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<story><title>macOS Sonoma is available today</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/09/macos-sonoma-is-available-today/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mdaniel</author><text>I want to like Nix but those installation instructions for macOS (and their removal friend) are just crazypants as compared to the `sudo mkdir &#x2F;nix &amp;&amp; sudo chown $USER &#x2F;nix` from the Linux version<p>And that&#x27;s not even getting into the &quot;waaa?&quot; from `du -hs &#x2F;nix` although I am open to that being a misleading number due to hardlinks and other trickery that du may not correctly surface</text></item><item><author>n8henrie</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nixos.org&#x2F;download.html#nix-install-macos" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nixos.org&#x2F;download.html#nix-install-macos</a><p>The homebrew team seems incredibly burnt-out, to the point of hostility. I&#x27;ve really enjoyed the nixpkgs community so far and encourage others to check it out; it hasn&#x27;t replaced homebrew entirely for me (yet), but it&#x27;s getting closer every day.</text></item><item><author>cglong</author><text>So it goes...<p><pre><code> Warning: You are using macOS 11.
We (and Apple) do not provide support for this old version.
It is expected behaviour that some formulae will fail to build in this old version.
It is expected behaviour that Homebrew will be buggy and slow.
Do not create any issues about this on Homebrew&#x27;s GitHub repositories.
Do not create any issues even if you think this message is unrelated.
Any opened issues will be immediately closed without response.
Do not ask for help from Homebrew or its maintainers on social media.
You may ask for help in Homebrew&#x27;s discussions but are unlikely to receive a response.
Try to figure out the problem yourself and submit a fix as a pull request.
We will review it but may or may not accept it.</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pxc</author><text>&gt; And that&#x27;s not even getting into the &quot;waaa?&quot; from `du -hs &#x2F;nix` although I am open to that being a misleading number due to hardlinks and other trickery that du may not correctly surface<p>Nope, du counts hardlinks correctly when it encounters the same inode multiple times in the course of fulfilling a single invocation.<p>per <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ss64.com&#x2F;osx&#x2F;du.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ss64.com&#x2F;osx&#x2F;du.html</a> :<p>&gt; Files having multiple hard links are counted (and displayed) a single time per du execution.<p>Nix&#x27;s disk usage profile is pretty similar to Flatpak&#x27;s, or to a collection of closely related Docker containers. The difference between no Nix install and having one isn&#x27;t huge. But your first installed Nix package will pull in very low level common dependencies— on Linux, everything between whatever application and the kernel (and on macOS, a bit less). Your next application will come with a smaller increase. Once you have a handful of programs installed, you no longer have big downloads for individual additions. When you have a lot installed, the difference isn&#x27;t that huge, proportionally.<p>Over time, your Nixpkgs version will rotate and you can end up with deps from old versions of Nixpkgs, which can take up a lot of extra space. But that&#x27;s easy enough to manage by pinning Nixpkgs.<p>If you ever uninstall programs, Homebrew&#x27;s broken uninstallation functionality can very quickly make a Homebrew installation much (up to several times) larger than the equivalent Nix one once you have more than a handful of packages installed.</text></comment>
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<story><title>macOS Sonoma is available today</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/09/macos-sonoma-is-available-today/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mdaniel</author><text>I want to like Nix but those installation instructions for macOS (and their removal friend) are just crazypants as compared to the `sudo mkdir &#x2F;nix &amp;&amp; sudo chown $USER &#x2F;nix` from the Linux version<p>And that&#x27;s not even getting into the &quot;waaa?&quot; from `du -hs &#x2F;nix` although I am open to that being a misleading number due to hardlinks and other trickery that du may not correctly surface</text></item><item><author>n8henrie</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nixos.org&#x2F;download.html#nix-install-macos" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nixos.org&#x2F;download.html#nix-install-macos</a><p>The homebrew team seems incredibly burnt-out, to the point of hostility. I&#x27;ve really enjoyed the nixpkgs community so far and encourage others to check it out; it hasn&#x27;t replaced homebrew entirely for me (yet), but it&#x27;s getting closer every day.</text></item><item><author>cglong</author><text>So it goes...<p><pre><code> Warning: You are using macOS 11.
We (and Apple) do not provide support for this old version.
It is expected behaviour that some formulae will fail to build in this old version.
It is expected behaviour that Homebrew will be buggy and slow.
Do not create any issues about this on Homebrew&#x27;s GitHub repositories.
Do not create any issues even if you think this message is unrelated.
Any opened issues will be immediately closed without response.
Do not ask for help from Homebrew or its maintainers on social media.
You may ask for help in Homebrew&#x27;s discussions but are unlikely to receive a response.
Try to figure out the problem yourself and submit a fix as a pull request.
We will review it but may or may not accept it.</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>abathur</author><text>Try running `sudo mkdir &#x2F;nix &amp;&amp; sudo chown $USER &#x2F;nix` on modern macOS.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Writing HTTP Middleware in Go</title><url>http://justinas.org/writing-http-middleware-in-go/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>optymizer</author><text><p><pre><code> &gt; a painless and even fun process
</code></pre>
This claim might be a little too optimistic. I&#x27;d like to challenge you (everyone) to associate a User object with an http.Request. Example code in Node.js&#x2F;ExpressJS:<p><pre><code> function auth(req, res, next) {
req.User = User(&quot;username&quot;);
next();
}
</code></pre>
This is such a simple example of a useful piece of middleware, yet it is so difficult to implement in Go in a &#x27;painless and fun&#x27; way.<p>I would prefer to avoid contention on a global mutex.<p>I would prefer to keep the compatibility with http.Handler and http.HandlerFunc.<p>Good luck!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>Maybe I&#x27;m missing something about your question, but I think my solution to this problem is simply to use closures; if there&#x27;s per-request state (a user, a session, a data store), I write a function that returns an anonymous HandlerFunc that wraps up the real handler, sets up its environment, and passes it down.<p>This is &quot;compatible&quot; with http.Handler and http.HandlerFunc; everything is wired together as if it was vanilla handlers. But my actual handlers (or &quot;actions&quot; or whatever you&#x27;d like to call them) get state, persistence, &amp;c.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Writing HTTP Middleware in Go</title><url>http://justinas.org/writing-http-middleware-in-go/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>optymizer</author><text><p><pre><code> &gt; a painless and even fun process
</code></pre>
This claim might be a little too optimistic. I&#x27;d like to challenge you (everyone) to associate a User object with an http.Request. Example code in Node.js&#x2F;ExpressJS:<p><pre><code> function auth(req, res, next) {
req.User = User(&quot;username&quot;);
next();
}
</code></pre>
This is such a simple example of a useful piece of middleware, yet it is so difficult to implement in Go in a &#x27;painless and fun&#x27; way.<p>I would prefer to avoid contention on a global mutex.<p>I would prefer to keep the compatibility with http.Handler and http.HandlerFunc.<p>Good luck!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elithrar</author><text>To be fair, Express is a web framework. Go&#x27;s net&#x2F;http package is a little lower level than that.<p>Still, this is possible if you make up for the lack of a framework by writing some code yourself. I&#x27;d use (and I <i>do</i> use) gorilla&#x2F;context[1] to allow me to pass data in the request context between middleware layers (i.e. CSRF middleware passes the token along).<p>You could write a couple of little helpers using gorilla&#x2F;context (SetUser&#x2F;GetUser, or more generically, SetString&#x2F;GetString) and SetUser(username, r) in your middleware. The helpers (see the context docs!) just wrap a type assertion on the Get side, and set a map value on the Set side.<p><pre><code> &#x2F;&#x2F; Compatible with http.HandlerFunc
func auth(h http.HandlerFunc) http.HandlerFunc {
return func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
SetUser(r, &quot;dave&quot;)
h.ServeHTTP(w, r)
}
}
&#x2F;&#x2F; Routes
r.HandleFunc(&quot;&#x2F;admin&quot;, use(adminHandler, auth)
http.Handle(&quot;&#x2F;&quot;, r)
&#x2F;&#x2F; Allows you to chain your middleware rather than wrapping functions
func use(h http.HandlerFunc, middleware ...func(http.HandlerFunc) http.HandlerFunc) http.HandlerFunc {
for _, m := range middleware {
h = m(h)
}
return h
}
</code></pre>
You can mod this to work with http.Handler if you want: replace HandlerFunc and then write r.Handle(&quot;&#x2F;admin&quot;, use(http.HandlerFunc(adminHandler), auth) instead.<p>[1]: <a href="http://www.gorillatoolkit.org/pkg/context" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gorillatoolkit.org&#x2F;pkg&#x2F;context</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Maze Tree</title><url>http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/061b3929ba0f3964d335</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>couchand</author><text>One of the coolest things about this gist is how little code is used for the animation; basically just these lines:<p><pre><code> d3.selectAll(nodes).transition()
.duration(2500)
.delay(function() { return this.depth * 50; })
.ease(&quot;quad-in-out&quot;)
.tween(&quot;position&quot;, function() {
var d = this, i = d3.interpolate([d[0], d[1]], [d.y, d.x]);
return function(t) { var p = i(t); d.t = t; d[0] = p[0]; d[1] = p[1]; };
});
</code></pre>
The tree layout auto-magically gives every node a depth property, we delay the transition by an amount proportional to the depth, and then over the course of two-and-a-half seconds tween the line segment into the new position. Simple and effective. The hard part is generating the maze.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Maze Tree</title><url>http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/061b3929ba0f3964d335</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>roberthahn</author><text>It&#x27;s not clear to me whether the tree is mapping the paths of the maze or the walls - the transformation makes it appear as though the walls are being mapped but that doesn&#x27;t make sense.<p>I wonder if this works backwards - given a tree could you construct a maze? efficiently?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Linode DDoS continues – Atlanta down for 16+ hours</title><url>http://status.linode.com/incidents/cbbcjnhhpkgm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>agildehaus</author><text>Genuine question: What does anyone have to gain from Linode&#x27;s misfortune? What sort of group would do this?</text></item><item><author>jafingi</author><text>That&#x27;s exactly what the reaction the attackers want.<p>However, what are the alternatives? Linode have been dead stable for me the past many years, and delivers what they promise in a transparent way. No overselling of servers. No sudden extra bills.<p>Linode will come out stronger after this, so it won&#x27;t be able to happen on this scale again.<p>The big question is: Who, with a lot of money, would want to hurt Linode&#x27;s business in this way? This isn&#x27;t just a &quot;script kiddie&quot; having fun. It&#x27;s a very well planned and powerful attack requiring buying large botnet capacity for an extensive amount of time.</text></item><item><author>gingerlime</author><text>I honestly love Linode and am sure they&#x27;ll come out better as a result of this. But our customers aren&#x27;t as understanding. Currently we&#x27;re playing a bit of cat and mouse and with each data centre going down - we&#x27;re switching our recovery process into gear and restoring to a different VPS (outside Linode). We have linodes on pretty much all locations, but if this continues at this rate, we simply won&#x27;t have any linodes left there.<p>It would be very hard to justify going back to Linode afterwards, even with the best intentions to do so. <i>&quot;... So you seriously want us to go back to this hosting provider that caused us all this mess over Christmas &#x2F; New Year&#x27;s??&quot;</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rdtsc</author><text>Maybe the some state actor &#x2F; mafia drug lord... didn&#x27;t like one of the customers and put enough effort to shut down the whole service.<p>Github was attacked by China before I believe for hosting some firewall by-passing software.<p>Maybe a competitor, but who would bother to go that low? I can&#x27;t imagine any of the popular ones trying it -- too much risk it will be exposed.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Linode DDoS continues – Atlanta down for 16+ hours</title><url>http://status.linode.com/incidents/cbbcjnhhpkgm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>agildehaus</author><text>Genuine question: What does anyone have to gain from Linode&#x27;s misfortune? What sort of group would do this?</text></item><item><author>jafingi</author><text>That&#x27;s exactly what the reaction the attackers want.<p>However, what are the alternatives? Linode have been dead stable for me the past many years, and delivers what they promise in a transparent way. No overselling of servers. No sudden extra bills.<p>Linode will come out stronger after this, so it won&#x27;t be able to happen on this scale again.<p>The big question is: Who, with a lot of money, would want to hurt Linode&#x27;s business in this way? This isn&#x27;t just a &quot;script kiddie&quot; having fun. It&#x27;s a very well planned and powerful attack requiring buying large botnet capacity for an extensive amount of time.</text></item><item><author>gingerlime</author><text>I honestly love Linode and am sure they&#x27;ll come out better as a result of this. But our customers aren&#x27;t as understanding. Currently we&#x27;re playing a bit of cat and mouse and with each data centre going down - we&#x27;re switching our recovery process into gear and restoring to a different VPS (outside Linode). We have linodes on pretty much all locations, but if this continues at this rate, we simply won&#x27;t have any linodes left there.<p>It would be very hard to justify going back to Linode afterwards, even with the best intentions to do so. <i>&quot;... So you seriously want us to go back to this hosting provider that caused us all this mess over Christmas &#x2F; New Year&#x27;s??&quot;</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mwill</author><text>A competitor seems like a pretty obvious answer.<p>But the vps market is fairly crowded, I can&#x27;t imagine what attacking a single competitor would actually accomplish.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The New York Times Calls for Marijuana Legalization</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/07/27/opinion/sunday/high-time-marijuana-legalization.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>javert</author><text>&gt; a crime and punishment issue, but rather one of public health<p>Not disagreeing with anything you said, just providing a thought.<p>Common opinion dictates that we need the state to take care of public health; thus, in common opinion, public health <i>is</i> an issue of crime and punishment.<p>If you take it as a principle (as I do) that we need sepration of state and public health (as with church, as with education), it has interesting implications.<p>Update: Most glaring example is Obamacare. You have to pay a fine (punishment) if you don&#x27;t get insurance and it imposes massive burdens on doctors. I am only adding this because I got massively downvoted. I guess people didn&#x27;t understand that what I said was just a matter of fact. Our society <i>does</i> support the idea that public health is actionable on a &quot;crime and punishment&quot; level and in general that is still the modus operandi.</text></item><item><author>sharkweek</author><text>Two plugs I always make during any drug law discussion on HN:<p>One - The Economist&#x27;s 2009 article &quot;Failed states and failed policies&quot; - <a href="http://www.economist.com/node/13237193" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.economist.com&#x2F;node&#x2F;13237193</a> (you might have to Google the title to get around a paywall)<p>Two - The documentary, The House I Live In - <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2125653/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imdb.com&#x2F;title&#x2F;tt2125653&#x2F;</a> (trailer - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0atL1HSwi8" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=a0atL1HSwi8</a>)<p>Both make such a fascinating case that drugs should have never been a crime and punishment issue, but rather one of public health. I highly recommend both for a read and a watch, and both will articulate the case far superior to anything I would be able to write here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GuiA</author><text>&gt; in common opinion, public health is an issue of crime and punishment.<p>Mh? It isn&#x27;t illegal to get an STD, and you don&#x27;t get punished for having an STD; yet our society actively tries to limit STD transmission. Not sure I&#x27;m understanding what you&#x27;re arguing for&#x2F;against.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The New York Times Calls for Marijuana Legalization</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/07/27/opinion/sunday/high-time-marijuana-legalization.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>javert</author><text>&gt; a crime and punishment issue, but rather one of public health<p>Not disagreeing with anything you said, just providing a thought.<p>Common opinion dictates that we need the state to take care of public health; thus, in common opinion, public health <i>is</i> an issue of crime and punishment.<p>If you take it as a principle (as I do) that we need sepration of state and public health (as with church, as with education), it has interesting implications.<p>Update: Most glaring example is Obamacare. You have to pay a fine (punishment) if you don&#x27;t get insurance and it imposes massive burdens on doctors. I am only adding this because I got massively downvoted. I guess people didn&#x27;t understand that what I said was just a matter of fact. Our society <i>does</i> support the idea that public health is actionable on a &quot;crime and punishment&quot; level and in general that is still the modus operandi.</text></item><item><author>sharkweek</author><text>Two plugs I always make during any drug law discussion on HN:<p>One - The Economist&#x27;s 2009 article &quot;Failed states and failed policies&quot; - <a href="http://www.economist.com/node/13237193" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.economist.com&#x2F;node&#x2F;13237193</a> (you might have to Google the title to get around a paywall)<p>Two - The documentary, The House I Live In - <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2125653/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imdb.com&#x2F;title&#x2F;tt2125653&#x2F;</a> (trailer - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0atL1HSwi8" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=a0atL1HSwi8</a>)<p>Both make such a fascinating case that drugs should have never been a crime and punishment issue, but rather one of public health. I highly recommend both for a read and a watch, and both will articulate the case far superior to anything I would be able to write here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DangerousPie</author><text>The state has methods at its disposal other than crime an punishment. For example, they can try to influence the behavior of their citizens by education or taxation, like they do with cigarettes or alcohol.</text></comment>
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<story><title>1800s Astronomical Drawings vs. NASA Images (2016)</title><url>https://www.nypl.org/blog/2016/08/19/1800s-astronomical-drawings</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dredmorbius</author><text>What captivates me about the drawings is the range in detail and accuracy. Keep in mind that naked-eye observations are difficult, limited to the colour sensitivities of the human eye, and often are working at or near the limits of perception --- the fanciful details on Mars are extrapolation of a very small blurry rusty dot.<p>The detail of the sunspot images is exquisite.<p>The other aspect is that until the advent of photography, <i>all</i> image preservation was mediated by the human eye, mind, and artistic ability, and often the 2nd or further-removed hand accounts and relating of original events or objects. (See Albrecht Durer&#x27;s rinocerous for one of my favourite examples of this.) The century or so from the mid-19th through mid-20th century where direct analogue impressions of images, sound, and movement were possible gave us a period of robustly reliable records (within the limits of equipment, and still subject to manipulation). The age of computer-modified and -generated imagery once again leaves us with high-fidelity images which may have remote, little, or no bearing on any actual reality. This includes, for what it&#x27;s worth, many of the NASA images provided, which are more data interpretations than realistic representations of astronomical objects.</text></comment>
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<story><title>1800s Astronomical Drawings vs. NASA Images (2016)</title><url>https://www.nypl.org/blog/2016/08/19/1800s-astronomical-drawings</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sedan_baklazhan</author><text>It is surprising (at least) to see &quot;Book of killed poets&quot; in Russian (which is in fact some Soviet era photo paper) as NASA&#x27;s Saturn image.</text></comment>
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<story><title>George A. Romero, 'Night of the Living Dead' creator, has died</title><url>http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-me-george-romero-20170716-story.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>axaxs</author><text>Night of the Living Dead was one of my favorites, and really kicked off the whole Zombie genre running up to today. RIP Mr. Romero.<p>Fun fact: NotLD was immediately placed in the public domain upon release, due to a notice mistake by the distributors, which was required at the time for copyright.</text></comment>
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<story><title>George A. Romero, 'Night of the Living Dead' creator, has died</title><url>http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-me-george-romero-20170716-story.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>seibelj</author><text>When I was about 10, I saw Night of the Living Dead and it fully cemented my love of horror movies. I had watched Tales of the Crypt, Are You Afraid of the Dark, Twilight Zone, and similar, but NOTLD was incredible. Terrifying, creepy, realistic... it gave me nightmares and shook me to my core.<p>Most people who aren&#x27;t into the genre think that horror is all Jason-style slasher flicks. Horror is so much more than that. If you want to try something that I recommend, The Void was just released on Netflix, which is genuinely scary in a non-slasher way (although it has a lot of that too).<p>RIP George A. Romero</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Pumpkin Eclipse</title><url>https://blog.lumen.com/the-pumpkin-eclipse/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>not2b</author><text>It&#x27;s a no-win situation. Sure, disabling firmware updates would have prevented this attack, but it would also prevent security fixes that keep the routers from being turned into a botnet.<p>But what I don&#x27;t get in this case is why it was not possible to reset the device to its original state. It seems like a misdesign if it&#x27;s possible to destroy all of the firmware, including the backup.</text></item><item><author>Scoundreller</author><text>&gt; These reports led us to believe the problem was likely a firmware issue, as most other issues could be resolved through a factory reset.<p>My dream is to intercept the write-enable lines on the flash chips holding these firmwares so I can lock out updates. And schedule a daily reboot for any memory-resident-only crap.<p>That’s what we used to do on, ahem, satellite receivers, 20 years ago and maybe we all need to treat every device attached to the internet as having a similar susceptibility to “electronic counter-measures”.<p>Or at least monitor them for updates and light up a light when an update happens if it was my own equipment and I’d know if it should go off or not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kbenson</author><text>You could but a base level firmware on ROM, with a hardware trigger, and all that does on boot is listen and receive a signed firmware to write to the system. It needs a way to be triggered through hardware examining traffic and that also needs to require the seen command be signed. That recovery boot system needs to be as simple and minimal as possibly so you can have good assurance that there aren&#x27;t problems with it, and should be written in the safest language you can get away with. Guard that signing key with your life, and lock it away for a rainy day, only to be used if much of your fleet of devices is hosed entirely. It should not be the same as a firmware signing key which needs to be pulled out and used sometimes.<p>I think that could work, to a degree. There&#x27;s always the risk that your recovery mechanism itself it exploited, so you need to make it as small and hardened a target as possible and reduce its complexity to the bare minimum. That doesn&#x27;t solve the problem, which might be inherently unsolvable, but it may reduce that likelihood of it to levels where it&#x27;s not a problem until long past the lifecycle of the devices.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Pumpkin Eclipse</title><url>https://blog.lumen.com/the-pumpkin-eclipse/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>not2b</author><text>It&#x27;s a no-win situation. Sure, disabling firmware updates would have prevented this attack, but it would also prevent security fixes that keep the routers from being turned into a botnet.<p>But what I don&#x27;t get in this case is why it was not possible to reset the device to its original state. It seems like a misdesign if it&#x27;s possible to destroy all of the firmware, including the backup.</text></item><item><author>Scoundreller</author><text>&gt; These reports led us to believe the problem was likely a firmware issue, as most other issues could be resolved through a factory reset.<p>My dream is to intercept the write-enable lines on the flash chips holding these firmwares so I can lock out updates. And schedule a daily reboot for any memory-resident-only crap.<p>That’s what we used to do on, ahem, satellite receivers, 20 years ago and maybe we all need to treat every device attached to the internet as having a similar susceptibility to “electronic counter-measures”.<p>Or at least monitor them for updates and light up a light when an update happens if it was my own equipment and I’d know if it should go off or not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sounds</author><text>It&#x27;s an interesting challenge because the device is nominally &quot;under ISP control&quot; but any device located in a customer&#x27;s home is under the physical control of the customer. The mistrust between the ISP and the customer leads to &quot;trusted&quot; devices where the firmware, including the backup, can be overwritten by the ISP, but then cannot recover if it gets corrupted. And believe me, the corrupt firmware scenario happens a lot due to incompetence.<p>This is getting attention because it wasn&#x27;t incompetence this time.<p>But how does blank, unprovisioned equipment discover a path to its provisioning server? Especially in light of the new &quot;trusted&quot; push, this is an arms race in a market segment such as routers where there isn&#x27;t any money for high end solutions - only the cheapest option is even considered.<p>tl;dr: a social and economic problem, likely can&#x27;t be fixed with a purely technical solution</text></comment>
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<story><title>Samsung asks for planning permission for 11 fabs in Texas</title><url>https://www.electronicsweekly.com/uncategorised/802190-2022-07/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CoastalCoder</author><text>Here&#x27;s something that confuses me about building fabs in Texas. IIUC:<p>1) Power disruptions in fabs are very expensive.<p>2) Texas&#x27;s power grid has gained a reputation lately for being unreliable.<p>If those things are true, how do they plan to deal with that? Heavy investment in onsite power generation?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rossdavidh</author><text>Austin resident here, who used to work in fabs.<p>Basically, there was a time (1980&#x27;s) when fabs in Austin had their own power generation. AMD, which used to have its own fabs, had its own power for them. Then, they (not just AMD but everybody with fabs in Texas) eventually decided it wasn&#x27;t worth the cost, and started using the regular power grid, because Austin&#x27;s power had become more reliable. Obviously, as the percentage of solar, wind, and natgas has increased, and the percentage of coal has decreased, this reliability has been thrown into question. Also, the rapid population increase has also just meant a general problem of building new capacity fast enough.<p>My guess is that they have an eye on it, and it is also possible they will build their own power generation, but more likely they are just getting guarantees of some sort that enough power capacity will be built.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Samsung asks for planning permission for 11 fabs in Texas</title><url>https://www.electronicsweekly.com/uncategorised/802190-2022-07/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CoastalCoder</author><text>Here&#x27;s something that confuses me about building fabs in Texas. IIUC:<p>1) Power disruptions in fabs are very expensive.<p>2) Texas&#x27;s power grid has gained a reputation lately for being unreliable.<p>If those things are true, how do they plan to deal with that? Heavy investment in onsite power generation?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marcinzm</author><text>Given this is just an initial permission with no concrete plan to build they may also be trying to induce a bidding war with another location that is more favorable (but more expensive).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Make a Doom level, part 1: the basics</title><url>http://eev.ee/blog/2015/12/19/you-should-make-a-doom-level-part-1/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>unixhero</author><text>A childhood friend of mine(32) from elementary school, has a mild autism and does not know how to deal with his life. We used to be mad doom fans (well, we still are) when it came out and it stuck with us for years. But the poor guy is living with his family, sitting up until 4AM making Doom levels. At this stage he is one of the leading &quot;levellers&quot; at Doomworld[0]. &quot;STILL MAKING LEVELS IN 2015&quot; is a thing which is kind of funny, but it is actually sad. He&#x27;s wasted so much of his young years thinking about Doom, making levels etc. I wish he&#x27;d just snap out of it, but it seems it will not happen. That is how the story goes I guess, with the kids you grow up with. Not all of them have the interpersonal and mental means to pick a chose a good path for themselves.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;doomworld.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;doomworld.com</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thristian</author><text>Have you played (or watched somebody play) The Beginner&#x27;s Guide¹? I watched a video of somebody playing through it, and it affected me pretty powerfully; now I&#x27;m pretty positive towards the idea of letting people express themselves creatively however they like and not trying to pressure them towards my ideas of &quot;productivity&quot;.<p>¹: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thebeginnersgui.de&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thebeginnersgui.de&#x2F;</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Make a Doom level, part 1: the basics</title><url>http://eev.ee/blog/2015/12/19/you-should-make-a-doom-level-part-1/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>unixhero</author><text>A childhood friend of mine(32) from elementary school, has a mild autism and does not know how to deal with his life. We used to be mad doom fans (well, we still are) when it came out and it stuck with us for years. But the poor guy is living with his family, sitting up until 4AM making Doom levels. At this stage he is one of the leading &quot;levellers&quot; at Doomworld[0]. &quot;STILL MAKING LEVELS IN 2015&quot; is a thing which is kind of funny, but it is actually sad. He&#x27;s wasted so much of his young years thinking about Doom, making levels etc. I wish he&#x27;d just snap out of it, but it seems it will not happen. That is how the story goes I guess, with the kids you grow up with. Not all of them have the interpersonal and mental means to pick a chose a good path for themselves.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;doomworld.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;doomworld.com</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ido</author><text>That&#x27;s not so bad, considering the alternatives for people in such a situation.<p>I also have a friend in a somewhat similar place, although last we met he seems to have gotten a bit of a better grip on his life (managed to find some freelance work as a programmer, as far as I know he was never able to hold a &quot;normal&quot; steady job before).<p>If we didn&#x27;t have happen to be into computers as kids I&#x27;m pretty sure things would have been worse.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Russian Gang Said to Amass More Than a Billion Stolen Internet Credentials</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/technology/russian-gang-said-to-amass-more-than-a-billion-stolen-internet-credentials.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>steven2012</author><text>How much rampant identity theft has to occur before our government admits that it&#x27;s broken? Leaving things like credit ratings in the hands of 3 incompetent companies like Experian, Equifax and Transunion that control our livelihood is an affront to common decency.<p>As a victim of identity theft, and as someone who took extreme measure to protect himself from identity theft before it occurred, I can tell everyone without a doubt that the only reason why you&#x27;re not a victim of identity theft is because of random chance. There is no mechanism to protect yourself, and your information is readily available. The only reason why you haven&#x27;t gotten your identity stolen is because the thieves simply haven&#x27;t gotten to you yet.<p>It&#x27;s infuriating that these companies can get away with what is essential libel and not have anything done to them. I shredded all my mail, I haven&#x27;t given any real information about me on any web site since 1997, never gave out any information about me willy-nilly including applying for too many credit cards, and I never fall for phishing attacks. And yet somehow I found myself victim of identity theft, and it took 2+ years to clean up, and it&#x27;s still not over. Since so many web sites use Experian data to verify my identity, I&#x27;ve lost a lot of opportunity to get credit, loans, etc, because Experian has mixed my information with the fraudulent information, so I get answers to those automated question wrong.<p>It&#x27;s truly infuriating, and the system is completely broken, yet no one in government cares.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Russian Gang Said to Amass More Than a Billion Stolen Internet Credentials</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/technology/russian-gang-said-to-amass-more-than-a-billion-stolen-internet-credentials.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>smackfu</author><text>Wow, that is some photo the NY Times put on that article.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The AI bullshit singularity</title><url>https://successfulsoftware.net/2024/02/18/the-ai-bullshit-singularity/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scottbez1</author><text>Succinctly stated and something that resonates strongly with me.<p>In the last internet revolution (web search), results started high quality because the inputs were high quality - bloggers and others just wanted to document and share knowledge. But over time, many interests (largely commercial) figured out how to game the system with SEO, and quality of search results has decreased as search&#x27;s incentive structure led to lower quality data being indexed.<p>We&#x27;re at the start of the LLM revolution now - models are trained on high quality inputs (which may be as rare as &quot;low-background steel&quot; in the future). But the models allow the mass production of lower quality outputs with errors and hallucinations; once those get fed back into new models, are we doomed to decreasing effectiveness of LLMs, just as we&#x27;ve seen with search? Will there be LLMO (LLM optimization) to try to get your commercial interests reflected in the next generation models?<p>I think we&#x27;ve got a few golden years of high quality LLMs before that negative feedback loop really starts to hurt like it did in search.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>daxvena</author><text>I doubt it&#x27;s going to go the same way as search. You can&#x27;t run Google on consumer hardware, but you can run LLMs locally.<p>At worse, newer models will get worse and you can just stick to older models.<p>You could also argue that proprietary models gated by an API are better than anything you can run locally, and yeah maybe those will get worse with time.<p>They&#x27;re not going to get any worse than what you can run locally though. If they do, open models will overtake them, and then we&#x27;d be in a better position overall.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The AI bullshit singularity</title><url>https://successfulsoftware.net/2024/02/18/the-ai-bullshit-singularity/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scottbez1</author><text>Succinctly stated and something that resonates strongly with me.<p>In the last internet revolution (web search), results started high quality because the inputs were high quality - bloggers and others just wanted to document and share knowledge. But over time, many interests (largely commercial) figured out how to game the system with SEO, and quality of search results has decreased as search&#x27;s incentive structure led to lower quality data being indexed.<p>We&#x27;re at the start of the LLM revolution now - models are trained on high quality inputs (which may be as rare as &quot;low-background steel&quot; in the future). But the models allow the mass production of lower quality outputs with errors and hallucinations; once those get fed back into new models, are we doomed to decreasing effectiveness of LLMs, just as we&#x27;ve seen with search? Will there be LLMO (LLM optimization) to try to get your commercial interests reflected in the next generation models?<p>I think we&#x27;ve got a few golden years of high quality LLMs before that negative feedback loop really starts to hurt like it did in search.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>__loam</author><text>We may enter into a highly ironic regime where ai companies subsidize writers and artists at scale to produce better data.</text></comment>
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<story><title>I Can’t Write My Name in Unicode</title><url>https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/i-can-text-you-a-pile-of-poo-but-i-cant-write-my-name</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chimeracoder</author><text>&gt; I could write the author&#x27;s name fine: আদিত্য<p>Author here.<p>Well, yes and no. The jophola at the end is not actually given its own codepoint[0]. The best analogy I can give is to a ligature in English[1]. The Bengali fonts that you have installed happen to render it as a jophola, the way some fonts happen to render &quot;ff&quot; as &quot;ff&quot; but that&#x27;s not the same thing as saying that it actually <i>is</i> a jophola (according to the Unicode standard).<p>The difference between the jophola and an English ligature, though, is English ligatures are purely aesthetic. Typing two &quot;f&quot; characters in a row has the same obvious semantic meaning as the ff ligature, whereas the characters that are required to type a jophola have no obvious semantic, phonetic, or orthographic connection to the jophola.<p>[0] <a href="http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0980.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;unicode.org&#x2F;charts&#x2F;PDF&#x2F;U0980.pdf</a><p>[1] Some fonts will render (e.g.) two &quot;f&quot;s in a row as if they were a ligature, even though it&#x27;s not a true ff(U+FB00).</text></item><item><author>sdg1</author><text>Not sure if the l33tspeak analogy is fully justified.<p>In case of the &quot;missing&quot; letter (called khanda-ta in Bengali) for the Bengali equivalent of &quot;suddenly&quot;, historically, it has been a derivative of the ta-halant form (ত + ্ + ). As the language evolved, khanda-ta became a grapheme of its own, and Unicode 4.1 did encode it as a distinct grapheme. A nicely written review of the discussions around the addition can be found here: <a href="http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2004/04252-khanda-ta-review.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.unicode.org&#x2F;L2&#x2F;L2004&#x2F;04252-khanda-ta-review.pdf</a><p>I could write the author&#x27;s name fine: আদিত্য. A search with the string in the Bengali version of Wikipedia pulls up quite a few results as well, so other people are writing it too. The final &quot;letter&quot; in that string is a compound character, and there&#x27;s no clear evidence that it needs to be treated as an independent one. Even while in primary school, we were taught the final &quot;letter&quot; in the author&#x27;s name as a conjunct. In contrast, for the khanda-ta case, it could be shown that modern Bengali dictionaries explicitly referred to khanda-ta as an independent character.<p>For me, many of these problems are more of an input issue, than an encoding issue. Non latin languages have had to shoe-horn their script onto keyboard layouts designed for latin-scripts, and that has been always suboptimal. With touch devices we have newer ways to think about this problem, and people are starting to try out things.<p>[Disclosure: I was involved in the Unicode discussions about khanda-ta (I was not affiliated with a consortium member) and I have been involved with Indic localization projects for the past 15 years]</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sdg1</author><text>&gt; The Bengali fonts that you have installed happen to render it as a jophola<p>It&#x27;s not only the Bengali font - the text rendering framework of my operating system also needs to have a bunch of complex rules to figure out that a jophola needs to be rendered. It also needs to know that the visual ordering of i-kar is before the preceding consonant cluster (দ in আদিত্য).<p>&gt; the characters that are required to type a jophola have no semantic, phonetic, or orthographic connection to the jophola.<p>Not so sure about that. The fact that it&#x27;s called a &quot;jo&quot;-phola points to a relationship. The relationship may have become less apparent as the script has evolved (though there are words such as সহ্য which makes the relationship more visible), but the distinction is still not as pronounced as between &quot;ta&quot; and &quot;khanda-ta&quot;. For the khanda-ta case, it was explicit from the the then-current editions of the dictionaries produced by the language bodies of both Bangladesh and West Bengal that the character had become distinct (স্বতন্ত্র বর্ণ was the phrase that was used). As far as I know, there hasn&#x27;t been any such claim about jophola from the language bodies. Also, if you look at the collation in Bengali dictionaries, jo-phola is treated as (্+য) for collation.</text></comment>
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<story><title>I Can’t Write My Name in Unicode</title><url>https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/i-can-text-you-a-pile-of-poo-but-i-cant-write-my-name</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chimeracoder</author><text>&gt; I could write the author&#x27;s name fine: আদিত্য<p>Author here.<p>Well, yes and no. The jophola at the end is not actually given its own codepoint[0]. The best analogy I can give is to a ligature in English[1]. The Bengali fonts that you have installed happen to render it as a jophola, the way some fonts happen to render &quot;ff&quot; as &quot;ff&quot; but that&#x27;s not the same thing as saying that it actually <i>is</i> a jophola (according to the Unicode standard).<p>The difference between the jophola and an English ligature, though, is English ligatures are purely aesthetic. Typing two &quot;f&quot; characters in a row has the same obvious semantic meaning as the ff ligature, whereas the characters that are required to type a jophola have no obvious semantic, phonetic, or orthographic connection to the jophola.<p>[0] <a href="http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0980.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;unicode.org&#x2F;charts&#x2F;PDF&#x2F;U0980.pdf</a><p>[1] Some fonts will render (e.g.) two &quot;f&quot;s in a row as if they were a ligature, even though it&#x27;s not a true ff(U+FB00).</text></item><item><author>sdg1</author><text>Not sure if the l33tspeak analogy is fully justified.<p>In case of the &quot;missing&quot; letter (called khanda-ta in Bengali) for the Bengali equivalent of &quot;suddenly&quot;, historically, it has been a derivative of the ta-halant form (ত + ্ + ). As the language evolved, khanda-ta became a grapheme of its own, and Unicode 4.1 did encode it as a distinct grapheme. A nicely written review of the discussions around the addition can be found here: <a href="http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2004/04252-khanda-ta-review.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.unicode.org&#x2F;L2&#x2F;L2004&#x2F;04252-khanda-ta-review.pdf</a><p>I could write the author&#x27;s name fine: আদিত্য. A search with the string in the Bengali version of Wikipedia pulls up quite a few results as well, so other people are writing it too. The final &quot;letter&quot; in that string is a compound character, and there&#x27;s no clear evidence that it needs to be treated as an independent one. Even while in primary school, we were taught the final &quot;letter&quot; in the author&#x27;s name as a conjunct. In contrast, for the khanda-ta case, it could be shown that modern Bengali dictionaries explicitly referred to khanda-ta as an independent character.<p>For me, many of these problems are more of an input issue, than an encoding issue. Non latin languages have had to shoe-horn their script onto keyboard layouts designed for latin-scripts, and that has been always suboptimal. With touch devices we have newer ways to think about this problem, and people are starting to try out things.<p>[Disclosure: I was involved in the Unicode discussions about khanda-ta (I was not affiliated with a consortium member) and I have been involved with Indic localization projects for the past 15 years]</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yuriks</author><text>Unicode makes extensive use of combining characters for european languages, for example to produce diacritics: ìǒ or even for flag emoji. A correct rendering system will properly combine those, and if it doesn&#x27;t then that&#x27;s a flaw in the implementation, not the standard. It seems like you&#x27;re trying to single out combining pairs as &quot;less legitimate&quot; when they&#x27;re extensively used in the standard.</text></comment>
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<story><title>We need an NRA for privacy</title><text>A software company shuts its secure email service pre-emptively so that they wouldn&#x27;t be forced to comply with government orders to ... what? insert back doors? hand over encryption keys?<p>What country did this happen in? Soviet Russia? Cuba? Iran?<p>No the United States of America. Truly chilling.<p>I&#x27;m talking about Silent Circle. see:<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6183059<p>and<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6183352<p>If this had been about a gun-making&#x2F;selling company shutting down its operation because they were afraid the government come to them and force them to violate the privacy of their customers, or for example insert, surreptitiously, some sort of tracking device into the guns themselves, the country (and the mainstream media, by the way) would be UP IN ARMS.<p>What we need is a &quot;National Privacy Association&quot; like the &quot;National Rifle Association&quot;. Celebrity spokespeople, tons of money, lobbying congress, etc.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>Privacy advocates need to get their act together and form a single-issue organization. I need to be seeing teenagers coming to my house peddling privacy the way they do for churches and baby seals. The tech industry needs to sack up and realize that their business interests are at stake, and put some serious money in PACs behind the whole effort. It needs to have a focused mission, no getting distracted in related issues (e.g. copyright reform or reform of hacking laws), but be a big tent (don&#x27;t care what else your other viewpoints are). There needs to be a diversity of messages, targeted at different demographics. There has to be something in it not just for techie yuppies in San Francisco, but also church-going grandmothers in small-town Iowa (any political movement that can&#x27;t capture at least some old people is dead on arrival). That&#x27;s a key strength of the NRA: it has vigorous support across a wide diversity of voting demographics.<p>The EFF and the ACLU are fine for what they are, but they&#x27;ve got too broad of a mandate to have the kind of focused impact you want. You can&#x27;t be an effective mainstream advocacy organization when you&#x27;re off defending unsympathetic people for principled purposes. That&#x27;s an important thing too, but it&#x27;s a different thing.<p>For people interested in effecting real political change, I seriously recommend watching this documentary on the Prohibition: <a href="http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/prohibition" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pbs.org&#x2F;kenburns&#x2F;prohibition</a>. One group of people got a nation that until (and during and after!) prohibition drank 140 million gallons of liquor a year to outlaw alcohol. The money wasn&#x27;t on their side (the government made 1&#x2F;3 of its revenues from liquor taxes and the beer makers had tremendous power), but they accomplished their goal by masterful politicking: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Wheeler" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Wayne_Wheeler</a>.<p>&quot;Under Wheeler&#x27;s leadership, the League focused entirely on the goal of achieving Prohibition. It organized at the grass-roots level and worked extensively through churches. It supported or opposed candidates based entirely on their position regarding prohibition, completely disregarding political party affiliation or other issues. Unlike other temperance groups, the Anti-Saloon League worked with the two major parties rather than backing the smaller Prohibition Party.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>snowwrestler</author><text>&gt; Privacy advocates need to get their act together and form a single-issue organization. I need to be seeing teenagers coming to my house peddling privacy the way they do for churches and baby seals. The tech industry needs to sack up and realize that their business interests are at stake, and put some serious money in PACs behind the whole effort.<p>But privacy advocates are frequently at odds with tech companies over privacy issues. See CISPA for example, which pretty much every major tech company supported, but privacy advocates hated.<p>The NRA&#x27;s issue aligns gun manufacturers, gun retailers, and gun enthusiasts, which makes fundraising a lot easier. I don&#x27;t think privacy is like that, though. No one makes or sells privacy.<p>The labor or environmental movements might be better models for a privacy movement--both started out as grassroots campaigns without any substantial corporate support. The environmental movement in particular has done a good job of turning their issue into a popular cause, forcing companies to go along, at least publicly.<p>Edit to add:
What the environmental movement did so well was to create a personal sense of danger--YOUR kid might get sick from pollution. YOUR favorite animal might go extinct. Etc.<p>Privacy advocates have, IMO, done a terrible job of this so far. To many of them just take it for granted that awareness is enough--that everyone agrees with them that it is horrifying for personal information to get collected and aggregated. Most people don&#x27;t care, though, because they don&#x27;t have a reason to care.<p>What privacy advocates need are personal stories that demonstrate how impingements on privacy led to direct harm to innocent people--and they need to be the sort of thing that make John Q. Public think, &quot;that could happen to me!&quot; or &quot;That could be my child!&quot;</text></comment>
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<story><title>We need an NRA for privacy</title><text>A software company shuts its secure email service pre-emptively so that they wouldn&#x27;t be forced to comply with government orders to ... what? insert back doors? hand over encryption keys?<p>What country did this happen in? Soviet Russia? Cuba? Iran?<p>No the United States of America. Truly chilling.<p>I&#x27;m talking about Silent Circle. see:<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6183059<p>and<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6183352<p>If this had been about a gun-making&#x2F;selling company shutting down its operation because they were afraid the government come to them and force them to violate the privacy of their customers, or for example insert, surreptitiously, some sort of tracking device into the guns themselves, the country (and the mainstream media, by the way) would be UP IN ARMS.<p>What we need is a &quot;National Privacy Association&quot; like the &quot;National Rifle Association&quot;. Celebrity spokespeople, tons of money, lobbying congress, etc.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>Privacy advocates need to get their act together and form a single-issue organization. I need to be seeing teenagers coming to my house peddling privacy the way they do for churches and baby seals. The tech industry needs to sack up and realize that their business interests are at stake, and put some serious money in PACs behind the whole effort. It needs to have a focused mission, no getting distracted in related issues (e.g. copyright reform or reform of hacking laws), but be a big tent (don&#x27;t care what else your other viewpoints are). There needs to be a diversity of messages, targeted at different demographics. There has to be something in it not just for techie yuppies in San Francisco, but also church-going grandmothers in small-town Iowa (any political movement that can&#x27;t capture at least some old people is dead on arrival). That&#x27;s a key strength of the NRA: it has vigorous support across a wide diversity of voting demographics.<p>The EFF and the ACLU are fine for what they are, but they&#x27;ve got too broad of a mandate to have the kind of focused impact you want. You can&#x27;t be an effective mainstream advocacy organization when you&#x27;re off defending unsympathetic people for principled purposes. That&#x27;s an important thing too, but it&#x27;s a different thing.<p>For people interested in effecting real political change, I seriously recommend watching this documentary on the Prohibition: <a href="http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/prohibition" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pbs.org&#x2F;kenburns&#x2F;prohibition</a>. One group of people got a nation that until (and during and after!) prohibition drank 140 million gallons of liquor a year to outlaw alcohol. The money wasn&#x27;t on their side (the government made 1&#x2F;3 of its revenues from liquor taxes and the beer makers had tremendous power), but they accomplished their goal by masterful politicking: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Wheeler" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Wayne_Wheeler</a>.<p>&quot;Under Wheeler&#x27;s leadership, the League focused entirely on the goal of achieving Prohibition. It organized at the grass-roots level and worked extensively through churches. It supported or opposed candidates based entirely on their position regarding prohibition, completely disregarding political party affiliation or other issues. Unlike other temperance groups, the Anti-Saloon League worked with the two major parties rather than backing the smaller Prohibition Party.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the_watcher</author><text>The problem I see with the ACLU and EFF is exactly what you mention - you&#x27;ve got to get older people involved. Fairly or unfairly (generally unfairly, in my opinion), both of those organizations have pretty negative connotations with the church going grandmother you reference. The ACLU&#x27;s sometimes mindless pursuit of &quot;civil rights&quot; (which I think they do a good job of generally, but it does grate when everything is compared to the plight of African Americans, something that is almost becoming the Goodwin&#x27;s Law of civil rights). The EFF trying to save &quot;hackers&quot; and &quot;pirates&quot; - which is completely unfair, but it&#x27;s what the small town older people without computers hear and fear. A new organization that could start from scratch would make a huge difference, and could focus on educating people that this is seriously the equivalent of the government reading snail mail.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Poor people pay for parking even when they can’t afford a car</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/06/15/why-free-parking-is-a-big-problem/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JDDunn9</author><text>Many of the benefits you listed are good examples of how people are actually pretty bad at predicting what will make them happier. We have a lot of data on the subject.<p>- People think that living in a larger home will make them happier than a shorter commute. Cohort studies show the opposite is true. We adapt most quickly to things (good&#x2F;bad) that stay the same (like the size of your house), and poorly to things that change (like the traffic situation from day to day).<p>- People think they will be more active if surrounded by parks and greenery, but city dwellers actually walk&#x2F;bike more. People moving to the city lose weight within a few months (~3 lb. if I remember correctly)<p>- People think that cities are dangerous, but you are more likely to be killed young in the suburbs. This is because car accidents are far more likely than homicides, and you drive more in the suburbs.<p>We know people in cities are, on average, happier and healthier.</text></item><item><author>closeparen</author><text>I propose a fundamental principle that should be obvious, but apparently isn&#x27;t.<p><i>Public policy should aim to improve average quality of life in the short, medium, and long terms.</i><p>We live in low-population-density areas <i>because we get more, higher quality housing for less money, shorter lines, less crowded public places.</i> We drive instead of taking transit <i>because we get where we&#x27;re going faster and more comfortably, sitting down, with our personal space bubbles intact</i>.<p>Everything is tradeoffs. You can already make these tradeoffs for yourself by moving to SF or Manhattan, which is generally ill-advised unless you make so much that the astronomical housing costs don&#x27;t hurt too badly. Why should the rest of us be required to make these tradeoffs? What are we getting in return? &#x27;Cause it sure isn&#x27;t better commutes or better homes.<p>If your argument is long-term sustainability, we have electric cars now and we&#x27;ve had nuclear power for quite some time, and a public policy kick in that direction <i>is</i>, I&#x27;d argue, critical to long-term quality of life.</text></item><item><author>JDDunn9</author><text>This topic is discussed at length in the book, &quot;Green Metropolis&quot;. It&#x27;s part of a bigger issue of always putting cars first. You can&#x27;t build a large building without first doing a traffic study. If you bring too much traffic, you can&#x27;t build it. Never mind that traffic is about the only cost in America that you can increase to make public transportation more appealing.<p>Generally U.S. building codes include a maximum building height, and require minimum parking spaces. Many European cities have maximum parking spaces, and minimum building height. The latter produces higher population densities which make public transportation possible.<p>We need to push back against suburban sprawl and the car-first design. No required parking, no free curbside parking, and a carbon tax on gasoline. Once cities get a population density &gt;7 people per acre, public transportation becomes viable. Population density follows a logarithmic curve with miles traveled per person, so you get as much of a reduction from moving from 2 to 20 people per square acre, as from 20 to 200.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sandworm101</author><text>The one thing that definitely won&#x27;t make people happy is someone else telling them they don&#x27;t know how to make themselves happy. People want choice, even if that means making a few incorrect choices.<p>&gt;We know people in cities are, on average, happier and healthier.<p>Some people really dislike cities. I need woods. I need open spaces. I need to see the stars at night. I need a place for my dog to run without some stranger screaming about leash rules. But I also need to work. Personal transport, my own vehicle to carry myself and my dog, allows me to both work and enjoy the open spaces. So I&#x27;m all for parking spots.<p>And yes, weather permitting, my dog does come to costco with me. She would much rather sit in the car than sit at home. If she wants we&#x27;ll hit any number of dog parks on the way home. If I took the bus, or Uber, she would have to sit at home ... alone all afternoon rather than being with me. That&#x27;s what having parking spots at Costco means for us.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Poor people pay for parking even when they can’t afford a car</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/06/15/why-free-parking-is-a-big-problem/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JDDunn9</author><text>Many of the benefits you listed are good examples of how people are actually pretty bad at predicting what will make them happier. We have a lot of data on the subject.<p>- People think that living in a larger home will make them happier than a shorter commute. Cohort studies show the opposite is true. We adapt most quickly to things (good&#x2F;bad) that stay the same (like the size of your house), and poorly to things that change (like the traffic situation from day to day).<p>- People think they will be more active if surrounded by parks and greenery, but city dwellers actually walk&#x2F;bike more. People moving to the city lose weight within a few months (~3 lb. if I remember correctly)<p>- People think that cities are dangerous, but you are more likely to be killed young in the suburbs. This is because car accidents are far more likely than homicides, and you drive more in the suburbs.<p>We know people in cities are, on average, happier and healthier.</text></item><item><author>closeparen</author><text>I propose a fundamental principle that should be obvious, but apparently isn&#x27;t.<p><i>Public policy should aim to improve average quality of life in the short, medium, and long terms.</i><p>We live in low-population-density areas <i>because we get more, higher quality housing for less money, shorter lines, less crowded public places.</i> We drive instead of taking transit <i>because we get where we&#x27;re going faster and more comfortably, sitting down, with our personal space bubbles intact</i>.<p>Everything is tradeoffs. You can already make these tradeoffs for yourself by moving to SF or Manhattan, which is generally ill-advised unless you make so much that the astronomical housing costs don&#x27;t hurt too badly. Why should the rest of us be required to make these tradeoffs? What are we getting in return? &#x27;Cause it sure isn&#x27;t better commutes or better homes.<p>If your argument is long-term sustainability, we have electric cars now and we&#x27;ve had nuclear power for quite some time, and a public policy kick in that direction <i>is</i>, I&#x27;d argue, critical to long-term quality of life.</text></item><item><author>JDDunn9</author><text>This topic is discussed at length in the book, &quot;Green Metropolis&quot;. It&#x27;s part of a bigger issue of always putting cars first. You can&#x27;t build a large building without first doing a traffic study. If you bring too much traffic, you can&#x27;t build it. Never mind that traffic is about the only cost in America that you can increase to make public transportation more appealing.<p>Generally U.S. building codes include a maximum building height, and require minimum parking spaces. Many European cities have maximum parking spaces, and minimum building height. The latter produces higher population densities which make public transportation possible.<p>We need to push back against suburban sprawl and the car-first design. No required parking, no free curbside parking, and a carbon tax on gasoline. Once cities get a population density &gt;7 people per acre, public transportation becomes viable. Population density follows a logarithmic curve with miles traveled per person, so you get as much of a reduction from moving from 2 to 20 people per square acre, as from 20 to 200.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>closeparen</author><text>New York, San Francisco, and Washington D.C. have significantly higher commute times (including by public transit) than less dense cities. New York&#x27;s subway riders have it particularly bad, spending an average of 7.5 hours per week on the trains [0]. This is despite those cities having some of the best transit systems in the country [1].<p>I&#x27;m aware of the finding that lower commute times are associated with happiness, but that makes the opposite of your argument. The lowest commute times are found in small, low-density, car-oriented cities. Even in New York, drivers and taxi-riders have shorter commutes than public transit users.<p>As you&#x27;ll see in the report, a very lucky few have short walks, but it is not at all the norm. I surmise that if you can afford to live within walking distance of work in New York, you&#x27;re likely an order of magnitude too rich to need to work.<p>Your other points are valid, but I&#x27;m highly skeptical that these benefits are worth the extra $2000&#x2F;mo they bring in housing costs (when collapsing a 3-bedroom house family into a 1-bedroom apartment), particularly when we are talking about people who do not <i>have</i> $2000&#x2F;mo.<p>I say this as a relatively new Berkeley to SF public transit commuter. I love my job, but I&#x27;d rather stab my eyes out than spend 80 minutes on overstuffed, lurching BART trains every day for the rest of my life. Fortunately, the gruesome death vs. BART tradeoff is available in the form of motorcycling, which I&#x27;m trying next.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;origin-states.politico.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com&#x2F;files&#x2F;Embargoed%20Hardest%20Working%20Cities%20Study.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;origin-states.politico.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazo...</a><p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ao.umn.edu&#x2F;research&#x2F;america&#x2F;transit&#x2F;2014&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ao.umn.edu&#x2F;research&#x2F;america&#x2F;transit&#x2F;2014&#x2F;index.html</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees</title><url>https://github.com/basecamp/handbook/blob/master/international-travel-guide.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jdietrich</author><text>If you have to travel to the US, fly via Shannon Airport in Ireland. A special arrangement with the Irish government allows you to pass through US immigration and customs controls while you&#x27;re still on Irish soil. When you arrive in the US, you&#x27;re treated as a domestic passenger. You don&#x27;t avoid the intrusive interrogations, but they&#x27;re a lot more polite about it because they can&#x27;t detain you. If you&#x27;re refused entry, you can fly home at your own leisure rather than being detained and deported.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shannonairport.ie&#x2F;gns&#x2F;passengers&#x2F;prepare&#x2F;us-preclearance.aspx" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shannonairport.ie&#x2F;gns&#x2F;passengers&#x2F;prepare&#x2F;us-precl...</a></text></item><item><author>8draco8</author><text>I live in Europe. From my perspective going to US looks like going to some kind totalitarian country. First I have to got visa which is not automatically approved because I&#x27;m Polish not British. Then I have to go trough a lot of, mostly pointless, security checks, checking social accounts, interrogations, scans and manual personal revisions. On any stage of that I can be handcuffed and sent back to Europe for almost no reason. It&#x27;s sad but from where I sits US starts to look like all of those countries they was fighting with &quot;for the freedom&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joezydeco</author><text>Here&#x27;s the full list from the CBP website: &quot;Dublin and Shannon in Ireland; Aruba; Freeport and Nassau in The Bahamas; Bermuda; Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; and Calgary, Toronto, Edmonton, Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, Vancouver, and Winnipeg in Canada. CBP also staffs a Pre-inspection facility for passenger&#x2F;vehicle ferry traffic to the U.S. in Victoria, Canada&quot;</text></comment>
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<story><title>International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees</title><url>https://github.com/basecamp/handbook/blob/master/international-travel-guide.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jdietrich</author><text>If you have to travel to the US, fly via Shannon Airport in Ireland. A special arrangement with the Irish government allows you to pass through US immigration and customs controls while you&#x27;re still on Irish soil. When you arrive in the US, you&#x27;re treated as a domestic passenger. You don&#x27;t avoid the intrusive interrogations, but they&#x27;re a lot more polite about it because they can&#x27;t detain you. If you&#x27;re refused entry, you can fly home at your own leisure rather than being detained and deported.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shannonairport.ie&#x2F;gns&#x2F;passengers&#x2F;prepare&#x2F;us-preclearance.aspx" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shannonairport.ie&#x2F;gns&#x2F;passengers&#x2F;prepare&#x2F;us-precl...</a></text></item><item><author>8draco8</author><text>I live in Europe. From my perspective going to US looks like going to some kind totalitarian country. First I have to got visa which is not automatically approved because I&#x27;m Polish not British. Then I have to go trough a lot of, mostly pointless, security checks, checking social accounts, interrogations, scans and manual personal revisions. On any stage of that I can be handcuffed and sent back to Europe for almost no reason. It&#x27;s sad but from where I sits US starts to look like all of those countries they was fighting with &quot;for the freedom&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mstade</author><text>Arlanda airport in Stockholm is also working on a pre-clearance arrangement like this[1], although it won&#x27;t start until 2019 at the earliest it seems.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbp.gov&#x2F;newsroom&#x2F;national-media-release&#x2F;united-states-sweden-sign-agreement-open-preclearance-facility" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbp.gov&#x2F;newsroom&#x2F;national-media-release&#x2F;united-s...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Removing street signs, lights and arrows increases safety and road capacity</title><url>http://www.wilsonquarterly.com/article.cfm?aid=1234</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>praptak</author><text>I have one doubt about this idea. It might be possible that it only works because such "naked" roads are rare and thus prompt a (temporary) raise in drivers' alertness.<p>Even the article provides a hint in this direction:<p><i>"They also found, in surveys, that residents, despite the measurable increase in safety, perceived the place to be more dangerous. This was music to Monderman’s ears. If they had not felt less secure, he said, he “would have changed it immediately.”</i><p>It is possible that once people get used to it, they'll feel more secure -&#62; less alert -&#62; things'll go back to normal.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Removing street signs, lights and arrows increases safety and road capacity</title><url>http://www.wilsonquarterly.com/article.cfm?aid=1234</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>senki</author><text>Good article, but lacks some pictures.<p>Drachten:<p><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?client=opera&#38;q=Drachten&#38;oe=utf-8&#38;ie=UTF8&#38;hl=ja&#38;t=h&#38;sll=53.103684,6.109396&#38;sspn=0.001293,0.003422&#38;split=1&#38;rq=1&#38;ev=zi&#38;radius=0.09&#38;hq=Drachten&#38;hnear=&#38;ll=53.103869,6.109041&#38;spn=0.0013,0.003422&#38;z=19" rel="nofollow">http://maps.google.com/maps?client=opera&#38;q=Drachten&#38;...</a><p>Makkinga:<p><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?client=opera&#38;q=Makkinga&#38;oe=utf-8&#38;ie=UTF8&#38;hl=ja&#38;hq=&#38;hnear=%E3%83%9E%E3%83%83%E3%82%AD%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AC,+%E3%82%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AB%E3%83%95,+%E3%83%95%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88,+%E3%82%AA%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%80&#38;ll=52.97232,6.218066&#38;spn=0.001297,0.003422&#38;t=h&#38;z=19&#38;layer=c&#38;cbll=52.972151,6.21858&#38;panoid=FJjqWFu--jacMvCpGx7ZqQ&#38;cbp=12,2.83,,0,6.41" rel="nofollow">http://maps.google.com/maps?client=opera&#38;q=Makkinga&#38;...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Little League wants all your information</title><url>https://honeypot.net/post/little-league-wants-all-your-information/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yTh0rly</author><text>I’m curious since you actually went through the effort to be a part of the org: why do we need to formalize everything?<p>Why not just get kids together to play baseball?<p>Why capital Little capital League?<p>Why do we have to normalize towards an organizational system?<p>Academically it all makes sense; our scientific truth must be rigorously vetted.<p>This all just feels like busy work for no gain for most people. I really don’t get the fucking point?<p>Is it so hard to set up a game between your kids and others as human beings? Why pomp and circumstance?</text></item><item><author>Spooky23</author><text>I think this is just poorly written, or written to fit all use cases. There is a lot behind little league, and it’s not obvious until you get into it.<p>I was on a little league board. In my state, we had pretty strict background check requirements, and those providers were the “trusted partners” that were given sensitive information. Now, little league volunteers are mandated reporters in New York, so the government gets information for training enrollment.<p>The school enrollment information was used for eligibility... the eligibility requirement was to live or go to school in the territory. It frequently came up for kids in private school outside the zone or kids in shared custody arrangements. There are many edge cases, especially with shared custody, foster or arrangements where “easy” forms of required information just isn’t available for various reasons. Most “nuclear” families provided a birth certificate and any letter from a utility, bank or tax bill.<p>Age is very important for leveling kids appropriately and keeping them safe, which is why birth certificates are required — parents are insane and go to extreme lengths (I personally encountered forged documents, parents who delayed entry into kindergarten to age 6, bogus documents from siblings or cousins, etc) to try to let older kids play in younger levels. It’s a hazard for an 11 year old to pitch or hit against 8 year olds. Little League is used as a way for folks to get kids into elite travel teams, etc.<p>Marketing stuff was totally different and may vary by league. We wanted all communications to our folks to go through and be approved by us. “Bob the plumber” could hand out flyers, get an ad or have a blurb in an email campaign. The big companies (currently GM, Gatorade, Honda in my region) just push materials down and use contests to get personal data.</text></item><item><author>kstrauser</author><text>Oh hey, Hacker News! This is my post.<p>I’m not strictly allergic to proving that I live in a certain place, so long as the evidence is securely deleted afterward. I’m <i>very</i> opposed to the idea that they can share all of those records with any of their partners or sponsors as they see fit. For example, “proof of residency 3” includes financial or medical records. Suppose that Large Corporation donates $1,000 to Little League. Per the privacy policy, Little League could share those financial or medical records with them. Nuts to that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>topkai22</author><text>&gt;&gt; Is it so hard to set up a game between your kids and others?<p>Yes. Yes, it is actually reasonably hard to coordinate 18+ kids and thier familes (thats the minimum size for two baseball teams), have an experienced adult coach them, and hire a referee (if that is judged to be necessary), coordinate field usage, advocate for local governments to set aside sports and play space and protect existing space from development.<p>Now are many American youth sports leagues a bit nuts about the competitive or developmental aspects? Absolutely, and baseball is one of the worst. I really want a checkbox that says &quot;do you want your kids to play in the major leagues some day&quot; so I can not check that and hang out with other parents just there for fun. But coordinating sports and recreation (and ensuring space and facilities for sports and recreation exist in the first place) is not a trivial exercise and is why most local governments have an entire department set aside for it. Parks and Recreation may be a funny and absurd series, but in real life those people do real work that has real benefits.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Little League wants all your information</title><url>https://honeypot.net/post/little-league-wants-all-your-information/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yTh0rly</author><text>I’m curious since you actually went through the effort to be a part of the org: why do we need to formalize everything?<p>Why not just get kids together to play baseball?<p>Why capital Little capital League?<p>Why do we have to normalize towards an organizational system?<p>Academically it all makes sense; our scientific truth must be rigorously vetted.<p>This all just feels like busy work for no gain for most people. I really don’t get the fucking point?<p>Is it so hard to set up a game between your kids and others as human beings? Why pomp and circumstance?</text></item><item><author>Spooky23</author><text>I think this is just poorly written, or written to fit all use cases. There is a lot behind little league, and it’s not obvious until you get into it.<p>I was on a little league board. In my state, we had pretty strict background check requirements, and those providers were the “trusted partners” that were given sensitive information. Now, little league volunteers are mandated reporters in New York, so the government gets information for training enrollment.<p>The school enrollment information was used for eligibility... the eligibility requirement was to live or go to school in the territory. It frequently came up for kids in private school outside the zone or kids in shared custody arrangements. There are many edge cases, especially with shared custody, foster or arrangements where “easy” forms of required information just isn’t available for various reasons. Most “nuclear” families provided a birth certificate and any letter from a utility, bank or tax bill.<p>Age is very important for leveling kids appropriately and keeping them safe, which is why birth certificates are required — parents are insane and go to extreme lengths (I personally encountered forged documents, parents who delayed entry into kindergarten to age 6, bogus documents from siblings or cousins, etc) to try to let older kids play in younger levels. It’s a hazard for an 11 year old to pitch or hit against 8 year olds. Little League is used as a way for folks to get kids into elite travel teams, etc.<p>Marketing stuff was totally different and may vary by league. We wanted all communications to our folks to go through and be approved by us. “Bob the plumber” could hand out flyers, get an ad or have a blurb in an email campaign. The big companies (currently GM, Gatorade, Honda in my region) just push materials down and use contests to get personal data.</text></item><item><author>kstrauser</author><text>Oh hey, Hacker News! This is my post.<p>I’m not strictly allergic to proving that I live in a certain place, so long as the evidence is securely deleted afterward. I’m <i>very</i> opposed to the idea that they can share all of those records with any of their partners or sponsors as they see fit. For example, “proof of residency 3” includes financial or medical records. Suppose that Large Corporation donates $1,000 to Little League. Per the privacy policy, Little League could share those financial or medical records with them. Nuts to that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GeneralMayhem</author><text>You absolutely can find recreational leagues that are less rigorous - although for safety reasons they&#x27;ll still tend to be particular about ages. Baseball is a relatively dangerous sport if there&#x27;s a massive imbalance. It&#x27;s important that pitch speed, bat speed, reaction times, and overall mass scale up smoothly and roughly uniformly.<p>The reason why it&#x27;s so formalized beyond that is that travel ball at 11-12 years old is the beginning of the pipeline to the pros. There are millions of dollars of signing bonuses waiting just a few years down the line, but you don&#x27;t get drafted unless you&#x27;re a high school star, and you don&#x27;t get to play for the high school varsity team unless you&#x27;re getting the coaching from the top-tier youth leagues.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The end of Pepper&Carrot and my next project</title><url>https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1020/the-end-of-peppercarrot-and-my-next-project</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>seabass-labrax</author><text>David Revoy&#x27;s involvement in FOSS is almost a blessing. He has drawn this comic, Pepper and Carrot, using free software like Krita. But that&#x27;s only the surface level of his contribution to FOSS.<p>He has pioneered a collaborative approach to comic translation in an industry where most publishers respond to volunteer translators with legal threats. (See [1] for the dominant sentiment among conventional comic publishers.)<p>Dozens of FOSS projects owe wonderful illustrations and mascots to David Revoy, including all of the initiatives by Framasoft (a French <i>association</i> focusing on software freedom). They are characters for communities to rally around, and can make these charitable initiatives and software projects feel more approachable to non-technical people. The open source app Mobilizon has cute cartoon foxes for instance[2], which you can even have as your online profile picture[3]!<p>Add to that a myriad of educational videos and blog posts about both art in general and doing art with open source software and you can perhaps see how passionate David Revoy is. Well, so concludes my little accolade to him on HN! I wish him the best of luck with his new comic.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.koreatimes.co.kr&#x2F;www&#x2F;culture&#x2F;2022&#x2F;03&#x2F;199_314538.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.koreatimes.co.kr&#x2F;www&#x2F;culture&#x2F;2022&#x2F;03&#x2F;199_314538....</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;joinmobilizon.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;joinmobilizon.org&#x2F;</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.peppercarrot.com&#x2F;extras&#x2F;html&#x2F;2020_mobilizon-generator&#x2F;index.php" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.peppercarrot.com&#x2F;extras&#x2F;html&#x2F;2020_mobilizon-gene...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>The end of Pepper&Carrot and my next project</title><url>https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1020/the-end-of-peppercarrot-and-my-next-project</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nacs</author><text>David Revoy has been making fantastic Krita tutorial videos on his Youtube and is an artist that promotes and teaches a lot of art-related opensource&#x2F;Linux things in addition to doing the regular comics.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;@DavidRevoy&#x2F;videos" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;@DavidRevoy&#x2F;videos</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Firefox 121 defaults to Wayland on Linux</title><url>https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/12/firefox-121-released-now-defaults-to-wayland-on-linux</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DCKing</author><text>Worth noting that Firefox has run on Wayland by default on Fedora for many, many years at this point because the Fedora team patched it to do that. Firefox also uses Wayland on the default RHEL9 desktop and its derivatives, and it&#x27;s been quite easy for power users to enable it in other environments. So it&#x27;s quite well battle tested.<p>I am sensing a large momentum for Wayland in the Linux community though. Finally there is maturity for Wayland in KDE, there is very strong commitment from various projects to default to Wayland (this being one of them). Traditionally more conservative projects like Cinnamon and Wine are finally adopting Wayland too. It seems critical mass has been achieved to get things really moving in the community, and it&#x27;s about time.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Firefox 121 defaults to Wayland on Linux</title><url>https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/12/firefox-121-released-now-defaults-to-wayland-on-linux</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>SCdF</author><text>Unfortunately the accessibility software[1] I use will likely never support Wayland due to Wayland&#x27;s design requiring accessibility to be reimplemented by every DE, which means for you are no longer say supporting Windows, Mac and Linux; but Windows, Mac, X11, Gnome, KDE, Mate, Cina...<p>It&#x27;s very weird to say, but I feel like I&#x27;ll eventually be dropping Linux and moving to Windows, and it won&#x27;t be for videogames.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;talonvoice.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;talonvoice.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Writing An Interpreter In Go (2016)</title><url>https://interpreterbook.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>schnitzelstoat</author><text>Can anyone recommend other books similar to this one?<p>Having done the Nand2Tetris course and started the Ray Tracer Challenge book I find I really like these books that guide you through a pretty complex project.<p>It helps you learn by doing while at the same time preventing you from falling into bad practices or getting overwhelmed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>misternugget</author><text>I haven&#x27;t worked through it (yet!), but read parts of and only heard good things about Bob Nystrom&#x27;s Crafting Interpreters [0]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;craftinginterpreters.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;craftinginterpreters.com&#x2F;</a><p>If you like Scheme&#x2F;Racket, I can also recommend Beautiful Racket [1]. That was quite a dose for my macro-loving brain.<p>Then I also recommend this &quot;Let&#x27;s Build A Compiler&quot; series of blogposts [2] that roughly follows Abdulaziz Ghuloum&#x27;s relatively famous (amongst fellow compiler fans) paper &quot;An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction&quot; [3]. I&#x27;ve followed that series and paper for the past three months and built a Scheme to x86 compiler in Scheme. That was a lot of fun!<p>[0]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;craftinginterpreters.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;craftinginterpreters.com&#x2F;</a>
[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beautifulracket.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beautifulracket.com&#x2F;</a>
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[3]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lambda-the-ultimate.org&#x2F;node&#x2F;1752" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lambda-the-ultimate.org&#x2F;node&#x2F;1752</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Writing An Interpreter In Go (2016)</title><url>https://interpreterbook.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>schnitzelstoat</author><text>Can anyone recommend other books similar to this one?<p>Having done the Nand2Tetris course and started the Ray Tracer Challenge book I find I really like these books that guide you through a pretty complex project.<p>It helps you learn by doing while at the same time preventing you from falling into bad practices or getting overwhelmed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ceronman</author><text>Crafting Interpreters by Bob Nystrom is amazing:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.craftinginterpreters.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.craftinginterpreters.com&#x2F;</a><p>Only caveat is that the book is not done, yet, but there is already a ton of content.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Economics of Dining as a Couple</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-09-30/the-economics-of-dining-as-a-couple</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>forinti</author><text>&quot;Marriage counselors tell us that couples frequently tie the knot without discussing the core matters that can cement or sunder their marriage: finances, children, religion.&quot;<p>Which is why people should live together before getting married. If it doesn&#x27;t work out, it&#x27;s a whole lot easier to undo than a divorce.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Economics of Dining as a Couple</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-09-30/the-economics-of-dining-as-a-couple</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aristus</author><text>Tongue in cheek, but this a good analogy for transaction costs and signaling theory.<p>I drive my wife nuts by keeping my order secret, but eight times out of ten we end up sharing everything. Unless she&#x27;s eating a whole fried fish in which case I just stare politely like Tom Hanks in <i>Splash</i>.<p>But damn, people, why let FOMO drive so much angst and gamesmanship at a meal? You&#x27;re hungry and probably not thinking straight. There&#x27;s no dishonor in two people ordering the same dish. Just pick something and stick to your guns.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The tragedy of 100% code coverage (2016)</title><url>http://labs.ig.com/code-coverage-100-percent-tragedy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iamleppert</author><text>The worse the developer, the more tests he&#x27;ll write.<p>Instead of writing clean code that makes sense and is easy to reason about, he will write long-winded, poorly abstracted, weird code that is prone to breaking without an extensive &quot;test suite&quot; to hold the madness together and god forbid raise an alert when some unexpected file over here breaks a function over there.<p>Tests will be poorly written, pointless, and give an overall false sense of security to the next sap who breaths a sigh of relief when &quot;nothing is broken&quot;. Of course, that house of cards will come down the first time something is in fact broken.<p>I&#x27;ve worked in plenty of those environments, where there was a test suite, but it couldn&#x27;t be trusted. In fact, more often than not that is the case. The developers are a constant slave to it, patching it up; keeping it all lubed up. It&#x27;s like the salt and pepper on a shit cake.<p>Testing what you do and developing ways to ensure its reliable, fault-tolerant and maintainable should be part of your ethos as a software developer.<p>But being pedantic about unit tests, chasing after pointless numbers and being obsessed with a certain kind of code is the hallmark of a fool.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swalsh</author><text>&quot;The worse the developer, the more tests he&#x27;ll write.&quot;<p>no.... please..... no..... let&#x27;s not go down this path. Why does everything have to be extreme? No tests, 100% tests... it&#x27;s all bollocks.<p>The most robust code I&#x27;ve ever written was 100% because of unit tests. It was a little engine that approved the prior authorization for medications. The unit tests didn&#x27;t cover 100% of the application. In fact the only bit it did cover was the various use cases in the approval logic. The tests were invaluable in writing the logic, and continued to be invaluable for the maintenance of the project.<p>Tests are a tool. You don&#x27;t need to use the tool for EVERYTHING, but sometimes it&#x27;s the best tool for the job. Using it doesn&#x27;t make you a bad developer, using it badly makes you a bad developer.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The tragedy of 100% code coverage (2016)</title><url>http://labs.ig.com/code-coverage-100-percent-tragedy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iamleppert</author><text>The worse the developer, the more tests he&#x27;ll write.<p>Instead of writing clean code that makes sense and is easy to reason about, he will write long-winded, poorly abstracted, weird code that is prone to breaking without an extensive &quot;test suite&quot; to hold the madness together and god forbid raise an alert when some unexpected file over here breaks a function over there.<p>Tests will be poorly written, pointless, and give an overall false sense of security to the next sap who breaths a sigh of relief when &quot;nothing is broken&quot;. Of course, that house of cards will come down the first time something is in fact broken.<p>I&#x27;ve worked in plenty of those environments, where there was a test suite, but it couldn&#x27;t be trusted. In fact, more often than not that is the case. The developers are a constant slave to it, patching it up; keeping it all lubed up. It&#x27;s like the salt and pepper on a shit cake.<p>Testing what you do and developing ways to ensure its reliable, fault-tolerant and maintainable should be part of your ethos as a software developer.<p>But being pedantic about unit tests, chasing after pointless numbers and being obsessed with a certain kind of code is the hallmark of a fool.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arekkas</author><text>&gt; The worse the developer, the more tests he&#x27;ll write.<p>As always, generalization is the tool of the fool (sorry for the fool part, but it rhymes ;) ). Writing pointless stubs &#x2F; mocks and testing execution order of statements is definitely a bad pattern, writing many and good functional, e2e and integration tests however is not.</text></comment>
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<story><title>If you die in the game, you die in real life</title><url>https://palmerluckey.com/if-you-die-in-the-game-you-die-in-real-life/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>imgabe</author><text>You can always tell great satire by how many people take it seriously.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trgn</author><text>These are the words from the artist himself:<p>&gt; At this point, it is just a piece of office art, a thought-provoking reminder of unexplored avenues in game design. It is also, as far as I know, the first non-fiction example of a VR device that can actually kill the user. It won’t be the last.<p>It&#x27;s not satire. He&#x27;s creating shock art.<p>The fact that he took a suicide helmet beyond a literary invention and into the real world is unsettling. It&#x27;s an inability to distinguish what is wholesome from what is depraved. At the root is the artist&#x27;s failure of imagination; an inability to imagine how completely revolting such a thing of fiction would be if it were real. The man spend likely hundreds of hours of thinking on it, ruminating on it, like suckling on a candy, and then, rather than being turned away, giving it shape, willing it into the world with the same zeal. That is why people find this skeevy.<p>It is fascinating, and I&#x27;m not sure if in isolation it may mean all that much. But people will respond very different to the morbid obsessions of an eccentric crackpot like say HR Giger than that of a tech suit with a history of monetizing VR and AI-weaponry.<p>You become what you behold. This man is becoming machine, willingly.</text></comment>
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<story><title>If you die in the game, you die in real life</title><url>https://palmerluckey.com/if-you-die-in-the-game-you-die-in-real-life/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>imgabe</author><text>You can always tell great satire by how many people take it seriously.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>HWR_14</author><text>I have no idea what great satire risked anyone taking it seriously. Was anyone convinced that Irish babies were really being eaten?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Fed hikes rates by 0.25 point despite recent turmoil in the banking sector</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/22/fed-rate-hike-decision-march-2023.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Kon-Peki</author><text>In the lead up to all these Fed meetings, I always see plenty of articles talking about why the Fed should hold rates steady (or drop). I still remember reading a weather article that included a random quote from the weather company CEO about interest rates.<p>I’ve come to associate it with an attempt to <i>will</i> the Fed into doing what they want.<p>Not that I know anything, but I’m wondering if the Fed is just going to keep doing it until everyone is resigned to continued increases. The Fed won’t stop until rich people stop asking them to stop. (Yes I know I’m probably dead wrong)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Fed hikes rates by 0.25 point despite recent turmoil in the banking sector</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/22/fed-rate-hike-decision-march-2023.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>floren</author><text>This is where people who were still in elementary school in 2007 post about hyperinflation because all they&#x27;ve ever known is sub-2% federal funds, right? Clicking &quot;All&quot; on the chart at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorkfed.org&#x2F;markets&#x2F;reference-rates&#x2F;effr" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorkfed.org&#x2F;markets&#x2F;reference-rates&#x2F;effr</a> is illuminating.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The first dexterous and sentient hand prosthesis has been successfully implanted</title><url>http://www.detop-project.eu/news/the-first-dexterous-and-sentient-hand-prosthesis-has-been-successfully-implanted/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>est31</author><text>I&#x27;m a bit uneasy about the fact that they are punching through skin. This always bears a big risk of infections as the skin is the #1 protection from bacteria. Even prosthetics fully under the skin have this risk, and septic shock is a possibly lethal threat. And we humans love to put our hands to various sometimes more, sometimes less, dirty places.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The first dexterous and sentient hand prosthesis has been successfully implanted</title><url>http://www.detop-project.eu/news/the-first-dexterous-and-sentient-hand-prosthesis-has-been-successfully-implanted/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>userbinator</author><text>How appropriate is the term &quot;sentient&quot; here, given that the hand is still controlled by the brain of the human it is attached to?</text></comment>
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<story><title>CrowdStrike is not worth 83B Dollars</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/1e6ms9z/crowdstrike_is_not_worth_83_billion_dollars</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bnchrch</author><text>For those that come straight to the comments:<p>This reddit post was written hours before the outage</text></comment>
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<story><title>CrowdStrike is not worth 83B Dollars</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/1e6ms9z/crowdstrike_is_not_worth_83_billion_dollars</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>deadbabe</author><text>Being able to take down half the internet is a pretty good demonstration of a company’s power. I’d say it’s definitely worth at least 83B.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Twitter confesses to more adtech leaks</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/07/twitter-fesses-up-to-more-adtech-leaks/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>move-on-by</author><text>There is no shortage of good reasons to block ads. Passive ads no longer exist, if they ever did. They are all actively exploiting, tracking, and selling you- even if you never interact with them.<p>Some might say, &quot;Stop using twitter&quot;, but how is any American supposed to do that when the President of the United States uses it as his platform? Beyond Twitter, there is no shortage of school systems, police departments, and other small public interests that use their Facebook page as a sole means of announcements. They shouldn&#x27;t be - but it doesn&#x27;t change the fact that they are. The Ad industry needs strong and enforceable regulation, and quickly.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Twitter confesses to more adtech leaks</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/07/twitter-fesses-up-to-more-adtech-leaks/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DarwinMailApp</author><text>So there are essentially remnants of our browsing history linked to our devices shared among numerous ad companies.<p>They then serve relevant ads for us all over the web depending on where they are being paid to display relevant ads.<p>Twitter is at it. We&#x27;ve experienced the same behavior from Google &amp; God knows Facebook is at it too.<p>I&#x27;ve even had conversations where the only connection we had to the web was our locally running Alexa only to see ads relating to our specific conversation 10 minutes later on the web.<p>Can anybody think of a technological approach to flagging this behavior?</text></comment>
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<story><title>After losing half its value, Nvidia faces reckoning</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/12/nvidia-perfect-storm/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Wowfunhappy</author><text>As a gamer, I&#x27;m torn on the rtx line. On one hand, it really is <i>super</i> expensive for an entertainment product that will be outdated in a few years. On the other hand, the exceptionally large die justifies that cost on a technical level, and raytracing in real time games is legitimately cool—much more so, IMO, then just another resolution or fps bump.<p>I certainly don&#x27;t intend to upgrade, but I admire nVidia for the gutsy move, and I&#x27;m glad they&#x27;re pushing the industry in this direction.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>Yes, their stock price is now back to June 2017. Not too bad.<p>NVidia may have focused on the high end too much. They have a card for the machine learning crowd that costs $16,000.[1]
The product they&#x27;re now pushing to gamers, the 2080, is about $1000. It has some ray tracing hardware used by nothing. On existing games it&#x27;s about the same speed as their 2-year old 1080, which NVidia just discontinued.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dell.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;shop&#x2F;accessories&#x2F;apd&#x2F;490-bens" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dell.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;shop&#x2F;accessories&#x2F;apd&#x2F;490-bens</a></text></item><item><author>KaoruAoiShiho</author><text>It&#x27;s up 50% over 2 years and 400% over 3. Idiot article. Ignore the crypto bubble&#x2F;pump and NVDA is growing quickly - both the business and the stock.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FooHentai</author><text>&gt;It has some ray tracing hardware used by nothing.<p>Hard to fault this. It&#x27;s reminiscent of when hardware transform &amp; lighting (T&amp;L) was introduced. Nothing used it until the cards existed, but the cards had to come along before anyone would bother coding it into the games.</text></comment>
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<story><title>After losing half its value, Nvidia faces reckoning</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/12/nvidia-perfect-storm/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Wowfunhappy</author><text>As a gamer, I&#x27;m torn on the rtx line. On one hand, it really is <i>super</i> expensive for an entertainment product that will be outdated in a few years. On the other hand, the exceptionally large die justifies that cost on a technical level, and raytracing in real time games is legitimately cool—much more so, IMO, then just another resolution or fps bump.<p>I certainly don&#x27;t intend to upgrade, but I admire nVidia for the gutsy move, and I&#x27;m glad they&#x27;re pushing the industry in this direction.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text>Yes, their stock price is now back to June 2017. Not too bad.<p>NVidia may have focused on the high end too much. They have a card for the machine learning crowd that costs $16,000.[1]
The product they&#x27;re now pushing to gamers, the 2080, is about $1000. It has some ray tracing hardware used by nothing. On existing games it&#x27;s about the same speed as their 2-year old 1080, which NVidia just discontinued.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dell.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;shop&#x2F;accessories&#x2F;apd&#x2F;490-bens" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dell.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;shop&#x2F;accessories&#x2F;apd&#x2F;490-bens</a></text></item><item><author>KaoruAoiShiho</author><text>It&#x27;s up 50% over 2 years and 400% over 3. Idiot article. Ignore the crypto bubble&#x2F;pump and NVDA is growing quickly - both the business and the stock.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>suresk</author><text>I am a little torn, too. I built a new machine recently and went with the 2080 (Stepping up to the 2080ti when they become available).<p>On one hand, there is the appreciation for the technical achievement of something that seemed unlikely for a while (real-time ray tracing), plus as you mention, then increased die size. They look to be pretty good for ML applications, as well.<p>On the other hand, there is the increased price and, frankly, underwhelming results. The only game that uses the RTX feature suffers substantial performance penalties for turning on the RTX feature and most people (including me) just try it out for a few minutes and then turn it off. Is the quality better? Yeah, the reflections are shaper and more consistent when changing views (ie, aiming down a sight), but they aren&#x27;t game-changing and are definitely not worth the performance penalty.<p>This generation of cards is worth skipping if you aren&#x27;t building a new computer.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Mobile Holoportation</title><url>https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/holoportation-3/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neom</author><text>I&#x27;m not one to be easily impressed by technology and I must say the hololens is incredibly incredibly impressive. We have a couple at the office and whenever I spend time with one I&#x27;m really taken aback at what this will become. I like VR, but the augmentation between the physical and the virtual is what I&#x27;m most excited about. I mean it when I say, at least for me, hololens really changed my frame of reality. I feel like I sound kinda fanboi and overly enthusiastic, but I encourage you to try and find a way to use one if you&#x27;ve not. (trying it for the first time: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;john.je&#x2F;iDpX" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;john.je&#x2F;iDpX</a>)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Mobile Holoportation</title><url>https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/holoportation-3/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hossbeast</author><text>&quot;Holoportation is a new type of 3D capture technology that allows high-quality 3D models of people to be reconstructed, compressed and transmitted anywhere in the world in real time. When combined with mixed reality displays such as HoloLens, this technology allows users to see, hear, and interact with remote participants in 3D as if they are actually present in the same physical space.&quot;</text></comment>
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<story><title>How to write a developer resume that will get you hired</title><url>http://www.slideshare.net/perlcareers/how-to-write-a-developer-cvrsum-that-will-get-you-hired</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gedrap</author><text>At our university, University of Manchester, we had a careers service drone telling us to list your experience working as a waiter and highlight skills you learned there (&#x27;communicating in stressful environment&#x27; and what not).<p>Dear young readers. Seriously, don&#x27;t do that. Waste of space at best. Looks just stupid at worst. It doesn&#x27;t tell me anything about your ability as a programmer at all. Description about a weekend project is much more useful. And no, clarifying whether someone wants latte with regular or soy milk is not a &#x27;communication skill&#x27;.</text></comment>
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<story><title>How to write a developer resume that will get you hired</title><url>http://www.slideshare.net/perlcareers/how-to-write-a-developer-cvrsum-that-will-get-you-hired</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pera</author><text>&gt; Sorry, you need JavaScript experience, but all I can see in the web development section is AngularJS and jQuery<p>This actually happened to me a couple of weeks ago, and I do have JavaScript listed in my languages section...</text></comment>
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<story><title>Larry Tesler Has Died</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/larry-tessler-modeless-computing-advocate-has-passed-1841787408</url><text>Larry Tesler has died. Larry was in the middle of many of the most influential of Silicon Valley projects and an insightful contributor. See his Wikipedia biography for a snapshot. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Larry_Tesler" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Larry_Tesler</a></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>atdrummond</author><text>Larry kindly traded letters with me when I was a young man attempting to learn programming via Object Pascal. Eventually, my mom made me write him a check for all the postage he had spent. In addition to sending me at least two letters a week for just around a decade, he shipped me dozens of books and manuals. One year for the holidays, someone sent me 4 large FedEx boxes filled with networking gear I desperately needed for a “M”MORPG game I was building. The return label read “53414e544120414e442048495320574f524b53484f50”. In the game, players were elves scrambling to defeat a corrupted workshop. The final boss was S̶a̶t̶a̶n̶ Santa himself.<p>It was only when I was older that I appreciated that he had probably sent me thousands of dollars worth of gear (and not in 2020 dollars!) in addition to the invaluable advice he provided, sometimes (frankly, often) unsolicited but always direct and always thought provoking.<p>While I never did become an extremely competent commercial developer, to this day I enjoy programming for programming’s own sake. Larry’s push for me to fix my own headaches, rather than simply giving me a metaphorical aspirin, resulted in my development of solutions for small hobby problems that it appeared often only myself and perhaps a few others shared.<p>As it turns out, in spite of (or thanks to) my niche interests, my curiosity and the method of targeted problem solving Larry fostered set me on a path I remain on today. Frankly, his contributions helped mold me as a man more than those of any other mentor of mine; that is absolutely meant as a compliment to his prescient pedagogy, rather than a slight at my life’s many other wonderful influences.<p>I’ve sold a few businesses thanks to Larry’s problem solving approach. The rest I founded are running profitably - and somehow I’ve never lost an investor money. My customers have always, above all else, been happy because they had their problems fixed. (Or, perhaps thanks to his influence, their happiness stemmed from my teams simply providing them with the tools they needed to solve their own problems!)<p>And because I followed Larry’s personal advice, I have been able to spend every day for nearly two decades doing what he encouraged and what has consistently engaged me: finding, isolating and destroying problems.<p>Thank you for everything.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jupe</author><text>Cute... 53414e544120414e442048495320574f524b53484f50 = SANTA AND HIS WORKSHOP</text></comment>
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<story><title>Larry Tesler Has Died</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/larry-tessler-modeless-computing-advocate-has-passed-1841787408</url><text>Larry Tesler has died. Larry was in the middle of many of the most influential of Silicon Valley projects and an insightful contributor. See his Wikipedia biography for a snapshot. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Larry_Tesler" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Larry_Tesler</a></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>atdrummond</author><text>Larry kindly traded letters with me when I was a young man attempting to learn programming via Object Pascal. Eventually, my mom made me write him a check for all the postage he had spent. In addition to sending me at least two letters a week for just around a decade, he shipped me dozens of books and manuals. One year for the holidays, someone sent me 4 large FedEx boxes filled with networking gear I desperately needed for a “M”MORPG game I was building. The return label read “53414e544120414e442048495320574f524b53484f50”. In the game, players were elves scrambling to defeat a corrupted workshop. The final boss was S̶a̶t̶a̶n̶ Santa himself.<p>It was only when I was older that I appreciated that he had probably sent me thousands of dollars worth of gear (and not in 2020 dollars!) in addition to the invaluable advice he provided, sometimes (frankly, often) unsolicited but always direct and always thought provoking.<p>While I never did become an extremely competent commercial developer, to this day I enjoy programming for programming’s own sake. Larry’s push for me to fix my own headaches, rather than simply giving me a metaphorical aspirin, resulted in my development of solutions for small hobby problems that it appeared often only myself and perhaps a few others shared.<p>As it turns out, in spite of (or thanks to) my niche interests, my curiosity and the method of targeted problem solving Larry fostered set me on a path I remain on today. Frankly, his contributions helped mold me as a man more than those of any other mentor of mine; that is absolutely meant as a compliment to his prescient pedagogy, rather than a slight at my life’s many other wonderful influences.<p>I’ve sold a few businesses thanks to Larry’s problem solving approach. The rest I founded are running profitably - and somehow I’ve never lost an investor money. My customers have always, above all else, been happy because they had their problems fixed. (Or, perhaps thanks to his influence, their happiness stemmed from my teams simply providing them with the tools they needed to solve their own problems!)<p>And because I followed Larry’s personal advice, I have been able to spend every day for nearly two decades doing what he encouraged and what has consistently engaged me: finding, isolating and destroying problems.<p>Thank you for everything.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zymhan</author><text>Wow, that is quite the gesture.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design</title><url>https://onezero.medium.com/jony-ives-errors-why-ugly-isn-t-always-bad-design-but-beautiful-sometimes-is-9c5fde886263</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scarface74</author><text>Skeuomorphism wasn’t a failure. The iPhone and the touch interface were new to the market. Making the interface look familiar was important at the time even though it went too far. The iPhone did well from iOS 1 - iOS 6 and I don’t remember too many complaints until iOS 6.</text></item><item><author>idlewords</author><text>Jobs had plenty of design failures on his conscience, like the G3 cube, the skeuomorphism fad, and the hockey puck mouse. We should not pretend the guy had irreplaceable design sense.</text></item><item><author>thomasjudge</author><text>This. As CEO, one of Steve’s key functions was to serve as chief product officer. Design is an element of great products, and at Apple it has been a key element and key differentiator. As has been oft-noted, Tim is in no way a product person, and so without Steve we have seen design imperatives (thinness) unchecked</text></item><item><author>bangonkeyboard</author><text><i>&quot;That vague hostility towards humans keeps peeping through.&quot;</i><p>A story recounted here last year [0]:<p><i>During the development of the first iPhone, Ive and his team became enamored with the look of an extruded aluminum prototype. Even though it was immediately apparent that the model&#x27;s sharp edges made it physically painful to use as a phone, they persisted in trying to push the design and paper over its principal practical problems. It took Steve Jobs to finally step in, point out the obvious, and check Jony Ive&#x27;s worst tendencies. [1]<p>Steve Jobs is gone, and nobody is left to fulfill his roles.</i><p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17056930" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17056930</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cultofmac.com&#x2F;488008&#x2F;jony-ive-book-excerpt-iphone&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cultofmac.com&#x2F;488008&#x2F;jony-ive-book-excerpt-iphon...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrischen</author><text>Even today I feel like the new flat UIs are a bit too flat, like how some input fields (like in the Phone app on iOS) are completely invisible so you don&#x27;t know that they&#x27;re there.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design</title><url>https://onezero.medium.com/jony-ives-errors-why-ugly-isn-t-always-bad-design-but-beautiful-sometimes-is-9c5fde886263</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scarface74</author><text>Skeuomorphism wasn’t a failure. The iPhone and the touch interface were new to the market. Making the interface look familiar was important at the time even though it went too far. The iPhone did well from iOS 1 - iOS 6 and I don’t remember too many complaints until iOS 6.</text></item><item><author>idlewords</author><text>Jobs had plenty of design failures on his conscience, like the G3 cube, the skeuomorphism fad, and the hockey puck mouse. We should not pretend the guy had irreplaceable design sense.</text></item><item><author>thomasjudge</author><text>This. As CEO, one of Steve’s key functions was to serve as chief product officer. Design is an element of great products, and at Apple it has been a key element and key differentiator. As has been oft-noted, Tim is in no way a product person, and so without Steve we have seen design imperatives (thinness) unchecked</text></item><item><author>bangonkeyboard</author><text><i>&quot;That vague hostility towards humans keeps peeping through.&quot;</i><p>A story recounted here last year [0]:<p><i>During the development of the first iPhone, Ive and his team became enamored with the look of an extruded aluminum prototype. Even though it was immediately apparent that the model&#x27;s sharp edges made it physically painful to use as a phone, they persisted in trying to push the design and paper over its principal practical problems. It took Steve Jobs to finally step in, point out the obvious, and check Jony Ive&#x27;s worst tendencies. [1]<p>Steve Jobs is gone, and nobody is left to fulfill his roles.</i><p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17056930" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17056930</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cultofmac.com&#x2F;488008&#x2F;jony-ive-book-excerpt-iphone&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cultofmac.com&#x2F;488008&#x2F;jony-ive-book-excerpt-iphon...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PunksATawnyFill</author><text>Exactly. GUIs are supposed to look like things: buttons and displays, because the state of those things is immediately understood. Simple beveling and shadowing on a rectangle can tell you if the button is on or off. No one is calling for it to have a &quot;brushed-metal&quot; finish or dust motes on it.<p>Ive&#x27;s (and others&#x27;) asinine &quot;flat&quot; look tells you nothing. Buttons masquerade as plain text, and colored boxes next to each other are supposed to tell you which one (out of two) is active.<p>Apple&#x27;s childish and ridiculous &quot;skeuomorphism&quot; wasn&#x27;t just over the top and cheesy; it was just plain INCORRECT. They had controls designed to look like the paint on the felt surface of a blackjack table. WTF? You don&#x27;t interact with the paint on a blackjack table in real life, so why the hell would I expect to do so in a program?<p>iTunes had a similarly defective UI: The &quot;LCD&quot; panel at the top (which was even depicted as having a sheen over it, to represent a glass cover) had controls in it you could click on. Again, WTF? You can&#x27;t poke at the sealed LCD display on a tape deck, so... this is laughably stupid.<p>Yet year after year, very few decry the fallacy of reacting to plain old bad UI with even worse: the failure and design dereliction that is &quot;flat&quot; UI.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Inside a Heist of American Chip Designs, as China Bids for Tech Power</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/22/technology/china-micron-chips-theft.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RamshackleJ</author><text>I disagree with your opinions and your characterization of my argument. I didn&#x27;t say people will not think about technological problems.<p>Despite the incredible amount of good the party has done for the people of china they are still an authoritarian regime. I don&#x27;t think authoritarian regimes are good at fostering innovation.</text></item><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>Stealing IP <i>definitely</i> helps innovation. To get to the innovation stage you first need to reach parity. There is no faster way to reaching parity than to steal IP.<p>As for the &quot;the culture that creates new tech is something that china can&#x27;t steal and it can&#x27;t replicate it without giving up authoritarian rule&quot;, that&#x27;s nonsense that would have found an audience in the 1950&#x27;s or so when talking about Russia, but it really is out of place in 2018 when talking about China.<p>China has a lot of catching up to do but this kind of reasoning is so far off-base that it makes me wonder whether or not you&#x27;ve given it much thought at all. The political system of a country does not magically stop people from thinking about technological problems. It&#x27;s mostly a matter of degree of efficiency than it is of achieving a certain capability.</text></item><item><author>RamshackleJ</author><text>Stealing IP mostly helps manufacturing, It doesn&#x27;t really help innovation. If they want to build up their semiconductor industry they need to steal the people who are creating IP, which is kinda the opposite of what is happening.<p>the culture that creates new tech is something that china can&#x27;t steal and it can&#x27;t replicate it without giving up authoritarian rule.</text></item><item><author>fermienrico</author><text>Having worked in China in the semiconductor industry, it really saddens me what the Chinese are trying to do. You simply cannot out innovate 4 decades of work in a few years no matter how much money you throw at it.<p>Also, China has a branding problem and it is only going to get worse. They can make short term progress but it takes a long time to build a great brand.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>They don&#x27;t need to be &#x27;good&#x27; at anything, they just will move slower than an equivalent market based system but eventually they will get there.<p>As long as the rest of the world out-innovates them they <i>may</i> not catch up but do not underestimate the power of over 1 billion people, especially not when a large number of them are very smart.<p>Have a look at China 30 years ago and China today and tell me that that authoritarian regime isn&#x27;t moving forward, and relative to the rest of the world they are moving at an incredible pace.<p>We, the West (assuming you are in the West like I am) should count our blessings that China isn&#x27;t going full-bore on a market economy and democratic system because the Chinese in such a configuration would be absolutely un-stoppable.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Inside a Heist of American Chip Designs, as China Bids for Tech Power</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/22/technology/china-micron-chips-theft.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RamshackleJ</author><text>I disagree with your opinions and your characterization of my argument. I didn&#x27;t say people will not think about technological problems.<p>Despite the incredible amount of good the party has done for the people of china they are still an authoritarian regime. I don&#x27;t think authoritarian regimes are good at fostering innovation.</text></item><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>Stealing IP <i>definitely</i> helps innovation. To get to the innovation stage you first need to reach parity. There is no faster way to reaching parity than to steal IP.<p>As for the &quot;the culture that creates new tech is something that china can&#x27;t steal and it can&#x27;t replicate it without giving up authoritarian rule&quot;, that&#x27;s nonsense that would have found an audience in the 1950&#x27;s or so when talking about Russia, but it really is out of place in 2018 when talking about China.<p>China has a lot of catching up to do but this kind of reasoning is so far off-base that it makes me wonder whether or not you&#x27;ve given it much thought at all. The political system of a country does not magically stop people from thinking about technological problems. It&#x27;s mostly a matter of degree of efficiency than it is of achieving a certain capability.</text></item><item><author>RamshackleJ</author><text>Stealing IP mostly helps manufacturing, It doesn&#x27;t really help innovation. If they want to build up their semiconductor industry they need to steal the people who are creating IP, which is kinda the opposite of what is happening.<p>the culture that creates new tech is something that china can&#x27;t steal and it can&#x27;t replicate it without giving up authoritarian rule.</text></item><item><author>fermienrico</author><text>Having worked in China in the semiconductor industry, it really saddens me what the Chinese are trying to do. You simply cannot out innovate 4 decades of work in a few years no matter how much money you throw at it.<p>Also, China has a branding problem and it is only going to get worse. They can make short term progress but it takes a long time to build a great brand.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>frgtpsswrdlame</author><text>&gt;I don&#x27;t think authoritarian regimes are good at fostering innovation.<p>The USSR came from far behind and beat us to space. Authoritarian regimes may struggle to allocate food efficiently but they&#x27;re fine at allocating scientists.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Live from Apple's iPad 2 event</title><url>http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/02/live-from-apples-ipad-2-event/?sort=newest&refresh=60</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>achompas</author><text>For me, the most exciting announcement has to be the line of Smart Covers.<p>iPad covers aren't new, but this cover looks like it could solve the ergonomic problem of typing on your iPad or watching a movie/TV show while you're not sitting on a couch. It also protects your iPad's screen without adding bulk.<p>EDIT: @marcoarment: "The Smart Cover might be the best feature of the iPad 2. I can't possibly express how much I hate every iPad 1 case for some reason."<p>[0] <a href="http://www.apple.com/ipad/smart-cover/" rel="nofollow">http://www.apple.com/ipad/smart-cover/</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>silvestrov</author><text><i>I think Apple will make more profit on their Smart Covers than Motorola, HP and RIM will on their tablets.</i><p><a href="http://twitter.com/#!/kawika/status/43024891062124545" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/#!/kawika/status/43024891062124545</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Live from Apple's iPad 2 event</title><url>http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/02/live-from-apples-ipad-2-event/?sort=newest&refresh=60</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>achompas</author><text>For me, the most exciting announcement has to be the line of Smart Covers.<p>iPad covers aren't new, but this cover looks like it could solve the ergonomic problem of typing on your iPad or watching a movie/TV show while you're not sitting on a couch. It also protects your iPad's screen without adding bulk.<p>EDIT: @marcoarment: "The Smart Cover might be the best feature of the iPad 2. I can't possibly express how much I hate every iPad 1 case for some reason."<p>[0] <a href="http://www.apple.com/ipad/smart-cover/" rel="nofollow">http://www.apple.com/ipad/smart-cover/</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WesleyJohnson</author><text>Anyone notice at the end of the video on Apple's site the disclaimer about the colors potentially wearing off on the leather versions? Still love the concept and I'd just go with a poly one anyway. Definitely agree with the ergonomics aspect as well. I think the Smart Cover is pretty brilliant in its simplicity.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Image unshredding using a TSP solver</title><url>https://github.com/robinhouston/image-unshredding</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ampdepolymerase</author><text>Current office shredders are almost all capable of double shredding but considering how easy it is to reverse by OP&#x27;s project, it may be necessary to implement further measures for document destruction.<p>A laser or enzymic based method could work but neither are particularly office-friendly.</text></item><item><author>aliasEli</author><text>This might even have an application for real documents. There are police cases where some suspects have tried to destroy evidence. Manually reconstructing the original takes a lot of effort. I expect that the CIA and NSA already have software for it, but I have never heard of it being used in a police case.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>I used to work for a defense contractor, in the mid-1980s.<p>Once a week, this big-ass tandem truck would park outside the entrance, and the janitors would carry out boxes of papers, under armed guard.<p>The truck had a huge shredder (crosscut), and also a big kiln.<p>Once the paper was shredded, it was burned, and the ashes were shredded, just to be sure.<p>Then, the truck would take the ashes away; never to be seen again.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Image unshredding using a TSP solver</title><url>https://github.com/robinhouston/image-unshredding</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ampdepolymerase</author><text>Current office shredders are almost all capable of double shredding but considering how easy it is to reverse by OP&#x27;s project, it may be necessary to implement further measures for document destruction.<p>A laser or enzymic based method could work but neither are particularly office-friendly.</text></item><item><author>aliasEli</author><text>This might even have an application for real documents. There are police cases where some suspects have tried to destroy evidence. Manually reconstructing the original takes a lot of effort. I expect that the CIA and NSA already have software for it, but I have never heard of it being used in a police case.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jhayward</author><text>OP&#x27;s method relies on the permutation of elements in (columns or rows) to be in the same order for each (column or row).<p>If you&#x27;re just handed a pile of confetti you don&#x27;t have that same correspondence.</text></comment>
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<story><title>The Odd Story of Factory-Downgraded 486s (2020)</title><url>https://x86.fr/the-odd-story-of-factory-downgraded-486s/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>krylon</author><text>Something similar might have happened with Celeron 300 CPUs, I recall they could be overclocked to 450MHz as well without trouble. I think they didn&#x27;t have as much cache as the Pentium II, but the increased clock rate meant you could get a pretty fast CPU for cheap.</text></item><item><author>perbu</author><text>I&#x27;ve got a similar story.<p>In 1998 a had a summer job, as a programmer, in a little shop that built computers. At the time there was a short of Pentium II 300Mhz chips. One day the logistics guy mentioned they had gotten a batch of Pentium II 300Mhz marked with an operating voltage of 2.0V, instead of the usual 2.8V. Hmm.<p>Intel had taken a bunch of their most expensive CPUs, PII-450Mhz, using the brand new 250nm process and rebranded them as the cheapest CPUs which were at the time built with a 350nm process. You could just take this, stick in a motherboard an change the base frequency and you&#x27;d have the best CPU Intel could make.<p>We never sold any of those CPU to customers. We all bought ourselves new CPUs that day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simondotau</author><text>Not only could you overclock the Celeron 300A, with the right motherboard you could run two of them in a dual CPU configuration.[0] This was my first high performance computer! Initially I dual booted Windows NT 4 and Windows 98, but soon enough Windows 2000 was released and allowed me to make practical everyday use of the two cores. It was an extremely satisfying computer to own.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;ABIT_BP6" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;ABIT_BP6</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>The Odd Story of Factory-Downgraded 486s (2020)</title><url>https://x86.fr/the-odd-story-of-factory-downgraded-486s/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>krylon</author><text>Something similar might have happened with Celeron 300 CPUs, I recall they could be overclocked to 450MHz as well without trouble. I think they didn&#x27;t have as much cache as the Pentium II, but the increased clock rate meant you could get a pretty fast CPU for cheap.</text></item><item><author>perbu</author><text>I&#x27;ve got a similar story.<p>In 1998 a had a summer job, as a programmer, in a little shop that built computers. At the time there was a short of Pentium II 300Mhz chips. One day the logistics guy mentioned they had gotten a batch of Pentium II 300Mhz marked with an operating voltage of 2.0V, instead of the usual 2.8V. Hmm.<p>Intel had taken a bunch of their most expensive CPUs, PII-450Mhz, using the brand new 250nm process and rebranded them as the cheapest CPUs which were at the time built with a 350nm process. You could just take this, stick in a motherboard an change the base frequency and you&#x27;d have the best CPU Intel could make.<p>We never sold any of those CPU to customers. We all bought ourselves new CPUs that day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dspillett</author><text>IIRC the Celeron chips coming out of the fabs tested better than Intel expected with far more of the batches being rated as stable as higher-spec units. This lead to a shortage of cheaper units that people were trying to buy and an excess of faster units that people didn&#x27;t want to pay for. To avoid both missing sales <i>and</i> having a lot of stock sat in warehouses, many batches of Celeron chips that had tested fine to be sold as the faster models were binned with those that were only rated for the slower speeds. This meant that if you were lucky you could safely overclock the cheaper units by officially extravagant amounts, without extra special cooling arrangements or other hacks, and many did.<p>You could tell (at least initially, I&#x27;m not sure if Intel changed this later) from part of the product code that you definitely had one of the units from a batch that tested fine at the higher speeds, so it wasn&#x27;t that much of a gamble either.<p>We referred to them as Silly-ron CPUs.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Implementing a Neural Network from Scratch in Python</title><url>https://victorzhou.com/blog/intro-to-neural-networks/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gambler</author><text><i>&gt;h = hidden, o = output, y_pred = predicted value of y, etc. are quite clear</i><p><pre><code> ∀ abbr + to the cogntv load prsn wht mntn in thr hd.
∀ -&gt; every
+ -&gt; adds
wht -&gt; who has to
h -&gt; head
</code></pre>
Was that easier to read than the following?<p><pre><code> Every abbreviation adds to the cognitive load the person has to maintain in their head.
</code></pre>
This isn&#x27;t code, but the principles of making code (un)readable are exactly the same.<p>If you see that full-word variable names create too much clutter, it means your code structure is wrong. So you fix it.<p>You go from this:<p><pre><code> self.w1 = np.random.normal()
self.w2 = np.random.normal()
self.w3 = np.random.normal()
self.w4 = np.random.normal()
self.w5 = np.random.normal()
self.w6 = np.random.normal()
</code></pre>
To this:<p><pre><code> set_to_random_numbers(self.weights)
</code></pre>
After 9 years of maintaining several dozen legacy codebases (which sometimes involved financial math) I am fully convinced that the only people who like terse code are people who write it and never read it after.</text></item><item><author>jacobolus</author><text>And when trying to do algebraic manipulation on paper, having an 8 or 10 letter variable name is incredibly cumbersome.<p>Frankly in the middle of a numerical algorithm it is typically also cumbersome in code to have descriptive variable names for everything.<p>However, mathematical code (especially when written by scientists, etc.) often takes this too far, introducing many 1- or few-letter variable names without enough context or description to figure out what they stand for, and for more of the variables than necessary.<p>This blog post was just fine though. h = hidden, o = output, y_pred = predicted value of y, etc. are quite clear</text></item><item><author>chrisfosterelli</author><text>These are meaningful variable names in the context of a code implementation of a math algorithm. The variables directly map to the algorithmic notation.</text></item><item><author>gambler</author><text>Why are deep learning researchers allergic to meaningful variable names?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrisfosterelli</author><text>&gt; Every abbreviation adds to the cognitive load the person has to maintain in their head.<p>I think your claim that abbreviations are always more cognitive load is wrong. For the sake of argument, let&#x27;s take it at face value though. These are not even code abbreviations. They are literal translations to the math notation. The input &quot;x&quot; is not an abbreviation, it&#x27;s a well defined value in neural network terminology.<p>If they called it something more descriptive like &quot;input_vector_to_first_layer_of_neural_net&quot;, this would be more cognitive load because someone reviewing this now needs to mentally map this to &quot;x&quot; in the algorithm anytime they are reviewing both.<p>Now, to your claim itself, I think it&#x27;s unfair to say abbreviations are always more cognitive load. These variables are significantly more approachable because they follow convention. I see &quot;x&quot; and I know what that is. If every individual developer went ahead and rewrote every neural net with something they viewed as more interpretable in their personal context, it&#x27;d be a lot harder to understand what is going on for everyone. The variable itself may be longer, but I might actually need a prose explanation of the variable&#x27;s purpose because now I don&#x27;t have the context of well established naming convention.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Implementing a Neural Network from Scratch in Python</title><url>https://victorzhou.com/blog/intro-to-neural-networks/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gambler</author><text><i>&gt;h = hidden, o = output, y_pred = predicted value of y, etc. are quite clear</i><p><pre><code> ∀ abbr + to the cogntv load prsn wht mntn in thr hd.
∀ -&gt; every
+ -&gt; adds
wht -&gt; who has to
h -&gt; head
</code></pre>
Was that easier to read than the following?<p><pre><code> Every abbreviation adds to the cognitive load the person has to maintain in their head.
</code></pre>
This isn&#x27;t code, but the principles of making code (un)readable are exactly the same.<p>If you see that full-word variable names create too much clutter, it means your code structure is wrong. So you fix it.<p>You go from this:<p><pre><code> self.w1 = np.random.normal()
self.w2 = np.random.normal()
self.w3 = np.random.normal()
self.w4 = np.random.normal()
self.w5 = np.random.normal()
self.w6 = np.random.normal()
</code></pre>
To this:<p><pre><code> set_to_random_numbers(self.weights)
</code></pre>
After 9 years of maintaining several dozen legacy codebases (which sometimes involved financial math) I am fully convinced that the only people who like terse code are people who write it and never read it after.</text></item><item><author>jacobolus</author><text>And when trying to do algebraic manipulation on paper, having an 8 or 10 letter variable name is incredibly cumbersome.<p>Frankly in the middle of a numerical algorithm it is typically also cumbersome in code to have descriptive variable names for everything.<p>However, mathematical code (especially when written by scientists, etc.) often takes this too far, introducing many 1- or few-letter variable names without enough context or description to figure out what they stand for, and for more of the variables than necessary.<p>This blog post was just fine though. h = hidden, o = output, y_pred = predicted value of y, etc. are quite clear</text></item><item><author>chrisfosterelli</author><text>These are meaningful variable names in the context of a code implementation of a math algorithm. The variables directly map to the algorithmic notation.</text></item><item><author>gambler</author><text>Why are deep learning researchers allergic to meaningful variable names?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacobolus</author><text>Are you suggesting that we should write all of our mathematical expressions using prose, and stop using symbols for operators?<p>That would be the original approach historically (before the past 500 years), e.g. for the quadratic formula, Brahmagupta (628 CE):<p>&gt; <i>To the absolute number multiplied by four times the square, add the square of the middle term; the square root of the same, less the middle term, being divided by twice the square is the value.</i><p>Go ahead and do what you like, but I doubt you’ll find many publishers who will accept your paper in the 21st century.<p>I know which one imposes more cognitive load for me. But disclaimer: I spent a lot of time from age 5–20 working with mathematical notation.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Protocol Buffers, Avro, Thrift & MessagePack</title><url>http://www.igvita.com/2011/08/01/protocol-buffers-avro-thrift-messagepack/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hesdeadjim</author><text>I work at an indie game shop and I have pushed us to use it (almost) everywhere we need to define a file format. Originally we were using JSON for everything, which is great for the quick and dirty approach -- but as our code base (primarily C++) has grown I absolutely love the guarantees I get with protobufs:<p>- Strongly typed, no boilerplate error checking if someone set my "foo" field on my object to an integer instead of a string<p>- Easy to version and upgrade, just create new fields, deprecate the old ones, and move on with life.<p>- Protobuf IDLs are the documentation and implementation of my file format -- no docs to write about what fields belong in what object and no issues with out of sync documentation/code.<p>- Reflection support, don't use this a lot, but when I need it it's awesome.<p>- Variety of storage options. For instance the level editor I wrote recently uses the human-readable text format when it saves out levels. But when I am ready to ship, I can trivially convert these level files to binary and immediately improve the performance of my app.<p>- Tons of language bindings. Our engine code base is C++, but any build scripts I write are done in Python and if my script needs to touch protobuf files I don't have to rewrite my file parsing routines -- it just works.<p>I looked into using Apache Thrift as well, but their text-based format is not human readable so it was a non-starter for us.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Protocol Buffers, Avro, Thrift & MessagePack</title><url>http://www.igvita.com/2011/08/01/protocol-buffers-avro-thrift-messagepack/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mikeklaas</author><text>&#62; (Word of warning: historically, Thrift has not been consistent in their feature support and performance across all the languages, so do some research).<p>Conversely, we chose Thrift over protobuf for this reason. Protobuf's python performance was <i>abysmal</i> — over 10x worse than Thrift.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Patent trolls are shaking us down for selling “rubies” in our game</title><url>https://www.clickerheroes2.com/patent_trolls.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mmihaly</author><text>Yeah. I&#x27;m the friend he mentioned. Achaea.com was the first game in the world to use virtual currency&#x2F;goods as its business model, back in 1997. Still live today. My company&#x27;s at ironrealms.com. I mailed you offering help.</text></item><item><author>fragsworth</author><text>Hey. Developer of Clicker Heroes here.<p>More examples of prior art are very helpful, so that would help us out a lot. Do you have any examples of any of these MUDs that had virtual currency?</text></item><item><author>Lasher</author><text>I passed this on to a friend of mine who has been doing virtual currency in online games since the mid 1990s (MUDs) and has been called as an expert witness in the past to defeat some of these &quot;virtual currency&quot; patents.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fragsworth</author><text>Wow. I actually remember playing your game when I was 17. I can&#x27;t remember details about the virtual currency though.<p>The &#x27;838 patent was filed in 2000 (which is the effective date, 2007 is just the processing date). Did Achaea have virtual currency before then? If so, that would help us a lot.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Patent trolls are shaking us down for selling “rubies” in our game</title><url>https://www.clickerheroes2.com/patent_trolls.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mmihaly</author><text>Yeah. I&#x27;m the friend he mentioned. Achaea.com was the first game in the world to use virtual currency&#x2F;goods as its business model, back in 1997. Still live today. My company&#x27;s at ironrealms.com. I mailed you offering help.</text></item><item><author>fragsworth</author><text>Hey. Developer of Clicker Heroes here.<p>More examples of prior art are very helpful, so that would help us out a lot. Do you have any examples of any of these MUDs that had virtual currency?</text></item><item><author>Lasher</author><text>I passed this on to a friend of mine who has been doing virtual currency in online games since the mid 1990s (MUDs) and has been called as an expert witness in the past to defeat some of these &quot;virtual currency&quot; patents.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lostcolony</author><text>Holy crap. Blast from the past. Thanks so much for making those games; I killed years in high school on Achaea.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Google Common Lisp style guide</title><url>https://google.github.io/styleguide/lispguide.xml</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kazinator</author><text>&gt; <i>You must not use INTERN or UNINTERN at runtime.</i><p>I.e. you must not read Lisp data at run time, if it contains symbols, because that will call <i>intern</i>.<p>&gt; <i>You should avoid using a list as anything besides a container of elements of like type.</i><p>Good-bye, code-is-data.<p>I could reduce this guide by a good 30% with &quot;You should avoid using Lisp as anything as Go or Java&quot;.<p>But that could be seen as defining a macro, which you must seldom do.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rvense</author><text>What it says is to not abuse lists, isn&#x27;t it? I think what they mean is something like, don&#x27;t use a list as a &quot;object&quot;&#x2F;tuple that gets picked apart with a lot of cdddaring? Rather, use real structures and other containers as appropriate, keeping in mind the performance characteristics. It specifically says lists are appropriate for macros and functions used by macros at compile-time.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Google Common Lisp style guide</title><url>https://google.github.io/styleguide/lispguide.xml</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kazinator</author><text>&gt; <i>You must not use INTERN or UNINTERN at runtime.</i><p>I.e. you must not read Lisp data at run time, if it contains symbols, because that will call <i>intern</i>.<p>&gt; <i>You should avoid using a list as anything besides a container of elements of like type.</i><p>Good-bye, code-is-data.<p>I could reduce this guide by a good 30% with &quot;You should avoid using Lisp as anything as Go or Java&quot;.<p>But that could be seen as defining a macro, which you must seldom do.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Spivak</author><text>I really don&#x27;t think that this is bad advice in general. Mess with the code all you want at compile time, but don&#x27;t touch it at runtime is the good kind of boring. CL is an extremely powerful language, it doesn&#x27;t mean you should be using it all the time in your day-to-day work.</text></comment>
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<story><title>WireGuard for iOS</title><url>https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2018-November/003526.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zx2c4</author><text>Our final frontier is Windows, actually. Hope to have that out soon!</text></item><item><author>xoa</author><text>Thanks so much for your work on this, I think iOS is the last major platform right? Amazing effort in so short a time, I guess that&#x27;s another advantage alongside the security ones of having a very simple, focused code base without unnecessary knobs and dials.<p>I&#x27;m sorry it didn&#x27;t make it into the kernel this cycle though, granted maybe that was a little much to hope for at this stage of things, and I really hope Vancouver goes well for you and Zinc. It&#x27;s not that WG is hard to get setup on any given system, but I think kernel integration will lower the bar towards getting it available as a standard feature in a lot of turnkey appliance systems that I see a ton in SMB usage in particular. I can understand being conservative there but man do I already want it everywhere :)!</text></item><item><author>zx2c4</author><text>As the mailing list post mentions, this is a super new code base, and we could certainly use a hand, if any iOS developers out there are itching to help out. Opportunity to jump into a codebase while it&#x27;s still pretty fresh, if that sort of experience is appealing to you. Don&#x27;t hesitate to email me (jason [at] zx2c4.com) or poke me on IRC (I&#x27;m zx2c4 on freenode in #wireguard).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dancodes</author><text>There&#x27;s TunSafe [1], a client for Windows. Its source code [2] has been published as well.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tunsafe.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tunsafe.com&#x2F;</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;TunSafe&#x2F;TunSafe" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;TunSafe&#x2F;TunSafe</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>WireGuard for iOS</title><url>https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2018-November/003526.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zx2c4</author><text>Our final frontier is Windows, actually. Hope to have that out soon!</text></item><item><author>xoa</author><text>Thanks so much for your work on this, I think iOS is the last major platform right? Amazing effort in so short a time, I guess that&#x27;s another advantage alongside the security ones of having a very simple, focused code base without unnecessary knobs and dials.<p>I&#x27;m sorry it didn&#x27;t make it into the kernel this cycle though, granted maybe that was a little much to hope for at this stage of things, and I really hope Vancouver goes well for you and Zinc. It&#x27;s not that WG is hard to get setup on any given system, but I think kernel integration will lower the bar towards getting it available as a standard feature in a lot of turnkey appliance systems that I see a ton in SMB usage in particular. I can understand being conservative there but man do I already want it everywhere :)!</text></item><item><author>zx2c4</author><text>As the mailing list post mentions, this is a super new code base, and we could certainly use a hand, if any iOS developers out there are itching to help out. Opportunity to jump into a codebase while it&#x27;s still pretty fresh, if that sort of experience is appealing to you. Don&#x27;t hesitate to email me (jason [at] zx2c4.com) or poke me on IRC (I&#x27;m zx2c4 on freenode in #wireguard).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>craftyguy</author><text>What is the current status with getting the required bits merged into the Linux kernel? I don&#x27;t really follow lkml (my email service would instantly hit its quota), and the todo list (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wireguard.com&#x2F;todo&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wireguard.com&#x2F;todo&#x2F;</a>) surprisingly doesn&#x27;t include any word about this.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Global Foundries discloses 7nm process detail</title><url>https://www.semiwiki.com/forum/content/6879-exclusive-globalfoundries-discloses-7nm-process-detail.html?utm_content=buffere2e76&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>Yet another fab pushing deep ultraviolet lithography as far as it will go for 7nm, rather than going to &quot;extreme ultraviolet&quot;. &quot;Extreme ultraviolet&quot; is really soft X-rays. The &quot;light source&quot; is either a synchrotron, or an incredible kludge where droplets of tin are vaporized by lasers. They also produce totally incoherent light, while the ordinary processes use lasers producing coherent light, which focuses better.<p>Deep ultraviolet light source: [1] Little box.<p>Extreme ultraviolet light source: [2] Two floors of equipment.<p>Nobody really wants to go to EUV with the existing sources. The industry hopes for an EUV source that isn&#x27;t insanely expensive, incoherent, dim, and an operational headache. But there&#x27;s nothing better coming along in the near term. Intel and Samsung have chosen to build EUV fabs, to be ready in 2019, maybe. Everybody else is trying hard not to.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oxxius.com&#x2F;LUV-series-266nm-280nm-CW-laser" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oxxius.com&#x2F;LUV-series-266nm-280nm-CW-laser</a>
[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anandtech.com&#x2F;show&#x2F;10097&#x2F;euv-lithography-makes-good-progress-still-not-ready-for-prime-time" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anandtech.com&#x2F;show&#x2F;10097&#x2F;euv-lithography-makes-go...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Global Foundries discloses 7nm process detail</title><url>https://www.semiwiki.com/forum/content/6879-exclusive-globalfoundries-discloses-7nm-process-detail.html?utm_content=buffere2e76&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bit_logic</author><text>There&#x27;s a perfect storm coming for Intel. For years they were able to sit on fat server margins because of superior fab process and CPU architecture. Now GF&#x2F;Samsung&#x2F;TSMC is competitive in fab technology and AMD has Zen. The days of high server margins are coming to an end.</text></comment>
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<story><title>ARM64 Linux Workstation</title><url>https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/ultimate-linux-arm64-workstation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eatonphil</author><text>&gt; Is there anything that doesn’t work?<p>&gt; To quote Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 3, Line 87: “No.”<p>&gt; Everything works… and works perfectly.<p>That is impressive and really hard to believe! I guess I&#x27;ll have to find an M1 mac Mini to try myself!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>psanford</author><text>I&#x27;ve got an M2 Air. It is very usable, but its far from everything working perfectly.<p>Builtin speaker support is still a work in progress. It works if you know what you are doing and are not afraid to damage your speakers if you make a mistake. There&#x27;s been progress on this though, so I expect this to be resolved sooner than later.<p>There&#x27;s no builtin speakers in the author&#x27;s mac studio though, so I&#x27;ll give them a pass for this one.<p>Bluetooth and wifi both work, but their drivers are still buggy. I see a lot of errors in dmseg from these drivers and occasionally things stop working and require a reboot to fix.<p>GPU acceleration works, but there is still a lot of work to do on that driver.<p>External displays over the thunderbolt ports don&#x27;t work yet.<p>Other things that don&#x27;t work on the laptops: webcam, touch-id &#x2F; Secure Enclave, some miscellaneous software.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, I&#x27;ve been able to daily drive linux only on my m2 air since August. I love the hardware and the current state of Asahi meets my needs. And its been steadily improving over the course of time. But its far from &quot;work[ing] perfectly&quot; yet.</text></comment>
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<story><title>ARM64 Linux Workstation</title><url>https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/ultimate-linux-arm64-workstation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eatonphil</author><text>&gt; Is there anything that doesn’t work?<p>&gt; To quote Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 3, Line 87: “No.”<p>&gt; Everything works… and works perfectly.<p>That is impressive and really hard to believe! I guess I&#x27;ll have to find an M1 mac Mini to try myself!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nicce</author><text>Not everything will work.
Once upon time I tried to make CTF with M2 Pro, and I seriously wished that I had x86_64 Linux instead.<p>Many of the penetration testing tools are not mainstream and they include pre-build x86_64 binaries, or are configured just to not compile with ARM, for reason unknown.
And there is no time to figure out what is wrong.<p>I know this might be a niche scenario, but still...</text></comment>
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<story><title>No POST after rm -rf /</title><url>https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=207549</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Cartwright2</author><text>Reading poettering&#x27;s response (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;systemd&#x2F;systemd&#x2F;issues&#x2F;2402" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;systemd&#x2F;systemd&#x2F;issues&#x2F;2402</a>) I&#x27;m left feeling like he needs a thorough &quot;Mauro, SHUT THE F<i></i>* UP&quot; response from Linus himself (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lkml.org&#x2F;lkml&#x2F;2012&#x2F;12&#x2F;23&#x2F;75" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lkml.org&#x2F;lkml&#x2F;2012&#x2F;12&#x2F;23&#x2F;75</a>)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zanny</author><text>It is <i>not</i> a systemd bug to mount efivars read&#x2F;write. The efitools - efibootmgr et al - <i>require</i> write access to that table. By the spec, this should not brick computers.<p>The problem is not systemd, its disastrous proprietary UEFI implementations that are shipping the most insecure and awful code in the world.<p>The <i>problem</i> is we <i>cannot</i> fix this for 9233. MSI will absolutely refuse to disclose the firmware to his laptop so that he can make it so his replacement does not also brick itself. People have been treating coreboot &#x2F; libreboot like a joke for a decade, but this is exactly why those projects matter and why the continued erosion and trend towards firmware blobs and proprietary bootloaders cripples individuals control of the hardware they supposedly own.<p>Its the John Deere tractor problem, but until enough people care - I mean, enthusiasts and techies already don&#x27;t care, and we would need a popular general consumer movement to care to inspire real change - it will only get worse.<p>All the 802.11 AC wireless NICs in the Linux kernel use firmware blobs. As of Skylake, there is not a single GPU supported on x86 systems in Linux that does not use firmware blobs. Almost every Chromebook is shipping Coreboot with cancerous unauditable firmware blobs. Samsung SSDs have bricked themselves because of their proprietary firmware blobs. Its a constant endemic problem yet nobody cares to put their money where their mouth is.</text></comment>
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<story><title>No POST after rm -rf /</title><url>https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=207549</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Cartwright2</author><text>Reading poettering&#x27;s response (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;systemd&#x2F;systemd&#x2F;issues&#x2F;2402" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;systemd&#x2F;systemd&#x2F;issues&#x2F;2402</a>) I&#x27;m left feeling like he needs a thorough &quot;Mauro, SHUT THE F<i></i>* UP&quot; response from Linus himself (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lkml.org&#x2F;lkml&#x2F;2012&#x2F;12&#x2F;23&#x2F;75" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lkml.org&#x2F;lkml&#x2F;2012&#x2F;12&#x2F;23&#x2F;75</a>)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nextos</author><text>He needs one, and you shouldn&#x27;t get downvoted for saying this.<p>Systemd has brought lots of good things to Linux, but tons of bloat and insanity too. I&#x27;m quite scared because the next thing they seem to be tackling is one of the core things that makes Linux so nice, package management [1].<p>They intend to container-ize everything. While that might be in principle good (NixOS got it right), their solution is likely to end up being a mess: no control over container contents. Imagine a critical security bug on e.g. OpenSSL. Good luck patching all your dozens of unmanaged containers running different OpenSSL library instances.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;0pointer.net&#x2F;blog&#x2F;revisiting-how-we-put-together-linux-systems.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;0pointer.net&#x2F;blog&#x2F;revisiting-how-we-put-together-linu...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Ask HN: Whatever happened to Wolfram Alpha?</title><text>I did a search on comments on HN for Wolfram Alpha. Most posts are 8 years old, none newer, some older.<p>What&#x27;s going on? Did Wolfram Alpha stop being useful, or did people just forget about it?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>moron4hire</author><text>The problem is that it is usually presented as a &quot;simple&quot; solution. &quot;Just eat less. Reduce your food intake until you&#x27;re at a calorie deficit&quot;. For some people, that can mean eating three small, but satisfying meals a day. For others, it can mean eating extremely strict rations for only two meals a day, leaving the person constantly hungry and cranky. Then it becomes a will power issue, which as we all know is a function of brain energy reserves (right, we all know that, right?!). Throw in a mentally challenging job versus just phoning it in and it&#x27;s really not actionable advice.</text></item><item><author>marcinzm</author><text>&gt;This is something that actually annoys me immensely when people say &quot;you eat too much!&quot; to fat people. Two people can have the exact same diet and the exact same exercise regime, and if one assimilates particular foods more effectively they&#x27;ll be getting more calories, and put on weight. Food intake is far more complex than many people believe.<p>I don&#x27;t see why that statement is inaccurate. It&#x27;s not &quot;you eat more than me&quot; but &quot;you eat too much.&quot; As in you eat too much versus how much your body is able to burn of the calories it assimilates.</text></item><item><author>onion2k</author><text>Wolfram isn&#x27;t reporting how much protein you&#x27;ll get from eating something; it&#x27;s reporting how much there is in the bread. Protein assimilation depends on a huge range of factors, and varies significantly between individuals (based on everything from gut microbiome to health factors to how much you chew your food to your saliva production to... Well, it&#x27;s a long list). There&#x27;s no way a website could report the amount of protein <i>you</i> will get from bread. Reporting how much is in the bread makes much more sense. It&#x27;s a shame your friend didn&#x27;t explain that.<p>This is something that actually annoys me immensely when people say &quot;you eat too much!&quot; to fat people. Two people can have the <i>exact same diet</i> and the exact same exercise regime, and if one assimilates particular foods more effectively they&#x27;ll be getting more calories, and put on weight. Food intake is far more complex than many people believe.</text></item><item><author>thro1</author><text>Just asked a friend about this:<p>&gt; 1 egg, two slices whole wheat bread, one slice of cheddar, two.. <i>leaves of lettuce</i> ..<p>and he said <i>it&#x27;s wrong and useless</i> (!) - giving me examples and numbers as:<p><i>protein assimilability from bread is 40%</i> etc.<p>Is there a way to get correct answers from Wolfram regarding this ?<p>(<i>assimilability of</i> doesn&#x27;t work)<p>Edit: Excuse me, what&#x27;s wrong with you downvoters - it&#x27;s a legit question. Or is there something wrong with <i>assimilability</i>?
Are you happy being off with your answers by 60% - or jealous that a human can have better answers?</text></item><item><author>onedognight</author><text>I use it regularly. Sometimes it’s broken, and maybe nobody notices but me? :)<p>Their natural language queries for things that I know they know about are amazing. Here are some that I have used recently. You really need to see these results to appreciate them.<p>I wanted to know how tall my daughter might be.<p><pre><code> 8 year old female 55 lbs
</code></pre>
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wolframalpha.com&#x2F;input&#x2F;?i=8%20year%20old%20female%2055%20lbs" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wolframalpha.com&#x2F;input&#x2F;?i=8%20year%20old%20female...</a><p>I wanted to know the nutrition content of an egg sandwich.<p><pre><code> 1 egg, two slices whole wheat bread, one slice of cheddar, two pieces of bacon
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<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wolframalpha.com&#x2F;input&#x2F;?i=1%20egg%2C%20two%20slices%20whole%20wheat%20bread%2C%20one%20slice%20of%20cheddar%2C%20two%20pieces%20of%20bacon" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wolframalpha.com&#x2F;input&#x2F;?i=1%20egg%2C%20two%20slic...</a><p>I was curious about the relative usage of two names over time.<p><pre><code> Michael, Henry
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<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wolframalpha.com&#x2F;input&#x2F;?i=Michael%2C%20Henry" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wolframalpha.com&#x2F;input&#x2F;?i=Michael%2C%20Henry</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dev_tty01</author><text>I agree that a dramatic change is very difficult and the level of difficulty varies from person to person. However, obesity is probably one of the worst long term health predictors. If it leads to diabetes, almost all outcomes get much worse. The change is worth the difficulty.<p>For me, I quantified what I was eating and simply reduced it a bit by careful tracking. I also did quite a bit of relatively low heart rate exercise and did do some shift of the calories away from carbs. I also identified some intake that was purely habit and not sustaining, like late evening snacks, and eliminated or modified those. Lost 35 pounds in a few months. It may take a while, but the math works over time. It is relatively simple, but it is not easy. I kind of turned it into a game and that helped a bit. At any rate, I wish anyone who decides to try the best of luck.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Ask HN: Whatever happened to Wolfram Alpha?</title><text>I did a search on comments on HN for Wolfram Alpha. Most posts are 8 years old, none newer, some older.<p>What&#x27;s going on? Did Wolfram Alpha stop being useful, or did people just forget about it?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>moron4hire</author><text>The problem is that it is usually presented as a &quot;simple&quot; solution. &quot;Just eat less. Reduce your food intake until you&#x27;re at a calorie deficit&quot;. For some people, that can mean eating three small, but satisfying meals a day. For others, it can mean eating extremely strict rations for only two meals a day, leaving the person constantly hungry and cranky. Then it becomes a will power issue, which as we all know is a function of brain energy reserves (right, we all know that, right?!). Throw in a mentally challenging job versus just phoning it in and it&#x27;s really not actionable advice.</text></item><item><author>marcinzm</author><text>&gt;This is something that actually annoys me immensely when people say &quot;you eat too much!&quot; to fat people. Two people can have the exact same diet and the exact same exercise regime, and if one assimilates particular foods more effectively they&#x27;ll be getting more calories, and put on weight. Food intake is far more complex than many people believe.<p>I don&#x27;t see why that statement is inaccurate. It&#x27;s not &quot;you eat more than me&quot; but &quot;you eat too much.&quot; As in you eat too much versus how much your body is able to burn of the calories it assimilates.</text></item><item><author>onion2k</author><text>Wolfram isn&#x27;t reporting how much protein you&#x27;ll get from eating something; it&#x27;s reporting how much there is in the bread. Protein assimilation depends on a huge range of factors, and varies significantly between individuals (based on everything from gut microbiome to health factors to how much you chew your food to your saliva production to... Well, it&#x27;s a long list). There&#x27;s no way a website could report the amount of protein <i>you</i> will get from bread. Reporting how much is in the bread makes much more sense. It&#x27;s a shame your friend didn&#x27;t explain that.<p>This is something that actually annoys me immensely when people say &quot;you eat too much!&quot; to fat people. Two people can have the <i>exact same diet</i> and the exact same exercise regime, and if one assimilates particular foods more effectively they&#x27;ll be getting more calories, and put on weight. Food intake is far more complex than many people believe.</text></item><item><author>thro1</author><text>Just asked a friend about this:<p>&gt; 1 egg, two slices whole wheat bread, one slice of cheddar, two.. <i>leaves of lettuce</i> ..<p>and he said <i>it&#x27;s wrong and useless</i> (!) - giving me examples and numbers as:<p><i>protein assimilability from bread is 40%</i> etc.<p>Is there a way to get correct answers from Wolfram regarding this ?<p>(<i>assimilability of</i> doesn&#x27;t work)<p>Edit: Excuse me, what&#x27;s wrong with you downvoters - it&#x27;s a legit question. Or is there something wrong with <i>assimilability</i>?
Are you happy being off with your answers by 60% - or jealous that a human can have better answers?</text></item><item><author>onedognight</author><text>I use it regularly. Sometimes it’s broken, and maybe nobody notices but me? :)<p>Their natural language queries for things that I know they know about are amazing. Here are some that I have used recently. You really need to see these results to appreciate them.<p>I wanted to know how tall my daughter might be.<p><pre><code> 8 year old female 55 lbs
</code></pre>
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wolframalpha.com&#x2F;input&#x2F;?i=8%20year%20old%20female%2055%20lbs" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wolframalpha.com&#x2F;input&#x2F;?i=8%20year%20old%20female...</a><p>I wanted to know the nutrition content of an egg sandwich.<p><pre><code> 1 egg, two slices whole wheat bread, one slice of cheddar, two pieces of bacon
</code></pre>
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wolframalpha.com&#x2F;input&#x2F;?i=1%20egg%2C%20two%20slices%20whole%20wheat%20bread%2C%20one%20slice%20of%20cheddar%2C%20two%20pieces%20of%20bacon" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wolframalpha.com&#x2F;input&#x2F;?i=1%20egg%2C%20two%20slic...</a><p>I was curious about the relative usage of two names over time.<p><pre><code> Michael, Henry
</code></pre>
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wolframalpha.com&#x2F;input&#x2F;?i=Michael%2C%20Henry" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wolframalpha.com&#x2F;input&#x2F;?i=Michael%2C%20Henry</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Invictus0</author><text>It&#x27;s a willpower issue for 3 days, the time it takes for your stomach and appetite to readjust to a lower volume of food intake. Anyone who&#x27;s fasted knows how easy skipping meals is--it&#x27;s certainly not the agonizing test of willpower you and many nonfasters seem to think it is.<p>And by the way, if diet and exercise are not the path to weight loss, then what is?</text></comment>
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<story><title>New Relic changes business model, open-sources agents and instrumentation</title><url>https://thenewstack.io/new-relic-changes-business-model-open-sources-agents-and-instrumentation/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bearjaws</author><text>I love NewRelic, but their pricing always baffled me.<p>When we added it to our QA, UAT, and Staging envs, they started wanting to bill us as if we had 3x as many &quot;production&quot; environments. I had to explain on a call that it doesn&#x27;t make sense that environments that get .0001% of the production traffic are billed at the exact same price. Basically punishing us for having a more mature SDLC.<p>We also run our infrastructure with redundancy, so we got billed for every region &amp; availability zone, they wanted it to be crazy expensive.<p>I&#x27;m curious how this changes things, the new &quot;pro&quot; pricing is not available sadly :(</text></comment>
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<story><title>New Relic changes business model, open-sources agents and instrumentation</title><url>https://thenewstack.io/new-relic-changes-business-model-open-sources-agents-and-instrumentation/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>schmichael</author><text>&gt; In what New Relic executives described as adjusting to a “sea change” in open source adoption<p>Am I missing something or did this statement strike anyone else as wildly bizarre?<p>I feel like open source has been the default for the client side agents and libraries of SaaS products for 10 years. Microsoft, once the strongest opponent of open source, changed its tune like 5+ years ago. What could possibly be the “sea change” this executive is referring to?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Iron Ring</title><url>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johlindenbaum</author><text>Sort of relevant: In Canada the word "Engineer" is protected. While I am a Computer Scientist, I can not call myself a Software Engineer (or any form of Engineer), unlike in the US. In Canada you must have graduated from an Engineering College of a University to use the title.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yurisagalov</author><text>I actually don't think that's strictly true. Although there might be a stigma associated with calling yourself an Engineer if you didn't go through an Engineering program, it is only illegal to call yourself a <i>Professional Engineer</i> if you're not properly licensed.<p>Graduating from an Engineering degree (and/or receiving an Iron Ring) has no real legal protection or obligation. The licensing requirements to become a Professional Engineer (or P. Eng) are as follows:<p><pre><code> * Graduate with a degree from an accredited program in engineering or applied science, accredited by the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB).
* Complete an Engineer in Training or "Engineering Internship" program under the direction of a P.Eng. (This is a minimum four-year program with the exception of Quebec)
* Review of work experience by the Association,
* Pass a Professional Practice Exam(content and format of which differs by province).
</code></pre>
source: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_and_licensure_in_engineering#Canada" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_and_licensure_in_en...</a><p>edit: based on the "Title Usage: Canada" section in the same article, it does look like there were lawsuits and attempts to try and restrict the usage of the word Engineer, but it seems results were mixed at best, and vary widely from province to province, so I'll stand by my point that the only actual protected term is <i>Professional Engineer</i></text></comment>
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<story><title>Iron Ring</title><url>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johlindenbaum</author><text>Sort of relevant: In Canada the word "Engineer" is protected. While I am a Computer Scientist, I can not call myself a Software Engineer (or any form of Engineer), unlike in the US. In Canada you must have graduated from an Engineering College of a University to use the title.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>binarymax</author><text>I was at a networking event once, and handed a gentleman my business card. My title listed on the card was 'Software Architect'. He himself was an actual Architect (who designs physical structures), and he became upset and claimed I had absolutely no right to that title. I had never given it much thought until that point, but some folks are very protective over that sort of thing.</text></comment>
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<story><title>They can and will ruin everything you love</title><url>https://www.welcometohellworld.com/they-can-and-will-ruin-everything-you-love/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jbm</author><text>I try not to comment on stuff like this but I&#x27;m going to make a one-time exception.<p>Ask Gen-Xers, specifically those who are not over-consuming news media and the harmful generalist social media (Reddit&#x27;s default subs, Twitter&#x27;s political echo chambers). My life is way, way better now than it was prior to the internet, Google and half a dozen other services.<p>Even HN&#x27;s favourite boogieman Facebook provided me with insane value. For example:<p>- While I lived abroad, it provided an easy, passive way for me to keep in touch with my family. Compare that to my parents&#x27; desperate 10 dollars per minute phone calls in the 1980s<p>- I met friends through Facebook advertising for a boardgaming group (that I also ran on Facebook.) I met people from way, way more backgrounds than otherwise possible<p>- I can <i>passively</i> keep in touch with friends and easily get in touch if I&#x27;m in the same area.<p>People &quot;struggle&quot; to find &quot;long term value&quot; because that&#x27;s ironically the meta for upvotes on the contrarian SV Internet right now and we internalize those values far too easily. Rest assured, value exists for most, if not all.</text></item><item><author>underbluewaters</author><text>I struggle to think of any institutions the VC&#x2F;tech&#x2F;internet era has produced with any long-term value. My assumption is that these companies go through a cyclical pattern of providing value and then destroying it once successful. That timescale also seems to be getting shorter.<p>Any going against that trend?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dleslie</author><text>One that seems incredibly important to many:<p>Small towns are no longer truly isolating. If you&#x27;re an outsider, for whatever reason, in a small town it&#x27;s no longer a sentence for loneliness, harassment and abuse. You will likely still experience harassment and abuse, but there is bound to be a community online that you can connect to in order to overcome loneliness.</text></comment>
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<story><title>They can and will ruin everything you love</title><url>https://www.welcometohellworld.com/they-can-and-will-ruin-everything-you-love/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jbm</author><text>I try not to comment on stuff like this but I&#x27;m going to make a one-time exception.<p>Ask Gen-Xers, specifically those who are not over-consuming news media and the harmful generalist social media (Reddit&#x27;s default subs, Twitter&#x27;s political echo chambers). My life is way, way better now than it was prior to the internet, Google and half a dozen other services.<p>Even HN&#x27;s favourite boogieman Facebook provided me with insane value. For example:<p>- While I lived abroad, it provided an easy, passive way for me to keep in touch with my family. Compare that to my parents&#x27; desperate 10 dollars per minute phone calls in the 1980s<p>- I met friends through Facebook advertising for a boardgaming group (that I also ran on Facebook.) I met people from way, way more backgrounds than otherwise possible<p>- I can <i>passively</i> keep in touch with friends and easily get in touch if I&#x27;m in the same area.<p>People &quot;struggle&quot; to find &quot;long term value&quot; because that&#x27;s ironically the meta for upvotes on the contrarian SV Internet right now and we internalize those values far too easily. Rest assured, value exists for most, if not all.</text></item><item><author>underbluewaters</author><text>I struggle to think of any institutions the VC&#x2F;tech&#x2F;internet era has produced with any long-term value. My assumption is that these companies go through a cyclical pattern of providing value and then destroying it once successful. That timescale also seems to be getting shorter.<p>Any going against that trend?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Capricorn2481</author><text>I&#x27;ve been alive way before facebook and I can think of a number of ways they have made my life worse, not better. It&#x27;s up to personal preference whether the trade-off is worth it, but to argue that facebook is a boogieman of ignorant people is really lame.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Retired detective: We got it wrong in Robert Roberson's death penalty case</title><url>https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2024/05/23/retired-detective-we-got-it-wrong-in-robert-robersons-death-penalty-case/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edm0nd</author><text>I think we need to find another way or some kind of middle solution.<p>Like in the situation where everyone knows this person did crime X or Y (for example lets say murdered several children) we can just immediately execute them via hanging or firing squad (quickly) instead of letting them sit in prison for a decade+ while we &quot;wait&quot; on their lethal injection nonsense to go down.<p>The tricky part is having a fool proof system where we only execute people where the evidence is 100% and then perhaps multiple independent review panels also agree all evidence points to yeah they did it or the criminal themselves admits to the crimes.<p>Some kind of system where everyone executed has been universally agreed upon as guilty.<p>A sentence of death should be swift, agreed upon by all, and not a criminal spending decades in prison wasting tax payers money.</text></item><item><author>neallindsay</author><text>The death penalty should be abolished. You don&#x27;t get sentenced to death for harming others, you get sentenced to death for being unsympathetic to the jury (because of racism or, as in this case, because you don&#x27;t appear to exhibit the right emotions) and for not having enough money to afford a good lawyer.<p>You can die from being poor in a bunch of different ways in this country, but this is one we could easily eliminate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CreateAccount50</author><text>Virtually Western democracies support death penalty besides the US and Japan. It literally puts us in a lot with the countries. We consider it to be backwards (Iran, Saudi Arabia, Russia).<p>I don&#x27;t think Americans sometimes realize how radical of an outlier we are to the rest of the world on this and many other issues, including probably most notably, basic social policy.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Retired detective: We got it wrong in Robert Roberson's death penalty case</title><url>https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2024/05/23/retired-detective-we-got-it-wrong-in-robert-robersons-death-penalty-case/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edm0nd</author><text>I think we need to find another way or some kind of middle solution.<p>Like in the situation where everyone knows this person did crime X or Y (for example lets say murdered several children) we can just immediately execute them via hanging or firing squad (quickly) instead of letting them sit in prison for a decade+ while we &quot;wait&quot; on their lethal injection nonsense to go down.<p>The tricky part is having a fool proof system where we only execute people where the evidence is 100% and then perhaps multiple independent review panels also agree all evidence points to yeah they did it or the criminal themselves admits to the crimes.<p>Some kind of system where everyone executed has been universally agreed upon as guilty.<p>A sentence of death should be swift, agreed upon by all, and not a criminal spending decades in prison wasting tax payers money.</text></item><item><author>neallindsay</author><text>The death penalty should be abolished. You don&#x27;t get sentenced to death for harming others, you get sentenced to death for being unsympathetic to the jury (because of racism or, as in this case, because you don&#x27;t appear to exhibit the right emotions) and for not having enough money to afford a good lawyer.<p>You can die from being poor in a bunch of different ways in this country, but this is one we could easily eliminate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nathanba</author><text>Yes, the only real argument against the 100% cases that I&#x27;ve ever heard is that there would be fewer people admitting to murder if they knew that they would be killed. But I think this shouldn&#x27;t bother us, so what if fewer people confess? I think most confessions are already only done when they see themselves having no other choice than admitting what they did.
Also we are talking about the 100% cases, people who e.g publically shot someone or are so mentally ill or stupid that they confess anyway where by definition we might not even need to wait for a confession.<p>I think most people who are against the death penalty are not fully honest with their opposition, consciously or subconsciously. Outwardly they say that they oppose it due to the danger of innocents being hurt. But inwardly I suspect a far less well intentioned reason because we see an indication for this in the release of murderers from prison after only ~15 years sometimes. What genuinely moral person would ever support the release of a murderer? But see, if we don&#x27;t execute murderers immediately it starts a whole process in humans. They see the suffering of the murderer in prison and they feel bad. It&#x27;s automatic, they can&#x27;t turn it off. This the kind of automatic biological pity when you see someone suffering which is not a good kind of pity in this case. This person murdered another human being, his life should be forfeit. But then an even sicker consideration starts coming into play: The humans who see this other human (murderer) suffering say: Well, this is a waste! This too is inevitable thinking in humans. We see a human being who seems to behave well now, in a cage, and seems to be nice and you can talk normally to them over topics like the weather and family and suddenly the thought comes that this is an economic waste. Then society suddenly has a big, daily economic incentive to release him. This is why I support the death penalty to be carried out immediately, we cannot trust people to be objective about pain and suffering, especially not decades after the committed murder when the wounds aren&#x27;t fresh anymore. But the victim cannot talk and plead for justice.</text></comment>
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<story><title>My favorite Erlang Program (2013)</title><url>http://joearms.github.io/2013/11/21/My-favorite-erlang-program.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lostcolony</author><text>What I found interesting (or very, very boring, depending on how you think about it) about this when I first saw it is that this ability is just due to the nature of how receive works. That is, you can receive any kind of message, at any time. Want to listen to a different set of messages? Just call a different receive clause, be that in a different function, or inline.<p>I remember having a coworker who was in love with Akka. He was trying to sell everyone on it, despite my team&#x27;s having a strong Erlang presence. He showed us Akka&#x27;s &quot;become&quot;, talking about how powerful that could be, and how Erlang didn&#x27;t have anything comparable. He didn&#x27;t seem to realize that Akka&#x27;s needing a special keyword for it was actually a limitation rather than a feature, that Erlang didn&#x27;t have a special keyword to allow you to do it because it didn&#x27;t -need- a special keyword to allow you to do it. That&#x27;s not a dig at Akka, or Scala (it&#x27;s an impressive language in its own right), but rather to point out how sometimes we miss the complex capabilities a simple set of abstractions can give us.</text></comment>
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<story><title>My favorite Erlang Program (2013)</title><url>http://joearms.github.io/2013/11/21/My-favorite-erlang-program.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>_asummers</author><text>We&#x27;ve been experimenting with Elixir at work, and it&#x27;s been really cool to drop down into the Erlang ecosystem and see how people think when they&#x27;re designing OTP programs, especially when it comes to things like Riak and Mnesia and those sorts of things. My only complaints about this ecosystem is that everything feels scattered in specific places (I&#x27;ve had to read a lot of books, versus being able to read tutorials) and that it&#x27;s very hard to tell an abandoned project from a feature complete project on GitHub. You can generally look at downloads in the Hex package manager for a rough idea of popularity, but then again build servers can inflate unpopular packages. Someone in the Elixir slack joked to me &quot;75 stars? That&#x27;s super popular for Erlang!&quot;. I can deal with it, but I wish it weren&#x27;t so.<p>All that said, I think I&#x27;m going to stick around with these languages. Everything feels very well designed and battle ready, in stark contrast to using JS. Elixir also seems to remove a lot of the cruft and awkward syntax of Erlang, and having Lisp-style macros makes the GenServer boilerplate go away entirely.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Court upholds New York law that says ISPs must offer $15 broadband</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/court-upholds-new-york-law-that-says-isps-must-offer-15-broadband/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>singlow</author><text>I think the logic here is that the government has already subsidized them by granting privileges to use public infrastrucure that was built with tax dollars. There can only be so many wires running on the poles or under the streets so in return for that privilege, you have to provide this in return.</text></item><item><author>infecto</author><text>Serious question here. Is this law more or less stating that the business gets no revenue back from local or state government? I have no issue with the argument that internet service is a basic right but if that is the case, I would expect the government to either offer the service or pay a market&#x2F;agreed price to cover the cost for low income users.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hughesjj</author><text>Not even granting public infra, we straight up paid BILLIONS for them to expand broadband coverage and the ISP&#x27;s didn&#x27;t do jack most of the time<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.huffpost.com&#x2F;entry&#x2F;verizon-pennsylvanias-com_b_7532008" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.huffpost.com&#x2F;entry&#x2F;verizon-pennsylvanias-com_b_7...</a><p>&gt; By the end of 2003, Teletruth estimates that every household in Pennsylvania has paid in excess of $1,135.00 for a fiber optic service they will never get. Teletruth estimates that the total overcharging to be $3.9 billion or more in excess profits, tax deductions, and other financial perks, including funding other business ventures through cross-subsidization.<p>And it&#x27;s far from just PA<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;newnetworks.com&#x2F;bookbrokenpromises&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;newnetworks.com&#x2F;bookbrokenpromises&#x2F;</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Court upholds New York law that says ISPs must offer $15 broadband</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/court-upholds-new-york-law-that-says-isps-must-offer-15-broadband/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>singlow</author><text>I think the logic here is that the government has already subsidized them by granting privileges to use public infrastrucure that was built with tax dollars. There can only be so many wires running on the poles or under the streets so in return for that privilege, you have to provide this in return.</text></item><item><author>infecto</author><text>Serious question here. Is this law more or less stating that the business gets no revenue back from local or state government? I have no issue with the argument that internet service is a basic right but if that is the case, I would expect the government to either offer the service or pay a market&#x2F;agreed price to cover the cost for low income users.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>legitster</author><text>Governments already charge ISPs to use said infrastructure:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fcc.gov&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;ad-hoc-commitee-survey-04242018.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fcc.gov&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;ad-hoc-commitee-surv...</a><p>So for those poles running down the street in front of your house, ISPs are already paying ~$20 per pole per year. Places like NYC probably also take a cut of the revenue on top. In some regions, this is the primary gatekeeper against competition!<p>It&#x27;s really hard to argue that this is a subsidy - if anything it&#x27;s the municipalities using the power of their natural monopoly.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Book Review: The Body Keeps the Score</title><url>https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/11/12/book-review-the-body-keeps-the-score/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>imgabe</author><text>&gt; First, I think van der Kolk downplays the importance of the APA’s philosophical commitment to categorizing by symptoms rather than cause. Consider four patients, Alice, Bob, Carol, and Dan. Alice has poor concentration caused by child abuse. Bob has poor concentration caused by bad genes. Carol throws tantrums because child abuse. Dan throws tantrums because bad genes. The current DSM would categorize Alice and Bob as ADHD, and Carol and Dan as intermittent explosive disorder. Van der Kolk would like to classify Alice and Carol as having Developmental Trauma Disorder, and Bob and Dan as…I don’t know. Bad Gene Disorder? Seems sketchy. When the APA decides not to do that, they’re not necessarily rejecting the seriousness of child abuse, only saying it’s not the kind of thing they build their categories around.<p>This seems like a problem with the APA. Why would they categorize around symptoms? The same symptoms can have different root causes and would then require different treatments. So doesn&#x27;t it make sense to categorize around root causes?<p>The rest of medicine seems to be more concerned with causes. A sore throat might be a cold, or it might be cancer. Obviously they require different treatments, so they don&#x27;t lump them all into &quot;sore throat&quot; and do the same thing every time there&#x27;s a sore throat.<p>Likewise if someone exhibits the symptom of ADHD and the cause is &quot;Bad Genes&quot; but you&#x27;re trying to treat them for non-existent trauma, it doesn&#x27;t seem like it&#x27;s going to be effective.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Book Review: The Body Keeps the Score</title><url>https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/11/12/book-review-the-body-keeps-the-score/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jacek</author><text>Another summary of the book that was discussed on HN three weeks ago: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;praxis.fortelabs.co&#x2F;the-body-keeps-the-score-summary&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;praxis.fortelabs.co&#x2F;the-body-keeps-the-score-summary...</a><p>Discussion: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21340636" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21340636</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Meta Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2022 Results</title><url>https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/2023/Meta-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-2022-Results/default.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ra7</author><text>$40B increase to their buyback program.<p>Edit: Actually meant <i>announcement</i> of an increase to buyback program, not that they&#x27;ve already done it.</text></item><item><author>MuffinFlavored</author><text>what&#x27;s the main reason for this?</text></item><item><author>jihadjihad</author><text>Net income down ~40% YoY ouch. Stock is up though!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gen220</author><text>Hrm, no. The $40bn they announced is forward-looking guidance for 2023. In 2022 they repurchased $28bn (2021 they repurchased $44bn) [1].<p>Not sure that I&#x27;d call this &quot;admitting defeat on growth&quot; as other people have said elsewhere in this thread, given that they&#x27;ve done buybacks of this magnitude before.<p>The main issue, it seems, is that they grew expenditures on cost of revenue and R&amp;D (i.e. operations and capex), but revenue (advertising from family of apps, whatever revenue VR yields) did not keep pace -- in fact, it was flat on a YoY basis [2].<p>IMO, this doc is strong evidence that the layoffs were a bona fide good idea. Will be interesting to compare to Alphabet&#x27;s tomorrow.<p>[1]: see the cash flow statement on page 8, the search term is &quot;Repurchase&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;s21.q4cdn.com&#x2F;399680738&#x2F;files&#x2F;doc_financials&#x2F;2022&#x2F;q4&#x2F;Meta-12.31.2022-Exhibit-99.1-FINAL.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;s21.q4cdn.com&#x2F;399680738&#x2F;files&#x2F;doc_financials&#x2F;2022&#x2F;q4...</a><p>[2]: revenue and income figures are broken out on page 10. costs of revenue&#x2F;r&amp;d figures on page 6.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Meta Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2022 Results</title><url>https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/2023/Meta-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-2022-Results/default.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ra7</author><text>$40B increase to their buyback program.<p>Edit: Actually meant <i>announcement</i> of an increase to buyback program, not that they&#x27;ve already done it.</text></item><item><author>MuffinFlavored</author><text>what&#x27;s the main reason for this?</text></item><item><author>jihadjihad</author><text>Net income down ~40% YoY ouch. Stock is up though!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ojbyrne</author><text>I don’t think that’s correct. They announced a future increase of $40 billion. And I don’t think share repurchases affects net income anyway.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Betelgeuse Remains Steadfast in the Infrared</title><url>http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=13518</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>petschge</author><text>Have a look at the plot [1] from the excellent plotting tool [2] of the American Association of Variable star observers [3]. You see a strong dip in the U band (U for UV, 365 nm plus or minus 66 nm), B band (B for blue, 445 nm \pm 94 nm) and V band (V for visible, 551 nm \pm 88 nm). But in infrared (only the J band had enough data to make it worth plotting) at 1.22 micro (plus or minus 212 nm) the light curve is really flat.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imagebin.ca&#x2F;v&#x2F;5DhzHxxS3Eq2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imagebin.ca&#x2F;v&#x2F;5DhzHxxS3Eq2</a>
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<story><title>Betelgeuse Remains Steadfast in the Infrared</title><url>http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=13518</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Jun8</author><text>From the abstract:<p>&quot;This suggests that the recent dramatic fading observed at visual wavelengths is due mostly to local surface phenomena, such as changes in dust extinction or molecular opacity along the line of sight through the inner wind and complex atmosphere, and&#x2F;or surface temperature fluctuations.&quot;</text></comment>
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<story><title>Einstein went to his office just so he could walk home with Gödel</title><url>https://www.futilitycloset.com/2024/05/31/footwork-10/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CodeCompost</author><text>Things like this is the reason I don&#x27;t work from home. Those little moments of contact.</text></item><item><author>120bits</author><text>During my early days in my tech career. I joined a small tech firm that did linux kernel programming and embedded stuff. It was my first job out of college and I was really excited. My mentor was a 50+ guy whom I walked everyday from work to back my home. It didn&#x27;t started out like that, we would leave work around different times and one day it was raining, so we waited and then it became sort of habit. I learned so much about programming and life in general. Made me a better programmer for sure. I&#x27;m always grateful!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattacular</author><text>With remote, everything has to be highly intentional. Schedule a meeting means having a pre-defined time, often there is a specific topic of conversation in mind, people diligently stick to that topic as much as possible to respect everyone&#x27;s calendar etc. Collaboration tends to play out within these extremely narrow parameters that are unnatural to hundreds of years of human social development. It doesn&#x27;t help that the best substitute - video conferencing - still strips a lot of crucial information that you&#x27;re used to getting in person for modulating conversation (eg. ability to scan body language and facial expressions of people in the room as you talk) and find moments to interject.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Einstein went to his office just so he could walk home with Gödel</title><url>https://www.futilitycloset.com/2024/05/31/footwork-10/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CodeCompost</author><text>Things like this is the reason I don&#x27;t work from home. Those little moments of contact.</text></item><item><author>120bits</author><text>During my early days in my tech career. I joined a small tech firm that did linux kernel programming and embedded stuff. It was my first job out of college and I was really excited. My mentor was a 50+ guy whom I walked everyday from work to back my home. It didn&#x27;t started out like that, we would leave work around different times and one day it was raining, so we waited and then it became sort of habit. I learned so much about programming and life in general. Made me a better programmer for sure. I&#x27;m always grateful!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>khazhoux</author><text>I like WFH. My company allows unrestricted WFH.<p>But lately I&#x27;ve been going into office and the throughput of technical discussions is just an order of magnitude higher than in video calls or over Slack.<p>I wish this wasn&#x27;t the case.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Poll: Hacker News (Myers-Briggs) Personality Types</title><text>What is your Myers-Briggs personality type?<p>If you don’t know you can find out at http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp or on Facebook at http://apps.facebook.com/my-type/.<p>For info on the types, check out profiles at http://www.personalitypage.com/portraits.html and http://typelogic.com/<p>I am interested to see how much we differ from the average population. The average #s appear in parenthesis after the choices, and were copied from http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/stats.htm<p>Obviously only choose one type. (And none of the links above are associated with me in any way aside from the fact that I just copied and pasted them.)</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>sah</author><text>It's instructive to read the prose about all of the types this test partitions people into. Do it before you see your results. Can you pick the one that describes you ahead of time?<p>They're all flattering and describe experiences that I think most humans have at some point. The sense that something written for a very broad audience applies specifically to you can be deceiving. That's part of why horoscopes are popular.<p>I came out as an ENTP this time (I've scored as an INTP and INFP in the past) but the profile for ISFP also describes characteristics I'd like to think I have.<p>I'm suspicious of things like personality sorters. This one takes the more continuous and multifaceted range of human personality and quantizes it into four binary dimensions. Even assuming those categories represent some kind of tendency for human personalities to cluster around certain traits, are sorters like this helpful? Do they provide some genuine insight you didn't have before? Or are they just a more sophisticated variety of horoscope?<p>You answer a bunch of vague and general questions, and get a vague and general answer. Your input is 72 bits, and the output is only 4 bits. Were those 4 bits really such a mystery to begin with? Would the results be different if the test just briefly described both categories for each dimension, and had you pick the one that sounded more like you?<p>If you can pick your personality out beforehand by reading short descriptions of the personality types, what was the point of answering 72 questions? If you can't, are you still willing to accept that your type really describes you?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JesseAldridge</author><text>Well the questions can help you reflect on yourself as well as people in general.<p>Also, the fact that the responses to this poll skew massively toward INTP/INTJ tells you <i>something</i> doesn't it?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Poll: Hacker News (Myers-Briggs) Personality Types</title><text>What is your Myers-Briggs personality type?<p>If you don’t know you can find out at http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp or on Facebook at http://apps.facebook.com/my-type/.<p>For info on the types, check out profiles at http://www.personalitypage.com/portraits.html and http://typelogic.com/<p>I am interested to see how much we differ from the average population. The average #s appear in parenthesis after the choices, and were copied from http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/stats.htm<p>Obviously only choose one type. (And none of the links above are associated with me in any way aside from the fact that I just copied and pasted them.)</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>sah</author><text>It's instructive to read the prose about all of the types this test partitions people into. Do it before you see your results. Can you pick the one that describes you ahead of time?<p>They're all flattering and describe experiences that I think most humans have at some point. The sense that something written for a very broad audience applies specifically to you can be deceiving. That's part of why horoscopes are popular.<p>I came out as an ENTP this time (I've scored as an INTP and INFP in the past) but the profile for ISFP also describes characteristics I'd like to think I have.<p>I'm suspicious of things like personality sorters. This one takes the more continuous and multifaceted range of human personality and quantizes it into four binary dimensions. Even assuming those categories represent some kind of tendency for human personalities to cluster around certain traits, are sorters like this helpful? Do they provide some genuine insight you didn't have before? Or are they just a more sophisticated variety of horoscope?<p>You answer a bunch of vague and general questions, and get a vague and general answer. Your input is 72 bits, and the output is only 4 bits. Were those 4 bits really such a mystery to begin with? Would the results be different if the test just briefly described both categories for each dimension, and had you pick the one that sounded more like you?<p>If you can pick your personality out beforehand by reading short descriptions of the personality types, what was the point of answering 72 questions? If you can't, are you still willing to accept that your type really describes you?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dkokelley</author><text>I once took a similar, but much simpler test consisting of choleric, melancholic, sanguine and phlegmatic, and scored near evenly in each category.<p>I was told that it was because I was a super-rare type of person, who was essentially capable of exhibiting whichever type of personality suited me at the time.<p>I think it was because I gamed the test.<p>While I can see the value in attempting to define the traits of certain people, I don't think that a set 4, 16, or even 200 categories will help you understand someone as well as spending a week with them will.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Transparenttextures.com</title><url>https://www.transparenttextures.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikehearn</author><text>It&#x27;s extremely weird to see this site on HN! I built this site in 2014 -- and haven&#x27;t touched it since. I wasn&#x27;t a developer then, I was a product manager, and this was a &quot;look, hiring managers, I can build things&quot; side project (it worked, I&#x27;ve been a dev since 2016).<p>Despite being about 40% broken I keep the site up because it&#x27;s still reasonably functional and there are a surprising amount of sites that now depend on having hotlinked the patterns directly from this domain. If it ever degrades to the point of being actively dangerous (and the attribution link rot is pretty close), I&#x27;ll shut it down. Until then, it&#x27;s a fun relic from the internet of a decade ago.<p>Just to answer a question upthread (and I 100% agree this should be on the website), the patterns are all CC-BY-3.0, meaning it just requires attribution and any pattern can be used for free.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dspillett</author><text><i>&gt; If it ever degrades to the point of being actively dangerous (and the attribution link rot is pretty close), I&#x27;ll shut it down.</i><p>If you do shut it down, and safety is a concern, I would keep the domain going for a while with an “it is all gone…” message, otherwise as soon as it expires it&#x27;ll be replaced by something less safe. Usually this will be a standard “domain for sale” page with a pile of trackers, but as this domain has hit the front page of HN today I expect several bots have just scraped the content so if they get the domain they can shove it back up with ads &amp; trackers.<p>Or if you want it to survive but don&#x27;t have time to clean up the rot, maybe do as someone else suggested and put in on GitHub, so others can fork &amp; fix it, and replace the site at the current domain with a link to that so anyone following a link to the current domain can find the remnants and any forks. And if a particularly well maintained fork does turn up, perhaps link directly to that too.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Transparenttextures.com</title><url>https://www.transparenttextures.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikehearn</author><text>It&#x27;s extremely weird to see this site on HN! I built this site in 2014 -- and haven&#x27;t touched it since. I wasn&#x27;t a developer then, I was a product manager, and this was a &quot;look, hiring managers, I can build things&quot; side project (it worked, I&#x27;ve been a dev since 2016).<p>Despite being about 40% broken I keep the site up because it&#x27;s still reasonably functional and there are a surprising amount of sites that now depend on having hotlinked the patterns directly from this domain. If it ever degrades to the point of being actively dangerous (and the attribution link rot is pretty close), I&#x27;ll shut it down. Until then, it&#x27;s a fun relic from the internet of a decade ago.<p>Just to answer a question upthread (and I 100% agree this should be on the website), the patterns are all CC-BY-3.0, meaning it just requires attribution and any pattern can be used for free.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>codetrotter</author><text>&gt; If it ever degrades to the point of being actively dangerous (and the attribution link rot is pretty close), I&#x27;ll shut it down.<p>To avoid the problem of linked domains leading to malware or things like that, you might consider linking to archived snapshots on Wayback Machine of the links instead of the real pages, for those sites that are now no longer hosting what they used to.</text></comment>
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<story><title>In Defense of the Modern Web</title><url>https://dev.to/richharris/in-defense-of-the-modern-web-2nia</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rich_harris</author><text>&quot;If you remove some of the data, the data tells a different story&quot;</text></item><item><author>ss3000</author><text>If they dived deeper into the usage patterns and broke down app usage by specific apps, I&#x27;d suspect a vast majority of that time is spent in a tiny handful of popular apps, since there are also countless studies pointing to the fact that consumers don&#x27;t install more than a handful of native apps.<p>If you remove time spent in those popular apps and their respective websites from the stats, the data would likely paint a vastly different story (that might not be in the best interest for a site that relies on pushing &quot;Launching mobile apps for your WordPress site&quot; to highlight ofc).</text></item><item><author>rich_harris</author><text>&gt; your 10k npm dependencies<p>Believe me, you&#x27;re preaching to the choir. Nor am I advocating for every website to have an API. But unfortunately we part ways here:<p>&gt; The web is a success<p>The web is <i>not</i> a success. It&#x27;s dying. Consumers vastly prefer native apps — one recent study (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mobiloud.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;mobile-apps-vs-the-mobile-web&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mobiloud.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;mobile-apps-vs-the-mobile-web&#x2F;</a>) tells us that 90% of mobile time is spent in apps vs 10% in browsers.</text></item><item><author>grey-area</author><text>This author seems to think the only competitor to react is other js frameworks, when in fact most of the web&#x27;s largest sites work just fine with small amounts of what he calls &#x27;artisanal js&#x27;.<p>You probably don&#x27;t need your js framework, your 10k npm dependencies, or your complex mix of server and client side rendering. Not every website needs an api and clients to consume it, and not everything needs to be an app.<p>The web is a success because it is simple, accessible, fast, and nobody cares how the server makes the html they are reading. Let&#x27;s keep it that way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acdha</author><text>Alternately, “If you don’t assume that all usage is fungible, the data tells a different story”. There are a few apps - music&#x2F;movies&#x2F;ebooks and Facebook - which get a disproportionately large amount of activity. If you’re not competing with them, the global numbers are going to be skewed.<p>This is especially true when you think about tasks rather than screen time. If I’m Facebook or Spotify selling ads, I want people glued to the app for a long time. If I’m selling things, giving information or customer service, etc. the story is completely different: someone placing an order faster is actually a win.<p>EDIT: My experience is colored by being in the cultural heritage space where the flurry of “we’re in the App Store!!!” entries met the hard reality of every engagement metric being much lower than web sites. There is huge variation hidden in global averages.</text></comment>
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<story><title>In Defense of the Modern Web</title><url>https://dev.to/richharris/in-defense-of-the-modern-web-2nia</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rich_harris</author><text>&quot;If you remove some of the data, the data tells a different story&quot;</text></item><item><author>ss3000</author><text>If they dived deeper into the usage patterns and broke down app usage by specific apps, I&#x27;d suspect a vast majority of that time is spent in a tiny handful of popular apps, since there are also countless studies pointing to the fact that consumers don&#x27;t install more than a handful of native apps.<p>If you remove time spent in those popular apps and their respective websites from the stats, the data would likely paint a vastly different story (that might not be in the best interest for a site that relies on pushing &quot;Launching mobile apps for your WordPress site&quot; to highlight ofc).</text></item><item><author>rich_harris</author><text>&gt; your 10k npm dependencies<p>Believe me, you&#x27;re preaching to the choir. Nor am I advocating for every website to have an API. But unfortunately we part ways here:<p>&gt; The web is a success<p>The web is <i>not</i> a success. It&#x27;s dying. Consumers vastly prefer native apps — one recent study (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mobiloud.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;mobile-apps-vs-the-mobile-web&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mobiloud.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;mobile-apps-vs-the-mobile-web&#x2F;</a>) tells us that 90% of mobile time is spent in apps vs 10% in browsers.</text></item><item><author>grey-area</author><text>This author seems to think the only competitor to react is other js frameworks, when in fact most of the web&#x27;s largest sites work just fine with small amounts of what he calls &#x27;artisanal js&#x27;.<p>You probably don&#x27;t need your js framework, your 10k npm dependencies, or your complex mix of server and client side rendering. Not every website needs an api and clients to consume it, and not everything needs to be an app.<p>The web is a success because it is simple, accessible, fast, and nobody cares how the server makes the html they are reading. Let&#x27;s keep it that way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brlewis</author><text>Wait, are you saying that &quot;90% of mobile time is spent in apps vs 10% in browsers&quot; tells the story that &quot;consumers vastly prefer native apps&quot;? I don&#x27;t think the connection is that strong.<p>Taking myself as an example, I may spend 90% of my time on my cell phone using the Messages app, the Phone app and a handful of apps that I installed a long time ago, but I&#x27;m <i>much</i> more likely to try out a new web app than I am to try out a new native app. Looking at my phone now, I see exactly one native app that I installed in 2020.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Breakdown of faults by car brand: Tesla has replaced Dacia at the bottom</title><url>https://www.tuvsud.com/en/press-and-media/2023/november/regular-servicing-makes-all-the-difference</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hmottestad</author><text>In Norway they revolutionised the car market. They were the very first electric car that people actually wanted to buy. If it hadn’t been for Tesla proving the market for electric cars, I don’t think any other brands would have bothered. So far in 2023 83% of all new cars are electric.<p>In 2022 every fourth car sold (including petrol&#x2F;diesel) was a Tesla.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;elbil.no&#x2F;om-elbil&#x2F;elbilstatistikk&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;elbil.no&#x2F;om-elbil&#x2F;elbilstatistikk&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.elbil24.no&#x2F;nyheter&#x2F;hver-fjerde-nybil-var-en-tesla&#x2F;77336639" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.elbil24.no&#x2F;nyheter&#x2F;hver-fjerde-nybil-var-en-tesl...</a></text></item><item><author>bayindirh</author><text>&gt; they change the world. For the better.<p>That&#x27;s up for a through debate, but not today. Let&#x27;s leave it at I don&#x27;t agree that part 100%.</text></item><item><author>nickpp</author><text>&gt; They move fast and break things.<p>You forgot the third: they (Silicon Valley) also change the world. For the better. Most of my (and my family’s) every day work and fun are coming from SV. I would not give it up for anything else. If occasionally breaking things is the price - I am more than willing to pay it.</text></item><item><author>bayindirh</author><text>I think Tesla embodies the SV mindset very well, even demonstrates it in a tangible form.<p>They move fast and break things.</text></item><item><author>bmitc</author><text>Is this really a surprise? There are physical realities, and a single company can&#x27;t suddenly reinvent a century of industry experience with some Silicon Valley pixie dust and government subsidies. Tesla, like many startups, is just rediscovering what it takes to build a car and what other companies have already figured out. Bringing a new drivetrain is not enough.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>janoc</author><text>You forgot the very &quot;unimportant&quot; detail which was that electric cars in Norway were zero VAT and tax for electric cars until this year (normal VAT is 25%).<p>Well, gee, no wonder that people were buying them left and right when the tax discount was about 16-20k NOK per car on average!<p>And that is just buying the car - Norway subsidizes electric mobility in many other ways so even today registering a new electric is cheaper than a gasoline car, despite the gas powered vehicles normally costing about 50% less.<p>So, please, when waving this sort of argument about, don&#x27;t &quot;forget&quot; to put it in context.<p>Norway is a special case because of government policies, not because Tesla did anything particularly great there. They were just the only ones on the market at the time so people essentially had to buy a Tesla if they wanted to benefit from the generous subsidies because there simply wasn&#x27;t anything else available. Today the situation is different, though.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Breakdown of faults by car brand: Tesla has replaced Dacia at the bottom</title><url>https://www.tuvsud.com/en/press-and-media/2023/november/regular-servicing-makes-all-the-difference</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hmottestad</author><text>In Norway they revolutionised the car market. They were the very first electric car that people actually wanted to buy. If it hadn’t been for Tesla proving the market for electric cars, I don’t think any other brands would have bothered. So far in 2023 83% of all new cars are electric.<p>In 2022 every fourth car sold (including petrol&#x2F;diesel) was a Tesla.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;elbil.no&#x2F;om-elbil&#x2F;elbilstatistikk&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;elbil.no&#x2F;om-elbil&#x2F;elbilstatistikk&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.elbil24.no&#x2F;nyheter&#x2F;hver-fjerde-nybil-var-en-tesla&#x2F;77336639" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.elbil24.no&#x2F;nyheter&#x2F;hver-fjerde-nybil-var-en-tesl...</a></text></item><item><author>bayindirh</author><text>&gt; they change the world. For the better.<p>That&#x27;s up for a through debate, but not today. Let&#x27;s leave it at I don&#x27;t agree that part 100%.</text></item><item><author>nickpp</author><text>&gt; They move fast and break things.<p>You forgot the third: they (Silicon Valley) also change the world. For the better. Most of my (and my family’s) every day work and fun are coming from SV. I would not give it up for anything else. If occasionally breaking things is the price - I am more than willing to pay it.</text></item><item><author>bayindirh</author><text>I think Tesla embodies the SV mindset very well, even demonstrates it in a tangible form.<p>They move fast and break things.</text></item><item><author>bmitc</author><text>Is this really a surprise? There are physical realities, and a single company can&#x27;t suddenly reinvent a century of industry experience with some Silicon Valley pixie dust and government subsidies. Tesla, like many startups, is just rediscovering what it takes to build a car and what other companies have already figured out. Bringing a new drivetrain is not enough.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aeyes</author><text>This is not true, the Leaf was selling in the thousands before Tesla entered the Norwegian market in mid 2013. The Leaf was the best selling car of all new cars in October 2013.</text></comment>
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<story><title>70% of surveyed Americans say they can't do their job without internet</title><url>https://decisiondata.org/news/70-of-surveyed-americans-say-we-cant-do-our-jobs-without-a-home-internet-connection/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway0a5e</author><text>People like that could get by with dial up if people like the ones reading this comment would stop loading 80MB of JS just so they can save a couple lines of code.<p>Edit: The dailup part was an exaggeration but if your web app doesn&#x27;t suck 3g and two bars or a 1Mb down DSL pipe should be fine for most CRUD type business tasks that. There&#x27;s no reason that signing in and signing up for a shift should take more bandwidth than Craigslist.</text></item><item><author>mywittyname</author><text>You can work as a factory worker and still require internet access for scheduling days off, getting payroll information, etc. In fact, it&#x27;s likely that people not working desk jobs are those most in need of home internet access, as they might not be provided such at work.</text></item><item><author>dgrin91</author><text>This doesn&#x27;t really make sense to me. Only 30% of Americans have jobs where they can&#x27;t work from home? Truck drivers, factory workers, cashiers, taxi drivers, etc all make up less than 30% of America? I dont buy that.<p>Smells like selection bias to me... are they interviewing people already at home because their work allows it?<p>They do mention -<p>&gt; There are certainly some folks who work in healthcare, grocery stores, auto shops, etc., where you wouldn&#x27;t think a strong home internet connection was a requirement.<p>But I still remain skeptical that so many claim they require home internet. At the very least work email can be done on a phone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Broken_Hippo</author><text><i>... if your web app doesn&#x27;t suck...</i><p>The employee has absolutely no control over that and sure, you could pass regulations - but those regulations are going to be fairly difficult to enforce.<p>But you know, we could just start trying to make sure everyone has decent internet. Work isn&#x27;t the only benefits to this.</text></comment>
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<story><title>70% of surveyed Americans say they can't do their job without internet</title><url>https://decisiondata.org/news/70-of-surveyed-americans-say-we-cant-do-our-jobs-without-a-home-internet-connection/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway0a5e</author><text>People like that could get by with dial up if people like the ones reading this comment would stop loading 80MB of JS just so they can save a couple lines of code.<p>Edit: The dailup part was an exaggeration but if your web app doesn&#x27;t suck 3g and two bars or a 1Mb down DSL pipe should be fine for most CRUD type business tasks that. There&#x27;s no reason that signing in and signing up for a shift should take more bandwidth than Craigslist.</text></item><item><author>mywittyname</author><text>You can work as a factory worker and still require internet access for scheduling days off, getting payroll information, etc. In fact, it&#x27;s likely that people not working desk jobs are those most in need of home internet access, as they might not be provided such at work.</text></item><item><author>dgrin91</author><text>This doesn&#x27;t really make sense to me. Only 30% of Americans have jobs where they can&#x27;t work from home? Truck drivers, factory workers, cashiers, taxi drivers, etc all make up less than 30% of America? I dont buy that.<p>Smells like selection bias to me... are they interviewing people already at home because their work allows it?<p>They do mention -<p>&gt; There are certainly some folks who work in healthcare, grocery stores, auto shops, etc., where you wouldn&#x27;t think a strong home internet connection was a requirement.<p>But I still remain skeptical that so many claim they require home internet. At the very least work email can be done on a phone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>emodendroket</author><text>They could even get by without the Internet if such business were all conducted on the phone. So what?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Simplify Your Message, and Repeat Often</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/23/business/john-lilly-simplify-your-message-and-repeat-often.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dceddia</author><text>This is a really interesting point:<p><i>When I was a V.C. at first, I would just ask my questions and kind of poke, poke, poke, poke. And now I’ll say: “Look, I’m going to ask some things, and this might be kind of awkward, but I’m just going to say it, and let’s work our way through it. And it doesn’t mean I don’t believe in you and your company. I just want to understand where you are and what you think. I’m going to ask some things and they might be wrong, but let’s figure some things out together.”</i><p>--<p>I&#x27;ve noticed that people have different assumptions about what it <i>means</i> to ask questions. Some folks (like the interviewee here) just ask away, because they want information -- their questions have no malicious intent behind them.<p>But on the receiving side, this can cause problems. Some people, when asked probing questions (or any questions at all), will get defensive. Just the fact that someone is <i>asking</i> must mean they think something is <i>wrong</i>. Questions like &quot;Why did you choose Node.js instead of Java?&quot; can be (and I think often are) interpreted as &quot;The questioner thinks I made the wrong choice, so I have to defend my choice now.&quot;<p>People in the tech community seem particularly affected by this assumption. Interesting that this VC ran into that problem too.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Attorneys for Barrett Brown want case on linking to hacked material dismissed</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/mar/04/attorneys-barrett-brown-hyperlink-hacked-material-want-case-dismissed</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roel_v</author><text>I think you could have up with this explanation had you tried, or had you done an objective evaluation of the situation before posting, but for the sake of other posters who might be less entrenched in their ideological predispositions: the difference is clearly that Google doesn&#x27;t do any filtering or doesn&#x27;t willingly lead people to certain material. Google presents an uncurated (within limits, like DMCA takedown notices, court-mandated filtering, ...) overview of <i>all</i> links out there. To go along with the (strained) analogy above of giving driving directions to somebody&#x27;s house and telling them how to get in: what Google does is provide an atlas, and maybe a way to search therein.</text></item><item><author>suprgeek</author><text>Google links to a lot of sites, even a large number that contain Hacked&#x2F;Obscene&#x2F;Defamatory&#x2F;Copyrighted material as defined by appropriate laws.<p>Since Google is posting these publicly (using many fancy techniques to improve their relevance no less) how many billion years of Sentencing will Brin &amp; Page face under these extremely well worded&#x2F;just&#x2F;sane Federal Laws?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nateabele</author><text>David Gregory (a nightly news anchor) waved around a high-capacity magazine on national television within the borders of the District of Columbia, which is a felony offense. No charges filed. [0]<p>Explain that one, Mister Ideological Predisposition.<p>[0] <a href="http://nypost.com/2013/01/12/no-charges-for-nbc-host-david-gregory-over-ammunition-magazine/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nypost.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;01&#x2F;12&#x2F;no-charges-for-nbc-host-david-g...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Attorneys for Barrett Brown want case on linking to hacked material dismissed</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/mar/04/attorneys-barrett-brown-hyperlink-hacked-material-want-case-dismissed</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roel_v</author><text>I think you could have up with this explanation had you tried, or had you done an objective evaluation of the situation before posting, but for the sake of other posters who might be less entrenched in their ideological predispositions: the difference is clearly that Google doesn&#x27;t do any filtering or doesn&#x27;t willingly lead people to certain material. Google presents an uncurated (within limits, like DMCA takedown notices, court-mandated filtering, ...) overview of <i>all</i> links out there. To go along with the (strained) analogy above of giving driving directions to somebody&#x27;s house and telling them how to get in: what Google does is provide an atlas, and maybe a way to search therein.</text></item><item><author>suprgeek</author><text>Google links to a lot of sites, even a large number that contain Hacked&#x2F;Obscene&#x2F;Defamatory&#x2F;Copyrighted material as defined by appropriate laws.<p>Since Google is posting these publicly (using many fancy techniques to improve their relevance no less) how many billion years of Sentencing will Brin &amp; Page face under these extremely well worded&#x2F;just&#x2F;sane Federal Laws?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>herghost</author><text>It started off like your were going to provide a sound rebuttal, but it didn&#x27;t materialise. Instead we got:<p>&gt; Google doesn&#x27;t do any filtering (except the filtering that it does do)<p>&gt; Google doesn&#x27;t give directions to <i>somebody&#x27;s</i> house and tell you how to get in, it gives directions to <i>everybody&#x27;s</i> houses and tells you how to get in.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Will automation put an end to the American trucker?</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/10/american-trucker-automation-jobs</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>didgeoridoo</author><text>The approach that Starsky (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;starsky.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;starsky.io&#x2F;</a>) is taking seems to be a promising one. They employ truck drivers as remote pilots for the &quot;first and last mile&quot;, i.e. the local roads and loading dock work that autonomous vehicles struggle with most. Other advantages include lower fuel costs (driving slower because AVs aren&#x27;t subject to operator-hour limits) and probably also lower labor costs (you don&#x27;t need to pay truckers as much if the job is safe and nearby to home).<p>If the Starsky model ends up dominating, this <i>could</i> all add up to a case where the price of truck transportation drops so much that demand for truck drivers actually increases, possibly even counterbalancing the pressure of individual truckers being able to manage multiple vehicles at once. This would be an example of the &quot;Jevons Effect&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Jevons_paradox" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Jevons_paradox</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Will automation put an end to the American trucker?</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/10/american-trucker-automation-jobs</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>patrickg_zill</author><text>&quot;Then what you have is a truckers’ lounge with 20 or 30 guys standing around getting paid.&quot;<p>THAT&#x27;s the error: those guys aren&#x27;t getting paid anything to stand there. They get paid by the mile. Making them wait is benefiting the warehouse, and costing THEM.</text></comment>
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<story><title>What Happens to the Brain When You Meditate</title><url>http://lifehacker.com/what-happens-to-the-brain-when-you-meditate-and-how-it-1202533314</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dodyg</author><text>You don&#x27;t need no fucking App to start.<p>Sit down in comfortable position, close your eyes, <i>try</i> to concentrate on your breathing in and out (your mind will start to wander - keep coming back to the breathing). Repeat everyday.<p>You&#x27;ll have the chance to &quot;optimize&quot; and &quot;improve&quot; your meditation experience later on. First, build the habit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>edf825</author><text>To add to this, one thing I found helpful was to count with every breath in or out, up to ten -- breathe in, one; breathe out, two -- All the way up to ten, then back to the beginning.<p>Having something so easy and menial, yet requiring constant attention helps immensely to keep the mind from wandering.</text></comment>
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<story><title>What Happens to the Brain When You Meditate</title><url>http://lifehacker.com/what-happens-to-the-brain-when-you-meditate-and-how-it-1202533314</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dodyg</author><text>You don&#x27;t need no fucking App to start.<p>Sit down in comfortable position, close your eyes, <i>try</i> to concentrate on your breathing in and out (your mind will start to wander - keep coming back to the breathing). Repeat everyday.<p>You&#x27;ll have the chance to &quot;optimize&quot; and &quot;improve&quot; your meditation experience later on. First, build the habit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>miloshadzic</author><text>Tip: Try to keep your eyes open. Closing your eyes makes it easier to become slouched, wander off and fall asleep.<p>I agree wholeheartedly with the rest of your post.</text></comment>
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<story><title>TSMC’s Speciality Technologies</title><url>https://techtaiwan.com/20210816/tsmc-speciality-technology/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sydthrowaway</author><text>What&#x27;s impressive is that TSMC chugs along doing great work with little submarine marketing on tech Twitter or HN. Same for ASML. No filler blogs about some new framework here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lordnacho</author><text>There&#x27;s a huge underbelly of companies nobody ever hears about holding the technological torch in various industries. Some obscure mittelstand firm in Germany will be the world leader in ball bearings or thermostats or something like that, in a thousand little niches.<p>TSMC is admittedly must bigger but like these types of firms, they don&#x27;t need to tell everyone how important they are.</text></comment>
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<story><title>TSMC’s Speciality Technologies</title><url>https://techtaiwan.com/20210816/tsmc-speciality-technology/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sydthrowaway</author><text>What&#x27;s impressive is that TSMC chugs along doing great work with little submarine marketing on tech Twitter or HN. Same for ASML. No filler blogs about some new framework here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mhh__</author><text>But the only reason why they would need to is for hiring. If they needed to for their business model they would but they don&#x27;t sell to you or I.<p>I work for a hedge fund, we have almost no online presence because it just isn&#x27;t relevant to what the company gets up to.</text></comment>
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<story><title>What I learnt roasting 200 landing pages</title><url>https://blog.roastmylandingpage.com/landing-page-roasts/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aosaigh</author><text>(Rant) What a snobby, begrudging comments section. Well done to OP for writing a detailed summary of a succesful productised service that they got off the ground as well as a solid list of actionable tasks you can take to improve your own product.<p>They&#x27;ve outlined how their clients have loved the service, it&#x27;s been financially successful and everyone is happy, yet all people here do is complain about a) how this is the downfall of the internet b) there&#x27;s some technical or editorial minutiae of the post itself they dislike c) how they could have done it better d) what they&#x27;re doing is just plain wrong or unimportant.<p>If HN had its way, every product and service on the planet would be devoid of marketing, sales or design and the only way you could buy it was via the command line. Infuriating.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>Ah, the contrarian dynamic strikes again:<p>(1) an initial wave of objections to the article;<p>(2) a second wave of objections to the objections;<p>(3) those get upvoted, so that<p>(4) the most popular comment becomes the one about how the site is so negative, all people do is complain, etc., producing<p>(5) irony!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24215601" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24215601</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25434665" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25434665</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=true&amp;sort=byDate&amp;type=comment&amp;query=%22contrarian%20dynamic%22%20objection%20by:dang" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=true&amp;sor...</a><p>If you study this phenomenon, it becomes clear that the difference between (1) and (2) is not negativity, just timing. And the upvotes of (3) are negative in the same way. Negativity about negativity is not positive. It&#x27;s an idempotent operation.<p>(Edit: I hope it&#x27;s clear that I don&#x27;t mean to pick on you or anyone else personally! This is a systemic problem that we&#x27;re all part of—that&#x27;s kind of the whole point actually.)<p>If we want a solution to the ambient negativity that can afflict HN threads—which we do—we need to tackle it a little more deeply. We all need to become aware of how the same negativity that we perceive in others exists in ourselves, and without cheap avoidances like &quot;well, the others do it worse&quot;. It always seems like others do it worse; everyone experiences that. It is the chief way we avoid looking at ourselves.<p>If we admit that we&#x27;re all just mirroring our own denied negativity to each other, we can start taking steps to a solution. Not that we&#x27;d never be negative any more—but maybe we can get less mechanical in our responses if we learn something about how the mechanism works <i>in ourselves</i>. Denouncing it in others doesn&#x27;t work—that&#x27;s how the problem recreates itself: all this disowned negativity keeps circulating through the system, when what&#x27;s needed is for people to work with it internally so that it can start to shift a little.<p>That&#x27;s why the site guidelines now include this line: &quot;<i>Please don&#x27;t sneer, including at the rest of the community.</i>&quot; – as a baby step in that direction. The HN community has been around for long enough that I think we can take this as a task to work on together. It would be a big step towards optimizing this place for curiosity (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=true&amp;sort=byDate&amp;type=comment&amp;query=curiosity%20optimiz%20by:dang" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=true&amp;sor...</a>), which is what we&#x27;re all here for.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>What I learnt roasting 200 landing pages</title><url>https://blog.roastmylandingpage.com/landing-page-roasts/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aosaigh</author><text>(Rant) What a snobby, begrudging comments section. Well done to OP for writing a detailed summary of a succesful productised service that they got off the ground as well as a solid list of actionable tasks you can take to improve your own product.<p>They&#x27;ve outlined how their clients have loved the service, it&#x27;s been financially successful and everyone is happy, yet all people here do is complain about a) how this is the downfall of the internet b) there&#x27;s some technical or editorial minutiae of the post itself they dislike c) how they could have done it better d) what they&#x27;re doing is just plain wrong or unimportant.<p>If HN had its way, every product and service on the planet would be devoid of marketing, sales or design and the only way you could buy it was via the command line. Infuriating.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>duxup</author><text>I&#x27;ll admit I felt a less than positive impulse from the title of the article.<p>Probably the &#x27;roasting&#x27; part reminded me of bikeshedding &#x2F; every yokel with their own advice that occurs surrounding a font or button color or something .... that&#x27;s kinda a horrible peeve for a lot of folks and came to mind for me.<p>But the article and ideas seems sensible.<p>Landing pages are hard, I think there&#x27;s a lot of magic and weird theory out there on them. I did enjoy how focused and down to earth this article &#x2F; his advice was.<p>Anyone who felt similarly I suggest giving the article a read, it&#x27;s pretty good IMO. Probably not going to turn a landing page into a customer magnet but nothing really does that and I think the advice is good &#x2F; I find it useful.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" to do it for free. How?</title><text>Can anyone help me understand the economics of video streaming platforms?<p>Streaming, encoding, and storage demands enormous costs -- especially at scale (e.g., on average each 4k video with close to 1 million views).
Yet YouTube seems to charge no money for it.<p>I know advertisements are a thing for YT, but is it enough?<p>If tomorrow I want to start a platform that is supported with Advert revenues, I know I will likely fail. However, maybe at YT scale (or more specifically Google Advert scale) the economics works?<p>ps: I would like this discussion to focus on the absolute necessary elements (e.g., storing, encoding, streaming) and not on other factors contributing to latency&#x2F;cost like running view count algorithms.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>foota</author><text>If they&#x27;re not significant, then why does youtube build ASICs for doing video encoding? See e.g., <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gadgets&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;youtube-is-now-building-its-own-video-transcoding-chips&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gadgets&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;youtube-is-now-build...</a></text></item><item><author>timr</author><text>Encoding and storage aren&#x27;t significant, relative to the bandwidth costs. Bandwidth is the high order bit.<p>The primary difference between live and static video is the bursts -- get to a certain scale as a static video provider, and you can roughly estimate your bandwidth 95th percentiles. But one big live event can blow you out of the water, and push you over into very expensive tiers that will kill your economics.</text></item><item><author>foota</author><text>I&#x27;m guessing live video looks a lot different from a more static video site. I think encoding and storage are both quite expensive. You want to encode videos that are likely to be watched in the most efficient ways possible to reduce network bandwidth usage, and every video needs at least some encoding.<p>Based on some power laws etc., I would guess most videos have only a handful of views, so storing them forever and the cost to encode them initially is probably significant.</text></item><item><author>xivzgrev</author><text>Disclaimer: I used to work at a live video streaming company as a financial analyst so quite familiar with this<p>The biggest cost is as you imagine the streaming - getting the video to the viewer. It was a large part of our variable cost and we had a (literal) mad genius dev ops person holed up in his own office cave that managed the whole operation.<p>Ive long forgotten the special optimizations he did but he would keep finding ways to improve margin &#x2F; efficiency.<p>Encoding is a cost but I don’t recall it being significant<p>Storage isnt generally expensive. Think about how cheap you as a consumer can go get 2 TB of storage, and extrapolate.<p>The other big expense - people! All those engineers to build back and front end systems. That’s what ruined us - too many people were needed and not enough money coming in so we were burning cash.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>djtango</author><text>If you make a billion, a 1% saving is 10 million. You can hire and fund a lot of activity with 10 million.<p>If you make 1 million, 10k isn&#x27;t going to go very far towards paying devs to save you 1%</text></comment>
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<story><title>Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" to do it for free. How?</title><text>Can anyone help me understand the economics of video streaming platforms?<p>Streaming, encoding, and storage demands enormous costs -- especially at scale (e.g., on average each 4k video with close to 1 million views).
Yet YouTube seems to charge no money for it.<p>I know advertisements are a thing for YT, but is it enough?<p>If tomorrow I want to start a platform that is supported with Advert revenues, I know I will likely fail. However, maybe at YT scale (or more specifically Google Advert scale) the economics works?<p>ps: I would like this discussion to focus on the absolute necessary elements (e.g., storing, encoding, streaming) and not on other factors contributing to latency&#x2F;cost like running view count algorithms.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>foota</author><text>If they&#x27;re not significant, then why does youtube build ASICs for doing video encoding? See e.g., <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gadgets&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;youtube-is-now-building-its-own-video-transcoding-chips&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gadgets&#x2F;2021&#x2F;04&#x2F;youtube-is-now-build...</a></text></item><item><author>timr</author><text>Encoding and storage aren&#x27;t significant, relative to the bandwidth costs. Bandwidth is the high order bit.<p>The primary difference between live and static video is the bursts -- get to a certain scale as a static video provider, and you can roughly estimate your bandwidth 95th percentiles. But one big live event can blow you out of the water, and push you over into very expensive tiers that will kill your economics.</text></item><item><author>foota</author><text>I&#x27;m guessing live video looks a lot different from a more static video site. I think encoding and storage are both quite expensive. You want to encode videos that are likely to be watched in the most efficient ways possible to reduce network bandwidth usage, and every video needs at least some encoding.<p>Based on some power laws etc., I would guess most videos have only a handful of views, so storing them forever and the cost to encode them initially is probably significant.</text></item><item><author>xivzgrev</author><text>Disclaimer: I used to work at a live video streaming company as a financial analyst so quite familiar with this<p>The biggest cost is as you imagine the streaming - getting the video to the viewer. It was a large part of our variable cost and we had a (literal) mad genius dev ops person holed up in his own office cave that managed the whole operation.<p>Ive long forgotten the special optimizations he did but he would keep finding ways to improve margin &#x2F; efficiency.<p>Encoding is a cost but I don’t recall it being significant<p>Storage isnt generally expensive. Think about how cheap you as a consumer can go get 2 TB of storage, and extrapolate.<p>The other big expense - people! All those engineers to build back and front end systems. That’s what ruined us - too many people were needed and not enough money coming in so we were burning cash.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jupp0r</author><text>Because when you are Youtube, even relatively marginal cost improvements can be huge in absolute. There is also the UX of having to wait X minutes for an uploaded video to be ready that is improved by this.</text></comment>
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<story><title>OSHA to require employers with 100 employees vaccinate or test workforce</title><url>https://www.whitehouse.gov/covidplan/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>walterbell</author><text>The MMR vaccine required by school is sterilizing, once and done. Intramuscular Covid vaccines provide blood&#x2F;serum antibodies that can reduce the risk of severe disease or death, but they are non-sterilizing. They never promised to prevent infection and the CDC has updated their definitions to make that clear.<p>Why would employers need legal immunity? Their lawyers may want to look closely at the legal immunity protections of the PREP act, which extend to healthcare professionals who recommend &quot;countermeasures&quot;.</text></item><item><author>lalaland1125</author><text>Why would employers need additional immunity? Do schools usually need legal immunity when they require vaccines?</text></item><item><author>walterbell</author><text>Is the federal government going to provide employers with the same legal immunity granted to pharmaceutical vendors via the PREP act?<p>Does this mandate incorporate the Sept 2021 CDC definition of vaccine, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.charlotteobserver.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;coronavirus&#x2F;article254111268.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.charlotteobserver.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;coronavirus&#x2F;article25...</a><p><i>&gt; Before the change, the definition for “vaccination” read, “the act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce immunity to a specific disease.” Now, the word “immunity” has been switched to “protection.” The term “vaccine” also got a makeover. The CDC’s definition changed from “a product that stimulates a person’s immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease” to the current “a preparation that is used to stimulate the body’s immune response against diseases.”</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tfehring</author><text>Isn’t the varicella zoster vaccine, which many schools have required for decades, also non-sterilizing?</text></comment>
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<story><title>OSHA to require employers with 100 employees vaccinate or test workforce</title><url>https://www.whitehouse.gov/covidplan/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>walterbell</author><text>The MMR vaccine required by school is sterilizing, once and done. Intramuscular Covid vaccines provide blood&#x2F;serum antibodies that can reduce the risk of severe disease or death, but they are non-sterilizing. They never promised to prevent infection and the CDC has updated their definitions to make that clear.<p>Why would employers need legal immunity? Their lawyers may want to look closely at the legal immunity protections of the PREP act, which extend to healthcare professionals who recommend &quot;countermeasures&quot;.</text></item><item><author>lalaland1125</author><text>Why would employers need additional immunity? Do schools usually need legal immunity when they require vaccines?</text></item><item><author>walterbell</author><text>Is the federal government going to provide employers with the same legal immunity granted to pharmaceutical vendors via the PREP act?<p>Does this mandate incorporate the Sept 2021 CDC definition of vaccine, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.charlotteobserver.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;coronavirus&#x2F;article254111268.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.charlotteobserver.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;coronavirus&#x2F;article25...</a><p><i>&gt; Before the change, the definition for “vaccination” read, “the act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce immunity to a specific disease.” Now, the word “immunity” has been switched to “protection.” The term “vaccine” also got a makeover. The CDC’s definition changed from “a product that stimulates a person’s immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease” to the current “a preparation that is used to stimulate the body’s immune response against diseases.”</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lalaland1125</author><text>Why would that change liability requirements?<p>My fundamental question is that schools already have tons of vaccine requirements, so why should this one be considered special?</text></comment>
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<story><title>The IRS Is Coming for Crypto Investors Who Haven’t Paid Their Taxes</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/bitcoin-irs-comes-for-crypto-investors-who-havent-paid-their-taxes-11620937095</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cableshaft</author><text>So I buy a small amount of crypto with every paycheck, and this year is the first year I had to report selling some of those transactions that had those tiny purchases as a cost basis. It&#x27;s very annoying to do it manually, as you apparently are supposed to report every single one of those weeks, and calculate what portion is from which cost basis, etc. I was feeling very overwhelmed with the thought of doing it manually.<p>But I tried one of those bitcoin tax websites this year, and was pleasantly surprised how seamless they made it. After paying and importing my data I had the full tax forms in minutes.<p>Thankfully I didn&#x27;t owe anything for it last year because it was a temporary panic sell during the big dip from the pandemic happened last March or April, so I basically broke even for taxes, but thankfully I came to my senses a week later and bought back in again, so I still got to fully benefit from the bull run this past year.<p>But yeah, it&#x27;s not worth taking the risk of getting audited, imo. I still wish it weren&#x27;t a taxable event just for switching which crypto you&#x27;re in though, especially if it&#x27;s on the same exchange, and only got taxed when you buy goods or services take it out to USD, but oh well.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Revolt</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/24/technology/patreon-hate-speech-bans.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nkurz</author><text>The article avoids the specifics of what Benjamin said, which makes it hard to judge whether Patreon is acting reasonably. The interview in question is here:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=XQ87Wf-0rZg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=XQ87Wf-0rZg</a>.<p>Here are some excerpts from the automatically generated transcript (click the 3 dots, then &quot;Open transcript&quot;):<p><i>I just can&#x27;t be bothered to deal
with people who treat me like this it&#x27;s
really annoying like I you are acting
like a bunch of niggers just so you know
you you act like white niggers exactly
how you describe black people acting is
the impression I get dealing with y&#x27;all</i><p><i>don&#x27;t expect me to them have a debate
with one of your faggots then why would
I bother bother you read like enough
class I don&#x27;t know maybe you&#x27;re just
acting like a nigga me have you
considered that do you think white
people act like this white people are
meant to be polite and respectful to one
another and you guys can&#x27;t even act like
white people</i><p><i>it&#x27;s about gaining attention and seems
like kikes are ruining everything</i><p>While one can reasonably to debate the whether Patreon should ban people based on ideology and off-site behavior, his comments do seem undeniably racist, anti-Semitic, and anti-homosexual.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>manfredo</author><text>He used slurs, that&#x27;s for certain. But it&#x27;s critical to point out that the context in which they were used was to tell the Alt Right that they&#x27;re behaving exactly like they see the groups they despise (blacks, Jewish people, gays etc.) through their bigoted worldview. Not to mention, your excerpt cuts off a crucial part of what he said. As other commenters pointed out, the whole part of this was:<p>&gt; It&#x27;s not about, like, actually doing any good, it&#x27;s about getting attention. And I see, like, &#x27;kikes are ruining everything&#x27;. [laughs] Good—good—good job. Should tackle field [I can&#x27;t understand this sentence]. You&#x27;re making your movement look like you&#x27;re not full of Nazis! Great! Bravo!&quot;<p>In case the context isn&#x27;t clear, saying that they &quot;look like you&#x27;re not full of Nazi&quot; is sarcasm. Of course subscription to belief in a global Jewish conspiracy makes a group look like they&#x27;re full of Nazis.<p>It is difficult to claim that these statements were meant as an attack on blacks and Jewish people themselves. It&#x27;s pretty obvious that this banning was carried out for ideological reasons. In the past, Jack Conte stated that Patreon would only ban people for speech that was spread on their platform.[1] This was flat out ignored. It looks like much of their userbase is calling them out on the questionable justifications for the banning, too.[2]<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ofpbDgCj9rw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ofpbDgCj9rw</a><p>2. See comments on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;patreonhq.com&#x2F;hate-speech-on-patreon-a9026e52c2cf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;patreonhq.com&#x2F;hate-speech-on-patreon-a9026e52c2cf</a><p>Edit: changed &quot;they&#x27;re behaving exactly like the groups they despise&quot; to &quot;they&#x27;re behaving exactly like they see the groups they despise through their bigoted worldview&quot;. Crucial mis-wording on my part, as the original version made it look I was saying said groups really do behave like how the alt-right claims.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Revolt</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/24/technology/patreon-hate-speech-bans.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nkurz</author><text>The article avoids the specifics of what Benjamin said, which makes it hard to judge whether Patreon is acting reasonably. The interview in question is here:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=XQ87Wf-0rZg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=XQ87Wf-0rZg</a>.<p>Here are some excerpts from the automatically generated transcript (click the 3 dots, then &quot;Open transcript&quot;):<p><i>I just can&#x27;t be bothered to deal
with people who treat me like this it&#x27;s
really annoying like I you are acting
like a bunch of niggers just so you know
you you act like white niggers exactly
how you describe black people acting is
the impression I get dealing with y&#x27;all</i><p><i>don&#x27;t expect me to them have a debate
with one of your faggots then why would
I bother bother you read like enough
class I don&#x27;t know maybe you&#x27;re just
acting like a nigga me have you
considered that do you think white
people act like this white people are
meant to be polite and respectful to one
another and you guys can&#x27;t even act like
white people</i><p><i>it&#x27;s about gaining attention and seems
like kikes are ruining everything</i><p>While one can reasonably to debate the whether Patreon should ban people based on ideology and off-site behavior, his comments do seem undeniably racist, anti-Semitic, and anti-homosexual.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>augustl</author><text>According to Carl Benjamin himself, the comments were meant ironically. He was reacting to a chat stream, which is missing context in that video, and the chat used slurs like this. So Benjamin used the slurs back at them.<p>Having said that, we have to assume Benjamin’s inner thoughts to know what he really meant, so I’m not arguing we should disregard it completely because of his alledged good intentions.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Rock Pi X Intel Cherry Trail Board</title><url>https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/09/11/rock-pi-x-low-cost-intel-sbc/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wilhil</author><text>I don&#x27;t know why this has taken so long...<p>About 5 years ago, I was involved in a project where we purchased Intel based tablets based off a standard reference design in bulk for about $80 a piece - that included battery, cameras, screen, casing and more.<p>The cost of the board only was about ~$30 or so.<p>I really wondered why no one was selling these to compete against the Pi in the heyday.<p>The only problem we had and why we didn&#x27;t sell to makers was because we didn&#x27;t control the design and we had enormous technical problems with EFI&#x2F;Bios 64 bit booting only and a headache like crazy trying to reinstall Linux which just randomly broke all the time.<p>Truth be told, I wish I pushed through with it.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Rock Pi X Intel Cherry Trail Board</title><url>https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/09/11/rock-pi-x-low-cost-intel-sbc/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>williadc</author><text>The processor in these board is about to celebrate its 4th anniversary, and its performance wasn&#x27;t world-beating at the time of its release.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ark.intel.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;www&#x2F;us&#x2F;en&#x2F;ark&#x2F;products&#x2F;93361&#x2F;intel-atom-x5-z8350-processor-2m-cache-up-to-1-92-ghz.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ark.intel.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;www&#x2F;us&#x2F;en&#x2F;ark&#x2F;products&#x2F;93361&#x2F;i...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Nevada passes law authorizing driverless cars</title><url>http://blogs.forbes.com/alexknapp/2011/06/22/nevada-passes-law-authorizing-driverless-cars/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DanielStraight</author><text>How do you deal with the inherent inefficiency of having a separate vehicle for every passenger (or small group of passengers)?<p>Publicness is not the only benefit of public transportation. Trains and buses are incredibly efficient per passenger mile. They also take up a lot less space than cars, and last longer and cost less per passenger to manufacture. Making a car driverless doesn't solve these problems.</text></item><item><author>mkr-hn</author><text>I think driverless cars could be the future of public transportation. Instead of big trains and buses with limited reach, we would have thousands of public vehicles that take you where you need to go when you need to be there. It eliminates the big barriers to public transport--the lack of personal space, timing, and reach.<p>No car? Just hop on the municipal/county dispatch website, request a car, pay your fee, and wait for the nearest open vehicle to bring itself to you. It can even coexist peacefully with private transportation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cushman</author><text>The de facto standard in this country is one dedicated car per person, which spends 90% of its time sitting in a parking space. Communally shared cars will be massively more efficient than that, and, unlike buses and trains, will actually replace dedicated vehicles for a majority — some day 100% — of users.<p>The public transportation the public uses beats the one they don't.<p>Not to mention that communal vehicles would make electric cars suitable for any length of trip— Forget about exchanging batteries, just swap cars at the charging station.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Nevada passes law authorizing driverless cars</title><url>http://blogs.forbes.com/alexknapp/2011/06/22/nevada-passes-law-authorizing-driverless-cars/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DanielStraight</author><text>How do you deal with the inherent inefficiency of having a separate vehicle for every passenger (or small group of passengers)?<p>Publicness is not the only benefit of public transportation. Trains and buses are incredibly efficient per passenger mile. They also take up a lot less space than cars, and last longer and cost less per passenger to manufacture. Making a car driverless doesn't solve these problems.</text></item><item><author>mkr-hn</author><text>I think driverless cars could be the future of public transportation. Instead of big trains and buses with limited reach, we would have thousands of public vehicles that take you where you need to go when you need to be there. It eliminates the big barriers to public transport--the lack of personal space, timing, and reach.<p>No car? Just hop on the municipal/county dispatch website, request a car, pay your fee, and wait for the nearest open vehicle to bring itself to you. It can even coexist peacefully with private transportation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dkokelley</author><text>Theoretically, driverless cars could be programmed to behave in a collective fashion. Yes, a train is incredibly efficient when 300 people need to go from the same place to a different place. But in reality, 300 people are coming from 300 places and going 300 places. Driverless cars could calculate partial carpools or transfers to more efficient vehicles like trains depending on the needs of the commuters. A "smart car" could drop the commuter(s) off at the train station, and another car could pick the commuter(s) up for the final leg of their trip.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Microsoft's forthcoming Minecraft Education Edition is written in C++</title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/article/minecrafts-new-education-edition-written-in-c-will-outrun-the-java-version/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Almaviva</author><text>I think he may be the best refutation against people who don&#x27;t believe in 10x engineers. Imagine you want to create a VR prototype and get to hire 100 average programmers with some experience in the industry, and you&#x27;re up against Carmack with a month until your demo...</text></item><item><author>sheepdestroyer</author><text>Micro optimized by John Carmack himself who volunteered (he was like a free consultant for while) for the task because he believed that&#x27;s the best that could be done to help VR. He first had to personally persuade both hierarchy at FB &amp; MS. So bold.<p>From : <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;venturebeat.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;24&#x2F;how-john-carmack-pestered-microsoft-to-let-him-make-minecraft-for-gear-vr&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;venturebeat.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;24&#x2F;how-john-carmack-pestered-...</a> :<p>“I was willing to do just about anything,” he said. “On the phone I said that if this doesn’t happen, I’m going to cry. This will just be so terrible. This will be the best thing that we can do for the platform. But there are some problems that compilers can’t solve.”<p>It turns out that the solution was to get the top executives from Facebook and Microsoft together.<p>“Mark [Zuckerberg] and Satya [Nadella] were able to sit down and make sure that the deal happened,” said Carmack.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>samizdatum</author><text>Carmack is just insanely productive. He had a working prototype of the GearVR Netflix app <i>three days</i> after he started working with Netflix to develop it, and pretty much finished the app a week later.<p>Have a read about how he developed the app:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;techblog.netflix.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;john-carmack-on-developing-netflix-app.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;techblog.netflix.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;john-carmack-on-developi...</a><p>It&#x27;s almost beyond belief what he managed to accomplish in one and a half weeks. Hacking the Netflix video decoding system, fine-tuning the UX control heuristics, working around DRM limitations,
optimizing the power draw and thermals, and much more, all on top of implementing the very polished app itself.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Microsoft's forthcoming Minecraft Education Edition is written in C++</title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/article/minecrafts-new-education-edition-written-in-c-will-outrun-the-java-version/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Almaviva</author><text>I think he may be the best refutation against people who don&#x27;t believe in 10x engineers. Imagine you want to create a VR prototype and get to hire 100 average programmers with some experience in the industry, and you&#x27;re up against Carmack with a month until your demo...</text></item><item><author>sheepdestroyer</author><text>Micro optimized by John Carmack himself who volunteered (he was like a free consultant for while) for the task because he believed that&#x27;s the best that could be done to help VR. He first had to personally persuade both hierarchy at FB &amp; MS. So bold.<p>From : <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;venturebeat.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;24&#x2F;how-john-carmack-pestered-microsoft-to-let-him-make-minecraft-for-gear-vr&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;venturebeat.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;24&#x2F;how-john-carmack-pestered-...</a> :<p>“I was willing to do just about anything,” he said. “On the phone I said that if this doesn’t happen, I’m going to cry. This will just be so terrible. This will be the best thing that we can do for the platform. But there are some problems that compilers can’t solve.”<p>It turns out that the solution was to get the top executives from Facebook and Microsoft together.<p>“Mark [Zuckerberg] and Satya [Nadella] were able to sit down and make sure that the deal happened,” said Carmack.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>untog</author><text>I don&#x27;t think people disbelieve that 10x engineers exist. Just that 98% of those who claim to be one are wrong.</text></comment>
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<story><title>34% of remote workers would quit rather than return to full-time office work</title><url>https://www.psychnewsdaily.com/a-third-of-wfh-employees-say-theyd-rather-quit-than-return-to-full-time-office-work/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Alupis</author><text>Or, perhaps they had a year to clearly see they&#x27;re perfectly incapable of doing so.<p>Not every office job is software engineering folks... Imagine trying to manage a warehouse remotely... or bounce ideas off each other in real time at a marketing agency... or any of the other normal jobs that thrive with in-person interaction.<p>Not to mention, 34% is a minority... we can&#x27;t force the other 66% to work remotely just because a minority enjoy it.</text></item><item><author>User23</author><text>Conversely, if an employer isn&#x27;t willing to let employees do a job remotely after having had a year to see that they&#x27;re perfectly capable of doing so, they clearly have no attachment to their employees.</text></item><item><author>MattGaiser</author><text>At any given point, half of workers are contemplating leaving.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;08&#x2F;27&#x2F;47percent-of-workers-are-considering-quitting-their-jobs-right-now.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;08&#x2F;27&#x2F;47percent-of-workers-are-con...</a><p>The typical office worker spends a half hour searching for new jobs at work every day.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inc.com&#x2F;melanie-curtin&#x2F;in-an-8-hour-day-the-average-worker-is-productive-for-this-many-hours.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inc.com&#x2F;melanie-curtin&#x2F;in-an-8-hour-day-the-aver...</a><p>I’m not sure this is a revolution or just that plenty of people have no real attachment to their employer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mulmen</author><text>34% being unwilling to work in offices does not imply not the 66% prefer to work in offices. It is entirely possible (however unlikely) that 100% of people <i>prefer</i> to work remotely but that 34% <i>demand</i> it. You just can&#x27;t infer anything about the preferences of the 66% based on the preferences of the 34%.<p>Some jobs have to be done in person, sure. But some jobs don&#x27;t. Personally the extra two hours a day and reduced stress more than make up for the lack of face-to-face meeting time with my coworkers.<p>A friend of mine is in software sales. She doesn&#x27;t need to physically be in an office <i>ever</i>. There are a lot of office jobs that can be done remotely.</text></comment>
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<story><title>34% of remote workers would quit rather than return to full-time office work</title><url>https://www.psychnewsdaily.com/a-third-of-wfh-employees-say-theyd-rather-quit-than-return-to-full-time-office-work/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Alupis</author><text>Or, perhaps they had a year to clearly see they&#x27;re perfectly incapable of doing so.<p>Not every office job is software engineering folks... Imagine trying to manage a warehouse remotely... or bounce ideas off each other in real time at a marketing agency... or any of the other normal jobs that thrive with in-person interaction.<p>Not to mention, 34% is a minority... we can&#x27;t force the other 66% to work remotely just because a minority enjoy it.</text></item><item><author>User23</author><text>Conversely, if an employer isn&#x27;t willing to let employees do a job remotely after having had a year to see that they&#x27;re perfectly capable of doing so, they clearly have no attachment to their employees.</text></item><item><author>MattGaiser</author><text>At any given point, half of workers are contemplating leaving.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;08&#x2F;27&#x2F;47percent-of-workers-are-considering-quitting-their-jobs-right-now.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;08&#x2F;27&#x2F;47percent-of-workers-are-con...</a><p>The typical office worker spends a half hour searching for new jobs at work every day.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inc.com&#x2F;melanie-curtin&#x2F;in-an-8-hour-day-the-average-worker-is-productive-for-this-many-hours.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inc.com&#x2F;melanie-curtin&#x2F;in-an-8-hour-day-the-aver...</a><p>I’m not sure this is a revolution or just that plenty of people have no real attachment to their employer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>benbristow</author><text>It&#x27;s hard enough in software engineering IMHO.<p>What used to be swivel in your chair and ask a colleague or going to whoever you need to speak to is now<p>* Send a Slack message&#x2F;email and wait an arbitrary amount of time for a response.<p>* Organise a Skype&#x2F;Teams&#x2F;whatever call in a few hours time and feel guilty about it, as it feels rude to just ring someone as they could be occupied or busy.<p>I spend a stupid amount of time having blocked stories&#x2F;tasks because I need to clarify some criteria&#x2F;parts of it and the people I need to speak to are difficult to reach because they&#x27;re busy&#x2F;AFK.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Tinnitus linked to undetected auditory nerve damage</title><url>https://scitechdaily.com/tinnitus-linked-to-hidden-undetected-auditory-nerve-damage-a-step-towards-a-cure/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>janmo</author><text>Most people having a peeep tone tinnitus including myself can experience complete silence for a few seconds (up to 30) by listening to a tone at the specific frequency of their Tinnitus.<p>For example listen to the following, at a level that it isn&#x27;t uncomfortable and your Tinnitus might be gone for a short time: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=qNf9nzvnd1k" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=qNf9nzvnd1k</a><p>This is called residual inhibition.
You can Google &quot;tinnitus residual inhibition&quot; and find many papers about it.<p>Benzodiazepines work also very well in some cases, when taking them I have no Tinnitus at all, but that&#x27;s ABSOLUTELY NOT a viable long term solution because of the long term negative effects.<p>I am not sure about this paper, but what I&#x27;ve read and believe the most is that the Tinnitus is caused by neurons in the brain, that have lost nerve input signals from the ear (due to hearing loss, nerve damage etc..), and start to emit parasite signals.<p>Benzodiazepines reduce the brain activity thus reducing&#x2F;silencing the tinnitus. Residual inhibition seems to work by stimulating the region where the hearing loss has occurred, the neurons responsible for the Tinnitus all the sudden get stimulated and stop emitting noise signals for a few dozens of seconds then resume. But so far there is still a lot of research to be done and we are decades away from a cure that is SAFE enough. Benzos work but are just not worth it, this is like fighting back pain with opoids.<p>Until then I think it is best to protect our hearing, you can buy custom made earplugs which are comfortable to wear, last about 5 years and cost around 200 USD. I use them when I am in loud environments like on an air plane, train, at a bar etc...<p>Also it is best not be in completely silent environment as this is where you will notice the Tinnitus.<p>When listening to music with headphones it is important to take regular breaks and not to push the volume too high to give your ears some rest.<p>Edit: Last advice, don&#x27;t try to listen to your tinnitus, but focus on other noises&#x2F;sounds, if you are listening to the Tinnitus you are telling your brain that the signal is important, when you should be telling it, that it isn&#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>moribvndvs</author><text>My tinnitus has a very recent onset. So far it’s pretty mild but I expect it to get much worse. Your advise is the most practical, at least for mild cases: baby the ever living shit out of your hearing (I have spent decades in the underground metal scene and didn’t wear ear plugs until the past 5 or so years. What a colossally stupid thing to do. Please: if you’re young, remember you are not invincible, you’re merely borrowing heavily from future you) and avoid complete silence. I’ve also noticed that it will occasionally hit me hard in bursts. When that happens, I can make like I’m covering my ears with my palms and tap my finger tips on the back of my head for a few seconds and the roar will die down. Doesn’t go away permanently but so far it provides a little relief from those painful stabs.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Tinnitus linked to undetected auditory nerve damage</title><url>https://scitechdaily.com/tinnitus-linked-to-hidden-undetected-auditory-nerve-damage-a-step-towards-a-cure/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>janmo</author><text>Most people having a peeep tone tinnitus including myself can experience complete silence for a few seconds (up to 30) by listening to a tone at the specific frequency of their Tinnitus.<p>For example listen to the following, at a level that it isn&#x27;t uncomfortable and your Tinnitus might be gone for a short time: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=qNf9nzvnd1k" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=qNf9nzvnd1k</a><p>This is called residual inhibition.
You can Google &quot;tinnitus residual inhibition&quot; and find many papers about it.<p>Benzodiazepines work also very well in some cases, when taking them I have no Tinnitus at all, but that&#x27;s ABSOLUTELY NOT a viable long term solution because of the long term negative effects.<p>I am not sure about this paper, but what I&#x27;ve read and believe the most is that the Tinnitus is caused by neurons in the brain, that have lost nerve input signals from the ear (due to hearing loss, nerve damage etc..), and start to emit parasite signals.<p>Benzodiazepines reduce the brain activity thus reducing&#x2F;silencing the tinnitus. Residual inhibition seems to work by stimulating the region where the hearing loss has occurred, the neurons responsible for the Tinnitus all the sudden get stimulated and stop emitting noise signals for a few dozens of seconds then resume. But so far there is still a lot of research to be done and we are decades away from a cure that is SAFE enough. Benzos work but are just not worth it, this is like fighting back pain with opoids.<p>Until then I think it is best to protect our hearing, you can buy custom made earplugs which are comfortable to wear, last about 5 years and cost around 200 USD. I use them when I am in loud environments like on an air plane, train, at a bar etc...<p>Also it is best not be in completely silent environment as this is where you will notice the Tinnitus.<p>When listening to music with headphones it is important to take regular breaks and not to push the volume too high to give your ears some rest.<p>Edit: Last advice, don&#x27;t try to listen to your tinnitus, but focus on other noises&#x2F;sounds, if you are listening to the Tinnitus you are telling your brain that the signal is important, when you should be telling it, that it isn&#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>im3w1l</author><text>Well if tinnituses arises from the brain not having an input, then it seems like the proper way to fix it is to restore the input. Now restoring damage to the nerve or those little hairs inside the ear, I&#x27;m sure that&#x27;s tricky, but it also seems like it should be quite doable if you just throw resources at it.<p>This seems promising? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hms.harvard.edu&#x2F;news&#x2F;scientists-regenerate-hair-cells-enable-hearing" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hms.harvard.edu&#x2F;news&#x2F;scientists-regenerate-hair-cell...</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Security experts declare all Proton apps secure after security audit</title><url>https://protonmail.com/blog/security-audit-all-proton-apps/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>capableweb</author><text>I agree with you that the title is a bit sensationalist. But if independent security audits with no major issues uncovered cannot make you claim something is secure, when can you claim something as secure? Or are you of the opinion that nothing ever can be claimed to be secure as there can always be holes that could be uncovered in the future?<p>Using openssh as an example, would you say it&#x27;s secure when you&#x27;re using public keys for the authentication? Their track record seems pretty good for the last years, but there might still be uncovered vulnerabilities, could it still claim to be secure?</text></item><item><author>sodality2</author><text>Declaring it secure after an audit is like writing 100% coverage tests and saying it&#x27;s bug-free. You can&#x27;t prove absence, only presence.<p>This title is the definition of sensationalism and only by reading the article do you find the truth: &quot;Their tests uncovered no major issues or security vulnerabilities&quot;. This is a bad look for them and I&#x27;m wary of their company now...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tailspin2019</author><text>I think it&#x27;s partly the phrase &quot;Security experts declare&quot; which is likely to be what&#x27;s rubbing people up the wrong way.<p>The security auditors themselves would never actually word it like that in their reports, because the statement implies a degree of certainty that cannot really exist.<p>Here&#x27;s an example of what the auditor&#x27;s actually said:<p>&quot;Auditors identified two low-severity vulnerabilities. Additionally, five general recommendations were reported. At the same time, we confirm that no important security issues were identified during the pentest.&quot;<p>There&#x27;s a reason that audit reports will never say outright that something is &quot;secure&quot;. They may say something like &quot;strong and effective security measures are in place&quot;, but that&#x27;s a very different kind of statement.<p>I think the article itself is great but the headline just falls on the wrong side of being a bit hyperbolic and seems to be optimised for marketing impact over accuracy.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Security experts declare all Proton apps secure after security audit</title><url>https://protonmail.com/blog/security-audit-all-proton-apps/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>capableweb</author><text>I agree with you that the title is a bit sensationalist. But if independent security audits with no major issues uncovered cannot make you claim something is secure, when can you claim something as secure? Or are you of the opinion that nothing ever can be claimed to be secure as there can always be holes that could be uncovered in the future?<p>Using openssh as an example, would you say it&#x27;s secure when you&#x27;re using public keys for the authentication? Their track record seems pretty good for the last years, but there might still be uncovered vulnerabilities, could it still claim to be secure?</text></item><item><author>sodality2</author><text>Declaring it secure after an audit is like writing 100% coverage tests and saying it&#x27;s bug-free. You can&#x27;t prove absence, only presence.<p>This title is the definition of sensationalism and only by reading the article do you find the truth: &quot;Their tests uncovered no major issues or security vulnerabilities&quot;. This is a bad look for them and I&#x27;m wary of their company now...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sodality2</author><text>&gt; But if independent security audits with no major issues uncovered cannot make you claim something is secure, when can you claim something as secure?<p>Nothing at all; it&#x27;s a broken model. The server can <i>at any time</i> start serving malicious payloads [0]. The server hosts your mail but they also serve the webapp. The clientside decrypts the mail, but the server hosts the client code...<p>It&#x27;s a fundamentally flawed idea, trying to retrofit encryption into email in this way, when the server essentially has to hold all of your mail. In this case, the only thing that would make me feel secure in using it, is a third-party OSS client that downloads the mail without using the webapp, using only client-side code. And even then, of course, the mail can simply just be <i>not</i> encrypted when being ingested by Proton. So even then I wouldn&#x27;t really trust it without external encryption like PGP. In which case, why bother?<p>To be clear I do use private email services (protonmail, tutanota) but I am simply not going to fall for the illusion of guaranteed privacy; I just trust that they are what they say they are. They are still a better option IMO than something like Gmail, but I don&#x27;t think they&#x27;re a silver bullet.<p>[0]: If you think this is unlikely, see this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25337507" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25337507</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>It takes 12 people to use the 18k Sphere camera</title><url>https://petapixel.com/2023/10/20/darren-aronofsky-says-it-takes-12-people-to-use-the-18k-sphere-camera/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ljoshua</author><text>Some mind-blowing technical details about the camera and recording system itself are in a secondary article linked from this one as well:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;petapixel.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;06&#x2F;12&#x2F;sphere-studios-big-sky-cinema-camera-features-an-insane-18k-sensor&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;petapixel.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;06&#x2F;12&#x2F;sphere-studios-big-sky-cine...</a><p>Bits like a fiber-to-media recording system and custom GPU-based processing systems, really awesome project</text></comment>
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<story><title>It takes 12 people to use the 18k Sphere camera</title><url>https://petapixel.com/2023/10/20/darren-aronofsky-says-it-takes-12-people-to-use-the-18k-sphere-camera/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kibwen</author><text><i>&gt; Aronofsky’s 18K resolution film plays back at Sphere at a blistering-fast 60 frames per second, more than twice the speed of the typical 24p motion picture, and is about half a petabyte in size, or about 500 terabytes. Aronofsky explains that the movie is about 32GB of data per second, or nearly 2,000 GB a minute.</i><p>I can already see the PC gamers demanding 18K 144hz monitors.</text></comment>
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<story><title>US Senators call on FCC to raise broadband definition to 100Mbs down and up</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/4/22312065/fcc-highspeed-broadband-service-ajit-pai-bennet-angus-king-rob-portman</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nimos</author><text>Please do. Had to go up to full gigabit down with xfinity to get 35 up. Next highest was 15 I think? Not that you can figure that out easily - their website doesn&#x27;t list upload speeds. Or maybe it does - the website is terrible to navigate, slow and I got 404s off their main internet landing page.<p>Anyhow at the risk of this turning into a multi page rant about comcast I&#x27;ll cut back to upload speed. I see it as upload is for creation and download is for consumption. What do the cable companies want people to be doing?<p>If you look at the popularity of twitch&#x2F;youtube&#x2F;(things I&#x27;m too old and unhip to know about) it is a direct threat to cable&#x2F;traditional content creation. I&#x27;d wager the current state of affairs holds a lot of people back from getting into content creation, especially poorer&#x2F;larger families who have to share a limited connection.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcrawfordor</author><text>Most cable carriers, prominently Comcast, have issues with legacy channel allocations (e.g. for the On Demand feature for legacy Motorola STBs) that conflict with the channel allocations required for the higher upstream speeds supported by DOCSIS 3.0 and 3.1. This results in a de facto situation of upstream speeds being constrained to only a very small portion of the up to 2gbps upstream capability of 3.1, due to only having typically 3 QAM channels for upstream.<p>Unfortunately, eliminating these issues requires large-scale replacement of not just equipment in the field (nodes and amplifiers which are broadly all being replaced anyway to support Node+Zero architecture) but equipment in customer homes: the legacy STBs. Cable carriers have found in the past that getting people to turn these in to swap out for newer models is excessively expensive in customer goodwill, and less so cost, so there&#x27;s a major technical disincentive to such a change.</text></comment>
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<story><title>US Senators call on FCC to raise broadband definition to 100Mbs down and up</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/4/22312065/fcc-highspeed-broadband-service-ajit-pai-bennet-angus-king-rob-portman</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nimos</author><text>Please do. Had to go up to full gigabit down with xfinity to get 35 up. Next highest was 15 I think? Not that you can figure that out easily - their website doesn&#x27;t list upload speeds. Or maybe it does - the website is terrible to navigate, slow and I got 404s off their main internet landing page.<p>Anyhow at the risk of this turning into a multi page rant about comcast I&#x27;ll cut back to upload speed. I see it as upload is for creation and download is for consumption. What do the cable companies want people to be doing?<p>If you look at the popularity of twitch&#x2F;youtube&#x2F;(things I&#x27;m too old and unhip to know about) it is a direct threat to cable&#x2F;traditional content creation. I&#x27;d wager the current state of affairs holds a lot of people back from getting into content creation, especially poorer&#x2F;larger families who have to share a limited connection.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>justapassenger</author><text>You’re overthinking it. I’ve worked at enough big companies to be 100% sure it’s not elaborate, long term evil plan to keep people from competing with them.<p>They do that because it’s cheaper that way for them, and majority of users don’t complain.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Voice clone of Anthony Bourdain prompts synthetic media ethics questions</title><url>https://techpolicy.press/voice-clone-of-anthony-bourdain-prompts-synthetic-media-ethics-questions/?mc_cid=f76836fe27&mc_eid=4336df8131</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pankajdoharey</author><text>It would be interesting to see if recreating songs is possible, if so i would like to hear the voice of Jim morrison and Curt Cobain.</text></item><item><author>yohannparis</author><text>As a viewer of the documentary, I will love that effect instead of a bland voice-over.
But a note should be added on the screen that the voice is AI-generated. Like when they say a war video is a reenactment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>genewitch</author><text>I have a machine with two GPUs and a frozen OS with a tensorflow python app that clones voices, and I&#x27;d say the quality passes if you run it through a phone bandpass filter.<p>I&#x27;ve had an idea to use propellerhead recycle to chop the output cloned voice into syllables, and then &quot;play&quot; the chopped parts in rhythm, through autotune.<p>The issue is you get Eifel 65 sounding autotune if your base vocals are monotonic or way off key. The only way I can think of fixing this is to use something like audacity&#x27;s pitch changer that doesn&#x27;t affect the speed of the sample - rough the lyrical tones in with audacity&#x2F;recycle, then autotune it where it needs to go.<p>I&#x27;d like to say I&#x27;m too busy to get this workflow going, but mostly I&#x27;m lazy and someone else will do it first - and better - I can&#x27;t improve the AI cloning software.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Voice clone of Anthony Bourdain prompts synthetic media ethics questions</title><url>https://techpolicy.press/voice-clone-of-anthony-bourdain-prompts-synthetic-media-ethics-questions/?mc_cid=f76836fe27&mc_eid=4336df8131</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pankajdoharey</author><text>It would be interesting to see if recreating songs is possible, if so i would like to hear the voice of Jim morrison and Curt Cobain.</text></item><item><author>yohannparis</author><text>As a viewer of the documentary, I will love that effect instead of a bland voice-over.
But a note should be added on the screen that the voice is AI-generated. Like when they say a war video is a reenactment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rbalicki</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rollingstone.com&#x2F;music&#x2F;music-features&#x2F;nirvana-kurt-cobain-ai-song-1146444&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rollingstone.com&#x2F;music&#x2F;music-features&#x2F;nirvana-ku...</a> I don&#x27;t remember if these songs had lyrics, but there are AI generated songs in the style of Cobain and Jim Morrison</text></comment>
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<story><title>Microsoft want court to toss lawsuit accusing them of abusing open-source code</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/openai-microsoft-want-court-toss-lawsuit-accusing-them-abusing-open-source-code-2023-01-27/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jsnell</author><text>Is there anything out of the ordinary here? Doesn&#x27;t basically every lawsuit have the defendant file a motion to dismiss, based on any halfway plausible reason?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nimbius</author><text>it was a successful strategy for VMWare when approached by a German developer about improper licensing for his open source code. VMWare managed to get the original case tossed on a technicality, as well as the appeal, which bought them enough time to drop the linux code entirely and avoid a discovery where they would most certainly be found in violation.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zdnet.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;linux-developer-abandons-vmware-lawsuit&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zdnet.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;linux-developer-abandons-vmwar...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zdnet.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;vmware-sued-for-failure-to-comply-with-linuxs-license&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zdnet.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;vmware-sued-for-failure-to-com...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Vmlinux" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Vmlinux</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Microsoft want court to toss lawsuit accusing them of abusing open-source code</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/openai-microsoft-want-court-toss-lawsuit-accusing-them-abusing-open-source-code-2023-01-27/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jsnell</author><text>Is there anything out of the ordinary here? Doesn&#x27;t basically every lawsuit have the defendant file a motion to dismiss, based on any halfway plausible reason?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheRealPomax</author><text>There is not. This is standard operating procedure. Getting a case thrown saves <i>so</i> much money that it is entirely worth having your legal team try to make it happen before the real work starts.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Colorado’s Effort Against Teenage Pregnancies Is a Startling Success</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/06/science/colorados-push-against-teenage-pregnancies-is-a-startling-success.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>breitling</author><text>I was thinking the same thing. They have less of an incentive to use protection with this device implanted. Let&#x27;s wait and see until the STD numbers surface.<p>Ultimately, what&#x27;s cheaper? Having a baby or taking care of an STD? Perhaps the benefits outweigh the costs.</text></item><item><author>explorigin</author><text>I wonder if there was also an increase in STDs. The article makes no mention.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>agentdrtran</author><text>Taking care of an STD will be cheaper for the individual and the state, without question.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Colorado’s Effort Against Teenage Pregnancies Is a Startling Success</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/06/science/colorados-push-against-teenage-pregnancies-is-a-startling-success.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>breitling</author><text>I was thinking the same thing. They have less of an incentive to use protection with this device implanted. Let&#x27;s wait and see until the STD numbers surface.<p>Ultimately, what&#x27;s cheaper? Having a baby or taking care of an STD? Perhaps the benefits outweigh the costs.</text></item><item><author>explorigin</author><text>I wonder if there was also an increase in STDs. The article makes no mention.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AnotherZaphod</author><text>Given they are getting pregnant, suggests many of them are already having unprotected sex.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Fedora 25: With Wayland, Linux has never been easier (or more handsome)</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/12/fedora-25-review-the-best-linux-distro-of-2016-arrived-at-the-last-moment/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>coldtea</author><text>After the author mentions who this is the best&#x2F;easier Linux distro ever, and how Wayland mades everything so much better, there&#x27;s this:<p>&gt;<i>There are some things to bear in mind about using Wayland with GNOME, especially since more than a few GNOME hacks won&#x27;t work anymore. For example, take desktop icons. These aren&#x27;t really a GNOME 3.x thing, though you could use Gnome Tweak Tools if you can get them, but they are not supported in Wayland and never will be. I&#x27;ve also been unable to find a clipboard manager that works properly under Wayland. The other problem I&#x27;ve run into is that neither of the tint-shifting applications I use work with Wayland. Neither f.lux nor redshift do anything when running under Wayland. Judging by posts from around the Web, video playback is sometimes an issue too, though I have not actually experienced this problem. In terms of hardware support and Wayland, I would definitely suggest sticking with kernel 4.8.x or newer, which is exactly what Fedora 25 ships with. The other major gripe I have with Wayland is that it doesn&#x27;t appear to support fractional scaling for HiDPI screens. It works great at 2X, which covers most screens, but there are those where 1X is too small, but 2X is too much. If you have a screen that works best at 1.5X, you might want to stick with X for now.
Those are, however, relatively minor issues.</i><p>So desktop icons, no proper clipboard, no fractional HiDPI scaling, video playback issues, and those are &quot;relatively minor issues&quot;?<p>The only actually &quot;relatively minor&quot; issue he mentions is the lack of screen-tinting support (a la f.lux). The above seem quite major to me...</text></comment>
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<story><title>Fedora 25: With Wayland, Linux has never been easier (or more handsome)</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/12/fedora-25-review-the-best-linux-distro-of-2016-arrived-at-the-last-moment/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>djsumdog</author><text>Xorg doesn&#x27;t really need a configuration file today; it&#x27;s good at auto detecting hardware. But one of the things I really like about X is that you can have a config file and specify exactly which devices you want. In this way, you can connect two keyboards, two mice and two video cards to the same machine and have two totally different login screens. You can essentially have two people logged into the same machine as if they were using two different terminals (just do try to plug in a USB device if both users have automounters running).<p>Even on my current single user machine, I still run multiple X servers (one for my work related stuff and one for non-work. I work remotely so that way, I can just switch X servers at the end of the business day).<p>Can Wayland support multiple terminals on a single machine in the same way? Can you have two Wayland instances running like you can with X servers?</text></comment>
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<story><title>The New Law That Killed Craigslist’s Personals Could End the Web as We’ve Known</title><url>https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-new-law-that-killed-craigslists-personals-could-end-the-web-as-weve-known-it</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>narrator</author><text>The whole Web showed up for net neutrality and this bill was completely ignored until they took down Craigslist personals. What the hell happened?</text></comment>
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<story><title>The New Law That Killed Craigslist’s Personals Could End the Web as We’ve Known</title><url>https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-new-law-that-killed-craigslists-personals-could-end-the-web-as-weve-known-it</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>OtterCoder</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand the panic about this law. Mens rea is appropriately considered in the law. Unless they can prove that you built your site with the intention of facilitating sex trafficking, you still aren&#x27;t on the hook for what your users do.<p>And, if you become aware of sex trafficking on your website and you don&#x27;t do anything about it, you are absolutely complicit. This is hardly rocket science, and it doesn&#x27;t seem to overreach the way everyone is screaming that it does.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Decommissioning Otto</title><url>https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/decommissioning-otto.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Mizza</author><text>Does anybody _actually_ use the HashiCorp stack, besides Vagrant, for serious work? I tried and honestly found their products sorely, sorely lacking. Very shiny documentation, very incomplete, un-battled-tested tools, no examples given, little response from their devs other than the PR team.<p>For a small example, I _still_ get +1 notifications on this critical issue nearly every day: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mitchellh&#x2F;packer&#x2F;issues&#x2F;409" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mitchellh&#x2F;packer&#x2F;issues&#x2F;409</a> - no response from dev team whatsoever.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Decommissioning Otto</title><url>https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/decommissioning-otto.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rdtsc</author><text>They did a good job at trying something, it didn&#x27;t work as expected and they were honest and decided to focus on something else. Those are all very good qualities. I think that&#x27;s commendable.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Tesla Second Quarter 2018 Update</title><url>http://ir.tesla.com/static-files/7235e525-db16-470c-8dce-9ecac0ad7712</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmode</author><text>Tesla only sold 104 Roadstars in 2011. Now they are on track to sell 250,000 Model S, X, and 3 combined in 2018. The scale of Tesla&#x27;s accomplishment is truly under appreciated. It becomes even more impressive when you realize that this is an electric car, sold by Tesla owned stores, supported by over a thousand Superchargers. Amazing !!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kanox</author><text>I don&#x27;t follow Tesla or the automotive market but I do follow space and for many years SpaceX was mocked because of it&#x27;s low launch rate and delays. They are now #2 by launch rate, behind only China. SpaceX launches 2x to 3x more often than ULA or Ariane and <i>their rampup was also faster</i> than that of comparable vehicles.<p>The argument that a company can&#x27;t build it&#x27;s product fast enough to satisfy demand strikes me as extremely weak: as long as margins as positive the production problems are solvable.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Tesla Second Quarter 2018 Update</title><url>http://ir.tesla.com/static-files/7235e525-db16-470c-8dce-9ecac0ad7712</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmode</author><text>Tesla only sold 104 Roadstars in 2011. Now they are on track to sell 250,000 Model S, X, and 3 combined in 2018. The scale of Tesla&#x27;s accomplishment is truly under appreciated. It becomes even more impressive when you realize that this is an electric car, sold by Tesla owned stores, supported by over a thousand Superchargers. Amazing !!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gamblor956</author><text>Toyota went from selling 19,000 Prius&#x27; in 2000 to 281,000 Prius in the same timescale. It becomes even more impressive when you realize that before the Prius, there was no market for green cars, hybrid, electric, or otherwise. Amazing!!!<p>[1] Even more impressive is that these are sales of a single model...</text></comment>
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<story><title>FBI’s Deep Web Child Porn Ring Questions Role of Gov’t in Society</title><url>https://news.bitcoin.com/fbi-child-porn-role-govt/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>syshum</author><text>Legal Protections against entrapment are very minimal and not what people think.<p>FBI routinely creates, plots, then recruits people for made up terrorism plots, then arrests them<p>The DEA, in partnership with the ATF, recently ran a operation where they recruited people to rob fake stash houses, then arrested the people that were coerced into the plot<p>Entrapment is often used in prostitution stings as well.<p>None of these instances are tossed by the courts, entrapment is very much alive and well in the legal system<p>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;For the most part wether the fbi was operating this server or not the people who visit the server came there out of their own free will in an attempt to acquire child pornography.<p>While true, there are some very significant problems with this. For decades now the basis of the law against viewing child pornography is that each time the image is viewed the child is victimized. Thus by running the server for even 1 second the FBI was, according to the law, victimizing children in order to catch criminals.<p>If you then claim is no children were actually harmed by the FBI&#x27;s action then one has to start looking at the very foundation of the Child Porn laws.<p>Personally I think the ethical and moral position (and should be the obvious one) is that the FBI should not, under any circumstances, be distributing child porn. Period.<p>Edit:<p>Sources for above can be found in this comment
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12432737" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12432737</a></text></item><item><author>dogma1138</author><text>That&#x27;s an unrealistic approach CIs and undercover agents are needed to break apart crime syndicates because otherwise you&#x27;ll end up arresting the &quot;street level&quot; peddlers and nothing more.<p>Now as far as entrapment goes there are legal definitions for it under most cases law enforcement isn&#x27;t allowed to change the outcome of an event.<p>For example it is ok for an undercover officer to sell you drugs in a sting operation but it is not ok to come to you and convince you to do drugs and then sell them to you.<p>For the most part wether the fbi was operating this server or not the people who visit the server came there out of their own free will in an attempt to acquire child pornography.<p>If the fbi did not operate the server they would still have acquired it just from a different source.<p>The ATF sting was a pretty shitty operation with dubious legal backing but it&#x27;s not an case for not running intelligence gathering or sting operation, it&#x27;s just evidence that they should be planned and executed better and that certain restrictions should apply especially in cases where public safety might be put at risk.</text></item><item><author>joshuaheard</author><text>The rule should be that law enforcement cannot commit a crime in order to catch a criminal. For instance, they cannot be part of a bank robbery, or murder someone.<p>This reminds somewhat of the &quot;gun walker&quot; case where the ATF let illegal guns flood the market in order to track the buyers, which resulted in the death of a border patrol agent and countless others along the border.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;ATF_gunwalking_scandal" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;ATF_gunwalking_scandal</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dogma1138</author><text>I think the concept of some one watching child porn that was produced in the 80&#x27;s and converted from VHS to DVD is harming a child today is a bit odd one.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong going after the producers of new material is very important just as it is important to go after the human traffickers that facilitate the production.</text></comment>
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<story><title>FBI’s Deep Web Child Porn Ring Questions Role of Gov’t in Society</title><url>https://news.bitcoin.com/fbi-child-porn-role-govt/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>syshum</author><text>Legal Protections against entrapment are very minimal and not what people think.<p>FBI routinely creates, plots, then recruits people for made up terrorism plots, then arrests them<p>The DEA, in partnership with the ATF, recently ran a operation where they recruited people to rob fake stash houses, then arrested the people that were coerced into the plot<p>Entrapment is often used in prostitution stings as well.<p>None of these instances are tossed by the courts, entrapment is very much alive and well in the legal system<p>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;For the most part wether the fbi was operating this server or not the people who visit the server came there out of their own free will in an attempt to acquire child pornography.<p>While true, there are some very significant problems with this. For decades now the basis of the law against viewing child pornography is that each time the image is viewed the child is victimized. Thus by running the server for even 1 second the FBI was, according to the law, victimizing children in order to catch criminals.<p>If you then claim is no children were actually harmed by the FBI&#x27;s action then one has to start looking at the very foundation of the Child Porn laws.<p>Personally I think the ethical and moral position (and should be the obvious one) is that the FBI should not, under any circumstances, be distributing child porn. Period.<p>Edit:<p>Sources for above can be found in this comment
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12432737" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12432737</a></text></item><item><author>dogma1138</author><text>That&#x27;s an unrealistic approach CIs and undercover agents are needed to break apart crime syndicates because otherwise you&#x27;ll end up arresting the &quot;street level&quot; peddlers and nothing more.<p>Now as far as entrapment goes there are legal definitions for it under most cases law enforcement isn&#x27;t allowed to change the outcome of an event.<p>For example it is ok for an undercover officer to sell you drugs in a sting operation but it is not ok to come to you and convince you to do drugs and then sell them to you.<p>For the most part wether the fbi was operating this server or not the people who visit the server came there out of their own free will in an attempt to acquire child pornography.<p>If the fbi did not operate the server they would still have acquired it just from a different source.<p>The ATF sting was a pretty shitty operation with dubious legal backing but it&#x27;s not an case for not running intelligence gathering or sting operation, it&#x27;s just evidence that they should be planned and executed better and that certain restrictions should apply especially in cases where public safety might be put at risk.</text></item><item><author>joshuaheard</author><text>The rule should be that law enforcement cannot commit a crime in order to catch a criminal. For instance, they cannot be part of a bank robbery, or murder someone.<p>This reminds somewhat of the &quot;gun walker&quot; case where the ATF let illegal guns flood the market in order to track the buyers, which resulted in the death of a border patrol agent and countless others along the border.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;ATF_gunwalking_scandal" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;ATF_gunwalking_scandal</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Spooky23</author><text>It sounds to me like these sorts of events are ways to hit metric targets within the bureaucracy.<p>Why aren&#x27;t they doing a divide and conquer type approach that would kill these underground communities? Advertise big bounties for snitches and undermine whatever holds them together.</text></comment>
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<story><title>A Brief History of the Hedge Fund</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/a-brief-history-of-the-hedge-fund</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jackson12</author><text>I don&#x27;t think this is right at all. I would be surprised if Alfred Winslow Jones or Warren Buffet (who were some of the earliest &quot;hedge fund&quot; managers) were significantly influenced by Bachelier&#x27;s ideas. Buffet is famously neither especially quantitative in his investment style nor a believer in EMH.<p>Financial &quot;technology&quot; pretty seldom actually originates in academia. It&#x27;s more common that academics formally describe or justify something that market practitioners are already doing. The piece briefly mentions Bachelier doing this. There&#x27;s good evidence that option prices were (relatively) efficient several decades before Black-Scholes was discovered. And Jones arguably came up with the notion of &quot;beta&quot; before CAPM was a thing. The only real exception I can think of is factor investing.<p>This might seem kind of petty. But the notion that academia drives (or should drive) finance is not a benign myth. The LTCM crisis and the 2008 GFC were arguably caused by the uncritical application of ideas developed in the academy. I expect more.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zeckalpha</author><text>Buffett is fairly quantitative but on measures of fundamentals rather than technicals.</text></comment>
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<story><title>A Brief History of the Hedge Fund</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/a-brief-history-of-the-hedge-fund</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jackson12</author><text>I don&#x27;t think this is right at all. I would be surprised if Alfred Winslow Jones or Warren Buffet (who were some of the earliest &quot;hedge fund&quot; managers) were significantly influenced by Bachelier&#x27;s ideas. Buffet is famously neither especially quantitative in his investment style nor a believer in EMH.<p>Financial &quot;technology&quot; pretty seldom actually originates in academia. It&#x27;s more common that academics formally describe or justify something that market practitioners are already doing. The piece briefly mentions Bachelier doing this. There&#x27;s good evidence that option prices were (relatively) efficient several decades before Black-Scholes was discovered. And Jones arguably came up with the notion of &quot;beta&quot; before CAPM was a thing. The only real exception I can think of is factor investing.<p>This might seem kind of petty. But the notion that academia drives (or should drive) finance is not a benign myth. The LTCM crisis and the 2008 GFC were arguably caused by the uncritical application of ideas developed in the academy. I expect more.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smabie</author><text>The fact that Ed Thorp made such a killing trading warrants suggests that warrent prices were not very efficient before BS.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Tesla crash in September showed similarities to fatal Mountain View accident</title><url>http://abc7news.com/automotive/i-team-exclusive-tesla-crash-in-september-showed-similarities-to-fatal-mountain-view-accident/3302389/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bobsil1</author><text>Gore point stripe faded: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;xHq57" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;xHq57</a><p>Street View: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;maps&#x2F;@37.6346515,-122.104109,3a,75y,84.96h,99.37t&#x2F;data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s4LqOilvG6oJ1oNApEwLi6A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;maps&#x2F;@37.6346515,-122.104109,3a,75y,8...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Someone1234</author><text>If your point is &quot;Autopilot only works on perfect roads&quot; then they might have well pull the plug right now.<p>Dirt, snow, rain, fog, dark, and other common conditions could obscure even correctly painted lines, and it just isn&#x27;t realistic to expect perfect roads throughout such a large network anyway (in particular as human drivers can infer the line is meant to be there from the neighboring lines).<p>At its core, a system like Autopilot is meant to stand in for humans. Plus in this video where they reproduced the accident there was a full chevron pattern so the argument is flawed&#x2F;wrong anyway: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=6QCF8tVqM3I" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=6QCF8tVqM3I</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>Tesla crash in September showed similarities to fatal Mountain View accident</title><url>http://abc7news.com/automotive/i-team-exclusive-tesla-crash-in-september-showed-similarities-to-fatal-mountain-view-accident/3302389/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bobsil1</author><text>Gore point stripe faded: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;xHq57" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;xHq57</a><p>Street View: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;maps&#x2F;@37.6346515,-122.104109,3a,75y,84.96h,99.37t&#x2F;data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s4LqOilvG6oJ1oNApEwLi6A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;maps&#x2F;@37.6346515,-122.104109,3a,75y,8...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>petters</author><text>But the car should still detect<p>(i) That there is an obstacle fast approaching.<p>(ii) That all cars in front of it is doing something else -- time to slow down.</text></comment>
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<story><title>OpenAI's chaos does not add up</title><url>https://builtnotfound.proseful.com/openais-chaos-does-not-add-up</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skilled</author><text>I have a strange feeling that all of this is about selling OpenAI to Microsoft. I mean is it that unlikely? Everything is pointing in that direction, and maybe there was a loophole that allowed this to happen in a way that doesn&#x27;t make it seem like Microsoft were the ones doing the push.<p>We have to be honest with ourselves and realize that these are billion&#x2F;trillion dollar companies we&#x27;re talking about here, with some of the &quot;smartest&quot; people at the helm. I totally see how an acquisition could be swiped through the means of saying that these people were inexperienced.<p>Disclaimer: I&#x27;m totally talking out of my butt here, as we all are.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wolframhempel</author><text>I feel there&#x27;s merit to that idea. Basically, in the current regulatory environment in the US under Lina Khan, an outright acquisition by Microsoft would have been met with significant resistance. Especially since AI has just been declared a national risk that needs regulating and Microsoft just bought Activision in what&#x27;s pretty much the largest deal of 2023.<p>So, instead of buying OpenAI outright with all its complicated org structure, paying 13 billion for 49%, acquiring the rights to OpenAI&#x27;s models and code and then insinuating today&#x27;s events with a majority of OpenAI&#x27;s staff leaving for Microsoft would be a really elegant and cunning way to do this.<p>If it is, it might be the most daring bit of business maneuvering we&#x27;ve seen in a decade. But, given Occam&#x27;s razor, it might just as well be a colossal fuckup. Time will tell.</text></comment>
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<story><title>OpenAI's chaos does not add up</title><url>https://builtnotfound.proseful.com/openais-chaos-does-not-add-up</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skilled</author><text>I have a strange feeling that all of this is about selling OpenAI to Microsoft. I mean is it that unlikely? Everything is pointing in that direction, and maybe there was a loophole that allowed this to happen in a way that doesn&#x27;t make it seem like Microsoft were the ones doing the push.<p>We have to be honest with ourselves and realize that these are billion&#x2F;trillion dollar companies we&#x27;re talking about here, with some of the &quot;smartest&quot; people at the helm. I totally see how an acquisition could be swiped through the means of saying that these people were inexperienced.<p>Disclaimer: I&#x27;m totally talking out of my butt here, as we all are.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JohnFen</author><text>&gt; I have a strange feeling that all of this is about selling OpenAI to Microsoft. I mean is it that unlikely?<p>From the moment that the announcement of the deal with Microsoft happened, it was clear to me that it only ends one way: Microsoft is going to own everything of value that OpenAI has, in one way or another.<p>There never was any other way it could go down regardless of what ideals the OpenAI founders may or may not have had. You can&#x27;t dance with the devil and say you&#x27;re only kidding.</text></comment>
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<story><title>How to support PGP encryption in Gmail</title><url>http://conorpp.com/blog/How-to-support-PGP-encryption-in-Gmail/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kweks</author><text>It&#x27;s worth mentioning Mailvelope ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mailvelope.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mailvelope.com&#x2F;</a> )<p>- Free
- Supported in FF &#x2F; Chrome
- Supports Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook and GMX<p>I&#x27;ve been using it extensively for about 12 months now. It&#x27;s solid, unobtrustive, and just .. works.<p>Decryption of attachments would be nice, but it&#x27;s definitely not a deal breaker.</text></comment>
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<story><title>How to support PGP encryption in Gmail</title><url>http://conorpp.com/blog/How-to-support-PGP-encryption-in-Gmail/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>arat</author><text>At the moment, end-to-end is NOT production ready, and will likely undergo further hardening in the coming months. Use at your own risk.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Pointer Tagging for x86 Systems</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/888914/e81588082fa3b858/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>The UAI feature is nice! Back when I was noodling on creative ways to use 64 bit addresses the idea of a 16 bit &#x27;space id&#x27; was bandied about. A space ID in the upper 16 bits would indicate the address space for a particular thing, be it a process, the kernel, a shared library, etc. And a new opcode to trampoline from one space to another for doing things like system calls or library calls, could provide a gateway for doing secure code analysis (basically no &quot;side&quot; entrances into a space) and it would be a much more robust pointer testing mechanism because any read or write with a pointer &quot;outside&quot; the space would be immediately flagged as an error. The use of segments was sort of like this on the 286.<p>Ideally you&#x27;d have a fine grained page map so that you could avoid copies from one space to another (instead of copy_in()&#x2F;copy_out() you would do map_in()&#x2F;map_out()) to get access to physical memory, while preserving the semantic that when something was mapped out of your space you couldn&#x27;t affect it.(zero copy network stacks have been known to have issues when a process left holding a pointer to a buffer modified it when it wasn&#x27;t &quot;owned&quot; kinds of bugs)<p>Could be a fun project for a RISC-V design. Not sure how many people are experimenting with various MMU systems but it is at least <i>possible</i> to do these kinds of things in nominally &quot;real&quot; hardware (it has always been possible to simulate of course).</text></comment>
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<story><title>Pointer Tagging for x86 Systems</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/888914/e81588082fa3b858/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wongarsu</author><text>Instead of dealing with all the complexities of giving user processes control over the CPU&#x27;s pointer masking with all the involved complexities of context switching and processes now using bit 63 (which marks kernel addresses), why doesn&#x27;t the kernel just turn the feature on system wide when available, reserve a couple bits for kernel usage (like say bit 63 to mark kernel addresses) and provide a syscall that simply informs processes which bits they can use for pointer tagging, if any.<p>Are there any compatibility concerns that make it necessary to keep faulting on addresses outside the valid address range?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Many of the clothes we donate to charity end up dumped in landfill</title><url>https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-12/fast-fashion-turning-parts-ghana-into-toxic-landfill/100358702</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mumblemumble</author><text>To add to what others have said, I think that a lot of people have this idea that &quot;trash = bad&quot; so deeply internalized that they&#x27;re heavily biased toward only putting things in the bin when there can be no doubt whatsoever that it is garbage.<p>You also see this when people put greasy paper take-out food containers in the recycling. No, it&#x27;s not recyclable, and worse, it might further contaminate other things and render them non-recyclable as well. But, when I ask houseguests not to put them in our recycle bin, they seem to be honestly startled by the request. Oftentimes they assume it&#x27;s because I&#x27;m a lax recycler and would rather throw things away than sully my pristine recycle bin with uneaten curry.</text></item><item><author>dylan604</author><text>&gt;why would anyone &quot;donate&quot; these is a different matter<p>This is a very big question though. WTF are people thinking? There&#x27;s a difference between no longer wearing something because it no longer fits but is otherwise in good condition to not being used because it&#x27;s completely ruined. What mental block exists in the original owner from just throwing away the ruined items vs just holding onto them to donate so someone else can throw it away? Do they actually feel like some good is coming from donating worthless items? I honestly just do understand this.</text></item><item><author>gambiting</author><text>We run a processing company for second hand clothing in Poland(as well as our own shops), and while I can&#x27;t comment on exports to Africa or elsewhere, that&#x27;s definitely not the case for us. Primarly because we try to make use of absolutely everything we import, but also because few years back certain legislations were introduced that basically prevent companies like ours from producing large amounts of waste, with draconian fines if we do.<p>So basically we buy clothes from say.....charities in UK or elsewhere, import them to Poland, sort them in our own warehouse, price everything individually, sell in our own shops. Then goods which are damaged&#x2F;stained&#x2F;faulty are cut into pieces and sold as cleaning rags(also done in house). Then things which literally cannot be cut into rags are sold further to a company that shreds them for textile filling for car seats etc. And finally, if you have something so utterly destroyed that it&#x27;s literally useless - say a pair of shoes that have been through mud and disentegrated(why would anyone &quot;donate&quot; these is a different matter), those have to go to the landfill. But I&#x27;d estimate that&#x27;s less than 1% of our entire output.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jeromegv</author><text>Yep, I asked people to do the same recently at a party. They were entirely shocked. It&#x27;s like realizing that your disposable cutlery and plates are actually waste and seeing it going into the actual trash makes them realize how wasteful it is. Recycle (or charity giving of clothes) is such a &quot;guilt free&quot; behaviour, feeling like you do something good for no efforts, so I&#x27;m not surprised people would do it even when it makes no sense.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Many of the clothes we donate to charity end up dumped in landfill</title><url>https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-12/fast-fashion-turning-parts-ghana-into-toxic-landfill/100358702</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mumblemumble</author><text>To add to what others have said, I think that a lot of people have this idea that &quot;trash = bad&quot; so deeply internalized that they&#x27;re heavily biased toward only putting things in the bin when there can be no doubt whatsoever that it is garbage.<p>You also see this when people put greasy paper take-out food containers in the recycling. No, it&#x27;s not recyclable, and worse, it might further contaminate other things and render them non-recyclable as well. But, when I ask houseguests not to put them in our recycle bin, they seem to be honestly startled by the request. Oftentimes they assume it&#x27;s because I&#x27;m a lax recycler and would rather throw things away than sully my pristine recycle bin with uneaten curry.</text></item><item><author>dylan604</author><text>&gt;why would anyone &quot;donate&quot; these is a different matter<p>This is a very big question though. WTF are people thinking? There&#x27;s a difference between no longer wearing something because it no longer fits but is otherwise in good condition to not being used because it&#x27;s completely ruined. What mental block exists in the original owner from just throwing away the ruined items vs just holding onto them to donate so someone else can throw it away? Do they actually feel like some good is coming from donating worthless items? I honestly just do understand this.</text></item><item><author>gambiting</author><text>We run a processing company for second hand clothing in Poland(as well as our own shops), and while I can&#x27;t comment on exports to Africa or elsewhere, that&#x27;s definitely not the case for us. Primarly because we try to make use of absolutely everything we import, but also because few years back certain legislations were introduced that basically prevent companies like ours from producing large amounts of waste, with draconian fines if we do.<p>So basically we buy clothes from say.....charities in UK or elsewhere, import them to Poland, sort them in our own warehouse, price everything individually, sell in our own shops. Then goods which are damaged&#x2F;stained&#x2F;faulty are cut into pieces and sold as cleaning rags(also done in house). Then things which literally cannot be cut into rags are sold further to a company that shreds them for textile filling for car seats etc. And finally, if you have something so utterly destroyed that it&#x27;s literally useless - say a pair of shoes that have been through mud and disentegrated(why would anyone &quot;donate&quot; these is a different matter), those have to go to the landfill. But I&#x27;d estimate that&#x27;s less than 1% of our entire output.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rhino369</author><text>Recycling education is awful in America. I made it about 33 years without hearing that take out containers, etc. can’t be recycled.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Memories of the “Sneakers” Shoot (2012)</title><url>https://web.archive.org/web/20130128143144/http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2012/09/robert_redford_sidney_poitier_ben_kingsley_dan_aykroyd_what_it_was_like_shooting_the_movie_sneakers_.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmuguy</author><text>I absolutely love Sneakers. Whenever folks talk about Hackers or the Matrix or any movies or shows that feature tech I argue that Sneakers is the best movie about hacking. I feel like a crazy old man ranting about it to some of my younger coworkers. It makes me sad that my handle (mother) on a lot of gaming services is much more likely to elicit a comparison to Danzig than Dan Aykroyd&#x27;s character.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toomanyrichies</author><text>Sneakers is one of the few hacking-related movies that I can really enjoy, because it doesn&#x27;t come off as pretentious the way that others do (to me, at least).<p>It was unapologetically nerdy; it doesn&#x27;t try to &quot;be cooler than it is&quot;. The filmmakers didn&#x27;t feel compelled to include a scene filmed in a nightclub (like Swordfish or all 3 Matrix movies). They didn&#x27;t feel compelled to gussy up their characters in absurd costumes (like Hackers or, again, all 3 Matrix movies). The plot and the characters were interesting enough on their own.<p>The result was that I never felt like they were talking down to me or pandering to me. As a side benefit, I&#x27;d argue that Sneakers has aged much better than other hacker movies have.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Memories of the “Sneakers” Shoot (2012)</title><url>https://web.archive.org/web/20130128143144/http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2012/09/robert_redford_sidney_poitier_ben_kingsley_dan_aykroyd_what_it_was_like_shooting_the_movie_sneakers_.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmuguy</author><text>I absolutely love Sneakers. Whenever folks talk about Hackers or the Matrix or any movies or shows that feature tech I argue that Sneakers is the best movie about hacking. I feel like a crazy old man ranting about it to some of my younger coworkers. It makes me sad that my handle (mother) on a lot of gaming services is much more likely to elicit a comparison to Danzig than Dan Aykroyd&#x27;s character.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sybercecurity</author><text>I think that Sneakers was, at its heart, a heist movie and generally heist movies need to have a technical element and be generally believable. There was the &quot;crew&quot; and each member had their expertise.<p>It&#x27;s strange how Sneakers never got the nerd love like Wargames and Hackers did. Maybe because the cast were older, established actors and not young people?</text></comment>
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<story><title>Technical Debt: Why it'll ruin your software</title><url>https://labcodes.com.br/blog/articles/tech-debt.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>solomatov</author><text>In my experience, I have seen much more problems because of over engineering by well meaning people than because of technical debt.<p>Simple but under engineered systems are much easier to rewrite than to simplify over engineered ones.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spamizbad</author><text>One thing I&#x27;ve learned is that what often looks like overengineering is actually <i>under</i>engineering -- it&#x27;s much &quot;easier&quot; to throw together a complicated system than really think things through and develop something that accomplishes the same objectives in a simpler (but possibly more <i>complex</i>) manner.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Technical Debt: Why it'll ruin your software</title><url>https://labcodes.com.br/blog/articles/tech-debt.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>solomatov</author><text>In my experience, I have seen much more problems because of over engineering by well meaning people than because of technical debt.<p>Simple but under engineered systems are much easier to rewrite than to simplify over engineered ones.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spaetzleesser</author><text>I think a lot of today&#x27;s massively tested, microservice and dependency injected systems will end up as huge piles of technical debt in the future. If you think modifying a COBOL codebase today is hard, wait another 20 years and see how much &quot;fun&quot; it will be to rework today&#x27;s systems once their platforms are viewed as outdated.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Tearable Cloth Simulation in JavaScript</title><url>http://codepen.io/stuffit/pen/KrAwx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MrScruff</author><text>Without wishing to appear negative, I do find it odd the way that a technical crowd react to these online demos. Would you have found this impressive if it was a compiled executable? Because this is just the same thing, just running slower because it's on the web. It's not technically novel in any way.<p>If you're curious about the algorithm, then take a look at the presentation 'Advanced Character Physics' by Jacobson. They were used in published games at least 13 years ago and are very widely known and implemented.<p>I get that there's some novelty to this stuff, but we already know that asm.js can achieve performance within a factor of 2 of compiled C code. Since we know that exists, I don't really see what's interesting about seeing each individual piece of code ported to work on the web.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tripzilch</author><text>Imagine if HN and comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos really would have the same audience. So everybody'd be like<p>"oh, cloth simulation. we did that in the 90s",<p>as well as,<p>"... in javascript, even! ... just like scenerdude303 did 8 years ago, except he didn't have a canvas-element back then, web browsers were still make of wood and he had to get up at 5am to write the code in the snow when it was still fresh, type with his bare feet and be crawling uphill both ways, ah, why when I was a young programmer ...", etc.<p><i>Except</i> that many people would also be supportive. Cool cloth demo, it works well! Nice touch with the interactivity and the right-mouse cutting action. Because those two make it fun to play with, and slightly more interesting than just the simulation by itself.<p>Because, and this is something that the actual HN audience should (optimally) also understand, writing a small demo like this is an act of creativity. That should be stimulated no matter what, because--actually I just remembered from some other discussions[0], there's really a load of people here that <i>don't</i> understand this: When making art, there is tremendous value in doing what has been done before. It's called practice, and the value is having the experience of having <i>done</i> something yourself. It's also rumoured to make perfect. It only gets you so far to just <i>know</i> the "why?" and the "how?". To get anywhere you also need to make something. Because <i>only</i> from the vantage-point of being right in the middle of that mess, you can truly decide what your personal take on it, your influence will be. And if you can't, just go right back to practice :)<p>[0] it was a series of InkScape tutorials called "vector game art for programmers" or something. many people were complaining "but he's only showing how to make <i>these</i> characters and objects", that the author didn't explain <i>why</i> the circles go where they should and what a proper shadow should look like. only by people that didn't actually <i>do</i> the exercises, of course. there's no magic involved. just practice. if character faces are too complex, go draw fruits. all fruits. and then remake the rest of pac-man's sprites in vector! (in the snow, uphill both ways, etc)</text></comment>
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<story><title>Tearable Cloth Simulation in JavaScript</title><url>http://codepen.io/stuffit/pen/KrAwx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MrScruff</author><text>Without wishing to appear negative, I do find it odd the way that a technical crowd react to these online demos. Would you have found this impressive if it was a compiled executable? Because this is just the same thing, just running slower because it's on the web. It's not technically novel in any way.<p>If you're curious about the algorithm, then take a look at the presentation 'Advanced Character Physics' by Jacobson. They were used in published games at least 13 years ago and are very widely known and implemented.<p>I get that there's some novelty to this stuff, but we already know that asm.js can achieve performance within a factor of 2 of compiled C code. Since we know that exists, I don't really see what's interesting about seeing each individual piece of code ported to work on the web.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rrreese</author><text>This and your other comment make me really sad. For everything that is posted here on Hacker News, there will be many people who are familiar with it, who have domain knowledge. In a child comment you refer to this as "a game physics 'Hello World'."<p>People who aren't familiar with this sort of thing find it really cool, hence the impressive number of upvotes. These online demos are accessible in the way some exe just isn't.<p>So condescending, dismissive, and of course the top voted comment :/</text></comment>
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<story><title>UFOs shows government competence as either surprisingly high or low</title><url>https://www.overcomingbias.com/2021/05/ufos-say-govt-competence-is-either-surprisingly-high-or-surprisingly-low.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjburgess</author><text>The speed of light essentially prohibits space travel.<p>The fastest possible speed for any material object to travel at is <i>incredibly</i> slow compared to any meaningful distance. It is millenia just from the sun to the edge of our solar system, let alone to anything &quot;near by&quot;.<p>The universe is not the kind of place where living things can travel &quot;between worlds&quot;. This is scifi -- and it is no coincidence UFO sightings peak in the era of Star Treck, and space races.<p>P(All life is organic | All known chemistry) ~= Very High<p>P(All intelligent organic life degrades) ~= Very High<p>thef.<p>P(Alien Life Lasts Long Enough To Travel | Above ) ~= Very Low<p>Physics &amp; Chemistry basically rule out alien contact.<p>Once you insert these priors into your reasoning the &quot;D - it&#x27;s aliens!&quot; becomes extraordinarily implausible.<p>It&#x27;s remarkable this author finds D-Aliens more likely than D-SecretSociety. The latter only requires plausible localised advancements in knowledge and conspiracy; the former requires believing everything we know about biochemistry and physics to be radically incorrect.</text></item><item><author>BoardsOfCanada</author><text>So I&#x27;m reluctant to post this but here we go..<p>In this case it is most probably high competence. Coming out of WW2 it wasn&#x27;t difficult to take national security extremely serious. I thought that there wasn&#x27;t much to the crash(es) near Corona in 1947 but the witness testimonies are just very very convincing, I actually changed my mind after reading up on the subject recently (before I would have said I don&#x27;t know anything about it but I&#x27;d be amazed if it was true).<p>A lot of observations had been made the weeks previous to the crash and gathered a lot of headlines, including the one in Portland that coined the expression &quot;flying saucer&quot;. The person in the photo with the weather balloon is on record saying that it was not a weather balloon, that was a cover story, as are a lot of other people involved in the handling of wreckage and bodies in the days after. These are people that didn&#x27;t come forward but had to be found after several decades.<p>And this was the press release by the military before it was withdrawn and replaced with the balloon story:<p>&quot;The many rumors regarding the flying disc became a reality yesterday when the intelligence office of the 509th Bomb Group of the Eighth Air Force, Roswell Army Air Field, was fortunate enough to gain possession of a disc through the cooperation of one of the local ranchers and the sheriff&#x27;s office of Chaves County&quot;<p>I encourage anyone who is interested to look at Stanton Friedman&#x27;s interviews with witnesses, they are on youtube.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lm28469</author><text>&gt; It is millenia just from the sun to the edge of our solar system<p>?<p>We sent two probes in the 70s and they&#x27;re already out of our solar system, they&#x27;re definitely going waaaay slower than the speed of light<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;science-environment-46502820" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;science-environment-46502820</a></text></comment>
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<story><title>UFOs shows government competence as either surprisingly high or low</title><url>https://www.overcomingbias.com/2021/05/ufos-say-govt-competence-is-either-surprisingly-high-or-surprisingly-low.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjburgess</author><text>The speed of light essentially prohibits space travel.<p>The fastest possible speed for any material object to travel at is <i>incredibly</i> slow compared to any meaningful distance. It is millenia just from the sun to the edge of our solar system, let alone to anything &quot;near by&quot;.<p>The universe is not the kind of place where living things can travel &quot;between worlds&quot;. This is scifi -- and it is no coincidence UFO sightings peak in the era of Star Treck, and space races.<p>P(All life is organic | All known chemistry) ~= Very High<p>P(All intelligent organic life degrades) ~= Very High<p>thef.<p>P(Alien Life Lasts Long Enough To Travel | Above ) ~= Very Low<p>Physics &amp; Chemistry basically rule out alien contact.<p>Once you insert these priors into your reasoning the &quot;D - it&#x27;s aliens!&quot; becomes extraordinarily implausible.<p>It&#x27;s remarkable this author finds D-Aliens more likely than D-SecretSociety. The latter only requires plausible localised advancements in knowledge and conspiracy; the former requires believing everything we know about biochemistry and physics to be radically incorrect.</text></item><item><author>BoardsOfCanada</author><text>So I&#x27;m reluctant to post this but here we go..<p>In this case it is most probably high competence. Coming out of WW2 it wasn&#x27;t difficult to take national security extremely serious. I thought that there wasn&#x27;t much to the crash(es) near Corona in 1947 but the witness testimonies are just very very convincing, I actually changed my mind after reading up on the subject recently (before I would have said I don&#x27;t know anything about it but I&#x27;d be amazed if it was true).<p>A lot of observations had been made the weeks previous to the crash and gathered a lot of headlines, including the one in Portland that coined the expression &quot;flying saucer&quot;. The person in the photo with the weather balloon is on record saying that it was not a weather balloon, that was a cover story, as are a lot of other people involved in the handling of wreckage and bodies in the days after. These are people that didn&#x27;t come forward but had to be found after several decades.<p>And this was the press release by the military before it was withdrawn and replaced with the balloon story:<p>&quot;The many rumors regarding the flying disc became a reality yesterday when the intelligence office of the 509th Bomb Group of the Eighth Air Force, Roswell Army Air Field, was fortunate enough to gain possession of a disc through the cooperation of one of the local ranchers and the sheriff&#x27;s office of Chaves County&quot;<p>I encourage anyone who is interested to look at Stanton Friedman&#x27;s interviews with witnesses, they are on youtube.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrfusion</author><text>You seem to ignore Von nuaman (sp) probes, generation ships, non carbon based life. And that’s before we consider that our understanding of physics may not be complete.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Viral 'I'm not a cat' filter is decades-old software</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56010156</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jonas21</author><text>&gt; <i>As an aside, Microsoft fought in court to force OEMs to not install this crap alongside Windows (reasonably since it was damaging their brand and making the machines less secure), but they lost.</i><p>This was actually central to the DOJ antitrust case against Microsoft. As part of the settlement, Microsoft had to agree to allow OEMs to keep installing crapware [1].<p>It&#x27;s things like this that make me a little nervous when people say that going after big tech with antitrust law will necessarily be good for the consumer.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;stevesi&#x2F;status&#x2F;1274453172665253890" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;stevesi&#x2F;status&#x2F;1274453172665253890</a></text></item><item><author>fossuser</author><text>This makes more sense to me, I was wondering how that would have gotten set by a clueless user.<p>The answer turns out to be that old dell machines shipped some shitty avatar software (along with lots of other stuff) that defaulted to on. The lawyer is probably using an ancient dell computer with this software and hasn&#x27;t used video chat on it before this.<p>This is extra hostile, because it&#x27;s separate from whatever video chat application they were using - so it would have been harder to know about and turn off.<p>As an aside, Microsoft fought in court to force OEMs to not install this crap alongside Windows (reasonably since it was damaging their brand and making the machines less secure), but they lost. Another reason why the macOS model is better for users. OS companies should make their own hardware.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fossuser</author><text>If I had to guess (without reading the case specifically), it&#x27;s probably because Microsoft screwed up by forcing OEMs to not install netscape in order to crush them.<p>It&#x27;s hard to differentiate &#x27;crapware&#x27; from competition, particularly given the context where Microsoft had just leveraged their power over OEMs to crush a competitor.<p>This still sucks though, a better outcome for users would have been Microsoft being able to require the machines to sell with a clean OS and then allowing OEMs to install software for the user at their request (rather than the OEMs being able to bundle crap for kickbacks).<p>Somewhat related, apparently the netscape guys went to Redmond and hung up signs around Microsoft&#x27;s campus mocking them for ignoring the internet. Legend has it Gates saw these and pivoted teams to IE with a focus on crushing Netscape.<p>Startup talk often discusses how most startups fail not due to competition, but because of internal collapse. Big companies can&#x27;t compete, innovator&#x27;s dilemma, etc. There&#x27;s a lot of truth to that but this is a counter example (and others exist too).<p>Wildly stupid to antagonize the elephant that&#x27;s focused on other things to direct all of their resources to destroying you.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Viral 'I'm not a cat' filter is decades-old software</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56010156</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jonas21</author><text>&gt; <i>As an aside, Microsoft fought in court to force OEMs to not install this crap alongside Windows (reasonably since it was damaging their brand and making the machines less secure), but they lost.</i><p>This was actually central to the DOJ antitrust case against Microsoft. As part of the settlement, Microsoft had to agree to allow OEMs to keep installing crapware [1].<p>It&#x27;s things like this that make me a little nervous when people say that going after big tech with antitrust law will necessarily be good for the consumer.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;stevesi&#x2F;status&#x2F;1274453172665253890" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;stevesi&#x2F;status&#x2F;1274453172665253890</a></text></item><item><author>fossuser</author><text>This makes more sense to me, I was wondering how that would have gotten set by a clueless user.<p>The answer turns out to be that old dell machines shipped some shitty avatar software (along with lots of other stuff) that defaulted to on. The lawyer is probably using an ancient dell computer with this software and hasn&#x27;t used video chat on it before this.<p>This is extra hostile, because it&#x27;s separate from whatever video chat application they were using - so it would have been harder to know about and turn off.<p>As an aside, Microsoft fought in court to force OEMs to not install this crap alongside Windows (reasonably since it was damaging their brand and making the machines less secure), but they lost. Another reason why the macOS model is better for users. OS companies should make their own hardware.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>haram_masala</author><text>Matt Stoller’s “Big” includes an interesting (though flawed) history of how anti-monopoly efforts have often been sacrificed for the good of the consumer. Which arguably was a short-term good.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Crush Your Interviews with the Power of Storytelling</title><url>https://www.scarletink.com/p/crush-your-interviews-power-of-storytelling</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lnsru</author><text>I had many many technical interviews this year. Nobody wanted to listen to my stories. I got a technical task and needed to solve it. From explaining steps in Visual Studio on paper how to create a functional hello world GUI. To some crazy undefined system design tasks. The single story I was allowed to tell was my introduction. I never experienced an interview where somebody wanted to do something else than assess my technical skills.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Crush Your Interviews with the Power of Storytelling</title><url>https://www.scarletink.com/p/crush-your-interviews-power-of-storytelling</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bambax</author><text>All true! But not limited to interviewing. Most human interactions rely on some form of storytelling. He who controls the story often control the outcome.<p>Storytelling is how we understand the world.<p>Is this overused? Sure. Do many articles start with the same couple of sentences, so much so as to become ridiculous? Sure. Is the New Yorker one of the greatest offenders? Sure.<p>But we can&#x27;t do without story. It&#x27;s not just that stories are interesting; it&#x27;s that, if there&#x27;s no story, we often cannot understand what is being said.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Dummy display for Apple Silicon Macs to achieve custom resolutions</title><url>https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDummy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>leokennis</author><text>You maybe wouldn’t expect it, but in this regard Windows is far superior to macOS. It will output whatever resolution your monitor has, and then you can just set a “scaling factor” which will make the interface exactly the size you like while still being pixel perfect.<p>Given how simple most UI is, especially these days (circles filled with gradients, roundrects) and given how many different screen sizes and resolutions are used even within Apple’s first party displays, it’s almost insane macOS isn’t resolution independent.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grishka</author><text>Android is like that too. Some devices have non-integer pixel densities (multipliers or device pixel ratios or scaling factors or whatever term you prefer), especially 1.5x aka &quot;hdpi&quot; that was popular around 2011. You can provide separate resources for each pixel density if you still use bitmap graphics for some reason. Oh and there&#x27;s also &quot;ldpi&quot;, which is something like 0.75x, though there were very few devices with it.<p>With how advanced macOS graphics stack is, I don&#x27;t understand why does Apple not do this, instead insisting on using integer multipliers. Some iPhone models, too, render the UI at 3x and then downscale it to fit the screen. Even more curious is the fact that they have returned it as a float for as long as retina displays were a thing: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;appkit&#x2F;nsscreen&#x2F;1388385-backingscalefactor?language=objc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;appkit&#x2F;nsscreen&#x2F;13...</a><p>edit: one important difference I forgot to mention. On Android, all draw calls on the Canvas, and all view dimensions and other things like text sizes, always take physical pixels. It&#x27;s your job to multiply and round everything correctly. On macOS and iOS, all graphics APIs take &quot;points&quot;, which are those logical pixels you get <i>after</i> the scaling is applied, &quot;density-independent pixels&quot; as Android calls them. I guess Apple thought it would make it easier to adapt existing apps to retina displays. Android has always supported UI scaling, so there was no problem designing the API the way it is.</text></comment>
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<story><title>Dummy display for Apple Silicon Macs to achieve custom resolutions</title><url>https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDummy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>leokennis</author><text>You maybe wouldn’t expect it, but in this regard Windows is far superior to macOS. It will output whatever resolution your monitor has, and then you can just set a “scaling factor” which will make the interface exactly the size you like while still being pixel perfect.<p>Given how simple most UI is, especially these days (circles filled with gradients, roundrects) and given how many different screen sizes and resolutions are used even within Apple’s first party displays, it’s almost insane macOS isn’t resolution independent.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seanalltogether</author><text>I agree, resolution independence should be a higher priority for macos. They&#x27;ve been able to dance around the subject by just doubling everything and calling it retina, but true accessibility would allow everyone to set the scale that works best for them.</text></comment>
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