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27,249,200 | 27,248,064 | 1 | 2 | 27,245,680 | train | <story><title>How to get rich without being lucky (2019)</title><url>https://nav.al/rich</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nonameiguess</author><text>Discussions like these seem to miss the critical difference between individually and socially rational incentives and behaviors. Surely, given you at least live in a place that is sufficiently secure and stable with liberal markets and access to capital, <i>anyone</i> can get rich by following in the footsteps of the investor class. It is definitely not the case that <i>everyone</i> can get rich this way. If all 8 billion people on the planet did nothing but shuffle around paper ownership claims, there would be nothing to actually own. For an economy to produce anything at all, the vast majority of participants need to be on the ground making stuff, with only a tiny vanishing few shuffling paper at the top to decide who gets to own the inputs and outputs.<p>Maybe we&#x27;ll actually reach some future where all production and maintenance labor is fully automated and most participants in an economy won&#x27;t be human and we can just ethically enslave them for the benefit of human owners, but we&#x27;re nowhere near that point.<p>I&#x27;m living right now in a hotbed of construction, a rapid growth metro, and I&#x27;m in the middle of it. Three lots I can see from my bedroom window are being leveled and turned into townhouses. That work is being done by people. They certainly have machine work multipliers. Nobody is carrying lumber and stone by hand from quarries to job site. Nobody is leveling the earth with shovels and trowels. But the bobcats and trucks are still operated by humans. Pipe is laid by humans. Walls are erected by humans. If all those people tried to do my job instead and became coders, or worse, tried to become investors, I and all the investors would be left with nowhere to live because no one would be building houses. We&#x27;d have no water or electricity if no one was laying the pipes and lines.<p>At some point, we should realize this and attempt to have an economy that recognizes most people in the economy have to be doing basic labor for there to be an economy at all, and figure out a way to accomplish this without these people needing to live paycheck to paycheck with the looming threat of a medical emergency able to wipe them out permanently. We can&#x27;t just tell them to all change their focus from doing work to building wealth, because if they actually all do that, there will no longer be any wealth.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ItsMonkk</author><text>The author is mostly right, in this meta the best thing you can do is leverage as much as you can and pray that it doesn&#x27;t burst at the wrong time. But that takes luck.<p>Incentives drive behavior. If you perverse the incentives, the economy will follow.<p>Why is our productivity growth at all time lows? Because our best are figuring out how to get people to click ads. Our best are trying to work out exactly which financial product will go up the most safely.<p>When the increase of the money supply outpaces the increase in productivity, everyone mistakes leverage for genius.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to get rich without being lucky (2019)</title><url>https://nav.al/rich</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nonameiguess</author><text>Discussions like these seem to miss the critical difference between individually and socially rational incentives and behaviors. Surely, given you at least live in a place that is sufficiently secure and stable with liberal markets and access to capital, <i>anyone</i> can get rich by following in the footsteps of the investor class. It is definitely not the case that <i>everyone</i> can get rich this way. If all 8 billion people on the planet did nothing but shuffle around paper ownership claims, there would be nothing to actually own. For an economy to produce anything at all, the vast majority of participants need to be on the ground making stuff, with only a tiny vanishing few shuffling paper at the top to decide who gets to own the inputs and outputs.<p>Maybe we&#x27;ll actually reach some future where all production and maintenance labor is fully automated and most participants in an economy won&#x27;t be human and we can just ethically enslave them for the benefit of human owners, but we&#x27;re nowhere near that point.<p>I&#x27;m living right now in a hotbed of construction, a rapid growth metro, and I&#x27;m in the middle of it. Three lots I can see from my bedroom window are being leveled and turned into townhouses. That work is being done by people. They certainly have machine work multipliers. Nobody is carrying lumber and stone by hand from quarries to job site. Nobody is leveling the earth with shovels and trowels. But the bobcats and trucks are still operated by humans. Pipe is laid by humans. Walls are erected by humans. If all those people tried to do my job instead and became coders, or worse, tried to become investors, I and all the investors would be left with nowhere to live because no one would be building houses. We&#x27;d have no water or electricity if no one was laying the pipes and lines.<p>At some point, we should realize this and attempt to have an economy that recognizes most people in the economy have to be doing basic labor for there to be an economy at all, and figure out a way to accomplish this without these people needing to live paycheck to paycheck with the looming threat of a medical emergency able to wipe them out permanently. We can&#x27;t just tell them to all change their focus from doing work to building wealth, because if they actually all do that, there will no longer be any wealth.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qzw</author><text>&gt; Maybe we&#x27;ll actually reach some future where all production and maintenance labor is fully automated and most participants in an economy won&#x27;t be human and we can just ethically enslave them for the benefit of human owners, but we&#x27;re nowhere near that point.<p>It’s equally likely that in such a future most people will be on some version of UBI that allows them to get by, but wealth, in whatever form it takes, will still be limited to a relatively small subset of people. There’s no reason to believe that the robots&#x2F;AGI&#x2F;whatever means of production will naturally be owned collectively rather than privately. I hope the future turns out better, but there seems to be something in human nature that makes inequity tend to stick around.</text></comment> |
9,426,100 | 9,426,069 | 1 | 3 | 9,425,867 | train | <story><title>C# 7 Work List of Features</title><url>https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/issues/2136</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cies</author><text>Wow.. This &quot;Strong interest list&quot; is awesome:<p>* Tuples (Proposal: #347)<p>* Pattern matching (Proposal: #206)<p>* Records &#x2F; algebraic data types (Proposal: #206)<p>* Nullability tracking (Proposal: #227)<p>* Async streams and disposal (Proposals: #114, #261)<p>They seem to be really useful for a &quot;more-functional style&quot; of programming.<p>When comparing these ambitions and the level of transparency to Java&#x27;s ambitions &amp; transparency, then it seems that C# is (or has) overtaking Java. Combine that to the fact that dotnet is now an opensource project, and MS seems to be more &quot;open&quot; nowadays then Oracle has ever been: I&#x27;m stoked about this news.</text></comment> | <story><title>C# 7 Work List of Features</title><url>https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/issues/2136</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>orf</author><text>Improved tuple support would be awesome, it&#x27;s something I often miss when working with C# and coming from a Python background (that along with a nicer dictionary syntax). The nullability tracking proposal also looks interesting.<p>Overall looks like C# 7 is going to be awesome even if only a few of these get implemented.</text></comment> |
27,340,202 | 27,340,196 | 1 | 2 | 27,339,796 | train | <story><title>After years of conflict and instability, Iraq is opening up to tourism</title><url>https://monocle.com/magazine/issues/144/open-invitation/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>All: please avoid cheap comments about inflammatory issues. If you have something thoughtful to say, say it substantively; otherwise, please don&#x27;t post it here.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>After years of conflict and instability, Iraq is opening up to tourism</title><url>https://monocle.com/magazine/issues/144/open-invitation/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>peteretep</author><text>Worth remembering that visiting there (or Iran) will mean your ESTA privileges are revoked, and you’ll need a visa to travel to ‘merika.</text></comment> |
2,332,333 | 2,331,980 | 1 | 3 | 2,331,645 | train | <story><title>How do I create a topmost window that is never covered by other topmost windows?</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2011/03/10/10138969.aspx</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>RyanMcGreal</author><text>This is a classic <i>arms race</i> - an escalating conflict over a <i>positional good</i> that by definition can only be enjoyed by one entity at a time. Other positional goods include popularity in high school and military superiority (from which we get the term "arms race" to refer to the escalating efforts of multiple agents to achieve the good).<p>Generally, the only effective way to address an arms race is regulation: an encorceable arms treaty, say, or a strict school uniform.</text></comment> | <story><title>How do I create a topmost window that is never covered by other topmost windows?</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2011/03/10/10138969.aspx</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text>I was going to chime in with my own ideas about solving this -- you can play this game all day long and I'm sure inciting that kind of discussion that was the intent of the author -- but this story about one particular request accidentally illuminates a key problem with Windows: too many developers and programs competing for one set of user eyeballs.<p>You'd think that would be a good thing, but far from it. What happens is that every little developer writing any kind of tiny little app 1) wants money, and 2) wants to remind you how cool they and their app is by annoying you in various ways. Sadly, the annoying part is usually done without any unkind intent on the developer's part at all.<p>I have no problem with the money thing, aside from it being annoying to pay for code that was just copied from MSDN and stuck in a wrapper, but the blinky-beepy-gotta-be-on-top thing is driving me nuts.<p>The author uses an example of one guy who "knows" he wants the screen all the time, but the real underlying architectural problem is much more subtle (and worse) than that. Every program wants to tell the user something, maybe only once a month or so. That'd be fine, if there weren't dozens if not hundreds of programs running on the average setup.<p>I've been using Ubnutu for the last couple months, mainly because Windows has become more like a video game, an XBox, than a serious operating system to me. When I started my windows O/S up the other day to do some multimedia chore after only two weeks without running it, <i>every program I ran had updates and notices for me to attend to, including Windows itself</i>. That made a 5 minute job take 2 hours, including the 15-minute boot time which was drug out because once I bought a Sprint modem, Sprint in its infinite wisdom wants to intercept and rework my network stack so they can "help me" use my computer better. This involves Sprint needing updates, resetting my wifi preferences every time it runs, forcing itself to run every time on boot, rewriting my access screens, and doing something with memory, thread, and priority allocation during boot that takes 5 minutes and can only be described from the user's standpoint as evil. And for all of my invective, I know they didn't mean it that way! As far as I know, they are honestly trying to provide assistance (assistance with lots of branding and subtle control over user behavior. Sigh)<p>This is crazy. Windows has become like the web, only with one web page with everything you might ever want to do on it crammed in there and you can't navigate away. Somebody at Microsoft had better get on the ball and get rid of atomic updates, garbage collection, and vendor/programmer-induced interruptive bullshit. (Yes, there are ways to eliminate GC and the nightly install crapfest, but that's a longer story) If they don't, Google is going to eat their lunch. I'm afraid you can't have one O/S that is both extremely complex and consistent across millions of different use-cases. At least not structured like this.</text></comment> |
9,899,775 | 9,899,741 | 1 | 2 | 9,899,313 | train | <story><title>Pyxley: Python Powered Dashboards</title><url>http://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2015/07/16/pyxley/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>njharman</author><text>I&#x27;ve been looking for something to do this (below) in python at least on backend.<p>Big screen on wall with 6 or so boxes. Each box displaying data which updates in real time. Such as<p><pre><code> - scrolling list of source control commits
- graph of busy&#x2F;idle slaves
- single big number, pending builds
- graph of open ticket counts
- etc
</code></pre>
I can&#x27;t tell if this is one of Pyxley&#x27;s use cases?</text></comment> | <story><title>Pyxley: Python Powered Dashboards</title><url>http://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2015/07/16/pyxley/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sshillo</author><text>Will work great until you try to render 50,000 points and your browser crashes because it&#x27;s build on d3.</text></comment> |
22,322,128 | 22,322,103 | 1 | 3 | 22,320,114 | train | <story><title>Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less depression and anxiety</title><url>https://boingboing.net/2020/02/10/study-facebook-quitters-repor.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Angostura</author><text>So read something like The Economist or the paper version of the NYT?</text></item><item><author>sykick</author><text>The problem as I see it is that it is almost impossible to be informed enough to hold people accountable. In the U.S. at least the news is almost always of the form: “ Person from party A (which you are a member of) destroys person from Party B”. Or, “Party B seeks to destroy Issue C”.<p>There is virtually no nuance in the reporting. There’s no dissection. For example, the situation with Syria is quite complicated as Turkey, U.S., Russia, Kurds, and Assad all have conflicting goals and desires. Yet all of the reporting I’ve seen on this conflict has been absurdly reductionist and used to garner support&#x2F;hatred toward the party in power by the adherents&#x2F;adversaries of said party in power.<p>I understand the desire to have an informed populace but I think that is no longer possible. It is too easy to sway large swaths of the public. Witness the rise of anti-vaxers and other thoughtless beliefs. Even if I tried to be relatively informed it wouldn’t matter because the vast majority of the people are not psychologically prepared to withstand the pressure of subtle, sustained propaganda.<p>I have resigned myself to the fact that the republic is dead in the sense of what the ideal of a republic ought to be. I too avoid news and social media. I don’t count this website to be what I call social media since there is no identifying information about myself on here and none of my friends knows about my posts on this website.</text></item><item><author>anderber</author><text>I absolutely understand what you&#x27;re saying. But part of me feels an obligation to be informed to hold those in power accountable. If everyone follows the advice of avoiding the news, what effect would that have in our Govenment?</text></item><item><author>INTPenis</author><text>What gave me the most satisfaction is quitting the news. Incidentally I don&#x27;t have or use any social media either. Except imgur and sometimes among the funny memes I get news.<p>But I&#x27;m afraid for people I meet who always remind me of all the awful things they&#x27;ve seen in the news. I&#x27;m aware of none of this until someone tells me.<p>And yet my life is the same as everyone elses. Not knowing what is going on, living in a country with a high standard of living and personal safety, doesn&#x27;t affect me at all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sjtindell</author><text>The NYT I definitely now class with all the rest. In my opinion The Economist stands alone as the only publication I can trust to be nuanced and informative.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less depression and anxiety</title><url>https://boingboing.net/2020/02/10/study-facebook-quitters-repor.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Angostura</author><text>So read something like The Economist or the paper version of the NYT?</text></item><item><author>sykick</author><text>The problem as I see it is that it is almost impossible to be informed enough to hold people accountable. In the U.S. at least the news is almost always of the form: “ Person from party A (which you are a member of) destroys person from Party B”. Or, “Party B seeks to destroy Issue C”.<p>There is virtually no nuance in the reporting. There’s no dissection. For example, the situation with Syria is quite complicated as Turkey, U.S., Russia, Kurds, and Assad all have conflicting goals and desires. Yet all of the reporting I’ve seen on this conflict has been absurdly reductionist and used to garner support&#x2F;hatred toward the party in power by the adherents&#x2F;adversaries of said party in power.<p>I understand the desire to have an informed populace but I think that is no longer possible. It is too easy to sway large swaths of the public. Witness the rise of anti-vaxers and other thoughtless beliefs. Even if I tried to be relatively informed it wouldn’t matter because the vast majority of the people are not psychologically prepared to withstand the pressure of subtle, sustained propaganda.<p>I have resigned myself to the fact that the republic is dead in the sense of what the ideal of a republic ought to be. I too avoid news and social media. I don’t count this website to be what I call social media since there is no identifying information about myself on here and none of my friends knows about my posts on this website.</text></item><item><author>anderber</author><text>I absolutely understand what you&#x27;re saying. But part of me feels an obligation to be informed to hold those in power accountable. If everyone follows the advice of avoiding the news, what effect would that have in our Govenment?</text></item><item><author>INTPenis</author><text>What gave me the most satisfaction is quitting the news. Incidentally I don&#x27;t have or use any social media either. Except imgur and sometimes among the funny memes I get news.<p>But I&#x27;m afraid for people I meet who always remind me of all the awful things they&#x27;ve seen in the news. I&#x27;m aware of none of this until someone tells me.<p>And yet my life is the same as everyone elses. Not knowing what is going on, living in a country with a high standard of living and personal safety, doesn&#x27;t affect me at all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ghostpepper</author><text>This is the answer. Journalists cannot work for free, and trying to run a newspaper entirely supported by ads creates perverse incentives.</text></comment> |
14,686,371 | 14,686,145 | 1 | 2 | 14,685,873 | train | <story><title>Not Just Mike Pence. Americans Are Wary of Being Alone with the Opposite Sex</title><url>https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/07/01/upshot/members-of-the-opposite-sex-at-work-gender-study.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>learc83</author><text>When I was in college I was a team lead at Best Buy for a while. I was in charge of a mostly female team of cashiers, and I was alone with them in the cash office frequently while they counted their tills.<p>I made one of the cashiers mad by reprimanding her, and she decided to get back at me by claiming that I grabbed her and shook her while we were in the cash office.<p>I never touched her, and luckily we still had video from the day she claimed it happened. After my manager reviewed the tape with her, it was clear she was lying, so she dropped her claim.<p>Despite what we might wish, society treats men and women differently, and women are viewed as being particularly vulnerable. If a man had accused me of something similar, no one would have cared. When a woman accused me, without that video, I would have been fired.<p>It&#x27;s a complex situation. In many cases, people don&#x27;t believe women when they really are assaulted, or they&#x27;re force to share the blame when they&#x27;re blameless. But in other cases the pendulum swings too far in the opposite direction. Like many things it&#x27;s primarily a function of the relative power of the victim and the accuser.<p>A powerful man can get away with harassing much less powerful women. But a relatively powerless man will quickly find himself in a world of hurt with just the hint of an allegation. A company doesn&#x27;t want to fire their CEO without hard proof (or at least a lot of bad press), but they&#x27;ll drop a low level employee quick just to avoid the
slight possibility of looking like they aren&#x27;t taking sexual harassment seriously.<p>I&#x27;m not going to let that experience keep me from being alone with a women at work--I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;m very likely to run into another women like that again and avoiding being alone with a women in a modern workplace is just too difficult. But I do understand the rationale driving people to be cautious.<p>I do want to make it clear that I think that the vast majority of times when a women reports assault or harassment, they&#x27;re telling the truth. But I do think that in some situations where we&#x27;ve started to completely shift the burden of proof to the accused (some employers, certain colleges etc..), we run the risk of creating perverse incentives and punishing an awful lot of innocent people.</text></comment> | <story><title>Not Just Mike Pence. Americans Are Wary of Being Alone with the Opposite Sex</title><url>https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/07/01/upshot/members-of-the-opposite-sex-at-work-gender-study.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cbanek</author><text>I&#x27;m really amazed that the data is that close for &quot;having a work meeting.&quot; (25% of women say inappropriate vs 22% of men)<p>That&#x27;s a lot higher than I was expecting. It makes me wonder why as well. Is it just &quot;inappropriate&quot; (what I imagine Mike Pence thinks)? Does one side think the other side is trying to do something inappropriate or is trying to lead into something?<p>At least in many jobs I&#x27;ve had, 1:1&#x27;s were basically required time (though, not usually productive time). It&#x27;s crazy thinking so many working relationships people might be on edge or think of as inappropriate.<p>Of course, the source of the data is &quot;registered voters&quot;, not people who have jobs.</text></comment> |
10,217,807 | 10,217,604 | 1 | 3 | 10,217,470 | train | <story><title>Our First Certificate Is Now Live</title><url>https://letsencrypt.org/2015/09/14/our-first-cert.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>This is a tiny bit odd. So they have issued their first certificate, but they don&#x27;t have cross-signing in place yet? So between now and november 16th they&#x27;ll be issuing a whole bunch of effectively broken certificates unless people manually install their root CA?<p>Why even push this today if you don&#x27;t have cross-signing available? Without that Let&#x27;s Encrypt is effectively broken out of the box.<p>PS - I actually like Let&#x27;s Encrypt and the work they&#x27;re doing. I will be all queued up when they go live to grab one (and, yes, will put my money where my mouth is and donate). But doing this today without cross-signing seems strange.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joshmoz</author><text>We need to demonstrate proper issuance under our root and gain confidence in our live systems before getting cross-signed. Issuing without a cross-signature for a bit is how we do this.</text></comment> | <story><title>Our First Certificate Is Now Live</title><url>https://letsencrypt.org/2015/09/14/our-first-cert.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>This is a tiny bit odd. So they have issued their first certificate, but they don&#x27;t have cross-signing in place yet? So between now and november 16th they&#x27;ll be issuing a whole bunch of effectively broken certificates unless people manually install their root CA?<p>Why even push this today if you don&#x27;t have cross-signing available? Without that Let&#x27;s Encrypt is effectively broken out of the box.<p>PS - I actually like Let&#x27;s Encrypt and the work they&#x27;re doing. I will be all queued up when they go live to grab one (and, yes, will put my money where my mouth is and donate). But doing this today without cross-signing seems strange.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>Baby steps. This is a huge step forward, and I&#x27;m willing to cut them some slack considering they&#x27;re about to shake up an entire industry.<p>EDIT: Kudos everyone working on Let&#x27;s Encrypt. You&#x27;re doing awesome work.</text></comment> |
34,125,984 | 34,125,955 | 1 | 2 | 34,125,590 | train | <story><title>Cracking encrypted LastPass vaults</title><url>https://markuta.com/cracking-lastpass-vaults/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gchadwick</author><text>&gt;I downloaded the popular rockyou.txt wordlist and put my actual vault master plaintext password inside<p>I was hoping for an exploration of how quickly one might crack a lastpass vault looking at different strength passwords and different iteration counts.<p>Instead the author has simply demonstrated that if you tell the cracking tool your password it can indeed crack it...<p>I guess you can at least follow what they did with your own vault without adding your password to the word list and see if it cracks quickly or not.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cracking encrypted LastPass vaults</title><url>https://markuta.com/cracking-lastpass-vaults/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bedatadriven</author><text>&gt; I downloaded the popular rockyou.txt wordlist and put my actual vault master plaintext password inside<p>Note that is NOT a demonstration of being able to crack an encrypted LastPass vault. The author&#x27;s exercise wouldn&#x27;t be feasible without prior knowledge of the master password, or choosing a master password that is present in a list of common passwords. That is consist with what we have heard from LastPass so far.</text></comment> |
27,335,851 | 27,334,821 | 1 | 2 | 27,324,511 | train | <story><title>Poe’s best-selling book during his lifetime was a guide to seashells</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/edgar-allen-poe-seashell-book</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>robin_reala</author><text>If you’re interested in reading Poe’s non-poetry fiction, I put together all of his short stories and novellas into a free&#x2F;libre compilation for Standard Ebooks: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;standardebooks.org&#x2F;ebooks&#x2F;edgar-allan-poe&#x2F;short-fiction" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;standardebooks.org&#x2F;ebooks&#x2F;edgar-allan-poe&#x2F;short-fict...</a><p>Having said that, I personally prefer the writing of Leonid Andreyev (described as Russia’s answer to Poe). Coincidentally, I’ve put together a short fiction compilation for him too: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;standardebooks.org&#x2F;ebooks&#x2F;leonid-andreyev&#x2F;short-fiction&#x2F;herman-bernstein_alexandra-linden_l-a-magnus_k-walter_w-h-lowe_the-russian-review_archibald-j-wolfe_john-cournos_r-s-townsend_maurice-magnus" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;standardebooks.org&#x2F;ebooks&#x2F;leonid-andreyev&#x2F;short-fict...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Poe’s best-selling book during his lifetime was a guide to seashells</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/edgar-allen-poe-seashell-book</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tmp65535</author><text>Similarly, I&#x27;ve been writing respectable, sophisticated software for decades but I&#x27;m fairly certain that my most widely used piece of software, by a wide margin, is a mildly pornographic app (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;driftwheeler.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;driftwheeler.com</a>)<p>Other projects I&#x27;ve published have a trickle of users. But this app, published in 2017, has a continuously growing population of users from all over the world. I get email every day asking whether soft1 is the only server, thanking me, suggesting improvements, etc.<p>It&#x27;s ironic, and there is a difficult lesson to be learned from this reality.</text></comment> |
10,969,512 | 10,968,505 | 1 | 2 | 10,962,784 | train | <story><title>Things every React.js beginner should know</title><url>https://camjackson.net/post/9-things-every-reactjs-beginner-should-know</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>escherize</author><text>I&#x27;m a huge fan of Clojure&#x27;s Hiccup library. It allows the user to make html like the following.<p>Here&#x27;s a function that always returns true - but it could do any kind of data access. It is just plain Clojure.<p><pre><code> (defn selected? [] true)
</code></pre>
Here is a datastructure that represents html:<p><pre><code> [:h2 {:class (when (selected?) &quot;selected&quot;)} &quot;Hello&quot;]
</code></pre>
Calling the function hiccup.core&#x2F;html on that datastructure yeilds an html string like this:<p><pre><code> &quot;&lt;h2 class=&#x27;selected&#x27;&gt;Hello&lt;&#x2F;h2&gt;&quot;
</code></pre>
So that&#x27;s great for _strings_ right? But there is an awesome library for ClojureScript called Reagent. And it uses those simple datastructures to generate react components!! I put some more examples at: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hiccup.space" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hiccup.space</a></text></item><item><author>aikah</author><text>&gt; ... that then expand to be turing-complete and basically offer everything their primary language offered in the beginning.<p>then they wrote template languages on top of the template language to separate layout and logic again ( PHP vs Twig&#x2F;Smarty )<p>so maybe we need to step back a little and figure out how to write a language that wouldn&#x27;t need a different syntax for logic and layout. This family of languages exists already, but since current developers grew up with C like languages, it is not that popular.<p>IMHO the best compromise is direct support for XML syntax inside languages (which Javascript had at some point with E4X) because I don&#x27;t think anyone will be able to make developers use LISP like languages on a wide scale. JSX, with some modifications and standardisation could also be a solution.</text></item><item><author>matt4077</author><text>This is a debate that has been going on since I started in the late 90ies.<p>You need some sort of logic in your views, no matter what system you use, i. e. loops or formatting dates.<p>Because people are raised on the &quot;don&#x27;t mix logic &amp; layout&quot; maxim, they feel dirty when they write sich logic in their usual language.<p>.. so they invent template languages...<p>... that then expand to be turing-complete and basically offer everything their primary language offered in the beginning.<p>So you end up with a new language to learn, which is usually clunky and ugly just for the bragging rights of &quot;not mixing logic &amp; views&quot;. Which is completely stupid. Views can (and almost always need) to contain some logic and the best language for that is the one you&#x27;re using everywhere else.</text></item><item><author>pkrumins</author><text>I&#x27;m not a React or Angular expert, but do you really put HTML inside of your JS code? It just bothers me too much. We spent years in early web days learning that code and templates should be separate, yet here we are putting HTML inside of code, which goes against years of practice. Can anyone share their professional thoughts about this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>munro</author><text>I love Clojure, but I&#x27;m tired of embedded DSLs, they&#x27;re a dime a dozen. You can argue the benefits of Hiccup&#x27;s syntax &amp; s-expr all day, but it&#x27;s still a different, and unpopular syntax for describing HTML.<p>The ability to copy snippets of HTML from web, or old code when refactoring, or from Clojure&#x2F;Hiccup to another language &amp; framework, or changes from developer tool, or familiarity for new engineers, or not having to care about what flavor of HTML is hip today is a huge productivity boost for me.<p>I would love to see push for template strings [1] in Clojure, it should be trivial with macros. It would only take some time for IDEs to catch up. They&#x27;re good. So good they&#x27;ve even influenced Python 3 to add them.<p><pre><code> (defui my-component [x]
&quot;&lt;h2 class=(when (selected? x) [&quot;selected&quot;])&gt;Hello&lt;&#x2F;h2&gt;&quot;)
</code></pre>
[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Web&#x2F;JavaScript&#x2F;Reference&#x2F;template_strings" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Web&#x2F;JavaScript&#x2F;Refe...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Things every React.js beginner should know</title><url>https://camjackson.net/post/9-things-every-reactjs-beginner-should-know</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>escherize</author><text>I&#x27;m a huge fan of Clojure&#x27;s Hiccup library. It allows the user to make html like the following.<p>Here&#x27;s a function that always returns true - but it could do any kind of data access. It is just plain Clojure.<p><pre><code> (defn selected? [] true)
</code></pre>
Here is a datastructure that represents html:<p><pre><code> [:h2 {:class (when (selected?) &quot;selected&quot;)} &quot;Hello&quot;]
</code></pre>
Calling the function hiccup.core&#x2F;html on that datastructure yeilds an html string like this:<p><pre><code> &quot;&lt;h2 class=&#x27;selected&#x27;&gt;Hello&lt;&#x2F;h2&gt;&quot;
</code></pre>
So that&#x27;s great for _strings_ right? But there is an awesome library for ClojureScript called Reagent. And it uses those simple datastructures to generate react components!! I put some more examples at: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hiccup.space" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hiccup.space</a></text></item><item><author>aikah</author><text>&gt; ... that then expand to be turing-complete and basically offer everything their primary language offered in the beginning.<p>then they wrote template languages on top of the template language to separate layout and logic again ( PHP vs Twig&#x2F;Smarty )<p>so maybe we need to step back a little and figure out how to write a language that wouldn&#x27;t need a different syntax for logic and layout. This family of languages exists already, but since current developers grew up with C like languages, it is not that popular.<p>IMHO the best compromise is direct support for XML syntax inside languages (which Javascript had at some point with E4X) because I don&#x27;t think anyone will be able to make developers use LISP like languages on a wide scale. JSX, with some modifications and standardisation could also be a solution.</text></item><item><author>matt4077</author><text>This is a debate that has been going on since I started in the late 90ies.<p>You need some sort of logic in your views, no matter what system you use, i. e. loops or formatting dates.<p>Because people are raised on the &quot;don&#x27;t mix logic &amp; layout&quot; maxim, they feel dirty when they write sich logic in their usual language.<p>.. so they invent template languages...<p>... that then expand to be turing-complete and basically offer everything their primary language offered in the beginning.<p>So you end up with a new language to learn, which is usually clunky and ugly just for the bragging rights of &quot;not mixing logic &amp; views&quot;. Which is completely stupid. Views can (and almost always need) to contain some logic and the best language for that is the one you&#x27;re using everywhere else.</text></item><item><author>pkrumins</author><text>I&#x27;m not a React or Angular expert, but do you really put HTML inside of your JS code? It just bothers me too much. We spent years in early web days learning that code and templates should be separate, yet here we are putting HTML inside of code, which goes against years of practice. Can anyone share their professional thoughts about this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chimeracoder</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m a huge fan of Clojure&#x27;s Hiccup library. It allows the user to make html like the following.<p>It helps that Clojure&#x27;s syntax is based on s-expressions, and s-expressions are already isomorphic to HTML&#x2F;XML.<p>So in a way, you&#x27;re still mixing your templates and your code, but you happen to be using the same syntax for both. Which is arguably an improvement.</text></comment> |
10,888,775 | 10,888,986 | 1 | 2 | 10,886,253 | train | <story><title>Two Weeks of Rust</title><url>http://www.matusiak.eu/numerodix/blog/2016/1/10/two-weeks-rust/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blub</author><text>It&#x27;s funny to see how these languages topics always explode. I read it when it had about 20 comments and then it predictably devolved into a mess of hype and comparisons.<p>Anyway, I think your strategy is sound. Rust is a young language and I would be pleasantly surprised to see code written today still compile in five years.
I got bit by this with Swift v1 in a little app. When 1.x came, it failed to correctly transform the source and the whole thing was a major PITA to update. Completely soured me from using Swift.<p>I can understand why Mozilla wants to use Rust. It solves a problem for them, they largely control how the project evolves and can plan for it.
To me, the big questions are what will happen to Rust if Mozilla changes strategies (Persona, Thunderbird, FirefoxOS) and whether Mozilla will continue to be a successful organisation. Personally, I root for them, in spite of their recent missteps.<p>I think Rust might be a good choice now for language aficionados and early adopters which can afford to waste time in exchange for other potential benefits. I would absolutely not use it to bring a project to market or for an OSS project which has a long term vision. In 5+ years I expect such a decision could be worth revisiting.</text></item><item><author>petke</author><text>Languages come and go but C++ remains. I wonder if this one will be different.<p>Im not trying to be a jerk. Just voicing my concerns. Learning a new language and producing code in it is a huge commitment. It better be around in 10 years. Will it still be as clean and simple, or will it have grown complex. What if Mozilla stops sponsoring it?<p>C++ is 35 years old. It has stood the test of time. I would not be surprised if it was still popular in 35 years time, when I retire. There is so much C++ infrastructure code in this world, that its not going anywhere.<p>In the meantime C++ has evolved. I cant remember the last time I had an uninitialized memory, null pointers, or buffer overflow -bug. Those are low level C problems. If you avoid C-style programming and stick with modern C++ (RAII, value semantics, STL, boost, etc) you wont get them.<p>C++ is changing fast. In the next few years we are getting high level concurrency and parallel language support and libraries (no more low level thread problems), we are getting modules (no more preprocessor hacks), compile time reflection (no more manual serialisation), concepts (no more ugly error messages), ranges (no more cumbersome iterators), and a whole lot more.<p>And finally there is &quot;C++ Core Guidelines&quot; which aims to be checkable by tools. So you get a warning when you are relying on undefined behaviour.<p>I think C++ is still the future.</text></item><item><author>taliesinb</author><text>&quot;No segfaults, no uninitialized memory, no coercion bugs, no data races, no null pointers, no header files, no makefiles, no autoconf, no cmake, no gdb. What if all the problems of c&#x2F;c++ were fixed with one swing of a magic wand? The future is here, people&quot;<p>It certainly is.<p>The advantages over C++ seemingly never end. I&#x27;d add to the list: rigorous portability, non-broken macros, ADTs and pattern matching, a careful language stability protocol, standard test and doc tooling, flexible namespacing via visibility and modules, the <i>absense</i> of vast lacunas of undefined behaviour, simple numeric promotion rules, meaningful compile-time errors for generic code. Plus things already mentioned in the post like Cargo.<p>People tend to focus on the safety side of Rust, but as impressive to me is just the... solidity on all these other axes. If you stripped out lifetimes and the borrow checker you would still have an incredibly compelling alternative to C++.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pcwalton</author><text>&gt; Rust is a young language and I would be pleasantly surprised to see code written today still compile in five years.<p>We have had a code stability promise for months now in 1.0. So what you are saying here is that you do not believe that Rust will adhere to what it very publicly planned to do. Do you have specific reasons for this?<p>&gt; To me, the big questions are what will happen to Rust if Mozilla changes strategies (Persona, Thunderbird, FirefoxOS) and whether Mozilla will continue to be a successful organisation.<p>Rust has a core team and community that overlaps a lot with, but is very much not identical to, Mozilla. Probably most Rust users aren&#x27;t even Firefox users.<p>Rust is not &quot;Mozilla&#x27;s language&quot;. It&#x27;s the Rust community&#x27;s language.</text></comment> | <story><title>Two Weeks of Rust</title><url>http://www.matusiak.eu/numerodix/blog/2016/1/10/two-weeks-rust/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blub</author><text>It&#x27;s funny to see how these languages topics always explode. I read it when it had about 20 comments and then it predictably devolved into a mess of hype and comparisons.<p>Anyway, I think your strategy is sound. Rust is a young language and I would be pleasantly surprised to see code written today still compile in five years.
I got bit by this with Swift v1 in a little app. When 1.x came, it failed to correctly transform the source and the whole thing was a major PITA to update. Completely soured me from using Swift.<p>I can understand why Mozilla wants to use Rust. It solves a problem for them, they largely control how the project evolves and can plan for it.
To me, the big questions are what will happen to Rust if Mozilla changes strategies (Persona, Thunderbird, FirefoxOS) and whether Mozilla will continue to be a successful organisation. Personally, I root for them, in spite of their recent missteps.<p>I think Rust might be a good choice now for language aficionados and early adopters which can afford to waste time in exchange for other potential benefits. I would absolutely not use it to bring a project to market or for an OSS project which has a long term vision. In 5+ years I expect such a decision could be worth revisiting.</text></item><item><author>petke</author><text>Languages come and go but C++ remains. I wonder if this one will be different.<p>Im not trying to be a jerk. Just voicing my concerns. Learning a new language and producing code in it is a huge commitment. It better be around in 10 years. Will it still be as clean and simple, or will it have grown complex. What if Mozilla stops sponsoring it?<p>C++ is 35 years old. It has stood the test of time. I would not be surprised if it was still popular in 35 years time, when I retire. There is so much C++ infrastructure code in this world, that its not going anywhere.<p>In the meantime C++ has evolved. I cant remember the last time I had an uninitialized memory, null pointers, or buffer overflow -bug. Those are low level C problems. If you avoid C-style programming and stick with modern C++ (RAII, value semantics, STL, boost, etc) you wont get them.<p>C++ is changing fast. In the next few years we are getting high level concurrency and parallel language support and libraries (no more low level thread problems), we are getting modules (no more preprocessor hacks), compile time reflection (no more manual serialisation), concepts (no more ugly error messages), ranges (no more cumbersome iterators), and a whole lot more.<p>And finally there is &quot;C++ Core Guidelines&quot; which aims to be checkable by tools. So you get a warning when you are relying on undefined behaviour.<p>I think C++ is still the future.</text></item><item><author>taliesinb</author><text>&quot;No segfaults, no uninitialized memory, no coercion bugs, no data races, no null pointers, no header files, no makefiles, no autoconf, no cmake, no gdb. What if all the problems of c&#x2F;c++ were fixed with one swing of a magic wand? The future is here, people&quot;<p>It certainly is.<p>The advantages over C++ seemingly never end. I&#x27;d add to the list: rigorous portability, non-broken macros, ADTs and pattern matching, a careful language stability protocol, standard test and doc tooling, flexible namespacing via visibility and modules, the <i>absense</i> of vast lacunas of undefined behaviour, simple numeric promotion rules, meaningful compile-time errors for generic code. Plus things already mentioned in the post like Cargo.<p>People tend to focus on the safety side of Rust, but as impressive to me is just the... solidity on all these other axes. If you stripped out lifetimes and the borrow checker you would still have an incredibly compelling alternative to C++.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mcguire</author><text>&quot;<i>Rust is a young language and I would be pleasantly surprised to see code written today still compile in five years.</i>&quot;<p>I&#x27;m myself willing to accept the promise of code stability, so I think you&#x27;re looking at slightly the wrong problem. While I&#x27;d expect current code to continue to compile, I also expect what is regarded as good Rust now won&#x27;t be in five years. That&#x27;s not a bad thing, but it also means that hopping on the Rust bandwagon might be premature.<p>The worst case? How about Haskell, where new language features make old code look worse even as it still works? Or C++, with it&#x27;s accelerating rate of style changes?</text></comment> |
27,137,202 | 27,137,096 | 1 | 2 | 27,135,776 | train | <story><title>Tesla has suspended vehicle purchases using Bitcoin</title><url>https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1392602041025843203</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hooande</author><text>As far as pump and dumps go, this would make a very tiny amount of money for a company of Tesla&#x27;s market cap. In another post someone said they made $270MM from selling bitcoin in Q1. On a market cap of close to $590B. And they can only really do that trick a few times at most.<p>I have no idea what the true motivation for Tesla accepting bitcoin was. But I would be surprised if a publicly traded company took this much risk for such a relatively small amount</text></item><item><author>Arcuru</author><text>If TSLA has already dumped their Bitcoin, Elon just pulled off a highly lucrative pump and dump scheme.<p>1. Buy $1.5 billion in BTC<p>2. Announce TSLA will accept BTC, with the knowledge that very few people will actually do that, and public support from a major company will drive up the price of BTC.<p>3. Sell off your BTC at the higher price. A portion was sold in Q1 for a hefty profit already.<p>4. Rinse and repeat with DOGE?<p>The environmental impact was well known before they bought it, so it&#x27;s a little odd that they&#x27;d reverse course because of that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>heavyset_go</author><text>Tesla&#x27;s Q1 operating profit of $594M was slightly less than the sum of their $101M Bitcoin profit and the $518M regulatory credits they received[1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;dataisbeautiful&#x2F;comments&#x2F;n0jxyt&#x2F;teslas_first_quarter_visualized_oc&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;dataisbeautiful&#x2F;comments&#x2F;n0jxyt&#x2F;tes...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla has suspended vehicle purchases using Bitcoin</title><url>https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1392602041025843203</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hooande</author><text>As far as pump and dumps go, this would make a very tiny amount of money for a company of Tesla&#x27;s market cap. In another post someone said they made $270MM from selling bitcoin in Q1. On a market cap of close to $590B. And they can only really do that trick a few times at most.<p>I have no idea what the true motivation for Tesla accepting bitcoin was. But I would be surprised if a publicly traded company took this much risk for such a relatively small amount</text></item><item><author>Arcuru</author><text>If TSLA has already dumped their Bitcoin, Elon just pulled off a highly lucrative pump and dump scheme.<p>1. Buy $1.5 billion in BTC<p>2. Announce TSLA will accept BTC, with the knowledge that very few people will actually do that, and public support from a major company will drive up the price of BTC.<p>3. Sell off your BTC at the higher price. A portion was sold in Q1 for a hefty profit already.<p>4. Rinse and repeat with DOGE?<p>The environmental impact was well known before they bought it, so it&#x27;s a little odd that they&#x27;d reverse course because of that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>onlyrealcuzzo</author><text>$270MM was &gt;60% all of Tesla&#x27;s $480MM Q1 profit.</text></comment> |
5,348,108 | 5,348,161 | 1 | 2 | 5,348,028 | train | <story><title>Some dark corners of C</title><url>https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1h49gY3TSiayLMXYmRMaAEMl05FaJ-Z6jDOWOz3EsqqQ/edit?usp=sharing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gjulianm</author><text><p><pre><code> #define struct union
#define else
</code></pre>
That's evil. I have to do it in someone's code some day just to have some fun.<p>But, apart from that, it's a really nice compilation. I didn't know about the compile time checks of array sizes, but I have a doubt. What if I pass to a method declared<p><pre><code> int foo(int x[static 10])
</code></pre>
this pointer<p><pre><code> int* x = (int*) calloc(20, sizeof(int));
</code></pre>
Does the compiler skip the check? Does it give me a warning?<p>EDIT: Funnily enough, in Mac it doesn't give any warning, neither for pointers nor for undersized arrays (ie, foo(w[5]) doesn't give a warning). And I've compiled with -std=c99 -pedantic -Wall.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tobiasu</author><text>Last time this came up on HN, it was thought to be a clang feature.<p>Edit: While we're talking about dark corners, please stop casting functions that return void * . If your code lacks the declaration of the function, the compiler will assume pre ANSI-C semantics and generate code returning an <i>int</i>.<p>On machines where pointers do not fit ints (basically all 64bit machines), you just silently (due to the cast there is no warning) truncated a pointer. Worse, it may work depending on the malloc implementation and how much memory you allocate.<p>We have to fix these kinds of bugs on OpenBSD a lot, please help by typing less and let the compiler warn you about silly mistakes :-)<p>And yes, C++ fucked this up for C. I'll leave it to Linus to say something nice about that..</text></comment> | <story><title>Some dark corners of C</title><url>https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1h49gY3TSiayLMXYmRMaAEMl05FaJ-Z6jDOWOz3EsqqQ/edit?usp=sharing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gjulianm</author><text><p><pre><code> #define struct union
#define else
</code></pre>
That's evil. I have to do it in someone's code some day just to have some fun.<p>But, apart from that, it's a really nice compilation. I didn't know about the compile time checks of array sizes, but I have a doubt. What if I pass to a method declared<p><pre><code> int foo(int x[static 10])
</code></pre>
this pointer<p><pre><code> int* x = (int*) calloc(20, sizeof(int));
</code></pre>
Does the compiler skip the check? Does it give me a warning?<p>EDIT: Funnily enough, in Mac it doesn't give any warning, neither for pointers nor for undersized arrays (ie, foo(w[5]) doesn't give a warning). And I've compiled with -std=c99 -pedantic -Wall.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>emillon</author><text>It's impossible to have a static decision procedure about dynamic properties of programs, such as the size of dynamically allocated memory areas (Rice's theorem). So, it is necessary to either include false positives (correct programs rejected) or false negatives (incorrect programs accepted).<p>Sound static analyzers fall in the first case, but require a lot of work to become precise enough to be used (ie, to reduce the number of false alarms). Compilers fall in the second case in the sense that they don't have to honor such a clause. And in the C99 norm it's actually a "shall" (it just couldn't honor a "must" in that case):<p>"If the keyword static also appears within the [ and ] of the array type derivation, then for each call to the function, the value of the corresponding actual argument shall provide access to the first element of an array with at least as many elements as specified by the size expression."</text></comment> |
32,270,368 | 32,270,370 | 1 | 3 | 32,270,253 | train | <story><title>SSD drives’ 40k-hour “death bug” continues to catch enterprises unawares</title><url>https://thestack.technology/ssd-death-bug-40000-hours-sandisk/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pclmulqdq</author><text>I wonder how the institutional knowledge on correlated disk failure got lost. This used to be common with HDDs, and one large enterprise I am aware of makes sure that boot drives in a datacenter (the only SSDs of this type) are always from a mix batches at a mix of vendors.</text></comment> | <story><title>SSD drives’ 40k-hour “death bug” continues to catch enterprises unawares</title><url>https://thestack.technology/ssd-death-bug-40000-hours-sandisk/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zitterbewegung</author><text>This is quite meta (literally and also not related to the company).</text></comment> |
18,283,042 | 18,282,974 | 1 | 3 | 18,282,792 | train | <story><title>DarkPulsar</title><url>https://securelist.com/darkpulsar/88199/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JaimeThompson</author><text>What is interesting about Kaspersky is how little Russian state malware &#x2F; spying tools they find &#x2F; report on at least in comparison to what they discussion about such software from other countries.</text></comment> | <story><title>DarkPulsar</title><url>https://securelist.com/darkpulsar/88199/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ataturk</author><text>Does no one else find it deeply distressing that all our tech has been so completely co-opted by outside agents? How can we live this lie that we are free while every day we see how we are controlled and watched?</text></comment> |
31,772,422 | 31,772,588 | 1 | 3 | 31,765,730 | train | <story><title>A religious sect landed Google in a lawsuit</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/16/technology/google-fellowship-of-friends-sect.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ineedasername</author><text>At minimum Google could have investigated the odd clustering of employees that indicated some sort of nepotistic hiring practice. Of course they might be doing exactly that, but it&#x27;s not the sort of thing they can really comment on.<p>Edit: also the self-dealing on hundreds of thousands of dollars in wine.</text></item><item><author>abeppu</author><text>So, if the author was fired for the reasons they believe, that&#x27;s pretty bad behavior. But if he had not been fired, what was management supposed to have done about the cult members working for this department?<p>Yes, the cult&#x27;s leader sounds like a pretty awful person, but he wasn&#x27;t working there. What were the cult members doing in their work in the department that was clearly wrong? It&#x27;s suggested that there was favoritism and unfair promotion going on -- but it&#x27;s not very well evidenced here. Were they using company money to fund their organization? It&#x27;s also not clear from the article that the wine outfit is a cult subsidiary.<p>And if the concern is primarily that the cult itself is a shady organization with some bad people, and that something should be done to stop Google from having a clique of staff that are even _affiliated_ with that organization ... well that seems like a really fraught policy. Are you supposed to then ask everyone in the department about their religious affiliations, or whether they&#x27;ve given money to a fringe religious organization? That also seems like a really unhealthy road for a company to go down.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nitwit005</author><text>The problem in this case would be they seem to be hiring almost exclusively from a rather obscure religious group. That means they&#x27;re illegally discriminating against members other religions.</text></comment> | <story><title>A religious sect landed Google in a lawsuit</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/16/technology/google-fellowship-of-friends-sect.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ineedasername</author><text>At minimum Google could have investigated the odd clustering of employees that indicated some sort of nepotistic hiring practice. Of course they might be doing exactly that, but it&#x27;s not the sort of thing they can really comment on.<p>Edit: also the self-dealing on hundreds of thousands of dollars in wine.</text></item><item><author>abeppu</author><text>So, if the author was fired for the reasons they believe, that&#x27;s pretty bad behavior. But if he had not been fired, what was management supposed to have done about the cult members working for this department?<p>Yes, the cult&#x27;s leader sounds like a pretty awful person, but he wasn&#x27;t working there. What were the cult members doing in their work in the department that was clearly wrong? It&#x27;s suggested that there was favoritism and unfair promotion going on -- but it&#x27;s not very well evidenced here. Were they using company money to fund their organization? It&#x27;s also not clear from the article that the wine outfit is a cult subsidiary.<p>And if the concern is primarily that the cult itself is a shady organization with some bad people, and that something should be done to stop Google from having a clique of staff that are even _affiliated_ with that organization ... well that seems like a really fraught policy. Are you supposed to then ask everyone in the department about their religious affiliations, or whether they&#x27;ve given money to a fringe religious organization? That also seems like a really unhealthy road for a company to go down.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jonas21</author><text>There was also an odd clustering among early Google employees who all came from a place called &quot;Stanford.&quot;<p>It may be difficult to distinguish between these two hiring patterns without asking the sorts of questions that are illegal for employers to ask.</text></comment> |
21,144,150 | 21,142,745 | 1 | 3 | 21,124,963 | train | <story><title>Identifying a person through walls from video footage, using only WiFi</title><url>https://techxplore.com/news/2019-10-method-enables-person-walls-candidate.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simias</author><text>Judging by the video they achieve 83% success rate with a pool of 8 people in what looks like perfect conditions (only one person, no perturbation of any kind etc...). The video also states, rather suspiciously IMO, that &quot;This scene on the other side is shown solely for presentation and was not used for identification&quot;. Why not show the actual footage of the experiment?<p>&gt;The lab has tested their new technology on 1,488 WiFi-video pairs, drawn from a pool of eight people, and in three different behind-wall areas, and achieved an overall accuracy of 84% in correctly identifying the person behind the wall.<p>What does it mean exactly? They only need one short video and one short wifi capture to get 84% success rate? That&#x27;s what the video seems to imply but I find that very hard to believe. Or maybe it&#x27;s just because it&#x27;s fairly easy to distinguish among 8 people (especially if they have significantly different body types) and it won&#x27;t work quite as well at large. I can identify my girlfriend&#x27;s footsteps in the staircase with remarkable accuracy but I can guarantee you that it won&#x27;t scale to the general population.<p>Maybe it works better than I give it credit for but they need to bring up better evidence IMO.</text></comment> | <story><title>Identifying a person through walls from video footage, using only WiFi</title><url>https://techxplore.com/news/2019-10-method-enables-person-walls-candidate.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>spydum</author><text>So basically gait analysis using WiFi power levels. At present requires making the user walk through a specific choke point to measure the gait, then can compare any other captured video to compare. Pretty neat!</text></comment> |
7,985,487 | 7,985,386 | 1 | 3 | 7,984,826 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Show HN</title><url>https://news.ycombinator.com/show</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rickhanlonii</author><text>Great work! I love when organic user behaviors are recognized and made first class features.<p>Allow me to emphasize something from the Show HN Guidelines[1]:<p>&gt; <i>Be respectful. Anyone sharing creative work is making a contribution, however modest.</i><p>&gt; <i>Ask questions out of curiosity. Don&#x27;t cross-examine.</i><p>&gt; <i>Instead of &quot;you&#x27;re doing it wrong&quot;, suggest alternatives. When someone is learning, help them learn more.</i><p>&gt; <i>When something isn&#x27;t good, you needn&#x27;t pretend that it is. But in that case, consider saying nothing.</i><p>The comments section of Show HN posts are not an invitation for you to tear someone apart for your own self-aggrandizing glory. If you want to be helpful, be constructive. If you don&#x27;t want to be helpful, don&#x27;t bother.<p>[1]: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;showhn.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Arjuna</author><text>I agree 100%.<p>In addition, a friendly reminder to us all...<p>When you see a Show HN, assume that whoever created it, perhaps not unlike you, is working to drive his or her dreams into existence. Each post represents a dream, a personal story, a literal piece of their Life.<p>For many of us, perhaps the majority of us, that means grinding at the mine during the day, returning home after perhaps a long commute, spending time with and cooking for our family, our significant other, etc... then, clocking back in at 9:00pm or 10:00pm to bring it for the next several, precious hours, working to make the dream real... then catching some sleep, waking up and turning around and dropping the hammer all over again.<p>It&#x27;s just something to remember as you comment to someone about their work.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Show HN</title><url>https://news.ycombinator.com/show</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rickhanlonii</author><text>Great work! I love when organic user behaviors are recognized and made first class features.<p>Allow me to emphasize something from the Show HN Guidelines[1]:<p>&gt; <i>Be respectful. Anyone sharing creative work is making a contribution, however modest.</i><p>&gt; <i>Ask questions out of curiosity. Don&#x27;t cross-examine.</i><p>&gt; <i>Instead of &quot;you&#x27;re doing it wrong&quot;, suggest alternatives. When someone is learning, help them learn more.</i><p>&gt; <i>When something isn&#x27;t good, you needn&#x27;t pretend that it is. But in that case, consider saying nothing.</i><p>The comments section of Show HN posts are not an invitation for you to tear someone apart for your own self-aggrandizing glory. If you want to be helpful, be constructive. If you don&#x27;t want to be helpful, don&#x27;t bother.<p>[1]: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;showhn.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davidw</author><text>Something that&#x27;s elsewhere in the guidelines is: pretend your talking to someone in person and think what you&#x27;d say. For me that strikes the right balance - I might find things I&#x27;m not enthusiastic about, but I&#x27;d weight my words carefully.</text></comment> |
20,875,094 | 20,875,052 | 1 | 2 | 20,872,571 | train | <story><title>ORMs Are Backwards</title><url>https://abe-winter.github.io/2019/09/03/orms-backwards.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nnq</author><text>...you&#x27;re the <i>ONLY</i> person I saw with a good opinion of Django&#x27;s ORM. I&#x27;m willing to accept you could be right in preferring it, but:<p><i>Could you share some resources of using it properly for advanced use cases? Good cookbooks etc.</i><p>For, it&#x27;s always been a huge footgun, coupled with Python&#x27;s dynamic nature, it&#x27;s and endless source of bug after bug... Mistype a property on a model instance - no problem, no error, it will just not get saved to the db and data will be lost. Use progres native json and array fields - good luck running your tests on sqlite, the ORM that was helpful up to here just gives up and tells you &quot;f u buddy, you&#x27;re on your own&quot;. Need to write complex hand-coded-sql queries that return complicated data, but you&#x27;s still want to be able to serialize them into a graph of objects that can then be modified by regular ORM code - good luck with that, nobody cared about this scenario.<p><i>They&#x27;ve somehow managed to make it too simple and too complex at the same time! Oh, and don&#x27;t expect to just click a few jump to definitions an make sense of the ORM&#x27;s inner code easily, god forbid :|...</i><p>While I like the <i>idea of ORMs</i>, I found them all <i>totally &quot;wrong headed&quot;</i> And SQLAlchemy - that&#x27;s just not worth the effort of learning to use it properly despite its good ideas, if you&#x27;re only going to end up using 10% of its functionality and in an idiosyncratic way that was not intended.</text></item><item><author>bayesian_horse</author><text>I have a lot of experience with the Django ORM, but no other.<p>So I disagree with most points.<p>The Django ORM does map pretty neatly to SQL (in my opinion), and especially Postgres. The migration tool is anything but &quot;half-baked&quot;. And I have observed that beginners have an easier time creating Django models than dealing with straight SQL.<p>On top of that, the Django ORM mitigates most SQL injection attacks out of the box, without even requiring the developer to know about SQL injections in the first place.<p>And the ORM enables elegant code reuse by constructing query objects that can be used in Template logic, Form validation, generic CRUD, REST endpoints and more.<p>I agree that most ORMs don&#x27;t help you with multiple programming languages. Though both the Django ORM and SQLAlchemy allow to customize a lot of the naming conventions and can be adapted to any legacy schema.<p>But then again: Is it even a good idea to access the same database from two codebases at all?<p>Some of the concerns about &quot;ORMs kill the SQL-star&quot; can be boiled down to a lack of a general understanding of relational databases in developers who learn to use an ORM before diving deeper into the philosophy of relational databases.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Fradow</author><text>This thread is littered with people singing praise of Django&#x27;s ORM. He is not the only one. I&#x27;m a huge proponent of it as well.<p>&gt; Could you share some resources of using it properly for advanced use cases? Good cookbooks etc.<p>The official documentation covers advanced use cases. Stackoverflow will help you shape up more complicated queries.<p>&gt; Mistype a property on a model instance - no problem, no error, it will just not get saved to the db and data will be lost.<p>That&#x27;s a drawback of most dynamic languages, not a flaw of Django&#x27;s ORM.<p>&gt; Need to write complex hand-coded-sql queries that return complicated data, but you&#x27;s still want to be able to serialize them into a graph of objects that can then be modified by regular ORM code - good luck with that, nobody cared about this scenario.<p>Maybe that&#x27;s the threshold Django ORM devs thought sensible to stop supporting? At some point, mixing hand-coded-SQL and ORM code introduce a whole set of hard questions and decisions. Very few people expect ORM code to properly play with hand-coded-SQL. If you need to switch back to SQL, you are generally on your own.<p>&gt; They&#x27;ve somehow managed to make it too simple and too complex at the same time! Oh, and don&#x27;t expect to just click a few jump to definitions an make sense of the ORM&#x27;s inner code easily, god forbid :|...<p>It&#x27;s simple to use, yet have complex internals. That&#x27;s about what I would expect from a tool abstracting something complicated.</text></comment> | <story><title>ORMs Are Backwards</title><url>https://abe-winter.github.io/2019/09/03/orms-backwards.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nnq</author><text>...you&#x27;re the <i>ONLY</i> person I saw with a good opinion of Django&#x27;s ORM. I&#x27;m willing to accept you could be right in preferring it, but:<p><i>Could you share some resources of using it properly for advanced use cases? Good cookbooks etc.</i><p>For, it&#x27;s always been a huge footgun, coupled with Python&#x27;s dynamic nature, it&#x27;s and endless source of bug after bug... Mistype a property on a model instance - no problem, no error, it will just not get saved to the db and data will be lost. Use progres native json and array fields - good luck running your tests on sqlite, the ORM that was helpful up to here just gives up and tells you &quot;f u buddy, you&#x27;re on your own&quot;. Need to write complex hand-coded-sql queries that return complicated data, but you&#x27;s still want to be able to serialize them into a graph of objects that can then be modified by regular ORM code - good luck with that, nobody cared about this scenario.<p><i>They&#x27;ve somehow managed to make it too simple and too complex at the same time! Oh, and don&#x27;t expect to just click a few jump to definitions an make sense of the ORM&#x27;s inner code easily, god forbid :|...</i><p>While I like the <i>idea of ORMs</i>, I found them all <i>totally &quot;wrong headed&quot;</i> And SQLAlchemy - that&#x27;s just not worth the effort of learning to use it properly despite its good ideas, if you&#x27;re only going to end up using 10% of its functionality and in an idiosyncratic way that was not intended.</text></item><item><author>bayesian_horse</author><text>I have a lot of experience with the Django ORM, but no other.<p>So I disagree with most points.<p>The Django ORM does map pretty neatly to SQL (in my opinion), and especially Postgres. The migration tool is anything but &quot;half-baked&quot;. And I have observed that beginners have an easier time creating Django models than dealing with straight SQL.<p>On top of that, the Django ORM mitigates most SQL injection attacks out of the box, without even requiring the developer to know about SQL injections in the first place.<p>And the ORM enables elegant code reuse by constructing query objects that can be used in Template logic, Form validation, generic CRUD, REST endpoints and more.<p>I agree that most ORMs don&#x27;t help you with multiple programming languages. Though both the Django ORM and SQLAlchemy allow to customize a lot of the naming conventions and can be adapted to any legacy schema.<p>But then again: Is it even a good idea to access the same database from two codebases at all?<p>Some of the concerns about &quot;ORMs kill the SQL-star&quot; can be boiled down to a lack of a general understanding of relational databases in developers who learn to use an ORM before diving deeper into the philosophy of relational databases.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andybak</author><text>&gt; ...you&#x27;re the ONLY person I saw with a good opinion of Django&#x27;s ORM. I&#x27;m willing to accept you could be right in preferring it,<p>No, he&#x27;s not. Almost the entire Django community has a good opinion of it.<p>The main criticisms I see of Django&#x27;s ORM seems to be from people that prefer SQLAlchemy. They have different design philosophys and the distinction seems largely a matter of taste and differing use-cases.</text></comment> |
31,457,735 | 31,457,548 | 1 | 3 | 31,456,763 | train | <story><title>Apple Shipped Me a 79-Pound iPhone Repair Kit to Fix a 1.1-Ounce Battery</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/21/23079058/apple-self-service-iphone-repair-kit-hands-on</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Aeolun</author><text>I think the EU is generally better at designing it’s regulations to avoid exactly this problem.<p>Probably something to the extend of “tools to repair must be found in any general DIY store”.</text></item><item><author>srvmshr</author><text>If made to fulfill the word of the law without actually having to follow it in spirit, this would be my modus operandi too.<p>By designing $1200 deposit, $49 rental &amp; two Pelican suitcases of tools and manuals, while keeping the battery replacement price same at $69 (what you&#x27;d normally pay in total at Store), they have entirely disincentivized self-repair without actually breaking any law.<p>Masterstroke &#x2F;s</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Macha</author><text>At the same time, it means Americans often complain about EU regulations as being too vague as overly specific ones are too prone to workarounds. See much of the discussion about GDPR where it&#x27;s clear many of the complainers just want to task their lawyers to find the right magic loophole clause to put in their ToS to avoid doing any of it, and get frustrated when the law is intended to avoid that exact behaviour</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Shipped Me a 79-Pound iPhone Repair Kit to Fix a 1.1-Ounce Battery</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/21/23079058/apple-self-service-iphone-repair-kit-hands-on</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Aeolun</author><text>I think the EU is generally better at designing it’s regulations to avoid exactly this problem.<p>Probably something to the extend of “tools to repair must be found in any general DIY store”.</text></item><item><author>srvmshr</author><text>If made to fulfill the word of the law without actually having to follow it in spirit, this would be my modus operandi too.<p>By designing $1200 deposit, $49 rental &amp; two Pelican suitcases of tools and manuals, while keeping the battery replacement price same at $69 (what you&#x27;d normally pay in total at Store), they have entirely disincentivized self-repair without actually breaking any law.<p>Masterstroke &#x2F;s</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>srvmshr</author><text>I think, barring the USB-C issue which is more supportive of industry wide efforts to standardize and reduce e-waste, you cannot by any legal instrument force an equipment manufacturer to stick to certain parts or boiler plate designs, which can be seen as harming their competitiveness.<p>This argument can be construed by Apple lawyers as exerting unfavorable judicial bias to downgrade&#x2F;bottleneck technical capabilities, which Apple would have otherwise provided to its customers &amp; claim significant advantage over competition in offering their products.<p>EU or not, such regulation will be dead fish in water unless smartly crafted.</text></comment> |
20,511,384 | 20,510,548 | 1 | 3 | 20,508,238 | train | <story><title>My 300 Mile Lyft Ride From Chicago to Bradford</title><url>https://whatever.scalzi.com/2019/07/23/my-300-mile-lyft-ride-from-chicago-to-bradford</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>khrbrt</author><text>This is why we need a train system with funding parity to the highway and airport systems. There should be trains leaving constantly, at most every 10 minutes, from Chicago to the east, and frequent, semihourly, trains between neighboring cities along the way.<p>Even if the author could rent a car, having to drive 300 miles is astounding waste of time and mental energy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BrandonM</author><text>There are 5 different Greyhound buses next Monday from Chicago to Dayton (called &quot;Dayton Trotwood&quot;), ranging from $36 to $90, all taking about 7 hours. There are some passenger trains in the US—I&#x27;ve actually gone overnight from Rochester, NY, to Milwaukee, WI, via train when a flight was canceled—but bus travel is just how you get to medium-sized US cities, for better or for worse. 188 US cities are larger than Dayton, and it&#x27;s only the 6th largest city in Ohio.<p>Of course, it&#x27;s not as nice as having regular, smooth, fast trains. But the situation is not as dire as people make it out to be.</text></comment> | <story><title>My 300 Mile Lyft Ride From Chicago to Bradford</title><url>https://whatever.scalzi.com/2019/07/23/my-300-mile-lyft-ride-from-chicago-to-bradford</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>khrbrt</author><text>This is why we need a train system with funding parity to the highway and airport systems. There should be trains leaving constantly, at most every 10 minutes, from Chicago to the east, and frequent, semihourly, trains between neighboring cities along the way.<p>Even if the author could rent a car, having to drive 300 miles is astounding waste of time and mental energy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>f5thesystem</author><text>Ohio had plans to connect Toledo, Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Columbus, however the Governor at the time turned down the federal money.</text></comment> |
29,271,343 | 29,271,229 | 1 | 3 | 29,270,460 | train | <story><title>The NFT Bay is the galaxy's most resilient NFT BitTorrent site!</title><url>https://thenftbay.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>miracle2k</author><text>The creator of this site seems to have a fairly nuanced take, but there some critics who earnestly seem to think that right-click saving an NFT is owning the crypto-bros, where the latter simply couldn&#x27;t care less.<p>There is also something off about about the &quot;it&#x27;s a url&quot; obsession, as if the storage location of the bytes makes a conceptual difference. As if storing bytes on the blockchain (as some NFTs do) would suddenly make critics go &quot;oh, one of copies of the JPEG is stored on the blockchain, now owning arbitrary ledger entries makes total sense&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anonporridge</author><text>As someone who likes NFTs in theory, the &quot;it&#x27;s just a url&quot; problem is a real stumbling block for me, because it&#x27;s a point of fragility for the asset.<p>If the NFT is just a URL, and there&#x27;s nothing within the NFT itself that provably links it to a specific work of media, and ideally a signature from the original artist, then there&#x27;s no way to be absolutely certain that the piece of media currently vended by the URL is in fact the same piece of media vended 10 years ago when it was minted. You could have a situation where people mint NFTs as &quot;shell art&quot; that they trade back and forth to create some kind of established history of value, and then stick in some new piece of art at a later date with a false history of value. Or the URL host could go under or get corrupted by bad actors and start vending the wrong data, and still, you&#x27;d have no way to prove what the original digital media was.<p>That&#x27;s honestly a blocker for me.<p>Now, if the NFT actually included a hash of the media AND a digital signature of the artist that could be externally verified, then I might be interested.</text></comment> | <story><title>The NFT Bay is the galaxy's most resilient NFT BitTorrent site!</title><url>https://thenftbay.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>miracle2k</author><text>The creator of this site seems to have a fairly nuanced take, but there some critics who earnestly seem to think that right-click saving an NFT is owning the crypto-bros, where the latter simply couldn&#x27;t care less.<p>There is also something off about about the &quot;it&#x27;s a url&quot; obsession, as if the storage location of the bytes makes a conceptual difference. As if storing bytes on the blockchain (as some NFTs do) would suddenly make critics go &quot;oh, one of copies of the JPEG is stored on the blockchain, now owning arbitrary ledger entries makes total sense&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>willhinsa</author><text>To be fair there is a non-small portion of the crypto-bros I&#x27;ve seen on Twitter who can get quite mad at people right-clicking. It&#x27;s pretty great trolling to watch when it happens.<p>And has produced some lovely art, too!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;nicodotgay&#x2F;status&#x2F;1458891554026930181" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;nicodotgay&#x2F;status&#x2F;1458891554026930181</a></text></comment> |
21,868,588 | 21,867,743 | 1 | 3 | 21,864,123 | train | <story><title>How Crisco Made Americans Believers in Industrial Food</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-crisco-made-americans-believers-industrial-food-180973845/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ZainRiz</author><text>Lesson for startup&#x27;s to take away from this:
When advertising, focus on the value you&#x27;re giving customers, not on the individual features.<p>For example, say &quot;We&#x27;ll save you tens of man-hours a week&quot; vs &quot;we run on docker containers [etc]&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>How Crisco Made Americans Believers in Industrial Food</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-crisco-made-americans-believers-industrial-food-180973845/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sdiq</author><text>Not being American and unfamiliar with both Crisco (1) and Ram Dass (2), I thought two unrelated but top stories on HN were connected. I somehow thought Chrisco Church (3) that was founded in Kenya by a certain Harry Das was international and what the unconnected stories were about. Poor me.<p>(1) this thread
(2) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21861986" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21861986</a>
(3) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nation.co.ke&#x2F;counties&#x2F;nairobi&#x2F;Apostle-Harry-Das-dead&#x2F;1954174-2430962-view-asAMP-2xavaq&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nation.co.ke&#x2F;counties&#x2F;nairobi&#x2F;Apostle-Harry-Das-...</a></text></comment> |
21,674,943 | 21,674,593 | 1 | 2 | 21,667,265 | train | <story><title>Inside Macintosh (1985) [pdf]</title><url>http://www.weihenstephan.org/~michaste/pagetable/mac/Inside_Macintosh.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>linguae</author><text>I miss the classic Mac OS. From time to time I turn on one of my classic Macs and use Mac OS 8 or 9 for a while, going down memory lane. While the classic Mac OS was unstable due to its lack of both memory protection and preemptive multitasking, there&#x27;s a certain simplicity to the interface, as well as a near-universal adherence to the Apple Human Interface Guidelines by most applications, that is unfortunately missing in today&#x27;s desktop computing environments. Modern GUI software has a lot of &quot;bling&quot;, but I feel that Apple got it right in the 1980s and 1990s, with less emphasis on slick, shiny designs and more emphasis on the substance of building usable interfaces. I wish more developers would learn from Apple&#x27;s usability guidelines from the 1980s and 1990s.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kccqzy</author><text>The early days of Mac OS X was like that as well; most third-party devs usually followed the HIG pretty closely. The early days of iPhone apps were similar. That was before designers became way too carried away designing something that&#x27;s unique and recognizable for their own brands rather than for the unity of the platform. And then it spread to OS X.</text></comment> | <story><title>Inside Macintosh (1985) [pdf]</title><url>http://www.weihenstephan.org/~michaste/pagetable/mac/Inside_Macintosh.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>linguae</author><text>I miss the classic Mac OS. From time to time I turn on one of my classic Macs and use Mac OS 8 or 9 for a while, going down memory lane. While the classic Mac OS was unstable due to its lack of both memory protection and preemptive multitasking, there&#x27;s a certain simplicity to the interface, as well as a near-universal adherence to the Apple Human Interface Guidelines by most applications, that is unfortunately missing in today&#x27;s desktop computing environments. Modern GUI software has a lot of &quot;bling&quot;, but I feel that Apple got it right in the 1980s and 1990s, with less emphasis on slick, shiny designs and more emphasis on the substance of building usable interfaces. I wish more developers would learn from Apple&#x27;s usability guidelines from the 1980s and 1990s.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Austin_Conlon</author><text>1995 Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;interface.free.fr&#x2F;Archives&#x2F;Apple_HIGuidelines.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;interface.free.fr&#x2F;Archives&#x2F;Apple_HIGuidelines.pdf</a>.</text></comment> |
35,761,088 | 35,760,773 | 1 | 3 | 35,759,449 | train | <story><title>Just Simply – Stop saying how simple things are in our docs</title><url>https://justsimply.dev/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sametmax</author><text>It&#x27;s a more and more popular opinion:<p>- Why not tell people to &quot;simply&quot; use pyenv, poetry or anaconda (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitecode.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;why-not-tell-people-to-simply-use" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitecode.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;why-not-tell-people-to-simpl...</a>)<p>- Don’t use the word ‘simply’ (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jameshfisher.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;02&#x2F;22&#x2F;dont-use-simply&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jameshfisher.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;02&#x2F;22&#x2F;dont-use-simply&#x2F;</a>)<p>- Stop using ‘simply’ in tech instructions (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.parkersoftware.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;stop-using-simply-in-tech-instructions&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.parkersoftware.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;stop-using-simply-in-tec...</a>)<p>- Don’t say “simply” in your documentation (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.knowledgeowl.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;posts&#x2F;dont-say-simply-jim-fisher&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.knowledgeowl.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;posts&#x2F;dont-say-simply-jim-...</a>)<p>And I strongly agree. It can be so discouraging to fail at something you should &quot;simply&quot; do.<p>But to be fair to the technical writers, it&#x27;s easy to write that way without noticing, even after proof reading. This should be automatized by writing tools.<p>Also, while it&#x27;s mildly irritating, there are worse things in life.<p>Yet as the first link about the python ecosystems notes, it usually hides a bigger problem: many devs are too good to be helpful.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wdfx</author><text>Similarly, one should never state that something is &quot;obvious&quot;.<p>I catch myself sometimes starting a sentence with &quot;Obviously,&quot; and usually stop myself at that point and restart.</text></comment> | <story><title>Just Simply – Stop saying how simple things are in our docs</title><url>https://justsimply.dev/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sametmax</author><text>It&#x27;s a more and more popular opinion:<p>- Why not tell people to &quot;simply&quot; use pyenv, poetry or anaconda (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitecode.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;why-not-tell-people-to-simply-use" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitecode.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;why-not-tell-people-to-simpl...</a>)<p>- Don’t use the word ‘simply’ (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jameshfisher.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;02&#x2F;22&#x2F;dont-use-simply&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jameshfisher.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;02&#x2F;22&#x2F;dont-use-simply&#x2F;</a>)<p>- Stop using ‘simply’ in tech instructions (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.parkersoftware.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;stop-using-simply-in-tech-instructions&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.parkersoftware.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;stop-using-simply-in-tec...</a>)<p>- Don’t say “simply” in your documentation (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.knowledgeowl.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;posts&#x2F;dont-say-simply-jim-fisher&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.knowledgeowl.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;posts&#x2F;dont-say-simply-jim-...</a>)<p>And I strongly agree. It can be so discouraging to fail at something you should &quot;simply&quot; do.<p>But to be fair to the technical writers, it&#x27;s easy to write that way without noticing, even after proof reading. This should be automatized by writing tools.<p>Also, while it&#x27;s mildly irritating, there are worse things in life.<p>Yet as the first link about the python ecosystems notes, it usually hides a bigger problem: many devs are too good to be helpful.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kqr</author><text>I remember reading one of those and it made a huge impression on me. I&#x27;ve followed it ever since and taught others to do the same. As far as I can tell, it has only been met with appreciation.<p>That said, sometimes I find myself trying to write around &quot;simple&quot; when I really mean &quot;less complex&quot;, and I have to remind myself that what I really want to avoid is implying &quot;easy&quot;, not &quot;relatively less complex&quot;.</text></comment> |
37,822,501 | 37,822,441 | 1 | 3 | 37,819,566 | train | <story><title>ZeroMQ – Relicense from LGPL3 and exceptions to MPL 2.0</title><url>https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq/pull/4555</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sneak</author><text>* an organization that doesn’t believe in software freedoms<p>If you believe in software freedoms, then there will never be any reason to need to relicense, nor would you want to.<p>Free software is an ideology, like human rights. You can’t use it only sometimes and be said to support it.</text></item><item><author>loeg</author><text>Conversely, as an organization, it makes sense to never accept changes without a CLA.</text></item><item><author>sneak</author><text>This is why you should never sign a CLA; it allows later relicensing of your work to nonfree licenses.<p>Linux doesn’t have a CLA, and it’s the most popular operating system in the world.</text></item><item><author>taway1237</author><text>They legally have to ask every contributor. The exception&#x2F;loophole used by big companies (but also FSF for example) is that every contributor had to sign a CLA where they legally reassign ownership of their code to the project owner.</text></item><item><author>cobertos</author><text>Is it very common to contact _every_ maintainer and back out changes from ones who don&#x27;t respond for license changes?<p>I feel like I&#x27;ve heard of many larger companies doing relicenses on their open source without this kind of effort.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JoshuaRogers</author><text>&gt; If you believe in software freedoms, then there will never be any reason to need to relicense, nor would you want to.<p>The Tivo-ization process of the 90s shows that while this might be frequently true, it isn’t without exception. From a practical standpoint, continuing to provide for user freedom would have been best accomplished (personal opinion) if many projects had been able to move to a more AGPL style license.</text></comment> | <story><title>ZeroMQ – Relicense from LGPL3 and exceptions to MPL 2.0</title><url>https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq/pull/4555</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sneak</author><text>* an organization that doesn’t believe in software freedoms<p>If you believe in software freedoms, then there will never be any reason to need to relicense, nor would you want to.<p>Free software is an ideology, like human rights. You can’t use it only sometimes and be said to support it.</text></item><item><author>loeg</author><text>Conversely, as an organization, it makes sense to never accept changes without a CLA.</text></item><item><author>sneak</author><text>This is why you should never sign a CLA; it allows later relicensing of your work to nonfree licenses.<p>Linux doesn’t have a CLA, and it’s the most popular operating system in the world.</text></item><item><author>taway1237</author><text>They legally have to ask every contributor. The exception&#x2F;loophole used by big companies (but also FSF for example) is that every contributor had to sign a CLA where they legally reassign ownership of their code to the project owner.</text></item><item><author>cobertos</author><text>Is it very common to contact _every_ maintainer and back out changes from ones who don&#x27;t respond for license changes?<p>I feel like I&#x27;ve heard of many larger companies doing relicenses on their open source without this kind of effort.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shusaku</author><text>&gt; If you believe in software freedoms, then there will never be any reason to need to relicense, nor would you want to.<p>The linked article is precisely a counter example to this point!</text></comment> |
5,158,422 | 5,158,225 | 1 | 3 | 5,158,107 | train | <story><title>AT&T Will Force Your Data Plan For Your Unlocked Out-of-Contract "Smart" Phone</title><url>http://clickboom.me/att-will-not-let-you-not-have-a-data-plan-wit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kevingadd</author><text>AT&#38;T are scum and this sort of stuff is standard practice with them. You shouldn't be giving them your money if you can avoid it.<p>If you've got a GSM phone with the right radio bands, I suggest taking a look at the $30 plans here:
<a href="http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/monthly-4g-plans" rel="nofollow">http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/monthly-4g-plans</a><p>For CDMA I believe Sprint and Verizon offer prepaid plans without contracts at around $50 for talk/data.<p>The key is that IMO, a prepaid plan makes the terms of the arrangement clear, and if the carrier decides to try and overstep their boundaries, you can cut them off. They don't have the ability to take you to collections or withdraw from your account or increase your bill behind your back.<p>Of course, if T-Mobile tries to screw with you as a prepaid customer, they've got some leverage since your only alternative is AT&#38;T. Not so great. Still, better than nothing...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aharrison</author><text>I love T-Mobile, and not just for their sane plans and prices. They are also, you know, nice to me. Every time I have called their support they have been friendly, competent, and helpful. I have never gotten even 1 of 3 from any of the other carriers.<p>Seriously T-Mobile, come up with more excuses for me to give you money.</text></comment> | <story><title>AT&T Will Force Your Data Plan For Your Unlocked Out-of-Contract "Smart" Phone</title><url>http://clickboom.me/att-will-not-let-you-not-have-a-data-plan-wit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kevingadd</author><text>AT&#38;T are scum and this sort of stuff is standard practice with them. You shouldn't be giving them your money if you can avoid it.<p>If you've got a GSM phone with the right radio bands, I suggest taking a look at the $30 plans here:
<a href="http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/monthly-4g-plans" rel="nofollow">http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/monthly-4g-plans</a><p>For CDMA I believe Sprint and Verizon offer prepaid plans without contracts at around $50 for talk/data.<p>The key is that IMO, a prepaid plan makes the terms of the arrangement clear, and if the carrier decides to try and overstep their boundaries, you can cut them off. They don't have the ability to take you to collections or withdraw from your account or increase your bill behind your back.<p>Of course, if T-Mobile tries to screw with you as a prepaid customer, they've got some leverage since your only alternative is AT&#38;T. Not so great. Still, better than nothing...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joelrunyon</author><text>At this point it isn't even about the data anymore, it's the simple fact that they're "choosing a plan" for me, without any input from me. Absolutely baffling.<p>I'll check out those options. Thanks.</text></comment> |
37,501,545 | 37,501,721 | 1 | 3 | 37,499,743 | train | <story><title>Unity Engine to Godot Engine Exporter</title><url>https://github.com/Zylann/unity_to_godot_converter</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jokoon</author><text>12 years ago I was accepted in 2nd year of a game programming school, and they taught unity. It really was a disappointment. I went to do other things.<p>I expressed the lemon squeeze theory for reddit, where companies kills the lemon to extract its juice instead of keeping the lemon tree alive. It seems like it&#x27;s such an universal rule in proprietary software.<p>Godot feels really really good and intuitive. GDScript is not really perfect, but it&#x27;s pythonic which makes it quite good, and it integrates very well with the engine itself, which is awesome, I really really hope they improve it. They really followed the dual system of &quot;script for high level plumbing, C++ for the rest&quot;, and they allow developers to do gdextension and to play with the engine code.<p>They managed to add a loooooot of features on a tiny budget, for such a light footprint, they support vulkan and next gen API, and since indie gaming has a trend of staying light, godot will be a big success, there is no doubt about it.<p>And even if 3D isn&#x27;t good enough with godot, who cares, really? It&#x27;s not like small studios will attempt to achieve high end 3D graphics, they really should not, and honestly AAA games are starting to gain more and more criticism so they&#x27;re not really popular.<p>The gamedev era is entering an age of minimal games, with games that have gameplay, that are played, games SHOULD NOT try to be on the bleeding edge of graphics, it&#x27;s a big waste of money and developer work.<p>I like 3D games, I really do, but with the climate, you want games to remove the fat and aim for essential features, and stop with pointless glitter.</text></comment> | <story><title>Unity Engine to Godot Engine Exporter</title><url>https://github.com/Zylann/unity_to_godot_converter</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>brundolf</author><text>Only one commit and it&#x27;s from 5 years ago, in which time both engines have changed quite a lot, so probably useless in its current state<p>Neat idea, but impossible to do perfectly. There&#x27;s potential I&#x27;m sure to do imperfect conversions of scenes and assets, but game logic and custom data is going to be pretty much out of reach<p>At best, this kind of tool could be a jumping-off point for someone who was otherwise planning to do a fully manual port</text></comment> |
28,380,071 | 28,377,363 | 1 | 2 | 28,376,796 | train | <story><title>Cooperative Package Management for Python</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/867657/0efafb319ce20e3e/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>uranusjr</author><text>(Disclosure: I’m one of the PEP authors.) I want to clarify a point since many comments seem to go “I do container&#x2F;Nix&#x2F;virtualenv so this is not a problem”. That’s absolutely correct, nothing will ever go wrong if you do any of those things. This is a solved problem.<p>But there are a significant number of people that do not do any of these and insist on installing things into the system-provided Python and expect smooth sailing. This is the “problem” for pip and distro maintainers, and what this PEP aims to solve, to guide people toward one of those solutions.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cooperative Package Management for Python</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/867657/0efafb319ce20e3e/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>derriz</author><text>I probably haven&#x27;t thought this fully through but wouldn&#x27;t it be simpler to just have a system venv - root protected - perhaps distributed using the system&#x27;s package manager? Then if you mess up site-packages at least you wouldn&#x27;t break the system tools.</text></comment> |
18,709,385 | 18,709,060 | 1 | 2 | 18,706,506 | train | <story><title>SpaceX Is Raising $500M at a $30.5B Valuation</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musks-spacex-is-raising-500-million-in-funding-11545142054</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>justinator</author><text><i>While Musk has personally been a bit odd lately</i><p>I think Musk has shown something a little higher than eccentricity for as long as he&#x27;s been in the public eye. I wouldn&#x27;t want to be his friend, date him, marry him, or have him as a family member.</text></item><item><author>mabbo</author><text>While Musk has personally been a bit odd lately[0], SpaceX as a company seems to be in good hands with Gwynne Shotwell. They&#x27;re launching very regularly[1], haven&#x27;t had a customer-impacting failure in years[2] and they&#x27;ve got the market cornered. They have customers lined up for years, and continually make huge gains by reducing costs. They&#x27;ve got a head start by at least 5-10 years over all new entrants (Blue Origin, Electron, etc) and are massively undercutting the legacy competitors (ULA).<p>If I could invest in SpaceX, I would.<p>[0] I think he&#x27;s overworked and burned-out himself out but can&#x27;t recognize it. Who am I to judge- I&#x27;ve been there.<p>[1] They were going to launch about 20 minutes ago actually, but scrubbed at the last minute. They&#x27;ll probably launch it tomorrow.<p>[2] Two failures recently were Falcon Heavy middle core doing a dive instead of a landing due to running out of igniter fluid, and the much-watched booster &#x27;water landing&#x27; recently, where they fully recovered the booster afterwards. Both were successful launches.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TrainedMonkey</author><text>If we take a step back to look at what Musk has done at scale:<p>* Tesla has tremendously accelerated electric car deployments. I am going to count Solar City in this bucket as well. It was not a smashing success as Tesla or SpaceX are, but it helped to accelerate solar deployments.<p>* SpaceX proven out booster re-usability and lowered launch prices.<p>* Helped start open AI which is pushing limits of building machine intelligence by tackling progressively harder problems.<p>Whatever you think about the man, you can&#x27;t ever take away those accomplishments. All of the current controversy looks so small and insignificant compared to them.</text></comment> | <story><title>SpaceX Is Raising $500M at a $30.5B Valuation</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musks-spacex-is-raising-500-million-in-funding-11545142054</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>justinator</author><text><i>While Musk has personally been a bit odd lately</i><p>I think Musk has shown something a little higher than eccentricity for as long as he&#x27;s been in the public eye. I wouldn&#x27;t want to be his friend, date him, marry him, or have him as a family member.</text></item><item><author>mabbo</author><text>While Musk has personally been a bit odd lately[0], SpaceX as a company seems to be in good hands with Gwynne Shotwell. They&#x27;re launching very regularly[1], haven&#x27;t had a customer-impacting failure in years[2] and they&#x27;ve got the market cornered. They have customers lined up for years, and continually make huge gains by reducing costs. They&#x27;ve got a head start by at least 5-10 years over all new entrants (Blue Origin, Electron, etc) and are massively undercutting the legacy competitors (ULA).<p>If I could invest in SpaceX, I would.<p>[0] I think he&#x27;s overworked and burned-out himself out but can&#x27;t recognize it. Who am I to judge- I&#x27;ve been there.<p>[1] They were going to launch about 20 minutes ago actually, but scrubbed at the last minute. They&#x27;ll probably launch it tomorrow.<p>[2] Two failures recently were Falcon Heavy middle core doing a dive instead of a landing due to running out of igniter fluid, and the much-watched booster &#x27;water landing&#x27; recently, where they fully recovered the booster afterwards. Both were successful launches.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krn</author><text>&gt; I wouldn&#x27;t want to be his friend, date him, marry him, or have him as a family member.<p>There are people great for depending on, and there are people great for following. Even if from far away. They are still great. Just in a different way.</text></comment> |
13,798,891 | 13,797,011 | 1 | 3 | 13,796,364 | train | <story><title>NASA proposes a magnetic shield to protect Mars' atmosphere</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2017-03-nasa-magnetic-shield-mars-atmosphere.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thatcherc</author><text>This is incredibly exciting but a few important details are missing.<p>The first is how big does the structure need to be? I can buy a 1 Tesla magnet online right now but that&#x27;s probably not what they&#x27;re thinking of. Would we need a city-sized coil or something like that?<p>The second is the time scale. They say that the temperature could rise by 4 Celsius and trigger a greenhouse effect, but is that an immediate effect (10 years or so) or century-scale effect? I&#x27;m hoping the scientists put out a paper because I&#x27;d love to learn more about the specifics of their proposal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TTPrograms</author><text>For people asking about the amount of energy we&#x27;re talking about, the energy density of a magnetic field is |B|^2 &#x2F;(2mu_0). It appears that the described structure has something on the order of the cross section of Mars, and I&#x27;ll assume that it&#x27;s depth is in that ballpark as well. For a fictitious uniform field that would require on the order of 1.6e19 J, which is roughly 1.2 times the total electrical energy output of the US in 2001:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wolframalpha.com&#x2F;input&#x2F;?i=4%2F3+pi+*+(radius+of+mars)%5E3+*+(500,000+nT)%5E2+%2F+(2*mu_0)" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wolframalpha.com&#x2F;input&#x2F;?i=4%2F3+pi+*+(radius+of+m...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wolframalpha.com&#x2F;input&#x2F;?i=1.617%C3%9710%5E19+joules&amp;lk=1&amp;rawformassumption=%22ClashPrefs%22+-%3E+%22ClashPrefs%22" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wolframalpha.com&#x2F;input&#x2F;?i=1.617%C3%9710%5E19+joul...</a><p>Assuming you had no losses, so say ideal superconducting coils, that&#x27;s how much energy you have to dump into magnetic field. You can do this as slow as you like, so with 1&#x2F;10 the US electrical energy production it would take 10 years to build up that magnetic field. Hypothetically, if you had thin-film plastic PV cells (like cellophane thin to be reasonable to build and get into space) with 100% efficiency covering the footprint of this system (Mars) you could generate enough power to charge up this field in 471 seconds:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wolframalpha.com&#x2F;input&#x2F;?i=1e19+J+%2F+((solar+power+output*pi*(radius+of+mars%5E2))%2F(4*pi*radius+of+mars+orbit%5E2)" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wolframalpha.com&#x2F;input&#x2F;?i=1e19+J+%2F+((solar+powe...</a>)<p>Of course the big story here is that efficient thin film solar in space could generate obscene amounts of power.<p>I&#x27;m not sure on the depth of the field volume required, so that might make it easier, too.</text></comment> | <story><title>NASA proposes a magnetic shield to protect Mars' atmosphere</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2017-03-nasa-magnetic-shield-mars-atmosphere.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thatcherc</author><text>This is incredibly exciting but a few important details are missing.<p>The first is how big does the structure need to be? I can buy a 1 Tesla magnet online right now but that&#x27;s probably not what they&#x27;re thinking of. Would we need a city-sized coil or something like that?<p>The second is the time scale. They say that the temperature could rise by 4 Celsius and trigger a greenhouse effect, but is that an immediate effect (10 years or so) or century-scale effect? I&#x27;m hoping the scientists put out a paper because I&#x27;d love to learn more about the specifics of their proposal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SideburnsOfDoom</author><text>&gt; is that an immediate effect (10 years or so) or century-scale effect?<p>We should be so lucky. Planetary scale can be rather large and slow. For instance the oxygenation of the Earth&#x27;s atmosphere took hundreds of millions of years<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Great_Oxygenation_Event#Time_lag_theory" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Great_Oxygenation_Event#Time_l...</a></text></comment> |
21,672,754 | 21,670,548 | 1 | 2 | 21,666,314 | train | <story><title>Many elementary teachers don’t understand math, and it makes them anxious</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-11-21/math-anxiety-elementary-teacher</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nopinsight</author><text>For those curious, below are some <i>kinds</i> of primary math questions we model after to test teacher applicants.<p>In my experience, many kids are much more enthusiastic about this kind of &quot;challenging&quot; problems than the drills in many standard textbooks, as long as the problems are chosen to match their level. They definitely learn a lot more as well.<p>Note that although they do require a little arithmetic to solve, the challenging part is <i>not</i> arithmetic.<p>Some problems focus on geometry, logic, patterns, or other kinds of puzzles. More examples can be found at the source below.<p>&quot;- The edge of a cube is 8 cm. All the faces are painted orange. It is then cut into small cubes of edge 1 cm.
How many small cubes have exactly two faces painted?<p>- What is the greatest possible number one can get by discarding 100 digits, in any order, from the number 1234567891011121314151617…57585960?<p>- Eleven consecutive positive integers are written on a board. Maria erases one of the numbers. If the sum of the remaining numbers is 2012, what number did Maria erase?<p>- You must color each square in the figure below in red, green or blue. Any two squares with adjacent sides must be of a different color. In how many different ways can this coloring be done?
Figure at question 11 here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gato-docs.its.txstate.edu&#x2F;jcr:450cce10-3b6a-4ddd-a195-5c26efe39bed&#x2F;2012_PWMC_individual.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gato-docs.its.txstate.edu&#x2F;jcr:450cce10-3b6a-4ddd-a19...</a> &quot;<p>Source:
the Primary Math World Contest (usually held in Hong Kong)
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.txstate.edu&#x2F;mathworks&#x2F;PMWC&#x2F;previous-pmwc-tests.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.txstate.edu&#x2F;mathworks&#x2F;PMWC&#x2F;previous-pmwc-tests.h...</a></text></item><item><author>nopinsight</author><text>For over a decade, I have run a successful tutoring center focused on math and science for elementary school students in a developing country. Our students won numerous awards both at the national and international levels.<p>We usually employ teachers with degrees in math or science, or sometimes engineering. Occasionally for early elementary levels (grades 1-3), some teachers have a degree in another discipline. Regardless of major, we <i>always</i> test them for math aptitude. The test includes competitive exam questions focused on mathematical understanding and problem solving skills, rather than advanced math knowledge. (The other part of teacher selection is interviewing for teaching skills and trial teaching with student and expert evaluation.)<p>Somewhat surprisingly, even some PhD candidates in engineering may fail these tests, while a few liberal arts degree grads passed the lower levels of these tests. So math aptitude is not limited to those who majored in math, science, or engineering. (Note that many of our elementary school students who have studied with us for a couple of years also pass them at a high level.)<p>It seems that countries with successful math programs, like Singapore, also utilize a rigorous teacher selection process that favors subject matter specialists even for teaching at an elementary level.<p>This is crucial for math, which is particularly hard to catch up later on with shaky foundation.<p>(In fact, kids are great at absorbing their teacher’s attitude toward the subject. It is no surprise many kids may sense “math fear” from their teacher. Having a teacher with positive attitude toward the subject they teach is essential!)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tacomonstrous</author><text>I&#x27;m a working mathematician and would need a non-trivial amount of thought to get any of these problems.<p>I was also pretty poor at this kind of thing in high school and college, but fortunately the skills involved are almost but not quite disjoint from what is needed to do research on math.</text></comment> | <story><title>Many elementary teachers don’t understand math, and it makes them anxious</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-11-21/math-anxiety-elementary-teacher</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nopinsight</author><text>For those curious, below are some <i>kinds</i> of primary math questions we model after to test teacher applicants.<p>In my experience, many kids are much more enthusiastic about this kind of &quot;challenging&quot; problems than the drills in many standard textbooks, as long as the problems are chosen to match their level. They definitely learn a lot more as well.<p>Note that although they do require a little arithmetic to solve, the challenging part is <i>not</i> arithmetic.<p>Some problems focus on geometry, logic, patterns, or other kinds of puzzles. More examples can be found at the source below.<p>&quot;- The edge of a cube is 8 cm. All the faces are painted orange. It is then cut into small cubes of edge 1 cm.
How many small cubes have exactly two faces painted?<p>- What is the greatest possible number one can get by discarding 100 digits, in any order, from the number 1234567891011121314151617…57585960?<p>- Eleven consecutive positive integers are written on a board. Maria erases one of the numbers. If the sum of the remaining numbers is 2012, what number did Maria erase?<p>- You must color each square in the figure below in red, green or blue. Any two squares with adjacent sides must be of a different color. In how many different ways can this coloring be done?
Figure at question 11 here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gato-docs.its.txstate.edu&#x2F;jcr:450cce10-3b6a-4ddd-a195-5c26efe39bed&#x2F;2012_PWMC_individual.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gato-docs.its.txstate.edu&#x2F;jcr:450cce10-3b6a-4ddd-a19...</a> &quot;<p>Source:
the Primary Math World Contest (usually held in Hong Kong)
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.txstate.edu&#x2F;mathworks&#x2F;PMWC&#x2F;previous-pmwc-tests.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.txstate.edu&#x2F;mathworks&#x2F;PMWC&#x2F;previous-pmwc-tests.h...</a></text></item><item><author>nopinsight</author><text>For over a decade, I have run a successful tutoring center focused on math and science for elementary school students in a developing country. Our students won numerous awards both at the national and international levels.<p>We usually employ teachers with degrees in math or science, or sometimes engineering. Occasionally for early elementary levels (grades 1-3), some teachers have a degree in another discipline. Regardless of major, we <i>always</i> test them for math aptitude. The test includes competitive exam questions focused on mathematical understanding and problem solving skills, rather than advanced math knowledge. (The other part of teacher selection is interviewing for teaching skills and trial teaching with student and expert evaluation.)<p>Somewhat surprisingly, even some PhD candidates in engineering may fail these tests, while a few liberal arts degree grads passed the lower levels of these tests. So math aptitude is not limited to those who majored in math, science, or engineering. (Note that many of our elementary school students who have studied with us for a couple of years also pass them at a high level.)<p>It seems that countries with successful math programs, like Singapore, also utilize a rigorous teacher selection process that favors subject matter specialists even for teaching at an elementary level.<p>This is crucial for math, which is particularly hard to catch up later on with shaky foundation.<p>(In fact, kids are great at absorbing their teacher’s attitude toward the subject. It is no surprise many kids may sense “math fear” from their teacher. Having a teacher with positive attitude toward the subject they teach is essential!)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Shivetya</author><text>and here I sit totally flummoxed by the questions yet later on you state these were suitable to grades up to sixth?<p>So for those who have let their math skills lapse or need help to get back in the right frame of mind to learn, where online is the best resource? Khan Academy?</text></comment> |
17,335,552 | 17,335,434 | 1 | 2 | 17,334,733 | train | <story><title>Harvard discrimination lawsuit: data show penalization of Asian-Americans</title><url>http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2018/06/harvard-discrimination-lawsuit-data.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gourial</author><text>By enforcing racial quotas, Harvard and other institutions are actively cementing race as an important factor in our society, as if it&#x27;s something we should care about. As such, they are not helping society to become post-racial - as must be our goal - but instead are forcing a racialized view of the world down our collective throats.<p>While well intentioned, racial quotas are a regressive policy and history will look back on them with scorn.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>Race blindness isn’t the end goal, the goal is racial equality. Today, black people on average make <i>1&#x2F;3</i> less income than white people. Because we must assume black people are intrinsically just as capable as white people, the goal must be to drive that disparity to zero.<p>With that in mind, it makes no sense from a scientific&#x2F;engineering perspective to ignore race. No scientist or engineer looks at a situation, sees all of these problems correlated with a single variable, and then decides the way to solve the problems is to ignore that variable.<p>History will remember “race blindness” with derision. A thousand years from now, people are going to be studying our society in textbooks. And they’re going to say “so they enslaved and then denied human rights to this group of people based on their skin color for hundreds of years. Then, they said they could undo the effects of all that just by pretending to ignore skin color on a going forward basis!” They’re going to see “race blindness” for what it is—an attempt to sweep under the rug generations of oppression because it’s uncomfortable and we’d rather pretend “we’re all good now, right?”<p>EDIT: shocked at the number of responses challenging my premise that blacks are equally capable to whites.</text></comment> | <story><title>Harvard discrimination lawsuit: data show penalization of Asian-Americans</title><url>http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2018/06/harvard-discrimination-lawsuit-data.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gourial</author><text>By enforcing racial quotas, Harvard and other institutions are actively cementing race as an important factor in our society, as if it&#x27;s something we should care about. As such, they are not helping society to become post-racial - as must be our goal - but instead are forcing a racialized view of the world down our collective throats.<p>While well intentioned, racial quotas are a regressive policy and history will look back on them with scorn.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Alex3917</author><text>&gt; By enforcing racial quotas, Harvard and other institutions are actively cementing race as an important factor in our society<p>That&#x27;s not really accurate. If you look at the Coleman report, the main study that was done in the run up to school desegregation and forced busing, it showed a bunch of negative impacts to changing the racial balance of institutions too quickly. That research was largely ignored, which in part lead to white flight, inner city gangs, and a bunch of other issues we still haven&#x27;t really recovered from to this day.<p>Contrast this to the integration of gays in the military, which was done over a few years rather than all at once and went much more smoothly -- you didn&#x27;t see any major issues or society-wide backlash as a result.<p>The point is that policies that ignore race often make racial issues more salient and pronounced as a result, rather than leading to a society where race isn&#x27;t a factor or whatever. That&#x27;s not to say that Harvard isn&#x27;t doing anything wrong, but it&#x27;s naive to assume that ignoring race is going to lead to some sort of post racial society.<p>C.f.: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pages.jh.edu&#x2F;jhumag&#x2F;0400web&#x2F;18.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pages.jh.edu&#x2F;jhumag&#x2F;0400web&#x2F;18.html</a><p>It&#x27;s actually still one of the biggest studies ever done and probably that ever will be done, because it was conducted before they really understood the math behind representative samples and statistical significance, so it had way more participants than were actually needed.</text></comment> |
19,611,861 | 19,611,598 | 1 | 2 | 19,610,530 | train | <story><title>Microsoft says its data shows FCC reports overstate broadband adoption</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/08/microsoft-says-its-data-shows-fcc-reports-massively-overstate-broadband-adoption/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>Running five miles of cable would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;networking&#x2F;comments&#x2F;7mp9gz&#x2F;comment&#x2F;drvn3ad" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;networking&#x2F;comments&#x2F;7mp9gz&#x2F;comment&#x2F;...</a>.<p>Then, if you’ve got 50 houses, how many will subscribe? Hint: not many, since folks who buy houses in places without broadband probably don’t prioritize broadband. Say you get 20 houses though, with $200,000 invested. That’s $10,000 per house. That’s an optimistic figure. Will you ever make that money back? No. Charter has a market cap of $5,000 per subscriber. If you blow double that on capital costs alone per subscriber, you’ll never come close to making it back. (Especially in a scenario like the above with high maintenance costs.)</text></item><item><author>hermitdev</author><text>MS&#x27;s findings largely lineup with my parent&#x27;s experience in rural Montana. Their only non dialup (yes, dialup) was an experimental microwave connection that was expensive, line of sight and peeked at about 5 Mbps down, and far less up. It was also very tempermental, subject to weather outages in snow or rain.<p>The local cable internet provider wouldn&#x27;t run cable, as it wasnt cost effective. They&#x27;d have had to run around 5 miles of cable to serve less than 50 households.<p>The cable TV provider did run some cable, and made it obvious they didnt care or plan to really service it. Personally, dont know why they bother other than to possibly meet a regulatory requirement as they didnt run it until 2000-2001 and anyone that wanted &quot;cable&quot; already had Directv or Dish by that point.<p>After every rain storm or snow melt, a different section of cable became exposed (they ran the cable in the ditch alongside a dirt road on the side of a mountain with less than a foot of top soil on average before you hit bedrock, so cant complain too much they didnt go deeper).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zanny</author><text>In rural areas at least it is not going to cost 40k a mile to run coax. Those kinds of areas are almost always serviced by overhead utility lines that already exist, and just running a new line on those poles just requires township permit. It would be probably an order of magnitude cheaper than the buried lines or new lines building required in other circumstances.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft says its data shows FCC reports overstate broadband adoption</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/08/microsoft-says-its-data-shows-fcc-reports-massively-overstate-broadband-adoption/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>Running five miles of cable would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;networking&#x2F;comments&#x2F;7mp9gz&#x2F;comment&#x2F;drvn3ad" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;networking&#x2F;comments&#x2F;7mp9gz&#x2F;comment&#x2F;...</a>.<p>Then, if you’ve got 50 houses, how many will subscribe? Hint: not many, since folks who buy houses in places without broadband probably don’t prioritize broadband. Say you get 20 houses though, with $200,000 invested. That’s $10,000 per house. That’s an optimistic figure. Will you ever make that money back? No. Charter has a market cap of $5,000 per subscriber. If you blow double that on capital costs alone per subscriber, you’ll never come close to making it back. (Especially in a scenario like the above with high maintenance costs.)</text></item><item><author>hermitdev</author><text>MS&#x27;s findings largely lineup with my parent&#x27;s experience in rural Montana. Their only non dialup (yes, dialup) was an experimental microwave connection that was expensive, line of sight and peeked at about 5 Mbps down, and far less up. It was also very tempermental, subject to weather outages in snow or rain.<p>The local cable internet provider wouldn&#x27;t run cable, as it wasnt cost effective. They&#x27;d have had to run around 5 miles of cable to serve less than 50 households.<p>The cable TV provider did run some cable, and made it obvious they didnt care or plan to really service it. Personally, dont know why they bother other than to possibly meet a regulatory requirement as they didnt run it until 2000-2001 and anyone that wanted &quot;cable&quot; already had Directv or Dish by that point.<p>After every rain storm or snow melt, a different section of cable became exposed (they ran the cable in the ditch alongside a dirt road on the side of a mountain with less than a foot of top soil on average before you hit bedrock, so cant complain too much they didnt go deeper).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hermitdev</author><text>Oh, I am well aware of the costs involved. Hence why I stated they likely only ran the cable to fulfill a regulatory check box and appeared to have done it as cheap as possible where you could see dozens of yards of cable exposed in a ditch, or even exposed to vehicles driving over it. But that&#x27;s also why Congress has passed acts to compel providers to provide service.<p>Hell, I currently live in an affluent Chicago suburb, and I have exposed wires from both Comcast and AT&amp;T just inches from the sidewalk out my back door. My dog literally takes dumps on the internet&#x2F;TV cables to the townhouses I live in.<p>Haven&#x27;t had AT&amp;T service since they sold AT&amp;T BI to comcast, but Comcast has the balls to tell me when I complain about an outage I should upgrade to business class if I want fewer outages (lower speeds, more money, supposedly service guarantees).</text></comment> |
36,749,703 | 36,749,231 | 1 | 2 | 36,748,235 | train | <story><title>Zoom fatigue unpacked</title><url>https://leadership.garden/zoom-fatigue/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codingdave</author><text>Of course, the elephant in the room is that people need to stop having so many meetings. Those of us who have been working remotely for a decade or more never had this problem - we use async communications, quick one-off calls when needed, and really never spent all our time in meetings. But when everyone moved to remote work a few years ago, this culture of meetings all day came up... and it still confuses me. It isn&#x27;t effective.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrismarlow9</author><text>Agreed it is the weirdest thing ever to me that people don&#x27;t email anymore. Just send an email. In an email it&#x27;s written down and I can search for it. In an email I can think at my own pace and respond without worrying about trampling others. In an email people can&#x27;t ramble on and on and if they do you can just not read the email. And if it&#x27;s work to be done, just make a ticket.<p>The amount of meeting time waste baffles me. And then you try to make them productive and include information in the invite and you show up and nobody read it. So now you have to waste more time when you could have just gone directly into brainstorming.<p>At this point I kind of just give up. I make my suggestions to make things more efficient and try to remember that even if the work gets done sooner I won&#x27;t be working any less.</text></comment> | <story><title>Zoom fatigue unpacked</title><url>https://leadership.garden/zoom-fatigue/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codingdave</author><text>Of course, the elephant in the room is that people need to stop having so many meetings. Those of us who have been working remotely for a decade or more never had this problem - we use async communications, quick one-off calls when needed, and really never spent all our time in meetings. But when everyone moved to remote work a few years ago, this culture of meetings all day came up... and it still confuses me. It isn&#x27;t effective.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>janosdebugs</author><text>This, thank you. I recently quit my corporate job and we started our own company with my wife... never been so productive. Meetings are truly productivity killers. Why hire smart people for a lot of money to then have them sit around in groups of 10+, half listening, half braindead?</text></comment> |
25,833,546 | 25,831,090 | 1 | 3 | 25,825,917 | train | <story><title>I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea</title><url>https://tjcx.me/p/i-wasted-40k-on-a-fantastic-startup-idea</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sillysaurusx</author><text>With all the negative pushback this is getting, it’s making me think he was onto something. The exact same criticisms would apply to Airbnb, for example. “They have not the slightest idea how the hotel industry works. This is a very professional industry with a lot of legal hurdles...”</text></item><item><author>Gatsky</author><text>This article was posted before several years ago. The whole premise is bumptious - &quot;I can copy data out of a bunch of papers [which I am in no position to screen for quality or relevance], run a canned &#x27;gold standard&#x27; analysis in R [the idea that there is one true way to generate valid data is ridiculous], and then go tell the professionals what they are doing wrong.&quot; He even brags that his meta-analysis for depression had more papers than the published one, as if this was a valid metric. The Cipriani meta-analysis he cites was publised in February 2018. His meta-analysis was done in July 2018, and had 324 more papers - what explains this difference, other than obviously sloppy methodology. A proper meta-analysis is a lot of work, researchers spend years on one meta-analysis. The whole concept is ill conceived, and the author is too caught up in themselves to even realise why.<p>Meta-analyses are a good idea, but the mere presence of a meta-analysis does not denote a useful undertaking. The literature is polluted with thousands of meta-analyses. As far as I can see this is mainly because there is software available which lets almost anyone do it, and once someone else has done a meta-analysis it is much easier to do another one because they have already found all the papers for you. The publication rate of meta-analyses far outstrips the publication rate of all papers, and shows some unusual geographic variation (Fig 2) [1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;systematicreviewsjournal.biomedcentral.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;10.1186&#x2F;s13643-018-0819-1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;systematicreviewsjournal.biomedcentral.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;...</a></text></item><item><author>nickjj</author><text>That was a fun read. I wish the author mentioned how much he was trying to sell the service for. It could have been $59 a month or $599 a month and with doctors you could potentially expect the same answer.<p>I&#x27;m not a psychologist but some of the author&#x27;s quoted text came off extremely demeaning in written form. If the author happens to read this, did you really say those things directly to them?<p>For example, Susan (psychologist) was quoted as saying:<p>&gt; <i>&quot;Oh sure! I mean, I think in many cases I&#x27;ll just prescribe what I normally do, since I&#x27;m comfortable with it. But you know it&#x27;s possible that sometimes I&#x27;ll prescribe something different, based on your metastudies.&quot;</i><p>To which you replied:<p>&gt; <i>&quot;And that isn&#x27;t worth something? Prescribing better treatments?&quot;</i><p>Imagine walking into the office of someone who spent the last ~10 years at school and then potentially 20 years practicing their craft as a successful psychologist and then you waltz in and tell them what they prescribe is wrong and your automated treatment plan is better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>Just because people think an idea is bad is doesn&#x27;t mean it&#x27;s a billion dollar startup idea. Indeed, most ideas people think are bad <i>are</i> actually bad - it&#x27;s only the few outliers that are actually successful. Even then I think there is a ton of mythologizing around this idea that the founders were able to see something nobody else did, usually to make the founders look like some sort of diamond-in-the-rough geniuses, when in reality what they built was just a natural evolution of tech that existed at the time (successful founders usually just execute better and faster than others).<p>I mean, despite all stuff I&#x27;ve heard on HN about how a lot of big VCs passed on AirBnB, when I first heard of it it seemed like a very natural evolution from sites like Couch Surfing and VRBO that had existed for years.</text></comment> | <story><title>I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea</title><url>https://tjcx.me/p/i-wasted-40k-on-a-fantastic-startup-idea</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sillysaurusx</author><text>With all the negative pushback this is getting, it’s making me think he was onto something. The exact same criticisms would apply to Airbnb, for example. “They have not the slightest idea how the hotel industry works. This is a very professional industry with a lot of legal hurdles...”</text></item><item><author>Gatsky</author><text>This article was posted before several years ago. The whole premise is bumptious - &quot;I can copy data out of a bunch of papers [which I am in no position to screen for quality or relevance], run a canned &#x27;gold standard&#x27; analysis in R [the idea that there is one true way to generate valid data is ridiculous], and then go tell the professionals what they are doing wrong.&quot; He even brags that his meta-analysis for depression had more papers than the published one, as if this was a valid metric. The Cipriani meta-analysis he cites was publised in February 2018. His meta-analysis was done in July 2018, and had 324 more papers - what explains this difference, other than obviously sloppy methodology. A proper meta-analysis is a lot of work, researchers spend years on one meta-analysis. The whole concept is ill conceived, and the author is too caught up in themselves to even realise why.<p>Meta-analyses are a good idea, but the mere presence of a meta-analysis does not denote a useful undertaking. The literature is polluted with thousands of meta-analyses. As far as I can see this is mainly because there is software available which lets almost anyone do it, and once someone else has done a meta-analysis it is much easier to do another one because they have already found all the papers for you. The publication rate of meta-analyses far outstrips the publication rate of all papers, and shows some unusual geographic variation (Fig 2) [1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;systematicreviewsjournal.biomedcentral.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;10.1186&#x2F;s13643-018-0819-1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;systematicreviewsjournal.biomedcentral.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;...</a></text></item><item><author>nickjj</author><text>That was a fun read. I wish the author mentioned how much he was trying to sell the service for. It could have been $59 a month or $599 a month and with doctors you could potentially expect the same answer.<p>I&#x27;m not a psychologist but some of the author&#x27;s quoted text came off extremely demeaning in written form. If the author happens to read this, did you really say those things directly to them?<p>For example, Susan (psychologist) was quoted as saying:<p>&gt; <i>&quot;Oh sure! I mean, I think in many cases I&#x27;ll just prescribe what I normally do, since I&#x27;m comfortable with it. But you know it&#x27;s possible that sometimes I&#x27;ll prescribe something different, based on your metastudies.&quot;</i><p>To which you replied:<p>&gt; <i>&quot;And that isn&#x27;t worth something? Prescribing better treatments?&quot;</i><p>Imagine walking into the office of someone who spent the last ~10 years at school and then potentially 20 years practicing their craft as a successful psychologist and then you waltz in and tell them what they prescribe is wrong and your automated treatment plan is better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wartijn_</author><text>Aren&#x27;t you falling for the survivorship bias trap? Sure, people have said that about Airbnb. But I think there are loads of that startups that failed because they didn&#x27;t understand the industry they were in, or because of legal hurdles.</text></comment> |
18,384,421 | 18,383,607 | 1 | 3 | 18,382,630 | train | <story><title>SoftBank CEO says Khashoggi killing may have impact on Saudi-backed Vision Fund</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/05/softbank-ceo-masayoshi-son-breaks-silence-on-death-of-saudi-journalist.html?yptr=yahoo</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>This is going to be interesting. Until recently, SoftBank was thought of as being a Japanese operation. Now they seem to be a front for Saudi Arabia&#x27;s sovereign wealth fund.<p>They seem to be the world&#x27;s largest source of dumb money. They keep Uber afloat. $375M for a pizza making robot company. WeWork. Cruise. $300 million in Wag, a dog-walking company. They do have big stakes in ARM and NVidia, which actually make useful stuff profitably. But the investments in the last two years have been strange.<p>The goal may not be profitability, but influence. The Cruise investment gives them some pull at GM. The WeWork investment gives them some pull in the US real estate market. The Uber investment lets them influence the future of transportation. Those all make strategic sense for an oil power. Someone there likes robots; they bought most of the robot companies Google dumped, plus a few others.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.recode.net&#x2F;2018&#x2F;2&#x2F;5&#x2F;16974032&#x2F;this-is-where-chart-softbank-vision-fund-masayoshi-son-venture-capital" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.recode.net&#x2F;2018&#x2F;2&#x2F;5&#x2F;16974032&#x2F;this-is-where-chart...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>SoftBank CEO says Khashoggi killing may have impact on Saudi-backed Vision Fund</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/05/softbank-ceo-masayoshi-son-breaks-silence-on-death-of-saudi-journalist.html?yptr=yahoo</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>crwalker</author><text>Weak. SoftBank has always seemed suspiciously large and cavalier. I expect there&#x27;s a venture analog to the expression &quot;there are old pilots, and there are bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots.&quot; Let&#x27;s hope they stick the WeWork landing ...</text></comment> |
4,114,689 | 4,114,392 | 1 | 2 | 4,114,301 | train | <story><title>How to Talk to Human Beings</title><url>http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/06/how-to-talk-to-human-beings.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>biot</author><text>Read the comic of the kid in the high chair as the panels being oriented like:<p><pre><code> 1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8
</code></pre>
rather than:<p><pre><code> 1 2 1 2
3 4 3 4
</code></pre>
It's much more surreal that way.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Talk to Human Beings</title><url>http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/06/how-to-talk-to-human-beings.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>shashashasha</author><text>I get hit by this all the time. Many times when I'm talking with my girlfriend I realize that what she wants is not for me to leap into "problem-solving" mode which I naturally tend towards, but understanding/empathy mode (similar to the "That's frustrating" example in the post). Realizing that during a conversation dramatically changes the flow for the better :)</text></comment> |
26,774,385 | 26,774,402 | 1 | 3 | 26,773,398 | train | <story><title>Japan decides to release water from Fukushima plant into sea</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Japan-decides-to-release-water-from-Fukushima-plant-into-sea</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cbmuser</author><text>It’s Tritium aka Hydrogen with two neutrons which is part of any water anyway and even part of the human body.<p>Even if they release all of the Tritium water, they will not even cause a minuscule bump in the Tritium concentration of the ocean.<p>Plus, Tritium is a beta emitter and the particles have a range of merely a few micrometers.<p>Releasing that Tritium has never been a health or environmental problem, it has merely been a PR and political problem.</text></comment> | <story><title>Japan decides to release water from Fukushima plant into sea</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Japan-decides-to-release-water-from-Fukushima-plant-into-sea</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>acidburnNSA</author><text>At one point CNN and Greenpeace were saying that the Carbon-14 in particular would &quot;change human DNA&quot;, since the tritium levels would be diluted well below anything people could reasonably define as hazardous [1]. There are 63.6 GBq of Carbon-14 in the tanks total. Sounds like a lot but that actually comes out to 0.4 grams total. This entire amount is generated naturally every ~40 minutes in the atmosphere [2].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;jamesconca&#x2F;2017&#x2F;11&#x2F;29&#x2F;japan-should-release-tritium-contaminated-water-to-the-ocean&#x2F;?sh=1a15a3e0d8ce" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;jamesconca&#x2F;2017&#x2F;11&#x2F;29&#x2F;japan-sho...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;whatisnuclear.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2020-10-25-greenpeace-mistaken-on-radiocarbon-impact.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;whatisnuclear.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2020-10-25-greenpeace-mistake...</a></text></comment> |
19,351,054 | 19,350,790 | 1 | 2 | 19,349,830 | train | <story><title>Hackers ransack Citrix, make off with 6TB+ of emails, biz docs, secrets</title><url>https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/08/citrix_hacked_data_stolen/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>salimmadjd</author><text>The evidence that points to Iran comes from a company named, Resecurity. But there are some odd stuff about this company.<p>1 - their CEO has no real linkedIn history [1]<p>2 - they revenue and employment went off the chart just in 2 quarters [2]<p>3 - very unclear how they came to this assessment. Especially now that US government is looking for excuses (real or fabricated) to make a case for war with Iran, I look at these evidence with some skepticism.<p>Am I being over-cynical here?<p>1 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linkedin.com&#x2F;in&#x2F;charles-yoo-365201165&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linkedin.com&#x2F;in&#x2F;charles-yoo-365201165&#x2F;</a><p>2 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zoominfo.com&#x2F;c&#x2F;resecurity-inc&#x2F;353866377" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zoominfo.com&#x2F;c&#x2F;resecurity-inc&#x2F;353866377</a><p>edit - formating.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eikxyz</author><text>1 Resecurity&#x27;s wordpress site has directory listing turned on. Most content on the website seems to have been uploaded in february.
2 The services that does the press releases looks suspicious.
3 The second service also looks suspicious
4 Golden Bridge Silver and Gold Award winners... Anyone heard of this? Seems they sell thophies<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;resecurity.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;resecurity.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.prnewswire.com&#x2F;news-releases&#x2F;resecurity-names-ian-cook-as-strategic-adviser-300705772.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.prnewswire.com&#x2F;news-releases&#x2F;resecurity-names-ia...</a>
[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businesswire.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;home&#x2F;20190226005414&#x2F;en&#x2F;Resecurity-Recognized-Cybersecurity-Excellence-Awards-Forensics-Risk&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businesswire.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;home&#x2F;20190226005414&#x2F;en&#x2F;Res...</a>
[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goldenbridgeawards.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goldenbridgeawards.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;</a><p>Looks like a fish, smells like a fish</text></comment> | <story><title>Hackers ransack Citrix, make off with 6TB+ of emails, biz docs, secrets</title><url>https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/08/citrix_hacked_data_stolen/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>salimmadjd</author><text>The evidence that points to Iran comes from a company named, Resecurity. But there are some odd stuff about this company.<p>1 - their CEO has no real linkedIn history [1]<p>2 - they revenue and employment went off the chart just in 2 quarters [2]<p>3 - very unclear how they came to this assessment. Especially now that US government is looking for excuses (real or fabricated) to make a case for war with Iran, I look at these evidence with some skepticism.<p>Am I being over-cynical here?<p>1 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linkedin.com&#x2F;in&#x2F;charles-yoo-365201165&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linkedin.com&#x2F;in&#x2F;charles-yoo-365201165&#x2F;</a><p>2 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zoominfo.com&#x2F;c&#x2F;resecurity-inc&#x2F;353866377" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zoominfo.com&#x2F;c&#x2F;resecurity-inc&#x2F;353866377</a><p>edit - formating.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TaylorAlexander</author><text>It’s absolutely reasonable to be critical of any accusations that “Iran did it” or any other nation that the US considers enemies. Didn’t our security ministers claim North Korea was behind the Sony hacks when Obama was in office? We were never given any proof, so it’s impossible to verify... When you consider the way we lie on international affairs, all statements our government makes must be considered suspect. This is not unique to the US by the way, so treat your own state similarly.</text></comment> |
20,694,891 | 20,693,113 | 1 | 2 | 20,692,288 | train | <story><title>Texas Power Prices Briefly Surpass $9k Amid Scorching Heat</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-12/searing-texas-heat-pushes-power-prices-to-near-record-levels</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zaroth</author><text>That&#x27;s over ~$750 for the power stored in a single Tesla battery pack. Not that the cars are capable of back-feeding the grid (V2G), unfortunately, nor is the infrastructure in place to pull from them in times like this...<p>It sure seems like if we&#x27;re going to have millions of these 100kWh batteries plugged in, all nicely geographically distributed and internet connected, it would be swell if the owners could set a price at which they would be willing to sell their energy. It would just add another way that EVs are better than ICE cars.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>monkeynotes</author><text>This sparks an interesting discussion around &#x27;what if we all had EVs&#x27;. Texas would not be the only place struggling to meet demand. If everyone is fueling their cars with electricity, demand is going to be high in all cities.<p>Without fossil fuels we need to find new sources for power. It&#x27;s not good enough to say &#x27;electricity&#x27;, how do you generate it at a capacity that fills in for the 20.5 million barrels of oil consumed a day in the USA?<p>The numbers are interesting. There is 17500 kw&#x2F;h or 1.7 mw&#x2F;h in a barrel of oil. Using 20.5m barrels a day, that&#x27;s 34.85 million mw&#x2F;h a day. The US currently generates around 10 million mw&#x2F;h of electricity a day[1].<p>Granted, a fraction of a barrel of oil is used for gasoline, but you can see that the grid will need a sizeable upgrade if it is to fill in for our dependency on oil.<p>Please forgive me if I have some of this wrong!<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_countries_by_electricity_consumption" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_countries_by_electrici...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Texas Power Prices Briefly Surpass $9k Amid Scorching Heat</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-12/searing-texas-heat-pushes-power-prices-to-near-record-levels</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zaroth</author><text>That&#x27;s over ~$750 for the power stored in a single Tesla battery pack. Not that the cars are capable of back-feeding the grid (V2G), unfortunately, nor is the infrastructure in place to pull from them in times like this...<p>It sure seems like if we&#x27;re going to have millions of these 100kWh batteries plugged in, all nicely geographically distributed and internet connected, it would be swell if the owners could set a price at which they would be willing to sell their energy. It would just add another way that EVs are better than ICE cars.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nradov</author><text>Over time it might be more practical for EV manufacturers to take back decommissioned vehicles and install the battery packs in centralized facilities for grid storage and stabilization. That would avoid the need for expensive and complex grid connection equipment in individual EVs. Even if the reused batteries are down to 60% capacity, stacking a bunch of them could deliver enough power for demand spikes.</text></comment> |
14,086,646 | 14,086,564 | 1 | 3 | 14,082,754 | train | <story><title>NASA Unveils Searchable Video, Audio and Imagery Library</title><url>https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-unveils-new-searchable-video-audio-and-imagery-library-for-the-public</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>loudmax</author><text>On a related note, NASA&#x27;s Worldview makes images from Earth observation satellites available in near real time (a few hours): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>NASA Unveils Searchable Video, Audio and Imagery Library</title><url>https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-unveils-new-searchable-video-audio-and-imagery-library-for-the-public</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Doches</author><text>Finally, a replacement for the old GRIN (GReat Images in NASA) archive! It was shutdown and replaced with a Flickr account a couple of years ago; it&#x27;s nice to see NASA (and, by extension, the US Gov.) owning their own web properties again.</text></comment> |
11,087,819 | 11,085,931 | 1 | 3 | 11,084,968 | train | <story><title>Adblock via /etc/hosts</title><url>https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sugarfactory</author><text>I had been doing this until some time ago to block ads and to prevent Google from collecting my web browsing history via Google Analytics. During the time I witnessed a strange phenomenon. Every time I added &quot;127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com&quot; to C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts. I saw the line removed from the file some hours later. Although I had added tens of lines I only saw the Google Analytics line removed. IIRC finally I decided to figure out whet caused the removal. I used Filemon to watch file changes, though the line got removed again while watching the file and nothing appeared on the log. I suspected Ring-0 processes were secretly running and causing the removal, but I knew nothing about the Windows kernel so I gave up here. I wonder what was the cause to this day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>c0nsumer</author><text>Instead of Filemon I&#x27;d suggest firing up Process Monitor [1] with a filter of &quot;path contains system32\drivers\etc\hosts&quot; and then Filter -&gt; Drop Filtered Events.<p>Let this run while you go about your normal work, then check back after you notice the change. Look through the Operation column for WriteFile or something similar, then see what Process Name did it. This&#x27;ll let you figure out what&#x27;s actually making the change and you can appropriately assign blame.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;technet.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;sysinternals&#x2F;processmonitor.aspx" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;technet.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;sysinternals&#x2F;processmoni...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Adblock via /etc/hosts</title><url>https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sugarfactory</author><text>I had been doing this until some time ago to block ads and to prevent Google from collecting my web browsing history via Google Analytics. During the time I witnessed a strange phenomenon. Every time I added &quot;127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com&quot; to C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts. I saw the line removed from the file some hours later. Although I had added tens of lines I only saw the Google Analytics line removed. IIRC finally I decided to figure out whet caused the removal. I used Filemon to watch file changes, though the line got removed again while watching the file and nothing appeared on the log. I suspected Ring-0 processes were secretly running and causing the removal, but I knew nothing about the Windows kernel so I gave up here. I wonder what was the cause to this day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>derFunk</author><text>Did you have local Google services running, like the Google Updater (afaik also comes with Chrome). Google also adds some entries into the task planner, you can also check there what is getting called.<p>Though I believe you should have seen something in Filemon.</text></comment> |
19,735,939 | 19,734,906 | 1 | 3 | 19,732,032 | train | <story><title>Tech Needs More Conscientious Objectors</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/23/opinion/google-privacy-china.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ABCLAW</author><text>I think the imposition of this burden on engineers is the result of our belief that our legislators are too incompetent or unwilling to act in the fact of clear moral hazards.<p>Tech has a very strong history of conscientious objectors. They&#x27;re not the problem. Other institutions need to do their part.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jondubois</author><text>The core of the problem is that the masses do not have shared values anymore. There are no moral ideals to aim towards.<p>Without values there is no good or evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tech Needs More Conscientious Objectors</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/23/opinion/google-privacy-china.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ABCLAW</author><text>I think the imposition of this burden on engineers is the result of our belief that our legislators are too incompetent or unwilling to act in the fact of clear moral hazards.<p>Tech has a very strong history of conscientious objectors. They&#x27;re not the problem. Other institutions need to do their part.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>killjoywashere</author><text>I wrote a response to an email today, someone had sent me two ethics position papers. I pigeon-holed my own response after I wrote &quot;it&#x27;s time policy makers start assuming responsibility for understanding more logic than just policy logic. Math must be part of their domain expertise&quot;.<p>Mainly I shelved my response because I doubt the policy people on the thread would have taken that very well. But the truth is looming large these days.</text></comment> |
25,370,754 | 25,370,939 | 1 | 3 | 25,363,981 | train | <story><title>Hyundai to acquire Boston Dynamics</title><url>https://www.therobotreport.com/hyundai-acquires-boston-dynamics-for-921m/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>postingpals</author><text>Crunchyroll acquired by Sony, BD acquired by Hyundai, Slack acquired by Salesforce...<p>Our economic system seems to have a natural tendency towards monopoly. This is happening before our eyes and we don&#x27;t even realise it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jandrese</author><text>In market based economies there will always be a general movement of capital to the top, because simply having money allow you to earn more money. It&#x27;s a positive feedback loop. That&#x27;s why it is important for an external force, which pretty much has to be a government, to tax the wealth at the top and move it back to the bottom. Otherwise the system gradually turns into feudalism by its very nature. A government that stops taxing the richest companies and citizens is failing in its duty to protect the health of the market.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hyundai to acquire Boston Dynamics</title><url>https://www.therobotreport.com/hyundai-acquires-boston-dynamics-for-921m/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>postingpals</author><text>Crunchyroll acquired by Sony, BD acquired by Hyundai, Slack acquired by Salesforce...<p>Our economic system seems to have a natural tendency towards monopoly. This is happening before our eyes and we don&#x27;t even realise it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jl6</author><text>Alternative take: consumer behaviour that demands complex integrated products incentivizes the formation of large corporate bodies that can marshall the many skills and resources required to make them, with the economies of scale that make them viable.<p>Semi-facetious summary: there’s not a lot of demand for local, organic, artisan all-terrain robot packhorses.</text></comment> |
11,739,798 | 11,740,016 | 1 | 3 | 11,739,397 | train | <story><title>Cutestrap: 8k CSS framework</title><url>https://www.cutestrap.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sotojuan</author><text>Cool, but what does it offer that Pure (4kb doesn&#x27;t)?<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;purecss.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;purecss.io</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hire_charts</author><text>From what I can tell, they have slightly different aims.<p>For instance, Cutestrap follows BEM naming conventions and uses KSS to generate its own documentation. KSS is a nice way of generating a pattern library of your own, as you start to extend your base CSS framework.<p>Also, one big difference is the way they handle grids. Cutestrap grids automatically stretch columns to fill up the horizontal space and allow you to provide weights. (This is essentially a very thin abstraction on top of flexbox.) Whereas Pure grids deal more with unit sizing, more like Bootstrap.<p>In general, Cutestrap is more opinionated (as its tagline implies) whereas Pure offers much more customizability. I&#x27;d argue that Pure should be used more like Bootstrap, as a way to prototype complex UIs before applying more custom styling, whereas Cutestrap should be more directly used as a base for your own, custom (and opinionated) styling.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cutestrap: 8k CSS framework</title><url>https://www.cutestrap.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sotojuan</author><text>Cool, but what does it offer that Pure (4kb doesn&#x27;t)?<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;purecss.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;purecss.io</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xutopia</author><text>The grids are way nicer in cute. You just have to specify a grid container and the flex takes care of the rest.</text></comment> |
39,372,496 | 39,372,660 | 1 | 2 | 39,370,173 | train | <story><title>Tai chi reduces blood pressure better than aerobic exercise</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/02/14/1231232197/tai-chi-aerobics-exercise-blood-pressure-hypertension-mindfulness</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>corysama</author><text>Long ago, maybe before the consumer internet, I saw a video claiming to showcase people who studied tai chi as a fighting art instead of just exercise. It was a lot of being able to follow the other person&#x27;s movements to the point that &quot;Fighting a tai chi master is like wrestling with an empty jacket&quot;. There was also a demonstration where a master pushed a student&#x27;s middle finger back using an open palm. No matter how the student spun around and whipped his hand around, he couldn&#x27;t get his finger away from the pressure of the palm that was following him around.<p>No idea how legit it was. I&#x27;ve never seen tai chi presented primarily as self-defense since.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bunderbunder</author><text>Alarm bells go off in my head whenever the demonstration of an extraordinary martial arts skill is being done by a master and his student. Maybe the most egregious example of how this sort of dynamic can work out is George Dillman and his &quot;no touch knockouts&quot;. It&#x27;s easy enough to find amusing YouTube videos showing how that worked out when someone roped him into trying to demonstrate the technique on someone who <i>wasn&#x27;t</i> a student of his.<p>Anyway, it&#x27;s usually not nearly that spectacular, but the same basic dynamic has historically pervaded many martial arts. Participants in one style typically only practice and spar with each other, and the &quot;more advanced&quot; techniques might only be demonstrated using advanced students who wouldn&#x27;t get to be that advanced in the first place without being heavily bought into the whole thing, so you can get some almost cult-like dynamics coming into play.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tai chi reduces blood pressure better than aerobic exercise</title><url>https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/02/14/1231232197/tai-chi-aerobics-exercise-blood-pressure-hypertension-mindfulness</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>corysama</author><text>Long ago, maybe before the consumer internet, I saw a video claiming to showcase people who studied tai chi as a fighting art instead of just exercise. It was a lot of being able to follow the other person&#x27;s movements to the point that &quot;Fighting a tai chi master is like wrestling with an empty jacket&quot;. There was also a demonstration where a master pushed a student&#x27;s middle finger back using an open palm. No matter how the student spun around and whipped his hand around, he couldn&#x27;t get his finger away from the pressure of the palm that was following him around.<p>No idea how legit it was. I&#x27;ve never seen tai chi presented primarily as self-defense since.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nandkeypull</author><text>If you can find a competent instructor from a lineage that preserved the fighting applications of tai chi, you can see some pretty interesting grappling and joint-locking techniques. It&#x27;s not all snake oil.<p>One example (Yang-style tai chi): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=kp2jWeaKrqI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=kp2jWeaKrqI</a></text></comment> |
5,897,978 | 5,897,842 | 1 | 2 | 5,897,452 | train | <story><title>Obama Can’t Confirm If Courts Ever Rejected Spying Requests</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/17/in-first-nsa-interview-obama-cant-confirm-if-courts-ever-rejected-spying-requests/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>weland</author><text>Dear God, it&#x27;s like I&#x27;m a kid again.<p>I didn&#x27;t grow up in the US; when I was a kid, we didn&#x27;t have this kind of interviews on TV. For one thing, most of the TV shows they aired was propaganda, and it was so utterly boring most of us didn&#x27;t bother. The newspapers, on the other hand, carried propaganda along with the news, so you kindda had to read it, too, if you were to know what&#x27;s happening. The smarter folks could even read between the lines.<p>This one struck the most sensible chord:<p>&gt; And what that does is that does not apply to any U.S. person. Has to be a foreign entity.<p>Entities. Not individuals, not groups, but entities. If you&#x27;re an American citizen, you&#x27;re cool. If you&#x27;re a foreign entity, you&#x27;re preeeetty much either a ladybug or a human, either way, it&#x27;s pretty much the same thing.<p>This was Communist speak for non-Communist (to be fair, it was the twisted kind of Soviet-inspired Communism). We had communist workers and teachers and housewives, but foreign elements. Our country had communist friends but the democratic entities weren&#x27;t that friendly.<p>This defensive depersonalization makes it very easy to strip away ethics. Butchering unarmed civilians sounds a lot more horrifying than annihilating non-combatant, but dangerous entities.<p>&gt; The — because — the — first of all, Charlie, the number of requests are surprisingly small… number one. Number two, folks don’t go with a query unless they’ve got a pretty good suspicion.<p>This sounds very much like the kind of conversation that, at some point, was taking place between Soviet representatives and representatives of various other subordinated, but somewhat nasty countries of the Soviet block.<p>It&#x27;s the kind of stuff that was handed out to us during the talks about the Warszaw pact. Is it true that the Soviet Union has supreme command of all troops and can invade any territory, even that of its allies? Well, no, I mean, it wouldn&#x27;t be an invasion. It&#x27;s a trade-off we have do for our freedom: should the Revolution be abandoned in any of the member countries, the allied countries should intervene to restore the right values. That is why the Soviet Union has to have representatives at all levels, must be informed of every decision. It&#x27;s one of those things we must concede for democracy -- we need to entrust our freedom to people who can protect it. Words like freedom, democracy, values and way of life were freely thrown in -- ours was the land of the brave and free, unlike that of the oppressed working-class friends living in imperialist, totalitarian states.<p>I shivered a bit when I read this.<p>Edit: BTW, just to practice my reading-between-the-lines muscle, my guess is that a) FISA hasn&#x27;t turned down any request yet and b) the requests were summarily &quot;reviewed&quot; and approved, through a short process that should give legal backing. In other words, FISA isn&#x27;t there to actually review the requests, it&#x27;s there simply in order to fill in the paperwork that&#x27;s needed in order to make the whole thing seem legitimate.<p>In the early days of the regime, we had something similar to this, too. The curious dudes submitted a request to a committee of representatives of the people -- the request was basically a form which said that the following people have highly suspicious activities that can be a threat to the security of our people, to the Revolution and the communist way of life we have so hardly fought for (actual fucking words!) and was recommended to be placed under surveillance. These were signed pretty much in bulk -- the representatives of the people usually signed a big list at the bottom. Later on, this was eventually dropped: complaining about paperwork was useless, and after a few years it became obvious complaining about paperwork was so dangerous that when it was no longer required, no one dared do anything about it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Obama Can’t Confirm If Courts Ever Rejected Spying Requests</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/17/in-first-nsa-interview-obama-cant-confirm-if-courts-ever-rejected-spying-requests/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>spikels</author><text>Obama is almost certainly the best spoken US President in 50 years. But when asked a simple, straightforward yes or no question:<p>&quot;But has FISA court turned down any request?&quot;<p>We get this answer:<p>&quot;The — because — the — first of all, Charlie, the number of requests are surprisingly small… number one. Number two, folks don’t go with a query unless they’ve got a pretty good suspicion.&quot;<p>Just blather, incoherence and grasping at straws. C&#x27;mon man you went to Columbia and Harvard Law, you give speeches almost every day - you can do better.<p>How about &quot;yes&quot;, &quot;no&quot; or &quot;I don&#x27;t know&quot; next time.</text></comment> |
18,903,895 | 18,903,622 | 1 | 2 | 18,903,235 | train | <story><title>Writing an OS in Rust: Introduction to Paging</title><url>https://os.phil-opp.com/paging-introduction/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fermienrico</author><text>As a side note: I wish Rust would come to embedded development ASAP running a real time OS written in Rust. You can use massive Boost libraries and Qt frameworks on non-embedded systems with C&#x2F;C++, but in embedded, there is no such luxury. I am new to it but it is painful and I wish to see a day where we have a complete LLVM based ARM compiler toolchain with Rust sitting on top. I think there were some blog posts about running Rust on STM32 but it is still very early.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jamesmunns</author><text>Hey, I saw that links to the Embedded Working Group[0], TockOS[1], and others have been posted already, and those are great places to start!<p>My company, Ferrous Systems[2], is also focused on embedded systems development in Rust, and we are already helping companies both with embedded linux and bare-metal&#x2F;RTOS projects in Rust.<p>We&#x27;re also running a conference in Berlin on April 26th-29th called OxidizeConf[3] if you are interested in learning more about what is already going on in the Embedded Rust world :)<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-embedded&#x2F;wg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-embedded&#x2F;wg</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tockos.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tockos.org&#x2F;</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ferrous-systems.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ferrous-systems.com</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;oxidizeconf.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;oxidizeconf.com</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Writing an OS in Rust: Introduction to Paging</title><url>https://os.phil-opp.com/paging-introduction/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fermienrico</author><text>As a side note: I wish Rust would come to embedded development ASAP running a real time OS written in Rust. You can use massive Boost libraries and Qt frameworks on non-embedded systems with C&#x2F;C++, but in embedded, there is no such luxury. I am new to it but it is painful and I wish to see a day where we have a complete LLVM based ARM compiler toolchain with Rust sitting on top. I think there were some blog posts about running Rust on STM32 but it is still very early.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nicoburns</author><text>It is still pretty early, but if there&#x27;s been quite a bit of progress this year. This is probably the closest to what you are looking for that exists at the moment: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;japaric&#x2F;cortex-m-rtfm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;japaric&#x2F;cortex-m-rtfm</a><p>You can also follow the Rust Embedded Working Group blog if you wish: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rust-embedded.github.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rust-embedded.github.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
19,088,231 | 19,088,144 | 1 | 3 | 19,087,558 | train | <story><title>Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/05/raiseit/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GordonS</author><text>2 things about Reddit&#x27;s &quot;use our app instead!&quot; buttons:<p>1. They cycle through a couple of different messages, and the buttons get switched around<p>2. The wording is such that you read it twice and still aren&#x27;t sure which button will just take you to the damn website<p>I don&#x27;t mind them promoting their app, but these dark patterns truely rile me</text></item><item><author>minimaxir</author><text>I&#x27;ve been a fan of Reddit for a very long time (as the amount of data science work I&#x27;ve done with their data can attest to), but lately it seems like the incentives between Reddit as a business and Reddit as a community leader are not aligned, and that is a problem.<p>The increasing amount of dark patterns Reddit has been employing lately is concerning. (recent example: Reddit now gates content in mobile Safari to push users to the app: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;minimaxir&#x2F;status&#x2F;1086002848926593025" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;minimaxir&#x2F;status&#x2F;1086002848926593025</a> )<p>That said, it seems like the <i>really bad</i> dark patterns I reported 7 months ago (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17446841" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17446841</a>) no longer appear to be in place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rhinoceraptor</author><text>I do mind them promoting their app, it’s a horrible app and they’ve continually ruined their website. The only way I can stand to use reddit anymore is through Narwhal, at least until they kill their 3rd party apps API.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/05/raiseit/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GordonS</author><text>2 things about Reddit&#x27;s &quot;use our app instead!&quot; buttons:<p>1. They cycle through a couple of different messages, and the buttons get switched around<p>2. The wording is such that you read it twice and still aren&#x27;t sure which button will just take you to the damn website<p>I don&#x27;t mind them promoting their app, but these dark patterns truely rile me</text></item><item><author>minimaxir</author><text>I&#x27;ve been a fan of Reddit for a very long time (as the amount of data science work I&#x27;ve done with their data can attest to), but lately it seems like the incentives between Reddit as a business and Reddit as a community leader are not aligned, and that is a problem.<p>The increasing amount of dark patterns Reddit has been employing lately is concerning. (recent example: Reddit now gates content in mobile Safari to push users to the app: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;minimaxir&#x2F;status&#x2F;1086002848926593025" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;minimaxir&#x2F;status&#x2F;1086002848926593025</a> )<p>That said, it seems like the <i>really bad</i> dark patterns I reported 7 months ago (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17446841" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17446841</a>) no longer appear to be in place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eeeeeeeeeeeee</author><text>I&#x27;ve noticed this as well. Really annoying. Or any website that immediately pops up a &quot;sign up for our email list!&quot; and blocks you from seeing the content.<p>Isn&#x27;t there a ton of data that most people don&#x27;t even use many apps anymore? Or they install them once and then uninstall them or ignore them?<p>I hope we can move towards a web that stays in the web browser. Apps are becoming really annoying, especially for interactions you only have intermittently (I&#x27;m not a daily reddit user, but I go there every now and then, or it pops up on search).</text></comment> |
5,067,301 | 5,067,146 | 1 | 3 | 5,066,915 | train | <story><title>I conceal my identity the same way Aaron was indicted for</title><url>http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2013/01/i-conceal-my-identity-same-way-aaron.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>watty</author><text>Context is important in law. It's not illegal to change your mac address or wear a ski mask. It can be illegal to do both of these things while committing other crimes.<p>I'm really sick of these sensational posts/comments showing up on HN. I know, I'm not supposed to complain about quality of posts or comments but the past week has really changed my view on the current state of HN. Witch hunts, sensational stories, jumping to conclusions, hating the law/government, etc. Let's go back to technical news.</text></comment> | <story><title>I conceal my identity the same way Aaron was indicted for</title><url>http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2013/01/i-conceal-my-identity-same-way-aaron.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JayNeely</author><text><i>Besides taking the "civil liberty" angle, I'm trying to get to the "witchcraft" angle. As Arthur C Clarke puts it, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". Here is my corollary: "Any sufficiently technical expert is indistinguishable from a witch". People fear magic they don't understand, and distrust those who wield that magic. Things that seem reasonable to technical geeks seem illegal to the non-technical.</i><p>Excellent insight.</text></comment> |
3,479,629 | 3,479,149 | 1 | 2 | 3,478,444 | train | <story><title>Hacker News Blacking Out Logo</title><url>http://news.ycombinator.com/?sopa</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>muppetman</author><text>Thank god there was a story about this. I'd never have realised. &#60;/sarcasm&#62;<p>Really - Does the front page need to be filled with this stuff? <i>We're</i> aware of it already. Is it really <i>that</i> exciting?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arthurgibson</author><text>Yes it does need to be filled, for the journalist and tech writes who scour hacker news for their latest blog posts. Not too leave out the random person who discovers Hacker News today.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hacker News Blacking Out Logo</title><url>http://news.ycombinator.com/?sopa</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>muppetman</author><text>Thank god there was a story about this. I'd never have realised. &#60;/sarcasm&#62;<p>Really - Does the front page need to be filled with this stuff? <i>We're</i> aware of it already. Is it really <i>that</i> exciting?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fauldsh</author><text>I've never seen a news post which exemplifies the idea that the comments can be worth more than the article. Obviously this isn't news to any-one here but it gives a place to discuss the changes.</text></comment> |
37,310,610 | 37,310,045 | 1 | 2 | 37,305,338 | train | <story><title>Why does the USA use 110V and UK use 230-240V? (2014)</title><url>https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/115200/why-does-the-usa-use-110v-and-uk-use-230-240v</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Kirby64</author><text>How many residential appliances benefit from three phase, and is the benefit outweighed by the additional cost of more copper for the additional wires?<p>For example, a common big motor that needs a starter capacitor is a HVAC unit. Usually the copper to run those is extremely expensive, on the order of hundreds of dollars. Adding an additional wire may add an additional hundred dollars or more. By comparison, starter caps are quite cheap. $20 for a HVAC sized one. That also isn&#x27;t counting any of the costs of three phase infrastructure for breakers etc.<p>That also isn&#x27;t even counting that many appliances are moving to inverter based technologies that don&#x27;t utilize induction motors at all, such as induction hobs. Or, many appliances with no benefit from extra phases (resistive heating devices such as ovens, dryers, toasters, etc).<p>Seems to me that the tradeoff is worth it.</text></item><item><author>jhoechtl</author><text>&gt; Really all residential connections in the US are 220V split phase<p>Really all modern residential connections in Europe are 400V three phase electric power, capable to immediately power an electric motor without the need of capacitors.<p>No matter how you put it, the US residential power grid is conceptionally lagging.</text></item><item><author>somat</author><text>Really all residential connections in the US are 220V split phase. The nice thing about split phase is that it is easy to well... split and run two linked 110V circuits, so most houses will have a few 220V items(ovens, airconditioner) and the rest wired half with phase A the other half with phase B. all of our consumer items expect this 110V<p>As to why split phase.... I am not really sure. Really, I wish a three phase residential had become normal instead. All the advantages of split phase but now your motors don&#x27;t have to suck. I have heard a three phase residential connection is common in some parts of Germany, lucky bastards.<p>One interesting side note is how the US last mile distribution layout is different than germany. The US uses a lot more smaller transformers, really one per street. while germany uses fewer larger transformers, one per neighborhood. not sure which one is better I bet the german layout is more efficient. but I will note it is a lot easier to keep spares and change out a small transformer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jonhohle</author><text>Others have made the comment about lower current requirements at high voltage, but from a maintenance perspective, that $20 capacitor is a common failure part. Calling an HVAC repair company to diagnosis, parts, and labor it costs around $200 for anyone not electrically minded. Over the life of an AC unit, starter&#x2F;run caps might have to replaced twice.<p>Even if an extra conductor in the line was a few hundred dollars, I’d rather have one less common failure point. In AZ AC is effectively required in the summer. AC outages are similar to winter furnace outages in northern areas. I have extra caps ready to deploy (we lose a cap about every 3 years across multiple units) but have never needed to unexpectedly replace copper.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why does the USA use 110V and UK use 230-240V? (2014)</title><url>https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/115200/why-does-the-usa-use-110v-and-uk-use-230-240v</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Kirby64</author><text>How many residential appliances benefit from three phase, and is the benefit outweighed by the additional cost of more copper for the additional wires?<p>For example, a common big motor that needs a starter capacitor is a HVAC unit. Usually the copper to run those is extremely expensive, on the order of hundreds of dollars. Adding an additional wire may add an additional hundred dollars or more. By comparison, starter caps are quite cheap. $20 for a HVAC sized one. That also isn&#x27;t counting any of the costs of three phase infrastructure for breakers etc.<p>That also isn&#x27;t even counting that many appliances are moving to inverter based technologies that don&#x27;t utilize induction motors at all, such as induction hobs. Or, many appliances with no benefit from extra phases (resistive heating devices such as ovens, dryers, toasters, etc).<p>Seems to me that the tradeoff is worth it.</text></item><item><author>jhoechtl</author><text>&gt; Really all residential connections in the US are 220V split phase<p>Really all modern residential connections in Europe are 400V three phase electric power, capable to immediately power an electric motor without the need of capacitors.<p>No matter how you put it, the US residential power grid is conceptionally lagging.</text></item><item><author>somat</author><text>Really all residential connections in the US are 220V split phase. The nice thing about split phase is that it is easy to well... split and run two linked 110V circuits, so most houses will have a few 220V items(ovens, airconditioner) and the rest wired half with phase A the other half with phase B. all of our consumer items expect this 110V<p>As to why split phase.... I am not really sure. Really, I wish a three phase residential had become normal instead. All the advantages of split phase but now your motors don&#x27;t have to suck. I have heard a three phase residential connection is common in some parts of Germany, lucky bastards.<p>One interesting side note is how the US last mile distribution layout is different than germany. The US uses a lot more smaller transformers, really one per street. while germany uses fewer larger transformers, one per neighborhood. not sure which one is better I bet the german layout is more efficient. but I will note it is a lot easier to keep spares and change out a small transformer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>japanuspus</author><text>I read this comment as implicitly assuming two phases to require less copper than three. In reality, the total copper cross-section needed to transfer power in a multi-phase system _decreases_ with increased number of independently wired phases (all else being equal).</text></comment> |
13,343,426 | 13,343,453 | 1 | 3 | 13,342,941 | train | <story><title>Reasons Not to Use Google (2015)</title><url>https://stallman.org/google.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xook</author><text>Obvious privacy issues aside, Stallman has always come off - to me - as someone who doesn&#x27;t really see the bigger picture. I thank him for taking a stance against corruption, but there is a line between practical and impractical.<p>I don&#x27;t know him personally, but his being top wheel of the FSF has skewed his reality. I cannot remember where I heard it, but I believe he is quoted (heavily paraphrasing here) along the lines of, &quot;I may be fighting a losing fight, but it&#x27;s all I can do, and I won&#x27;t stop until I&#x27;m dead.&quot;<p>Practicality is the ultimate deciding factor at its core. Practicality decides whether you use a GPL-based license or the Apache license. Practicality decides whether you choose to avoid a website because of non-free Javascript. Practicality decides whether you can eat that muffin and switch gears on the road, and so on. It is a bit like using secure services and utilizing OpSec. Where do <i>you</i> draw the line between convenience and security? Where does it stop being practical and where does it matter to stick to a principle?<p>Maybe he is just aging, and his brain is in an infinite loop. As I said, I do not know the man myself. But not having a clear focus of how life is for a majority of people can be a huge factor.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kristopolous</author><text>No need to be polite. Extremist weirdos are behind essentially all important, groundbreaking, awesome things.<p>A well mannered &quot;normal&quot; person would have never written the GPL and would have tolerated software that didn&#x27;t match their politics.<p>The fringe provides a mandatory function in steering the cultural ship.<p>Early advocates for things like minimum wages or child labor laws were Molotov cocktail throwing anarchists. Early women suffragists were equally way out there - even by quite permissive modern standards.<p>Subversives are necessary in order to subvert and often make the world a better place.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reasons Not to Use Google (2015)</title><url>https://stallman.org/google.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xook</author><text>Obvious privacy issues aside, Stallman has always come off - to me - as someone who doesn&#x27;t really see the bigger picture. I thank him for taking a stance against corruption, but there is a line between practical and impractical.<p>I don&#x27;t know him personally, but his being top wheel of the FSF has skewed his reality. I cannot remember where I heard it, but I believe he is quoted (heavily paraphrasing here) along the lines of, &quot;I may be fighting a losing fight, but it&#x27;s all I can do, and I won&#x27;t stop until I&#x27;m dead.&quot;<p>Practicality is the ultimate deciding factor at its core. Practicality decides whether you use a GPL-based license or the Apache license. Practicality decides whether you choose to avoid a website because of non-free Javascript. Practicality decides whether you can eat that muffin and switch gears on the road, and so on. It is a bit like using secure services and utilizing OpSec. Where do <i>you</i> draw the line between convenience and security? Where does it stop being practical and where does it matter to stick to a principle?<p>Maybe he is just aging, and his brain is in an infinite loop. As I said, I do not know the man myself. But not having a clear focus of how life is for a majority of people can be a huge factor.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fattire</author><text>In a way, &quot;practicality&quot; is the place you arrive at only after considering more extreme, principled points of view. So if his role is to present one philosophical approach to technology, and you decide it&#x27;s too extreme, at least it was there to make wherever you arrived informed and well-considered.<p>And certainly for many-- even if they don&#x27;t embrace his positions with full-throated absolutism, maybe they&#x27;ll be floating a little more in the direction of his idealisim than it would have without him having him there. And if so, and clearly his principled influence has been influential (and considerably so) for decades, that&#x27;s a good thing, right?<p>What would the would look like without his constant &quot;impractical&quot; point of view...? Very different, and more scary, I think.</text></comment> |
16,706,549 | 16,705,811 | 1 | 3 | 16,705,190 | train | <story><title>Rust 1.25 released</title><url>https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/03/29/Rust-1.25.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kibwen</author><text>The big thing in this one is the LLVM upgrade, which has been a <i>long</i> time coming. :) We actually skipped LLVM 5 entirely due to some issues with emscripten. It&#x27;ll be great to finally be able to experiment with LLD.<p>Looking forward, the next two releases, 1.26 and 1.27, are going to have some major features that we&#x27;ve been working on for a long, long time, such as &quot;impl trait&quot; (which should allow for improved performance, simpler syntax for the typical use of generics, and greatly improve error messages for extensive use of generics), more ergonomic matching when dealing with references, 128-bit integers, stable SIMD library support, and others. This whole year is going to see the continued stabilization of the ergonomics intiatives from last year, so stay tuned for lots of welcome tweaks to make Rust easier to write and read. :)<p>(I should also mention that this release happened live from the Rust All-Hands happening in Berlin, which has been a massively productive time so far; keep an eye out for the eventual workweek recap which will hopefully enumerate the tons of improvements (e.g. reducing Rust binary sizes by 10%) and future initiatives (e.g. forming an official Verification Team) that have happened this week.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pedrocr</author><text>&gt;The big thing in this one is the LLVM upgrade, which has been a long time coming.<p>This is great news. I just ran my usual benchmark and it seems a performance regression has been fixed and some performance added over that. I&#x27;m measuring the speed of loading a Sony A77 raw file in rawloader[1]. That includes TIFF parsing and then a tight loop that processes every pixel. Here&#x27;s the version history:<p>1.17 - 95ms<p>1.18 - 80ms (-16%)<p>1.19 - 79ms (-16%)<p>1.20 - 80ms (-16%)<p>1.21 - 79ms (-17%)<p>1.22 - 79ms (-17%)<p>1.23 - 79ms (-17%)<p>1.24 - 84ms (-12%)<p>1.25 - 74ms (-22%)<p>I believe the jump in 1.18 was LLVM 4.0 and now LLVM 6.0 is giving me a new performance jump. No idea what happened in 1.24 though but it seems to be fixed now.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pedrocr&#x2F;rawloader&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pedrocr&#x2F;rawloader&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Rust 1.25 released</title><url>https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/03/29/Rust-1.25.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kibwen</author><text>The big thing in this one is the LLVM upgrade, which has been a <i>long</i> time coming. :) We actually skipped LLVM 5 entirely due to some issues with emscripten. It&#x27;ll be great to finally be able to experiment with LLD.<p>Looking forward, the next two releases, 1.26 and 1.27, are going to have some major features that we&#x27;ve been working on for a long, long time, such as &quot;impl trait&quot; (which should allow for improved performance, simpler syntax for the typical use of generics, and greatly improve error messages for extensive use of generics), more ergonomic matching when dealing with references, 128-bit integers, stable SIMD library support, and others. This whole year is going to see the continued stabilization of the ergonomics intiatives from last year, so stay tuned for lots of welcome tweaks to make Rust easier to write and read. :)<p>(I should also mention that this release happened live from the Rust All-Hands happening in Berlin, which has been a massively productive time so far; keep an eye out for the eventual workweek recap which will hopefully enumerate the tons of improvements (e.g. reducing Rust binary sizes by 10%) and future initiatives (e.g. forming an official Verification Team) that have happened this week.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simias</author><text>&gt;stable SIMD library support<p>Oh, that&#x27;s a huge one for me and I didn&#x27;t even know it was in the pipeline, very happy to hear that. Now I&#x27;ll have to complain about lack of stable inline ASM support instead!</text></comment> |
40,659,797 | 40,655,253 | 1 | 2 | 40,632,654 | train | <story><title>How to make colored fire at home (2020)</title><url>https://sciencenotes.org/how-to-make-colored-fire/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>philipkglass</author><text>The colors will be purer if you use ethanol (denatured alcohol, 190 proof Everclear or equivalent) as fuel. High concentration isopropyl alcohol has a yellow tinge to the flame from soot formation. Methanol (sold to the public in the US in convenient small bottles as Heet Gas-Line Antifreeze) is also very good and may be easier to obtain in some areas than pure high-proof ethanol.<p>Sodium chloride, lithium chloride, copper chloride, and boric acid give the most intense colors. But sodium chloride&#x27;s orange-yellow color is a bit boring compared to the others.<p>A few milliliters of the alcohol mixture can be ignited in a shallow stainless steel dish with relative safety and there will be no color interference from carbonaceous fuels yellowing the flame via soot.<p>If I had to pick just one to try, I&#x27;d suggest boric acid. The green flames it produces are unlike any &quot;ordinary&quot; fire and boric acid is easy to find. Here&#x27;s a short video with a good view of how the flames look: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=g1jHVk6oqjU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=g1jHVk6oqjU</a><p>The first night that my now-wife met me in person, I showed her colored fire like this in the fire pit at my apartment complex. She originally meant to visit for just a few days but we&#x27;ve now spent 21 years together. I&#x27;d say that the demonstration was a success.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to make colored fire at home (2020)</title><url>https://sciencenotes.org/how-to-make-colored-fire/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dr_dshiv</author><text>Don’t miss the black flame! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sciencenotes.org&#x2F;how-to-make-black-fire&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sciencenotes.org&#x2F;how-to-make-black-fire&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
33,947,745 | 33,947,666 | 1 | 2 | 33,942,670 | train | <story><title>Be wary of imitating high-status people who can afford to countersignal</title><url>https://robkhenderson.substack.com/p/the-perils-of-imitating-high-status</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SoftTalker</author><text>Very senior&#x2F;wealthy people can get away with whatever they want. It&#x27;s why Zuckerberg can look like a total slob at Facebook (notice he still wore a suit while testifying to Congress though).<p>If a senior executive wore a $200 suit to work, nobody would say a word.</text></item><item><author>steveBK123</author><text>Yes this is very well put, you really hit the nail on the head here on the sort of reverse bell curve of signaling..<p>For the very wealthy..
If you show enough interest in something to make signaling purchases, it&#x27;s expected to be &quot;up to snuff&quot; .. this can mean very very high expense or high esotericness.<p>So that might mean a $200k sports car, or it might mean some uncommon though inexpensive limited production vintage vehicle even though it may be of reasonable price, the time &amp; effort you took to acquire &amp; maintain it is a signal of taste.<p>Otherwise you&#x27;d be better off signaling complete disinterest with a very vanilla middle of the road options.<p>On menswear I think to your example, you could say you&#x27;d be better off not wearing a suit than in wearing a $200 Men&#x27;s Wearhouse suit. To that end, these days, the type of people you tend to see in suits are either security &#x2F; front desk staff or very senior corporate executives. Those in the middle have enough labor negotiating power to not be required to wear a suit, but probably not the desire&#x2F;wealth to spend $2k on a properly tailored suit.</text></item><item><author>pclmulqdq</author><text>I think there&#x27;s a bit of an idea now that you should be expressing yourself with your money, not expressing society&#x27;s ideas. Around cars and watches, this creates a little bit of a &quot;dead zone&quot; for prestigious professionals.<p>For example, if you aren&#x27;t showing up in a $200k Maserati, your car had better be under $50k (maybe $70k with inflation). Only posers who aren&#x27;t really into cars but want to show off their wealth spend $120k on a car.<p>For watches, the same thing happens: if you&#x27;re wearing a watch less than $50k, it had better be under $500. Otherwise you probably don&#x27;t care much about watches.<p>Clothing seems to be the same at many companies: you had better wear tailored suits and shirts or be less dressy than &quot;business casual.&quot;</text></item><item><author>steveBK123</author><text>&quot;An example from Ogilvy Vice Chairman Rory Sutherland: If you’re a top executive, turning up to work on a bicycle is a high-status activity because it was a choice and not a necessity. But if you work at Pizza Hut, turning up on a bike means you can’t afford a car.&quot;<p>This tidbit reminds me of a similar anecdote (that my experience aligns with) re: the modern upper class that wearing a $2k Rolex or driving a $70k BMW is frowned upon. But instead they have eccentric &quot;hobbies&quot; requiring $10ks of of equipment, inclusive of &quot;needing&quot; $10k viking stove&#x2F;range, and $10k subzero fridge&#x2F;freezer in your kitchen because you are a &quot;foodie&quot; and doing a $500k home Reno because you have good architectural taste and style. They probably still own a $70k Volvo (or now Tesla) anyway :-). In these scenarios I think it&#x27;s because the $2k watch or $70k car is too easily attained by lower classes that they are no longer considered signals by the upper classes. However blowing $500k renovating a perfectly livable home, or $10k on an appliance you could spend as little as $1k on.. is not.<p>Another countersignal that the article points in the direction of is level of professional vs casual attire in the workplace. My friends and I are far enough in our careers that personally I&#x27;ve worn sneakers to work for the last 10 years, no business slacks, and sporadically tuck in my collared shirt. The last round of job searching doing zoom interviews, I wore my hoodie for half the calls. If I had done this while job searching out of college, during my internship, or at my first job.. I would not be where I am today.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Reebz</author><text>Zuckerberg wears $800 tshirts amongst other carefully selected pieces of his wardrobe. He isn’t rummaging through a local Target for a basic tee and jeans. I think this is a good example of countersignal interpretation!</text></comment> | <story><title>Be wary of imitating high-status people who can afford to countersignal</title><url>https://robkhenderson.substack.com/p/the-perils-of-imitating-high-status</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SoftTalker</author><text>Very senior&#x2F;wealthy people can get away with whatever they want. It&#x27;s why Zuckerberg can look like a total slob at Facebook (notice he still wore a suit while testifying to Congress though).<p>If a senior executive wore a $200 suit to work, nobody would say a word.</text></item><item><author>steveBK123</author><text>Yes this is very well put, you really hit the nail on the head here on the sort of reverse bell curve of signaling..<p>For the very wealthy..
If you show enough interest in something to make signaling purchases, it&#x27;s expected to be &quot;up to snuff&quot; .. this can mean very very high expense or high esotericness.<p>So that might mean a $200k sports car, or it might mean some uncommon though inexpensive limited production vintage vehicle even though it may be of reasonable price, the time &amp; effort you took to acquire &amp; maintain it is a signal of taste.<p>Otherwise you&#x27;d be better off signaling complete disinterest with a very vanilla middle of the road options.<p>On menswear I think to your example, you could say you&#x27;d be better off not wearing a suit than in wearing a $200 Men&#x27;s Wearhouse suit. To that end, these days, the type of people you tend to see in suits are either security &#x2F; front desk staff or very senior corporate executives. Those in the middle have enough labor negotiating power to not be required to wear a suit, but probably not the desire&#x2F;wealth to spend $2k on a properly tailored suit.</text></item><item><author>pclmulqdq</author><text>I think there&#x27;s a bit of an idea now that you should be expressing yourself with your money, not expressing society&#x27;s ideas. Around cars and watches, this creates a little bit of a &quot;dead zone&quot; for prestigious professionals.<p>For example, if you aren&#x27;t showing up in a $200k Maserati, your car had better be under $50k (maybe $70k with inflation). Only posers who aren&#x27;t really into cars but want to show off their wealth spend $120k on a car.<p>For watches, the same thing happens: if you&#x27;re wearing a watch less than $50k, it had better be under $500. Otherwise you probably don&#x27;t care much about watches.<p>Clothing seems to be the same at many companies: you had better wear tailored suits and shirts or be less dressy than &quot;business casual.&quot;</text></item><item><author>steveBK123</author><text>&quot;An example from Ogilvy Vice Chairman Rory Sutherland: If you’re a top executive, turning up to work on a bicycle is a high-status activity because it was a choice and not a necessity. But if you work at Pizza Hut, turning up on a bike means you can’t afford a car.&quot;<p>This tidbit reminds me of a similar anecdote (that my experience aligns with) re: the modern upper class that wearing a $2k Rolex or driving a $70k BMW is frowned upon. But instead they have eccentric &quot;hobbies&quot; requiring $10ks of of equipment, inclusive of &quot;needing&quot; $10k viking stove&#x2F;range, and $10k subzero fridge&#x2F;freezer in your kitchen because you are a &quot;foodie&quot; and doing a $500k home Reno because you have good architectural taste and style. They probably still own a $70k Volvo (or now Tesla) anyway :-). In these scenarios I think it&#x27;s because the $2k watch or $70k car is too easily attained by lower classes that they are no longer considered signals by the upper classes. However blowing $500k renovating a perfectly livable home, or $10k on an appliance you could spend as little as $1k on.. is not.<p>Another countersignal that the article points in the direction of is level of professional vs casual attire in the workplace. My friends and I are far enough in our careers that personally I&#x27;ve worn sneakers to work for the last 10 years, no business slacks, and sporadically tuck in my collared shirt. The last round of job searching doing zoom interviews, I wore my hoodie for half the calls. If I had done this while job searching out of college, during my internship, or at my first job.. I would not be where I am today.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seattle_spring</author><text>&gt; Zuckerberg can look like a total slob at Facebook<p>Huh, custom tshirts and well fitting jeans counts as &quot;looking like a total slob&quot; now? Fwiw I&#x27;d rather work with &#x2F; for someone that dresses like that over formal any day of the week.</text></comment> |
9,209,287 | 9,208,469 | 1 | 2 | 9,207,073 | train | <story><title>The Church of TED</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/opinion/sunday/the-church-of-ted.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cs702</author><text>&quot;TED, with its airy promises, sounds a lot like a secular religion ... The TED style, with its promise of progress, is as manipulative as the orthodoxies it is intended to upset.&quot;<p>Many (though not all!) TED presentations showcase individuals who think highly of themselves explaining in digestible soundbites how they&#x27;re going to make the world a better place, in front of live audiences who have a high opinion of themselves, for video distribution to online audiences who want to think highly of themselves.<p>It may not be a religion, but TED definitely has a cult-ish feel to it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>milesf</author><text>Heard this quip somewhere:<p><pre><code> If, on appropriate occasions, the members tell, enjoy,
trade, and&#x2F;or devise transgressively funny jokes about
their denomination, it’s a church.
If such jokes reliably meet with stifling social
disapproval, it’s a cult.
</code></pre>
This works for TED as well. I find some TED talks to be really useful. Others not so much. Just like every other group gathering whether it be a conference, educational institution, club, or whatever.<p>Think critically about everything.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Church of TED</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/opinion/sunday/the-church-of-ted.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cs702</author><text>&quot;TED, with its airy promises, sounds a lot like a secular religion ... The TED style, with its promise of progress, is as manipulative as the orthodoxies it is intended to upset.&quot;<p>Many (though not all!) TED presentations showcase individuals who think highly of themselves explaining in digestible soundbites how they&#x27;re going to make the world a better place, in front of live audiences who have a high opinion of themselves, for video distribution to online audiences who want to think highly of themselves.<p>It may not be a religion, but TED definitely has a cult-ish feel to it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cheatsheet</author><text>Can&#x27;t you frame every social organization in this kind of light? Stuff that people spend their lives on - they make it sound simple so other people understand it - this forms a &#x27;social group dynamic&#x27; through the action of communication or information transfer. If other people understand it, then they participate and contribute to the growth of &#x27;stuff&#x27;.</text></comment> |
5,980,938 | 5,980,576 | 1 | 2 | 5,979,786 | train | <story><title>HBGary, Palantir, Prism, Facebook and The Industrial Surveillance Complex</title><url>http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/23/1218189/-HBGary-Palantir-Prism-Facebook-The-Industrial-Surveillance-Complex</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Permit</author><text><p><pre><code> A company that profits from violence and war really can&#x27;t be expected to be terribly trustworthy.
</code></pre>
Their business does not center around tracking down terrorists. They do all things &quot;Big Data&quot;. That includes finance and tracking the source of E-Coli outbreaks. The problem is that people like yourself know nothing about the company, yet still feel qualified to condemn them.</text></item><item><author>glesica</author><text>Just as we should approach Palantir itself with a great deal of skepticism... A company that profits from violence and war really can&#x27;t be expected to be terribly trustworthy. I realize this community loves the idea of Palantir and many people probably know people who are involved. But why should Palantir get a free pass to go about their business with excessive secrecy in an area that features massive abuse without the additional scrutiny that must accompany such behavior?</text></item><item><author>Permit</author><text>I cannot believe we are doing this again. Just because Palantir was asked by Aaron Barr to use their technology against Greenwald does not mean that they did. Palantir later confirmed that their technology didn&#x27;t even have the ability to do what Aaron Barr was asking.<p>This is the second smear against Palantir in three days that cites an email without even showing the email to give you some context. They also don&#x27;t link to Palantirs response to these claims.<p>Please approach this with some level of skepticism.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freyr</author><text>&gt; ... tracking the source of E-Coli outbreaks<p>That&#x27;s great, but it&#x27;s more likely a publicity play than a notable source of revenue.<p>&quot;Early investments came in the form of $2 million from the CIA&#x27;s venture arm In-Q-Tel.&quot; They&#x27;ve been catering to the defense industry from the beginning. That&#x27;s not inherently bad, and there&#x27;s no reason to skirt around the issue.<p>One of Palantir&#x27;s cofounders was recently interviewed (<a href="http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=3052" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ecorner.stanford.edu&#x2F;authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=3052</a>). He reminisced about pitching the product to two defense industry suits who actually high-fived each other at the end of his presentation. That was when he knew he had made it.<p>If you want to find examples about how the military uses Palantir&#x27;s software, you don&#x27;t have to look far. For instance, <a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/11/no-spy-software-scandal-here-army-claims/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;dangerroom&#x2F;2012&#x2F;11&#x2F;no-spy-software-scan...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>HBGary, Palantir, Prism, Facebook and The Industrial Surveillance Complex</title><url>http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/23/1218189/-HBGary-Palantir-Prism-Facebook-The-Industrial-Surveillance-Complex</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Permit</author><text><p><pre><code> A company that profits from violence and war really can&#x27;t be expected to be terribly trustworthy.
</code></pre>
Their business does not center around tracking down terrorists. They do all things &quot;Big Data&quot;. That includes finance and tracking the source of E-Coli outbreaks. The problem is that people like yourself know nothing about the company, yet still feel qualified to condemn them.</text></item><item><author>glesica</author><text>Just as we should approach Palantir itself with a great deal of skepticism... A company that profits from violence and war really can&#x27;t be expected to be terribly trustworthy. I realize this community loves the idea of Palantir and many people probably know people who are involved. But why should Palantir get a free pass to go about their business with excessive secrecy in an area that features massive abuse without the additional scrutiny that must accompany such behavior?</text></item><item><author>Permit</author><text>I cannot believe we are doing this again. Just because Palantir was asked by Aaron Barr to use their technology against Greenwald does not mean that they did. Palantir later confirmed that their technology didn&#x27;t even have the ability to do what Aaron Barr was asking.<p>This is the second smear against Palantir in three days that cites an email without even showing the email to give you some context. They also don&#x27;t link to Palantirs response to these claims.<p>Please approach this with some level of skepticism.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pqqqqq</author><text>&gt; Their business does not center around tracking down terrorists. They do all things &quot;Big Data&quot;.<p>The company is a defense contractor. Yes, they&#x27;ve successfully commercialized their technology for law enforcement, bank fraud detection, disaster recovery, and whatnot, but you&#x27;d be silly to think that intelligence (and &quot;tracking down terrorists&quot;) is not central to their business. They were funded by the CIA&#x27;s VC firm.</text></comment> |
5,677,246 | 5,677,124 | 1 | 3 | 5,676,880 | train | <story><title>How the Syrian Electronic Army Hacked The Onion</title><url>http://theonion.github.io/blog/2013/05/08/how-the-syrian-electronic-army-hacked-the-onion/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>leeoniya</author><text>&#62; "Please read the following article for its importance"<p>This immediately hit my brain's bayesian classifier like a ton of bricks. Or as the saying goes, "If spammers ever learn proper English, god help us all."<p>* the English <i>is</i> actually proper, but the wording is unusual</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phillmv</author><text>It doesn't work for spear phishing, but for wide-ranging hits the broken english is often on purpose: <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/167719/whyfromnigeria.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/167719/whyfromnigeria.pdf</a> :: <a href="http://www.onthemedia.org/2012/aug/31/why-nigerian-email-scams-work/transcript/" rel="nofollow">http://www.onthemedia.org/2012/aug/31/why-nigerian-email-sca...</a><p>tldr: you have a lower number of leads but a higher conversion rate from those that do respond.</text></comment> | <story><title>How the Syrian Electronic Army Hacked The Onion</title><url>http://theonion.github.io/blog/2013/05/08/how-the-syrian-electronic-army-hacked-the-onion/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>leeoniya</author><text>&#62; "Please read the following article for its importance"<p>This immediately hit my brain's bayesian classifier like a ton of bricks. Or as the saying goes, "If spammers ever learn proper English, god help us all."<p>* the English <i>is</i> actually proper, but the wording is unusual</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eliben</author><text>+1, this phrasing immediately triggers my brain's spam alert. It's not simply a "familiar" kind of phrasing friends or teenagers would use to make communication shorter - it's just that kind of mistake scam emails tend to be full of, for some reason.</text></comment> |
22,609,542 | 22,609,557 | 1 | 2 | 22,609,038 | train | <story><title>Charter engineer quits over “reckless” rules against work-from-home</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/03/charter-faces-blowback-after-banning-work-from-home-during-pandemic/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joshuamorton</author><text>Given my experience the past few weeks 1 is absolutely true.<p>But 2 absolutely outweighs the productivity loss.</text></item><item><author>CiPHPerCoder</author><text>&gt; Charter CEO Tom Rutledge last week told employees in a memo to keep coming to the office even if their jobs can be performed from home, because people &quot;are more effective from the office.&quot;<p>1. Bullshit. Show us the data to substantiate your claim.<p>2. Even if we assume that Rutledge is correct: Is the delta in observable effectiveness worth the cost to employees&#x27; lives and their families?<p>I&#x27;m on the side of the engineer who resigned. The CEO&#x27;s policy is stupid, irresponsible, and&#x2F;or callous.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CiPHPerCoder</author><text>The past few weeks is not a typical WFH experience.<p>1. A lot of folks are being forced into it, rather than it being an option chosen voluntarily.<p>2. School is cancelled, so kids are home, which can be very distracting for parents (which, for some industries, is a significant portion of employees).<p>At the intersection of the two observations, I&#x27;d caution against extrapolating too much from the recent pain points.<p>In my experience (I&#x27;ve worked remote for the past 6 years), I&#x27;m far more productive working from home than I am in an office.</text></comment> | <story><title>Charter engineer quits over “reckless” rules against work-from-home</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/03/charter-faces-blowback-after-banning-work-from-home-during-pandemic/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joshuamorton</author><text>Given my experience the past few weeks 1 is absolutely true.<p>But 2 absolutely outweighs the productivity loss.</text></item><item><author>CiPHPerCoder</author><text>&gt; Charter CEO Tom Rutledge last week told employees in a memo to keep coming to the office even if their jobs can be performed from home, because people &quot;are more effective from the office.&quot;<p>1. Bullshit. Show us the data to substantiate your claim.<p>2. Even if we assume that Rutledge is correct: Is the delta in observable effectiveness worth the cost to employees&#x27; lives and their families?<p>I&#x27;m on the side of the engineer who resigned. The CEO&#x27;s policy is stupid, irresponsible, and&#x2F;or callous.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philshem</author><text>Regarding point 1.<p>It&#x27;s not fair to compare a hasty transition to remote work, and during a period of time with so much uncertainty that surely has a negative impact on concentration and productivity, with a properly rolled-out remote work policy.</text></comment> |
27,119,812 | 27,119,722 | 1 | 2 | 27,118,782 | train | <story><title>A new book, Amazon Unbound, reveals Jeff Bezos’ envy of SpaceX</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/05/a-new-book-amazon-unbound-reveals-jeff-bezos-envy-of-spacex/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marktangotango</author><text>I&#x27;ve been puzzled at Blue Origins lack of progress, particularly with orbital class vehicles. they&#x27;ve got an engine developed (BE-4) that&#x27;s pretty good, and going to be used by ULA apparently. But otherwise, development on New Glenn seems to be stagnant. Are they making progress, only not publicly, like Spacex? Seems Spacex is executing at a tremendous level, easy to believe a competitor could have trouble keeping the pace.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Veedrac</author><text>People have a really weird idea of the timelines here. Blue Origin&#x27;s <i>first</i> serious rocket was New Shepard, launched in 2015. It has been six years since then, and New Glenn, a rocket more ambitious than SLS or Vulcan Centaur or even Falcon 9, is due in under two years. The rocket has been delayed, but only by two years, which is typical for rockets of any sort, even SpaceX rockets.<p>This is not a weirdly slow pace.<p>The reason Blue Origin is behind SpaceX is that SpaceX built their first serious rocket in 2006, 9 years before New Shepard. Blue Origin was founded a long time ago but they spent most of that as a low-budget think-tank style operation.<p>Timeline: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;BlueOrigin&#x2F;comments&#x2F;n6a1dd&#x2F;sn15_nails_the_landing_amazing_moment_for_all&#x2F;gx9ngem&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;BlueOrigin&#x2F;comments&#x2F;n6a1dd&#x2F;sn15_nai...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>A new book, Amazon Unbound, reveals Jeff Bezos’ envy of SpaceX</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/05/a-new-book-amazon-unbound-reveals-jeff-bezos-envy-of-spacex/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marktangotango</author><text>I&#x27;ve been puzzled at Blue Origins lack of progress, particularly with orbital class vehicles. they&#x27;ve got an engine developed (BE-4) that&#x27;s pretty good, and going to be used by ULA apparently. But otherwise, development on New Glenn seems to be stagnant. Are they making progress, only not publicly, like Spacex? Seems Spacex is executing at a tremendous level, easy to believe a competitor could have trouble keeping the pace.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>travisporter</author><text>Eric Berger has an article on this. He is definitely a big spacex fan but does fairly objective reporting imo. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;2021&#x2F;03&#x2F;so-what-really-happened-with-blue-origins-new-glenn-rocket&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;2021&#x2F;03&#x2F;so-what-really-happe...</a></text></comment> |
29,748,998 | 29,748,838 | 1 | 3 | 29,747,034 | train | <story><title>You shouldn't parse the output of ls(1)</title><url>https://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amptorn</author><text>Why in the world does Unix allow newlines in a filename in the first place? That&#x27;s just such an obviously brain-damaged idea. There&#x27;s not a single rational use case for it, yet it breaks nearly every text-based tool you could possibly imagine...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marcosdumay</author><text>Why would Unix go and add random restrictions to filenames?<p>And what text protocol requires you to just insert user data without escaping or re-encoding? That looks badly broken. The kind of broken that will give your entire system to a hacker for encrypting and demanding ransom.</text></comment> | <story><title>You shouldn't parse the output of ls(1)</title><url>https://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amptorn</author><text>Why in the world does Unix allow newlines in a filename in the first place? That&#x27;s just such an obviously brain-damaged idea. There&#x27;s not a single rational use case for it, yet it breaks nearly every text-based tool you could possibly imagine...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bayindirh</author><text>I&#x27;m against limiting the character set allowed for file names. macOS is also in the same boat with Linux, going one step forward and allowing \null terminator even in the filenames.<p>If we&#x27;re going to limit filenames&#x27; character sets, I can offer a simpler solution:<p>Why allow file names? OS should provide a UUID for all files. No names, nothing. We can just write which file is what to another file, noting its UUIDs to sticky notes.</text></comment> |
11,965,702 | 11,965,762 | 1 | 3 | 11,964,880 | train | <story><title>EU Referendum Results</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/politics/eu_referendum/results</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hencq</author><text>The University of East Anglia have a live blog as well that updates their predictions based on statistical model [0] by Dr Chris Hanretty. Predictions are based on how results differ from the prior model. The model is explained in more detail here [1].<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ueapolitics.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;06&#x2F;23&#x2F;eu-referendum-allnighter&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ueapolitics.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;06&#x2F;23&#x2F;eu-referendum-allnight...</a><p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ueapolitics.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;06&#x2F;09&#x2F;the-eu-referendum-what-to-expect-on-the-night&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ueapolitics.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;06&#x2F;09&#x2F;the-eu-referendum-what...</a><p>Edit: They moved their blog to Medium because of the demand: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@chrishanretty&#x2F;eu-referendum-rolling-forecasts-1a625014af55#.5jm66pitl" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@chrishanretty&#x2F;eu-referendum-rolling-fore...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joosters</author><text>Live betting from Betfair&#x27;s betting exchange &#x2F; prediction market:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.betfair.com&#x2F;exchange&#x2F;plus&#x2F;#&#x2F;politics&#x2F;market&#x2F;1.118739911" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.betfair.com&#x2F;exchange&#x2F;plus&#x2F;#&#x2F;politics&#x2F;market&#x2F;1.11...</a><p>Interesting because the odds react far quicker than any live blog I&#x27;ve found, so a sudden swing means that there&#x27;s just been a surprising result announced.</text></comment> | <story><title>EU Referendum Results</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/politics/eu_referendum/results</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hencq</author><text>The University of East Anglia have a live blog as well that updates their predictions based on statistical model [0] by Dr Chris Hanretty. Predictions are based on how results differ from the prior model. The model is explained in more detail here [1].<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ueapolitics.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;06&#x2F;23&#x2F;eu-referendum-allnighter&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ueapolitics.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;06&#x2F;23&#x2F;eu-referendum-allnight...</a><p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ueapolitics.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;06&#x2F;09&#x2F;the-eu-referendum-what-to-expect-on-the-night&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ueapolitics.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;06&#x2F;09&#x2F;the-eu-referendum-what...</a><p>Edit: They moved their blog to Medium because of the demand: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@chrishanretty&#x2F;eu-referendum-rolling-forecasts-1a625014af55#.5jm66pitl" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@chrishanretty&#x2F;eu-referendum-rolling-fore...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>excalibur</author><text>He&#x27;s called it. According to this model there&#x27;s a 100% cance of leaving.</text></comment> |
4,267,086 | 4,266,786 | 1 | 2 | 4,266,155 | train | <story><title>Microsoft Expected To Post First Ever Quarterly Loss In Its History</title><url>http://www.cbs19.tv/story/18940632/consumer-corner-microsoft-could-post-first-loss-in-20-years</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alttab</author><text>"Microsoft is extremely competitive with apple and google, even in 2012" makes a good sound bite. All you have to do is ignore context.<p>Ballmer should have been fired ages ago. Clearly he has dirt on the board or something. The guy is a bafoon.</text></item><item><author>bunderbunder</author><text>The news is somewhat less disastrous in that it's because Microsoft had to write down a purchase they made a while ago. So they didn't lose money this quarter so much as acknowledge that they had previously lost a lot of money and put that on their books this quarter.<p>What's really disastrous, though, is Steve Ballmer's recent comments about how they are determined to compete with Apple on every single front, regardless of whether they have any other reason to be in that portion of the market. This aQuantive debacle is a result of Microsoft trying to do exactly the same thing with Google. With that statement, Ballmer indicated in no uncertain terms that he has learned absolutely nothing from that mistake.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brudgers</author><text>&#62;<i>"or something"</i><p>Ballmer is the second largest shareholder in Microsoft, after his friend and 30 year business associate, Gates.<p>To put it another way, there isn't a Wall Street analyst who works for a company or fund with a greater stake in Microsoft than Ballmer.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft Expected To Post First Ever Quarterly Loss In Its History</title><url>http://www.cbs19.tv/story/18940632/consumer-corner-microsoft-could-post-first-loss-in-20-years</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alttab</author><text>"Microsoft is extremely competitive with apple and google, even in 2012" makes a good sound bite. All you have to do is ignore context.<p>Ballmer should have been fired ages ago. Clearly he has dirt on the board or something. The guy is a bafoon.</text></item><item><author>bunderbunder</author><text>The news is somewhat less disastrous in that it's because Microsoft had to write down a purchase they made a while ago. So they didn't lose money this quarter so much as acknowledge that they had previously lost a lot of money and put that on their books this quarter.<p>What's really disastrous, though, is Steve Ballmer's recent comments about how they are determined to compete with Apple on every single front, regardless of whether they have any other reason to be in that portion of the market. This aQuantive debacle is a result of Microsoft trying to do exactly the same thing with Google. With that statement, Ballmer indicated in no uncertain terms that he has learned absolutely nothing from that mistake.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cpleppert</author><text>The iPhone bashing was just pathetic, I remember watching the presentation and thinking that it was going to change everything and then Ballmer responded by talking like a delirious apple-hater and mocking the price.<p>It is hard to innovate if you are always one step behind and need to shoehorn everything into Windows and Office.</text></comment> |
3,611,362 | 3,611,003 | 1 | 2 | 3,610,620 | train | <story><title>Berkeley Computer Vision Class</title><url>http://www.vision-class.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>anthonycerra</author><text>I'm relatively young (25) and I still get goosebumps whenever I see online courses on cutting edge technologies offered by universities for free. What an amazing time to be alive.</text></comment> | <story><title>Berkeley Computer Vision Class</title><url>http://www.vision-class.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>apu</author><text>Jitendra Malik, the instructor for this course, is a giant in the field of Computer Vision. I've heard he's also a fantastic teacher.</text></comment> |
6,911,332 | 6,911,350 | 1 | 2 | 6,911,039 | train | <story><title>Debian 7.3 is out</title><url>http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>rhizome</author><text>It truly confuses me that the upgrade instructions are so obfuscated, bordering on unfindable. Can someone point me to the chapter where an upgrade from 7.1 to this version is covered?<p><a href="http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/index.en.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.debian.org&#x2F;releases&#x2F;stable&#x2F;amd64&#x2F;release-notes&#x2F;in...</a></text></item><item><author>jlgaddis</author><text>Better link with more info: <a href="http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20131214" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.debian.org&#x2F;News&#x2F;2013&#x2F;20131214</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>null_ptr</author><text>apt-get update &amp;&amp; apt-get upgrade<p>There&#x27;s nothing special about upgrading Debian between point releases.</text></comment> | <story><title>Debian 7.3 is out</title><url>http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>rhizome</author><text>It truly confuses me that the upgrade instructions are so obfuscated, bordering on unfindable. Can someone point me to the chapter where an upgrade from 7.1 to this version is covered?<p><a href="http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/index.en.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.debian.org&#x2F;releases&#x2F;stable&#x2F;amd64&#x2F;release-notes&#x2F;in...</a></text></item><item><author>jlgaddis</author><text>Better link with more info: <a href="http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20131214" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.debian.org&#x2F;News&#x2F;2013&#x2F;20131214</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jlgaddis</author><text>As others have mentioned:<p><pre><code> $ sudo apt-get update &amp;&amp; sudo apt-get upgrade
</code></pre>
In this particular case, from 7.1 to 7.3, &quot;dist-upgrade&quot; is not needed (you aren&#x27;t upgrading from one distribution to another (e.g. from 6 to 7)).</text></comment> |
8,914,320 | 8,913,861 | 1 | 2 | 8,912,852 | train | <story><title>Auto Recovery for Amazon EC2</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-auto-recovery-for-amazon-ec2/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AmazonWebServicesBlog+%28Amazon+Web+Services+Blog%29</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CarlHoerberg</author><text>Finally, it&#x27;s crazy that they&#x27;ve haven&#x27;t implemented this earlier, and why isn&#x27;t it enabled by default, like on GCE? We&#x27;ve had for a long time an app that just polls the ec2 api and looks for impaired instances and then automatically restarts them. We have about 2-10 impaired&#x2F;scheduled-for-reboot&#x2F;on-deprecated hardware-instance per month so that app is quite a time-saver.</text></comment> | <story><title>Auto Recovery for Amazon EC2</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-auto-recovery-for-amazon-ec2/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AmazonWebServicesBlog+%28Amazon+Web+Services+Blog%29</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bmurphy1976</author><text>Please note that this is for EBS backed instances only.<p>If you want something similar for ephemeral instances, do what we do: min 1 max 1 auto scaling groups. We&#x27;ve found that Amazon is pretty good at catching bad instances and terminating them, although on occasion we do have to terminate an instance manually. The autoscaling group takes care of the rest.</text></comment> |
26,113,699 | 26,112,122 | 1 | 2 | 26,097,157 | train | <story><title>What you can learn about medieval Europe if you focus on peasants</title><url>https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/those-who-work</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>neuronic</author><text>The atrocities and genocides that Europeans brought to the world for centuries should be focused on deeply. Context: I am European and disgusted with the way we treat our impact on the world.<p>I think among the most striking examples here aside from the obvious one (Holocaust), is Belgium, because it just seems to slip under a lot of people&#x27;s radar. Belgium has an evil, brutal and vile history, especially in relation to its colonialism and the included human rights violations which in my opinion are massive compared to the country&#x27;s size and geopolitical abilities.<p>Belgian citizens are oblivious, but at least slowly &quot;waking up&quot; as the BBC calls it [1]. To be clear, it&#x27;s the system and leadership that I struggle with. Not the citizens.<p>To this day, Belgian schools do not in any way teach that Belgium is solely responsible for the Rwandan genocide in the early 90s. It was the sick Belgians who separated fake ethnic groups in Rwanda in the first place, depending on how ethnically white the shape of your skull appeared. And later they used these synthetic groups for political purposes and control.<p>The Belgian government&#x2F;leadership has a long history of inhuman behavior, violence and murder that goes nearly completely ignored within Europe and it sort of rubs me the wrong way. Guy Verhofstadt said &#x27;I beg your pardon&#x27; once in Rwanda, and that was basically it. 800,000+ are dead and Belgium says &#x27;sorry&#x27; once. What?<p>Belgium isn&#x27;t about chocolate, it&#x27;s a country which is completely fine with not teaching its citizens about the common practice of chopping off children&#x27;s arms for not meeting labor goals for the day. When Belgians travel to places like Rwanda they are dumbfounded by the realities of their own history.<p>And those people want to tell China something about human rights, yelling from some tower in Brussels. It&#x27;s breathtaking.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-europe-53017188" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-europe-53017188</a></text></item><item><author>Karrot_Kream</author><text>And to go along with that, the Renaissance was actually an incredibly violent and turbulent time.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.exurbe.com&#x2F;black-death-covid-and-why-we-keep-telling-the-myth-of-a-renaissance-golden-age-and-bad-middle-ages&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.exurbe.com&#x2F;black-death-covid-and-why-we-keep-tel...</a><p>is a good post about that, and the Dark Ages myth. There&#x27;s a lot of propaganda from this time period that people still believe today because it was used to justify a lot of the European nationalism of the 19th and 20th centuries.</text></item><item><author>nexthash</author><text>There are a lot of misguided beliefs about the Medieval period arising from a popular Gothic&#x2F;Romantic revival in the 19th century. The period became known by another name - &quot;the Dark Ages&quot; - and was seen as dark, mysterious, and primitive. That completely got wrong what the Medieval period really was - the transition from Roman imperial rule to early-modern European states, and a small industrial revolution in technology including agriculture and navigation.<p>The popular view of all-powerful, romantic nobility and dumb peasants also comes from this mischaracterization. In reality, the period&#x27;s instability after the Roman empire fell really made kings and nobles more akin to local warlords playing at Roman customs, and there were exceptions to the rule like prosperous city-republics. Peasant life was also sophisticated, rational, and complex, completely attuned to local weather and crop cycles. A good blog series goes into detail about this here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;acoup.blog&#x2F;2020&#x2F;07&#x2F;24&#x2F;collections-bread-how-did-they-make-it-part-i-farmers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;acoup.blog&#x2F;2020&#x2F;07&#x2F;24&#x2F;collections-bread-how-did-they...</a><p>The important thing to realize is that no matter how difficult it was, how long ago it occurred, and how foreign the customs were for a certain period, people are still people. They have emotions, worries, good days, and struggles. If you take things in perspective and empathize with the people that preceded you on this world, history will lose a lot of its mystery.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NoOneNew</author><text>I 100% agree with you. As a Polish-American, Leopold II is what I lean on when someone tries to pretend Europe has clean hands from atrocities... which I&#x27;ve personally met here in the US. They seem to act like the US invented atrocities.<p>But I disagree with you on the other spectrum. Mostly how the argument is presented. &quot;If only those nasty Europeans never existed, the world would be at peace&quot;. Yea, no. Every civilization, whether Asian, Persian, African, Pacific Islands, pre-European native Americans and everyone else I missed were perfectly cool with destroying some other tribe&#x2F;clan&#x2F;city. Hell, Hawaiians were a very warrior centric culture before Cook arrived.<p>We suck as humans. Doesn&#x27;t matter where you were born, you suck because you&#x27;re a human. No one&#x27;s hands are clean. Pointing at one culture as the cause of the world&#x27;s problems doesn&#x27;t solve much and just spins the wheels of hate and war some more. And hey, dont get me wrong, when Merkel has negative things to say about how Poland and the US conducts themselves, the first thing I always think of, &quot;Really <i>chancellor</i> kraut?&quot;. It is laughable when Brussels or Berlin or London or DC wants to take the moral high road. However, at some point we have to cut our losses and just quit being douches to each other or we are forever doomed to repeat the bad parts to history.</text></comment> | <story><title>What you can learn about medieval Europe if you focus on peasants</title><url>https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/those-who-work</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>neuronic</author><text>The atrocities and genocides that Europeans brought to the world for centuries should be focused on deeply. Context: I am European and disgusted with the way we treat our impact on the world.<p>I think among the most striking examples here aside from the obvious one (Holocaust), is Belgium, because it just seems to slip under a lot of people&#x27;s radar. Belgium has an evil, brutal and vile history, especially in relation to its colonialism and the included human rights violations which in my opinion are massive compared to the country&#x27;s size and geopolitical abilities.<p>Belgian citizens are oblivious, but at least slowly &quot;waking up&quot; as the BBC calls it [1]. To be clear, it&#x27;s the system and leadership that I struggle with. Not the citizens.<p>To this day, Belgian schools do not in any way teach that Belgium is solely responsible for the Rwandan genocide in the early 90s. It was the sick Belgians who separated fake ethnic groups in Rwanda in the first place, depending on how ethnically white the shape of your skull appeared. And later they used these synthetic groups for political purposes and control.<p>The Belgian government&#x2F;leadership has a long history of inhuman behavior, violence and murder that goes nearly completely ignored within Europe and it sort of rubs me the wrong way. Guy Verhofstadt said &#x27;I beg your pardon&#x27; once in Rwanda, and that was basically it. 800,000+ are dead and Belgium says &#x27;sorry&#x27; once. What?<p>Belgium isn&#x27;t about chocolate, it&#x27;s a country which is completely fine with not teaching its citizens about the common practice of chopping off children&#x27;s arms for not meeting labor goals for the day. When Belgians travel to places like Rwanda they are dumbfounded by the realities of their own history.<p>And those people want to tell China something about human rights, yelling from some tower in Brussels. It&#x27;s breathtaking.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-europe-53017188" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-europe-53017188</a></text></item><item><author>Karrot_Kream</author><text>And to go along with that, the Renaissance was actually an incredibly violent and turbulent time.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.exurbe.com&#x2F;black-death-covid-and-why-we-keep-telling-the-myth-of-a-renaissance-golden-age-and-bad-middle-ages&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.exurbe.com&#x2F;black-death-covid-and-why-we-keep-tel...</a><p>is a good post about that, and the Dark Ages myth. There&#x27;s a lot of propaganda from this time period that people still believe today because it was used to justify a lot of the European nationalism of the 19th and 20th centuries.</text></item><item><author>nexthash</author><text>There are a lot of misguided beliefs about the Medieval period arising from a popular Gothic&#x2F;Romantic revival in the 19th century. The period became known by another name - &quot;the Dark Ages&quot; - and was seen as dark, mysterious, and primitive. That completely got wrong what the Medieval period really was - the transition from Roman imperial rule to early-modern European states, and a small industrial revolution in technology including agriculture and navigation.<p>The popular view of all-powerful, romantic nobility and dumb peasants also comes from this mischaracterization. In reality, the period&#x27;s instability after the Roman empire fell really made kings and nobles more akin to local warlords playing at Roman customs, and there were exceptions to the rule like prosperous city-republics. Peasant life was also sophisticated, rational, and complex, completely attuned to local weather and crop cycles. A good blog series goes into detail about this here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;acoup.blog&#x2F;2020&#x2F;07&#x2F;24&#x2F;collections-bread-how-did-they-make-it-part-i-farmers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;acoup.blog&#x2F;2020&#x2F;07&#x2F;24&#x2F;collections-bread-how-did-they...</a><p>The important thing to realize is that no matter how difficult it was, how long ago it occurred, and how foreign the customs were for a certain period, people are still people. They have emotions, worries, good days, and struggles. If you take things in perspective and empathize with the people that preceded you on this world, history will lose a lot of its mystery.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PartiallyTyped</author><text>I have the same experience. Growing up in Greek schools, we learn early about our &#x27;great ancestors&#x27;, but every depiction is with rose coloured glasses.<p>We are not taught about the atrocities of our ancestors and how the Greece the &#x27;mother of all cultures&#x27; was infact filled with traitors and slavery, especially Athens.<p>Our &#x27;great&#x27; past is ,beat, almost literally into our heads. We named one of the worst warlords in history &#x27;Great&#x27; and instead of talking about the slavery and death he brought, we call it &#x27;liberation of the barbarians&#x27;, with &#x27;barbarians&#x27;
meaning all who are not greeks (::winky face::).<p>When it came to the Romans, we were still the winners because conquered them with our culture.<p>The worst of all is that this becomes so ingrown, even in young people, that for many it becomes a corner-store of their identity; any critical discussion is met with attacks because it literally shakes the foundation of their world.</text></comment> |
6,058,757 | 6,058,564 | 1 | 2 | 6,057,714 | train | <story><title>Lifehacks from 100 Years Ago</title><url>http://www.mentalfloss.com/article/51702/10-lifehacks-100-years-ago</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rcavezza</author><text>I really wish police would use #5 to deal with dogs instead of shooting them. I&#x27;ve seen too many videos of this recently.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saalweachter</author><text>Honestly, they could probably &quot;deal with&quot; half the dogs by patting their own thighs while saying &quot;Who&#x27;s a good puppy! Who&#x27;s a good puppy!&quot;, and optionally giving the dogs a good pet.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lifehacks from 100 Years Ago</title><url>http://www.mentalfloss.com/article/51702/10-lifehacks-100-years-ago</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rcavezza</author><text>I really wish police would use #5 to deal with dogs instead of shooting them. I&#x27;ve seen too many videos of this recently.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tichy</author><text>Shouldn&#x27;t dogs that attack humans be put down in any case? I thought that would be standard consequence if a dog bites a person.</text></comment> |
15,088,557 | 15,088,279 | 1 | 2 | 15,086,477 | train | <story><title>An algorithm that recreates 3D objects from tiny 2D images</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/23/this-algorithm-cleverly-recreates-3d-objects-from-tiny-2d-images</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>edanm</author><text>This article is confusingly written. Its explanations sound silly to anyone even a little familiar with 3d, since it spends the first half of the article explaining that this &quot;breakthrough&quot; is &quot;computationally clever and forehead-slappingly simple&quot;, the breakthrough being that you can represent things as surface-models instead of voxels.<p>Well, surface rendering is how almost all 3d work is done already, that&#x27;s definitely not a breakthrough. You can probably spend an entire career never dealing with voxels.<p>What this article never mentions (surprisingly) is that this paper is about neural networks. I&#x27;m not an expert, but as I understand the article, voxel representations have been the standard <i>specifically when building neural networks</i> to turn 2d images into 3d. The main idea is that you can build a network that only renders high-resolution voxels when close to the surface of the model, and renders very low-resolution voxels everywhere else (say, on the inside of the model). This means you can both represent much larger models memory-wise, but also that you&#x27;re not having to run the NN computations on voxels that are not likely to change, since everything &quot;inside&quot; of the model you probably guessed correctly pretty quickly.<p>Here&#x27;s the paper&#x27;s abstract, much better at explaining itself than the article:<p>&quot;Recently, Convolutional Neural Networks have shown
promising results for 3D geometry prediction. They can
make predictions from very little input data such as for example
a single color image, depth map or a partial 3D volume.
A major limitation of such approaches is that they only
predict a coarse resolution voxel grid, which does not capture
the surface of the objects well. We propose a general
framework, called hierarchical surface prediction (HSP),
which facilitates prediction of high resolution voxel grids.
The main insight is that it is sufficient to predict high resolution
voxels around the predicted surfaces. The exterior and
interior of the objects can be represented with coarse resolution
voxels. This allows us to predict significantly higher
resolution voxel grids around the surface, from which triangle
meshes can be extracted. Our approach is general
and not dependent on a specific input type. In our experiments
we show results for geometry prediction from color
images, depth images and shape completion from partial
voxel grids. Our analysis shows that the network is able to
predict the surface more accurately than a low resolution
prediction.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>An algorithm that recreates 3D objects from tiny 2D images</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/23/this-algorithm-cleverly-recreates-3d-objects-from-tiny-2d-images</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pasta</author><text>Well I&#x27;m sorry but I think more is going on than the article describes.<p>For example the red pickup truck. There is no way the algorithm could create that model from that image only (depth of the trunk).<p>So my guess is that they use the tiny picture to search a database for similar pictures and then create a model with all that data.</text></comment> |
6,203,302 | 6,202,972 | 1 | 2 | 6,202,436 | train | <story><title>Every important person in BitCoin just got subpoenaed by NY financial regulators</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/08/12/every-important-person-in-bitcoin-just-got-subpoenaed-by-new-yorks-financial-regulator/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>flyinglizard</author><text>This is why I don&#x27;t believe in BTC for the long term. It&#x27;s not anywhere near anonymous.<p>Those saying BTC has no inherent value (as opposed to gold, for example) are completely overlooking the fact that BTC is the only kind of exchange that can be used for illicit activities in a relatively untraceable manner (good luck buying stuff on SR using gold).<p>Unfortunately, BTC <i>is</i> traceable if governments decide to spend the resources monitoring transactions, and I suspect this would be the primary motivator in the demise of BTC and a replacement with a more anonymous currency - the other motivator being that there&#x27;s a huge financial upside for being an inventor or early adopter of a successful cryptocurrency, as BTC shown us.</text></item><item><author>pnathan</author><text>Unpopular opinion of the day: bitcoin is real money, and the government <i>will</i> regulate it and control it as such.<p>In my opinion, the end-game is this: bitcoin addresses are taxable, with occasional tax agents spot-checking large accumulations of bitcoin to determine if said addresses fall within their jurisdiction. Bitcoin has the unusual ability to have a very tight trace on where a given virtual coin goes: that just makes the ability to watch the money easier.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sillysaurus</author><text>If the government steps in to &quot;de-anonymize&quot; bitcoin, then people will simply begin using tumbling services. People don&#x27;t use those services right now because there&#x27;s no impetus to. But as soon as the trust inherent to the public ledger is violated by creating a large-scale effort to track the flow of bitcoin, then people will counter that action with tumblers.</text></comment> | <story><title>Every important person in BitCoin just got subpoenaed by NY financial regulators</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/08/12/every-important-person-in-bitcoin-just-got-subpoenaed-by-new-yorks-financial-regulator/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>flyinglizard</author><text>This is why I don&#x27;t believe in BTC for the long term. It&#x27;s not anywhere near anonymous.<p>Those saying BTC has no inherent value (as opposed to gold, for example) are completely overlooking the fact that BTC is the only kind of exchange that can be used for illicit activities in a relatively untraceable manner (good luck buying stuff on SR using gold).<p>Unfortunately, BTC <i>is</i> traceable if governments decide to spend the resources monitoring transactions, and I suspect this would be the primary motivator in the demise of BTC and a replacement with a more anonymous currency - the other motivator being that there&#x27;s a huge financial upside for being an inventor or early adopter of a successful cryptocurrency, as BTC shown us.</text></item><item><author>pnathan</author><text>Unpopular opinion of the day: bitcoin is real money, and the government <i>will</i> regulate it and control it as such.<p>In my opinion, the end-game is this: bitcoin addresses are taxable, with occasional tax agents spot-checking large accumulations of bitcoin to determine if said addresses fall within their jurisdiction. Bitcoin has the unusual ability to have a very tight trace on where a given virtual coin goes: that just makes the ability to watch the money easier.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mtgx</author><text>There is this proposed extension for anonymity, but I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s very likely it will be implemented:<p><a href="http://zerocoin.org/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;zerocoin.org&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
11,876,771 | 11,876,818 | 1 | 2 | 11,876,441 | train | <story><title>How Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M</title><url>https://blog.zamzar.com/2016/06/10/deal-of-the-century-how-microsoft-beat-apple-to-buy-powerpoint-for-14-million/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>martin-adams</author><text>I think it&#x27;s so ironic that the first version of Powerpoint was for Mac which ended up helping give Windows it&#x27;s name when running Office.<p>I&#x27;ve seen Powerpoint used for so many crazy things. Most notably non-technical managers designing a UI in Powerpoint. It&#x27;s just one of those, lets just get the job done pieces of software.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikehearn</author><text>I am unabashedly in support of using presentation software for initial UI design. For basic wireframing, you don&#x27;t need much more than the ability add shapes, text, color, images + a way to demonstrate user flow (e.g. by ordering slides). Presentation software is perfect for this. It is accessible to everyone, lets non-technical users offer constructive input and is just incredibly fast to get something basic circulated.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M</title><url>https://blog.zamzar.com/2016/06/10/deal-of-the-century-how-microsoft-beat-apple-to-buy-powerpoint-for-14-million/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>martin-adams</author><text>I think it&#x27;s so ironic that the first version of Powerpoint was for Mac which ended up helping give Windows it&#x27;s name when running Office.<p>I&#x27;ve seen Powerpoint used for so many crazy things. Most notably non-technical managers designing a UI in Powerpoint. It&#x27;s just one of those, lets just get the job done pieces of software.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pmarreck</author><text>The first version of Excel was ALSO for Mac.<p>I think the Macintosh doesn&#x27;t get enough credit for what it inspired at the time.</text></comment> |
35,017,064 | 35,016,990 | 1 | 2 | 35,016,250 | train | <story><title>AI teaches itself to use an API</title><url>https://twitter.com/DYtweetshere/status/1631349179934203904</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paxys</author><text>So the AI can learn to use APIs that follow perfect RESTful semantics, are fully documented and intuitively behave exactly like one would expect.<p>Our jobs are safe.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ForestCritter</author><text>Yep, I worked in a factory assembly line &#x27;Wrangling the robots&#x27; and I&#x27;m not an engineer. They require watching and they can&#x27;t do parts of the job. They get hung up easily and require alot of resetting. There&#x27;s good reason factories still hire plenty of manufacturing laborers.</text></comment> | <story><title>AI teaches itself to use an API</title><url>https://twitter.com/DYtweetshere/status/1631349179934203904</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paxys</author><text>So the AI can learn to use APIs that follow perfect RESTful semantics, are fully documented and intuitively behave exactly like one would expect.<p>Our jobs are safe.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NZ_Matt</author><text>I wouldn&#x27;t say so. The &#x27;Learning by mistakes&#x27; step in the demo shows that the AI can work through these issues, presumably this can be done more efficiently than a human.</text></comment> |
12,395,059 | 12,392,542 | 1 | 2 | 12,390,400 | train | <story><title>Paid $75k to Love a Brand on Instagram – Is It an Ad?</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/30/business/media/instagram-ads-marketing-kardashian.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Sneakos</author><text>&gt;Have we really measurably improved the world by having a huge spike in cut-throat razor sales?<p>That&#x27;s not the point. The point is that these types of advertisements are effective. In an world where standard ads are being phased out, these types of product placements are becoming more and more necessary. Adding an ad label will eventually make these types of ads obsolete. And it is very naive to think that ads aren&#x27;t necessary in today&#x27;s society.</text></item><item><author>munificent</author><text>&gt; For example, after the James Bond movie &quot;Skyfall&quot;, in which he shaves using a cut-throat razor, razor sales were boosted by 405%. I guarantee you if they had a #ad label during that scene, we would not have seen the same effects.<p>And would that have been a bad thing? Have we really measurably improved the world by having a huge spike in cut-throat razor sales?<p>&gt; But that doesn&#x27;t mean those involved have to make it blatantly obvious.<p>Why not? What&#x27;s so great about advertising that it&#x27;s OK to give it free reign to play around with human psychology and influence peoples&#x27; behavior without them even being aware of it?</text></item><item><author>Sneakos</author><text>The problem with finding someone to like your product is that it&#x27;s much more efficient to get support from people who don&#x27;t like your product but are popular, then it is get support from people who like your product, but don&#x27;t reach a large audience. Business-wise, it&#x27;s smarter to attempt the former than the latter.<p>&gt;Audiences &quot;have a very visceral reaction to &#x27;#ad&#x27; or &#x27;#spon&#x27; or whatever it is, where they don&#x27;t want to know people are getting paid for stuff even if they are.&quot;<p>This is the biggest issue marketers have with those who are advertising their products. Even though you can logically assume that a person you follow is sponsoring products, it is more appalling to the consumer when a sponsorship is labeled with #ad, or the likes.<p>If everyone was truly a self-aware consumer who knew they were being manipulated, this wouldn&#x27;t be a huge issue. But the fact is that the majority of people will respond much better to subtle advertisements, then ads that label themselves as an advertisement, which most people are conditioned to ignore or dislike.<p>For example, after the James Bond movie &quot;Skyfall&quot;, in which he shaves using a cut-throat razor, razor sales were boosted by 405%. I guarantee you if they had a #ad label during that scene, we would not have seen the same effects.<p>As for the question &quot;Is it an advertisement?&quot; of course it&#x27;s an advertisement. But that doesn&#x27;t mean those involved have to make it blatantly obvious.</text></item><item><author>Latty</author><text>I love the &#x27;I wish we knew what was OK&#x27; - someone viewing the content, totally blind, needs to identify it as an advert without prompting. The only way to do that is to state it, up front, in the same format as the content itself. Not hidden away in some description, not in code, plain and simple. Anything less is obviously intending to deceive, and I see no reason to give anyone leeway to try and hide sponsorship.<p>If you want your sponsorship to come across as real and honest, then get someone to actually like your product, and then it won&#x27;t matter that they disclose it, as they&#x27;ll be able to explain why they like it in a convincing way. The only reason people want to hide the &#x27;sponsored&#x27; element is that the product is bad, and paying people is the only way to get them to associate with it.<p>When I watch an Extra Credits video sponsored by a games company, it comes off as honest because it&#x27;s clear that it&#x27;s an advert and the content is still quality and obviously unaltered. When Purge (DOTA 2 personality), talks about DotaBuff, it still comes off as honest as he shows how he uses the service and what value it provides him. This can be done right, and is, by reputable people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>munificent</author><text>&gt; And it is very naive to think that ads aren&#x27;t necessary in today&#x27;s society.<p>I work at Google, so I fully understand how much of today&#x27;s economy rests on top of advertising. But that doesn&#x27;t mean society <i>needs</i> to, just that it has <i>chosen</i> to.<p>I haven&#x27;t heard compelling arguments that advertising is much of a net boon to humanity. To me, it mostly looks like tools to steal my precious attention in order to make me feel bad about not having a product I didn&#x27;t know I was missing out on in the first place.</text></comment> | <story><title>Paid $75k to Love a Brand on Instagram – Is It an Ad?</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/30/business/media/instagram-ads-marketing-kardashian.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Sneakos</author><text>&gt;Have we really measurably improved the world by having a huge spike in cut-throat razor sales?<p>That&#x27;s not the point. The point is that these types of advertisements are effective. In an world where standard ads are being phased out, these types of product placements are becoming more and more necessary. Adding an ad label will eventually make these types of ads obsolete. And it is very naive to think that ads aren&#x27;t necessary in today&#x27;s society.</text></item><item><author>munificent</author><text>&gt; For example, after the James Bond movie &quot;Skyfall&quot;, in which he shaves using a cut-throat razor, razor sales were boosted by 405%. I guarantee you if they had a #ad label during that scene, we would not have seen the same effects.<p>And would that have been a bad thing? Have we really measurably improved the world by having a huge spike in cut-throat razor sales?<p>&gt; But that doesn&#x27;t mean those involved have to make it blatantly obvious.<p>Why not? What&#x27;s so great about advertising that it&#x27;s OK to give it free reign to play around with human psychology and influence peoples&#x27; behavior without them even being aware of it?</text></item><item><author>Sneakos</author><text>The problem with finding someone to like your product is that it&#x27;s much more efficient to get support from people who don&#x27;t like your product but are popular, then it is get support from people who like your product, but don&#x27;t reach a large audience. Business-wise, it&#x27;s smarter to attempt the former than the latter.<p>&gt;Audiences &quot;have a very visceral reaction to &#x27;#ad&#x27; or &#x27;#spon&#x27; or whatever it is, where they don&#x27;t want to know people are getting paid for stuff even if they are.&quot;<p>This is the biggest issue marketers have with those who are advertising their products. Even though you can logically assume that a person you follow is sponsoring products, it is more appalling to the consumer when a sponsorship is labeled with #ad, or the likes.<p>If everyone was truly a self-aware consumer who knew they were being manipulated, this wouldn&#x27;t be a huge issue. But the fact is that the majority of people will respond much better to subtle advertisements, then ads that label themselves as an advertisement, which most people are conditioned to ignore or dislike.<p>For example, after the James Bond movie &quot;Skyfall&quot;, in which he shaves using a cut-throat razor, razor sales were boosted by 405%. I guarantee you if they had a #ad label during that scene, we would not have seen the same effects.<p>As for the question &quot;Is it an advertisement?&quot; of course it&#x27;s an advertisement. But that doesn&#x27;t mean those involved have to make it blatantly obvious.</text></item><item><author>Latty</author><text>I love the &#x27;I wish we knew what was OK&#x27; - someone viewing the content, totally blind, needs to identify it as an advert without prompting. The only way to do that is to state it, up front, in the same format as the content itself. Not hidden away in some description, not in code, plain and simple. Anything less is obviously intending to deceive, and I see no reason to give anyone leeway to try and hide sponsorship.<p>If you want your sponsorship to come across as real and honest, then get someone to actually like your product, and then it won&#x27;t matter that they disclose it, as they&#x27;ll be able to explain why they like it in a convincing way. The only reason people want to hide the &#x27;sponsored&#x27; element is that the product is bad, and paying people is the only way to get them to associate with it.<p>When I watch an Extra Credits video sponsored by a games company, it comes off as honest because it&#x27;s clear that it&#x27;s an advert and the content is still quality and obviously unaltered. When Purge (DOTA 2 personality), talks about DotaBuff, it still comes off as honest as he shows how he uses the service and what value it provides him. This can be done right, and is, by reputable people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Latty</author><text>Necessary by who&#x27;s definition? Sure, I like the way adverts allow me not to pay for content directly (or ask people to pay for things I produce directly). That&#x27;s great. However, some things I value more than that. Misleading advertising is too far, I won&#x27;t accept it.<p>If advertising isn&#x27;t effective enough to be worth doing, fine. We&#x27;ll find other ways. Yeah, micropayments have never caught on, but maybe there is an alternative, or maybe they won&#x27;t be so bad once we accept we need a replacement for adverts.<p>I&#x27;m willing to bet non-misleading ads will still be worth enough the whole ecosystem won&#x27;t collapse.</text></comment> |
31,274,543 | 31,274,560 | 1 | 2 | 31,273,989 | train | <story><title>Please stop disabling zoom</title><url>https://www.matuzo.at/blog/2022/please-stop-disabling-zoom/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sph</author><text>My pet theory: I&#x27;m pretty sure this is because when HTML5 became a thing, some major tech blog showed us what an HTML5 page would look like (simplified doctype, meta charset) and they included the viewport settings that disabled zoom.<p>Then pretty much everyone copied from these guides, and here we are. I remember I had used HTML5 skeleton templates for a while before I learned that the &quot;maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=no&quot; they came with is not a good idea.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_fat_santa</author><text>Almost all major template for JS frameworks these days include that line. And there are tons of guides that specify adding that in.<p>I get why it&#x27;s there, if you&#x27;re building a PWA that is supposed to mimick a mobile app, you have to enable that to override some annoying mobile browser behaviors like zooming on an input.<p>The problem is that the above scenario is about the only time you would want to set the viewport in that way. Yet because the line gets included in boilerplates to make it easier to make PWA&#x27;s, it ends up in a ton of stuff that definitely is not a PWA and should not have that.</text></comment> | <story><title>Please stop disabling zoom</title><url>https://www.matuzo.at/blog/2022/please-stop-disabling-zoom/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sph</author><text>My pet theory: I&#x27;m pretty sure this is because when HTML5 became a thing, some major tech blog showed us what an HTML5 page would look like (simplified doctype, meta charset) and they included the viewport settings that disabled zoom.<p>Then pretty much everyone copied from these guides, and here we are. I remember I had used HTML5 skeleton templates for a while before I learned that the &quot;maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=no&quot; they came with is not a good idea.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>floatrock</author><text>Classic Hanlon&#x27;s razor &quot;never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by ignorance&quot;<p>Copy-pasting a template and just not being aware of accessibility and functionality requirements is most likely explanation here. Or devs being given 4k UHD monitors and never looking at their work on a small laptop.</text></comment> |
17,041,469 | 17,040,977 | 1 | 2 | 17,038,553 | train | <story><title>Farewell from the Pineapple Fund</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/8ieffr/farewell_from_the_pineapple_fund/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jdamon96</author><text>Can you explain to me why you believe the benefit to society from donating to charity is often negative?</text></item><item><author>tlb</author><text>Thanks, Pineapple person &#x2F; people.<p>The benefit to society from donating to charity can range from positive, to zero, to negative. Often negative. Anyone with money can donate, but it takes a lot of work to donate to things that make the world better. The Pineapple fund seems to have put in the effort to donate to projects with high positive impact, in a way that does the most good. (It&#x27;s possible to donate to good projects in bad ways, such as by requiring them to use the money to build a building with your name on it.)<p>Doing the work can be exasperating, because you think &quot;I&#x27;m giving away money, and I have to do all this work too???&quot; But it&#x27;s the work that makes the difference.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SatvikBeri</author><text>Scared Straight is a well-known program that has been well-studied and found to cause significant harm. &quot;In 2004 the Washington State Institute for Public Policy estimated that each dollar spent on Scared Straight programs incurred costs of $203.51.&quot;[0]<p>It was based on an intuitive idea: if teenagers see how bad jail is, they&#x27;ll want to do anything they can to avoid it. That turned out pretty poorly - they instead built social connections with criminals, and were substantially more likely to get involved with crime themselves.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Scared_Straight" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Scared_Straight</a>!</text></comment> | <story><title>Farewell from the Pineapple Fund</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/8ieffr/farewell_from_the_pineapple_fund/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jdamon96</author><text>Can you explain to me why you believe the benefit to society from donating to charity is often negative?</text></item><item><author>tlb</author><text>Thanks, Pineapple person &#x2F; people.<p>The benefit to society from donating to charity can range from positive, to zero, to negative. Often negative. Anyone with money can donate, but it takes a lot of work to donate to things that make the world better. The Pineapple fund seems to have put in the effort to donate to projects with high positive impact, in a way that does the most good. (It&#x27;s possible to donate to good projects in bad ways, such as by requiring them to use the money to build a building with your name on it.)<p>Doing the work can be exasperating, because you think &quot;I&#x27;m giving away money, and I have to do all this work too???&quot; But it&#x27;s the work that makes the difference.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomc1985</author><text>A lot of attempts at charity have backfired, often due to cultural differences between the benefactor and those on the receiving end, or a lack of oversight or poorly-thought-out plans. See: PlayPump [1], UNICEF&#x27;s Cluster-bomb-colored food drops [2], etc<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.ei.columbia.edu&#x2F;2010&#x2F;07&#x2F;01&#x2F;the-playpump-what-went-wrong&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.ei.columbia.edu&#x2F;2010&#x2F;07&#x2F;01&#x2F;the-playpump-what-we...</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.upi.com&#x2F;Defense-News&#x2F;2003&#x2F;04&#x2F;02&#x2F;UNICEF-Rations-bomblets-same-color&#x2F;87821049335611&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.upi.com&#x2F;Defense-News&#x2F;2003&#x2F;04&#x2F;02&#x2F;UNICEF-Rations-b...</a></text></comment> |
28,189,736 | 28,188,942 | 1 | 3 | 28,188,253 | train | <story><title>California's dry season is turning into a permanent state of being</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2021-08-california-season-permanent-state.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>frazbin</author><text>Real quick thing about the water in California: it&#x27;s important because it is used to make food, which is exported from the state&#x27;s central plains to the rest of the country. Your mental model should not include the direct water use of humans.. this is and always has been about the economics of food production.<p>So if people leave California, it will be because they can&#x27;t get jobs in agriculture.. people would be coming from Fresno, not San Francisco. Also the increase in food prices brought about by the collapse of that titanic industry will be borne by everybody in the country, and is therefore the problem of everybody in North America who likes pistachios and such.</text></comment> | <story><title>California's dry season is turning into a permanent state of being</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2021-08-california-season-permanent-state.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eplanit</author><text>These droughts were anticipated, but here in California preparing for climate change means preaching at others, and setting up a carbon exchange. Not a single new reservoir has been built since 1979. It&#x27;s impossible to take California seriously about much of anything, but especially not regarding the environment:<p>&quot;In 1979, California’s population was a little more than 23 million. Today, it is more than 39 million. Yet in that entire time, California did not construct one additional, large-scale water storage project – meaning water infrastructure that once suited the state’s irrigation, livestock, and human needs has become chronically inadequate to meet its essential tasks.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nationalreview.com&#x2F;corner&#x2F;another-california-drought-with-no-new-reservoirs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nationalreview.com&#x2F;corner&#x2F;another-california-dro...</a><p>Not only does the state not prepare, but thanks to the record-setting wildfires of the past <i>decade</i>, the amount of carbon and soot pumped into the air has probably offset any gains that had been made. They&#x27;re really just stupid out here.</text></comment> |
7,525,633 | 7,525,524 | 1 | 2 | 7,525,198 | train | <story><title>Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/03/brendan-eich-steps-down-as-mozilla-ceo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>akerl_</author><text>I would have considered him a worse person if he&#x27;d done that. I disagree with his opinions on marriage, but he has the right to have those opinions, and to provide support for causes he believes in.<p>I&#x27;m not shocked the he is stepping down, or that others in the organization appear to have applied substantial pressure on him to do so, but it makes me sad. Their statements about supporting freedom of speech are hollow: the community has pressured him to step down because he expressed an opinion not held by the majority.</text></item><item><author>phillmv</author><text>From the recode recap - <a href="http://recode.net/2014/04/03/mozilla-co-founder-brendan-eich-resigns-as-ceo-and-also-from-foundation-board/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;recode.net&#x2F;2014&#x2F;04&#x2F;03&#x2F;mozilla-co-founder-brendan-eich...</a><p>&gt;“It’s clear that Brendan cannot lead Mozilla in this setting,” said Baker, who added that she would not and could not speak for Eich. “The ability to lead — particularly for the CEO — is fundamental to the role and that is not possible here.”<p>The most damning aspect of this was their a) inability to predict this would be an issue and b) their inability to deal with it once it did.<p>All he had to do was lie and say &quot;I understand how my activities can be seen as divisive and wrong and inconsistent with my commitment to upholding the diverse values underpinning the Mozilla community and I apologize for my behaviour at the time. I will do everything in my power to make up for it and I hope the community can judge me based me on my record from this point onwards&quot;.<p>Then, find ways to anonymously engage in whatever political causes he supports, or wait till he&#x27;s no longer CEO.<p>The tone deafness of his last interview was kind of the last straw.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blisterpeanuts</author><text>Ironically, though, his opinion was supported by the majority in that California election: 7 million to 6.4 million in favor of Prop 8.<p>I guess if they consider any other candidates for CEO from California, they&#x27;ll have to ask them how they voted.</text></comment> | <story><title>Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/03/brendan-eich-steps-down-as-mozilla-ceo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>akerl_</author><text>I would have considered him a worse person if he&#x27;d done that. I disagree with his opinions on marriage, but he has the right to have those opinions, and to provide support for causes he believes in.<p>I&#x27;m not shocked the he is stepping down, or that others in the organization appear to have applied substantial pressure on him to do so, but it makes me sad. Their statements about supporting freedom of speech are hollow: the community has pressured him to step down because he expressed an opinion not held by the majority.</text></item><item><author>phillmv</author><text>From the recode recap - <a href="http://recode.net/2014/04/03/mozilla-co-founder-brendan-eich-resigns-as-ceo-and-also-from-foundation-board/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;recode.net&#x2F;2014&#x2F;04&#x2F;03&#x2F;mozilla-co-founder-brendan-eich...</a><p>&gt;“It’s clear that Brendan cannot lead Mozilla in this setting,” said Baker, who added that she would not and could not speak for Eich. “The ability to lead — particularly for the CEO — is fundamental to the role and that is not possible here.”<p>The most damning aspect of this was their a) inability to predict this would be an issue and b) their inability to deal with it once it did.<p>All he had to do was lie and say &quot;I understand how my activities can be seen as divisive and wrong and inconsistent with my commitment to upholding the diverse values underpinning the Mozilla community and I apologize for my behaviour at the time. I will do everything in my power to make up for it and I hope the community can judge me based me on my record from this point onwards&quot;.<p>Then, find ways to anonymously engage in whatever political causes he supports, or wait till he&#x27;s no longer CEO.<p>The tone deafness of his last interview was kind of the last straw.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cglee</author><text>Not sure why people always bring up &quot;freedom of speech&quot; in these types of scenarios. You can say what you want without going to jail; that&#x27;s freedom of speech. It doesn&#x27;t mean you won&#x27;t feel social consequences.</text></comment> |
10,287,314 | 10,287,297 | 1 | 2 | 10,287,038 | train | <story><title>A Puzzle Book That Drove England to Madness</title><url>http://hazlitt.net/feature/goes-all-way-queen-puzzle-book-drove-england-madness</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danjc</author><text>For some reason this reminds me of the Eternity II puzzle[1]. The creator of the puzzle had mathematicians confirm how difficult it would be to solve due to the number of permutations and yet a vast number of people bought it thinking they would be the ones to solve it (usually by hand)! There was a $2 million prize and it was never solved.<p>1.<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Eternity_II_puzzle" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Eternity_II_puzzle</a></text></comment> | <story><title>A Puzzle Book That Drove England to Madness</title><url>http://hazlitt.net/feature/goes-all-way-queen-puzzle-book-drove-england-madness</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>musesum</author><text>Images with analysis: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bunnyears.net&#x2F;kitwilliams&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bunnyears.net&#x2F;kitwilliams&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
28,638,888 | 28,639,013 | 1 | 2 | 28,617,663 | train | <story><title>It's tough being an Azure fan</title><url>https://www.alexhudson.com/2021/09/17/its-tough-being-an-azure-fan/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>audiometry</author><text>Oh me too. That horrible &quot;mythical beasts&quot; tutorial. I thought I removed it, and then each month for the next two months I&#x27;d get nailed for 50? dollars or so.<p>By definition, I don&#x27;t understand AWS, so figuring out how to turn it off was nearly impossible. AWS &quot;support&quot; didn&#x27;t exist. Stackoverflow AWS geeks were in high dudgeon that I&#x27;d ask the question, &quot;how do i disable this?&quot; and would kill my question. Finally some kind soul did give me the trick to finding the last service to disable.<p>BTW the tutorial is absolutely useless. Just a thousand different incantations to repeat. No real understanding communicated. Felt more like an ad for myriad services.<p>0&#x2F;10 would not recommend.</text></item><item><author>a5aAqU</author><text>&gt; AWS isn&#x27;t perfect but at least you have half a chance of working out what is costing you money through the billing console.<p>The first few times I used AWS for tutorials, something similar happened to me. I thought I shut everything down, but kept getting billed and wasn&#x27;t able to find it without contacting them. It was just a few dollars, but I&#x27;ve been wary about any services where you can&#x27;t cap the billing.<p>Cloud platforms generally don&#x27;t let users cap the billing, because those overages are good income for them. I prefer using services like DigitalOcean or Linode where you can be sure that your new site crashes for 15 minutes instead of bankrupting you.</text></item><item><author>smackeyacky</author><text>I once ran up a $15,000 bill on Azure completely by accident when trying to get one of their video processing services to work. Once I figured out the service wasn&#x27;t going to do what I wanted at a price I could afford, I tried to detach it and shut it down and thought I had succeeded. I didn&#x27;t.<p>The offending process costing me money didn&#x27;t appear on the Azure console and I had no idea it was running, how to access it to stop it or even to know what was going on. When it turned up on my bill I nearly had a heart attack.<p>Thankfully they let me out of it once I pointed out I was getting billed for something I couldn&#x27;t see. I appreciated that greatly but I&#x27;ve never gone back to Azure and the experience scarred me so much I don&#x27;t think I ever will. This was about 4 years ago so more than likely they have sorted it out.<p>They keep reminding me I have $50 of test&#x2F;dev credit on Azure through my Visual Studio subscription but it flat out frightens me to even try to use it.<p>AWS isn&#x27;t perfect but at least you have half a chance of working out what is costing you money through the billing console.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danjac</author><text>There are consultancies whose entire expertise and premise are advising on AWS billing to companies who already know AWS, so the idea that a newbie should be aware of whatever magical incantation to limit their spend is ludicrous.</text></comment> | <story><title>It's tough being an Azure fan</title><url>https://www.alexhudson.com/2021/09/17/its-tough-being-an-azure-fan/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>audiometry</author><text>Oh me too. That horrible &quot;mythical beasts&quot; tutorial. I thought I removed it, and then each month for the next two months I&#x27;d get nailed for 50? dollars or so.<p>By definition, I don&#x27;t understand AWS, so figuring out how to turn it off was nearly impossible. AWS &quot;support&quot; didn&#x27;t exist. Stackoverflow AWS geeks were in high dudgeon that I&#x27;d ask the question, &quot;how do i disable this?&quot; and would kill my question. Finally some kind soul did give me the trick to finding the last service to disable.<p>BTW the tutorial is absolutely useless. Just a thousand different incantations to repeat. No real understanding communicated. Felt more like an ad for myriad services.<p>0&#x2F;10 would not recommend.</text></item><item><author>a5aAqU</author><text>&gt; AWS isn&#x27;t perfect but at least you have half a chance of working out what is costing you money through the billing console.<p>The first few times I used AWS for tutorials, something similar happened to me. I thought I shut everything down, but kept getting billed and wasn&#x27;t able to find it without contacting them. It was just a few dollars, but I&#x27;ve been wary about any services where you can&#x27;t cap the billing.<p>Cloud platforms generally don&#x27;t let users cap the billing, because those overages are good income for them. I prefer using services like DigitalOcean or Linode where you can be sure that your new site crashes for 15 minutes instead of bankrupting you.</text></item><item><author>smackeyacky</author><text>I once ran up a $15,000 bill on Azure completely by accident when trying to get one of their video processing services to work. Once I figured out the service wasn&#x27;t going to do what I wanted at a price I could afford, I tried to detach it and shut it down and thought I had succeeded. I didn&#x27;t.<p>The offending process costing me money didn&#x27;t appear on the Azure console and I had no idea it was running, how to access it to stop it or even to know what was going on. When it turned up on my bill I nearly had a heart attack.<p>Thankfully they let me out of it once I pointed out I was getting billed for something I couldn&#x27;t see. I appreciated that greatly but I&#x27;ve never gone back to Azure and the experience scarred me so much I don&#x27;t think I ever will. This was about 4 years ago so more than likely they have sorted it out.<p>They keep reminding me I have $50 of test&#x2F;dev credit on Azure through my Visual Studio subscription but it flat out frightens me to even try to use it.<p>AWS isn&#x27;t perfect but at least you have half a chance of working out what is costing you money through the billing console.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TimTheTinker</author><text>I spun up an AWS service a year ago (while taking an AWS course I never finished) and haven&#x27;t been able to find it or turn it off since.<p>That&#x27;s $9&#x2F;month until I disable that credit card, which I might do one of these days.<p>I thought they&#x27;d notice and disable my account after I successfully disputed the charge one time, but the bills just keep rolling in each month.<p>This might be a bit overreactive, but... I&#x27;m building an MVP for a SaaS app and I sure as heck am not going to host it on AWS.</text></comment> |
39,953,553 | 39,953,466 | 1 | 3 | 39,951,990 | train | <story><title>Deep Aphantasia: a visual brain with minimal influence from priors?</title><url>https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1374349/full</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>japoco</author><text>I was pretty intrigued by Aphantasia a while ago, as I can’t picture anything at all with my eyes closed. Then I asked all my friends and none of them could either, apparently. So I’m wondering what “picturing” means in the definition of aphantasia?
With my eyes closed all I see is pitch black, but I can “imagine” myself seeing a red apple even with my eyes open, I don’t actually see anything though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>klipt</author><text>Consider another sense, like hearing. Many people experience &quot;earworms&quot; where a song gets stuck in their head and plays repeatedly. They know it&#x27;s not actually playing since there&#x27;s no &quot;external&quot; sound but they can hear it &quot;internally&quot;.<p>&quot;Picturing&quot; something in your head is the same, just with the sense of vision instead of the sense of hearing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Deep Aphantasia: a visual brain with minimal influence from priors?</title><url>https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1374349/full</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>japoco</author><text>I was pretty intrigued by Aphantasia a while ago, as I can’t picture anything at all with my eyes closed. Then I asked all my friends and none of them could either, apparently. So I’m wondering what “picturing” means in the definition of aphantasia?
With my eyes closed all I see is pitch black, but I can “imagine” myself seeing a red apple even with my eyes open, I don’t actually see anything though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Climato</author><text>I don&#x27;t think you have it if you can imagine something.<p>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s meant to be in that dark space &#x2F; visual eye space.</text></comment> |
24,695,624 | 24,695,679 | 1 | 2 | 24,689,247 | train | <story><title>Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-out use of Excel</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54423988</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>collyw</author><text>The real question should be would it be cheaper to replace it with a proper solution (probably something custom built application written by a software engineer).<p>Excel&#x27;s ease of use is it&#x27;s downfall. It is the worlds most popular database, despite not actually being a database. I have wasted countless hours dealing with Excel where something else should have been used. I built a database for a friend recently, I think 75% of the work was cleaning the existing data from the excel to get it into the database.</text></item><item><author>koliber</author><text>They are costing money. No doubt.<p>At the same time, the business world runs on Excel. How much money is Excel making?<p>I&#x27;ve done my share of cursing at Excel at various jobs. At the same time, I am grateful for the quick and easy way it allows me and many others to manipulate data. It&#x27;s unfair to just cite the costs of using Excel without acknowledging the benefits it brings.</text></item><item><author>totaldude87</author><text>All previous major spreadsheet screwups were costing money (largest being $6 billion in losses due to a excel formula mishap) , but this one is playing with lives :(<p>5 – London Olympics Oversells Swimming Event by 10,000 Tickets<p>4- Banking powerhouse Barclay’s accidentally bought 179 more contracts than they intended in their purchase of Lehman Brothers assets in 2008. Someone hid cells containing the unwanted contract instead of deleting them.<p>3-utsourcing specialists Mouchel had to endure a £4.3 million profits write down due to a spreadsheet error in a pension fund deficit caused by an outside firm of actuaries<p>2- Canadian power generator TransAlta suffered losses of $24 million as the result of a simple clerical error which meant they bought US contracts at higher prices than they should hav<p>and the Biggest one is. -<p>Basic Excel flaws and incorrect testing led to JP Morgan Chase losing more than $6 billion in their London Whale disaster.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;floatapp.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;blog&#x2F;5-greatest-spreadsheet-errors-of-all-time&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;floatapp.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;blog&#x2F;5-greatest-spreadsheet-errors-o...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dageshi</author><text>People start using excel when the requirements are unknown, they use excel to understand the requirements while still being functional. To build a &quot;proper solution&quot;, you frontload all the requirement discovery to build a system which only you or another developer will be able to update&#x2F;change.<p>We blame excel, but excel is really just being used for prototyping and nobody takes a decision at a certain point to move on from that prototype.</text></comment> | <story><title>Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-out use of Excel</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54423988</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>collyw</author><text>The real question should be would it be cheaper to replace it with a proper solution (probably something custom built application written by a software engineer).<p>Excel&#x27;s ease of use is it&#x27;s downfall. It is the worlds most popular database, despite not actually being a database. I have wasted countless hours dealing with Excel where something else should have been used. I built a database for a friend recently, I think 75% of the work was cleaning the existing data from the excel to get it into the database.</text></item><item><author>koliber</author><text>They are costing money. No doubt.<p>At the same time, the business world runs on Excel. How much money is Excel making?<p>I&#x27;ve done my share of cursing at Excel at various jobs. At the same time, I am grateful for the quick and easy way it allows me and many others to manipulate data. It&#x27;s unfair to just cite the costs of using Excel without acknowledging the benefits it brings.</text></item><item><author>totaldude87</author><text>All previous major spreadsheet screwups were costing money (largest being $6 billion in losses due to a excel formula mishap) , but this one is playing with lives :(<p>5 – London Olympics Oversells Swimming Event by 10,000 Tickets<p>4- Banking powerhouse Barclay’s accidentally bought 179 more contracts than they intended in their purchase of Lehman Brothers assets in 2008. Someone hid cells containing the unwanted contract instead of deleting them.<p>3-utsourcing specialists Mouchel had to endure a £4.3 million profits write down due to a spreadsheet error in a pension fund deficit caused by an outside firm of actuaries<p>2- Canadian power generator TransAlta suffered losses of $24 million as the result of a simple clerical error which meant they bought US contracts at higher prices than they should hav<p>and the Biggest one is. -<p>Basic Excel flaws and incorrect testing led to JP Morgan Chase losing more than $6 billion in their London Whale disaster.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;floatapp.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;blog&#x2F;5-greatest-spreadsheet-errors-of-all-time&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;floatapp.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;blog&#x2F;5-greatest-spreadsheet-errors-o...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>altacc</author><text>I find people often use Excel (or Access if they&#x27;re brave) when they have a known problem and can visualise the solution in something they know, like Excel. The crucial factor is implementation time. They can open an Excel and start work immediately, or wait weeks or months going through a lengthy and complex IT procurement process that will take from their budget. So in most cases starting with Excel is a no-brainer. Same reason why a lot of stealth IT gets implemented.<p>It&#x27;s often only after years of a business using what has become sacred &amp; business critical Excels, that somebody suggests formalizing it into software. In a business with an IT function, or a consultancy looking for business, it should always be somebody&#x27;s job to find these Excels and replace them with something more robust.</text></comment> |
35,317,593 | 35,315,846 | 1 | 2 | 35,312,468 | train | <story><title>Understanding ChatGPT</title><url>https://www.atmosera.com/ai/understanding-chatgpt/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ak_111</author><text>The strongest answer to almost all of your questions is &quot;Poverty of the stimulus&quot; (wikipedia). 4 year olds are exposed to an almost microscopically tiny amount of words relative to chatgpt (you can probably contain it in a csv file that you can open in excel), and yet can reason, even develop multilingual skills and a huge amount of emotional intelligence from the very little word tokens they are exposed to.<p>So whatever is driving reasoning and intelligence in humans is clearly <i>very</i> different to what is driving reasoning in chatgpt.<p>People will probably respond by saying but babies are exposed to much more data than just words, this is true, but chatgpt is learning only from words and no one has shown how you can get chatgpt to sufficiently learn what a baby learns by other kind of data. Also note that even blind babies learn language pretty quickly so this also excludes the huge amount of data you obtain from vision as putting babies at an advantage, and it is very difficult to show how sensory touch data for example contribute to babies learning to manipulate language efficiently.</text></item><item><author>maxdoop</author><text>“It’s a glorified word predictor” is becoming increasingly maddening to read.<p>Do tell— how can you prove humans are any different?<p>The most common “proofs” I’ve seen:<p>“Humans are more complex”. Ok, so you’re implying we add more complexity (maybe more modalities?); if more complexity is added, will you continue to say “LLMs are just word predictors”?<p>“Humans are actually reasoning. LLMs are not.” Again, how would you measure such a thing?<p>“LLMs are confidently wrong .” How is this relevant ? And are humans not confidently wrong as well?<p>“LLMs are good at single functions, but they can’t understand a system.” This is simply a matter of increasing the context limit, is it not? And was there not a leaked OpenAI document showing a future offering of 64k tokens?<p>All that aside, I’m forever amazed how a seemingly forward-looking group of people is continually dismissive of a tool that came out LITERALLY 4 MONTHS AGO, with its latest iteration less than TWO WEEKS ago. For people familiar with stuff like Moore’s law, it’s absolutely wild to see how people act like LLM progress is forever tied to its current , apparently static, state.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NaN1352</author><text>I think what’s fascinating about GPT developments is it may very well emulate part of our left brain hemisphere. As McGilchrist pointed out, with lots of research and studies on people with brain damage strokes etc. is that it is the left hemisphere that sees the world from an internal representation. Right hemi. sees a car as the &quot;thing in itself&quot; in direct experience (colours etc). The left hemisphere makes it into a category of &quot;car&quot;, now removed from direct experience.<p>And just like gpt’s data set isnt necessarily truth, so is our own image of the world which as we know can be deeply distorted through abusive childhood, cults etc. In fact, all of human knowledge is simply beliefs, agreed stories about reality. For example &quot;red&quot; is a word&#x2F;sound that points to an experience. The word alone only has meaning in context (what GPT can handle), but can never substitue for a conscious experience.<p>Crucially imho, software will never be able to do what the right hemisphere does. And I find it dumbfounding that even Lex Fridman doesnt see the fundamental difference between conceptual thought &#x2F; language based reasoning, and direct experience aka consciousness.</text></comment> | <story><title>Understanding ChatGPT</title><url>https://www.atmosera.com/ai/understanding-chatgpt/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ak_111</author><text>The strongest answer to almost all of your questions is &quot;Poverty of the stimulus&quot; (wikipedia). 4 year olds are exposed to an almost microscopically tiny amount of words relative to chatgpt (you can probably contain it in a csv file that you can open in excel), and yet can reason, even develop multilingual skills and a huge amount of emotional intelligence from the very little word tokens they are exposed to.<p>So whatever is driving reasoning and intelligence in humans is clearly <i>very</i> different to what is driving reasoning in chatgpt.<p>People will probably respond by saying but babies are exposed to much more data than just words, this is true, but chatgpt is learning only from words and no one has shown how you can get chatgpt to sufficiently learn what a baby learns by other kind of data. Also note that even blind babies learn language pretty quickly so this also excludes the huge amount of data you obtain from vision as putting babies at an advantage, and it is very difficult to show how sensory touch data for example contribute to babies learning to manipulate language efficiently.</text></item><item><author>maxdoop</author><text>“It’s a glorified word predictor” is becoming increasingly maddening to read.<p>Do tell— how can you prove humans are any different?<p>The most common “proofs” I’ve seen:<p>“Humans are more complex”. Ok, so you’re implying we add more complexity (maybe more modalities?); if more complexity is added, will you continue to say “LLMs are just word predictors”?<p>“Humans are actually reasoning. LLMs are not.” Again, how would you measure such a thing?<p>“LLMs are confidently wrong .” How is this relevant ? And are humans not confidently wrong as well?<p>“LLMs are good at single functions, but they can’t understand a system.” This is simply a matter of increasing the context limit, is it not? And was there not a leaked OpenAI document showing a future offering of 64k tokens?<p>All that aside, I’m forever amazed how a seemingly forward-looking group of people is continually dismissive of a tool that came out LITERALLY 4 MONTHS AGO, with its latest iteration less than TWO WEEKS ago. For people familiar with stuff like Moore’s law, it’s absolutely wild to see how people act like LLM progress is forever tied to its current , apparently static, state.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>procgen</author><text>There&#x27;s billions of years of compressed knowledge in those 4 year olds. Lots of useful priors.</text></comment> |
26,911,796 | 26,911,326 | 1 | 2 | 26,901,227 | train | <story><title>My three-year-old has taught me the value of talking to strangers</title><url>https://www.economist.com/1843/2021/04/20/my-three-year-old-has-taught-me-the-value-of-talking-to-strangers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dorkwood</author><text>I used to be someone who would talk to strangers everywhere I went. As a teenager who frequently took a train between cities, I found it interesting to talk to non-teenagers and hear their stories. They always seemed delighted to be talking to a younger person, too. Then one day, an older person I was sitting next to groped me while I was talking to them. Then the same thing happened to me on a plane. I don&#x27;t talk to strangers anymore. I find that giving off &quot;don&#x27;t talk to me&quot; vibes is best for my personal safety.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>4gotunameagain</author><text>Yeah but isn&#x27;t it sad to shut the whole world off because of a couple of assholes?<p>I take the approach of being friendly with everyone, and if they prove to be weirdos or assholes, I immediately switch.<p>Of course it could be considered more risky, and I have been groped myself, but I think it&#x27;s worth the risk. I find the alternative dehumanizing.</text></comment> | <story><title>My three-year-old has taught me the value of talking to strangers</title><url>https://www.economist.com/1843/2021/04/20/my-three-year-old-has-taught-me-the-value-of-talking-to-strangers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dorkwood</author><text>I used to be someone who would talk to strangers everywhere I went. As a teenager who frequently took a train between cities, I found it interesting to talk to non-teenagers and hear their stories. They always seemed delighted to be talking to a younger person, too. Then one day, an older person I was sitting next to groped me while I was talking to them. Then the same thing happened to me on a plane. I don&#x27;t talk to strangers anymore. I find that giving off &quot;don&#x27;t talk to me&quot; vibes is best for my personal safety.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ARandomerDude</author><text>Out of curiosity, are you male or female? I&#x27;ve found that a lot of people mistake female friendliness for flirtatious behavior. Not saying it&#x27;s right, just saying it seems like a common issue.</text></comment> |
3,052,640 | 3,052,258 | 1 | 3 | 3,051,758 | train | <story><title>Pre-branded domain names for startups</title><url>http://stylate.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wildmXranat</author><text>No! A $7.99 domain name and what looks like to me a $99 logo thrown is not a steal or a good deal. Let me come at this way: Can I get the domain off of you for %80 off the $250 price ? I presume that the answer is no, because it's a lipstick on pig product designed to glorify domain squatting.<p>All the power to you for finding a niche market, but suckers be warned that it's highway robbery!<p>edit: downvoted within 2 minutes of posting this without a reply. i guess you guys were looking for a AAA+++ , would buy again review. what a joke<p>edit2: Sorry for coming off as harsh, but this sort of domain related shit has been plaguing the net for a long time</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alex_c</author><text>This is the kind of pricing philosophy that plagues HN (and I'll admit, I'm guilty of it as often as not).<p>The value of a product is usually not cost of labor + cost of materials, it's the value it brings to the buyer. $106.99 won't get me the same value, because I have to spend long frustrating hours trying to find a decent available domain name, then a few more hours going back and forth with a designer for a logo I may or may not like. Not having to do that is easily worth $143.01.<p>I agree that the domain system is horribly broken, but these guys are closer to a solution than to a problem.</text></comment> | <story><title>Pre-branded domain names for startups</title><url>http://stylate.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wildmXranat</author><text>No! A $7.99 domain name and what looks like to me a $99 logo thrown is not a steal or a good deal. Let me come at this way: Can I get the domain off of you for %80 off the $250 price ? I presume that the answer is no, because it's a lipstick on pig product designed to glorify domain squatting.<p>All the power to you for finding a niche market, but suckers be warned that it's highway robbery!<p>edit: downvoted within 2 minutes of posting this without a reply. i guess you guys were looking for a AAA+++ , would buy again review. what a joke<p>edit2: Sorry for coming off as harsh, but this sort of domain related shit has been plaguing the net for a long time</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sneak</author><text>This smacks of "That doctor only spent five minutes in the room, and now he wants $200?!"<p>There is a lot of other value you're buying here - the selection of the name, the connection of the name and an aesthetic, the skills for which don't magically appear in people overnight.<p>Did you look at the site? Care and consideration has been exercised in the branding of these names, from colors to typography. If the "raw materials" are indeed $99 + $7.99, then $250 is a good deal for what amounts to 1.5-2 hours of skilled work to create this finished product.</text></comment> |
19,245,911 | 19,245,977 | 1 | 2 | 19,244,071 | train | <story><title>Iterative development: the secret to great product launches</title><url>https://www.mindk.com/blog/iterative-development/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lbacaj</author><text>I have built many things in my short career, have worked at big and small companies.<p>In my view iterative development is far harder, maybe even impossible, to do at companies that don’t have the culture for it. Startups have it and most grow up with it but you’ll struggle to succeed with this approach at any big company. They may introduce Agile and bring in Agile coaches but they are just putting lipstick on the pig. That culture is set, I say this having seen it first hand.<p>As an example, and a little self promotion that I hope I won’t get downvoted for :) I have been working on a cross platform App that reads any article to you. It uses AI&#x2F;ML models to convert the text to audio so you can listen on the go and maximize learning on that dead time on commutes.<p>This is a fairly complex thing to build, especially in a few months and to make it work cross platform. We now have a lot of features but this all happened feature by feature. Get one thing done, get it out, start on the next thing. If I tried this approach in a big team at a big company there is absolutely no way we would have this much done in a few months. The politics, the nonsense, etc.<p>If you want to check out the app you can try it here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;articulu.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;articulu.com</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Iterative development: the secret to great product launches</title><url>https://www.mindk.com/blog/iterative-development/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nadam</author><text>Agile, MVP, Iterative development: these are common knowledge by now. But I think there are problem spaces where this does not really work becasue even an MVP must be huge, otherwise users will simply ignore the product. You cannot write a small MVP of a browser, an operating system, a search engine, a game engine, a 3D modeling suite, etc... I think markets in problem spaces where you can start with a very small MVP become oversaturated, because everyone wants to start a product with a 1 month MVP development. So you will have a competitive advantage if you are able to design products in problem spaces where even the MVP is relatively big, so you can attack not-so-oversaturated markets. I think the ability to design complex products becomes an important skill.</text></comment> |
33,509,508 | 33,507,085 | 1 | 3 | 33,506,373 | train | <story><title>US Attorney Announces $3.36B Cryptocurrency Seizure in Connection with Silk Road</title><url>https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/us-attorney-announces-historic-336-billion-cryptocurrency-seizure-and-conviction</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>miohtama</author><text>The originally hack was caused by the fact that Silk Road was running PHP on MySQL without transaction isolation. Many early crypto exchanges had similar withdrawal bugs as they were running on LAMP stacks - MySQL has been notoriosly famous for having lax transaction isolation. Sometimes you could overwithdraw just by hitting refresh fast enough in a web browser.<p>If you deal with money use PostgreSQL + SERIALIZABLE transaction isolation level to be sure.<p>More in PostgreSQL documentation <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postgresql.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;current&#x2F;transaction-iso.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postgresql.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;current&#x2F;transaction-iso.html</a><p>Also Zhong was 22 years old script kiddie when he hacked Silk Road. Any smart criminal would have left United States long time ago if you sit on the top of $3B stash.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swalsh</author><text>A lot of the early Bitcoin stuff was toys which became something more than toys faster than the people running it could transform the toy infrastructure at it&#x27;s core. In most cases, they didn&#x27;t have the experience necessary to make it something better. Mt Gox was just a reused domain and was origionally an exchange for Magic the Gathering!</text></comment> | <story><title>US Attorney Announces $3.36B Cryptocurrency Seizure in Connection with Silk Road</title><url>https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/us-attorney-announces-historic-336-billion-cryptocurrency-seizure-and-conviction</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>miohtama</author><text>The originally hack was caused by the fact that Silk Road was running PHP on MySQL without transaction isolation. Many early crypto exchanges had similar withdrawal bugs as they were running on LAMP stacks - MySQL has been notoriosly famous for having lax transaction isolation. Sometimes you could overwithdraw just by hitting refresh fast enough in a web browser.<p>If you deal with money use PostgreSQL + SERIALIZABLE transaction isolation level to be sure.<p>More in PostgreSQL documentation <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postgresql.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;current&#x2F;transaction-iso.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.postgresql.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;current&#x2F;transaction-iso.html</a><p>Also Zhong was 22 years old script kiddie when he hacked Silk Road. Any smart criminal would have left United States long time ago if you sit on the top of $3B stash.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xyzzy4747</author><text>As someone who very briefly poked around Silk Road at the time (just created an account), and as someone who has used PHP with the LAMP stack occasionally over the years, I am completely unsurprised. Race conditions can be pretty tricky to prevent in PHP, since the state is contained within different threads that can’t trivially communicate with each other. You need to be proficient with global state mutation such as via Redis or SQL.</text></comment> |
35,904,099 | 35,902,969 | 1 | 2 | 35,901,889 | train | <story><title>Majority of gig economy workers are earning below minimum wage: research</title><url>https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2023/may/gig-economy-worker-research.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CraigJPerry</author><text>&gt;&gt; an average of 28 hours<p>I wonder if this hours figure is calculated the same way the gig companies calculate minimum wage.<p>I.e. that 28 hours represents only time spent in performing the delivery task. Any waiting around beforehand when not assigned a task is not counted as working hours for the purposes of min wage calculation. If this is true (and that needs verifying) then this 28 might be a 40 hours where the person was unable to get on with their other life duties even if they weren’t technically working.</text></item><item><author>KMnO4</author><text>I can’t tell how to interpret this. Doing gig work doesn’t pay well, but respondents are doing an average of 28 hours of work per week.<p>Something is missing from the picture. If the takeaway is that gig workers are struggling to pay living expenses, I would expect that to be reflected by working 50-60+ hours per week.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Neil44</author><text>According to the study it includes hours spent logged on waiting for jobs, which I think is a correct and meaningful way to measure it. I guess this is mostly people trying to top up their primary income.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bristol.ac.uk&#x2F;media-library&#x2F;sites&#x2F;business-school&#x2F;documents&#x2F;Gig%20Rights%20&amp;%20Gig%20Wrongs%20Report.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bristol.ac.uk&#x2F;media-library&#x2F;sites&#x2F;business-schoo...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Majority of gig economy workers are earning below minimum wage: research</title><url>https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2023/may/gig-economy-worker-research.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CraigJPerry</author><text>&gt;&gt; an average of 28 hours<p>I wonder if this hours figure is calculated the same way the gig companies calculate minimum wage.<p>I.e. that 28 hours represents only time spent in performing the delivery task. Any waiting around beforehand when not assigned a task is not counted as working hours for the purposes of min wage calculation. If this is true (and that needs verifying) then this 28 might be a 40 hours where the person was unable to get on with their other life duties even if they weren’t technically working.</text></item><item><author>KMnO4</author><text>I can’t tell how to interpret this. Doing gig work doesn’t pay well, but respondents are doing an average of 28 hours of work per week.<p>Something is missing from the picture. If the takeaway is that gig workers are struggling to pay living expenses, I would expect that to be reflected by working 50-60+ hours per week.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>darkwater</author><text>I agree on the spirit of your take but then you should count the commuting hours for the rest of workers as well. If you need 1 hour to get to work and 1 to get back, you are already working (or giving your time to your work place) 50 hours a week</text></comment> |
30,656,545 | 30,655,548 | 1 | 2 | 30,653,916 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Hubfs – File System for GitHub</title><url>https://github.com/winfsp/hubfs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pwdisswordfish9</author><text>Or you could, you know, clone the repository into a local working tree.</text></item><item><author>billziss</author><text>HUBFS is a file system for GitHub and Git. Git repositories and their contents are represented as regular directories and files and are accessible by any application, without the application having any knowledge that it is really accessing a remote Git repository. The repositories are writable and allow editing files and running build operations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pizza</author><text>Have you ever read this HN comment from 2007 before? [0]<p><i>&gt; I have a few qualms with this app... </i><p>Different paths towards the same outcome should multiply, so we can increase the surface area of the bandages on the different pain points along the way.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9224" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9224</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Hubfs – File System for GitHub</title><url>https://github.com/winfsp/hubfs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pwdisswordfish9</author><text>Or you could, you know, clone the repository into a local working tree.</text></item><item><author>billziss</author><text>HUBFS is a file system for GitHub and Git. Git repositories and their contents are represented as regular directories and files and are accessible by any application, without the application having any knowledge that it is really accessing a remote Git repository. The repositories are writable and allow editing files and running build operations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>VWWHFSfQ</author><text>Snarky drive-by comments like this are the worst part of HN.</text></comment> |
41,471,965 | 41,471,942 | 1 | 3 | 41,431,556 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Pulsar, micro creative coding playground</title><url>https://muffinman.io/pulsar/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stankot</author><text>Hey, author here. I&#x27;m really glad to see this getting some traction on HN, it is one of those projects that really brings me joy.<p>It is inspired by a project that I saw on HN a while ago. I wasn&#x27;t able to find it again, so I made my own version. I swear, only after finishing Pulsar I managed to find <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tixy.land&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tixy.land&#x2F;</a> again.<p>As a bonus, I wanted to run these animations on my DIY LED frame. Check out the video:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Stanko&#x2F;pulsar&#x2F;tree&#x2F;dev#led-retro-frame">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Stanko&#x2F;pulsar&#x2F;tree&#x2F;dev#led-retro-frame</a><p>Here are a few technical details:<p>It is built in TypeScript and open source. User code is executed in a web worker to minimize the risk of malicious use (tbh I&#x27;m proud of the solution, and I find it quite nifty). Initially, I used to render everything as an SVG, but in order to create GIFs for the LED frame, I switched to canvas. Not to mention that SVG gave me a few headaches which I&#x27;ll cover in a blog post (if I ever write one). The syntax highlighter is a trick I found on Stack Overflow. The textarea is transparent, and as you type in it, I take the code, highlight and copy it into a div which overlays the textarea.<p>It was really fun to build and I hope you had some fun playing with it.<p>I made it around last new year&#x27;s eve, so here is a simple animation of a Christmas tree:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;muffinman.io&#x2F;pulsar&#x2F;?grid=classic&amp;animate=both&amp;code=Y2VpbCgoKGFicyh0ICogMC43KV4yKSo3KSAlIDEyMCkgPT09IGkgPyAwIDogKChhYnMoeS02KSAtIGFicyh4KjIuMykpICogKGNvcyh0ICogMC4yKSAqIDAuMyArIDAuNSkp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;muffinman.io&#x2F;pulsar&#x2F;?grid=classic&amp;animate=both&amp;code=...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Pulsar, micro creative coding playground</title><url>https://muffinman.io/pulsar/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lifthrasiir</author><text>Unfortunately, it was too easy to trigger XSS: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;muffinman.io&#x2F;pulsar&#x2F;?grid=classic&amp;animate=scale&amp;code=dD9jb3MuY29uc3RydWN0b3IoJ29ubWVzc2FnZT1lPT5wb3N0TWVzc2FcZ2Uoe2lkOmUuZGF0YS5pZCxlcnJvcjoiPG1ldGEgaHR0cC1lcXVpdj1yZWZyZXNoIGNvbnRlbnQ9MDsvL3VwbG9hZC53aWtpbWVkaWEub3JnL3dpa2lwZWRpYS9jb21tb25zLzUvNTcvRG9uJTI3dF9QYW5pY19CYWRnZS5qcGc%252BIn0pJykoKTow" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;muffinman.io&#x2F;pulsar&#x2F;?grid=classic&amp;animate=scale&amp;code...</a><p>It is really hard to make a correct sandbox in JS in general, without something like the Realms proposal [1]. Until that point you would have to be conservative to be safe.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tc39&#x2F;proposal-shadowrealm">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tc39&#x2F;proposal-shadowrealm</a></text></comment> |
10,551,953 | 10,551,906 | 1 | 2 | 10,549,732 | train | <story><title>Parallel Sequential Scan is Committed to PostgreSQL 9.6</title><url>http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2015/11/parallel-sequential-scan-is-committed.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sgt</author><text>Postgres is going in one direction - for the better. And as a long time Postgres user I&#x27;ve been really happy with it for years. Now with JSONB support I am even happier, as I can build powerful RDBMS + &quot;NoSQL&quot; apps that outperform traditional NoSQL databases.<p>To my disappointment several members of my team have been championing Oracle recently though - presumably because it&#x27;s a safer option and can be managed by others under an SLA.<p>How does one argue against this? With Postgres we&#x27;re not going to get SLA&#x27;s because we know it very well, but with Oracle we would. It&#x27;s mostly perception management IMHO, and I&#x27;m mostly against it. What killer core features does Oracle have that Postgres doesn&#x27;t?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>glogla</author><text>&gt; What killer core features does Oracle have that Postgres doesn&#x27;t?<p>While I don&#x27;t really like Oracle as a company, there are some features that Oracle has and postgres don&#x27;t, that can be important for production deployment:<p>- flashback<p>- partitioning that&#x27;s much more mature<p>- merge &#x2F;*+ parallel<p>- materialized views that refresh on commit<p>- and oracle is quite a bit quicker - especially with badly written queries<p>But those (except for optimizer) are all Oracle Enterprise features which means you&#x27;re paying ridiculous money per-core for enterprise edition itself, and then you&#x27;re paying ridiculous money for the features one by one.<p>There&#x27;s mostly no reason to use Oracle Standard edition instead of postgres. And I have seen Oracle XE in producion and that&#x27;s just sad.<p>EDIT: oh and I forgot - postgres has that stupid &quot;we don&#x27;t want to include optimization hints in the language so we use CTEs as optimization boundary&quot; policy that the developers stuck on and refuse to change, which means you have to decide between readable code and performant code. Meh.</text></comment> | <story><title>Parallel Sequential Scan is Committed to PostgreSQL 9.6</title><url>http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2015/11/parallel-sequential-scan-is-committed.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sgt</author><text>Postgres is going in one direction - for the better. And as a long time Postgres user I&#x27;ve been really happy with it for years. Now with JSONB support I am even happier, as I can build powerful RDBMS + &quot;NoSQL&quot; apps that outperform traditional NoSQL databases.<p>To my disappointment several members of my team have been championing Oracle recently though - presumably because it&#x27;s a safer option and can be managed by others under an SLA.<p>How does one argue against this? With Postgres we&#x27;re not going to get SLA&#x27;s because we know it very well, but with Oracle we would. It&#x27;s mostly perception management IMHO, and I&#x27;m mostly against it. What killer core features does Oracle have that Postgres doesn&#x27;t?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rodgerd</author><text>&gt; can be managed by others under an SLA.<p>EnterpriseDB, Fujitsu, and others.<p>&gt; presumably because it&#x27;s a safer option<p>Spoken like people who have never dealt with Oracle licensing and compliance. &quot;Safer&quot; for values of &quot;well, I guess we didn&#x27;t need those millions in this year&#x27;s budget anyway.</text></comment> |
13,994,296 | 13,993,120 | 1 | 3 | 13,992,953 | train | <story><title>You can’t buy Congress’s web history – that's not how any of this works</title><url>http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/29/15115382/buy-congress-web-history-gop-fake-internet-privacy</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AdamSC1</author><text>This article fails to take into account that time and time again we&#x27;ve seen that &#x27;anonyimized aggregate data&#x27; is never truly anonymous.<p>In the AOL anonimized data leak there were plenty of individuals identified:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2006&#x2F;08&#x2F;09&#x2F;technology&#x2F;09aol.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2006&#x2F;08&#x2F;09&#x2F;technology&#x2F;09aol.html</a><p>MIT researchers also showed that four anonymous purchases are enough metadata to identify 90% of individuals:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.technologyreview.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;536501&#x2F;data-sets-not-so-anonymous&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.technologyreview.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;536501&#x2F;data-sets-not-so-a...</a><p>And, a personal favorite of mine where researchers from Standford and Princeton are reporting at the World Wide Web Conference this April: &quot;Researchers found that they could identify the person behind an &#x27;anonymized&#x27; data set 70% of the time just by comparing their browsing data to [often public] social media activities&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techdirt.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;20170123&#x2F;08125136548&#x2F;one-more-time-with-feeling-anonymized-user-data-not-really-anonymous.shtml" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techdirt.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;20170123&#x2F;08125136548&#x2F;one-m...</a><p>It would not be hard to buy a zipcode worth of data and compare it to known facts about a person until you de-anonymized it.</text></comment> | <story><title>You can’t buy Congress’s web history – that's not how any of this works</title><url>http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/29/15115382/buy-congress-web-history-gop-fake-internet-privacy</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>drawkbox</author><text>People are missing the point on the bill, it isn&#x27;t just horrible for privacy. Really this is a jab at net neutrality, the open selling of data by ISPs is a power grab away from the FCC that helped to make net neutrality a thing by labeling broadband&#x2F;ISPs as common carriers.<p>Republicans (this was a party line vote) say it is unfair that Google and Facebook have your personal information and use it for ads but why can&#x27;t ISPs have that and also sell it? One big major reason is people sign up to Google and Facebook for the purpose of sharing and agree to their ads in exchange for a service. Google built the most powerful search engine and Facebook built the social graph. Google&#x2F;Facebook built value and they only use your info to target ads to you, they don&#x27;t sell it because others would do the same. They sell ads and people use them because they have info on you, not necessarily to sell off to others.<p>If you ask me it is unfair for republicans to legally allow ISPs to do the same because we expect privacy from ISPs in ways we do not from Google and Facebook. You can choose not to use Google or Facebook but you cannot choose your ISP&#x2F;broadband provider. In my opinion this is like letting someone view your mail, read it and then sell information about you.<p>It is also an unfair competitive advantage for ISPs above all because they can place ads on any website if they want or track you across all sites not just like Google&#x2F;Facebook which are huge but only see a portion of what you do. ISPs built no value product like a search engine or social graph for this purpose, they should do that if they want access like Google and Facebook. It seems almost like the GOP are harming innovative companies and rewarding&#x2F;catching up non-innovators. I bet broadband companies&#x2F;ISPs won&#x27;t even use the profits to improve broadband and rollout gigabit service for real. It is a rewarding of lazy semi-monopolies over innovative companies and products.<p>Republicans also control the FTC not the FCC so they want all control to fall to the FTC instead. It is both a power grab and a bending over of all their constituents.<p>Most of all, it is also another step in dismantling net neutrality as FCC protected that by categorizing the broadband&#x2F;ISPs as a common carriers and they want to sap the FCCs power in that regard.</text></comment> |
12,899,459 | 12,899,253 | 1 | 2 | 12,898,927 | train | <story><title>A list of headless web browsers</title><url>https://github.com/dhamaniasad/HeadlessBrowsers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joefarish</author><text>It&#x27;s obviously not a headless browser but xvfb can be very useful depending on what exactly one is trying to test: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Xvfb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Xvfb</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bryanlarsen</author><text>Xdummy is another headless X display that has a more modern, more complete stack.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xpra.org&#x2F;trac&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Xdummy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xpra.org&#x2F;trac&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Xdummy</a></text></comment> | <story><title>A list of headless web browsers</title><url>https://github.com/dhamaniasad/HeadlessBrowsers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joefarish</author><text>It&#x27;s obviously not a headless browser but xvfb can be very useful depending on what exactly one is trying to test: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Xvfb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Xvfb</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>c0nfused</author><text>This is the way I am going.<p>I spent a long time trying to find an up to date javascript engine in a headless browser a while back before I gave up and just wrote a chrome extension, installed a copy of chromium, and ran the whole thing in xvfb with the extension added by command line.<p>In the end unless you are severely resource constrained,it is a very good option.</text></comment> |
19,149,562 | 19,142,411 | 1 | 3 | 19,141,895 | train | <story><title>Create Desktop Apps with HTML5 and Go</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=HTML5-Golang-Desktop-Apps</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rolleiflex</author><text>I&#x27;m doing something similar (Go-based desktop app) with Aether (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;getaether.net" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;getaether.net</a>), without requiring any additional tools.<p>The short version is, I have an Electron app, but the extent of my JS is just skin — the UI. The JS talks to two Go daemons which do the 99% of the work. It&#x27;s also much more memory efficient than doing it in JS, and allows for massive parallelism. So you get best of both worlds, speed &#x2F; clarity of Go, and well-developed JS UI patterns (Vue). It works well, with the caveat being a tradeoff in complexity in incorporating gRPC to let daemons talk to each other.<p>Here&#x27;s the source code: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nehbit&#x2F;aether" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nehbit&#x2F;aether</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Create Desktop Apps with HTML5 and Go</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=HTML5-Golang-Desktop-Apps</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JeanMarcS</author><text>Well, on one hand it will certainly lighten the ressources needed.<p>On the other hand, you don’t know on what version of Chrome&#x2F;Chromium you’ll land so you won’t be able to use specific API for sure.<p>But for having developed in the end of the 90’s a web kiosk software, based on Internet Explorer (I think it was IE5 back then), software that still have last versions running (no one, including myself, would thought it’ll survive that long), I will sure have a look closer on the project if you can intercept the before navigate event (or whatever the name is with Chrome)</text></comment> |
21,034,063 | 21,033,726 | 1 | 3 | 21,033,371 | train | <story><title>iPhone 11 has the fastest single-core performance of any Apple computer</title><url>https://twitter.com/elkmovie/status/1174003718188142592</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aloknnikhil</author><text>It makes zero sense to compare like this. Geekbench is closed source. So, there is no way of knowing what they&#x27;re even running on ARM v&#x2F;s x86. But, no way is my MacBook Pro slower than my iPad Pro<p>This Geekbench comparison, on the other hand, tells me they&#x27;re on par (both single and multi-core scores)
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;browser.geekbench.com&#x2F;v5&#x2F;cpu&#x2F;compare&#x2F;140913?baseline=201758" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;browser.geekbench.com&#x2F;v5&#x2F;cpu&#x2F;compare&#x2F;140913?baseline...</a><p>I&#x27;d take this claim with a massive boulder of salt, if you consider it at all that is.</text></comment> | <story><title>iPhone 11 has the fastest single-core performance of any Apple computer</title><url>https://twitter.com/elkmovie/status/1174003718188142592</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>GrayShade</author><text>So an i3-8100 has a single score of 1000, and the highest PC score they have is 1371?<p>These Geekbench comparisons keep showing phone CPUs being faster than server ones, but I question their validity.</text></comment> |
22,698,473 | 22,697,850 | 1 | 3 | 22,691,029 | train | <story><title>New hard drive rituals (2018)</title><url>https://blog.linuxserver.io/2018/10/29/new-hard-drive-rituals/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jolmg</author><text>On the topic of new rituals for storage devices, whenever I buy a microSD card or a USB flash drive and before I setup the filesystem, I&#x27;ve been filling it with random data and reading it back to ensure it does have the storage capacity it&#x27;s supposed to have.<p>I started doing this after reading comments online (probably here) on fraudulent cards and drives circulating around Amazon. Some comments mentioned that there are even some devices that have their firmware set-up such that writes don&#x27;t fail even when you&#x27;ve written more than what the device can actually hold. They supposedly manage this by reusing previously used blocks for new files. I suppose in other words, each block has multiple addresses. The addresses would probably loop around the same blocks until the fake size is reached. That would give it the most realistic appearance that it&#x27;s of the reported size while silently corrupting previously written storage.<p>In any case, so far I&#x27;ve only gotten 4 cards&#x2F;drives since then, and I haven&#x27;t found them to be frauds.<p>I&#x27;ve since wondered how much I&#x27;m subtracting from their product lifespan with my testing. I mean, I imagine that microSD cards and USB flash drives do wear leveling on unused blocks, but without TRIM support on them, after testing them, I&#x27;m probably eliminating the devices&#x27; ability to do wear leveling since I&#x27;m occupying all blocks without the ability to tell the device that they&#x27;re unoccupied now.<p>As far as I understand, the problem with lacking TRIM support on USB flash drives is not that there&#x27;s no protocol for it through USB, since there are USB-SATA adapters that specify support for UASP. Admittedly, though, I&#x27;m assuming that UASP is enough to get TRIM support. I don&#x27;t remember testing that.<p>In any case, I wonder if this new ritual I&#x27;m doing is really worth it, and if it&#x27;s not, when would it be?<p>EDIT: I wonder if it&#x27;s realistic to expect that one day we&#x27;ll get USB flash drives and microSD cards with TRIM support. I don&#x27;t expect the need to check for fraudulent storage devices to go away.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tialaramex</author><text>Filling with random data is advisable anyway if you use encryption for storage, which almost everybody should do (it&#x27;s clearly fine to store stuff that is genuinely public unencrypted, but if you&#x27;re not sure probably not everything is public and so just encrypt everything)<p>The reason to write random data is that otherwise an adversary inspecting the raw device can determine how much you really stored in the encrypted volume, as the chance of a block being full of zeroes _after_ encryption is negligible so such blocks are invariably just untouched.<p>The encryption will ensure that random bits and encrypted data are indistinguishable (in practice, in theory this isn&#x27;t a requirement of things like IND-CPA it just happens that it&#x27;s what you get anyway).</text></comment> | <story><title>New hard drive rituals (2018)</title><url>https://blog.linuxserver.io/2018/10/29/new-hard-drive-rituals/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jolmg</author><text>On the topic of new rituals for storage devices, whenever I buy a microSD card or a USB flash drive and before I setup the filesystem, I&#x27;ve been filling it with random data and reading it back to ensure it does have the storage capacity it&#x27;s supposed to have.<p>I started doing this after reading comments online (probably here) on fraudulent cards and drives circulating around Amazon. Some comments mentioned that there are even some devices that have their firmware set-up such that writes don&#x27;t fail even when you&#x27;ve written more than what the device can actually hold. They supposedly manage this by reusing previously used blocks for new files. I suppose in other words, each block has multiple addresses. The addresses would probably loop around the same blocks until the fake size is reached. That would give it the most realistic appearance that it&#x27;s of the reported size while silently corrupting previously written storage.<p>In any case, so far I&#x27;ve only gotten 4 cards&#x2F;drives since then, and I haven&#x27;t found them to be frauds.<p>I&#x27;ve since wondered how much I&#x27;m subtracting from their product lifespan with my testing. I mean, I imagine that microSD cards and USB flash drives do wear leveling on unused blocks, but without TRIM support on them, after testing them, I&#x27;m probably eliminating the devices&#x27; ability to do wear leveling since I&#x27;m occupying all blocks without the ability to tell the device that they&#x27;re unoccupied now.<p>As far as I understand, the problem with lacking TRIM support on USB flash drives is not that there&#x27;s no protocol for it through USB, since there are USB-SATA adapters that specify support for UASP. Admittedly, though, I&#x27;m assuming that UASP is enough to get TRIM support. I don&#x27;t remember testing that.<p>In any case, I wonder if this new ritual I&#x27;m doing is really worth it, and if it&#x27;s not, when would it be?<p>EDIT: I wonder if it&#x27;s realistic to expect that one day we&#x27;ll get USB flash drives and microSD cards with TRIM support. I don&#x27;t expect the need to check for fraudulent storage devices to go away.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mceachen</author><text>There&#x27;s a tool called `f3` that does this automatically: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fight-flash-fraud.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fight-flash-fraud.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;index.htm...</a><p>TL;DR (for Debian variants):<p><pre><code> $ sudo apt install f3
$ cd &#x2F;MOUNTPOINT-FOR-SD
$ f3write .
$ f3read .</code></pre></text></comment> |
13,946,384 | 13,946,423 | 1 | 3 | 13,946,258 | train | <story><title>Apple says recent Wikileaks CIA docs detail old, fixed iPhone and Mac exploits</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/23/apple-says-recent-wikileaks-cia-docs-detail-old-fixed-iphone-and-mac-exploits/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>If you&#x27;re not familiar with the iPhone platform and you&#x27;re interested in just one technical detail to help navigate these stories, let it be this: the iPhone 3G platform bears very little resemblance to the modern, post-touch-ID phone. The platform security system at every level, from boot chain to hardware domains to OS security, evolved more in the last 10 years than any previous platform had in 20 years prior.<p>That doesn&#x27;t make an iPhone 7 impregnable, but it should inform any analysis you do of stories about phones being tampered with &quot;starting in 2008&quot;; that&#x27;s a little like talking about SMTP server security &quot;starting in 1993&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple says recent Wikileaks CIA docs detail old, fixed iPhone and Mac exploits</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/23/apple-says-recent-wikileaks-cia-docs-detail-old-fixed-iphone-and-mac-exploits/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chillaxtian</author><text>if you&#x27;re interested in how iOS security works, apple publishes white papers on the subject.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;docs&#x2F;iOS_Security_Guide.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;docs&#x2F;iOS_Security_Guide.pdf</a></text></comment> |
32,092,354 | 32,088,206 | 1 | 3 | 32,081,051 | train | <story><title>Unity merges with IronSource</title><url>https://blog.unity.com/news/welcome-ironsource</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>failrate</author><text>Oh, yeah, Unity is in the &quot;PE folks are wearing your organization as a skin suit&quot; phase.</text></item><item><author>datalopers</author><text>IronSource is known for leveraging their ad network and installers to distribute spam, malware, and adware bundlers. What the fuck Unity.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.benedelman.org&#x2F;news-021815&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.benedelman.org&#x2F;news-021815&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.infostruction.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;10&#x2F;26&#x2F;adware-empire-ironsource-and-installcore&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.infostruction.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;10&#x2F;26&#x2F;adware-empire-iron...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drawkbox</author><text>I have used Unity since 2007, Unity 2. This is by far the biggest blunder in their history. Did John Riccitiello get a visit late at night and capitulate? What happened? As a long time user, pusher and investor now, this concerns me deeply.<p>Microsoft why couldn&#x27;t you have bought Unity...</text></comment> | <story><title>Unity merges with IronSource</title><url>https://blog.unity.com/news/welcome-ironsource</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>failrate</author><text>Oh, yeah, Unity is in the &quot;PE folks are wearing your organization as a skin suit&quot; phase.</text></item><item><author>datalopers</author><text>IronSource is known for leveraging their ad network and installers to distribute spam, malware, and adware bundlers. What the fuck Unity.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.benedelman.org&#x2F;news-021815&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.benedelman.org&#x2F;news-021815&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.infostruction.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;10&#x2F;26&#x2F;adware-empire-ironsource-and-installcore&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.infostruction.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;10&#x2F;26&#x2F;adware-empire-iron...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>munificent</author><text>What an absolutely perfect turn of phrase.</text></comment> |
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