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41,293,743 | 41,292,790 | 1 | 2 | 41,263,928 | train | <story><title>Seven basic rules for causal inference</title><url>https://pedermisager.org/blog/seven_basic_rules_for_causal_inference/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>islewis</author><text>Could you give some examples of dependence without correlation?</text></item><item><author>jdhwosnhw</author><text>This isnt a correction to your post, but a clarification for other readers: correlation implies dependence, but dependence does not imply correlation. Conversely, two variables share non-zero mutual information if and only if they are dependent.</text></item><item><author>abeppu</author><text>At the bottom, the author mentions that by &quot;correlation&quot; they don&#x27;t mean &quot;linear correlation&quot;, but all their diagrams show the presence or absence of a clear linear correlation, and code examples use linear functions of random variables.<p>They offhandedly say that &quot;correlation&quot; means &quot;association&quot; or &quot;mutual information&quot;, so why not just do the whole post in terms of mutual information? I <i>think</i> the main issue with that is just that some of these points become tautologies -- e.g. the first point, &quot;independent variables have zero mutual information&quot; ends up being just one implication of the definition of mutual information.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kyllo</author><text>&gt; A sailor is sailing her boat across the lake on a windy day. As the wind blows, she counters by turning the rudder in such a way so as to exactly offset the force of the wind. Back and forth she moves the rudder, yet the boat follows a straight line across the lake. A kindhearted yet naive person with no knowledge of wind or boats might look at this woman and say, “Someone get this sailor a new rudder! Hers is broken!” He thinks this because he cannot see any relationship between the movement of the rudder and the direction of the boat.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mixtape.scunning.com&#x2F;01-introduction#do-not-confuse-correlation-with-causality" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mixtape.scunning.com&#x2F;01-introduction#do-not-confuse-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Seven basic rules for causal inference</title><url>https://pedermisager.org/blog/seven_basic_rules_for_causal_inference/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>islewis</author><text>Could you give some examples of dependence without correlation?</text></item><item><author>jdhwosnhw</author><text>This isnt a correction to your post, but a clarification for other readers: correlation implies dependence, but dependence does not imply correlation. Conversely, two variables share non-zero mutual information if and only if they are dependent.</text></item><item><author>abeppu</author><text>At the bottom, the author mentions that by &quot;correlation&quot; they don&#x27;t mean &quot;linear correlation&quot;, but all their diagrams show the presence or absence of a clear linear correlation, and code examples use linear functions of random variables.<p>They offhandedly say that &quot;correlation&quot; means &quot;association&quot; or &quot;mutual information&quot;, so why not just do the whole post in terms of mutual information? I <i>think</i> the main issue with that is just that some of these points become tautologies -- e.g. the first point, &quot;independent variables have zero mutual information&quot; ends up being just one implication of the definition of mutual information.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>abeppu</author><text>A clear graphical set of illustrations is the bottom row in this famous set:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Correlation#&#x2F;media&#x2F;File:Correlation_examples2.svg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Correlation#&#x2F;media&#x2F;File:Correl...</a><p>They have clear dependence; if you imagine fixing (&quot;conditioning&quot;) x at a particular value and looking at the distribution of y at that value, it&#x27;s different from the overall distribution of y (and vice versa). But the familiar linear correlation coefficient wouldn&#x27;t indicate anything about this relationship.</text></comment> |
14,435,238 | 14,434,867 | 1 | 2 | 14,434,707 | train | <story><title>Why Germany Still Has So Many Middle-Class Manufacturing Jobs</title><url>https://flipboard.com/@HBR/-why-germany-still-has-so-many-middle-cl/f-d472ddd580%2Fhbr.org</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>polmuz</author><text>&gt; Tax advantages are another reason. The high taxes on assets in France and the inheritance tax in the U.S. prevent the accumulation of capital necessary for the formation of a strong mid-sized sector.<p>Really? How?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zackmorris</author><text>Ya this is propaganda (inheritance taxes affect mainly the very wealthy, not the lower and middle classes). Germany&#x27;s real secret is that labor still has voting rights within corporations:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Codetermination_in_Germany" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Codetermination_in_Germany</a><p>And actually if you look at the history of the United States, the civil rights movement depended on a strong labor sector. They don’t teach this in schools, but Martin Luther King, Jr was a threat to the establishment more for his emphasis on unifying workers than for breaking down racial barriers:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;entertainment&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2011&#x2F;02&#x2F;all-labor-has-dignity-martin-luther-king-jrs-fight-for-economic-justice&#x2F;71423&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;entertainment&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2011&#x2F;02&#x2F;al...</a><p>The labor movements between WWII and Ronald Reagan’s election led to the US becoming the largest industrial superpower in the world, with some of the highest per capita incomes. The loss of unions and the decline of worker’s rights in the US (and accompanying stagnation of wages post-2000) coincide exactly with the loss of civil rights as we’ve moved to a more authoritarian society.<p>Things like the loss of habeas corpus under GW Bush and Obama just blow my mind, and I think if the electorate knew what was really going on they would not elect the people they do. But they don’t, that’s why capitalists have traditionally pushed for the privatization of public schools and funding propaganda (infotainment) to preserve the echo chamber. The more striated, divided and polarized a society is, the more wealth can be concentrated in fewer hands. Older nations like Germany have a better handle on this because they’ve seen it repeated in history so many times and are more aware of the dangers of unilateral thinking and monarchy. Inclusivity has paid off handsomely for them.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Germany Still Has So Many Middle-Class Manufacturing Jobs</title><url>https://flipboard.com/@HBR/-why-germany-still-has-so-many-middle-cl/f-d472ddd580%2Fhbr.org</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>polmuz</author><text>&gt; Tax advantages are another reason. The high taxes on assets in France and the inheritance tax in the U.S. prevent the accumulation of capital necessary for the formation of a strong mid-sized sector.<p>Really? How?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pm90</author><text>Yeah this sounds like a bunch of baloney. Inheritance continues to be the most likely way for people to get rich in both the US and France, and the tax is nowhere near the amount that would cause a serious dent in the assets being inherited.</text></comment> |
40,587,089 | 40,587,052 | 1 | 3 | 40,586,654 | train | <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>ssijak</author><text>This is pure madness. So you have 48 hours after squatting started to report it and potentially get a fast eviction (why is it not an automatic criminal case for breaking into the property is beyond me). But after 48 hours it seems like it becomes a nightmare. So if you are on a business trip for 3 days or visiting parents in a different city or vacationing for a few days and somebody enters your home, you are out of luck and the squatters now have more rights than you?!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>StevenHarlow</author><text>I live in Spain (Valencia) and see lots of okupas around the city. In reality they occupy buildings that aren&#x27;t being occupied. Property taxes are incredibly low here and many people who own empty buildings are fine with letting them sit, fall apart, and eat the property tax than do anything with them. These are the buildings that are prone to Okupas. I&#x27;ve never seen nor heard of it happening to actively used buildings.<p>That said, I do think there are better solutions to allowing this to happen. It&#x27;s a complicated issue here as housing is definitely viewed more as a right than in the USA, and honestly I&#x27;m really glad that the streets aren&#x27;t full of homeless camps like they were when I lived in Oakland and SF.</text></comment> | <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>ssijak</author><text>This is pure madness. So you have 48 hours after squatting started to report it and potentially get a fast eviction (why is it not an automatic criminal case for breaking into the property is beyond me). But after 48 hours it seems like it becomes a nightmare. So if you are on a business trip for 3 days or visiting parents in a different city or vacationing for a few days and somebody enters your home, you are out of luck and the squatters now have more rights than you?!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vvillena</author><text>No. If someone enters your home, as in, you live there, the city has you registered into that address, and&#x2F;or your ID card states that&#x27;s your address, it&#x27;s not squatting. That&#x27;s trespassing, and the police will happily assist.</text></comment> |
39,369,209 | 39,369,168 | 1 | 2 | 39,368,370 | train | <story><title>I grew my Substack from 439 to 451 free subscribers in just 11 months</title><url>https://shadesofgreaves.substack.com/p/how-i-grew-my-substack-from-439-to</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>matt_s</author><text>&gt; So, considering that you’re likely going to fail, at least pick something you’re going to enjoy failing at!<p>This is the golden nugget that got me subscribed. I love satire (and am pumped Jon Stewart is back on TDS) and this is a good perspective to trying out side projects.</text></comment> | <story><title>I grew my Substack from 439 to 451 free subscribers in just 11 months</title><url>https://shadesofgreaves.substack.com/p/how-i-grew-my-substack-from-439-to</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ryukoposting</author><text>Darn, I&#x27;ve been doing it all wrong! Guess I need to migrate my entire blog to Substack so that I can have a concept of &quot;subscribers&quot; and the necessary analytics to give me a dopamine rush any time the number gets bigger.</text></comment> |
23,409,007 | 23,409,177 | 1 | 3 | 23,402,976 | train | <story><title>A mysterious company’s Covid-19 papers in top medical journals may be unraveling</title><url>https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/mysterious-company-s-coronavirus-papers-top-medical-journals-may-be-unraveling</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tuna-piano</author><text>Ugh. I&#x27;m so disappointed in this whole situation. Feels like Theranos.<p>I want to cover my eyes and ears for the media and political shit show that&#x27;s going to come from this. It&#x27;s true that a certain politician shouldn&#x27;t be trumpeting unproven treatments, but the media seemed to celebrate when that politician was &quot;proven&quot; wrong. Did we forget that we should all be rooting for treatments to work?<p>I hoped during this pandemic science would move fast and sacrifice some accuracy for speed. But I didn&#x27;t expect (a seemingly) complete fabrication could go so far with so many eyes. Now I worry the overreaction toward accuracy-over-speed will cause significant slowdowns in published data.<p>We shouldn&#x27;t over-punish honest mistakes when we value speed over accuracy... but this just feels awful. Would think prison is likely to come.<p>A good read: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;freerangestats.info&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2020&#x2F;05&#x2F;30&#x2F;implausible-health-data-firm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;freerangestats.info&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2020&#x2F;05&#x2F;30&#x2F;implausible-healt...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gfodor</author><text>Even I hadn&#x27;t let my cynicism about our national discourse sink so low as to think medical treatments would be politicized. Ultimately, it was a new low point. Once it started it was clear where this was going. Many may have died from it if the worse case scenario turns out to be true: this treatment does in fact work, and was stalled or prevented due to politics.<p>Similarly, the complete disregard by the medical community of playing their role in reminding others organizing protests to take steps to prevent participants from spreading the virus has been equally disturbing. I&#x27;ve heard literally nothing from the medical community about tips, methods, or instructions for ensuring protestors do not cause a new outbreak. There does not seem to be any innovation happening in helping people organize and protest while keeping social distancing in mind. I don&#x27;t know what that would look like, but it&#x27;s a moral failure that the problem hasn&#x27;t been worked whatsoever. I haven&#x27;t even heard stories of people just handing out masks. Things are quite dire.</text></comment> | <story><title>A mysterious company’s Covid-19 papers in top medical journals may be unraveling</title><url>https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/mysterious-company-s-coronavirus-papers-top-medical-journals-may-be-unraveling</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tuna-piano</author><text>Ugh. I&#x27;m so disappointed in this whole situation. Feels like Theranos.<p>I want to cover my eyes and ears for the media and political shit show that&#x27;s going to come from this. It&#x27;s true that a certain politician shouldn&#x27;t be trumpeting unproven treatments, but the media seemed to celebrate when that politician was &quot;proven&quot; wrong. Did we forget that we should all be rooting for treatments to work?<p>I hoped during this pandemic science would move fast and sacrifice some accuracy for speed. But I didn&#x27;t expect (a seemingly) complete fabrication could go so far with so many eyes. Now I worry the overreaction toward accuracy-over-speed will cause significant slowdowns in published data.<p>We shouldn&#x27;t over-punish honest mistakes when we value speed over accuracy... but this just feels awful. Would think prison is likely to come.<p>A good read: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;freerangestats.info&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2020&#x2F;05&#x2F;30&#x2F;implausible-health-data-firm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;freerangestats.info&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2020&#x2F;05&#x2F;30&#x2F;implausible-healt...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jmull</author><text>&gt; but the media ...<p>I don&#x27;t think you can blame the media here.<p>They reported on extremely important and relevant scientific research that was credible by any kind of reasonable journalistic standard. How could they have done otherwise?<p>Contrasting the research claims against the claims of &quot;a certain politician&quot; would be a natural and necessary part of that.<p>Some commentators went too far -- some always do, often the same ones -- but the failing here wasn&#x27;t generally the media.<p>&gt; Did we forget that we should all be rooting for treatments to work?<p>I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s being forgotten that outside the lunatic fringe. Notice that this story is getting wide coverage, just like the coverage of the original finding.</text></comment> |
19,484,643 | 19,484,267 | 1 | 3 | 19,483,123 | train | <story><title>How India’s massive 2019 election will work</title><url>https://qz.com/1570687/how-indias-massive-2019-election-will-work/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elpool2</author><text>How do the people buying votes make sure that the voter is voting the way they want? Do they not have a secret ballot?</text></item><item><author>pradn</author><text>The mechanics of the actual election seem to be decent enough. But there is rampant vote buying in many areas. I&#x27;ve personally seen liquor handed out for votes. Money, clothing, and alcohol are commonly used to purchase votes in many rural areas. Last I heard, it cost something like like 1000-3000 RS ($15-40) per head in rural Andhra Pradesh.<p>FT article from 2014:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ft.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;a9d35821-f2f1-3479-8082-2ce1e6fa79cf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ft.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;a9d35821-f2f1-3479-8082-2ce1e6fa7...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_mdlf</author><text>I&#x27;ve seen religious tactics applied effectively for this,<p>The potential voter is asked to swear over a religious artifact after receiving the money (bribe).<p>e.g. For Hindu voters, a plate with oil lamp, an idol, a mixture of auspicious powder is used.The voter should swear over it that they will vote for that particular candidate.<p>Elections are the main reason, politicians ensure religious superstitions flourish in India inspite of evil practices like casteism, sharia etc. Even when India&#x27;s constitution is godless &amp; secular (amended).<p>Thanks to really noble people behind India&#x27;s constitution.</text></comment> | <story><title>How India’s massive 2019 election will work</title><url>https://qz.com/1570687/how-indias-massive-2019-election-will-work/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elpool2</author><text>How do the people buying votes make sure that the voter is voting the way they want? Do they not have a secret ballot?</text></item><item><author>pradn</author><text>The mechanics of the actual election seem to be decent enough. But there is rampant vote buying in many areas. I&#x27;ve personally seen liquor handed out for votes. Money, clothing, and alcohol are commonly used to purchase votes in many rural areas. Last I heard, it cost something like like 1000-3000 RS ($15-40) per head in rural Andhra Pradesh.<p>FT article from 2014:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ft.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;a9d35821-f2f1-3479-8082-2ce1e6fa79cf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ft.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;a9d35821-f2f1-3479-8082-2ce1e6fa7...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>senthil_rajasek</author><text>Elections are a recurring event. I cannot prove it but it&#x27;s behavioral training. People seem to vote for whoever gives them the best &quot;incentive&quot;. I hesitate to call it a bribe because in other countries they call it &quot;tax relief&quot;, &quot;student loan forgiveness&quot; etc.,</text></comment> |
40,249,176 | 40,249,041 | 1 | 2 | 40,248,627 | train | <story><title>Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production</title><url>https://newatlas.com/energy/natron-sodium-ion-battery-production-startt/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rich_sasha</author><text>Are they safer? Sodium is also very highly reactive.<p>Otherwise agreed, I&#x27;m very happy with form factor of 5-10 year old phones.</text></item><item><author>hcarvalhoalves</author><text>Even if it isn&#x27;t as high-capacity, a longer-lasting and safer battery over a thinner smartphone isn&#x27;t a _bad_ trade-off, specially considering chips and screens get more efficient. This might have more market than stationary batteries.</text></item><item><author>downrightmike</author><text>Lower capacity in the same form factor, but inputs are common and cheap as dirt and will be able to do the hard work of supporting grid scale battery storage. We&#x27;ve learned that there are many applications that do not need to capacity of lithium.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>troymc</author><text>Here&#x27;s Natron&#x27;s page about safety: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;natron.energy&#x2F;our-technology&#x2F;safety" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;natron.energy&#x2F;our-technology&#x2F;safety</a><p>I don&#x27;t think the battery is a big block of pure sodium. That <i>would</i> be unsafe.<p>The battery electrolyte contains sodium ions, but the same is true of salt water and Gatorade.<p>I think the industrial source of their sodium is sodium hydoxide, a common industrial feedstock. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sodium_hydroxide" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sodium_hydroxide</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production</title><url>https://newatlas.com/energy/natron-sodium-ion-battery-production-startt/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rich_sasha</author><text>Are they safer? Sodium is also very highly reactive.<p>Otherwise agreed, I&#x27;m very happy with form factor of 5-10 year old phones.</text></item><item><author>hcarvalhoalves</author><text>Even if it isn&#x27;t as high-capacity, a longer-lasting and safer battery over a thinner smartphone isn&#x27;t a _bad_ trade-off, specially considering chips and screens get more efficient. This might have more market than stationary batteries.</text></item><item><author>downrightmike</author><text>Lower capacity in the same form factor, but inputs are common and cheap as dirt and will be able to do the hard work of supporting grid scale battery storage. We&#x27;ve learned that there are many applications that do not need to capacity of lithium.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>majoe</author><text>One of the claimed benefits of sodium based batteries, that I remember from the press statements of CATL, is that they don&#x27;t burn, even when you but them in a fire.
The also should work in a wider temperature range, which is especially interesting for cold regions.<p>In the article it says, that they are using a &quot;patented Prussian blue&quot;. Isn&#x27;t CATL also using Prussian blue in their first generation sodium batteries?</text></comment> |
6,017,197 | 6,017,094 | 1 | 3 | 6,016,270 | train | <story><title>Shit for Making Websites</title><url>http://shitformakingwebsites.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ekianjo</author><text>There&#x27;s a similar resource out there : <a href="http://thetoolbox.cc/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thetoolbox.cc&#x2F;</a> which is way better, I believe, and made by frequent hn contributor sgdesign.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sgdesign</author><text>Thanks! There&#x27;s also <a href="http://www.agiledesigners.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.agiledesigners.com&#x2F;</a>, which I think is even better than The Toolbox. Although more design-oriented.</text></comment> | <story><title>Shit for Making Websites</title><url>http://shitformakingwebsites.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ekianjo</author><text>There&#x27;s a similar resource out there : <a href="http://thetoolbox.cc/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thetoolbox.cc&#x2F;</a> which is way better, I believe, and made by frequent hn contributor sgdesign.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Killah911</author><text>I agree, this site is a better aggregation of resources for web devs, alas, without the explitive in the URL.</text></comment> |
39,729,006 | 39,728,937 | 1 | 3 | 39,727,529 | train | <story><title>Research shows that people who BS are more likely to fall for BS (2021)</title><url>https://uwaterloo.ca/news/media/research-shows-people-who-bs-are-more-likely-fall-bs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>robocat</author><text>Associated problem: salespeople seem to be gullible when buying - they get taken in by slick salespeople. Given their skills you would think they could spot someone pulling the wool over their eyes. I haven&#x27;t yet worked out whether it is just admiration for a good snow job or falling for some status game.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>camhart</author><text>Good sales people are genuine. Its easier to genuinely believe in the product you&#x27;re selling if you&#x27;re gullible.</text></comment> | <story><title>Research shows that people who BS are more likely to fall for BS (2021)</title><url>https://uwaterloo.ca/news/media/research-shows-people-who-bs-are-more-likely-fall-bs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>robocat</author><text>Associated problem: salespeople seem to be gullible when buying - they get taken in by slick salespeople. Given their skills you would think they could spot someone pulling the wool over their eyes. I haven&#x27;t yet worked out whether it is just admiration for a good snow job or falling for some status game.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>foobarbecue</author><text>This is so true. My ex&#x27;s dad was a successful medical device salesman, and a complete rube when it came to buying cars or whatever.</text></comment> |
26,039,248 | 26,038,948 | 1 | 2 | 26,035,449 | train | <story><title>Google, Apple cave to Pakistan pressure to take down apps by Ahmadiyya Muslims</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/pakistan-forced-down-ahmadiyya-apps</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>username90</author><text>Apple and Google put themselves in a position where they became a part of the problem. If they ran open platforms where they don&#x27;t have to power to ban apps this would never have happened.</text></item><item><author>jmull</author><text>The (rather massive) flaw in your reasoning is the idea that Google and Apple are the solution to the problem.<p>If you live in a society without religious freedom, that&#x27;s a big problem, but Apple and Google <i>can&#x27;t</i> fix it.<p>If you care about the problem, it&#x27;s important to understand this. If you succeed in getting people to focus on symptom of the problem and not the cause, you will help prevent it from being addressed.</text></item><item><author>zupreme</author><text>For those defending this practice, consider carefully the implications of what you are advocating.<p>On one hand you have a government deciding who can and cannot refer to themselves as adherents of a particular religion (by declaring that Ahamadis cannot call themselves Muslim).<p>On another hand you have Google and Apple, yet again, being the complicit chokepoints of “free speech”, with regard to app developers.<p>These may seem fair to you, but that may be because these practices have not negatively affected you...yet.<p>But consider: Would it be fair if England declared Catholics “unChristian” and banned their use if the term? Or what if the USA declared hasidic jews “Unjewish” and banned their use of the term. Or what if Apple caved to pressure theoretical from Israel to ban Jehovah’s Witnesses from using the term “Jehovah”?<p>What next? Government declaring who is and is not “white”?<p>Oh wait......</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>passivate</author><text>&gt;Apple and Google put themselves in a position where they became a part of the problem. If they ran open platforms where they don&#x27;t have to power to ban apps this would never have happened.<p>In this particular case, what problem would open platforms solve? The laws in Pakistan still exist and the social problem is not addressed. Or are you implying that Apple and Google should be on the hook for solving religious problems in other countries? If so, I think wanting companies to engineer social behavior in other countries is a dangerous path bordering on the unethical (IMO).<p>But having said all that, whats stopping a country from simply blocking their hosting servers? Ultimately, the app has to be downloaded from somewhere. Okay, so then you move to a P2P system, so then the get their ISPs to block that,etc ,etc. It&#x27;s just whack-a-mole.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google, Apple cave to Pakistan pressure to take down apps by Ahmadiyya Muslims</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/pakistan-forced-down-ahmadiyya-apps</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>username90</author><text>Apple and Google put themselves in a position where they became a part of the problem. If they ran open platforms where they don&#x27;t have to power to ban apps this would never have happened.</text></item><item><author>jmull</author><text>The (rather massive) flaw in your reasoning is the idea that Google and Apple are the solution to the problem.<p>If you live in a society without religious freedom, that&#x27;s a big problem, but Apple and Google <i>can&#x27;t</i> fix it.<p>If you care about the problem, it&#x27;s important to understand this. If you succeed in getting people to focus on symptom of the problem and not the cause, you will help prevent it from being addressed.</text></item><item><author>zupreme</author><text>For those defending this practice, consider carefully the implications of what you are advocating.<p>On one hand you have a government deciding who can and cannot refer to themselves as adherents of a particular religion (by declaring that Ahamadis cannot call themselves Muslim).<p>On another hand you have Google and Apple, yet again, being the complicit chokepoints of “free speech”, with regard to app developers.<p>These may seem fair to you, but that may be because these practices have not negatively affected you...yet.<p>But consider: Would it be fair if England declared Catholics “unChristian” and banned their use if the term? Or what if the USA declared hasidic jews “Unjewish” and banned their use of the term. Or what if Apple caved to pressure theoretical from Israel to ban Jehovah’s Witnesses from using the term “Jehovah”?<p>What next? Government declaring who is and is not “white”?<p>Oh wait......</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sk5t</author><text>Just as we have laws that prevent US organizations from giving or taking bribes even in countries where bribes are legal (FCPA), and US laws prevent US individuals from overseas sex tourism which would be illegal on US soil, what prevents us from requiring US organizations not to participate in religious oppression, child exploitation, and other such acts?</text></comment> |
35,836,921 | 35,836,595 | 1 | 3 | 35,836,411 | train | <story><title>Releasing 3B and 7B RedPajama</title><url>https://www.together.xyz/blog/redpajama-models-v1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sphars</author><text>Slightly off-topic, but as the parent of a toddler, I got a bit of a chuckle out of the name. It&#x27;s based off the children&#x27;s book series of &quot;Llama Llama Red Pajama&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Releasing 3B and 7B RedPajama</title><url>https://www.together.xyz/blog/redpajama-models-v1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>andy_xor_andrew</author><text>This is beyond exciting. Welcome to the new reality!<p>On one hand, the resources required to run these models continues falling dramatically, thanks to the techniques discovered by researchers: GPTQ quantizing down to 4, 3, 2, even 1 bits! model pruning! hybrid vram offloading! better, more efficient architectures! 1-click finetuning on consumer hardware! Of course, the free lunches won&#x27;t last forever, and this will level off, but it&#x27;s still incredible.<p>And on the other side of the coin, the power of <i>all</i> computing devices continues its ever-upward exponential growth.<p>So you have a continuous <i>lowering</i> of requirements, combined with a continuous <i>increase</i> in available power... surely these two trends will collide, and I can only imagine what this stuff will be like at that intersection.</text></comment> |
16,154,823 | 16,154,930 | 1 | 2 | 16,153,840 | train | <story><title>Google Memory Loss</title><url>https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2018/01/15/Google-is-losing-its-memory</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ohazi</author><text>I&#x27;ve convinced myself that this happens in gmail &#x2F; hangouts history search too. It&#x27;ll very confidently tell you that here are the only six results for your search term going back to the beginning of time, but if you go and manually dig up something that you know is there from ten years ago, then all of a sudden there are seven results the next time you search for the same term.<p>I haven&#x27;t done this methodically, and I can&#x27;t prove that this is happening, but it&#x27;s infuriating nonetheless.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cptskippy</author><text>This definitely happens. I have 1 email that is about 5 years old that I reference once or twice a year, often enough that it is a suggested search term. Recently Gmail has been unable to find it and I restored to starring it. It is literally the only starred email I have but I can no longer search for it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Memory Loss</title><url>https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2018/01/15/Google-is-losing-its-memory</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ohazi</author><text>I&#x27;ve convinced myself that this happens in gmail &#x2F; hangouts history search too. It&#x27;ll very confidently tell you that here are the only six results for your search term going back to the beginning of time, but if you go and manually dig up something that you know is there from ten years ago, then all of a sudden there are seven results the next time you search for the same term.<p>I haven&#x27;t done this methodically, and I can&#x27;t prove that this is happening, but it&#x27;s infuriating nonetheless.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aglionby</author><text>I&#x27;ve had this for Chrome history as well. There have been multiple times where I&#x27;m <i>sure</i> I&#x27;ve browsed a site with some keyword in the title and it just doesn&#x27;t show up in search. I don&#x27;t tend to have a clue about the time window it would be in either so I can&#x27;t go looking for it, so I can&#x27;t prove it.</text></comment> |
16,450,479 | 16,450,359 | 1 | 2 | 16,449,590 | train | <story><title>Bitmain, the largest mining hardware company, made around $4B last year</title><url>http://coinsocial.io/2018/02/23/bitmain-largest-mining-hardware-manufacturer-made-around-4-billion-last-year/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nosuchthing</author><text>Proof-of-Stake statistically equates to &quot;Give the rich more money&quot;.<p>Consider Ethereum&#x27;s stats (and other similar PoS minting methods):<p><pre><code> Presale ICO &#x2F; Premine ( max cost $0.50 USD per ETH )
= 72,009,990 ETH
Total Supply today (Feb 23rd 2018)
= 97,800,000 ETH
Source:
https:&#x2F;&#x2F;etherscan.io&#x2F;stat&#x2F;supply
</code></pre>
Now imagine a financial system where all the wealthy have to do simply own money (spawned from software or premine) to get more money. Or where voting is done by merely by controlling a large sum of money&#x2F;tokens.</text></item><item><author>vernon99</author><text>This is a one-sided comment. There’s a lot of research going into different variations of proof-of-stake. 4 out of 10 largest crypto (by market cap) are PoS. There’s a lot of work Ethereum community (Casper), Cardano folks, Tendermint etc are doing to create better consensus models.</text></item><item><author>kenneth</author><text>As an engineer, it saddens me to see the huge inefficiencies inherent to cryptocurrency mining these days. Surely, when we&#x27;re spending in the billions on wasteful hashing, we could dedicate a small fraction of that to engineering better consensus algorithms.<p>Unfortunately, we have an ecosystem where everyone is incentivized to ignore the problem because they&#x27;re too invested in maintaining the price of Bitcoin and other PoW cryptocurrencies. They often don&#x27;t pay for the externalities — environmental costs. The specialization of mining also severely hurts the distributed and decentralized nature of these crypto-currencies.<p>I&#x27;m a huge fan of crypto-networks, and have made a career in the space. But, I want Bitcoin to die off and leave room for newer generation technology.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adadad3442</author><text>&gt;Now imagine a financial system where all the wealthy have to do simply own money... to get more money.<p>You mean the current system?</text></comment> | <story><title>Bitmain, the largest mining hardware company, made around $4B last year</title><url>http://coinsocial.io/2018/02/23/bitmain-largest-mining-hardware-manufacturer-made-around-4-billion-last-year/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nosuchthing</author><text>Proof-of-Stake statistically equates to &quot;Give the rich more money&quot;.<p>Consider Ethereum&#x27;s stats (and other similar PoS minting methods):<p><pre><code> Presale ICO &#x2F; Premine ( max cost $0.50 USD per ETH )
= 72,009,990 ETH
Total Supply today (Feb 23rd 2018)
= 97,800,000 ETH
Source:
https:&#x2F;&#x2F;etherscan.io&#x2F;stat&#x2F;supply
</code></pre>
Now imagine a financial system where all the wealthy have to do simply own money (spawned from software or premine) to get more money. Or where voting is done by merely by controlling a large sum of money&#x2F;tokens.</text></item><item><author>vernon99</author><text>This is a one-sided comment. There’s a lot of research going into different variations of proof-of-stake. 4 out of 10 largest crypto (by market cap) are PoS. There’s a lot of work Ethereum community (Casper), Cardano folks, Tendermint etc are doing to create better consensus models.</text></item><item><author>kenneth</author><text>As an engineer, it saddens me to see the huge inefficiencies inherent to cryptocurrency mining these days. Surely, when we&#x27;re spending in the billions on wasteful hashing, we could dedicate a small fraction of that to engineering better consensus algorithms.<p>Unfortunately, we have an ecosystem where everyone is incentivized to ignore the problem because they&#x27;re too invested in maintaining the price of Bitcoin and other PoW cryptocurrencies. They often don&#x27;t pay for the externalities — environmental costs. The specialization of mining also severely hurts the distributed and decentralized nature of these crypto-currencies.<p>I&#x27;m a huge fan of crypto-networks, and have made a career in the space. But, I want Bitcoin to die off and leave room for newer generation technology.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacobr</author><text>With PoW you use your money to buy mining equipment and you will get more money, and voting power. With PoS you buy more of the currency with that money instead.</text></comment> |
3,583,244 | 3,582,956 | 1 | 2 | 3,581,690 | train | <story><title>One Story of Nikola Tesla</title><url>http://flyingmoose.org/truthfic/tesla.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>prajjwal</author><text>Sad. Growing up, Edison came across to me as a man worthy of idolizing. Edison was inferior to Tesla not only in terms of intellect, but also as a human being. Edison may have been a great businessman, but Tesla was the genius who was far ahead of his time. I'm glad to see his story told.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ralfd</author><text>&#62; Edison was inferior to Tesla not only in terms of intellect, but also as a human being.<p><i>eyerolling</i>
Just to play devils advocate:<p>Edison:
Nonviolence was key to Edison's moral views, and when asked to serve as a naval consultant for World War I, he specified he would work only on defensive weapons<p>Tesla:
Tesla worked on plans for a directed-energy weapon [the Death Ray] from the early 1900s until his death. Tesla tried to interest the US War Department in the device. He also offered this invention to European countries.<p>Edison:
Six children.<p>Tesla:
Tesla was a life-long bachelor. Like many of his era, he became a proponent of an imposed selective breeding version of eugenics.<p>Edison:
When Edison was a very old man and close to death, he said, in looking back, that the biggest mistake he had made was in not respecting Tesla or his work.<p>Tesla:
The day after Edison died the New York Times contained extensive coverage of Edison's life, with the only negative opinion coming from Tesla.</text></comment> | <story><title>One Story of Nikola Tesla</title><url>http://flyingmoose.org/truthfic/tesla.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>prajjwal</author><text>Sad. Growing up, Edison came across to me as a man worthy of idolizing. Edison was inferior to Tesla not only in terms of intellect, but also as a human being. Edison may have been a great businessman, but Tesla was the genius who was far ahead of his time. I'm glad to see his story told.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tnicola</author><text>I went to school in former Yugoslavia and Tesla was idolized and given duly deserved credit whereas Edison was the guy who invented the lighbulb. We even had nursery rhymes about his inventions.<p>We were also taught that Yugoslavia was a major factor in getting Germany to capitulate in WWII where if you think about it, it was rather insignificant on the grand scheme of things.<p>You can't really escape the spin. Some are for the better and some are for the worse, but hopefully, we can sort things out once we start learning and thinking for ourselves.</text></comment> |
21,726,767 | 21,724,043 | 1 | 2 | 21,723,151 | train | <story><title>Show HN: A Go web server with logging, tracing, and demo apps in a single file</title><url>https://github.com/photonlines/Go-Web-Server</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>erikig</author><text>I&#x27;m enjoying these &quot;in a single file&quot; projects. They aren&#x27;t often the paragon of best-practices but they make it easy for newbies to peep in on the syntax and see how complex problems can be solved. They are also usually a lot easier to try out, compile and deploy.<p>Here are a few others:<p>- Twitter Clone in Haskell in a single file - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21616661" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21616661</a><p>- MPEG1 in a single C file - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20643336" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20643336</a><p>- SingleFile CMS - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18336986" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18336986</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: A Go web server with logging, tracing, and demo apps in a single file</title><url>https://github.com/photonlines/Go-Web-Server</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>laurent123456</author><text>&gt; all in a single file<p>It&#x27;s not really an advantage, is it? Having everything mixed up into one giant file just makes the code much harder to make sense of.</text></comment> |
31,715,880 | 31,715,814 | 1 | 2 | 31,714,556 | train | <story><title>ZeroStableCoin is out from stealth mode</title><url>https://twitter.com/zerostablecoin/status/1534131126209499138</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>legutierr</author><text>&gt; I think if it survives, the crypto community is in for a reckoning much like 2000.<p>You very well may be right. But the most memorable headline for me from that era is this Barron&#x27;s article:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;JeffBezos&#x2F;status&#x2F;1447403828505088011" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;JeffBezos&#x2F;status&#x2F;1447403828505088011</a><p>If Bitcoin is the equivalent of Yahoo, what are the equivalents of Amazon and Google?<p>People love to use Pets.com as a symbol of excess for that era, but it might not be a great example to use to make that point.<p>At its highest point, Pets.com had a valuation of approximately $300 million (of which ~30% was owned by Amazon). Compare that to the ~$3 billion that PetSmart paid for Chewey.com five years ago, and Chewy.com&#x27;s current market cap of $12 billion (down ~75% from its high).<p>It&#x27;s a bit ironic that the pets.com domain redirects to petsmart.com, given that the PetSmart LBO eight years ago, and its acquisition of Chewy five years ago, and the Chewy IPO three years ago—PetSmart sold a minority interest Chewy to protect it from PetSmart&#x27;s creditors and to pay down debt—were all motivated in large part by the fact that online retail has massively supplanted in-person retail throughout the economy.<p>Was Pets.com overvalued? Or did it just run out of runway before it could displace the incumbents? Is Crypto going to zero? Or is it simply that new technologies take time to find their footing?</text></item><item><author>jmacd</author><text>I think the fact that this is so obviously satirical and well executed, but I had to closely read the white paper and fight against the &quot;these crypto things have so much momentum, clearly people understand things I don&#x27;t&quot; bias that has developed in my brain around these ridiculous projects probably tells us something about what has passed for real in the last 3 years.<p>I&#x27;ve gone from being unengaged bystander on crypto to feeling pretty strongly that almost everything crypto is going to zero.<p>I think if it survives, the crypto community is in for a reckoning much like 2000. Bitcoin will be the Yahoo (a brand that survives, but does not create new value, and stagnates) and all the alt-coins are the Pets.com etc of the era. Poof, gone, vanished.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dub</author><text>A challenge for the crypto world is that the values of being decentralized and trustworthy seem a bit at odds with the value of rapidly evolving.<p>If you compare the Amazon or Google of 1999 vs today, they&#x27;re practically different businesses. Most well-funded, centralized businesses have a hard time evolving at all, let alone to that degree.<p>Seems like the challenges facing a decentralized organization wanting to evolve would be even larger.</text></comment> | <story><title>ZeroStableCoin is out from stealth mode</title><url>https://twitter.com/zerostablecoin/status/1534131126209499138</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>legutierr</author><text>&gt; I think if it survives, the crypto community is in for a reckoning much like 2000.<p>You very well may be right. But the most memorable headline for me from that era is this Barron&#x27;s article:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;JeffBezos&#x2F;status&#x2F;1447403828505088011" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;JeffBezos&#x2F;status&#x2F;1447403828505088011</a><p>If Bitcoin is the equivalent of Yahoo, what are the equivalents of Amazon and Google?<p>People love to use Pets.com as a symbol of excess for that era, but it might not be a great example to use to make that point.<p>At its highest point, Pets.com had a valuation of approximately $300 million (of which ~30% was owned by Amazon). Compare that to the ~$3 billion that PetSmart paid for Chewey.com five years ago, and Chewy.com&#x27;s current market cap of $12 billion (down ~75% from its high).<p>It&#x27;s a bit ironic that the pets.com domain redirects to petsmart.com, given that the PetSmart LBO eight years ago, and its acquisition of Chewy five years ago, and the Chewy IPO three years ago—PetSmart sold a minority interest Chewy to protect it from PetSmart&#x27;s creditors and to pay down debt—were all motivated in large part by the fact that online retail has massively supplanted in-person retail throughout the economy.<p>Was Pets.com overvalued? Or did it just run out of runway before it could displace the incumbents? Is Crypto going to zero? Or is it simply that new technologies take time to find their footing?</text></item><item><author>jmacd</author><text>I think the fact that this is so obviously satirical and well executed, but I had to closely read the white paper and fight against the &quot;these crypto things have so much momentum, clearly people understand things I don&#x27;t&quot; bias that has developed in my brain around these ridiculous projects probably tells us something about what has passed for real in the last 3 years.<p>I&#x27;ve gone from being unengaged bystander on crypto to feeling pretty strongly that almost everything crypto is going to zero.<p>I think if it survives, the crypto community is in for a reckoning much like 2000. Bitcoin will be the Yahoo (a brand that survives, but does not create new value, and stagnates) and all the alt-coins are the Pets.com etc of the era. Poof, gone, vanished.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>highwaylights</author><text>Who are the equivalents of Amazon and Google?<p>Amazon and Google.<p>This has been my biggest issue with cultocurrency since it’s inception.<p>The market cap of the whole lot is made up of <i>maybe</i> 0.04% innovative signing and 99.96% magic beans.<p>Useful use cases of the smidge of innovation can be exploited by the megacaps to extract whatever actual value there is - this current cesspit of Ponzi schemes will not be required.</text></comment> |
11,740,685 | 11,740,750 | 1 | 3 | 11,739,397 | train | <story><title>Cutestrap: 8k CSS framework</title><url>https://www.cutestrap.com</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cel1ne</author><text>In my opinion this is still the best option for CSS, especially in combination with React.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tachyons.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tachyons.io&#x2F;</a><p>Most importantly it contains a ratio-based scale: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tachyons.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;layout&#x2F;spacing&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tachyons.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;layout&#x2F;spacing&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Cutestrap: 8k CSS framework</title><url>https://www.cutestrap.com</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>deedubaya</author><text>BEM may be effective for some, but it&#x27;s a total turn-off for me simply because of the `__` syntax making my eyes bleed.</text></comment> |
18,667,173 | 18,666,990 | 1 | 2 | 18,665,048 | train | <story><title>An open letter to FB, Twitter, Instagram regarding algorithms and my son's birth</title><url>https://twitter.com/gbrockell/status/1072589687489998848</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NorthOf33rd</author><text>Instagram is not a person. Don&#x27;t ask it to be decent.<p>Those ads are not your friends. Don&#x27;t expect them to treat you like they care.<p>You&#x27;re not sharing your information with a human. You&#x27;re sharing it with a business who is tuned to maximize profit. The ROI on dealing with still births for advertising is probably negative.<p>They don&#x27;t care about you. You&#x27;ve made the decision to let a business deep into your personal life, a space once reserved only for loved ones. These are the consequences.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>allemagne</author><text>This is mostly very true, but I think the author understands this better than you&#x27;re implying. The point of this tweet is to influence public opinion. This:<p>&gt;The ROI on dealing with still births for advertising is probably negative.<p>would hopefully not be true anymore due to negative PR, companies would take action out of pure self-interest, and it would stop this situation from happening to future people.<p>There&#x27;s of course still the broader problem of companies ravenously and irresponsibly gathering as much data on individuals as possible. To me any increase in a company&#x27;s liability for the information they&#x27;re hoarding, even in the form of righteous outrage that on its surface seems to anthropomorphize them, is a step in the right direction.</text></comment> | <story><title>An open letter to FB, Twitter, Instagram regarding algorithms and my son's birth</title><url>https://twitter.com/gbrockell/status/1072589687489998848</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NorthOf33rd</author><text>Instagram is not a person. Don&#x27;t ask it to be decent.<p>Those ads are not your friends. Don&#x27;t expect them to treat you like they care.<p>You&#x27;re not sharing your information with a human. You&#x27;re sharing it with a business who is tuned to maximize profit. The ROI on dealing with still births for advertising is probably negative.<p>They don&#x27;t care about you. You&#x27;ve made the decision to let a business deep into your personal life, a space once reserved only for loved ones. These are the consequences.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>VikingCoder</author><text>Any person can ask others to change their behavior.<p>And if they get the attention of the company, the company may change its behaviors.<p>Whether out of sympathy or self-interest is kind of immaterial.<p>As users, we&#x27;d like the companies to change their behavior.<p>Companies rely on users&#x27; good will. Once they depend on users for revenue, they need to act to a certain degree as though they care about those users. Or users may leave. These are the consequences.</text></comment> |
14,377,847 | 14,377,724 | 1 | 3 | 14,377,243 | train | <story><title>Twitter abandons 'Do Not Track' privacy protection</title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/article/twitter-abandons-do-not-track-privacy-protection/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xg15</author><text>Ok, honestly, was DNT ever more than a smoke grenade for muddying the privacy discussion? The standard always relied on every single shady data collector out there to act against their core interest, facing not even the risk of detection (let alone punishment) if they don&#x27;t comply, all just because you asked them nicely. You might as well carry a &quot;do not rob me&quot; card in your wallet.<p>Was there ever a honest belief by anyone (except the Ayn Rand fanboys) this could work?</text></comment> | <story><title>Twitter abandons 'Do Not Track' privacy protection</title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/article/twitter-abandons-do-not-track-privacy-protection/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>malikNF</author><text>DNT made sense only in a world where there would be some sort of law to back it up.<p>I actually had my adblocker turned off on websites I knew at least tried to respect DNT (reddit, medium and twitter), guess twitter&#x27;s getting completely adblocked now.</text></comment> |
1,868,012 | 1,867,933 | 1 | 3 | 1,867,807 | train | <story><title>Google UX Researcher Explains the Social Networking Gay Bar Problem</title><url>http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-network-v2</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>csallen</author><text><i>&#62;&#62; If your privacy practices aren't transparent, then you introduce doubt. Doubt leads to lower usage.</i><p>So true. Too many apps and services don't understand that as users, when we see "Connect to Facebook/Twitter", our minds are immediately filled with doubt and mistrust. Why? Because we want control over what our friends see about us, and we suspect your app doesn't give a shit and will shamelessly promote itself at our expense. So be clear. If you're going to write on my wall, <i>say you will.</i> And if you're not, then <i>say you won't.</i> Don't leave me guessing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google UX Researcher Explains the Social Networking Gay Bar Problem</title><url>http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-network-v2</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lionhearted</author><text>This presentation is somewhat long, but extremely informative. If you're designing any sort of application or content that includes sharing or privacy, I'd consider it almost required reading. It's that informative - the best I've seen on the topic.</text></comment> |
28,798,213 | 28,796,265 | 1 | 2 | 28,793,693 | train | <story><title>Samsung Foundry Forum announcements</title><url>https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-foundry-innovations-power-the-future-of-big-data-ai-ml-and-smart-connected-devices</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rendall</author><text>Their high-end phones have such dark patterns that I will flat-out not buy Samsung anything.<p>Even if you pay [€$]1000+ for one of their Smart Phones, you can look forward to:<p>* Uninstallable cruft, as if they were a telcom and you were on a contract and had not just handed over a grand<p>* ...like a confusingly-similar-looking competitor to Google Contacts that will upload your info to their servers<p>* GDPR? LOL<p>* A hard button on the side of your phone located just below the &quot;volume down&quot; button, easy to press accidentally, that is hard-coded and unconfigurable, that will launch their AI assistant Bixby. Don&#x27;t want to use Bixby? Tough shit. Nothing you can do about it.<p>* Constant badgering by the phone&#x27;s native notification to sign up for &quot;Samsung Members&quot;, a social media platform. No, you can&#x27;t turn that off.<p>* Other, similar bullshit.<p>3nm? These are such sketchy practices I cannot imagine it won&#x27;t affect, say, their high-end TVs (they would totally monitor your house and show you advertisements).<p>Seriously, avoid that company. No, paying for their high-end options will not insulate you from their nonsense.</text></item><item><author>1-6</author><text>Samsung has a dishonorable marketing department. 3nm is not actually 3nm. I&#x27;m fed up... OLED is superior so they had to take the path of calling theirs QLED which is actually just an LCD screen with phosphors on top of a blue backlight (and it&#x27;s nothing new).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>solarkraft</author><text>In a world of garbage electronics they’re actually a name I trust on some level. They build pretty decent stuf- with stupid caveats.<p>My Galaxy Buds Plus are pretty good and have unparalleled battery life - but you can’t use the companion app on Android because it won’t work unless you give it access to your contacts.<p>My Samsung TV is quite snappy and, besides my model being a special edition that doesn’t come with Bluetooth and them not specifying it anywhere, it’s actually pretty alright. Cold-boots quickly, has a snappy UI, theoretically comes with all the smart features you want ... but it’s full of ads the moment you enable internet access, plus you know the spying allegations. I guess I’ll still have to figure out proper firewall rules.<p>I’m going to guess that their other appliances are similar. Pretty good hardware, pretty good software underpinnings, just severely held back by some anti-consumer software decisions.</text></comment> | <story><title>Samsung Foundry Forum announcements</title><url>https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-foundry-innovations-power-the-future-of-big-data-ai-ml-and-smart-connected-devices</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rendall</author><text>Their high-end phones have such dark patterns that I will flat-out not buy Samsung anything.<p>Even if you pay [€$]1000+ for one of their Smart Phones, you can look forward to:<p>* Uninstallable cruft, as if they were a telcom and you were on a contract and had not just handed over a grand<p>* ...like a confusingly-similar-looking competitor to Google Contacts that will upload your info to their servers<p>* GDPR? LOL<p>* A hard button on the side of your phone located just below the &quot;volume down&quot; button, easy to press accidentally, that is hard-coded and unconfigurable, that will launch their AI assistant Bixby. Don&#x27;t want to use Bixby? Tough shit. Nothing you can do about it.<p>* Constant badgering by the phone&#x27;s native notification to sign up for &quot;Samsung Members&quot;, a social media platform. No, you can&#x27;t turn that off.<p>* Other, similar bullshit.<p>3nm? These are such sketchy practices I cannot imagine it won&#x27;t affect, say, their high-end TVs (they would totally monitor your house and show you advertisements).<p>Seriously, avoid that company. No, paying for their high-end options will not insulate you from their nonsense.</text></item><item><author>1-6</author><text>Samsung has a dishonorable marketing department. 3nm is not actually 3nm. I&#x27;m fed up... OLED is superior so they had to take the path of calling theirs QLED which is actually just an LCD screen with phosphors on top of a blue backlight (and it&#x27;s nothing new).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>orangepanda</author><text>&gt; * Constant badgering by the phone&#x27;s native notification to sign up for &quot;Samsung Members&quot;, a social media platform. No, you can&#x27;t turn that off.<p>Apple does something similar. Every now and then I get a notification about &quot;try tv+&#x2F;arcade&#x2F;music for x months&quot;.<p>Or few years back when wallet was launched, daily notifications to add my card.. in a country that doesnt support apple wallet.</text></comment> |
20,846,423 | 20,846,596 | 1 | 2 | 20,845,802 | train | <story><title>Hiring Is Broken?</title><url>https://software.rajivprab.com/2019/07/27/hiring-is-broken-and-yours-is-too/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Retric</author><text>I have generally been rather disappointed with Google&#x2F;FANG software developers. These companies generally though not always avoid the bottom 1&#x2F;3 of the talent pool, but that’s about it.<p>Effectively they simply select for people willing to hack their hiring process, which also excludes most actually talented developers. Resulting in a few very talented people, and an overall average workforce.<p>This is also why most internal projects at these companies are about average for the industry and these companies focus so heavily on acquisitions. Consider the differences between iOS, Android, and Windows phones was not so much about software quality as much as business models.</text></item><item><author>esotericn</author><text>This article appears to be an extremely long-winded way of stating that you don&#x27;t have to pick from the top-end.<p>Which is true. Companies know this.<p>Most of the stuff I read here is basically made up of people who aren&#x27;t quite the best moaning that they couldn&#x27;t get a job at Google or whatever. Life goes on. It is impractical and not a good thing for every software developer, even the very good ones, to pile into the same companies.<p>Not everything is set up as a perfect procedure for you.<p>And even if it was - OK, so you get the job and the Stanford grad doesn&#x27;t. You swap places. Does that make a better world?<p>I encourage new developers reading these sort of posts to just ignore the fluff and plug on. You&#x27;ll get there.<p>And if not? In five years you might want something else entirely.<p>I wanted desperately to work at an investment bank as a new grad.<p>I&#x27;m very happy with the path my life has taken instead.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>esotericn</author><text>Wouldn&#x27;t surprise me at all.<p>Fundamentally, companies do not hire for raw technical ability.<p>Would you hire Linus for your bog standard dev role? Of course not. He&#x27;d be bored in days.<p>You probably wouldn&#x27;t want a supermodel as a life partner.<p>The whole thing is about selecting model employees. People who will rock the boat in the correct ways; need money, but are neither impoverished nor independent; are reliable; and so on and so forth.<p>It&#x27;s not &quot;hiring is broken&quot;. It&#x27;s &quot;you misunderstand what employment is&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hiring Is Broken?</title><url>https://software.rajivprab.com/2019/07/27/hiring-is-broken-and-yours-is-too/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Retric</author><text>I have generally been rather disappointed with Google&#x2F;FANG software developers. These companies generally though not always avoid the bottom 1&#x2F;3 of the talent pool, but that’s about it.<p>Effectively they simply select for people willing to hack their hiring process, which also excludes most actually talented developers. Resulting in a few very talented people, and an overall average workforce.<p>This is also why most internal projects at these companies are about average for the industry and these companies focus so heavily on acquisitions. Consider the differences between iOS, Android, and Windows phones was not so much about software quality as much as business models.</text></item><item><author>esotericn</author><text>This article appears to be an extremely long-winded way of stating that you don&#x27;t have to pick from the top-end.<p>Which is true. Companies know this.<p>Most of the stuff I read here is basically made up of people who aren&#x27;t quite the best moaning that they couldn&#x27;t get a job at Google or whatever. Life goes on. It is impractical and not a good thing for every software developer, even the very good ones, to pile into the same companies.<p>Not everything is set up as a perfect procedure for you.<p>And even if it was - OK, so you get the job and the Stanford grad doesn&#x27;t. You swap places. Does that make a better world?<p>I encourage new developers reading these sort of posts to just ignore the fluff and plug on. You&#x27;ll get there.<p>And if not? In five years you might want something else entirely.<p>I wanted desperately to work at an investment bank as a new grad.<p>I&#x27;m very happy with the path my life has taken instead.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ptasci67</author><text>This is one of those statements that is too broad to be true. We can&#x27;t wave a wand and just say developers at FAANG companies are better than the bottom 1&#x2F;3 and no more.<p>You do have a point here which I do agree with which most of those companies would refer to as &quot;culture fit&quot;. Agree with it or not, having an employee that gels with the team is a critical aspect to hire for. You could have 10 Jeff Deans and get nothing done if they refuse to work together.<p>A significant problem I see here is that we are trying to define &quot;good&quot; on a linear scale which makes no sense to me. Is candidate A better than candidate B based on 6 hours of interviews about the same topics or a single take home test. Even Madden breaks down a person into dozens of traits and uses that to compare people. Tech companies like to flaunt how data driven they are but why hasn&#x27;t that made it into hiring. For the most part, these decisions are still made on personal feelings of the interviewers which...yeah, that&#x27;s not going to be very consistent and reproducible.</text></comment> |
17,527,790 | 17,527,220 | 1 | 2 | 17,526,574 | train | <story><title>Coinbase Is Exploring Cardano, BAT, Stellar Lumens, Zcash, and 0x</title><url>https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-is-exploring-cardano-basic-attention-token-stellar-zcash-and-0x-9e44f0eb823f</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yumraj</author><text>Wonder if folks at Coinbase did or could have engaged in insider trading? And if they did, does it even fall under SEC jurisdiction or crypto currencies are in the wild West of insider trading?</text></item><item><author>tlrobinson</author><text>In case you were wondering how this news affected the price of these assets (as of this posting):<p><pre><code> ADA +10.59%
BAT +20.82%
XLM +9.42%
ZEC +15.18%
0x +23.40%</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dantiberian</author><text>This is why they are making the announcement now. I would suspect that only a few trusted people would have been involved in making the decision on which tokens to explore. They then made this announcement that they are exploring it at the same time as it was announced internally.<p>&gt; We are making this announcement internally at Coinbase and to the public at the same time to remain transparent with our customers about support for future assets.<p>This would hopefully avoid another class action lawsuit like they did with Bitcoin Cash: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coindesk.com&#x2F;coinbase-hit-lawsuit-alleged-insider-trading&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coindesk.com&#x2F;coinbase-hit-lawsuit-alleged-inside...</a>.</text></comment> | <story><title>Coinbase Is Exploring Cardano, BAT, Stellar Lumens, Zcash, and 0x</title><url>https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-is-exploring-cardano-basic-attention-token-stellar-zcash-and-0x-9e44f0eb823f</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yumraj</author><text>Wonder if folks at Coinbase did or could have engaged in insider trading? And if they did, does it even fall under SEC jurisdiction or crypto currencies are in the wild West of insider trading?</text></item><item><author>tlrobinson</author><text>In case you were wondering how this news affected the price of these assets (as of this posting):<p><pre><code> ADA +10.59%
BAT +20.82%
XLM +9.42%
ZEC +15.18%
0x +23.40%</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gangster_dave</author><text>This was probably the right thing <i>to prevent</i> insider trading. There was evidence of insider trading when Coinbase added BCH, so they might be just completely avoiding the risk of information leaks.</text></comment> |
28,208,111 | 28,208,116 | 1 | 2 | 28,204,948 | train | <story><title>How did so many Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup players miss such an obvious bug?</title><url>https://desystemize.substack.com/p/desystemize-7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notanzaiiswear</author><text>I often wonder about a fantasy world where magic works like technology in the real world (like there is long arduous research to create new spells, not simply &quot;being born with magical talent&quot;). Would it become a popular fantasy setting?</text></item><item><author>kibwen</author><text>Computers are literally (literally) magic. Take a rock, use light to inscribe it with arcane runes, then infuse it with lightning and recite the proper incantation to complete the spell.</text></item><item><author>cridenour</author><text>&gt; Computers are warm rocks we tricked into doing math and it’s a miracle they do anything.<p>This might be my favorite way to describe programming.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tygrak</author><text>Pretty much what you are describing about is Ra by qntm [1]. I would definitely recommend it!<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qntm.org&#x2F;ra" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qntm.org&#x2F;ra</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How did so many Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup players miss such an obvious bug?</title><url>https://desystemize.substack.com/p/desystemize-7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notanzaiiswear</author><text>I often wonder about a fantasy world where magic works like technology in the real world (like there is long arduous research to create new spells, not simply &quot;being born with magical talent&quot;). Would it become a popular fantasy setting?</text></item><item><author>kibwen</author><text>Computers are literally (literally) magic. Take a rock, use light to inscribe it with arcane runes, then infuse it with lightning and recite the proper incantation to complete the spell.</text></item><item><author>cridenour</author><text>&gt; Computers are warm rocks we tricked into doing math and it’s a miracle they do anything.<p>This might be my favorite way to describe programming.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thaumasiotes</author><text>The Obsidian Trilogy (Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory) is set in such a world, though it also features &quot;wild magic&quot; (you petition the wild gods for an effect, and you probably get it, but you take on an open-ended obligation to do something for them at a later point) and demonic magic.</text></comment> |
33,457,952 | 33,456,997 | 1 | 2 | 33,450,753 | train | <story><title>Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce</title><url>https://stripe.com/en-au/newsroom/news/ceo-patrick-collisons-email-to-stripe-employees</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jcadam</author><text>I was laid off at the beginning of October and still can’t find anything. It’s definitely a buyer’s market for senior level engineering talent.</text></item><item><author>gzer0</author><text><p><pre><code> * Severance pay. We will pay 14 weeks of severance for all departing employees, and more for those with longer tenure. That is, those departing will be paid until at least February 21st 2023.
* Bonus. We will pay our 2022 annual bonus for all departing employees, regardless of their departure date. (It will be prorated for people hired in 2022.)
* PTO. We’ll pay for all unused PTO time (including in regions where that’s not legally required).
* Healthcare. We’ll pay the cash equivalent of 6 months of existing healthcare premiums or healthcare continuation.
* RSU vesting. We’ll accelerate everyone who has already reached their one-year vesting cliff to the February 2023 vesting date (or longer, depending on departure date). For those who haven’t reached their vesting cliffs, we&#x27;ll waive the cliff.
</code></pre>
While layoffs in general suck, the terms of this one are quite substantially better than many other companies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DeathArrow</author><text>Me too. I was laid off at the beginning of October. I got three good offers, picked the best and signed the contract.<p>I went through about 15 interviews and applied to maybe 50 positions.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce</title><url>https://stripe.com/en-au/newsroom/news/ceo-patrick-collisons-email-to-stripe-employees</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jcadam</author><text>I was laid off at the beginning of October and still can’t find anything. It’s definitely a buyer’s market for senior level engineering talent.</text></item><item><author>gzer0</author><text><p><pre><code> * Severance pay. We will pay 14 weeks of severance for all departing employees, and more for those with longer tenure. That is, those departing will be paid until at least February 21st 2023.
* Bonus. We will pay our 2022 annual bonus for all departing employees, regardless of their departure date. (It will be prorated for people hired in 2022.)
* PTO. We’ll pay for all unused PTO time (including in regions where that’s not legally required).
* Healthcare. We’ll pay the cash equivalent of 6 months of existing healthcare premiums or healthcare continuation.
* RSU vesting. We’ll accelerate everyone who has already reached their one-year vesting cliff to the February 2023 vesting date (or longer, depending on departure date). For those who haven’t reached their vesting cliffs, we&#x27;ll waive the cliff.
</code></pre>
While layoffs in general suck, the terms of this one are quite substantially better than many other companies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Grazester</author><text>Amazon and Google are always calling, even now I gets emails from both. Amazon recruiters just spam me.
Shoot your shot there if interested</text></comment> |
19,867,372 | 19,866,915 | 1 | 3 | 19,864,830 | train | <story><title>For Better Computing, Liberate CPUs from Garbage Collection</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/this-little-device-relieves-a-cpu-from-its-garbage-collection-duties</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geocar</author><text>&gt; But all of these are much cheaper than developer labour and reputation damage caused by leaky&#x2F;crashy software.<p>And that&#x27;s why so much effort has gone into making it fast and low latency, but it was a false dichotomy: We can have memory safety without garbage collection.<p>- Automatic reference counting: Most people know about Objective-C&#x27;s efforts in this space, but it&#x27;s admittedly less automatic than programmers would like so perhaps it doesn&#x27;t get enough attention. And yet it should, since q&#x2F;kdb+ uses reference counting exclusively, and it holds top performance numbers on a large number of data and messaging problems.<p>- Linear lisp[1] asked functions to fully consume their arguments making (cons x y) basically a no-op. Again, no garbage collection, and no fragmentation (at least as long as all objects are cons), and yet no matter how promising this path looked, garbage collection got much more attention.<p>- Rust&#x27;s borrow checker&#x2F;tracker makes ownership explicit; somewhat of a middle-ground between the two...<p>There&#x27;s other scattered efforts in this space, and I don&#x27;t know about all of them but for more on &quot;everything we know about languages is wrong&quot;, also consider that Perl5 uses plain old reference counting, executes the AST directly, and still outperforms python for data and IO[2]!<p>I think the thing to take away is that memory management has to be automatically managed for developer sanity, <i>not</i> that garbage collection is the way to do it.<p>[1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;home.pipeline.com&#x2F;~hbaker1&#x2F;LinearLisp.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;home.pipeline.com&#x2F;~hbaker1&#x2F;LinearLisp.html</a><p>[2]: The asyncio stuff in Python looks really promising though...</text></item><item><author>davedx</author><text>&gt; It wastes time, it wastes space, it wastes energy.<p>But all of these are much cheaper than developer labour and reputation damage caused by leaky&#x2F;crashy software. The economics make sense.<p>Anecdotally, I spent the first ~6 years of my career working with C++, and when I started using languages that did have GC, it made my job simpler and easier. I&#x27;m more productive and less stressed due to garbage collection. It&#x27;s one less (significant) cognitive category for my brain to process.<p>Long live garbage collection!</text></item><item><author>arcticbull</author><text>IMO garbage collection is the epitome of sunk cost fallacy. Thirty years of good research thrown at a bad idea. The reality is we as developers choose not to give languages enough context to accurately infer the lifetime of objects. Instead of doing so we develop borderline self-aware programs to guess when we&#x27;re done with objects. It wastes time, it wastes space, it wastes energy. If we&#x27;d spent that time developing smarter languages and compilers (Rust is a start, but not an end) we&#x27;d be better off as developers and as people. Garbage collection is just plain bad. I for one am glad we&#x27;re finally ready to consider moving on.<p>Think about it, instead of finding a way of expressing when we&#x27;re done with instances, we have a giant for loop that iterates over <i>all of memory</i> over and over and over to guess when we&#x27;re done with things. What a mess! If your co-worker proposed this as a solution you&#x27;d probably slap them. This article proposes hardware accelerating that for loop. It&#x27;s like a horse-drawn carriage accelerated by rockets. It&#x27;s the <i>fastest</i> horse.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomp</author><text>This comment is just bad and misinformed all over.<p>(1) <i>Automatic Reference Counting</i> doesn&#x27;t work; its equivalent in interpreted languages is, well, <i>reference counting</i>, which can be optimized quite a lot (though has some issues with multithreading), but cannot collect cycles.<p>(2) therefore, if you want reference counting, you have to either also have GC (for cycles), or program carefully to avoid creating cycles (which is then only marginally better than C++)<p>(3) your comment on Python vs Perl5 is just nonsense, Python uses reference counting as well (along with the occasional GC to collect cycles)<p>(4) linear &#x2F; uniqueness types (not exactly the same, but both can be used to ensure safe memory management) impose significant mental overhead on programmers as they prohibit many common patterns<p>(5) Rust features a lot of &quot;cheating&quot; - pointers that allow mutation from multiple threads, reference-counted pointers, etc. - so obviously just ownership&amp;borrowing isn&#x27;t good enough<p><i>conclusion:</i> you can&#x27;t have your cake and eat it too (at least according to current cutting edge research and implementations) - you either have GC <i>or</i> you have to be very careful&#x2F;restricted when writing code</text></comment> | <story><title>For Better Computing, Liberate CPUs from Garbage Collection</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/this-little-device-relieves-a-cpu-from-its-garbage-collection-duties</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geocar</author><text>&gt; But all of these are much cheaper than developer labour and reputation damage caused by leaky&#x2F;crashy software.<p>And that&#x27;s why so much effort has gone into making it fast and low latency, but it was a false dichotomy: We can have memory safety without garbage collection.<p>- Automatic reference counting: Most people know about Objective-C&#x27;s efforts in this space, but it&#x27;s admittedly less automatic than programmers would like so perhaps it doesn&#x27;t get enough attention. And yet it should, since q&#x2F;kdb+ uses reference counting exclusively, and it holds top performance numbers on a large number of data and messaging problems.<p>- Linear lisp[1] asked functions to fully consume their arguments making (cons x y) basically a no-op. Again, no garbage collection, and no fragmentation (at least as long as all objects are cons), and yet no matter how promising this path looked, garbage collection got much more attention.<p>- Rust&#x27;s borrow checker&#x2F;tracker makes ownership explicit; somewhat of a middle-ground between the two...<p>There&#x27;s other scattered efforts in this space, and I don&#x27;t know about all of them but for more on &quot;everything we know about languages is wrong&quot;, also consider that Perl5 uses plain old reference counting, executes the AST directly, and still outperforms python for data and IO[2]!<p>I think the thing to take away is that memory management has to be automatically managed for developer sanity, <i>not</i> that garbage collection is the way to do it.<p>[1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;home.pipeline.com&#x2F;~hbaker1&#x2F;LinearLisp.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;home.pipeline.com&#x2F;~hbaker1&#x2F;LinearLisp.html</a><p>[2]: The asyncio stuff in Python looks really promising though...</text></item><item><author>davedx</author><text>&gt; It wastes time, it wastes space, it wastes energy.<p>But all of these are much cheaper than developer labour and reputation damage caused by leaky&#x2F;crashy software. The economics make sense.<p>Anecdotally, I spent the first ~6 years of my career working with C++, and when I started using languages that did have GC, it made my job simpler and easier. I&#x27;m more productive and less stressed due to garbage collection. It&#x27;s one less (significant) cognitive category for my brain to process.<p>Long live garbage collection!</text></item><item><author>arcticbull</author><text>IMO garbage collection is the epitome of sunk cost fallacy. Thirty years of good research thrown at a bad idea. The reality is we as developers choose not to give languages enough context to accurately infer the lifetime of objects. Instead of doing so we develop borderline self-aware programs to guess when we&#x27;re done with objects. It wastes time, it wastes space, it wastes energy. If we&#x27;d spent that time developing smarter languages and compilers (Rust is a start, but not an end) we&#x27;d be better off as developers and as people. Garbage collection is just plain bad. I for one am glad we&#x27;re finally ready to consider moving on.<p>Think about it, instead of finding a way of expressing when we&#x27;re done with instances, we have a giant for loop that iterates over <i>all of memory</i> over and over and over to guess when we&#x27;re done with things. What a mess! If your co-worker proposed this as a solution you&#x27;d probably slap them. This article proposes hardware accelerating that for loop. It&#x27;s like a horse-drawn carriage accelerated by rockets. It&#x27;s the <i>fastest</i> horse.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eru</author><text>Compare the &quot;Unified Theory of Garbage Collection&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.virginia.edu&#x2F;~cs415&#x2F;reading&#x2F;bacon-garbage.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.virginia.edu&#x2F;~cs415&#x2F;reading&#x2F;bacon-garbage.pdf</a>). Reference counting is a variant of garbage collection. But yes, you can take ideas from their to make your garbage collection better.<p>Linear&#x2F;uniqueness typing is interesting. Clean is another language that uses something like it, and you can implement these ideas in Haskell as well.<p>Though in practice you want affine typing, not linear typing. (Basically, you want to be able to drop arguments without explicitly having to consume them.) The important bit about linear typing &#x2F; affine typing is that you use your arguments at most once, not that you have to use them at least once.<p>That&#x27;s how you can model mutation in a pure FP way, too. Not just GC.</text></comment> |
6,887,329 | 6,886,023 | 1 | 3 | 6,885,448 | train | <story><title>NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/12/10/nsa-uses-google-cookies-to-pinpoint-targets-for-hacking/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Smerity</author><text>There are two primary issues here: the prevalence of Google Analytics and the unencrypted nature of the majority of websites.<p>Google Analytics is on a substantial proportion of the Internet. 65% of the top 10k sites, 63.9% of the top 100k, and 50.5% of the top million[1]. My own partial results from a research project I&#x27;m doing using Common Crawl estimates approximately 39.7% of the 535 million pages processed so far have GA on them[2].<p>That means that you&#x27;re basically either on a site that has Google Analytics or you&#x27;ve likely just left one that did.<p>If the page you&#x27;re on has Google Analytics and isn&#x27;t encrypted, the Javascript request and response is in the clear. That JS request to GA also has your referrer in it, in the clear.<p>The aim of my research project is to end with understanding what proportion of links either start or end in a page with Google Analytics. If it starts with Google Analytics, your present &quot;location&quot; is known. If the link ends with Google Analytics, but doesn&#x27;t start with it, then when you reach that end page, the referrer sent to GA in the clear will state where you came from.
All of this is then tied to your identity.<p>If people are interested when I get the results of my research, ping me. I&#x27;ll also write it up and submit it to HN as it would seem to be of interest.<p>[1]: <a href="http://trends.builtwith.com/analytics/Google-Analytics" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;trends.builtwith.com&#x2F;analytics&#x2F;Google-Analytics</a><p>[2]: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkoIUmP5ma8" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=pkoIUmP5ma8</a> (GA specific results at 1:20)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mike-cardwell</author><text>Why do we still have referrers? They don&#x27;t allow us to do anything that we wouldn&#x27;t be able to do without them. If Mozilla and Google made a statement today saying, &quot;We&#x27;ll be removing referrers from cross site requests in 6 months time for Chrome and Firefox.&quot;, the tiny tiny proportion of sites that are using them for real functionality will have plenty of time to update.<p>Of course, as a web developer, it&#x27;s useful to be able to see where people came from. But we don&#x27;t have any right to that information. As an end-user, why the hell is my browser giving you this information for no reason when it doesn&#x27;t have to?<p>I&#x27;ve been using RefControl for Firefox for years now. It fakes the referrer, setting it to the root of the domain being requested. This hasn&#x27;t ever caused me any problems, so there can&#x27;t be that many sites that rely on it.<p>I don&#x27;t give a shit about your analytics or how much money you think you&#x27;ll lose from referrers disappearing. Privacy is more important.</text></comment> | <story><title>NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/12/10/nsa-uses-google-cookies-to-pinpoint-targets-for-hacking/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Smerity</author><text>There are two primary issues here: the prevalence of Google Analytics and the unencrypted nature of the majority of websites.<p>Google Analytics is on a substantial proportion of the Internet. 65% of the top 10k sites, 63.9% of the top 100k, and 50.5% of the top million[1]. My own partial results from a research project I&#x27;m doing using Common Crawl estimates approximately 39.7% of the 535 million pages processed so far have GA on them[2].<p>That means that you&#x27;re basically either on a site that has Google Analytics or you&#x27;ve likely just left one that did.<p>If the page you&#x27;re on has Google Analytics and isn&#x27;t encrypted, the Javascript request and response is in the clear. That JS request to GA also has your referrer in it, in the clear.<p>The aim of my research project is to end with understanding what proportion of links either start or end in a page with Google Analytics. If it starts with Google Analytics, your present &quot;location&quot; is known. If the link ends with Google Analytics, but doesn&#x27;t start with it, then when you reach that end page, the referrer sent to GA in the clear will state where you came from.
All of this is then tied to your identity.<p>If people are interested when I get the results of my research, ping me. I&#x27;ll also write it up and submit it to HN as it would seem to be of interest.<p>[1]: <a href="http://trends.builtwith.com/analytics/Google-Analytics" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;trends.builtwith.com&#x2F;analytics&#x2F;Google-Analytics</a><p>[2]: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkoIUmP5ma8" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=pkoIUmP5ma8</a> (GA specific results at 1:20)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DannyBee</author><text>&quot;My own partial results from a research project I&#x27;m doing using Common Crawl estimates approximately 39.7% of the 535 million pages processed so far have GA on them&quot;<p>This is interesting. I would have actually expected more. The last time I remember someone analyzing this, I believe the result was &quot;&lt;script ... ga.js&gt;&quot; was the most popular tag on the web by far.
This was, however, a few years ago.</text></comment> |
5,836,012 | 5,835,813 | 1 | 3 | 5,835,637 | train | <story><title>Underwater Archaeologist Finds 1,600-Year-Old City that Vanished 1,200 Years Ago</title><url>http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/underwater_archaeologist_franck_goddio_finds_1600-year-old_city_that_vanished_1200_years_ago_25008.asp</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>grannyg00se</author><text>I'm interested to hear more about how this guy quit his finance job and founded an institution so that he could do what he loved doing most full time. Power move!</text></comment> | <story><title>Underwater Archaeologist Finds 1,600-Year-Old City that Vanished 1,200 Years Ago</title><url>http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/underwater_archaeologist_franck_goddio_finds_1600-year-old_city_that_vanished_1200_years_ago_25008.asp</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Gravityloss</author><text>The headline is misleading, he found it already in 2000.</text></comment> |
16,594,645 | 16,593,126 | 1 | 2 | 16,592,995 | train | <story><title>Waymo shows off what it’s like to ride in a truly driverless self-driving car</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/13/waymo-shows-off-what-its-like-to-ride-in-a-truly-driverless-self-driving-car/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>drawkbox</author><text>Waymo cars are all over Chandler and Tempe in Arizona. I see many on a regular basis with a good portion self-driving.<p>It is neat to see all the roads you normally drive in the self-driving videos and it is almost taken for granted that they are here [1][2]. Chandler has always been in early on technology due to many reasons but that lots of programmers&#x2F;engineers work here due to intel historically, projects like Iridium started here, also one of the first places to get cable&#x2F;broadband internet in the 90s.<p>With that said, Chandler is very easy to drive, square roads, good weather, clean roads, clearly marked and kept up, minimal freeway needed etc. It is a great place to start but still lots for the cars&#x2F;algos to learn, however it IS happening and I see it everyday.<p>Many of the videos are around Chandler downtown that is a bit busy and has lots of movement&#x2F;pedestrians[3], so that is good that it is able to navigate that, it is close to busy urban environments.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=aaOB-ErYq6Y" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=aaOB-ErYq6Y</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=B8R148hFxPw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=B8R148hFxPw</a> (360 degree experience)<p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;B8R148hFxPw?t=1m50s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;B8R148hFxPw?t=1m50s</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Waymo shows off what it’s like to ride in a truly driverless self-driving car</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/13/waymo-shows-off-what-its-like-to-ride-in-a-truly-driverless-self-driving-car/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>montrose</author><text>Even though we&#x27;ve all been thinking about self-driving cars for a long time, seeing videos of that steering wheel turning in the empty front seat is surprising. I upvoted this article just for those few seconds of video.<p>There&#x27;s a whole class of things that are surprising when you see them for the first time, even if you think you&#x27;re used to them. I wonder what properties this class of ideas have. Are they more exciting ideas? Do startups working on such things make more money? Or is the surprise merely an artifact of the degree and&#x2F;or type of brokenness in our own mental models?</text></comment> |
39,772,994 | 39,772,797 | 1 | 2 | 39,771,983 | train | <story><title>JITX – The Fastest Way to Design Circuit Boards</title><url>https://www.jitx.com</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cushychicken</author><text>I have to give JITX credit - every time I see their latest product offering, it gets closer to something I’d actually use. (Working EE who primarily does board and system design.)<p>These layout automations they show in the landing page are the first thing they’ve showcased that I’m intrigued enough to want to try for myself.<p>The thing I wonder about with all of these EDA companies is whether any of them understand that they’re not attacking the biggest problem of circuit design.<p>Capturing the SCH&#x2F;PCB is a relatively small part of the process of getting a working design ready to sell. Less than ten percent of the time, I’d guess. The bulk goes in to design documentation, testing, certification, compliance, and DFM&#x2F;DFA.<p>A part of me sort of hates to see these companies do their thing, because it’s making the fun part of the job shorter and faster.</text></comment> | <story><title>JITX – The Fastest Way to Design Circuit Boards</title><url>https://www.jitx.com</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>midnightclubbed</author><text>This looks interesting, as a hobbyist with a EEE background and a programming career I like the idea of designing circuits using code.<p>But maybe I&#x27;m not the target audience here... pricing seems high for anyone who is not using this commercially (and at scale). $1000 per month (or $60 a day, which I don&#x27;t really understand the utility of).</text></comment> |
32,224,477 | 32,224,605 | 1 | 3 | 32,221,078 | train | <story><title>An STM32 emulator written in Rust for 3D printers</title><url>https://github.com/nviennot/stm32-emulator</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>keewee7</author><text>I thought MCUs popular in both industry, college, and among hobbyists would be more readily available by now.<p>What is actually possible to get your hands on now? What about 32-bit ARM Arduinos and ESP32s?</text></item><item><author>_fizz_buzz_</author><text>I suppose emulating STM32s is all we can do at the moment. Impossible to buy one until sometime in 2023. On a more serious note: Great project!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mmoskal</author><text>Popular in production = hard to get mostly. Eg you can get STM32G030 and similar at quite normal prices at LCSC (and thus JLCPCB assembly service, highly recommended over hand soldering BTW). OTOH stm32f030 (older and 2x worse in most respects) are way overpriced.<p>In addition to various esp32s (which have very decent sdk) you can easily get rp2040. You can also get a number of Chinese chips other than esp32 but good luck programming these.</text></comment> | <story><title>An STM32 emulator written in Rust for 3D printers</title><url>https://github.com/nviennot/stm32-emulator</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>keewee7</author><text>I thought MCUs popular in both industry, college, and among hobbyists would be more readily available by now.<p>What is actually possible to get your hands on now? What about 32-bit ARM Arduinos and ESP32s?</text></item><item><author>_fizz_buzz_</author><text>I suppose emulating STM32s is all we can do at the moment. Impossible to buy one until sometime in 2023. On a more serious note: Great project!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>an-unknown</author><text>&gt; What is actually possible to get your hands on now?<p>You can get your hands on many different chips right now, including many different STM32 microcontrollers. The more important question is &quot;at what price&quot; though, because some of these chips are more than 10x more expensive than years ago.</text></comment> |
22,072,785 | 22,071,019 | 1 | 3 | 22,066,297 | train | <story><title>The technology pushed into schools today is a threat to child development</title><url>https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/08/rotten-stem-how-technology-corrupts-education/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pier25</author><text>It totally is.<p>I worked in EdTech for the past 4 years and was in contact with the education world.<p>Digital devices are harmful to younger kids. The brain develops much better when using fine motor skills such as writing with pen and paper. France banned all digital devices in primary schools for a reason and all countries should do it.<p>The most important factor in getting quality education are not digital devices or educational material but the quality of the teacher. The OECD did a study about the use of computers by students at the school and at home[0]. See the results for yourself. Countries like China, Singapoore, Finland, and Estonia barely use computers but have some of the best PISA academic results.<p>[0]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oecd.org&#x2F;education&#x2F;students-computers-and-learning-9789264239555-en.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oecd.org&#x2F;education&#x2F;students-computers-and-learnin...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>geomark</author><text><i>Digital devices are harmful to younger kids.</i><p>Indeed. Results of a study published in November 2019 [1] actually show a structural difference between preschool age children who experience a lot of screen time and those who don&#x27;t. Myelination is reduced in the former. Myelination of brain white matter supports language and literacy skills.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jamanetwork.com&#x2F;journals&#x2F;jamapediatrics&#x2F;article-abstract&#x2F;2754101" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jamanetwork.com&#x2F;journals&#x2F;jamapediatrics&#x2F;article-abst...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The technology pushed into schools today is a threat to child development</title><url>https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/08/rotten-stem-how-technology-corrupts-education/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pier25</author><text>It totally is.<p>I worked in EdTech for the past 4 years and was in contact with the education world.<p>Digital devices are harmful to younger kids. The brain develops much better when using fine motor skills such as writing with pen and paper. France banned all digital devices in primary schools for a reason and all countries should do it.<p>The most important factor in getting quality education are not digital devices or educational material but the quality of the teacher. The OECD did a study about the use of computers by students at the school and at home[0]. See the results for yourself. Countries like China, Singapoore, Finland, and Estonia barely use computers but have some of the best PISA academic results.<p>[0]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oecd.org&#x2F;education&#x2F;students-computers-and-learning-9789264239555-en.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oecd.org&#x2F;education&#x2F;students-computers-and-learnin...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seanmcdirmid</author><text>At least for China, they&#x27;ve never done a country-wide sample, they&#x27;ve only done their richest city (Shanghai) and richest provinces. For the article cited, it is 2012 when they did just Shanghai (likewise Singapore is a city state and Estonia&#x2F;Finland have less population than either).</text></comment> |
33,616,160 | 33,614,662 | 1 | 2 | 33,611,725 | train | <story><title>Researchers generate hydrogen more efficiently from water</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2022-10-revolutionary-technique-hydrogen-efficiently.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marshray</author><text>There really is very, very little carbon in the atmosphere, famously ~410 ppm. (Yes, that little bit is enough to absorb significantly more heat from the sun).<p>So, whatever capture system you use, you&#x27;d need to move <i>a lot</i> of air through in order to produce a small amount of something like liquid hydrocarbon fuel.<p>It will require thousands of times more air, by mass. Since the output fuel product is hundreds of times more dense, it would require a crazy large volume of air to extract the carbon necessary to fill a fuel tank.<p>A corn field combined with a methanol fermentation and distillation facility is an example of a machine that does that. Very large.</text></item><item><author>photochemsyn</author><text>If you can figure out how to get the carbon feedstock from the atmosphere at scale, why would anyone bother with refining a mixed muck coming out of the ground? What we call &#x27;petrochemistry&#x27; today will be called &#x27;aero-hydro-chemistry&#x27; tomorrow.</text></item><item><author>PaulHoule</author><text>Hydrogen has numerous uses. Petroleum refineries produce and consume hydrogen in numerous places, if they find they are steam reforming they could use green hydrogen instead, together with storing waste Carbon dioxide to green operations.<p>Even if we quit refining oil from the ground we will still be doing chemistry like petrochemisty with other feedstocks.</text></item><item><author>photochemsyn</author><text>Technically this is about evolving oxygen gas from water more than it is about the hydrogen end of the electrocatalytic reaction. Since this is a cathode (2H+ + 2e- -&gt; H2 gas) vs. anode process (2H2O -&gt; 4H+ + 4e- + O2) linked up by a wire to close the circuit, you have two chemical processes to manage. The oxygen-evolving one tends to be slower, i.e. rate limiting. For an overview:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sci-hub.se&#x2F;10.1039&#x2F;c9cs00607a" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sci-hub.se&#x2F;10.1039&#x2F;c9cs00607a</a><p>Song, et al. (2020). &quot;A review on fundamentals for designing oxygen evolution electrocatalysts.&quot; Chemical Society Reviews.<p>&gt;&quot;Therefore, the OER is the key process that governs the overall efficiency of electrochemical water splitting. To date, IrO2 and RuO2 have been state-of-the-art OER catalysts. However, both of them are made of precious metals and the cost is high. Therefore, it is imperative to seek low-cost alternative materials that can effectively reduce the kinetic limitation of OER and improve the efficiency of water splitting.&quot;<p>So, they discovered that the catalyst used at the OER end has some light-activation property, which is pretty interesting, i.e. they discovered a kind of photovoltaic electrocatalyst. Whether it will prove to be industrially useful is anyone&#x27;s guess. There are similar systems but they&#x27;re not very practical (i.e. they require high-energy UV):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;physicsworld.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;light-activated-catalysts-make-nearly-perfect-water-splitters&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;physicsworld.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;light-activated-catalysts-make-ne...</a><p>As far as hydrogen-from-water tech, again it has three plausible large-scale cleantech industrial uses: ammonia from atmospheric N2, reduction of iron ore to sponge iron, and methane (and plausibly jet fuel) production from atmospheric CO2.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nine_k</author><text>But there are CO₂-rich exhausts in chemical plants and power plants, with concentrations well above 50%. This is where the capture could work efficiently. These likely produce a sizable portion of the carbon dioxide surplus.<p>Capturing carbon from a jet engine will remain problematic, or slow. Maybe we should just grow more trees, extract solid carbon from them (by burning or otherwise), and bury it in old coal mines.</text></comment> | <story><title>Researchers generate hydrogen more efficiently from water</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2022-10-revolutionary-technique-hydrogen-efficiently.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marshray</author><text>There really is very, very little carbon in the atmosphere, famously ~410 ppm. (Yes, that little bit is enough to absorb significantly more heat from the sun).<p>So, whatever capture system you use, you&#x27;d need to move <i>a lot</i> of air through in order to produce a small amount of something like liquid hydrocarbon fuel.<p>It will require thousands of times more air, by mass. Since the output fuel product is hundreds of times more dense, it would require a crazy large volume of air to extract the carbon necessary to fill a fuel tank.<p>A corn field combined with a methanol fermentation and distillation facility is an example of a machine that does that. Very large.</text></item><item><author>photochemsyn</author><text>If you can figure out how to get the carbon feedstock from the atmosphere at scale, why would anyone bother with refining a mixed muck coming out of the ground? What we call &#x27;petrochemistry&#x27; today will be called &#x27;aero-hydro-chemistry&#x27; tomorrow.</text></item><item><author>PaulHoule</author><text>Hydrogen has numerous uses. Petroleum refineries produce and consume hydrogen in numerous places, if they find they are steam reforming they could use green hydrogen instead, together with storing waste Carbon dioxide to green operations.<p>Even if we quit refining oil from the ground we will still be doing chemistry like petrochemisty with other feedstocks.</text></item><item><author>photochemsyn</author><text>Technically this is about evolving oxygen gas from water more than it is about the hydrogen end of the electrocatalytic reaction. Since this is a cathode (2H+ + 2e- -&gt; H2 gas) vs. anode process (2H2O -&gt; 4H+ + 4e- + O2) linked up by a wire to close the circuit, you have two chemical processes to manage. The oxygen-evolving one tends to be slower, i.e. rate limiting. For an overview:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sci-hub.se&#x2F;10.1039&#x2F;c9cs00607a" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sci-hub.se&#x2F;10.1039&#x2F;c9cs00607a</a><p>Song, et al. (2020). &quot;A review on fundamentals for designing oxygen evolution electrocatalysts.&quot; Chemical Society Reviews.<p>&gt;&quot;Therefore, the OER is the key process that governs the overall efficiency of electrochemical water splitting. To date, IrO2 and RuO2 have been state-of-the-art OER catalysts. However, both of them are made of precious metals and the cost is high. Therefore, it is imperative to seek low-cost alternative materials that can effectively reduce the kinetic limitation of OER and improve the efficiency of water splitting.&quot;<p>So, they discovered that the catalyst used at the OER end has some light-activation property, which is pretty interesting, i.e. they discovered a kind of photovoltaic electrocatalyst. Whether it will prove to be industrially useful is anyone&#x27;s guess. There are similar systems but they&#x27;re not very practical (i.e. they require high-energy UV):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;physicsworld.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;light-activated-catalysts-make-nearly-perfect-water-splitters&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;physicsworld.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;light-activated-catalysts-make-ne...</a><p>As far as hydrogen-from-water tech, again it has three plausible large-scale cleantech industrial uses: ammonia from atmospheric N2, reduction of iron ore to sponge iron, and methane (and plausibly jet fuel) production from atmospheric CO2.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>photochemsyn</author><text>Plants pull 100 gigatons of carbon out of the atmosphere every year and convert it to biomass (essentially, oxy-ammonia-hydrocarbons like sugars, proteins, fats, etc.). Humans pull about 6 gigatons of carbon out of the ground each year and pump it into the atmosphere.<p>The reason this cycle doesn&#x27;t exhaust the atmospheric pool, of course, is that animals and fungi (more the latter) break down biomass into CO2 and release it back into the atmosphere.<p>That&#x27;s not what I&#x27;d call &#x27;very very little carbon&#x27;.</text></comment> |
8,905,920 | 8,905,707 | 1 | 2 | 8,905,321 | train | <story><title>New Snowden Docs Indicate Scope of NSA Preparations for Cyber Battle</title><url>http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/new-snowden-docs-indicate-scope-of-nsa-preparations-for-cyber-battle-a-1013409.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>krapp</author><text>You&#x27;re probably right.<p>No need to consider the arguments made by people who don&#x27;t agree entirely with a particular point of view, or even discuss it at all. They&#x27;re obviously just shills.<p>Edit: Much of the &#x27;pro NSA&#x27; comments I see here seem merely to suggest that not everything the NSA does is evil, and not every disclosure is necessarily useful. As often happens in threads like these, any such comments are dismissed as the work of astroturfing or shills.<p>To imply that disagreement with any narrative presented by the Guardian and Spiegel Online must make one an agent with ulterior motives, is precisely the kind of propagandist trolling any forum which cares about <i>truth</i> should avoid.<p>Yes, the NSA has a covert program to attempt to influence online messageboard and social media accounts. No, this program does not account for every even remotely &#x27;pro-NSA&#x27; opinion one might find online. And even if it did, judge them on their own merits and move on, because you really can&#x27;t tell. It&#x27;s all just text in a box.<p>Seeing spooks everywhere doesn&#x27;t make you free, it just makes you paranoid.</text></item><item><author>pa7ch</author><text>Looking at the comments in support of the NSA here makes me suspect an astroturfing campaign is happening.<p>Edit: I should add that my suspicion came from noticing that the vast majority of the comments when this was first posted seemed aligned in favor of the NSA&#x27;s mission.<p>It wasn&#x27;t the presence of pro-NSA comments that was interesting but rather that these opinions were the overwhelming majority. This is, of course, how astroturfing becomes effective, it is not the rhetoric that is important but the cognitive bias imparted by the facade of so many people falling to one side of an issue.<p>This is of course, only a suspicion, but it seemed worth noting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elwin</author><text>Try looking at the comments from a different angle. Instead of grouping them into &quot;pro-NSA&quot; and &quot;anti-NSA&quot; categories, try checking for technical ignorance. Look for ideas about cyberwarfare based on bad analogies with real warfare. Look for a mindset that puts winning an arms race first and never considers ethical implications. Look for vague statements about protecting or harming America that don&#x27;t explain whether they mean the American military, the civilian government, or ordinary citizens. Look for equation of the NSA&#x27;s offensive and defensive capabilities.<p>The other side of the debate has its own poorly reasoned comments. I haven&#x27;t noticed many on this article yet, but they should arrive soon.<p>I doubt such comments are written by people with NSA connections, but their sudden appearance is odd. The only other subject that produces so many strongly opinionated, poor-quality comments is systemd.</text></comment> | <story><title>New Snowden Docs Indicate Scope of NSA Preparations for Cyber Battle</title><url>http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/new-snowden-docs-indicate-scope-of-nsa-preparations-for-cyber-battle-a-1013409.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>krapp</author><text>You&#x27;re probably right.<p>No need to consider the arguments made by people who don&#x27;t agree entirely with a particular point of view, or even discuss it at all. They&#x27;re obviously just shills.<p>Edit: Much of the &#x27;pro NSA&#x27; comments I see here seem merely to suggest that not everything the NSA does is evil, and not every disclosure is necessarily useful. As often happens in threads like these, any such comments are dismissed as the work of astroturfing or shills.<p>To imply that disagreement with any narrative presented by the Guardian and Spiegel Online must make one an agent with ulterior motives, is precisely the kind of propagandist trolling any forum which cares about <i>truth</i> should avoid.<p>Yes, the NSA has a covert program to attempt to influence online messageboard and social media accounts. No, this program does not account for every even remotely &#x27;pro-NSA&#x27; opinion one might find online. And even if it did, judge them on their own merits and move on, because you really can&#x27;t tell. It&#x27;s all just text in a box.<p>Seeing spooks everywhere doesn&#x27;t make you free, it just makes you paranoid.</text></item><item><author>pa7ch</author><text>Looking at the comments in support of the NSA here makes me suspect an astroturfing campaign is happening.<p>Edit: I should add that my suspicion came from noticing that the vast majority of the comments when this was first posted seemed aligned in favor of the NSA&#x27;s mission.<p>It wasn&#x27;t the presence of pro-NSA comments that was interesting but rather that these opinions were the overwhelming majority. This is, of course, how astroturfing becomes effective, it is not the rhetoric that is important but the cognitive bias imparted by the facade of so many people falling to one side of an issue.<p>This is of course, only a suspicion, but it seemed worth noting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pa7ch</author><text>In the interest of facilitating a open and fair discussion on the larger issue of state surveillance, I highly recommend checking out the 2014 Munk debates: <a href="http://www.munkdebates.com/debates/state-surveillance" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.munkdebates.com&#x2F;debates&#x2F;state-surveillance</a><p>General Hayden and Glenn Greenwald are given fair time to discuss the issue and to give rebuttals to each other.<p>Its much more informative then trying to parse HN comments to form an opinion about state surveillance. It also forces you to consider the views of people who don&#x27;t agree with you.</text></comment> |
15,585,526 | 15,527,053 | 1 | 2 | 15,524,669 | train | <story><title>Interview with Susan Fowler</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/21/style/susan-fowler-uber.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>linkregister</author><text>I think that Susan Fowler is the single most influential individual in Uber&#x27;s history, even more so than Travis Kalanick.<p>1. #deleteuber was a flash in the pan. It fizzled because it was based on a falsehood, that Uber had broken an airport strike by cancelling surge. Uber cancels surge for all notable events. Lyft somehow avoided judgement, despite also failing to honor the strike. The impetus behind the campaign was a combination of that strike action and Kalanick&#x27;s presence on President Trump&#x27;s ill-fated executive council.<p>2. Greyball is a multi-million dollar suit, it will likely be settled for less. Because Uber was only foolish enough to abuse it in a couple of cities (according to news stories and law suits, who knows what legal discovery will unearth!), the scope is limited. Furthermore, the cities that ban Uber also ban Lyft.<p>3. Lyft&#x27;s meteoric growth in 2017 can be primarily linked to the sexual harassment stories about Uber. They even based their entire advertising campaign on it, &quot;how you get there matters,&quot; emphasizing the moral superiority of using Lyft over Uber. The ad campaign is incredibly poignant and effective. Lyft has deftly turned the fiasco to its advantage.<p>Susan was able to accomplish what no person had successfully done by publishing an account on her blog of what happened. Because she had not sued the company for damages, she was not held to silence from a legal settlement. Any opponent claiming she was an opportunist had no evidence, because she didn&#x27;t file suit nor was seeking damages.<p>Because of her, an entire chain of events was set off. The intense public pressure, that slammed customer growth, hampered recruitment, and impacted Uber investors&#x27; social lives (yes, that was a major factor!) was primarily from Fowler&#x27;s revelation of the company&#x27;s indifference to sexual harassment.</text></item><item><author>abalone</author><text><i>&gt; The Waymo lawsuit only happened when it did and only effective as it was because of the chaos Susan Fowler initiated.</i><p>This seems a bit much. Why on earth would Google wait to sue? Their case was not at all dependent on internal turmoil at Uber.<p>Fowler deserves a lot of credit but there was significant chaos pre-blog-post (#deleteuber) and after (Greyball). Uber was having a new crisis every other week it seemed, all stemming from a cavalier, bro-y culture. That all added up, Fowler&#x27;s post included, to a leadership change.</text></item><item><author>fpoijasw</author><text>Hey engineer at Uber here. I&#x27;m a male engineer started working at Uber two years ago. I&#x27;m seeing a lot of comments here that is discrediting Susan Fowler&#x27;s accomplishments in taking TK down, and I would like to correct the notion that the culture&#x2F;TK himself&#x2F;Waymo is what brought TK down.<p>To preface I&#x27;ve work both at Google as an engineer, and frankly speaking the engineering culture at Uber didn&#x27;t differ all that much. Both org had the same amount of soft misogyny, politics, and HR that protected its highest performers. In fact a lot of characters mentioned in Susan&#x27;s blog post works at Google today. So what led up to the downfall of TK? Susan Fowler&#x27;s blog post. What she described is what a lot of people go through in every company, but she was brave enough to post her experience using her real name. I&#x27;m willing to bet if she never posted her blog post none of this would&#x27;ve happened, and it would&#x27;ve been business as usual at Uber.<p>Susan Fowler exposed the weakness in our culture and it catapulted an internal French Revolution where every head had a possibility of getting axed. This put our executives in a disarray and naturally external enemies decided to strike at us when we were weakest. The Waymo lawsuit only happened when it did and only effective as it was because of the chaos Susan Fowler initiated.<p>So please stop discrediting Susan Fowler, what she did was really the catalyst, the trigger, for Uber to set course on a better path. It&#x27;s just too bad she wasn&#x27;t able to stay and see the real impact of her words. Ubers a great place to work now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CaptainZapp</author><text><p><pre><code> 2. Greyball is a multi-million dollar suit, it will likely be settled for less. Because Uber was only foolish enough to abuse it in a couple of cities
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For starters: It cost them their license in London. Transport for London didn&#x27;t look kindly at those shenaginas and apparently didn&#x27;t believe Uber that they didn&#x27;t employ those dirty tricks in London.<p>What&#x27;s the source for Uber only abusing it in a couple cities? Uber?<p>The problem with that is that Uber is one of the utterly least trustworthy companies in existence. I, for one, assume that the lie by default, whenever they make a statement.</text></comment> | <story><title>Interview with Susan Fowler</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/21/style/susan-fowler-uber.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>linkregister</author><text>I think that Susan Fowler is the single most influential individual in Uber&#x27;s history, even more so than Travis Kalanick.<p>1. #deleteuber was a flash in the pan. It fizzled because it was based on a falsehood, that Uber had broken an airport strike by cancelling surge. Uber cancels surge for all notable events. Lyft somehow avoided judgement, despite also failing to honor the strike. The impetus behind the campaign was a combination of that strike action and Kalanick&#x27;s presence on President Trump&#x27;s ill-fated executive council.<p>2. Greyball is a multi-million dollar suit, it will likely be settled for less. Because Uber was only foolish enough to abuse it in a couple of cities (according to news stories and law suits, who knows what legal discovery will unearth!), the scope is limited. Furthermore, the cities that ban Uber also ban Lyft.<p>3. Lyft&#x27;s meteoric growth in 2017 can be primarily linked to the sexual harassment stories about Uber. They even based their entire advertising campaign on it, &quot;how you get there matters,&quot; emphasizing the moral superiority of using Lyft over Uber. The ad campaign is incredibly poignant and effective. Lyft has deftly turned the fiasco to its advantage.<p>Susan was able to accomplish what no person had successfully done by publishing an account on her blog of what happened. Because she had not sued the company for damages, she was not held to silence from a legal settlement. Any opponent claiming she was an opportunist had no evidence, because she didn&#x27;t file suit nor was seeking damages.<p>Because of her, an entire chain of events was set off. The intense public pressure, that slammed customer growth, hampered recruitment, and impacted Uber investors&#x27; social lives (yes, that was a major factor!) was primarily from Fowler&#x27;s revelation of the company&#x27;s indifference to sexual harassment.</text></item><item><author>abalone</author><text><i>&gt; The Waymo lawsuit only happened when it did and only effective as it was because of the chaos Susan Fowler initiated.</i><p>This seems a bit much. Why on earth would Google wait to sue? Their case was not at all dependent on internal turmoil at Uber.<p>Fowler deserves a lot of credit but there was significant chaos pre-blog-post (#deleteuber) and after (Greyball). Uber was having a new crisis every other week it seemed, all stemming from a cavalier, bro-y culture. That all added up, Fowler&#x27;s post included, to a leadership change.</text></item><item><author>fpoijasw</author><text>Hey engineer at Uber here. I&#x27;m a male engineer started working at Uber two years ago. I&#x27;m seeing a lot of comments here that is discrediting Susan Fowler&#x27;s accomplishments in taking TK down, and I would like to correct the notion that the culture&#x2F;TK himself&#x2F;Waymo is what brought TK down.<p>To preface I&#x27;ve work both at Google as an engineer, and frankly speaking the engineering culture at Uber didn&#x27;t differ all that much. Both org had the same amount of soft misogyny, politics, and HR that protected its highest performers. In fact a lot of characters mentioned in Susan&#x27;s blog post works at Google today. So what led up to the downfall of TK? Susan Fowler&#x27;s blog post. What she described is what a lot of people go through in every company, but she was brave enough to post her experience using her real name. I&#x27;m willing to bet if she never posted her blog post none of this would&#x27;ve happened, and it would&#x27;ve been business as usual at Uber.<p>Susan Fowler exposed the weakness in our culture and it catapulted an internal French Revolution where every head had a possibility of getting axed. This put our executives in a disarray and naturally external enemies decided to strike at us when we were weakest. The Waymo lawsuit only happened when it did and only effective as it was because of the chaos Susan Fowler initiated.<p>So please stop discrediting Susan Fowler, what she did was really the catalyst, the trigger, for Uber to set course on a better path. It&#x27;s just too bad she wasn&#x27;t able to stay and see the real impact of her words. Ubers a great place to work now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>albedoa</author><text>&gt; #deleteuber was a flash in the pan. It fizzled because it was based on a falsehood, that Uber had broken an airport strike by cancelling surge. Uber cancels surge for all notable events.<p>Not to get too caught up on this, but #deleteuber was in response to them being perceived as breaking the strike by operating at the airport <i>at all</i>. So the fact that they cancel surge for all events wasn&#x27;t accepted as an excuse. Canceling surge just provided more fodder.</text></comment> |
32,484,278 | 32,482,369 | 1 | 3 | 32,482,007 | train | <story><title>Apple becomes first tech giant to explicitly ban caste discrimination</title><url>https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/apple-becomes-first-tech-giant-to-explicitly-ban-caste-discrimination-trains-managers-on-indian-caste-system-1988183-2022-08-15</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mcv</author><text>My dad once told me of how at his work (in the 1980s or early 1990s, I think), they had a team of two Indians assigned to a project. One turned out to be of a much &quot;higher&quot; caste than the other, and refused to work with the other, making him utterly useless to the project.<p>It&#x27;s good that Apple, IBM and other tech companies are taking steps to prevent this sort of discrimination. It&#x27;s a shame that Google seems be going in the opposite direction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spaceman_2020</author><text>The real shame is that living in Delhi, I’ve seen caste come back very strongly in everyday discourse.<p>I’ve been here almost 20 years. This city used to be largely caste agnostic.<p>Now when I meet new people, especially outside the elite tech circles, they will casually mention their upper caste status (“As Brahmins, we don’t do xyz of course!”).<p>Even cars carrying caste stickers are more common.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple becomes first tech giant to explicitly ban caste discrimination</title><url>https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/apple-becomes-first-tech-giant-to-explicitly-ban-caste-discrimination-trains-managers-on-indian-caste-system-1988183-2022-08-15</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mcv</author><text>My dad once told me of how at his work (in the 1980s or early 1990s, I think), they had a team of two Indians assigned to a project. One turned out to be of a much &quot;higher&quot; caste than the other, and refused to work with the other, making him utterly useless to the project.<p>It&#x27;s good that Apple, IBM and other tech companies are taking steps to prevent this sort of discrimination. It&#x27;s a shame that Google seems be going in the opposite direction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smcl</author><text>It says in the article that Google (and Microsoft, Dell, Amazon + FB&#x2F;Meta) aren&#x27;t (yet?) implementing this, but I didn&#x27;t see anything about them doing the <i>opposite</i>. Additionally I don&#x27;t imagine they&#x27;d gain much from doing so, as a business. Is there any more info on this?</text></comment> |
21,509,367 | 21,506,647 | 1 | 2 | 21,504,862 | train | <story><title>How Not to Die (2007)</title><url>http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>diego</author><text>I don&#x27;t think &quot;If you can just avoid dying, you get rich&quot; has proven true. I&#x27;ve invested in startups (including YC ones) that followed this to a tee. They never found product-market fit, they could have been going forever, investors forgot about them. Some are still going, some managed to get acquired, some closed shop.<p>It&#x27;s really a false dichotomy, only a small fraction of the companies that avoid dying manage to explode. You just don&#x27;t hear about the rest.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pbecotte</author><text>If you have taken enough VC that the only way to get any value at all is through a huge exit, this statement is true. If you run a normal business, it is not true :)</text></comment> | <story><title>How Not to Die (2007)</title><url>http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>diego</author><text>I don&#x27;t think &quot;If you can just avoid dying, you get rich&quot; has proven true. I&#x27;ve invested in startups (including YC ones) that followed this to a tee. They never found product-market fit, they could have been going forever, investors forgot about them. Some are still going, some managed to get acquired, some closed shop.<p>It&#x27;s really a false dichotomy, only a small fraction of the companies that avoid dying manage to explode. You just don&#x27;t hear about the rest.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rossdavidh</author><text>Definitely a selection bias going on, but also he did say that you might have to change what you&#x27;re doing.</text></comment> |
28,034,884 | 28,034,414 | 1 | 2 | 28,033,987 | train | <story><title>Israel tries to limit fallout from the Pegasus spyware scandal</title><url>http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20210729-israel-tries-to-limit-fallout-from-the-pegasus-spyware-scandal</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nindalf</author><text>I’m not surprised that all statements from the Israeli government are filled with nothing. “We need to understand what happened” means “sorry not sorry”.<p>This spyware is invaluable for the Israeli government because they have something that repressive Arab regimes want. These regimes can’t be bought with money, because some of them like Saudi Arabia and UAE have plenty of money. Israel needs friends and this is a great way to start and maintain friendships - provide a way for these tinpot dictators to cement their power. Sure, some people might be annoyed they were spied on but the news cycle will move on soon, while Saudi and UAE will remain staunch allies. MBS still loves them because Khashoggi remains dead.<p>Israel would have gotten away with it too, if it hadn’t been for the meddling kids at Amnesty International.</text></comment> | <story><title>Israel tries to limit fallout from the Pegasus spyware scandal</title><url>http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20210729-israel-tries-to-limit-fallout-from-the-pegasus-spyware-scandal</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>KingOfCoders</author><text>What I find funny is this:<p>&quot;Our clients only use the software against terrorists and criminals, so it can&#x27;t be used the wrong way&quot;<p>&quot;We made sure that it doesn&#x27;t work against US phone numbers&quot;.<p>That is straight out of &quot;A Few Good Men&quot;:<p>If Colonel Jessup ordered the soldier should not be touched, and soldiers follow orders, why was the victim scheduled for a plane ride off the base?</text></comment> |
16,309,145 | 16,308,335 | 1 | 3 | 16,301,714 | train | <story><title>A 3-Year-Old, $50k Bitcoin Puzzle Solved</title><url>https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kzpqzz/heres-the-solution-to-the-3-year-old-dollar50000-bitcoin-puzzle</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>everdev</author><text>With price fluctuations maybe we should start saying: &quot;5BTC puzzle solved&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>A 3-Year-Old, $50k Bitcoin Puzzle Solved</title><url>https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kzpqzz/heres-the-solution-to-the-3-year-old-dollar50000-bitcoin-puzzle</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chatmasta</author><text>Nice story. I was expecting some sort of steganography in the actual bits of the image. Really cool how the author was able to encode binary in the actual content of the painting rather than the pixels themselves.</text></comment> |
6,824,831 | 6,824,834 | 1 | 3 | 6,824,685 | train | <story><title>The Power of a Pronoun</title><url>http://www.joyent.com/blog/the-power-of-a-pronoun</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spindritf</author><text>&gt; while Isaac is a Joyent employee, Ben is not—and if he had been, he wouldn&#x27;t be as of this morning: to reject a pull request that eliminates a gendered pronoun on the principle that pronouns should in fact be gendered would constitute a fireable offense for me and for Joyent.<p>Am I the only one who thinks this is crazy? And how do you square it with calling someone an asshole in the next paragraph? That passes as professionalism and empathy at Joyent?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LeafStorm</author><text>&gt; On the one hand, it seems ridiculous (absurd, perhaps) to fire someone over a pronoun -- but to characterize it that way would be a gross oversimplification: it&#x27;s not the use of the gendered pronoun that&#x27;s at issue (that&#x27;s just sloppy), but rather the insistence that pronouns should in fact be gendered. To me, that insistence can only come from one place: that gender—specifically, masculinity—is inextricably linked to software, and that&#x27;s not an attitude that Joyent tolerates.<p>They&#x27;re not opposing the use of the word &quot;he,&quot; they&#x27;re opposing him saying &quot;no, go away, I don&#x27;t see any reason someone could take offense&quot; when the issue was pointed out instead of &quot;thanks for the patch.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>The Power of a Pronoun</title><url>http://www.joyent.com/blog/the-power-of-a-pronoun</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spindritf</author><text>&gt; while Isaac is a Joyent employee, Ben is not—and if he had been, he wouldn&#x27;t be as of this morning: to reject a pull request that eliminates a gendered pronoun on the principle that pronouns should in fact be gendered would constitute a fireable offense for me and for Joyent.<p>Am I the only one who thinks this is crazy? And how do you square it with calling someone an asshole in the next paragraph? That passes as professionalism and empathy at Joyent?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cdcarter</author><text>It&#x27;s crazy.<p>The whole event reads to me like Ben was having a bad day and rejected a minimal patch, and then it exploded and he was grumpy. I imagine that on a normal day, a good F&#x2F;OSS leader would accept patches that improve or make the codebase more consistent, even if they are fairly minimal. That&#x27;s how code grows.<p>I&#x27;m giving Ben the benefit of the doubt that he was in a mood, which is why he behaved as a bad project leader. If this became a regular occurrence, then there&#x27;s a problem.<p>Ben&#x27;s behavior isn&#x27;t about the gendered pronouns. I think it&#x27;s great that the project is committing to using appropriate language. But I don&#x27;t think this is what made this incident occur.<p>EDIT: removed some poorly chosen words that didn&#x27;t reflect the point of my comment.</text></comment> |
31,227,660 | 31,226,061 | 1 | 3 | 31,225,494 | train | <story><title>Show HN: A Web-Based Modular Drum Machine for You to Play With</title><url>https://noisecraft.app/557</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maxime_cb</author><text>OP here. I&#x27;ve been working on an app&#x2F;platform for people to explore musical ideas. This is a drum machine that a European friend of mine created using the app. You can press the Play button in the top-right corner to start audio playback and customize the pattern being played by clicking the red squares on the step sequencer.<p>If this example is too big and scary, I&#x27;ve made a simpler drum machine here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;noisecraft.app&#x2F;529" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;noisecraft.app&#x2F;529</a><p>And many more examples can be found on the browse page: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;noisecraft.app&#x2F;browse" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;noisecraft.app&#x2F;browse</a><p>One of my all-time favorites is this one: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;noisecraft.app&#x2F;101" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;noisecraft.app&#x2F;101</a><p>Disclaimer that this is made with laptop&#x2F;desktop computers in mind and may not work well on mobile. The app supports binding MIDI controls by double clicking on knobs :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>greg7gkb</author><text>I&#x27;ve used various forms of these audio tools in the past (MAX, PD) and this is a very impressive piece of work. First, I haven&#x27;t seen one implemented with web technologies before, and after running through many example projects there were zero errors or issues for me. Everything seems clear and straightforward.<p>Nicely done, congrats on publishing this, and thanks for making it open source!</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: A Web-Based Modular Drum Machine for You to Play With</title><url>https://noisecraft.app/557</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maxime_cb</author><text>OP here. I&#x27;ve been working on an app&#x2F;platform for people to explore musical ideas. This is a drum machine that a European friend of mine created using the app. You can press the Play button in the top-right corner to start audio playback and customize the pattern being played by clicking the red squares on the step sequencer.<p>If this example is too big and scary, I&#x27;ve made a simpler drum machine here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;noisecraft.app&#x2F;529" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;noisecraft.app&#x2F;529</a><p>And many more examples can be found on the browse page: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;noisecraft.app&#x2F;browse" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;noisecraft.app&#x2F;browse</a><p>One of my all-time favorites is this one: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;noisecraft.app&#x2F;101" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;noisecraft.app&#x2F;101</a><p>Disclaimer that this is made with laptop&#x2F;desktop computers in mind and may not work well on mobile. The app supports binding MIDI controls by double clicking on knobs :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ycombinatorrio</author><text>Thank you internet stranger for all the work you have done there</text></comment> |
36,477,480 | 36,475,856 | 1 | 2 | 36,463,662 | train | <story><title>Born in Babylon: The spread of Rastafari</title><url>https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/born-babylon</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pbj1968</author><text>I would encourage any of the overly comfortable users of this site to spend five minutes in the company of a Rastafarian. Not your weed dealer that’s wearing a Bob Marley shirt. I guarantee your attitudes towards the peacefulness of that movement will change very quickly. They are seen as unwelcome influence in much of the Caribbean.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rasjani</author><text>While I do agree with you to the certain degree - I&#x27;d add a side note that the movement does not share a single dogma nor there&#x27;s a body that could lay down one. Rastafari as a movement is splintered into smaller sects (or houses or mansions as they are references within the movement) - each one holding varying views of what ever topic at hand. And as you pointed out some of them are not very friendly - that&#x27;s always the case when fundamentalism enters the picture.<p>But that said, I would personally argue that statement that the &quot;whole movement&quot; or every &quot;rasfafari&quot; falls into your assumption is 100% not true. On comparison - If I&#x27;d point out that every christian in States is fundamental lunatic there would be people wanting to lynch me.<p>And just to point out; this is purely anecdata on my own behalf. I&#x27;ve been in contact with various people &#x2F; mansions for past 33 years and i am &quot;officially&quot; part one of the biggest &#x2F; global houses but i dont really go under that banner anymore because of the fundamental views of some people within those circles make me sick. But its still not the whole movement.</text></comment> | <story><title>Born in Babylon: The spread of Rastafari</title><url>https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/born-babylon</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pbj1968</author><text>I would encourage any of the overly comfortable users of this site to spend five minutes in the company of a Rastafarian. Not your weed dealer that’s wearing a Bob Marley shirt. I guarantee your attitudes towards the peacefulness of that movement will change very quickly. They are seen as unwelcome influence in much of the Caribbean.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nroets</author><text>Also ask them who the indigenous people of Southern Africa are. They will never acknowledge that it&#x27;s the Khoisan and that the Bantu are colonizers.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Khoisan" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Khoisan</a></text></comment> |
20,191,766 | 20,191,124 | 1 | 3 | 20,190,754 | train | <story><title>Lessons learned from rewriting code</title><url>http://huseyinpolatyuruk.com/2019/02/04/lessons-learned-from-rewriting-code-in-my-10-years-as-a-developer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kasperni</author><text>&quot;Rewriting a system from the ground up is essentially an admission of failure as a designer. It is making the statement, “We failed to design a maintainable system and so must start over.” &quot;<p>Or maybe the domain you are working with was vastly more complex than you imagined, so your nice little system turned out to be more of a prototype than a finished product. Or maybe the features needed was vastly different from what you expected when you started implementing the thing. I&#x27;m sure everyone can come up with a million other reasons.<p>But the problem I have every time with these &quot;Never rewrite your software&quot; stories. Is that they are almost always one-sided. You rarely hear about the stories where a company decided not to do a rewrite and was out-innovated because every little feature took months to implement. Or failed because they could not attract competent developers because their codebase was a complete mess.<p>Yes, the rewrite might have been a partial or complete failure. But would the patient have survived without the operation anyway?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hinkley</author><text>That doesn&#x27;t sound like an &#x27;or&#x27; to me. That sounds like a &#x27;why&#x27;.<p>A rewrite also means no new features for a very long time. And my very cynical view is that people asking for a rewrite are motivated by the peace and quiet that happens during the first six months of the rewrite. In a world where people leave after 3 years and get a pass for their first few months that represents a pretty large fraction of their tenure.<p>But it&#x27;s a bit like rehab. You&#x27;ve decided to start over with a new set of habits and hope it sticks. But like rehab or new year&#x27;s resolutions, the relapse rate is high.<p>My current take is that there is a paradox here. The teams that deserve a rewrite usually don&#x27;t need a rewrite. There&#x27;s a high degree of overlap between being capable of fixing your broken crap properly and being able to refactor to a better system.<p>The only rewrites I&#x27;ve seen work look like the Ship of Theseus. As far as management is concerned it&#x27;s not a new system. But the old developers can barely recognize the code.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lessons learned from rewriting code</title><url>http://huseyinpolatyuruk.com/2019/02/04/lessons-learned-from-rewriting-code-in-my-10-years-as-a-developer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kasperni</author><text>&quot;Rewriting a system from the ground up is essentially an admission of failure as a designer. It is making the statement, “We failed to design a maintainable system and so must start over.” &quot;<p>Or maybe the domain you are working with was vastly more complex than you imagined, so your nice little system turned out to be more of a prototype than a finished product. Or maybe the features needed was vastly different from what you expected when you started implementing the thing. I&#x27;m sure everyone can come up with a million other reasons.<p>But the problem I have every time with these &quot;Never rewrite your software&quot; stories. Is that they are almost always one-sided. You rarely hear about the stories where a company decided not to do a rewrite and was out-innovated because every little feature took months to implement. Or failed because they could not attract competent developers because their codebase was a complete mess.<p>Yes, the rewrite might have been a partial or complete failure. But would the patient have survived without the operation anyway?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bdcravens</author><text>Sometimes when you&#x27;re designing a system, you acknowledge it&#x27;s bad (ie, technical debt). Ultimately, your purpose is supporting the system (typically the business), not crafting artisanal design and code. I suspect there are many beautiful git repos that are deleted when companies close their doors.</text></comment> |
16,521,257 | 16,521,239 | 1 | 2 | 16,517,588 | train | <story><title>The Drugging of the American Boy (2014)</title><url>http://www.esquire.com/features/drugging-of-the-american-boy-0414</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spodek</author><text>The comments here don&#x27;t seem to capture the importance of the &quot;Boy&quot; part. Imagine we were mostly drugging girls. The headlines and reactions would be greater.<p>The story recalls how when Michelle Obama publicized #BringBackOurGirls, laudably promoting saving many innocent girls from kidnapping and worse, Boko Haram had been burning alive and hacking to death many innocent boys for years to little western outcry.<p>We keep changing our culture from the world our emotional systems evolved to handle. Then we declare groups sick who can&#x27;t handle the change, which happen to be boys mostly, and drug them.<p>When we create problems for girls, we ask &quot;what have we done?&quot;, recognize we&#x27;re hurting them, and try to change the culture we created stop hurting them. We may take time, but we don&#x27;t want to hurt them.<p>When we create problems for boys, we say &quot;we&#x27;ll fix you,&quot; as if they were broken. If boys&#x27; behavior was adapted to a different world than sitting in rows for most of the day, why don&#x27;t we change the culture we created to stop hurting them?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chunky1994</author><text>This is a fantastic comment. To provide some anecdotal evidence (which I realize isn&#x27;t much) I can compare where I grew up (Urban India) vs where I went to University (Urban North America) and can see some Stark differences.<p>There is a much more safety and risk averse culture here for kids growing up and there is an epidemic of over policing of children. Back home, I could run around and play in the streets without much parental oversight as early as the age of six. All I had to do was get back before dark and my parents made it very clear if I didn&#x27;t there would be significant consequences (I was never beaten so you can make children understand it without the threat of corporeal punishment). However here, CPS can be called if you leave your child unattended in your backyard.<p>My theory is that since boys hitting puberty are driven towards riskier behaviour thanks to testosterone (they just have more physical energy than girls that needs to be expended and mundane activities rarely suffice), this policing culture that no longer fits that style of exploration takes it upon themselves to neuter young boys. It&#x27;s a sorry state of affairs, but unfortunately I don&#x27;t see a way to fix it without getting mired down in identity politics</text></comment> | <story><title>The Drugging of the American Boy (2014)</title><url>http://www.esquire.com/features/drugging-of-the-american-boy-0414</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spodek</author><text>The comments here don&#x27;t seem to capture the importance of the &quot;Boy&quot; part. Imagine we were mostly drugging girls. The headlines and reactions would be greater.<p>The story recalls how when Michelle Obama publicized #BringBackOurGirls, laudably promoting saving many innocent girls from kidnapping and worse, Boko Haram had been burning alive and hacking to death many innocent boys for years to little western outcry.<p>We keep changing our culture from the world our emotional systems evolved to handle. Then we declare groups sick who can&#x27;t handle the change, which happen to be boys mostly, and drug them.<p>When we create problems for girls, we ask &quot;what have we done?&quot;, recognize we&#x27;re hurting them, and try to change the culture we created stop hurting them. We may take time, but we don&#x27;t want to hurt them.<p>When we create problems for boys, we say &quot;we&#x27;ll fix you,&quot; as if they were broken. If boys&#x27; behavior was adapted to a different world than sitting in rows for most of the day, why don&#x27;t we change the culture we created to stop hurting them?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Spooky23</author><text>We have a schizoid relationship with gender tropes. On the one hand, &quot;girl power&quot;. On the other, &quot;save the women and children&quot;.<p>Schools are a whole other pit of insanity. Most public schools can&#x27;t enforce behavior norms, which are 90% a result of clueless parents. Their recourse is medicalizing the problem and addressing bad behavior with drugs. With my children we ended up opting to private school because you simply don&#x27;t have that problem -- they address behavior issues and if it turns out to be a problem that isn&#x27;t being fixed, the kid doesn&#x27;t come back.</text></comment> |
34,153,850 | 34,153,949 | 1 | 3 | 34,152,865 | train | <story><title>Tesla stopped reporting its Autopilot safety numbers online. Why?</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-12-27/tesla-stopped-reporting-autopilot-safety-statistics-online</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gamegoblin</author><text>I&#x27;m kind of coming around to the idea that Comma AI&#x27;s approach of full end-to-end is the right one.<p>Tesla, Waymo, Cruise, etc all take real world data and load it into a virtual representation, then do planning inside virtual space, then execute that plan in the real world. It seems like this is just really clunky and doesn&#x27;t handle weird edges very well.<p>Comma AI&#x27;s thesis is that creating this big virtual world to do planning in is both a waste of time and compute, and also a worse driving experience. They just take a ton of human data, and essentially say &quot;given this situation, what would a human do?&quot;. I.e. it&#x27;s a neural network that takes in the last few frames of video, and outputs steering + accelerator + brake commands, with no intermediate virtual space representation.<p>A huge advantage of this approach is it scales really well. Human data in, model out. They are maybe a year behind Tesla FSD in terms of capability with a tiny team of ~15 or so, and they are gaining ground.<p>Tesla could probably improve their system by adopting a similar end-to-end approach, but I think this may not be easy to do for organizational&#x2F;corporate political reasons. They have several hundred engineers working on all of the various bits of their FSD stack who are all incentivized to defend their turf.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sho_hn</author><text>This is not good enough to handle edge cases.<p>It&#x27;s a little bit like ChatGPT: ChatGPT is a next-word prediction engine. It has ingested and analyzed &quot;human data&quot; which has given it a take on what might come after a prompt. With good training data, a large enough token window and a helping of RLHF this can do very cool things. But there&#x27;s no actual reasoning going on.<p>An &quot;edge case&quot; is a prompt that throws this approach for a spin, because statistics over the training data corpus don&#x27;t yield a good prediction on it. For example because it&#x27;s novel or its structure is uncommon. In those cases ChatGPT will do its best and confidently return something very dumb.<p>With the driving problem, Tesla and others are trying to mitigate this with two approaches:<p>- superstructures of rule-based planning to keep the predictions within safe lanes (no pun intended), i.e. bake in some reasoning after all<p>- trying to write simulations that auto-generate &quot;edge cases&quot; or just stuff that is underrepresented in the training data set and add those simulated 3d renders to editorialize the predictions<p>It&#x27;s currently still unclear if this is enough to solve the problem or if we&#x27;re still some innovations (e.g. ones that get us closer to AGI) away from being able to make it work.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla stopped reporting its Autopilot safety numbers online. Why?</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-12-27/tesla-stopped-reporting-autopilot-safety-statistics-online</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gamegoblin</author><text>I&#x27;m kind of coming around to the idea that Comma AI&#x27;s approach of full end-to-end is the right one.<p>Tesla, Waymo, Cruise, etc all take real world data and load it into a virtual representation, then do planning inside virtual space, then execute that plan in the real world. It seems like this is just really clunky and doesn&#x27;t handle weird edges very well.<p>Comma AI&#x27;s thesis is that creating this big virtual world to do planning in is both a waste of time and compute, and also a worse driving experience. They just take a ton of human data, and essentially say &quot;given this situation, what would a human do?&quot;. I.e. it&#x27;s a neural network that takes in the last few frames of video, and outputs steering + accelerator + brake commands, with no intermediate virtual space representation.<p>A huge advantage of this approach is it scales really well. Human data in, model out. They are maybe a year behind Tesla FSD in terms of capability with a tiny team of ~15 or so, and they are gaining ground.<p>Tesla could probably improve their system by adopting a similar end-to-end approach, but I think this may not be easy to do for organizational&#x2F;corporate political reasons. They have several hundred engineers working on all of the various bits of their FSD stack who are all incentivized to defend their turf.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Avshalom</author><text>&gt;&gt;takes in the last few frames of video<p>isn&#x27;t that how uber killed a woman walking a bike in phoenix? During the critical last second(s) the model didn&#x27;t know what she was and kind of ignored her even though previous seconds had tagged her as a moving cyclist.</text></comment> |
3,239,423 | 3,239,295 | 1 | 3 | 3,237,261 | train | <story><title>High IQ linked to drug use</title><url>http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/11/14/high-iq-linked-to-drug-use/?hpt=hp_t2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomlin</author><text>As someone who suffers from ADHD-PI, I can't help but wonder a possible co-relation here. Before my occasional marijuana use a few years ago, I wasn't aware of my concentration issues. Like many others, I thought I was just lazy or unmotivated. When smoking marijuana for the first time, my friends lay around unmotivated and relaxed while I couldn't stop thinking about working on one of my many "one day" projects. This eventually lead me to getting tested for ADHD. Now I am on pharma, but the benefits appear the same.<p>I feel like drugs helped me realize a lot about myself. While I am not so sure IQ is a reliable measurement, I can definitely say I can handle a lot more information and make good use of that information much better than I had ever before.<p>I've done some research on brain wave activity and dopamine receptors/activity. It seems that people with ADHD tend to have misaligned brain wave activity and stimulants manage to align this activity up to a point. My theory, from my own experiences, is that there is an optimal brain wave frequency and people with ADHD are suffering from dopamine deficiency that skews below optimal frequency, and too much dopamine activity skews above optimal frequency. Further, I've noted that those who experience drugs as a depressant tend to have normal dopamine activity whereas those who experience drugs as a stimulant appear to have low dopamine activity. It's just a wild theory with no medical evidence - I'm just trying to understand the pattern. I would love to hear others chime in here and adjust my theory as necessary.<p>I've been told that alcohol or marijuana makes one drowsy or lazy. For me, it stimulates - until a point - then I also become drowsy and lazy. This is where I believe I've gone past optimal dopamine activity. For the average person with normal dopamine activity, passing this threshold seems to happen much sooner.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ihnorton</author><text>There is some evidence that methylphenidate (ritalin) effects wave activity (synchronization/latency) see eg (not paywalled): <a href="http://www.nature.com/npp/journal/v21/n2/full/1395347a.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nature.com/npp/journal/v21/n2/full/1395347a.html</a><p>For some background see here:
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P200" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P200</a></text></comment> | <story><title>High IQ linked to drug use</title><url>http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/11/14/high-iq-linked-to-drug-use/?hpt=hp_t2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomlin</author><text>As someone who suffers from ADHD-PI, I can't help but wonder a possible co-relation here. Before my occasional marijuana use a few years ago, I wasn't aware of my concentration issues. Like many others, I thought I was just lazy or unmotivated. When smoking marijuana for the first time, my friends lay around unmotivated and relaxed while I couldn't stop thinking about working on one of my many "one day" projects. This eventually lead me to getting tested for ADHD. Now I am on pharma, but the benefits appear the same.<p>I feel like drugs helped me realize a lot about myself. While I am not so sure IQ is a reliable measurement, I can definitely say I can handle a lot more information and make good use of that information much better than I had ever before.<p>I've done some research on brain wave activity and dopamine receptors/activity. It seems that people with ADHD tend to have misaligned brain wave activity and stimulants manage to align this activity up to a point. My theory, from my own experiences, is that there is an optimal brain wave frequency and people with ADHD are suffering from dopamine deficiency that skews below optimal frequency, and too much dopamine activity skews above optimal frequency. Further, I've noted that those who experience drugs as a depressant tend to have normal dopamine activity whereas those who experience drugs as a stimulant appear to have low dopamine activity. It's just a wild theory with no medical evidence - I'm just trying to understand the pattern. I would love to hear others chime in here and adjust my theory as necessary.<p>I've been told that alcohol or marijuana makes one drowsy or lazy. For me, it stimulates - until a point - then I also become drowsy and lazy. This is where I believe I've gone past optimal dopamine activity. For the average person with normal dopamine activity, passing this threshold seems to happen much sooner.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pingu</author><text>What medication gave you the same benefits as weed, if you don't mind me asking?<p>My experiences very closely match yours, fwiw.
I tried Ritalin but wasn't satisfied at all, and am 'back on' weed.</text></comment> |
27,120,685 | 27,120,361 | 1 | 2 | 27,117,586 | train | <story><title>A SpaceX booster now trails only 4 space shuttles in flight experience</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/05/spacex-hits-major-reuse-milestone-with-rockets-10th-flight/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gameswithgo</author><text>Electric cars and vertical rocket landings were ideas you could show would work eventually with a little napkin math. It is a good critique of humanity that so many &quot;experts&quot; neglected to do that napkin math and just declare it impossible.<p>Getting starship to work reliably still involves some never done before procedures that remain to be proven. But SpaceX has a plan that might work, if it doesn&#x27;t there are many ways to adjust the plan. With enough time and money, they can do it.<p>Colonizing mars is not so easy to show as feasible. Certainly we can launch a bunch of cans and digging equipment and get a few people living there. But anything like a self sustaining population? Don&#x27;t know, we don&#x27;t really have a concrete plan of how to do that. People often say, if you think you can colonize mars, colonize the Gobi Desert first, as it is 10,000 times easier.</text></item><item><author>hackeraccount</author><text>It can&#x27;t be done.<p>Technically you can do it but it&#x27;s not practical.<p>It is possible and practical but there&#x27;s no reason to.<p>Oh, look here we are. Well, sure anybody could have seen that this was where we would end up - we just didn&#x27;t agree on when we&#x27;d be here.</text></item><item><author>Buttons840</author><text>Agreed. I barely knew who Elon Musk was until reading his biography, which was written years ago. The biography ended with Elon&#x27;s dream of colonizing Mars and doing verticle rocket landings, and talked about the challenges and shared some skepticism. So from my perspective the first of his &quot;dreams&quot; has become a common reality, and I&#x27;m left thinking that colonizing Mars is next.</text></item><item><author>dgritsko</author><text>SpaceX&#x27;s effort to take first-stage reuse from moonshot to mundane is nothing short of extraordinary. It still makes me smile to think of how breathlessly excited we got over individual frames of grainy footage from the first water landing tests. The fact that landing and reuse now seem routine gives me a high degree of confidence that they will succeed in future endeavors - landing a Starship seemed inevitable, rather than the stuff of sci-fi dreams that it was only a few years ago.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ClumsyPilot</author><text>It makes much more sence to industrialise the Moon than to colonise mars. Moon materials can be used to produce ships and space structures, satellites, propellant, etc. You can have a space elevator on the moon today with a titanium cable. It will actually be profitable.<p>Most importantly, colonising the moon is tractable in terms of emergencies: if someone on the moon suffers an accident and needs a surgery, they could be in a hospital on Earth in a day or two. If their shelter is damaged, or supplies are needed, we can send help to the Moon and have it arrrive before everyone is dead.<p>You are on mars and suddenly are suffering from liver disease? You are probably dead. It&#x27;s going to be like the life of iur first Abtarctic explorers, when they get in trouble, there is no help. Many don&#x27;t return, and noone stays there to live. To this day noone &#x27;colonised&#x27; Antarctica.<p>Mars settlement is only viable when we have a spaceship factory on the moon, nuclear engines, and we could send the equivant of a large marine research vessel to mars, so 10,000 tons usefull payload, every month.</text></comment> | <story><title>A SpaceX booster now trails only 4 space shuttles in flight experience</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/05/spacex-hits-major-reuse-milestone-with-rockets-10th-flight/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gameswithgo</author><text>Electric cars and vertical rocket landings were ideas you could show would work eventually with a little napkin math. It is a good critique of humanity that so many &quot;experts&quot; neglected to do that napkin math and just declare it impossible.<p>Getting starship to work reliably still involves some never done before procedures that remain to be proven. But SpaceX has a plan that might work, if it doesn&#x27;t there are many ways to adjust the plan. With enough time and money, they can do it.<p>Colonizing mars is not so easy to show as feasible. Certainly we can launch a bunch of cans and digging equipment and get a few people living there. But anything like a self sustaining population? Don&#x27;t know, we don&#x27;t really have a concrete plan of how to do that. People often say, if you think you can colonize mars, colonize the Gobi Desert first, as it is 10,000 times easier.</text></item><item><author>hackeraccount</author><text>It can&#x27;t be done.<p>Technically you can do it but it&#x27;s not practical.<p>It is possible and practical but there&#x27;s no reason to.<p>Oh, look here we are. Well, sure anybody could have seen that this was where we would end up - we just didn&#x27;t agree on when we&#x27;d be here.</text></item><item><author>Buttons840</author><text>Agreed. I barely knew who Elon Musk was until reading his biography, which was written years ago. The biography ended with Elon&#x27;s dream of colonizing Mars and doing verticle rocket landings, and talked about the challenges and shared some skepticism. So from my perspective the first of his &quot;dreams&quot; has become a common reality, and I&#x27;m left thinking that colonizing Mars is next.</text></item><item><author>dgritsko</author><text>SpaceX&#x27;s effort to take first-stage reuse from moonshot to mundane is nothing short of extraordinary. It still makes me smile to think of how breathlessly excited we got over individual frames of grainy footage from the first water landing tests. The fact that landing and reuse now seem routine gives me a high degree of confidence that they will succeed in future endeavors - landing a Starship seemed inevitable, rather than the stuff of sci-fi dreams that it was only a few years ago.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lumost</author><text>There are some pros of martian colonization efforts over comparable efforts in the Gobi desert. For one there is a compelling reason to colonize for at least a portion of the population. It would be the opportunity of a lifetime to study planetary geology up close, put terraforming theories to the test, and produce fuel&#x2F;water for further space missions using the reduced gravity and atmospheric drag.<p>On the other hand the fact that &quot;going for a walk&quot; will be extremely difficult will motivate increased focus on cavern excavation and other construction underground. These are &quot;necessities&quot; on mars but would be &quot;interesting&quot; in the gobi dessert.</text></comment> |
22,562,526 | 22,561,842 | 1 | 2 | 22,561,373 | train | <story><title>Yes, I am still learning Rust</title><url>https://llogiq.github.io/2020/03/07/learning.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>brundolf</author><text>I used to put every technology I had any experience with on my resume.<p>Then I started only listing the ones I knew the best.<p>Now what I do is treat the list as aspirational. &quot;Here are the technologies that I&#x27;d like to work with (and which I&#x27;m familiar enough with that I could figure the rest out on a job).&quot; I try to paint a story with those technologies: this combination of technologies draws an outline around the type of work I want to be doing.<p>I did this recently with Rust on the list even though I&#x27;ve only done a couple of personal projects with it, and the presence of it specifically made me stand out to a company that I&#x27;ll soon be starting a position at! They use Rust and are sort of a dream job in a couple other ways too. They said the presence of that language spoke to the personality of the developer, and the kind of things he was likely interested in.<p>Takeaways: don&#x27;t undersell yourself, and tell a coherent story.<p>Edit: To be clear, I was not being deceptive. Through the interview process the company learned precisely how well I know the things that I listed - we even dove into some of my projects together - and they were still excited to hire me. My point is that &quot;knowing general principles&quot; + &quot;being fairly comfortable in a particular language&quot; is often all that&#x27;s really being asked for, and doesn&#x27;t need to be disqualified with &quot;still learning&quot; just because you don&#x27;t know everything there is to know.</text></comment> | <story><title>Yes, I am still learning Rust</title><url>https://llogiq.github.io/2020/03/07/learning.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>klodolph</author><text>I’m still learning Rust, but I’m developing a deeper appreciation for Go. I’ve already <i>learned</i> Go. As far as I can tell, I’m a Go expert.<p>Rust has a pretty large surface area. There’s a ton of places where you can get overwhelmed by choices. For example, when you’re working with slices, you might find yourself thinking about the pros and cons of different approaches using indexes, convenience functions, pattern matching, or iterators.<p>It’s a big toolbox, and sometimes I wish I had a smaller toolbox, even if it means giving up the choice of which tools to keep.<p>So, I’ll still be learning Rust for a while, too.</text></comment> |
6,249,099 | 6,248,408 | 1 | 2 | 6,247,552 | train | <story><title>Soylent: What Happened When I Stopped Eating For 2 Weeks</title><url>http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2013/08/20/soylent/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jurassic</author><text>What&#x27;s the big deal? What this guy is eating already is definitely above average in quality. A Chipotle burrito bol (fresh whole ingredients, sans tortilla) is a legit meal. Other than dental impacts from the carbonation, health hysteria about diet soda and aspartame has been debunked. I don&#x27;t know about the take-out Thai, but at least it&#x27;s real food and not some preservative-laden packaged food product from the grocery store. Not everybody has 5 hours a day or a stay-at-home wife to cook their Whole Foods organic produce into a masterpiece of nutrition.</text></item><item><author>cup</author><text>Soylent aside, im amazed at how terrible his traditional normal days meal is? I mean hes eating a processed breakfast subsitute in the morning, take away mexican food with a soft drink for lunch and more take away for dinner.<p>You don&#x27;t need to be a nutritionist to know thats going to have a terrible impact on his life later down the track.<p>Postnote: Now that Ive read the whole article, I wonder if all the benefits he attributes to Soylent could actually be attributed to cutting so much crap out of his diet?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rsynnott</author><text>&gt; Not everybody has 5 hours a day or a stay-at-home wife to cook their Whole Foods organic produce into a masterpiece of nutrition.<p>I&#x27;m guessing from this that you&#x27;ve never cooked in your life?<p>(Hint: Pretty much nobody cooks five hours a day unless it is their job. I mostly cook for myself, and I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve ever really spent more than 30 minutes of active work on it).</text></comment> | <story><title>Soylent: What Happened When I Stopped Eating For 2 Weeks</title><url>http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2013/08/20/soylent/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jurassic</author><text>What&#x27;s the big deal? What this guy is eating already is definitely above average in quality. A Chipotle burrito bol (fresh whole ingredients, sans tortilla) is a legit meal. Other than dental impacts from the carbonation, health hysteria about diet soda and aspartame has been debunked. I don&#x27;t know about the take-out Thai, but at least it&#x27;s real food and not some preservative-laden packaged food product from the grocery store. Not everybody has 5 hours a day or a stay-at-home wife to cook their Whole Foods organic produce into a masterpiece of nutrition.</text></item><item><author>cup</author><text>Soylent aside, im amazed at how terrible his traditional normal days meal is? I mean hes eating a processed breakfast subsitute in the morning, take away mexican food with a soft drink for lunch and more take away for dinner.<p>You don&#x27;t need to be a nutritionist to know thats going to have a terrible impact on his life later down the track.<p>Postnote: Now that Ive read the whole article, I wonder if all the benefits he attributes to Soylent could actually be attributed to cutting so much crap out of his diet?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ovoxo</author><text>&quot;Not everybody has 5 hours a day or a stay-at-home wife to cook their Whole Foods organic produce into a masterpiece of nutrition.&quot; ... you sir must live in the same age that your username implies.<p>Also, your argument here is silly. This guy&#x27;s diet is not &quot;above average&quot; in quality by any means and a Chipotle Burito Bol is not a &quot;legit meal&quot; based on what one would consider to be a healthy lifestyle. The amount of sodium alone in those things is enough to make me and some of your organs cringe - literally.<p>Go to the grocery store. Pick up some raw foods. Cook them on a Sunday night. Put them in the fridge. Pat yourself on the back. You&#x27;ve just managed to prep your lunch&#x2F;dinner for the week and you did it all without having to find a stay-at-home wife.</text></comment> |
16,949,380 | 16,948,624 | 1 | 2 | 16,948,264 | train | <story><title>The myopia boom (2015)</title><url>https://www.nature.com/news/the-myopia-boom-1.17120</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jacobwilliamroy</author><text>I always thought it was because all of the &quot;far away&quot; stuff is outside and a person who spends 90% of their time indoors never has to look at anything far away.<p>What are the rates of shortsightedness among people living in dense forests (or some other cramped outdoor environment)?</text></comment> | <story><title>The myopia boom (2015)</title><url>https://www.nature.com/news/the-myopia-boom-1.17120</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tristanj</author><text>Discussion from 3 years ago (311 points): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9227541" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9227541</a></text></comment> |
10,002,117 | 10,000,716 | 1 | 3 | 9,999,861 | train | <story><title>Matchstick to refund everyone's money</title><url>https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/matchstick/matchstick-the-streaming-stick-built-on-firefox-os/posts/1266549</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AndrewDucker</author><text>The thing about Matchstick was this line from the original campaign:<p>&quot;The product is fully functional today, with the hardware design final, tooling complete, and manufacturing ready to ramp up in the next 30-60 days&quot;<p>followed six-months later by:<p>&quot;We want to update the hardware&quot; and &quot;is being updated to support DRM&quot; amd the ship date being moved back to now.<p>A lot of people backed Matchstick because it was going to be open - the plans were all available for download, it was all ready to go, and we were going to have kit in our hands really quickly. Instead we were going to get something that was slowed down by six months so that it could have closed DRM-support added. And then it&#x27;s cancelled because they added support for something that wasn&#x27;t even part of the original campaign!<p>It&#x27;s not surprising that the backers are upset.</text></comment> | <story><title>Matchstick to refund everyone's money</title><url>https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/matchstick/matchstick-the-streaming-stick-built-on-firefox-os/posts/1266549</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blhack</author><text>Huh...<p>I&#x27;ve always thought that &quot;this thing might totally fail&quot; was something that people understood when backing a kickstarter project.<p>The idea that if they fail, they have to refund everybody&#x27;s contribution kindof stinks, since I&#x27;ve always thought kickstarter was for people trying new things (which is obviously going to have a lot of stories about failure)<p>Maybe there is more to the story here.</text></comment> |
17,984,659 | 17,984,642 | 1 | 2 | 17,970,938 | train | <story><title>Thousands of scientists publish a paper every five days</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06185-8</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tinkerteller</author><text>This is a great study and gives insights in to what&#x27;s wrong with research today. As the study has uncovered the causes:<p>- mentorship of very many young researchers<p>- leadership of a research team<p>- becoming full professors, department chairs<p>- leadership roles in large centres<p>As the paper states: <i>at the peak of their productivity, some cardiologists publish 10 to 80 times more papers in one year compared with their average annual productivity when they were 35–42 years old. There was also often a sharp decrease after passing the chair to a successor.</i><p>In other words, people with checkbooks gets their names engraved on work that is being done by <i>others</i>. Their author metrics like h-index and citation counts would shoot up and the get credit for scholarly publications even if they have played little or no part.<p>This is extremely sad. These people in leadership roles should be avoiding taking credit to scholarly work that is not theirs.<p>As the article says, requirements for authorship are the &quot;Vancouver criteria&quot; established in 1988. These specify that authors must do all of four things to qualify: play a part in designing or conducting experiments or processing results; help to write or revise the manuscript; approve the published version; and take responsibility for the article’s contents.<p>The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors does not count supervision, mentoring or obtaining funding as sufficient for authorship. However as credit hungry folks becomes leaders they circumvent all and every ethical line to get their names on everybody else&#x27;s work whoes paychecks and careers depend on their whims.</text></comment> | <story><title>Thousands of scientists publish a paper every five days</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06185-8</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tokai</author><text>It doesn&#x27;t surprise me that many of the prolific authors are in medical and life sciences. I have worked with validating registered research at a large hospital (actually a conglomerate of multiple hospitals) and the physicians there had the most &#x27;creative&#x27; ways of registering their research I have ever seen. Interviewed by a journalist? Let&#x27;s put that down as a peer reviewed journal article. It was absolutely jaw dropping some of the things they tried to get way with in order to inflate their publication numbers. I&#x27;m sure that many other tricks are being used, like pressuring students to publish papers and get your name on them without any work, etc. Citation cartels have been uncovered among journals that you wouldn&#x27;t normally think to be predatory, and are indexed by Scopus and&#x2F;or WoS. It would not surprise me the least if publication cartels exists as well, with editors and reviewers agreeing to let anything get published in exchange for returning the favor.</text></comment> |
31,128,512 | 31,112,541 | 1 | 2 | 31,108,652 | train | <story><title>Melting KiCad</title><url>https://mitxela.com/projects/melting_kicad</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>q-big</author><text>Relevant:<p>TopoR, an EDA program developed and maintained by the Russian company Eremex:<p>&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;TopoR" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;TopoR</a><p>&quot;The most recognizable feature of TopoR is the absence of preferred routing directions, which results in unusual looking PCBs.&quot;<p>&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eremex.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;topor&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eremex.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;topor&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Melting KiCad</title><url>https://mitxela.com/projects/melting_kicad</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zxcvgm</author><text>The author has also made a video about it recently: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=euJgtLcWWyo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=euJgtLcWWyo</a><p>It reminds me of Boldport, who made project kits that were also works of art [0]. The funky PCB traces and shapes were all hand-drawn, I believe, rather than drawn up in a regular EDA program.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;boldport.com&#x2F;shop?category=Soldering+projects" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;boldport.com&#x2F;shop?category=Soldering+projects</a></text></comment> |
28,851,087 | 28,848,825 | 1 | 2 | 28,844,101 | train | <story><title>IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district</title><url>https://whitehoodhacker.net/posts/2021-10-04-the-big-rick</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acidburnNSA</author><text>I &#x27;worked&#x27; for my own high school&#x27;s IT dept, a few hours a week, as a student. It was an amazing experience working with those guys. I learned so many things, from how to punch, terminate, and run cables to how to set up a Ghost image and deploy it en masse across the district.<p>One day one of the old macs was showing the frowny face in a in-session classroom. Boss sent me down there with specific instructions: &quot;pull out the hard drive and beat it really hard with the handle of this screwdriver&quot;. I was like: &quot;?&quot; and he was like, &quot;just do it&quot;.<p>So I go down there and let myself in, trying not to interrupt the class. I climb behind the computer on a cart and pull out the HD. I beat it with the handle, like a good 10 times. Of course this got the class all riled up. I blushed, but told them this was normal operating procedure. Plug it back in and it works. I was (secretly) as amazed as everyone else in the class.<p>Back in the IT office, I say it worked. IT boss smiles and nods. I ask how. Well as it turns out some of those old hard drives used a vegetable oil based lube that seizes up if it&#x27;s not used for a while. So if you bash it it un-seizes and starts turning again.<p>Anyway great times, fun memories. We all got our CompTIA A+ certifications at the end, but don&#x27;t ask me what IRQ number is for the parallel port these days.</text></item><item><author>jimt1234</author><text>Working in IT&#x2F;tech for school district is the worst. My experience from many years ago - around 2002, I think:<p>1. First day on the job, email to boss: &quot;Hey, the computer lab at Springfield High has a ton of known security flaws that are begging to be exploited.&quot;<p>2. Reply, 1 week later: &quot;Sorry, we don&#x27;t have any money for that. Just keep everything up-and-running.&quot;<p>3. 3 weeks later the computer lab at Springfield High got &quot;hacked&quot;. All the computers displayed a popup window that said, &quot;Miss Krabappel is a dyke!&quot; (sorry for the offensive language)<p>4. Next day, email from boss: &quot;The computer lab at Springfield High was hacked! Figure out how to fix this and make sure it doesn&#x27;t happen again!&quot;<p>5. A few days later Miss Krabappel filed to sue the school district. The local newspaper picked up the story.<p>6. Email from boss, in full panic mode: &quot;I need you to figure out who hacked the computer lab at Springfield High so we can report him to the police!&quot;<p>7. A week later an independent consulting firm was brought in to help identify the person behind the &quot;hack&quot;. I heard they were paid $50K and found nothing. However, the kid got ratted out when he told all his friends. (It wasn&#x27;t Bart Simpson! ;) )<p>8. Several weeks later: meeting to discuss working with a consulting firm that&#x27;s gonna fix all the security issues because the current staff (me and my team) lacks the skills.<p>9. About 6 months later, I quit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>specialist</author><text>&gt; <i>...pull out the HD. I beat it with the handle, like a good 10 times...</i><p>Heh. Nice.<p>A coworker&#x27;s Mac wouldn&#x27;t boot. I couldn&#x27;t hear the hard drive. It was a model with the tip of the spindle exposed. I found a pencil with a gummy eraser. Gave the spindle a twist as I turned the power on.<p>Told the amazed user, &quot;Do not turn off your computer until after you have backed up your data. That probably won&#x27;t work twice.&quot;<p>Good times.</text></comment> | <story><title>IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district</title><url>https://whitehoodhacker.net/posts/2021-10-04-the-big-rick</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acidburnNSA</author><text>I &#x27;worked&#x27; for my own high school&#x27;s IT dept, a few hours a week, as a student. It was an amazing experience working with those guys. I learned so many things, from how to punch, terminate, and run cables to how to set up a Ghost image and deploy it en masse across the district.<p>One day one of the old macs was showing the frowny face in a in-session classroom. Boss sent me down there with specific instructions: &quot;pull out the hard drive and beat it really hard with the handle of this screwdriver&quot;. I was like: &quot;?&quot; and he was like, &quot;just do it&quot;.<p>So I go down there and let myself in, trying not to interrupt the class. I climb behind the computer on a cart and pull out the HD. I beat it with the handle, like a good 10 times. Of course this got the class all riled up. I blushed, but told them this was normal operating procedure. Plug it back in and it works. I was (secretly) as amazed as everyone else in the class.<p>Back in the IT office, I say it worked. IT boss smiles and nods. I ask how. Well as it turns out some of those old hard drives used a vegetable oil based lube that seizes up if it&#x27;s not used for a while. So if you bash it it un-seizes and starts turning again.<p>Anyway great times, fun memories. We all got our CompTIA A+ certifications at the end, but don&#x27;t ask me what IRQ number is for the parallel port these days.</text></item><item><author>jimt1234</author><text>Working in IT&#x2F;tech for school district is the worst. My experience from many years ago - around 2002, I think:<p>1. First day on the job, email to boss: &quot;Hey, the computer lab at Springfield High has a ton of known security flaws that are begging to be exploited.&quot;<p>2. Reply, 1 week later: &quot;Sorry, we don&#x27;t have any money for that. Just keep everything up-and-running.&quot;<p>3. 3 weeks later the computer lab at Springfield High got &quot;hacked&quot;. All the computers displayed a popup window that said, &quot;Miss Krabappel is a dyke!&quot; (sorry for the offensive language)<p>4. Next day, email from boss: &quot;The computer lab at Springfield High was hacked! Figure out how to fix this and make sure it doesn&#x27;t happen again!&quot;<p>5. A few days later Miss Krabappel filed to sue the school district. The local newspaper picked up the story.<p>6. Email from boss, in full panic mode: &quot;I need you to figure out who hacked the computer lab at Springfield High so we can report him to the police!&quot;<p>7. A week later an independent consulting firm was brought in to help identify the person behind the &quot;hack&quot;. I heard they were paid $50K and found nothing. However, the kid got ratted out when he told all his friends. (It wasn&#x27;t Bart Simpson! ;) )<p>8. Several weeks later: meeting to discuss working with a consulting firm that&#x27;s gonna fix all the security issues because the current staff (me and my team) lacks the skills.<p>9. About 6 months later, I quit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oaiey</author><text>And now ... a group of 30 - no-longer - students treat their IT equipment with hits by a screw driver ... because it works.<p>Our education system is amazing ;)</text></comment> |
14,303,357 | 14,302,967 | 1 | 3 | 14,301,053 | train | <story><title>Amazon enables free calls and messages on all Echo devices with Alexa Calling</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/09/amazon-enables-free-calls-and-messages-on-all-echo-devices-with-alexa-calling/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FullMtlAlcoholc</author><text>&gt; The one that has jumped out at me first is called “Drop In” — which lets you make a call to someone without them even answering the phone first.<p>I wish that the product person who pushed this as an &quot;innovative&quot; idea lives a short, brutish, and painful life where he&#x2F;she dies alone.<p>EDIT: That&#x27;s too mean spirited.<p>If you want to peer in on your elderly parents, webcams are a better idea because you&#x27;ll put them in a position that captures a wide angle or buy a 360 degree camera as opposed to this which only seems to pick up video in the direction it&#x27;s facing.<p>What person would ever want this &quot;feature&quot;? We have webcams for people who don&#x27;t mind exhibiting themselves. People overwhelmingly prefer to text others rather than talk over the phone or facetime when given the chance. Even when you visit someone in person, you don&#x27;t drop in, unannounced like a peeping tom. You knock on the door to announce your appearance, exactly analogous to ringing the telephone before listening in and watching.<p>I don&#x27;t like it because the world&#x27;s largest retailer has the marketing and advertising muscle to normalize this behavior by preying upon our fears, our irrational behavior, and our cognitive biases. Look at the social stigma one faces if you don&#x27;t have a facebook account and you&#x27;re under 35. Not just that, but you will get harassed by border and customs agents if they ask for your social media account and you don&#x27;t have one, setting off red flags.<p>In the near future, I can see this feature becoming a requirement for remote workers with insecure managers.<p>EDIT: This will definitely become a feature on sites like Upwork so that buyers can make sure developers are billing them the correct hours, even though the prices are dirt cheap already.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cpcb</author><text>I just placed a pre-order for 2 of the Echo Shows mostly for this Drop In feature.<p>My wife and I are about to be first-time parents and for us, this is a pretty exciting product for parents compared to the other devices out there in this space.<p>For the &quot;drop in&quot; feature specifically, my plan is to leave one Show in the nursery and one for my parents. They like to call us a lot, and with this device, I should be able to whitelist their device and let them &quot;drop in&quot; on the nursery and whatever we&#x27;re doing at the time. I think a lot of people have a problem with the privacy aspect, but for us, I don&#x27;t see why we would have a problem with my parents seeing the nursery at any given time, esp with the 10sec window to decline. And then once the baby is older, we&#x27;d move the Show to the kitchen for music, looking up recipes, etc.<p>I think there&#x27;s going to be a lot of parents looking hard at this device. The intro video Amazon made is mostly for this use case as well: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=WQqxCeHhmeU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=WQqxCeHhmeU</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon enables free calls and messages on all Echo devices with Alexa Calling</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/09/amazon-enables-free-calls-and-messages-on-all-echo-devices-with-alexa-calling/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FullMtlAlcoholc</author><text>&gt; The one that has jumped out at me first is called “Drop In” — which lets you make a call to someone without them even answering the phone first.<p>I wish that the product person who pushed this as an &quot;innovative&quot; idea lives a short, brutish, and painful life where he&#x2F;she dies alone.<p>EDIT: That&#x27;s too mean spirited.<p>If you want to peer in on your elderly parents, webcams are a better idea because you&#x27;ll put them in a position that captures a wide angle or buy a 360 degree camera as opposed to this which only seems to pick up video in the direction it&#x27;s facing.<p>What person would ever want this &quot;feature&quot;? We have webcams for people who don&#x27;t mind exhibiting themselves. People overwhelmingly prefer to text others rather than talk over the phone or facetime when given the chance. Even when you visit someone in person, you don&#x27;t drop in, unannounced like a peeping tom. You knock on the door to announce your appearance, exactly analogous to ringing the telephone before listening in and watching.<p>I don&#x27;t like it because the world&#x27;s largest retailer has the marketing and advertising muscle to normalize this behavior by preying upon our fears, our irrational behavior, and our cognitive biases. Look at the social stigma one faces if you don&#x27;t have a facebook account and you&#x27;re under 35. Not just that, but you will get harassed by border and customs agents if they ask for your social media account and you don&#x27;t have one, setting off red flags.<p>In the near future, I can see this feature becoming a requirement for remote workers with insecure managers.<p>EDIT: This will definitely become a feature on sites like Upwork so that buyers can make sure developers are billing them the correct hours, even though the prices are dirt cheap already.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FreakyT</author><text>&gt; What person would ever want this &quot;feature&quot;?<p>Look up research on &quot;media spaces&quot; if you&#x27;re interested in the practical applications of this kind of feature. Just one example paper, but there are many more: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.billbuxton.com&#x2F;DGPmediaspace.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.billbuxton.com&#x2F;DGPmediaspace.pdf</a><p>Digitally creating a &quot;portal&quot; like this can be considered roughly analogous to connected spaces in real life. So, for example, two break rooms across different campuses of the same company, or a couple in a long-distance relationship that would ordinarily live together if not for whatever was keeping them in LDR mode stand to benefit from this sort of continuous video communication.</text></comment> |
25,960,480 | 25,959,910 | 1 | 3 | 25,941,412 | train | <story><title>Pricing a SaaS product (2019)</title><url>https://www.bannerbear.com/blog/don-t-charge-a-month-for-your-product/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>polote</author><text>One rule to know about pricing which is counter intuitive. (And that has been repeated countless times on HN)<p><i>Your pricing is never high enough</i><p>If you want your prospects&#x2F;customers to take you seriously they have to find you expensive. If you seem cheap they will not take you seriously.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danenania</author><text>Another way to think about this is that even if you built a product to scratch your own itch, you may not be your own ideal customer. In that case, your instincts on pricing could be way off.<p>You might be cost-sensitive and look for a good deal when buying tools and infra to support your own projects. But buyers at larger companies aren’t spending their own money, so their thought process is very different.<p>As long as the price fits in the budget and isn’t an outlier compared to other products they pay for, then it’s not going to be what they focus on. They’ll care much more about quality, trustworthiness, ease of integration, support, and things like that.<p>That’s why putting your price at the high end of the &#x27;acceptable&#x27; range is a win-win. You don’t leave money on the table, and you make an implicit commitment to high quality and good service, which the customers you really want value more than a bargain.</text></comment> | <story><title>Pricing a SaaS product (2019)</title><url>https://www.bannerbear.com/blog/don-t-charge-a-month-for-your-product/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>polote</author><text>One rule to know about pricing which is counter intuitive. (And that has been repeated countless times on HN)<p><i>Your pricing is never high enough</i><p>If you want your prospects&#x2F;customers to take you seriously they have to find you expensive. If you seem cheap they will not take you seriously.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dubcanada</author><text>Do people not take Walmart seriously? Office 365 is also extremely cheap compared to what you get. Do people not take that seriously?<p>I don&#x27;t think blanket statements like, you&#x27;re SAAS product is not expensive enough, work. You should take a tailored approach for what works for you.</text></comment> |
19,473,154 | 19,472,761 | 1 | 2 | 19,456,971 | train | <story><title>Streaming video has surpassed cable subscriptions worldwide</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/21/18275670/mpaa-report-streaming-video-cable-subscription-worldwide</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tachyonbeam</author><text>YouTube has definitely become more and more ad-ridden since its inceptions, and the ads are definitely personalized (though badly). There are now videos with multiple ad interruptions, a bit like ye olde TV. I do think one difference here is that on YouTube, if a video is full of ads, I won&#x27;t keep watching long unless the content is solid and interesting. I, as a watcher, have a choice as to what I watch. Though of course, YouTube could fix that by imposing the same amount of ads on all videos.</text></item><item><author>bamboozled</author><text>The only thing is, once the streaming market has dominated, there is nothing stopping it to also turning into crap full of advertisements.<p>I remember when cable was cheap and as-free.<p>The transition looks good because it has too (to lure customers away from cable). My bet is that it’s only a matter of time till “personilized ads” are forced upon you.</text></item><item><author>mgleason_3</author><text>Cable is a stinking pile of sog stuff. 90% of the channels are garbage and the picture quality sucks. I recently put an old-fashioned $40 antenna in my attic. It pulls in 156 channels (I’m in OC, CA about 40mi from Mt Wilson and 80mi from San Diego).<p>Compared with the 148 channels Spectrum provided (about 1&#x2F;2 where duplicates) the quality is better on the few I watch intermittently (PBS, ABC, CBS...)<p>The crazy thing is my bill dropped from over $200 to $70 (for just internet).<p>Yea, I’m and idiot for not doing it sooner.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>assblaster</author><text>I use YouTube Red, no ads, ever. And you get access to the entire Google music library.<p>Can&#x27;t beat it for $7.99&#x2F;month.</text></comment> | <story><title>Streaming video has surpassed cable subscriptions worldwide</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/21/18275670/mpaa-report-streaming-video-cable-subscription-worldwide</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tachyonbeam</author><text>YouTube has definitely become more and more ad-ridden since its inceptions, and the ads are definitely personalized (though badly). There are now videos with multiple ad interruptions, a bit like ye olde TV. I do think one difference here is that on YouTube, if a video is full of ads, I won&#x27;t keep watching long unless the content is solid and interesting. I, as a watcher, have a choice as to what I watch. Though of course, YouTube could fix that by imposing the same amount of ads on all videos.</text></item><item><author>bamboozled</author><text>The only thing is, once the streaming market has dominated, there is nothing stopping it to also turning into crap full of advertisements.<p>I remember when cable was cheap and as-free.<p>The transition looks good because it has too (to lure customers away from cable). My bet is that it’s only a matter of time till “personilized ads” are forced upon you.</text></item><item><author>mgleason_3</author><text>Cable is a stinking pile of sog stuff. 90% of the channels are garbage and the picture quality sucks. I recently put an old-fashioned $40 antenna in my attic. It pulls in 156 channels (I’m in OC, CA about 40mi from Mt Wilson and 80mi from San Diego).<p>Compared with the 148 channels Spectrum provided (about 1&#x2F;2 where duplicates) the quality is better on the few I watch intermittently (PBS, ABC, CBS...)<p>The crazy thing is my bill dropped from over $200 to $70 (for just internet).<p>Yea, I’m and idiot for not doing it sooner.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zwkrt</author><text>Just today I swear I was served an ad that didn&#x27;t have a yellow bar, so we can all look forward to that hell. At least cable is produced to have ad breaks that make sense, as opposed to cutting sentences in half.</text></comment> |
19,380,528 | 19,380,163 | 1 | 2 | 19,377,986 | train | <story><title>Online activists are silencing us, scientists say</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/science-socialmedia/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mcv</author><text>You mean that stress can play a factor in RSI? I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s in any way controversial, but that doesn&#x27;t make it in any way less real, or less physical. Although in the case of RSI, there are a lot more factors than that: bad posture, lack of exercise, and most importantly of course repetitive motions that very slowly build up strain on surrounding tissue, wrists, shoulders, back, etc.</text></item><item><author>hirundo</author><text>John Sarno&#x27;s theory is that such pain is indeed caused by physical mechanisms ... which are triggered by psychological mechanisms. Such things are common, like a blush to the cheeks, hair on your arm raised by fright, erections and other sexual responses, etc.<p>He was also clear that this is not always the case, and that direct physical causes should be looked for by a specialist before pursuing psychological remedies.</text></item><item><author>mcv</author><text>&gt; those without a clear physical mechanism, such as RSI or chronic back pain<p>But RSI has a clear physical mechanism. I don&#x27;t know as much about chronic back pain, but considering how much physical stuff there is in our back, I&#x27;d assume it&#x27;s similar.<p>Or does &quot;physical mechanism&quot; mean something other than it seems to mean?</text></item><item><author>nateberkopec</author><text>Over the next 20 or so years, expect a lot of syndromes&#x2F;conditions to be reclassified, as Michael Sharpe puts in the article, as &quot;biological condition[s] that can be perpetuated by social and psychological factors.&quot;.<p>I struggled with RSI for a couple of years until I read John Sarno&#x27;s &quot;The Mind-Body Connection&quot; on the recommendation of someone from HN. Sarno&#x27;s thesis is that many chronic pain conditions (those without a clear physical mechanism, such as RSI or chronic back pain) are psychosomatic.<p>A lot of people struggle with this idea, and take it, as they did in the article, as &quot;my pain isn&#x27;t real&quot;. Sarno&#x27;s book very clearly lays out that the pain <i>is real</i>, it&#x27;s just caused by processes in your brain, not the rest of your body.<p>Societally it&#x27;s all very strange. We accept a &quot;mind-body&quot; connection for certain types of disorders, but, not for others. Anxiety sufferers can fool themselves into thinking they&#x27;re having a heart attack and hyperventilate. Why is it crazy or anti-scientific to think that the same can cause other symptoms? We&#x27;ve searched for decades for body-based mechanisms for these chronic pain conditions, why not consider causes in the brain?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hisnameisjimmy</author><text>The implication by Sarno is that stress, or other psychological factors, is the <i>whole</i> reason for the physical pain. Not always, but in many (if not a majority) of cases.<p>The idea is the pain is very, very real, and very, very painful. But that the cause is psychological.<p>The reason why RSI and back pain type issues persist is because psychologically they are very easy to justify. Of course we put load on our backs! Of course we do repetitive things! So it&#x27;s easy to draw the conclusion that this is the cause, especially for your brain. This prevents people from exploring a root cause.<p>It&#x27;s interesting material, but I think you have to be pretty open minded to consider it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Online activists are silencing us, scientists say</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/science-socialmedia/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mcv</author><text>You mean that stress can play a factor in RSI? I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s in any way controversial, but that doesn&#x27;t make it in any way less real, or less physical. Although in the case of RSI, there are a lot more factors than that: bad posture, lack of exercise, and most importantly of course repetitive motions that very slowly build up strain on surrounding tissue, wrists, shoulders, back, etc.</text></item><item><author>hirundo</author><text>John Sarno&#x27;s theory is that such pain is indeed caused by physical mechanisms ... which are triggered by psychological mechanisms. Such things are common, like a blush to the cheeks, hair on your arm raised by fright, erections and other sexual responses, etc.<p>He was also clear that this is not always the case, and that direct physical causes should be looked for by a specialist before pursuing psychological remedies.</text></item><item><author>mcv</author><text>&gt; those without a clear physical mechanism, such as RSI or chronic back pain<p>But RSI has a clear physical mechanism. I don&#x27;t know as much about chronic back pain, but considering how much physical stuff there is in our back, I&#x27;d assume it&#x27;s similar.<p>Or does &quot;physical mechanism&quot; mean something other than it seems to mean?</text></item><item><author>nateberkopec</author><text>Over the next 20 or so years, expect a lot of syndromes&#x2F;conditions to be reclassified, as Michael Sharpe puts in the article, as &quot;biological condition[s] that can be perpetuated by social and psychological factors.&quot;.<p>I struggled with RSI for a couple of years until I read John Sarno&#x27;s &quot;The Mind-Body Connection&quot; on the recommendation of someone from HN. Sarno&#x27;s thesis is that many chronic pain conditions (those without a clear physical mechanism, such as RSI or chronic back pain) are psychosomatic.<p>A lot of people struggle with this idea, and take it, as they did in the article, as &quot;my pain isn&#x27;t real&quot;. Sarno&#x27;s book very clearly lays out that the pain <i>is real</i>, it&#x27;s just caused by processes in your brain, not the rest of your body.<p>Societally it&#x27;s all very strange. We accept a &quot;mind-body&quot; connection for certain types of disorders, but, not for others. Anxiety sufferers can fool themselves into thinking they&#x27;re having a heart attack and hyperventilate. Why is it crazy or anti-scientific to think that the same can cause other symptoms? We&#x27;ve searched for decades for body-based mechanisms for these chronic pain conditions, why not consider causes in the brain?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Pimpus</author><text>It&#x27;s not stress and it&#x27;s not playing a factor. Unconscious, repressed emotions are the direct cause of RSI and many other ailments, including Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. I highly recommend reading the book.</text></comment> |
30,143,252 | 30,142,867 | 1 | 2 | 30,141,278 | train | <story><title>The Story of Maxis Software (1999)</title><url>https://web.archive.org/web/19991012021220/http://gamespot.com/features/maxis/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mewse</author><text>I worked at Maxis for about six months during the middle part of the events described in the article. I started during the tumultuous days surrounding the initial attempt at SimCity 3000 (I didn’t work on that project, though I saw its prototypes from time to time), up until shortly after the EA buyout was announced (but before it actually happened).<p>On my first day at work there was a giant poster in the reception area which you’d see on your way back out to the elevators, which began with the text, “To departing staff:”. The SimCity 3k debacle was already bleeding their staff, and I remember thinking — even as a fresh university graduate with no real work experience — that that probably wasn’t a good sign. (I don’t remember noticing it again after the first day; it may actually have only been up for that one day)<p>My cubicle was about two meters from Wil Wright’s glass-fronted office, with direct line of sight into it. My major regret is that I never introduced myself to him or even spoke to him at all (I was just a fresh university graduate and he was freaking Wil Wright. And also, he always looked kind of stressed and unhappy in there and I never wanted to impose)<p>RE: the story’s comment “There was absolutely no explanation as to why SimCity 3000 needed to be 3D,” I again wasn’t actually on that project, but it was clear to see that it wasn’t possible to make the game in 3D at that time. This was the era of the original 3DFX Voodoo card, and there were only two of them in the entire company (and somehow I had one of them and I never understood why). But the reason I was given for making the game in 3D was that it was a decision from Marketing; it was a core game bullet point that was going to be required if SimCity 3000 was going to save the company the way that SimCity 2000 had done. No 3D? The company wouldn’t survive. So there were epic battles between marketing and sales saying that it was what was required to save the company on one side, and the programmers who would have to actually implement the game saying that it wasn’t technically possible on the other side.<p>It was an interesting situation to be tossed into as your first thing out of university, I have to say. Even if I was kind of over to one side working on Streets of SimCity and only seeing it in my peripheral vision.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>willismichael</author><text>&gt; Streets of SimCity<p>Maybe that&#x27;s why you had a Voodoo card? My brothers and I loved Streets of SimCity. That you could load your game from SimCity 2000 and drive around in it was genius. We had so much fun with that game. The ridiculous songs on the radio and the over-the-top cheesy dialog were just icing on the cake.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Story of Maxis Software (1999)</title><url>https://web.archive.org/web/19991012021220/http://gamespot.com/features/maxis/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mewse</author><text>I worked at Maxis for about six months during the middle part of the events described in the article. I started during the tumultuous days surrounding the initial attempt at SimCity 3000 (I didn’t work on that project, though I saw its prototypes from time to time), up until shortly after the EA buyout was announced (but before it actually happened).<p>On my first day at work there was a giant poster in the reception area which you’d see on your way back out to the elevators, which began with the text, “To departing staff:”. The SimCity 3k debacle was already bleeding their staff, and I remember thinking — even as a fresh university graduate with no real work experience — that that probably wasn’t a good sign. (I don’t remember noticing it again after the first day; it may actually have only been up for that one day)<p>My cubicle was about two meters from Wil Wright’s glass-fronted office, with direct line of sight into it. My major regret is that I never introduced myself to him or even spoke to him at all (I was just a fresh university graduate and he was freaking Wil Wright. And also, he always looked kind of stressed and unhappy in there and I never wanted to impose)<p>RE: the story’s comment “There was absolutely no explanation as to why SimCity 3000 needed to be 3D,” I again wasn’t actually on that project, but it was clear to see that it wasn’t possible to make the game in 3D at that time. This was the era of the original 3DFX Voodoo card, and there were only two of them in the entire company (and somehow I had one of them and I never understood why). But the reason I was given for making the game in 3D was that it was a decision from Marketing; it was a core game bullet point that was going to be required if SimCity 3000 was going to save the company the way that SimCity 2000 had done. No 3D? The company wouldn’t survive. So there were epic battles between marketing and sales saying that it was what was required to save the company on one side, and the programmers who would have to actually implement the game saying that it wasn’t technically possible on the other side.<p>It was an interesting situation to be tossed into as your first thing out of university, I have to say. Even if I was kind of over to one side working on Streets of SimCity and only seeing it in my peripheral vision.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PLenz</author><text>I just want to say that my brother and I played _the_hell_ out of Streets. So thanks for being a small part of our childhoods.</text></comment> |
11,254,923 | 11,254,395 | 1 | 2 | 11,253,321 | train | <story><title>How We Build Code at Netflix</title><url>http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/03/how-we-build-code-at-netflix.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mkobit</author><text>I&#x27;m interested in knowing more about the &quot;25 Jenkins masters&quot; that they have, and how much they have modified&#x2F;built for Jenkins to make it work for them.<p>We are currently in a state of &quot;big ball of plugins and configuration&quot;. A bunch of plugins have been installed, and lots of manual configuration has been put into jobs so that everybody has what they need to build their software. It has led to Jenkins being a &quot;do everything&quot; workflow system. The easy path that Jenkins provides, to me, seems like the wrong one - it makes it easy to just stuff everything in there because it &quot;can&quot; do it. This seems to leads to tons of copy&#x2F;paste, drift, all types of different work being represented, and it is starting to become unmanageable.<p>Have others seen this happen when using Jenkins? How have you dealt with it?</text></comment> | <story><title>How We Build Code at Netflix</title><url>http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/03/how-we-build-code-at-netflix.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vlucas</author><text>For those wondering about how this applies to Node.js use a Netflix like myself, it&#x27;s in there towards the bottom of the article:<p>&gt; &quot;As Netflix grows and evolves, there is an increasing demand for our build and deploy toolset to provide first-class support for non-JVM languages, like JavaScript&#x2F;Node.js, Python, Ruby and Go. Our current recommendation for non-JVM applications is to use the Nebula ospackage plugin to produce a Debian package for baking, leaving the build and test pieces to the engineers and the platform’s preferred tooling. While this solves the needs of teams today, we are expanding our tools to be language agnostic.&quot;</text></comment> |
22,905,610 | 22,905,466 | 1 | 2 | 22,904,100 | train | <story><title>Writing Python inside Rust</title><url>https://blog.m-ou.se/writing-python-inside-rust-1/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>6gvONxR4sf7o</author><text>I know this project may just be for fun, but with WASM targets for all sorts of languages, I&#x27;m hoping we get to a future where mixing and matching different languages for different parts of your program will be seamless. Imagine starting a project in an easy language, then migrating pieces to a faster &quot;bare metal&quot; language as needed in a super piecemeal way. Same with moving pieces to a safer language as the project grows, slowly expanding the boundaries of the safe bits as appropriate.</text></comment> | <story><title>Writing Python inside Rust</title><url>https://blog.m-ou.se/writing-python-inside-rust-1/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>marvy</author><text>So, at first I thought this approach is doomed, because you lose comments, and what looks like a comment to Rust may not look like one to Python. Example:<p><pre><code> x = y &#x2F;&#x2F; 2 # floor division
</code></pre>
But then I decided to look at the docs:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doc.rust-lang.org&#x2F;proc_macro&#x2F;struct.Span.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doc.rust-lang.org&#x2F;proc_macro&#x2F;struct.Span.html</a><p>And I noticed source_text, which &quot;preserves the original source code, including spaces and comments&quot;!!!<p>Why not just use this from the start then?? Seems like the easy way out, no?<p>(Disclaimer: I don&#x27;t know Rust, can&#x27;t even write hello world.)</text></comment> |
4,697,500 | 4,697,133 | 1 | 2 | 4,696,899 | train | <story><title>SSH key and passwordless login basics for developers</title><url>http://opensourcehacker.com/2012/10/24/ssh-key-and-passwordless-login-basics-for-developers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>apawloski</author><text>This was mentioned before, but if this post gains traction it's worth talking about again:<p>It is almost totally unnecessary to maintain multiple key pairs for multiple purposes if they're going to be stored on the same machine (eg separate key for github). If one of these services is compromised, an adversary will only get your <i>public</i> key, which is useless. This is very different than the security practices of symmetric passwords.</text></comment> | <story><title>SSH key and passwordless login basics for developers</title><url>http://opensourcehacker.com/2012/10/24/ssh-key-and-passwordless-login-basics-for-developers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>h2s</author><text>The output of "man ssh_config" is popular here lately isn't it? It was on the front page in a different guise only four days ago.<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4677049" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4677049</a></text></comment> |
17,830,980 | 17,830,898 | 1 | 2 | 17,829,656 | train | <story><title>Netflix is the latest company to try bypassing Apple’s app store</title><url>https://www.marketwatch.com/story/netflix-is-the-latest-company-to-try-bypassing-apples-app-store-2018-08-23</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dperfect</author><text>&gt; They are being redirected to the mobile web version of the app and asked to enter payment details with Netflix directly.<p>Sorry, but if Apple&#x27;s policies are applied consistently (I know they often aren&#x27;t), this won&#x27;t fly.<p>I have an app with a basic email&#x2F;password sign-in screen (the app represents a small part of a larger web-based SaaS product). Apple has rejected my app for including <i>anything</i> in the app that even remotely hints to the service existing outside of the App Store. This includes a &quot;Sign Up&quot; button linked to the web signup, a &quot;Learn More&quot; button that links to the website, or even a &quot;Support&quot; button that has navigation that can lead to a signup or pricing page. After a long chat with someone from the App Store review team, I learned that you can&#x27;t link to <i>any</i> page of a site that contains other links that can indirectly lead to a signup or pricing information. It&#x27;s a pretty harsh policy.<p>So my app was finally approved, but without any links to support documentation on my site. Congratulations, Apple - you win :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tommymachine</author><text>It will be some vague &quot;you can&#x27;t do this here&quot; message that doesn&#x27;t directly link. A la current state of affairs with Spotify &#x2F; Audible &#x2F; Amazon<p>As a suggestion regarding your situation... obviously its more work but you could always open the support pages in a webView that blocks the purchase urls via [1].<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;uikit&#x2F;uiwebviewdelegate&#x2F;1617945-webview" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;uikit&#x2F;uiwebviewdel...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Netflix is the latest company to try bypassing Apple’s app store</title><url>https://www.marketwatch.com/story/netflix-is-the-latest-company-to-try-bypassing-apples-app-store-2018-08-23</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dperfect</author><text>&gt; They are being redirected to the mobile web version of the app and asked to enter payment details with Netflix directly.<p>Sorry, but if Apple&#x27;s policies are applied consistently (I know they often aren&#x27;t), this won&#x27;t fly.<p>I have an app with a basic email&#x2F;password sign-in screen (the app represents a small part of a larger web-based SaaS product). Apple has rejected my app for including <i>anything</i> in the app that even remotely hints to the service existing outside of the App Store. This includes a &quot;Sign Up&quot; button linked to the web signup, a &quot;Learn More&quot; button that links to the website, or even a &quot;Support&quot; button that has navigation that can lead to a signup or pricing page. After a long chat with someone from the App Store review team, I learned that you can&#x27;t link to <i>any</i> page of a site that contains other links that can indirectly lead to a signup or pricing information. It&#x27;s a pretty harsh policy.<p>So my app was finally approved, but without any links to support documentation on my site. Congratulations, Apple - you win :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andyfleming</author><text>IF applied consistently. This is Netflix though. I&#x27;ll be interested to see how this plays out.</text></comment> |
39,716,026 | 39,714,254 | 1 | 3 | 39,713,323 | train | <story><title>Berlin's techno scene added to Unesco intangible cultural heritage list</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/15/berlins-techno-scene-added-to-unesco-intangible-cultural-heritage-list</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>helloplanets</author><text>&quot;Der Klang der Familie: Berlin, Techno and the Fall of the Wall&quot; [0] is a good book on the origins of the Berlin Techno scene. It&#x27;s based on interviews and discussions by the people originally setting up the whole thing, making it a pretty breezy read that you don&#x27;t necessarily have to go through chronologically.<p>No city can really replicate the absurd situation Berlin was in after the second world war. The absolute oppressive atmosphere, with one day the whole city getting flipped upside down. Anyone being able to take over a building on the East side and throw a party there. When before you could end up in a cell overnight for playing a boombox too loud on the street. The original location for Tresor (club) was the literal translation of the German word: A big old safe in a bank. That you had to climb down a ladder to get to.<p>An unexpected connection of cities is between Berlin and Detroit: Underground Resistance (a group of Detroit born Techno producers) among many others playing gigs in Tresor going back to the early nineties.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Klang-Familie-Felix-Denk&#x2F;dp&#x2F;3738604294" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Klang-Familie-Felix-Denk&#x2F;dp&#x2F;373860429...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Berlin's techno scene added to Unesco intangible cultural heritage list</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/15/berlins-techno-scene-added-to-unesco-intangible-cultural-heritage-list</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jamil7</author><text>How exactly does the city and federal Government square this with their plan to build a huge (unwanted) freeway through the city and bulldoze multiple clubs and music venues?</text></comment> |
39,340,111 | 39,337,592 | 1 | 2 | 39,336,308 | train | <story><title>100% User-Supported</title><url>https://stephango.com/vcware</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>doesnt_know</author><text>&quot;VCware&quot; is a nice succinct term to use, I hope it catches on in the wider tech&#x2F;power user scene and the first comment about any launch is whether it&#x27;s &quot;vcware&quot;. Of course it will be a bit awkward here on HN due to somewhat obvious reasons but hopefully elsewhere the term becomes used.<p>I think one thing that royally pisses me off even more then an initial VC backed launch is a seemingly stable, premium product going from &quot;user-supported&quot; to accepting VC funds (eg: Bitwarden). Just the absolute worst. Now I know I have to deal with this migration away for the whole family at some point in my (probably near) future.</text></comment> | <story><title>100% User-Supported</title><url>https://stephango.com/vcware</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lmeyerov</author><text>+ this<p>It was super painful transition for Graphistry. Certainly as a founder responsible for payroll and having only so many hours in a day. Likewise, as business where people in serious gov, enterprise, etc teams are making mission bets on our team, it is both enabling &amp; stress-relieving to know that we can prioritize listening to our customers more than what we think the next funding round&#x27;s VCs need to hear. It&#x27;s been night &amp; day launching our new genAI analytics tool louie.ai: this time around, we&#x27;ve gotten to work entirely based on customer design partner feedback &amp; revenue, vs next round VC funding pressure. Still major pressure given who our customers are etc, but of the positive kind.<p>We haven&#x27;t taken further fundraising off the table. Importantly, this time around, if&#x2F;when we do an A, it can now be very much on our terms, and in a way we feel won&#x27;t unnecessarily jeapordize our customers &amp; team.<p>As always, context matters. If a company is making $500K in month 3 because the founder is selling back to his old F500 buddies, or it&#x27;s an n-th time serial founder who VCs line up to burn $100M on no questions asked, or it&#x27;s yet another Cisco spin-out-and-in, sure. Likewise, we&#x27;ve been figuring out sustainable growth, and that changes a lot. But most pre&#x2F;seed&#x2F;A software startup situations nowadays aren&#x27;t these.</text></comment> |
19,563,332 | 19,563,372 | 1 | 3 | 19,562,618 | train | <story><title>Mozilla and independent researchers publish guidelines for an ad archive API</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/03/27/facebook-and-google-this-is-what-an-effective-ad-archive-api-looks-like/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>borntyping</author><text>&quot;Just block ads&quot; isn&#x27;t a useful answer here - this is about being able to see who is advertising to the people who aren&#x27;t using ad-blockers (which is most users on the internet), and being able to do research into who is paying for advert and who they are targeting. As long as the advertising industry still has a presence on the internet, this information will be important.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mozilla and independent researchers publish guidelines for an ad archive API</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/03/27/facebook-and-google-this-is-what-an-effective-ad-archive-api-looks-like/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>btown</author><text>I&#x27;ve taken a liking to the term &quot;the New York Times rule&quot; - write and act as if your message, statement, or a detailed account of your actions could be published at any time on the front page of the New York Times: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;businessethicsblog.com&#x2F;2010&#x2F;12&#x2F;08&#x2F;business-ethics-and-the-new-york-times-rule&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;businessethicsblog.com&#x2F;2010&#x2F;12&#x2F;08&#x2F;business-ethics-an...</a> .<p>The most concerning political advertising thrives in the shadows: it whispers messages to audiences that are false (easier to counter in the light of day) or prejudiced (and thus should have consequences to whatever groups post them). Radical transparency during campaigns may not stop these types of things, but at the very least it enables a response.<p>That said, it&#x27;s worth thinking deeply about the arms race that might ensue - when every PAC can see every advertisement every other PAC is investing in, does that make the race into even more of a &quot;whoever has the most money wins&quot; situation even more than the post-Citizens United dystopia we find ourselves in now?</text></comment> |
2,980,819 | 2,980,873 | 1 | 3 | 2,980,381 | train | <story><title>The New Apple Advantage</title><url>http://daringfireball.net/2011/09/new_apple_advantage</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>microarchitect</author><text>I understand these things are partly symbolic, but besides that is this really useful? I mean, is there a real business benefit to Apple by making Khan take the next immediate flight to China rather than the one a few hours later. Similarly, what was your friend doing that was so important that he couldn't wait to get a change of clothes?<p>I personally do my best work when I'm relaxed and un-stressed. The apple environment seems to be diametrically opposite to this. I can see that some people might thrive in this environment, but I always wonder at what cost to themselves.</text></item><item><author>jballanc</author><text>There's a story that I've heard told about Tim Cook numerous times. I can't remember the original source (there's a reference here: <a href="http://www.cultofmac.com/who-is-apples-new-ceo-tim-cook-bio/110498" rel="nofollow">http://www.cultofmac.com/who-is-apples-new-ceo-tim-cook-bio/...</a>), but I think it basically sums up Tim:<p>&#62; When in a meeting discussing a problem in China, Tim Cook noted that the problem was “really bad” and that someone should be in China fixing it. Thirty minutes later, Cook then famously looked over at Apple’s operations manager, Sabih Khan, and asked “Why are you still here?” Khan was on the next flight to China.<p>But what's most remarkable is that like Jobs, Tim has managed to infuse this attitude into the very fabric of Apple. Once, when I worked there, a friend called and asked if I had plans for lunch. I replied that I did not. "Good," he said, "Can you drive me to SFO?" So I picked him up. He had a seat on the 1:30 PM flight and we were barely going to make it. "Do you think we have time to stop by my place so I can grab a change of clothes?" he asked. I told him that we did not, and his reply was "Oh well, I guess I'll just have to find a store in Boston"...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>glenra</author><text>Speaking from experience as somebody who has done this sort of trip: Yes, it's hugely useful and there is a real business benefit.<p>First off, we're probably talking about a time when there were only a few direct flights a day from SFO to the relevant airport so if he didn't go that afternoon he'd have to wait until the next morning so instead of flying through the night he'd be flying through the day - flying RIGHT THEN means <i>one less day in which your product slips its schedule</i>.<p>Now recall that Apple used to have trouble getting enough media attention so they would schedule product announcements around, say, MacWorld or the Superbowl. Big events that <i>cannot be moved</i>. Every day the schedule slips makes it that much more likely you miss the intended product launch window. For Apple, if your product isn't ready to ship, it's not ready to show which means you've wasted a lot of money - your next suitable launch window might be months later by which time the product no longer has a compelling story to tell. Missing the intended launch date can mean the difference between a successful product and a failure.<p>Conference calls are expensive and tend to involve both high-level people and lower-level people. If the schedule is slipping, the chinese engineers won't necessarily tell you the truth about <i>why</i> it's slipping in that sort of forum - there's a face-saving issue. There are also communications difficulties when people who don't speak english well just nod and say "yes, we'll do that" without really understanding what they're agreeing to. Email can clarify and puts things in writing but the time difference means most exchanges lose at least a day.<p>Another factor is "the squeaky wheel gets the grease". The same factory is trying to build products for you <i>and</i> a variety of other companies. When some other company's product totally unrelated to yours has a crisis, they might choose to rationally pull engineering resources away from <i>your</i> product to serve somebody else...if you're not there to nag and check up on the schedule.<p>The bottom line is that if you don't have at least one person there most of the time, your product stands a very very low chance of meeting your schedule <i>or</i> your quality targets.</text></comment> | <story><title>The New Apple Advantage</title><url>http://daringfireball.net/2011/09/new_apple_advantage</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>microarchitect</author><text>I understand these things are partly symbolic, but besides that is this really useful? I mean, is there a real business benefit to Apple by making Khan take the next immediate flight to China rather than the one a few hours later. Similarly, what was your friend doing that was so important that he couldn't wait to get a change of clothes?<p>I personally do my best work when I'm relaxed and un-stressed. The apple environment seems to be diametrically opposite to this. I can see that some people might thrive in this environment, but I always wonder at what cost to themselves.</text></item><item><author>jballanc</author><text>There's a story that I've heard told about Tim Cook numerous times. I can't remember the original source (there's a reference here: <a href="http://www.cultofmac.com/who-is-apples-new-ceo-tim-cook-bio/110498" rel="nofollow">http://www.cultofmac.com/who-is-apples-new-ceo-tim-cook-bio/...</a>), but I think it basically sums up Tim:<p>&#62; When in a meeting discussing a problem in China, Tim Cook noted that the problem was “really bad” and that someone should be in China fixing it. Thirty minutes later, Cook then famously looked over at Apple’s operations manager, Sabih Khan, and asked “Why are you still here?” Khan was on the next flight to China.<p>But what's most remarkable is that like Jobs, Tim has managed to infuse this attitude into the very fabric of Apple. Once, when I worked there, a friend called and asked if I had plans for lunch. I replied that I did not. "Good," he said, "Can you drive me to SFO?" So I picked him up. He had a seat on the 1:30 PM flight and we were barely going to make it. "Do you think we have time to stop by my place so I can grab a change of clothes?" he asked. I told him that we did not, and his reply was "Oh well, I guess I'll just have to find a store in Boston"...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jballanc</author><text>This wasn't for show, wasn't symbolic. Without going into details, there was no alternative for being there in person (remember Apple is as much, or more of, a hardware company as a software company).<p>As for your second point, I think you make the mistake of assuming that there are only two states one can operate in: stressed or relaxed. In fact, there is a third...let's call it "flow", for lack of a better term. That's where you're up all night, running to the airport on a moments notice, pulling out all the stops to be <i>absolutely perfect</i>, but you don't feel stressed in the slightest.<p>...Apple runs on that flow.</text></comment> |
26,218,048 | 26,218,275 | 1 | 2 | 26,217,564 | train | <story><title>Apparent hackers behind Kia ransomware attack demand millions in Bitcoin</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/tech/39309/the-apparent-hackers-behind-kias-ransomware-attack-are-demanding-millions-in-bitcoin</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grawprog</author><text>The whole idea of an internet connected car that constantly &#x27;phones home&#x27; without any easy way to bypass or disable is kind of mind boggling to me.<p>I don&#x27;t understand why after this people weren&#x27;t in an uproar.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;09&#x2F;11&#x2F;business&#x2F;tesla-battery-irma-upgrade.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;09&#x2F;11&#x2F;business&#x2F;tesla-battery-ir...</a><p>When Tesla decided generously to temporarily grant residents fleeing a hurricane an upgrade that allowed full usage of their battery.<p>People&#x27;s lives were literally in the hands of an optional, upsold firmware softlock.<p>The fact that it&#x27;s come to that is completely appalling. When the manufacturer of your car has the power to save your life because if they didn&#x27;t they&#x27;d suffer bad publicity is disgusting.<p>And the fact is, the only reason why hackers are able to gain access to vehicles, the only reason for any of it is because companies have decided cars need to be a service provided by them so they can keep making money after the initial purchase.<p>People buy cars so they can travel freely without relying on others. Making cars reliant on a third party server for something as basic as the ingition goes against the entire premise of owning a car.</text></item><item><author>userbinator</author><text><i>As we noted previously, it means that many Kia owners may be unable to remotely unlock their vehicles or warm them up during an especially nasty winter storm hitting much of the country this week.</i><p>Cars had remote unlock and start <i>decades</i> ago (if not OEM, then aftermarket systems were and still are widely available), with <i>zero</i> dependence on what appears to be the company&#x27;s servers. The only advantage I can fathom for being able to unlock and start a car over the Internet instead of only by being within radio range seems more oriented towards attackers and other user-hostile scenarios (&quot;your car has now become a subscription, please pay to unlock it&quot;). Have we gone backwards...?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckNorris89</author><text><i>&gt;People&#x27;s lives were literally in the hands of an optional, upsold firmware softlock</i><p>People&#x27;s lives are literally in the hands of optional firmware softlock all the time in medical devices that you can find in hospitals. If the hospital doesn&#x27;t pay for x feature or for support technicians to service them, then some people could actually die.<p>Saving lives or not, you can&#x27;t blame a company for not giving you for free features you haven&#x27;t paid for.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apparent hackers behind Kia ransomware attack demand millions in Bitcoin</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/tech/39309/the-apparent-hackers-behind-kias-ransomware-attack-are-demanding-millions-in-bitcoin</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grawprog</author><text>The whole idea of an internet connected car that constantly &#x27;phones home&#x27; without any easy way to bypass or disable is kind of mind boggling to me.<p>I don&#x27;t understand why after this people weren&#x27;t in an uproar.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;09&#x2F;11&#x2F;business&#x2F;tesla-battery-irma-upgrade.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;09&#x2F;11&#x2F;business&#x2F;tesla-battery-ir...</a><p>When Tesla decided generously to temporarily grant residents fleeing a hurricane an upgrade that allowed full usage of their battery.<p>People&#x27;s lives were literally in the hands of an optional, upsold firmware softlock.<p>The fact that it&#x27;s come to that is completely appalling. When the manufacturer of your car has the power to save your life because if they didn&#x27;t they&#x27;d suffer bad publicity is disgusting.<p>And the fact is, the only reason why hackers are able to gain access to vehicles, the only reason for any of it is because companies have decided cars need to be a service provided by them so they can keep making money after the initial purchase.<p>People buy cars so they can travel freely without relying on others. Making cars reliant on a third party server for something as basic as the ingition goes against the entire premise of owning a car.</text></item><item><author>userbinator</author><text><i>As we noted previously, it means that many Kia owners may be unable to remotely unlock their vehicles or warm them up during an especially nasty winter storm hitting much of the country this week.</i><p>Cars had remote unlock and start <i>decades</i> ago (if not OEM, then aftermarket systems were and still are widely available), with <i>zero</i> dependence on what appears to be the company&#x27;s servers. The only advantage I can fathom for being able to unlock and start a car over the Internet instead of only by being within radio range seems more oriented towards attackers and other user-hostile scenarios (&quot;your car has now become a subscription, please pay to unlock it&quot;). Have we gone backwards...?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>prostoalex</author><text>&gt; allowed full usage of their battery.<p>I thought on the checkout page Tesla was pretty explicit that they were selling a 75 kWh model with discounts thrown in for artificially software-restricted 60 kWh version.<p>If an ICE brand sold two trims of the same vehicle - the cheaper one with the smaller tank or worse fuel economy, is it as appalling and aren&#x27;t they endangering the drivers of the budget version?</text></comment> |
3,019,836 | 3,019,848 | 1 | 2 | 3,019,391 | train | <story><title>John Carmack coded Quake on a 28-inch 16:9 1080p monitor in 1995</title><url>http://www.geek.com/articles/games/john-carmack-coded-quake-on-a-28-inch-169-1080p-monitor-in-1995-20110920/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ck2</author><text>Sony FW900, last, best CRT ever made (that was affordable).<p>23 inch 16:10 CRT, 1920x1200 - weighs nearly 100 pounds and draws 150 watts if I remember correctly.<p>Originally like $2000, down to $300 at the end (refurbished).<p>Had variable phosphorus pitch, denser at the corners and an internal cpu adjusted the corners to correct for (earth?) magnetic field.<p>Only went to LCD when mine finally died and there was no one who could repair it and getting another was out of the question because shipping prices have gone through the roof.<p>There is a huge fan thread on them in [H]ardForum with lots of photos.<p>The colors on them are unbelievable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>watmough</author><text>Absolutely my favorite resolution, and is what's currently setup on my HP ZR24w, as well as deliberately defocussed a couple of notches to fuzz the text up a bit.<p>In comparison to the $2000 and $10000 crts, this is a great monitor with an ips panel, a standard sRGB color-gamut, and a cheap for an ips panel price of about $380 right now.<p>Yeah, I'm happy to be programming now, though 6 years ago was a great time for 'if you can haul it, you can have it' deals on crts.</text></comment> | <story><title>John Carmack coded Quake on a 28-inch 16:9 1080p monitor in 1995</title><url>http://www.geek.com/articles/games/john-carmack-coded-quake-on-a-28-inch-169-1080p-monitor-in-1995-20110920/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ck2</author><text>Sony FW900, last, best CRT ever made (that was affordable).<p>23 inch 16:10 CRT, 1920x1200 - weighs nearly 100 pounds and draws 150 watts if I remember correctly.<p>Originally like $2000, down to $300 at the end (refurbished).<p>Had variable phosphorus pitch, denser at the corners and an internal cpu adjusted the corners to correct for (earth?) magnetic field.<p>Only went to LCD when mine finally died and there was no one who could repair it and getting another was out of the question because shipping prices have gone through the roof.<p>There is a huge fan thread on them in [H]ardForum with lots of photos.<p>The colors on them are unbelievable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>protomyth</author><text>The high end from Sony is now and OLED <a href="http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/cat-monitors/resource.solutions.bbsccms-assets-cat-mondisp-solutions-oledmonitors.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/cat-monitors/resource.solutions...</a><p>(these are mostly used for color grading)</text></comment> |
38,700,166 | 38,700,136 | 1 | 3 | 38,698,707 | train | <story><title>Google agrees to pay $700M in antitrust settlement reached with states</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/google-android-play-store-apps-antitrust-settlement-e4e2f422baa846c66deac90c7866c5fd</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amadeuspagel</author><text>It&#x27;s shocking that it&#x27;s illegal to make an OS that allows people to install apps from other sources after warning them, but not illegal to not allow that at all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crazygringo</author><text>This is the problem that arises when the legislature doesn&#x27;t make laws specifically around things like app stores.<p>The courts take existing laws and regulations and try to make them fit, and different courts come up with different answers because the laws they&#x27;re using never imagined this precise scenario.<p>Ideally we&#x27;d have a functioning Congress that would debate these issues and write carefully thought-out laws to regulate app stores. Until then, we just get messes of seemingly contradictory rulings that seem to be decided more by chance than by any clear cohesive principle.<p>In other words -- blame the legislature, not the courts.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google agrees to pay $700M in antitrust settlement reached with states</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/google-android-play-store-apps-antitrust-settlement-e4e2f422baa846c66deac90c7866c5fd</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amadeuspagel</author><text>It&#x27;s shocking that it&#x27;s illegal to make an OS that allows people to install apps from other sources after warning them, but not illegal to not allow that at all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>YetAnotherNick</author><text>Law is so weird. Apple stopped watch sales today for using decades old technology[1]. And Google for this. Out of ALL the bad things they have done.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;katiejennings&#x2F;2023&#x2F;10&#x2F;31&#x2F;some-apple-watches-are-about-to-be-banned-in-the-us-what-happens-next&#x2F;?sh=2fd1f20ad1cc" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;katiejennings&#x2F;2023&#x2F;10&#x2F;31&#x2F;some-a...</a></text></comment> |
30,964,656 | 30,963,942 | 1 | 2 | 30,963,723 | train | <story><title>Mozilla Thunderbird Beta now supports Matrix chat</title><url>https://matrix.org/blog/2022/04/08/this-week-in-matrix-2022-04-08#thunderbird</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hardwaresofton</author><text>The crossover I never knew I wanted but am glad to see<p>Does anyone know of any services that offer all the backing services for add-ons for thunderbird: WebDAV for filelink, CalDAV, CardDAV, (and now) Matrix?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rglullis</author><text>How much would you be willing to pay for it?<p>I provide Matrix hosting (as well as XMPP and ActivityPub Mastodon) on Communick [0].<p>At the moment I&#x27;m more focused on taking these services to offer custom domain hosting, and personally I&#x27;ve been staying away from servers and using DecSync [1] + syncthing to get my calendars and contacts on my devices [2], so I haven&#x27;t thought about adding a DAV server to the mix on Communick. But if you tell me there is any actual demand, I would definitely consider it.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;communick.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;communick.com</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;39aldo39&#x2F;DecSync" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;39aldo39&#x2F;DecSync</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;raphael.lullis.net&#x2F;thinking-heads-are-not-in-the-clouds&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;raphael.lullis.net&#x2F;thinking-heads-are-not-in-the-clo...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Mozilla Thunderbird Beta now supports Matrix chat</title><url>https://matrix.org/blog/2022/04/08/this-week-in-matrix-2022-04-08#thunderbird</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hardwaresofton</author><text>The crossover I never knew I wanted but am glad to see<p>Does anyone know of any services that offer all the backing services for add-ons for thunderbird: WebDAV for filelink, CalDAV, CardDAV, (and now) Matrix?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qbasic_forever</author><text>NextCloud is what I think of when I think of self hosting a webdav, caldav, etc. setup.</text></comment> |
31,507,796 | 31,508,023 | 1 | 2 | 31,505,883 | train | <story><title>DARPA moving forward with nuclear thermal engine design</title><url>https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2022-05-25-Issue-170/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jhgb</author><text>I don&#x27;t see how an NTR helps you in any way to get to Mars or back. Heavy engine, voluminous tanks (~70 kg&#x2F;m³), criminally wasted ISRU material (you have to throw away 88.9% of the water that you mine on site, whereas a hydrolox or methalox system uses almost all of it and the methalox system can even mix it with considerable amount of CO₂ for better system performance). The performance figures for such a system will be <i>terrible</i>. At best a LANTR (not just an NTR) might be somewhat useful for cislunar uses. For Mars flights not even LANTR may be useful.</text></item><item><author>robonerd</author><text>The PDFs here have a lot more information: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sam.gov&#x2F;opp&#x2F;af490b568d2a438498afa1e80bce63e5&#x2F;view" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sam.gov&#x2F;opp&#x2F;af490b568d2a438498afa1e80bce63e5&#x2F;view</a><p>A few takeaways; they intend for such an engine to eventually support long duration human spaceflight (going to Mars.) The propellant for the NTR engine to be liquid hydrogen. One of the problems DARPA anticipates with using such an engine for such a mission is needing to store liquid hydrogen longer than the present state of the art.<p>The PDF doesn&#x27;t seem to mention it, but I think the Advanced Cryogenic Evolved Stage (ACES) is probably relevant to this project. Does anybody know what kind of duration they expect to get from ACES? I&#x27;m not sure but I think it&#x27;s weeks, not months.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>robonerd</author><text>I&#x27;m skeptical too, but DARPA is saying the DRACO program is for getting to&#x2F;from Mars quickly:<p>&gt; <i>The DRACO program intends to develop novel nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) technology to
enable time-critical missions over vast distances in cislunar space. Unlike propulsion
technologies in use today, NTP can achieve high thrust-to-weights similar to chemical
propulsion but with two to five times the efficiency. This enables NTP systems to be both faster
and smaller than electric and chemical systems, respectively. The propulsive capabilities
afforded by NTP will enable the United States to maintain its interests in space, and to expand
possibilities for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)’s long-duration
human spaceflight missions (i.e., to Mars). Because of the ability to transit space faster than
other propulsion systems, the NTR engine can return astronauts to Earth much faster in case of
an emergency and similarly ensure reduction of overall trip time and exposure to deleterious
impacts to astronaut health which come with long-term spaceflight.</i></text></comment> | <story><title>DARPA moving forward with nuclear thermal engine design</title><url>https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2022-05-25-Issue-170/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jhgb</author><text>I don&#x27;t see how an NTR helps you in any way to get to Mars or back. Heavy engine, voluminous tanks (~70 kg&#x2F;m³), criminally wasted ISRU material (you have to throw away 88.9% of the water that you mine on site, whereas a hydrolox or methalox system uses almost all of it and the methalox system can even mix it with considerable amount of CO₂ for better system performance). The performance figures for such a system will be <i>terrible</i>. At best a LANTR (not just an NTR) might be somewhat useful for cislunar uses. For Mars flights not even LANTR may be useful.</text></item><item><author>robonerd</author><text>The PDFs here have a lot more information: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sam.gov&#x2F;opp&#x2F;af490b568d2a438498afa1e80bce63e5&#x2F;view" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sam.gov&#x2F;opp&#x2F;af490b568d2a438498afa1e80bce63e5&#x2F;view</a><p>A few takeaways; they intend for such an engine to eventually support long duration human spaceflight (going to Mars.) The propellant for the NTR engine to be liquid hydrogen. One of the problems DARPA anticipates with using such an engine for such a mission is needing to store liquid hydrogen longer than the present state of the art.<p>The PDF doesn&#x27;t seem to mention it, but I think the Advanced Cryogenic Evolved Stage (ACES) is probably relevant to this project. Does anybody know what kind of duration they expect to get from ACES? I&#x27;m not sure but I think it&#x27;s weeks, not months.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Symmetry</author><text>This is more the sort of engine you develop if you&#x27;re going for an Apollo style mission where there&#x27;s a mother craft that goes into orbit and a separate lander goes down to the surface. A NTR&#x27;s poor TWR compared to conventional combustion rockets means it would be a bad ascent stage.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t assume the plan relies on ISRU at all but if it do having to carry the resulting hydrogen up to orbit on the ascent stage will be a big limiting factor so not keeping the oxygen isn&#x27;t so large a flaw. And if you&#x27;re carrying the fuel to orbit on another rocket you want to get as high an ISP as you can manage with what you bring up.<p>All of which isn&#x27;t to say this would be a good plan. I&#x27;ve drunk the SpaceX koolaid on the topic. But if it&#x27;s a bad plan at least it isn&#x27;t a stupid one and there are reasons behind things.</text></comment> |
37,894,166 | 37,893,280 | 1 | 2 | 37,892,654 | train | <story><title>Hyphens in man pages</title><url>https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2023/10/msg00083.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wolverine876</author><text>For those interested, I had to learn this stuff and following are the usual suspects in these typographical crimes, in English:<p>* U+002D: Hyphen-minus &quot;-&quot;: The old ASCII character that appears when you press the key on your keyboard, at least on a US keyboard. Per Unicode, &quot;used generically for hyphen, minus sign or en dash&quot;. Recall that ASCII had only ~96 &#x27;codepoints&#x27;, as we now call them, available for characters, so many characters were designed for multiple uses, such as quotes, used for open and close quotes; carot &#x27;^&#x27;, tilde &#x27;~&#x27;, etc. used also as diacritics; and the uber-flexible hyphen-minus-en dash (and unofficially em dash, half-em dash (&#x27;--&#x27;), and univeral horizontal line). Also, recall that typewriters only had one hyphen-dash-minus character.<p>* U+2010: Hyphen: &quot;‐&quot;: Specifically a hyphen and nothing else. Typographically, hyphens are just a bit shorter than en dashes. Grammatically, a hyphen demarcates a boundary within a term, such as compound words (&#x27;editor‐in‐chief&#x27;), phone numbers (555‐555‐5555), etc.<p>* U+2013: En dash: &quot;–&quot;: Typographically, half an em dash, slightly longer than a hyphen. Grammatically, en dashes show a continuous range, e.g.: &#x27;October–December&#x27;, &#x27;pages 15–93&#x27;, and, if I don&#x27;t misunderstand, &#x27;London–Paris train&#x27;, etc. It&#x27;s also used in some grammatical and typographical edge case circumstances. Also, of interest only on HN: &quot;typographers sometimes use U+2013 en dash to represent the minus sign, particularly a unary minus&quot;<p>* U+2014: Em Dash &quot;—&quot;: Typographically, twice the length of an en dash, reputedly the width of a capital &#x27;M&#x27;. Grammatically, em dashes show a break: &#x27;&quot;No, no, not the—&quot; (&quot;Yes—the Spanish Inquisition!&quot;)&#x27;. Also commonly used for parenthetical-style breaks in sentences: &#x27;The Spanish Inquisition—ubiquitous, omniscient, or so they say—was always unexpected.&#x27; Finally, used for attribution: &#x27;&quot;The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.&quot; — Eisenhower&#x27;. Also some odd, edge case uses. And because you asked, &quot;In older mathematical typography, U+2014 em dash may also used to indicate a binary minus sign.&quot;<p>* U+2212: Minus sign: &quot;−&quot;<p>There are many more—Double Oblique Hyphen anyone? Search around Unicode, for example, for &#x27;dash&#x27;.<p>Sources: Unicode documentation, Chicago Manual of Style, maybe other similar sources. The summaries of their functions, based on those sources, are mine.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hyphens in man pages</title><url>https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2023/10/msg00083.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wrs</author><text>See also blogs where double hyphens in shell script examples have been automatically converted to em-dashes, and source code rendered in a monospaced font with monospaced ligatures like “fl”. The latter not only fails copy&#x2F;paste, it’s a typographical tragedy. Even <i>Communications of the ACM</i> does it, in a printed magazine with supposedly professional designers!</text></comment> |
17,740,809 | 17,739,906 | 1 | 3 | 17,739,631 | train | <story><title>Bethesda blocks resale of used game</title><url>https://www.polygon.com/2018/8/11/17661254/bethesda-sell-used-games-amazon-block</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ikeboy</author><text>Vorys is corrupt. I&#x27;ve received threatening letters from them as well, that came to my physical address despite it not being listed anywhere on my Amazon store. It also contained false assertions (I&#x27;d bought the goods in question from an authorized distributor that confirmed to me that the letter was simply lying).<p>I know multiple other sellers that also had this issue. It is my belief that Vorys is illegally paying Amazon insiders to get contact information for sellers, as there is no legitimate path to get that information that does not involve a subpoena to Amazon, which would involve an active lawsuit. Unfortunately, this is hard to prove.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bethesda blocks resale of used game</title><url>https://www.polygon.com/2018/8/11/17661254/bethesda-sell-used-games-amazon-block</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stephengillie</author><text>&gt; <i>Bethesda recently sent out a notice to at least one seller on Amazon’s Marketplace who was trying to sell a sealed copy of The Evil Within 2, demanding that they remove their listing.</i><p>This could be an attempt by Bethesda to rein-in what they see as &quot;counterfeit&quot; products, since Amazon is largely unwilling to police their own Marketplace. Though the article states &quot;Bethesda is a notoriously litigious company&quot;, and have a heavy-handed history.</text></comment> |
17,853,997 | 17,853,974 | 1 | 3 | 17,853,077 | train | <story><title>I know why rejection emails suck – I write them</title><url>https://triplebyte.com/blog/rejection-feedback</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikeleeorg</author><text>When I was a hiring manager, I used to always include a personal note that included suggestions and constructive criticism for the candidate. In a couple of cases, those people replied to me, demonstrated some actions towards those goals, and I hired them later, when I had more available positions.<p>And those that I didn&#x27;t hire, I encountered them at other companies. It was flattering to hear them say they remembered me and had a positive impression of our recruiting process, even though they were rejected.<p>I&#x27;ve always believed that the recruiting process is a great way to sell one&#x27;s company. Even if the candidate isn&#x27;t a good match, that candidate may recommend peers to the role if they have a positive experience with you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mister_Snuggles</author><text>I interviewed for an internal position once and got similar feedback, by phone, from the HR person. She was on the phone with me for about an hour and, in all honesty, that rejection phone call made that one of the best interviews I&#x27;ve ever had.<p>I didn&#x27;t get that job, but it gave me a lot of constructive advice and I ended up getting the next one I interviewed for.</text></comment> | <story><title>I know why rejection emails suck – I write them</title><url>https://triplebyte.com/blog/rejection-feedback</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikeleeorg</author><text>When I was a hiring manager, I used to always include a personal note that included suggestions and constructive criticism for the candidate. In a couple of cases, those people replied to me, demonstrated some actions towards those goals, and I hired them later, when I had more available positions.<p>And those that I didn&#x27;t hire, I encountered them at other companies. It was flattering to hear them say they remembered me and had a positive impression of our recruiting process, even though they were rejected.<p>I&#x27;ve always believed that the recruiting process is a great way to sell one&#x27;s company. Even if the candidate isn&#x27;t a good match, that candidate may recommend peers to the role if they have a positive experience with you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fermienrico</author><text>I appreciate people like you but unfortunately most companies&#x27; policy mandates not talking about the reasons due to some sort of legal risk of law suit.</text></comment> |
37,888,038 | 37,887,687 | 1 | 2 | 37,886,945 | train | <story><title>FBI warns against using public USB charging ports</title><url>https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fbi-warns-public-charging-stations/story?id=98503419</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hannob</author><text>This nonsense comes up every now and then. The facts are:<p>* The risk on any modern phone is close to nonexistent. By default they only charge. You&#x27;d need a zero day exploit in the charging function.<p>* There are no reports of such attacks ever having happened in the wild.<p>Stop worrying about fake security threats. There are enough real ones.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krab</author><text>Can&#x27;t the charger emulate a mouse&#x2F;keyboard? It can also add a mass storage and confirm its usage with mouse. It&#x27;s a bus after all.<p>Edit: just checked - it&#x27;s indeed possible with Android 14. Connecting a mouse doesn&#x27;t require any confirmation. As long as the phone is unlocked, you can adjust the USB settings with that mouse.</text></comment> | <story><title>FBI warns against using public USB charging ports</title><url>https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fbi-warns-public-charging-stations/story?id=98503419</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hannob</author><text>This nonsense comes up every now and then. The facts are:<p>* The risk on any modern phone is close to nonexistent. By default they only charge. You&#x27;d need a zero day exploit in the charging function.<p>* There are no reports of such attacks ever having happened in the wild.<p>Stop worrying about fake security threats. There are enough real ones.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wannacboatmovie</author><text>This sounds like something guys who setup a fake charging kiosk at DEFCON would say.</text></comment> |
8,925,939 | 8,925,654 | 1 | 2 | 8,925,019 | train | <story><title>An experimental real world adblock</title><url>http://jonathandub.in/cognizance/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ToastyMallows</author><text>This is crazy, these pictures look like they&#x27;re from a dystopian future. Can you imagine if this happened in the U.S.?</text></item><item><author>chriskelley</author><text>In São Paulo they have the &quot;clean city law&quot;[1] which banned outdoor advertising in 2006. Pretty crazy, here&#x27;s a flickr gallery: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/tonydemarco/sets/72157600075508212/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flickr.com&#x2F;photos&#x2F;tonydemarco&#x2F;sets&#x2F;7215760007550...</a><p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cidade_Limpa" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cidade_Limpa</a></text></item><item><author>bhhaskin</author><text>It would be pretty cool if you could replace advertisements altogether. Imagine driving down the road instead of billboards you see art work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scott_karana</author><text>Some might say it looks like a <i>utopian</i> future :)</text></comment> | <story><title>An experimental real world adblock</title><url>http://jonathandub.in/cognizance/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ToastyMallows</author><text>This is crazy, these pictures look like they&#x27;re from a dystopian future. Can you imagine if this happened in the U.S.?</text></item><item><author>chriskelley</author><text>In São Paulo they have the &quot;clean city law&quot;[1] which banned outdoor advertising in 2006. Pretty crazy, here&#x27;s a flickr gallery: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/tonydemarco/sets/72157600075508212/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flickr.com&#x2F;photos&#x2F;tonydemarco&#x2F;sets&#x2F;7215760007550...</a><p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cidade_Limpa" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cidade_Limpa</a></text></item><item><author>bhhaskin</author><text>It would be pretty cool if you could replace advertisements altogether. Imagine driving down the road instead of billboards you see art work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wldcordeiro</author><text>It would be amazing, especially if they also tore down all the billboards instead of leaving them up and blank.</text></comment> |
15,853,867 | 15,851,766 | 1 | 3 | 15,851,385 | train | <story><title>Zeta Global acquires Disqus (YC S07)</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/05/zeta-global-acquires-commenting-service-disqus/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>KajMagnus</author><text>All (?) upcoming alternatves to Disqus: (my own listed last)<p>- Mozilla&#x27;s Talk, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;coralproject&#x2F;talk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;coralproject&#x2F;talk</a>. Open source, install yourself.<p>- Discourse, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.discourse.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.discourse.org&#x2F;</a>. One needs to navigate to a separate page, to post a comment. Not threaded. Min $20&#x2F;month. Open source. Facebook and Gmail login.<p>- Isso: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;posativ.org&#x2F;isso&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;posativ.org&#x2F;isso&#x2F;</a>. Open source, install on your own server.<p>- Commento, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;adtac&#x2F;commento" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;adtac&#x2F;commento</a>. Open source. Moderation, spam-protection and hosting is under development.<p>- Schnack, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vis4.net&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2017&#x2F;10&#x2F;hello-schnack&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vis4.net&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2017&#x2F;10&#x2F;hello-schnack&#x2F;</a>. Open source, install yourself. Has GitHub and Facebook login.<p>- HostedComments, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hostedcomments.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hostedcomments.com&#x2F;</a>. Proprietory. Min $10&#x2F;month<p>- Remarbox, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.remarkbox.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.remarkbox.com&#x2F;</a>. Proprietory. Min $4&#x2F;month<p>- Gitalk. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gitalk&#x2F;gitalk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gitalk&#x2F;gitalk</a>. Open source, install yourself. Comments stored as GitHub issues.<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;skx&#x2F;e-comments" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;skx&#x2F;e-comments</a>. Open source, install yourself.<p>- And my own: EffectiveDiscussions: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.effectivediscussions.org&#x2F;blog-comments" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.effectivediscussions.org&#x2F;blog-comments</a>. Open source, or $2 per month. Has Facebook and Gmail login.</text></comment> | <story><title>Zeta Global acquires Disqus (YC S07)</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/05/zeta-global-acquires-commenting-service-disqus/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ploggingdev</author><text>An acquisition was pretty much an expected outcome since there was no way a company with $10.5 million in VC funding over 10 years could go public. IMO the comments as a service space is a terrible fit for the VC model. It&#x27;s easy to get to scale by offering a free service, but very very hard to monetize. You can force ads on your users, but you end up being at the receiving end of users&#x27; wrath, as was the case with Disqus.<p>I&#x27;ve tried talking to VCs with the idea for a Disqus alternative [0] and many of them shared the same concern : market size. It&#x27;s tiny. A back of the envelope calculation gives me a number between $100 million and $200 million in ARR potential with most of the revenue being generated via ads instead of paid subscriptions. Disqus serves 17 billion monthly pageviews which translates to roughly $1.7 million in MRR. So yeah, I guess this space is more suited for the artisanal variety (bootstrapped companies) than the VC model. Another guy who&#x27;s been working on an alternative for 3 years is `foxhop with Remarkbox [1].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hostedcomments.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hostedcomments.com&#x2F;</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.remarkbox.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.remarkbox.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
40,963,579 | 40,963,356 | 1 | 3 | 40,962,942 | train | <story><title>California Grid Breezes Through Heatwave with Batteries</title><url>https://thinc.blog/2024/07/14/california-grid-breezes-through-heat-wave-due-to-renewables-batteries/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>z_rex</author><text>I work in the power generation industry. The large scale introduction of Battery Storage is going to be a game changer for renewables since it will allow overproduction during the day to be stored for the evening peak. I think the current fad of peaking plants is somewhat overblown, as the average large scale battery storage system will not face the issues with starting reliability that can be present on large gas turbine power plants, which not only affect the grid but can be very expensive as a failed starts consumes large amounts of fuel to no effect. In the end, this will drive carbon-producing power capabilities to largely only run during the night when solar is out of service.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Gibbon1</author><text>Thing I harp on is the logistics of battery installations are fantastic in about every way.<p>If you have a couple of brown field acres of land next to an existing substation you can just buy and install containerized batteries. And you don&#x27;t need specialized contractors to handle the job either. Pour concrete pads, forklift operators to take batteries off the truck and put them on the pad. And then standard HV techs to hook them up.<p>And the permitting and environmental review is nil. Go ahead try and get a pumped storage system permitted somewhere.<p>A fun one. Three gorges dam. You could replace the whole thing with solar and batteries for the cost it took to build it. And the area covered by solar panels would be the same as the lake behind the dam. Except you can put the solar panels on some ecologically and economically low value land where ever.</text></comment> | <story><title>California Grid Breezes Through Heatwave with Batteries</title><url>https://thinc.blog/2024/07/14/california-grid-breezes-through-heat-wave-due-to-renewables-batteries/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>z_rex</author><text>I work in the power generation industry. The large scale introduction of Battery Storage is going to be a game changer for renewables since it will allow overproduction during the day to be stored for the evening peak. I think the current fad of peaking plants is somewhat overblown, as the average large scale battery storage system will not face the issues with starting reliability that can be present on large gas turbine power plants, which not only affect the grid but can be very expensive as a failed starts consumes large amounts of fuel to no effect. In the end, this will drive carbon-producing power capabilities to largely only run during the night when solar is out of service.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>redleader55</author><text>&gt; I think the current fad of peaking plants is somewhat overblown<p>Do you mean peak powerplants will become obsolete? As far as I know, in many places peak powerplants are hydroelectric, which in the future, aided by local batteries, will allow filling the reservoir lakes to higher limits and covering greater peaks - eg. malfunctions - which in turn will make grids more stable.<p>The big unknown, as far as I understand, is whether or not we have enough rare minerals to cover enough TWh of the daily peaks of energy-demands so we can have a flat daily curve. I&#x27;m sure in 10-15 years time the &quot;renewables&quot; will look a bit different than what we expect them today.</text></comment> |
26,683,380 | 26,682,355 | 1 | 2 | 26,680,872 | train | <story><title>Amazon acknowledges issue of drivers urinating in bottles in apology</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN2BQ0DC</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>benjohnson</author><text>I hate to say it, but universal ID and a deny-list would stop it easily. You let the bathroom verify your ID, and if you leave the place a mess the you no longer have bathroom privileges.<p>It would let you keep great public access, keep toilets simple, and only pass the &quot;costs&quot; of bad-behaviour to those that deserve it.<p>Having ID to take a piss is a bit weird however.</text></item><item><author>runawaybottle</author><text>I’ve actually thought about this a little too much. When I take my dog for long walks, there’s literally no where I can use the bathroom. I can’t even go into a McDonald’s (no dogs). I’m sure homeless people are denied this basic human right everywhere.<p>Our portable bathrooms don’t self clean well enough. We need to think about how to design a better one. I don’t know if that involves building in air vacuums that force pull in everything to avoid clogs, or if we need more high pressure water, or literal acid that floods the floor after someone leaves (self cleans the whole box, and automatically sprays disinfectant, vacuums down all the shit in 2 minutes, then unlocks the door). Maybe have one time plastic bags that seal up and then get flushed down (all automated). Some kind of hosing down of the whole thing with acid is still high on my list.<p>There’s got to be some tech we can make that would make rolling these out the most hygienic thing to do as a society.</text></item><item><author>benjohnson</author><text>The reason there&#x27;s no(few) public bathrooms in the US is that we&#x27;re not allowed to charge for them (with the noble goal of human rights) as opposed to the EU&#x2F;UK.<p>So the first malcontent that spreads feces all over the walls and blocks up the toilet with a syringe gets the whole thing shut down.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;psmag.com&#x2F;economics&#x2F;dont-pay-toilets-america-bathroom-restroom-free-market-90683" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;psmag.com&#x2F;economics&#x2F;dont-pay-toilets-america-bathroom...</a></text></item><item><author>cmckn</author><text>Needing to pee while on the road isn’t totally unique to Amazon drivers; and decades of anti-homeless policies mean there are very few places in many cities where you can just run in to use the bathroom. Many of these drivers operate in the suburbs, where door codes aren’t as common on bathrooms, but it still made me think.<p>(Obviously these drivers are being put under time crunches, hence the bottles, and that <i>is</i> a separate issue)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mindslight</author><text>If you hate to say it, then don&#x27;t say it. Sure, it seems like everything would be so much simpler if we could merely sort everybody into two groups of good people and bad people, and punish the bad people. That&#x27;s the tired old authoritarian fallacy.<p>In reality, you&#x27;ve got an endless supply of people who will make a mess once with your unpopular system and not care, good faith accidents unable to make amends, people that refuse to show IDs and piss on the reader on general principle, people unjustly blamed by your system for someone else&#x27;s mess with no appeal, fake IDs, and inevitable tie in to other delusional top-down systems that multiply these problems.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon acknowledges issue of drivers urinating in bottles in apology</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN2BQ0DC</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>benjohnson</author><text>I hate to say it, but universal ID and a deny-list would stop it easily. You let the bathroom verify your ID, and if you leave the place a mess the you no longer have bathroom privileges.<p>It would let you keep great public access, keep toilets simple, and only pass the &quot;costs&quot; of bad-behaviour to those that deserve it.<p>Having ID to take a piss is a bit weird however.</text></item><item><author>runawaybottle</author><text>I’ve actually thought about this a little too much. When I take my dog for long walks, there’s literally no where I can use the bathroom. I can’t even go into a McDonald’s (no dogs). I’m sure homeless people are denied this basic human right everywhere.<p>Our portable bathrooms don’t self clean well enough. We need to think about how to design a better one. I don’t know if that involves building in air vacuums that force pull in everything to avoid clogs, or if we need more high pressure water, or literal acid that floods the floor after someone leaves (self cleans the whole box, and automatically sprays disinfectant, vacuums down all the shit in 2 minutes, then unlocks the door). Maybe have one time plastic bags that seal up and then get flushed down (all automated). Some kind of hosing down of the whole thing with acid is still high on my list.<p>There’s got to be some tech we can make that would make rolling these out the most hygienic thing to do as a society.</text></item><item><author>benjohnson</author><text>The reason there&#x27;s no(few) public bathrooms in the US is that we&#x27;re not allowed to charge for them (with the noble goal of human rights) as opposed to the EU&#x2F;UK.<p>So the first malcontent that spreads feces all over the walls and blocks up the toilet with a syringe gets the whole thing shut down.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;psmag.com&#x2F;economics&#x2F;dont-pay-toilets-america-bathroom-restroom-free-market-90683" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;psmag.com&#x2F;economics&#x2F;dont-pay-toilets-america-bathroom...</a></text></item><item><author>cmckn</author><text>Needing to pee while on the road isn’t totally unique to Amazon drivers; and decades of anti-homeless policies mean there are very few places in many cities where you can just run in to use the bathroom. Many of these drivers operate in the suburbs, where door codes aren’t as common on bathrooms, but it still made me think.<p>(Obviously these drivers are being put under time crunches, hence the bottles, and that <i>is</i> a separate issue)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leetcrew</author><text>I&#x27;d guess the type of person who would trash a public restroom is also pretty likely to just relieve themselves in the street after being banned. not sure what problem this solves.</text></comment> |
12,541,700 | 12,540,783 | 1 | 2 | 12,538,993 | train | <story><title>Self-Driving Cars Must Meet 15 Benchmarks in U.S. Guidance</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-20/self-driving-cars-must-meet-15-benchmarks-in-new-u-s-guidance</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>From the regulations: <i>&quot;Fall back strategies should take into account that—despite laws and regulations to the contrary—human drivers may be inattentive, under the influence of alcohol or other substances, drowsy, or physically impaired in some other manner.&quot;</i><p>NHTSA, which, after all, studies crashes, is being very realistic.<p>Here&#x27;s the &quot;we&#x27;re looking at you, Tesla&quot; moment:<p><i>&quot;Guidance for Lower Levels of Automated Vehicle Systems&quot;</i><p><i>&quot;Furthermore, manufacturers and other entities should place significant emphasis on
assessing the risk of driver complacency and misuse of Level 2 systems, and develop
effective countermeasures to assist drivers in properly using the system as the
manufacturer expects. Complacency has been defined as, “... [when an operator] over-
relies on and excessively trusts the automation, and subsequently fails to exercise his or
her vigilance and&#x2F;or supervisory duties” (Parasuraman, 1997). SAE Level 2 systems differ
from HAV systems in that the driver is expected to remain continuously involved in the
driving task, primarily to monitor appropriate operation of the system and to take over
immediate control when necessary, with or without warning from the system. However,
like HAV systems, SAE Level 2 systems perform sustained longitudinal and lateral
control simultaneously within their intended design domain. Manufacturers and other
entities should assume that the technical distinction between the levels of automation
(e.g., between Level 2 and Level 3) may not be clear to all users or to the general public.
And, systems’ expectations of drivers and those drivers’ actual understanding of the
critical importance of their “supervisory” role may be materially different.&quot;</i><p>There&#x27;s more clarity here on levels of automation. For NHTSA Level 1 (typically auto-brake only) and 2 (auto-brake and lane keeping) vehicles, the driver is responsible, and the vehicle manufacturer is responsible for keeping the driver actively involved. For NHTSA Level 3 (Google&#x27;s current state), 4 (auto driving under almost all conditions) and 5 (no manual controls at all), the vehicle manufacturer is responsible and the driver is not required to pay constant attention. NHTSA is making a big distinction between 1-2 and 3-5.<p>This is a major policy decision. Automatic driving will not be reached incrementally. Either the vehicle enforces hands-on-wheel and paying attention, or the automation has to be good enough that the driver doesn&#x27;t have to pay attention at all. There&#x27;s a bright line now between manual and automatic. NHTSA gets it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Self-Driving Cars Must Meet 15 Benchmarks in U.S. Guidance</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-20/self-driving-cars-must-meet-15-benchmarks-in-new-u-s-guidance</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>owyn</author><text>It wasn&#x27;t mentioned in the bloomberg article, but the 15 areas covered are:<p><pre><code> • Data Recording and Sharing
• Privacy
• System Safety
• Vehicle Cybersecurity
• Human Machine Interface
• Crashworthiness
• Consumer Education and Training
• Registration and Certi cation
• Post-Crash Behavior
• Federal, State and Local Laws
• Ethical Considerations
• Operational Design Domain (operating in rain, etc)
• Object and Event Detection and Response
• Fall Back (Minimal Risk Condition)
• Validation Methods
</code></pre>
Not sure if they&#x27;re specifically ordered, but it seems positive that Data recording and Privacy are up at the top.</text></comment> |
27,827,524 | 27,827,485 | 1 | 2 | 27,827,203 | train | <story><title>Dividend Cripples Saudi Aramco</title><url>https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Huge-Dividend-Cripples-Worlds-Largest-Oil-Company.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>moralestapia</author><text>I can&#x27;t feel bad for them.<p>I lived there for four years (at KAUST), I am deeply familiar with the country and its people. The Saudis are nice and well-intended, but a few bad apples spoil the bunch.<p>I left after my 4yo daughter was kidnapped(!) when I refused to sign some papers regarding my work situation. I am not making this up. The kidnapping was carried away by an Australian professor and a couple American guys working there, but when I tried to look for help I was horrified that this seemed to be business as usual and no one even batted an eye, no jurisdiction. Fortunately, we are safe now and doing better than ever, but, what a story.<p>Until they fix many of these things it will be very hard for them to establish a thriving economy.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dividend Cripples Saudi Aramco</title><url>https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Huge-Dividend-Cripples-Worlds-Largest-Oil-Company.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>paxys</author><text>Straight from the most trusted source of news &amp; opinion in the investment world – oilprice.com.<p>Aramco&#x27;s dividend basically entirely goes to the Saudi government, which owns 98.5% of the company. It is still comfortably the largest oil company in the world, and is investing hundreds of billions in operations over the next few years. Here&#x27;s a much more objective status report on the company – <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2021-07-07&#x2F;saudi-aramco-to-sell-more-assets-in-multi-billion-dollar-push" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2021-07-07&#x2F;saudi-ara...</a>.</text></comment> |
15,257,771 | 15,257,548 | 1 | 2 | 15,256,543 | train | <story><title>Why is it faster to process a sorted array than an unsorted array? (2012)</title><url>https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11227809/why-is-it-faster-to-process-a-sorted-array-than-an-unsorted-array?m=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>taeric</author><text>By far the most interesting part of this post is the update with newer compilers. Intel&#x27;s compiler, in particular, makes an awesome optimization.<p>Edit: The update is not new, either. Just the part that I found interesting. Apologies for any confusion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>winstonewert</author><text>The update with the newer compilers was done back in 2012. There have only been minor changes since then. (Not to say that it isn&#x27;t interesting, but so that people don&#x27;t go to the post expecting new content and get disappointed)</text></comment> | <story><title>Why is it faster to process a sorted array than an unsorted array? (2012)</title><url>https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11227809/why-is-it-faster-to-process-a-sorted-array-than-an-unsorted-array?m=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>taeric</author><text>By far the most interesting part of this post is the update with newer compilers. Intel&#x27;s compiler, in particular, makes an awesome optimization.<p>Edit: The update is not new, either. Just the part that I found interesting. Apologies for any confusion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikeash</author><text>Thanks for pointing that out. I&#x27;d seen this before so I wasn&#x27;t going to bother clicking the link, not knowing there was a cool new thing there.</text></comment> |
20,728,576 | 20,725,861 | 1 | 3 | 20,725,268 | train | <story><title>Software architects should be involved in earliest system engineering activities</title><url>https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/sei_blog/2019/08/why-software-architects-must-be-involved-in-the-earliest-systems-engineering-activities.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>glenjamin</author><text>Software Architecture is vitally important to the long term success of a software system.<p>Software Architects are not the only way to get software architecture. They may even be the worst way.<p>&quot;Software Architects who Code&quot; often do not suffer from this issue, depending on how much they actually get involved in production software and operations. However I would struggle to define a meaninful difference between a &quot;Software Architect who Codes&quot; and a sufficiently &quot;Senior Software Developer&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ztjio</author><text>I&#x27;m a Software Architect who made a progressive move to that role after being a Sr. Software Engineer for almost a decade. I see the distinction as pretty simple. We do the same things, but, we specialize in terms of time spent and breadth of awareness and contact in the business.<p>As far as skills go I expect to maintain my coding skills and as far as what I know more about than other SE&#x27;s is not about skill as much as it is about practicality of time spent. We need the devs to be writing code&#x2F;implementing every day and the architects spend more time on the, well, architecture as well as business interfacing and planning side.<p>So that&#x27;s basically it, the difference is where we spend our time and focus. It&#x27;s more about roles and needs of the group than about the skill set. At least, that&#x27;s what I&#x27;d hope. Anyone thinking they are a Senior level engineer who can&#x27;t understand the concepts of software architecture needs to rethink their position and maybe broaden their skill set a bit, imho.</text></comment> | <story><title>Software architects should be involved in earliest system engineering activities</title><url>https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/sei_blog/2019/08/why-software-architects-must-be-involved-in-the-earliest-systems-engineering-activities.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>glenjamin</author><text>Software Architecture is vitally important to the long term success of a software system.<p>Software Architects are not the only way to get software architecture. They may even be the worst way.<p>&quot;Software Architects who Code&quot; often do not suffer from this issue, depending on how much they actually get involved in production software and operations. However I would struggle to define a meaninful difference between a &quot;Software Architect who Codes&quot; and a sufficiently &quot;Senior Software Developer&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>malandrew</author><text>Could not agree more about coding. These days I am doing more architecting and code reviews with coding as time permits and the less coding I do the less I’m able to stay ahead of pathologies developing in the codebase as the codebase scales. Right now I’m trying to get the engineers I lead to be more self sufficient on code reviews among themselves and self directed in terms of what to do next so I can spend enough time coding. It’s hard to do if the team is growing and the number of inbounds demanding your attention grows.</text></comment> |
35,532,192 | 35,529,778 | 1 | 2 | 35,528,595 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Is the job market brutal? or is it just me?</title><text>Former Apple&#x2F;Facebook engineer, been leading engineering and product teams at startups the last few years. Have normally found a new job within a few weeks, but this time it has been 4 months.<p>Submitted 150 job applications last week. Got one interview with a recruiter. Had a few interview rounds over the last few months through old coworkers, they all lasted several months with long pauses - one still going 4 months in.<p>How is it going for everyone else searching right now? Is it just me?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>skyyler</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;01&#x2F;19&#x2F;us&#x2F;politics&#x2F;afghanistan-drone-strike-video.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;01&#x2F;19&#x2F;us&#x2F;politics&#x2F;afghanistan-d...</a><p>Anyone that gets into defense because of this thread, remember that the technologies you develop will be used to slaughter the innocent.</text></item><item><author>howmayiannoyyou</author><text>Yeah, would be great to live in a magic land, where the US has no competitors, adversaries and sworn enemies. But this isn&#x27;t magic land. US defense contractors are very much for profit and deliver a product that deters or kills some very bad people, more and more discriminating between collateral damage and intended targets - far more than can be said of Russian in Ukraine, for example.<p>There&#x27;s an entire generation in this country that thinks the US is safe, a villain even. How wrong they are, and how much they stand to lose if the US loses.</text></item><item><author>wunderland</author><text>Damn this is the most depressing comment in this whole comments section</text></item><item><author>gautamdivgi</author><text>If you are a US citizen try defense companies.<p>Edit: I should have explained my reasoning. They have a much smaller eligible applicant pool - US citizens who are eligible for security clearance. Because of this they’re continuously looking for good talent.</text></item><item><author>moosedev</author><text>Not just you. I would guess, optimistically, I’m averaging a 5% conversion rate of applications to recruiter chats&#x2F;“stage 0 interviews”. That is, ~95% of applications yield silence or a generic email rejection without any human contact.<p>~15 YOE, FAANG experience, usually only applying to roles I feel I’m at least a halfway good fit for (i.e. not a complete scattergun approach).<p>I’m (financially) fine for now, which is very fortunate. I wasn’t even laid off - I quit voluntarily and took a sabbatical while the good times were rollin’. But since I started looking seriously again, it’s been hard to shake the sense of time disappearing with nothing to show for it. I’m better at Leetcode (ugh) than I’ve ever been, but so is everyone else, and with the slow drip of actual interviews, I only get to demonstrate it once or twice a month :)<p>ETA: A few of the recruiters I have talked with have mentioned that they’re getting hundreds of applications within hours of a posting going live. So there is likely a “lost in volume” effect as another commenter mentioned. In fact, for some of the roles where I thought I was a great fit but got a generic rejection without a recruiter call, I’ve had some eventual success simply reapplying for the same role, at least when the recruiting platform allows it (some don’t). For reasons of culture and upbringing, it took me a while to get comfortable not taking that initial, faceless “no” for an answer, but it has worked at least twice so far.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FooBarBizBazz</author><text>Dude, you don&#x27;t need high tech to slaughter the innocent, any fool can do that. What gold-plated weapons systems do is credibly deter a Chinese landing force from showing up in Taipei, or help the Ukranians achieve the 5+ K&#x2F;D ratios they need to survive as an independent nation.<p>I&#x27;d be happier to know that my code would let a shaped charge target a J20 cockpit in the unlikely event of Really Bad Decision Making, than to know that it was targeting teenage girls with contagious mental illness.<p>On the other hand, I can give you plenty of reasons not to work in defense. They don&#x27;t pay enough for you to ever own a house in a desirable place; security clearances are an invasive relic of the J. Edgar Hoover days (and your sensitive data will get hacked by China anyway); it&#x27;s assumed that you don&#x27;t know &quot;foreign persons&quot; (hint: This is actually now a mark of the lower-class and uneducated.); a software engineer without an advanced degree is basically nobody; cloud stuff is mostly off limits; work may happen in windowless rooms; perks are non-existent; and it&#x27;s embarrassing to answer &quot;so what do you do for a living&quot; if you&#x27;re trying to exist in blue-state society.<p>But ethics? Compared to FAANG? I wouldn&#x27;t worry about that.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Is the job market brutal? or is it just me?</title><text>Former Apple&#x2F;Facebook engineer, been leading engineering and product teams at startups the last few years. Have normally found a new job within a few weeks, but this time it has been 4 months.<p>Submitted 150 job applications last week. Got one interview with a recruiter. Had a few interview rounds over the last few months through old coworkers, they all lasted several months with long pauses - one still going 4 months in.<p>How is it going for everyone else searching right now? Is it just me?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>skyyler</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;01&#x2F;19&#x2F;us&#x2F;politics&#x2F;afghanistan-drone-strike-video.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;01&#x2F;19&#x2F;us&#x2F;politics&#x2F;afghanistan-d...</a><p>Anyone that gets into defense because of this thread, remember that the technologies you develop will be used to slaughter the innocent.</text></item><item><author>howmayiannoyyou</author><text>Yeah, would be great to live in a magic land, where the US has no competitors, adversaries and sworn enemies. But this isn&#x27;t magic land. US defense contractors are very much for profit and deliver a product that deters or kills some very bad people, more and more discriminating between collateral damage and intended targets - far more than can be said of Russian in Ukraine, for example.<p>There&#x27;s an entire generation in this country that thinks the US is safe, a villain even. How wrong they are, and how much they stand to lose if the US loses.</text></item><item><author>wunderland</author><text>Damn this is the most depressing comment in this whole comments section</text></item><item><author>gautamdivgi</author><text>If you are a US citizen try defense companies.<p>Edit: I should have explained my reasoning. They have a much smaller eligible applicant pool - US citizens who are eligible for security clearance. Because of this they’re continuously looking for good talent.</text></item><item><author>moosedev</author><text>Not just you. I would guess, optimistically, I’m averaging a 5% conversion rate of applications to recruiter chats&#x2F;“stage 0 interviews”. That is, ~95% of applications yield silence or a generic email rejection without any human contact.<p>~15 YOE, FAANG experience, usually only applying to roles I feel I’m at least a halfway good fit for (i.e. not a complete scattergun approach).<p>I’m (financially) fine for now, which is very fortunate. I wasn’t even laid off - I quit voluntarily and took a sabbatical while the good times were rollin’. But since I started looking seriously again, it’s been hard to shake the sense of time disappearing with nothing to show for it. I’m better at Leetcode (ugh) than I’ve ever been, but so is everyone else, and with the slow drip of actual interviews, I only get to demonstrate it once or twice a month :)<p>ETA: A few of the recruiters I have talked with have mentioned that they’re getting hundreds of applications within hours of a posting going live. So there is likely a “lost in volume” effect as another commenter mentioned. In fact, for some of the roles where I thought I was a great fit but got a generic rejection without a recruiter call, I’ve had some eventual success simply reapplying for the same role, at least when the recruiting platform allows it (some don’t). For reasons of culture and upbringing, it took me a while to get comfortable not taking that initial, faceless “no” for an answer, but it has worked at least twice so far.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Our_Benefactors</author><text>For a more balanced take, “Why I chose a gun” <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ted.com&#x2F;talks&#x2F;peter_van_uhm_why_i_chose_a_gun" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ted.com&#x2F;talks&#x2F;peter_van_uhm_why_i_chose_a_gun</a></text></comment> |
24,580,804 | 24,580,826 | 1 | 2 | 24,579,498 | train | <story><title>Testimony to House committee by former Facebook executive Tim Kendall</title><url>https://energycommerce.house.gov/sites/democrats.energycommerce.house.gov/files/documents/09.24.20%20CPC%20Witness%20Testimony_Kendall.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ALittleLight</author><text>One problem with this is that it&#x27;s easy to conflate &quot;addictive&quot; with &quot;people like to use it&quot;. Should television shows been punished for cliffhangers because they hook people into seeing the next episode? Breaking Bad had an interesting plot and character progression that made me want to keep watching - are they addicting me?<p>One person might say &quot;We created all these statuses and features to be <i>addictive</i>&quot; but it seems just as true to say &quot;We created this stuff because people liked it and we are trying to make something people like.&quot;</text></item><item><author>dylan604</author><text>This bit of dialog should be the smoking gun in my opinion. Big Tobacco got taken to the woodshed over this very thing: making the product as addictive as possible. This should be the club that is used to beat Social Media platforms over their heads. As with Big Tobacco I&#x27;m sure it rings true with Social platforms as well in that not just one of them is doing it they all are.</text></item><item><author>4cao</author><text>Some of the most interesting excerpts (although it&#x27;s worth reading in its entirety):<p>&gt; My path in technology started at Facebook where I was the first Director of Monetization. [...] we sought to mine as much attention as humanly possible and turn into historically unprecedented profits. We took a page from Big Tobacco’s playbook, working to make our offering addictive at the outset.<p>&gt; Tobacco companies [...] added sugar and menthol to cigarettes so you could hold the smoke in your lungs for longer periods. At Facebook, we added status updates, photo tagging, and likes, which made status and reputation primary and laid the groundwork for a teenage mental health crisis.<p>&gt; Allowing for misinformation, conspiracy theories, and fake news to flourish were like Big Tobacco’s bronchodilators, which allowed the cigarette smoke to cover more surface area of the lungs.<p>&gt; Tobacco companies added ammonia to cigarettes to increase the speed with which nicotine traveled to the brain. Extreme, incendiary content—think shocking images, graphic videos, and headlines that incite outrage—sowed tribalism and division. And this result has been unprecedented engagement -- and profits. Facebook’s ability to deliver this incendiary content to the right person, at the right time, in the exact right way... that is their ammonia.<p>&gt; The algorithm maximizes your attention by hitting you repeatedly with content that triggers your strongest emotions — it aims to provoke, shock, and enrage. All the while, the technology is getting smarter and better at provoking a response from you. [...] This is not by accident. It’s an algorithmically optimized playbook to maximize user attention -- and profits.<p>&gt; When it comes to misinformation, these companies hide behind the First Amendment and say they stand for free speech. At the same time, their algorithms continually choose whose voice is actually heard. In truth, it is not free speech they revere. Instead, Facebook and their cohorts worship at the altar of engagement and cast all other concerns aside, raising the voices of division, anger, hate and misinformation to drown out the voices of truth, justice, morality, and peace.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>munificent</author><text><i>&gt; Should television shows been punished for cliffhangers because they hook people into seeing the next episode?</i><p>Does this significantly negatively impact the lives of viewers or of those around them? Addiction doesn&#x27;t just mean &quot;want to have it&quot;. Addiction means &quot;want to have it so bad it messes up other aspects of my life&quot;.<p>(For what it&#x27;s worth, I do personally avoid cliff-hanger shows because I find the anxiety and frustration of being left hanging is rarely sufficiently well compensated by the quality of the show.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Testimony to House committee by former Facebook executive Tim Kendall</title><url>https://energycommerce.house.gov/sites/democrats.energycommerce.house.gov/files/documents/09.24.20%20CPC%20Witness%20Testimony_Kendall.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ALittleLight</author><text>One problem with this is that it&#x27;s easy to conflate &quot;addictive&quot; with &quot;people like to use it&quot;. Should television shows been punished for cliffhangers because they hook people into seeing the next episode? Breaking Bad had an interesting plot and character progression that made me want to keep watching - are they addicting me?<p>One person might say &quot;We created all these statuses and features to be <i>addictive</i>&quot; but it seems just as true to say &quot;We created this stuff because people liked it and we are trying to make something people like.&quot;</text></item><item><author>dylan604</author><text>This bit of dialog should be the smoking gun in my opinion. Big Tobacco got taken to the woodshed over this very thing: making the product as addictive as possible. This should be the club that is used to beat Social Media platforms over their heads. As with Big Tobacco I&#x27;m sure it rings true with Social platforms as well in that not just one of them is doing it they all are.</text></item><item><author>4cao</author><text>Some of the most interesting excerpts (although it&#x27;s worth reading in its entirety):<p>&gt; My path in technology started at Facebook where I was the first Director of Monetization. [...] we sought to mine as much attention as humanly possible and turn into historically unprecedented profits. We took a page from Big Tobacco’s playbook, working to make our offering addictive at the outset.<p>&gt; Tobacco companies [...] added sugar and menthol to cigarettes so you could hold the smoke in your lungs for longer periods. At Facebook, we added status updates, photo tagging, and likes, which made status and reputation primary and laid the groundwork for a teenage mental health crisis.<p>&gt; Allowing for misinformation, conspiracy theories, and fake news to flourish were like Big Tobacco’s bronchodilators, which allowed the cigarette smoke to cover more surface area of the lungs.<p>&gt; Tobacco companies added ammonia to cigarettes to increase the speed with which nicotine traveled to the brain. Extreme, incendiary content—think shocking images, graphic videos, and headlines that incite outrage—sowed tribalism and division. And this result has been unprecedented engagement -- and profits. Facebook’s ability to deliver this incendiary content to the right person, at the right time, in the exact right way... that is their ammonia.<p>&gt; The algorithm maximizes your attention by hitting you repeatedly with content that triggers your strongest emotions — it aims to provoke, shock, and enrage. All the while, the technology is getting smarter and better at provoking a response from you. [...] This is not by accident. It’s an algorithmically optimized playbook to maximize user attention -- and profits.<p>&gt; When it comes to misinformation, these companies hide behind the First Amendment and say they stand for free speech. At the same time, their algorithms continually choose whose voice is actually heard. In truth, it is not free speech they revere. Instead, Facebook and their cohorts worship at the altar of engagement and cast all other concerns aside, raising the voices of division, anger, hate and misinformation to drown out the voices of truth, justice, morality, and peace.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yamrzou</author><text>Facebook is definitely addictive. It took me more than a year of trials to be able to break the cycle and get off the platform. The thing is, it gets harder over time to take a pause from it.<p>But now that it has been one month since I last used it, and I noticed that all I did was to replace my Facebook time with Hacker News, I can&#x27;t but wonder: Does the addiction problem lie with the user, or in the platform? Or is it, more generally, in the way the internet serves us content?</text></comment> |
30,300,592 | 30,300,394 | 1 | 2 | 30,298,732 | train | <story><title>Feynman on group decision-making at Los Alamos (1985)</title><url>https://cs.au.dk/~danvy/lafb.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>systemvoltage</author><text>Even if participants have same level of domain understanding, it takes more to be willing to work towards a solution <i>without their egos, their achievements, their alpha-ness</i> getting in the way. I’ve seen the opposite more often than not. Where I do see this level of camaraderie is amongst close friends who know better about each other.</text></item><item><author>W0lf</author><text>In my experience (and coming just out of a meeting alike) these types of respectful and forward-moving meetings are typically in a case where each attendant has roughly the same level expertise in a given domain and knows the basics of scientific principles. Hence, everybody in the meeting brings in his or her unique view of the topic at hand and knows intrinsically when it makes sense to contribute something to the discussion. Usually things get out of hands, if somebody is talking just for the noise or, and this is worse, a clearly bad idea wins the discussion because politics or the messenger has shouted the loudest.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GuB-42</author><text>I think experts naturally tend to befriend each other, for the simple reason that they are the only one who can understand each other. And that even when there is rivalry in the ideas.<p>Maybe being alone at the top is good for the ego, and some people like that, but it is also boring. If you are at the top in some field, is is probably your passion, something you want to talk about all day, but no one understands you, you feel like you are talking to babies, repeating &quot;obvious&quot; things over and over. On the opposite, you can&#x27;t find anyone to teach anything new to you, being a pioneer is nice, but if you get stuck, you can&#x27;t count on anyone but yourself, and it can become tedious.<p>So, when you finally meet someone on your level, it is someone you want to keep. At last, you can talk with someone who understand you, who can provide a meaningful input, and even teach you a thing or two. And even if there is some rivalry, you have a worthy opponent, not an annoyance.</text></comment> | <story><title>Feynman on group decision-making at Los Alamos (1985)</title><url>https://cs.au.dk/~danvy/lafb.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>systemvoltage</author><text>Even if participants have same level of domain understanding, it takes more to be willing to work towards a solution <i>without their egos, their achievements, their alpha-ness</i> getting in the way. I’ve seen the opposite more often than not. Where I do see this level of camaraderie is amongst close friends who know better about each other.</text></item><item><author>W0lf</author><text>In my experience (and coming just out of a meeting alike) these types of respectful and forward-moving meetings are typically in a case where each attendant has roughly the same level expertise in a given domain and knows the basics of scientific principles. Hence, everybody in the meeting brings in his or her unique view of the topic at hand and knows intrinsically when it makes sense to contribute something to the discussion. Usually things get out of hands, if somebody is talking just for the noise or, and this is worse, a clearly bad idea wins the discussion because politics or the messenger has shouted the loudest.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>317070</author><text>Overheard on such a meeting yesterday: &quot;Well, an alternative would be to use the coordinate system named after me.&quot;<p>I feel these meetings work best when there is no career pressure, but when people have aligned goals and just want to make progress. It&#x27;s easier to leave good points unsaid if everyone prefers having any conclusion to having no conclusion.</text></comment> |
30,417,086 | 30,417,077 | 1 | 3 | 30,416,410 | train | <story><title>Google could have updated the Pixel 3 until Android 13, it just didn't want to</title><url>https://www.androidpolice.com/the-pixel-3-deserves-longer-updates/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CretinDesAlpes</author><text>This is why we need alternatives to Google and Apple phones&#x2F;OS, here is a list I have written over the years althought it may not be entirely up to date or completely accurate:<p>* Phone hardware alternatives to mainstream brands<p><pre><code> * Fairphone 4 [NL]
* Librem 5 from Purism [US]
* Pinephone from Pine64 [China]
* FXTec [UK]
* Volla [DE]
</code></pre>
* Linux-based OS<p><pre><code> * PostmarketOS - &quot;postmarketOS extends Alpine Linux to run on smartphones and other mobile devices. [See compatible devices: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.postmarketos.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Devices]
* Mobian
* Manjaro ARM
* Maemo Leste
* Pure OS [US] (purism)
* Sailfish OS [FI]</code></pre>
* Others - mostly android-based alternatives<p><pre><code> * Ubuntu Touch &quot;Ubuntu Touch is not based on the &quot;mainline&quot; Linux kernel, but rather on the &quot;downstream&quot; (that is, highly patched) Android kernel that came with it originally, with an abstraction layer, halium, to adapt Android drivers and userspace to Linux systems. &quot;
* &#x2F;e&#x2F; foundation [FR]
* Lineage OS
* GrapheneOS
* LuneOS
* Nemo Mobile
* CalyxOS
</code></pre>
edit: updated according to comments</text></comment> | <story><title>Google could have updated the Pixel 3 until Android 13, it just didn't want to</title><url>https://www.androidpolice.com/the-pixel-3-deserves-longer-updates/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>shantara</author><text>Google has a support page that lists the planned obsolescence dates for all Pixep phones: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;pixelphone&#x2F;answer&#x2F;4457705" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;pixelphone&#x2F;answer&#x2F;4457705</a><p>My Pixel 3a is going to stop receiving security updates this May. It’s still a perfectly good phone despite the increasing slowdowns with every system or Play Service update.<p>I’ve learned my lesson and switched to iPhone as my next main phone, and relegated the Pixel to serve as a backup.</text></comment> |
22,688,300 | 22,687,289 | 1 | 2 | 22,685,018 | train | <story><title>Chrome phasing out support for User-Agent</title><url>https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/03/chrome-phasing-user-agent/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ShamelessC</author><text>This is off topic but do you know why Edge is the only browser to support DRM for streaming? Or is that incorrect?<p>I see lots of people who have to use edge on order to get 4k content from Netflix; presumably because of the DRM issues.</text></item><item><author>currysausage</author><text>If you have the new Chromium-based Edge (&quot;Edgium&quot;) installed: the compatibility list at edge:&#x2F;&#x2F;compat&#x2F;useragent is really interesting.<p>Edgium pretends to be Chrome towards Gmail, Google Play, YouTube, and lots of non-Google services; on the other hand, it pretends to be Classic Edge towards many streaming services (HBO Now, DAZN, etc.) because it supports PlayReady DRM, which Chrome doesn&#x27;t.<p>[Edit] Here is the full list: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pastebin.com&#x2F;YURq1BR1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pastebin.com&#x2F;YURq1BR1</a></text></item><item><author>jorams</author><text>The weird thing about this is that the only company I&#x27;ve seen doing problematic user-agent handling in recent years is Google themselves. They have released several products as Chrome-only, which then turned out to work fine in every other browser if they just pretended to be Chrome through the user agent. Same with their search pages, which on mobile were very bad in every non-Chrome browser purely based on user agent sniffing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jgunsch</author><text>Other browsers support DRM too, but with different tradeoffs.<p>Chrome uses Widevine, but one of Chrome&#x27;s philosophies is that you should be able to wipe a Chrome install, reinstall Chrome, and have no trace that before&#x2F;after are the same person. That means no leveraging machine-specific hardware details that would persist across installs. &quot;Software-only DRM&quot;, essentially.<p>Edge on Windows (and Safari on OSX) are able to leverage more hardware-specific functionality --- which from a DRM perspective are considered &quot;more secure&quot;, but the tradeoff is a reduction of end-user anonymity (i.e. if private keys baked into a hardware TPM are involved).<p>Last I checked, Chrome&#x2F;Firefox were capped at 720p content, Safari&#x2F;Edge at 1080p, though it looks like Edge is now able to stream 4k.</text></comment> | <story><title>Chrome phasing out support for User-Agent</title><url>https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/03/chrome-phasing-user-agent/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ShamelessC</author><text>This is off topic but do you know why Edge is the only browser to support DRM for streaming? Or is that incorrect?<p>I see lots of people who have to use edge on order to get 4k content from Netflix; presumably because of the DRM issues.</text></item><item><author>currysausage</author><text>If you have the new Chromium-based Edge (&quot;Edgium&quot;) installed: the compatibility list at edge:&#x2F;&#x2F;compat&#x2F;useragent is really interesting.<p>Edgium pretends to be Chrome towards Gmail, Google Play, YouTube, and lots of non-Google services; on the other hand, it pretends to be Classic Edge towards many streaming services (HBO Now, DAZN, etc.) because it supports PlayReady DRM, which Chrome doesn&#x27;t.<p>[Edit] Here is the full list: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pastebin.com&#x2F;YURq1BR1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pastebin.com&#x2F;YURq1BR1</a></text></item><item><author>jorams</author><text>The weird thing about this is that the only company I&#x27;ve seen doing problematic user-agent handling in recent years is Google themselves. They have released several products as Chrome-only, which then turned out to work fine in every other browser if they just pretended to be Chrome through the user agent. Same with their search pages, which on mobile were very bad in every non-Chrome browser purely based on user agent sniffing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jrandm</author><text>I am not sure about Edge specifically, but as someone who tries to use mostly open source software: Digital Rights Management (DRM) requirements often directly conflict with licensing related to open source software.</text></comment> |
15,596,438 | 15,596,263 | 1 | 3 | 15,592,575 | train | <story><title>Batteries with 50 per cent more energy with pure silicon anode</title><url>https://www.ecn.nl/news/item/batteries-with-50-per-cent-more-energy-one-step-closer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Bud</author><text>This article, and this comment thread, both seem to be ignoring what is actually in the way of any &quot;50% more energy&quot; battery tech being used in consumer laptops: FAA regulations limit all such batteries to 100 watt&#x2F;hrs or less. It&#x27;s not Apple, it&#x27;s not Samsung...they have no choice.<p>So until we get over our stupid post-9&#x2F;11 policies, it doesn&#x27;t matter if Star Trek batteries magically spring into existence. The tech isn&#x27;t going anywhere, other than allowing something like Apple Watch to have a little more capacity.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Sorry but I have to disagree. While the limit is important for appliance electronics like laptops it doesn&#x27;t have any impact at all on electric vehicles which are all mostly LiOn powered. 50% more range or 50% less weight would be an interesting change to put in the mix at Tesla for example.<p>If you look at where batteries are going to be in volume in the next 20 years it will be in grid storage, off-grid house energy storage, vehicles, and potentially small industrial tools.<p>Of course if this particular breakthrough actually makes it into batteries we will all be pleasantly surprised, as battery &quot;breakthroughs&quot; have a success rate quite a bit lower than &#x27;venture funded startups&#x27; :-)</text></comment> | <story><title>Batteries with 50 per cent more energy with pure silicon anode</title><url>https://www.ecn.nl/news/item/batteries-with-50-per-cent-more-energy-one-step-closer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Bud</author><text>This article, and this comment thread, both seem to be ignoring what is actually in the way of any &quot;50% more energy&quot; battery tech being used in consumer laptops: FAA regulations limit all such batteries to 100 watt&#x2F;hrs or less. It&#x27;s not Apple, it&#x27;s not Samsung...they have no choice.<p>So until we get over our stupid post-9&#x2F;11 policies, it doesn&#x27;t matter if Star Trek batteries magically spring into existence. The tech isn&#x27;t going anywhere, other than allowing something like Apple Watch to have a little more capacity.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Johnny555</author><text>I already get 6 - 8 hours of lifetime out of my laptop, I don&#x27;t really need 50% more battery (saving a few ounces or cubic centimeters wouldn&#x27;t make much difference to me either). I can use the power outlet on the plane if I&#x27;m on a flight longer than that.<p>However, I would love 50% more battery lifetime in my phone without adding more weight or volume.<p>Or 50% more range in an electric car (or reducing the size&#x2F;weight&#x2F;cost of the battery pack).<p>There are lots of applications for batteries that don&#x27;t involve taking large batteries on the plane.</text></comment> |
15,031,468 | 15,031,280 | 1 | 2 | 15,028,325 | train | <story><title>How to Pick Your Next Gig: Evaluating Startups</title><url>http://www.samvitjain.com/blog/evaluating-startups/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dvt</author><text>Using Zuckerberg&#x2F;Jobs&#x2F;Bezos&#x2F;Gates as archetypal examples of founders is a terrible idea as they are <i>extreme</i> -- and I mean EXTREME -- outliers.<p>I also don&#x27;t get how Jennifer Lawrence fits in any of this. As a counter-example, Chris Pratt, an equally-successful actor, was discovered by a stroke of luck when he was waiting tables in Hawaii.<p>Listen, I get it. It&#x27;s cute to come up with pseudo-mathematical models that justify one opinion over another and that might help us make decision-making easier (Startup A vs. Startup B), but allow me to make a controversial point: if you&#x27;re thinking about working for a startup, <i>don&#x27;t</i>. Starups traditionally underpay (due to offering equity), often have brogrammer cultures (and no real HR departments), will fire&#x2F;lay you off at the drop of a hat, and working late hours with little recognition will be expected. The only exception to this rule is if you&#x27;re one of the first ten-ish employees -- and, obviously, if you&#x27;re a founder.<p>For obvious reasons, cap tables <i>highly</i> favor early investors and owners. If you have a high-risk&#x2F;high-reward type A personality, start a company! If you just want to have a career for a few dozen years and then more-or-less comfortably retire, join Google, or Facebook, or whatever. It makes absolutely no sense to join a startup if you&#x27;re not even getting one point of equity.<p>Further, vesting will absolutely screw employees -- with either inflated share costs (if you leave the company) or with unfair lockout schedules (if you ever IPO). Not only that, but equity is utterly opaque: you literally have no idea how much it&#x27;s <i>actually</i> worth. It&#x27;s important to understand that startups are a gamble for founders and for investors -- which is exactly why I <i>love</i> startups: it&#x27;s a perfect mix of skill and luck. With that said, in my opinion, for mid-to-late stage employees, the opportunity cost no longer makes sense. Unless you need a job to pay rent -- I&#x27;ve been there :)</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Pick Your Next Gig: Evaluating Startups</title><url>http://www.samvitjain.com/blog/evaluating-startups/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>avip</author><text>Perhaps more perspective is needed before composing such blog post (undergrad, had single intern). Seems the norm now is once you&#x27;ve walked 100m, stop and write about your amazing journey.<p>My selfish considerations for a startup:<p><pre><code> Can I remote
Does it matter
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If you&#x27;re working on something that matters, and you need help, and you&#x27;re accidentally reading this... please drop me a line.</text></comment> |
13,536,107 | 13,535,010 | 1 | 3 | 13,533,347 | train | <story><title>Request for Startups: News, Jobs, and Democracy</title><url>https://blog.ycombinator.com/rfs-news-jobs-and-democracy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thowar2</author><text>Education should be on this list.<p>The root of all these problems stem from a lack of effective education.<p>1) The current methods are highly ineffective for teaching<p>By getting more effective at teaching children, and helping them to self educate, we get better informed citizens who can interpret news more accurately and effectively participate in democracy.<p>2) The current goals for education do not align with current &amp; future needs<p>Our current system is designed to produce factory workers for the industrial economy, which was adapted to produce knowledge workers for the information economy. But we are moving towards full automation of most of those jobs.<p>We will need to prepare people to be adaptable in a fast changing automated world: more entrepreneurial type skills are needed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saalweachter</author><text>See, I hear techies grumble about education constantly. Our education system is teaching the wrong skills or not challenging students or just an elaborate babysitting racket.<p>I hear teachers, on the other hand, complain that after decades of trying everything they can, they&#x27;ve realized that they cannot help students unless those students have safe, stable, supportive home lives.<p>It&#x27;s easy to say we should introduce children to programming early, even easy to do. It is easy to complain about critical thinking skills and kids these days. It is easy to see that overtesting schools and overreacting to those test scores wastes resources and the time of children and teachers.<p>It&#x27;s hard to find a way to ensure one in six children in the US subject to food insecurity always get three good meals a day. It is hard to figure out how to provide stability in a single family, let alone all families. It is hard to say a child shouldn&#x27;t drop out of school and work whatever job they can when their parents have been unable or unwilling to provide for them.<p>We have been talking about and trying to fix &quot;education&quot; my entire life; maybe we should try fixing some of the underlying problems first, even if they are hard.</text></comment> | <story><title>Request for Startups: News, Jobs, and Democracy</title><url>https://blog.ycombinator.com/rfs-news-jobs-and-democracy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thowar2</author><text>Education should be on this list.<p>The root of all these problems stem from a lack of effective education.<p>1) The current methods are highly ineffective for teaching<p>By getting more effective at teaching children, and helping them to self educate, we get better informed citizens who can interpret news more accurately and effectively participate in democracy.<p>2) The current goals for education do not align with current &amp; future needs<p>Our current system is designed to produce factory workers for the industrial economy, which was adapted to produce knowledge workers for the information economy. But we are moving towards full automation of most of those jobs.<p>We will need to prepare people to be adaptable in a fast changing automated world: more entrepreneurial type skills are needed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cleisthenes</author><text>Using public education for any form of job training is one of the gravest mistakes that has put us in the current position.<p>The reason for public education is to have an informed citizenry able to participate fully in society. Using it as job training is just corporate welfare, that is using tax money to pay for something businesses should do themselves.<p>There is often overlap in the skills needed in an informed citizenry and employees (e.g. reading, computer skills, etc.), but not always.<p>Trying to chase what business or the marketplace wants is a fools journey that create citizens poorly prepared to be fully empowered citizens with a solid understanding of the world.<p>I suspect entrepreneurial skills would be well covered by this approach as it should emphasis skills of leadership, self-reliance, consensus, and creative thinking.</text></comment> |
18,430,222 | 18,430,088 | 1 | 2 | 18,429,409 | train | <story><title>Be Afraid of Economic 'Bigness'</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/10/opinion/sunday/fascism-economy-monopoly.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>srtjstjsj</author><text>&quot;populist&quot; is just a word people use when they don&#x27;t understand why people care about something and don&#x27;t bother trying to find out. &quot;popular&quot; = &quot;what people I like want&quot;, &quot;populist&quot; = &quot;what people I don&#x27;t like want&quot;</text></item><item><author>olivermarks</author><text>Despite Tim Wu&#x27;s article fundamentally supporting the Anti-Merger Act of 1950, he fails to acknowledge that &#x27;populist, nationalist&#x27; thinking is often precisely about supporting local communities and nation states over globalization and giant platform companies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nabla9</author><text>Populism does not mean popular.<p>It&#x27;s unfortunate that populism has a name that leads to this misconception. People see the word and jump into discussion assuming that they know what is all about.<p>Populism is the claim that the people have a &#x27;will&#x27;. There is no real disagreement of what the real people want or need for compromise. There are people who disagree but they are not the &#x27;real people&#x27;. They are somehow compromised, the corrupt elite, misled or &#x27;the others&#x27;. What &#x27;people want&#x27; is already known, now you just need to vote populist into power to implement the will of the people. Laws and norms often make it difficult to implement this &#x27;will&#x27; and they should be changed.<p>By contrast liberal[1] democracies are based on idea that the complex democratic process gradually produces something that people can live with. It&#x27;s not exactly what anyone wants. There is no common agreement of what people want when people go and vote. The end result of working democracy is negotiated compromise. Laws and norms should be followed when this game of democracy is played.<p>---<p>[1]: liberal is another word that have different meanings in different contexts. Liberal does not mean leftist in this context.</text></comment> | <story><title>Be Afraid of Economic 'Bigness'</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/10/opinion/sunday/fascism-economy-monopoly.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>srtjstjsj</author><text>&quot;populist&quot; is just a word people use when they don&#x27;t understand why people care about something and don&#x27;t bother trying to find out. &quot;popular&quot; = &quot;what people I like want&quot;, &quot;populist&quot; = &quot;what people I don&#x27;t like want&quot;</text></item><item><author>olivermarks</author><text>Despite Tim Wu&#x27;s article fundamentally supporting the Anti-Merger Act of 1950, he fails to acknowledge that &#x27;populist, nationalist&#x27; thinking is often precisely about supporting local communities and nation states over globalization and giant platform companies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rorykoehler</author><text>I always understood populist as bowing to the lowest common denominator rather than taking an actual moral position. Ie not thinking through the consequences.</text></comment> |
23,609,037 | 23,602,129 | 1 | 3 | 23,599,221 | train | <story><title>Health Effects of Coffee</title><url>https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/12/6/1842</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eloff</author><text>Normally I&#x27;m content to follow the data where it leads, but I opened this with trepidation lest it give me a reason not to enjoy my morning coffee. Fortunately it confirms my pre-existing biases.<p>I find I can never just have one cup, so I make a 50% decaf mix and have 3-4 cups spaced out over as many hours. Not only does this give a smooth and constant hit of caffeine, but it suppresses my appetite as well and I easily power right through from 5:30 until midday lunch. These are by far the most productive hours of my day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>atombender</author><text>I went 100% decaf. I sleep better at night and no longer wake up groggy. It&#x27;s amazing.<p>I always considered myself a &quot;night owl&quot; who didn&#x27;t like mornings and preferred to stay up late. I often spent the first hour or two of the day waiting for my body to boot up fully and for the caffeine to kick in. Now I like mornings better, and I don&#x27;t look forward to the sun going down.<p>Switching wasn&#x27;t really a problem. I didn&#x27;t experience headaches or any kind of physical abstinence effects.<p>There are downsides to eliminating caffeine. One is that one becomes very sensitive to it. Many coffee shops don&#x27;t serve decaf, and if I happen to drink a double shot of espresso even as early as 2-3pm, I will find myself stupidly awake at 2am. (On the other hand, if I feel tired one morning, some caffeine can be miraculous.)<p>The other problem is that the pleasure of drinking my daily latte has been greatly diminished. I used to look forward to getting it, even thinking about it before going to bed. Now it&#x27;s... fine. The taste is still great. But there&#x27;s something that feels like it&#x27;s missing. <i>I</i> still crave it, but my body no longer does.</text></comment> | <story><title>Health Effects of Coffee</title><url>https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/12/6/1842</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eloff</author><text>Normally I&#x27;m content to follow the data where it leads, but I opened this with trepidation lest it give me a reason not to enjoy my morning coffee. Fortunately it confirms my pre-existing biases.<p>I find I can never just have one cup, so I make a 50% decaf mix and have 3-4 cups spaced out over as many hours. Not only does this give a smooth and constant hit of caffeine, but it suppresses my appetite as well and I easily power right through from 5:30 until midday lunch. These are by far the most productive hours of my day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cryptonector</author><text>Confirmation bias can be nice!<p>I&#x27;m glad not to be alone in using decaf! I too will mix caf and decaf according to how much I feel I need the caf, but the <i>coffee</i> I definitely want because I just love good coffee. A bit of coconut oil in my morning coffee will power me through to lunch. I do also add about ~20g of high-quality 100% cocoa powder to my morning coffee, making it something of a hot chocolate, and the only deeply satisfying coffee&#x2F;chocolate mix I&#x27;ve found yet.<p>That said, I&#x27;ve learned to avoid caffeine after noon. So if I have any more coffee after that, it&#x27;s always decaf. Yes, decaf is never fully decaf, but it&#x27;s decaf enough to not mess with my sleep.</text></comment> |
5,734,899 | 5,734,902 | 1 | 2 | 5,734,680 | train | <story><title>Dear American Consumers: Please don’t start eating healthfully</title><url>http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2013/05/19/dear-american-consumers-please-dont-start-eating-healthfully-sincerely-the-food-industry/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author></author><text></text></item><item><author>DanBC</author><text>&#62; <i>For example, any food marketed to children must “contain at least 50% by weight one or more of the following: fruit; vegetable; whole grain; fat-free or low-fat milk or yogurt; fish; extra lean meat or poultry; eggs; nuts and seeds; or beans.”</i><p>UK advice is to give children full fat milk until they are 2, and not skimmed until they are 5, and only then if they have a good diet. This is because of the fat soluble vitamins, and also because children need the energy. As part of a sensible diet full fat milk is fine.<p>This advice is part of the healthy drinking stuff. Children should have water or full fat milk. If you give them fruit juice dilute it at least 10 parts water to 1 part juice. Use a free-flow beaker, or a straw cup, or a regular cup, rather than a sippy cup.<p>All this advice from government sounds a bit preachy. But tooth removal is a significant cause for hospitalisation for UK children under 5.<p>(<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/apr/10/tooth-health-poverty-caries" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/apr/10/tooth-health-p...</a>)<p>Tooth care (<a href="http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/2366.aspx?CategoryID=62&#38;SubCategoryID=63" rel="nofollow">http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/2366.aspx?CategoryID=62&#38;SubC...</a>)<p>squash and fruit juice better than fizzy drinks? (<a href="http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/are-squash-and-pure-fruit-juice-better-for-children-than-fizzy-drinks.aspx?CategoryID=62&#38;SubCategoryID=63" rel="nofollow">http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/are-squash-and-pure-fruit-juice-...</a>)<p>Cups and beakers (<a href="http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/pages/drinks-and-cups-children.aspx#close" rel="nofollow">http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/pages/drinks...</a>)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kibibu</author><text>Do you have any evidence of this?<p>I would be shocked if food labeling laws let this happen without explicitly calling it some variant of "flavoured milk".</text></comment> | <story><title>Dear American Consumers: Please don’t start eating healthfully</title><url>http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2013/05/19/dear-american-consumers-please-dont-start-eating-healthfully-sincerely-the-food-industry/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author></author><text></text></item><item><author>DanBC</author><text>&#62; <i>For example, any food marketed to children must “contain at least 50% by weight one or more of the following: fruit; vegetable; whole grain; fat-free or low-fat milk or yogurt; fish; extra lean meat or poultry; eggs; nuts and seeds; or beans.”</i><p>UK advice is to give children full fat milk until they are 2, and not skimmed until they are 5, and only then if they have a good diet. This is because of the fat soluble vitamins, and also because children need the energy. As part of a sensible diet full fat milk is fine.<p>This advice is part of the healthy drinking stuff. Children should have water or full fat milk. If you give them fruit juice dilute it at least 10 parts water to 1 part juice. Use a free-flow beaker, or a straw cup, or a regular cup, rather than a sippy cup.<p>All this advice from government sounds a bit preachy. But tooth removal is a significant cause for hospitalisation for UK children under 5.<p>(<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/apr/10/tooth-health-poverty-caries" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/apr/10/tooth-health-p...</a>)<p>Tooth care (<a href="http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/2366.aspx?CategoryID=62&#38;SubCategoryID=63" rel="nofollow">http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/2366.aspx?CategoryID=62&#38;SubC...</a>)<p>squash and fruit juice better than fizzy drinks? (<a href="http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/are-squash-and-pure-fruit-juice-better-for-children-than-fizzy-drinks.aspx?CategoryID=62&#38;SubCategoryID=63" rel="nofollow">http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/are-squash-and-pure-fruit-juice-...</a>)<p>Cups and beakers (<a href="http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/pages/drinks-and-cups-children.aspx#close" rel="nofollow">http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/pages/drinks...</a>)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hollerith</author><text>Huh? Milk sold in the US does not contain added sugar. It has a lot of sugar in it, but that comes from the cows.</text></comment> |
36,727,694 | 36,725,535 | 1 | 3 | 36,724,736 | train | <story><title>Dropped iPad implicated in fatal Rotak Chinook helicopter crash</title><url>https://verticalmag.com/news/dropped-ipad-implicated-in-fatal-chinook-helicopter-crash/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sph</author><text>FOD? EFB? Any explanation of these acronyms for people outside the US military?</text></item><item><author>the__alchemist</author><text>Some loose thoughts:<p>Military aircraft cockpits sometimes don&#x27;t have a great concept of &quot;inside&quot; and &quot;outside&quot;, the way a cell, waterproof device, the aircraft&#x27;s pressure seal etc do. If you drop something (FOD), there may not be a clearly defined boundary to where it can end up, or it may not be possible to see or get to it while strapped in etc. Rudder pedals, or the various mechanical and electrical connections around them, as indicated in the article, are a great example of this. If you can&#x27;t find it, the AC may have to be grounded and thoroughly searched&#x2F;panels removed etc.<p>Military avionics may be missing basic things that an EFB can help with, including maps, nav point and airport databases, weather info, ADSB info etc. EFBs are (IMO) a poor substitute due to the FOD concern here, the clunky touch screen interface (which you probably have to take gloves off for), the risk of getting locked out of important things like checklist and plates by BlackBerry, Foreflight licenses, passcode timers or other security layer etc.<p>You might have a jet that&#x27;s 30 years old, just got retrofitted with a really nice radar etc, but the funding didn&#x27;t make it through for a database, better displays&#x2F;UI etc that would be better integrated with a jet, so you lean on the EFBs.<p>There are sometimes EFB mounts that can attach to a canopy via suction cup, clip onto various surfaces etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kunwon1</author><text>FOD = Foreign Objects and Debris
EFB = Electronic Flight Bag. A flight bag, traditionally, contains charts and checklists. EFB means you have a device that contains those documents<p>20 years ago, I was an avionics technician on F-16 fighter jets in the USAF. We had &#x27;FOD Walks&#x27; daily, which involved slowly walking down the flightline while staring at the ground, and picking up any loose objects<p>Even a tiny object, when ingested into a jet engine, can cause catastrophic damage. And F-16s have intakes very low to the ground, making them a much higher FOD risk.<p>The worst FOD events were when something broke. We used bit drivers to remove aircraft panels, and the bits were fairly standard screwdriver bits. Sometimes, one of those bits would shatter when applying force to remove a stubborn fastener. If that happens, you have to retrieve every single piece of metal. If you return your toolbox at the end of the day and it is missing anything that can&#x27;t be accounted for, the entire flightline could be shut down while a search is carried out.<p>Dropping things in the cockpit could sometimes be much worse. If it drops down into a void left by removing a control panel, then it could potentially fall to the &#x27;bottom&#x27; of the aircraft. If that happens, you&#x27;ll be taking off all the panels in that vicinity, you&#x27;ll have multiple people looking with flashlights, borescopes, etc.<p>If something is dropped but can&#x27;t be found, that&#x27;s probably a multi-day event that will involve some fairly high ranking people.<p>FOD was considered a serious threat, and a tiny piece of metal broken off of a tool could hinder operations for days at a time</text></comment> | <story><title>Dropped iPad implicated in fatal Rotak Chinook helicopter crash</title><url>https://verticalmag.com/news/dropped-ipad-implicated-in-fatal-chinook-helicopter-crash/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sph</author><text>FOD? EFB? Any explanation of these acronyms for people outside the US military?</text></item><item><author>the__alchemist</author><text>Some loose thoughts:<p>Military aircraft cockpits sometimes don&#x27;t have a great concept of &quot;inside&quot; and &quot;outside&quot;, the way a cell, waterproof device, the aircraft&#x27;s pressure seal etc do. If you drop something (FOD), there may not be a clearly defined boundary to where it can end up, or it may not be possible to see or get to it while strapped in etc. Rudder pedals, or the various mechanical and electrical connections around them, as indicated in the article, are a great example of this. If you can&#x27;t find it, the AC may have to be grounded and thoroughly searched&#x2F;panels removed etc.<p>Military avionics may be missing basic things that an EFB can help with, including maps, nav point and airport databases, weather info, ADSB info etc. EFBs are (IMO) a poor substitute due to the FOD concern here, the clunky touch screen interface (which you probably have to take gloves off for), the risk of getting locked out of important things like checklist and plates by BlackBerry, Foreflight licenses, passcode timers or other security layer etc.<p>You might have a jet that&#x27;s 30 years old, just got retrofitted with a really nice radar etc, but the funding didn&#x27;t make it through for a database, better displays&#x2F;UI etc that would be better integrated with a jet, so you lean on the EFBs.<p>There are sometimes EFB mounts that can attach to a canopy via suction cup, clip onto various surfaces etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fullstop</author><text>FOD = Foreign Object Debris<p>EFB = Electronic Flight ~Book~ Bag<p>edit: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Electronic_flight_bag" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Electronic_flight_bag</a><p>It&#x27;s bag, not book.</text></comment> |
7,757,945 | 7,757,985 | 1 | 3 | 7,757,666 | train | <story><title>Don’t Blame Big Cable. It’s Local Governments That Choke Broadband Competition</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2013/07/we-need-to-stop-focusing-on-just-cable-companies-and-blame-local-government-for-dismal-broadband-competition/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zdw</author><text>The fundamental problem here is that in most places we&#x27;ve arbitrarily decided that certain things like:<p><pre><code> - Roads
- Water&#x2F;Trash&#x2F;Sewer
- Police&#x2F;Fire service
</code></pre>
Are a part of municipal government, whereas:<p><pre><code> - Electrical
- Telephone
- Cable TV
</code></pre>
Are frequently not, but are regulated. Frequently, one of these last 3 will own the poles (usually the Electrical company, but sometimes the municipality) and the Phone&#x2F;Cable companies lease the poles to put up their lines.<p>So, what do you do? Make the Electric company put up New Companies A-Z&#x27;s lines for free? That doesn&#x27;t work and would quickly lead to companies covering the lucrative part of town (read: &quot;rich&quot;) and widening the digital divide.<p>It comes back to the bad decision that didn&#x27;t force Cable to be a common carrier. Had that happened, we&#x27;d end up with a situation like DSL where there are multiple vendors, except the lines would have the same speed capabilities as Cable.<p>So, in short, it comes back to a bad FCC decision. Requiring a bunch of new physical infrastructure isn&#x27;t needed when the existing could just be broken up and leased out as dumb pipes.</text></comment> | <story><title>Don’t Blame Big Cable. It’s Local Governments That Choke Broadband Competition</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2013/07/we-need-to-stop-focusing-on-just-cable-companies-and-blame-local-government-for-dismal-broadband-competition/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>imgabe</author><text>So the cable companies aren&#x27;t aggressively lobbying municipal governments to keep out competition? Where do you think these costs came from?<p>And god forbid the municipality try to build out its own network. That will just inspire the incumbent cable company to take them to court until the project gets scrapped.<p>No, I think we can pretty easily blame Big Cable for this one.</text></comment> |
4,584,046 | 4,583,991 | 1 | 3 | 4,583,769 | train | <story><title>Employers Banned From Asking For Social Media Passwords In California</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/27/employers-banned-from-asking-for-social-media-passwords-in-california/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>w00kie</author><text>Next time I interview someone for a position at my company, I'm going to ask them for their Facebook password. If they give it to me, they will be automatically disqualified from the hiring process for lack of common sense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>prophetjohn</author><text>I don't think this is much better. I wouldn't work for someone who asked me this question, even if this were the rationale. Who knows why someone would divulge their password. I bet there are reasons other than being completely devoid of common sense.<p>Regardless, I bet that any predictive relationship between willingness to divulge a Facebook password in an interview and the ability to perform adequately as a software engineer is weak at best. To me, an employer who doesn't understand that shows poor capacity for unbiased reasoning.</text></comment> | <story><title>Employers Banned From Asking For Social Media Passwords In California</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/27/employers-banned-from-asking-for-social-media-passwords-in-california/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>w00kie</author><text>Next time I interview someone for a position at my company, I'm going to ask them for their Facebook password. If they give it to me, they will be automatically disqualified from the hiring process for lack of common sense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ataggart</author><text>In a similar vein, it's not clear to me why I should be deprived of the knowledge that a potential future employer is a privacy-invading jerk. The censor not only infringes on the rights of the speaker, but also the rights of the would-be listeners.</text></comment> |
22,896,012 | 22,895,555 | 1 | 2 | 22,892,401 | train | <story><title>Phoenix LiveDashboard</title><url>https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_dashboard</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikl</author><text>LiveView is such a game changer for Phoenix (and thus Elixir). From being “just another web framework” (albeit a very nice one), LiveView enables a whole different paradigm for web applications. As a developer, it’s like having superpowers. What would have taken days to build with an SPA or similar “fat client” JavaScript can be done in hours with LiveView.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>erichocean</author><text>I built a pop-up store for Nike&#x27;s NBA All Stars event that used this approach about 5 years ago (in Node.js).<p>Productivity was extremely high, and even better, you could restart clients and since all app state was on the server, they would start up wherever they had left off. I stored the state in LMDB transactionally, so I could also bounce the server any time. Clients would reconnected with their WebSocket <i>while it was being used</i> and no one was the wiser. Did that dozens and dozens of times during the event.<p>I used Blossom (SproutCore derivative) for the UI and statecharts to make that happen. All actions were sent to the server (written in Node.js, with LMDB as the persistent storage). We also had iOS apps for the back office and customer support reps that worked identically (but in Objective-C).<p>Entire project took 5 weeks with myself as the only developer, replicated a (beautiful) iPhone app Nike made called SNKRS entirely in Blossom and ran it on these huge 30inch touch screens inside a full screen Chrome instance.<p>Very fun project, and we sold ~1M in shoes (through Stripe) in four days. Freaking cold though, February in NY!<p>Link to the event: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dunksandjordans.wordpress.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;02&#x2F;13&#x2F;nike-pop-up-shop-for-all-star-weekend&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dunksandjordans.wordpress.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;02&#x2F;13&#x2F;nike-pop-up...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Phoenix LiveDashboard</title><url>https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_dashboard</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikl</author><text>LiveView is such a game changer for Phoenix (and thus Elixir). From being “just another web framework” (albeit a very nice one), LiveView enables a whole different paradigm for web applications. As a developer, it’s like having superpowers. What would have taken days to build with an SPA or similar “fat client” JavaScript can be done in hours with LiveView.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elamje</author><text>I think very highly of elixir and Jose. After 3 months of using .NET Blazor in production, I can say that LiveView and Blazor have some trade offs that people don’t talk about.<p>For those that don’t know what they are, they basically keep a websocket connection open between the client and server to allow the client to call Elixir and C# functions instead of javascript frameworks that call some rest api endpoint. You can write HTML click listeners that are in the server language rather than js.<p>It’s powerful, but there is a latency trade off since most UI events end up being handled by the server, the client might notice this latency in the UI. Blazor specifically has issues with connectivity, which means your client is completely locked out of the UI until a manual refresh.<p>It’s true that this is certainly a paradigm shift, and maybe just a stepping stone to web assembly web apps written in a server language.<p>I haven’t used LiveView, but I can imagine it’s better than .NET at scaling since it runs on BEAM rather than the CLR, which means it’s likely the better choice if you will need to maintain a lot of client connections in your app.</text></comment> |
32,574,736 | 32,573,816 | 1 | 2 | 32,572,770 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Pornpen.ai – AI-Generated Porn</title><url>https://pornpen.ai/</url><text>Hey HN, I&#x27;ve been working on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pornpen.ai" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pornpen.ai</a>, a site for generating adult images. Please only visit the site if you are 18+ and willing to look at NSFW images.<p>This site is an experiment using newer text-to-image models. I explicitly removed the ability to specify custom text to avoid harmful imagery from being generated. New tags will be added once the prompt-engineering algorithm is fine-tuned further. If the servers are overloaded, take a look at the feed and search pages to look through past results.<p>For comments&#x2F;suggestions&#x2F;feedback please visit <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;pornpen" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;pornpen</a><p>Enjoy!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>thematrixturtle</author><text>Inevitable successor to this: a TikTok-style adaptive porn feed that learns exactly what you like and starts generating porn customized to your kinks and preferences.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dgs_sgd</author><text>Porn addiction is already a serious problem for many people. Combine an enhanced version of this model with TikTok style delivery and I’m very fearful of the end result. It’ll be the equivalent of crack in terms of the dopamine rush.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Pornpen.ai – AI-Generated Porn</title><url>https://pornpen.ai/</url><text>Hey HN, I&#x27;ve been working on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pornpen.ai" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pornpen.ai</a>, a site for generating adult images. Please only visit the site if you are 18+ and willing to look at NSFW images.<p>This site is an experiment using newer text-to-image models. I explicitly removed the ability to specify custom text to avoid harmful imagery from being generated. New tags will be added once the prompt-engineering algorithm is fine-tuned further. If the servers are overloaded, take a look at the feed and search pages to look through past results.<p>For comments&#x2F;suggestions&#x2F;feedback please visit <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;pornpen" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;pornpen</a><p>Enjoy!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>thematrixturtle</author><text>Inevitable successor to this: a TikTok-style adaptive porn feed that learns exactly what you like and starts generating porn customized to your kinks and preferences.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LewisVerstappen</author><text>It’s Time to Build</text></comment> |
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