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<story><title>PyParallel: How we removed the GIL and exploited all cores</title><url>https://speakerdeck.com/trent/pyparallel-how-we-removed-the-gil-and-exploited-all-cores</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jnbiche</author><text>I&#x27;m really glad to see some of the Python committers taking a serious look at the GIL. Python is either posed for great victory (given its rapid rate of adoption in academia) or slow failure (given the rapid rate at which server apps are starting to migrate from Python to Go).<p>However, between accomplishments like Micropython (huge potential for Python on mobile&#x2F;resource constrained devices) , PyPy&#x27;s slow but steady gains, and projects like this, it&#x27;s at least an interesting time for Pythonistas.<p>Now, if we could only get an optional static type checker... (heresy, I know). Dynamic typing is great for quick prototyping, and I would never want to lose that in Python, but I&#x27;m very uneasy now taking on any large projects or long-term projects without static typing. Mypy holds some promise here, but I think it will take sponsorship from a big company to push something like this to a mature state.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>masklinn</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m really glad to see some of the Python committers taking a serious look at the GIL.<p>People have been taking serious looks at the GIL for a long time (there were technically working GIL-less versions of 1.5). The issue has never been that no one wanted to work on it (let alone that it was impossible), but that so far the single-threaded performance hit has been too large to be acceptable to the core team.<p>&gt; Now, if we could only get an optional static type checker... (heresy, I know).<p>Er… how would that be heretic when Python 3&#x27;s annotations were introduced to support exactly this?</text></comment>
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<story><title>PyParallel: How we removed the GIL and exploited all cores</title><url>https://speakerdeck.com/trent/pyparallel-how-we-removed-the-gil-and-exploited-all-cores</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jnbiche</author><text>I&#x27;m really glad to see some of the Python committers taking a serious look at the GIL. Python is either posed for great victory (given its rapid rate of adoption in academia) or slow failure (given the rapid rate at which server apps are starting to migrate from Python to Go).<p>However, between accomplishments like Micropython (huge potential for Python on mobile&#x2F;resource constrained devices) , PyPy&#x27;s slow but steady gains, and projects like this, it&#x27;s at least an interesting time for Pythonistas.<p>Now, if we could only get an optional static type checker... (heresy, I know). Dynamic typing is great for quick prototyping, and I would never want to lose that in Python, but I&#x27;m very uneasy now taking on any large projects or long-term projects without static typing. Mypy holds some promise here, but I think it will take sponsorship from a big company to push something like this to a mature state.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ak217</author><text>There are a lot of ideas out there on how to do optional runtime type checking in a Pythonic way. My contribution is ensure (<a href="https://github.com/kislyuk/ensure" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kislyuk&#x2F;ensure</a>), for example check out the ensure_annotations decorator (<a href="https://ensure.readthedocs.org/en/latest/#ensure.ensure_annotations" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ensure.readthedocs.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;#ensure.ensure_anno...</a>).</text></comment>
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<story><title>United States of Paranoia: A growing tribe of troubled minds</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/11/health/gang-stalking-targeted-individuals.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tunap</author><text>“They end up in a closed ideology echo chamber,”<p>I cannot deny I often find myself pigeon-holed into this category, the derision poured upon me to &quot;fix&quot; something has been consistent &amp; unwavering. Problem is, I was always more interested in books&#x2F;work over socializing before the netz, I don&#x27;t hear voices in my head besides my inner-monologue(hopefully=not-schizo) and my &#x27;echo chamber&#x27; is anything but... I am drawn to alien, re-framed &amp; unique perspectives of the world I live in. My solitude is a result of not being current on the TV shows, my choice to avoid Web2.0 style social(sic) media and a very low consumption fueled lifestyle... all these are past-times for the mass majority. Good for them, if that is what people choose. Good for me for not choosing to do the same. My outlier mentality has subsequently been reinforced by the writings&#x2F;works of some very smart people. A few examples:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Dragons_of_Eden" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Dragons_of_Eden</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Demon-Haunted_World" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Demon-Haunted_World</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Manufacturing_Consent" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Manufacturing_Consent</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Black_Swan_%28Taleb_book%29" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Black_Swan_%28Taleb_book%2...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Adam_Curtis" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Adam_Curtis</a><p>edit:added conclusion, 3rd and 2nd to last sentences.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cortesoft</author><text>Just so you know, you can live a non-solitary life and not stay up on TV, not be on social media, and live a low consumption life. None of those things preclude interacting with other people.<p>There is obviously a spectrum between fully social and fully anti-social, and it is important to find out where you fit on that. There is always value, however, in avoiding being on the far end of the anti-social spectrum. Having our thinking challenged by real people, with real interaction, is important to our mental health.</text></comment>
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<story><title>United States of Paranoia: A growing tribe of troubled minds</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/11/health/gang-stalking-targeted-individuals.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tunap</author><text>“They end up in a closed ideology echo chamber,”<p>I cannot deny I often find myself pigeon-holed into this category, the derision poured upon me to &quot;fix&quot; something has been consistent &amp; unwavering. Problem is, I was always more interested in books&#x2F;work over socializing before the netz, I don&#x27;t hear voices in my head besides my inner-monologue(hopefully=not-schizo) and my &#x27;echo chamber&#x27; is anything but... I am drawn to alien, re-framed &amp; unique perspectives of the world I live in. My solitude is a result of not being current on the TV shows, my choice to avoid Web2.0 style social(sic) media and a very low consumption fueled lifestyle... all these are past-times for the mass majority. Good for them, if that is what people choose. Good for me for not choosing to do the same. My outlier mentality has subsequently been reinforced by the writings&#x2F;works of some very smart people. A few examples:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Dragons_of_Eden" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Dragons_of_Eden</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Demon-Haunted_World" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Demon-Haunted_World</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Manufacturing_Consent" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Manufacturing_Consent</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Black_Swan_%28Taleb_book%29" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Black_Swan_%28Taleb_book%2...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Adam_Curtis" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Adam_Curtis</a><p>edit:added conclusion, 3rd and 2nd to last sentences.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MawNicker</author><text>Thank you. I&#x27;m social enough that people give me strange looks when I describe myself as a loner. I&#x27;ve been accused of <i>posing</i>. As if being a loner is &quot;in&quot; now or something. Everything in my reality is telling me to be more social. But there&#x27;s a truth that I simply know which apparently has no voice: It feels amazing to spend time alone. Like a lot. I wish more people would speak up about it. Shamelessly. Also, people make the worst faces when I tell them I don&#x27;t watch TV. I suspect they&#x27;re concerned that I&#x27;m judging them. In both cases people just seem clueless as to how to handle the situation. I guess, compared to the opposite, it <i>is</i> harder to identify with loners and people who don&#x27;t watch TV...</text></comment>
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<story><title>Solid aims to radically change the way web applications work</title><url>https://solid.mit.edu/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>newhere420</author><text>Although I agree with the aims of the project, trying to understand it leads you down a rabbit hole of complexity that ultimately never pays off. Ontology, vocabulary, RDFa, OWL, FOAF, etc.<p>I assume this is a continuation of - or somehow related to - the semantic web project that W3C spent a lot of time spinning its wheels on back in the early &#x27;00s. Back in the day, I bought into the hype that this would be the next big thing, but it never gained traction. Nobody understood it. It was too meta.<p>Trying to do anything with semantic web specifications was like writing an academic treatise on the philosophy of meaning, and ultimately delivered no more value to users than a hacked up &lt;table&gt; layout.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sien</author><text>People should all reread the essay &#x27;Metacrap&#x27; once in a while about this.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;people.well.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;doctorow&#x2F;metacrap.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;people.well.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;doctorow&#x2F;metacrap.htm</a><p>However, metadata is really useful in some contexts. Say you have a huge collection of scientific data from a particle accelerator, astronomy database, satellite imagery or sensors.<p>How do you set that up for search?<p>How do you make it worthwhile for academics to release data like this and get credit as they do for writing a paper?<p>How do you have provenance for derived data?<p>How do you set up a unique identifier so the data can be referenced and found as required?<p>You have data about the data. You have metadata. If you&#x27;re smart you standardize it and bingo. You have a use for metadata.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Solid aims to radically change the way web applications work</title><url>https://solid.mit.edu/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>newhere420</author><text>Although I agree with the aims of the project, trying to understand it leads you down a rabbit hole of complexity that ultimately never pays off. Ontology, vocabulary, RDFa, OWL, FOAF, etc.<p>I assume this is a continuation of - or somehow related to - the semantic web project that W3C spent a lot of time spinning its wheels on back in the early &#x27;00s. Back in the day, I bought into the hype that this would be the next big thing, but it never gained traction. Nobody understood it. It was too meta.<p>Trying to do anything with semantic web specifications was like writing an academic treatise on the philosophy of meaning, and ultimately delivered no more value to users than a hacked up &lt;table&gt; layout.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sigsergv</author><text>Semantic web is not that hard to understand. But facebook&#x2F;google&#x2F;etc will NEVER adopt it. They are not interested in opening (meta)data in highly precise and machine readable form to 3rd parties. So the only adopters are geeks&#x2F;scientists.</text></comment>
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<story><title>ISP announces 86% slowdown “in line with others”</title><url>https://doctorow.medium.com/isp-announces-86-slowdown-in-line-with-others-d0884df51fc1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>deadalus</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;outline.com&#x2F;mUNVS7" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;outline.com&#x2F;mUNVS7</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Inkscape 1.1</title><url>https://inkscape.org/news/2021/05/24/welcome-inkscape-11/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simondotau</author><text>I must say that as someone who is a <i>very</i> occasional user of vector drawing tools (and mainly uses them for prepping SVG for web) I’m sufficiently impressed by the latest version of Affinity Designer as an Illustrator replacement. I was able to open an .ai file, modify it, and export an .svg which was a perfect drop-in replacement for an .svg previously exported by Illustrator.<p>It’s still too expensive for me at full price but I nabbed a Mac App Store license when it was on sale a few weeks ago.<p>I haven’t tried Inkscape recently, but last time I did it failed horribly at the most basic tasks of path editing and SVG prep.</text></item><item><author>chasil</author><text>I used Inkscape last week to convert an SVG vector image to EPS, for insertion into a PDF.<p>The conversion was not perfect. I am using FPDF with an EPS add-on, and after study of the PHP source, I was able to open the EPS with a text editor and reformat it so that it would successfully import.<p>Unfortunately, it loaded upside down, so I was forced to flip and save again in inkscape, then repeat the formatting. This odd behavior is also present in the (downstream) TCPDF library, which appears to have close to the same code.<p>Complain as I may, I didn&#x27;t have to buy Adobe Illustrator.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wlesieutre</author><text>At $25 on sale (which it currently is), a permanent license for Affinity Designer is cheaper than <i>one month</i> of Adobe Illustrator.<p>Adobe likes to advertise it as $20.99&#x2F;month, but that&#x27;s only with a 12 month commitment, and you can&#x27;t cancel early without paying. Renting Illustrator for a single month will really cost you $31.41.<p>Even at full price ($50), Affinity Designer costs less than two months of Illustrator.<p>Not a professional artist and don&#x27;t use it often, but it&#x27;s enough of a value that hobbyists like me can actually use it. Any of Adobe&#x27;s products, not so much.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Inkscape 1.1</title><url>https://inkscape.org/news/2021/05/24/welcome-inkscape-11/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simondotau</author><text>I must say that as someone who is a <i>very</i> occasional user of vector drawing tools (and mainly uses them for prepping SVG for web) I’m sufficiently impressed by the latest version of Affinity Designer as an Illustrator replacement. I was able to open an .ai file, modify it, and export an .svg which was a perfect drop-in replacement for an .svg previously exported by Illustrator.<p>It’s still too expensive for me at full price but I nabbed a Mac App Store license when it was on sale a few weeks ago.<p>I haven’t tried Inkscape recently, but last time I did it failed horribly at the most basic tasks of path editing and SVG prep.</text></item><item><author>chasil</author><text>I used Inkscape last week to convert an SVG vector image to EPS, for insertion into a PDF.<p>The conversion was not perfect. I am using FPDF with an EPS add-on, and after study of the PHP source, I was able to open the EPS with a text editor and reformat it so that it would successfully import.<p>Unfortunately, it loaded upside down, so I was forced to flip and save again in inkscape, then repeat the formatting. This odd behavior is also present in the (downstream) TCPDF library, which appears to have close to the same code.<p>Complain as I may, I didn&#x27;t have to buy Adobe Illustrator.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>girvo</author><text>Affinity Photo and Designer are brilliant. I&#x27;d second their recommendation.<p>Also, the Apple Photos integration for Affinity Photo is pretty damned handy :)</text></comment>
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<story><title>New species of ancient human discovered in the Philippines: Homo luzonensis</title><url>https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/04/new-species-ancient-human-discovered-luzon-philippines-homo-luzonensis/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>llbowers</author><text>I sometimes wonder what it would be like if another species had survived and developed alongside us. They would be humans but....not quite what we conceive of as human(basically our species). What would their culture have been like? Music, art, language, etc.<p>As tribal as our own species is I imagine we would have gone to war eventually and one exterminated the other (assuming no large difference in population, technology, etc.). I think that might have been what happened to Neanderthals?<p>But still, the thought of going about day-to-day business alongside, let&#x27;s say homo floresiensis, has something intriguing to it. Perhaps it&#x27;s the same reason we imagine interaction with extraterrestrial life - it&#x27;s really just a reflection on us and our own humanity.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>barry-cotter</author><text>Humans are already almost as diverse as canids (wolves, dogs, coyotes) as a whole. Until the Bantu arrived in Southern Africa (I think less than 300 years ago, definitely les than 500) the San has been reproductively isolated for at least 200,000 years. You don’t need to wonder what that world would be like, you live in it. All non Sub Saharan Africans are ~2% Neanderthal. Papuans are 5% Denisovan, from probably three different sub populations, likely as different from each other as the major continental ancestry groups of today. Tibetans have a high altitude adaptation from
Denisovans at more or less ~100% fixation that is almost absent among the Han Chinese they otherwise closely resemble.<p>We fought with, killed and mated with the other kinds of human. They may not all still be here but there’s a lot of them in us. Humanity mostly comes from Africa around 200,000 years ago but there’s a lot of deep population structure that’s much older than that.</text></comment>
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<story><title>New species of ancient human discovered in the Philippines: Homo luzonensis</title><url>https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/04/new-species-ancient-human-discovered-luzon-philippines-homo-luzonensis/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>llbowers</author><text>I sometimes wonder what it would be like if another species had survived and developed alongside us. They would be humans but....not quite what we conceive of as human(basically our species). What would their culture have been like? Music, art, language, etc.<p>As tribal as our own species is I imagine we would have gone to war eventually and one exterminated the other (assuming no large difference in population, technology, etc.). I think that might have been what happened to Neanderthals?<p>But still, the thought of going about day-to-day business alongside, let&#x27;s say homo floresiensis, has something intriguing to it. Perhaps it&#x27;s the same reason we imagine interaction with extraterrestrial life - it&#x27;s really just a reflection on us and our own humanity.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dalbasal</author><text>Neanderthals or denisovans encountering sapiens probably would have been much like sapiens encountering sapiens of a different culture&#x2F;tribe. Fighting, trading, cultural exchange and some breeding. They would have registered as different tribes but I doubt that the &quot;species&quot; concept (all sapiens unite to defeat the denisovan threat!) would have registered.<p>They weren&#x27;t that different to us biologically, but people can be pretty different from eachother behaviourally) culturally. One tribe is nomadic, eats a lot of elephants, does monogamy and lives in big hierarchical groups. Another is settled, clannish, matriarchal, polygomous and does a lot of fishing. Behaviourally, that&#x27;s a lot of difference.<p>It&#x27;s possible that neighboring neanderthal tribes we&#x27;re culturally more similar (food, language, art..) to your sapiens tribe than some far off sapiens tribe.<p>Also, it can be little bit misleading to think of those two as separate species. It&#x27;s more that the human gene pool was much deeper then than now. We are all very close genetically today, especially for such a populous and widespread species. Back then, even within groups classed as Sapiens or Neanderthals, the genetic (and to an extent, morphological) diversity that existed was much bigger.<p>The newly discovered species though... Homo Naledi, florisiensis and luzonensis. These guys <i>do</i> seem like different species. Hopefully, some DNA will be found and we&#x27;ll know more about them.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Why we won't be selling Genuino or Arduino any more</title><url>http://blog.pimoroni.com/why-we-wont-be-selling-genuino-arduino-any-more/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>barttenbrinke</author><text>We used to put a marble and water in an empty camera film roll canister (transparant). Freeze in the freezer and flip over. If you come back and the Marble is frozen on the bottom of the canister: don&#x27;t eat anything! #lowtech</text></item><item><author>win_ini</author><text>Similar to the nerd question - could you describe your approach to the freezer monitor? I have a cabin I don&#x27;t live nearby to, and I basically can&#x27;t keep anything in the freezer. It seems to go out often enough to unfreeze then refreeze the ice cube water.<p>I was thinking a flat thermistor. Then I started thinking - what if it&#x27;s not the power, but the freezer itself?<p>Now I&#x27;m getting into a battery to log when power is out, save that state, continue logging temps, then transmit after the wifi (assuming loss of power - although I have a UPS for the modem&#x2F;wifi that will last a few hours) is available again. This obviously adds complexity.<p>Would love to hear your approach to that project....</text></item><item><author>manyxcxi</author><text>Because they&#x27;re much friendlier to get started for the novice, most of the widespread examples seem extremely trivial to someone with experience.<p>Now- I&#x27;m DEFINITELY not an expert, probably barely mediocre with the EE fundamentals, but I did take a lot of EE and some robotics at Uni to get my degree in Computer Engineering. I am nothing more than a hobbyist but some of my cooler projects have been:<p>- Autonomous 4WD robot<p>- Quadcopter<p>- A USB nerf gun that shoots at the developer who broke the Jenkins build<p>- Used an electronic photo frame as a display to show happy birthday tweets and Facebook posts to my wife from all the friends and family on her birthday<p>- WiFi&#x2F;Proximity garage door opener (before they were cool)<p>- Garage freezer monitor (after an accidental unplug that spoiled a season&#x27;s worth of salmon and elk)<p>- A vending machine that let you pay with your work badge from &#x27;points&#x27; you earned (this involved a Raspbery Pi and a surface tablet as well, but the Arduino was what actually controlled the vending machine)<p>I&#x27;ve done a ton of random home automation IoT gizmos, mostly just for the fun of it, and a lot of robot builds for the boys. But the reason I use a lot of Arduino is that they are pretty friendly to use, there&#x27;s a lot of help when I&#x27;m stuck, and I often don&#x27;t need more. When I do, sometimes I just add another Arduino (or 4) and use serial or SPI communications between them. I&#x27;ve got some PIC chips for stuff, and some other random chips laying around, but I get more done quickly with the Arduino.<p>Now, if I ever got on to an idea I wanted to make more permanent I would look elsewhere, but for a hobby, everything else provides more friction and ramp up in the few hours a month I can free up to work on stuff.<p>EDIT: I&#x27;ll add I&#x27;ve gotten some ESP8266 chips&#x2F;breakouts that I&#x27;ve gotten more used to and I may start using them in a lot of places I&#x27;ve previously used Arduino + WiFi because the WiFi breakouts use a LOT of the available I&#x2F;O and are usually the most expensive part of a build. I think I have 2 or 3 that I reuse.</text></item><item><author>nathancahill</author><text>Serious question: what are people building with these boards? The recurring projects I&#x27;ve seen are controlling lights, doors&#x2F;locks and monitoring water in plants. I don&#x27;t find these particularly compelling, am I missing something? How is this the next big thing?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mcpherrinm</author><text>I&#x27;ve always just put an ice cube in a ziplock bag. If it isn&#x27;t square, that means it&#x27;s melted &amp; refrozen. The marble trick seems like it&#x27;s probably more sensitive, but I also don&#x27;t have marbles and film canisters laying around.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Why we won't be selling Genuino or Arduino any more</title><url>http://blog.pimoroni.com/why-we-wont-be-selling-genuino-arduino-any-more/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>barttenbrinke</author><text>We used to put a marble and water in an empty camera film roll canister (transparant). Freeze in the freezer and flip over. If you come back and the Marble is frozen on the bottom of the canister: don&#x27;t eat anything! #lowtech</text></item><item><author>win_ini</author><text>Similar to the nerd question - could you describe your approach to the freezer monitor? I have a cabin I don&#x27;t live nearby to, and I basically can&#x27;t keep anything in the freezer. It seems to go out often enough to unfreeze then refreeze the ice cube water.<p>I was thinking a flat thermistor. Then I started thinking - what if it&#x27;s not the power, but the freezer itself?<p>Now I&#x27;m getting into a battery to log when power is out, save that state, continue logging temps, then transmit after the wifi (assuming loss of power - although I have a UPS for the modem&#x2F;wifi that will last a few hours) is available again. This obviously adds complexity.<p>Would love to hear your approach to that project....</text></item><item><author>manyxcxi</author><text>Because they&#x27;re much friendlier to get started for the novice, most of the widespread examples seem extremely trivial to someone with experience.<p>Now- I&#x27;m DEFINITELY not an expert, probably barely mediocre with the EE fundamentals, but I did take a lot of EE and some robotics at Uni to get my degree in Computer Engineering. I am nothing more than a hobbyist but some of my cooler projects have been:<p>- Autonomous 4WD robot<p>- Quadcopter<p>- A USB nerf gun that shoots at the developer who broke the Jenkins build<p>- Used an electronic photo frame as a display to show happy birthday tweets and Facebook posts to my wife from all the friends and family on her birthday<p>- WiFi&#x2F;Proximity garage door opener (before they were cool)<p>- Garage freezer monitor (after an accidental unplug that spoiled a season&#x27;s worth of salmon and elk)<p>- A vending machine that let you pay with your work badge from &#x27;points&#x27; you earned (this involved a Raspbery Pi and a surface tablet as well, but the Arduino was what actually controlled the vending machine)<p>I&#x27;ve done a ton of random home automation IoT gizmos, mostly just for the fun of it, and a lot of robot builds for the boys. But the reason I use a lot of Arduino is that they are pretty friendly to use, there&#x27;s a lot of help when I&#x27;m stuck, and I often don&#x27;t need more. When I do, sometimes I just add another Arduino (or 4) and use serial or SPI communications between them. I&#x27;ve got some PIC chips for stuff, and some other random chips laying around, but I get more done quickly with the Arduino.<p>Now, if I ever got on to an idea I wanted to make more permanent I would look elsewhere, but for a hobby, everything else provides more friction and ramp up in the few hours a month I can free up to work on stuff.<p>EDIT: I&#x27;ll add I&#x27;ve gotten some ESP8266 chips&#x2F;breakouts that I&#x27;ve gotten more used to and I may start using them in a lot of places I&#x27;ve previously used Arduino + WiFi because the WiFi breakouts use a LOT of the available I&#x2F;O and are usually the most expensive part of a build. I think I have 2 or 3 that I reuse.</text></item><item><author>nathancahill</author><text>Serious question: what are people building with these boards? The recurring projects I&#x27;ve seen are controlling lights, doors&#x2F;locks and monitoring water in plants. I don&#x27;t find these particularly compelling, am I missing something? How is this the next big thing?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>manyxcxi</author><text>This is a tip EVERYONE should know and I still do this! I use a half filled bottle of water, a small rock, and mark safe&#x2F;not safe so anyone who&#x27;s not me knows which way it should be.<p>Pretty sure it was my great-grandpa who taught me that.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Librefox: Firefox with privacy enhancements</title><url>https://github.com/intika/Librefox</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amelius</author><text>I don&#x27;t get the name. How is &quot;libre&quot; connected to &quot;privacy&quot;, considering that Firefox is already &quot;libre&quot; in many ways.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JoshuaRLi</author><text>It isn&#x27;t. The naming is just unfortunate; privacy cultists typically associate free&#x2F;libre software with the notion of privacy.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Librefox: Firefox with privacy enhancements</title><url>https://github.com/intika/Librefox</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amelius</author><text>I don&#x27;t get the name. How is &quot;libre&quot; connected to &quot;privacy&quot;, considering that Firefox is already &quot;libre&quot; in many ways.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gatherhunterer</author><text>I assume it is in the context of “libre software”. More generally, privacy is consisered to be essential to the concept of individual freedom.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Curl is C</title><url>https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2017/03/27/curl-is-c/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KuiN</author><text>&gt; generate C code.<p>Programmatically generating C code not without problems. How can you prove that the C you&#x27;re generating is free from problems solved by the safer language? Cloudbleed came from computer generated C code: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;incident-report-on-memory-leak-caused-by-cloudflare-parser-bug&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;incident-report-on-memory-leak-c...</a>.</text></item><item><author>rwmj</author><text>While this doesn&#x27;t so much apply to libcurl (but see below), there is a third alternative to &quot;write everything in C&quot; or &quot;write everything in &lt;some other safer language&gt;&quot;. That is: <i>use a safer language to generate C code</i>.<p>End users, even those compiling from source, will still only need a C compiler. Only developers need to install the safer language (even Curl developers must install valgrind to run the full tests).<p>Where can you use generated code?<p>- For non-C language bindings (this could apply to the Curl project, but libcurl is a bit unusual in that it doesn&#x27;t include other bindings, they are supplied by third parties).<p>- To describe the API and generate header files, function prototypes, and wrappers.<p>- To enforce type checking on API parameters (eg. all the CURL_EASY_... options could be described in the generator and then that can be turned into some kind of type checking code).<p>- Any other time you want a single source of truth in your codebase.<p>We use a generator (written in OCaml, generating mostly C) successfully in two projects: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;libguestfs&#x2F;libguestfs&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;generator" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;libguestfs&#x2F;libguestfs&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;generat...</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;libguestfs&#x2F;hivex&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;generator" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;libguestfs&#x2F;hivex&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;generator</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>patrec</author><text>No, it didn&#x27;t.<p>See quote from the author of Ragel in the comments:<p><i>There is no mistake in ragel generated code. What happened was that you turned on EOF actions without appropriate testing. The original author most certainly never intended for that. He&#x2F;She would have known it would require extensive testing. Legacy code needs to be tested heavily after changes. It should have been left alone.<p>PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE take some time to ensure the media doesn&#x27;t print things like this. It&#x27;s going to destroy me. You guys have most certainly benefitted from my hard work over the years. Please don&#x27;t kill my reputation!</i></text></comment>
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<story><title>Curl is C</title><url>https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2017/03/27/curl-is-c/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KuiN</author><text>&gt; generate C code.<p>Programmatically generating C code not without problems. How can you prove that the C you&#x27;re generating is free from problems solved by the safer language? Cloudbleed came from computer generated C code: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;incident-report-on-memory-leak-caused-by-cloudflare-parser-bug&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;incident-report-on-memory-leak-c...</a>.</text></item><item><author>rwmj</author><text>While this doesn&#x27;t so much apply to libcurl (but see below), there is a third alternative to &quot;write everything in C&quot; or &quot;write everything in &lt;some other safer language&gt;&quot;. That is: <i>use a safer language to generate C code</i>.<p>End users, even those compiling from source, will still only need a C compiler. Only developers need to install the safer language (even Curl developers must install valgrind to run the full tests).<p>Where can you use generated code?<p>- For non-C language bindings (this could apply to the Curl project, but libcurl is a bit unusual in that it doesn&#x27;t include other bindings, they are supplied by third parties).<p>- To describe the API and generate header files, function prototypes, and wrappers.<p>- To enforce type checking on API parameters (eg. all the CURL_EASY_... options could be described in the generator and then that can be turned into some kind of type checking code).<p>- Any other time you want a single source of truth in your codebase.<p>We use a generator (written in OCaml, generating mostly C) successfully in two projects: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;libguestfs&#x2F;libguestfs&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;generator" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;libguestfs&#x2F;libguestfs&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;generat...</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;libguestfs&#x2F;hivex&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;generator" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;libguestfs&#x2F;hivex&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;generator</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>patrec</author><text>More generally, I don&#x27;t understand this argument. Assuming you can trust the C compiler (big if, but at least some validated (large subset of) C compilers exist; see CompCert), I don&#x27;t get why this would be worse then generating machine code in a safe language.</text></comment>
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<story><title>“Peak Civilization”: The Fall of the Roman Empire (2009)</title><url>http://europe.theoildrum.com/node/5528</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lambdasquirrel</author><text>Only tangentially related, but I can’t possibly be the only one who read this and thought about a particular codebase...<p>&gt; <i>The answer to these crisis and challenges is to build up structures - say, bureaucratic or military - in response. Each time a crisis is faced and solved, society finds itself with an extra layer of complexity. Now, Tainter says, as complexity increases, the benefit of this extra complexity starts going down - he calls it &quot;the marginal benefit of complexity&quot;. That is because complexity has a cost - it costs energy to maintain complex systems.</i></text></comment>
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<story><title>“Peak Civilization”: The Fall of the Roman Empire (2009)</title><url>http://europe.theoildrum.com/node/5528</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ptrincr</author><text>Last time Rome popped up as a topic on hackernews, someone mentioned &quot;The history of Rome&quot; podcast. It&#x27;s absolutely fantastic. I mention it so that perhaps someone else can enjoy this masterpiece as much as I have.</text></comment>
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<story><title>High-Throughput Generative Inference of Large Language Models with a Single GPU</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.06865</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TaylorAlexander</author><text>I genuinely believe LLMs are not enough on their own to generate the most interesting and humanlike interactions, but it is clear to me that we are on this path.<p>I was watching Westworld the TV series recently, and it made me think of what it would be like to be in a VR space with a bunch of characters that all had their own back story and personalities, which were sufficiently humanlike that it was fun to talk to them for long periods of time. I feel like we will see this in maybe ten years, and it&#x27;s going to be pretty cool! I mean I am sure we will see attempts at this sooner but I think it will take a while to get all the pieces working so that a conversational AI really feels human. Maybe 5 years, who knows.</text></item><item><author>georgehill</author><text>&gt; FlexGen lowers the resource requirements of running
175B-scale models down to a single 16GB GPU and reaches a generation throughput of 1 token&#x2F;s with an effective batch size
of 144.<p>I can&#x27;t imagine what will be happening in LLM space next year this time. Maybe LLM natively integrated into games and browsers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>noduerme</author><text>If something like GPT-4 can batch the language tokens in with multi modal tokens (e.g. the character LLM gets a low-res &quot;video&quot; feed of you, the player, from the character&#x27;s perspective)... you could have it a lot sooner.</text></comment>
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<story><title>High-Throughput Generative Inference of Large Language Models with a Single GPU</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.06865</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TaylorAlexander</author><text>I genuinely believe LLMs are not enough on their own to generate the most interesting and humanlike interactions, but it is clear to me that we are on this path.<p>I was watching Westworld the TV series recently, and it made me think of what it would be like to be in a VR space with a bunch of characters that all had their own back story and personalities, which were sufficiently humanlike that it was fun to talk to them for long periods of time. I feel like we will see this in maybe ten years, and it&#x27;s going to be pretty cool! I mean I am sure we will see attempts at this sooner but I think it will take a while to get all the pieces working so that a conversational AI really feels human. Maybe 5 years, who knows.</text></item><item><author>georgehill</author><text>&gt; FlexGen lowers the resource requirements of running
175B-scale models down to a single 16GB GPU and reaches a generation throughput of 1 token&#x2F;s with an effective batch size
of 144.<p>I can&#x27;t imagine what will be happening in LLM space next year this time. Maybe LLM natively integrated into games and browsers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>macrolocal</author><text>Nb. the non-humanlike interactions they&#x27;ll enable are equally (maybe more) exciting.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Free Tiers and Resources for Developers</title><url>https://free-for.dev/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fariszr</author><text>Honestly nothing compares to Oracle cloud free tier.<p>Its amazing, you have a better VPS than 15$ per month can get you on any VPS host, even if its ARM, its worth it.<p>As for CI&#x2F;CD, I didn&#x27;t know GiLlab gives you 50,000 minutes for public projects, the issue with gitlab is the recent limits make it really complex for an open source project to grow on GitLab,
Yes I know there is the Gitlab Open source program, but its an unnecessary complications that doesn&#x27;t exist on GitHub.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nexle</author><text>Even non-free tier burstable VM is super cheap. For example, a VM.Standard.E4.Flex (AMD x86) with 1 OCPU (2 vCPU) and 4GB RAM with burstable baseline 50% is just ~$13.05&#x2F;month (($0.025*50% + 4*$0.0015)*730hr). With baseline 12.5% it is just ~$6.66&#x2F;month.<p>In comparison, AWS t3a.medium (2vCPU, 4GB RAM, burstable baseline 20%) will cost ~$27.45&#x2F;month ($0.0376*730hr). DigitalOcean&#x27;s 2vCPU 4GB Droplet will cost $24&#x2F;month.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Free Tiers and Resources for Developers</title><url>https://free-for.dev/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fariszr</author><text>Honestly nothing compares to Oracle cloud free tier.<p>Its amazing, you have a better VPS than 15$ per month can get you on any VPS host, even if its ARM, its worth it.<p>As for CI&#x2F;CD, I didn&#x27;t know GiLlab gives you 50,000 minutes for public projects, the issue with gitlab is the recent limits make it really complex for an open source project to grow on GitLab,
Yes I know there is the Gitlab Open source program, but its an unnecessary complications that doesn&#x27;t exist on GitHub.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>soperj</author><text>My history with Oracle tells me that whatever you&#x27;re getting from them can&#x27;t be worth it.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Software Won’t Fix Boeing’s ‘Faulty’ Airframe</title><url>https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1334482</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GuB-42</author><text>&gt; One possibility is incompetence. But Boeing engineers are smart people, so I&#x27;m not convinced by this.<p>That&#x27;s still a possibility. Stupid decisions can emerge out of smart people.<p>Boeing is huge, and what they develop is incredibly complex. There are a lot of people with differing level of competence, ethics, and goals.<p>For example (I am not saying that happened), the engineers designing MCAS didn&#x27;t expect incorrect AoA data, thinking the checks were done elsewhere. At the same time, the &quot;sensors&quot; team thought that raw, unchecked data was expected. The integration guy didn&#x27;t read the specs correctly (sometimes, it comes down to a single word), didn&#x27;t catch that, and checked the OK box. His manager, focused on a more pressing issue took that as granted and it went to production.<p>It is possible that the engineers did an excellent work, but didn&#x27;t question the specs they had. The integration guy is normally super reliable but he just had a bad day. And his manager handled the other problem beautifully and overlooked the MCAS&#x2F;AoA because, normally, the integration guy is reliable. A series of small mistakes that ended up in a catastrophe.<p>There are a lot of safeguards but the complexity is so high that sometimes, something goes through. Especially if the company is under pressure.</text></item><item><author>mhandley</author><text>Boeing&#x27;s software fix, announced today, is to compare readings from both angle-of-attack sensors and disable MCAS if they disagree significantly. The obvious question is why they didn&#x27;t do this in the first place?<p>One possibility is incompetence. But Boeing engineers are smart people, so I&#x27;m not convinced by this. The elephant in the room is the requirement to maintain a common type rating with older 737 models.<p>Suppose they did originally do what the fixed software does now, and disable MCAS if the AoA sensors disagree. The problem Boeing face is that with MCAS disabled when this occurs, the plane no longer flies like an older 737. They&#x27;d need to announce to the pilots an AoA disagree, and announce that MCAS was disabled. Now what? A pilot certified and trained on the older 737 would not know how the Max now differs from what they trained on. If they&#x27;d done this, they&#x27;d have needed to provide additional training, and this must have concerned Boeing management that it might jeopardize the common type rating. Hence it seems likely they didn&#x27;t add the AoA sensor comparison for this reason, reasoning that it was unlikely to be a problem anyway. We now know that reasoning was flawed.<p>What does this mean going forwards? Will EASA and other CAAs refuse to certify the modified 737 Max under the same type rating as the older 737? This certainly seems possible. If they did require a separate type rating, this would likely kill 737 sales, regardless of whether the plane is now safe.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vonmoltke</author><text>&gt; For example (I am not saying that happened), the engineers designing MCAS didn&#x27;t expect incorrect AoA data, thinking the checks were done elsewhere. At the same time, the &quot;sensors&quot; team thought that raw, unchecked data was expected. The integration guy didn&#x27;t read the specs correctly (sometimes, it comes down to a single word), didn&#x27;t catch that, and checked the OK box. His manager, focused on a more pressing issue took that as granted and it went to production.<p>&gt; It is possible that the engineers did an excellent work, but didn&#x27;t question the specs they had. The integration guy is normally super reliable but he just had a bad day. And his manager handled the other problem beautifully and overlooked the MCAS&#x2F;AoA because, normally, the integration guy is reliable. A series of small mistakes that ended up in a catastrophe.<p>What you describe here would be a major failure of systems engineering on the project.<p>The systems engineers are responsible for flowing top level requirements down to the individual systems. They are responsible for ensuring the specs the engineering teams receive for their systems are correct, and for handling requests to change said specs. If the spec of the output of the AoA sensors does not match the spec flowed down to other teams on the input from those sensors the systems engineers responsible did not do their jobs.<p>Systems engineers exist to manage complexity like this, to ensure that the various engineering teams across the various disciplines are technically coordinated by providing clear, consistent specs and interfaces for them to work to. If that didn&#x27;t happen, then I would not say those engineers are competent, let alone smart. It would be especially disappointing to me (as a former systems engineer) if this were the case, as systems engineering is the <i>last</i> place I would expect such incompetence from a company like Boeing. It&#x27;s at the core of everything they do.<p>I want to address one specific point in a different context.<p>&gt; the engineers designing MCAS didn&#x27;t expect incorrect AoA data, thinking the checks were done elsewhere<p>You <i>always</i> expect out-of-spec conditions to be a possibility and have something in place to handle those conditions appropriately. To not do so is incompetence bordering on negligence.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Software Won’t Fix Boeing’s ‘Faulty’ Airframe</title><url>https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1334482</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GuB-42</author><text>&gt; One possibility is incompetence. But Boeing engineers are smart people, so I&#x27;m not convinced by this.<p>That&#x27;s still a possibility. Stupid decisions can emerge out of smart people.<p>Boeing is huge, and what they develop is incredibly complex. There are a lot of people with differing level of competence, ethics, and goals.<p>For example (I am not saying that happened), the engineers designing MCAS didn&#x27;t expect incorrect AoA data, thinking the checks were done elsewhere. At the same time, the &quot;sensors&quot; team thought that raw, unchecked data was expected. The integration guy didn&#x27;t read the specs correctly (sometimes, it comes down to a single word), didn&#x27;t catch that, and checked the OK box. His manager, focused on a more pressing issue took that as granted and it went to production.<p>It is possible that the engineers did an excellent work, but didn&#x27;t question the specs they had. The integration guy is normally super reliable but he just had a bad day. And his manager handled the other problem beautifully and overlooked the MCAS&#x2F;AoA because, normally, the integration guy is reliable. A series of small mistakes that ended up in a catastrophe.<p>There are a lot of safeguards but the complexity is so high that sometimes, something goes through. Especially if the company is under pressure.</text></item><item><author>mhandley</author><text>Boeing&#x27;s software fix, announced today, is to compare readings from both angle-of-attack sensors and disable MCAS if they disagree significantly. The obvious question is why they didn&#x27;t do this in the first place?<p>One possibility is incompetence. But Boeing engineers are smart people, so I&#x27;m not convinced by this. The elephant in the room is the requirement to maintain a common type rating with older 737 models.<p>Suppose they did originally do what the fixed software does now, and disable MCAS if the AoA sensors disagree. The problem Boeing face is that with MCAS disabled when this occurs, the plane no longer flies like an older 737. They&#x27;d need to announce to the pilots an AoA disagree, and announce that MCAS was disabled. Now what? A pilot certified and trained on the older 737 would not know how the Max now differs from what they trained on. If they&#x27;d done this, they&#x27;d have needed to provide additional training, and this must have concerned Boeing management that it might jeopardize the common type rating. Hence it seems likely they didn&#x27;t add the AoA sensor comparison for this reason, reasoning that it was unlikely to be a problem anyway. We now know that reasoning was flawed.<p>What does this mean going forwards? Will EASA and other CAAs refuse to certify the modified 737 Max under the same type rating as the older 737? This certainly seems possible. If they did require a separate type rating, this would likely kill 737 sales, regardless of whether the plane is now safe.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>village-idiot</author><text>Some investigative journalism indicates that this is not what happened.<p>The FAA has different levels of redundancy and uptime requirements based on the outcome of system failure. A system categorized as “catastrophic” failing would lose the plane and all passengers, while “hazardous” might hurt some and kill a few, and so on. The FAA requires that catastrophic systems must have a backup, while hazardous can go without one if it’s reliable enough.<p>Boeing classified the MCAS as “hazardous” only under certain flight characteristics, and they categorized it as a lower level than hazardous during level flight. This means that the crews designing the specification made the decision to depend upon only a single input, and it appears to have been built to spec[0].<p>It also appears that the FAA was experiencing internal pressure to delegate more certification authority to Boeing, with disastrous results.<p>0: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seattletimes.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;boeing-aerospace&#x2F;failed-certification-faa-missed-safety-issues-in-the-737-max-system-implicated-in-the-lion-air-crash&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seattletimes.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;boeing-aerospace&#x2F;faile...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Linus Torvalds: Pearls before swine</title><url>http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2011/02/pearls-before-swine.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mixmax</author><text>I've done stuff that normal people would consider ubercool - doing illegal raves, run one of the hottest bars in Ibiza, throwing parties for the jetset.<p>When seen from the outside it looks amazing - you get to talk to models, you get free booze, get in for free at all the clubs and have sex with models.<p>The thing that nobody tells you is that it's hard work. Most of the actors that go to the oscars aren't there to get drunk or laid, for them it's a chance to talk shop with their colleauges. When James Cameron is talking to Natalie Portman he isn't chatting her up, he's trying to get her to star in his new movie. If, by accident, John Cusack gets drunk at one of the clubs he gets into for free he'll be all over the tabloids and he won't get that next role, so he can't do it.<p>A friend of mine just came back from a tour with a known rock-band. They worked hard from nine in the morning until after midnight six days a week. The last day of the week they just wanted to get home to their families. No screwing around with models, no getting drunk and no clubbing. Just hard work. The rockstar life is mostly something the media makes up.<p>Remember that the grass is always greener on the other side. Or as Brad Pitt once said "Fame's a bitch man"</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nl</author><text>On the other hand, there is Charlie Sheen</text></comment>
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<story><title>Linus Torvalds: Pearls before swine</title><url>http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2011/02/pearls-before-swine.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mixmax</author><text>I've done stuff that normal people would consider ubercool - doing illegal raves, run one of the hottest bars in Ibiza, throwing parties for the jetset.<p>When seen from the outside it looks amazing - you get to talk to models, you get free booze, get in for free at all the clubs and have sex with models.<p>The thing that nobody tells you is that it's hard work. Most of the actors that go to the oscars aren't there to get drunk or laid, for them it's a chance to talk shop with their colleauges. When James Cameron is talking to Natalie Portman he isn't chatting her up, he's trying to get her to star in his new movie. If, by accident, John Cusack gets drunk at one of the clubs he gets into for free he'll be all over the tabloids and he won't get that next role, so he can't do it.<p>A friend of mine just came back from a tour with a known rock-band. They worked hard from nine in the morning until after midnight six days a week. The last day of the week they just wanted to get home to their families. No screwing around with models, no getting drunk and no clubbing. Just hard work. The rockstar life is mostly something the media makes up.<p>Remember that the grass is always greener on the other side. Or as Brad Pitt once said "Fame's a bitch man"</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CWIZO</author><text>I've read Slash's autobiography. It describes his life exactly as one, that is not in the know, would imagine it. That was in the eighties &#38; nineties. Maybe times are different now.</text></comment>
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<story><title>AMD Will Build 64-bit ARM based Opteron CPUs for Servers, Production in 2014</title><url>http://www.anandtech.com/show/6418/amd-will-build-64bit-arm-based-opteron-cpus-for-servers-production-in-2014</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zdw</author><text>AMD is no stranger to using busses and sockets that are compatible with "other" hardware.<p>The original Athlon was bus-compatible with DEC Alpha chips - some logic boards could take either with a firmware upgrade.<p>Also, there have been FPGA's that slot into Opteron logic boards (Celoxica made one around 2006), and various other chips that connect directly to the hypertransport bus as accelerators.<p>It remains to be seen what they'll do with this. Will it be a Xeon Phi competitor (lots of cores, high thermal footprint) or something aimed at lower end uses.</text></comment>
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<story><title>AMD Will Build 64-bit ARM based Opteron CPUs for Servers, Production in 2014</title><url>http://www.anandtech.com/show/6418/amd-will-build-64bit-arm-based-opteron-cpus-for-servers-production-in-2014</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mtgx</author><text>Finally, AMD is embracing ARM. It just might be the only thing to save them, but only if they are flawless in execution, and Nvidia and others already have years of head start in working with ARM chips.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Life Is a Ponzi Scheme (2009)</title><url>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2687779/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lordnacho</author><text>This being a biology journal, I was kinda expecting an even larger perspective. If you look at how biological ecosystems work, just about every creature reproduces way more than what is sustainable. Someone did a calculation that if the first cell had kept splitting at the rate it had, there&#x27;d be a ball the size of the solar system by now or something crazy like that.<p>The reason it doesn&#x27;t happen of course is that you run into resource crises. Any species that keeps doubling at their natural rate will run out of food, or it becomes food for others.<p>Coming back to society, it&#x27;s as if we just aren&#x27;t prepared for a shrinking population. It&#x27;s hard to make preditions against a variable that&#x27;s always gone one way, but is showing sign of turning. How much of the economy is really just size? What&#x27;s gonna happen when that reverses?<p>This will probably be a major political theme that lingers in many advanced nations. Fewer young people to work, but also fewer votes than the people who benefit. Immigration as a potential cure, but for how long, and at what cost? I tend to think it&#x27;s already a kind of underlying dynamic, just not the one that appears in the headlines so often.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>barrkel</author><text>As long as the pie is increasing in size, people can tolerate getting a proportionally smaller slice. If the pie stops growing, that becomes untenable.<p>I think the answer is somewhere in wealth taxes, which are much harder to implement effectively than income taxes, but will be necessary for redistribution in a world with static or declining incomes.<p>To put that into context with population pyramids, to support the old people, young people will need to get a bigger slice of the pie. That means less wealth being locked into untaxed distribution schemes that pass down generationally, whether it&#x27;s trusts or corporations.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Life Is a Ponzi Scheme (2009)</title><url>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2687779/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lordnacho</author><text>This being a biology journal, I was kinda expecting an even larger perspective. If you look at how biological ecosystems work, just about every creature reproduces way more than what is sustainable. Someone did a calculation that if the first cell had kept splitting at the rate it had, there&#x27;d be a ball the size of the solar system by now or something crazy like that.<p>The reason it doesn&#x27;t happen of course is that you run into resource crises. Any species that keeps doubling at their natural rate will run out of food, or it becomes food for others.<p>Coming back to society, it&#x27;s as if we just aren&#x27;t prepared for a shrinking population. It&#x27;s hard to make preditions against a variable that&#x27;s always gone one way, but is showing sign of turning. How much of the economy is really just size? What&#x27;s gonna happen when that reverses?<p>This will probably be a major political theme that lingers in many advanced nations. Fewer young people to work, but also fewer votes than the people who benefit. Immigration as a potential cure, but for how long, and at what cost? I tend to think it&#x27;s already a kind of underlying dynamic, just not the one that appears in the headlines so often.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Felz</author><text>&gt; Someone did a calculation that if the first cell had kept splitting at the rate it had, there&#x27;d be a ball the size of the solar system by now or something crazy like that.<p>What? That makes no sense as an exponential process. It&#x27;d be at least unfathomably larger than the universe by now, not just solar system sized.
Or were they assuming it&#x27;d expand constantly only from the surface in all directions?</text></comment>
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<story><title>We Stole Your Pictures, Now We’re Going To Sue You</title><url>http://www.jeremynicholl.com/blog/2010/05/03/afp-steal-photos-then-sue-photographer-2/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>What a disgusting story, big corporations act like this all the time simply because they don't expect the 'little guy' to step up and bite back.<p>The gall to do this sort of is incredible, what bugs me is how people that come up with this sort of thing sleep at night. Corporate accountability is really rare.</text></comment>
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<story><title>We Stole Your Pictures, Now We’re Going To Sue You</title><url>http://www.jeremynicholl.com/blog/2010/05/03/afp-steal-photos-then-sue-photographer-2/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ohashi</author><text>I am glad to see this guy fighting back, I hope he wins. Trial by jury is a nice touch, nobody likes big corp screwing the little guy.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox</title><url>https://a16z.com/2021/05/27/cost-of-cloud-paradox-market-cap-cloud-lifecycle-scale-growth-repatriation-optimization/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peterbonney</author><text>Am I alone in not seeing a paradox here? It&#x27;s no different from a variety of things that make sense at some scales and not at others.<p>Seems similar to office space - a 5 person company will find the economics of coworking space compelling, a 500 person company will do better with a long-term lease with a commercial landlord, and a 50,000 person company might have their own property management team in-house. That doesn&#x27;t create a paradox in the commercial real estate market, just different solutions for different needs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nine_k</author><text>The paradox is that if the coworking space were the cloud, it would just grow with you, and easily house a 50k-strong company, while you&#x27;d be paying the same (high) rate per employee.<p>Why would this happen? Because what the company builds is a large and growing money-making contraption right inside the coworking space, also using parts of the building for critical functions, and the door is intentionally kept small. The only way to move that contraption is to dismantle it and reassamble in a much cheaper, purpose-built hangar, rebuilding some of the critical parts along the way. During all that time, the contraption would stop making money.<p>That&#x27;s the beauty of AWS business model: it&#x27;s a no-brainer for a startup to use it, but the startup grows, more financially efficient infrastructure options become unattainable because of the very high cost of the move. This is the best-executed vendor lock-in I know.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox</title><url>https://a16z.com/2021/05/27/cost-of-cloud-paradox-market-cap-cloud-lifecycle-scale-growth-repatriation-optimization/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peterbonney</author><text>Am I alone in not seeing a paradox here? It&#x27;s no different from a variety of things that make sense at some scales and not at others.<p>Seems similar to office space - a 5 person company will find the economics of coworking space compelling, a 500 person company will do better with a long-term lease with a commercial landlord, and a 50,000 person company might have their own property management team in-house. That doesn&#x27;t create a paradox in the commercial real estate market, just different solutions for different needs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Agingcoder</author><text>The paradox is that in spite of the huge costs, very large companies are still moving to (or using) the cloud.<p>I&#x27;ve had this discussion many times where I work, and we&#x27;ve refrained from using cloud services since they are extraordinary expensive compared to what we can do internally.<p>Yet, people seem to be convinced that prices are ok, and that going outside will let them <i>reduce</i> their infrastructure footprint.<p>For some reason I don&#x27;t quite understand, people tend to be attracted by the cloud, even when it makes no sense economically whatsoever, and talking sense into them is surprisingly difficult.<p>So yes, it seems obvious that people will choose the most cost effective solution. However, it seems like they don&#x27;t!</text></comment>
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<story><title>Google workers fired for protesting Israeli contract file NLRB complaint</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/30/24145680/google-workers-fired-project-nimbus-protest-nlrb-complaint</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>worried4future</author><text>The meat of it is here:<p>&gt; Google “retaliated against approximately 50 employees and interfered with their Section 7 rights by terminating and&#x2F;or placing them on administrative leave in response to their protected concerted activity, namely, participation (or perceived participation) in a peaceful, non-disruptive protest that was directly and explicitly connected to their terms and conditions of work,” the complaint reads.<p>Seems very thin to call on the NLRA here. The &quot;protesters&quot; stated goals were to disrupt work even for people not a member of the non-union (therefore not a strike) which is not a protected activity. Moreover, were any of these employees or any members of the minority union actually working on the Israeli contracts they objected to? While you can protest against your job duties under the NLRA (or job duties of your collective union members) I don&#x27;t see that you can protest against company functions which aren&#x27;t job duties you or your class aren&#x27;t a part of.<p>If the workers had just walked off the job and peacefully and non-disruptively protested in front of the building and refused to go back to their job until they (or other members of the minority union) had their job duties modified so they were not working on those projects and google had fired them, that seems like it would violate the NLRA.<p>Anyway this seems like some fun FAFO. I wonder how many of the people who got fired were even members of the non-union before the &quot;protest&quot;.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Google workers fired for protesting Israeli contract file NLRB complaint</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/30/24145680/google-workers-fired-project-nimbus-protest-nlrb-complaint</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Centigonal</author><text><i>&gt; This is a marked departure from the way Google has handled employee dissent in the past. In 2018, more than 600 Google workers signed an open letter opposing Project Dragonfly, an effort to build a search engine for China. As The Verge reported at the time, the petition began with an internally shared Google Doc, and all subsequent steps were also organized using Google products. Employees also urged Google to drop Project Maven, its contract with the US Department of Defense. That same year, over 20,000 Google employees staged a walkout in protest of the company’s handling of sexual harassment allegations against executives. [...]</i><p><i>&gt; “There’s been a total change in the way Google responds to employees trying to have a voice in their workplace,” the fired software engineer said. “It’s night and day from the Google of even five, 10 years ago.”</i><p>This is the most interesting part of the article for me. Google&#x27;s approach today, versus how it reacted to the backlash against Maven in 2018, reflects a very different company with a different attitude toward the opinions of its employees.</text></comment>
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<story><title>What I learned selling my company</title><url>https://www.harryglaser.com/what-i-learned-selling-my-company/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cj</author><text>&gt; I was advised that 50% of signed LOIs actually close. I bet it’s less. You will see the LOI and dream of trading stress for riches. Remember: Less than 50% chance of closing.<p>100%<p>Which is why I hate that exclusivity is industry standard.<p>It feels exploitative that acquirers can demand exclusivity in a deal when the chances of it closing are less than 80%.<p>Imagine selling a house and taking it off the market because you got an offer with a 50% chance of actually closing 3 months later.<p>Even worse, most acquirers will say “nope” if you ask them to cover your legal fees if they back out of the deal.<p>This happens because sellers of companies only sell 1 or 2 companies in their lifetime, while buyers of companies typically do dozens and dozens of transactions. There’s an extreme power imbalance in favor of acquirers. Most sellers learn these lessons the hard way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paulddraper</author><text>&gt; There’s an extreme power imbalance in favor of acquirers.<p>1. Sellers can tank the deal as well for any reason, e.g. if they feel the deal is not going as fast as they like (and I recommend agreeing on a general timeline).<p>2. Sellers generally don&#x27;t get very many offers, so the opportunity cost is often not as high as you might suppose.<p>3. Sellers can negotiate more friendly terms (e.g. closing sooner), but usually choose to concentrate 100% of their leverage into the price.<p>4. Due diligence is expensive for both parties, but the seller can easily re-use much of their side. Non-exclusivity would mean the seller could easily entertain many costly offers simultaneously.<p>No buyer in their right mind would agree to non-exclusivity, though they can agree to a reasonable window for that exclusivity.</text></comment>
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<story><title>What I learned selling my company</title><url>https://www.harryglaser.com/what-i-learned-selling-my-company/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cj</author><text>&gt; I was advised that 50% of signed LOIs actually close. I bet it’s less. You will see the LOI and dream of trading stress for riches. Remember: Less than 50% chance of closing.<p>100%<p>Which is why I hate that exclusivity is industry standard.<p>It feels exploitative that acquirers can demand exclusivity in a deal when the chances of it closing are less than 80%.<p>Imagine selling a house and taking it off the market because you got an offer with a 50% chance of actually closing 3 months later.<p>Even worse, most acquirers will say “nope” if you ask them to cover your legal fees if they back out of the deal.<p>This happens because sellers of companies only sell 1 or 2 companies in their lifetime, while buyers of companies typically do dozens and dozens of transactions. There’s an extreme power imbalance in favor of acquirers. Most sellers learn these lessons the hard way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>These are definitionally the most sophisticated buyers and sellers in the entire economy. Organic market norms dictate what the industry standard is; it doesn&#x27;t make much sense to think about protections. If you&#x27;re selling, and you want some kind of protection, structure the dealmaking or negotiate the deal to get what you want.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Stanford’s war against its own students</title><url>https://www.thefp.com/p/stanfords-war-against-its-own-students</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bennysonething</author><text>&quot;For the past several years, Stanford has required students to adhere to a Student Party Policy, which includes a highly detailed “Harm Reduction Plan” mandating multiple sober monitors and designated alcohol service areas, and prohibiting the serving of any hard liquor.<p>Party hosts must also provide “EANABs,” or Equally Attractive Non-Alcoholic Beverages, to “contribute to an inclusive and inviting experience” for all partygoers. Hosts are also required to take an online “Party Planning Course” before submitting their applications. &quot;<p>Is this normal!?! I feel sorry for this generation. Attempts to make their world risk free has turned it into &quot;fuck up once and we&#x27;ll destroy you&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tqi</author><text>&gt; Attempts to make their world risk free has turned it into &quot;fuck up once and we&#x27;ll destroy you&quot;.<p>TBH I think it is a much bigger problem that low-stakes hyper-local issues have been elevated into proxy battles for national politics. Truly, the fact that anyone who is not either attending or administering this university cares about their party policy at all (let alone enough to write about it professionally) is completely absurd.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Stanford’s war against its own students</title><url>https://www.thefp.com/p/stanfords-war-against-its-own-students</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bennysonething</author><text>&quot;For the past several years, Stanford has required students to adhere to a Student Party Policy, which includes a highly detailed “Harm Reduction Plan” mandating multiple sober monitors and designated alcohol service areas, and prohibiting the serving of any hard liquor.<p>Party hosts must also provide “EANABs,” or Equally Attractive Non-Alcoholic Beverages, to “contribute to an inclusive and inviting experience” for all partygoers. Hosts are also required to take an online “Party Planning Course” before submitting their applications. &quot;<p>Is this normal!?! I feel sorry for this generation. Attempts to make their world risk free has turned it into &quot;fuck up once and we&#x27;ll destroy you&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aidenn0</author><text>This looks to apply to on-campus parties only? If so, it&#x27;s more liberal, if also more complicated, than the university I went to where the policy for alcohol on-campus was &quot;No.&quot;<p>Granted you could find dozens of parties within a mile of campus there; I don&#x27;t know the geography of Stanford.</text></comment>
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<story><title>C implementation of Tic-Tac-Toe in a single call to printf (2020)</title><url>https://github.com/carlini/printf-tac-toe</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>st_goliath</author><text>A few key points (also mentioned in the README): The &quot;%n&quot; specifier makes printf() fetch an int* argument and write the number of characters written so far to the target location. The funky stuff happens when you abuse that to overwrite the format string itself, actually making printf() Turing-complete.<p>This also means that if you lazily stuff a user controller string into a printf() style function (instead of doing e.g. `printf(&quot;%s&quot;, str)`), this can be used as a gadget for arbitrary memory writes (in addition to arbitrary stack reads). For this reason, there are compiler warnings if you use a format string that isn&#x27;t a string literal (IIRC now on by default in GCC 11) and some C libraries like dietlibc refuse to implement %n.</text></comment>
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<story><title>C implementation of Tic-Tac-Toe in a single call to printf (2020)</title><url>https://github.com/carlini/printf-tac-toe</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>snickerer</author><text>This is a fine joke, and a it is a piece of art. I laughed and I think it is beautiful.<p>The authors did not only used printf() as a Turing-complete language, they also formatted their source code in a way pleasing to the eye. Cheers!<p>Don&#x27;t forget coding is an art of fun and mystery, created to learn and play!</text></comment>
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<story><title>Insurance Company Says NotPetya Is an “Act of War”, Refuses to Pay</title><url>https://ridethelightning.senseient.com/2019/01/insurance-company-says-notpetya-is-an-act-of-war-refuses-to-pay.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>patio11</author><text>The thing you’re buying from an insurance company is “Can you pay me in case of a covered claim?” not “Can you pay me if I need money because something bad happened?” If you buy medical insurance and file a claim because your house burned down, expect not to get money. If you file a claim which falls into the policy exclusions which are briefed at excruciating length and which you had your lawyers review because you are a professional risk manager and know this policy’s value to you is potentially nine figures, expect to not get money.<p>The reason companies with very intelligent risk managers keep paying Zurich money is that <i>Zurich reliably pays out covered claims</i>, as you would expect from a highly-regulated entity. HN’s incredulity about insurance companies routinely paying out claims staggers the imagination. They’re highly regulated publicly traded companies which denominated claims expenses in (in this case) billions of dollars; that isn’t code for “Psych we actually just bought <i>mountains</i> of cocaine and would have successfully hoodwinked all counterparties, regulators, and courts but for the diligence of Internet commenters.”</text></item><item><author>tudorconstantin</author><text>I wonder how that insurance company expects to continue business. If they don&#x27;t pay in case of damage, why would anyone buy insurance from them?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JJMcJ</author><text>Now and then, insurance companies will pull fast ones. E.g., insured dies of heart attack two years after buying policy, preexisting condition even though preexisting exclusions go away after one year according to policy.<p>Put mostly the dim view of insurance companies comes from health insurance in the US, which is a catastrophe.<p>Or someone gets cut rate car insurance and has trouble with a claim. How do you think they keep the rates so low?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Insurance Company Says NotPetya Is an “Act of War”, Refuses to Pay</title><url>https://ridethelightning.senseient.com/2019/01/insurance-company-says-notpetya-is-an-act-of-war-refuses-to-pay.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>patio11</author><text>The thing you’re buying from an insurance company is “Can you pay me in case of a covered claim?” not “Can you pay me if I need money because something bad happened?” If you buy medical insurance and file a claim because your house burned down, expect not to get money. If you file a claim which falls into the policy exclusions which are briefed at excruciating length and which you had your lawyers review because you are a professional risk manager and know this policy’s value to you is potentially nine figures, expect to not get money.<p>The reason companies with very intelligent risk managers keep paying Zurich money is that <i>Zurich reliably pays out covered claims</i>, as you would expect from a highly-regulated entity. HN’s incredulity about insurance companies routinely paying out claims staggers the imagination. They’re highly regulated publicly traded companies which denominated claims expenses in (in this case) billions of dollars; that isn’t code for “Psych we actually just bought <i>mountains</i> of cocaine and would have successfully hoodwinked all counterparties, regulators, and courts but for the diligence of Internet commenters.”</text></item><item><author>tudorconstantin</author><text>I wonder how that insurance company expects to continue business. If they don&#x27;t pay in case of damage, why would anyone buy insurance from them?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chiph</author><text>The debate here is whether it was a covered claim or not.<p>A reasonable person would certainly think that a policy sold as cyber insurance would cover a cyber attack. And presumably a large multinational like Mondelez would have had the policy reviewed by their legal department before signing and paying the premiums.<p>So far as regulations - in the US standard types of policies (such as auto, home, etc.) are regulated by the states not the feds. A policy that isn&#x27;t one of those likely has very few regulations around it. In which case the policy language (aka the contract) governs the relationship.<p>If Zurich wanted to limit the total damages, they should have put that in the policy. And then resell some of that risk to a reinsuror.<p>This is going to have to be settled in the courts. But in the meantime, I would be hesitant to purchase any cyber insurance from Zurich (or any other insuror) because of the uncertainty that a claim would be paid that this action introduces.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Poll: Where do you work (physically)?</title><text>Inspired by confusion about this poll question: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2145250<p>Where do you physically do most of your work?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>pg</author><text>Believe it or not I do much of my work walking along the street. When I'm doing office hours at YC (and the weather's good and we don't need to look at screens) I usually suggest going for a walk.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mmaunder</author><text>You need to get your ass back in that office and code.<p>Edit: Just realized I replied to pg. Well, get your ass back into that office and implement some of those great ideas then.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Poll: Where do you work (physically)?</title><text>Inspired by confusion about this poll question: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2145250<p>Where do you physically do most of your work?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>pg</author><text>Believe it or not I do much of my work walking along the street. When I'm doing office hours at YC (and the weather's good and we don't need to look at screens) I usually suggest going for a walk.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kunley</author><text>Very smart strategy, considering this:<p>Just today I've heard a theory, that when you walk around brain is more able to try new ways of thinking and solving problems, because the 'motion center' in the brain is doing what it's supposed to do: handling one's movements. On the contrary when we are not moving, this center can often
overwhelm the thought process with already established habits, which makes trying new things harder.<p>I thing it works - even in offices many people start walking in circles when they have an important decision to make.<p>Funny, in my language the word meaning 'reflexively', 'instinctively' is in a form which can be literally translated 'out of the movement', which quite fits this theory.<p>I didn't look for the scientific background, but I know from the context of how I've heard this, that it was taught at the univ on a psychology specialization.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Graphviz 7</title><url>https://gitlab.com/graphviz/graphviz/-/tree/main</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>samsquire</author><text>I use Graphviz dot syntax to configure entire cloud computing environments in the order they must be built. This is pipelines as code and infrastructure as code<p>It&#x27;s very powerful! Not every organisation can bring up an entire environment with one command of documentation their infrastructure with Graphviz.<p>Here is a executable diagram of a build worker cloud nodes, Kubernetes, consul, vault, Debian package server, Java app, SSH bastion, Prometheus, grafana, DNS and security groups.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;samsquire&#x2F;mazzle&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;docs&#x2F;architecture.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;samsquire&#x2F;mazzle&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;docs&#x2F;archite...</a><p>The tool also parallelises the build based on the graph so for example packer builds can run in parallel.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;devops-pipeline.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;devops-pipeline.com&#x2F;</a><p>It also has a GUI but as a tool it&#x27;s not ready for other people to use.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bitexploder</author><text>I am big on state machines. Even simple tooling around them makes life easier for a lot of tasks. We often poorly implement a state machine in our code. Formalizing it in some way often makes life easier for me.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Graphviz 7</title><url>https://gitlab.com/graphviz/graphviz/-/tree/main</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>samsquire</author><text>I use Graphviz dot syntax to configure entire cloud computing environments in the order they must be built. This is pipelines as code and infrastructure as code<p>It&#x27;s very powerful! Not every organisation can bring up an entire environment with one command of documentation their infrastructure with Graphviz.<p>Here is a executable diagram of a build worker cloud nodes, Kubernetes, consul, vault, Debian package server, Java app, SSH bastion, Prometheus, grafana, DNS and security groups.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;samsquire&#x2F;mazzle&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;docs&#x2F;architecture.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;samsquire&#x2F;mazzle&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;docs&#x2F;archite...</a><p>The tool also parallelises the build based on the graph so for example packer builds can run in parallel.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;devops-pipeline.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;devops-pipeline.com&#x2F;</a><p>It also has a GUI but as a tool it&#x27;s not ready for other people to use.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text>Very cool.<p>I created an analysis compiler that takes intent information and makes it part of the Enterprise DevSecOps pipeline in order to share realtime analysis with the entire organization. As I continued that work, I&#x27;ve also started talking about the feasibility of creating a supercompiler.<p>GraphViz is the shit, man. It was exactly what I needed to work on this material. You can create your own notation and then couple it with all kinds of tech by way of batch. Highly recommended.*<p>*The hardest part, frankly, was unlearning all of the other diagramming paradigms I&#x27;ve used. YMMV, but I found GraphViz most useful when you&#x27;re going completely greenfield.</text></comment>
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<story><title>U.S. teens are spending less time with their friends in person</title><url>https://theconversation.com/teens-have-less-face-time-with-their-friends-and-are-lonelier-than-ever-113240</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Zak</author><text>Part of the issue, I think is that teenagers are more restricted by parents, laws, and business owners than they used to be.<p>As with younger children, parents are less likely now than in past decades to allow their teenage children to travel alone or hang out in groups without adults present. Legal restrictions compound the issue, with curfew laws being increasingly common, as well as increased driving ages and graduated licenses. Finally, businesses that used to be popular hangouts for teenagers, such as shopping malls have become less welcoming, often having limits on when teenagers are allowed on the premises without a parent.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Zenst</author><text>So true, in essence driving them into online friend interactions.<p>Makes you wonder what life will be like for children 50 years from now, and how that would compare with today.<p>After there was a time when making explosives was a childhood right of passage along with chemistry sets, making fires, even having a pocket knife. Today, such common activities would not end well at all, however innocent the intention. These are activities people still alive today will recall.<p>With that, online is still in part a wild-west and new playfield, open, less restrictions compared to real life and with that, perhaps the logical outlet for teenage freedom.<p>But even that is slowly being eroded away with the same mentalities that drove children into 1984 style parenting.<p>With that, todays children may very well in their 50&#x27;s look at the children of the time and feel how restricted and curtailed they are compared to the freedoms they enjoyed in their time. That would not surprise me, but equally, when do laws, rules, restrictions reach a zenith when no more need be added or changed! Until then, the lamentations of life march on.</text></comment>
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<story><title>U.S. teens are spending less time with their friends in person</title><url>https://theconversation.com/teens-have-less-face-time-with-their-friends-and-are-lonelier-than-ever-113240</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Zak</author><text>Part of the issue, I think is that teenagers are more restricted by parents, laws, and business owners than they used to be.<p>As with younger children, parents are less likely now than in past decades to allow their teenage children to travel alone or hang out in groups without adults present. Legal restrictions compound the issue, with curfew laws being increasingly common, as well as increased driving ages and graduated licenses. Finally, businesses that used to be popular hangouts for teenagers, such as shopping malls have become less welcoming, often having limits on when teenagers are allowed on the premises without a parent.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skywhopper</author><text>Yes, more and more super-suburban living, combined with increasingly restrictive teen driving regulations, curfews, and fear-based media stories about abductions have ratcheted down the ability of teens to hang out together. So when technology came along to enable improved interpersonal contact, it was embraced far more rapidly than it would have been if teen freedom were as high as it was in the 70s.<p>The graphs they show don&#x27;t perfectly correlate to the trends in hanging out in person. While smartphones have definitely contributed to changes in the culture (for everyone, not just teens), it&#x27;s false to pretend that they are entirely responsible for changes in loneliness. It just as well may correlate to being bombarded by reactionary hatred from adults over things teens have grown up thinking about more openly, like more open ideas about gender and sexuality. Or perhaps from finding themselves in a culture of fear about mass shootings while again faced with an adult political establishment who does nothing about it. Or maybe just facing the reality that the grown-ups are making things worse, day by day, and that they&#x27;re going to have to clean this all up after us.<p>Smartphones have nothing to do with that.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Intel subsidiary fined for unlawful export of software that enables encryption</title><url>http://www.goodwinprocter.com/Publications/Newsletters/Client-Alert/2014/1015_Software-Companies-Now-on-Notice-That-Encryption-Exports-May-Be-Treated-More-Seriously.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>How utterly pathetic.<p>Encryption export restrictions are an absolute joke. I can go read a Wikipedia article right now that heavily details the inner workings of most block ciphers. They&#x27;re still fining people for exporting anything over 64 bits (which is most things), even if almost every individual let alone government has access to the technological knowledge to reproduce such encryption at home.<p>Seems like this fine is about them exporting a custom Linux distro&#x27; with all the normal encryption libraries still in-place (e.g. 256 AES).<p>Why do I get the strong sense that this fine isn&#x27;t really about exporting encryption and is really about Wind River failing to place backdoors into this equipment? Because frankly that makes a lot more sense than what it appears to be on the surface.<p>Wind River got fined for &quot;something&quot; to do with encryption. Now you can either take the government at their word and assume that that thing is just exporting AES 256 within a standard OS, or maybe consider it a little deeper and wonder if it was punishment for something else Wind River did or didn&#x27;t do.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DenisM</author><text>&gt;Encryption export restrictions are an absolute joke.<p>I don&#x27;t think you give BIS &amp; NSA the credit they deserve. Experto crede. The restrictions may serve a useful purpose and if you can&#x27;t see it, that doesn&#x27;t mean <i>they</i> are the ones missing the point.<p>Having myself had to pass the export control for one of my apps, and so having the opportunity to pour over the these regulations in great detail, I came to conclusion that the actual purpose of the crypto export regulation is not to control export of the <i>technology</i>. That sort of restrictions is impossible to implement, as you noted, and it&#x27;s also quite unnecessary.<p>The actual purpose of the law is to prevent export of <i>expertise</i>. Implementing a crypto <i>system</i> that would be secure end-to-end is pretty much impossible without being an expert, and even then it&#x27;s exceptionally hard. The best chances belong to a team of experts with a track record of fruitful collaboration and rich history in a particular area. Unlike bits and pieces of code, cohesive teams of experts are relatively easy to keep track of.<p>The way this control regime works, is that the entirety of the regulation revolves around two questions: 1) Are you supplying a turn-key end-to-end system to the client? 2) Are you supplying services to setup a complete, tailored system for the client? If the answer is &quot;yes&quot; to either question, that raises the red flag for the BIS&#x2F;NSA, and they want to see what&#x27;s going on there. Otherwise it&#x27;s just a minor bureaucratic hoop to jump through. You are certainly welcome to export bunch of crypto code, and they even have a special open-source exception to the paperwork requirements.<p>So, you may disagree with the goals of this regulation, but it&#x27;s certainly not a joke you make it out to be.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Intel subsidiary fined for unlawful export of software that enables encryption</title><url>http://www.goodwinprocter.com/Publications/Newsletters/Client-Alert/2014/1015_Software-Companies-Now-on-Notice-That-Encryption-Exports-May-Be-Treated-More-Seriously.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>How utterly pathetic.<p>Encryption export restrictions are an absolute joke. I can go read a Wikipedia article right now that heavily details the inner workings of most block ciphers. They&#x27;re still fining people for exporting anything over 64 bits (which is most things), even if almost every individual let alone government has access to the technological knowledge to reproduce such encryption at home.<p>Seems like this fine is about them exporting a custom Linux distro&#x27; with all the normal encryption libraries still in-place (e.g. 256 AES).<p>Why do I get the strong sense that this fine isn&#x27;t really about exporting encryption and is really about Wind River failing to place backdoors into this equipment? Because frankly that makes a lot more sense than what it appears to be on the surface.<p>Wind River got fined for &quot;something&quot; to do with encryption. Now you can either take the government at their word and assume that that thing is just exporting AES 256 within a standard OS, or maybe consider it a little deeper and wonder if it was punishment for something else Wind River did or didn&#x27;t do.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AnimalMuppet</author><text>&gt; I can go read a Wikipedia article right now that heavily details the inner workings of most block ciphers.<p>Yes, you can. And from that, you can go implement those cyphers. And the NSA is probably OK with that, because it&#x27;s really hard to implement crypto correctly. If I understand correctly, more crypto systems are broken because of implementation flaws than because of protocol flaws. So if you have to implement it yourself, odds are that you will make a mistake that makes it insecure, especially if you aren&#x27;t an expert on crypto.</text></comment>
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<story><title>60-80% of Tweeters posting on Russia-Ukraine war are bots, 90% pro Ukraine</title><url>https://theprint.in/tech/60-80-of-twitter-accounts-posting-on-russia-ukraine-war-bots-90-pro-ukraine-finds-new-study/1114878/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>imnotreallynew</author><text>I run a social media marketing service; we stream all reddit content (~110 posts&#x2F;comments per second). We run text analysis on comments and bot detection on popular posts.<p>Most people don’t understand how many bots are influencing public discourse on reddit. It’s really concerning, particular that the “real” users on reddit tend to be young and impressionable.</text></item><item><author>unsupp0rted</author><text>Reddit is weirdly overflowing with pro Ukraine propaganda and people don&#x27;t seem to notice.<p>Any even <i>neutral</i> story about Russia brings out vitriol about how obvious Russia&#x27;s propaganda is.<p>But somehow they miss the same effect when the story is pro-Ukraine, no matter who the sources are, how unlikely the content is to be true, etc.<p>This was to be expected in the first months of the war, but after so many months of a steady diet of propaganda that doesn&#x27;t turn out to be true, somehow Redditors still take it at face value.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TotoHorner</author><text>&gt; We run text analysis on comments and bot detection on popular posts<p>Can you give an overview of how your bot detection works?<p>I assume you don&#x27;t have any proprietary information?<p>Are you solely using the text features of the comment to tell if it was posted by a bot?<p>Thanks.</text></comment>
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<story><title>60-80% of Tweeters posting on Russia-Ukraine war are bots, 90% pro Ukraine</title><url>https://theprint.in/tech/60-80-of-twitter-accounts-posting-on-russia-ukraine-war-bots-90-pro-ukraine-finds-new-study/1114878/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>imnotreallynew</author><text>I run a social media marketing service; we stream all reddit content (~110 posts&#x2F;comments per second). We run text analysis on comments and bot detection on popular posts.<p>Most people don’t understand how many bots are influencing public discourse on reddit. It’s really concerning, particular that the “real” users on reddit tend to be young and impressionable.</text></item><item><author>unsupp0rted</author><text>Reddit is weirdly overflowing with pro Ukraine propaganda and people don&#x27;t seem to notice.<p>Any even <i>neutral</i> story about Russia brings out vitriol about how obvious Russia&#x27;s propaganda is.<p>But somehow they miss the same effect when the story is pro-Ukraine, no matter who the sources are, how unlikely the content is to be true, etc.<p>This was to be expected in the first months of the war, but after so many months of a steady diet of propaganda that doesn&#x27;t turn out to be true, somehow Redditors still take it at face value.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stazz1</author><text>fake activity is how reddit got to threshold growth, the trend continues :P</text></comment>
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<story><title>LackRack</title><url>https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/LackRack</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>owenversteeg</author><text>Most people here are completely missing the point. It&#x27;s a $4.99 coffee table, available at every Ikea worldwide. You&#x27;re telling me you shouldn&#x27;t put your &quot;high-value hardware&quot; inside a four dollar and ninety nine cent coffee table? Wow, I&#x27;m super surprised!<p>It is helpful for a lot of people though. I know a handful of people myself who have no rack whatsoever, just putting the unit on the floor or on a desk. For them, this is a massive upgrade that costs less than a sandwich, looks nice, and boosts airflow.<p>Is it marginally more dangerous than spending a ridiculous amount of money on a rack? Sure. Did Ikea specifically design these as server racks? Obviously not. It&#x27;s a hack. We&#x27;re on Hacker News.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons</title><url>https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-eldritch-roots-of-dungeons-dragons/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>at_a_remove</author><text>Like many exposed to D&amp;D at a formative age, I too used Appendix N as kind of a jumping off point for exploration and was startled to see what came from where, and how undisguised it was. Go through Vance&#x27;s <i>Dying Earth</i> and you will find an Excellent Prismatic Spray, ioun stones, having to memorize spells (whose memory vanishes on use), and even that ever-uncomfortable addition: psionics.<p>Not a single mention of Dave Arneson in it, which pains me. I can forgive the omission of fiction that was inspired by D&amp;D (really, <i>Quag Keep</i> and its greatly lagged sequel are terrible by almost any standard of fiction), but leaving out Arneson verges on the Downright Peculiar.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wolverine876</author><text>Gygax had a habit of erasing some other major influences from history, including co-developer of D&amp;D Dave Arneson, and JRR Tolkien&#x27;s works.<p>Regarding Arneson, you can find documentaries online and books. Here are some other sources:<p>Rules for Middle Earth by Leonard Patt (~late 1970):
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;playingattheworld.blogspot.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;a-precursor-to-chainmail-fantasy.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;playingattheworld.blogspot.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;a-precursor-t...</a><p>Tolkien was reportedly mentioned in versions of Chainmail (Gygax&#x27;s precursor to D&amp;D) and OD&amp;D (the rare, staple-bound ~prototype&#x2F;MVP version predating the breakthrough editions, Basic and Advanced D&amp;D), but after an IP dispute the Tolkien references were removed and Gygax repeatedly disclaimed any interest in or influence by Tolkien, despite obvious similarities. There are also articles Gygax wrote for late-1960s fanzine, Thangorodrim, where he openly adopts Tolkien material:
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<story><title>The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons</title><url>https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-eldritch-roots-of-dungeons-dragons/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>at_a_remove</author><text>Like many exposed to D&amp;D at a formative age, I too used Appendix N as kind of a jumping off point for exploration and was startled to see what came from where, and how undisguised it was. Go through Vance&#x27;s <i>Dying Earth</i> and you will find an Excellent Prismatic Spray, ioun stones, having to memorize spells (whose memory vanishes on use), and even that ever-uncomfortable addition: psionics.<p>Not a single mention of Dave Arneson in it, which pains me. I can forgive the omission of fiction that was inspired by D&amp;D (really, <i>Quag Keep</i> and its greatly lagged sequel are terrible by almost any standard of fiction), but leaving out Arneson verges on the Downright Peculiar.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>musicale</author><text>&gt; Not a single mention of Dave Arneson in it, which pains me. I can forgive the omission of fiction that was inspired by D&amp;D (really, Quag Keep and its greatly lagged sequel are terrible by almost any standard of fiction), but leaving out Arneson verges on the Downright Peculiar<p>Definitely – Dave Arneson being the co-creator of D&amp;D, via his legendary Blackmoor game&#x2F;campaign. The original D&amp;D rules, the Blackmoor supplement and setting, and the Temple of the Frog dungeon were all derived from Arneson&#x27;s game.<p>Arneson was brilliant and his work is inspiring; I can only imagine how amazing it would have been to take a game design course from him when he taught at Full Sail in the 2000s.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The need for tooling and the need for mastering your tools</title><url>http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/03/master-your-tools.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>accidentalrebel</author><text>The tool for me that I have spent a lot of time learning and improving is my Emacs environment.<p>It wasn&#x27;t easy but as soon as I got the hang of things I was able to improve a lot in terms of overall productivity. Knowing how to debug when things go wrong and where to look to solve it was the first step in my learning journey. I eventually started heavily customizing by making scripts and packages to further suit my needs.<p>&gt; After you master a tool, you internalize it and go minimalist, and reduce it to first principles.
This line made me feel like I&#x27;m on the right track. Just recently I&#x27;ve cleared up the fluff in my emacs config leaving only simple but effective and essential tools. I realized that I&#x27;ve made a lot of edits to my config and that each one taught me something that eventually led to where i am now. In a way, clearing things out was a learning experience in itself.<p>I still have a lot to learn though. Just recently I&#x27;ve made a jump to reading the enacs source and even took the time to contribute to Remacs, a Rust port of Emacs. I&#x27;ll admit that this one is a bit overwhelming and may even seem overdoing it, but it is still a fun learning experience.<p>I sure do love my tool.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The need for tooling and the need for mastering your tools</title><url>http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/03/master-your-tools.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jacobolus</author><text>This is the main reason I am ambivalent about the typical school (even the best ones I know about, and from first grade up through the undergraduate level). Compared to the amount of time spent, relatively little is focused on mastering all of the metacognitive skills required for expert problem solving in any domain. Almost all work is done at the shallowest surface level with shallow delayed feedback and an overemphasis on punishing minor errors or non-standard output formatting, and on judging&#x2F;ranking the students. There is a parade of &#x27;content&#x27; to get through, but little chance for students to work on problems which are truly difficult (for the student at their current level, e.g. taking more than a few hours to figure out a single problem) or larger-scale projects of personal interest. Very seldom is the work revisited or iterated. Ideas and methods from one discipline are seldom applied to another. Students are systematically discouraged from taking any kind of risk. (This is not primarily the fault of individual educators: scaling close personal attention from experts is just uneconomical given current societal resources available for education, and schools have many difficult constraints on pedagogy.)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Nokia 9000 Communicator was launched 25 years ago</title><url>https://www.dw.com/en/nokias-smartphone-25-years-since-it-changed-the-world/a-58841329</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rcarmo</author><text>I used to work as product manager in a major telco and had one of every single model of those, and they were some of the best hardware I ever used.<p>The peak was, I think, when I accessed Excel over Citrix while sitting in the airport waiting for a flight.<p>In comparison, the N900 I have sitting in the bottom of a storage box someplace was a major disappointment--Maemo never came close to delivering half the functionality I had in a 9500, even though the design principles were pretty advanced for that time.<p>(I strongly recommend reading &quot;Operation Elop&quot; for an idea of what that later stage in Nokia&#x27;s life was like, and why Maemo tanked: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;asokan.org&#x2F;operation-elop" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;asokan.org&#x2F;operation-elop</a>)<p>But the 9000 series was definitely something I wish we had today in some usable, non-niche form.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Nokia 9000 Communicator was launched 25 years ago</title><url>https://www.dw.com/en/nokias-smartphone-25-years-since-it-changed-the-world/a-58841329</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neals</author><text>As a kid, this phone was like my dream gadget, I still remember really wanting one and staring at it at the store.<p>To be honest, I don&#x27;t know what I wouldv&#x27;e done with it, being 12 years old.<p>Anybody remember those &quot;organizer&quot; gadgets, with a screen and a calander and notes, but not a phone? I got one of those and didn&#x27;t really use it for anything useful.<p>I did now just order de Fold 3. Comparable.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The curious case of fake NASA geniuses</title><url>https://openthemagazine.com/feature/rocket-science/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>earthscienceman</author><text>Oh boy. I get to tell a story that I&#x27;ve wanted to tell to HN forever. I grew up in no-where America, population 1,000, 100 miles from the nearest city of 10,000.<p>One day in High School a new teacher is hired in a quick hurry to replace someone who quit. The man shows up to teach biology wearing a NASA jacket and spends the entire first hour of class explaining all of the work he has done for the agency. He also insists we call him, &quot;Dr. J, because I have enough class credits to have a PhD&quot;.<p>The story could be 100 paragraphs of weird twists and turns, but the short of it is that the guy was a total fraud and had only once volunteered for a citizen science project. One of the things about rural schools is that they&#x27;re often desperate for teachers, so he got to hang around &quot;teaching&quot; biology until he threatened to shoot some kids and he was finally fired.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The curious case of fake NASA geniuses</title><url>https://openthemagazine.com/feature/rocket-science/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gurchik</author><text>This news outlet ANI seems to have done no research at all into these claims before publishing the story. According to their statement they did not contact NASA until the 26th, a week after publishing the original story. Only then did every detail fall apart:<p>- NASA never accepted a paper from the girl, and the screenshots shown were authored by IJSER which could have been Googled to show that they will accept anything<p>- The certificates shown in the original story were obviously fake not just in appearance but the names and positions from the people at NASA do not exist, like &quot;President &amp; CEO&quot; of NASA, which could have been Googled<p>- NASA never gave any funding to the girl, so even the basic idea of the story that has a paid job with NASA is false, let alone the claim that they were paying for her to come to the US<p>They only contacted NASA a week after publication, and now they insist that &quot;a large part of her story is verified and authentic&quot; and rests all the blame on the girl saying &quot;she duped us.&quot; I can&#x27;t help but feel that this national story would have never existed if the publication did their jobs, a story that will now follow the girl as long as people remember this.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Yet another pre-installed spyware app discovered on Lenovo computers</title><url>http://boingboing.net/2015/09/22/yet-another-pre-installed-spyw.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>toothbrush</author><text>See also this discussion: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10263766" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10263766</a>, which concerns the linked article at Computerworld.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Yet another pre-installed spyware app discovered on Lenovo computers</title><url>http://boingboing.net/2015/09/22/yet-another-pre-installed-spyw.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JoeAltmaier</author><text>These guys have absolutely zero awareness of sensitive privacy issues. The trample on their customers rights, secretly and obviously maliciously, and they do it over and over again!<p>I can think of no reasonable response but to abandon Lenovo products entirely.</text></comment>
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<story><title>ASU: The New American University (2021)</title><url>https://nadia.xyz/asu</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>0xshaft03</author><text>This is the first time that I have ever posted and I am only doing so because I feel the need to spread the word.<p>I am active duty military and was able to earn a $102k Software Engineering degree without touching my GI Bill benefits because of ASU. They have an automatic military (to include reservists) scholarship that essentially makes the school the cost of US military tuition assistance ($250 a credit hour). The process for applying for TA through the military is simple enough, and then you only have to email a pdf to the requisite ASU email.<p>Because of this, I was able to transfer my full GI bill to my daughter.</text></comment>
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<story><title>ASU: The New American University (2021)</title><url>https://nadia.xyz/asu</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bradfox2</author><text>All partially funded by sweetheart lease deals between land ASU owns and billions of dollars in corporate office buildings and hotels thanks to the tax exempt status of the University. Status that is supposed to be used for educational purposes but instead is turning the ASU campus into a commercial property tax haven.<p><pre><code> https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tucson.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;local&#x2F;arizona-ag-sues-to-block-universities-from-leasing-land-to-commercial-businesses&#x2F;article_c1210c2f-da3f-5a35-9678-6aa10f2efb9a.html</code></pre></text></comment>
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<story><title> Dropbox confirms it got hacked, will offer two-factor authentication</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/07/dropbox-confirms-it-got-hacked-will-offer-two-factor-authentication/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mgurlitz</author><text><i>&#62; It turns out a Dropbox employee’s account was hacked, allowing access to user e-mail addresses.</i><p>This is misleading.<p><i>&#62; Some Dropbox customer accounts were hacked too, but this was apparently an unrelated matter.</i><p>Unrelated how? What I read was: "Our investigation found that usernames and passwords recently stolen from other websites... A stolen password was also used to access an employee Dropbox account"<p>This article dangerously leaves the impression that an intrusion was made into Dropbox's system to access the employee's account, and possibly an admin interface. In reality Dropbox let a spammer with a valid email and password look at someone's files.</text></comment>
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<story><title> Dropbox confirms it got hacked, will offer two-factor authentication</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/07/dropbox-confirms-it-got-hacked-will-offer-two-factor-authentication/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>FaceKicker</author><text>I wish websites with user accounts would offer the option to "login via email" - as in you'd type in your username (or preferably your email) and maybe a captcha and then you'd login by clicking a link it sends via email afterwards. Ideally having a password associated with the account at all would be optional.<p>I have a Gmail tab opened just about 100% of the time I'm on the computer, so this would be very convenient for me as an alternative to having to remember passwords for sites that I visit once a month or less (and end up having to get a "password reset" link via email every time I log in anyway), and then I'd only have to keep my Gmail account secure (which I do via 2 factor).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Can 1/3 and 1/3 = 2/6? It seemed so</title><url>http://www.marilynburnsmathblog.com/can-1-3-1-3-2-6-it-seemed-so/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>twic</author><text>&gt; x^{-1} means \frac{1}{x}, but f^{-1}(x) doesn&#x27;t mean \frac{1}{f(x)}.<p>That notation for inverse functions is truly appalling. I don&#x27;t know how the first mathematician to think of that didn&#x27;t immediately discard it as nonsensical and misleading.</text></item><item><author>wcarey</author><text>This is a lovely (edit: having been in similar shoes, also terrifying-in-the-moment) example of a broader problem in teaching mathematics: the language we use to describe mathematical reasoning is a natural language, like English or Latin, and therefore full of the sorts of bizarre irregularities you&#x27;d find in a natural language. Mathematics is also a language about rigorously and precisely defined objects. The conceptual shear between those two things is murder for lots of students.<p>Just like Tacitus omits his verbs (!), when we describe fractions we often omit the implicit definition of the whole. Turns out that&#x27;s a problem for many students.<p>It&#x27;s a bit like trying to learn a context-dependent programming grammar with an inconsistent API, but worse, because it&#x27;s your first &quot;mathematical&quot; language so you&#x27;re also trying to learn what the abstract objects the language manipulates <i>are</i>.<p>Some other lovely examples:<p>3(5) means three times five. 3(x) means three times x. 35 means three times ten plus five. 3x means three times x. x(3) means that x is the name of a function taking, in this instance, 3 as its input.<p>x^{-1} means \frac{1}{x}, but f^{-1}(x) doesn&#x27;t mean \frac{1}{f(x)}.<p>\sin{30}. Radians or degrees? Probably the writer means degrees, but there&#x27;s no way to tell.<p>There are many more.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rocqua</author><text>It&#x27;s not because &#x27;function powers&#x27; make sense, yhey are just iterated function application. That&#x27;s how they work for the natural numbers and when you extend that to the integers, you immediately get f^-1 for the inverse.<p>Notation in higher level maths is almost always very ambiguous. Because many concepts are analogues of each other and to reflect that notation is just taken from the analogue.
Within a single domain, (like high-school arithmetic) you will usually not have this ambiguous problem. But once you move past that, it is something to get used to.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Facebook blocks Google Chrome extension for exporting friends</title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-blocks-google-chrome-extension-for-exporting-friends/1935</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>brendano</author><text>There is a legitimate question here -- do you own the information about your friends, or do your friends? Many things on Facebook are a shared quasi-public, quasi-private space where the ownership isn't clear, and don't fit into our usual mental model of "I own my own data!"<p>This example is even clearer. The app lets you export your friends' names and contact information. This isn't your information, it's your friends'. What if one of them wanted to take their phone number off the site? What if one of them wanted to hide their information from you specifically? If you've downloaded it already you're depriving them of the right to control their own data.<p>Clearly social networks should be required to offer <i>some</i> sort of friend list information for export. Maybe a bare list of user ID's is all that should be required -- the information about who your friends are seems legitimately like it's <i>yours</i>. Joining it against names and contact information is the potentially privacy-invasive step; that could be done online, under control of your friends, not you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sorbus</author><text>&#62; What if one of them wanted to take their phone number off the site? What if one of them wanted to hide their information from you specifically? If you've downloaded it already you're depriving them of the right to control their own data.<p>Consider how ridiculous that would sound if you asked "What if one of your friends had emailed you their phone number and wanted to remove your access to it (or had emailed you and wanted to remove your knowledge of their email address)? What if they gave you information in person and now want to hide it from you specifically?"<p>That's the mental model I, personally, use for social networks: any information you choose to publish on it is fair game for whatever your friends want to do with it (and they can do whatever they want with any information I publish on it). Anyone who does not want to be contacted (or have their contact information exported into other formats - such as the linking of name and email address which is required to email) should not make it available - there's no reason to publish an email if you don't want to be emailed, and no reason to publish a phone number if you don't want to be called.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Facebook blocks Google Chrome extension for exporting friends</title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-blocks-google-chrome-extension-for-exporting-friends/1935</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>brendano</author><text>There is a legitimate question here -- do you own the information about your friends, or do your friends? Many things on Facebook are a shared quasi-public, quasi-private space where the ownership isn't clear, and don't fit into our usual mental model of "I own my own data!"<p>This example is even clearer. The app lets you export your friends' names and contact information. This isn't your information, it's your friends'. What if one of them wanted to take their phone number off the site? What if one of them wanted to hide their information from you specifically? If you've downloaded it already you're depriving them of the right to control their own data.<p>Clearly social networks should be required to offer <i>some</i> sort of friend list information for export. Maybe a bare list of user ID's is all that should be required -- the information about who your friends are seems legitimately like it's <i>yours</i>. Joining it against names and contact information is the potentially privacy-invasive step; that could be done online, under control of your friends, not you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sandipc</author><text>If I may go back a few years...<p>If my number is listed in the 1995 local big yellow phonebook but then I choose to have it unlisted in the 1996 phonebook, is it wrong for someone with the older phonebook to have my phone number?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Zynga to Lay Off 520 Employees and shutter NY and LA Offices</title><url>http://allthingsd.com/20130603/zynga-to-lay-off-520-employees-18-percent-of-staff-and-shutter-new-york-and-la-offices/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mbesto</author><text><i>Being caught in a downsizing sucks</i><p>Or it can be a great. Severance packages can be quite lucrative.<p>The better advice I give people is "always be looking for job opportunities". The best job opportunities come when you least expect them, and the worst jobs are taken when you're desperate.</text></item><item><author>josh2600</author><text>You know what the problem here is? There is no material difference between a 10 person game studio and a 3000 person game studio. Zynga likes to pretend that their Z-Cloud gives them an advantage over their competitors. Maybe it does in terms of operations, but games isn't an operations business, it's a hits business. All of the optimization in the world doesn't help if you can't keep making wins and Zynga can't make wins because they're too cluttered with layers of middle management FUD.<p>520 employees is a lot of people out of work, but I have to think they saw it coming. My advice to people in similar positions all throughout tech is this: there are three signs that indicate an impending downsizing.<p>* Depressed Stock Value over long periods of time<p>* An Acceleration of secrecy and fiefdom claiming within the culture<p>* You look around and no one wants to come to work anymore<p>If you find yourself in this situation, leave. Find another job. Being caught in a downsizing sucks, but if you pay attention you can avoid them. It's important to make friends and to be able to tell the temperature of your local environment to avoid such devastation.<p><i>Edit</i>: This can best be summarized as the well known phenomenon: "There's no such thing as a Free Lunch".</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MartinCron</author><text><i>the worst jobs are taken when you're desperate</i><p>If I could suggest one thing for a young programmer to tattoo onto their inner arm, it would be that sentence right there.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Zynga to Lay Off 520 Employees and shutter NY and LA Offices</title><url>http://allthingsd.com/20130603/zynga-to-lay-off-520-employees-18-percent-of-staff-and-shutter-new-york-and-la-offices/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mbesto</author><text><i>Being caught in a downsizing sucks</i><p>Or it can be a great. Severance packages can be quite lucrative.<p>The better advice I give people is "always be looking for job opportunities". The best job opportunities come when you least expect them, and the worst jobs are taken when you're desperate.</text></item><item><author>josh2600</author><text>You know what the problem here is? There is no material difference between a 10 person game studio and a 3000 person game studio. Zynga likes to pretend that their Z-Cloud gives them an advantage over their competitors. Maybe it does in terms of operations, but games isn't an operations business, it's a hits business. All of the optimization in the world doesn't help if you can't keep making wins and Zynga can't make wins because they're too cluttered with layers of middle management FUD.<p>520 employees is a lot of people out of work, but I have to think they saw it coming. My advice to people in similar positions all throughout tech is this: there are three signs that indicate an impending downsizing.<p>* Depressed Stock Value over long periods of time<p>* An Acceleration of secrecy and fiefdom claiming within the culture<p>* You look around and no one wants to come to work anymore<p>If you find yourself in this situation, leave. Find another job. Being caught in a downsizing sucks, but if you pay attention you can avoid them. It's important to make friends and to be able to tell the temperature of your local environment to avoid such devastation.<p><i>Edit</i>: This can best be summarized as the well known phenomenon: "There's no such thing as a Free Lunch".</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mkenyon</author><text>In this case, Zynga offered us 3 months + 1 week/year.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Accenture will get rid of annual performance reviews and rankings</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-leadership/wp/2015/07/21/in-big-move-accenture-will-get-rid-of-annual-performance-reviews-and-rankings</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tragomaskhalos</author><text>In my company, years ago, performance rating was done by your line manager just talking to your project manager(s) to find out how you were getting on, and the line manager would assign you a pay rise (or not) accordingly. This was a perfectly sane and workable system.<p>Then the place got engulfed by this insane fad for &quot;performance reviews&quot;, which is idiotic on its face for a number of reasons:<p>1. You request review feedback from peers - this is unworkable because if you work with someone who is useless, and you say so in their review, your working relationship with them becomes untenable;<p>2. The process also requires &quot;self review&quot;, which is nothing but a mechanism for bullshitters to big themselves up. It is also time-consuming, and good people are generally too busy to dedicate much time to it; the bullshitters and timewasters otoh will happily dedicate days to polishing their lies and exaggerations;<p>3. In general the process massively favours those who play the performance review system, i.e. the politicians;<p>4. You are required to set &quot;career objectives&quot;, which is almost entirely pointless since as a tech person you are largely constrained by what jobs need your skills at the particular moment you become available; there is little tolerance for people sitting around idle waiting for the perfect role that meets their desired objective.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>braythwayt</author><text>&gt; <i>In my company, years ago, performance rating was done by your line manager just talking to your project manager(s) to find out how you were getting on, and the line manager would assign you a pay rise (or not) accordingly. This was a perfectly sane and workable system.</i><p>That sounds very much like &quot;hiring people based on having a reasonable conversation about their experience.” It is a perfectly sane and reasonable system, provided everyone involved is acting in good faith, has a great deal of ability to evaluate people based on their actual contribution to the success of the company, and nobody has any overt or internalized biases.<p>Without taking anything away from your company, I’m sure you will appreciate that in many companies, this business of “assigning you a bonus based on conversations with the project manager(s)” gets twisted into a horrible political game where people build fiefdoms based on tit-for-tat agreements, and where all sorts of biases come into play, e.g. the men are all “take-charge go-getters,” while the women are all “confrontational and bossy.”<p>I’m saying nothing about performance evaluations being better, just that results like you have experienced with your company are remarkably difficult to reproduce and sustain.<p>My bet is that if conversation works in your company, performance evaluations would also work. Maybe with more annoying paperwork involved, but it would still work.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Accenture will get rid of annual performance reviews and rankings</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-leadership/wp/2015/07/21/in-big-move-accenture-will-get-rid-of-annual-performance-reviews-and-rankings</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tragomaskhalos</author><text>In my company, years ago, performance rating was done by your line manager just talking to your project manager(s) to find out how you were getting on, and the line manager would assign you a pay rise (or not) accordingly. This was a perfectly sane and workable system.<p>Then the place got engulfed by this insane fad for &quot;performance reviews&quot;, which is idiotic on its face for a number of reasons:<p>1. You request review feedback from peers - this is unworkable because if you work with someone who is useless, and you say so in their review, your working relationship with them becomes untenable;<p>2. The process also requires &quot;self review&quot;, which is nothing but a mechanism for bullshitters to big themselves up. It is also time-consuming, and good people are generally too busy to dedicate much time to it; the bullshitters and timewasters otoh will happily dedicate days to polishing their lies and exaggerations;<p>3. In general the process massively favours those who play the performance review system, i.e. the politicians;<p>4. You are required to set &quot;career objectives&quot;, which is almost entirely pointless since as a tech person you are largely constrained by what jobs need your skills at the particular moment you become available; there is little tolerance for people sitting around idle waiting for the perfect role that meets their desired objective.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>__chrismc</author><text>We possibly work for the same company, as our system - flaws and all - are identical to what you describe. As someone who has to carry out both sides of the process (reviewing staff&#x2F;managing them through the process, and getting my own review done), I&#x27;m most certainly not a fan! Staff seem to fall into two categories - those who see the whole thing as political nonsense they don&#x27;t have the time for, or have become so turned off by how bad it is that they just don&#x27;t care about the outcome any more.<p>The Accenture news was raised on an internal discussion about the review process almost immediately, as some people are that keen to get rid of the current way of doing things ASAP. Sadly, I can&#x27;t see anything coming from it, as the word is that Upper Management values the generated metrics too much to change anything.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Launch HN: Aviron (YC W21) – High-Intensity Peloton for Rowing</title><text>Hey HN! I’m Andy, founder of Aviron (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;avironactive.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;avironactive.com&#x2F;</a>). We make a high-intensity version of Peloton for rowing, with competitive games, live races and strength programs. Our content puts a focus on HIIT (high intensity interval training) due to its physical and cognitive benefits.<p>I feel like sometimes this pisses the hardcore rowers off but I’m not a rower, I’m a tech guy. I also think fitness is important and have been working out all of my adult life. Before Aviron, I worked full time and long hours so I did a lot of my thinking during late night gym sessions. Like many people I avoided the rower because not only did I not enjoy cardio but damn that machine was hard and boring. There was a moment at some point in 2016 when I realized I could do something with this. The connected fitness market in the US at that time was small but growing rapidly.<p>Aviron is a rowing machine because it’s the most efficient and effective workout you can have in a short amount of time on one machine. The rowing motion is low impact, engages 85% of muscles, is very difficult and as a result can also be boring. This makes the rowing machine an ideal ‘candidate’ to pair with the gaming-inspired, competitive content I began thinking about in 2016.<p>The research was telling me there was a definite potential market niche I could fill but what I didn&#x27;t know was that no manufacturer would speak to me. I probably called and emailed 50 manufacturers. I eventually kickstarted a few conversations and finally a relationship, by flying to Taiwan, connecting with a local who could translate, and knocking on doors in person. It sounds reasonable in hindsight but the process to finalizing a production contract start to finish took me a full year. A year of trying to understand the manufacturing landscape, developing relationships and convincing potential suppliers that I would eventually be worth their time.<p>Ultimately my key takeaway is that Taiwanese manufacturing relationships are just that - relationships. Manufacturers are looking for long-term trusting partnerships and they are much less motivated by money than my initial assumption. I’m reminded of this constantly - this month alone I have received emails re: product delays twice - and I stupidly tried to throw money at the problem, in the process offending the Taiwan team by implying they would work harder if money was on the table.<p>Finding and building a solid relationship with a production partner was challenging but I would give it a 7&#x2F;10 relative to the hurdles that came later. The manufacturer had no experience or interest in getting the machine to work along with our custom android touchscreen. As much as I see myself as a “tech guy”, I don’t have an engineering degree. My dad does and so does my brother but I went the business degree route. Long story short, figuring out the details of making these two pieces work together was a nightmare. Again, in hindsight, it’s kind of cool - I understand my machine inside and out; I’m confident I could take it apart down to the screws and put it back together. I can also work comfortably with an oscilloscope and understand how most of the components work on a typical fitness equipment circuit board - there was a lot of circuit board soldering trial and error at one point.<p>I knew that I was taking on a lot with a software and hardware venture but what nobody tells you is how many miles you’re going to drive and fly when you’re taking on hardware. During our slow tip-toe pivot from B2B to B2C sales, we discovered home customers would find 10x the problems a gym would. There was a week in 2019 I drove to a customer’s home 6 hours away multiple times a week for nearly a month. Each trip I thought we had found the solution; the ride back was crushing. This was one of many problems we faced.<p>I’m happy to be able to say the bugs are mostly worked out! Our customers navigate a 22” touchscreen to browse 250ish content options - like my favorite and the first game we ever developed - Last Hope, an end-of-the-world inspired game where you’re being chased by zombies. As your row to escape the Ai will benchmark your fitness output and adjust the zombies’ speed to maintain a challenging pace for your fitness level.<p>The content for Aviron was developed with strength training and High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) in mind. For example, one of our 6 workouts categories is “Pros vs. Joes”, a program that allows you to compete against pre-recorded Olympians and professional athletes in a race.<p>Our customers are fitness enthusiasts who don’t enjoy long cardio workouts and crave the competitive and challenging pace of activities like CrossFit and F45, at home - especially throughout Covid. HIIT workouts tend to be shorter, have been proven to improve cognitive ability and help slow the aging process via preservation of DNA.<p>To me, the dual cognitive and physical benefits were really key. I began to work out in my teens, physically I felt better and my self esteem improved. Cognitively, I went from dealing with undiagnosed ADHD and struggling my way through school to slowly noticing an improvement. People told me I was “growing out of” ADHD - which is probably partially true - but something clicked when I was researching fitness programming for Aviron. Learning about HIIT and it’s (data proven) benefits, I started to realize that my commitment to consistent and challenging physical fitness had likely paid a large part in my “growing out it” as well.<p>Currently, we have bootstrapped Aviron to a good place; we’ve sold nearly a thousand rowers to gyms, hotels, schools and even Nike headquarters as well as homes. Or churn rate is &lt;1% and our customers are telling us they’re happy. And they’re paying their membership every month so we believe them. :)<p>We are continually working on Aviron to improve the software, content and customer experience so if you have a chance please check us out and let me know what you think. I’m excited to hear from the community. I’ll be hanging out in the comments all day.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>cycomanic</author><text>Great idea! I used to be a competitive rower. When I was working at a gym during my studies I was actually talking with the managers of running some rowing classes (similar to spinning).<p>I think the main challenge with rowing machines (and the reason why we didn&#x27;t do rowing classes), is that for beginners there is essentially only hard or off, i.e. it is difficult to adjust to different exhaustion levels. That leads to high frustration levels and is the reason why one rarely sees someone at the gym using the machines more than 5mins (and those that do are often former rowers).
So HIT is probably the right way to go.<p>The other challenge I is related to hardware. The reason why everyone is talking about the C2s is that pretty much every other machine is crap. The forces pulling on these machines are substantive and concept managed to make a machine that held up over time, unlike the others. So I hope you guys made those things sturdy enough.<p>All the best, I hope you succeed!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>beloch</author><text>C2 really is the monster in the room. The rowing machine market is less diverse than exercise bikes, and C2 sits atop the mountain. Anyone who rows seriously (and many who don&#x27;t) have used a C2 at some point.<p>The Aviron Impact Series (an odd name for a low-impact exercise machine) rower is $2149, while a C2 Model D is $900.<p>The Model D has been in gyms for decades. Literally, your local gym may have one that&#x27;s decades old and still in perfect shape. Olympic rowers train on them. A significant portion of people who row already have one and aren&#x27;t going to need a replacement any time soon.<p>The video on Aviron&#x27;s website focuses heavily on the software, but the rower itself does not look like it should cost twice what a C2 does. The belt is plastic. The rail&#x27;s finish looks like it will wear off. The rear support looks less sturdy and stable than that of a C2. The ramrod straight handle looks blister-inducing. The whole thing looks very plastic. Note that I&#x27;m not saying the rower isn&#x27;t worth the money. The build quality and ergonomics might be excellent. It just doesn&#x27;t <i>look</i> like a rower that&#x27;s worth 2.39 C2&#x27;s.<p>The display is a big improvement over anything C2 sells, but $1249 can buy a pretty nice display and a basic computer to run it, or a big ol&#x27; tablet and a mount.<p>Peloton probably had an easier time entering the exercise bike market because there wasn&#x27;t any one competitor as dominant as C2 is. However, they do now offer an app that lets people use their software and classes without buying a Peloton bike.<p>The question for Aviron is, can they sell their rower without their software being exclusive to it? They would undoubtedly find more users if they supported other rowers, C2 specifically, but would the extra monthly memberships bring in more than sales from their rower if the software remained exclusive to it?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Launch HN: Aviron (YC W21) – High-Intensity Peloton for Rowing</title><text>Hey HN! I’m Andy, founder of Aviron (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;avironactive.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;avironactive.com&#x2F;</a>). We make a high-intensity version of Peloton for rowing, with competitive games, live races and strength programs. Our content puts a focus on HIIT (high intensity interval training) due to its physical and cognitive benefits.<p>I feel like sometimes this pisses the hardcore rowers off but I’m not a rower, I’m a tech guy. I also think fitness is important and have been working out all of my adult life. Before Aviron, I worked full time and long hours so I did a lot of my thinking during late night gym sessions. Like many people I avoided the rower because not only did I not enjoy cardio but damn that machine was hard and boring. There was a moment at some point in 2016 when I realized I could do something with this. The connected fitness market in the US at that time was small but growing rapidly.<p>Aviron is a rowing machine because it’s the most efficient and effective workout you can have in a short amount of time on one machine. The rowing motion is low impact, engages 85% of muscles, is very difficult and as a result can also be boring. This makes the rowing machine an ideal ‘candidate’ to pair with the gaming-inspired, competitive content I began thinking about in 2016.<p>The research was telling me there was a definite potential market niche I could fill but what I didn&#x27;t know was that no manufacturer would speak to me. I probably called and emailed 50 manufacturers. I eventually kickstarted a few conversations and finally a relationship, by flying to Taiwan, connecting with a local who could translate, and knocking on doors in person. It sounds reasonable in hindsight but the process to finalizing a production contract start to finish took me a full year. A year of trying to understand the manufacturing landscape, developing relationships and convincing potential suppliers that I would eventually be worth their time.<p>Ultimately my key takeaway is that Taiwanese manufacturing relationships are just that - relationships. Manufacturers are looking for long-term trusting partnerships and they are much less motivated by money than my initial assumption. I’m reminded of this constantly - this month alone I have received emails re: product delays twice - and I stupidly tried to throw money at the problem, in the process offending the Taiwan team by implying they would work harder if money was on the table.<p>Finding and building a solid relationship with a production partner was challenging but I would give it a 7&#x2F;10 relative to the hurdles that came later. The manufacturer had no experience or interest in getting the machine to work along with our custom android touchscreen. As much as I see myself as a “tech guy”, I don’t have an engineering degree. My dad does and so does my brother but I went the business degree route. Long story short, figuring out the details of making these two pieces work together was a nightmare. Again, in hindsight, it’s kind of cool - I understand my machine inside and out; I’m confident I could take it apart down to the screws and put it back together. I can also work comfortably with an oscilloscope and understand how most of the components work on a typical fitness equipment circuit board - there was a lot of circuit board soldering trial and error at one point.<p>I knew that I was taking on a lot with a software and hardware venture but what nobody tells you is how many miles you’re going to drive and fly when you’re taking on hardware. During our slow tip-toe pivot from B2B to B2C sales, we discovered home customers would find 10x the problems a gym would. There was a week in 2019 I drove to a customer’s home 6 hours away multiple times a week for nearly a month. Each trip I thought we had found the solution; the ride back was crushing. This was one of many problems we faced.<p>I’m happy to be able to say the bugs are mostly worked out! Our customers navigate a 22” touchscreen to browse 250ish content options - like my favorite and the first game we ever developed - Last Hope, an end-of-the-world inspired game where you’re being chased by zombies. As your row to escape the Ai will benchmark your fitness output and adjust the zombies’ speed to maintain a challenging pace for your fitness level.<p>The content for Aviron was developed with strength training and High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) in mind. For example, one of our 6 workouts categories is “Pros vs. Joes”, a program that allows you to compete against pre-recorded Olympians and professional athletes in a race.<p>Our customers are fitness enthusiasts who don’t enjoy long cardio workouts and crave the competitive and challenging pace of activities like CrossFit and F45, at home - especially throughout Covid. HIIT workouts tend to be shorter, have been proven to improve cognitive ability and help slow the aging process via preservation of DNA.<p>To me, the dual cognitive and physical benefits were really key. I began to work out in my teens, physically I felt better and my self esteem improved. Cognitively, I went from dealing with undiagnosed ADHD and struggling my way through school to slowly noticing an improvement. People told me I was “growing out of” ADHD - which is probably partially true - but something clicked when I was researching fitness programming for Aviron. Learning about HIIT and it’s (data proven) benefits, I started to realize that my commitment to consistent and challenging physical fitness had likely paid a large part in my “growing out it” as well.<p>Currently, we have bootstrapped Aviron to a good place; we’ve sold nearly a thousand rowers to gyms, hotels, schools and even Nike headquarters as well as homes. Or churn rate is &lt;1% and our customers are telling us they’re happy. And they’re paying their membership every month so we believe them. :)<p>We are continually working on Aviron to improve the software, content and customer experience so if you have a chance please check us out and let me know what you think. I’m excited to hear from the community. I’ll be hanging out in the comments all day.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>cycomanic</author><text>Great idea! I used to be a competitive rower. When I was working at a gym during my studies I was actually talking with the managers of running some rowing classes (similar to spinning).<p>I think the main challenge with rowing machines (and the reason why we didn&#x27;t do rowing classes), is that for beginners there is essentially only hard or off, i.e. it is difficult to adjust to different exhaustion levels. That leads to high frustration levels and is the reason why one rarely sees someone at the gym using the machines more than 5mins (and those that do are often former rowers).
So HIT is probably the right way to go.<p>The other challenge I is related to hardware. The reason why everyone is talking about the C2s is that pretty much every other machine is crap. The forces pulling on these machines are substantive and concept managed to make a machine that held up over time, unlike the others. So I hope you guys made those things sturdy enough.<p>All the best, I hope you succeed!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DennisP</author><text>Why is it hard or off as a beginner? I had the same issue at first but now I can ease off and do a straight 30 minutes. I assumed it was mental but it sounds like it&#x27;s technique.<p>Fwiw I have the Oartec DX, and it&#x27;s very solidly built.<p>On dynamic rowers like this, the seat stays pretty much in one place and it&#x27;s mainly the footpad that moves. Supposedly it puts less stress on the lower back and knees, and more closely simulates rowing on the water, so some elite rowing teams use them.<p>I don&#x27;t know about all that but I have a knee that gives me trouble sometimes, and with the Oartec I can put that foot on the ground and row with the other leg.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;oartec.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;oartec.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rp3rowing.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rp3rowing.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;</a><p>Concept2 makes one now too:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.concept2.com&#x2F;indoor-rowers&#x2F;dynamic" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.concept2.com&#x2F;indoor-rowers&#x2F;dynamic</a><p>(I guess a drawback is it doesn&#x27;t really lend itself to a nice big screen like OP&#x27;s project.)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Judge Grants Search Warrant Forcing Woman to Unlock iPhone with Touch ID</title><url>http://www.macrumors.com/2016/05/02/judge-unlock-iphone-touch-id</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JadeNB</author><text>You&#x27;ve described the state of the law as it is, but surely that doesn&#x27;t address the issue of the law as it should be. I think that it is possible to be an intelligent but non-technical person and (EDIT: forgot the word &#x27;not&#x27;) realise that, all technical issues aside, the &quot;something you know&quot; and &quot;something you have&quot; parts of a password are on completely different legal footing; and I think that it is reasonable even for a technical person to wonder whether it should be so.<p>EDIT: I know that complaints about downvotes are not welcome, and it&#x27;s quite possible that I&#x27;m wrong in what I say, but I&#x27;d like to be told how rather than just downvoted! My comment was meant to be a constructive contribution.<p>EDIT 2: Wow, these many replies help a lot! Thanks!</text></item><item><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>You can be compelled to provide fingerprints based on a warrant; I&#x27;m unsurprised (and not particularly bothered) that you can be compelled to use them on your own device. If you care about security, don&#x27;t use a fingerprint alone; at most, only use it as a second factor for two-factor authentication. More generally, don&#x27;t use anything that removes your ability to make a choice under duress, in whichever direction you see fit, based on what you&#x27;re protecting and what you&#x27;re being threatened with.<p>I find the ongoing case of someone being jailed indefinitely for refusing to supply a passphrase <i>far</i> more concerning than someone being compelled to supply a fingerprint.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&quot;Something you have&quot; isn&#x27;t part of a password, its an alternative, non-password factor; passwords are always &quot;something you know&quot;.<p>There is a trend to use biometrics in place of passwords, which is a convenience feature which compromises security, even though it is often misrepresented as a security feature. (Using biometrics as a second factor helps security, but there is a big difference between &quot;and&quot; and &quot;or&quot; security measures.)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Judge Grants Search Warrant Forcing Woman to Unlock iPhone with Touch ID</title><url>http://www.macrumors.com/2016/05/02/judge-unlock-iphone-touch-id</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JadeNB</author><text>You&#x27;ve described the state of the law as it is, but surely that doesn&#x27;t address the issue of the law as it should be. I think that it is possible to be an intelligent but non-technical person and (EDIT: forgot the word &#x27;not&#x27;) realise that, all technical issues aside, the &quot;something you know&quot; and &quot;something you have&quot; parts of a password are on completely different legal footing; and I think that it is reasonable even for a technical person to wonder whether it should be so.<p>EDIT: I know that complaints about downvotes are not welcome, and it&#x27;s quite possible that I&#x27;m wrong in what I say, but I&#x27;d like to be told how rather than just downvoted! My comment was meant to be a constructive contribution.<p>EDIT 2: Wow, these many replies help a lot! Thanks!</text></item><item><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>You can be compelled to provide fingerprints based on a warrant; I&#x27;m unsurprised (and not particularly bothered) that you can be compelled to use them on your own device. If you care about security, don&#x27;t use a fingerprint alone; at most, only use it as a second factor for two-factor authentication. More generally, don&#x27;t use anything that removes your ability to make a choice under duress, in whichever direction you see fit, based on what you&#x27;re protecting and what you&#x27;re being threatened with.<p>I find the ongoing case of someone being jailed indefinitely for refusing to supply a passphrase <i>far</i> more concerning than someone being compelled to supply a fingerprint.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DannyBee</author><text>&quot;You&#x27;ve described the state of the law as it is, but surely that doesn&#x27;t address the issue of the law as it should be.&quot;<p>Fingerprints and other things like them are 100% non-testimonial. The fifth amendment does not cover non-testimonial evidence (because it only covers being a witness against yourself).<p>This has been law since the amendment was enacted, was the purpose of it, etc.<p>So I suspect if you want the law to be something else, your problem isn&#x27;t even with the courts or judges, it&#x27;s with the founders :)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Participate in the “Internet Slowdown” with one click</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/participate-in-the-internet-slowdown-with-one-click</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mhurron</author><text>This has to be one of the most useless campaigns. Yet another slactivist &#x27;don&#x27;t really do anything but damnit feel like you did.&#x27;<p>It doesn&#x27;t &#x27;raise awareness&#x27; (more slactivism). People have heard of Net Neutrality.<p>This does nothing to educate about it. There is no information here, just Oggie Boogie scary shit might happen (but don&#x27;t worry we won&#x27;t risk clicks to show you).<p>And that&#x27;s even if you see it. I&#x27;ve been to reddit off and on all morning, I happened to finally notice the very small black box in the corner with the stupid vague message. No idea when it showed up. I was starting to think reddit wasn&#x27;t even going to bother with a banner. I&#x27;m willing to bet most people will be the same way since, again, no one is willing to risk some ad impressions to actually put anyone out.<p>When your solution to a problem is &#x27;don&#x27;t really do anything about it&#x27; don&#x27;t be surprised when shit happens.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>epi16</author><text>I say the same thing every time I read a &quot;slacktivism&quot; post, but here we go again: if this is useless, what do I actually do to help? Seriously, I&#x27;m not posing this as rhetoric.<p>I&#x27;ve already filed a fairly long, unique comment to the FCC, but I&#x27;ve heard that the FCC ignores most comments unless they come from well-known players.<p>I donate money monthly to the EFF.<p>I&#x27;ve signed the letter to the lawmakers on Battle for the Net.<p>I don&#x27;t have a personal website, so I can&#x27;t put up a banner ad.<p>So, given that I&#x27;ve heard comments on this site and in person that all of the above counts as slacktivism, just makes me feel better, and doesn&#x27;t contribute to an actual solution, what do I do to influence this issue? Ignoring the possibility of coming into large sums of money and buying myself a congressman of my very own?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Participate in the “Internet Slowdown” with one click</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/participate-in-the-internet-slowdown-with-one-click</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mhurron</author><text>This has to be one of the most useless campaigns. Yet another slactivist &#x27;don&#x27;t really do anything but damnit feel like you did.&#x27;<p>It doesn&#x27;t &#x27;raise awareness&#x27; (more slactivism). People have heard of Net Neutrality.<p>This does nothing to educate about it. There is no information here, just Oggie Boogie scary shit might happen (but don&#x27;t worry we won&#x27;t risk clicks to show you).<p>And that&#x27;s even if you see it. I&#x27;ve been to reddit off and on all morning, I happened to finally notice the very small black box in the corner with the stupid vague message. No idea when it showed up. I was starting to think reddit wasn&#x27;t even going to bother with a banner. I&#x27;m willing to bet most people will be the same way since, again, no one is willing to risk some ad impressions to actually put anyone out.<p>When your solution to a problem is &#x27;don&#x27;t really do anything about it&#x27; don&#x27;t be surprised when shit happens.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>untog</author><text>&quot;People have heard of Net Neutrality.&quot;<p>&quot;People&quot; have, but most of the internet-using population haven&#x27;t. Not saying this is the best method, but don&#x27;t be fooled into thinking that everyone is aware of what&#x27;s going on.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Warren Buffett says health care costs are a bigger problem than corporate taxes</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/08/business/dealbook/09dealbook-sorkin-warren-buffett.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dalbasal</author><text>I’m not American, but I’ve been hearing about your health system for a several years. Ironically, I know more about it than my own country’s (Ireland).<p>Several years ago, there seemed to be a lot of talk about how much The US spends (private &amp; public) per capita on health. It’s a lot more than everywhere else. This was usually presented in the context of the health care “regime” A UK-esque system, a Swiss-like system, etc.<p>Lately, that comparison seems to come up less. Obama-care, Trump-care or Bernie-care would mostly deal with who pays &amp; how, not how much.<p>The “who pays” question is a favourite ideological one so politicians and commentators are comfortable with it. But, I think the “how much” question is probably the more important one, and the harder one to solve. If the US could get costs down to average European rates, then I’m sure a workable system could be found within the confines of most ideological frameworks.<p>The problem is that getting costs down is almost impossible. Costs are salaries of doctors &amp; nurses, a giant pharmaceutical industry, thousands of radiologists, ultrasound technicians, the machines they use (far more frequently than europeans)…<p>Getting costs down to EU levels would be mean the medical industry shrinks like manufacturing shrunk two generations ago.<p>I don’t have a solution to suggest, but I do suggest toning down the ideological discussion. The problem is more of a technical one.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TallGuyShort</author><text>Amen! I tend to be more Libertarian than either of the 2 major parties, but I would gladly pay personally for other people&#x27;s health care if it was actually being done rationally. But I&#x27;ve had major problems every time I&#x27;ve seen a doctor my entire adult life, all related to the complexity of the billing, and it got to the point where my biggest health risk was the stress of fighting it. Go for an annual physical: $1200 bill for 2 physicals, blood tests I never got the results for, and a test they never performed. Not covered by insurance because the doctor&#x27;s &quot;wellness check up&quot; wasn&#x27;t the same as the insurance company&#x27;s &quot;annual physical&quot;. Time to resolve: 8 months. Resolution: I paid because the lawyer was going to be more expensive. That&#x27;s not a system I&#x27;m willing to pay for, and it&#x27;s got nothing to do with whether it&#x27;s my social obligation or not.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Warren Buffett says health care costs are a bigger problem than corporate taxes</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/08/business/dealbook/09dealbook-sorkin-warren-buffett.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dalbasal</author><text>I’m not American, but I’ve been hearing about your health system for a several years. Ironically, I know more about it than my own country’s (Ireland).<p>Several years ago, there seemed to be a lot of talk about how much The US spends (private &amp; public) per capita on health. It’s a lot more than everywhere else. This was usually presented in the context of the health care “regime” A UK-esque system, a Swiss-like system, etc.<p>Lately, that comparison seems to come up less. Obama-care, Trump-care or Bernie-care would mostly deal with who pays &amp; how, not how much.<p>The “who pays” question is a favourite ideological one so politicians and commentators are comfortable with it. But, I think the “how much” question is probably the more important one, and the harder one to solve. If the US could get costs down to average European rates, then I’m sure a workable system could be found within the confines of most ideological frameworks.<p>The problem is that getting costs down is almost impossible. Costs are salaries of doctors &amp; nurses, a giant pharmaceutical industry, thousands of radiologists, ultrasound technicians, the machines they use (far more frequently than europeans)…<p>Getting costs down to EU levels would be mean the medical industry shrinks like manufacturing shrunk two generations ago.<p>I don’t have a solution to suggest, but I do suggest toning down the ideological discussion. The problem is more of a technical one.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tmaly</author><text>I echoed this idea in a comment yesterday.<p>The medical industry is the only industry with a broad anti-trust exemption. What this means is that they do not have to publish prices like all other industries.<p>How can one expect to control costs if you cannot even know how much things cost?<p>Removing this anti-trust exemption and allowing the public to see prices for the common procedures would be a good start.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Does Not Translate</title><url>https://doesnottranslate.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>awb</author><text>&gt; “Joie de vivre” is indeed translatable into English, and the translation is just “joie de vivre”.<p>I’m a native English speaker and I’ve never heard of the expression “Joie de vivre”, so I don’t understand how “Joie de vivre” is the English translation of “Joie de vivre”.</text></item><item><author>umanwizard</author><text>Also, a lot of the French ones, like “joie de vivre”, have been borrowed into English verbatim. “Joie de vivre” is indeed translatable into English, and the translation is just “joie de vivre”.<p>To claim otherwise would be like saying that the concept of chile pepper can only be expressed in Nahuatl.</text></item><item><author>hk__2</author><text>I’m always wary of these lists, because if you search for the languages you know you always see that most of them are actually translatable and&#x2F;or rare expressions that nobody uses.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ithkuil</author><text>Yeah, it&#x27;s such a cliché. Using too many foreign words is such a faux pas, it reveals the bourgeois character of the speaker. No no no, a real connoisseur of the English language won&#x27;t have such a lassaiz-faire attitude and accept just any fancy word du jour. That would be so gauche indeed. Au contraire I&#x27;m blasé at such attempts. The real English entrepreneurial avant-garde clique has so many choices a la carte, so much joi de vivere in this je ne sais qua of a deja vu. Touché</text></comment>
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<story><title>Does Not Translate</title><url>https://doesnottranslate.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>awb</author><text>&gt; “Joie de vivre” is indeed translatable into English, and the translation is just “joie de vivre”.<p>I’m a native English speaker and I’ve never heard of the expression “Joie de vivre”, so I don’t understand how “Joie de vivre” is the English translation of “Joie de vivre”.</text></item><item><author>umanwizard</author><text>Also, a lot of the French ones, like “joie de vivre”, have been borrowed into English verbatim. “Joie de vivre” is indeed translatable into English, and the translation is just “joie de vivre”.<p>To claim otherwise would be like saying that the concept of chile pepper can only be expressed in Nahuatl.</text></item><item><author>hk__2</author><text>I’m always wary of these lists, because if you search for the languages you know you always see that most of them are actually translatable and&#x2F;or rare expressions that nobody uses.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>umanwizard</author><text>Well, that’s unsurprising; nobody can know every expression in any language, even their native one.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.merriam-webster.com&#x2F;dictionary&#x2F;joie%20de%20vivre" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.merriam-webster.com&#x2F;dictionary&#x2F;joie%20de%20vivre</a></text></comment>
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Cargo will use json 1.4.12 for uno and dos, and json 2.1.0 for tres.<p>Hopefully rust builds a culture that respects semantic versioning better than the Ruby &amp; Node cultures do. That has to start at the top. There were several Rails 2.3.X releases with minor ABI incompatibilities. Truly respecting semver would have required these patch level updates to get a new major number.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Aurora Store Accounts Blocked by Google</title><url>https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AuroraStore/-/issues/912</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ranger207</author><text>Yes, that&#x27;s correct, and yes it&#x27;s a massive violation of the terms. Aurora Store also lets you use your own Google account, which is also outside of Google&#x27;s terms. But the only way to get apps from the Google Play Store without installing the entire set of Google Play Services is this, so the entire setup is outside of Google&#x27;s terms</text></item><item><author>CobrastanJorji</author><text>I&#x27;m unfamiliar with what&#x27;s going on here. It sounds like this thing vends Google account credentials for a small pool of accounts to be used anonymously? I&#x27;ve gotta be misunderstanding something because that sounds like something that definitely should be blocked and would be wildly outside of Google&#x27;s terms. How does this thingy work?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chasil</author><text>It is quite convenient both from the perspective of a stock Kindle Fire (commercial Android), and for LineageOS (non-commercial, unlocked, root available).<p>It will also indicate if the app requires Google Mobile Services, which would preclude correct functionality outside of MicroG or alternate implementations.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Aurora Store Accounts Blocked by Google</title><url>https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AuroraStore/-/issues/912</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ranger207</author><text>Yes, that&#x27;s correct, and yes it&#x27;s a massive violation of the terms. Aurora Store also lets you use your own Google account, which is also outside of Google&#x27;s terms. But the only way to get apps from the Google Play Store without installing the entire set of Google Play Services is this, so the entire setup is outside of Google&#x27;s terms</text></item><item><author>CobrastanJorji</author><text>I&#x27;m unfamiliar with what&#x27;s going on here. It sounds like this thing vends Google account credentials for a small pool of accounts to be used anonymously? I&#x27;ve gotta be misunderstanding something because that sounds like something that definitely should be blocked and would be wildly outside of Google&#x27;s terms. How does this thingy work?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jraph</author><text>and without using something personal like your email address to download programs, which should be granted and was before mobile OSes. And still is on regular computers.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Do something, so we can change it</title><url>https://allenpike.com/2023/do-something-so-we-can-change-it</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>echohack5</author><text>I want to agree with this post, but I don&#x27;t. This person is in a position of power over their product.<p>Instead, I have found that decisions work by &quot;path dependency&quot;. If something works, even if it is a poor implementation, the path to get there is holy ground and the amount of effort to change a 10 minute decision that was made flippintly by two business people chatting in the urinals on a Wednesday is like trying to siege the walls of Jehrico.<p>There&#x27;s no solving this problem because it is fundamentally human in nature. The egos are invested in the existing thing -- so improving the proof-of-concept-that-is-now-hastily-shoved-into-production problem requires that you unravel every person&#x27;s thoughts and pride on the current thing, regardless of the seriousness of the problem. And so the problem cannot get solved and change cannot happen unless something catastrophic occurs.<p>Thus, the line-worker software engineer, who has no real organizational power, has to hope that the proverbial printer falls down a flight of stairs &quot;accidentally&quot; so that they can swap out the black ink cartridge to a new one that doesn&#x27;t make weird bleed lines on the edge of every page. That way, when the new printer comes in, and someone complains that the ink bleed is gone and how they liked that, that you can feign ignorance.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Do something, so we can change it</title><url>https://allenpike.com/2023/do-something-so-we-can-change-it</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>daniel_reetz</author><text>&quot;Action produces information&quot;. If you &quot;do something, so we can change it&quot; be sure to do it strongly in one direction or the other, so that you set the direction of exploration, too.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Misadventures in VC Funding: The $24 Million Moz Almost Raised</title><url>http://randfishkin.com/blog/128/misadventures-venture-capital-funding</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nikcub</author><text>This happens all too often. A firm would rush to a term sheet knowing that they haven't done all the work required and knowing that there is a chance they will pull out of the deal, only so that they can kill off the interest from the competition.<p>I think it is very likely that they hadn't done any real DD (on you, or the market) until after you signed, and during that DD found that the business/market was not as hot as they thought it would be.<p>I have been through a similar process twice. The first VC gave us a term sheet 3 days after the first meeting, only for them to drag through the DD.<p>and all VC's say that they have an interest in the market you are in. The only way to substantiate it is to see if they have made investments in similar industries. ie. has this firm previously invested in an enterprise SaaS company related to marketing or aimed at marketing departments? If this firm or partner had only invested in server software, or consumer, etc. then it should have been warning.<p>You should also look at how many deals that partner has done and what their decision making process is. There is no mention of this in the post, but it could be that he took the deal to his partners and they decided to turn it down. There is no mention of the other partners at the firm nor how they make decisions.<p>The solution is to go through DD with 4-5 firms at the same time before signing anything or before finalizing terms. Tell them straight up that you want to do DD with all these firms between date x and date y, and that by date z you want final committals, from where you can go over terms with those who are still interested.<p>Things were done in the wrong order in this case, and you said you didn't want to shop the deal -- the VC took advantage of that.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Misadventures in VC Funding: The $24 Million Moz Almost Raised</title><url>http://randfishkin.com/blog/128/misadventures-venture-capital-funding</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>patio11</author><text>Only tangentially related to the post: you know that bit about firms ridiculously underinvesting on SEO? This has been true over and over and over again in my experience. If you somehow manage to avoid that pathology, you will eat your competitors' lunches.</text></comment>
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<story><title>SSH client in Google Chrome</title><url>https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell/pnhechapfaindjhompbnflcldabbghjo?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eliben</author><text>I'm saddened by the recent shift of HN discussions to Reddit-isms. For Reddit, we have Reddit. Please, stop wasting others' time.</text></item><item><author>jwr</author><text>This is exactly what I've been waiting for!<p>The ability to take my critical secret information into a huge, buggy, extensible, unaudited, complex and constantly changing browser environment! Who could resist?<p>This will also inspire innovators world-wide. Look at it this way: we can now find novel ways to steal passwords, secret keys, log sessions, access servers, sneak in trojans.<p>Count me in.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hosay123</author><text>It is unfair to label this poor quality, the author clearly describes a problem with moving a security tool like SSH into the browser.<p>Despite Chrome being speedily updated when <i>known</i> security problems are discovered, the attack surface compared to a dedicated client is huge: the 2-decade-old /usr/bin/ssh + /usr/bin/xterm combo has no concept of a DOM, does not share computing interfaces available to untrusted users (e.g. shared web workers), cannot receive messages from untrusted frames (postMessage()), cannot even be addressed by untrusted content (chrome://path/to/trusted/script), does not almost transparently expose ring0 drivers (OpenGL), does not have thousands of LOC on subsystems with little battle testing (WebRTC) and so on.<p>Of course these features are thought to be secure, until they are discovered in the midst of a Stuxnet type scenario and suddenly everyone is patching like crazy. Wasn't Java considered invulnerable only 2 weeks ago? Look at what changed - somebody noticed it wasn't long after tens of thousands of infections already occurred, and today it is on every browser's plug-in blacklist. I can't recall the last I read about xterm in the Pwn2Own contest, or any 0-day in the past decade, nor can Google accidentally DoS my xterm because their sync service is down (happened last month).<p>Following from the truism that the fastest, most bug-free code is code that doesn't exist, the easiest way to reduce exposure to unknown attacks is to <i>minimize the amount of code running</i>. Security design 101. Using something with the complexity of a web browser to render an 80x25 vector used to administer potentially hundreds of thousands of machines is almost the antithesis of good protocol.</text></comment>
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<story><title>SSH client in Google Chrome</title><url>https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell/pnhechapfaindjhompbnflcldabbghjo?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eliben</author><text>I'm saddened by the recent shift of HN discussions to Reddit-isms. For Reddit, we have Reddit. Please, stop wasting others' time.</text></item><item><author>jwr</author><text>This is exactly what I've been waiting for!<p>The ability to take my critical secret information into a huge, buggy, extensible, unaudited, complex and constantly changing browser environment! Who could resist?<p>This will also inspire innovators world-wide. Look at it this way: we can now find novel ways to steal passwords, secret keys, log sessions, access servers, sneak in trojans.<p>Count me in.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tripzilch</author><text>And I am saddened by the not-so-recent yet constant Reddit-bashing over aspects of discussion that appear <i>on HN</i> and not necessarily at all on most programming-related subreddits. Those, in my experience, have a level of discussion quite comparable to HN[0].<p>[0] in a technical sense, the startup focus is quite unique to HN. or maybe I don't subscribe to startup-related subreddits (since startup news is not really the reason I read HN either)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Can ketones enhance cognitive function and protect brain networks?</title><url>https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/publications/neuroscience/can-ketones-enhance-cognitive-function-and-protect-brain-networks</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>intended</author><text>This is so incredibly strange - I just connected with someone who had disappeared for a while, and they were dealing with mental health challenges. They were facing challenges, and they were trying their damndest to connect with people working on Metabolic Psychiatry.<p>I did a cursory read on whatever most recent credible sources existed, and found that… it wasn’t a fad.<p>I hope I’m largely correct but:<p>The underlying work was talking about something else entirely - in essence a link between cardiovascular &#x2F; metabolic health, mental health and diet.<p>Switching to a low carb diet has helped reduce those metabolic factors, which allowed for a reduced dose of medication in conditions such as ADD, Bipolar disorder, depression.<p>Having never heard of this before, it smacked 100% of being some fad. But it looks like (diet + health) = better (cardio &#x2F; energy).<p>Yes - the conversation did eventually go to Psych is bad, and doctors only want to medicate, and mitochondria misfiring.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Can ketones enhance cognitive function and protect brain networks?</title><url>https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/publications/neuroscience/can-ketones-enhance-cognitive-function-and-protect-brain-networks</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>grondilu</author><text>This is only anecdotal but I had heard about the benefits of fasting for brain performance, so I once tried fasting during a chess tournament. I fasted during the first six days of the tournament. My results were disappointing so I gave up and broke the fast on the seventh day.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Ask HN: Please recommend a router without need for a cloud account</title><text>Hi friends,<p>I&#x27;m shopping a router and from what I read in the reviews, ALL mid-end family routers (those between $40 and $100) that I see need a cloud account to access the management page. I&#x27;m wondering if there is anything that does not need a cloud account? Thanks~~</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>webstrand</author><text>The Omnia looks really nice. But in their advertising script they claim they have &quot;LTE antennas&quot;, does anyone know what they mean by that claim? I had thought LTE was only a term used by the cellular telecommunications industry.</text></item><item><author>dredmorbius</author><text>Any system capable of running OpenWRT.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openwrt.org&#x2F;supported_devices" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openwrt.org&#x2F;supported_devices</a><p>You might find &#x2F; inquire about specific devices at the OpenWRT subreddit:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;openwrt&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;openwrt&#x2F;</a><p>The Turris Omnia is priced above your preferred range, but is effectively a small server and has excellent capabilities. It runs a specifically-tuned and live-upgradable version of OpenWRT:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.turris.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;omnia&#x2F;overview&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.turris.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;omnia&#x2F;overview&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cassianoleal</author><text>The way they phrased it could be clearer, but what they mean is that you can add an LTE modem and add 2 antennas on top of the regular 3 WiFi ones.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The open source paradox</title><url>http://antirez.com/news/134</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjw1007</author><text>When I file a bug report, I often feel I would like to add a disclaimer, along the lines of:<p>« I&#x27;m filing this bug report because I found a bug. This isn&#x27;t a complaint that the bug exists, or a suggestion that you prioritise fixing it, or a support request asking for workarounds. It&#x27;s just a report that the bug exists. »<p>But I think actually writing that would come over as rather snotty. Maybe the right thing is to write a post somewhere on what I think is the right attitude for filing bug reports, and discreetly link to it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FartyMcFarter</author><text>Is this really necessary?<p>If I post a bug report like &quot;when I run command X, there&#x27;s a crash&quot;, how many OSS authors get annoyed?<p>If anyone gets annoyed at that, this is a sign they need to take a break from the project (or from the bug database), not a sign that the bug reporter needs to do anything differently.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The open source paradox</title><url>http://antirez.com/news/134</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjw1007</author><text>When I file a bug report, I often feel I would like to add a disclaimer, along the lines of:<p>« I&#x27;m filing this bug report because I found a bug. This isn&#x27;t a complaint that the bug exists, or a suggestion that you prioritise fixing it, or a support request asking for workarounds. It&#x27;s just a report that the bug exists. »<p>But I think actually writing that would come over as rather snotty. Maybe the right thing is to write a post somewhere on what I think is the right attitude for filing bug reports, and discreetly link to it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>franciscop</author><text>As an open source maintainer, and from what I&#x27;ve seen in general, there&#x27;s absolutely no problem with reporting a bug! Do you mind me asking why you feel like adding that disclaimer? Is it because you don&#x27;t want to seem demanding? What is the goal of &quot;just report that the bug exists&quot;?<p>The main&#x2F;only major problem I&#x27;ve seen with bug reports is when it&#x27;s actually user code, so if you can show why you are certain that it&#x27;s the library&#x27;s code that is buggy that&#x27;s best. If you can prove it with a code snippet, perfect. If you can point to a specific place of code and explain why it doesn&#x27;t work, perfect. Or just explain exactly what happened. TBH, as long as you are just not be like &quot;my code doesn&#x27;t work fix it&quot; you should be mostly fine.<p>&gt; Note: exception if the package is marked as e.g. &quot;unmaintained&quot; or such<p>&gt; Note: there might be some truly awful OSS maintainers, and some are infamous for it (e.g. Linus); but in my experience it&#x27;s very very rare to find a negative reaction to a helpful PR.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002</title><url>https://anders.unix.se/2015/10/28/screenshots-from-developers--unix-people-2002/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>72deluxe</author><text>I really liked these.<p>This makes me feel old. I look at those desktops (particularly the Windows 95 one) and think they look clean and neat, with few distractions. I also know that they ran speedily on rubbish hardware.<p>After ditching my BBC B (I was poor), I remember using Win 3.1 on a 386SX with 4MB RAM that someone had thrown out and installing software to take over program manager and make it look like Win95 because my machine wasn&#x27;t powerful enough to run Windows 95... How a second-hand 486DX was a revelation. 16MB of RAM! Unfathomable! What could use so MUCH RAM????<p>I also remember faffing with config.sys etc. to unload mouse drivers so I could run games that moaned about himem.sys in DOS. And telling every game that I really did have an Adlib sound card and a SoundBlaster 16. I really didn&#x27;t. It was a £7.50 soundcard I bought from a boy at school (who now works at Amazon and has software patents, well done to him! He was really clever, wrote games, played piano like a pro too. Nice guy).<p>Then the upgrades to Win95, 98 (oooh Web desktop!), installing RedHat 5.2 (no, not RHEL 5.2), reading PC Plus and any magazine that mentioned Linux in an effort to learn more (dialup was expensive), and to make my abysmal VESA graphics card run X, then running FVWM, KDE1 (looked like CDE, how reassuring), GNOME1 (it&#x27;s squishy), KDE2, 3.5 (perfection, everything was configurable) then going back to GNOME2 (it was simple), then abandoning it all after GNOME3 and KDE4 (hmmm a cashew) and going to OSX. All the Linux desktops I used in tandem with Windows XP and 7 to &quot;keep my hand in&quot; both markets.<p>I also dabbled with BeOS; it was really really fast. Upon examination in recent years, the development API for it was really simple too. Pity the wxWidgets wrapper for it was shut down.<p>It&#x27;s amazing what having rubbish hardware will make you investigate.<p>How I miss Netscape, the feeling of discovering something new in computers that made you go &quot;wow&quot; (IE4 and DHTML), or the feeling of &quot;this is really great and USEFUL&quot; instead of &quot;this is really pretty&quot;, the joy of getting X to run, or learning a new Linux command whilst stuck in the CLI, getting VNC to work, doing X-window forwarding. I miss the lack of Internet, the fact that knowledge of systems came through hard work and patience, through reading and waiting for the next month&#x27;s magazine that I bought with my paper-round money. I truly am an old fart.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shubhamjain</author><text>&gt; This makes me feel old. I look at those desktops (particularly the Windows 95 one) and think they look clean and neat, with few distractions. I also know that they ran speedily on rubbish hardware.<p>Are you kidding? It was nightmare to do anything on Windows 98. There were so many things that could result in &quot;dead&quot; state and only solution was to restart and not to mention those frequent BSOD. There was a reason why we were advised that we should save our work often because the whole thing was so damn unreliable.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Bontrager’s WaveCel material more effective at preventing concussions than MIPS</title><url>https://pelotonmagazine.com/gear/bontragers-new-wavecel-bests-mips-at-concussion-prevention/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>parsimo2010</author><text>I’m going to comment with what seems to be the common sentiment here. It’s really hard to tell how effective a helmet is at preventing concussions in real life. So we&#x2F;they design a test of some hypothetical concussion cause, and lo and behold, their helmet is very effective in that test. Note that this is a different test than the ones used to prove that MIPS was better than a styrofoam helmet.<p>The real story is that marketing probably has a bigger influence than science in this case. Several years ago helmet manufacturers hit the practical weight limit for helmets with styrofoam and carbon fiber shells. I bought a Giro Atmos over a decade ago and never needed to upgrade because the top of the line helmets were only a couple grams lighter, after a decade of “improvement.” The manufacturers noticed that helmet sales were declining, and all of a sudden “new science” appeared with a theory about concussions being caused by brain rotation and MIPS technology helps prevent that. How convenient that this appeared.<p>The dirty secret is that literally nobody has ever seen a brain rotate inside a skull and result in concussion. It’s really hard to image a brain in motion (impossible with off the shelf equipment), so the brain rotation theory is just a hypothetical mechanism. There isn’t an ethical test for blunt force trauma in real life conditions, and bike crashes are very rarely reported if they don’t send the rider to the hospital. So the leading authority on product safety, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, doesn’t even have good numbers on concussion rates for cyclists.<p>The bottom line is that MIPS and this new gel layer came at way too good of a time for the helmet industry for us not to be wary of the science. They can get away with it because it’s such an easy marketing sell- most people think their life is worth more than $250, so any helmet tech is a bet on the order of Pascal’s wager. If it’s snake oil I’m just out $250, but if it really is better then I just saved my life in a crash.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sliken</author><text>I agree. I&#x27;ve raced on road, off road, been a bicycle messenger, and commuted on bike to work every working day since 1994. Accidents happen and helmets help. The most dangerous thing about a bike accident is generally the vertical distance. Try laying down on concrete, lift your head up an inch, and drop it. Keep in mind that when falling your acceleration is 9.8 m&#x2F;sec&#x2F;sec, so a 10 inch fall is worse than 10 times as bad as one inch.<p>The MIPS and Wavecell seem to assume that helmets grab the road with great traction and then snap your skull producing a large rotational acceleration so great that your brain falls behind. In my experience helmets (which are at first approximation spherical) hit in the center, easily skid, and induce approximately zero rotation in your skull.<p>I do recall in the 1990s or so that as brands switched from a heavier plastic shell (like the ancient bell helmets) to the then common nylon sleeve over the styrofoam that one manufacturer picked a particularly high friction material which did cause additional injuries. Once that was fixed everyone was happy again.<p>So absorbing energy from the fall is great. Playing games with additional layers with low internal friction or fancy ways to collapse is useless. I&#x27;m not completely against the idea, but seems laughable to pay 3-6X for something unlikely to help. Bike helmets that meet the toughest impact standards are available for $50 or so.<p>I personally have fallen many times, had my helmet skip many times (the longest was more than 10 feet) and never noticed my helmet gripping the ground and trying to torque my head.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Bontrager’s WaveCel material more effective at preventing concussions than MIPS</title><url>https://pelotonmagazine.com/gear/bontragers-new-wavecel-bests-mips-at-concussion-prevention/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>parsimo2010</author><text>I’m going to comment with what seems to be the common sentiment here. It’s really hard to tell how effective a helmet is at preventing concussions in real life. So we&#x2F;they design a test of some hypothetical concussion cause, and lo and behold, their helmet is very effective in that test. Note that this is a different test than the ones used to prove that MIPS was better than a styrofoam helmet.<p>The real story is that marketing probably has a bigger influence than science in this case. Several years ago helmet manufacturers hit the practical weight limit for helmets with styrofoam and carbon fiber shells. I bought a Giro Atmos over a decade ago and never needed to upgrade because the top of the line helmets were only a couple grams lighter, after a decade of “improvement.” The manufacturers noticed that helmet sales were declining, and all of a sudden “new science” appeared with a theory about concussions being caused by brain rotation and MIPS technology helps prevent that. How convenient that this appeared.<p>The dirty secret is that literally nobody has ever seen a brain rotate inside a skull and result in concussion. It’s really hard to image a brain in motion (impossible with off the shelf equipment), so the brain rotation theory is just a hypothetical mechanism. There isn’t an ethical test for blunt force trauma in real life conditions, and bike crashes are very rarely reported if they don’t send the rider to the hospital. So the leading authority on product safety, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, doesn’t even have good numbers on concussion rates for cyclists.<p>The bottom line is that MIPS and this new gel layer came at way too good of a time for the helmet industry for us not to be wary of the science. They can get away with it because it’s such an easy marketing sell- most people think their life is worth more than $250, so any helmet tech is a bet on the order of Pascal’s wager. If it’s snake oil I’m just out $250, but if it really is better then I just saved my life in a crash.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Alex3917</author><text>&gt; They can get away with it because it’s such an easy marketing sell- most people think their life is worth more than $250, so any helmet tech is a bet on the order of Pascal’s wager.<p>I think this is basically accurate. Even if you have zero expectation that either this or MIPS or whatever works, I don&#x27;t see how anyone who has seen Crash Reel or any of the football-related concussion documentaries could possibly not spring the extra few bucks.<p>Someone should put together a list of the cheapest or highest expected-value Pascal&#x27;s wagers. Even things like flossing your teeth are a good example, where it&#x27;s clearly good for your gum health even though the Cochrane research is equivocal. (Although using a WaterPik is probably better, especially if you do so in addition to flossing.)<p>Anyway if you haven&#x27;t seen it, this movie will change the way you think about sports: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=c1hxtjlbTHI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=c1hxtjlbTHI</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Japanese Retrofuturism and Chrono Trigger</title><url>http://theappendix.net/issues/2014/7/party-like-its-1999-japanese-retrofuturism-and-chrono-trigger</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PaulHoule</author><text>I think &quot;Japanese Retrofuturism&quot; might be as much a symptom of Western culture rather than Japanese culture.<p>It seems most JRPGs are set in a world that combines science fiction (advanced gadgets) and fantasy (magic, swords) whereas the western world keeps the two entirely separate.<p>I don&#x27;t know if this represents anything fundamental, or just the influence of a few people like Tolkien and Gygax and how people responded to their works initially. Certainly in real life there was a period where guns and swords competed that lasted 500 or so years in the west and east.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mratzloff</author><text>&gt; <i>It seems most JRPGs are set in a world that combines science fiction (advanced gadgets) and fantasy (magic, swords) whereas the western world keeps the two entirely separate.</i><p>One of the two most directly influential series for early JRPGs is <i>Ultima</i>, which for its first three incarnations (especially the first two) liberally combined science fiction with fantasy.<p>In America, the early &#x27;80s was a time where mixing fantasy and science fiction was popular. You had products like He-Man and the Masters of the Universe and Thundarr the Barbarian, for example. Perhaps these influenced Richard Garriott (creator of <i>Ultima</i>).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Japanese Retrofuturism and Chrono Trigger</title><url>http://theappendix.net/issues/2014/7/party-like-its-1999-japanese-retrofuturism-and-chrono-trigger</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PaulHoule</author><text>I think &quot;Japanese Retrofuturism&quot; might be as much a symptom of Western culture rather than Japanese culture.<p>It seems most JRPGs are set in a world that combines science fiction (advanced gadgets) and fantasy (magic, swords) whereas the western world keeps the two entirely separate.<p>I don&#x27;t know if this represents anything fundamental, or just the influence of a few people like Tolkien and Gygax and how people responded to their works initially. Certainly in real life there was a period where guns and swords competed that lasted 500 or so years in the west and east.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&gt; It seems most JRPGs are set in a world that combines science fiction (advanced gadgets) and fantasy (magic, swords) whereas the western world keeps the two entirely separate.<p>Neither western fiction nor western RPGs universally keep technological advanced gadgets and magic&#x2F;swords &quot;entirely separate&quot;.<p>&gt; I don&#x27;t know if this represents anything fundamental, or just the influence of a few people like Tolkien and Gygax and how people responded to their works initially.<p>Gygax (and Gygax-era TSR) actually did quite a lot of mixing of these things, perhaps the most well-known example being Dungeon Module S3: <i>Expedition to the Barrier Peaks</i>.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Full key extraction of Nvidia TSEC</title><url>https://gist.githubusercontent.com/plutooo/733318dbb57166d203c10d12f6c24e06/raw/15c5b2612ab62998243ce5e7877496466cabb77f/tsec.txt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sva_</author><text>The concept of undervolting the chip, causing bitflips, to do a differential fault analysis[0] seems like a stroke of genius. I had no idea AES could be broken in such a fashion, of interfering with just the last 1-2 rounds of the cipher.<p>I wonder if it will be mitigated by requiring a larger minimum voltage?<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Differential_fault_analysis" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Differential_fault_analysis</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marcan_42</author><text>Environmental sensors are common in security critical hardware, but <i>very</i> hard to get right.<p>The problem is that this doesn&#x27;t work for high performance CPUs, so it can only really be done for things like TSEC or Apple&#x27;s SEP. You need the CPU to have a large margin where it operates correctly, so the sensor doesn&#x27;t have to be extremely fast and accurate (which is nigh impossible with on-chip sensors with no external reference). And even then it has to be able to detect things like microsecond-long dips in the supply voltage, or extreme temperatures, or a single clock pulse that&#x27;s too short. It&#x27;s really hard.<p>Several years ago, I got the Wii U PowerPC boot ROM keys out by doing a self contained glitching attack like this. In that case it was a reset glitch, where I pulsed the reset line for less than the required 256 clock cycles (from the ARM core which controls it). At very specific pulse widths (that varied from device to device), that got the CPU into an inconsistent execution state that eventually fell out of the Boot ROM and into code I&#x27;d placed in RAM. That one could&#x27;ve easily been mitigated by a reset stretcher circuit, but it&#x27;s another fun example of a &quot;self-glitch&quot; attack with no additional hardware.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Full key extraction of Nvidia TSEC</title><url>https://gist.githubusercontent.com/plutooo/733318dbb57166d203c10d12f6c24e06/raw/15c5b2612ab62998243ce5e7877496466cabb77f/tsec.txt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sva_</author><text>The concept of undervolting the chip, causing bitflips, to do a differential fault analysis[0] seems like a stroke of genius. I had no idea AES could be broken in such a fashion, of interfering with just the last 1-2 rounds of the cipher.<p>I wonder if it will be mitigated by requiring a larger minimum voltage?<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Differential_fault_analysis" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Differential_fault_analysis</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sdfgsdvf</author><text>Voltage glitching for secret&#x2F;rom extraction has a long and storied history.<p>It&#x27;s the basis of how DirecTV cards were compromised in the late 90s&#x2F;early 00s.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Why Did ArchLinux Embrace Systemd? (2016)</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/4lzxs3/why_did_archlinux_embrace_systemd/d3rhxlc/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>darkwater</author><text>Looking back, I still don&#x27;t get all the hatred that SystemD got (and sometimes is still getting). A part from some nice-to-have missing niche features (I&#x27;m looking at you, retries management with one-shots), it Just Works™ for the vast majority of use cases, just like PulseAudio does. The fact is that the minority which indeed have problems is very vocal because those problems come from complex corner-cases that only a a very tech-savvy user could generate in the first place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>megous</author><text>Until it doesn&#x27;t.<p>Until very recently having wrong permission on one of the networkd config files would result in networkd ignoring the rest of the perfectly readable network configuration files too, cutting off all network connectivity. (Systemd also requested the permission change iself.)<p>Currently there&#x27;s a bug where if you have a bridge and all interfaces are disconnected from the bridge (I use hot-pluggable USB network interfaces) when you re-connect them, networkd will keep the bridge off. If you restart systemd-networkd it will fix itself.<p>I can name at least two instances already where I lost networking in my entire SBC farm, and had to pop out all microSD cards and fix the breakage manually, just because of systemd-networkd bugs. And I don&#x27;t do anything crazy, just a single ethernet interface and two overlay wireguard networks, and mostly default config.<p>And fixing it yourself is not easy. I can do C coding perfectly fine, but I run 3 different CPU archs, so fixing it myself means compiling (3 times) and distributing my own systemd version to all my machines until upstream fixes the bug. It&#x27;s not pleasant, nor easy.<p>I certainly understand people who miss having an ability to more readily script the system startup&#x2F;network config.</text></comment>
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<story><title>C++ UI Libraries</title><url>https://philippegroarke.com/posts/2018/c++_ui_solutions/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>klodolph</author><text>&gt; Dear ImGui<p>&gt; Cons<p>&gt; nothing jumps out to me<p>Why the <i>fuck</i> am I reading this article? I could easily write &quot;nothing jumps out to me&quot; or list a bunch of first-impressions of GUI libraries. But I can tell you off-hand a list of cons for Dear ImGui, and if you&#x27;re interested there are plenty of Qt -vs- ImGui comparisons out there based on people who have actually switched and done a writeup. (Various people fall on both sides of this debate.)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deplinenoise.wordpress.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;05&#x2F;why-qt-and-not-imgui&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deplinenoise.wordpress.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;05&#x2F;why-qt-and-not...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;bkaradzic&#x2F;853fd21a15542e0ec96f7268150f1b62" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;bkaradzic&#x2F;853fd21a15542e0ec96f726815...</a><p>There are definitely use cases out there where Dear ImGui is a clear winner over Qt, and vice versa, and if you&#x27;re going to compare GUI frameworks I would expect to want to know more about them.<p>I have a big ole&#x27; bag of Google Docs that contain comparisons like this, but I sure as hell ain&#x27;t gonna share them because they&#x27;re full of subjective declarations and I stop evaluating an option as soon as I&#x27;ve figured out it doesn&#x27;t meet my needs.</text></comment>
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<story><title>C++ UI Libraries</title><url>https://philippegroarke.com/posts/2018/c++_ui_solutions/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>badsectoracula</author><text>&gt; Cons: [...] I don’t like it<p>I found that reasoning funny for something like Qt that almost everyone knows, but as i was reading on and on, i found myself asking &quot;why&quot; to many of those cons (and some pros). I do not think this list is very useful really, it is mainly a link dump and the descriptions also seem to be taken from the sites, at least for the less popular ones. I&#x27;d prefer to see an actual review (even a single paragraph, it would help explain why &quot;IDE?&quot; is both a pro and con for U++) which go a bit more in detail than &quot;ugly af&quot; (which i disagree with, btw, i like how Fox Toolkit looks) and &quot;sourceforge&quot; (wth is the problem with a site&#x27;s project being on sourceforge? It provides excellent tools for projects, not everyone has to monoculture themselves on GitHub).<p>Also it is a bit wrong. Both Motif and WTL are not dead projects, Motif is still getting updates (although it is mostly bugfixes) and WTL has new commits often with the original developer at the helm.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Michael Seibel on Leadership Attributes in Successful Startup Leaders</title><url>https://torch.io/ceo-interview-series-michael-seibel-on-leadership-attributes-in-successful-startup-leaders/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aytekin</author><text>“Level Two thinking is about creating an environment and empowering people such that they do produce great outcomes without you having to tell them. If they can get into a mental model of what’s good for the company, and if they can be motivated and feel empowered, then they start doing great things. You don’t have to direct them. ”<p>“If you want to build a ship, don&#x27;t drum up people to collect wood and don&#x27;t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.“ - Antoine de Saint-Exupery</text></comment>
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<story><title>Michael Seibel on Leadership Attributes in Successful Startup Leaders</title><url>https://torch.io/ceo-interview-series-michael-seibel-on-leadership-attributes-in-successful-startup-leaders/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AndrewKemendo</author><text>The topic of leadership seems to come up frequently in these circles and I think it&#x27;s great and important.<p>It does strike me as odd though that there is almost no recognition or reference to the vast world of case study and literature about leadership, and technical leadership to boot.<p>For example, Siebel talks about &quot;Level 2&quot; thinking as well as self awareness as important attributes to being a good leader. These attributes can be found discussed in great detail with well worn concepts like &quot;Servant Leadership&quot;[1] and &quot;Referent Power&quot;[2].<p>Further, actively seeking high consequence&#x2F;stress situations like Siebel discusses is a well understood way of learning leadership.<p>So my question is, if it is important for tech CEOs or other tech people to understand and embody these leadership principles, why not seek out the huge amounts of training and learning on this - and to that end seeking out people who have gone through a lot of it, rather than trying to start from first principles?<p>Let me be clear too, I&#x27;m not suggesting you can learn this stuff from a book. Far from it. What I am saying is that there are a lot of great people out there with tested leadership experience, that are overlooked by the tech world because it does not specifically select for it.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Servant_leadership" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Servant_leadership</a><p>[2]<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.communicationcache.com&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;1&#x2F;0&#x2F;8&#x2F;8&#x2F;10887248&#x2F;the_bases_of_social_power_-_chapter_20_-_1959.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.communicationcache.com&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;1&#x2F;0&#x2F;8&#x2F;8&#x2F;10887248&#x2F;t...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Office Papermaking System That Turns Waste Paper into New Paper</title><url>http://global.epson.com/newsroom/2015/news_20151201.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sandworm101</author><text>&quot;...this essential tool is also produced from a limited resource.&quot;<p>Noop. Paper comes from trees. Trees are not a limited resource. They grow again. A well-managed forest will provide forever. Looking at the complexity of this machine, the plastics and metal used, and its probable energy consumption, I doubt it is any more environmentally friendly than new or traditional recycled paper.<p>I also cannot see this thing recycling forever. It adds chemicals, binders, to the new paper. Subsequent generations will be more and more binder and less and less paper. So the process will need an intake of new paper at one end, and a disposal of used paper waste at the other. And now instead of relatively harmless paper ready for recycling, that waste is toxic sludge of binders and fragrances.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Office Papermaking System That Turns Waste Paper into New Paper</title><url>http://global.epson.com/newsroom/2015/news_20151201.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>That&#x27;s an impressive achievement. But how many offices use substantial amounts of paper entirely internally any more?<p>The big problem with paper recycling is that the fibers get shorter on each pass, resulting in weaker paper. Going closed-cycle on paper is going to make that problem worse. It&#x27;s not like aluminum, where you can go round and round forever without deterioration. Now if the system can take junk mail as a feedstock, it will be more useful.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The most effective way to tackle climate change? Plant a trillion trees</title><url>https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/17/world/trillion-trees-climate-change-intl-scn/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abdullahkhalids</author><text>Pakistan completed a billion tree plantation project in 2017 [1]. This is currently being followed up with a 5 year 10 billion tree plantation project, at an annual cost of 7.5 billion PKR (~47 million USD) [2]. Planting 989bn trees for the other 200 countries should not be too difficult.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Billion_Tree_Tsunami" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Billion_Tree_Tsunami</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.radio.gov.pk&#x2F;04-07-2019&#x2F;pms-vision-of-clean-green-pakistan-getting-intl-acclaim-amin" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.radio.gov.pk&#x2F;04-07-2019&#x2F;pms-vision-of-clean-green...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chewz</author><text>Poland is paying up to 2000 euro per ha (for up to 12 years) for converting agriculture land into forrest. There is also a lot of additional subsidies for forrests on private land which can add up to few thousand euro.<p>You can actually make small but stable profit from buying land and converting into forest.<p>&gt; Priority will be given to those who intend to plant a forest in the so-called ecological corridors, in areas threatened by water erosion, in areas adjacent to inland waters and forests, in areas with a slope of more than 12 degrees. Also, those who have land for afforestation in voivodships with a forest cover of less than 30% will get points. Depending on the species composition of the crop and the previously mentioned criteria, the amount of support can range from PLN 4,984 to PLN 7,624 per hectare. In addition, payment is possible for fencing of crops.<p>Link in Polish:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lasy.gov.pl&#x2F;pl&#x2F;informacje&#x2F;aktualnosci&#x2F;jak-zdobyc-dofinansowanie-za-zalesianie" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lasy.gov.pl&#x2F;pl&#x2F;informacje&#x2F;aktualnosci&#x2F;jak-zdobyc-...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>The most effective way to tackle climate change? Plant a trillion trees</title><url>https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/17/world/trillion-trees-climate-change-intl-scn/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abdullahkhalids</author><text>Pakistan completed a billion tree plantation project in 2017 [1]. This is currently being followed up with a 5 year 10 billion tree plantation project, at an annual cost of 7.5 billion PKR (~47 million USD) [2]. Planting 989bn trees for the other 200 countries should not be too difficult.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Billion_Tree_Tsunami" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Billion_Tree_Tsunami</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.radio.gov.pk&#x2F;04-07-2019&#x2F;pms-vision-of-clean-green-pakistan-getting-intl-acclaim-amin" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.radio.gov.pk&#x2F;04-07-2019&#x2F;pms-vision-of-clean-green...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maccard</author><text>The fact that it costs 50 million a year is incredible. That&#x27;s less than 0.1% of what the UK government spends on interest on it&#x27;s debts per year.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Blue Hole in the Red Sea is the deadliest dive site in the world</title><url>https://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/the-blue-hole-in-the-red-sea-is-the-deadliest-dive-site-in-the-world-a-844099.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ArtWomb</author><text>Am certain if you ask 100 beginner divers, 99 will have their own brush with death adventures!<p>Mine came in the form of a six foot barracuda getting a bit too close for comfort. I am sure if I hadn&#x27;t played it cool. Had somehow attacked or acted aggressively to shush it away (when I was a guest in it&#x27;s deep sea domain). It would have enjoyed a nice lunch of fresh human flesh.<p>The second was going below the hard deck at 300 feet whilst diving the continental shelf in the Caribbean. It&#x27;s stunning. Floating weightlessly over the void that drops suddenly over a mile in depth. Feeling the rush of frigid current rise from the abyss. And seeing mysterious shapes as light filters down into darkness. But I too ran low on air. And had to come up fast.<p>I haven&#x27;t been diving in decades. And would require re-certification. But I&#x27;ve always heard legendary tales of the Red Sea and Australia&#x27;s Coral Reef. Definite bucket list items ;)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;oceana.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;oceana.org&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>agent008t</author><text>Diving seems like one of the recreational activities where it is easy to end up doing something much riskier than you intended (another I&#x27;d say is alpine hiking):<p>1. Being able to easily sign up for a dive at an all-inclusive resort makes it seem more &#x27;fine&#x27;, you get a false sense of security that you will be taken care of.<p>2. Dive shops tend to be fairly relaxed with checking if someone is properly qualified to go on a particular dive. They barely check your papers or equipment, if at all.<p>3. You often don&#x27;t really know what exactly you are getting into until you are in the middle of it. And then it can be too late to bail. Is it safer to abandon a group and attempt to go back and potentially get lost, or go into an environment that looks more dangerous than you expected?<p>I am a PADI open water diver, but only dive a few times a year, so not too experienced. One time I signed up for a shipwreck dive at an all-inclusive resort. I am usually quite careful, and naively thought it would be fine - we just dive down, go around the wreck and come back up. I rented all equipment, and had to pay extra for a wetsuit - the &#x27;default&#x27; was to just go in my swimming trunks. Turned out, on the dive we ended up going inside the wreck through a very narrow passage under it, going through narrow dark corridors surrounded by rusted metal. Touch anything and you get scratched (which I did). Your cables or tank can easily get caught (which it briefly did for me - and since I was the last one in the group it was quite scary seeing the group getting away from me as I tried to catch up). The current around the wreck was quite strong.<p>Somehow the dive was planned such that there was very little allowance for extra air. I ended up using more air than I suppose was normal, and there would not have been enough to make a normal ascent. I ended up having to use the dive instructor&#x27;s alt supply for some of the return swim and switch to my own for the safety stop, otherwise I would&#x27;ve run out. It is one thing to practice it, and another to actually have to do it on what was supposed to be a relaxing &#x27;touristy&#x27; dive.<p>On another occasion, a dive instructor took me and my partner (who was on an introductory dive - she doesn&#x27;t have a license) into a cave, which is also more dangerous than I would&#x27;ve preferred.<p>These experiences - combined with the general experience of wasting the whole day on a rocky boat breathing diesel fumes for an hour or so of diving - make me reluctant to dive again, unless the sight is particularly picturesque.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rdl</author><text>I&#x27;ve done a few hundred dives (so, intermediate? with some additional certifications for deep&#x2F;nitrox&#x2F;rescue&#x2F;divemaster) and the biggest problems I&#x27;ve had were 1) dropping a steel cylinder on my toe on a boat 2) getting sunburned on my scalp before I started wearing a hood even in warm water, due to an extended surface interval 3) dodgy food on a liveaboard.<p>I don&#x27;t think most recreational divers push things close to the line at all.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Blue Hole in the Red Sea is the deadliest dive site in the world</title><url>https://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/the-blue-hole-in-the-red-sea-is-the-deadliest-dive-site-in-the-world-a-844099.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ArtWomb</author><text>Am certain if you ask 100 beginner divers, 99 will have their own brush with death adventures!<p>Mine came in the form of a six foot barracuda getting a bit too close for comfort. I am sure if I hadn&#x27;t played it cool. Had somehow attacked or acted aggressively to shush it away (when I was a guest in it&#x27;s deep sea domain). It would have enjoyed a nice lunch of fresh human flesh.<p>The second was going below the hard deck at 300 feet whilst diving the continental shelf in the Caribbean. It&#x27;s stunning. Floating weightlessly over the void that drops suddenly over a mile in depth. Feeling the rush of frigid current rise from the abyss. And seeing mysterious shapes as light filters down into darkness. But I too ran low on air. And had to come up fast.<p>I haven&#x27;t been diving in decades. And would require re-certification. But I&#x27;ve always heard legendary tales of the Red Sea and Australia&#x27;s Coral Reef. Definite bucket list items ;)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;oceana.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;oceana.org&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>agent008t</author><text>Diving seems like one of the recreational activities where it is easy to end up doing something much riskier than you intended (another I&#x27;d say is alpine hiking):<p>1. Being able to easily sign up for a dive at an all-inclusive resort makes it seem more &#x27;fine&#x27;, you get a false sense of security that you will be taken care of.<p>2. Dive shops tend to be fairly relaxed with checking if someone is properly qualified to go on a particular dive. They barely check your papers or equipment, if at all.<p>3. You often don&#x27;t really know what exactly you are getting into until you are in the middle of it. And then it can be too late to bail. Is it safer to abandon a group and attempt to go back and potentially get lost, or go into an environment that looks more dangerous than you expected?<p>I am a PADI open water diver, but only dive a few times a year, so not too experienced. One time I signed up for a shipwreck dive at an all-inclusive resort. I am usually quite careful, and naively thought it would be fine - we just dive down, go around the wreck and come back up. I rented all equipment, and had to pay extra for a wetsuit - the &#x27;default&#x27; was to just go in my swimming trunks. Turned out, on the dive we ended up going inside the wreck through a very narrow passage under it, going through narrow dark corridors surrounded by rusted metal. Touch anything and you get scratched (which I did). Your cables or tank can easily get caught (which it briefly did for me - and since I was the last one in the group it was quite scary seeing the group getting away from me as I tried to catch up). The current around the wreck was quite strong.<p>Somehow the dive was planned such that there was very little allowance for extra air. I ended up using more air than I suppose was normal, and there would not have been enough to make a normal ascent. I ended up having to use the dive instructor&#x27;s alt supply for some of the return swim and switch to my own for the safety stop, otherwise I would&#x27;ve run out. It is one thing to practice it, and another to actually have to do it on what was supposed to be a relaxing &#x27;touristy&#x27; dive.<p>On another occasion, a dive instructor took me and my partner (who was on an introductory dive - she doesn&#x27;t have a license) into a cave, which is also more dangerous than I would&#x27;ve preferred.<p>These experiences - combined with the general experience of wasting the whole day on a rocky boat breathing diesel fumes for an hour or so of diving - make me reluctant to dive again, unless the sight is particularly picturesque.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maratc</author><text>I&#x27;m no marine biologist but you can be certain that humans are not a regular diet of barracudas.<p>Once, a 5-meter tiger shark came to me out of the blue and got too close, but as humans aren&#x27;t a regular diet of tiger sharks either, it swam away.</text></comment>
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<story><title>It’s time for a digital protection agency</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-21/paul-ford-facebook-is-why-we-need-a-digital-protection-agency</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wpietri</author><text>It is definitely not true for news and book publishing.<p>For news, consider things like the Chinese wall [1] between news and ad sales, the formal ad standards that news organizations will have, and the fact that at least traditionally, humans manually sell those ads, resulting in oversight.<p>For books, I&#x27;m not even sure what you mean. Book publishers sell books that they think will do well and, mostly, that reflect well on them. You can&#x27;t just walk into Random House with a credit card and say, &quot;Here&#x27;s my manuscript, please put it in book stores nationwide.&quot;<p>Personally, I&#x27;d just ban all advertising. The economic-theory reason we need it, purchasers discovering better ways to solve their needs, has been made mostly unnecessary by the Internet. Now if you want to buy a foo you just search for &quot;foo reviews&quot; and you&#x27;re off to the races. We&#x27;d figure out other ways to fund things.<p>As an aside, that justification was always a little... generous. Coca Cola doesn&#x27;t spend billions per year on ads because they&#x27;re just trying to reach people who&#x27;ve never heard of their products. They do it because they want to manipulate people into buying Coke. I say we can trust people to find unhealthy addictions all on their own.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Chinese_wall#Journalism" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Chinese_wall#Journalism</a></text></item><item><author>edanm</author><text>&gt; This is an industry that sells influence at scale. Anyone with a credit card can start changing how people think and act but there are absolutely no real consequences for bad actors.<p>Isn&#x27;t this true of almost any industry which lets you put out information? E.g. news publishing? Book publishing? Blogs?<p>I mean, what exactly would you do, ban all communications? Maybe I missed something, but it seems like everyone just assumes that advertising is the #1 biggest influence on most people, and was used to completely change the tide of democracy, when in reality it seems to me that it&#x27;s a <i>small</i> part of the problem, at most.<p>I&#x27;m serious about the question btw - what <i>would</i> you do? You say regulate at the core. I&#x27;m not saying necessarily don&#x27;t regulate (though that is where I lean) - I&#x27;m asking, what exactly do you propose?</text></item><item><author>manigandham</author><text>As usual, a bunch of nonsense by people who have no idea about this.<p>The fundamental problem is that digital advertising is a 12-figure global industry with practically 0 oversight and regulation. This is an industry that sells influence at scale. Anyone with a credit card can start changing how people think and act but there are absolutely no real consequences for bad actors.<p>Even the most minimal laws around who can advertise and how would radically change everything. Google has even more data than Facebook. Amazon has just as much. Your ISP has just as much. These silly little projects to chase the latest scandal will do nothing in the long run. The only way to fix anything is to regulate the core, not try and fix every little symptom that occurs.<p>* Before the inevitable comments, yes advertising works, yes it works on you no matter how much you think otherwise, and no adblockers dont magically solve everything.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wutbrodo</author><text>&gt; For news, consider things like the Chinese wall [1] between news and ad sales<p>Literally the second line of the two lines of the linked section talks about the (increasingly common) cases of it being breached, a natural consequence of increasing ad-blocker usage. Also, everything in the example you&#x27;re giving relies on old distribution methods, not &quot;news&quot;. There&#x27;s no longer a line between news and &quot;random website who publishes information about events&quot;, and I&#x27;m not sure how anyone who hasn&#x27;t been living under a rock for the last 15 years could be naive enough to think otherwise. For God&#x27;s sake, Buzzfeed was a Pulitzer Prize finalist a year or two ago!<p>&gt; For books, I&#x27;m not even sure what you mean. Book publishers sell books that they think will do well and, mostly, that reflect well on them. You can&#x27;t just walk into Random House with a credit card and say, &quot;Here&#x27;s my manuscript, please put it in book stores nationwide.&quot;<p>Amazon is the largest bookseller in the country IINM, and you can very much give them a credit card and start selling your books nationwide. Again, you&#x27;re confusing increasingly-unpopular (for market reasons) distribution methods with types of media.<p>The very existence of advertorials is a refutation of the notion that there&#x27;s any principled way to legally distinguish between advertising and other forms of information, even less so one that wouldn&#x27;t be riven with loopholes (cf limits on campaign spending and Super PACs&#x27; technically-not-for-the-candidates&#x27; spending).<p>&gt; Personally, I&#x27;d just ban all advertising.<p>You seem to be confident that you have a definition of the word advertising that would be robust enough to implement this without enough collateral damage that it wouldn&#x27;t be trivially unconstitutional. What is your rough proposal for what that definition would be?<p>FWIW, I generally agree with you that advertising is a collective-action&#x2F;net-loss problem, but I think you may be falling into the classic trap of &quot;this thing is bad, we should just wish for it to disappear and hold all else equal&quot;.</text></comment>
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<story><title>It’s time for a digital protection agency</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-21/paul-ford-facebook-is-why-we-need-a-digital-protection-agency</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wpietri</author><text>It is definitely not true for news and book publishing.<p>For news, consider things like the Chinese wall [1] between news and ad sales, the formal ad standards that news organizations will have, and the fact that at least traditionally, humans manually sell those ads, resulting in oversight.<p>For books, I&#x27;m not even sure what you mean. Book publishers sell books that they think will do well and, mostly, that reflect well on them. You can&#x27;t just walk into Random House with a credit card and say, &quot;Here&#x27;s my manuscript, please put it in book stores nationwide.&quot;<p>Personally, I&#x27;d just ban all advertising. The economic-theory reason we need it, purchasers discovering better ways to solve their needs, has been made mostly unnecessary by the Internet. Now if you want to buy a foo you just search for &quot;foo reviews&quot; and you&#x27;re off to the races. We&#x27;d figure out other ways to fund things.<p>As an aside, that justification was always a little... generous. Coca Cola doesn&#x27;t spend billions per year on ads because they&#x27;re just trying to reach people who&#x27;ve never heard of their products. They do it because they want to manipulate people into buying Coke. I say we can trust people to find unhealthy addictions all on their own.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Chinese_wall#Journalism" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Chinese_wall#Journalism</a></text></item><item><author>edanm</author><text>&gt; This is an industry that sells influence at scale. Anyone with a credit card can start changing how people think and act but there are absolutely no real consequences for bad actors.<p>Isn&#x27;t this true of almost any industry which lets you put out information? E.g. news publishing? Book publishing? Blogs?<p>I mean, what exactly would you do, ban all communications? Maybe I missed something, but it seems like everyone just assumes that advertising is the #1 biggest influence on most people, and was used to completely change the tide of democracy, when in reality it seems to me that it&#x27;s a <i>small</i> part of the problem, at most.<p>I&#x27;m serious about the question btw - what <i>would</i> you do? You say regulate at the core. I&#x27;m not saying necessarily don&#x27;t regulate (though that is where I lean) - I&#x27;m asking, what exactly do you propose?</text></item><item><author>manigandham</author><text>As usual, a bunch of nonsense by people who have no idea about this.<p>The fundamental problem is that digital advertising is a 12-figure global industry with practically 0 oversight and regulation. This is an industry that sells influence at scale. Anyone with a credit card can start changing how people think and act but there are absolutely no real consequences for bad actors.<p>Even the most minimal laws around who can advertise and how would radically change everything. Google has even more data than Facebook. Amazon has just as much. Your ISP has just as much. These silly little projects to chase the latest scandal will do nothing in the long run. The only way to fix anything is to regulate the core, not try and fix every little symptom that occurs.<p>* Before the inevitable comments, yes advertising works, yes it works on you no matter how much you think otherwise, and no adblockers dont magically solve everything.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nine_k</author><text>&gt; <i>Here&#x27;s my manuscript, please put it in book stores nationwide.</i><p>I suppose you heard about a company named Amazon. This is basically one of the services they offer for years, if you&#x27;re OK with selling an e-book.<p>If your audience prefers dead trees, print-on-demand offers are also numerous.<p>The problem, as usual, is to make the existence of your book known to potential readers, and this is done by... advertising. And you want it to be targeted unless you enjoy burning money on spamming innocent disinterested people.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Discovery of Galileo’s lost letter shows he edited his ideas to fool Inquisition</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06769-4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ilove_banh_mi</author><text>Giordano Bruno should also be remembered as a hero of science. He was <i>burnt at the stake</i> by the Inquisition in Rome because he upheld the heliocentric model and cosmic pluralism, a mere 13 years before Galileo wrote this re-discovered letter.<p><i></i><i>[added in response to multiple skeptic comments about Bruno&#x27;s heroic role for science]</i><i></i><p>The Inquisition jailed and tried him for 7 years before burning him; of course they had time to question him about religious, doctrinal issues so they could damn him without referring to any of the philosophical and scientific principles he held. Promoting the Inquisition&#x27;s recorded accusations against him, and pretending that he was no friend of science, is not very... inspiring (to be polite). And if you are going to denounce him because of his interests in the magical, what is your opinion of Isaac Newton and his lasting interest in alchemy? scientific genius and admirable hero, or somehow a buffoon not worth a footnote in the epochal battle between science and religion?<p>Bruno was a proud defender of free-thought, freedom of inquiry, and freedom of expression -- all central keys to the development of modern science. He wrote scientific works arguing for the Copernican model, published in 1584, years before Tycho Brahe for instance. He anticipated some of the arguments of Galilei on the relativity principle, as well as using the example now known as Galileo&#x27;s ship. He was the first person to grasp that stars are other suns with their own planets.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>virissimo</author><text>It&#x27;s terrible what happened to Bruno, but he was a mystic that engaged in rank speculation and did approximately zero science. It seems much more likely that he was killed for claiming that the devil won&#x27;t be condemned and that Jesus was just a magician than for affirming a kind of heliocentrism. Sad story, yes. Hero of science, no.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Discovery of Galileo’s lost letter shows he edited his ideas to fool Inquisition</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06769-4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ilove_banh_mi</author><text>Giordano Bruno should also be remembered as a hero of science. He was <i>burnt at the stake</i> by the Inquisition in Rome because he upheld the heliocentric model and cosmic pluralism, a mere 13 years before Galileo wrote this re-discovered letter.<p><i></i><i>[added in response to multiple skeptic comments about Bruno&#x27;s heroic role for science]</i><i></i><p>The Inquisition jailed and tried him for 7 years before burning him; of course they had time to question him about religious, doctrinal issues so they could damn him without referring to any of the philosophical and scientific principles he held. Promoting the Inquisition&#x27;s recorded accusations against him, and pretending that he was no friend of science, is not very... inspiring (to be polite). And if you are going to denounce him because of his interests in the magical, what is your opinion of Isaac Newton and his lasting interest in alchemy? scientific genius and admirable hero, or somehow a buffoon not worth a footnote in the epochal battle between science and religion?<p>Bruno was a proud defender of free-thought, freedom of inquiry, and freedom of expression -- all central keys to the development of modern science. He wrote scientific works arguing for the Copernican model, published in 1584, years before Tycho Brahe for instance. He anticipated some of the arguments of Galilei on the relativity principle, as well as using the example now known as Galileo&#x27;s ship. He was the first person to grasp that stars are other suns with their own planets.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bambax</author><text>&gt; <i>Giordano Bruno was burnt at the stake by the Inquisition in Rome because he upheld the heliocentric model and cosmic pluralism</i><p>Yates argued in <i>Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition</i> (1964) that Bruno was burnt for espousing the Hermetic tradition rather than his affirmation of heliocentricity.<p>Also, a &quot;hero of science&quot; is a stretch.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Giordano_Bruno_and_the_Hermetic_Tradition" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Giordano_Bruno_and_the_Hermeti...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Bard is getting better at logic and reasoning</title><url>https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-improved-reasoning-google-sheets-export/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>underyx</author><text>Trying my favorite LLM prompt to benchmark reasoning, as I mentioned in a thread four weeks ago[0].<p>&gt; I&#x27;m playing assetto corsa competizione, and I need you to tell me how many liters of fuel to take in a race. The qualifying time was 2:04.317, the race is 20 minutes long, and the car uses 2.73 liters per lap.<p>The correct answer is around 29, which GPT-4 has always known, but Bard just gave me 163.8, 21, and 24.82 as answers across three drafts.<p>What&#x27;s even weirder is that Bard&#x27;s first draft output ten lines of (wrong) Python code to calculate the result, even though my prompt mentioned nothing coding related. I wonder how non-technical users will react to this behavior. Another interesting thing is that the code follows Google&#x27;s style guides.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35893130" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35893130</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>devjab</author><text>GPT seems to get improvements of trap questions when they reach social popularity. Even the free version of ChatGPT now knows that a kilogram of feathers weighs the same as a kilogram of lead, and it didn’t always know that.<p>I’m not sure these types of prompt tricks are a good way of measuring logic unless Google is also implementing these directly into Bard when the hilarious outputs reach enough traction on social media.<p>I do wonder how OpenAI fix these logical blunders.<p>My biggest issue with both isn’t that they fall into these traps though. It’s that I can get them to tell me long stories about what happens in Horus Heresy books that never actually happened. Whether the info comes from questionable sources or they are just making things up is sort of irrelevant to me, what “scares” me about those conversations is how true the answers sound, and if they are “lying” about the Horus Heresy then what else will they lie about? Don’t get me wrong, GPT now writes virtually all my JSDoc documentation and it continues to impress me when doing so, but I’m very reluctant to use it for actual information. Not only because of my time wasting conversations about the Horus Heresy but also because we’ve had it “invent” C# functions that had never existed in any version of .Net or C# when tasked to solve problems. I just mention the HH as an example because it’s fun to ask GPT why Magnus did nothing&#x2F;everything wrong during meetings.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Bard is getting better at logic and reasoning</title><url>https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-improved-reasoning-google-sheets-export/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>underyx</author><text>Trying my favorite LLM prompt to benchmark reasoning, as I mentioned in a thread four weeks ago[0].<p>&gt; I&#x27;m playing assetto corsa competizione, and I need you to tell me how many liters of fuel to take in a race. The qualifying time was 2:04.317, the race is 20 minutes long, and the car uses 2.73 liters per lap.<p>The correct answer is around 29, which GPT-4 has always known, but Bard just gave me 163.8, 21, and 24.82 as answers across three drafts.<p>What&#x27;s even weirder is that Bard&#x27;s first draft output ten lines of (wrong) Python code to calculate the result, even though my prompt mentioned nothing coding related. I wonder how non-technical users will react to this behavior. Another interesting thing is that the code follows Google&#x27;s style guides.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35893130" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35893130</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nico</author><text>Would have been much more impressed if Google had released something like a super pro version of OpenChat (featured today on the front page of HN) with integration to their whole office suite for gathering&#x2F;crawling&#x2F;indexing information<p>Google keeps putting out press releases and announcements, without actually releasing anything truly useful or competitive with what it’s already out there<p>And not just worse than GPT4, but worse even than a lot of the open source LLMs&#x2F;Chats that have come out in the last couple of months&#x2F;weeks</text></comment>
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<story><title>Python 3 Is Winning Library Developer Support</title><url>https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/pythonengineering/2016/03/08/python-3-is-winning/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>HankB99</author><text>Maybe I&#x27;m dreaming this... Trying to install some Python package on Windows 8.1 and &#x27;the usual&#x27; stuff didn&#x27;t work.<p>I&#x27;m a python newb and maybe I wasn&#x27;t doing something right. I&#x27;m more used to Linux&#x2F;Perl and doing &quot;Perl -M CPAN ...&quot; which just works. &#x27;pip ...&#x27; just didn&#x27;t.<p>I was not left with the feeling that Python ran as well on Windows as on Linux.</text></item><item><author>bsder</author><text>&gt; Have always hated the half-ass integration Windows has. Half the stuff does not work as it should or is broken, no one tests on Windows and I doubt they will start now.<p>What? Python has been one of the significant exceptions on this front because Enthought actually shipped a product which was expected to work on Windows. Python also goes out of its way to make sure that things work in sane ways even when Windows has no real equivalent.<p>I also suspect this is one of the reasons for Python&#x27;s ascendancy over other scripting languages. By being one of the few scripting languages that runs decently on Windows, you gain an automatic user population advantage.</text></item><item><author>x5n1</author><text>Have always hated the half-ass integration Windows has. Half the stuff does not work as it should or is broken, no one tests on Windows and I doubt they will start now. Never been fun doing anything with non-MS stuff on Windows. I doubt it ever will be. As for writing anything, I don&#x27;t know why I would bother with non-MS stuff on Windows platform, it usually does not come out well. C# is a great language and Visual Studio is great for using it. And it&#x27;s free.</text></item><item><author>toyg</author><text>Windows could be the first platform to ship Python3 without having ever shipped python2. Total clean slate, perfect opportunity, they could sell it as MS &quot;aligning with the cloud&quot; and offer something special -- if I could start and provision a Windows cloud instance from any python3 repl without having to bother with devops tool (Vagrant, Packer, Ansible and whatnot), I would switch tomorrow.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dagw</author><text>pip is unfortunately a a bit hit and miss on Windows. The (IMO) &#x27;correct&#x27; way to install package on windows is to first install Anaconda Python (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.continuum.io&#x2F;downloads" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.continuum.io&#x2F;downloads</a>) and then:<p>0) Check if the package came preinstalled with Anaconda<p>1) if not try to use conda to install packages,<p>2) if conda doesn&#x27;t have the package, see if it&#x27;s been uploaded here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lfd.uci.edu&#x2F;~gohlke&#x2F;pythonlibs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lfd.uci.edu&#x2F;~gohlke&#x2F;pythonlibs&#x2F;</a><p>3) try pip.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Python 3 Is Winning Library Developer Support</title><url>https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/pythonengineering/2016/03/08/python-3-is-winning/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>HankB99</author><text>Maybe I&#x27;m dreaming this... Trying to install some Python package on Windows 8.1 and &#x27;the usual&#x27; stuff didn&#x27;t work.<p>I&#x27;m a python newb and maybe I wasn&#x27;t doing something right. I&#x27;m more used to Linux&#x2F;Perl and doing &quot;Perl -M CPAN ...&quot; which just works. &#x27;pip ...&#x27; just didn&#x27;t.<p>I was not left with the feeling that Python ran as well on Windows as on Linux.</text></item><item><author>bsder</author><text>&gt; Have always hated the half-ass integration Windows has. Half the stuff does not work as it should or is broken, no one tests on Windows and I doubt they will start now.<p>What? Python has been one of the significant exceptions on this front because Enthought actually shipped a product which was expected to work on Windows. Python also goes out of its way to make sure that things work in sane ways even when Windows has no real equivalent.<p>I also suspect this is one of the reasons for Python&#x27;s ascendancy over other scripting languages. By being one of the few scripting languages that runs decently on Windows, you gain an automatic user population advantage.</text></item><item><author>x5n1</author><text>Have always hated the half-ass integration Windows has. Half the stuff does not work as it should or is broken, no one tests on Windows and I doubt they will start now. Never been fun doing anything with non-MS stuff on Windows. I doubt it ever will be. As for writing anything, I don&#x27;t know why I would bother with non-MS stuff on Windows platform, it usually does not come out well. C# is a great language and Visual Studio is great for using it. And it&#x27;s free.</text></item><item><author>toyg</author><text>Windows could be the first platform to ship Python3 without having ever shipped python2. Total clean slate, perfect opportunity, they could sell it as MS &quot;aligning with the cloud&quot; and offer something special -- if I could start and provision a Windows cloud instance from any python3 repl without having to bother with devops tool (Vagrant, Packer, Ansible and whatnot), I would switch tomorrow.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mikhail_Edoshin</author><text>Don&#x27;t you want to try Cygwin? You&#x27;ll get as close to Unix on Windows as possible. pip will definitely work.</text></comment>
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<story><title>When TDD Doesn't Work</title><url>http://blog.8thlight.com/uncle-bob/2014/04/30/When-tdd-does-not-work.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Nursie</author><text>IMHO TDD, like a lot of the agile stuff, is a good idea with solid foundations that people get wrong all the time and end up making things worse with.<p>Agile was supposed to ease up on process and make teams adapt to changing requirements. It wasn&#x27;t supposed to use up &gt;30% of your working time just to service the methodology, but that&#x27;s what it ends up doing when you get in the Agile Evangelists.<p>TDD was supposed to ensure more correct software at the cost of some overhead (perhaps 30%?) by making sure every unit had its tests written ahead of the code. In practice I&#x27;ve seen it kill productivity entirely as people write test harnesses, dummy systems and frameworks galore, and never produce anything.<p>A combination of these two approaches recently cost an entire team (30+) people their jobs as they produced almost nothing for almost a year, despite being busy and ostensibly working hard all year. We kept one guy to deal with some of the stuff they left behind and do some new development. When asked for an estimate to do a trivial change he gave a massive timescale and then explained that &#x27;in the gateway team we like to write extensive tests before the code&#x27;.<p>The only response we had for him was &#x27;and do you see the rest of the gateway team here now?&#x27;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>forgottenpass</author><text><i>IMHO TDD, like a lot of the agile stuff, is a good idea with solid foundations that people get wrong all the time and end up making things worse with.</i><p>I think the reason it can go sideways is because the advocates and casual adherents don&#x27;t accept that for some teams a methodology really may not provide the claimed benefits, or it costs too much elsewhere. It&#x27;s easier to say &quot;It&#x27;s not [methodology] that isn&#x27;t working, you&#x27;re doing it wrong.&quot;<p>That&#x27;s a really attractive answer, made all the more tempting because it&#x27;s sometimes true. But not every software team is the same, operating in the same constraints. People tend to generalize based on their own experiences. Lessons learned about what works for X doesn&#x27;t necessarily apply to Y. The thing that has been lacking in the TDD&#x2F;Agile&#x2F;Insert Fad is a higher level &quot;this is why the ideas worked for us, here are the component pieces and their purpose, this is how to determine the pieces to adopt and how to tailor them to your organization.&quot;<p>You could say that someone out there is making that case, but their voice is drowning under the snakeoil salesmen. I don&#x27;t hear it up front, the rare times I do hear it is deep into the &quot;you&#x27;re doing it wrong&quot; conversation when any sense of perspective in the discussion has already been beaten to death.</text></comment>
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<story><title>When TDD Doesn't Work</title><url>http://blog.8thlight.com/uncle-bob/2014/04/30/When-tdd-does-not-work.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Nursie</author><text>IMHO TDD, like a lot of the agile stuff, is a good idea with solid foundations that people get wrong all the time and end up making things worse with.<p>Agile was supposed to ease up on process and make teams adapt to changing requirements. It wasn&#x27;t supposed to use up &gt;30% of your working time just to service the methodology, but that&#x27;s what it ends up doing when you get in the Agile Evangelists.<p>TDD was supposed to ensure more correct software at the cost of some overhead (perhaps 30%?) by making sure every unit had its tests written ahead of the code. In practice I&#x27;ve seen it kill productivity entirely as people write test harnesses, dummy systems and frameworks galore, and never produce anything.<p>A combination of these two approaches recently cost an entire team (30+) people their jobs as they produced almost nothing for almost a year, despite being busy and ostensibly working hard all year. We kept one guy to deal with some of the stuff they left behind and do some new development. When asked for an estimate to do a trivial change he gave a massive timescale and then explained that &#x27;in the gateway team we like to write extensive tests before the code&#x27;.<p>The only response we had for him was &#x27;and do you see the rest of the gateway team here now?&#x27;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TelmoMenezes</author><text>&gt; IMHO TDD, like a lot of the agile stuff, is a good idea with solid foundations that people get wrong all the time and end up making things worse with.<p>So one could reasonably suspect that people who &quot;get agile&quot; are just talented and would be good developers anyway. Occam&#x27;s razor invites us to assume that agile has no effect. Are there any scientific studies on the effectiveness of agile (or TDD), or is this just a homeopathy situation?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Security issue related to the NPM registry</title><url>https://github.blog/2021-11-15-githubs-commitment-to-npm-ecosystem-security/#security-issues-related-to-the-npm-registry</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nfm</author><text>Because this is buried in the post and people don&#x27;t seem to be grokking it:<p>&gt; Second, on November 2 we received a report to our security bug bounty program of a vulnerability that would allow an attacker to publish new versions of any npm package using an account without proper authorization.<p>They correctly authenticated the attacker and checked they were authorised to upload a new version of <i>their own</i> package, but a malicious payload allowed the attacker to then upload a new version of a completely unrelated package that they weren&#x27;t authorised for. Ouch!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jschrf</author><text>&gt; However, the service that performs underlying updates to the registry data determined which package to publish based on the contents of the uploaded package file<p>Yeah, this is what&#x27;s going to keep me up tonight. Yikes.<p>I can&#x27;t help but wonder if the root cause was HTTP request smuggling, or if changing package.json was enough.<p>How do we even mitigate against these types of supply-chain attacks, aside from disabling run-scripts, using lockfiles and carefully auditing the entire dependency tree on every module update?<p>I&#x27;m seriously considering moving to a workflow of installing dependencies in containers or VMs, auditing them there, and then perhaps commiting known safe snapshots of node_modules into my repos (YUCK). Horrible developer experience, but at least it&#x27;ll help me sleep at night.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Security issue related to the NPM registry</title><url>https://github.blog/2021-11-15-githubs-commitment-to-npm-ecosystem-security/#security-issues-related-to-the-npm-registry</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nfm</author><text>Because this is buried in the post and people don&#x27;t seem to be grokking it:<p>&gt; Second, on November 2 we received a report to our security bug bounty program of a vulnerability that would allow an attacker to publish new versions of any npm package using an account without proper authorization.<p>They correctly authenticated the attacker and checked they were authorised to upload a new version of <i>their own</i> package, but a malicious payload allowed the attacker to then upload a new version of a completely unrelated package that they weren&#x27;t authorised for. Ouch!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ptx</author><text>Also: &quot;This vulnerability existed in the npm registry beyond the timeframe for which we have telemetry to determine whether it has ever been exploited maliciously.&quot;</text></comment>
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<story><title>Effective Shell</title><url>https://effective-shell.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>woodruffw</author><text>For people who think that they&#x27;re the intended audience of these kinds of guides: do you find them effective?<p>I learned how to use a POSIX shell years before I learned how to program (outside of a shell, that is), and I&#x27;ve often wondered how to help people (particularly younger colleagues) who learned things the other way around.<p>My experience so far is that a lot of people get stuck in an &quot;experience trough,&quot; for lack of a better phrase: they&#x27;re comfortable navigating around the filesystem and running basic commands, but struggle with some of the more powerful building blocks that can make someone a real shell power user (`xargs`, nontrivial uses of `find`, here-strings, subshells and blocks, process substitution, etc.).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Izkata</author><text>The single biggest stumbling block I&#x27;ve seen in my co-workers is quotes. Most of them think in terms of python&#x2F;javascript&#x2F;etc where quotes mean string type, and have no concept of how args and splitting on spaces works, or how it&#x27;s all stringly-typed.<p>That &quot;experience trough&quot; you describe I think exists because they don&#x27;t actually understand the fundamentals, so any time they&#x27;ve attempted something new it&#x27;s based on assumptions from a totally different paradigm, does something strange and unexpected, and reinforces sticking to the same safe and simple commands.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Effective Shell</title><url>https://effective-shell.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>woodruffw</author><text>For people who think that they&#x27;re the intended audience of these kinds of guides: do you find them effective?<p>I learned how to use a POSIX shell years before I learned how to program (outside of a shell, that is), and I&#x27;ve often wondered how to help people (particularly younger colleagues) who learned things the other way around.<p>My experience so far is that a lot of people get stuck in an &quot;experience trough,&quot; for lack of a better phrase: they&#x27;re comfortable navigating around the filesystem and running basic commands, but struggle with some of the more powerful building blocks that can make someone a real shell power user (`xargs`, nontrivial uses of `find`, here-strings, subshells and blocks, process substitution, etc.).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>silisili</author><text>Yup. I came the same path as you, and realized about the same.<p>It&#x27;s just a different mindset. Instead of a std library you have tons of prebuilt binaries ready to perform actions and talk to one another. And that is really, really, powerful once you learn what&#x27;s all available and how to use&#x2F;abuse it.<p>Software engineering in general is so different. Tons of mantras to follow, TDD, OOP, etc.<p>Each has its place, but generally if I can do it in a few lines of shell, why spend 20 minutes writing a hundred lines of something more pure? On the other hand, shells do not seem well suited for anything large and complex, admittedly. So watching people waste an hour writing something that could be a Bash one liner is about as painful as watching someone try to debug a 500 line bash script.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Why this universe? New calculation suggests our cosmos is typical</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-this-universe-new-calculation-suggests-our-cosmos-is-typical-20221117/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>layer8</author><text>If you have two competing theories, one requiring fine-tuned parameters and the other not, then the latter seems more plausible, because it requires less assumptions. Our universe being “typical” in the context of some theory just means that it requires less fine-tuning, and therefore the theory arguably has more merit.</text></item><item><author>_Algernon_</author><text>Seems silly to try to calculate probabilities from a sample size of 1, but what do I know.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zwkrt</author><text>But the problem is that we have no evidence to suggest that our universe is typical in the first place. For all we know there are a trillion trillion universes and ours is the only one with gravity by some fluke, and we are actually living in the least likely possible universe.<p>And that&#x27;s the issue is this model is trying to &#x27;work backward&#x27; and justify our universe and it&#x27;s constants as being mathematically harmonious and &#x27;typical&#x27; without having any understanding of what the actual value of &#x27;typical&#x27; is.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Why this universe? New calculation suggests our cosmos is typical</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-this-universe-new-calculation-suggests-our-cosmos-is-typical-20221117/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>layer8</author><text>If you have two competing theories, one requiring fine-tuned parameters and the other not, then the latter seems more plausible, because it requires less assumptions. Our universe being “typical” in the context of some theory just means that it requires less fine-tuning, and therefore the theory arguably has more merit.</text></item><item><author>_Algernon_</author><text>Seems silly to try to calculate probabilities from a sample size of 1, but what do I know.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_Algernon_</author><text>How do you know that the parameters are fine tuned from a single observation? Occam&#x27;s razor still needs multiple observations to create the model.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Checked exceptions: Java’s biggest mistake (2014)</title><url>http://literatejava.com/exceptions/checked-exceptions-javas-biggest-mistake/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alasdair_</author><text>I like checked exceptions. Yes, sometimes (especially in the oldest APIs when they were still figuring this stuff out), they were overused but mostly I think they encourage developers to really think about what happens in the failure case.<p>I notice this especially with less experienced developers and remote calls - a lot of JS code I’ve reviewed in the past assumes the remote call will always work, yet Java code from the <i>same</i> developer will almost always correctly handle the situation, simply because the exception is explicitly required to be handled.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hota_mazi</author><text>Right.<p>They don&#x27;t just &quot;encourage&quot; developers to consider error paths, they &quot;force&quot; them to do so.<p>The concept of checked exceptions is very sound, as is the more general concept of compiler enforced error checking. Very, very few languages have that (only Java and Kotlin in the mainstream league).<p>Languages with a solid implementation of algebraic data types offer a good first step in that direction but they still require users to manually bubble and compose monadic values, which introduces an unnecessary, and sometimes intractable, level of obfuscation and boiler plate.<p>All other languages provide weaker approaches to this concept that are library enforced, not language enforced, and therefore more prone to being overlooked since they require discipline from the developer.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Checked exceptions: Java’s biggest mistake (2014)</title><url>http://literatejava.com/exceptions/checked-exceptions-javas-biggest-mistake/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alasdair_</author><text>I like checked exceptions. Yes, sometimes (especially in the oldest APIs when they were still figuring this stuff out), they were overused but mostly I think they encourage developers to really think about what happens in the failure case.<p>I notice this especially with less experienced developers and remote calls - a lot of JS code I’ve reviewed in the past assumes the remote call will always work, yet Java code from the <i>same</i> developer will almost always correctly handle the situation, simply because the exception is explicitly required to be handled.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AlexTWithBeard</author><text>&gt; hey encourage developers to really think about what happens in the failure case.<p>It&#x27;s a noble goal, but once I started thinking about what happens in the failure case, I came to the conclusion that checked exceptions are no help here:<p>- there are always unchecked exceptions. I found it useful to think that <i>any</i> function might throw. So if extra reporting or graceful shutdown are required, just catch everything<p>- in most cases I have no idea how to recover from error: just keep throwing it to the caller until someone knows what to do. I want it to be the default behavior and I don&#x27;t want to clutter my code with all the catch-wrap-rethrow boilerplate.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Point of the Banach-Tarski Theorem</title><url>https://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/ThePointOfTheBanachTarskiTheorem.html?wa22hn</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>soVeryTired</author><text>Mathoverflow has some good discussion of Banach-Tarski [0]. The top-rated posts argue that<p>- The &#x27;problem&#x27; with B-T may be related to our notion of &quot;space&quot; (i.e. point-set topology) rather than any issues with the axiom of choice<p>- Most practical uses of the axiom of choice could get by with the axiom of countable choice, under which B-T doesn&#x27;t hold<p>- Mathematics need not directly model the &#x27;real&#x27; world or match our physical intuition<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mathoverflow.net&#x2F;questions&#x2F;260057&#x2F;axiom-of-choice-banach-tarski-and-reality" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mathoverflow.net&#x2F;questions&#x2F;260057&#x2F;axiom-of-choice-ba...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>The Point of the Banach-Tarski Theorem</title><url>https://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/ThePointOfTheBanachTarskiTheorem.html?wa22hn</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>karmakaze</author><text>I&#x27;m glad to have found this post. I discovered the Banach-Tarski theorem via Vsauce[0]. It was interesting but I couldn&#x27;t get the significance of it. It either didn&#x27;t seem like an unexpected result or too esoteric to appreciate.<p>There&#x27;s phrasing in the post that could be misunderstood (later clarified) but can leave unclarity from assumed understanding of the earlier description.<p>&gt; In R3, given a solid ball B of radius R, it is possible to partition B into finitely many pieces such that those pieces can be reassembled to form two solid balls B1 and B2 each of radius R.<p>&quot;finitely many pieces&quot; could be confusing because though we may be talking about 6 &#x27;pieces&#x27; those pieces have an uncountable infinity of radial line slices. It&#x27;s also missing the rigid motion part which is key.<p>The part that didn&#x27;t seem surprising (and is considered trivial) was in handling uncountable infinities of things. The &#x27;number&#x27; of points on a line [0, 1) is the same as the number on a line [0, 2) so I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised to map points from [0, 1) to [0, 2) filling the latter without &#x27;gaps&#x27;. Similarly for areas. But what the theorem is saying is that this kind of mapping doesn&#x27;t work in R1 nor R2 but does work in R3 (with rigid motions).<p>The part that makes B-T surprising is that the extra volume&#x2F;ball can be constructed with rigid motions of those uncountably infinite sets. This is where it seems beyond me to appreciate: that one or two balls have the same uncountably number of radial line slices is considered trivial, and mapping using rigid motions is surprising.<p>For example, if you do the same rearrangement but instead of sets of radial lines, consider the set of points at the surface of those radial lines, we&#x27;re basically working in R2. The reason why it can&#x27;t be done is because if we instead of being on the surface of a sphere we&#x27;re on a plane, then those same motions aren&#x27;t distance preserving. Thinking geometrically doesn&#x27;t seem weird: an extra dimension let&#x27;s you do something you can&#x27;t in lower ones.<p>I think the algebraic description that the post makes may be clearer to appreciate the difference, and I&#x27;ll be giving it another read and more thought.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=s86-Z-CbaHA">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=s86-Z-CbaHA</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>John Gruber Has Some Career Advice For Developers</title><url>http://cycle-gap.blogspot.com/2011/11/john-gruber-has-some-career-advice-for.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cppsnob</author><text>I was sad to see that Gruber couldn't step out of his Apple bubble to tackle this topic (or any topic, ever), so I will:<p>Everyone who thinks "I should be developing for platform X" is thinking far too small. Take a look around you.. how many of the great companies were formed developing for a particular platform (unless it's their own)? Almost none. In 10 years, do you want to be the old and busted equivalent of the MFC expert whose software was hot in year 2000?<p>You don't make the Googles, Facebooks, Twitters, of the world by developing <i>just</i> for iOS. Or <i>just</i> for Android. If that's your business plan, tear it up and start over. Because $0.99 a pop doesn't amount to jack-all unless you're Angry Birds. And even they, if they got $1 for each of their 500MM downloads, have still not made as much as <i>Modern Warfare 3 made last week</i> ($738MM in revenue).<p>Go create a market. Stop being part of Apple's/Google's market for drumming up hardware sales and/or serving ads.</text></comment>
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<story><title>John Gruber Has Some Career Advice For Developers</title><url>http://cycle-gap.blogspot.com/2011/11/john-gruber-has-some-career-advice-for.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>josephcooney</author><text>I don't want to under-estimate the importance of movable type...but what has Gruber developed? Looking at the list at <a href="http://daringfireball.net/projects/" rel="nofollow">http://daringfireball.net/projects/</a> doesn't exactly fill me with shock and awe. I'd imagine with his huge following in the apple community he could put almost anything on the app store and it would sell. Can someone enlighten me? I guess my meta-point is, why am I reading software development career advice from someone who doesn't seem to be a developer?</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Lowdown on Lidar</title><url>https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B941PmRjYRpnX3ZqLWlQMGdGXzQ/edit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>taeric</author><text>I confess I was expecting to not care for this. I&#x27;m not sure how any of it should be surprising, as it seemed fairly straight forward analysis of the tools.<p>That said, this was a ridiculously fun read. More detailed than expected for some parts, and always informative. I&#x27;m glad it did not come across as anti speed detectors. Really more of a &quot;know the limitations.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alphonse23</author><text>I hope he realizes this, as much as I hope everybody else realizes this, that the only reason why he got the violation reduced was because he brought his attorney on board. Anybody who lives in California whose contested a ticket knows that 9&#x2F;10 times (if not even more than that) judges side with the officers -- whether they have a strong case or not -- the State of California certainly doesn&#x27;t want it&#x27;s residents to get any ideas.. if you know what I mean.<p>I wonder if his attorney cost more than the actual citation? Most people can&#x27;t afford lawyer fees, so cops in California get away with this small stuff all the time without any fuss, whether they were liable or not. Congrats Joshua Block -- BTW I loved &quot;Effective Java&quot;!</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Lowdown on Lidar</title><url>https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B941PmRjYRpnX3ZqLWlQMGdGXzQ/edit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>taeric</author><text>I confess I was expecting to not care for this. I&#x27;m not sure how any of it should be surprising, as it seemed fairly straight forward analysis of the tools.<p>That said, this was a ridiculously fun read. More detailed than expected for some parts, and always informative. I&#x27;m glad it did not come across as anti speed detectors. Really more of a &quot;know the limitations.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Alupis</author><text>Josh Bloch is always entertaining, watch some of his video talks or read some of his books. He has a couple really good talks on GoogleTechTalks youtube channel.</text></comment>
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<story><title>‘Star Citizen,’ a video game that raised $300M but may never be ready to play</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattperez/2019/05/01/exclusive-the-saga-of-star-citizen-a-video-game-that-raised-300-millionbut-may-never-be-ready-to-play/#3d3007b75ac9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simongray</author><text>How&#x27;s that different from Star Citizen? They&#x27;re also doing that.</text></item><item><author>radcon</author><text>Not sure what the other commenter was referring to, but to me it&#x27;s amusing because Elite: Dangerous is a (somewhat) similar game that followed the opposite path of Star Citizen: They started with an MVP, got that to market and have been gradually expanding on it over time.</text></item><item><author>Razengan</author><text>What makes it the funniest example?</text></item><item><author>chupasaurus</author><text>The funniest example of a game from Kickstarter would be Elite: Dangerous - a spacesim by a well-known author without most of the features Roberts tries to deliver.</text></item><item><author>newsgremlin</author><text>It&#x27;s really frustrating because there are multiple great games that have come out of kickstarter like hollow knight and hyper light drifter, but many people getting burned by undelivered promises has halved the amount of money being donated to video game related kickstarters between 2014 and 2016 [1]. There&#x27;s a lot of potential and there is a lot to lose if indie game companies do not get the opportunity and resources to make great games that are competing against an oversaturated and established and continual growing industry that is focused on micro-transactions and further monetization of in-game content.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Crowdfunding_in_video_games#Reaction" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Crowdfunding_in_video_games#Re...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ssully</author><text>The biggest difference is Elite is a released and playable game, and Star Citizen is currently a series of tech demos and promises.</text></comment>
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<story><title>‘Star Citizen,’ a video game that raised $300M but may never be ready to play</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattperez/2019/05/01/exclusive-the-saga-of-star-citizen-a-video-game-that-raised-300-millionbut-may-never-be-ready-to-play/#3d3007b75ac9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simongray</author><text>How&#x27;s that different from Star Citizen? They&#x27;re also doing that.</text></item><item><author>radcon</author><text>Not sure what the other commenter was referring to, but to me it&#x27;s amusing because Elite: Dangerous is a (somewhat) similar game that followed the opposite path of Star Citizen: They started with an MVP, got that to market and have been gradually expanding on it over time.</text></item><item><author>Razengan</author><text>What makes it the funniest example?</text></item><item><author>chupasaurus</author><text>The funniest example of a game from Kickstarter would be Elite: Dangerous - a spacesim by a well-known author without most of the features Roberts tries to deliver.</text></item><item><author>newsgremlin</author><text>It&#x27;s really frustrating because there are multiple great games that have come out of kickstarter like hollow knight and hyper light drifter, but many people getting burned by undelivered promises has halved the amount of money being donated to video game related kickstarters between 2014 and 2016 [1]. There&#x27;s a lot of potential and there is a lot to lose if indie game companies do not get the opportunity and resources to make great games that are competing against an oversaturated and established and continual growing industry that is focused on micro-transactions and further monetization of in-game content.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Crowdfunding_in_video_games#Reaction" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Crowdfunding_in_video_games#Re...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>raxxorrax</author><text>They just had the better approach: Fully releasing a game with a minimal but high quality feature set that gets extended over time.<p>It is a great game for some people. If you want to try the first generations of VR, I think this game is the reference for that.<p>They didn&#x27;t have the marketing of Star Citizen, but were better in everything else they did.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Voice Actor Turns Instagram's Terms of Service into 51-Minute Sleep Aid</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kxkgx/voice-actor-turns-instagrams-terms-of-service-into-51-minute-sleep-aid</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bell-cot</author><text>Fond Fantasy: If $Company can&#x27;t demonstrate that their average user has actually read (and passably understood) their ToS, then a basic requirement of Contract Law is clearly not being fulfilled...so their ToS is not legally binding on their users.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jamesgreenleaf</author><text>Snow Crash:<p><pre><code> Y.T.’s mom pulls up the new memo, checks the time, and starts reading it. The estimated reading time is 15.62 minutes. Later, when Marietta [her boss] does her end-of-day statistical roundup, sitting in her private office at 9:00 P.M., she will see the name of each employee and next to it, the amount of time spent reading this memo, and her reaction, based on the time spent, will go something like this:
• Less than 10 min.: Time for an employee conference and possible attitude counseling.
• 10-14 min.: Keep an eye on this employee; may be developing slipshod attitude.
• 14-15.61 min.: Employee is an efficient worker, may sometimes miss important details.
• Exactly 15.62 min.: Smartass. Needs attitude counseling.
• 15.63-16 min.: Asswipe. Not to be trusted.
• 16-18 min.: Employee is a methodical worker, may sometimes get hung up on minor details.
• More than 18 min.: Check the security videotape, see just what this employee was up to (e.g., possible unauthorized restroom break).
Y.T.’s mom decides to spend between fourteen and fifteen minutes reading the memo. It’s better for younger workers to spend too long, to show that they’re careful, not cocky. It’s better for older workers to go a little fast, to show good management potential. She’s pushing forty. She scans through the memo, hitting the Page Down button at reasonably regular intervals, occasionally paging back up to pretend to reread some earlier section. The computer is going to notice all this. It approves of rereading. It’s a small thing, but over a decade or so this stuff really shows up on your work-habits summary.</code></pre></text></comment>
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<story><title>Voice Actor Turns Instagram's Terms of Service into 51-Minute Sleep Aid</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kxkgx/voice-actor-turns-instagrams-terms-of-service-into-51-minute-sleep-aid</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bell-cot</author><text>Fond Fantasy: If $Company can&#x27;t demonstrate that their average user has actually read (and passably understood) their ToS, then a basic requirement of Contract Law is clearly not being fulfilled...so their ToS is not legally binding on their users.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>damiante</author><text>I have a similar desire for laws; they say &quot;ignoratia juris non excusat&quot;, &quot;ignorance of the law is no excuse&quot;, but that is only a fair rule if the law can reasonably be known. No-one could possibly know all of the law, so expecting everyone to know it is an unreasonable standard (unless we can make the law very brief).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Social Media Cracked the Case of MH17</title><url>http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-10-14/social-media-cracked-the-case-of-mh17</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>korisnik</author><text>Russian&#x2F;rebel social media also played a role in all this, in a way that&#x27;s not mentioned in this article.<p>There are some official and close-to-official social media accounts that are used by the Russian rebels to announce progress (Twitter, Facebook, VK) usually straight from the mouths of commanders and higher ups.<p>When MH-17 was downed they boasted about shooting down a Ukrainian plane only to find themselves quickly deleting all mention of it several hours later.<p>Those same accounts also boasted about acquiring a Buk missile launcher weeks earlier, but those status updates were also deleted.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Social Media Cracked the Case of MH17</title><url>http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-10-14/social-media-cracked-the-case-of-mh17</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>r721</author><text>This all also shows how important (neutral) web-archiving services like archive.org or archive.is are - they work like a free equivalent of a notarized screenshot, as usual .png screenshots can be forged with simple browser tricks.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Facebook Moderators Speak Out About Poor Working Conditions in Ireland</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7mqj4/watch-facebook-moderators-speak-out-about-poor-working-conditions-in-ireland</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>throw2838</author><text>I deal with FB mods in Athens, Greece. This job is subcontracted to tech support company that usually handles phones. Low skilled, unqualified work, done mostly by students for a year after school. Working conditions and pay are ok for Greece. There is no trauma, worst stuff is soft core p#rn. Most of them work from home, as mandated by Greek gov.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Facebook Moderators Speak Out About Poor Working Conditions in Ireland</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7mqj4/watch-facebook-moderators-speak-out-about-poor-working-conditions-in-ireland</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jmeister</author><text>So these contractors went all the way to Varadkar for minor inconveniences at their job, essentially internal disputes?<p>Upset about not getting the same perks as other employees?<p>Signing restrictive NDAs for a job with exposure to extremely sensitive company processes and customer data?<p>The more I read about these stories, the more I’m inclined to believe Haidt’s “Coddled Mind” and Turchin’s “Elite Overproduction” theories as the root of much of the problems we’re facing in the west today.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The FTC sues to break up Amazon over an economy-wide “hidden tax”</title><url>https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-ftc-sues-to-break-up-amazon-over</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thelastgallon</author><text>An excerpt from: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pluralistic.net&#x2F;2023&#x2F;04&#x2F;25&#x2F;greedflation&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pluralistic.net&#x2F;2023&#x2F;04&#x2F;25&#x2F;greedflation&#x2F;</a><p>Amazon binds its sellers over to something called Most Favored Nation status. That means that sellers can&#x27;t offer their goods more cheaply than they do on Amazon – even if it costs them (lots) less to sell in Target or direct from their websites. This means that every time a seller adds a dollar to their Amazon sale price, they have to add a dollar to the price of their goods everywhere else, too.<p>After a bunch of state AGs filed lawsuits against Amazon over this, the company promised to cut it out.<p>They lied.<p>A new filing in California&#x27;s suit against Amazon reveals that sellers live &quot;in constant fear&quot; of retaliation from Amazon if they allow their goods to be sold more cheaply elsewhere.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>granzymes</author><text>According to the FTC&#x27;s lawsuit, Amazon no longer binds its sellers with a Most Favored Nation clause. Instead, Amazon now will refuse to promote an offer in its &quot;buy box&quot; space if it detects a lower price for that good on another website.<p>The FTC alleges that this simply reconstitutes the MFA since most sales on Amazon take place from the buy box. Amazon responds that it is within its rights to not promote uncompetitive offers that make its site look bad for not having the lowest available price.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The FTC sues to break up Amazon over an economy-wide “hidden tax”</title><url>https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-ftc-sues-to-break-up-amazon-over</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thelastgallon</author><text>An excerpt from: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pluralistic.net&#x2F;2023&#x2F;04&#x2F;25&#x2F;greedflation&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pluralistic.net&#x2F;2023&#x2F;04&#x2F;25&#x2F;greedflation&#x2F;</a><p>Amazon binds its sellers over to something called Most Favored Nation status. That means that sellers can&#x27;t offer their goods more cheaply than they do on Amazon – even if it costs them (lots) less to sell in Target or direct from their websites. This means that every time a seller adds a dollar to their Amazon sale price, they have to add a dollar to the price of their goods everywhere else, too.<p>After a bunch of state AGs filed lawsuits against Amazon over this, the company promised to cut it out.<p>They lied.<p>A new filing in California&#x27;s suit against Amazon reveals that sellers live &quot;in constant fear&quot; of retaliation from Amazon if they allow their goods to be sold more cheaply elsewhere.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ct0</author><text>Just change the SKU of the product so they are &quot;different&quot;. Big box stores do it all the time to reduce the probability of price matching.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Something Changed at Tesla</title><url>https://jalopnik.com/something-changed-at-tesla-1840068128/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_Microft</author><text>The design is a statement, it&#x27;s even a declaration of war.<p>I think they are targeting people who do not care for environmental issues and who still think that electric vehicles are something for beaus and weaklings. If these people can&#x27;t be convinced to transition to EVs for ecological reasons, just give them another reason. It doesn&#x27;t matter <i>why </i>they drive EVs, just <i>that</i> they do. (Well, and to give other car companies a kick in the butt in this market segment).<p>It is a design you can&#x27;t ignore, it looks metal af and <i>no matter</i> what your pickup currently looks like, it will appear <i>wimpy</i> next to it.<p>Also observe that it no longer sports a Tesla logo. The teaser image [0] that Musk posted before still had one. There is none on the inside either, as far as I could tell, so maybe they are moving the Cybertruck away from the Tesla brand. The presentation was on SpaceX&#x27; premises as well, if I remember correctly. (Compare that to Zuckerberg who thinks that Facebook isn&#x27;t credited enough for the success of its daughter platforms WhatsApp and Instagram and is moving them <i>closer</i> to the (imo) toxic brand of Facebook).<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;elonmusk&#x2F;status&#x2F;1106714774694297601" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;elonmusk&#x2F;status&#x2F;1106714774694297601</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jv22222</author><text>Just thinking out loud:<p>I wonder if people are underestimating how much the design was driven by the fact it was fun to make something that looked like it was from Blade Runner.<p>Maybe the whole thing started out as “Let’s make something shit cool like a blade runner cop car” and then the idea that it would bring down production costs, look different, etc, developed after they designed something that they really liked.<p>Elon seems to be quite motivated by having fun, one of the things I like about him.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Something Changed at Tesla</title><url>https://jalopnik.com/something-changed-at-tesla-1840068128/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_Microft</author><text>The design is a statement, it&#x27;s even a declaration of war.<p>I think they are targeting people who do not care for environmental issues and who still think that electric vehicles are something for beaus and weaklings. If these people can&#x27;t be convinced to transition to EVs for ecological reasons, just give them another reason. It doesn&#x27;t matter <i>why </i>they drive EVs, just <i>that</i> they do. (Well, and to give other car companies a kick in the butt in this market segment).<p>It is a design you can&#x27;t ignore, it looks metal af and <i>no matter</i> what your pickup currently looks like, it will appear <i>wimpy</i> next to it.<p>Also observe that it no longer sports a Tesla logo. The teaser image [0] that Musk posted before still had one. There is none on the inside either, as far as I could tell, so maybe they are moving the Cybertruck away from the Tesla brand. The presentation was on SpaceX&#x27; premises as well, if I remember correctly. (Compare that to Zuckerberg who thinks that Facebook isn&#x27;t credited enough for the success of its daughter platforms WhatsApp and Instagram and is moving them <i>closer</i> to the (imo) toxic brand of Facebook).<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;elonmusk&#x2F;status&#x2F;1106714774694297601" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;elonmusk&#x2F;status&#x2F;1106714774694297601</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tobib</author><text>&gt; I think they are targeting people who do not care for environmental issues and who still think that electric vehicles are something for beaus and weaklings. If they can&#x27;t be convinced to transition to EVs for ecological reasons, give them another reason because it doesn&#x27;t matter why they drive EVs, just that they do<p>This actually opened my eyes, I haven&#x27;t thought about it that way</text></comment>
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<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>
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<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>xattt</author><text>I <i>devoured</i> all and any news around Maxis and Sim games as a kid, from Happy Puppy and the like. I don’t think I ever made a connection at that point in time that it was possible to be part of the action, however dire the situation was in reality.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Tor Exit Node Operator Issued Subpoena</title><url>https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2015-April/006804.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kyledrake</author><text>I&#x27;ve received a subpoena from Cook County before regarding a site on Neocities. Related to Tor, actually. Easily the stupidest thing I&#x27;ve ever seen in my life.<p>The person that signed the subpoena was in the news for allegations of corruption, and so was her husband (it&#x27;s called Crook County for a reason). They spelled the name of my company wrong (noahcities.com or something like that), and when I sent a letter to the designated agents requesting they fix it (I control neocities.org, not noahcities, how can I respond to legal requests addressed to a different web site?), they never responded, and the subpoena basically just died.<p>If they had followed up, they would have gotten a tor exit IP address somewhere outside of their jurisdiction (read: another country). I told them this before they filed it, and they told me &quot;That decision is for someone above my pay grade, man&quot;. You can&#x27;t spend 5 minutes to google for Tor because of your &quot;pay grade&quot;?<p>Oh, and they also love to put unlawful (but unfortunately, not illegal) gag orders in their subpoenas. I chose not to waste our lawyer&#x27;s time (and our money) on this piece of trash, so we didn&#x27;t make too big of a deal about it.<p>The take home lesson for me was that crooked regional governments abusing the subpoena system are just as big of a problem as the NSA, if not worse.<p>So, now you know the story behind this commit <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;neocities&#x2F;neocities&#x2F;commit&#x2F;4983a9b24eac00b8d8bfd300a18cdcee0152a271" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;neocities&#x2F;neocities&#x2F;commit&#x2F;4983a9b24eac00b...</a><p>It&#x27;s not good enough for the NSA, but it will prevent these idiots from ever figuring it out. And there&#x27;s no US data retention laws for web sites, so it&#x27;s completely legal.<p>This is textbook Neocities business philosophy. Instead of raising money to hire more lawyers and take the legal risk individually fighting bad John Doe subpoenas, we changed our code to make the data they can actually get worthless to them, so we can just serve them (if they&#x27;re valid) while still protecting our users&#x27; privacy. If we get dragged into court over it, our liability insurance kicks in, we pay a (relatively) small deductible, and then we can use the precedent we set there to throw out any new cases for everybody with this problem, not just us. Way more sustainable.<p>Phase 2 is that I delete the hashes after a few months. I haven&#x27;t gotten to it yet, but it&#x27;s in the ticket tracker.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Tor Exit Node Operator Issued Subpoena</title><url>https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2015-April/006804.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sandworm</author><text>They know about Tor. Five years ago it was magic to most cops and all prosecutors. Today they have been educated, to some extent by people like me. They acknowledge that the exit node is a proxy. In years past they would have tried sending cops to the door to seize the server, or at least make some allegations.<p>That&#x27;s why I do not think that they expect any results here. They expect nothing. They need nothing. They need a non-response to take things to the next step. That step is probably political. They want the bullet point about why criminals are getting away due to VPNs, Tor and other online nasties.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score</title><url>https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/10496766</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jjcon</author><text>&gt; GPU capabilities that blow everything away<p>Compared to previous macs and igpus - an nvidia gpu will still run circles arounnd this thing</text></item><item><author>camillomiller</author><text>You need to consider the larger target group of professionals.
It&#x27;s really GPU capabilities that blow everything away.
If you don&#x27;t plan to use your MacBook Pro for video&#x2F;photo editing or 3D modeling, then a M1 Pro with the same 10-core CPU and 16-core Neural Engine has all you need and costs less.
Unless I&#x27;m missing something I don&#x27;t think there much added benefit from the added GPU cores in your scenario, unless you want to go with the maximum configurable memory.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&gt; I just can&#x27;t figure out what I&#x27;m missing on the &quot;M1 is so fast&quot; side of things.<p>Two reasons:<p>1. M1 is a super fast <i>laptop</i> chip. It provides mid-range desktop performance in a laptop form factor with mostly fanless operation. No matter how you look at it, that&#x27;s impressive.<p>2. Apple really dragged their feet on updating the old Intel Macs before the transition. People in the Mac world (excluding hackintosh) were stuck on relatively outdated x86-64 CPUs. Compared to those older CPUs, the M1 Max is a huge leap forward. Compared to modern AMD mobile parts, it&#x27;s still faster but not by leaps and bounds.<p>But I agree that the M1 hype may be getting a little out of hand. It&#x27;s fast and super power efficient, but it&#x27;s mostly on par with mid-range 8-core AMD desktop CPUs from 2020. Even AMD&#x27;s top mobile CPU isn&#x27;t that far behind the M1 Max in Geekbench scores.<p>I&#x27;m very excited to get my M1 Max in a few weeks. But if these early Geekbench results are accurate, it&#x27;s going to be about half as fast as my AMD desktop in code compilation (see Clang results in the detailed score breakdown). That&#x27;s still mightily impressive from a low-power laptop! But I think some of the rhetoric about the M1 Max blowing away desktop CPUs is getting a little ahead of the reality.</text></item><item><author>blakesterz</author><text>I just can&#x27;t figure out what I&#x27;m missing on the &quot;M1 is so fast&quot; side of things. For years I worked* on an Ubuntu desktop machine I built myself. Early this year I switched to a brand new M1 mini and this this is slower and less reliable than the thing I built myself that runs Ubuntu. My Ubuntu machine had a few little issues every no and then. My Mini has weird bugs all the time. e.g. Green Screen Crashes when I have a thumbdrive plugged in. Won&#x27;t wake from sleep. Loses bluetooth randomly. Not at all what I&#x27;d expect from something built by the company with unlimited funds. I would expect those issues from the Ubuntu box, but the problems were small on that thing.<p>*Work... Docker, Ansible, Rails apps, nothing that requires amazing super power. Everything just runs slower.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DCKing</author><text>Not so sure about that &quot;running circles around&quot;. While the M1 Max will not beat a mobile RTX 3080 (~same chip as desktop RTX 3070), Apple is in the same ballpark of its performance [1] (or is being extremely misleading in their performance claims [2]).<p>Nvidia very likely has leading top end performance still, but &quot;running circles around this thing&quot; is probably not a fair description. Apple certainly has a credible claim to destroy Ampere in terms of power per watt - just limiting themselves in the power envelope still. (It&#x27;s worth noting that AMD&#x27;s RDNA2 already edges out Ampere in performance per watt - that&#x27;s not really Nvidia&#x27;s strong suit in their current lineup).<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;v&#x2F;macbook-pro-14-and-16&#x2F;a&#x2F;images&#x2F;overview&#x2F;modal&#x2F;m1_max_graph_gpu__3fxymb4a842m_large_2x.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;v&#x2F;macbook-pro-14-and-16&#x2F;a&#x2F;images&#x2F;overv...</a>
- which in the footnote is shown to compare the M1 Max to this laptop with mobile RTX 3080: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;us-store.msi.com&#x2F;index.php?route=product&#x2F;product&amp;product_id=801" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;us-store.msi.com&#x2F;index.php?route=product&#x2F;product&amp;pro...</a><p>[2]: There&#x27;s <i>a lot</i> of things wrong with in how vague Apple tends to be about performance, but their unmarked graphs have been okay for general ballpark estimates at least.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score</title><url>https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/10496766</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jjcon</author><text>&gt; GPU capabilities that blow everything away<p>Compared to previous macs and igpus - an nvidia gpu will still run circles arounnd this thing</text></item><item><author>camillomiller</author><text>You need to consider the larger target group of professionals.
It&#x27;s really GPU capabilities that blow everything away.
If you don&#x27;t plan to use your MacBook Pro for video&#x2F;photo editing or 3D modeling, then a M1 Pro with the same 10-core CPU and 16-core Neural Engine has all you need and costs less.
Unless I&#x27;m missing something I don&#x27;t think there much added benefit from the added GPU cores in your scenario, unless you want to go with the maximum configurable memory.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&gt; I just can&#x27;t figure out what I&#x27;m missing on the &quot;M1 is so fast&quot; side of things.<p>Two reasons:<p>1. M1 is a super fast <i>laptop</i> chip. It provides mid-range desktop performance in a laptop form factor with mostly fanless operation. No matter how you look at it, that&#x27;s impressive.<p>2. Apple really dragged their feet on updating the old Intel Macs before the transition. People in the Mac world (excluding hackintosh) were stuck on relatively outdated x86-64 CPUs. Compared to those older CPUs, the M1 Max is a huge leap forward. Compared to modern AMD mobile parts, it&#x27;s still faster but not by leaps and bounds.<p>But I agree that the M1 hype may be getting a little out of hand. It&#x27;s fast and super power efficient, but it&#x27;s mostly on par with mid-range 8-core AMD desktop CPUs from 2020. Even AMD&#x27;s top mobile CPU isn&#x27;t that far behind the M1 Max in Geekbench scores.<p>I&#x27;m very excited to get my M1 Max in a few weeks. But if these early Geekbench results are accurate, it&#x27;s going to be about half as fast as my AMD desktop in code compilation (see Clang results in the detailed score breakdown). That&#x27;s still mightily impressive from a low-power laptop! But I think some of the rhetoric about the M1 Max blowing away desktop CPUs is getting a little ahead of the reality.</text></item><item><author>blakesterz</author><text>I just can&#x27;t figure out what I&#x27;m missing on the &quot;M1 is so fast&quot; side of things. For years I worked* on an Ubuntu desktop machine I built myself. Early this year I switched to a brand new M1 mini and this this is slower and less reliable than the thing I built myself that runs Ubuntu. My Ubuntu machine had a few little issues every no and then. My Mini has weird bugs all the time. e.g. Green Screen Crashes when I have a thumbdrive plugged in. Won&#x27;t wake from sleep. Loses bluetooth randomly. Not at all what I&#x27;d expect from something built by the company with unlimited funds. I would expect those issues from the Ubuntu box, but the problems were small on that thing.<p>*Work... Docker, Ansible, Rails apps, nothing that requires amazing super power. Everything just runs slower.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>derefr</author><text>&gt; an nvidia gpu will still run circles arounnd this thing<p>Not for loading up models larger than 32GB it wouldn&#x27;t. (They exist! That&#x27;s what the &quot;full-detail model of the starship Enterprise&quot; thing in the keynote was about.)<p>Remember that on any computer <i>without</i> unified memory, you can only load a scene the size of the GPU&#x27;s VRAM. No matter how much main memory you have to swap against, no matter how many GPUs you throw at the problem, no magic wand is going to let you render a <i>single tile of a single frame</i> if it has more texture-memory as inputs than one of your GPUs has VRAM.<p>Right now, consumer GPUs top out at 32GB of VRAM. The M1 Max has, in a sense, 64GB (minus OS baseline overhead) of VRAM for its GPU to use.<p>Of course, there is &quot;<i>an</i> nvidia gpu&quot; that can bench more than the M1 Max: the Nvidia A100 Tensor Core GPU, with 80GB of VRAM... which costs $149,000.<p>(And even then, I should point out that the leaked Mac Pro M1 variant is apparently 4x larger <i>again</i> — i.e. it&#x27;s probably available in a configuration with <i>256GB</i> of unified memory. That&#x27;s getting close to &quot;doing the training for GPT-3 — a 350GB model before optimization — on a single computer&quot; territory.)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Media for Thinking the Unthinkable</title><url>http://worrydream.com/MediaForThinkingTheUnthinkable/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>systemtrigger</author><text><a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/17455578/unthinkable_thoughts.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dl.dropboxusercontent.com&#x2F;u&#x2F;17455578&#x2F;unthinkable_tho...</a><p>&quot;Evolution, so far, may possibly have blocked us from being able to think in some directions; there could be unthinkable thoughts.&quot;<p>Which prompts today&#x27;s startup idea:<p>1. Use Silk Road imitators to send hallucinogens to Amazon Mechanical Turk workers<p>2. Ask workers to solve impossible problems<p>3. Pass responses into machine learning algorithm<p>4. Gain godlike insight<p>5. Rescue humanity from self-destruction</text></comment>
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<story><title>Media for Thinking the Unthinkable</title><url>http://worrydream.com/MediaForThinkingTheUnthinkable/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>6ren</author><text>Counterpoint: he notes our techniques are based on writing, but it goes deeper: our symbolic writing (including mathematical notation) is based on speech, for which we have dedicated linguistic structures in our brains, much as we have a visual center. It is deep-seated, and many have argued fundamentally entwined with sapience. Thus, even if it&#x27;s not theoretically the best way, it might be the best way <i>for us</i>. But I&#x27;m going to argue it <i>is</i> the theoretically best way:<p>Linguistic descriptions have a key advantage over pictorial in that they represent or reference rather than show. This enables them to be compact, and omit unnecessary detail. (Of course, showing rather than telling is a strength of visual representation).<p>Yes, you can have a hierarchy of visual systems, and zoom-in or hide. But a fundamental problem here I think is in <i>choosing</i> the hierarchy - that is, the way the system is modularized.<p>Different modularizations of the same system are often appropriate for different uses of that system, or for considering different aspects of it. For even a slightly complex system, there are a huge number of different modularizations possible, and not all of them are useful. Often, you&#x27;ll start with a poor one, and eventually have insights moving you towards the ideal one. (Of course, sometimes the &quot;right&quot; modularization is obvious, especially for well-known families of problems).<p>All this is very difficult. My point is that it is easier to switch modularities linguistically than pictorially, by changing your concepts. Without the right modularity, it&#x27;s difficult to pictorially show just the aspects of interest instead of the whole picture. In contrast, one can linguistically omit detail by referencing it (implicitly, as a separate module).<p>Maybe it&#x27;s possible to do this visually, though I suspect it thereby would have <i>become linguistic!</i><p>[Though the above is a counterpoint, I&#x27;m very impressed with the talk. He&#x27;s working both ends of abstraction, with concrete working software demonstrating cool useful practical techniques that, while not universal, would be helpful in many domains; and also framing it within, and using it to illustrate, the deep universal and philosophical idea of unthinkable thoughts. BTW e.g. uncomputable numbers.]</text></comment>
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<story><title>‘Click to Cancel’ legislation introduced in Pennsylvania</title><url>https://pahouse.com/InTheNews/NewsRelease/?id=124404</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zja</author><text>Not to excuse companies that make you jump through hoops to unsubscribe, but is there any reason you can&#x27;t just call your credit card&#x2F;bank and cut off transactions to a company that&#x27;s giving you a hard time? I&#x27;ve heard horror stories about people trying to cancel gym memberships, and wondered why they don&#x27;t just stop paying, and let the gym figure it out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hn_user2</author><text>That stops the payment from happening. But it does not stop your contractual obligation to pay.<p>So it really depends on the business and how much information they have about you, and if they are dirty enough to send you to collections for it.<p>A gym is likely going to send you to collections. An online SaaS is more likely to just cut you off and cancel the account.</text></comment>
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<story><title>‘Click to Cancel’ legislation introduced in Pennsylvania</title><url>https://pahouse.com/InTheNews/NewsRelease/?id=124404</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zja</author><text>Not to excuse companies that make you jump through hoops to unsubscribe, but is there any reason you can&#x27;t just call your credit card&#x2F;bank and cut off transactions to a company that&#x27;s giving you a hard time? I&#x27;ve heard horror stories about people trying to cancel gym memberships, and wondered why they don&#x27;t just stop paying, and let the gym figure it out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>klabb3</author><text>The American personal banking experience feels so shady and insecure. Afaict companies often have the ability to pull money out of my bank account or credit card, that&#x27;s just the way subscriptions work here. I just have to trust they don&#x27;t abuse it.<p>In my home country we&#x27;ve had a national system for electronic invoices for ~10 years which allows you to receive invoices to your bank account. You can remove any such entry at any point in time. You also see all scheduled payments ahead of time and need to sign them before the due date, using a 2fa system that isn&#x27;t tied to the bank itself. It&#x27;s not perfect, and even feels a little aged today, but it&#x27;s so much better than here in the US.</text></comment>
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Is just so much easier to remember than Python’s OS library, right? I can intuitively string that together but can’t write python without looking up the docs and reading a paragraph about idiosyncrasies.</text></item><item><author>jerf</author><text>It&#x27;s a 10-20 line Python script if you write it without any support code. If you&#x27;re writing any amount of Python code that does shell things, you should either write or get an existing library.<p>Also, it really isn&#x27;t 10-20 lines to spit out the contents of some files in Python:<p><pre><code> &gt;&gt;&gt; filelist = [&quot;tmp.pl&quot;, &quot;tmp.go&quot;, &quot;Tmp.hs&quot;]
&gt;&gt;&gt; for f in filelist:
... print(open(f).read())
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It&#x27;s trivial to code golf that down to 1 line, but if we&#x27;re writing in Python at any sort of scale, this is more realistic. Easy things are still generally easy. They just aren&#x27;t optimized down to shell level in terms of keystroke count. They&#x27;re often more optimized than bash in terms of conceptual complexity, though.<p>For instance, if one of my files has a space in it, shell becomes a conceptual minefield, requiring you to understand the half-a-dozen ways it might process strings and how that interacts with filenames and arguments passed to commands, whereas the Python just keeps doing what you probably meant, because it knows what&#x27;s a string and what&#x27;s something else. Shell makes a <i>lot</i> of sacrifices for that concision, and there&#x27;s a lot of &quot;Well, this will <i>probably</i> be OK on anything I run it on...&quot;. I never put spaces in my file name, but use periods or underscores instead, precisely so I don&#x27;t screw myself over with shell. I shouldn&#x27;t have to do that. Personally I think the crossover point is in the high single digit number of bash lines. The only advantage bash still holds over Python at that point is large pipelines, and 80% of <i>those</i> can be replaced by Python functions. For the remainder, use a pipelining library.</text></item><item><author>SOLAR_FIELDS</author><text>For basic file system operations it’s a necessity. Write 10-20 line python script or type a one line grep&#x2F;awk&#x2F;sed piipeline to spit out the contents of some files?</text></item><item><author>cellard00r</author><text>Often times it&#x27;s easier to use binaries and manage their input&#x2F;output through shell code.<p>Having a good understanding of shell code will also allow you to easily write slick one-liners that will save you lots of time.</text></item><item><author>tootie</author><text>I absolutely hate coding in bash or looking at bash or suddenly being in Windows and being up a tree because bash isn&#x27;t supported well (it is now if you install WSL). I only use bash to set environment variables and maybe string together 2 or 3 build commands. If I need so much as an if statement, I&#x27;m going to switch to a real programming language.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jerf</author><text>I said Python wasn&#x27;t going to be more concise. I said it has a variety of other useful properties. For instance, at least as I write this, you have &quot;cut -d’-‘&quot;; I assume you meant apostrophes (something getting too polite in a c&amp;p, I assume) but the apostrophes are unnecessary, but you&#x27;re so used to the compromises in shell I talked about you probably put those in there automatically. I&#x27;m not criticizing that; it&#x27;s a reasonable accommodation to shell&#x27;s quirks. But it is a quirk.<p>Your code also breaks if the filenames have spaces:<p><pre><code> $ ls -1
bar-def-gh i-jkl-mno-p
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$ for i in `ls`; do echo $i | grep bar | cut -d- -f3,4; done
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The natural Python code you&#x27;d write to replace it will do what you expect and print the file with a space in it in the way you&#x27;d expect. You can fix this in bash via &quot;for i in [asterisk]&quot; (or, in this case, &quot;for i in [asterisk]bar[asterisk]&quot;), but, well, remember when I said bash requires you to understand the half-a-dozen ways strings and filenames interact...? In Python, there&#x27;s just the one way that strings work.<p>(HN is forcing me to say [asterisk]. AFAIK there&#x27;s still no escaping for them.)<p>You lucked out a bit here too; I don&#x27;t think I can get echo to do anything very interesting based on file names. Had you interpolated that somewhere more interesting I&#x27;d give you some security issues too, if anybody not trusted can create files, which, again, the <i>naive</i> Python code would be much more robust to, because in Python, you have to explicitly ask to bring a string up to an execution context or a function parameter context, unlike shell&#x27;s complicated rules for interleaving them. You pay a steep price for the convenience.<p>Of course, this is a matter of scale. I use that sort of pipeline interactively every day. I just start shuddering when it goes in a file for a script, and shudder more if it goes into source control.</text></comment>
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Is just so much easier to remember than Python’s OS library, right? I can intuitively string that together but can’t write python without looking up the docs and reading a paragraph about idiosyncrasies.</text></item><item><author>jerf</author><text>It&#x27;s a 10-20 line Python script if you write it without any support code. If you&#x27;re writing any amount of Python code that does shell things, you should either write or get an existing library.<p>Also, it really isn&#x27;t 10-20 lines to spit out the contents of some files in Python:<p><pre><code> &gt;&gt;&gt; filelist = [&quot;tmp.pl&quot;, &quot;tmp.go&quot;, &quot;Tmp.hs&quot;]
&gt;&gt;&gt; for f in filelist:
... print(open(f).read())
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It&#x27;s trivial to code golf that down to 1 line, but if we&#x27;re writing in Python at any sort of scale, this is more realistic. Easy things are still generally easy. They just aren&#x27;t optimized down to shell level in terms of keystroke count. They&#x27;re often more optimized than bash in terms of conceptual complexity, though.<p>For instance, if one of my files has a space in it, shell becomes a conceptual minefield, requiring you to understand the half-a-dozen ways it might process strings and how that interacts with filenames and arguments passed to commands, whereas the Python just keeps doing what you probably meant, because it knows what&#x27;s a string and what&#x27;s something else. Shell makes a <i>lot</i> of sacrifices for that concision, and there&#x27;s a lot of &quot;Well, this will <i>probably</i> be OK on anything I run it on...&quot;. I never put spaces in my file name, but use periods or underscores instead, precisely so I don&#x27;t screw myself over with shell. I shouldn&#x27;t have to do that. Personally I think the crossover point is in the high single digit number of bash lines. The only advantage bash still holds over Python at that point is large pipelines, and 80% of <i>those</i> can be replaced by Python functions. For the remainder, use a pipelining library.</text></item><item><author>SOLAR_FIELDS</author><text>For basic file system operations it’s a necessity. Write 10-20 line python script or type a one line grep&#x2F;awk&#x2F;sed piipeline to spit out the contents of some files?</text></item><item><author>cellard00r</author><text>Often times it&#x27;s easier to use binaries and manage their input&#x2F;output through shell code.<p>Having a good understanding of shell code will also allow you to easily write slick one-liners that will save you lots of time.</text></item><item><author>tootie</author><text>I absolutely hate coding in bash or looking at bash or suddenly being in Windows and being up a tree because bash isn&#x27;t supported well (it is now if you install WSL). I only use bash to set environment variables and maybe string together 2 or 3 build commands. If I need so much as an if statement, I&#x27;m going to switch to a real programming language.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>plorkyeran</author><text>This is going to come down to what you&#x27;re most familiar with. I personally can never remember what the arguments to `cut` are due to rarely using it, while I&#x27;d be able to write the equivalent python from memory.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Rediscovering the Small Web (2020)</title><url>https://neustadt.fr/essays/the-small-web/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>freediver</author><text>Our contribution to the small web: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kagi.com&#x2F;smallweb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kagi.com&#x2F;smallweb</a><p>The site and list of blogs is open source, growing steadily by about 10 each day (almost at 15,000 at this point).<p>Every recent post from sites in Kagi Small Web is indexed and given preference in Kagi Search results.<p>How it works: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.kagi.com&#x2F;small-web" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.kagi.com&#x2F;small-web</a><p>edit: The project just had its one thousandth commit!</text></comment>
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<story><title>Rediscovering the Small Web (2020)</title><url>https://neustadt.fr/essays/the-small-web/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thehappyfellow</author><text>One of the best internet experiences I had in a while is reading (and writing!) posts on bearblog.dev, check out their discover feed. Wholesome place.<p>In similar spirit, check out <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ooh.directory" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ooh.directory</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Tech layoffs keep stacking up</title><url>https://twitter.com/HayekAndKeynes/status/1541760176826499073</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>The thing that seems <i>so</i> weird to me about the current state of the economy is that you have lots of &quot;smart people&quot; shouting pretty loudly &quot;A recession is coming! Is going to be bad! We may already be in one!!&quot; I don&#x27;t remember any recession - not the early 90s recession, not the .com bust, not the Great Recession - having anywhere near so much foreshadowing. Sure, there were people during the .com boom saying &quot;Umm, you know, &#x27;eyeballs&#x27; don&#x27;t pay the bills and at some point you need to actually make money&quot; and during the 00s housing bubble &quot;I&#x27;m not even sure lenders are using the &#x27;can you fog a mirror&#x27; test anymore when making loans&quot;, but it wasn&#x27;t particularly widespread, and large sections of the economic and policy elite actively downplayed the possibility of recession.<p>Now though, I see the exact opposite. Tech moguls, central bankers, VCs, etc. etc. have been warning &quot;this is going to be really bad&quot; now for months. But, in actuality, it&#x27;s not <i>that</i> bad (yet). Yes, inflation is really bad, but unemployment was 3.6% in May. It still feels like many companies are having a very difficult time hiring and keeping workers.<p>So why the difference? I don&#x27;t want to go into &quot;conspiracy theory territory&quot;, but I do think it&#x27;s pretty undeniable that there is a marked difference in &quot;warning levels&quot; between the current time and recessions in the past 40 years.</text></item><item><author>htormey</author><text>All this panic about tech layoffs seems a little premature given we haven’t even begun to see the impact of rates hikes on quarterly earnings yet. Many companies still have open recs and budgets to keep hiring.<p>I work at a company that just laid off 18% of the workforce (Coinbase) including many people in engineering. The day this happened my email, LinkedIn, Twitter inboxes exploded with companies asking me if I knew of anyone looking for a job or if I myself had been impacted.<p>I reached out to many of my former colleagues who had been impacted to see if they needed help. All had multiple interviews in flight and were not having trouble finding jobs.<p>Aside from many crypto companies the inbound jobs were from many public and private companies and spanned many industries.<p>I expect tech layoffs to get worse and the white collar job market to tighten towards the end of this year and 2023.<p>I expect the main driver for this will be cost reduction at public and private companies in the lead up to earnings or quarterly reports. Main cost for a tech company obviously being labor.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>willcipriano</author><text>That&#x27;s because this recession is going to be manufactured. Powell was clear, wages are rising too fast for the feds liking so they are going to crash the ship into the rocks.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mronline.org&#x2F;2022&#x2F;05&#x2F;26&#x2F;u-s-federal-reserve-says-its-goal-is-to-get-wages-down&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mronline.org&#x2F;2022&#x2F;05&#x2F;26&#x2F;u-s-federal-reserve-says-its...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Tech layoffs keep stacking up</title><url>https://twitter.com/HayekAndKeynes/status/1541760176826499073</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>The thing that seems <i>so</i> weird to me about the current state of the economy is that you have lots of &quot;smart people&quot; shouting pretty loudly &quot;A recession is coming! Is going to be bad! We may already be in one!!&quot; I don&#x27;t remember any recession - not the early 90s recession, not the .com bust, not the Great Recession - having anywhere near so much foreshadowing. Sure, there were people during the .com boom saying &quot;Umm, you know, &#x27;eyeballs&#x27; don&#x27;t pay the bills and at some point you need to actually make money&quot; and during the 00s housing bubble &quot;I&#x27;m not even sure lenders are using the &#x27;can you fog a mirror&#x27; test anymore when making loans&quot;, but it wasn&#x27;t particularly widespread, and large sections of the economic and policy elite actively downplayed the possibility of recession.<p>Now though, I see the exact opposite. Tech moguls, central bankers, VCs, etc. etc. have been warning &quot;this is going to be really bad&quot; now for months. But, in actuality, it&#x27;s not <i>that</i> bad (yet). Yes, inflation is really bad, but unemployment was 3.6% in May. It still feels like many companies are having a very difficult time hiring and keeping workers.<p>So why the difference? I don&#x27;t want to go into &quot;conspiracy theory territory&quot;, but I do think it&#x27;s pretty undeniable that there is a marked difference in &quot;warning levels&quot; between the current time and recessions in the past 40 years.</text></item><item><author>htormey</author><text>All this panic about tech layoffs seems a little premature given we haven’t even begun to see the impact of rates hikes on quarterly earnings yet. Many companies still have open recs and budgets to keep hiring.<p>I work at a company that just laid off 18% of the workforce (Coinbase) including many people in engineering. The day this happened my email, LinkedIn, Twitter inboxes exploded with companies asking me if I knew of anyone looking for a job or if I myself had been impacted.<p>I reached out to many of my former colleagues who had been impacted to see if they needed help. All had multiple interviews in flight and were not having trouble finding jobs.<p>Aside from many crypto companies the inbound jobs were from many public and private companies and spanned many industries.<p>I expect tech layoffs to get worse and the white collar job market to tighten towards the end of this year and 2023.<p>I expect the main driver for this will be cost reduction at public and private companies in the lead up to earnings or quarterly reports. Main cost for a tech company obviously being labor.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tootie</author><text>I think you&#x27;re misremembering. The 2001 and 2007 crashes were very widely foretold. The current recession risk concensus seems pretty weak to me right now. That&#x27;s just perception but the popular joke goes something like &quot;economists have predicted 8 of the last 3 recessions&quot;.<p>The risk of an unexpected recession is much worse than a warning that doesn&#x27;t come true so warnings are always pessimistic. Risk right now still feels 50&#x2F;50. The next CPI report after the major Fed action will be watched very closely.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Why I Procrastinate (2019)</title><url>https://invisibleup.com/articles/27/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kleborp</author><text>The post linked within this post was really illuminating for me: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gekk.info&#x2F;articles&#x2F;adhd.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gekk.info&#x2F;articles&#x2F;adhd.html</a><p>The section on why notecards and todo lists have never worked for him (and for me) was particularly salient:<p><i>&quot;The problem with &quot;systems&quot; is that they are authorities. They have to be. If you decide &quot;I&#x27;ll prioritize things with a stack of notecards&quot; then you are telling yourself the following:<p>&quot;The notecards replace my own brain. Everything that I do must be on a notecard. If it isn&#x27;t on a notecard, it can&#x27;t be done. If I want it done, it has to be on a notecard.&quot;<p>The problem is that when you have a crisis (a day full of emergencies) that forces you to break from this system you will lose all respect for its authority. Your brain will learn that it doesn&#x27;t have to respect the notecards, that they aren&#x27;t in charge, and this sense of freedom is addictive and will persist. Most ADHD sufferers have left a trail of systems - notecards, whiteboards, lists, post-its, apps, alarms - that worked great for [a month, a week, three days] but are now dead to them, scorched earth we can&#x27;t return to.&quot;</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tiglionabbit</author><text>Definitely right. Sometimes I look at notes I made for myself, telling myself what to do, and then ultimately rebel against my past self because I don&#x27;t want to do what I&#x27;m telling myself to do.<p>Systems are better when they&#x27;re an augmentation of your memory that you can appreciate. For example, I always put events in my google calendar so I can remember when they are and catch overlaps early.<p>I&#x27;ve had a bad relationship with todo lists. They get stale really quickly. If I look at a todo list that&#x27;s a few days old, I might think, &quot;Why should I do that now? Why should I factor the work in this way? Just so I can say I&#x27;m done with this item?&quot; In practice, the way I factor a task changes constantly. So now the way I do todo lists is more like an aid to my memory. When I have time to do stuff (which is rare) I&#x27;ll write down the things that are most important at that exact moment. Sometimes I&#x27;ll skim through todo lists from previous days to jog my memory, but I won&#x27;t copy over everything. I&#x27;ll arrange the things into an itinerary for the day and see how many of them I can get done. Usually it&#x27;s not all of them. And that&#x27;s OK.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Why I Procrastinate (2019)</title><url>https://invisibleup.com/articles/27/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kleborp</author><text>The post linked within this post was really illuminating for me: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gekk.info&#x2F;articles&#x2F;adhd.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gekk.info&#x2F;articles&#x2F;adhd.html</a><p>The section on why notecards and todo lists have never worked for him (and for me) was particularly salient:<p><i>&quot;The problem with &quot;systems&quot; is that they are authorities. They have to be. If you decide &quot;I&#x27;ll prioritize things with a stack of notecards&quot; then you are telling yourself the following:<p>&quot;The notecards replace my own brain. Everything that I do must be on a notecard. If it isn&#x27;t on a notecard, it can&#x27;t be done. If I want it done, it has to be on a notecard.&quot;<p>The problem is that when you have a crisis (a day full of emergencies) that forces you to break from this system you will lose all respect for its authority. Your brain will learn that it doesn&#x27;t have to respect the notecards, that they aren&#x27;t in charge, and this sense of freedom is addictive and will persist. Most ADHD sufferers have left a trail of systems - notecards, whiteboards, lists, post-its, apps, alarms - that worked great for [a month, a week, three days] but are now dead to them, scorched earth we can&#x27;t return to.&quot;</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aequitas</author><text>You can use this to your advantage to create peace of mind as I found out.<p>The mechanism you describe is what is the basis for the &quot;Getting things done&quot; framework. You learn your brain to &quot;trust&quot; the &quot;authority&quot; so it can let go of all loose ends that keep your brain busy (like stuff it needs to remember, like appointment, paying a bill, fixing something in the house, etc). But if you are able to trick your brain in not checking in with the authority (as GTD dictates) you are left with a lot of spare room in your brain to think creative, at least thats my theory.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The benefits of note-taking by hand</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200910-the-benefits-of-note-taking-by-hand</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wenc</author><text>Cue the HN note-taking crowd....<p>From a retention&#x2F;recall perspective, I think most people are enamored with finding the perfect note-taking method because we want to find the one method that optimizes both retention (memory) + recall (long term searchability) at the same time. It seems to me these two objectives are somewhat in competition.<p>(there&#x27;s also comprehension and thinking but I see those as separate)<p>I think splitting up the two objectives makes more sense. Handwriting notes enhances memory formation, but is less optimized for searchability. Digital notes are great for long-term searchability, but are weaker for memory formation.<p>Why not have two systems instead of one? Just handwrite whatever you want to remember, and type whatever you want to stash away? It seems inefficient, but in multiobjective optimization we usually end up with Pareto optimality rather than a single point of optimality.<p>One might ask, how would I know a priori what to remember and what to stash? I personally prefer handwriting, so I&#x27;ll usually go there first and if I need to stash it I&#x27;ll retype it into Google Docs. That said, I&#x27;ll hop on Google Docs first if it happens to be more convenient (like if I&#x27;m browsing and want to copy-and-paste something for long-term storage, or if I&#x27;m outdoors and all I have on me is my phone)<p>Meetings are a great candidate for handwriting notes -- and then discarding. You and I know that most meeting notes are throwaways. Despite that, I personally find that in complex multiparty meetings, I&#x27;m able to follow the flow better if I continuously take notes. Being able to remember who said what, and being able to summarize a meeting are all very valuable skills to have.<p>(p.s. with regard to memory, Socrates didn&#x27;t even believe in writing -- he believed writing things down would weaken our memories in the long term. He believed that talking about things was a far superior way to form memories and to understand subjects deeply. He&#x27;s not completely wrong about the role of discussion and disputation [emotional connection is a potent force in memory formation], but all the same I&#x27;m glad Plato didn&#x27;t take to this thinking and actually wrote stuff down).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Terretta</author><text>Used to fill a large size moleskin a month by hand, and for this sample size of one, the aid to recall from deciding what to write and processing it back out is remarkable.<p>So, of course, I’ve tried the Remarkable pad, as well as apps like Goodnotes on iPad that try to support handwriting while also supporting search. Goodnotes suited my needs better, as the Remarkable pad latency was too high, though I did prefer the feel of writing. Apple materials research needs to get their glass and pencil closer to this.<p>However, for recall, I find there’s something about the physicality of a paper notebook that gives the facts a place to live.<p>With real x, y, and z dimensions in space, perhaps paper notebooks offer a fine grained version of the “memory palace” method of storing facts for in-memory browsing and recall.<p>Digital notebooks as well as digital books on Kindle lack the physical depth of the relevant page. It seems likely a visual “depth” indicator would assist recall of information in e-books. Unclear how that would work in digital notepads unless they had a fixed quantity of “pages”.<p>Aside from this loss of physical memory mapping, iOS 14’s handwriting to text is compelling. One gets to write notes out by hand, exercising that pathway, but what ends up on the page is real text. Haven’t played with this long enough to have any opinion on whether this transformation defeats recall.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The benefits of note-taking by hand</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200910-the-benefits-of-note-taking-by-hand</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wenc</author><text>Cue the HN note-taking crowd....<p>From a retention&#x2F;recall perspective, I think most people are enamored with finding the perfect note-taking method because we want to find the one method that optimizes both retention (memory) + recall (long term searchability) at the same time. It seems to me these two objectives are somewhat in competition.<p>(there&#x27;s also comprehension and thinking but I see those as separate)<p>I think splitting up the two objectives makes more sense. Handwriting notes enhances memory formation, but is less optimized for searchability. Digital notes are great for long-term searchability, but are weaker for memory formation.<p>Why not have two systems instead of one? Just handwrite whatever you want to remember, and type whatever you want to stash away? It seems inefficient, but in multiobjective optimization we usually end up with Pareto optimality rather than a single point of optimality.<p>One might ask, how would I know a priori what to remember and what to stash? I personally prefer handwriting, so I&#x27;ll usually go there first and if I need to stash it I&#x27;ll retype it into Google Docs. That said, I&#x27;ll hop on Google Docs first if it happens to be more convenient (like if I&#x27;m browsing and want to copy-and-paste something for long-term storage, or if I&#x27;m outdoors and all I have on me is my phone)<p>Meetings are a great candidate for handwriting notes -- and then discarding. You and I know that most meeting notes are throwaways. Despite that, I personally find that in complex multiparty meetings, I&#x27;m able to follow the flow better if I continuously take notes. Being able to remember who said what, and being able to summarize a meeting are all very valuable skills to have.<p>(p.s. with regard to memory, Socrates didn&#x27;t even believe in writing -- he believed writing things down would weaken our memories in the long term. He believed that talking about things was a far superior way to form memories and to understand subjects deeply. He&#x27;s not completely wrong about the role of discussion and disputation [emotional connection is a potent force in memory formation], but all the same I&#x27;m glad Plato didn&#x27;t take to this thinking and actually wrote stuff down).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>abhgh</author><text>Avid note-taker here. I agree with you in that the two mediums - (1) a note taking software where you type in things (2) writing notes on paper - have different benefits and use-cases.<p>In my case, I pretty much now know what kind goes where. For the &quot;planning&quot; kind - these are TODOs, movie and reading lists, project ideas, project subtasks -they go into a tool like Notion, or Google Keep if they are very simple transient lists. What I need here are: the ability to search, modify in place (not strike-throughs), and access on any device (so this s&#x2F;w typically is cloud-enabled). The last aspect is needed because I need a way to accommodate ad-hoc ideas into a larger pre-existing plan, when I am travelling and I just have my phone, or a different laptop.<p>When I am reading a paper, or watching a lecture, I <i>strongly</i> prefer handwritten notes. I have experimented with standard notebooks, moleskins, having a &quot;two-level&quot; system: one notebook for quick notes, and another one for well-formed versions of notes from the first one, and finally, taking notes on loose foolscaps and adding them to a folder. The last one has stuck, mostly because I don&#x27;t have to worry about &quot;wasting&quot; pages with ill-formed notes; I can choose not to add it to the folder. Also I can change organization at a later date. For this category of notes, I am looking for: the handwriting experience, the ability to arbitrarily format and color things (very helpful for technical material that need diagrams).<p>PS: the article links to some ways of structuring notes, which seem interesting.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Artist banned, told to “find a different style”- AI-made art</title><url>https://www.thetechdeviant.com/2023/01/06/artist-banned-told-to-find-a-different-style-since-his-style-is-too-similar-to-ai-made-art/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jknoepfler</author><text>That&#x27;s an extremely reductive claim. Can you really not think of more mundane reasons someone might find themselves moderating reddit?<p>It&#x27;s hard to imagine &quot;ideology&quot; being relevant to the vast majority of reddit... Do you really think the moderators of ELI5 or PeopleFuckingDying or some obscure porn reddit or whatever are primarily concerned with &quot;ideology&quot;?<p>I used to help moderate a poker forum. I was a professional poker player, and an extremely active user of the forums. I don&#x27;t recall pushing an ideology beyond &quot;keep discussions constructive and topical.&quot;<p>The person you just replied to was a mod. Are you implying that their work was somehow about pushing an ideology?</text></item><item><author>vikingerik</author><text>Why do Reddit moderators do their work? They are paid in power. They get to decide what viewpoints are seen or not by others. That is a very compelling wage. And of course they all think they&#x27;re doing a service by advancing their ideology because of course their ideology is the right one.</text></item><item><author>richbell</author><text>&quot;Power&quot; moderators, that is people who moderate a large number of subreddits, are untenable. It is not possible to effectively or fairly moderate dozens of communities, even if you were to spend all your waking moments doing so. This is, in part, why it&#x27;s so common for popular submissions to be locked or deleted because &quot;y&#x27;all can&#x27;t behave&quot;.<p>The people that do so are largely doing it for their own self-gain (e.g., self-promotion) or because it makes them feel important. I had a very low stress job for a few years and ended up as a moderator for over a dozen large subreddits, including a few defaults. Socializing with Reddit&#x27;s prominent moderators was <i>enlightening</i>.</text></item><item><author>benjaminbachman</author><text>The only real news here is that Reddit mods are power mad tyrants, which is nothing new at all. AI generated art has just given them newer, funnier ways to be in the wrong.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aliqot</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s hard to imagine &quot;ideology&quot; being relevant to the vast majority of reddit...<p>This is egregiously incorrect.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Artist banned, told to “find a different style”- AI-made art</title><url>https://www.thetechdeviant.com/2023/01/06/artist-banned-told-to-find-a-different-style-since-his-style-is-too-similar-to-ai-made-art/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jknoepfler</author><text>That&#x27;s an extremely reductive claim. Can you really not think of more mundane reasons someone might find themselves moderating reddit?<p>It&#x27;s hard to imagine &quot;ideology&quot; being relevant to the vast majority of reddit... Do you really think the moderators of ELI5 or PeopleFuckingDying or some obscure porn reddit or whatever are primarily concerned with &quot;ideology&quot;?<p>I used to help moderate a poker forum. I was a professional poker player, and an extremely active user of the forums. I don&#x27;t recall pushing an ideology beyond &quot;keep discussions constructive and topical.&quot;<p>The person you just replied to was a mod. Are you implying that their work was somehow about pushing an ideology?</text></item><item><author>vikingerik</author><text>Why do Reddit moderators do their work? They are paid in power. They get to decide what viewpoints are seen or not by others. That is a very compelling wage. And of course they all think they&#x27;re doing a service by advancing their ideology because of course their ideology is the right one.</text></item><item><author>richbell</author><text>&quot;Power&quot; moderators, that is people who moderate a large number of subreddits, are untenable. It is not possible to effectively or fairly moderate dozens of communities, even if you were to spend all your waking moments doing so. This is, in part, why it&#x27;s so common for popular submissions to be locked or deleted because &quot;y&#x27;all can&#x27;t behave&quot;.<p>The people that do so are largely doing it for their own self-gain (e.g., self-promotion) or because it makes them feel important. I had a very low stress job for a few years and ended up as a moderator for over a dozen large subreddits, including a few defaults. Socializing with Reddit&#x27;s prominent moderators was <i>enlightening</i>.</text></item><item><author>benjaminbachman</author><text>The only real news here is that Reddit mods are power mad tyrants, which is nothing new at all. AI generated art has just given them newer, funnier ways to be in the wrong.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mring33621</author><text>&quot;keep discussions constructive and topical.&quot;<p>is subjective</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Code Side Of Color</title><url>http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2012/10/04/the-code-side-of-color/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>unwind</author><text>Bleh, it seems they forgot to proof this or have it read by someone who ... I don't know, maybe knows a bit more about how it really works.<p><i>When computers name a color, they use a so-called hexidecimal code that most humans gloss over: 24-bit colors. That is, 16,777,216 unique combinations of exactly seven characters made from ten numerals and six letters — preceded by a hash mark.</i><p>I mean, "hexidecimal" is hopefully just a typo, but the "explanation" in the second sentence is off by one, it's not seven characters that make up the color, since the hash mark is constant and doesn't contribute. I would object to the "ten numerals and six letters" too, but I guess that's a suitable popular nomenclature.<p>And I don't even have a lawn ...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lubutu</author><text>I also have a real problem with them referring to the second digit from the right as the "tens place", considering it's actually base sixteen...</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Code Side Of Color</title><url>http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2012/10/04/the-code-side-of-color/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>unwind</author><text>Bleh, it seems they forgot to proof this or have it read by someone who ... I don't know, maybe knows a bit more about how it really works.<p><i>When computers name a color, they use a so-called hexidecimal code that most humans gloss over: 24-bit colors. That is, 16,777,216 unique combinations of exactly seven characters made from ten numerals and six letters — preceded by a hash mark.</i><p>I mean, "hexidecimal" is hopefully just a typo, but the "explanation" in the second sentence is off by one, it's not seven characters that make up the color, since the hash mark is constant and doesn't contribute. I would object to the "ten numerals and six letters" too, but I guess that's a suitable popular nomenclature.<p>And I don't even have a lawn ...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tipzntrix</author><text>Not to mention that they equate A-F as 10-16, when in fact it is 10-15, and the whole "ones column" goes from 0-15, not 1-16.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Mid-1990s Sega document leak shows how it lost the second console war to Sony</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/07/mid-1990s-sega-document-leak-shows-how-it-lost-the-second-console-war-to-sony/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mkjonesuk</author><text>I was in my mid-teens and a big gamer when Sony entered the ring with the PlayStation and I still cannot to this day get over the fact that they actually did it and became the dominant force in gaming.<p>I remember thinking it was just another fad like the Minidisc and because they had no clear mascot like Mario or Sonic it was bound to fail.<p>Next thing I knew the Saturn was a joke and everyone I knew had a PlayStation. The ads were EVERYWHERE and people I knew who had never even owned a games console were buying the PS1.<p>When the PS2 was announced I was also blindly convinced the Dreamcast would compete but the PS2 just DOMINATED. Literally everyone I knew had one (not me sadly) it was a stunning thing to behold. When games like GTA3 hit I knew Sega were done for.<p>I personally only connected with the Sony handheld unit owning a PSP and I also eventually got a Vita. Other than UMD they were (still are) awesome little devices to play with.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Mid-1990s Sega document leak shows how it lost the second console war to Sony</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/07/mid-1990s-sega-document-leak-shows-how-it-lost-the-second-console-war-to-sony/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>snarfy</author><text>It&#x27;s the games. It always was the games.<p>I got the NES for Super Mario Bros. I got the Playstation for Tekken. Many others got it for Final Fantasy VII.<p>If the only game the Playstation had was Tekken I still would have bought it. Sega just never had a hit game that I wanted. Marketing and the hardware didn&#x27;t matter to me. It was the games.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Eavesdropping Encrypted LTE Calls With ReVoLTE</title><url>https://revolte-attack.net/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mNovak</author><text>Seems like an awfully large oversight to reuse the encryption key between subsequent calls.<p>I wonder if this works when leaving voicemail in the second call? Since the approach requires a long call for a long decryption, dialing straight to voicemail would be non-cooperative and avoid alerting the victim until after.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Eavesdropping Encrypted LTE Calls With ReVoLTE</title><url>https://revolte-attack.net/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kanobo</author><text>The illustrations are very charming. Here&#x27;s the android app to test if your station is vulnerable: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;RUB-SysSec&#x2F;mobile_sentinel" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;RUB-SysSec&#x2F;mobile_sentinel</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Is there hope for Linux on smartphones? [video]</title><url>https://media.ccc.de/v/froscon2022-2797-is_there_hope_for_linux_on_smartphones</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_carbyau_</author><text>&quot;the ID monopoly and Payment monopoly refuse to support other operating systems&quot;<p>This is my issue. I am commonly hearing people ask &quot;What are you, iOS or Android?&quot; - IE as if it is inherent to the person themselves and there are only two choices.<p>This is scary. I love the idea of having an alternative to iOS and Android. But I also need to function within society. This shouldn&#x27;t be a choice.</text></item><item><author>z3t4</author><text>Nokia had Linux on their smartphone until Microsoft bought them and stopped everything, they even shut down the app store. The OS was called MeeGo. Part of the Nokia team however started their own company called Jolla and still produce smartphones running Linux, they call their OS Sailfish. (ignoring the fact that Android also uses the Linux kernel).<p>The problem with alternative phone OS:es is that in the country I live you must have either an iPhone or and Android phone because the ID monopoly and Payment monopoly refuse to support other operating systems...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>preisschild</author><text>Even a non-popular Android isn&#x27;t a choice for govmt e-id.<p>I use a hardened Android distro (GrapheneOS) on my phone. Even with a locked bootloader and no root my countries (austria) e-government app and my banking app blocks me due to a &quot;integrity check&quot; failing.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Is there hope for Linux on smartphones? [video]</title><url>https://media.ccc.de/v/froscon2022-2797-is_there_hope_for_linux_on_smartphones</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_carbyau_</author><text>&quot;the ID monopoly and Payment monopoly refuse to support other operating systems&quot;<p>This is my issue. I am commonly hearing people ask &quot;What are you, iOS or Android?&quot; - IE as if it is inherent to the person themselves and there are only two choices.<p>This is scary. I love the idea of having an alternative to iOS and Android. But I also need to function within society. This shouldn&#x27;t be a choice.</text></item><item><author>z3t4</author><text>Nokia had Linux on their smartphone until Microsoft bought them and stopped everything, they even shut down the app store. The OS was called MeeGo. Part of the Nokia team however started their own company called Jolla and still produce smartphones running Linux, they call their OS Sailfish. (ignoring the fact that Android also uses the Linux kernel).<p>The problem with alternative phone OS:es is that in the country I live you must have either an iPhone or and Android phone because the ID monopoly and Payment monopoly refuse to support other operating systems...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>3np</author><text>Fortunately, we don&#x27;t have the government handing out free handset so opting out is still a legal right and a practically realistic option. My concern is that if few enough people do so, this will no longer be the case for long.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Walmart Will Manage Distribution Centers with OneOps, Jenkins, and Kubernetes</title><url>http://www.techbetter.com/walmart-will-manage-200-distribution-centers-oneops-jenkins-nexus-kubernetes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>avitzurel</author><text>I had a very interesting discussion about this subject a couple of weeks ago with a CTO of a big company.<p>I&#x27;ve commented before that Kube absolutely takes over the bigger more complex cloud installations out there, you can see how many companies are betting their infrastructure on it.<p>The only thing that I don&#x27;t see is standardization of the cloud, just like what Amazon did. You see too many companies doing too many of the same things and reinventing the wheel.<p>Personally, I would love to see smaller installation as a standard of how to take things into the cloud as a cluster. Imagine what Heroku did to deployments. You can&#x27;t beat this ease of use. Deis and Convox are both trying but not really &quot;hitting it&quot;.<p>As for Walmart, absolutely stoked seeing it from them. This move and what the white-house did with the digital shows a lot of promise and hope. I wonder how much of this is on top of &quot;older&quot; management and how much is just complete restructuring.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>doublerebel</author><text>Joyent and Distelli make this about as painless as possible with any current workflow. Docker containers can be launched directly in any number or size to Joyent, and Distelli will app-ify and&#x2F;or dockerize your app as part of the CI&#x2F;CD workflow and watch the processes.<p>Any custom script is just bash, and I can deploy to any OS.<p>I have a cluster of 5 or 6 instances running 20-30 services in this setup and it&#x27;s been a dream. I tried to do something similar before, but Cloud66 dropped Joyent. It makes perfect sense because apps can be anywhere between traditionally deployed to fully containerized and still are managed with the same interface and config.<p>Since it&#x27;s all open-source my deploy process is portable. But I&#x27;ve evaluated other vendors and processes and all seem more manual and less transparent.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Walmart Will Manage Distribution Centers with OneOps, Jenkins, and Kubernetes</title><url>http://www.techbetter.com/walmart-will-manage-200-distribution-centers-oneops-jenkins-nexus-kubernetes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>avitzurel</author><text>I had a very interesting discussion about this subject a couple of weeks ago with a CTO of a big company.<p>I&#x27;ve commented before that Kube absolutely takes over the bigger more complex cloud installations out there, you can see how many companies are betting their infrastructure on it.<p>The only thing that I don&#x27;t see is standardization of the cloud, just like what Amazon did. You see too many companies doing too many of the same things and reinventing the wheel.<p>Personally, I would love to see smaller installation as a standard of how to take things into the cloud as a cluster. Imagine what Heroku did to deployments. You can&#x27;t beat this ease of use. Deis and Convox are both trying but not really &quot;hitting it&quot;.<p>As for Walmart, absolutely stoked seeing it from them. This move and what the white-house did with the digital shows a lot of promise and hope. I wonder how much of this is on top of &quot;older&quot; management and how much is just complete restructuring.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hueving</author><text>Kubernetes != virtualization<p>Some virtualization use cases can be solved with kubernetes, but many things an enterprise runs do not work at all in the kube paradigm. The majority of applications are pets (i.e. stateful) and many applications run on Windows or have some other kernel requirements that mismatch the baremetal kubelet.<p>If you think Kubernetes &#x27;absolutely takes over the more complex cloud installations&#x27;, you&#x27;re living in an echo chamber of 12 factor apps that doesn&#x27;t line up with the majority of what I&#x27;ve seen in big enterprise cloud workloads.<p>Case in point: Walmart has one of the largest openstack deployments in the world.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Apple Cash</title><url>https://www.apple.com/apple-cash/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>x3ro</author><text>It is true that bank transfers are fast, instant most of the time these days. However, when people want to quickly send me money, they still usually ask for paypal, simply because it’s easier to tell someone a nickname or email address than my IBAN. not that this is an unsolvable issue, just sharing my experience from Germany.</text></item><item><author>basisword</author><text>I find it odd things like this, Venmo, Square cash even need to exist. There’s a reason none of them get used much (or even exist) outside the US. Just fix banking in the US and they problems they solve disappear. In the UK (and the EU I believe too) bank transfers and instant and free. Digital banks like Monzo make it even easier (through contact syncing, better UI). Third party apps need not get involved.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jlmb</author><text>In Estonia, you can link a phone number to your IBAN. When making payments, the sender just needs a phone number, and the corresponding IBAN is automatically looked up. (The lookup service is managed by the central bank, and used by all (major) banks.)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Apple Cash</title><url>https://www.apple.com/apple-cash/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>x3ro</author><text>It is true that bank transfers are fast, instant most of the time these days. However, when people want to quickly send me money, they still usually ask for paypal, simply because it’s easier to tell someone a nickname or email address than my IBAN. not that this is an unsolvable issue, just sharing my experience from Germany.</text></item><item><author>basisword</author><text>I find it odd things like this, Venmo, Square cash even need to exist. There’s a reason none of them get used much (or even exist) outside the US. Just fix banking in the US and they problems they solve disappear. In the UK (and the EU I believe too) bank transfers and instant and free. Digital banks like Monzo make it even easier (through contact syncing, better UI). Third party apps need not get involved.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>basisword</author><text>Interesting. In the UK we just need to share account number and sort code. These are quite easy to remember in your head. IBAN would complicate things. Is IBAN always required or only for cross-border transfers?</text></comment>
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