x27;s to make them available on mobile devices. Once enough content creators start moving content behind News-walls, then Apple can roll out desktop versions of News. And as people then start asking each other &quot;how do I get ad blocking in my browser as well,&quot; Apple&#x27;s well positioned to be the only unblockable advertising platform, period. They could even use iTunes as a vector to deliver an Apple News desktop app to Windows machines.<p>It&#x27;s brilliant and will completely change the balance of power in online advertising. Google will not be happy...</text></item><item><author>JohnTHaller</author><text>Wired will be losing ad revenue due to Apple adding ad blocking abilities to mobile Safari. So, Wired moves content to Apple News which has ads that can&#x27;t be blocked (and Apple conveniently takes a nice juicy cut of).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lantern-manner</author><text>I don&#x27;t think you&#x27;re taking into account that websites are free to create their own apps, and advertise there. There&#x27;s little incentive for a content creator to have their content off the net, and into someone else&#x27;s apps.<p>Im not understanding Wired&#x27;s motivation here, but I&#x27;m not too concerned because Wired isn&#x27;t the most intelligent publication in the first place.</text></comment> |
28,210,604 | 28,209,008 | 1 | 3 | 28,206,991 | train | <story><title>You don’t need to work on hard problems (2020)</title><url>https://www.benkuhn.net/hard/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>I enjoy doing pedestrian stuff; really, really well.<p>Most of my work is open-source, as I don&#x27;t really do anything particularly innovative or patent-worthy.<p>Most of the value in my work is <i>how</i> I do it.<p>I work carefully, document the living bejeezus out of my work, test like crazy, and spend a lot of time &quot;polishing the fenders.&quot;<p>This is something that anyone can do. It just takes patience, discipline, and care.<p>I&#x27;m weird. I enjoy the end results enough to take the time to do the job well.<p>It&#x27;s been my experience that the way I work is deeply unpopular. Some people actually seem to get offended, when I discuss how I work.<p>Go figure.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gilbetron</author><text>One of the easiest periods in my career is when I was in charge (with one other coworker) with modifying a certain capability in a large, distributed &quot;web application&quot; (it was a for a DDOS detection&#x2F;mitigation appliance and associated web UI). Every time it needed modification, there was around 50-75 code locations that had to be tediously updated. When I first encountered it, I had created a document outline all the locations and the pitfalls around modifying them, along with tests to verify them. I performed the process a couple of dozen times over the 2 years. It was trivially easy, easily tracked, and I was always given plenty of time to get it right (good managers). I&#x27;ve never had a project manager happier with me because my estimates were always spot on (it&#x27;s the type of work that is easy to estimate after the first 2 or 3 times you do it), and management understood exactly what I was doing, and no one else wanted to do it.<p>I have since found that people still really don&#x27;t want to do that work, are grateful when I will do it, and (except for one instance) management recognizes it as important, slow, tedious work. The only issue I have is that it gets boring, and so 80% of the effort goes into motivating myself to get it done ;)</text></comment> | <story><title>You don’t need to work on hard problems (2020)</title><url>https://www.benkuhn.net/hard/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>I enjoy doing pedestrian stuff; really, really well.<p>Most of my work is open-source, as I don&#x27;t really do anything particularly innovative or patent-worthy.<p>Most of the value in my work is <i>how</i> I do it.<p>I work carefully, document the living bejeezus out of my work, test like crazy, and spend a lot of time &quot;polishing the fenders.&quot;<p>This is something that anyone can do. It just takes patience, discipline, and care.<p>I&#x27;m weird. I enjoy the end results enough to take the time to do the job well.<p>It&#x27;s been my experience that the way I work is deeply unpopular. Some people actually seem to get offended, when I discuss how I work.<p>Go figure.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toto444</author><text>I have been thinking a lot on a problem with the idea to find a tech solution that could help solving it. The more I was thinking about it the more I realized that what I think is the the best way to solve the problem does not involve any tech at all.<p>That&#x27;s how I started working a a static website. I have been working on it for a few years now. I have realised my strength is that I can work on a problem for a very long time. My website solves a lot of very tiny problems one by one. Nothing impressive when you look at them individually. However after solving hundreds of them a big picture starts emerging.<p>When I was younger I wanted to solve very hard problems. I have let that idea go and have no regret about it.</text></comment> |
28,874,863 | 28,874,608 | 1 | 2 | 28,869,030 | train | <story><title>Spinoza’s God: Einstein believed in it, but what was it?</title><url>https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/philosophy/spinozas-religion-clare-carlisle-god-einstein-philosophy-religion-review</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nassimsoftware</author><text>In math there is the concept of having a first element of a series and no one questions what was the element before the first element because if you can find an element before the first element then by definition that element you thought was first is not the first.<p>In light of this when people try to disprove God by saying then who created God. God is the first element so if you find out that who you think your God is is created then by definition he fails to fulfill the conditions required to be God. You have to look elsewhere.<p>Ok in english the term God is not precise enough, I&#x27;ll turn to arabic to try to explain my point because this is what I&#x27;m the most familiar with.<p>Ilah is the arabic word for divinity. Wahid means 1. Ahad means the only one. Allah means The God (The only God).<p>I don&#x27;t find it absurd to think that there is The God (Allah):<p>- A being who transcends time because he created time.<p>- A being who transcends logic because he created it and all its rules.<p>- A being who transcends the physical world because he created it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nursie</author><text>&gt; I don&#x27;t find it absurd to think that there is The God (Allah) ...<p>I do, I see no reason to think such a being exists, absent extraordinary evidence, and inventing one seems absurd to me.<p>Why must god be the first element? Why must there even be a first element?<p>People don&#x27;t try to disprove god by askingwhat created god, they are trying to invalidate a particular argument that is used by those who do believe - that the universe <i>must</i> have been created by some original force because it is so huge&#x2F;amazing&#x2F;complex, and we&#x27;ll call that force god. But there is no reason it <i>must</i> have been, and if we imagine there is such a thing, there is no particular reason to stop there other than that semantically you have decided to call it the first. Because if the universe was created by a huge&#x2F;amazing&#x2F;complex god, then by the rules of your own argument we ought to look for a deeper cause.<p>So yeah ... it&#x27;s not a &#x27;disproof&#x27; of god, so much as pointing out that that specific argument relies on some dodgy assumptions and is not any sort of proof of god, nor justifies belief in one in any way.</text></comment> | <story><title>Spinoza’s God: Einstein believed in it, but what was it?</title><url>https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/philosophy/spinozas-religion-clare-carlisle-god-einstein-philosophy-religion-review</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nassimsoftware</author><text>In math there is the concept of having a first element of a series and no one questions what was the element before the first element because if you can find an element before the first element then by definition that element you thought was first is not the first.<p>In light of this when people try to disprove God by saying then who created God. God is the first element so if you find out that who you think your God is is created then by definition he fails to fulfill the conditions required to be God. You have to look elsewhere.<p>Ok in english the term God is not precise enough, I&#x27;ll turn to arabic to try to explain my point because this is what I&#x27;m the most familiar with.<p>Ilah is the arabic word for divinity. Wahid means 1. Ahad means the only one. Allah means The God (The only God).<p>I don&#x27;t find it absurd to think that there is The God (Allah):<p>- A being who transcends time because he created time.<p>- A being who transcends logic because he created it and all its rules.<p>- A being who transcends the physical world because he created it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tshaddox</author><text>The problem you describe works in both directions though. If God is introduced to explain, say, the existence of the Universe, and you’re not allowed to ask what created God or why God exists, then why not just say you’re not allowed to ask what created the Universe or why the Universe exists?</text></comment> |
30,340,786 | 30,340,183 | 1 | 2 | 30,339,574 | train | <story><title>Trudeau Invokes Emergencies Act</title><url>https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/truck-convoy-day-18-in-ottawa-noon-deadline-in-mayors-deal-with-convoy-pm-talking-to-premiers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jackim</author><text>That is an exaggerated headline. Accounts being used to fund illegal activities can be frozen. Protesting is not and will not be illegal. Blocking critical infrastructure is illegal.</text></item><item><author>makomk</author><text>Headline on the front page of BBC News right now: &quot;Trudeau vows to freeze anti-mandate protesters&#x27; bank accounts&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-us-canada-60383385" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-us-canada-60383385</a><p>This feels downright dystopian, especially if the move away from cash and towards centrally-controlled electronic payment systems is anywhere near as widespread in Canada as elsewhere.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>daenz</author><text>That&#x27;s like saying civil forfeiture is ok because the police will only ever take things from people involved with actual crimes, and that if you&#x27;re not doing crime you have nothing to worry about. Do you forget how things are manipulated by people with power?</text></comment> | <story><title>Trudeau Invokes Emergencies Act</title><url>https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/truck-convoy-day-18-in-ottawa-noon-deadline-in-mayors-deal-with-convoy-pm-talking-to-premiers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jackim</author><text>That is an exaggerated headline. Accounts being used to fund illegal activities can be frozen. Protesting is not and will not be illegal. Blocking critical infrastructure is illegal.</text></item><item><author>makomk</author><text>Headline on the front page of BBC News right now: &quot;Trudeau vows to freeze anti-mandate protesters&#x27; bank accounts&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-us-canada-60383385" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-us-canada-60383385</a><p>This feels downright dystopian, especially if the move away from cash and towards centrally-controlled electronic payment systems is anywhere near as widespread in Canada as elsewhere.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>slibhb</author><text>We have a word for &quot;blocking infrastructure&quot; as a form of protest: civil disobedience.<p>I&#x27;m sympathetic to (some) of the aims of the protesters but I think they&#x27;ve made their point and should go home. Still, this move by Trudeau seems like an overreaction considering there&#x27;s been little&#x2F;no violence.</text></comment> |
13,436,921 | 13,436,909 | 1 | 2 | 13,436,302 | train | <story><title>A trip down the League of Legends graphics pipeline</title><url>https://engineering.riotgames.com/news/trip-down-lol-graphics-pipeline</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>treehau5</author><text>Pardon me asking, Is there a way to save comments for later? This is gold, and thank you for the resources. I have been very interested in graphics since I took Computer Graphics in College (It felt like an applied linear algebra course, but I loved it. It was subsequently the only course I felt like I was challenged beyond my abilities -- I had to take the course twice to get the credit, but I loved that class)<p>Also just kind of asking for curiosity, do you think a language like go or rust will become popular for developing game engines? I realize game programmers are anti-GC but what if GC technology advances that the performance drop is negligible I wonder.</text></item><item><author>adamnemecek</author><text>Few things consistently blow my mind as insane graphics demos<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shadertoy.com&#x2F;view&#x2F;4dfGzS" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shadertoy.com&#x2F;view&#x2F;4dfGzS</a> (or basically anything on that site)<p>How is that 400 lines of code.<p>Or this one which even generates the sound on the GPU<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shadertoy.com&#x2F;view&#x2F;4ts3z2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shadertoy.com&#x2F;view&#x2F;4ts3z2</a><p>With the wide adoption of WebGL, it&#x27;s a good time to get involved in graphics. Furthermore, GPUs are taking over esp. with the advent of machine learning (nvidia stock grew ~3x, amd ~5x last year). The stuff nvidia has been recently doing is kinda crazy. I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if in 15 years, instead of AWS, we are using geforce cloud or smth, just because nvidia will have an easier time building a cloud offering than amazon will have building a gpu.<p>These are some good resources to get started with graphics&#x2F;games<p># WebGL Programming Guide: Interactive 3D Graphics Programming with WebGL<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;WebGL-Programming-Guide-Interactive-Graphics&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0321902920&#x2F;ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=akhn-20&amp;linkId=6a3c5120f9335a1038329ba5136d0ca9" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;WebGL-Programming-Guide-Interactive-G...</a><p>Historically, C++ has definitely been THE language for doing graphics but if you are starting these these, you would have to have really compelling reasons to start with C++ and not JavaScript and WebGL. And that&#x27;s coming from someone who actually likes C++ and used to write it professionally.<p># Book of Shaders<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thebookofshaders.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thebookofshaders.com&#x2F;</a><p># Game Programming Patterns<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gameprogrammingpatterns.com&#x2F;contents.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gameprogrammingpatterns.com&#x2F;contents.html</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Game-Programming-Patterns-Robert-Nystrom&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0990582906&#x2F;ref=as_li_ss_tl?sa-no-redirect=1&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=akhn-20&amp;linkId=abb3d10b5110e80969bf860188704f7c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Game-Programming-Patterns-Robert-Nyst...</a><p>HN&#x27;s own @munificent wrote a book discussing the most important design patterns in game design. Good book applicable beyond games.<p># Game engine architecture<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Engine-Architecture-Second-Jason-Gregory&#x2F;dp&#x2F;1466560010&#x2F;ref=as_li_ss_tl?_encoding=UTF8&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=CYQ60B781NB1PD69E20Y&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=akhn-20&amp;linkId=d234fcc54fc7579edd423dccfe0d47a4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Engine-Architecture-Second-Jason-Greg...</a><p># Computer graphics: Principles and Practice<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Computer-Graphics-Principles-Practice-3rd&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0321399528&#x2F;ref=as_li_ss_tl?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1484843854&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=computer+graphics&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=akhn-20&amp;linkId=ce5d19658fd2884b7b6bf7ceb09686dc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Computer-Graphics-Principles-Practice...</a><p>This is more of college textbook if you&#x27;d prefer that but the WebGL one is more accessible and less dry.<p># Physically Based Rendering &amp; Real-Time Rendering<p>These discuss some state of the art techniques in computer graphics. I&#x27;m not going to claim to have really read them but from what I&#x27;ve seen they are very solid.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Computer-Graphics-Principles-Practice-3rd&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0321399528&#x2F;ref=as_li_ss_tl?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1484843854&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=computer+graphics&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=akhn-20&amp;linkId=ce5d19658fd2884b7b6bf7ceb09686dc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Computer-Graphics-Principles-Practice...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Physically-Based-Rendering-Third-Implementation&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0128006455&#x2F;ref=as_li_ss_tl?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1484843804&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=physically+based&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=akhn-20&amp;linkId=1c04902237f3600b48d26a8d3e9f507b" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Physically-Based-Rendering-Third-Impl...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adamnemecek</author><text>Lol, I&#x27;m flattered that you think it&#x27;s worthy of saving. If you upvote it will show up in your profile in upvoted comments. Also, if you click on the date in the header of the comment, a favorite button should appear. When you favorite a comment it will show up in your profile in favorite comments.<p>&gt; Also just kind of asking for curiosity, do you think a language like go or rust will become popular for developing game engines? I realize game programmers are anti-GC but what if GC technology advances that the performance drop is negligible I wonder.<p>I think it will but on some level, the needs of a game engine are different from the needs of say a DNS server. Jonathan Blow, the developer behind Braid (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;braid-game.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;braid-game.com&#x2F;</a>) and Witness (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;210970&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;210970&#x2F;</a>) has been working on a language called Jai <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;BSVino&#x2F;JaiPrimer&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;JaiPrimer.md" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;BSVino&#x2F;JaiPrimer&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;JaiPrimer.md</a> even though he&#x27;s aware of Rust and Go. He talks about some of his reasons in this video <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=TH9VCN6UkyQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=TH9VCN6UkyQ</a><p>One of the things he mentions is that the game industry doesn&#x27;t care about security that much (which I didn&#x27;t realize until then but it makes sense) compared with a DNS server or something so his ideal language might have different design considerations than Rust.</text></comment> | <story><title>A trip down the League of Legends graphics pipeline</title><url>https://engineering.riotgames.com/news/trip-down-lol-graphics-pipeline</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>treehau5</author><text>Pardon me asking, Is there a way to save comments for later? This is gold, and thank you for the resources. I have been very interested in graphics since I took Computer Graphics in College (It felt like an applied linear algebra course, but I loved it. It was subsequently the only course I felt like I was challenged beyond my abilities -- I had to take the course twice to get the credit, but I loved that class)<p>Also just kind of asking for curiosity, do you think a language like go or rust will become popular for developing game engines? I realize game programmers are anti-GC but what if GC technology advances that the performance drop is negligible I wonder.</text></item><item><author>adamnemecek</author><text>Few things consistently blow my mind as insane graphics demos<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shadertoy.com&#x2F;view&#x2F;4dfGzS" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shadertoy.com&#x2F;view&#x2F;4dfGzS</a> (or basically anything on that site)<p>How is that 400 lines of code.<p>Or this one which even generates the sound on the GPU<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shadertoy.com&#x2F;view&#x2F;4ts3z2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shadertoy.com&#x2F;view&#x2F;4ts3z2</a><p>With the wide adoption of WebGL, it&#x27;s a good time to get involved in graphics. Furthermore, GPUs are taking over esp. with the advent of machine learning (nvidia stock grew ~3x, amd ~5x last year). The stuff nvidia has been recently doing is kinda crazy. I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if in 15 years, instead of AWS, we are using geforce cloud or smth, just because nvidia will have an easier time building a cloud offering than amazon will have building a gpu.<p>These are some good resources to get started with graphics&#x2F;games<p># WebGL Programming Guide: Interactive 3D Graphics Programming with WebGL<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;WebGL-Programming-Guide-Interactive-Graphics&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0321902920&#x2F;ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=akhn-20&amp;linkId=6a3c5120f9335a1038329ba5136d0ca9" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;WebGL-Programming-Guide-Interactive-G...</a><p>Historically, C++ has definitely been THE language for doing graphics but if you are starting these these, you would have to have really compelling reasons to start with C++ and not JavaScript and WebGL. And that&#x27;s coming from someone who actually likes C++ and used to write it professionally.<p># Book of Shaders<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thebookofshaders.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thebookofshaders.com&#x2F;</a><p># Game Programming Patterns<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gameprogrammingpatterns.com&#x2F;contents.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gameprogrammingpatterns.com&#x2F;contents.html</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Game-Programming-Patterns-Robert-Nystrom&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0990582906&#x2F;ref=as_li_ss_tl?sa-no-redirect=1&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=akhn-20&amp;linkId=abb3d10b5110e80969bf860188704f7c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Game-Programming-Patterns-Robert-Nyst...</a><p>HN&#x27;s own @munificent wrote a book discussing the most important design patterns in game design. Good book applicable beyond games.<p># Game engine architecture<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Engine-Architecture-Second-Jason-Gregory&#x2F;dp&#x2F;1466560010&#x2F;ref=as_li_ss_tl?_encoding=UTF8&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=CYQ60B781NB1PD69E20Y&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=akhn-20&amp;linkId=d234fcc54fc7579edd423dccfe0d47a4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Engine-Architecture-Second-Jason-Greg...</a><p># Computer graphics: Principles and Practice<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Computer-Graphics-Principles-Practice-3rd&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0321399528&#x2F;ref=as_li_ss_tl?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1484843854&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=computer+graphics&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=akhn-20&amp;linkId=ce5d19658fd2884b7b6bf7ceb09686dc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Computer-Graphics-Principles-Practice...</a><p>This is more of college textbook if you&#x27;d prefer that but the WebGL one is more accessible and less dry.<p># Physically Based Rendering &amp; Real-Time Rendering<p>These discuss some state of the art techniques in computer graphics. I&#x27;m not going to claim to have really read them but from what I&#x27;ve seen they are very solid.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Computer-Graphics-Principles-Practice-3rd&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0321399528&#x2F;ref=as_li_ss_tl?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1484843854&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=computer+graphics&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=akhn-20&amp;linkId=ce5d19658fd2884b7b6bf7ceb09686dc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Computer-Graphics-Principles-Practice...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Physically-Based-Rendering-Third-Implementation&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0128006455&#x2F;ref=as_li_ss_tl?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1484843804&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=physically+based&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=akhn-20&amp;linkId=1c04902237f3600b48d26a8d3e9f507b" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Physically-Based-Rendering-Third-Impl...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>&gt; Is there a way to save comments for later?<p>Click on its timestamp to go to its page, then click &#x27;favorite&#x27;. Favorite stories and comments are visible from your profile page. Note that these are public, so users can browse each others&#x27; favorites.</text></comment> |
4,779,052 | 4,778,984 | 1 | 2 | 4,778,456 | train | <story><title>Mark Cuban: Facebook Is Driving Away Brands - Starting With Mine</title><url>http://readwrite.com/2012/11/13/mark-cuban-facebooks-sponsored-posts-are-driving-away-brands</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>nsns</author><text>It seems there are two different "Facebooks" - one for people, a real "scoial' network, the other for commercial entities and their customers. And this unacknowledged duality seems to be slowly coming apart.<p>There might be a huge opening here for a "companies only" facebook clone, where you can only get updates from your favorite brands and service providers, not socialize with friends.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jopt</author><text>And a separate subway, with just the billboards and no travelers!</text></comment> | <story><title>Mark Cuban: Facebook Is Driving Away Brands - Starting With Mine</title><url>http://readwrite.com/2012/11/13/mark-cuban-facebooks-sponsored-posts-are-driving-away-brands</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>nsns</author><text>It seems there are two different "Facebooks" - one for people, a real "scoial' network, the other for commercial entities and their customers. And this unacknowledged duality seems to be slowly coming apart.<p>There might be a huge opening here for a "companies only" facebook clone, where you can only get updates from your favorite brands and service providers, not socialize with friends.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jonursenbach</author><text>"There might be a huge opening here for a "companies only" facebook clone, where you can only get updates from your favorite brands and service providers, not socialize with friends."<p>Isn't this just Twitter?</text></comment> |
39,843,876 | 39,840,551 | 1 | 2 | 39,837,045 | train | <story><title>Egui 0.27 – easy-to-use immediate mode GUI for Rust</title><url>https://github.com/emilk/egui/releases/tag/0.27.0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deaddodo</author><text>I disagree. I kinda hate eGUI as it&#x27;s so obvious everytime an app is using it (ROG control center on Linux, for instance). I would much prefer a multiplatform native toolkit as a first class citizen in Rust, versus all the ugly homegrown widget sets they use (something imgui, nuklear and others already do better).<p>That being said, that&#x27;s an aesthetic choice; and apps provided in it are better than nothing.</text></item><item><author>the__alchemist</author><text>This library owns. If you want to impress users with native looks, it&#x27;s the wrong move. If you want to get shit done, send it!<p>I am using EGUI for visualizing electron wave functions, configuring and viewing status of UAV flight controllers and peripherals, and as an interface for locating nearby RF devices.<p>I will say the main negatives are that the `egui`&#x2F;`eframe` etc split is confusing, and the API rapidly changes in a breaking way. Although part of that is from companion libs like walkers, for maps, that are making their own changes while trying to keep up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hannofcart</author><text>I always find atleast one person making this or similar comment in threads on non native GUI libraries.<p>I also respect the fact that this is just a statement of a personal preference.<p>However I don&#x27;t think most people care.<p>Good applications with thoughtful UX and useful functionality will succeed whether they choose native widgets or not.<p>Literally millions of people use applications like VSCode, Blender, OBS Studio. I bet the vast majority of them don&#x27;t think what this here application needs is more native widgets.<p>Heck, no one cares that Figma is a web app. From what I can see it beat out all similar desktop native competitors.</text></comment> | <story><title>Egui 0.27 – easy-to-use immediate mode GUI for Rust</title><url>https://github.com/emilk/egui/releases/tag/0.27.0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deaddodo</author><text>I disagree. I kinda hate eGUI as it&#x27;s so obvious everytime an app is using it (ROG control center on Linux, for instance). I would much prefer a multiplatform native toolkit as a first class citizen in Rust, versus all the ugly homegrown widget sets they use (something imgui, nuklear and others already do better).<p>That being said, that&#x27;s an aesthetic choice; and apps provided in it are better than nothing.</text></item><item><author>the__alchemist</author><text>This library owns. If you want to impress users with native looks, it&#x27;s the wrong move. If you want to get shit done, send it!<p>I am using EGUI for visualizing electron wave functions, configuring and viewing status of UAV flight controllers and peripherals, and as an interface for locating nearby RF devices.<p>I will say the main negatives are that the `egui`&#x2F;`eframe` etc split is confusing, and the API rapidly changes in a breaking way. Although part of that is from companion libs like walkers, for maps, that are making their own changes while trying to keep up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rapsey</author><text>&gt; I would much prefer a multiplatform native toolkit as a first class citizen in Rust<p>What is native in windows? Win32, UWP, Windows.forms, MFC etc? Because even Microsoft has a bunch of electron (or equivalent) apps now.</text></comment> |
25,948,059 | 25,947,319 | 1 | 3 | 25,946,103 | train | <story><title>PSD is not my favourite file format (2009)</title><url>https://github.com/zepouet/Xee-xCode-4.5/blob/master/XeePhotoshopLoader.m#L108</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rdtsc</author><text>&gt; Why, for instance, did it suddenly decide that <i>these</i> particular chunks should be aligned to four bytes, and that this alignement (sic) should <i>not</i> be included in the size?<p>Not saying this happened here, but I have seen this type of mistake before. It was because they &quot;simply&quot; cast a C&#x2F;C++ struct to a binary blob <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Data_structure_alignment#Typical_alignment_of_C_structs_on_x86" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Data_structure_alignment#Typic...</a> and wrote that to disk (or sent over the network in my case). So that particular compiler version and architecture-specific struct field alignment became the &quot;official&quot; format. It just takes one goofy mistake like that and everyone has to deal with it for years to come.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grishka</author><text>That&#x27;s why you version your file formats and network protocols. Actually, designing file formats and network protocols is one of the few areas in software engineering where you do really need future-proof design and extreme extensibility, because once you release the thing, these are set in stone. Yet not many people seem to realize this. They instead &quot;future-proof&quot; their code with useless abstraction layers.<p>Anyway. Versioning helps you avoid ugly workarounds if you need to extend your format in the future in ways that its current version doesn&#x27;t allow. You then keep the code for older versions as a backwards-compatibility-only kind of deal and move on to the new one.</text></comment> | <story><title>PSD is not my favourite file format (2009)</title><url>https://github.com/zepouet/Xee-xCode-4.5/blob/master/XeePhotoshopLoader.m#L108</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rdtsc</author><text>&gt; Why, for instance, did it suddenly decide that <i>these</i> particular chunks should be aligned to four bytes, and that this alignement (sic) should <i>not</i> be included in the size?<p>Not saying this happened here, but I have seen this type of mistake before. It was because they &quot;simply&quot; cast a C&#x2F;C++ struct to a binary blob <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Data_structure_alignment#Typical_alignment_of_C_structs_on_x86" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Data_structure_alignment#Typic...</a> and wrote that to disk (or sent over the network in my case). So that particular compiler version and architecture-specific struct field alignment became the &quot;official&quot; format. It just takes one goofy mistake like that and everyone has to deal with it for years to come.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wolrah</author><text>As I understand it that&#x27;s more or less what the older MS Office formats were, just a dump of the entire OLE object representing the document as-is.<p>I believe SimCity used a similar strategy as well, the .cty and I think SC2k&#x27;s .s2k formats just dumped the in-memory representation to disk,.</text></comment> |
24,415,387 | 24,414,061 | 1 | 2 | 24,393,178 | train | <story><title>Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees during Covid-19</title><url>https://www.cnet.com/news/tech-firms-face-growing-resentment-of-parent-employees-during-covid-19/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nicbou</author><text>Then is it cool if I skip a few meetings to volunteer to help the homeless?<p>We already heavily subsidise child-rearing through taxes and other benefits. As I said elsewhere, there are mechanisms for supporting parents already. If you tried to let any other charitable endeavour take over your work schedule, you wouldn&#x27;t expect your compensation to remain unaffected.<p>I&#x27;m not resentful at parents. It just seems completely unfair to make childless employees subsidise this adventure, as if they didn&#x27;t already do it through 40 years of tax contributions.<p>Besides, let&#x27;s not pretend that people choose to have kids as a service to humanity. I&#x27;ve never, ever heard anyone claim that. People have kids because they&#x27;re fun, and because making them is fun.</text></item><item><author>jdm2212</author><text>Someone has to provide the goods and services you&#x27;ll consume when you&#x27;re old. Those people are today&#x27;s kids, whose parents are doing you a big favor at considerable expense to themselves.<p>Raising children isn&#x27;t like smoking, a hobby, a side hustle, or other miscellaneous personal obligations. It&#x27;s more like military service and jury duty -- an essential service that some people perform to ensure that society as we know it can continue to exist. And one which employers can, should, and often do make special allowances for.</text></item><item><author>nicbou</author><text>I don&#x27;t fully agree with you.<p>Back when I worked in retail or fast food, smokers could step out for a 5 minute smoke break every once in a while. As a non-smoker, I wasn&#x27;t allowed to just sit there for 5 minutes. At the end of the day, we got paid the same, but smokers got 30 minutes off, courtesy of the non-smokers who picked up the slack.<p>Likewise, parents are excused from work because they have children. I fully appreciate the difficulty of being a parent and the necessity for those measures. I don&#x27;t think we really have a choice. It&#x27;s either that or we watch them slowly crack under the pressure.<p>That being said, they chose to have children, and I chose not to. Whatever I have going on instead can&#x27;t have priority over my work schedule. Whether it&#x27;s a side hustle or a little league baseball team, it has to wait.<p>To be clear, I <i>want</i> those parents to get the time they desperately need. However, if this arrangement is to last, then childless employees should also get time for their personal obligations, whatever they might be.</text></item><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>I am a middle-aged adult with no children who&#x27;s worked at tech firms for the past couple decades. To be honest, the &quot;resentment&quot; of those without children have for &quot;benefits&quot; those with children get strikes me as extremely selfish, immature and displaying a total lack of empathy. This is time off specifically to take care of children, something now that has become exceedingly more difficult in Covid times.<p>What&#x27;s next, complaining that the cancer patient gets extra time off so why don&#x27;t I?<p>If anything, I&#x27;m thankful for all those people with kids who will (a) take care of the continuation of the human race, and more selfishly (b) support our society and economy when I am too old to do so.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dcolkitt</author><text>&gt; We already heavily subsidise child-rearing through taxes and other benefits.<p>The US and most other Western countries run huge budget deficits at essentially zero interest costs. This is only possible because creditors have full faith in the ability of future tax payers to meet debt obligations.<p>In light of that, I’d say the overall balance is that those with children are <i>massively</i> subsidizing the childless.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees during Covid-19</title><url>https://www.cnet.com/news/tech-firms-face-growing-resentment-of-parent-employees-during-covid-19/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nicbou</author><text>Then is it cool if I skip a few meetings to volunteer to help the homeless?<p>We already heavily subsidise child-rearing through taxes and other benefits. As I said elsewhere, there are mechanisms for supporting parents already. If you tried to let any other charitable endeavour take over your work schedule, you wouldn&#x27;t expect your compensation to remain unaffected.<p>I&#x27;m not resentful at parents. It just seems completely unfair to make childless employees subsidise this adventure, as if they didn&#x27;t already do it through 40 years of tax contributions.<p>Besides, let&#x27;s not pretend that people choose to have kids as a service to humanity. I&#x27;ve never, ever heard anyone claim that. People have kids because they&#x27;re fun, and because making them is fun.</text></item><item><author>jdm2212</author><text>Someone has to provide the goods and services you&#x27;ll consume when you&#x27;re old. Those people are today&#x27;s kids, whose parents are doing you a big favor at considerable expense to themselves.<p>Raising children isn&#x27;t like smoking, a hobby, a side hustle, or other miscellaneous personal obligations. It&#x27;s more like military service and jury duty -- an essential service that some people perform to ensure that society as we know it can continue to exist. And one which employers can, should, and often do make special allowances for.</text></item><item><author>nicbou</author><text>I don&#x27;t fully agree with you.<p>Back when I worked in retail or fast food, smokers could step out for a 5 minute smoke break every once in a while. As a non-smoker, I wasn&#x27;t allowed to just sit there for 5 minutes. At the end of the day, we got paid the same, but smokers got 30 minutes off, courtesy of the non-smokers who picked up the slack.<p>Likewise, parents are excused from work because they have children. I fully appreciate the difficulty of being a parent and the necessity for those measures. I don&#x27;t think we really have a choice. It&#x27;s either that or we watch them slowly crack under the pressure.<p>That being said, they chose to have children, and I chose not to. Whatever I have going on instead can&#x27;t have priority over my work schedule. Whether it&#x27;s a side hustle or a little league baseball team, it has to wait.<p>To be clear, I <i>want</i> those parents to get the time they desperately need. However, if this arrangement is to last, then childless employees should also get time for their personal obligations, whatever they might be.</text></item><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>I am a middle-aged adult with no children who&#x27;s worked at tech firms for the past couple decades. To be honest, the &quot;resentment&quot; of those without children have for &quot;benefits&quot; those with children get strikes me as extremely selfish, immature and displaying a total lack of empathy. This is time off specifically to take care of children, something now that has become exceedingly more difficult in Covid times.<p>What&#x27;s next, complaining that the cancer patient gets extra time off so why don&#x27;t I?<p>If anything, I&#x27;m thankful for all those people with kids who will (a) take care of the continuation of the human race, and more selfishly (b) support our society and economy when I am too old to do so.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdm2212</author><text>&gt; Then is it cool if I skip a few meetings to volunteer to help the homeless?<p>That&#x27;s the thing -- you won&#x27;t actually go volunteer with the homeless. (Or at least, 99% of us wouldn&#x27;t.) But parents actually have to change those diapers. If there&#x27;s a little kid running around in the background of that Zoom call, someone is doing a lot of hard work to keep the kid alive. And unlike volunteering at the homeless shelter, they can&#x27;t just decide they don&#x27;t feel like it.</text></comment> |
21,403,438 | 21,403,701 | 1 | 3 | 21,401,973 | train | <story><title>Twitter to ban political advertising</title><url>https://twitter.com/jack/status/1189634360472829952</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Consultant32452</author><text>I&#x27;m skeptical of this. Is a private charity promoting an LGBT fundraiser a political ad? What about Fox News pushing an ad about how other news is fake. Or MSNBC pushing an ad about Russia collusion? Was the now infamous Gillette woke ad political? It&#x27;ll be interesting to see how this all plays out.</text></item><item><author>buboard</author><text>&gt; Which I cannot read in any way but “f-you, Facebook.”<p>He was even more explicit:<p>&gt; For instance, it‘s not credible for us to say: “We’re working hard to stop people from gaming our systems to spread misleading info, buuut if someone pays us to target and force people to see their political ad…well...they can say whatever they want! ”</text></item><item><author>nlh</author><text>Bravo. That whole thread is smart, well-reasoned, and puts democracy above profits. Good for them.<p>I particularly like his last point:<p>&gt; A final note. This isn’t about free expression. This is about paying for reach. And paying to increase the reach of political speech has significant ramifications that today’s democratic infrastructure may not be prepared to handle. It’s worth stepping back in order to address.<p>Which I cannot read in any way but “f-you, Facebook.”<p>And honestly, he’s totally right. This issue is NOT about freedom of expression...it’s about freedom to pay for expression (and freedom to pay for having others see your expression), and I don’t think that’s inherently a good thing. It’s certainly not what the first amendment is about.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danso</author><text>&quot;Political advertising&quot; may be limited to advertising that is bought for by political campaigns and PACs, which they have a previously defined policy for:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;business.twitter.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;help&#x2F;ads-policies&#x2F;restricted-content-policies&#x2F;political-content&#x2F;political-campaigning-advertising-policy-FAQs.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;business.twitter.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;help&#x2F;ads-policies&#x2F;restricted...</a><p>&gt; <i>The policy varies across markets but generally applies to ads that advocate for or against a candidate or political party, or ads by candidates and&#x2F;or entities registered with their respective electoral commission.</i><p>edit: as u&#x2F;ben509 pointed out, the above link only refers to political campaigns. Here&#x27;s the link that defines &quot;political content&quot; as both campaigns and issue advocacy (at least in the U.S.)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;business.twitter.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;help&#x2F;ads-policies&#x2F;restricted-content-policies&#x2F;political-content&#x2F;US-political-content.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;business.twitter.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;help&#x2F;ads-policies&#x2F;restricted...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Twitter to ban political advertising</title><url>https://twitter.com/jack/status/1189634360472829952</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Consultant32452</author><text>I&#x27;m skeptical of this. Is a private charity promoting an LGBT fundraiser a political ad? What about Fox News pushing an ad about how other news is fake. Or MSNBC pushing an ad about Russia collusion? Was the now infamous Gillette woke ad political? It&#x27;ll be interesting to see how this all plays out.</text></item><item><author>buboard</author><text>&gt; Which I cannot read in any way but “f-you, Facebook.”<p>He was even more explicit:<p>&gt; For instance, it‘s not credible for us to say: “We’re working hard to stop people from gaming our systems to spread misleading info, buuut if someone pays us to target and force people to see their political ad…well...they can say whatever they want! ”</text></item><item><author>nlh</author><text>Bravo. That whole thread is smart, well-reasoned, and puts democracy above profits. Good for them.<p>I particularly like his last point:<p>&gt; A final note. This isn’t about free expression. This is about paying for reach. And paying to increase the reach of political speech has significant ramifications that today’s democratic infrastructure may not be prepared to handle. It’s worth stepping back in order to address.<p>Which I cannot read in any way but “f-you, Facebook.”<p>And honestly, he’s totally right. This issue is NOT about freedom of expression...it’s about freedom to pay for expression (and freedom to pay for having others see your expression), and I don’t think that’s inherently a good thing. It’s certainly not what the first amendment is about.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xkjkls</author><text>It&#x27;s far easier and less controversial to decide what is and isn&#x27;t political than to decide what is or isn&#x27;t true.</text></comment> |
24,013,163 | 24,012,390 | 1 | 3 | 24,009,177 | train | <story><title>Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for more than $32B</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-31/nvidia-said-in-advanced-talks-to-buy-softbank-s-chip-company-arm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fluffything</author><text>You are not wrong, but the facts you have cherry picked fail to portrait the whole picture.<p>For example, you paint it as if Nvidia is the only company Apple has had problems with, yet Apple has parted ways with Intel, IBM (Power PCs), and many other companies in the past.<p>The claim that Nintendo is the only company nvidia successfully collaborates with is just wrong:<p>- nvidia manufactures GPU chips, collaborates with dozens of OEMs to ship graphics cards<p>- nvidia collaborates with IBM which ships Power8,9,10 processors all with nvidia technology<p>- nvidia collaborates with OS vendors like microsoft very successfully<p>- nvidia collaborated with mellanox successfully and acquired it<p>- nvidia collaborates with ARM today...<p>The claim that nvidia is bad at open source because it does not open source its Linux driver is also quite wrong, since NVIDIA contributes many many hours of paid developer time open source, has many open source products, donates money to many open source organizations, contributes with paid manpower to many open source organizations as well...<p>I mean, this is not nvidia specific.<p>You can take any big company, e.g., Apple, and paint a horrible case by cherry picking things (no Vulkan support on MacOSX forcing everyone to use Metal, they don&#x27;t open source their C++ toolchain, etc.), yet Apple does many good things too (open sourced parts of their toolchain like LLVM, open source swift, etc.).<p>I mean, you even try to paint this as if Nvidia is the only company that Apple has parted ways with, yet Apple has long track record of parting ways with other companies (IBM PowerPC processors, Intel, ...). I&#x27;m pretty sure that the moment Apple is able to produce a competitive GFX card, they will part ways with AMD as well.</text></item><item><author>DCKing</author><text>This is quite concerning honestly. I don&#x27;t mind ARM being acquired, and I don&#x27;t mind Nvidia acquiring things. But I&#x27;m concerned about this combination.<p>Nvidia is a pretty hostile company to others in the market. They have a track record of vigorously pushing their market dominance and their own way of doing things. They view making custom designs as beneath them. Their custom console GPU designs - in the original Xbox, in the Playstation 3 - were considered a failure because of terrible cooporation with Nvidia [0]. Apple is probably more demanding than other PC builders and have completely fallen out with them. Nvidia has famously failed to cooporate with the Linux community on the standardized graphics stack supported by Intel and AMD and keeps pushing propietary stuff. There are more examples.<p>It&#x27;s hard to not make &quot;hostile&quot; too much of a value judgement. Nvidia has been an extremely successful company <i>because of it</i> too. It&#x27;s alright if it&#x27;s not in their corporate culture to work well with others. Clearly it&#x27;s working, and Nvidia for all their faults is still innovating.<p>But this culture won&#x27;t fly well if your core business is developing chip designs <i>for others</i>. It&#x27;s also a problem if you are the gatekeeper of a CPU instruction set that a metric ton of other infrastructure increasingly depends on. I really, really hope ARM&#x27;s current business will be allowed to run independently as ARM knows how to do this and Nvidia has time and time again shown not to understand this at all. But I&#x27;m pessimistic about that. I&#x27;m afraid Nvidia will gut ARM the company, the ARM architectures, and the ARM instruction set in the long run.<p>[0]: An interesting counterpoint would the Nintendo Switch running on an Nvidia Tegra hardware, but all the evidence points to that this chip is a 100% vanilla Nvidia Tegra X1 that Nvidia was already selling themselves (to the point its bootloader could be unlocked like a standard Tegra, leading to the Switch Fusee-Gelee exploit).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vngzs</author><text>&gt; The claim that nvidia is bad at open source because it does not open source its Linux driver is also quite wrong [...]<p>Hey! Wait a second, there. Nvidia isn&#x27;t bad because it has a properietary Linux driver. Nvidia is bad because it actively undermines open-source.<p>Quoting Linus Torvalds (2012) [0]:<p>&gt; I&#x27;m also happy to very publicly point out that Nvidia has been one of the worst trouble spots we&#x27;ve had with hardware manufacturers, and that is really sad because then Nvidia tries to sell chips - a lot of chips - into the Android Market. Nvidia has been the single worst company we&#x27;ve ever dealt with.<p>&gt; [Lifts middle finger] So Nvidia, fuck you.<p>Nvidia managed to push some PR blurbs about how it was improving the open-source driver in 2014, but six years later, Nouveau is still crap compared to their proprietary driver [1].<p>Drew DeVault, on Nvidia support in Sway [2]:<p>&gt; Nvidia, on the other hand, have been fucking assholes and have treated Linux like utter shit for our entire relationship. About a year ago they announced “Wayland support” for their proprietary driver. This included KMS and DRM support (years late, I might add), but not GBM support. They shipped something called EGLStreams instead, a concept that had been discussed and shot down by the Linux graphics development community before. They did this because it makes it easier for them to keep their driver proprietary without having work with Linux developers on it. Without GBM, Nvidia does not support Wayland, and they were real pricks for making some announcement like they actually did.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=iYWzMvlj2RQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=iYWzMvlj2RQ</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.phoronix.com&#x2F;scan.php?page=article&amp;item=nvidia-nouveau-2019&amp;num=2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.phoronix.com&#x2F;scan.php?page=article&amp;item=nvidia-n...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;drewdevault.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;10&#x2F;26&#x2F;Fuck-you-nvidia.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;drewdevault.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;10&#x2F;26&#x2F;Fuck-you-nvidia.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for more than $32B</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-31/nvidia-said-in-advanced-talks-to-buy-softbank-s-chip-company-arm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fluffything</author><text>You are not wrong, but the facts you have cherry picked fail to portrait the whole picture.<p>For example, you paint it as if Nvidia is the only company Apple has had problems with, yet Apple has parted ways with Intel, IBM (Power PCs), and many other companies in the past.<p>The claim that Nintendo is the only company nvidia successfully collaborates with is just wrong:<p>- nvidia manufactures GPU chips, collaborates with dozens of OEMs to ship graphics cards<p>- nvidia collaborates with IBM which ships Power8,9,10 processors all with nvidia technology<p>- nvidia collaborates with OS vendors like microsoft very successfully<p>- nvidia collaborated with mellanox successfully and acquired it<p>- nvidia collaborates with ARM today...<p>The claim that nvidia is bad at open source because it does not open source its Linux driver is also quite wrong, since NVIDIA contributes many many hours of paid developer time open source, has many open source products, donates money to many open source organizations, contributes with paid manpower to many open source organizations as well...<p>I mean, this is not nvidia specific.<p>You can take any big company, e.g., Apple, and paint a horrible case by cherry picking things (no Vulkan support on MacOSX forcing everyone to use Metal, they don&#x27;t open source their C++ toolchain, etc.), yet Apple does many good things too (open sourced parts of their toolchain like LLVM, open source swift, etc.).<p>I mean, you even try to paint this as if Nvidia is the only company that Apple has parted ways with, yet Apple has long track record of parting ways with other companies (IBM PowerPC processors, Intel, ...). I&#x27;m pretty sure that the moment Apple is able to produce a competitive GFX card, they will part ways with AMD as well.</text></item><item><author>DCKing</author><text>This is quite concerning honestly. I don&#x27;t mind ARM being acquired, and I don&#x27;t mind Nvidia acquiring things. But I&#x27;m concerned about this combination.<p>Nvidia is a pretty hostile company to others in the market. They have a track record of vigorously pushing their market dominance and their own way of doing things. They view making custom designs as beneath them. Their custom console GPU designs - in the original Xbox, in the Playstation 3 - were considered a failure because of terrible cooporation with Nvidia [0]. Apple is probably more demanding than other PC builders and have completely fallen out with them. Nvidia has famously failed to cooporate with the Linux community on the standardized graphics stack supported by Intel and AMD and keeps pushing propietary stuff. There are more examples.<p>It&#x27;s hard to not make &quot;hostile&quot; too much of a value judgement. Nvidia has been an extremely successful company <i>because of it</i> too. It&#x27;s alright if it&#x27;s not in their corporate culture to work well with others. Clearly it&#x27;s working, and Nvidia for all their faults is still innovating.<p>But this culture won&#x27;t fly well if your core business is developing chip designs <i>for others</i>. It&#x27;s also a problem if you are the gatekeeper of a CPU instruction set that a metric ton of other infrastructure increasingly depends on. I really, really hope ARM&#x27;s current business will be allowed to run independently as ARM knows how to do this and Nvidia has time and time again shown not to understand this at all. But I&#x27;m pessimistic about that. I&#x27;m afraid Nvidia will gut ARM the company, the ARM architectures, and the ARM instruction set in the long run.<p>[0]: An interesting counterpoint would the Nintendo Switch running on an Nvidia Tegra hardware, but all the evidence points to that this chip is a 100% vanilla Nvidia Tegra X1 that Nvidia was already selling themselves (to the point its bootloader could be unlocked like a standard Tegra, leading to the Switch Fusee-Gelee exploit).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nvarsj</author><text>There’s no defending Nvidia’s approach to Linux and OSS. It is plain awful no matter how you try to twist the reality. And it is actively damaging because it forces extra work on OSS maintainers and frustrates users. You should not be required to install a binary blob in 2020 to get basic functionality (like fan control) to work. Optimus and wayland support is painfully, purposely bad.</text></comment> |
40,319,176 | 40,318,606 | 1 | 2 | 40,316,039 | train | <story><title>Tine Text Editor</title><url>https://github.com/travisdoor/tine</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hakanderyal</author><text>I love passion projects!<p>A complete text editor, written in a language that is also by the same person. This requires dedication. Who cares if it&#x27;s maintainable by others or if it&#x27;s a worthwhile effort, its aim is clearly stated as self use.<p>If anybody wants to see how it looks, there is a screenshot at the language repo.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;raw.githubusercontent.com&#x2F;travisdoor&#x2F;bl&#x2F;master&#x2F;logo&#x2F;the_editor.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;raw.githubusercontent.com&#x2F;travisdoor&#x2F;bl&#x2F;master&#x2F;logo&#x2F;...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Tine Text Editor</title><url>https://github.com/travisdoor/tine</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>globalnode</author><text>Great job, and written in your own custom language as well! Did you use piece tables by any chance as a data structure? And did you have any reference for how to write a text editor or did you just invent it all yourself?</text></comment> |
11,777,163 | 11,777,161 | 1 | 2 | 11,776,997 | train | <story><title>Jolla C, a new Sailfish OS phone from Jolla</title><url>https://jolla.com/jollac/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sametmax</author><text>I was using a dumb phone and a change of life made me need a smartphone. A friend of mine encouraged me to get a Jolla.<p>I liked the idea, Open Source, you can code your app in Python, compatible with Android apps, etc.<p>At the begining, I was very tolerant with the quirks of the phone, being a FOSS believer and all.<p>But after months and months of use, I&#x27;m getting more and more frustrated with it:<p><pre><code> - it&#x27;s slow.
- apps randomly crashes or don&#x27;t start at all.
- Android support is limited.
- network is unreliable.
- the performances don&#x27;t allow any decent Web
surf experience, and I already hate the Web
on mobile so it makes things irritating for me.
- it requires a lot of fiddling to adapt it to
your needs. It can be good if you need customization,
but some basic stuff (such as emoji) are not included by
default. Some might consider that a feature, but when
a girl text me a smiley when I flirt with her, I want to
know what face it has because it kinda condition
my next answer.
- some bugs are incredibly annoying. The worst being
the poor handling of group text messages which lead
to very confusing conversations. A smartphone that
can&#x27;t text, really?
- ergonomy is lacking at best. While I think there
are some neat ideas, the hidden menu for simple tasks,
the absence of resize in some picture mode and the
presence of it in others and plenty other subtle
details make it cumbersome to use even for basic
stuff. The color scheme and overall design is
not a good fit on the long run.
</code></pre>
I do like having a real GNU system and a terminal to play with it on my phone, but let&#x27;s face it, I use the Web&#x2F;GPS&#x2F;Text more than the terminal, and they are not decent for a 2016 experience.<p>It&#x27;s where smarphones were 5 years ago, but with bugs.<p>I don&#x27;t regret I bought it, it was a nice experience, but now I&#x27;m going for something that will just work.</text></comment> | <story><title>Jolla C, a new Sailfish OS phone from Jolla</title><url>https://jolla.com/jollac/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bruce_one</author><text>Very surprised, I hadn&#x27;t anticipated this happening.<p>(Irrationally excited too.)<p>I&#x27;d assumed that after the tablet fiasco that Jolla wouldn&#x27;t be doing any hardware for a long time. (I&#x27;m not personally grumpy in any way, but I think fiasco is the most accurate word :-s )<p>I&#x27;d been holding out hope for an official Fairphone 2 deal (or even the Puzzlephone), but this is awesome :-)</text></comment> |
19,829,480 | 19,826,793 | 1 | 2 | 19,826,169 | train | <story><title>JupyterHub 1.0</title><url>https://blog.jupyter.org/announcing-jupyterhub-1-0-8fff78acad7f</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>acbart</author><text>I love JupyterHub, but we&#x27;ve hit some real headaches in having it scale. At Virginia Tech, we have an introductory course for non-computing majors where students are using Jupyter through JH. At around the 70-student mark, we have performance issues. Considering that the course is eventually meant to scale much farther (hundreds of students), we&#x27;re not really sure how we can make further progress with our current resources. I hope this new version has some performance enhancements (though I don&#x27;t see any in the changelog). Last I talked with anyone about this was in the NBGrader project[1], where other schools were hitting walls with scaling.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jupyter&#x2F;nbgrader&#x2F;issues&#x2F;530#issuecomment-375693819" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jupyter&#x2F;nbgrader&#x2F;issues&#x2F;530#issuecomment-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>JupyterHub 1.0</title><url>https://blog.jupyter.org/announcing-jupyterhub-1-0-8fff78acad7f</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>coleifer</author><text>When would someone use jupyterhub? I&#x27;ve been running my own notebook server for years, but it&#x27;s single-user, single machine. Is hub for like providing separate jupyterlab instances for a bunch of different users&#x2F;different machines?</text></comment> |
18,820,426 | 18,819,730 | 1 | 3 | 18,819,353 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Jetpack – Webpack made more convenient</title><url>https://github.com/KidkArolis/jetpack</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fimdomeio</author><text>Hey just fyi in case you don&#x27;t know, jetpack[1] is the name of a very well known wordpress plugin by Automatic. Might cause some confusion.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wordpress.org&#x2F;plugins&#x2F;jetpack&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wordpress.org&#x2F;plugins&#x2F;jetpack&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>guessmyname</author><text>Searching for “jetpack” in a fresh <i>—no cookies—</i> browser session returns:<p>• <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jetpack.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jetpack.com&#x2F;</a><p>• <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;jetpack" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;jetpack</a><p>• <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wordpress.org&#x2F;plugins&#x2F;jetpack&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wordpress.org&#x2F;plugins&#x2F;jetpack&#x2F;</a><p>Which are the canonical URLs for JetPack, by Automatic.<p>KidkArolis will have a hard time promoting his project.<p>---<p>My suggestion for KidkArolis is to rename his project to one fo these:<p>• “ConvePack” considering the slogan <i>“Webpack made more convenient”</i><p>• “WrapPack” considering the description <i>“Jetpack wraps webpack”</i><p>• “SimplePack” assuming his project is simpler than WebPack</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Jetpack – Webpack made more convenient</title><url>https://github.com/KidkArolis/jetpack</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fimdomeio</author><text>Hey just fyi in case you don&#x27;t know, jetpack[1] is the name of a very well known wordpress plugin by Automatic. Might cause some confusion.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wordpress.org&#x2F;plugins&#x2F;jetpack&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wordpress.org&#x2F;plugins&#x2F;jetpack&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acemarke</author><text>It was also a Mozilla addons SDK: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.mozilla.org&#x2F;Jetpack" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.mozilla.org&#x2F;Jetpack</a></text></comment> |
38,086,677 | 38,085,795 | 1 | 2 | 38,070,363 | train | <story><title>Luxury beliefs are status symbols (2022)</title><url>https://www.robkhenderson.com/p/status-symbols-and-the-struggle-for</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peyton</author><text>I dunno, I read it apolitically. Normal working-class people don’t give a shit about any of this stuff, and as soon as they do, it’ll become unfashionable, and we’ll move on to the next thing.</text></item><item><author>indigo945</author><text>Yes, the examples correlate with affluence, which is a necessary condition for them to be included in this article; but it is obviously not a sufficient condition, as all &quot;luxury beliefs&quot; from elsewhere on the political spectrum are excluded.<p>My point is that this is a bad faith argument. The author pretends to care about &quot;luxury&quot; beliefs, but in truth, all he cares about is finding a cheap shot against feminist positions. He intends to delegitimize these positions by painting them as an upper-class fringe (&quot;luxury&quot;) concern. Once this angle of attack is found, the author never stops to see that the same attack could be levied against any number of political positions that he himself might agree with, because he was never interested in a real debate to begin with: he only wants to smear and ridicule.<p>The point is not that the examples are also &quot;correlated&quot; with something else, it&#x27;s that they&#x27;re carefully cherry-picked and made a target for an attack that would work against conservative positions, carefully excluded by the author, just as nicely as it does against liberal positions here.</text></item><item><author>lelanthran</author><text>&gt; I figured out as soon as I saw the link title that the author&#x27;s examples for &quot;luxury beliefs&quot; would just so happen to be associated with a feminist and anti-racist outlook.<p>Isn&#x27;t the author&#x27;s point that the examples correlate very highly with affluence? The fact that it may&#x2F;may not be correlated to something else might be relevant, but I&#x27;m not seeing the relevance.</text></item><item><author>indigo945</author><text><p><pre><code> &gt; When I was growing up in foster homes, or making minimum wage as a
&gt; dishwasher, or serving in the military, I never heard words like “cultural
&gt; appropriation” or “gendered” or “heteronormative.”
&gt;
&gt; Working class people could not tell you what these terms mean. But if you
&gt; visit an elite university, you’ll find plenty of affluent people who will
&gt; eagerly explain them to you.
</code></pre>
I figured out as soon as I saw the link title that the author&#x27;s examples for &quot;luxury beliefs&quot; would <i>just so happen</i> to be associated with a feminist and anti-racist outlook.<p><pre><code> &gt; But unlike luxury goods, luxury beliefs can have long term detrimental
&gt; effects for the poor and working class. However costly these beliefs are
&gt; for the rich, they often inflict even greater costs on everyone else.
</code></pre>
This is certainly true for a high number of luxury beliefs, such as &quot;trickle down economics&quot;, &quot;small government&quot; advocacy and &quot;catallaxy&quot;, none of which come up often among dishwashers; and all of which freshman students at Yale, who just read their first essay on Friedrich Hayek, will gladly explain to you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sangnoir</author><text>&gt; dunno, I read it apolitically. Normal working-class people don’t give a shit about any of this stuff<p>The fiercest culture warriors I know are working-class folk. They do in fact, give a shit about this stuff, no matter where they fall on the political spectrum. I blame the increased polarization.<p>The irony is that people who claim to be against culture wars - like the author - are they themselves actively engaging in a culture war while feigning neutrality. The truth is that they are simply against one perspective, which betrays either a lack of self-awareness, or bad faith.</text></comment> | <story><title>Luxury beliefs are status symbols (2022)</title><url>https://www.robkhenderson.com/p/status-symbols-and-the-struggle-for</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peyton</author><text>I dunno, I read it apolitically. Normal working-class people don’t give a shit about any of this stuff, and as soon as they do, it’ll become unfashionable, and we’ll move on to the next thing.</text></item><item><author>indigo945</author><text>Yes, the examples correlate with affluence, which is a necessary condition for them to be included in this article; but it is obviously not a sufficient condition, as all &quot;luxury beliefs&quot; from elsewhere on the political spectrum are excluded.<p>My point is that this is a bad faith argument. The author pretends to care about &quot;luxury&quot; beliefs, but in truth, all he cares about is finding a cheap shot against feminist positions. He intends to delegitimize these positions by painting them as an upper-class fringe (&quot;luxury&quot;) concern. Once this angle of attack is found, the author never stops to see that the same attack could be levied against any number of political positions that he himself might agree with, because he was never interested in a real debate to begin with: he only wants to smear and ridicule.<p>The point is not that the examples are also &quot;correlated&quot; with something else, it&#x27;s that they&#x27;re carefully cherry-picked and made a target for an attack that would work against conservative positions, carefully excluded by the author, just as nicely as it does against liberal positions here.</text></item><item><author>lelanthran</author><text>&gt; I figured out as soon as I saw the link title that the author&#x27;s examples for &quot;luxury beliefs&quot; would just so happen to be associated with a feminist and anti-racist outlook.<p>Isn&#x27;t the author&#x27;s point that the examples correlate very highly with affluence? The fact that it may&#x2F;may not be correlated to something else might be relevant, but I&#x27;m not seeing the relevance.</text></item><item><author>indigo945</author><text><p><pre><code> &gt; When I was growing up in foster homes, or making minimum wage as a
&gt; dishwasher, or serving in the military, I never heard words like “cultural
&gt; appropriation” or “gendered” or “heteronormative.”
&gt;
&gt; Working class people could not tell you what these terms mean. But if you
&gt; visit an elite university, you’ll find plenty of affluent people who will
&gt; eagerly explain them to you.
</code></pre>
I figured out as soon as I saw the link title that the author&#x27;s examples for &quot;luxury beliefs&quot; would <i>just so happen</i> to be associated with a feminist and anti-racist outlook.<p><pre><code> &gt; But unlike luxury goods, luxury beliefs can have long term detrimental
&gt; effects for the poor and working class. However costly these beliefs are
&gt; for the rich, they often inflict even greater costs on everyone else.
</code></pre>
This is certainly true for a high number of luxury beliefs, such as &quot;trickle down economics&quot;, &quot;small government&quot; advocacy and &quot;catallaxy&quot;, none of which come up often among dishwashers; and all of which freshman students at Yale, who just read their first essay on Friedrich Hayek, will gladly explain to you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elmomle</author><text>I think once the idea of heteronormativity had percolated through all of society as a well understood concept, it would no longer be as pressing a concern. These concepts tend to be in vogue specifically because they are salient.<p>It is intellectually dangerous to read a piece like this &quot;apolitically&quot;, precisely because a biased political agenda is wearing the garb of a much more universal observation. If the writer had mixed &quot;luxury beliefs&quot; from all over the political spectrum, then there would be a clear focus on what the title purports to concern. Instead, there is a second agenda that is being silently conflated without being acknowledged.</text></comment> |
9,404,126 | 9,403,089 | 1 | 2 | 9,401,986 | train | <story><title>Lol my thesis – Summing up years of work in one sentence</title><url>http://lolmythesis.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gusmd</author><text>This is awesome! Some of these &quot;honest&quot; titles are much more clear than the original, academic ones. We tend to use buzzwords&#x2F;keywords to try and get noticed or even &quot;respected&quot;, but it is all complete bullshit. Research should be informative. My submission:<p>&quot;Acoustic treatment materials for aircraft engines work (sort of), but we are not sure how; airplanes still loud as f..k&quot;<p>(On the modelling and characterization of acoustic liners under grazing flow.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Lol my thesis – Summing up years of work in one sentence</title><url>http://lolmythesis.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dredmorbius</author><text>See also the Annals of Improbable Research&#x27;s 24&#x2F;7 lectures:<p>&quot;Each 24&#x2F;7 Lecturer explains their topic twice:<p>&quot;First, a complete, technical description in 24 seconds<p>&quot;Then, a clear summary that anyone can understand in 7 words&quot;<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.improbable.com&#x2F;ig&#x2F;24-7&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.improbable.com&#x2F;ig&#x2F;24-7&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
40,664,811 | 40,662,691 | 1 | 3 | 40,660,689 | train | <story><title>Diffractive Chocolate</title><url>https://wp.optics.arizona.edu/oscoutreach/diffractive-chocolate/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ma2t</author><text>One of the things I appreciate about HN is that discussions often acknowledges the pioneers. Way back in the early 1990s Eric Begleiter started Dimensional Foods to commercialize edible holographic technology. He gave a memorable demo at Thinking Machines Corp. where, in addition to rainbows from diffraction sheet molded foods, he showed some simple rendered 3D scenes floating in chocolate illuminated by a slide projector. Very impressive at the time when he broke off a chunk and ate it. The short-term idea was to give a rainbow sheen to breakfast cereals, but I think longer term there was talk of using holograms to distinguish and layer information on medicines. Made quite an impression at the time.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20150527050715&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;1997&#x2F;04&#x2F;02&#x2F;garden&#x2F;where-no-candy-has-gone-before-light-as-the-secret-ingredient.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20150527050715&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytim...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Diffractive Chocolate</title><url>https://wp.optics.arizona.edu/oscoutreach/diffractive-chocolate/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zifk</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=UsDnkrDvkBo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=UsDnkrDvkBo</a><p>Ben from Applied Science has a good video going over the same topic.</text></comment> |
19,150,552 | 19,149,322 | 1 | 2 | 19,149,100 | train | <story><title>Gates Foundation annual letter</title><url>https://www.gatesnotes.com/2019-Annual-Letter</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>os7borne</author><text>I have a fundamental issue with the way in which the Gates foundation gets its work done. Sure, there may actually be impact achieved in some of its investments, but in most others, the team does not even know the name of the founders they have invested in. I&#x27;ve interacted with Associates from the Foundation based in London who know the broad strokes of investments they&#x27;ve made in India, for example, but the actual companies, they have no idea. Their process has been to spray and pray. No active involvement, no process optimisation, no impact metric monitoring etc.<p>Further, the manner in which the foundation functions in India is what makes me cringe when I hear their name. They have unrestricted access to members of parliament in India, they promote Indian government programs e.g. Ayushman Bharat (Health insurance for 500 mn Indians), Aadhaar (digital unique number for all Indians) and they ensure policy changes to suit their funding programs. Their close linkage with the Indian government to further their propoganda is what makes me cringe. Sure enough, do implement some programs its commonplace to liase with Governments, but where&#x27;s the ethics in that? Where do you draw the line to limit promotions for government projects that fake numbers and are not really having any impact on the ground?<p>This Annual Letter is just another propaganda piece, as stated by others here.</text></comment> | <story><title>Gates Foundation annual letter</title><url>https://www.gatesnotes.com/2019-Annual-Letter</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>melling</author><text>Marques Brownlee interviewed Bill about his annual letter.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;4mxXdCUXSSs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;4mxXdCUXSSs</a><p>Near the end you can see a younger Bill jump over a chair.</text></comment> |
2,226,896 | 2,226,406 | 1 | 3 | 2,225,884 | train | <story><title>A Stack Overflow user's reply to Experts Exchange blogpost</title><url>http://blog.williamhilsum.com/2011/02/response-to-experts-exchange-blog-post.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>redler</author><text>With all the interest currently focused on Q&#38;A sites, Experts Exchange actually presents an interesting turnaround opportunity. Despite the last few years of squandering goodwill with their deceptive solution to the findability/paywall paradox, they are still one of the longtime residents of the space, and they still have a massive -- albeit creaky -- corpus of questions and answers. They should hire a strong UX/UI team and do a clean-sheet redesign: new logo, new zen-like appearance without all the noisy clutter, logos, UI "junk", fake blurred out answers with "sign up now!", etc. They should set up a strong information design and analysis team to mine that huge corpus for opportunities to segment their product into paid and free components -- and then update the business model to a legitimate "freemium" approach.<p>I realize this is all easier said than done, but it does seem like there must be real value under the barnacles. Every time someone scrolls down past screen after screen of ads and blurred answers and has their "I see what you did there" moment, goodwill is squandered and the community impression of deception and spamminess builds.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Stack Overflow user's reply to Experts Exchange blogpost</title><url>http://blog.williamhilsum.com/2011/02/response-to-experts-exchange-blog-post.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cletus</author><text>There are lots of lessons here. Basically EE acted with hubris because they saw themselves as the only game in town. SO came along and quickly dethroned them in the programming arena (EE has a somewhat broader base than that).<p>Charging people for user-generated content is a shortsighted and doomed business model. What's more it's sleazy. I'm reminded of the whole CDDB/Gracenote fiasco from years ago.<p>Chris Dixon wrote a great blog post about this [1].<p>EE in this context (or the "evil hyphen site" as Joel calls it) is acting as an extractor. They're simply putting up a barrier and charging a toll.<p>Compare this to companies like Dropbox and Evernote. These companies provide pretty amazing services (particularly Dropbox) for free. I've seen many people say they pay for Dropbox not because they need the space but because they want to give them money for their amazing services. These companies are builders.<p>And let's not forget that EE earned a lot of bad will by once being free like SO and switching to this hideous pseud-paywall monstrosity. Treat your users like crap and they go elsewhere. Quelle surprise.<p>[1]: <a href="http://cdixon.org/2010/06/19/builders-and-extractors/" rel="nofollow">http://cdixon.org/2010/06/19/builders-and-extractors/</a></text></comment> |
25,184,095 | 25,182,876 | 1 | 3 | 25,182,099 | train | <story><title>The CIA's Quest for Mind Control: Torture, LSD and a 'Poisoner in Chief'</title><url>https://www.wxxinews.org/post/cias-secret-quest-mind-control-torture-lsd-and-poisoner-chief-0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>forgingahead</author><text><i>Gottlieb wanted to create a way to seize control of people&#x27;s minds, and he realized it was a two-part process. First, you had to blast away the existing mind. Second, you had to find a way to insert a new mind into that resulting void.</i><p>You don&#x27;t need LSD for this, just expose yourself to media (news, social media, &quot;influencers&quot;, etc) and they will helpfully convince you that everything you thought before you encountered them was bad&#x2F;racist&#x2F;sexist&#x2F;conservative&#x2F;etc. They&#x27;ll also give you opinions about specific groups of people, and certain people in particular (all of whom you haven&#x27;t met, nor will you ever meet), and reinforce that every day you continue to consume from them.<p>Then it&#x27;s just a matter of swallowing wholesale whatever else they feed you after that.<p>Online, platforms with downvote systems (HN included) present the apparent legitimacy of certain views over others, and help reinforce what you <i>shouldn&#x27;t</i> be thinking or voicing (don&#x27;t get greyed out by posting that!).<p>The net result is we&#x27;ve sleepwalked into being controlled anyway, except that we contort ourselves justifying why &quot;this is different&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>The CIA's Quest for Mind Control: Torture, LSD and a 'Poisoner in Chief'</title><url>https://www.wxxinews.org/post/cias-secret-quest-mind-control-torture-lsd-and-poisoner-chief-0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Alex3917</author><text>Interestingly enough, Sidney Gottlieb was my great uncle&#x27;s college roommate at the University of Wisconsin, and they later reconnected after the war and became lifelong best friends. Apparently they both went there after colleges on the east coast started putting quotas on Jews. There is an interesting article about their relationship here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;archive&#x2F;lifestyle&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;2001&#x2F;12&#x2F;16&#x2F;the-coldest&#x2F;83f56312-8cca-481f-af17-5d8eb0356612&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;archive&#x2F;lifestyle&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;20...</a><p>Unfortunately I didn&#x27;t find out until after my great uncle had died, would have been super interesting to ask him about.</text></comment> |
8,356,523 | 8,356,232 | 1 | 2 | 8,355,049 | train | <story><title>A Site That Teaches You to Code Well Enough to Get a Job</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2014/09/exercism/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roywiggins</author><text>Flask. Flask Flask Flask. It&#x27;s well-documented, in Python, and you can push it to Heroku easy as pie.<p>You can add things like templates (they&#x27;re built in, and can be really simple) or just concatenate HTML the old-fashioned way. You can program very imperatively and work up to abstractions. It&#x27;s very friendly.<p>I haven&#x27;t seen it used as an introductory &quot;language&quot; but I feel like it would work well.</text></item><item><author>GuiA</author><text>And this is why I always use PHP as an introductory language if I have to teach web dev; the setup part is much more straightforward than it is for Rails&#x2F;Django&#x2F;etc., and you don&#x27;t have to spend a ton of time teaching dozens of concepts (MVC, routes, templating, git, unit tests, ORMs, etc.) before the students can have mini web apps written.<p>Some programmers balk at the idea of teaching PHP with plain HTML&#x2F;CSS instead of teaching using Rails + Angular + all the fancy crap they like, but I&#x27;ve taught web dev to over 500+ students in the past 7+ years (and programming&#x2F;CS to about twice that), and it&#x27;s worked like a charm (and the people who get the most upset by that notion are often those who have taught 0 students).<p>My girlfriend is an art teacher, and when they teach new students they don&#x27;t start right away with watercolor or oil paints; rather, they start with materials that are easier to handle for beginners (e.g. plain pencil), so they can focus on the basics before tackling the more subtle and advanced techniques. Why are we trying to teach programming using all the fancy tools and technologies used in production systems?</text></item><item><author>MrJagil</author><text>Excellent how this problem is continuously attempted to be solved.<p>As a wannabe programmer, one thing I always lacked from these sites was the ability to somehow see my code live. I.e. it&#x27;s fun to write html and css on codecademy or python from LPTHW or whatever but how on earth do I get it on the web or assembled into .app? In actuality, the complexity that surrounds DNS providers, server apps (or whatever you call filezilla etc), server providers (here i mean heroku, AWS, Cloudflare etc), those weird githubs and repos that people chat about etc etc, is way more deterring than actually learning what a &quot;class&quot; is.<p>Learning is fun; endless googling is not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>macNchz</author><text>&gt;you can push it to Heroku easy as pie<p>Having worked with absolute beginners, this isn&#x27;t nearly as easy as you think for someone just getting started. You&#x27;re adding ssh keys, getting set up with git, installing the heroku client, running things from the command line, dealing with dependencies, dealing with heroku config file issues...<p>These are the things that get extremely frustrating very quickly to someone who doesn&#x27;t have a technical background, and they cause people to give up.<p>Compared with: start a shared hosting account for $2&#x2F;month, connect with a gui FTP client and the password you made during signup, drag and drop files to the server, go to <a href="http://www.yourserver.com/foo.php" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.yourserver.com&#x2F;foo.php</a> and see if it works.<p>If it&#x27;s about learning the most basic fundamentals, PHP just works. It will be some time before these people start building things where security, scale, separation of concerns, version control etc start to count. Introducing too many things at once is frustrating, and the fun starts when you can use the things you&#x27;re building, and share them with others. There&#x27;s not much that&#x27;s better than PHP in that regard.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Site That Teaches You to Code Well Enough to Get a Job</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2014/09/exercism/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roywiggins</author><text>Flask. Flask Flask Flask. It&#x27;s well-documented, in Python, and you can push it to Heroku easy as pie.<p>You can add things like templates (they&#x27;re built in, and can be really simple) or just concatenate HTML the old-fashioned way. You can program very imperatively and work up to abstractions. It&#x27;s very friendly.<p>I haven&#x27;t seen it used as an introductory &quot;language&quot; but I feel like it would work well.</text></item><item><author>GuiA</author><text>And this is why I always use PHP as an introductory language if I have to teach web dev; the setup part is much more straightforward than it is for Rails&#x2F;Django&#x2F;etc., and you don&#x27;t have to spend a ton of time teaching dozens of concepts (MVC, routes, templating, git, unit tests, ORMs, etc.) before the students can have mini web apps written.<p>Some programmers balk at the idea of teaching PHP with plain HTML&#x2F;CSS instead of teaching using Rails + Angular + all the fancy crap they like, but I&#x27;ve taught web dev to over 500+ students in the past 7+ years (and programming&#x2F;CS to about twice that), and it&#x27;s worked like a charm (and the people who get the most upset by that notion are often those who have taught 0 students).<p>My girlfriend is an art teacher, and when they teach new students they don&#x27;t start right away with watercolor or oil paints; rather, they start with materials that are easier to handle for beginners (e.g. plain pencil), so they can focus on the basics before tackling the more subtle and advanced techniques. Why are we trying to teach programming using all the fancy tools and technologies used in production systems?</text></item><item><author>MrJagil</author><text>Excellent how this problem is continuously attempted to be solved.<p>As a wannabe programmer, one thing I always lacked from these sites was the ability to somehow see my code live. I.e. it&#x27;s fun to write html and css on codecademy or python from LPTHW or whatever but how on earth do I get it on the web or assembled into .app? In actuality, the complexity that surrounds DNS providers, server apps (or whatever you call filezilla etc), server providers (here i mean heroku, AWS, Cloudflare etc), those weird githubs and repos that people chat about etc etc, is way more deterring than actually learning what a &quot;class&quot; is.<p>Learning is fun; endless googling is not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vegggdor</author><text>&gt; and the people who get the most upset by that notion are often those who have taught 0 students<p>Does that apply to you?</text></comment> |
23,193,168 | 23,192,964 | 1 | 2 | 23,192,546 | train | <story><title>Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M</title><url>https://www.axios.com/scoop-facebook-to-buy-giphy-for-400-million-4a75a359-833b-484d-b15b-87e94d3de017.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dumbfounder</author><text>Congrats to Giphy, but honestly it baffles me they are worth this much money. Do they actually bring in decent revenue, or was this all about eyeballs? Is this content even decently monetizable?<p>Disclaimer: I am the jaded creator of Twicsy, a Twitter picture engine with many millions of visitors over its lifetime, and I apparently missed the boat on this trends and had to shut it down.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cosmie</author><text>Read the privacy policy[1].<p>Think of Giphy images as a giant, organically shared version of web tracking software. Which complements the coverage of the FB Pixel[2] well, as it worms its way into privacy-conscious areas they might not have FB Pixel coverage such as private communications and security&#x2F;privacy-minded apps. And without implementing something like a proxy server to pre-cache&#x2F;sanitize images and strip tracking identifiers in both directions, it&#x27;s a tracking vector that&#x27;s hard to keep out of your app without introducing user friction.<p>Given that cynical viewpoint, the valuation makes a ton of sense.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.giphy.com&#x2F;hc&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;articles&#x2F;360032872931-GIPHY-Privacy-Policy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.giphy.com&#x2F;hc&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;articles&#x2F;360032872931-GIP...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;help&#x2F;742478679120153?id=1205376682832142" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;help&#x2F;742478679120153?id=12...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M</title><url>https://www.axios.com/scoop-facebook-to-buy-giphy-for-400-million-4a75a359-833b-484d-b15b-87e94d3de017.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dumbfounder</author><text>Congrats to Giphy, but honestly it baffles me they are worth this much money. Do they actually bring in decent revenue, or was this all about eyeballs? Is this content even decently monetizable?<p>Disclaimer: I am the jaded creator of Twicsy, a Twitter picture engine with many millions of visitors over its lifetime, and I apparently missed the boat on this trends and had to shut it down.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>basch</author><text>The other interesting thing about this one, is that they dont even attempt to license content do they? They dont have any content costs?<p>Theres been this fake (steal) it till you make it, wild west approach to growth. Youtube, Buzzfeed, Imgur. You just host anybodys content regardless of if the poster is the owner, and once you get to scale, then you handle copyright and creating your own content so you arent as dependent on external creators.<p>But in Giphys case, they never have to take the extra step. Because they are so short, they are much more likely to pass fair use, and they can just host anybodys anything, barring some illegal fringes, without having to pay for the rights.</text></comment> |
30,915,214 | 30,912,633 | 1 | 2 | 30,908,908 | train | <story><title>Single-chip processors have reached their limits</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/single-chip-processors-have-reached-their-limits</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bob1029</author><text>Despite the limitations apparently present in single chip&#x2F;CPU systems, they can still provide an insane amount of performance if used properly.<p>There are also many problems that are literally impossible to make faster or more correct than by simply running them on a single thread&#x2F;processor&#x2F;core&#x2F;etc. There always will be forever and ever. This is not a &quot;we lack the innovation&quot; problem. It&#x27;s an information-theoretic &#x2F; causality problem you can demonstrate with actual math &amp; physics. Does a future event&#x27;s processing circumstances maybe depend on all events received up until now? If yes, congratulations. You now have a total ordering problem just like pretty much everyone else. Yes, you can cheat and say &quot;well these pieces here and here dont have a hard dependency on each other&quot;, but its incredibly hard to get this shit right if you decide to go down that path.<p>The most fundamental demon present in any distributed system is latency. The difference between L1 and a network hop in the same datacenter can add up very quickly.<p>Again, for many classes of problems, there is simply no handwaving this away. You either wait the requisite # of microseconds for the synchronous ack to come back, or you hope your business doesnt care if john doe gets duplicated a few times in the database on a totally random basis.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tgamblin</author><text>All of this is true, but I’ll just be nitpicky to make a point:<p>&gt; Does a future event&#x27;s processing circumstances maybe depend on all events received up until now?<p>In a parallel prefix sum, the final sum does depend on all prior inputs, but a good parallel implementation runs in O(log(n)) time. It is, of course, not a total ordering problem, but that’s not obvious at first glance — I’ve always thought it was a beautiful example of something that <i>appears</i> to be entirely sequential but actually parallelizes really well.<p>All of which is to say that, yeah, we’re latency bound at the end of the day, but there’s a lot more innovation and performance left to be wrung out of most systems. A little creativity goes a long way, and I like the idea of a universe where the software is the main determinant of performance — where you can’t get away with just waiting for the next generation of chips.</text></comment> | <story><title>Single-chip processors have reached their limits</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/single-chip-processors-have-reached-their-limits</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bob1029</author><text>Despite the limitations apparently present in single chip&#x2F;CPU systems, they can still provide an insane amount of performance if used properly.<p>There are also many problems that are literally impossible to make faster or more correct than by simply running them on a single thread&#x2F;processor&#x2F;core&#x2F;etc. There always will be forever and ever. This is not a &quot;we lack the innovation&quot; problem. It&#x27;s an information-theoretic &#x2F; causality problem you can demonstrate with actual math &amp; physics. Does a future event&#x27;s processing circumstances maybe depend on all events received up until now? If yes, congratulations. You now have a total ordering problem just like pretty much everyone else. Yes, you can cheat and say &quot;well these pieces here and here dont have a hard dependency on each other&quot;, but its incredibly hard to get this shit right if you decide to go down that path.<p>The most fundamental demon present in any distributed system is latency. The difference between L1 and a network hop in the same datacenter can add up very quickly.<p>Again, for many classes of problems, there is simply no handwaving this away. You either wait the requisite # of microseconds for the synchronous ack to come back, or you hope your business doesnt care if john doe gets duplicated a few times in the database on a totally random basis.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AnthonyMouse</author><text>The alternative is speculative execution. If you can guess what the result is going to be, you can proceed to the next calculation and you get there faster if it turns out you were right.<p>If you have parallel processors, you can stop guessing and just proceed under both assumptions concurrently and throw out the result that was wrong when you find out which one it was. This is going to be less efficient, but if your only concern is &quot;make latency go down,&quot; it can beat waiting for the result or guessing wrong.</text></comment> |
8,821,637 | 8,821,598 | 1 | 3 | 8,821,068 | train | <story><title>What Do We Want, Really?</title><url>http://thefrailestthing.com/2014/12/31/what-do-we-want-really/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>shutupalready</author><text>We need to be thankful that pockets of extreme nonconformity exist to show an alternative to groupthink. People are so eager to mock or crush any diversity. Average people can&#x27;t stand the idea that there are places in the world with extreme differences like (a) much higher or lower tax (using the U.S. as reference point), (b) drug attitudes far softer or much worse, (c) political structures (even the &quot;evil&quot; ones, speaking from the American POV), (d) far different cultural attitudes about sex, marriage, drinking, and every other moral issue. If the world didn&#x27;t have all this diversity, we&#x27;d never know that there&#x27;s an alternative to what we <i>thought</i> was the best way.</text></comment> | <story><title>What Do We Want, Really?</title><url>http://thefrailestthing.com/2014/12/31/what-do-we-want-really/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>planckscnst</author><text>I don&#x27;t think my kids would be better off without TV, and I suspect most people don&#x27;t actually think that, either.<p>TV (just as books) is a tool for delivering entertainment, education, and culture, and it&#x27;s reasonably effective at that.<p>I&#x27;m glad I had TV when I was a child. The thing I value most is that it inspired an interest in science, math, and technology. Thanks, Square One, Bill Nye, Beakman&#x27;s World, Discover, etc! Later on in life (teenage years), it taught me about time management; you can allow yourself to be entertained for many hours and not actually feel better for it, but actually worse, as you&#x27;ve lost that time; you can allow yourself to be entertained for an hour and it will change your whole outlook on the day. Always be aware of what you are gaining and giving up for entertainment.<p>Anyway, I could go on about why I love TV (and these days, the Internet), that&#x27;s the gist.</text></comment> |
32,634,359 | 32,634,342 | 1 | 3 | 32,633,908 | train | <story><title>The sudden silencing of Guantanamo's artists</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62399826</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>erdos4d</author><text>&gt; Sometimes it really does seem that &quot;the cruelty is the point&quot;.<p>This extends very far beyond Guantanamo. I really wonder where all these sick fucks come from. I don&#x27;t remember much of a psycho vibe from classmates or work colleagues. Yet the US makes them in sufficient quantity that they seem to pop up wherever authority is. Prisons, police, military, they all seem to have endless human garbage that enjoys being cruel if they can. How has this country produced these &quot;people&quot; and why do they achieve positions of power instead of failure?</text></item><item><author>kiwih</author><text>&gt; Until the end of 2017, Guantanamo detainees were allowed to take their art with them when they were released, or give it to their lawyers to take out.<p>&gt; The artists could bring their work to meetings with their lawyers, who would submit it along with their meeting notes to a &quot;privilege team&quot;, which assesses everything leaving Guantanamo for classified material or national security issues.<p>...<p>&gt; Then in late 2017, under the Trump administration, it became clear that art was no longer being allowed out. Like lots of things in the world of Guantanamo, there was no official notification to the lawyers, no memo. Artwork was all of a sudden simply bounced back from the privilege team to the detainees.<p>...<p>&gt; Keeping his art in Guantanamo would be &quot;the same as keeping me here&quot;, Qasim said.<p>&gt; &quot;The art I made is me,&quot; he said. &quot;If they keep my art here, my soul will stay here.&quot;<p>Sometimes it really does seem that &quot;the cruelty is the point&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rexpop</author><text>Haven&#x27;t you encountered &quot;The Banality of Evil,&quot; yet? It doesn&#x27;t take &quot;sick fucks&quot; to operate a detainment facility and&#x2F;or concentration camp. The staff at these institutions are simply operating in accordance with handed-down procedure designed in abstract by remote administrators.</text></comment> | <story><title>The sudden silencing of Guantanamo's artists</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62399826</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>erdos4d</author><text>&gt; Sometimes it really does seem that &quot;the cruelty is the point&quot;.<p>This extends very far beyond Guantanamo. I really wonder where all these sick fucks come from. I don&#x27;t remember much of a psycho vibe from classmates or work colleagues. Yet the US makes them in sufficient quantity that they seem to pop up wherever authority is. Prisons, police, military, they all seem to have endless human garbage that enjoys being cruel if they can. How has this country produced these &quot;people&quot; and why do they achieve positions of power instead of failure?</text></item><item><author>kiwih</author><text>&gt; Until the end of 2017, Guantanamo detainees were allowed to take their art with them when they were released, or give it to their lawyers to take out.<p>&gt; The artists could bring their work to meetings with their lawyers, who would submit it along with their meeting notes to a &quot;privilege team&quot;, which assesses everything leaving Guantanamo for classified material or national security issues.<p>...<p>&gt; Then in late 2017, under the Trump administration, it became clear that art was no longer being allowed out. Like lots of things in the world of Guantanamo, there was no official notification to the lawyers, no memo. Artwork was all of a sudden simply bounced back from the privilege team to the detainees.<p>...<p>&gt; Keeping his art in Guantanamo would be &quot;the same as keeping me here&quot;, Qasim said.<p>&gt; &quot;The art I made is me,&quot; he said. &quot;If they keep my art here, my soul will stay here.&quot;<p>Sometimes it really does seem that &quot;the cruelty is the point&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swatcoder</author><text>Well, one answer would be that there’s no need for a “psycho vibe” on the road to heartless acts. It can look a lot more like complacency.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Eichmann_in_Jerusalem#Banality_of_evil" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Eichmann_in_Jerusalem#Banali...</a></text></comment> |
2,275,583 | 2,275,537 | 1 | 3 | 2,275,413 | train | <story><title>The Redis Manifesto</title><url>http://antirez.com/post/redis-manifesto.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bobz</author><text><i>We optimize for joy. We believe writing code is a lot of hard work, and the only way it can be worth is by enjoying it. When there is no longer joy in writing code, the best thing to do is stop. To prevent this, we'll avoid taking paths that will make Redis less of a joy to develop.</i><p>Love this as a priority, and not just as a coder, but as anyone involved in building software. I've noticed an extremely high correlation with how enjoyable a code base is to work on, and how easily I get into The Zone on that project. Hopefully I don't need to elaborate on the correlation between The Zone and developing a kick ass product in record time.<p>As for the meaning of enjoyable, well... hire great developers, <i>listen to them</i> when they speak, and make having a great, well designed, low code debt code base a priority whenever possible.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Redis Manifesto</title><url>http://antirez.com/post/redis-manifesto.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tluyben2</author><text>Great stuff. We love Redis and I've always been impressed with the quality of the software (and readability of the code). This manifesto makes sense in that context. I like 'Redis is a data structure server' better than what point #1 says now.</text></comment> |
22,187,308 | 22,187,448 | 1 | 2 | 22,186,569 | train | <story><title>Home Price-to-Income Ratios</title><url>https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/home-price-income-ratios</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>OJFord</author><text>Is property ownership a basic necessity though?<p>Or is its prevalence as an ideal a product of a burgeoning middle class through the last century?<p>I understand it&#x27;s not even so common (or common as a goal) now in continental Europe, they think it&#x27;s some silly English thing to care so much about home ownership.</text></item><item><author>Jaygles</author><text>I almost don&#x27;t want to buy property as a protest to the horrible policies we have regarding basic necessities. Why should property owners be entitled to a major portion of my productivity&#x2F;success? I&#x27;ll rent the cheapest apartment I can find until the next housing crash or we have some sensible policy put through that negates the investment aspect of housing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JimmyAustin</author><text>Australian tax law is <i>incredibly</i> geared towards home ownership, and the culture of owning your home is very, very strong. See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Australian_Dream" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Australian_Dream</a>.<p>Personally, most of the people in my age cohort (mid 20s) who&#x27;ve bought homes, have bought in areas considerably further away from the city than they were raised.</text></comment> | <story><title>Home Price-to-Income Ratios</title><url>https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/home-price-income-ratios</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>OJFord</author><text>Is property ownership a basic necessity though?<p>Or is its prevalence as an ideal a product of a burgeoning middle class through the last century?<p>I understand it&#x27;s not even so common (or common as a goal) now in continental Europe, they think it&#x27;s some silly English thing to care so much about home ownership.</text></item><item><author>Jaygles</author><text>I almost don&#x27;t want to buy property as a protest to the horrible policies we have regarding basic necessities. Why should property owners be entitled to a major portion of my productivity&#x2F;success? I&#x27;ll rent the cheapest apartment I can find until the next housing crash or we have some sensible policy put through that negates the investment aspect of housing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arebop</author><text>It is a basic necessity to have physical space in which to exist. Property ownership of course isn&#x27;t strictly necessary; renting is a fine way to satisfy this need. But how can rent prices remain very far below the price to own?<p>In prior generations, rent was a way to express a preference about longterm vs. short term occupation of a given space, or it was a way for people with relatively little credit or capital to get access to space. But it seems impossible for purchase prices to perpetually outpace rent prices, and it is unsettling to imagine the fraction of the economy dedicated to land ownership growing perpetually.</text></comment> |
3,685,601 | 3,684,891 | 1 | 3 | 3,683,987 | train | <story><title>Kara Is Self-Aware</title><url>http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/03/kara-quantic-dream/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mindstab</author><text>Did anyone else find the whole scene unrealistic and creepy in the not good way.<p>How do such simple assembly errors give rise to self consciousness in the program seconds after turn on, compared to slave mode unconsciousness that was desired and usually occurred?<p>And the whole power play dynamic, geeky lazy sounding guy, desperate sex bot about to be erased. The whole unrealistic setup feels uncomfortably like some male sex fantasy... save the self aware sexbot's life, then the sex with her isn't guilty because she's aware and her consent means something? But the power balance is so off, he controls her life, she's... grateful? That's not a good start. And she'll be at this disadvantage everywhere. Anyone could turn her in. She's extremely vulnerable in this world apparently. She has no rights. I guess seeing conscious life forms with as much rights as my toaster doesn't thrill me. Especially when they are clearly sexualized as such<p>Would anyone else have an easier time sharing my creepiness if:
- the robot had been a little boy for sex purposes?<p>I found the dynamic unlikely and if we reach a world where we can accidentally give AI consciousness and we still haven't gotten the artificial civil rights movement off the ground...
Ooph.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rcthompson</author><text>Well, the story concept isn't exactly original. Accidentally self-aware robots on the run from the law (or in this case, soon to be on the run) are a pretty common Sci-Fi staple, and the explanation for how it happens is rarely much more plausible than "oops, someone pushed the 'become sentient' button" or "oops, static electricity reconfigured the circuits to become sentient".<p>In any case, the specific script employed in the demo is designed to demonstrate a wide range of emotions in a short span of time, including happiness, wonderment, surprise, disappointment, terror, pleading, and gratefulness, so that the game engine can show off its ability to accurately portray all of these emotions in real-time rendering. To get such a wide emotional range in a short time, you pretty much have to throw in something traumatic.<p>So yes, it's an unrealistic scenario. It's not supposed to be plausible. Any scenario with an accidentally self-aware AI is almost guaranteed to be unrealistic. And yes, it's creepy, especially once she explicitly mentions her sexual submissiveness. But it accomplishes the goal of being a tech demo for rendering human (or human-like) emotions in real-time on current technology. In doing so, it very intentionally employs an unoriginal storyline that more or less recycles the current pop-culture view of artificially intelligent AI's, because the story is really just an excuse to demonstrate real-time rendered emotions. If you're looking for moral and ethical progressiveness, a tech demo may be the wrong place to look.</text></comment> | <story><title>Kara Is Self-Aware</title><url>http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/03/kara-quantic-dream/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mindstab</author><text>Did anyone else find the whole scene unrealistic and creepy in the not good way.<p>How do such simple assembly errors give rise to self consciousness in the program seconds after turn on, compared to slave mode unconsciousness that was desired and usually occurred?<p>And the whole power play dynamic, geeky lazy sounding guy, desperate sex bot about to be erased. The whole unrealistic setup feels uncomfortably like some male sex fantasy... save the self aware sexbot's life, then the sex with her isn't guilty because she's aware and her consent means something? But the power balance is so off, he controls her life, she's... grateful? That's not a good start. And she'll be at this disadvantage everywhere. Anyone could turn her in. She's extremely vulnerable in this world apparently. She has no rights. I guess seeing conscious life forms with as much rights as my toaster doesn't thrill me. Especially when they are clearly sexualized as such<p>Would anyone else have an easier time sharing my creepiness if:
- the robot had been a little boy for sex purposes?<p>I found the dynamic unlikely and if we reach a world where we can accidentally give AI consciousness and we still haven't gotten the artificial civil rights movement off the ground...
Ooph.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>samd</author><text>You weren't the only one who found it awkward and uncomfortable. The bit about sex set the tone for the rest of the piece. The operator calling her 'honey' certainly didn't help.<p>Even so the piece was powerful. I empathized with Kara and it got me thinking about AI and our future. The male-sex fantasy stuff just distracted from the important parts about consciousness, emotion, and rights. It would've been an even more powerful piece had it been more tasteful.</text></comment> |
19,752,692 | 19,752,775 | 1 | 2 | 19,752,376 | train | <story><title>KaiOS takes on the Apple-Android mobile duopoly</title><url>https://www.economist.com/business/2019/04/27/kaios-takes-on-the-apple-android-mobile-duopoly</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>_bxg1</author><text>A non-paywall writeup:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.androidpolice.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;03&#x2F;27&#x2F;kaios-may-succeed-where-android-go-edition-has-failed&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.androidpolice.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;03&#x2F;27&#x2F;kaios-may-succeed-w...</a><p>&quot;It also has received significant investment from Google, and in most cases, Assistant and other Google applications are preinstalled.&quot;<p>Great; so it&#x27;s not an indie up-and-comer, so much as Google taking a sideways approach to capture emerging markets.</text></comment> | <story><title>KaiOS takes on the Apple-Android mobile duopoly</title><url>https://www.economist.com/business/2019/04/27/kaios-takes-on-the-apple-android-mobile-duopoly</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>djsumdog</author><text>I want to try out&#x2F;run KDE Plasma Mobile, but so far the only supporter devices are the Nexus 5 (which you can get new-old stock off eBay for &lt;$100) and potentially the Purism 5 when it comes out.<p>Hopefully PostmarketOSs work can bring it to more devices.<p>Can any of these KaiOS devices be purchases cheaply in the US? I wonder if the company has added telemetry or other spying related stuff on top of the old FirefoxOS base. Even if they have, it will be good to have another option if it becomes more popular.</text></comment> |
29,719,537 | 29,718,989 | 1 | 2 | 29,718,845 | train | <story><title>New Log4j2 vulnerability</title><url>https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-44832</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>oars</author><text>Please update the title to indicate this is a low severity CVE and prevent managers around the world from panicking and summoning their developers and engineers back at work during this shut down period.<p>To be honest, I panicked reading this title when I opened HN this evening, but reading the CVE entry tells me this isn&#x27;t anywhere close to as serious as CVE-44228.<p>You have a responsibility to not just share information on HN, but to share it in an accurate and well thought manner.</text></comment> | <story><title>New Log4j2 vulnerability</title><url>https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-44832</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rst</author><text>The threat here is that &quot;an attacker with permission to modify the logging configuration file can construct a malicious configuration&quot;. If the attacker can modify server config files, this particular log4j fixup is likely to still leave you with nasty problems.</text></comment> |
9,994,550 | 9,994,592 | 1 | 2 | 9,994,182 | train | <story><title>GitXiv: Collaborative Open Computer Science</title><url>http://gitxiv.com/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>samim</author><text>You can read more about GitXiv here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@samim&#x2F;gitxiv-collaborative-open-computer-science-e5fea734cd45" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@samim&#x2F;gitxiv-collaborative-open-computer...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>GitXiv: Collaborative Open Computer Science</title><url>http://gitxiv.com/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jessriedel</author><text>Previous submission (by me) on related issues...and converging on a similar portmateau:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9415985" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9415985</a></text></comment> |
30,479,667 | 30,479,706 | 1 | 3 | 30,478,657 | train | <story><title>Anonymous takes down websites of Defense Ministry, RT and Kremlin</title><url>https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/security/2022/02/anonymous-takes-down-websites-defense-ministry-rt-and-kremlin</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hughrr</author><text>This is excellent. If you look elsewhere on the Internet you will find that most of the Russian tank crews and troops were told that they were doing an exercise and kept completely isolated &quot;on mission&quot; for a couple of months. Then they get orders to proceed into Ukraine, probably spun without any collateral information or lies. At this point under DDoS their usual news sources are GONE. That means no propaganda available from the Russian government. The only sources available to them, if they get access to them, are saying that they&#x27;re the bad guys and that is soul crushingly demotivating when you don&#x27;t know why you are where you are.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tablespoon</author><text>&gt; If you look elsewhere on the Internet you will find that most of the Russian tank crews and troops were told that they were doing an exercise and kept completely isolated &quot;on mission&quot; for a couple of months....At this point under DDoS their usual news sources are GONE.<p>Really? I though RT was part of Russia&#x27;s foreign propaganda effort, so I wouldn&#x27;t expect it to have much effect on domestic news consumption. IIRC, actually Russians get their news from domestic outlets like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Russia-1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Russia-1</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Channel_One_Russia" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Channel_One_Russia</a>.<p>This is good news, but mainly because it interferes with Russia&#x27;s foreign propaganda operations around this attack.</text></comment> | <story><title>Anonymous takes down websites of Defense Ministry, RT and Kremlin</title><url>https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/security/2022/02/anonymous-takes-down-websites-defense-ministry-rt-and-kremlin</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hughrr</author><text>This is excellent. If you look elsewhere on the Internet you will find that most of the Russian tank crews and troops were told that they were doing an exercise and kept completely isolated &quot;on mission&quot; for a couple of months. Then they get orders to proceed into Ukraine, probably spun without any collateral information or lies. At this point under DDoS their usual news sources are GONE. That means no propaganda available from the Russian government. The only sources available to them, if they get access to them, are saying that they&#x27;re the bad guys and that is soul crushingly demotivating when you don&#x27;t know why you are where you are.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>poisonarena</author><text>No, Russians use telegram groups for this kind of thing, and if they are not savvy they will use VK</text></comment> |
3,153,863 | 3,153,801 | 1 | 2 | 3,153,227 | train | <story><title>Nest - The Learning Thermostat</title><url>http://www.nest.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brk</author><text>This is interesting. I've been involved in home automation for about 15 years now, and HVAC controls are one of the top things to control in most systens.<p>Occupancy sensing is also extremely difficult to do passively in any kind of reliable scenario, especially when your occupancy sensor is limited to a single location in the house.<p>I've frequently seen two broad categories around regulating HVAC systems:
1) People keep a fairly regular schedule, and a standard 7-day programmable thermostat works sufficiently.<p>2) People keep a very non-regular schedule, and a standard programmable thermostat doesn't work, nor is there any inferable pattern to their home/away schedule.<p>In case #2, it is usually more beneficial to get home/away status from something with a more direct output eg: a burglar alarm system, vehicle presence detectors in the garage (photobeams), status of lights, etc.<p>I'll be very curious to see what the real-world reactions are to the Nest thermostat. If they can come up with some truly creative solutions it could be a really cool device.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iramiller</author><text>Why not setup a system that detects the presence of your Bluetooth phone? Perhaps even look for your phone on the wireless network if a sensitive detector is not sufficient?<p>It would not be a stretch at that point to have a simple website served from the device that let you see the history and choose some basic night/day setback points.<p>It takes some time to raise/lower the temperature of the house depending on the outside temperature so learning the rate at which the house warms/cools is required to reach the desired set point at the requested time. Including the local weather forecast as a sensor and being able to see a graph of temps and system demand cycles would be really nice.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nest - The Learning Thermostat</title><url>http://www.nest.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brk</author><text>This is interesting. I've been involved in home automation for about 15 years now, and HVAC controls are one of the top things to control in most systens.<p>Occupancy sensing is also extremely difficult to do passively in any kind of reliable scenario, especially when your occupancy sensor is limited to a single location in the house.<p>I've frequently seen two broad categories around regulating HVAC systems:
1) People keep a fairly regular schedule, and a standard 7-day programmable thermostat works sufficiently.<p>2) People keep a very non-regular schedule, and a standard programmable thermostat doesn't work, nor is there any inferable pattern to their home/away schedule.<p>In case #2, it is usually more beneficial to get home/away status from something with a more direct output eg: a burglar alarm system, vehicle presence detectors in the garage (photobeams), status of lights, etc.<p>I'll be very curious to see what the real-world reactions are to the Nest thermostat. If they can come up with some truly creative solutions it could be a really cool device.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_delirium</author><text>From what's on the website it looks like they're trying to learn largely from user feedback of the "I wanted it cooler/hotter" variety. Agree that this will be a problem in case #2, without good occupancy sensing, because the prediction problem is inherently impossible to do well with only time-of-day-and-week if there isn't much regularity.<p>I would guess the real target audience is people who fall into #1 but never get around to programming their thermostat, and maybe don't even have an accurate self-assessment of their home/away or sleep/wake patterns. In particularly warm or cold climates this might also include people who make wrong guesses about latency, e.g. how early before they return the heater needs to kick on for it to be comfortable by the time they get home. I could see it being useful in that case: there's a regular enough pattern to infer a reliable heating/cooling schedule, but the person doesn't want to, or isn't able to manually program that pattern.</text></comment> |
38,013,481 | 38,013,653 | 1 | 2 | 38,012,008 | train | <story><title>First malaria vaccine reduces early childhood mortality</title><url>https://www.science.org/content/article/first-malaria-vaccine-slashes-early-childhood-deaths</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BurningFrog</author><text>One way to describe Africa&#x27;s development in this era is that they&#x27;re economically 100 years behind the rich world, but catching up 3 years per year.<p>In that environment, you&#x27;d expect child mortality to go down year by year, regardless of this vaccine.<p>Maybe the study corrects for that, but the complete absence of details in this report isn&#x27;t promising.</text></item><item><author>mlyle</author><text>A 13% reduction in all-cause mortality is <i>huge</i>. There are other methodological&#x2F;reliability concerns, but malaria isn&#x27;t near 100% of death, even among children.</text></item><item><author>lopis</author><text>Weirdly, there&#x27;s only a link to the old paper [0] that initially reported only on severe malaria cases and the complications. I can&#x27;t find the source of the reduction in deaths.<p>But regardless, I found &quot;slashing&quot; to be a bit exaggerated when the fatality reduction was 13% in a small pilot program. Very promising, but sensationalistic. I guess when you&#x27;re up against anti-vax fear mongering, you need to fight fire with fire.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;25913272&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;25913272&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>regularfry</author><text>It&#x27;s not regardless of the vaccine, though. You&#x27;d expect child mortality to go down year by year <i>because of things like that</i>. There used to be malaria in the UK, I&#x27;m sure child mortality dropped when it died off here too.</text></comment> | <story><title>First malaria vaccine reduces early childhood mortality</title><url>https://www.science.org/content/article/first-malaria-vaccine-slashes-early-childhood-deaths</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BurningFrog</author><text>One way to describe Africa&#x27;s development in this era is that they&#x27;re economically 100 years behind the rich world, but catching up 3 years per year.<p>In that environment, you&#x27;d expect child mortality to go down year by year, regardless of this vaccine.<p>Maybe the study corrects for that, but the complete absence of details in this report isn&#x27;t promising.</text></item><item><author>mlyle</author><text>A 13% reduction in all-cause mortality is <i>huge</i>. There are other methodological&#x2F;reliability concerns, but malaria isn&#x27;t near 100% of death, even among children.</text></item><item><author>lopis</author><text>Weirdly, there&#x27;s only a link to the old paper [0] that initially reported only on severe malaria cases and the complications. I can&#x27;t find the source of the reduction in deaths.<p>But regardless, I found &quot;slashing&quot; to be a bit exaggerated when the fatality reduction was 13% in a small pilot program. Very promising, but sensationalistic. I guess when you&#x27;re up against anti-vax fear mongering, you need to fight fire with fire.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;25913272&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;25913272&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mlyle</author><text>&gt; but the complete absence of details in this report isn&#x27;t promising.<p>We don&#x27;t have the actual report yet: just reporting on it being presented at a conference. I have not found it in indexes yet, but hopefully soon.<p>&gt; Maybe the study corrects for that<p>Yes: the article we&#x27;re reading makes it clear that it&#x27;s comparing like-communities where there was and was not vaccine rollout, not looking at time series data.</text></comment> |
15,335,117 | 15,335,084 | 1 | 2 | 15,334,548 | train | <story><title>Russia used Facebook ads to exploit divisions over Black Lives Matter, Muslims</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/russian-operatives-used-facebook-ads-to-exploit-divisions-over-black-political-activism-and-muslims/2017/09/25/4a011242-a21b-11e7-ade1-76d061d56efa_story.html?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.946de0b7f4d4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PathToHumble</author><text>This started as &quot;Russia hacked the election&quot; and now we are talking about Russia taking out ads in support of BLM claiming its a psyop? At what point do people just accept the fact that Trump won a democratic election, racists voting or not.<p>The actual campaigns took out billions of $ in ads and campaign ads are never honest, accurate or logical. Who cares about $100k in Russian ads?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>beager</author><text>Those are not the same things. There is an unfolding story about employment of paid and farmed action on social platforms by Russia to influence the election, but also an unfolding story about attempts to infiltrate state voting systems and voter rolls. The nexus of the two is in how users were targeted for the former using data potentially taken from the latter.<p>It was pretty clear, even for the sensationalized media and sensationalizable public, that Russia did not &quot;hack&quot; the election and that no votes were altered, etc. But now it turns out, hey, there were actually successful penetrations of state voting systems, and at present we are not sure of the extent.<p>So while the initial &quot;Russia hacked the US election&quot; line was quickly redrawn to be precise about what we knew, it turns out now that there&#x27;s a reasonable possibility that Russia actually did hack our election. To what extent or effect? Yet unknown.</text></comment> | <story><title>Russia used Facebook ads to exploit divisions over Black Lives Matter, Muslims</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/russian-operatives-used-facebook-ads-to-exploit-divisions-over-black-political-activism-and-muslims/2017/09/25/4a011242-a21b-11e7-ade1-76d061d56efa_story.html?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.946de0b7f4d4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PathToHumble</author><text>This started as &quot;Russia hacked the election&quot; and now we are talking about Russia taking out ads in support of BLM claiming its a psyop? At what point do people just accept the fact that Trump won a democratic election, racists voting or not.<p>The actual campaigns took out billions of $ in ads and campaign ads are never honest, accurate or logical. Who cares about $100k in Russian ads?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hackinthebochs</author><text>&gt;This started as &quot;Russia hacked the election&quot; and now we are talking about<p>I guess you missed the news about their attempted and successful intrusions into state election databases?</text></comment> |
23,124,785 | 23,125,011 | 1 | 2 | 23,121,522 | train | <story><title>James Damore and three others end Google suit</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-09/ex-google-engineer-who-became-right-wing-hero-quietly-ends-suit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>StephenAmar</author><text>Always assume that what you say could be on the front page of the New York Times.</text></item><item><author>pjc50</author><text>.. so you&#x27;d destroy their life instead?</text></item><item><author>sacks2k</author><text>He never released anything to the public. Someone who didn&#x27;t like his political views leaked it to Twitter and the press.<p>If I were him, I would have personally sued the person that leaked the content and continued the fight until they had no money left. They really need to be taught a lesson that it&#x27;s not okay to do something like this with the intention of destroying a person&#x27;s life.</text></item><item><author>mabbo</author><text>Damore committed the ultimate sin in the corporate world- he caused a huge PR mess. Let&#x27;s set aside the content of his memo (I personally don&#x27;t agree with what he said) and just appreciate that he made a mess.<p>As has been said before, if your CEO learns your name for the same reason he has to end his vacation early, you probably should start polishing up your resume.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>banads</author><text>And also assume anything you say can&#x2F;will be purposefully taken out of context and twisted in order to create rage click bait to satisfy someone&#x27;s ideological crusade, or to generate revenue for a dying industry which is incentivized to cater to the lowest common denominator just to survive.</text></comment> | <story><title>James Damore and three others end Google suit</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-09/ex-google-engineer-who-became-right-wing-hero-quietly-ends-suit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>StephenAmar</author><text>Always assume that what you say could be on the front page of the New York Times.</text></item><item><author>pjc50</author><text>.. so you&#x27;d destroy their life instead?</text></item><item><author>sacks2k</author><text>He never released anything to the public. Someone who didn&#x27;t like his political views leaked it to Twitter and the press.<p>If I were him, I would have personally sued the person that leaked the content and continued the fight until they had no money left. They really need to be taught a lesson that it&#x27;s not okay to do something like this with the intention of destroying a person&#x27;s life.</text></item><item><author>mabbo</author><text>Damore committed the ultimate sin in the corporate world- he caused a huge PR mess. Let&#x27;s set aside the content of his memo (I personally don&#x27;t agree with what he said) and just appreciate that he made a mess.<p>As has been said before, if your CEO learns your name for the same reason he has to end his vacation early, you probably should start polishing up your resume.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>humanrebar</author><text>I&#x27;ll point out that this aphorism concedes that certain categories of interesting discussion are not possible, and it&#x27;s a little neutral about that prospect for my taste.<p>It also concedes that &quot;The New York Times&quot; cannot be trusted to value that kind of discourse more than gotcha narrative chasing.</text></comment> |
17,556,078 | 17,555,072 | 1 | 2 | 17,554,902 | train | <story><title>MacBook Pro with i9 chip is throttled due to thermal issues, claims YouTuber</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2018/07/17/core-i9-chip-macbook-pro-throttling/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lebrad</author><text>Dave Lee&#x27;s youtube video is a withering takedown, presented dispassionately.<p>His argument is such a slam dunk that the article concludes with stunned disbelief, speculating that maybe there&#x27;s &quot;something wrong with the MacBook Pro with Core i9 chip that Lee received&quot;.<p>Yes there&#x27;s something wrong with it, that was the exact point of his video. Do people really think he just got a lemon?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arthurfm</author><text>Quinn Nelson (a.k.a. Snazzy Labs) recently did a couple of videos where he replaced the stock thermal paste on a 2017 MacBook Pro with a liquid metal thermal paste [1] and then 3 months later with a standard thermal paste [2].<p>With the liquid metal paste the CPU temps dropped 10°C, ran 200MHz faster and the MacBook Pro didn&#x27;t thermal throttle. The standard thermal paste also saw a 7-10% improvement in thermals compared to Apple&#x27;s paste.<p>I wonder if replacing the paste with a better one would help with the latest i9 MacBook Pro?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=iw4gqfrBN4c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=iw4gqfrBN4c</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=JNoZNzOQpVw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=JNoZNzOQpVw</a></text></comment> | <story><title>MacBook Pro with i9 chip is throttled due to thermal issues, claims YouTuber</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2018/07/17/core-i9-chip-macbook-pro-throttling/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lebrad</author><text>Dave Lee&#x27;s youtube video is a withering takedown, presented dispassionately.<p>His argument is such a slam dunk that the article concludes with stunned disbelief, speculating that maybe there&#x27;s &quot;something wrong with the MacBook Pro with Core i9 chip that Lee received&quot;.<p>Yes there&#x27;s something wrong with it, that was the exact point of his video. Do people really think he just got a lemon?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>slantyyz</author><text>In fairness, Lee criticized the Dell XPS 15&#x27;s thermals in a video a couple of days ago. Of course, he also posted a video last week about how he was starting to hate Apple products.<p>If you watch a lot of his videos, you&#x27;ll notice that he almost always talks about thermals, so it&#x27;s not surprising to see him focus on that aspect of the MBP.</text></comment> |
26,901,079 | 26,901,032 | 1 | 3 | 26,900,700 | train | <story><title>The real reason to end the death penalty</title><url>http://paulgraham.com/real.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rswail</author><text>This &quot;debate&quot; has been over in all other nations that the US likes to be compared for years.<p>It is similar to the &quot;tough on crime&quot; incarceration &quot;debate&quot; in the US, where perverse incentives and political expediency has led to the US being the highest-per-capita incarcerator in the world.<p>Framing the death penalty debate around &quot;innocent people get killed&quot; will not change the partisan&#x2F;class perceptions.<p>The US criminal justice system requires root-and-branch reform, starting with issues around policing, cash bail, school-to-prison pipelines, and unfair drug and &quot;victimless&quot; crimes.<p>Australia has been going through a similar debate and is at a similar point, without the death penalty, but dealing with the systemic racism and other class related issues.</text></item><item><author>tompccs</author><text>I don&#x27;t mean to pick on you specifically, but this sort of remark is why the left and intellectuals more widely fail at winning politically. Rather than use arguments that are amenable even to people who disagree on the fundamentals, you would rather retain the moral high-ground by refusing even to debate on their terms, thereby failing to actually influence policy (in this case a matter of life and death).<p>If the death penalty debate were framed more around &quot;innocent people get killed&quot; and less around more nebulous value-judgement based arguments (which, though valid, divide pretty neatly along partisan and class lines), perhaps the death penalty in the US would have gone long ago.</text></item><item><author>wideareanetwork</author><text>I think no other justification is needed to end the death penalty than “it’s inhuman and barbaric”.<p>Even discussing other factors arguments and considerations dilutes the core point that’s it’s straight up wrong unethical and inhuman to murder others in the name of the law.<p>Paul Graham has a valid point, but if you say “it’s wrong cause it’s inaccurate”, implies it’s right if it’s accurate. And it’s not... the death penalty is wrong no matter be it accurate or inaccurate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcims</author><text>&gt;Framing the death penalty debate around &quot;innocent people get killed&quot; will not change the partisan&#x2F;class perceptions.<p>I don&#x27;t agree. All of these moral castigations about it being &#x27;inhumane&#x27; or &#x27;barbaric&#x27; don&#x27;t strike me as rational or compelling in the least. I think the idea is humane in the context of those impacted by the crimes in question and I don&#x27;t see how putting a person in a box for the remainder of their life is qualitatively any less barbaric.<p>I don&#x27;t know where pg lands politically but I&#x27;d say I&#x27;m probably right of center on the American spectrum and for me there are only two persuasive arguments that we should abolish the death penalty. One is that we make mistakes in who gets it, per TFA, and the other is that it&#x27;s difficult to concretely describe the qualifications of who should get it, risking expansion at the whim of the populace. In other words I absolutely believe there are just executions, I&#x27;m just not entirely sure we can create a system to do it justly.</text></comment> | <story><title>The real reason to end the death penalty</title><url>http://paulgraham.com/real.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rswail</author><text>This &quot;debate&quot; has been over in all other nations that the US likes to be compared for years.<p>It is similar to the &quot;tough on crime&quot; incarceration &quot;debate&quot; in the US, where perverse incentives and political expediency has led to the US being the highest-per-capita incarcerator in the world.<p>Framing the death penalty debate around &quot;innocent people get killed&quot; will not change the partisan&#x2F;class perceptions.<p>The US criminal justice system requires root-and-branch reform, starting with issues around policing, cash bail, school-to-prison pipelines, and unfair drug and &quot;victimless&quot; crimes.<p>Australia has been going through a similar debate and is at a similar point, without the death penalty, but dealing with the systemic racism and other class related issues.</text></item><item><author>tompccs</author><text>I don&#x27;t mean to pick on you specifically, but this sort of remark is why the left and intellectuals more widely fail at winning politically. Rather than use arguments that are amenable even to people who disagree on the fundamentals, you would rather retain the moral high-ground by refusing even to debate on their terms, thereby failing to actually influence policy (in this case a matter of life and death).<p>If the death penalty debate were framed more around &quot;innocent people get killed&quot; and less around more nebulous value-judgement based arguments (which, though valid, divide pretty neatly along partisan and class lines), perhaps the death penalty in the US would have gone long ago.</text></item><item><author>wideareanetwork</author><text>I think no other justification is needed to end the death penalty than “it’s inhuman and barbaric”.<p>Even discussing other factors arguments and considerations dilutes the core point that’s it’s straight up wrong unethical and inhuman to murder others in the name of the law.<p>Paul Graham has a valid point, but if you say “it’s wrong cause it’s inaccurate”, implies it’s right if it’s accurate. And it’s not... the death penalty is wrong no matter be it accurate or inaccurate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xdennis</author><text>Just because it&#x27;s banned doesn&#x27;t mean the debate is over: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;1.bp.blogspot.com&#x2F;-BytxHbenQyQ&#x2F;V_O2hw4mUXI&#x2F;AAAAAAAA8Ns&#x2F;qXAu6yAGvu87pfqHnbiGgn9dWGvkBEWzgCLcB&#x2F;s1600&#x2F;penalty.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;1.bp.blogspot.com&#x2F;-BytxHbenQyQ&#x2F;V_O2hw4mUXI&#x2F;AAAAAAAA8...</a><p>Some western countries have respectably high numbers: France 50%, UK 48%, Holland 42%.<p>Not that the USA wants to be compared to us, but here in Romania it&#x27;s at 91% and we still don&#x27;t have it. (I suspect that romantic notions of Vlad the Impaler&#x27;s time has something to do with the percentage.)</text></comment> |
6,985,143 | 6,985,210 | 1 | 2 | 6,984,944 | train | <story><title>Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human mortality rates</title><url>http://gravityandlevity.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/your-body-wasnt-built-to-last-a-lesson-from-human-mortality-rates/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>neals</author><text>I&#x27;d hate to die, for so many different reasons. Why can&#x27;t we all just keep on living? Any change of immortality in the coming 60-odd years? Or is that just not far enough into the future? Are we doomed to die?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eli_gottlieb</author><text>Here is why you&#x27;re being downvoted: human longevity is an extremely difficult, multifaceted problem. Research doctors are not even trying to slay a dragon but a <i>hydra</i>: combat one way to die of old age and another one pops up.<p>Lastly, attempting to forecast &quot;chance of immortality in the coming 60-odd years&quot; is asking a question that relies for its answer on extremely controversial ideas. Particularly, attempting to answer requires us to forecast whether the rate of advancement in ageing research is speeding up or slowing down. This is <i>hard</i>, and can be affected by a bunch of different factors: funding breakdown in non-corporate research, Great Stagnation Hypothesis, breakdown in public acceptance of science, economic decline in some places, economic growth in some places, public uptake of anti-aging ideologies, attitudes towards the retirement crisis we&#x27;re already facing even before anti-aging research comes in. Oh, and then we face the issue of whether we can or are improving our quality of scientific findings through better research training or data science&#x2F;machine learning techniques. And then we get to the <i>really</i> out-there stuff &quot;immortalists&quot; are often secretly thinking of and can&#x27;t stop yacking about: the chance that we manage to create Friendly Artificial Intelligence and trigger a Singularity, thus rendering us all immortal utopian transhumans before many of us on this board even hit retirement age.<p>TL;DR: I have no bloody idea, but I still regard contributing to my Roth IRA as a pretty sensible move.<p>EDIT: The one trend I&#x27;m willing to say I observe is that average life expectancy is a fairly good tracker of social and economic development, even once you&#x27;ve gotten over the infant-mortality hump. If you want to be immortal, you should encourage society to act in ways that result in longer average lifespans and also to fund anti-ageing research in hopes of achieving the fabled &quot;ageing escape horizon&quot; where medical science advances faster than you die.</text></comment> | <story><title>Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human mortality rates</title><url>http://gravityandlevity.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/your-body-wasnt-built-to-last-a-lesson-from-human-mortality-rates/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>neals</author><text>I&#x27;d hate to die, for so many different reasons. Why can&#x27;t we all just keep on living? Any change of immortality in the coming 60-odd years? Or is that just not far enough into the future? Are we doomed to die?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Hermel</author><text>The question really is: what aspect of you do you want to preserve? You will most certainly change over the years. <i>You now</i> will be very different from <i>you in 100 years</i>. Your immortal you in 500 years might be as different from your current you as your grandchildren. Do you really care more about your own existence in 500 years than about the existence of your grandchildren in 100 years?<p>The solution to immortality is to embrace the idea that you won&#x27;t stay the same anyway and that instead of caring so much about your host body, it might be more efficient to preserve what you value in other forms: e.g. your genome and values in your children or your ideas in books. If you write down your thoughts into a book today, these thoughts are more likely to be preserved for 500 years than if you were immortal and relied on your memory.</text></comment> |
1,388,735 | 1,388,737 | 1 | 2 | 1,388,699 | train | <story><title>Microsoft says: IE6 is like 9 year old milk</title><url>http://www.microsoft.com/australia/technet/ie8milk/Default.aspx</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rythie</author><text>Their browser is too tied to the OS.<p>Why can't you have IE7+ on Windows 2000 or IE9 on Windows XP? the latest version of Firefox (3.6) works on both.<p>And, why can't you install multiple versions of IE on a computer?<p>I think these things are holding a number of the remaining people back from upgrading.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft says: IE6 is like 9 year old milk</title><url>http://www.microsoft.com/australia/technet/ie8milk/Default.aspx</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Vivtek</author><text>Now <i>that</i> is effective user education! Simple, amusing, to the point, and the text draws you right into understanding why upgrades are important. Somebody earned their money on that one.</text></comment> |
37,037,838 | 37,035,926 | 1 | 3 | 37,034,350 | train | <story><title>MIT Press: Open Access Materials</title><url>https://archive.org/details/mit_press_open_access?tab=collection</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>smelendez</author><text>Thank you for sharing this!<p>I recently really enjoyed Art + DIY Electronics (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;mit_press_book_9780262361576" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;mit_press_book_9780262361576</a>), which probably has a lot of relevance to the HN crowd and some great descriptions of projects like Laura Kikauka’s absurdist analog virtual reality suit Hairbrain 2000, pollution-hunting Feral Robotic Dogs adapted from secondhand toys by New York teens, and work by the Burning Man-adjacent Survival Research Laboratory.<p>Selling the American People (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;mit_press_book_9780262374248" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;mit_press_book_9780262374248</a>) was also a great history of what you might call proto adtech, including things like ad execs hyping what they could do with &#x27;60s computers, Sears running analytics on when to send customers new catalogs, and &#x27;90s dreams of buying fashion from TV sitcoms. I didn&#x27;t realize this one was free and actually bought the Kindle edition, which was well worth it.<p>Balkan Cyberia (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;mit_press_book_9780262373265" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;mit_press_book_9780262373265</a>) also looks fascinating for anyone interested in Eastern bloc computer history.</text></comment> | <story><title>MIT Press: Open Access Materials</title><url>https://archive.org/details/mit_press_open_access?tab=collection</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ssrc</author><text>It seems they don&#x27;t have all the books that are on MIT open access. I can&#x27;t find &quot;The Art of Prolog&quot;[1], for example. But maybe they are downloading only the ones with the &quot;free&quot; tag like &quot;Turtle Geometry&quot;[2] (Last time I looked at this one it was one pdf for each chapter).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mitpress.mit.edu&#x2F;9780262691635&#x2F;the-art-of-prolog&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mitpress.mit.edu&#x2F;9780262691635&#x2F;the-art-of-prolog&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;direct.mit.edu&#x2F;books&#x2F;oa-monograph&#x2F;4663&#x2F;Turtle-GeometryThe-Computer-as-a-Medium-for" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;direct.mit.edu&#x2F;books&#x2F;oa-monograph&#x2F;4663&#x2F;Turtle-Geomet...</a></text></comment> |
37,662,652 | 37,661,846 | 1 | 2 | 37,661,387 | train | <story><title>Yet another E-Ink weather display – but with Rust</title><url>https://harrystern.net/halldisplay.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eulers_secret</author><text>I&#x27;m a simple man, and did something similar but with bash+mosquitto+imagemagick running on a Kindle. That&#x27;s boring&#x2F;been done, but what I want to talk about is screen burn-in.<p>I&#x27;ve been displaying slight variations of the same image on an old Kidle paperwhite for a bit over 5 years! I&#x27;ve noticed <i>NO</i> burn-in at all. I&#x27;m doing partial updates every refresh (30 second refreshes), so the display will go 1+ years without a full refresh (~1 million partial refreshes a year). There&#x27;s some retention when I first work with it, but clearing the screen and showing a full-screen pattern is enough to remove that retention entirely.<p>Pretty impressive, and I am also impressed the old firmware stays attached to wifi for the whole time as well! Sometimes it can have trouble reconnecting (power outage, dog unplugged wifi, whatever), that&#x27;s when I&#x27;ll see if there&#x27;s burn-in, probably once a year(ish).</text></comment> | <story><title>Yet another E-Ink weather display – but with Rust</title><url>https://harrystern.net/halldisplay.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xd1936</author><text>I&#x27;m a simple man. I see an eInk IoT project on the front page, I upvote.<p>Very nice work! It&#x27;s beautiful.</text></comment> |
37,509,215 | 37,508,877 | 1 | 3 | 37,508,456 | train | <story><title>Public exposure to BPA exceeds acceptable health safety levels</title><url>https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/newsroom/news/public-exposure-to-bisphenol-a</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Workaccount2</author><text>A few things about BPA:<p>- It&#x27;s used to line aluminum cans to prevent reactions with the contents of the cans. Think soda cans.<p>- It&#x27;s the &quot;toner&quot; of thermal paper. Basically every modern receipt you get is a sheet of BPA dusted paper.<p>- The BPA alternatives are basically the same thing as BPA, similar in structure and function, and likely have the same negative health profile. However you get to proudly put &quot;BPA Free!&quot; on your product.</text></comment> | <story><title>Public exposure to BPA exceeds acceptable health safety levels</title><url>https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/newsroom/news/public-exposure-to-bisphenol-a</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chaostheory</author><text>This is also likely tied to the age population bomb<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.frontiersin.org&#x2F;articles&#x2F;10.3389&#x2F;fendo.2021.706532&#x2F;full" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.frontiersin.org&#x2F;articles&#x2F;10.3389&#x2F;fendo.2021.7065...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC5479690&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC5479690&#x2F;</a><p>There are plenty of papers with similar conclusions.<p>Endocrine disrupters aren’t limited to BPA. “BPA free” items often contain other endocrine disrupters like BPS. It’s almost impossible to avoid some form of it now. It’s in food packaging, paper receipts, clothes, and much more. That’s ignoring other classes of pollutants like PFAS which you can find on cookware, clothing, and even dental floss.<p>I predict that artificial insemination will likely become more the norm in the future<p>Edit: let’s pretend that we can magically remove these pollutants from all new products in every country starting now. That still won’t eliminate the problem because it’s still in the environment and animals have been ingesting it. there is also giant source of it in the middle of the Pacific</text></comment> |
21,997,968 | 21,995,832 | 1 | 3 | 21,993,208 | train | <story><title>Specification for the D Programming Language</title><url>https://dlang.org/spec/spec.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Neku42</author><text>This seems to be an increasingly growing niche where D is gaining popularity. I see more and more people turning to D where they would normally use python or R for adhoc data crunching</text></item><item><author>tastyminerals</author><text>I started reading about D couple of months ago after work. For me, it appeared to be easier than Scala for example which I use at work. Not only is it simpler, it is faster and I am not even talking about compile times. These features alone persuaded me to rewrite couple of Scala based data processing algorithms we use for our ML models to give it a try. What I really liked is that you don&#x27;t have to know all about the language to write perfomant code. Still keep wondering how does it get constantly overlooked.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chromatin</author><text>We are using D for high performance computational biology -- I brought a Go dev and a python dev both onboard with minimal learning curve. Even the powerful template metaprogramming seemed really easy for the team to pick up. I believe this is because it really has a nice design (compared with, say, C++, which I would never, ever use in general bioinformatics unless team had specific past expertise)</text></comment> | <story><title>Specification for the D Programming Language</title><url>https://dlang.org/spec/spec.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Neku42</author><text>This seems to be an increasingly growing niche where D is gaining popularity. I see more and more people turning to D where they would normally use python or R for adhoc data crunching</text></item><item><author>tastyminerals</author><text>I started reading about D couple of months ago after work. For me, it appeared to be easier than Scala for example which I use at work. Not only is it simpler, it is faster and I am not even talking about compile times. These features alone persuaded me to rewrite couple of Scala based data processing algorithms we use for our ML models to give it a try. What I really liked is that you don&#x27;t have to know all about the language to write perfomant code. Still keep wondering how does it get constantly overlooked.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>z3c0</author><text>As one of those people, I can say the reason is for the C-level processing power with the approachable syntactic sugar. Out of all the languages gaining popularity for their ability to run natively (Rust, Go, D, etc), I&#x27;ve felt that D is the most natural continuation of C&#x2F;C++, at least syntactically. I haven&#x27;t touched the language in about a year, but I&#x27;m personally rooting for it.</text></comment> |
40,620,655 | 40,620,021 | 1 | 3 | 40,601,098 | train | <story><title>Zero Tolerance for Bias</title><url>https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3664645</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>IAmLiterallyAB</author><text>Interesting, but there&#x27;s one part I&#x27;m not sure I agree with.<p>&gt; Pseudo-random number generators are useful for many purposes, but unbiased shuffling isn&#x27;t one of them.<p>A properly seeded CSPRNG is perfectly fine at this. And if it&#x27;s not, then all of our cryptography is pretty much screwed. This is why in modern kernels, &#x2F;dev&#x2F;random and &#x2F;dev&#x2F;urandom are the same (minus differences in behavior when the initialization isn&#x27;t complete). As D.J. Bernstein put it, it&#x27;s superstition to not trust CSPRNGs. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mail-archive.com&#x2F;[email protected]&#x2F;msg04763.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mail-archive.com&#x2F;[email protected]&#x2F;msg0...</a> And if it&#x27;s good enough for crypto, it&#x27;s good enough for card shuffling.<p>FYI I am not a cryptographer</text></comment> | <story><title>Zero Tolerance for Bias</title><url>https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3664645</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>orlp</author><text>Here is a trivial shuffle algorithm that is completely unbiased and only requires an unbiased coin (or random number generator giving bits):<p>1. Randomly assign each element to list A or list B.
2. Recursively shuffle lists A and B.
3. Concatenate lists A and B.<p>To prove it&#x27;s correct, note that assigning a random real number to each element and sorting based on that number is an unbiased shuffle. Then we note the above does in fact do that by considering the fractional base-2 expansion of the random numbers, and noting the above is in fact a base-2 radix sort of these numbers. We can sort these random real numbers even though they have an infinite amount of random bits, as we can stop expanding the digits when the prefix of digits is unique (which corresponds to the event that a list is down to a single element).<p>I call the above algorithm RadixShuffle. You can do it in base-2, but also in other bases. For base-2 you can make it in-place similar to how the partition for Quicksort is implemented in-place, for other bases you either have to do it out-of-place or in two passes (the first pass only counting how many elements go in each bucket to compute offsets).<p>The above can be combined with a fallback algorithm for small N such as Fisher-Yates. I believe even though the above is N log N it can be faster than Fisher-Yates for larger N because it is exceptionally cache-efficient as well as RNG-efficient whereas Fisher-Yates requires a call to the RNG and invokes an expected cache miss for each element.<p>---<p>Another fun fact: you can turn any biased memoryless coin into an unbiased one with a simple trick. Throw the coin twice, if it gives HH or TT you throw away the toss, if it&#x27;s HT or TH you use the first toss as your unbiased coin.<p>This works because if p is the probability that heads comes up we have:<p><pre><code> HH: p^2
HT: p(1-p)
TH: (1-p)p
TT: (1-p)^2
</code></pre>
Naturally, p(1-p) and (1-p)p are equiprobable, thus if we reject the other outcomes we have distilled an unbiased coin out of our biased coin.</text></comment> |
38,280,652 | 38,278,142 | 1 | 3 | 38,278,037 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Watermelon – copilot for code review</title><url>https://github.com/marketplace/watermelon-context</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CSSer</author><text>I wonder how many of these products are going to slurp up proprietary information from unwitting code teams before it&#x27;s over. Granted, if your team&#x2F;org isn&#x27;t smart enough to consider that, maybe there&#x27;s not really much there of value anyway.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Watermelon – copilot for code review</title><url>https://github.com/marketplace/watermelon-context</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>baristaGeek</author><text>Hello, the other Esteban (CEO) here.<p>I&#x27;ll also be available to answer any questions from the community and to receive your feedback.</text></comment> |
27,379,647 | 27,379,200 | 1 | 3 | 27,376,677 | train | <story><title>Xbox co-pilot mode changed disabled sister’s life</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/XboxSeriesX/comments/nqk3nb/copilot_mode_changed_my_disabled_sisters_life/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tyleo</author><text>I love co-pilot. Throughout the pandemic my fiancé and I used the feature to play different sections of single player games as though they were multiplayer. I don’t think either one of us would consider ourselves to have a disability.<p>I used to work on games at Microsoft and they put their money where their mouth is when it comes to accessibility. I had spent multiple days in the accessibility lab interviewing and understanding how to make games easier for people with various disabilities. One of my managers encouraged me to test my features using the controller with one hand and farther away from the screen where bad font decisions were more obvious.<p>Two things I remember in particular from that time at Microsoft:<p>* The claim that making games better for people with disabilities makes them better for everyone<p>* The claim that most people will have a disability (not necessarily permanent) at some point in their life<p>I feel that those two lessons have permanently impacted my design lens.</text></comment> | <story><title>Xbox co-pilot mode changed disabled sister’s life</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/XboxSeriesX/comments/nqk3nb/copilot_mode_changed_my_disabled_sisters_life/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>least</author><text>Microsoft has done a lot of things that they didn&#x27;t &quot;need&quot; to for the sake of accessibility and I think that&#x27;s worth celebrating. Particularly when it comes to something as simple as this I think there&#x27;s no reason why it can&#x27;t exist on every other console. As mentioned in other comments, their adaptive controller is also great.<p>This co-pilot mode sort of reminds me of Starcraft: Brood War where there is a cooperative mode where two people can control the same set of buildings and units. The amount that each player contributes to the game can be as variable as you need it to be, as far as one player not doing anything at all. Or if you were both skilled, it could simply augment what you could do. One person could be making sure you&#x27;re spending resources and building the base while the other focused on controlling the units fighting the enemy, for example.<p>Overall I think the video games industry is very very behind in accessibility, though. Even some relatively simple accessibility options are absent from some of the biggest games. I believe Ubisoft has made great strides to make their video games more accessible to everyone and there are some notable ones such as The Last of Us 2 [1] and Celeste [2] that go above and beyond to ensure that anyone that wants to play the game can.<p>Accessibility can be expensive to implement and gaming isn&#x27;t really considered an essential, even in terms of entertainment, but I think it&#x27;s worthwhile to try and encourage even smaller developers to try to make their games more accessible.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.playstation.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;games&#x2F;the-last-of-us-part-ii&#x2F;accessibility&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.playstation.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;games&#x2F;the-last-of-us-part-...</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;celeste.ink&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Assist_Mode" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;celeste.ink&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Assist_Mode</a></text></comment> |
23,245,142 | 23,244,541 | 1 | 3 | 23,243,248 | train | <story><title>Subspace – A simple WireGuard VPN server GUI</title><url>https://github.com/subspacecommunity/subspace</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rubatuga</author><text>Is there anybody interested in building or using a service that routes static public IPs to self-hosted servers, over WireGuard? I made a prototype a week ago, here&#x27;s the homepage:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hoppy.network" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hoppy.network</a><p>I realized that I didn&#x27;t want to ever deal with port-forwarding, NAT, or dynamic DNS and decided to create this. Message me if you want a signup link.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xrisk</author><text>I tried your service and it just works™, which is great. But a couple of points:<p>1) I saw that you&#x27;re basically using one OVH box per IP. How do you plan to ever monetize this then?<p>What prevents a user from creating their own VPN instance on their own box and port forwarding from there? Granted this process is somewhat involved, but the kind of user who needs to do this is likely to be somewhat technically inclined anyway. (Some ideas: negotiate long-term deals for IP addresses and try to map &gt; 1 IP per box &#x2F; remove the static IP guarantee and keep a rotating pool of addresses – <i>public</i> IPs are more valuable than <i>static</i> IPs anyway IMO and you can integrate dynamic DNS into your service)<p>2) How do I know that you&#x27;re not sniffing my traffic? Granted that most traffic being encrypted these days is a thing, but still I think it&#x27;s a genuine concern.<p>3) I live in Asia, so latency was off-the-charts for me. (On the order of 500ms). But this problem could easily be solved by introducing servers in more locations.</text></comment> | <story><title>Subspace – A simple WireGuard VPN server GUI</title><url>https://github.com/subspacecommunity/subspace</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rubatuga</author><text>Is there anybody interested in building or using a service that routes static public IPs to self-hosted servers, over WireGuard? I made a prototype a week ago, here&#x27;s the homepage:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hoppy.network" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hoppy.network</a><p>I realized that I didn&#x27;t want to ever deal with port-forwarding, NAT, or dynamic DNS and decided to create this. Message me if you want a signup link.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jo909</author><text>I&#x27;m sure there is and will be demand for good static IPv4 tunnel brokers. I&#x27;m personally fine with dealing with dynamic DNS and port forwards for my home setup for now, but once I no longer have a public IPv4 assigned I would be a potential customer.<p>How do you deal with the global scarcity of IPv4-addresses that you would need to scale your service? I think this can only work long term if you own the address space yourself and are not dependent on some specific provider or cloud.<p>Also very important is a local endpoint to get a reasonable end to end latency.</text></comment> |
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