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<story><title>Ford CEO says EVs will be sold 100% online with nonnegotiable price</title><url>https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2022/06/01/ev-online-sales-ford-uber-lyft/7474822001/?gnt-cfr=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>medler</author><text>This article takes an off-the-cuff comment from the CEO of Ford and reads too much into it IMO. He wasn’t saying dealerships are going away; he was actually saying the opposite. The point he was making was that Ford is going to adopt some of Tesla’s practices while using the dealership network to compete with them.<p>Here’s the quote with more context:
“I believe for retail, we have to -- it&#x27;s kind of like what happened between Amazon and Target. Target could have gone away, but they didn&#x27;t. They bolted on an e-commerce platform and then they used their physical store to add groceries and return -- make returns really much easier than Amazon. They used their expertise as a physical retailer to their advantage, but they modernized the e-commerce piece. So it would be really easy to do business with them. It&#x27;s exactly what we have to do on the retail side. We got to go to non-negotiated price. We&#x27;ve got to go to a 100% online, the vehicle there is no inventory goes directly to the customer, 100% remote pickup and delivery, but then we have this opportunity to use our physical presence, they outperform them. Like, I believe some Mach-E and Lightning customers would love to have a Mustang for the weekend. Maybe they want a Super Duty. I can do that, they can&#x27;t do that, unless they ran a Ford.”<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;seekingalpha.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;4515793-ford-motor-company-f-ceo-james-farley-presents-bernstein-38th-annual-strategic-decisions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;seekingalpha.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;4515793-ford-motor-company-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spikels</author><text>Ford reorganized back in March so that their EV business (Model e) is separate from the legacy ICE business (Ford Blue). There was speculation at the time that this was in part free itself of the dealership sales model. The dealers would keep the dying ICE business while the fast growing EV business would start with clean slate. Farley was quoted describing the EV sales model as:<p>&gt; &quot;It&#x27;s going to be much more efficient, a lot more online. It&#x27;s going to be a really different model.&quot;[1]<p>Obviously this will be very controversial and subject to interference by state legislators who have often protected dealerships. Will be interesting to see this transition.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;insideevs.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;571959&#x2F;ford-dealerships-impacted-ev-ice-split&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;insideevs.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;571959&#x2F;ford-dealerships-impacted-...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Ford CEO says EVs will be sold 100% online with nonnegotiable price</title><url>https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2022/06/01/ev-online-sales-ford-uber-lyft/7474822001/?gnt-cfr=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>medler</author><text>This article takes an off-the-cuff comment from the CEO of Ford and reads too much into it IMO. He wasn’t saying dealerships are going away; he was actually saying the opposite. The point he was making was that Ford is going to adopt some of Tesla’s practices while using the dealership network to compete with them.<p>Here’s the quote with more context:
“I believe for retail, we have to -- it&#x27;s kind of like what happened between Amazon and Target. Target could have gone away, but they didn&#x27;t. They bolted on an e-commerce platform and then they used their physical store to add groceries and return -- make returns really much easier than Amazon. They used their expertise as a physical retailer to their advantage, but they modernized the e-commerce piece. So it would be really easy to do business with them. It&#x27;s exactly what we have to do on the retail side. We got to go to non-negotiated price. We&#x27;ve got to go to a 100% online, the vehicle there is no inventory goes directly to the customer, 100% remote pickup and delivery, but then we have this opportunity to use our physical presence, they outperform them. Like, I believe some Mach-E and Lightning customers would love to have a Mustang for the weekend. Maybe they want a Super Duty. I can do that, they can&#x27;t do that, unless they ran a Ford.”<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;seekingalpha.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;4515793-ford-motor-company-f-ceo-james-farley-presents-bernstein-38th-annual-strategic-decisions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;seekingalpha.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;4515793-ford-motor-company-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>user3939382</author><text>&gt; This article takes an off-the-cuff comment from the CEO of Ford and reads too much into it<p>Ford announced 3 months ago that they were forming a new corporation, Ford Blue, whose purpose is to skirt state dealership laws in order to lawfully sell these EVs direct to consumers. So this is definitely not just a comment.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.freep.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;money&#x2F;cars&#x2F;ford&#x2F;2022&#x2F;03&#x2F;02&#x2F;ford-ceo-jim-farley-unveils-plan-ev-model-e&#x2F;6981544001&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.freep.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;money&#x2F;cars&#x2F;ford&#x2F;2022&#x2F;03&#x2F;02&#x2F;ford-...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Source: Google Allo will be officially shut down soon</title><url>https://9to5google.com/2018/12/05/google-allo-shutting-down/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GuiA</author><text>Not that I’m defending Allo, but I don’t know how useful your distinction is. What is an earnest product then?<p>Any product released by a company that has bills to pay is released to “get market share”.</text></item><item><author>whitepoplar</author><text>People can smell when a product isn&#x27;t earnest. From the beginning, Allo smelled like a directive by a Google VP to &quot;get messaging market share.&quot;</text></item><item><author>woodruffw</author><text>Google dumped an <i>incredible</i> amount of money into Allo&#x27;s marketing at my (large state) university -- they plastered many buildings with full-length advertisements, filled all of the local businesses with pamphlets, and even drove students around campus in weird little (electric?) buggies[1].<p>Despite all that, I don&#x27;t think I know anybody who installed (much less regularly used) Allo.<p>Edit: They also bought Snapchat filters that were geofenced to the campus.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=allo+campus+car" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=allo+campus+car</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toast0</author><text>Google was clearly not strategically invested in Allo; as it was one of at least five messaging products? Duo, Allo, Hangouts, SMS app, the carrier RCS BS. As a consumer, when i see that, I know Google isn&#x27;t going to continue doing all of those in two to three years, but I don&#x27;t know which one they&#x27;re going to keep, and it&#x27;s not worth my social capital to get enough of my friends onboard to try it.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Source: Google Allo will be officially shut down soon</title><url>https://9to5google.com/2018/12/05/google-allo-shutting-down/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GuiA</author><text>Not that I’m defending Allo, but I don’t know how useful your distinction is. What is an earnest product then?<p>Any product released by a company that has bills to pay is released to “get market share”.</text></item><item><author>whitepoplar</author><text>People can smell when a product isn&#x27;t earnest. From the beginning, Allo smelled like a directive by a Google VP to &quot;get messaging market share.&quot;</text></item><item><author>woodruffw</author><text>Google dumped an <i>incredible</i> amount of money into Allo&#x27;s marketing at my (large state) university -- they plastered many buildings with full-length advertisements, filled all of the local businesses with pamphlets, and even drove students around campus in weird little (electric?) buggies[1].<p>Despite all that, I don&#x27;t think I know anybody who installed (much less regularly used) Allo.<p>Edit: They also bought Snapchat filters that were geofenced to the campus.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=allo+campus+car" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=allo+campus+car</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iainmerrick</author><text>I think they mean it was a “me too” product. “Everybody’s using their messaging app. That should be us! Let’s make a new messaging app and take over that market.”<p>As opposed to a really new and innovative product (e.g. the iPhone) or at least one that’s a notable improvement over existing similar ones (Gmail).<p>It’s a spectrum rather than a hard and fast distinction, of course.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Mistral 7B</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06825</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>anon1253</author><text>It works really really well for chatbots and roleplay applications (at least for me). The fine-tune on the instruct version is rather meh however, and I recommend <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;Open-Orca&#x2F;Mistral-7B-OpenOrca&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;Open-Orca&#x2F;Mistral-7B-OpenOrca&#x2F;</a> if you plan on using it out-of-the-box. Take note of the prompt template, you&#x27;ll get really undesired results otherwise (basically just garbage). I&#x27;ve been running it on my pet projects with llama.cpp and the inference is blazing fast even with my mediocre 2080 Super</text></comment>
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<story><title>Mistral 7B</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06825</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joennlae</author><text>Llama1 --&gt; 1.0T
Llama2 --&gt; 2.0T
Mistral --&gt; ??<p>They do not publish how many tokens it is pre-trained on, additionally to sharing no info on datasets used (except for fine-tuning).<p>To my knowledge, no one has trained a larger LLM (&gt;250M) to the capacity limit.
As discussed in the original GPT3 paper (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;gneubig&#x2F;status&#x2F;1286731711150280705?s=20" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;gneubig&#x2F;status&#x2F;1286731711150280705?s=20</a>)<p>TinyLlama is trying to do that for 1.1B: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jzhang38&#x2F;TinyLlama">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jzhang38&#x2F;TinyLlama</a><p>As long as we are not at the capacity limit, we will have a few of these 7B beats 13B (or 7B beats 70B) moments.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Wells Fargo temporarily suspending applications for home-equity lines of credit</title><url>https://www.wellsfargo.com/equity/line-of-credit-details/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rcpt</author><text>We just printed $6T but the amount of land didn&#x27;t change. Why would land prices go down?</text></item><item><author>amiga_500</author><text>They are preparing for a drop in land prices.<p>Also presumably anyone applying for a HELOC right now is doing so to tide them over, and banks reason that many will just burn through the debt and then default with less equity.</text></item><item><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>This is not unexpected. JPMC halted home equity origination a week ago. This debt is kept on a bank’s books (and not government backed like mortgages), they’re limiting exposure during macroeconomic distress.<p>Do a cash out refi if you need to tap your equity.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>Land prices are tied to wages. Wages and employment goes down, value of land goes down. Unless the Fed starts buying up land directly, or using REITs.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Wells Fargo temporarily suspending applications for home-equity lines of credit</title><url>https://www.wellsfargo.com/equity/line-of-credit-details/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rcpt</author><text>We just printed $6T but the amount of land didn&#x27;t change. Why would land prices go down?</text></item><item><author>amiga_500</author><text>They are preparing for a drop in land prices.<p>Also presumably anyone applying for a HELOC right now is doing so to tide them over, and banks reason that many will just burn through the debt and then default with less equity.</text></item><item><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>This is not unexpected. JPMC halted home equity origination a week ago. This debt is kept on a bank’s books (and not government backed like mortgages), they’re limiting exposure during macroeconomic distress.<p>Do a cash out refi if you need to tap your equity.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lotsofpulp</author><text>It depends how much of that $6T lands in the hands of people buying land (in the near future).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Glucose metabolism responds to perceived sugar intake more than actual intake</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-72501-w?mc_cid=2b33d59ff8&mc_eid=e358e73db6</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>1123581321</author><text>I&#x27;m type 1. I used to believe artificial sweeteners caused the body to raise its blood sugar because the drink is perceived to be sweet, but when I got a CGM I was able to verify that they do not. I&#x27;d be interested in a switched label test with CGMs and T1s because a potential insulin response would be absent.<p>I realize this study is qualified (type 2, preprandial &lt; 200mgdl, lab setting, fake labels, short term) and laud the potential connection between stress and elevated fasting glucose (seems similar to the connection between sleep and elevated glucose.) I&#x27;ve read the study and am just adding a personal anecdote to the thread.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kazinator</author><text>&gt; <i>artificial sweeteners caused the body to raise its blood sugar because the drink is perceived to be sweet</i><p>This is subtly different from the effects claimed by the study, namely that blood sugar can change simply due to the test subject believing that a drink has high sugar content.<p>Substances other than sugar can affect the sugar balance.<p>This is why dogs can die from hypoglycemic shock if they consume xylitol. Their body is fooled into thinking its sugar, and the insulin response then evacuates the actual sugar from their bloodstream.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Glucose metabolism responds to perceived sugar intake more than actual intake</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-72501-w?mc_cid=2b33d59ff8&mc_eid=e358e73db6</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>1123581321</author><text>I&#x27;m type 1. I used to believe artificial sweeteners caused the body to raise its blood sugar because the drink is perceived to be sweet, but when I got a CGM I was able to verify that they do not. I&#x27;d be interested in a switched label test with CGMs and T1s because a potential insulin response would be absent.<p>I realize this study is qualified (type 2, preprandial &lt; 200mgdl, lab setting, fake labels, short term) and laud the potential connection between stress and elevated fasting glucose (seems similar to the connection between sleep and elevated glucose.) I&#x27;ve read the study and am just adding a personal anecdote to the thread.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arleny</author><text>I could be wrong, but it seems like there&#x27;s a distinction between perceived sugar (amount of sugar in drink) as mentioned in the study and perceived sweetness (how sweet the drink tastes) which is what you&#x27;re referring to.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Only 6.8% of adults have optimal cardiometabolic health</title><url>https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacc.2022.04.046</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ampham</author><text>A majority of infrastructure in the US makes it extremely hard to be healthy. Activity and healthy foods isn’t integrated into daily life. For example, you can’t just walk to the grocery store or other things in most places. And if you live in a bad neighborhood, you can’t feel safe going walking or running. Living in a walkable, safe, and nice area is out of reach for a lot of people. This makes it hard for people when activity isn’t the default.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Only 6.8% of adults have optimal cardiometabolic health</title><url>https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacc.2022.04.046</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>drewg123</author><text>I&#x27;m early 50s. In my mid 40s, I had terrible cholesterol and was obese. I have a family history of heart disease, and I got scared. So I started exercising (running, then switched to alternating rowing and lifting) and lost 70lbs and reached my ideal body weight, but I didn&#x27;t change my diet. My cholesterol improved, but was still not good. My doctor was talking about putting me on a statin.<p>Two years ago, I started dating a vegan and slowly became vegan myself and I now eat a plant based diet.<p>Between the exercise and the diet, my cholesterol numbers have totally turned around. My doctor commented last month at my physical that she&#x27;s never seen anybody turn their cholesterol around like that without drugs.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The bar for success in our industry is too low</title><url>http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1890-the-bar-for-success-in-our-industry-is-too-low</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mrshoe</author><text>There's a reason for this phenomenon. It might be misguided in this particular case, but there is a reason that it exists. It's the same reason that everyone here loves businesses based on technology. It's the same reason that VCs are willing to invest millions of dollars in nascent companies which will, in all likelihood, fail in the near future. It's the same reason I spend my evenings working on my own startup.<p>The reason is scalability.<p>My dad was always shocked that investors valued the last startup I worked for in the tens of millions of dollars while we were losing money. He's worked in construction his whole life for firms that do on the order of $100MM in revenue per year. Like all construction firms, however, their margins are razor thin. Their revenue doesn't grow much faster than their costs (employees and materials, primarily).<p>A construction company that loses money is not going to be worth $50MM any time soon. A tech company with similar financials <i>might be</i>. A tech company might take a while to get their technology right. But when they do, they can leverage it. Their revenues can grow <i>far faster</i> than their costs. Software as a product scales better than just about anything I can think of. Software businesses often go from slightly in the red to huge annual profits in very little time.<p>Everyone in tech is trying to find the Next Big Thing. This includes us (entrepreneurs), the media, and investors. In the case of the media, they're just trying to be the first ones to break the next big story, as usual. Just like investors, if they want to succeed, they have to be willing to take risks. They have to bet on companies that look like they have potential. Sometimes they're wrong. But in those rare cases where it pays off, it usually pays off big.<p>Other industries lack this quality. In other industries 1 success is not going to make up for 10 failures. In technology you make money by picking winners before everyone else. It's somewhat of a crap shoot. But the bar is low because the potential reward is high.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The bar for success in our industry is too low</title><url>http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1890-the-bar-for-success-in-our-industry-is-too-low</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>edw519</author><text><i>It still blows me away that David’s talk at Startup School 2008 was met with such enthusiasm (I know David was surprised too).</i><p>The content of his talk was not the main reason that it was met with such enthusiasm. (What he talked about was obvious and no one would disagree.)<p>It was his delivery that made it such a bit hit. His passion and conviction was easy to see. We could have easily read the talk on-line, but we go to these things to get the "whole story", the things that words alone do not convey. What a pleasure it was to see someone in his position so enthusiastic about his work. It's hard <i>not</i> to get caught up in the moment.<p>(The fact the he's the author of Rails and his liberal use of the f word to make his point also helped.)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Geek heroes rescue Tonga from worst case fibre optic cable blackout</title><url>https://matangitonga.to/2019/01/26/geek-heroes-rescue-tonga-worst%20case</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DoreenMichele</author><text>This is great news and I am glad to see it.<p>Internet access is a big deal for Tonga and they went to pains to establish good internet access to begin with, which articles about the crisis seem to not really make very clear:<p><i>Here&#x27;s how a tiny Pacific island got better Internet than the US</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pri.org&#x2F;stories&#x2F;2014-08-01&#x2F;heres-how-tiny-pacific-island-got-better-internet-us" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pri.org&#x2F;stories&#x2F;2014-08-01&#x2F;heres-how-tiny-pacifi...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Geek heroes rescue Tonga from worst case fibre optic cable blackout</title><url>https://matangitonga.to/2019/01/26/geek-heroes-rescue-tonga-worst%20case</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>walrus01</author><text>Temporary access via fixed aim vsat terminal and geostationary C or Ku band transponder capacity is actually a lot more expensive than o3b services, in $ per Mbps. But an o3b terminal is much costlier in terms of initial purchase cost, and perhaps this project doesn&#x27;t meet the Mbps threshold or contract term length to make it worthwhile.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Intel Launches $1B Fund to Build a Foundry Innovation Ecosystem</title><url>https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-launches-1-billion-fund-build-foundry-innovation-ecosystem.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ThinkBeat</author><text>It is weird to me how the perspective on Intel flipped a while back.<p>For a long time, the discussion was that Intel had failed, failed and failed again to get their next generation fabs operating at acceptable yields that they were a couple of generations behind TSMC.<p>Which was a huge departure from their decades of first or least competitive on fabs.<p>Intel announced they would start having some chips produced by TSMC,
so they could try and harness benefits of the latest, or the generation
behind latest for their chips.<p>In short Intel was seen as incompetent and could no longer compete with their competitors. The long Intel domination was sliding away.<p>Then people started worrying about Taiwan.
Intel got a few billion dollars in a sweet contract with the military,
building fabs in the US became the major push in tech.<p>Since then, the perspective has been much more positive for Intel and
their role in building domestically.<p>Intels inability to build a latest generation fab has not changed.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Intel Launches $1B Fund to Build a Foundry Innovation Ecosystem</title><url>https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-launches-1-billion-fund-build-foundry-innovation-ecosystem.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ameminator</author><text>I don&#x27;t think $1 billion dollars is actually enough in this kind of space.<p>Probably the most important factor in Intel&#x27;s success is its (relatively) new CEO&#x27;s ability to fix cultural problems and internal dysfunction that inhibit any technical improvement.<p>At least this is a sign that Intel recognizes this and is reaching out to startups - only time can tell if it works.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Ask HN: What's a build vs. buy decision that you got wrong?</title><text>What are services&#x2F;products that you built and wished you had bought?<p>Have you bought something that you had to scrap and build yourself anyways?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjr00</author><text>&quot;Workflow engines&quot; and their close cousins &quot;DSLs&quot; are the ultimate newbie trap. In theory, it&#x27;s awesome for everyone: programmers get to work on interesting, abstract problems like distributed systems, syntax parsing, event-based architectures, and &quot;business users&quot; get to make changes to &quot;business rules&quot; without bothering developers or impacting feature roadmaps. Win-win, right?<p>In reality you just end up making a shitty, nerfed version of a programming language, that business users can&#x27;t understand, because you still have to understand conditional logic to model workflows, oh and your documentation is terrible because devs don&#x27;t bother with the boring stuff. Most of the time the devs end up implementing the workflows anyway because they don&#x27;t actually work properly.<p>If you really need a workflow engine definitely use something off-the-shelf, but I would go so far as to say that in the 95% case, you don&#x27;t even need a workflow engine: you need a developer who is capable of writing some python scripts. Even if you pay a developer a full salary to do nothing but sit around and make changes to Python scripts on-demand, that&#x27;s still going to be <i>way</i> cheaper than the complicated workflow engine solution, which will probably require a team (or multiple teams) to maintain.</text></item><item><author>ctvo</author><text>Workflow engines. Every company develops one base off of queues or some form of async messaging. Works great when prototyping and your initial customer base. Works less great as you grow, add more complicated features, and realize you didn&#x27;t have the distributed systems expertise to write this thing to begin with. It doesn&#x27;t handle any of the common edge cases, and is increasingly painful to operate, needing constant babysitting.<p>Use Temporal, StepFunctions, <i>something</i> and try to avoid this urge.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rwmj</author><text>This reminded me of the time I wrote a mini-language for querying web server log files and generating reports (this was early 2000s) so you could answer questions like <i>&quot;how many users searched for &#x27;cyprus flight&#x27; per day and went on to purchase a holiday?&quot;</i>. With a nice web-based interface etc.<p>It was a disaster of course. The business people weren&#x27;t programmers, had no understanding of programming, didn&#x27;t want to learn programming even greatly simplified with docs and examples, and I ended up translating their queries into code anyway. So essentially I had written a DSL for myself.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Ask HN: What's a build vs. buy decision that you got wrong?</title><text>What are services&#x2F;products that you built and wished you had bought?<p>Have you bought something that you had to scrap and build yourself anyways?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjr00</author><text>&quot;Workflow engines&quot; and their close cousins &quot;DSLs&quot; are the ultimate newbie trap. In theory, it&#x27;s awesome for everyone: programmers get to work on interesting, abstract problems like distributed systems, syntax parsing, event-based architectures, and &quot;business users&quot; get to make changes to &quot;business rules&quot; without bothering developers or impacting feature roadmaps. Win-win, right?<p>In reality you just end up making a shitty, nerfed version of a programming language, that business users can&#x27;t understand, because you still have to understand conditional logic to model workflows, oh and your documentation is terrible because devs don&#x27;t bother with the boring stuff. Most of the time the devs end up implementing the workflows anyway because they don&#x27;t actually work properly.<p>If you really need a workflow engine definitely use something off-the-shelf, but I would go so far as to say that in the 95% case, you don&#x27;t even need a workflow engine: you need a developer who is capable of writing some python scripts. Even if you pay a developer a full salary to do nothing but sit around and make changes to Python scripts on-demand, that&#x27;s still going to be <i>way</i> cheaper than the complicated workflow engine solution, which will probably require a team (or multiple teams) to maintain.</text></item><item><author>ctvo</author><text>Workflow engines. Every company develops one base off of queues or some form of async messaging. Works great when prototyping and your initial customer base. Works less great as you grow, add more complicated features, and realize you didn&#x27;t have the distributed systems expertise to write this thing to begin with. It doesn&#x27;t handle any of the common edge cases, and is increasingly painful to operate, needing constant babysitting.<p>Use Temporal, StepFunctions, <i>something</i> and try to avoid this urge.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>__MatrixMan__</author><text>&gt; the complicated workflow engine solution ... will probably require a team (or multiple teams) to maintain<p>You can get these &quot;as a service&quot; which might scratch the itch for some.<p>(Disclaimer: I work for a company that sells Airflow-as-a-service and adjacent consulting)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Things I Learned from Doing Triathlon in My 70s (2023)</title><url>https://www.triathlete.com/culture/7-things-i-learned-doing-triathlon-in-my-70s/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>coldcode</author><text>I started working out at 66 this year for the first time since I stopped playing basketball 30 years ago. Even after 6 months I see a difference (I was never overweight 6&#x27;5&quot; at 212 but now 10 pounds less). But because I had no experience with weight training or even cardio for so long, there is no way to expect I can do triathlons all of a sudden. I can tell who in the gym has been training most of their life and I have no expectations to suddenly look like Dwayne Johnson (he&#x27;s 6&#x27;4&quot;).<p>I wish I had started and continued training at some level 30 years ago (or earlier) instead of waiting until now. I can only exhort people to not wait until they are old, and things start falling apart to start.<p>The author doesn&#x27;t mention his experience before he turned 70, I think that would have been interesting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Zelphyr</author><text>I started training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu at 44. I was about 40-50lbs overweight and had never been athletic except for a few seasons of soccer and baseball as a young kid.<p>I was amazed at how my body responded. It helps that I immediately fell in love with the sport.<p>However, I found the most important change I made was in my nutrition, which I changed at the same time I started BJJ. Not only did my body <i>really</i> respond to that, I saw dramatic improvements in my mental and emotional health as well.<p>I&#x27;m 51 now and I&#x27;ve easily kept that 40lbs off the whole time.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Things I Learned from Doing Triathlon in My 70s (2023)</title><url>https://www.triathlete.com/culture/7-things-i-learned-doing-triathlon-in-my-70s/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>coldcode</author><text>I started working out at 66 this year for the first time since I stopped playing basketball 30 years ago. Even after 6 months I see a difference (I was never overweight 6&#x27;5&quot; at 212 but now 10 pounds less). But because I had no experience with weight training or even cardio for so long, there is no way to expect I can do triathlons all of a sudden. I can tell who in the gym has been training most of their life and I have no expectations to suddenly look like Dwayne Johnson (he&#x27;s 6&#x27;4&quot;).<p>I wish I had started and continued training at some level 30 years ago (or earlier) instead of waiting until now. I can only exhort people to not wait until they are old, and things start falling apart to start.<p>The author doesn&#x27;t mention his experience before he turned 70, I think that would have been interesting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cmiller1</author><text>&gt; there is no way to expect I can do triathlons all of a sudden<p>There is no way to expect <i>anyone</i> to do triathlons &quot;all of a sudden&quot;, I&#x27;m sure this guy spent several years getting up to that level.<p>I tried to look for more info on him to see if he detailed when he started and the path he took but apparently he&#x27;s a quack and I got sidetracked looking at the time he got investigated and ended up settling for $100k in a wrongful death case involving the church of Scientology, wow.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Show HN: Hacker News Redesign</title><url>http://hilapeleg.io/2014/06/01/hackernews-redesign/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Tomte</author><text>The text on hilapeleg.io is nearly unreadable on Windows 7 with Firefox 30. The font is rendered strange, way too thin and uneven with gaps in the strokes.<p>The link color is just as washed out as the very light grey of the body text.<p>Maybe they could design their own site properly before re-designing HN?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>currysausage</author><text>A screenshot (Windows 7, Chrome 35): <a href="http://i.imgur.com/I7KTlZs.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;I7KTlZs.png</a><p>Doesn&#x27;t look any better with Firefox 35. I don&#x27;t know how brilliant the OS X font rendering must be, but the strokes are 1px thick when the font is <i>zoomed to 300%.</i> How is this supposed to work?<p>This is <i>exactly</i> what I expected when web fonts came out. Does anybody know how to deactivate them globally in Chrome? I&#x27;m really tired of constantly changing fonts via F12, just to be able to skim some random article.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Show HN: Hacker News Redesign</title><url>http://hilapeleg.io/2014/06/01/hackernews-redesign/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Tomte</author><text>The text on hilapeleg.io is nearly unreadable on Windows 7 with Firefox 30. The font is rendered strange, way too thin and uneven with gaps in the strokes.<p>The link color is just as washed out as the very light grey of the body text.<p>Maybe they could design their own site properly before re-designing HN?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>angersock</author><text>Yeah, this was my biggest issue--especially in the side-by-sides, it is just so much easier to read the text on the old site, black on orange. The white-on-orange thing in the navbar is terrible.<p>I know that the only people these days browsing HN are nutropic-fed paleo startup bros that are killing it when they&#x27;re not in the box, but for some of us fat C++ neckbeards with bad vision many web design trends are pretty inconvenient.<p>EDIT: Thanks for the downvotes...now my post is similar in font to the proposed design. :(</text></comment>
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<story><title>FastAPI framework, high perf, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production</title><url>https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scrollaway</author><text>Thanks for FastAPI. It&#x27;s a super exciting project.<p>As a very long time Django developer I see the potential for it to finally replace Django in jamstack-type apps. But two things are direly missing for that to be the default IMO:<p>1. A flexible admin. Django&#x27;s admin allows for super fast prototyping. I wrote an accounting&#x2F;bookkeeping app recently which I used for myself, and I didn&#x27;t write a UI for it at all for several <i>months</i> because I could just get by with the admin. (Filed two quarterlies with just the admin as UI!)<p>2. An ORM that is as natural as Django&#x27;s. I love SQLAlchemy but its syntax is a huge turnoff. I imagine the &quot;right solution&quot; combines the best of both worlds; maybe some Django-like syntax wrapper around SQLAlchemy. … with typings.<p>What do you think, is there progress in those areas?</text></item><item><author>tiangolo</author><text>Hey! FastAPI creator here<p>Nice surprise to find this shared on HN!<p>It&#x27;s also great to see so many products&#x2F;projects and companies using it successfuly in production!<p>I see a bunch of questions related to &quot;how FastAPI compares to X&quot;, FastAPI was built from the learnings from other awesome tools, and is built on top of great packages. You can read a lot more about it here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fastapi.tiangolo.com&#x2F;alternatives&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fastapi.tiangolo.com&#x2F;alternatives&#x2F;</a><p>If you have questions or problems, you can ask in GitHub issues: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tiangolo&#x2F;fastapi&#x2F;issues&#x2F;new&#x2F;choose" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tiangolo&#x2F;fastapi&#x2F;issues&#x2F;new&#x2F;choose</a><p>There&#x27;s also an official Discord chat: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discord.gg&#x2F;VQjSZaeJmf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discord.gg&#x2F;VQjSZaeJmf</a><p>And finally, if you use FastAPI, I would love your input in the first user survey (you could win stickers ): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tripetto.app&#x2F;run&#x2F;RXZ6OLDBXX?s=hn" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tripetto.app&#x2F;run&#x2F;RXZ6OLDBXX?s=hn</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tiangolo</author><text>Ha! You just described 2 of the main future projects I have planned!<p>1. An admin UI based on OpenAPI, which makes it independent of DB.<p>2. A mix between Pydantic and SQLAlchemy, to use the same Pydantic model for both (I have some experiment in progress).<p>I just need to find the time for it all, but it&#x27;s certainly planned.</text></comment>
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<story><title>FastAPI framework, high perf, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production</title><url>https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scrollaway</author><text>Thanks for FastAPI. It&#x27;s a super exciting project.<p>As a very long time Django developer I see the potential for it to finally replace Django in jamstack-type apps. But two things are direly missing for that to be the default IMO:<p>1. A flexible admin. Django&#x27;s admin allows for super fast prototyping. I wrote an accounting&#x2F;bookkeeping app recently which I used for myself, and I didn&#x27;t write a UI for it at all for several <i>months</i> because I could just get by with the admin. (Filed two quarterlies with just the admin as UI!)<p>2. An ORM that is as natural as Django&#x27;s. I love SQLAlchemy but its syntax is a huge turnoff. I imagine the &quot;right solution&quot; combines the best of both worlds; maybe some Django-like syntax wrapper around SQLAlchemy. … with typings.<p>What do you think, is there progress in those areas?</text></item><item><author>tiangolo</author><text>Hey! FastAPI creator here<p>Nice surprise to find this shared on HN!<p>It&#x27;s also great to see so many products&#x2F;projects and companies using it successfuly in production!<p>I see a bunch of questions related to &quot;how FastAPI compares to X&quot;, FastAPI was built from the learnings from other awesome tools, and is built on top of great packages. You can read a lot more about it here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fastapi.tiangolo.com&#x2F;alternatives&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fastapi.tiangolo.com&#x2F;alternatives&#x2F;</a><p>If you have questions or problems, you can ask in GitHub issues: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tiangolo&#x2F;fastapi&#x2F;issues&#x2F;new&#x2F;choose" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tiangolo&#x2F;fastapi&#x2F;issues&#x2F;new&#x2F;choose</a><p>There&#x27;s also an official Discord chat: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discord.gg&#x2F;VQjSZaeJmf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discord.gg&#x2F;VQjSZaeJmf</a><p>And finally, if you use FastAPI, I would love your input in the first user survey (you could win stickers ): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tripetto.app&#x2F;run&#x2F;RXZ6OLDBXX?s=hn" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tripetto.app&#x2F;run&#x2F;RXZ6OLDBXX?s=hn</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Townley</author><text>Also a big django fan taking the plunge (we&#x27;ve started using FastAPI in production at work, and really love it!)<p>An admin interface would be wonderful, but given such a heavy API focus, I find Insomnia or Postman to work well enough for those interactions, so I haven&#x27;t missed it all that much.<p>Seconding the SQLAlchemy friction though. Built-in ORM support would really help cut down the boilerplate required to wire FastAPI&#x2F;Starlette models into the database. I think django devs feel the issue more acutely since defining FastAPI objects feels so familiar to making django models. But at the end, rather than having to wire up DRF serializers and viewsets, you need to wire up the database.<p>One other benefit to taking a more opinionated approach to database interactions: with a sensible-defaults-but-customizable user model, FastAPI could offer token based authentication&#x2F;authorization out of the box by implementing something similar to Django+DRF+Djoser endpoints<p>Anyway, seconding the gratitude for this wonderful project, and really looking forward to using it more!</text></comment>
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<story><title>So You Want to Do an Infrastructure Package [pdf]</title><url>https://www.niskanencenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/levy-infastructure.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>legitster</author><text>From the paper:<p>&gt;Overdesign: American infrastructure is often overbuilt, not out of higher quality but out of agency turf battles, obsolete standards like NFPA 130 that have better foreign replacements, or scope creep.<p>&gt;Poor procurement practices: there is improper supervision of private contractors, and things are getting worse as public agencies offload more risk to the private sector, which responds by bidding higher to hedge against the risk; there are also some one-bid contracts, for example the 7 extension in New York, leading to even higher costs.<p>&gt; Poor project management: design review teams are usually understaffed and cannot respond to contractors fast, so there is little institutional capacity to build big projects. Wages for office workers are below market rate and hiring
is difficult.<p>&gt;Labor: in New York, the productivity of construction labor seems unusually low and wages high.<p>&gt;NIMBYism: the United States makes it easy to sue, for example NEPA is enforced by lawsuit, whereas its Italian equivalent is enforced by the administrative state. Lawsuits in the US and other lawsuit-happy countries like Germany rarely win, but do delay projects, so there is defensive design, including unnecessary scope in order to buy off political support. Leah Brooks and Zachary Liscow have a paper on the growth in Interstate construction costs over the decades, blaming citizen voice lawsuits for the increase.<p>&gt;Politicization of projects: the civil service is weak compared with both elected politicians and their unelected political appointees, and there is not much continuity in design.<p>One thing I think they missed, environmental impact studies (that aren&#x27;t even associated with reduced environmental impact!) I remember Seattle&#x27;s light rail project included 8 years of environmental impact review of a light rail extensions along routes that were planned along existing rail corridors!<p>Also, relating to overdesign, I think younger generations suffer from a cult of perfectionism. But perfect is the enemy of good. A streetcar might seem so much cooler, but a dedicated rapid bus can do more with less money!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wahern</author><text>&gt; One thing I think they missed, environmental impact studies (that aren&#x27;t even associated with reduced environmental impact!)<p>That wasn&#x27;t missed. That&#x27;s what NEPA is implicitly referring to. Environmental protection legislation is usually structured to first require the developer to create an environmental impact report (EIR). Thereafter almost everything revolves around the EIR, including the regulatory agency review as well as the lawsuits. Environmental lawsuits invariably challenge the accuracy of the EIR, or the application of regulatory agency rules to an EIR.<p>An EIR is to environmental regulation what construction blueprints are to the building code. You need the paperwork, otherwise you just have a bunch of people shouting and pointing fingers and making wild claims.<p>The issue with EIRs is who gets to challenge the accuracy of an EIR. Imagine if any old interest group could challenge construction blueprints for accuracy in court. It&#x27;d be a nightmare. Well, in some jurisdictions, like California, pretty much anybody can challenge an EIR in court. By contrast, under the Federal NEPA and most state regulations, the parties with a right to challenge an EIR are few--e.g. usually just the government agency in charge of approving it and maybe any adjacent landowners potentially impacted.<p>I know somebody who is a low-income housing developer in California. According to her, the cost of compiling and getting approval of an EIR under NEPA is de minimis, with very low-risk if the reviewing contractor doesn&#x27;t uncover any serious problems. By contrast, because almost anybody can challenge the EIR submitted under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), and do so without any risk of punishment for frivolous or vexatious challenges, one of her biggest risks and costs is dealing with CEQA. (Because nobody wants low-income housing near them, any remotely nearby upper-income neighborhood will instinctively challenge her EIR, causing mult-year, even multi-decade delays. And this is even when zoning boards and every other government agency are 100% behind a project.)</text></comment>
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<story><title>So You Want to Do an Infrastructure Package [pdf]</title><url>https://www.niskanencenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/levy-infastructure.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>legitster</author><text>From the paper:<p>&gt;Overdesign: American infrastructure is often overbuilt, not out of higher quality but out of agency turf battles, obsolete standards like NFPA 130 that have better foreign replacements, or scope creep.<p>&gt;Poor procurement practices: there is improper supervision of private contractors, and things are getting worse as public agencies offload more risk to the private sector, which responds by bidding higher to hedge against the risk; there are also some one-bid contracts, for example the 7 extension in New York, leading to even higher costs.<p>&gt; Poor project management: design review teams are usually understaffed and cannot respond to contractors fast, so there is little institutional capacity to build big projects. Wages for office workers are below market rate and hiring
is difficult.<p>&gt;Labor: in New York, the productivity of construction labor seems unusually low and wages high.<p>&gt;NIMBYism: the United States makes it easy to sue, for example NEPA is enforced by lawsuit, whereas its Italian equivalent is enforced by the administrative state. Lawsuits in the US and other lawsuit-happy countries like Germany rarely win, but do delay projects, so there is defensive design, including unnecessary scope in order to buy off political support. Leah Brooks and Zachary Liscow have a paper on the growth in Interstate construction costs over the decades, blaming citizen voice lawsuits for the increase.<p>&gt;Politicization of projects: the civil service is weak compared with both elected politicians and their unelected political appointees, and there is not much continuity in design.<p>One thing I think they missed, environmental impact studies (that aren&#x27;t even associated with reduced environmental impact!) I remember Seattle&#x27;s light rail project included 8 years of environmental impact review of a light rail extensions along routes that were planned along existing rail corridors!<p>Also, relating to overdesign, I think younger generations suffer from a cult of perfectionism. But perfect is the enemy of good. A streetcar might seem so much cooler, but a dedicated rapid bus can do more with less money!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BitwiseFool</author><text>Maybe this is an additional component to NIMBYism, but I&#x27;ve often noticed how public works projects get derailed from a myriad of busybodies coming out of the woodwork to halt the project based on some hitherto unknown concern. I can&#x27;t help but think our public works projects are too public and it&#x27;s too easy for some random Joe&#x2F;Jane to have an outsized impact on the project planning.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Good data scientist, bad data scientist</title><url>https://ianwhitestone.work/good-ds-bad-ds/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gyulai</author><text>I agree with most of what he&#x27;s saying but reading the first sentence almost stopped me in my tracks when I got to &quot;obsessed&quot;. I wonder when exactly it was that &quot;obsessed about this&quot; and &quot;obsessed about that&quot; became a <i>good</i> thing. ...it&#x27;s thrown around way too much these days, and I for one think that being obsessed with anything, regardless of how positive a thing it is, always speaks to a psychology that is defective in some way or another.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>salemh</author><text>Similar to how some companies are intent on speaking about themselves and employees as &quot;family,&quot; you may be having the same reaction from the word usage of &quot;obsessed.&quot;<p>Of course, most companies say you must now be &quot;obsessed&quot; with customers, or quality, or some such things.<p>Language control in this respect seems a bit easier to understand with the phrase that became very popular for companies to try and model Apples consumers during the iPod revolution (at least how I remember it while studying a bit of Industrial psychology and Marketing &#x2F; Cognitive Neuromarketing (that fad died out thankfully))<p>I&#x27;m sure its been around for a while, but its been more &quot;we need brand evangelist fanatic zealots&quot; for the last 10-20 years.<p>&quot;Obsessed, evangelist, brand fanatic, turn your customers into zealots,&quot; etc is also used heavily in internal company &quot;values.&quot;<p>*Guy Kawasaki at least helped promote the idea for other companies after he left Apple:
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<story><title>Good data scientist, bad data scientist</title><url>https://ianwhitestone.work/good-ds-bad-ds/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gyulai</author><text>I agree with most of what he&#x27;s saying but reading the first sentence almost stopped me in my tracks when I got to &quot;obsessed&quot;. I wonder when exactly it was that &quot;obsessed about this&quot; and &quot;obsessed about that&quot; became a <i>good</i> thing. ...it&#x27;s thrown around way too much these days, and I for one think that being obsessed with anything, regardless of how positive a thing it is, always speaks to a psychology that is defective in some way or another.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ian-whitestone</author><text>Obsessed may have been overkill :)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Roc – A fast, friendly, functional language</title><url>https://www.roc-lang.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnfn</author><text>&gt; 1. The typesystem will be sound, ML-like, and so simple that any code that doesn&#x27;t interact with external data will not need _any_ type annotations.<p>I&#x27;ve tried using languages with this promise, such as Haskell, and also spent a lot of time with TypeScript, which makes a different set of tradeoffs, and I feel like I&#x27;ve spent enough time on both to know this is the wrong tradeoff to make. It sounds flashy to be able to say that no type annotations are necessary, but in practice what it ends up meaning is that you end up tracking down errors in the wrong parts of your code because the compiler can&#x27;t figure out how to reconcile problems.<p>e.g., you have function A incorrectly call function B. How does the compiler know if A has the wrong arguments, or B has the wrong signature? It can&#x27;t! I know that&#x27;s a toy example, but it really does lead to a lot of real-world frustration. Sometimes the type errors are very far away from where the actual issues are, and it can lead to a lot of frustration and wasted time.<p>The TS approach of &quot;please at least annotate all your function signatures&quot; isn&#x27;t nearly as flashy, but it strikes a much better utilitarian balance.</text></item><item><author>davidatbu</author><text>I&#x27;m super keen to see how Roc pans out, because it sits at an (IMO) riveting spot in the space of PL design tradeoffs:<p>1. The typesystem will be sound, ML-like, and so simple that any code that doesn&#x27;t interact with external data will not need _any_ type annotations.<p>2. An aim to make it the fastest managed compiled lang around (faster than golang).<p>3. Functional.<p>4. A focus on fast compile times from the beginning (like golang).<p>5. Serde from rust is essentially a language builtin.<p>6. Zero side effects, only managed effects (which I think will do wonders for testability and mocking in a compiled language).<p>What I&#x27;m unclear about is:<p>1. Whether they&#x27;ll support macros,<p>2. Whether their decision to build a whole new IDE will take away from the work that will go into an LSP (it will take a lot to pry away neovim from my hands).<p>It&#x27;d be dope if anyone more familiar can comment on the above!<p>Also, as feedback to Richard Feldman, your podcast is (imo) great marketing for your lang! It&#x27;s what&#x27;s made me excited about your PL.<p>EDIT: Forgot another feature I&#x27;m allured by: ability to run programs with type errors (as best as one can).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rtfeldman</author><text>Oh I totally agree that it&#x27;s a good idea to annotate top-level functions even if you don&#x27;t have to, and better compiler error messages is one of the benefits of doing that. Personally I basically always choose to annotate them except in the very specific situation of writing beginner introductory materials, when it&#x27;s not a given that the reader actually knows how to read the annotations yet.<p>One of the practical benefits of having full inference is that these signatures can be inferred and then correctly generated by an editor. Like I can write the implementation of my function, and then tell my editor to generate a type annotation, and it can always generate a correct annotation.<p>That saves me time whenever I&#x27;m writing the implementation first (I often write the annotation first, but not always), even if I end up wanting to massage the generated annotation stylistically. And unlike having Copilot generate an annotation, the type inference system knows the actual correct type and doesn&#x27;t hallucinate.<p>To me, the main benefits of type inference at the top level are that they offer beginners a more gradual introduction to the type system, and that they offer experts a way to save time through tooling.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Roc – A fast, friendly, functional language</title><url>https://www.roc-lang.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnfn</author><text>&gt; 1. The typesystem will be sound, ML-like, and so simple that any code that doesn&#x27;t interact with external data will not need _any_ type annotations.<p>I&#x27;ve tried using languages with this promise, such as Haskell, and also spent a lot of time with TypeScript, which makes a different set of tradeoffs, and I feel like I&#x27;ve spent enough time on both to know this is the wrong tradeoff to make. It sounds flashy to be able to say that no type annotations are necessary, but in practice what it ends up meaning is that you end up tracking down errors in the wrong parts of your code because the compiler can&#x27;t figure out how to reconcile problems.<p>e.g., you have function A incorrectly call function B. How does the compiler know if A has the wrong arguments, or B has the wrong signature? It can&#x27;t! I know that&#x27;s a toy example, but it really does lead to a lot of real-world frustration. Sometimes the type errors are very far away from where the actual issues are, and it can lead to a lot of frustration and wasted time.<p>The TS approach of &quot;please at least annotate all your function signatures&quot; isn&#x27;t nearly as flashy, but it strikes a much better utilitarian balance.</text></item><item><author>davidatbu</author><text>I&#x27;m super keen to see how Roc pans out, because it sits at an (IMO) riveting spot in the space of PL design tradeoffs:<p>1. The typesystem will be sound, ML-like, and so simple that any code that doesn&#x27;t interact with external data will not need _any_ type annotations.<p>2. An aim to make it the fastest managed compiled lang around (faster than golang).<p>3. Functional.<p>4. A focus on fast compile times from the beginning (like golang).<p>5. Serde from rust is essentially a language builtin.<p>6. Zero side effects, only managed effects (which I think will do wonders for testability and mocking in a compiled language).<p>What I&#x27;m unclear about is:<p>1. Whether they&#x27;ll support macros,<p>2. Whether their decision to build a whole new IDE will take away from the work that will go into an LSP (it will take a lot to pry away neovim from my hands).<p>It&#x27;d be dope if anyone more familiar can comment on the above!<p>Also, as feedback to Richard Feldman, your podcast is (imo) great marketing for your lang! It&#x27;s what&#x27;s made me excited about your PL.<p>EDIT: Forgot another feature I&#x27;m allured by: ability to run programs with type errors (as best as one can).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ReleaseCandidat</author><text>The Haskell approach is &quot;annotate all top level declarations&quot; (even if not exported) and OCaml has module signatures. But both (and Roc) don&#x27;t make up new &quot;types&quot; like Typescript does.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Expedia Acquires Airbnb Rival HomeAway for $3.9B</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/04/expedia-acquires-airbnb-rival-homeaway-for-3-9b/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jasonwilk</author><text>This is an interesting deal. There was an article posted on HN a while ago that talked about investors pouring money into publicly traded companies who directly compete with private tech companies who have insanely high valuations.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;08&#x2F;10&#x2F;technology&#x2F;investors-find-ways-to-indirectly-profit-from-valuable-start-ups.html?hpw&amp;rref=technology&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;module=well-region&amp;region=bottom-well&amp;WT.nav=bottom-well&amp;_r=1" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;08&#x2F;10&#x2F;technology&#x2F;investors-find-...</a><p>HomeAway Vs AirBnB was specifically mentioned. Turned out well for the guys who made this particular bet.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Expedia Acquires Airbnb Rival HomeAway for $3.9B</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/04/expedia-acquires-airbnb-rival-homeaway-for-3-9b/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>damon_c</author><text>Based on a recent experience, Homeaway&#x27;s search for properties available between two dates is pretty much a non-working facade.<p>The UI is all there... but after after entering credit card info etc. and attempting to book several different places, only to then receive emails stating that they were not available on those dates despite showing up in search as being available, and &quot;please call us directly because maybe we have something else...&quot;<p>It felt like shopping for NYC apartments on Craig&#x27;s List... &quot;we don&#x27;t have the one you want but what about this one?&quot;</text></comment>
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<story><title>UK Prime Minister: We have put in place Internet filters to block extremism</title><url>http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm131023/debtext/131023-0001.htm#13102356000002</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>josephagoss</author><text>The people of England are stereotypically doormats when it comes to this sort of thing. Standing up for rights is not something we&#x2F;they do very well.<p>We are the most survillienced nation, the population the most docile. That is one of the reasons I moved away, no one cares about this stuff, all they want is TV and quite often dole money. Let the filter roll out!<p>Of course there are exceptions, but nowhere near enough to make a real difference. The Government in England gets what it wants no matter what.<p>EDIT: I mean England, from my travels the other UK countries do not seem to have the same attitude as England does.</text></item><item><author>GVIrish</author><text>Well that didn&#x27;t take long. First it was about porn, now the naked power grab begins. Who gets to define &#x27;extremism&#x27;? Will information that Snowden leaked now be deemed extremist material? It seems only natural that the next step will be blocking dissent and content deemed dangerous to the sanctity of the state.<p>People of Great Britain, I hope you&#x27;re not sleeping on this. Forget the slippery slope, this is the cliff.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bport</author><text>The study that made us think the UK was the most surveilled country was a 2006 report, which reported about 4 million cameras in the UK. This report was published by the UK government&#x27;s &#x2F;own&#x2F; information comissioner as a warning of what we could be walking into.<p>A more recent study a couple of years ago put the number closer to 2 million, about 90% of which are privately owned. A large number of privately owned, non-centralised security cameras are not a threat to me in any way. If the government started networking private security for monitoring by the government, &#x2F;that&#x2F; would be the action that would get people (and private companies) up in arms.<p>Other recent government aggression, such as suspicionless stop and searches, extended detention for terrorism offences etc. were successfully challenged in the European court of humans rights within a few years. I&#x27;ve seen a pattern of worrying things slipping passed a sleepwalking public, then reverted later when it comes to light.<p>Apart from all that, this headline in particular is really inaccurate. There was no quote as strong as the subject, but the closest thing is that the PM said they were going to &#x27;block sites&#x27; related to extremeism. This isn&#x27;t a &#x27;filter&#x27;, which implies it&#x27;s something automated that affects all internet activity.<p>The internet surveillance under RIPA &#x2F;is&#x2F; genuinely frightening, but that isn&#x27;t unique to the UK.</text></comment>
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<story><title>UK Prime Minister: We have put in place Internet filters to block extremism</title><url>http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm131023/debtext/131023-0001.htm#13102356000002</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>josephagoss</author><text>The people of England are stereotypically doormats when it comes to this sort of thing. Standing up for rights is not something we&#x2F;they do very well.<p>We are the most survillienced nation, the population the most docile. That is one of the reasons I moved away, no one cares about this stuff, all they want is TV and quite often dole money. Let the filter roll out!<p>Of course there are exceptions, but nowhere near enough to make a real difference. The Government in England gets what it wants no matter what.<p>EDIT: I mean England, from my travels the other UK countries do not seem to have the same attitude as England does.</text></item><item><author>GVIrish</author><text>Well that didn&#x27;t take long. First it was about porn, now the naked power grab begins. Who gets to define &#x27;extremism&#x27;? Will information that Snowden leaked now be deemed extremist material? It seems only natural that the next step will be blocking dissent and content deemed dangerous to the sanctity of the state.<p>People of Great Britain, I hope you&#x27;re not sleeping on this. Forget the slippery slope, this is the cliff.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ZoFreX</author><text>&gt; We are the most survillienced nation<p>We are? I hope you have a better source for that than yelling something about CCTV and 1984 before running away (which is the extent to which most people can make the argument).<p>I do agree with the rest. Apathy is the name of the game here.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Hedge fund Melvin sustains 53% loss after Reddit onslaught</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/hedge-fund-melvin-sustains-53-loss-after-reddit-onslaught/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dcolkitt</author><text>It should be noted that Melvin Capital returned over 50% in 2020[1], 44% in 2019[2], and has averaged above 30% annual returns since inception[3].<p>In other words, even though this is definitely painful, even <i>inclusive</i> of this event, it&#x27;s one of the best performing hedge funds of the past decade.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;citadel-point72-to-invest-2-75-billion-into-melvin-capital-management-11611604340" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;citadel-point72-to-invest-2-75-...</a>
[2]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2019-07-19&#x2F;cohen-cub-gabriel-plotkin-sees-fund-surge-about-44-this-year" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2019-07-19&#x2F;cohen-cub...</a>
[3]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.baltimoresun.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;ct-biz-reddit-wall-street-bets-gamestop-melvin-capital-20210127-qk6uwmw5bze35dmvpx7xbgsyf4-story.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.baltimoresun.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;ct-biz-reddit-wall-str...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>runako</author><text>Context is important, so the Nasdaq 100 (as represented by the QQQ ETF) returned ~49% in 2020, 39% in 2019, and 24% over the last 5 years. Beating the indexes by 5-6 points consistently is very good, but it&#x27;s important to keep in mind that most equities were doing really well over that period.<p>(Edit: It&#x27;s been reported elsewhere that these numbers are net of fees. However, it&#x27;s entirely possible that for taxable accounts, tax considerations still narrow the performance gap. And of course, the QQQ offers instant liquidity and did not drop 53% this month.)<p>Either way, the money currently in there is very likely to underperform the indexes over the next 5 years (because they need to return 100% to get back to the pre-GME position).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Hedge fund Melvin sustains 53% loss after Reddit onslaught</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/hedge-fund-melvin-sustains-53-loss-after-reddit-onslaught/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dcolkitt</author><text>It should be noted that Melvin Capital returned over 50% in 2020[1], 44% in 2019[2], and has averaged above 30% annual returns since inception[3].<p>In other words, even though this is definitely painful, even <i>inclusive</i> of this event, it&#x27;s one of the best performing hedge funds of the past decade.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;citadel-point72-to-invest-2-75-billion-into-melvin-capital-management-11611604340" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;citadel-point72-to-invest-2-75-...</a>
[2]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2019-07-19&#x2F;cohen-cub-gabriel-plotkin-sees-fund-surge-about-44-this-year" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2019-07-19&#x2F;cohen-cub...</a>
[3]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.baltimoresun.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;ct-biz-reddit-wall-street-bets-gamestop-melvin-capital-20210127-qk6uwmw5bze35dmvpx7xbgsyf4-story.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.baltimoresun.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;ct-biz-reddit-wall-str...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jabberwcky</author><text>It should also be noted Melvin would not have achieved these results without leverage, which is precisely why a single holding almost destroyed the fund. Comparing unlevered benchmark index return to ultra-levered fund return simply doesn&#x27;t work. The S&amp;P most certainly outperformed Melvin on a risk-adjusted basis due to this single drawdown alone.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Penny Stocks Are Booming, Which Is Good News for Swindlers</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/18/business/penny-stocks-trading.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tryptophan</author><text>NYT calling for more regulation as usual.<p>Fools will always find ways to lose their money. The way the market is regulated now, it is hard for honest people to raise money on the markets (the original purpose of stock markets), but scammers are still there.<p>If stock markets weren&#x27;t horribly over-regulated, would the VC industry even need to exist?<p>Why must every part of the world be regulated into safety for the common man? Stock markets were once powerful tool. With power comes the ability to help, but also hurt one&#x27;s self greatly.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Penny Stocks Are Booming, Which Is Good News for Swindlers</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/18/business/penny-stocks-trading.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>This is a difficult question. Crack down on fraud, not even novel fraud, the same fraud that would have been cracked down on hard and fast in generations past, and you&#x27;re cutting individual investors out of the picture. A claim which has merit--it&#x27;s not obvious to me why <i>e.g.</i> hedge or PE or VC funds shouldn&#x27;t be open to individual investors.<p>But let the fraud run rampant, and individual investors <i>will</i> lose money. Enough money that it becomes a political problem. That threatens to destroy the market (<i>e.g.</i> onion futures [1]), or at the very least cost the public at large.<p>The only solution we have is to wait for a crash. But with modern monetarism, and the political cost of unemployment, monetary easing cushions financial assets from economic declines for a long, long time. Long enough for entire generations to have no memory of losing money in the market.<p>We need another mechanism. We have the same problem with vaccines [2].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Onion_Futures_Act" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Onion_Futures_Act</a><p>[2] Is there a term for tearing down a levy on account of having no flooding on account of having a levy?</text></comment>
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<story><title>An internet mob falsely painted a Chipotle employee as racist</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/25/us/false-racism-internet-mob-chipotle-video/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rdiddly</author><text>Ha - they offered to hire her back and she declined. Gotta agree there. Who wants to work for a company that outsources its hire&#x2F;fire decisions to a vote among random Twitter users?<p>The question now though is, are there any employers left that don&#x27;t do that?</text></comment>
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<story><title>An internet mob falsely painted a Chipotle employee as racist</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/25/us/false-racism-internet-mob-chipotle-video/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bdcravens</author><text>I remember when the news about Jussie Smollet broke, the usual SJWs on Twitter erupted in a tweet storm like they always do. (I follow a lot of great programmers who have a wide array of opinions and ideologies outside of their technical expertise) As what many have come to accept as the truth came out, no one ever retracted.<p>These are smart people, some of which have very high feedback here on HN. It seems to me however that their highly tuned critical thinking skills take a backseat to a desire to be mad about the state of the world, with little regard or accountability to what their words can mean.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Wealthy Americans are buying second passports as a 'plan B'</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/wealthy-americans-buy-second-passports-amid-covid-politics-climate-change-2022-5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mariojv</author><text>In my anecdotal experience, it is not just ultra wealthy Americans trying to get second passports.<p>We can&#x27;t afford these investment visas, but because of our fear that gay marriage rights may be repealed [0], my husband and I are exploring the possibility of Spanish citizenship via descent. It&#x27;s unclear if we can even apply before my dad gets it or become citizens without at least a year of residency, but when my dad emailed a major consulate recently, they had an automated message saying there&#x27;s a 5 day wait for return emails. Their listed phone number also had no response and went to voicemail with no automated message. My in laws are also looking into Mexican citizenship by descent.<p>I am curious how many folks are fleeing states or looking into it, also. We&#x27;ve checked with our workplaces about relocating out of state (Texas). That seems a lot easier than figuring out visas, but we are really dreading about how far things are going to go.<p>We&#x27;re hoping for the best, preparing for the worst. I am sure it is not just UHNW individuals who are preparing.<p>[0] See:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nitter.net&#x2F;NoLieWithBTC&#x2F;status&#x2F;1521912691824148482" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nitter.net&#x2F;NoLieWithBTC&#x2F;status&#x2F;1521912691824148482</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nitter.net&#x2F;BrynnTannehill&#x2F;status&#x2F;1521481078376181760" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nitter.net&#x2F;BrynnTannehill&#x2F;status&#x2F;1521481078376181760</a><p>and Google around for some op-eds. There&#x27;s a lot of debate around this and whether stare decisis will outweigh the court&#x27;s extreme views, but ultimately there&#x27;s a lot of uncertainty.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gehwartzen</author><text>I am sorry you are going through this. I have dual citizenship in Germany&#x2F;US which certainly gives me a certain feeling of comfort as having a way out should I feel I need it. For me personally its not gay rights, though those are still very important to me. I would cast your net as wide as possible in looking at various countries that have laws&#x2F;cultures that are more aligned with your own; some might have much more lax citizenship requirements than others. But as with everything there is usually a trade off.<p>Moving out of state might also work of course, and it will hopefully over time send a strong message to states like Texas.<p>Good Luck one way or the other.<p>PS: btw if you do leave the state, send a quick email to all your reps and perhaps those on the other side of the isle to let them know why you are leaving and how much you contributed to the local economy in order to send a strong message. Might help those left behind in Texas who are in a similar situation to you but have less means to move.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Wealthy Americans are buying second passports as a 'plan B'</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/wealthy-americans-buy-second-passports-amid-covid-politics-climate-change-2022-5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mariojv</author><text>In my anecdotal experience, it is not just ultra wealthy Americans trying to get second passports.<p>We can&#x27;t afford these investment visas, but because of our fear that gay marriage rights may be repealed [0], my husband and I are exploring the possibility of Spanish citizenship via descent. It&#x27;s unclear if we can even apply before my dad gets it or become citizens without at least a year of residency, but when my dad emailed a major consulate recently, they had an automated message saying there&#x27;s a 5 day wait for return emails. Their listed phone number also had no response and went to voicemail with no automated message. My in laws are also looking into Mexican citizenship by descent.<p>I am curious how many folks are fleeing states or looking into it, also. We&#x27;ve checked with our workplaces about relocating out of state (Texas). That seems a lot easier than figuring out visas, but we are really dreading about how far things are going to go.<p>We&#x27;re hoping for the best, preparing for the worst. I am sure it is not just UHNW individuals who are preparing.<p>[0] See:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nitter.net&#x2F;NoLieWithBTC&#x2F;status&#x2F;1521912691824148482" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nitter.net&#x2F;NoLieWithBTC&#x2F;status&#x2F;1521912691824148482</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nitter.net&#x2F;BrynnTannehill&#x2F;status&#x2F;1521481078376181760" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nitter.net&#x2F;BrynnTannehill&#x2F;status&#x2F;1521481078376181760</a><p>and Google around for some op-eds. There&#x27;s a lot of debate around this and whether stare decisis will outweigh the court&#x27;s extreme views, but ultimately there&#x27;s a lot of uncertainty.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>Your in laws might be better served with Mexican permanent residency. The economic solvency requirements are reasonable (about $120k in a savings&#x2F;investment&#x2F;retirement account seasoned for a year), and once approved by a Mexican consulate in the US, the process moves very fast once you get to Mexico. There is no upkeep cost, you have it for life once obtained. The only downside is that if you bring a vehicle to Mexico from the US, even temporarily, you’re paying duty on the vehicle’s value.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Nightmare – Guided Intro to Binary Exploitation/Reverse Engineering</title><url>https://guyinatuxedo.github.io/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>galacticaactual</author><text>The best thing one can do when setting out on the journey to learn reverse engineering is to avoid the temptation of trying to understand every line of assembly. Instead, try and gain an intuition around common patterns in various dialects (ARM &#x2F; x86 &#x2F; MIPS &#x2F; etc).<p>You can then abstract that understanding into macro-intuitions of control flow. When opening a black box binary in IDA for the first time, this allows you to think in terms of &quot;X input results in control flow path Y which gives me access to function Z and - because of calling convention - register A to redirect execution to memory location M.&quot; Now you&#x27;re in business and can worry about shellcode, ROP chains, whatever.<p>Just a couple of cents from the trenches.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Nightmare – Guided Intro to Binary Exploitation/Reverse Engineering</title><url>https://guyinatuxedo.github.io/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway_7718</author><text>Props to @travmatt for this find (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22401990" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22401990</a>)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Yuzu: Nintendo Switch Emulator</title><url>https://github.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>umvi</author><text>Can anyone comment on how you can emulate a modern console like Gamecube&#x2F;Wii&#x2F;Switch and run games at full speed? Last I checked, the (CPU cycle accurate?) SNES emulator Higan&#x2F;BSNES still experiences framedrops&#x2F;slowdown on modern hardware, and that&#x27;s for a 30-year-old console. What&#x27;s the shortcut&#x2F;secret sauce that allows emulating modern consoles on modern PCs at full speed?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>meibo</author><text>Modern computing architectures tend to be very similar. They use a process called high level emulation(HLE) where API calls to the emulated kernel, subsystems, graphics driver are basically &quot;translated&quot; to the host system, which allows for the high speeds and relative accuracy that lets games run beautifully. In the end, the only &quot;traditional&quot; emulation you&#x27;d be seeing is the CPU for the switch, which is a 64bit ARM CPU, and translated into x86 via a JIT.<p>If you think about wine and dxvk, it&#x27;s pretty much the same concept, without the need to emulate a CPU.<p>On the contrary, Higan uses low level emulation(LLE), wherein the actual hardware of the system is emulated as faithfully as possible, which is very CPU intensive.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Yuzu: Nintendo Switch Emulator</title><url>https://github.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>umvi</author><text>Can anyone comment on how you can emulate a modern console like Gamecube&#x2F;Wii&#x2F;Switch and run games at full speed? Last I checked, the (CPU cycle accurate?) SNES emulator Higan&#x2F;BSNES still experiences framedrops&#x2F;slowdown on modern hardware, and that&#x27;s for a 30-year-old console. What&#x27;s the shortcut&#x2F;secret sauce that allows emulating modern consoles on modern PCs at full speed?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Natsu</author><text>Maybe Higan&#x2F;BSNES are like this, but if you&#x27;ve ever used SNES9x&#x2F;zSNES or similar, you can see that we&#x27;ve been able to run playable games since the 90s.<p>Those also have some significant tradeoffs between emulation accuracy and speed, though because they were focused on playable games at speed, not necessarily perfect accuracy.<p>The later emulators have tried to do low level emulation to get accurate cycle counts and whatnot to make it as close as possible to a real SNES.</text></comment>
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<story><title>PyFormat – Practical examples of old and new style string formatting</title><url>http://pyformat.info</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>fragmede</author><text>They missed my favorite trick!
locals() will give you a dict of, well, local variables, which generally coincides with what you want, so:<p><pre><code> a = 4
&#x27;A is: {a}&#x27;.format(**locals())
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works as expected.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reidrac</author><text>You can also:<p><pre><code> a = 4
&#x27;A is: %(a)d&#x27; % locals()
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Perhaps is my experience programming in C, but &quot;format&quot; looks lees familiar and I tend to use the old style formatting.</text></comment>
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locals() will give you a dict of, well, local variables, which generally coincides with what you want, so:<p><pre><code> a = 4
&#x27;A is: {a}&#x27;.format(**locals())
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works as expected.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pfranz</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen this and tried to avoid it since getting bitten my moving code around and not catching which variables were used. It might have been even more obscured with something like TEMPLATED_STRING.format(<i></i>locals())</text></comment>
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<story><title>How MTA shut down my app for Penn Station commuters</title><url>https://medium.com/@alexkharlamov/how-mta-shut-down-my-app-for-penn-station-commuters-39e1cf69395f</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>state_machine</author><text>I can see why the MTA wouldn&#x27;t want you telling people to go to a track before it is actually assigned -- if the train ends up on a different track, now you need to get all those people back up, off that platform an on to the new one, clogging stairs that that people who actually wanted that platform might be trying to use too. Obviously it would be nice to assign tracks earlier, so that people can head straight to the right platform, but sending people to potentially the wrong platform seems even worse.<p>EDIT:
Penn is extremely platform&#x2F;track constrained -- NJ Transit, LIRR and Amtrak are all sharing a fixed number of platforms, some of which are too short.<p>To maximize platform utilization, they have to wait until the last minute to finalize track assignments -- if you reserve one too early and the train ends up late, you&#x27;re wasting an empty platform. Once you send a horde of people to a platform, moving them to a different one is a challenge (stairs&#x2F;bottlenecks, communication, etc).</text></comment>
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<story><title>How MTA shut down my app for Penn Station commuters</title><url>https://medium.com/@alexkharlamov/how-mta-shut-down-my-app-for-penn-station-commuters-39e1cf69395f</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bradleyjg</author><text>For about a year a decade and a half ago, I commuted into and out of Penn Station with my father who had been doing so since the late 70s.<p>Not only did he know which track any of a half dozen trains that he might take would come in on but he knew where the doors would open for each of the tracks. And he wasn&#x27;t the only one either. If you went down before they announced the tracks you&#x27;d see little clusters of people waiting apart from each other on an otherwise empty track. We&#x27;d usually go to the same car in order to reduce the distance on the other side. Other commuters would do likewise and so trains would have a contingent of regulars.<p>There&#x27;s a fascinating kind of micro-expertise that develops when you do the same thing over and over again.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Lago, Open-Source Stripe Alternative, banks $22M in funding</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/14/lago-a-paris-based-open-source-billing-platform-banks-22m/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>plantain</author><text>I tried to use it for a new SaaS product - but their plans start at 3000$&#x2F;mo.<p>It seems like they have things backwards. The small fry like me don&#x27;t want to self-host, we want a managed solution. The big fishes have enough scale to self-host.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danpalmer</author><text>I see your point, but I think this might work for them. At my previous place we started on Stripe it was really nice to work with, cost nothing in absolute terms because we had few sales, easy to integrate.<p>But a few years in we were doing substantial volume and we wanted to re-negotiate the contract. If we had Lago and could re-integrate with that, using it as leverage on a Stripe contract renewal, that could have been worth $3k a month, given that we were paying Stripe $30k per month in fees.<p>Our situation was a little different being retail rather than SaaS billing, but I could see a world where this makes financial sense.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Lago, Open-Source Stripe Alternative, banks $22M in funding</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/14/lago-a-paris-based-open-source-billing-platform-banks-22m/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>plantain</author><text>I tried to use it for a new SaaS product - but their plans start at 3000$&#x2F;mo.<p>It seems like they have things backwards. The small fry like me don&#x27;t want to self-host, we want a managed solution. The big fishes have enough scale to self-host.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>boudin</author><text>They have things backwards only if their strategy is to focus on the low end of the market. It doesn&#x27;t seem to be the case here.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Add a dirt-cheap screen to the Raspberry Pi B+</title><url>http://blog.reasonablycorrect.com/raw-dpi-raspberry-pi/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>freehunter</author><text>This really should be the next thing the RPi team tackles, IMO. It&#x27;s nice we have this great cheap computer, but trying to find a screen to plug into it is terrible. A computer monitor or TV is fine, but both of them draw too much power and are far too big and stationary. And have you seen the prices of small HDMI screens? I can buy a 8&quot; Windows tablet, full PC mind you, for the price of a single 5&quot; HDMI screen.<p>Far too often I find myself saying &quot;it shouldn&#x27;t be this hard&quot;. Surely there exists a market for an adapter to plug an easily available iPhone screen into an RPi?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>derekp7</author><text>What I&#x27;d like to see is a calculator shell that you could pop the RPi into, including physical buttons, lcd screen, battery and charger. My thinking -- most high schools require a graphing calculator, such as the TI 89 or similar, which is around $100 or so. Imagine if for that $100 you get something that can act as the same calculator, but morphs into a full computer when plugging in a keyboard&#x2F;monitor? It may end up getting a lot more kids into programming that way.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Add a dirt-cheap screen to the Raspberry Pi B+</title><url>http://blog.reasonablycorrect.com/raw-dpi-raspberry-pi/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>freehunter</author><text>This really should be the next thing the RPi team tackles, IMO. It&#x27;s nice we have this great cheap computer, but trying to find a screen to plug into it is terrible. A computer monitor or TV is fine, but both of them draw too much power and are far too big and stationary. And have you seen the prices of small HDMI screens? I can buy a 8&quot; Windows tablet, full PC mind you, for the price of a single 5&quot; HDMI screen.<p>Far too often I find myself saying &quot;it shouldn&#x27;t be this hard&quot;. Surely there exists a market for an adapter to plug an easily available iPhone screen into an RPi?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fit2rule</author><text>This can&#x27;t happen soon enough for me:<p><a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/pi-top-a-raspberry-pi-laptop-you-build-yourself" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.indiegogo.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;pi-top-a-raspberry-pi-lap...</a><p>.. but then, this is also pretty usable for the same purpose:<p><a href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6747" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.raspberrypi.org&#x2F;forums&#x2F;viewtopic.php?t=6747</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on Amazon</title><url>http://www.openculture.com/2017/01/george-orwells-1984-is-now-the-1-bestselling-book-on-amazon.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>celticninja</author><text>Those lies were not immediately able to be proven wrong. This is different because not only did they lie about something that could be checked but the continued to lie even after being called out on it. Further the president repeated the lie and continues to repeat the lie. O bet both George W. Bush and Tony Blair would agree that there were no WMDs in Iraq if you asked them today, if you also Trump, today or in 10 years, about the turnout for his inauguration he would repeat the same lies.</text></item><item><author>forgetsusername</author><text>A <i>new trend</i>?<p>You think Trump is inventing Whitehouse lies, right before our eyes? Politicians have a looooong history of lying, big lies that get peole killed (&quot;Iraq WMDs are a slam dunk!&quot;) . Where have you been?</text></item><item><author>kbenson</author><text>In one respect, the gaffe is insignificant to current events. In another, it&#x27;s vastly more important, because while small it erodes the underpinnings of the system by which we actually disseminate information.<p>It&#x27;s like having to choose between being upset about the person that mugged you for $500 on the street, or the bank that surreptitiously added 0.05% APR or the loan you just got for your house. One feels more important in the moment, but the other has much farther reaching implications, not just to your pocketbook, but as to whether you can trust anything about that institution going forward.<p>If this is the beginning of a new trend for the Whitehouse where <i>nothing</i> presented can be trusted, and it continues through future presidencies, I can definitely tell you which <i>I</i> think will be more important in 20 years.</text></item><item><author>pavanred</author><text>I really wish people and the media stop over emphasizing about every gaffe and focus on real news stories. For instance, the &quot;alternative facts&quot; comment&#x2F;incident is being talked about everywhere, from TV news channels to news parody shows to talk shows to social media etc. But, at the same time it seems like there is so much more important news that one would think deserves more attention like the executive orders, withdrawal from TPP, revival of oil pipelines, changes in healthcare spending etc. I even just saw news articles headlining on the guardian now about agencies being banned from sharing information on social media or to reporters and few journalists getting felony charges after covering the protests around the inauguration.<p>It almost makes me wonder if it would be a good idea if there was a website that covered the latest gaffe and the corresponding actual news worthy story that was lost out on optimal coverage because of it.<p>Edit: I couldn&#x27;t find this before but here is an interesting article I read yesterday [0]. It&#x27;s an opinion piece by Alexey Kovalev. - &quot;I’ve reported on Putin – here are my tips for journalists dealing with Trump&quot;.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;commentisfree&#x2F;2017&#x2F;jan&#x2F;23&#x2F;reported-putin-journalists-trump-media" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;commentisfree&#x2F;2017&#x2F;jan&#x2F;23&#x2F;report...</a></text></item><item><author>beloch</author><text>I must admit, I&#x27;m really confused by how impeachment works in the U.S.. Clinton was impeached for perjury and abuse of power because he took advantage of his position (and a political intern) and then lied about it.<p>Now we have a president who is not giving up his business interests while in office and who has already told some absolute whoppers, including the release of official press releases that were nothing but &quot;alternative facts&quot;. Why tell such obvious falsehoods? We&#x27;re all laughing (nervously) now because the lies seem to be harmless, self-serving vain ones. However, is Trump just a little insane, or is he actually finding out who is willing to say &quot;We&#x27;ve always been at war with Eurasia&quot; and who isn&#x27;t?<p>This is probably a good time for people to be reading 1984.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danbruc</author><text><i>Those lies were not immediately able to be proven wrong.</i><p>But there was serious doubt even if it did not constitute a clear proof. And doesn&#x27;t this actually make matters worse? An obvious lie about something without much if any consequences versus a somewhat convincing lie about something that affected the lives of millions? To me the former one seems more like a stupid thing to do, the later one seems ruthless, evil or what ever you want to call it.</text></comment>
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<story><title>George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on Amazon</title><url>http://www.openculture.com/2017/01/george-orwells-1984-is-now-the-1-bestselling-book-on-amazon.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>celticninja</author><text>Those lies were not immediately able to be proven wrong. This is different because not only did they lie about something that could be checked but the continued to lie even after being called out on it. Further the president repeated the lie and continues to repeat the lie. O bet both George W. Bush and Tony Blair would agree that there were no WMDs in Iraq if you asked them today, if you also Trump, today or in 10 years, about the turnout for his inauguration he would repeat the same lies.</text></item><item><author>forgetsusername</author><text>A <i>new trend</i>?<p>You think Trump is inventing Whitehouse lies, right before our eyes? Politicians have a looooong history of lying, big lies that get peole killed (&quot;Iraq WMDs are a slam dunk!&quot;) . Where have you been?</text></item><item><author>kbenson</author><text>In one respect, the gaffe is insignificant to current events. In another, it&#x27;s vastly more important, because while small it erodes the underpinnings of the system by which we actually disseminate information.<p>It&#x27;s like having to choose between being upset about the person that mugged you for $500 on the street, or the bank that surreptitiously added 0.05% APR or the loan you just got for your house. One feels more important in the moment, but the other has much farther reaching implications, not just to your pocketbook, but as to whether you can trust anything about that institution going forward.<p>If this is the beginning of a new trend for the Whitehouse where <i>nothing</i> presented can be trusted, and it continues through future presidencies, I can definitely tell you which <i>I</i> think will be more important in 20 years.</text></item><item><author>pavanred</author><text>I really wish people and the media stop over emphasizing about every gaffe and focus on real news stories. For instance, the &quot;alternative facts&quot; comment&#x2F;incident is being talked about everywhere, from TV news channels to news parody shows to talk shows to social media etc. But, at the same time it seems like there is so much more important news that one would think deserves more attention like the executive orders, withdrawal from TPP, revival of oil pipelines, changes in healthcare spending etc. I even just saw news articles headlining on the guardian now about agencies being banned from sharing information on social media or to reporters and few journalists getting felony charges after covering the protests around the inauguration.<p>It almost makes me wonder if it would be a good idea if there was a website that covered the latest gaffe and the corresponding actual news worthy story that was lost out on optimal coverage because of it.<p>Edit: I couldn&#x27;t find this before but here is an interesting article I read yesterday [0]. It&#x27;s an opinion piece by Alexey Kovalev. - &quot;I’ve reported on Putin – here are my tips for journalists dealing with Trump&quot;.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;commentisfree&#x2F;2017&#x2F;jan&#x2F;23&#x2F;reported-putin-journalists-trump-media" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;commentisfree&#x2F;2017&#x2F;jan&#x2F;23&#x2F;report...</a></text></item><item><author>beloch</author><text>I must admit, I&#x27;m really confused by how impeachment works in the U.S.. Clinton was impeached for perjury and abuse of power because he took advantage of his position (and a political intern) and then lied about it.<p>Now we have a president who is not giving up his business interests while in office and who has already told some absolute whoppers, including the release of official press releases that were nothing but &quot;alternative facts&quot;. Why tell such obvious falsehoods? We&#x27;re all laughing (nervously) now because the lies seem to be harmless, self-serving vain ones. However, is Trump just a little insane, or is he actually finding out who is willing to say &quot;We&#x27;ve always been at war with Eurasia&quot; and who isn&#x27;t?<p>This is probably a good time for people to be reading 1984.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>koolba</author><text>&gt; O bet both George W. Bush and Tony Blair would agree that there were no WMDs in Iraq if you asked them today, if you also Trump, today or in 10 years, about the turnout for his inauguration he would repeat the same lies.<p>You can use the Obama birth certificate turn around as counter point and that was definitely less than 10 years.</text></comment>
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<story><title>How they filmed The Last of Us arcade scene</title><url>https://forums.arcade-museum.com/threads/last-of-us-arcade-scene.518996/page-3</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danbruc</author><text><i>Another fun fact. It is quite expensive to license some games to show in TV&#x2F;Movies.</i><p>What is the logic or justification here? It would never have occurred to me that you have to license games if you are filming in an arcade. Do you have to get a license if you film someone playing on a PlayStation? Playing a board game? Playing with LEGO bricks? Making coffee with a Bialetti? Standing next to a car with trademarked design elements? Is there somewhere some legal clause like you can play with your Game Boy but you can not film it without explicit permission? Is it because in the case of games - or software in general - you are not truly buying it but only getting a license to use it? Do I need a license to film someone using a browser or Photoshop? I mean, I can see that you have to license the music in a film if you make deliberate artistic decision and it really contributes to the scene, but what about some random music playing on a radio in the background? What about the radio in the background of a documentary film?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Very Weird Solicitation Alert</title><url>https://accrispin.blogspot.com/2021/09/very-weird-solicitation-alert-monica.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JohnJamesRambo</author><text>Oooh I didn&#x27;t know this had a name. Family members have fallen victim to this several times to con men that came into their churches and pretended to be &quot;one of them&quot; and had a special ponzi or pyramid scheme from God to share. The churchgoers instantly let their guard down, what an easy con. People in a church already have a tendency to believe in things.</text></item><item><author>seibelj</author><text>TLDR - it is implied that a convicted fraudster named Monica Main either coerced an old (and possibly feeble &#x2F; demented) romance author (Judith McNaught) or stole her identity to fleece wannabe writers out of money. I applaud the author for digging this deep, what an odd scam. It is affinity fraud, except the group is struggling writers.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Affinity_fraud" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Affinity_fraud</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nwatson</author><text>Check out Stan Johnson of the &quot;Prophecy Club&quot; on YouTube and elsewhere. He&#x27;s been riding various Evangelical trends since the nineties or even the eighties with promotional tie-ins to various enterprises, e.g. prepper food&#x2F;technology, silver bullion, prophecy videos and conferences. I can&#x27;t imagine he&#x27;s making all that much these days and his hybrid physical&#x2F;online seems small. He got the COVID-19 a couple of times and didn&#x27;t bother to tell his still-meeting congregation about it until quite late.<p>He preys on the gullible ... but in some Black Swan event sort of way (e.g. extended regional power outage) his adherents may come out ahead for a short time.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Researchers generate complete human X chromosome sequence</title><url>https://www.genome.gov/news/news-release/NHGRI-researchers-generate-complete-human-x-chromosome-sequence</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ReaLNero</author><text>Dumb question: is there a x_chromosome.txt with the sequence in order? Why do geneticists not talk about it this way?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Stone: Leonardo da Vinci's Resume</title><url>http://www.cenedella.com/stone/archives/2010/01/leonardo_da_vincis_resume.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edw519</author><text>If it worked for Leonardo da Vinci, maybe it could work for me. The next time I'm looking for a job, I'll try this:<p>"Most Illustrious Proprietor, Having now sufficiently considered the specimens of all those who proclaim themselves skilled developers of applications of business, and that the invention and operation of the said programs are nothing different from those in common use: I shall endeavor, without prejudice to any one else, to explain myself to your Company, showing your Management my secret, and then offering them to your best pleasure and approbation to work with effect at opportune moments on all those things which, in part, shall be briefly noted below.<p>1. I have a sort of extremely light and strong functions and modules, adapted to be most easily ftp'd, and with them you may pursue, and at any time combine them with others, secure and indestructible by standard mean time to failure of hardware and denial of service, easy and convenient to compile and catalog. Also methods of unzipping and storing the data of the customers.<p>2. I know how, when a website is besieged, to shard data onto the cloud, and make endless variety of mirrors, and fault tolerant disks and RAIDs, and other machines pertaining to such concerns.<p>3. If, by reason of the volume of the data, or the structure of the btrees and its indexes, it is impossible, when conducting a search, to avail oneself of sub-second response time, I have methods for benchmarking every process or other function, even if it were interpreted, etc.<p>4. Again, I have kinds of functions; most convenient and easy to ftp; and with these I can spawn lots of data almost resembling a torrent; and with the download of these cause great terror to the competitor, to his great detriment and confusion.<p>5. And if the processing should be on the desktop I have apps of many machines most efficient for data entry and reporting; and utilities which will satisfy the needs of the most demanding customers and users and consumers.<p>6. I have means by secret and tortuous scripts and modules, made without leaving tracks, to generate source code, even if it were needed to run on a client or a server.<p>7. I will make secure firewalls, safe and unattackable, which, entering among the hackers with their utilities, there is no body of crackers so great but they would break them. And behind these, software could run quite unhurt and without any hindrance.<p>8. In case of need I will make big properties, methods, and collections and useful forms, out of the common type.<p>9. Where the operation of compiling might fail, I would contrive scripts, functions, routines, and other parameter driven processes of marvellous efficacy and not in common use. And in short, according to the variety of cases, I can contrive various and endless means of data entry, reporting, and storage.<p>10. In times of low revenue I believe I can give perfect satisfaction and to the equal of any other in maintenance and the refactoring of code public and private; and in guiding data from one warehouse to another.<p>11. I can carry out code in Javascript, PHP, or C, and also I can do in network administration whatever may be done, as well as any other, be he who he may.<p>Again, the intranet app may be taken in hand, which is to be to the immortal glory and eternal honor of all your customers of happy memory, and of the illustrious house of Google.<p>And if any of the above-named things seem to anyone to be impossible or not feasible, I am most ready to make the experiment in your data center, or in whatever place may please your Businessperson - to whom I comment myself with the utmost humility, etc."</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yan</author><text>Next time the Duke of Pittsburgh needs to create a CRM solution, you will have a resume at the ready!</text></comment>
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<story><title>Stone: Leonardo da Vinci's Resume</title><url>http://www.cenedella.com/stone/archives/2010/01/leonardo_da_vincis_resume.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edw519</author><text>If it worked for Leonardo da Vinci, maybe it could work for me. The next time I'm looking for a job, I'll try this:<p>"Most Illustrious Proprietor, Having now sufficiently considered the specimens of all those who proclaim themselves skilled developers of applications of business, and that the invention and operation of the said programs are nothing different from those in common use: I shall endeavor, without prejudice to any one else, to explain myself to your Company, showing your Management my secret, and then offering them to your best pleasure and approbation to work with effect at opportune moments on all those things which, in part, shall be briefly noted below.<p>1. I have a sort of extremely light and strong functions and modules, adapted to be most easily ftp'd, and with them you may pursue, and at any time combine them with others, secure and indestructible by standard mean time to failure of hardware and denial of service, easy and convenient to compile and catalog. Also methods of unzipping and storing the data of the customers.<p>2. I know how, when a website is besieged, to shard data onto the cloud, and make endless variety of mirrors, and fault tolerant disks and RAIDs, and other machines pertaining to such concerns.<p>3. If, by reason of the volume of the data, or the structure of the btrees and its indexes, it is impossible, when conducting a search, to avail oneself of sub-second response time, I have methods for benchmarking every process or other function, even if it were interpreted, etc.<p>4. Again, I have kinds of functions; most convenient and easy to ftp; and with these I can spawn lots of data almost resembling a torrent; and with the download of these cause great terror to the competitor, to his great detriment and confusion.<p>5. And if the processing should be on the desktop I have apps of many machines most efficient for data entry and reporting; and utilities which will satisfy the needs of the most demanding customers and users and consumers.<p>6. I have means by secret and tortuous scripts and modules, made without leaving tracks, to generate source code, even if it were needed to run on a client or a server.<p>7. I will make secure firewalls, safe and unattackable, which, entering among the hackers with their utilities, there is no body of crackers so great but they would break them. And behind these, software could run quite unhurt and without any hindrance.<p>8. In case of need I will make big properties, methods, and collections and useful forms, out of the common type.<p>9. Where the operation of compiling might fail, I would contrive scripts, functions, routines, and other parameter driven processes of marvellous efficacy and not in common use. And in short, according to the variety of cases, I can contrive various and endless means of data entry, reporting, and storage.<p>10. In times of low revenue I believe I can give perfect satisfaction and to the equal of any other in maintenance and the refactoring of code public and private; and in guiding data from one warehouse to another.<p>11. I can carry out code in Javascript, PHP, or C, and also I can do in network administration whatever may be done, as well as any other, be he who he may.<p>Again, the intranet app may be taken in hand, which is to be to the immortal glory and eternal honor of all your customers of happy memory, and of the illustrious house of Google.<p>And if any of the above-named things seem to anyone to be impossible or not feasible, I am most ready to make the experiment in your data center, or in whatever place may please your Businessperson - to whom I comment myself with the utmost humility, etc."</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jun8</author><text>Fantastic! We're trying to fill a position right now and compared to the sorry state of the resumes we receive (all from EE and CS PhDs with industry experience, mind you) this would be a killer.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Inside the Obama Tech Surge as It Hacks the Pentagon and VA</title><url>https://backchannel.com/inside-the-obama-tech-surge-as-it-hacks-the-pentagon-and-va-8b439bc33ed1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>liyanchang</author><text>Disclosure: I&#x27;m an engineer at USDS and these are my own opinions.<p>So in my admittedly short time in the government [0], I&#x27;ve witnessed how all of these problems are due to good intentions. That&#x27;s what makes this all really tough because everything you think is bonkers actually has a reason.<p>The 1400 page travel regulations is a result of trying to prevent fraud - every single issue that comes up results in a new rule.<p>The fact that it takes some projects years to deploy is that we would like to plan and make sure that every resource is well-spent, that it&#x27;s in a number of languages and accessible to the blind.<p>It makes it hard for everyone - I&#x27;ve met lots of smart talented civil servants and government contractors who want to do things differently but have their hands tied behind their back.<p>[0] 2 years feels like forever to me but flash in the pan to many of the dedicated civil servants I&#x27;ve met.</text></item><item><author>cs702</author><text>The federal government hires a team of young, talented, motivated engineers and managers, puts them in charge of failed software projects, gives them the resources and authority they require to turns things around, and -- surprise! -- it turns out they do a GREAT job.<p>In hindsight, this shouldn&#x27;t be too surprising. What might be surprising is that the same logic should apply to ALL government functions, not just software development. Who says government projects and agencies <i>have to be</i> poorly run? Who says we can&#x27;t devise better systems and&#x2F;or mechanisms (e.g., market-based mechanisms) for attracting and retaining great people in government?<p>Throughout history, there are examples of government bureaucracies that have been reasonably well run, in some cases for centuries. The Habsburg empire, in particular, comes to mind: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.independent.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;world&#x2F;europe&#x2F;habsburg-empire-territories-europe-have-higher-trust-in-justice-systems-a6893946.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.independent.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;world&#x2F;europe&#x2F;habsburg-empi...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>niels_olson</author><text>Disclosure: I&#x27;m active duty Navy and these are my own opinions.<p>In 22 years, I have never been so hopeful for meaningful improvement in my work life as I am now. Having met a few folks I am all too familiar with DTS and the JFTR (the 1400 pages in the article(1)). I think that&#x27;s a great choice to start with: like Google going after the mundane problems of every person&#x27;s life. This will make a difference. I am on travel now and was on the phone and DTS (simultaneously) for an hour today. And for anyone who tries to apologize for the 1400 pages, please don&#x27;t. I have cut instructions from 238 pages to less than 30. I would argue the major problem is <i>not</i> that people are trying to solve every edge case. The major problem is that people are only in a job for a short period of time, come in, and while they may try to solve the edge cases they encounter, they often do that by trying to simplify things by inserting a new abstraction and taking ownership of that abstraction. So the layers of abstraction accrete like sediment. And as long as there&#x27;s no direct logic conflicts, they can promote away from the problem.<p>I will gladly buy any USDS, 18F, or DDS hacker in San Diego a beer. Keep up the good work.<p>(1) It&#x27;s actually 1602 pages: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.defensetravel.dod.mil&#x2F;Docs&#x2F;perdiem&#x2F;JTR.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.defensetravel.dod.mil&#x2F;Docs&#x2F;perdiem&#x2F;JTR.pdf</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Beijing is Silicon Valley's only true competitor</title><url>http://www.recode.net/2016/5/13/11592570/china-startup-tech-economy-silicon-valley</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>supster</author><text>It must help Chinese startups that many SV companies are blocked from competing in China. For example no competition from Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, Youtube, Gmail, Dropbox, Vimeo, SoundCloud...<p>more info: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Websites_blocked_in_mainland_China" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Websites_blocked_in_mainland_C...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Beijing is Silicon Valley's only true competitor</title><url>http://www.recode.net/2016/5/13/11592570/china-startup-tech-economy-silicon-valley</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kyledrake</author><text>Funny, I gave a tech talk at the Chekku (Garage) cafe a few years ago, and even then it had a pretty impressive energy in the place. The host that set it up expected maybe 15 people to show up, over 150 did.<p>China was and still is lacking some very important infrastructure for successful business development: a stable legal and contracts system, strongly enforced property rights, institutional access to capital, investment focused on demand rather than supply (see also ghost cities), and a well regulated stock market more based on revenue than pure speculation (not that the events of the last 10 years in the US stock markets haven&#x27;t shaken my opinion on their strength).<p>Chinese entrepreneurs make up for these business problems the same way people that lack resources do in the states: through hard work and sheer tenacity. They&#x27;re hungry for progress, and at the end of the day, that&#x27;s what builds an economy.<p>I met some great people at Garage cafe that night, and they left a strong impression on me that Chinese entrepreneurs are going to do some really impressive stuff over the next ten years.<p>If you&#x27;re ever in Beijing, I highly recommend spending an evening there. It was the highlight of my trip.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Most people won't</title><url>http://bryce.vc/post/64889707700/most-people-wont#notes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spodek</author><text>Everybody so far is commenting on the woman who approached the CEO.<p>Let&#x27;s not forget the CEO, who committed and risked resources on a hunch or instinct or who-knows-what.<p>If I had to pick one of the two to ask how they had the nerve to act and to learn from, I&#x27;d pick him. (Of course I&#x27;d prefer both and not to belittle her gumption and skills to back it up).<p>- What did he see to suggest risking those resources? ... To create a team of outsiders to work on the <i>core</i> app?<p>- How likely did he expect things to work out?<p>- How did he explain the expenditure of flying the others in to the CFO or whomever?<p>- Or did he make a unilateral decision without asking others?<p>- Did he just get lucky?<p>- Had he done things like this before and succeeded? Failed?<p>- Was he worried about making waves in his organization? Did he?<p>Plenty more questions pop up...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bowlofpetunias</author><text>I have some doubts about the CEO.<p>It&#x27;s very common in these kind of scenarios that either a) the same criticism &#x2F; suggestions have been made regularly over a long time by people inside the company which have gone ignored, or b) the company has a culture in which that information never reaches the CEO, either out of fear or because of middle management layers.<p>In both those cases, the CEO is actually mismanaging the company and completely undermining the motivation and loyalty of his employees.<p>I&#x27;ve seen this happen time and time again. CEO&#x27;s and managers don&#x27;t accept internal criticism or suggestions, don&#x27;t give their people the freedom to take action themselves, but some outsider swoops in with an impressive Powerpoint presentation (or dress) and suddenly they see the light.<p>It&#x27;s the opposite of taking risks (you can blame the outsiders if it fails), it&#x27;s actually cowardice.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Most people won't</title><url>http://bryce.vc/post/64889707700/most-people-wont#notes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spodek</author><text>Everybody so far is commenting on the woman who approached the CEO.<p>Let&#x27;s not forget the CEO, who committed and risked resources on a hunch or instinct or who-knows-what.<p>If I had to pick one of the two to ask how they had the nerve to act and to learn from, I&#x27;d pick him. (Of course I&#x27;d prefer both and not to belittle her gumption and skills to back it up).<p>- What did he see to suggest risking those resources? ... To create a team of outsiders to work on the <i>core</i> app?<p>- How likely did he expect things to work out?<p>- How did he explain the expenditure of flying the others in to the CFO or whomever?<p>- Or did he make a unilateral decision without asking others?<p>- Did he just get lucky?<p>- Had he done things like this before and succeeded? Failed?<p>- Was he worried about making waves in his organization? Did he?<p>Plenty more questions pop up...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcampbell1</author><text>The thing that is most fascinating, is that she basically said, &quot;I like your idea, but your execution sucks&quot;. That is the pinnacle of the most painful thing to hear, but the CEO took it in stride and made his product better.<p>That is the lesson I am going to take away. Ideas matter, but if execution is the thing you can change, then embrace the people that tell you your execution sucks and have ideas.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Social Recession: By the Numbers</title><url>https://novum.substack.com/p/social-recession-by-the-numbers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>Every single highly individualistic society seems to be in population decline (more so if you factor out immigrants from “anti-progressive” Muslim or Catholic countries). Individualism seems to be a self-limiting feature of society: it’s unpleasant to raise children in highly individualistic societies, which makes such societies inherently transitory.[1]<p>Is societal self-obsolescence how you define “progress?” How successful can your society really be if your people don’t seem to want to raise kids in it and perpetuate it? If you have to import people from collectivist societies just to take care of your elderly?<p>[1] The inverse is not true—many collectivist societies are also facing population walls—but for quite different reasons.</text></item><item><author>seydor</author><text>The US must not be a low-trust society. You should try to live in an actual low trust society (where people can&#x27;t trust institutions and instead revert to their family or clan). The US is not like that, people seem to trust other people they have never seen before because they trust things like justice or the US army or google or apple.<p>Other than that, it seems that things are progressing as normal. Since the times of the Enlightenment, there was this oxymoron of idealizing individual empowerment, while advocating that humans are social animals that must act collectively. Which is it? Well with today&#x27;s technology and abundance people are drifting deliberately and decisively towards more individualism. Perhaps it is about ime to stop describing these things as &#x27;problems&#x27; and realize that they are the new reality. Our politics worldwide is quite ancient , and not prepared for the next phase of individual empowerment. The places of the world that are stuck in collectivist mindsets are awfully deluded like Russia, or rigidly antiprogressive, like China.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>godelski</author><text>But many collective societies are also facing similar issues of loneliness and isolation. This isn&#x27;t just a western problem. We also see this same problem all across Asia: India, Japan, China, Korea. Some of these countries even had a rise in isolation before the US. I don&#x27;t think it is a individualism vs collectivism issue, though I&#x27;m not going to dismiss it from the equation. I think it is that humans have just gotten comfortable as our lives have all tremendously benefited. We have little day to day problems. The problems we face now are much more abstract and existential than before, which tend to not be as motivating for adopting risky behavior.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Social Recession: By the Numbers</title><url>https://novum.substack.com/p/social-recession-by-the-numbers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>Every single highly individualistic society seems to be in population decline (more so if you factor out immigrants from “anti-progressive” Muslim or Catholic countries). Individualism seems to be a self-limiting feature of society: it’s unpleasant to raise children in highly individualistic societies, which makes such societies inherently transitory.[1]<p>Is societal self-obsolescence how you define “progress?” How successful can your society really be if your people don’t seem to want to raise kids in it and perpetuate it? If you have to import people from collectivist societies just to take care of your elderly?<p>[1] The inverse is not true—many collectivist societies are also facing population walls—but for quite different reasons.</text></item><item><author>seydor</author><text>The US must not be a low-trust society. You should try to live in an actual low trust society (where people can&#x27;t trust institutions and instead revert to their family or clan). The US is not like that, people seem to trust other people they have never seen before because they trust things like justice or the US army or google or apple.<p>Other than that, it seems that things are progressing as normal. Since the times of the Enlightenment, there was this oxymoron of idealizing individual empowerment, while advocating that humans are social animals that must act collectively. Which is it? Well with today&#x27;s technology and abundance people are drifting deliberately and decisively towards more individualism. Perhaps it is about ime to stop describing these things as &#x27;problems&#x27; and realize that they are the new reality. Our politics worldwide is quite ancient , and not prepared for the next phase of individual empowerment. The places of the world that are stuck in collectivist mindsets are awfully deluded like Russia, or rigidly antiprogressive, like China.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Der_Einzige</author><text>The collectivist societies, like South Korea and Japan, are experiencing stronger and worse populations declines than highly individualistic societies.</text></comment>
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<story><title>MacBook Pro Retina Display Analysis</title><url>http://www.anandtech.com/show/5998/macbook-pro-retina-display-analysis</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Gring</author><text>What happens if you span the desktop across the internal retina display and an external non-retina display and then move a window so that parts of it are on both displays? Is it just double size on the non-retina (which would be bad)? Or does it get drawn twice, in both resolutions, and each display gets their appropriate resolution (which would be preferable, but might be overly complex and taxing on the hardware)?</text></comment>
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<story><title>MacBook Pro Retina Display Analysis</title><url>http://www.anandtech.com/show/5998/macbook-pro-retina-display-analysis</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>PopaL</author><text>The smart move now will be to wait 2-3 months before buying the Retina Display machine. I'm convinced that by the launch of Mountain Lion the OS will let you use the full resolution of the machine for UI, also it will give some time to other apps to upgrade their UI in order to support the new resolution.<p>While the upgrade to Mountain Lion will be free, I have a funny feeling that Adobe will charge (or at least will try) you some extra money for an updated version of Photoshop for Retina Display MacBook Pro :).<p>Any self respecting company or individual developer will probably provide a free upgrade for the UI of their applications soon in order to support the new resolution.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Bicycle: Growing Popularity of the New Vehicle (1874) [pdf]</title><url>http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B02E6DE1030EF34BC4F53DFB767838F669FDE</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kayoone</author><text>For a year now i drive my bike to and from work in Berlin, about 11km daily. I got a pretty cheap but decent quality single speed bike. It&#x27;s light (aluminium) and fast, perfect daily driver. It&#x27;s beautiful because of it&#x27;s simplicity and efficiency. I am faster than either car or tram over the same route and on top of that it&#x27;s healthy and fun. When i can&#x27;t do it for a couple of days or even a week because of really bad weather, i start to feel really guilty and bad :)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Data Structures for Text Sequences (1998) [pdf]</title><url>https://www.cs.unm.edu/~crowley/papers/sds.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>visarga</author><text>I invented the &quot;piece table&quot; data structure independently, while writing a DOS text editor in 1990s, presented it at a symposium in my faculty and got laughed off. 20 years later I stumble into this PDF describing it as a worthwhile data structure. LOL</text></comment>
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<story><title>Shaky: ASCII Diagram to PNG</title><url>http://shaky.github.bushong.net/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>davidjgraph</author><text>These ideas always seem to top HN. They are cute, but interactive diagram editors have been around a while and, unfortunately, are just faster to use and are more flexible.<p>Maybe it&#x27;d make more sense to just have one of these tools implement export to ACSII?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mraleph</author><text>I wrote the original code (not this CoffeeScript port) so that I could create simple diagrams fast without resorting much to dragging stuff around with mouse. If you want to create a sequence of diagrams where each next one is just slightly different from the previous one then textual approach is simply superior to point-and-click style editing. Other parts of my motivation were outlined here[1].<p>Having this ASCII -&gt; image converter also allows me to embed diagrams into blogposts <i>as text</i> without actually making images out of them. See [2] as an example of such embedding.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mrale.ph&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2012&#x2F;11&#x2F;25&#x2F;shaky-diagramming.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mrale.ph&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2012&#x2F;11&#x2F;25&#x2F;shaky-diagramming.html</a>
[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mrale.ph&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2014&#x2F;07&#x2F;30&#x2F;constructor-vs-objectcreate.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mrale.ph&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2014&#x2F;07&#x2F;30&#x2F;constructor-vs-objectcreate....</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Shaky: ASCII Diagram to PNG</title><url>http://shaky.github.bushong.net/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>davidjgraph</author><text>These ideas always seem to top HN. They are cute, but interactive diagram editors have been around a while and, unfortunately, are just faster to use and are more flexible.<p>Maybe it&#x27;d make more sense to just have one of these tools implement export to ACSII?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dr_zoidberg</author><text>I think the appeal would be that, since it&#x27;s text based, it&#x27;s already supported by git&#x2F;mercurial&#x2F;svn&#x2F;name-your-vcs. A binary format would need some sort of history&#x2F;diff support inside it to work well with a specific plugin for s VCS. An XML-based format would integrate well with a VCS, but you lose the clarity of the ASCII based diagrams.<p>It may seem &quot;cute&quot; or &quot;toyish&quot;, but I woudl try to use it before giving an opinion. I certainly did that with markdown and ended up moving a lot of docs to that format, right in the repos with the code.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Reproducibility Initiative gets $1.3M grant to validate 50 cancer studies</title><url>http://blog.scienceexchange.com/2013/10/reproducibility-initiative-receives-1-3m-grant-to-validate-50-landmark-cancer-studies/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>napoleoncomplex</author><text>Reproducibility in science is something that badly needs this push. It&#x27;s an incredibly difficult &quot;sell&quot; to anyone with funds for research, and I&#x27;m extremely happy that they&#x27;ve found capital for it.<p>The foundations of our scientific knowledge need to be solidified, and from all the science news and developments, this one is the one that makes me by far the most excited for the future of science.<p>Next on the list, open source repositories for protocols of experiments! Maybe someone surprises me with a link to an existing solution :).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Reproducibility Initiative gets $1.3M grant to validate 50 cancer studies</title><url>http://blog.scienceexchange.com/2013/10/reproducibility-initiative-receives-1-3m-grant-to-validate-50-landmark-cancer-studies/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>irollboozers</author><text>Science Exchange is leading and pushing ahead with this very important work. They are addressing what the public funders and private industry can&#x27;t and won&#x27;t do, but at scale this becomes really powerful. Great stuff.</text></comment>
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<story><title>YouTube-dl's first release since June 2021</title><url>https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/releases/tag/2021.12.17</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yakubin</author><text>For a long time now for me <i>youtube-dl</i> downloads YouTube videos at 50kb&#x2F;s, which makes it impractical to use in conjunction with <i>mpv</i>. I need to leave <i>youtube-dl</i> running in the background for several hours to then watch the video in <i>mpv</i>.<p>Now from the comments I&#x27;ve found out about <i>yt-dlp</i>[1] which claims to fix this issue[2]. Will check it out.<p>[1]: &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;yt-dlp&#x2F;yt-dlp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;yt-dlp&#x2F;yt-dlp</a>&gt;<p>[2]: &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ytdl-org&#x2F;youtube-dl&#x2F;issues&#x2F;29326" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ytdl-org&#x2F;youtube-dl&#x2F;issues&#x2F;29326</a>&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pdimitar</author><text>It does fix it. I switched to `yt-dlp` months ago and never had a problem with throttled downloads anymore.<p>Little later I also discovered I could use `yt-dlp` together with the `aria2c` downloader and now I am never going below 15 MB&#x2F;s when downloading.</text></comment>
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<story><title>YouTube-dl's first release since June 2021</title><url>https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/releases/tag/2021.12.17</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yakubin</author><text>For a long time now for me <i>youtube-dl</i> downloads YouTube videos at 50kb&#x2F;s, which makes it impractical to use in conjunction with <i>mpv</i>. I need to leave <i>youtube-dl</i> running in the background for several hours to then watch the video in <i>mpv</i>.<p>Now from the comments I&#x27;ve found out about <i>yt-dlp</i>[1] which claims to fix this issue[2]. Will check it out.<p>[1]: &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;yt-dlp&#x2F;yt-dlp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;yt-dlp&#x2F;yt-dlp</a>&gt;<p>[2]: &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ytdl-org&#x2F;youtube-dl&#x2F;issues&#x2F;29326" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ytdl-org&#x2F;youtube-dl&#x2F;issues&#x2F;29326</a>&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>db48x</author><text>It’s not a bug. Youtube deliberately throttles downloads unless the client can answer a math question.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Germany launches world's first hydrogen-powered train</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/17/germany-launches-worlds-first-hydrogen-powered-train</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jillesvangurp</author><text>In related news, Bombardier is deploying a battery powered train in Berlin: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;montrealgazette.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;local-business&#x2F;bombardier-debuts-battery-train-in-berlin-in-challenge-to-diesel" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;montrealgazette.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;local-business&#x2F;bombardi...</a><p>Most of the rail system in Germany is electrified anyway. With batteries to power the non electrified bits, why bother with hydrogen?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jnty</author><text>Overhead power lines require maintenance too, and getting 100% coverage often involves disproportionate spend on short sections that are expensive to cover and maintain. Getting rid of masts on those sections - or even whole lines - could be a massive cost saving.<p>Additionally, Germany is a big train tech exporter, and there&#x27;s lots of unelectrified route miles in Europe and the world, many of which would be totally uneconomical to electrify.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Germany launches world's first hydrogen-powered train</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/17/germany-launches-worlds-first-hydrogen-powered-train</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jillesvangurp</author><text>In related news, Bombardier is deploying a battery powered train in Berlin: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;montrealgazette.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;local-business&#x2F;bombardier-debuts-battery-train-in-berlin-in-challenge-to-diesel" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;montrealgazette.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;local-business&#x2F;bombardi...</a><p>Most of the rail system in Germany is electrified anyway. With batteries to power the non electrified bits, why bother with hydrogen?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>azernik</author><text>Because fuel cells provide range equivalent to diesel (600km, says the article), while these battery-powered trains can only go 40km or so between charges.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The first blue pigment discovered in 200 years is now commercially available</title><url>https://news.artnet.com/art-world/yinmn-blue-comes-market-1921665</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JohnJamesRambo</author><text>Is this ok?<p>&gt;Yttrium is mostly dangerous in the working environment, due to the fact that damps and gasses can be inhaled with air. This can cause lung embolisms, especially during long-term exposure. Yttrium can also cause cancer with humans, as it enlarges the chances of lung cancer when it is inhaled.<p>&gt;Indium compounds are encountered rarely by most people. All indium compounds should be regarded as highly toxic. Indium compounds damage the heart, kidney, and liver, and may be teratogenic.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lenntech.com&#x2F;periodic&#x2F;elements&#x2F;y.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lenntech.com&#x2F;periodic&#x2F;elements&#x2F;y.htm</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>The first blue pigment discovered in 200 years is now commercially available</title><url>https://news.artnet.com/art-world/yinmn-blue-comes-market-1921665</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pacificmint</author><text>Here are two articles about how this pigment was discovered:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;07&#x2F;16&#x2F;485696248&#x2F;a-chemist-accidentally-creates-a-new-blue-then-what" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;07&#x2F;16&#x2F;485696248&#x2F;a-chemist-accidenta...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;features&#x2F;2018-quest-for-billion-dollar-red&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;features&#x2F;2018-quest-for-billion-do...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Feeling like a victim is a perfectly disastrous way to go through life</title><url>https://newsletter.butwhatfor.com/p/takeaway-tuesday-facing-adversity-charlie-munger</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjburgess</author><text>Say, there are two types of people:<p>(1) a person who <i>mostly</i> experiences challenges at or just
above their ability to solve them<p>(2) a person who <i>mostly</i> experiences challenges way above their ability to solve them (even plausibly so)<p>Stoicism, political conservatism, rugged individualists, etc. are just those in camp-1 unaware there&#x27;s a camp-2.<p>(Likewise, social radicals are in camp-2, saying of 1, they&#x27;re privileged <i>as if that isnt desirable!</i>. So both sides are superstitious about the other).</text></item><item><author>kodah</author><text>Kind of a weird take. Marcus Aurelius&#x27; life, although that of an emperor, was filled with a lot of strife that he used philosophy to deal with. His stoic philosophies come from his early life, which saw the death of his father, and adoption by a series of people he didn&#x27;t know, all the way to the death of both of his sons.<p>Marcus did achieve the title of emperor, but dismissing him because of his accomplishments, especially when stoicism was a key and integral part of his life along the way, is odd.</text></item><item><author>thunkshift1</author><text>Thats right, advice from a goddamn emperor on how the downtrodden should not feel downtrodden</text></item><item><author>AlbertCory</author><text>If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.<p>― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>somenameforme</author><text>Just because one is an emperor does not mean they can suddenly solve any problem. This is precisely what Aurelius&#x27; writings [1] focus almost exclusively on. In spite of being the most powerful man in the world he found himself to be quite helpless in terms of actually improving the state of mankind which was his genuine motivation. As a peer comment mentioned, these writings were never meant to even be seen by anybody other than himself. They&#x27;re effectively his diary.<p>He found himself not only largely unable to help better mankind, but could not even better his own son. Aurelius is generally regarded as one of the greatest leaders of humanity to have lived; his son (Commodus) - one of the worst. Father deified, son assassinated (to great celebration) and struck from all official record.<p>And it wasn&#x27;t simply failure to achieve, but also failure of circumstance. He was surrounded by death which climaxed with a many years long plague that by some estimates killed more than 30% of the entire empire&#x27;s population, including some of Aurelius&#x27; own immediate family.<p>[1] - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;files.libertyfund.org&#x2F;files&#x2F;2133&#x2F;Aurelius_1464_LFeBk.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;files.libertyfund.org&#x2F;files&#x2F;2133&#x2F;Aurelius_1464_LFeBk....</a> # That book has a lengthy, and necessary, intro (well multiple actually) explaining stoicism and providing various historical context. Aurelius&#x27; writings themselves only begin on page 25 of the book, 59 of the PDF.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Feeling like a victim is a perfectly disastrous way to go through life</title><url>https://newsletter.butwhatfor.com/p/takeaway-tuesday-facing-adversity-charlie-munger</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjburgess</author><text>Say, there are two types of people:<p>(1) a person who <i>mostly</i> experiences challenges at or just
above their ability to solve them<p>(2) a person who <i>mostly</i> experiences challenges way above their ability to solve them (even plausibly so)<p>Stoicism, political conservatism, rugged individualists, etc. are just those in camp-1 unaware there&#x27;s a camp-2.<p>(Likewise, social radicals are in camp-2, saying of 1, they&#x27;re privileged <i>as if that isnt desirable!</i>. So both sides are superstitious about the other).</text></item><item><author>kodah</author><text>Kind of a weird take. Marcus Aurelius&#x27; life, although that of an emperor, was filled with a lot of strife that he used philosophy to deal with. His stoic philosophies come from his early life, which saw the death of his father, and adoption by a series of people he didn&#x27;t know, all the way to the death of both of his sons.<p>Marcus did achieve the title of emperor, but dismissing him because of his accomplishments, especially when stoicism was a key and integral part of his life along the way, is odd.</text></item><item><author>thunkshift1</author><text>Thats right, advice from a goddamn emperor on how the downtrodden should not feel downtrodden</text></item><item><author>AlbertCory</author><text>If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.<p>― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DarylZero</author><text>That&#x27;s not remotely true. Political conservatism and social radicalism demonstrably don&#x27;t correlate with personal experience in that way: children adopt the beliefs of their parents (and&#x2F;or peers).<p>Hence &quot;champagne socialists&quot; and &quot;temporarily embarrassed millionaires.&quot;</text></comment>
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<story><title>On the joy of podman and auto-updates (2022)</title><url>https://feldspaten.org/2022/07/09/On-the-joy-of-podman-and-auto-updates/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lbayes</author><text>I got somewhat excited about podman a couple months ago, and then learned that there are painful shenanigans between required versions and the (ancient?) one that is available in the Ubuntu 22.10 package manager [1].<p>It seemed great until I tried to launch an existing Postgres container that required a more recent Podman version.<p>The Podman installation page [2] makes some effort to explain alternate installation steps, but doesn&#x27;t make it clear why, or how far back you&#x27;ll be.<p>Not complaining here, just giving folks a heads up.<p>Despite these issues, it does look like a great project.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;containers&#x2F;podman&#x2F;issues&#x2F;14065">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;containers&#x2F;podman&#x2F;issues&#x2F;14065</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;podman.io&#x2F;getting-started&#x2F;installation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;podman.io&#x2F;getting-started&#x2F;installation</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>On the joy of podman and auto-updates (2022)</title><url>https://feldspaten.org/2022/07/09/On-the-joy-of-podman-and-auto-updates/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>meitham</author><text>It’s very nice to have the option for auto update, but in reality would anyone wants their containers to auto deploy newer versions? Aside from the security exposure (specially if you were on a Scandinavian’s holiday) there is the risk of backward incompatibility such as changes around config, db migration, cli arts or anything else the container might consume but sits outside the container!</text></comment>
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<story><title>Scientists develop ‘cheap and easy’ method to extract lithium from seawater</title><url>https://www.mining.com/scientists-develop-cheap-and-easy-method-to-extract-lithium-from-seawater/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nimbius</author><text>From the perspective of a diesel engine tech, this is a controversial opinion, but I&#x27;m absolutely glad to see this breakthrough.<p>Lithium is a conflict resource. its scarce, its hard to mine, and as a result so far electric cars are a fanciful plaything for what i would consider &quot;the rich.&quot; This paves the way for electric cars that a working class mom and dad can afford to get to and from work and the store. and of course electric trucks that have obscene amounts of torque means never &quot;getting stuck&quot; behind a slow truck ever again. it also means cleaner cities and hopefully cheaper trucking for over the road drivers and owner&#x2F;operators.<p>Ive told my coworkers and apprentices this for as long as i can remember: expect to service elecric long-haul trucks in your lifetime. Learn the powertrain, the dynamics, the performance characteristics and keep pace with the technology as it evolves. Make it part of your expectation in the future, because the economic model of diesel is a last-ditch effort at best in the 21st century.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Dumblydorr</author><text>How is lithium a conflict mineral? 51k tons mined in Australia, then the other top 3 countries are Argentina 16k, Chile and china 8k.<p>If you want to speak of conflict minerals for EVs, cobalt is WAY more problematic, since it is far more rare and mined mostly in the DRC, where we know child labor and starvation pay is given for the work that allows EV cathodes their precious Co.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.volkswagenag.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;news&#x2F;stories&#x2F;2020&#x2F;03&#x2F;lithium-mining-what-you-should-know-about-the-contentious-issue.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.volkswagenag.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;news&#x2F;stories&#x2F;2020&#x2F;03&#x2F;lithium...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Scientists develop ‘cheap and easy’ method to extract lithium from seawater</title><url>https://www.mining.com/scientists-develop-cheap-and-easy-method-to-extract-lithium-from-seawater/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nimbius</author><text>From the perspective of a diesel engine tech, this is a controversial opinion, but I&#x27;m absolutely glad to see this breakthrough.<p>Lithium is a conflict resource. its scarce, its hard to mine, and as a result so far electric cars are a fanciful plaything for what i would consider &quot;the rich.&quot; This paves the way for electric cars that a working class mom and dad can afford to get to and from work and the store. and of course electric trucks that have obscene amounts of torque means never &quot;getting stuck&quot; behind a slow truck ever again. it also means cleaner cities and hopefully cheaper trucking for over the road drivers and owner&#x2F;operators.<p>Ive told my coworkers and apprentices this for as long as i can remember: expect to service elecric long-haul trucks in your lifetime. Learn the powertrain, the dynamics, the performance characteristics and keep pace with the technology as it evolves. Make it part of your expectation in the future, because the economic model of diesel is a last-ditch effort at best in the 21st century.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coding123</author><text>Just throwing this out there, but a lot of working class contractor type drive a RAM&#x2F;Ford&#x2F;Chevy 1 ton class diesel trucks with mega cab that typically runs in the neighborhood of 50-70k, so these people WILL transition to electric. I already know republican types in rural areas that even want to get the Cybertruck (even if it means looking like one of those rich types).</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing</title><url>https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2023/09/26/hue/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>atoav</author><text>As an electronics guy with both backend and frontend programming experience for me there are three routes when it comes to my home infrastructure:<p>1. Buy something dumb, non-smart, non-cloud<p>2. Build it myself<p>3. Buy something that can be hacked and used with my own infrastructure<p>The problem isn&#x27;t even their infrastructure, it is that <i>they decide when they want to change it</i>. Even if it was all good faith changes, that could be a reliability issue and force me to dedicate time to the issue on their whim. I don&#x27;t like that. If I run such things myself I can decide myself when to update and how much time I want to invest when (provided the system is decoupled from the public internet).<p>And this point isn&#x27;t even about any single company trading the good will of their customers bit by bit — it is just about me not having to jump when their service changes or ends for whatever reason (and there are many).</text></item><item><author>kstrauser</author><text>Rachel nailed it, as usual. I was an early adapter and have a houseful of Hue stuff, but over the last year or so I&#x27;ve switched to buying Nanoleaf bulbs. Hue is <i>a little</i> nicer, but not enough to make their terrible app worth the hassle.<p>I&#x27;ve seen a few recommendations now for the Ikea Dirigera hub, so fine. I&#x27;ve ordered one. Assuming it works as expected, I&#x27;ll migrate everything next week. So long, Philips. I liked your stuff, but why&#x27;d you have to get greedy? Was being twice the price of your competition not enough?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dreamcompiler</author><text>Exactly. I violated this rule once when I bought a Nest thermostat because it was elegantly designed (this was pre-Google). Then Nest started forcing random updates that not only bricked the device a couple of times (fortunately not permanently) but also <i>changed the UI</i> so that at random times when I wanted to fiddle with a setting I had to relearn how to work the thing.<p>Finally I got smart and changed my wifi password so the thermostat couldn&#x27;t talk to the Internet any more, at which point I had a very elegant, unconnected thermostat that eventually became unreliable because it couldn&#x27;t draw enough current from my two-wire system to keep itself reliably charged up. I tossed it in the recycle bin and bought a $25 dumb thermostat to replace it and I couldn&#x27;t be happier.<p>Some general notes to the idiots in C-suites at every company making home automation devices:<p>1. I don&#x27;t work for you.<p>2. You have competitors.<p>3. You do not get to make demands on my time to re-learn your UI, download software updates, advertise things to me, or sign new EULAs whenever you so desire. I have a life and it doesn&#x27;t revolve around your company.<p>4. You do not get to spy on me with your device and sell information about my personal habits.<p>5. You do not get to use your cloud connectivity to force me into a recurring payment plan just to continue to use your device.<p>6. If you disagree with any of the above, I would ask that you carefully reread (1) and (2). Misbehavior on your part will result in your product being thrown in the trash, no further purchases from me, and my social network being immediately warned to avoid your company like the plague.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing</title><url>https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2023/09/26/hue/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>atoav</author><text>As an electronics guy with both backend and frontend programming experience for me there are three routes when it comes to my home infrastructure:<p>1. Buy something dumb, non-smart, non-cloud<p>2. Build it myself<p>3. Buy something that can be hacked and used with my own infrastructure<p>The problem isn&#x27;t even their infrastructure, it is that <i>they decide when they want to change it</i>. Even if it was all good faith changes, that could be a reliability issue and force me to dedicate time to the issue on their whim. I don&#x27;t like that. If I run such things myself I can decide myself when to update and how much time I want to invest when (provided the system is decoupled from the public internet).<p>And this point isn&#x27;t even about any single company trading the good will of their customers bit by bit — it is just about me not having to jump when their service changes or ends for whatever reason (and there are many).</text></item><item><author>kstrauser</author><text>Rachel nailed it, as usual. I was an early adapter and have a houseful of Hue stuff, but over the last year or so I&#x27;ve switched to buying Nanoleaf bulbs. Hue is <i>a little</i> nicer, but not enough to make their terrible app worth the hassle.<p>I&#x27;ve seen a few recommendations now for the Ikea Dirigera hub, so fine. I&#x27;ve ordered one. Assuming it works as expected, I&#x27;ll migrate everything next week. So long, Philips. I liked your stuff, but why&#x27;d you have to get greedy? Was being twice the price of your competition not enough?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dugite-code</author><text>Nothing wrong with buying smart equipment, as long as it&#x27;s local first using common protocols like generic Zigbee. That way you don&#x27;t NEED to use the manufacturers hubs and interfaces and you substitute out for your own controller like Homeassistant or a third party Hub.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Jython 2.7.0 Final Released</title><url>http://fwierzbicki.blogspot.com/2015/05/jython-270-final-released.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>616c</author><text>So we read a lot on HN about how JRuby has taken off, in terms of Chris Seaton&#x27;s work with Truffle, Graal, and dynamicinvoke research for Java. JRuby, with efforts by him and sepearate work by others, has shown that jokes aside, porting successful languages or language styles to Java (JRuby, Clojure, Scala, and others) has real benefits. I mean even if you hate Java&#x2F;JVM stuff, you can use paradigms and tools, partially or completely, on a stack you hate. For some of us that is a godsend, and I think it shows how cool open source programming is, where people are porting whole runtimes and languages to mix-match for their pleasure.<p>Now, with that in mind, I heard a long time ago, and it might be utter BS that Jython is way behind JRuby in terms of community, and very fairly, not as performant or robust bc there are only so many eyes for shallow bugs. Is this true? I see geovizer and others are making use of it, but others using it to good effect and it is worth their while?<p>I am now studying Java academically, and played with Python for years. The idea of doing Django-REST-Framework on Jython instead of learning Rails-API for JRuby as trial by fire exercise, at least in my mind, is more appealing. So anyone know how realistic this is?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Jython 2.7.0 Final Released</title><url>http://fwierzbicki.blogspot.com/2015/05/jython-270-final-released.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>geovizer</author><text>I wanted to say &quot;thanks&quot; to the Jython team. I&#x27;ve been using Jython for a few years for a project (called STempo) that uses Java and Python. Jython has been a great bridge between them, we have run into a number of issues in the project but Jython has always been solid. The senior faculty on our project knows Python but not Java and she can happily develop in CPython and it always works fine when I bring it into Java-land (assuming no dependencies written in C have crept in). Bravo and thanks!</text></comment>
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<story><title>HP introduces new Apple iMac</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/09/10/notefile/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>calpaterson</author><text><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Star" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Star</a></text></item><item><author>ender7</author><text>This makes me sad for a variety of reasons. One, because HP are being assholes and making what is clearly a knock-off product. Apple has every right to be upset, and probably sue them for trade dress infringement.<p>And second, because everyone (on both sides) is going to be conflating this with Apple's UI patents, which <i>are</i> total bullshit and which they shouldn't be able to sue over. Ah well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>goatforce5</author><text>Apple paid to have access to PARC ideas:<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Apple_Inc.#Xerox_PARC_and_the_Lisa" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Apple_Inc.#Xerox_PAR...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>HP introduces new Apple iMac</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/09/10/notefile/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>calpaterson</author><text><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Star" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Star</a></text></item><item><author>ender7</author><text>This makes me sad for a variety of reasons. One, because HP are being assholes and making what is clearly a knock-off product. Apple has every right to be upset, and probably sue them for trade dress infringement.<p>And second, because everyone (on both sides) is going to be conflating this with Apple's UI patents, which <i>are</i> total bullshit and which they shouldn't be able to sue over. Ah well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nicholassmith</author><text>This bubbles up every time one of these arguments appears, bear in mind industrial design around that point was <i>heavily</i> constrained by toolchains and what could be manufactured. This does not give Apple a free pass, they could have picked different colour plastic, or different proportions or a dozen other things.<p>Manufacturing has improved massively in 30 years, that's why the argument is about <i>now</i> and not <i>then</i>.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The best JavaScript guide ever</title><url>https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Guide</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Samuel_Michon</author><text>I personally prefer programming guides with some humor, lots of examples and exercises. That's why I recommend Eloquent Javascript by Marijn Haverbeke.<p><a href="http://eloquentjavascript.net/" rel="nofollow">http://eloquentjavascript.net/</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>The best JavaScript guide ever</title><url>https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Guide</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kreek</author><text>The best way I've found to learn JavaScript is through anything by Douglas Crawford. 'JavaScript the Good Parts' is especially good.<p><a href="http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596517748" rel="nofollow">http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596517748</a>
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<story><title>For modern development Javascript indeed is a shit language</title><url>http://live.julik.nl/2013/05/javascript-is-shit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Peaker</author><text>How do you handle Javascript ignoring wrong numbers of function arguments? Do you use a linter to catch this sort of thing?<p>This part of Javascript sounds the most absolutely insane to me: Silencing an error like that is catastrophic.</text></item><item><author>gkoberger</author><text>Personally, I disagree. I find JavaScript to be the most &quot;write-able&quot; language, and switching to Node + frontend JS as my main language (I&#x27;ve done Python, Ruby, PHP, Java and C++ as jobs) has been the best thing I&#x27;ve done in a long time. Express and Angular are amazing.<p>Sure, it has a bunch of quirks. Sure, it&#x27;s not good for everything (I do mostly relatively simple CRUD apps). Sure, in the browser, it gets slow when the DOM is involved. Sure, this is hardly a rebuttal of the points in the original article.<p>But, still, I love JavaScript.<p>I think the problem is that the author is writing JavaScript as though it&#x27;s Ruby. A JS developer switching to Ruby would have similar problems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Wintamute</author><text>Generally speaking, in the JS world at least, if you&#x27;re passing more than a few parameters into a function you might have code complexity problems. If you need to pass in a bunch of data to a function you tend to do it in a single options object with some runtime checking to work out what to do with it. Any remaining problems should be caught with good test coverage. Being able to flexibly and clearly handle variable numbers of function arguments without getting entangled in an involved function overloading syntax and methodology is actually sometimes pretty nice. It&#x27;s a feature not a problem. Haha :P</text></comment>
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<story><title>For modern development Javascript indeed is a shit language</title><url>http://live.julik.nl/2013/05/javascript-is-shit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Peaker</author><text>How do you handle Javascript ignoring wrong numbers of function arguments? Do you use a linter to catch this sort of thing?<p>This part of Javascript sounds the most absolutely insane to me: Silencing an error like that is catastrophic.</text></item><item><author>gkoberger</author><text>Personally, I disagree. I find JavaScript to be the most &quot;write-able&quot; language, and switching to Node + frontend JS as my main language (I&#x27;ve done Python, Ruby, PHP, Java and C++ as jobs) has been the best thing I&#x27;ve done in a long time. Express and Angular are amazing.<p>Sure, it has a bunch of quirks. Sure, it&#x27;s not good for everything (I do mostly relatively simple CRUD apps). Sure, in the browser, it gets slow when the DOM is involved. Sure, this is hardly a rebuttal of the points in the original article.<p>But, still, I love JavaScript.<p>I think the problem is that the author is writing JavaScript as though it&#x27;s Ruby. A JS developer switching to Ruby would have similar problems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gkoberger</author><text>It&#x27;s just never been a problem for me, I guess? I know how it works in JS, so I either ignore it or use it to my advantage (the JS equivalent of overloading). You seem to come from a more strongly-typed background, but I&#x27;ve never once found the way JS handles it to be &quot;catastrophic&quot;.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Google's new geothermal energy project is up and running</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/28/23972940/google-data-center-geothermal-energy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>auspiv</author><text>Note that Fervo Energy (the geothermal start-up that Google partnered with) is founded by an ex oil&#x2F;gas drilling engineer who decided to take all the lessons learned by oil&#x2F;gas of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing over the last 20 years and apply to geothermal.<p>Turns out all the assumptions for the economics of geothermal were based on 20+ year old data. With the advances applied from oil&#x2F;gas, geothermal is squarely back in the economic region of renewables.<p>It took them 72 days to drill their injection well to 11220 ft. 59 days to drill their production well to same depth. So from their 1st well to their 2nd, they&#x27;ve already improved 18%. Oil&#x2F;gas drillers can do 11220 ft wells within a couple days.<p>Sure 3.5 MW isn&#x27;t a ton but this was literally a proof of concept. They can expand by orders of magnitude by drilling hundreds of these injector&#x2F;producer doublets. They could probably get 2-3x more power per well after optimization. They can easily control production by altering the injection rate. I forget the exact delay but basically, if they ramp up&#x2F;down injection, they see the same exact response on the production side a couple hours later. They expect to be able to combine this with solar&#x2F;wind to get a firm 24 hour renewable base load.<p>16 page Fervo white paper with tons of data (pressure, temperatures, geologic setting, frac plans, etc) - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eartharxiv.org&#x2F;repository&#x2F;object&#x2F;5704&#x2F;download&#x2F;11142&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eartharxiv.org&#x2F;repository&#x2F;object&#x2F;5704&#x2F;download&#x2F;11142...</a><p>Note that they do monitor induced sesmicity and have green&#x2F;yellow&#x2F;red light system for when to stop if necessary. Again, this was for the proof of concept with the Department of Energy.<p>Edit: with the exception of the high temps (376F max recorded), the drilling is all very standard oil&#x2F;gas style that happens all the time across the US. 376F isn&#x27;t unheard of in deepwater offshore but it&#x27;s damn hot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>irq-1</author><text>The best thing about this technology is all the existing systems. Experienced workforce, an established manufacturing and supply chain, global projects. And it all comes from the oil and gas industry that will decline with green power, so there can be transition instead of a huge disruption.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Google's new geothermal energy project is up and running</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/28/23972940/google-data-center-geothermal-energy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>auspiv</author><text>Note that Fervo Energy (the geothermal start-up that Google partnered with) is founded by an ex oil&#x2F;gas drilling engineer who decided to take all the lessons learned by oil&#x2F;gas of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing over the last 20 years and apply to geothermal.<p>Turns out all the assumptions for the economics of geothermal were based on 20+ year old data. With the advances applied from oil&#x2F;gas, geothermal is squarely back in the economic region of renewables.<p>It took them 72 days to drill their injection well to 11220 ft. 59 days to drill their production well to same depth. So from their 1st well to their 2nd, they&#x27;ve already improved 18%. Oil&#x2F;gas drillers can do 11220 ft wells within a couple days.<p>Sure 3.5 MW isn&#x27;t a ton but this was literally a proof of concept. They can expand by orders of magnitude by drilling hundreds of these injector&#x2F;producer doublets. They could probably get 2-3x more power per well after optimization. They can easily control production by altering the injection rate. I forget the exact delay but basically, if they ramp up&#x2F;down injection, they see the same exact response on the production side a couple hours later. They expect to be able to combine this with solar&#x2F;wind to get a firm 24 hour renewable base load.<p>16 page Fervo white paper with tons of data (pressure, temperatures, geologic setting, frac plans, etc) - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eartharxiv.org&#x2F;repository&#x2F;object&#x2F;5704&#x2F;download&#x2F;11142&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eartharxiv.org&#x2F;repository&#x2F;object&#x2F;5704&#x2F;download&#x2F;11142...</a><p>Note that they do monitor induced sesmicity and have green&#x2F;yellow&#x2F;red light system for when to stop if necessary. Again, this was for the proof of concept with the Department of Energy.<p>Edit: with the exception of the high temps (376F max recorded), the drilling is all very standard oil&#x2F;gas style that happens all the time across the US. 376F isn&#x27;t unheard of in deepwater offshore but it&#x27;s damn hot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danpalmer</author><text>Thank you for this, lots to be optimistic about! Forgive my ignorance, but...<p>&gt; They expect to be able to combine this with solar&#x2F;wind to get a firm 24 hour renewable base load.<p>Why would they need solar&#x2F;wind to get a renewable base load? I know solar&#x2F;wind can&#x27;t provide that base load by themselves (at least not in one region), but I expected that geothermal would basically be constant, or at least fluctuate by only small percentages throughout a day? Does solar&#x2F;wind really bring anything to the table in terms of base load here, or is it just that geothermal would provide the base load and solar&#x2F;wind could be used for seasonal usage on top?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Logs of compromised Tor site released</title><url>https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-November/007731.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>raquo</author><text>Am I understanding this correctly?<p>* Attacker has control of X number of tor nodes<p>* Attacker DDoS-es a hidden service, sending millions of requests to it<p>* Attacker hopes that at least one of these requests will be routed exclusively through their own tor nodes, thus revealing the IP address of the hidden service<p>That sounds neat. Is it a viable way to de-anonimize a hidden service?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AlyssaRowan</author><text>That&#x27;s broadly describing <i>one</i> possible class of attack. It looks more like a combination of attacks may have been used - traffic confirmation via timing of outages and packets is definitely a strong one, and that&#x27;s what GCHQ&#x27;s QUICKANT was gunning for; ONIONBREATH was targeted at hidden service enumeration and distinguishability, and Tor is seemingly not perfect at that. (I gather HSes were due for an overhaul anyway?)<p>Remember, Tor cannot comprehensively protect against a global passive attacker - which is what GCHQ, DSD, NSA, et al are trying to be, as well as every other kind of attacker of course. (Generally speaking, they try every possible angle at once.)<p>However, they have still not had much success to date identifying <i>users</i>, especially en masse. We&#x27;re talking here about highly-targeted attacks, combined with a few OPSEC fails.<p>(I still prefer garlic routing in general, but Tor has a huge advantage which has little to do with tech - a massive, diverse userbase to hide amongst.)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Logs of compromised Tor site released</title><url>https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-November/007731.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>raquo</author><text>Am I understanding this correctly?<p>* Attacker has control of X number of tor nodes<p>* Attacker DDoS-es a hidden service, sending millions of requests to it<p>* Attacker hopes that at least one of these requests will be routed exclusively through their own tor nodes, thus revealing the IP address of the hidden service<p>That sounds neat. Is it a viable way to de-anonimize a hidden service?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aosmith</author><text>I think you&#x27;re right. This describes a graph attack that uses a secondary vector of malformed packets to limit other connections.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Bunny AI</title><url>https://bunny.net/blog/introducing-bunny-optimizer-ai-a-new-way-of-creating-content/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>igammarays</author><text>Am I the only one disappointed by this new wave of AI hype? Seriously, autogenerated avatars? When are our best minds going to work towards actually improving the lives of people? Not monkey JPEG scams, not chat bot bureaucracies, not self-driving cars that fail in bad weather and kill you, but something that actually alleviates humanity&#x27;s biggest problems. Energy, homelessness, pollution and the environment, affordable housing crises in the West, content moderation, the loneliness epidemic - there&#x27;s so much that needs to be done if we can just step out of the current hype cycle and focus on human problems, not just looking for ways to use cool tech.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cshimmin</author><text>I&#x27;m pretty sure &quot;our best minds&quot; aren&#x27;t the ones building the ape avatars. They are working on the fundamental advancements of AI itself. Once those tools are built, it doesn&#x27;t take nearly as much &quot;best brains&quot; to tweak them for specific applications.<p>In other words, you can just think of all these things (cash grabs and otherwise) as an effect of the rapid advancements in AI, in this case manifesting as a growth area of economic activity. As another poster said, others are working on medical applications, climate models, etc. It&#x27;s not a zero-sum game on the application side.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Bunny AI</title><url>https://bunny.net/blog/introducing-bunny-optimizer-ai-a-new-way-of-creating-content/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>igammarays</author><text>Am I the only one disappointed by this new wave of AI hype? Seriously, autogenerated avatars? When are our best minds going to work towards actually improving the lives of people? Not monkey JPEG scams, not chat bot bureaucracies, not self-driving cars that fail in bad weather and kill you, but something that actually alleviates humanity&#x27;s biggest problems. Energy, homelessness, pollution and the environment, affordable housing crises in the West, content moderation, the loneliness epidemic - there&#x27;s so much that needs to be done if we can just step out of the current hype cycle and focus on human problems, not just looking for ways to use cool tech.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>graphe</author><text>How is AI going to solve the problems of energy, homelessness, pollution, the environment, affordable housing crises in the West, content moderation, and the loneliness epidemic?<p>Think of what you’re asking from it. You don’t ask coke to solve corona or google to solve world hunger. None of those issues are bottlenecked by AI. If you want to solve those issues, you shouldn’t expect AI researchers to fix them, you can be that change.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Era of 1-bit LLMs: ternary parameters for cost-effective computing</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17764</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paul_mk1</author><text>Fun to see ternary weights making a comeback. This was hot back in 2016 with BinaryConnect and TrueNorth chip from IBM research (disclosure, I was one of the lead chip architects there).<p>Authors seemed to have missed the history. They should at least cite Binary Connect or Straight Through Estimators (not my work).<p>Helpful hint to authors: you can get down to 0.68 bits &#x2F; weight using a similar technique, good chance this will work for LLMs too.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1606.01981" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1606.01981</a><p>This was a passion project of mine in my last few months at IBM research :).<p>I am convinced there is a deep connection to understanding why backprop is unreasonably effective, and the result that you can train low precision DNNs; for those note familiar, the technique is to compute the loss wrt to the low precision parameters (eg project to ternary) but apply the gradient to high precision copy of parameters (known as the straight through estimator). This is a biased estimator and there is no theoretical underpinning for why this should work, but in practice it works well.<p>My best guess is that it is encouraging the network to choose good underlying subnetworks to solve the problem, similar to Lottery Ticket Hypothesis. With ternary weights it is just about who connects to who (ie a graph), and not about the individual weight values anymore.</text></item><item><author>cs702</author><text>There are two findings I find <i>shocking</i> in this work:<p>* In existing LLMs, we can replace all parameter floating-point values representing real numbers with ternary values representing (-1, 0, 1).<p>* In matrix multiplications (e.g., weights by vectors), we can replace elementwise products in each dot product (a₁b₁ + a₂b₂ ...) with elementwise <i>additions</i> (a₁+b₁ + a₂+b₂ ...), in which signs depend on each value. See the paper for exact details.<p>On existing hardware, the gains in compute and memory efficiency are significant, without performance degradation (as tested by the authors).<p>If the proposed methods are implemented in hardware, we will see <i>even greater gains</i> in compute and memory efficiency.<p>Wow.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cs702</author><text>Thank you. Others on this thread have addressed the citation-trail issues you raise. I just want to tell you how helpful I find your comment about <i>why</i> ternary weights ought to work at all without degrading performance:<p>&gt; My best guess is that it is encouraging the network to choose good underlying subnetworks to solve the problem, similar to Lottery Ticket Hypothesis. With ternary weights it is just about <i>who connects to who (ie a graph)</i>, and not about the individual weight values anymore.<p>Your guess sounds and feels <i>right</i> to me, even if currently there&#x27;s no way to express it formally, with the rigor it deserves.<p>Thank you again for your comment!</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Era of 1-bit LLMs: ternary parameters for cost-effective computing</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17764</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paul_mk1</author><text>Fun to see ternary weights making a comeback. This was hot back in 2016 with BinaryConnect and TrueNorth chip from IBM research (disclosure, I was one of the lead chip architects there).<p>Authors seemed to have missed the history. They should at least cite Binary Connect or Straight Through Estimators (not my work).<p>Helpful hint to authors: you can get down to 0.68 bits &#x2F; weight using a similar technique, good chance this will work for LLMs too.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1606.01981" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1606.01981</a><p>This was a passion project of mine in my last few months at IBM research :).<p>I am convinced there is a deep connection to understanding why backprop is unreasonably effective, and the result that you can train low precision DNNs; for those note familiar, the technique is to compute the loss wrt to the low precision parameters (eg project to ternary) but apply the gradient to high precision copy of parameters (known as the straight through estimator). This is a biased estimator and there is no theoretical underpinning for why this should work, but in practice it works well.<p>My best guess is that it is encouraging the network to choose good underlying subnetworks to solve the problem, similar to Lottery Ticket Hypothesis. With ternary weights it is just about who connects to who (ie a graph), and not about the individual weight values anymore.</text></item><item><author>cs702</author><text>There are two findings I find <i>shocking</i> in this work:<p>* In existing LLMs, we can replace all parameter floating-point values representing real numbers with ternary values representing (-1, 0, 1).<p>* In matrix multiplications (e.g., weights by vectors), we can replace elementwise products in each dot product (a₁b₁ + a₂b₂ ...) with elementwise <i>additions</i> (a₁+b₁ + a₂+b₂ ...), in which signs depend on each value. See the paper for exact details.<p>On existing hardware, the gains in compute and memory efficiency are significant, without performance degradation (as tested by the authors).<p>If the proposed methods are implemented in hardware, we will see <i>even greater gains</i> in compute and memory efficiency.<p>Wow.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mjcohen</author><text>IIRC, Hamming&#x27;s book &quot;Digital Filters&quot; (1989) has a section on FFTs with only the sign of the coefficient being used. It performed surprisingly well.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Nokia 9000 Communicator was launched 25 years ago</title><url>https://www.dw.com/en/nokias-smartphone-25-years-since-it-changed-the-world/a-58841329</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rcarmo</author><text>I used to work as product manager in a major telco and had one of every single model of those, and they were some of the best hardware I ever used.<p>The peak was, I think, when I accessed Excel over Citrix while sitting in the airport waiting for a flight.<p>In comparison, the N900 I have sitting in the bottom of a storage box someplace was a major disappointment--Maemo never came close to delivering half the functionality I had in a 9500, even though the design principles were pretty advanced for that time.<p>(I strongly recommend reading &quot;Operation Elop&quot; for an idea of what that later stage in Nokia&#x27;s life was like, and why Maemo tanked: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;asokan.org&#x2F;operation-elop" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;asokan.org&#x2F;operation-elop</a>)<p>But the 9000 series was definitely something I wish we had today in some usable, non-niche form.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Nokia 9000 Communicator was launched 25 years ago</title><url>https://www.dw.com/en/nokias-smartphone-25-years-since-it-changed-the-world/a-58841329</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>raesene9</author><text>This article kind of misses out the later Nokia N900, which had great hardware, but suffered from Nokia&#x27;s lack of support (IIRC they stopped supporting it about 6 months after launch).<p>If you like that kind of form factor&#x2F;functionality, there&#x27;s current devices too like the cosmo communicator <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.planetcom.co.uk&#x2F;products&#x2F;cosmo-communicator" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.planetcom.co.uk&#x2F;products&#x2F;cosmo-communicator</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Use a Software Bug to Win Video Poker? That’s a Federal Hacking Case</title><url>http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/05/game-king/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lifeformed</author><text>This is like watching game speedrunners exploit glitches in the game to get a better time, and then hearing laypeople complain about it not being a "real" run. If it's all done within the context of the system, then it's fair.<p>In game speedruns, the context is: "Beat this game as fast as possible with the following restrictions (no cheats, 100% completion not necessary, etc) using the provided input system."<p>If I go to a casino, the context of playing a slot machine is: "Put real money into this machine and press buttons on it until you run out of money or leave." There aren't any implicit rules like, "some combination of button presses are not allowed".<p>Let the player have his money, patch the bug and move on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tolmasky</author><text>In complete agreement. This is no different than me just coming up with a crummy game to begin with. Let's say I run a casino and accidentally set up a modified game of blackjack where the odds favor the customers instead of the house. Customers merely playing this game is "exploiting" a bug. Should I be able to sue them? (BTW a couple of months ago this happened with mis-shuffled decks) The premise of this game is to get people to risk their money, I can't whine when it backfires on me and I lose instead of them! I certainly don't get to sue the casino for exploiting my gambling addiction or the fact that I had a little too much to drink before my last bet.<p>Look, let's be honest here: casinos are nothing more than legal (and sure, transparent) scams, plain and simple (at least when its house vs. customer and not customer vs. customer). The rules are systematically designed to drain you of your money while tricking you into thinking you might win. And I have absolutely <i>no problem</i> with that. I am a free market guy, and as far as I'm concerned gambling is voluntary. HOWEVER, if you are going to dedicate your business to literally ruining people's lives and profiting from their losses, then suck it up when you are too stupid and your con backfires on you. Don't get the law involved, and thus <i>my taxpayer dollars</i>, to save you from your unsuccessful grift. This is as absurd as an idiot running a faulty ponzi scheme and then suing his marks because they made money and he didn't.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Use a Software Bug to Win Video Poker? That’s a Federal Hacking Case</title><url>http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/05/game-king/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lifeformed</author><text>This is like watching game speedrunners exploit glitches in the game to get a better time, and then hearing laypeople complain about it not being a "real" run. If it's all done within the context of the system, then it's fair.<p>In game speedruns, the context is: "Beat this game as fast as possible with the following restrictions (no cheats, 100% completion not necessary, etc) using the provided input system."<p>If I go to a casino, the context of playing a slot machine is: "Put real money into this machine and press buttons on it until you run out of money or leave." There aren't any implicit rules like, "some combination of button presses are not allowed".<p>Let the player have his money, patch the bug and move on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sneak</author><text>By the same argument, the context of using the internet is "send packets, receive replies". There aren't any implicit rules like "sending a specific field that is larger than expected (as to overrun a fixed-size buffer) is not allowed".<p>(FWIW, I agree with you. It is impossible to forcibly break into a computer over the network.)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Man who robbed bank to get his own money back hailed as national hero</title><url>https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/11/armed-man-holds-beirut-bank-staff-hostage-demands-savings</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NikolaNovak</author><text>If I understand the core underlying issue (as opposed to downstream result) is a currency that lost majority of its value through volatility.<p>Who can look me in the eye with a straight face and say bitcoin protects against volatility? That bitcoin &quot;protects exactly&quot; against mismanaged economy and corrupt government?<p>It&#x27;s become my mantra but I swear people on HN don&#x27;t understand how crappy life can get, how oppressive governments can get, how many rights and things we take for granted can be taken away by thugs, and believe a super high tech complicated software stack can magically fix it. sorry if that sounds harsh, but you know what, it is also harsh to listen to hungry angry oppressed people and constantly claim &quot;bitcoin can fix that for ya&quot;.</text></item><item><author>fossuser</author><text>People mock the value of BTC a lot on HN, but it’s this exact kind of risk that it helps protect against (if you self custody).</text></item><item><author>usr001</author><text>Lebanese here. To answer some of the questions in this thread:<p>- No, Lebanon does not follow Islamic Banking.<p>- No, people can&#x27;t make wire transfers anymore. All bank accounts are frozen, you can&#x27;t withdraw your own money. You have to beg and wait in line for weeks to be able to get a tiny amount of your account to be able to buy bread etc.<p>- The local currency collapsed, lost more than 90% of its value. If the bank decides to give you some change (from your own money), they play money conversion tricks so that e.g. your account is down $1,000 but you get $100 only.<p>- This person did not &quot;rob&quot; the bank. He tried asking the bank for money because his father (and some people said his child as well) were in the hospital, needed medical care, and for that the hospital needed money. He had $210K in his account, but the bank kept kicking him away in previous attempts to appeal to them. He came back with a gun, and held hostages. Negotiated until they give back $35K, to his brother who was waiting outside. Then he surrendered without hurting anyone.<p>- He is now in bad health because he&#x27;s on a hunger strike after they arrested him. (In the negotiation they promised him not to arrest him, but of course they need to make an example out of him.)<p>- Why is this all happening? Bad economic and financial policies for 40 years, rampant corruption. The economy was unproductive, but they kept the local currency subsidized, as it turns out by just spending the money that people deposited in the banks. And it&#x27;s all gone now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RestlessMind</author><text>&gt; Who can look me in the eye with a straight face and say bitcoin protects against volatility?<p>In 5y, 1 USD went from 3.44 Turkish Lira to 17.94; Sri Lankan Rupee collapsed overnight from ~200 to ~360 per USD. Argentine Peso went from 17 to 134 per USD in 5 years.<p>I can easily look you in the eye and say that for countries with shitty governance and poorly managed economies, Bitcoin is a far better bet than their local currencies. So far, a common alternative was USD but after it was demonstrated that even a nuclear armed country like Russia can lose its USD reserves overnight, I think a lot of countries would be looking for alternatives. Bitcoin and Gold are credibly neutral alternatives.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Man who robbed bank to get his own money back hailed as national hero</title><url>https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/11/armed-man-holds-beirut-bank-staff-hostage-demands-savings</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NikolaNovak</author><text>If I understand the core underlying issue (as opposed to downstream result) is a currency that lost majority of its value through volatility.<p>Who can look me in the eye with a straight face and say bitcoin protects against volatility? That bitcoin &quot;protects exactly&quot; against mismanaged economy and corrupt government?<p>It&#x27;s become my mantra but I swear people on HN don&#x27;t understand how crappy life can get, how oppressive governments can get, how many rights and things we take for granted can be taken away by thugs, and believe a super high tech complicated software stack can magically fix it. sorry if that sounds harsh, but you know what, it is also harsh to listen to hungry angry oppressed people and constantly claim &quot;bitcoin can fix that for ya&quot;.</text></item><item><author>fossuser</author><text>People mock the value of BTC a lot on HN, but it’s this exact kind of risk that it helps protect against (if you self custody).</text></item><item><author>usr001</author><text>Lebanese here. To answer some of the questions in this thread:<p>- No, Lebanon does not follow Islamic Banking.<p>- No, people can&#x27;t make wire transfers anymore. All bank accounts are frozen, you can&#x27;t withdraw your own money. You have to beg and wait in line for weeks to be able to get a tiny amount of your account to be able to buy bread etc.<p>- The local currency collapsed, lost more than 90% of its value. If the bank decides to give you some change (from your own money), they play money conversion tricks so that e.g. your account is down $1,000 but you get $100 only.<p>- This person did not &quot;rob&quot; the bank. He tried asking the bank for money because his father (and some people said his child as well) were in the hospital, needed medical care, and for that the hospital needed money. He had $210K in his account, but the bank kept kicking him away in previous attempts to appeal to them. He came back with a gun, and held hostages. Negotiated until they give back $35K, to his brother who was waiting outside. Then he surrendered without hurting anyone.<p>- He is now in bad health because he&#x27;s on a hunger strike after they arrested him. (In the negotiation they promised him not to arrest him, but of course they need to make an example out of him.)<p>- Why is this all happening? Bad economic and financial policies for 40 years, rampant corruption. The economy was unproductive, but they kept the local currency subsidized, as it turns out by just spending the money that people deposited in the banks. And it&#x27;s all gone now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>max59676</author><text>&gt;Who can look me in the eye with a straight face and say bitcoin protects against volatility?<p>Can you really say with a strait face that you think BTC&#x27;s volatility is worse than literally losing your bank account with all it&#x27;s content?!<p>People who live in places like the US forget that the average fiat currency has a lifespan of roughly half your life expectancy (37yr irrc).</text></comment>
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<story><title>An open source DuckDB text to SQL LLM</title><url>https://motherduck.com/blog/duckdb-text2sql-llm/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>swimwiththebeat</author><text>I see so many business leaders touting the promise of LLMs allowing business to &quot;talk&quot; to their data. The promise does sound enticing, but it&#x27;s actually kind of hard to get working in practice.<p>A lot of our databases at work have columns with custom types and enums, and getting the LLM (Llama2) to write SQL queries to robustly answer natural language questions about the data is tough. It requires a lot of instruction prompting, context, and question-SQL examples (few-shot learning), and it still fails in unexpected ways. It&#x27;s a tough ask for people to use a tool like this if they can&#x27;t trust the results all the time. It&#x27;s also a bit infeasible to scale this to tens or hundreds of tables across our data warehouse.<p>It&#x27;s great that a lot of people are trying to crack this problem, I&#x27;m curious to try this model out. I&#x27;d also love to see if other people have tried solving this problem and made any headway.</text></comment>
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<story><title>An open source DuckDB text to SQL LLM</title><url>https://motherduck.com/blog/duckdb-text2sql-llm/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vgt</author><text>Co-founder and Head of Produck at MotherDuck here, happy to answer any questions or go nag the amazing engineers [0] who worked on this :)<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;user?id=tdoehmen">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;user?id=tdoehmen</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Decentralised finance is booming, but it has yet to find its purpose</title><url>https://www.economist.com/the-world-ahead/2021/11/08/decentralised-finance-is-booming-but-it-has-yet-to-find-its-purpose</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Havoc</author><text>The fact that UK banks are aggressively blocking anyone interacting with crypto has in a way pursuaded me that defi is necessary.<p>Banks telling us what we may or may not do with OUR hard earned cash is not OK.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shafyy</author><text>Banks have been discriminating against certain behavior for a long long time.<p>For example, I had to close my Swiss bank account (I&#x27;m Swiss) when I spent a lot of time in the US (no green card or residency there).<p>I&#x27;m not out to defend traditional banks here, just saying that this is not something specific to crypto.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Decentralised finance is booming, but it has yet to find its purpose</title><url>https://www.economist.com/the-world-ahead/2021/11/08/decentralised-finance-is-booming-but-it-has-yet-to-find-its-purpose</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Havoc</author><text>The fact that UK banks are aggressively blocking anyone interacting with crypto has in a way pursuaded me that defi is necessary.<p>Banks telling us what we may or may not do with OUR hard earned cash is not OK.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>idlewords</author><text>Wait until you discover taxes (or they discover you)!</text></comment>
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<story><title>Bitwarden adds support for passkeys</title><url>https://bitwarden.com/help/releasenotes/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yonixw</author><text>From the FAQ [1]:<p>&gt; Q: Are stored passkeys included in Bitwarden imports and exports?<p>&gt; A: Passkeys are not included in imports and exports.<p>I think it&#x27;s the same for iCloud [2]. That is why I don&#x27;t love it. I prefer a very long password, and Bitwarden &quot;Device login&quot; that will prompt in my iPhone that will require FaceID (So essentially I have bio login). And 2FA to lower hacking chances. I&#x27;m aware I&#x27;m still vulnerable to phishing but because there is no export, this is a marriage to Bitwarden. And as much as I love them... I&#x27;m not ready yet.<p>But essentially it&#x27;s a certificate... so I wonder why no private key export? Maybe because current implementation uses some CA that binds you to the issuer?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitwarden.com&#x2F;help&#x2F;storing-passkeys&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitwarden.com&#x2F;help&#x2F;storing-passkeys&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;redd.it&#x2F;143acl5" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;redd.it&#x2F;143acl5</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Bitwarden adds support for passkeys</title><url>https://bitwarden.com/help/releasenotes/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>deutschepost</author><text>One of the nicest thing about bitwarden is the ability to selfhost it. I don&#x27;t think there is anything like it.<p>1password seems to have the best UX in the field. But you always have to trust some company with the keys to your digital life.<p>Self hosting password managers is not as big of a deal as it should be.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Engineering Festivus</title><url>https://festivus.dev/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mywittyname</author><text>Costanza would the be the one who gets into tech (by lying to investors), makes it big, then blows everything up (because he has no idea what he&#x27;s doing). Kramer would offer George some help, in exchange for all of his shares in the company. Kramer proceeded to clean up the mess George left, then offload the entire company to private equity for an undisclosed sum.<p>The episode would close with Kramer sitting at a table, facing the camera, smoking a cigar, shaking hands with a whole crew of men, who aren&#x27;t facing the camera, but look distinctly like a few famous tech people, Branson, Gates, Cuban, etc</text></comment>
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<story><title>Engineering Festivus</title><url>https://festivus.dev/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sokoloff</author><text>I appreciate the loop from the HN Dropbox reference skit: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;festivus.dev&#x2F;hacker-news-comments&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;festivus.dev&#x2F;hacker-news-comments&#x2F;</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper</title><url>https://remarkable.com/#What_Is_New</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>getpolarized</author><text>Let me know what you think about Polar:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;getpolarized.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;getpolarized.io&#x2F;</a><p>We launched about a year ago and are REALLY close to a 2.0 release.</text></item><item><author>tuvistavie</author><text>I&#x27;m in the middle of my PhD and switched from printing papers to reading them on my iPad roughly two years ago.<p>There are some things I miss from paper but overall I found the pros to overweight the cons.<p>I haven&#x27;t found that flipping back and forth on iPad is that horrible, to be honest.<p>Not sure how helpful this will be but I&#x27;ll share what I&#x27;ve been doing for now.
I use the following apps:<p>* Mendeley (to organize papers)<p>* PDF Expert (to annotate PDFs)<p>* GoodNotes (mostly when working out the maths)<p>My usual workflow is:<p>* Read through the paper<p>* Annotate in the paper using Apple pencil as I read through<p>* Figure out the maths on the iPad when needed<p>* When I get back to a computer, upload the annotated file to Mendeley and type summary notes in Mendeley<p>A few things that I like&#x2F;dislike about iPad when compared to paper.<p>+ Search for information on the web while reading paper more easily<p>+ Check notes&#x2F;annotations quickly from my computer<p>+ Share notes easily<p>+ Search notes easily<p>+ Clean desk =D<p>- More context switching needed when I need to scramble something<p>- Mendeley misses some basic features on iOS (e.g. attach PDF to existing paper) so need to context switch with computer at some point after reading the paper<p>I would say that for 90% of the papers I go through, where I don&#x27;t dive that deep in the paper, the experience is just as good on iPad. For the 10% of the papers I read where I go in-depth, redo proofs, etc, it&#x27;s a little more tedious.
While it&#x27;s for sure not perfect, given the above pros, I can live with the cons.</text></item><item><author>pottertheotter</author><text>I&#x27;ve always partially wanted something like this, but can&#x27;t get away from paper. I recently completed a PhD and tried an iPad and my computer, but ended up always printing off articles. It&#x27;s annoying having a lot of physical paper around, but I&#x27;m constantly flipping back and forth in papers and it&#x27;s so inconvenient to do that digitally. I also find it&#x27;s so much easier for me to recall information based on where it was, and I completely lose that in a digital device.<p>Curious if those have been issues for you or not. I wonder if it&#x27;s just how my mind works, or if I&#x27;m not &quot;doing it right&quot;?</text></item><item><author>paultopia</author><text>I recently bought the ReMarkable 1 (wasn&#x27;t willing to wait for preorder on the 2, and the differences don&#x27;t look that significant). I kinda love it: I&#x27;m a professor, and 99% of my use is in reading article PDFs---it&#x27;s a vastly better experience than reading on an eyestrain-inducing glossy screens or printing off.<p>One major annoyance, though, is that it&#x27;s clunky to switch between documents---I like to take notes in a separate document from the articles (mainly so I don&#x27;t have to deal with the hassle of trying to export marked-up PDFs, which is a very suboptimal experience---the ios&#x2F;mac apps are, uh, not good.). There&#x27;s a pretty big lag there.<p>But the reading experience qua reading is so much nicer that I keep it anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colinjoy</author><text>It would be nice if you did not initiate a download on my behalf when I merely visit the &quot;download&quot; page via the main navigation. I would expect at least prompt for confirmation before you push a 180 MB binary to me.</text></comment>
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<story><title>ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper</title><url>https://remarkable.com/#What_Is_New</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>getpolarized</author><text>Let me know what you think about Polar:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;getpolarized.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;getpolarized.io&#x2F;</a><p>We launched about a year ago and are REALLY close to a 2.0 release.</text></item><item><author>tuvistavie</author><text>I&#x27;m in the middle of my PhD and switched from printing papers to reading them on my iPad roughly two years ago.<p>There are some things I miss from paper but overall I found the pros to overweight the cons.<p>I haven&#x27;t found that flipping back and forth on iPad is that horrible, to be honest.<p>Not sure how helpful this will be but I&#x27;ll share what I&#x27;ve been doing for now.
I use the following apps:<p>* Mendeley (to organize papers)<p>* PDF Expert (to annotate PDFs)<p>* GoodNotes (mostly when working out the maths)<p>My usual workflow is:<p>* Read through the paper<p>* Annotate in the paper using Apple pencil as I read through<p>* Figure out the maths on the iPad when needed<p>* When I get back to a computer, upload the annotated file to Mendeley and type summary notes in Mendeley<p>A few things that I like&#x2F;dislike about iPad when compared to paper.<p>+ Search for information on the web while reading paper more easily<p>+ Check notes&#x2F;annotations quickly from my computer<p>+ Share notes easily<p>+ Search notes easily<p>+ Clean desk =D<p>- More context switching needed when I need to scramble something<p>- Mendeley misses some basic features on iOS (e.g. attach PDF to existing paper) so need to context switch with computer at some point after reading the paper<p>I would say that for 90% of the papers I go through, where I don&#x27;t dive that deep in the paper, the experience is just as good on iPad. For the 10% of the papers I read where I go in-depth, redo proofs, etc, it&#x27;s a little more tedious.
While it&#x27;s for sure not perfect, given the above pros, I can live with the cons.</text></item><item><author>pottertheotter</author><text>I&#x27;ve always partially wanted something like this, but can&#x27;t get away from paper. I recently completed a PhD and tried an iPad and my computer, but ended up always printing off articles. It&#x27;s annoying having a lot of physical paper around, but I&#x27;m constantly flipping back and forth in papers and it&#x27;s so inconvenient to do that digitally. I also find it&#x27;s so much easier for me to recall information based on where it was, and I completely lose that in a digital device.<p>Curious if those have been issues for you or not. I wonder if it&#x27;s just how my mind works, or if I&#x27;m not &quot;doing it right&quot;?</text></item><item><author>paultopia</author><text>I recently bought the ReMarkable 1 (wasn&#x27;t willing to wait for preorder on the 2, and the differences don&#x27;t look that significant). I kinda love it: I&#x27;m a professor, and 99% of my use is in reading article PDFs---it&#x27;s a vastly better experience than reading on an eyestrain-inducing glossy screens or printing off.<p>One major annoyance, though, is that it&#x27;s clunky to switch between documents---I like to take notes in a separate document from the articles (mainly so I don&#x27;t have to deal with the hassle of trying to export marked-up PDFs, which is a very suboptimal experience---the ios&#x2F;mac apps are, uh, not good.). There&#x27;s a pretty big lag there.<p>But the reading experience qua reading is so much nicer that I keep it anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>uxcolumbo</author><text>Looks great - will check it out.<p>Noticed you have a typo on the homepage under the uni logos.<p>&quot;Discovery why Polar [...]&quot; should read &quot;Discover why Polar [...]&quot;</text></comment>
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<story><title>Apple Is Looking for Linux Kernel Developers</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Apple-Hiring-For-Linux-Kernel</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>twotwotwo</author><text>Note it looks like it&#x27;s for developing drivers to run on embedded ARM devices in silicon validation. I&#x27;m at least as uninformed as anybody here, but that has lots of non-earth-shaking interpretations.<p>If you have, say, a farm of little ARM-driven devices that you use as test harnesses for chips or other hardware, it isn&#x27;t necessarily cheaper to port whatever variation of xnu to this particular hardware than to use an existing port of Linux and hire some folks who can help with the low level I&#x2F;O bits. There might even be Linux in your world because, e.g. an acquired company built something on it that hasn&#x27;t been worth porting.<p>Or any of a ton of other possibilities.<p>Having an OS doesn&#x27;t mean you have to use (variations of) it for <i>everything</i>, especially if the new use you&#x27;re thinking about is far from your usual.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Apple Is Looking for Linux Kernel Developers</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Apple-Hiring-For-Linux-Kernel</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nbsd4life</author><text>If you like open source, don&#x27;t work for Apple.<p>I&#x27;ve seen multiple people stop all their open source contributions and communicating online after being hired by them. I assume they have very draconian NDAs.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Everything you never wanted to know about file locking</title><url>http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201012#13</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tedunangst</author><text>Every BSD system I'm aware of has something called lockf, which may or may not be layered on top of flock (or the other way around).<p>Note that all of these locking schemes fall down hard on NFS, depending on client and server, regardless of what any man pages say about support. Homework question: How does a stateless protocol like NFS remember when one client locks a file and a different client tries locking it?<p>The failure mode on NFS can vary from "lock always succeeds, regardless of actual status" to "lock always fails, hanging forever", or my favorite, "locks work, unless your process crashes, and then you can never lock that file again until you reboot the NFS server".</text></comment>
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<story><title>Everything you never wanted to know about file locking</title><url>http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201012#13</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>glhaynes</author><text>Good article. I don't quite understand this part, though:<p><i>Still not convinced </i>[that you shouldn't use mandatory locking]<i>? Man, you really must like punishment. Look, imagine someone is holding a mandatory lock on a file, so you try to read() from it and get blocked. Then he releases his lock, and your read() finishes, but some other guy reacquires the lock. You fiddle with your block, modify it, and try to write() it back, but you get held up for a bit, because the guy holding the lock isn't done yet. He does his own write() to that section of the file, and releases his lock, so your write() promptly resumes and overwrites what he just did.</i><p>If you're going to read some data and then potentially write modified data back over what you just read, shouldn't the first step before you even read it be to get a lock on the file or that range? Or, if your calculation might take a long time, at least get a lock right before you write it back, verifying first that you're writing over data that hasn't changed while you were off calculating?</text></comment>
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<story><title>First ever color X-ray on a human</title><url>https://www.yahoo.com/news/first-ever-colour-x-ray-human-005837590.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lars_thomas</author><text>Photon counting sensors have been available for quite a while. This is unfortunately not new. It’s not ’color’ it’s multi channel imaging. X-ray tubes produce wide spectrum of x-rays, these type of sensors are able to put different bands to different buckets.<p>Coloring is arbitrary and conveniently chosen in the example to look like visible wavelength response as if the patient was dissected. It does not work for more complicated anatomy and even in this case needs very likely post processing.<p>I wish we could have a peek inside the patient as if we had opened it up but this is not yet that.</text></comment>
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<story><title>First ever color X-ray on a human</title><url>https://www.yahoo.com/news/first-ever-colour-x-ray-human-005837590.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>scentoni</author><text>Another article at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eurekamagazine.co.uk&#x2F;design-engineering-news&#x2F;first-3d-colour-x-ray-of-a-human-using-cern-technology&#x2F;176081&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eurekamagazine.co.uk&#x2F;design-engineering-news&#x2F;firs...</a>
It sounds like the chips are detecting the energy of each xray, which is equivalent to a wavelength, and that data is then used to synthesize a 3D image.</text></comment>
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<story><title>At the Mountains of Madness</title><url>https://antithesis.com/blog/madness/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dreamcompiler</author><text>I once had a robotic cat litter box that cleaned itself. Except once a week it would get clogged and I would have to spend a quality hour disassembling it, scrubbing off the feces embedded on the delicate parts, and reassembling it. Every two weeks when it heated up its artificial litter to dry, it would have missed a small piece of cat shit that when baked, filled my house with an aroma that I would not recommend you even try to imagine.<p>And of course it needed special, expensive supplies that you had to buy from the manufacturer because the bottles had numbered chips.<p>I eventually threw the damn thing out and now I just use a manual litter box. Takes 15 seconds a day to clean. It&#x27;s a chore but it&#x27;s a small predictable chore.<p>When I read about NixOS I remember that robot litter box. It seems like it solves a real problem of difficulty X but it brings five brand new problems from a parallel universe you didn&#x27;t know existed and they&#x27;re all written in an indecipherable language and have difficulty 10X.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lexlash</author><text>Nix, and NixOS, are designed for those of us who have to clean 10,000 proverbial litter boxes every day. I use Nix fairly extensively at work; I use it very little at home, where I don&#x27;t need to worry about what dependency someone took on a specific version of Python five years ago, etc.<p>It&#x27;s like k8s, imo - it solves some real problems at scale but is rarely going to be a good idea for individual users.</text></comment>
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<story><title>At the Mountains of Madness</title><url>https://antithesis.com/blog/madness/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dreamcompiler</author><text>I once had a robotic cat litter box that cleaned itself. Except once a week it would get clogged and I would have to spend a quality hour disassembling it, scrubbing off the feces embedded on the delicate parts, and reassembling it. Every two weeks when it heated up its artificial litter to dry, it would have missed a small piece of cat shit that when baked, filled my house with an aroma that I would not recommend you even try to imagine.<p>And of course it needed special, expensive supplies that you had to buy from the manufacturer because the bottles had numbered chips.<p>I eventually threw the damn thing out and now I just use a manual litter box. Takes 15 seconds a day to clean. It&#x27;s a chore but it&#x27;s a small predictable chore.<p>When I read about NixOS I remember that robot litter box. It seems like it solves a real problem of difficulty X but it brings five brand new problems from a parallel universe you didn&#x27;t know existed and they&#x27;re all written in an indecipherable language and have difficulty 10X.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brookst</author><text>You are an excellent writer.<p>I have not use Nix, but I have had a similar bad experience with a similar but different automatic litter box. Your “small predictable chore” point is spot on: how much human grief is created by elaborate, expensive, unreliable solutions to minor annoyances?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Dogs can remember names of toys years after not seeing them, study shows</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/sep/04/dogs-remember-names-toys-years-study-pets-memory</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>petepete</author><text>I&#x27;ve had my Labrador for 12 years, she was about 1 when we rescued her.<p>In the first week I was walking her and passed a bus stop mainly used by school kids. There&#x27;s a small wall behind it and she dashed around and emerged with half a sausage roll hanging out of her mouth.<p>To this day, every time we pass that spot she enthusiastically pulls and goes round to inspect.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>authorfly</author><text>That&#x27;s cool but dogs remembering names is more insightful in an exciting way, let me elucidate on why it&#x27;s pretty fascinating!<p>We know how place memories work quite well, Place and Grid cells specifically. There is a natural and almost physical level of 1:1 mapping at various scales[1] from location (based on different tracking systems - point integration, landmarks, your own steps) to activating cells in your brain. Simple co-activation alongside reward, like a literal map, sets down &quot;good stuff here&quot; signs in your brain.<p>Once attenuated and activated by Dopamine, the place cells to triangulate (at different &quot;distances&quot;) that position have basically fewer mechanims and binding opportunities for neurotransmitters to change upon other interaction(they have little input beside place + pleasure + pain), so they do not result in loss of their attenuation or association (part of why place stays longest in Alhzeimers patients association).<p>Memory of sounds however, isn&#x27;t so clearly mappable, there is no obvious grid&#x2F;comparable formulation of sound memories in any kind of &quot;order&quot; like there is with location and places in Place Cells. And clearly we humans forget many of the sounds we have heard (e.g. songs, lyrics). That&#x27;s why it&#x27;s quite interesting that dogs remember toys names for a long time. It makes you ask questions like &quot;If we had less sounds&#x2F;named things to remember, could we remember the ones we do remember for much longer, with less forgetting?&quot;. &quot;What is the difference between permanent, event and temporal memories?&quot;, &quot;Could we resolve neurodegenerative diseases by modifying neurons to be longer lasting or impervious to future modification in strategic areas of the brain? Could be retain some learning?&quot;<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rsb.org.uk&#x2F;images&#x2F;biologist&#x2F;Features&#x2F;Grid_mouse_diagram_large.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rsb.org.uk&#x2F;images&#x2F;biologist&#x2F;Features&#x2F;Grid_mouse_d...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Dogs can remember names of toys years after not seeing them, study shows</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/sep/04/dogs-remember-names-toys-years-study-pets-memory</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>petepete</author><text>I&#x27;ve had my Labrador for 12 years, she was about 1 when we rescued her.<p>In the first week I was walking her and passed a bus stop mainly used by school kids. There&#x27;s a small wall behind it and she dashed around and emerged with half a sausage roll hanging out of her mouth.<p>To this day, every time we pass that spot she enthusiastically pulls and goes round to inspect.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>k4j8</author><text>This one break area at work had some cookies sitting out one time for people to grab. That was 6 months ago, but I still check every time I pass it...</text></comment>
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<story><title>Four Earth-sized planets detected orbiting the nearest sun-like star</title><url>https://news.ucsc.edu/2017/08/tau-ceti-planets.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hueving</author><text>&gt;I am flabbergasted that as a society we aren&#x27;t rushing to build a 100 metre wide telescope mirror large enough for us to directly image the spectra of the potentially habitable exoplanets around us.<p>This is because most of society is still struggling with day-to-day tasks like getting housing, clean water, reliable food, healthcare and dealing with physical conflicts.<p>Even people rich enough to not be stuck in the short term future have to be concerned with near term risks like political destabilization countries and climate change.<p>So it&#x27;s hard to rush to do something like this as a society when we are already rushing to solve acute issues.</text></item><item><author>ExactoKnight</author><text>I am flabbergasted that as a society we aren&#x27;t rushing to build a 100 metre wide telescope mirror large enough for us to directly image the spectra of the potentially habitable exoplanets around us.<p>A telescope this large could tell us whether any of these potentially habitable planets contain oxygen, and thus, biological processes.<p>Yet thanks to funding cuts in science the biggest telescope we have in the pipeline right now is one with a 30 metre mirror.
This telescope won&#x27;t be big enough, and as a result, our failure to push now for bigger sizes is almost certainly going to push back for decades humanity&#x27;s ability to answer one of the most important questions we face:<p>Why are we here, and are we alone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bpodgursky</author><text>The world had less reliable housing, less clean water, less reliable food, worse healthcare, and more physical conflicts in the 60s, and we still had the Apollo program put people on the moon.<p>Only the most pathetic hacks would argue that we are the worse for having invested that money to push the bounds of exploration.<p>At a point, there are 6 billion people on the earth, and there will always be _some_ problems unsolved, whether that is because a few countries are trying to collapse, or because we have found new first-world problems to agonize about in the US.<p>It&#x27;s a question of whether we will spend 10x the cost to solve the last 10% of those problems, or spend that money moving forward as a civilization.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Four Earth-sized planets detected orbiting the nearest sun-like star</title><url>https://news.ucsc.edu/2017/08/tau-ceti-planets.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hueving</author><text>&gt;I am flabbergasted that as a society we aren&#x27;t rushing to build a 100 metre wide telescope mirror large enough for us to directly image the spectra of the potentially habitable exoplanets around us.<p>This is because most of society is still struggling with day-to-day tasks like getting housing, clean water, reliable food, healthcare and dealing with physical conflicts.<p>Even people rich enough to not be stuck in the short term future have to be concerned with near term risks like political destabilization countries and climate change.<p>So it&#x27;s hard to rush to do something like this as a society when we are already rushing to solve acute issues.</text></item><item><author>ExactoKnight</author><text>I am flabbergasted that as a society we aren&#x27;t rushing to build a 100 metre wide telescope mirror large enough for us to directly image the spectra of the potentially habitable exoplanets around us.<p>A telescope this large could tell us whether any of these potentially habitable planets contain oxygen, and thus, biological processes.<p>Yet thanks to funding cuts in science the biggest telescope we have in the pipeline right now is one with a 30 metre mirror.
This telescope won&#x27;t be big enough, and as a result, our failure to push now for bigger sizes is almost certainly going to push back for decades humanity&#x27;s ability to answer one of the most important questions we face:<p>Why are we here, and are we alone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdavis703</author><text>Let&#x27;s assume a 100-meter telescope is 10x the cost of the proposed Thirty Meter Telescope. That means it would cost about $14 billion to build. If the U.S. and E.U. split the cost it would take about $14 for every person and child to build this. If you split the cost out to a decade, it&#x27;d be about $1.40 everyone had to pay out every year. This is a matter of priorities, not there being a lack of resources.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Veloren – Open-source MMORPG written in Rust</title><url>https://veloren.net/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>f430</author><text>what would be the advantage of this vs established libraries written in C#? any thing Rust offers that other languages don&#x27;t? website is short on details, would be great if they could display its features. There are other MMORPG&#x2F;MMO frameworks that are quite mature but this looks promising too.<p>edit: reply to one of the comments below regarding the argument Rust = good therefore great for gaming. This. Neither does a good engine. For me I stopped UE4 and went to Unity because of the sheer lack of documentation and community support behind C++ with UE4. C++ is a powerful language but man was it hard finding tutorials and documentation that was up to date.</text></item><item><author>adamnemecek</author><text>It’s like the first large scale game written in Rust.</text></item><item><author>Shared404</author><text>I&#x27;ve been keeping an eye on this one, it&#x27;s not quite there yet if you are looking for a game to play. However, it has a massive amount of potential, and I&#x27;m looking forward to seeing where it goes from here.<p>I&#x27;ve also read the code looking for examples of how to do things in Rust, and found it quite pleasant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>atoav</author><text>Where Rust really shines compared to other languages IMO is when software grows beyond a certain scale. The way the language forces and encourages you to &quot;do it properly&quot; really prevents a lot of lazy decisions that would come back to haunt you later in unexpected ways.<p>The magical part about Rust really is how accurately (compared to other languages) you know which little gear in the big machine is failing. Often you even know precisely why and how it is failing.<p>Precondition for this is of course that you really grok Rusts ownership and type system.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Veloren – Open-source MMORPG written in Rust</title><url>https://veloren.net/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>f430</author><text>what would be the advantage of this vs established libraries written in C#? any thing Rust offers that other languages don&#x27;t? website is short on details, would be great if they could display its features. There are other MMORPG&#x2F;MMO frameworks that are quite mature but this looks promising too.<p>edit: reply to one of the comments below regarding the argument Rust = good therefore great for gaming. This. Neither does a good engine. For me I stopped UE4 and went to Unity because of the sheer lack of documentation and community support behind C++ with UE4. C++ is a powerful language but man was it hard finding tutorials and documentation that was up to date.</text></item><item><author>adamnemecek</author><text>It’s like the first large scale game written in Rust.</text></item><item><author>Shared404</author><text>I&#x27;ve been keeping an eye on this one, it&#x27;s not quite there yet if you are looking for a game to play. However, it has a massive amount of potential, and I&#x27;m looking forward to seeing where it goes from here.<p>I&#x27;ve also read the code looking for examples of how to do things in Rust, and found it quite pleasant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>UnpossibleJim</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure this is why they did it (I doubt it is), but reading through the documentation I saw that it&#x27;s playable on Linux, Mac and Windows. I don&#x27;t know when I&#x27;ve seen an MMO that&#x27;s not browser based that was playable on all three platforms. C# engines usually ship to Windows and Mac - though, in saying that, I&#x27;m not sure if that&#x27;s engine enforced or developer choice.<p>The most likely reason they chose to do it in Rust, though, is because they wanted to and no one else had.</text></comment>
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<story><title>I taught my black kids their elite upbringing would protect them</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/11/06/i-taught-my-black-kids-that-their-elite-upbringing-would-protect-them-from-discrimination-i-was-wrong/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nether</author><text>There was a Fresh Prince episode about this!<p><i>After Carlton and Will are pulled over and detained...</i><p>&gt; Carlton (to Will): What&#x27;s your complaint here? We were detained for a few hours, Dad cleared things up, and we were released. The system works.<p>&gt; Will: I hope you like that system because you&#x27;ll be seeing a whole lot of it in your lifetime.<p>&gt; Carlton: Not if I bring a map.<p>&gt; Will: You just don&#x27;t get it, do you? No map is going to save you and neither is your glee club, or your fancy Bel-Air address or who your daddy is. Because when you&#x27;re driving in a nice car in a strange neighborhood, none of that matters. They only see one thing. (taps Carlton on his face)<p>&gt; Carlton: Well, maybe growing up where you did has made you a little touchy, but I think you&#x27;ve blown this whole thing out of proportion. If you look at the facts...
(Will walks away disgusted)<p><a href="http://freshprince.wikia.com/wiki/Mistaken_Identity" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;freshprince.wikia.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mistaken_Identity</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>I taught my black kids their elite upbringing would protect them</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/11/06/i-taught-my-black-kids-that-their-elite-upbringing-would-protect-them-from-discrimination-i-was-wrong/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tedks</author><text>I can imagine a very easy parallel to the tech community: &quot;I taught my daughters their nerd cred would protect them.&quot;<p>It&#x27;s irritating how the author has to buttress his statements on privilege with &quot;of course, the existence of white privilege doesn&#x27;t mean all white people are violently racist.&quot; White people, and white men in particular, are so reactionary when confronted by the mere existence of their institutionalized privilege that they demand such things. I&#x27;m sure this post won&#x27;t be popular for exactly that reason. It&#x27;s a lot like this Onion article: <a href="http://www.theonion.com/articles/i-dont-support-feminism-if-it-means-murdering-all,37301/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theonion.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;i-dont-support-feminism-if-...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Rare 2,100-year-old gold coin bears name of obscure ruler from pre-Roman Britain</title><url>https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/rare-2100-year-old-gold-coin-bears-name-of-obscure-ruler-from-pre-roman-britain</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jphoward</author><text>One thing I always wonder is how did all these countries manage to find enough gold to run an (albeit tiny) economy off them? I&#x27;ve never heard of&#x2F;seen a gold mine in the UK, and yet 2000 years ago they were mining enough to mint currency. Was it all relatively surface level and rapidly mined out, and now all gone?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>weatherlight</author><text>Phenomenal book that cover&#x27;s this exact topic, &quot;Debt: The First 5000 Years.&quot;
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Debt:_The_First_5000_Years" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Debt:_The_First_5000_Years</a><p><pre><code> &quot;The book argues that debt has typically retained its primacy, with cash and barter usually limited to situations of low trust involving strangers or those not considered credit-worthy&quot;
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It would make sense that cash would pop up once the Romans arrived, and would be in small amounts to facilitate spot transactions between Romans and the pre-Roman peoples of Britain and why there&#x27;s such little amounts of cash.<p>Further more, I can imagine a scenario where Roman coins were melted down to make these coins (total conjecture) .</text></comment>
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<story><title>Rare 2,100-year-old gold coin bears name of obscure ruler from pre-Roman Britain</title><url>https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/rare-2100-year-old-gold-coin-bears-name-of-obscure-ruler-from-pre-roman-britain</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jphoward</author><text>One thing I always wonder is how did all these countries manage to find enough gold to run an (albeit tiny) economy off them? I&#x27;ve never heard of&#x2F;seen a gold mine in the UK, and yet 2000 years ago they were mining enough to mint currency. Was it all relatively surface level and rapidly mined out, and now all gone?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>netbioserror</author><text>As early as the Bronze Age, Britain was part of wide-spanning trade networks that funneled Cornwallish tin to the empires of the Near East. I would imagine that even before the invention of true coinage, various quantities of gold and other precious metals were circulating in Britain from those Mediterranean sources.</text></comment>
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<story><title>'Zero trust’ security is a poor choice of words</title><url>https://code.mendhak.com/zero-trust-poor-choice-of-words/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>theptip</author><text>I suppose the thesis that it’s a bad name is borne out by the fact that many technical people misunderstand it; it’s a contraction of “zero trust networking” and is a fine description of the technical approach: don’t trust anyone by virtue of their network location. (Trust is negotiated at the application layer.)<p>#NoVPN or Zero Perimeter could be better slogans.<p>On the other hand, the only people I have seen confused are technical people that (incorrectly) think they have identified an inconsistency; non-technical folks seem fine to just map name-&gt;feature-set.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>herghost</author><text>Agreed - I&#x27;ve seen the same result in my current company. The only real objection raised is from a technical pedant who argues that we&#x27;re trusting identity and so we shouldn&#x27;t call in _Zero_ Trust. He&#x27;s almost deliberately missing the point though.<p>Our users, on the other hand, are not making any real noise about it because from their point of view it&#x27;s the natural extension of SSO (from the point of view of that being the only bit that they will interact with in any meaningful way) and that was something that reduced friction for them too.<p>We&#x27;ve not suffered from the name really, to be honest.</text></comment>
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<story><title>'Zero trust’ security is a poor choice of words</title><url>https://code.mendhak.com/zero-trust-poor-choice-of-words/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>theptip</author><text>I suppose the thesis that it’s a bad name is borne out by the fact that many technical people misunderstand it; it’s a contraction of “zero trust networking” and is a fine description of the technical approach: don’t trust anyone by virtue of their network location. (Trust is negotiated at the application layer.)<p>#NoVPN or Zero Perimeter could be better slogans.<p>On the other hand, the only people I have seen confused are technical people that (incorrectly) think they have identified an inconsistency; non-technical folks seem fine to just map name-&gt;feature-set.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>otterley</author><text>+1 for NoVPN. It&#x27;s short, sweet, and quickly conveys the benefit. It may also remind people of the frustrations they often face using VPN software, which is often flaky and has a poor UI, so eliminating it could be met with feelings of relief.<p>Nevertheless, it&#x27;s always a little unsettling whenever some Internet rando confidently posits that a phrase conveys a certain meaning or emotional reaction to people <i>without any evidence whatsoever.</i> I mean, come on, do a little market research. Do your homework. (The same goes for me!)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)</title><url>https://www.linux.org/threads/common-pronunciations-of-linux-directories-commands-etc.4445/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BossingAround</author><text>I found there is this &quot;pride in the correct pronunciation&quot; in the opensource community. It seems to be a signal of a group membership and a creed validator.<p>Who cares though? Why does &quot;correct pronunciation&quot; matter? Linux is nowadays used by many more non-native English speakers who will pronounce it very differently.<p>This attempt at correcting others seems like gatekeeping and, to me personally, feels like a very anti-inclusive thing to do.<p>Tangentially, the fact that some of the pronunciation is so non-intuitive (e.g. &#x2F;etc -&gt; etsy) should be a bug, not a feature and pride point. Can you imagine if you reported that a workflow is non-intuitive in a piece of SW and the devs told you &quot;we know, cool, right?!&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>combatentropy</author><text>It is for the same reason that anyone ever nudges anyone else about pronunciation, spelling, or grammar: speed of communication.<p>If you pronounce &quot;&#x2F;etc&quot; as &quot;et cetera&quot;, then it will add a step in me parsing your speech (&quot;Oh, he means &#x27;etsy&#x27;&quot;).<p>Second, now I have an awkward decision to make when speaking back to you. Do I adapt my pronunciation to yours for the length of this conversation? Or do I pronounce it my way, causing the extra step in your translation of my speech, then also causing you to wonder why I am saying it differently, furthermore causing you to consider whether to change your pronunciation to mine, if nothing else to end this extra thought process every time?<p>Also, if I adapt my pronunciation to yours, I guess now I need to remember to say it your way every time we talk forever, and say it Henry&#x27;s way when speaking to him, and now I have this whole table in my head of various pronunciations for various individuals.<p>And then what happens if I am in conversation with you and Henry at the same time? Do I say things your way, his way, or my way? And what do you do? And what does Henry do?<p>---<p>Or we could just stop, agree upon a common pronunciation, and move forward at the normal speed of conversation.<p>---<p>To clarify, the tone never should be condescending. This is a small matter. Therefore the tone should be light.<p>The pronunciation that is deemed &quot;correct&quot; is usually the one of the majority. So it is just an attempt to get everyone on the same page. It strikes me more as &quot;inclusive&quot; than &quot;anti-inclusive&quot;. If I were &quot;anti-inclusive&quot;, then I would silently let you say it your way, smile inside, and then talk behind your back to Henry about what a newb you are.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)</title><url>https://www.linux.org/threads/common-pronunciations-of-linux-directories-commands-etc.4445/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BossingAround</author><text>I found there is this &quot;pride in the correct pronunciation&quot; in the opensource community. It seems to be a signal of a group membership and a creed validator.<p>Who cares though? Why does &quot;correct pronunciation&quot; matter? Linux is nowadays used by many more non-native English speakers who will pronounce it very differently.<p>This attempt at correcting others seems like gatekeeping and, to me personally, feels like a very anti-inclusive thing to do.<p>Tangentially, the fact that some of the pronunciation is so non-intuitive (e.g. &#x2F;etc -&gt; etsy) should be a bug, not a feature and pride point. Can you imagine if you reported that a workflow is non-intuitive in a piece of SW and the devs told you &quot;we know, cool, right?!&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dvirsky</author><text>It takes some getting used to this idea, but I try to remember that when someone mispronounces an uncommon word or jargon term, it means that they&#x27;re getting all their information through textual means - which probably means they don&#x27;t have people close to them with the same interests or intellectual curiosity. That usually means, especially if it&#x27;s a younger person, that they are smart and probably lonely.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Welcome to the era of the hyper-surveilled office</title><url>https://www.economist.com/business/welcome-to-the-era-of-the-hyper-surveilled-office/21809219</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>palisade</author><text>I worked at a place once where we got a memo that asked everyone to stop clipping nails and farting because the microphones installed in our desks were picking these noises up. The memo even added that if you need to fart please go to the bathroom. It wasn&#x27;t a joke email, they were serious.<p>Oh, also not many people realize this but CCTV cameras all have the capability to convey audio captured via an internal microphone. It just depends on whether they have hooked the wires up to enable this feature. But, the innate ability is there. And, the CCTV software the guards use have the ability to store, retrieve and play this back alongside the video playback.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>herodoturtle</author><text>One of the greatest benefits of working from home - which is seldom celebrated - is the ability to fart at one’s leisure without having to try silence it.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Welcome to the era of the hyper-surveilled office</title><url>https://www.economist.com/business/welcome-to-the-era-of-the-hyper-surveilled-office/21809219</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>palisade</author><text>I worked at a place once where we got a memo that asked everyone to stop clipping nails and farting because the microphones installed in our desks were picking these noises up. The memo even added that if you need to fart please go to the bathroom. It wasn&#x27;t a joke email, they were serious.<p>Oh, also not many people realize this but CCTV cameras all have the capability to convey audio captured via an internal microphone. It just depends on whether they have hooked the wires up to enable this feature. But, the innate ability is there. And, the CCTV software the guards use have the ability to store, retrieve and play this back alongside the video playback.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>t-writescode</author><text>I’m not a lawyer, but that sounds like such a violation of wiretapping laws.<p>I don’t know of any zero-party consent laws for audio.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Programming Languages Are Simply Not Powerful Enough</title><url>http://ivanjovanovic.com/2012/04/26/programming-languages-are-simply-not-powerful-enough/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>The popularity of programming languages is entirely a matter of historical accident. C flourished while Pascal languished because UNIX was written in C. Was there really a deep technical reason for preferring C to Pascal? No, not really. Indeed, for most of early history, Pascal had far superior tooling to C.<p>How else do you explain the popularity of languages like Javascript and Objective-C? Javascript is an objectively terrible language, hacked together by Brendan Eich in an afternoon. Yet, it's a tremendously popular language, and tremendous amounts of money and time have gone into building good tooling for it. Same thing with Objective-C. It's a shitty, ad-hoc, cobbled-together patchwork of C and Smalltalk, yet it's tremendously popular now because that's what the iPad is programmed in.</text></item><item><author>cageface</author><text>The claim is often made that languages like Forth and Scheme are better for building applications than less elegant and orthogonal languages. But the evidence on the ground is overwhelmingly to the contrary. The vast majority of commercially significant apps are built in relatively baroque and ugly languages like Java and C++.<p>Personally I think that the ability to define your own language constructs is ultimately a lot less useful than things like rich libraries and robust tooling and I'm still waiting to see real-world proof of the advantages of programmable programming languages.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bad_user</author><text>Pascal (or more precisely Borland's version of it) was my first programming language that I learned in school. I also used it when I was participating in the CS Olympiads.<p>Going from Pascal to C was like a breath of fresh air. Pascal is like a combination of everything I hate in all programming languages that I know and I'm glad that the world moved on. C is small, elegant and portable. It's a systems programming language that does what it's supposed to do.<p>&#62; <i>Javascript is an objectively terrible language</i><p>Our tastes are different and all proof to the contrary, as Javascript proved that it's an <i>objectively</i> good programming language, that has been burdened with legacy, incompatibilities due to the browser wars and more recently slow evolution due to its huge popularity and the stagnation of IExplorer. It has quirks and it isn't what it should have been, but considering the context it's the best outcome we could have had.<p>Name one other programming language that's (1) a true standard governed by a standards body with multiple platform-independent implementations and (2) has less problems than Javascript.<p>With Javascript your argument falls flat on its head too, because all of the competing technologies failed because of really good technical and political reasons ... lets not forget VBScript, Java Applets, Flash and Silverlight. Yes, technologically speaking Javascript was and is better than all of them.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Programming Languages Are Simply Not Powerful Enough</title><url>http://ivanjovanovic.com/2012/04/26/programming-languages-are-simply-not-powerful-enough/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>The popularity of programming languages is entirely a matter of historical accident. C flourished while Pascal languished because UNIX was written in C. Was there really a deep technical reason for preferring C to Pascal? No, not really. Indeed, for most of early history, Pascal had far superior tooling to C.<p>How else do you explain the popularity of languages like Javascript and Objective-C? Javascript is an objectively terrible language, hacked together by Brendan Eich in an afternoon. Yet, it's a tremendously popular language, and tremendous amounts of money and time have gone into building good tooling for it. Same thing with Objective-C. It's a shitty, ad-hoc, cobbled-together patchwork of C and Smalltalk, yet it's tremendously popular now because that's what the iPad is programmed in.</text></item><item><author>cageface</author><text>The claim is often made that languages like Forth and Scheme are better for building applications than less elegant and orthogonal languages. But the evidence on the ground is overwhelmingly to the contrary. The vast majority of commercially significant apps are built in relatively baroque and ugly languages like Java and C++.<p>Personally I think that the ability to define your own language constructs is ultimately a lot less useful than things like rich libraries and robust tooling and I'm still waiting to see real-world proof of the advantages of programmable programming languages.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mturmon</author><text>The version of Pascal I learned on (early 1980s) had the problems Kernighan refers to in this piece:<p><a href="http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-on-pascal.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-on-pascal.html</a><p>Most awfully, "length of the array is part of the type of the array". This made some programming rather painful (strings and numerical programming, for example). Maybe other dialects of that time didn't have this problem, I don't know. I do know I found C to be a great relief.<p>Javascript is a good example of historical accident, on the other hand. It's got just enough extensibility that its flaws can be worked around. But its popularity is not due to its careful design.</text></comment>
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<story><title>NYC major crime complaints fell when cops took a break from ‘proactive policing’</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-proactive-policing-crime-20170925-story.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>exogeny</author><text>I&#x27;ve lived in a few different major cities and NYC for the last decade, and I can definitely say I have never seen more broken, ineffective policing than here. It&#x27;s truly ridiculous. Your experience, obviously, may vary.<p>Multiple instances of police openly threatening citizens. Phones ripped out of hands and smashed onto the ground, for the mere crime of filming an interaction. During the BLM protests, every single act of instigation and provocation that I witnessed was started by the police.<p>I don&#x27;t know what the answer is. But it is very clear the police here are a paramilitary jackboot squad, and that the city and the strength of their union protects them. They have almost complete impunity, and they see normal, everyday citizens as the enemy. I fear that we&#x27;re in for more trouble now that we&#x27;ve elected an ex-cop Mayor of the city.<p>(For background, I&#x27;m a tall, white man. I can&#x27;t imagine how bad it would be if I wasn&#x27;t.)</text></comment>
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<story><title>NYC major crime complaints fell when cops took a break from ‘proactive policing’</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-proactive-policing-crime-20170925-story.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nickff</author><text>&gt;<i>&quot;“While we cannot entirely rule out the effects of under-reporting,” the authors wrote, “our results show that crime complaints decreased, rather than increased, during a slowdown in proactive policing, contrary to deterrence theory.”&quot;</i><p>&gt;<i>&quot;Each week during the slowdown saw civilians report an estimated 43 fewer felony assaults, 40 fewer burglaries and 40 fewer acts of grand larceny. And this slight suppression of major crime rates actually continued for seven to 14 weeks after those drops in proactive policing — which led the researchers to estimate that overall, the slowdown resulted in about 2,100 fewer major-crimes complaints.&quot;</i><p>The fact that assaults, robberies, and burglaries aren&#x27;t being reported would seem to indicate that people just weren&#x27;t bothering to contact the police, because they knew the police would not help. Murder, rape, and (hospital-reported) shooting rates dropping would be more indicative that less policing would reduce crime.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Google Cloud Worth $225B, Deutsche Bank Says</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-03/google-cloud-worth-double-ibm-s-market-cap-deutsche-bank-says</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lacker</author><text>I was working at Google when AWS launched in 2006. The internal message was, we don&#x27;t want to build a competitor. We have the technology to compete in this area, but it is fundamentally a low-margin business, whereas reinvesting in our core business is high-margin, so we should keep our infrastructure to ourselves.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t say the Google strategy was wrong per se - their stock has about 10x&#x27;d since then. But it&#x27;s interesting to see how much things change over time.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Google Cloud Worth $225B, Deutsche Bank Says</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-03/google-cloud-worth-double-ibm-s-market-cap-deutsche-bank-says</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>michalu</author><text>This only means that Deutsche Bank is long on Google. 99% of these analyses are extremely biased and purposeful.<p>I&#x27;m not trying to peddle &quot;banks are evil&quot; it&#x27;s normal, it&#x27;s how this business works.<p>I worked in a leading asset management firm and never met a truly rich analyst. Usually bureaucratic employees nobody at the trading desk takes seriously.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Ask HN: How do I understand the results of my job search?</title><text>I&#x27;m in the middle of a job search. Here are some stats:<p><pre><code> - 50 applications submitted
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- 3 no longer hiring
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I have ~6 years of experience as a self-taught fullstack web developer with a bit more professional experience on the frontend, though I&#x27;m comfortable with both sides. I&#x27;ve had a senior level title. All of my performance reviews have been positive and I don&#x27;t have trouble doing the work. My current CTO said that I was one of the smartest developers on our team of 20. I got similar feedback from colleagues at my last company and I was promoted there 4 times in 3 years. I blog regularly about programming, including posts that have been on the front page of Hacker News. I spoke at a conference this year. I have a decent amount of work on Github, including some contributions to well known open source projects.<p>I feel like the numbers for this job search are not good but I can&#x27;t figure out what the problem is. A large majority of the companies rejected me without an interview, either sending a form letter or not response at all. There hasn&#x27;t been any feedback about why they&#x27;re not interested in me. This has been especially true of larger, more well-known companies. I&#x27;m completely qualified on paper but there&#x27;s no interest.<p>I&#x27;ve also started to lose confidence for technical interviews. They feel so arbitrary. Some times I do really well. Sometimes not. But in both cases, I don&#x27;t feel like my skills have been tested or demonstrated. When I do well, the stars lined up and when I don&#x27;t, they didn&#x27;t. The whole thing makes me feel increasingly insecure about my ability to build a career, even though I&#x27;ve demonstrated that I can do the work once hired.<p>Is this the average experience or is there something going on here?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>brianwawok</author><text>You pay via reduced offers</text></item><item><author>definitegrunt</author><text>Interesting - I have been working with a recruiter but the results are very underwhelming. Fortunately, I am not paying for the service.</text></item><item><author>atomashpolskiy</author><text>I&#x27;m in the very beginning of a search for a new job now, but already feel like things have changed a lot over the last few years, in some socio-economic sense, that I can&#x27;t quite put my finger on.<p>I never had any problems with passing technical interviews, so that&#x27;s not what bothers me. My gripe is with the job ads, that are 100% relevant to my experience on paper, and yet somehow my applications seem to go into a black hole.<p>I&#x27;m not comfortable with carpet bombing 100s of companies and hoping that someone will hire me for some _arbitrary_ job. I want this _specific_ job. I have pretty specific professional interests (in an area that I&#x27;m quite experienced in) and aiming high, so there is not a lot of vacancies, that I&#x27;d be willing to consider. After filtering for remote-friendliness, what I&#x27;m left with is just a few positions. And yet, the seeming randomness of the process makes it unlikely, that I&#x27;ll be even considered to be put into the interview loop.<p>One friend of mine, who happens to be a head of the HR at a medium-sized company, told me, that for each publicly posted SWE job ad they get several 100s of applications. So they don&#x27;t even bother to review the submitted applications anymore (!). Instead, they merely wait for the recruitment agencies to pick up the ad and find some reasonable number of &quot;vetted&quot; candidates via their own channels and bring them in to an interview.<p>Overall, I think that the &quot;market&quot; for jobs depends a bit too much on the middlemen lately. Needless to say, that most of these middlemen are not interested in catering to candidates&#x27; aspirations, nor are they going to spend too much time looking for a perfect match. The end result is (a) total mess with regards to matching jobs to people and (b) little hope for proper career progression, because the whole process is pretty much random.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>awinder</author><text>This is really not true, except maybe in localized situations which you don’t want to work for (and recruiters are not going to want to do work for those companies so the overlap is minuscule). It’s a one time capitalized expense that reduces time (money) spent by on-staff employees.<p>One thing you do have to look out for is that recruiters get paid after a period of employment (3-6 months in my experience). So that can create a perverse incentive to fire someone you’re on the fence about. This really shouldn’t happen unless you’re working for an extremely cash-strapped place though.</text></comment>
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- 21 no response
- 3 no longer hiring
- 11 rejected without interview
- 15 first round interviews
- 9 technical interviews
- 2 rejected after technical interview
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I have ~6 years of experience as a self-taught fullstack web developer with a bit more professional experience on the frontend, though I&#x27;m comfortable with both sides. I&#x27;ve had a senior level title. All of my performance reviews have been positive and I don&#x27;t have trouble doing the work. My current CTO said that I was one of the smartest developers on our team of 20. I got similar feedback from colleagues at my last company and I was promoted there 4 times in 3 years. I blog regularly about programming, including posts that have been on the front page of Hacker News. I spoke at a conference this year. I have a decent amount of work on Github, including some contributions to well known open source projects.<p>I feel like the numbers for this job search are not good but I can&#x27;t figure out what the problem is. A large majority of the companies rejected me without an interview, either sending a form letter or not response at all. There hasn&#x27;t been any feedback about why they&#x27;re not interested in me. This has been especially true of larger, more well-known companies. I&#x27;m completely qualified on paper but there&#x27;s no interest.<p>I&#x27;ve also started to lose confidence for technical interviews. They feel so arbitrary. Some times I do really well. Sometimes not. But in both cases, I don&#x27;t feel like my skills have been tested or demonstrated. When I do well, the stars lined up and when I don&#x27;t, they didn&#x27;t. The whole thing makes me feel increasingly insecure about my ability to build a career, even though I&#x27;ve demonstrated that I can do the work once hired.<p>Is this the average experience or is there something going on here?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>brianwawok</author><text>You pay via reduced offers</text></item><item><author>definitegrunt</author><text>Interesting - I have been working with a recruiter but the results are very underwhelming. Fortunately, I am not paying for the service.</text></item><item><author>atomashpolskiy</author><text>I&#x27;m in the very beginning of a search for a new job now, but already feel like things have changed a lot over the last few years, in some socio-economic sense, that I can&#x27;t quite put my finger on.<p>I never had any problems with passing technical interviews, so that&#x27;s not what bothers me. My gripe is with the job ads, that are 100% relevant to my experience on paper, and yet somehow my applications seem to go into a black hole.<p>I&#x27;m not comfortable with carpet bombing 100s of companies and hoping that someone will hire me for some _arbitrary_ job. I want this _specific_ job. I have pretty specific professional interests (in an area that I&#x27;m quite experienced in) and aiming high, so there is not a lot of vacancies, that I&#x27;d be willing to consider. After filtering for remote-friendliness, what I&#x27;m left with is just a few positions. And yet, the seeming randomness of the process makes it unlikely, that I&#x27;ll be even considered to be put into the interview loop.<p>One friend of mine, who happens to be a head of the HR at a medium-sized company, told me, that for each publicly posted SWE job ad they get several 100s of applications. So they don&#x27;t even bother to review the submitted applications anymore (!). Instead, they merely wait for the recruitment agencies to pick up the ad and find some reasonable number of &quot;vetted&quot; candidates via their own channels and bring them in to an interview.<p>Overall, I think that the &quot;market&quot; for jobs depends a bit too much on the middlemen lately. Needless to say, that most of these middlemen are not interested in catering to candidates&#x27; aspirations, nor are they going to spend too much time looking for a perfect match. The end result is (a) total mess with regards to matching jobs to people and (b) little hope for proper career progression, because the whole process is pretty much random.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>biermic</author><text>Working from the other end with recruiters, I cannot confirm this. It feels to me, the recruiter I&#x27;m working with respects both parties and really tries to find a great fit.<p>All of the applicants he brought were better, than the ones that applied via an online job portal. Even tough some ask 20%-40% over our budget, we are still considering them.</text></comment>
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<story><title>I'm Done with Red Hat (Enterprise Linux)</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/im-done-red-hat-enterprise-linux</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danieldk</author><text>Regardless whether Red Hat said it or not, why not call it what it is? Not every CentOS user was a freeloader and the same is true for its spiritual successors. However, a large majority of CentOS users were not contributing back in any way to CentOS or the larger FLOSS community. Secondly, a substantial chunk of those users used CentOS because they wanted all the benefits of Red Hat EL without paying for it.<p>That pretty much sounds like <i>freeloading</i> to me. Copyleft open source licenses allow freeloading [1], but they also allow Red Hat to gate source code. As long as they fulfill the license obligations towards their customers, it&#x27;s fine.<p>Red Hat puts enormous amounts of money in the FLOSS ecosystem, I think it&#x27;s completely fair for them to nudge customers with deep-enough pockets to pay for subscriptions. For other users, there are plenty of other options.<p>[1] For non-copyleft licenses, Red Hat are of course not obliged to provide source code.</text></item><item><author>freedomben</author><text>I don&#x27;t think this sort of emotional, loose-facted &quot;hot take&quot; style response is real constructive. I&#x27;m unhappy about this decision by Red Hat, and am also very concerned about the trajectory RH is on. For the first time in well over a decade I&#x27;m re-evaluating which ecosystem to base all my work (and the company(ies) for who I make decisions). I don&#x27;t believe that Red Hat&#x27;s leadership cares a whole lot about open source anymore. If they do, they&#x27;ve demonstrated that they are willing to harm open source in order to (short-term at least) increase sales. (congrats salespeople, you finally won and killed CentOS. And congrats to all the people who used to tell the salesperson &quot;I can run CentOS for free, why should I buy RHEL?&quot;)<p>But that said, as far as I know, <i>one guy</i> used the term &quot;freeloaders&quot; and the context wasn&#x27;t clear at all who he was talking about, and certainly not clear whether that is one person&#x27;s opinion or the company&#x27;s opinion. I find it incredibly unlikely that he was talking about people who used CentOS and actually contributed to the community. But either way, attributing that to Red Hat as a whole is completely unfair and unproductive. Every big organization is going to have at least one person with an opinion they don&#x27;t agree with, and painting the entire org with the brush of one person is fallacious.<p>What&#x27;s the goal here? Is it to polarize into good and evil sides? Get people to dig in and defend their ground for fear of the &quot;other side&quot; seizing their words or decisions and holding it over them?<p>I like a lot of OP&#x27;s content, but I am a little worried that he&#x27;s a little too immersed in the Youtube success formula of tapping into emotions (particularly rage and anger) and it&#x27;s driving him to a very emotional take on this issue.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Pet_Ant</author><text>&gt; That pretty much sounds like freeloading to me.<p>I&#x27;ll bite. The value in RHEL was supposed to be in the support. CentOS helped establish and maintain RHEL as the defacto standard that everyone targetted and prevent the development of another. I mean if Debian becomes the default that actual reduces RHEL&#x27;s value proposition for their paying customers. Reinforcing a platform&#x27;s dominance is contributing value.</text></comment>
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<story><title>I'm Done with Red Hat (Enterprise Linux)</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/im-done-red-hat-enterprise-linux</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danieldk</author><text>Regardless whether Red Hat said it or not, why not call it what it is? Not every CentOS user was a freeloader and the same is true for its spiritual successors. However, a large majority of CentOS users were not contributing back in any way to CentOS or the larger FLOSS community. Secondly, a substantial chunk of those users used CentOS because they wanted all the benefits of Red Hat EL without paying for it.<p>That pretty much sounds like <i>freeloading</i> to me. Copyleft open source licenses allow freeloading [1], but they also allow Red Hat to gate source code. As long as they fulfill the license obligations towards their customers, it&#x27;s fine.<p>Red Hat puts enormous amounts of money in the FLOSS ecosystem, I think it&#x27;s completely fair for them to nudge customers with deep-enough pockets to pay for subscriptions. For other users, there are plenty of other options.<p>[1] For non-copyleft licenses, Red Hat are of course not obliged to provide source code.</text></item><item><author>freedomben</author><text>I don&#x27;t think this sort of emotional, loose-facted &quot;hot take&quot; style response is real constructive. I&#x27;m unhappy about this decision by Red Hat, and am also very concerned about the trajectory RH is on. For the first time in well over a decade I&#x27;m re-evaluating which ecosystem to base all my work (and the company(ies) for who I make decisions). I don&#x27;t believe that Red Hat&#x27;s leadership cares a whole lot about open source anymore. If they do, they&#x27;ve demonstrated that they are willing to harm open source in order to (short-term at least) increase sales. (congrats salespeople, you finally won and killed CentOS. And congrats to all the people who used to tell the salesperson &quot;I can run CentOS for free, why should I buy RHEL?&quot;)<p>But that said, as far as I know, <i>one guy</i> used the term &quot;freeloaders&quot; and the context wasn&#x27;t clear at all who he was talking about, and certainly not clear whether that is one person&#x27;s opinion or the company&#x27;s opinion. I find it incredibly unlikely that he was talking about people who used CentOS and actually contributed to the community. But either way, attributing that to Red Hat as a whole is completely unfair and unproductive. Every big organization is going to have at least one person with an opinion they don&#x27;t agree with, and painting the entire org with the brush of one person is fallacious.<p>What&#x27;s the goal here? Is it to polarize into good and evil sides? Get people to dig in and defend their ground for fear of the &quot;other side&quot; seizing their words or decisions and holding it over them?<p>I like a lot of OP&#x27;s content, but I am a little worried that he&#x27;s a little too immersed in the Youtube success formula of tapping into emotions (particularly rage and anger) and it&#x27;s driving him to a very emotional take on this issue.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vbezhenar</author><text>License situation is still unclear to me. GPL explicitly does not allow to forbid further redistribution. RedHat does that. I&#x27;m not a lawyer, but from a layman PoV this seems sketchy.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Almost 40% of U.S. Consumers Trust Online Reviews Less Than They Did 5 Years Ago</title><url>https://www.reviews.com/home/security-systems/almost-40-percent-of-us-consumers-trust-online-reviews-less-than-they-did-five-years-ago/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>everdrive</author><text>As well they should.<p>This is a game of cat and mouse. Consumers were ahead for a little while, but companies have really gotten a grasp on the internet, and they&#x27;re winning the information war.<p>It&#x27;s no mistake that I&#x27;ve come to rely on brand name again. It&#x27;s the best heuristic available to me. When all this first started (mid-2000s) I was actively avoiding basing ANY decision on brand name. For a brief window, I had better information, but no more.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AdmiralAsshat</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s no mistake that I&#x27;ve come to rely on brand name again.<p>I&#x27;ve been saying for awhile, this could be the salvation for brick-and-mortar stores. As long as Amazon continues to play fast and loose with counterfeits, the one thing that will get me to drive down to the store and buy something in-person is the store&#x27;s guarantee that the product came from the vendor whose name is on the box, and that I can return it if I get a lemon.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Almost 40% of U.S. Consumers Trust Online Reviews Less Than They Did 5 Years Ago</title><url>https://www.reviews.com/home/security-systems/almost-40-percent-of-us-consumers-trust-online-reviews-less-than-they-did-five-years-ago/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>everdrive</author><text>As well they should.<p>This is a game of cat and mouse. Consumers were ahead for a little while, but companies have really gotten a grasp on the internet, and they&#x27;re winning the information war.<p>It&#x27;s no mistake that I&#x27;ve come to rely on brand name again. It&#x27;s the best heuristic available to me. When all this first started (mid-2000s) I was actively avoiding basing ANY decision on brand name. For a brief window, I had better information, but no more.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spoonjim</author><text>There are also retailers which actually vet brands. For example anything edible that Target or Walmart or Trader Joe’s or Whole Foods (Amazon ownership notwithstanding) sells in their stores, they actually contract a testing company to test it to make sure that it’s safe. For things where safety is important an actual physical national store is going to be much better than Amazon.</text></comment>
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<story><title>A Brief Glance at How Various Text Editors Manage Their Textual Data (2015)</title><url>https://ecc-comp.blogspot.com/2015/05/a-brief-glance-at-how-5-text-editors.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ScottBurson</author><text>&gt; [Sam] is one of the first editors to separate its UI from the actual editor - Sam can be used on both the command-line and as a graphical text editor.<p>Not even close to the first. TECO had both command-line and graphical editing in, ah, 1964: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;TECO_(text_editor)#History" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;TECO_(text_editor)#History</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kragen</author><text>There were different implementations of TECO (written in the assembly languages of different machines) that had different user interfaces. That does not in any way imply that TECO had an editor process using a defined protocol to communicate with its UI process; in fact, in 1964, TECO ran on two computers, and neither of them had separate processes, or an operating system to run them under. ITS development hadn&#x27;t started yet.<p>As far as I know, all the implementations of TECO, even today, glom the screen update logic (if any!) together with the editor-buffer logic in a single monolithic process.</text></comment>
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<story><title>A Brief Glance at How Various Text Editors Manage Their Textual Data (2015)</title><url>https://ecc-comp.blogspot.com/2015/05/a-brief-glance-at-how-5-text-editors.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ScottBurson</author><text>&gt; [Sam] is one of the first editors to separate its UI from the actual editor - Sam can be used on both the command-line and as a graphical text editor.<p>Not even close to the first. TECO had both command-line and graphical editing in, ah, 1964: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;TECO_(text_editor)#History" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;TECO_(text_editor)#History</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>connorelsea</author><text>TIL about punch card hot code swapping</text></comment>
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<story><title>Tree Style Tabs</title><url>https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TylerE</author><text>and I don&#x27;t understand how people have more than about 10 tabs and stay sane. Do you people like... not use bookmarks at all?<p>Heck, most of the sites I visit on anything like a regular basis I only need to type in the first letter or two and they auto-complete.</text></item><item><author>gamma-male</author><text>I don’t understand how people browse the web without this extension. That’s the number one reason chrome is not usable for power users. I’m also wondering why this is not natively supported by both firefox and chrome.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>djur</author><text>Do you never find yourself having to read through 10-20 pages to find a particular piece of information or to get a complete understanding of a topic? I find it really useful to be able to open up a lot of tabs from a single page and then run through them one by one.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Apple's “Disposable and Unfixable” Airpods [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z17HAA-moY</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>systemvoltage</author><text>None of these people have ever worked on a tiny electro-mechanical assembly that needs to happen on a monumental scale. It’s impossible to make this thing repairable without sacrificing size or it’s water resistance and more. I’ve worked in HVM and have a huge respect for people who make this possible. iPhone? Sure they could probably try making it repairable. It’s difficult though. I worked in a company that did competitive analysis of iPhone PCB. It’s insane. WLCSP and various CoWoS packages everywhere. Not a single mm^2 wasted. Apple Watch is the most amazing thing ever - we did cross sections and X-rays of the SoCs, lots of flat flex and hybrid PCB components, glue is king - companies like Nitto specialize in making glue for assembly. I can’t imagine how to make it repairable. It’s hard. I also wish things were repairable but then people will complain its not waterproof or whatever.<p>One of the things that I absolutely despise is the habit people have for consumer entitlement. People are assholes - just ask anyone who has worked in a call center or H&amp;M cash register. General public is thankless and constantly complain about how much everything just sucks. It&#x27;s almost like a passtime.<p>Unrelated thankless jobs: Imagine you’re an engineer working on Siri and the entire world makes fun of your work constantly. And it’s not your fault that Apple doesn’t collect insane amounts of data like Google does to make AI work. This is debatable.<p>Edit: let’s not talk about Siri. I’m sorry to bring it up, just had the thought come to my mind about it today when I watched Linus Tech Tips’s video about Siri. I was like damn, it must suck to be in that team. They’re just people like you and me.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Apple's “Disposable and Unfixable” Airpods [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z17HAA-moY</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Tomminn</author><text>They&#x27;re tiny, they&#x27;re valuable, and they last a decent while.<p>Of all the places to point fingers at waste problems, this is a strange one.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Low serotonin levels might explain some Long Covid symptoms, study proposes</title><url>https://www.science.org/content/article/low-serotonin-levels-might-explain-some-long-covid-symptoms-study-proposes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ofjcihen</author><text>Was going to say this. My one gripe with HN is that people say incorrect things with complete confidence pretty regularly and you can only
Detect it if you know the subject matter.</text></item><item><author>RohMin</author><text>While most of the body’s serotonin is indeed in the gut, the serotonin that impacts our mood, sleep, and other cognitive functions is exclusively produced and used in the brain.</text></item><item><author>francisofascii</author><text>My gut reaction (pun intended) or guess on what causes Long Covid is a viral reservoir, possibly in the gut, that the immune system cannot fully clear. Low serotonin is then a downstream effect from the chronic stress on the body. Approx. 90% of serotonin found in the human body is located in the (GI) tract. So people and doctors will throw SSRIs at the problem, and maybe that will relieve some symptoms, but will not address the fundamental cause. Reference: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC10171832&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC10171832&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>latch</author><text>HN used to show vote count. In the past, you&#x27;d see something like your GP having a vote count of 14, and your parent (the correction) having a vote count of 53. It was super useful and helped to combat misinformation.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Low serotonin levels might explain some Long Covid symptoms, study proposes</title><url>https://www.science.org/content/article/low-serotonin-levels-might-explain-some-long-covid-symptoms-study-proposes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ofjcihen</author><text>Was going to say this. My one gripe with HN is that people say incorrect things with complete confidence pretty regularly and you can only
Detect it if you know the subject matter.</text></item><item><author>RohMin</author><text>While most of the body’s serotonin is indeed in the gut, the serotonin that impacts our mood, sleep, and other cognitive functions is exclusively produced and used in the brain.</text></item><item><author>francisofascii</author><text>My gut reaction (pun intended) or guess on what causes Long Covid is a viral reservoir, possibly in the gut, that the immune system cannot fully clear. Low serotonin is then a downstream effect from the chronic stress on the body. Approx. 90% of serotonin found in the human body is located in the (GI) tract. So people and doctors will throw SSRIs at the problem, and maybe that will relieve some symptoms, but will not address the fundamental cause. Reference: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC10171832&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC10171832&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ludston</author><text>To be fair, this person clearly said it was a &quot;gut&quot; feeling, and it is also ok to be wrong about things, since being corrected on saying a wrong thing is a wonderful way to learn.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Chemistry of Cast-Iron Seasoning (2010)</title><url>http://sherylcanter.com/wordpress/2010/01/a-science-based-technique-for-seasoning-cast-iron/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mdtusz</author><text>I&#x27;ve tried this a few times and none of the ovens I&#x27;ve had over the years have been successful in removing seasoning with their self-cleaning, so at this point I&#x27;m trying to find a machine shop that will be happy to bead blast it and mill the surface flat again. So far, most shops have given me quotes in the hundreds of dollars so I&#x27;ve been waiting until I meet someone that has the capability to just do it in their garage.<p>Most new cast iron cookware now has a raw surface with lots of pits and bumps from the casting process as well, which doesn&#x27;t seem to get nearly as smooth and non-stick as &quot;vintage&quot; cookware.</text></item><item><author>chongli</author><text><i>Nothing short of steel wool is going to affect the patina.</i><p>Actually, if you throw it in the oven and set it to self-clean it&#x27;ll strip the seasoning right off. I&#x27;ve done it with my cast iron pan before. Washes completely clean and ends up gun-metal grey; a non-oxidized pure iron surface. This is a great way to start over with the seasoning process if you&#x27;re unhappy with it.</text></item><item><author>stouset</author><text>Also, without washing, you end up with rough spots of non-sticky partially-polymerized bits. Wash it with soap and a scrub brush. Nothing short of steel wool is going to affect the patina.<p>For proof of this, check out your aluminum baking sheets. If they’ve been used, they’re almost certainly covered in a shiny black substance that’s a complete pain in the ass to remove, even with abrasives. That’s essentially what’s on your cast iron.</text></item><item><author>war1025</author><text>As someone who owns more cast iron than is reasonable, I just wanted to go a step beyond upvoting this and acknowledge in writing that this is the correct view of things.<p>You want oil soaked into the metal. This idea that you are trying to build a non-stick surface on top of the metal is just adding extra work that isn&#x27;t needed.<p>Wash with soap, dry of the stove top, put in some oil (I use peanut), then take a paper towel and rub the oil around over everything and at the end the metal should look shiny but there shouldn&#x27;t be any pooled oil left anywhere.<p>If you are cooking something that doesn&#x27;t leave a residue or strong flavor, you can skip the washing all together and just leave it there to cook with next time.<p>If you try to go the whole &quot;never wash this&quot; route, you end up with unhappy results going from cooking something with onions and garlic to cooking something more neutral flavored. No one wants onion flavored pancakes.</text></item><item><author>kevinmchugh</author><text>You really shouldn&#x27;t buy a special oil just got seasoning your cast iron and carbon steel. It&#x27;s not necessary. Pick an oil with a high smoke point, a neutral taste, and plenty of easy availability. That&#x27;s often peanut. Avocado is great if you&#x27;re fancy.<p>Keep a squirt bottle of oil on hand and make sure you&#x27;re using enough. Using soap to clean your pans will make maintaining your seasoning easier, as you use less effort to clean them. See this if you&#x27;re skeptical: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seriouseats.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;11&#x2F;the-truth-about-cast-iron.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seriouseats.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;11&#x2F;the-truth-about-cast-iro...</a><p>I had friends dedicate years to flax seed oil. They&#x27;re not happy about it, as they&#x27;ve got flaking to deal with. I also had friends disbelieve me that soap was okay, and they&#x27;ve mostly come around after hearing me swear by it for years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>slacka</author><text>Since quarantine life, I&#x27;ve been cooking multiple times a day. My oven&#x27;s self-clean makes my pans look exactly like new. Takes all of the black off leaving them with a shiny, silvery shine. I then have to season them to regain a nonstick coating as good as any Ceramic&#x2F;Teflon pan that I&#x27;ve used.<p>As far soap. My experience is that it definitely damages the nonstick coating, depending on how much you use. You can get by with a soapy sponge, but putting detergent directly on it and the nonstick coating will be lost.<p>The best way to avoid need to avoid soap or scrubbing and re-seasoning is to put hot water in the pan while it&#x27;s still hot and scrape. Meat is the worst for leaving a coating and this technique removes 99% of it.(If not blackened use that water for a delicious sauce with all the best flavors of your cooking). This routine allows me to use the same pan for months without a deep cleaning.<p>I have tried to put cold oil on after heaving soaping, but I&#x27;m not happy with the pan until I season it with high heat. The only reason I&#x27;d do it for rust and still would pan on seasoning it properly later.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Chemistry of Cast-Iron Seasoning (2010)</title><url>http://sherylcanter.com/wordpress/2010/01/a-science-based-technique-for-seasoning-cast-iron/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mdtusz</author><text>I&#x27;ve tried this a few times and none of the ovens I&#x27;ve had over the years have been successful in removing seasoning with their self-cleaning, so at this point I&#x27;m trying to find a machine shop that will be happy to bead blast it and mill the surface flat again. So far, most shops have given me quotes in the hundreds of dollars so I&#x27;ve been waiting until I meet someone that has the capability to just do it in their garage.<p>Most new cast iron cookware now has a raw surface with lots of pits and bumps from the casting process as well, which doesn&#x27;t seem to get nearly as smooth and non-stick as &quot;vintage&quot; cookware.</text></item><item><author>chongli</author><text><i>Nothing short of steel wool is going to affect the patina.</i><p>Actually, if you throw it in the oven and set it to self-clean it&#x27;ll strip the seasoning right off. I&#x27;ve done it with my cast iron pan before. Washes completely clean and ends up gun-metal grey; a non-oxidized pure iron surface. This is a great way to start over with the seasoning process if you&#x27;re unhappy with it.</text></item><item><author>stouset</author><text>Also, without washing, you end up with rough spots of non-sticky partially-polymerized bits. Wash it with soap and a scrub brush. Nothing short of steel wool is going to affect the patina.<p>For proof of this, check out your aluminum baking sheets. If they’ve been used, they’re almost certainly covered in a shiny black substance that’s a complete pain in the ass to remove, even with abrasives. That’s essentially what’s on your cast iron.</text></item><item><author>war1025</author><text>As someone who owns more cast iron than is reasonable, I just wanted to go a step beyond upvoting this and acknowledge in writing that this is the correct view of things.<p>You want oil soaked into the metal. This idea that you are trying to build a non-stick surface on top of the metal is just adding extra work that isn&#x27;t needed.<p>Wash with soap, dry of the stove top, put in some oil (I use peanut), then take a paper towel and rub the oil around over everything and at the end the metal should look shiny but there shouldn&#x27;t be any pooled oil left anywhere.<p>If you are cooking something that doesn&#x27;t leave a residue or strong flavor, you can skip the washing all together and just leave it there to cook with next time.<p>If you try to go the whole &quot;never wash this&quot; route, you end up with unhappy results going from cooking something with onions and garlic to cooking something more neutral flavored. No one wants onion flavored pancakes.</text></item><item><author>kevinmchugh</author><text>You really shouldn&#x27;t buy a special oil just got seasoning your cast iron and carbon steel. It&#x27;s not necessary. Pick an oil with a high smoke point, a neutral taste, and plenty of easy availability. That&#x27;s often peanut. Avocado is great if you&#x27;re fancy.<p>Keep a squirt bottle of oil on hand and make sure you&#x27;re using enough. Using soap to clean your pans will make maintaining your seasoning easier, as you use less effort to clean them. See this if you&#x27;re skeptical: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seriouseats.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;11&#x2F;the-truth-about-cast-iron.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seriouseats.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;11&#x2F;the-truth-about-cast-iro...</a><p>I had friends dedicate years to flax seed oil. They&#x27;re not happy about it, as they&#x27;ve got flaking to deal with. I also had friends disbelieve me that soap was okay, and they&#x27;ve mostly come around after hearing me swear by it for years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chipsa</author><text>Self cleaning should reach a high enough temp for it, because most of what you use the self-cleaning to take off is effectively seasoning. If it&#x27;s not getting hot enough, use something else to get it hot enough (blowtorch, maybe).<p>For smoothing out the surface, you could just use a flapwheel. You can get them for angle grinders. This will also take off seasoning if necessary (but it&#x27;s a bit worse for the pan if you&#x27;re not also trying to smooth it out). Be sure to wear a respirator and googles if you&#x27;re doing this.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants</title><url>https://apnews.com/e97f08eb935989840bda430bb7a32e15</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simmanian</author><text>It&#x27;s easy to engage in a zero sum game of fighting for the &quot;fair&quot; share of the pie, but I believe the fundamental problem is that our education system as it exists today has immense scalability problems: it&#x27;s built upon the idea of creating scarcity around qualifications and putting people against each other. I honestly think we are already headed in the direction of providing a more open education through the internet. COVID has probably accelerated the process.<p>I hope we can find ways to lift each other up rather than bring each other down.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>biophysboy</author><text>This scarcity problem was the issue I had with the free college proposals last year. It basically proposed that we should make everyone professionals. But, this isn&#x27;t possible! For every manager, there are 10 workers. &quot;Working class&quot; jobs are necessary. The solution should not be give everyone an escape from hell, it should be make the jobs less hellish. Better wages, better healthcare, more respect and dignity overall.<p>Saying that everybody should not go to college might at first seem elitist, but I think its elitist to presume that college is the only path, where people demonstrate their &quot;merit&quot;.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants</title><url>https://apnews.com/e97f08eb935989840bda430bb7a32e15</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simmanian</author><text>It&#x27;s easy to engage in a zero sum game of fighting for the &quot;fair&quot; share of the pie, but I believe the fundamental problem is that our education system as it exists today has immense scalability problems: it&#x27;s built upon the idea of creating scarcity around qualifications and putting people against each other. I honestly think we are already headed in the direction of providing a more open education through the internet. COVID has probably accelerated the process.<p>I hope we can find ways to lift each other up rather than bring each other down.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ghj</author><text>Online lectures might be able to scale, but communication platforms and social networks cannot.<p>I would say more than half of what you learn is from your peers. People who by design were already filtered to be at a high baseline of competence and are forced to go through the same curriculum in the same timeframe as you.<p>No professor or expert can explain a concept better than someone similar to yourself who recently figured it out. There&#x27;s also an immense amount of camaraderie built from helping each other grow. All of this is lost when you&#x27;re just one of millions watching a video where most of the public discussion is dumb.<p>A little artificial exclusivity isn&#x27;t a bad thing.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Immunity Generated from Covid-19 Vaccines Differs from an Infection</title><url>https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2021/06/22/how-immunity-generated-from-covid-19-vaccines-differs-from-an-infection/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ajedi32</author><text>I was confused about that as well. The article suggests that targeting &quot;other portions of the spike protein&quot; (as immune systems previously infected with COVID do) results in the immune system being _less_ robust against variants of the virus than targeting &quot;places on the RBD&quot; (as immune systems exposed to Moderna&#x27;s mRNA vaccine do):<p>&gt; Specifically, antibodies elicited by the mRNA vaccine were more focused to the RBD compared to antibodies elicited by an infection, which more often targeted other portions of the spike protein. Importantly, the vaccine-elicited antibodies targeted a broader range of places on the RBD than those elicited by natural infection.<p>&gt; These findings suggest that natural immunity and vaccine-generated immunity to SARS-CoV-2 will differ in how they recognize new viral variants. What’s more, antibodies acquired with the help of a vaccine may be more likely to target new SARS-CoV-2 variants potently, even when the variants carry new mutations in the RBD.<p>Anyone with more experience in immunology care to weigh in on why the second paragraph there follows from the first? Naively, one might expect targeting a wider variety of places on on the COVID spike protein to result in better immunity against variants, not worse. Why is the article saying the opposite?</text></item><item><author>bananabiscuit</author><text>The spike protein targeting antibodies produced by the vaccine do indeed target a wider range of spike mutations than the spike protein antibodies from previous infection. However, vaccines only target spike protein, while a previous infection will cause your body to produce antibodies for a much larger set of targets on the virus, which in practice leads to a more robust immunity. This is supported by data from Israel and some recent studies.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.israelnationalnews.com&#x2F;News&#x2F;News.aspx&#x2F;309762" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.israelnationalnews.com&#x2F;News&#x2F;News.aspx&#x2F;309762</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.israelnationalnews.com&#x2F;News&#x2F;News.aspx&#x2F;310963" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.israelnationalnews.com&#x2F;News&#x2F;News.aspx&#x2F;310963</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.medrxiv.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;10.1101&#x2F;2021.08.24.21262415v1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.medrxiv.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;10.1101&#x2F;2021.08.24.21262415v...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rcxdude</author><text>I think it&#x27;s because the other parts of the virus are more likely to change over time, because there&#x27;s lots of neutral mutations available: changes which don&#x27;t affect fitness but do affect antibody response. The RBD by contrast is much more constrained: most mutations there result in a virus which can no longer infect cells, so it&#x27;s much less likely to change (though of course any mutations which increase its effectiveness will be heavily selected for). This I think was one of the main reasons the spike protein was targeted by the mRNA viruses.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Immunity Generated from Covid-19 Vaccines Differs from an Infection</title><url>https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2021/06/22/how-immunity-generated-from-covid-19-vaccines-differs-from-an-infection/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ajedi32</author><text>I was confused about that as well. The article suggests that targeting &quot;other portions of the spike protein&quot; (as immune systems previously infected with COVID do) results in the immune system being _less_ robust against variants of the virus than targeting &quot;places on the RBD&quot; (as immune systems exposed to Moderna&#x27;s mRNA vaccine do):<p>&gt; Specifically, antibodies elicited by the mRNA vaccine were more focused to the RBD compared to antibodies elicited by an infection, which more often targeted other portions of the spike protein. Importantly, the vaccine-elicited antibodies targeted a broader range of places on the RBD than those elicited by natural infection.<p>&gt; These findings suggest that natural immunity and vaccine-generated immunity to SARS-CoV-2 will differ in how they recognize new viral variants. What’s more, antibodies acquired with the help of a vaccine may be more likely to target new SARS-CoV-2 variants potently, even when the variants carry new mutations in the RBD.<p>Anyone with more experience in immunology care to weigh in on why the second paragraph there follows from the first? Naively, one might expect targeting a wider variety of places on on the COVID spike protein to result in better immunity against variants, not worse. Why is the article saying the opposite?</text></item><item><author>bananabiscuit</author><text>The spike protein targeting antibodies produced by the vaccine do indeed target a wider range of spike mutations than the spike protein antibodies from previous infection. However, vaccines only target spike protein, while a previous infection will cause your body to produce antibodies for a much larger set of targets on the virus, which in practice leads to a more robust immunity. This is supported by data from Israel and some recent studies.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.israelnationalnews.com&#x2F;News&#x2F;News.aspx&#x2F;309762" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.israelnationalnews.com&#x2F;News&#x2F;News.aspx&#x2F;309762</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.israelnationalnews.com&#x2F;News&#x2F;News.aspx&#x2F;310963" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.israelnationalnews.com&#x2F;News&#x2F;News.aspx&#x2F;310963</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.medrxiv.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;10.1101&#x2F;2021.08.24.21262415v1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.medrxiv.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;10.1101&#x2F;2021.08.24.21262415v...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rolph</author><text>when you target many epitopes, you are shooting at the 10 inch ring; target one epitope of critical function [put one in center of mass] you are shooting the 2 inch ring.<p>immune systems dont look at everything at once, they find something that sticks and and over trials sharpen the response until highest efficacy of antibody epitope combination is found.<p>the vaccine is like a laser guided munition, natural immunity is like carpet cluster bombing; both highly effective but in different modalities.</text></comment>
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<story><title>My startup failed, and this is what it feels like</title><url>https://medium.com/@nikkidurkin99/my-startup-failed-and-this-is-what-it-feels-like-c5d64b3ae96b</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nikkidurkin</author><text>Hey Andrew, I actually glossed over that out of respect for the 2 guys. My purpose was not to bitch about them, and many people who will read this post in my network will know who I&#x27;m talking about. There were mistakes made on both sides, but in the end I bent over backwards to accomodate them and as soon as YC was over and they could say they were YC founders they bailed. I&#x27;m not saying its entirely their fault - I should have picked up on the warning signs but I was off fundraising for 2 months and didn&#x27;t notice. But I did consider them my friends, and they didn&#x27;t care what position I was left in if they were to leave. Anyway, I&#x27;m sure we both learned a lot from the experience.</text></item><item><author>andrewljohnson</author><text>It struck me when she glossed over how&#x2F;why her two co-founders left. There&#x27;s got to be a deeper story to why two &quot;co-founders&quot; would leave right when 1.2M is secured.<p>She said they <i>decided to tell me they were leaving the company without even a hint of warning</i> - my guess is there was no agreement in the first place or a lot of unnoticed warnings. To conclude she&#x27;s just too trustful is almost certainly a flawed conclusion.<p>I&#x27;m sure she learned a lot from this experience, but she seems to write off the deserters as flaky. I&#x27;d be asking myself what I did or what lies I was telling myself that made me think I had co-founders when I really did not. That sort of character judgment is as important as product judgment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jakejake</author><text>I think it&#x27;s great that you take the high road and don&#x27;t resort to dragging other people through the mud. You definitely seem to place the responsibility all on yourself, which I imagine is not always the full truth. Not providing any reason at all, actually makes it sound as if the two co-founders just randomly and completely bailed on you. (Which may be exactly the truth)<p>I was trying to imagine a logical scenario, for example they had an even better opportunity. Or perhaps it was better to split before the stakes became to high. Maybe the salaries were not going to be what was expected, there were disagreements on responsibilities, etc. I can imagine a lot of scenarios.<p>Not to diminish your article, which I found extremely interesting. It was just a point that definitely seems like there was a greater story to be told.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Philip Glass: My problem is people don’t believe I write symphonies (2017)</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/jan/22/philip-glass-80-interview-observer-new-review</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mgr86</author><text>I first herd Einstein on the Beach after a particularly manic period in undergrad. My advisor wasn&#x27;t familiar with it, and I may have spooked her a bit try to explain it. I think to this day its great background music for programming work, but to me more because it can illicit that sense of young focus and drive that I find increasingly fleeting. Perhaps not unlike how music can &quot;wake up&quot; dementia patients. It elicits a deep base response.<p>Anyhow, I didn&#x27;t know that either about his life. Very fascinating.<p>As an aside I believe I discovered Einstein on the Beach after listening to Hydrogen Jukebox. I wonder how others come about listening to it for the first time. Especially those in their 30s like myself who were born a decade after its success.</text></item><item><author>emptyfile</author><text>&gt;Yes, after Einstein on the Beach I went back to driving a New York cab. I didn’t mind that. It was interesting work. I didn’t have an agent. I ran all the business side of it and the box office myself. I enjoyed it.<p>Interesting, I had no idea.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Slow_Hand</author><text>I&#x27;m a massive fan of Einstein On the Beach. It continues to be one of my favorite pieces of music, since first hearing it 12 years ago. There&#x27;s a vitality and a sense of energy to it that keeps me coming back. It&#x27;s also large enough in scope that I&#x27;ve been able to spend a long time chewing it over and digesting all of it&#x27;s movements.<p>I think a unique quality of it is the contrast between it&#x27;s simplistic harmonic content and it&#x27;s constantly modulating structure. The simplicity of the tonality (one key center, very slow chord changes, non-florid counterpoint) allows the listener to focus on the modulating phrase lengths and the texture of the stacked rhythms.<p>This is an interesting inversion of something like, say, a classic bebop tune, which might be melodically and rhythmically complex or divergent, but keep it&#x27;s structure predictable with 4 bar, 8 bar, or 32 bar chunks of time.<p>I think the effect in it&#x27;s fast movements is like being in the middle of a massive rush of water. It&#x27;s uniform in texture, but it has an intensity and sense of turbulence that is overwhelming as it passes you.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Philip Glass: My problem is people don’t believe I write symphonies (2017)</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/jan/22/philip-glass-80-interview-observer-new-review</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mgr86</author><text>I first herd Einstein on the Beach after a particularly manic period in undergrad. My advisor wasn&#x27;t familiar with it, and I may have spooked her a bit try to explain it. I think to this day its great background music for programming work, but to me more because it can illicit that sense of young focus and drive that I find increasingly fleeting. Perhaps not unlike how music can &quot;wake up&quot; dementia patients. It elicits a deep base response.<p>Anyhow, I didn&#x27;t know that either about his life. Very fascinating.<p>As an aside I believe I discovered Einstein on the Beach after listening to Hydrogen Jukebox. I wonder how others come about listening to it for the first time. Especially those in their 30s like myself who were born a decade after its success.</text></item><item><author>emptyfile</author><text>&gt;Yes, after Einstein on the Beach I went back to driving a New York cab. I didn’t mind that. It was interesting work. I didn’t have an agent. I ran all the business side of it and the box office myself. I enjoyed it.<p>Interesting, I had no idea.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>digilypse</author><text>I discovered Einstein on the Beach this year, also in my 30s, and was nearly brought to tears. I played classical piano for most of my youth and had a deep appreciation for it but stopped exploring new composers during years of depression.<p>It’s a wonderful experience with a nice pair of headphones. Something about the way the repetition lasts just long enough to produce a sense of anticipation and delight.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Making Rust as Fast as Go</title><url>https://www.christianfscott.com/making-rust-as-fast-as-go/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>molf</author><text>The Rust version uses `target.chars().count()` to initialise the cache, while the Go version counts up to `len(target)`. These are not equivalent: the Rust version counts Unicode code points, the Go version counts bytes.<p>I am confused by the implementations, although I have not spent any time testing them. Both versions contain a mix of code that counts bytes (`.len()` and `len(...)`) and Unicode code points (`chars()` and `[]rune(...)`). My guess is that the implementation might not work correctly for certain non-ASCII strings, but I have not verified this.<p>Of course, if only ASCII strings are valid as input for this implementation then both versions will be a lot faster if they exclusively operate on bytes instead.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eis</author><text>Yep.<p>Here a Go playground example showing that the result is indeed wrong:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.golang.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;vmctMFUevPc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.golang.org&#x2F;p&#x2F;vmctMFUevPc</a><p>It should output 3 but outputs 5 because each ö is two bytes, len(&quot;föö&quot;) = 5.<p>I would suggest using &quot;range&quot; to iterate over the unicode characters.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Making Rust as Fast as Go</title><url>https://www.christianfscott.com/making-rust-as-fast-as-go/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>molf</author><text>The Rust version uses `target.chars().count()` to initialise the cache, while the Go version counts up to `len(target)`. These are not equivalent: the Rust version counts Unicode code points, the Go version counts bytes.<p>I am confused by the implementations, although I have not spent any time testing them. Both versions contain a mix of code that counts bytes (`.len()` and `len(...)`) and Unicode code points (`chars()` and `[]rune(...)`). My guess is that the implementation might not work correctly for certain non-ASCII strings, but I have not verified this.<p>Of course, if only ASCII strings are valid as input for this implementation then both versions will be a lot faster if they exclusively operate on bytes instead.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>steveklabnik</author><text>Yes, especially because that changes it from constant time (strings know their length in bytes) to linear time (counting chars means a loop through the text.)<p>I was a bit suspicious of the conclusion, but didn’t dig in myself. I imagine this would be a much larger source of difference.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Adobe tells users of old Premiere versions that they are not allowed to use them</title><url>https://twitter.com/ashleylynch/status/1126899335419981824</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>akersten</author><text>So Adobe has a licensing issue with Dolby or an &quot;other third party&quot; as they put it - and end users who paid for the software as recently as 3 months ago are supposed to switch versions in the middle of a project, or be &quot;subject to infringement claims&quot;(!?) in some IP proxy war?<p>It seems like this is Adobe&#x27;s problem. I don&#x27;t know if throwing their customers under the bus was a sad attempt at fomenting pressure on Dolby to capitulate, but it&#x27;s really scummy and a bad look for Adobe.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Adobe tells users of old Premiere versions that they are not allowed to use them</title><url>https://twitter.com/ashleylynch/status/1126899335419981824</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>moltar</author><text>I got this notice re photoshop that I pay for monthly and I was utterly confused. But it was a good reminder to finally cancel the subscription and switch to another software for a one time fee.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The evolution of Unix facilities and architecture (2017)</title><url>https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2017-May/011552.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rwaksmunski</author><text>To this day I admire Linux for having the grit and perseverance of maintaining ext2, ext3 and ext4 as separate code bases for so long. Equivalent FreeBSD UFS, UFS with soft updates and UFS with journaling is one code base with each generation as a backward compatible feature. Given FreeBSD&#x27;s negligible market share perhaps worse is indeed better.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The evolution of Unix facilities and architecture (2017)</title><url>https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2017-May/011552.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>userbinator</author><text>Ironically, I&#x27;ve had far more problems with Linux systems using extfs losing data or requiring very lengthy fsck&#x27;ing after hard resets than Windows 9x or even DOS on FAT, despite experiencing <i>more</i> hard resets and routine hangs in my use of the latter.<p>I suspect the relatively more aggressive write caching of Linux and Unix-likes, combined with their more complex filesystem data structures, leads to a design in which unexpected resets easily cause lots of filesystem corruption. Contrast that with FAT&#x27;s simplicity, minimal (effectively none) write caching, and the tradition of cutting power as soon as you returned to a DOS prompt. Maybe that&#x27;s actually the true &quot;worse is better&quot;.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Scott Galloway: How the US is destroying young people's future [video]</title><url>https://www.ted.com/talks/scott_galloway_how_the_us_is_destroying_young_people_s_future</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nritchie</author><text>One more &quot;doable&quot; for Scott - Campaign finance reform. It doesn&#x27;t matter who you vote for if when they get to congress, they represent their donors rather than the voters. We could call our current system &quot;free speech&quot; or we could call it &quot;legalized bribery.&quot; We made the wrong choice.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Scott Galloway: How the US is destroying young people's future [video]</title><url>https://www.ted.com/talks/scott_galloway_how_the_us_is_destroying_young_people_s_future</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jmclnx</author><text>He is right, but the young can change things. The sad fact is they do not vote, and if they vote at all it is only in presidential. Even in those elections well less then 50% vote.<p>They are a big voting block, if they all start voting, including in local elections, in about 10 years you will see change. But seems people these days want instant change.<p>2024 will be a big tell for the young, depending on who wins, things could get far worse for them.<p>Right now, the corporations determine who runs the US, the young, if that have patience, can change things by voting in all elections.</text></comment>
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<story><title>CDC team studying East Palestine train derailment fell ill during investigation</title><url>https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/cdc-team-sick-east-palestine-ohio-train-derailment/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cwkoss</author><text>I&#x27;m really worried about the effects on the food supply chain. The plume of chemical vapors covered a significant proportion this country&#x27;s breadbasket. Corn, wheat and soybean fields got sprinkled with carcinogens, they will be harvested, turned into flours and processed derivatives, and could end up in practically any processed food on grocery store shelves.<p>Does anyone have a reassuring reason why I shouldn&#x27;t be worried about this? Does the food industrial complex have controls to prevent chemically contaminated grain from getting into processed food supply chains? Is there a reason to believe the government is regulating this competently?<p>I think I&#x27;m going to try to avoid processed food and buy produce as locally as possible for a few years (which also has some other benefits anyways). But, am I being overly paranoid?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>schiffern</author><text>&gt; The plume of chemical vapors covered a significant proportion this country&#x27;s breadbasket.<p>Does anybody have a scientific (not clickbait) citation for this?<p>The quick HYSPLIT plume simulation I ran[0] showed the plume crossing over New England on its way to the Atlantic. There is agriculture there, but I would hardly describe it as the nation&#x27;s bread basket.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, there&#x27;s a lot of contamination of the food supply from pesticides and soil-accumulating heavy metals in fertilizers. Buying local and organic food isn&#x27;t paranoid, but it would be a mistake to over-attribute these pollution sources to the East Palestine incident.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ready.noaa.gov&#x2F;hypub-bin&#x2F;hyresults.pl?jobidno=28280" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ready.noaa.gov&#x2F;hypub-bin&#x2F;hyresults.pl?jobidno=28...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>CDC team studying East Palestine train derailment fell ill during investigation</title><url>https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/cdc-team-sick-east-palestine-ohio-train-derailment/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cwkoss</author><text>I&#x27;m really worried about the effects on the food supply chain. The plume of chemical vapors covered a significant proportion this country&#x27;s breadbasket. Corn, wheat and soybean fields got sprinkled with carcinogens, they will be harvested, turned into flours and processed derivatives, and could end up in practically any processed food on grocery store shelves.<p>Does anyone have a reassuring reason why I shouldn&#x27;t be worried about this? Does the food industrial complex have controls to prevent chemically contaminated grain from getting into processed food supply chains? Is there a reason to believe the government is regulating this competently?<p>I think I&#x27;m going to try to avoid processed food and buy produce as locally as possible for a few years (which also has some other benefits anyways). But, am I being overly paranoid?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chaxor</author><text>This is absolutely a phenomenal point. I would be interested to know how one could test their own food and water at their house for a reasonable price. I can&#x27;t imagine that any regulation would actually catch this. Water is a <i>maybe</i> (mostly they&#x27;re concerned with other types of contaminates), but food is a concern for sure.</text></comment>
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<story><title>NL national security law to grant automatic permission for targeted surveillance</title><url>https://aboutintel.eu/nl-government-wants-to-abandon-key-safeguards-for-hacking-of-non-targets/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>greatgib</author><text>It is really scary the accelerating trend of creating regulations to restrict or violate basic human rights on the basis of straw man national security reasons...<p>What is nice with this law is that they can look for things not related to the hack on target devices. If they see something incriminating against you not related to the case, they can still use it against you in a new procedure. Without warrant. How convenient.<p>In addition, I can easily guess that they don&#x27;t have to prove that you were really hacked, but mere suspicion or being a potential victim of the hackers might be enough.</text></comment>
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<story><title>NL national security law to grant automatic permission for targeted surveillance</title><url>https://aboutintel.eu/nl-government-wants-to-abandon-key-safeguards-for-hacking-of-non-targets/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ahubert</author><text>Author here - I mirrored the page on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;berthub.eu&#x2F;articles&#x2F;posts&#x2F;dutch-intel-law-about-intel&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;berthub.eu&#x2F;articles&#x2F;posts&#x2F;dutch-intel-law-about-inte...</a> since y&#x27;all managed to take out the about:intel server!</text></comment>
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<story><title>BSD socket API revamp</title><url>https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sustrik/dsock/master/rfc/sock-api-revamp-01.txt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cafxx</author><text>Am I missing something? It seems to propose to ditch all non-blocking APIs under the assumption that &quot;runtimes&quot; will provide lightweight concurrency. But AFAIK most (all?) runtimes that provide lightweight concurrency make extensive use of the non-blocking network APIs to work - including Golang, that is even cited as an example:<p><pre><code> During the decades since BSD sockets were first introduced the way
they are used have changed significantly. While in the beginning the
user was supposed to fork a new process for each connection and do
all the work using simple blocking calls nowadays they are expected
to keep a pool of connections, check them via functions like poll()
or kqueue() and dispatch any work to be done to one of the worker
threads in a thread pool. In other words, user is supposed to do
both network and CPU scheduling.
[...]
To address this problem, this memo assumes that there already exists
an efficient concurrency implementation where forking a new
lightweight process takes at most hundreds of nanoseconds and context
switch takes tens of nanoseconds. Note that there are already such
concurrency systems deployed in the wild. One well-known example are
Golang&#x27;s goroutines but there are others available as well.</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>Agreed; if anything, the <i>blocking</i> API seems like the more artificial one, as the lowest-level implementation needs to handle the asynchronous receipt of data. A network card receives data when it receives data, sends asynchronous notifications to the OS in the form of interrupts, and keeps receiving data while you pull data out of its buffers. You can build a synchronous interface on top of that for convenience, but it fundamentally works asynchronously.</text></comment>
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<story><title>BSD socket API revamp</title><url>https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sustrik/dsock/master/rfc/sock-api-revamp-01.txt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cafxx</author><text>Am I missing something? It seems to propose to ditch all non-blocking APIs under the assumption that &quot;runtimes&quot; will provide lightweight concurrency. But AFAIK most (all?) runtimes that provide lightweight concurrency make extensive use of the non-blocking network APIs to work - including Golang, that is even cited as an example:<p><pre><code> During the decades since BSD sockets were first introduced the way
they are used have changed significantly. While in the beginning the
user was supposed to fork a new process for each connection and do
all the work using simple blocking calls nowadays they are expected
to keep a pool of connections, check them via functions like poll()
or kqueue() and dispatch any work to be done to one of the worker
threads in a thread pool. In other words, user is supposed to do
both network and CPU scheduling.
[...]
To address this problem, this memo assumes that there already exists
an efficient concurrency implementation where forking a new
lightweight process takes at most hundreds of nanoseconds and context
switch takes tens of nanoseconds. Note that there are already such
concurrency systems deployed in the wild. One well-known example are
Golang&#x27;s goroutines but there are others available as well.</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>Apart from the layering, which really has nothing to do with the sockets interface and can be (and has been, repeatedly, as this author knows) built today on top of the sockets interface, I don&#x27;t really see what&#x27;s interesting at all about this interface; it seems like a simple restatement of the existing blocking socket API.</text></comment>
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<story><title>What Happens to Your Body on a Thru-Hike</title><url>https://www.outsideonline.com/2125031/what-happens-your-body-thru-hike</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Dowwie</author><text>I came across three emaciated, bearded men on the continental divide trail in glacier national park. When I asked one of them where he was from he looked at his buddies and they all replied excitedly, in unison, &quot;Mexico!&quot;. It was at that moment that I came to realize that these men were one day away from completing the entire thru-hike.<p>I vividly recall one of their dinners: Dried ramen noodle, straight from the bag.<p>They slept in their bags exposed, beneath a basic light tarp.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jon_richards</author><text>The best foods for backpacking are actually peanut butter, salami (depending on the brand), cheese, and nutella. They all have roughly the same calorie density at about 70% fat. Toblerone actually comes surprisingly close (even compared to other chocolates&#x2F;candies).<p>Raman noodles or tortillas or something like that are generally used as a carrier for those foods to keep you sane, but they aren&#x27;t very good from a weight to calories standpoint. M&amp;Ms are also common, as they are easy to eat and keep well.<p>Some people actually just drink cooking oil, but it&#x27;s rarely worth the tiny bit of extra weight efficiency.</text></comment>
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<story><title>What Happens to Your Body on a Thru-Hike</title><url>https://www.outsideonline.com/2125031/what-happens-your-body-thru-hike</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Dowwie</author><text>I came across three emaciated, bearded men on the continental divide trail in glacier national park. When I asked one of them where he was from he looked at his buddies and they all replied excitedly, in unison, &quot;Mexico!&quot;. It was at that moment that I came to realize that these men were one day away from completing the entire thru-hike.<p>I vividly recall one of their dinners: Dried ramen noodle, straight from the bag.<p>They slept in their bags exposed, beneath a basic light tarp.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>M_Grey</author><text>Your comment made me think of Bill Bryson&#x27;s accounts of how people change on the trail in &#x27;A Walk In The Woods&#x27;. Good book if anyone is considering a thru-hike, and it&#x27;s just a fun read anyway.</text></comment>
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