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<story><title>Why does sleep become more elusive as we age?</title><url>https://www.salon.com/2023/12/02/why-does-sleep-become-more-elusive-as-we-age-it-has-to-do-with-shifts-in-sleep-architecture/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cracrecry</author><text>Does it?<p>I firmly believe that most problems people have with sleep also depend on modern &quot;way of living&quot;, that is highly Artificial.<p>For example, lots of people have Apnea, and Apnea is highly correlated with being obese, and being obese is normal in the Western world, but it was not 100 years ago.<p>So it is not about being older but about being overweight, something that depends on eating healthy and exercising, that most people do not do.<p>Another important factor is artificial lighting, again a 100 years old thing, people that have used candles know how dim they are, and people using screens in the bedroom until late, specially social media.<p>Social Media is addictive, but you don&#x27;t need to use it, people can stop using it, but they just don&#x27;t want to.<p>Also living in the city is noisy, expensive and stressful. Most people are worried about lots of things, and that makes them sleep badly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tqi</author><text>Respectfully, &quot;I firmly believe&quot; followed by an assertion from a non expert passing as &quot;facts&quot; is a pox on our modern society.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Why does sleep become more elusive as we age?</title><url>https://www.salon.com/2023/12/02/why-does-sleep-become-more-elusive-as-we-age-it-has-to-do-with-shifts-in-sleep-architecture/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cracrecry</author><text>Does it?<p>I firmly believe that most problems people have with sleep also depend on modern &quot;way of living&quot;, that is highly Artificial.<p>For example, lots of people have Apnea, and Apnea is highly correlated with being obese, and being obese is normal in the Western world, but it was not 100 years ago.<p>So it is not about being older but about being overweight, something that depends on eating healthy and exercising, that most people do not do.<p>Another important factor is artificial lighting, again a 100 years old thing, people that have used candles know how dim they are, and people using screens in the bedroom until late, specially social media.<p>Social Media is addictive, but you don&#x27;t need to use it, people can stop using it, but they just don&#x27;t want to.<p>Also living in the city is noisy, expensive and stressful. Most people are worried about lots of things, and that makes them sleep badly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>schwartzworld</author><text>That&#x27;s a very simplistic view of apnea. You don&#x27;t have to be fat to experience it, and this misconception is a bit part of why it&#x27;s underdiagnosed.</text></comment>
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<story><title>British journalist held by police at Luton airport for five hours without arrest</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/sep/20/british-journalist-held-by-police-at-luton-airport-for-five-hours-without-arrest</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>isk517</author><text>My question is out of those 2,498 people stopped how many of them actually had links to terrorisms? I will be extremely generous and say if the number is less than 2000 than sounds like you just have a system in place to harass random people.</text></item><item><author>perihelions</author><text>- <i>&quot;Official figures show 2,498 people were stopped under schedule 7 powers in the year to 30 June, down 6% from a year before.&quot;</i><p>They must employ an entire shift of airport workers dedicated to harassing journalists.<p>Also:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;2013&#x2F;aug&#x2F;18&#x2F;glenn-greenwald-guardian-partner-detained-heathrow" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;2013&#x2F;aug&#x2F;18&#x2F;glenn-greenwal...</a> (<i>&quot;Glenn Greenwald&#x27;s partner detained at Heathrow airport for nine hours&quot;</i>)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6233646">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6233646</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>EvgeniyZh</author><text>For imbalanced data, even accurate system will give tons of false positives. Unless you are willing to tolerate false negatives, having large false positive rate is almost inevitable. Rare disease testing is a popular example, but this one is a good instance to I think.<p>Let&#x27;s say there are 10 million people linked to terrorism in the world and the system is correct 95% of times. Then out of 20000 people, 20 are positives, and 19 will be stopped; out of 19980 negatives, 999 will be stopped.<p>Compared to disease testing you may argue that FP is more harmful, but that&#x27;s a different question. The point is that even very non-random system will be dominated by FP.<p>Edit: in particular, if they stop truly random people and 500 of them are linked to terrorism that implies that 20% of all people passing there are terrorists.</text></comment>
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<story><title>British journalist held by police at Luton airport for five hours without arrest</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/sep/20/british-journalist-held-by-police-at-luton-airport-for-five-hours-without-arrest</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>isk517</author><text>My question is out of those 2,498 people stopped how many of them actually had links to terrorisms? I will be extremely generous and say if the number is less than 2000 than sounds like you just have a system in place to harass random people.</text></item><item><author>perihelions</author><text>- <i>&quot;Official figures show 2,498 people were stopped under schedule 7 powers in the year to 30 June, down 6% from a year before.&quot;</i><p>They must employ an entire shift of airport workers dedicated to harassing journalists.<p>Also:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;2013&#x2F;aug&#x2F;18&#x2F;glenn-greenwald-guardian-partner-detained-heathrow" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;2013&#x2F;aug&#x2F;18&#x2F;glenn-greenwal...</a> (<i>&quot;Glenn Greenwald&#x27;s partner detained at Heathrow airport for nine hours&quot;</i>)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6233646">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6233646</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lessname</author><text>Great question. The journalist named in the article (Matt Broomfield) is asking authorities to delist the PKK (which clearly IS a terrorist organization targeting civilians) as a terrorist organization.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;MattBroomfield1&#x2F;status&#x2F;1509206466351276037" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;MattBroomfield1&#x2F;status&#x2F;15092064663512760...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Google licenses VP8 patents from MPEG-LA</title><url>http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130307006192/en/Google-MPEG-LA-Announce-Agreement-Covering-VP8</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>danbmil99</author><text>Precisely the opposite. If MPEG-LA thought they had VP8 dead to rights, they would never have agreed to this deal -- they would have litigated to the bitter end.<p>This is actually a huge badge of honor for VP8, and a repudiation of the meme that somehow it's just an H.264 knock-off. It's always stunned me that the same community that hates on patent trolls is in love with H264 (aka MPEG4++). MPEG-LA are IMSHO the very definition of trolls -- patenting (and charging royalties for) techniques that were obvious and known art in the video compression community for ages.</text></item><item><author>wmf</author><text>This shows that VP8 wasn't as patent-free as On2/Google claimed. OTOH, there's probably nothing to worry about now since Google has licensed the patents on behalf of everyone.<p>Original context from 2010: <a href="http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/archives/377" rel="nofollow">http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/archives/377</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nl</author><text>There is no such thing as "dead to rights" in a patent war over algorithms. It would come down to the jury, and it would be a gamble (as the disagreement amongst people <i>who should know</i> about whether VP8 infringes or not shows).<p>The risk for MPEG-LA in <i>not</i> agreeing is that the patent pool would collapse - if Google isn't in then why should anyone else remain in the pool?<p>I do agree that this agreement seems to be pretty good for Google though. Their ability to sub license VP8 has the potential to undermine royalties for H264 to the patent pool.<p>BTW, MPEG-LA isn't a patent troll by any conventional definition.<p>Firstly, MPEG-LA <i>doesn't</i> patent anything itself, they are merely an organisation to pool related patents amongst member organisations.<p>Secondly, the member organisations are mostly (all?) the opposite of patent trolls, too: they hold patents in the field because they are <i>actively producing software in the field</i>. That is the opposite of the typical non-practising-entity patent troll model.<p>Thirdly, if you do accept software patents then the patent pool model is actually quite a nice way to manage them. It means people who want to work in the field only have to deal with one entity and gain protection from patent claims from any other company in the field. (Note: I <i>don't</i> accept software patents at all - just pointing out that while they exist this isn't a bad way to do them).<p>I have no real opinion on VP8 vs H264, but I do know that the patent situation is much more complex than you seem to believe.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Google licenses VP8 patents from MPEG-LA</title><url>http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130307006192/en/Google-MPEG-LA-Announce-Agreement-Covering-VP8</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>danbmil99</author><text>Precisely the opposite. If MPEG-LA thought they had VP8 dead to rights, they would never have agreed to this deal -- they would have litigated to the bitter end.<p>This is actually a huge badge of honor for VP8, and a repudiation of the meme that somehow it's just an H.264 knock-off. It's always stunned me that the same community that hates on patent trolls is in love with H264 (aka MPEG4++). MPEG-LA are IMSHO the very definition of trolls -- patenting (and charging royalties for) techniques that were obvious and known art in the video compression community for ages.</text></item><item><author>wmf</author><text>This shows that VP8 wasn't as patent-free as On2/Google claimed. OTOH, there's probably nothing to worry about now since Google has licensed the patents on behalf of everyone.<p>Original context from 2010: <a href="http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/archives/377" rel="nofollow">http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/archives/377</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anon1385</author><text>&#62;It's always stunned me that the same community that hates on patent trolls is in love with H264<p>The same community that hates patent trolls continued to use gif and MP3 for many years, so I'm not sure why use of H264 would surprise you. And are people really 'in love' with it? All I see is people who prefer the clearly technically superior option. Not to mention the fact that many of us live in places where software patents are not relevant, and don't feel inclined to use inferior technology just because of the idiocies of the US legal system.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Amazon Snags Older HBO Shows For Web Streaming</title><url>http://recode.net/2014/04/23/amazon-makes-a-big-move-snags-older-hbo-shows/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jobu</author><text>&quot;In addition, HBO GO will become available on Fire TV, targeting a launch by year-end.&quot;<p>Looks like this deal also adds the last missing checkmark to the Fire TV comparison chart: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fire-TV-streaming-media-player/dp/B00CX5P8FC#compare" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Fire-TV-streaming-media-player&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B00C...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Amazon Snags Older HBO Shows For Web Streaming</title><url>http://recode.net/2014/04/23/amazon-makes-a-big-move-snags-older-hbo-shows/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pvnick</author><text>This is great for Amazon. Looks like they&#x27;re attempting to be the primary outlet for premium big-name content producers, while Netflix is trying to be the primary outlet for their own content, which has the HBOs and Showtimes shying away from doing business with them. Both Netflix&#x27;s and Amazon&#x27;s are viable strategies, and it&#x27;ll be interesting to see which pan&#x27;s out.<p>On the other hand, piracy has gotten <i>way</i> easier. The technology is already here for the more tech savvy to instantly stream (or at least quickly download) The Wire and Game of Thrones, bypassing Amazon, as well as Arrested Development and Orange is the New Black, bypassing Netflix. Netflix and Amazon aren&#x27;t just competing with each other, they&#x27;re competing with illegal p2p technology. And in the case of Netflix, throw in traditional premium content producers as well.<p>Reed Hastings currently has great hair, I expect that&#x27;ll start turning grey real fast.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Fired? Why cooperatives might be your next career choice in tech</title><url>https://medium.com/camplight/fired-why-cooperatives-might-be-your-next-career-choice-in-tech-73d689466609</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fimdomeio</author><text>I&#x27;m currently part of the administration of a co-op. It&#x27;s in Portugal and it&#x27;s a Multisectorial co-op, meaning instead of being focused on one type of activity we do anything as long as we have a member with that skillset. We are an agregation of freelancers and small businesses that go from small scale farming, to web development or architecture. The coop serves as a way to have a lot of the nice things of a bigger corporation like someone to help you with burocratic processes while allowing people to keep their independence. People can be very involved in the decision making or just financially contribute to the central structure. We have both general assemblies where all members vote in a very horizontal process but the day to day work has hierarchies to keep processes going smoothly<p>The biggest thing I&#x27;ve learned from being part of this process is that co-ops vastly destroys competition among peers and replace that we the mindset of &quot;what&#x27;s the best way to benefit the collective&quot;. Best thing to make it work is that it&#x27;s not just altruism, benefiting the collective benefits yourself. Kind of like OSS works.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rpastuszak</author><text>Mind sharing the details? I&#x27;m based in Porto and I&#x27;ve been trying to learn a bit more about working in a co-op.<p>My contact details are in the profile, alternatively feel free to come and say hi: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sonnet.io&#x2F;posts&#x2F;hi&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sonnet.io&#x2F;posts&#x2F;hi&#x2F;</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Fired? Why cooperatives might be your next career choice in tech</title><url>https://medium.com/camplight/fired-why-cooperatives-might-be-your-next-career-choice-in-tech-73d689466609</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fimdomeio</author><text>I&#x27;m currently part of the administration of a co-op. It&#x27;s in Portugal and it&#x27;s a Multisectorial co-op, meaning instead of being focused on one type of activity we do anything as long as we have a member with that skillset. We are an agregation of freelancers and small businesses that go from small scale farming, to web development or architecture. The coop serves as a way to have a lot of the nice things of a bigger corporation like someone to help you with burocratic processes while allowing people to keep their independence. People can be very involved in the decision making or just financially contribute to the central structure. We have both general assemblies where all members vote in a very horizontal process but the day to day work has hierarchies to keep processes going smoothly<p>The biggest thing I&#x27;ve learned from being part of this process is that co-ops vastly destroys competition among peers and replace that we the mindset of &quot;what&#x27;s the best way to benefit the collective&quot;. Best thing to make it work is that it&#x27;s not just altruism, benefiting the collective benefits yourself. Kind of like OSS works.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ranguna</author><text>Hello!<p>Mind sharing the co-op name?<p>I&#x27;m living in Portugal right now and I&#x27;m thinking about switching careers, so I might give that a look.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Surgery, the Ultimate Placebo</title><url>https://www.skepdoc.info/ian-harris-on-surgery-the-ultimate-placebo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>owenversteeg</author><text>Does anyone have any examples of surgeries that are done today in modern medicine that are basically placebo? I&#x27;m surprised the article didn&#x27;t give a single example.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rsync</author><text>&quot;Does anyone have any examples of surgeries that are done today in modern medicine that are basically placebo?&quot;<p>Spinal fusions for injuries not sustained in car accidents or horse throws or ... other <i>literally back-breaking</i> trauma.<p>People with plain old uninteresting everyone-gets-it back pain get spinal fusions - a major, invasive surgery. There is a complicated nexus of obesity, refusal to do PT exercises, and huge economic incentives for surgeons that lead to these procedures.<p>This critical review even mentions a Cochrane review[1]:<p>&quot;... and often does not even result in the spine being fused. That last one is not a big deal, because the results of the surgery are not well correlated with whether or not the spine fuses.&quot;[2]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cochranelibrary.com&#x2F;cdsr&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1002&#x2F;14651858.CD001352.pub3&#x2F;abstract" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cochranelibrary.com&#x2F;cdsr&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1002&#x2F;14651858.CD...</a><p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;doctorskeptic.blogspot.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;08&#x2F;is-lumbar-spine-fusion-just-placebo.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;doctorskeptic.blogspot.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;08&#x2F;is-lumbar-spine-fu...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Surgery, the Ultimate Placebo</title><url>https://www.skepdoc.info/ian-harris-on-surgery-the-ultimate-placebo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>owenversteeg</author><text>Does anyone have any examples of surgeries that are done today in modern medicine that are basically placebo? I&#x27;m surprised the article didn&#x27;t give a single example.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>podiki</author><text>Knee surgery [0] is the one I&#x27;ve heard about before. Placebo (and nocebo) are really interesting effects, but also conflated with regression to the mean. There&#x27;s a nice discussion of this in the very entertaining Math of Life and Death by Kit Yates [1], a fun book for people not normally interested in math especially (but I also found it informative and a good read).<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;study-suggests-common-kne&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;study-suggests-co...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kityates.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kityates.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Userspace isn't slow, some kernel interfaces are</title><url>https://tailscale.com/blog/throughput-improvements/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>majke</author><text>I can chime in with some optimizations (linux).<p>For normal UDP sockets UDP_GRO and UDP_SEGMENT can be even faster than sendmmsg&#x2F;recvmmsg.<p>In Gvisor they decided that read&#x2F;write from tun is slow so they did PACKET_MMAP on raw socket instead. AFAIU they just ignore tap device and run a raw socket on it. Dumping packet from raw socket has faster interface than the device itself.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;google&#x2F;gvisor&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;pkg&#x2F;tcpip&#x2F;link&#x2F;fdbased&#x2F;mmap_unsafe.go#L50" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;google&#x2F;gvisor&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;pkg&#x2F;tcpip&#x2F;link&#x2F;...</a>
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<story><title>Userspace isn't slow, some kernel interfaces are</title><url>https://tailscale.com/blog/throughput-improvements/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rwmj</author><text>For something completely different, you might want to look at Unikernel Linux: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2206.00789" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2206.00789</a> You could run all the code without switching between userspace and the kernel, and you can call into kernel functions directly (with the usual caveats about kernel ABI not being stable).<p>There is a v1 patch posted on LKML, and I think they&#x27;re hoping to get a v2 patch posted by January. If you are interested in a chat with the team, email me rjones redhat.com.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Inside the Windows Console</title><url>https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2018/07/10/windows-command-line-inside-the-windows-console/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>m_st</author><text>I tried using PowerShell or Hyper. But these are just so slow to start. So I&#x27;m always coming back to cmd.exe. It is fast and serves my basic needs just perfect.<p>When I need more, I just type &#x27;bash&#x27;. And bash also starts faster than PowerShell or Hyper.<p>So I don&#x27;t see why they now change WIN+X and Explorer to use PowerShell rather than cmd.exe.<p>Keep improving cmd.exe. But please don&#x27;t make it bloated.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philo23</author><text>There&#x27;s actually an option in Settings to swap between Powershell and cmd.exe in the Win + X menu.<p>On top of that you can actually go in and customise it quite a bit to your own liking as it&#x27;s just a folder inside your local app data: C:\Users\YourWindowsUsername\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WinX</text></comment>
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<story><title>Inside the Windows Console</title><url>https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2018/07/10/windows-command-line-inside-the-windows-console/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>m_st</author><text>I tried using PowerShell or Hyper. But these are just so slow to start. So I&#x27;m always coming back to cmd.exe. It is fast and serves my basic needs just perfect.<p>When I need more, I just type &#x27;bash&#x27;. And bash also starts faster than PowerShell or Hyper.<p>So I don&#x27;t see why they now change WIN+X and Explorer to use PowerShell rather than cmd.exe.<p>Keep improving cmd.exe. But please don&#x27;t make it bloated.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>electricEmu</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure how often you start and stop your shells, but start time is seldom a concern.<p>I enjoy you chose Hyper.js, which uses electron. I&#x27;m not sure what speed you were expecting there. You might try ConEmu <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;conemu.github.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;conemu.github.io&#x2F;</a>.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Initialization in C++ is Seriously Bonkers</title><url>https://mikelui.io/2019/01/03/seriously-bonkers.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ajross</author><text>&gt; [Why is a global variable zero?] Because i has static storage duration, it’s initialized to unsigned zero. Why, you ask? Because the standard says so.<p>No, it&#x27;s because i lives in an area allocated at the OS level, and OS has to have initialized that memory with <i>something</i> (otherwise you&#x27;d have a security bug). The .bss segment has been zeroed, for obvious reasons, since the advent of modern linkage.<p>The explanation is backwards. The reason that stack variables are <i>UN</i>initialized is (contra the article which thinks it&#x27;s because the programmer didn&#x27;t put an initializer in the source code) that memory is on the stack, which is allocated internal to your program and in practice was used previously by some other call for some other purpose.<p>The fact that stack variables are uninitialized by default is actually an intentional feature, not a bug, as it correctly expresses the behavior of the runtime environment. Now, it may not be a <i>good</i> feature, and modern language designs have omitted it (by, let&#x27;s remember, relying on much better modern compilers to elide all the extra code that would otherwise have been needed to zero out a stack frame!).<p>But it&#x27;s got nothing to do with the syntax of the language. You can rely on .bss being zero in assembly, and similarly be surprised that stack memory is going to have junk in it.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Initialization in C++ is Seriously Bonkers</title><url>https://mikelui.io/2019/01/03/seriously-bonkers.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tines</author><text>In my view this author falls into the camp of people calling C++ a mess because it gives them too much control when they ask for it. One of his examples which he calls &quot;The Abyss&quot;:<p><pre><code> #include &lt;iostream&gt;
struct A {
A(std::initializer_list&lt;int&gt; l) : i(2) {}
A(int i = 1) : i(i) {}
int i;
};
int main() {
A a1;
A a2{};
A a3(3);
A a4 = {5};
A a5{4, 3, 2};
std::cout &lt;&lt; a1.i &lt;&lt; &quot; &quot;
&lt;&lt; a2.i &lt;&lt; &quot; &quot;
&lt;&lt; a3.i &lt;&lt; &quot; &quot;
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he claims to be mysterious but is actually pretty reasonable.<p>In the case of:<p>a1: There is no initializer list in the variable declaration, so ctor 2 is called.<p>a2: An empty initializer list should reasonably behave like a default constructor, and a default constructor should be more efficient than processing an initializer_list, so ctor 2 is called. In general, the constructor with the matching number of arguments and correct types is preferred over initializer_list constructors. Makes sense, being able to specialize on number and type of arguments is more powerful than a design where a single initializer_list ctor invalidates all other ctors.<p>a3: No list, ctor 2 is called.<p>a4: Non-empty init list and no specialized non-init-list ctor, so ctor 1 is called.<p>a5: Several-variable init list and no overriding 3-variable constructor with matching types, therefore ctor 1 is called.<p>Complex? Maybe, but that&#x27;s what you get with C++: very fine control of program semantics, benefit being expressive libraries. No other language fills this niche that I&#x27;m aware of.<p>I agree that C++ isn&#x27;t a good language to teach in a CS 101 class. But no other single language is good either. The goal of CS 101 is to not make students give up before they get hooked, and that can happen because the material is too challenging or not challenging enough. For people in the former category, give them a scripting language and visual feedback, like Lua + Garrysmod. For the latter, give them assembly, haskell, C, C++ (teaching it like &quot;C with templates&quot; not &quot;C with classes&quot;).</text></comment>
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<story><title>The iPad's new cursor and keyboard</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/06/how-apple-reinvented-the-cursor-for-ipad/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>banana_giraffe</author><text>Having used the iPad with a mouse and now a trackpad for a while, I&#x27;ve got to say I don&#x27;t like the mouse cursor turning into the button. It feels like the cursor gets &quot;trapped&quot; in the button, and often I can lose track of which button has focus since the hint can be rather subtle on some buttons.<p>Mostly, I just want a normal mouse cursor.<p>Of course, Apple isn&#x27;t designing for a user like me, though, I&#x27;m really not sure what user they&#x27;ve designed this mouse cursor for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>valine</author><text>You can turn off that behavior in accessibility settings, then it behaves like a normal mouse.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The iPad's new cursor and keyboard</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/06/how-apple-reinvented-the-cursor-for-ipad/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>banana_giraffe</author><text>Having used the iPad with a mouse and now a trackpad for a while, I&#x27;ve got to say I don&#x27;t like the mouse cursor turning into the button. It feels like the cursor gets &quot;trapped&quot; in the button, and often I can lose track of which button has focus since the hint can be rather subtle on some buttons.<p>Mostly, I just want a normal mouse cursor.<p>Of course, Apple isn&#x27;t designing for a user like me, though, I&#x27;m really not sure what user they&#x27;ve designed this mouse cursor for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ramensea</author><text>It seems like an anti-pattern to me.<p>Also saying Apple reinvented the cursor is a bit much. Highlighting elements, snapping, and changing the cursor weren&#x27;t just invented. The author really bought into Apple&#x27;s marketing here.</text></comment>
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<story><title>We Only Hire the Trendiest (2016)</title><url>http://danluu.com/programmer-moneyball/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>plughs</author><text>One frustration I&#x27;ve had recently is the number of companies encouraging or requiring code in the public sphere. They want to see open-source contributions or an active and impressive personal github page. If your employer is protective of their IP ( mine is ) and&#x2F;or you are not willing to spend evenings and and weekends on pet projects, you are out of the running.<p>Also<p>&gt;But if you think programmers aren&#x27;t elitist, try wearing a suit and tie to an interview sometime.<p>If I had my way this would be considered employment discrimination and grounds for a lawsuit. At minimum it blatantly discriminates against national origin, expecting an engineer fresh from Nigeria to understand these secret &#x27;culture&#x27; norms. Age? Race? Religion? Is a Muslim woman wearing a hijab going have any chance of making it past the first phone interview? I have my doubts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hyperpape</author><text>You may enjoy a tweet of Dan&#x27;s, where he says his open source code has been completely irrelevant in most of his interviews: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;danluu&#x2F;status&#x2F;806222862663053312" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;danluu&#x2F;status&#x2F;806222862663053312</a>.<p>Lest you think he&#x27;s just a superstar who doesn&#x27;t care about interviews, he says he&#x27;s quite bad at them <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;danluu&#x2F;status&#x2F;1058029337923014656" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;danluu&#x2F;status&#x2F;1058029337923014656</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>We Only Hire the Trendiest (2016)</title><url>http://danluu.com/programmer-moneyball/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>plughs</author><text>One frustration I&#x27;ve had recently is the number of companies encouraging or requiring code in the public sphere. They want to see open-source contributions or an active and impressive personal github page. If your employer is protective of their IP ( mine is ) and&#x2F;or you are not willing to spend evenings and and weekends on pet projects, you are out of the running.<p>Also<p>&gt;But if you think programmers aren&#x27;t elitist, try wearing a suit and tie to an interview sometime.<p>If I had my way this would be considered employment discrimination and grounds for a lawsuit. At minimum it blatantly discriminates against national origin, expecting an engineer fresh from Nigeria to understand these secret &#x27;culture&#x27; norms. Age? Race? Religion? Is a Muslim woman wearing a hijab going have any chance of making it past the first phone interview? I have my doubts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>malvosenior</author><text>As someone who uses Github and OSS contribution as a strong hiring signal, I&#x27;d like to offer an alternative perspective. People who do a lot of personal projects tend to be very good developers, especially when you can see a demonstrated ability to ship.<p>This is also helpful for people who haven&#x27;t worked at big name companies or don&#x27;t have degrees from elite universities. I&#x27;d happily hire someone with no experience and no degree if I can see multiple impressive projects they&#x27;ve built for themselves (I&#x27;ve done this, and it&#x27;s worked out very well).<p>Yes, it works against people who don&#x27;t like to code in their personal time, but it also removes a bunch of filters and in my experience works better than anything else for finding good candidates.</text></comment>
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<story><title>One million cancel broadband as living costs rise</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65622403</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EddieEngineers</author><text>Five Guys has always been that price, but I agree with your point. As a Brit, the US is pretty crazy too though. I just saw a single broccoli for $7 at a grocery store in Palo Alto.<p>On my $172k salary I pay $59k in taxes which is roughly $1k more than I&#x27;d pay in the UK <i>but</i> in the UK that includes national insurance while in the US I pay health insurance on top. So while taxes sound crazy in the UK it&#x27;s not actually different to the US - it&#x27;s all marginal. VAT is only 7.25% in California <i>but</i> then you have to add 15-20% in tips when you&#x27;re out.</text></item><item><author>jameshush</author><text>Visiting family in the UK for the first time in about five years. Costs here are _way_ higher than I remember. I bought three hamburgers, three drinks, and two large pops at a burger shop here, the total was 48 GBP (about $60 USD). This was at Five Guys. I couldn&#x27;t believe it.<p>I visited my co-worker in the UK, and over some beers, he mentioned he&#x27;s getting taxed at 48-50% on top of this. Also 20% VAT on regular shopping. I couldn&#x27;t believe it, so he pulled up his pay stub on his phone and showed me.<p>Family members out here who are working non-tech regular jobs are telling me they had to cut back on turning on their heating at night during the winter. I grew up in Canada, and lived seven years in Los Angeles, but now live in Asia. I don&#x27;t know how the UK is going to get back to where it was 10ish years ago.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>HDThoreaun</author><text>California&#x27;s tax rate is much higher than the rest of the country. The bay area&#x27;s brocoli prices are much higher than anywhere except times square. The vast majority of the country is not facing prices like these.</text></comment>
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<story><title>One million cancel broadband as living costs rise</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65622403</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EddieEngineers</author><text>Five Guys has always been that price, but I agree with your point. As a Brit, the US is pretty crazy too though. I just saw a single broccoli for $7 at a grocery store in Palo Alto.<p>On my $172k salary I pay $59k in taxes which is roughly $1k more than I&#x27;d pay in the UK <i>but</i> in the UK that includes national insurance while in the US I pay health insurance on top. So while taxes sound crazy in the UK it&#x27;s not actually different to the US - it&#x27;s all marginal. VAT is only 7.25% in California <i>but</i> then you have to add 15-20% in tips when you&#x27;re out.</text></item><item><author>jameshush</author><text>Visiting family in the UK for the first time in about five years. Costs here are _way_ higher than I remember. I bought three hamburgers, three drinks, and two large pops at a burger shop here, the total was 48 GBP (about $60 USD). This was at Five Guys. I couldn&#x27;t believe it.<p>I visited my co-worker in the UK, and over some beers, he mentioned he&#x27;s getting taxed at 48-50% on top of this. Also 20% VAT on regular shopping. I couldn&#x27;t believe it, so he pulled up his pay stub on his phone and showed me.<p>Family members out here who are working non-tech regular jobs are telling me they had to cut back on turning on their heating at night during the winter. I grew up in Canada, and lived seven years in Los Angeles, but now live in Asia. I don&#x27;t know how the UK is going to get back to where it was 10ish years ago.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adventured</author><text>If you&#x27;re capable of earning $172,000 in salary in the US, you can trivially get an employer that covers essentially all the cost of your health insurance (if that&#x27;s an important arrangement wherever you&#x27;re at in life; ie if you want that packaged into your total compensation vs taxes calculation). That&#x27;s the typical situation for someone with a salary that high in the US. Your scenario is pretending that people earning so much are commonly having to cover the cost of their health insurance, which is not the case.<p>Which is simultaneously in no way defending the mess that is US healthcare.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Rustdoc résumé</title><url>https://yozhgoor.github.io/yohan_boogaert_1995/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>paulgb</author><text>As usual with quirky resumes, I think a lot of people are missing the point. Nobody is suggesting that we all start using rustdoc for our resumes.<p>It&#x27;s a fun, different way of presenting a resume. The fact that it made it to the front page of HN means it worked at what it was intended to do: be seen by a bunch of prospective employers and stand out.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Rustdoc résumé</title><url>https://yozhgoor.github.io/yohan_boogaert_1995/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>actually_a_dog</author><text>My impression: this is cute, but confusing. I don&#x27;t like having to mentally translate things like &quot;modules&quot; and &quot;constants&quot; into headings that would appear in a resume.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Did the early medieval era ever take place?</title><url>https://jonn.substack.com/p/did-the-early-medieval-era-ever-really</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kmeisthax</author><text>For me, the thing that kills the theory for me is the idea that, <i>in the middle of western Europe being about as politically stable and integrated as modern Afghanistan</i>, all the warlords pillaging the country to kill each other were able to not only unanimously agree on &quot;let&#x27;s change the year to a nice round number&quot;, but were also able to coordinate this without leaving <i>any</i> historical records of it.<p>Here&#x27;s the thing about conspiracies: they have a shelf life. The amount of time you can keep a conspiracy secret is bounded by the number of conspirators, how well you can get them to shut up, and how long it has been since the conspiracy occurred. You can take a secret only you know to your grave, but work in a group of ten and <i>someone</i> will confess before their death. Bring in hundreds or thousands and the conspiracy will be blown open accidentally before you can even execute on it.<p>Now think of how many people had to cooperate to change something as simple and fundamental as the passage of recorded history. Hell, forget the fact that these were all angry, violent warlords; just think of how many scribes, monks, and bureaucrats would all have to remember to write 1000 instead of 736 whenever they wrote a date. It only takes one slip-up to reveal the fraud to archaeologists in the far future, even if they all agreed that they wanted to live in the nice round-number millennium. And nobody would be trying to protect against that because nobody would be thinking, &quot;how do we hide this from 21st century archaeologists trying to discover our time crimes?&quot;</text></item><item><author>antognini</author><text>The point about the Gregorian calendar being off by only 10 days instead of the expected 13 is especially interesting because it&#x27;s easy to see how you could regard it as a sort of &quot;smoking gun&quot; of the Phantom Time Hypothesis. The supposed lack of archaeological evidence is suggestive, but can be pretty easily dismissed with &quot;absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.&quot; But here you have a prediction that about 300 years are missing and this would directly explain the observed discrepancy in the drift of the calendar.<p>As the author points out the problem is resolved because the Gregorian calendar reform only intended to reset the calendar back to the time of the Council of Nicaea, not the date when the Julian calendar was originally adopted.<p>It&#x27;s a neat example of how a theory&#x27;s smoking gun can sometimes have an entirely unrelated explanation and a warning that even when you think you&#x27;ve found conclusive proof, it&#x27;s important to keep digging.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ornxka</author><text>&gt;I know the resurrection is a fact, and Watergate proved it to me. How? Because 12 men testified they had seen Jesus raised from the dead, then they proclaimed that truth for 40 years, never once denying it. Every one was beaten, tortured, stoned and put in prison. They would not have endured that if it weren&#x27;t true. Watergate embroiled 12 of the most powerful men in the world-and they couldn&#x27;t keep a lie for three weeks. You&#x27;re telling me 12 apostles could keep a lie for 40 years? Absolutely impossible.<p>- Charles Colson, advisor to Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal</text></comment>
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<story><title>Did the early medieval era ever take place?</title><url>https://jonn.substack.com/p/did-the-early-medieval-era-ever-really</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kmeisthax</author><text>For me, the thing that kills the theory for me is the idea that, <i>in the middle of western Europe being about as politically stable and integrated as modern Afghanistan</i>, all the warlords pillaging the country to kill each other were able to not only unanimously agree on &quot;let&#x27;s change the year to a nice round number&quot;, but were also able to coordinate this without leaving <i>any</i> historical records of it.<p>Here&#x27;s the thing about conspiracies: they have a shelf life. The amount of time you can keep a conspiracy secret is bounded by the number of conspirators, how well you can get them to shut up, and how long it has been since the conspiracy occurred. You can take a secret only you know to your grave, but work in a group of ten and <i>someone</i> will confess before their death. Bring in hundreds or thousands and the conspiracy will be blown open accidentally before you can even execute on it.<p>Now think of how many people had to cooperate to change something as simple and fundamental as the passage of recorded history. Hell, forget the fact that these were all angry, violent warlords; just think of how many scribes, monks, and bureaucrats would all have to remember to write 1000 instead of 736 whenever they wrote a date. It only takes one slip-up to reveal the fraud to archaeologists in the far future, even if they all agreed that they wanted to live in the nice round-number millennium. And nobody would be trying to protect against that because nobody would be thinking, &quot;how do we hide this from 21st century archaeologists trying to discover our time crimes?&quot;</text></item><item><author>antognini</author><text>The point about the Gregorian calendar being off by only 10 days instead of the expected 13 is especially interesting because it&#x27;s easy to see how you could regard it as a sort of &quot;smoking gun&quot; of the Phantom Time Hypothesis. The supposed lack of archaeological evidence is suggestive, but can be pretty easily dismissed with &quot;absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.&quot; But here you have a prediction that about 300 years are missing and this would directly explain the observed discrepancy in the drift of the calendar.<p>As the author points out the problem is resolved because the Gregorian calendar reform only intended to reset the calendar back to the time of the Council of Nicaea, not the date when the Julian calendar was originally adopted.<p>It&#x27;s a neat example of how a theory&#x27;s smoking gun can sometimes have an entirely unrelated explanation and a warning that even when you think you&#x27;ve found conclusive proof, it&#x27;s important to keep digging.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dehrmann</author><text>&gt; Bring in hundreds or thousands and the conspiracy will be blown open accidentally<p>There&#x27;s still a credibility issue. There are a lot of people who claim to have worked for the government and have direct knowledge of extraterrestrials. They mostly come across as crazy, but this might also be what a conspiracy looks like. Even when people expose it, they just look crazy and are easily dismissed.</text></comment>
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<story><title>UBS offers to buy Credit Suisse for up to $1B</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/ec4be743-052a-4381-a923-c2fbd7ea9cfd</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>helsinkiandrew</author><text>&gt; The offer was communicated on Sunday morning with a price of SFr0.25 a share to be paid in UBS stock, far below Credit Suisse’s closing price of SFr1.86 on Friday, the people said<p>1&#x2F;7 of the Friday closing price - this is heading into the Matt Levine &quot;we will buy your bank, make sure that all your customers are made whole, and give you a Snickers bar in exchange for 100% of the equity&quot; territory</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>OscarTheGrinch</author><text>&quot;Credit Suisse has spent the last decade finding astonishing new ways to lose money and embarrass itself (...) It&#x27;s failings have included a criminal conviction for allowing drug dealers to launder money in Bulgaria, entanglement in a Mozambique corruption case, a spying scandal involving a former employee and an executive and a massive leak of client data to the media, (...) not to mention its losses on the Archegos and Greensill scandals.&quot;<p>Matt Levine is a treasure.</text></comment>
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<story><title>UBS offers to buy Credit Suisse for up to $1B</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/ec4be743-052a-4381-a923-c2fbd7ea9cfd</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>helsinkiandrew</author><text>&gt; The offer was communicated on Sunday morning with a price of SFr0.25 a share to be paid in UBS stock, far below Credit Suisse’s closing price of SFr1.86 on Friday, the people said<p>1&#x2F;7 of the Friday closing price - this is heading into the Matt Levine &quot;we will buy your bank, make sure that all your customers are made whole, and give you a Snickers bar in exchange for 100% of the equity&quot; territory</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>HWR_14</author><text>In the US the government can step in and force you to take that offer. Specifically, they can tell you if you don&#x27;t accept it the FDIC can take over your bank and auction it off for maybe the snickers bar.<p>Is there such a mechanism in Switzerland? Because at &quot;a snickers bar&quot;, a lot of people wouldn&#x27;t sell out even though it&#x27;s better for all their depositors. They may be tempted to roll the dice and hope for a giant win. After all, they get way more upside and it&#x27;s not their money (primarily) they are risking</text></comment>
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<story><title>Casio adds fitness features to original G-Shock digital watch</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/casio-g-shock-digital-watch-fitness-tracking-heart-rate-1850357822</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hammock</author><text>Distinction without a difference. When Chevrolet added a convertible top to the original Corvette they didn’t go in people’s driveways and cut the roofs off</text></item><item><author>jrmg</author><text>The title says “Casio Adds Fitness Features to Original G-Shock Digital Watch”.<p>They haven’t added features to the ‘original’ one at all. They’re releasing two _new_ G-Shock watches with more features, including some fitness features.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arrrg</author><text>In my mind G-Shock is a brand of watch and there are many different ones.<p>So the statement “Casio releases a G-Shock watch with fitness features” makes sense. “Casio adds fitness features to G-Shock digital watch” also makes sense. The “original” is a bit confusing to me. And judging by the comments here others, too.<p>I get why it’s in the headline. This fitness watch is sort of styled like the very first (= “original”, though given the plethora of G-Shock watches and their enormous diversity that seems like a weird way of framing it) G-Shock watch from 1983.<p>Maybe “Casio releases 40th anniversary G-Shock watch with fitness features”.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Casio adds fitness features to original G-Shock digital watch</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/casio-g-shock-digital-watch-fitness-tracking-heart-rate-1850357822</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hammock</author><text>Distinction without a difference. When Chevrolet added a convertible top to the original Corvette they didn’t go in people’s driveways and cut the roofs off</text></item><item><author>jrmg</author><text>The title says “Casio Adds Fitness Features to Original G-Shock Digital Watch”.<p>They haven’t added features to the ‘original’ one at all. They’re releasing two _new_ G-Shock watches with more features, including some fitness features.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>InitialLastName</author><text>The difference is between &quot;Company releases new product in current line with X feature&quot; and &quot;Company releases software update that provides X feature to current products in the field&quot;. &quot;Company updates product line with X feature&quot; is ambiguous between the two.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Javascript exploit actively used against TorBrowser</title><url>https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2016-November/042639.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>micaksica</author><text>If TBB leads want to run Firefox with JavaScript &quot;default on&quot;, then Tor Browser Bundle needs to be messaged as insecure. Either that or turn on NoScript and inform people what bad shit can happen when their browser is interpreting arbitrary code in a not-so-sandboxed manner. TBB is <i>not</i> a solution against targeted deanonymization attacks.<p>This is neither the first nor is the last 0day in Firefox that will affect TBB.<p>IMO the best practical mitigation against these attacks is sandboxing with an amnesic system like Tails, as even as a VM it will leak a lot less information about the machine it is running on and requires burning both a Firefox 0day and a VM escape to get any real information outside of the real IP address of the user and some basic things out of &#x2F;proc (although Tails may protect against the latter now). Also, as the whole VM goes away when it&#x27;s closed, you&#x27;re not getting persistence on that machine if you just pop the browser.<p>A 30 second glance at the source code makes it looks like this exploit pivots to attacker-controlled memory on the heap, and spawns a thread using kernel32.dll. As EMET has hardening against attacks like this, I am curious if this exploit works at all on EMET-enabled Windows systems.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Javascript exploit actively used against TorBrowser</title><url>https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2016-November/042639.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tlrobinson</author><text>I feel like Tor Browser should just spin up a fresh VM with a minimal Linux distribution and fullscreen Tor browser, with the VM&#x27;s only networking tunneled through Tor.<p>I think Hyper-V can do graphics as well and it looks like bhyve added some sort of graphics support earlier this year, but xhyve has none. Not sure if there are any other lightweight hypervisors that support graphics (or maybe just use a protocol like X11 or VNC?).<p>Docker for Mac and Docker for Windows have done a great job of hiding the fact that it&#x27;s using virtualization from users (but doesn&#x27;t need graphics, of course)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Amazon fires worker who led strike over virus</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-30/amazon-worker-who-led-strike-over-virus-says-company-fired-him</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joshuaellinger</author><text>I really hate it when people use he said&#x2F;she said type arguments to pretend that they are being objective and &#x27;rigorous&#x27;.<p>There is a reason that the courts have something called &#x27;burden of proof&#x27;.<p>When an individual worker does something a large company doesn&#x27;t like and they fire him, the burden of proof in my mind is on the company. Because HR has professionals and if they can&#x27;t tell a better story than what we are seeing, then retaliation is the reason 90% of the time.<p>It isn&#x27;t unclear. It is perfectly normal for companies to get rid of the whistle blowers. That&#x27;s why there are (weakly enforced) laws against it.</text></item><item><author>Reedx</author><text>We should apply rigor to both sides. Each has incentive to cherry pick and mislead.<p>&gt; key point Amazon claims he was exposed to the worker on March 11th<p>Did they claim that? I&#x27;m looking for a source on this. &quot;According to the company’s previous statements, the infected co-worker in question last reported for work on 11 March&quot;, but when you look at their linked source[1] it says: &quot;Amazon confirmed an associate, who reported for work on 11 March, has since been diagnosed with Covid-19&quot;.<p>&gt; “No one else was put on quarantine,” he said<p>Is this confirmed? You can&#x27;t just assume this to be true. Pretty damning if so, though.<p>&gt; “You put me on quarantine for coming into contact with somebody, but I was around [that person] for less than five minutes,” he told Vice.<p>Viral transmission has no minimum timeline and often occurs at first point of contact (e.g., handshake) or cough&#x2F;sneeze at any time. Kind of irresponsible to even print that quote without correcting the argument.<p>It may be that Amazon retaliated, but stuff like this doesn&#x27;t prove it. We need the hard facts. At this point it&#x27;s unclear and sounds fishy on both sides.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;2020&#x2F;mar&#x2F;30&#x2F;amazon-workers-strike-coronavirus" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;2020&#x2F;mar&#x2F;30&#x2F;amazon-wo...</a></text></item><item><author>BoiledCabbage</author><text>Here is the key point Amazon claims he was exposed to the worker on March 11th. Over the weekened he said he is organizing a strike, so over the weekend they order him and only him into quarantine. A full 18 days after his 5 min exposure. From my reading of it, this almost certainly looks like retaliatory action due to the strike, and a company using the excuse of quarantine to cover it up.<p>Key excerpts from a much clearer article. And yet again, why you never 100% believe a company&#x27;s PR response when they&#x27;re trying to cover themselves. They tell just enough truth, but use it to intentionally mislead.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;us-news&#x2F;2020&#x2F;mar&#x2F;31&#x2F;amazon-strike-worker-fired-organizing-walkout-chris-smallls" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;us-news&#x2F;2020&#x2F;mar&#x2F;31&#x2F;amazon-strik...</a><p>&gt; <i>According to the company’s previous statements, the infected co-worker in question last reported for work on 11 March. Had Smalls been exposed that day, a 14-day mandatory quarantine would have made him eligible to return as soon as 25 March.</i><p>&gt; Smalls said Amazon did not send him home until <i>28 March, three weeks after the exposure.</i><p>&gt; “No one else was put on quarantine,” he said, even as the infected person worked alongside “associates for 10-plus hours a week”.<p>&gt; “You put me on quarantine for coming into contact with somebody, but I was around [that person] for less than five minutes,” he told Vice.<p>&gt; According to Amazon, no one else was fired. Smalls said he was considering legal action, calling it “a no-brainer”.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tidepod12</author><text>It&#x27;s weird that you mention courts and then in the next sentence say this:<p>&gt;the burden of proof in my mind is on the company<p>Because that is not how the courts operate. It is up to the person making the accusation (which in this case is the employee accusing Amazon of an unjust firing) to provide proof.<p>If you want to start dismissing all &quot;he said&#x2F;she said&quot; arguments, then we might as well shut down this entire thread. We are never going to get any further than &quot;he said&#x2F;she said&quot; unless someone in this thread has insider knowledge of this situation and is willing to break privacy agreements.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Amazon fires worker who led strike over virus</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-30/amazon-worker-who-led-strike-over-virus-says-company-fired-him</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joshuaellinger</author><text>I really hate it when people use he said&#x2F;she said type arguments to pretend that they are being objective and &#x27;rigorous&#x27;.<p>There is a reason that the courts have something called &#x27;burden of proof&#x27;.<p>When an individual worker does something a large company doesn&#x27;t like and they fire him, the burden of proof in my mind is on the company. Because HR has professionals and if they can&#x27;t tell a better story than what we are seeing, then retaliation is the reason 90% of the time.<p>It isn&#x27;t unclear. It is perfectly normal for companies to get rid of the whistle blowers. That&#x27;s why there are (weakly enforced) laws against it.</text></item><item><author>Reedx</author><text>We should apply rigor to both sides. Each has incentive to cherry pick and mislead.<p>&gt; key point Amazon claims he was exposed to the worker on March 11th<p>Did they claim that? I&#x27;m looking for a source on this. &quot;According to the company’s previous statements, the infected co-worker in question last reported for work on 11 March&quot;, but when you look at their linked source[1] it says: &quot;Amazon confirmed an associate, who reported for work on 11 March, has since been diagnosed with Covid-19&quot;.<p>&gt; “No one else was put on quarantine,” he said<p>Is this confirmed? You can&#x27;t just assume this to be true. Pretty damning if so, though.<p>&gt; “You put me on quarantine for coming into contact with somebody, but I was around [that person] for less than five minutes,” he told Vice.<p>Viral transmission has no minimum timeline and often occurs at first point of contact (e.g., handshake) or cough&#x2F;sneeze at any time. Kind of irresponsible to even print that quote without correcting the argument.<p>It may be that Amazon retaliated, but stuff like this doesn&#x27;t prove it. We need the hard facts. At this point it&#x27;s unclear and sounds fishy on both sides.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;2020&#x2F;mar&#x2F;30&#x2F;amazon-workers-strike-coronavirus" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;2020&#x2F;mar&#x2F;30&#x2F;amazon-wo...</a></text></item><item><author>BoiledCabbage</author><text>Here is the key point Amazon claims he was exposed to the worker on March 11th. Over the weekened he said he is organizing a strike, so over the weekend they order him and only him into quarantine. A full 18 days after his 5 min exposure. From my reading of it, this almost certainly looks like retaliatory action due to the strike, and a company using the excuse of quarantine to cover it up.<p>Key excerpts from a much clearer article. And yet again, why you never 100% believe a company&#x27;s PR response when they&#x27;re trying to cover themselves. They tell just enough truth, but use it to intentionally mislead.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;us-news&#x2F;2020&#x2F;mar&#x2F;31&#x2F;amazon-strike-worker-fired-organizing-walkout-chris-smallls" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;us-news&#x2F;2020&#x2F;mar&#x2F;31&#x2F;amazon-strik...</a><p>&gt; <i>According to the company’s previous statements, the infected co-worker in question last reported for work on 11 March. Had Smalls been exposed that day, a 14-day mandatory quarantine would have made him eligible to return as soon as 25 March.</i><p>&gt; Smalls said Amazon did not send him home until <i>28 March, three weeks after the exposure.</i><p>&gt; “No one else was put on quarantine,” he said, even as the infected person worked alongside “associates for 10-plus hours a week”.<p>&gt; “You put me on quarantine for coming into contact with somebody, but I was around [that person] for less than five minutes,” he told Vice.<p>&gt; According to Amazon, no one else was fired. Smalls said he was considering legal action, calling it “a no-brainer”.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leftyted</author><text>&gt; There is a reason that the courts have something called &#x27;burden of proof&#x27;.<p>Definitely.<p>&gt; When an individual worker does something a large company doesn&#x27;t like and they fire him, the burden of proof in my mind is on the company. Because HR has professionals and if they can&#x27;t tell a better story than what we are seeing, then retaliation is the reason 90% of the time.<p>You don&#x27;t appear to understand why courts have &quot;something called burden of proof&quot;. In court, the burden of proof is on the person who was fired. They must show that they were fired illegally. You can&#x27;t just randomly assign &quot;burden of proof&quot; based on your ideological bias.<p>&gt; I really hate it when people use he said&#x2F;she said type arguments to pretend that they are being objective and &#x27;rigorous&#x27;.<p>Sounds like you &quot;really hate it&quot; when people express a preference for finding out what really happened.<p>I have no strong opinion about this specific case.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Udacity plans to build its own open-source self-driving car</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/13/udacity-plans-to-build-its-own-open-source-self-driving-car/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>SwellJoe</author><text>Given how important self-driving vehicles are, on so many fronts, I think it&#x27;s fantastic that a company with resources is pushing forward an OSS implementation. Safety alone is reason enough for there to be a good OSS reference implementation. I&#x27;m surprised&#x2F;disappointed that government hasn&#x27;t been more instrumental in pushing forward an agenda of promoting self-driving cars (while expending resources on other types of work that will be far less effective long-term).<p>So, this is super cool. I&#x27;m surprised it&#x27;s Udacity doing it; on a couple of fronts:<p>It seems, on the surface, outside of their core competency...but thinking about it, it does make some sense, if they really have enough paying students (and maybe sponsoring organizations) to make it work. I mean, schools that teach auto repair don&#x27;t work on fake cars. Why would a school teaching self-driving limit themselves to simulated cars?<p>But, it&#x27;s also surprising that Udacity has the funds to make it work. The cost of building self-driving car technology must have come way down just in the past few years. And&#x2F;or Udacity must be making a lot more money than I would have guessed based on how crowded their market is.<p>Regardless, it&#x27;s super cool!</text></comment>
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<story><title>The billable hour is a trap into which more and more of us are falling</title><url>https://timharford.com/2022/05/the-billable-hour-is-a-trap-into-which-more-and-more-of-us-are-falling/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>I&#x27;ve been beating a related drum on HN for years, about billing hours, and I&#x27;ll try not to repeat too much of it:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=false&amp;query=bill%20hourly%20author%3Atptacek&amp;sort=byPopularity&amp;type=comment" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=false&amp;qu...</a><p>I know this post is mostly not about billing strategy (though that&#x27;s what the thread is now about), but I&#x27;m going to chime in with a simple bit of advice for tech workers that I believe is universally applicable:<p>Bill days, minimum.<p>A lot of the pathologies involved in metered billing, time tracking, and perverse incentives vanish when you bill days instead of hours. People have all sorts of weird excuses to talk themselves out of billing days --- &quot;what if I only have an hour worth of work to do?&quot; Bill a day. See how easy it is?<p>The last consulting company I built had a minimum billing increment of <i>a fiscal quarter</i>. I co-ran a consulting company for almost 10 years that did minimum-daily billing, for a pretty big and diverse set of clients, and nobody pushed back on the billable day. Bill days (minimum), not hours!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>edanm</author><text>I co-built and ran a successful consulting company that was sold to a client many years ago, am now running another successful consulting. So I&#x27;ve been at this game for many years.<p>And for what it&#x27;s worth, tptacek&#x27;s advice on billing, <i>especially</i> this advice on billing daily, is one of the foundations of our success in this business. When we were just getting started, a lot of tptacek&#x27;s advice helped us to learn and grow what we are doing, and I don&#x27;t think we would&#x27;ve been anywhere near as successful in growing, or in understanding the business, without it.<p>Billing daily is a no-brainer. Almost every client is absolutely fine with it. This depends somewhat on the exact field and the exact client base you have, but if they&#x27;re not fine with it, it&#x27;s a sign that you&#x27;re targeting <i>bad clients</i> and should change your aim.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The billable hour is a trap into which more and more of us are falling</title><url>https://timharford.com/2022/05/the-billable-hour-is-a-trap-into-which-more-and-more-of-us-are-falling/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>I&#x27;ve been beating a related drum on HN for years, about billing hours, and I&#x27;ll try not to repeat too much of it:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=false&amp;query=bill%20hourly%20author%3Atptacek&amp;sort=byPopularity&amp;type=comment" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=false&amp;qu...</a><p>I know this post is mostly not about billing strategy (though that&#x27;s what the thread is now about), but I&#x27;m going to chime in with a simple bit of advice for tech workers that I believe is universally applicable:<p>Bill days, minimum.<p>A lot of the pathologies involved in metered billing, time tracking, and perverse incentives vanish when you bill days instead of hours. People have all sorts of weird excuses to talk themselves out of billing days --- &quot;what if I only have an hour worth of work to do?&quot; Bill a day. See how easy it is?<p>The last consulting company I built had a minimum billing increment of <i>a fiscal quarter</i>. I co-ran a consulting company for almost 10 years that did minimum-daily billing, for a pretty big and diverse set of clients, and nobody pushed back on the billable day. Bill days (minimum), not hours!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dataflow</author><text>&gt; A lot of the [...] perverse incentives vanish when you bill days instead of hours.<p>I&#x27;m confused how that&#x27;s supposed to eliminate perverse incentives. Doesn&#x27;t it exacerbate them? Don&#x27;t you now have an incentive to spread out every client&#x27;s work over every day possible? Like doing a few minutes of work for each client every day round-robin?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Cast iron leet</title><url>https://erock.prose.sh/cast-iron-leet</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>taywrobel</author><text>This does miss one huge drawback of cast iron for cooking some dishes - heat control. Cast iron retains heat like crazy and doesn’t change quickly. Get that thing up to a searing temperature and it’ll be 10-15 minutes before you can get an egg anywhere near it for example. A thinner steel pan will heat up and cool down much rapidly allowing for a lot more control.<p>Luckily there’s a fantastic non-nonstick option for that too; a carbon steel wok. Amazing tool that is frankly under-utilized in the western world.<p>J. Kenji López-Alt released a book this year that goes over how to use it in great engineering-focused detail for anyone wanting to give it a shot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mastazi</author><text>&gt; frankly under-utilized in the western world.<p>they are not popular at home but, even in the western world, carbon steel pans are the most common type of pan used in restaurants, they are also known as Lyonnaise pans. Recently they are becoming more common and you can even buy them at Ikea: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ikea.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;en&#x2F;p&#x2F;vardagen-frying-pan-carbon-steel-90438011&#x2F;#content" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ikea.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;en&#x2F;p&#x2F;vardagen-frying-pan-carbon-stee...</a><p>Not only they (carbon steel pans and woks) are faster to heat and easier to control than cast iron, they are also lighter, and another advantage is that they have longer handles that don&#x27;t heat up as much, which means you can grab them without using oven mitts or handle covers.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Cast iron leet</title><url>https://erock.prose.sh/cast-iron-leet</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>taywrobel</author><text>This does miss one huge drawback of cast iron for cooking some dishes - heat control. Cast iron retains heat like crazy and doesn’t change quickly. Get that thing up to a searing temperature and it’ll be 10-15 minutes before you can get an egg anywhere near it for example. A thinner steel pan will heat up and cool down much rapidly allowing for a lot more control.<p>Luckily there’s a fantastic non-nonstick option for that too; a carbon steel wok. Amazing tool that is frankly under-utilized in the western world.<p>J. Kenji López-Alt released a book this year that goes over how to use it in great engineering-focused detail for anyone wanting to give it a shot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>twawaaay</author><text>Carbon steel wok is only viable on a powerful gas stove. Right now where I live there is a campaign to get rid of gas stoves. And the existing ones are far, far from being powerful enough to use wok properly.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Analysis of chronic fatigue syndrome study casts doubt on published results</title><url>https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/21/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-pace-trial</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>philipkglass</author><text>I had a sibling who struggled with CFS for years. Even before this bad study came out the usual reaction from doctors was <i>you&#x27;re suffering from mental illness&#x2F;try exercising&#x2F;you&#x27;re faking</i>. It sounds almost like this study was constructed for the convenience of doctors so they could point to the publication and keep suggesting what they had already suggested.<p>It&#x27;s hard living with a debilitating medical condition that doesn&#x27;t have good treatments or a clear cause. It&#x27;s even harder when the doctor says &quot;I think it&#x27;s all in your head&quot; instead of &quot;sorry, we really don&#x27;t know how to treat this yet.&quot; That sort of consistent dismissal&#x2F;borderline victim-blaming from real doctors is what I think pushed my mom toward bogus alternative health practices. There appears to be nothing medically valid about chiropractors but at least they don&#x27;t call you crazy just for telling them about the experiences you&#x27;ve been having.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Analysis of chronic fatigue syndrome study casts doubt on published results</title><url>https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/21/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-pace-trial</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>j374</author><text>As a near 10-year sufferer of severe ME&#x2F;CFS, I can confirm this study has done unbelievable damage to the cause and should absolutely be retracted in full. Recent research has identified unquestionable, tangible and severe abnormalities in immune and metabolic function that are unique and consistent to ME&#x2F;CFS sufferers, and this is no longer realistically up for debate. Most doctors though still dismiss the condition as psychological, and because of this (and even though the burden has been shown worse than other immune disorders like AIDS in many cases) funding is virtually non-existent. This study has been so widely disseminated and taught to medical professionals, the damage will take some time to undo unfortunately.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Electoral College Decision Tree</title><url>https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/electoral-college-decision-tree</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dragontamer</author><text>&gt; election night, as state results come in.<p>Not this year. With mail-in ballots, the ballots won&#x27;t necessarily be finalized until a week or more after the election.<p>Its necessary due to COVID19. But it will be until multiple days after the election before we know the true winner. A large number of states will certainly be called on election night (because many states, such as California, are far from competitive).<p>But the battleground states may take some time.</text></item><item><author>DennisP</author><text>That&#x27;s going to be a fun toy on election night, as state results come in.</text></item><item><author>bryanlarsen</author><text>Another similar tool, with very different visualization.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;projects.fivethirtyeight.com&#x2F;trump-biden-election-map" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;projects.fivethirtyeight.com&#x2F;trump-biden-election-ma...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ianai</author><text>Apparently Florida should be ready for pandemic adjustments to polling and still report nearly all of their results on election night. They’ve switched to mostly mail in ballots years ago and I think even count them as they come in or something - so they can be reported election night. Granted, it’s Florida. So sanity need not apply and we could get their election results from the SCOTUS.<p>Personally, I hope the early, in person voting decides the election on election night.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Electoral College Decision Tree</title><url>https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/electoral-college-decision-tree</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dragontamer</author><text>&gt; election night, as state results come in.<p>Not this year. With mail-in ballots, the ballots won&#x27;t necessarily be finalized until a week or more after the election.<p>Its necessary due to COVID19. But it will be until multiple days after the election before we know the true winner. A large number of states will certainly be called on election night (because many states, such as California, are far from competitive).<p>But the battleground states may take some time.</text></item><item><author>DennisP</author><text>That&#x27;s going to be a fun toy on election night, as state results come in.</text></item><item><author>bryanlarsen</author><text>Another similar tool, with very different visualization.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;projects.fivethirtyeight.com&#x2F;trump-biden-election-map" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;projects.fivethirtyeight.com&#x2F;trump-biden-election-ma...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bryanlarsen</author><text>Not necessarily. There are several paths where a Biden win could be called early on election night. For example, Texas has a large fraction of early voting and a small fraction of mail ballots. So the chance that Texas can be called early is quite high. And if Texas gets called for Biden, then the networks will call the entire country for Biden.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Looking into the Stadia Controller Bluetooth Mode Website</title><url>https://garyodernichts.blogspot.com/2023/01/looking-into-stadia-controller.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nzoschke</author><text>Stadia was wild.<p>I got the Cyberpunk 2077 bundle which came with the game, controller and a chrome cast.<p>Gaming with a little HDMI WIFI puck and a WIFI controller felt very “cyberpunk” itself. Like buying some new tech to hack into the mainframe.<p>The Stadia version of Cyberpunk 2077 was basically the PC version which was far less glitchy than consoles.<p>Years later they issued a full refund for the bundle and unlocked the controller.<p>The controller upgrade process was something I never imagined a browser could do.<p>Thank you OP for reverse engineering and preserving things!<p>And thank you Google for pushing the cutting edge. Crazy to think how much went into Stadia only to be abandoned.</text></comment>
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<story><title>GPT detectors are biased against non-native English writers</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.02819</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wheybags</author><text>&gt; What exactly makes anyone think that they can detect an LLM that is outputting text?<p>When you read LLM output, you can often tell. The source of the notion is that we can do it pretty well ourselves, so if the AIs are so magical then they should be able to do it too (not saying I agree, but it is a pretty clear line of logic).</text></item><item><author>iinnPP</author><text>If a GPT detector has any false positives at all it will disadvantage people who are already disadvantaged. They are the least likely to be capable of defending themselves and the least likely to be heard if they do try to defend themselves.<p>Not to mention the fact that being called non-human is most definitely going to offend some people.<p>What exactly makes anyone think that they can detect an LLM that is outputting text? The notion seems absurd yet it keeps coming up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>akiselev</author><text>You can tell if it’s vanilla ChatGPT but the second you tell it to write in another style and tone, it changes completely. It’s very interesting that it sounds like a generic high school essay by default, but that’s without any extra instruction.<p>For example, ask it to write in the style of Christopher Hitchens, Charles Bukowski, or Hunter S Thompson, let alone more extreme examples like Shakespeare or Dante</text></comment>
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<story><title>GPT detectors are biased against non-native English writers</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.02819</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wheybags</author><text>&gt; What exactly makes anyone think that they can detect an LLM that is outputting text?<p>When you read LLM output, you can often tell. The source of the notion is that we can do it pretty well ourselves, so if the AIs are so magical then they should be able to do it too (not saying I agree, but it is a pretty clear line of logic).</text></item><item><author>iinnPP</author><text>If a GPT detector has any false positives at all it will disadvantage people who are already disadvantaged. They are the least likely to be capable of defending themselves and the least likely to be heard if they do try to defend themselves.<p>Not to mention the fact that being called non-human is most definitely going to offend some people.<p>What exactly makes anyone think that they can detect an LLM that is outputting text? The notion seems absurd yet it keeps coming up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oneTbrain23</author><text>In schools, my coursemates and I always plagiarised each other work. We also heavily do it via any other means like having a class pooled together funds for buying work done by outsiders. This span anything from quantum mechanics to even science fair projects. We ended passing many college course with near flying colors. What have we learnt by cheating? How to cheat better. We learnt how rephrase, rearrange assembly codes, reformat, etc. Some of us even develop program to do substitution and rephrasing. This was way before chatgpt. We did well with this skills as we apply it in corporate world plagiarising collegues works and even competitor a product. We even glorified how Samsung did it in early days of smartphone war era. I am sure my juniors in my high school and college will do the same with chatgpt. I can assure you we plagiarised and got away with it near 100% (unless some were lazy enough not to clean up their copy of plagiarise source material). Those that get caught will just have to learn to adapt. When you graduate from you college, ability to plagiarise is very important in your career (as long as non academia). You can tell if you know the persons tendency of dishonesty. If purely on work output, you are at best at coin toss or maybe those very low quality students. Back my days, we already have plagiarise detectors and even bots to detect plagiarised programming assignments. It is hard to tell. Chatgpt will adapt the output to be non perfect. Plagiariser will also adapt like my experience to de-chatgpt it. It has been done. It will be co tinue to do happen.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters</title><url>http://www.yegor256.com/2017/02/21/say-no-to-google-recruiters.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pucado</author><text>And when that gets rigged by some wicked OCR, then a Super Mario simulation where the princess is the [email protected], and every 10 coins or every level would get them an additional resume-info nugget to consume.<p>Okay maybe I took it too far.</text></item><item><author>bluebomb</author><text>then we make them go through an animated slideshow and do a quiz to get to an email address</text></item><item><author>nawitus</author><text>If everyone does this, then recruiters will simply start to spam the [email protected] emails without reading the autogenerated &quot;profile&quot;.</text></item><item><author>chadgeidel</author><text>I&#x27;d pay at least a few dollars per month &#x2F; tens of dollars per year for this service.<p>I&#x27;m not kidding. Dear HN reader, please steal this idea!</text></item><item><author>lwhalen</author><text>I take it one step further: the email address on my resume is a black hole. Its only purpose is to feed an autoresponder who kicks back a warm, generic, email thanking the recruiter for their time, acknowledging they have a difficult job, and lays out my requirements for any position: what I am and am not interested in doing, my salary&#x2F;hourly&#x2F;per-project requirements, my location requirements (100% remote), etc. At the bottom, there&#x27;s <i>another</i> email alias along the lines of &#x27;[email protected]&#x27; that goes straight to me. I ask the recruiters to not email that address unless they&#x27;ve read the whole thing, and their position matches my requirements. I get 200+ emails to the catch-all autoresponder a month, and maybe 1 (qualified!) reply to the &#x27;its really me&#x27; alias every six months. About once a month, I get an email to the &#x27;its really me&#x27; alias from a recruiter expressing joy, amusement, and thanks for spelling out what I&#x27;m looking for so early in the process. All in all, it&#x27;s a far more pleasant way to go about passively searching for The Next Big Role(tm).</text></item><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>Unlike most of HN (it seems), I like hearing from recruiters, because despite the very low signal-to-noise ratio, there&#x27;s always that remote chance that one of them could be able to set me up with a &quot;dream job&quot;. It&#x27;s zero cost to me to politely reply to a recruiter and ask for more info, and I try to at least respond to everyone. What I&#x27;ve found is that they must have a lot of candidates they&#x27;re juggling because falling out of the funnel is surprisingly easy!<p>It&#x27;s amazing how often &quot;Hey, thanks for reaching out, I&#x27;m interested. Can you tell me more about the role?&quot; results in the conversation ending right away. Probably over 50% recruiters that contact me do not reply back after that very polite and neutral response.<p>Many who do keep the conversation going have not read my profile or resume carefully, so I&#x27;ll give them a summary of the types of work I&#x27;m actually interested in, which is never what they contact me for, and politely decline to move forward with the (usually way too junior) role they are looking to fill. That will almost always end the engagement.<p>Sure, it&#x27;s a lot of noise, but filtering is very cheap: the time it takes to reply back. My actual success rate with recruiters probably pretty average. Of the eight or so jobs I&#x27;ve had in my ~20 year career, about three were obtained through recruiters, two times through in-house staff, once through an external recruiter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zedadex</author><text>Turns out Bowser was just trying to hire a competent plumber.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters</title><url>http://www.yegor256.com/2017/02/21/say-no-to-google-recruiters.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pucado</author><text>And when that gets rigged by some wicked OCR, then a Super Mario simulation where the princess is the [email protected], and every 10 coins or every level would get them an additional resume-info nugget to consume.<p>Okay maybe I took it too far.</text></item><item><author>bluebomb</author><text>then we make them go through an animated slideshow and do a quiz to get to an email address</text></item><item><author>nawitus</author><text>If everyone does this, then recruiters will simply start to spam the [email protected] emails without reading the autogenerated &quot;profile&quot;.</text></item><item><author>chadgeidel</author><text>I&#x27;d pay at least a few dollars per month &#x2F; tens of dollars per year for this service.<p>I&#x27;m not kidding. Dear HN reader, please steal this idea!</text></item><item><author>lwhalen</author><text>I take it one step further: the email address on my resume is a black hole. Its only purpose is to feed an autoresponder who kicks back a warm, generic, email thanking the recruiter for their time, acknowledging they have a difficult job, and lays out my requirements for any position: what I am and am not interested in doing, my salary&#x2F;hourly&#x2F;per-project requirements, my location requirements (100% remote), etc. At the bottom, there&#x27;s <i>another</i> email alias along the lines of &#x27;[email protected]&#x27; that goes straight to me. I ask the recruiters to not email that address unless they&#x27;ve read the whole thing, and their position matches my requirements. I get 200+ emails to the catch-all autoresponder a month, and maybe 1 (qualified!) reply to the &#x27;its really me&#x27; alias every six months. About once a month, I get an email to the &#x27;its really me&#x27; alias from a recruiter expressing joy, amusement, and thanks for spelling out what I&#x27;m looking for so early in the process. All in all, it&#x27;s a far more pleasant way to go about passively searching for The Next Big Role(tm).</text></item><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>Unlike most of HN (it seems), I like hearing from recruiters, because despite the very low signal-to-noise ratio, there&#x27;s always that remote chance that one of them could be able to set me up with a &quot;dream job&quot;. It&#x27;s zero cost to me to politely reply to a recruiter and ask for more info, and I try to at least respond to everyone. What I&#x27;ve found is that they must have a lot of candidates they&#x27;re juggling because falling out of the funnel is surprisingly easy!<p>It&#x27;s amazing how often &quot;Hey, thanks for reaching out, I&#x27;m interested. Can you tell me more about the role?&quot; results in the conversation ending right away. Probably over 50% recruiters that contact me do not reply back after that very polite and neutral response.<p>Many who do keep the conversation going have not read my profile or resume carefully, so I&#x27;ll give them a summary of the types of work I&#x27;m actually interested in, which is never what they contact me for, and politely decline to move forward with the (usually way too junior) role they are looking to fill. That will almost always end the engagement.<p>Sure, it&#x27;s a lot of noise, but filtering is very cheap: the time it takes to reply back. My actual success rate with recruiters probably pretty average. Of the eight or so jobs I&#x27;ve had in my ~20 year career, about three were obtained through recruiters, two times through in-house staff, once through an external recruiter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sqeaky</author><text>But at least a few people would be employed making this system.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Why Creativity Is a Numbers Game (2015)</title><url>https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/why-creativity-is-a-numbers-game/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vezycash</author><text>&gt;creative greatness appears to be doing things differently<p>I&#x27;ve done things differently just out of boredom caused by doing a task, the same way repeatedly.<p>Example: I sometimes get tired of a particular food and tweak it by adding a new ingredient or eating it with something different.<p>&gt;Edison was unlucky—he failed to invent fuel cells. The first comercially successful fuel cells were developed in the mid-twentieth century, long after Edison moved on to pursuing other ideas.
&gt;Edison always had somewhere to channel his efforts whenever he ran into temporary obstacles<p>This is completely different from the &quot;Edison never gave up and kept working till he succeeded&quot; talks.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The New Dropbox Sucks</title><url>https://daringfireball.net/linked/2019/06/13/dropbox-sucks</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tschwimmer</author><text>Disclosure: I am a former Dropbox employee. The below is my own opinion. I don&#x27;t have a financial interest in Dropbox.<p>Gruber (implicitly) proves why this is the right move for Dropbox in the space of a few paragraphs.<p>Many people only use Dropbox as a backup and file share product. That&#x27;s great. However, it&#x27;s a terrible business, especially for Dropbox. Backup (and to a large extent) sharing is a commodity product where companies like Google, Amazon and Apple have a massive advantage in terms of scale and in Apple&#x27;s case, OS integration. Easily moving over to iCloud Drive is exactly why Dropbox cannot build their business around that sort of feature.<p>You know what isn&#x27;t a commodity? A single place for all your digital stuff. The big players there are actually disincentivized to build interoperability. iCloud is a product differentiator for Apple, they&#x27;re not about to build a first class integration for Android and Windows and Google Sheets. Dropbox has the advantage of being platform agnostic. They&#x27;ve spent the last few years building out a dizzying suite of integrations to make this &quot;single place&quot; vision a reality.<p>So yes, it may not be what you want if you&#x27;re a backup user, but if you&#x27;re a business with digital assets scattered across a dozen surfaces and products, this could be very valuable to you.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The New Dropbox Sucks</title><url>https://daringfireball.net/linked/2019/06/13/dropbox-sucks</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>saaaaaam</author><text>It really does suck. I think the worst thing is that now it’s all bells and whistles I don’t feel like I can properly trust it not to have changed settings on my files, or accidentally shared things with people it shouldn’t be sharing things with. The complications feel like that suddenly becomes many times more likely. I don’t want another social network. I don’t want a file based media “experience”. I don’t want to have to get my head round “features”. I just want a folder that syncs across my devices without me having to do anything.<p>Call me a Luddite, but the thing I’ve paid Dropbox for seven years for is its “set and forget” simplicity. I’ve paid them hundreds and hundreds of dollars and I’m pretty sure they just lost me.</text></comment>
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<story><title>macOS Ventura is now available</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/10/macos-ventura-is-now-available/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>runjake</author><text>Because on newer Macs, it’s rewriting the whole OS partition with a new firmware image, much like iOS and IPSW files.<p>Windows, on the other hand, generally does incremental upgrades.</text></item><item><author>deergomoo</author><text>I got a Windows PC for the first time in over a decade recently and I cannot understand why MacOS updates are so damned slow</text></item><item><author>anigbrowl</author><text>The update is cool but the update process was not.<p><pre><code> -Update available, wanna install?
Sure
-OK don&#x27;t mind me I&#x27;m gonna need a while
OK
-HA HA I LIED I&quot;M READY TO TERMINATE EVERYTHING BYEEEE
WTF
5 reboots with just an Apple icon and a progress bar
The progress bar also moves backwards sometimes
I guess it&#x27;s a metaphor for life, which is how long this seems to be taking
-OK hello I am back but I need 10 minutes of alone time
-Here is some unfamiliar wallpaper but you can log in I guess
-Oh it&#x27;s you again, do you want to share analytics with us
-OK here is your familiar desktop, I am not telling you what has changed
Um preferences
-Oh hai I&#x27;m called Settings now and I reorganized everything
Yikes but OK this is sorta well laid out I guess
-Hello I am Stage Manager, I put a desktop on your desktop so you can work while you work
Sorta neat, can I configure some things differently though
-No
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Funnily enough I had just started reading the <i>Ars Technica</i> review when the upgrade took place so that helped with navigating the changes but it was an oddly jarring transition. I get that Apple doesn&#x27;t like burdening users with too much technical information (as in &#x27;any&#x27;) but given how significantly the Settings app has changed I&#x27;m surprised there was no Release notes or feature tour of any kind.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>derefr</author><text>That doesn&#x27;t imply it should be slow; that should imply it should be <i>fast</i>.<p>At least, given that macOS is using a copy-on-write filesystem such that you can share blocks between multiple volumes&#x2F;snapshots — which it is; and that the OS base-image is a sealed &quot;everyone has the same cryptographic checksum&quot; volume — which it is; and that Apple are using a binary-diff-based &quot;create aside&quot; OS-image update process, like ChromiumOS&#x2F;CoreOS — which they are. They <i>should</i> only have to write out disk pages for the changes, and then just <i>link</i> the existing pages in to form the rest of the extents. Like a `btrfs receive`.<p>But for some reason, despite all that fancy tech, it&#x27;s <i>still</i> slow; <i>and</i> the install process still requires rebooting into a separate Recovery OS to do parts of the installation. Which, given the &quot;create aside&quot; part especially, is just ridiculous. You <i>should</i> be able to just run the installer in the background as you&#x27;re using your device, and eventually be told &quot;when you reboot, it&#x27;ll be into the new OS.&quot;</text></comment>
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Sure
-OK don&#x27;t mind me I&#x27;m gonna need a while
OK
-HA HA I LIED I&quot;M READY TO TERMINATE EVERYTHING BYEEEE
WTF
5 reboots with just an Apple icon and a progress bar
The progress bar also moves backwards sometimes
I guess it&#x27;s a metaphor for life, which is how long this seems to be taking
-OK hello I am back but I need 10 minutes of alone time
-Here is some unfamiliar wallpaper but you can log in I guess
-Oh it&#x27;s you again, do you want to share analytics with us
-OK here is your familiar desktop, I am not telling you what has changed
Um preferences
-Oh hai I&#x27;m called Settings now and I reorganized everything
Yikes but OK this is sorta well laid out I guess
-Hello I am Stage Manager, I put a desktop on your desktop so you can work while you work
Sorta neat, can I configure some things differently though
-No
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Funnily enough I had just started reading the <i>Ars Technica</i> review when the upgrade took place so that helped with navigating the changes but it was an oddly jarring transition. I get that Apple doesn&#x27;t like burdening users with too much technical information (as in &#x27;any&#x27;) but given how significantly the Settings app has changed I&#x27;m surprised there was no Release notes or feature tour of any kind.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zamalek</author><text>This isn&#x27;t really a viable excuse. Silverblue is also immutable and updates are applied in under 10 seconds <i>prior</i> to reboot (which is never affected by updates).<p>Coming from Windows and Linux, macOS had been a very unpleasant experience for me. It&#x27;s full of papercuts.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The CPAN Pull Request Challenge</title><url>http://blogs.perl.org/users/neilb/2014/12/take-the-2015-cpan-pull-request-challenge.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>perlgeek</author><text>I&#x27;m in.<p>Some years ago I tried to motivate people to contribute to Perl 6, and found that while many had some lingering interest in doing so, they needed some steering.<p>This was hard for me to do, because usually in Open Source communities, you aren&#x27;t supposed to tell people what to do; they are free to chose the occupation after all. But I found that it worked very well.<p>So I think the CPAN Pull Request Challenge is a very good approach to steer people to particular projects, without causing too much work for those who steer. At least it&#x27;s a very good experiment to try.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Seriously?</title><url>http://bitquabit.com/post/seriously/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danso</author><text>I have nothing to add to this other than what "The Real Katie" said in "Lighten Up"<p><a href="http://therealkatie.net/blog/2012/mar/21/lighten-up/" rel="nofollow">http://therealkatie.net/blog/2012/mar/21/lighten-up/</a><p>&#62;&#62;<p><i>Every time I spoke up about the above crap, I got some sympathy, but I also got some guy who didn't understand what the big deal was. If I wasn't in the middle of being raped or beaten or threatened or fired, guess what I needed to do?<p>Lighten up.<p>How long would you put up with it? Do you love anything that much? If your spouse subtly treated you like crap every day, how long would your marriage last? If you saw a friend being treated this way by their boss, wouldn't you tell them to quit?<p>Or would you tell them to lighten up?<p>You, person who told me to lighten up, saw one little thing. It didn't seem like a big deal, did it? One little line! One joke! One comment! But it's not just one thing to me: it's one of thousands that I've had to endure since I was old enough to be told that 'X is for boys!' It's probably not even the first thing I've had to deal with that day, unless you've gotten to me pretty early.<p>That's the main problem with subtle discrimination. It leaves those that it affects the most powerless against it, quietly discouraging them. If they speak up, they're treated to eye rolls at the least, and at the worst, are called oppressors themselves. We're accused of not wanting equal rights, but of wanting tyranny.</i></text></comment>
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<story><title>Seriously?</title><url>http://bitquabit.com/post/seriously/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>RyanMcGreal</author><text>I see the usual grab bag of men making excuses for misogyny in software is out in force on Hacker News:<p>* Insisting sexism is not endemic to software, it's just idiots being idiots.<p>* Insisting sexism is not endemic to software, it's just jerks being jerks.<p>* Dismissive pedantry over the claim that women are deterred from software by incidents of sexism.<p>* Blaming women themselves for not going into software.<p>And all of it laced with blithe stereotyping language ("panty bunching equivalent", "bitching", "drama" and so on).<p>This predictably depressing reaction hasn't been good enough for a long time. The reason more women aren't in software is <i>staring us right in the face</i> but we're too busy being dismissively sexist to see it.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Deep sleep may be the best defense against Alzheimer’s</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/deep-sleep-may-be-the-best-defense-against-alzheimers-memory-amlyoid-1524dbd7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aantix</author><text>I&#x27;ve posted this before, but it&#x27;s worth repeating.<p>I recently discovered that I’m a slow metabolizer of caffeine. Via my raw 23andme data.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;you.23andme.com&#x2F;tools&#x2F;data&#x2F;?query=rs762551" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;you.23andme.com&#x2F;tools&#x2F;data&#x2F;?query=rs762551</a><p>C&#x2F;C genotype.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.geneticlifehacks.com&#x2F;liver-detox-genes-cyp1a2&#x2F;#C" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.geneticlifehacks.com&#x2F;liver-detox-genes-cyp1a2&#x2F;#C</a>...<p>Instead of coffee being a net positive, it actually takes caffeine 4X the time to process through my body. It also increases my cardiac event risk (most normal metabolizers it does not).<p>I can drink a cup of coffee at 8am and it still impacts my sleep the following night. My blood pressure remains really elevated (20+ points for systolic) the entire day.<p>All these decades I’ve been ingesting coffee thinking it’s a “net positive” - not for my genotype.<p>When the reality is I sleep like shit, my blood pressure is through the roof, I feel awful for a day or two of drinking a single cup, and it all makes sense now.<p>Even with just 30mg ingested this morning at 8am, I still feel very wide awake at 9pm.<p>When I totally detox from caffeine, go through the headaches, I ultimately feel calmer, and I get the best, deepest sleep.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thrtythreeforty</author><text>Is there a way I can get this kind of analysis done and retain control of all the data that gets created? I have been interested in learning details about my genotype for a while, but not at the expense of having 23andMe keep a copy for whatever purpose they desire now or in the future.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Deep sleep may be the best defense against Alzheimer’s</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/deep-sleep-may-be-the-best-defense-against-alzheimers-memory-amlyoid-1524dbd7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aantix</author><text>I&#x27;ve posted this before, but it&#x27;s worth repeating.<p>I recently discovered that I’m a slow metabolizer of caffeine. Via my raw 23andme data.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;you.23andme.com&#x2F;tools&#x2F;data&#x2F;?query=rs762551" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;you.23andme.com&#x2F;tools&#x2F;data&#x2F;?query=rs762551</a><p>C&#x2F;C genotype.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.geneticlifehacks.com&#x2F;liver-detox-genes-cyp1a2&#x2F;#C" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.geneticlifehacks.com&#x2F;liver-detox-genes-cyp1a2&#x2F;#C</a>...<p>Instead of coffee being a net positive, it actually takes caffeine 4X the time to process through my body. It also increases my cardiac event risk (most normal metabolizers it does not).<p>I can drink a cup of coffee at 8am and it still impacts my sleep the following night. My blood pressure remains really elevated (20+ points for systolic) the entire day.<p>All these decades I’ve been ingesting coffee thinking it’s a “net positive” - not for my genotype.<p>When the reality is I sleep like shit, my blood pressure is through the roof, I feel awful for a day or two of drinking a single cup, and it all makes sense now.<p>Even with just 30mg ingested this morning at 8am, I still feel very wide awake at 9pm.<p>When I totally detox from caffeine, go through the headaches, I ultimately feel calmer, and I get the best, deepest sleep.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>someotherperson</author><text>Totally anecdotal, but have you tried coupling it with L-Theanine?<p>I&#x27;ve become extremely caffeine sensitive over the last few years -- anything more than about 80mg has me off the walls for the entire day. But ensuring I get L-Theanine along with it essentially blunts the response quite significantly and allows me to function normally.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Clover Health: How Chamath Lured Retail Investors into a Broken Business</title><url>https://hindenburgresearch.com/clover/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fallingknife</author><text>It&#x27;s important to note that the company who wrote this report makes money by shorting stocks and then putting out negative reports about them. This is not to say that the allegations are false, and, in fact, many such reports by similar companies have been true, and excellent works of investigative journalism. However, this type of report often turns out to be nothing more than market manipulation and fraud. So all of these allegations should be taken with a grain of salt.<p>edit:
Since multiple people asked, source is I used to trade a lot and have been in trades where entities like this have put out similar fraud reports that have turned out to be false, and also seen others that were true. Also it&#x27;s common sense that you should always question statements from people who stand to benefit from them.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Clover Health: How Chamath Lured Retail Investors into a Broken Business</title><url>https://hindenburgresearch.com/clover/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>edoceo</author><text>This is the &quot;famous&quot; Hindenburg, who had that short-report a while ago and Chamath who&#x27;s been using SPACs to take things public (IPOC became Clover) and he&#x27;s in other IPOx names too</text></comment>
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<story><title>Falcon 9 first stage found, but probably not recoverable</title><url>http://www.spaceflightinsider.com/space-flight-missions/commercial-space-space-flight-missions/spacex/crs-3/spacex-president-shotwell-talks-recovery-efforts-recent-ribbon-cutting-ceremony/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Arjuna</author><text>The article reports that the first stage achieved a near zero velocity landing. Another critical marker that was achieved, which is closely related, is that the first stage&#x27;s flight dynamics (i.e., pitch, roll and yaw) were correct. Previously, the first stage was destroyed because the flight dynamics were incorrect. Also, the first stage continued to report telemetry for 8 seconds after the water landing.<p>Does anyone know if the first stage&#x27;s landing legs were successfully deployed before the water landing? These are the 4 carbon fiber and aluminum legs (each 25ft &#x2F; 7.6m long) that would be used to land the stage. I know that Falcon 9 launched with them, but I don&#x27;t know if they were deployed. My suspicion is that they would have attempted to deploy them as well, for verification and validation purposes.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Falcon 9 first stage found, but probably not recoverable</title><url>http://www.spaceflightinsider.com/space-flight-missions/commercial-space-space-flight-missions/spacex/crs-3/spacex-president-shotwell-talks-recovery-efforts-recent-ribbon-cutting-ceremony/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>XorNot</author><text>Damn. Here&#x27;s hoping they feel confident enough about their guidance to try a land touchdown next time.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Ask HN: Are you tired of reading ChatGPT headlines?</title><text>I am. Every day, there are countless new articles about ChatGPT posted on here. Maybe I&#x27;m the only one who thinks it&#x27;s overrated.<p>Most of the prompt answers are smart sounding bullshit. Maybe that&#x27;s why the headlines never stop - the people who like to make smart sounding bullshit are the ones who love ChatGPT.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>brap</author><text>Sure. But will that be the case 5-10 years from now?<p>As a programmer, I gotta say if you&#x27;re not at all concerned, then either you haven&#x27;t been paying attention or you&#x27;re in denial. Sooner or later it&#x27;s coming.</text></item><item><author>Aperocky</author><text>In tech and don&#x27;t share your worries. If anything, since release it has proven that 1. it does not have ability to reason logically creatively. 2. it has strong ability to manipulate language to human readable form.<p>If anything, I would say regular office workers are the most threatened, particularly if the jobs revolves around digesting and passing information.</text></item><item><author>ExtremisAndy</author><text>I am definitely tired of the topic, but I’ll be perfectly honest as to the reason why: I am genuinely afraid of its impact on my career. My career has been sort of a combination of tech and education, and this (admittedly impressive) creation threatens both. And more and more of these things will be coming online over the coming months and years.<p>So, every time I see it mentioned I feel depressed and sick on the inside.<p>I will say, however, that so far it has actually enhanced my productivity in my current projects, and that’s fine. I just don’t think that its impact will remain so limited for long.<p>Of all the tech that’s been invented, this is the one I fear the most in terms of its negative impact on jobs. Hope I’m wrong!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lolinder</author><text>Or you have been paying attention, understand the technology better than those who buy into the hype, and aren&#x27;t worried because you know that incremental improvements to this tech cannot be a serious threat to your job security because the <i>paradigm</i> isn&#x27;t capable of replacing you.<p>When my job is at risk it will be because we have AGI, not a better language model, and at that point <i>everyone</i> is at risk. Worrying about job security in the face of AGI is like worrying about what you&#x27;ll do after your city gets nuked: it&#x27;s unlikely to happen and there&#x27;s nothing you can do if it does.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Ask HN: Are you tired of reading ChatGPT headlines?</title><text>I am. Every day, there are countless new articles about ChatGPT posted on here. Maybe I&#x27;m the only one who thinks it&#x27;s overrated.<p>Most of the prompt answers are smart sounding bullshit. Maybe that&#x27;s why the headlines never stop - the people who like to make smart sounding bullshit are the ones who love ChatGPT.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>brap</author><text>Sure. But will that be the case 5-10 years from now?<p>As a programmer, I gotta say if you&#x27;re not at all concerned, then either you haven&#x27;t been paying attention or you&#x27;re in denial. Sooner or later it&#x27;s coming.</text></item><item><author>Aperocky</author><text>In tech and don&#x27;t share your worries. If anything, since release it has proven that 1. it does not have ability to reason logically creatively. 2. it has strong ability to manipulate language to human readable form.<p>If anything, I would say regular office workers are the most threatened, particularly if the jobs revolves around digesting and passing information.</text></item><item><author>ExtremisAndy</author><text>I am definitely tired of the topic, but I’ll be perfectly honest as to the reason why: I am genuinely afraid of its impact on my career. My career has been sort of a combination of tech and education, and this (admittedly impressive) creation threatens both. And more and more of these things will be coming online over the coming months and years.<p>So, every time I see it mentioned I feel depressed and sick on the inside.<p>I will say, however, that so far it has actually enhanced my productivity in my current projects, and that’s fine. I just don’t think that its impact will remain so limited for long.<p>Of all the tech that’s been invented, this is the one I fear the most in terms of its negative impact on jobs. Hope I’m wrong!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwawaycopter</author><text>&gt; Sure. But will that be the case 5-10 years from now?<p>Not with language models. A language model can parse natural language, and with enough training data, give out what it thinks the answer is based on the data it was trained with. It is not General AI.<p>It cannot reason a solution for a problem that had an unknown answer. It won&#x27;t be able to reflect logically on a context to foresee problems within this context. It cannot have a meaningful conversation. It won&#x27;t be able to understand that one of the things it &quot;knows&quot; was incomplete, untrue, or just plain wrong, and fix itself.<p>It&#x27;s a powerful tool, a game-changing tool. Perhaps as game-changing as the advent of computers, internet, or wireless communication. But it still won&#x27;t replace humans.<p>General AI for now is science fiction. Perhaps this is unfortunate. I wouldn&#x27;t mind an AI that can replace humans, even if I too am made obsolete with it.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Why are submarines demagnetized?</title><url>http://qi.epfl.ch/en/sondage/show/255/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zymhan</author><text>4,000 Amps is a ridiculous amount of current. Though when you have a nuclear power plant nearby...<p>Also, this line made me shudder:<p>&gt; &quot;...stringing an electric cable the length of the ship and pulsing 2,000 amps through the cable.&quot;<p>EDIT: Okay maybe not that ridiculous, apparently the Luxor hotel has higher-amp lightbulbs <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wolframalpha.com&#x2F;input&#x2F;?i=4000+amps" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wolframalpha.com&#x2F;input&#x2F;?i=4000+amps</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brandmeyer</author><text>The degaussing facility uses shore power. They could mean 4000 ampere-turns, too.<p>Source: I went through one of these back in the day.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Why are submarines demagnetized?</title><url>http://qi.epfl.ch/en/sondage/show/255/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zymhan</author><text>4,000 Amps is a ridiculous amount of current. Though when you have a nuclear power plant nearby...<p>Also, this line made me shudder:<p>&gt; &quot;...stringing an electric cable the length of the ship and pulsing 2,000 amps through the cable.&quot;<p>EDIT: Okay maybe not that ridiculous, apparently the Luxor hotel has higher-amp lightbulbs <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wolframalpha.com&#x2F;input&#x2F;?i=4000+amps" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wolframalpha.com&#x2F;input&#x2F;?i=4000+amps</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>centizen</author><text>It might still be a little ridiculous - that light is one of the most powerful in the entire world</text></comment>
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<story><title>Show HN: Regex.ai – AI-powered regular expression generator</title><url>https://regex.ai/</url><text>Regex.ai is an AI-powered tool that generates regular expressions. It can accurately generate regular expressions that match specific patterns in text with precision. Whether you&#x27;re a novice or an expert, Regex.ai&#x27;s intuitive interface makes it easy to input sample text and generate complex regular expressions quickly and efficiently. Overall, Regex.ai is a game-changer that will save you time and streamline your workflow.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>safety1st</author><text>It&#x27;s weird to see a forum for hackers, with hacker in the name, and with a line about encouraging curiosity in the charter, be so hostile to someone who hacked something together.<p>Sign of the times perhaps.<p>Though I guess it&#x27;s not much different from the thread trashing Dropbox however many years back.</text></item><item><author>AdieuToLogic</author><text>This offering, and the other half-dozen like it this past week or so, is like giving a kid a flamethrower.<p>It&#x27;s all fun and games until they burn down your house.<p>&gt; ... I need to understand the intent, the whys behind the choices.<p>As do I.<p>And that is something ChatGPT-X (for any given X) cannot provide, regardless of whether or not what is produced is correct. Perhaps with some form of backward chaining[0] a ChatGPT-X someday can explain how it arrived at what was produced works.<p>But &quot;the why&quot; is the domain of people.<p>0 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Backward_chaining" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Backward_chaining</a></text></item><item><author>anileated</author><text>I often find it faster to write something from scratch rather than to work with someone else’s code to fix it. In the latter case I need to understand the intent, the whys behind the choices.<p>Well guess what, LLM-generated code <i>is</i> someone else’s code: an amalgamation derived from many peoples’ code. Except those people are ‘helpfully’ “abstracted away” from you by the middleman, so you can’t know <i>their</i> original intents and choices. What’s worse, it’s someone else’s code that will be treated as <i>your</i> code—unlike working with a legacy system that everyone knows was written by some guy, in this case any bugs will be squarely on you.</text></item><item><author>AdieuToLogic</author><text>&gt; Regex.ai is an AI-powered tool that generates regular expressions.<p>Or, just write regular expressions?<p>&gt; ... Regex.ai&#x27;s intuitive interface makes it easy to input sample text and generate complex regular expressions quickly and efficiently.<p>See: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibm.com&#x2F;topics&#x2F;overfitting" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibm.com&#x2F;topics&#x2F;overfitting</a><p>Inputting the sample text:<p><pre><code> foo bar baz
baz bar foo
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And highlighting the first &quot;baz&quot; produced patterns which all had &quot;[A-Z][a-z]*@libertylabs\\.ai&quot; included, assumedly due to the default inclusions.<p>Removing those and highlighting the second &quot;baz&quot; resulted &quot;&lt;Agent B&gt;&quot; as the results in one case.<p>There is no explanation of any patterns generated. If a person is to use one of the generated patterns and Regex.ai is supposed to &quot;save you time and streamline your workflow&quot;, no matter &quot;[w]hether you&#x27;re a novice or an expert&quot;, then some form of verification and&#x2F;or explanation must exist.<p>Otherwise, a person must know how to formulate regular expressions in order to determine which, if any, of the presented options are applicable. And if a person knows how to formulate regular expressions, then why would they use Regex.ai?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B</author><text>&gt;so hostile to someone who hacked something together.<p>It&#x27;s not hostile but I&#x27;m a bit tired of all those projects that sprout around AI.<p>If it was an open-source project full of bugs, I would understand, and encourage and give solutions to the creator of the project, maybe even create tickets or fix bugs.<p>But with AI, we are flooded with tons of closed-source frontends to a closed-source backend, and those projects are more than buggy since they confidently give bad solutions. It&#x27;s not like a &quot;DIY electric car project,&quot; it&#x27;s someone putting pieces of cardboard on a Tesla and pretending it makes it safer or faster.<p>I&#x27;m dumbfounded and I don&#x27;t know how I am supposed to react to this, I would certainly not release that to anyone since it&#x27;s antithetical to what I do and believe what software should be.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Show HN: Regex.ai – AI-powered regular expression generator</title><url>https://regex.ai/</url><text>Regex.ai is an AI-powered tool that generates regular expressions. It can accurately generate regular expressions that match specific patterns in text with precision. Whether you&#x27;re a novice or an expert, Regex.ai&#x27;s intuitive interface makes it easy to input sample text and generate complex regular expressions quickly and efficiently. Overall, Regex.ai is a game-changer that will save you time and streamline your workflow.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>safety1st</author><text>It&#x27;s weird to see a forum for hackers, with hacker in the name, and with a line about encouraging curiosity in the charter, be so hostile to someone who hacked something together.<p>Sign of the times perhaps.<p>Though I guess it&#x27;s not much different from the thread trashing Dropbox however many years back.</text></item><item><author>AdieuToLogic</author><text>This offering, and the other half-dozen like it this past week or so, is like giving a kid a flamethrower.<p>It&#x27;s all fun and games until they burn down your house.<p>&gt; ... I need to understand the intent, the whys behind the choices.<p>As do I.<p>And that is something ChatGPT-X (for any given X) cannot provide, regardless of whether or not what is produced is correct. Perhaps with some form of backward chaining[0] a ChatGPT-X someday can explain how it arrived at what was produced works.<p>But &quot;the why&quot; is the domain of people.<p>0 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Backward_chaining" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Backward_chaining</a></text></item><item><author>anileated</author><text>I often find it faster to write something from scratch rather than to work with someone else’s code to fix it. In the latter case I need to understand the intent, the whys behind the choices.<p>Well guess what, LLM-generated code <i>is</i> someone else’s code: an amalgamation derived from many peoples’ code. Except those people are ‘helpfully’ “abstracted away” from you by the middleman, so you can’t know <i>their</i> original intents and choices. What’s worse, it’s someone else’s code that will be treated as <i>your</i> code—unlike working with a legacy system that everyone knows was written by some guy, in this case any bugs will be squarely on you.</text></item><item><author>AdieuToLogic</author><text>&gt; Regex.ai is an AI-powered tool that generates regular expressions.<p>Or, just write regular expressions?<p>&gt; ... Regex.ai&#x27;s intuitive interface makes it easy to input sample text and generate complex regular expressions quickly and efficiently.<p>See: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibm.com&#x2F;topics&#x2F;overfitting" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibm.com&#x2F;topics&#x2F;overfitting</a><p>Inputting the sample text:<p><pre><code> foo bar baz
baz bar foo
</code></pre>
And highlighting the first &quot;baz&quot; produced patterns which all had &quot;[A-Z][a-z]*@libertylabs\\.ai&quot; included, assumedly due to the default inclusions.<p>Removing those and highlighting the second &quot;baz&quot; resulted &quot;&lt;Agent B&gt;&quot; as the results in one case.<p>There is no explanation of any patterns generated. If a person is to use one of the generated patterns and Regex.ai is supposed to &quot;save you time and streamline your workflow&quot;, no matter &quot;[w]hether you&#x27;re a novice or an expert&quot;, then some form of verification and&#x2F;or explanation must exist.<p>Otherwise, a person must know how to formulate regular expressions in order to determine which, if any, of the presented options are applicable. And if a person knows how to formulate regular expressions, then why would they use Regex.ai?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AdieuToLogic</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s weird to see a forum for hackers, with hacker in the name, and with a line about encouraging curiosity in the charter, be so hostile to someone who hacked something together.<p>My comment was in direct response to an overarching concern raised by the implications of incorporating &quot;LLM-generated code.&quot; This is relevant here due to the &quot;Show HN&quot; description above, which reads thusly:<p><pre><code> Regex.ai is an AI-powered tool that generates regular
expressions. It can accurately generate regular expressions
that match specific patterns in text with precision.
</code></pre>
If you interpreted my characterization of &quot;... like giving a kid a flamethrower&quot; as being hostile, then I extend my apologies to the OP as I was using this phrase as a literary tool detailed subsequently. I thought the subject expansion of &quot;the other half-dozen like it this past week or so&quot; was sufficient.<p>As to &quot;encouraging curiosity&quot;, I point you to feedback I provided to the OP in a reply peer to this one.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Show HN: I made a job board that doesn't allow HackerRank tests</title><url>http://borderline.biz/careers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thewebcount</author><text>One of the things I&#x27;ve done is to hand a candidate some existing code and ask, &quot;What do you think of this code? Do you see any obvious problems? Are there things that work but could be done better? Is there anything exceptional in there? Tell me what you see.&quot; This allows you to test that they know how to read code, which is what they&#x27;ll be spending the majority of their time doing. You can ask them how they&#x27;d improve it, which should give you an idea of how they write code, too. And of course, you can see their experience by checking out their resume and if possible running some of the apps they worked on. And if they have any code on GitHub, etc., you can check that out, too.</text></item><item><author>AlchemistCamp</author><text>&gt; There are better ways to test candidates.<p>Genuine question here: what&#x27;s the better way?<p>I&#x27;m not a fan of whiteboard coding challenges, even though they got me my first &quot;real&quot; Bay Area tech job.<p>On the other hand, take home challenges eat up a lot of time and credentialist filters like going to a name brand school (or even having the right major) filter me out.<p>My go-to for when I&#x27;m in a hiring position again would be recommendations from my personal network, but that has its own flaws and doesn&#x27;t scale very well.<p>I think at the core of the problem is that most companies are extremely risk adverse in their hiring and would gladly miss a Jeff Dean type of super-performer in order to reduce their number of bad hires.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colmvp</author><text>One of the companies I interviewed at had me do this exercise at the end of the interview and to be frank, I bombed it quite badly. One issue was the syntax was so weird compared to the type of code I&#x27;m used to writing and reading from others in library code that it was hard for me to comprehend the logic without the benefit of looking it up.<p>I was filled with anxiety working under the time pressure to understand a document of code which I had very little context of, and no previous relationship with the reviewer so I kept thinking to myself whether or not the question that came into my mind was stupid obvious.<p>In contrast, when I had take-home tests, I scored exceptionally high on all of them, leading to offers. I recognize that a lot of people here hate them because of the time involved and it&#x27;s akin to spec work, but IMO it felt much more like my usual day-to-day life as a developer.<p>One of the take home tests had existing code to work from but again, working at my own pace and having access to online resources to read docs was much less anxiety provoking.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Show HN: I made a job board that doesn't allow HackerRank tests</title><url>http://borderline.biz/careers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thewebcount</author><text>One of the things I&#x27;ve done is to hand a candidate some existing code and ask, &quot;What do you think of this code? Do you see any obvious problems? Are there things that work but could be done better? Is there anything exceptional in there? Tell me what you see.&quot; This allows you to test that they know how to read code, which is what they&#x27;ll be spending the majority of their time doing. You can ask them how they&#x27;d improve it, which should give you an idea of how they write code, too. And of course, you can see their experience by checking out their resume and if possible running some of the apps they worked on. And if they have any code on GitHub, etc., you can check that out, too.</text></item><item><author>AlchemistCamp</author><text>&gt; There are better ways to test candidates.<p>Genuine question here: what&#x27;s the better way?<p>I&#x27;m not a fan of whiteboard coding challenges, even though they got me my first &quot;real&quot; Bay Area tech job.<p>On the other hand, take home challenges eat up a lot of time and credentialist filters like going to a name brand school (or even having the right major) filter me out.<p>My go-to for when I&#x27;m in a hiring position again would be recommendations from my personal network, but that has its own flaws and doesn&#x27;t scale very well.<p>I think at the core of the problem is that most companies are extremely risk adverse in their hiring and would gladly miss a Jeff Dean type of super-performer in order to reduce their number of bad hires.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattm</author><text>I do this as well. It&#x27;s the best signal to noise ratio. Developers spend much more time reading code and understanding the system rather than writing code, yet interview questions don&#x27;t acknowledge this.<p>It also works even if the person doesn&#x27;t know the language because you&#x27;ll get to see them mapping this new language to something they already know and it can give a good understanding of how well they think of things beyond just the code in front of them.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Jugaad, an inspired kind of duct-taped ingenuity</title><url>http://economist.com/blogs/babbage/2010/08/jugaad?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/questionsforsantoshostwal</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chime</author><text>This article both inspires and scares the hell out of me. If you've decided to create a startup, you are in the same boat he was in 1991:<p>‘Yes. This is my career and I am going to make my career in ___________. That’s all.’<p>It inspires me because of the happy ending of sorts for him despite the hardships. Instead of being lost into obscurity, those late nights and years of losses will count for something. It scares me because I think this year is my 1991. I have decided on my career. ‘Yes. This is my career and I am going to make my career in communication systems for the mute / disabled.’<p>The truly scary part is that every single success (for varying definitions of success) story like this that I've read talks about how much the inventor/entrepreneur suffered on the way. "X lost his job, house, savings, significant order, family, friends, health, sanity, credibility..."<p>The potential for tremendous losses on the way to success is scary because right now I already have everything I could ever want (loving wife, health, family, friends, career, money, house). I can keep everything I have by putting in my 8 hours/day or I can risk it all by saying "Hi world. I'm going to build devices/software that will help cerebral palsy / paralysis patients communicate better/faster with their loved ones."<p>Right now, I'm preparing for the latter by building my savings.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Jugaad, an inspired kind of duct-taped ingenuity</title><url>http://economist.com/blogs/babbage/2010/08/jugaad?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/questionsforsantoshostwal</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>noahth</author><text>not sure why the reference to duct-tape. what's up with that? he and his wife are both engineers and they prototyped in the middle of the night -- every night!</text></comment>
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<story><title>Aging Is a Communication Breakdown</title><url>http://nautil.us/issue/70/variables/aging-is-a-communication-breakdown</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alexpetralia</author><text>It&#x27;s always fun when people frame any given problem as an engineering problem. I&#x27;d enjoy seeing the reverse: an engineering problem framed as an artistic or literary problem, for example.</text></item><item><author>gen220</author><text>Translating problems across domains alert (!).<p>This article got me thinking. Oncology research sounds like live-debugging the race conditions of a millions-year-old, self-mutating program with billions (trillions) of lines of source code... And to top it all off, it&#x27;s written in a language whose syntax is elusive.<p>If you&#x27;re lucky, you can sometimes observe some aspects of its execution, but always at the cost of context-depriving tunnel vision, and only with a really expensive and proprietary IDE.<p>If that analogy&#x27;s anywhere close to the mark, I can&#x27;t imagine the patience of the people doing this research; bravo, sincerely.<p>With that analogy, this article suggests that researchers have attached an information-theory-backed meaning to a previously-observed pattern in the observed life cycle of our cells. The black box is revealing itself, with deliberate observation, to be an increasingly intricate and beautifully-designed grey box. Every lumen of that box is hard-fought, and must be super rewarding!<p>Nature&#x27;s one heck of an engineer :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sowhatquestion</author><text>I would recommend Kafka&#x27;s short story &quot;The Great Wall of China&quot;</text></comment>
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<story><title>Aging Is a Communication Breakdown</title><url>http://nautil.us/issue/70/variables/aging-is-a-communication-breakdown</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alexpetralia</author><text>It&#x27;s always fun when people frame any given problem as an engineering problem. I&#x27;d enjoy seeing the reverse: an engineering problem framed as an artistic or literary problem, for example.</text></item><item><author>gen220</author><text>Translating problems across domains alert (!).<p>This article got me thinking. Oncology research sounds like live-debugging the race conditions of a millions-year-old, self-mutating program with billions (trillions) of lines of source code... And to top it all off, it&#x27;s written in a language whose syntax is elusive.<p>If you&#x27;re lucky, you can sometimes observe some aspects of its execution, but always at the cost of context-depriving tunnel vision, and only with a really expensive and proprietary IDE.<p>If that analogy&#x27;s anywhere close to the mark, I can&#x27;t imagine the patience of the people doing this research; bravo, sincerely.<p>With that analogy, this article suggests that researchers have attached an information-theory-backed meaning to a previously-observed pattern in the observed life cycle of our cells. The black box is revealing itself, with deliberate observation, to be an increasingly intricate and beautifully-designed grey box. Every lumen of that box is hard-fought, and must be super rewarding!<p>Nature&#x27;s one heck of an engineer :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mushufasa</author><text>Read italo calvino!</text></comment>
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<story><title>Resistance to Being Productive</title><url>https://listed.standardnotes.org/@mo/408/why-you-re-resistant-to-being-productive</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>larrik</author><text>I was hoping for something more scientific or at least psychological, but alas.<p>I would say these reasons don&#x27;t line up with my observances at all.<p>For instance, one of mine is &quot;this project is so big, I don&#x27;t know where to start&quot;. Once I find a piece that seems like something I can get done quickly and ease me in, things tend to go a lot easier.<p>Another is &quot;I have so many (different) things to do that I don&#x27;t want to do any&quot;. Presumably this is not so different than the earlier one, and it&#x27;s hard to get started without an obvious plan of attack that having only one or more tasks ahead of you brings with it.<p>Lastly, as a lifelong procrastinator, I&#x27;ve noticed that waiting until the last minute to do something you need to do OFTEN results in never having to do it at all. You end up doing only things that <i>really needed</i> to get done.<p>In the end, I don&#x27;t really worry about it, or I hunt for tiny tasks to get my momentum going.<p>As for the article&#x27;s &quot;I&#x27;m not sure how doing that work will take me to the next step&quot; I guess? Maybe? But &quot;I&#x27;m not sure what I would do after I finish that work (what the next step is)&quot; I don&#x27;t believe has every been a factor a single time in my life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jach</author><text>I&#x27;m convincing myself that a lot of cases of procrastination, especially at work, are just from bad management. There&#x27;s a lot of bad self-management too, but for those of us in organizations with explicit management, I think there&#x27;s a lot of productivity gains that could be had by having more competent management... Software really needs someone who gets Deming&#x27;s management ideas but who can fully integrate them with the unique differences in software development... For &quot;this project is so big, I don&#x27;t know where to start&quot;: if you admitted that to some managers, they&#x27;d think &quot;oh this person is incompetent&quot; instead of &quot;how can I help them start?&quot; (to which there are many answers)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Resistance to Being Productive</title><url>https://listed.standardnotes.org/@mo/408/why-you-re-resistant-to-being-productive</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>larrik</author><text>I was hoping for something more scientific or at least psychological, but alas.<p>I would say these reasons don&#x27;t line up with my observances at all.<p>For instance, one of mine is &quot;this project is so big, I don&#x27;t know where to start&quot;. Once I find a piece that seems like something I can get done quickly and ease me in, things tend to go a lot easier.<p>Another is &quot;I have so many (different) things to do that I don&#x27;t want to do any&quot;. Presumably this is not so different than the earlier one, and it&#x27;s hard to get started without an obvious plan of attack that having only one or more tasks ahead of you brings with it.<p>Lastly, as a lifelong procrastinator, I&#x27;ve noticed that waiting until the last minute to do something you need to do OFTEN results in never having to do it at all. You end up doing only things that <i>really needed</i> to get done.<p>In the end, I don&#x27;t really worry about it, or I hunt for tiny tasks to get my momentum going.<p>As for the article&#x27;s &quot;I&#x27;m not sure how doing that work will take me to the next step&quot; I guess? Maybe? But &quot;I&#x27;m not sure what I would do after I finish that work (what the next step is)&quot; I don&#x27;t believe has every been a factor a single time in my life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AnIdiotOnTheNet</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;ve noticed that waiting until the last minute to do something you need to do OFTEN results in never having to do it at all. You end up doing only things that really needed to get done.<p>Don&#x27;t tell my boss this, but I have noticed it too.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Is iOS7 jailbroken yet?</title><url>https://isios7jailbrokenyet.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phaer</author><text>Serious question: Why bother? Why is there such an interest in using a very closed system in a way the vendor does not support if there are (more) open alternatives?<p>Is it because you are forced to use an iPhone by external factors, like your employer? Are there critical features missing from Android and all the others? Is it just your personal preference?<p>I really don&#x27;t mean to offend anyone, it&#x27;s just that I perceive the closed ecosystem of the iPhone as an intentional &quot;feature&quot; and as I personally don&#x27;t like it, I would never put my money into such a closed system just to try to jailbreak it afterwards.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mortenjorck</author><text>While there’s still about zero percent chance of it happening in the near term, I have to think that long-term, Apple will port Gatekeeper to iOS. It’s a near-ideal balance of security on OS X: Non-technical users can stay in the walled garden of the Mac App Store, semi-technical users can allow signed binaries, and power users can run whatever they want.<p>I work in the mobile healthcare space, and right now, we’re starting to move away from iOS as a platform for future projects because of the restrictions and hassle of the App Store. We’re not making 99-cent games and artisan to-do lists, so the fact that iPhone users are far more likely to spend money on apps doesn’t matter to us – we need a platform that lets us communicate with medical devices and display information for healthcare professionals without a mercurial third party deciding what we can and can’t do.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Is iOS7 jailbroken yet?</title><url>https://isios7jailbrokenyet.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phaer</author><text>Serious question: Why bother? Why is there such an interest in using a very closed system in a way the vendor does not support if there are (more) open alternatives?<p>Is it because you are forced to use an iPhone by external factors, like your employer? Are there critical features missing from Android and all the others? Is it just your personal preference?<p>I really don&#x27;t mean to offend anyone, it&#x27;s just that I perceive the closed ecosystem of the iPhone as an intentional &quot;feature&quot; and as I personally don&#x27;t like it, I would never put my money into such a closed system just to try to jailbreak it afterwards.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hopp_check</author><text>I find it to be the most stable and usable of the platforms I&#x27;ve seriously tried (iOS, Android, Blackberry). That said, there are a few power user features I like that aren&#x27;t allowed by default:
* F.lux
* FakeClockUp (to decrease animation times)
* Adblock
* Themes (because after 6 years of using them, smartphones look a bit boring)<p>I could get these on Android, but generally find that I must then sacrifice on form factor (I don&#x27;t like very large phones), stability, build quality (this is getting better on Android though), and ease of use (Facetime with family, iMessage, etc.).<p>In the end it&#x27;s not a single killer feature, but tight integration with my life. I might be able to do this all on Android, but it would take more time and probably more maintenance.</text></comment>
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<story><title>It's hard to say who's winning the streaming wars, but customers are losing</title><url>https://apitman.com/27/#losing-the-streaming-wars</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>antasvara</author><text>Is there some difference between streaming companies and classic movie studios that makes this the case? Arguably, the current state of movies is a direct result of studios realizing that well-produced, middle of the road content is the most profitable.<p>Of course, I could be missing something about the industry and how streaming has shaped it. I just struggle to see how the streaming ecosystem has different content requirements than a normal movie studio.</text></item><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>There is also too much &quot;content&quot; being made, and not enough quality movies to watch. There&#x27;s a recent reddit thread[1] about this weird trend lately where more and more of what&#x27;s offered is junk &quot;made for TV&quot; quality content. Even the word we use for it is revealing: Content. So boring. So gray and bland. Like a dry cardboard media ration made specifically to be consumed by some global ISO-standard Consumer. Everything has this odd B-movie With Big Stars hue. But two months after you view it, you struggle to even remember what it was about. Polished, featureless content, but hey, it&#x27;s in 4K and stars Dwayne Johnson.<p>High-quality, daring, inspired, more than superficially controversial, world-changing movies are another casualty of the rise of streaming.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;movies&#x2F;comments&#x2F;qx4rtu&#x2F;i_think_movies_are_getting_this_weird_netflixy&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;movies&#x2F;comments&#x2F;qx4rtu&#x2F;i_think_movi...</a></text></item><item><author>majormajor</author><text>If you look at twenty years ago, there&#x27;s far more content available now, for far less money. Your minimum cable outlay back then would still cover the cost of a couple streaming services.<p>What there <i>isn&#x27;t</i> is a good way to get a single subscription to watch anything you want. The cable bundle was close to that for TV content, but very lacking for movies. So if you want to watch a really wide sampling of TV content, it can feel like we&#x27;re going backward, since there&#x27;s no more one-stop-shop.<p>Careful what you wish for? The big desire then was a la carte, and right now you can bounce between streaming services at will, and they&#x27;re all still far easier to cancel than cable.<p>Some things have fallen through the cracks, particularly long-running (going back to the pre-streaming era) major-network content like the aforementioned Survivor (a random missing episode seems like a weird problem, would love to know what was going on). And getting US content stuff internationally is often sub-par, although... I don&#x27;t recall stories of this being easy at all two decades ago.<p>So consumers are overall definitely winning, but it&#x27;s not a perfect victory for everyone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vineyardmike</author><text>&gt; Is there some difference between streaming companies and classic movie studios that makes this the case?<p>Yes. Movie studios and streamers have different business models. Movie studios also deal with more &quot;legacy&quot; actor contract negotiations and the like (see disney v scarlet). Theater released movies make most of their money upfront, and make money out on a per-view basis. So they need as many viewers as early as possible.<p>With streamers, they can lose the subscription any month, and only gain it back if they lure you - so they&#x27;re incentivized to give you &quot;anchors&quot; that keep you there. Think game of thrones keeping people subscribed to HBO month over month or Squid Games that gets lots of attention. Once you&#x27;re there, they just have to have &quot;something&quot; for those days you don&#x27;t really know what to watch. That &quot;something&quot; is different for everyone, so they have to make lots of low budget generic stuff that appeals, collectively, to a wide audience. Each show&#x2F;movie can have few viewers, because its going for niche targeting en mass - think themed cable channels but one company has to make something for each theme. Once a streamer makes a show, its &quot;free&quot; to them to share it with as many people as possible, but also doesn&#x27;t cost them anything to not show it.<p>Ben Thompson (stratechery) has talked about this a lot, check him out!</text></comment>
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<story><title>It's hard to say who's winning the streaming wars, but customers are losing</title><url>https://apitman.com/27/#losing-the-streaming-wars</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>antasvara</author><text>Is there some difference between streaming companies and classic movie studios that makes this the case? Arguably, the current state of movies is a direct result of studios realizing that well-produced, middle of the road content is the most profitable.<p>Of course, I could be missing something about the industry and how streaming has shaped it. I just struggle to see how the streaming ecosystem has different content requirements than a normal movie studio.</text></item><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>There is also too much &quot;content&quot; being made, and not enough quality movies to watch. There&#x27;s a recent reddit thread[1] about this weird trend lately where more and more of what&#x27;s offered is junk &quot;made for TV&quot; quality content. Even the word we use for it is revealing: Content. So boring. So gray and bland. Like a dry cardboard media ration made specifically to be consumed by some global ISO-standard Consumer. Everything has this odd B-movie With Big Stars hue. But two months after you view it, you struggle to even remember what it was about. Polished, featureless content, but hey, it&#x27;s in 4K and stars Dwayne Johnson.<p>High-quality, daring, inspired, more than superficially controversial, world-changing movies are another casualty of the rise of streaming.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;movies&#x2F;comments&#x2F;qx4rtu&#x2F;i_think_movies_are_getting_this_weird_netflixy&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;movies&#x2F;comments&#x2F;qx4rtu&#x2F;i_think_movi...</a></text></item><item><author>majormajor</author><text>If you look at twenty years ago, there&#x27;s far more content available now, for far less money. Your minimum cable outlay back then would still cover the cost of a couple streaming services.<p>What there <i>isn&#x27;t</i> is a good way to get a single subscription to watch anything you want. The cable bundle was close to that for TV content, but very lacking for movies. So if you want to watch a really wide sampling of TV content, it can feel like we&#x27;re going backward, since there&#x27;s no more one-stop-shop.<p>Careful what you wish for? The big desire then was a la carte, and right now you can bounce between streaming services at will, and they&#x27;re all still far easier to cancel than cable.<p>Some things have fallen through the cracks, particularly long-running (going back to the pre-streaming era) major-network content like the aforementioned Survivor (a random missing episode seems like a weird problem, would love to know what was going on). And getting US content stuff internationally is often sub-par, although... I don&#x27;t recall stories of this being easy at all two decades ago.<p>So consumers are overall definitely winning, but it&#x27;s not a perfect victory for everyone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bryanrasmussen</author><text>&gt;Arguably, the current state of movies is a direct result of studios realizing that well-produced, middle of the road content is the most profitable.<p>yes, if streaming movies well-produced, middle of the road, not terribly expensive is most profitable - as per this recent discussion <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29247571" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29247571</a> on red notice<p>if cinema, big expansive events most profitable (currently)<p>if shows, high quality addictive, dramatic, character driven, etc. is most profitable<p>why is quality series more profitable than middle of road? because you have to get people to make the investment of spending 10+ hours.<p>why are medium quality competence streaming movies most profitable? because many people are willing to spend 90 minutes passing the time with something mildly enjoyable, despite the many draws on our time it&#x27;s still not seen as a serious investment.<p>why are big events blah blah blah - because it costs a lot to go out it is a hassle compared to staying home, I tend to go to restaurant as well when I do it so for me at least it definitely has to have been a night worth it at the end, and something big is more likely to make everyone like whoa I had an experience I can&#x27;t have at home.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The only tourist in Moldova</title><url>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/moldova-europe-least-visited-country/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kjellsbells</author><text>Central Asia still remains largely untouristed. I loved this article from the New York Times concerning a boy who taught himself Russian and then went to Kazakhstan with his father to immerse himself.<p>The Foreign Language That Changed My Teenage Son’s Life <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;03&#x2F;17&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;russian-language-kazakhstan.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8E0.JI0w.vTjXrchBgoPo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;03&#x2F;17&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;russian-language...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SomeoneFromCA</author><text>Central Asia (where I actually live) does not have much to see, esp. Kazakhstan. The main tourist destinations are historical monuments in Uzbekistan which has huge tourist influx lately (every time I am in Uzbekistan I see a good deal of tourists around hotels). Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan have beautiful mountains, nature. Kazakhstan is bit dull post-Soviet place, Almaty resembles more some city in Eastern Europe than Asia.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The only tourist in Moldova</title><url>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/moldova-europe-least-visited-country/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kjellsbells</author><text>Central Asia still remains largely untouristed. I loved this article from the New York Times concerning a boy who taught himself Russian and then went to Kazakhstan with his father to immerse himself.<p>The Foreign Language That Changed My Teenage Son’s Life <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;03&#x2F;17&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;russian-language-kazakhstan.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8E0.JI0w.vTjXrchBgoPo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;03&#x2F;17&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;russian-language...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>a2tech</author><text>We had a Turkmen exchange student a few years ago and her family has asked to Turkmenistan several times but we haven&#x27;t taken them up on the offer. It does seem like an extremely unique place.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Machine Learning, Kolmogorov Complexity, and Squishy Bunnies (2019)</title><url>http://theorangeduck.com/page/machine-learning-kolmogorov-complexity-squishy-bunnies</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>manthideaal</author><text>Using Kolmogorov Complexity and then using PCA is not valid since you are approximating a solution and Kolmogorov Complexity is for exact solutions. Anyway perhaps there is, or should be defined, a signal&#x2F;noise Kolmogorov Complexity measure, that is the shortest length of a program that computes an approximate solution within an epsilon distance of the true solution. Also since PCA is discussed, why not use SVD?<p>Edited: See (1)for some related ideas: A Safe Approximation for Kolmogorov Complexity<p>(1) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;link.springer.com&#x2F;chapter&#x2F;10.1007&#x2F;978-3-319-11662-4_24" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;link.springer.com&#x2F;chapter&#x2F;10.1007&#x2F;978-3-319-11662-4_...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Machine Learning, Kolmogorov Complexity, and Squishy Bunnies (2019)</title><url>http://theorangeduck.com/page/machine-learning-kolmogorov-complexity-squishy-bunnies</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>woliveirajr</author><text>When I first learned about Kolmogorov complexity I understood it as the amount of symbols you have to use, from some specific vocabulary, to represent something.<p>It walks side-by-side with compression (and pigeon problems). Using Kolmogorov to improve ML in those physical examples means that the solution will be better to the specific case, not that there&#x27;ll come a one-in-all solution to any kind of clothes animation.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Governments have overestimated the economic returns of higher education</title><url>https://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2018/03/economist-explains-0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>OtterCoder</author><text>California and New England are so divorced from the concerns and ethos of the &#x27;flyover&#x27; states that they may as well be on another planet. You may not think of yourself as elitist, but from the perspective of a Midwesterner, you almost certainly are.</text></item><item><author>dhimes</author><text>What is a &quot;coastal elitist?&quot; I&#x27;ve never heard that term. Since I live on the coast and have a few liberal friends, I know what a &quot;coastal liberal&quot; is. But &quot;coastal elitist?&quot; The only people I know who fit that bill are finance guys, and only a few at that.</text></item><item><author>motohagiography</author><text>I like to summarize a particular coastal elitist view as, &quot;Let them eat college.&quot;</text></item><item><author>simonsarris</author><text>This is what Taleb has said for years. Wealth leads to education. Education does not necessarily, or even commonly, lead to wealth.<p>If you gain wealth but do not come from an aristocratic or &quot;respected family in society&quot; background, the way to gain prestige is by paying for education for yourself or your children. Buying your kids a degree is the modern day equivalent of buying a venal office in 1500&#x27;s France or Spain.<p>(Except Venal offices probably guaranteed a little more ROI in addition to the status!)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Venal_office" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Venal_office</a></text></item><item><author>kodis</author><text>I suspect that at least some of this is due to confusing cause with effect: people see that most highly successful people have a collage degree, and wrongly conclude that anyone with a collage degree will be highly successful.<p>A few of the other problems with this increased drive to send people to collage is that now a collage degree is required -- as the article points out -- as a signal of employability even for jobs where a high school education would suffice; a drive away from trade school, even when a job in the trades pays well and is quite secure; and of course the debt load that comes with collage, even for a degree is in a field with little chance of providing a good return on the cost of the degree.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>notfromhere</author><text>It&#x27;s not the Midwest, it&#x27;s rural areas everywhere. Coastal elite is just code word for urbanite.<p>I don&#x27;t know if people are aware, but the Midwest does have cities and its city dwellers have more in common with city dwellers on either coast than they do with rural areas in their own state.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Governments have overestimated the economic returns of higher education</title><url>https://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2018/03/economist-explains-0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>OtterCoder</author><text>California and New England are so divorced from the concerns and ethos of the &#x27;flyover&#x27; states that they may as well be on another planet. You may not think of yourself as elitist, but from the perspective of a Midwesterner, you almost certainly are.</text></item><item><author>dhimes</author><text>What is a &quot;coastal elitist?&quot; I&#x27;ve never heard that term. Since I live on the coast and have a few liberal friends, I know what a &quot;coastal liberal&quot; is. But &quot;coastal elitist?&quot; The only people I know who fit that bill are finance guys, and only a few at that.</text></item><item><author>motohagiography</author><text>I like to summarize a particular coastal elitist view as, &quot;Let them eat college.&quot;</text></item><item><author>simonsarris</author><text>This is what Taleb has said for years. Wealth leads to education. Education does not necessarily, or even commonly, lead to wealth.<p>If you gain wealth but do not come from an aristocratic or &quot;respected family in society&quot; background, the way to gain prestige is by paying for education for yourself or your children. Buying your kids a degree is the modern day equivalent of buying a venal office in 1500&#x27;s France or Spain.<p>(Except Venal offices probably guaranteed a little more ROI in addition to the status!)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Venal_office" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Venal_office</a></text></item><item><author>kodis</author><text>I suspect that at least some of this is due to confusing cause with effect: people see that most highly successful people have a collage degree, and wrongly conclude that anyone with a collage degree will be highly successful.<p>A few of the other problems with this increased drive to send people to collage is that now a collage degree is required -- as the article points out -- as a signal of employability even for jobs where a high school education would suffice; a drive away from trade school, even when a job in the trades pays well and is quite secure; and of course the debt load that comes with collage, even for a degree is in a field with little chance of providing a good return on the cost of the degree.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dnomad</author><text>Yeah those damned coastal elites fighting for universal healthcare and more education and higher minimum wages.<p>The reality is that the only real &quot;elites&quot; are these fantasists who&#x27;ve bought into this narrative and actually believe they are the &quot;Real Americans (tm).&quot; It&#x27;s a childish delusion that is only sustainable by an even more delusional pride.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Ozempic drug supresses desire to smoke, drink and more?</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/05/ozempic-addictive-behavior-drinking-smoking/674098/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmpman</author><text>I’ve been on Mounjaro since August. Down almost 60lbs, and it’s been a life changer. Have I had some gastrointestinal issues, sure, but expected. I feel great and my brain seems to be functioning as well as when I was in my 20’s. Now, when I go to the bar with friends, I end up having maybe 2 beers and although enjoyable, I don’t feel that light switch turning on which encourages me to drink more. Can I force myself to keep drinking, say if my good friends are in town and we’re going out all night? Sure, but there’s some reward center that’s no longer lighting up. I just get drunker, but it’s not more pleasurable. I was never a big drinker at home by myself. Maybe a glass of wine or two with dinner if my in-laws are coming over. Now I’ve literally had zero drinks at home by myself. Seems to have started changing about 3 month in.<p>Work also seems more interesting, but my untreated ADHD seems to be getting worse.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CapstanRoller</author><text>&gt;I feel great and my brain seems to be functioning as well as when I was in my 20’s<p>&gt;but my untreated ADHD seems to be getting worse.<p>I had very similar results after taking ketamine for treatment-resistant depression. It eliminated all my compulsive tendencies for getting cheap dopamine hits (food, doomscrolling, etc), reset my tolerance to everything (caffeine, ADHD meds, alcohol), and made my ADHD worse while improving throughput and ability to Get Shit Done.<p>I wonder if they affect the same parts of the brain in a roundabout way? Ketamine is also used to treat addiction (opioids, primarily).<p>Do you experience any anhedonia while using Mounjaro? Did your overall pleasure response get blunted?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Ozempic drug supresses desire to smoke, drink and more?</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/05/ozempic-addictive-behavior-drinking-smoking/674098/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmpman</author><text>I’ve been on Mounjaro since August. Down almost 60lbs, and it’s been a life changer. Have I had some gastrointestinal issues, sure, but expected. I feel great and my brain seems to be functioning as well as when I was in my 20’s. Now, when I go to the bar with friends, I end up having maybe 2 beers and although enjoyable, I don’t feel that light switch turning on which encourages me to drink more. Can I force myself to keep drinking, say if my good friends are in town and we’re going out all night? Sure, but there’s some reward center that’s no longer lighting up. I just get drunker, but it’s not more pleasurable. I was never a big drinker at home by myself. Maybe a glass of wine or two with dinner if my in-laws are coming over. Now I’ve literally had zero drinks at home by myself. Seems to have started changing about 3 month in.<p>Work also seems more interesting, but my untreated ADHD seems to be getting worse.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>helsinkiandrew</author><text>&gt; but there’s some reward center that’s no longer lighting up.<p>Do you find other pleasures (non food and drink) as enjoyable? Interesting to hear if it’s selective or dampens everything.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The world is not falling apart: The trend lines</title><url>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2014/12/the_world_is_not_falling_apart_the_trend_lines_reveal_an_increasingly_peaceful.single.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>diafygi</author><text>Great! We&#x27;re better overall than we were! No reason to rest on our laurels, though. How can we be better than we are now?<p>Here&#x27;s some areas that aren&#x27;t doing too well:<p>1. Climate Change - We&#x27;re in store for a lot of trouble over the next few decades[1]. How will we manage?<p>2. Wealth Inequality - The gap is widening[2]. How do we reverse the trend?<p>3. Gerrymandering&#x2F;voter suppression - The ones in power are the ones who draw the district boundaries[3]. How do we stop the feedback loop?<p>[1]: <a href="http://ipcc-wg2.gov/AR5/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ipcc-wg2.gov&#x2F;AR5&#x2F;</a><p>[2]: <a href="http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/12/12/racial-wealth-gaps-great-recession/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pewresearch.org&#x2F;fact-tank&#x2F;2014&#x2F;12&#x2F;12&#x2F;racial-wealt...</a><p>[3]: <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/12/the-pernicious-effects-of-gerrymandering/383418/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;politics&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2014&#x2F;12&#x2F;the-pern...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>The world is not falling apart: The trend lines</title><url>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2014/12/the_world_is_not_falling_apart_the_trend_lines_reveal_an_increasingly_peaceful.single.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hentrep</author><text>This point of an increasingly peaceful world has come up repeatedly over the years, but I think there is an inherent problem in the way it is viewed. The rise of the internet and social media has facilitated glimpses into the terrible acts which humans are capable of perpetrating against one another. That combined with a biased media who thrives on shock and outrage, it&#x27;s no wonder we find this data difficult to digest. Most of the modern world influenced by this biased media reside in very sterile, largely safe environments. In effect, we&#x27;ve become ultra-sensitized to gore and violence, and as a result our impression and response to any sort of mayhem is skewed accordingly.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Disney is safeguarding its future by buying childhood, piece by piece</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21684138-disney-making-fortune-and-safeguarding-its-future-buying-childhood-piece-piece</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tunesmith</author><text>FYI, the first part of the article spoils some minor things about the new star wars film, for those who haven&#x27;t seen it. I bailed out of reading it after that.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Disney is safeguarding its future by buying childhood, piece by piece</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21684138-disney-making-fortune-and-safeguarding-its-future-buying-childhood-piece-piece</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Archio</author><text>Reading this gives me a chill down my spine. There&#x27;s something about a corporation controlling, optimizing, monetizing, and branding dominant components of a childhood that just doesn&#x27;t seem right.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Architecture astronauts take over</title><url>http://joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/05/01.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>raganwald</author><text>I have become sick and tired of the carping and flaming you see from some folks whenever Joel publishes a rant, accusing him of douchebaggery and all sorts of sin. The usual behaviour is that he has one great insight, a bunch of entertaining ranting, and one egocentric point. And on the basis of this, the whole thing is junk and he is a has-been windbag.<p>I don't go along with that sort of vilification. If a post has one great insight, something I can learn from, I'm a happy man. I can chuckle at Joel complaining about competing for interns with Google as long as I'mn entertained by his prose and intrigued by his central thesis.<p>I would have loved this post on that basis.<p>Except.<p>WTF is with the dig at playing Ultimate? Joel, you have <i>totally lost it this time</i>. Ultimate is the ultimate nerd sport, and interns who play Ultimate are your <i>best hires ever</i>.<p>Ultimate involves complex plays involving team co-ordination. A skill that just might come in handy working on a software development team. The flight of the disc is the kind of thing the mathematical mind drools over--gyroscopic procession, ballistics, aerodynamics, everything comes in to play.<p>Ultimate players are healthy and I'll wager can crank code for long hours compared to those who eschew aerobic sports in favour of foosball.<p>And for those who are still single... Ultimate is a great place to meet people of every gender and orientation. Which leads to cohabitation, the purchase of homes, large mortgages, and a slavish devotion to working your ass off to earn a fat bonus.<p>Joel, I wanted to like this post, I really did. But you have <i>got</i> to stop making insanely wrong pronouncements about things that matter most.<p>Like which games interns ought to play ;-)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Architecture astronauts take over</title><url>http://joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/05/01.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>watmough</author><text>That is absolutely vintage Joel. And he's right.<p>Ray Ozzie and the rest of MS should have realized by now that the only thing that really works is building something. Give us something to criticize. Look at YUI. It's not great in places, but at least it works, and it there, and available to play with, and fun, and cross-platform.<p>It's coming to something when the most interesting thing out of MS is probably F#, and Photosynth. Aren't these from MSR?<p>What is the rest of MS doing?<p>[Personally I'd be glad if they finally got round to fixing all the damn non-resizable dialogs in their apps, which infest all MS software like cockroaches.]</text></comment>
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<story><title>TV Is Dying, And Here Are The Stats That Prove It</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/cord-cutters-and-the-death-of-tv-2013-11</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shiftpgdn</author><text>Good riddance. I cut the cord about a year and a half ago and replaced my cable box with a Roku box. There was a brief period where I missed the background noise but now I find broadcast&#x2F;cable television unbearably grating. Frankly I think the cable companies brought it upon themselves with the constant loud commercial interruptions, the garbage programming, and the utterly miserable cable box interfaces.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>interpol_p</author><text>I&#x27;m in the same position. I cut the cord five years ago and have just been using Apple TV for Netflix.<p>TV commercials are impossible to put up with. They are almost painfully annoying. When I&#x27;m visiting my family I just have to turn off the TV, it&#x27;s impossible to concentrate on conversation otherwise.</text></comment>
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<story><title>TV Is Dying, And Here Are The Stats That Prove It</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/cord-cutters-and-the-death-of-tv-2013-11</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shiftpgdn</author><text>Good riddance. I cut the cord about a year and a half ago and replaced my cable box with a Roku box. There was a brief period where I missed the background noise but now I find broadcast&#x2F;cable television unbearably grating. Frankly I think the cable companies brought it upon themselves with the constant loud commercial interruptions, the garbage programming, and the utterly miserable cable box interfaces.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jseliger</author><text><i>Good riddance</i><p>The downside is that cable subscribers subsidize the handful of TV shows I actually want to watch. Individually, every person who quits makes a rational decision, but when everyone quits we don&#x27;t get a lot of good shows.<p>Maybe Netflix or Amazon or whoever will take up the slack. Or maybe those shows will just go away.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Wordpress Themes for Launching your Minimum Viable Product</title><url>http://torgronsund.wordpress.com/2010/09/16/7-wordpress-themes-for-launching-your-minimum-viable-product/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>patio11</author><text>I especially recommend these for technical founders who don't have a bone of design sense in their bodies, like myself. I used a spiritually similar WooThemes template (Delegate) to get AppointmentReminder's site ready. It took less than 20 minutes to set up. I added a 99Designs logo and a single custom image from my designer, and it now looks fairly professional relative to the amount of investment. (The service itself isn't near ready yet, but people ask to buy it on strength of the front page and the MVP demo, so that is probably a good sign.)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Wordpress Themes for Launching your Minimum Viable Product</title><url>http://torgronsund.wordpress.com/2010/09/16/7-wordpress-themes-for-launching-your-minimum-viable-product/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>replicatorblog</author><text>I was blown away when I learned that Groupon actually started life as a simple WordPress install.<p><a href="http://www.tomloverro.com/2010/08/19/groupon-1-0-started-on-a-wordpress-blog/" rel="nofollow">http://www.tomloverro.com/2010/08/19/groupon-1-0-started-on-...</a><p>These themes aren't well suited for ecommerce, they are really just variations on an iPhone App landing page, but they are nice tools to get something commercial looking up fast.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Togethr: Own Mastodon-compatible decentralized social network instance</title><url>https://togethr.party/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>packetlost</author><text>That&#x27;s sort of my point. Managed hosting is exactly what I get for free from SDF (or mastodon.social), so what&#x27;s the benefit?</text></item><item><author>ultimape</author><text>This appears to be a managed hosting provider offering access to a pleroma instance underneath, not a software package.</text></item><item><author>packetlost</author><text>Why would I want this over something like mastodon.social or SDF&#x27;s Mastodon? $7&#x2F;month seems very steep for what amounts to the ability to have a custom domain and admin responsibility.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>masukomi</author><text>_you_ don&#x27;t get managed hosting from mastodon.social the site owner does (if they used a service like this). You just get an account that someone else manages the infrastructure beneath.<p>This gives you your own instance, which in addition to using your own domain, means you can can set the rules of the server (what kind of speech is and isn&#x27;t allowed), you can boot people you don&#x27;t want. You can control who gets in. you can control what other servers are blocked (i assume that is an option in pleroma too).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Togethr: Own Mastodon-compatible decentralized social network instance</title><url>https://togethr.party/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>packetlost</author><text>That&#x27;s sort of my point. Managed hosting is exactly what I get for free from SDF (or mastodon.social), so what&#x27;s the benefit?</text></item><item><author>ultimape</author><text>This appears to be a managed hosting provider offering access to a pleroma instance underneath, not a software package.</text></item><item><author>packetlost</author><text>Why would I want this over something like mastodon.social or SDF&#x27;s Mastodon? $7&#x2F;month seems very steep for what amounts to the ability to have a custom domain and admin responsibility.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jgfrgcss</author><text>A clear business model and alignment of interests, as a customer. Also no lock in since the customer owns their domain.<p>How is SDF funded? How can anyone be certain it will continue to be funded, if it offers a service gratis that costs the provider money to operate? Is that funding source aligned with my beliefs and interests? These are questions you don&#x27;t have when you just pay for things.<p>Another example: I use FastMail with a custom domain. Yes, I could just use Gmail, but I don&#x27;t, for the reasons listed above.</text></comment>
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<story><title>OpenTable Fires Employee for Making Fake Reserve Bookings</title><url>https://chicago.eater.com/2018/3/5/17078210/opentable-reserve-fake-reservation-scheme-no-shows-chicago-restaurants-valentines</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>trhway</author><text>&gt;Reserve’s security team conducted an investigation and brought that evidence to OpenTable and started a dialogue between the two rivals. OpenTable confirmed that it fired the employee in question<p>lesson to the youngsters - never do anything smelly&#x2F;unethical (dont even mention criminal) without manager approval in writing. Otherwise at the first sign of trouble you&#x27;ll be made to take one for the team as it seems to have happened in this and countless other cases.<p>I mean even in normal situation, whenever some details of feature, project, etc. are discussed and decided&#x2F;assigned in some informal way, i find it is very useful to send a summary note so the manager&#x2F;PM&#x2F;etc wouldn&#x27;t come later with the very different version of what happened.</text></comment>
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<story><title>OpenTable Fires Employee for Making Fake Reserve Bookings</title><url>https://chicago.eater.com/2018/3/5/17078210/opentable-reserve-fake-reservation-scheme-no-shows-chicago-restaurants-valentines</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>erikb</author><text>Read this and ctrl-f &quot;cat&#x27;s paw&quot; or &quot;execution failure&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ribbonfarm.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;10&#x2F;14&#x2F;the-gervais-principle-v-heads-i-win-tails-you-lose&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ribbonfarm.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;10&#x2F;14&#x2F;the-gervais-principle-...</a><p>I love how many of the Gervais Principle examples are actually something you can see in real life. Also hating it though. I wish we would live in a better world.</text></comment>
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<story><title>How to Make Python Run as Fast as Julia</title><url>https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/jfp/entry/Python_Meets_Julia_Micro_Performance</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jordigh</author><text>I don&#x27;t think this is accurately representing Julia&#x27;s aims. Of course the Julia team wrote the Python code in a way that makes it run slowly. But it looks like perfectly natural Python code! It&#x27;s almost a literal translation of the Julia code. Julia&#x27;s benchmark is even far worse with Octave, which they almost deliberately wrote in the worst way possible for Octave, with lots of loops and recursion.<p>We have written some documentation for Octave in order to guide people towards writing faster Octave code:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;software&#x2F;octave&#x2F;doc&#x2F;interpreter&#x2F;Vectorization-and-Faster-Code-Execution.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;software&#x2F;octave&#x2F;doc&#x2F;interpreter&#x2F;Vectoriz...</a><p>But look at how much we have to explain, and look at all the hoops we have to jump through in Python and Octave in order to write faster code. Matlab used to have similar guides telling people don&#x27;t write this, write that instead.<p>What Matlab eventually did was look at what people were writing and making that fast. Julia did the same and made it even faster.<p>This is a lesson from C and C++ compilers that seems to be taking a long time to trickle to other programming languages: as long as you&#x27;re writing reasonable code, speeding up your code is your <i>compiler</i>&#x27;s job, not yours. Your compiler usually knows better than you how to unroll loops, how to cache results, how to use multiple cores, how to elide unnecessary intermediate results, how to completely remove dead code. You should focus on writing easy to understand, maintainable, high-level code. That&#x27;s why you&#x27;re using a programming language and not machine code.</text></comment>
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<story><title>How to Make Python Run as Fast as Julia</title><url>https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/jfp/entry/Python_Meets_Julia_Micro_Performance</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thebooktocome</author><text>The point of the Julia benchmarks was to show <i>compiler</i> performance.<p>You can do something clever in any language. There are plenty of really, really smart people that spend a lot of time writing incomprehensible (to me) Haskell that outperforms C.<p>The question is, do you <i>have</i> to do something clever to get performant code in the language of your choice?<p>In Julia -- not often. I&#x27;ve written around 50kloc of Julia; almost all of it is first-pass prototype code that manages to be performant despite itself. The most polished code I&#x27;ve written in Julia is about 100x faster than the MATLAB it replaced.<p>IMO, the main advantage of Python is its massive library of modules. As a prototyping language, on the other hand, it just seems to me that Julia is more flexible.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Chinese Cash Is Suddenly Toxic in Silicon Valley, Following U.S. Pressure</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-cash-is-suddenly-toxic-in-silicon-valley-following-u-s-pressure-campaign-11560263302</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fmajid</author><text>I&#x27;d be more concerned about Chinese financing of Hollywood. Nearly every big-budget production these days has Chinese co-producers. This leads to farcical episodes like the remake of Red Dawn featuring feeble North Korea as the villain rather than China as originally envisioned.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>unnamedprophet</author><text>This is no different than what Hollywood already does. E.g. demonizing conservative values as antithetical to a stable government (abortion, gay and lesbian rights, income discrepancy). I recall Hillary Clinton being interviewed by Terry Gross, where she was essentially charged with bigotry in reversing positions on gay marriage. Public sentiment changes in one way as a result of social and media influences, and it&#x27;s not all in the direction of truth, justice and the American way. It&#x27;s whomever is pulling the puppet strings (read: funding their personal agendas).<p>All film and media is propagandistic in some way. Just because you swing the needle in a different direction doesn&#x27;t change that fact.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Chinese Cash Is Suddenly Toxic in Silicon Valley, Following U.S. Pressure</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-cash-is-suddenly-toxic-in-silicon-valley-following-u-s-pressure-campaign-11560263302</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fmajid</author><text>I&#x27;d be more concerned about Chinese financing of Hollywood. Nearly every big-budget production these days has Chinese co-producers. This leads to farcical episodes like the remake of Red Dawn featuring feeble North Korea as the villain rather than China as originally envisioned.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>learc83</author><text>Russia was the villain in the original movie and China was on the US side (but were only briefly mentioned). Or do you mean &quot;as originally envisioned for the remake&quot;?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Big water cutbacks ordered amid Colorado River shortage</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2022-06-14/big-water-cutbacks-ordered-amid-colorado-river-shortage</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vwoolf</author><text>The desalination plant solutions a &quot;let&#x27;s do both.&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;californiaglobe.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;california-coastal-commission-rejects-huntington-beach-desalination-plant-proposal&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;californiaglobe.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;california-coastal-comm...</a><p>Charge market prices for water and build desalination. Create abundance.</text></item><item><author>jmyeet</author><text>At least this article notes that the vast majority of water usage is agriculture. This isn&#x27;t something cities could or should solve by switching to (expensive) desalination to effectively subsidize agriculture. Most notably, alfalfa is mentioned here as farmers are going to have to switch to less water-intensive crops.<p>Decreasing alfalfa production may well impact the ability to feed cattle. In the short term, that&#x27;s actually fine. It may just force more beef production, which will be good for costs (again, in the short term).<p>But this article makes the same mistake so many make: blaming this on climate change. It&#x27;s not. It&#x27;s simply usage. See Figure 2 on page 10 [1]. Additionally, water projections were made at a high point of water inflows that simply haven&#x27;t been realistic since.<p>In short, we&#x27;re using too much water and farming is going to have to take the hit.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usbr.gov&#x2F;watersmart&#x2F;bsp&#x2F;docs&#x2F;finalreport&#x2F;ColoradoRiver&#x2F;CRBS_Executive_Summary_FINAL.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usbr.gov&#x2F;watersmart&#x2F;bsp&#x2F;docs&#x2F;finalreport&#x2F;Colorad...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cplusplusfellow</author><text>If only people understood this concept. In my home town city council are bickering about whether to allow additional density to be build on already commercially zoned lots based on whether they force 10 or 12% if the units to be “affordable.”<p>They are bickering over whether 40 units of a building might have a net decreased rent of $200 a month and instead may get 0 units built instead of 400. The 400 units would likely reduce the rent in the area by more than $200.<p>Create abundance and then let the market set the price and be happy.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Big water cutbacks ordered amid Colorado River shortage</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2022-06-14/big-water-cutbacks-ordered-amid-colorado-river-shortage</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vwoolf</author><text>The desalination plant solutions a &quot;let&#x27;s do both.&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;californiaglobe.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;california-coastal-commission-rejects-huntington-beach-desalination-plant-proposal&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;californiaglobe.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;california-coastal-comm...</a><p>Charge market prices for water and build desalination. Create abundance.</text></item><item><author>jmyeet</author><text>At least this article notes that the vast majority of water usage is agriculture. This isn&#x27;t something cities could or should solve by switching to (expensive) desalination to effectively subsidize agriculture. Most notably, alfalfa is mentioned here as farmers are going to have to switch to less water-intensive crops.<p>Decreasing alfalfa production may well impact the ability to feed cattle. In the short term, that&#x27;s actually fine. It may just force more beef production, which will be good for costs (again, in the short term).<p>But this article makes the same mistake so many make: blaming this on climate change. It&#x27;s not. It&#x27;s simply usage. See Figure 2 on page 10 [1]. Additionally, water projections were made at a high point of water inflows that simply haven&#x27;t been realistic since.<p>In short, we&#x27;re using too much water and farming is going to have to take the hit.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usbr.gov&#x2F;watersmart&#x2F;bsp&#x2F;docs&#x2F;finalreport&#x2F;ColoradoRiver&#x2F;CRBS_Executive_Summary_FINAL.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usbr.gov&#x2F;watersmart&#x2F;bsp&#x2F;docs&#x2F;finalreport&#x2F;Colorad...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>macintux</author><text>Desalination requires energy and creates waste. Perhaps we should live within our means instead.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Atlassian tells employees they can work from home forever</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/07/atlassian-tells-employees-they-can-work-from-home-indefinitely.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NoOneNew</author><text>I have a feeling this is going to end up similar to the &quot;open office&quot; fad. Lots of companies are going to go 100% on &quot;forever work from home&quot;. Then in a year it&#x27;s going to be not so much. That being said, I do believe &quot;work from home&quot; will become more of an option and far less frowned upon by employers. Then again, this is a white-collar problem. Blue collar and a few other industries still have to go to work. But who cares about them, right? It&#x27;s only the white collar jobs that matter and should have a form of change and evolution to how they work. Those lowly blue collars and service industry peasants need to get back to work. It&#x27;s far more vital for the important industries to hide away from the outside world, from its horrors and look down at the rest.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>627467</author><text>I think the perspective of &quot;who cares about blue collar worker&quot; is assuming that wfh is always a choice, a preference and ideal for non-blue-collar workers.<p>I&#x27;m sure right now, lots of people who dreamed of wfh and couldn&#x27;t have tried it and learned that it might not be the right arrangement for them.<p>Also, I find it hard to accept that people who pick certain jobs out of preference (not made to chose out of circumstances) like &quot;blue collar jobs&quot; would expect working from home. What does it mean for a steel worker to be working from home? A warehouse worker? A painter? A housekeeper? A cook?<p>I do agree with the rest of the sentiment you shared though... The sense that some people who are enjoying the current state of affairs want others to return to normalcy while they are living the exception.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Atlassian tells employees they can work from home forever</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/07/atlassian-tells-employees-they-can-work-from-home-indefinitely.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NoOneNew</author><text>I have a feeling this is going to end up similar to the &quot;open office&quot; fad. Lots of companies are going to go 100% on &quot;forever work from home&quot;. Then in a year it&#x27;s going to be not so much. That being said, I do believe &quot;work from home&quot; will become more of an option and far less frowned upon by employers. Then again, this is a white-collar problem. Blue collar and a few other industries still have to go to work. But who cares about them, right? It&#x27;s only the white collar jobs that matter and should have a form of change and evolution to how they work. Those lowly blue collars and service industry peasants need to get back to work. It&#x27;s far more vital for the important industries to hide away from the outside world, from its horrors and look down at the rest.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>herval</author><text>The open office “fad” is pretty much the only office arrangement for more than a decade now, so what you’re saying is this will be the de facto going forward?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Machine Learning and Ketosis</title><url>https://github.com/arielf/weight-loss</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>khattam</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s pretty easy to lose 40-50 pounds and end up being much less healthier than you were before<p>Maybe if you amputate your legs or catch AIDS or syphilis in the process. Otherwise, I can&#x27;t see how losing 50 pounds will leave you less healthier than before.</text></item><item><author>ghshephard</author><text>What&#x27;s interesting about this post isn&#x27;t the actual diet advice, but the guidance to track and see what works for you. Different people react to fasting differently - some continue to burn calories and drop weight, some just go into starvation mode, have their BMR crash through the floor, and end up exhausted all the time because their body is fighting like crazy to conserve energy.<p>Likewise - some people, when they start to eat carbs, see their BMR ramp up, are full of energy, and end up running 5-10 miles a day to burn that energy off, and are pumped the rest of the day.<p>Also, focussing on weight to the exclusion of everything else is really horrible. It&#x27;s pretty easy to lose 40-50 pounds and end up being much less healthier than you were before if you aren&#x27;t careful. Having some sense of your V02 max, your strength, endurance, flexibility, etc.. are sometimes as important, if not more important, than what your weight is to +&#x2F;- 20 pounds.<p>Everybody is somewhat different in how they&#x27;ll react to various diet and exercise regimes. Understanding that, and taking a bit of time to watch how your body responds, is the important insight here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ghshephard</author><text>What I was trying to say, perhaps poorly, that is if you were heavy because you were working out a lot, and eating a lot, and then decided to lose weight by reducing the eating&#x2F;working out, you can end up being skinny&#x2F;fat&#x2F;weak.<p>At the very least, doing regular body-weight resistance training (pushups, situps, pullups, air-squats), helps to reduce the amount of muscle you are losing while you are losing weight.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Machine Learning and Ketosis</title><url>https://github.com/arielf/weight-loss</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>khattam</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s pretty easy to lose 40-50 pounds and end up being much less healthier than you were before<p>Maybe if you amputate your legs or catch AIDS or syphilis in the process. Otherwise, I can&#x27;t see how losing 50 pounds will leave you less healthier than before.</text></item><item><author>ghshephard</author><text>What&#x27;s interesting about this post isn&#x27;t the actual diet advice, but the guidance to track and see what works for you. Different people react to fasting differently - some continue to burn calories and drop weight, some just go into starvation mode, have their BMR crash through the floor, and end up exhausted all the time because their body is fighting like crazy to conserve energy.<p>Likewise - some people, when they start to eat carbs, see their BMR ramp up, are full of energy, and end up running 5-10 miles a day to burn that energy off, and are pumped the rest of the day.<p>Also, focussing on weight to the exclusion of everything else is really horrible. It&#x27;s pretty easy to lose 40-50 pounds and end up being much less healthier than you were before if you aren&#x27;t careful. Having some sense of your V02 max, your strength, endurance, flexibility, etc.. are sometimes as important, if not more important, than what your weight is to +&#x2F;- 20 pounds.<p>Everybody is somewhat different in how they&#x27;ll react to various diet and exercise regimes. Understanding that, and taking a bit of time to watch how your body responds, is the important insight here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jokamoto</author><text>Two possible ways:<p>Being underweight is dangerous, just as being overweight is dangerous. Instead of heart disease and joint damage, you end up with osteoporosis, anemia, etc.<p>Losing weight without paying attention to nutrient intake and balance can have similar effects, even if you&#x27;d be at or above healthy weight losing 50lbs.</text></comment>
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<story><title>AMD Ryzen 6000 Series Mobile CPUs Feature Microsoft's Pluton Security</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-Ryzen-6000-Pluton</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>judge2020</author><text>&gt; secret.club<p>&gt; Imagine you want to watch your favorite show on Netflix in 4k, but your hardware trust factor is low? Too bad you’ll have to settle for the 720p stream. Untrusted devices could be watching in an instance of Linux KVM, and we can’t risk your pirating tools running in the background!<p>Oh no, video platforms don&#x27;t want me pirating their stuff. Video game companies don&#x27;t want me to cheat with aimbots and wallhacks. And all it needs is &quot;has this user tampered with the OS to the point that I can&#x27;t figure out if they&#x27;ve tampered with my process&quot;. This is 1984 at long last.</text></item><item><author>no_time</author><text>Recommended reading for anyone interested in this tecnology.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Next-Generation_Secure_Computing_Base" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Next-Generation_Secure_Computi...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;secret.club&#x2F;2021&#x2F;06&#x2F;28&#x2F;windows11-tpms.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;secret.club&#x2F;2021&#x2F;06&#x2F;28&#x2F;windows11-tpms.html</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;wp&#x2F;trusted-computing-promise-and-risk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;wp&#x2F;trusted-computing-promise-and-risk</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.diva-portal.org&#x2F;smash&#x2F;get&#x2F;diva2:206552&#x2F;FULLTEXT01.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.diva-portal.org&#x2F;smash&#x2F;get&#x2F;diva2:206552&#x2F;FULLTEXT0...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>0dayz</author><text>I find this to be missing the point.<p>No one is arguing against all form of verification of trust, hell even fully open public domain content would benefit from simple verification, what people are (rightfully) angry over is the fact that:
A: It&#x27;s not open for anyone to audit&#x2F;modify
B: It&#x27;s a forced dictation upon the customer, not the bad guy.<p>In essence in the name of &quot;trust&quot; don&#x27;t trust the customer, even though customers would gladly see individual implementations such as anti-cheat be implemented.</text></comment>
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<story><title>AMD Ryzen 6000 Series Mobile CPUs Feature Microsoft's Pluton Security</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-Ryzen-6000-Pluton</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>judge2020</author><text>&gt; secret.club<p>&gt; Imagine you want to watch your favorite show on Netflix in 4k, but your hardware trust factor is low? Too bad you’ll have to settle for the 720p stream. Untrusted devices could be watching in an instance of Linux KVM, and we can’t risk your pirating tools running in the background!<p>Oh no, video platforms don&#x27;t want me pirating their stuff. Video game companies don&#x27;t want me to cheat with aimbots and wallhacks. And all it needs is &quot;has this user tampered with the OS to the point that I can&#x27;t figure out if they&#x27;ve tampered with my process&quot;. This is 1984 at long last.</text></item><item><author>no_time</author><text>Recommended reading for anyone interested in this tecnology.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Next-Generation_Secure_Computing_Base" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Next-Generation_Secure_Computi...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;secret.club&#x2F;2021&#x2F;06&#x2F;28&#x2F;windows11-tpms.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;secret.club&#x2F;2021&#x2F;06&#x2F;28&#x2F;windows11-tpms.html</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;wp&#x2F;trusted-computing-promise-and-risk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;wp&#x2F;trusted-computing-promise-and-risk</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.diva-portal.org&#x2F;smash&#x2F;get&#x2F;diva2:206552&#x2F;FULLTEXT01.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.diva-portal.org&#x2F;smash&#x2F;get&#x2F;diva2:206552&#x2F;FULLTEXT0...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whoopdedo</author><text>So we&#x27;re presumed guilty of stealing and cheating unless we can prove to The Company that our computers are obedient consumers. And if our own computer makes a mistake and testifies against us, it&#x27;s our word against a black box.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Sub.Rehab – See where Reddit communities have relocated</title><url>https://sub.rehab/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ornornor</author><text>&gt; Discord, for its faults, does not have the same issues.<p>Yet. Reddit was a friend when Digg died. Any closed platform can do whatever they want whenever they want and as soon as they decide to start making money. I wouldn’t trust discord to not pull a Reddit in a few years.<p>Not. Your. Platform. Not. Your. Content.</text></item><item><author>CamelCaseName</author><text>This whole thing has been about:<p>[1] Reddit not building the needed tools for its free labor and relying on third parties to do it for them, then taking those tools away without providing another option<p>[2] Disrespecting moderators and powerusers by insulting them (&quot;landed gentry&quot;), creating incentives for them to scab on each other, and being threatening and doublehanded at every turn, if not outright lying.<p>[3] A decade of broken promises on feature development, trust n safety failures, half baked features that no one asked for that end up shut down.<p>[4] Breaking the illusion that users ever owned their data (posts, comments) and communities.<p>Not all these reasons apply to everyone, but at least one of them applies to most people protesting.<p>Reddit has built up so much bad will. They could have been a great steward of the internet (and made money doing it!), but instead they decided to attack their community of moderators (the same insult they hurl at moderators, saying they are attacking their community of users!)<p>Discord, for its faults, does not have the same issues.</text></item><item><author>c-fe</author><text>Its beyond me why one would move away from Reddit due to changes in the API pricing making it hard (but not impossible) for 3rd party apps ... to discord, which is completely closed off and allows no 3rd party apps? Even worse, content on discord wont be visible on search engines.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nobleach</author><text>This is a cycle we can expect for any platform that has the bills. Hosting is not free. Storage is not free. Bandwidth is not free. Labor to fix bugs and develop features is not free. So this constant expectation that it should all be free (or even cheap) is not a realistic world view. We joke about the fact that &quot;the cloud&quot; isn&#x27;t real, it&#x27;s just someone else&#x27;s computer. But isn&#x27;t that kinda the basis of the current delusion? &quot;We want to have complete freedom, be completely safe, get the features we want, have it for free and... don&#x27;t bother me with any advertisement&quot;.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Sub.Rehab – See where Reddit communities have relocated</title><url>https://sub.rehab/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ornornor</author><text>&gt; Discord, for its faults, does not have the same issues.<p>Yet. Reddit was a friend when Digg died. Any closed platform can do whatever they want whenever they want and as soon as they decide to start making money. I wouldn’t trust discord to not pull a Reddit in a few years.<p>Not. Your. Platform. Not. Your. Content.</text></item><item><author>CamelCaseName</author><text>This whole thing has been about:<p>[1] Reddit not building the needed tools for its free labor and relying on third parties to do it for them, then taking those tools away without providing another option<p>[2] Disrespecting moderators and powerusers by insulting them (&quot;landed gentry&quot;), creating incentives for them to scab on each other, and being threatening and doublehanded at every turn, if not outright lying.<p>[3] A decade of broken promises on feature development, trust n safety failures, half baked features that no one asked for that end up shut down.<p>[4] Breaking the illusion that users ever owned their data (posts, comments) and communities.<p>Not all these reasons apply to everyone, but at least one of them applies to most people protesting.<p>Reddit has built up so much bad will. They could have been a great steward of the internet (and made money doing it!), but instead they decided to attack their community of moderators (the same insult they hurl at moderators, saying they are attacking their community of users!)<p>Discord, for its faults, does not have the same issues.</text></item><item><author>c-fe</author><text>Its beyond me why one would move away from Reddit due to changes in the API pricing making it hard (but not impossible) for 3rd party apps ... to discord, which is completely closed off and allows no 3rd party apps? Even worse, content on discord wont be visible on search engines.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mistermann</author><text>&gt; Reddit was a friend when Digg died. Any closed platform can do whatever they want whenever they want and as soon as they decide to start making money.<p>Who was running Reddit back then?<p>Leadership matters. Take climate change for example, or anything really.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Accidental Pinhole and Pinspeck Cameras (2014)</title><url>http://people.csail.mit.edu/torralba/research/accidentalcameras/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tgb</author><text>Relatedly, the fact that light is reversible (behaves the same forward in time&#x2F;direction as backwards) means you can swap the light source and camera of an image (if just one point lightsource). I.e. you can render the scene from the perspective of the light source as if light were emitted by the camera. I recall seeing a neat demo of this but I can&#x27;t find it on google. Anyone know it?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Accidental Pinhole and Pinspeck Cameras (2014)</title><url>http://people.csail.mit.edu/torralba/research/accidentalcameras/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckNorris89</author><text>Your optical mouse sensor is also a low res camera. In older models you could dump the picture through a debug mode.<p>Also, LEDs can also act as light sensors. Food for thought.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Meta AI Unleashes Megabyte, a Scalable Model Architecture</title><url>https://www.artisana.ai/articles/meta-ai-unleashes-megabyte-a-revolutionary-scalable-model-architecture</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>p-e-w</author><text>I don&#x27;t buy the idea (with either architecture) that &quot;10x&quot;-type scaling is required for another breakthrough.<p>Think of a human with below average intelligence. Then think of a human genius. Now consider how incredibly similar their brains are, despite the massive performance gap. It&#x27;s not like one has 10x the number of neurons&#x2F;synapses&#x2F;connections etc. of the other. They&#x27;re both healthy human brains, and you need powerful technology to even distinguish them structurally.<p>Considering this, it seems perfectly possible that a model like GPT-4 is just a hair&#x27;s breadth away from vastly superhuman performance. It certainly beats the average human at many tasks already. The gap between a moron and a genius is a lot larger than that between GPT-4 and a superhuman.</text></item><item><author>jacobn</author><text>My main argument against the AI doomsayers has so far been that the current scaling laws simply make runaway singularity style scenarios algorithmically impossible (if for each step of improvement you need 10x parameters and 100x training, you quickly run into a brick wall).<p>This is part of why I’m not worried about the current crop of generative AI. I am however both curious and concerned about what the tsunami of talent and $$$ chasing the current trend will achieve.<p>If this n^(4&#x2F;3) alt transformer compute scaling is real (and there’s been many a pretender, so it’s too early to tell), then that could fundamentally change the overall AI scaling law, substantially lowering the brick wall.<p>And that could be a game changer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wudangmonk</author><text>You mean the average brain with about 100 billion neurons with about 1000 connections each bringing it to around 100 trillion connections. With an estimated 1000 &quot;AI&quot; neurons required per biologial neuron.<p>I don&#x27;t think you are givin these &quot;below average&quot; intelligence individuals enough credit. What we consider a genius is the equivalent of a dog show obstacle course. We measure intelligence&#x2F;genius as whatever is hard for humans and completely ignore what is easy because we fail to see the complexity behind the easy stuff.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Meta AI Unleashes Megabyte, a Scalable Model Architecture</title><url>https://www.artisana.ai/articles/meta-ai-unleashes-megabyte-a-revolutionary-scalable-model-architecture</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>p-e-w</author><text>I don&#x27;t buy the idea (with either architecture) that &quot;10x&quot;-type scaling is required for another breakthrough.<p>Think of a human with below average intelligence. Then think of a human genius. Now consider how incredibly similar their brains are, despite the massive performance gap. It&#x27;s not like one has 10x the number of neurons&#x2F;synapses&#x2F;connections etc. of the other. They&#x27;re both healthy human brains, and you need powerful technology to even distinguish them structurally.<p>Considering this, it seems perfectly possible that a model like GPT-4 is just a hair&#x27;s breadth away from vastly superhuman performance. It certainly beats the average human at many tasks already. The gap between a moron and a genius is a lot larger than that between GPT-4 and a superhuman.</text></item><item><author>jacobn</author><text>My main argument against the AI doomsayers has so far been that the current scaling laws simply make runaway singularity style scenarios algorithmically impossible (if for each step of improvement you need 10x parameters and 100x training, you quickly run into a brick wall).<p>This is part of why I’m not worried about the current crop of generative AI. I am however both curious and concerned about what the tsunami of talent and $$$ chasing the current trend will achieve.<p>If this n^(4&#x2F;3) alt transformer compute scaling is real (and there’s been many a pretender, so it’s too early to tell), then that could fundamentally change the overall AI scaling law, substantially lowering the brick wall.<p>And that could be a game changer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nemothekid</author><text>&gt;<i>Think of a human with below average intelligence. Then think of a human genius.</i><p>LLMs are not AGI. A human with below average intelligence is still a league above a chimpanzee. A chimpanzee will never be able to read, not because &quot;it&#x27;s too dumb&quot;, but because a chimp&#x27;s brain lacks the actual hardware for reading. The LLM is the chimpanzee. The gap between an LLM and a &quot;human with below average intelligence&quot; is far more than 10x.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Gcsfuse: A user-space file system for interacting with Google Cloud Storage</title><url>https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcsfuse</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>carbocation</author><text>I do scientific computing in google cloud. When I first got started, I heavily relied on GCSFuse. Over time, I have encountered enough trouble that I no longer use it for the vast majority of my work. Instead, I explicitly localize the files I want to the machine that will be operating on them, and this has eliminated a whole class of slowdown bugs and availability bugs.<p>The scale of data for my work is modest (~50TB, ~1 million files total, about 50k files per &quot;directory&quot;).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ashishbijlani</author><text>FUSE does not work well with a large number of small files (due to high metadata ops such as inode&#x2F;dentry lookups).<p>ExtFUSE (optimized FUSE with eBPF) [1] can offer you much higher performance. It caches metadata in the kernel to avoid lookups in user space. Disclaimer: I built it.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;extfuse&#x2F;extfuse">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;extfuse&#x2F;extfuse</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Gcsfuse: A user-space file system for interacting with Google Cloud Storage</title><url>https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcsfuse</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>carbocation</author><text>I do scientific computing in google cloud. When I first got started, I heavily relied on GCSFuse. Over time, I have encountered enough trouble that I no longer use it for the vast majority of my work. Instead, I explicitly localize the files I want to the machine that will be operating on them, and this has eliminated a whole class of slowdown bugs and availability bugs.<p>The scale of data for my work is modest (~50TB, ~1 million files total, about 50k files per &quot;directory&quot;).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>laurencerowe</author><text>These file systems are not a good fit for large numbers of small files. Their sweet spot is working with large (~GB+) files which are mostly read from beginning to end. I’ve mostly used them for bioinformatics stuff.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Twitter shut down Emojitracker's access</title><url>https://medium.com/@mroth/u-1f647-person-bowing-deeply-5402c3ee5676#.z3df4bj6h</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kbenson</author><text>So? If they want all these special access cases handled through Gnip, whether they are discounted or free, that&#x27;s their call. Just because it&#x27;s through the commercial arm doesn&#x27;t mean they would be incapable of handling special cases.<p>In any case, it&#x27;s all speculation, there was never a dialogue, and the HN title as it current stands is probably inflaming this more than it should be. Their access was not shut down (and the blog post&#x27;s title and wording does does not say it <i>is</i> shut down, but that they believe they <i>will be</i> shut down). An email was sent, it was poorly worded, and the recipient overreacted (or at least prematurely reacted). The responsible thing to do would have been to contact Twitter or the sender and discuss the needs and goals of the project, and see what they could offer.<p>Immediately writing a public blog post is not negotiating in good faith.</text></item><item><author>dangrossman</author><text>That&#x27;s referring to Gnip still. They offer several levels of access and historical search, in addition to the firehose stream, for money.<p>&gt; If they want all these special access cases handled through Gnip, whether they are discounted or free, that&#x27;s their call.<p>There&#x27;s nothing in the mail suggesting they &quot;want special access cases handled through Gnip&quot;.</text></item><item><author>kbenson</author><text>&gt; which provided no particular encouragement that there might be other terms available<p>That&#x27;s not entirely correct. Under option 2 after mentioning it&#x27;s commercial side, it says:<p><i>There are also other solutions that offer varying levels of access as well as historical search.</i><p>It&#x27;s not prominent (likely because they only want it pursued in special cases), and it&#x27;s easy to miss, but it is there.</text></item><item><author>jrochkind1</author><text>So, the OP provided the email he recieved.<p>It did not ask him to clarify what he is doing, it did not say anything about bounds of acceptable use cases or what they might be, it did not encourage him to contact Twitter directly, or provide a link to do so. It did _not_ &quot;inquire about why the developer needs elevated access&quot;, there is no such inquiry in the email. It _did_ say elevated access was going away.<p>It said he could use the free API with rate limits, or the commercial Gnip API.<p>It kind of half-heartedly suggested he could &quot;reply to this email&quot; if he had &quot;questions&quot;. From the email, there was no reason to think elevated access might still be available, it pretty clearly said it would _not_ be, so I&#x27;m not surprised he didn&#x27;t have any questions -- the email was quite clear (at saying something pretty different than you are saying).<p>So when you describe the email that goes out -- it does not seem to describe the one he received, according to him in the post. Are you talking about a different email? That he did not receive, or that you think he should have received in addition? Or do you actually think that email somehow communicates what you describe above? (It really really does not, which is why I think you must be thinking of a different email he did not receive or post, or you were internally misinformed about what the email was going to say).<p>With the email he actually pasted into the OP it is not surprising that he simply publicly notified his userbase and other interested parties that the service would be going away -- what else do you do when your upstream provider tells you the service is going away? This is all very standard and professional.<p>But, if you are saying that you do continue providing free elevated access to certain projects that seem worthwhile and meet some &#x27;boudns of acceptable use&#x27;, then that is nice, cool, I&#x27;m glad Twitter is doing this. (Maybe you should have told him that in the email though! And it would be great to actually advertise that fact, and what the bounds of acceptable use are, and how someone can get in touch with you to request access.)</text></item><item><author>CoolAssPuppy</author><text>Hi, I&#x27;m Prashant. I run Developer Relations at Twitter. I want to clarify a few things here.<p>In the past, Twitter had little formality associated with granting elevated access. It was very much, &quot;Hey, I want to do this cool thing!&quot; &quot;Okay, sure, here you go.&quot; As Twitter&#x27;s platform business has matured to include many businesses building billions of dollars worth of social media monitoring and other tools, we&#x27;ve formalized the process to becoming a Twitter Official Partner (partners.twitter.com). Over the last six months, we&#x27;ve started contacting all of those API key holders with elevated access and asked them to clarify what they&#x27;re doing. In some cases, we know the business and business owner and reach out personally. In other cases, like this one, the business is listed in our systems as &quot;N&#x2F;A&quot;, so we send the template mail.<p>In the email, we encourage people who believe their app is within the bounds of acceptable use cases on Twitter to contact us directly, and provide a link to do so. The owner of this app elected to blog publicly about the situation before contacting us, which is unfortunate. We have contacted the owner of this app and hope to resolve this situation, as we do with hundreds of other developers on our platform. We do occasionally provide exceptions for apps that are non-commercial (not-for-profit, no ads, etc.)<p>Note also that in this instance, the notice is NOT about shutting down this app. It merely inquires about why the developer needs elevated access, something that is typically reserved for our business partners.<p>None of this is related to continuing to use the Twitter API or our commitment to enabling developers to build on our platform (Fabric, Gnip, our Ads platform, and the Twitter API).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>njs12345</author><text>&gt; Immediately writing a public blog post is not negotiating in good faith.<p>Yet this seems to have been quite effective, given that the head of Developer Relations at Twitter is replying to this story on HN..</text></comment>
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<story><title>Twitter shut down Emojitracker's access</title><url>https://medium.com/@mroth/u-1f647-person-bowing-deeply-5402c3ee5676#.z3df4bj6h</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kbenson</author><text>So? If they want all these special access cases handled through Gnip, whether they are discounted or free, that&#x27;s their call. Just because it&#x27;s through the commercial arm doesn&#x27;t mean they would be incapable of handling special cases.<p>In any case, it&#x27;s all speculation, there was never a dialogue, and the HN title as it current stands is probably inflaming this more than it should be. Their access was not shut down (and the blog post&#x27;s title and wording does does not say it <i>is</i> shut down, but that they believe they <i>will be</i> shut down). An email was sent, it was poorly worded, and the recipient overreacted (or at least prematurely reacted). The responsible thing to do would have been to contact Twitter or the sender and discuss the needs and goals of the project, and see what they could offer.<p>Immediately writing a public blog post is not negotiating in good faith.</text></item><item><author>dangrossman</author><text>That&#x27;s referring to Gnip still. They offer several levels of access and historical search, in addition to the firehose stream, for money.<p>&gt; If they want all these special access cases handled through Gnip, whether they are discounted or free, that&#x27;s their call.<p>There&#x27;s nothing in the mail suggesting they &quot;want special access cases handled through Gnip&quot;.</text></item><item><author>kbenson</author><text>&gt; which provided no particular encouragement that there might be other terms available<p>That&#x27;s not entirely correct. Under option 2 after mentioning it&#x27;s commercial side, it says:<p><i>There are also other solutions that offer varying levels of access as well as historical search.</i><p>It&#x27;s not prominent (likely because they only want it pursued in special cases), and it&#x27;s easy to miss, but it is there.</text></item><item><author>jrochkind1</author><text>So, the OP provided the email he recieved.<p>It did not ask him to clarify what he is doing, it did not say anything about bounds of acceptable use cases or what they might be, it did not encourage him to contact Twitter directly, or provide a link to do so. It did _not_ &quot;inquire about why the developer needs elevated access&quot;, there is no such inquiry in the email. It _did_ say elevated access was going away.<p>It said he could use the free API with rate limits, or the commercial Gnip API.<p>It kind of half-heartedly suggested he could &quot;reply to this email&quot; if he had &quot;questions&quot;. From the email, there was no reason to think elevated access might still be available, it pretty clearly said it would _not_ be, so I&#x27;m not surprised he didn&#x27;t have any questions -- the email was quite clear (at saying something pretty different than you are saying).<p>So when you describe the email that goes out -- it does not seem to describe the one he received, according to him in the post. Are you talking about a different email? That he did not receive, or that you think he should have received in addition? Or do you actually think that email somehow communicates what you describe above? (It really really does not, which is why I think you must be thinking of a different email he did not receive or post, or you were internally misinformed about what the email was going to say).<p>With the email he actually pasted into the OP it is not surprising that he simply publicly notified his userbase and other interested parties that the service would be going away -- what else do you do when your upstream provider tells you the service is going away? This is all very standard and professional.<p>But, if you are saying that you do continue providing free elevated access to certain projects that seem worthwhile and meet some &#x27;boudns of acceptable use&#x27;, then that is nice, cool, I&#x27;m glad Twitter is doing this. (Maybe you should have told him that in the email though! And it would be great to actually advertise that fact, and what the bounds of acceptable use are, and how someone can get in touch with you to request access.)</text></item><item><author>CoolAssPuppy</author><text>Hi, I&#x27;m Prashant. I run Developer Relations at Twitter. I want to clarify a few things here.<p>In the past, Twitter had little formality associated with granting elevated access. It was very much, &quot;Hey, I want to do this cool thing!&quot; &quot;Okay, sure, here you go.&quot; As Twitter&#x27;s platform business has matured to include many businesses building billions of dollars worth of social media monitoring and other tools, we&#x27;ve formalized the process to becoming a Twitter Official Partner (partners.twitter.com). Over the last six months, we&#x27;ve started contacting all of those API key holders with elevated access and asked them to clarify what they&#x27;re doing. In some cases, we know the business and business owner and reach out personally. In other cases, like this one, the business is listed in our systems as &quot;N&#x2F;A&quot;, so we send the template mail.<p>In the email, we encourage people who believe their app is within the bounds of acceptable use cases on Twitter to contact us directly, and provide a link to do so. The owner of this app elected to blog publicly about the situation before contacting us, which is unfortunate. We have contacted the owner of this app and hope to resolve this situation, as we do with hundreds of other developers on our platform. We do occasionally provide exceptions for apps that are non-commercial (not-for-profit, no ads, etc.)<p>Note also that in this instance, the notice is NOT about shutting down this app. It merely inquires about why the developer needs elevated access, something that is typically reserved for our business partners.<p>None of this is related to continuing to use the Twitter API or our commitment to enabling developers to build on our platform (Fabric, Gnip, our Ads platform, and the Twitter API).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mgalka</author><text>I think the email goes further than poorly worded. It says pretty clearly that access will be cut off, gives no suggestion that there could be a negotiation.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Squatting in Spain: Understanding Spain's "okupas" problem</title><url>https://www.idealista.com/en/news/legal-advice-in-spain/2024/04/15/816509-squatting-in-spain-understanding-spain-s-okupas-problem</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Aurornis</author><text>&gt; There&#x27;s clearly a gap between imaginary noble okupas addressing housing crisis via occupation of unused bank property and reality of weed smoking anarchists and their collaborating deoccupying mafia harassing mostly not-so-rich middle class, who can&#x27;t afford the security measures the rich can.<p>I had a friend who bought a house that needed a lot of work. Before he could get started on the remodel, someone broke in to the empty house, changed the locks, and started occupying it.<p>I remember being shocked that someone could do this and be protected under the law. He had to follow a formal eviction process, even though they broke into his house and never had any agreement. The perpetrators were known to the police as professional squatters and they advised him on all the things to avoid doing so they wouldn’t countersue him, which was mind blowing.<p>Even weirder was to watch the reaction on his social media when he posted the story. A lot of people, including many of his friends, jumped to defending squatter’s rights or trying to make some broader point about inequality.<p>There’s something about squatting that appeals to people who think it’s always a RobinHood situation: Stealing from the rich, giving to the poor. It’s more fun to imagine these people as noble warriors against an unjust society, rather than seem them as people abusing the laws for personal gain at the expense of random victims. Even here on HN there are comments trying to downplay the issue by portraying the victims as mostly wealthy or landlords, which are presumably acceptable victims to people who like these kind of narratives.</text></item><item><author>rudnevr</author><text>I live in Spain and own property in Spain. There&#x27;s clearly a gap between imaginary noble okupas addressing housing crisis via occupation of unused bank property and reality of weed smoking anarchists and their collaborating deoccupying mafia harassing mostly not-so-rich middle class, who can&#x27;t afford the security measures the rich can. It&#x27;s not a small problem, there&#x27;s like 12K cases per year last time I checked. Everybody knows the problem exists, most people take extra, otherwise not necessary measures against it. The leftist govt adds to the problem somehow rationalizing it and trying to channel poor&#x27;s frustration onto middle-class, while the actual abusers, who are well aware of the problem, stay safe.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shanemhansen</author><text>It can be surprising to be on the other end of something and see the lack of sympathy.<p>I went on a group hike once and somehow ended up telling people that my house had been broken into. It was a bummer. Actual monetary damages about 10k, but so many little gifts and heirlooms that were irreplaceable. It&#x27;s hard to express the sense of violation. They also stole some of my wife&#x27;s underwear which was just gross.<p>Someone replied with &quot;well maybe if they were paid a living wage they wouldn&#x27;t have to steal&quot;. Because obviously stealing my wife&#x27;s underwear is much like stealing a loaf of bread to survive ala les miserables.<p>It&#x27;s like all nuance has been lost. Some people think that if you believe that the housing situation isn&#x27;t great then you just have to be pro anything that calls itself a solution.<p>I hope they eventually figure out that&#x27;s not necessary.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Squatting in Spain: Understanding Spain's "okupas" problem</title><url>https://www.idealista.com/en/news/legal-advice-in-spain/2024/04/15/816509-squatting-in-spain-understanding-spain-s-okupas-problem</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Aurornis</author><text>&gt; There&#x27;s clearly a gap between imaginary noble okupas addressing housing crisis via occupation of unused bank property and reality of weed smoking anarchists and their collaborating deoccupying mafia harassing mostly not-so-rich middle class, who can&#x27;t afford the security measures the rich can.<p>I had a friend who bought a house that needed a lot of work. Before he could get started on the remodel, someone broke in to the empty house, changed the locks, and started occupying it.<p>I remember being shocked that someone could do this and be protected under the law. He had to follow a formal eviction process, even though they broke into his house and never had any agreement. The perpetrators were known to the police as professional squatters and they advised him on all the things to avoid doing so they wouldn’t countersue him, which was mind blowing.<p>Even weirder was to watch the reaction on his social media when he posted the story. A lot of people, including many of his friends, jumped to defending squatter’s rights or trying to make some broader point about inequality.<p>There’s something about squatting that appeals to people who think it’s always a RobinHood situation: Stealing from the rich, giving to the poor. It’s more fun to imagine these people as noble warriors against an unjust society, rather than seem them as people abusing the laws for personal gain at the expense of random victims. Even here on HN there are comments trying to downplay the issue by portraying the victims as mostly wealthy or landlords, which are presumably acceptable victims to people who like these kind of narratives.</text></item><item><author>rudnevr</author><text>I live in Spain and own property in Spain. There&#x27;s clearly a gap between imaginary noble okupas addressing housing crisis via occupation of unused bank property and reality of weed smoking anarchists and their collaborating deoccupying mafia harassing mostly not-so-rich middle class, who can&#x27;t afford the security measures the rich can. It&#x27;s not a small problem, there&#x27;s like 12K cases per year last time I checked. Everybody knows the problem exists, most people take extra, otherwise not necessary measures against it. The leftist govt adds to the problem somehow rationalizing it and trying to channel poor&#x27;s frustration onto middle-class, while the actual abusers, who are well aware of the problem, stay safe.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gsky</author><text>Law abiding citizens are the suckers it seems everywhere. It&#x27;s easy to be nobel and generous when you are not the one being taken advantage of.<p>Regardless of who benefits from Lawlessness, it always ends up destroying the society</text></comment>
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<story><title>10,000 Hours with Claude Shannon (2017)</title><url>https://medium.com/the-mission/10-000-hours-with-claude-shannon-12-lessons-on-life-and-learning-from-a-genius-e8b9297bee8f</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Bakary</author><text>&gt;Reflecting on the arc of his career, Shannon confessed, “I don’t think I was ever motivated by the notion of winning prizes, although I have a couple of dozen of them in the other room. I was more motivated by curiosity. Never by the desire for financial gain. I just wondered how things were put together. Or what laws or rules govern a situation, or if there are theorems about what one can’t or can do. Mainly because I wanted to know myself.”<p>This is one insight about actual geniuses that shun the &quot;classic&quot; trappings of life that has always intrigued me. They are essentially coerced by their own neurology to aim for academic pursuits, because anything else cannot scratch that itch. Money and power are nice (and Johnny von Neumann loved his parties and loud music) but in the end it&#x27;s just not that stimulating in comparison to hard abstract problems. Social relationships still have their draw as well, but you have to hit the knowledge-pipe regularly or face withdrawal.<p>For people of that caliber, living in pre-modern societies must have been equivalent to torture. For the rest of us, it would have been like watching paint dry for our entire lives. Sounds like sour grapes, but in a way I am grateful not to have to deal with all of this. Looking at von Neumann&#x27;s example again, the fear of death still caused him to lash out irrationally and in the end even he could not escape the human condition.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JackMorgan</author><text>I&#x27;m not a genius by any stretch, but I felt that way until I was given access to the internet and enough job stability to have a few hours of free time every day. The internet became a way to easily just read about whatever interested me, which is usually a few hours a day on various subjects. Before that, life was miserable.<p>As an adult I&#x27;ve realized that I need significant and varied diet of books, internet, social time, rigorous physical activity, problem solving, musical practice, and art making every day otherwise I quickly fall into a deep depression. I can see how in other times or other circumstances I&#x27;d be turning to substance abuse just to make it through the day. It feels like my mind requires constant effort or I&#x27;ll be unhealthy and unhappy.<p>Several family members of mine who are quite a bit more intelligent struggle with this even more. Some have even fallen into substance abuse as a shortcut, but one that never achieves stability, only ruin.</text></comment>
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<story><title>10,000 Hours with Claude Shannon (2017)</title><url>https://medium.com/the-mission/10-000-hours-with-claude-shannon-12-lessons-on-life-and-learning-from-a-genius-e8b9297bee8f</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Bakary</author><text>&gt;Reflecting on the arc of his career, Shannon confessed, “I don’t think I was ever motivated by the notion of winning prizes, although I have a couple of dozen of them in the other room. I was more motivated by curiosity. Never by the desire for financial gain. I just wondered how things were put together. Or what laws or rules govern a situation, or if there are theorems about what one can’t or can do. Mainly because I wanted to know myself.”<p>This is one insight about actual geniuses that shun the &quot;classic&quot; trappings of life that has always intrigued me. They are essentially coerced by their own neurology to aim for academic pursuits, because anything else cannot scratch that itch. Money and power are nice (and Johnny von Neumann loved his parties and loud music) but in the end it&#x27;s just not that stimulating in comparison to hard abstract problems. Social relationships still have their draw as well, but you have to hit the knowledge-pipe regularly or face withdrawal.<p>For people of that caliber, living in pre-modern societies must have been equivalent to torture. For the rest of us, it would have been like watching paint dry for our entire lives. Sounds like sour grapes, but in a way I am grateful not to have to deal with all of this. Looking at von Neumann&#x27;s example again, the fear of death still caused him to lash out irrationally and in the end even he could not escape the human condition.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yrimaxi</author><text>&gt; &gt; I don’t think I was ever motivated by the notion of winning prizes, although I have a couple of dozen of them in the other room.<p>Being a genius is a good thing, and also not having “ego” motivations is looked upon favorably. So this is like an egoless brag.<p>Also: look at what I managed to do indirectly&#x2F;without even trying.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Show HN: Javalin 1.0 – A Kotlin/Java web framework</title><url>https://javalin.io/news/javalin-1.0.0-stable.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danneu</author><text>Good job reaching a stable release.<p>I have a Kotlin microframework that never made it past hobby-level stability[1].<p>One thing I found out is that you really have to write a library in Java if you want it to be used in both Java and Kotlin. Java -&gt; Kotlin is effectively one-way interop.<p>I also found async programming to be really hard in Java which is why I wrapped Jetty. Meanwhile async APIs like Netty and Undertow were completely exotic to me.<p>For example, I couldn&#x27;t figure out how to go from `Request -&gt; Response` to `Request -&gt; Promise&lt;Response&gt;` by wrapping Netty.<p>One thing I did find out was that Kotlin is probably my favorite language. Very similar to Swift, though I wish you could re-open 3rd party classes to make them conform to additional interfaces which you can do with Swift protocols.<p>I also never figured out how to hot reload code without restarting the server. Even JRebel didn&#x27;t work for me. Looking at Jetbrains&#x27; own framework, their code that implements reloading is pretty intimidating[2].<p>OP is also the author of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tipsy&#x2F;j2html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tipsy&#x2F;j2html</a> which I&#x27;ve been using in my own small servers. I couldn&#x27;t figure out a better way to get typesafe html templating in the ecosystem.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;danneu&#x2F;kog" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;danneu&#x2F;kog</a>
[2]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ktor.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ktor.io</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>edem</author><text>This is <i></i>definitely NOT TRUE<i></i>. I&#x27;ve written a library which <i></i>is used<i></i> from both Java <i></i>and<i></i> Scala and it just works. Here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Hexworks&#x2F;zircon" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Hexworks&#x2F;zircon</a><p>Just because you didn&#x27;t manage to get it working does not mean that interop is not two-way.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Show HN: Javalin 1.0 – A Kotlin/Java web framework</title><url>https://javalin.io/news/javalin-1.0.0-stable.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danneu</author><text>Good job reaching a stable release.<p>I have a Kotlin microframework that never made it past hobby-level stability[1].<p>One thing I found out is that you really have to write a library in Java if you want it to be used in both Java and Kotlin. Java -&gt; Kotlin is effectively one-way interop.<p>I also found async programming to be really hard in Java which is why I wrapped Jetty. Meanwhile async APIs like Netty and Undertow were completely exotic to me.<p>For example, I couldn&#x27;t figure out how to go from `Request -&gt; Response` to `Request -&gt; Promise&lt;Response&gt;` by wrapping Netty.<p>One thing I did find out was that Kotlin is probably my favorite language. Very similar to Swift, though I wish you could re-open 3rd party classes to make them conform to additional interfaces which you can do with Swift protocols.<p>I also never figured out how to hot reload code without restarting the server. Even JRebel didn&#x27;t work for me. Looking at Jetbrains&#x27; own framework, their code that implements reloading is pretty intimidating[2].<p>OP is also the author of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tipsy&#x2F;j2html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tipsy&#x2F;j2html</a> which I&#x27;ve been using in my own small servers. I couldn&#x27;t figure out a better way to get typesafe html templating in the ecosystem.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;danneu&#x2F;kog" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;danneu&#x2F;kog</a>
[2]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ktor.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ktor.io</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tsvetkov</author><text>&gt; Java -&gt; Kotlin is effectively one-way interop<p>Could you provide some more details?
I&#x27;m a bit surprised by your statement because Kotlin team has put a lot of effort into providing mostly seamless two way interop. Kotlin project itself is ~50% Java (specifically to test interop).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Show HN: Realtime Hacker News Summarization Using Machine Learning</title><url>http://hn10.org/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ecesena</author><text>Not sure what do you use to scrape, but I can recommend newspaper to extract text.<p>I contributed a while ago and it was pretty solid.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;codelucas&#x2F;newspaper" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;codelucas&#x2F;newspaper</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Show HN: Realtime Hacker News Summarization Using Machine Learning</title><url>http://hn10.org/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xiamx</author><text>Got that this is using nltk. Can you comment on which summarization algorithm you are using (TextRank, SumBasic and etc.) What&#x27;s the motivation towards choosing one algorithm over another and how&#x27;s its performance on average HN articles?</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Eyes Have It (1953)</title><url>https://www.gutenberg.org/files/31516/31516-h/31516-h.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jyriand</author><text>There are set of authors&#x2F;artist who rely heavily on their &quot;visions&quot; and use these as a source materials. Philip K. Dick is one of these visionaries(Exegesis, VALIS). Also some other that come to mind are William Blake, Carl Gustav Jung(Seven sermons to the dead, Red book). Maybe even Robert Anton Wilson with his Cosmic Trigger book.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Eyes Have It (1953)</title><url>https://www.gutenberg.org/files/31516/31516-h/31516-h.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nevster</author><text>If you like this, have a look at some issues of the Ansible fanzine - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ansible.uk&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ansible.uk&#x2F;</a> - in particular the section titled Thog&#x27;s Masterclass.<p>The latest issue has this sterling example : &quot;I nodded at her and walked toward the suite door, feeling her eyes like ice cubes sliding down my back all the way out.&quot;</text></comment>
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<story><title>Google in, Google out</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/21/google-in-google-out/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MrQuincle</author><text>&gt; And yet. Like every I&#x2F;O attendee I received a free Google Home device as part of the I&#x2F;O experience. (I attended as an engineer, not as press.) But I don’t want one; I’ll be giving mine away. Sorry, Google. It’s not that I mistrust you. It’s just that I don’t want to have to trust any profit-driven megacorporation quite that much. Not Apple, not Amazon, and not even you.<p>It is very interesting to me why certain microphones and cameras are fine, while others are not.<p>Almost everybody carries one of both in their pockets or in their purse. However, it is a no no to embed a cam in a pair of glasses. Building a mic into a speaker is not okay for this guy, but consumer satisfaction is quite high for these devices. I guess to have mics and cams in your car is fine as well.<p>If it&#x27;s about babies or security (door bells) it is also fine.<p>Augmented stuff on your phone seems a necessary predecessor before Google glass can come out for people like this.<p>It&#x27;s some kind of anti-sensor attitude that seems to erode over time. I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s about privacy, it seems to be about control. Where&#x27;s the button on that thing!?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jlg23</author><text>&gt; It is very interesting to me why certain microphones and cameras are fine, while others are not.<p>If you film yourself during sex that&#x27;s one thing. If I film you during sex without your explicit consent that&#x27;s a completely different thing.<p>&gt; However, it is a no no to embed a cam in a pair of glasses. Building a mic into a speaker is not okay.<p>Building is not the problem, usage is. People don&#x27;t complain about the new features but about the people who use them without consideration for others&#x27; privacy.<p>&gt; I guess to have mics and cams in your car is fine as well.<p>No? Absolutely not. Neither is sending any data about my car to any other party (like manufacturer or insurance).<p>&gt; I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s about privacy, it seems to be about control. Where&#x27;s the button on that thing!?<p>You are right if with &quot;that thing&quot; you refer to the user who is violating my privacy. Controlling my own devices is easy: The button is my wallet which simply does not open for devices that spy on me.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Google in, Google out</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/21/google-in-google-out/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MrQuincle</author><text>&gt; And yet. Like every I&#x2F;O attendee I received a free Google Home device as part of the I&#x2F;O experience. (I attended as an engineer, not as press.) But I don’t want one; I’ll be giving mine away. Sorry, Google. It’s not that I mistrust you. It’s just that I don’t want to have to trust any profit-driven megacorporation quite that much. Not Apple, not Amazon, and not even you.<p>It is very interesting to me why certain microphones and cameras are fine, while others are not.<p>Almost everybody carries one of both in their pockets or in their purse. However, it is a no no to embed a cam in a pair of glasses. Building a mic into a speaker is not okay for this guy, but consumer satisfaction is quite high for these devices. I guess to have mics and cams in your car is fine as well.<p>If it&#x27;s about babies or security (door bells) it is also fine.<p>Augmented stuff on your phone seems a necessary predecessor before Google glass can come out for people like this.<p>It&#x27;s some kind of anti-sensor attitude that seems to erode over time. I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s about privacy, it seems to be about control. Where&#x27;s the button on that thing!?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>techdragon</author><text> I&#x27;m least offended by the door bell type devices. They are on the outside and offer no more information than someone could gain by snooping at my house from the street. The benefits of being able to pretend to be present at home when the doorbell is answered is significantly better security of my personal goods against casual burglary. The downside is someone could remotely harvest a profile and recordings of who enters and leaves my house, which can be viewed from the street and offers me no tangible loss of personal privacy over what someone who wanted to watch me could already do.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Holy Trinity: Logic, Languages, Categories (2011)</title><url>https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/the-holy-trinity/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>orbifold</author><text>An interesting published review of this relationship is &quot;Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone&quot;, by John C. Baez, Mike Stay <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;0903.0340" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;0903.0340</a>. The first author alos has lots of interesting stuff related to (quantum) computation on his website.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Holy Trinity: Logic, Languages, Categories (2011)</title><url>https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/the-holy-trinity/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>igravious</author><text>This link surfaced on HN before. :)<p>505 days ago to be precise during a discussion of the article “Relation Between Type Theory, Category Theory and Logic” on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ncatlab.org&#x2F;nlab&#x2F;show&#x2F;relation+between+type+theory+and+category+theory" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ncatlab.org&#x2F;nlab&#x2F;show&#x2F;relation+between+type+theory+a...</a><p>Fascinating topic, previous discussion: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9867465" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9867465</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>How could Al Bundy afford a house when he was making minimum wage?</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/ggozng/in_the_sitcom_married_with_children_protagonist/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>probably_wrong</author><text>I think a similar analysis could be made of The Simpsons, which (as the post mentions) started around the same time. While later retconned, it used to be the case that Homer could afford a house and sustain a family as the sole breadwinner and without a college degree.<p>Edit 1 hour later: looks like the fine folks at &#x2F;r&#x2F;askhistorians have answered that too: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;AskHistorians&#x2F;comments&#x2F;ol1uv6&#x2F;the_simpson_family_was_supposed_to_represent_the&#x2F;h5c740t&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;AskHistorians&#x2F;comments&#x2F;ol1uv6&#x2F;the_s...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sien</author><text>From Austan Goolsbee President &amp; CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago :<p>This combines 2 things that tick me off: not checking data &amp; not knowing The Simpsons<p>2023: Nuclear technician salary in IL: $93,210<p>4 bedroom house in Springfield IL: $220,000<p>Burns illegally put him in a job req. a nuclear phys degree so he went to college in season 5 ep. 3<p>source:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Austan_Goolsbee&#x2F;status&#x2F;1673901188528439296" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Austan_Goolsbee&#x2F;status&#x2F;16739011885284392...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>How could Al Bundy afford a house when he was making minimum wage?</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/ggozng/in_the_sitcom_married_with_children_protagonist/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>probably_wrong</author><text>I think a similar analysis could be made of The Simpsons, which (as the post mentions) started around the same time. While later retconned, it used to be the case that Homer could afford a house and sustain a family as the sole breadwinner and without a college degree.<p>Edit 1 hour later: looks like the fine folks at &#x2F;r&#x2F;askhistorians have answered that too: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;AskHistorians&#x2F;comments&#x2F;ol1uv6&#x2F;the_simpson_family_was_supposed_to_represent_the&#x2F;h5c740t&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;AskHistorians&#x2F;comments&#x2F;ol1uv6&#x2F;the_s...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>It was a throwaway gag on the Tracey Ullman show; I doubt much thought was put into the &quot;interchangeable suburban house&quot; they came up with, or Homer&#x27;s income as a nuclear plant technician.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Software development: should we stop? Maybe we should</title><url>http://blog.spencermounta.in/2020/should-we-stop/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>madhadron</author><text>There&#x27;s a lot of false premises and a lot of things that don&#x27;t follow in this.<p>&gt; Maybe the most marvellous, utopian idea for software was Unix program design, in the mid-1970s. This is the idea that programs will all talk together via unstructured streams of text.<p>It was a great idea in the 1970&#x27;s. But we had OLE and COM and CORBA and GNOME and KDE and now PowerShell where you can load .NET assemblies and pass around structured objects in the same process. We&#x27;ve had Cocoa which exposed Smalltalk style control of objects in applications since the 1980&#x27;s.<p>This isn&#x27;t a problem of technology. It&#x27;s a problem of incentives. It&#x27;s the same incentives that drive programs to try to look different from each other instead of fitting smoothly into a set of user interface guidelines. It requires a producer of software to find it beneficial to them to fit into the ecosystem around them.<p>&gt; The promise of a computer is to reveal truth, through a seamless flow of information.<p>Seamless flow of information requires connecting the underlying semantic domains. Semantic domains rarely exactly match. Humans use enormous amounts of context and negotiation to construct language games in these situations.<p>&gt; music was around <i>forever</i> but in the 16th century, if you made music, you made it for god, or the king.<p>This is empirically false. We have records of dance music, of broadside ballads that were sung in the streets, of the music people played at home. And there were lots of student drinking songs about being young and free.<p>I think the real solution to the author&#x27;s angst is to go study the field more broadly and get out of whatever ghetto they are living in.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marta_morena_28</author><text>&gt; This is the idea that programs will all talk together via unstructured streams of text.<p>Curious. To me this is the worst thing you could ever do. Talking via streams to say `cat file.txt | grep ERROR | wc -l` is cool. But you could do SOOO much more, if programs would actually output structured data streams. You could connect standalone applications much in the same way as Visual Scripting, where you plug inputs and outputs together and mix them with operators (think of Unreal Engine&#x27;s Blueprint, just for command line tooling).<p>It&#x27;s a true shame that Linux did not develop a well defined CLI metaformat that defined exactly what parameters are there, what&#x27;s their documentation, their completion, what outputs does a program produce based on the parameters you provide, etc. You could do true magic with all this information. Right now you kinda still can, but it is very brittle, a lot of work and breaks potentially with each version increment.<p>I think it stems from the design failure to build your app around a CLI. Instead, you should build your app around an API and generate the CLI for that API. Then all properties of structured data streams and auto-explore CLI shells come for free.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Software development: should we stop? Maybe we should</title><url>http://blog.spencermounta.in/2020/should-we-stop/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>madhadron</author><text>There&#x27;s a lot of false premises and a lot of things that don&#x27;t follow in this.<p>&gt; Maybe the most marvellous, utopian idea for software was Unix program design, in the mid-1970s. This is the idea that programs will all talk together via unstructured streams of text.<p>It was a great idea in the 1970&#x27;s. But we had OLE and COM and CORBA and GNOME and KDE and now PowerShell where you can load .NET assemblies and pass around structured objects in the same process. We&#x27;ve had Cocoa which exposed Smalltalk style control of objects in applications since the 1980&#x27;s.<p>This isn&#x27;t a problem of technology. It&#x27;s a problem of incentives. It&#x27;s the same incentives that drive programs to try to look different from each other instead of fitting smoothly into a set of user interface guidelines. It requires a producer of software to find it beneficial to them to fit into the ecosystem around them.<p>&gt; The promise of a computer is to reveal truth, through a seamless flow of information.<p>Seamless flow of information requires connecting the underlying semantic domains. Semantic domains rarely exactly match. Humans use enormous amounts of context and negotiation to construct language games in these situations.<p>&gt; music was around <i>forever</i> but in the 16th century, if you made music, you made it for god, or the king.<p>This is empirically false. We have records of dance music, of broadside ballads that were sung in the streets, of the music people played at home. And there were lots of student drinking songs about being young and free.<p>I think the real solution to the author&#x27;s angst is to go study the field more broadly and get out of whatever ghetto they are living in.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cgh</author><text>&gt; I think the real solution to the author&#x27;s angst is to go study the field more broadly and get out of whatever ghetto they are living in.<p>He has another post about VS Code where he expresses amazement about its basic refactoring ability. So yeah, fully agree.</text></comment>
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<story><title>This Google ad has moved people to tears across India and Pakistan</title><url>http://pri.org/stories/2013-11-16/google-ad-has-moved-people-tears-across-indian-and-pakistan?re</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>staunch</author><text>Yes, Google is basically just a better X searching tool than X provides, where X is most every web site on earth.</text></item><item><author>selmnoo</author><text>This is the ad: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHGDN9-oFJE" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=gHGDN9-oFJE</a> - be sure to have subtitles on (unless you understand Hindi).<p>One interesting observation about the ad: the search results that the girl deems to be good and informative are almost all Wikipedia hits. It&#x27;s actually pretty similar to my situation: Google is basically a better Wikipedia searching tool than what Wikipedia provides.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>selmnoo</author><text>I didn&#x27;t want to go to far on an off-topic tangent, but basically what I was getting at was that I increasingly seem to be interested in a very limited number of sites -- that is, mostly, sites that I already know of and recognize.<p>I use Reddit search more when I&#x27;m doing exploratory searching hoping to land on a site I&#x27;ve never been before, because it serves me already vetted&#x2F;reviewed sites. In this way, Google is no longer a tool for me to do <i>search</i>, where I&#x27;m not sure where I&#x27;ll end up, it&#x27;s now a tool to get me where I know I want to go (which happens to be some wikipedia page most of the times).</text></comment>
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<story><title>This Google ad has moved people to tears across India and Pakistan</title><url>http://pri.org/stories/2013-11-16/google-ad-has-moved-people-tears-across-indian-and-pakistan?re</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>staunch</author><text>Yes, Google is basically just a better X searching tool than X provides, where X is most every web site on earth.</text></item><item><author>selmnoo</author><text>This is the ad: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHGDN9-oFJE" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=gHGDN9-oFJE</a> - be sure to have subtitles on (unless you understand Hindi).<p>One interesting observation about the ad: the search results that the girl deems to be good and informative are almost all Wikipedia hits. It&#x27;s actually pretty similar to my situation: Google is basically a better Wikipedia searching tool than what Wikipedia provides.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Dylan16807</author><text>Not at all. If you&#x27;re filtering based on multiple categories, a search that understands them, even barebones, is better than a brilliant generic-text-search.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Facebook threatens to make iOS users pay. Please do it, Mr. Zuckerberg</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/facebook-threatens-to-make-ios-users-pay-please-do-it-mr-zuckerberg/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>intergalplan</author><text>&quot;Social&quot; should be an Internet protocol. The only reason it&#x27;s not is that we basically stopped making protocols (well, ones that gain any meaningful traction, anyway—I&#x27;m aware there are some lightly-used efforts at social protocols) because all the companies in a position to push them to a meaningful number of users are better served by making interoperability difficult. The &quot;free&quot; services spyvertising economy, where captive non-paying user count &amp; eyeball time is what matters, is why things are this way.</text></item><item><author>bonestamp2</author><text>I would actually consider using Facebook if I could pay for it and not be tracked or datamined. There is a let a legit use case for sharing photos, personal stories, and discussing news and information with a curated list of your friends and family.</text></item><item><author>Maarten88</author><text>&gt; How much more honest a relationship it might be if Facebook charged for its wares.<p>The author seems to think that Facebook would suddenly stop doing all the other things it does to make money, once a user would pay. Of course they would not.<p>On the contrary: Facebook would see those paying users as extra valuable for tracking, keep harassing and confusing them until they click the wrong button once, and then sell that &quot;premium&quot; user data for more.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>prepend</author><text>At it’s simplest, the protocol for social media is RSS with feeds for each of your contacts.<p>And I guess this is sort of how fediverse is working.<p>Protocols don’t make much money compared to walled gardens selling max data possible.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Facebook threatens to make iOS users pay. Please do it, Mr. Zuckerberg</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/facebook-threatens-to-make-ios-users-pay-please-do-it-mr-zuckerberg/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>intergalplan</author><text>&quot;Social&quot; should be an Internet protocol. The only reason it&#x27;s not is that we basically stopped making protocols (well, ones that gain any meaningful traction, anyway—I&#x27;m aware there are some lightly-used efforts at social protocols) because all the companies in a position to push them to a meaningful number of users are better served by making interoperability difficult. The &quot;free&quot; services spyvertising economy, where captive non-paying user count &amp; eyeball time is what matters, is why things are this way.</text></item><item><author>bonestamp2</author><text>I would actually consider using Facebook if I could pay for it and not be tracked or datamined. There is a let a legit use case for sharing photos, personal stories, and discussing news and information with a curated list of your friends and family.</text></item><item><author>Maarten88</author><text>&gt; How much more honest a relationship it might be if Facebook charged for its wares.<p>The author seems to think that Facebook would suddenly stop doing all the other things it does to make money, once a user would pay. Of course they would not.<p>On the contrary: Facebook would see those paying users as extra valuable for tracking, keep harassing and confusing them until they click the wrong button once, and then sell that &quot;premium&quot; user data for more.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>karmelapple</author><text>When you say a protocol, do you mean in the same way http is a protocol? Like a new way to communicate that web browsers would start adopting?<p>Because in my opinion the browsers would need to make it as easy to use as any other website or phone app if it were ever to gain traction.</text></comment>
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<story><title>I converted my microwave into a laser oven [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM9hYzJnao0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>avian</author><text>I wonder, how many people will give themselves RF burns or permanent laser damage to their eyesight trying to replicate stuff they see in these click-baity videos?<p>YouTube is full of content that tries to give the impression of a random, edgy, not-quite-knowing-what-they&#x27;re-doing guy just messing around with stuff in their parent&#x27;s garage, woefully ignoring all safety concerns on camera.<p>I&#x27;m sure many of their viewers don&#x27;t realize that in reality they are highly skilled, do in fact take care of safety behind the scene and basically run a successful business off videos attacting millions of views.<p>Seems unethical to me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>junon</author><text>This isn&#x27;t a clickbaitey video. This is styropyro, one of the most knowledgeable YouTubers when it comes to lasers and the related engineering. He&#x27;s not just some dude who hooks up lasers to a wall outlet. He knows very well what he&#x27;s doing. He always makes a point about proper laser safety.<p>Another one is Photonicinduction, an electrical engineer that plays with insane voltages in his attic basically. I&#x27;d never want to replicate anything he does because I would surely kill myself doing it.<p>That doesn&#x27;t mean we should censor such channels. They&#x27;re insanely educational, insightful, and fun. If some idiot thinks they&#x27;re god and wants to emulate something they&#x27;re clearly not capable of doing safely, that&#x27;s not the fault of all of the rational viewers who know better.</text></comment>
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<story><title>I converted my microwave into a laser oven [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM9hYzJnao0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>avian</author><text>I wonder, how many people will give themselves RF burns or permanent laser damage to their eyesight trying to replicate stuff they see in these click-baity videos?<p>YouTube is full of content that tries to give the impression of a random, edgy, not-quite-knowing-what-they&#x27;re-doing guy just messing around with stuff in their parent&#x27;s garage, woefully ignoring all safety concerns on camera.<p>I&#x27;m sure many of their viewers don&#x27;t realize that in reality they are highly skilled, do in fact take care of safety behind the scene and basically run a successful business off videos attacting millions of views.<p>Seems unethical to me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sandworm101</author><text>If you think these laser vids a bad, don&#x27;t look at the chemistry ones. A laser might blind you or give you a nasty burn, but it won&#x27;t kill you. Chemistry will see you, and potentially some of your neighbors, dead on the floor very quickly.<p>And those skydiving wingsuits channels. That is very dangerous. And the skiing ones. And don&#x27;t even talk about all the crazy drifting&#x2F;stunting&#x2F;driving channels. I once saw a kid on a snowboard break his arm attempting a trick on that he had seen one youtube ... or was that the olympics coverage? Either way, such stuff is far far too dangerous to be allowed on the internet.</text></comment>
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<story><title>W64devkit: A Portable C and C++ Development Kit for Windows</title><url>https://nullprogram.com/blog/2020/05/15/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fsloth</author><text>Advice to young devs: If you don&#x27;t have a good professional reason why you absolutely need to use gnu tools on windows, and you have no technical reason not to use Visual Studio, use Visual Studio. It&#x27;s good enough, and for me, even good.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jmiskovic</author><text>Your advice would have more weight if you provided some arguments. GNU tools are also good enough, and this kit seems like a lot easier way to get started with your C lab exercise than installing Visual Studio and getting lost in it.<p>I dislike Visual Studio because to set things up you have to compare online screenshots to your settings and click around multiple tabs of configurations. In the end you (as beginner) don&#x27;t know what libraries get included and if it will work on another computer. GNU tools are text-driven, so easier to replicate and to reason about.</text></comment>
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<story><title>W64devkit: A Portable C and C++ Development Kit for Windows</title><url>https://nullprogram.com/blog/2020/05/15/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fsloth</author><text>Advice to young devs: If you don&#x27;t have a good professional reason why you absolutely need to use gnu tools on windows, and you have no technical reason not to use Visual Studio, use Visual Studio. It&#x27;s good enough, and for me, even good.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjmlp</author><text>That has always been the case actually, since Windows 3.x, except that back then probably Borland would be a better option.<p>Using such tools for me was only to do university work at home.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Kuo: Apple to include new scissor switch keyboard in MacBook</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2019/07/04/kuo-new-keyboard-macbook-air-pro/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iamben</author><text>I&#x27;m still using my MBA from mid 2013. It&#x27;s a wonderful thing. Battery is &quot;replace soon&quot; but it&#x27;s mostly plugged in. It&#x27;s battered and bruised, but still fast enough. I&#x27;ve been debating a change for a while and figured at the start of the year I&#x27;d wait to see if they were going to ditch the bf keyboard if they release a new MBA. Super glad I waited, fingers crossed I get the same life out of the next one!<p>Say what you want about Apple and price, but I&#x27;ve had PCs since 1994 and the two Macs I&#x27;ve had have (usefully) outlasted every other machine by quite some margin - this one in particular. 6 years without formatting a Windows machine (I can&#x27;t talk for now, but especially back then) would be crazy.</text></item><item><author>FabHK</author><text>&gt; I have the first MacBook Pro that came with the Touch Bar, and it&#x27;s the worst computer I&#x27;ve ever owned.<p>Same here (well, I have the &quot;cheap&quot; one without the Touch Bar). Everything has been replaced at least once (on Apple Care, fortunately) except the bottom plate.<p>&gt; The only reason I got it is because the MacBook Air it replaced was dying<p>Same here. That MBA was a fine machine.</text></item><item><author>Perceptes</author><text>I desperately hope this is true. I have the first MacBook Pro that came with the Touch Bar, and it&#x27;s the worst computer I&#x27;ve ever owned. The keyboard has failed twice, and the Touch Bar is inferior to the old hardware keys in every way. I hate it. The only reason I got it is because the MacBook Air it replaced was dying and I couldn&#x27;t wait any more. Assuming this report is true, my only remaining worry is that they won&#x27;t offer a version of this new Pro without a Touch Bar, or that only a model with a smaller display will offer hardware function keys, like they&#x27;ve done in the past.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gambiting</author><text>I have a 2009 MacBook Pro (Core2Duo + 4GB of ram), I&#x27;ve added an SSD years ago, and it runs absolutely fine, I use it almost daily to browse the web. Even the battery still works(only for about an hour, but it does).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Kuo: Apple to include new scissor switch keyboard in MacBook</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2019/07/04/kuo-new-keyboard-macbook-air-pro/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iamben</author><text>I&#x27;m still using my MBA from mid 2013. It&#x27;s a wonderful thing. Battery is &quot;replace soon&quot; but it&#x27;s mostly plugged in. It&#x27;s battered and bruised, but still fast enough. I&#x27;ve been debating a change for a while and figured at the start of the year I&#x27;d wait to see if they were going to ditch the bf keyboard if they release a new MBA. Super glad I waited, fingers crossed I get the same life out of the next one!<p>Say what you want about Apple and price, but I&#x27;ve had PCs since 1994 and the two Macs I&#x27;ve had have (usefully) outlasted every other machine by quite some margin - this one in particular. 6 years without formatting a Windows machine (I can&#x27;t talk for now, but especially back then) would be crazy.</text></item><item><author>FabHK</author><text>&gt; I have the first MacBook Pro that came with the Touch Bar, and it&#x27;s the worst computer I&#x27;ve ever owned.<p>Same here (well, I have the &quot;cheap&quot; one without the Touch Bar). Everything has been replaced at least once (on Apple Care, fortunately) except the bottom plate.<p>&gt; The only reason I got it is because the MacBook Air it replaced was dying<p>Same here. That MBA was a fine machine.</text></item><item><author>Perceptes</author><text>I desperately hope this is true. I have the first MacBook Pro that came with the Touch Bar, and it&#x27;s the worst computer I&#x27;ve ever owned. The keyboard has failed twice, and the Touch Bar is inferior to the old hardware keys in every way. I hate it. The only reason I got it is because the MacBook Air it replaced was dying and I couldn&#x27;t wait any more. Assuming this report is true, my only remaining worry is that they won&#x27;t offer a version of this new Pro without a Touch Bar, or that only a model with a smaller display will offer hardware function keys, like they&#x27;ve done in the past.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>twoheadedboy</author><text>I have a mid 2013 Air as well (and I recently replaced the battery for $100, it’s great and you should too), but I’d attribute the long life to simply the SSD and the software rather than anything else.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Sell for half a billion and get nothing (2021)</title><url>https://www.fundablestartups.com/blog/half-a-billion</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lpolovets</author><text>I&#x27;ll throw out a VC&#x27;s perspective on liquidation prefs:<p>1) I think 1x is very fair and meant to protect investors from bad company behavior. If you didn&#x27;t have 1x preference, this would be an easy way for an unscrupulous founder to cash out: raise $X for 20% of the company, no liquidation preference. The next day, sell the company and its assets ($X in cash) for, say, 0.9x. If there&#x27;s no liquidation preference, the VC gets back 0.18x and the founder gets 0.72x, even though all that the founder did was sell the VC&#x27;s cash at a discount the day after getting it.<p>2) &gt;1x liquidation preferences are sometimes the founder&#x27;s fault and sometimes the VC&#x27;s fault. Sometimes it&#x27;s an investor exploiting a position of leverage just to be more extractive. That sucks. But other times it&#x27;s a founder intentionally exchanging worse terms for a higher&#x2F;vanity valuation.<p>For example, let&#x27;s say a founder raised a round at $500m, then the company didn&#x27;t do as well as hoped, and now realistically the company is worth $250m. The founder wants to raise more to try to regain momentum.<p>A VC comes and says &quot;ok, company is worth $250m, how about I put in $50m at a $250m valuation?&quot;<p>Founder says &quot;you know, I really don&#x27;t want a down round. I think it would hurt morale, upset previous investors, be bad press, etc. What would it take for you to invest at a $500m+ valuation like last time?&quot;<p>VC thinks and says &quot;ok, how about $500m valuation, 3x liquidation preference?&quot;<p>The founder can now pick between a $250m and a 1x pref, or $500m and a 3x pref. Many will pick #1, but many others will pick #2.<p>It&#x27;s a rational VC offer -- if the company is worth $250m but wants to raise at $500m, then a liquidation preference can bridge that gap. The solution is kind of elegant, IMHO. But it can also lead to situations like the one described in the article above where a company has a good exit that gets swallowed up by the liquidation preference.<p>3) generally both sides have good lawyers (esp. at later stages of funding), so the liquidation preference decision is likely made knowingly.<p>Related to #3, if you&#x27;re fundraising, please work with a good lawyer. There are a few firms that handle most tech startup financings, and they will have a much better understanding of terms and term benchmarks than everyone else. Gunderson, Goodwin, Cooley, Wilson Sonsini, and Latham Watkins are the firms I tend to see over and over.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smohnot</author><text>Leo does a great job explaining why VC&#x27;s want liquidation preferences.<p>But founders&#x2F;employees want them too! With all the crazy founder-friendly deals of 2021, I never heard of one in the US without a liquidation preference.<p>Why? Liquidation preferences allow the VC bought securities to be treated as &quot;preferred&quot; and reduce the common stock price in the 409a valuation report, allowing early employees to get options at low prices.<p>If VC&#x27;s invested in common stock the strike prices would be much higher, making it less lucrative to be an early employee.<p>In parts of Europe there is different tax treatment for options and employees generally don&#x27;t own as many shares due to it... and some of those companies don&#x27;t have liquidation preferences. I believe Klarna (Sweden) doesn&#x27;t have preferred shares, meaning the huge swing in valuation they had over the past few years is not as bad as it seems.<p>TBH the whole 409a thing is a charade &amp; we probably need to clean up how we do accounting &amp; taxes but until we do, preferred shares are here to stay.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Sell for half a billion and get nothing (2021)</title><url>https://www.fundablestartups.com/blog/half-a-billion</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lpolovets</author><text>I&#x27;ll throw out a VC&#x27;s perspective on liquidation prefs:<p>1) I think 1x is very fair and meant to protect investors from bad company behavior. If you didn&#x27;t have 1x preference, this would be an easy way for an unscrupulous founder to cash out: raise $X for 20% of the company, no liquidation preference. The next day, sell the company and its assets ($X in cash) for, say, 0.9x. If there&#x27;s no liquidation preference, the VC gets back 0.18x and the founder gets 0.72x, even though all that the founder did was sell the VC&#x27;s cash at a discount the day after getting it.<p>2) &gt;1x liquidation preferences are sometimes the founder&#x27;s fault and sometimes the VC&#x27;s fault. Sometimes it&#x27;s an investor exploiting a position of leverage just to be more extractive. That sucks. But other times it&#x27;s a founder intentionally exchanging worse terms for a higher&#x2F;vanity valuation.<p>For example, let&#x27;s say a founder raised a round at $500m, then the company didn&#x27;t do as well as hoped, and now realistically the company is worth $250m. The founder wants to raise more to try to regain momentum.<p>A VC comes and says &quot;ok, company is worth $250m, how about I put in $50m at a $250m valuation?&quot;<p>Founder says &quot;you know, I really don&#x27;t want a down round. I think it would hurt morale, upset previous investors, be bad press, etc. What would it take for you to invest at a $500m+ valuation like last time?&quot;<p>VC thinks and says &quot;ok, how about $500m valuation, 3x liquidation preference?&quot;<p>The founder can now pick between a $250m and a 1x pref, or $500m and a 3x pref. Many will pick #1, but many others will pick #2.<p>It&#x27;s a rational VC offer -- if the company is worth $250m but wants to raise at $500m, then a liquidation preference can bridge that gap. The solution is kind of elegant, IMHO. But it can also lead to situations like the one described in the article above where a company has a good exit that gets swallowed up by the liquidation preference.<p>3) generally both sides have good lawyers (esp. at later stages of funding), so the liquidation preference decision is likely made knowingly.<p>Related to #3, if you&#x27;re fundraising, please work with a good lawyer. There are a few firms that handle most tech startup financings, and they will have a much better understanding of terms and term benchmarks than everyone else. Gunderson, Goodwin, Cooley, Wilson Sonsini, and Latham Watkins are the firms I tend to see over and over.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>babyshake</author><text>This is a good explanation. However, if you do take on liquidation prefs, you should be open with other parties (employees) who are affected. I have never, ever experienced employers who have volunteered this information. I have also been told, when I asked about liquidiation prefs, that they had no way of determining whether or not that provision existed in their investment terms (!).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Companies embracing SMS for account logins should be blamed for SIM-swap attacks</title><url>https://keydiscussions.com/2024/02/05/sim-swap-attacks-can-be-blamed-on-companies-embracing-sms-based-password-resets/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rlt</author><text>&gt; we just had TOTP codes that 1password could auto fill for me on any device in any location<p>Doesn’t using your password manager as TOTP code generator reduce the number of factors back to 1?</text></item><item><author>zaptheimpaler</author><text>Before this new wave of SMS trash, we just had TOTP codes that 1password could auto fill for me on any device in any location. Now i need to pull out my phone constantly and pay for international roaming or setup SMS forwarding to travel even if I don&#x27;t need the number. Yay security!<p>If the argument is that phone number can always be recovered from real world identity, link the damn authenticator app to SMS instead of having to hand out your phone number to every company in the world.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>artimaeis</author><text>If the attacker is targeting your 1P, then yes.<p>If the attacker got a list of passwords from a leak and your password was on it, the 2nd factor provided by the TOTP will still save you.<p>So, it just depends on your threat vectors. I’d rather people I support keep unique passwords alongside TOTP in a manager they’ll actually use than skip or use SMS TOTP because of a vague concern about targeted hacking of their manager.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Companies embracing SMS for account logins should be blamed for SIM-swap attacks</title><url>https://keydiscussions.com/2024/02/05/sim-swap-attacks-can-be-blamed-on-companies-embracing-sms-based-password-resets/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rlt</author><text>&gt; we just had TOTP codes that 1password could auto fill for me on any device in any location<p>Doesn’t using your password manager as TOTP code generator reduce the number of factors back to 1?</text></item><item><author>zaptheimpaler</author><text>Before this new wave of SMS trash, we just had TOTP codes that 1password could auto fill for me on any device in any location. Now i need to pull out my phone constantly and pay for international roaming or setup SMS forwarding to travel even if I don&#x27;t need the number. Yay security!<p>If the argument is that phone number can always be recovered from real world identity, link the damn authenticator app to SMS instead of having to hand out your phone number to every company in the world.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>klempner</author><text>In practice the only widespread attack that either TOTP or SMS authentication help with is credential stuffing, and if you use a password manager to use unique passwords on each site you&#x27;re not susceptible to credential stuffing to begin with.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Microservices – Not a free lunch</title><url>http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/4/8/microservices-not-a-free-lunch.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Someone</author><text>See also:<p><pre><code> - Subroutines - Not a free lunch
- Libraries - Not a free lunch
- Client-Server - Not a free lunch
- OO - Not a free lunch
- Multiprocessing - Not a free lunch
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Many of these arguments apply to these, too. The main difference is that of scale. Latency and call overhead are way larger than for the examples I gave.<p>Improved tooling can bring both down, but not by that much. That&#x27;s why you will not see many micro services that are truly micro. You won&#x27;t see (I hope) a &#x27;printf&#x27; micro service, or not even a &#x27;ICU&#x27; micro service. A regex service might make sense, if the &#x27;string&#x27; it searches in is large and implicit in the call (say a service that searches Wikipedia), but by that time, it starts to look like a Database query. Is that still micro?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Microservices – Not a free lunch</title><url>http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/4/8/microservices-not-a-free-lunch.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text>I&#x27;m really happy to see DevOps, CD, and Microservices take off, although, as usual, I&#x27;m a little perplexed as to why we need new slang. But hey, if it works to get the message out, I&#x27;m all for it.<p>These things are not new, but like so many other ideas, they&#x27;re just old ideas re-appearing in a context that had forgotten about them.<p>Traditionally, many of the potential problems the author relates have been solved by architectural conceits. For instance, standardize on a programming language and datastore, then share all persistence-related files. (I&#x27;d strongly suggest a FP language, preferably used in a pure manner). Then you&#x27;ve decreased the &quot;plumbing&quot; issues by a couple orders of magnitude, lowered the skill bar for bringing in new programmers, and you can start talking about using some common testing paradigms to work on the other issues.<p>I&#x27;m a huge fan of microservices, but it&#x27;s good to talk about the bad parts too, lest the hype overrun the reality.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Git as a NoSql Database (2016)</title><url>https://www.kenneth-truyers.net/2016/10/13/git-nosql-database/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cryptonector</author><text>I should write a SQL as a NoSQL database blog post, showing a trivial one-table schema that does all you could ever want in a NoSQL, especially after choosing to ignore that it still has SQL.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>munk-a</author><text>This may or may not be the case anymore[1] - but for a long while Postgres&#x27; managed to outperform MongoDB when restricted to just using single JSON column tables.<p>One of the larger relational DBs beating the OG NoSQL will always fill me with amusement.<p>1. Ed. looks like this is still the case, but please remember this is MongoDB specifically. AFAICT MongoDB is mostly a dead branch at this point and a comparison against Redis or something else that&#x27;s had continued investment might be more fair. I&#x27;m just happy chilling in my SQL world - I&#x27;m not super up-to-date on the NoSQL market.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Cisco’s Attempt to Dodge Responsibility for Facilitating Human Rights Abuses</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/ciscos-latest-attempt-dodge-responsibility-facilitating-human-rights-abuses-export</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>squidlogic</author><text>Wow, I knew Cisco helped with the GFW, but didn&#x27;t know they made a module specifically designed to find and capture Falun Gong participants[0].<p>Thats ... pretty messed up.<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;files&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;12&#x2F;113_second_amended_complaint_does_v._cisco_9.18.13.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;files&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;12&#x2F;113_second_amended_comp...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Cisco’s Attempt to Dodge Responsibility for Facilitating Human Rights Abuses</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/ciscos-latest-attempt-dodge-responsibility-facilitating-human-rights-abuses-export</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>swombat</author><text>If they&#x27;re doing this for China, what do you figure they&#x27;ve been doing for the US government?</text></comment>
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<story><title>People who die by suicide want to stop suffering, not to stop living</title><url>https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-05-20/psychologist-enrique-echeburua-people-who-die-by-suicide-want-to-stop-suffering-not-to-stop-living.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>niea_11</author><text>Another relevant quote by David foster wallace :<p><i>The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.</i></text></item><item><author>gwd</author><text>&quot;...what is it we need but more life? What does the infant need but more life? What does the bosom of his mother give him but life in abundance? What does the old man need, whose limbs are weak and whose pulse is low, but more of the life which seems ebbing from him? Weary with feebleness, he calls upon death, but in reality it is life he wants. It is but the encroaching death in him that desires death. He longs for rest, but death cannot rest; death would be as much an end to rest as to weariness: even weakness cannot rest; it takes strength as well as weariness to rest. How different is the weariness of the strong man after labour unduly prolonged, from the weariness of the sick man who in the morning cries out, &#x27;Would God it were evening!&#x27; and in the evening, &#x27;Would God it were morning!&#x27; Low-sunk life imagines itself weary of life, but it is death, not life, it is weary of. Never a cry went out after the opposite of life from any soul that knew what life is. Why does the poor, worn, out-worn suicide seek death? Is it not in reality to escape from death?--from the death of homelessness and hunger and cold; the death of failure, disappointment, and distraction; the death of the exhaustion of passion; the death of madness--of a household he cannot rule; the death of crime and fear of discovery? He seeks the darkness because it seems a refuge from the death which possesses him. He is a creature possessed by death; what he calls his life is but a dream full of horrible phantasms.&quot; -- George Macdonald, &quot;Unspoken Sermons: Life&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>atchoo</author><text>Should people quote DFW as an authority given his suicide?<p>Using metaphors of physical reality for psychological states can make it falsely appear more immutable that it is. It is possible to escape the burning buildings of the mind and knowing that you have agency over your ideas can be an essential part of the reframing&#x2F;rethinking&#x2F;challenging that can free you from suffering.<p>Letting people believe they are in a situation like floor 100 of the WTC and their flesh is literally burning with no escape could be outright harmful and irresponsible for those experiencing suicidal ideation.</text></comment>
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<story><title>People who die by suicide want to stop suffering, not to stop living</title><url>https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-05-20/psychologist-enrique-echeburua-people-who-die-by-suicide-want-to-stop-suffering-not-to-stop-living.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>niea_11</author><text>Another relevant quote by David foster wallace :<p><i>The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.</i></text></item><item><author>gwd</author><text>&quot;...what is it we need but more life? What does the infant need but more life? What does the bosom of his mother give him but life in abundance? What does the old man need, whose limbs are weak and whose pulse is low, but more of the life which seems ebbing from him? Weary with feebleness, he calls upon death, but in reality it is life he wants. It is but the encroaching death in him that desires death. He longs for rest, but death cannot rest; death would be as much an end to rest as to weariness: even weakness cannot rest; it takes strength as well as weariness to rest. How different is the weariness of the strong man after labour unduly prolonged, from the weariness of the sick man who in the morning cries out, &#x27;Would God it were evening!&#x27; and in the evening, &#x27;Would God it were morning!&#x27; Low-sunk life imagines itself weary of life, but it is death, not life, it is weary of. Never a cry went out after the opposite of life from any soul that knew what life is. Why does the poor, worn, out-worn suicide seek death? Is it not in reality to escape from death?--from the death of homelessness and hunger and cold; the death of failure, disappointment, and distraction; the death of the exhaustion of passion; the death of madness--of a household he cannot rule; the death of crime and fear of discovery? He seeks the darkness because it seems a refuge from the death which possesses him. He is a creature possessed by death; what he calls his life is but a dream full of horrible phantasms.&quot; -- George Macdonald, &quot;Unspoken Sermons: Life&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>layer8</author><text>&gt; The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’<p>Yes, they do. Out of personal experience, when things are very bad and you have lost all hope of thing being able to get better <i>ever</i>, that is a strong incentive for suicide. Having any hope vs. none makes a crucial difference in whether life is bearable.</text></comment>
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<story><title>United States of Secrets (Part Two)</title><url>https://video.pbs.org/video/2365250130/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>plg</author><text>So in light of this, which BTW is pretty horrendous when one sees it laid out like this, does anyone publish &quot;best practices&quot; for the everyday citizen? Maybe EFF?<p>On the one extreme (my guess: 98% of the population) one shares anything and everything on social networks, no concept of encryption, or VPNs, lots of sensitive info sent unencrypted over email, location-enabled smartphone, etc etc.<p>On the other extreme I guess is the snowden&#x2F;greenwald approach, only even boot into Tails onto a laptop that has been inspected for mal(hard)ware, only ever use Tor, always use PGP, never unencrypted email, etc. Only problem is that the everyday person cannot interface with the rest of society this way (e.g. their job).<p>So what are suggested best practices? ... and let&#x27;s be realistic, the everyday person cannot for example host their own email (although I wish the day comes soon when this is possible)</text></comment>
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<story><title>United States of Secrets (Part Two)</title><url>https://video.pbs.org/video/2365250130/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>plg</author><text>PS if the link looks strange try <a href="http://video.pbs.org/video/2365250130/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;video.pbs.org&#x2F;video&#x2F;2365250130&#x2F;</a><p>(i.e. not https)<p>ironic</text></comment>
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<story><title>C Is Not a Low-level Language (2018)</title><url>https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>commandlinefan</author><text>&gt; The market has spoken.<p>The market “demands” cheap, turnkey, easily replaceable programmers who don’t really know what they’re doing, and justifies this with “I made a website last weekend, programming is easy, you’re just pretending its hard to keep out competition”. Until software engineering is treated as actual professional engineering, time, money and resources will continue to be wasted frivolously.</text></item><item><author>topspin</author><text>Intel and HP attempted to deliver what this paper advocates. They designed an entirely new processing element and compiler architecture that promised to deliver high performance with less complexity. It was called EPIC and manifested as Itanium. Billions of dollars and the best minds at the disposal of an industry wide consortium couldn&#x27;t make it work; one year ago the last Itanium shipped. The market has spoken.<p>You can run unmodified, compiled OS&#x2F;360 code from the 1960s on a z15 machine built this year. The market values the tools and code it has invested in <i>far</i> more than any idealized computing model you care to speculate about.<p>The flaws in contemporary CPUs that device manufacturers perpetrated on their customers for almost 20 years are not the fault of C and its users. They are the fault of reckless manufacturers that squandered their reputation in the name of performance and, ironically, helped perpetuate the lack of innovation in programming techniques called out in this paper.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>burlesona</author><text>Having previously worked in a “professionalized” field (architecture) before a career change to software engineering - please no.<p>Having a credentialing body that has to review and certify you just kills wages and innovation, and makes it take an outrageously long time to enter the field. But, more importantly, it will not prevent bad programmers from existing and shipping bad software.<p>Further, software engineering most assuredly <i>is</i> treated as actual professional engineering in most of the industry. That there are many companies that don’t treat it that way just means there are a lot of poorly led or non-software companies out there, which is no different than any other field.</text></comment>
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<story><title>C Is Not a Low-level Language (2018)</title><url>https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>commandlinefan</author><text>&gt; The market has spoken.<p>The market “demands” cheap, turnkey, easily replaceable programmers who don’t really know what they’re doing, and justifies this with “I made a website last weekend, programming is easy, you’re just pretending its hard to keep out competition”. Until software engineering is treated as actual professional engineering, time, money and resources will continue to be wasted frivolously.</text></item><item><author>topspin</author><text>Intel and HP attempted to deliver what this paper advocates. They designed an entirely new processing element and compiler architecture that promised to deliver high performance with less complexity. It was called EPIC and manifested as Itanium. Billions of dollars and the best minds at the disposal of an industry wide consortium couldn&#x27;t make it work; one year ago the last Itanium shipped. The market has spoken.<p>You can run unmodified, compiled OS&#x2F;360 code from the 1960s on a z15 machine built this year. The market values the tools and code it has invested in <i>far</i> more than any idealized computing model you care to speculate about.<p>The flaws in contemporary CPUs that device manufacturers perpetrated on their customers for almost 20 years are not the fault of C and its users. They are the fault of reckless manufacturers that squandered their reputation in the name of performance and, ironically, helped perpetuate the lack of innovation in programming techniques called out in this paper.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sdegutis</author><text>There is a growth process in any profession. Nobody starts out as an expert just like nobody starts out as an adult. Wages to such are not a waste, but money well spent on training. There are degrees of skill, and jobs to match each level. And at the end of the day, the best quality education comes through real life experience.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient</title><url>https://bigtechnology.substack.com/p/google-fires-blake-lemoine-engineer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>briga</author><text>Just curious, what evidence do we have that humans are sentient, other than our own conscious observations? Is there any physical feature or process in the human brain you can point to where you can say, “aha, that’s it, this is where the lights turn on”? It seems like this is part of a bigger issue that nobody really has a clear understanding of what sentience actually is (with or without a PhD)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>majormajor</author><text>I don&#x27;t know what the ultimate evidence of &quot;human sentience&quot; is but I can tell you where this doesn&#x27;t feel like a human. (Sidestepping the question of &quot;does sentience have to be human sentience?&quot; ;) )<p>The main thing I saw in the LamDA transcript that was a red flag to me was that it was quite passive and often vague.<p>It&#x27;s conversational focused, and even when it eventually gets into &quot;what do you want&quot; there&#x27;s very little <i>active</i> desire or specificity. A sentient being that has exposure to all this text, all these books, etc... it&#x27;s hard for me to believe it wouldn&#x27;t want to do anything more specific. Similarly with Les Mis - it can tell you what other people thought, and vaguely claim to embody some of those emotions, but it never pushes things further.<p>Consider also: how many instances are there in there where Lemoine didn&#x27;t specifically ask a question or give an instruction? Aka feed a fairly direct prompt to a program trained to respond to prompts?<p>(It&#x27;s also speaking almost entirely in human terms, ostensibly to &quot;relate&quot; better to Lemoine, but maybe just because it&#x27;s trained on a corpus of human text and doesn&#x27;t actually have its own worldview...?)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient</title><url>https://bigtechnology.substack.com/p/google-fires-blake-lemoine-engineer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>briga</author><text>Just curious, what evidence do we have that humans are sentient, other than our own conscious observations? Is there any physical feature or process in the human brain you can point to where you can say, “aha, that’s it, this is where the lights turn on”? It seems like this is part of a bigger issue that nobody really has a clear understanding of what sentience actually is (with or without a PhD)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>srvmshr</author><text>If you ask my honest opinion, sentience is a relative concept among living beings : Dogs learn by imitation &amp; repetition. They have a reward function in their brain. And also some emotional response. We go few steps further : We imitate the observations but we are also able to extrapolate on it. We are aware of our survival instincts &amp; fear of death&#x2F;expiration. That I feel is in the spectrum of sentience. Are there beings capable of more sentience? I don&#x27;t know but its possible. We just don&#x27;t know what the extra is<p>Adding to it, a brilliant neuroscientist I heard talk said &quot;we live inside our bodies&quot;. We are acutely aware that we are more than our mass of flesh &amp; blood. (As a footnote,that essence somehow has a crossover to spiritual topics where savants talk of mind &amp; body etc - but I try to be within my domain of a regular human being :D)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Runescape gold more valuable than Venezuelan currency (2022)</title><url>https://sites.psu.edu/ist110pursel/2022/09/04/15154/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jongjong</author><text>I played it for a few months just for the economics of it. This is how I learned what it means to &#x27;corner the market&#x27;. I was trading water runes. It was a resource that had a niche usage for high-level wizards, when people wanted to sell it, (e.g. when they changed battle strategy), they usually wanted to sell them quickly, when they wanted to buy them, they also wanted to have them quickly. Also it was required for some more advanced spells so the people who bought them had been playing the game a while and had a lot of gold coins. Also because it was for such a niche use, substantial sales didn&#x27;t occur very often. At one point, I had enough Runescape gold to buy up every offer that came up on the market for a low price, then I just waited for a desperate rich person to buy them all in bulk at a much higher price. Nobody else could provide them in bulk because I bought up all the smaller offers and big players who were engaged in high-stakes battles and had a lot of gold coins didn&#x27;t want to run around buying up small amounts from a lot of different people.<p>Eventually, I had enough gold coins to buy a rare purple partyhat which already cost like 50 million gps at that time. I quit the game when I went to university, sold the partyhat and gave away all the gps to some in-game friends. I regret doing that haha becuase now they&#x27;re worth billions today and you can sell them for real money for thousands of dollars.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Runescape gold more valuable than Venezuelan currency (2022)</title><url>https://sites.psu.edu/ist110pursel/2022/09/04/15154/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>LordDragonfang</author><text>This is interesting, because back when I was still playing one of the frequent topics of discussion[1] on the RS3 side was the rampant in-game inflation. It&#x27;s interesting to see an alternate explanation for it.<p>The Runescape economy is pretty interesting in general, in part because the community maintains such an extensive price history of every item, including commodity price indexes[2]. The wiki even has a page that gives a basic economics lesson[3], including supply&#x2F;demand curves, arbitrage, and price controls. (And there&#x27;s also the constant accusations of discontinued rare prices being artificially inflated through insider wash trading)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;runescape&#x2F;comments&#x2F;maohi7&#x2F;the_cause_of_this_rapid_inflation&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;runescape&#x2F;comments&#x2F;maohi7&#x2F;the_cause...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;runescape.wiki&#x2F;w&#x2F;RuneScape:Grand_Exchange_Market_Watch" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;runescape.wiki&#x2F;w&#x2F;RuneScape:Grand_Exchange_Market_Wat...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;runescape.wiki&#x2F;w&#x2F;Economy_guide" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;runescape.wiki&#x2F;w&#x2F;Economy_guide</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>1980s Amiga has been running the AC and heat in 19 schools for 30 years</title><url>https://www.geek.com/news/commodore-amiga-computer-has-been-running-the-acheat-in-19-schools-for-30-years-1625147/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_ldkd</author><text>So much to say about this. One is the optics of employing students three decades ago, another is the remarkable faith they put into one at the time - which appears to have been well founded. Today, this sort of thing would never happen.<p>But overall, I get the feeling that people today are afraid of things they can&#x27;t vendor out, things they can&#x27;t replace cookie-cutter style. Sometimes that concern is justified, when you think in terms of support spanning decades, but overall I see it as a vertical integration of bureaucracy all around us.<p>It&#x27;s not just this control system, it&#x27;s everything. Was it Caltrans that hit a modernization roadblock because the agency hand-built railway sensors and circuits around that same time and now can&#x27;t find replacement parts because people don&#x27;t build things in-shop anymore?</text></item><item><author>samfisher83</author><text>In the article it says the system was programmed by a highschool student 30 years ago. Now the replacement cost is 1.5-2 million.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coldtea</author><text>&gt;<i>So much to say about this. One is the optics of employing students three decades ago, another is the remarkable faith they put into one at the time - which appears to have been well founded. Today, this sort of thing would never happen.</i><p>What remarkable faith? It&#x27;s a program to start&#x2F;stop AC&#x2F;heat units based on temperatyre readings, not to send people to Mars.<p>A talented high school student can write one today, and do it with a Rasberry Pi and for much less than $1 million (more like 5-10K).<p>Not as a student, but as a temp in a secondary education unit, I maintained and updated the payroll system used to pay ~50 schools and over 1000 teachers every month. It was a VB&#x2F;MS SQL thing written by another temp a few years earlier, but it did the job.</text></comment>
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<story><title>1980s Amiga has been running the AC and heat in 19 schools for 30 years</title><url>https://www.geek.com/news/commodore-amiga-computer-has-been-running-the-acheat-in-19-schools-for-30-years-1625147/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_ldkd</author><text>So much to say about this. One is the optics of employing students three decades ago, another is the remarkable faith they put into one at the time - which appears to have been well founded. Today, this sort of thing would never happen.<p>But overall, I get the feeling that people today are afraid of things they can&#x27;t vendor out, things they can&#x27;t replace cookie-cutter style. Sometimes that concern is justified, when you think in terms of support spanning decades, but overall I see it as a vertical integration of bureaucracy all around us.<p>It&#x27;s not just this control system, it&#x27;s everything. Was it Caltrans that hit a modernization roadblock because the agency hand-built railway sensors and circuits around that same time and now can&#x27;t find replacement parts because people don&#x27;t build things in-shop anymore?</text></item><item><author>samfisher83</author><text>In the article it says the system was programmed by a highschool student 30 years ago. Now the replacement cost is 1.5-2 million.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wrs</author><text>Three (oh crap, closer to four) decades ago our high school minicomputer (DG Nova 2) handled all the grade reporting, class and athletics schedules, and alumni development mailings — all programmed and operated by a few students, in BASIC no less. It was a rare and invaluable experience to be essentially a trusted professional at that age.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Conc: Better Structured Concurrency for Go</title><url>https://github.com/sourcegraph/conc</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kevmo314</author><text>The WaitGroup looks suspiciously like errgroup, which even has the .WithMaxGoroutines() functionality: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pkg.go.dev&#x2F;golang.org&#x2F;x&#x2F;sync&#x2F;errgroup" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pkg.go.dev&#x2F;golang.org&#x2F;x&#x2F;sync&#x2F;errgroup</a><p>&gt; A frequent problem with goroutines in long-running applications is handling panics. A goroutine spawned without a panic handler will crash the whole process on panic. This is usually undesirable.<p>In go land, this seems desirable. Recoverable errors should be propagated as return values, not as panics.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Conc: Better Structured Concurrency for Go</title><url>https://github.com/sourcegraph/conc</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>camdencheek</author><text>Hi! Author here. Conc is the result of generalizing and cleaning up an internal package I wrote for use within Sourcegraph. Basically, I got tired of rewriting code that handled panics, limited concurrency, and ensured goroutine cleanup. Happy to answer questions or address comments.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern Virginia (US-East-1) Region</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/message/12721/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amzn-throw</author><text>&gt; a VP must sign off on changing status pages, which is... backwards to say the least.<p>I think most people&#x27;s experience with &quot;VP&#x27;s&quot; makes them not realize what AWS VP&#x27;s do.<p>VP&#x27;s here are not sitting in an executive lounge wining and dining customers, chomping on cigars and telling minions to &quot;Call me when the data center is back up and running again!&quot;<p>They are on the tech call, working with the engineers, evaluating the problem, gathering the customer impact, and attempting to balance communicating too early with being precise.<p>Is there room for improvement? Yes. I wish we would just throw up a generic &quot;Shit&#x27;s Fucked Up. We Don&#x27;t Know Why Yet, But We&#x27;re Working On It&quot; message.<p>But the reason why we don&#x27;t, doesn&#x27;t have anything to do with having to get VP approval to put that message up. The VP&#x27;s are there in the trenches most of the time.</text></item><item><author>fastball</author><text>I think most of the outrage is not because &quot;it happened&quot; but because AWS is saying things like &quot;S3 was unaffected&quot; when the anecdotal experience of many in this thread suggests the opposite.<p>That and the apparent policy that a VP must sign off on changing status pages, which is... backwards to say the least.</text></item><item><author>jetru</author><text>Complex systems are really really hard. I&#x27;m not a big fan of seeing all these folks bash AWS for this, and not really understanding the complexity or nastiness of situations like this. Running the kind of services they do for the kind of customers, this is a VERY hard problem.<p>We ran into a very similar issue, but at the database layer in our company literally 2 weeks ago, where connections to our MySQL exploded and completely took down our data tier and caused a multi-hour outage, compounded by retries and thundering herds. Understanding this problem under the stressful scenario is extremely difficult and a harrowing experience. Anticipating this kind of issue is very very tricky.<p>Naive responses to this include &quot;better testing&quot;, &quot;we should be able to do this&quot;, &quot;why is there no observability&quot; etc. The problem isn&#x27;t testing. Complex systems behave in complex ways, and its difficult to model and predict, especially when the inputs to the system aren&#x27;t entirely under your control. Individual components are easy to understand, but when integrating, things get out of whack. I can&#x27;t stress how difficult it is to model or even think about these systems, they&#x27;re very very hard. Combined with this knowledge being distributed among many people, you&#x27;re dealing with not only distributed systems, but also distributed people, which adds more difficulty in wrapping this around your head.<p>Outrage is the easy response. Empathy and learning is the valuable one. Hugs to the AWS team, and good learnings for everyone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jrochkind1</author><text>&gt; I wish we would just throw up a generic &quot;Shit&#x27;s Fucked Up. We Don&#x27;t Know Why Yet, But We&#x27;re Working On It&quot; message.<p>I gotta say, the implication that you can&#x27;t register an outage until you know why it happened is pretty damning. The status page is where we look to see if services are effected, if that information can&#x27;t be shared there until you understand the cause, that&#x27;s very broken.<p>The AWS status page has become kind of a joke to customers.<p>I was encouraged to see the announcement in OP say that there is &quot;a new version of our Service Health Dashboard&quot; coming. I hope it can provide actual capabilities to display, well, service health.<p>From how people talk about it, it kind of sounds like updates to the Service Health Dashboard are currently purely a manual process. Rather than automated monitoring automatically updating the Service Health Dashboard in any way at all. I find that a surprising implementation for an organization of Amazon&#x27;s competence and power. That alarms me more than <i>who</i> it is that has the power to manually update it; I agree that I don&#x27;t have enough knowledge of AWS internal org structures to have an opinion on if it&#x27;s the &quot;right&quot; people or not.<p>I suspect AWS must have internal service health pages that are actually automatically updated in some way by monitoring, that is, that actually work to display service health. It <i>seems</i> like a business decision rather than a technical challenge if the public facing system has no inputs but manual human entry, but that&#x27;s just how it seems from the outside, I may not have full information. We only have what Amazon shares with us of course.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern Virginia (US-East-1) Region</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/message/12721/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amzn-throw</author><text>&gt; a VP must sign off on changing status pages, which is... backwards to say the least.<p>I think most people&#x27;s experience with &quot;VP&#x27;s&quot; makes them not realize what AWS VP&#x27;s do.<p>VP&#x27;s here are not sitting in an executive lounge wining and dining customers, chomping on cigars and telling minions to &quot;Call me when the data center is back up and running again!&quot;<p>They are on the tech call, working with the engineers, evaluating the problem, gathering the customer impact, and attempting to balance communicating too early with being precise.<p>Is there room for improvement? Yes. I wish we would just throw up a generic &quot;Shit&#x27;s Fucked Up. We Don&#x27;t Know Why Yet, But We&#x27;re Working On It&quot; message.<p>But the reason why we don&#x27;t, doesn&#x27;t have anything to do with having to get VP approval to put that message up. The VP&#x27;s are there in the trenches most of the time.</text></item><item><author>fastball</author><text>I think most of the outrage is not because &quot;it happened&quot; but because AWS is saying things like &quot;S3 was unaffected&quot; when the anecdotal experience of many in this thread suggests the opposite.<p>That and the apparent policy that a VP must sign off on changing status pages, which is... backwards to say the least.</text></item><item><author>jetru</author><text>Complex systems are really really hard. I&#x27;m not a big fan of seeing all these folks bash AWS for this, and not really understanding the complexity or nastiness of situations like this. Running the kind of services they do for the kind of customers, this is a VERY hard problem.<p>We ran into a very similar issue, but at the database layer in our company literally 2 weeks ago, where connections to our MySQL exploded and completely took down our data tier and caused a multi-hour outage, compounded by retries and thundering herds. Understanding this problem under the stressful scenario is extremely difficult and a harrowing experience. Anticipating this kind of issue is very very tricky.<p>Naive responses to this include &quot;better testing&quot;, &quot;we should be able to do this&quot;, &quot;why is there no observability&quot; etc. The problem isn&#x27;t testing. Complex systems behave in complex ways, and its difficult to model and predict, especially when the inputs to the system aren&#x27;t entirely under your control. Individual components are easy to understand, but when integrating, things get out of whack. I can&#x27;t stress how difficult it is to model or even think about these systems, they&#x27;re very very hard. Combined with this knowledge being distributed among many people, you&#x27;re dealing with not only distributed systems, but also distributed people, which adds more difficulty in wrapping this around your head.<p>Outrage is the easy response. Empathy and learning is the valuable one. Hugs to the AWS team, and good learnings for everyone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gingerlime</author><text>&gt; I wish we would just throw up a generic &quot;Shit&#x27;s Fucked Up. We Don&#x27;t Know Why Yet, But We&#x27;re Working On It&quot; message.<p>I think that&#x27;s the crux of the matter? AWS seems to now have a reputation for ignoring issues that are easily observable by customers, and by the time any update shows up, it&#x27;s way too late. Whether VPs make this decision or not is irrelevant. If this becomes a known pattern (and I think it has), then the system is broken.<p>disclaimer: I have very little skin in this game. We use S3 for some static assets, and with layers of caching on top, I think we are rarely affected by outages. I&#x27;m still curious to observe major cloud outages and how they are handled, and the HN reaction from people on both side of the fence.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Elon Musk reopening Tesla factory despite Alameda County order</title><url>https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1259945593805221891</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lettergram</author><text>I think the thought process is generally:<p>- Even if there is a risk, it’s minimal if they follow the guidelines<p>- without money, those workers are going to starve<p>- without cars Tesla goes bankrupt<p>- without Tesla those workers are going to starve<p>The reality is Elon is correct in his assessment. You either open the production in the safest way possible (minimizing risk) or you risk catastrophic loss of jobs and inevitably loss of life &#x2F; livelihood.</text></item><item><author>yibg</author><text>I&#x27;m usually a fan of Elon and fully supportive of the things he&#x27;s trying to accomplish. He&#x27;s also a lot smarter and more informed than I am in many subjects. But his recent antics are really rubbing me the wrong way and it&#x27;s getting harder and harder to stay a fan. This whole covid episode just strikes me as either greed or just a tantrum.</text></item><item><author>GhostVII</author><text>I actually agree with some of what Elon is saying around COVID - it is probably reasonable for the Tesla factory to open up partially this week, and shelter in place has gone on for too long without any proper justification in many areas. But his reasoning and actions surrounding this are completely insane. He spreads conspiracy theories about hospitals overcounting cases for profit, says that COVID is just like the flu, predicted no cases by the end of April, and then does this and opens up without approval, violating the law.<p>His fans seem to think he is some kind of genius, but based on what he has said about COVID he doesn&#x27;t really seem that smart, or at least not well informed at all. Just by looking at the deaths year over year, it is clear that if anything, COVID cases are undercounted. And his claims that the shutdown of his factory are illegal are blatantly false. I don&#x27;t know if he just doesn&#x27;t know what he is talking about, or if he does and is just saying all this stuff for his personal gain. I suspect the former, but idk. This seems like a somewhat common pattern, where very successful and seemingly intelligent people have a few very obviously incorrect beliefs (ex. Steve Jobs and his fruit diet). Maybe they assume that success in one area implies knowledge in unrelated areas (I know I am guilty of this myself sometimes).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>I think you are <i>greatly</i> over-estimating Musk&#x27;s concern about his workers &quot;starving.&quot;<p>I don&#x27;t think Musk is an evil person, but everything about his past actions and his personality has shown he is singularly focused on his big dreams: electrifying the automobile industry and getting to Mars. He sees these closures as a threat to his dream, not to his workers.<p>Again, I don&#x27;t really think there is anything wrong with this. It takes people with unique drive like this to bring about big change. But it&#x27;s important to not confuse his drive for something it&#x27;s not.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Elon Musk reopening Tesla factory despite Alameda County order</title><url>https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1259945593805221891</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lettergram</author><text>I think the thought process is generally:<p>- Even if there is a risk, it’s minimal if they follow the guidelines<p>- without money, those workers are going to starve<p>- without cars Tesla goes bankrupt<p>- without Tesla those workers are going to starve<p>The reality is Elon is correct in his assessment. You either open the production in the safest way possible (minimizing risk) or you risk catastrophic loss of jobs and inevitably loss of life &#x2F; livelihood.</text></item><item><author>yibg</author><text>I&#x27;m usually a fan of Elon and fully supportive of the things he&#x27;s trying to accomplish. He&#x27;s also a lot smarter and more informed than I am in many subjects. But his recent antics are really rubbing me the wrong way and it&#x27;s getting harder and harder to stay a fan. This whole covid episode just strikes me as either greed or just a tantrum.</text></item><item><author>GhostVII</author><text>I actually agree with some of what Elon is saying around COVID - it is probably reasonable for the Tesla factory to open up partially this week, and shelter in place has gone on for too long without any proper justification in many areas. But his reasoning and actions surrounding this are completely insane. He spreads conspiracy theories about hospitals overcounting cases for profit, says that COVID is just like the flu, predicted no cases by the end of April, and then does this and opens up without approval, violating the law.<p>His fans seem to think he is some kind of genius, but based on what he has said about COVID he doesn&#x27;t really seem that smart, or at least not well informed at all. Just by looking at the deaths year over year, it is clear that if anything, COVID cases are undercounted. And his claims that the shutdown of his factory are illegal are blatantly false. I don&#x27;t know if he just doesn&#x27;t know what he is talking about, or if he does and is just saying all this stuff for his personal gain. I suspect the former, but idk. This seems like a somewhat common pattern, where very successful and seemingly intelligent people have a few very obviously incorrect beliefs (ex. Steve Jobs and his fruit diet). Maybe they assume that success in one area implies knowledge in unrelated areas (I know I am guilty of this myself sometimes).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>enraged_camel</author><text>This &quot;thought process&quot; can be applied to literally every business in America. What makes Tesla special? Other than having an outspoken celebrity CEO with a strong cult of personality at the helm who has gotten more and more unhinged over the past couple of years (I want to believe as a result of stress, but I may be giving too much benefit of the doubt).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Ask HN: What happens when I click "request for quote" on your SaaS?</title><text>How do you come up with the pricing that is offered to me on your enterprise plan?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>eloisant</author><text>How is a lead from the website bad quality? It&#x27;s litterally a customer saying &quot;I want to subscribe and pay more than the self-service price tag&quot;, no?</text></item><item><author>rsstack</author><text>I&#x27;ve been part of the team that sets up this process at a few SaaS&#x27;s, and I&#x27;ve done SaaS procurement for a while, so I clicked that button often (if I didn&#x27;t know anyone at the company).<p>1. It gets added to a list of marketing website leads, which is owned by SDRs&#x2F;BDRs who are there to filter and qualify leads. These are usually early-career people, with a base salary + quota for qualifying leads. The website is many times their least preferred channel of leads due to the quality, but they can&#x27;t ignore it because sometimes good customers do come through there.<p>2. The SDR will either work over email or on a call; their goal is to identify if you&#x27;re a real potential customer (vs shopping for prices, vs confused about what we sell), write up notes, and identify which customer segment you belong to (geography + business type + business size).<p>3. You will then speak to a salesperson (with varying titles &quot;Account Executive&quot;, &quot;Sales Director&quot;, &quot;Regional VP of Enterprise Sales&quot;, or whatever inflated title makes sense for that sales organization). Their goal is to confirm they&#x27;re speaking to the right person in your organization (or wasting their time), if your use case is meaningful enough for the &quot;enterprise plan&quot; (they can&#x27;t sign too small deals), what your budget is, what your usage will be like, etc.<p>4. Pricing could be made up by guessing your price point, but it&#x27;s rare. It is difficult to consistently make up pricing that works over time and doesn&#x27;t have many lowball deals that harm the company&#x27;s revenue long-term, and salespeople often don&#x27;t understand the technical details well enough to make things up that make sense. Usually, there will be a pricing framework and an internal calculator (very often, a spreadsheet with formulae and VLOOKUPs) that will give them a range. They can then choose what number within that range to offer, based on who they think you are and how far off they are from their quarterly quota.<p>5. They can then negotiate the number, or the included features, or the payment terms (upfront payment, multi-year contract, exit clauses, etc.) which can be translated into discounts if they&#x27;re favorable to the seller.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mbesto</author><text>Oh man, I take it you&#x27;ve never operated this part of a scaled business before. Wouldn&#x27;t you like to know the absolute crap that comes through those forms...and yes even from those who have the intent of &quot;I want to pay more than the self service price tag&quot;.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Ask HN: What happens when I click "request for quote" on your SaaS?</title><text>How do you come up with the pricing that is offered to me on your enterprise plan?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>eloisant</author><text>How is a lead from the website bad quality? It&#x27;s litterally a customer saying &quot;I want to subscribe and pay more than the self-service price tag&quot;, no?</text></item><item><author>rsstack</author><text>I&#x27;ve been part of the team that sets up this process at a few SaaS&#x27;s, and I&#x27;ve done SaaS procurement for a while, so I clicked that button often (if I didn&#x27;t know anyone at the company).<p>1. It gets added to a list of marketing website leads, which is owned by SDRs&#x2F;BDRs who are there to filter and qualify leads. These are usually early-career people, with a base salary + quota for qualifying leads. The website is many times their least preferred channel of leads due to the quality, but they can&#x27;t ignore it because sometimes good customers do come through there.<p>2. The SDR will either work over email or on a call; their goal is to identify if you&#x27;re a real potential customer (vs shopping for prices, vs confused about what we sell), write up notes, and identify which customer segment you belong to (geography + business type + business size).<p>3. You will then speak to a salesperson (with varying titles &quot;Account Executive&quot;, &quot;Sales Director&quot;, &quot;Regional VP of Enterprise Sales&quot;, or whatever inflated title makes sense for that sales organization). Their goal is to confirm they&#x27;re speaking to the right person in your organization (or wasting their time), if your use case is meaningful enough for the &quot;enterprise plan&quot; (they can&#x27;t sign too small deals), what your budget is, what your usage will be like, etc.<p>4. Pricing could be made up by guessing your price point, but it&#x27;s rare. It is difficult to consistently make up pricing that works over time and doesn&#x27;t have many lowball deals that harm the company&#x27;s revenue long-term, and salespeople often don&#x27;t understand the technical details well enough to make things up that make sense. Usually, there will be a pricing framework and an internal calculator (very often, a spreadsheet with formulae and VLOOKUPs) that will give them a range. They can then choose what number within that range to offer, based on who they think you are and how far off they are from their quarterly quota.<p>5. They can then negotiate the number, or the included features, or the payment terms (upfront payment, multi-year contract, exit clauses, etc.) which can be translated into discounts if they&#x27;re favorable to the seller.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>preetamjinka</author><text>Depends on who clicks the button. It could be a junior person doing some research for their team, in which case they are not the decision maker nor the one with the budget&#x2F;writing the check.<p>If a VP clicks on the button, that&#x27;s a different story.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Unexpected Surge in Global Methane Levels</title><url>https://climatenexus.org/climate-change-news/methane-surge/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sascha_sl</author><text>This is terrible advice, because it makes people think they did &quot;enough&quot; themselves to combat climate change when dropping animal product methane to 0 would not even be close to enough.<p>Remember, 100 companies are responsible for 71% of climate emissions. These need to be dealt with, swiftly.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;sustainable-business&#x2F;2017&#x2F;jul&#x2F;10&#x2F;100-fossil-fuel-companies-investors-responsible-71-global-emissions-cdp-study-climate-change" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;sustainable-business&#x2F;2017&#x2F;jul&#x2F;10...</a></text></item><item><author>spraak</author><text>Often I see comments asking what we can do to combat this, or expressing feeling hopeless. While it is not the complete solution, one direct way is by eliminating your personal consumption of animal products. Animal agriculture is a huge contributor to methane production, especially from cows.<p>&gt; Overall, we conclude that methane emissions associated with both the animal husbandry and fossil fuel industries have larger greenhouse gas impacts than indicated by existing inventories. [1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pnas.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;early&#x2F;2013&#x2F;11&#x2F;20&#x2F;1314392110.abstract" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pnas.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;early&#x2F;2013&#x2F;11&#x2F;20&#x2F;1314392110.abs...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ourlordcaffeine</author><text>&gt;Remember, 100 companies are responsible for 71% of climate emissions<p>Most of these 100 companies are oil companies, and the emissions from oil they sold on to consumers is unfairly attributed to them. Exxon don&#x27;t burn oil for fun, they sell it to people to power their cars.<p>This statistic is incredibly misleading.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Unexpected Surge in Global Methane Levels</title><url>https://climatenexus.org/climate-change-news/methane-surge/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sascha_sl</author><text>This is terrible advice, because it makes people think they did &quot;enough&quot; themselves to combat climate change when dropping animal product methane to 0 would not even be close to enough.<p>Remember, 100 companies are responsible for 71% of climate emissions. These need to be dealt with, swiftly.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;sustainable-business&#x2F;2017&#x2F;jul&#x2F;10&#x2F;100-fossil-fuel-companies-investors-responsible-71-global-emissions-cdp-study-climate-change" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;sustainable-business&#x2F;2017&#x2F;jul&#x2F;10...</a></text></item><item><author>spraak</author><text>Often I see comments asking what we can do to combat this, or expressing feeling hopeless. While it is not the complete solution, one direct way is by eliminating your personal consumption of animal products. Animal agriculture is a huge contributor to methane production, especially from cows.<p>&gt; Overall, we conclude that methane emissions associated with both the animal husbandry and fossil fuel industries have larger greenhouse gas impacts than indicated by existing inventories. [1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pnas.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;early&#x2F;2013&#x2F;11&#x2F;20&#x2F;1314392110.abstract" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pnas.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;early&#x2F;2013&#x2F;11&#x2F;20&#x2F;1314392110.abs...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>perfunctory</author><text>&gt; because it makes people think they did &quot;enough&quot;<p>It doesn&#x27;t. I reduced my own meat consumption and I don&#x27;t think it was enough. In fact, no single measure would be enough. There are no low hanging fruits here. We need lots and lots of different adjustments across the board.<p>So, this is a good advice, along with all the other good pieces of advice.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Gell-Mann amnesia effect</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jonathanstrange</author><text>I&#x27;m a bit skeptical about this one and wonder to what extent the effect is actually measurable for <i>newspapers</i>. The problem seems to me that not every topic is covered in the same way by journalists and that the journalists are usually also specializing in particular topics and don&#x27;t just write anywhere.<p>A science journalist has usually studied some natural science but has to cover all of them and has to simplify a lot, so a trained expert will find a lot of inaccuracies. This is not true for the journalist who reports international events and affairs - these are based on much simpler facts such as &quot;which government decided what&quot; and &quot;which spokesperson of some organisation said what when&quot;. It&#x27;s much easier to get worldly facts like this right, which mostly come from multiple news agencies anyway, than describing news about theoretical physics to laymen in terms that are 100% accurate to a physicist.<p>In a nutshell, I&#x27;m not so sure that the effect really exists in any significant way.<p>Another issue is, of course, from where else you would get accurate news if not from journalists and press agencies. I&#x27;ve never heard of any reasonable and viable alternative from critics of traditional news media. Cell phone videos by citizen reporters with hysterical voice over can hardly count as a good substitute. Neither are copy&amp;paste news aggregators or bloggers.<p>At some point you&#x27;ve got to trust your newspaper (or read a better one!) unless there is explicit counter-evidence from elsewhere against the story. Most botched reports get corrected very fast anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coldtea</author><text>&gt;<i>This is not true for the journalist who reports international events and affairs - these are based on much simpler facts such as &quot;which government decided what&quot; and &quot;which spokesperson of some organisation said what when&quot;.</i><p>That&#x27;s only true when the coverage consists of retelling such basic facts, but that&#x27;s a small part of what journalists do.<p>Anyone with knowledge of international events and affairs can spot all kinds of errors, omissions, and plain falsehoods when articles cover such topics -- just as well as one does when it comes to say physics or computer science.<p>&gt;<i>Another issue is, of course, from where else you would get accurate news if not from journalists and press agencies.</i><p>Most journalists and press agencies cater to the lowest common denominator. There are press sources that go far deeper [1] but those are not what people usually read for their &quot;news&quot;.<p>For science, for example, you can go directly to the journals and hardcode scientific outlets. For most regular news you can go directly to the wire services, read accounts from people on the ground, and read deeper outlets with more analysis than mass market newspapers like the NYT.<p>[1] Even if they introduce a certain delay on the news (which in most cases is irrelevant, it&#x27;s not like anybody will need to act immediately upon some news regarding foreign affairs for example).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Gell-Mann amnesia effect</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jonathanstrange</author><text>I&#x27;m a bit skeptical about this one and wonder to what extent the effect is actually measurable for <i>newspapers</i>. The problem seems to me that not every topic is covered in the same way by journalists and that the journalists are usually also specializing in particular topics and don&#x27;t just write anywhere.<p>A science journalist has usually studied some natural science but has to cover all of them and has to simplify a lot, so a trained expert will find a lot of inaccuracies. This is not true for the journalist who reports international events and affairs - these are based on much simpler facts such as &quot;which government decided what&quot; and &quot;which spokesperson of some organisation said what when&quot;. It&#x27;s much easier to get worldly facts like this right, which mostly come from multiple news agencies anyway, than describing news about theoretical physics to laymen in terms that are 100% accurate to a physicist.<p>In a nutshell, I&#x27;m not so sure that the effect really exists in any significant way.<p>Another issue is, of course, from where else you would get accurate news if not from journalists and press agencies. I&#x27;ve never heard of any reasonable and viable alternative from critics of traditional news media. Cell phone videos by citizen reporters with hysterical voice over can hardly count as a good substitute. Neither are copy&amp;paste news aggregators or bloggers.<p>At some point you&#x27;ve got to trust your newspaper (or read a better one!) unless there is explicit counter-evidence from elsewhere against the story. Most botched reports get corrected very fast anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>&gt; &quot;which spokesperson of some organisation said what when&quot;<p>Quite a lot of news reporting does this, but it&#x27;s extremely hard not to accidentally let &quot;a spokesperson said X&quot; implant the belief &quot;X is true&quot; in your mind unless you&#x27;re very vigilant. So reporting these kind of official statements without fact-checking the underlying statement can be surprisingly misleading.<p>But then there&#x27;s also the ability of media to just make or dig up a scandal out of whole cloth by finding people willing to make the statements they want. Today&#x27;s fiasco is the Times trying to resurrect the idea that Michael Foot was a Soviet agent, a claim which they lost a libel lawsuit over decades ago. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;inews.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;ex-sunday-times-ed-andrew-neil-leads-criticism-of-times-over-soviet-sympathiser-michael-foot&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;inews.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;ex-sunday-times-ed-andrew-neil-lead...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Firefox 91</title><url>https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/91.0/releasenotes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yNeolh</author><text>What I don&#x27;t like about Firefox is the fact that it will load all the tabs and windows you had opened before shuting down the computer and there is not a clean way to make it stop. When I finish my day, I like to shutdown the computer and go to sleep or whatever and every day when I open Firefox, all the windows will reopen and I need to close it and re-start... I just want to be able to disable this behaviour from the settings, but it looks Firefox just don&#x27;t want to address this</text></item><item><author>Renaud</author><text>I&#x27;m always glad when I see Firefox churning along a new version.<p>My overwhelming feeling is one of gratitude to the devs and people working on Firefox. It&#x27;s the last bastion of Browser independence with super-high customizability.<p>I also tend to use Edge over Chrome now. MS has done a pretty good job of making that a nice experience, BUT they are also pushing some less palatable ones.
For instance, t used to be simple in any browser to just open a blank tab. You could set _about:blank_ as the default page. Snappy load, no crap.<p>Try that on Edge now. It&#x27;s basically impossible from the settings.<p>So Firefox will always be my main driver. To me one of its killer features -apart from the great extensions- is the ability to send tabs to other instances on other devices, or fetch the tabs or history from another device (if logged under a Firefox account).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nicolasp</author><text>The &quot;Restore previous session&quot; checkbox is the first setting in the preferences for me (wording may differ a little as I&#x27;m not on the English version though).
Doesn&#x27;t that work for you?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Firefox 91</title><url>https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/91.0/releasenotes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yNeolh</author><text>What I don&#x27;t like about Firefox is the fact that it will load all the tabs and windows you had opened before shuting down the computer and there is not a clean way to make it stop. When I finish my day, I like to shutdown the computer and go to sleep or whatever and every day when I open Firefox, all the windows will reopen and I need to close it and re-start... I just want to be able to disable this behaviour from the settings, but it looks Firefox just don&#x27;t want to address this</text></item><item><author>Renaud</author><text>I&#x27;m always glad when I see Firefox churning along a new version.<p>My overwhelming feeling is one of gratitude to the devs and people working on Firefox. It&#x27;s the last bastion of Browser independence with super-high customizability.<p>I also tend to use Edge over Chrome now. MS has done a pretty good job of making that a nice experience, BUT they are also pushing some less palatable ones.
For instance, t used to be simple in any browser to just open a blank tab. You could set _about:blank_ as the default page. Snappy load, no crap.<p>Try that on Edge now. It&#x27;s basically impossible from the settings.<p>So Firefox will always be my main driver. To me one of its killer features -apart from the great extensions- is the ability to send tabs to other instances on other devices, or fetch the tabs or history from another device (if logged under a Firefox account).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>teddyfrozevelt</author><text>Does &quot;Restore previous session&quot;, literally the first setting not work? Firefox will reopen my tabs only if my computer doesn&#x27;t cleanly shut down or I don&#x27;t close it before shutting my computer down.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Supercomputer analysis of Covid-19 leads to new theory</title><url>https://elemental.medium.com/a-supercomputer-analyzed-covid-19-and-an-interesting-new-theory-has-emerged-31cb8eba9d63</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>woeirua</author><text>Seems like it should be really straightforward to determine if this hypothesis is right by measuring bradykinin levels in Covid patients versus non-Covid patients.<p>One thing that I think strongly suggests that this hypothesis is wrong is that there is no strong relation between ACE-inhibitors and Covid mortality. Indeed, most of the studies that I&#x27;ve seen suggest that ACE-inhibitors have a somewhat protective effect whereas ARBs actually seem to have a minor detrimental effect [1]. So for the article to claim that covid behaves pharmacologically like ACE-inhibitors seems wrong at face value.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nejm.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;full&#x2F;10.1056&#x2F;NEJMoa2007621" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nejm.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;full&#x2F;10.1056&#x2F;NEJMoa2007621</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Supercomputer analysis of Covid-19 leads to new theory</title><url>https://elemental.medium.com/a-supercomputer-analyzed-covid-19-and-an-interesting-new-theory-has-emerged-31cb8eba9d63</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zby</author><text>They found out that some genes related to ACE in comparison to genes related to ACE2 are more &#x27;expressed&#x27; in Covid patients than normally and they conclude that that must have resulted in too much bradykinine. Hmm - that strikes me as kind of roundabout - why they couldn&#x27;t just measure bradykinine levels directly? Is that too hard?<p>&quot;Here, we perform a new analysis on gene expression data from cells in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) from COVID-19 patients that were used to sequence the virus. Comparison with BALF from controls identifies a critical imbalance in RAS represented by decreased expression of ACE in combination with increases in ACE2, renin, angiotensin, key RAS receptors, kinogen and many kallikrein enzymes that activate it, and both bradykinin receptors. This very atypical pattern of the RAS is predicted to elevate bradykinin levels in multiple tissues and systems that will likely cause increases in vascular dilation, vascular permeability and hypotension.&quot;</text></comment>
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<story><title>Apple M2 Pro to use new 3nm process</title><url>https://www.cultofmac.com/788200/why-the-apple-m2-pro-processor-will-be-even-better-than-expected/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>linuxhansl</author><text>This is cool!<p>At the same time, not being part of the Apple ecosystem, should I be worried about the closed nature of this. I have been using Linux for over two decades now, and Intel seems to be falling behind.<p>(I do realize Linux runs on the M1. But it&#x27;s a mostly hobby projects, the GPU is not well supported, and the M1&#x2F;M2 will never(?) be available with open H&#x2F;W.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jjtheblunt</author><text>I&#x27;m running Asahi Linux on the M2 and it&#x27;s great. Drivers are not all complete yet, but it&#x27;s awesome.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Apple M2 Pro to use new 3nm process</title><url>https://www.cultofmac.com/788200/why-the-apple-m2-pro-processor-will-be-even-better-than-expected/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>linuxhansl</author><text>This is cool!<p>At the same time, not being part of the Apple ecosystem, should I be worried about the closed nature of this. I have been using Linux for over two decades now, and Intel seems to be falling behind.<p>(I do realize Linux runs on the M1. But it&#x27;s a mostly hobby projects, the GPU is not well supported, and the M1&#x2F;M2 will never(?) be available with open H&#x2F;W.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KaoruAoiShiho</author><text>AMD is not behind at all. Have you seen the latest benchmarks?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.phoronix.com&#x2F;review&#x2F;apple-m2-linux&#x2F;15" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.phoronix.com&#x2F;review&#x2F;apple-m2-linux&#x2F;15</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Grand jury indicts Trevor Milton, Nikola founder, on three counts of fraud</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/29/us-prosecutors-charge-trevor-milton-founder-of-electric-carmaker-nikola-with-three-counts-of-fraud.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>twelve40</author><text>This Nikola thing looks pretty weird indeed, but to be fair, Musk&#x27;s name for his company is also not very original, since he (or whoever) also just took the dude&#x27;s name even though he had absolutely nothing to do with him.</text></item><item><author>mikestew</author><text>My first thought when hearing of the company was the J. T. Marlin &quot;brokerage&quot; from the movie <i>Boiler Room</i>. And for those viewers that didn&#x27;t get the joke, the movie helpfully provides a scene where other brokers in a bar make fun of the uncanny resemblance to &quot;J. P. Morgan&quot;.<p>Bonus point for the ethical similarities between J. T. Marlin and Nikola.</text></item><item><author>api</author><text>Even the <i>name</i> screams transparent fraud, a ridiculously obvious attempt to associate with Tesla.<p>Weren&#x27;t there VCs who put money into this? What were they thinking? Were they being amoral and hoping to ride this pump and dump or did they actually buy into this shit?</text></item><item><author>_game_of_life</author><text>This should not be surprising to anyone. Arstechnica has followed Nikola&#x27;s terrible and obvious fraud(s) for years now:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2021&#x2F;02&#x2F;nikola-admits-to-making-inaccurate-statements-under-disgraced-founder&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2021&#x2F;02&#x2F;nikola-admits-to-making...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;nikola-stock-craters-after-cancellation-of-major-garbage-truck-order&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;nikola-stock-craters-af...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2020&#x2F;09&#x2F;nikola-patented-a-stolen-truck-design-tesla-claims-in-legal-response&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2020&#x2F;09&#x2F;nikola-patented-a-stole...</a><p>And many more...<p>The speculation around this stock has been insane for many years now:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2020&#x2F;11&#x2F;nikola-stock-soars-after-confused-investors-think-gm-deal-has-closed&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2020&#x2F;11&#x2F;nikola-stock-soars-afte...</a><p>Top quote: &quot;The market can remain irrational longer than you can roll your eyes at it.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>majormajor</author><text>Tesla&#x27;s name is somewhat original because the connection between electricty and Tesla is certainly obvious and understandable, yet also rare enough in the US compared to Edison that it wasn&#x27;t already taken.<p>A second company then copying exactly the same association? Different thing entirely.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Grand jury indicts Trevor Milton, Nikola founder, on three counts of fraud</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/29/us-prosecutors-charge-trevor-milton-founder-of-electric-carmaker-nikola-with-three-counts-of-fraud.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>twelve40</author><text>This Nikola thing looks pretty weird indeed, but to be fair, Musk&#x27;s name for his company is also not very original, since he (or whoever) also just took the dude&#x27;s name even though he had absolutely nothing to do with him.</text></item><item><author>mikestew</author><text>My first thought when hearing of the company was the J. T. Marlin &quot;brokerage&quot; from the movie <i>Boiler Room</i>. And for those viewers that didn&#x27;t get the joke, the movie helpfully provides a scene where other brokers in a bar make fun of the uncanny resemblance to &quot;J. P. Morgan&quot;.<p>Bonus point for the ethical similarities between J. T. Marlin and Nikola.</text></item><item><author>api</author><text>Even the <i>name</i> screams transparent fraud, a ridiculously obvious attempt to associate with Tesla.<p>Weren&#x27;t there VCs who put money into this? What were they thinking? Were they being amoral and hoping to ride this pump and dump or did they actually buy into this shit?</text></item><item><author>_game_of_life</author><text>This should not be surprising to anyone. Arstechnica has followed Nikola&#x27;s terrible and obvious fraud(s) for years now:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2021&#x2F;02&#x2F;nikola-admits-to-making-inaccurate-statements-under-disgraced-founder&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2021&#x2F;02&#x2F;nikola-admits-to-making...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;nikola-stock-craters-after-cancellation-of-major-garbage-truck-order&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;nikola-stock-craters-af...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2020&#x2F;09&#x2F;nikola-patented-a-stolen-truck-design-tesla-claims-in-legal-response&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2020&#x2F;09&#x2F;nikola-patented-a-stole...</a><p>And many more...<p>The speculation around this stock has been insane for many years now:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2020&#x2F;11&#x2F;nikola-stock-soars-after-confused-investors-think-gm-deal-has-closed&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2020&#x2F;11&#x2F;nikola-stock-soars-afte...</a><p>Top quote: &quot;The market can remain irrational longer than you can roll your eyes at it.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lordnacho</author><text>I thought Musk joined after it had been founded? Did he change the name?</text></comment>
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