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<story><title>A Tarahumara woman won a Mexican ultramarathon in sandals (2017)</title><url>https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/05/24/inenglish/1495618559_311854.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dwyerm</author><text>I did race operations for the Leadville Trail 100 for a decade, including when the Tarahumara first raced.<p>The first year, Rockport was a sponsor and loaded them up with their best trail running shoes. The Tarahumara didn&#x27;t perform well, although that could also be because of other gear issues and that they were not sure that the aid stations were for them.
The second year, they stopped by the local landfill for old car tires, and made sandals from them. They set records that year. It was a bit of an embarrassment to the title sponsor...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>themodelplumber</author><text>I saw something similar in the NHK video documentary about Japan&#x27;s Ultra Trail Mount Fuji race (100 mi.). At just after 3:00 in the video[0] you can see two Mexican entrants of the Rarámuri people. However, one of them is wearing Nike shoes and another wears the traditional sandals. The results I thought were a bit embarrassing for Nike, no matter the exact cause (22 minutes; 29 minutes for the sandals result).<p>I was however really intrigued by the maize-based powder supplement drink they seem to enjoy. (Pinore, 15:00 in the video)<p>0. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=4PsKvPTM8po" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=4PsKvPTM8po</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>A Tarahumara woman won a Mexican ultramarathon in sandals (2017)</title><url>https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/05/24/inenglish/1495618559_311854.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dwyerm</author><text>I did race operations for the Leadville Trail 100 for a decade, including when the Tarahumara first raced.<p>The first year, Rockport was a sponsor and loaded them up with their best trail running shoes. The Tarahumara didn&#x27;t perform well, although that could also be because of other gear issues and that they were not sure that the aid stations were for them.
The second year, they stopped by the local landfill for old car tires, and made sandals from them. They set records that year. It was a bit of an embarrassment to the title sponsor...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joachim4</author><text>Many people got the story of that race from the book &quot;Born to run&quot;. Could you tell your story of that race ?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Graph Neural Networks – An Overview</title><url>https://theaisummer.com/Graph_Neural_Networks/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>asterisk_</author><text>The article seems to be a bit light on details for an &quot;overview&quot; of GNNs.<p>It&#x27;s an area I&#x27;ve recently been researching and they do seem to be gaining
a significant amount of traction. If anyone is interested in additional reading
material, I can suggest the very recent GNNs: Models and Applications (slide deck available on the website) [0].<p>There is also a fairly comprehensive GitHub repo on [1], though I
personally haven&#x27;t given it a detailed look yet.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cse.msu.edu&#x2F;~mayao4&#x2F;tutorials&#x2F;aaai2020&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cse.msu.edu&#x2F;~mayao4&#x2F;tutorials&#x2F;aaai2020&#x2F;</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;benedekrozemberczki&#x2F;awesome-graph-classification" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;benedekrozemberczki&#x2F;awesome-graph-classif...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Graph Neural Networks – An Overview</title><url>https://theaisummer.com/Graph_Neural_Networks/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>crashocaster</author><text>It should be noted that the described graph embedding related tasks are only a small subset of the tasks that GNNs solve. Many (if not most) graph learning techniques focus on more &quot;local&quot; tasks like node classification or edge prediction.</text></comment>
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<story><title>A Concrete Introduction to Probability (2018)</title><url>https://github.com/norvig/pytudes/blob/master/ipynb/Probability.ipynb</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>khazhoux</author><text>I&#x27;m always amazed at how Peter Norvig continues to create the kind of content that a top grad student would do, even as his career and rank in the industry has skyrocketed.<p>Back in university and grad school I would write tutorials and post them online (and still get thanks from random people many many years later). I would explore random interesting subjects and dive deep. I would constantly publish code and demos, etc. As my career grew, one of one these started to fall off. I look at my peers and it&#x27;s the same story: they were all vibrant hot-shots in their early-mid 20s, and now are just weighed down by the teams and projects they manage.<p>Peter is an inspiration. I will ponder this...</text></comment>
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<story><title>A Concrete Introduction to Probability (2018)</title><url>https://github.com/norvig/pytudes/blob/master/ipynb/Probability.ipynb</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sillysaurusx</author><text>Be sure not to miss the other two probability notebooks:<p>- Probability, Paradox, and the Reasonable Person Principle <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;norvig&#x2F;pytudes&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;ipynb&#x2F;ProbabilityParadox.ipynb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;norvig&#x2F;pytudes&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;ipynb&#x2F;Probabil...</a><p>- Estimating Probabilities with Simulations <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;norvig&#x2F;pytudes&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;ipynb&#x2F;ProbabilitySimulation.ipynb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;norvig&#x2F;pytudes&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;ipynb&#x2F;Probabil...</a><p>There are dozens of other notebooks on a variety of topics in the &#x27;ipynb&#x27; folder: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;norvig&#x2F;pytudes&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;ipynb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;norvig&#x2F;pytudes&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;ipynb</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Push notifications are now supported cross-browser</title><url>https://web.dev/push-notifications-in-all-modern-browsers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kevin_thibedeau</author><text>This is a Windows problem. I can cold boot and have Firefox up in 30 seconds in Linux.</text></item><item><author>noirscape</author><text>Annoying fact is that every major browser silently installs itself into the startup process when you enable any browser push notification on Windows (with Edge being enabled for this by default iirc).<p>If you&#x27;re wondering why your only 2-year old Laptop is slowing down when you boot it up - this is why. Chances are that Edge, Firefox and&#x2F;or Chrome all three decided that they should have the right to run a full instance of themselves when you boot up your PC because you enabled a notification for a site that doesn&#x27;t ever send any to begin with.<p>Browsers are heavy things to boot up (not to mention that in potato RAM environments, they eat through RAM like there&#x27;s no tomorrow). To be clear, browsers being heavy applications is fine, it&#x27;s one application where people tolerate it because of how versatile the browser is, but it is <i>extremely</i> frustrating when it results in the computer taking 5 minutes to sign in, when all they needed to do was quickly revise a Word document.<p>The result is that people end up writing off perfectly serviceable laptops for something that is easily disabled in the task manager.<p>This sorta thing really should get a big warning popup that if you enable it, it probably will end up slowing down your PC. I can&#x27;t exactly celebrate the fact that all three major browser engines now pester users into slowing down their PCs.<p>Otherwise, if your relatives&#x2F;friends are complaining their laptop is slow (and you&#x27;re the designated IT person), enjoy the free advice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>explaininjs</author><text>An HTML renderer, in only 90,000,000,000 clock cycles? Verily I say, technology has come a long way.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Push notifications are now supported cross-browser</title><url>https://web.dev/push-notifications-in-all-modern-browsers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kevin_thibedeau</author><text>This is a Windows problem. I can cold boot and have Firefox up in 30 seconds in Linux.</text></item><item><author>noirscape</author><text>Annoying fact is that every major browser silently installs itself into the startup process when you enable any browser push notification on Windows (with Edge being enabled for this by default iirc).<p>If you&#x27;re wondering why your only 2-year old Laptop is slowing down when you boot it up - this is why. Chances are that Edge, Firefox and&#x2F;or Chrome all three decided that they should have the right to run a full instance of themselves when you boot up your PC because you enabled a notification for a site that doesn&#x27;t ever send any to begin with.<p>Browsers are heavy things to boot up (not to mention that in potato RAM environments, they eat through RAM like there&#x27;s no tomorrow). To be clear, browsers being heavy applications is fine, it&#x27;s one application where people tolerate it because of how versatile the browser is, but it is <i>extremely</i> frustrating when it results in the computer taking 5 minutes to sign in, when all they needed to do was quickly revise a Word document.<p>The result is that people end up writing off perfectly serviceable laptops for something that is easily disabled in the task manager.<p>This sorta thing really should get a big warning popup that if you enable it, it probably will end up slowing down your PC. I can&#x27;t exactly celebrate the fact that all three major browser engines now pester users into slowing down their PCs.<p>Otherwise, if your relatives&#x2F;friends are complaining their laptop is slow (and you&#x27;re the designated IT person), enjoy the free advice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simula67</author><text>Isn&#x27;t 30 seconds a lot of time just to start a browser?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Absurd Trolley Problems</title><url>https://neal.fun/absurd-trolley-problems/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arczyx</author><text>&gt; For some reason more people picked the latter. So, they just dislike public transit?<p>I mean, it seems like it&#x27;s the same trolley that have run over a lot of people for the previous 19 levels, why wouldn&#x27;t I want to decommission such bloodthirsty trolley?</text></item><item><author>paxys</author><text>Level 20 was weird. It was a choice between letting a trolley run as normal (&quot;emits CO2, kills 3 people in accidents over 30 years&quot;) or running it into a brick wall and decommissioning it. For some reason more people picked the latter. So, they just dislike public transit? What about the emissions and death rate when everyone switches to cars instead?<p>Goes to show how easily the context and exact wording of a question can sway people&#x27;s opinions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baron816</author><text>Isn’t the trolly also reducing carbon emissions by killing so many people? With enough of these questions, it will be able to reduce the world’s population to zero, at which point there should be no carbon emissions from humans.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Absurd Trolley Problems</title><url>https://neal.fun/absurd-trolley-problems/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arczyx</author><text>&gt; For some reason more people picked the latter. So, they just dislike public transit?<p>I mean, it seems like it&#x27;s the same trolley that have run over a lot of people for the previous 19 levels, why wouldn&#x27;t I want to decommission such bloodthirsty trolley?</text></item><item><author>paxys</author><text>Level 20 was weird. It was a choice between letting a trolley run as normal (&quot;emits CO2, kills 3 people in accidents over 30 years&quot;) or running it into a brick wall and decommissioning it. For some reason more people picked the latter. So, they just dislike public transit? What about the emissions and death rate when everyone switches to cars instead?<p>Goes to show how easily the context and exact wording of a question can sway people&#x27;s opinions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>IIAOPSW</author><text>You know, that&#x27;s a very good question...<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in_U.S._by_year" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Interview: Thomas Voß of Mir</title><url>http://www.linuxvoice.com/interview-thomas-vos-of-mir/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tormeh</author><text>Jonathan Blow posted this on Twitter:
&quot;I kind of don&#x27;t understand what&#x27;s the big deal with these &#x27;modern&#x27; &quot;display servers&quot; like Wayland &#x2F; Mir &#x2F; etc. it ought to be kind of simple actually, because we now have all this experience with drawing graphics and we know how it should go. So I wonder if it&#x27;s just being made more complicated than it really needs to be, the same way GUI libraries always are. GUI libraries are generally terrible, but this is self-perpetuating as people making new GUI libs absorb bad assumptions from the old ones. There&#x27;s an interview up with a Mir developer who mentions Mir is structured as communication via a protocol over sockets. And, like, I have literally NO IDEA why you would build a window system like that in 2014. It makes no sense to me at all. (But if you do decide that&#x27;s how things should go, things become a lot more complicated, so that&#x27;s at least part of the problem.)<p>A major reason computers are so unreliable and un-fun to use is because software is now a massive pile of overcomplication. When it comes to a core thing like a window system, that many programs will interface with, simplicity should be a high design priority. Because every bit of complication that goes into the window system propagates. EVERY SINGLE PROGRAM becomes more complicated. Every piece of software becomes harder to develop. The toll in man-years becomes HUGE very quickly. Yet for some reason people don&#x27;t learn. I think there is some Stockholm Syndrome happening: programmers can&#x27;t even imagine how much more they would get done if the underlying systems were as simple, reasonable and solid as they should be.&quot;<p>I&#x27;m curious about HN&#x27;s opinion on this.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Interview: Thomas Voß of Mir</title><url>http://www.linuxvoice.com/interview-thomas-vos-of-mir/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>NickPollard</author><text>The headline here is attention grabbing, but this is actually a very solid interview with an expert developer talking about the pitfalls of protocol and API development, and the issues both technical and political of such a huge change of something like a Display Server.<p>It was good perspective, and I look forward to seeing where both Mir and Wayland end up.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Chrome experimental AI features</title><url>https://blog.google/products/chrome/google-chrome-generative-ai-features-january-2024/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yanis_t</author><text>Here are some better ideas from the top of my head:<p>- summarise an article<p>- find information on a given topic (free-form input text)<p>- full voice control (&quot;click that link&quot;, &quot;read that article&quot;,
&quot;find this&quot;)<p>- auto-submit a captcha</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rschiavone</author><text>&gt; &quot;auto-submit a captcha&quot;<p>we have come full circle</text></comment>
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<story><title>Chrome experimental AI features</title><url>https://blog.google/products/chrome/google-chrome-generative-ai-features-january-2024/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yanis_t</author><text>Here are some better ideas from the top of my head:<p>- summarise an article<p>- find information on a given topic (free-form input text)<p>- full voice control (&quot;click that link&quot;, &quot;read that article&quot;,
&quot;find this&quot;)<p>- auto-submit a captcha</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marricks</author><text>Seriously, their first example seems useless to most people. Naming a tab group??? That doesn&#x27;t take any time, little thought, and who does that regularly?<p>Summarizing an article seems like something everyone else can do OK. It&#x27;s a huge avenue for bias (maybe that&#x27;s why it&#x27;s reasonably elided) but at least it&#x27;s actually useful.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Facebook Settles with U.S. Gov over Improperly Reserving Jobs for Immigrants</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-settles-with-u-s-government-over-improperly-reserving-jobs-for-immigrants-11634662305</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>a-and</author><text>In this thread there seems to be a lot of misunderstanding regarding both the Permanent&#x2F;Temporary visa distinction, as well as what Facebook did.<p>The lawsuit refers to the Permanent Labor Certification process - the process of certifying that a position cannot be filled by a US citizen. This is one of the first early steps of an employer sponsoring an employee for a Green Card (so called immigrant visas, <i>not</i> H1-B). In the overwhelming majority of cases this affects people already employed by the company often on non-immigrant visas (such as the H1-B) which it would like to retain. They have already gone through the much demonized H1 visa process.<p>Onto the process - the &quot;newspaper&quot; reference which some commenters have been hung up on is a DoL requirement. It&#x27;s literally Facebook going by the book and filling all requirements. Where the lawsuit comes in is that Facebook <i>only</i> followed the DoL requirements and did not advertise positions how they would beyond that.<p>Additionally the article itself states<p>&gt; When U.S. workers did apply, the suit said, Facebook hired them into different jobs, reserving the open position for the H-1B worker.<p>Is this discrimination? Yes. Is there a better pathway to retain foreign employees? Not currently. I&#x27;m not a fan of Facebook at all, but they do what they need to to keep talent in a competitive environment.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Facebook Settles with U.S. Gov over Improperly Reserving Jobs for Immigrants</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-settles-with-u-s-government-over-improperly-reserving-jobs-for-immigrants-11634662305</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jmwilson</author><text>An earlier article has a bit more description of the complaint: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.md&#x2F;67DiB" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.md&#x2F;67DiB</a><p>For those curious about how this works, the company has to show it tried and couldn&#x27;t hire a US resident, but they don&#x27;t have to try very hard... so the company posts a brief job opening in a local newspaper. When nobody responds, because it&#x27;s the newspaper, tada! Proof there was no American-based talent capable of filling the job.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Instagram Is Facebook Now</title><url>https://embedded.substack.com/p/instagram-is-facebook-now</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>epolanski</author><text>I met one of the most brilliant people in my life. Smart, passionate about art, culture, politics. Brilliant student, top of her class from elementary through college. Fluent (as in certified) C2 in English and German. Terrific career as a public servant in foreign politics already in her late 20s.<p>She would never, ever, miss a single episode of a “reality” about dating in tv, a show famous in Italy as “trash tv”. It was unwatchable, worse than Jersey shore.<p>I asked her why such an intelligent and smart person couldn’t miss an episode of something so terrible and lame and she answered me “I know it’s awful, but for an entire hour I’m able to be lobotomized and not have a single thought, I can completely detach from reality and relax”.<p>My current SO does the same with Instagram. Whenever she needs to detach from her thoughts she zombifies on Instagram. Might be cats or fashion bloggers but she tunes out completely and she does that intentionally knowing that’s the effect it has on her.</text></item><item><author>marcodiego</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand Instagram language. My GF uses it. It is full of digital influencers, people who make money because they are digital influencers. Young people with sometimes funny but generally pointless and most often ridiculous dancing moves to an equally ridiculous repetitive song. People buying expensive things, doing idiot things talking about uninteresting details of the uninteresting lives of equally uninteresting people...<p>I don&#x27;t understand the hypnotic effect it has.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Valakas_</author><text>We are humans. We need social connection, we need soap operas, &quot;trash TV&quot; is just human drama basically. Our brains were not made for studying math 24&#x2F;7 but they were made for social interaction 24&#x2F;7. Social interaction is like driving on autopilot. It fulfills us. Doing science, solving hard abstract problems, being engaged in political events is tiring. Sometimes we just want to do what our brain is made for as its default, resting activity.<p>Why is it trash also? I&#x27;m sure there&#x27;s a lot of interesting psychology to unpack there. It&#x27;s just trash if one thinks we need to dedicate ourselves to &quot;higher purposes&quot; and anything else is &quot;lowly&quot; and &quot;denigrating&quot;. As if whatever one chooses to do in their free time, that doesn&#x27;t hurt anybody, and is just a little human drama in a watchable package that maybe we miss during day to day, as so much of a job life is dry, and that makes us connect to our inner humanity is &quot;trash&quot;.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Instagram Is Facebook Now</title><url>https://embedded.substack.com/p/instagram-is-facebook-now</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>epolanski</author><text>I met one of the most brilliant people in my life. Smart, passionate about art, culture, politics. Brilliant student, top of her class from elementary through college. Fluent (as in certified) C2 in English and German. Terrific career as a public servant in foreign politics already in her late 20s.<p>She would never, ever, miss a single episode of a “reality” about dating in tv, a show famous in Italy as “trash tv”. It was unwatchable, worse than Jersey shore.<p>I asked her why such an intelligent and smart person couldn’t miss an episode of something so terrible and lame and she answered me “I know it’s awful, but for an entire hour I’m able to be lobotomized and not have a single thought, I can completely detach from reality and relax”.<p>My current SO does the same with Instagram. Whenever she needs to detach from her thoughts she zombifies on Instagram. Might be cats or fashion bloggers but she tunes out completely and she does that intentionally knowing that’s the effect it has on her.</text></item><item><author>marcodiego</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand Instagram language. My GF uses it. It is full of digital influencers, people who make money because they are digital influencers. Young people with sometimes funny but generally pointless and most often ridiculous dancing moves to an equally ridiculous repetitive song. People buying expensive things, doing idiot things talking about uninteresting details of the uninteresting lives of equally uninteresting people...<p>I don&#x27;t understand the hypnotic effect it has.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>afavour</author><text>It’s also a social thing. My partner and her friends watch the same reality shows, follow the same Instagram celebrities. They talk about the reality shows, what the celebrities have posted (in all honesty they seem to fill the exact same void). In that context I don’t think it’s all that much worse than, say, a group of people gathering to talk about last weekend’s football game.<p>I find video games fill that same “mindless” void for me. Prior to the pandemic I’d barely played any in a decade but now I’ll fire up Call of Duty every couple of days to play a few rounds. It’s dumb, I learn nothing from it and I achieve nothing. But it’s nice to switch my brain off.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Why Steam Deck Is One of the Most Significant PC Gaming Moments in Years</title><url>https://www.techspot.com/article/2620-steam-deck-pc-gaming-moment/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>evo_9</author><text>I&#x27;ve been blown away by my Steam Deck. It arrived about 5 days before my long sought after PS5 and basically the PS5 has sat collecting dust. I pre-ordered the Deck thinking I&#x27;d sell or trade it for the PS5, that was basically my interest in the device.<p>But after a few days it was clear this was something special. Why? For me it&#x27;s my &#x27;forever console&#x27;. Access to my full Steam Library was one thing, but having basically every retro console at my disposal is unreal. Just last night I played a game of M.U.L.E. and StarRaiders on my Atari800 emulator. That was after a couple of rounds of MarioKart on SNES, then Pilot Wings on 64 and then some Resident Evil 4 on GameCube.<p>I also love that so many older PC games just work on it. I recently replayed the entire Mass Effect Trilogy on it (absolutely the best experience playing that game, something about the controls, the screen and it on my lap was just too fun). Ditto on Dark Souls 1 and 2 which I also just replayed (and yes Eldin Ring runs unreal on it, somehow).<p>The only real surprise is that Dead Space doesn&#x27;t run on it, I have a hutch they&#x27;ll get it sorted out (sorta like they did working with FromSoftware on Eldin Ring).<p>Lastly, the other major advantage for me is the ability to return games. This is an unheralded Steam feature that&#x27;s a really great. I buy games I wouldn&#x27;t even consider on PS-whatever&#x2F;Xbox because you&#x27;re screwed if you don&#x27;t like it. Hell my 2 year old son managed to buy the new COD on PS5 by mashing the controller unsupervised for a few minutes and there is no way to return it, at least not easily; I tried for about 20 minutes before giving up.<p>Long&#x2F;short - SteamDeck is something special, it plays a ton of modern games flawlessly including Eldin Ring, and is a retro-gaming dream-machine, plus Steam has a great library and the ability to return games after trying them is the final cherry on-top.<p>PS: Anyone want to buy a PS5?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>izacus</author><text>&gt; The only real surprise is that Dead Space doesn&#x27;t run on it, I have a hutch they&#x27;ll get it sorted out (sorta like they did working with FromSoftware on Eldin Ring).<p>And you&#x27;re right because the 31st Jan Proton update fixed Dead Space and now it runs on Deck as Verified :)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Why Steam Deck Is One of the Most Significant PC Gaming Moments in Years</title><url>https://www.techspot.com/article/2620-steam-deck-pc-gaming-moment/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>evo_9</author><text>I&#x27;ve been blown away by my Steam Deck. It arrived about 5 days before my long sought after PS5 and basically the PS5 has sat collecting dust. I pre-ordered the Deck thinking I&#x27;d sell or trade it for the PS5, that was basically my interest in the device.<p>But after a few days it was clear this was something special. Why? For me it&#x27;s my &#x27;forever console&#x27;. Access to my full Steam Library was one thing, but having basically every retro console at my disposal is unreal. Just last night I played a game of M.U.L.E. and StarRaiders on my Atari800 emulator. That was after a couple of rounds of MarioKart on SNES, then Pilot Wings on 64 and then some Resident Evil 4 on GameCube.<p>I also love that so many older PC games just work on it. I recently replayed the entire Mass Effect Trilogy on it (absolutely the best experience playing that game, something about the controls, the screen and it on my lap was just too fun). Ditto on Dark Souls 1 and 2 which I also just replayed (and yes Eldin Ring runs unreal on it, somehow).<p>The only real surprise is that Dead Space doesn&#x27;t run on it, I have a hutch they&#x27;ll get it sorted out (sorta like they did working with FromSoftware on Eldin Ring).<p>Lastly, the other major advantage for me is the ability to return games. This is an unheralded Steam feature that&#x27;s a really great. I buy games I wouldn&#x27;t even consider on PS-whatever&#x2F;Xbox because you&#x27;re screwed if you don&#x27;t like it. Hell my 2 year old son managed to buy the new COD on PS5 by mashing the controller unsupervised for a few minutes and there is no way to return it, at least not easily; I tried for about 20 minutes before giving up.<p>Long&#x2F;short - SteamDeck is something special, it plays a ton of modern games flawlessly including Eldin Ring, and is a retro-gaming dream-machine, plus Steam has a great library and the ability to return games after trying them is the final cherry on-top.<p>PS: Anyone want to buy a PS5?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rpigab</author><text>My opinion is the same as yours, plus recently I&#x27;ve installed some Flash games becasue I&#x27;m nostalgic, one way to do it and play games in deck mode is this link [1], but you can also just run &quot;flashplayer.exe --some-options game.swf&quot; with Proton and it&#x27;ll work too. I love good flash games like Sonny 2 and I know Flash has security issues and had to be killed, but I&#x27;ll never let it go, I&#x27;ll always have to run it somewhere for retrogaming.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;SteamDeck&#x2F;comments&#x2F;ytgisk&#x2F;guide_flash_games_through_flashpoint_on_steam&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;SteamDeck&#x2F;comments&#x2F;ytgisk&#x2F;guide_fla...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Inside Account of U.S. Eavesdropping on Americans (2008)</title><url>http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=5987804</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bediger4000</author><text>If they have time to find phone sex&#x2F;salacious&#x2F;tantalizing calls, they have time to find &quot;the dirt&quot; on Representatives and Senators. No wonder the NSA&#x2F;&quot;intelligence community&quot; gets their way every time. Vote against it, and some weird dirt from your past comes up.<p>Google &quot;jane harman alberto gonzalez&quot; for just one public example.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Inside Account of U.S. Eavesdropping on Americans (2008)</title><url>http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=5987804</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ck2</author><text>The ABC News Nightline video is quite startling too<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdnapi.kaltura.com&#x2F;html5&#x2F;html5lib&#x2F;v1.6.12.27i&#x2F;mwEmbedFrame.php&#x2F;entry_id&#x2F;0_3456w39t&#x2F;wid&#x2F;_483511&#x2F;uiconf_id&#x2F;6595722" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdnapi.kaltura.com&#x2F;html5&#x2F;html5lib&#x2F;v1.6.12.27i&#x2F;mwEmbed...</a> (Flash required?)</text></comment>
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<story><title>The public has a right to know how companies that pay no taxes pull it off</title><url>http://larrysummers.com/2020/11/02/many-companies-pay-nothing-in-taxes-the-public-has-a-right-to-know-how-they-pull-it-off/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adeptus</author><text>I am still confused as to why companies have to pay tax at all? If every single employee including owners already pay income tax, and IVA&#x2F;GST&#x2F;purchase taxes, property taxes, xyz additional personal taxes levied by respective governments, why then on top of all that make companies pay tax, doesn&#x27;t that just detract from people wanting to start companies and&#x2F;or seek countries with the least taxes&#x2F;best loopholes?<p>Disclaimer: I own no companies. I don&#x27;t even own stocks at the moment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lm28469</author><text>&gt; I am still confused as to why companies have to pay tax at all?<p>Because that&#x27;s how we decided to build our societies. Money flows up very easily but doesn&#x27;t flow down anywhere as fast, that&#x27;s why we tax companies and people.<p>The sole purpose of a company is to make as much money as possible. Laws are there to make sure they do it safely (ie. don&#x27;t send 12 years old kids to the mine, don&#x27;t make employees work 7 days a week), make sure the system isn&#x27;t abused (Amazon trucks use public infrastructures to deliver goods, why shouldn&#x27;t they participate to the maintenance of said infrastructures ? &amp;c.), and make sure the country benefits of having such companies operating within their borders.<p>Not sure about other countries but in France taxes are used to finance schools, universities, hospitals, justice courts, reduce the cost of doctor visits, train tickets, housing assistance, allowance for disabled people, active solidarity income, public education and a lot of other things.<p>I could find endless arguments to support why companies _should_ pay taxes but none to support the opposite, besides &quot;I own a company and want to accumulate more money&quot;</text></comment>
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<story><title>The public has a right to know how companies that pay no taxes pull it off</title><url>http://larrysummers.com/2020/11/02/many-companies-pay-nothing-in-taxes-the-public-has-a-right-to-know-how-they-pull-it-off/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adeptus</author><text>I am still confused as to why companies have to pay tax at all? If every single employee including owners already pay income tax, and IVA&#x2F;GST&#x2F;purchase taxes, property taxes, xyz additional personal taxes levied by respective governments, why then on top of all that make companies pay tax, doesn&#x27;t that just detract from people wanting to start companies and&#x2F;or seek countries with the least taxes&#x2F;best loopholes?<p>Disclaimer: I own no companies. I don&#x27;t even own stocks at the moment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Icedcool</author><text>Because they act as a stand alone entity, and they may make and keep profit that doesn’t get dispersed to the employees.</text></comment>
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<story><title>In Zimbabwe, We Don’t Cry for Lions</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/opinion/in-zimbabwe-we-dont-cry-for-lions.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>charlesray</author><text>&gt;Don’t tell us what to do with our animals when you allowed your own mountain lions to be hunted to near extinction in the eastern United States. Don’t bemoan the clear-cutting of our forests when you turned yours into concrete jungles.<p>So don&#x27;t learn from our mistakes, basically?<p>This is among the most ignorant things I have ever read. Terrible article from a person with a terrible mentality.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>namecast</author><text>The paragraph before the one you just quoted:<p>&quot;We Zimbabweans are left shaking our heads, wondering why Americans care more about African animals than about African people.&quot;<p>And the paragraph directly after:<p>&quot;And please, don’t offer me condolences about Cecil unless you’re also willing to offer me condolences for villagers killed or left hungry by his brethren, by political violence, or by hunger.&quot;<p>&quot;Please don&#x27;t care about the animals in my country more than you care about me and my countrymen&quot; is a reasonable request. I don&#x27;t see anything terrible about it. I&#x27;m not sure why you dropped the surrounding context.</text></comment>
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<story><title>In Zimbabwe, We Don’t Cry for Lions</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/opinion/in-zimbabwe-we-dont-cry-for-lions.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>charlesray</author><text>&gt;Don’t tell us what to do with our animals when you allowed your own mountain lions to be hunted to near extinction in the eastern United States. Don’t bemoan the clear-cutting of our forests when you turned yours into concrete jungles.<p>So don&#x27;t learn from our mistakes, basically?<p>This is among the most ignorant things I have ever read. Terrible article from a person with a terrible mentality.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>giarc</author><text>I think they are saying &quot;Solve your own problems, don&#x27;t meddle in ours.&quot;</text></comment>
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<story><title>Google launches Portable Native Client</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/11/12/google-launches-portable-native-client-lets-developers-compile-code-run-hardware-site/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>haberman</author><text>I think this and asm.js are both extremely cool. I look forward to the competition this will inspire, and the improvement of both approaches as a result. I say this honestly not sure which one I personally think will be better in a year or two.<p>I often think of software as &quot;walking a path.&quot; What I mean by this is that there are often different approaches to the same problem, and these start out as just basic, undeveloped ideas. But put smart people on it (and I have high regard for both the Google and Mozilla engineers on these projects) and let them refine these ideas over time and you&#x27;ll learn more about all of the consequences, the fundamental strengths and limitations, of these approaches.<p>I first had this thought when working at Amazon. I remember hearing an off-hand comment about how S3 and Dynamo, both Amazon projects that started around the same time, started with very different consistency goals (Dynamo: very weak, S3: very strong) but as the details were fleshed out, ended up coming towards each other and both became more moderate.<p>I think that&#x27;s extremely valuable knowledge, because it can become part of the body of resources that any future designer can look at. Whenever you have an idea, chances are other people have &quot;walked the path&quot; of that idea (or some variant of it) before, and reading about their experience can help you see down the road and anticipate what practical problems you&#x27;ll run up against. You might have an idea for how to improve on what the previous designers did, but by reading about their experience you can save yourself a lot of the work they already did.<p>For this reason, I look extremely forward to watching these two projects evolve and compete, and in doing so, to learn more about the fundamental properties&#x2F;tradeoffs of this design space.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Google launches Portable Native Client</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/11/12/google-launches-portable-native-client-lets-developers-compile-code-run-hardware-site/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>josteink</author><text>I&#x27;m so glad to see Google finally make a mobile version of Active X.<p>Seriously though. Stuff like this is what made me quit Chrome. Too much non-standard Google nonsense in what is supposed to be a standards-compliant web-browser.<p>It just feel wrong.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-23/microsoft-said-to-be-in-talks-to-buy-discord-for-more-than-10b</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xxs</author><text>&gt;No one wants to buy the actual chat application itself, because they could build equivalent technology on their own.<p>Not sure about that one. Teams is an absolute failure of a chat and audio&#x2F;video calls app. I think, even if Microsoft tried they could not get it worse than it is currently.</text></item><item><author>ve55</author><text>What&#x27;s interesting about acquisitions like this is that the actual value that is being transacted is the userbase and their data, along with the inability for either of those to easily move elsewhere.<p>No one wants to buy the actual chat application itself, because they could build equivalent technology on their own. But users are locked into platforms so heavily and for such long time periods that they themselves give the platform almost the entirety of its value (not to single out Discord, since we all know this is how <i>a lot</i> of acquisitions work in practice). [As an additional caveat, I will add that Discord has definitely built something that its users love, and I don&#x27;t want to undermine the absurd amount of UI, feature refinement, and scaling work they&#x27;ve done successfully. It isn&#x27;t negligible, but it is also not &gt;$10B of software engineering.]<p>I&#x27;ve read many discussions where someone says something of the form &quot;I wish I didn&#x27;t have to use X, but my friends and family all use it, so I&#x27;m forced to&quot;, and I think upon consideration of this statement that there is something <i>deeply</i> wrong with the way network effects and protocols function on our Internet such that this can even be a common scenario. We really do have quite a crisis of non-interoperability that generalizes towards a complete lack of user control, be it software, hardware, data, or anything in between.<p>With that said, if Microsoft <i>does</i> purchase Discord, it might not be as bad as some foretell. While we can point to something like Skype as a failure, we can also point to something like Github, which has been doing very well post-acquisition, and in my opinion hasn&#x27;t gotten worse at all. It&#x27;s quite possible they wouldn&#x27;t want to profit off of Discord individually, but rather use it as another tool to expand their general ecosystem horizontally. On the other hand, they could also do the exact opposite and start harvesting data and maximizing advertisements en masse, lest my post become too optimistic in tone, since this <i>is</i> still HN. Lastly, remember that this is still just a rumor that various news outlets have picked up on and is nowhere near guaranteed.<p>For those looking for alternatives due to this, or just because they&#x27;d like to own their own data for once, I think Matrix is likely to be the best general solution in this product space, both with respect to similar app functionality as well as quality constraints (real encryption, decentralization, FOSS, etc).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bacbilla</author><text>I think I have to agree with OP here. To me, Teams is more of a failure of product management&#x2F;design and corporate culture. It was more of a move to add value and subscribers to the Office365 platform than an attempt to build a world beating chat&#x2F;conferencing platform. So many of its users simply use it because it&#x27;s included in their Office365 subscription, whereas with Slack, Zoom, etc they&#x27;d be paying $8+ a month per user.<p>While the development effort, skill, and time, that goes into building something like Discord is certainly significant, I feel it&#x27;s certainly something Microsoft could have built given their resources and technical aptitude. What you can&#x27;t buy is the inspiration, ideas, and culture that make something like Discord happen.<p>If it follows the inspiration and ethos of tools like Github and VSCode, I&#x27;ll be really happy. Given Microsoft&#x27;s shift in attitude over the past few years, I really hope that&#x27;s the case.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-23/microsoft-said-to-be-in-talks-to-buy-discord-for-more-than-10b</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xxs</author><text>&gt;No one wants to buy the actual chat application itself, because they could build equivalent technology on their own.<p>Not sure about that one. Teams is an absolute failure of a chat and audio&#x2F;video calls app. I think, even if Microsoft tried they could not get it worse than it is currently.</text></item><item><author>ve55</author><text>What&#x27;s interesting about acquisitions like this is that the actual value that is being transacted is the userbase and their data, along with the inability for either of those to easily move elsewhere.<p>No one wants to buy the actual chat application itself, because they could build equivalent technology on their own. But users are locked into platforms so heavily and for such long time periods that they themselves give the platform almost the entirety of its value (not to single out Discord, since we all know this is how <i>a lot</i> of acquisitions work in practice). [As an additional caveat, I will add that Discord has definitely built something that its users love, and I don&#x27;t want to undermine the absurd amount of UI, feature refinement, and scaling work they&#x27;ve done successfully. It isn&#x27;t negligible, but it is also not &gt;$10B of software engineering.]<p>I&#x27;ve read many discussions where someone says something of the form &quot;I wish I didn&#x27;t have to use X, but my friends and family all use it, so I&#x27;m forced to&quot;, and I think upon consideration of this statement that there is something <i>deeply</i> wrong with the way network effects and protocols function on our Internet such that this can even be a common scenario. We really do have quite a crisis of non-interoperability that generalizes towards a complete lack of user control, be it software, hardware, data, or anything in between.<p>With that said, if Microsoft <i>does</i> purchase Discord, it might not be as bad as some foretell. While we can point to something like Skype as a failure, we can also point to something like Github, which has been doing very well post-acquisition, and in my opinion hasn&#x27;t gotten worse at all. It&#x27;s quite possible they wouldn&#x27;t want to profit off of Discord individually, but rather use it as another tool to expand their general ecosystem horizontally. On the other hand, they could also do the exact opposite and start harvesting data and maximizing advertisements en masse, lest my post become too optimistic in tone, since this <i>is</i> still HN. Lastly, remember that this is still just a rumor that various news outlets have picked up on and is nowhere near guaranteed.<p>For those looking for alternatives due to this, or just because they&#x27;d like to own their own data for once, I think Matrix is likely to be the best general solution in this product space, both with respect to similar app functionality as well as quality constraints (real encryption, decentralization, FOSS, etc).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blowski</author><text>You’re spot on there. It’s all the little things that Slack and Discord get right but Teams gets wrong. For example, searching for messages, navigating between channels, showing which channels have unread messages. Also, Teams frequently has issues on Mac in a way that Slack and Discord don’t.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Twitter for Mac is incapable of accepting certain letters in the password field</title><url>https://twitter.com/MikeBeas/status/1189416778104999937</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iamaelephant</author><text>Are you implying that Netflix software quality is good? As someone who uses the web interface in a variety of browsers, I disagree in the strongest terms possible.</text></item><item><author>jedberg</author><text>I&#x27;ve thought a lot about this, having worked at some of these companies with both good and bad quality. The best conclusion I can come to is whether or not the executives use the technology on a regular basis.<p>At eBay, the execs didn&#x27;t use the platform much. In fact, when I worked there, they had to give us a $10 credit just to get us to use it (and then stopped when the users said it wasn&#x27;t fair that employees were bidding with someone else&#x27;s money).<p>At Facebook&#x2F;IG, the execs use the platform often. At Netflix the execs use it pretty much every day. At Twitter, you don&#x27;t see a lot of executive use.<p>You can even see it at Apple. The quality on MacOs has been falling, quite possibly because all the execs are using iPads and iPhones as their daily drivers, and rarely using laptops.<p>I think in the end it boils down to visibility to people who can affect change. Either your execs need to use the product often, or the engineers need to be empowered to make changes without exec approval (or both, like at Netflix or Facebook&#x2F;IG).</text></item><item><author>TicklishTiger</author><text>I am a fan of Twitter. It is a much better social network then Facebook and Instagram. But when it comes to development quality, Twitter reminds me of Ebay. The technology just does not seem solid. Every other month, something goes wrong.<p>I wonder if there is a systematic difference between companies with solid development and companies with wonky development. Is there a different hiring philosophy in place? A different type of tech stack? A different management structure?<p>Just a week ago, Twitter lost over 20% market cap because they noticed that they were showing people device-personalized ads even though they were opted out of that. After they fixed it, revenues went down.<p>In other words, a stunning 10 billion dollar of Twitters market cap was based on the illusion that the tech was working as expected. While in reality it was wrecking havoc.<p>Is it really possible that a feature that makes up a quarter of the companies value is not being tested?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jedberg</author><text>I think you may have inadvertently proved my point. The web interface is one of the least used interfaces. It probably doesn’t get used by many execs or engineers in the company.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Twitter for Mac is incapable of accepting certain letters in the password field</title><url>https://twitter.com/MikeBeas/status/1189416778104999937</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iamaelephant</author><text>Are you implying that Netflix software quality is good? As someone who uses the web interface in a variety of browsers, I disagree in the strongest terms possible.</text></item><item><author>jedberg</author><text>I&#x27;ve thought a lot about this, having worked at some of these companies with both good and bad quality. The best conclusion I can come to is whether or not the executives use the technology on a regular basis.<p>At eBay, the execs didn&#x27;t use the platform much. In fact, when I worked there, they had to give us a $10 credit just to get us to use it (and then stopped when the users said it wasn&#x27;t fair that employees were bidding with someone else&#x27;s money).<p>At Facebook&#x2F;IG, the execs use the platform often. At Netflix the execs use it pretty much every day. At Twitter, you don&#x27;t see a lot of executive use.<p>You can even see it at Apple. The quality on MacOs has been falling, quite possibly because all the execs are using iPads and iPhones as their daily drivers, and rarely using laptops.<p>I think in the end it boils down to visibility to people who can affect change. Either your execs need to use the product often, or the engineers need to be empowered to make changes without exec approval (or both, like at Netflix or Facebook&#x2F;IG).</text></item><item><author>TicklishTiger</author><text>I am a fan of Twitter. It is a much better social network then Facebook and Instagram. But when it comes to development quality, Twitter reminds me of Ebay. The technology just does not seem solid. Every other month, something goes wrong.<p>I wonder if there is a systematic difference between companies with solid development and companies with wonky development. Is there a different hiring philosophy in place? A different type of tech stack? A different management structure?<p>Just a week ago, Twitter lost over 20% market cap because they noticed that they were showing people device-personalized ads even though they were opted out of that. After they fixed it, revenues went down.<p>In other words, a stunning 10 billion dollar of Twitters market cap was based on the illusion that the tech was working as expected. While in reality it was wrecking havoc.<p>Is it really possible that a feature that makes up a quarter of the companies value is not being tested?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jorvi</author><text>The technical quality of it is good, its just that they make shitty UX decisions like autoplaying stuff when you just want to browse their catalog.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Auto-brewery syndrome in a 50-year-old woman</title><url>https://www.cmaj.ca/content/196/21/E724#msdynttrid</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>donatj</author><text>This poor woman. I feel like auto-brewery syndrome is well known enough in pop culture that I am somewhat stunned it went so long before anyone considered the possibility.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Workaccount2</author><text>The core issue is that the system is just not good at catching outliers, and the only conceivable way to do so would be incredibly wasteful and expensive.<p>For every case of &quot;It took 8 doctors over the course of 3 years to get a diagnosis&quot; there are 5000 cases of &quot;It took 1 doctor on one visit to get a diagnosis&quot;</text></comment>
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<story><title>Auto-brewery syndrome in a 50-year-old woman</title><url>https://www.cmaj.ca/content/196/21/E724#msdynttrid</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>donatj</author><text>This poor woman. I feel like auto-brewery syndrome is well known enough in pop culture that I am somewhat stunned it went so long before anyone considered the possibility.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lenerdenator</author><text>It&#x27;s known in pop culture because it&#x27;s so strange to actually see in a doctor&#x27;s office.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Internal Apple document: FY'14 Planning Offsite</title><url>http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/216526160?access_key=key-1uv8ibrvnzr4dnx0fu5c&allow_share=true&escape=false&view_mode=scroll</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iandanforth</author><text>This strikes me as very boring, non-Apple style thinking. I don&#x27;t think the experience of a 5 inch phone is better than a 4 inch phone. But it is <i>a bigger number</i> and thus easy to market. And things that are easy to market are the playground of boring companies.<p>Apple, on the other hand, should look at these numbers and say &quot;people obviously want something <i>new.</i>&quot; Giant phones are being heavily marketed as the new thing, so people are buying them. Not because it feels good to try to shove a small book into a front pocket, or that they love having to use both hands to type out text messages.<p>A boring business would follow the heard because they don&#x27;t know how to distinguish customer needs from customer inertia. Apple, traditionally, is very good at knowing when something is a trend, and when something speaks to a deeper human need.<p>I sincerely hope that Apple has not become a boring company.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thekevan</author><text>&quot;I don&#x27;t think the experience of a 5 inch phone is better than a 4 inch phone.&quot;<p>You don&#x27;t have to. But I am someone who does. There are many, many people like me who love their phones like the Galaxy Note who feel the same way. If I made a list of the top 5 reasons I really like my phone, 1 - 3 would be screen size.<p>I have been surprised at how many people have gone from, &quot;let me see that phone, it is ridiculous that you carry the around&quot; to &quot;wow, I never realized how hard my screen is to use compared to this.&quot; I know three people who have gotten a larger screen phone because of me in the past 9 months and I don&#x27;t evangelize at all. They just see my phone and want to try it.<p>I almost didn&#x27;t get my Note 2 because I was afraid of carrying around a &quot;small book&quot;. To honest it is less obtrusive in my pocket than my Motorola Droid 3 was, that thing sat in my pocket like a thick brick. The single time it can be an issue is getting it in and out of my pocket while sitting and wearing jeans.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Internal Apple document: FY'14 Planning Offsite</title><url>http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/216526160?access_key=key-1uv8ibrvnzr4dnx0fu5c&allow_share=true&escape=false&view_mode=scroll</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iandanforth</author><text>This strikes me as very boring, non-Apple style thinking. I don&#x27;t think the experience of a 5 inch phone is better than a 4 inch phone. But it is <i>a bigger number</i> and thus easy to market. And things that are easy to market are the playground of boring companies.<p>Apple, on the other hand, should look at these numbers and say &quot;people obviously want something <i>new.</i>&quot; Giant phones are being heavily marketed as the new thing, so people are buying them. Not because it feels good to try to shove a small book into a front pocket, or that they love having to use both hands to type out text messages.<p>A boring business would follow the heard because they don&#x27;t know how to distinguish customer needs from customer inertia. Apple, traditionally, is very good at knowing when something is a trend, and when something speaks to a deeper human need.<p>I sincerely hope that Apple has not become a boring company.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Infinitesimus</author><text>&quot; I don&#x27;t think the experience of a 5 inch phone is better than a 4 inch phone.&quot;<p>I would respectfully disagree with that as someone who moved from a 4.3&quot; Xperia to a 4.7&quot; Nexus 4 and now a 5&quot; Nexus 5. The extra real estate is a godsend for everything I use my phone for. IMHO, 4.7-5&quot; makes the most sense (perhaps 5.2&quot; as well). At the very least, I think apple should give people a choice of 4&quot; and 4.5&quot;-4.7&quot;.<p>Of course, doing that will introduce a problem since most development on iOS is very focused on optimizing for a single screen experience.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo</title><url>https://blog.ycombinator.com/ask-a-female-engineer-thoughts-on-the-google-memo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rpiguy</author><text>I really enjoyed the well reasoned discussion. I think a lot more constructive dialog is happening now that people have calmed down.<p>Of all the sentiments expressed in the article, I mainly disagree with the comment that Damore did the company harm.<p>He posted his thoughts on an internal discussion board and someone else leaked this internal document to the press. The leaker did harm to Google not Damore. In fact, I think the memo had been posted for a week or two before it was leaked. If your argument for firing Damore is that he did the company harm, you should look at the person who took an internal company document and made it public.<p>There are many people who believe he should have been fired anyway for offending his female coworkers and perhaps making them feel unsafe, but that is a different argument all together with its own merits and faults depending strongly on your stance on what constitutes tolerable speech.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tedivm</author><text>Lets assume that we&#x27;re in an alternative universe where the document was never leaked.<p>The document <i>still</i> did harm. Just read this quote from the posted article-<p>&gt; When I walk into my job at a tech company, how do I know which of my colleagues thinks I’m an outlier among women versus someone who was hired because I’m female that doesn’t deserve the job they have? How do I prove myself to people one way or another? The additional mental and emotional burden on me just to do my job is not negligible at all, and it’s also a pretty crappy way to start every day thinking: “Will the team&#x2F;manager&#x2F;VC I talk with today realize I’m qualified, or will they be making stereotypical assumptions about my abilities and therefore make it harder for me to do my job?” To me, that absolutely makes for a hostile work environment, and it’s an unequal burden my male coworkers don’t have to deal with every day.<p>That quote wasn&#x27;t caused by this going public in the way it did, it was caused by it being posted in the first place. There is real harm done if women who work at a company don&#x27;t feel they are welcome there.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo</title><url>https://blog.ycombinator.com/ask-a-female-engineer-thoughts-on-the-google-memo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rpiguy</author><text>I really enjoyed the well reasoned discussion. I think a lot more constructive dialog is happening now that people have calmed down.<p>Of all the sentiments expressed in the article, I mainly disagree with the comment that Damore did the company harm.<p>He posted his thoughts on an internal discussion board and someone else leaked this internal document to the press. The leaker did harm to Google not Damore. In fact, I think the memo had been posted for a week or two before it was leaked. If your argument for firing Damore is that he did the company harm, you should look at the person who took an internal company document and made it public.<p>There are many people who believe he should have been fired anyway for offending his female coworkers and perhaps making them feel unsafe, but that is a different argument all together with its own merits and faults depending strongly on your stance on what constitutes tolerable speech.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gaius</author><text><i>The leaker did harm to Google not Damore</i><p>I am 100% certain that the trackiest company in the world is perfectly capable of knowing exactly who leaked it. They have chosen to protect that person, for reasons unknown at this time.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Intel will add deep-learning instructions to its processors</title><url>http://lemire.me/blog/2016/10/14/intel-will-add-deep-learning-instructions-to-its-processors/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yid</author><text>This aspect of their new chips is massively underrated. An FPGA is the future-proof solution here, not chip-level instructions for the soup-du-jour in machine learning.<p>Edit: which is not to say that I&#x27;m not welcoming the new instructions with open arms...</text></item><item><author>dsabanin</author><text>Intel is also adding FPGAs[1] right next to their CPUs, which can possibly become a next big thing in HPC.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.extremetech.com&#x2F;extreme&#x2F;184828-intel-unveils-new-xeon-chip-with-integrated-fpga-touts-20x-performance-boost" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.extremetech.com&#x2F;extreme&#x2F;184828-intel-unveils-new-...</a></text></item><item><author>sbierwagen</author><text>Blogspam, kinda. Post just links to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;software.intel.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;managed&#x2F;69&#x2F;78&#x2F;319433-025.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;software.intel.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;managed&#x2F;69&#x2F;78...</a> and says it mentions two new instructions: AVX512_4VNNIW (Vector instructions for deep learning enhanced word variable precision) and AVX512_4FMAPS (Vector instructions for deep learning floating-point single precision)<p>On Intel&#x27;s part, it seems kinda... late? It&#x27;s like adding Bitcoin instructions when you already know everyone&#x27;s racing to make Bitcoin ASICs. How could it beat dedicated hardware, or even GPUs, on ops&#x2F;watt? Maybe it&#x27;s intended for inference, not training, but that doesn&#x27;t sound compelling either.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>astrodust</author><text>I&#x27;m not as hyped about FPGA-in-CPU so much as I am of having Intel release a specification for their FPGAs that will allow development of third-party tools to program them.<p>Right now the various vendors seem to insist on their own proprietary <i>everything</i> which makes it hard to streamline your development toolchain. Many of the tools I&#x27;ve used are inseparably linked to a Windows-only GUI application.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Intel will add deep-learning instructions to its processors</title><url>http://lemire.me/blog/2016/10/14/intel-will-add-deep-learning-instructions-to-its-processors/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yid</author><text>This aspect of their new chips is massively underrated. An FPGA is the future-proof solution here, not chip-level instructions for the soup-du-jour in machine learning.<p>Edit: which is not to say that I&#x27;m not welcoming the new instructions with open arms...</text></item><item><author>dsabanin</author><text>Intel is also adding FPGAs[1] right next to their CPUs, which can possibly become a next big thing in HPC.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.extremetech.com&#x2F;extreme&#x2F;184828-intel-unveils-new-xeon-chip-with-integrated-fpga-touts-20x-performance-boost" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.extremetech.com&#x2F;extreme&#x2F;184828-intel-unveils-new-...</a></text></item><item><author>sbierwagen</author><text>Blogspam, kinda. Post just links to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;software.intel.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;managed&#x2F;69&#x2F;78&#x2F;319433-025.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;software.intel.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;managed&#x2F;69&#x2F;78...</a> and says it mentions two new instructions: AVX512_4VNNIW (Vector instructions for deep learning enhanced word variable precision) and AVX512_4FMAPS (Vector instructions for deep learning floating-point single precision)<p>On Intel&#x27;s part, it seems kinda... late? It&#x27;s like adding Bitcoin instructions when you already know everyone&#x27;s racing to make Bitcoin ASICs. How could it beat dedicated hardware, or even GPUs, on ops&#x2F;watt? Maybe it&#x27;s intended for inference, not training, but that doesn&#x27;t sound compelling either.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>greendragon</author><text>It will only really take off if they can get the user experience of getting a HDL program to the FPGA to the same level as getting a shader program to the GPU. Unless they can do all that in microcode though it&#x27;s going to force them to open up some stacks of Altera&#x27;s closed processes. I&#x27;m hopeful but there&#x27;s a lot of proprietary baggage around FPGAs that I think have kept them from truly reaching their potential.</text></comment>
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<story><title>W. H. Auden’s 1954 review of The Fellowship of the Ring</title><url>https://lithub.com/read-w-h-audens-1954-review-of-the-fellowship-of-the-ring/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wolverine876</author><text>Tolkien wrote the essential story - <i>for our time</i>: An evil force works not by open destruction, but through lies to cause despair and corruption. The good people of the world allow themselves to be influenced by it; they embrace despair and abandon goodness and all resistance; or they are corrupted and even help the enemy. The primary actor is a wise old man who travels around, not using great powers, but waking them up, reminding them of who they are and their strength rousing them to action (the scene with Theoden is a great example).<p>How could Tolkien, in the 1940s and 1950s, write a book for the post-2016 era? Remember what he saw as he wrote it: An evil force that heavily used propaganda to spread their horrible ideas, and masses of people not only in Germany or Italy, but the rest of Europe and the US, refusing to acknowledge or oppose the reality of the evil, the grim future; and many even supporting it.<p>Tolkien arguably turned it into a myth for future generations, like the real-life Trojan War was turned (eventually) into the Iliad and Odyssey.</text></comment>
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<story><title>W. H. Auden’s 1954 review of The Fellowship of the Ring</title><url>https://lithub.com/read-w-h-audens-1954-review-of-the-fellowship-of-the-ring/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wolverine876</author><text>The other books reviewed in the NY Times:<p>* The Two Towers, by Donald Barr (I don&#x27;t know of an Auden review):<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;movies2.nytimes.com&#x2F;books&#x2F;01&#x2F;02&#x2F;11&#x2F;specials&#x2F;tolkien-two.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;movies2.nytimes.com&#x2F;books&#x2F;01&#x2F;02&#x2F;11&#x2F;specials&#x2F;tolkien-t...</a><p>* The Return of the King by Auden:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.nytimes.com&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;books&#x2F;01&#x2F;02&#x2F;11&#x2F;specials&#x2F;tolkien-return.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.nytimes.com&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;books&#x2F;01&#x2F;02&#x2F;11&#x2F;s...</a><p>Also, this website claims to have a CS Lewis review of Fellowship of the Ring, but doesn&#x27;t say where it was published:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theonering.com&#x2F;the-gods-return-to-earth-c-s-lewis-review-of-the-fellowship-of-the-ring&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theonering.com&#x2F;the-gods-return-to-earth-c-s-lewi...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>How great was the Great Oxidation Event?</title><url>https://eos.org/science-updates/how-great-was-the-great-oxidation-event</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thangalin</author><text>My coffee table photobook describes the role of molybdenum in determining the GOE&#x27;s timeline:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;impacts.to&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;lowres&#x2F;impacts.pdf#page=11" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;impacts.to&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;lowres&#x2F;impacts.pdf#page=11</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>How great was the Great Oxidation Event?</title><url>https://eos.org/science-updates/how-great-was-the-great-oxidation-event</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>duxup</author><text>PBS had a wonderful series Ancient Earth that covered the geological history of the earth. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pbs.org&#x2F;wgbh&#x2F;nova&#x2F;series&#x2F;ancient-earth&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pbs.org&#x2F;wgbh&#x2F;nova&#x2F;series&#x2F;ancient-earth&#x2F;</a><p>My naive understanding was always that the earth or planets just sort of found a natural state of being after a while and were &#x2F; are just that way now. It&#x27;s very interesting to see the sea saw type scale of changes that occurred over time.</text></comment>
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<story><title>A Movement to Stop the Covid-19 Pandemic</title><url>https://staythefuckhome.com</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Someone1234</author><text>Seems like focusing on blaming individuals rather than:<p>- Employers don&#x27;t allow telecommuting.<p>- Employers with draconian sick leave policies.<p>- No paid sick leave for the majority of jobs (and or strict limits).<p>- Limited access to testing to know if you have Covid-19 (Vs. a common cold). Which is significant with e.g. Walmarts new policies which ONLY allow Covid-19 paid sick leave.<p>Ultimately we set up a system where most people lose by default, then we critique those people for their personal failings without a hint of irony.</text></comment>
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<story><title>A Movement to Stop the Covid-19 Pandemic</title><url>https://staythefuckhome.com</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tmountain</author><text>Great advice, but the expletive will limit its reach. Consider adding another alternate domain so that this can be shared with friends&#x2F;family whom might find this offensive.</text></comment>
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<story><title>OpenAI Shuts Down Chatbot Project by Indie Developer</title><url>https://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/news/openai-chatbot-gpt-3-samantha-shut-down-dilute-jason-rohrer-possible-misuse-2537388</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>option_greek</author><text>Humans barely agree with each other. Do you think are going to be persuaded by half baked chat bots like GPT3? (ya the cherry picked stuff looks good but rest is still not really there).<p>So far all OpenAI has done is generate more publicity (probably intentionally may be with an eye towards investors) by acting as if they are protecting the next nuclear weapon of some kind. Frankly, there is nothing to lose by not using their &quot;ohh god its so dangerous&quot; model.</text></item><item><author>jbuhbjlnjbn</author><text>I get the impression this story is warped quite a bit by the source Jason Rohrer.
If I understand correctly, the so called &quot;censorship&quot; were safety precautions for AI development.<p>The response of some posters seems to be to discard the safety topic alltogether as something &quot;old&quot;, that &quot;neanderthals&quot; do.<p>I think it is exactly those &quot;curious&quot; people AI research has to worry about most, who do not take the time to think about the consequences and possible outcomes of what they are doing.
Maybe a chatbot will not gain superpowers and take over the world, but it can surely do lots of other harm.
Then, when AI tech moves beyond narrow AI and includes more abilities, this will in fact lead to desaster, as the same careless people with the greatest &quot;curiosity&quot; will throw caution overboard as was the case with the narrow AI before...<p>It&#x27;s not a slippery slope, we are right in the territory AI safety researchers warn about for a decade now, write lengthy books about and try to create awareness for in the public and governments.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SpicyLemonZest</author><text>I think any chatbot good enough that a guy can &quot;turn it into a close proxy of his dead fiancee&quot; is capable of persuading people, yes.</text></comment>
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<story><title>OpenAI Shuts Down Chatbot Project by Indie Developer</title><url>https://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/news/openai-chatbot-gpt-3-samantha-shut-down-dilute-jason-rohrer-possible-misuse-2537388</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>option_greek</author><text>Humans barely agree with each other. Do you think are going to be persuaded by half baked chat bots like GPT3? (ya the cherry picked stuff looks good but rest is still not really there).<p>So far all OpenAI has done is generate more publicity (probably intentionally may be with an eye towards investors) by acting as if they are protecting the next nuclear weapon of some kind. Frankly, there is nothing to lose by not using their &quot;ohh god its so dangerous&quot; model.</text></item><item><author>jbuhbjlnjbn</author><text>I get the impression this story is warped quite a bit by the source Jason Rohrer.
If I understand correctly, the so called &quot;censorship&quot; were safety precautions for AI development.<p>The response of some posters seems to be to discard the safety topic alltogether as something &quot;old&quot;, that &quot;neanderthals&quot; do.<p>I think it is exactly those &quot;curious&quot; people AI research has to worry about most, who do not take the time to think about the consequences and possible outcomes of what they are doing.
Maybe a chatbot will not gain superpowers and take over the world, but it can surely do lots of other harm.
Then, when AI tech moves beyond narrow AI and includes more abilities, this will in fact lead to desaster, as the same careless people with the greatest &quot;curiosity&quot; will throw caution overboard as was the case with the narrow AI before...<p>It&#x27;s not a slippery slope, we are right in the territory AI safety researchers warn about for a decade now, write lengthy books about and try to create awareness for in the public and governments.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jbuhbjlnjbn</author><text>Machine learning is synonymous with non-linear growth. So of course I think any chatbot will eventually have no problem persuading humans.
The pivetal moment is when his persuation skills succeed that of the average human.
I have no clue how far away we are to that goal, but given accelerated growth, it will come rather sooner then later.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Short fat engineers are undervalued</title><url>https://nested.substack.com/p/short-fat-engineers-are-undervalued</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nullspace</author><text>In my career, I have met exactly one short fat engineer with &gt;5yrs of exp that I was impressed by. That person is now a Product Manager at a FAANG company (albeit PM-ing highly technical stuff).<p>I bring this up because I think there is a very good analogy to the point that the author is making and the distinction between PM and Engineers. Broadly put, PM&#x27;s are good at figuring out the theta, and Engineers are good at the r.<p>I think that with the perspectives that short fat engineers have, they can play enormous roles as &quot;PM&quot; or &quot;Engineering Manager&quot;, and definitely as ICs during early stages of startups. But they clearly don&#x27;t enjoy depth, and this can be counter-productive for that 1% of the time where you really, really want depth.<p>I don&#x27;t buy the knowledge vs wisdom thing though, there&#x27;s plenty of wisdom to be gained from going deep into a subject. I&#x27;d actually claim that wisdom can only come from depth - though what depth means is different for different roles.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TameAntelope</author><text>If you&#x27;re a &quot;short and fat&quot; engineer, and you know it, it&#x27;s very hard to stay that way, and also stay in engineering. Either you become a T-shaped engineer, or you move out of engineering to apply your broad-but-shallow knowledge in ways that elevate others (e.g. PM work).<p>&quot;Short and fat&quot; is a transitionary state. Staying there is just logistically hard, not to mention handicapping in situations where being deeper in one specific area would help.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Short fat engineers are undervalued</title><url>https://nested.substack.com/p/short-fat-engineers-are-undervalued</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nullspace</author><text>In my career, I have met exactly one short fat engineer with &gt;5yrs of exp that I was impressed by. That person is now a Product Manager at a FAANG company (albeit PM-ing highly technical stuff).<p>I bring this up because I think there is a very good analogy to the point that the author is making and the distinction between PM and Engineers. Broadly put, PM&#x27;s are good at figuring out the theta, and Engineers are good at the r.<p>I think that with the perspectives that short fat engineers have, they can play enormous roles as &quot;PM&quot; or &quot;Engineering Manager&quot;, and definitely as ICs during early stages of startups. But they clearly don&#x27;t enjoy depth, and this can be counter-productive for that 1% of the time where you really, really want depth.<p>I don&#x27;t buy the knowledge vs wisdom thing though, there&#x27;s plenty of wisdom to be gained from going deep into a subject. I&#x27;d actually claim that wisdom can only come from depth - though what depth means is different for different roles.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>treis</author><text>&gt;met exactly one short fat engineer with &gt;5yrs of exp that I was impressed by<p>I&#x27;ll go so far as to say that they don&#x27;t really exist. I&#x27;m not sure how you can spend 5 years and not learn at least one thing in depth. You&#x27;d have to rotate technologies every 6-12 months and there&#x27;s not that many technologies.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The teen mental illness epidemic is international – Part 1: The Anglosphere</title><url>https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/international-mental-illness-part-one</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>obscurette</author><text>I&#x27;m a father of teen kids, teacher and educator. I don&#x27;t think that there is a single reason here. All mentioned things contribute – social media pressure, climate problems, economical crisis etc. But I&#x27;d like to add another one – declining quality of education. I see increasing number of teens depressed because they don&#x27;t have teachers and their education isn&#x27;t good enough for jobs they&#x27;d like to get in future. And at least some of them are certainly right: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32539424" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32539424</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lsllc</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure you can blame problems such as climate change, economic issues -- every generation had its own existential crisis: WW2, Korea, Vietnam, numerous recessions and until 1990, recent generations lived under the specter of the atom bomb.<p>I think it&#x27;s social media, that&#x27;s what&#x27;s really changed: Every single teenager is now comparing themselves against every other kid in the world instead of just their local peers (and maybe a few grainy MTV stars over 525 scan lines). And of course the &quot;popular&quot; ones they&#x27;re comparing to are the most successful, most good-looking, most privileged i.e. the most &quot;perfect&quot; ones (because that&#x27;s how they got to be the most popular). It&#x27;s a terrible yardstick for <i>anyone</i> to measure themselves against, let along impressionable young minds.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The teen mental illness epidemic is international – Part 1: The Anglosphere</title><url>https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/international-mental-illness-part-one</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>obscurette</author><text>I&#x27;m a father of teen kids, teacher and educator. I don&#x27;t think that there is a single reason here. All mentioned things contribute – social media pressure, climate problems, economical crisis etc. But I&#x27;d like to add another one – declining quality of education. I see increasing number of teens depressed because they don&#x27;t have teachers and their education isn&#x27;t good enough for jobs they&#x27;d like to get in future. And at least some of them are certainly right: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32539424" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32539424</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WalterBright</author><text>There&#x27;s also been a corresponding dramatic drop in the number of teens who have had any sort of job. Not many things are as fulfilling as doing a job and getting paid for it.<p>I remember when I realized I was making enough money that I could pay all my bills and no longer needed anything from my dad. It felt really good. For me that was the dividing line between being a child and an adult.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Water on Mars: discovery of three buried lakes intrigues scientists</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02751-1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>woeirua</author><text>IMO, I don&#x27;t think it should be a surprise that we will eventually find signs of extraterrestial (but not necessarily intelligent) life in our solar system. The real question is: does it share any common building blocks with life on Earth or not? The answer to that question could dramatically change our understanding of our place in the universe as well as open up entire new fields of productive research in biochemistry.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ramraj07</author><text>Anyone who has tried to keep their culture plates sterile in a lab will probably appreciate panspermia more than regular people. I&#x27;ll personally put all my money into life being found at least fossilized not just in Mars but in europa and anywhere with liquid water, and sharing the same fundamental dna-protein-genetic code makeup as us (but probably little else). The way I see it, once life forms on one planet, it probably starts spreading seeds on a cosmic scale quite promiscuously. The speed at which life arose in earth as soon as conditions were right suggests that there&#x27;s always microbes floating into the planet ready to take advantage.<p>This also would mean that there&#x27;s no opportunity for any other form of life to develop in the same conditions - dna based life probably has a monopoly on water based planets throughout the galaxy</text></comment>
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<story><title>Water on Mars: discovery of three buried lakes intrigues scientists</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02751-1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>woeirua</author><text>IMO, I don&#x27;t think it should be a surprise that we will eventually find signs of extraterrestial (but not necessarily intelligent) life in our solar system. The real question is: does it share any common building blocks with life on Earth or not? The answer to that question could dramatically change our understanding of our place in the universe as well as open up entire new fields of productive research in biochemistry.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vkou</author><text>Would it actually change our understanding?<p>We know that if we apply an energy gradient through a soup of ammonia, methane, and water vapour, we get the fundamental building blocks of Earth life.<p>If we discovered these same blocks on another planet, that has all of these pre-conditions, what would it tell us?</text></comment>
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<story><title>High levels of oestrogens in the womb linked to autism</title><url>https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190729094538.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Zenst</author><text>Maybe so, though equally could just be a small part in a larger puzzle or even a red herring.<p>However, as somebody who is on the autistic spectrum, I have noted that my index and &quot;ring finger&quot;[edit thanks to comment] are of equal lengths, a trait more common in females than males who tend to have one longer - see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Digit_ratio" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Digit_ratio</a><p>Another aspect&#x2F;theory from personal experience is that my earliest memory was as a baby, equally I used to have a nightmare that abaieted when I was able to tell my mother who informed me of my birth complications and so much of my nightmare correlated, just seemed so related but then, never know for sure beyond once I knew this, my nightmares stopped. In short, maybe (least in my case) autistic people senses and other parts of the brain kick in earlier at a time when we are less able to process them and this becomes another party of the puzzle.<p>But would I change if I could go back in time and become normal is a question I have asked myself and the answer for me is - no, though the thought of what life would of been like, naturally yields to pondering.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>erikgaas</author><text>I took a neuroscience course back in the day that discussed findings related to autism. I don&#x27;t remember everything, but there was a discussion on excess dopamine early in the brain and a later depression of glutamate levels. All in all this would lead to more sparsity of neural activations in the brain. This made sense. Too much dopamine would lead to excess plasticity, causing a normal amount of glutamate to have too great of an effect, so the brain compensates by producing less glutamate, producing the same amount of neural activations but now sparsely spread out in a post-plastic brain. From my naive common sense perspective, it would make sense that an autism prevention would be some mechanism to limit plasticity during development. I&#x27;m really stretching argument here, but maybe this has some connection to autism brains &quot;kicking in&quot; early.<p>The connection to estrogen is an interesting one. Estrogen does have an important effect on neurotransmitter receptors, including dopaminergic, but my speculation is worthless here. Is there anyone here that has a better understanding of this that can provide some clarity?</text></comment>
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<story><title>High levels of oestrogens in the womb linked to autism</title><url>https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190729094538.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Zenst</author><text>Maybe so, though equally could just be a small part in a larger puzzle or even a red herring.<p>However, as somebody who is on the autistic spectrum, I have noted that my index and &quot;ring finger&quot;[edit thanks to comment] are of equal lengths, a trait more common in females than males who tend to have one longer - see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Digit_ratio" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Digit_ratio</a><p>Another aspect&#x2F;theory from personal experience is that my earliest memory was as a baby, equally I used to have a nightmare that abaieted when I was able to tell my mother who informed me of my birth complications and so much of my nightmare correlated, just seemed so related but then, never know for sure beyond once I knew this, my nightmares stopped. In short, maybe (least in my case) autistic people senses and other parts of the brain kick in earlier at a time when we are less able to process them and this becomes another party of the puzzle.<p>But would I change if I could go back in time and become normal is a question I have asked myself and the answer for me is - no, though the thought of what life would of been like, naturally yields to pondering.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bogwog</author><text>That digit ratio stuff has always weirded me out. There are even some studies that show certain ratios correspond with homosexuality. That wikipedia page even has a huge table with a list of stuff like having a high digit ratio corresponds to reduced financial trading ability, and a low digit ratio corresponds to a longer penis.<p>That shit is weird.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Terence Tao Proves Result on the Collatz Conjecture</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematician-terence-tao-and-the-collatz-conjecture-20191211/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wil93</author><text>&gt; Tao used this weighting technique to prove that almost all Collatz starting values — 99% or more — eventually reach a value that is quite close to 1. This allowed him to draw conclusions along the lines of 99% of starting values greater than 1 quadrillion eventually reach a value below 200.<p>Isn&#x27;t this equivalent to saying that &quot;99% of starting values greater than 1 quadrillion eventually reach 1&quot;?<p>I mean, once you reach a value below 200 then you will continue and reach 1. Not only below 200, but below any limit that was experimentally verified (i.e. around 10^20)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>soVeryTired</author><text>If Colmin(N) is the lowest value reached by iterating the process from initial value N, Tao proved that<p>Colmin(N) &lt; f(N)<p>for <i>arbitrary</i> f provided f tends to infinity, for almost all N. Here, &quot;almost all&quot; means something like &quot;exceptions(N) &#x2F; N, tends to 0 for large N&quot;, where exceptions(N) is the count of values that do not obey the inequality [0]<p>So it&#x27;s an asymptotic result. The first million integers could all be exceptions - but <i>eventually</i> the proportion of exceptions dies out.<p>The ability to pick arbitrary f is very powerful. Pick the slowest-growing function you can think of. e.g. Tenfold-iterated logarithm. The inequality says for all but a negligible fraction of integers, Colmin grows slower than that function.<p>[0] Nitpick: I&#x27;m describing the <i>natural</i> density, but Tao needs the <i>logarithmic</i> density, where each exception <i>n</i> is weighted by <i>1&#x2F;n</i>.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Terence Tao Proves Result on the Collatz Conjecture</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematician-terence-tao-and-the-collatz-conjecture-20191211/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wil93</author><text>&gt; Tao used this weighting technique to prove that almost all Collatz starting values — 99% or more — eventually reach a value that is quite close to 1. This allowed him to draw conclusions along the lines of 99% of starting values greater than 1 quadrillion eventually reach a value below 200.<p>Isn&#x27;t this equivalent to saying that &quot;99% of starting values greater than 1 quadrillion eventually reach 1&quot;?<p>I mean, once you reach a value below 200 then you will continue and reach 1. Not only below 200, but below any limit that was experimentally verified (i.e. around 10^20)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MichaelBurge</author><text>If you choose giant starting numbers(like &quot;Tree(3)&quot;), then maybe &quot;quite close&quot; is 10^100.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Metformin shown to prevent long Covid</title><url>https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/common-diabetes-drug-shown-prevent-long-covid</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gnicholas</author><text>TLDR:<p>&gt; <i>By day 300 of follow-up, 93 (8.3%) of 1,126 participants said they had received a diagnosis of long COVID by a provider. The cumulative incidence of long COVID by day 300 in those who took a 14-day course of metformin was 6.3% (95% confidence interval [CI], 4.2 to 8.2) compared to 10.4% (7.8 to 12.9) in the placebo group, or 39.4% lower.</i><p>Interestingly, half of the participants in the study (which took place starting in December of 2020) were unvaccinated. The researchers noted that metformin appears to have reduced the viral load greatly. I wonder if that is equally true for vaccinated and unvaccinated patients. It would seem plausible (not a doctor) that the reduction in viral load is related to the lower incidence of long COVID.<p>Now that we&#x27;re in 2023, and pretty much everyone is either multiply-vaccinated or has had COVID, the study might turn out differently. If anyone has looked into the paper&#x2F;data, I&#x27;d be interested to know whether the benefit is equal among vaccinated&#x2F;non-vaccinated.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Metformin shown to prevent long Covid</title><url>https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/common-diabetes-drug-shown-prevent-long-covid</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>Important to note, it can also cause birth defects in male offspring when taken by fathers.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;med.stanford.edu&#x2F;news&#x2F;all-news&#x2F;2022&#x2F;03&#x2F;birth-defects-diabetes-drug.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;med.stanford.edu&#x2F;news&#x2F;all-news&#x2F;2022&#x2F;03&#x2F;birth-defects...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.acpjournals.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.7326&#x2F;M21-4389" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.acpjournals.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.7326&#x2F;M21-4389</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Triangle frenzy</title><url>https://cancandan.github.io/julia/graphics/cuda/2022/05/07/triangles.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>torrance</author><text>I’ve used CUDA and Julia extensively in my work for radio astronomy imaging applications.<p>I can say it is a delight to work with. All the usual GPU tips and tricks still apply, of course, and you need to pay careful attention to sequential memory accesses and so on (as with all GPU programming). But staying in the one, high level language is a real boon, and having access to native types and methods directly in my kernels is fantastic. I can’t speak highly enough of it.<p>And for performance comparison, I see between 3-4 orders of magnitude improvement in speed, about as fast as native CUDA.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Triangle frenzy</title><url>https://cancandan.github.io/julia/graphics/cuda/2022/05/07/triangles.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chrsig</author><text>I&#x27;d be interested to see what each looks like if the allocations were done external to the benchmark. For that matter, it&#x27;d be interesting to see if after the allocations are factored out, if the same function could be used for cuda &amp; cpu. From there, I&#x27;d be curious if the compiler is able to vectorize it automatically, or if it&#x27;d benefit from a @simd<p>It&#x27;s also great to see how well cuda is supported in julia. I&#x27;ve started to pick up julia lately, and find it incredibly pleasant to work with. It feels like a lovely mix of haskell, lisp, and python, with a really nice repl.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Anxiety over the new Gmail Compose</title><url>http://storyblog.io/f11ffb15/anxiety-over-the-new-gmail-compose</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dasil003</author><text>The self-righteous anger about the irredeemable horror of the new Gmail compose is starting to get a bit old.<p>First of all, it&#x27;s not as one-sided as people are making it out. I was also annoyed when it first came out, but there are some clear benefits. Being able to browse email in the background while composing email is a huge win for my email workload (CTO for a 30-person company).<p>There are some important philosophical reasons behind some of these changes that I strongly agree with:<p>First, the small window by default encourages short emails which is always good. The OA seems to glorify long-winded CEO screeds, but by definition the vast majority of emails are going to be short (and if they&#x27;re not I don&#x27;t want to work with you), so it&#x27;s correct to optimize for the short case. The two levels of pop-out (the second of which the OA appears to be completely ignorant of) scale up and out quite nicely.<p>Second, the hidden headers and formatting options are encouraging simplicity in email. Most email should <i>not</i> have formatting, and arguably most emails don&#x27;t have CCs, BCCs, or edited subjects either. Putting them behind one extra click is really not the huge usability nightmare people make out. It takes a little while to get used to and then you just subconsciously do the double click, it&#x27;s not really any harder than finding them in a sea of icons, it&#x27;s just that previously <i>you were used to that sea of options</i>. The optimization for the common case is done correctly.<p>For me the new design (after turning on compact view) is a moderate improvement that did nothing to dilute the core value of Gmail which are the labels, keyboard shortcuts&#x2F;navigation, conversation view and search&#x2F;filters. Running it inside Mailplane makes it even better.<p>There are definitely annoyances, but nothing that&#x27;s even close to driving me to something like mutt, and forget about GUI clients, all of them feel like molasses compared to Gmail.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>enochroot</author><text>I chuckled when I read:<p>&gt; First, the small window by default encourages short emails which is always good.<p>&quot;Sorry mom, I intended to write you a longer message but gmail encourages me to keep it short.&quot;<p>&gt; Putting them behind one extra click is really not the huge usability nightmare people make out.<p>Folks at Microsoft are nodding their heads and furiously tweeting this sentence.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Anxiety over the new Gmail Compose</title><url>http://storyblog.io/f11ffb15/anxiety-over-the-new-gmail-compose</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dasil003</author><text>The self-righteous anger about the irredeemable horror of the new Gmail compose is starting to get a bit old.<p>First of all, it&#x27;s not as one-sided as people are making it out. I was also annoyed when it first came out, but there are some clear benefits. Being able to browse email in the background while composing email is a huge win for my email workload (CTO for a 30-person company).<p>There are some important philosophical reasons behind some of these changes that I strongly agree with:<p>First, the small window by default encourages short emails which is always good. The OA seems to glorify long-winded CEO screeds, but by definition the vast majority of emails are going to be short (and if they&#x27;re not I don&#x27;t want to work with you), so it&#x27;s correct to optimize for the short case. The two levels of pop-out (the second of which the OA appears to be completely ignorant of) scale up and out quite nicely.<p>Second, the hidden headers and formatting options are encouraging simplicity in email. Most email should <i>not</i> have formatting, and arguably most emails don&#x27;t have CCs, BCCs, or edited subjects either. Putting them behind one extra click is really not the huge usability nightmare people make out. It takes a little while to get used to and then you just subconsciously do the double click, it&#x27;s not really any harder than finding them in a sea of icons, it&#x27;s just that previously <i>you were used to that sea of options</i>. The optimization for the common case is done correctly.<p>For me the new design (after turning on compact view) is a moderate improvement that did nothing to dilute the core value of Gmail which are the labels, keyboard shortcuts&#x2F;navigation, conversation view and search&#x2F;filters. Running it inside Mailplane makes it even better.<p>There are definitely annoyances, but nothing that&#x27;s even close to driving me to something like mutt, and forget about GUI clients, all of them feel like molasses compared to Gmail.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mavhc</author><text>&gt; Being able to browse email in the background while composing email is a huge win for my email workload<p>If only someone had invented a windowing GUI.<p>My main issues, now I&#x27;ve set the default to fullish screen, is it&#x27;s more like Outlook: editing the To&#x2F;CC fields is annoying, and it wants you to always quote the entire email.<p>I await a Chrome extension to let me live in the past with people who knew how to use computers.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Introducing the LineageOS SDK</title><url>https://lineageos.org/Introducing-the-LineageSDK/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zifnab06</author><text>&quot;co-founder&quot;&#x2F;one of many project leads here. AMA?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>as1mov</author><text>I don&#x27;t have a question, just wanted to thank you for what you are doing. LineageOS is the reason why I can still use my 2013 first gen Moto G as a daily driver today. Projects like this are a giant fuck you to the companies hell bent on closing off their devices and taking as much freedom as possible away from the user.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Introducing the LineageOS SDK</title><url>https://lineageos.org/Introducing-the-LineageSDK/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zifnab06</author><text>&quot;co-founder&quot;&#x2F;one of many project leads here. AMA?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pornel</author><text>Please write a proper &quot;About&quot; page for the site, because the current one is trying to be cute&#x2F;minimal, but isn&#x27;t helpful.<p>&quot;Please see Wikipedia&quot; under a dictionary excerpt looks like it&#x27;s sending me to learn what the word means.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Practical Public Key Cryptography</title><url>https://hackaday.com/2017/10/18/practical-public-key-cryptography/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gregmac</author><text>If you haven&#x27;t seen it, there&#x27;s a pretty neat video that outlines how public-key cryptography works using paint colors [1]. It&#x27;s focused on Diffie-Hellman key exchange, but it&#x27;s a great intro for beginners to be able to visualize the concepts, and I think helps provide some context before jumping right into the GPG command line.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=YEBfamv-_do&amp;t=2m25s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=YEBfamv-_do&amp;t=2m25s</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Practical Public Key Cryptography</title><url>https://hackaday.com/2017/10/18/practical-public-key-cryptography/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AdmiralAsshat</author><text>This is a &quot;beginners&quot; article, and it&#x27;s still too damn complicated for most people. I don&#x27;t think I could send this article to my family, for instance, or even try to explain it to them without their eyes glazing over.<p>I&#x27;m not sure if the solution is to &quot;hide&quot; the confusing bits in the way that Signal&#x2F;Enigmail&#x2F;Mailvelope does, or if we need to scrap the whole concept and try again.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Show HN: Boot Windows 10 Directly into Linux Desktop of Choice</title><url>https://github.com/NathanCastle/BootShellCredentialProvider</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>TheRealDunkirk</author><text>The worst of both worlds! The Windows kernel and the Linux UI!<p>I kid; I kid. Looks fun.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Show HN: Boot Windows 10 Directly into Linux Desktop of Choice</title><url>https://github.com/NathanCastle/BootShellCredentialProvider</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chrisper</author><text>I was experimenting running stuff like PyCharm, VS Code, Sublime etc. in WSl through X11 Forwarding. Eventually I gave up and just run it properly in VirtualBox with seamless mode.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The dispassionate developer</title><url>https://blog.ploeh.dk/2021/03/22/the-dispassionate-developer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notsuoh</author><text>Taking that a step further, we often actively discourage looking at OSS contributions during resume review for the same reason we don&#x27;t offer take home interview assignments: it&#x27;s biased against people who don&#x27;t have a whole lot of extra time at home. When we have done either of the above, the singles who work part time have a bunch of time to perfect their work suddenly have a lot to show over the single parents who may be working full time or more.<p>I say &quot;often&quot; because OSS contributions can still be an indicator of something, but it&#x27;s not really clear what. Maybe it indicates drive to contribute to OSS, maybe technical ability, maybe no hobbies or commitments outside their day job. In our experience it&#x27;s often the latter, but even so, it&#x27;s biased against people who don&#x27;t have the time to contribute even if they desired to do so.<p>So we typically just stick with the resume for actual experience and college coursework, if any, but not the college itself. Using these heuristics we&#x27;ve managed to build a pretty strong pipeline of people with all backgrounds of education or experience.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>On the hiring side, it’s rare to see someone come through with significant OSS contributions. A small bug fix here or there is about the most I see from 90% of resumes.<p>Every once in a while we see someone with a lot of open source contributions, or even full leadership of a popular project. These people would really prefer if we believed that OSS contributions and GitHub profiles replaced resumes or CVs, because it’s where they shine. Unfortunately, doing so would exclude many great hires who have done a lot of great work at private companies that doesn’t show up on their GitHub. We’ve also had trouble hiring prolific OSS contributors who spent their days working on OSS contributions instead of doing their job. One candidate wanted their contract to state that they could spend half of their paid time working on their OSS project. We passed.<p>In my experience, anyone claiming to have a single dimension credential preference for hiring (usually GitHub portfolio, Ivy League education, ex-FAANG) is simply hiring for people who look like themselves. They’re not a good fit for unbiased hiring.</text></item><item><author>Derpdiherp</author><text>Maybe it&#x27;s the jobs that I&#x27;ve worked, or the country I&#x27;m in ( UK ). But I&#x27;ve really not seen this shift towards looking at portfolios of open source work rather than CV&#x27;s. Every company I&#x27;ve worked for has requested a CV, and often does some form of test or in person interview centred around programming problems. The tests vary in quality and depth.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t think of myself as a passionate developer. I have a family, I value my free time. I spend work time growing my skill set as it&#x27;s required, anything else I do is rarely related.<p>I have a feeling that there&#x27;s a silent majority of developers such as myself, that do enjoy programming and have a &quot;passion&quot; for it, but do not let this passion dissuade them from family time, or having more varied down time.<p>I think for a lot of people it&#x27;s a dangerous game to be spending every waking moment working for a company, then spending your down time scraping together stuff for open source contributions etc.<p>I salute those that can and do though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WalterSear</author><text>&gt; for the same reason we don&#x27;t offer take home interview assignments: it&#x27;s biased against people who don&#x27;t have a whole lot of extra time at home.<p>This is just another single dimension hiring credential, that will result in limiting your hiring pool to people like yourself. My code ran on 70+ million machines last month, but I&#x27;ve come to decline any timed or proctored technical interviews.<p>It&#x27;s not that I&#x27;m too good for whiteboarding or timed tests, or that my options are so open that there isn&#x27;t significant cost in doing so - quite the opposite: I&#x27;m come to find the process so traumatic that going through with it isn&#x27;t worth it for anyone involved: those jobs just aren&#x27;t open to people like me.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The dispassionate developer</title><url>https://blog.ploeh.dk/2021/03/22/the-dispassionate-developer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notsuoh</author><text>Taking that a step further, we often actively discourage looking at OSS contributions during resume review for the same reason we don&#x27;t offer take home interview assignments: it&#x27;s biased against people who don&#x27;t have a whole lot of extra time at home. When we have done either of the above, the singles who work part time have a bunch of time to perfect their work suddenly have a lot to show over the single parents who may be working full time or more.<p>I say &quot;often&quot; because OSS contributions can still be an indicator of something, but it&#x27;s not really clear what. Maybe it indicates drive to contribute to OSS, maybe technical ability, maybe no hobbies or commitments outside their day job. In our experience it&#x27;s often the latter, but even so, it&#x27;s biased against people who don&#x27;t have the time to contribute even if they desired to do so.<p>So we typically just stick with the resume for actual experience and college coursework, if any, but not the college itself. Using these heuristics we&#x27;ve managed to build a pretty strong pipeline of people with all backgrounds of education or experience.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>On the hiring side, it’s rare to see someone come through with significant OSS contributions. A small bug fix here or there is about the most I see from 90% of resumes.<p>Every once in a while we see someone with a lot of open source contributions, or even full leadership of a popular project. These people would really prefer if we believed that OSS contributions and GitHub profiles replaced resumes or CVs, because it’s where they shine. Unfortunately, doing so would exclude many great hires who have done a lot of great work at private companies that doesn’t show up on their GitHub. We’ve also had trouble hiring prolific OSS contributors who spent their days working on OSS contributions instead of doing their job. One candidate wanted their contract to state that they could spend half of their paid time working on their OSS project. We passed.<p>In my experience, anyone claiming to have a single dimension credential preference for hiring (usually GitHub portfolio, Ivy League education, ex-FAANG) is simply hiring for people who look like themselves. They’re not a good fit for unbiased hiring.</text></item><item><author>Derpdiherp</author><text>Maybe it&#x27;s the jobs that I&#x27;ve worked, or the country I&#x27;m in ( UK ). But I&#x27;ve really not seen this shift towards looking at portfolios of open source work rather than CV&#x27;s. Every company I&#x27;ve worked for has requested a CV, and often does some form of test or in person interview centred around programming problems. The tests vary in quality and depth.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t think of myself as a passionate developer. I have a family, I value my free time. I spend work time growing my skill set as it&#x27;s required, anything else I do is rarely related.<p>I have a feeling that there&#x27;s a silent majority of developers such as myself, that do enjoy programming and have a &quot;passion&quot; for it, but do not let this passion dissuade them from family time, or having more varied down time.<p>I think for a lot of people it&#x27;s a dangerous game to be spending every waking moment working for a company, then spending your down time scraping together stuff for open source contributions etc.<p>I salute those that can and do though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Uberphallus</author><text>Thank you!<p>When I was single I had a lot of free time to tinker and go through coding tests, etc, etc, and cater to whatever hiring shenanigans were in place.<p>First marriage, then a kid, and I find myself grabbing my laptop after work maybe once a fortnight. I&#x27;m always &quot;open for new challenges&quot; and I regularly apply to positions in interesting (to me) projects, but more often than not, at some point in their process they gimme some &quot;take home assignments&quot; that are a literal week of unpaid work. I&#x27;ve heard of companies that pay for those assignments, but I&#x27;ve never stumbled upon one.<p>I always drop out of that, thinking, &quot;good luck with that particular choice of candidate sampling&quot;. I might not have been the best candidate, but most seniors I talk to are turned off by these things as well.<p>Timed coding tests are fine, up to 2-3h, I can squeeze one of those in most weeks. But, and I&#x27;m not making it up, &quot;implement this subset of the MQTT spec in your language of choice&quot; as just a step in the hiring process? Hell nah.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The 7 vices of highly creative people</title><url>http://archive.salon.com/people/feature/2000/02/09/sevenvices/print.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>geebee</author><text>I loved reading it. But keep in mind...<p>Anyone can drink, gamble, smoke, eat oysters, dress well, have sex(1) and use their credit card.<p>However, creative people <i>create</i>, and this is the <i>only</i> common attribute of creative people.<p>I did a lot of creative writing in college, and a lot of folks acted the part, but when you asked to read what they'd written, there wasn't much to show. Even something bad. Just nothing.<p>(1) may require use of the credit card.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The 7 vices of highly creative people</title><url>http://archive.salon.com/people/feature/2000/02/09/sevenvices/print.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>edw519</author><text>Drink, smoke, gamble, eat oysters, dress well, have sex, use your credit card.<p>I am so glad you posted this!<p>I already enjoy 3 of these (drink, sex, credit card) and I sometimes feel guilty because they may adversely affect my work. Starting immediately I'm adding the other 4 and I'm not going to feel guilty about any of them.<p>A friend of mine offered me a real Cuban cigar yesterday and I politely refused. I'm calling him back tonight. I'm also going to the mall and buying something I never would have worn before. Then I'm hitting the casino and I don't care if I win or lose. I'll skip the oysters, but Saturday night, I'm picking the most decadent thing on the menu. And yes, there will be beer (maybe even spirits) and sex.<p>If Hemingway, Einstein, Churchill, Mark Twain, and Oscar Wilde indulged to feed their creativity, then maybe I should do it more often, too. I'll let you all know how it goes. A couple of days later.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Apple’s refusal to support Progressive Web Apps is a detriment to the web</title><url>https://medium.com/philly-dev-shop/apples-refusal-to-support-progressive-web-apps-is-a-serious-detriment-to-future-of-the-web-e81b2be29676</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>IBM</author><text>Is there a reason for users to care about this at all? Because it seems to me that this just solves problems for developers while making the user experience worse or not as good as it could be. The same goes for Electron-based apps.</text></item><item><author>pluma</author><text>I think push notifications and offline support are the real killer features that Apple currently doesn&#x27;t support.<p>It&#x27;s kind of funny as a web developer because for the longest time Apple seemed to be the one pushing the mobile web forward but now that web apps are reaching for feature parity with native, Apple&#x27;s initial momentum seems to be ancient history.<p>It seems Apple still thinks of the mobile web as a content delivery platform rather than an application platform. Their proprietary additions (mostly CSS) largely focused on making things prettier, their rationale for opting out of standard features (e.g. autoplay) often only work under the assumption that the only use for those features would be in the context of traditional content pages.<p>You want an app? Develop for our walled garden we tightly control to offer our users the best possible experience. If you want it on the web, stick to creating content our users can consume in Mobile Safari, our app for reading websites.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pluma</author><text>Push notifications? Every single messenger or anything that lets you set reminders. Note that features like push notifications are implemented with a discrete opt-in on every other platform already. Don&#x27;t want notifications? Just say &quot;Deny&quot; when you&#x27;re prompted.<p>Offline support? Only if you happen to live in the 99.99% of the world that doesn&#x27;t have 24&#x2F;7 perfect WiFi&#x2F;4G coverage with unlimited data. If you&#x27;ve ever kept a page open in the background and wished the data would still be there when you come back, offline support could have helped with that.<p>The choice is not between a native and a web app. The choice is between a web app or no app. There are certainly apps that could cease developing platform specific native apps when PWAs are supported on iOS but the vast majority of apps that benefit from PWAs being supported universally are apps that simply would never be available as native apps (let alone native apps on more than one platform).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Apple’s refusal to support Progressive Web Apps is a detriment to the web</title><url>https://medium.com/philly-dev-shop/apples-refusal-to-support-progressive-web-apps-is-a-serious-detriment-to-future-of-the-web-e81b2be29676</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>IBM</author><text>Is there a reason for users to care about this at all? Because it seems to me that this just solves problems for developers while making the user experience worse or not as good as it could be. The same goes for Electron-based apps.</text></item><item><author>pluma</author><text>I think push notifications and offline support are the real killer features that Apple currently doesn&#x27;t support.<p>It&#x27;s kind of funny as a web developer because for the longest time Apple seemed to be the one pushing the mobile web forward but now that web apps are reaching for feature parity with native, Apple&#x27;s initial momentum seems to be ancient history.<p>It seems Apple still thinks of the mobile web as a content delivery platform rather than an application platform. Their proprietary additions (mostly CSS) largely focused on making things prettier, their rationale for opting out of standard features (e.g. autoplay) often only work under the assumption that the only use for those features would be in the context of traditional content pages.<p>You want an app? Develop for our walled garden we tightly control to offer our users the best possible experience. If you want it on the web, stick to creating content our users can consume in Mobile Safari, our app for reading websites.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jvzr</author><text>Exactly. I don&#x27;t want websites to send notifications. And I dislike websites with Offline support: I always have to refresh twice to make sure the content I&#x27;m seeing came from a fresh source and not from cache.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Show HN: Open-source real-time talk-to-AI wearable device for few $</title><url>https://github.com/StarmoonAI/Starmoon</url><text>1. In the US, about 1&#x2F;5 children are hospitalized each year that don’t have a caregiver. Caregiver such as play therapists and parents’ stress can also affect children&#x27;s emotions.<p>2. Not everyone is good at making friends and not everyone has a BFF to talk to. Imagine you&#x27;re having a hard time in life or at work, and you can&#x27;t tell your parents or friends.<p>So, we built an open-source project Starmoon and are using affordable hardware components to bring AI characters to real-word objects like toys and plushies to help people emotional growth.<p>We believe this is a complement tool and it is not intended to replace anyone. Please leave any opinion.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway314155</author><text>&gt; In the US, about 1&#x2F;5 children are hospitalized each year that don’t have a caregiver. Caregiver such as play therapists and parents’ stress can also affect children&#x27;s emotions.<p>Trust me, large language models are not anywhere close to being able to substitute as an effective parent, therapist, or caregiver. In fact, I&#x27;d wager any attempts to do so would have mostly _negative_ effects.<p>I would implore you to reconsider this as a legitimate use case for your open device.<p>&gt; We believe this is a complement tool and it is not intended to replace anyone.<p>Well which is it? Both issues you list heavily imply that your tool will serve as a de facto replacement. But then you finish by saying you don&#x27;t intend to do that. So what aspects of the problems you listed will be solved as a simple &quot;complement tool&quot;?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Intralexical</author><text>&gt; In fact, I&#x27;d wager any attempts to do so would have mostly _negative_ effects.<p>It does kinda send an interesting message to a child, doesn&#x27;t it? &quot;You&#x27;re not worth the time of anybody human, so here&#x27;s a machine instead.&quot;<p>And that&#x27;s before the chat even starts (and eventually goes off the rails).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Show HN: Open-source real-time talk-to-AI wearable device for few $</title><url>https://github.com/StarmoonAI/Starmoon</url><text>1. In the US, about 1&#x2F;5 children are hospitalized each year that don’t have a caregiver. Caregiver such as play therapists and parents’ stress can also affect children&#x27;s emotions.<p>2. Not everyone is good at making friends and not everyone has a BFF to talk to. Imagine you&#x27;re having a hard time in life or at work, and you can&#x27;t tell your parents or friends.<p>So, we built an open-source project Starmoon and are using affordable hardware components to bring AI characters to real-word objects like toys and plushies to help people emotional growth.<p>We believe this is a complement tool and it is not intended to replace anyone. Please leave any opinion.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway314155</author><text>&gt; In the US, about 1&#x2F;5 children are hospitalized each year that don’t have a caregiver. Caregiver such as play therapists and parents’ stress can also affect children&#x27;s emotions.<p>Trust me, large language models are not anywhere close to being able to substitute as an effective parent, therapist, or caregiver. In fact, I&#x27;d wager any attempts to do so would have mostly _negative_ effects.<p>I would implore you to reconsider this as a legitimate use case for your open device.<p>&gt; We believe this is a complement tool and it is not intended to replace anyone.<p>Well which is it? Both issues you list heavily imply that your tool will serve as a de facto replacement. But then you finish by saying you don&#x27;t intend to do that. So what aspects of the problems you listed will be solved as a simple &quot;complement tool&quot;?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fragmede</author><text>&gt; Trust me, large language models are not anywhere close to being able to substitute as an effective parent, therapist, or caregiver.<p>You&#x27;re asking us to trust you, but why should we trust you in this matter? Regardless of if I think ChatGPT is any good at those things, you&#x27;d need some supporting evidence for that one way or another before continuing.</text></comment>
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<story><title>A Sensible Fix For TSA Security Lines</title><url>http://www.askthepilot.com/tsa-summer-meltdown/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>darawk</author><text>The sensible fix for long TSA lines is to eliminate the TSA and stop engaging in this silly security theater. It is demonstrably the case that the TSA security procedures are so porous that they can&#x27;t stop regular people from <i>accidentally</i> bringing weapons on board that they forgot about. The idea that they have prevented any terrorist attacks is ludicrous, yet they have imposed an enormous cost on air travel.<p>Eliminate the TSA and replace them with nothing. Cockpit doors are now reinforced, so the worst thing someone could do is blow up a plane, and if all you want to do is blow up a hundred people or so, you don&#x27;t need to be on a plane to do it.</text></comment>
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<story><title>A Sensible Fix For TSA Security Lines</title><url>http://www.askthepilot.com/tsa-summer-meltdown/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Nav_Panel</author><text>&gt; Take a percentage of screeners now working at airport checkpoints and re-train them to work away from public view<p>When I was in London, I met a woman whose job was basically to hang around at Heathrow Airport and make note of &quot;suspicious-looking individuals&quot;. She would make small talk and ask them if they needed help or directions.<p>She also told me they catch a surprising number of North Korean spies.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted</title><url>https://blog.ycombinator.com/startup-school-every-company-that-applied-is-now-accepted/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>threeisoneis</author><text>I disagree. They didn’t do anything except open up the grant application part to everyone (no cost to them) and promise everybody that they would get some credits (probably no cost to them). The course was always able to be audited.<p>What this really does is make clear the desire of the people at ycombinator to open their pre screening program (which is what startup school is, essentially) to more startups. The value to them is clear - they now get more companies that have an initial touchpoint with ycombinator, and they can maybe make money off them or whatever. But they don’t have to scale the thing that was most useful about startup school - that is, the advisors and small groups. For ycombinator this actually is a win win - they can now phase out advisors next round if this is a success and then the course would be very simple to run (and mostly free to create!).<p>The value that they were really providing (advisors, small groups) doesn’t scale for a free program, and with this new method of acceptance they aren’t offering that value to the newly “accepted” startups. For me personally, If I wanted to independently learn the things they teach in startup school, I already had the ability to watch last years lectures and read last years course material.<p>If there are credits, that will be valuable I suppose. But, again, I want to emphasize that ycombinator isn’t giving startups anything of real value here that it wasn’t already giving away (except, I guess, the ability to save face if you had already excitedly told friends that you were in this program).</text></item><item><author>jackconnor</author><text>Man, credit where credit is due, this showed a lot of integrity. There was one good solution, it was just a painful one, yet they still did it. Well done YCombinator!<p>P.S. They make the point that this is an experiment, and I think all of us who join should prove that it is a good one. Nobody rails against applications and qualifying scores like HN peeps (check the comments of any article, ever, about SAT&#x2F;GMAT&#x2F;GRE scores for evidence). And since YC choose to go the universal route, standing strong to the HN ethos, I think we can prove that decisions like this do work for the best by being focused, engaged, and building some kickass tech companies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kcorbitt</author><text>Hi, I was involved in the decision to open Startup School to all applicants and am the developer primarily responsible for writing the software we’ll need to make this scale. We&#x27;re all planning on working overtime for the next 12 weeks as we prepare for and go through the course. Although we don&#x27;t have the resources to assign an advisor to every group, we do want to provide human attention to every single company we&#x27;ve accepted.<p>In general, we&#x27;re committed to making Startup School an excellent experience for all 15,000 of the companies that applied. This is going to be a great deal of effort for all involved, but it&#x27;s a point we wanted to get to anyway (even though the timing and communication that lead to this decision was a terrible mistake that we&#x27;re still really sorry for).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Startup School: Every Company That Applied Is Now Accepted</title><url>https://blog.ycombinator.com/startup-school-every-company-that-applied-is-now-accepted/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>threeisoneis</author><text>I disagree. They didn’t do anything except open up the grant application part to everyone (no cost to them) and promise everybody that they would get some credits (probably no cost to them). The course was always able to be audited.<p>What this really does is make clear the desire of the people at ycombinator to open their pre screening program (which is what startup school is, essentially) to more startups. The value to them is clear - they now get more companies that have an initial touchpoint with ycombinator, and they can maybe make money off them or whatever. But they don’t have to scale the thing that was most useful about startup school - that is, the advisors and small groups. For ycombinator this actually is a win win - they can now phase out advisors next round if this is a success and then the course would be very simple to run (and mostly free to create!).<p>The value that they were really providing (advisors, small groups) doesn’t scale for a free program, and with this new method of acceptance they aren’t offering that value to the newly “accepted” startups. For me personally, If I wanted to independently learn the things they teach in startup school, I already had the ability to watch last years lectures and read last years course material.<p>If there are credits, that will be valuable I suppose. But, again, I want to emphasize that ycombinator isn’t giving startups anything of real value here that it wasn’t already giving away (except, I guess, the ability to save face if you had already excitedly told friends that you were in this program).</text></item><item><author>jackconnor</author><text>Man, credit where credit is due, this showed a lot of integrity. There was one good solution, it was just a painful one, yet they still did it. Well done YCombinator!<p>P.S. They make the point that this is an experiment, and I think all of us who join should prove that it is a good one. Nobody rails against applications and qualifying scores like HN peeps (check the comments of any article, ever, about SAT&#x2F;GMAT&#x2F;GRE scores for evidence). And since YC choose to go the universal route, standing strong to the HN ethos, I think we can prove that decisions like this do work for the best by being focused, engaged, and building some kickass tech companies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrismorgan</author><text>There’s quite a lot of extra organisational and support work that they will have to do to support another 11,000 people. That’s going to be roughly 450 more groups of 25 people to sort out, four times as many people to still interact with to <i>some</i> extent, and a whole lot more traffic.<p>When they say “we’ve decided to use our error as a forcing function to find a way to make Startup School work for all founders who applied”, that really is a fair way of describing it. Making this work is possible, but it will be quite a lot more work for them—work they had not reckoned on.</text></comment>
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<story><title>JavaScript to Rust and Back Again: A Wasm-Bindgen Tale</title><url>https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/04/javascript-to-rust-and-back-again-a-wasm-bindgen-tale/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>piercebot</author><text>The title &quot;Javascript to Rust and Back Again&quot; had me believing that this would be a tale of how Rust was abandoned in favor of Javascript! I&#x27;m so glad to see we&#x27;re actually talking about wasm interop</text></comment>
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<story><title>JavaScript to Rust and Back Again: A Wasm-Bindgen Tale</title><url>https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/04/javascript-to-rust-and-back-again-a-wasm-bindgen-tale/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vvanders</author><text>&gt; Faster-than-JS DOM performance<p>...<p>&gt; The wasm-bindgen code generation has been designed with the future host bindings proposal in mind from day 1. As soon as that’s a feature available in WebAssembly, we’ll be able to directly invoke imported functions without any of wasm-bindgen‘s JS shims.<p>Sweet.<p>Once again, Rust team knocking it out of the park.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Browser Extensions Standard</title><url>https://browserext.github.io/browserext/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>avaer</author><text>Hm, if web extensions become a standard, are they really even extensions? Isn&#x27;t that just new web APIs with tweaked security parameters?<p>This is great for security and all, but browser extensions were borne out of the idea that you wanted your browser to do things that the browser vendor didn&#x27;t want, or didn&#x27;t even conceive of.<p>Having it be a standard adds security but strictly limits extensions to things the browser vendors explicitly did conceive of, and stamped their approval on -- sometimes literally, if you&#x27;re going through a curated store. Is that a net win? I&#x27;m not sure.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Browser Extensions Standard</title><url>https://browserext.github.io/browserext/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pimterry</author><text>Finally! WebExtensions (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;Add-ons&#x2F;WebExtensions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;Add-ons&#x2F;WebExtensions</a>) have slowly been becoming an adhoc standard for a little while now, but with a few tricky small differences here and there between browsers (e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;Add-ons&#x2F;WebExtensions&#x2F;Chrome_incompatibilities" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;Add-ons&#x2F;WebExtensions&#x2F;Ch...</a>). So far it&#x27;s just been Firefox and Edge slowly building a close approximation of Chrome&#x27;s existing API, but a proper standard for this would be great, and make it much clearer what extension developers can _depend_ on, and what&#x27;s optional.<p>Right now you basically write your extension once (probably for Chrome), and then port it to the others, often with various small manual changes or workarounds for incompatibilities. It&#x27;s much better than it used to be, but still pretty inconvenient and error prone.<p>I can see at least a couple of differences with current implementations though, like using the `browserext:&#x2F;&#x2F;` protocol instead of `moz-extension:&#x2F;&#x2F;` and `chrome-extension:&#x2F;&#x2F;`. Does anybody more involved with this have a summary of the differences between this spec and Firefox, Edge and Chrome&#x27;s implementations?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Evolution of Search Engines Architecture – Algolia Search Architecture Part 1</title><url>http://highscalability.com/blog/2021/8/2/evolution-of-search-engines-architecture-algolia-new-search.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>polote</author><text>The issue with Algolia is that they have insane technology but it is mostly used only to search documentation.<p>They are struggling to sell their techno to people who need them deeply, for a lot of reasons. But one of them is that they are a tricky choice. It is not a database technology, so not a developer choice but also their technology is only useful to developers.<p>As a result they have to try to sell their product when you need a search but no developers are working on it. That&#x27;s how you end up powering external and internal documentation portals. That&#x27;s really a waste of resource</text></comment>
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<story><title>Evolution of Search Engines Architecture – Algolia Search Architecture Part 1</title><url>http://highscalability.com/blog/2021/8/2/evolution-of-search-engines-architecture-algolia-new-search.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bwb</author><text>I am about to roll out search on Shepherd.com and looking at using Algolia. I&#x27;ve been impressed with Algolia on Hacker News...<p>Is anyone else using them? What are your impressions so far?<p>Much appreciated</text></comment>
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<story><title>The $10 Hedge Fund Supercomputer That’s Sweeping Wall Street</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-20/the-10-hedge-fund-supercomputer-that-s-sweeping-wall-street</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wjnc</author><text>The gap that firms are trying to bridge is _huge_. I work in finance (slow finance: insurance), but finance technical enough to have our own PhD-level quants building code. They are running simulations taking hours, so scaling up on # cores would seem the first step to take. But it&#x27;s not that the quants don&#x27;t know parallelization, it&#x27;s the IT-architecture not allowing to use AWS at all. And well, many cores on your own premises is hugely expensive because they are idle most of the time. And as a sidestep, most quants are not the first you think of to woo architectures&#x27; support. (This is probably easier for firms that trade for own profit.)<p>Point being: improvements in AI &#x2F; machine learning and other statistical techniques are huge, and analytical demand exists, but &#x27;old corporations&#x27; need cultural change before they can start working with and embedding startup-like technology in their workflows.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mseebach</author><text>IT shops are inherently conservative, that&#x27;s their job.<p>The trick is to get the higher-ups interested - they have the power to redirect IT, and are inherently (if laggingly) interested in making employees as effective as possible.<p>Funnily enough, a fluff-piece in Bloomberg is a pretty good way of achieving it. Tomorrow, some manager will pop into a quant&#x27;s office with this article in his hand and ask &quot;Are you doing this? Why not?&quot; and that&#x27;s how the ball gets rolling on opening up.<p>Once upon a time, getting remote access to email was a &quot;this will never happen&quot;, then an executive saw someone with a BlackBerry at the golf club. Once upon a time, getting email access on anything other than a BlackBerry was a &quot;this will never happen&quot;, then an executive saw someone with an iPhone.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The $10 Hedge Fund Supercomputer That’s Sweeping Wall Street</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-20/the-10-hedge-fund-supercomputer-that-s-sweeping-wall-street</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wjnc</author><text>The gap that firms are trying to bridge is _huge_. I work in finance (slow finance: insurance), but finance technical enough to have our own PhD-level quants building code. They are running simulations taking hours, so scaling up on # cores would seem the first step to take. But it&#x27;s not that the quants don&#x27;t know parallelization, it&#x27;s the IT-architecture not allowing to use AWS at all. And well, many cores on your own premises is hugely expensive because they are idle most of the time. And as a sidestep, most quants are not the first you think of to woo architectures&#x27; support. (This is probably easier for firms that trade for own profit.)<p>Point being: improvements in AI &#x2F; machine learning and other statistical techniques are huge, and analytical demand exists, but &#x27;old corporations&#x27; need cultural change before they can start working with and embedding startup-like technology in their workflows.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mcguire</author><text>This is pretty common outside finance as well. &quot;We can&#x27;t let our data touch any one else&#x27;s network!&quot; And, of course, we can&#x27;t bother to get our IT group on the smarts wagon, so we&#x27;re massively inefficient all the way around.</text></comment>
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<story><title>After 6 years, I'm over GraphQL</title><url>https://bessey.dev/blog/2024/05/24/why-im-over-graphql/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hansonkd</author><text>Its gross because it is a waste.<p>An engineer had to spend time to make that specific API for that page instead of the frontend consumer using what was already defined and get all the resources with one call and 0 backend engineer needed for that new page.</text></item><item><author>ComputerGuru</author><text>&gt; With internal REST for companies I have seen so many single page specific endpoints. Gross.<p>Hardly gross. It is what it is and it’s universal across the domain. I bet Windows has internal APIs or even external ones that were created just for one page&#x2F;widget&#x2F;dialog of one app. It’s the nature of things at times.</text></item><item><author>hansonkd</author><text>REST APIS suck for nested resources. GraphQL is a huge breakthrough in managing them.<p>Ever seen an engineer do a loop and make n+1 REST calls for resources? It happens more often then you think because they don&#x27;t want to have to create a backend ticket to add related resources to a call.<p>With internal REST for companies I have seen so many single page specific endpoints. Gross.<p>&gt; There have been different opinions about structuring REST calls but those aren&#x27;t going to cause any real forward progress for the industry and are inconsequential when it comes to business outcomes.<p>You could argue almost any tech solution in a non-pure tech play is largely in consequentially as long as the end goal of the org is met, but managing REST APIS were a huge point of friction at past companies.<p>Either it goes through a long review process to make sure things are structured &quot;right&quot; (ie lots of opinions that nobody can sync on) or people just throw up rest endpoints willynilly until you have no idea what to use.<p>GraphQL is essentially the &quot;Black&quot; for Python Syntax but for Web APIs. Ever seen engineers fight over spaces vs tabs, 8 vs 4 spaces, whether a space before a colon? those fights happened a lot and then `black` came out and standardized it so there was nothing to fight over.<p>GraphqL makes things very clear and standard, but can&#x27;t please everyone.</text></item><item><author>matt_s</author><text>&gt; RPC and REST are just more straightforward to monitor, log, cache, authorize and debug.<p>REST API&#x27;s are a proven solution for the problem of other apps, including front-ends, needing data from a data store. Using JSON is much improved over the days of XML and SOAP. Beyond that there haven&#x27;t been advancements in technology that cause fundamental shifts in that problem space. There have been different opinions about structuring REST calls but those aren&#x27;t going to cause any real forward progress for the industry and are inconsequential when it comes to business outcomes.<p>There are so many developers out there that can&#x27;t stand plugging in proven solutions to problems and just dealing with the trade-offs or minor inconveniences. Nothing is going to be perfect and most likely a lot of the software we write will cease to be running in a decade.</text></item><item><author>atsjie</author><text>Worked on two GraphQL projects; I was quickly cured from the hype. I recognize a lot of points in this article.<p>In both these projects the GraphQL had started small. I came in during a more mature phase of these projects (2 and 4 years). That&#x27;s where the requirements are harder, more specific, and overall complexity has grown. Adoption and demand on the API were growing quickly. Hence you logically spend more time debugging, this is true for any codebase.<p>But GraphQL has everything in it to make such problems even harder. And both these projects had clear signs of &quot;learning-on-the-go&quot; with loads of bad practices (especially for the N+1 problem). Issue descriptions were much vaguer, harder to find in logs and performance issues popped up in the most random places (code that had been running and untouched for ages).<p>Fun fact; in both these projects the original devs who set it up were no longer involved. Probably spreading their evangalism further elsewhere.<p>RPC and REST are just more straightforward to monitor, log, cache, authorize and debug.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pavel_lishin</author><text>On the other hand, it may take that engineer less time to create a page-specific endpoint than it would be to create something more generic that might serve other purposes (that may never come to pass), which may also involve talking to other teams, checking what future plans are, etc.<p>And that&#x27;s assuming it&#x27;s a new endpoint; if there&#x27;s an existing endpoint that does <i>almost</i> what&#x27;s necessary, they may need to check in with that team about what modifications to the endpoint would be acceptable, etc.<p>Single-page endpoints aren&#x27;t <i>great</i>, but often times they&#x27;re acceptable because they end up being a half-day task instead of a week-long slog.</text></comment>
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<story><title>After 6 years, I'm over GraphQL</title><url>https://bessey.dev/blog/2024/05/24/why-im-over-graphql/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hansonkd</author><text>Its gross because it is a waste.<p>An engineer had to spend time to make that specific API for that page instead of the frontend consumer using what was already defined and get all the resources with one call and 0 backend engineer needed for that new page.</text></item><item><author>ComputerGuru</author><text>&gt; With internal REST for companies I have seen so many single page specific endpoints. Gross.<p>Hardly gross. It is what it is and it’s universal across the domain. I bet Windows has internal APIs or even external ones that were created just for one page&#x2F;widget&#x2F;dialog of one app. It’s the nature of things at times.</text></item><item><author>hansonkd</author><text>REST APIS suck for nested resources. GraphQL is a huge breakthrough in managing them.<p>Ever seen an engineer do a loop and make n+1 REST calls for resources? It happens more often then you think because they don&#x27;t want to have to create a backend ticket to add related resources to a call.<p>With internal REST for companies I have seen so many single page specific endpoints. Gross.<p>&gt; There have been different opinions about structuring REST calls but those aren&#x27;t going to cause any real forward progress for the industry and are inconsequential when it comes to business outcomes.<p>You could argue almost any tech solution in a non-pure tech play is largely in consequentially as long as the end goal of the org is met, but managing REST APIS were a huge point of friction at past companies.<p>Either it goes through a long review process to make sure things are structured &quot;right&quot; (ie lots of opinions that nobody can sync on) or people just throw up rest endpoints willynilly until you have no idea what to use.<p>GraphQL is essentially the &quot;Black&quot; for Python Syntax but for Web APIs. Ever seen engineers fight over spaces vs tabs, 8 vs 4 spaces, whether a space before a colon? those fights happened a lot and then `black` came out and standardized it so there was nothing to fight over.<p>GraphqL makes things very clear and standard, but can&#x27;t please everyone.</text></item><item><author>matt_s</author><text>&gt; RPC and REST are just more straightforward to monitor, log, cache, authorize and debug.<p>REST API&#x27;s are a proven solution for the problem of other apps, including front-ends, needing data from a data store. Using JSON is much improved over the days of XML and SOAP. Beyond that there haven&#x27;t been advancements in technology that cause fundamental shifts in that problem space. There have been different opinions about structuring REST calls but those aren&#x27;t going to cause any real forward progress for the industry and are inconsequential when it comes to business outcomes.<p>There are so many developers out there that can&#x27;t stand plugging in proven solutions to problems and just dealing with the trade-offs or minor inconveniences. Nothing is going to be perfect and most likely a lot of the software we write will cease to be running in a decade.</text></item><item><author>atsjie</author><text>Worked on two GraphQL projects; I was quickly cured from the hype. I recognize a lot of points in this article.<p>In both these projects the GraphQL had started small. I came in during a more mature phase of these projects (2 and 4 years). That&#x27;s where the requirements are harder, more specific, and overall complexity has grown. Adoption and demand on the API were growing quickly. Hence you logically spend more time debugging, this is true for any codebase.<p>But GraphQL has everything in it to make such problems even harder. And both these projects had clear signs of &quot;learning-on-the-go&quot; with loads of bad practices (especially for the N+1 problem). Issue descriptions were much vaguer, harder to find in logs and performance issues popped up in the most random places (code that had been running and untouched for ages).<p>Fun fact; in both these projects the original devs who set it up were no longer involved. Probably spreading their evangalism further elsewhere.<p>RPC and REST are just more straightforward to monitor, log, cache, authorize and debug.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RVuRnvbM2e</author><text>That backend engineer wrote a single SQL query that joined some tables, ensured indices were used, and always executed in &lt;1ms.<p>In graphql land you&#x27;d be doing multiple SQL queries, &quot;joining&quot; in the API layer, and spending 50ms per API call.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Rust programs versus Go</title><url>https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/faster/rust-go.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simias</author><text>I expect Rust to be faster than Go as a rule because of its somewhat lower level nature and cost-less &quot;unmanaged&quot; abstractions but I didn&#x27;t expect it to be a full order of
magnitude faster than Go for some benchmarks. Are the Go snippets not properly optimized or is there something else going on?<p>I think pitting Go against Rust is somewhat inflammatory but if you look at the Rust vs. C++ benchmark the results are much more similar: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net&#x2F;benchmarksgame&#x2F;faster&#x2F;rust-gpp.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net&#x2F;benchmarksgame&#x2F;...</a> so clearly it&#x27;s not Rust doing something right, it&#x27;s the Go implementation doing something wrong. Actually even Java fares (mostly) better: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net&#x2F;benchmarksgame&#x2F;faster&#x2F;rust-java.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net&#x2F;benchmarksgame&#x2F;...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tuna-Fish</author><text>Explanations for the few largest offenders:<p>1. regex-redux<p>Rust has it&#x27;s own regexp engine, that lacks a few of the bells and whistles of PCRE, but is much faster than it. (And has no sheer perfomance cliffs where a carefully crafted target string or search expression can DOS the app.) Also, I think the rust implementation can do less copying.<p>GO just uses PCRE. (Which is weird, isn&#x27;t RE2 a google project?)<p>2. binary-trees<p>The benchmark needs to build a massive binary tree. The Rust implementation allocates it&#x27;s tree in a TypedArena, which is basically a bump allocator for objects that are all dropped simultaneously. It requires very minimal metadata or work per allocation. (Not zero, because it does properly call all destructors.) The GO implementation has to use the platform allocator. The results shouldn&#x27;t be very surprising...<p>3. Manderbrot<p>Not sure, but I think the Rust version is designed for autovectorization while the Go one is scalar.<p>After that the Go runtimes are within 2.5x of the Rust ones.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Rust programs versus Go</title><url>https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/faster/rust-go.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simias</author><text>I expect Rust to be faster than Go as a rule because of its somewhat lower level nature and cost-less &quot;unmanaged&quot; abstractions but I didn&#x27;t expect it to be a full order of
magnitude faster than Go for some benchmarks. Are the Go snippets not properly optimized or is there something else going on?<p>I think pitting Go against Rust is somewhat inflammatory but if you look at the Rust vs. C++ benchmark the results are much more similar: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net&#x2F;benchmarksgame&#x2F;faster&#x2F;rust-gpp.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net&#x2F;benchmarksgame&#x2F;...</a> so clearly it&#x27;s not Rust doing something right, it&#x27;s the Go implementation doing something wrong. Actually even Java fares (mostly) better: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net&#x2F;benchmarksgame&#x2F;faster&#x2F;rust-java.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net&#x2F;benchmarksgame&#x2F;...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oblio</author><text>The JVM has a ton of work put into it, it wouldn&#x27;t surprise me if Java is faster than Go for quite a few things.</text></comment>
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<story><title>UK triggers the official Brexit process in a letter to EU</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-politics-39424391</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>What&#x27;s at stake here is more fundamental than federalism: it&#x27;s self determination. Throughout history, discrete groups have waged wars of independence to ensure that they can have a government that reflects their shared history, culture, and values. My family is from Bangladesh, which fought a war to separate from Pakistan over cultural&#x2F;linguistic differences. In another example, Israel is engaged in an existential battle to ensure the existence of a sovereign nation for its people.<p>In Europe, exactly the opposite is happening. People are being prodded to give up their sovereignty to a supra-national bureaucracy, and to be assimilated into a hetrogenous body politic with hundreds of millions of other people with which they share little other than said bureaucracy. People in the U.K. were very rightfully afraid of what that could lead to and decided they wanted to get off that train.</text></item><item><author>folli</author><text>I absolutely see the advantages of having common standards, tariff agreements etc. to make trade across borders easier (i.e. something akin to the European Economic Area). I&#x27;m however also a proponent of federalism, because I believe that for a democracy to truly work it is necessary that the people still feel responsible for their votes and their decisions. This is something which I&#x27;m missing in centralised and unitary states after they reach a certain size and heterogenity. I&#x27;m aware that the European Union is not (yet) a unitary state, but it is certainly shifting away democratic power from a more regional democratic system to a centralised government.<p>I agree that the UK&#x27;s decision to leave the EU is not an optimal one (and potentially costly), but I believe it&#x27;s long term the right one, given the current state. An alternative would be to change the EU within, to force it to focus on its core competencies (which I mainly see as a trade union, and leave most of the political decisions to its nation states); however I&#x27;m not sure that this would happen without any big bang, such as the Brexit might have been.</text></item><item><author>ealexhudson</author><text>I&#x27;m a big believer in not having assumptions and testing things with actual experiments. This is one experiment I&#x27;d rather not be participating in, though.<p>It&#x27;s difficult to see very much positive about this move; certainly there will be some benefits, but I expect greatly outweighed by the negatives (which will include higher prices, lower employment and probably lower standards for UK workers - the EU has consistently been the only organisation willing to drag us out of the dark ages).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>barrkel</author><text>The core concept in EU law is subsidiarity. Look it up if you&#x27;re unfamiliar - by treaty, the EU may only make laws where actions by individual countries are insufficient. I think you&#x27;re being incredibly one-sided and myopic, if not ignorant.<p>Collective action problems are real. Nation states are a poor way to deal with many cross-border problems, just like individuals without a government is a poor way to deal with many problems in a community. Pooling sovereignty is a bargain: it&#x27;s trading away freedom on one axis to gain freedom on another - freedom from certain kinds of problems. Whether it&#x27;s war vs peace, mercantilism vs trade, security, administration of commons - there are real tradeoffs, and real wins to be had from pooling sovereignty.<p>The single biggest practical loss, that I feel most for the UK, is how her youth will have their horizons cut much shorter. The EU will be just another country; work visas will dissuade millions.</text></comment>
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<story><title>UK triggers the official Brexit process in a letter to EU</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-politics-39424391</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>What&#x27;s at stake here is more fundamental than federalism: it&#x27;s self determination. Throughout history, discrete groups have waged wars of independence to ensure that they can have a government that reflects their shared history, culture, and values. My family is from Bangladesh, which fought a war to separate from Pakistan over cultural&#x2F;linguistic differences. In another example, Israel is engaged in an existential battle to ensure the existence of a sovereign nation for its people.<p>In Europe, exactly the opposite is happening. People are being prodded to give up their sovereignty to a supra-national bureaucracy, and to be assimilated into a hetrogenous body politic with hundreds of millions of other people with which they share little other than said bureaucracy. People in the U.K. were very rightfully afraid of what that could lead to and decided they wanted to get off that train.</text></item><item><author>folli</author><text>I absolutely see the advantages of having common standards, tariff agreements etc. to make trade across borders easier (i.e. something akin to the European Economic Area). I&#x27;m however also a proponent of federalism, because I believe that for a democracy to truly work it is necessary that the people still feel responsible for their votes and their decisions. This is something which I&#x27;m missing in centralised and unitary states after they reach a certain size and heterogenity. I&#x27;m aware that the European Union is not (yet) a unitary state, but it is certainly shifting away democratic power from a more regional democratic system to a centralised government.<p>I agree that the UK&#x27;s decision to leave the EU is not an optimal one (and potentially costly), but I believe it&#x27;s long term the right one, given the current state. An alternative would be to change the EU within, to force it to focus on its core competencies (which I mainly see as a trade union, and leave most of the political decisions to its nation states); however I&#x27;m not sure that this would happen without any big bang, such as the Brexit might have been.</text></item><item><author>ealexhudson</author><text>I&#x27;m a big believer in not having assumptions and testing things with actual experiments. This is one experiment I&#x27;d rather not be participating in, though.<p>It&#x27;s difficult to see very much positive about this move; certainly there will be some benefits, but I expect greatly outweighed by the negatives (which will include higher prices, lower employment and probably lower standards for UK workers - the EU has consistently been the only organisation willing to drag us out of the dark ages).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vkou</author><text>&gt; What&#x27;s at stake here is more fundamental than federalism: it&#x27;s self determination.<p>Yet, Britain has done its best to deny the same right to self-determination to its subjects.<p>Self-determination seems to be an excuse trotted out to support existing power structures. &quot;We should secede from _____ - but nobody should secede from us.&quot;<p>Britain and Ireland, Britain and India, Britain and Scotland... Britain had to be dragged, kicking and screaming through every single one of those conversations about self-determinism.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Your Feedback Matters – Update on Xbox One</title><url>http://news.xbox.com/2013/06/update</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikelat</author><text>This page says it&#x27;s disabled by software - not by hardware. So it really depends on how much you trust the software and the people making it. The software is closed source and the people making it also happened to be the first ones to sign onto PRISM.</text></item><item><author>alyx</author><text>Stop spreading privacy FUD.<p>Kinect can be controlled and disabled.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.xbox.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;06&#x2F;privacy" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.xbox.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;06&#x2F;privacy</a></text></item><item><author>ebbv</author><text>This takes care of the used games issue but it doesn&#x27;t take care of:<p>- $100 more expensive than PS4.<p>- Kinect always included, always connected and always on. Cannot be removed, disabled or turned off.<p>- Netflix behind Xbox Live Gold paywall, available for free on PS4.<p>Plus other numerous functionality complaints such as it&#x27;s supposed to be the way you watch TV but it isn&#x27;t a DVR, you still need a separate DVR. And it&#x27;s supposed to be the center of your home theater but only has a single HDMI input.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amalcon</author><text>The aftermarket part to disable the Kinect without breaking warranty is not very expensive:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Post--3-Inches-Canary-Yellow-12-Pads&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B00006JNNE&#x2F;ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1371683713&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=post-it+note" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Post--3-Inches-Canary-Yellow-12-Pads&#x2F;d...</a><p>Though there are a number of reasons I don&#x27;t like the Xbox One, the Kinect isn&#x27;t one of them.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Your Feedback Matters – Update on Xbox One</title><url>http://news.xbox.com/2013/06/update</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikelat</author><text>This page says it&#x27;s disabled by software - not by hardware. So it really depends on how much you trust the software and the people making it. The software is closed source and the people making it also happened to be the first ones to sign onto PRISM.</text></item><item><author>alyx</author><text>Stop spreading privacy FUD.<p>Kinect can be controlled and disabled.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.xbox.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;06&#x2F;privacy" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.xbox.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;06&#x2F;privacy</a></text></item><item><author>ebbv</author><text>This takes care of the used games issue but it doesn&#x27;t take care of:<p>- $100 more expensive than PS4.<p>- Kinect always included, always connected and always on. Cannot be removed, disabled or turned off.<p>- Netflix behind Xbox Live Gold paywall, available for free on PS4.<p>Plus other numerous functionality complaints such as it&#x27;s supposed to be the way you watch TV but it isn&#x27;t a DVR, you still need a separate DVR. And it&#x27;s supposed to be the center of your home theater but only has a single HDMI input.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baddox</author><text>Well everything is about trust, right? The PS4 could have a completely hidden camera that always on, but most people trust that Sony wouldn&#x27;t do that, or that if they did, someone would quickly find it.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Updating Our Open Source Patent Grant</title><url>https://code.facebook.com/posts/1639473982937255/updating-our-open-source-patent-grant/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zaroth</author><text>To those relieved that Facebook open source discussions will no longer be dominated by PATENTS file discussion, I just would point out, is was exactly the persistent complaints which motivated Facebook to make this change. So I would say <i>thank you</i> to everyone who complained about the language in the original grant. It shows exactly what is possible when a determined group persists in vocalizing their grievances.<p>Today it&#x27;s Facebook PATENTS, tomorrow maybe it&#x27;s nation-wide automatic license plate tracking. One thing is for sure, staying silent never changed anything.<p>It&#x27;s a ridiculous comparison, I know, but never underestimate the ability of a small group of determined rabble-rousers to make a difference. A small incident with some tea in a large body of water comes to mind.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Updating Our Open Source Patent Grant</title><url>https://code.facebook.com/posts/1639473982937255/updating-our-open-source-patent-grant/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DannyBee</author><text>I&#x27;m very glad Facebook was willing to take a step back here, evaluate people&#x27;s concerns, and update the grant to address them. Most companies, when placed in the same position, would simply double down and tell people to go pound sand.<p>The fact that they didn&#x27;t, and in fact, actually talked with folks and addressed this head on, speaks volumes about them as a company.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Go(lang): Robust generic functions on slices</title><url>https://go.dev/blog/generic-slice-functions</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stouset</author><text>I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. How are these APIs even remotely defensible?<p><pre><code> slices.Sort(s) &#x2F;&#x2F; fine
slices.Compact(s) &#x2F;&#x2F; broken
s = slices.Compact(s) &#x2F;&#x2F; fine
s := slices.Compact(s) &#x2F;&#x2F; broken (!!!)
slices.Delete(s, …) &#x2F;&#x2F; broken
s = slices.Delete(s, …) &#x2F;&#x2F; fine
</code></pre>
How is one intended to remember which functions require overwriting (due to invalidating) their input and which don’t? Why does the language make it so easy to render function parameters unusable upon return but impossible to enforce that they aren’t used afterward?<p>How on earth did it take twelve years for this “simple” language to make a function to delete elements from an array, with `s = append(s[:start], s[end:]...)` having to suffice until then? How on earth does the “better” API twelve years later have such a gaping footgun? This is a <i>core</i> type that quite literally every program uses. How have things gone so far off the rails that “setting the obsolete pointers to nil” is such an intractable problem for end users they had to add a new keyword to the language?<p>For other languages I see posts where weird language corner cases bring up challenging issues that really reinforce the idea that language design is hard. Rust—for example—has unsoundness issues in corner cases of the type system. But for go, it feels like there’s a constant stream of own goals on core areas of the language where the design should have knocked it out of the park. “Simple manipulation of arrays” just should not have this many footguns.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Go(lang): Robust generic functions on slices</title><url>https://go.dev/blog/generic-slice-functions</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>TheDong</author><text>The problems with the API they point out are almost all things that rust&#x27;s ownership system was built to solve.<p>Things like:<p><pre><code> slices.Sort(s) &#x2F;&#x2F; correct
slices.Compact(s) &#x2F;&#x2F; incorrect
slices.Delete(s, ...) &#x2F;&#x2F; incorrect
s := slices.Delete(s, ...) &#x2F;&#x2F; incorrect if &#x27;s&#x27; is referenced again in the outer scope
s = slices.Delete(s, ...) &#x2F;&#x2F; correct
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All of those are solved by having functions like &#x27;slices.Sort&#x27; take a &#x27;&amp;mut&#x27; reference in rust speak, and having &#x27;slices.Compact&#x27; and &#x27;Delete&#x27; take an owned slice, and return a new owned slice.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Lego Ideas Typewriter</title><url>https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/typewriter-21327?icmp=HP-SHH-Standard-ID_Hero_21327_Typewriter_Lifestyle_w_Product_HP-EX-ID-WDU6IDEUUU</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>samizdis</author><text>That&#x27;s a lovely piece of kit, and I am sorely tempted to put in an order, but LEGO&#x27;s promotional video and associated text descriptions seem to be a little deceptive.<p>As far as I can tell, the model - which has a &quot;LEGO first&quot; - <i>Black and red ink spool ribbon is a new fabric element.</i> - and each key has a letter, and the carriage moves, etc ... doesn&#x27;t actually type.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scoopertrooper</author><text>This may shock you, but none of those lego ships are sea worthy either.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Lego Ideas Typewriter</title><url>https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/typewriter-21327?icmp=HP-SHH-Standard-ID_Hero_21327_Typewriter_Lifestyle_w_Product_HP-EX-ID-WDU6IDEUUU</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>samizdis</author><text>That&#x27;s a lovely piece of kit, and I am sorely tempted to put in an order, but LEGO&#x27;s promotional video and associated text descriptions seem to be a little deceptive.<p>As far as I can tell, the model - which has a &quot;LEGO first&quot; - <i>Black and red ink spool ribbon is a new fabric element.</i> - and each key has a letter, and the carriage moves, etc ... doesn&#x27;t actually type.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jan_Inkepa</author><text>Oh yeah good catch; they should probably add a disclaimer that it&#x27;s not functional.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Just how constexpr is C++20’s std:string?</title><url>https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2023/09/08/constexpr-string-firewall/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cmovq</author><text>&gt; libstdc++ rejects the following code (Godbolt [1]). (Microsoft accepts, but I think that might be an MSVC bug.)<p>This is not a bug in MSVC, rather it is due to MSVC implementing std::string SSO differently than gcc or clang. Instead of initializing `data` as pointing to the internal buffer for small strings, MSVC uses the string&#x27;s capacity to determine whether to access `data` or the internal storage [2].<p>Hence this code compiles, as it&#x27;s not initializing the string using a stack address. [3]<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;godbolt.org&#x2F;z&#x2F;1ErrKjdbq" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;godbolt.org&#x2F;z&#x2F;1ErrKjdbq</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;devblogs.microsoft.com&#x2F;oldnewthing&#x2F;20230803-00&#x2F;?p=108532" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;devblogs.microsoft.com&#x2F;oldnewthing&#x2F;20230803-00&#x2F;?p=10...</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;godbolt.org&#x2F;z&#x2F;1MaxdGfvj" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;godbolt.org&#x2F;z&#x2F;1MaxdGfvj</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Just how constexpr is C++20’s std:string?</title><url>https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2023/09/08/constexpr-string-firewall/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kccqzy</author><text>I find that there&#x27;s no use case for a constexpr std::string. Maybe I&#x27;m just not imaginative enough. If I want a string literal constant, I use string_view which can be constexpr. If somehow I need an actual std::string object, I use a regular const not constexpr. What would be a use case that prompts the author to explore using constexpr with std::string?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Bigger than Google Fiber: LA plans citywide gigabit for homes and businesses</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/11/bigger-than-google-fiber-la-plans-citywide-gigabit-for-homes-and-businesses/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>callmeed</author><text>Completely inaccurate back-of-the-napkin calculations:<p>- There are about 1 million households in LA (3M+ population but 3 people per household in LA County)[1]<p>- Assuming the vendor got 75% sign-up for the free tier, that&#x27;s 750K households<p>- I&#x27;ll give them a generous freemium-to-paid conversion rate of 10% (sorry but 5Mbs is fine for many people). That&#x27;s 75K households.<p>- I&#x27;ll be generous and say that most paid households will get some kind of bundle and pay $150&#x2F;month<p>MONTHLY HOUSEHOLD REVENUE: $11,250,000<p>- There are 250K non-farm businesses in LA County. I&#x27;m not sure how many are in the city limits, but let&#x27;s say 25K buy a paid. Since we know ISPs love to gouge offices with higher prices for the same service, let&#x27;s say they get $250&#x2F;mo from each business.<p>MONTHLY BIZ REVENUE: $6,250,000<p>- Quick search puts Comcast&#x27;s ad revenue is about 4% of total (Charter is 5%). So I&#x27;ll throw in an extra $1M&#x2F;MO in ad revenue from this deal, which I think is generous.<p>TOTAL: $18.5M&#x2F;MO<p>TIME TO RECOUP $5B: 270 Months (22.5 years)<p>[1]<a href="http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/06/06037.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;quickfacts.census.gov&#x2F;qfd&#x2F;states&#x2F;06&#x2F;06037.html</a><p>EDIT: Updated with ad revenue numbers</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>Great analysis! Some suggested tweaks below.<p>SALT:<p>1. You estimated revenues - let&#x27;s multiply that by AT&amp;T&#x27;s 5.7% 2012 net income margin [1]. Y1 earnings: $12.7 million.<p>2. That seems low - let&#x27;s double your business revenue estimate. Adjusted Y1 earnings: $17 million.<p>3. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim real GDP grew at 2.4% a year between 2009 and 2012. Assume that continues into perpetuity. AT&amp;T pays 5.3% and 3.7% on its 2041 and 2029 debt, respectively - let&#x27;s say you can borrow between those.<p>--&gt; Present value of cash flows: $0.6 to $1.3 billion. Quadruple your revenue estimates and borrow at 3.75% to hit $5 billion.<p>CAYENNE:<p>1. $5 billion to roll out fibre across Los Angeles seems optimistic. The issue is compounded by the city council having no skin in the game, even with regards to bureaucratic inefficiencies (e.g. some land use or environmental commission jamming the entire project for 5 years).<p>SUGAR:<p>1. Your revenue estimates look pessimistic - businesses could pay differing rates based on usage and more than 1&#x2F;4 of the population could sign up. You also don&#x27;t include government demand. But it&#x27;s thorough enough to look closer than 4x off.<p>∴ The RFP in its present form looks more like a political stunt than a serious proposal. Not sure what the LA electoral calendar looks like over the next 3-6 months.<p>[1] <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=T+Income+Statement&amp;annual" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;finance.yahoo.com&#x2F;q&#x2F;is?s=T+Income+Statement&amp;annual</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Bigger than Google Fiber: LA plans citywide gigabit for homes and businesses</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/11/bigger-than-google-fiber-la-plans-citywide-gigabit-for-homes-and-businesses/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>callmeed</author><text>Completely inaccurate back-of-the-napkin calculations:<p>- There are about 1 million households in LA (3M+ population but 3 people per household in LA County)[1]<p>- Assuming the vendor got 75% sign-up for the free tier, that&#x27;s 750K households<p>- I&#x27;ll give them a generous freemium-to-paid conversion rate of 10% (sorry but 5Mbs is fine for many people). That&#x27;s 75K households.<p>- I&#x27;ll be generous and say that most paid households will get some kind of bundle and pay $150&#x2F;month<p>MONTHLY HOUSEHOLD REVENUE: $11,250,000<p>- There are 250K non-farm businesses in LA County. I&#x27;m not sure how many are in the city limits, but let&#x27;s say 25K buy a paid. Since we know ISPs love to gouge offices with higher prices for the same service, let&#x27;s say they get $250&#x2F;mo from each business.<p>MONTHLY BIZ REVENUE: $6,250,000<p>- Quick search puts Comcast&#x27;s ad revenue is about 4% of total (Charter is 5%). So I&#x27;ll throw in an extra $1M&#x2F;MO in ad revenue from this deal, which I think is generous.<p>TOTAL: $18.5M&#x2F;MO<p>TIME TO RECOUP $5B: 270 Months (22.5 years)<p>[1]<a href="http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/06/06037.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;quickfacts.census.gov&#x2F;qfd&#x2F;states&#x2F;06&#x2F;06037.html</a><p>EDIT: Updated with ad revenue numbers</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>josh2600</author><text>In my experience, Cable&#x2F;Telco companies don&#x27;t build fiber networks with greater than 15 year payback, with 30 being the hard cap. I think your math is fairly accurate.<p>Source: See my other comment, I did fiber rollouts with telcos including Comcast in the Bay Area.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Amazon Appstore will reduce its developer revenue cut</title><url>https://www.aftvnews.com/amazon-appstore-will-reduce-developer-revenue-cut-from-30-to-20-and-give-10-in-free-aws-credit/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chrisseaton</author><text>&gt; Amazon Appstore will reduce developer revenue cut from 30% to 20% and give 10% in Free AWS Credit<p>I feel like this title is amazingly hard to read for many reasons all working against us at the same time!<p>‘developer revenue cut’ really means it’s Amazon’s part that’s reducing, not the developer’s.<p>And they’re reducing the ‘cut’ as in the proportion, not reducing some other previous cut they made to revenue.<p>‘Amazon reduces App Store fee from 30% to 20% and also gives 10% in AWS credit’ is I think what they mean, and is the opposite of almost every way I could find to read their title.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Amazon Appstore will reduce its developer revenue cut</title><url>https://www.aftvnews.com/amazon-appstore-will-reduce-developer-revenue-cut-from-30-to-20-and-give-10-in-free-aws-credit/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cableshaft</author><text>The way the headline is worded made me think it was giving developers less money, but it sounds like it&#x27;s actually giving them more money as it&#x27;s reducing Amazon&#x27;s cut. So yeah, seems good for devs on that platform.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Why we offer parental leave</title><url>https://www.aerofs.com/blog/parental-leave-at-aerofs/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>geebee</author><text>I&#x27;m very glad to see this post, and to see that these issues are gaining in importance and visibility.<p>It&#x27;s not because I plan to use parental leave. I already have two kids. And it&#x27;s not only because I&#x27;m glad to see these policies help other people out, though of course that&#x27;s part of it.<p>It&#x27;s that this sort of &quot;perk&quot;, rather than foosball tables, beer fridays, and vintage video game machines, give me hope that the industry is outgrowing its insular, &quot;young people are just smarter&quot; culture. That maybe employers are actually interested in sustained careers that will experience the ebb and flow of life, rather than just a period of extended adolescence. Parental leave policies do imply long term thinking.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Why we offer parental leave</title><url>https://www.aerofs.com/blog/parental-leave-at-aerofs/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yawz</author><text>Nice to see parents in the US might start to enjoy one of the standard benefits in most (probably all) European countries. Being a father, I cannot even imagine leaving my 6-week old baby in a day care, which seems to be the thing parents have to do in the US if both are working.<p>Also, I think gender equality is an important one on many aspects:
- Bonding with the child(ren) should not only a motherly privilege.
- The mother&#x27;s career may be more important to concentrate on.
- The father may be interested in doing his share.
- I&#x27;m not certain but from the point of view of the child(ren) there can be advantages to have both parents involved the same way.<p>Ideally I&#x27;d like to see certain amount of time allocated to the &quot;family&quot; that can be used&#x2F;divided by the parents as they see fit.</text></comment>
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<story><title>MIT and Harvard agree to transfer edX to ed-tech firm 2U</title><url>https://news.mit.edu/2021/mit-harvard-transfer-edx-2u-0629</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>turadg</author><text>This is a dilution of the meaning of &quot;dark pattern&quot;. darkpatterns.org which coined the term (and Wikipedia cites) says,
&quot;When you use websites and apps, you don’t read every word on every page - you skim read and make assumptions. If a company wants to trick you into doing something, they can take advantage of this by making a page look like it is saying one thing when it is in fact saying another.&quot;<p>I don&#x27;t see any of that in your observations. Moreover, what you attribute to some nefarious purpose is better explained by effective curriculum design. I haven&#x27;t used edX lately but I worked at Coursera and I can tell you that the people who make that product have a passion to support learning in the world.<p>* Removing access to course materials: it&#x27;s a course, not a content library. When you can access it anytime, you&#x27;re less likely to do the work of learning. You also won&#x27;t be part of a learning cohort, which is a valuable learning activity.<p>* Encouraging you to sign up for courses: this is a problem? Wouldn&#x27;t someone who wants you to learn encourage you to sign up for courses? &quot;Course began ($TODAY - 5)&quot; that would be deceptive. Are you claiming that edX or Coursera does this?<p>* Breaking courses into chunks and quizzes. How the heck is this deceptive? This design decision is backed by learning science. Listening while doing dishes does not get you the best learning outcomes; it&#x27;s a university-level course not a podcast.<p>* &quot;Unsettling UI&quot; &quot;opportunity to pounce&quot; I really don&#x27;t know what to make of this one.</text></item><item><author>benrbray</author><text>I tried to use edX for the first time recently to take a &quot;food science&quot; course, but was disappointed to see that they&#x27;ve resorted to the same dark patterns as Coursera and others, such as:<p>* Removing your access to course materials when the class is done, and disallowing access to past versions of the class.<p>* Pressuring you into joining as many courses as possible, due to fear of missing out. When you visit the site, every course says &quot;Course began ($TODAY-5)&quot; to make you feel like &quot;wow, I got here just in time! I better sign up for everything!&quot;.<p>* Breaking courses into useless 2-minute chunks and constant unhelpful quizzes. I really just want to hear the lecturer speak for 20-30 minutes at a time uninterrupted, especially if I&#x27;m listening while doing dishes etc.<p>* An unsettling UI that feels less like it&#x27;s about presenting information in a compact and&#x2F;or digestible way and more like it&#x27;s tracking my every move and waiting for an opportunity to pounce. Everything is a button or clickthrough menu that requires interaction.<p>Thankfully MIT OpenCourseWare still has plenty of lecture videos &#x2F; course materials available. But I&#x27;m quite afraid for the future.</text></item><item><author>brutus1213</author><text>This seems like terrible news :( After the focus on monetization of platforms such as udemy and coursera, edx seemed to give me a sliver of hope that education will be open. Given the immense trust funds held by Harvard and MIT, I had hoped money would not be a factor and these institutions would be able to develop their platform in the open.<p>I&#x27;d like to add .. non-profit does not mean free to end users. There are many good non-profits and there are many terrible ones (highly paid execs, insane amount of money spent on marketing).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>light_hue_1</author><text>I think it&#x27;s funny that you mention learning science. Actually, all of these patterns go against everything we know about teaching anyone anything.<p>* Removing access to course materials is horrible! I use old courses and books for reference all the time. When you can access the course any time, you refresh your learning. That&#x27;s the key to long term retention.<p>* FOMO to force people to work at your pace rather than their pace is just as terrible. We know that students working at their pace, with encouragement, is what really works. Pushing people into courses when they aren&#x27;t ready is terrible.<p>* Constant quizzes are a lazy version of what we know works, which is engagement like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;icampus.mit.edu&#x2F;projects&#x2F;teal&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;icampus.mit.edu&#x2F;projects&#x2F;teal&#x2F;</a> Yes, quizzes are part of it, but a small part, the focus is on making courses interactive with meaningful work instead of boring 1-out-of-n choices. Making such courses is hard, so they take the easy and boring way out.<p>* If users find the UI unsettling, like it&#x27;s too focused on tracking and too little on actual learning, that&#x27;s a legitimate and important complaint. Education is not about getting arbitrarily high scores on some random online quizzes. You want people to actually learn something for the long run.<p>It really looks like edX and Coursera are taking the exam-driven horrors that are being inflicted on K-12 students all the time and translating them to the web. This is no way to teach. And you can see that with their extremely poor retention rates.</text></comment>
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<story><title>MIT and Harvard agree to transfer edX to ed-tech firm 2U</title><url>https://news.mit.edu/2021/mit-harvard-transfer-edx-2u-0629</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>turadg</author><text>This is a dilution of the meaning of &quot;dark pattern&quot;. darkpatterns.org which coined the term (and Wikipedia cites) says,
&quot;When you use websites and apps, you don’t read every word on every page - you skim read and make assumptions. If a company wants to trick you into doing something, they can take advantage of this by making a page look like it is saying one thing when it is in fact saying another.&quot;<p>I don&#x27;t see any of that in your observations. Moreover, what you attribute to some nefarious purpose is better explained by effective curriculum design. I haven&#x27;t used edX lately but I worked at Coursera and I can tell you that the people who make that product have a passion to support learning in the world.<p>* Removing access to course materials: it&#x27;s a course, not a content library. When you can access it anytime, you&#x27;re less likely to do the work of learning. You also won&#x27;t be part of a learning cohort, which is a valuable learning activity.<p>* Encouraging you to sign up for courses: this is a problem? Wouldn&#x27;t someone who wants you to learn encourage you to sign up for courses? &quot;Course began ($TODAY - 5)&quot; that would be deceptive. Are you claiming that edX or Coursera does this?<p>* Breaking courses into chunks and quizzes. How the heck is this deceptive? This design decision is backed by learning science. Listening while doing dishes does not get you the best learning outcomes; it&#x27;s a university-level course not a podcast.<p>* &quot;Unsettling UI&quot; &quot;opportunity to pounce&quot; I really don&#x27;t know what to make of this one.</text></item><item><author>benrbray</author><text>I tried to use edX for the first time recently to take a &quot;food science&quot; course, but was disappointed to see that they&#x27;ve resorted to the same dark patterns as Coursera and others, such as:<p>* Removing your access to course materials when the class is done, and disallowing access to past versions of the class.<p>* Pressuring you into joining as many courses as possible, due to fear of missing out. When you visit the site, every course says &quot;Course began ($TODAY-5)&quot; to make you feel like &quot;wow, I got here just in time! I better sign up for everything!&quot;.<p>* Breaking courses into useless 2-minute chunks and constant unhelpful quizzes. I really just want to hear the lecturer speak for 20-30 minutes at a time uninterrupted, especially if I&#x27;m listening while doing dishes etc.<p>* An unsettling UI that feels less like it&#x27;s about presenting information in a compact and&#x2F;or digestible way and more like it&#x27;s tracking my every move and waiting for an opportunity to pounce. Everything is a button or clickthrough menu that requires interaction.<p>Thankfully MIT OpenCourseWare still has plenty of lecture videos &#x2F; course materials available. But I&#x27;m quite afraid for the future.</text></item><item><author>brutus1213</author><text>This seems like terrible news :( After the focus on monetization of platforms such as udemy and coursera, edx seemed to give me a sliver of hope that education will be open. Given the immense trust funds held by Harvard and MIT, I had hoped money would not be a factor and these institutions would be able to develop their platform in the open.<p>I&#x27;d like to add .. non-profit does not mean free to end users. There are many good non-profits and there are many terrible ones (highly paid execs, insane amount of money spent on marketing).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cstejerean</author><text>EdX definitely shows “Starts $TODAY” on courses with self paced start any time schedules. I know it does this and it still gets me every time by creating this false sense of urgency that I must enroll today lest I miss the opportunity.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Shaky: ASCII Diagram to PNG</title><url>http://shaky.github.bushong.net/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AstroJetson</author><text>I use this tool almost every day turning sequence diagrams into drawings. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.websequencediagrams.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.websequencediagrams.com</a> While the &quot;back of a napkin&quot;style is hip, management seems to prefer cleaner drawings. I&#x27;d use shakey, if it made &quot;professional&quot; drawings.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Shaky: ASCII Diagram to PNG</title><url>http://shaky.github.bushong.net/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><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></comment>
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<story><title>Oil Companies Touted Recycling to Sell More Plastic</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-the-public-into-believing-plastic-would-be-recycled?t=1599932392400</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blululu</author><text>It is always a little surprising how naive people are when it comes to recycling.
The majority of the cost and difficulty comes in sorting. Back in the good old days most US municipalities used to require people to sort their recycling by type, but over the years we have switched to a more wasteful system.<p>For aluminum cans the material is valuable and relatively easy to sort. For plastic the material is cheap and sorting is hard (if you can&#x27;t tell what the plastic container you threw in the bin is made out of (HDPE?) in a second then it is trash).<p>FWIW this is also a relatively easy problem to fix. We could look to the brief but successful history of recycling in Taiwan as a good example to copy. (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Recycling_in_Taiwan" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Recycling_in_Taiwan</a>)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>neltnerb</author><text>No, plastic degrades each time it is recycled. They knew that, every materials scientist knew that, and it is just not possible to fully reclaim recycled plastic.<p>What really pisses me off is the use of the recycling number as marketing. Which is still ongoing and being modernized. Leave a complaint card any time you see compostable plastic being used in a city that doesn&#x27;t have specialized industrial composting plants, that stuff is worse than trash because it&#x27;s also misleading about how to dispose of it and makes the store look green when it&#x27;s really just making things worse.<p>In almost all locations, PLA, &quot;compostable plastic&quot; (often labeled number 7 or 0 for marketing) is not only not recyclable but actively contaminates compost and recycling plants. I see all these places using &quot;compostable plastic&quot; because they think it&#x27;s more environmentally friendly. It&#x27;s a noble goal, it makes me so sad to see.<p>The stores that pick those containers do so because they want to project an environmentally conscious image, and the &quot;eco&quot; marketing on this utter trash gets them to pay top dollar for those containers instead of just using paper. I feel so bad for these stores, it takes a PhD to dispose of this misleading and dangerous material properly.<p>As a normal consumer, if I saw that logo and &quot;compostable plastic&quot; guess where I&#x27;d throw it. Compost? Recycling? Probably one or the other right? Wrong, if I put it in the compost I make the compost produced from the food scraps contaminated and unsafe for use. If I put it in the recycling it gets melted in with other polymers and contaminates them, degrading the other plastic even faster if the whole batch doesn&#x27;t need to be thrown away outright.<p>Edit: The one saving grace is that I <i>know</i> that where I live trash is incinerated. So at least I feel less bad throwing this stuff in the trash. It was just oil that made a temporary detour as a container before being burned for electricity. Still, I&#x27;d rather they just use unadulterated paper (no little plastic spouts glued on), glass, and aluminum which are all easily recycled or burn clean.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Oil Companies Touted Recycling to Sell More Plastic</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-the-public-into-believing-plastic-would-be-recycled?t=1599932392400</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blululu</author><text>It is always a little surprising how naive people are when it comes to recycling.
The majority of the cost and difficulty comes in sorting. Back in the good old days most US municipalities used to require people to sort their recycling by type, but over the years we have switched to a more wasteful system.<p>For aluminum cans the material is valuable and relatively easy to sort. For plastic the material is cheap and sorting is hard (if you can&#x27;t tell what the plastic container you threw in the bin is made out of (HDPE?) in a second then it is trash).<p>FWIW this is also a relatively easy problem to fix. We could look to the brief but successful history of recycling in Taiwan as a good example to copy. (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Recycling_in_Taiwan" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Recycling_in_Taiwan</a>)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hesdeadjim</author><text>I get doubtful looks from friends when I explain to them that the only waste worth sticking in the recycling bin is aluminum and glass.<p>These articles that have popped up on this topic are hugely useful to refer people to. I don’t enjoy being right, I just want there to be an open understanding of the lies that have led us to this situation so new solutions can be developed.<p>It might just be that burying it in the ground for the next few hundred years is the best solution, and through laws attempt to curb the explosive growth of plastic use.</text></comment>
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<story><title>What skeuomorphism is (and isn't)</title><url>http://sachagreif.com/what-skeuomorphism-is-and-isnt/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>majormajor</author><text>"It helps tell these apps apart (“Find My Friends? Oh, right, the one with leather!”).<p>It makes the apps more approachable (“Hmm, this looks just like my real-world address book, it can’t be much harder to use”)."<p>Honest question: are these two things really issues? I've just never encountered the level of non-technical user that would be lost but for those particular touches. And I know there's a huge amount of selection bias in there, but I think usability/distinctiveness can be achieved <i>without</i> kitschy textures or creating your own set of UI elements.<p>If anyone has more links on it actually helping new users, I'd love to see them. The reasons just sound like post-hoc rationalizations to me. Especially because realistic/skeuomorphic/what-have-you skins have gone in and out of fashion over the years and I don't recall complaints that, say, iTunes looked less "just like" a CD player than the old System 7.5 CD player app.<p>(And honestly, in the few minutes I played with the Lion Address Book out of curiosity, I felt like I was missing something big about how it worked. That one in particular seems like a case of things getting more confusing because it presents a physical metaphor that doesn't really fit the digital version.)</text></comment>
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<story><title>What skeuomorphism is (and isn't)</title><url>http://sachagreif.com/what-skeuomorphism-is-and-isnt/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>crazygringo</author><text>I think this distinction is important, just so people are using the same vocabulary.<p>But genuine question: is there another word we can use which means semi-photorealistic leather, stitching, physically textured, etc. interface? Usually with all that being largely gratuitous?<p>In other words, if we're not bashing skeuomorphism, what is the name of the thing we're meaning to bash instead? :)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Looking back on SaaS product strategy</title><url>https://ghiculescu.substack.com/p/11-years-of-saas-product-strategy</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>grvdrm</author><text>&gt; Succumbing to pressure from big customers<p>I&#x27;d love to hear how folks here handle this. What systems have you used to decide that either did or did not work?<p>Where I am, we built things into our product for one of our three largest enterprise customers that no one else uses. And some of that work isn&#x27;t aligned with the core product and strategy.<p>Yet, the contract with that customer is among our largest and also covers that customer&#x27;s other usage that IS aligned with our core product.<p>I joined the company in the year after that contract closed. I look back at the decision (that I didn&#x27;t make) and think that it completely distracted the company and product (and still does, just less).<p>But in that moment, would I have said no that particular non-aligned use-case, and potentially walked away from the $? We&#x27;re talking about a $1M+ annual deal. I don&#x27;t know!</text></comment>
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<story><title>Looking back on SaaS product strategy</title><url>https://ghiculescu.substack.com/p/11-years-of-saas-product-strategy</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Linusvq</author><text>This is a great read — appreciate the valley of “phase 2: too many things to prioritize” which is where I see most product teams get stuck - trying to over-index on being data-driven, or on MRR targets…</text></comment>
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<story><title>Libreboot: Freedom-Respecting Boot Firmware</title><url>https://libreboot.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fsflover</author><text>My problem with Libreboot is not only that supported hardware is very old [0], but that all those devices are vulnerable to Meltdown&#x2F;Spectre, so you cannot run any untrusted code (not even Javascript).<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;libreboot.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;hardware&#x2F;#supported-hardware" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;libreboot.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;hardware&#x2F;#supported-hardware</a>. It seems that the Chromebook is an exception?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Libreboot: Freedom-Respecting Boot Firmware</title><url>https://libreboot.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>guerrilla</author><text>I wonder if anyone has been working on disabling PSP[1] the way that people have done with IME. It looks like it&#x27;s had at least a couple of vulnerabilities [2].<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;libreboot.org&#x2F;faq.html#amd" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;libreboot.org&#x2F;faq.html#amd</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;AMD_Platform_Security_Processor#Security_history" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;AMD_Platform_Security_Processo...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Why Are Sloths So Slow?</title><url>https://slothconservation.org/sloths-move-slow/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>klondike_klive</author><text>It occurred to me for the first time the other day that the word &quot;sloth&quot; is to &quot;slow&quot; what &quot;warmth&quot; is to &quot;warm&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ks2048</author><text>According to wiktionary, these are the examples of -th &quot;Used to form nouns of quality from adjectives. (no longer productive except jocular coinages)&quot;:<p>breadth, chillth, coolth, dampth, dearth, depth, filth, health, height&#x2F;heighth, illth, length, roomth, ruth, strength, troth, truth, sloth&#x2F;slowth, warmth, wealth, width, wrath, wrength, youth&#x2F;youngth</text></comment>
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<story><title>Why Are Sloths So Slow?</title><url>https://slothconservation.org/sloths-move-slow/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>klondike_klive</author><text>It occurred to me for the first time the other day that the word &quot;sloth&quot; is to &quot;slow&quot; what &quot;warmth&quot; is to &quot;warm&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>endofreach</author><text>Well, it would be &quot;slowth&quot;...<p>Which makes me think: i am surprised that is not an excessively used term in the startup &#x2F; brotrepreneur world...</text></comment>
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<story><title>React Server</title><url>https://react-server.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pault</author><text>This is exactly what I&#x27;m talking about though, how many different libraries are there for routing alone? How can anyone make a reasonably informed choice between them? It&#x27;s madness!</text></item><item><author>ucarion</author><text>If you&#x27;re gonna use React Router and Redux, you should also check out react-router-redux:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;reactjs&#x2F;react-router-redux" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;reactjs&#x2F;react-router-redux</a></text></item><item><author>buchanaf</author><text>I&#x27;ve always used React Router for routing. It&#x27;s super flexible and plays very nicely with Redux and server-side rendering. In terms of syncing up state to views, you might want to look into &#x27;redial&#x27; and &#x27;react-redux&#x27;, which are just higher-order components that ensure your React components can injected with the necessary state.</text></item><item><author>pault</author><text>This is interesting, especially since I just spent the last two weeks setting up a boilerplate for a universal react&#x2F;redux SPA on spec for a new client. I enjoy the flexibility but the need to develop a deep working knowledge of several independent libraries, transpilers, and build tool configuration files (each of which has several competing options with their own way of doing things) just to get to hello world is cost-prohibitive for most people, I&#x27;m sure. At the same time, I&#x27;m hesitant to go &quot;all in&quot; on a stack that I haven&#x27;t heavily researched myself. If the developers are reading, can you go into some details about how you handle routing and data stores? Are you using off the shelf libraries or have you rolled your own?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crucialfelix</author><text>I want a website that rates packages in npm with more possibly useful heuristics:<p><pre><code> num dependencies (shallow, deep)
total size of node_modules
installed size (correct use of npmignore etc)
code quality (McCabe, jslint, jshint)
typescript&#x2F;flow&#x2F; jsdoc string types etc
test coverage
frequency of releases
documentation coverage
documentation text analysis: pretentiousness, overly laconic, bro speak
has a F-ing README so we could at least have some idea what the hell it is
number of blog and link references
number of authors
reputation of authors based on their other packages
open&#x2F;closed issues</code></pre>
Make the stats available so others can build indices and ranking algorithms based on these.</text></comment>
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<story><title>React Server</title><url>https://react-server.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pault</author><text>This is exactly what I&#x27;m talking about though, how many different libraries are there for routing alone? How can anyone make a reasonably informed choice between them? It&#x27;s madness!</text></item><item><author>ucarion</author><text>If you&#x27;re gonna use React Router and Redux, you should also check out react-router-redux:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;reactjs&#x2F;react-router-redux" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;reactjs&#x2F;react-router-redux</a></text></item><item><author>buchanaf</author><text>I&#x27;ve always used React Router for routing. It&#x27;s super flexible and plays very nicely with Redux and server-side rendering. In terms of syncing up state to views, you might want to look into &#x27;redial&#x27; and &#x27;react-redux&#x27;, which are just higher-order components that ensure your React components can injected with the necessary state.</text></item><item><author>pault</author><text>This is interesting, especially since I just spent the last two weeks setting up a boilerplate for a universal react&#x2F;redux SPA on spec for a new client. I enjoy the flexibility but the need to develop a deep working knowledge of several independent libraries, transpilers, and build tool configuration files (each of which has several competing options with their own way of doing things) just to get to hello world is cost-prohibitive for most people, I&#x27;m sure. At the same time, I&#x27;m hesitant to go &quot;all in&quot; on a stack that I haven&#x27;t heavily researched myself. If the developers are reading, can you go into some details about how you handle routing and data stores? Are you using off the shelf libraries or have you rolled your own?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>civilian</author><text>My heuristic is:<p>1. Google for a blog comparing them, and eliminate any candidates with major red flags<p>2. Go with the one that has the most stars on it&#x27;s github repo.</text></comment>
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<story><title>EFF Makes Formal Objection to DRM in HTML5</title><url>https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-makes-formal-objection-drm-html5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnvschmitt</author><text>Good for EFF. DRM is futile.<p>There is NO stopping people from recording what's on their screen (with a cell phone camera among other devices).<p>What we've seen is:<p>A) The more barriers you put in front of legitimate use, the more you see illegitimate use grow.<p>B) The EFF is rock solid in standing up &#38; protecting our rights &#38; values in the modern, internet, connected age. Please help fund them.<p>Meaning: DRM all you want. Make it so that you can ONLY see Game of Thrones if you pay $100,000!!! Great! And, imagine how long it'd take for a copy (lower fidelity, sure) to get in the hands of a larger audience that you can't control, who doesn't like you, who you collect no $ from.<p>Or: Drop DRM, &#38; go for "iTunes or Netflix" or other distribution methods that are EASY &#38; fair. Watch your revenue boom, while you collect user stats to make your next content even more appealing &#38; marketable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ihsw</author><text>DRM isn't about stopping piracy and it never was. Don't get confused, it's not about consumers of content -- it's about <i>distributors</i> of content. It's to maintain control over who distributes what content, for how long, to whom, and at what price.<p>The laws restricting consumption of content are few and far, however the laws restricting <i>distribution</i> of content are many and broad-sweeping.</text></comment>
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<story><title>EFF Makes Formal Objection to DRM in HTML5</title><url>https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-makes-formal-objection-drm-html5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnvschmitt</author><text>Good for EFF. DRM is futile.<p>There is NO stopping people from recording what's on their screen (with a cell phone camera among other devices).<p>What we've seen is:<p>A) The more barriers you put in front of legitimate use, the more you see illegitimate use grow.<p>B) The EFF is rock solid in standing up &#38; protecting our rights &#38; values in the modern, internet, connected age. Please help fund them.<p>Meaning: DRM all you want. Make it so that you can ONLY see Game of Thrones if you pay $100,000!!! Great! And, imagine how long it'd take for a copy (lower fidelity, sure) to get in the hands of a larger audience that you can't control, who doesn't like you, who you collect no $ from.<p>Or: Drop DRM, &#38; go for "iTunes or Netflix" or other distribution methods that are EASY &#38; fair. Watch your revenue boom, while you collect user stats to make your next content even more appealing &#38; marketable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>biot</author><text>HBO should have a Kickstarter campaign for each episode of Game of Thrones. Donate any amount you want, and if the total funds raised is $75 million (or whatever HBO determines is the expected sales figure of the one episode for the next 25 years), HBO releases the DRM-free episode for free to everyone who wants a copy.<p>If the amount isn't reached, then the episode is never released. Repeat the process for each successive episode in each season.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Suppressing a gene by using its antibody can lead to tooth growth: animal study</title><url>https://www.u-fukui.ac.jp/en-news/67075/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dannyw</author><text>It&#x27;s so sad that most dentists optimise for billable revenue, even at the detriment of long term patient health.<p>Fillings for example always degrade and need repairs after X years. Drilling and filling even the smallest cavity puts that teeth on a lifetime progression to bigger and bigger fillings, eventually a root canal, eventually an implant.<p>Cavities, on the other hand can be arrested (stopped), and if small can even be remineralised. Yes, most dentists don&#x27;t tell you that!<p>Careful monitoring and patient education on the other hand can lead to permanently keeping that natural teeth, as our teeth are living and <i>can</i> heal.<p>My personal lived experience: a dentist told me I must fill 2 cavities six years ago. I got a second opinion. That dentist told me I should wait, focus on oral care, chew xylitol gum, and use a toothpaste with novamin.<p>Both cavities have &quot;arrested&quot; and need no restorative work.<p>Disclaimer: Not a dentist. Listen to your dentist you trust, and get second opinions if you have doubt.</text></item><item><author>giardini</author><text>Whatever progress it may provide, I am certain that dentists and dentists&#x27; associations will slowly and surely entomb any process that reduces the sum of their individual annual incomes. I believe Adam Smith called it &quot;the invisible hand&quot; (w&#x2F;o explicitly noting that the &quot;invisible boot&quot; is jammed into the &quot;invisible customers&quot;&#x27; collective asses).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>donatj</author><text>Novamin toothpaste has been life changing for me. Cannot recommend highly enough. A tooth that was deteriorating and the dentist wanted to cap is now fine enough for them to simply keep an eye on.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Suppressing a gene by using its antibody can lead to tooth growth: animal study</title><url>https://www.u-fukui.ac.jp/en-news/67075/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dannyw</author><text>It&#x27;s so sad that most dentists optimise for billable revenue, even at the detriment of long term patient health.<p>Fillings for example always degrade and need repairs after X years. Drilling and filling even the smallest cavity puts that teeth on a lifetime progression to bigger and bigger fillings, eventually a root canal, eventually an implant.<p>Cavities, on the other hand can be arrested (stopped), and if small can even be remineralised. Yes, most dentists don&#x27;t tell you that!<p>Careful monitoring and patient education on the other hand can lead to permanently keeping that natural teeth, as our teeth are living and <i>can</i> heal.<p>My personal lived experience: a dentist told me I must fill 2 cavities six years ago. I got a second opinion. That dentist told me I should wait, focus on oral care, chew xylitol gum, and use a toothpaste with novamin.<p>Both cavities have &quot;arrested&quot; and need no restorative work.<p>Disclaimer: Not a dentist. Listen to your dentist you trust, and get second opinions if you have doubt.</text></item><item><author>giardini</author><text>Whatever progress it may provide, I am certain that dentists and dentists&#x27; associations will slowly and surely entomb any process that reduces the sum of their individual annual incomes. I believe Adam Smith called it &quot;the invisible hand&quot; (w&#x2F;o explicitly noting that the &quot;invisible boot&quot; is jammed into the &quot;invisible customers&quot;&#x27; collective asses).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>logicchains</author><text>&gt;Cavities, on the other hand can be arrested (stopped), and if small can even be remineralised. Yes, most dentists don&#x27;t tell you that!<p>&gt;Careful monitoring and patient education on the other hand can lead to permanently keeping that natural teeth, as our teeth are living and can heal.<p>Do you have any sources for this? I&#x27;m not disagreeing; I hope it&#x27;s true.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Underdog no more, a deaf football team takes California by storm</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/15/us/riverside-california-deaf-football-team.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>apeace</author><text>I am a hearing person. Me and some friends have made learning ASL one of our hobbies over the last couple years. I highly recommend it, it&#x27;s very fun! It also opens a window into the deaf world that I find really fascinating.<p>There is a joke in the deaf world that hearing people are emotionally repressed. I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s taken seriously, but it&#x27;s because speaking ASL requires you to be so expressive with your face and body. For example, instead of raising the pitch of your voice to indicate you are asking a question, you raise or furrow your eyebrows (raised for a yes&#x2F;no question, furrowed for an open-ended question). You also don&#x27;t say things like &quot;I REALLY like it&quot;, you just say &quot;I like it&quot; and show the REALLY part with your face and body. It&#x27;s understandable how hearing people could look like a bunch of emotionless drones with that context! Learning to be visually expressive is one of the most fun parts about ASL.<p>As with the football team in the article, using ASL around hearing people can feel like a super-power. Imagine saying to your friend, &quot;This place sucks, let&#x27;s get out of here,&quot; while the bartender is right in front of you! Probably not the most polite thing, but useful. It&#x27;s also great if you&#x27;re somewhere crowded and&#x2F;or loud. You can really zone out the noise and have a conversation.<p>Also, doing simple things like spelling people&#x27;s names can be a fun party trick (for hearing people).<p>Anyway, I just wanted to emphasize that as a hearing person, there was so much more to learn about ASL and the deaf community than I thought there was. I can&#x27;t recommend it enough.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Underdog no more, a deaf football team takes California by storm</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/15/us/riverside-california-deaf-football-team.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tmnstr85</author><text>My youngest daughter has CP and global traumatic brain injury from bacterial meningitis at birth. Its a brutal as it sounds. She is 2.5 and knows about 60 signs. This article warmed my heart and brought tears to my eyes. Two thoughts:
1. Loneliness is real. Special needs children are often overlooked. Take the time to recognize them, let them know they are seen.
2. Someone should fund a jumbotron for this school.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Telegram stalking</title><url>http://oflisback.github.io/telegram-stalking/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kobayashi</author><text>For those wondering, head into Setting &gt; Privacy and Security &gt; Last Seen to change the setting. Available options are Everybody, My Contacts, and Nobody. Manual overrides for specific contacts can be toggled with the Always Share With setting.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Telegram stalking</title><url>http://oflisback.github.io/telegram-stalking/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rnhmjoj</author><text>I realized this as well the first time I logged in the account of the bot I develop and maintain: it&#x27;s quite creepy.<p>I&#x27;m open to changes but I absolutely need a system with a desktop client and an API or something to interface it with hubot. So Signal, as the author suggested, is not a valid alternative for me.</text></comment>
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<story><title>NVidia will license their GPU cores to other hardware manufacturers</title><url>http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2013/06/18/visual-computings-ascent-gives-nvidia-room-to-expand-its-business-model/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mtgx</author><text>This is the right strategy for Nvidia, especially in the mobile space, considering they&#x27;ll also be the only ones with the full OpenGL 4.3 support, which means that if Kepler GPU&#x27;s are popular, developers will be making some pretty amazing <i>mobile</i> games that will only be available on Kepler GPU&#x27;s because they&#x27;ll be the only ones to have OpenGL 4.3 for years to come.<p>I only wish this was Maxwell coming out next year, not Kepler, which was supposed to be in Tegra 4, but you know Nvidia and their delays...I also hope they don&#x27;t screw this up by making the GPU very inefficient. If they do that, no one will want it, so this strategy will be irrelevant. They say it&#x27;s very efficient, but over the years I&#x27;ve become a lot more skeptical about stuff Nvidia claims, at least in the mobile space.<p>If they can convince Samsung to use Kepler for Exynos 6, or Maxwell for Exynos 7, that would be a huge win for them. Samsung has been a little lost lately in terms of what GPU&#x27;s to use in Exynos SoC&#x27;s, so this may be Nvidia&#x27;s window of opportunity, if they can prove their GPU is the best.</text></comment>
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<story><title>NVidia will license their GPU cores to other hardware manufacturers</title><url>http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2013/06/18/visual-computings-ascent-gives-nvidia-room-to-expand-its-business-model/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sho_hn</author><text>I wonder what this will mean for free drivers.<p>While nVidia hasn&#x27;t been entirely uncooperative (they do participate in X.org upstream development to the degree that it affects their products), the only free driver they&#x27;ve written for the line of GPUs the to-be-licensed Kepler core is part of is an obfuscated, 2D-only token effort, and they have stayed away from participating in the Nouveau project to write a fully-featured free driver. Contrast that with Intel and AMD, where the free driver is the primary effort or one supported with documentation, code and manpower, respectively.<p>On the other hand, they&#x27;ve contracted Avionic Design to write a free 3D-enabled driver for the GPUs in their Tegra 3 SoCs. If future Tegra is based on a Kepler derivative (as indicated by the blog), and this prior commitment forces them to release a free driver for it as well, I wonder if one day this hypothetical free driver might have a shot at replacing their closed source codebase. Or they could join forces with Nouveau and finally put some of their resources behind it, similar to what AMD has done.</text></comment>
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<story><title>GitHub was down</title><url>http://status.github.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gregoriol</author><text>Could you provide details on how you plan to be more reliable with a self-hosted solution? what kind of archtecture would you use? how many people will be involved in maintaining?</text></item><item><author>rvz</author><text>14 Days ago, they went down [0]. And today it&#x27;s happening again. Twice in less than a month.<p>Another reminder to self host via solutions like GitLab or Gitea. [1]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23675864" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23675864</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23676072" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23676072</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>koonsolo</author><text>This is an issue I see at a lot of companies make, even going further than self-hosting. For example replacing off the shelf software with an internal product.<p>&quot;This is not good, we have to do this ourselves&quot;. And in the end it costs way more, and you end up with an inferiour solution because it&#x27;s not your core business, and nobody really has any time to work on it.<p>Very sad really.<p>The first thing to ask is exactly what you asked here. I can&#x27;t upvote this enough.</text></comment>
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<story><title>GitHub was down</title><url>http://status.github.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gregoriol</author><text>Could you provide details on how you plan to be more reliable with a self-hosted solution? what kind of archtecture would you use? how many people will be involved in maintaining?</text></item><item><author>rvz</author><text>14 Days ago, they went down [0]. And today it&#x27;s happening again. Twice in less than a month.<p>Another reminder to self host via solutions like GitLab or Gitea. [1]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23675864" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23675864</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23676072" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23676072</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gregoriol</author><text>It&#x27;s not that I&#x27;m against, the contrary, but in the last months I&#x27;ve experienced a physical server crash, a random kernel panic and a failed upgrade of GitLab: that all took 10&#x2F;20 hours of work, didn&#x27;t result in any data loss, but the downtime was clearly higher than what GitHub has (+ nobody on the team was on holidays at that moment), plus any maintenance like software or system upgrades has to be done outside team working hours to limit the impact.. real self-hosting is not that easy!</text></comment>
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<story><title>Dremel Releases a Mass-Market 3D Printer</title><url>http://makezine.com/2014/09/17/dremel-3d-printer-idea-builder/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jglauche</author><text>I&#x27;m under the impression that a LOT of companies are currently thinking that they miss their market right now if they don&#x27;t bring out a 3d printer. Actually, the market is not that big and over-saturated with printers right now. The vendors (this goes especially to the big ones) are missing one critical point: They haven&#x27;t made it easy enough for Joe User to create printable 3d designs. The &quot;mass&quot; will not buy a product like that if they don&#x27;t understand why they need it for and also not if they don&#x27;t have access to easy and powerful tools to make actually good use of it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gizmo686</author><text>My sense is that alot of companies are trying to get ahead of the curve on 3d printers. The major advance that will make 3d printers mass market items is probably going to be in the moddeling software, and the &quot;model store&quot; ecosystem. This makes the printers themselves largely commodities from the start, so if a company already has a couple of prototypes done to the point where they have a solid printer, they are ready to ride the wave of mass 3d printing.<p>Of course, this is assuming that someone solves the hardware problem, otherwise it is likely just a failed investment; but that just makes it a risky investment.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Dremel Releases a Mass-Market 3D Printer</title><url>http://makezine.com/2014/09/17/dremel-3d-printer-idea-builder/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jglauche</author><text>I&#x27;m under the impression that a LOT of companies are currently thinking that they miss their market right now if they don&#x27;t bring out a 3d printer. Actually, the market is not that big and over-saturated with printers right now. The vendors (this goes especially to the big ones) are missing one critical point: They haven&#x27;t made it easy enough for Joe User to create printable 3d designs. The &quot;mass&quot; will not buy a product like that if they don&#x27;t understand why they need it for and also not if they don&#x27;t have access to easy and powerful tools to make actually good use of it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Ccecil</author><text>Over-saturated is an understatement..it is getting pretty bad.<p><a href="http://www.3ders.org/pricecompare/3dprinters/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.3ders.org&#x2F;pricecompare&#x2F;3dprinters&#x2F;</a><p>I am sure that is not nearly all of them :)<p>The design is always an issue when printing too. Customers rarely design their models to be printed because they don&#x27;t fully understand the process. If you design correctly you can get away with very little support material and still get very detailed models..if not then you end up with either a poorly printed object or significant detail loss on the surfaces from support material removal.<p>Maybe some plugins for popular CAD programs might be helpful...at least some sort of &quot;ray&quot; plugin that would show where your trouble overhangs&#x2F;support material generation will be located. At least for training purposes.</text></comment>
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<story><title>CompCert – A formally verified C compiler</title><url>http://compcert.inria.fr/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>herodotus</author><text>In 1983, Ken Thompson gave a Turing Award talk in which he shows how to embed a backdoor into a compiler in such a way that it would not be visible, even if you had access to the compiler source. (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;delivery.acm.org&#x2F;10.1145&#x2F;1290000&#x2F;1283940&#x2F;a1983-thompson.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;delivery.acm.org&#x2F;10.1145&#x2F;1290000&#x2F;1283940&#x2F;a1983-thomps...</a>)
I wonder if the verified compiler could be altered in the same way?
(A snippet from the paper so you get the idea:<p>&gt;We compile the modified source with the normal C compiler to produce a bugged binary. We install this binary as the official C compiler. We can now remove the bugs from the source of the compiler and the new binary will reinsert the bugs whenever it is compiled.
Of course, the login command will remain bugged with no trace in source anywhere.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jpfr</author><text>The above assumes that the same C compiler is used everywhere. Say you suspect your gcc to be infected. If a second compiler, say clang, can compile the gcc sources and this gcc then recompiles itself bit-identical to the original, then gcc and clang would both have to be (mutually compatible) infected.<p>Another way is to bootstrap up to a C compiler from machine-language upwards. So that every &quot;level upgrade&quot; in the bootstrap chain can be verified independently.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bootstrappable.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bootstrappable.org&#x2F;</a><p>Here is one bootstrapping effort:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;oriansj&#x2F;stage0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;oriansj&#x2F;stage0</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>CompCert – A formally verified C compiler</title><url>http://compcert.inria.fr/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>herodotus</author><text>In 1983, Ken Thompson gave a Turing Award talk in which he shows how to embed a backdoor into a compiler in such a way that it would not be visible, even if you had access to the compiler source. (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;delivery.acm.org&#x2F;10.1145&#x2F;1290000&#x2F;1283940&#x2F;a1983-thompson.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;delivery.acm.org&#x2F;10.1145&#x2F;1290000&#x2F;1283940&#x2F;a1983-thomps...</a>)
I wonder if the verified compiler could be altered in the same way?
(A snippet from the paper so you get the idea:<p>&gt;We compile the modified source with the normal C compiler to produce a bugged binary. We install this binary as the official C compiler. We can now remove the bugs from the source of the compiler and the new binary will reinsert the bugs whenever it is compiled.
Of course, the login command will remain bugged with no trace in source anywhere.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fmap</author><text>There is actually a neat way around this by using typed assembly language&#x2F;proof carrying code. If you had a type preserving compiler down to machine code you could use a separate proof checker (which you presumably wrote by hand in machine code) to convince yourself that the resulting binary implements its spec. :)<p>The spec of a compiler is also relatively simple, so there isn&#x27;t a lot of room for backdoors there.</text></comment>
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<story><title>“I did spend 9 years as a manager at a pizza place”</title><url>https://twitter.com/nomedabarbarian/status/1232922661740613634</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mabbo</author><text>When people ask me why I moved back to Canada from the USA, knowing I&#x27;d be paid less and have higher taxes, I often have a hard time articulating what the difference is between the two countries. Why I prefer to live here.<p>This thread sums it up nicely.<p>No matter how down-on-my-luck I get back in Canada, I will always have a safety net. I can always walk into a hospital and be treated. I can take time off when I&#x27;m sick. I get time off if I have a kid. It&#x27;s the <i>law</i> here and not just best effort by employers. It&#x27;s for everyone and not just the rich.</text></comment>
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<story><title>“I did spend 9 years as a manager at a pizza place”</title><url>https://twitter.com/nomedabarbarian/status/1232922661740613634</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Ghjklov</author><text>I vouched for this post, as it&#x27;s something that people need to be more aware of. While many people here can remote into their tech job, there are many people who simply do not have such privilege, and those are often the people who make your food and drinks. I too have mostly worked food service jobs, out of a job and looking for one now, and as soon as coronavirus hit the news, I knew that I would be eating out a lot less now because what the Twitter posts describe are completely accurate from my experience. I lived it.</text></comment>
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<story><title>How to Get into Natural Language Processing</title><url>https://blog.ycombinator.com/how-to-get-into-natural-language-processing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>d_burfoot</author><text>&gt; Why is NLP Hard? ... Language is highly ambiguous - it relies on subtle cues and contexts to convey meaning.<p>This is true, but it is only part of the answer.<p>Another part of the answer is what I call the Long Tail of Grammar. It turns out that if you try to write down all the rules of grammar, you will not get 40 or 60 rules, but something more like 100s or maybe even 1000s of rules. Most of those rules are obscure, rare, archaic, or useable only in specific contexts or with specific words. However, they are part of the language, a native speaker will be able to use them and comprehend them without difficulty, and an NLP system must be able to &quot;understand&quot; them in order to extract the correct meaning from a sentence.<p>As just a minor example off the top of my head, compare the phrase &quot;peeled peach&quot; with &quot;hairy-peeled peach&quot;. The former phrase means a peach without a peel, while the latter means a peach with a hairy peel. So a good NLP system must not only recognize the existence of the two grammatical rules, but also be able to disambiguate them correctly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chch</author><text>&gt; or useable only in specific contexts or with specific words.<p>A good example of this is the Winograd Schema. You might think you can figure out a good algorithm for anaphoric resolution (i.e. If you see &quot;Sally called and she said hello.&quot;, who is &quot;she&quot;?) that just relies on the structure of a sentence, without considering semantics.<p>But here&#x27;s a counterexample:<p>&quot;The city councilmen refused the demonstrators a permit because they feared violence.&quot;<p>Who are &#x27;they&#x27;?<p>&quot;The city councilmen refused the demonstrators a permit because they advocated violence.&quot;<p>Now who are &#x27;they&#x27;?<p>If you&#x27;re like most people, even though only the verb changed, the binding of &#x27;they&#x27; based on the deeper semantic meaning also changed.<p>These sentences are called Winograd Schema[1], and there are plenty more like it.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Winograd_Schema_Challenge" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Winograd_Schema_Challenge</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>How to Get into Natural Language Processing</title><url>https://blog.ycombinator.com/how-to-get-into-natural-language-processing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>d_burfoot</author><text>&gt; Why is NLP Hard? ... Language is highly ambiguous - it relies on subtle cues and contexts to convey meaning.<p>This is true, but it is only part of the answer.<p>Another part of the answer is what I call the Long Tail of Grammar. It turns out that if you try to write down all the rules of grammar, you will not get 40 or 60 rules, but something more like 100s or maybe even 1000s of rules. Most of those rules are obscure, rare, archaic, or useable only in specific contexts or with specific words. However, they are part of the language, a native speaker will be able to use them and comprehend them without difficulty, and an NLP system must be able to &quot;understand&quot; them in order to extract the correct meaning from a sentence.<p>As just a minor example off the top of my head, compare the phrase &quot;peeled peach&quot; with &quot;hairy-peeled peach&quot;. The former phrase means a peach without a peel, while the latter means a peach with a hairy peel. So a good NLP system must not only recognize the existence of the two grammatical rules, but also be able to disambiguate them correctly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>will_pseudonym</author><text>Not just that, grammar rules can come into existence&#x2F;change spontaneously. Here&#x27;s an example and name for this phenomenon:<p>Because syntactic change.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Homeland security workers indicted in scheme to silence China critics in U.S.</title><url>https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/five-individuals-indicted-crimes-related-transnational-repression-scheme-silence</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>syspec</author><text>&gt; Miller granted consent and ultimately admitted that he had run the queries for Taylor and sent the results to Taylor via text message, and that Taylor had provided a gift card in return.<p>Wow it just blows.my.mind. that that is all it takes!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mariuolo</author><text>&gt; Wow it just blows.my.mind. that that is all it takes!<p>Years ago a judge in southern Italy was in the news for having sold a case in exchange for groceries.<p>It looks petty, but it&#x27;s actually shrewd: by accepting small gifts the crook feels he did only a small favour.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Homeland security workers indicted in scheme to silence China critics in U.S.</title><url>https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/five-individuals-indicted-crimes-related-transnational-repression-scheme-silence</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>syspec</author><text>&gt; Miller granted consent and ultimately admitted that he had run the queries for Taylor and sent the results to Taylor via text message, and that Taylor had provided a gift card in return.<p>Wow it just blows.my.mind. that that is all it takes!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>walrus01</author><text>gift cards, not just for offshore black market call centers running &quot;Pay the IRS in gift card&quot; scams anymore.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;channel&#x2F;UCm22FAXZMw1BaWeFszZxUKw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;channel&#x2F;UCm22FAXZMw1BaWeFszZxUKw</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Improving Git protocol security on GitHub</title><url>https://github.blog/2021-09-01-improving-git-protocol-security-github/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>er4hn</author><text>Exec Summary: No actual changes to how the protocol itself works. Github is requiring modern keys + algorithms for git over SSH connections and removing the unencrypted git protocol as a connection option.<p>Seems reasonable to me. Since github is a git-as-a-service provider it makes sense to do this. From the headline I had thought they were making their own variant on the git protocol.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Improving Git protocol security on GitHub</title><url>https://github.blog/2021-09-01-improving-git-protocol-security-github/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zerocrates</author><text>I kind of liked having git:&#x2F;&#x2F; as the option where no authentication was possible. Oh well.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Tesla Q1 2021 Results</title><url>https://tesla-cdn.thron.com/static/R3GJMT_TSLA_Q1_2021_Update_5KJWZA.pdf?xseo=&response-content-disposition=inline%3Bfilename%3D%22TSLA-Q1-2021-Update.pdf%22</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cs702</author><text>Whatever you may think of Tesla and Musk, you have to agree that they&#x27;ve accomplished something rather incredible.<p>Few would have thought this possible not that long ago:<p>* 185K vehicle deliveries in Q1, +109% versus a year ago [a]<p>* 2.7K supercharger stations, +41% versus a year ago<p>* 24.5K supercharger connectors, +44% versus a year ago<p>* 92 MW of solar generation deployed in Q1, +163% versus a year ago<p>* 445 MWh of solar storage deployed in Q1, +71% versus a year ago<p>* Revenues of $10.4B in Q1, +74% versus a year ago<p>* EBITDA of $1.8B in Q1, +94% versus a year ago<p>* Over $17B in cash on hand<p>* New S, X, Roadster, Cybertruck, and Semi models on the way<p>* Berlin, Texas, and Shangai-expansion gigafactories coming online<p>* Four additional gigafactories already in development<p>Wow. Just... wow.<p>--<p>[a] And that figure understates growth, because it includes a 10K decline in S and X deliveries due to the upcoming launch of new S and X models.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lumost</author><text>I had to look it up but for reference in Q1 2021 the big auto makers delivered the following.<p>Ford: 521,334
GM: 642,250
Toyota: 2.46 million
VW: 2.5 million<p>If Tesla holds up they&#x27;ll be larger than Ford in 2 years and be the largest automaker in the world in 4 years.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Tesla Q1 2021 Results</title><url>https://tesla-cdn.thron.com/static/R3GJMT_TSLA_Q1_2021_Update_5KJWZA.pdf?xseo=&response-content-disposition=inline%3Bfilename%3D%22TSLA-Q1-2021-Update.pdf%22</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cs702</author><text>Whatever you may think of Tesla and Musk, you have to agree that they&#x27;ve accomplished something rather incredible.<p>Few would have thought this possible not that long ago:<p>* 185K vehicle deliveries in Q1, +109% versus a year ago [a]<p>* 2.7K supercharger stations, +41% versus a year ago<p>* 24.5K supercharger connectors, +44% versus a year ago<p>* 92 MW of solar generation deployed in Q1, +163% versus a year ago<p>* 445 MWh of solar storage deployed in Q1, +71% versus a year ago<p>* Revenues of $10.4B in Q1, +74% versus a year ago<p>* EBITDA of $1.8B in Q1, +94% versus a year ago<p>* Over $17B in cash on hand<p>* New S, X, Roadster, Cybertruck, and Semi models on the way<p>* Berlin, Texas, and Shangai-expansion gigafactories coming online<p>* Four additional gigafactories already in development<p>Wow. Just... wow.<p>--<p>[a] And that figure understates growth, because it includes a 10K decline in S and X deliveries due to the upcoming launch of new S and X models.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>habeebtc</author><text>I have two separate and (mostly) unrelated feelings.<p>Musk has done something remarkable as you say.<p>At the same time, the market cap is nuts and a portent of doom.<p>Bigger than all car companies combined, by market cap?<p>A market crash could take down Tesla and set back electric car adoption by 20 years.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Our Software Dependency Problem</title><url>https://research.swtch.com/deps</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smacktoward</author><text>It&#x27;s an interesting line of inquiry to think about how many of these evaluation heuristics, which are all described as things a person can do manually, could instead be built into the package manager itself to do for you automatically.<p>The package manager could run the package&#x27;s test suite, for instance, and warn you if the tests don&#x27;t all pass, or make you jump through extra hoops to install a package that doesn&#x27;t have any test coverage at all. The package manager could read the source code and tell you how idiomatically it was written. The package manager could try compiling from source with warnings on and let you know if any are thrown, and compare the compiled artifacts with the ones that ship with the package to ensure that they&#x27;re identical. The package manager could check the project&#x27;s commit history and warn you if you&#x27;re installing a package that&#x27;s no longer actively maintained. The package manager could check whether the package has a history of entries in the National Vulnerability Database. The package manager could learn what licenses you will and won&#x27;t accept, and automatically filter out packages that don&#x27;t fit your policies. And so on.<p>In other words, the problem right now is that package managers are undiscriminating. To them a package is a package is a package; the universe of packages is a flat plane where all packages are treated equally. But in reality all packages <i>aren&#x27;t</i> equal. Some packages are good and others are bad, and it would be a great help to the user if the package manager could encourage discovery and reuse of the former while discouraging discovery and reuse of the latter. By taking away a little friction in some places and adding some in others, the package manager could make it easy to install good packages and hard to install bad ones.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>josephg</author><text>NPM (nodejs package manager) has started doing that, revealing three combined metrics for each package in the search results. It assesses every package by popularity (number of downloads), quality (a dozen or so small heuristics about how carefully the project has been created) and maintenance (whether the project is actively maintained, keeps its dependancies up to date and if it and has more closed issues than open issues on github). The idea is that when you search for a package, you can see at a glance the relative quality and popularity of the modules you&#x27;re choosing between.<p>Its not perfect - there&#x27;s no way to tell if the packages under consideration are written in a consistent style or if they have thorough unit tests, but its a clever idea. And by rating packages on these metrics they encourage a reasonable set of best practices (write a readme and a changelog, use whitelists &#x2F; blacklists, close issues on github, etc). The full list of metrics is here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;itnext.io&#x2F;increasing-an-npm-packages-search-score-fb557f859300" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;itnext.io&#x2F;increasing-an-npm-packages-search-score-fb...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Our Software Dependency Problem</title><url>https://research.swtch.com/deps</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smacktoward</author><text>It&#x27;s an interesting line of inquiry to think about how many of these evaluation heuristics, which are all described as things a person can do manually, could instead be built into the package manager itself to do for you automatically.<p>The package manager could run the package&#x27;s test suite, for instance, and warn you if the tests don&#x27;t all pass, or make you jump through extra hoops to install a package that doesn&#x27;t have any test coverage at all. The package manager could read the source code and tell you how idiomatically it was written. The package manager could try compiling from source with warnings on and let you know if any are thrown, and compare the compiled artifacts with the ones that ship with the package to ensure that they&#x27;re identical. The package manager could check the project&#x27;s commit history and warn you if you&#x27;re installing a package that&#x27;s no longer actively maintained. The package manager could check whether the package has a history of entries in the National Vulnerability Database. The package manager could learn what licenses you will and won&#x27;t accept, and automatically filter out packages that don&#x27;t fit your policies. And so on.<p>In other words, the problem right now is that package managers are undiscriminating. To them a package is a package is a package; the universe of packages is a flat plane where all packages are treated equally. But in reality all packages <i>aren&#x27;t</i> equal. Some packages are good and others are bad, and it would be a great help to the user if the package manager could encourage discovery and reuse of the former while discouraging discovery and reuse of the latter. By taking away a little friction in some places and adding some in others, the package manager could make it easy to install good packages and hard to install bad ones.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DougBTX</author><text>Badges on GitHub seem to be getting more popular, a manual way to show this information in project readme files: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;badges&#x2F;shields" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;badges&#x2F;shields</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Zillow 2020 Urban-Suburban Market Report</title><url>https://www.zillow.com/research/2020-urb-suburb-market-report-27712/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmode</author><text>Just FYI, people have seen headline numbers in this Zillow report for SF market. But it is misleading. The overall housing market in Bay Area is actually stronger than pre-COVID [1] Even within SF, prices in condos are dropping but SFH are rising. So the narrative is people are moving from dense units to units with more space within the same MSAs. Which makes sense for me, as it allows people to WFH 2-3 days a week, and be in good school districts, while still commuting to office a few days<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfchronicle.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;networth&#x2F;article&#x2F;North-Bay-home-markets-sizzled-in-July-SF-showed-15490651.php" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfchronicle.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;networth&#x2F;article&#x2F;North-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostrademons</author><text>Even with those caveats the narrative is complex. <i>Some</i> condo prices are dropping, but I&#x27;m also seeing some 3BR condos <i>listed</i> (not necessarily selling) for $1.6-1.7M, which is about $300K over what they were a couple years ago. Also, with the conventional COVID narrative you&#x27;d expect that houses in the hills or away from civilization would do better - but many of those houses (some in very prestigious locations like Saratoga or Los Altos Hills) are going for &lt; $2M and sitting on the market for 6-8 months, while prices are rocketing up in Mountain View and it&#x27;s getting hard to find a SFH for &lt; $2.7M, even if it&#x27;s on a tiny 6-8K ft^2 lot.<p>It also looks like both inventory and prices are rising, which is contradictory to standard economic theory but would make sense if we&#x27;re nearing a market top.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Zillow 2020 Urban-Suburban Market Report</title><url>https://www.zillow.com/research/2020-urb-suburb-market-report-27712/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmode</author><text>Just FYI, people have seen headline numbers in this Zillow report for SF market. But it is misleading. The overall housing market in Bay Area is actually stronger than pre-COVID [1] Even within SF, prices in condos are dropping but SFH are rising. So the narrative is people are moving from dense units to units with more space within the same MSAs. Which makes sense for me, as it allows people to WFH 2-3 days a week, and be in good school districts, while still commuting to office a few days<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfchronicle.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;networth&#x2F;article&#x2F;North-Bay-home-markets-sizzled-in-July-SF-showed-15490651.php" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfchronicle.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;networth&#x2F;article&#x2F;North-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>This was my primary question as well with the Zillow report. I could have missed it, but I didn&#x27;t see how they define &quot;urban&quot; vs. &quot;suburban&quot; markets. I mean, in Austin TX, only the very downtown urban core has typical high rise apartments and condos that, anecdotally, I&#x27;ve seen become much less desirable in coronatimes, while there are lots of single-family-home neighborhoods (which were already getting exorbitantly expensive pre-Covid) that are still very centrally located. If those neighborhoods are considered &#x27;urban&#x27; it would throw off the whole analysis.</text></comment>
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<story><title>AngularJS Style Guide</title><url>https://gocardless.com/blog/angularjs-style-guide/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MaybiusStrip</author><text>I still don&#x27;t understand why everyone recommends different folders at the project root for controllers, directives, services, etc... You end up with closely related code being far apart. It&#x27;s a thoughtless way of dividing up your files based on the most obvious feature rather than how things actually fit together.<p>My idea of a good modular file structure is that you could delete any random directory and delete it and it would lop off that feature as cleanly as possible. Each directory should represent an angular module, and each module should contain the routing, controllers, services, directives, and tests that it uses. If some of these are used across the app then you can have a &quot;common&quot; module.</text></comment>
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<story><title>AngularJS Style Guide</title><url>https://gocardless.com/blog/angularjs-style-guide/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MrOrelliOReilly</author><text>Very helpful. I&#x27;ve unsuccessfully search for a way to do one-time binding before in a data intensive application and never came across the {{::ctrl.foobar}} syntax.<p>One thing I&#x27;m hesitant about is their advice to use directives instead of ng-controller=&quot;MyCtrl&quot;. Since controllers really are app specific glue code I rarely find myself wanting to reuse them - what advantages are directives supposed to give here?</text></comment>
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<story><title>The origins of Objective-C at PPI/Stepstone and its evolution at NeXT</title><url>https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3386332</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>herodotus</author><text>Good article, so glad to find it here. I wish, though, that the authors had talked a lot more about memory management in Objective-C, because this had a major impact, not only on the development of Objective-C, but also on Swift. As far as I can tell, the idea of (explicit) reference counting came from Next, when Blaine Garst and others were working on remote objects. When I joined Apple (and therefore had to learn Objective-C), the most important task was to understand reference counting and memory management. Yes, there was a lot more, like interfaces, properties and the many libraries, but understanding alloc&#x2F;new&#x2F;release&#x2F;autorelease was crucial for shippable software. GC was introduced (and deprecated) during my time, but it was the realization (presumably by Lattner and his team) that the LLVM analyzer could do a better job than humans at managing reference counting that was huge. No more hours and hours hunting down memory leaks! And, of course, only one concept required in Swift, namely weak vs. strong references.<p>In summary, a terrific paper, but it is too bad that this crucial part of the story is missing.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The origins of Objective-C at PPI/Stepstone and its evolution at NeXT</title><url>https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3386332</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gdubs</author><text>This is a wonderful bit of history, really grateful to have it. I remember reading an interview with Steve Jobs in Wired magazine in the 90s where he talked about the future being all about Objects – &quot;The Next Insanely Great Thing&quot; [1]. I built my career on top of Objective-C. These days I really enjoy Swift, but I still have a space in my heart for the dynamic beauty of Objective-C.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;1996&#x2F;02&#x2F;jobs-2&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;1996&#x2F;02&#x2F;jobs-2&#x2F;</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>I was Zuckerberg’s speechwriter</title><url>https://www.vox.com/first-person/2018/4/11/17221344/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-cambridge-analytica</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Barjak</author><text>Am I alone in thinking this isn&#x27;t heresy? A country or federal state is just a company with a monopoly over law in a certain geographical region. Facebook&#x27;s &quot;monopoly&quot; is at least subject to the whim of the market, as the Delete Facebook campaign shows.<p>Look at last week. The senate was on their high-horse, admonishing facebook for privacy infringements, totally unaware of the irony they are an appendage of the same entity which created the NSA and continues to eavesdrop on all of our conversations.<p>We can all opt out of Facebook. Thankfully many have. But NSA surveillance is involuntary.<p>Why are we more worried about a voluntary and foreseeable risk than an involuntary rights violation?<p>Don&#x27;t interpret this as saying Facebook acted appropriately.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>agentultra</author><text>&gt; Am I alone in thinking this isn&#x27;t heresy? A country or federal state is just a company with a monopoly over law in a certain geographical region.<p>A nation state is backed by armies, monetary obligations, and the need to co-operate with other nation states in each others&#x27; best interests (optimally).<p>In order to protect its citizens and monetary interests and obligations most modern, well-functioning markets are regulated by these nation states.<p>Facebook doesn&#x27;t care about users, laws, and lacks any sense of moral or ethical standards.<p>While I enjoy the benefits of being able to freely start a business I believe that a well-functioning market requires guidance and planning from broader, more conservative social structures in order to benefit everyone.</text></comment>
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<story><title>I was Zuckerberg’s speechwriter</title><url>https://www.vox.com/first-person/2018/4/11/17221344/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-cambridge-analytica</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Barjak</author><text>Am I alone in thinking this isn&#x27;t heresy? A country or federal state is just a company with a monopoly over law in a certain geographical region. Facebook&#x27;s &quot;monopoly&quot; is at least subject to the whim of the market, as the Delete Facebook campaign shows.<p>Look at last week. The senate was on their high-horse, admonishing facebook for privacy infringements, totally unaware of the irony they are an appendage of the same entity which created the NSA and continues to eavesdrop on all of our conversations.<p>We can all opt out of Facebook. Thankfully many have. But NSA surveillance is involuntary.<p>Why are we more worried about a voluntary and foreseeable risk than an involuntary rights violation?<p>Don&#x27;t interpret this as saying Facebook acted appropriately.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattmanser</author><text>It does all the people who fought, died, campaigned and worked to institute democracies over dictatorships or feudal lords a great dis-service to tout this drivel.<p>You want to make the NSA an election issue? You can go campaign on it. Setup a party, gather people to your cause. Vote.<p>You can&#x27;t do anything even remotely similar to influence google or facebook.</text></comment>
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<story><title>A Boy and His Atom: Smallest Stop-Motion Film [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSCX78-8-q0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>avsteele</author><text>You can find another movie of actual atoms taken by me at my website.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;avsteele.com&#x2F;index.html#science" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;avsteele.com&#x2F;index.html#science</a>
(scroll down a little)<p>Each dot is fluorescence from a single trapped barium ion. Excitation&#x2F;fluorescence is at 493 nm, so the false-color map in the video is almost realistic.<p>More details are in the figure caption.</text></comment>
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<story><title>U.S. Legalization of Marijuana Has Hit Mexican Cartels’ Cross-Border Trade</title><url>http://time.com/3801889/us-legalization-marijuana-trade/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>baldfat</author><text>The only thing that makes me hesitate this popular view:<p>1) There was a mafia in Italy and US long before Prohibition and after Prohibition<p>2) The violence and deaths of police officers in the US started to rise in 1900 and peaked at 1921 and declined for another 30 years.<p>3) Doesn&#x27;t explain the statistical violence peaks of the 1970s and 1980s in our society.<p>4) We are at one of the least violent and peaceful decades in US History<p>[1] Police deaths in London and NYC (I could use other markers just this was a lazy first choice <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC2586786&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC2586786&#x2F;</a>
[2] US Crime Rate (Which I would argue is flawed since the recording of crimes prior to 1960s was not tracked in the same way as records are now kept after JFK assassination <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.csmonitor.com&#x2F;USA&#x2F;Justice&#x2F;2012&#x2F;0109&#x2F;US-crime-rate-at-lowest-point-in-decades.-Why-America-is-safer-now" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.csmonitor.com&#x2F;USA&#x2F;Justice&#x2F;2012&#x2F;0109&#x2F;US-crime-rate...</a></text></item><item><author>jussij</author><text>Who would have expected that outcome?<p>Lets look back in history to see how well prohibition has worked in the past.<p>The exact same result happened back in the 1920&#x27;s with the prohibition of alcohol. The 1920&#x27;s prohibition resulted in nothing more than the rise of the Mafia.<p>Back in the 1920&#x27;s there was similar waste of government money fighting alcohol, only to see the rise in the power of the Mafia.<p>Move forward to today&#x27;s &#x27;war on drugs&#x27; and once again government is wasting massive amounts of public money trying fighting a loosing war.<p>The harder the fight the richer the drug kings become.<p>But now the states decide to go softer on a &#x27;war on what ever&#x27; and guess what, the &#x27;drug kings&#x27; once again start to loose money.<p>Nothing more than history repeating :(</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joshuapants</author><text>1) The mafia didn&#x27;t only deal in alcohol. Prostitution and gambling, two other popular-but-illegal things were often controlled by organized crime. Prohibition did allow organized crime a boom where they could squirrel away money and use it for their enterprises later on, which explains their presence after the fact.<p>2) I&#x27;m not sure that police deaths are the best metric, since most of the violence during prohibition was carried out by gangs against other gangs. Given enough police corruption, violence wasn&#x27;t even necessary.<p>3) How about cocaine followed by crack cocaine?<p>4) That doesn&#x27;t mean we couldn&#x27;t be less violent and more peaceful, and it doesn&#x27;t mean that our law enforcement resources are efficiently allocated.</text></comment>
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<story><title>U.S. Legalization of Marijuana Has Hit Mexican Cartels’ Cross-Border Trade</title><url>http://time.com/3801889/us-legalization-marijuana-trade/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>baldfat</author><text>The only thing that makes me hesitate this popular view:<p>1) There was a mafia in Italy and US long before Prohibition and after Prohibition<p>2) The violence and deaths of police officers in the US started to rise in 1900 and peaked at 1921 and declined for another 30 years.<p>3) Doesn&#x27;t explain the statistical violence peaks of the 1970s and 1980s in our society.<p>4) We are at one of the least violent and peaceful decades in US History<p>[1] Police deaths in London and NYC (I could use other markers just this was a lazy first choice <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC2586786&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC2586786&#x2F;</a>
[2] US Crime Rate (Which I would argue is flawed since the recording of crimes prior to 1960s was not tracked in the same way as records are now kept after JFK assassination <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.csmonitor.com&#x2F;USA&#x2F;Justice&#x2F;2012&#x2F;0109&#x2F;US-crime-rate-at-lowest-point-in-decades.-Why-America-is-safer-now" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.csmonitor.com&#x2F;USA&#x2F;Justice&#x2F;2012&#x2F;0109&#x2F;US-crime-rate...</a></text></item><item><author>jussij</author><text>Who would have expected that outcome?<p>Lets look back in history to see how well prohibition has worked in the past.<p>The exact same result happened back in the 1920&#x27;s with the prohibition of alcohol. The 1920&#x27;s prohibition resulted in nothing more than the rise of the Mafia.<p>Back in the 1920&#x27;s there was similar waste of government money fighting alcohol, only to see the rise in the power of the Mafia.<p>Move forward to today&#x27;s &#x27;war on drugs&#x27; and once again government is wasting massive amounts of public money trying fighting a loosing war.<p>The harder the fight the richer the drug kings become.<p>But now the states decide to go softer on a &#x27;war on what ever&#x27; and guess what, the &#x27;drug kings&#x27; once again start to loose money.<p>Nothing more than history repeating :(</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AndrewKemendo</author><text>3) Doesn&#x27;t explain the statistical violence peaks of the 1970s and 1980s in our society.<p>I don&#x27;t think the OP was making any correlation with crime in the 70s and 80s. You could however link that rise in crime to the spread of crack cocaine through NYC and LA if you <i>really</i> wanted to.<p>4) We are at one of the least violent and peaceful decades in US History<p>Interestingly enough, while that is true, our incarceration rate is the highest ever and it started just as the drug war started. See also The New Jim Crow [1]<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;newjimcrow.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;newjimcrow.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Wolfenstein 1D</title><url>http://wonder-tonic.com/wolf1d/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>antimora</author><text>Making the figures and line bigger than 1 pixel would have still preserved 1D affect. Also the line does not need to be straight either - it could have been curved. The only requirement is the degree of freedom to move (back and forth).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Wolfenstein 1D</title><url>http://wonder-tonic.com/wolf1d/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yuvipanda</author><text>The "Send $35 to Apogee Software Productions" bought back fond memories of playing these 'demos' as a kid and wishing I were in the US so I could actually buy these things.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Small C Compilers</title><url>https://bootstrapping.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page#Small_C_Compilers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snagglegaggle</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rswier&#x2F;c4&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;c4.c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rswier&#x2F;c4&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;c4.c</a><p>Holy what</text></item><item><author>codezero</author><text>I love c4. The author writes very readable and simple code. I recommend trying out swieros as well “a tiny Unix like kernel”: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rswier&#x2F;swieros" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rswier&#x2F;swieros</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dTal</author><text>Instead of just gazing at the sea of terse variable names in awe, try actually reading it! There&#x27;s only about a dozen variables and they&#x27;re all documented at the top - the actual code is actually amazingly clear for what it does. There&#x27;s not a lot of gratuitous cleverness.<p>For example, just picking a random segment, you don&#x27;t have to squint very hard to see that this is a number literal parser:<p><pre><code> else if (tk &gt;= &#x27;0&#x27; &amp;&amp; tk &lt;= &#x27;9&#x27;) {
if (ival = tk - &#x27;0&#x27;) { while (*p &gt;= &#x27;0&#x27; &amp;&amp; *p &lt;= &#x27;9&#x27;) ival = ival * 10 + *p++ - &#x27;0&#x27;; }
else if (*p == &#x27;x&#x27; || *p == &#x27;X&#x27;) {
[...goes on to handle the hexadecimal case...]
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(aside - I love the conversion from string to decimal by subtracting the string value of &#x27;0&#x27;, as this will work for any text encoding where the decimal digits are monotonic and contiguous - so ASCII and EBDIC at least...)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Small C Compilers</title><url>https://bootstrapping.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page#Small_C_Compilers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snagglegaggle</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rswier&#x2F;c4&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;c4.c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rswier&#x2F;c4&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;c4.c</a><p>Holy what</text></item><item><author>codezero</author><text>I love c4. The author writes very readable and simple code. I recommend trying out swieros as well “a tiny Unix like kernel”: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rswier&#x2F;swieros" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rswier&#x2F;swieros</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>megous</author><text>A bit terse perhaps, but only thing that is a bit more than a simple tokenization&#x2F;parsing and direct output is the precedence climbing part for parsing expressions. That may cause some headscratching for some if they haven&#x27;t implemented it in the past. But it&#x27;s easy to read up on that algorithm on wikipedia. Anyway, even using that ultimately makes code more readable than trying to implement the same with recursive descent.</text></comment>
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<story><title>AI Homework</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2022/ai-homework/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>soco</author><text>I can imagine somebody knowing the answer being able to properly verify the output. But a student which is supposed to learn something form that homework? We&#x27;re missing the entire point of homework here.</text></item><item><author>fellerts</author><text>There has been a lot of &quot;well, we had a good run&quot; comments on ChatGPT threads from engineers lately. I get where this sentiment is coming from, but I also think that the article paints a good picture of how we must &quot;pivot&quot; as a species to avoid faceplanting completely. Zero Trust Homework sounds like a strategy we will be forced to implement:<p><pre><code> the system will frequently give the wrong answers (and not just on accident — wrong answers will be often pushed out on purpose); the real skill in the homework assignment will be in verifying the answers the system churns out — learning how to be a verifier and an editor, instead of a regurgitator.
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If done well, I believe this can prepare the next generation well for a future we cannot even imagine. The next 10 years will be interesting to say the least.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>HammadB</author><text>I think what’s worth mentioning is that for people who grew up with google, schools already were having a bit of a panic with resources like wolfram alpha and Wikipedia. For this cohort of users, myself included, the idea of fact checking ”found” material and weaving it into a proper answer is very familiar.<p>With this view, I think chatGPT is less of a novel UX shift than an accelerant on an existing one.<p>I think it proves the age old belief that as technology reaches maturity it loses its fancy monikers and we will probably just look at this as “very good, very specific, google” one day</text></comment>
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<story><title>AI Homework</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2022/ai-homework/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>soco</author><text>I can imagine somebody knowing the answer being able to properly verify the output. But a student which is supposed to learn something form that homework? We&#x27;re missing the entire point of homework here.</text></item><item><author>fellerts</author><text>There has been a lot of &quot;well, we had a good run&quot; comments on ChatGPT threads from engineers lately. I get where this sentiment is coming from, but I also think that the article paints a good picture of how we must &quot;pivot&quot; as a species to avoid faceplanting completely. Zero Trust Homework sounds like a strategy we will be forced to implement:<p><pre><code> the system will frequently give the wrong answers (and not just on accident — wrong answers will be often pushed out on purpose); the real skill in the homework assignment will be in verifying the answers the system churns out — learning how to be a verifier and an editor, instead of a regurgitator.
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If done well, I believe this can prepare the next generation well for a future we cannot even imagine. The next 10 years will be interesting to say the least.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>314</author><text>Well, they would need to know something about the topic. The easiest way for them to do this would be to read about it. When picking what to read they would need to be able to estimate if it contained valid information. The meta-skills that would be developed would be:<p>* Understanding the quality of sources<p>* Understanding the different between primary and secondary sources.<p>* Establishing chains of evidence and tracing them through large datasets.<p>* Integrating information from different sources and using correlation to establish validity.<p>Basically, it would be a crash course in how to do research, and the best possible preparation for living in a world where we drown in uncertain information and still have to make the best choices that we can.<p>For bonus points, at the end of the process they would have a better understanding of the subject matter than somebody who had only read about it.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Inside an AI 'brain' – What does machine learning look like?</title><url>https://www.graphcore.ai/blog/what-does-machine-learning-look-like</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Smerity</author><text>The consensus in the machine learning &#x2F; deep learning research communities is that this is a colourful &quot;nothing&quot; visualization. Little to no information is conveyed, it doesn&#x27;t represent the architectures in any sane way that researchers or the broader non-technical community can use &#x2F; understand, and it primarily seems a vehicle to use the hype surrounding AI to advertise Graphcore.<p>I&#x27;m not the only one[1] within the research community to think this.<p>If you find any insights from this, I&#x27;d honestly first be surprised and then second be interested to know what insights you gleamed from it.<p>Background: researcher who publishes papers in deep learning.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;jackclarkSF&#x2F;status&#x2F;834461913262157824" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;jackclarkSF&#x2F;status&#x2F;834461913262157824</a> (thread containing a member of OpenAI who specializes in communicating complex machine learning topics to the media and a primary developer of PyTorch &#x2F; member of Facebook&#x27;s AI Research lab)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Inside an AI 'brain' – What does machine learning look like?</title><url>https://www.graphcore.ai/blog/what-does-machine-learning-look-like</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>partycoder</author><text>I wonder what is the motivation behind rendering the network inside a circle, and how to interpret from these charts... like: which neural ensemble is connected to which, etc.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Why people make dumb financial decisions on purpose</title><url>https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2022/08/why-people-make-dumb-financial-decision-on-purpose/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>horsawlarway</author><text>Expected value doesn&#x27;t mean jack shit if the game can only be played once.<p>&gt; Expected value (also known as EV, expectation, average, or mean value) is a long-run average value of random variables.<p>If you can only press a button once - you should take the guaranteed money in almost all circumstances (assuming you have finances that look like most Americans - if you&#x27;re already a millionaire... do what you want, this game doesn&#x27;t matter much to you).<p>Basically - This is a dire misunderstanding of how statistics works in general. The population <i>at large</i> might be better off pressing the 50% at 50 million button (because then you are running this game many times and you will likely achieve the expected value) - but as an individual, who can only roll the dice once, you are much better off just taking the immediate and guaranteed win.<p>And that&#x27;s not even accounting for the drop off in marginal value of each dollar as you accumulate them - that first million is <i>far</i> more impactful than the next 49.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>UncleMeat</author><text>This is a key observation in more practical concerns like retirement planning. Often, maximizing expected value isn&#x27;t actually what you want. For somebody with a comfortable retirement portfolio you care a lot more about not running out of money than ending up with a huge amount when you die. So you&#x27;ll choose strategies that might have worse expected values but limit the frequency of worst case scenarios.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Why people make dumb financial decisions on purpose</title><url>https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2022/08/why-people-make-dumb-financial-decision-on-purpose/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>horsawlarway</author><text>Expected value doesn&#x27;t mean jack shit if the game can only be played once.<p>&gt; Expected value (also known as EV, expectation, average, or mean value) is a long-run average value of random variables.<p>If you can only press a button once - you should take the guaranteed money in almost all circumstances (assuming you have finances that look like most Americans - if you&#x27;re already a millionaire... do what you want, this game doesn&#x27;t matter much to you).<p>Basically - This is a dire misunderstanding of how statistics works in general. The population <i>at large</i> might be better off pressing the 50% at 50 million button (because then you are running this game many times and you will likely achieve the expected value) - but as an individual, who can only roll the dice once, you are much better off just taking the immediate and guaranteed win.<p>And that&#x27;s not even accounting for the drop off in marginal value of each dollar as you accumulate them - that first million is <i>far</i> more impactful than the next 49.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jstanley</author><text>&gt; that first million is far more impactful than the next 49.<p>This is in fact the reason you should take the million.<p>How many times you get to play the game is irrelevant. Your whole life is filled with potential but uncertain payoffs, and you should maximise expected utility every time (where utility is <i>not</i> the same as dollars).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Why we chose not to release Stable Diffusion 1.5 as quickly</title><url>https://danieljeffries.substack.com/p/why-the-future-of-open-source-ai</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kortilla</author><text>This area is already well explored just with fake CSAM generated by artists using photoshop, cartoons, etc. The modern thinking is that it supports and encourages a behavior that can lead to actual violence.<p>If you constantly watch videos of people eating cheeseburgers, you might want to eat a cheeseburger yourself.</text></item><item><author>pantalaimon</author><text>Maybe I’m naive, but isn’t AI generated CSAM a good outcome, actually - because it doesn’t require actual children to be hurt?</text></item><item><author>kmeisthax</author><text>You&#x27;re thinking copyright liability[0], but the real worry, straight from the mouths of the Stability people[1], is AI-generated CSAM. That will make the whole field of generative art legally radioactive.<p>At least with copyright law, there&#x27;s an argument for training being fair use. If generative art becomes a notorious market for CSAM, everyone in the field goes to jail.<p>[0] Also, I&#x27;d like to know what your opinion is on GitHub Copilot. A lot of people decry Copilot for stealing code but love Stable Diffusion for being public, even though they&#x27;re the same concept and trained in the same quasi-ethical way.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;StableDiffusion&#x2F;comments&#x2F;y9ga5s&#x2F;comment&#x2F;it5kkic&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;StableDiffusion&#x2F;comments&#x2F;y9ga5s&#x2F;com...</a></text></item><item><author>machina_ex_deus</author><text>You&#x27;re missing an important vulnerability of this tech. The model was trained on copyrighted material. There are enormous pressures to close and stop this.<p>You can&#x27;t predict future legislation. Intellectual property legislation (which is an absolute cancer IMO) can outlaw models and their results. It can outlaw distribution of the data sets, the training, the models. Tech companies already acted way beyond the requirements of the law and effectively censured open source projects like popcorn time.<p>Can they prevent a determined hacker which already got everything? No.<p>Could this be the last model to be trained on a wide dataset, available to the public? Yes.<p>Could they make it a living hell where getting these tools in the future will only be from untrustworthy websites where half the download buttons give you an exe, and all your less tech savvy friends won&#x27;t bother? Easily.<p>Could this tool become impossible for companies to use without risking litigation? Very easily.<p>People tend to forget those making the rules do not have their interests at heart, and every single intellectual property law is designed to leave companies and not people holding all the rights. And those laws can absolutely do damage. Do not underestimate the power of legislation.</text></item><item><author>Satam</author><text>Based on a Reddit post [1], the author of this is Stability AI&#x27;s chief information officer.<p>My very rough take on the situation: the company gained their notoriety by building on OpenAI&#x27;s pioneering research but with an important twist of releasing their models as unneutered open source. Now, their openness is starting to falter due to strong pressure from outside forces.<p>If they&#x27;re unable to continue playing the hardball game they themselves invented, I think their glory days will end as fast as they started. The competitive advantage was always their boldness. If they lose that, quickly others will take their place.<p>In general, I don&#x27;t think tech that&#x27;s as open, powerful and easily reproducible as these language models can be stopped. Sure, maybe regulations will delay it a bit, but give it a few years and any decent hacker or tinkerer will be dabbling with 5x better tech with 5x less effort.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;Z5sU3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;Z5sU3</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>claudiawerner</author><text>&gt;This area is already well explored just with fake CSAM generated by artists using photoshop, cartoons, etc.<p>I&#x27;m familiar with the research in this area, and that&#x27;s not something you can say confidently; most work (and by that I mean 2 or 3 papers in total) has gone into investigating the role &#x27;generated&#x27; depictions of CSAM play in the collections of hoarders. No psychological study, as far as I&#x27;m aware, has conducted an investigation on those who enjoy cartoon material akin to what you might find in a Japanese manga.<p>In fact, there&#x27;s some evidence against what you&#x27;re saying; anthropological research on fans of cartoon material (&#x27;lolicons&#x27; or &#x27;shotacons&#x27;) in Japan shows that their communities draw hard lines between &#x27;2D&#x27; and &#x27;3D&#x27; not just in this area of sexuality, but in their sexualities as a whole. This sexual inclination toward the 2D world is termed the 2D-complex and is akin to &#x27;digital sexuality&#x27; or fictophilia, not pedophilia.<p>By way of analogy, perhaps BDSM would work as a good counter point to you. Many people (some studies suggest the majority of people) engage in &#x27;rape fantasies&#x27; or other such fantasies of illegal or immoral nature, yet although <i>actual</i> depiction of rape is rightly banned by the state, its simulated variants are not, and we are comfortable to acknowledge that sexual desires do not always manifest in real life, and sometimes the thrill of fantasy itself is the attraction. To make it real would, ironically, defeat the whole point.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Why we chose not to release Stable Diffusion 1.5 as quickly</title><url>https://danieljeffries.substack.com/p/why-the-future-of-open-source-ai</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kortilla</author><text>This area is already well explored just with fake CSAM generated by artists using photoshop, cartoons, etc. The modern thinking is that it supports and encourages a behavior that can lead to actual violence.<p>If you constantly watch videos of people eating cheeseburgers, you might want to eat a cheeseburger yourself.</text></item><item><author>pantalaimon</author><text>Maybe I’m naive, but isn’t AI generated CSAM a good outcome, actually - because it doesn’t require actual children to be hurt?</text></item><item><author>kmeisthax</author><text>You&#x27;re thinking copyright liability[0], but the real worry, straight from the mouths of the Stability people[1], is AI-generated CSAM. That will make the whole field of generative art legally radioactive.<p>At least with copyright law, there&#x27;s an argument for training being fair use. If generative art becomes a notorious market for CSAM, everyone in the field goes to jail.<p>[0] Also, I&#x27;d like to know what your opinion is on GitHub Copilot. A lot of people decry Copilot for stealing code but love Stable Diffusion for being public, even though they&#x27;re the same concept and trained in the same quasi-ethical way.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;StableDiffusion&#x2F;comments&#x2F;y9ga5s&#x2F;comment&#x2F;it5kkic&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;StableDiffusion&#x2F;comments&#x2F;y9ga5s&#x2F;com...</a></text></item><item><author>machina_ex_deus</author><text>You&#x27;re missing an important vulnerability of this tech. The model was trained on copyrighted material. There are enormous pressures to close and stop this.<p>You can&#x27;t predict future legislation. Intellectual property legislation (which is an absolute cancer IMO) can outlaw models and their results. It can outlaw distribution of the data sets, the training, the models. Tech companies already acted way beyond the requirements of the law and effectively censured open source projects like popcorn time.<p>Can they prevent a determined hacker which already got everything? No.<p>Could this be the last model to be trained on a wide dataset, available to the public? Yes.<p>Could they make it a living hell where getting these tools in the future will only be from untrustworthy websites where half the download buttons give you an exe, and all your less tech savvy friends won&#x27;t bother? Easily.<p>Could this tool become impossible for companies to use without risking litigation? Very easily.<p>People tend to forget those making the rules do not have their interests at heart, and every single intellectual property law is designed to leave companies and not people holding all the rights. And those laws can absolutely do damage. Do not underestimate the power of legislation.</text></item><item><author>Satam</author><text>Based on a Reddit post [1], the author of this is Stability AI&#x27;s chief information officer.<p>My very rough take on the situation: the company gained their notoriety by building on OpenAI&#x27;s pioneering research but with an important twist of releasing their models as unneutered open source. Now, their openness is starting to falter due to strong pressure from outside forces.<p>If they&#x27;re unable to continue playing the hardball game they themselves invented, I think their glory days will end as fast as they started. The competitive advantage was always their boldness. If they lose that, quickly others will take their place.<p>In general, I don&#x27;t think tech that&#x27;s as open, powerful and easily reproducible as these language models can be stopped. Sure, maybe regulations will delay it a bit, but give it a few years and any decent hacker or tinkerer will be dabbling with 5x better tech with 5x less effort.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;Z5sU3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;Z5sU3</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>djokkataja</author><text>Just like how the incredible availability of porn on the internet has led to millennials being the generation that has the most sex ever: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12433236" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12433236</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Microsoft execs on Apple's music store (2003)</title><url>https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1647317806697050112</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>operatingthetan</author><text>&gt;FAANG culture is becoming so slow and ineffective that I&#x27;m not surprised they are cutting tens of thousands of employees.<p>In my experience it wasn&#x27;t the excess employees (everyone seemed to be busy) but that processes in the org didn&#x27;t match the size and leadership from the top down couldn&#x27;t see the problem. So no efforts were made to make teams work better together and align their incentives.<p>A great example was API teams would ship incomplete and untested work as &quot;done&quot; because they were overworked and on an insane timeline. My front-end team tested the APIs for implementation and discovered all the missing parts, and then we had to document all of it and ask the team to fix it. The API team would then push back claiming we were wrong. My devs would have to spend hours on calls with them going over each missing piece and the API devs played dumb every time.<p>I would have to escalate to my manager and he felt pushing back on the other leads would burn political capital he didn&#x27;t have. This wasn&#x27;t just one API team, it was <i>seven</i>. Somehow the culture of the org caused them all to follow the same strategy to push their QA to other teams and delay completion. It was so crazy that they would get defensive saying &quot;we have the best developers in the world, that is not possible.&quot;<p>A true organizational illness.</text></item><item><author>thecupisblue</author><text>&gt;Both teams on both sides wanted this to come together<p>&gt;It takes apple to make a move for us to break through communication issues and get anything done<p>Imagine paying millions of dollars for &quot;the best&quot; developers, designers, managers, yet they can&#x27;t even communicate with each other properly to align with common interests. FAANG culture is becoming so slow and ineffective that I&#x27;m not surprised they are cutting tens of thousands of employees.<p>Where I&#x27;m from we have an expression - &quot;many grandmas, lazy&#x2F;spoiled child&quot; - and it&#x27;s especially rings true in creative work.<p>For something truly brilliant to be created, you need someone with a vision and freedom to implement it. It&#x27;s extremely rare for something brilliant to come from committee or top-down designed by managers delegating work to a bunch of teams.
It&#x27;s one of the reasons even open-source struggles with design - you need one or a tiny team of aligned brilliant people to work together, and you need to give them freedom to do it. Not constrain them with meetings, micromanaging the product and letting everyone express their opinion. That&#x27;s how you get a terrible, bland, uninspiring design.<p>Recently I had a chance to work at a theatre production that ended up suffering from the same issue - the director had no vision but only an idea, so he delegated
different work to everyone, then micromanaged people and intersected into every attempt at collaboration with his own opinions and ideas. As new people were coming in, their ideas were added into the mix, creating a show that ended up being even worse than mediocre.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ecshafer</author><text>I&#x27;ve never liked having an API team &#x2F; Front End Team distinction. I don&#x27;t think it makes good software in most cases, it creates that combative element between the teams due to different priorities that you saw. A team with a product, needs to have the freedom and ability to work at any level of the stack to get that product out, sure that rarely happens 100% and there is coordination between teams, but Vertical slice teams do it better than Horizontal slice teams in my experience.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Microsoft execs on Apple's music store (2003)</title><url>https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1647317806697050112</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>operatingthetan</author><text>&gt;FAANG culture is becoming so slow and ineffective that I&#x27;m not surprised they are cutting tens of thousands of employees.<p>In my experience it wasn&#x27;t the excess employees (everyone seemed to be busy) but that processes in the org didn&#x27;t match the size and leadership from the top down couldn&#x27;t see the problem. So no efforts were made to make teams work better together and align their incentives.<p>A great example was API teams would ship incomplete and untested work as &quot;done&quot; because they were overworked and on an insane timeline. My front-end team tested the APIs for implementation and discovered all the missing parts, and then we had to document all of it and ask the team to fix it. The API team would then push back claiming we were wrong. My devs would have to spend hours on calls with them going over each missing piece and the API devs played dumb every time.<p>I would have to escalate to my manager and he felt pushing back on the other leads would burn political capital he didn&#x27;t have. This wasn&#x27;t just one API team, it was <i>seven</i>. Somehow the culture of the org caused them all to follow the same strategy to push their QA to other teams and delay completion. It was so crazy that they would get defensive saying &quot;we have the best developers in the world, that is not possible.&quot;<p>A true organizational illness.</text></item><item><author>thecupisblue</author><text>&gt;Both teams on both sides wanted this to come together<p>&gt;It takes apple to make a move for us to break through communication issues and get anything done<p>Imagine paying millions of dollars for &quot;the best&quot; developers, designers, managers, yet they can&#x27;t even communicate with each other properly to align with common interests. FAANG culture is becoming so slow and ineffective that I&#x27;m not surprised they are cutting tens of thousands of employees.<p>Where I&#x27;m from we have an expression - &quot;many grandmas, lazy&#x2F;spoiled child&quot; - and it&#x27;s especially rings true in creative work.<p>For something truly brilliant to be created, you need someone with a vision and freedom to implement it. It&#x27;s extremely rare for something brilliant to come from committee or top-down designed by managers delegating work to a bunch of teams.
It&#x27;s one of the reasons even open-source struggles with design - you need one or a tiny team of aligned brilliant people to work together, and you need to give them freedom to do it. Not constrain them with meetings, micromanaging the product and letting everyone express their opinion. That&#x27;s how you get a terrible, bland, uninspiring design.<p>Recently I had a chance to work at a theatre production that ended up suffering from the same issue - the director had no vision but only an idea, so he delegated
different work to everyone, then micromanaged people and intersected into every attempt at collaboration with his own opinions and ideas. As new people were coming in, their ideas were added into the mix, creating a show that ended up being even worse than mediocre.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jiggawatts</author><text>Happens everywhere. I just advised a dev team manager not to push a code base to the test team while it was very visibly broken. You don’t need a tester to tell you it’s obviously broken, and any testing they do will just have to be redone anyway once the basic issues are sorted.<p>Nope.<p>“We have to show progress!”</text></comment>
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<story><title>Nexus 7 review: The best $200 tablet you can buy</title><url>http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/28/nexus-7-review/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kleiba</author><text><i>Four years on we're buying better laptops than ever before and, with the netbook class now more or less dead</i><p>I still cannot get over the second part of that sentence. It's true though, but I could cry bitter tears over it: when netbooks first arrived on the scene I felt happy like a little elf: small, light, cheap computers made to run Linux? That was <i>exactly</i> what I had been waiting for all these years.<p>And a netbook has been my main computer ever since I bought one. It's ideal for my personal usage in which I basically run four programs all the time: a browser, an email client, shells, and Emacs. Add a compile every now and then and you have a description of &#62;95% of my computing time. I can code on the kitchen table or on the couch, on the bus, even in bed if I feel like it. It's fun.<p>I used to have a 12 inch laptop before but the netbook clearly beats it in terms of portability. And the battery life is decent too, even though the device is a few years old by now.<p>And I paid around $280 for the device.<p>And now the market for netbooks is dead. Taken over by tablets. Except, I have no use for them. I mean, it's a selfish way of looking at it because apparently many more people want tablets than netbooks. So let the market decide. Unfortunately for me, the perfect match will slowly but surely stop being available.<p>Ironically, I'm not even using a netbook the way it was supposedly designed to be used: for browsing the web anywhere. As I've outlined above I use it exactly like I use a desktop computer, except that I run heavier jobs remotely on other machines.<p>Anyway. I am not even sure what point I am trying to make. Probably none. But it does make me sad that a type of computer that is perfect for me is being replaced by another type of computer that is unusable for the same tasks.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Nexus 7 review: The best $200 tablet you can buy</title><url>http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/28/nexus-7-review/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>majorlazer</author><text><i>In 2008, when the Eee PC was revolutionizing the computing world and driving every manufacturer to make cheaper and smaller laptops, Sony washed its hands of the whole thing. The "race to the bottom," the company said, would profoundly impact the industry, killing profit margins and flooding the market with cheap, terrible machines. Sony was wrong, its stance lasting about a year before joining the competition with its own VAIO W.</i><p>I actually disagree with this first paragraph, I think Sony was right. The "race to the bottom" definitely did impact the industry, and for quite some time, no manufacturer even offered a laptop with decent build quality, except for Apple of course. People thought "why should I pay $1,000+ for this laptop when I can get a much cheaper laptop that will do everything I need?" And then the Macbook Air and the iPad come along and all of a sudden, people have no problem paying more for a quality product. If it wasn't for Apple, the OEMs would continue to release shitty machines until they all went bankrupt from negative profit margins.<p>I don't think the tablet market is experiencing the same race to the bottom because people are not buying these shitty tablets (which the Nexus 7 isn't). Everybody is still buying iPads and will continue to do so until a tablet that can actually compete with the iPad is released. (I have only seen two that even come close, the Galaxy and the Transformer, and still...) I think Apple has proven that consumers are willing to pay more if the product is good. And this is all coming from someone that does not own a single Apple product.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Instacart announces new Covid-19 policies and plans to hire 250k more shoppers</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/23/instacart-announces-new-covid-19-policies-and-plans-to-hire-250000-more-shoppers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>Anyone know if they&#x27;ve fixed the bug where someone could set the tip to $50 and then remove it entirely at or after delivery (&quot;tip baiting&quot;)?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nypost.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;04&#x2F;10&#x2F;people-are-baiting-grocery-delivery-workers-with-big-tips-then-reneging&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nypost.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;04&#x2F;10&#x2F;people-are-baiting-grocery-del...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cactus2093</author><text>Bug or feature? If the shopper does a terrible job and brings the complete wrong things, you should be able to reduce the tip.<p>Presumably the argument against this is that it should not be allowed because then the shoppers don&#x27;t make a reasonable living wage. Then why not solve the actual problem? Raise the delivery fee to where the wage is reasonable, don&#x27;t make them rely as heavily on tips.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Instacart announces new Covid-19 policies and plans to hire 250k more shoppers</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/23/instacart-announces-new-covid-19-policies-and-plans-to-hire-250000-more-shoppers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>Anyone know if they&#x27;ve fixed the bug where someone could set the tip to $50 and then remove it entirely at or after delivery (&quot;tip baiting&quot;)?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nypost.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;04&#x2F;10&#x2F;people-are-baiting-grocery-delivery-workers-with-big-tips-then-reneging&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nypost.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;04&#x2F;10&#x2F;people-are-baiting-grocery-del...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FalconSensei</author><text>How are you supposed to tip BEFORE getting your things?<p>I mean, a tip should be according to the service provided. If it takes way longer than expected, or the items are wrong, why would you tip $50?<p>Maybe the problem is allowing the tip to be put before receiving your things...</text></comment>
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<story><title>A Hacker Writes a Children's Book</title><url>http://arthur-johnston.com/hacker_writes_a_childrens_book/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>a-nikolaev</author><text>To me the books looks quite underwhelming. It seems focused too much on the superficial aspects of programming, like jargon a software engineer may mention occasionally at home. It may look fun and appealing to their adult parent. But what can a child learn from it?<p>Maybe doing more with math (even if at 1+1=2 level), repetitive processes as loops, idea of recursion, idea that a computer cannot compute more than one can do with pencil and paper.. More _universal_ aspects of computation can be really illuminating to kids, I think.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jesperlang</author><text>The author says the purpose of this book was to answer &quot;what daddy does at work&quot; so in that regard I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s underwhelming. However, I can&#x27;t help but think that adults (programmers) will enjoy this more than children. As a teaching book for programming it&#x27;s quite underwhelming indeed!<p>I am a programmer but I have always been interested in the learning process and mentoring. So in recent year I have conducted some self-study on these topics. Now this is such an immense topic and I have surrendered to my ignorance on so many levels. But, from what I can tell, there is a lot of dogma that we trust blindly, a lot of great old ideas of course (Piaget, Dewey, etc) that have been a great influence but not enough (and simplifying an incredibly complex topic).<p>Some insights I&#x27;ve had that have made me realize how hard education is getting right (forgive the simplifying, but it needs to fit a HN comment)<p>* Children have many different ways of understanding and sense-making, but we have a very simplified&#x2F;dogmatic view of how chilren learn.<p>* We seem to overemphasize practical activity at the expense of other ways of grasping meaning (e.g abstract thinking)<p>* We make false assumptions: &quot;The absence of abstraction awarness or articulation of it is a sign that abstractions are not at work in their thinking&quot;<p>* ...I could go on..<p>Barely scratching the surface I have realized how little I know. This is such an interesting topic and you can learn a lot studying the pioneers, Piaget, Montessori, etc. but always have a critical eye! More recent literature I can highly recommend the works of Kieran Egan.<p>Being an educator is incredibly rewarding but I think we as programmers need to be much more humble when approaching the teaching practice..</text></comment>
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<story><title>A Hacker Writes a Children's Book</title><url>http://arthur-johnston.com/hacker_writes_a_childrens_book/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>a-nikolaev</author><text>To me the books looks quite underwhelming. It seems focused too much on the superficial aspects of programming, like jargon a software engineer may mention occasionally at home. It may look fun and appealing to their adult parent. But what can a child learn from it?<p>Maybe doing more with math (even if at 1+1=2 level), repetitive processes as loops, idea of recursion, idea that a computer cannot compute more than one can do with pencil and paper.. More _universal_ aspects of computation can be really illuminating to kids, I think.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>racl101</author><text>Yeah, I can see most kids just respond: &quot;huh? Mom, can we read &#x27;The Going To Bed Book&#x27; again?&quot;</text></comment>
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<story><title>What is Jio, and why are tech’s biggest players suddenly obsessed with it?</title><url>https://onezero.medium.com/what-is-jio-and-why-are-techs-biggest-players-suddenly-obsessed-with-it-231ea2d407e4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iamshs</author><text>And more importantly choke-hold over the government bureaucracy. They can essentially bulldoze government over any rules and regulations, and bribe around freely. This is how Reliance got big.</text></item><item><author>ggm</author><text>Because the largest market for growth these entities have outside of China, is India. The middle classes want the goodies, and these players want the income.<p>Jio has the market.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>switch11</author><text>support this 100%<p>if you do your due diligence companies like Reliance (Dhirubhai Ambani) are the reason most honest smart Indians are fleeing the country<p>From things like bribing the government at city and state levels, to &#x27;disappearing competitors&#x27; to going after competitors with the sole purpose of killing them off<p>Of course, now with what is happening with TikTok you could argue US is fast becoming the same<p>you can just buy Government influence instead of having to compete</text></comment>
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<story><title>What is Jio, and why are tech’s biggest players suddenly obsessed with it?</title><url>https://onezero.medium.com/what-is-jio-and-why-are-techs-biggest-players-suddenly-obsessed-with-it-231ea2d407e4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iamshs</author><text>And more importantly choke-hold over the government bureaucracy. They can essentially bulldoze government over any rules and regulations, and bribe around freely. This is how Reliance got big.</text></item><item><author>ggm</author><text>Because the largest market for growth these entities have outside of China, is India. The middle classes want the goodies, and these players want the income.<p>Jio has the market.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>donavanm</author><text>I dont know if Id characterize it exactly like that. But “market access” does seem to be is gained by a Jio tie up. The economist has been covering it regularly. Heres a July write up <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.economist.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;2020&#x2F;07&#x2F;04&#x2F;india-incs-inward-turn" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.economist.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;2020&#x2F;07&#x2F;04&#x2F;india-incs-inw...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target Hosts (2021)</title><url>https://helgeklein.com/blog/windows-os-services-apps-network-connection-target-hosts/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>norman784</author><text>I read a lot of comments here wanting to block the connections, but wouldn’t be easier&#x2F;better to switch to an OS that doesn’t spy you? The answers possibly is no, because they might use X or Y that requires them to use Windows, so a better question is, what holds you back to switch to Linux? (macOS also talks to a lot of servers and collect telemetry as Windows, maybe in a different scale, so isn’t an alternative if you are worried about your data being collected).<p>I personally prefer Linux, but what’s holding me are the streaming services (netflix, amazon, etc), I can only watch SD content if I’m on Linux, so my second opinion is macOS, I can watch at least in a decent resolution and also their notebooks are the best ones out there (the air is amazing between price, performance and battery life) for my use case, that’s also work.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target Hosts (2021)</title><url>https://helgeklein.com/blog/windows-os-services-apps-network-connection-target-hosts/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mananaysiempre</author><text>There seems to be some degree of overcounting in the reported figures: the number of “hosts” is the number of unique hostnames in the table, but the number of “IPs” is a straightforward sum of IP address counts that the table segregates by service, and I refuse to believe that (<i>e.g.</i>) the IP address of login.live.com as resolved by OneDrive is always different from same as resolved by Skype.<p><pre><code> $ curl -fsSL &#x27;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;helgeklein.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;windows-os-services-apps-network-connection-target-hosts&#x2F;&#x27; | pup &#x27;td:nth-child(5)&#x27; text{} | sed &#x27;s&#x2F;:.*$&#x2F;&#x2F;&#x27; | sort -u | wc -l
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There’s also a fair amount of infrastructural stuff such as DigiCert’s OCSP service, and every shard(?) in the Windows Update, OneDrive, etc. CDNs is counted as a separate hostname.<p>Not that I’m happy about of any of these connections, but the report looks much less interesting than the totals alone suggest.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Show HN: Craigslist Car Search </title><url>http://carsabi.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>senthil_rajasek</author><text>According to the Craigslist Terms Of Use (<a href="http://www.craigslist.org/about/terms.of.use" rel="nofollow">http://www.craigslist.org/about/terms.of.use</a>)<p>7. CONDUCT<p>You agree not to post, email, or otherwise make available Content:
...<p>u) use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining tools, or the like to download data from the Service - unless expressly permitted by craigslist;<p>I am wondering if you already have permission from craigslist?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joe_the_user</author><text>I make a point of flagging the various companies that occasionally appear here with scheme for violating craiglist TOS.<p>In this instance, all the ads that I tried to click-through to had been removed already - which shows one good reason for Craiglist not allowing this stuff.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Show HN: Craigslist Car Search </title><url>http://carsabi.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>senthil_rajasek</author><text>According to the Craigslist Terms Of Use (<a href="http://www.craigslist.org/about/terms.of.use" rel="nofollow">http://www.craigslist.org/about/terms.of.use</a>)<p>7. CONDUCT<p>You agree not to post, email, or otherwise make available Content:
...<p>u) use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining tools, or the like to download data from the Service - unless expressly permitted by craigslist;<p>I am wondering if you already have permission from craigslist?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>juiceandjuice</author><text>picclick.com/Craigslist</text></comment>
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<story><title>Collection of awesome projects, blog posts, books, and talks on quantifying risk</title><url>https://github.com/veeral-patel/awesome-risk-quantification</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mathie25</author><text>Good ressources. I&#x27;ve been following Ryan Mcgeehan for a few years, and he&#x27;s really dedicated to the development of simple risk management techniques. Risk management can be really difficult to grasp.<p>Additional interesting ressources:
- Implementing Enterprise Risk Management by James Lam <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.ca&#x2F;Implementing-Enterprise-Risk-Management-Applications&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0471745197&#x2F;ref=sr_1_3?keywords=enterprise+risk+management&amp;qid=1585660164&amp;sr=8-3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.ca&#x2F;Implementing-Enterprise-Risk-Managemen...</a>
- Protivi Guide to Enterprise Risk Management <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.protiviti.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;protivitierm_faqguide.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.protiviti.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;protivitierm_f...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Basic income is just the beginning as Finland looks to citizen-driven governance</title><url>https://www.sitra.fi/en/blogs/basic-income-just-beginning-finland-one-innovative-governments-world-looks-citizen-driven-governance/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>petra</author><text>The reality is that if you want to cover everyone&#x27;s basic needs with $12K, you need to radically reduce the cost of goods and services. How ? That&#x27;s the conversation we should be having.<p>But that than becomes a painful and complex conversation, talking about huge changes in the structure and possibly quality of real-estate, healthcare, transportation and roads, universities, etc and maybe some core tenets of capitalism.<p>But there&#x27;s no way for this conversation to be fruitful and have really big changes - until we have a real crisis - because that&#x27;s how democracies work in general.<p>but here&#x27;s a starting point, anyway:<p>1. Transforming real-estate, from a system largely aimed at profits, into a system that is focused on offering decent living conditions as cheaply as possible.<p>2. Inserting disruptive innovation and real cost reduction into healthcare. And yes, like all disruptive innovation , it probably means lowering quality, at least for some time.</text></item><item><author>aaron-lebo</author><text>It&#x27;ll be really interesting to see how this basic income thing plays out over the next few decades. Basic income is most easily testable in small, high income, relatively homogeneous societies that agree on a more communal way of governing. So, the Nordic countries, see Finland.<p>What is most interesting is how many optimistic and as yet untested claims that basic income advocates make. See this article. Paragraph after paragraph about how this program will work, what the advantages will be, but we don&#x27;t really have any hard numbers, and even once we get them in a limited setting in Finland, or with random people across the US, we have studies that aren&#x27;t generalizable, and we have very few. If n=29 means anything in this context, we&#x27;ve got like 2.5 (not a rigorously considered statement, don&#x27;t hurt me).<p>The really cynical part of me notices how basic income is like the ideal political promise. &quot;Hey, we&#x27;re gonna give you money so you don&#x27;t have to work, and when we do, society is gonna transform into utopia&quot;. We&#x27;ll all be living in Truman Burbank&#x27;s world, apparently. Because of course people won&#x27;t squander their basic income (maybe on Bitcoin?) and if they do, so much for a social safety net.<p>The general populace (not those at the top) are seeing a bad economic situation, so of course their response is yes, meanwhile the people who are the biggest proponents of this as of currently are people like Altman, Zuckerberg, and Musk. The first two have political ambitions, the last is a utopian.<p>Of course when you break down the numbers, it doesn&#x27;t work. How do you make up the 3 trillion a year it would take to give everyone $12k when you almost had healthcare repealed? What programs do you decide to cut and how do you expect the two parties to have a fruitful discussion about it (lol)? These guys will never talk about any rigorous plans because they don&#x27;t have any that would make it through legislation. They also won&#x27;t talk about how crushing and depressing and difficult it is to live on 12k (they have no clue).<p>It sounds like a future where the super rich throw pennies to the peasants and at that point it&#x27;ll be a great excuse. We give you money, why can&#x27;t you pull yourself up by your bootstraps?<p>Will someone lay out a realistic plan detailing how you&#x27;d implement BI in the US?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freeflight</author><text>&gt; The reality is that if you want to cover everyone&#x27;s basic needs with $12K, you need to radically reduce the cost of goods and services. How ? That&#x27;s the conversation we should be having.<p>Why even insist on that $12K number in the first place, isn&#x27;t that like approaching the problem from the wrong end?<p>It&#x27;s something that always puzzled me about economic policymaking, regardless of which country; Changes seem to happen at a pace of years and only with static values, which makes reacting to our modern volatile and interconnected markets, in any useful way, impossible.<p>Case in point the basic income: Ideally the amount of money people get could be linked to the general living costs, adjusted to their area of residence, and some national economic index.<p>Sure the first one could be abused by people registering in more expensive areas while living in cheaper ones, but in the long run, and economic big picture this would only lead to rising prices (and basic income) in the cheaper areas, generated through the spending by the &quot;cheaters&quot;.<p>Imho something really underestimated is how much of an economic boost a basic income would be, it&#x27;d be like the government directly subsidizing general purchasing power, and lot&#x27;s of that will come back to the government in the form of taxes. It&#x27;s like the opposite end version of corporate bailouts and tax giveaways.<p>Looking at a number like 7 trillion from that side, suddenly makes it way less intimidating and way more appealing. It&#x27;s not like money is some finite resource that has to be mined in deep and dangerous caves; When it&#x27;s about saving banks, Big Whatever or waging wars, against something or somebody, there always seems to be more than enough of it?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Basic income is just the beginning as Finland looks to citizen-driven governance</title><url>https://www.sitra.fi/en/blogs/basic-income-just-beginning-finland-one-innovative-governments-world-looks-citizen-driven-governance/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>petra</author><text>The reality is that if you want to cover everyone&#x27;s basic needs with $12K, you need to radically reduce the cost of goods and services. How ? That&#x27;s the conversation we should be having.<p>But that than becomes a painful and complex conversation, talking about huge changes in the structure and possibly quality of real-estate, healthcare, transportation and roads, universities, etc and maybe some core tenets of capitalism.<p>But there&#x27;s no way for this conversation to be fruitful and have really big changes - until we have a real crisis - because that&#x27;s how democracies work in general.<p>but here&#x27;s a starting point, anyway:<p>1. Transforming real-estate, from a system largely aimed at profits, into a system that is focused on offering decent living conditions as cheaply as possible.<p>2. Inserting disruptive innovation and real cost reduction into healthcare. And yes, like all disruptive innovation , it probably means lowering quality, at least for some time.</text></item><item><author>aaron-lebo</author><text>It&#x27;ll be really interesting to see how this basic income thing plays out over the next few decades. Basic income is most easily testable in small, high income, relatively homogeneous societies that agree on a more communal way of governing. So, the Nordic countries, see Finland.<p>What is most interesting is how many optimistic and as yet untested claims that basic income advocates make. See this article. Paragraph after paragraph about how this program will work, what the advantages will be, but we don&#x27;t really have any hard numbers, and even once we get them in a limited setting in Finland, or with random people across the US, we have studies that aren&#x27;t generalizable, and we have very few. If n=29 means anything in this context, we&#x27;ve got like 2.5 (not a rigorously considered statement, don&#x27;t hurt me).<p>The really cynical part of me notices how basic income is like the ideal political promise. &quot;Hey, we&#x27;re gonna give you money so you don&#x27;t have to work, and when we do, society is gonna transform into utopia&quot;. We&#x27;ll all be living in Truman Burbank&#x27;s world, apparently. Because of course people won&#x27;t squander their basic income (maybe on Bitcoin?) and if they do, so much for a social safety net.<p>The general populace (not those at the top) are seeing a bad economic situation, so of course their response is yes, meanwhile the people who are the biggest proponents of this as of currently are people like Altman, Zuckerberg, and Musk. The first two have political ambitions, the last is a utopian.<p>Of course when you break down the numbers, it doesn&#x27;t work. How do you make up the 3 trillion a year it would take to give everyone $12k when you almost had healthcare repealed? What programs do you decide to cut and how do you expect the two parties to have a fruitful discussion about it (lol)? These guys will never talk about any rigorous plans because they don&#x27;t have any that would make it through legislation. They also won&#x27;t talk about how crushing and depressing and difficult it is to live on 12k (they have no clue).<p>It sounds like a future where the super rich throw pennies to the peasants and at that point it&#x27;ll be a great excuse. We give you money, why can&#x27;t you pull yourself up by your bootstraps?<p>Will someone lay out a realistic plan detailing how you&#x27;d implement BI in the US?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>p1esk</author><text><i>you need to radically reduce the cost of goods and services. How ?</i><p>Automation.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Oracle knew about critical Java flaws since April</title><url>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/30/oracle_knew_about_flaws/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>brudgers</author><text><i>"Much like Microsoft's "Patch Tuesday," Java's slow-but-steady patch schedule is designed to give enterprise customers time to properly test the fixes before deploying them."</i><p>Microsoft does not wait for Patch Tuesday when there is a zero day exploit. Or at least not always, as the article implies.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Oracle knew about critical Java flaws since April</title><url>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/30/oracle_knew_about_flaws/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Joeboy</author><text>Why is java still enabled in browsers by default anyway? Who would notice its absence in 2012?</text></comment>
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