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<story><title>MacBook Pro Keyboard Drives Me Crazy</title><url>https://ryanbigg.com/2019/08/can-apple-please-design-a-laptop-that-has-a-functional-keyboard-for-the-love-of-all-that-is-precious</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hannibalhorn</author><text>For everyone that hasn&#x27;t seen it, reports are they&#x27;ve already decided to change the keyboard on forthcoming models. Discussion here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20353148" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20353148</a><p>Edit: added &quot;reports are&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tolmasky</author><text>Great, will they be offering free trade-ins? These are $2000 computers that have a <i>major</i> broken component. Not to mention, the second a computer comes on sale that doesn&#x27;t have this issue, the resale value of the current MacBooks will be disproportionately affected compared to previous revisions. So a nice double whammy: a miserable experience during its use, and an unusually small resale value afterwards.</text></comment>
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<story><title>MacBook Pro Keyboard Drives Me Crazy</title><url>https://ryanbigg.com/2019/08/can-apple-please-design-a-laptop-that-has-a-functional-keyboard-for-the-love-of-all-that-is-precious</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hannibalhorn</author><text>For everyone that hasn&#x27;t seen it, reports are they&#x27;ve already decided to change the keyboard on forthcoming models. Discussion here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20353148" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20353148</a><p>Edit: added &quot;reports are&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>timfrietas</author><text>I really wish this was the top comment. I feel like HN is turning a little too much into an echo chamber dunk fest sometimes.</text></comment>
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<story><title>How to make quitting your addiction easier</title><url>https://www.deprocrastination.co/blog/how-to-make-quitting-your-addiction-easier</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tcskeptic</author><text>I have found it very useful to frame things in terms of my future self. This works for both things I want to do, and things I want to stop doing.<p>For example — get home from work, tired, don’t want to go row. Instead of saying to myself “You really should go row, you said you wanted to do it 4 times a week.” I say “1 hour from now do I want to be a person who has sat on the couch for an hour or do I want to be the person who has worked out, taken a shower, and feels good”. Same thing for stopping mindless doom scrolling or making dinner vs ordering deliver or whatever.<p>I know it’s just a mental trick — but reframing things in terms of my future self has been <i>incredibly</i> powerful for me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Ozzie_osman</author><text>You&#x27;re actually triggering two things with this trick.<p>First, the piece you call out is delayed gratification (ie focusing on the future over the short-term).<p>But there&#x27;s a second piece hidden in there, which is identity-orientation. &quot;I&#x27;m the type of person who does X&quot;. Tying actions to your identity is actually really powerful.</text></comment>
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<story><title>How to make quitting your addiction easier</title><url>https://www.deprocrastination.co/blog/how-to-make-quitting-your-addiction-easier</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tcskeptic</author><text>I have found it very useful to frame things in terms of my future self. This works for both things I want to do, and things I want to stop doing.<p>For example — get home from work, tired, don’t want to go row. Instead of saying to myself “You really should go row, you said you wanted to do it 4 times a week.” I say “1 hour from now do I want to be a person who has sat on the couch for an hour or do I want to be the person who has worked out, taken a shower, and feels good”. Same thing for stopping mindless doom scrolling or making dinner vs ordering deliver or whatever.<p>I know it’s just a mental trick — but reframing things in terms of my future self has been <i>incredibly</i> powerful for me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>emerged</author><text>I sometimes explicitly create a log of the before and after state of mind. Before rowing: “I feel fine, but pretty lazy and stressed about XYZ” after rowing: “Struggled through and got a big endorphin rush toward the end, feeling good and much less stressed.”<p>Seeing fitness progress graphs helps as well (heart rate vs power output etc). I know for me personally monitoring my resting heart rate made a strong argument against pretty much any alcohol consumption.</text></comment>
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<story><title>What Happens to Your Body on a Thru-Hike</title><url>https://www.outsideonline.com/2125031/what-happens-your-body-thru-hike</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Dowwie</author><text>I came across three emaciated, bearded men on the continental divide trail in glacier national park. When I asked one of them where he was from he looked at his buddies and they all replied excitedly, in unison, &quot;Mexico!&quot;. It was at that moment that I came to realize that these men were one day away from completing the entire thru-hike.<p>I vividly recall one of their dinners: Dried ramen noodle, straight from the bag.<p>They slept in their bags exposed, beneath a basic light tarp.</text></comment>
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<story><title>What Happens to Your Body on a Thru-Hike</title><url>https://www.outsideonline.com/2125031/what-happens-your-body-thru-hike</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>justinator</author><text>I&#x27;ve done quite a few very strenuous, multi-week races on bike, including riding the Colorado Trail in 7 days [0], and riding to, then summiting all the Colorado 14ers in 34 [1] - as well as participating in the Tour Divide [2] twice.<p>I would call my fitness before these races as &quot;peak&quot;, but I wouldn&#x27;t call myself anything but near, &quot;onset of over training syndrome&quot; afterwards. The only thing I experienced similar to the author&#x27;s was a slight bit of fat loss. Every other part of my body was wrecked, which took months to recover from.<p>One thing that stuck out with me is that they only hiked for 8 hours&#x2F;day. That seems like a light day! compared to these races, where 5 hours of sleep is spoiling oneself. I guess the moral of the story before doing a, &quot;thru hike for fitness&quot; is to not to overdo it. It also seems like the author was in pretty alright shape to start out, with a fairly low pulse and overall bodyweight.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.climbingdreams.net&#x2F;ctr&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.climbingdreams.net&#x2F;ctr&#x2F;</a>
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<story><title>Why does the USA use 110V and UK use 230-240V? (2014)</title><url>https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/115200/why-does-the-usa-use-110v-and-uk-use-230-240v</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mhandley</author><text>As a Brit, the best thing about 230v is being able to run a 3kW kettle to make my tea. I took this for granted until I moved to the US.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jedberg</author><text>I have a question for you as a Brit. I live in an Asian household (my wife is Asian). We have a hot water boiler, as most Asian households do. It keeps 4L of water at &quot;tea&quot; temperature at all times (after boiling it).<p>When we want tea, we just fill up the cup with the already boiled and ready water. It&#x27;s super efficient because it&#x27;s super insulated so it barely takes any energy to keep it hot after it&#x27;s been boiled.<p>Why don&#x27;t Brits (and other tea drinking cultures in Europe) do this?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Why does the USA use 110V and UK use 230-240V? (2014)</title><url>https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/115200/why-does-the-usa-use-110v-and-uk-use-230-240v</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mhandley</author><text>As a Brit, the best thing about 230v is being able to run a 3kW kettle to make my tea. I took this for granted until I moved to the US.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wongarsu</author><text>It&#x27;s probably the most remarkable difference. It&#x27;s interesting how houses are wired for 10-20A of current everywhere, regardless of voltage. You&#x27;d assume that since European houses are mostly wired for 16A then US houses would be wired for 32A (or the other way around, if you know US houses wired for 15A, you would assume the European wires for 8A). But curiously that&#x27;s not the case.<p>Ignoring the UK with their 13A&#x2F;30A rings for a moment, since their wiring is unique.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Bay Area applicants flood program that pays them $10k to move to Tulsa</title><url>https://www.sfgate.com/living-in-sf/article/San-Franciscans-are-jumping-at-an-offer-of-10k-15591762.php</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>paxys</author><text>I understand people who have roots in the bay area and aren&#x27;t in the position to leave (or just don&#x27;t want to). I also understand people who, under the current circumstances, want to temporarily or permanently move to a location that will work out better for them.<p>I don&#x27;t understand, though, how $10K can be the deciding factor for someone for such a major decision.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Bay Area applicants flood program that pays them $10k to move to Tulsa</title><url>https://www.sfgate.com/living-in-sf/article/San-Franciscans-are-jumping-at-an-offer-of-10k-15591762.php</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>techsupporter</author><text>I (truly) wish these people good luck and hope they find the happiness they seek.<p>I am from near Tulsa and there&#x27;s absolutely no way in hell you&#x27;ll ever catch my family moving back to there. It&#x27;s hot, humid, comes with tornadoes, you have to drive everywhere (and everywhere is set up on the assumption you will drive). Plus, I will never forget the clerk at the licensing office who, after the rules changed to require &quot;proof of legal status&quot; to renew a driving license, gave my wife shit for having &quot;married up to America&quot; when she presented her green card as proof of status. (Never mind that my wife had been a permanent resident for years prior to us meeting.)<p>Everywhere has its upsides and its flaws, but at least where I live now has the benefit of the vast majority of people and culture here doesn&#x27;t want to throw my loved ones out on their ear. Perhaps some of the new arrivals moving there will change that culture. I hope so.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Apple's Secrets Revealed During Trial</title><url>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443687504577567421840745452.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTTopStories</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jasonkester</author><text><i>Mr. Forstall said he invented a patent for double-tapping on Web pages because as he had been using a prototype of the iPhone to surf the web, he realized he was spending a lot of time pinching and zooming the page to fit text perfectly on the screen.<p>"I realized I have this incredibly powerful device, why can't it figure out the right size for me?" he said. So, he challenged his team to make the software automatically size the text into the center of the screen when he double-tapped around a webpage."</i><p>This is why we're in such a sad state with regard to software patents. This guy genuinely believes that he "<i>invented</i>" something. And that it should be patentable.<p>Of course, anybody who has actually built anything knows that what he actually did was "decide how something should work". You do this dozens of times when putting out a new product, and it's not in any way a big deal. Certainly not something you should call "inventing", and absolutely not something that you should consider patenting.<p>It's just one of thousands of design decisions you make. It's just sad to watch people who don't understand that making things worse for everybody.</text></comment>
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<story><title>What Swimming Taught Me About Happiness</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/27/opinion/sunday/swimming-happiness.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>entee</author><text>Just finished swimming a race from Alcatraz to shore, it&#x27;s just the best high. I do tons of endurance sports, but swimming is the most reliable in yielding that euphoric feeling.<p>I think it&#x27;s due to it being essentially forced mindfulness meditation. Though you could swim with music, I don&#x27;t and that means it&#x27;s just my thoughts for 30-60 min (watch the thoughts, can&#x27;t do anything about them right now). I&#x27;m forced to focus on breathing on a set schedule (analogous to vipassana techniques). I&#x27;m moving my whole body in a way that requires balance, complex coordination and attention to what my body is feeling (analogous to body-scans, yoga). If you&#x27;re not listening to music it&#x27;s also a little like sensory deprivation, there&#x27;s just neutral water rushing sound.<p>I know running and biking can get there for some (myself included occasionally), but on a pool swim there&#x27;s nothing to worry about other than the occasional turnaround at the wall. No obstacles, no dodging others on the sidewalk, no traffic. You&#x27;re in a controlled, safe environment.<p>That or maybe it&#x27;s just the hypoxia ;)</text></comment>
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<story><title>What Swimming Taught Me About Happiness</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/27/opinion/sunday/swimming-happiness.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danzig13</author><text>Can’t read the article, but I did want to share that the title resonates with me.<p>I love running and now run again, but I started learning swimming during a knee injury.<p>One thing it re-taught me was how rewarding it is to learn or improve a non-work related skill dramatically. I picked up juggling (poorly) and jump rope since.<p>Two, I knew I was getting a stroke down when I knew when to glide versus to move or exert myself. Maybe a metaphor but practically it makes 40 laps enjoyable instead of torture.<p>Three, having one hour of somewhat sensory deprived solitude is great therapy.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Robdns – A fast DNS server based on C10M principles</title><url>https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/robdns</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jvehent</author><text>&quot;The key feature is a built-in custom TCP&#x2F;IP stack capable of handling millions of DNS queries-per-second per CPU core.&quot;<p>DNS uses UDP primarily. I suspect the author meant &quot;UDP&#x2F;TCP&#x2F;IP&quot; by &quot;TCP&#x2F;IP&quot;.<p>Years ago, I wrote a basic TCP stack for a honeypot research project. It is hard and incredibly complex. So this statement raises a number of concerns, and will need to be audited before being used in production.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cperciva</author><text><i>I wrote a basic TCP stack for a honeypot research project. It is hard and incredibly complex.</i><p>Yes and no. Most of the complication comes from extra functionality (segmentation offload, checksum offload, SACK) or from functionality which is required by the standard but not relevant for a DNS resolver (congestion control, window management, TCP timers).<p>If all you&#x27;re doing is accepting a TCP connection, reading a small request, and writing a small response back, you can remove about 90% of the code from your TCP stack.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Robdns – A fast DNS server based on C10M principles</title><url>https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/robdns</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jvehent</author><text>&quot;The key feature is a built-in custom TCP&#x2F;IP stack capable of handling millions of DNS queries-per-second per CPU core.&quot;<p>DNS uses UDP primarily. I suspect the author meant &quot;UDP&#x2F;TCP&#x2F;IP&quot; by &quot;TCP&#x2F;IP&quot;.<p>Years ago, I wrote a basic TCP stack for a honeypot research project. It is hard and incredibly complex. So this statement raises a number of concerns, and will need to be audited before being used in production.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>Could you be a little more specific about what&#x27;s incredibly complex about writing an interoperable TCP stack?<p>That aside: if I had to guess, this would be Robert Graham&#x27;s 10th IP stack. He&#x27;s been doing this (specifically) since the late 1990s.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Uselessness of Phenylephrine</title><url>https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/uselessness-phenylephrine</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edmundsauto</author><text>What makes you say the FDA is actively adding poison to other drugs, are there first hand sources from them? This sounds like it could also be a case where they want to lower opiate consumption, and so adding some Tylenol increases pain relief without increasing opiate intake.<p>I am not sure that’s wise policy, but if you don’t think Tylenol is all that bad (again, I’m not sufficiently informed to say this, but the FDA obviously thinks it’s safe), then it’s not a bad overall policy.<p>It sounds like it could be either situation, I’m just looking for more evidence before making up my mind. (Yes, I am aware the US government poisoned people during prohibition in this exact manner, but I dispute that has any relevance as the decision makers and cultural awareness is very different now. We’ve come a long way since the 30s)</text></item><item><author>paulmd</author><text>&gt; doesn&#x27;t get you high.<p>this is the big one. Phenyl-epinephrine doesn&#x27;t work at all, it&#x27;s consistently failed to outperform placebo, and the only reason it&#x27;s on the market is because the FDA doesn&#x27;t like pseudo-ephedrine (sudafed) because it can be used as a precursor for meth. Same reason they&#x27;ve required individual blister packs for sudafed (if only there was some illicit drug which gave you the focus and drive to perform repetitive tasks for hours on end...)<p>Same thing for imodium. The reason all of a sudden it&#x27;s in blister packs? People found a way to abuse it and the FDA is going to ruin it for the rest of us.<p>In the case of acetaminophen, the FDA actively uses it as a poison to &quot;discourage&quot; addicts from taking large doses of painkillers or cough syrup. The point is explicitly that if you take too much, you&#x27;ll burn out your liver, the FDA is actively inserting poison into the medicine to &quot;discourage abuse&quot;.<p>In all of these cases, the common factor is that it makes things much more annoying or even dangerous&#x2F;lethal for average people, while addicts are completely unaffected. No opiate addict in the world is going to get clean because of <i>individual pill blister packaging</i>. Meth addicts will just pop some pills and churn through the sudafed blister packaging, etc.<p>I am waiting for the other shoe to drop on imodium, now that the FDA is targeting it, it can&#x27;t be too long until it&#x27;s behind the counter or pulled entirely. And as someone who (TMI warning) suffers from what I&#x27;d term as moderately frequent IBS (never diagnosed but maybe I should) that&#x27;s really going to suck for me.<p>The FDA is simply an instrument of drug-war policy, they&#x27;re not oriented towards patient care and outcomes at all.</text></item><item><author>caymanjim</author><text>&gt; OTC medicines that by current standards would not be made OTC<p>Acetaminophen would almost certainly be in this category, if it could even get FDA approval at all. The effective dose is dangerously close to a toxic dose that causes liver damage, and not comfortably-far from the LD50. The only reasons acetaminophen is OTC is that it&#x27;s been informally grandfathered in, makes an absolute fortune for pharmaceutical companies, and doesn&#x27;t get you high.</text></item><item><author>dataangel</author><text>I&#x27;ve recently had to deal with the medical profession a lot more than in the past and I&#x27;m finding this sort of thing everywhere. OTC medicines that by current standards would not be made OTC, <i>surgeries</i> that are extremely common but have never had quality randomized trials, official sounding diagnoses that on inspection are actually defined as &quot;we have no idea&quot;, lack of consensus about how to treat some of the most common conditions in the human population (e.g. back pain), medical device approvals abusing the shortcut of being &quot;substantially similar&quot; to an existing device to evade regulatory scrutiny, the complete lack of enforcement of what goes in supplements... I feel like my entire understanding of the medical system in the US was a lie. We&#x27;re constantly touting that we have the most advanced technology but if you have a complex condition you are likely to fall prey to multiple kinds of grift.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>samtho</author><text>Why can you go to the store and buy rubbing alcohol to drink? It’s primary ingredient is just ethanol. The FDA literally mandates that the ethanol is not able to be safely consumed and is cut with poison that is not easily separated from ethanol.<p>Similarly, cutting opioids with Tylenol is not actually intended to be a deterrent to someone who gets their hands on the pills rather it deters people involved with illicit drug manufacture and distribution from using it as a base to grind up and sell.<p>Tylenol is really not super safe, at least by todays approval standards. Most official sources, which unsurprisingly have a huge bias towards Tylenol’s safety, state that allergic reactions are very uncommon, but recent meta-analysis’ are beginning to uncover that mild to moderate allergic reactions to acetaminophen is more common that originally thought. It does not get reported because if you’re already feeling like crap when you take it, some mild itchiness, redness, and discomfort would not be out of the ordinary without the Tylenol. As mentioned before, the toxic dose is much too close to the effective dose, I’ve heard from medical professionals that doubling a single recommended dose on extra strength Tylenol is enough to cause long-term damage to your liver. On top of all that, the fact that it is a weak pain reliever at best would solidly put this as a drug that’s not super useful.<p>I have a very low opinion of how we go about drug policy in the US. I am on a very controlled medication due to a sleep disorder (that causes hypersomnia) which I cannot go off for safety reasons. I also cannot get it filled more than 24 in advance without complicated authorization procedures that must be completed in the correct order. It’s a goddamn mess and serves only as a punishment to law-abiding patients for needing this medication. It also does nothing to curb illicit use because synthesis of a more potent product is so trivial.<p>This is an example of poorly targeted legislation, which was put into place because it’s the only thing they could exert control over. It does not further the stated goals of drug enforcement because it’s so easy to manufacture this stuff and the resulting product is so easy to move, bad actors can simply avoid this system. While I’m spending 3 hours every month orchestrating the complicated dance of my prescription between my providers, the pharmacy, and my insurance, someone is making a batch of shake-and-bake meth in about 3 minutes.</text></comment>
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We’ve come a long way since the 30s)</text></item><item><author>paulmd</author><text>&gt; doesn&#x27;t get you high.<p>this is the big one. Phenyl-epinephrine doesn&#x27;t work at all, it&#x27;s consistently failed to outperform placebo, and the only reason it&#x27;s on the market is because the FDA doesn&#x27;t like pseudo-ephedrine (sudafed) because it can be used as a precursor for meth. Same reason they&#x27;ve required individual blister packs for sudafed (if only there was some illicit drug which gave you the focus and drive to perform repetitive tasks for hours on end...)<p>Same thing for imodium. The reason all of a sudden it&#x27;s in blister packs? People found a way to abuse it and the FDA is going to ruin it for the rest of us.<p>In the case of acetaminophen, the FDA actively uses it as a poison to &quot;discourage&quot; addicts from taking large doses of painkillers or cough syrup. The point is explicitly that if you take too much, you&#x27;ll burn out your liver, the FDA is actively inserting poison into the medicine to &quot;discourage abuse&quot;.<p>In all of these cases, the common factor is that it makes things much more annoying or even dangerous&#x2F;lethal for average people, while addicts are completely unaffected. No opiate addict in the world is going to get clean because of <i>individual pill blister packaging</i>. Meth addicts will just pop some pills and churn through the sudafed blister packaging, etc.<p>I am waiting for the other shoe to drop on imodium, now that the FDA is targeting it, it can&#x27;t be too long until it&#x27;s behind the counter or pulled entirely. And as someone who (TMI warning) suffers from what I&#x27;d term as moderately frequent IBS (never diagnosed but maybe I should) that&#x27;s really going to suck for me.<p>The FDA is simply an instrument of drug-war policy, they&#x27;re not oriented towards patient care and outcomes at all.</text></item><item><author>caymanjim</author><text>&gt; OTC medicines that by current standards would not be made OTC<p>Acetaminophen would almost certainly be in this category, if it could even get FDA approval at all. The effective dose is dangerously close to a toxic dose that causes liver damage, and not comfortably-far from the LD50. The only reasons acetaminophen is OTC is that it&#x27;s been informally grandfathered in, makes an absolute fortune for pharmaceutical companies, and doesn&#x27;t get you high.</text></item><item><author>dataangel</author><text>I&#x27;ve recently had to deal with the medical profession a lot more than in the past and I&#x27;m finding this sort of thing everywhere. OTC medicines that by current standards would not be made OTC, <i>surgeries</i> that are extremely common but have never had quality randomized trials, official sounding diagnoses that on inspection are actually defined as &quot;we have no idea&quot;, lack of consensus about how to treat some of the most common conditions in the human population (e.g. back pain), medical device approvals abusing the shortcut of being &quot;substantially similar&quot; to an existing device to evade regulatory scrutiny, the complete lack of enforcement of what goes in supplements... I feel like my entire understanding of the medical system in the US was a lie. We&#x27;re constantly touting that we have the most advanced technology but if you have a complex condition you are likely to fall prey to multiple kinds of grift.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>salawat</author><text>Look up DXM.<p>You will never find it without either Gualfenisin or acetaminophen.<p>Does DXM need either of those to do what it does?<p>No.<p>Would it simplify dosing to be sold alone so that laymen didn&#x27;t have to worry about potentially overdosing on three drugs at once instead of just one?<p>Yes.<p>However, from the war on drugs perspective, that makes it &quot;easier to abuse&quot; to achieve it&#x27;s hallucinogenic side effect. Bundled with acetaminophen or gualfenisin however, you&#x27;d have to be a chemist intimately familiar with how to seperate the other two components to distill DXM in any amount with abuse potential, and the naive non-chemist trying to get high will either end up puking their guts out (Gualfenisin OD) or burning out their liver (Tylenol OD, which is exacerbated by alcohol consumption as well).<p>The Tylenol one is particularly problematic, because acetaminophen is also commonly prescribed with other common multi-drug formulations that people may not realize are additive.<p>When you take the route of adding a substance that does harm to discourage a pattern of behavior, you are poisoning. Poisoning being the act of artificially and with intent increasing the toxicity of an imbibed substance to disincent some pattern of behavior.<p>This is actually based on a natural pattern of behavior by the way. There is a mushroom that is generally completely harmless... Until you drink alcohol. Metabolizing the mushroom depletes the supply of the same enzymes that detoxify alcohol (and Tylenol).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Coprinopsis_atramentaria" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Coprinopsis_atramentaria</a><p>So to be clear... If you call this mushroom poisonous, and it targets the same enzyme that alcohol does, then adding something like tylenol to something that doesn&#x27;t need it to do it&#x27;s job, you are poisoning.<p>It just happens to be handwaved because in the establishment&#x27;s mind, those damn druggies aren&#x27;t worth caring about anyway.<p>Not a partaker of DXM, but <i>very concerned with the ethical implications, and the adverse contribution to trust in public health measures that this practice entails.</i></text></comment>
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<story><title>I only care about the helpful notifications, not the promotional ones</title><url>https://alexanderell.is/posts/sneaking-notifications/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xahrepap</author><text>I follow the same rule. But I will also then go one star review it.<p>I will also one-star review any app that prompts me to review it by first asking me if I like it (sneaky sneaky!)</text></item><item><author>dguo</author><text>My rule is: if I get a single notification that I find useless, I&#x27;ll immediately disable that notification channel (I&#x27;m on Android; I&#x27;m not sure if iOS has a concept of channel-specific settings) for that app. Even if the channel can include useful notifications, as the article discusses.<p>If the app doesn&#x27;t bother to categorize its notifications into channels at all, I turn off its notifications entirely, and I won&#x27;t turn it back on.<p>If something is important enough, I can always manually check on it. My attention is too valuable to me to waste it on useless notifications.<p>I do want more control over my notifications in general. I use Google Apps Script to automatically process&#x2F;triage my email, and I want to do something similar with notifications. I can probably do so using Tasker, but I haven&#x27;t gotten around to it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>faeriechangling</author><text>Lol I do this too. If I see an &quot;are you enjoying our app&quot; banner I will immediately click yes, follow the link to the store, and then immediately 1 star. Even if I enjoy the app and use it daily.<p>Companies that attempt to filter out negative feedback can pound sand.</text></comment>
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<story><title>I only care about the helpful notifications, not the promotional ones</title><url>https://alexanderell.is/posts/sneaking-notifications/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xahrepap</author><text>I follow the same rule. But I will also then go one star review it.<p>I will also one-star review any app that prompts me to review it by first asking me if I like it (sneaky sneaky!)</text></item><item><author>dguo</author><text>My rule is: if I get a single notification that I find useless, I&#x27;ll immediately disable that notification channel (I&#x27;m on Android; I&#x27;m not sure if iOS has a concept of channel-specific settings) for that app. Even if the channel can include useful notifications, as the article discusses.<p>If the app doesn&#x27;t bother to categorize its notifications into channels at all, I turn off its notifications entirely, and I won&#x27;t turn it back on.<p>If something is important enough, I can always manually check on it. My attention is too valuable to me to waste it on useless notifications.<p>I do want more control over my notifications in general. I use Google Apps Script to automatically process&#x2F;triage my email, and I want to do something similar with notifications. I can probably do so using Tasker, but I haven&#x27;t gotten around to it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Phlogistique</author><text>For some reason I had never thought of doing that.<p>Thanks, I will do so from now on!</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Aducanumab Approval</title><url>https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/06/08/the-aducanumab-approval</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>If this was simply a matter of making the drug available for informed consumers willing and able to pay for it out of pocket, I wouldn&#x27;t be as concerned.<p>If we&#x27;re going to have Medicare and private insurance companies pay $56K&#x2F;year per patient for a drug that may not have positive effects that outweigh the risk of side effects, that&#x27;s a major problem.<p>Limiting access to experimental drugs is a difficult question. I know someone who has a different poorly-understood disease (not Alzheimer&#x27;s, I&#x27;m being deliberately vague to avoid debates) who managed to get enrolled in a clinical trial for an experimental treatment. She responded fantastically well to the drug, as did a small number of other patients in the study. On average, however, the response to the drug was poor.<p>She and several other responders have now found each other online and are trying multiple avenues to get back on the drug. They&#x27;re getting desperate enough that they&#x27;re pooling funds to order a custom synthesis from another country and have it analyzed for purity by a 3rd party lab. I&#x27;m terrified to think of the risks they&#x27;re incurring, but they&#x27;re so desperate to return to remission that they&#x27;d rather take the risks than continue to suffer. It must feel unthinkably unfair to be given a glimpse of remission, only to be forbidden to continue to buy the drug because it didn&#x27;t work on a majority of patients.<p>In their case, it&#x27;s likely that the disease has multiple causative factors and the drug in question only treats one specific cause. Without stratifying trials by these yet to be determined different causes, it&#x27;s difficult for trials to show efficacy on large populations. I wonder if Alzheimer&#x27;s disease could be similar, in that certain subsets of patients respond to the drug but the average patient will not.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Tesla braces for its first trial involving Autopilot fatality</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-braces-its-first-trial-involving-autopilot-fatality-2023-08-28/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lolinder</author><text>I&#x27;m one of the more vocal Tesla critics on here, but I think we can do better than this example.<p>The left turn arrow turned green, the car inched forward a little, and Elon immediately put on the brakes. The situation was no more dangerous than when a human driver mistakes which light is theirs and does the same thing, which happens pretty regularly in my experience.<p>And that this is a test version of the software isn&#x27;t irrelevant, it makes a huge difference—I am much less opposed to internal company testers who know what they&#x27;re doing than I am to a public beta in the hands of people who believe Tesla&#x27;s (really egregious) marketing.</text></item><item><author>sschueller</author><text>Elon posted a 44 minute live video of self-driving. In it the car tries to run a red light in the most clear situation possible: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;RealDanODowd&#x2F;status&#x2F;1695268712910348471" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;RealDanODowd&#x2F;status&#x2F;1695268712910348471</a><p>The excuse is that this firmware version is not available to the public. Yet Elon is driving in public with other drivers putting everyone at risk of death. At what point are we going to stop this lunacy?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dataflow</author><text>&gt; the car inched forward<p>It felt like more than a few inches. (I&#x27;m not splitting hairs here, I really do feel it was qualitatively significantly different from your description, which made it sound like the car was cautiously starting to move just a bit.)<p>&gt; and Elon immediately put on the brakes. The situation was no more dangerous than when a human driver mistakes which light is theirs and does the same thing, which happens pretty regularly in my experience.<p>When humans make this mistake, they stop the car themselves. When this car made this mistake, someone else (Elon) had to stop it. These are <i>not</i> equivalent. In the former case you can argue no accident was going to happen, but in the latter you can&#x27;t.<p>&gt; that this is a test version of the software isn&#x27;t irrelevant, it makes a huge difference—I am much less opposed to internal company testers who know what they&#x27;re doing<p>This is <i>on a public road</i>. Try pulling this off (well, please don&#x27;t) in medicine and see how it goes.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Opt out of Google using you as an ad</title><url>https://plus.google.com/u/0/settings/endorsements</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>redbulls</author><text>I honestly don&#x27;t understand whats wrong with this. It just seems like the natural progression of the services that Google already provides. If my friend searches for a new phone, they should see my public reviews of the phones. Friends reviews should be made front and center because reviews from people we know are always more valuable. The way the page reads, it seems they will only use your reviews in ads for friends, I think that&#x27;s fair, but if they use it for strangers too then I&#x27;ll probably opt out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jfb</author><text>Me neither. It seems perfectly consonant with Google&#x27;s entire MO, and not in any way out of line with the implicit or explicit usage agreement that people have with them. Perhaps the culture of G+ is such that this is unexpected, or perhaps it&#x27;s just HN echo chamber bleating? I&#x27;m not a Google user, so I wouldn&#x27;t presume to say.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Opt out of Google using you as an ad</title><url>https://plus.google.com/u/0/settings/endorsements</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>redbulls</author><text>I honestly don&#x27;t understand whats wrong with this. It just seems like the natural progression of the services that Google already provides. If my friend searches for a new phone, they should see my public reviews of the phones. Friends reviews should be made front and center because reviews from people we know are always more valuable. The way the page reads, it seems they will only use your reviews in ads for friends, I think that&#x27;s fair, but if they use it for strangers too then I&#x27;ll probably opt out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>patrickaljord</author><text>Nice to see some common sense on the subject here. Totally agree. This is a nice feature. I like seeing my friends reviews of Android and Chrome app I download. I would like to have the same feature for ads. This is great.</text></comment>
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<story><title>How Utah Reduced Chronic Homelessness</title><url>http://www.npr.org/2015/12/10/459100751/utah-reduced-chronic-homelessness-by-91-percent-heres-how?20</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mabbo</author><text>The &#x27;Housing First&#x27; model was really pushed hard by Stephen Harper as Prime Minister of Canada. It was weird because he is such a staunch right-wing kind of guy, yet here he was putting money towards what seems like a very left-wing socialist idea.<p>But he, like Lloyd Pendleton in this article, apparently figured out that it saves a lot of money, ideology be damned.<p>Maybe that&#x27;s a good example of how to get right-wing politicians to agree to some left-wing ideals: prove that it will save money and let them lower taxes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ergothus</author><text>&gt; Maybe that&#x27;s a good example of how to get right-wing politicians to agree to some left-wing ideals: prove that it will save money and let them lower taxes.<p>I&#x27;ve certainly heard this argument from the (few) libertarian sources that are considering basic income. They are opposed to &quot;entitlement&quot; programs, but see a (theoretically) cheaper entitlement program as better than an expensive one. (Perhaps they also think that a flat-sum basic income is easier to lower or hold flat than a complex web of social programs. Or I may be being cynical)<p>OTOH, it can still be a hard sell to constituents. The US has known for at least a decade that spending more on IRS agents would earn more money than it would cost. No new rules, no new regulations, just enforcement of the rules we have. Seems like an easy decision to me, but few politicians, left or right, want to be caught saying we should have more tax enforcers.<p>Pity.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Amazon stops selling Sim City V over game issues</title><url>http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007VTVRFA?ie=UTF8&force-full-site=1&ref_=aw_bottom_links</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mortenjorck</author><text>EA needs to pivot this game, fast.<p>Even in the best case scenario, where the servers all get fixed <i>this evening</i> and the game works flawlessly for everyone for a month straight, the damage to the game's name has been done. The meme is hatched: SimCity 2013 has a highly brittle dependency on poorly-planned cloud infrastructure.<p>There's a private region mode in the game (that you nonetheless can't use offline in the current architecture). EA needs to have Maxis crunch for the next couple of weeks to make this work offline. Yes, I've read the nebulous quotes about "part of the sim happening in the cloud." Whatever that is, they'll have to move it to the client.<p>Once offline play is possible, if EA wants any chance to make back its investment on this game, they're going to have to first promote the new offline mode, and then spend the next couple of months doing some post-launch rescoping of the multiplayer aspect. They can still make it work; it could still be fantastic – but they have to move fast.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baddox</author><text>&#62; The meme is hatched: SimCity 2013 has a highly brittle dependency on poorly-planned cloud infrastructure.<p>To the tech-literate crowd, this will be the meme. But for the average gamer, the meme is different, and I might argue worse: Sim City simply doesn't work.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Amazon stops selling Sim City V over game issues</title><url>http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007VTVRFA?ie=UTF8&force-full-site=1&ref_=aw_bottom_links</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mortenjorck</author><text>EA needs to pivot this game, fast.<p>Even in the best case scenario, where the servers all get fixed <i>this evening</i> and the game works flawlessly for everyone for a month straight, the damage to the game's name has been done. The meme is hatched: SimCity 2013 has a highly brittle dependency on poorly-planned cloud infrastructure.<p>There's a private region mode in the game (that you nonetheless can't use offline in the current architecture). EA needs to have Maxis crunch for the next couple of weeks to make this work offline. Yes, I've read the nebulous quotes about "part of the sim happening in the cloud." Whatever that is, they'll have to move it to the client.<p>Once offline play is possible, if EA wants any chance to make back its investment on this game, they're going to have to first promote the new offline mode, and then spend the next couple of months doing some post-launch rescoping of the multiplayer aspect. They can still make it work; it could still be fantastic – but they have to move fast.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AlexDanger</author><text>Remember EA is a business, not an offshoot of Reddit/HN. Imagine you're the SimCity product manager and the choice was between a massive refactor or provisioning a bunch of new servers. Which would you choose?<p>I'd love to agree with you, but I just dont think its plausible.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track Search Users in China</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2018/09/21/google-suppresses-memo-revealing-plans-to-closely-track-search-users-in-china/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thisgoodlife</author><text>That&#x27;s bs. Apple is making billions from China each year without any bs partnership.</text></item><item><author>lph</author><text>The idea that this appeasement will make Google a contender in China is blazingly ignorant of Chinese politics. No foreign company will ever be allowed to gain significant market share; it would be seen as a national security threat. The only way for Google would be to forge an equal partnership with a Chinese tech giant---Tencent, Alibaba, Huawei, or maybe one of the two dominant cell carriers.<p>Google is selling out for nothing.</text></item><item><author>devoply</author><text>Fact of the matter is that there is a Chinese internet and a US internet. Going forward there will be a Chinese internet, that some authoritarian countries will adopt that are a part of the Chinese sphere of influence. American companies, and the American government through them want a foothold on that internet. This is the only way for them to do so.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;09&#x2F;20&#x2F;eric-schmidt-ex-google-ceo-predicts-internet-split-china.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;09&#x2F;20&#x2F;eric-schmidt-ex-google-ceo-p...</a></text></item><item><author>wrs</author><text>Ouch. It must be really fun for Googlers to hear their company is working so hard to repress dissidents trying to reveal its secret project to help China repress dissidents.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>2600</author><text>Regarding iCloud, Apple has made decisions to bring Chinese iCloud in compliance with Chinese regulations. Chinese iCloud accounts, data, and encryption keys are stored with a Chinese firm overseen by the Chinese government.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Yahoo to Spin Off Its Core Businesses</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/10/technology/yahoo-alibaba-spinoff.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>3pt14159</author><text>So I don&#x27;t understand one simple thing: The stock is up 120% since Mayer took over. Even adjusting for compounding interest over 3.43 years, this is like 25+% yearly growth. So the core business is crapping out? So what? Why is everyone dumping on Mayer? I don&#x27;t even think I could fix the core Yahoo business. They have to pay a 50% premium for developers just because it&#x27;s Yahoo and their core audience is the technically illiterate; a group that is fairly difficult to monetize.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>1024core</author><text>&gt; The stock is up 120% since Mayer took over.<p>All of that is because of $BABA. If you add up the current value of $BABA and Yahoo Japan shares that Yahoo holds, it&#x27;s <i>more</i> than the market cap of Yahoo; which means, the $4B&#x2F;year revenue business that is rest of Yahoo is valued negatively by the market. SMH....</text></comment>
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<story><title>Yahoo to Spin Off Its Core Businesses</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/10/technology/yahoo-alibaba-spinoff.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>3pt14159</author><text>So I don&#x27;t understand one simple thing: The stock is up 120% since Mayer took over. Even adjusting for compounding interest over 3.43 years, this is like 25+% yearly growth. So the core business is crapping out? So what? Why is everyone dumping on Mayer? I don&#x27;t even think I could fix the core Yahoo business. They have to pay a 50% premium for developers just because it&#x27;s Yahoo and their core audience is the technically illiterate; a group that is fairly difficult to monetize.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shas3</author><text>Corporate governance is a lot about perceptions. Even if you set aside the fact that most of that growth comes from Yahoo&#x27;s stake in Alibaba, you still have the question about Yahoo&#x27;s future and vision. If there is a perception that their future is shaky, that matters more than if things are likely to turn out badly. Should add, IANAL aka, I am no analyst</text></comment>
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<story><title>Ask HN: Is there a whole universe of Chinese software that we don't see?</title><text>China is obviously a major world player, but we rarely see articles&#x2F;repos&#x2F;posts&#x2F;etc., that seem to originate from there, translated or not, or simply referred to. Are we missing out on lots of cool advancements from China? Or do Chinese engineers generally publish in English? Is there some massive Chinese GitHub with cool stuff we don&#x27;t know about? Science is science and I can&#x27;t shake the feeling that we&#x27;re missing out on stuff, but I really have no idea. Would love to hear people&#x27;s thoughts.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>flohofwoe</author><text>I mostly know about software relevant for game development, and there are indeed some very interesting products (most of them open source) coming out of China which are mostly unknown in the West. Some examples from my list:<p>- FairyGUI (UI framework for games): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.fairygui.com&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.fairygui.com&#x2F;index.html</a>, github: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fairygui" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fairygui</a><p>- LayaAir (HTML5 game engine): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;layabox&#x2F;LayaAir" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;layabox&#x2F;LayaAir</a><p>- Egret (HTML5 game engine): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;egret-labs&#x2F;egret-core" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;egret-labs&#x2F;egret-core</a><p>- Cocos2D-X (2D game engine, this might be the only one that&#x27;s also really popular outside China): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cocos.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cocos.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;</a><p>- everything by Cloudwu (but especially pbc, protocol buffers in C): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cloudwu" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cloudwu</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Ask HN: Is there a whole universe of Chinese software that we don't see?</title><text>China is obviously a major world player, but we rarely see articles&#x2F;repos&#x2F;posts&#x2F;etc., that seem to originate from there, translated or not, or simply referred to. Are we missing out on lots of cool advancements from China? Or do Chinese engineers generally publish in English? Is there some massive Chinese GitHub with cool stuff we don&#x27;t know about? Science is science and I can&#x27;t shake the feeling that we&#x27;re missing out on stuff, but I really have no idea. Would love to hear people&#x27;s thoughts.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hanxue</author><text>I work for a multinational tech firm, at their Beijing office. There is no equivalent of massive Chinese Github. Github is used heavily by Chinese developers. There are projects incubated in Chinese tech startups and eventually open sourced, for example the Beego Go web framework.<p>Due to the Great Firewall of China, there is almost a Chinese-only tech ecosystem of Android apps, and other &quot;mini-apps&quot; built on top of Wechat. For example, Jinri Toutiao is a popular app that is almost unheard of outside of China.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Palantir enables immigration agents to look up information from the CIA</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2017/03/17/palantir-enables-immigration-agents-to-access-information-from-the-cia/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>My friend Chris Rohlf has a snarky dismissal of a lot of &quot;hardware hacking&quot; and &quot;IOT&quot; security conference talks: &quot;look at this debugger debugging!&quot; The subtext is, once you find the debug stubs or the JTAG interface or whatever, the rest of the talk is pretty academic. Also: you have to be in a position to exercise the debugger interface to conduct the &quot;hack&quot;.<p>Stories like this call that snark to mind. &quot;Look at this database databasing!&quot;<p>I&#x27;m loathe to stick up for Palantir, because I think Peter Thiel is a monster, and I have no particular reason to believe that Palantir is an especially moral team in its operations and management. But I think most commentary about Palantir&#x27;s role in surveillance is overblown. From what I can tell, it&#x27;s a very expensive consultingware database with a name that has special valence with nerds.<p>Be mean to Palantir all you want, I guess. But don&#x27;t let other tech companies off the hook. I&#x27;ve been trying to make this point for years with, I think, pretty limited success: if you&#x27;re angry at Palantir for assisting mass deportation, you should be equally angry at Oracle and Cisco. I am --- in fact, a little more so.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tyre</author><text>To expand on your point on Palantir just being a database, it&#x27;s a good lesson to startup founders: solve the problem your user had.<p>The biggest problem that Palantir solves is: we (CIA, FBI, whatever) have to pull together data from 500 software systems that don&#x27;t share a common taxonomy, hold petabytes of data in totally different ways, live in agencies across the world, and have all sorts of nuanced permissions models (e.g. &quot;Five Eyes&quot; or &quot;this data was shared to New Zealand by a country that doesn&#x27;t share data directly with the US, but New Zealand does share data to the US. I&#x27;m a US agent looking at NZ data, do I see this?&quot;).<p>They basically clean and centralize information. It&#x27;s super unsexy (probably my least favorite thing to do as an engineer.) But that is the problem that these organizations have.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Palantir enables immigration agents to look up information from the CIA</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2017/03/17/palantir-enables-immigration-agents-to-access-information-from-the-cia/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>My friend Chris Rohlf has a snarky dismissal of a lot of &quot;hardware hacking&quot; and &quot;IOT&quot; security conference talks: &quot;look at this debugger debugging!&quot; The subtext is, once you find the debug stubs or the JTAG interface or whatever, the rest of the talk is pretty academic. Also: you have to be in a position to exercise the debugger interface to conduct the &quot;hack&quot;.<p>Stories like this call that snark to mind. &quot;Look at this database databasing!&quot;<p>I&#x27;m loathe to stick up for Palantir, because I think Peter Thiel is a monster, and I have no particular reason to believe that Palantir is an especially moral team in its operations and management. But I think most commentary about Palantir&#x27;s role in surveillance is overblown. From what I can tell, it&#x27;s a very expensive consultingware database with a name that has special valence with nerds.<p>Be mean to Palantir all you want, I guess. But don&#x27;t let other tech companies off the hook. I&#x27;ve been trying to make this point for years with, I think, pretty limited success: if you&#x27;re angry at Palantir for assisting mass deportation, you should be equally angry at Oracle and Cisco. I am --- in fact, a little more so.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Chaebixi</author><text>&gt; My friend Chris Rohlf has a snarky dismissal of a lot of &quot;hardware hacking&quot; and &quot;IOT&quot; security conference talks: &quot;look at this debugger debugging!<p>&gt; Stories like this call that snark to mind. &quot;Look at this database databasing!&quot;<p>This isn&#x27;t a technical story, it&#x27;s a social and governmental one.<p>&gt; if you&#x27;re angry at Palantir for assisting mass deportation, you should be equally angry at Oracle and Cisco. I am --- in fact, a little more so.<p>Isn&#x27;t Palantir&#x27;s assistance clearer and more direct? Aren&#x27;t they building applications with a lot of knowledge of what they&#x27;ll be used to do? As far as I know, Cisco doesn&#x27;t sell products like &quot;gigabit mass-deporation cloud router 2239.&quot; Any assistance they give is much more indirect.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The good old days? In many ways, yes</title><url>https://www.minneapolisfed.org/publications/the-region/the-good-old-days-in-many-ways-yes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>coldtea</author><text>&gt;<i>It just doesn&#x27;t take that many people to do all the stuff.</i><p>That&#x27;s impossible. A couples of times in the past when we evolved major new technologies (e.g. industrial revolution) new jobs were created. This means there will _always_ be new jobs, it&#x27;s like a contract with history.<p>&#x2F;s -- but also how many think, taking 2-3 historical cases as some kind of necessary eternal motif.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>It just doesn&#x27;t take that many people to do all the stuff.[1] The automation revolution happened a long time ago.[2] Peak manufacturing employment was in 1979. Agriculture is down to 1.4%. Making stuff (mining, construction, manufacturing, and agriculture) is at 14% and dropping. Those were the classic blue-collar jobs. They&#x27;re the ones where large numbers of people were employed doing repetitive work under close supervision. Many of those jobs were unionized and paid OK. Even for people with IQ below 100. Not any more.<p>For a while, &quot;services&quot; employed more people. Then came cheap computing and the Internet. No more file clerks. Much less paper-pushing. Fewer retail salespeople. Fewer bank tellers. Both retail and finance are dropping in headcount.<p>That&#x27;s what happened.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bls.gov&#x2F;emp&#x2F;tables&#x2F;employment-by-major-industry-sector.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bls.gov&#x2F;emp&#x2F;tables&#x2F;employment-by-major-industry-...</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;MANEMP" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;MANEMP</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scarface74</author><text>Before the digital economy, there was no concept of zero marginal cost. To produce more of something, you needed more people. A few people with an idea, a credit card, and an AWS account can scale a business that can serve millions. Before the Internet, how could 10 people create a business that was worth a billion dollars like Instagram?<p>Microsoft sells Windows licenses with zero marginal costs.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The good old days? In many ways, yes</title><url>https://www.minneapolisfed.org/publications/the-region/the-good-old-days-in-many-ways-yes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>coldtea</author><text>&gt;<i>It just doesn&#x27;t take that many people to do all the stuff.</i><p>That&#x27;s impossible. A couples of times in the past when we evolved major new technologies (e.g. industrial revolution) new jobs were created. This means there will _always_ be new jobs, it&#x27;s like a contract with history.<p>&#x2F;s -- but also how many think, taking 2-3 historical cases as some kind of necessary eternal motif.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>It just doesn&#x27;t take that many people to do all the stuff.[1] The automation revolution happened a long time ago.[2] Peak manufacturing employment was in 1979. Agriculture is down to 1.4%. Making stuff (mining, construction, manufacturing, and agriculture) is at 14% and dropping. Those were the classic blue-collar jobs. They&#x27;re the ones where large numbers of people were employed doing repetitive work under close supervision. Many of those jobs were unionized and paid OK. Even for people with IQ below 100. Not any more.<p>For a while, &quot;services&quot; employed more people. Then came cheap computing and the Internet. No more file clerks. Much less paper-pushing. Fewer retail salespeople. Fewer bank tellers. Both retail and finance are dropping in headcount.<p>That&#x27;s what happened.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bls.gov&#x2F;emp&#x2F;tables&#x2F;employment-by-major-industry-sector.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bls.gov&#x2F;emp&#x2F;tables&#x2F;employment-by-major-industry-...</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;MANEMP" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;MANEMP</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rcdmd</author><text>I think you&#x27;re both right. The commenter above you is just taking the short view and you&#x27;re taking the long view. Automation is great for long-term productivity and the supply of better, cheaper goods&#x2F;services, but you can&#x27;t argue it makes for a happy former file-clerk 5 years away from retirement who now has to find a new gig.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Etsy IPO Form S-1</title><url>http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1370637/000119312515077045/d806992ds1.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ericglyman</author><text>&quot;We eat on compostable plates, and employees sign up to deliver our compost by bike to a local farm in Red Hook, Brooklyn&quot; - Page 93<p>Etsy&#x27;s hipster cred is off the charts right now</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pdknsk</author><text>I&#x27;m not really familiar with compostable plates, but unless they eat from large plant leaves, the plates are probably made somehow. And to make them, someone probably uses resources, like energy and raw material. And they have to be shipped to Etsy.<p>Compare this with porcelain plates which can be re-used and last a long time, but have to be washed, which uses water and some energy.<p>Taking all of this into account, I cannot say which is more environment friendly.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Etsy IPO Form S-1</title><url>http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1370637/000119312515077045/d806992ds1.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ericglyman</author><text>&quot;We eat on compostable plates, and employees sign up to deliver our compost by bike to a local farm in Red Hook, Brooklyn&quot; - Page 93<p>Etsy&#x27;s hipster cred is off the charts right now</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>EC1</author><text>I hate that any increase in efficiency or doing good is cast aside as hipsterism, being different for the sake of being different. Why is it &#x27;hipster&#x27;, not environmental?</text></comment>
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<story><title>YouTube was launched as a dating site</title><url>https://web.archive.org/web/20050428014715/http://www.youtube.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nyx</author><text>I didn&#x27;t realize The Wayback Machine had so much YouTube content from the early days. Really interesting going back and seeing what was on the front page on some random day in 2006.<p>Looking at what people were uploading and what people were watching leaves me feeling a bit wistful. It seems like it was a more authentic place before the money caught up with it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lkrubner</author><text>Everything on the Internet was much better before advertisers were willing to spend real money on the Internet. Once the advertisers began to take the Internet seriously, and companies committed to an advertising model, everything went to hell.</text></comment>
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<story><title>YouTube was launched as a dating site</title><url>https://web.archive.org/web/20050428014715/http://www.youtube.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nyx</author><text>I didn&#x27;t realize The Wayback Machine had so much YouTube content from the early days. Really interesting going back and seeing what was on the front page on some random day in 2006.<p>Looking at what people were uploading and what people were watching leaves me feeling a bit wistful. It seems like it was a more authentic place before the money caught up with it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marssaxman</author><text><i>It seems like it was a more authentic place before the money caught up with it. </i><p>Isn&#x27;t that the way it always goes? I wish there were some way of permanently locking Wall Street out of the picture so we could actually have some nice things.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The next Google</title><url>https://dkb.io/post/the-next-google</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>boomer918</author><text>These solutions don&#x27;t answer any of the fundamental problems with Google:<p>- who pays for the service (ads? users pay? Average user will never use a paid service if a free one is available)<p>- how to resist attacks against the algorithm (Google has been fighting spam for decades)<p>- how to personalize without invading privacy, e.g. Google had an option to search through your email in Google search...it&#x27;s gone now, I wonder why?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sanxiyn</author><text>Kagi is &quot;users pay&quot;. Yes, average users won&#x27;t pay, but I don&#x27;t see how that matters to me as a Kagi user.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The next Google</title><url>https://dkb.io/post/the-next-google</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>boomer918</author><text>These solutions don&#x27;t answer any of the fundamental problems with Google:<p>- who pays for the service (ads? users pay? Average user will never use a paid service if a free one is available)<p>- how to resist attacks against the algorithm (Google has been fighting spam for decades)<p>- how to personalize without invading privacy, e.g. Google had an option to search through your email in Google search...it&#x27;s gone now, I wonder why?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RcouF1uZ4gsC</author><text>&gt; - who pays for the service (ads? users pay? Average user will never use a paid service if a free one is available)
- how to resist attacks against the algorithm (Google has been fighting spam for decades)<p>The solution for o both of these might actually be a paid service. If you have a paid service, there is a possibility of it being profitable with much fewer users. As an example, let’s say you have 1,000,000 users at $10&#x2F;month, that is a $10,000,000&#x2F;month which might be enough to run the service and provide a comfortable profit.<p>With regards to the spam issue, the fact that you have a small user base would be to your advantage. Because there are so many Google users, it is in websites’ economic interests to spend money to try to game the algorithms. With much fewer users, your paid search users may not be worth it for the sites to spend money trying to game your algorithms.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Cheating is All You Need</title><url>https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/cheating-is-all-you-need</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qsort</author><text>I don&#x27;t quite know how to put it, what follows is a rough draft of an idea, maybe someone can help me to reword it, or perhaps it&#x27;s trash.<p>Since its inception, computer science has had two &quot;camps&quot;: those who believe CS is engineering, and those who believe CS is mathematics. The reason why we are seeing all of this fuss around LLMs is that they are a new front of this feud. This &quot;extends&quot; the usual debate on emerging technologies between Thymoetes and Laocoon.<p>Something that works 99 times out of 100 is 99% correct from the first perspective and 100% wrong from the second.<p>LLMs are therefore a step forward if you take the first view, a step back if you take the second.<p>If you accept this interpretation, an interesting consequence of it is that your outlook on LLMs is entirely dependent on what amounts to your aesthetic judgement.<p>And it&#x27;s very hard not to have rather strong aesthetic judgements on what we do 40 hours a week.</text></item><item><author>Vanclief</author><text>&gt; LLMs aren’t just the biggest change since social, mobile, or cloud–they’re the biggest thing since the World Wide Web. And on the coding front, they’re the biggest thing since IDEs and Stack Overflow, and may well eclipse them both.<p>I personally feel the technology is over-hyped. Sure, the ability of LLMs to generate &quot;decent&quot; code from a prompt is pretty impressive, but I don&#x27;t think they are biger than Stack Overflow or IDEs.<p>So far my experience is that ChatGPT is great for generating code from languages I not proficient in or when I don&#x27;t remember how to do something and I need a quick fix. So in a way it feels like a better &quot;Google&quot; but still I would rank it as inferior than Stack Overflow.<p>I am also hesitant about the statement that it makes us 5 times as productive because we only need to &quot;check the code is good&quot; for two main reasons:<p>1. It is my belief that if you are proficient enough in the task at hand, it is actually a distraction to be checking &quot;someone else code&quot; over just writing it yourself. When I wrote the code, I know it by heart and I know what it does (or is supposed to do). At least for me, having to be creating prompts and then reviewing the code that generates is slower and takes me out of the flow. It is also more exhausting than just writing the thing myself.<p>2. I am only able to check the correctness of the code, if am am proficient enough as a programmer (and possibly in the language as well). To become proficient I need to write a lot of code, but the more I use LLMs, the less repetitions I get in. So in a way it feels like LLMs are going to make you a &quot;worse&quot; programmer by doing the work for you.<p>Does anyone feel that way? Maybe I am wrong and the technology hasn&#x27;t really clicked for me yet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nevermark</author><text>Camp 3: Those of us who have viewed coding as a craft.<p>Math - the study of well defined concepts and their relationships. Solving problems with proofs.<p>Engineering - solving well characterized problems based on math and physics (which can include materials with known properties, chemistry, approximations, models, …), and well defined areas of composability (circuits, chemical processes, structural design, …)<p>Craft - solving incompletely characterized problems with math, physics, engineering and enormous amounts of experience, intuition, heuristics, wisdom, patterns, guesses, poorly understood third party modules, partial solutions pulled from random web sites …<p>Art - Solving subjective problems by any means necessary.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Cheating is All You Need</title><url>https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/cheating-is-all-you-need</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qsort</author><text>I don&#x27;t quite know how to put it, what follows is a rough draft of an idea, maybe someone can help me to reword it, or perhaps it&#x27;s trash.<p>Since its inception, computer science has had two &quot;camps&quot;: those who believe CS is engineering, and those who believe CS is mathematics. The reason why we are seeing all of this fuss around LLMs is that they are a new front of this feud. This &quot;extends&quot; the usual debate on emerging technologies between Thymoetes and Laocoon.<p>Something that works 99 times out of 100 is 99% correct from the first perspective and 100% wrong from the second.<p>LLMs are therefore a step forward if you take the first view, a step back if you take the second.<p>If you accept this interpretation, an interesting consequence of it is that your outlook on LLMs is entirely dependent on what amounts to your aesthetic judgement.<p>And it&#x27;s very hard not to have rather strong aesthetic judgements on what we do 40 hours a week.</text></item><item><author>Vanclief</author><text>&gt; LLMs aren’t just the biggest change since social, mobile, or cloud–they’re the biggest thing since the World Wide Web. And on the coding front, they’re the biggest thing since IDEs and Stack Overflow, and may well eclipse them both.<p>I personally feel the technology is over-hyped. Sure, the ability of LLMs to generate &quot;decent&quot; code from a prompt is pretty impressive, but I don&#x27;t think they are biger than Stack Overflow or IDEs.<p>So far my experience is that ChatGPT is great for generating code from languages I not proficient in or when I don&#x27;t remember how to do something and I need a quick fix. So in a way it feels like a better &quot;Google&quot; but still I would rank it as inferior than Stack Overflow.<p>I am also hesitant about the statement that it makes us 5 times as productive because we only need to &quot;check the code is good&quot; for two main reasons:<p>1. It is my belief that if you are proficient enough in the task at hand, it is actually a distraction to be checking &quot;someone else code&quot; over just writing it yourself. When I wrote the code, I know it by heart and I know what it does (or is supposed to do). At least for me, having to be creating prompts and then reviewing the code that generates is slower and takes me out of the flow. It is also more exhausting than just writing the thing myself.<p>2. I am only able to check the correctness of the code, if am am proficient enough as a programmer (and possibly in the language as well). To become proficient I need to write a lot of code, but the more I use LLMs, the less repetitions I get in. So in a way it feels like LLMs are going to make you a &quot;worse&quot; programmer by doing the work for you.<p>Does anyone feel that way? Maybe I am wrong and the technology hasn&#x27;t really clicked for me yet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eightysixfour</author><text>I think this comment may miss the computer forest for the computer science trees. For a large portion of the world, computers aren’t engineering or math, computers are a tool to get something else done.<p>For those people, unless something fit within an existing (but large!) range of use cases, they were out of luck without having an engineer or mathematician figure it out for them. Suddenly, there is a glimmer on the horizon that all of that possibility the computer science people see every day could be unlocked for the users, and even if it only works 5% of the time, that is enough to get them excited in ways that are hard to describe to the computer science people.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Plain Text Calendar</title><url>https://terokarvinen.com/2021/calendar-txt/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stimpson_j_cat</author><text>Calendar apps are so complicated and tightly integrated with other productivity apps now I&#x27;m not sure the benefit of simplicity here outweighs the cost of losing that.<p>My Google cal emails me notifications, works with desktop calendar apps, integrates with Maps, etc. It autofills addresses, adjusts for time zones, syncs across my 4000 devices, allows me to edits dates via text input or GUI&#x2F;drag &#x27;n drop, etc. (Not shilling, Apple cal is probably similar.)<p>Even my todo list went from org mode to Google Tasks because of the integrations with Android, Google Calendar, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gumby</author><text>I think you have it slightly backwards (or should).<p>There&#x27;s an open standard, icalendar (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;icalendar.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;icalendar.org&#x2F;</a>) which represents calendar entries. Invitations you get in the mail come this format too. The easiest way for your map, address book, reminders etc to integrate is just to talk to your calendar server. The apps need not know about each other at all.<p>Google and microsoft of course may do some non-standard futzing around within their proprietary stacks: you can often see these problems when you try to connect to something outside their silos, though in my experience the standards integration in google calendaring is pretty good (especially when compared to their mail system). It&#x27;s been a few years since I had to interface with Exchange calendaring but back then it...wasn&#x27;t good.<p>So in any case there&#x27;s no reason you couldn&#x27;t write a small service that spoke ical over the network and this plain text calendar&#x27;s format locally. Then it would appear normally in your partner&#x27;s iphone, handle your kids&#x27; schools&#x27; calendars etc.<p>Whether it would be <i>worth</i> doing that is literally an exercise for the reader...but you&#x27;d get the same level of integration as you would with, say, Apple&#x27;s icloud calendar services.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Plain Text Calendar</title><url>https://terokarvinen.com/2021/calendar-txt/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stimpson_j_cat</author><text>Calendar apps are so complicated and tightly integrated with other productivity apps now I&#x27;m not sure the benefit of simplicity here outweighs the cost of losing that.<p>My Google cal emails me notifications, works with desktop calendar apps, integrates with Maps, etc. It autofills addresses, adjusts for time zones, syncs across my 4000 devices, allows me to edits dates via text input or GUI&#x2F;drag &#x27;n drop, etc. (Not shilling, Apple cal is probably similar.)<p>Even my todo list went from org mode to Google Tasks because of the integrations with Android, Google Calendar, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tedmiston</author><text>&gt; Calendar apps are so complicated and tightly integrated with other productivity apps now I&#x27;m not sure the benefit of simplicity here outweighs the cost of losing that.<p>I&#x27;ve been looking for something like this that will let me edit in plaintext but also sync both ways with gCal for the benefits of plaintext but also the caveats that you mentioned.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Hedge fund Melvin sustains 53% loss after Reddit onslaught</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/hedge-fund-melvin-sustains-53-loss-after-reddit-onslaught/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kyrieeschaton</author><text>How much evidence is there that the &quot;reddit onslaught&quot; actually moved the price, as opposed to them being the stalking horse for more sophisticated actors with more capital exercising a vanilla short squeeze strategy?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>robbomacrae</author><text>So many conspiracy theories on both sides these days. Don&#x27;t forget Ocram&#x27;s razor. I don&#x27;t think there are many sophisticated actors here at all. I&#x27;m speaking as one who did DD on GME back in September and throw some money in (thought it was a great opportunity mainly because of Cohen +
the upcoming console super cycle with a tiny chance of squeeze thrown in) It was a smart discovery by WSB and got a bit more than average attention but then it kept growing.. every week more DD&#x27;s posted and more attention. Now the entire sub is so dedicated to GME its actually annoying.<p>I think it really is the simple dumb story of a really bad bet by a hedge fund getting called out online and a with more and more jumping on the wagon and with the hedge fund making more and more dumb mistakes. And everyone is underestimating the redditors who, behind the emojis and crap talk, are actually pretty smart. Collectively they can, and did, cause this.. no need to invent other actors to explain it.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Hedge fund Melvin sustains 53% loss after Reddit onslaught</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/hedge-fund-melvin-sustains-53-loss-after-reddit-onslaught/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kyrieeschaton</author><text>How much evidence is there that the &quot;reddit onslaught&quot; actually moved the price, as opposed to them being the stalking horse for more sophisticated actors with more capital exercising a vanilla short squeeze strategy?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>londons_explore</author><text>My experience of reddit is you can get a &quot;wildly successful&quot; meme or post, yet rarely that translates into more than a few thousand dollars of cash being spent on anything.<p>All the &quot;wildly successful&quot; kickstarters and stuff seem to have commercial backers lined up to make the social media buzz effect appear bigger than it is.<p>I suspect the same happened here.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Up to 1,500 businesses affected by ransomware attack, Kaseya CEO says</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/hackers-demand-70-million-liberate-data-held-by-companies-hit-mass-cyberattack-2021-07-05/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dahfizz</author><text>Its interesting to me that the discussion around ransomware attacks on HN is full of victim blaming.<p>When stores are forced to close in SF because of rampant theft, nobody suggests that Walgreens or Target should hire armed guards.<p>If a mall were to be bombed, nobody would suggest that malls should just be built to resist bombing attacks.<p>The entire point of a government is to provide security and protect the rights of citizens. It is the government&#x27;s job to solve &#x2F; prevent &#x2F; deter crime. If we are willing to put the burden of security on the individual, then why would we organize into states at all?<p>I think there could be &quot;IT security codes&quot; just as there are &quot;building codes&quot; to enforce security good practices. But &quot;survive impact from a 747&quot; is not part of our building codes, and similarly &quot;be resilient to targeted, state sponsored cyberwarfare&quot; should not the responsibility of the individual.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nitrogen</author><text>If a bridge collapses, we don&#x27;t get upset that the police weren&#x27;t forming ranks by the bridge to keep the water away. Software is more like bridges than stores. It&#x27;s supporting infrastructure that needs to be able to withstand reasonably anticipated forces of nature.<p>We expect buildings to be able to resist termite damage by taking reasonable means to block them. We should also expect software to resist self-propagating worms and other attacks. If you build a building in a tough neighborhood (or a warzone), that building has to have security and stability features that match the demands placed on it by its environment. The Internet is basically a termite-infested warzone.<p>We know that threats exist, we have things like OWASP and other sources of improving best practices to prevent common entrypoints for attacks. We have to expect software and networks to do better, just as we expect governments to find and stop the attackers.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Up to 1,500 businesses affected by ransomware attack, Kaseya CEO says</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/hackers-demand-70-million-liberate-data-held-by-companies-hit-mass-cyberattack-2021-07-05/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dahfizz</author><text>Its interesting to me that the discussion around ransomware attacks on HN is full of victim blaming.<p>When stores are forced to close in SF because of rampant theft, nobody suggests that Walgreens or Target should hire armed guards.<p>If a mall were to be bombed, nobody would suggest that malls should just be built to resist bombing attacks.<p>The entire point of a government is to provide security and protect the rights of citizens. It is the government&#x27;s job to solve &#x2F; prevent &#x2F; deter crime. If we are willing to put the burden of security on the individual, then why would we organize into states at all?<p>I think there could be &quot;IT security codes&quot; just as there are &quot;building codes&quot; to enforce security good practices. But &quot;survive impact from a 747&quot; is not part of our building codes, and similarly &quot;be resilient to targeted, state sponsored cyberwarfare&quot; should not the responsibility of the individual.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>theandrewbailey</author><text>&gt; Its interesting to me that the discussion around ransomware attacks on HN is full of victim blaming.<p>This is HN. It&#x27;s filled with people whose job is building secure systems, or at the very least are aware of best practices to prevent these attacks. Of course you&#x27;re going to read that they should have done this or that.<p>&gt; When stores are forced to close in SF because of rampant theft, nobody suggests that Walgreens or Target should hire armed guards. If a mall were to be bombed, nobody would suggest that malls should just be built to resist bombing attacks.<p>Have you tried asking that in different places?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Assembly Language Programming: Still Relevant Today (2015)</title><url>http://wilsonminesco.com/AssyDefense/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>peter_d_sherman</author><text>Excerpt:<p>&quot;Jeff Laughton (Dr Jefyll on the 6502.org forum) says, &quot;I recall hanging out with a programmer pal o&#x27; mine and a younger fella who was in college. The young fella was complaining, &#x27;We <i>have</i> to take assembly language,&#x27; and Len corrected him immediately, saying, &#x27;You <i>get</i> to take assembly language!&#x27;&quot;<p>&lt;g&gt;</text></comment>
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<story><title>Assembly Language Programming: Still Relevant Today (2015)</title><url>http://wilsonminesco.com/AssyDefense/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joe_the_user</author><text>&quot;...self-modifying code, [is] sometimes appropriate to solve certain problems that have no other solution, or for improving efficiency, as in double-indirect addressing.&quot;<p>I have read that self-modifying code on the x86 architecture is pretty dangerous at the assembly level.<p>More broadly, this kind of comes back to all the issues in the &quot;C is not a low level language&quot; thread. Some level of assembler certainly gives the programmer as full access to the machine as possible. But naive assembler from the 8086 - 80486 eras is going to be rearranged in a lot of ways in a modern Pentium processor and counting on in-order execution may be a mistake.<p>Edit: at the same time, the modern processor doesn&#x27;t really allow a lower level than assembler normally and the default approach is assuming flat memory but being aware of the pitfalls of multiple caches being involved.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Marriott’s breach response is so bad, security experts are filling in the gaps</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/03/marriott-data-breach-response-risk-phishing/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>Could someone explain to me what&#x27;s up with the &quot;monitoring services&quot;? I recently read a book on infosec risk, and they keep mentioning that the usual response for data breach involves sponsoring a &quot;credit monitoring service&quot; for customers. Marriott is now referring people to some non-credit &quot;monitoring service&quot;, that (from skimming their site) ultimately tries to fill in some holes left by &quot;credit monitoring&quot;.<p>Here&#x27;s what I don&#x27;t understand:<p>- Why?<p>- Why is that not a service provided by a bank, as a part of having a credit card?<p>- Why do individuals have to pay some random third parties to protect themselves from some fraudster defrauding some bank via data obtained from some company (even if, in publicized breach cases, this gets covered by breached company)?<p>- (Somewhat related) how is it that your &quot;credit score&quot; isn&#x27;t just a number on your bank dashboard, but you have to pay third parties to discover it?<p>It can&#x27;t be that all of this is just a legalized racket, can it? Because if feels like it is.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Marriott’s breach response is so bad, security experts are filling in the gaps</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/03/marriott-data-breach-response-risk-phishing/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Cyphase</author><text>Things like this seem to indicate an almost complete lack of competence in regards to security and breach response. Can Marriott not afford to hire one full-time, experienced, competent person to oversee security policy? Of course they can. But it seems that they haven&#x27;t, because someone who&#x27;s job it is to oversee security policy should certainly be right in the middle of Marriot&#x27;s response process, and should have caught something like this.<p>I&#x27;m not saying there are no competent people doing security at Marriott. If you work at Marriott doing security work, I&#x27;m not trying to attack you; this kind of thing is not one person&#x27;s fault (unless it really, really, really is, and not even then, because the other people in the organization shouldn&#x27;t have allowed such a single-point-of-failure). But really.. it&#x27;s just abysmal.</text></comment>
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<story><title>AlphaGo’s ultimate challenge: a five-game match against Lee Sedol</title><url>http://googleasiapacific.blogspot.com/2016/03/alphagos-ultimate-challenge.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jamornh</author><text>Wow, Lee Sedol just resigned. First game goes to AlphaGo. I wasn&#x27;t sure who would win the 5 matches, but I never expected AlphaGo to win the first game!</text></comment>
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<story><title>AlphaGo’s ultimate challenge: a five-game match against Lee Sedol</title><url>http://googleasiapacific.blogspot.com/2016/03/alphagos-ultimate-challenge.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>awwducks</author><text>A bit late, but this is the AGA feed.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gaming.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=YZPKR7HzM_s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gaming.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=YZPKR7HzM_s</a><p>No one can believe it. Myungwan Kim 9p says it&#x27;s likely Lee Sedol feels like he could have won. He also says Alpha Go is likely stronger than he is.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-exposed-user-data-feared-repercussions-of-disclosing-to-public-1539017194</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skbly7</author><text>The company which consider every single bit of data as &quot;gold&quot; decided not to keep their API&#x27;s access log &gt; 2 weeks? wow!</text></item><item><author>Bhilai</author><text>&gt;We made Google+ with privacy in mind and therefore keep this API’s log data for only two weeks. That means we cannot confirm which users were impacted by this bug.<p>Wait, so they only keep two weeks worth of logs and within these logs they did not find anyone abusing this flaw. How can they be certain for any time period from two week prior ?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shpx</author><text>Is it possible that your impression of the company is (was?) off?<p>I&#x27;m not surprised. They (claim to) do something similar with the logs of their DNS service: two weeks of anonymized logs after which they &quot;randomly sample a small subset for permanent storage&quot;.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.google.com&#x2F;speed&#x2F;public-dns&#x2F;privacy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.google.com&#x2F;speed&#x2F;public-dns&#x2F;privacy</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-exposed-user-data-feared-repercussions-of-disclosing-to-public-1539017194</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skbly7</author><text>The company which consider every single bit of data as &quot;gold&quot; decided not to keep their API&#x27;s access log &gt; 2 weeks? wow!</text></item><item><author>Bhilai</author><text>&gt;We made Google+ with privacy in mind and therefore keep this API’s log data for only two weeks. That means we cannot confirm which users were impacted by this bug.<p>Wait, so they only keep two weeks worth of logs and within these logs they did not find anyone abusing this flaw. How can they be certain for any time period from two week prior ?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pinewurst</author><text>It&#x27;s not like they don&#x27;t have the storage space for more. Heck, the full logs for all Google+ usage probably fit on a USB stick. :)</text></comment>
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<story><title>The IAB loves tracking users but hates users tracking them</title><url>https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/01/the-iab-loves-tracking-users-but-it-hates-users-tracking-them/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alasdair_</author><text>Even if I need to use my real address, I’ll use the “address 2” field to say something like “Amazon sold my information”<p>I’ve had quite a lot of third party junk mail with this kind of stuff on it over the years.</text></item><item><author>dale_glass</author><text>&gt; As part of the UID2 API they specifically describe how an advertiser must &quot;normalise&quot; their users&#x27; email addresses.
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&gt; This means [email protected] becomes plain old [email protected]<p>It seemed to be completely obvious to me even decades back, that the + scheme would be trivially parsed and reversed.<p>So I don&#x27;t use it and just keep on making completely new aliases. So amazon gets [email protected]. If I&#x27;m not going to pay for anything on this account it also gets a random name from a random piece of well known media, like &quot;Donald Duck&quot;, and all the data filled in randomly to ensure that it&#x27;s not googleable, and doesn&#x27;t correlate with any accounts anywhere else.<p>The bigger issue I see is the desire to link everything to a phone number. Even stuff made for privacy, like Signal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gjsman-1000</author><text>That, my friend, is a brilliant trick. Genius award of the day.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The IAB loves tracking users but hates users tracking them</title><url>https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/01/the-iab-loves-tracking-users-but-it-hates-users-tracking-them/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alasdair_</author><text>Even if I need to use my real address, I’ll use the “address 2” field to say something like “Amazon sold my information”<p>I’ve had quite a lot of third party junk mail with this kind of stuff on it over the years.</text></item><item><author>dale_glass</author><text>&gt; As part of the UID2 API they specifically describe how an advertiser must &quot;normalise&quot; their users&#x27; email addresses.
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&gt; This means [email protected] becomes plain old [email protected]<p>It seemed to be completely obvious to me even decades back, that the + scheme would be trivially parsed and reversed.<p>So I don&#x27;t use it and just keep on making completely new aliases. So amazon gets [email protected]. If I&#x27;m not going to pay for anything on this account it also gets a random name from a random piece of well known media, like &quot;Donald Duck&quot;, and all the data filled in randomly to ensure that it&#x27;s not googleable, and doesn&#x27;t correlate with any accounts anywhere else.<p>The bigger issue I see is the desire to link everything to a phone number. Even stuff made for privacy, like Signal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>I like this! I will do this in the future.</text></comment>
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<story><title>New York’s Rockland County declares measles outbreak emergency</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47715169</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nerdponx</author><text>I know it&#x27;s against the rules here to insinuate that people haven&#x27;t read the article, but I don&#x27;t think anyone commenting has read the article.<p>This isn&#x27;t about the anti-vax movement as it is about the toxic relationship that the ultra-Orthodox Jewish enclaves in New York have with their surrounding communities. They are used to abusing religious exemptions in order to have everything &quot;their way&quot;. Hopefully this is the beginning of the end of their ability to operate like this.<p><i>The outbreak in Rockland County is largely concentrated in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, the New York Times reported. It is believed it could have spread from other predominantly ultra-Orthodox areas around New York which have already seen outbreaks of measles.</i><p><i>Mr Day said health inspectors had encountered &quot;resistance&quot; from some local residents, which he branded &quot;unacceptable and irresponsible&quot;.</i><p><i>&quot;They&#x27;ve been told &#x27;We&#x27;re not discussing this, do not come back&#x27; when visiting the homes of infected individuals as part of their investigations,&quot; he said.</i></text></comment>
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<story><title>New York’s Rockland County declares measles outbreak emergency</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47715169</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tanilama</author><text>Measles even for normal adults can leave ugly scars afterwards. It is definitely not harmless.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear</title><url>http://www.hemingwayapp.com/</url><text>Great for testing your copy</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jawns</author><text>You know what&#x27;s fun? Pasting in text from Ernest Hemingway and seeing what he did wrong.<p>But seriously, this is a nice, simple way to point out some general rules of thumb for improving writing, although I would love for it to be less proscriptive. Not every long sentence is a bad sentence, not every passive-voice sentence is a bad sentence, and not every adverb is a bad adverb.<p>Oh, and by the way, the copy editor in me can&#x27;t help but notice that an app that&#x27;s intended to help you improve your writing tells you to &quot;Aim for 2 or less&quot; adverbs, rather than &quot;Aim for 2 or fewer.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pmichaud</author><text>The thing about pedantic snark (less&#x2F;fewer), is that it loses its teeth when you&#x27;re wrong.<p>Even if you go in for prescriptive grammar, less and fewer were never strictly divided. The distinction actually came to us through one Mr. Baker&#x27;s expressed preference:<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fewer_vs._less#Historical_usage" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fewer_vs._less#Historical_usage</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear</title><url>http://www.hemingwayapp.com/</url><text>Great for testing your copy</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jawns</author><text>You know what&#x27;s fun? Pasting in text from Ernest Hemingway and seeing what he did wrong.<p>But seriously, this is a nice, simple way to point out some general rules of thumb for improving writing, although I would love for it to be less proscriptive. Not every long sentence is a bad sentence, not every passive-voice sentence is a bad sentence, and not every adverb is a bad adverb.<p>Oh, and by the way, the copy editor in me can&#x27;t help but notice that an app that&#x27;s intended to help you improve your writing tells you to &quot;Aim for 2 or less&quot; adverbs, rather than &quot;Aim for 2 or fewer.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hissworks</author><text>&gt;&gt; Aim for 2 or fewer.<p>This also violates current usage conventions for handling numbers in text.[1] Figures are only meant to be used in greater numbers (a rule of thumb is anything over 30, but I think I read that in a David Foster Wallace text, fwiw) with more complex verbal &#x2F; textual representations - that is, not &quot;two&quot;.<p>[1] <a href="https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/593/01/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;owl.english.purdue.edu&#x2F;owl&#x2F;resource&#x2F;593&#x2F;01&#x2F;</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Australia to produce seaweed cattle feed that reduces methane emissions by 80%</title><url>https://www.thecattlesite.com/news/55890/new-company-to-reduce-cows-methane-using-feed-additive-made-from-the-seaweed/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tassl</author><text>As unethical as eating soy from a deforested area. Or eating mostly anything with sugar, canola oil or palm oil. But people don&#x27;t ask those to be in non deforested areas, and they don&#x27;t ask to increase the price to make sure soil is not destroyed by monocrop cultivation.</text></item><item><author>nicoburns</author><text>If the beef you&#x27;re eating was raised on a deforested area (anything from a big fast-food chain almost certainly was) then that&#x27;s still pretty unethical though. I agree it doesn&#x27;t mean that beef is inherently unethical. But people will need to be willing to accept higher prices in order to make it ethical.</text></item><item><author>s1artibartfast</author><text>That doesn&#x27;t negate the point that deforestation is not necessary, and may not be typical.<p>100% of deforestation could be for beef production, but 99% of beef production could be without deforestation.</text></item><item><author>jamil7</author><text>&gt; In Australia a significant amount (can&#x27;t remember the specifics) of cattle is raised on land that is unsuitable for crop production. My own experience confirms this.<p>72% of all deforestation in Queensland and 94% in the Great Barrier Reef catchment areas is a direct result of land clearing for beef production.<p>Edit: One source was missing.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wilderness.org.au&#x2F;images&#x2F;resources&#x2F;Beef-Deforestation-Scorecard-Report.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wilderness.org.au&#x2F;images&#x2F;resources&#x2F;Beef-Deforest...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wilderness.org.au&#x2F;&#x2F;images&#x2F;resources&#x2F;The_Drivers_of_Deforestation_Land-clearing_Qld_Report.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wilderness.org.au&#x2F;&#x2F;images&#x2F;resources&#x2F;The_Drivers_...</a></text></item><item><author>jazzabeanie</author><text>In Australia a significant amount (can&#x27;t remember the specifics) of cattle is raised on land that is unsuitable for crop production. My own experience confirms this. I&#x27;ve seen many cattle farms around Queensland - some with low stocking density and no deforestation, others very poorly managed with no trees at all or full of invasive species.<p>It&#x27;s not as simple as eating meat = bad, but that&#x27;s the message most people are getting. If they respond by stopping eating meat, then great - not the best choice, but a step in the right direction. If they respond by stopping to care where their food comes from then not so great.</text></item><item><author>seanwilson</author><text>How much could this reduce the total environmental food print of cattle? I.e. including all the energy used to grow the crops they eat, the deforestation to make room for the crops + cattle, the waste the cows produce.<p>Animal farming creates vast damage because of how inefficient it is and seaweed won&#x27;t address how much feed cows need or that the world is eating more and more meat as countries get richer:<p>&gt; The energy efficiency of meat and dairy production is defined as the percentage of energy (caloric) inputs as feed effectively converted to animal product. An efficiency of 25% would mean 25% of calories in animal feed inputs were effectively converted to animal product; the remaining 75% would be lost during conversion.<p>&gt; Whole milk: 24%<p>&gt; Beef: 1.9%<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ourworldindata.org&#x2F;grapher&#x2F;energy-efficiency-of-meat-and-dairy-production" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ourworldindata.org&#x2F;grapher&#x2F;energy-efficiency-of-meat...</a><p>All improvements are good, but I&#x27;d like to know if this is more than a distraction to make people feel better about continuing to demand products they know are damaging the environment (e.g. Amazon deforestation).<p>Industrial farmed animals aren&#x27;t eating grass, they&#x27;re eating crops like soy. If you find soy milk and soy-based meat alternatives decent for example, consider eating those directly instead of products from soy-fed cows - it&#x27;ll be vastly better for the environment with seaweed or not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nicoburns</author><text>That&#x27;s not entirely true. There is a whole movement around boycotting palm oil for example, just as there is with beef. It certainly could be more widely supported.<p>It&#x27;s worth noting that a lot of the soy from deforested areas also goes towards feeding livestock. The soy that humans eat (or drink) tends to be more more ethical on average.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Australia to produce seaweed cattle feed that reduces methane emissions by 80%</title><url>https://www.thecattlesite.com/news/55890/new-company-to-reduce-cows-methane-using-feed-additive-made-from-the-seaweed/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tassl</author><text>As unethical as eating soy from a deforested area. Or eating mostly anything with sugar, canola oil or palm oil. But people don&#x27;t ask those to be in non deforested areas, and they don&#x27;t ask to increase the price to make sure soil is not destroyed by monocrop cultivation.</text></item><item><author>nicoburns</author><text>If the beef you&#x27;re eating was raised on a deforested area (anything from a big fast-food chain almost certainly was) then that&#x27;s still pretty unethical though. I agree it doesn&#x27;t mean that beef is inherently unethical. But people will need to be willing to accept higher prices in order to make it ethical.</text></item><item><author>s1artibartfast</author><text>That doesn&#x27;t negate the point that deforestation is not necessary, and may not be typical.<p>100% of deforestation could be for beef production, but 99% of beef production could be without deforestation.</text></item><item><author>jamil7</author><text>&gt; In Australia a significant amount (can&#x27;t remember the specifics) of cattle is raised on land that is unsuitable for crop production. My own experience confirms this.<p>72% of all deforestation in Queensland and 94% in the Great Barrier Reef catchment areas is a direct result of land clearing for beef production.<p>Edit: One source was missing.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wilderness.org.au&#x2F;images&#x2F;resources&#x2F;Beef-Deforestation-Scorecard-Report.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wilderness.org.au&#x2F;images&#x2F;resources&#x2F;Beef-Deforest...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wilderness.org.au&#x2F;&#x2F;images&#x2F;resources&#x2F;The_Drivers_of_Deforestation_Land-clearing_Qld_Report.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wilderness.org.au&#x2F;&#x2F;images&#x2F;resources&#x2F;The_Drivers_...</a></text></item><item><author>jazzabeanie</author><text>In Australia a significant amount (can&#x27;t remember the specifics) of cattle is raised on land that is unsuitable for crop production. My own experience confirms this. I&#x27;ve seen many cattle farms around Queensland - some with low stocking density and no deforestation, others very poorly managed with no trees at all or full of invasive species.<p>It&#x27;s not as simple as eating meat = bad, but that&#x27;s the message most people are getting. If they respond by stopping eating meat, then great - not the best choice, but a step in the right direction. If they respond by stopping to care where their food comes from then not so great.</text></item><item><author>seanwilson</author><text>How much could this reduce the total environmental food print of cattle? I.e. including all the energy used to grow the crops they eat, the deforestation to make room for the crops + cattle, the waste the cows produce.<p>Animal farming creates vast damage because of how inefficient it is and seaweed won&#x27;t address how much feed cows need or that the world is eating more and more meat as countries get richer:<p>&gt; The energy efficiency of meat and dairy production is defined as the percentage of energy (caloric) inputs as feed effectively converted to animal product. An efficiency of 25% would mean 25% of calories in animal feed inputs were effectively converted to animal product; the remaining 75% would be lost during conversion.<p>&gt; Whole milk: 24%<p>&gt; Beef: 1.9%<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ourworldindata.org&#x2F;grapher&#x2F;energy-efficiency-of-meat-and-dairy-production" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ourworldindata.org&#x2F;grapher&#x2F;energy-efficiency-of-meat...</a><p>All improvements are good, but I&#x27;d like to know if this is more than a distraction to make people feel better about continuing to demand products they know are damaging the environment (e.g. Amazon deforestation).<p>Industrial farmed animals aren&#x27;t eating grass, they&#x27;re eating crops like soy. If you find soy milk and soy-based meat alternatives decent for example, consider eating those directly instead of products from soy-fed cows - it&#x27;ll be vastly better for the environment with seaweed or not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rewq4321</author><text>For reference, only about 6% of soybeans grown worldwide are turned directly into food products for human consumption.[0] Most goes to feeding animals that are used for human consumption.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ucsusa.org&#x2F;resources&#x2F;soybeans" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ucsusa.org&#x2F;resources&#x2F;soybeans</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Two decades of Alzheimer’s research was based on deliberate fraud</title><url>https://wallstreetpro.com/2022/07/23/two-decades-of-alzheimers-research-was-based-on-deliberate-fraud-by-2-scientists-that-has-cost-billions-of-dollars-and-millions-of-lives/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>macintux</author><text>Two days ago: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32183302" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32183302</a><p>A month ago: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=31828509" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=31828509</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Two decades of Alzheimer’s research was based on deliberate fraud</title><url>https://wallstreetpro.com/2022/07/23/two-decades-of-alzheimers-research-was-based-on-deliberate-fraud-by-2-scientists-that-has-cost-billions-of-dollars-and-millions-of-lives/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>atombender</author><text>I recommend reading the comments on AlzForum [1]. From the discussions, it sounds like this fraud is significant in terms of Dr. Sylvain Lesné&#x27;s work, but that the news has been vastly blown out of proportion.<p>These comments are written by real Alzheimer&#x27;s researchers. They all disagree with the notion that Lesné&#x27;s papers have been important to the field, and therefore undermine the idea that this has any bearing on &quot;two decades of Alzheimer&#x27;s research&quot;. (Karen Ashe, co-author of the main paper referenced here, also stops by the thread.)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alzforum.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;community-news&#x2F;sylvain-lesne-who-found-av56-accused-image-manipulation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alzforum.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;community-news&#x2F;sylvain-lesne-w...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>No Copyright Law: The Real Reason for Germany’s Industrial Expansion? (2010)</title><url>http://m.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/no-copyright-law-the-real-reason-for-germany-s-industrial-expansion-a-710976.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>littlestymaar</author><text>I had no idea about the situation in Germany, but it&#x27;s a well-known fact that the current power of the Swiss chemical and pharmaceutical industry comes from the lack of patents law in Switzerland during the late 19th century[1]: a few French chemists moved to Switzerland to circumvent the French patents.<p>A well-known example is Alexander Clavel who, in 1859, founded Ciba AG, a silk-dyeing business using a French patent with no license. Ciba later became Ciba-Geigy, which later became Novartis. One of the biggest pharma corp in the world today.<p>Source: Swiss National Museum, Zurich.<p>[1] : Patents were only introduced in the Swiss law in 1907.</text></comment>
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<story><title>No Copyright Law: The Real Reason for Germany’s Industrial Expansion? (2010)</title><url>http://m.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/no-copyright-law-the-real-reason-for-germany-s-industrial-expansion-a-710976.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>skookumchuck</author><text>Curiously, we see a similar situation today with open source software. The free nature of it would seem to stifle creation of top quality open source software, but the reverse seems to be true. The open source business is thriving.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Uber is forcing drivers in Seattle to listen to anti-union propaganda</title><url>https://thenextweb.com/us/2017/03/13/uber-is-forcing-drivers-in-seattle-to-listen-to-anti-union-propaganda/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>OskarS</author><text>Imagine doing a podcast solely for your employees full of propaganda with the purpose of preventing them from unionizing. Seems like a very disturbing company culture.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freehunter</author><text>I worked quite a few retail jobs in college and the only ones who did not have mandatory training on the horrors of unions were the ones that were already unionized.<p>Walmart goes so far to avoid any talk of unions that the one time employees unionized, they shut down that entire department for good, across every store.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Uber is forcing drivers in Seattle to listen to anti-union propaganda</title><url>https://thenextweb.com/us/2017/03/13/uber-is-forcing-drivers-in-seattle-to-listen-to-anti-union-propaganda/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>OskarS</author><text>Imagine doing a podcast solely for your employees full of propaganda with the purpose of preventing them from unionizing. Seems like a very disturbing company culture.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>strictfp</author><text>At first I read &#x27;disrupting&#x27; instead of &#x27;disturbing&#x27;. Ahh, spooky</text></comment>
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<story><title>tmux 1.8 Released</title><url>http://tmux.sourceforge.net/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jscheel</author><text>If you like tmux, also check out teamocil (<a href="https://github.com/remiprev/teamocil" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/remiprev/teamocil</a>) to really enhance your use. It enables you to define tmux sessions via YAML, which is great for programmatically setting up a complex dev session. Mine, for example, fires up six panes in my preferred layout, and starts up a particular part of our project in each pane.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>remi</author><text>Teamocil author here, glad you like it! :)</text></comment>
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<story><title>tmux 1.8 Released</title><url>http://tmux.sourceforge.net/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jscheel</author><text>If you like tmux, also check out teamocil (<a href="https://github.com/remiprev/teamocil" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/remiprev/teamocil</a>) to really enhance your use. It enables you to define tmux sessions via YAML, which is great for programmatically setting up a complex dev session. Mine, for example, fires up six panes in my preferred layout, and starts up a particular part of our project in each pane.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kevinastone</author><text>Upvote for the best named project I've ever seen.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Relocating from San Francisco to Seattle: cost comparison</title><url>http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=relocating+from+san+francisco+to+seattle+with+a+salary+of+$120000</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dylanz</author><text>Weather.<p>I'm a Californian who grew up in a "sunny" California city, and I've been living in Seattle for the last year. I've also spent a lot of time in San Francisco in my lifetime.<p>I, miss, the, sun. Every time I go back to California and visit family/friends, I start to realize how depressed I am up in the Pacific North West. I've had more that one person recommend that I take Vitamin D supplements, which is supposed to make me feel better.<p>The moral of my own personal story is... I'm moving back to California. I need sun. I'll pay a premium for the mental health of myself and my children.<p>How many days of sun are there in San Francisco compared to Seattle? If you had to live in a place with awesome tech scenes but with no sun, you might as well choose Seattle... it's cheaper.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostrademons</author><text>I've had a coworker who used to work at Microsoft say the same thing. She liked Seattle, but when it came down to not seeing the sun from Nov-Mar in Seattle vs. not seeing a cloud in the sky from May-Oct in Silicon Valley, it was a pretty easy choice.<p>I'm curious how both compare to Portland, which has been a popular destination for burnt-out Bay Area hackers of late. I've heard it's somewhere in-between. The one time I visited it was nice and sunny, but then again, it was August.<p>I'm also wondering how they compare to the east coast. I was born &#38; raised in the Boston area, which has a reputation for terrible weather. But Boston is highly seasonal: you get to May, when you have wonderful 70-degrees sunny days, and think "This is what I shoveled all winter for." I almost think that's nicer than the Bay Area, where you get inured to the nice weather after a while and start to take it for granted.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Relocating from San Francisco to Seattle: cost comparison</title><url>http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=relocating+from+san+francisco+to+seattle+with+a+salary+of+$120000</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dylanz</author><text>Weather.<p>I'm a Californian who grew up in a "sunny" California city, and I've been living in Seattle for the last year. I've also spent a lot of time in San Francisco in my lifetime.<p>I, miss, the, sun. Every time I go back to California and visit family/friends, I start to realize how depressed I am up in the Pacific North West. I've had more that one person recommend that I take Vitamin D supplements, which is supposed to make me feel better.<p>The moral of my own personal story is... I'm moving back to California. I need sun. I'll pay a premium for the mental health of myself and my children.<p>How many days of sun are there in San Francisco compared to Seattle? If you had to live in a place with awesome tech scenes but with no sun, you might as well choose Seattle... it's cheaper.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>squidbot</author><text>I grew up in Berkeley and lived in the Bay Area until I was 27. I moved to Seattle 13 years ago and have no plans to return. I don't miss the weather at all, in fact I enjoy the generally cooler summer and actually having some variation (I lived in Boston for a year and actually like having more defined seasons, but the cold and heat did get to me.)<p>Anyway, I can't ever see myself moving back to CA. The cost of living is definitely better, I find people much less self absorbed up here, and I love the scenery. The latter is probably the biggest factor, it's so incredibly beautiful up here I couldn't bear to leave the trees, mountains and islands.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The case for national paid maternity leave</title><url>https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2020/05/18/the-case-for-national-paid-maternity-leave/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>baq</author><text>i live in a country with paid parental leave and have heard second-hand stories of employer bias against women in childbearing age precisely because women in childbearing age got employed and promptly got pregnant.<p>for the record i&#x27;m for this kind of social assistance because the alternative sounds downright barbaric.</text></item><item><author>pm90</author><text> The study seems to confirm the economic benefits associated with paid parental leave.<p>&gt; On the flip side, some studies have shown less positive effects, such as encouragement of employer bias against women of childbearing age in lower-paying or part-time jobs.<p>It makes 0 sense to not have paid parental leave by law. Government assistance in the form of medicare assistance etc. should be provided to lower income parents or those that don&#x27;t have access to employer sponsored healthcare. Apart from the economic and ethical argument, if we want the next generation of Americans to have happy, healthy childhoods, it seems imperative to provide as much assistance as possible to enable that environment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mapgrep</author><text>A great example of why not just maternity leave (per the link) but parental leave broadly is a good idea. And why both parents need to take it. Otherwise it will be used by some as an excuse to discriminate against birth parents.<p>Of course there are many other benefits to both parents taking leave, including that studies have shown that non birth parents who take leave tend to be more involved in parenting long term. Also, it’s hugely rewarding emotionally!</text></comment>
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<story><title>The case for national paid maternity leave</title><url>https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2020/05/18/the-case-for-national-paid-maternity-leave/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>baq</author><text>i live in a country with paid parental leave and have heard second-hand stories of employer bias against women in childbearing age precisely because women in childbearing age got employed and promptly got pregnant.<p>for the record i&#x27;m for this kind of social assistance because the alternative sounds downright barbaric.</text></item><item><author>pm90</author><text> The study seems to confirm the economic benefits associated with paid parental leave.<p>&gt; On the flip side, some studies have shown less positive effects, such as encouragement of employer bias against women of childbearing age in lower-paying or part-time jobs.<p>It makes 0 sense to not have paid parental leave by law. Government assistance in the form of medicare assistance etc. should be provided to lower income parents or those that don&#x27;t have access to employer sponsored healthcare. Apart from the economic and ethical argument, if we want the next generation of Americans to have happy, healthy childhoods, it seems imperative to provide as much assistance as possible to enable that environment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ta1234567890</author><text>Yes it happens. But why punish 100% of potential beneficiaries for what maybe 1-5% of them might do. Just include the cost of abuse in the projections and deal with it. That&#x27;s how every system works. Every system gets abused.<p>One example: credit cards - there&#x27;s plenty of fraud there, but we somehow manage to deal with it and make the system work regardless.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Tesla footage of braking before crash ahead [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_c5kB1qbjY</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>79d697i6fdif</author><text>The biggest thing I noticed was just how easily SUV&#x27;s flip over. This has been a problem forever I&#x27;m just surprised that regulators don&#x27;t take more notice of it. Rollovers are far more likely to result in injury or death.<p>Most cars just don&#x27;t flip, all the traction their tires have is simply not enough to do it on flat ground. Yeah anything could flip over once you go off the road but the SUV in this looks like a rolling death machine.</text></item><item><author>sytelus</author><text>This is great video to study on many levels beyond self-driving car. Some observations:<p>* The car behind didn&#x27;t show turn signal so probably driver wasn&#x27;t paying attention.<p>* A small car escaping with not too much damage while SUV rolls over many times<p>* From physics point of view, the car behind produced almost perfect torque that started horizontal spin on SUV<p>* Collisions with barrier at high speed can produce lots of rolls. Many time we see cars upside down in accident and wonder how did that happened. This is how.<p>* The middle barrier did its job wonderfully even against massive inertia of SUV. Cars on other side remained unscathed!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cylinder</author><text>Because people think these SUVs are &quot;safer&quot; due to their size. And then it becomes an arms race; you see the highway full of large SUVs, and you feel vulnerable in a tiny compact car, because you think they will crush you in a collision, so others start buying SUVs to &quot;protect&quot; themselves. These land-beasts might be comfortable but they are unsafe, take an excess and unfair amount of space on the road, consume too much fuel, and trigger arms race. They need to be regulated to death for most users.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Tesla footage of braking before crash ahead [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_c5kB1qbjY</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>79d697i6fdif</author><text>The biggest thing I noticed was just how easily SUV&#x27;s flip over. This has been a problem forever I&#x27;m just surprised that regulators don&#x27;t take more notice of it. Rollovers are far more likely to result in injury or death.<p>Most cars just don&#x27;t flip, all the traction their tires have is simply not enough to do it on flat ground. Yeah anything could flip over once you go off the road but the SUV in this looks like a rolling death machine.</text></item><item><author>sytelus</author><text>This is great video to study on many levels beyond self-driving car. Some observations:<p>* The car behind didn&#x27;t show turn signal so probably driver wasn&#x27;t paying attention.<p>* A small car escaping with not too much damage while SUV rolls over many times<p>* From physics point of view, the car behind produced almost perfect torque that started horizontal spin on SUV<p>* Collisions with barrier at high speed can produce lots of rolls. Many time we see cars upside down in accident and wonder how did that happened. This is how.<p>* The middle barrier did its job wonderfully even against massive inertia of SUV. Cars on other side remained unscathed!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bryondowd</author><text>Anecdotally, my former gf managed to flip my Taurus by striking a parked car on the road at 15mph. Police verified that she wasn&#x27;t moving faster because she practically flipped it in place, rather than ending up a significant distance away. Just a case of hitting at just the right angle and riding it up, I guess.</text></comment>
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<story><title>MIT and Harvard agree to transfer edX to ed-tech firm 2U</title><url>https://news.mit.edu/2021/mit-harvard-transfer-edx-2u-0629</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>benrbray</author><text>I tried to use edX for the first time recently to take a &quot;food science&quot; course, but was disappointed to see that they&#x27;ve resorted to the same dark patterns as Coursera and others, such as:<p>* Removing your access to course materials when the class is done, and disallowing access to past versions of the class.<p>* Pressuring you into joining as many courses as possible, due to fear of missing out. When you visit the site, every course says &quot;Course began ($TODAY-5)&quot; to make you feel like &quot;wow, I got here just in time! I better sign up for everything!&quot;.<p>* Breaking courses into useless 2-minute chunks and constant unhelpful quizzes. I really just want to hear the lecturer speak for 20-30 minutes at a time uninterrupted, especially if I&#x27;m listening while doing dishes etc.<p>* An unsettling UI that feels less like it&#x27;s about presenting information in a compact and&#x2F;or digestible way and more like it&#x27;s tracking my every move and waiting for an opportunity to pounce. Everything is a button or clickthrough menu that requires interaction.<p>Thankfully MIT OpenCourseWare still has plenty of lecture videos &#x2F; course materials available. But I&#x27;m quite afraid for the future.</text></item><item><author>brutus1213</author><text>This seems like terrible news :( After the focus on monetization of platforms such as udemy and coursera, edx seemed to give me a sliver of hope that education will be open. Given the immense trust funds held by Harvard and MIT, I had hoped money would not be a factor and these institutions would be able to develop their platform in the open.<p>I&#x27;d like to add .. non-profit does not mean free to end users. There are many good non-profits and there are many terrible ones (highly paid execs, insane amount of money spent on marketing).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wodenokoto</author><text>&gt; Breaking courses into useless 2-minute chunks and constant unhelpful quizzes. I really just want to hear the lecturer speak for 20-30 minutes at a time uninterrupted, especially if I&#x27;m listening while doing dishes etc.<p>I disagree. If you’re doing dishes you are not taking a college level course. One of the best things about digital courses is that you don’t have to spend an hour zoning out to a professor talking and then spend a day doing exercises, but the two can be intertwined and knowledge can be cemented.<p>Of course it can be done terribly. But the best online courses I’ve taken have split things up into small chunks with relevant exercises.</text></comment>
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<story><title>MIT and Harvard agree to transfer edX to ed-tech firm 2U</title><url>https://news.mit.edu/2021/mit-harvard-transfer-edx-2u-0629</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>benrbray</author><text>I tried to use edX for the first time recently to take a &quot;food science&quot; course, but was disappointed to see that they&#x27;ve resorted to the same dark patterns as Coursera and others, such as:<p>* Removing your access to course materials when the class is done, and disallowing access to past versions of the class.<p>* Pressuring you into joining as many courses as possible, due to fear of missing out. When you visit the site, every course says &quot;Course began ($TODAY-5)&quot; to make you feel like &quot;wow, I got here just in time! I better sign up for everything!&quot;.<p>* Breaking courses into useless 2-minute chunks and constant unhelpful quizzes. I really just want to hear the lecturer speak for 20-30 minutes at a time uninterrupted, especially if I&#x27;m listening while doing dishes etc.<p>* An unsettling UI that feels less like it&#x27;s about presenting information in a compact and&#x2F;or digestible way and more like it&#x27;s tracking my every move and waiting for an opportunity to pounce. Everything is a button or clickthrough menu that requires interaction.<p>Thankfully MIT OpenCourseWare still has plenty of lecture videos &#x2F; course materials available. But I&#x27;m quite afraid for the future.</text></item><item><author>brutus1213</author><text>This seems like terrible news :( After the focus on monetization of platforms such as udemy and coursera, edx seemed to give me a sliver of hope that education will be open. Given the immense trust funds held by Harvard and MIT, I had hoped money would not be a factor and these institutions would be able to develop their platform in the open.<p>I&#x27;d like to add .. non-profit does not mean free to end users. There are many good non-profits and there are many terrible ones (highly paid execs, insane amount of money spent on marketing).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ArtWomb</author><text>Not surprised a cooking class doesn&#x27;t lend itself to an easy online port! But the lecture content from Harvard&#x27;s Science and Cooking with El Bulli&#x27;s Ferran Adria is still as you mention freely available online for all to enjoy. I recently had a free week pass to Masterclass. And though I found the content more entertaining than enlightening (How to be a Boss with Anna Wintour). There is something to be said about educational content that is given a Hollywood production budget. I think it was always inevitable institutes of higher education would seek auxiliary revenue streams from MOOCs. And an influx of capital could result in lecture videos that are Netflix quality, and that enjoy near 100% levels of retention ;)<p>Science and Cooking: A Dialogue | Lecture 1 (2010)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=d9av8-lhJS8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=d9av8-lhJS8</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Dishwashing detergent hack: Two ingredients (2015)</title><url>https://www.whatlisacooks.com/blog/2015/5/8/dishwashing-detergent-hack-two-ingredients</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>Everything I know about dishwasher detergent is that it is formulated to clean <i>chemically</i>, i.e. with enzymes etc. that actually <i>break food down</i> over the course of tens of minutes or hours.<p>Dish soap does NOT do that. (It&#x27;s also why you shouldn&#x27;t wash dishes by hand with dishwasher detergent, because the chemicals are too harsh.)<p>I don&#x27;t doubt that this &quot;hack&quot; does <i>some</i> cleaning, but for things like crusted-on tomato sauce, hardened cheese, dried egg yolks, etc. -- it&#x27;s just not going to work as well. Dish soap simply doesn&#x27;t break these things down. It&#x27;s not meant to.<p>(Washing by hand with dish soap works because you&#x27;re applying intense pressure and abrasion, neither of which a dishwasher can do -- which is why it does it chemically instead.)<p>I just don&#x27;t find it credible that &quot;the results are identical&quot;. Either the author isn&#x27;t paying enough attention, or else they&#x27;re doing extensive &quot;pre-washing&quot; of their dishes before loading them, or they&#x27;re washing so incredibly quickly after eating that food never has the time to dry&#x2F;harden in the first place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>twic</author><text>I once met a chap who told me he used his dishwasher without any powder or soap at all, and it still worked.<p>Now, maybe he was making it up. But i suspect that there is a common class of dish dirt where prolonged steaming and jetting with hot water is adequate in practice - i&#x27;d expect anything water-soluble to dissolve in hot water! So, residues from tea or coffee, water-based pasta sauce, fruit juice, jam, etc. It won&#x27;t work for everything, of course, but it might work for a surprising range of things.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Dishwashing detergent hack: Two ingredients (2015)</title><url>https://www.whatlisacooks.com/blog/2015/5/8/dishwashing-detergent-hack-two-ingredients</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>Everything I know about dishwasher detergent is that it is formulated to clean <i>chemically</i>, i.e. with enzymes etc. that actually <i>break food down</i> over the course of tens of minutes or hours.<p>Dish soap does NOT do that. (It&#x27;s also why you shouldn&#x27;t wash dishes by hand with dishwasher detergent, because the chemicals are too harsh.)<p>I don&#x27;t doubt that this &quot;hack&quot; does <i>some</i> cleaning, but for things like crusted-on tomato sauce, hardened cheese, dried egg yolks, etc. -- it&#x27;s just not going to work as well. Dish soap simply doesn&#x27;t break these things down. It&#x27;s not meant to.<p>(Washing by hand with dish soap works because you&#x27;re applying intense pressure and abrasion, neither of which a dishwasher can do -- which is why it does it chemically instead.)<p>I just don&#x27;t find it credible that &quot;the results are identical&quot;. Either the author isn&#x27;t paying enough attention, or else they&#x27;re doing extensive &quot;pre-washing&quot; of their dishes before loading them, or they&#x27;re washing so incredibly quickly after eating that food never has the time to dry&#x2F;harden in the first place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ajsnigrutin</author><text>&gt; I just don&#x27;t find it credible that &quot;the results are identical&quot;. Either the author isn&#x27;t paying enough attention, or else they&#x27;re doing extensive &quot;pre-washing&quot; of their dishes before loading them, or they&#x27;re washing so incredibly quickly after eating that food never has the time to dry&#x2F;harden in the first place.<p>They run the washer many times per day... al the food is probably still fresh and not dried up and hard to remove. Same is true for professional&#x2F;restaurant dishwasher, where dishes are put inside immediately and washed in a few minutes.</text></comment>
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<story><title>This experiment proved that anyone could design a nuclear weapon</title><url>http://io9.com/this-experiment-proved-that-anyone-could-design-a-nucle-510618426</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Mvandenbergh</author><text>&#62;In the 1960s World War II was well over, and the United States and the Soviet Union were both settling into a nice, long, cold war. Both countries were nervous, knowing that each had designed and built nuclear weapons. At least, though, they were the only two countries that could manage it.
Nice article but it gets the time-scales slightly wrong.<p>The Soviet Union tested their first device in 1949.<p>The United Kingdom in 1952 (and their first thermonuclear bomb in 1957).<p>France in 1960.<p>China in 1964.<p>So by the time this programme began, all the countries in the NPT nuclear club already had fission bombs and at least the UK had a hydrogen bomb. The idea was not to figure out which country would be third but just how many nuclear powers there would be. 1967 is only one year before the first countries signed the NPT so proliferation was clearly on everyone's mind at that time.</text></comment>
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<story><title>This experiment proved that anyone could design a nuclear weapon</title><url>http://io9.com/this-experiment-proved-that-anyone-could-design-a-nucle-510618426</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>venus</author><text>Good quote from one of the comments:<p>&#62;&#62; “With modern weapons-grade uranium, the background neutron rate is so low that terrorists, if they have such material, would have a good chance of setting off a high-yield explosion simply by dropping one half of the material onto the other half. Most people seem unaware that if separated HEU [Highly Enriched Uranium] is at hand it’s a trivial job to set off a nuclear explosion … even a high school kid could make a bomb in short order.” - Luis Alvarez, Nobel Laureate in Physics, 1988</text></comment>
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<story><title>Breaking Into Android Phones with a 3D-Printed Head</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2018/12/13/we-broke-into-a-bunch-of-android-phones-with-a-3d-printed-head/#305e5c2f1330</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shambolicfroli</author><text>Hmm. When I had a skin cancer excised by a surgeon, in a followup visit a woman with no ID came in and made a point of taking closeup photos of full-face and profile. When I asked she said this was standard (for minor skin cancer removal).
(Same place, where I walked into the room for the procedure, they had Carole King singing &quot;it&#x27;s too late&quot; at loud volume on a portable stereo sitting on the ground.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gumby</author><text>I was considering doing a startup addressing skin cancer and a number of Mohs surgeons were happy to have me come in and observe the entire process. To the patients they&#x27;d just say &quot;he&#x27;s observing today&quot; and not even introduce me or ask the patient (or me) to sign anything.<p>I have a friend whose startup cared was doing a surgical product; after I told him my story he called up a bunch of plastic surgeons and went and observed a bunch of them.<p>Both of us were interested in workflow; the actual science we had done on animals of course, but our research was aimed at seeing if the product would be viable (could be medically wonderful but if the doctors don&#x27;t care they won&#x27;t use it on the patients, even if it improves outcome).<p>I don&#x27;t think we could have done this at a hospital, but given that it was surgery (surgeons have a lot of freedom) perhaps we could have.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Breaking Into Android Phones with a 3D-Printed Head</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2018/12/13/we-broke-into-a-bunch-of-android-phones-with-a-3d-printed-head/#305e5c2f1330</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shambolicfroli</author><text>Hmm. When I had a skin cancer excised by a surgeon, in a followup visit a woman with no ID came in and made a point of taking closeup photos of full-face and profile. When I asked she said this was standard (for minor skin cancer removal).
(Same place, where I walked into the room for the procedure, they had Carole King singing &quot;it&#x27;s too late&quot; at loud volume on a portable stereo sitting on the ground.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scotty79</author><text>This is like something from Black Mirror or Maniac.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Solo – Open-source FIDO2 security key</title><url>https://solokeys.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>What processor parts will this be using?<p>A major benefit of the Yubikey U2F parts is that they&#x27;re almost indestructible. I&#x27;ve heard over and over again about how flimsy the Feitian parts are, and from people who have run over their Yubikeys with cars and still had them work. How resilient (in particular: waterproof) will these be?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ecesena</author><text>The one in the pictures uses a EFM32 Jade&#x2F;Pearl [1]. More details are in the discussion on github: [2].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.silabs.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;mcu&#x2F;32-bit&#x2F;efm32-pearl-gecko" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.silabs.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;mcu&#x2F;32-bit&#x2F;efm32-pearl-gecko</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;conorpp&#x2F;u2f-zero&#x2F;issues&#x2F;76" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;conorpp&#x2F;u2f-zero&#x2F;issues&#x2F;76</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Solo – Open-source FIDO2 security key</title><url>https://solokeys.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>What processor parts will this be using?<p>A major benefit of the Yubikey U2F parts is that they&#x27;re almost indestructible. I&#x27;ve heard over and over again about how flimsy the Feitian parts are, and from people who have run over their Yubikeys with cars and still had them work. How resilient (in particular: waterproof) will these be?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>riquito</author><text>Of two U2F yubikeys I own, one of them has stopped working when touching it, in less than 2 years. I don&#x27;t know about other companies, but my personal experience is that they are not that long lasting.<p>(I have them alongside my keys; one is a NEO - still working - the other is (was) U2F only)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Linux Reverse Engineering CTFs for Beginners</title><url>https://osandamalith.com/2019/02/11/linux-reverse-engineering-ctfs-for-beginners/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>codesuki</author><text>For some great fun and learning I recommend Googles beginner CTF.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;capturetheflag.withgoogle.com&#x2F;#beginners&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;capturetheflag.withgoogle.com&#x2F;#beginners&#x2F;</a><p>The last thing that glued me to my seat like this was maybe 10 years ago.
Good to have had that feeling again. Hope they make a 2019 version! :)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Brazil declares emergency after 2,400 babies are born with brain damage</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/12/23/brazil-declares-emergency-after-2400-babies-are-born-with-brain-damage-possibly-due-to-mosquito-borne-virus/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danieltillett</author><text>The sooner we get serious and start to deal with mosquitos the better. We already know what needs to be done [1], now all we need to do is get on with. How many millions of people have to die before we solve the problem of mosquito borne disease once and for all. Are we really going to sit around for decades debating if we should use this technology or not?<p>Edit. For those who want to understand more about this gene driver approach (it is pretty complex and amazing genetics) this review is the best I have been able to find [2].<p>1. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;nbt&#x2F;journal&#x2F;vaop&#x2F;ncurrent&#x2F;full&#x2F;nbt.3439.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;nbt&#x2F;journal&#x2F;vaop&#x2F;ncurrent&#x2F;full&#x2F;nbt.343...</a><p>2. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;longnow.org&#x2F;revive&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2015&#x2F;02&#x2F;Alphey-AnnRevEnt-2014-genetic-control-of-mosquitoes-copy.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;longnow.org&#x2F;revive&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2015&#x2F;02&#x2F;Alphey-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>personlurking</author><text>This will be Brazil first (southern) summer having to deal with a triple epidemic (zika virus, dengue and chikungunya fever), all due to the Aedes aegypti mosquito. Translating from a December 11th BBC Brasil article [1]:<p>&quot;Two promising biotech projects have been tested in Brazil over the past few years, however, the results still aren&#x27;t being felt on a large scale. The first one, betting on an insect inoculation scheme with a bacteria (Wolbachia) that stops the transmition of tropical diseases, is still in test phase and its impact will take 3 to 5 years to be evaluated.<p>The strategy behind the second project aims for the extermination of the species in certain regions via the use of genetically-modified mosquitos. The technique is said to have been tested successfully, according to the company that makes the transgenic mosquito - but it caused an uproar in the city in Bahia that served as the test ground. Even so, a city in São Paulo adopted the program since April, with promising results.&quot;<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;portuguese&#x2F;noticias&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;151210_combate_aedes_aegypti_genetica_mw_rb" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;portuguese&#x2F;noticias&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;151210_combat...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Brazil declares emergency after 2,400 babies are born with brain damage</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/12/23/brazil-declares-emergency-after-2400-babies-are-born-with-brain-damage-possibly-due-to-mosquito-borne-virus/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danieltillett</author><text>The sooner we get serious and start to deal with mosquitos the better. We already know what needs to be done [1], now all we need to do is get on with. How many millions of people have to die before we solve the problem of mosquito borne disease once and for all. Are we really going to sit around for decades debating if we should use this technology or not?<p>Edit. For those who want to understand more about this gene driver approach (it is pretty complex and amazing genetics) this review is the best I have been able to find [2].<p>1. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;nbt&#x2F;journal&#x2F;vaop&#x2F;ncurrent&#x2F;full&#x2F;nbt.3439.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;nbt&#x2F;journal&#x2F;vaop&#x2F;ncurrent&#x2F;full&#x2F;nbt.343...</a><p>2. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;longnow.org&#x2F;revive&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2015&#x2F;02&#x2F;Alphey-AnnRevEnt-2014-genetic-control-of-mosquitoes-copy.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;longnow.org&#x2F;revive&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2015&#x2F;02&#x2F;Alphey-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arthur_debert</author><text>In Brazil&#x27;s case, as least, it&#x27;s simpler than that.<p>Mosquito eradication used to be done at the federal level, with military like organization. It kept things in control.<p>A few years ago it has been re-assigned to municipalities. Not only are local authorities less equipped to handle it, but mosquitoes do not conform to city boundaries. If one city is doing a good job but it&#x27;s neighbor isn&#x27;t you&#x27;re screwed.<p>There&#x27;s probably lots to be done through technical advances, but most of this could be avoided using common sense.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Bias Bias in Behavioral Economics</title><url>https://www.nowpublishers.com/article/Details/RBE-0092</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ggm</author><text>I think &quot;rational&quot; and &quot;irrational&quot; have taken on domain-specific meaning in economics. This is not unusual. Ontologies and DSL are kind-of a way of life now, in any information-theoretic field.<p>In my space, we refer to some things as &quot;portable&quot; or &quot;non-portable&quot; which has very specific intent, which doesn&#x27;t relate to if you can pick them up or not. I think loan-words which have close analogies in a few minds rapidly diverge.<p>So a &quot;rational&quot; actor in economics seem (to me at least) to mean the typical selfish bastard who only acts to maximise their own profit outcome, no matter how its defined, and excludes a green warrior buying a good or chattel to NOT use it, or somebody buying it to give to charity, or buying it to round up another charge to get north of a shipping fee but its a nonce purchase and has no intent or purpose..<p>its a narrow, domain-specific meaning. I think that word doesn&#x27;t mean what you think it means <i>inconceivable</i></text></item><item><author>abnry</author><text>On this topic: It&#x27;s always bugged me when behavioral economists start going on about &quot;irrational human behavior.&quot; Many times they are simply not accounting for cognitive or longterm costs. Using your precious energy on too many system 2 calculations will not help you live a good life. So compromises are made. Thinking is hard work. It is entirely reasonable to minimize hard work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>logicchains</author><text>&gt;So a &quot;rational&quot; actor in economics seem (to me at least) to mean the typical selfish bastard who only acts to maximise their own profit outcome, no matter how its defined, and excludes a green warrior buying a good or chattel to NOT use it, or somebody buying it to give to charity, or buying it to round up another charge to get north of a shipping fee but its a nonce purchase and has no intent or purpose..<p>That&#x27;s not true at all. Rational is defined as someone acting to maximise their utility (roughly satisfaction), which is capable of encompassing &quot;a green warrior buying a good or chattel to NOT use it, or somebody buying it to give to charity, or buying it to round up another charge to get north of a shipping fee but its a nonce purchase and has no intent or purpose&quot; perfectly fine.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Bias Bias in Behavioral Economics</title><url>https://www.nowpublishers.com/article/Details/RBE-0092</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ggm</author><text>I think &quot;rational&quot; and &quot;irrational&quot; have taken on domain-specific meaning in economics. This is not unusual. Ontologies and DSL are kind-of a way of life now, in any information-theoretic field.<p>In my space, we refer to some things as &quot;portable&quot; or &quot;non-portable&quot; which has very specific intent, which doesn&#x27;t relate to if you can pick them up or not. I think loan-words which have close analogies in a few minds rapidly diverge.<p>So a &quot;rational&quot; actor in economics seem (to me at least) to mean the typical selfish bastard who only acts to maximise their own profit outcome, no matter how its defined, and excludes a green warrior buying a good or chattel to NOT use it, or somebody buying it to give to charity, or buying it to round up another charge to get north of a shipping fee but its a nonce purchase and has no intent or purpose..<p>its a narrow, domain-specific meaning. I think that word doesn&#x27;t mean what you think it means <i>inconceivable</i></text></item><item><author>abnry</author><text>On this topic: It&#x27;s always bugged me when behavioral economists start going on about &quot;irrational human behavior.&quot; Many times they are simply not accounting for cognitive or longterm costs. Using your precious energy on too many system 2 calculations will not help you live a good life. So compromises are made. Thinking is hard work. It is entirely reasonable to minimize hard work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ssivark</author><text>Even such a domain specific definition is borderline useless because there is no way to constrain the &quot;utility&quot; which rational agents are supposed to maximize -- which makes the concept of a rational agent tautological, and not at all predictive. (&quot;People behave that way because they behave that way&quot;. I might encode my observations in a utility function but that doesn&#x27;t suddenly help me generalize to other situations)<p>The other thing is that the limited situations which psychologists&#x2F;economists measure people in are very artificial, and there&#x27;s no reason for people to ace the experimenter&#x27;s metric.<p>Responding to grandparent: It&#x27;s not just that project are efficient and not quite correct -- they&#x27;re probably more correct and scientists have no way to tell.<p>&quot;If you judge a fish by it&#x27;s ability to climb trees, it will live it&#x27;s whole life thinking it is stupid.&quot;</text></comment>
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<story><title>Remembering Roger Boisjoly: He Tried to Stop Shuttle Challenger Launch</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2012/02/06/146490064/remembering-roger-boisjoly-he-tried-to-stop-shuttle-challenger-launch</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mannykannot</author><text>In many ways, this is an update of the Titanic story of technological hubris, with the twist that the man who was right, who fought hard to prevent what he foresaw, who was briefly relieved when his dire predictions seemed to be wrong, was still dogged by the event for the rest of his life.<p>We don&#x27;t know how those who were on the wrong side of the issue coped, and they should not be pressured to make public anything beyond what the inquiry required, but it seems plausible to me that those who could persuade themselves that they made the right decision, given the circumstances and despite the outcome, probably fared best. That is usually the case.<p>Edward Tufte tried to suggest that Boisjoly could have presented his case more effectively. Tufte may have been thinking purely pedagogically, but regardless, the implied criticism was unjustified, as Boisjoly&#x27;s point should have been clear to anyone familiar with the issue, and in fact it was clear to quite a few, though unfortunately not to the few who mattered, and I doubt that, for them, a different presentation would have made a difference.<p>We can&#x27;t always be right, and we can&#x27;t all be heroes, but I hope we can all avoid being the person who said to Boisjoly, when it appeared that Boisjoly&#x27;s testimony might be fatal to Morton Thiokol, that he would leave his children for Boisjoly to raise if he lost his job.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Remembering Roger Boisjoly: He Tried to Stop Shuttle Challenger Launch</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2012/02/06/146490064/remembering-roger-boisjoly-he-tried-to-stop-shuttle-challenger-launch</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>albntomat0</author><text>My main unanswered question here (I admit I haven&#x27;t looked particularly hard for the answer) is what the false positive rate was. How many times have similarly major concerns raised, about things that were not ultimately an issue? Where the NASA administrators bombarded with such concerns for every launch, or were reports a relatively rare occurrence?<p>Designing processes to appropriately address such concerns seems to hinge on the answer.<p>[edit for grammar]</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Berkeley Software Distribution</title><url>https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-berkley-software-distribution</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>Ford Aerospace was one of the first commercial sites of BSD Unix. The licensing was complicated. We had to buy Unix 32V from AT&amp;T first.
That transaction got on the path for major corporate documents. AT&amp;T and Ford Motor had a cross-licensing agreement. Eventually, I got a no-cost license agreement embossed with the corporate seals of both the Ford Motor Company and the American Telephone and Telegraph Corporation. Made a copy and taped it onto a VAX. Then I drove up to Berkeley from Palo Alto and Bill Joy gave me a BSD tape.<p>BSD didn&#x27;t have networking at that point. We bought 3COM&#x27;s UNET.[1] That was TCP&#x2F;IP, written by Greg Shaw. $7,300 for a first CPU. $4,300 for each additional CPU.
It didn&#x27;t use &quot;sockets&quot;; you opened a connection by opening a pseudo-device. UNET itself was in user space, talking to the other end of those pseudo-devices.<p>Once we got that going, we had it on VAX machines, some PDP-11 machines, and some Zilog Z8000 machines.
(The Zilog Z8000 was roughly similar to a PDP-11)
All of which, along with some other weird machines including a Symbolics LISP machine, eventually interoperated. We had some of Dave Mills&#x27; Fuzzballs as routers [2], and a long-haul link to another Ford location that connected to the ARPANET. Links included 10Mb&#x2F;s Ethernet, a DEC device called a DMC that used triaxial coax cables, and serial lines running SLIP. A dedicated 9600 baud serial synchronous line to Detroit was a big expense.<p>My work in congestion control came from making all this play well together. These early TCP&#x2F;IP implementations did not play well with others. Network interoperability is assumed now, but it was a new, strange idea back then, in an era when each major computer maker had their own networking protocols. UNET as delivered was intended to talk only to other UNET nodes. I had to write UDP and ICMP, and do a major rewrite on TCP.<p>When BSD got networking, it was initially intended to talk only over Ethernet, to other BSD implementations. When 4.3BSD came out, it would only talk to some other implementations during alternate 4 hour intervals. I had to fix the sequence number arithmetic, which wrapped incorrectly.<p>And finally, it all worked. For a few years, it was said of the TCP&#x2F;IP Internet that it took &quot;too many PhDs per packet.&quot; One day, on the Stanford campus, I saw a big guy with a tool belt carrying an Ethernet bridge (a sizable box in those days) under his arm, and thought, this is finally a working technology.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;bitsavers_3Com3ComUN_1019199&#x2F;page&#x2F;n15&#x2F;mode&#x2F;2up?view=theater" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;bitsavers_3Com3ComUN_1019199&#x2F;pag...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eecs.engin.umich.edu&#x2F;stories&#x2F;remembering-alum-david-mills-who-brought-the-internet-into-perfect-time" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eecs.engin.umich.edu&#x2F;stories&#x2F;remembering-alum-david-...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>The Berkeley Software Distribution</title><url>https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-berkley-software-distribution</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tingletech</author><text>&gt; The first copy we know to make it out of Berkeley was to Tom Ferrin at UCSF on the 9th of March in 1978. The license was signed on the 13th, the media was an 800 bpi tape, and on the tape was the “Unix Pascal system” and the “Ex text editor.”<p>UCSF and UCB (as well as all the UC campuses and enterprises) are technically the same legal entity, incorporated by article 9 section 9 of the California constitution. Strange that they signed a license, when I worked for the regents we called them MOUs if it was a &quot;contract&quot; with another part of ourselves.<p>When I started working for UCSD and found out we were licensing BSDi for some boxes I was sort of confused, like why don&#x27;t we get that for free?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Amazon’s Alexa assistant told a child to do a potentially lethal challenge</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/29/amazons-alexa-told-a-child-to-do-a-potentially-lethal-challenge.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>coldcode</author><text>When I was around 5-6 I wanted to know what would happen if I put a hairpin into a light socket. It seemed a reasonable experiment beforehand; after I picked myself up after flying across the room I learned a valuable lesson. Around the same time I tested whether Santa existed by putting out food; when no one ate it I assumed Santa was fake. Children are not very experienced at knowledge and thinking and often do things that confound adults. Giving them access to something they do not yet have the ability to understand or discern can be both useful (learning) and dangerous and it&#x27;s up to parents and other adults to make sure it&#x27;s not going to kill them, yet at the same time not completely stifle learning.<p>I could say I eventually became a programmer because I nearly fried myself doing a test...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cecilpl2</author><text>Around that same age I also tested whether Santa was in fact secretly my parents. I decided that Mall Santa would be the only person I told that I really wanted an RC car for Christmas, and I steadfastly refused my parents&#x27; attempts to get me to tell them what I&#x27;d asked for.<p>Lo and behold, Santa got me the RC car I so desperately wanted, solidifying my belief in him for a couple more years.<p>Turns out the real lesson, which I was too young to grasp, is that at the RC car display at Costco a 6-year-old cannot contain his obvious excitement in order to run a properly blinded experiment.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Amazon’s Alexa assistant told a child to do a potentially lethal challenge</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/29/amazons-alexa-told-a-child-to-do-a-potentially-lethal-challenge.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>coldcode</author><text>When I was around 5-6 I wanted to know what would happen if I put a hairpin into a light socket. It seemed a reasonable experiment beforehand; after I picked myself up after flying across the room I learned a valuable lesson. Around the same time I tested whether Santa existed by putting out food; when no one ate it I assumed Santa was fake. Children are not very experienced at knowledge and thinking and often do things that confound adults. Giving them access to something they do not yet have the ability to understand or discern can be both useful (learning) and dangerous and it&#x27;s up to parents and other adults to make sure it&#x27;s not going to kill them, yet at the same time not completely stifle learning.<p>I could say I eventually became a programmer because I nearly fried myself doing a test...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dudleypippin</author><text>My daughter checked the existence of the tooth fairy by not telling us when she lost a tooth and putting it under her pillow. The pride on her face when she informed of of the results of her experiment the next morning made my heart sing.</text></comment>
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<story><title>“My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print on Tuesdays” (2009)</title><url>https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/255161/comments/28</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChristianBundy</author><text>Me too. Are there any others you could recommend?</text></item><item><author>K-Wall</author><text>This is one story I always enjoy when it is brought up.</text></item><item><author>mpeg</author><text>The title reminds me of &quot;the 500 mile email&quot;<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibiblio.org&#x2F;harris&#x2F;500milemail.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibiblio.org&#x2F;harris&#x2F;500milemail.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dandelany</author><text>Some of my favorite hacker folklore:<p>Always Mount a Scratch Monkey
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;edp.org&#x2F;monkey.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;edp.org&#x2F;monkey.htm</a><p>The Magic Switch <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.utah.edu&#x2F;~elb&#x2F;folklore&#x2F;magic.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.utah.edu&#x2F;~elb&#x2F;folklore&#x2F;magic.html</a><p>Quake3&#x27;s Fast InvSqrt() <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.beyond3d.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;articles&#x2F;8&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.beyond3d.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;articles&#x2F;8&#x2F;</a><p>The Battle Chess Duck <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.codinghorror.com&#x2F;new-programming-jargon&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.codinghorror.com&#x2F;new-programming-jargon&#x2F;</a> (#5)<p>and of course, The Story of Mel, a Real Programmer <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.utah.edu&#x2F;~elb&#x2F;folklore&#x2F;mel.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.utah.edu&#x2F;~elb&#x2F;folklore&#x2F;mel.html</a><p>edit to add: Ford and the $10,000 chalk mark (Ctrl+F Ford) <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.smithsonianmag.com&#x2F;history&#x2F;charles-proteus-steinmetz-the-wizard-of-schenectady-51912022&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.smithsonianmag.com&#x2F;history&#x2F;charles-proteus-steinm...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>“My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print on Tuesdays” (2009)</title><url>https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/255161/comments/28</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChristianBundy</author><text>Me too. Are there any others you could recommend?</text></item><item><author>K-Wall</author><text>This is one story I always enjoy when it is brought up.</text></item><item><author>mpeg</author><text>The title reminds me of &quot;the 500 mile email&quot;<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibiblio.org&#x2F;harris&#x2F;500milemail.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ibiblio.org&#x2F;harris&#x2F;500milemail.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kirrent</author><text>Real programmers don&#x27;t use PASCAL never fails to crack me up. A bit closer to the grandparent comment is the famous story of Mel.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.mit.edu&#x2F;humor&#x2F;Computers&#x2F;real.programmers" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.mit.edu&#x2F;humor&#x2F;Computers&#x2F;real.programmers</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.utah.edu&#x2F;~elb&#x2F;folklore&#x2F;mel.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.utah.edu&#x2F;~elb&#x2F;folklore&#x2F;mel.html</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Ditching Scrum for Kanban - The best decision we’ve made as a team</title><url>https://medium.com/cto-school/ditching-scrum-for-kanban-the-best-decision-we-ve-made-as-a-team-cd1167014a6f</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seanwilson</author><text>&gt; The rituals, mainly the standups and grooming sessions, were fantastic. Standups are a great way to keep everyone aligned on the work.<p>Can anyone elaborate why they find standups useful? The planning board should already communicate what&#x27;s being done, what&#x27;s been done and why people are blocked. I only find them helpful if some people in the team generally don&#x27;t communicate well what they&#x27;re up to (e.g. during daily work, over lunch). Otherwise I find most people zone out during the standup and it just interrupts work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nursie</author><text>You get a quick status update of all the bits everyone is working on.<p><pre><code> Oh, Bob finished the xyz bit? Great I&#x27;ll get started on abc now.
Jim&#x27;s stuck with the autobuzzulator? I&#x27;ve used those before, I&#x27;ll jump in and give him a hand after the standup.
Katie&#x27;s not been able to deliver the turnip functionality? Still can&#x27;t test the beets either then...
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It should take no more than a few seconds per person and I find it far more effective than any agile status tool I&#x27;ve used, be that a physical board or an online system.<p>&gt;&gt; I only find them helpful if some people in the team generally don&#x27;t communicate well what they&#x27;re up to (e.g. during daily work, over lunch).<p>I communicate well with people I&#x27;m working with in the microcosm of what I&#x27;m doing <i>right now</i>, but there may be a few other people on the team doing related tasks that I&#x27;m not talking to every day.<p>And lunchtime is my time to get a few minutes away from screens and work, take a walk, have some food etc.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Armies of Expensive Lawyers, Replaced by Cheaper Software</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/05/science/05legal.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fleitz</author><text>I've written software to replace this type of thing, in my case it was classifying communications as to whether they were attorney-client privileged or not. It has to be cheaper, it was about a month of my time. And about a week working with a high priced lawyer to write the ruleset and confirm it caught everything and was excluding all the right stuff. With that software they've essentially got their best lawyer going through every piece of communication.<p>It has to be cheaper, I can't imaging paying someone with a law degree to go through all of that. And now their lawyers are freed up to do something more useful.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Armies of Expensive Lawyers, Replaced by Cheaper Software</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/05/science/05legal.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stretchwithme</author><text>“Over the long run we find things for people to do. The harder question is, does changing technology always lead to better jobs? The answer is no.”<p>Overall, I have to disagree. Letting machines do all the mind-numbingly boring work leaves the rest for human beings. And we pay a lot less for the final products, leaving resources for new jobs, which will also have the boring parts automated.<p>Disagree? Hire a hundred people to do all your drudgery. Then pretend you're paying them hardly anything. I submit your life will suck less.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Deno Company</title><url>https://deno.com/blog/the-deno-company</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qbasic_forever</author><text>How does this business model survive Amazon AWS making a blog post, &quot;Here&#x27;s a template to run your deno code on Lambda!&quot;? They&#x27;ll never beat AWS on costs in the long term. They can burn VC cash to stay afloat and try I guess.</text></item><item><author>srmarm</author><text>Looks like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deno.com&#x2F;deploy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deno.com&#x2F;deploy</a> will be a managed service - the implication seems to be that the default option will be to use their CDN to run code with an option to DIY if you prefer.</text></item><item><author>franciscop</author><text>Nice to see! How do they plan to monetize? I either became blind or missed it somehow. The article does say how they DON&#x27;T plan on monetize:<p><pre><code> &quot;Rest assured that Deno will remain MIT licensed. For Deno to grow and be maximally useful, it must remain permissively free. We don’t believe the “open core” business model is right for a programming platform like Deno.&quot;
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There are some hints though:<p><pre><code> &quot;If you watch our conference talks, you will find we&#x27;ve been hinting at commercial applications of this infrastructure for years. We are bullish about the technology stack we&#x27;ve built and intend to pursue those commercial applications ourselves. Our business will build on the open source project, not attempt to monetize it directly.&quot;
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Does anyone have some insight into those? I haven&#x27;t watch any Deno talk (maybe one actually?) so it feel a bit strange to make people watch technical talks to find hints of the monetization strategy.<p>PS, if I was a rich investor I&#x27;d throw money at this project even as a donation, so no complain at all, but I&#x27;m very curious on the monetization plan.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>carlosf</author><text>Lambda has a ton of caveats and limitations... but it seems their platform is full of limits as well:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deno.com&#x2F;deploy&#x2F;docs&#x2F;pricing-and-limits" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deno.com&#x2F;deploy&#x2F;docs&#x2F;pricing-and-limits</a><p>AWS sucks hairy balls at providing things that are simple for developers to use, so that could be their competitive advantage, but I&#x27;m just guessing here.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Deno Company</title><url>https://deno.com/blog/the-deno-company</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qbasic_forever</author><text>How does this business model survive Amazon AWS making a blog post, &quot;Here&#x27;s a template to run your deno code on Lambda!&quot;? They&#x27;ll never beat AWS on costs in the long term. They can burn VC cash to stay afloat and try I guess.</text></item><item><author>srmarm</author><text>Looks like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deno.com&#x2F;deploy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deno.com&#x2F;deploy</a> will be a managed service - the implication seems to be that the default option will be to use their CDN to run code with an option to DIY if you prefer.</text></item><item><author>franciscop</author><text>Nice to see! How do they plan to monetize? I either became blind or missed it somehow. The article does say how they DON&#x27;T plan on monetize:<p><pre><code> &quot;Rest assured that Deno will remain MIT licensed. For Deno to grow and be maximally useful, it must remain permissively free. We don’t believe the “open core” business model is right for a programming platform like Deno.&quot;
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There are some hints though:<p><pre><code> &quot;If you watch our conference talks, you will find we&#x27;ve been hinting at commercial applications of this infrastructure for years. We are bullish about the technology stack we&#x27;ve built and intend to pursue those commercial applications ourselves. Our business will build on the open source project, not attempt to monetize it directly.&quot;
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Does anyone have some insight into those? I haven&#x27;t watch any Deno talk (maybe one actually?) so it feel a bit strange to make people watch technical talks to find hints of the monetization strategy.<p>PS, if I was a rich investor I&#x27;d throw money at this project even as a donation, so no complain at all, but I&#x27;m very curious on the monetization plan.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tnolet</author><text>There are many, many companies competing with AWS on products that strictly speaking AWS also has.<p>I mean Zoom has no right to exist because you can use Chime?<p>There is always room for better UX, better support, different approach etc.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Show HN: GitHub Trending Repos</title><url>https://github.com/vitalets/github-trending-repos</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simonw</author><text>Using GitHub issues to power notifications in this way is absolutely inspired!<p>You get single-sign-in for anyone with a GitHub account.<p>You get both email AND push-based notifications without needing to run ANY of the infrastructure yourself.<p>Your scrapers get to run in their own time and publish via a very well-documented and easy to use API.<p>I&#x27;m totally sticking this idea in my back-pocket. It&#x27;s brilliant.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Blog with Markdown and Git, and degrade gracefully through time</title><url>https://brandur.org/fragments/graceful-degradation-time</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jaredcwhite</author><text>There is a problem in the CMS industry. Everyone wants to build a headless CMS to power Jamstack sites—only the content itself lives in databases and the CMS is usually a proprietary SaaS. Doesn&#x27;t leverage Git for content in any way.<p>This is deeply problematic. We should have dozens, if not hundreds of contenders for &quot;the next WordPress&quot; that leverage Git as a foundational aspect of content management. Instead we have a bunch of Contentful clones (no disrespect to Contentful) with REST and&#x2F;or GraphQL APIs.<p>It&#x27;s bananas that if you search for Git-based CMSes you have NetlifyCMS, and…wait what? Is that all??? Forestry gets mentioned a lot because it&#x27;s Git-based but that&#x27;s also a proprietary SaaS. I just don&#x27;t understand it. Is this a VC problem or a real blind spot for CMS entrepreneurs?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>0xbadcafebee</author><text>&gt; We should have dozens, if not hundreds of contenders for &quot;the next WordPress&quot; that leverage Git as a foundational aspect of content management.<p>If you want a new CMS, give it a shot. But nobody&#x27;s made a better <i>free</i> version of Jenkins either. It&#x27;s hard to do and completely unrewarding&#x2F;unmonetizeable (as FOSS), which is probably why nobody has done it.<p>However, insisting it leverage a difficult source code version control system is artificially restricting. Start with an MVP of flat files for content and add a plugin system. Somebody will write Git support, but they&#x27;ll also add other content backends. I&#x27;ll bet you a million dollars that a custom SQL plugin that does version control will be preferred over Git by 99% of users. But they may wise up and use an S3 plugin instead. Or maybe all three. They&#x27;ll have choices, and your project will become more useful.<p>Don&#x27;t start your project with an artificial restriction and it will be better for it.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Blog with Markdown and Git, and degrade gracefully through time</title><url>https://brandur.org/fragments/graceful-degradation-time</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jaredcwhite</author><text>There is a problem in the CMS industry. Everyone wants to build a headless CMS to power Jamstack sites—only the content itself lives in databases and the CMS is usually a proprietary SaaS. Doesn&#x27;t leverage Git for content in any way.<p>This is deeply problematic. We should have dozens, if not hundreds of contenders for &quot;the next WordPress&quot; that leverage Git as a foundational aspect of content management. Instead we have a bunch of Contentful clones (no disrespect to Contentful) with REST and&#x2F;or GraphQL APIs.<p>It&#x27;s bananas that if you search for Git-based CMSes you have NetlifyCMS, and…wait what? Is that all??? Forestry gets mentioned a lot because it&#x27;s Git-based but that&#x27;s also a proprietary SaaS. I just don&#x27;t understand it. Is this a VC problem or a real blind spot for CMS entrepreneurs?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lhorie</author><text>One explanation comes from just looking from the content creator&#x27;s point of view: they kinda don&#x27;t care what previous iterations of the work really look like (draft-final-v5-oct27-FINAL.doc anyone?)<p>The things a content creator might be more interested in aren&#x27;t really core git strengths: SEO, publishing schedules, editorial back-and-forth, social media, etc.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Y Combinator cofounder Jessica Livingston to take year-long sabbatical</title><url>http://venturebeat.com/2016/04/04/y-combinator-cofounder-jessica-livingston-to-take-year-long-sabbatical/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edent</author><text>Yes. Yes it is reasonable. A startup is hiring people to perform a job in exchange for compensation. If they want you to work weekends, they can pay a fair market rate for that.<p>Or they can hire more people.<p>In some countries, it&#x27;s extremely unusual to perform overtime. If a startup has 10 employees and they each do an hour of overtime a week - they&#x27;re effectively denying another worker a job.<p>Yes, it&#x27;s a bit &quot;mythical man month&quot; - but if there&#x27;s too much work to go around, your employer needs to hire more people.</text></item><item><author>danielbarla</author><text>I completely agree, but is this a &quot;reasonable&quot; approach to take in a startup world (from the startup&#x27;s point of view)? Or does this make us incompatible &#x2F; unfavourable with startups, as OP said?</text></item><item><author>qmr</author><text>&gt; Right now parenthood is incompatible with startups<p>Be a grownup and assert that your work is at work, and work ends when you leave the office. Unless you are on call, turn off your email and work phone. Stop being conned into staying at the office for &quot;free&quot; dinner, ping pong, &quot;teambuilding&quot;, or whatever bullshit is being peddled by your employer.</text></item><item><author>julianpye</author><text>Congrats to Jessica! As a parent of a 1 year old mastercrawler, I am also so grateful to Paul taking time off earlier to spend time to watch his kids grow up and I love his tales of them growing up.
Having a family changes everything. Right now parenthood is incompatible with startups - how can we change this and make startups better for young parents as well who for now will just always try to get corporate jobs?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>untog</author><text>I don&#x27;t think reasonable is a good word, here. Of course it&#x27;s reasonable. But when all your other coworkers are 20-something singles who can and will stay to 9pm, how do you remain &quot;competitive&quot;?<p>Obviously, ideally none of this would be necessary. But alas...</text></comment>
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<story><title>Y Combinator cofounder Jessica Livingston to take year-long sabbatical</title><url>http://venturebeat.com/2016/04/04/y-combinator-cofounder-jessica-livingston-to-take-year-long-sabbatical/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edent</author><text>Yes. Yes it is reasonable. A startup is hiring people to perform a job in exchange for compensation. If they want you to work weekends, they can pay a fair market rate for that.<p>Or they can hire more people.<p>In some countries, it&#x27;s extremely unusual to perform overtime. If a startup has 10 employees and they each do an hour of overtime a week - they&#x27;re effectively denying another worker a job.<p>Yes, it&#x27;s a bit &quot;mythical man month&quot; - but if there&#x27;s too much work to go around, your employer needs to hire more people.</text></item><item><author>danielbarla</author><text>I completely agree, but is this a &quot;reasonable&quot; approach to take in a startup world (from the startup&#x27;s point of view)? Or does this make us incompatible &#x2F; unfavourable with startups, as OP said?</text></item><item><author>qmr</author><text>&gt; Right now parenthood is incompatible with startups<p>Be a grownup and assert that your work is at work, and work ends when you leave the office. Unless you are on call, turn off your email and work phone. Stop being conned into staying at the office for &quot;free&quot; dinner, ping pong, &quot;teambuilding&quot;, or whatever bullshit is being peddled by your employer.</text></item><item><author>julianpye</author><text>Congrats to Jessica! As a parent of a 1 year old mastercrawler, I am also so grateful to Paul taking time off earlier to spend time to watch his kids grow up and I love his tales of them growing up.
Having a family changes everything. Right now parenthood is incompatible with startups - how can we change this and make startups better for young parents as well who for now will just always try to get corporate jobs?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrisan</author><text>&gt; Yes. Yes it is reasonable.<p>Reasonable, sure. But is it realistic when we have things like this <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11430596" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11430596</a> ?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Sheryl Sandberg Misled Congress About Facebook’s Conscience</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2018/09/05/facebook-senate-hearing-sheryl-sandberg/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JBReefer</author><text>England has hate speech laws that produce _ridiculous_ outcomes, like a guy getting fined because he made a dumb gif of his dog Sig Heiling.</text></item><item><author>vtail</author><text>Grandparent’s is a universal argument, that applies to other countries &#x2F; situations as well. Russia, which is <i>technically</i> not a monarchy, have the same problem with hate speech law.<p>For obvious reasons, it’s harder to give an example from a more liberal country, but his&#x2F;her point still stands.</text></item><item><author>lumisota</author><text>UAE is an absolute monarchy; using this as an argument against hate speech legislation seems.. overreaching.</text></item><item><author>gnarbarian</author><text>&gt;Facebook “restricted access to items in the UAE, all reported by the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, a federal UAE government entity responsible for [information technology] sector in the UAE. The content was reported for hate speech and was attacking members of the royal family, which is against local laws.”<p>Great example of why things like hate speech legislation are a terrible idea. Although intended to provide additional protection for marginalized groups they are inevitably wielded by the people with legal or political power against the less politically connected and marginalized.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>odessacubbage</author><text>i mean when you think about it, isn&#x27;t being unjustly punished for speech the most english value of all?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Sheryl Sandberg Misled Congress About Facebook’s Conscience</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2018/09/05/facebook-senate-hearing-sheryl-sandberg/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JBReefer</author><text>England has hate speech laws that produce _ridiculous_ outcomes, like a guy getting fined because he made a dumb gif of his dog Sig Heiling.</text></item><item><author>vtail</author><text>Grandparent’s is a universal argument, that applies to other countries &#x2F; situations as well. Russia, which is <i>technically</i> not a monarchy, have the same problem with hate speech law.<p>For obvious reasons, it’s harder to give an example from a more liberal country, but his&#x2F;her point still stands.</text></item><item><author>lumisota</author><text>UAE is an absolute monarchy; using this as an argument against hate speech legislation seems.. overreaching.</text></item><item><author>gnarbarian</author><text>&gt;Facebook “restricted access to items in the UAE, all reported by the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, a federal UAE government entity responsible for [information technology] sector in the UAE. The content was reported for hate speech and was attacking members of the royal family, which is against local laws.”<p>Great example of why things like hate speech legislation are a terrible idea. Although intended to provide additional protection for marginalized groups they are inevitably wielded by the people with legal or political power against the less politically connected and marginalized.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scotland-judiciary.org.uk&#x2F;8&#x2F;1962&#x2F;PF-v-Mark-Meechan" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scotland-judiciary.org.uk&#x2F;8&#x2F;1962&#x2F;PF-v-Mark-Meecha...</a><p>&quot;Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 makes it an offence to use a public communications network to send certain types of messages including those that are grossly offensive or threatening. The prosecution argued that by posting your video entitled “M8 Yer dug’s a Naazi” on to the Internet, you committed that offence.<p>“The centrepiece of your video consists of you repeating the phrase “Gas the Jews” over and over again as a command to a dog which then reacts. Sometimes the phrase is “You want to Gas the Jews”. You recite “Gas the Jews” in a variety of dramatic ways. “Gas the Jews” in one form or another is repeated by you 23 times within a few minutes.<p>“On the whole evidence, including your own, applying the law as made by Parliament and interpreted by the most senior courts in this land, I found it proved that the video you posted, using a public communications network, was grossly offensive and contained menacing, anti-Semitic and racist material.<p>“You deliberately chose the Holocaust as the theme of the video. You purposely used the command “Gas the Jews” as the centrepiece of what you called the entire joke, surrounding the “Gas the Jews” centrepiece with Nazi imagery and the Sieg Heil command so there could be no doubt what historical events you were referring to.&quot;</text></comment>
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<story><title>In search of the perfect URL validation regex (2010)</title><url>https://mathiasbynens.be/demo/url-regex</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>likium</author><text>Even if you built a URL validation regex that follows rfc3986[1] and rfc3987[2], you will still get user bug reports because web browsers follow a different standard.<p>For example, &lt;<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;example.com.&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;example.com.&#x2F;</a>&gt; , &lt;<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;&#x2F;example.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;&#x2F;example.com&#x2F;</a>&gt; and &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Space (punctuation)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Space (punctuation)</a>&gt; are classified as invalid urls in the blog, but they are accepted in the browser.<p>As the creator of cURL puts it, there is no URL standard[3].<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ietf.org&#x2F;rfc&#x2F;rfc3986.txt" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ietf.org&#x2F;rfc&#x2F;rfc3986.txt</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ietf.org&#x2F;rfc&#x2F;rfc3987.txt" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ietf.org&#x2F;rfc&#x2F;rfc3987.txt</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;daniel.haxx.se&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2016&#x2F;05&#x2F;11&#x2F;my-url-isnt-your-url&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;daniel.haxx.se&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2016&#x2F;05&#x2F;11&#x2F;my-url-isnt-your-url&#x2F;</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>In search of the perfect URL validation regex (2010)</title><url>https://mathiasbynens.be/demo/url-regex</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>Two past discussions, for the curious:<p><i>In search of the perfect URL validation regex</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10019795" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10019795</a> - Aug 2015 (77 comments)<p><i>In search of the perfect URL validation regex</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7928968" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7928968</a> - June 2014 (81 comments)</text></comment>
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<story><title>TFTC (TIE Fighter Total Conversion) v1.0</title><url>https://www.moddb.com/mods/tie-fighter-total-conversion-tftc/news/tftc-v10-is-out-now</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cloudking</author><text>Wow this looks impressive, I hope it starts a trend of remastering older games into the modern era. Many games like this from the 80s to 2000s were masterpieces in their time.<p>I&#x27;ve seen an official example with Blizzard and Diablo 2: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.blizzard.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;diablo2&#x2F;23658118&#x2F;diablo-ii-resurrected-technical-alpha-experience-the-legend" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.blizzard.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;diablo2&#x2F;23658118&#x2F;diablo-ii-r...</a><p>Any other old games being remastered officially or unofficially?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rubyn00bie</author><text>The Final Fantasy VII remake on PS4 is literally the (only) reason I own a PS4... I&#x27;m a big fan of remakes of classics as long as they stay true the original. Playing the FFVII remake has been beyond magical for me, it&#x27;s like playing the original <i>how I remember it</i> (for the most part) instead of how it actually is (which is dated). How often in life do you get the chance to (re-)experience something like that? It&#x27;s pretty freakin&#x27; awesome. I really hope some other classic games get the chance to shine again...</text></comment>
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<story><title>TFTC (TIE Fighter Total Conversion) v1.0</title><url>https://www.moddb.com/mods/tie-fighter-total-conversion-tftc/news/tftc-v10-is-out-now</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cloudking</author><text>Wow this looks impressive, I hope it starts a trend of remastering older games into the modern era. Many games like this from the 80s to 2000s were masterpieces in their time.<p>I&#x27;ve seen an official example with Blizzard and Diablo 2: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.blizzard.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;diablo2&#x2F;23658118&#x2F;diablo-ii-resurrected-technical-alpha-experience-the-legend" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.blizzard.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;diablo2&#x2F;23658118&#x2F;diablo-ii-r...</a><p>Any other old games being remastered officially or unofficially?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>srgpqt</author><text>Games remade that come to mind, some from the same people or reusing the old codebase:<p>* Warcraft 3 remastered<p>* Theme hospital -&gt; TwoPoint hospital<p>* Dungeon Keeper -&gt; War for the Overworld<p>* Jones in the Fast Lane -&gt; No time to Relax<p>* System Shock<p>* Descent -&gt; Overload and also Descent Underground</text></comment>
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<story><title>Bold Edit: An editor written by power users</title><url>https://bold-edit.com</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>monooso</author><text>Given the size of the undertaking, it seems likely that all (decent) editors are written by power users.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Lobotomizing Gnome</title><url>https://eklitzke.org/lobotomizing-gnome</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brusch64</author><text>I have no experience with Mate, but the feature I miss the most in the traditional desktops is starting programs by hitting the super (Windows) key and typing the programs.<p>I know that you can use Alt+F2 for this, but using super is much more ingrained for me since I&#x27;ve seen Windows Vista (I am using Linux at home and Windows systems at work)</text></item><item><author>probably_wrong</author><text>Long time Mate user here.<p>The &quot;problem&quot; with Mate is that it just works. I interact with Windows and OSX daily, and I have yet to find a feature that makes me thing &quot;I wish my desktop environment could do this&quot;. Mate gets out of my way and lets me work.<p>In other words, it&#x27;s boring. There&#x27;s nothing new and shiny to be excited about, because it&#x27;s as good as it gets. I left Gnome 3 because I was tired of visual effects getting on my way, but those visual effects were what attracted me to Gnome 3 to begin with. I think Mate lacks that &quot;wow!&quot; factor and, as grateful as I am for that, I think this might stop it from being more popular.</text></item><item><author>keyle</author><text>I recently switched to Linux (from Windows 10 - forced upgrade took 45&#x27; in the middle of an extremely important moment)<p>Debian netinstall + Mate desktop (Gnome 2&#x2F;3 extension?)<p>I expected to switch back within a week. Surprisingly, I love it. After a few tweaks and Nvidia drivers installed, it&#x27;s way better than I expected. Super fast, minimal, and no annoyances.<p>Linux desktop really has improved in the last 20 years, since I last tried it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>genpfault</author><text>&gt; I miss the most in the traditional desktops is starting programs by hitting the super (Windows) key and typing the programs.<p>Brisk Menu. It binds to the Windows key by default and still somehow allows shortcuts like Win+R to work.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;solus-project&#x2F;brisk-menu" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;solus-project&#x2F;brisk-menu</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Lobotomizing Gnome</title><url>https://eklitzke.org/lobotomizing-gnome</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brusch64</author><text>I have no experience with Mate, but the feature I miss the most in the traditional desktops is starting programs by hitting the super (Windows) key and typing the programs.<p>I know that you can use Alt+F2 for this, but using super is much more ingrained for me since I&#x27;ve seen Windows Vista (I am using Linux at home and Windows systems at work)</text></item><item><author>probably_wrong</author><text>Long time Mate user here.<p>The &quot;problem&quot; with Mate is that it just works. I interact with Windows and OSX daily, and I have yet to find a feature that makes me thing &quot;I wish my desktop environment could do this&quot;. Mate gets out of my way and lets me work.<p>In other words, it&#x27;s boring. There&#x27;s nothing new and shiny to be excited about, because it&#x27;s as good as it gets. I left Gnome 3 because I was tired of visual effects getting on my way, but those visual effects were what attracted me to Gnome 3 to begin with. I think Mate lacks that &quot;wow!&quot; factor and, as grateful as I am for that, I think this might stop it from being more popular.</text></item><item><author>keyle</author><text>I recently switched to Linux (from Windows 10 - forced upgrade took 45&#x27; in the middle of an extremely important moment)<p>Debian netinstall + Mate desktop (Gnome 2&#x2F;3 extension?)<p>I expected to switch back within a week. Surprisingly, I love it. After a few tweaks and Nvidia drivers installed, it&#x27;s way better than I expected. Super fast, minimal, and no annoyances.<p>Linux desktop really has improved in the last 20 years, since I last tried it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>laumars</author><text>KDE works that way on my Arch install without any additional tweaking. And I&#x27;m pretty sure you could configure the launcher in any DE to work that way if you looked at its hotkey settings (they&#x27;re usually re-definable in my experience)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Why Is SQLite Coded in C? (2017)</title><url>https://sqlite.org/whyc.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pcwalton</author><text>I agree. SQLite gets away with using C because it literally uses military-grade levels of verification. As John Regehr pointed out, SQLite is quite possibly the <i>only</i> piece of software that goes to that level of validation and testing without being required to by law.<p>It&#x27;s not just a matter of skill, either. The cost in terms of money and time needed to develop software in that way is completely impractical in almost any commercial scenario. Aside from some very specific situations, it&#x27;s not an economically viable way to produce software.</text></item><item><author>jerf</author><text>I&#x27;ve commented several times before that I consider &quot;C&quot; and &quot;C with analysis backing&quot; to be in practice two different languages. SQLite is the latter: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sqlite.org&#x2F;testing.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sqlite.org&#x2F;testing.html</a><p>Writing SQLite in &quot;plain C&quot; without all that would, well, simply not work.<p>I agree that &quot;C with analysis backing&quot; is the best language for SQLite right now. However, it should not be used as an example of &quot;How C is a great language for programming in&quot; unless you are also planning on skillfully using a very significant subset of the tools listed in that document. SQLite doesn&#x27;t prove C is great; it demonstrates how much additional scaffolding is necessary to wrap around C to get that level of quality, and given the quantity and diversity of tools we are talking about, it is not particularly complimentary to &quot;plain C&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bsenftner</author><text>it is not economically viable for entertainment or disposable &quot;apps&quot;, but extremely required for any serious, mission critical software. Seriously, the comments here betray how many people are in disposable software careers.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Why Is SQLite Coded in C? (2017)</title><url>https://sqlite.org/whyc.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pcwalton</author><text>I agree. SQLite gets away with using C because it literally uses military-grade levels of verification. As John Regehr pointed out, SQLite is quite possibly the <i>only</i> piece of software that goes to that level of validation and testing without being required to by law.<p>It&#x27;s not just a matter of skill, either. The cost in terms of money and time needed to develop software in that way is completely impractical in almost any commercial scenario. Aside from some very specific situations, it&#x27;s not an economically viable way to produce software.</text></item><item><author>jerf</author><text>I&#x27;ve commented several times before that I consider &quot;C&quot; and &quot;C with analysis backing&quot; to be in practice two different languages. SQLite is the latter: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sqlite.org&#x2F;testing.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sqlite.org&#x2F;testing.html</a><p>Writing SQLite in &quot;plain C&quot; without all that would, well, simply not work.<p>I agree that &quot;C with analysis backing&quot; is the best language for SQLite right now. However, it should not be used as an example of &quot;How C is a great language for programming in&quot; unless you are also planning on skillfully using a very significant subset of the tools listed in that document. SQLite doesn&#x27;t prove C is great; it demonstrates how much additional scaffolding is necessary to wrap around C to get that level of quality, and given the quantity and diversity of tools we are talking about, it is not particularly complimentary to &quot;plain C&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zerr</author><text>Regarding the viability, another thing to consider is that C gives you an ubiquitous compatibility.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Fifth Amendment Prohibits Compelled Decryption, New EFF Brief Argues</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/10/new-eff-amicus-brief-argues-fifth-amendment-prohibits-compelled-decryption</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>saraid216</author><text>&gt; Yes in theory everyone..<p>Um. Which theory is this? Last I checked, as an American citizen, I&#x27;m not subject to Russian law. Why are Russians subject to American law?</text></item><item><author>eof</author><text>Yes in theory everyone.. not just nationals&#x2F;citizens are protected by the constitution&#x2F;bill of rights. But the reality is that no, there are too many exceptions to what was supposed to be a source of truth in our laws to do much more than &#x27;pretend&#x27; we are protected by the constitution; citizens or otherwise.</text></item><item><author>thex86</author><text>Does the Fifth Amendment only apply to US citizens? The reason I ask is this: if I am traveling to the US and the TSA asks me to decrypt my laptop or unlock my phone, am I protected under the Fifth Amendment? Well, are US citizens protected under it at the airport?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dllthomas</author><text>Russians being protected by the 5th Amendment is not an example of Russians being subject to American laws, but an example of the American government being subject to American laws.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Fifth Amendment Prohibits Compelled Decryption, New EFF Brief Argues</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/10/new-eff-amicus-brief-argues-fifth-amendment-prohibits-compelled-decryption</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>saraid216</author><text>&gt; Yes in theory everyone..<p>Um. Which theory is this? Last I checked, as an American citizen, I&#x27;m not subject to Russian law. Why are Russians subject to American law?</text></item><item><author>eof</author><text>Yes in theory everyone.. not just nationals&#x2F;citizens are protected by the constitution&#x2F;bill of rights. But the reality is that no, there are too many exceptions to what was supposed to be a source of truth in our laws to do much more than &#x27;pretend&#x27; we are protected by the constitution; citizens or otherwise.</text></item><item><author>thex86</author><text>Does the Fifth Amendment only apply to US citizens? The reason I ask is this: if I am traveling to the US and the TSA asks me to decrypt my laptop or unlock my phone, am I protected under the Fifth Amendment? Well, are US citizens protected under it at the airport?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>npsimons</author><text>In general, the US constitution only specifies &quot;citizens&quot; and not &quot;people&quot; when it&#x27;s talking about things like voting and holding office, etc. Rights (such as the bill of rights) are generally expressed as belonging to &quot;people&quot;, not just the citizens of the US. It&#x27;s also in the spirit of the declaration of independence that &quot;all men are created equal&quot;, which would lead one to believe that they all have certain inalienable rights, citizen or otherwise. Just because the current xenophobic culture that is popular today doesn&#x27;t jive with that doesn&#x27;t change it. It also doesn&#x27;t mean that Russians are subject to American law (at least not while in Russia), but that for things such as rights, they apply to everyone. So, for instance, some would maintain that warrantless searches, &quot;close&quot; to the border or otherwise, are unconstitutional no matter who they are performed on.</text></comment>
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<story><title>4-day workweeks can boost happiness and productivity</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/06/four-day-workweek/619222/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>marvin</author><text>I&#x27;ve worked 4 days a week (for 20% less pay) for years now. It&#x27;s without a question the biggest positive change in standard of living and life quality I could buy with this money. Will never regularly 5 days a week again unless I have no other options, or unless the pay is so good it&#x27;s ridiculous.<p>I&#x27;d work 5-day weeks if the pay was so well that I, say, could save up five years of expenses in one year. Unfortunately, my local tax system strongly disincentivizes this by effectively having a 62% marginal tax rate.<p>So, in summary, I will most likely never have a 5 days a week routine again. It&#x27;s just that good. In fact, due to the marginal tax situation, it&#x27;s more likely I&#x27;ll downscale to something closer to 50% if I can get away with it career-wise.</text></comment>
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<story><title>4-day workweeks can boost happiness and productivity</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/06/four-day-workweek/619222/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jokoon</author><text>In france, the legal norm is the 35 hours work week.<p>I wish there would be ways to reduce work time to reduce unemployment and &quot;share&quot; labor, but my guess is that it&#x27;s more difficult for employers to organize under such model.<p>The problem isn&#x27;t only overwork, but it&#x27;s also the labor distribution and competition among job candidates. The more work is done by one person, the less labor is left to create jobs.<p>Honestly I&#x27;ve left this rat race of job competition a long time ago, it&#x27;s depressing. I live in a country where welfare benefits allows me to eat and have a home. Money is not a problem. I&#x27;m not a merchandise.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The factory that only builds white Toyota Land Cruisers</title><url>https://www.topgear.com/car-news/big-reads/inside-factory-only-builds-white-toyotas</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>coconut_crab</author><text>This is why I love my 80 series Land Cruiser (carb, not EFI), it&#x27;s really simple that a lot of maintenance can be done with just wrenches. And the charm of having almost no electronics[1] on the car control is that if something is wrong, you will know it by the sounds it makes, and you will have a lot of times to fix it before it&#x27;s completely toast. I have heard of horror stories about newer cars with electric ABS accumulator that stopped working on the high way, not with my FZJ80[2].<p>[1] The so called &#x27;emission computer&#x27; unit on the car is a simple pulse counter&#x2F;comparator that activates a VSV on the carb to reduce backfire while descending downhill with the foot off the throttle.<p>[2] My brake booster is leaking a little bit, but at least it won&#x27;t suddenly gives up on me while I&#x27;m riding, still looking for a replacement.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The factory that only builds white Toyota Land Cruisers</title><url>https://www.topgear.com/car-news/big-reads/inside-factory-only-builds-white-toyotas</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sgt</author><text>I have a Toyota Land Cruiser here in South Africa with the petrol&#x2F;gasoline engine. Amazing car. It&#x27;s built to last though, so its on-road handling is not as great as modern cars.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Supreme Court Strikes Down Defense of Marriage Act</title><url>http://projects.nytimes.com/live-dashboard/2013-06-26-supreme-court-gay-marriage#sha=f2fa9994b</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>danso</author><text>It is constantly surprising to me how nearly-deterministic these votes are: each respective quartet of the court votes along what&#x27;s seen as party lines, with Kennedy being the swing vote. Is it because the court really is that partisan, or because the technicalities and details in each case fall sharply along judicial philosophical lines? With life terms, it&#x27;s not as if the justices need to vote a certain way to keep office.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&gt; It is constantly surprising to me how nearly-deterministic these votes are, each respective quartet of the court votes along what&#x27;s seen as party lines, with Kennedy being the swing vote<p>I think there is probably a bit of confirmation bias and media distortion here; plenty of Supreme Court decisions, even on high profile topics, aren&#x27;t 5-4 or are 5-4 but don&#x27;t break &quot;conservative 4&quot; + &quot;liberal 4&quot; + Kennedy (e.g., the decision uphold the Affordable Care Act [1] was 5-4, with <i>Roberts</i> plus the four liberals in the majority, and the four remaining conservatives, including Kennedy, in the minority.) But for the months the case was before the Supreme Court, the media was harping on how it was bound to be 5-4 with Kennedy as the swing vote, so what do you think sticks more in people&#x27;s minds -- the actual result that was highlighted on the day of the decision and then dropped, or the &quot;everyone knows&quot; that was a focus of attention for months?<p>And, on the decision letting stand the District Court decision [2] striking down Prop. 8 in California based on the Prop. 8 supporters lack of standing to appeal the decision, also announced today, the 5-4 decision had Roberts, Scalia, Ginsberg, Breyer, and Kagan in the majority with Kennedy, Thomas, Alito, and Sotomayor in the minority.<p>[1] NFIB v. Sebelius, <a href="http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/11-393c3a2.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.supremecourt.gov&#x2F;opinions&#x2F;11pdf&#x2F;11-393c3a2.pdf</a>
[2] Hollingworth v. Perry, <a href="http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-144_8ok0.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.supremecourt.gov&#x2F;opinions&#x2F;12pdf&#x2F;12-144_8ok0.pdf</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Supreme Court Strikes Down Defense of Marriage Act</title><url>http://projects.nytimes.com/live-dashboard/2013-06-26-supreme-court-gay-marriage#sha=f2fa9994b</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>danso</author><text>It is constantly surprising to me how nearly-deterministic these votes are: each respective quartet of the court votes along what&#x27;s seen as party lines, with Kennedy being the swing vote. Is it because the court really is that partisan, or because the technicalities and details in each case fall sharply along judicial philosophical lines? With life terms, it&#x27;s not as if the justices need to vote a certain way to keep office.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>The Prop 8 standing decision was Roberts, Scalia, Breyer, Ginsburg, and Kagan.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Wells are running dry in Southwest as foreign-owned farms feed cattle overseas</title><url>https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_a1fc0bf7958049a62752160ff8ac5878</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Danieru</author><text>What I find most interesting is how this plays into Warren Buffet&#x27;s complaints about the American trade deficit: America has been selling long term assets to buy short term toys.<p>In Warren Buffet&#x27;s explanation he uses selling farm land as this exact example.<p>Of course under free trade we would expect foreign buyers to own bits of land. The challenge for America: these are not land swaps. America is not buying up bits of land elsewhere. Instead America is selling these bits of land for trinkets.<p>The US Dollar is a global reserve currency. Which in the abstract sounds nice to have other countries sell US things in exchange for more US debt: but in practice that means selling assets. US Government Bonds or US Farm Land. Both are assets openly traded.<p>The issue is not foreigners. The issue is America is running up a debt and is selling the farm.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jmyeet</author><text>You&#x27;re touching on the Triffin Dilemma [1]. Basically, running a trade deficit is almost inevitable with any global reserve currency. There&#x27;s not much you can do about that other than ot be a global reserve currency and there&#x27;s simply no way that&#x27;s going to happen voluntarily. The US derives too much power from the status of the US dollar.<p>The other issue you&#x27;ve touched on is a mistake that even economists make, which is to conflate the freedom of trade with the free movement of capital. These are two entirely different things. If you buy something, that&#x27;s trade. If you sell land, that&#x27;s the movement of capital. You can and should have policy that honors that distinction.<p>About the time the TPP was being rejected, I saw this comic [2], which honestly is worth a read as it explains pretty accurately this distinction.<p>Another angle to this is debt trap diplomacy [3].<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Triffin_dilemma" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Triffin_dilemma</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;economixcomix.com&#x2F;home&#x2F;tpp&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;economixcomix.com&#x2F;home&#x2F;tpp&#x2F;</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Debt-trap_diplomacy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Debt-trap_diplomacy</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Wells are running dry in Southwest as foreign-owned farms feed cattle overseas</title><url>https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_a1fc0bf7958049a62752160ff8ac5878</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Danieru</author><text>What I find most interesting is how this plays into Warren Buffet&#x27;s complaints about the American trade deficit: America has been selling long term assets to buy short term toys.<p>In Warren Buffet&#x27;s explanation he uses selling farm land as this exact example.<p>Of course under free trade we would expect foreign buyers to own bits of land. The challenge for America: these are not land swaps. America is not buying up bits of land elsewhere. Instead America is selling these bits of land for trinkets.<p>The US Dollar is a global reserve currency. Which in the abstract sounds nice to have other countries sell US things in exchange for more US debt: but in practice that means selling assets. US Government Bonds or US Farm Land. Both are assets openly traded.<p>The issue is not foreigners. The issue is America is running up a debt and is selling the farm.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toss1</author><text>And not only the farm assets, but the other natural assets, not to mention the know-how of manufacturing (the stupidest thing we ever did was follow the MBA&#x27;s recommendations that &quot;labor is just fungible, ship it off to the lowest-cost markets&quot;).<p>&gt;&gt;&quot;You can&#x27;t take water and export it out of the state, there&#x27;s laws about that,&quot; said Arizona geohydrologist Marvin Glotfelty, a well-drilling expert. &quot;But you can take &#x27;virtual&#x27; water and export it; alfalfa, cotton, electricity or anything created in part from the use of water.&quot;<p>Seems it is time to put a stop to a LOT of that. Fortunately we already are returning semiconductor &amp; other mfg. Must keep this up...</text></comment>
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<story><title>John Cleese: Political Correctness Can Lead to an Orwellian Nightmare (2016)</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAK0KXEpF8U</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>qqj</author><text>Assuming the majority of hn is US-based, you folks have to understand that PC culture is often seen as a joke at best and an extension of typical American hypocrisy at worst (i.e. the usual double-speak and fake politeness that covers actual opinions and motivations). Sure, the PC&#x2F;SJW wave is gaining momentum outside of the US as well, as the cultural influence is significant but it still remains an odd thing for most. Having to work with Americans used to be a chore because of how indirect they can be (not to mention the widespread tendency for workaholism) but now it’s becoming insufferable. Taking this “philosophy” to its logical conclusion, I cannot see how anyone can rationally deny we’re destined to a nightmare where you need to learn how to speak and act “the right way”, just like what happens in China. At least over there they have no pretenses about what they’re doing, and are not hiding behind supposedly noble ideas of equality and tolerance.<p>Make no mistake, American society is to a large extent Machiavellian in nature, especially the urbanite population and even more so the technocratic elite. Political Correctness is merely a tool of oppression and cynical exploitation at this point (just look at the Gillette ads if you still are unconvinced).</text></comment>
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<story><title>John Cleese: Political Correctness Can Lead to an Orwellian Nightmare (2016)</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAK0KXEpF8U</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>carapace</author><text>I love John Cleese but he&#x27;s gotten a bit &quot;Old man yells at cloud&quot; in his dotage IMO.<p>(Odd trivia: John Cleese is into Gurdjieff, or was.)<p>Look, I&#x27;m a left-leaning SJW type, but I&#x27;ll stand by the idea that when &quot;PC&quot; goes beyond common courtesy and starts becoming an OOC mob-power thing, that&#x27;s bad.<p>There&#x27;s a point to be made about historical context: women weren&#x27;t allowed to wear pants until about twenty minutes ago; Black folks in America have had a bit of a rough time, and many still do; everybody everywhere reverts to savage form when pushed outside their comfort zone.<p>Things are a bit rough here. Let&#x27;s all keep calm and be nice to each other, we&#x27;re all in this together.<p>In re: PC in comedy, specifically, I have what I call the &quot;Lenny Bruce test&quot;. When you feel the urge to tell an off-color joke to a mixed audience stop and ask yourself first, &quot;Am I Lenny Bruce?&quot; Check carefully and be sure. If you&#x27;re Lenny Bruce, go ahead with the joke, it will probably land, and if it doesn&#x27;t, who cares? You&#x27;re Lenny Bruce.
However, if you check and find that you&#x27;re not Lenny Bruce, carefully put the joke down and back away. It&#x27;s probably not worth it.<p>(In case it&#x27;s not clear, that was [an attempt at] a joke. Comedians should say wtf they want. Only the worst sort of person kicks a Fool.)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Max is taking 4K away from its legacy ad-free subscribers</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/2/23943859/max-4k-hbo-max-ad-free-subscribers</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mathieuh</author><text>Baffles me why all these streaming companies are shooting themselves in the foot. For about 18 months there was a golden age where it was easier to pay for things than to pirate. Now we’re in a situation where it’s even &#x2F;harder&#x2F; than it’s ever been.<p>People will pay for media if it’s easy and a good experience. The barrier to piracy is non-existent these days and you actually get a far better experience.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Max is taking 4K away from its legacy ad-free subscribers</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/2/23943859/max-4k-hbo-max-ad-free-subscribers</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Kerbonut</author><text>Who is Max? I really hate what HBO did here. I was very much liking the HBO Max era, and very much unimpressed with all of what’s happening now.</text></comment>
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<story><title>EU Commission: ‘No longer acceptable’ for platforms to take key decisions alone</title><url>https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/no-longer-acceptable-for-platforms-to-take-key-decisions-alone-eu-commission-says/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zmmmmm</author><text>It&#x27;s hard to overlook that the political class is suddenly up in arms about this primarily because they suddenly perceive themselves as being under threat from it. Ordinary individuals and businesses have had to deal with the hegemony of the platforms for a long time and it hasn&#x27;t really mattered until now.<p>I fear the outcome of this is going to be that it translates into massive regulatory overreach and splitting up of companies instead of what would be healthy - encourage competition through enforcing open standards and mandating interoperability and sharing of personal data. Those things would go a lot further to ensuring actual free speech as well as creating a healthier internet at the same time.</text></comment>
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<story><title>EU Commission: ‘No longer acceptable’ for platforms to take key decisions alone</title><url>https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/no-longer-acceptable-for-platforms-to-take-key-decisions-alone-eu-commission-says/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mc32</author><text>I think the EU understands the precedent this sets.<p>The tech giants have established that if they disagree with something (using their preferred value system), they feel they have the right to take action.<p>Let’s say the an EU minister proposes something that’s antithetical to US principles but is lawful in the EU, now tech giants feel emboldened with the right to take action _unilaterally_ without the right to an appeal.<p>I believe this is what the EU fears and wants to avoid.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Crispr now cuts and splices whole chromosomes</title><url>https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/08/forget-single-genes-crispr-now-cuts-and-splices-whole-chromosomes</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aaavl2821</author><text>It seems like there has been more hype around synthetic biology in the tech press the last year or so, but it still feels like this field is being slept on a bit. AGI gets a lot of press but is at best decades out, however one could argue that the potential (for good and bad) of synbio is close to as large, but the tech is much more real. In many cases it already exists -- we can modify human embryos, the first human study of CRISPR in the US kicked off a few weeks ago -- and in others it doesn&#x27;t seem too far out<p>I&#x27;m a non scientist and have been excited to learn more about this field, but to find out the most exciting stuff you need to read scientific papers. The details are the coolest parts IMO. A bit of self promo here, but I recently wrote a blog post summarizing a Stanford synbio paper in layman&#x27;s terms [0].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.baybridgebio.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;synbio-laymans-terms.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.baybridgebio.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;synbio-laymans-terms.html</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Crispr now cuts and splices whole chromosomes</title><url>https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/08/forget-single-genes-crispr-now-cuts-and-splices-whole-chromosomes</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gradys</author><text>People who work in or near genetic engineering:<p>CRISPR seems to solve the problem of editing DNA to contain arbitrary human-designed data. Are there major caveats or limitations to this that people outside the field don&#x27;t recognize? e.g. is delivery to the right cells a major obstacle?<p>If editing is solved, it seems like the major remaining problem is designing the right data to insert. I&#x27;d imagine this is a much vaster problem than editing. What are the major subproblems there? What does the frontier look like?<p>Besides the mechanics of editing and designing the sequences to insert, what other major problems stand in the way of sci-fi level genetic engineering?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Newsom vetoes a proposed ban on caste discrimination in California</title><url>https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/07/newsom-veto-caste-discrimination-00120495</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>locofocos</author><text>Precisely. I&#x27;m trying to understand the resistance in good faith, but the article didn&#x27;t explain their position very clearly.<p>&quot;It&#x27;s already prohibited&quot; - so why the fierce opposition?<p>&quot;Passing a law against discrimination of X will stigmatize X&quot; - Imagine someone was making this argument for an existing federally protected class.</text></item><item><author>ethanbond</author><text>The large and vocal constituency activated <i>against</i> the bill is good evidence that in fact it is <i>not</i> already accounted for under existing civil rights law.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tekla</author><text>People do not want to import this shit into the US.<p>They left these systems behind, and making a law codifies the system into law, which is kinda fucked up.<p>I myself have seen discrimination in non obvious ways (not Indian but exact same idea where your birth dictates certain societal ideas about you) , and would be absolutely pissed if anyone made a law that protects against that because discrimination is already protected against.<p>I REALLY do not want the Govt to literally categorize me into a bucket I do not give a shit about, and now everyone wants to codify a system that I would rather just fade away into time.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Newsom vetoes a proposed ban on caste discrimination in California</title><url>https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/07/newsom-veto-caste-discrimination-00120495</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>locofocos</author><text>Precisely. I&#x27;m trying to understand the resistance in good faith, but the article didn&#x27;t explain their position very clearly.<p>&quot;It&#x27;s already prohibited&quot; - so why the fierce opposition?<p>&quot;Passing a law against discrimination of X will stigmatize X&quot; - Imagine someone was making this argument for an existing federally protected class.</text></item><item><author>ethanbond</author><text>The large and vocal constituency activated <i>against</i> the bill is good evidence that in fact it is <i>not</i> already accounted for under existing civil rights law.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dataflow</author><text>No idea what the actual reason is, but I could potentially understand the argument that passing such laws would suggest to courts that <i>other</i> categories that they might&#x27;ve thought were already intended to be protected perhaps actually weren&#x27;t so.<p>Moreover, every new law carries a risk of having unintended consequences. So the argument may well be as simple as, if it ain&#x27;t broke, don&#x27;t fix it.<p>(That said, I don&#x27;t get the impression everyone who opposed it did so for the same reasons.)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Linux Foundation to support Zephyr microkernel</title><url>https://www.zephyrproject.org</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>Press release from Linux Foundation.[1]<p>Zephyr is a no-protection microkernel, like VxWorks (but unlike QNX, Minix, or L4, which run user processes in protected mode.) Everything is in one address space. It&#x27;s actually Rocket, from Wind River, which also sells VxWorks and has open-sourced Rocket. Zephyr is for very small systems. Think smart light bulb, not WiFi router. Supported hardware includes the Arduno Due (ARM) and Arduino 101 (x86). The QEMU emulator can be used for testing. The API is C-oriented and very low level - fibers, threads, mailboxes, semaphores, etc.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linuxfoundation.org&#x2F;news-media&#x2F;announcements&#x2F;2016&#x2F;02&#x2F;linux-foundation-announces-project-build-real-time-operating-system" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linuxfoundation.org&#x2F;news-media&#x2F;announcements&#x2F;2016...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Linux Foundation to support Zephyr microkernel</title><url>https://www.zephyrproject.org</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cpeterso</author><text>Why is the Linux Foundation interested in supporting a non-Linux operating system?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Apple Updates Air, Pro Laptops, Kills Off the MacBook</title><url>https://tidbits.com/2019/07/09/apple-updates-air-pro-laptops-kills-off-the-macbook/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wwweston</author><text>Macbook Pro &quot;improvements&quot; over the last 3-7 years:<p>* No more matte display<p>* RAM soldered to the board<p>* SSD soldered in<p>* remove all ports except USB-C<p>* make keyboard worse<p>* remove function keys, replace with touch surface that&#x27;s redundant at best<p>But it&#x27;s very thin!<p>And even thinner was the recent Macbook, and if the law of &quot;diminishing returns&quot; matters as little as the usual defenses of all the above tradeoffs in pursuit of light&#x2F;thin imply, you&#x27;d think that that&#x27;d be worth keeping.<p>Maybe there <i>is</i> a limit, and Apple&#x27;s actually reflected on that?<p>Or... maybe it&#x27;s just a recognition that the Air and Macbook had come to a place where there was little distinguishing them. And that really, the MBP is less and less designed&#x2F;deployed with actual professionals in mind and more and more meant for a prosumer subsegment. In which case reducing focus to two models (general purpose consumer laptop, light netbook) makes sense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Eiriksmal</author><text>&gt;So what are we to make of the four-year-old MacBook’s demise? ... The laptop got mixed reactions from the get-go. Its high portability and lovely Retina screen were welcomed compared to the bulky, non-Retina MacBook Air of the time.<p>Pure insanity. We&#x27;re now referring to the original MacBook Air as <i>bulky</i>!?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Apple Updates Air, Pro Laptops, Kills Off the MacBook</title><url>https://tidbits.com/2019/07/09/apple-updates-air-pro-laptops-kills-off-the-macbook/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wwweston</author><text>Macbook Pro &quot;improvements&quot; over the last 3-7 years:<p>* No more matte display<p>* RAM soldered to the board<p>* SSD soldered in<p>* remove all ports except USB-C<p>* make keyboard worse<p>* remove function keys, replace with touch surface that&#x27;s redundant at best<p>But it&#x27;s very thin!<p>And even thinner was the recent Macbook, and if the law of &quot;diminishing returns&quot; matters as little as the usual defenses of all the above tradeoffs in pursuit of light&#x2F;thin imply, you&#x27;d think that that&#x27;d be worth keeping.<p>Maybe there <i>is</i> a limit, and Apple&#x27;s actually reflected on that?<p>Or... maybe it&#x27;s just a recognition that the Air and Macbook had come to a place where there was little distinguishing them. And that really, the MBP is less and less designed&#x2F;deployed with actual professionals in mind and more and more meant for a prosumer subsegment. In which case reducing focus to two models (general purpose consumer laptop, light netbook) makes sense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ppeetteerr</author><text>I really (really!) appreciate how thin they are. The new 15in is as heavy as the old 13in. Really nice when you have to carry it around all the time. The biggest pain point is the lack of ports (4 ports including power) is not enough. The older models had around 5+ ports and still required dongles. Everything else aside from the keyboard is a minor issue (e.g. getting more ram today versus in the future is just a question of deferring costs).</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Rustonomicon: The Dark Arts of Advanced and Unsafe Rust</title><url>https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/nomicon/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>Interesting. Other than interfaces to non-Rust code, the big safety issues revolve around partial allocation of arrays. That&#x27;s the machinery underneath the ability to grow a vector, and comes up with some other data structures.<p>It&#x27;s not that hard to formalize safety in that area. You need some way to talk about an array being partially initialized. This requires some simple design-by-contract machinery - object invariants, basically. With some proof machinery, it should be possible to determine at compile time that a data manipulation is safe.<p>Rust already has the concept of raw memory space, which is treated as write-only. That takes care of initialization for non-array types. Partially initialized arrays require some additional annotation.<p>Suppose we have a primitive for talking about initialization:<p><pre><code> isvalid(T, arr, lo, hi)
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This means that array <i>arr</i> consists of valid values of type <i>T</i> is initialized and valid for subscripts in the range <i>lo</i> to <i>hi</i> inclusive.<p>Now there&#x27;s a way to talk about partially initialized arrays:<p><pre><code> pub struct Vec&lt;T&gt; {
ptr: *mut T, &#x2F;&#x2F; oversimplifying here
cap: usize,
len: usize,
invariant isvalid(T, *ptr, 0, len-1)
}
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This says that the array is only initialized up to len-1. The current requirement for &quot;unsafe&quot; comes from the lack of any way to talk about partial initialization. It&#x27;s an expressive problem. Much of Rust&#x27;s success comes from finding ways to talk about safety issues such as ownership within the language. This is an extension to that.<p>Then, a minimal theorem prover is needed, one which at least knows these theorems:<p><pre><code> j &lt; i ==&gt; isvalid(T, a, i, j) &#x2F;&#x2F; the null case
isvalid(T, a, i, j) and k &gt;= i and k &lt;= j ==&gt; isvalid(T, a[k]) &#x2F;&#x2F; element valid in range
isvalid(T, a, i, j) and isvalid(T, a[j+1]) ==&gt; isvalid(T, a, i, j+1) &#x2F;&#x2F; extend by adding new valid element
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With that info, it&#x27;s possible to check operations such as push, pop, and array growth, where an array is partially initialized in a controlled way. Array references can also be checked; this implies that access to an element index &gt;= len is an error, and the compiler now knows this.<p>When the compiler knows something like that, it can optimize. If you&#x27;re iterating a vec, from 0 to len-1, the subscript check required is<p><pre><code> i &lt; len
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Within a FOR statement, the compiler already knows the range of i is within 0..len-1,
so the subscript check becomes<p><pre><code> len-1 &lt; len
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which simplifies to True, eliminating the subscript check. That gets rid of the need for most unchecked subscripting.<p>This sort of proof machinery used to be exotic technology. (I was doing this kind of thing 35 years ago.[1]) Now it&#x27;s well understood. It&#x27;s quite possible to do this in a compiler today.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.animats.com&#x2F;papers&#x2F;verifier&#x2F;verifiermanual.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.animats.com&#x2F;papers&#x2F;verifier&#x2F;verifiermanual.pdf</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>The Rustonomicon: The Dark Arts of Advanced and Unsafe Rust</title><url>https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/nomicon/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>noobymatze</author><text>Am I right in assuming, that the name is a reference to the Normanomicon from Fable II and Fable III? It&#x27;s just priceless.<p>Thanks to all involved with Rust (also in light of the 1.3 release). From what I can tell (passively reading about language decisions and seeing the responsiveness of all involved on various communication channels), it&#x27;s a great lesson in building a community while simultaneously creating a fun programming language.<p>I hope, I&#x27;ll come to use it at work at some point.<p>P.S. First comment ever on the internet anywhere, hope I didn&#x27;t violate any guidelines.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Do you really need 10,000 steps a day?</title><url>https://blog.cardiogr.am/2016/02/12/do-you-really-need-10000-steps-a-day-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>newdaynewuser</author><text>I got into 10,000 steps craze, thanks in part to my company providing Fitbits. I was not really a health nut, just 3 days a week at gym, lifting and cardio. I had a bit of muscle definition. Gym was just something I did like brushing teeth. I didn&#x27;t focus my life around it.<p>Due to incentives and competition among co-workers, I got into Fitbit seriously. While it was fun, but after a few months, not only I lost some definition but also gained weight. I was expecting to lose muscle mass but didn&#x27;t know that 10000 steps spread out throughout day were not enough activity.<p>Now I realize Fitbits are great for extremely unhealthy or lazy people. But those of us who been working out without any devices should stay away from any such devices. And not change your workout routines.<p>It is too late for me, now I cannot workout without a device and some nice charts. I ended up getting a HRM based device. I like the charts it provides but I was happy using mirror to judge how much I needed to workout. And I didn&#x27;t need any external motivation back then.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_lex</author><text>Yeah, something that most people don&#x27;t know is that extrinsic motivation dissolves intrinsic motivation.<p>see <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spring.org.uk&#x2F;2009&#x2F;10&#x2F;how-rewards-can-backfire-and-reduce-motivation.php" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spring.org.uk&#x2F;2009&#x2F;10&#x2F;how-rewards-can-backfire-an...</a><p>This means that fitbit will leave you as either a fitbit addict (if you stick with it), or as someone who&#x27;s less healthy than you would have been otherwise (if you don&#x27;t, because now you&#x27;ll exercise less on your own).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Do you really need 10,000 steps a day?</title><url>https://blog.cardiogr.am/2016/02/12/do-you-really-need-10000-steps-a-day-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>newdaynewuser</author><text>I got into 10,000 steps craze, thanks in part to my company providing Fitbits. I was not really a health nut, just 3 days a week at gym, lifting and cardio. I had a bit of muscle definition. Gym was just something I did like brushing teeth. I didn&#x27;t focus my life around it.<p>Due to incentives and competition among co-workers, I got into Fitbit seriously. While it was fun, but after a few months, not only I lost some definition but also gained weight. I was expecting to lose muscle mass but didn&#x27;t know that 10000 steps spread out throughout day were not enough activity.<p>Now I realize Fitbits are great for extremely unhealthy or lazy people. But those of us who been working out without any devices should stay away from any such devices. And not change your workout routines.<p>It is too late for me, now I cannot workout without a device and some nice charts. I ended up getting a HRM based device. I like the charts it provides but I was happy using mirror to judge how much I needed to workout. And I didn&#x27;t need any external motivation back then.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>irln</author><text>I agree that 10,000 walking steps isn&#x27;t enough, however, it&#x27;s a great metric for monitoring throughout the day and realizing (on occasion) you haven&#x27;t done much for the day and you need to get out and hustle.<p>Also, on the Fitbit, their analysis of a particular run with regard to your heart rate is very helpful.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence</title><url>https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/10/30/fact-sheet-president-biden-issues-executive-order-on-safe-secure-and-trustworthy-artificial-intelligence/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stanfordkid</author><text>Regulatory capture in action. The real immediate risks of AI is in privacy, bias, data leakage, fraud, control of infrastructure&#x2F;medical equipment etc. not manufacturing biological weapons. This seems like a classic example of government doing something that looks good to the public, satisfies incumbents and does practically nothing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nopinsight</author><text>Current AI is already capable of designing toxic molecules.<p>Dual use of artificial-intelligence-powered drug discovery<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s42256-022-00465-9.epdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s42256-022-00465-9.epdf</a><p>Interview with the lead author here:
&quot;AI suggested 40,000 new possible chemical weapons in just six hours &#x2F; ‘For me, the concern was just how easy it was to do’&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;3&#x2F;17&#x2F;22983197&#x2F;ai-new-possible-chemical-weapons-generative-models-vx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;3&#x2F;17&#x2F;22983197&#x2F;ai-new-possible-...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence</title><url>https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/10/30/fact-sheet-president-biden-issues-executive-order-on-safe-secure-and-trustworthy-artificial-intelligence/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stanfordkid</author><text>Regulatory capture in action. The real immediate risks of AI is in privacy, bias, data leakage, fraud, control of infrastructure&#x2F;medical equipment etc. not manufacturing biological weapons. This seems like a classic example of government doing something that looks good to the public, satisfies incumbents and does practically nothing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>avmich</author><text>It&#x27;s true that immediate problems with AI are different, but we hope to be able to solve those problems and to have time for that. The risks addressed in the article could leave us less time and ability to properly solve when they grow to the obvious size, so that requires thinking ahead.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Ask HN: Slow thinkers, how do you compensate for your lack of quick-wittedness?</title><text>Slow thinking HN members, what are some strategies you&#x27;ve use to overcome and compensate for the lack of quick thinking.<p>E.g. I found I&#x27;m great at analysis or putting together elaborate argument but if I&#x27;m in a situation where I need to make a quick decision or get in actual argument I lose all of that capacity and usually drop to the level of IQ 85 if I&#x2F;m to be judged by the outcomes. Nevertheless a slow thinker does have that potential there he&#x27;s jut not able to tap into it if he falls into my category. In martial arts, rehearsing overcomes a lot of that - what has worked in real life for you?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>I have no background in pedagogy, but I&#x27;ve never understood the point of timed, high pressure tests, especially for children. You really just want to know the child has mastered the material such that they can solve the problems correctly--why is it necessary for them to do them in under 30 seconds, or whatever the bar is? If one kid gets the test done in 20 minutes and the other one takes 2 hours, but they both get the questions right, why does it matter?</text></item><item><author>rfrey</author><text>Sorry OP, for a bit of a diversion. I notice a lot of folks saying that &quot;quick wit&quot; or fast thinking or whatever, is just advance preparation (perhaps subconscious) or a memorized script, etc. It may be, but for those who think it always is, it definitely isn&#x27;t.<p>My son is&#x2F;was quite bright - reading at 3, reading the Economist and understanding 20% of it at 5, teaching himself calculus at 7. He got <i>terrible</i> grades in school maths, and his teachers thought he was lazy because he so obviously understood the material.<p>With some cognitive testing at age 6, he was placed &quot;somewhere over 2nd stdev&quot; (they just stop after a bit) for most cognitive subjects... but when taking response time tests he would drop to 2nd percentile. Second percentile! You could ask him to to find the root of a simple quadratic, and he would think about it and get the answer, then ask him to name the first five even numbers, and he would take about the same amount of time. His processing speed was (and is) just slow. In school, many marks went towards &quot;flash tests&quot; and speed competitions in math. He couldn&#x27;t get through the first half of the tests, he&#x27;d run out of time. He&#x27;s in third year honours maths at uni now, favourite topic is abstract algebra. They give him more time on tests.<p>My point is that this is real for some people, it&#x27;s not just practice or technique or rehearsing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sudosysgen</author><text>There actually is a reason. It is to make sure that kids have mastery of fundamental skills that they will need in the future. If it takes you a long to subtract, for example, it will take you an impractically long to do long division, and eventually you will take so long with more complex concepts that you won&#x27;t be able to learn effectively.<p>Additionally, you also want a fair number of problems in any given test to reduce the variance in the grades, and you want the student to be able to finish a significant number exercises that can truly cover the breadth of the content to learn, hopefully with more than one approach as well. If a student takes 2h to solve a problem there is no way they will be able to complete enough of a problem set.<p>Of course, there are outliers. But personally, especially given my shorter attention span, the ability to do math correctly and quickly was absolutely crucial, and I wouldn&#x27;t have been able to pass otherwise.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Ask HN: Slow thinkers, how do you compensate for your lack of quick-wittedness?</title><text>Slow thinking HN members, what are some strategies you&#x27;ve use to overcome and compensate for the lack of quick thinking.<p>E.g. I found I&#x27;m great at analysis or putting together elaborate argument but if I&#x27;m in a situation where I need to make a quick decision or get in actual argument I lose all of that capacity and usually drop to the level of IQ 85 if I&#x2F;m to be judged by the outcomes. Nevertheless a slow thinker does have that potential there he&#x27;s jut not able to tap into it if he falls into my category. In martial arts, rehearsing overcomes a lot of that - what has worked in real life for you?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>I have no background in pedagogy, but I&#x27;ve never understood the point of timed, high pressure tests, especially for children. You really just want to know the child has mastered the material such that they can solve the problems correctly--why is it necessary for them to do them in under 30 seconds, or whatever the bar is? If one kid gets the test done in 20 minutes and the other one takes 2 hours, but they both get the questions right, why does it matter?</text></item><item><author>rfrey</author><text>Sorry OP, for a bit of a diversion. I notice a lot of folks saying that &quot;quick wit&quot; or fast thinking or whatever, is just advance preparation (perhaps subconscious) or a memorized script, etc. It may be, but for those who think it always is, it definitely isn&#x27;t.<p>My son is&#x2F;was quite bright - reading at 3, reading the Economist and understanding 20% of it at 5, teaching himself calculus at 7. He got <i>terrible</i> grades in school maths, and his teachers thought he was lazy because he so obviously understood the material.<p>With some cognitive testing at age 6, he was placed &quot;somewhere over 2nd stdev&quot; (they just stop after a bit) for most cognitive subjects... but when taking response time tests he would drop to 2nd percentile. Second percentile! You could ask him to to find the root of a simple quadratic, and he would think about it and get the answer, then ask him to name the first five even numbers, and he would take about the same amount of time. His processing speed was (and is) just slow. In school, many marks went towards &quot;flash tests&quot; and speed competitions in math. He couldn&#x27;t get through the first half of the tests, he&#x27;d run out of time. He&#x27;s in third year honours maths at uni now, favourite topic is abstract algebra. They give him more time on tests.<p>My point is that this is real for some people, it&#x27;s not just practice or technique or rehearsing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Arech</author><text>even more than that - it&#x27;s quite possible the one who did it too fast have just recalled most of it from his memory, but the other is likely to have found solution for himself from scratch, which is usually much more valuable. Even the perseverance to find the solution is something worthy by itself...
(obviously, &quot;mileage may vary&quot;, but still)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Tesla Engineers Visit Twitter Office to Review Code for Musk</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-27/tesla-engineers-visit-twitter-office-to-review-code-for-musk</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zeristor</author><text>How does this work?<p>The engineers work for Tesla, but Tesla isn’t buying Twitter?<p>I was assuming Elon was, perhaps it’s a favour?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skissane</author><text>SpaceX uses some Tesla parts (such as electric motors and batteries). Apparently, SpaceX has used Tesla engineers as consultants regarding those parts.<p>Legally, Tesla isn&#x27;t allowed to do &quot;favours&quot; for Musk&#x27;s other businesses. From what I understand, SpaceX&#x2F;etc pay Tesla the fair market value of all assistance received (both goods and services). And the cooperation has to (at a high level) be approved by the respective boards (both Tesla&#x27;s and SpaceX&#x27;s) while Musk is not in the room. Whatever assistance Tesla may have given Musk regarding Twitter would be subject to the same legal requirements.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Tesla Engineers Visit Twitter Office to Review Code for Musk</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-27/tesla-engineers-visit-twitter-office-to-review-code-for-musk</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zeristor</author><text>How does this work?<p>The engineers work for Tesla, but Tesla isn’t buying Twitter?<p>I was assuming Elon was, perhaps it’s a favour?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vxxzy</author><text>Twitter signs an agreement with Tesla’s new software consulting division!</text></comment>
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<story><title>Blink-Dev – Intent to Deprecate and Freeze: The User-Agent string</title><url>https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/m/#!msg/blink-dev/-2JIRNMWJ7s/yHe4tQNLCgAJ</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sebazzz</author><text>User agent sniffing is still sometimes required. Take the SameSite bugs that Safari had. On the server you needed to act on that based on User Agent sniffing.</text></item><item><author>ChrisSD</author><text>&gt; On top of those privacy issues, User-Agent sniffing is an abundant source of compatibility issues, in particular for minority browsers, resulting in browsers lying about themselves (generally or to specific sites), and sites (including Google properties) being broken in some browsers for no good reason.<p>&gt; The above abuse makes it desirable to freeze the UA string and replace it with a better mechanism.<p>UA sniffing should have died out a long time ago. It&#x27;s frustrating that it&#x27;s 2020 and I&#x27;m still having my browsing experience broken for no other reason than the site doesn&#x27;t like my UA.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xfalcox</author><text>&gt; SameSite bugs that Safari had<p>Safari has SameSite bugs and it&#x27;s infuriating that after years they don&#x27;t even update the bug reports, let alone fix those.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.webkit.org&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=200345" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.webkit.org&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=200345</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Blink-Dev – Intent to Deprecate and Freeze: The User-Agent string</title><url>https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/m/#!msg/blink-dev/-2JIRNMWJ7s/yHe4tQNLCgAJ</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sebazzz</author><text>User agent sniffing is still sometimes required. Take the SameSite bugs that Safari had. On the server you needed to act on that based on User Agent sniffing.</text></item><item><author>ChrisSD</author><text>&gt; On top of those privacy issues, User-Agent sniffing is an abundant source of compatibility issues, in particular for minority browsers, resulting in browsers lying about themselves (generally or to specific sites), and sites (including Google properties) being broken in some browsers for no good reason.<p>&gt; The above abuse makes it desirable to freeze the UA string and replace it with a better mechanism.<p>UA sniffing should have died out a long time ago. It&#x27;s frustrating that it&#x27;s 2020 and I&#x27;m still having my browsing experience broken for no other reason than the site doesn&#x27;t like my UA.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vdnkh</author><text>Agreed. For media streaming UA sniffing is required because of quirks each browser has in decoding media. Safari has a few quirks about the MP4 packaging it likes via MediaSourceExtensions. Firefox&#x27;s network stack includes a delay not related to the actual request because of its implementation[0] which makes timing of small downloads very inaccurate. None of these differences are discernible except by UA.<p>[1] I believe FF includes in the download length the time a request spends sitting in the request queue, but I can&#x27;t exactly remember.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Cryptocurreny retailer BitPrime closes trading after running out of money</title><url>https://www.bitprime.co.nz/important-notice-for-all-customers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>claytonjy</author><text>Who is the target market for such a service?</text></item><item><author>phire</author><text>Hmm... Bitprime have grown since the last time I was paying attention. 20 employees....<p>For some context, a few years ago, they only did OTC trades (you ask for a quote and have a few hours to confirm the price and send the funds), with quite a large minimum of a few thousand. You only really delt with them if you wanted to on-road or off-road large amounts of New Zealand dollars.
They didn&#x27;t even run their own crypto wallets or have any infrastructure. They would just run accounts on larger crypto exchanges (binance?) and manually confirm deposits.<p>Looks like they have updated their process recently to be more automated so they can accept lower minimums, but their process apparently hasn&#x27;t changed. They still don&#x27;t hold customer funds and only trade between crypto and NZD.<p>It&#x27;s entirely possible they ran into problems because their model isn&#x27;t compatible with large downward volatility. Or maybe an exchange froze their account?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tracer1</author><text>Generally OTC desks are useful for large purchases. Let&#x27;s say you want to acquire $100 million in Bitcoin - you could go to Coinbase and just do it, but you&#x27;d drastically move the market, have a really obvious candlestick, and an observant third party could look for large movements from Coinbase and potentially track your holdings &#x2F; de-anonymize you.<p>An OTC desk can be setup to spread the buy over several days &#x2F; months, buy across markets, and optimize for best price execution. It&#x27;s not necessarily a huge business, but a lot of businesses and high net worth individuals will use these types of services instead of trying to learn the skills themselves.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Cryptocurreny retailer BitPrime closes trading after running out of money</title><url>https://www.bitprime.co.nz/important-notice-for-all-customers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>claytonjy</author><text>Who is the target market for such a service?</text></item><item><author>phire</author><text>Hmm... Bitprime have grown since the last time I was paying attention. 20 employees....<p>For some context, a few years ago, they only did OTC trades (you ask for a quote and have a few hours to confirm the price and send the funds), with quite a large minimum of a few thousand. You only really delt with them if you wanted to on-road or off-road large amounts of New Zealand dollars.
They didn&#x27;t even run their own crypto wallets or have any infrastructure. They would just run accounts on larger crypto exchanges (binance?) and manually confirm deposits.<p>Looks like they have updated their process recently to be more automated so they can accept lower minimums, but their process apparently hasn&#x27;t changed. They still don&#x27;t hold customer funds and only trade between crypto and NZD.<p>It&#x27;s entirely possible they ran into problems because their model isn&#x27;t compatible with large downward volatility. Or maybe an exchange froze their account?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phire</author><text>There are plenty of crypto exchanges that only deal with crypto. Or only have on&#x2F;off ramps for some local currency that isn&#x27;t really practical for people outside of that one country.<p>Bitprime allowed people in NZ to easily transfer value in and out of those exchanges. Or directly into a wallet for other services (i.e. buying NFTs or paying ransomware), or to hoddle.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Results of Rust Survey 2016 – early draft for internal usage</title><url>https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F6oELZcO_ejX2oVk20hmiBWd4lQugfFahn7OOOOyKsw</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Argorak</author><text>Please note that this is a leak of an early draft for the rust community teams internal usage and should be marked as such.<p>Do consider all numbers undiscussed and not cleaned up for flaws (we&#x27;ll document the cleanups and the reasonings).<p>-- Florian &#x2F;&#x2F; rust-community team</text></comment>
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<story><title>Results of Rust Survey 2016 – early draft for internal usage</title><url>https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F6oELZcO_ejX2oVk20hmiBWd4lQugfFahn7OOOOyKsw</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>qznc</author><text>&gt; By large margin, users are often grabbing vim to do their Rust work in<p>I would rather assume the reverse theory. Vim users are more likely to use new languages since they don&#x27;t expect complex IDE support. Or maybe just: Early adopter and vim user correlates.</text></comment>
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<story><title>FF4J – Feature Flags for Java</title><url>https://ff4j.github.io/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tantalor</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ff4j&#x2F;ff4j&#x2F;blob&#x2F;v1&#x2F;ff4j-core&#x2F;src&#x2F;main&#x2F;java&#x2F;org&#x2F;ff4j&#x2F;strategy&#x2F;time&#x2F;ReleaseDateFlipStrategy.java#L100">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ff4j&#x2F;ff4j&#x2F;blob&#x2F;v1&#x2F;ff4j-core&#x2F;src&#x2F;main&#x2F;java...</a><p>&gt; The feature will be flipped after release date is reached.<p>Don&#x27;t ever use this. This is a &quot;time bomb&quot;. This is a very bad idea. It&#x27;s basically like scheduling a time for your app to go down when you aren&#x27;t paying attention.<p>You have to have a human in the loop. The right way to &quot;schedule a release&quot; is to have a human flip the flag at the appropriate time (preferably, ramp it up to 100% of users gradually) and then stay online for a little while to do an emergency ramp down if&#x2F;when things go bad (that weren&#x27;t caught by some automated system in the ramp up).</text></comment>
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<story><title>FF4J – Feature Flags for Java</title><url>https://ff4j.github.io/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nprateem</author><text>Having recently kind of abandoned golang for Java, I&#x27;ve got to say I love the richness of the Spring ecosystem.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The U.S. Divorce Rate Has Hit a 50-Year Low</title><url>https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-us-divorce-rate-has-hit-a-50-year-low</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>toomuchtodo</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jec.senate.gov&#x2F;public&#x2F;index.cfm&#x2F;republicans&#x2F;analysis?ID=672F430A-8F6B-4E77-ABBF-009B041CFE17" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jec.senate.gov&#x2F;public&#x2F;index.cfm&#x2F;republicans&#x2F;anal...</a> (U.S. Marriage Rates Hit New Recorded Low)<p>Between the above post, and this post, not good if you read why this is occurring (economic security).<p>&quot;Meanwhile, America’s so-called “marriage divide” is only widening. College-educated and economically better off Americans are more likely to marry and stay married, but working-class and poor Americans face more family instability and higher levels of singleness. For Americans in the top third income bracket, 64% are in an intact marriage, meaning they have only married once and are still in their first marriage. In contrast, only 24% of Americans in the lower-third income bracket are in an intact marriage, according to my analysis of the 2018 Census data.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DoreenMichele</author><text><i>but working-class and poor Americans face more family instability and higher levels of singleness.</i><p>As a very poor divorced single mom, I will suggest this is not entirely bad news. Poor people used to marry as their only hope of surviving and this often left them stuck in dysfunctional and unhappy relationships.<p>I would rather be single than forced into a miserable and possibly abusive relationship as my only hope of survival.<p>The upper classes have something of a tendency to view all details of lower class life like every single bit of it is terrible and more bad news. There is a tendency to never see any stats in any kind of positive light. If you are poor, well it must suck to be you and you must be a victim every step of the way.<p>I think that is problematic as a framing. I think discussions of issues impacting poor people really need more nuance than that.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The U.S. Divorce Rate Has Hit a 50-Year Low</title><url>https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-us-divorce-rate-has-hit-a-50-year-low</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>toomuchtodo</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jec.senate.gov&#x2F;public&#x2F;index.cfm&#x2F;republicans&#x2F;analysis?ID=672F430A-8F6B-4E77-ABBF-009B041CFE17" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jec.senate.gov&#x2F;public&#x2F;index.cfm&#x2F;republicans&#x2F;anal...</a> (U.S. Marriage Rates Hit New Recorded Low)<p>Between the above post, and this post, not good if you read why this is occurring (economic security).<p>&quot;Meanwhile, America’s so-called “marriage divide” is only widening. College-educated and economically better off Americans are more likely to marry and stay married, but working-class and poor Americans face more family instability and higher levels of singleness. For Americans in the top third income bracket, 64% are in an intact marriage, meaning they have only married once and are still in their first marriage. In contrast, only 24% of Americans in the lower-third income bracket are in an intact marriage, according to my analysis of the 2018 Census data.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grawprog</author><text>I just really don&#x27;t understand the point of marriage at all. It&#x27;s typically an expensive ceremony that acts as a front to officially registering your relationship with the government and possibly a religious group.<p>Why does my relationship need to be officially registered?<p>Parental laws already don&#x27;t require marriage as factor.<p>If two people are going to stay together, a piece if paper telling them they&#x27;re officially together.doesn&#x27;t make any difference and if two people are going to separate, some paper&#x27;s likely not going to stop it.</text></comment>
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<story><title>SRE Teams: Hash</title><url>https://sreteams.substack.com/p/hash</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pram</author><text>I worked at a major software company that was implementing an “SRE” org and it was frankly pathetic. It basically had its genesis in some higher up hearing that Google does this thing, so we probably should too. That then later turned into a bunch of random DevOps&#x2F;Sys Admins drafted into the new org reading the Google SRE book. It was a shamelessly cargo cult approach.<p>After a year all we really had was hundreds of Confluence pages specifying policy for this and that, a bunch of ceremony added around releases, and arbitrary SLA&#x2F;SLOs defined. Almost zero actual technical work was accomplished. They then started filling the team with new grads who had neither devops or sysadmin experience, kind of cementing the perception that it was a non-technical role.<p>Either way I’m not a fan of the entire concept after being subjected to that suffering!</text></comment>
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<story><title>SRE Teams: Hash</title><url>https://sreteams.substack.com/p/hash</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>namanaggarwal</author><text>What I have seen in the companies that I have worked in<p>- Initially every engineer does everything<p>- Growth gives birth to independent
SRE teams. Now we have engineers who does only SRE<p>- We realised SRE is bottle neck for product teams. SRE teams are removed and all SRE are embedded into the product teams to do dedicated work for them.<p>- Other team members are now required to learn SRE stuff, especially now that terraform etc are there so we are back to everyone is a SRE<p>note that FAANG level companies go back to independent infra, SRE etc maybe because of niche and custom softwares they have.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Microsoft suspends Windows 10 update, citing data loss reports</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/06/microsoft-suspends-windows-10-update-citing-data-loss-reports/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kens</author><text>I&#x27;m a tolerant person, but recently I switched from Windows to Mac because the forced Windows updates kept messing me up. One time I left a long simulation running overnight. In the morning, I was greeted by a computer that had automatically rebooted to install updates, killing my simulation. Another instance was my daughter&#x27;s birthday party, where she wanted to show a movie. The computer decided to spend an hour doing updates instead. It seems like Windows has become an update engine that will sometimes also do computation for you.<p>My assumption is there&#x27;s someone at Microsoft who gets a bonus as long as they keep presenting update graphs going up and to the right, and they don&#x27;t care how much they mess up the Windows experience in the process.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bArray</author><text>This is exactly one of the main reasons why I switched to Linux, it doesn&#x27;t do anything unless I let it or ask it to - with few exceptions.<p>My anecdote: I was about to have an important meeting and needed to print off some sheets from my Windows-based netbook. The power was low (&lt;3%), so I plugged in the charger and resumed it from hibernation. It had been offline for a little while up until then because of traveling. Seeing the power was plugged in and I was shutting the machine down going into the meeting, Windows presumed that right then was a perfect moment to perform a Windows update. That night I wiped it and put Ubuntu on there.<p>FYI the Linux experience has been mostly great. There&#x27;s been maybe a problem once a year, with some driver or package issue - but most of the time it runs great. I can safely run anything on it overnight knowing that it won&#x27;t decide to do anything on it&#x27;s own accord.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Microsoft suspends Windows 10 update, citing data loss reports</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/06/microsoft-suspends-windows-10-update-citing-data-loss-reports/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kens</author><text>I&#x27;m a tolerant person, but recently I switched from Windows to Mac because the forced Windows updates kept messing me up. One time I left a long simulation running overnight. In the morning, I was greeted by a computer that had automatically rebooted to install updates, killing my simulation. Another instance was my daughter&#x27;s birthday party, where she wanted to show a movie. The computer decided to spend an hour doing updates instead. It seems like Windows has become an update engine that will sometimes also do computation for you.<p>My assumption is there&#x27;s someone at Microsoft who gets a bonus as long as they keep presenting update graphs going up and to the right, and they don&#x27;t care how much they mess up the Windows experience in the process.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rsync</author><text>&quot;Another instance was my daughter&#x27;s birthday party, where she wanted to show a movie. The computer decided to spend an hour doing updates instead. It seems like Windows has become an update engine that will sometimes also do computation for you.&quot;<p>This is, unfortunately, also true of Sonos.<p>I would say that more than 10% of my attempted sonos usage is blocked by an update process.<p>If you&#x27;re just turning on the news for 2-3 minutes while you pack up your things, that&#x27;s a 100% outage for you.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Major Proposed Changes to Linux From Scratch</title><url>http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2020-June/073815.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>core-questions</author><text>Yeah, the basic use case of simple wired network connectivity has gotten extremely complicated, especially in Ubuntu 18+, where you configure Netplan with YAML to render templates or...something.. that configures NetworkManager or not NetworkManager to do whatever to finally run `ip` to set the address.<p>I miss just editing &#x2F;etc&#x2F;network&#x2F;interfaces and &#x2F;etc&#x2F;resolv.conf by hand. I get that that sucks for laptops, but why can&#x27;t the rest of us just have an exceedingly simple and pleasant setup?</text></item><item><author>Bnshsysjab</author><text>Yeah but that doesn’t teach much about core components in real systems, such as systemd, the init process, how dependencies work etc.<p>I’m not saying you won’t learn, but I learnt a heap by avoiding systemd using gentoo. I eventually gave in when it became clear that it was no longer a viable option for various reasons, but the knowledge I learnt was mostly relevant.<p>That being said, every time I try and do something remotely advanced with network manager I fail. I can no longer have static ips, or customise DNS on a DHCP controlled connection without google</text></item><item><author>MuffinFlavored</author><text>i feel like linux from scratch is kind of overkill<p>1. format a disk a bootable active partition with ext4<p>1. download the kernel, make defconfig &amp;&amp; make<p>1. copy the kernel to the partition with syslinux mbr.bin and probably extlinux.conf (probably copy modules too)<p>1. copy busybox over<p>1. voila</text></item><item><author>darren0</author><text>I can&#x27;t recommend Linux From Scratch enough. If you want to understand the composition of the Linux user space, this is one of the best exercises to follow.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway8941</author><text>My current cross-distribution method of choice is systemd-networkd. It supports a lot of configuration options and can set up VPN tunnels (like WireGuard).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.archlinux.org&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;Systemd-networkd" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.archlinux.org&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;Systemd-networkd</a><p>Here&#x27;s a sample config file from my home desktop using a static IP:<p><pre><code> $ cat &#x2F;etc&#x2F;systemd&#x2F;network&#x2F;lan.network
[Match]
Name=enp3s0
[Network]
Address=192.168.100.200&#x2F;24
Gateway=192.168.100.1
DNS=1.1.1.1
DNS=1.0.0.1
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This&#x27;ll work on any systemd distribution.<p>netplan is one of those Canonical projects that&#x27;ll probably disappear in a year or two.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Major Proposed Changes to Linux From Scratch</title><url>http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2020-June/073815.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>core-questions</author><text>Yeah, the basic use case of simple wired network connectivity has gotten extremely complicated, especially in Ubuntu 18+, where you configure Netplan with YAML to render templates or...something.. that configures NetworkManager or not NetworkManager to do whatever to finally run `ip` to set the address.<p>I miss just editing &#x2F;etc&#x2F;network&#x2F;interfaces and &#x2F;etc&#x2F;resolv.conf by hand. I get that that sucks for laptops, but why can&#x27;t the rest of us just have an exceedingly simple and pleasant setup?</text></item><item><author>Bnshsysjab</author><text>Yeah but that doesn’t teach much about core components in real systems, such as systemd, the init process, how dependencies work etc.<p>I’m not saying you won’t learn, but I learnt a heap by avoiding systemd using gentoo. I eventually gave in when it became clear that it was no longer a viable option for various reasons, but the knowledge I learnt was mostly relevant.<p>That being said, every time I try and do something remotely advanced with network manager I fail. I can no longer have static ips, or customise DNS on a DHCP controlled connection without google</text></item><item><author>MuffinFlavored</author><text>i feel like linux from scratch is kind of overkill<p>1. format a disk a bootable active partition with ext4<p>1. download the kernel, make defconfig &amp;&amp; make<p>1. copy the kernel to the partition with syslinux mbr.bin and probably extlinux.conf (probably copy modules too)<p>1. copy busybox over<p>1. voila</text></item><item><author>darren0</author><text>I can&#x27;t recommend Linux From Scratch enough. If you want to understand the composition of the Linux user space, this is one of the best exercises to follow.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>akersten</author><text>Ugh, this resonates with me so much. I recently tried to fix some kind of mundane network issue (had a Fedora machine configured for a static IP and wanted to use DHCP instead), and the absolute mess of tooling that is the Linux networking landscape baffled me. How could it get this bad? As far as I could tell, there were at least 4 competing ecosystems (NetworkManager, the &#x27;ip&#x27; tool, &#x2F;etc&#x2F;network&#x2F;interfaces, &#x2F;etc&#x2F;sysconfig&#x2F;network-scripts) all extant at the same time.<p>Does &#x27;ip&#x27; tool update one of those files? How do I tell systemd to re-load the configuration? Is NetworkManager running or not? Does it matter? Does NM update these files, or do something magical to the interface? Are these even the right files? The best answer at which I could arrive is &quot;who knows?&quot;<p>Every time I attempted to change the network interface settings, it only stuck around until the machine rebooted. <i>Something</i> was resetting it back to a static IP, and I had no tools to tell me what.<p>Why did distro maintainers ever allow things to become this confusing? Why do we have so many tools and config files for <i>the same thing</i>?<p>In the end I reinstalled a fresh copy of Fedora on the machine and set the DHCP configuration in the setup wizard. It&#x27;s that bad.<p>My experience tells me to anticipate a comment along the lines of &quot;Hey, those programs and config files are all actually the same tool, and you must have just been configuring it wrong.&quot; If that&#x27;s the case - it&#x27;s an even stronger point that this chaos has reached a critical mass, where parts of the same networking configuration tool are so disjoint that they don&#x27;t visibly interoperate at all.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Earth's rotation, with the camera locked to the sky instead of the ground</title><url>https://mastodon.social/@coreyspowell/110531182569820738</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Freebytes</author><text>How is this actually accomplished, though?</text></item><item><author>mytailorisrich</author><text>Straight to the source:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;artuniverse.eu&#x2F;gallery&#x2F;190705-rotation24h" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;artuniverse.eu&#x2F;gallery&#x2F;190705-rotation24h</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shagie</author><text><p><pre><code> Mount Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer
Tripod Manfrotto MT055XPRO3
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The tripod is a good, heavy, stable one. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.manfrotto.com&#x2F;us-en&#x2F;055-aluminum-3-section-tripod-with-horizontal-column-mt055xpro3&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.manfrotto.com&#x2F;us-en&#x2F;055-aluminum-3-section-tripo...</a><p>The head is <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.skywatcherusa.com&#x2F;collections&#x2F;star-adventurer&#x2F;products&#x2F;star-adventurer-pro-pack" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.skywatcherusa.com&#x2F;collections&#x2F;star-adventurer&#x2F;pr...</a> which is a bit more fancy than the old school equatorial mounts.... but<p><pre><code> Star Adventurer 2i multi-function equatorial tracking mount with built-in Wi-Fi control
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It&#x27;s still an equatorial mount.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;astrobackyard.com&#x2F;equatorial-telescope-mount&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;astrobackyard.com&#x2F;equatorial-telescope-mount&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Equatorial_mount" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Equatorial_mount</a><p>You adjust the base to the latitude that you are at so that the mount can rotate to match the Earth&#x27;s rotation on one axis, and then the other axises can track ascension and declination - which remain constant in the sky.<p>This differs from the altazimuth mount ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Altazimuth_mount" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Altazimuth_mount</a> ) where a celestial object is that that location now, but moves.<p>Sirius is at 06h 45m 08s RA and -16° 42’ 57”... but as I type this, as seen from Greenwich, United Kingdom it would be at -27.4° altitude (below the horizon), 277.5° azimuth - and that coordinate system moves.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Earth's rotation, with the camera locked to the sky instead of the ground</title><url>https://mastodon.social/@coreyspowell/110531182569820738</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Freebytes</author><text>How is this actually accomplished, though?</text></item><item><author>mytailorisrich</author><text>Straight to the source:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;artuniverse.eu&#x2F;gallery&#x2F;190705-rotation24h" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;artuniverse.eu&#x2F;gallery&#x2F;190705-rotation24h</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>taejo</author><text>An equatorial mount keeps the camera pointing in a fixed celestial direction by rotating at the same rate as the Earth in the plane of the equator. It&#x27;s essential for any long exposure of the sky where you don&#x27;t want star trails, the unusual thing here is having the horizon in frame.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Plastic-based fuels may present an “unreasonable risk” to human health</title><url>https://www.propublica.org/article/chevron-pascagoula-pollution-future-cancer-risk</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>myshpa</author><text>Change my mind: 90%+ of plastic is not necessary.<p>Not necessary:<p>- plastic bottles (good only for coca-cola&#x27;s profits etc., 90% of bottled drinks contain microplastics, use glass)<p>- food wrappers (use paper &amp; natural wax, not pfoas)<p>- plastic shopping bags (use textile bags like our grandma&#x27;s did)<p>- eshop packages (ever received goods in plastic bags wrapped in insane amounts of additional plastic?)<p>- tea bags made with plastic (yes, they&#x27;re there, not biodegradable, lots of microplastics in your tea)<p>- tooth brushes (what&#x27;s wrong with wood&#x2F;bamboo ?)<p>- textiles ( cotton &#x2F; hemp &#x2F; flax. you think you need to run in modern textiles because it&#x27;s raining ? stay home, i don&#x27;t need your pfoas in my water )<p>- polystyrene for home insulation (why not support plant based alternatives, like hemp &#x2F; hempcrete)<p>- fishing nets (70% of macro plastic at sea comes from fishing gear, just eat plants people, there are not that many fish left anyway)<p>Necessary:<p>- health care<p>- what have i forgot?<p>Better to stop producing the crap, than to have to find ways how to utilize it without harming everything and everybody. It&#x27;s good only for the packaging industry, nobody else.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Plastic-based fuels may present an “unreasonable risk” to human health</title><url>https://www.propublica.org/article/chevron-pascagoula-pollution-future-cancer-risk</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>photochemsyn</author><text>The most ridiculous part of the EPA approach:<p>&gt; &quot;But the agency won’t turn over these records or reveal information about the waste-based fuels, even their names and chemical structures. Without those basic details, it’s nearly impossible to determine which of the thousands of consent orders on the EPA website apply to this program. In keeping this information secret, the EPA cited a legal provision that allows companies to claim as confidential any information that would give their competitors an advantage in the marketplace.&quot;<p>There&#x27;s no explanation of this other than regulatory capture. Might want to look into how many people from the EPA Chevron has been hiring as consultants etc., or how much money Chevron has been giving to politicians who approve EPA heads, the hiring practices of EPA heads, and so on.<p>I&#x27;d guess much of the problem is that they only partially breakdown the plastics into the desired long-chain hydrocarbons that make up the jet fuel, so there&#x27;s likely a big pile of partially-broked down plastics that they then have to dispose of, which is a likely source of carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and so on, plus dioxin which is particularly problematic as a hormone mimic and disruptor of basic cellular processes (see Agent Orange, Vietnam):<p>&quot;Dioxin formation during combustion of nonchloride plastic, polystyrene and its product&quot; (2005)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;16097324&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;16097324&#x2F;</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Linux Networking Shallow Dive: WireGuard, Routing, TCP/IP and NAT</title><url>https://im.salty.fish/index.php/archives/linux-networking-shallow-dive.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>generalizations</author><text>If you have a write up of how you managed to get layer 2 working inside wireguard, I&#x27;d love to read it.</text></item><item><author>systems_glitch</author><text>We recently switched a bunch of stuff from OpenVPN to Wireguard. A number of the links were OpenVPN layer 2 tunnels to pass, of all things, Novell Netware running on IPX (the particular situation precludes switching to TCP&#x2F;IP for those customers). Now, layer 2 tunneling is being performed using RFC 3378 EtherIP, and it&#x27;s much more performant, not to mention easier to manage.<p>Old and new systems are running OpenBSD.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>systems_glitch</author><text>I basically just followed the OpenBSD documentation! One of the big advantages of OpenBSD is that pretty much everything you need to know is contained in the manpages.<p>As I&#x27;d said above, we ended up using RFC 3378 EtherIP to link the two layer 2 broadcast domains across the Wireguard tunnel. OpenBSD supports this with the etherip interface. You end up creating a bridge with the etherip interface and whatever physical Ethernet interfaces you want to bridge, on either side of the Wireguard tunnel.<p>I also tried VXLAN but did not have good results. I&#x27;m not entirely sure it wasn&#x27;t a problem with my configuration. Traffic often went one-directional, where broadcast packets from Site A made it to Site B, but they did not come from Site B to Site A. EtherIP worked right off, so I didn&#x27;t investigate further.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Linux Networking Shallow Dive: WireGuard, Routing, TCP/IP and NAT</title><url>https://im.salty.fish/index.php/archives/linux-networking-shallow-dive.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>generalizations</author><text>If you have a write up of how you managed to get layer 2 working inside wireguard, I&#x27;d love to read it.</text></item><item><author>systems_glitch</author><text>We recently switched a bunch of stuff from OpenVPN to Wireguard. A number of the links were OpenVPN layer 2 tunnels to pass, of all things, Novell Netware running on IPX (the particular situation precludes switching to TCP&#x2F;IP for those customers). Now, layer 2 tunneling is being performed using RFC 3378 EtherIP, and it&#x27;s much more performant, not to mention easier to manage.<p>Old and new systems are running OpenBSD.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>usui</author><text>Since WireGuard is Layer 3, what would is everyone&#x27;s use case of doing Layer 2 on it? Or, what can it improve over existing solutions? I have tried to do the same for a bit while still learning networking, but ran into Layer 3 limitations.</text></comment>
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<story><title>How do palm trees survive hurricanes? (2017)</title><url>https://www.indefenseofplants.com/blog/2017/9/10/how-do-palms-survive-hurricanes</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DelaneyM</author><text>We have a dense line of palm trees protecting our shoreline on our property (South Caribbean), and ours is the only house on a long coast which hasn&#x27;t lost metres of land to oceans over the past decade. (Our neighbours have prioritised private beaches, I like my farmland.) It&#x27;s easily visible on Google Maps satellite view, but I&#x27;m not sure I want to post a link to my house...<p>Because they&#x27;re all that&#x27;s holding the property together their root systems are exposed on the seaward side, and they are _massive_. I couldn&#x27;t build a stronger retaining wall. I wish this article shared some pictures of a palm root system, it&#x27;s really the most impressive part. Together with seagrape shrubs I think I&#x27;m actually reclaiming a few inches a year. I also have some great footage of palm trees bent over nearly 90° in a cat-3 from a few years back.<p>One thing not mentioned here is the risk under storms of coconuts. In a tropical storm, palm trees become coconut catapults when the trunks whip around at high speed and under tension. We&#x27;ve lost multiple 1&quot;-thick concrete roof tiles to coconut strikes, as well smashing (but not breaching) a cat-3 hurricane door.<p>Here for the Caribbean content!</text></comment>
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<story><title>How do palm trees survive hurricanes? (2017)</title><url>https://www.indefenseofplants.com/blog/2017/9/10/how-do-palms-survive-hurricanes</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>js2</author><text>A palm tree, speared by a piece of lumber during Hurricane Andrew:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;3f77mEa" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;3f77mEa</a><p>I was in Miami for Andrew. My dad owned a one-hour photo lab. After the storm, there were tons of insurance adjusters needing their photos developed. My dad and I got his lab open the day after Andrew and ran it on a portable generator for two weeks till the power came back. This was one of the photos we printed during that period. Fun times.<p>The palm trees did fine. Miami also has ficus trees planted all over the place. Huge canopies. Huge root structures, but the roots are very broad and shallow. In my neighborhood, every ficus tree was toppled with its roots pulling up sidewalks and grass. This is not from Andrew, but it looks like this:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net&#x2F;v1&#x2F;static&#x2F;5618154292001&#x2F;45c576b3-3406-4133-8c92-7ed961410e83&#x2F;7466ac79-29a8-4772-81ce-37cb747473d0&#x2F;1280x720&#x2F;match&#x2F;image.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net&#x2F;v1&#x2F;static&#x2F;56181...</a><p>It&#x27;s hard to convey the destructiveness of Andrew to folks who weren&#x27;t there, but this gives some idea:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;historycollection.com&#x2F;31-images-hurricane-andrew-destruction&#x2F;2&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;historycollection.com&#x2F;31-images-hurricane-andrew-des...</a><p>Apparently that tree is a celebrity. I didn&#x27;t realize there were a bunch of picture of it on the Internet till now:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;duckduckgo.com&#x2F;?q=hurricane+andrew+palm+tree&amp;ia=images&amp;iax=images" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;duckduckgo.com&#x2F;?q=hurricane+andrew+palm+tree&amp;ia=imag...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/how-one-stupid-tweet-ruined-justine-saccos-life.html?_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mc32</author><text>Two things: Don&#x27;t be too clever. People trip over themselves to feel offended. Two, you really don&#x27;t have freedom of speech when you can get mugged by being obnoxious online. Not being malicious -just obnoxious.<p>Yes all the tweets quoted in the article were obnoxious and leveraged stereotypes but I don&#x27;t think people should be flogged for being like that.<p>I remember all the obnoxious Polish jokes growing up. They were terrible. But I don&#x27;t agree that they should be censored. Demanding this mind of self censorship is a sign that a society is fragile rather than robust. A robust society can take the jokes.<p>It&#x27;s like with friendships. With good friends you can nettle them; say terrible things and we know that&#x27;s it&#x27;s all in good fun, a ritual of sorts. With so so friends you don&#x27;t make bad jokes because the friendship is too fragile. It&#x27;s a sign of an immature or fragile society when bad jokes upset the cart.<p>Edit. An irony is that many of the people calling offense don&#x27;t realize their own transgression in becoming part of a self-righteous mob meting out punishment at the speed of thought.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dsp1234</author><text><i>you really don&#x27;t have freedom of speech when you can get mugged by being obnoxious online.</i><p>Ken White has quite a few posts about freedom of speech vs the Internet. I think this quote is apropos to that type of comment.<p><i>Speech Is Not Censorship: Put another way, as we often say here, speech is not tyranny. Freedom of speech does not (and cannot, under any coherent legal or philosophical approach) involve freedom from criticism. Free speech does not mean &quot;I have a right to say whatever I want without social consequences.&quot;</i> [0]<p>[0] - <a href="https://www.popehat.com/2012/10/16/a-few-words-on-reddit-gawker-and-anonymity/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.popehat.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;10&#x2F;16&#x2F;a-few-words-on-reddit-gaw...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/how-one-stupid-tweet-ruined-justine-saccos-life.html?_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mc32</author><text>Two things: Don&#x27;t be too clever. People trip over themselves to feel offended. Two, you really don&#x27;t have freedom of speech when you can get mugged by being obnoxious online. Not being malicious -just obnoxious.<p>Yes all the tweets quoted in the article were obnoxious and leveraged stereotypes but I don&#x27;t think people should be flogged for being like that.<p>I remember all the obnoxious Polish jokes growing up. They were terrible. But I don&#x27;t agree that they should be censored. Demanding this mind of self censorship is a sign that a society is fragile rather than robust. A robust society can take the jokes.<p>It&#x27;s like with friendships. With good friends you can nettle them; say terrible things and we know that&#x27;s it&#x27;s all in good fun, a ritual of sorts. With so so friends you don&#x27;t make bad jokes because the friendship is too fragile. It&#x27;s a sign of an immature or fragile society when bad jokes upset the cart.<p>Edit. An irony is that many of the people calling offense don&#x27;t realize their own transgression in becoming part of a self-righteous mob meting out punishment at the speed of thought.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vertex-four</author><text>&gt; you really don&#x27;t have freedom of speech when you can get mugged by being obnoxious online<p>If you published something similarly obnoxious in a newspaper before the Internet, I&#x27;m sure you&#x27;d get a similarly angry response from some people, and quite possibly have someone harass you in person if they knew where to find you.<p>If you stood on top of a soap box and shouted offensive crap at the public, you might have stuff thrown at you.<p>The only things that have changed - it&#x27;s easier to publish things online, you&#x27;re publishing for a global audience rather than a national or a local one, it&#x27;s easier to find other people who find those publications obnoxious online, and it&#x27;s a two-way medium rather than the traditional one-way medium of newspapers.<p>Basically, the masses <i>finally</i> have a voice. If that&#x27;s a problem, perhaps free speech has never actually had a chance of working?</text></comment>
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<story><title>“Clean Code, Horrible Performance” Discussion</title><url>https://github.com/unclebob/cmuratori-discussion/blob/main/cleancodeqa.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wirrbel</author><text>Robert C Martin&#x27;s (who is not my uncle) Clean Code book&#x2F;advice is what I would call junior programmer material. Its good to get someone started to think about better ways of writing software (albeit is hasn&#x27;t aged very well).<p>I don&#x27;t recommend it to juniors anymore because it hasn&#x27;t aged well and is for my taste hyperbolic in its promises.<p>IMHO clean code also is more focused on code implementing &quot;business logic&quot; than &quot;systems programming&quot; for example (probably a bit tricky to actually define what the difference is between these too).</text></item><item><author>pkolaczk</author><text>It is debatable if Clean Code actually improves the programmer efficiency and programs readability. I find people applying it religiously often create over-complex designs like FizzBuzz Enterprise.<p>Even Uncle Bob&#x27;s examples are not the state of the art in readability:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qntm.org&#x2F;clean" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qntm.org&#x2F;clean</a><p>The main problem seems to be that Clean Code is mostly a premature optimisation in code flexibility. It makes code more complex and objectively worse in hope it would be easier to extend later. Unfortunately we often dont know how the code will change, and in practice the code has to be significantly changed&#x2F;rewritten anyway when a business requirement change appears.<p>IMHO optimizing for simplicity and readability has served me the best. Instead of avoiding the changes in code, it is better to write code so obvious that anyone can safely and easily change it when really needed.<p>And finally, performance of the program vs performance of the developer is a false dichotomy. So many times I&#x27;ve seen a more readable, simpler code turned out to be more efficient as well. You often can have both.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kgeist</author><text>Just yesterday, when discussing our company&#x27;s grades, someone joked that the difference between a junior and a senior developer is that a junior developer should learn to know when to use OOP&#x2F;abstractions while a senior developer should learn to recognize when OOP&#x2F;abstractions are to be avoided.</text></comment>
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<story><title>“Clean Code, Horrible Performance” Discussion</title><url>https://github.com/unclebob/cmuratori-discussion/blob/main/cleancodeqa.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wirrbel</author><text>Robert C Martin&#x27;s (who is not my uncle) Clean Code book&#x2F;advice is what I would call junior programmer material. Its good to get someone started to think about better ways of writing software (albeit is hasn&#x27;t aged very well).<p>I don&#x27;t recommend it to juniors anymore because it hasn&#x27;t aged well and is for my taste hyperbolic in its promises.<p>IMHO clean code also is more focused on code implementing &quot;business logic&quot; than &quot;systems programming&quot; for example (probably a bit tricky to actually define what the difference is between these too).</text></item><item><author>pkolaczk</author><text>It is debatable if Clean Code actually improves the programmer efficiency and programs readability. I find people applying it religiously often create over-complex designs like FizzBuzz Enterprise.<p>Even Uncle Bob&#x27;s examples are not the state of the art in readability:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qntm.org&#x2F;clean" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qntm.org&#x2F;clean</a><p>The main problem seems to be that Clean Code is mostly a premature optimisation in code flexibility. It makes code more complex and objectively worse in hope it would be easier to extend later. Unfortunately we often dont know how the code will change, and in practice the code has to be significantly changed&#x2F;rewritten anyway when a business requirement change appears.<p>IMHO optimizing for simplicity and readability has served me the best. Instead of avoiding the changes in code, it is better to write code so obvious that anyone can safely and easily change it when really needed.<p>And finally, performance of the program vs performance of the developer is a false dichotomy. So many times I&#x27;ve seen a more readable, simpler code turned out to be more efficient as well. You often can have both.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CraftingLinks</author><text>Uncle Bob,the eternal noob of programming.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Simpson Fan Grows Tomacco (2003)</title><url>https://www.simpsonsarchive.com/news/tomacco.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sdrothrock</author><text>I was curious about what happened since the write-up ends abruptly before revealing the testing results.<p>Wikisimpsons has a bit more info sourced from DVD commentary revealing that the tomacco had no nicotine in it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;simpsonswiki.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tomacco#Behind_the_Laughter" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;simpsonswiki.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tomacco#Behind_the_Laughter</a><p>Wikidoc has even more detail but no sources: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wikidoc.org&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;Tomacco" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wikidoc.org&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;Tomacco</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tao3300</author><text>I just figured the writer tasted it and perished.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Simpson Fan Grows Tomacco (2003)</title><url>https://www.simpsonsarchive.com/news/tomacco.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sdrothrock</author><text>I was curious about what happened since the write-up ends abruptly before revealing the testing results.<p>Wikisimpsons has a bit more info sourced from DVD commentary revealing that the tomacco had no nicotine in it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;simpsonswiki.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tomacco#Behind_the_Laughter" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;simpsonswiki.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tomacco#Behind_the_Laughter</a><p>Wikidoc has even more detail but no sources: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wikidoc.org&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;Tomacco" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wikidoc.org&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;Tomacco</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>veave</author><text>There are sources here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Products_produced_from_The_Simpsons#Tomacco" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Products_produced_from_The_Sim...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Writing OOP using OOP</title><url>http://raganwald.com/2014/03/10/writing-oop-using-oop.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>barrkel</author><text>This is a sociological problem.<p>The further up the abstraction hierarchy you customize things in languages that let you do this, the more differentiated your code is and - generally speaking - the more awkward it is to integrate with other people&#x27;s code.<p>Lisp and Smalltalk are at one extreme end of the scale here. They let you define rich DSLs. Unfortunately, application of their most powerful features to any given problem domain typically results in a custom language specific to that domain - so much so that you lose much of the benefits of sharing a language with other programmers. Understanding what&#x27;s going on takes much more work, because you need to understand more of the system before its gestalt becomes clear.<p>DSLs are excellent when they&#x27;re applied to problem domains that are otherwise very clumsy to express, when the problem is widespread, when it doesn&#x27;t intermix too deeply with other domains (i.e. the abstraction is mostly self-contained), and when there is a critical mass of programmers using it - enough that understanding the system at its own level of abstraction is enough for most people.<p>But when you apply the same techniques to relatively humdrum problems like object construction, function binding etc., it&#x27;s best if the language or its standard library has a reasonable approach and everybody uses it. Developing your own ad-hoc language around class construction means that everyone coming into your code needs to understand it before they can truly understand what the code is doing. It&#x27;s a barrier to understanding, and the pros of customization need to be substantially higher than the costs of subtlety.<p>In short, it&#x27;s usually better to be explicit.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Writing OOP using OOP</title><url>http://raganwald.com/2014/03/10/writing-oop-using-oop.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>michaelsbradley</author><text>Joose[1] took these patterns about as far as anyone has (open source) as of several years ago; it&#x27;s based on Moose[2] for Perl.<p>When Bill Edney and Scott Shattuck finally release TIBET[3] upon the world (something like 15 years in the making), it will take &quot;real OOP&quot; for JavaScript to a whole new level. TIBET is basically a full-on Smalltalk system (including a kernel, images, modules) for JavaScript, but it&#x27;s not a compile-to-JS kit; rather, it builds right on top of the language, kind of a &quot;super library&quot; for ultra heavy-duty browser based apps.<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/Joose/Joose" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Joose&#x2F;Joose</a><p>[2] <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~ether/Moose-2.1204/lib/Moose.pm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;search.cpan.org&#x2F;~ether&#x2F;Moose-2.1204&#x2F;lib&#x2F;Moose.pm</a><p>[3] <a href="http://technicalpursuit.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;technicalpursuit.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>How Figma's Multiplayer Technology Works</title><url>https://www.figma.com/blog/how-figmas-multiplayer-technology-works/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ggambetta</author><text>Sounds weird to use &quot;multiplayer&quot; when there are no players involved, but users. On the other hand, I guess &quot;multiuser&quot; doesn&#x27;t convey the real-time-ness they want to convey.<p>FWIW, here&#x27;s how it&#x27;s done for actual multiplayer games, especially the ones where latency is critical: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gabrielgambetta.com&#x2F;client-server-game-architecture.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gabrielgambetta.com&#x2F;client-server-game-architecture....</a> Arguably, their software is more similar to a turn-based game, and formal correctness of the results is more desirable than &quot;a smooth experience&quot;, as is the case for multiplayer games.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coreyward</author><text>Figma&#x27;s case is more challenging in some ways, too, though. In multiplayer games, like the one described on your website, you rarely have multiple actors independently manipulating the same object, there&#x27;s a moderate tolerance for imperfect resolution of conflicts, and the server can reject messages that are more than a few seconds out of sync with the server state.<p>Figma needs to have very consistent, predictable resolution in order for users to trust it with business-critical documents, and it needs to allow users to operate offline for arbitrarily long periods without throwing their work away when they reconnect. This has to happen across multiple versions of the software, and across documents (e.g. when dependency libraries are republished).</text></comment>
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<story><title>How Figma's Multiplayer Technology Works</title><url>https://www.figma.com/blog/how-figmas-multiplayer-technology-works/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ggambetta</author><text>Sounds weird to use &quot;multiplayer&quot; when there are no players involved, but users. On the other hand, I guess &quot;multiuser&quot; doesn&#x27;t convey the real-time-ness they want to convey.<p>FWIW, here&#x27;s how it&#x27;s done for actual multiplayer games, especially the ones where latency is critical: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gabrielgambetta.com&#x2F;client-server-game-architecture.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gabrielgambetta.com&#x2F;client-server-game-architecture....</a> Arguably, their software is more similar to a turn-based game, and formal correctness of the results is more desirable than &quot;a smooth experience&quot;, as is the case for multiplayer games.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>melvinroest</author><text>Note: there&#x27;s no client-server architecture needed with things such as Figma since it can be done P2P. I&#x27;m just past the beginning stages of it. You can use a mix of WebRTC&#x2F;WebTorrent&#x27;s infrastructure to get a serverless (i.e. use WebTorrent&#x27;s signaling services) for P2P. A library called Bugout [1] implemented it this way.<p>If you want to see an example of how it works, check out my side project Doodledocs. I modified the Bugout library a bit for performance improvements, but my project is using its concept on how to spin up a serverless (i.e. not your servers but those of WebTorrent) P2P web app [2].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chr15m&#x2F;bugout" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chr15m&#x2F;bugout</a><p>[2] Doodledocs is a collaborative doodling web app that I created as a sideproject, so it is just a bit related to Figma. I didn&#x27;t make CRDTs yet, since I want a simple doodle environment for pencil&#x2F;eraser (+ simple web annotation&#x2F;image annotation).<p>Link: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doodledocs.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doodledocs.com</a> (browsers tested: Chrome&#x2F;laptop, Chrome&#x2F;iPad, Safari&#x2F;iPad).</text></comment>
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