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24,665,360 | 24,664,879 | 1 | 2 | 24,662,626 | train | <story><title>Global capital is the tail that wags the U.S. economic dog</title><url>https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/82847</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ballenf</author><text>Sincere question: why is purchasing power not the defining characteristic of wage growth at least post-gold standard? If I can buy more stuff with the same salary, hasn&#x27;t my salary effectively gone up?<p>Or is your point that only <i>some</i> stuff is cheaper, but the total standard of living supportable by average wages has nevertheless dropped?</text></item><item><author>PaulDavisThe1st</author><text>&gt; money can move much faster and more freely than labor.<p>That&#x27;s a result of political choices made in many jurisdictions, it&#x27;s not a law of nature. The EU made a very conscious decision to tie free movement of labor to free movement of capital within its operating zone (probably the only such economic agreement of its kind).<p>The choices that the US has made are entirely favorable to capital, and entirely disfavorable to all non-professional labor. The only upside I can see (and I&#x27;m not alone in this) is cheap consumer goods that have obscured the true cost and depth of wage stagnation over 35 years.</text></item><item><author>snake_plissken</author><text>Along the lines of this article, there&#x27;s the dilemma&#x2F;contradiction faced by modern globalisation in that money can move much faster and more freely than labor. In previous iterations (late 1700s, 1800s and the first few decades of the 1900s) labor and money moved at basically the same speed: as an investor, your capital (gold&#x2F;silver, then whatever money instrument replaced it) took the same boat&#x2F;train&#x2F;carriage as labor. This had a moderating effect, and the system was able to almost always equalize itself in terms of trade and investments flows.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dtech</author><text>Because purchasing power is quite hard to quantify. It requires you to define a set of goods the &quot;average&quot; consumer uses. This leaves much more wiggle room for manipulation and politicization. [1]<p>Wage in currency is a lot simpler. The only real manipulation possibility is currency value and some minor tinkering in the definitions.<p>[1] For example a major criticisms of the euro-zone inflation index is that it excludes housing cost: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Harmonised_Index_of_Consumer_Prices#Controversy_on_housing_prices" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Harmonised_Index_of_Consumer_P...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Global capital is the tail that wags the U.S. economic dog</title><url>https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/82847</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ballenf</author><text>Sincere question: why is purchasing power not the defining characteristic of wage growth at least post-gold standard? If I can buy more stuff with the same salary, hasn&#x27;t my salary effectively gone up?<p>Or is your point that only <i>some</i> stuff is cheaper, but the total standard of living supportable by average wages has nevertheless dropped?</text></item><item><author>PaulDavisThe1st</author><text>&gt; money can move much faster and more freely than labor.<p>That&#x27;s a result of political choices made in many jurisdictions, it&#x27;s not a law of nature. The EU made a very conscious decision to tie free movement of labor to free movement of capital within its operating zone (probably the only such economic agreement of its kind).<p>The choices that the US has made are entirely favorable to capital, and entirely disfavorable to all non-professional labor. The only upside I can see (and I&#x27;m not alone in this) is cheap consumer goods that have obscured the true cost and depth of wage stagnation over 35 years.</text></item><item><author>snake_plissken</author><text>Along the lines of this article, there&#x27;s the dilemma&#x2F;contradiction faced by modern globalisation in that money can move much faster and more freely than labor. In previous iterations (late 1700s, 1800s and the first few decades of the 1900s) labor and money moved at basically the same speed: as an investor, your capital (gold&#x2F;silver, then whatever money instrument replaced it) took the same boat&#x2F;train&#x2F;carriage as labor. This had a moderating effect, and the system was able to almost always equalize itself in terms of trade and investments flows.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chickenmonkey</author><text>It makes sense if their point is that only some stuff is cheaper. It&#x27;s cheap in the US to buy processed food and appliances but college and healthcare costs are pretty high, and it&#x27;s hard for young people to find good housing.</text></comment> |
41,677,528 | 41,677,032 | 1 | 3 | 41,676,653 | train | <story><title>If WordPress is to survive, Matt Mullenweg must be removed</title><url>https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/fire-matt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pilgrim0</author><text>According to his recent interview on Primeagen, he argues that WPEngine operations incur high costs to his company, due to the millions of installations consuming resources from Wordpress.org. And despite being a very large player, they contribute nothing back to the ecosystem. He argues that they even illegally modified code attributions (stripe plugin) which diverts millions from Automattic. The fact that it took, apparently, so long for him to take some action can be interpreted in his favor, because he tolerated a lot along the years. Add the fact that they had somewhat good relations before WPEngine being taken over by private equity. So this is not about trademark, trademark is the best weapon he has to fight back against a very bad neighbor. And being the sole trademark holder, Automattic can enforce it arbitrarily, as it sees fit. Taking side with WPEngine I think is not only rationally baseless, but also immoral, since they put nothing and only take, which is in the very opposite of what Matt represents, whether or not you like Wordpress.</text></item><item><author>mvkel</author><text>Given the age and ubiquity of Wordpress, I am shocked at the relative immaturity of Matt&#x27;s communication skills.<p>He thinks the world has all the historical understanding and nuance of the situation. Why would they?<p>This looks like a world record speedrun attempt (any%) at destroying a legacy.<p>It&#x27;s worth noting that WPEngine looked like this all the way back in 2011: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20110112043959&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wpengine.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20110112043959&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wpengine.c...</a><p>They have never pretended to be anything else.<p>Why now, Matt?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>caseysoftware</author><text>&gt; <i>He argues that they even illegally modified code attributions (stripe plugin) which diverts millions from Automattic.</i><p>From reviewing the code, this is not &quot;attribution&quot; in the sense of &quot;here&#x27;s who wrote this code&quot; but specifically and literally an partner code.. aka an affiliate code or what we&#x27;d normally call &quot;a setting&quot;<p>As GPL&#x27;d software, they <i>cannot</i> prevent people from modifying this code and - if they do - Automattic&#x27;s only counter is to complain about it.<p>Further, since it&#x27;s a revenue-generating code, it should be disclosed in the README, etc of the plugin and changeable via the Admin. It doesn&#x27;t appear either is true.<p>Ref: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;woocommerce&#x2F;woocommerce-gateway-stripe&#x2F;pull&#x2F;1554">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;woocommerce&#x2F;woocommerce-gateway-stripe&#x2F;pu...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>If WordPress is to survive, Matt Mullenweg must be removed</title><url>https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/fire-matt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pilgrim0</author><text>According to his recent interview on Primeagen, he argues that WPEngine operations incur high costs to his company, due to the millions of installations consuming resources from Wordpress.org. And despite being a very large player, they contribute nothing back to the ecosystem. He argues that they even illegally modified code attributions (stripe plugin) which diverts millions from Automattic. The fact that it took, apparently, so long for him to take some action can be interpreted in his favor, because he tolerated a lot along the years. Add the fact that they had somewhat good relations before WPEngine being taken over by private equity. So this is not about trademark, trademark is the best weapon he has to fight back against a very bad neighbor. And being the sole trademark holder, Automattic can enforce it arbitrarily, as it sees fit. Taking side with WPEngine I think is not only rationally baseless, but also immoral, since they put nothing and only take, which is in the very opposite of what Matt represents, whether or not you like Wordpress.</text></item><item><author>mvkel</author><text>Given the age and ubiquity of Wordpress, I am shocked at the relative immaturity of Matt&#x27;s communication skills.<p>He thinks the world has all the historical understanding and nuance of the situation. Why would they?<p>This looks like a world record speedrun attempt (any%) at destroying a legacy.<p>It&#x27;s worth noting that WPEngine looked like this all the way back in 2011: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20110112043959&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wpengine.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20110112043959&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wpengine.c...</a><p>They have never pretended to be anything else.<p>Why now, Matt?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Atotalnoob</author><text>Actually no, trademark is a “use it or lose it” state, waiting so long will not be in their favor</text></comment> |
12,078,838 | 12,078,857 | 1 | 2 | 12,076,833 | train | <story><title>New Electric Motor That’s Super Light and Powerful for Electric Airplanes</title><url>https://transportevolved.com/2016/07/08/siemens-showcases-brand-new-electric-motor-thats-super-light-super-powerful-and-perfect-for-electric-airplanes/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>swingbridge</author><text>A lighter engine certainly doesn&#x27;t hurt, but it&#x27;s really the batteries that are an issue. The other item often overlooked on the battery front is that most batteries hate the cold. Take your iPhone out on a 20F day and see how long that 100% charge lasts! (Spoiler alert, likely a few minutes).<p>As you go up in the atmosphere things start to get really cold. Until the weight and temperature issues with batteries can be address electrical aviation will be mostly a concept on paper.</text></comment> | <story><title>New Electric Motor That’s Super Light and Powerful for Electric Airplanes</title><url>https://transportevolved.com/2016/07/08/siemens-showcases-brand-new-electric-motor-thats-super-light-super-powerful-and-perfect-for-electric-airplanes/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kragen</author><text>You&#x27;d think that since the article is about how this motor is a new record in power density (or rather specific power), it would include the specific power in the article somewhere. You would be wrong, but it does include the information needed to calculate it. The SP260D motor they&#x27;re talking about has a specific power of 260 kW &#x2F; 50 kg = 5.2 kW&#x2F;kg. It&#x27;s not clear if this includes the weight of the batteries or not.<p>The article says the usual motor for the Walter Extra 330L is 315 horsepower, which is 234 kW. The &quot;E&quot; in the model number &quot;330LE&quot; apparently refers to the electric version.<p>To contextualize, motor specific power is actually really important for heavier-than-air flight. The reason Leonardo&#x27;s helicopter designs wouldn&#x27;t work is a lack of specific power in the (human) motors he had in mind, more than any aerodynamic reason. (Sufficiently high specific powers can overcome even remarkably poor aerodynamics.) The Wright brothers&#x27; main innovations were: a workable system for steering, and a motor with sufficiently high specific power.<p>The bit about the motor&#x27;s end shield seems to be describing topological optimization, but the description of the process is somewhat ambiguous. It would be nice to see a picture of the end shield and maybe information about how it&#x27;s made.<p>Maybe a less clueless, though even more information-scarce, article is <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flyingmag.com&#x2F;extra-unveils-electric-330le" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flyingmag.com&#x2F;extra-unveils-electric-330le</a><p>Other commenters are pointing out that this won&#x27;t work for long-distance flight. The Flying article I linked above says it will actually only last either 5 minutes or 15–20 minutes (it seems to contradict itself, but maybe I just don&#x27;t understand it.) So it&#x27;s adequate for aerobatics only. But it should be better at aerobatics than the standard engine was.<p>Further links from other comments:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12060954" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12060954</a> <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gizmag.com&#x2F;siemens-world-record-electric-motor-aircraft&#x2F;37048&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gizmag.com&#x2F;siemens-world-record-electric-motor-ai...</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;newshour.online&#x2F;2016&#x2F;07&#x2F;04&#x2F;world-record-electric-motor-makes-first-flight&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;newshour.online&#x2F;2016&#x2F;07&#x2F;04&#x2F;world-record-electric-mot...</a></text></comment> |
35,277,943 | 35,276,760 | 1 | 2 | 35,271,962 | train | <story><title>Sex worker-led payment platform shuts down after being cut off by processor</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/88x9mb/spankpay-sex-work-payment-platform-shuts-down</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>onetrickwolf</author><text>We completely privatized payments without realizing it. Credit cards are no longer some extra benefit on top of your bank account, it&#x27;s how basically almost all commerce is required now. Private companies collect basically a tax on almost all transactions in our economy.<p>I don&#x27;t know how we let them get away with this. Facilitating commerce should 100% be a government operation and be free. To accept cash I pay paying the US government a fraction of a percent I&#x27;m taxes compared to credit card fees.<p>The fact that, on top of all this, they are essentially policing what can and cannot be sold and bought should be outrageous to people. It&#x27;s a complete conflict of interest that companies can shut down payments to and from competitors to their investments.<p>People can say &quot;oh just don&#x27;t use or accept visa etc&quot; but good luck staying in business or buying anything online.<p>We absolutely need some kind of government backed digital payment system in my opinion. Credit card rewards should also be illegal they are nothing but hidden fees passed to you by charging the business more.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>globular-toast</author><text>&gt; Private companies collect basically a tax on almost all transactions in our economy.<p>Forget transactions, they collect a tax on almost all <i>money</i> in the economy. Something like 97% of money in circulation is simply bank loans (like mortgages) that haven&#x27;t been paid back yet.<p>I encourage anyone to walk around a financial district somewhere and really think about what it&#x27;s all for. On the inside of some of those buildings there might be people, but they aren&#x27;t doing much. On the inside of many there aren&#x27;t even any people.<p>Finance definitely has value, but is it really that much? It&#x27;s a fraction of what they take.<p>How they get away with it is the interesting part. There&#x27;s just something about money. There will always be a very large part of the population who just don&#x27;t get it. Then there are some who excel with it. It brings out the worst in many and it downright scares the rest. All that&#x27;s clear is we need to get a grip on it. Bitcoin was the latest attempt.<p>I can&#x27;t recommend enough the book <i>Other People&#x27;s Money</i> by John Kay.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sex worker-led payment platform shuts down after being cut off by processor</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/88x9mb/spankpay-sex-work-payment-platform-shuts-down</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>onetrickwolf</author><text>We completely privatized payments without realizing it. Credit cards are no longer some extra benefit on top of your bank account, it&#x27;s how basically almost all commerce is required now. Private companies collect basically a tax on almost all transactions in our economy.<p>I don&#x27;t know how we let them get away with this. Facilitating commerce should 100% be a government operation and be free. To accept cash I pay paying the US government a fraction of a percent I&#x27;m taxes compared to credit card fees.<p>The fact that, on top of all this, they are essentially policing what can and cannot be sold and bought should be outrageous to people. It&#x27;s a complete conflict of interest that companies can shut down payments to and from competitors to their investments.<p>People can say &quot;oh just don&#x27;t use or accept visa etc&quot; but good luck staying in business or buying anything online.<p>We absolutely need some kind of government backed digital payment system in my opinion. Credit card rewards should also be illegal they are nothing but hidden fees passed to you by charging the business more.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thethimble</author><text>I have a feeling that a government run payment system would also forbid illegal activity (eg laundering, etc). I agree that a private payments network is not ideal but the question at hand is how should transactions facilitating illegal activity be handled?<p>To be clear I’m not passing a moral judgement on sex work - just pointing out the fact that it’s presently illegal in many forms and jurisdictions and that fact is relevant.</text></comment> |
6,893,780 | 6,893,679 | 1 | 3 | 6,893,658 | train | <story><title>Coinbase Raises $25 Million From Andreessen Horowitz</title><url>http://blog.coinbase.com/post/69775463031/coinbase-raises-25-million-from-andreessen-horowitz</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>coderdude</author><text>Coinbase is cruising at escape velocity. I signed up for an account around the time they launched. I had some questions about button creation so I emailed them. In response, Brian (the founder) coded up a button API to make it possible to generate payment buttons on the fly. Needless to say, the show of dedication was impressive. Congratulations to the Coinbase team.</text></comment> | <story><title>Coinbase Raises $25 Million From Andreessen Horowitz</title><url>http://blog.coinbase.com/post/69775463031/coinbase-raises-25-million-from-andreessen-horowitz</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>coinbase-craig</author><text>We are hiring for lots of positions. If you are interested and enthusiastic about bitcoin (or just curious), please take a look:<p><a href="https://coinbase.com/careers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coinbase.com&#x2F;careers</a></text></comment> |
28,099,555 | 28,099,768 | 1 | 2 | 28,098,664 | train | <story><title>The Era of Cheap Natural Gas Ends as Prices Surge by 1000%</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-06/the-era-of-cheap-natural-gas-ends-as-prices-surge-by-1-000</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mbgerring</author><text>This is good, because this will make renewables more competitive with natural gas than they already are, which will provide leverage to people arguing for more renewable capacity instead of gas. Natural gas has already fulfilled its usefulness as a “bridge fuel,” and here on the other side of the bridge, renewables are getting cheaper and more reliable by the day. It’s time to move on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gbrown</author><text>People look at me funny when I say I hope gas prices go up. It’s just basic economics - we’re running up ruinous externality debt, so just about anything that pushes us towards sustainability is good.<p>There should be some incentive not to drive an F350 to an office job…</text></comment> | <story><title>The Era of Cheap Natural Gas Ends as Prices Surge by 1000%</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-06/the-era-of-cheap-natural-gas-ends-as-prices-surge-by-1-000</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mbgerring</author><text>This is good, because this will make renewables more competitive with natural gas than they already are, which will provide leverage to people arguing for more renewable capacity instead of gas. Natural gas has already fulfilled its usefulness as a “bridge fuel,” and here on the other side of the bridge, renewables are getting cheaper and more reliable by the day. It’s time to move on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fuoqi</author><text>&gt;Natural gas has already fulfilled its usefulness as a “bridge fuel”<p>Seeing how Poland still gets approximately 70% of its electricity from coal, I wouldn&#x27;t say so. Also until the grid-scale storage problem (at least on the level of storing several days of grid consumption) will not be properly solved (personally I am fan of underground pumped hydro storage built on top of artificially dug cavities), I don&#x27;t think we will see large predominantly renewable grids not backed up by natural gas power plants.<p>And don&#x27;t forget that natural gas consumption is not only about electricity. But also about heat generation (both in households and industry) and production of various chemicals.</text></comment> |
29,507,325 | 29,506,003 | 1 | 2 | 29,504,521 | train | <story><title>How do you fix a stroad?</title><url>https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2021/12/2/how-do-you-actually-fix-a-stroad</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>trinovantes</author><text>The Not Just Bikes youtube channel was quite the rabbit hole. It has convinced me that I really hate North American car-centric cities. It&#x27;s a shame there&#x27;s basically no country in the anglosphere designed for pedestrians like most European countries.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trapexit</author><text>The Netherlands may not be an English-first country, but something like 95% of the Dutch speak English, a higher percentage than in Canada(!). In central Amsterdam, the default language may as well be English.<p>It is also surprisingly easy for Americans to relocate here if they are in a tech career (keyword: highly-skilled migrant) or remote-working&#x2F;entrepreneurial (keyword: Dutch-American Friendship Treaty). It&#x27;s even possible to keep paying an income tax rate similar to that of the USA for the first 5 years. Might even be a lower total income tax rate if you&#x27;re coming from a high-tax state like CA&#x2F;OR&#x2F;NY (keyword: 30% ruling).<p>Some advantages: safety (both in terms of infrastructure and crime); affordable high-quality universal healthcare; efficient government bureaucracy; fast and easy travel throughout the entire country and to France, Germany and the rest of Europe; relaxed attitudes toward dogs compared to the US (generally off-leash friendly and dogs can go into most shops &amp; cafes)<p>Some disadvantages: higher cost-of-living and lower salaries compared to the US; narrower variety of consumer products (food, clothing, etc.) available than in the US&#x2F;UK; many say it&#x27;s difficult to make Dutch friends, especially if you don&#x27;t speak Dutch (though on the flip side, this effect makes it exceedingly easy to make expat friends); terrain is mostly flat; weather sucks compared to California; many find the Dutch language difficult to learn in spite of (or because of?) its similarities to English</text></comment> | <story><title>How do you fix a stroad?</title><url>https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2021/12/2/how-do-you-actually-fix-a-stroad</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>trinovantes</author><text>The Not Just Bikes youtube channel was quite the rabbit hole. It has convinced me that I really hate North American car-centric cities. It&#x27;s a shame there&#x27;s basically no country in the anglosphere designed for pedestrians like most European countries.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ReaLNero</author><text>If you draw the line at country, sure. But America is huge compared to European nation-states.<p>NYC is very public transportation-oriented. The Northeast corridor Amtrak line also is a big boon!</text></comment> |
26,147,145 | 26,146,055 | 1 | 2 | 26,141,009 | train | <story><title>The name’s Ford, Alan Ford: how an Italian comic book spy became a Yugoslav hero</title><url>https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/12465/alan-ford-comic-books-yugoslavia</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>NikolaNovak</author><text>Read them as a kid; did not enjoy illustrations at the time because everything was so... trashy, crappy, make-shift -- which as an adult I realize was exactly the point :)<p>It also caused UNTOLD confusion to my childhood mind. It was translated into our language, but they left the honorific &quot;Sir&quot; untranslated, as-is.<p>&quot;Sir&quot; means &quot;Cheese&quot; in my language... :O<p>As far as I was concerned for several years, whenever the characters in the comic spoke to anybody of authority, they would speak like:<p>&quot;Cheese Bob, please Cheese, don&#x27;t beat us up Cheese!&quot;
&quot;Cheese YES Cheese!&quot;
&quot;I&#x27;m terribly sorry Cheese. It will not happen again Cheese!&quot;<p>... honestly, I missed that dose of surrealism when I put 2 and 2 together eventually :-D</text></comment> | <story><title>The name’s Ford, Alan Ford: how an Italian comic book spy became a Yugoslav hero</title><url>https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/12465/alan-ford-comic-books-yugoslavia</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>boomskats</author><text>Ha! My dad, to this day, makes Alan Ford references on a regular basis. I&#x27;m pretty sure he even used to make those same references when talking to his native British colleagues, using them to describe life in the former Yugoslavia &amp; assuming they&#x27;d read the same comics as kids.<p>What&#x27;s funny is that at one point, I realised I reference random episodes of South Park in conversation in exactly the same way (to people who mostly have no idea what I&#x27;m talking about). Those comics must have been pretty on point.</text></comment> |
25,972,585 | 25,972,134 | 1 | 2 | 25,971,085 | train | <story><title>IBM paperweight teardown: Reverse-engineering 1970s memory chips</title><url>https://www.righto.com/2021/01/ibm-paperweight-teardown-reverse.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Syzygies</author><text>Twenty years ago I bought two core memory planes (1960&#x27;s, $6K new) for $50 each. Gave one to my dad, kept the other. Astonished these hadn&#x27;t inflated like art work.</text></comment> | <story><title>IBM paperweight teardown: Reverse-engineering 1970s memory chips</title><url>https://www.righto.com/2021/01/ibm-paperweight-teardown-reverse.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kens</author><text>Author here: anyone else have interesting IBM artifacts to discuss?</text></comment> |
35,068,898 | 35,068,681 | 1 | 2 | 35,058,965 | train | <story><title>Trouble with Erythritol</title><url>https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/trouble-erythritol</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>prmoustache</author><text>So basically you came to a point you can&#x27;t even eat fruits? How is it supposed to improve your health&#x2F;life?</text></item><item><author>sfjailbird</author><text>Just some anecdata: I have followed a disciplined keto diet for two-and-a-half years. I eat close to no carbs (apart from fiber). I do, however, like sweet stuff, so I use artificial sweeteners. Lots of them, every day. A mix of stevia, aspartame, sugar alcohols like erythritol, and so on.<p>I have never had an issue with them (that I am able to notice, of course, not saying they can&#x27;t have some hidden harmful effects). For those saying that they are a slippery slide to eating more real sugar, I don&#x27;t think so. At this point I recoil at eating anything with real sugar. It is overwhelmingly sweet, it almost burns in the mouth, and later I get bloated and retain water. I believe this is one of the criticisms of artificial sweeteners - that it lowers your ability to clear blood sugar, since you&#x27;re just not used to having to produce a lot of insulin at one time. Well I don&#x27;t actually want to eat a lot of sugar ever, so I&#x27;m okay with that.<p>I&#x27;m almost certain that artificial sweeteners have some bad effects somehow, but the bad effects of sugar are plentiful and obvious, so for now the trade-off makes sense, to me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JackMorgan</author><text>I think fruit is seriously overrated from a health perspective. The main benefit of fruit comes when comparing it to candy, white bread, and desserts. Fruit usually has a bit more fiber. Many modern fruits still have a ton of sugar, and it&#x27;s absolutely possible to give yourself diabetes just eating too much fruit.<p>Vegetables are packed with nutrients and fiber, without all the sugars that fruit brings.<p>I tend to think sugar and flour belongs at the top of a pyramid, fruit in the middle, and veggies is the base. However cutting out fruit altogether probably won&#x27;t hurt at all.</text></comment> | <story><title>Trouble with Erythritol</title><url>https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/trouble-erythritol</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>prmoustache</author><text>So basically you came to a point you can&#x27;t even eat fruits? How is it supposed to improve your health&#x2F;life?</text></item><item><author>sfjailbird</author><text>Just some anecdata: I have followed a disciplined keto diet for two-and-a-half years. I eat close to no carbs (apart from fiber). I do, however, like sweet stuff, so I use artificial sweeteners. Lots of them, every day. A mix of stevia, aspartame, sugar alcohols like erythritol, and so on.<p>I have never had an issue with them (that I am able to notice, of course, not saying they can&#x27;t have some hidden harmful effects). For those saying that they are a slippery slide to eating more real sugar, I don&#x27;t think so. At this point I recoil at eating anything with real sugar. It is overwhelmingly sweet, it almost burns in the mouth, and later I get bloated and retain water. I believe this is one of the criticisms of artificial sweeteners - that it lowers your ability to clear blood sugar, since you&#x27;re just not used to having to produce a lot of insulin at one time. Well I don&#x27;t actually want to eat a lot of sugar ever, so I&#x27;m okay with that.<p>I&#x27;m almost certain that artificial sweeteners have some bad effects somehow, but the bad effects of sugar are plentiful and obvious, so for now the trade-off makes sense, to me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sneak</author><text>Most people (like myself) that keep in ketosis are doing so for weight loss.<p>Being fat is a lot more deadly than not eating fruits.</text></comment> |
35,815,459 | 35,814,682 | 1 | 2 | 35,813,763 | train | <story><title>Shopify will be smaller by about 20% and Flexport will buy Shopify Logistics</title><url>https://news.shopify.com/important-team-and-business-changes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>curiousllama</author><text>In sports this is the &quot;absolute vote of confidence&quot;<p>Once a coach has to say &quot;[player] has my absolute confidence in their success,&quot; you know the player is ~2 weeks from being benched.</text></item><item><author>marcinzm</author><text>In my observation absolute statements about no layoffs are a strong indication of future layoffs in this economy. It&#x27;s impossible to be certain in this economy so giving an absolute statement is basically a lie. Someone who is so brazen about lying to&#x2F;deceiving their employees will have no qualms with doing layoffs. On the other hand someone who uses more careful language even if it costs them in the short term is someone who will have more qualms about layoffs.</text></item><item><author>Rafert</author><text>Things changed quite a bit since this quote from February 17:<p>&gt; “There’s no cuts coming for us,” Harley Finkelstein told The Canadian Press. “We’re in a really good place.”<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;globalnews.ca&#x2F;news&#x2F;9494197&#x2F;shopify-outlook-no-layoffs-coming-president&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;globalnews.ca&#x2F;news&#x2F;9494197&#x2F;shopify-outlook-no-layoff...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BoxFour</author><text>I think this is actually a more astute analogy than you realize, because the only reason a coach would be asked that question in the first place is because there are questions about the player’s ability to perform—-as the sibling comment here notes.<p>Similarly, you don’t ask tech companies if they’re doing layoffs when the sector is booming.<p>That the question is even asked probably shoots the probability of benching&#x2F;layoffs up to some ridiculous amount to begin with.</text></comment> | <story><title>Shopify will be smaller by about 20% and Flexport will buy Shopify Logistics</title><url>https://news.shopify.com/important-team-and-business-changes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>curiousllama</author><text>In sports this is the &quot;absolute vote of confidence&quot;<p>Once a coach has to say &quot;[player] has my absolute confidence in their success,&quot; you know the player is ~2 weeks from being benched.</text></item><item><author>marcinzm</author><text>In my observation absolute statements about no layoffs are a strong indication of future layoffs in this economy. It&#x27;s impossible to be certain in this economy so giving an absolute statement is basically a lie. Someone who is so brazen about lying to&#x2F;deceiving their employees will have no qualms with doing layoffs. On the other hand someone who uses more careful language even if it costs them in the short term is someone who will have more qualms about layoffs.</text></item><item><author>Rafert</author><text>Things changed quite a bit since this quote from February 17:<p>&gt; “There’s no cuts coming for us,” Harley Finkelstein told The Canadian Press. “We’re in a really good place.”<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;globalnews.ca&#x2F;news&#x2F;9494197&#x2F;shopify-outlook-no-layoffs-coming-president&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;globalnews.ca&#x2F;news&#x2F;9494197&#x2F;shopify-outlook-no-layoff...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>duxup</author><text>I agree, but I think the sports analogy is even more on point when it comes to sports management giving a vote of confidence to coaches. You only ever have to say anything like that when there are questions.<p>Coaches and players... they talk about each other a lot.</text></comment> |
40,883,241 | 40,881,314 | 1 | 2 | 40,845,628 | train | <story><title>Shipt’s algorithm squeezed gig workers, who fought back</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/shipt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>robocat</author><text>&gt; They can charge each customer exactly the maximum amount possible<p>The company captures the consumer surplus. Generally currently we often get way more value than we pay for. We hate having that surplus taken away from us and we hate being charged what something is worth to us.<p>Two questions: How do we fight back? Is it unfair that we pay the amount that something is worth to us individually?<p>Currently think of any service you use and the value you get from it. What happens when Apple or Google start to try and capture the consumer surplus we receive?</text></item><item><author>russdill</author><text>We are entering an era where corporations have perfect data. They can charge each customer exactly the maximum amount possible, and pay each worker the exact minimum amount possible</text></item><item><author>theptip</author><text>A clear case of adverse selection in the old pricing model.<p>From a game-theoretic perspective in a gig marketplace you don’t want jobs that are strictly better, else sophisticated market participants (workers) will select the best ones leaving chaff - and a worse experience - for the less sophisticated participants.<p>What you are looking for is preference optionality, eg one Uber driver might prefer not to do very long trips, another might prefer it, and you ideally get paid fairly for either.<p>In this case as others have noted, it doesn’t actually sound like an unfair change. Perhaps communications could have been better though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blackbear_</author><text>If every product&#x2F;service has exactly zero consumer surplus, then consumers won&#x27;t have any reason to prefer product&#x2F;service A at price p over product&#x2F;service B at price q, or even over not spending money at all. This will kill innovation, since business competition is based on providing a higher consumer surplus (better quality for the same amount of money, or same quality for less money). This is a clear market failure, therefore this kind of discriminatory pricing should be made illegal.</text></comment> | <story><title>Shipt’s algorithm squeezed gig workers, who fought back</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/shipt</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>robocat</author><text>&gt; They can charge each customer exactly the maximum amount possible<p>The company captures the consumer surplus. Generally currently we often get way more value than we pay for. We hate having that surplus taken away from us and we hate being charged what something is worth to us.<p>Two questions: How do we fight back? Is it unfair that we pay the amount that something is worth to us individually?<p>Currently think of any service you use and the value you get from it. What happens when Apple or Google start to try and capture the consumer surplus we receive?</text></item><item><author>russdill</author><text>We are entering an era where corporations have perfect data. They can charge each customer exactly the maximum amount possible, and pay each worker the exact minimum amount possible</text></item><item><author>theptip</author><text>A clear case of adverse selection in the old pricing model.<p>From a game-theoretic perspective in a gig marketplace you don’t want jobs that are strictly better, else sophisticated market participants (workers) will select the best ones leaving chaff - and a worse experience - for the less sophisticated participants.<p>What you are looking for is preference optionality, eg one Uber driver might prefer not to do very long trips, another might prefer it, and you ideally get paid fairly for either.<p>In this case as others have noted, it doesn’t actually sound like an unfair change. Perhaps communications could have been better though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simoncion</author><text>&gt; [W]e hate being charged what something is worth to us.<p>I&#x27;ll rephrase this in a way that&#x27;s more straightforward and clear:<p>&gt; We hate being charged every penny we could conceivably pay for a given thing.<p>In part because many ordinary folks believe that a fair deal is for businesses to cover the cost of R&amp;D for the thing and the cost of getting it to us, as well as a reasonable profit to cover both expected future support and future R&amp;D for improvements and&#x2F;or new products.<p>And also in part because most folks can figure out what&#x27;s likely to happen when <i>every</i> company out there demands that we pay them not just enough to cover the above, but every penny we could conceivably pay for the thing. (To spell it out: One suddenly has to make very hard choices about what one does without... likely for an uncomfortably long time. [0])<p>[0] If you think that this wouldn&#x27;t happen, or that if it did it would be over in a matter of weeks (rather than years) remember the aphorism &quot;The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.&quot;.</text></comment> |
10,861,881 | 10,861,683 | 1 | 2 | 10,858,299 | train | <story><title>Academics, we need to talk</title><url>http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2016/01/academics-we-need-to-talk.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PaulHoule</author><text>There is an attitude of entitlement here.<p>Students spend their money and time to learn something and frequently they get worked like a racehorse and nobody cares about if what they learn is transferable after the academic system no longer needs them.<p>If you are not going to be relevant to society the only thing I can do is vote for somebody who is going to cut your research budget.</text></item><item><author>hackbinary</author><text><i>I&#x27;m getting kind of sick of this tactic, where this fake concession is made before going on about how academia isn&#x27;t designed well enough to deliver to industry.</i><p>This +1, er +1,000,000.<p>I would firmly state that academia by definition is not supposed to &#x27;deliver to industry&#x27;, and not even to society. The whole point of academia is to give the very smartest people (whatever that means) the freedom to explore ideas, so that a some point humanity may benefit from their ideas, experiments, and research.<p>My point is that it could be any number of generations of research from the current generation of (what seems like quack) research (to the establishment) will turn into being instrumental to our understanding of the universe. Galileo Galilei (and Copernicus) for instance. Their ideas (and research) did not sit well with the establishment of the Church (which was pretty much the central authority of everything at the time), but their ideas are now central to our understanding of our Solar system.<p>edit: formatting.</text></item><item><author>forgottenpass</author><text><i>Now, I don&#x27;t think all academic research has to be relevant to industry.</i><p>I&#x27;m getting kind of sick of this tactic, where this fake concession is made before going on about how academia isn&#x27;t designed well enough to deliver to industry.<p>If authors of articles like this didn&#x27;t care about the efficiency of academia to deliver them research, what&#x27;s the big deal if there are a bunch of people somewhere running around in circles? Hey, at least the CS academics occasionally produce something useful to industry, which is more than I can say about other groups running in circles. Sure it could be about burning through money, or a real desire to improve the state of CS academia. But if that was the case I&#x27;d expect these articles to have categorically different discussion and calls to action. Or - at the very least - address goals of acedemia other than performing research for industry.<p>I&#x27;ve never been an academic, and never want to be, but even I gave up reading after the &quot;(I know, crazy, right?)&quot; line. At that point, I knew for 100% sure, that the target audience of this article is not academics. Nobody is that much of a condescending prick to the person they&#x27;re trying to persuade. This is not a &quot;we need to talk&quot; conversation this is a &quot;I need to talk at you, so I can show off to other people.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hackbinary</author><text>Some would say that we should divide universities up into more separate institutions for Arts, Philosophy, Fine Arts, Natural Sciences, Applied Science, Math, Social Sciences, Business, Law, Medicine (or is that a Science?) and others, but the point of universities is be places of knowledge, and to help foster cross pollination between the disciplines. The point of independent research is to be unfettered by government, business, and indeed wider society as a whole.<p>Government and business and society should not be fettering independent research, just the same as they should not be interfering with law courts. The point of independent research is for the independent researchers to have the freedom to follow their research even though it might not be popular with the local Wood Pulp mill pumping dioxins into the local river, and that is pollution is going to cause cancer. This research may not be popular with many in the community because it will impact their jobs. This research may not be popular with the government, and elected officials because it will affect their tax receipts and donations. This research my not be popular with you because it is going to put your family out jobs, but it is important research, we can ultimately make <i>informed</i> decisions.<p>That is the point of research, information, and knowledge--so we can make informed and reasoned decisions.<p>I just can not believe the attitude and entitlement of some who think that just because they <i>pay</i> tax they think everything that is not obviously useful to themselves is useless.</text></comment> | <story><title>Academics, we need to talk</title><url>http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2016/01/academics-we-need-to-talk.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PaulHoule</author><text>There is an attitude of entitlement here.<p>Students spend their money and time to learn something and frequently they get worked like a racehorse and nobody cares about if what they learn is transferable after the academic system no longer needs them.<p>If you are not going to be relevant to society the only thing I can do is vote for somebody who is going to cut your research budget.</text></item><item><author>hackbinary</author><text><i>I&#x27;m getting kind of sick of this tactic, where this fake concession is made before going on about how academia isn&#x27;t designed well enough to deliver to industry.</i><p>This +1, er +1,000,000.<p>I would firmly state that academia by definition is not supposed to &#x27;deliver to industry&#x27;, and not even to society. The whole point of academia is to give the very smartest people (whatever that means) the freedom to explore ideas, so that a some point humanity may benefit from their ideas, experiments, and research.<p>My point is that it could be any number of generations of research from the current generation of (what seems like quack) research (to the establishment) will turn into being instrumental to our understanding of the universe. Galileo Galilei (and Copernicus) for instance. Their ideas (and research) did not sit well with the establishment of the Church (which was pretty much the central authority of everything at the time), but their ideas are now central to our understanding of our Solar system.<p>edit: formatting.</text></item><item><author>forgottenpass</author><text><i>Now, I don&#x27;t think all academic research has to be relevant to industry.</i><p>I&#x27;m getting kind of sick of this tactic, where this fake concession is made before going on about how academia isn&#x27;t designed well enough to deliver to industry.<p>If authors of articles like this didn&#x27;t care about the efficiency of academia to deliver them research, what&#x27;s the big deal if there are a bunch of people somewhere running around in circles? Hey, at least the CS academics occasionally produce something useful to industry, which is more than I can say about other groups running in circles. Sure it could be about burning through money, or a real desire to improve the state of CS academia. But if that was the case I&#x27;d expect these articles to have categorically different discussion and calls to action. Or - at the very least - address goals of acedemia other than performing research for industry.<p>I&#x27;ve never been an academic, and never want to be, but even I gave up reading after the &quot;(I know, crazy, right?)&quot; line. At that point, I knew for 100% sure, that the target audience of this article is not academics. Nobody is that much of a condescending prick to the person they&#x27;re trying to persuade. This is not a &quot;we need to talk&quot; conversation this is a &quot;I need to talk at you, so I can show off to other people.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matthewowen</author><text>That&#x27;s a tremendously short sighted view to take. It&#x27;s very hard to judge relevance to society over short time frames.</text></comment> |
8,622,481 | 8,622,110 | 1 | 3 | 8,621,150 | train | <story><title>Algorithms on Khan Academy – a collaboration with Dartmouth College professors</title><url>http://cs-blog.khanacademy.org/2014/11/teaching-algorithms-on-khan-academy.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>egonschiele</author><text>Hey there,
I&#x27;m working on an algorithms book myself: <a href="http://www.manning.com/bhargava/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.manning.com&#x2F;bhargava&#x2F;</a><p>It is meant to be an easier read than CLRS, so I&#x27;m excited to see that Khan Academy is thinking along the same lines! I have been thinking about how to make algorithms easier to understand for the last year, so I have some feedback. Some of it is critical, so first I want to say how much I LOVE that Khan Academy is doing this. I really like the interactive nature of this, and I really like that you have comments. I think that&#x27;s one advantage of e-books vs traditional books: you can&#x27;t comment on a paper book. I like the sequencing too (it is very similar to my table of contents, which is cool to see).<p>What I don&#x27;t like:<p>I don&#x27;t understand why you have four sorting algorithms here. What does insertion sort add over selection sort? I chose to only include selection sort and quicksort in my book. I think once you know those two, you can figure out insertion sort and merge sort if needed. It doesn&#x27;t add a lot for the reader...I would rather they spend mental effort learning something new.<p>Similarly, why include big-omega notation? I use a writing principle called &quot;just-in-time&quot; vs &quot;just-in-case&quot;. It feels like Big-Omega notation was included &quot;just in case&quot; the reader needs to know it for a later section. I would rather it be taught &quot;just-in-time&quot;, i.e. right when the reader <i>needs</i> to know big-omega notation to proceed.<p>I struggled with the recursion section. My challenge was:<p>- come up with a real-world example that uses recursion.<p>- come up with an example where the recursive solution is more elegant than a while loop. Otherwise, why use recursion?<p>It looks like you had the same challenges. I wish you guys would swap out the factorial example for something that solves a real problem: looking through a directory for a file, for example.<p>It would be great to see more interactivity in the harder sections too. For example, in &quot;overview of quicksort&quot;, I would like to see an animation of the sorting (I am a visual learner).<p>Overall this is still amazing. Algorithms are such a core topic, and there are no good resources for beginners out there. Very happy to see Khan Academy take this step.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pamelafox</author><text>Great feedback!<p>I think it helps to have both the sorts there, because it gives the students another opportunity to solidify their understanding of algorithms and because they are indeed expected in things like AP CS. Personally, I find them different enough that I need to spend time on each of them to grasp them- I always have to draw algorithms out when I&#x27;m learning them, so it helped me that we had the different diagrams and visualizations for each one.<p>When making KA content, we have to think both about the student that&#x27;s going through the content from top to bottom and the student that&#x27;s &quot;snacking&quot; on the content, like finding it via Google search. So if you knew that a student was going to do the whole thing, you could do more just-in-time teaching - but if you didn&#x27;t know, then it&#x27;d be doing a disservice to the snacker to leave out something like Big O notation, because it&#x27;d sure be strange if someone learned Theta and Omega and came away not knowing that last one existed. We did spend a while restructuring asymptotic notation in particular, that was one of the topics we debated different approaches to.<p>We also debated the use cases for recursion, and if we should include the classic factorial challenge. We went for it in the end, as you saw. I think recursive art is my favorite, and works well in our ProcessingJS environment, but one could argue if that&#x27;s real world :-) I believe that Devin is working on another tutorial with recursion and specifically on how students can come up with their <i>own</i> recursive algorithm. I&#x27;ll suggest the looking through directory example to him.<p>Yep, we are working on a quick sort visualization. I am also quite a visual learner.<p>The neat thing about online curriculum is that we can get feedback from all the students that use it and improve it over time. We&#x27;ll probably look at all the feedback in a few months, once it&#x27;s been out there for a bit, see where the dropoff points are, see what the common questions are, and use that to decide what needs changing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Algorithms on Khan Academy – a collaboration with Dartmouth College professors</title><url>http://cs-blog.khanacademy.org/2014/11/teaching-algorithms-on-khan-academy.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>egonschiele</author><text>Hey there,
I&#x27;m working on an algorithms book myself: <a href="http://www.manning.com/bhargava/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.manning.com&#x2F;bhargava&#x2F;</a><p>It is meant to be an easier read than CLRS, so I&#x27;m excited to see that Khan Academy is thinking along the same lines! I have been thinking about how to make algorithms easier to understand for the last year, so I have some feedback. Some of it is critical, so first I want to say how much I LOVE that Khan Academy is doing this. I really like the interactive nature of this, and I really like that you have comments. I think that&#x27;s one advantage of e-books vs traditional books: you can&#x27;t comment on a paper book. I like the sequencing too (it is very similar to my table of contents, which is cool to see).<p>What I don&#x27;t like:<p>I don&#x27;t understand why you have four sorting algorithms here. What does insertion sort add over selection sort? I chose to only include selection sort and quicksort in my book. I think once you know those two, you can figure out insertion sort and merge sort if needed. It doesn&#x27;t add a lot for the reader...I would rather they spend mental effort learning something new.<p>Similarly, why include big-omega notation? I use a writing principle called &quot;just-in-time&quot; vs &quot;just-in-case&quot;. It feels like Big-Omega notation was included &quot;just in case&quot; the reader needs to know it for a later section. I would rather it be taught &quot;just-in-time&quot;, i.e. right when the reader <i>needs</i> to know big-omega notation to proceed.<p>I struggled with the recursion section. My challenge was:<p>- come up with a real-world example that uses recursion.<p>- come up with an example where the recursive solution is more elegant than a while loop. Otherwise, why use recursion?<p>It looks like you had the same challenges. I wish you guys would swap out the factorial example for something that solves a real problem: looking through a directory for a file, for example.<p>It would be great to see more interactivity in the harder sections too. For example, in &quot;overview of quicksort&quot;, I would like to see an animation of the sorting (I am a visual learner).<p>Overall this is still amazing. Algorithms are such a core topic, and there are no good resources for beginners out there. Very happy to see Khan Academy take this step.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tikhonj</author><text>I think a lot of tree code is good for practical recursive examples.<p>Of course, it really helps to have algebraic types and pattern matching because they more clearly expose the recursive <i>structure</i> of both trees and tree-based algorithms. I&#x27;ve also found that writing things out in a patter-matching style, case by case, really helps convey how to think recursively. Instead of trying to run a recursive algorithm in my head, having the separate cases <i>separate</i> makes it easier to consider them one by one.</text></comment> |
22,247,533 | 22,247,480 | 1 | 3 | 22,247,295 | train | <story><title>Over 550 videos of 870 talks from FOSDEM 2020 have now been uploaded</title><url>https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/events/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ghaff</author><text>It&#x27;s pretty amazing that a volunteer-organized event like FOSDEM can turn around video from the event like that. Lots of company-run events can take ages to put video up assuming that they do so at all.<p>In all fairness, I think companies often feel they have to release polished videos that have gone through a relatively thorough editing process and then have to justify the ROI associated with paying to have the videos created and edited. And the reality is that 30-60 minute filmed presentations often get just a handful of YouTube views.<p>Nonetheless, it&#x27;s impressive that FOSDEM gets all this posted. It&#x27;s especially nice because, even if you were there, so much is going on at the same time and it&#x27;s often so hard to get into rooms that it&#x27;s nice to catch up on anything you really wanted to see but missed.</text></comment> | <story><title>Over 550 videos of 870 talks from FOSDEM 2020 have now been uploaded</title><url>https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/events/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pojntfx</author><text>I absolutely loved going to FOSDEM this year for the first time. It&#x27;s an amazing community!</text></comment> |
17,172,915 | 17,172,791 | 1 | 3 | 17,172,287 | train | <story><title>Perceived Physical Activity and Mortality: Study</title><url>https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/mind-over-matter-how-fit-you-think-you-are-versus-actual-fitness-2017081412282</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wufufufu</author><text>I wish physical movement was somehow integrated with software engineering more. Weak solutions like standing desks don&#x27;t make it the cardio equivalent of something like a cleaning job.<p>It&#x27;s sad that we sacrifice health for more money only to spend it on health-related issues we accumulate from our career choice.<p>I always thought that maybe having to carry a medicine ball up a hill in order to deploy a service would be fun.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brandonmenc</author><text>I love to exercise - but I really like being able to keep that separate from other aspects of my life.<p>I&#x27;ve worked manual labor jobs. They suck, and they damage your body. If you think sitting all day long is bad for your health, imagine what even just pushing a broom thousands of times a day is doing to say, your rotator cuff.<p>Pack a healthy lunch, keep your hours reasonable, get up from your desk and walk around every couple hours, exercise in your free time, and your office job won&#x27;t kill you.<p>As to which type of job is more &quot;fun&quot; - a construction foreman once told me that he always sees these guys who try working construction to get away from their office job, who try to find meaning&#x2F;enlightenment through manual labor - a sentiment you hear here a lot - and they always go back to their office job. Always.<p>But the guys who manage to escape the jobsite for the office - they never, ever come back.</text></comment> | <story><title>Perceived Physical Activity and Mortality: Study</title><url>https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/mind-over-matter-how-fit-you-think-you-are-versus-actual-fitness-2017081412282</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wufufufu</author><text>I wish physical movement was somehow integrated with software engineering more. Weak solutions like standing desks don&#x27;t make it the cardio equivalent of something like a cleaning job.<p>It&#x27;s sad that we sacrifice health for more money only to spend it on health-related issues we accumulate from our career choice.<p>I always thought that maybe having to carry a medicine ball up a hill in order to deploy a service would be fun.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eckza</author><text>&gt; I always thought that maybe having to carry a medicine ball up a hill in order to deploy a service would be fun.<p>Fittingly Sisyphean.</text></comment> |
17,129,951 | 17,128,193 | 1 | 2 | 17,126,961 | train | <story><title>Real-Time Ray Tracing Demo</title><url>https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/technology-sneak-peek-real-time-ray-tracing-with-unreal-engine</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ramzyo</author><text>An anecdotal observation: there seem to be many ray tracing-related articles and ShowHNs that make the front page. For someone who isn&#x27;t in the computer graphics space, what&#x27;s the importance of improving existing ray tracers or the novelty in writing one&#x27;s own? Is writing one a particularly challenging thing to do? Is improving existing ray tracers the equivalent of chip manufacturers increasing CPU performance in the chip world? Just trying to understand this a bit better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alkonaut</author><text>Writing one is fun because it’s trivial to start, but you can be sure that there are features that are simply beyond your capability almost no matter how good you are. And it gets hard <i>fast</i>. It’s also very cross disciplinary if you like math, physics and system level programming. Those of use who wrote ray tracers are probably the same that code toy synthesizers. We like numbers. Once you made one it’s also an excellent way of learning a new language to make a new one.<p>Nice challenges include:<p>add parallellism. Traversing a tree hierarchy efficiently with SIMD or GPU code isn’t trivial. (I tend to dodge this part of the problem by using intels simd lib Embree)<p>Or make it spectral (trace with wavelengths instead of simple colored light, to get effects such as rainbows in refractions). This is actually reasonably simple - but then you realize it ruins your hope of parallelizing efficiently as the rays diverge when they refract!<p>Or implement realistic subsurface scattering. Doing it physically right means your render will never finish, so it’s back to inventing the most clever hacks - just like rasterizing!</text></comment> | <story><title>Real-Time Ray Tracing Demo</title><url>https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/technology-sneak-peek-real-time-ray-tracing-with-unreal-engine</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ramzyo</author><text>An anecdotal observation: there seem to be many ray tracing-related articles and ShowHNs that make the front page. For someone who isn&#x27;t in the computer graphics space, what&#x27;s the importance of improving existing ray tracers or the novelty in writing one&#x27;s own? Is writing one a particularly challenging thing to do? Is improving existing ray tracers the equivalent of chip manufacturers increasing CPU performance in the chip world? Just trying to understand this a bit better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>electricslpnsld</author><text>&gt; what&#x27;s the importance of improving existing ray tracers<p>In the offline space (film, visualization), cost. Movies get cheaper to make.<p>In the realtime space (games), lots of visually important effects are difficult to do with rasterization, leading to complicated&#x2F;large&#x2F;expensive-to-maintain rendering solutions. With a physically based path tracer, a lot of these effects come out of the box. Path tracing has traditionally been too expensive to do in realtime, however, and has been &#x27;just around the corner&#x27; for the past 20 years. If I&#x27;m not mistaken, recent advances in image de-noising, which seems to be the crux of the new NVIDIA technology, have made real time path-tracing on the GPU much more practical.<p>&gt; Is writing one a particularly challenging thing to do?<p>Depends how deep you dive. You can write a basic tracer to render a sphere and fit it on a business card -- this is a typical assignment in introductory graphics courses. Rendering complicated materials is a never ending rat hole of complexity, lots of rendering research looks effectively like material&#x27;s science, these days.</text></comment> |
18,240,234 | 18,240,202 | 1 | 2 | 18,238,108 | train | <story><title>End of Service for the Weather Underground API</title><url>https://apicommunity.wunderground.com/weatherapi/topics/end-of-service-for-the-weather-underground-api</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>profsnuggles</author><text>Fun thing about wunderground they are still running a telnet server. I&#x27;ve been using it forever with some bash aliases.<p>alias wu=&#x27;telnet rainmaker.wunderground.com&#x27;<p>alias weather=&#x27;(sleep 0.5; echo &quot;\n&quot;; sleep 0.5; echo &quot;EWR\n&quot;; sleep 1; echo &quot;x\n&quot;) | wu&#x27;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>latentpot</author><text>High chances no bluey person is even aware this exists, let alone find the physical location of this system.</text></comment> | <story><title>End of Service for the Weather Underground API</title><url>https://apicommunity.wunderground.com/weatherapi/topics/end-of-service-for-the-weather-underground-api</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>profsnuggles</author><text>Fun thing about wunderground they are still running a telnet server. I&#x27;ve been using it forever with some bash aliases.<p>alias wu=&#x27;telnet rainmaker.wunderground.com&#x27;<p>alias weather=&#x27;(sleep 0.5; echo &quot;\n&quot;; sleep 0.5; echo &quot;EWR\n&quot;; sleep 1; echo &quot;x\n&quot;) | wu&#x27;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wuyishan</author><text>Thanks for sharing this. This is great! It even has an interactive shell. Unfortunately US only and likely soon to be gone... I normally use wttr.in, but telnet is way more old-school cool :)</text></comment> |
29,204,842 | 29,203,444 | 1 | 2 | 29,198,205 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Long Range E-Bike</title><url>https://jacquesmattheij.com/long-range-ebike/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rjbwork</author><text>I have an e-bike and I disagree with your assertions. I&#x27;m a fat asthmatic and I have absolutely no problem maintaining 40kph for long stretches of time on my bike. The fastest I&#x27;ve done on it (on a large hill but still) is 42.7MPH (~68Kph). Average cruising speed on flat land can easily be 30-33mph(48-53kph). Not all e-bikes are capable of this, but they are certainly not some kind of rare expensive impossibility - mine was less than 3000 USD.<p>My point is that you should be more ingenuous with your assertions of what the capabilities of these bikes are when communicating with people about it. Nothing makes people more skeptical than reading things that are just plain false from an advocate.</text></item><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>In the USA the situation is much more risky than here.<p>I don&#x27;t like riding in traffic mostly because drivers tend to have a short fuse for anything that isn&#x27;t exactly at the limit, but on bike paths everything works just fine. The problem is that s-pedelecs are technically lumped in with the scooters, even though there is no throttle and there is absolutely no way you are going to sustain 40 Kph+ for anything but a very short period. But they&#x27;re still pretty new and little by little municipalities are adapting and allowing s-pedelecs to use the bike lanes. What helps is that s-pedelec riders are extremely defensive. In town I simply reduce the assist to &#x27;eco&#x27; and cycle with the rest of the bikes, and on the intercity bike paths I go as fast I conditions allow, typically 35 to 38 or so. On a longer trip that averages out to 33 to 35 Kph, which means a 1 hour car trip turns into a 2 hour bike trip, which is acceptable (and never traffic jams, which can turn that 1 hour car trip into a three hour car trip!).</text></item><item><author>twodave</author><text>Awesome project Jacques! I saw a comment of yours on an article a day or two ago and was hoping to see this pop up soon.<p>I&#x27;ve found the most difficult thing about riding an e-bike is the other motorists have no idea how to react to you. You&#x27;re not really a regular bicycle anymore due to your speed, but you&#x27;re also not a motorcycle that deserves its own lane. I have at least one car turn in front of me almost every trip out just because they&#x27;re misjudging my speed. I get honked and yelled at when on the road because folks get frustrated when I&#x27;m using the left-hand side of the right-turn lane as a bike path.<p>Sidewalks&#x2F;bike paths tend to be a lot less safe in residential areas as well, since cars coming out of their driveways really don&#x27;t expect an e-bike to come rolling through. I&#x27;ve learned to dramatically reduce speed in areas like this.<p>Aside from those things, I love it! I ride the e-bike whenever I&#x27;m going somewhere in range (I live in Florida so things tend to be spread out) and the weather permits. My bike gets about 80km which is more than enough for anyplace I want to go on a bicycle anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NikolaNovak</author><text>If something has that average speed capability, why is not licensed, registered, insured and held accountable as any vehicle would be? My 50cc scooter appears to have comparable speeds (maybe 10kph higher), and I wear proper armour &amp; helmet, took the classes passed the test, am registered, licenses &amp; insured.<p>That&#x27;s my massive pet peeve &amp; safety concern: I WANT to love e-Bikes, and all those sorts of things; and like a fellow poster, I&#x27;ve been riding both 500-650cc motorcycles and 50-125cc scooters for more than a decade so 2-wheelers are part of my life; but basically all the ads, shops, and salespeople over here are focusing on &quot;You don&#x27;t need license, you don&#x27;t need insurance, you don&#x27;t need to behave like a vehicle and obey the rules&quot; as their main and primary sales point; and therefore the behaviour of riders is equally nonchalant. In the Toronto area (and it&#x27;s important to be explicit because this is definitely different in different geographies), the relationship between cars and non-gas two-wheelers is charitably described as &quot;strained&quot; (&quot;murderous&#x2F;self-righteous hate&quot; may be more accurate), and we all need to get better and understanding how we can co-exist and behave <i>responsibly</i> on the road.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Long Range E-Bike</title><url>https://jacquesmattheij.com/long-range-ebike/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rjbwork</author><text>I have an e-bike and I disagree with your assertions. I&#x27;m a fat asthmatic and I have absolutely no problem maintaining 40kph for long stretches of time on my bike. The fastest I&#x27;ve done on it (on a large hill but still) is 42.7MPH (~68Kph). Average cruising speed on flat land can easily be 30-33mph(48-53kph). Not all e-bikes are capable of this, but they are certainly not some kind of rare expensive impossibility - mine was less than 3000 USD.<p>My point is that you should be more ingenuous with your assertions of what the capabilities of these bikes are when communicating with people about it. Nothing makes people more skeptical than reading things that are just plain false from an advocate.</text></item><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>In the USA the situation is much more risky than here.<p>I don&#x27;t like riding in traffic mostly because drivers tend to have a short fuse for anything that isn&#x27;t exactly at the limit, but on bike paths everything works just fine. The problem is that s-pedelecs are technically lumped in with the scooters, even though there is no throttle and there is absolutely no way you are going to sustain 40 Kph+ for anything but a very short period. But they&#x27;re still pretty new and little by little municipalities are adapting and allowing s-pedelecs to use the bike lanes. What helps is that s-pedelec riders are extremely defensive. In town I simply reduce the assist to &#x27;eco&#x27; and cycle with the rest of the bikes, and on the intercity bike paths I go as fast I conditions allow, typically 35 to 38 or so. On a longer trip that averages out to 33 to 35 Kph, which means a 1 hour car trip turns into a 2 hour bike trip, which is acceptable (and never traffic jams, which can turn that 1 hour car trip into a three hour car trip!).</text></item><item><author>twodave</author><text>Awesome project Jacques! I saw a comment of yours on an article a day or two ago and was hoping to see this pop up soon.<p>I&#x27;ve found the most difficult thing about riding an e-bike is the other motorists have no idea how to react to you. You&#x27;re not really a regular bicycle anymore due to your speed, but you&#x27;re also not a motorcycle that deserves its own lane. I have at least one car turn in front of me almost every trip out just because they&#x27;re misjudging my speed. I get honked and yelled at when on the road because folks get frustrated when I&#x27;m using the left-hand side of the right-turn lane as a bike path.<p>Sidewalks&#x2F;bike paths tend to be a lot less safe in residential areas as well, since cars coming out of their driveways really don&#x27;t expect an e-bike to come rolling through. I&#x27;ve learned to dramatically reduce speed in areas like this.<p>Aside from those things, I love it! I ride the e-bike whenever I&#x27;m going somewhere in range (I live in Florida so things tend to be spread out) and the weather permits. My bike gets about 80km which is more than enough for anyplace I want to go on a bicycle anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>m4x</author><text>I&#x27;m curious - what ebike do you have that can easily cruise at 48-53 kph for extended periods?<p>In most countries that would be far above the legal limits imposed on ebikes. As a result, the ebikes available for purchase are all limited to 25-32 kph max and typically have power limits of 250-300 W. Since ebikes are a lot heavier, exceeding 32 kph for more than a few seconds is generally very difficult.<p>I don&#x27;t think GP is being disingenuous with any of his assertions. In the US there might be ebikes with much higher top speeds, but jacquesm doesn&#x27;t live in the US and neither do most of the other people on this planet. Most ebikes sold do exactly what he&#x27;s describing.</text></comment> |
6,307,584 | 6,307,368 | 1 | 3 | 6,306,906 | train | <story><title>Largest Homeless Camp In US is in Silicon Valley</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/the-jungle-largest-homeless-camp-in-us-2013-8?op=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bowlofpetunias</author><text>For me, personally, this cancels out anything good about Silicon Valley. This is why I really don&#x27;t give a crap why SV is such a great place for tech entrepreneurs. If this is the price, I rather live in a place where people have the decency to compromise their ambition a little bit in favor of those less fortunate.<p>And I&#x27;m far from a socialist. I would like many things in my country to be way more libertarian, and on a personal level I&#x27;m as selfish as the next guy.<p>But there&#x27;s a line, a line of common decency and civilization, and this is so far beyond that it&#x27;s obscene.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>justin_vanw</author><text>You clearly have no idea what is going on here, and you should find out before you casually slander everyone that lives here.<p>The people that live in SV are VERY generous. The consequence is, we have a huge population of homeless people that moved here because the weather is mild and the people are generous, making being homeless here far less terrible than, say, New York or Chicago or Cleveland or Phoenix or even LA.<p>It&#x27;s really easy to accuse a large and varying group of people of living purely for avarice, especially when you clearly have no idea what you&#x27;re talking about. What are you doing about the homeless problem? Making snide comments on HN that scapegoat other people.<p>References:<p><a href="http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-08-20/national/41427596_1_northern-california-rawson-neal-psychiatric-hospital-patients" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;articles.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;2013-08-20&#x2F;national&#x2F;41427...</a><p><a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5221311" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;templates&#x2F;story&#x2F;story.php?storyId=5221311</a><p><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Homeless-problem-lingers-as-S-F-spends-millions-3173290.php" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfgate.com&#x2F;bayarea&#x2F;matier-ross&#x2F;article&#x2F;Homeless-p...</a><p><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/08/the-astonishing-decline-of-homelessness-in-america/279050/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2013&#x2F;08&#x2F;the-asto...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Largest Homeless Camp In US is in Silicon Valley</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/the-jungle-largest-homeless-camp-in-us-2013-8?op=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bowlofpetunias</author><text>For me, personally, this cancels out anything good about Silicon Valley. This is why I really don&#x27;t give a crap why SV is such a great place for tech entrepreneurs. If this is the price, I rather live in a place where people have the decency to compromise their ambition a little bit in favor of those less fortunate.<p>And I&#x27;m far from a socialist. I would like many things in my country to be way more libertarian, and on a personal level I&#x27;m as selfish as the next guy.<p>But there&#x27;s a line, a line of common decency and civilization, and this is so far beyond that it&#x27;s obscene.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>temphn</author><text>That&#x27;s a silly response. There are seven million people in the Bay Area. A tiny fraction are homeless. Try lifting up an adult human being sometime. It&#x27;s not easy. These people are frequently mentally ill, addicted to drugs, or otherwise incapable of taking care of themselves. Example:<p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/former-business-owner-homeless-in-silicon-valley-2013-8?op=1#ixzz2dZIyTTZj" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;former-business-owner-homeles...</a><p><pre><code> She ended up homeless when she turned to California&#x27;s
shelter network and hated it. ... Five years ago she moved
into The Jungle and says she has no regrets.
</code></pre>
If you think differently, I recommend you go down there and try to lift them out of poverty. Once it&#x27;s your responsibility, you&#x27;ll quickly find there is a reason they are living like that.</text></comment> |
15,578,646 | 15,578,258 | 1 | 2 | 15,577,609 | train | <story><title>Man flies over South Africa in a chair tied to helium balloons [video]</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2017/oct/26/man-flies-over-south-africa-in-a-chair-tied-to-helium-balloons-video</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jimmies</author><text>Launching high-altitude helium balloons has been the activity some friends and I do for fun. Over the course of 2 years+ we&#x27;ve been doing this, we had over a dozen of successful launches where we could retrieve the payload.<p>For kids, this is a great inspiration and educational opportunity, especially for those who are interested in technology and programming. We used Arduinos and Raspberry pis in many components of the payload, from the tracker to the data logger. They get to program and control the behavior then test the hard&#x2F;software so I personally think it&#x27;s a great way to hook them up with computers and really understand them. This is one of those instances of &quot;doing crazy stuff&quot; kids are interested in.<p>For adults, it involves many fun aspects too. Specifically for geeks, the best feature is the optimization of weight, reliability, and features for the payload. Some people did get crazy with party balloons that carry impossibly light and efficient payloads that last for over a year with full tracking and sensory information. It can get surprisingly technical when you want to communicate with the payload reliably from the ground (over the radio wave). You&#x27;d be baffled and outraged when it was reported that with all the amazing things we could do, we didn&#x27;t know peep about a missing airplane. The little phone in our pocket knows and tracks every step we take, you&#x27;d think - what&#x27;s so hard about keeping communication with an object in the line of sight? I think all we don&#x27;t appreciate enough is how advanced and amazing our cellular network is. When you have cellular communication, you have everything, the economy of scale is real and it works. With (amateur) radio, it&#x27;s a different story: Many times we&#x27;d had flawless successes communicating with the payload, sometimes we just couldn&#x27;t do it for some mysterious reason with the same equipment. I&#x27;ve grown to be much more sympathetic to people who have to work with that vast amount of distance, space, and power envelop when it comes to tracking some flying object on the sky, let alone on&#x2F;under the sea.<p>As a side note, I can&#x27;t imagine launching such a huge object such as yourself tied to a cluster of balloons to the sky could be something the authority is too fond of.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ksrm</author><text>Some of Leo Bodnar&#x27;s balloons have circumnavigated the Earth multiple times. The small foil balloons don&#x27;t expand like a latex balloon does, so they can hold a stable altitude without bursting.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.leobodnar.com&#x2F;balloons&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.leobodnar.com&#x2F;balloons&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Man flies over South Africa in a chair tied to helium balloons [video]</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2017/oct/26/man-flies-over-south-africa-in-a-chair-tied-to-helium-balloons-video</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jimmies</author><text>Launching high-altitude helium balloons has been the activity some friends and I do for fun. Over the course of 2 years+ we&#x27;ve been doing this, we had over a dozen of successful launches where we could retrieve the payload.<p>For kids, this is a great inspiration and educational opportunity, especially for those who are interested in technology and programming. We used Arduinos and Raspberry pis in many components of the payload, from the tracker to the data logger. They get to program and control the behavior then test the hard&#x2F;software so I personally think it&#x27;s a great way to hook them up with computers and really understand them. This is one of those instances of &quot;doing crazy stuff&quot; kids are interested in.<p>For adults, it involves many fun aspects too. Specifically for geeks, the best feature is the optimization of weight, reliability, and features for the payload. Some people did get crazy with party balloons that carry impossibly light and efficient payloads that last for over a year with full tracking and sensory information. It can get surprisingly technical when you want to communicate with the payload reliably from the ground (over the radio wave). You&#x27;d be baffled and outraged when it was reported that with all the amazing things we could do, we didn&#x27;t know peep about a missing airplane. The little phone in our pocket knows and tracks every step we take, you&#x27;d think - what&#x27;s so hard about keeping communication with an object in the line of sight? I think all we don&#x27;t appreciate enough is how advanced and amazing our cellular network is. When you have cellular communication, you have everything, the economy of scale is real and it works. With (amateur) radio, it&#x27;s a different story: Many times we&#x27;d had flawless successes communicating with the payload, sometimes we just couldn&#x27;t do it for some mysterious reason with the same equipment. I&#x27;ve grown to be much more sympathetic to people who have to work with that vast amount of distance, space, and power envelop when it comes to tracking some flying object on the sky, let alone on&#x2F;under the sea.<p>As a side note, I can&#x27;t imagine launching such a huge object such as yourself tied to a cluster of balloons to the sky could be something the authority is too fond of.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ldarcyftw</author><text>Sounds pretty cool. Is there a website&#x2F;forum&#x2F;place to start?</text></comment> |
40,562,462 | 40,555,971 | 1 | 3 | 40,553,863 | train | <story><title>Lord Kelvin and his analog computer</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/tide-predictions</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mdcurran</author><text>I feel embarrassed! Despite being from Glasgow, until now I&#x27;ve never made the connection between the River Kelvin (and the surrounding Kelvingrove and Kelvinbridge), the statue in the park of someone called Baron Kelvin, and the unit of measurement.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lord Kelvin and his analog computer</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/tide-predictions</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nico</author><text>There is a very good Veritasium video that talks about analog computers and Lord Kelvin’s tide prediction machine:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;IgF3OX8nT0w?feature=shared" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;IgF3OX8nT0w?feature=shared</a></text></comment> |
19,579,967 | 19,579,722 | 1 | 2 | 19,577,602 | train | <story><title>Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg Addresses the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 Report</title><url>https://boeing.mediaroom.com/2019-04-04-Boeing-CEO-Dennis-Muilenburg-Addresses-the-Ethiopian-Airlines-Flight-302-Preliminary-Report</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pauljurczak</author><text>&gt; their responsibilities lie with their shareholders<p>This is the &quot;shareholder value&quot; theory, modern economists successfully brainwashed the population with. It became popular during the 1980s, &quot;greed is good&quot; times. It&#x27;s just an ideology disguised as a science. The purpose and structure of modern corporation hasn&#x27;t changed in the last hundred years or so. In 1950s and 1960s the public good, among others, role of corporations was wildly accepted. What changed is the ideologues who became more vicious and took complete control of the narrative.</text></item><item><author>bitreality</author><text>With the way litigation works, corporations will never admit blame for anything, since it greatly increases their legal risk. It&#x27;s unfortunate, but their responsibilities lie with their shareholders, not the people who lost their lives on their planes.</text></item><item><author>ndespres</author><text>I know better than to read between the lines on a press release like this, but can&#x27;t help but notice that it falls far short of accepting responsibility for the problem.<p>He admits that MCAS &quot;activated in response to erroneous angle of attack information&quot; but doesn&#x27;t admit that this alone directly resulted in the crashes. Rather, he implies that this sets off a chain of events which the pilots are unable to deal with (&quot;pilots have told us, erroneous activation of the MCAS function can add to what is already a high workload environment&quot;) which puts undue blame on the pilots rather than the system.<p>If you&#x27;ll excuse the analogy, it&#x27;s as if they installed a new griddle in a restaurant kitchen which randomly gets ten times more hot than it ought to be, with no warning. The cook doesn&#x27;t know it&#x27;s too hot until the eggs start burning. Now the manager is saying that since the kitchen is so busy, the cook can&#x27;t flip the eggs fast enough in response to these randomly fluctuating high temperature events. We&#x27;re being told it&#x27;s the cooks&#x27; fault.<p>I don&#x27;t like being bullshitted and find this sort of dodgy language completely inappropriate when 300 people died.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TrolTure</author><text>Somewhat hilariously it&#x27;s also often claimed that CEO&#x27;s are not allowed to lie due to then being liable for misinforming shareholders.</text></comment> | <story><title>Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg Addresses the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 Report</title><url>https://boeing.mediaroom.com/2019-04-04-Boeing-CEO-Dennis-Muilenburg-Addresses-the-Ethiopian-Airlines-Flight-302-Preliminary-Report</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pauljurczak</author><text>&gt; their responsibilities lie with their shareholders<p>This is the &quot;shareholder value&quot; theory, modern economists successfully brainwashed the population with. It became popular during the 1980s, &quot;greed is good&quot; times. It&#x27;s just an ideology disguised as a science. The purpose and structure of modern corporation hasn&#x27;t changed in the last hundred years or so. In 1950s and 1960s the public good, among others, role of corporations was wildly accepted. What changed is the ideologues who became more vicious and took complete control of the narrative.</text></item><item><author>bitreality</author><text>With the way litigation works, corporations will never admit blame for anything, since it greatly increases their legal risk. It&#x27;s unfortunate, but their responsibilities lie with their shareholders, not the people who lost their lives on their planes.</text></item><item><author>ndespres</author><text>I know better than to read between the lines on a press release like this, but can&#x27;t help but notice that it falls far short of accepting responsibility for the problem.<p>He admits that MCAS &quot;activated in response to erroneous angle of attack information&quot; but doesn&#x27;t admit that this alone directly resulted in the crashes. Rather, he implies that this sets off a chain of events which the pilots are unable to deal with (&quot;pilots have told us, erroneous activation of the MCAS function can add to what is already a high workload environment&quot;) which puts undue blame on the pilots rather than the system.<p>If you&#x27;ll excuse the analogy, it&#x27;s as if they installed a new griddle in a restaurant kitchen which randomly gets ten times more hot than it ought to be, with no warning. The cook doesn&#x27;t know it&#x27;s too hot until the eggs start burning. Now the manager is saying that since the kitchen is so busy, the cook can&#x27;t flip the eggs fast enough in response to these randomly fluctuating high temperature events. We&#x27;re being told it&#x27;s the cooks&#x27; fault.<p>I don&#x27;t like being bullshitted and find this sort of dodgy language completely inappropriate when 300 people died.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>everdev</author><text>If the CEO of a public company owns 10% of that company&#x27;s shares and 90% of their new worth comes from the value of that stock, I can imagine them caring a great deal about increasing the value of the stock.<p>This is what people are referring to when they say &quot;shareholder value&quot; -- diving up the value of the stock.</text></comment> |
4,034,855 | 4,034,171 | 1 | 3 | 4,033,242 | train | <story><title>Flame: Massive cyber-attack discovered, researchers say</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18238326#?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>LiquidSummer</author><text>I always hesitate a little bit when I open a pdf, specially when it is one on malware</text></item><item><author>thursley</author><text>More technical details (pdf) on:
<a href="http://www.crysys.hu/skywiper/skywiper.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.crysys.hu/skywiper/skywiper.pdf</a><p>Although the naming differs it has been noted on several blogs that it is the same malware.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FreakLegion</author><text>Note that while the <i>exploit</i> is in the PDF, the <i>vulnerability</i> is in the PDF reader. In practice, Adobe's software is the only attack surface anyone ever exploits, so you can read exploit-laden PDFs worry-free by using a less popular alternative. The same is true with Word/Excel files, etc.<p>You should still have some kind of comprehensive security solution in place, particularly for a business environment, but use of non-standard software is an effective fail-safe for when your "real" security craps out on you (as it inevitably will).</text></comment> | <story><title>Flame: Massive cyber-attack discovered, researchers say</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18238326#?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>LiquidSummer</author><text>I always hesitate a little bit when I open a pdf, specially when it is one on malware</text></item><item><author>thursley</author><text>More technical details (pdf) on:
<a href="http://www.crysys.hu/skywiper/skywiper.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.crysys.hu/skywiper/skywiper.pdf</a><p>Although the naming differs it has been noted on several blogs that it is the same malware.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rbanffy</author><text>It depends: will you render it using Adobe's software?</text></comment> |
32,863,703 | 32,853,851 | 1 | 2 | 32,852,478 | train | <story><title>Show HN: WunderBase – Serverless OSS database on top of SQLite, Firecracker</title><url>https://wundergraph.com/blog/wunderbase_serverless_graphql_database_on_top_of_sqlite_firecracker_and_prisma</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gregwebs</author><text>This just runs a request proxy that turns off after 10 seconds of no activity and starts it up (with a half second delay) when there is a new request. It runs SQLite with Prisma. Prisma is an API server that puts a GraphQL API in front of a DB.<p>It&#x27;s a nice blog post about gluing technology and I can see how this could be a really nice way to run some lower-cost databases in a non-demanding development environment. However, it is not a reliable way of operating a database. For me it isn&#x27;t really serverless since it only scales between 0 and 1 instance whereas a serverless DB ideally would scale-out but should at least have some ability to scale to greater load in response to demand, along with higher reliability and availability, and backing up data to object storage.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nikolasburk</author><text>Hey there, I&#x27;m Nikolas from the Prisma team. Just came here to quickly clarify this notion:<p>&gt; Prisma is an API server that puts a GraphQL API in front of a DB.<p>Prisma is an ORM which generates a JavaScript&#x2F;TypeScript client library for your database.<p>Your description is very true for Prisma 1 (which has been in maintenance mode for several years and is officially deprecated by now [1]), but the latest version(s) of Prisma (v2+) don&#x27;t expose a GraphQL API any more. Prisma 1 also used GraphQL SDL for data modeling, the Prisma ORM on the other hand has its own, custom modeling language for describing database schemas in a declarative way and also comes with a flexible migration system.<p>That being said (and as Jens also mentioned elsewhere), the Prisma ORM does use GraphQL _internally_ as a wire protocol. However, as a developer, you _never_ touch this internal GraphQL layer and are not even supposed to be aware of it (you actually have to jump through a lot of hoops to even &quot;find&quot; it). It&#x27;s also very likely that we&#x27;ll replace GraphQL as a wire protocol in the future, so &quot;GraphQL&quot; really isn&#x27;t something you should be thinking about as a developer who is using Prisma.<p>Hope that clarifies the situation a bit, let me know if you have any further questions around this topic.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;prisma&#x2F;prisma1&#x2F;issues&#x2F;5208" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;prisma&#x2F;prisma1&#x2F;issues&#x2F;5208</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: WunderBase – Serverless OSS database on top of SQLite, Firecracker</title><url>https://wundergraph.com/blog/wunderbase_serverless_graphql_database_on_top_of_sqlite_firecracker_and_prisma</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gregwebs</author><text>This just runs a request proxy that turns off after 10 seconds of no activity and starts it up (with a half second delay) when there is a new request. It runs SQLite with Prisma. Prisma is an API server that puts a GraphQL API in front of a DB.<p>It&#x27;s a nice blog post about gluing technology and I can see how this could be a really nice way to run some lower-cost databases in a non-demanding development environment. However, it is not a reliable way of operating a database. For me it isn&#x27;t really serverless since it only scales between 0 and 1 instance whereas a serverless DB ideally would scale-out but should at least have some ability to scale to greater load in response to demand, along with higher reliability and availability, and backing up data to object storage.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>You can, of course, scale to &gt;1 with the Fly Machines API. I don&#x27;t know enough about how they&#x27;re managing the SQLite part of this to say more about how this scales, except that I think scaling out SQLite is about to get a lot more interesting.<p>But I mostly agree that we need a better term than &quot;serverless&quot; for this kind of stuff. The big things people seem to want from &quot;serverless&quot; solutions are &quot;not managing long-running server instances&quot; and &quot;true usage-metered billing&quot;.<p>Whether or not there are servers, like, at all has not all that much to do with things.</text></comment> |
12,626,198 | 12,626,140 | 1 | 3 | 12,626,045 | train | <story><title>The Deletion of gcj</title><url>http://tromey.com/blog/?p=911</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rekado</author><text>This is a little sad because this means we will have to keep around old versions of GCC with GCJ in order to be able to bootstrap the JDK from source (without a binary bootstrap JDK). Only OpenJDK6 (with the extensive IcedTea patches) can be bootstrapped with GCJ alone, so we also have to keep OpenJDK6 around in order to be able to build the latest JDK.<p>Bootstrapping becomes harder and more legacy software needs to be accumulated in order to actually build new software from source.<p>(I&#x27;m working on GNU Guix, a functional package manager, and I wrote the package definitions for the JDKs.)</text></comment> | <story><title>The Deletion of gcj</title><url>http://tromey.com/blog/?p=911</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonquest</author><text>This is why you should always create something, even if you think it will never be accepted by a large audience. It is worth it for the journey itself.<p>Reading this post made me wish I had spent more time with &#x27;gcj&#x27;. Though in all honesty I know I gave up on it because I didn&#x27;t want to go the tougher way - the the normal JDK was just there. Creation is beautiful, and its ending bittersweet for the creator and the witnesses.</text></comment> |
13,330,463 | 13,329,008 | 1 | 2 | 13,326,792 | train | <story><title>I've removed all ad network code from my blog</title><url>https://www.troyhunt.com/i-just-permanently-removed-all-ad-network-code-from-my-blog</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cr0sh</author><text>I kinda agree with you; I run a personal website, it isn&#x27;t very popular (and I don&#x27;t update it often - hmm, maybe there&#x27;s a link there!) - but it is my website, and I&#x27;ve kept the domain active since 1998 or thereabouts.<p>ie - a &quot;labor of love&quot;<p>How do I pay for it? Well, I reach around to my back pocket for my wallet, and...<p>I don&#x27;t have ads, I don&#x27;t have a sponsorship, and I don&#x27;t care - what I have and what I put on my website is strictly for myself and others to use or read as they see fit; I consider it a &quot;giving back&quot; to others out there for what the internet has given me over the years.<p>...and I am fine with that.<p>Other sites need to realize this too; not everything is worth money, and if you really love what you&#x27;re doing, you&#x27;d give it away free. Like the internet used to be - everybody doing it for the love of networking and computing and knowledge and information transfer.<p>Not AOL spam making money crap.</text></item><item><author>vintageseltzer</author><text>May I ask: if one is not &quot;famous&quot; (i.e. popular), why should one expect their site to be profitable from ads alone?<p>If my limited edition, 250-prints-per-month &#x27;zine isn&#x27;t making money, is that the advertising industry&#x27;s fault, or is there an issue with my expectations?<p>People ask the &quot;how do we fix dwindling ad-based revenue&quot; question all the time. The answer is clear, it&#x27;s just not what people want to hear: metered paywalls or a subscription model (or, you know, selling an actual product &#x2F; service).<p>The inevitable response to that is, &#x27;but I don&#x27;t make enough money off of that.&#x27;<p>Well, there you go! To me, that&#x27;s where it should end. You don&#x27;t have enough of a readership to support your website as-is. That means you can continue doing it as a labor of love, scale it down to something you can manage and that is profitable, or just, well, accept that your site isn&#x27;t as great as you thought it was, and that you won&#x27;t be making as much money off of it as you thought.<p>Isn&#x27;t this basic market forces at work? I have a suspicion that even if 50% of these sites bloated with ads and deceptive, click-bait content were to die, society as a whole would actually be much better off, and the efforts of people building these kinds of sites and expecting a return would be better directed elsewhere.</text></item><item><author>fiatjaf</author><text>Ok, you have a sponsorship model that works because you&#x27;re probably very famous. That doesn&#x27;t solve anyone&#x27;s problem, because almost no one is famous.<p>How can we replace ad networks with something better and saner?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>djsumdog</author><text>I do too. I run PenguinDreams. I&#x27;m trying to post more, and am working on graphics so I can setup a Patreon. I&#x27;d like to be able to live off it, and I&#x27;ll see how it goes.<p>I&#x27;m not famous, but I do love working on my own open source projects and I like writing tech posts. Last time I quit my job I lived for 11 months off my savings while travelling in over 10 countries. I got some OSS done, redid all my websites and wrote a lab manual for a friend of mine who was teaching a class based on the stuff I wrote.<p>My goal was to get into University and work on a PhD. I had attempted this a few years ago, but my grades for undergrand and grad school weren&#x27;t all that great (2.5&#x2F;3.2), and it pretty much killed my chances. I had some publications under my belt this time, but still very few professors would even talk to me about my work in sensor network research (BigSense).<p>I&#x27;ve spend over a decade in software. I do not enjoy being in industry. Even though I work remotely more now and less in the office, I still find my career choice mind numbing.<p>I&#x27;m going to try again soon, with more savings, so hopefully I can make it further before having to give up and having to find another software job.</text></comment> | <story><title>I've removed all ad network code from my blog</title><url>https://www.troyhunt.com/i-just-permanently-removed-all-ad-network-code-from-my-blog</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cr0sh</author><text>I kinda agree with you; I run a personal website, it isn&#x27;t very popular (and I don&#x27;t update it often - hmm, maybe there&#x27;s a link there!) - but it is my website, and I&#x27;ve kept the domain active since 1998 or thereabouts.<p>ie - a &quot;labor of love&quot;<p>How do I pay for it? Well, I reach around to my back pocket for my wallet, and...<p>I don&#x27;t have ads, I don&#x27;t have a sponsorship, and I don&#x27;t care - what I have and what I put on my website is strictly for myself and others to use or read as they see fit; I consider it a &quot;giving back&quot; to others out there for what the internet has given me over the years.<p>...and I am fine with that.<p>Other sites need to realize this too; not everything is worth money, and if you really love what you&#x27;re doing, you&#x27;d give it away free. Like the internet used to be - everybody doing it for the love of networking and computing and knowledge and information transfer.<p>Not AOL spam making money crap.</text></item><item><author>vintageseltzer</author><text>May I ask: if one is not &quot;famous&quot; (i.e. popular), why should one expect their site to be profitable from ads alone?<p>If my limited edition, 250-prints-per-month &#x27;zine isn&#x27;t making money, is that the advertising industry&#x27;s fault, or is there an issue with my expectations?<p>People ask the &quot;how do we fix dwindling ad-based revenue&quot; question all the time. The answer is clear, it&#x27;s just not what people want to hear: metered paywalls or a subscription model (or, you know, selling an actual product &#x2F; service).<p>The inevitable response to that is, &#x27;but I don&#x27;t make enough money off of that.&#x27;<p>Well, there you go! To me, that&#x27;s where it should end. You don&#x27;t have enough of a readership to support your website as-is. That means you can continue doing it as a labor of love, scale it down to something you can manage and that is profitable, or just, well, accept that your site isn&#x27;t as great as you thought it was, and that you won&#x27;t be making as much money off of it as you thought.<p>Isn&#x27;t this basic market forces at work? I have a suspicion that even if 50% of these sites bloated with ads and deceptive, click-bait content were to die, society as a whole would actually be much better off, and the efforts of people building these kinds of sites and expecting a return would be better directed elsewhere.</text></item><item><author>fiatjaf</author><text>Ok, you have a sponsorship model that works because you&#x27;re probably very famous. That doesn&#x27;t solve anyone&#x27;s problem, because almost no one is famous.<p>How can we replace ad networks with something better and saner?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Laforet</author><text>Seconded. I run two small websites with hundreds and sometimes thousands of PV per day on a server I am already using for other things. The only thing I really pay for is the domain which is a drop in the bucket anyway. I might give a random shoutout to Cloudflare here as well: Not everybody agree with their way of doing.things but from my point of view they&#x27;ve really helped to cut out a lot of work for personal websites.<p>To my knowledge, most people who make money on their websites are either big enough to monetise with sponsorship&#x2F;subscription, or they&#x27;d run a number of smaller sites of no consequence nor unique content anyway. The latter has no real reason to exist.</text></comment> |
11,842,454 | 11,842,592 | 1 | 3 | 11,842,169 | train | <story><title>Nest’s time at Alphabet</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/06/nests-time-at-alphabet-a-virtually-unlimited-budget-with-no-results/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>This sums up Google in a single paragraph:<p><i>In 2015 Nest posted job listings for its &quot;Nest Audio Team.&quot; The team would be responsible for &quot;developing an audio roadmap for Nest products.&quot; Industry observers suspected the audio team was building a smart Bluetooth speaker, but Google beat Nest to the punch with Google Home, an Amazon Echo-style Bluetooth speaker and voice assistant appliance. According to a report from The Information, when Nest found out about Google Home, it asked to work on the project with Google. Nest&#x27;s request was turned down. We can only guess why—maybe Nest&#x27;s reputation inside Google had something to do with it?</i><p>Often times Google has multiple projects doing effectively the same &quot;thing&quot; going at the same time. They don&#x27;t work together because the idea is to have the team that can get to the &quot;finish line&quot; first to win, not to co-operate. This, as it was explained to me by an engineering director there, was to encourage a &#x27;natural selection mechanism that selected for the best teams and the best products.&#x27;<p>While I understood the idea, that you would pit your own resources against each other like that was kind of foreign to me. My own personal learning from that, having watched them for 15 years, four of which from the inside, is that as a way of managing a company it produces few viable products and no viable businesses.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nest’s time at Alphabet</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/06/nests-time-at-alphabet-a-virtually-unlimited-budget-with-no-results/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway23716</author><text>As a Googler, a thus invested in the success of Nest as a business, I&#x27;m fucking furious at Fadell&#x27;s lack of leadership.<p>As an owner of many Nest products, and thus invested into the success of the Nest ecosystem, I&#x27;m also fucking furious.<p>What a waste.</text></comment> |
4,256,138 | 4,255,746 | 1 | 3 | 4,255,589 | train | <story><title>Laser-powered bionic eye gives vision to the blind</title><url>http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/132918-the-laser-powered-bionic-eye-that-gives-576-pixel-grayscale-vision-to-the-blind</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kellishaver</author><text>This is so very exciting. For the longest time, treatment of eye diseases has gone a little like this:<p>Refractive errors? Wear some glasses, contacts, or have LASIK<p>Corneal diseases? Tricker because you need a donor, but corneal transplant.<p>Glaucoma? There's a handful surgeries for that depending on type, and a plethora of drugs.<p>Cataract? I'll take an interocular lens, please.<p>Partially detached retina? There are moderately successful surgeries to reattach it, rates of success depending a lot on the health of the retina.<p>Retinal diseases? Sorry, you're screwed.<p>My left eye was removed when I was in my teens, and the retina of my right eye is damaged fairly extensively due to retinopathy (from being born 2mo premature). It's lead to various complications over the years, as well.<p>My biggest fear is going blind. I nearly am, and I think I still have a little PTSD from the last round of eye problems.<p>Now, 576 greyscale pixels isn't much, but it's only going to improve over time.<p>It's really exciting to think that people in my situation, and possibly even myself someday, will not have to face the prospect of total blindness from retinal disease.</text></comment> | <story><title>Laser-powered bionic eye gives vision to the blind</title><url>http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/132918-the-laser-powered-bionic-eye-that-gives-576-pixel-grayscale-vision-to-the-blind</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simonh</author><text>Until they walk into a French McDonalds.</text></comment> |
34,804,304 | 34,803,813 | 1 | 2 | 34,803,779 | train | <story><title>The israelis destabilizing democracy and disrupting elections worldwide</title><url>https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2022-11-16/ty-article-static-ext/the-israelis-destabilizing-democracy-and-disrupting-elections-worldwide/00000186-461e-d80f-abff-6e9e08b10000</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>1MachineElf</author><text>Archive link: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20230215075835&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.haaretz.com&#x2F;israel-news&#x2F;security-aviation&#x2F;2022-11-16&#x2F;ty-article-static-ext&#x2F;the-israelis-destabilizing-democracy-and-disrupting-elections-worldwide&#x2F;00000186-461e-d80f-abff-6e9e08b10000" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20230215075835&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.haare...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The israelis destabilizing democracy and disrupting elections worldwide</title><url>https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2022-11-16/ty-article-static-ext/the-israelis-destabilizing-democracy-and-disrupting-elections-worldwide/00000186-461e-d80f-abff-6e9e08b10000</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>r721</author><text>Summary thread: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;avischarf&#x2F;status&#x2F;1625734687875293185" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;avischarf&#x2F;status&#x2F;1625734687875293185</a></text></comment> |
11,841,597 | 11,840,853 | 1 | 2 | 11,840,453 | train | <story><title>GNU Taler 0.0.0 released</title><url>https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/taler/2016-06/msg00014.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vessenes</author><text>I don&#x27;t have time for a full write up of this system yet, and a paper would be really great.<p>That said, here are to me the most salient points:<p>* Exchanges (essentially banks in Taler) must have external auditing; there are no in-built technology mechanisms for noticing or defeating over-issuance<p>* HTTP&#x2F;HTTPS focused -- this is intended to be an API-layer tool<p>* Token based, so you could use it with any system you want<p>* Government audit friendly -- it tries for high levels of privacy for users and almost none for merchants as a conscious decision to be bad for money laundering.</text></comment> | <story><title>GNU Taler 0.0.0 released</title><url>https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/taler/2016-06/msg00014.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kybernetyk</author><text>&gt;Unlike BitCoin or cash payments, Taler ensures that governments can learn their citizen&#x27;s total income and thus collect sales, value-added or income taxes<p>Wow, what a feature ...</text></comment> |
1,898,753 | 1,898,699 | 1 | 3 | 1,898,669 | train | <story><title>Gmail Creator Paul Buchheit Leaves Facebook for Y Combinator</title><url>http://venturebeat.com/2010/11/12/y-combinator-paul-graham-harj-taggar/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>qeorge</author><text>Wow. This changes my opinion of Facebook's webmail offering significantly.<p>Congrats to Mr. Buchheit and YC, you're both making out like bandits.</text></comment> | <story><title>Gmail Creator Paul Buchheit Leaves Facebook for Y Combinator</title><url>http://venturebeat.com/2010/11/12/y-combinator-paul-graham-harj-taggar/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>harscoat</author><text>At a time where Google, FB fight w/ $M to get best people, that's one of the greatest talent win one can imagine.</text></comment> |
39,206,126 | 39,206,332 | 1 | 2 | 39,205,676 | train | <story><title>Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's online rant spurs threats to supes, police reports</title><url>https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/y-combinator-ceo-garry-tans-online-rant-spurs-threat-to-supe-police-reports/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BobaFloutist</author><text>It&#x27;s fascinating to me the extent to which executives don&#x27;t consider themselves &quot;public figures&quot; when it comes to potential downsides, but they do in terms of upsides.<p>It feels so obvious to me that the CEO of such a high-profile org should <i>at the very least</i> quickly check public-facing social media posts against someone sensible, if not laundering them all through the experts at their org. But somehow they keep making these mistakes over and over again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ativzzz</author><text>Many CEOs are regular people who happen to be overtly charismatic to a fault. It just so happens that overtly charismatic people tend to be rewarded greatly by our social structures<p>These CEOs aren&#x27;t doing anything different in these situations - they&#x27;re being themselves and doing what they did to get their position. Other people generally don&#x27;t call them out on their BS because it&#x27;s an uphill battle fighting overtly charismatic people, and it&#x27;s much easier to accept their flaws for the benefit of riding their coattails to the top<p>This is why they can&#x27;t differentiate between upsides&#x2F;downsides - people let them get away with things that other people can&#x27;t, and to them it is all the same</text></comment> | <story><title>Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's online rant spurs threats to supes, police reports</title><url>https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/y-combinator-ceo-garry-tans-online-rant-spurs-threat-to-supe-police-reports/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BobaFloutist</author><text>It&#x27;s fascinating to me the extent to which executives don&#x27;t consider themselves &quot;public figures&quot; when it comes to potential downsides, but they do in terms of upsides.<p>It feels so obvious to me that the CEO of such a high-profile org should <i>at the very least</i> quickly check public-facing social media posts against someone sensible, if not laundering them all through the experts at their org. But somehow they keep making these mistakes over and over again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>duxup</author><text>I&#x27;ve worked for several big companies where the CEO wanted people to ask tough questions at big meetings from the rank and file and so on. Front line managers had to prompt employees to ask question so it wasn&#x27;t just awkward silence.<p>It&#x27;s telling executives would think people would just ask tough questions on demand. It of course costs the CEO nothing to provide everyone else at the company tough questions &#x2F; feedback, employees though need to consider their words carefully depending on who at a company is listening as there can be real consequences.<p>It&#x27;s one of those things that I&#x27;m sure seems like it makes the executive look &quot;open&quot;, but rather it just shows their ignorance &#x2F; are out of touch with the life of a rando worker.<p>Not a surprise that kind of unawareness leaks out of the workplace as they operate in a space where they are often relatively free to speak their mind.</text></comment> |
28,134,237 | 28,134,130 | 1 | 2 | 28,133,772 | train | <story><title>A Message to Our Customers (2016)</title><url>https://www.apple.com/customer-letter/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>firebaze</author><text>I&#x27;ll never buy anything from Apple again. Apple was to me the walled but good-willed garden, caring about their profits by respecting their customers and taking a stance against widespread anti-democratic tendencies. I own an iWatch, two iPhones and two MacBook Pros (one privately owned, one from my current employer).<p>The selling points of apple to me were to provide excellent hardware combined with excellent software, combined with a guarantee to protect my privacy.<p>The first point still holds true, the 2nd not so much anymore, and the 3rd was destroyed by the most recent move.<p>My stance will cause a ripple effect, I convinced quite a few people to use apple if they can afford it due to their general stance and their commitment to democratic values. Not all of them will listen if I now tell the opposite story, but most will. I hope Apple feels the effects of this decision in one of the upcoming stock-holder meetings.<p>Of course, I don&#x27;t believe this helps against child abuse or any crime at all, in fact I believe the opposite effect happens: criminals probably know about moves like this one far earlier than the general public and react accordingly.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Message to Our Customers (2016)</title><url>https://www.apple.com/customer-letter/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mfer</author><text>Our two mainstream options for mobile OS are one that stalks you everywhere you go and monitors what you do for the company behind it and one that will look on device at your pictures to possibly report to the government (with other governments likely licking their lips). This two party system is starting to stink.<p>&gt; &quot;However mobile OS&#x27;s may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.&quot; -- George Washington</text></comment> |
26,447,613 | 26,445,225 | 1 | 3 | 26,443,406 | train | <story><title>RethinkDB: why we failed (2017)</title><url>https://www.defmacro.org/2017/01/18/why-rethinkdb-failed.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jandrewrogers</author><text>Database startups suffer from an extreme case of an important truism in startups generally: the product you think you are selling is not the product the customer thinks they are buying. No one buys a database <i>per se</i>, they are just a means to some other end.<p>People that love database technology — that would be me — tend to start database companies. It is very difficult to sell a database. It is much, much easier to sell a compelling solution to a somewhat boring but very valuable business problem that just happens to require an amazing database capability behind it. That’s your moat, the customer doesn’t actually care that there is an amazing database engine behind it but it makes it difficult for competitors to replicate.<p>Filed under “lessons I learned the hard way”.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>endymi0n</author><text>On the other hand, any kind of technology in infrastructure is a prime candidate for open source, the incentives are just very much aligned there.<p>Infrastructure tech makes for a great case that helps everyone while giving nobody a competitive advantage, that&#x27;s why companies love doing or sponsoring it.<p>On the other hand, open source tech in infrastructure helps get rid of vendor lock-in as in the worst case, you could still look inside the source code and patch things — also fancy FOSS tech makes for good community building efforts and shiny job ads, both attracting good devs.<p>Both effects together explain to me why open source makes for such a fierce competitor in any kind of paid infra tech, it&#x27;s hard to build the momentum to outrun them.<p>And open core? Pretty much dead by now since as soon as the cloud providers see there&#x27;s traction around any technology, they will build a hosted version, either directly or in a protocol compatible fashion.<p>Techies really dig this stuff (I do too), but as a business model, there aren&#x27;t many worse ones in 2021.</text></comment> | <story><title>RethinkDB: why we failed (2017)</title><url>https://www.defmacro.org/2017/01/18/why-rethinkdb-failed.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jandrewrogers</author><text>Database startups suffer from an extreme case of an important truism in startups generally: the product you think you are selling is not the product the customer thinks they are buying. No one buys a database <i>per se</i>, they are just a means to some other end.<p>People that love database technology — that would be me — tend to start database companies. It is very difficult to sell a database. It is much, much easier to sell a compelling solution to a somewhat boring but very valuable business problem that just happens to require an amazing database capability behind it. That’s your moat, the customer doesn’t actually care that there is an amazing database engine behind it but it makes it difficult for competitors to replicate.<p>Filed under “lessons I learned the hard way”.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ignoramous</author><text>&gt; <i>...the product you think you are selling is not the product the customer thinks they are buying.</i><p>Your comment reminds me of April Dunford&#x27;s post on how she helped position a database product: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thefxck.com&#x2F;interviews&#x2F;product-positioning-april-dunford" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thefxck.com&#x2F;interviews&#x2F;product-positioning-april...</a></text></comment> |
8,261,215 | 8,260,566 | 1 | 3 | 8,258,135 | train | <story><title>Holdout</title><url>http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/holdout/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kghose</author><text>I had Tibor Gergley&#x27;s &quot;Great Big Book of bed time stories&quot;. There is a story in it called &quot;Make way for the thruway&quot; by Caroline Emerson. It is about an old lady who refuses to vacate her house so that they can make a highway. It has a happy ending when sympathetic construction workers build the road around her house, and she becomes the famous old lady with the pretty house next to the highway.<p>My favorite quote:<p>&quot;You&#x27;ll be paid for your land,&quot; said Mike.<p>&quot;Money isn&#x27;t everything in this world,&quot; said the little old lady.<p>Aww, heck, you guys deserve the whole paragraph:<p>&quot;You&#x27;ll be paid for your land,&quot; said Mike.<p>&quot;Money isn&#x27;t everything in this world,&quot; said the little old lady.
...<p>Next day, the Big Boss drove to the old house. &quot;I&#x27;m sorry, ma&#x27;am,&quot; he said, &quot;this house must come down.&quot;<p>&quot;Young man,&quot; said the little old lady, &quot;I&#x27;ve lived in this house for seventy years. I watched those trees grow. I planted that rose bush. I&#x27;m not leaving.&quot;<p>&quot;But the thruway must go through,&quot; said the Big Boss. &quot;People want the quickest, shortest way these days.&quot;<p>&quot;What&#x27;s their hurry?&quot; asked the little old lady.<p>The Big Boss shook his head. he didn&#x27;t know.<p>...<p>(After the diversion has been built)<p>&quot;Oh, look at the roses!&quot; people cry as they drive by. They slow down a little to look.<p>&quot;Hum,&quot; says the little old lady to her cat, &quot;they&#x27;re not in such a hurry, after all.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Holdout</title><url>http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/holdout/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sjwright</author><text>A more recent photo of Edith Macefield&#x27;s house:<p><a href="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/18uugtoshe2yyjpg.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.kinja-img.com&#x2F;gawker-media&#x2F;image&#x2F;upload&#x2F;18uugtoshe2...</a><p>Nice balloons. Won&#x27;t quite lift the house up though.</text></comment> |
7,670,570 | 7,669,909 | 1 | 2 | 7,669,436 | train | <story><title>What's New in Mercurial 3.0</title><url>http://hglabhq.com/blog/2014/4/29/what-s-new-in-mercurial-3-0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tomlu</author><text>I feel like Mercurial still has a chance to become a real force if it can provably solve some of the <i>real</i> issues with git. It won&#x27;t do to just have a nicer CLI since most people are used to git by now.<p>Here are some of git&#x27;s real problems:<p>* Performance issues with multi-GB git repos
* Handling of large binary files
* Submodules - Mercurial has subrepos, but I don&#x27;t know how they compare</text></comment> | <story><title>What's New in Mercurial 3.0</title><url>http://hglabhq.com/blog/2014/4/29/what-s-new-in-mercurial-3-0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wirrbel</author><text>While a lot of tutorials mention how complicated git is in contrast to mercurial I - being a git native - feel the other way around. Git is intuitive with a small number of concepts necessarry to grasp my whole workflow.<p>Using this workflow with mercurial is really frustrating when I do it - the occasional pull request for a python-based project. A git branch as a concept is really simple, the mercurial ways I just cant wrap my head around (granted I only use it occasionally).<p>As a platform I like how all the porcellain in mercurial is implemented in a high level python. I can only wonder how productive writing custom porcellain commands in mercurial is given that interface.</text></comment> |
8,048,612 | 8,048,253 | 1 | 3 | 8,048,014 | train | <story><title>Nimrod by Example</title><url>http://nimrod-by-example.github.io/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tdees40</author><text><i>Sighs</i>. I wish Nimrod were more popular. It seems like a better version of D. But there can only be so many languages with a fully functioning ecosystem, and I just doubt Nimrod will ever get there. It seems to be a one-man shop at this point (as this demonstrates):<p><a href="https://github.com/Araq/Nimrod/graphs/contributors" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Araq&#x2F;Nimrod&#x2F;graphs&#x2F;contributors</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Nimrod by Example</title><url>http://nimrod-by-example.github.io/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eudox</author><text>I&#x27;m afraid the memory management scheme might cause the Nimrod ecosystem to end up with too many libraries that require GC, and since the building blocks are already using it, why not use it yourself?<p>Either make it fully manual, or do something like Rust (No small feat). A GC you can switch on and off sounds like a good idea, but programmers don&#x27;t keep half the promises they make (&quot;It&#x27;s just an MVP, I&#x27;ll refactor it to use manual memory later&quot;).</text></comment> |
27,614,320 | 27,613,016 | 1 | 2 | 27,611,433 | train | <story><title>Lego Island Rebuilder</title><url>https://www.legoisland.org/wiki/index.php/LEGO_Island_Rebuilder</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>herbstein</author><text>&gt; I wonder if it’s just that, like banks, software is outside of LEGO’s core competencies. When it comes to software, their leadership has no taste.<p>I work as a developer @ LEGO in Denmark, but I&#x27;m speaking purely for myself here.<p>My only knowledge is of internal software, and I assume you&#x27;re speaking about consumer facing software. LEGO did do video game publishing where e.g. the LEGO Island sequels were released through. And the team at LEGO Interactive, the video game publishing arm of the company, later merged with Traveller&#x27;s Tales to form TT Games that created the LEGO Star Wars games. While they weren&#x27;t developed <i>by</i> LEGO there was a close relationship.<p>On the more technical software side I&#x27;m personally very fond of LEGO Mindstorm and its ability to make programming more intuitive and tangible while still facilitating &quot;playing with LEGO&quot;.</text></item><item><author>josephg</author><text>I had the same feeling. It’s so weird how companies can miss such an obvious thing. The core fantasy of lego is engineering - “you can make anything you can imagine”. Even if you aren’t good at designing things, that’s still the core aspiration.<p>Minecraft fulfils that fantasy far better than most (all?) of the video games lego has made. I wonder if it’s just that, like banks, software is outside of lego’s core competencies. When it comes to software, their leadership has no taste.</text></item><item><author>voidfunc</author><text>Oh man, Lego Island... there&#x27;s a childhood memory from the 90&#x27;s.<p>I remember being super-disappointed as a kid that it wasn&#x27;t a free-build type game. There was building, but it was rather guided and there was a story.<p>I wanted something more like Lego Creator but in first-person. Lego never really produced something like that but sometime in the mid-2000&#x27;s someone cranked out Blockland which scratched that itch and then Minecraft came along and I was addicted to that in the early days before it became a big smash hit and was sold to Microsoft.<p>Edit: Also the multiplayer aspects of Blockland and Minecraft put anything LEGO ever created to shame... they just couldn&#x27;t grasp the online&#x2F;community thing and I&#x27;m not sure they wanted to handle the moderation for it either.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>Lego &#x27;lost the plot&#x27; for quite a number of years and their only drive was to sell more (poorly designed) sets to survive financially, rather than to see what drove people to buy those sets in the first place: the fact that their kids wanted them. Branching out into the upmarket sets for adults and older kids (large Starwars sets, modular houses and architectural sets such as the London Bridge) was pretty clever as well: you have to sell far fewer sets to people with much deeper pockets to make money that way.<p>The idea of &#x27;free bricks&#x27; such as were available in software was a thing that horrified Lego management, and that&#x27;s why they <i>couldn&#x27;t</i> have invented Minecraft. If they had it would have been buried deep. The obvious next step was to allow anything created in such an environment to be immediately orderable, Lego experimented with that for a bit, shipping &#x27;MOC&#x27;s, but ended up having to withdraw it due to overwhelming success. Obviously that is something you should then fix but instead the idea was - as far as I know - abandoned.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lego Island Rebuilder</title><url>https://www.legoisland.org/wiki/index.php/LEGO_Island_Rebuilder</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>herbstein</author><text>&gt; I wonder if it’s just that, like banks, software is outside of LEGO’s core competencies. When it comes to software, their leadership has no taste.<p>I work as a developer @ LEGO in Denmark, but I&#x27;m speaking purely for myself here.<p>My only knowledge is of internal software, and I assume you&#x27;re speaking about consumer facing software. LEGO did do video game publishing where e.g. the LEGO Island sequels were released through. And the team at LEGO Interactive, the video game publishing arm of the company, later merged with Traveller&#x27;s Tales to form TT Games that created the LEGO Star Wars games. While they weren&#x27;t developed <i>by</i> LEGO there was a close relationship.<p>On the more technical software side I&#x27;m personally very fond of LEGO Mindstorm and its ability to make programming more intuitive and tangible while still facilitating &quot;playing with LEGO&quot;.</text></item><item><author>josephg</author><text>I had the same feeling. It’s so weird how companies can miss such an obvious thing. The core fantasy of lego is engineering - “you can make anything you can imagine”. Even if you aren’t good at designing things, that’s still the core aspiration.<p>Minecraft fulfils that fantasy far better than most (all?) of the video games lego has made. I wonder if it’s just that, like banks, software is outside of lego’s core competencies. When it comes to software, their leadership has no taste.</text></item><item><author>voidfunc</author><text>Oh man, Lego Island... there&#x27;s a childhood memory from the 90&#x27;s.<p>I remember being super-disappointed as a kid that it wasn&#x27;t a free-build type game. There was building, but it was rather guided and there was a story.<p>I wanted something more like Lego Creator but in first-person. Lego never really produced something like that but sometime in the mid-2000&#x27;s someone cranked out Blockland which scratched that itch and then Minecraft came along and I was addicted to that in the early days before it became a big smash hit and was sold to Microsoft.<p>Edit: Also the multiplayer aspects of Blockland and Minecraft put anything LEGO ever created to shame... they just couldn&#x27;t grasp the online&#x2F;community thing and I&#x27;m not sure they wanted to handle the moderation for it either.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>josephg</author><text>Oh I love mindstorms. We used it years ago as part of my CS program at university. Our assignment was to figure out how to route trains around a network in haskell (given a track layout and some goals). Some students and I worked to connect the haskell API to real trains through lego RCX bricks. It was super fun, and it (for the first time) gave me the sense that I can make anything.<p>But mindstorms, PoweredUp, Boost and the whole lego ecosystem at the moment is a mess. The point of lego bricks is that they&#x27;re inherently compatible - any brick can connect to any other brick, going back for decades. But strangely, lego&#x27;s software doesn&#x27;t follow this at all. Despite all running through bluetooth, Mindstorms and PoweredUp work through entirely different (and as far as I can tell, incompatible) software and protocols. Mindstorms programs (which can run on either a mindstorms brick or a PC) should be able to, through bluetooth, connect to and drive any number of mindstorms&#x2F;poweredup&#x2F;boost controllers and use them to connect to additional sensors and motors. Then you could use the mindstorms software to program poweredup robots, use mindstorms bricks as the brain for large robots with poweredup hubs, use train controllers as inputs into mindstorms programs, and so on. But you can&#x27;t. Its all strangely siloed by &quot;theme&quot;. Despite using the same plug, you can&#x27;t even use all of the poweredup &#x2F; train &#x2F; mindstorms sensors and motors interchangeably with all of lego&#x27;s microcontrollers.<p>On the software side lego maintains two separate &amp; mutually incompatible scratch style programming languages, driven through different apps, to talk to physical hardware that is fundamentally, technically deeply compatible. From any other company I would understand. But this is LEGO. The whole point of lego is that it all connects together. If you have a voice at lego, please help the software teams understand and uphold the same mandate for fundamental interconnectedness in code.</text></comment> |
32,873,618 | 32,873,190 | 1 | 3 | 32,867,584 | train | <story><title>GPU mining no longer profitable after Ethereum merge</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/gpu-mining-is-now-unprofitable</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hinkley</author><text>I&#x27;d like to see some PoW scheme for public good projects like SETI or Folding@Home or even CGI for a fan fiction, where there&#x27;s perhaps something more than just bragging rights for contributing. I&#x27;m not sure what that would look like exactly.</text></item><item><author>stuntkite</author><text>There is so much interesting stuff going on in GPU compute that isn&#x27;t crypto. I&#x27;m really excited about this because there are SO MANY gpus that are now going to be cheaper than sand. There is A LOT that can be made of that and I intend to get mine. I think the crypto boom really covered up what we can really, really do with GPU compute and possibly stifled adoption and innovation but now we&#x27;ve got so many just sitting around. Which is super useful as we move more into a world after being able to get things manufactured and shipped world wide in what feels like an instant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bawolff</author><text>It doesn&#x27;t really work that way.<p>For PoW you dont just need work, you need work that can be easily verified, easily scaled difficulty levels, and difficult to cheat with - all with no centralized trusted authority.<p>Even when SETI&#x2F;F@H was worth only fake internet points they already had problems with people cheating. What happens when its worth real money?</text></comment> | <story><title>GPU mining no longer profitable after Ethereum merge</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/gpu-mining-is-now-unprofitable</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hinkley</author><text>I&#x27;d like to see some PoW scheme for public good projects like SETI or Folding@Home or even CGI for a fan fiction, where there&#x27;s perhaps something more than just bragging rights for contributing. I&#x27;m not sure what that would look like exactly.</text></item><item><author>stuntkite</author><text>There is so much interesting stuff going on in GPU compute that isn&#x27;t crypto. I&#x27;m really excited about this because there are SO MANY gpus that are now going to be cheaper than sand. There is A LOT that can be made of that and I intend to get mine. I think the crypto boom really covered up what we can really, really do with GPU compute and possibly stifled adoption and innovation but now we&#x27;ve got so many just sitting around. Which is super useful as we move more into a world after being able to get things manufactured and shipped world wide in what feels like an instant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roboticmind</author><text>Gridcoin rewarded seti@home when seti@home was operating and still rewards a number of other BOINC projects. It is proof of stake based and the rewards are layered on top.<p>There is a similar cryptocurrency called curecoin for folding@home although I think they do use SHA-256 mining (i.e not useful computations) for part of the rewards</text></comment> |
11,030,614 | 11,030,607 | 1 | 3 | 11,029,711 | train | <story><title>Why a city should not build a stadium for an NFL team</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/us-sports-nfl-stadiums-insight-idUSKCN0VC0EP</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scoofy</author><text>That seems extremely anti-competitive. I wonder if that rule could be challenged.</text></item><item><author>nhebb</author><text>The NFL changed the ownership rules, and the Green Bay model cannot be repeated elsewhere.<p><i>&quot;The NFL does not allow corporate membership. Instead, it requires clubs to be wholly owned either by a single owner, or small group of owners, and requires that at least one owner owns a 1&#x2F;3 stake in the team. The Packers are granted an exemption to this rule, as they have been a publicly owned corporation since before the rule was in place.&quot;</i><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Green_Bay_Packers_Board_of_Directors" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Green_Bay_Packers_Board_of_Dir...</a></text></item><item><author>onetwotree</author><text>The Green Bay packers have an interesting approach to this problem, although it requires a fanatical fan base and special ownership provisions, and the fact that the team can&#x27;t leave Green Bay (without a vote by the shareholders, who are all fans, which will never, ever, happen).<p>When they want to improve their stadium, they issue stock and sell more season tickets. This works because Packers stock cannot be sold or traded after purchase, and a season ticket is, for many working class Wisconsin families, an heirloom. A friend who&#x27;s a Wisconsin native was put on the waiting list for season tickets at birth, and is in his parents&#x27; will to inherit his mother&#x27;s ticket. His mom is probably going to die before he breaks 10,000th on the list, so that position will go to his kids. It&#x27;s insane like that.<p>But it means that the taxpayers of Wisconsin, including those of us who, like myself, could really care less about football, don&#x27;t have to foot the bill for maintenance and improvements to the Packers&#x27; stadium. But again, the Packers have a uniquely fanatical fan base, were created with provisions to keep them in Green Bay forever, and are owned by the fans.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tamana</author><text>It&#x27;s a League. The entire reason for its existence is to be anticompetitive (in business).</text></comment> | <story><title>Why a city should not build a stadium for an NFL team</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/us-sports-nfl-stadiums-insight-idUSKCN0VC0EP</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scoofy</author><text>That seems extremely anti-competitive. I wonder if that rule could be challenged.</text></item><item><author>nhebb</author><text>The NFL changed the ownership rules, and the Green Bay model cannot be repeated elsewhere.<p><i>&quot;The NFL does not allow corporate membership. Instead, it requires clubs to be wholly owned either by a single owner, or small group of owners, and requires that at least one owner owns a 1&#x2F;3 stake in the team. The Packers are granted an exemption to this rule, as they have been a publicly owned corporation since before the rule was in place.&quot;</i><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Green_Bay_Packers_Board_of_Directors" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Green_Bay_Packers_Board_of_Dir...</a></text></item><item><author>onetwotree</author><text>The Green Bay packers have an interesting approach to this problem, although it requires a fanatical fan base and special ownership provisions, and the fact that the team can&#x27;t leave Green Bay (without a vote by the shareholders, who are all fans, which will never, ever, happen).<p>When they want to improve their stadium, they issue stock and sell more season tickets. This works because Packers stock cannot be sold or traded after purchase, and a season ticket is, for many working class Wisconsin families, an heirloom. A friend who&#x27;s a Wisconsin native was put on the waiting list for season tickets at birth, and is in his parents&#x27; will to inherit his mother&#x27;s ticket. His mom is probably going to die before he breaks 10,000th on the list, so that position will go to his kids. It&#x27;s insane like that.<p>But it means that the taxpayers of Wisconsin, including those of us who, like myself, could really care less about football, don&#x27;t have to foot the bill for maintenance and improvements to the Packers&#x27; stadium. But again, the Packers have a uniquely fanatical fan base, were created with provisions to keep them in Green Bay forever, and are owned by the fans.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fnordfnordfnord</author><text>Private company, go start yer own football league if you don&#x27;t like it, etc.</text></comment> |
22,940,729 | 22,940,271 | 1 | 3 | 22,939,068 | train | <story><title>Labs for Rust OS – CS-3210 at Georgia Tech</title><url>https://tc.gts3.org/cs3210/2020/spring/lab.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>itsmemattchung</author><text>As a current graduate student specializing in systems at Georgia Tech OMSCS, I would love to see this class offered online. What&#x27;s piques my interest is are the following two labs: preemptive multitasking (i.e. implementing processes) and FAT32 file system (i.e. implementing a file system, something I&#x27;ve always wanted to do)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>&gt; FAT32 file system (i.e. implementing a file system, something I&#x27;ve always wanted to do)<p>It&#x27;s worth learning both how FAT32 works and how a simple inode-based filesystem works. They&#x27;re quite different styles, and inode-based systems support things like hardlinks.</text></comment> | <story><title>Labs for Rust OS – CS-3210 at Georgia Tech</title><url>https://tc.gts3.org/cs3210/2020/spring/lab.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>itsmemattchung</author><text>As a current graduate student specializing in systems at Georgia Tech OMSCS, I would love to see this class offered online. What&#x27;s piques my interest is are the following two labs: preemptive multitasking (i.e. implementing processes) and FAT32 file system (i.e. implementing a file system, something I&#x27;ve always wanted to do)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Icathian</author><text>Also currently a student in the program, and I agree this would definitely earn one of my remaining slots. The current OS courses are already considered some of the best, and this would be a great addition. Fingers crossed.</text></comment> |
37,605,842 | 37,605,629 | 1 | 2 | 37,603,905 | train | <story><title>Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month</title><url>https://blog.kagi.com/unlimited-searches-for-10</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>VHRanger</author><text>The only lockin I have remaining to windows is video games really</text></item><item><author>rjh29</author><text>Yeah you sound like someone who should not be using Windows in any way shape or form. The telemetry and lack of control? Try Linux out.</text></item><item><author>BoppreH</author><text>Three years ago, I migrated from Gmail to FastMail because I was afraid of losing access to my digital life on Google&#x27;s whim.<p>Two years ago, I found out that my favorite Youtube creators were all on Nebula.<p>One year ago, I switched my phone to LineageOS to get security updates a little longer.<p>A month ago, I installed OpenStreetMaps because Google Maps got really bad at showing points-of-interest.<p>And today, Kagi removed the only obstacle that kept me on Google Search. I&#x27;m looking forward to building my filter list.<p>After accidentally de-googlifying myself, I might ditch Windows next. It feels really nice using products that respect me, as opposed to services that are actively hostile because of advertisers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aquova</author><text>Even as recently as 2021, I still kept around a Windows partition for the occasional game that wouldn&#x27;t run on Proton. I was still able to play the majority of what I wanted, but brand new titles often required patches after release, or some games would crash on occasion.<p>Now? I haven&#x27;t even thought about compatibility in months. I don&#x27;t even look at the user tweaks anymore, when it used to be a constant factor. Granted, I don&#x27;t play multiplayer games with anticheat, which last I heard was still a lingering issue. Your mileage may vary, but I completely removed my Windows partition a while ago, and haven&#x27;t even thought about since.</text></comment> | <story><title>Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month</title><url>https://blog.kagi.com/unlimited-searches-for-10</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>VHRanger</author><text>The only lockin I have remaining to windows is video games really</text></item><item><author>rjh29</author><text>Yeah you sound like someone who should not be using Windows in any way shape or form. The telemetry and lack of control? Try Linux out.</text></item><item><author>BoppreH</author><text>Three years ago, I migrated from Gmail to FastMail because I was afraid of losing access to my digital life on Google&#x27;s whim.<p>Two years ago, I found out that my favorite Youtube creators were all on Nebula.<p>One year ago, I switched my phone to LineageOS to get security updates a little longer.<p>A month ago, I installed OpenStreetMaps because Google Maps got really bad at showing points-of-interest.<p>And today, Kagi removed the only obstacle that kept me on Google Search. I&#x27;m looking forward to building my filter list.<p>After accidentally de-googlifying myself, I might ditch Windows next. It feels really nice using products that respect me, as opposed to services that are actively hostile because of advertisers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rjh29</author><text>The Steam Deck is Linux and runs a large majority of games. You can do it on your laptop with Proton. It&#x27;s amazing. Even weird stuff like Mass Effect Remastered (which requires EA Play client) works on Linux now.</text></comment> |
36,696,021 | 36,695,971 | 1 | 2 | 36,695,635 | train | <story><title>Official Mastodon server of the Dutch government</title><url>https://social.overheid.nl/@avhuffelen/110700825255524685</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andsoitis</author><text>Why not just use a website? What advantage do citizens get by going to a social media site to keep a pulse on govt comms?</text></item><item><author>izzydata</author><text>Honestly I think this makes a lot more sense than Twitter. It always felt wrong to me that Twitter was used for anything resembling official communication. Whether it be a local news network, fire station, local government or the president of the United States. All on the same platform that is filled to the brim with pornography and obscenities. Of course you can curate your feed and only follow what you want, but in my mind Twitter is a single website. I&#x27;m used to dedicated forums so when Twitter rolled around I figured it would just be a little bit bigger, but still mostly informal, unofficial people goofing off online. Once everyone and everything started using it I left. I don&#x27;t want to mix online identities with real life identities.<p>So, despite Mastodon being a federated system it makes a lot more sense to use a dedicated instance for official purposes like this to me. I imagine they don&#x27;t federate with anything anyway and don&#x27;t even allow account creation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vanilla_nut</author><text>No strong reason, but Mastodon allows various goverment officials and agencies to create accounts on the same server and probably has more functionality baked in than most self-hosted alternatives. It&#x27;s got a better interface than a CMS and even allows those government officials to follow and interact with other accounts in an official capacity.<p>Personally it feels ready-made for government presence on the web.</text></comment> | <story><title>Official Mastodon server of the Dutch government</title><url>https://social.overheid.nl/@avhuffelen/110700825255524685</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andsoitis</author><text>Why not just use a website? What advantage do citizens get by going to a social media site to keep a pulse on govt comms?</text></item><item><author>izzydata</author><text>Honestly I think this makes a lot more sense than Twitter. It always felt wrong to me that Twitter was used for anything resembling official communication. Whether it be a local news network, fire station, local government or the president of the United States. All on the same platform that is filled to the brim with pornography and obscenities. Of course you can curate your feed and only follow what you want, but in my mind Twitter is a single website. I&#x27;m used to dedicated forums so when Twitter rolled around I figured it would just be a little bit bigger, but still mostly informal, unofficial people goofing off online. Once everyone and everything started using it I left. I don&#x27;t want to mix online identities with real life identities.<p>So, despite Mastodon being a federated system it makes a lot more sense to use a dedicated instance for official purposes like this to me. I imagine they don&#x27;t federate with anything anyway and don&#x27;t even allow account creation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cmelbye</author><text>The advantage is that the information can be aggregated along with posts from other sources rather than having to visit many different websites individually. It&#x27;s easier to consume, the same reason why RSS was useful.</text></comment> |
10,448,248 | 10,448,228 | 1 | 3 | 10,447,890 | train | <story><title>Getting to “Philosophy”</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosophy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pierrec</author><text>A good friend of mine is a student of philosophy, and I often argue with him about the importance and usefulness of the discipline. His favorite metaphor on the matter goes like this: If each domain of science was a finger, philosophy would be the thumb. It&#x27;s the one that the others should rest upon when being used.<p>Of course, I always dismiss his metaphor as pie-in-the-sky ridiculous. But I must concede that this phenomenon occurring on Wikipedia gives a lot of weight to his argument.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colordrops</author><text>To believe that associating philosophy with science is pie-in-the-sky ridiculous is to profess ignorance of the foundations and history of science. Science is a descendant of philosophy and the decisions made on how we practice it and interpret its results are guided by different philosophies throughout the centuries. A book or course on the philosophy of science, which is offered by most major universities, is recommended.</text></comment> | <story><title>Getting to “Philosophy”</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosophy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pierrec</author><text>A good friend of mine is a student of philosophy, and I often argue with him about the importance and usefulness of the discipline. His favorite metaphor on the matter goes like this: If each domain of science was a finger, philosophy would be the thumb. It&#x27;s the one that the others should rest upon when being used.<p>Of course, I always dismiss his metaphor as pie-in-the-sky ridiculous. But I must concede that this phenomenon occurring on Wikipedia gives a lot of weight to his argument.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mannykannot</author><text>Ask him for contemporary examples of philosophy&#x27;s usefulness to science. While on the subject, you might want to argue that philosophy has become too self-referential to be relevant.<p>I don&#x27;t think the Wikipedia phenomenon means a whole lot. Here&#x27;s an alternative metaphor: philosophy is the pot we put all the loose ends in, until some advance in science allows us to work on them some more. That doesn&#x27;t mean philosophy is making progress on them.</text></comment> |
30,241,906 | 30,241,749 | 1 | 2 | 30,228,327 | train | <story><title>How Japan saved Tokyo's rail network from collapse (part 1, 1945-1982)</title><url>https://seungylee14.substack.com/p/how-japan-saved-tokyos-rail-network</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rtpg</author><text>It&#x27;s very impressive to see these decades-longs projects pay off, in one way or another. Every single line extension, station change, is an entire political battle and story. A fractal of stories waiting to be discovered.<p>One extremely important detail for me when I hear about JNR (Now JR East&#x2F;West etc) and privatization: during privatization, all the Shinkansen debt in particular was held onto by the public. Extremely expensive infrastructure (now a money printer, at least the Tokyo &lt;-&gt; Osaka segment), just handed to private investors.<p>Of course JR works well as a whole now and it&#x27;s not like society is worse off, but it&#x27;s always left a bit of a poor taste in my mouth.<p>(For people wanting some more interesting transportation content: here[0] is an excellent overview of IC cards and integration of all the systems in the 2000s)<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ejrcf.or.jp&#x2F;jrtr&#x2F;jrtr62&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;6-15_web.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ejrcf.or.jp&#x2F;jrtr&#x2F;jrtr62&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;6-15_web.pdf</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>patio11</author><text><i>Every single line extension, station change, is an entire political battle and story.</i><p>Yep. A legendary one in my old stomping grounds of Gifu is that there is a shinkansen station in Gifu-Hashima, and not in places that would be far more convenient to have a station (e.g. Ogaki or Gifu City), because a politician local to there was able to decisively dictate the routing and, prior to the route being publicly known, acquired some real estate which was presently undistinguished but would have been extremely valuable if it were right next to a shinkansen station.<p>(Interested individuals can Google the names if they want them.)<p>A happier one which I use a lot in explaining why I love Japan: JR refused to close a particular station over one passenger. They ran one train there to pick her up and another train there to send her back every day for +&#x2F;- a decade, until she graduated, because someone at JR thought that JR <i>must</i> convey a child to their school.<p>(There are a few more anecdotes about that theme I am aware of, some reported to the press and some of which I know of through other ways, and in this I am in utter agreement with my rail buff friends that the railways see themselves as servants of the public trust in addition to capitalists.)</text></comment> | <story><title>How Japan saved Tokyo's rail network from collapse (part 1, 1945-1982)</title><url>https://seungylee14.substack.com/p/how-japan-saved-tokyos-rail-network</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rtpg</author><text>It&#x27;s very impressive to see these decades-longs projects pay off, in one way or another. Every single line extension, station change, is an entire political battle and story. A fractal of stories waiting to be discovered.<p>One extremely important detail for me when I hear about JNR (Now JR East&#x2F;West etc) and privatization: during privatization, all the Shinkansen debt in particular was held onto by the public. Extremely expensive infrastructure (now a money printer, at least the Tokyo &lt;-&gt; Osaka segment), just handed to private investors.<p>Of course JR works well as a whole now and it&#x27;s not like society is worse off, but it&#x27;s always left a bit of a poor taste in my mouth.<p>(For people wanting some more interesting transportation content: here[0] is an excellent overview of IC cards and integration of all the systems in the 2000s)<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ejrcf.or.jp&#x2F;jrtr&#x2F;jrtr62&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;6-15_web.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ejrcf.or.jp&#x2F;jrtr&#x2F;jrtr62&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;6-15_web.pdf</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paganel</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s very impressive to see these decades-longs projects pay off,<p>Just read recently that Moscow is now in the process of building a couple of dozens metro stations outside of its ~60-miles long ring-road, to add to the existing ~230 stations. I wish someone would also write a more in-depth write-up of that and how do the Russians manage to do it (including how do they manage to keep the whole network running at what I assume to be reasonable costs), out in the West the knowledge of how to maintain such a system at low-ish costs and how to extend it seems to have been lost.</text></comment> |
31,895,138 | 31,894,844 | 1 | 2 | 31,893,408 | train | <story><title>How to set junior employees up for success in remote</title><url>https://slite.com/blog/micromanagement-is-not-a-bad-word</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slackfan</author><text>For junior engineers it&#x27;s really easy to fall into the trap of trying to solve everything themselves instead of asking for help when they are remote. I say this as somebody who has spent the last five years working remote team-based gigs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>itsmemattchung</author><text>&gt; For junior engineers it&#x27;s really easy to fall into the trap of trying to solve everything themselves instead of asking for help when they are remote<p>Senior folks do this. All the time.<p>Despite having 10+ years of experience and leading engineers at AWS, my default is to &quot;spin my wheels&quot;. Now that I understand myself a little better, anytime I find myself laser focused on a problem, but making 0% progress, then I either:<p>1) distance myself from the problem or
2) ask for help
3) both<p>Junior or not. Asking for help can be difficult</text></comment> | <story><title>How to set junior employees up for success in remote</title><url>https://slite.com/blog/micromanagement-is-not-a-bad-word</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slackfan</author><text>For junior engineers it&#x27;s really easy to fall into the trap of trying to solve everything themselves instead of asking for help when they are remote. I say this as somebody who has spent the last five years working remote team-based gigs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_fat_santa</author><text>One thing I started as a team lead is telling all my Jr and Mid level engineers to reach out to me for help if they need it, and that I would always be happy to get on a call with them. I had a pretty small team so this was easily manageable. At first I wouldn&#x27;t get any folks reaching out for help, but eventually they all got comfortable with calling&#x2F;messaging me if they had an issue.<p>I think a bit part of this is how you see yourself on the team. I gave myself the personal title: &quot;Specialist and Support Person&quot;. On any given day I really only have two tasks:<p>* Work on &quot;specialist&quot; stuff within the app, stuff that is way over the heads of any of the Jr&#x27;s or Mid level devs.<p>* Provide Support on everything else. Since my engineers are the ones pumping out most of the code, the biggest part is making sure they are supported in every way imaginable.<p>There are other responsibilities obviously, but within the context of &quot;day to day&quot; on the team, I found aligning myself with those responsibilities really helped my team.</text></comment> |
40,815,096 | 40,814,970 | 1 | 3 | 40,814,728 | train | <story><title>FCC rule would make carriers unlock all phones after 60 days</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/27/fcc-rule-would-make-carriers-unlock-all-phones-after-60-days/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>paxys</author><text>I don&#x27;t think people realize that the US is the only market in the world where phones are carrier locked, and in fact the only market where carriers have so much power over the features and overall experience of your phone. Mobile carriers dictate that a phone has to be sold with a locked bootloader. They decide if&#x2F;when the phone should get OS updates. They are the ones who fill the phone with bloatware. Up until a few years ago the phone had a more prominent logo of the cell carrier than the company that actually made it.<p>US carriers have used their government-granted monopolies to influence the market wayy beyond phone calls and data plans, and it&#x27;s about time it should end.</text></comment> | <story><title>FCC rule would make carriers unlock all phones after 60 days</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/27/fcc-rule-would-make-carriers-unlock-all-phones-after-60-days/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Molitor5901</author><text>This seems like the fair and just thing to do. Being locked into a carrier is just wrong, but I would accept that if you purchased a discounted phone through the carrier that there would be divorce penalties.</text></comment> |
35,114,445 | 35,114,197 | 1 | 2 | 35,114,009 | train | <story><title>Urgent: Sign the petition now</title><url>https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/urgent-sign-the-petition-now-thousands-of-startups-and-hundreds-of-thousands-of-startup-jobs-are-at-risk/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jimrandomh</author><text>Statement by the FDIC: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fdic.gov&#x2F;news&#x2F;press-releases&#x2F;2023&#x2F;pr23016.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fdic.gov&#x2F;news&#x2F;press-releases&#x2F;2023&#x2F;pr23016.html</a><p>Key paragraph:<p>&gt; &quot;All insured depositors will have full access to their insured deposits no later than Monday morning, March 13, 2023. The FDIC will pay uninsured depositors an advance dividend within the next week. Uninsured depositors will receive a receivership certificate for the remaining amount of their uninsured funds. As the FDIC sells the assets of Silicon Valley Bank, future dividend payments may be made to uninsured depositors.&quot;<p>The advance dividend presumably should protect most of the small-business account holders from imminently missing payroll. Presumably after that, there will be a secondary market in receivership certificates, and the question will be how much of a discount these trade at relative to the original account balances.<p>It&#x27;s still a bad situation to be in, but it shouldn&#x27;t be as thoroughly catastrophic as many seem to think.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>The FDIC’s statement, which is very short and to the point, should be required reading for anyone wanting to discuss the situation.<p>The FDIC’s handling of the situation appears to be geared toward urgency and keeping depositors up and running. The advance dividend provides significant access to funds beyond the $250K limit.<p>The number of comments, Tweets, and even opinion pieces I’m reading from people who assume that all money beyond $250K has disappeared is concerning. The FDIC is rushing to provide access on Monday to substantial funds for a takeover that happened on Friday.<p>Depositors might take a haircut, yes, but the commentary about this being an “extinction level event” is just fear mongering.<p>I’m sure VCs and investors would love if the government stepped in and covered the remaining X% of missing funds when the dust settles, but the way they’re playing off of public panic to exaggerate the situation is starting to feel distasteful.</text></comment> | <story><title>Urgent: Sign the petition now</title><url>https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/urgent-sign-the-petition-now-thousands-of-startups-and-hundreds-of-thousands-of-startup-jobs-are-at-risk/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jimrandomh</author><text>Statement by the FDIC: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fdic.gov&#x2F;news&#x2F;press-releases&#x2F;2023&#x2F;pr23016.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fdic.gov&#x2F;news&#x2F;press-releases&#x2F;2023&#x2F;pr23016.html</a><p>Key paragraph:<p>&gt; &quot;All insured depositors will have full access to their insured deposits no later than Monday morning, March 13, 2023. The FDIC will pay uninsured depositors an advance dividend within the next week. Uninsured depositors will receive a receivership certificate for the remaining amount of their uninsured funds. As the FDIC sells the assets of Silicon Valley Bank, future dividend payments may be made to uninsured depositors.&quot;<p>The advance dividend presumably should protect most of the small-business account holders from imminently missing payroll. Presumably after that, there will be a secondary market in receivership certificates, and the question will be how much of a discount these trade at relative to the original account balances.<p>It&#x27;s still a bad situation to be in, but it shouldn&#x27;t be as thoroughly catastrophic as many seem to think.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nuclearnice3</author><text>We will make payroll, but valuations will suffer and upset our limited partners just didn&#x27;t have the same ring to it.</text></comment> |
37,173,856 | 37,171,530 | 1 | 2 | 37,171,187 | train | <story><title>China’s property giant Evergrande files for bankruptcy protection in Manhattan</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/18/china-property-developer-evergrande-files-for-bankruptcy-protection-in-us.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wenyuanyu</author><text>The Chinese government&#x27;s approach to dealing with failing real-estate companies, including Evergrande, is distinct from typical Western bailouts. In China, the strategy often involves allowing such companies to default in a controlled manner. Given that the major lenders and banks are state-owned , this essentially means that the government bears the loss through these institutions (what else can happen anyway??) . Asset management companies are then allowed to bid for any remaining valuable assets of the failed company. The state government has also issued directives to local governments, ensuring they take responsibility for the completion of housing projects for homebuyers.<p>It&#x27;s clear that there have been instances of questionable financial maneuvering by individuals behind these real estate companies, involving substantial sums of money being moved out of China through various, potentially illicit means. In Evergrande&#x27;s case, critics point to dubious ventures, such as an automotive business that never produced cars, as potential vehicles for siphoning money to overseas entities. Additionally, the issuance of USD-denominated bonds—often purchased by shareholders—is another strategy that has been scrutinized.<p>To address these challenges, the Chinese government has enforced exit bans and placed these individuals under strict supervision. They are often required to return these funds to China, potentially under threat of reduced prison sentences. This sounds not right... but yeah... it is China. And China does not have other means to use like US to extradite fugitives or request the money back even it got all the evidence... exit-ban and blackmailing are the only way China can go...<p>As for Evergrande, while it&#x27;s severely distressed, it continues to operate, largely as a &#x27;zombie&#x27; company under state guidance, to resolve as much of its outstanding debt and obligations as possible. A full government bailout, in the Western sense, does not appear to be on the table.<p>Regarding the broader crisis, I feel the situation is largely controllable due to the extensive tools at the disposal of the Chinese government. It&#x27;s almost certain that the authorities have already devised a comprehensive plan and roadmap to navigate this crisis 1-2 years ago...</text></comment> | <story><title>China’s property giant Evergrande files for bankruptcy protection in Manhattan</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/18/china-property-developer-evergrande-files-for-bankruptcy-protection-in-us.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ipnon</author><text>There are many real estate giants and so-called &quot;trust&quot; companies who are incapable of repaying debt right now. Some of these companies have trillions in RMB on their balance sheets. The central bank can bail them out but at the expense of the assets of the middle and lower class. This would only further incentivize cash hoarding, and tighten the middle income trap. It is not an enviable situation.</text></comment> |
6,691,058 | 6,691,200 | 1 | 2 | 6,690,559 | train | <story><title>Absolute Horizontal And Vertical Centering In CSS</title><url>http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2013/08/09/absolute-horizontal-vertical-centering-css/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gmjoe</author><text>Vertical centering isn&#x27;t that useful when you already have to know the height of things... I mean, if you already know the heights, you can just put the numbers in straight.<p>The best way to do <i>real</i> vertical-centering that works with variable heights, and doesn&#x27;t use JavaScript, is to take advantage of the fact that table cells do this with &quot;vertical-align: middle&quot;. Inexplicably, <i>only</i> table cells allow true vertical centering with variable heights.<p>So you can either convert the surrounding element to a big ole &lt;table&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;&#x2F;td&gt;&lt;&#x2F;tr&gt;&lt;&#x2F;table&gt;, or you can use CSS to give it a property of display: table-cell. And in both cases, give it a &quot;vertical-align: middle&quot;. Then you&#x27;re good to go!<p>And of course, horizontal positioning in the table cell is easy.</text></comment> | <story><title>Absolute Horizontal And Vertical Centering In CSS</title><url>http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2013/08/09/absolute-horizontal-vertical-centering-css/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pmichaud</author><text>The fact that this is an interesting article is a huge indictment of CSS. It was developed for a different, simpler use case, and it&#x27;s obviously the wrong abstraction at this point. Too bad it&#x27;s entrenched.</text></comment> |
40,226,214 | 40,226,441 | 1 | 3 | 40,217,453 | train | <story><title>The Rabbit R1 is probably running Android and is powered by an Android app</title><url>https://www.androidauthority.com/rabbit-r1-is-an-android-app-3438805/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adgjlsfhk1</author><text>because if it&#x27;s just an android app, you have to wonder why it&#x27;s not just an app</text></item><item><author>jibe</author><text>I don&#x27;t why it should surprise, or bother, anyone that it is running android. Totally reasonable choice. What does it say that it is treated like some sort of gotcha? Were they supposed to build their own AIOS?</text></item><item><author>tb1989</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t surprise me. In my opinion, many companies try to achieve outrageous premiums by taking the route of teen engineering (the originator of hype). In addition to rabbit, there is also a series of nothing products.<p>This doesn&#x27;t convince the tech fetishists. In fact, I think te&#x27;s contribution to music is very limited, even harmful, especially when I see the latest Yamaha even imitating te, which feels a bit funny and ridiculous. We need real innovation and democratic pricing.<p>By the way, if you care, you can learn about the history of rabbit’s founder. Let&#x27;s just say, in certain circles, this is a recognized liar. So I’m not surprised at all when it was said a few days ago that Rabbit stole everyone’s passwords.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Johnny555</author><text>One reason was mentioned in the article:<p><i>After all, the Rabbit R1’s launcher app is intended to be preinstalled in the firmware and be granted several privileged, system-level permissions — only some of which we were able to grant — so some of the functions would likely fail if we tried</i><p>And the statement from Rabbit in the article says essentially the same:<p><i>rabbit OS and LAM run on the cloud with very bespoke AOSP and lower level firmware modifications, therefore a local bootleg APK without the proper OS and Cloud endpoints won’t be able to access our service</i></text></comment> | <story><title>The Rabbit R1 is probably running Android and is powered by an Android app</title><url>https://www.androidauthority.com/rabbit-r1-is-an-android-app-3438805/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adgjlsfhk1</author><text>because if it&#x27;s just an android app, you have to wonder why it&#x27;s not just an app</text></item><item><author>jibe</author><text>I don&#x27;t why it should surprise, or bother, anyone that it is running android. Totally reasonable choice. What does it say that it is treated like some sort of gotcha? Were they supposed to build their own AIOS?</text></item><item><author>tb1989</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t surprise me. In my opinion, many companies try to achieve outrageous premiums by taking the route of teen engineering (the originator of hype). In addition to rabbit, there is also a series of nothing products.<p>This doesn&#x27;t convince the tech fetishists. In fact, I think te&#x27;s contribution to music is very limited, even harmful, especially when I see the latest Yamaha even imitating te, which feels a bit funny and ridiculous. We need real innovation and democratic pricing.<p>By the way, if you care, you can learn about the history of rabbit’s founder. Let&#x27;s just say, in certain circles, this is a recognized liar. So I’m not surprised at all when it was said a few days ago that Rabbit stole everyone’s passwords.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dan_quixote</author><text>&gt; why it&#x27;s not just an app<p>If it&#x27;s just an app...their hardware has no reason to exist AND they are competing directly with Google&#x2F;Microsoft.</text></comment> |
33,850,183 | 33,848,520 | 1 | 2 | 33,846,437 | train | <story><title>Microsoft Is Forcing Me to Buy MacBooks</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHKKcd3sx2c</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pbnjeh</author><text>Finally, an explanation.<p>I don&#x27;t run around enough to care about quick&#x2F;instant startup. Despite using the Windows 10 Windows menu Power command to &quot;Shut down&quot; my Thinkpad X1C6, I took it out of its bag the following day, on a few not too infrequent occasions, to find it warm and &quot;doing stuff&quot; (Windows Update sticks in my mind). Moreso than a lowered charge, the idea of it cooking itself inside its padded sleeve and bag caused me concern.<p>After a bit of investigation, I settled on training myself to always open&#x2F;use a command window to issue &quot;shutdown &#x2F;s&quot;.<p>No more warm or hot, drained laptop since then.<p>I agree with Linus: Microsoft&#x27;s behavior and indifference WRT this problem is reprehensible. For me, it is another example of how Microsoft has not -- fundamentally -- changed since its E3 days. The 900 pound gorilla that we will, per force, accommodate. Amazing how entrenched such cultural mindsets are.<p>By the way, the X1C6 as configured by Lenovo does not support S3. Since Linus, in his demo of a possible BIOS configuration change, was using a Thinkpad, maybe I&#x27;ll get lucky with that option -- watch the video to see whether you might have such a fix for your system.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jiggawatts</author><text>You&#x27;re just not understanding <i>the situation</i>.<p>Someone in Microsoft has a KPI related to the percentage of machines updated with the latest patches every month.<p>He or she can best meet their KPIs at the low, low cost of the occasional destroyed laptop, fire, or -- <i>very rare</i> -- customer death.<p>People just have to accept the risk of burning to death so that this person can meet their KPIs by forcefully updating laptops even if they&#x27;re hibernating, in a laptop bag, and in the cargo hold of an airliner.<p>Those passengers knew what they were signing up for when they boarded that plane together with a Windows user.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft Is Forcing Me to Buy MacBooks</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHKKcd3sx2c</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pbnjeh</author><text>Finally, an explanation.<p>I don&#x27;t run around enough to care about quick&#x2F;instant startup. Despite using the Windows 10 Windows menu Power command to &quot;Shut down&quot; my Thinkpad X1C6, I took it out of its bag the following day, on a few not too infrequent occasions, to find it warm and &quot;doing stuff&quot; (Windows Update sticks in my mind). Moreso than a lowered charge, the idea of it cooking itself inside its padded sleeve and bag caused me concern.<p>After a bit of investigation, I settled on training myself to always open&#x2F;use a command window to issue &quot;shutdown &#x2F;s&quot;.<p>No more warm or hot, drained laptop since then.<p>I agree with Linus: Microsoft&#x27;s behavior and indifference WRT this problem is reprehensible. For me, it is another example of how Microsoft has not -- fundamentally -- changed since its E3 days. The 900 pound gorilla that we will, per force, accommodate. Amazing how entrenched such cultural mindsets are.<p>By the way, the X1C6 as configured by Lenovo does not support S3. Since Linus, in his demo of a possible BIOS configuration change, was using a Thinkpad, maybe I&#x27;ll get lucky with that option -- watch the video to see whether you might have such a fix for your system.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tzs</author><text>I will never buy a Microsoft laptop or tablet again unless there is a switch to really truly turn the damn thing off. My Surface Pro 4, which was only lightly used, had the battery degrade about as fast as you might expect from a very heavily used machine probably due to &quot;shut down&quot; not actually shutting down.</text></comment> |
5,202,184 | 5,202,354 | 1 | 3 | 5,201,981 | train | <story><title>Robots.txt</title><url>http://explicitly.me/robots.txt</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dkhenry</author><text>Keep up the good work Google. I hope this serves as encouragement for them to continue to screw over those who want to turn searching for relevant information into a war for who can cheat the system the best.</text></comment> | <story><title>Robots.txt</title><url>http://explicitly.me/robots.txt</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bengillies</author><text>It seems that most people here would like it very much if SEO died a horrible death as quickly as possible. Let me try and paint a (probably somewhat sketchy) picture of why it should exist (I have nothing to do with SEO consulting btw):<p>1. You have a business.
2. Said business has a website.
3. Said website is bringing in no discernable revenue for your business.
4. Poking around for reasons, you discover that your website ranks really lowly on Google.
5. You have no idea why.
6. You pay an SEO consultant. They take a look at your web site, and your overall web presence, to try and find out what's going wrong.
7. They discover that your markup is terrible, the wrong things are enclosed in header tags, etc. Also, you have little to no visibility outside of your website.
8. They advise some sensible changes to your markup, and force you to start posting things on Google+, Twitter, Facebook, etc.
9. Your ranking improves. As does your revenue.<p>Which bit of that process is evil and wrong?<p>Of course, there will always be a shady side to SEO (people taking it too far, etc), but there's a valid reason reason it exists: many people simply do not know enough to get the basic components right. SEO consultants help them do that, and improve revenue as a result.</text></comment> |
10,675,750 | 10,675,850 | 1 | 2 | 10,668,687 | train | <story><title>Self hosted C – breakdown</title><url>http://achacompilers.blogspot.com/2015/12/self-hosted-c-breakdown.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>w23j</author><text>Can somebody point me at some introductionary material (or approachable code base) to writing an <i>optimizing</i> compiler?<p>There seem to be a lot of very good tutorials on writing a simple compiler, like
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu&#x2F;11-ghuloum.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu&#x2F;11-ghuloum.pdf</a>
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;compilers.iecc.com&#x2F;crenshaw&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;compilers.iecc.com&#x2F;crenshaw&#x2F;</a><p>There are also readable code bases like tinyc or this one.<p>However these always use a simple template based approach to code generation and stop there.<p>Of course there are real world compiler (lvm, gcc, ...). However because of their size and complexity it&#x27;s hard to learn from them.<p>What I am interested in would be going from:
&quot;I have an AST and for this node type I output this assembly.&quot;
to
&quot;I translate the AST to an IR. Transform an the IR in multiple passes and finally output decent asm.&quot;<p>That is, something that talks about CFG analysis, register scheduling or maybe SSA form? I have read papers on SSA and Sea-of-Nodes IRs, but these of course always assume that you know how and why to use them. A more approachable text&#x2F;github-repo that shows how to take the step from template base code gen to more advanced techniques would be great.<p>(I hope it is ok to ask this here. Did not want to hijack the thread.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>quincunx</author><text>After grinding through a bunch of compiler books I have to mention &quot;Modern Compiler Implementation in C - Andrew A. Appel&quot;: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.co.uk&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0521607655" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.co.uk&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0521607655</a> as one that stands out.<p>For LALR Parsers and DFA scanners and the like, I found the original Dragon Book <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.co.uk&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B00EKYURHS" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.co.uk&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B00EKYURHS</a> is still best.<p>Both books are very accessible reading.</text></comment> | <story><title>Self hosted C – breakdown</title><url>http://achacompilers.blogspot.com/2015/12/self-hosted-c-breakdown.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>w23j</author><text>Can somebody point me at some introductionary material (or approachable code base) to writing an <i>optimizing</i> compiler?<p>There seem to be a lot of very good tutorials on writing a simple compiler, like
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu&#x2F;11-ghuloum.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu&#x2F;11-ghuloum.pdf</a>
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;compilers.iecc.com&#x2F;crenshaw&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;compilers.iecc.com&#x2F;crenshaw&#x2F;</a><p>There are also readable code bases like tinyc or this one.<p>However these always use a simple template based approach to code generation and stop there.<p>Of course there are real world compiler (lvm, gcc, ...). However because of their size and complexity it&#x27;s hard to learn from them.<p>What I am interested in would be going from:
&quot;I have an AST and for this node type I output this assembly.&quot;
to
&quot;I translate the AST to an IR. Transform an the IR in multiple passes and finally output decent asm.&quot;<p>That is, something that talks about CFG analysis, register scheduling or maybe SSA form? I have read papers on SSA and Sea-of-Nodes IRs, but these of course always assume that you know how and why to use them. A more approachable text&#x2F;github-repo that shows how to take the step from template base code gen to more advanced techniques would be great.<p>(I hope it is ok to ask this here. Did not want to hijack the thread.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>This one is very readable: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Engineering-Compiler-Second-Edition-Cooper&#x2F;dp&#x2F;012088478X" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Engineering-Compiler-Second-Edition-Co...</a>.<p>Corresponding lecture notes: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.clear.rice.edu&#x2F;comp412&#x2F;Lectures" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.clear.rice.edu&#x2F;comp412&#x2F;Lectures</a>.</text></comment> |
13,211,587 | 13,211,111 | 1 | 3 | 13,210,849 | train | <story><title>Cancelable Promises: Why was this proposal withdrawn?</title><url>https://github.com/tc39/proposal-cancelable-promises/issues/70</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cwmma</author><text>Promises have always been extremely contentious in JS for a couple reasons and Domenic has had the patience of a saint getting the original proposal through so it&#x27;s totally understandable that he might not want to deal with this anymore especially if people in his org are against it.<p>There were a couple reasons the original promises were so contentious to standardize.<p>- Monads: there was a very vocal faction on TC-39 that really wanted a Promises to be monadic and very much emphasized mathematical purity over usefulness and any attempt to discuss things tended to get side tracked into a discussion about monads, see brouhaha over Promise.cast [1].<p>- Error handling: Promises have a bit of a footgun where by default they can swallow errors unless you explicitly add a listener for them. As you can theoretically add an error listener latter on all other options had downsides (not always obvious to advocates) leading to a lot of arguing, must of it after things had shipped and realistically couldn&#x27;t be changed. Fixed by platforms and libraries agreeing on a standardization of uncaught promise events [2].<p>- Just an absurd amount of bike shedding probably the 2nd most bike shedded feature of the spec (behind modules).<p>So cancelable promises reignite all the old debates plus there&#x27;s no obvious right way to do it, like should it be a 3rd state which could cause compatibility issues and would add complexity, or should cancellations just be a sort of forced rejection, which would be a lot more backwards compatibility but with less features.<p>Additionally there is a bizarre meme that somehow observables (think event emitters restricted to a single event or synchronous streams that don&#x27;t handle back pressure) are a replacement for promises or are a better fit for async tasks they should be used instead.<p>edit: patients =&gt; patience<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;esdiscuss.org&#x2F;topic&#x2F;promise-cast-and-promise-resolve" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;esdiscuss.org&#x2F;topic&#x2F;promise-cast-and-promise-resolve</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;benjamingr&#x2F;0237932cee84712951a2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;benjamingr&#x2F;0237932cee84712951a2</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spion</author><text>The problem wasn&#x27;t usefulness or purity, it was that the community already standardised on a certain behaviour of promises that was not monadic. The only way to make promises monadic was to therefore not standardise &quot;promises&quot; at all.<p>At that time, monadic tasks were basically unheard of in the community. By the very nature of the monad laws, they cannot have side-effects, so they cannot be eager. This means that a user &quot;running&quot; an operation would observe nothing until they subscribe to it. In an imperative language like JS, this is confusing for users, and arguably not worth the breakage of the existing promise ecosystem.<p>Another nice property of Promises is that they can be implemented in a way that doesn&#x27;t cause stack overflow for endeless recursion (and additionally, in some cases we can get &quot;tail recursion&quot;). This might be doable with lazy tasks too - not entirely sure. See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;paf31&#x2F;purescript-safely" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;paf31&#x2F;purescript-safely</a><p>On the other hand, monadic tasks make many other things easier, like<p>* cancellation (just unsubscribe),<p>* synchronous error propagation, so no issues with error swallowing and perhaps no post-mortem issues in node. Nothing runs before the subscription, so at the point the side effects are running, we already know whether there is an error handler. Effectively the `done` method would&#x27;ve been the eqiuivalent of `subscribe`, and mandatory<p>* defining parallel, sequential or limited-concurrency execution order after the tasks have been created</text></comment> | <story><title>Cancelable Promises: Why was this proposal withdrawn?</title><url>https://github.com/tc39/proposal-cancelable-promises/issues/70</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cwmma</author><text>Promises have always been extremely contentious in JS for a couple reasons and Domenic has had the patience of a saint getting the original proposal through so it&#x27;s totally understandable that he might not want to deal with this anymore especially if people in his org are against it.<p>There were a couple reasons the original promises were so contentious to standardize.<p>- Monads: there was a very vocal faction on TC-39 that really wanted a Promises to be monadic and very much emphasized mathematical purity over usefulness and any attempt to discuss things tended to get side tracked into a discussion about monads, see brouhaha over Promise.cast [1].<p>- Error handling: Promises have a bit of a footgun where by default they can swallow errors unless you explicitly add a listener for them. As you can theoretically add an error listener latter on all other options had downsides (not always obvious to advocates) leading to a lot of arguing, must of it after things had shipped and realistically couldn&#x27;t be changed. Fixed by platforms and libraries agreeing on a standardization of uncaught promise events [2].<p>- Just an absurd amount of bike shedding probably the 2nd most bike shedded feature of the spec (behind modules).<p>So cancelable promises reignite all the old debates plus there&#x27;s no obvious right way to do it, like should it be a 3rd state which could cause compatibility issues and would add complexity, or should cancellations just be a sort of forced rejection, which would be a lot more backwards compatibility but with less features.<p>Additionally there is a bizarre meme that somehow observables (think event emitters restricted to a single event or synchronous streams that don&#x27;t handle back pressure) are a replacement for promises or are a better fit for async tasks they should be used instead.<p>edit: patients =&gt; patience<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;esdiscuss.org&#x2F;topic&#x2F;promise-cast-and-promise-resolve" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;esdiscuss.org&#x2F;topic&#x2F;promise-cast-and-promise-resolve</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;benjamingr&#x2F;0237932cee84712951a2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;benjamingr&#x2F;0237932cee84712951a2</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>koolba</author><text>&gt; Promises have always been extremely contentious in JS for a couple reasons and Domenic has had <i>the patients of a saint</i> getting the original proposal through so it&#x27;s totally understandable that he might not want to deal with this anymore especially if people in his org are against it.<p>I know this is probably a typo (patients =&gt; patience) but that spelling seems to work as well.<p>&gt; So cancelable promises reignite all the old debates plus there&#x27;s no obvious right way to do it, like should it be a 3rd state which could cause compatibility issues and would add complexity, or should cancellations just be a sort of forced rejection, which would be a lot more backwards compatibility but with less features.<p>IMHO neither as cancelability isn&#x27;t a common requirement. People that need it tend to have more complex requirements and end up tying the cancellation to other chains of logic anyway. Also, unlike say catching an error, you generally want all cancellation handlers to fire rather than just the first one (like with errors).</text></comment> |
35,887,523 | 35,887,213 | 1 | 2 | 35,886,815 | train | <story><title>Incident with Actions, API Requests, Codespaces and Pages</title><url>https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/pr3498h3qkfy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lopkeny12ko</author><text>At least Github&#x27;s status reporting is <i>accurate</i> and generally truthful. At my current job, engineers are totally allergic to reporting incidents, especially to the public status page, since doing so would put you in the spotlight of upper management and make you a prime candidate for a negative performance review in the next cycle. Happens time and time again. The result? Things break, no one takes responsibility, and customers complain while we lie and tell them everything&#x27;s fine. Shrug.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>passwordoops</author><text>At one place our CFO string armed the devs to use AWS status as our own. Logic was we use them, therefore we&#x27;re justified. Everytime a client reported an outage he&#x27;d gleefully share the status page and say &quot;must be on your end&quot;. It was almost always on our end. Dude was a lawyer too</text></comment> | <story><title>Incident with Actions, API Requests, Codespaces and Pages</title><url>https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/pr3498h3qkfy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lopkeny12ko</author><text>At least Github&#x27;s status reporting is <i>accurate</i> and generally truthful. At my current job, engineers are totally allergic to reporting incidents, especially to the public status page, since doing so would put you in the spotlight of upper management and make you a prime candidate for a negative performance review in the next cycle. Happens time and time again. The result? Things break, no one takes responsibility, and customers complain while we lie and tell them everything&#x27;s fine. Shrug.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>donatj</author><text>Their old pre-acquisition status page had automated up to the minute stats. Their new status page often takes hours to reflect when something is broken.</text></comment> |
27,386,003 | 27,385,916 | 1 | 2 | 27,384,911 | train | <story><title>A new ProtoBuf generator for Go</title><url>https://vitess.io/blog/2021-06-03-a-new-protobuf-generator-for-go/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jupp0r</author><text>Using CPU utilization as a performance metric can be extremely misleading. My favorite article on the subject is from Brendan Gregg:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.brendangregg.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2017-05-09&#x2F;cpu-utilization-is-wrong.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.brendangregg.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2017-05-09&#x2F;cpu-utilization-...</a><p>A much better way to test the influence of the new compiler would be to test the actual throughput at which saturation is achieved (which is what the benchmark in the C++ grpc library measure to assess their performance).</text></comment> | <story><title>A new ProtoBuf generator for Go</title><url>https://vitess.io/blog/2021-06-03-a-new-protobuf-generator-for-go/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jen20</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure that the phrasing in the article is particularly fair:<p>&gt; The maintainers of Gogo, understandably, were not up to the gigantic task.<p>I&#x27;m 99% sure they are &quot;up to&quot; (as in &quot;capable of&quot;) doing so, they are just not &quot;up for&quot; it (as in, &quot;will not do it&quot;).</text></comment> |
2,420,576 | 2,420,422 | 1 | 3 | 2,420,229 | train | <story><title>Microsoft's office: Why insiders think top management has lost its way</title><url>http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/03/31/microsofts-office-why-insiders-think-top-management-has-lost-its-way/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ibdknox</author><text>As a recently departed (read 5 months) ex-PM at Microsoft, I think MS's problems, at least in my division, stem from three things: a lack of vision/leadership, too inward of a focus, and the ridiculous bevy of meaningless communication. I think the article touches on each of these in a certain way, but not exactly in the same way I mean them.<p>One thing I noticed about the middle management at MS was that they never defined a direction. No one ever set out a vision. The result of this was that each little section of a product would decide what the best possible direction for the product would be and build features to that vision. The summation of this effort is a frankenstein product with a user experience that is equally as scary. No one worked together unless they were forced to and even when they did, they never really worked toward a common goal. Based on my experience, I believe that a single charasmatic, intelligent, and visionary person could have easily turned our division around. All it would take is strong leadership and a crystal clear vision. We had neither.<p>The article makes a point of MS being focused too much on itself, and I wholeheartedly agree. One of the things I was praised for was knowing what the rest of the tech world was doing (I worked on VS). What astounded me was how little others knew about non-MS technologies. We were beaten to the punch by other products nearly every time because we only ever focused inward and not on what the world itself was doing. Moreover, when people did look out the window they focused on the wrong things and instead of trying to innovate saw it as a need to start chasing tail lights.<p>Lastly, I got several hundred emails a day as a PM. Despite that deluge of written communication, I felt that no one was really ever saying anything of value. Sadly, most people aren't great communicators and the result of a culture that promotes a ton of communication is a torrent of useless discussions that take away from what really matters. It seemed to me that most managers were there solely to deal with the fact that no one was working together or communicating properly. I would argue that at least 1/3 of a person's workload at MS is the direct result of this inability to communicate and it absolutely destroyed many of the efforts I would've liked to have seen succeed.<p>I don't believe replacing Ballmer is some magic bullet. I think the company needs to be 1/10 of the size to reduce communication and to get people working together. I think it needs someone with a vision for the way things should be that isn't based on what's already out there. And I think Microsoft has a chance if it could only take a step back and see that it's no longer an innovative company, but instead a peddler of last year's model.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft's office: Why insiders think top management has lost its way</title><url>http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/03/31/microsofts-office-why-insiders-think-top-management-has-lost-its-way/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ozziegooen</author><text>Some good quotes from the comments:<p>"I personally know two women got promoted to be managers, not because of their performance, but because they each is a higher manager's mistress. In short, Microsoft's is a fear-based culture. How could Microsoft not fall rapidly?"<p>"I'd attend a meeting where we needed 3 or 4 relevant people to discuss something but 30 or more would show up, to represent their group's interests, even if they had no real idea of what was going on. It was nearly impossible to reach any consensus, all decisions ultimately got made by whatever interested PM had the most clout - often not the PM with the most expertise or relevance"<p>" I recall the sole-sucking Business Process Reviews we'd go through. The culmination would be a Bill/Steve meeting. It was the 30 people developing 98 slide powerpoints with 2 point font (again, no exaggeration). It was game over for me once I sat through that."</text></comment> |
29,975,665 | 29,975,740 | 1 | 3 | 29,972,973 | train | <story><title>In defense of flat earthers (2020)</title><url>http://danboykis.com/posts/flat-earth/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AlexTWithBeard</author><text>Belief is a keyword here. Most of &quot;spherical earthers&quot;, alas, also believe what they are told. They happened to pick the right set of beliefs - kudos to them - but there&#x27;s no critical thinking whatsoever.<p>We watched some time ago a why-do-we-think-earth-is-flat movie with friends and I asked: okay, so what&#x27;s wrong with their explanation? For an extra credit: how a layman like me can check what is the shape of the earth?<p>And suddenly it turns out that these questions are a bit harder than it seems.</text></item><item><author>titzer</author><text>This article is not a defense of flat earthers, it&#x27;s an explanation for why they exist (that the educational system failed to teach them critical thinking).<p>Even then, I still do not think that&#x27;s really it. Flat earthers are proof that some people will just obstinately believe in complete and utter horseshit. I&#x27;ve seen dozens of flat earth videos. These people do not listen to reason; they didn&#x27;t reason themselves <i>into</i> the position and you cannot reason them <i>out of</i> it. The flat earthers doing the &quot;experiments&quot; keep coming up with reasons to keep on believing, even when their experiments are so blinkered and janky they show either nothing at all or that they are, in fact, wrong. (I recommend &quot;Behind the Curve&quot; to see some of these people in action.) Some might just get bored and move on to something else, but mark my words, some people are just seriously <i>stupid</i>[1] and will keep right on believing absurd crap to their graves, on faith alone. The universe will keep smacking them in the face with being wrong, but they&#x27;ll only get angrier. Hopefully they get tired before they get dangerous.<p>[1] I mean something specific about <i>stupid</i>. Not just wrong, not just ignorant, but actively and self-assuredly wrong, often to their own detriment. Beware stupid people in large numbers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TameAntelope</author><text>But here&#x27;s the problem with this logic; I&#x27;ve never been presented with <i>any</i> credible arguments that suggest Earth is <i>not</i> round, and in fact have been able to use this knowledge of Earth&#x27;s roundness to understand and accurately predict facts in my real life on a semi-regular basis.<p>* When I see my flight plan, I understand why it&#x27;s curved.<p>* When I see clouds that a radar says should be a certain distance away, I understand what makes me able to see them.<p>* Where weather is moving, how it&#x27;s moving, and why certain weather patterns even exist at all.<p>* When I see a landmass on water I can accurately guess how far away it is, and I can understand why moving even a small amount upwards lets me see so much more (and why it was such an advantage on ships to have a vantage point only 20 to 30 feet up in the air).<p>* How stars move in the night sky is predictable.<p>* Why the &quot;north&quot; star exists and is accurate as a directional indicator.<p>* Where constellations are, and how they&#x27;re different depending on what latitude I&#x27;m currently observing the night sky from.<p>* The fact that tides exist, and how they work.<p>* I understand how and what satellites are, when I can see them, and I can predict when I&#x27;m going to lose signal from them given certain circumstances.<p>* Every other planet I&#x27;ve observed is round. The moon is round. The sun is round.<p>None of this works if Earth isn&#x27;t round, and that&#x27;s just off the top of my head. The point here is that so many things stop making sense if you don&#x27;t accept the fact that the Earth is round, and so you&#x27;re <i>constantly</i> failing to predict or understand a whole host of problems that, yes, do come up in my daily life.<p>This isn&#x27;t about &quot;happening to pick the right set of beliefs&quot;, it&#x27;s about matching what you&#x27;re told with what you&#x27;re observing and noting a singular and profound consistency across disciplines, uniformly converging on one single, basic fact; the Earth is round.</text></comment> | <story><title>In defense of flat earthers (2020)</title><url>http://danboykis.com/posts/flat-earth/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AlexTWithBeard</author><text>Belief is a keyword here. Most of &quot;spherical earthers&quot;, alas, also believe what they are told. They happened to pick the right set of beliefs - kudos to them - but there&#x27;s no critical thinking whatsoever.<p>We watched some time ago a why-do-we-think-earth-is-flat movie with friends and I asked: okay, so what&#x27;s wrong with their explanation? For an extra credit: how a layman like me can check what is the shape of the earth?<p>And suddenly it turns out that these questions are a bit harder than it seems.</text></item><item><author>titzer</author><text>This article is not a defense of flat earthers, it&#x27;s an explanation for why they exist (that the educational system failed to teach them critical thinking).<p>Even then, I still do not think that&#x27;s really it. Flat earthers are proof that some people will just obstinately believe in complete and utter horseshit. I&#x27;ve seen dozens of flat earth videos. These people do not listen to reason; they didn&#x27;t reason themselves <i>into</i> the position and you cannot reason them <i>out of</i> it. The flat earthers doing the &quot;experiments&quot; keep coming up with reasons to keep on believing, even when their experiments are so blinkered and janky they show either nothing at all or that they are, in fact, wrong. (I recommend &quot;Behind the Curve&quot; to see some of these people in action.) Some might just get bored and move on to something else, but mark my words, some people are just seriously <i>stupid</i>[1] and will keep right on believing absurd crap to their graves, on faith alone. The universe will keep smacking them in the face with being wrong, but they&#x27;ll only get angrier. Hopefully they get tired before they get dangerous.<p>[1] I mean something specific about <i>stupid</i>. Not just wrong, not just ignorant, but actively and self-assuredly wrong, often to their own detriment. Beware stupid people in large numbers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jakelazaroff</author><text>If you end your sample at N=1, sure, it might seem like “spherical earthers” just happened to pick the right set of beliefs by chance. But if you also consider things like 5G microchips, and chemtrails, and the moon landing, somehow the “spherical earthers” <i>consistently</i> pick the right beliefs.<p>Sure, there’s no critical thinking for a lot of it, in the same way that I don’t think critically about all the physics and engineering before I step on an airplane. The entire point of living in a society is that you <i>don’t</i> have to do everything yourself — you can outsource a lot of that critical thinking to other people who (are paid to) care more than you. You can just go with the flow and actually have a <i>pretty good</i> track record for believing the right things.</text></comment> |
39,971,781 | 39,969,691 | 1 | 3 | 39,959,368 | train | <story><title>How to found a company in Germany: 14 "easy" steps and lots of pain</title><url>https://eidel.io/how-to-found-a-company-in-germany-14-easy-steps-and-lots-of-pain/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SeanLuke</author><text>For those of you griping about German bureaucracy I urge you to come to Italy to learn just how good you have it.<p>My wife is Italian and wanted to get married in her small home town. In order for her to get married to an American in her home town required paperwork that bordered on the Kafkaesque. We had to show up at the Italian embassy in Washington DC (fortunately we live there!) with proof and witnesses that I was not already married, plus another ten pages of forms. We had multiple stages of notorization. And we had to have forms signed by <i>other witnesses</i> vouching for the truthfulness of our witnesses. In Italy we had to draw up a long declaration of vows in italian -- in Italy, a wedding is a contract -- and then even though I wrote the vows <i>myself</i> in Italian, just because I am American we had to have it translated <i>by someone else</i> back into English, by hand, just so I understood the vows I had myself written. We then had to contract someone to read the vows out loud in English at the ceremony so I understood my own words.<p>At every step on the way, the bureaucrats apologized for the bureaucracy and asked us the same question, over and over and over again: &quot;Why don&#x27;t you just get married in the US?&quot;<p>Don&#x27;t get me started on the *hilarious* complexity of getting a Permesso di Soggiorno (sort of an Italian Green Card) this year. I applied this past July and there are still more steps to do.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>johnzim</author><text>I lived this as an Italian trying to do the same for an American wife.<p>I had already steeled myself for the experience but it was still mind-numbing, until the appearance of one glorious stroke of luck.<p>The official in our consulate had incurred some minor peccadillo in the filling out of a form - their stamp was in the wrong part of the document, and because of that, their counterpart in Roma had officiously refused the document.<p>Suddenly, what had been a grinding war of attrition between us and the establishment, turned into a civil war within the machine. A principal adversary had flipped to our side.<p>We had serious firepower and the rest of the process was made incredibly easy, as our slighted new friend slashed through the red-tape and bulldozed our application through.<p>It ended with the final document being stamped at least a dozen times out of spite. I wish I had that copy (it probably rests in an aging manila envelope in the comune somewhere.)</text></comment> | <story><title>How to found a company in Germany: 14 "easy" steps and lots of pain</title><url>https://eidel.io/how-to-found-a-company-in-germany-14-easy-steps-and-lots-of-pain/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SeanLuke</author><text>For those of you griping about German bureaucracy I urge you to come to Italy to learn just how good you have it.<p>My wife is Italian and wanted to get married in her small home town. In order for her to get married to an American in her home town required paperwork that bordered on the Kafkaesque. We had to show up at the Italian embassy in Washington DC (fortunately we live there!) with proof and witnesses that I was not already married, plus another ten pages of forms. We had multiple stages of notorization. And we had to have forms signed by <i>other witnesses</i> vouching for the truthfulness of our witnesses. In Italy we had to draw up a long declaration of vows in italian -- in Italy, a wedding is a contract -- and then even though I wrote the vows <i>myself</i> in Italian, just because I am American we had to have it translated <i>by someone else</i> back into English, by hand, just so I understood the vows I had myself written. We then had to contract someone to read the vows out loud in English at the ceremony so I understood my own words.<p>At every step on the way, the bureaucrats apologized for the bureaucracy and asked us the same question, over and over and over again: &quot;Why don&#x27;t you just get married in the US?&quot;<p>Don&#x27;t get me started on the *hilarious* complexity of getting a Permesso di Soggiorno (sort of an Italian Green Card) this year. I applied this past July and there are still more steps to do.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>miracle2k</author><text>It&#x27;s actually somewhat similar in Germany. You need a <i>Ehefähigkeitszeugnis</i>, essentially that document proving that you are not married yet. You would have needed to get this from the US.<p>Because most countries don&#x27;t have that sort of document (including the US), you then instead need to apply to your local <i>Oberlandesgericht</i> (Higher Regional Court) for an exemption.<p>All the way, any foreign government documents need to be notorized by the German embassy in that country.</text></comment> |
1,351,100 | 1,351,059 | 1 | 2 | 1,350,885 | train | <story><title>Steve Jobs’ Email Debate With Gawker Blogger</title><url>http://erictric.com/2010/05/15/steve-jobs-email-debate-with-gawker-blogger/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>IdeaHamster</author><text>Key line:
<i>Gosh, why are you so bitter over a technical issue such as this? Its not about freedom, its about Apple trying to do the right thing for its users. Users, developers and publishers can do whatever they like - they don't have to buy or develop or publish on iPads if they don't want to</i><p>I have this theory. You see, Apple (mostly) tends to not engage in the all-too-common tricks to try and con you out of your money. Store staff is typically honest and straight-forward, very little pushing and no hidden fees. Apple Care is probably a better value than most extended warrantees, and at least you know you're going to get Apple's level of customer service. Yes, there are lock-ins, but they've always been a trade-off in order to provide a better experience for their customers (i.e. DRM on iTunes sucks, but it was the only way to get the majors to play ball).<p>In general, Apple believes that you should give them money only if you believe their products are worth it. I think it's just that we've gotten so used to capitalism being such a <i>hostile</i> activity between producer and consumer that we forget that there was a time when you would've <i>wanted</i> to pay for something. So, it's no wonder that people want to think that Apple is somehow conning them into giving up their freedom or being locked-down unnecessarily.<p>Really...trust me...you don't <i>have</i> to buy an Apple product. No, seriously, you <i>don't</i>! So why don't you take your "freedom" and "open platform" rant and turn it into a <i>why isn't anyone even close to competing on Apple's level</i> missive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blehn</author><text>I think that line clarifies what people in the tech industry seem to be missing in this whole controversy: <i>It's not about developers.</i><p>It's about <i>users</i>, and creating a great experience for them. Developers getting upset about flash not running on the device, apps getting rejected, etc--that's just an unintentional side-effect of putting the user first.</text></comment> | <story><title>Steve Jobs’ Email Debate With Gawker Blogger</title><url>http://erictric.com/2010/05/15/steve-jobs-email-debate-with-gawker-blogger/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>IdeaHamster</author><text>Key line:
<i>Gosh, why are you so bitter over a technical issue such as this? Its not about freedom, its about Apple trying to do the right thing for its users. Users, developers and publishers can do whatever they like - they don't have to buy or develop or publish on iPads if they don't want to</i><p>I have this theory. You see, Apple (mostly) tends to not engage in the all-too-common tricks to try and con you out of your money. Store staff is typically honest and straight-forward, very little pushing and no hidden fees. Apple Care is probably a better value than most extended warrantees, and at least you know you're going to get Apple's level of customer service. Yes, there are lock-ins, but they've always been a trade-off in order to provide a better experience for their customers (i.e. DRM on iTunes sucks, but it was the only way to get the majors to play ball).<p>In general, Apple believes that you should give them money only if you believe their products are worth it. I think it's just that we've gotten so used to capitalism being such a <i>hostile</i> activity between producer and consumer that we forget that there was a time when you would've <i>wanted</i> to pay for something. So, it's no wonder that people want to think that Apple is somehow conning them into giving up their freedom or being locked-down unnecessarily.<p>Really...trust me...you don't <i>have</i> to buy an Apple product. No, seriously, you <i>don't</i>! So why don't you take your "freedom" and "open platform" rant and turn it into a <i>why isn't anyone even close to competing on Apple's level</i> missive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Osmose</author><text>It makes me angry that a company that appears to go against my ideals is so popular and successful, because I believe my ideals are better. It's not in any way a good argument, but I might as well admit it rather than claiming otherwise.</text></comment> |
11,415,056 | 11,414,910 | 1 | 2 | 11,402,862 | train | <story><title>Dwarf Fortress' creator on how he's 42% towards simulating existence</title><url>http://www.pcgamer.com/dwarf-fortress-creator-on-how-hes-42-towards-simulating-existence/#page-1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kderbe</author><text>Quote from Tarn Adams (DF&#x27;s creator):<p><i>I don’t even use version control. If you don’t know what that is then you’re not gonna yell at me. If you even know what version control is you’re gonna be like, ‘You don’t use version control? You don’t use source control? What is wrong with you? How can you even work?’</i><p>If you&#x27;re the sole developer of a project and you have, say, hourly backups, then maybe version control is a waste of effort? I would still use it out of habit, but it seems perfectly reasonable to me that Tarn would choose not to.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dwarf Fortress' creator on how he's 42% towards simulating existence</title><url>http://www.pcgamer.com/dwarf-fortress-creator-on-how-hes-42-towards-simulating-existence/#page-1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gilrain</author><text>Dwarf Fortress is beautiful art. I feel confident the Tarn brothers will be remembered for centuries for this work. I don&#x27;t know of any other game, software even, being so laboriously created from the heart.</text></comment> |
13,653,415 | 13,653,200 | 1 | 3 | 13,652,626 | train | <story><title>Ghostery is Acquired by Cliqz</title><url>https://www.ghostery.com/blog/ghostery-news/ghostery-acquired-cliqz/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ar0</author><text>I&#x27;m writing this using the Cliqz browser and I have to say I have been a very happy user for a couple of weeks now. I like the search bar (I don&#x27;t search in German that often but still get quite relevant &quot;instant&quot; results in my experience), the integrated tracking protection and just the overall look-and-feel.<p>Personally, I also find it important that Cliqz is based on Firefox, other than almost all the other new browser projects out there which are based on Chromium. There is nothing wrong with Chromium, but I believe some choice &#x2F; friendly competition in rendering and JavaScript engines is important for the overall well-being of the web.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ghostery is Acquired by Cliqz</title><url>https://www.ghostery.com/blog/ghostery-news/ghostery-acquired-cliqz/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tpllaha</author><text>Well... when it comes to data privacy, I&#x27;d say better the Germans than the Donald.</text></comment> |
24,122,305 | 24,121,874 | 1 | 2 | 24,120,311 | train | <story><title>Single Page Applications using Rust</title><url>http://www.sheshbabu.com/posts/rust-wasm-yew-single-page-application/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>muglug</author><text>&gt; you can actually take advantage of its low-level nature in the browser for performance critical tasks within your app.<p>Yeah, but the problem is that 99.9% of front-end work is only performance-critical for DOM rendering (the 0.1% is stuff like video encoding &amp; decoding) and WASM can&#x27;t help with that.</text></item><item><author>danShumway</author><text>A few advantages:<p>- Rust compiles to WASM, not JS, so you can actually take advantage of its low-level nature in the browser for performance critical tasks within your app.<p>- The Rust code you&#x27;re writing is still statically compiled, so you still get to take advantage of Rust&#x27;s typechecking and IDE features.<p>- Some people just like writing Rust code more than Javascript. Part of the reason Javascript took off so quickly on the server was because there&#x27;s a huge productivity boost from using one language everywhere. Similarly, if you love Rust but think that Javascript paradigms around prototypes, closures, or `this` are weird, you get to ignore that and take advantage of one of the best app distribution platforms in the world without learning a new language.<p>I pretty solidly hold to the position that increasing language diversity on the web is a good thing. Particularly with Rust, since they&#x27;ve put in the work to have proper, accessible support that&#x27;s still separating app logic from DOM layout and CSS styling. I&#x27;m really happy with how their community has approached building out Rust as a first-class language on the web rather than just as native language that happens to have a web compile target.</text></item><item><author>sharpercoder</author><text>The promise of Rust is safe and fast low-level development. What is the primary selling point of using rust for webdev? Speed? I can mainly see disadvantages when using rust for this scenario.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brundolf</author><text>&gt; 99.9% of front-end work is only performance-critical for DOM rendering<p>There are two meanings of &quot;DOM rendering&quot; in the context of UI-as-a-function-of-state libraries: 1) generating the virtual DOM from data, and 2) modifying the real DOM to match it. Arguably there&#x27;s even a 3) browser reflow as a result of those DOM changes.<p>You&#x27;re right that 2 and 3 can&#x27;t really be helped by WASM. But 1 can, and while it&#x27;s not <i>usually</i> the bottleneck, it certainly can be. At my last company it was not terribly uncommon that fixing UI jank came down to eliminating unnecessary React render function calls because the sum total of them all - running the actual JavaScript logic - was taking too long. Assuming yew computes the virtual DOM in WASM (I don&#x27;t see how it could be otherwise), the performance increase could definitely be beneficial for certain highly-complex apps.</text></comment> | <story><title>Single Page Applications using Rust</title><url>http://www.sheshbabu.com/posts/rust-wasm-yew-single-page-application/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>muglug</author><text>&gt; you can actually take advantage of its low-level nature in the browser for performance critical tasks within your app.<p>Yeah, but the problem is that 99.9% of front-end work is only performance-critical for DOM rendering (the 0.1% is stuff like video encoding &amp; decoding) and WASM can&#x27;t help with that.</text></item><item><author>danShumway</author><text>A few advantages:<p>- Rust compiles to WASM, not JS, so you can actually take advantage of its low-level nature in the browser for performance critical tasks within your app.<p>- The Rust code you&#x27;re writing is still statically compiled, so you still get to take advantage of Rust&#x27;s typechecking and IDE features.<p>- Some people just like writing Rust code more than Javascript. Part of the reason Javascript took off so quickly on the server was because there&#x27;s a huge productivity boost from using one language everywhere. Similarly, if you love Rust but think that Javascript paradigms around prototypes, closures, or `this` are weird, you get to ignore that and take advantage of one of the best app distribution platforms in the world without learning a new language.<p>I pretty solidly hold to the position that increasing language diversity on the web is a good thing. Particularly with Rust, since they&#x27;ve put in the work to have proper, accessible support that&#x27;s still separating app logic from DOM layout and CSS styling. I&#x27;m really happy with how their community has approached building out Rust as a first-class language on the web rather than just as native language that happens to have a web compile target.</text></item><item><author>sharpercoder</author><text>The promise of Rust is safe and fast low-level development. What is the primary selling point of using rust for webdev? Speed? I can mainly see disadvantages when using rust for this scenario.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cogman10</author><text>&gt; the 0.1% is stuff like video encoding &amp; decoding<p>In which case, rust still isn&#x27;t a good fit for a front end library (Unless you are patching in support for a new codec into old browser).<p>Frankly, the browser will have a faster version of the codec that can also take advantage of other hardware that you wouldn&#x27;t want to expose to WASM.</text></comment> |
38,105,411 | 38,104,745 | 1 | 2 | 38,097,984 | train | <story><title>C++23: Removing garbage collection support</title><url>https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2023/11/01/cpp23-garbage-collection</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EmilyHughes</author><text>How about you stop caring that much about proving others right.</text></item><item><author>kazinator</author><text>You have to arm yourself with facts.<p>- know exactly what you mean by &quot;C++ has support for garbage collection&quot;<p>- have the chapter-and-verse citations from ISO C++ ready if someone disagrees<p>- understand the limitations of what is required in the document, and be the first to point that out<p>- and have a good idea of some of the landscape in terms of what of those requirements is implemented in the wild</text></item><item><author>moralestapia</author><text>I was once made fun of (in a kind of humiliating way, now that I recall) by a bunch of HPC scientists in a room at KAUST for saying that C++ had support for GC.<p>They were like <i>&quot;if you knew the least bit a about C++, you&#x27;d knew it doesn&#x27;t have a GC&quot;</i>.<p>I was like, &quot;yeah cool, but C++ <i>does have</i> some GC functionality&quot;, but they just shut me down. My background is Biology so there were a few remarks about how &quot;a biologist just doesn&#x27;t know these things, lol&quot;.<p>This was around 2019, btw. And sure, I&#x27;m a biologist, but I also happen to have spent 8-10 hours&#x2F;week for the past 20 years coding because I just really like it; so, there&#x27;s my 10k hours, ¯\_(ツ)_&#x2F;¯.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coolsunglasses</author><text>tbqh kazinator is manifesting the bare minimum of Caring to be trusted with C++ code as a developer. If you aren&#x27;t prepared to get into bizarre pseudo-legal arguments with collaborators about language specifications you are going to be happier somewhere else in the software industry.<p>I do not say this as someone who believes this represents healthy behavior or that wants to write C++ for a living. They&#x27;ve been like this since #C on EFNet and FreeNode were a thing 30+&#x2F;25+ years ago. My guess is they got the behavior from Usenet or something but I didn&#x27;t hang out there so I don&#x27;t know first-hand.</text></comment> | <story><title>C++23: Removing garbage collection support</title><url>https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2023/11/01/cpp23-garbage-collection</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EmilyHughes</author><text>How about you stop caring that much about proving others right.</text></item><item><author>kazinator</author><text>You have to arm yourself with facts.<p>- know exactly what you mean by &quot;C++ has support for garbage collection&quot;<p>- have the chapter-and-verse citations from ISO C++ ready if someone disagrees<p>- understand the limitations of what is required in the document, and be the first to point that out<p>- and have a good idea of some of the landscape in terms of what of those requirements is implemented in the wild</text></item><item><author>moralestapia</author><text>I was once made fun of (in a kind of humiliating way, now that I recall) by a bunch of HPC scientists in a room at KAUST for saying that C++ had support for GC.<p>They were like <i>&quot;if you knew the least bit a about C++, you&#x27;d knew it doesn&#x27;t have a GC&quot;</i>.<p>I was like, &quot;yeah cool, but C++ <i>does have</i> some GC functionality&quot;, but they just shut me down. My background is Biology so there were a few remarks about how &quot;a biologist just doesn&#x27;t know these things, lol&quot;.<p>This was around 2019, btw. And sure, I&#x27;m a biologist, but I also happen to have spent 8-10 hours&#x2F;week for the past 20 years coding because I just really like it; so, there&#x27;s my 10k hours, ¯\_(ツ)_&#x2F;¯.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kazinator</author><text>You mean proving others wrong?<p>In this situation, those others were not exactly wrong. It was about OP proving also not being wrong.<p>If people in your organization think you said something stupid, that could be bad for your opportunities there.<p>If you say something which is correct, but the correctness depends on some unusual conditions that are not well known, or special interpretations of common concepts, or some context that is not shared with whoever you&#x27;re talking to, you have to either not mention that, or spell out those details.<p>If you posit that pigs do fly, don&#x27;t forget the detail that it&#x27;s when they are shot out of a cannon.</text></comment> |
32,510,803 | 32,510,360 | 1 | 2 | 32,488,802 | train | <story><title>What Beirut was like before the war (2019)</title><url>https://www.the961.com/this-is-what-beirut-was-like-before-the-war/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>james-redwood</author><text>Lebanon became independent in 1945. Civil war began in 1975, largely as a result of radical Islamist Palestinians who had left Palestine and wanted an Islamic state in Lebanon.
Lebanon beforehand, it is important to note, was not Muslim majority at all. It was Christian and Druze, and that was the very foundation of the country itself. It was never the country of Muslims in the first place.<p>Iran was also never colonised by European countries. Its decline began with both theocratic rule as well as sanctions, but even despite this it’s still remarkably functional and developed in comparison to a ton of countries that weren’t put in such a position.</text></item><item><author>rayiner</author><text>Lots of places in the Middle East were more European like this before the colonial influences weakened and the Muslim majority populations got back more power over their own countries. Egypt and Iran are similar. The nostalgia is somewhat uncomfortable because in some respects things were better because they were better, but in others it’s the perception of things being better because they’re more relatable to Europeans.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>babarock</author><text>Your description of Lebanon is correct, but incomplete.<p>- Lebanon (as an independent state) has been created in 1920, right after WW1 by the French &quot;colonialists&quot; <i>specifically</i> to draw an enclave of non-muslim minority in the country. It&#x27;s classic Divide&amp;Conquer strategy.<p>- The PLO (Palestinian Islamists) did try to set up an Islamic state in the country, but they were aided, or at least encouraged through inaction, by the muslims in the country who felt that the system was unfair.<p>- Currently the conflict isn&#x27;t &quot;muslims vs non-muslim&quot;. It&#x27;s much more a conflict between Shia muslims (affiliated to Iran) and Sunni muslims (affiliated to KSA&#x2F;Gulf). The non-muslims are now a minority and are split more or less evenly across the two camps.<p>- As of today, there&#x27;s a lack of national identity, where every region&#x27;s local lord amasses more power and influence than any &quot;central&quot; government.<p>It&#x27;s not as simple as &quot;they were non-muslims, got invaded by muslims and now it&#x27;s gone bad&quot;<p>Source: I&#x27;m Lebanese.
PS: Pedantically, we became independent in 1943.</text></comment> | <story><title>What Beirut was like before the war (2019)</title><url>https://www.the961.com/this-is-what-beirut-was-like-before-the-war/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>james-redwood</author><text>Lebanon became independent in 1945. Civil war began in 1975, largely as a result of radical Islamist Palestinians who had left Palestine and wanted an Islamic state in Lebanon.
Lebanon beforehand, it is important to note, was not Muslim majority at all. It was Christian and Druze, and that was the very foundation of the country itself. It was never the country of Muslims in the first place.<p>Iran was also never colonised by European countries. Its decline began with both theocratic rule as well as sanctions, but even despite this it’s still remarkably functional and developed in comparison to a ton of countries that weren’t put in such a position.</text></item><item><author>rayiner</author><text>Lots of places in the Middle East were more European like this before the colonial influences weakened and the Muslim majority populations got back more power over their own countries. Egypt and Iran are similar. The nostalgia is somewhat uncomfortable because in some respects things were better because they were better, but in others it’s the perception of things being better because they’re more relatable to Europeans.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>campground</author><text>Iran may not have been colonized but their democratic government was overthrown by the US and Britain to prevent them nationalizing their fossil fuel supply.<p>I often wonder what the Middle East would look like today if Iran has been able to use their oil wealth for their own democratic civil development.</text></comment> |
41,512,979 | 41,512,383 | 1 | 2 | 41,510,103 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Why is Pave legal?</title><text>If you haven&#x27;t heard of it, Pave is a YC-backed startup that helps startups with compensation. I can&#x27;t actually access the system so I&#x27;m speaking from hearsay and what&#x27;s information on public parts of their website. The way I understand it works is that you connect Pave to your HR and Payroll systems, they take the data about who you employ and how much you pay them, combine it with all their other companies, and give companies a collective breakdown of compensation ranges.<p>My question is, isn&#x27;t this specifically anti-competitive wage fixing? This seems exactly like RealPage but for employee compensation. As far as I know, colluding on wages like this is illegal. Is there something about the company that I&#x27;m missing?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>wing-_-nuts</author><text>I downloaded a personal report from the work number website and found to my horror that my employer was reporting <i>every. single. paystub.</i> gross and net, to equifax.<p>That felt like a huge breach of privacy. Given that equifax had already proven incompetent at keeping my data secure, I immediately sent HR a request to stop sending my supposedly &#x27;confidential&#x27; pay info. They politely told me to kick rocks, so I went on TWN&#x27;s website and froze that report so <i>no one</i> would be able to request it, and it will be a cold day in hell before I thaw it.</text></item><item><author>atrettel</author><text>I have never heard of Pave before, but this just sounds like yet another copy of Equifax&#x27;s &quot;The Work Number&quot; [1]. Basically, HR at many companies gives your salary and employment history data to Equifax, who then sells access to the information to certain parties with supposed need to access it, including potential and current employers and creditors. This report is likely one of the most invasive consumer files out there for many people.<p>I cannot comment on the legality of this kind of data sharing, but as I and others have pointed out, it has existed for a while. I do agree that it is concerning. You can freeze your Equifax The Work Number report at least, just like other credit reports.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theworknumber.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theworknumber.com&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iav</author><text>I am an investor in equifax. Let me clear up a misconception on where the data comes from. Half the data comes from large enterprise customers, who “sell” the data in exchange for Equifax doing I-9 verification for free. The other half comes from 39 payroll companies. Every single payroll company except for Rippling and Gusto sell paystub data to Euifax. (Rippling will start next year). Those are exclusive revenue share deals. You cannot be a competitive payroll provider without the revenue share from Equifax. So before you blame your employer, they might not be selling it directly and even if they opted out, your payroll company will sell it anyway.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Why is Pave legal?</title><text>If you haven&#x27;t heard of it, Pave is a YC-backed startup that helps startups with compensation. I can&#x27;t actually access the system so I&#x27;m speaking from hearsay and what&#x27;s information on public parts of their website. The way I understand it works is that you connect Pave to your HR and Payroll systems, they take the data about who you employ and how much you pay them, combine it with all their other companies, and give companies a collective breakdown of compensation ranges.<p>My question is, isn&#x27;t this specifically anti-competitive wage fixing? This seems exactly like RealPage but for employee compensation. As far as I know, colluding on wages like this is illegal. Is there something about the company that I&#x27;m missing?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>wing-_-nuts</author><text>I downloaded a personal report from the work number website and found to my horror that my employer was reporting <i>every. single. paystub.</i> gross and net, to equifax.<p>That felt like a huge breach of privacy. Given that equifax had already proven incompetent at keeping my data secure, I immediately sent HR a request to stop sending my supposedly &#x27;confidential&#x27; pay info. They politely told me to kick rocks, so I went on TWN&#x27;s website and froze that report so <i>no one</i> would be able to request it, and it will be a cold day in hell before I thaw it.</text></item><item><author>atrettel</author><text>I have never heard of Pave before, but this just sounds like yet another copy of Equifax&#x27;s &quot;The Work Number&quot; [1]. Basically, HR at many companies gives your salary and employment history data to Equifax, who then sells access to the information to certain parties with supposed need to access it, including potential and current employers and creditors. This report is likely one of the most invasive consumer files out there for many people.<p>I cannot comment on the legality of this kind of data sharing, but as I and others have pointed out, it has existed for a while. I do agree that it is concerning. You can freeze your Equifax The Work Number report at least, just like other credit reports.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theworknumber.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theworknumber.com&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SoftTalker</author><text>Don&#x27;t ever work in the public sector then. Your salary is public record, open to anyone who is curious enough to look.</text></comment> |
38,648,160 | 38,647,888 | 1 | 2 | 38,646,969 | train | <story><title>OnnxStream: Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 Base on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2</title><url>https://github.com/vitoplantamura/OnnxStream/tree/c0cb4b3d7b419e4b10129904fbe16b850ca5d385</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>taf2</author><text>So it’s safe to assume in the next 10 years - AI will be running locally on every device from phones, laptops and even many embedded devices. Even robots- from street cleaning bots to helpful human assistants?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrtksn</author><text>The bottleneck is probably the availability of lithography machines that can make ubiquitous chips for processing that much data quickly enough without heating or drawing electricity too much.<p>Not too far in the future every device will have some 5nm or better tech LLM chip inside and devices understanding natural language will be the norm.<p>By dumb machines, people will mean machines that have to be programmed by people using ancient techniques where everything the machine is supposed to do is written step by step in a low level computer language like JavaScript.<p>Nerds will be making demos of doing something incredibly fast by directly writing the algorithms by hand, and will be annoyed by the fact that something that can be done in 20 lines of code on few hundred MB of RAM in NodeJS now requires a terabyte of RAM.<p>Dumb phone will be something like iPhone 15 pro or Pixel 8 Pro where you have separate apps for each thing you do and you can&#x27;t simply ask the device to do it for you.</text></comment> | <story><title>OnnxStream: Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 Base on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2</title><url>https://github.com/vitoplantamura/OnnxStream/tree/c0cb4b3d7b419e4b10129904fbe16b850ca5d385</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>taf2</author><text>So it’s safe to assume in the next 10 years - AI will be running locally on every device from phones, laptops and even many embedded devices. Even robots- from street cleaning bots to helpful human assistants?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fragmede</author><text>Every Google Home device is already running an ML model to do speech recognition to recognize the &quot;hey Google&quot; wake word, so sooner than 10 years. The Raspberry Pi Zero is a particularly underpowered device for this. Doing it on the Coral TPU accelerator plugged into a pi zero would take less than 30 mins. Doing it on an iPhone 15 would take less time. Doing it on a Pixel 8 would be faster. Not to diminish getting it to work on a Pi Zero, but that future is already here, just as soon as we figure out what to do with them.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coral.ai&#x2F;products&#x2F;accelerator&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coral.ai&#x2F;products&#x2F;accelerator&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
31,354,093 | 31,353,807 | 1 | 2 | 31,349,988 | train | <story><title>Tether starting to lose its peg too, after Terra did</title><url>https://community.intercoin.org/t/what-backs-a-currency-terra-luna-drops-nearly-100/2518</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Traster</author><text>The thing that I think some people miss about Tether is that it&#x27;s not about whether it is backed <i>enough</i> it&#x27;s either fully backed or it isn&#x27;t. If it&#x27;s not, it&#x27;s not a question of whether it&#x27;s back enough to weather this storm, it&#x27;s about whether the people running it <i>think</i> they can weather this storm. If they think they can keep it running they&#x27;ll sell whatever backing they have and keep the peg. But if they even think there&#x27;s a decent chance they can&#x27;t permanently sustain the peg then the best thing for them to do is take the backing and run, not sink it into a stable-coin they now know isn&#x27;t going to work. That&#x27;s going to happen <i>way</i> before they run out of money.<p>Let&#x27;s say for example, Tether is 20% backed and there&#x27;s $100Bn of coins so the backing is $20Bn, and people start flooding out of it. Let&#x27;s say $10Bn floods out. So the guys running it have handed out $10Bn. They now have $10Bn left, and money is still flooding out. Do they really continue to hand over the cash or do they say &quot;Well, the whole thing is about to explode anyway, I&#x27;d rather keep the $10Bn cash I&#x27;ve got left&quot;. At which point the holders of the coin have to play &quot;Find these fuckers and sue them&quot; which will be difficult since they&#x27;ve got $10Bn to fight&#x2F;flee&#x2F;hide.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>f0xJtpvHYTVQ88B</author><text>&gt; Tether reserves the right to refuse registration to, to bar transactions from or to, or to suspend or terminate the administration of Services, Digital Tokens Address, or Digital Tokens Wallet for or with, any user for any reason (or for no reason) at any time<p>&gt; Tether reserves the right to delay the redemption or withdrawal of Tether Tokens if such delay is necessitated by the illiquidity or unavailability or loss of any Reserves held by Tether to back the Tether Tokens, and Tether reserves the right to redeem Tether Tokens by in-kind redemptions of securities and other assets held in the Reserves. Tether makes no representations or warranties about whether Tether Tokens that may be traded on the Site may be traded on the Site at any point in the future, if at all.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tether.to&#x2F;en&#x2F;legal&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tether.to&#x2F;en&#x2F;legal&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Tether starting to lose its peg too, after Terra did</title><url>https://community.intercoin.org/t/what-backs-a-currency-terra-luna-drops-nearly-100/2518</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Traster</author><text>The thing that I think some people miss about Tether is that it&#x27;s not about whether it is backed <i>enough</i> it&#x27;s either fully backed or it isn&#x27;t. If it&#x27;s not, it&#x27;s not a question of whether it&#x27;s back enough to weather this storm, it&#x27;s about whether the people running it <i>think</i> they can weather this storm. If they think they can keep it running they&#x27;ll sell whatever backing they have and keep the peg. But if they even think there&#x27;s a decent chance they can&#x27;t permanently sustain the peg then the best thing for them to do is take the backing and run, not sink it into a stable-coin they now know isn&#x27;t going to work. That&#x27;s going to happen <i>way</i> before they run out of money.<p>Let&#x27;s say for example, Tether is 20% backed and there&#x27;s $100Bn of coins so the backing is $20Bn, and people start flooding out of it. Let&#x27;s say $10Bn floods out. So the guys running it have handed out $10Bn. They now have $10Bn left, and money is still flooding out. Do they really continue to hand over the cash or do they say &quot;Well, the whole thing is about to explode anyway, I&#x27;d rather keep the $10Bn cash I&#x27;ve got left&quot;. At which point the holders of the coin have to play &quot;Find these fuckers and sue them&quot; which will be difficult since they&#x27;ve got $10Bn to fight&#x2F;flee&#x2F;hide.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>frostwarrior</author><text>Serious question, how can you sue over this kind of thing?<p>I thought the whole point of crypto is that it&#x27;s not regulated. And that also meant that if you got screwed then you are SOL.</text></comment> |
31,047,573 | 31,047,368 | 1 | 3 | 31,043,439 | train | <story><title>Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to buy company</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/15/twitter-board-adopts-poison-pill-after-musks-43-billion-offer-to-buy-company.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>woodruffw</author><text>If I was a member of Twitter&#x27;s board, Musk&#x27;s history of erratic public behavior, SEC settlement, and openly hostile attitude towards the company&#x27;s employees would be more than sufficient to justify my belief that his controlling ownership would not be in the interest of the current average shareholder.<p>That opinion would also be consistent with how &quot;fiduciary duty&quot; is interpreted by US regulators: companies are not required to perform any <i>particular</i> action that might reasonably be in the interests of shareholders; they must merely show that the company&#x27;s actions were <i>intended</i> to be in the best interests of the shareholders.</text></item><item><author>nickysielicki</author><text>I don’t understand how any board can implement a “poison pill”, not just Twitter but Netflix and others, and not be found working against the interest of shareholders. Can anyone help me understand?<p>You’re categorically changing the profile of the stock. This has a chilling effect on large investors, including but not limited just to Musk, right?<p>Vanguard, for example, has just had its range of further investment limited arbitrarily. Isn’t that bad for all stockholders, to know that large stakeholders will not drive the price up if they somehow gain substantial belief in the company?<p>The risk portfolio of Vanguard just went up considerably because in the case that they fully lose faith in the board, they no longer have the option of installing a friendly board, they must simply liquidate their holdings. This, in turn, makes them more skeptical of further smaller (non-takeover) investment because it’s more to liquidate and more risk.<p>Who does this benefit <i>besides</i> the board? I guess I understand that the board is not beholden to the interests of all shareholders equally, and I’m not suggesting that this doesn’t benefit <i>some</i> shareholders, but where does the line start?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bko</author><text>It doesn&#x27;t have to be complicated. The shareholders should have a right to decide through a proxy vote on whether to accept the offer</text></comment> | <story><title>Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to buy company</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/15/twitter-board-adopts-poison-pill-after-musks-43-billion-offer-to-buy-company.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>woodruffw</author><text>If I was a member of Twitter&#x27;s board, Musk&#x27;s history of erratic public behavior, SEC settlement, and openly hostile attitude towards the company&#x27;s employees would be more than sufficient to justify my belief that his controlling ownership would not be in the interest of the current average shareholder.<p>That opinion would also be consistent with how &quot;fiduciary duty&quot; is interpreted by US regulators: companies are not required to perform any <i>particular</i> action that might reasonably be in the interests of shareholders; they must merely show that the company&#x27;s actions were <i>intended</i> to be in the best interests of the shareholders.</text></item><item><author>nickysielicki</author><text>I don’t understand how any board can implement a “poison pill”, not just Twitter but Netflix and others, and not be found working against the interest of shareholders. Can anyone help me understand?<p>You’re categorically changing the profile of the stock. This has a chilling effect on large investors, including but not limited just to Musk, right?<p>Vanguard, for example, has just had its range of further investment limited arbitrarily. Isn’t that bad for all stockholders, to know that large stakeholders will not drive the price up if they somehow gain substantial belief in the company?<p>The risk portfolio of Vanguard just went up considerably because in the case that they fully lose faith in the board, they no longer have the option of installing a friendly board, they must simply liquidate their holdings. This, in turn, makes them more skeptical of further smaller (non-takeover) investment because it’s more to liquidate and more risk.<p>Who does this benefit <i>besides</i> the board? I guess I understand that the board is not beholden to the interests of all shareholders equally, and I’m not suggesting that this doesn’t benefit <i>some</i> shareholders, but where does the line start?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aleister_777</author><text>However, I think it&#x27;s a harder case to argue when twitter stock closed at $.18 above the price they went public at in 2013. Sounds like whatever it is they have been doing hasn&#x27;t been in the interest of the average shareholder either.<p>The stock is toast regardless after this.</text></comment> |
20,249,435 | 20,248,677 | 1 | 2 | 20,246,521 | train | <story><title>Study: Tesla Autopilot misleading, overestimated more than similar technology</title><url>https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/06/21/study-tesla-autopilot-misleading-overestimated-more-than-similar-technology/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Cookingboy</author><text>If you go to certain sub-Reddits or other similar forums, you will see that there is a tremendous amount of misinformation associated with Tesla, Tesla Auto Pilot, driver assist technology and Full Self Driving technology in general. I largely blame the absurdly irresponsible misinformation campaign spearheaded by Tesla and Elon personally. It&#x27;s awful to get the public&#x27;s understand of a nascent and potential game changing technology to start off on such a terrible note.<p>Some of the most common mis-conceptions I&#x27;ve seen include:<p>1. Level 5 Full Self Driving tech is right around the corner, with government regulation being the biggest show stopper. Elon promised &quot;feature complete&quot; of FSD by end of this year, and claims that within 6-12 months of that full level 5 self driving will be ready to ship to consumers.<p>2. Tesla is unique in their usage of computer vision in their FSD stack, and the rest of the industry <i>only</i> uses LIDAR. In reality almost <i>everything</i> Tesla does Waymo and others also do and very likely do it better, and on top of that they use LIDAR.<p>3. Since companies like Waymo employs pre-mapping and LIDAR, what they are building is a completely hardcoded solution to driving with very low degree of versatility and flexibility. I&#x27;ve seen Tesla fan suggesting that Waymo handles Stop Signs by hard coding the location of each stop sign in the map.<p>4. Because Auto Pilot, a level 2 driver assist system is being shipped in production cars and are racking up millions of miles, Tesla does not need any actual comprehensive testing of their FSD stack. I&#x27;ve seen many Tesla fans arguing this is why Tesla has done more test and gathers more &quot;data&quot; than companies like Waymo, when in reality Tesla&#x27;s FSD system has seen almost <i>ZERO</i> actual testing anywhere, and puts them far behind competitors.<p>5. OTA updates makes Auto Pilot safer than competitors. In reality OTA very often enables less stringent QA and less rigorous regression testing. The Mountain View driver who was killed at the 85&#x2F;101 on-ramp was the result of a terrible AP regression that failed to handle concrete barriers that it used to handle.<p>6. Auto Pilot is already safer than human driver because it has lower accidents&#x2F;mile than the national average. This one is especially egregious since Tesla used active AP safety data compared against all motor vehicle accident data, which includes <i>motorcycles</i> and cars of all ages, driven by drivers of all ages, employing safety techs (or lack there of) of all levels, driving in all conditions. Where as active AP data is gathered by Tesla cars that&#x27;s newer than 5 years old, driven by older, wealthier drivers, employs crucial safety tech such as automatic emergency braking, and only engaged during favorable conditions (mostly highway driving, clear weather, etc). When compared against data from cars with AEB, Auto Pilot has very comparative safety record.<p>Elon always had a tendency to be fast and loose with facts&#x2F;predictions&#x2F;promises, and usually I view them as entertaining at best and disappointing at worst, but with safety critical features like this what he&#x27;s doing makes me feel borderline angry. A few major mistakes will set back the industry by years and as of now, Tesla is literally the <i>only</i> driver assist system that has a fatality count. I honestly cannot understand how any engineers with good conscious can still work on AP&#x2F;FSD at Tesla and sleep well at night.</text></item><item><author>neotek</author><text>&gt;Tesla is making progress, and regardless of whether they survive these various courts of public opinion, they&#x27;re helping to lay the ground work for safer roads by forcing the industry to integrate more and more automated safety systems.<p>They&#x27;re also wilfully misrepresenting the quality and safety of their technology to their customers, presenting intentionally misleading statistics to the media about it, and attempting to suppress all criticism by insisting it&#x27;s part of some big oil &#x2F; short seller conspiracy.</text></item><item><author>AcerbicZero</author><text>&quot;Cruise Control&quot; doesn&#x27;t mean I can ignore the ~3200lbs of sports car I drive, just like &quot;Tesla Autopilot&quot; doesn&#x27;t mean drivers can ignore the ~5000lbs of battery under them.<p>As an American who spends considerable time driving cars in various performance events (even some fun wheel to wheel endurance stuff) I think I can safely estimate at least ~25% of drivers on the road today, probably shouldn&#x27;t be. Tesla is making progress, and regardless of whether they survive these various courts of public opinion, they&#x27;re helping to lay the ground work for safer roads by forcing the industry to integrate more and more automated safety systems.<p>There will be problems. Computers will fail, mistakes will be made, and people will die, but I&#x27;m confident the break even point on those human costs is already pretty far behind us.*<p>*That said, we already have onerous and terrible auto regulations in this country. If we (as a society) want to force companies to be more cautious in this area, well, its entirely within our regulatory structures power to do so.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Faark</author><text>Your statements seem to have quite a slant as well.<p>&gt; 3. [..] I&#x27;ve seen Tesla fan suggesting that Waymo handles Stop Signs by hard coding the location of each stop sign in the map.<p>I&#x27;m sure you&#x27;ll see uninformed individuals behaving uninformed. But in my experience does this not represent the average of e.g. the r&#x2F;tesla community. It&#x27;s surprising to have you specifically mention Waymo, since it was mostly others (especially German car makers) who usually bring up how important high precision maps (or more recently &quot;5G&quot;, while we&#x27;re mentioning buzzwords) is for self driving. My first google result right now was from Lyft [0]. I can totally understand how people less informed on the topic can get that wrong.<p>&gt; 4. [..] when in reality Tesla&#x27;s FSD system has seen almost ZERO actual testing anywhere<p>What? The usual argument I remember is Tesla outsourcing the testing to its customers and the many good reasons against it. But how can you in good faith represent the tesla AP as untested after it has driven millions of miles? Or are you specifically talking about whatever final L5 FSD solution Tesla might come up with one day? Since this obviously cannot be tested yet, since it doesn&#x27;t exist.<p>&gt; 5. The Mountain View driver who was killed at the 85&#x2F;101 on-ramp was the result of a terrible AP regression that failed to handle concrete barriers that it used to handle.<p>Can you source that being caused by a regression? The best I&#x27;ve found [1] mentions someone else saying it got worse in a comparable spot, but I also remember reading the killed driver having specifically complained to Tesla about the location the crash happened, but not if AP behavior there had gotten better in between.<p>But yeah, a lot of Tesla&#x27;s communication around that case was horrible and I also don&#x27;t feel they do enough to stop their fans and customers from being aware of the technologies current limits.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@LyftLevel5&#x2F;https-medium-com-lyftlevel5-rethinking-maps-for-self-driving-a147c24758d6" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@LyftLevel5&#x2F;https-medium-com-lyftlevel5-r...</a>
[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2019&#x2F;03&#x2F;dashcam-video-shows-tesla-steering-toward-lane-divider-again&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2019&#x2F;03&#x2F;dashcam-video-shows-tes...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Study: Tesla Autopilot misleading, overestimated more than similar technology</title><url>https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/06/21/study-tesla-autopilot-misleading-overestimated-more-than-similar-technology/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Cookingboy</author><text>If you go to certain sub-Reddits or other similar forums, you will see that there is a tremendous amount of misinformation associated with Tesla, Tesla Auto Pilot, driver assist technology and Full Self Driving technology in general. I largely blame the absurdly irresponsible misinformation campaign spearheaded by Tesla and Elon personally. It&#x27;s awful to get the public&#x27;s understand of a nascent and potential game changing technology to start off on such a terrible note.<p>Some of the most common mis-conceptions I&#x27;ve seen include:<p>1. Level 5 Full Self Driving tech is right around the corner, with government regulation being the biggest show stopper. Elon promised &quot;feature complete&quot; of FSD by end of this year, and claims that within 6-12 months of that full level 5 self driving will be ready to ship to consumers.<p>2. Tesla is unique in their usage of computer vision in their FSD stack, and the rest of the industry <i>only</i> uses LIDAR. In reality almost <i>everything</i> Tesla does Waymo and others also do and very likely do it better, and on top of that they use LIDAR.<p>3. Since companies like Waymo employs pre-mapping and LIDAR, what they are building is a completely hardcoded solution to driving with very low degree of versatility and flexibility. I&#x27;ve seen Tesla fan suggesting that Waymo handles Stop Signs by hard coding the location of each stop sign in the map.<p>4. Because Auto Pilot, a level 2 driver assist system is being shipped in production cars and are racking up millions of miles, Tesla does not need any actual comprehensive testing of their FSD stack. I&#x27;ve seen many Tesla fans arguing this is why Tesla has done more test and gathers more &quot;data&quot; than companies like Waymo, when in reality Tesla&#x27;s FSD system has seen almost <i>ZERO</i> actual testing anywhere, and puts them far behind competitors.<p>5. OTA updates makes Auto Pilot safer than competitors. In reality OTA very often enables less stringent QA and less rigorous regression testing. The Mountain View driver who was killed at the 85&#x2F;101 on-ramp was the result of a terrible AP regression that failed to handle concrete barriers that it used to handle.<p>6. Auto Pilot is already safer than human driver because it has lower accidents&#x2F;mile than the national average. This one is especially egregious since Tesla used active AP safety data compared against all motor vehicle accident data, which includes <i>motorcycles</i> and cars of all ages, driven by drivers of all ages, employing safety techs (or lack there of) of all levels, driving in all conditions. Where as active AP data is gathered by Tesla cars that&#x27;s newer than 5 years old, driven by older, wealthier drivers, employs crucial safety tech such as automatic emergency braking, and only engaged during favorable conditions (mostly highway driving, clear weather, etc). When compared against data from cars with AEB, Auto Pilot has very comparative safety record.<p>Elon always had a tendency to be fast and loose with facts&#x2F;predictions&#x2F;promises, and usually I view them as entertaining at best and disappointing at worst, but with safety critical features like this what he&#x27;s doing makes me feel borderline angry. A few major mistakes will set back the industry by years and as of now, Tesla is literally the <i>only</i> driver assist system that has a fatality count. I honestly cannot understand how any engineers with good conscious can still work on AP&#x2F;FSD at Tesla and sleep well at night.</text></item><item><author>neotek</author><text>&gt;Tesla is making progress, and regardless of whether they survive these various courts of public opinion, they&#x27;re helping to lay the ground work for safer roads by forcing the industry to integrate more and more automated safety systems.<p>They&#x27;re also wilfully misrepresenting the quality and safety of their technology to their customers, presenting intentionally misleading statistics to the media about it, and attempting to suppress all criticism by insisting it&#x27;s part of some big oil &#x2F; short seller conspiracy.</text></item><item><author>AcerbicZero</author><text>&quot;Cruise Control&quot; doesn&#x27;t mean I can ignore the ~3200lbs of sports car I drive, just like &quot;Tesla Autopilot&quot; doesn&#x27;t mean drivers can ignore the ~5000lbs of battery under them.<p>As an American who spends considerable time driving cars in various performance events (even some fun wheel to wheel endurance stuff) I think I can safely estimate at least ~25% of drivers on the road today, probably shouldn&#x27;t be. Tesla is making progress, and regardless of whether they survive these various courts of public opinion, they&#x27;re helping to lay the ground work for safer roads by forcing the industry to integrate more and more automated safety systems.<p>There will be problems. Computers will fail, mistakes will be made, and people will die, but I&#x27;m confident the break even point on those human costs is already pretty far behind us.*<p>*That said, we already have onerous and terrible auto regulations in this country. If we (as a society) want to force companies to be more cautious in this area, well, its entirely within our regulatory structures power to do so.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wcoenen</author><text>&gt; <i>Tesla is literally the only driver assist system that has a fatality count</i><p>Uber had a fatal self-driving accident.</text></comment> |
21,899,591 | 21,899,273 | 1 | 3 | 21,899,229 | train | <story><title>How I made a website with Svelte</title><url>https://johanronsse.be/2019/12/28/making-of-best-of-2019/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cytzol</author><text>&gt; What I like about these foundries is that they have permissive licenses that are just a one-time purchase. When I make a website I don’t want to worry about the font licensing for years.<p>I love the work of professional typographers, but tend to stay away from commercial Web fonts, because they like to include <i>very restrictive terms</i> in the font licences.<p>For example, you&#x27;re only allowed to back up Klim fonts once, which we all know is no backup at all (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;klim.co.nz&#x2F;licences&#x2F;web-fonts&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;klim.co.nz&#x2F;licences&#x2F;web-fonts&#x2F;</a>):<p>&gt; You may make one (1) copy of the Web Fonts for back-up purposes only.<p>And I hope you don&#x27;t take a week-long holiday away from your computer:<p>&gt; At Klim’s request, You agree to provide an audit to confirm the Web Fonts You are consuming match Your Sales Receipt. Klim will give You at least 5 business days’ notice to complete the audit.<p>The Commercial licence is a bit better, but doesn&#x27;t let you subset the fonts, which means your fonts might be 5 to 10 times as big as they should be, giving your users a worse experience (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commercialtype.com&#x2F;licenses&#x2F;web" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commercialtype.com&#x2F;licenses&#x2F;web</a>):<p>&gt; 10. You may not modify, adapt, translate, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or alter, the Webfonts, the Font Software or the designs embodied therein.<p>I recommend using fonts under the SIL Open Font License, where you don&#x27;t have to worry about this crap.<p>Anyway, nice work! I&#x27;ve been meaning to learn Svelte, and your site looks really good.</text></comment> | <story><title>How I made a website with Svelte</title><url>https://johanronsse.be/2019/12/28/making-of-best-of-2019/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Wolfr_</author><text>Every year I make an end of year project where I try some new technology. This year I made my project with Svelte. It&#x27;s a list of the best albums, films, series etc. according to me.</text></comment> |
34,636,380 | 34,634,738 | 1 | 2 | 34,630,153 | train | <story><title>St. John’s Reading List: A Great Books Curriculum</title><url>https://www.sjc.edu/academic-programs/undergraduate/great-books-reading-list</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thwayunion</author><text>(edit: apparently these are just &quot;books tagged mathematics&quot;, not the mathematics tutorial reading list. First and second paragraphs mostly hold)<p>I went through a great books curriculum (not in math), and this list reminds me of my primary complaint with the whole Great Books approach. &quot;Great Books&quot; is mired in fairly a ridiculous fetishism of the Greek classics, the Enlightenment era, the American founding, and the Anglo view of the western world.<p>This works... well enough... in Philosophy and History and the like. But it&#x27;s a much larger problem in Mathematics where the field is essentially unrecognizable from the way it would&#x27;ve been taught in 1920 or whatever.<p>I really like the general approach, but the cultural baggage grates and for Mathematics in particular leads to odd selections. Sometimes you feel like your reading list is being commanded from the grave by a sort of snobby Oxbridge man who, in 1980, was already transparently classist in a kind of irrelevant and borderline senile way.<p>With respect to this list in particular, the critical points of the Grundlagenkrise are hardly covered at all despite having so many wonderful candidates for short illustrative texts that fit the Great Books tradition perfectly. Russell is predictably floating around (see paragraph 1) even though... well, yawn. And the emphasis on Physics and Natural Philosophy over the development of the science of computing is a shocking oversight given the sheer accessibility of the topic and its importance to the modern world. I&#x27;m honestly not sure what eg Darwin is doing in this list (despite being a good candidate in any great books curriculum).<p>Also, significantly more coverage of the development of arithemtic in the Arab world and simultaneous developments of various things in both the Indian subcontinent and in the far east. The Greek fetishism strikes hard in that first year; no one born after 1850 needs that much Euclid.<p>Where is the development of probability theory? Texts from Riemann, Boole, Laplace, Fermat, Galois, and especially Euler seem more important than Bacon or certainly Franklin.<p>Etc.</text></item><item><author>codybontecou</author><text>Huh, this is neat. If you click on a book&#x27;s subject(s), it will then take you to the specific topic and a reading list tailored to it.<p>For example, this is their Mathematics reading list: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sjc.edu&#x2F;academic-programs&#x2F;undergraduate&#x2F;subjects&#x2F;mathematics" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sjc.edu&#x2F;academic-programs&#x2F;undergraduate&#x2F;subjects...</a>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>voldacar</author><text>Computing is not yet old enough for us to know which books on computing are great books.<p>Also the point of reading Euclid is not really to learn geometry but rather to investigate and examine the oldest, most primordial expression of the idea that math should be formalized using a few axioms.</text></comment> | <story><title>St. John’s Reading List: A Great Books Curriculum</title><url>https://www.sjc.edu/academic-programs/undergraduate/great-books-reading-list</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thwayunion</author><text>(edit: apparently these are just &quot;books tagged mathematics&quot;, not the mathematics tutorial reading list. First and second paragraphs mostly hold)<p>I went through a great books curriculum (not in math), and this list reminds me of my primary complaint with the whole Great Books approach. &quot;Great Books&quot; is mired in fairly a ridiculous fetishism of the Greek classics, the Enlightenment era, the American founding, and the Anglo view of the western world.<p>This works... well enough... in Philosophy and History and the like. But it&#x27;s a much larger problem in Mathematics where the field is essentially unrecognizable from the way it would&#x27;ve been taught in 1920 or whatever.<p>I really like the general approach, but the cultural baggage grates and for Mathematics in particular leads to odd selections. Sometimes you feel like your reading list is being commanded from the grave by a sort of snobby Oxbridge man who, in 1980, was already transparently classist in a kind of irrelevant and borderline senile way.<p>With respect to this list in particular, the critical points of the Grundlagenkrise are hardly covered at all despite having so many wonderful candidates for short illustrative texts that fit the Great Books tradition perfectly. Russell is predictably floating around (see paragraph 1) even though... well, yawn. And the emphasis on Physics and Natural Philosophy over the development of the science of computing is a shocking oversight given the sheer accessibility of the topic and its importance to the modern world. I&#x27;m honestly not sure what eg Darwin is doing in this list (despite being a good candidate in any great books curriculum).<p>Also, significantly more coverage of the development of arithemtic in the Arab world and simultaneous developments of various things in both the Indian subcontinent and in the far east. The Greek fetishism strikes hard in that first year; no one born after 1850 needs that much Euclid.<p>Where is the development of probability theory? Texts from Riemann, Boole, Laplace, Fermat, Galois, and especially Euler seem more important than Bacon or certainly Franklin.<p>Etc.</text></item><item><author>codybontecou</author><text>Huh, this is neat. If you click on a book&#x27;s subject(s), it will then take you to the specific topic and a reading list tailored to it.<p>For example, this is their Mathematics reading list: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sjc.edu&#x2F;academic-programs&#x2F;undergraduate&#x2F;subjects&#x2F;mathematics" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sjc.edu&#x2F;academic-programs&#x2F;undergraduate&#x2F;subjects...</a>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tessierashpool</author><text>this is not intended as any kind of rebuttal, but the Santa Fe campus of St. John&#x27;s has an Asian classics graduate degree which brings in some missing material from the Indian subcontinent (and elsewhere, of course, but you specifically mentioned India).<p>I don&#x27;t recall if it addresses math in particular, however. my guess is no. the grad school is kind of eager about granting people excuses to skip math, and I get the impression that they have to be, because otherwise they&#x27;d go out of business.<p>anyway, if you did both that degree and the undergraduate degree, you could claim a more credible, globe-spanning Great Books education, although it would still have plenty of caveats and flaws.</text></comment> |
13,564,058 | 13,564,096 | 1 | 2 | 13,560,978 | train | <story><title>Use of Ad-Blocking Software Rises by 30% Worldwide</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/31/technology/ad-blocking-internet.html?mabReward=A3&recp=0&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&region=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine&_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikestew</author><text><i>I should mention that we&#x27;ve tried the usual stuff -- subscription service to remove ads. Asking our users nicely to add our site to their whitelist, etc. Both of these have had minuscule impact.</i><p>There was a time that might have worked. It would have worked with me, anyway. A time when others were using ad blockers, but I had an attitude of &quot;meh, they gotta pay the bills&quot;. I might pay a little money to turn off the ads, and were I to use an ad blocker I might whitelist a site or two.<p>But a threshold was crossed. I can&#x27;t tell you what that threshold looks like, or name any particular event that set me off. Maybe it&#x27;s the malware, maybe it&#x27;s the jiggling belly fat ads, auto-play videos, I dunno. But at some point I said &quot;enough&quot;, and I quit giving a shit about anything to do with that industry. The well has been so poisoned that I don&#x27;t care about finding an antidote anymore. In general, I don&#x27;t care if websites go under. The poisoned well metaphor breaks down in that I can&#x27;t do without water, but I can sure as hell do without most of the ad-laden websites out there. I&#x27;ll miss them, but not enough to be bothered to expend even the minimal effort to whitelist as site.<p>I don&#x27;t want to be that person. I want to be empathetic to at least the small content producers just trying to scrape a few bucks. But I&#x27;ve been worn down, and not in the way the advertising industry wished I had been worn down. No, I&#x27;m worn down such that it&#x27;s just easier to run an ad blocker and quit caring. And it&#x27;s unfortunate that companies like yours get caught in all of it.</text></item><item><author>legohead</author><text>When the user adblock percentage of our website hit 30%, we decided to try out anti-adblock solutions.<p>We worked with a company that used various tricks to get around the adblock protection, and then serve ads. This was a great success, at first. Eventually our users started notifying adblock[1], and adblock included rules to block the new ads on our site. Then we contacted our vendor, who gave us a software update to circumvent the new adblock rules.<p>This went on, until adblock enabled the nuclear option and blocked all ajax requests on our site. This effectively broke our site for anyone using adblock. So we caved in, took out the software, and begged for mercy from adblock. The rule was taken out, and we are back to losing 30% of our ad revenue.<p>I should mention that we&#x27;ve tried the usual stuff -- subscription service to remove ads. Asking our users nicely to add our site to their whitelist, etc. Both of these have had minuscule impact.<p>[1] When I say &quot;adblock did X&quot;, I really mean the caretakers of the &quot;rule lists&quot;, which the various adblocking engines use in their browser extensions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>e40</author><text>Bing-fucking-go.<p>Until advertisers understand and embrace this, the people that use adblockers will never relent. There is one, let me repeat, one website that I disable adblocking on: reddit.com. I&#x27;ve never been abused by them, and I don&#x27;t regret that choice. Every other time I&#x27;ve temporarily relented, I immediately regretted it and blocked them again.</text></comment> | <story><title>Use of Ad-Blocking Software Rises by 30% Worldwide</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/31/technology/ad-blocking-internet.html?mabReward=A3&recp=0&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&region=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine&_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikestew</author><text><i>I should mention that we&#x27;ve tried the usual stuff -- subscription service to remove ads. Asking our users nicely to add our site to their whitelist, etc. Both of these have had minuscule impact.</i><p>There was a time that might have worked. It would have worked with me, anyway. A time when others were using ad blockers, but I had an attitude of &quot;meh, they gotta pay the bills&quot;. I might pay a little money to turn off the ads, and were I to use an ad blocker I might whitelist a site or two.<p>But a threshold was crossed. I can&#x27;t tell you what that threshold looks like, or name any particular event that set me off. Maybe it&#x27;s the malware, maybe it&#x27;s the jiggling belly fat ads, auto-play videos, I dunno. But at some point I said &quot;enough&quot;, and I quit giving a shit about anything to do with that industry. The well has been so poisoned that I don&#x27;t care about finding an antidote anymore. In general, I don&#x27;t care if websites go under. The poisoned well metaphor breaks down in that I can&#x27;t do without water, but I can sure as hell do without most of the ad-laden websites out there. I&#x27;ll miss them, but not enough to be bothered to expend even the minimal effort to whitelist as site.<p>I don&#x27;t want to be that person. I want to be empathetic to at least the small content producers just trying to scrape a few bucks. But I&#x27;ve been worn down, and not in the way the advertising industry wished I had been worn down. No, I&#x27;m worn down such that it&#x27;s just easier to run an ad blocker and quit caring. And it&#x27;s unfortunate that companies like yours get caught in all of it.</text></item><item><author>legohead</author><text>When the user adblock percentage of our website hit 30%, we decided to try out anti-adblock solutions.<p>We worked with a company that used various tricks to get around the adblock protection, and then serve ads. This was a great success, at first. Eventually our users started notifying adblock[1], and adblock included rules to block the new ads on our site. Then we contacted our vendor, who gave us a software update to circumvent the new adblock rules.<p>This went on, until adblock enabled the nuclear option and blocked all ajax requests on our site. This effectively broke our site for anyone using adblock. So we caved in, took out the software, and begged for mercy from adblock. The rule was taken out, and we are back to losing 30% of our ad revenue.<p>I should mention that we&#x27;ve tried the usual stuff -- subscription service to remove ads. Asking our users nicely to add our site to their whitelist, etc. Both of these have had minuscule impact.<p>[1] When I say &quot;adblock did X&quot;, I really mean the caretakers of the &quot;rule lists&quot;, which the various adblocking engines use in their browser extensions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>devopsproject</author><text>I blocked ads on pc after getting infected.<p>I blocked ads on mobile devices when they started buzzing my phone, sending me the the play store, giving me popups, etc.<p>now I block everything on all my devices using pi-hole</text></comment> |
34,308,345 | 34,306,848 | 1 | 3 | 34,304,520 | train | <story><title>Safari is released to the world (2013)</title><url>https://donmelton.com/2013/01/10/safari-is-released-to-the-world/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>shp0ngle</author><text>&gt; While at Apple, I also led the department developing the Mail, Calendar, Contacts, Messages and FaceTime apps on OS X—as well as Core Services, a set of frameworks familiar to anyone programming for the Mac. My teams did the original versions of some built-in iPad applications. And, of course, I was responsible for WebKit on iOS in addition to the desktop.<p>Huh. I wish Apple still focused on these apps. Those apps used to be great at the time this guy was there. Nowadays it&#x27;s all kind of lame.<p>But yeah these days all the development on desktop seem to go on JS&#x2F;HTML - partly thanks to WebKit (which was a basis for Chrome later, which was basis of Electron) - which makes the app kind of suck, but honestly the development side is much easier. And people actually use phones in 2023 more than desktop. So, whatever.</text></comment> | <story><title>Safari is released to the world (2013)</title><url>https://donmelton.com/2013/01/10/safari-is-released-to-the-world/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Conan_Kudo</author><text>There&#x27;s a sad irony that WebKit isn&#x27;t really available to the KDE&#x2F;Qt ecosystem anymore. The engine that came from KDE is no longer available for use in the KDE platform.</text></comment> |
10,838,958 | 10,838,691 | 1 | 3 | 10,837,758 | train | <story><title>Announcing Spark 1.6</title><url>https://databricks.com/blog/2016/01/04/announcing-spark-1-6.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mb22</author><text>We&#x27;ve been testing 1.6 since before release, specifically SparkSQL and there are some big performance improvements in this release.
We&#x27;re putting together a 3rd party benchmark I&#x27;ll post to HN when we are done.</text></comment> | <story><title>Announcing Spark 1.6</title><url>https://databricks.com/blog/2016/01/04/announcing-spark-1-6.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kod</author><text>So the detailed post on datasets at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;databricks.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;04&#x2F;introducing-spark-datasets.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;databricks.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;04&#x2F;introducing-spark-dat...</a><p>uses groupBy<p>I&#x27;m pretty sure based on previous comments you&#x27;ve made that groupBy was one of the things you&#x27;d rather eliminate from the RDD api, because of the performance impact compared to reduceByKey (which is almost always what people should be using instead).<p>Are you at all worried about confusion if groupBy now performs ok on datasets, but not on rdds?</text></comment> |
8,399,261 | 8,399,284 | 1 | 2 | 8,399,100 | train | <story><title>Re: MemSQL the “world's fastest database”? (2012)</title><url>http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/[email protected]</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ankrgyl</author><text>This post is missing a key trade-off that you get with an in-memory row store (tl;dr ability to build lock-free), but also since 6&#x2F;25&#x2F;2012 several other innovations in MemSQL that have shipped over the past 2+ years.<p>The main advantage of having a main-memory row store is the ability to leverage random-access data in memory. This unlocks you to use random access aggressively and build lock-free indexes (atomic instructions are available only for data that&#x27;s in memory). With these tradeoffs you can build extremely concurrent data structures that simply aren&#x27;t possible with a system that must manage a buffer cache. See <a href="http://blog.memsql.com/the-story-behind-memsqls-skiplist-indexes/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.memsql.com&#x2F;the-story-behind-memsqls-skiplist-ind...</a> for more details.<p>The article also suggests that MemSQL is not durable in the event of a power outage. This is simply not the case - we&#x27;ve had durability since the first ever public release of MemSQL, including both asynchronous and synchronous modes.<p>MemSQL now also has distributed transactions and MPP, supports intra and inter data-center replication, semi-structured (JSON) data, and even has a column store that works as a hybrid between disk and in-memory.<p>And BTW, I actually agree with this mentality in the context of column stores. There&#x27;s no real advantage to having an &quot;in-memory&quot; column store because of the append-only nature of columnar blobs of data. That&#x27;s why ours is a hybrid.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colanderman</author><text>As someone who knows nothing about database implementations but a lot about memory, this makes no sense:<p>&gt; <i>atomic instructions are available only for data that&#x27;s in memory</i><p><i>All</i> CPU instructions are available only for data that&#x27;s in memory (or registers). No (sane) database on Earth operates solely by issuing disk I&#x2F;O.<p>That linked blog post doesn&#x27;t support your claim, either. It makes some points about &quot;indirections&quot; and &quot;buffer caches&quot;, neither of which is relevant to the applicability of lock-free techniques or atomic instructions.<p>(Quick proof of both of the above: <i>all</i> virtual memory systems abstract both (a) disk access (swap) and (b) pointer indirection (TLBs), without restricting atomic operations.)<p>What <i>is</i> true, is that atomic operations, and memory barriers for that matter, are not effective across coherency domains. So, if you have two processes concurrently accessing a memory-mapped block device <i>on different computers</i>, then yes, you lose atomic operations and lock-free data structures. But, AFAIK, this is not how most databases operate: most run as one or several processes <i>within the same coherency domain</i> (e.g. the same computer). The operating system ensures that multiple processes mapping the same file maintain a coherent view of it (primarily by mapping each disk block to at most one physical memory location).</text></comment> | <story><title>Re: MemSQL the “world's fastest database”? (2012)</title><url>http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/[email protected]</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ankrgyl</author><text>This post is missing a key trade-off that you get with an in-memory row store (tl;dr ability to build lock-free), but also since 6&#x2F;25&#x2F;2012 several other innovations in MemSQL that have shipped over the past 2+ years.<p>The main advantage of having a main-memory row store is the ability to leverage random-access data in memory. This unlocks you to use random access aggressively and build lock-free indexes (atomic instructions are available only for data that&#x27;s in memory). With these tradeoffs you can build extremely concurrent data structures that simply aren&#x27;t possible with a system that must manage a buffer cache. See <a href="http://blog.memsql.com/the-story-behind-memsqls-skiplist-indexes/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.memsql.com&#x2F;the-story-behind-memsqls-skiplist-ind...</a> for more details.<p>The article also suggests that MemSQL is not durable in the event of a power outage. This is simply not the case - we&#x27;ve had durability since the first ever public release of MemSQL, including both asynchronous and synchronous modes.<p>MemSQL now also has distributed transactions and MPP, supports intra and inter data-center replication, semi-structured (JSON) data, and even has a column store that works as a hybrid between disk and in-memory.<p>And BTW, I actually agree with this mentality in the context of column stores. There&#x27;s no real advantage to having an &quot;in-memory&quot; column store because of the append-only nature of columnar blobs of data. That&#x27;s why ours is a hybrid.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dschiptsov</author><text>How exactly you have solved the problem of &quot;durabity&quot; given that any disk is orders of magnitude longer to access than RAM? The Mongo way - push buffers to be written to an OS kernel and forgot?)<p>Let&#x27;s put it straight. Words should mean what they originally meant, not how sales or PR guys want them to be meant.<p>For us, a database is piece of software which enforces data consistency and is fail-safe. That&#x27;s why we want it - to reliable store our data.<p>According the laws of physics, the throughput is bounded by the slowest operation (the same way a durability of a chain is bounded by a weakest cell) and in case of a database, this operation is an atomic update in a persistent, failsafe storage with consistency guarantee. That is what we call a transaction. This was the meaning since System R or the first version of Berkeley DB.<p>Transaction &quot;in memory&quot; is a nonsense for us, so are any memory-to-network-stack or memory-to-client-process &quot;benchmarks&quot;.<p>As long as there is no proven (not advertised) consistency guarantee and fail safety guarantee such system should be called a Cache, not a Database.<p>Call your product Cache, and all the confusion would disappear. In other words, &quot;in-memory&quot;
is not a database, it contradicts with the meaning of the word, no mater how your sales people are trying to twist the language.<p>There is no &quot;specialized databases&quot;. There are specialized caches. OK.</text></comment> |
24,754,749 | 24,754,938 | 1 | 2 | 24,745,714 | train | <story><title>Researchers attach cameras to orcas, revealing a marvelous underwater world</title><url>https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/researchers-attach-cameras-to-pacific-northwest-orcas-revealing-a-marvelous-underwater-world/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rgovostes</author><text>Researchers have also been attaching beacons (via time-release suction cups) to sharks and to follow them with autonomous vehicles outfitted with cameras. You may have seen the footage on Discovery Channel programs.<p>Article on the SharkCam: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.whoi.edu&#x2F;press-room&#x2F;news-release&#x2F;remus-sharkcam&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.whoi.edu&#x2F;press-room&#x2F;news-release&#x2F;remus-sharkcam&#x2F;</a><p>Video on the TurtleCam: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.whoi.edu&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;Final-TurtleCam-Oceanus-1.mp4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.whoi.edu&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;Final-Turtle...</a><p>Recovering a lost SharkCam: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;172975132" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;172975132</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Researchers attach cameras to orcas, revealing a marvelous underwater world</title><url>https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/researchers-attach-cameras-to-pacific-northwest-orcas-revealing-a-marvelous-underwater-world/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aynyc</author><text>I was talking to my dad a few years ago. I told him that Orcas never killed a human in the wild. My dad goes, that&#x27;s because they know how to bury a body!</text></comment> |
12,172,445 | 12,171,475 | 1 | 2 | 12,171,276 | train | <story><title>Xiaomi’s first laptop is a Macbook Air rival</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/27/you-know-this-all-sounds-familiar/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>klackerz</author><text>The best thing about Xiaomi is that they support their products very well. Almost all of their phones get security updates each month. That is a rare thing in Android nowadays especially with Motorola announcing that they will stop updating their phones with the new security updates. [1]<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gadgets&#x2F;2016&#x2F;07&#x2F;motorola-confirms-that-it-will-not-commit-to-monthly-security-patches&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gadgets&#x2F;2016&#x2F;07&#x2F;motorola-confirms-tha...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maxerickson</author><text>How did you go from <i>However, because of the amount of testing and approvals that are necessary to deploy them, it&#x27;s difficult to do this on a monthly basis for all our devices. It is often most efficient for us to bundle security updates in a scheduled Maintenance Release (MR) or OS upgrade.</i>, which is a quote from Motorola, to <i>Motorola announcing that they will stop updating their phones with the new security updates.</i>?<p>Keeping up with the monthly updates would likely be preferable, but batching them is still a long way off from how you&#x27;ve characterized it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Xiaomi’s first laptop is a Macbook Air rival</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/27/you-know-this-all-sounds-familiar/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>klackerz</author><text>The best thing about Xiaomi is that they support their products very well. Almost all of their phones get security updates each month. That is a rare thing in Android nowadays especially with Motorola announcing that they will stop updating their phones with the new security updates. [1]<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gadgets&#x2F;2016&#x2F;07&#x2F;motorola-confirms-that-it-will-not-commit-to-monthly-security-patches&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gadgets&#x2F;2016&#x2F;07&#x2F;motorola-confirms-tha...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pestaa</author><text>I have a Xiaomi Redmi 1S phone. It has not received any update of any kind in the last 3 years, it&#x27;s still running on Android 4.3.</text></comment> |
16,300,601 | 16,300,030 | 1 | 2 | 16,298,010 | train | <story><title>The Famine Ended 70 Years Ago, but Dutch Genes Still Bear Scars</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/science/dutch-famine-genes.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rystsov</author><text>It would be interesting to repeat the research in St.Petersburg, the siege during the WW2 lasted more than 2 year and there were 642,000 casualties among civilians.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Siege_of_Leningrad" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Siege_of_Leningrad</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Famine Ended 70 Years Ago, but Dutch Genes Still Bear Scars</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/science/dutch-famine-genes.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DoreenMichele</author><text>It looks like fairly solid science:<p><i>Finally, the researchers merged the results — and found a few methyl groups that were linked both to the famine and to health conditions later in life. “We were able to connect the three dots,” said Dr. Lumey...<p>And the Dutch famine probably led to many miscarriages and early deaths. It’s possible that the survivors had some genetic variant that made them resilient and gave them a distinctive epigenetic profile not captured in this study.</i><p>I had never heard of this famine. I read the article and found myself wondering how this impacts the collective subconscious and the culture as a whole. Probably not in a good way. (That is <i>not</i> a criticism of the Dutch. Please read that compassionately.)<p>I wish I knew what to do to promote food security in the world. It seems like food security is some fundamental aspect of peace and just making sure people get fed well (both enough and healthily) is one of the best ways to avert all kinds of problems.</text></comment> |
617,594 | 617,575 | 1 | 2 | 617,533 | train | <story><title>Google Calculating Which Employees Are About to Quit</title><url>http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2009-05-19-n33.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>makecheck</author><text><i>...the algorithm helps Google “get inside people’s heads even before they know they might leave”...</i><p>Sounds like the department of pre-crime. :)<p>It's fascinating: enough Google employees want to leave, that Google is studying their behavior. Clearly, even amazing perks, challenging work and brilliant colleagues will wear thin on a person? Or maybe it's not that there's anything wrong with Google per se, but that people are regularly trying to branch out and start their own companies, etc. and no amount of pampering will change those ambitions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jrockway</author><text>I don't think Google is what it used to be anymore. I know people that work there, and they say that the perks are gradually being rolled back. (Instead of dinner, there is left-over pizza from lunch if you stay late; that sort of thing.) The insurance has never been as good as places like Microsoft (or even universities that run their own healthcare plan). The fun projects don't make much money, so most of the people there are working on boring things. It seems like their standards are slipping too; I worked at DoubleClick before the aquisition, and Google held onto some of the worst developers I have ever met. (One guy started crying when my boss and I tried to explain database transactions to him. He works on a database-driven web app for Google.)<p>Anyway, the honeymoon is over, and Google is just an average place with a pretty logo and a popular search engine and email service. It has all the corporate stupidity that any other big company has.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Calculating Which Employees Are About to Quit</title><url>http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2009-05-19-n33.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>makecheck</author><text><i>...the algorithm helps Google “get inside people’s heads even before they know they might leave”...</i><p>Sounds like the department of pre-crime. :)<p>It's fascinating: enough Google employees want to leave, that Google is studying their behavior. Clearly, even amazing perks, challenging work and brilliant colleagues will wear thin on a person? Or maybe it's not that there's anything wrong with Google per se, but that people are regularly trying to branch out and start their own companies, etc. and no amount of pampering will change those ambitions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iigs</author><text><i>challenging work and brilliant colleagues</i><p>Word on the street is that there's some fun work to do but there's a lot of vanilla corporate grinding on the Adwords interface and reporting infrastructure, and that Google hires a lot of people into those roles before they can branch out into other jobs.<p>Also everyone I've personally spoken to about job interviews (i.e. not read about on the internet) was pained by the pomposity/egos of the people that were doing the interviews. In my opinion there's a lot more to be said for someone that is humble and gets their work done with the occasional intellectual surprise than someone who can school you any day on the One True I/O Monad and takes every opportunity to do so.<p>Of course, it's also possible that it's absolutely perfect and the people that I talked to had sour grapes because they never got offers. I don't know. :)</text></comment> |
41,086,235 | 41,085,799 | 1 | 2 | 41,069,606 | train | <story><title>Reverse-engineering my speakers' API to get reasonable volume control</title><url>https://jamesbvaughan.com/volume-controller-1/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>christina97</author><text>For those considering buying speakers: (1) do it, (2) get passive ones and a separate amp. Honestly it’s such a mature market that buying these active speakers just creates e-waste. Keep the e-waste to the amp. You can get really solid speakers for $300 and a cheap amp with BT for $50-100, replacing them basically independently depending on your needs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Endurancee</author><text>Quality of active speakers are really good these days, they have matched amps and speakers from neumann, genelec etc also has active crossover which is superior than any passive setup.
Mature market sure, but even companies like KEF who didn&#x27;t offered or focussed much on active systems, have growing range of options now.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reverse-engineering my speakers' API to get reasonable volume control</title><url>https://jamesbvaughan.com/volume-controller-1/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>christina97</author><text>For those considering buying speakers: (1) do it, (2) get passive ones and a separate amp. Honestly it’s such a mature market that buying these active speakers just creates e-waste. Keep the e-waste to the amp. You can get really solid speakers for $300 and a cheap amp with BT for $50-100, replacing them basically independently depending on your needs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>squarefoot</author><text>Quality active speakers very rarely break, but one should buy them from studio gear (e)shops instead of the nearest mall. I totally agree on other gimmicks that would add single points of failure and should be kept out.</text></comment> |
1,269,308 | 1,269,298 | 1 | 2 | 1,269,003 | train | <story><title>Vimium - the hacker's browser</title><url>http://vimium.github.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mmmdelihsus</author><text>Vimperator for Firefox does the same.
<a href="http://vimperator.org/vimperator" rel="nofollow">http://vimperator.org/vimperator</a><p>One hint: have an alternate browser for normal users to use when they borrow their laptop for a second. Because not having an address bar or any icons or tabs tends to confuse them :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thingie</author><text>(You don't want to let anybody else use your browser profile. Especially with all those "smart" address bars. Rather set up a guest account and switch to it. It's also very useful for presentations. Recent Linux distros makes user switching very easy and reliable, so it's worth doing even for a very short sessions.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Vimium - the hacker's browser</title><url>http://vimium.github.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mmmdelihsus</author><text>Vimperator for Firefox does the same.
<a href="http://vimperator.org/vimperator" rel="nofollow">http://vimperator.org/vimperator</a><p>One hint: have an alternate browser for normal users to use when they borrow their laptop for a second. Because not having an address bar or any icons or tabs tends to confuse them :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jamesbritt</author><text>" have an alternate browser for normal users to use ..."<p>Or not, if you don't want to encourage borrowing. :)<p>"I'll just be a sec! No, really."</text></comment> |
13,392,377 | 13,392,374 | 1 | 2 | 13,391,871 | train | <story><title>Microsoft acquires deep learning startup Maluuba</title><url>https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2017/01/13/microsoft-acquires-deep-learning-startup-maluuba-ai-pioneer-yoshua-bengio-advisory-role/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thewhitetulip</author><text>MS has always shown that they can do research, halolens is one such product and the recent ML enablement spree is another example. It is a good thing that they are going beyond their comfort zone of milking Windows. What is interesting is to see if their efforts make any difference in the status quo. I say this after using AzureML, which I liked, there is no such thing on the internet which allows you to write a ML model without knowing a programming language! It is a webapp which asks you to put data inside it, click a few buttons and it generates python or R code for you. Just brilliant.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft acquires deep learning startup Maluuba</title><url>https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2017/01/13/microsoft-acquires-deep-learning-startup-maluuba-ai-pioneer-yoshua-bengio-advisory-role/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>roymurdock</author><text>More interesting info on Maluuba&#x27;s 2 actual, recently-released datasets: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;datasets.maluuba.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;datasets.maluuba.com&#x2F;</a><p>Their &quot;News QA dataset&quot; contains 120k Q&amp;As collected from CNN articles:<p><i>Documents are CNN news articles. Questions are written by human users in natural language. Answers may be multiword passages of the source text. Questions may be unanswerable.<p>NewsQA is collected using a 3-stage, siloed process. Questioners see only an article&#x27;s headline and highlights. Answerers see the question and the full article, then select an answer passage. Validators see the article, the question, and a set of answers that they rank. NewsQA is more natural and more challenging than previous datasets.</i><p>Their &quot;Frames&quot; dataset contains 1369 dialogues for vacation scheduling:<p><i>With this dataset, we also present a new task: frame tracking. Our main observation is that decision-making is tightly linked to memory. In effect, to choose a trip, users and wizards talked about different possibilities, compared them and went back-and-forth between cities, dates, or vacation packages.<p>Current systems are memory-less. They implement slot-filling for search as a sequential process where the user is asked for constraints one after the other until a database query can be formulated. Only one set of constraints is kept in memory. For instance, in the illustration below, on the left, when the user mentions Montreal, it overwrites Toronto as destination city. However, behaviours observed in Frames imply that slot values should not be overwritten. One use-case is comparisons: it is common that users ask to compare different items and in this case, different sets of constraints are involved (for instance, different destinations). Frame tracking consists of keeping in memory all the different sets of constraints mentioned by the user. It is a generalization of the state tracking task to a setting where not only the current frame is memorized.<p>Adding this kind of conversational memory is key to building agents which do not simply serve as a natural language interface for searching a database but instead accompany users in their exploration and help them find the best item.</i><p>---<p>Can anyone with experience in ML&#x2F;AI comment on how novel&#x2F;complex these projects are, and how expensive it would be to build out these datasets? Would be interesting to see what it takes to publish a few datasets trained on 20 day conversations between real people, and get acquired by Microsoft&#x2F;Apple&#x2F;Google.</text></comment> |
39,303,878 | 39,302,607 | 1 | 2 | 39,297,185 | train | <story><title>John Walker, founder of Autodesk, has died</title><url>https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/john-walker-1949-2024/4305</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>51Cards</author><text>I was in high school right at the time the first CAD systems came in and our school was the test school for the region. Our older drafting teacher didn&#x27;t want to learn the new system so he asked the class who knew &quot;computers&quot;. I had had Commodore PETs at home for a few years and was teaching myself to code. My hand shot up and I was given full access to the new machine to &quot;figure it out&quot;. It was my first introduction to PCs (IBM XT) and of course AutoCAD. I still remember, version 1.17b. I was introduced to LISP in AutoCAD, I ended up partaking in regional training for the other schools when they got their CAD systems, and then into a job working with AutoCAD.<p>In my 20&#x27;s I started a company developing engineering and architectural add-ons in LISP for AutoCAD, and while we later transitioned into a general software house, those will always be my roots. John&#x27;s products changed the direction of my life and I wish I had had the chance to let him know that.<p>When the school region later deprecated that IBM XT 10 years later the school asked me if I wanted it. Still have it along with the original Kurta tablet and Roland plotter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dekhn</author><text>Same here, late 80s I took a high school drafting class and asked about the PCs in the back, the teacher said &quot;I don&#x27;t know anything about them, they have some software called AutoCAD. Do you want to take an elective and learn how it works?&quot; It was entirely 2D and I went through all the exercises quickly.<p>That foundational knowledge stuck with me and although it&#x27;s not my job at all, I use Fusion 360 all the time at home to design parts for my self-built microscope and many other things. It&#x27;s a great tool.</text></comment> | <story><title>John Walker, founder of Autodesk, has died</title><url>https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/john-walker-1949-2024/4305</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>51Cards</author><text>I was in high school right at the time the first CAD systems came in and our school was the test school for the region. Our older drafting teacher didn&#x27;t want to learn the new system so he asked the class who knew &quot;computers&quot;. I had had Commodore PETs at home for a few years and was teaching myself to code. My hand shot up and I was given full access to the new machine to &quot;figure it out&quot;. It was my first introduction to PCs (IBM XT) and of course AutoCAD. I still remember, version 1.17b. I was introduced to LISP in AutoCAD, I ended up partaking in regional training for the other schools when they got their CAD systems, and then into a job working with AutoCAD.<p>In my 20&#x27;s I started a company developing engineering and architectural add-ons in LISP for AutoCAD, and while we later transitioned into a general software house, those will always be my roots. John&#x27;s products changed the direction of my life and I wish I had had the chance to let him know that.<p>When the school region later deprecated that IBM XT 10 years later the school asked me if I wanted it. Still have it along with the original Kurta tablet and Roland plotter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jimmydddd</author><text>Great story and I can relate. In the late &#x27;80&#x27;s I worked as a summer engineering intern at a civil engineering company. They assigned me to train the crochety draftsmen on AudCAD, but they wanted nothing to do with it. To paint a picture, these guys were hunching over drafting tables using pencils and erasers to draw their drawings, while chain smoking the whole time. An ash tray would be placed on the center of the drawing. Needless to say, my summer project was not a success! :-)</text></comment> |
37,055,294 | 37,054,502 | 1 | 3 | 37,050,035 | train | <story><title>Your computer should say what you tell it to say</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/your-computer-should-say-what-you-tell-it-say-1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>clucas</author><text>&gt; as if they already operate effective mind control at systemic scale.<p>If the logical conclusion of your reasoning is a mass mind control conspiracy, you should revisit your assumptions.<p>&gt; somehow they can bully into submission basically the entire universe<p>I don&#x27;t think anyone is bullying all of society. I think most people just don&#x27;t care. It&#x27;s really not that crazy, no mind control involved. Just good old fashioned apathy and ignorance.</text></item><item><author>nologic01</author><text>&gt; A handful of companies have established chokepoints between buyers and sellers, performers and audiences, workers and employers, as well as families and communities. When those companies refuse to deal with you, your digital life grinds to a halt<p>This short paragraph summarizes the (ex-ante) improbably unusual situation we have drifted into.<p>The negatively affected stakeholders being enumerated are more or less the entire society.<p>These gatekeepers and chokepoint operators do have a few natural allies (the captured politicos, others in direct or indirect payroll, externality-blind markets). Yet somehow they can bully into submission basically the entire universe. With its infinite financial, political, intellectual resources.<p>Rather strange dont you think? It almost as if they already operate effective mind control at systemic scale.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MSFT_Edging</author><text>Yeah this is a super deep issue but its not mind control.<p>It&#x27;s a mix of middlemen being the only industry that can still extract more profit, and a level of control over markets by Capital that makes most opinions meaningless.<p>Its essentially a return to feudalism, where certain people own vast swaths of productive space, they&#x27;re untouchable in the legal system and real life, and one is forced to work for them.<p>To escape the system means leaving behind most of society depending on your convictions. These groups can kill you physically(Monsanto poisoning people with pesticides) or metaphorically(you lose all connection to the general societal social media) and nothing can be done.<p>For the first one, if you were to suggest violence against those doing violence against you, you&#x27;re essentially told that violence is never the answer, except when its in the form of collateral damage for profit motive.<p>For the latter, its not nearly as life ending, annoying, but not life ending or even altering unless your livelihood is based around grifting on social media. For social media it is ironically democratic, if most people find you to be an annoying asshole, they sorta kick you off so you leave everyone alone. No different than getting kicked out of a bar for demanding to see someone&#x27;s genitals.</text></comment> | <story><title>Your computer should say what you tell it to say</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/your-computer-should-say-what-you-tell-it-say-1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>clucas</author><text>&gt; as if they already operate effective mind control at systemic scale.<p>If the logical conclusion of your reasoning is a mass mind control conspiracy, you should revisit your assumptions.<p>&gt; somehow they can bully into submission basically the entire universe<p>I don&#x27;t think anyone is bullying all of society. I think most people just don&#x27;t care. It&#x27;s really not that crazy, no mind control involved. Just good old fashioned apathy and ignorance.</text></item><item><author>nologic01</author><text>&gt; A handful of companies have established chokepoints between buyers and sellers, performers and audiences, workers and employers, as well as families and communities. When those companies refuse to deal with you, your digital life grinds to a halt<p>This short paragraph summarizes the (ex-ante) improbably unusual situation we have drifted into.<p>The negatively affected stakeholders being enumerated are more or less the entire society.<p>These gatekeepers and chokepoint operators do have a few natural allies (the captured politicos, others in direct or indirect payroll, externality-blind markets). Yet somehow they can bully into submission basically the entire universe. With its infinite financial, political, intellectual resources.<p>Rather strange dont you think? It almost as if they already operate effective mind control at systemic scale.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nologic01</author><text>I sort of accept the apathy and ignorance argument for individuals (though crowds would get worried, even enraged if they were to receive warnings from institutions they trust, so one still needs to explain why there are none).<p>But the list of affected entities involves far more than addicted consumers. Digital gatekeepers interfere and reshape the information flows which form the fabric on which all economic, cultural and political activity takes place. There is already plenty of evidence of the potentially dramatic impact. Highly trained and responsible individuals in the corporate world or the public sector cannot possibly be ignorant or detached from this extreme and unprecedented concentration of control that affects their very own roles and power bases.<p>I didn&#x27;t really want to speculate as to what perpetuates this (by historical standards) rather extraordinary situation. There is clearly some accommodation taking place. E.g when the entity now known as Meta attempted to introduce a digital currency it was summarily pushed back into its corner.<p>The mind control possibility was a joke, but - mind you - conspiracy theories thrive in the lack of transparency.</text></comment> |
4,593,233 | 4,593,221 | 1 | 2 | 4,593,087 | train | <story><title>Dave The Incredible Mindreader – How Does He Do It?</title><url>http://singularityhub.com/2012/09/28/dave-the-uncannily-accurate-mindreader-how-does-he-do-it/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>shalmanese</author><text>Back in college, when Facebook was still pretty new, I met this fairly attractive girl who told me she put horseback riding as one of her interests, even though she doesn't ride.<p>When guys would approach her out of the blue and casually move the conversation into horseback riding, she knew that had been pre-stalking her on Facebook.<p>I always thought that was a rather clever social hack.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dave The Incredible Mindreader – How Does He Do It?</title><url>http://singularityhub.com/2012/09/28/dave-the-uncannily-accurate-mindreader-how-does-he-do-it/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fruchtose</author><text>This link nothing but blogspam. Just go here for the video that the link pads with meaningless text: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7pYHN9iC9I" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7pYHN9iC9I</a></text></comment> |
21,725,218 | 21,725,166 | 1 | 3 | 21,724,247 | train | <story><title>Reflecting on 8 months of full-time self-study</title><url>https://www.jotaen.net/2e2Ff/sabbatical-self-study-reflection/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>christiansakai</author><text>I am not doing any Sabbatical right now, but I am currently soul searching. I&#x27;ve been working as a fullstack dev for more about 5 years. I do have CS background, and think myself as quite a decent programmer. But in my day job, or I suspect in most day jobs out there, CRUD stuff, nothing is really interesting and it is really hard to make a leap in improvement in technical skills. Though of course, you improve bit by bit everyday just by code review, bug squashing, practicing best practices, do better tests, etc. But mostly these are the mundane tasks.<p>While you can argue that technical skills have diminishing returns, but I do really want to focus more on it at this point of my life.<p>I see it in HN, Reddit, everyday people make very cool projects and I wonder what it will take for me to reach that level?<p>Anyway, I decided to buy the book &quot;Engineering a Compiler&quot; and set a goal to actually finish it. I guess that&#x27;s my soul searching direction will go for now.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reflecting on 8 months of full-time self-study</title><url>https://www.jotaen.net/2e2Ff/sabbatical-self-study-reflection/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gorpomon</author><text>For those wanting something a bit less intense, the Recurse Center in NYC is a great place to practice a few months (or now even just a week) of self study with some of the brightest folks you&#x27;ll ever meet.</text></comment> |
14,204,808 | 14,202,996 | 1 | 2 | 14,201,813 | train | <story><title>Understand Go pointers</title><url>https://dave.cheney.net/2017/04/26/understand-go-pointers-in-less-than-800-words-or-your-money-back</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jerf</author><text>Since you sort of ask: Go pointers themselves are not that special, because in a GC&#x27;ed language with no pointer arithmetic they&#x27;re really just a map&#x2F;territory-type distinction, but there are some syntax affordances that can make them briefly more confusing than they appear.<p>For method calls and field accesses, Go fuzzes whether you have an object or a pointer by making the &quot;.&quot; operator work on both, rather than C&#x27;s &quot;.&quot; vs &quot;-&gt;&quot; distinction. Since it&#x27;s never ambiguous, it&#x27;s just pointless overhead to make the programmer worry about that. It can also be slightly confusing that the method itself can control whether it receives a pointer, so you can call object.Method on a concrete object, but Method will receive &amp;object. As a professional programmer I appreciate not being bothered with this unambiguous detail that the language can easily handle for me, but it can confuse people in the early going, which is a legitimate criticism. (I still come down in favor of doing what it is doing, but it is a legitimate drawback.)<p>The other thing I see that fools people with experience from other languages is that the &quot;nil&quot; pointer is not the same thing as a NULL pointer in C. In C, the NULL pointer is simply a zero with no type information connected to it. In Go, pointers are actually (type, address) tuples, so a nil pointer to a custom struct is actually (pointer CustomStruct [1], nil), which means that the runtime is capable of correctly resolving methods on nil pointers and that you can therefore write methods that work on nil pointers. Nil pointers are still bad because they are a value added to all pointer types by the act of taking a pointer that you can&#x27;t control, you get it whether you like it or not, <i>but</i> they are not bad in the C sense that any attempt to touch one is a segfault.[2]<p>That&#x27;s about all that matters in normal Go programming.<p>[1]: Asterisk is confusing HN&#x27;s italicization there.<p>[2]: Which is I think an important aspect of understanding the &quot;billion dollar mistake&quot;, by the way; it is easy to deconstruct that mistake as being two mistakes rolled in to one, which may perhaps explain why it was such a big mistake.</text></item><item><author>nottorp</author><text>I clicked the article thinking that Go pointers are something special... but this seems targeted at the &quot;programmers&quot; who only know javascript...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dbaupp</author><text><i>&gt; The other thing I see that fools people with experience from other languages is that the &quot;nil&quot; pointer is not the same thing as a NULL pointer in C. In C, the NULL pointer is simply a zero with no type information connected to it. In Go, pointers are actually (type, address) tuples, so a nil pointer to a custom struct is actually (pointer CustomStruct [1], nil), which means that the runtime is capable of correctly resolving methods on nil pointers and that you can therefore write methods that work on nil pointers.</i><p>This paragraph seems, at best, misleading. C NULLs are not untyped either (using the same asterisk-avoidance as you): `T pointer x = NULL` means x is a NULL pointer with type T. Similarly, a Go `var x pointer T = nil` is a plain pointer-sized object with all bytes zero, just like C.<p>If you&#x27;re talking about interfaces, then, there&#x27;s actually two sorts of nil interfaces: interfaces where the data pointer is nil, and interfaces that are completely nil (both data and type&#x2F;interface-info pointers).<p><pre><code> func main() {
var x *int
var y interface{} = x
var z interface{}
fmt.Printf(&quot;%v, %v, %T, %v, %T, %v&quot;, x, y, y, z, z, y == z)
&#x2F;&#x2F; &lt;nil&gt;, &lt;nil&gt;, *int, &lt;nil&gt;, &lt;nil&gt;, false
}
</code></pre>
In any case, for a comparison to C, Go is fairly similar: you can call functions with nil pointers in either, just fine, and dereferencing one is bad (the badness is far more controlled in Go, but see below). For a more reasonable comparison about methods, C++ <i>could</i> make it legal to call methods on nil&#x2F;NULL pointers, and, like a completely-nil interface, crash when calling a virtual method (i.e. one that requires dereferencing a nil pointer to get the function pointer), but optimisations win out.<p><i>&gt; they are not bad in the C sense that any attempt to touch one is a segfault</i><p>Note that this has nothing to do with nil pointers storing runtime types (even if they stored them) or anything like that: the Go language just (sensibly) decided to not have undefined behaviour with nil pointers, requiring that implementations handle them in a reliable&#x2F;reproducible way.</text></comment> | <story><title>Understand Go pointers</title><url>https://dave.cheney.net/2017/04/26/understand-go-pointers-in-less-than-800-words-or-your-money-back</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jerf</author><text>Since you sort of ask: Go pointers themselves are not that special, because in a GC&#x27;ed language with no pointer arithmetic they&#x27;re really just a map&#x2F;territory-type distinction, but there are some syntax affordances that can make them briefly more confusing than they appear.<p>For method calls and field accesses, Go fuzzes whether you have an object or a pointer by making the &quot;.&quot; operator work on both, rather than C&#x27;s &quot;.&quot; vs &quot;-&gt;&quot; distinction. Since it&#x27;s never ambiguous, it&#x27;s just pointless overhead to make the programmer worry about that. It can also be slightly confusing that the method itself can control whether it receives a pointer, so you can call object.Method on a concrete object, but Method will receive &amp;object. As a professional programmer I appreciate not being bothered with this unambiguous detail that the language can easily handle for me, but it can confuse people in the early going, which is a legitimate criticism. (I still come down in favor of doing what it is doing, but it is a legitimate drawback.)<p>The other thing I see that fools people with experience from other languages is that the &quot;nil&quot; pointer is not the same thing as a NULL pointer in C. In C, the NULL pointer is simply a zero with no type information connected to it. In Go, pointers are actually (type, address) tuples, so a nil pointer to a custom struct is actually (pointer CustomStruct [1], nil), which means that the runtime is capable of correctly resolving methods on nil pointers and that you can therefore write methods that work on nil pointers. Nil pointers are still bad because they are a value added to all pointer types by the act of taking a pointer that you can&#x27;t control, you get it whether you like it or not, <i>but</i> they are not bad in the C sense that any attempt to touch one is a segfault.[2]<p>That&#x27;s about all that matters in normal Go programming.<p>[1]: Asterisk is confusing HN&#x27;s italicization there.<p>[2]: Which is I think an important aspect of understanding the &quot;billion dollar mistake&quot;, by the way; it is easy to deconstruct that mistake as being two mistakes rolled in to one, which may perhaps explain why it was such a big mistake.</text></item><item><author>nottorp</author><text>I clicked the article thinking that Go pointers are something special... but this seems targeted at the &quot;programmers&quot; who only know javascript...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pcwalton</author><text>&gt; Which is I think an important aspect of understanding the &quot;billion dollar mistake&quot;, by the way; it is easy to deconstruct that mistake as being two mistakes rolled in to one, which may perhaps explain why it was such a big mistake.<p>If it&#x27;s two mistakes, it&#x27;s one big one (having null pointers at all) and one tiny one (the fact that calling methods on null pointers is undefined behavior in C++). The latter is yet another C++ gotcha, but not nearly as pernicious as the former, which causes nearly all the null pointer-related bugs in the wild.</text></comment> |
32,320,935 | 32,320,857 | 1 | 2 | 32,320,495 | train | <story><title>The hero's journey of getting laid off</title><url>https://backtohumanity.substack.com/p/getting-laid-off</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>duxup</author><text>I got laid off from a company after nearly 20 years of work there. I was very lucky to get a big company layoff type package of ~ 9 months of pay. I decided to take it as opportunity to do new things.<p>It was still a worrying experience, had kids, family to take care of, but I chose to take that money and time and enroll in a coding boot camp and go in a new direction in life after age 40. I figured I wasn&#x27;t going to see a lump sum of 9 months pay and time to do something with it ever again so I was going to take advantage of it.<p>Years later now I&#x27;m very happy with the decision. Starting over was stressful, but I&#x27;m much happier with what I do now... and I don&#x27;t think I would have done it if I hadn&#x27;t been laid off.<p>It was still traumatic, but I don&#x27;t think I would be on this side of things had it been easier...</text></comment> | <story><title>The hero's journey of getting laid off</title><url>https://backtohumanity.substack.com/p/getting-laid-off</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tra3</author><text>I&#x27;m thankful that the school that I attended forced us to take electives outside of Computer Science and Engineering. I took some Psychology classes. The list of stressful events was very surprising to me. The author alludes to it in the post. I recall that typically &quot;happy&quot; events are stressful, too.<p>Here&#x27;s the list [0]:<p>Death of a spouse (or child*): 100<p>Divorce: 73<p>Marital separation: 65<p>Imprisonment: 63<p>Death of a close family member: 63<p>Personal injury or illness: 53<p>Marriage: 50<p>Dismissal from work: 47<p>Marital reconciliation: 45<p>Retirement: 45<p>I recently went through a layoff, like probably quite a few in our industry lately, so it rings very true to me.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paindoctor.com&#x2F;top-10-stressful-life-events-holmes-rahe-stress-scale&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paindoctor.com&#x2F;top-10-stressful-life-events-holmes-r...</a></text></comment> |
7,628,526 | 7,628,100 | 1 | 3 | 7,627,577 | train | <story><title>GCC 4.9.0 released</title><url>http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2014-04/msg00195.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jds375</author><text>One particularly impressive improvement:
&quot;Memory usage building Firefox with debug enabled was reduced from 15GB to 3.5GB; link time from 1700 seconds to 350 seconds&quot; - <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.9/changes.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gcc.gnu.org&#x2F;gcc-4.9&#x2F;changes.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>GCC 4.9.0 released</title><url>http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2014-04/msg00195.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mbrubeck</author><text>Previous discussion of the GCC 4.9 changelog: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7578896" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7578896</a></text></comment> |
4,907,801 | 4,907,799 | 1 | 2 | 4,907,609 | train | <story><title>You’re not anonymous. I know your name, email, and company.</title><url>http://42floors.com/blog/youre-not-anonymous-i-know-your-name-email-and-company/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rsobers</author><text>HubSpot (and pretty much any other marketing automation tool) has this feature, too. They lookup company name and location by IP address and build an anonymous "prospect" record representing each visitor so that salespeople and marketers can detect whether prospects from a given company are hitting the site for information.<p>The second a prospect submits a web form, all that previous web activity is tied to their email address (and any other info you collected via the form). You now have a real lead.<p>I don't see any privacy issues with this.<p>What I <i>would</i> see an issue with is if the tracking company were sending the IP address and cookie back to a central database to query "Does anyone _else_ know who this visitor is?" and then provide PII any company who uses the tracking service.<p>The moment you start giving my PII to a company that I didn't voluntarily give it to is when I feel a line has been crossed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paulgb</author><text>&#62; What I would see an issue with is if the tracking company were sending the IP address and cookie back to a central database to query "Does anyone _else_ know who this visitor is?" and then provide PII any company who uses the tracking service.<p>That appears to be exactly what's happening. The email mentions "access to our entire network of identified data ([...] we can identify any visitor [...] if that person has filled out a web form from any other website we are tracking)".</text></comment> | <story><title>You’re not anonymous. I know your name, email, and company.</title><url>http://42floors.com/blog/youre-not-anonymous-i-know-your-name-email-and-company/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rsobers</author><text>HubSpot (and pretty much any other marketing automation tool) has this feature, too. They lookup company name and location by IP address and build an anonymous "prospect" record representing each visitor so that salespeople and marketers can detect whether prospects from a given company are hitting the site for information.<p>The second a prospect submits a web form, all that previous web activity is tied to their email address (and any other info you collected via the form). You now have a real lead.<p>I don't see any privacy issues with this.<p>What I <i>would</i> see an issue with is if the tracking company were sending the IP address and cookie back to a central database to query "Does anyone _else_ know who this visitor is?" and then provide PII any company who uses the tracking service.<p>The moment you start giving my PII to a company that I didn't voluntarily give it to is when I feel a line has been crossed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>darrennix</author><text>According to the sales rep, their tracking capability goes far beyond ip lookup. It explicitly involves saving form data from site A and sharing that personal information with site B.</text></comment> |
31,501,425 | 31,501,429 | 1 | 3 | 31,494,417 | train | <story><title>Tell HN: Job interview canceled due to looming recession</title><text>I’ve been job hunting and I was going to get interviewed on Friday for a SWE role at a small startup and today I received an email from the PM canceling the interview and letting me know the company has decided to stop the recruitment process for all roles due to the markets situation. She also attached a tweet about a YC email to all their founders, here’s the link: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;refsrc&#x2F;status&#x2F;1527238287471292417" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;refsrc&#x2F;status&#x2F;1527238287471292417</a>. I checked the company webpage and in fact they have closed all the open positions, there were like 6.<p>From all the rejections I’ve got so far this is the first time the reason is markets turmoil &#x2F; recession threat. To be honest is my first time job hunting since I graduated in 2019.<p>Screen shots: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;t.co&#x2F;wSx5IR44nK" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;t.co&#x2F;wSx5IR44nK</a><p>Will be this the situation for most tech companies or just start ups? I know the unprofitable over valuated ones will most likely get rekt first but I wanna know if during recessions recruiting slows down even for big profitable companies.<p>What companies or roles will be more resilient?<p>And how as a SWE &#x2F; tech industry professional, specially the ones starting their careers like me, can prepare?<p>I hope some experienced people in the industry can give some hope and advice. Is demoralizing to find out I spent 4 years in school just to get into a really harsh job market. First pandemic, then recession? F...</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>eastbound</author><text>At risk? We’ll just stop having overinflated salaries. The current situation is insane for employers:<p>- Employees are not willing to put a little extra (paid extra, I mean - and we’re at the 35hrs week here),<p>- Not willing to study afterwork to improve their career,<p>- Not willing to work on legacy products where we pay them 40% more.<p>- In the first 2 years, I can pay someone 35 -&gt; 50 -&gt; +10k bonus, and they’ll leave for a job at 65 going 75 with a tech stack that ticks all boxes.<p>- You can teach them React + SpringBoot + Kubernetes, and they’ll still leave because company XYZ does AWS + Neo4j + AI… while still not fixing spelling mistakes in the UI and still in the habit of downloading and entire DB tables and filter them in the Java side, and seeing no problem asking for a microservices architecture.<p>This developer market is batshit crazy and isn’t tight enough to make people want to serve the needs of customers. “Do something hard and get a house in exchange” isn’t a persuasive argument today, they’ll get rich anyway. Instead, they serve their resume, which I perfectly respect and understand, it needs to be done too, but at one point, it’s a disconnect between customers, employers and developers.<p>A crisis is unfortunate but I can’t wait for it.</text></item><item><author>Solvitieg</author><text>&gt; Overall, I&#x27;d say relax a bit. You&#x27;re still in a good situation. Recessions are hard for many, but software engineers were among the best off during the last one and I expect will be this time also.<p>The demand for software engineers was driven partly by zombie app and saas companies all competing for &quot;top talent&quot;, dependent entirely on free cash but without sustainable business models.<p>On top of that, the &quot;demand&quot; narrative led to an influx of new software engineers that will mature over the next 1-3 years.<p>These two factors I believe put our industry at risk if there&#x27;s a recession.</text></item><item><author>scottlamb</author><text>&gt; I hope some experienced people in the industry can give some hope and advice. Is demoralizing to find out I spent 4 years in school just to get into a really harsh job market. First pandemic, then recession? F...<p>Overall, I&#x27;d say relax a bit. You&#x27;re still in a good situation. Recessions are hard for many, but software engineers were among the best off during the last one and I expect will be this time also.<p>&gt; I wanna know if during recessions recruiting slows down even for big profitable companies.<p>I remember Google&#x27;s recruiting slowed down in ~2008. [edit: 2009? Maybe not right at the start of the recession.] [1] So sometimes yes. On the bright side, it&#x27;s rare for profitable large tech companies to lay off software engineers, so if you get in, you&#x27;re pretty safe.<p>Even at startups, I don&#x27;t expect a universal freeze. I asked an external recruiter (that is, someone who recruits for a variety of startups) a couple days ago about the present situation. She told me some companies she works with have done hiring freezes, others are still desperate to hire. There are opportunities. I&#x27;m not a good enough business person to give you solid general advice about which startups will be most resilient, though.<p>If you are good enough and&#x2F;or persistent enough, my feeling is there will be a place for you in tech. (Even if, for example, you freeze up during coding interviews. Some companies do these, others don&#x27;t. There&#x27;s enough variety that you can still be okay if you don&#x27;t have your sights set on a particular company.)<p>If you are not, there&#x27;s almost certainly still a place for you as a software engineer in a stable, non-tech company or government position. Non-tech typically isn&#x27;t as lucrative, but you can be comfortable. My feeling is many of these places have a tremendous need for just basic automation. Arguably more so during a recession, although they may not all realize this.<p>I started my career not long before the last recession. I didn&#x27;t have any real existing savings to lose. Then I was earning far in excess of my needs and investing much of the rest in index funds (e.g. VTI) when stock prices were low. The recession ended and stock prices soared. I feel scummy saying this about many people&#x27;s suffering, but the recession worked out well for me.<p>[1] Personally I think this was a mistake. They could have hired a lot of great people during this time. &quot;Be bold when others are fearful.&quot; They had solid financial footing for hiring, and if nothing else, they could have put a fair number of folks on efficiency projects that would have more than paid their way in machine costs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckNorris89</author><text>Where are you located that you have a 35h week while enjoying such great benefits like employer investing in your training?<p>I&#x27;d like to move there.<p>In my EU country the working hours are 38.5 which isn&#x27;t as good as 35h, but it isn&#x27;t that bad, but no employer hires you to invest in your training. Every company wants only seniors, preferably for junior wages, and scream there&#x27;s a shortage while offering no WFH because &quot;management doesn&#x27;t believe in WFH&quot; and &quot;the culture of working in the office is better&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tell HN: Job interview canceled due to looming recession</title><text>I’ve been job hunting and I was going to get interviewed on Friday for a SWE role at a small startup and today I received an email from the PM canceling the interview and letting me know the company has decided to stop the recruitment process for all roles due to the markets situation. She also attached a tweet about a YC email to all their founders, here’s the link: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;refsrc&#x2F;status&#x2F;1527238287471292417" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;refsrc&#x2F;status&#x2F;1527238287471292417</a>. I checked the company webpage and in fact they have closed all the open positions, there were like 6.<p>From all the rejections I’ve got so far this is the first time the reason is markets turmoil &#x2F; recession threat. To be honest is my first time job hunting since I graduated in 2019.<p>Screen shots: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;t.co&#x2F;wSx5IR44nK" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;t.co&#x2F;wSx5IR44nK</a><p>Will be this the situation for most tech companies or just start ups? I know the unprofitable over valuated ones will most likely get rekt first but I wanna know if during recessions recruiting slows down even for big profitable companies.<p>What companies or roles will be more resilient?<p>And how as a SWE &#x2F; tech industry professional, specially the ones starting their careers like me, can prepare?<p>I hope some experienced people in the industry can give some hope and advice. Is demoralizing to find out I spent 4 years in school just to get into a really harsh job market. First pandemic, then recession? F...</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>eastbound</author><text>At risk? We’ll just stop having overinflated salaries. The current situation is insane for employers:<p>- Employees are not willing to put a little extra (paid extra, I mean - and we’re at the 35hrs week here),<p>- Not willing to study afterwork to improve their career,<p>- Not willing to work on legacy products where we pay them 40% more.<p>- In the first 2 years, I can pay someone 35 -&gt; 50 -&gt; +10k bonus, and they’ll leave for a job at 65 going 75 with a tech stack that ticks all boxes.<p>- You can teach them React + SpringBoot + Kubernetes, and they’ll still leave because company XYZ does AWS + Neo4j + AI… while still not fixing spelling mistakes in the UI and still in the habit of downloading and entire DB tables and filter them in the Java side, and seeing no problem asking for a microservices architecture.<p>This developer market is batshit crazy and isn’t tight enough to make people want to serve the needs of customers. “Do something hard and get a house in exchange” isn’t a persuasive argument today, they’ll get rich anyway. Instead, they serve their resume, which I perfectly respect and understand, it needs to be done too, but at one point, it’s a disconnect between customers, employers and developers.<p>A crisis is unfortunate but I can’t wait for it.</text></item><item><author>Solvitieg</author><text>&gt; Overall, I&#x27;d say relax a bit. You&#x27;re still in a good situation. Recessions are hard for many, but software engineers were among the best off during the last one and I expect will be this time also.<p>The demand for software engineers was driven partly by zombie app and saas companies all competing for &quot;top talent&quot;, dependent entirely on free cash but without sustainable business models.<p>On top of that, the &quot;demand&quot; narrative led to an influx of new software engineers that will mature over the next 1-3 years.<p>These two factors I believe put our industry at risk if there&#x27;s a recession.</text></item><item><author>scottlamb</author><text>&gt; I hope some experienced people in the industry can give some hope and advice. Is demoralizing to find out I spent 4 years in school just to get into a really harsh job market. First pandemic, then recession? F...<p>Overall, I&#x27;d say relax a bit. You&#x27;re still in a good situation. Recessions are hard for many, but software engineers were among the best off during the last one and I expect will be this time also.<p>&gt; I wanna know if during recessions recruiting slows down even for big profitable companies.<p>I remember Google&#x27;s recruiting slowed down in ~2008. [edit: 2009? Maybe not right at the start of the recession.] [1] So sometimes yes. On the bright side, it&#x27;s rare for profitable large tech companies to lay off software engineers, so if you get in, you&#x27;re pretty safe.<p>Even at startups, I don&#x27;t expect a universal freeze. I asked an external recruiter (that is, someone who recruits for a variety of startups) a couple days ago about the present situation. She told me some companies she works with have done hiring freezes, others are still desperate to hire. There are opportunities. I&#x27;m not a good enough business person to give you solid general advice about which startups will be most resilient, though.<p>If you are good enough and&#x2F;or persistent enough, my feeling is there will be a place for you in tech. (Even if, for example, you freeze up during coding interviews. Some companies do these, others don&#x27;t. There&#x27;s enough variety that you can still be okay if you don&#x27;t have your sights set on a particular company.)<p>If you are not, there&#x27;s almost certainly still a place for you as a software engineer in a stable, non-tech company or government position. Non-tech typically isn&#x27;t as lucrative, but you can be comfortable. My feeling is many of these places have a tremendous need for just basic automation. Arguably more so during a recession, although they may not all realize this.<p>I started my career not long before the last recession. I didn&#x27;t have any real existing savings to lose. Then I was earning far in excess of my needs and investing much of the rest in index funds (e.g. VTI) when stock prices were low. The recession ended and stock prices soared. I feel scummy saying this about many people&#x27;s suffering, but the recession worked out well for me.<p>[1] Personally I think this was a mistake. They could have hired a lot of great people during this time. &quot;Be bold when others are fearful.&quot; They had solid financial footing for hiring, and if nothing else, they could have put a fair number of folks on efficiency projects that would have more than paid their way in machine costs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kortilla</author><text>&gt; the first 2 years, I can pay someone 35 -&gt; 50 -&gt; +10k bonus<p>You pay them such terrible wages and you’re surprised they leave? You can make $35k at in-n-out shilling beef on a bun.</text></comment> |
31,639,728 | 31,639,810 | 1 | 2 | 31,638,058 | train | <story><title>Carbon dioxide now more than 50% higher than pre-industrial levels</title><url>https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/carbon-dioxide-now-more-than-50-higher-than-pre-industrial-levels</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lozenge</author><text>&gt;either fake or not impacting climate at all<p>There is no climate benefit to opening a wind farm. The climate benefit comes when a wind farm causes a fossil fuel power plant to be shut down.<p>When you look at what politicians and corporations boast about, it&#x27;s always about adding. New renewables, new solar panels on our roof. Not about taking away fossil fuels.<p>As an example, &quot;carriers reduced their fuel consumption per passenger-kilometer by approximately 39 percent between 2005 and 2019 (pre-COVID-19), a compound annual growth rate of about 3.4 percent per year&quot;. [globally] - you can be sure the industry touts its increased efficiency.<p>But globally, the emissions of the airline industry have gone up, meaning it&#x27;s damaging the climate more than every before. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eesi.org&#x2F;papers&#x2F;view&#x2F;fact-sheet-the-growth-in-greenhouse-gas-emissions-from-commercial-aviation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eesi.org&#x2F;papers&#x2F;view&#x2F;fact-sheet-the-growth-in-gr...</a><p>Even with your example - is the new truck going to travel more miles than the previous one? The US is still building urban sprawl by default. Does the owner use the pickup truck or, like most pickup truck owners, they could be use a smaller more efficient vehicle?<p>As in the famous talk &quot;Hans Rosling: the magic washing machine&quot;, we haven&#x27;t done anything to actually reduce emissions. Yet we are sold a narrative of constant progress towards our climate goals.</text></item><item><author>bryanlarsen</author><text>&gt; ALL so called &quot;green&quot; technologies are either fake<p>WTF? Let&#x27;s take one example, the F-150 Lightning. When it replaces a gasoline truck sale, it eliminates 150 tons of CO2 from burning gasoline, and about 80 tons of CO2 from drilling, refining and transporting that gasoline.<p>Sure, producing the truck takes a little extra energy, and electricity isn&#x27;t carbon free in most places, but that doesn&#x27;t come anywhere close to 200 tons of CO2.</text></item><item><author>Yizahi</author><text>I&#x27;m always at a loss about people arguing about CO2. Like there is a single graph to rule them all - a so called Keeling Curve, is is freely available to all, it is always monitoring and it is NOT POSSIBLE AT ALL to derive any conclusion from looking at it, other than we are heating the planet fast. Also it is painfully obvious that ALL so called &quot;green&quot; technologies are either fake or not impacting climate at all (especially those &quot;carbon neutral&quot; ones are def. scam, just shuffling emissions like a hot potato game, to other corporations or countries).<p>The rate of CO2 in the atmosphere is increasing every year and the rate of increase (acceleration) is also only increasing every year. It takes one minute to confirm this :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bryanlarsen</author><text>The F150 Lightning has a carbon footprint comparable to a Prius. Not every Lightning sold is replacing a truck, but in general they&#x27;re replacing something considerably larger than a Prius.<p>And coal plants <i>are</i> being shut down at a very significant rate.<p>The number of ICE vehicles being sold annually is also going down.</text></comment> | <story><title>Carbon dioxide now more than 50% higher than pre-industrial levels</title><url>https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/carbon-dioxide-now-more-than-50-higher-than-pre-industrial-levels</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lozenge</author><text>&gt;either fake or not impacting climate at all<p>There is no climate benefit to opening a wind farm. The climate benefit comes when a wind farm causes a fossil fuel power plant to be shut down.<p>When you look at what politicians and corporations boast about, it&#x27;s always about adding. New renewables, new solar panels on our roof. Not about taking away fossil fuels.<p>As an example, &quot;carriers reduced their fuel consumption per passenger-kilometer by approximately 39 percent between 2005 and 2019 (pre-COVID-19), a compound annual growth rate of about 3.4 percent per year&quot;. [globally] - you can be sure the industry touts its increased efficiency.<p>But globally, the emissions of the airline industry have gone up, meaning it&#x27;s damaging the climate more than every before. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eesi.org&#x2F;papers&#x2F;view&#x2F;fact-sheet-the-growth-in-greenhouse-gas-emissions-from-commercial-aviation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eesi.org&#x2F;papers&#x2F;view&#x2F;fact-sheet-the-growth-in-gr...</a><p>Even with your example - is the new truck going to travel more miles than the previous one? The US is still building urban sprawl by default. Does the owner use the pickup truck or, like most pickup truck owners, they could be use a smaller more efficient vehicle?<p>As in the famous talk &quot;Hans Rosling: the magic washing machine&quot;, we haven&#x27;t done anything to actually reduce emissions. Yet we are sold a narrative of constant progress towards our climate goals.</text></item><item><author>bryanlarsen</author><text>&gt; ALL so called &quot;green&quot; technologies are either fake<p>WTF? Let&#x27;s take one example, the F-150 Lightning. When it replaces a gasoline truck sale, it eliminates 150 tons of CO2 from burning gasoline, and about 80 tons of CO2 from drilling, refining and transporting that gasoline.<p>Sure, producing the truck takes a little extra energy, and electricity isn&#x27;t carbon free in most places, but that doesn&#x27;t come anywhere close to 200 tons of CO2.</text></item><item><author>Yizahi</author><text>I&#x27;m always at a loss about people arguing about CO2. Like there is a single graph to rule them all - a so called Keeling Curve, is is freely available to all, it is always monitoring and it is NOT POSSIBLE AT ALL to derive any conclusion from looking at it, other than we are heating the planet fast. Also it is painfully obvious that ALL so called &quot;green&quot; technologies are either fake or not impacting climate at all (especially those &quot;carbon neutral&quot; ones are def. scam, just shuffling emissions like a hot potato game, to other corporations or countries).<p>The rate of CO2 in the atmosphere is increasing every year and the rate of increase (acceleration) is also only increasing every year. It takes one minute to confirm this :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cameronh90</author><text> &gt; There is no climate benefit to opening a wind farm. The climate benefit comes when a wind farm causes a fossil fuel power plant to be shut down.<p>In many countries, this is exactly what&#x27;s happening.<p>In the UK for example, gas and electricity usage has been declining for the last 15 years. Coal has been almost eliminated from the grid, and renewables now account for about 40% of generation, from less than 10% a decade ago. Overall carbon emissions are below 1890 levels.<p>Obviously we have outsourced some of our emissions but there&#x27;s very clearly a huge reduction that can&#x27;t be entirely explained by that.</text></comment> |
27,829,677 | 27,829,444 | 1 | 2 | 27,819,384 | train | <story><title>The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)</title><url>https://uxdesign.cc/the-worst-volume-control-ui-in-the-world-60713dc86950</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abram</author><text>I find Apple&#x27;s suggestion to use Siri to control the volume on the AirPods Pro [0] to be worse than some of the ideas on that page. The idea of having a spoken conversation in public in which I must request a volume change via a branded AI (and then repeat that request multiple times if necessary to reach my desired volume) just feels humiliating.<p>[0] &quot;To change the volume, say &#x27;Hey, Siri,&#x27; then say something like &#x27;Turn down the volume.&#x27;&quot; -- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;HT212203" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;HT212203</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>geenew</author><text>I discovered you can say ‘hey Siri volume N’ where N is the volume percentage. 70 usually works out for me for normal listening.<p>Not that I disagree with your main point; I refuse to use Siri in public, like you say, it’s humiliating.</text></comment> | <story><title>The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)</title><url>https://uxdesign.cc/the-worst-volume-control-ui-in-the-world-60713dc86950</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>abram</author><text>I find Apple&#x27;s suggestion to use Siri to control the volume on the AirPods Pro [0] to be worse than some of the ideas on that page. The idea of having a spoken conversation in public in which I must request a volume change via a branded AI (and then repeat that request multiple times if necessary to reach my desired volume) just feels humiliating.<p>[0] &quot;To change the volume, say &#x27;Hey, Siri,&#x27; then say something like &#x27;Turn down the volume.&#x27;&quot; -- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;HT212203" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;HT212203</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>totetsu</author><text>It&#x27;s like how redbull reps tell the barkeep to only pour half the can In the drink and give you the can to hold and carry around. It makes you into a billboard for the product talking to Siri in public.</text></comment> |
27,911,179 | 27,908,588 | 1 | 3 | 27,906,667 | train | <story><title>Pavel Durov listed in leaked Pegasus project data</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/jul/21/telegram-founder-pavel-durov-listed-spyware-targets-nso-leak-pegasus</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lootsauce</author><text>Pretty tired of seeing people surprised and concerned when they get a look at how the sausage is made like this. Bill Binney in 2002 and Edward Snowden in 2013 should have disabused us all of any pretense of order and justice in this system.<p>World governments, Big Tech be like: &quot;We are shocked, shocked! to find back doors and spying in here!&quot;<p>The two work in tandem to facilitate the needs of each other. This is just the new military industrial complex for an age of hybrid war. Not going away any time soon, no matter how we feel about it.<p>As pointed out in another post today &quot;A key product of ubiquitous surveillance is people who are comfortable with it&quot; [1] All of the revelations with no recourse or reform lead to what we have now, everyone assumes big brother is watching and thats just how big brother wants it.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27904820" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27904820</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Pavel Durov listed in leaked Pegasus project data</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/jul/21/telegram-founder-pavel-durov-listed-spyware-targets-nso-leak-pegasus</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>underseacables</author><text>I’m bothered by this Pegasus thing, does anyone have a link to the raw data? I don’t like getting an interpretation of something through the news media anymore. Rather, I don’t trust the news media to provide an accurate or even an honest analysis, and from what I can tell the Pegasus data as it’s called, seems to be something that only the media has access to.</text></comment> |
6,560,760 | 6,560,430 | 1 | 3 | 6,560,214 | train | <story><title>No More Callbacks: 10,000 Actors, 10,000 Threads, 10,000 Spaceships</title><url>http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/post/64210769930/spaceships2</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Nice exemplar. Back when Java was being created, James Gosling was pretty insistent that concurrency be lightweight and scalable. When I ported it from SunOS 4 so Solaris 2.0 I had to move from the really light weight setjump()&#x2F;longjmp() threads that he had implemented, into the thread system that Solaris had defined. There was a huge negative impact on performance (as I recall about 15x slower). That sucked because one of the coolest demos at the time had a little world in it where &#x27;Fang&#x27; (the Java mascot) lived and a bunch of things in that world were all animated with threads. Looking at the &#x27;fiber&#x27; model for threads I think they are much closer to what we should have done in the first place.<p>The thought was to have a billion threads on a SPARCStation 10 (that is like an old Pentium machine now). We never got close but it was a great goal. Definitely going to have to go back and revisit this topic now. Thanks for the excellent demo to play with!</text></comment> | <story><title>No More Callbacks: 10,000 Actors, 10,000 Threads, 10,000 Spaceships</title><url>http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/post/64210769930/spaceships2</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CookWithMe</author><text>My first thought was &quot;why don&#x27;t they use Akka&quot;?<p>&gt; Akka has no true lightweight threads (the actors are actually callbacks)<p>Would you care to elaborate? I&#x27;m not too familiar with the internals of Akka, but they definitely don&#x27;t use &quot;heavyweight&quot; threads (which I assume are threads that are 1:1 mapped to OS threads).<p>Also, I didn&#x27;t get &quot;the actors are actually callbacks&quot;. Yes, there may be callbacks involved internally (why not?), but there is a big difference whether I am sending a message to an actor (which may be processed at any time) vs. calling a callback (which is immediately executed on the very same thread that I&#x27;m running on).<p>Sorry if this sounds dismissive, but I&#x27;d really like to learn why you choose to implement your own solution, because you&#x27;ve obviously put some time into evaluating what is out there.</text></comment> |
22,182,759 | 22,182,408 | 1 | 2 | 22,180,164 | train | <story><title>Russia blocks ProtonMail</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-protonmail/russia-blocks-encrypted-email-service-protonmail-idUSKBN1ZS1K8</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pdimitar</author><text>Well, that in my eyes is a very solid advertising in favour of ProtonMail.<p>And it&#x27;s not like Russians, Chinese and generally people in countries whose governments are in the habit of censoring the internet aren&#x27;t used to using Tor and&#x2F;or VPNs to dodge censorship.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>45ure</author><text>&gt;Well, that in my eyes is a very solid advertising in favour of ProtonMail.<p>In context of 5&#x2F;9&#x2F;14+ eyes, the nomenclature of <i>solid advertising</i> might differ from your interpretation, where perceptions matter ─ ranging from honeypots, compromised Tor exit nodes to dubious VPN providers, absence of warrant canaries to flawed encryption products etc. It is probably best to exercise caution and remain sceptical, rather than start endorsing products, based solely on a single random event.</text></comment> | <story><title>Russia blocks ProtonMail</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-protonmail/russia-blocks-encrypted-email-service-protonmail-idUSKBN1ZS1K8</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pdimitar</author><text>Well, that in my eyes is a very solid advertising in favour of ProtonMail.<p>And it&#x27;s not like Russians, Chinese and generally people in countries whose governments are in the habit of censoring the internet aren&#x27;t used to using Tor and&#x2F;or VPNs to dodge censorship.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jerry2</author><text>&gt; Well, that in my eyes is a very solid advertising in favour of ProtonMail.<p>... if you live in Russia.</text></comment> |
21,293,449 | 21,292,665 | 1 | 2 | 21,278,924 | train | <story><title>AI Detects Heart Failure from One Heartbeat: Study</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasfearn/2019/09/12/artificial-intelligence-detects-heart-failure-from-one-heartbeat-with-100-accuracy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>et2o</author><text>I&#x27;m going to sound like a skeptical jerk here, but 490,000 heartbeats is how many patients? From what I recall these public ECG datasets are like 20 patients who underwent longitudinal ECGs. 500k heart beats is like 5 person-days of ECG recordings.<p>Ninja Edit: N=~30 patients. For something like ECGs which are readily available, they really should have tried to get more patients. A single clinic anywhere does than 30 EKGs per day. Suggesting this is clinically applicable is ridiculous. It&#x27;s way too easy to overfit. Chopping up a time series from one patient into 1000 pieces doesn&#x27;t give you 1000x the patients.<p>I even think this approach probably will work. Very reasonable given recent work from Geisinger and Mayo. But why are ML people doing press releases about such underwhelming studies?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>carbocation</author><text>Yes, Table 5 shows that N is 18 without CHF and 15 with CHF. These come from separate data sets that have EKG data sampled at different frequencies.<p>Basically, they took 18 electrocardiographic tracings (sampled at 128 Hz) from participants without CHF, of whom 13 come from women. They compared them to 15 electrocardiographic tracings (sampled at 250 Hz) from participants with CHF, of whom 4 come from women.<p>Hard to even know where to begin with this one.</text></comment> | <story><title>AI Detects Heart Failure from One Heartbeat: Study</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasfearn/2019/09/12/artificial-intelligence-detects-heart-failure-from-one-heartbeat-with-100-accuracy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>et2o</author><text>I&#x27;m going to sound like a skeptical jerk here, but 490,000 heartbeats is how many patients? From what I recall these public ECG datasets are like 20 patients who underwent longitudinal ECGs. 500k heart beats is like 5 person-days of ECG recordings.<p>Ninja Edit: N=~30 patients. For something like ECGs which are readily available, they really should have tried to get more patients. A single clinic anywhere does than 30 EKGs per day. Suggesting this is clinically applicable is ridiculous. It&#x27;s way too easy to overfit. Chopping up a time series from one patient into 1000 pieces doesn&#x27;t give you 1000x the patients.<p>I even think this approach probably will work. Very reasonable given recent work from Geisinger and Mayo. But why are ML people doing press releases about such underwhelming studies?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joker3</author><text>A lot of machine learning people don&#x27;t really understand study design or power or things like that. It&#x27;s gotten a little better over the past decade or so, but this is an area where the field has a lot of room to improve.</text></comment> |
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