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23,109,442 | 23,107,096 | 1 | 2 | 23,102,430 | train | <story><title>Zoom Acquires Keybase</title><url>https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-joins-zoom</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ithkuil</author><text>why not look at the problem the other way around?<p>I don&#x27;t have much respect for zoom&#x27;s security practices, while I do have much respect for the keybase team.<p>Perhaps this is Zoom&#x27;s way of admitting that there is no way they can just solve the problem internally by keeping doing what they&#x27;re doing and they need to get some fresh blood and build upon good practices designed outside their current culture.</text></item><item><author>Communitivity</author><text>Given the security concerns around Zoom, and the apparent lack of QC that might have prevented those concerns, this news is appalling. I love Keybase, it&#x27;s used by many people, but I suspect it will now die a quick death. More accurately I suspect it will slide into a coma - not quite dead, but not in wide use anymore either.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>munificent</author><text><i>&gt; why not look at the problem the other way around?</i><p>Because no one ever buys or hires a conscience. If you thought a conscience was worth having one, that implies you would already have one and thus wouldn&#x27;t need to outsource it in the first place.<p>Ethics always rolls downhill. If Al Capone goes out and hires Mr. Rogers, the power imbalance between them means Mr. Rogers is going to get dirtier than Capone will get clean.</text></comment> | <story><title>Zoom Acquires Keybase</title><url>https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-joins-zoom</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ithkuil</author><text>why not look at the problem the other way around?<p>I don&#x27;t have much respect for zoom&#x27;s security practices, while I do have much respect for the keybase team.<p>Perhaps this is Zoom&#x27;s way of admitting that there is no way they can just solve the problem internally by keeping doing what they&#x27;re doing and they need to get some fresh blood and build upon good practices designed outside their current culture.</text></item><item><author>Communitivity</author><text>Given the security concerns around Zoom, and the apparent lack of QC that might have prevented those concerns, this news is appalling. I love Keybase, it&#x27;s used by many people, but I suspect it will now die a quick death. More accurately I suspect it will slide into a coma - not quite dead, but not in wide use anymore either.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fossuser</author><text>I actually love Zoom as a product - far and away the best product in its class and this move likely makes sense for Zoom.<p>The disappointment comes from the loss of Keybase and what it could have been.<p>The main problem is Zoom having most of its development done via companies based in China. This means it is no longer possible for Keybase to achieve its original goal (and whatever encryption they add cannot fix this core problem).<p>It&#x27;s one thing to accept the risk for video conferencing, but it&#x27;s another to accept for an encryption ID standard.<p>I agreed with Chris Coyne&#x27;s comments on HN a while back when he argued that the closed source server code didn&#x27;t matter because of how they handled the encryption (when compared to Signal). While that&#x27;s still true from a technical security standpoint, it looks like it does matter in a larger sense because this kind of sale shows that you can&#x27;t really trust a company to act in its user&#x27;s interests long-term.</text></comment> |
15,401,238 | 15,400,559 | 1 | 2 | 15,398,030 | train | <story><title>Structor – React UI Builder</title><url>https://github.com/ipselon/structor</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SnowingXIV</author><text>I&#x27;m still desperately trying to find something I can throw on top of an RoR application which is a crud app that is used by less than 20 users that handles the view easily. Or even if I could scrap that and hand over my decently large postgres database. (Not sure how it would be able to carry over the schema.rb or the model to retain relationships).<p>But, ideally I would say here is this database. Let users be able to easily add and update it and search&#x2F;sort quickly.<p>I feel react is built to do things like this quite fast. Seen some great examples of autofill and sorted&#x2F;filtered massive tables within a brilliant UI. Having the ability to work on independently on components also seems like a huge benefit but all solutions seem rather frankenstein-ish.<p>Maybe I suck. I wish I could find someone to pay that could take the database (or a grouping of csvs) and set up what I&#x27;m looking for. Sadly I&#x27;ve tried and the best solution has been hacking together on my own something that &quot;works&quot; but it&#x27;s not great.<p>This is why I keep being attracted to these scaffolds hoping one will &quot;click.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>winkeltripel</author><text>If you&#x27;re willing to give up on client-side apps (and deal with a Microsoft stack), MVC5+EF+server-side-kendo can be magical (you&#x27;ll need to customize EF&#x27;s TT file so that it scaffolds a grid for each type, and produces MVC validation attributes for the create&#x2F;edit pages), then just scaffold DB-first, tie it into an auth DB for logins, build your layout, menu and theme. It won&#x27;t be pretty. It won&#x27;t be React. It will work.</text></comment> | <story><title>Structor – React UI Builder</title><url>https://github.com/ipselon/structor</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SnowingXIV</author><text>I&#x27;m still desperately trying to find something I can throw on top of an RoR application which is a crud app that is used by less than 20 users that handles the view easily. Or even if I could scrap that and hand over my decently large postgres database. (Not sure how it would be able to carry over the schema.rb or the model to retain relationships).<p>But, ideally I would say here is this database. Let users be able to easily add and update it and search&#x2F;sort quickly.<p>I feel react is built to do things like this quite fast. Seen some great examples of autofill and sorted&#x2F;filtered massive tables within a brilliant UI. Having the ability to work on independently on components also seems like a huge benefit but all solutions seem rather frankenstein-ish.<p>Maybe I suck. I wish I could find someone to pay that could take the database (or a grouping of csvs) and set up what I&#x27;m looking for. Sadly I&#x27;ve tried and the best solution has been hacking together on my own something that &quot;works&quot; but it&#x27;s not great.<p>This is why I keep being attracted to these scaffolds hoping one will &quot;click.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joevandyk</author><text>Active Admin is fine for CRUD things.</text></comment> |
13,012,734 | 13,012,272 | 1 | 3 | 13,011,594 | train | <story><title>Debian considers merging /usr</title><url>https://dralnux.com/debian-considers-merging-usr/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bigbugbag</author><text>This move has been made a while ago by arch and didn&#x27;t seem to cause any trouble.<p>On the other hand, it does not change much compared to the revolution of adopting the gobolinux filesystem that has been proposed more than 10 years ago. [1]<p>[1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gobolinux.org&#x2F;index.php?page=at_a_glance" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gobolinux.org&#x2F;index.php?page=at_a_glance</a> <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gobolinux.org&#x2F;index.php?page=doc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;clueless" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gobolinux.org&#x2F;index.php?page=doc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;clueless</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Debian considers merging /usr</title><url>https://dralnux.com/debian-considers-merging-usr/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jeena</author><text>So what are the arguments actually?<p>A couple of days ago I was reading some POSIX book from 1991 and there the layout of &#x2F;bin &#x2F;lib &#x2F;shared &#x2F;usr&#x2F;name&#x2F;bin &#x2F;usr&#x2F;name&#x2F;lib &#x2F;usr&#x2F;name&#x2F;shared and so on was much more logical than what we have now which is just weird as far as I can see because I don&#x27;t understand it.</text></comment> |
35,657,459 | 35,653,027 | 1 | 3 | 35,649,935 | train | <story><title>CATL has announced a new “condensed” battery with 500 Wh/kg</title><url>https://thedriven.io/2023/04/21/worlds-largest-battery-maker-announces-major-breakthrough-in-battery-density/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>walrus01</author><text>What battery pack that I can buy right now is 300Wh&#x2F;kg? Sincerely curious because that&#x27;s 50Wh&#x2F;kg above what people are using in some very expensive UAVs.</text></item><item><author>gibolt</author><text>Current <i>mass produced</i> batteries, which tend to hover around 260-300 Wh&#x2F;kg. Higher density (but still under 500) are available, but in far smaller quantities for a very high cost.<p>The exciting part of this announcement is that if anyone can scale manufacturing, it is them.</text></item><item><author>bagels</author><text>&quot;CATL has announced a new “condensed” battery with 500 Wh&#x2F;kg which it says will go into mass production this year&quot;<p>This is a lot more credible than most of the battery stories, because CATL is already producing a ton of batteries, lending them some credibility.<p>This is a little under 2x the density of current batteries.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ejiblabahaba</author><text>Based on Google&#x27;s specs[0], the GMF5Z battery in the Pixel 7 pro is 18.96 Wh and 65 g, which is around 292 Wh&#x2F;kg.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;product-documentation&#x2F;answer&#x2F;9682653?hl=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;product-documentation&#x2F;answer&#x2F;9682...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>CATL has announced a new “condensed” battery with 500 Wh/kg</title><url>https://thedriven.io/2023/04/21/worlds-largest-battery-maker-announces-major-breakthrough-in-battery-density/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>walrus01</author><text>What battery pack that I can buy right now is 300Wh&#x2F;kg? Sincerely curious because that&#x27;s 50Wh&#x2F;kg above what people are using in some very expensive UAVs.</text></item><item><author>gibolt</author><text>Current <i>mass produced</i> batteries, which tend to hover around 260-300 Wh&#x2F;kg. Higher density (but still under 500) are available, but in far smaller quantities for a very high cost.<p>The exciting part of this announcement is that if anyone can scale manufacturing, it is them.</text></item><item><author>bagels</author><text>&quot;CATL has announced a new “condensed” battery with 500 Wh&#x2F;kg which it says will go into mass production this year&quot;<p>This is a lot more credible than most of the battery stories, because CATL is already producing a ton of batteries, lending them some credibility.<p>This is a little under 2x the density of current batteries.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rdez6173</author><text>Amprius has 400+Wh&#x2F;kg that are commercially available. I&#x27;m sure they ain&#x27;t cheap, but the tech exists.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;amprius.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;amprius.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;</a><p>Edit: well, I&#x27;m a dummy and OP said mass-produced. Sorry.</text></comment> |
5,069,048 | 5,069,047 | 1 | 3 | 5,068,413 | train | <story><title>What If Cars Were Rented Like We Hire Programmers?</title><url>http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/1/16/what-if-cars-were-rented-like-we-hire-programmers.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Hovertruck</author><text>This analogy is backwards... Hiring a programmer is an exchange of company money (or equity, benefits, etc) for a service (programming skills). Renting a car is an exchange of one's own money for a service (use of the car).<p>In this case, the person renting the car would be "interviewing" the car rental company to determine if their service is worth their money.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arscan</author><text>&#62;&#62; In this case, the person renting the car would be "interviewing" the car rental company to determine if their service is worth their money.<p>It goes both ways... the rental car agency interviews the person to make sure she is trustworthy of driving the car. The author is asking you to think about the relationship a little more abstractly than simply who is giving money to whom.<p>Having said, that, I think this is a poor analogy because I don't find it particularly illuminating and the situations just don't seem very... analogous.</text></comment> | <story><title>What If Cars Were Rented Like We Hire Programmers?</title><url>http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/1/16/what-if-cars-were-rented-like-we-hire-programmers.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Hovertruck</author><text>This analogy is backwards... Hiring a programmer is an exchange of company money (or equity, benefits, etc) for a service (programming skills). Renting a car is an exchange of one's own money for a service (use of the car).<p>In this case, the person renting the car would be "interviewing" the car rental company to determine if their service is worth their money.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dlss</author><text>Maybe this is me having spent too much time thinking about econ, but I don't get why the analogy is backwards here. What is special about the person spending money? A car rental company is filling a large number of slots, and the renter would like to fill one. Why is that not as natural an analogy point for you?<p>Instead of "whoever is giving up money should do the due diligence," I would suggest you consider "both sides should do increasing due diligence as the importance of a decision increases."<p>From this perspective, the article is pointing out the dumbness of some due diligence methods currently being used at software companies.</text></comment> |
18,965,195 | 18,965,251 | 1 | 3 | 18,964,792 | train | <story><title>Google: Please Stop Telling Lies About Me</title><url>https://ehudreiter.com/2019/01/21/google-lies-about-me/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jnbiche</author><text>Seeing as how the author was indeed born in Israel, I figured at first that it was unreasonable to complain, since like or or not he was probably an Israeli citizen.<p>However, looking into Israeli citizenship law, I learned that Israel does <i>not</i> have birthright citizenship. So he was not automatically a citizen despite being born there. Had his parents been Israelis (and that doesn&#x27;t appear to be the case), he would be Israeli.<p>It&#x27;s true that he&#x27;s likely <i>eligible</i> to claim Israeli citizenship through the law of return. But being eligible for Israeli citizenship isn&#x27;t the same as having it.<p>So I do understand the annoyance. It&#x27;s not just a technicality--he actually doesn&#x27;t have Israeli citizenship. Google&#x27;s algorithm appears to assume all countries practice birthright citizenship like the US (when many, probably most, do not).</text></comment> | <story><title>Google: Please Stop Telling Lies About Me</title><url>https://ehudreiter.com/2019/01/21/google-lies-about-me/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>robbrown451</author><text>I think it is far less an issue of faulty AI and more an issue of Google ignoring requests to change information about someone when that person notifies them that it is incorrect.<p>It&#x27;s one thing to show things in search results, a very different thing to have a little box saying &quot;We Google have deduced that this is true.&quot; They should take more responsibility.<p>In my opinion they should be required to do something about it. It is very similar to how you can tell google your privacy is invaded by something on Google Maps and they will fix it (with blurring, in that case).</text></comment> |
32,738,737 | 32,736,789 | 1 | 2 | 32,736,563 | train | <story><title>CERN drafts plans to idle accelerators due to Europe’s energy crunch</title><url>https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/sci-tech/cern-drafts-plans-to-idle-accelerators-due-to-europe-s-energy-crunch/47875950</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chaorace</author><text>Makes sense. So much of the work around CERN already happens independent of whether the collider is running or not, so skipping a rough season seems like the sensible thing to do (<i>even from a purely inward facing cost&#x2F;benefit standpoint</i>).<p>It&#x27;s a shame that the timing just had to coincide with the start of LHC Run 3, though. They only managed to generate around 5-6 months of data after 3 years of upgrades. I imagine that should still be enough to keep the scientists busy this Winter, though.</text></comment> | <story><title>CERN drafts plans to idle accelerators due to Europe’s energy crunch</title><url>https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/sci-tech/cern-drafts-plans-to-idle-accelerators-due-to-europe-s-energy-crunch/47875950</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sschueller</author><text>From what I recall the last time I was there is that they tune it down quite a bit in winter anyway because of electricity that is needed else where in France.<p>Also from my understanding most of the electricity that is generated for CERN is by nuclear power plants and since so many of those are currently under maintenance they may need the power they do have to supply export agreements etc.</text></comment> |
8,552,845 | 8,551,554 | 1 | 2 | 8,550,425 | train | <story><title>Mining of Massive Datasets</title><url>http://mmds.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>amitkgupta84</author><text>I&#x27;m taking this course right now, I&#x27;m a little ambivalent about it. They cover various machine learning algorithms, which one can learn anywhere, but they also talk about how to deal with these things in a massive data context. The pragmatic tools needed to wrangle large amounts of data so that you can apply your usual ML algorithms to it is very nice to see.<p>That said, I don&#x27;t feel like I&#x27;m learning concepts. So far, the techniques have felt like: break up the data into chunks this way, apply a bunch of hash functions that way, this is what ended up working for this particular problem. I guess if you work in the field, the tools you&#x27;re exposed to will inspire things in your own work, and you&#x27;ll feel more like you&#x27;re building a general framework.<p>The homeworks are terrible. There are no mandatory programming assignments, and the one optional one does nothing to gradually work up to applying the stuff they teach you, it&#x27;s just, here&#x27;s a massive zip that won&#x27;t fit on your hard drive, here&#x27;s an uninteresting computational question to answer about it, go for it.<p>The remaining (basic) homeworks are quizzes and they&#x27;re incredibly tedious. (There are advanced homeworks as well, but it hasn&#x27;t been that inspiring). One of the recent homeworks was really just a rehash of some high school linear algebra, another one involved doing some computations with a bunch of different points. The points weren&#x27;t provided in a list, they were drawn onto a jpeg so you had to manually copy all of them down. That&#x27;s the kind of course it&#x27;s been.<p>It&#x27;s a very light weight course, which is nice if you&#x27;re working. If your basic math skills are good and you already have some familiarity with ML and distributed computing, 5 hrs&#x2F;wk is enough to watch the videos (at 2x speed plus occasionally hitting the 10-second-fast-forward) and do the basic homeworks.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mining of Massive Datasets</title><url>http://mmds.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>koffiekop</author><text>We are currently using this book for a course at the Leiden institute for advanced computer science. It&#x27;s pretty up to date.<p>It covers LSH, cosine similarity, Jaccard similarity as well as recommender systems applicable to the Netflix challenge and so forth.</text></comment> |
1,576,347 | 1,576,157 | 1 | 2 | 1,575,892 | train | <story><title>Google Kills Wave</title><url>http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/update-on-google-wave.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alextgordon</author><text>It failed because it was completely invisible.<p>Facebook spams your inbox. They <i>make sure</i> you know that you have an account and that people are trying to reach you (or tell the world about their cat, etc).<p>With wave, it's silent. There was activity on a wave I was following in January. I found out about it in March. Someone replied to something I said on July 21st. I'm only just finding out <i>now</i>. What kind of a communication tool is that? It's like they're selling a phone that can't ring.<p>The other UI and social issues were important but weren't fatal. If Google had actually <i>notified</i> users when they got new messages, they would have logged into wave, sent more messages and wave would have lasted longer.<p>Instead, messages were sent but never read, so Wave lost all the momentum it had.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>m104</author><text>You're right: completely invisible. Wave would have been so cool if Google had plopped it right on top of Gmail, like Gchat and Buzz. Our Wave-enabled contacts would have gotten their messages as waves, seamlessly, and non-Wave contacts would have continued to receive regular emails. Wave collaboration could have been supported with notification emails to non-Wave contacts, like "we're editing this on Wave, so click here {...} to join in." Best of all, every Gmail user would have been upgraded to Wave... I thought that was supposed to be the plan! What a waste.<p>I'd like to ask one of the top Googlers just what they were thinking by positioning Wave as a replacement to email, chat, and online collaboration and NOT integrating those services into Wave itself. IPv4 to IPv6, hello! No migration plan means no migration. Email support means being able to use Wave and email at the same time; not having to choose.<p>Still trying to wrap my head around this, but at this point I'm not sure what's worse:
a) Planning, developing, implementing, marketing, and supporting Wave as communications platform without regards to Gmail, Gchat, and Buzz or
b) Axing Wave before trying to add Gmail, Gchat, and Buzz support</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Kills Wave</title><url>http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/update-on-google-wave.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alextgordon</author><text>It failed because it was completely invisible.<p>Facebook spams your inbox. They <i>make sure</i> you know that you have an account and that people are trying to reach you (or tell the world about their cat, etc).<p>With wave, it's silent. There was activity on a wave I was following in January. I found out about it in March. Someone replied to something I said on July 21st. I'm only just finding out <i>now</i>. What kind of a communication tool is that? It's like they're selling a phone that can't ring.<p>The other UI and social issues were important but weren't fatal. If Google had actually <i>notified</i> users when they got new messages, they would have logged into wave, sent more messages and wave would have lasted longer.<p>Instead, messages were sent but never read, so Wave lost all the momentum it had.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jaybobzin</author><text>The sad thing here is that Google did the polite thing, and turned off email notifications by default. It actually took some searching to figure out how to turn it on.<p>Contrast this with Buzz, where they dropped it right in the middle of your inbox. Quite the opposite strategy.<p>I suppose the solution I favor is to ask the user if they want notifications when they sign up. Or at the very least making it very obvious how to turn on notifications if you want them.<p>The notification messages were also not very well thought out, it was often confusing what had changed, requiring you to log in to Wave just to read a new message that could have easily been read via email.</text></comment> |
7,702,264 | 7,701,135 | 1 | 2 | 7,698,403 | train | <story><title>The Case for React.js and ClojureScript</title><url>http://murilopereira.com/the-case-for-reactjs-and-clojurescript</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chao-</author><text>Almost everything I&#x27;ve seen about React makes me happy. However there are some parts for which I do not understand everyone else&#x27;s excitement. This presentation contains a great example on slide 53 when it says:<p>&quot;No Templates!&quot;<p>With an exclamation mark, even! What it doesn&#x27;t tell me, is what is wrong with templates in the first place? I happen to like them versus the feeling the alternative gives: Awkwardly-mixed-paradigms and using string concatenation while attempting to represent one language within another.<p>Can someone who dislikes templates explain? Or maybe explain what a template means to you, as perhaps we&#x27;re not all thinking about the same thing when someone says &quot;No Templates!&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zoomerang</author><text>I agree very strongly, but I can understand the opposite viewpoint.<p>For me, I like to write HTML in HTML. While I&#x27;m primarily a backend programmer these days, I&#x27;ve spend a considerable portion of my career writing HTML, so I&#x27;m very familiar and fluent in it.<p>As such, to me, writing HTML as HTML with annotations for data bindings and loop is a much better approach. Anything else just gets in the way of my workflow. AngularJS is the only tool I&#x27;ve used so far that really nails this properly. (At least since Zope)<p>However a lot of developers aren&#x27;t HTML guys. They think in code, and to them HTML == DOM == a Tree structure. So it makes sense for them to be returning a tree.<p>I quite religiously think the latter is the wrong approach and results in less maintainable code. Instead of having a single template with the entire page clearly laid out, you end up with small snippets of HTML rendered all over the place.<p>This becomes even more jarring when you&#x27;re working with designers that aren&#x27;t coders. I manage a team of 7, and Using HTML-based templates means that my designer can write fluent AngularJS templates without developers having to do a thing. The alternative is for the designer to mock something up, and then for developers to cut it up into tiny little pieces and rewrite it in whatever DOM abstraction is the flavour of the month. Try reskinning a site made up of hundreds of small snippets of DOM vs a few complete HTML templates - the latter is far easier.<p>Some developers like to write Dom in Javascript because they know Javascript and don&#x27;t want to learn another language.<p>To me, the idea that templates are bad because somebody doesn&#x27;t want to learn another language just reeks of anti intellectual bullshit. Angular template aren&#x27;t difficult.<p>I&#x27;ll finish off this post by adding that I <i>much</i> prefer reactive code over imperative observables or dirty-checking, but Angular templates work so ridiculously well it&#x27;d feel like a step backwards moving to another framework that didn&#x27;t have them. My dream toolchain would use something similar to Angular templates, with FRP code behind the scenes.<p>tl;dr To somebody used to writing HTML, building a page by emitting snippets of DOM inside Javascript is about as annoying as trying to write Javascript by emitting snippets of code in XML.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Case for React.js and ClojureScript</title><url>http://murilopereira.com/the-case-for-reactjs-and-clojurescript</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chao-</author><text>Almost everything I&#x27;ve seen about React makes me happy. However there are some parts for which I do not understand everyone else&#x27;s excitement. This presentation contains a great example on slide 53 when it says:<p>&quot;No Templates!&quot;<p>With an exclamation mark, even! What it doesn&#x27;t tell me, is what is wrong with templates in the first place? I happen to like them versus the feeling the alternative gives: Awkwardly-mixed-paradigms and using string concatenation while attempting to represent one language within another.<p>Can someone who dislikes templates explain? Or maybe explain what a template means to you, as perhaps we&#x27;re not all thinking about the same thing when someone says &quot;No Templates!&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danabramov</author><text>Have you seen Rethinking Best Practices video[1] from JSConf?<p>I think it explains the point.<p>[1]: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=x7cQ3mrcKaY" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=x7cQ3...</a></text></comment> |
12,676,684 | 12,676,635 | 1 | 2 | 12,674,533 | train | <story><title>The Dutch Reach: Clever Workaround to Keep Cyclists from Getting “Doored”</title><url>http://99percentinvisible.org/article/dutch-reach-clever-workaround-keep-cyclists-getting-doored/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kristofferR</author><text>&gt; <i>&quot;When you are not in The Netherlands you should most definitely wear a helmet no matter what kind of bike.&quot;</i><p>Why? It&#x27;s actually not statistically safer.</text></item><item><author>tinco</author><text>This comment is important in how it shows biking is totally different in The Netherlands. The first type of bike most non-Dutch think of when they hear &#x27;bicycle&#x27;, where the rider sits hunched forward poised to race is not even considered a regular bike here. If you go faster than 15mph you are basically considered to be comparable to a moped and doing it without a helmet is frowned upon even here.<p>When you are not in The Netherlands you should most definitely wear a helmet no matter what kind of bike. The fact that you can ride a bike without a helmet in The Netherlands is a sort of democratic miracle of the 70&#x27;s where the public convinced the politicians to make bikes a first class mode of transport. The effect of this is that almost <i>every</i> road in The Netherlands has some sort of provision for bicycles, or has at least been considered to have some. And in most cases not just in the form of a line but actual infrastructures, curbs, asphalt, specifically constructed in a way to make bicycling safe.<p>And even when there would be no infrastructure for bicyclists, every motorist is trained to deal with cyclists. From the driving lessons (usually 40-50 hours are necessary to pass the exam these days) where a considerable amount of time is spent on being aware of cyclists, to the fact that when you&#x27;re on a Dutch road and you want to turn right you are almost guaranteed to wait for cyclists you have to yield to, so not having a shoulder check habit wouldn&#x27;t get you 100m out of your driveway without an accident.</text></item><item><author>wobbleblob</author><text>If you&#x27;ve tried driving in the Netherlands, you know why so many people prefer to ride a bike instead. Well maintained, but narrow and extremely busy roads, densely packed with tiny vehicles. Wearing a helmet while cycling in the Dutch bike lanes is a bit like wearing a helmet while walking on the side walk. I used to only wear it while racing.<p>Since I had a bad crash after being hit in the eye by an insect, I wear a helmet and cycling glasses on my commute as well. This has a remarkable effect on how you are treated in traffic. Gone is the usual friendly coexistence between cyclists, pedestrians, drivers and even scooters. Without the helmet, I&#x27;m just one of the thousands riding their bike to work, but wearing it, apparently now I&#x27;m an asshole bike racer who needs to be taught a lesson, much the way cyclists in general seem to be treated in cycling-hostile countries. A helmet doesn&#x27;t really make you feel safer if it changes the way you&#x27;re treated by the rest of traffic.</text></item><item><author>djsumdog</author><text>The amount of bicycles in The Netherlands is absolutely surreal. Both in major cities and out in the suburbs, bicycles are everywhere. I also find it interesting the Dutch rarely ever wear helmets.<p>Large cities in Germany or the UK or anywhere else I&#x27;ve seen cannot compare to the magnitude of people on bicycles in The Netherlands.</text></item><item><author>smartbit</author><text>It is true that getting doored is not part of the Dutch vocabulary as it is not something that happens often. But there are more reasons than grabbing the handle with the opposite hand.<p>A non extensive list: 1) Dutch car drivers <i>all</i> have been bicyclist before they get their driver license, everyday to school more than an hour being nothing being frowned on. 2) Major transit bike routes have separate bike lanes, the tiny narrow ones of the gif in the article barely exist. 3) Bike lanes in cities usually are placed between the footpath and the parked cars, with <i>most of the times</i> a 50cm wide band left of the bike path allowing for car doors being opened without going over the bike paths, usually this is used for planting trees too 4) All politicians drive bike, the Dutch Prime Minister comes to work on his bike 5) There are local associations part of the national <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fietersbond.nl" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fietersbond.nl</a> in every town and they passionately lobby every time they see an opportunity. 6) these volunteers are highly respected and their input is valued by the municipalities 7) one of the <i>prime goals</i> of Dutch national ministerie of Traffic is lowering the number of injured and death in traffic, good recording of cause by police is step one, good statistics then determine the ways roads are laid out. 8) On smaller roads without a separate bicycle path, as a bicyclist you&#x27;re always on the watch if someone might step out of a car and try to keep a distance by bicycling towards the middle of the road which isn&#x27;t an issue as this is low traffic street, major bike transit always has separated bike paths with distance to the parked cars. 9) during driving lessons, watching bicyclist is a prime part of the lessons and a good driver keeps an eye on the mirrors for back-coming bicyclist and will warn passengers on the back seats before they get out.<p>And there are probably more reasons that Dutch have few accidents being doored.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saiya-jin</author><text>Anecdotal evidence - i never wore helmet when growing up, nobody did. once had an accident on small bmx bike when I fell head first on tarmac, but didn&#x27;t land on head and apart from scratches and being shaken all good (if parents only knew...).<p>few years ago decided to buy new cross country (ie all-rounder) one, lightweight and blazing fast for what it is. Decided to go for a helmet for the first time. After 2 weeks, had a head-first fall because of my GF stopped on some narrow forest path uphill, behind the corner and I hit brakes full power when I saw her with no place to avoid.<p>I miss few seconds of memories, just waking up laying in the grass, picking my head from sharp pointy stone sticking out of the ground - helmet hit it in forehead area. Have I not worn it, it&#x27;s more probable than not I would die there, I was still badly shaken from impact force on my head, and I was driving slowly when it happened (10-15 kmh).<p>Fiancee works on emergency, the stuff she sees daily makes her wear helmet too. Link all articles you want, we&#x27;re keeping our helmets where they are, on our heads, thank you.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Dutch Reach: Clever Workaround to Keep Cyclists from Getting “Doored”</title><url>http://99percentinvisible.org/article/dutch-reach-clever-workaround-keep-cyclists-getting-doored/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kristofferR</author><text>&gt; <i>&quot;When you are not in The Netherlands you should most definitely wear a helmet no matter what kind of bike.&quot;</i><p>Why? It&#x27;s actually not statistically safer.</text></item><item><author>tinco</author><text>This comment is important in how it shows biking is totally different in The Netherlands. The first type of bike most non-Dutch think of when they hear &#x27;bicycle&#x27;, where the rider sits hunched forward poised to race is not even considered a regular bike here. If you go faster than 15mph you are basically considered to be comparable to a moped and doing it without a helmet is frowned upon even here.<p>When you are not in The Netherlands you should most definitely wear a helmet no matter what kind of bike. The fact that you can ride a bike without a helmet in The Netherlands is a sort of democratic miracle of the 70&#x27;s where the public convinced the politicians to make bikes a first class mode of transport. The effect of this is that almost <i>every</i> road in The Netherlands has some sort of provision for bicycles, or has at least been considered to have some. And in most cases not just in the form of a line but actual infrastructures, curbs, asphalt, specifically constructed in a way to make bicycling safe.<p>And even when there would be no infrastructure for bicyclists, every motorist is trained to deal with cyclists. From the driving lessons (usually 40-50 hours are necessary to pass the exam these days) where a considerable amount of time is spent on being aware of cyclists, to the fact that when you&#x27;re on a Dutch road and you want to turn right you are almost guaranteed to wait for cyclists you have to yield to, so not having a shoulder check habit wouldn&#x27;t get you 100m out of your driveway without an accident.</text></item><item><author>wobbleblob</author><text>If you&#x27;ve tried driving in the Netherlands, you know why so many people prefer to ride a bike instead. Well maintained, but narrow and extremely busy roads, densely packed with tiny vehicles. Wearing a helmet while cycling in the Dutch bike lanes is a bit like wearing a helmet while walking on the side walk. I used to only wear it while racing.<p>Since I had a bad crash after being hit in the eye by an insect, I wear a helmet and cycling glasses on my commute as well. This has a remarkable effect on how you are treated in traffic. Gone is the usual friendly coexistence between cyclists, pedestrians, drivers and even scooters. Without the helmet, I&#x27;m just one of the thousands riding their bike to work, but wearing it, apparently now I&#x27;m an asshole bike racer who needs to be taught a lesson, much the way cyclists in general seem to be treated in cycling-hostile countries. A helmet doesn&#x27;t really make you feel safer if it changes the way you&#x27;re treated by the rest of traffic.</text></item><item><author>djsumdog</author><text>The amount of bicycles in The Netherlands is absolutely surreal. Both in major cities and out in the suburbs, bicycles are everywhere. I also find it interesting the Dutch rarely ever wear helmets.<p>Large cities in Germany or the UK or anywhere else I&#x27;ve seen cannot compare to the magnitude of people on bicycles in The Netherlands.</text></item><item><author>smartbit</author><text>It is true that getting doored is not part of the Dutch vocabulary as it is not something that happens often. But there are more reasons than grabbing the handle with the opposite hand.<p>A non extensive list: 1) Dutch car drivers <i>all</i> have been bicyclist before they get their driver license, everyday to school more than an hour being nothing being frowned on. 2) Major transit bike routes have separate bike lanes, the tiny narrow ones of the gif in the article barely exist. 3) Bike lanes in cities usually are placed between the footpath and the parked cars, with <i>most of the times</i> a 50cm wide band left of the bike path allowing for car doors being opened without going over the bike paths, usually this is used for planting trees too 4) All politicians drive bike, the Dutch Prime Minister comes to work on his bike 5) There are local associations part of the national <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fietersbond.nl" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fietersbond.nl</a> in every town and they passionately lobby every time they see an opportunity. 6) these volunteers are highly respected and their input is valued by the municipalities 7) one of the <i>prime goals</i> of Dutch national ministerie of Traffic is lowering the number of injured and death in traffic, good recording of cause by police is step one, good statistics then determine the ways roads are laid out. 8) On smaller roads without a separate bicycle path, as a bicyclist you&#x27;re always on the watch if someone might step out of a car and try to keep a distance by bicycling towards the middle of the road which isn&#x27;t an issue as this is low traffic street, major bike transit always has separated bike paths with distance to the parked cars. 9) during driving lessons, watching bicyclist is a prime part of the lessons and a good driver keeps an eye on the mirrors for back-coming bicyclist and will warn passengers on the back seats before they get out.<p>And there are probably more reasons that Dutch have few accidents being doored.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>auxym</author><text>Here are two credible reviews &#x2F; meta-analyses stating the contrary, that is, that bicycle helmet use or legislation does, statistically, reduce head injuries.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S0001457500000488" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S0001457500...</a>
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cochrane.org&#x2F;CD005401&#x2F;INJ_bicycle-helmet-legislation-for-the-uptake-of-helmet-use-and-prevention-of-head-injuries" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cochrane.org&#x2F;CD005401&#x2F;INJ_bicycle-helmet-legislat...</a><p>That said, despite personally wearing a helmet on my daily commute, I don&#x27;t support legislation. I unfortunately don&#x27;t have sources on hand, but I firmly believe that spending public dollars on bike infrastructure and better legislation for bicycle&#x2F;car interaction would yield better safety improvements for cyclists AND increase cycling uptake.</text></comment> |
21,639,356 | 21,639,076 | 1 | 3 | 21,638,290 | train | <story><title>Psilocybin for major depression granted Breakthrough Therapy by FDA</title><url>https://newatlas.com/science/psilocybin-major-depression-mdd-usona-breakthrough-therapy-fda/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tempsy</author><text>Not to be facetious but why is the legal status of these drugs preventing you from trying them?<p>Ketamine, LSD, shrooms are all accessible, and recreational varieties are not expensive.</text></item><item><author>givinguflac</author><text>While this is a great step forward, it&#x27;s still going to take years for this to be even remotely accessible. I&#x27;ve been in therapy and taking various medications for years and haven&#x27;t found anything that really works, at least for more than a brief period.<p>Don&#x27;t forget esketamine was also granted breakthrough treatment status recently, but I have yet to find a doctor willing to try it because it&#x27;s &quot;so new&quot;. On top of that, it&#x27;s still outrageously expensive even with insurance, if insurance will even cover it at all because it&#x27;s &quot;so new&quot; and I haven&#x27;t yet exhausted every compound that&#x27;s ever existed. Sigh.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>astura</author><text>This is a ridiculous question, the answer is because they are illegal, of course.<p>Most of us aren&#x27;t willing to risk a criminal record.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t know where I could obtain such items even if I wanted to buy them. If I can&#x27;t buy something off the shelf at a retail store I&#x27;m simply not going to bother.<p>Sketchy&#x2F;unknown supply chain.<p>Tons of us have jobs (or whole careers!) that we could lose for using illegal drugs, many of those jobs include random drug tests. I&#x27;m not risking my entire fucking livelihood without a damn good reason.</text></comment> | <story><title>Psilocybin for major depression granted Breakthrough Therapy by FDA</title><url>https://newatlas.com/science/psilocybin-major-depression-mdd-usona-breakthrough-therapy-fda/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tempsy</author><text>Not to be facetious but why is the legal status of these drugs preventing you from trying them?<p>Ketamine, LSD, shrooms are all accessible, and recreational varieties are not expensive.</text></item><item><author>givinguflac</author><text>While this is a great step forward, it&#x27;s still going to take years for this to be even remotely accessible. I&#x27;ve been in therapy and taking various medications for years and haven&#x27;t found anything that really works, at least for more than a brief period.<p>Don&#x27;t forget esketamine was also granted breakthrough treatment status recently, but I have yet to find a doctor willing to try it because it&#x27;s &quot;so new&quot;. On top of that, it&#x27;s still outrageously expensive even with insurance, if insurance will even cover it at all because it&#x27;s &quot;so new&quot; and I haven&#x27;t yet exhausted every compound that&#x27;s ever existed. Sigh.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>selectodude</author><text>Not OP, but I wouldn&#x27;t even know where to begin trying to source street drugs, nor am I particularly interested in learning.</text></comment> |
10,426,719 | 10,426,124 | 1 | 2 | 10,424,856 | train | <story><title>Western Digital agrees to buy SanDisk for about $19B</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-21/western-digital-agrees-to-buy-sandisk-for-about-19-billion</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anoother</author><text>Really?<p>Before the flood, I seem to remember you could get a 1TB Samsung F1 7200rpm drive for £30.<p>Now, an equivalent drive will set you back around £35, and it&#x27;s taken a long time to reach that level...</text></item><item><author>hga</author><text>Hmmm, when did the price decreases stop?<p>I last bought some high capacity drives in 2011 <i>just</i> before the floods in Thailand zapped the industry, and I now note I can buy twice the capacity, 2TB -&gt; 4TB, for $35 less.<p>There could be demand issues, as companies like Amazon, Google, Backblaze, etc. etc. buy them in mass quantities to offer redundant cloud storage.<p>At the other end, SSDs have got to be eating the lunch of small-moderate capacity SAS enterprise drives, and if not now, soon enough the basic sub 1 TB drives that workstations and laptops come with. I&#x27;m <i>very</i> conservative with these sorts of things so I avoided jumping on the SSD bandwagon, but a recent failure of one of my Seagate 15K system disks prompted me to buy one of Intel&#x27;s lowest end, lowest capacity datacenter SSDs (DC S3510 80GB) and I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;m going to be looking back....</text></item><item><author>sschueller</author><text>This sucks for consumers. Prices are already way to high for HDs and don&#x27;t seem to come down anymore. It is as if there is some sort of price fixing going on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cptskippy</author><text>This is all anecdotal but...<p>I bought...<p>1TB WD Green EARS HDDs in 2010 for $70.
2TB WD Red HDDs in spring 2014 for $89.
1TB WD Black HDDs in fall 2014 for $90.<p>Just spot checked the same drives...<p>1TB WD Green EARS HDDs go for $57.
2TB WD Red HDDs go for $89.
1TB WD Black HDDs go for $71.<p>So prices are slowly falling but I don&#x27;t think that we&#x27;re going to see the rapid falls we were accustom to in the last decade due either to technological constrains or consumer demand, likely both.<p>From 2000-2005 we went from 20GB to 500GB drives, a 25x growth in 5 years but in 2010 we only had 2TB drives which is just a 4x growth. It&#x27;s 2015 the largest consumer HDDs you can get from WD, Seagate, and HGST are 6TB, 8TB, and 10GB respectively. That&#x27;s 3-5x growth for the 5 year period. Why has growth slowed? Is it a technological constraint or a lack of investment?<p>In the early 2000s you could only play music and movies you possessed so there was a big demand for storage space for all your ripped CDs and DVDs. In 2007 Netflix introduced online streaming and today we have thousands of choices for streaming video or music on demand which combined with cloud storage options negated our need for high capacity drives. I think the fact that people are opting for 120GB SSDs over 4TB HDDs demonstrates that the consumer need for extremely large hard drives is in decline.<p>In the past the HDD makers were very competitive but if you look at WD, Seagate and HGST today you can see they&#x27;re no longer competing on drive capacities. HGST is the only one that even bothers to sell a consumer grade 10TB HDD. Western Digital has been diversifying for years; first it was portable backup solutions, then NAS drives, NAS solutions, Surveillance and Data Center drives, and just today they announced they&#x27;re buying Sandisk, a major SSD player.<p>I think the industry as a whole is moving away from HDDs and for that reason they nolonger need to compete so ferociously on price points.</text></comment> | <story><title>Western Digital agrees to buy SanDisk for about $19B</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-21/western-digital-agrees-to-buy-sandisk-for-about-19-billion</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anoother</author><text>Really?<p>Before the flood, I seem to remember you could get a 1TB Samsung F1 7200rpm drive for £30.<p>Now, an equivalent drive will set you back around £35, and it&#x27;s taken a long time to reach that level...</text></item><item><author>hga</author><text>Hmmm, when did the price decreases stop?<p>I last bought some high capacity drives in 2011 <i>just</i> before the floods in Thailand zapped the industry, and I now note I can buy twice the capacity, 2TB -&gt; 4TB, for $35 less.<p>There could be demand issues, as companies like Amazon, Google, Backblaze, etc. etc. buy them in mass quantities to offer redundant cloud storage.<p>At the other end, SSDs have got to be eating the lunch of small-moderate capacity SAS enterprise drives, and if not now, soon enough the basic sub 1 TB drives that workstations and laptops come with. I&#x27;m <i>very</i> conservative with these sorts of things so I avoided jumping on the SSD bandwagon, but a recent failure of one of my Seagate 15K system disks prompted me to buy one of Intel&#x27;s lowest end, lowest capacity datacenter SSDs (DC S3510 80GB) and I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;m going to be looking back....</text></item><item><author>sschueller</author><text>This sucks for consumers. Prices are already way to high for HDs and don&#x27;t seem to come down anymore. It is as if there is some sort of price fixing going on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toyg</author><text>Physical disks are not going down in price because their market volume is shrinking, their technology is just not evolving. On consumer machines, the 5400rpm drives are being replaced by other 5400 or by SSDs, not by 7200rpm. So the 5400 disks don&#x27;t go down in price, whereas SSDs do (albeit slowly, due to technological constraints).</text></comment> |
23,423,262 | 23,423,331 | 1 | 3 | 23,422,469 | train | <story><title>Trump to Sign Executive Order Waiving Key Environmental Laws</title><url>https://e360.yale.edu/digest/president-trump-to-sign-executive-order-waiving-key-environmental-laws</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>veeralpatel979</author><text>I hate gerrymandering too. More competitive elections, in my view, makes politicians less partisan and incentivizes them more to deliver for their districts.<p>But who should determine who draws electoral lines? Right now, it&#x27;s in the hands of elected officials, so you can at least vote them out if they gerrymander.<p>If electoral lines are drawn by a nonpartisan commission, who appoints the commission? How do you ensure the members of the commission stay nonpartisan? Can the public hold members of this commission accountable?<p>Definitely our current system is broken; what are some alternatives to elected officials drawing electoral lines that are promising?</text></item><item><author>cgrealy</author><text>Because your system of government is so fundamentally broken it barely even qualifies as a democracy anymore?<p>All the systems built into the US government were designed for a country with 1% the number of people it has now, when the fastest method of communication was a horse and the majority of it&#x27;s populace were farmers.<p>There are a few simple things that could be done right now to fix the US government (abolish the EC and gerrymandering to start with), but no one has the political will to do it.</text></item><item><author>tathougies</author><text>Why have we as a people allowed our past three administrations to continue to rule by fiat? Ultimately, these are probably perfectly reasonable ideas, but this kind of action must come from the legislature.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>munk-a</author><text>Oh - districts should be drawn to guarantee mathematical fairness and a few relatively good measures exist[1] including one that was used in court in connection to a particularly egregious Wisconsin district (the efficiency-gap measure).<p>This is really less of an unsolvable problem than people make it out to be - it&#x27;s just that most of the discussion you hear about it is from the political parties both of which benefit from its existence and, especially, the incumbents who have a much more secure seat with careful district drawing to make sure you don&#x27;t get too many progressives that might vote out a centrist (or ditto on the other side)<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;the-mathematicians-who-want-to-save-democracy&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;the-mathematician...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Trump to Sign Executive Order Waiving Key Environmental Laws</title><url>https://e360.yale.edu/digest/president-trump-to-sign-executive-order-waiving-key-environmental-laws</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>veeralpatel979</author><text>I hate gerrymandering too. More competitive elections, in my view, makes politicians less partisan and incentivizes them more to deliver for their districts.<p>But who should determine who draws electoral lines? Right now, it&#x27;s in the hands of elected officials, so you can at least vote them out if they gerrymander.<p>If electoral lines are drawn by a nonpartisan commission, who appoints the commission? How do you ensure the members of the commission stay nonpartisan? Can the public hold members of this commission accountable?<p>Definitely our current system is broken; what are some alternatives to elected officials drawing electoral lines that are promising?</text></item><item><author>cgrealy</author><text>Because your system of government is so fundamentally broken it barely even qualifies as a democracy anymore?<p>All the systems built into the US government were designed for a country with 1% the number of people it has now, when the fastest method of communication was a horse and the majority of it&#x27;s populace were farmers.<p>There are a few simple things that could be done right now to fix the US government (abolish the EC and gerrymandering to start with), but no one has the political will to do it.</text></item><item><author>tathougies</author><text>Why have we as a people allowed our past three administrations to continue to rule by fiat? Ultimately, these are probably perfectly reasonable ideas, but this kind of action must come from the legislature.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xxpor</author><text>Who says we have to draw electoral lines at all?<p>Proportional representation of house members per state is one option. Which would be completely constitutional, btw.</text></comment> |
34,124,558 | 34,124,173 | 1 | 2 | 34,123,355 | train | <story><title>Taxpayers paying billions for the renovations and construction of NFL stadiums</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/22/taxpayers-are-paying-billions-for-nfl-stadiums-heres-how.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bane</author><text>I don&#x27;t care about organized sports much, and big collegiate sports are basically under my radar. But I&#x27;ll tell you something -- some of the best &quot;leaders&quot; I&#x27;ve hired over the years were athletes -- especially collegiate athletes -- especially female athletes in underappreciated sports.<p>There&#x27;s an incredible drive there to tactics, organization, consensus building, and so on that I never appreciated while growing up as a nerd in tech. Later, when I ended up with an employee who had both a strong tech and sports background I <i>really</i> started to appreciate the benefits of a collegiate sports education.<p>That all being said, professional sport appear to be out of control in a similar way that k-pop, appears to be. The real problem is that, outside of monetary compensation for themselves and their agents, these job categories offer very little in the way of societal benefit. They aren&#x27;t building homes for the homeless nor are they curing cancer or colonizing Mars.<p>A nearly endless supply of new recruits, combined with limited professional positions plus the modern celebrity-industrial-complex, creates and endlessly toxic environment that sends young people into career funnels that produce failed &lt;insert job&gt; instead of successful &lt;insert social benefit&gt;.<p>Conversely, when I was going to my higher education, the universities were overrun with incoming students who had been convinced that Computer Science was the way to a stable and prosperous career regardless of their personal passions for the field and the industrial uses for CS graduates.<p>Tax subsidies to pro-sports systems appear to be nothing more than a social cancer in the same way. Tens of thousands of sports hopefuls literally erasing years from their lives so that they might have a chance at a lower-tier professional feeder league -- which again contributes very little to overall society -- if Football disappeared tomorrow, it would have very little long-term disruption to anybody.<p>Bread and Circuses are only valuable to bakeries and race course hot dog vendors.</text></comment> | <story><title>Taxpayers paying billions for the renovations and construction of NFL stadiums</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/22/taxpayers-are-paying-billions-for-nfl-stadiums-heres-how.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>winternett</author><text>What is even more troubling to me is how an athlete can make 60 million dollars a year, and why tickets to games can cost $800 and up while our tax dollars subsidize it all... Back in the day there was a brutal revolution on taxing tea...<p>Now people are totally cool with student loans and mortgages indenturing our children for life while defense spending is astronomically higher than the moon.<p>Even mortgage interest deductions were gutted in the last 4 years.<p>I&#x27;m no revolutionary, and I painfully pay my fair share every year, but there is not much fair about taxes, and as usual it&#x27;s always a costly lie to everyone that obeys the law&#x2F;</text></comment> |
13,936,251 | 13,934,372 | 1 | 2 | 13,929,692 | train | <story><title>Bcachefs: “the COW filesystem for Linux that won't eat your data”</title><url>http://bcachefs.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>slavapestov</author><text>Here&#x27;s a funny story. At one point bcache development was funded by a startup (which I won&#x27;t name here). They were using it as the local storage layer of a distributed storage product. I worked there for a year in 2014.<p>Apparently they were not aware of the fact that bcache was a) GPLd code, or b) developed before the company existed, first as a hobby project and then at Google. After a couple of years, they noticed that Kent was in fact posting the bcache source code on his personal web site. At this point they fired him and threatened to sue. I quit the company then (along with a number of other people, for mostly unrelated reasons, such as the fact that the CTO was a notorious brogrammer). Kent got a litigator and when it was made very clear to them that they had no case, they backed down, but not before wasting a ton of money.<p>As far as I know, they&#x27;re still actively violating the GPL by shipping a product containing modified kernel code in it without releasing the source, nor do they acknowledge that they did not develop the key component of their product.<p>The &quot;commercial&quot; version had a rather broken and messy snapshots implementation and had diverged a bit from the open source bcachefs at that point, mostly because snapshots were poorly implemented. It&#x27;s also kind of funny because after we left the company we still knew of some tricky data corruption bugs, and it&#x27;s likely they&#x27;re still there in the &quot;commercial&quot; version, because backporting the latest fixes would be non-trivial and I don&#x27;t think their testing or development methodology would have caught them.<p>Anyway, I gave up on startups and enterprise storage after this, but Kent is still developing bcachefs on his own time and money, so if you use it please consider donating some money to support its development.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bcachefs: “the COW filesystem for Linux that won't eat your data”</title><url>http://bcachefs.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zanny</author><text>I&#x27;ve been using btrfs since about 2011, and I&#x27;ve stopped using ext4 &#x2F; xfs &#x2F; zfs everwhere since about 2014.<p>From 2012-2014 it was mostly breakage every other month. From 2014-2016, it was semi-annual issues.<p>For the last ~18 months I have had ~30 machines running btrfs with no issues, some servers, some personal computers. The release notes are boring, the bugs are boring, and to me its definitely in a state I would strongly consider trusting it with any workload.<p>I worry that btrfs is just going to remain doomed. It wasn&#x27;t stable half a decade ago, so it - for some reason - cannot be more stable now. But it has seen so much work put into it to make it as mature as it is now, and in my experience it is pretty damn mature now. All I want to see is another year and a half of perfect stability before I would start arguing to drop zfs entirely.</text></comment> |
15,853,468 | 15,851,394 | 1 | 3 | 15,850,254 | train | <story><title>Using Artificial Intelligence to Augment Human Intelligence</title><url>https://distill.pub/2017/aia/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fsloth</author><text>Please take the following as a form of intellectual sparring, and spoken loud hypotheses about art theory.<p>&quot;I processed pictures using the Artistic Style Transfer algorithm and then painted them.&quot;<p>Isn&#x27;t that just effectively painting by numbers? Autotune for visual arts... and it&#x27;s not interesting once one learns to percieve the effect.<p>The problem is that one takes a less interesting input domain, and runs it through a filter that makes it more aesthetically interesting. Once one learns to percieve the common transfer function my brain filters it back into the less interesting input domain. Music and visual arts as well.<p>When digital images became common there was a huge influx of people who ran their images through photoshop filters and called their output &quot;art&quot;.<p>What one likes, one likes, I have no qualm about that.<p>For me personally, though, that is just tastless, unimaginative and boring. Maybe it&#x27;s because once people use well known domain transfer tools, my brain learns to discern those domain transfers and robs the output of it&#x27;s pleasant features induced by the domain transfer.<p>To provide actual value, the process should make the content somehow more &quot;alive&quot; or &quot;interesting&quot; than just by applying a &quot;trivial&quot; domain transfer, like a well known neural network domain transfer or photoshop filter.<p>Maybe a person should invent ones own domain transfer system, thus not make it commoditized?<p>Many ancient master held their work strictly in secret before it was ready. Maybe, they realized that if the process was known people would recognize it simply as consequent application of various domain transfer functions and the magic would be lost.</text></item><item><author>rememberlenny</author><text>My work is very relevant here.<p>I&#x27;m a graffiti artist and a programmer. I started using machine learning techniques to augment street art with various nature landscapes (drone images, rolling hills, etc).<p>By using simple techniques, such as Style Transfer, I have been able to create some interesting images that are aesthetically pleasing, but unusual. I took the digital results and painted the contents on large canvases.<p>I recently invested in some GPUs and a new deep learning rig. Im planning on exploring what unique results I can make around graffiti LETTERS, which are interesting in themselves.<p>Take a look!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;becominghuman.ai&#x2F;digital-processes-inspiring-analog-paintings-a358eb7801a0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;becominghuman.ai&#x2F;digital-processes-inspiring-analog-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Toast_25</author><text>I get the feeling you didn&#x27;t read the article rememberinglenny posted about his techniques, or maybe you haven&#x27;t painted or drawn before.<p>While he does transfer styles from one domain to another digitally, it doesn&#x27;t end there. He uses the generated images as a basis for physical paintings. For this to be possible a degree of skill is necessary. For example, try drawing yourself using a mirror and your output will be greatly different despite having a perfect model in front of you.<p>I don&#x27;t agree with your last paragraph. That&#x27;s like saying that because C is a very well documented language, programs made with it are trivial. What we do with the tools we have and the experience gained by practice is what makes something &quot;magical&quot;, as well as the message it conveys. This last element, the transmission of the message, is highly dependent on the individual who experiences art. Which means that no piece of art is for everybody.<p>Finally, I agree with what brudgers said:
&gt; Saying &quot;I could have made that&quot; is false in the context of art. If a person could have they would have. If they didn&#x27;t, they can&#x27;t. The proof is in the work.</text></comment> | <story><title>Using Artificial Intelligence to Augment Human Intelligence</title><url>https://distill.pub/2017/aia/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fsloth</author><text>Please take the following as a form of intellectual sparring, and spoken loud hypotheses about art theory.<p>&quot;I processed pictures using the Artistic Style Transfer algorithm and then painted them.&quot;<p>Isn&#x27;t that just effectively painting by numbers? Autotune for visual arts... and it&#x27;s not interesting once one learns to percieve the effect.<p>The problem is that one takes a less interesting input domain, and runs it through a filter that makes it more aesthetically interesting. Once one learns to percieve the common transfer function my brain filters it back into the less interesting input domain. Music and visual arts as well.<p>When digital images became common there was a huge influx of people who ran their images through photoshop filters and called their output &quot;art&quot;.<p>What one likes, one likes, I have no qualm about that.<p>For me personally, though, that is just tastless, unimaginative and boring. Maybe it&#x27;s because once people use well known domain transfer tools, my brain learns to discern those domain transfers and robs the output of it&#x27;s pleasant features induced by the domain transfer.<p>To provide actual value, the process should make the content somehow more &quot;alive&quot; or &quot;interesting&quot; than just by applying a &quot;trivial&quot; domain transfer, like a well known neural network domain transfer or photoshop filter.<p>Maybe a person should invent ones own domain transfer system, thus not make it commoditized?<p>Many ancient master held their work strictly in secret before it was ready. Maybe, they realized that if the process was known people would recognize it simply as consequent application of various domain transfer functions and the magic would be lost.</text></item><item><author>rememberlenny</author><text>My work is very relevant here.<p>I&#x27;m a graffiti artist and a programmer. I started using machine learning techniques to augment street art with various nature landscapes (drone images, rolling hills, etc).<p>By using simple techniques, such as Style Transfer, I have been able to create some interesting images that are aesthetically pleasing, but unusual. I took the digital results and painted the contents on large canvases.<p>I recently invested in some GPUs and a new deep learning rig. Im planning on exploring what unique results I can make around graffiti LETTERS, which are interesting in themselves.<p>Take a look!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;becominghuman.ai&#x2F;digital-processes-inspiring-analog-paintings-a358eb7801a0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;becominghuman.ai&#x2F;digital-processes-inspiring-analog-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>justinjlynn</author><text>Style Transfer is just as much Autotune for the visual arts as Spray Paint is. The process doesn&#x27;t matter, only the end result and the impact that result has matters.<p>The means to achieving that impact is an art unto itself divorced from any resultant work; a meta-art, if you will, which is deserving of its own consideration and appreciation.</text></comment> |
21,753,322 | 21,752,947 | 1 | 2 | 21,749,411 | train | <story><title>New airplane seat design to make it easier to sleep in economy</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/interspace-new-airplane-seat/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vxNsr</author><text>Idk what economy cabins these people are sitting in but those seats look at least business-sized to me. No US airline will be sticking something that big in economy. And facial-recog? Airlines are moving away from putting anything in the seat-backs at all and now you wanna put expensive camera tech in there?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pavel_lishin</author><text>The seats themselves look fine, but the amount of legroom that the model has is laughable. The only person I fly with who can cross her legs on an airplane like that is my 3 year old daughter.</text></comment> | <story><title>New airplane seat design to make it easier to sleep in economy</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/interspace-new-airplane-seat/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vxNsr</author><text>Idk what economy cabins these people are sitting in but those seats look at least business-sized to me. No US airline will be sticking something that big in economy. And facial-recog? Airlines are moving away from putting anything in the seat-backs at all and now you wanna put expensive camera tech in there?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dsfyu404ed</author><text>The seats are big but not that big. They pulled the ol&#x27; &quot;everything looks bigger with a small woman for scale&quot; trick. Look at the picture of the guy sitting in the seat facing away from the camera. It looks like he&#x27;s leaning right in order to fit in the chair and they moved the camera to the ~4:00 position in order to make that not show. They might not be &quot;true economy&quot; small but these seats certainly aren&#x27;t large.</text></comment> |
9,052,219 | 9,052,200 | 1 | 3 | 9,052,128 | train | <story><title>Tell HN: Sorry I broke the server</title><text>Experimenting with some code this evening and got so into it, I didn&#x27;t notice that I broke story submission for two hours. Argh!<p>Sorry everyone.<p>Edit: While you&#x27;re here... you can now view the comments you&#x27;ve upvoted by clicking on &quot;saved comments&quot; in your profile. It works like &quot;saved stories&quot;. Thanks to porker for the suggestion: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9050374.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>Where there&#x27;s people working there are bound to be mistakes. Don&#x27;t sweat it, this is a free service after all and the service level for a non-advertising supported free service is absolutely incredible. I&#x27;d be more than happy to pay for HN as it is, you guys are doing a better job than most paid services when it comes to customer support, uptime and courtesy combined.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tell HN: Sorry I broke the server</title><text>Experimenting with some code this evening and got so into it, I didn&#x27;t notice that I broke story submission for two hours. Argh!<p>Sorry everyone.<p>Edit: While you&#x27;re here... you can now view the comments you&#x27;ve upvoted by clicking on &quot;saved comments&quot; in your profile. It works like &quot;saved stories&quot;. Thanks to porker for the suggestion: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9050374.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>colinramsay</author><text>That&#x27;s ok - you did it while I was asleep :)<p>I seem to remember that last year there was talk of re-doing the markup for HN so that it would be more mobile-friendly. What came of that idea?</text></comment> |
35,888,283 | 35,887,457 | 1 | 2 | 35,886,033 | train | <story><title>Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone</title><url>https://trygalaxy.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TetOn</author><text>Swiping left to right from the leftmost edge of the phone onto the screen will execute the &quot;back&quot; function with or without the presence of a &quot;back&quot; arrow at the top-left corner.</text></item><item><author>Toutouxc</author><text>IMO it&#x27;s fine. I had a Galaxy S9 a few years ago for two weeks (had to return it because of hardware issues) and it felt nice to use, smooth and modern. I&#x27;ve used many kinds of phones in my life, dumb phones, Symbian, Windows on PDAs and smartphones, Android from 1.6 up until now, and even though I&#x27;m firmly team Apple at this moment, I have to say that not having a dedicated &quot;back&quot; button or gesture and only occasionally showing a &quot;back&quot; arrow in the top-left corner (i.e. the one you can&#x27;t reach one-handed) really stands out among the stupid UI decisions I&#x27;ve seen. Yes, iOS is fast and polished, it&#x27;s just that pretty often I&#x27;m not sure how I got somewhere and how to get out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Toutouxc</author><text>I was actually looking forward to this coming to iOS, but it’s one of the things that work great until they suddenly don’t. Back from a photo in Photos? Swipe down or top left corner. Hide the keyboard? Middle right. Back from someone’s profile in Messages? Swipe down or top right. Back from a PDF in Files? No swipes, just top right. Some of these do make sense if you follow closely how the UI elements fly onto the screen, but are confusing if you don’t.</text></comment> | <story><title>Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone</title><url>https://trygalaxy.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TetOn</author><text>Swiping left to right from the leftmost edge of the phone onto the screen will execute the &quot;back&quot; function with or without the presence of a &quot;back&quot; arrow at the top-left corner.</text></item><item><author>Toutouxc</author><text>IMO it&#x27;s fine. I had a Galaxy S9 a few years ago for two weeks (had to return it because of hardware issues) and it felt nice to use, smooth and modern. I&#x27;ve used many kinds of phones in my life, dumb phones, Symbian, Windows on PDAs and smartphones, Android from 1.6 up until now, and even though I&#x27;m firmly team Apple at this moment, I have to say that not having a dedicated &quot;back&quot; button or gesture and only occasionally showing a &quot;back&quot; arrow in the top-left corner (i.e. the one you can&#x27;t reach one-handed) really stands out among the stupid UI decisions I&#x27;ve seen. Yes, iOS is fast and polished, it&#x27;s just that pretty often I&#x27;m not sure how I got somewhere and how to get out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Yizahi</author><text>You can&#x27;t swipe across the opposing screen edge with your thump without letting go of the full grip on the phone and holding it only partially, risking it to fall. Glass phone body only makes things much worse. You can do it with a back button in a sane position though, without compromising a grip. Android allows navbar gestures since ver.10 and I never enable them because buttons are simply better, even though they take away some space on the screen.</text></comment> |
40,928,712 | 40,928,757 | 1 | 2 | 40,891,391 | train | <story><title>Using the 5S Principle in Coding</title><url>https://santhoshsundar.medium.com/using-the-5s-principle-in-coding-6237a1614a02</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>codelikeawolf</author><text>When I used to work in manufacturing, my company was <i>super</i> into Lean. I even ended up getting an ASQ Six Sigma Green Belt certification. My favorite thing to say to people when they asked what 5S stood for was &quot;Shove Stupid Shit Someplace Secret&quot;. In my experience, that wasn&#x27;t an entirely inaccurate interpretation.<p>Joking aside, I think this article does a decent job of translating Lean manufacturing principles to coding, but the &quot;Set in Order&quot; section grinds my gears a little bit. I have worked on many projects of various sizes, and I think my fellow web devs tend to lean too hard into an overly nested directory structure. In manufacturing terms, imagine if you needed to open a cabinet that contains a toolbox with a plastic organizer in one of the drawers that contains a box that you had to open to get access to some rivets. It doesn&#x27;t take much for that level of organization to kneecap efficiency. I would much rather have a single directory with 20 files than try to chase down a component file that&#x27;s eight directories deep. Give me a big list of long descriptive file names, not short names that rely on the directory name to give context.</text></comment> | <story><title>Using the 5S Principle in Coding</title><url>https://santhoshsundar.medium.com/using-the-5s-principle-in-coding-6237a1614a02</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>smithbits</author><text>It&#x27;s worth keeping in mind that lean manufacturing and all the interesting things that Toyota did that get written up are about building cars. In software the equivalent process is compiling and deploying code. Writing software is equivalent to designing, prototyping and testing a car. So while there are many interesting lessons to learn they are about the deployment and running of code, not about writing it. In the mass manufactured automobile industry you spend more time and effort building the product than designing it. In software you spend much more time designing (specs, coding, testing, all that stuff) the product than deploying it. The lessons of lean manufacturing may not apply to design.</text></comment> |
11,425,167 | 11,425,139 | 1 | 2 | 11,424,372 | train | <story><title>Save Netflix</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/save-netflix</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jerf</author><text>&quot;Many companies that exist today seemingly couldn&#x27;t begin in 2016.&quot;<p>I&#x27;ve often thought all web search engines would be considered grotesquely illegal if they hadn&#x27;t been there since the beginning, but only started today. It is at times a fragile existence as it is even so.</text></item><item><author>stegosaurus</author><text>Many companies that exist today seemingly couldn&#x27;t begin in 2016.<p>The major computing platforms now have gatekeepers (Google Play, iOS App Store).<p>Personal computers with attached storage are disappearing and giving way to thin clients attached to the mainframe - without computing power, individuals have less choice.<p>I think we need to focus far more on hardware - it&#x27;s never looked darker - Secure Boot and the ME make me worried for the future of x86, even.<p>I&#x27;ll be fine as long as my old machines survive - but how are businesses going to produce mass market software when all the popular hardware is locked down?<p>Just to pick an arbitrary example - how does a project like Bitcoin take off when all we have are tivoized devices that won&#x27;t run un&quot;trusted&quot; code? The community of a few hundred hardware hackers isn&#x27;t big enough.<p>Not only that, despite the fact that 256GB of flash can be had for ~40GBP, the latest smartphones come with piffling amounts of storage and seemingly no expandable slots. It&#x27;s a deliberate design decision to force the use of the network.<p>The IBM compatible desktop computer produced the revolution we see today. What&#x27;s the next step?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>growt</author><text>You&#x27;re right. In germany there is a law called &quot;Leistungsschutzrecht&quot; that makes it illegal to publish snippets of news stories of the big publishing houses especially in search results such as google news. After some months the publishers realised that now they weren&#x27;t getting as much pageviews as before (go figure) and granted google an exclusive license to publish their stuff. So now there is a law that would require any new search engine to make deals with every major newspaper in germany.
On the other hand we do not have such a thing as fair use, so I imagine that image search is an endless ongoing lawsuit in germany, as every image thumbnail is illegal publishing of copyrighted material.</text></comment> | <story><title>Save Netflix</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/save-netflix</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jerf</author><text>&quot;Many companies that exist today seemingly couldn&#x27;t begin in 2016.&quot;<p>I&#x27;ve often thought all web search engines would be considered grotesquely illegal if they hadn&#x27;t been there since the beginning, but only started today. It is at times a fragile existence as it is even so.</text></item><item><author>stegosaurus</author><text>Many companies that exist today seemingly couldn&#x27;t begin in 2016.<p>The major computing platforms now have gatekeepers (Google Play, iOS App Store).<p>Personal computers with attached storage are disappearing and giving way to thin clients attached to the mainframe - without computing power, individuals have less choice.<p>I think we need to focus far more on hardware - it&#x27;s never looked darker - Secure Boot and the ME make me worried for the future of x86, even.<p>I&#x27;ll be fine as long as my old machines survive - but how are businesses going to produce mass market software when all the popular hardware is locked down?<p>Just to pick an arbitrary example - how does a project like Bitcoin take off when all we have are tivoized devices that won&#x27;t run un&quot;trusted&quot; code? The community of a few hundred hardware hackers isn&#x27;t big enough.<p>Not only that, despite the fact that 256GB of flash can be had for ~40GBP, the latest smartphones come with piffling amounts of storage and seemingly no expandable slots. It&#x27;s a deliberate design decision to force the use of the network.<p>The IBM compatible desktop computer produced the revolution we see today. What&#x27;s the next step?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CamperBob2</author><text>Same with public libraries, for that matter. Can you imagine the hue and cry that the major publishers would raise if someone were just now suggesting buying one copy of a book for the express purpose of lending it to hundreds of readers? Or worse, having the government pay for it?<p>They&#x27;d be burning up the telephone lines to Washington and hiring lobbyists by the trainload.</text></comment> |
25,226,801 | 25,225,164 | 1 | 2 | 25,224,250 | train | <story><title>Metal for IntelliJ Platform</title><url>https://blog.jetbrains.com/platform/2020/11/metal-for-intellij-platform/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>p1necone</author><text>Why is Apple <i>still</i> dead set on having their own special graphics API? Surely it would be better for everyone (even them) if they just adopted Vulkan like literally every other platform?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tpush</author><text>&gt; like literally every other platform?<p>What other platforms? The only ones I see adopting Vulkan are Desktop Linux and some newer Androids. The first effectively doesn&#x27;t even matter.</text></comment> | <story><title>Metal for IntelliJ Platform</title><url>https://blog.jetbrains.com/platform/2020/11/metal-for-intellij-platform/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>p1necone</author><text>Why is Apple <i>still</i> dead set on having their own special graphics API? Surely it would be better for everyone (even them) if they just adopted Vulkan like literally every other platform?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>webwielder2</author><text>Still? What would have caused them to not want to maintain control of their platform?</text></comment> |
25,264,386 | 25,262,465 | 1 | 3 | 25,261,132 | train | <story><title>Why do I care the open web is dying?</title><url>https://insightbrowser.com/blog/open-web-dying-why-care</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mulmen</author><text>There’s a lot of talk in the HN comment section recently about the death of general computing and the open web. I’m not convinced. There’s definitely closed platforms both hard and soft but the web still exists and general purpose computers are still available.<p>When I see these complaints I see people talking about how they want <i>other</i> people to use the Internet and computers. That smells like authoritarianism.<p>If you want to contribute to an open web then do it. It’s not your job to get our metaphorical racist uncles on mastodon or something. Why would you even want that?<p>The romanticized “old web” was just a product of massive selection bias that <i>still exists</i>. If you want that experience it is still out there. Just stop worrying about what other people are doing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hedgedoops2</author><text>One problem with the coexistence argument is state regulation.<p>Because so much of the web is a corporate-operated SAAS, regulation is being made that assumes that everything on the internet is a corporate-operated SAAS. The people who make the laws don&#x27;t understand (or really care about) the potential of networked general purpose computers who can send arbitrary messages and perform arbitrary computations. What they know is platforms and services: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Signal, ...<p>The problem is that things that don&#x27;t fit this mold will &#x27;accidentally&#x27; become illegal by virtue of compliance being impossible for the authors of such software.<p>Look at the upcoming EU regulation about encryption, terrorism related content, copyright enforcement. Everything is aimed at the platform companies but in effect regulates all software as though it were a platform. There always has to be an employee who can process takedown requests, or provide access to cops.<p>In the eyes of &quot;serious people&quot; making laws, this problem does not exist, because everything that lives on the internet is a platform, backed by a corporation. There is no attempt to suppress alternatives, they are just not acknowledged to exist and matter, and thus become banned by collateral damage. If they did exist and had tons of users, those laws could never pass.<p>The internet used to be a series of tubes, now it&#x27;s a series of platforms.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why do I care the open web is dying?</title><url>https://insightbrowser.com/blog/open-web-dying-why-care</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mulmen</author><text>There’s a lot of talk in the HN comment section recently about the death of general computing and the open web. I’m not convinced. There’s definitely closed platforms both hard and soft but the web still exists and general purpose computers are still available.<p>When I see these complaints I see people talking about how they want <i>other</i> people to use the Internet and computers. That smells like authoritarianism.<p>If you want to contribute to an open web then do it. It’s not your job to get our metaphorical racist uncles on mastodon or something. Why would you even want that?<p>The romanticized “old web” was just a product of massive selection bias that <i>still exists</i>. If you want that experience it is still out there. Just stop worrying about what other people are doing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jakelazaroff</author><text><i>&gt; When I see these complaints I see people talking about how they want other people to use the Internet and computers. That smells like authoritarianism.</i><p>It&#x27;s authoritarianism to politely suggest that people do things differently?<p>No one is proposing that we <i>outlaw</i> the corporate web… we&#x27;re just trying to make the web a little less corporate.</text></comment> |
10,843,429 | 10,842,752 | 1 | 2 | 10,841,385 | train | <story><title>Dell Computers Has Been Hacked</title><url>http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2016/01/04/dell-computers-has-been-hacked/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dcposch</author><text>I assumed that when I buy something on a card, it&#x27;s more or less private. The transaction should be known only to: me, the merchant, our respective banks, Visa, and I guess the IRS if they come and ask for it.<p>If I understand correctly, youre saying my entire purchase history is shared with random third party marketing companies. Full transaction data, PII included, no anonymization.<p>How is that even remotely OK?</text></item><item><author>nthitz</author><text>Axciom, Epsilon and similar companies track your credit card purchases and correlate them with a profile of who they think you are. If you work for a large corporation that is probably easier to identify than a small one.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.acxiom.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.acxiom.com&#x2F;</a> <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.epsilon.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.epsilon.com&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>cm2187</author><text>I don&#x27;t know if it&#x27;s related but I found something deeply worrying a couple of months ago. I purchased a laptop on Dell&#x27;s website at my home address using a personal email and my personal paypal account. No reference anywhere to my job or employer. A couple of weeks later I receive a call from India on the mobile number provided to Dell, from a guy pretending to be from Dell (and he might have been) who wanted to discuss how he could do business with my employer which he mentioned by name (a large corporation).<p>At that time I thought that Dell&#x27;s commercials were unacceptably pushy, googling their private clients to find a way in their employer. It didn&#x27;t occur to me that this might have been a scam using Dell&#x27;s database.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davismwfl</author><text>Ok, I&#x27;ll add to that a couple more details. Many ecommerce companies sell your purchase history to third parties as well, just like the credit card companies. This allows others to market to you more directly.<p>There is at least one company that has built technology that will monitor most all these purchases, monitor the IP&#x27;s from them and the browser profile to identify a specific machine that you use. Then when you go to work, or are on your mobile they also will tag that traffic as you too. They have gotten so good they can serve ads that are relevant to your wife if she happens to be on your computer surfing the web for shoes say, but serve you different ads if you are on the same computer. They use data feeds from many sources, but ecommerce transactions, credit card transactions and companies like acxiom that let them match those with real people, incomes and household details make it very powerful.<p>In marketing we use Axiom and others a lot, their data used to be more vague and educated guesses about people. Now though, they have gotten it down pretty well, including how many animals, kids and your income&#x2F;debt etc. They collect data from tax collectors offices, county records, city records, plus companies that will sell transaction data and other pieces so they can get a full picture. They of course work with Equifax, TransUnion etc too so they can build a whole economic profile on a person.<p>These companies are also what allow marketers to send you an email about their product&#x2F;company after all you have done is visited their website. You don&#x27;t have to enter anything or click on anything, but they will know who you are, who you work for and whether you fit their market profile in general. Poorly done it is extremely creepy, correctly done it can be an amazing conversion booster.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dell Computers Has Been Hacked</title><url>http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2016/01/04/dell-computers-has-been-hacked/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dcposch</author><text>I assumed that when I buy something on a card, it&#x27;s more or less private. The transaction should be known only to: me, the merchant, our respective banks, Visa, and I guess the IRS if they come and ask for it.<p>If I understand correctly, youre saying my entire purchase history is shared with random third party marketing companies. Full transaction data, PII included, no anonymization.<p>How is that even remotely OK?</text></item><item><author>nthitz</author><text>Axciom, Epsilon and similar companies track your credit card purchases and correlate them with a profile of who they think you are. If you work for a large corporation that is probably easier to identify than a small one.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.acxiom.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.acxiom.com&#x2F;</a> <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.epsilon.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.epsilon.com&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>cm2187</author><text>I don&#x27;t know if it&#x27;s related but I found something deeply worrying a couple of months ago. I purchased a laptop on Dell&#x27;s website at my home address using a personal email and my personal paypal account. No reference anywhere to my job or employer. A couple of weeks later I receive a call from India on the mobile number provided to Dell, from a guy pretending to be from Dell (and he might have been) who wanted to discuss how he could do business with my employer which he mentioned by name (a large corporation).<p>At that time I thought that Dell&#x27;s commercials were unacceptably pushy, googling their private clients to find a way in their employer. It didn&#x27;t occur to me that this might have been a scam using Dell&#x27;s database.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sbarre</author><text>That is correct. Banks and credit card companies merchandise this information to their partners, which leads to this kind of thing. Check your cards&#x27; terms of services if you want to be somewhat horrified.</text></comment> |
28,339,518 | 28,339,505 | 1 | 3 | 28,338,893 | train | <story><title>Missile Base for Sale</title><url>http://mobile.missilebaseforsale.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjreacher</author><text>Here&#x27;s a 6 minute video explaining the sprint missile for those unaware and interested (rather fascinating technology for the 70s) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=3dl9Ovwmnxw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=3dl9Ovwmnxw</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcims</author><text>That&#x27;s honestly why I clicked on the article, it&#x27;s actually an ABM (anti-ballistic missle)<p>For those that need a little teaser to be incentivized to click on the YouTube link, here&#x27;s the title of the video &#x27;Super Pointy Sprint Missile - 0 to Mach 10 in 15 Seconds - 100Gs &amp; 6000°F&#x27;<p>If you have any interest in aerospace at all and have never heard of the Sprint, take a gander, it&#x27;s a spectacular edge case in engineering.</text></comment> | <story><title>Missile Base for Sale</title><url>http://mobile.missilebaseforsale.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjreacher</author><text>Here&#x27;s a 6 minute video explaining the sprint missile for those unaware and interested (rather fascinating technology for the 70s) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=3dl9Ovwmnxw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=3dl9Ovwmnxw</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adriand</author><text>Very fascinating and some truly stunning footage. What I can’t help thinking about viewing this marvel of technology is what humanity might have achieved if the prodigious efforts and staggering sums that went into the Cold War arms race went into making the world a better place…really, as amazing as this is, it was ultimately a tremendous waste.</text></comment> |
8,548,362 | 8,548,428 | 1 | 2 | 8,548,133 | train | <story><title>The Future of Payments and Open Source Support</title><url>http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/11/2/payments-in-the-future/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>mike_hearn</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure it is. I&#x27;m not a huge fan of tip4commit either, I agree that it&#x27;s opt-out model is bogus, but the fact that it uses Bitcoin seems irrelevant.<p>The author seems to believe he cannot accept tips, because of tax and regulation, but he doesn&#x27;t point out what <i>specifically</i> would cause problems here. Obviously people make and accept tips using euros all the time, this is not illegal, so why it would be different using Bitcoin isn&#x27;t obvious. You can declare tips as income, no problem.<p>The real cause of his discomfort is revealed later in the post:<p><i>Personally I believe that Bitcoin is a terrible currency ... If you have a completely broken piece of country then I can imagine that you are suspicious of regulation and this sort of thing, but for me regulation is what keeps my world running and working.</i><p>Also,<p><i>Bitcoin for me feels like a cult. The vocal people in the community seem like they don&#x27;t actually care about Bitcoin, but they want to see it succeed so that their &quot;investment&quot; makes a profit</i><p>So he has a generalised feeling that Bitcoin is bad because it&#x27;s popular and has vocal fans, and that regulation is good yet also complicated, so anything which seems simple must be unregulated and therefore bad.<p>I do not consider myself particularly libertarian, though I do use and work on Bitcoin. Regardless, this doesn&#x27;t seem like a great set of arguments. Rather, the author has decided that because a lot of Bitcoin users don&#x27;t seem to like government, and he likes government, he should not like Bitcoin.</text></item><item><author>wdewind</author><text>TLDR; there are two problems with tip4commit:<p>1. The obvious, that they are collecting funds on behalf of other people&#x27;s work and then keeping them when the funds go &#x27;unclaimed&#x27;<p>2. Even if you do want to claim it, they don&#x27;t make it easy, and for someone in a complicated tax country (like the author, Austria) there is almost no way he could accept the money without incurring some kind of risk. So basically when they are keeping money that goes unclaimed it&#x27;s very problematic because they don&#x27;t make the money easy to claim in the first place. Obvious incentives issues.<p>Point 2 is what this article is about.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the_mitsuhiko</author><text>&gt; author seems to believe he cannot accept tips, because of tax and regulation, but he doesn&#x27;t point out what specifically would cause problems here.<p>JFTR: &quot;accepting tips&quot; for software is something that is not at all straightforward. The way bountysource and others get around that is through invoices once a large enough amount has accumulated. I have no idea how that works in other countries. Gratipay&#x2F;bountysource solve this problem, no bitcoin service I have seen does.<p>&gt; Rather, the author has decided that because a lot of Bitcoin users don&#x27;t seem to like government, and he likes government, he should not like Bitcoin.<p>I think you misunderstand something there: I am pointing out why Bitcoin is something that does not solve problems for me and I doubt I am the only one. The premise of tip4commit is that it helps Open Source projects. It&#x27;s not just not helping me, it&#x27;s making my life more complicated. In fact, right now, pretty much anything that has bitcoin involved makes it harder for me.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Future of Payments and Open Source Support</title><url>http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/11/2/payments-in-the-future/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>mike_hearn</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure it is. I&#x27;m not a huge fan of tip4commit either, I agree that it&#x27;s opt-out model is bogus, but the fact that it uses Bitcoin seems irrelevant.<p>The author seems to believe he cannot accept tips, because of tax and regulation, but he doesn&#x27;t point out what <i>specifically</i> would cause problems here. Obviously people make and accept tips using euros all the time, this is not illegal, so why it would be different using Bitcoin isn&#x27;t obvious. You can declare tips as income, no problem.<p>The real cause of his discomfort is revealed later in the post:<p><i>Personally I believe that Bitcoin is a terrible currency ... If you have a completely broken piece of country then I can imagine that you are suspicious of regulation and this sort of thing, but for me regulation is what keeps my world running and working.</i><p>Also,<p><i>Bitcoin for me feels like a cult. The vocal people in the community seem like they don&#x27;t actually care about Bitcoin, but they want to see it succeed so that their &quot;investment&quot; makes a profit</i><p>So he has a generalised feeling that Bitcoin is bad because it&#x27;s popular and has vocal fans, and that regulation is good yet also complicated, so anything which seems simple must be unregulated and therefore bad.<p>I do not consider myself particularly libertarian, though I do use and work on Bitcoin. Regardless, this doesn&#x27;t seem like a great set of arguments. Rather, the author has decided that because a lot of Bitcoin users don&#x27;t seem to like government, and he likes government, he should not like Bitcoin.</text></item><item><author>wdewind</author><text>TLDR; there are two problems with tip4commit:<p>1. The obvious, that they are collecting funds on behalf of other people&#x27;s work and then keeping them when the funds go &#x27;unclaimed&#x27;<p>2. Even if you do want to claim it, they don&#x27;t make it easy, and for someone in a complicated tax country (like the author, Austria) there is almost no way he could accept the money without incurring some kind of risk. So basically when they are keeping money that goes unclaimed it&#x27;s very problematic because they don&#x27;t make the money easy to claim in the first place. Obvious incentives issues.<p>Point 2 is what this article is about.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>geofft</author><text>&gt; The author seems to believe he cannot accept tips, because of tax and regulation, but he doesn&#x27;t point out what specifically would cause problems here.<p>I&#x27;m in the US, not Austria, but from what little I&#x27;ve seen of even the US&#x27;s legal and tax system, doing something with money that you don&#x27;t fully understand is a risk. I am glad that there are people who are willing to take that risk in the name of improving society, and pioneer the use of Bitcoin and other alternative currencies.<p>But nobody should be obligated to take that risk if they don&#x27;t want to. I would be completely unsurprised if some emergent behavior between the US tax code and other laws meant that if you were merely aware of people accepting tips on your behalf using your name, even if you didn&#x27;t ask them to, there are tax or legal obligations. I would be completely unsurprised if the law says, if you ask them to stop and they don&#x27;t, you&#x27;re _obligated_ to initiate legal process to make them stop. I don&#x27;t think the law says that, but it&#x27;s certainly way less crazy than lots of funny corners of US tax and commerce law.<p>I would also be completely unsurprised if US tax code got complicated when you&#x27;re accepting Bitcoin as payment. I&#x27;m dimly aware that the IRS or FinCEN or someone issued guidance recently that Bitcoin doesn&#x27;t count as a currency but instead counts as a something-else... and not being a cryptocurrency user, I haven&#x27;t bothered to learn what that something-else is and how you&#x27;re supposed to report taxes on it.<p>If someone is willing to figure out how the law works, or pay their lawyer to, more power to them. But nobody should be _obligated_ to.</text></comment> |
39,478,608 | 39,478,426 | 1 | 3 | 39,471,221 | train | <story><title>JavaScript Bloat in 2024</title><url>https://tonsky.me/blog/js-bloat/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>devjab</author><text>I never really understood why SPAs became so popular on the web. It’s like we suddenly and collectively became afraid of the page reload on websites just because it’s not a wanted behaviour in actual web applications.<p>I have worked with enterprise applications for two decades, and with some that were build before I was born. And I think the React has been the absolute best frontend for these systems compared to everything that came before. You’re free to insert Angular&#x2F;Vue&#x2F;whatever by the way. But these are designed to replace all the various horrible client&#x2F;server UIs that came before. For a web-page that’s hardly necessary unless you’re g-mail, Facebook or similar, where you need the interactive and live content updates because of how these products work. But for something like pornhub? Well PHP serves them just fine, and this is true for most web sites really. Just look at HN and how many people still vastly prefer the old.reddit.com site to their modern SPA. Hell, many people still would probably still prefer an old.Facebook to the newer much slower version.</text></item><item><author>wruza</author><text><i>10MB, 12MB, …<p>Compare it to people who really care about performance — Pornhub, 1.4 MB</i><p>Porn was always <i>actual</i> web hi-tech with good engineering, not these joke-level “tech” giants. Can’t remember a single time they’d screw up basic ui&#x2F;ux, content delivery or common sense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>figmert</author><text>&gt; It’s like we suddenly and collectively became afraid of the page reload on websites<p>I used to work at a place where page reloads was constantly an issue brought up as a negative. They couldn&#x27;t be bothered to fix the slow page loads and instead avoided page changes.<p>I argued several times that we should improve performance instead of caring about page reloads, but never got through to anyone (in fairness, it was probably mostly cos of a senior dev there).<p>At some point a new feature was being developed, and instead of just adding it to our existing product, it was decided to use an iframe with the new feature as a separate product embedded.</text></comment> | <story><title>JavaScript Bloat in 2024</title><url>https://tonsky.me/blog/js-bloat/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>devjab</author><text>I never really understood why SPAs became so popular on the web. It’s like we suddenly and collectively became afraid of the page reload on websites just because it’s not a wanted behaviour in actual web applications.<p>I have worked with enterprise applications for two decades, and with some that were build before I was born. And I think the React has been the absolute best frontend for these systems compared to everything that came before. You’re free to insert Angular&#x2F;Vue&#x2F;whatever by the way. But these are designed to replace all the various horrible client&#x2F;server UIs that came before. For a web-page that’s hardly necessary unless you’re g-mail, Facebook or similar, where you need the interactive and live content updates because of how these products work. But for something like pornhub? Well PHP serves them just fine, and this is true for most web sites really. Just look at HN and how many people still vastly prefer the old.reddit.com site to their modern SPA. Hell, many people still would probably still prefer an old.Facebook to the newer much slower version.</text></item><item><author>wruza</author><text><i>10MB, 12MB, …<p>Compare it to people who really care about performance — Pornhub, 1.4 MB</i><p>Porn was always <i>actual</i> web hi-tech with good engineering, not these joke-level “tech” giants. Can’t remember a single time they’d screw up basic ui&#x2F;ux, content delivery or common sense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>diggan</author><text>&gt; But for something like pornhub? Well PHP serves them just fine,<p>Kind of fun to make this argument for Pornhub when visiting their website with JavaScript disabled just seems to render a blank page :)<p>&gt; how many people still vastly prefer the old.reddit.com site to their modern SPA<p>Also a fun argument, the times I&#x27;ve seen analytics on it, old.reddit.com seems to hover around&#x2F;below 10% of the visitors to subs. But I bet this varies a lot by the subreddit.</text></comment> |
7,781,363 | 7,781,349 | 1 | 2 | 7,781,117 | train | <story><title>The Indie Bubble Is Popping</title><url>http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-indie-bubble-is-popping.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>guard-of-terra</author><text>Discoverability is a huge problem. I would at any time want more turn based strategies in the triangle HoMM-Disciples-MoM, but it seems there aren&#x27;t any? Even if there are, I can&#x27;t discover them! Only thing that still can do is word of mouth.<p>I&#x27;ve scraped Play store for wargames and the best I got was a crappy game I did not run for the second time. I believe I paid for that.<p>Word of mouth is very irregular and app stores&#x27; charts are always full with &quot;safe choices&quot;, i.e. either you know about this title already or it is a knockoff crap.<p>I would like to spend more on good games but I don&#x27;t see much supply.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wslh</author><text>But the same issue happens everywhere, we have issues discovering non popular web pages because probably the authors don&#x27;t spend a lot of time figuring out the right keywords, forums, etc to promote their work.<p>I think the main problem is that competition is more at the distribution level (marketing&#x2F;sales) than at the product level.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Indie Bubble Is Popping</title><url>http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-indie-bubble-is-popping.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>guard-of-terra</author><text>Discoverability is a huge problem. I would at any time want more turn based strategies in the triangle HoMM-Disciples-MoM, but it seems there aren&#x27;t any? Even if there are, I can&#x27;t discover them! Only thing that still can do is word of mouth.<p>I&#x27;ve scraped Play store for wargames and the best I got was a crappy game I did not run for the second time. I believe I paid for that.<p>Word of mouth is very irregular and app stores&#x27; charts are always full with &quot;safe choices&quot;, i.e. either you know about this title already or it is a knockoff crap.<p>I would like to spend more on good games but I don&#x27;t see much supply.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shmerl</author><text>Somehow I don&#x27;t have problems finding good games through the word of a mouth or by looking at some crowdfunding campaigns. And one can have some expectations. For example I&#x27;m waiting for Wasteland 2, Torment Tides of Numenera, Divinity Original Sin, Armikrog and some others. Out of recent which just came out and which are good is for example Tex Murphy - Tesla Effect.</text></comment> |
30,902,094 | 30,901,058 | 1 | 3 | 30,895,331 | train | <story><title>CDC warns of a steep decline in teen mental health</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/03/31/student-mental-health-decline-cdc/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>theli0nheart</author><text>&gt; <i>Omicron absolutely crushed U.S. hospitals -- with some having to set up temporary emergency rooms in their parking structures. Many U.S. hospitals had to put off essential procedures and ran out of practically _everything_ (syringes, saline products, blood, etc.) during the last wave.</i><p>I don&#x27;t recall this happening. Can you provide a source for this?</text></item><item><author>hh3k0</author><text>&gt; And yet there is scant evidence hospitals ever were at risk.<p>What? Omicron absolutely crushed U.S. hospitals -- with some having to set up temporary emergency rooms in their parking structures. Many U.S. hospitals had to put off essential procedures and ran out of practically _everything_ (syringes, saline products, blood, etc.) during the last wave.</text></item><item><author>spookthesunset</author><text>&gt; From my perspective in the US the lockdowns were about managing hospital capacity<p>And yet there is scant evidence hospitals ever were at risk. We should have relaxed our approach to all this when cities across the country were closing their unused field hospitals. Instead of celebrating the fact that covid wasn&#x27;t nearly as lethal as the earliest models predicted, governors across the country doubled down on their covid restrictions. Two years later, they are finally almost gone.<p>Did any of these restrictions provide enough benefit to justify their immense social cost? It will probably take much cooler heads to find out. It troubles me that we went into this mess with little understanding if the measures even worked. In effect, we took millions and millions of people and had them partake in a massive uncontrolled experiment without anybody&#x27;s consent.</text></item><item><author>after_care</author><text>From my perspective in the US the lockdowns were about managing hospital capacity. While this might disproportionally benefited older folks, hospitals are a service anyone could need at any time for a wide range of reasons.</text></item><item><author>sva_</author><text>There was a discussion on here, about how the Covid pandemic may have been one of the, or even <i>the</i> biggest transfers of wealth from &quot;the poor&quot; to &quot;the rich&quot; in the history of our civilization. Somebody remarked, that it has also been the biggest transfer of lifetime from the young to the old, as the lockdowns were mostly to protect the old. The measures taken against the pandemic undoubtedly had a huge impact on young people&#x27;s mental health, but the effects of it will only really unfold in the coming years, and are probably not measurable. People who deny this must be willfully ignorant.</text></item><item><author>lumb63</author><text>It astonishes me to see people defending the idea that the pandemic is not a notable component of this. I agree that social media, internet porn, competitive school environment, economic conditions, etc., are all negative influences on teenage mental health. However, to propose that forcing (or, at the least, very strongly encouraging) an entire populace into self-isolation would not have negative impacts for a group in one of the most social and formative times of life, is absurd.<p>Imagine you spent half the time you were in high school, alone. I cannot imagine any rational person is capable of believing this to not be a major factor to their mental health.<p>Anecdotally, I am a reasonably strong introvert, and I switched teams at my job during the pandemic after nine months of work from home because it did not feel healthy to my mental state to not have interacted with anyone in so long. I felt that my social abilities had atrophied, and that I had lost sight of a lot of the important things in life that derive from social interaction. I can only imagine that the impact is far greater to someone who can&#x27;t choose to change their life to obtain the social interaction they are missing, and who (I am generalizing a bit here) probably requires mental&#x2F;emotional guidance and support from their peers, elders, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sfteus</author><text>Parking lot hospital: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;us&#x2F;mississippi-hospital-puts-beds-parking-garage-cope-with-covid-19-surge-2021-08-13&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;us&#x2F;mississippi-hospital-puts-b...</a><p>I haven&#x27;t seen anything considered &quot;essential&quot; being delayed, but anything that was not &quot;immediately, medically&quot; necessary in Texas was delayed on order of the Governor: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.texastribune.org&#x2F;2020&#x2F;07&#x2F;09&#x2F;texas-coronavirus-hospitalizations-elective-surgeries&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.texastribune.org&#x2F;2020&#x2F;07&#x2F;09&#x2F;texas-coronavirus-ho...</a> My mother is a cancer patient and frequently had to delay (what I would consider essential) treatments by request of her provider.<p>Anecdotally, as someone married to an RN, supplies were absolutely running low throughout the pandemic. For the first year they were limited to 1 N95 mask per week, they frequently ran out of specific types&#x2F;gauges of needles and had to make do with what was available, certain medications were hard to come by, etc. She doesn&#x27;t work a COVID floor but still more often than not had a double patient load compared to pre-pandemic levels, both due to more patients and less staff. It was also incredibly common seeing people in neighborhood groups trying to find available beds for their family members during our surges, as most people were told there was a wait list expected to last at least 24 hours before something would be available.</text></comment> | <story><title>CDC warns of a steep decline in teen mental health</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/03/31/student-mental-health-decline-cdc/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>theli0nheart</author><text>&gt; <i>Omicron absolutely crushed U.S. hospitals -- with some having to set up temporary emergency rooms in their parking structures. Many U.S. hospitals had to put off essential procedures and ran out of practically _everything_ (syringes, saline products, blood, etc.) during the last wave.</i><p>I don&#x27;t recall this happening. Can you provide a source for this?</text></item><item><author>hh3k0</author><text>&gt; And yet there is scant evidence hospitals ever were at risk.<p>What? Omicron absolutely crushed U.S. hospitals -- with some having to set up temporary emergency rooms in their parking structures. Many U.S. hospitals had to put off essential procedures and ran out of practically _everything_ (syringes, saline products, blood, etc.) during the last wave.</text></item><item><author>spookthesunset</author><text>&gt; From my perspective in the US the lockdowns were about managing hospital capacity<p>And yet there is scant evidence hospitals ever were at risk. We should have relaxed our approach to all this when cities across the country were closing their unused field hospitals. Instead of celebrating the fact that covid wasn&#x27;t nearly as lethal as the earliest models predicted, governors across the country doubled down on their covid restrictions. Two years later, they are finally almost gone.<p>Did any of these restrictions provide enough benefit to justify their immense social cost? It will probably take much cooler heads to find out. It troubles me that we went into this mess with little understanding if the measures even worked. In effect, we took millions and millions of people and had them partake in a massive uncontrolled experiment without anybody&#x27;s consent.</text></item><item><author>after_care</author><text>From my perspective in the US the lockdowns were about managing hospital capacity. While this might disproportionally benefited older folks, hospitals are a service anyone could need at any time for a wide range of reasons.</text></item><item><author>sva_</author><text>There was a discussion on here, about how the Covid pandemic may have been one of the, or even <i>the</i> biggest transfers of wealth from &quot;the poor&quot; to &quot;the rich&quot; in the history of our civilization. Somebody remarked, that it has also been the biggest transfer of lifetime from the young to the old, as the lockdowns were mostly to protect the old. The measures taken against the pandemic undoubtedly had a huge impact on young people&#x27;s mental health, but the effects of it will only really unfold in the coming years, and are probably not measurable. People who deny this must be willfully ignorant.</text></item><item><author>lumb63</author><text>It astonishes me to see people defending the idea that the pandemic is not a notable component of this. I agree that social media, internet porn, competitive school environment, economic conditions, etc., are all negative influences on teenage mental health. However, to propose that forcing (or, at the least, very strongly encouraging) an entire populace into self-isolation would not have negative impacts for a group in one of the most social and formative times of life, is absurd.<p>Imagine you spent half the time you were in high school, alone. I cannot imagine any rational person is capable of believing this to not be a major factor to their mental health.<p>Anecdotally, I am a reasonably strong introvert, and I switched teams at my job during the pandemic after nine months of work from home because it did not feel healthy to my mental state to not have interacted with anyone in so long. I felt that my social abilities had atrophied, and that I had lost sight of a lot of the important things in life that derive from social interaction. I can only imagine that the impact is far greater to someone who can&#x27;t choose to change their life to obtain the social interaction they are missing, and who (I am generalizing a bit here) probably requires mental&#x2F;emotional guidance and support from their peers, elders, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spookthesunset</author><text>They can&#x27;t. You&#x27;ll just get links to some NYT article whose main content suggests &quot;we are preparing for a surge&quot; or something of that nature.<p>I&#x27;ve yet to see any kind of actual study that compares hospital capacity during these &quot;surges&quot; vs hospital capacity in the &quot;before times&quot;. Also I strongly suspect future research will show that most of the hospital issues were self-inflicted wounds. We tested everybody who came into the hospital and invoked crazy high-overhead processes for positive results irregardless of symptoms.<p>The entire two years of this I&#x27;ve been waiting for a single instance of an overflowing hospital with stretchers of people out the door... never seen one yet. There has never been a real issue of hospital capacity--at least in the US anyway.</text></comment> |
9,129,798 | 9,128,480 | 1 | 2 | 9,127,792 | train | <story><title>Forget the ‘To-Do’ List, You Need a ‘Stop Doing’ List</title><url>http://time.com/3724744/need-stop-doing-list/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sopooneo</author><text>&quot;...it may be worth-while for you to remember that you have as much time as anyone else — twenty-four hours a day&quot;.<p>I don&#x27;t think this is fair. If you are poor and uneducated, you have to spend more time working just to provide basic needs. So you <i>don&#x27;t</i> have as much time available as those who are better off.</text></comment> | <story><title>Forget the ‘To-Do’ List, You Need a ‘Stop Doing’ List</title><url>http://time.com/3724744/need-stop-doing-list/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>calinet6</author><text>Aside from the profound conclusions and hyperbolic examples, this is just some darned practical advice taken at face value.<p>The value of focus is highly underrated. You don&#x27;t need to do everything, and often doing everything &#x27;on your list&#x27; means you&#x27;re not devoting the time you should be to more important things; things that may not be on your list, or may not even be listable, or might just be doing the things on your list better. Devote yourself to focusing on one thing, shed the things that don&#x27;t matter, and you might find a quality of execution you never realized.<p>This is something I learned perhaps too late in my career so far. I feel I would have advanced more and faster and achieved better results if I had stopped doing things that weren&#x27;t tightly focused—not only on what I needed, but on what my company needed and what our customers needed.</text></comment> |
27,749,202 | 27,749,338 | 1 | 2 | 27,746,815 | train | <story><title>An AI wolf that preferred suicide over eating sheep</title><url>https://lancengym.medium.com/the-ai-wolf-that-preferred-suicide-over-eating-sheep-49edced3c710</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>markwkw</author><text>Exactly, from technical perspective it&#x27;s a nothing story.<p>It&#x27;s interesting, though, how strong of a reaction general public had to this. The story must have strongly resonated with what some folks were already feeling. When you squint (pretend to understand the technology not at all) it&#x27;s a tragic story. The situation of the wolf seems similar to the situation of some people. Chasing their careers in a highly structured, sort of dehumanized, environment of constant pursuit. &quot;Supreme Intelligence&quot; (that&#x27;s what a layperson may think of AI) looks at a situation of the wolf and decides that it makes no sense to continue the pursuit. Moreover, what is &quot;optimal&quot; is the most tragic result - suicide.</text></item><item><author>spywaregorilla</author><text>Seems like a nothing story. Just looking at the game, there&#x27;s obviously a constant decision to be made of chase more sheep or instantly die. It sounds like in the original model they had a max of 20 seconds, so it&#x27;s not surprising that you would just tank your losses to maximize your score every now and then.<p>Anyone who tries to devise optimal strategies for things should be able to see this isn&#x27;t especially interesting.<p>Social metaphors are wildly out of place.<p>They say &quot;unintended consequences of a blackbox&quot; but I doubt that&#x27;s true. Make it a deterministic turn based game and run it through a perfectly transparent optimization model and I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised to learn this was just the best strategy for the rules they devised. I really hate when people describe an ai as something that cannot be understood because they personally don&#x27;t understand it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wombatmobile</author><text>&gt; The story must have strongly resonated with what some folks were already feeling.<p>Yes, because we don&#x27;t see things as they are, we see them as we are.</text></comment> | <story><title>An AI wolf that preferred suicide over eating sheep</title><url>https://lancengym.medium.com/the-ai-wolf-that-preferred-suicide-over-eating-sheep-49edced3c710</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>markwkw</author><text>Exactly, from technical perspective it&#x27;s a nothing story.<p>It&#x27;s interesting, though, how strong of a reaction general public had to this. The story must have strongly resonated with what some folks were already feeling. When you squint (pretend to understand the technology not at all) it&#x27;s a tragic story. The situation of the wolf seems similar to the situation of some people. Chasing their careers in a highly structured, sort of dehumanized, environment of constant pursuit. &quot;Supreme Intelligence&quot; (that&#x27;s what a layperson may think of AI) looks at a situation of the wolf and decides that it makes no sense to continue the pursuit. Moreover, what is &quot;optimal&quot; is the most tragic result - suicide.</text></item><item><author>spywaregorilla</author><text>Seems like a nothing story. Just looking at the game, there&#x27;s obviously a constant decision to be made of chase more sheep or instantly die. It sounds like in the original model they had a max of 20 seconds, so it&#x27;s not surprising that you would just tank your losses to maximize your score every now and then.<p>Anyone who tries to devise optimal strategies for things should be able to see this isn&#x27;t especially interesting.<p>Social metaphors are wildly out of place.<p>They say &quot;unintended consequences of a blackbox&quot; but I doubt that&#x27;s true. Make it a deterministic turn based game and run it through a perfectly transparent optimization model and I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised to learn this was just the best strategy for the rules they devised. I really hate when people describe an ai as something that cannot be understood because they personally don&#x27;t understand it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acituan</author><text>From the article in contrast to what you said;<p>&gt; Perhaps the true lesson to be learnt here isn’t about helplessness and giving up. It’s about getting up, trying again and again, and staying with the story till the end.<p>I find the possibility of contrasting interpretations absurd. The problem with using any <i>dead matter</i> for our meaning making needs is it is ultimately a self-referential justification for how we think we should feel, while being equally or even more prone to self deception traps.<p>AI being the object is irrelevant here, this is nothing different than astrology or divination from tea leaves etc. It is 2000 BC level religious thinking with new toys.</text></comment> |
31,457,735 | 31,457,823 | 1 | 2 | 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>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&gt; Probably something to the extend of “tools to repair must be found in any general DIY store”.<p>Does everyone realize how insanely bad this would be for phone progress? If we’re forcing manufacturers to avoid specialty adhesives and tooling, the overall quality and size of phones would be greatly compromised.<p>I understand a lot of HN commenters will say they don’t care if their phones are twice as big and not waterproof as long as they can replace the battery with a screwdriver from Home Depot, but that’s not even close to typical consumer behavior.<p>People want small, waterproof phones. Making laws to force companies to compromise everything so 1% of buyers can swap batteries at home instead of paying for official repair service is one of the more out of touch product suggestions I’ve read on HN.</text></comment> |
14,625,623 | 14,624,512 | 1 | 2 | 14,624,511 | train | <story><title>TensorFlow-World: Simple and ready-to-use tutorials for TensorFlow</title><url>https://github.com/astorfi/TensorFlow-World</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>davidmr</author><text>This is a great start, and I find your code extremely easy to read.<p>I might suggest some example code for more advanced methods of data ingestion. All the code I see uses feed_dict, which is certainly the most straightforward, but once you start to try to ingest larger out-of-core datasets or use distributed tf, things get exceptionally complicated (to me at least).<p>Some simple-ish code with queue runners and the new Dataset API would really be helpful.</text></comment> | <story><title>TensorFlow-World: Simple and ready-to-use tutorials for TensorFlow</title><url>https://github.com/astorfi/TensorFlow-World</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>irsina</author><text>This open source project is aimed to provide simple and ready-to-use tutorials for TensorFlow. The explanations are present in the wiki associated with this repository. Each tutorial has a source code and its documetation.</text></comment> |
34,536,203 | 34,530,622 | 1 | 3 | 34,527,340 | train | <story><title>Airframes.io an aircraft-related aggregator for ACARS, VDL, HFDL and SATCOM data</title><url>https://app.airframes.io</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kevinelliott</author><text>Ahoy! Thanks to whoever posted a link to Airframes here on HN. I&#x27;m the founder of the project.<p>It&#x27;s been a bit of a crazy 24 hours, and I haven&#x27;t had enough time to fully surface and understand the impact that the ADSB Exchange sale has on everyone, the community, and Airframes.<p>Most of the Airframes effort has been fairly heads down, built in a tiny corner of the community and was not prepared for the events of the last day. Until now, most people weren&#x27;t even familiar with technologies such as ACARS or VDL, limited to a mostly a small cross section of the community.<p>It has been a careful and deliberate effort to grow feeders &amp; ingests slowly due to the nature of the data and infrastructure&#x2F;storage needed, from both discovery (figuring out the data structures) and process (how to make use of it) perspectives. Requiring much of the efforts on the backend that the currently simple web app does not exactly reveal.<p>A new web app in development (there are some obvious and glaring issues&#x2F;quirks with it now), and several other components, such as a desktop app, a mobile app, and a multi-architecture radio-focused OS to easily setup feeders (to Airframes, and the other aggregators) that will expand to other radio interests in time. There has been a lot of preliminary work on each of these.<p>The plan is to open source much of this over time.<p>If there is interest, I&#x27;m happy to elaborate more. I have been very transparent about the development process and implementations on the Discord in realtime. You are welcome to explore the dev channels there to get more background in the meantime.<p>Note that due to current events, I am taking on higher traffic than usual, unexpectedly, and everyone is still trying to understand what the impact of the recent events are.</text></comment> | <story><title>Airframes.io an aircraft-related aggregator for ACARS, VDL, HFDL and SATCOM data</title><url>https://app.airframes.io</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>moffkalast</author><text>An .io service named after something plane related that&#x27;s ACTUALLY about aviation? This is physically impossible, I&#x27;m absolutely gobsmacked. Are we sure it isn&#x27;t some new JS framework in disguise?</text></comment> |
15,788,623 | 15,787,505 | 1 | 3 | 15,787,023 | train | <story><title>Norvig's Python programs to practice or demonstrate skills</title><url>https://github.com/norvig/pytudes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway7645</author><text>Norvig is a beast. For those that don&#x27;t know, he is high up in Google Research (AI director I believe) and also wrote the #1 AI textbook. He has the #1 AI course on coursera or edx too (can&#x27;t remember which one). He&#x27;s a big lisp advocate (look at his review of SICP on amazon), but also has the programs for his books in Java, and Python.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>strong_silent_t</author><text>Regarding lisp, he made a post about language choice here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=1803815" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=1803815</a><p><i>I think Lisp still has an edge for larger projects and for applications where the speed of the compiled code is important. But Python has the edge (with a large number of students) when the main goal is communication, not programming per se.
In terms of programming-in-the-large, at Google and elsewhere, I think that language choice is not as important as all the other choices: if you have the right overall architecture, the right team of programmers, the right development process that allows for rapid development with continuous improvement, then many languages will work for you; if you don&#x27;t have those things you&#x27;re in trouble regardless of your language choice. </i></text></comment> | <story><title>Norvig's Python programs to practice or demonstrate skills</title><url>https://github.com/norvig/pytudes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway7645</author><text>Norvig is a beast. For those that don&#x27;t know, he is high up in Google Research (AI director I believe) and also wrote the #1 AI textbook. He has the #1 AI course on coursera or edx too (can&#x27;t remember which one). He&#x27;s a big lisp advocate (look at his review of SICP on amazon), but also has the programs for his books in Java, and Python.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dgritsko</author><text>I was curious, so I looked up the SICP review you mentioned: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;review&#x2F;R403HR4VL71K8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;review&#x2F;R403HR4VL71K8</a></text></comment> |
40,485,976 | 40,485,790 | 1 | 3 | 40,485,053 | train | <story><title>macOS Sonoma silently enabled iCloud Keychain despite my precautions</title><url>https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2024/5/4.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>can16358p</author><text>While not directly related to OP&#x27;s issue, after using Apple Watch Ultra and seeing how buggy and crappy everything about it is for a several months with literally zero fixes (not just me, but several friends who has Ultra too), I&#x27;m convinced that QA at Apple is run by primate apes.<p>There is no sensible explanation that a flagship device can be full of bugs and inferior quality to its 3-year older non-flagship counterparts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>015a</author><text>I recently had my Apple Watch (Series 9, few months old) touch screen refuse to respond to touch input, and instead issue seemingly random pokes and drags until it eventually worked its way toward calling 911. After assuring the operator that it was just my nearly-new Apple Watch freaking out, I was able to dig up an Apple Support article that outlined how to hard reset it with the physical buttons, which still worked.<p>Apple&#x27;s quality control has been getting worse every year. This is something we say every year; that&#x27;s because its true every year. They started the highest coming out of the 2000s, plenty big laurels to rest on. But their (and Microsoft&#x27;s) software has gotten so bad nowadays that linux desktops are starting to look stable (and don&#x27;t interpret that as an endorsement of the improvements in stability of the linux desktop experience, not even close, year of the linux desktop might happen but only because everything is so shit that you might as well at least use the shit that isn&#x27;t taking screenshots of your desktop or resurfacing photos you deleted five years ago).</text></comment> | <story><title>macOS Sonoma silently enabled iCloud Keychain despite my precautions</title><url>https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2024/5/4.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>can16358p</author><text>While not directly related to OP&#x27;s issue, after using Apple Watch Ultra and seeing how buggy and crappy everything about it is for a several months with literally zero fixes (not just me, but several friends who has Ultra too), I&#x27;m convinced that QA at Apple is run by primate apes.<p>There is no sensible explanation that a flagship device can be full of bugs and inferior quality to its 3-year older non-flagship counterparts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Rinzler89</author><text><i>&gt; I&#x27;m convinced that QA at Apple is run by primate apes.</i><p>Big-tech sees no value in QA thee days when they already have monopolies over huge markets, so these jobs get cut. And even when they don&#x27;t get cut, since such jobs are dead-end for your career there anyway ... you get what happens.<p>So a lot of QA is actually outsourced to third party body shops where employees don&#x27;t care beyond shoveling some tests out the door to get home quick and get paid.</text></comment> |
21,874,288 | 21,874,431 | 1 | 2 | 21,873,712 | train | <story><title>Crispr-Resistant Viruses Build ‘Safe Rooms’ to Shield Genomes from Enzymes</title><url>https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2019/12/416116/crispr-resistant-viruses-build-safe-rooms-shield-genomes-dna-dicing-enzymes</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dannykwells</author><text>A beautiful study with interesting implications for the evolution of the different CRISPR systems. Congrats to the team. I&#x27;m curious how this study, published in Nature, is different than this study:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41564-019-0612-5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41564-019-0612-5</a><p>Published in Nature Microbiology. Maybe just the institution?</text></comment> | <story><title>Crispr-Resistant Viruses Build ‘Safe Rooms’ to Shield Genomes from Enzymes</title><url>https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2019/12/416116/crispr-resistant-viruses-build-safe-rooms-shield-genomes-dna-dicing-enzymes</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>petjuh</author><text>I wonder if neclei were &quot;invented&quot; by viruses as those safe rooms. There are already theories that DNA was first invented by viruses to protect against cleaving by RNAases, and the presence of UDNA viruses suggests it. It would also explain how DNA had immediate selective advantage over RNA.</text></comment> |
31,284,578 | 31,279,360 | 1 | 3 | 31,277,743 | train | <story><title>Devouring the Heart of Portugal</title><url>https://www.damninteresting.com/devouring-the-heart-of-portugal/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>spicyusername</author><text>Wow, what an interesting story. Very well told and provides a window into life in the 1920s.<p>One thought that came to mind while reading it is how easy it is to do the wrong thing, and how hard it is to prove or stop people from doing the the wrong thing. There&#x27;s such an asymmetry.<p>Following the rules necessarily puts constraints and friction on your ability to act. Ignoring the rules allows you to move more nimbly.<p>It seems like in almost all of these cases the criminals only fail because they don&#x27;t stop, which gives authorities enough chances to finally catch them.<p>Makes you wonder how many criminals stop at the first success and never get caught.</text></comment> | <story><title>Devouring the Heart of Portugal</title><url>https://www.damninteresting.com/devouring-the-heart-of-portugal/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>forinti</author><text>I love books about fraud and The Man Who Stole Portugal by Murray Bloom is one of my favourites.<p>This is also a story about how Artur Alves dos Reis sparked growth by injecting money into the Portuguese economy.</text></comment> |
36,266,328 | 36,265,713 | 1 | 2 | 36,264,232 | train | <story><title>Reddit CEO doubles down on attack on Apollo developer in drama-filled AMA</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/09/reddit-ceo-doubles-down-on-attack-on-apollo-developer-in-drama-filled-ama/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maybelsyrup</author><text>&gt; &quot;Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence.&quot;<p>This is a digression, but this saying has always frustrated me. It makes sense for a second, but then I wonder if whoever came up with it had any idea how much malice exists in the world. Many cases of &quot;malice is at least as adequate an explanation as incompetence, given the facts or lack of them&quot;.</text></item><item><author>mustacheemperor</author><text>At this point my theories are<p>1) Ego and emotion are driving decisions at reddit<p>or<p>2) Reddit&#x27;s leadership has run the numbers and genuinely thinks it will benefit their profitability plans if the users reacting negatively to these changes all leave. This is well past the point of just killing 3rd party apps because the API changes alone would have accomplished that.<p>&quot;Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence.&quot; What do you do when incompetence would be unbelievable in scope and malice would be unbelievably incompetent.</text></item><item><author>slg</author><text>Why did Reddit even have an AMA for this? Everyone knew it would turn out exactly like it did. The most difficult questions went unanswered. The answers they did give were either just bland corporate speak or actively detrimental, giving their critics more ammunition including opening Reddit up to accusations of libel. The whole ordeal seems to leave them in a worse position than if they just never did the AMA.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>r00fus</author><text>I prefer the less epistemological version of this (gray&#x27;s law)<p>&quot;Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice&quot;<p>Does it matter if it&#x27;s incompetence or malice? If you care, are now forced into action, best just make a move and justify it after the fact.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reddit CEO doubles down on attack on Apollo developer in drama-filled AMA</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/09/reddit-ceo-doubles-down-on-attack-on-apollo-developer-in-drama-filled-ama/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maybelsyrup</author><text>&gt; &quot;Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence.&quot;<p>This is a digression, but this saying has always frustrated me. It makes sense for a second, but then I wonder if whoever came up with it had any idea how much malice exists in the world. Many cases of &quot;malice is at least as adequate an explanation as incompetence, given the facts or lack of them&quot;.</text></item><item><author>mustacheemperor</author><text>At this point my theories are<p>1) Ego and emotion are driving decisions at reddit<p>or<p>2) Reddit&#x27;s leadership has run the numbers and genuinely thinks it will benefit their profitability plans if the users reacting negatively to these changes all leave. This is well past the point of just killing 3rd party apps because the API changes alone would have accomplished that.<p>&quot;Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence.&quot; What do you do when incompetence would be unbelievable in scope and malice would be unbelievably incompetent.</text></item><item><author>slg</author><text>Why did Reddit even have an AMA for this? Everyone knew it would turn out exactly like it did. The most difficult questions went unanswered. The answers they did give were either just bland corporate speak or actively detrimental, giving their critics more ammunition including opening Reddit up to accusations of libel. The whole ordeal seems to leave them in a worse position than if they just never did the AMA.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rnd0</author><text>It is an attitude that has given a lot of cover to very malicious people over the years. Bush is a great example of that. Many people thought he was a moron and during his administration a lot of the things that happened on his watch (no-bid contracts to Halliburton and Abu Ghraib spring to mind) were often brushed off by people citing Hanlon&#x27;s Razor.</text></comment> |
7,567,934 | 7,568,079 | 1 | 3 | 7,565,577 | train | <story><title>Were Intelligence Agencies Using Heartbleed in November 2013?</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/wild-heart-were-intelligence-agencies-using-heartbleed-november-2013</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>unhush</author><text>I helped write this post. Note that we&#x27;re very interested in anyone who has been keeping raw packet logs from before the Heartbleed vuln. was public. If you find 18 03 (01 | 02 | 03) 00 03 01 in them, please let me know or post pcap files. Contact info: <a href="https://www.eff.org/about/staff/yan-zhu" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;about&#x2F;staff&#x2F;yan-zhu</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Were Intelligence Agencies Using Heartbleed in November 2013?</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/wild-heart-were-intelligence-agencies-using-heartbleed-november-2013</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ScottBurson</author><text>This would be so easy for the NSA etc. to do that I think we have to consider it as inevitably having occurred.<p>All they would have had to do is take a close look at any new changes committed to OpenSSL and other critical infrastructure software. Surely they have people doing that -- they would be remiss not to.</text></comment> |
4,302,114 | 4,300,644 | 1 | 2 | 4,300,472 | train | <story><title>Gnome: Staring into the abyss</title><url>http://blogs.gnome.org/otte/2012/07/27/staring-into-the-abyss/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kijin</author><text>1. As the author says toward the end of the article, I think the biggest problem with Gnome nowadays is that only a small number of people actually use it on a day-to-day basis. Popular distros like Ubuntu and Mint have shifted away from it. No matter what merits Gnome 3 might have, it was such a flop in its first few releases that it has the Windows Vista stigma attached to it. Of course, there's GTK and several Gnome apps that people do use on a daily basis. But for many people, Gnome itself is decidedly uncool. No wonder they don't want to contribute to it.<p>2. If Gnome really wants to win back the hearts of potential contributors (i.e. power users), they'd better make programs that appeal to that demographic. People who have the skill and motivation to make significant contributions to a free software project often want a lot of room for configuration, including the option to use the desktop in a traditional manner. Taking away those little checkboxes and toolbar buttons is like slamming the door on power users. You might win a billion non-technical users, but none of them will ever submit a single patch.<p>3. Gnome is too big for its own good. Why does a desktop environment project need to maintain a complete stack of apps and libraries, from GTK to Gnome Shell to a text editor to a bundle of games to a web browser to an email client to a media player to a full-blown spreadsheet app? Why can't they just tell people to get a third-party browser? They should spin off the rest and focus on GTK, the Shell, and a small number of essential utilities. If Epiphany or Gnumeric died a slow and lonely death, how many people would really care? Heck, if you don't have the manpower to maintain anything else, just give me GTK so I can install xfce or lxde on top of it. It's really just Firefox and LibreOffice and VLC that I want, and I don't need Gnome to run them.<p>Edit: some rephrasing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>I find it wryly amusing to see the entire GNOME 1 -&#62; GNOME 2 debacle repeated so accurately. GNOME 2 eliminated a huge pile of configuration and tweakability that had accreted over the years, and produced an environment designed for user-friendliness even at the expense of some power-user configurations. It took a few releases to sort out (2.0 proved quite painful), but by GNOME 2.4 or so the environment had become far more pleasant than GNOME 1.<p>If the GNOME 2 -&#62; GNOME 3 debate has produced more vitriol by volume, I'd say that just reflects GNOME 2 having a much larger user community than GNOME 1 ever did.</text></comment> | <story><title>Gnome: Staring into the abyss</title><url>http://blogs.gnome.org/otte/2012/07/27/staring-into-the-abyss/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kijin</author><text>1. As the author says toward the end of the article, I think the biggest problem with Gnome nowadays is that only a small number of people actually use it on a day-to-day basis. Popular distros like Ubuntu and Mint have shifted away from it. No matter what merits Gnome 3 might have, it was such a flop in its first few releases that it has the Windows Vista stigma attached to it. Of course, there's GTK and several Gnome apps that people do use on a daily basis. But for many people, Gnome itself is decidedly uncool. No wonder they don't want to contribute to it.<p>2. If Gnome really wants to win back the hearts of potential contributors (i.e. power users), they'd better make programs that appeal to that demographic. People who have the skill and motivation to make significant contributions to a free software project often want a lot of room for configuration, including the option to use the desktop in a traditional manner. Taking away those little checkboxes and toolbar buttons is like slamming the door on power users. You might win a billion non-technical users, but none of them will ever submit a single patch.<p>3. Gnome is too big for its own good. Why does a desktop environment project need to maintain a complete stack of apps and libraries, from GTK to Gnome Shell to a text editor to a bundle of games to a web browser to an email client to a media player to a full-blown spreadsheet app? Why can't they just tell people to get a third-party browser? They should spin off the rest and focus on GTK, the Shell, and a small number of essential utilities. If Epiphany or Gnumeric died a slow and lonely death, how many people would really care? Heck, if you don't have the manpower to maintain anything else, just give me GTK so I can install xfce or lxde on top of it. It's really just Firefox and LibreOffice and VLC that I want, and I don't need Gnome to run them.<p>Edit: some rephrasing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mr_T_</author><text>&#62; <i>Taking away those little checkboxes and toolbar buttons is like slamming the door on power users. You might win a billion non-technical users, but none of them will ever submit a single patch.</i><p>An experienced developer should be mature enough to know that he and his kind should not be the target audience of his product. And putting in all those little checkboxes makes a product a horrible experience for the rest of the world.</text></comment> |
4,587,222 | 4,587,204 | 1 | 3 | 4,586,946 | train | <story><title>Color CEO Bill Nguyen Checks Out Of Day-To-Day Operations</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/28/color-ceo-nguyen-is-out/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MattRogish</author><text>Can you imagine any other CEO of a company doing this? His behavior is bizarre and confusing. Imagine Tim Cook's email to his employees:<p>From: Tim Cook, Apple's CEO
To: Apple Employees
Re: Maps and... stuff..<p>Hi everyone,<p>As you know, I haven't been at work the past few months. What have I been doing? Well, "What <i>haven't</i> I been doing?" is the better question! I've taken the jet to Fiji, hiked Kilimanjaro, and eaten just the best crème brûlée at this little place off of the Champs-Élysées.<p>This is what I do when I know a project is a complete disaster, which happens often. I do this all the time. I just travel around. Drink a lot of beer, smoke a lot of pot. It's no big deal; nothing new or exciting.<p>You'd think the board would've fired my ass a long time ago, but nah - I've made sure to stack the deck with my buddies and we've got enough cash to flounder around for a while. The CEO checks keep coming, and I keep cashing them, so I'll keep the title warm.<p>Since iOS6 release, the Maps app has gotten a lot of criticism. In response, I've decided to go to Hawaii. To recharge my batteries. Yeah, they were pretty well charged from my last two months' off but you have no idea how draining it was to write this letter. Heavy is the head that wears the crown and all that.<p>I think I need another couple of months to recover. If some of you quit because of my irresponsible and downright bizarre behavior, I totally understand. To the rest of you, though, expect a pivot. Or something.<p>Aloha,<p>Tim</text></comment> | <story><title>Color CEO Bill Nguyen Checks Out Of Day-To-Day Operations</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/28/color-ceo-nguyen-is-out/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>acabal</author><text>Based solely on what's in this article (perhaps reality is different), this reinforces my inkling that people get truly rich from mostly just two things: who you know, and marketing. Market yourself (or your product) well and know the right people, and you too can be the CEO of a vaporware company funded with more money than most people will see in their entire lives, while spending your months on sabbatical in Tahoe and Hawaii. Unbelievable. On the other hand, this <i>is</i> Techcrunch, and the reality is undoubtedly a little more nuanced than what's presented here.</text></comment> |
4,747,161 | 4,747,067 | 1 | 2 | 4,746,787 | train | <story><title>"I think you will all appreciate this person's commenting style"</title><url>http://jwz.livejournal.com/1774883.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>saurik</author><text>PSD was never intended to be a data interchange format: it is the serialization format of a single program that has more individual unrelated features that actual people rely on than almost any other piece of software and has maintained striking amounts of backwards compatibility and almost unbroken forwards compatibility during its over two decades of existence. This product's "file format" needs to be critiqued in this context, along with similar mega-programs like Office.<p>I am thereby having a difficult time fathoming why anyone would think that a PSD file is thereby going to be some well-organized file format that they should easily be able to parse from their own application is just naively wishful thinking: even other products from Adobe have limitations while opening these files; to truly manipulate these files you really need to be highly-compatible with Photoshop's particular editing model (hence the conceptual difference between these two classes of file format).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacobolus</author><text>Further points:<p>1) The specs are now much more publicly accessible than they used to be, and frankly the spec does a fairly reasonable job describing a tricky format relatively compactly. It requires a fair bit of knowledge of Photoshop to read and understand, but it’s mostly fairly explicit. Much better than many other proprietary document formats.<p>2) For someone with relatively extensive knowledge of photoshop, the format is fairly comprehensible, albeit complicated. The biggest part of the problem here is, as you say, that Photoshop just has a ton of features to support, so that becoming enough of a Photoshop expert to understand it all is a difficult undertaking by itself.<p>3) The code this comment is taken from only interacts with a small fraction of PSD features, and is frankly pretty awful code: hacky, ad-hoc, not modular at all, etc.<p>All that said, if someone was to redesign PSD format today, I’m sure it would be organized quite a bit differently, and would have much better re-use of a smaller number of features. (The same goes for Photoshop itself.)</text></comment> | <story><title>"I think you will all appreciate this person's commenting style"</title><url>http://jwz.livejournal.com/1774883.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>saurik</author><text>PSD was never intended to be a data interchange format: it is the serialization format of a single program that has more individual unrelated features that actual people rely on than almost any other piece of software and has maintained striking amounts of backwards compatibility and almost unbroken forwards compatibility during its over two decades of existence. This product's "file format" needs to be critiqued in this context, along with similar mega-programs like Office.<p>I am thereby having a difficult time fathoming why anyone would think that a PSD file is thereby going to be some well-organized file format that they should easily be able to parse from their own application is just naively wishful thinking: even other products from Adobe have limitations while opening these files; to truly manipulate these files you really need to be highly-compatible with Photoshop's particular editing model (hence the conceptual difference between these two classes of file format).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CoolGuySteve</author><text>This is true, but there are container formats just as old like .mov that are quite nice to work with. (While your still sniggering, keep in mind that .mov has a lot in common with MPEG4.)<p>Whenever I need to write a binary serialization format, I usually copy .mov's tree of structs format, it's ridiculously fast, extensible, and keeps people away from C++ terrible stream operators/Java's BinaryReaderWhateverFactoryErrorProneOneIntAtATimeReader.</text></comment> |
11,280,292 | 11,280,144 | 1 | 2 | 11,279,433 | train | <story><title>Re: Obama on Fetishizing Our Phones</title><url>http://jonathanmh.com/re-obama-on-fetishizing-our-phones-yes-we-can/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cromwellian</author><text>Obama has a meta-point however that proponents of the absolutist position don&#x27;t seem to want to face. Democracy relies on transparency. Many of the progressives who are rallying in support of absolute right to privacy are some of the same people who constantly criticize Swiss bank accounts, Cayman island financial shenanigans.<p>But if companies were to implement the same sorts of impenetrable encryption, on every device, all the way down to the corporate desktop, in a way that not even the company executives themselves can read the email of their own employees, then lots of regulations the government applies to companies would be mooted.<p>Taken to the extreme, if all communication is digital, and 100% impregnable, and people maintain good OpSec, then it will be hard to impossible to execute lawsuits or regulatory investigations into malfeasance because they&#x27;ll be no paper trail.<p>The end result of going full tilt on crypto is cryptoanarchy. This was pretty much well argued in the 90s among the cypherpunks community. Most of the libertarians and Objectivists were salivating over how strong crypto protocols would end fiat currency, end taxation, end regulation, and so on.<p>So how far as a society are we willing to take this? Does it just extend to private data? Does it extend to transactions? To payments you make for things? To transfers of money? To business transactions? Will Democracy be able to audit nothing of the interactions of citizens or our institutions in the future?<p>You don&#x27;t have to agree with Obama&#x27;s position to see that cryptoanarchy and Democracy are on a collision course, and it makes sense to discuss the possibilities openly without just plugging your ears and taking an absolutist position that demonizes anyone who disagrees.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>studentrob</author><text>This is not a debate about privacy vs. security.<p>It&#x27;s about security vs. security. [1] [2] [3]<p>On balance, putting backdoors in phones will make us less secure, because criminals will just use other methods to communicate, and the public will be putting their data within reach of every hacker in the world through a government-imposed weakness.<p>The administration is unlikely to understand our privacy concerns. They <i>do</i> understand economic and public safety issues, and it is the facts around these issues that we must share with them. President Obama himself told President Xi last year that introducing backdoor legislation would hurt his economy [4]. Let&#x27;s make Obama&#x27;s argument back to him<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;g1GgnbN9oNw?t=3h35m52s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;g1GgnbN9oNw?t=3h35m52s</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;g1GgnbN9oNw?t=3h11m46s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;g1GgnbN9oNw?t=3h11m46s</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;g1GgnbN9oNw?t=3h19m39s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;g1GgnbN9oNw?t=3h19m39s</a><p>[4] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-usa-obama-china-idUSKBN0LY2H520150302" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-usa-obama-china-idUSKBN0LY...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Re: Obama on Fetishizing Our Phones</title><url>http://jonathanmh.com/re-obama-on-fetishizing-our-phones-yes-we-can/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cromwellian</author><text>Obama has a meta-point however that proponents of the absolutist position don&#x27;t seem to want to face. Democracy relies on transparency. Many of the progressives who are rallying in support of absolute right to privacy are some of the same people who constantly criticize Swiss bank accounts, Cayman island financial shenanigans.<p>But if companies were to implement the same sorts of impenetrable encryption, on every device, all the way down to the corporate desktop, in a way that not even the company executives themselves can read the email of their own employees, then lots of regulations the government applies to companies would be mooted.<p>Taken to the extreme, if all communication is digital, and 100% impregnable, and people maintain good OpSec, then it will be hard to impossible to execute lawsuits or regulatory investigations into malfeasance because they&#x27;ll be no paper trail.<p>The end result of going full tilt on crypto is cryptoanarchy. This was pretty much well argued in the 90s among the cypherpunks community. Most of the libertarians and Objectivists were salivating over how strong crypto protocols would end fiat currency, end taxation, end regulation, and so on.<p>So how far as a society are we willing to take this? Does it just extend to private data? Does it extend to transactions? To payments you make for things? To transfers of money? To business transactions? Will Democracy be able to audit nothing of the interactions of citizens or our institutions in the future?<p>You don&#x27;t have to agree with Obama&#x27;s position to see that cryptoanarchy and Democracy are on a collision course, and it makes sense to discuss the possibilities openly without just plugging your ears and taking an absolutist position that demonizes anyone who disagrees.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattmanser</author><text>They can still plant bugs in offices, cars, homes, etc. That&#x27;s specific and targeted and proportional, but expensive and hard.<p>There&#x27;s no good reason they <i>have</i> to have access to electronic devices, they can install cameras and mics. It&#x27;s just easier going straight to the phones and emails.<p>But they had that power and they abused it massively, and are now suffering the backlash, and why should privacy stop given they&#x27;ve demonstrated they can&#x27;t be proportional in their surveillance?<p>They were not specific with what they got from the phones and emails, so they&#x27;ve demonstrated they&#x27;re not responsible or measured and now strong encryption is necessary as government has clearly shown that secret courts === warrantless mass surveillance.<p>The other thing that&#x27;s clear is that the US couldn&#x27;t care less about privacy for anyone not in the US, so all us non-US citizen need this encryption to protect us from your peeping tom government.</text></comment> |
21,460,711 | 21,459,775 | 1 | 3 | 21,459,474 | train | <story><title>South Koreans fake their funerals for life lessons</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-livingfunerals/dying-for-a-better-life-south-koreans-fake-their-funerals-for-life-lessons-idUSKBN1XG038</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Fnoord</author><text>Which reminds me of Ben X. Quoting Wikipedia [1]<p>(SPOILER on bottom of post.)<p>&gt; Ben X is a 2007 Belgian-Dutch drama film based on the novel Nothing Was All He Said (Dutch: Niets Was Alles Wat Hij Zei) by Nic Balthazar, who also directed the film.[4] The film is about a boy with Asperger syndrome (played by Greg Timmermans) who retreats into the fantasy world of the MMORPG ArchLord to escape bullying. The film&#x27;s title is a reference to the leet version of the Dutch phrase &quot;(ik) ben niks&quot;, meaning &quot;(I) am nothing&quot;.<p>&gt; The novel was inspired by the true story of a boy with autism who committed suicide because of bullying<p>There is also a Swedish remake (2013):<p>&gt; Erik Leijonborg adapted the film into a Swedish-language remake, IRL.<p>[SPOILER]The reason it reminds me of that movie, is because Ben&#x27;s death is faked to teach his bullies a (life) lesson.[&#x2F;SPOILER]<p>Back when I watched it (it hit a spot), I did not play either MMORPGs nor did I know I had autism. Now I know I have autism, and I played MMORPGs.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ben_X" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ben_X</a></text></comment> | <story><title>South Koreans fake their funerals for life lessons</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-livingfunerals/dying-for-a-better-life-south-koreans-fake-their-funerals-for-life-lessons-idUSKBN1XG038</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>IIAOPSW</author><text>I saw a documentary on this.<p>The long short is &quot;faking their deaths&quot; doesn&#x27;t mean what we normally think it means. Its more of a therapy tactic for depressed&#x2F;suicidal people where they get to go through with it. They write goodbye notes, have a funeral, even get put in a coffin for a few hours.<p>I don&#x27;t know if it works but it seems promising.</text></comment> |
6,154,393 | 6,154,172 | 1 | 2 | 6,154,003 | train | <story><title>Thoughts on Colocation</title><url>https://blog.pinboard.in/2013/08/thoughts_on_colocation/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dmourati</author><text>My thoughts on colocation? When choosing a data center, look at your neighbors. Mine were Dropbox, Netflix, Splunk, and Etsy. Best tools for finding a good data center: www.peeringdb.com, www.datacentermap.com.</text></comment> | <story><title>Thoughts on Colocation</title><url>https://blog.pinboard.in/2013/08/thoughts_on_colocation/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>notaddicted</author><text>For &quot;finding datacenters&quot;, <i>traceroute</i> is useful. You can just pick some websites and see where they host. For example, is seems that pinboard.in is hosted at <a href="http://he.net/colocation.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;he.net&#x2F;colocation.html</a>, Fremont 2, or at least that is where I am being routed.</text></comment> |
28,320,576 | 28,320,447 | 1 | 2 | 28,317,866 | train | <story><title>Immunity Generated from Covid-19 Vaccines Differs from an Infection</title><url>https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2021/06/22/how-immunity-generated-from-covid-19-vaccines-differs-from-an-infection/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oldgradstudent</author><text>&gt; However, vaccines only target spike protein, while a previous infection will cause your body to produce antibodies for a much larger set of targets on the virus, which in practice leads to a more robust immunity. This is supported by data from Israel and some recent studies<p>No, it does not.<p>The data from Israel only supports the claim that immunity from infection is longer lasting than from the vaccine, which should not have been a surprise to anyone.<p>It does not support any specific mechanistic explanation.</text></item><item><author>bananabiscuit</author><text>The spike protein targeting antibodies produced by the vaccine do indeed target a wider range of spike mutations than the spike protein antibodies from previous infection. However, vaccines only target spike protein, while a previous infection will cause your body to produce antibodies for a much larger set of targets on the virus, which in practice leads to a more robust immunity. This is supported by data from Israel and some recent studies.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.israelnationalnews.com&#x2F;News&#x2F;News.aspx&#x2F;309762" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.israelnationalnews.com&#x2F;News&#x2F;News.aspx&#x2F;309762</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.israelnationalnews.com&#x2F;News&#x2F;News.aspx&#x2F;310963" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.israelnationalnews.com&#x2F;News&#x2F;News.aspx&#x2F;310963</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.medrxiv.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;10.1101&#x2F;2021.08.24.21262415v1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.medrxiv.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;10.1101&#x2F;2021.08.24.21262415v...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rossdavidh</author><text>From the last link: &quot;Conclusions: This study demonstrated that natural immunity confers longer lasting and stronger protection against infection, symptomatic disease and hospitalization caused by the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2, compared to the BNT162b2 two-dose vaccine-induced immunity. Individuals who were both previously infected with SARS-CoV-2 and given a single dose of the vaccine gained additional protection against the Delta variant.&quot;<p>Note the &quot;longer lasting and stronger&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Immunity Generated from Covid-19 Vaccines Differs from an Infection</title><url>https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2021/06/22/how-immunity-generated-from-covid-19-vaccines-differs-from-an-infection/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oldgradstudent</author><text>&gt; However, vaccines only target spike protein, while a previous infection will cause your body to produce antibodies for a much larger set of targets on the virus, which in practice leads to a more robust immunity. This is supported by data from Israel and some recent studies<p>No, it does not.<p>The data from Israel only supports the claim that immunity from infection is longer lasting than from the vaccine, which should not have been a surprise to anyone.<p>It does not support any specific mechanistic explanation.</text></item><item><author>bananabiscuit</author><text>The spike protein targeting antibodies produced by the vaccine do indeed target a wider range of spike mutations than the spike protein antibodies from previous infection. However, vaccines only target spike protein, while a previous infection will cause your body to produce antibodies for a much larger set of targets on the virus, which in practice leads to a more robust immunity. This is supported by data from Israel and some recent studies.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.israelnationalnews.com&#x2F;News&#x2F;News.aspx&#x2F;309762" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.israelnationalnews.com&#x2F;News&#x2F;News.aspx&#x2F;309762</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.israelnationalnews.com&#x2F;News&#x2F;News.aspx&#x2F;310963" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.israelnationalnews.com&#x2F;News&#x2F;News.aspx&#x2F;310963</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.medrxiv.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;10.1101&#x2F;2021.08.24.21262415v1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.medrxiv.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;10.1101&#x2F;2021.08.24.21262415v...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lamontcg</author><text>Honestly I have yet to see any convincing scientific evidence that is free from confounding factors which suggests that there is waning immunity.<p>And there&#x27;s reason to believe from HCoV-229E that immunity against coronaviruses is actually durable and that reinfection is due to mutation and immune escape.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.plos.org&#x2F;plospathogens&#x2F;article?id=10.1371&#x2F;journal.ppat.1009453" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;journals.plos.org&#x2F;plospathogens&#x2F;article?id=10.1371&#x2F;j...</a></text></comment> |
28,921,714 | 28,921,194 | 1 | 2 | 28,918,805 | train | <story><title>Former Netflix executive convicted of receiving bribes from contractors</title><url>https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/former-netflix-executive-convicted-receiving-bribes-and-kickbacks-companies-contracting</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ugwigr</author><text>in the comment? how many people would read his comment versus the subject line?<p>Also the fact that he can fundamentally change what a user posts and then choose whether or not to disclose it in comment section is a flaw.</text></item><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>He did just that.</text></item><item><author>ugwigr</author><text>add an indicator to indicate the admin changed what I (@ugwigr) posted. Materially changing the content your users post is wrong.</text></item><item><author>dang</author><text>We&#x27;ve changed the URL to that from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessofbusiness.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;why-a-former-netflix-exec-facing-7-years-in-prison-for-bribery-is-a-cautionary-tale-for-startups&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessofbusiness.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;why-a-former-net...</a>. Thanks!</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>The DOJ press release is clearer than this article is:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justice.gov&#x2F;usao-ndca&#x2F;pr&#x2F;former-netflix-executive-convicted-receiving-bribes-and-kickbacks-companies-contracting" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justice.gov&#x2F;usao-ndca&#x2F;pr&#x2F;former-netflix-executiv...</a><p>Some fun details:<p>Kail did his criming through a shell LLC he set up called &quot;Unix Mercenary&quot;.<p>He took between 10-15% of the total billings for each of the companies he hooked up with this scheme. None of those companies were charged (more&#x27;s the pity).<p>They got him on mail fraud, wire fraud, honest services fraud, and money laundering. The victim of the fraud was, of course, Netflix itself.<p>Additional fun facts from PACER:<p>He&#x27;s seeking to exclude his shares in Sumo Logic and Netskope from forfeiture, arguing that they were largely the result of his own hard work, which takes some serious chutzpah.<p>All of this apparently happened back in 2014 (the conviction is recent). If you&#x27;re wondering what Netflix thought of all this, Kail apparently left Netflix for a job at Yahoo, from which he was fired after Netflix found out about his scheme and told Yahoo.<p>Kail&#x27;s sentencing memorandum is a fun read (again: chutzpah). For instance, this gem:<p><i>Further, though Mr. Kail complained of problems with Sumologic (as one would see with any new startup), the product itself was “useful,” according to Ashi Sheth. (R.T. Vol. 8, p. 1670-71). As described below, at the time, Sumologic saved Netflix from paying for a far more expensive and inferior product called Splunk.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>batch12</author><text>I wholeheartedly disagreed until I saw your point (I think). The post still has your name beside it and you disagree with someone changing your words. While I don&#x27;t find it a big deal with this, I kinda agree in spirit. Maybe the poster name should be changed too. However, folks would then be upset about not getting their sweet, sweet karma.</text></comment> | <story><title>Former Netflix executive convicted of receiving bribes from contractors</title><url>https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/former-netflix-executive-convicted-receiving-bribes-and-kickbacks-companies-contracting</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ugwigr</author><text>in the comment? how many people would read his comment versus the subject line?<p>Also the fact that he can fundamentally change what a user posts and then choose whether or not to disclose it in comment section is a flaw.</text></item><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>He did just that.</text></item><item><author>ugwigr</author><text>add an indicator to indicate the admin changed what I (@ugwigr) posted. Materially changing the content your users post is wrong.</text></item><item><author>dang</author><text>We&#x27;ve changed the URL to that from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessofbusiness.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;why-a-former-netflix-exec-facing-7-years-in-prison-for-bribery-is-a-cautionary-tale-for-startups&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessofbusiness.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;why-a-former-net...</a>. Thanks!</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>The DOJ press release is clearer than this article is:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justice.gov&#x2F;usao-ndca&#x2F;pr&#x2F;former-netflix-executive-convicted-receiving-bribes-and-kickbacks-companies-contracting" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justice.gov&#x2F;usao-ndca&#x2F;pr&#x2F;former-netflix-executiv...</a><p>Some fun details:<p>Kail did his criming through a shell LLC he set up called &quot;Unix Mercenary&quot;.<p>He took between 10-15% of the total billings for each of the companies he hooked up with this scheme. None of those companies were charged (more&#x27;s the pity).<p>They got him on mail fraud, wire fraud, honest services fraud, and money laundering. The victim of the fraud was, of course, Netflix itself.<p>Additional fun facts from PACER:<p>He&#x27;s seeking to exclude his shares in Sumo Logic and Netskope from forfeiture, arguing that they were largely the result of his own hard work, which takes some serious chutzpah.<p>All of this apparently happened back in 2014 (the conviction is recent). If you&#x27;re wondering what Netflix thought of all this, Kail apparently left Netflix for a job at Yahoo, from which he was fired after Netflix found out about his scheme and told Yahoo.<p>Kail&#x27;s sentencing memorandum is a fun read (again: chutzpah). For instance, this gem:<p><i>Further, though Mr. Kail complained of problems with Sumologic (as one would see with any new startup), the product itself was “useful,” according to Ashi Sheth. (R.T. Vol. 8, p. 1670-71). As described below, at the time, Sumologic saved Netflix from paying for a far more expensive and inferior product called Splunk.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>Entitlement is a flaw.</text></comment> |
9,604,207 | 9,604,174 | 1 | 2 | 9,603,845 | train | <story><title>Web vs. native: let’s concede defeat</title><url>http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2015/05/web_vs_native_l.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fizk</author><text>Remember Flash? Narrow the gap, add a bit of Steve Jobs and Boom! The web Won.<p>Look at a site like YouTube today. All the tooling we&#x27;ve created and all the progress of the open web platform that has made that site happen is incredible. If we&#x27;ve just given up 10 years ago, saying to ourselves that the web should only be for documents, then we would be missing out big time right now.<p>It’s not for every site to try and push the envelope. And mimicking native can often lead to bad results. But to go from that and say that we shouldn’t try. That’s just sad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the8472</author><text>&gt; Look at a site like YouTube today.<p>And yet any media player beats it at its core functionality: video playback.<p>Often I find myself using youtube-dl to fetch a youtube video and just play it in a regular media player because it just works better than what browsers have to offer.
There even are addons to export YT playlists to VLC and stream them.<p>pdfjs is great. but every 3rd scientific paper I read tends to be somewhat broken (missing diagrams&#x2F;images) or sometimes fails to render completely. native readers provide a better experience and better render times.<p>&gt;And mimicking native can often lead to bad results. But to go from that and say that we shouldn’t try.<p>Maybe sometimes it would be better to provide better integration with native applications?<p>Native applications and browsers really don&#x27;t like talking to each other.</text></comment> | <story><title>Web vs. native: let’s concede defeat</title><url>http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2015/05/web_vs_native_l.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fizk</author><text>Remember Flash? Narrow the gap, add a bit of Steve Jobs and Boom! The web Won.<p>Look at a site like YouTube today. All the tooling we&#x27;ve created and all the progress of the open web platform that has made that site happen is incredible. If we&#x27;ve just given up 10 years ago, saying to ourselves that the web should only be for documents, then we would be missing out big time right now.<p>It’s not for every site to try and push the envelope. And mimicking native can often lead to bad results. But to go from that and say that we shouldn’t try. That’s just sad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>Youtube is an interesting choice of example, since in a way it&#x27;s &quot;just documents&quot; - those documents happen to be video, and are surrounded by hyperlinks to other video&#x27;s pages. The real achievement here was cutting through the intellectual property thicket so that everyone could have an in-browser video player in HTML5.<p>The first site I ever saw that used Javascript to produce a useful application rather than annoying frippery was Google Maps.<p>(Rhetorical question: why does everyone use youtube rather than hosting videos on their own sites? Unpacking this question will show the obstacles that &quot;redecentralisation&quot; faces)</text></comment> |
1,848,925 | 1,848,902 | 1 | 2 | 1,848,680 | train | <story><title>Gmail Creator Joins Facebook Co-Founder, Donates 100K To Legalize Marijuana</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/29/marijuana/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roadnottaken</author><text>Are there any hackers out there that like to code stoned? My marijuana-days never really overlapped with my coding days, but I can't imagine that would be a very good combo. I'm all for legalization tho I no longer partake -- I'm just wondering if it's a regular part of the lifestyle of many successful hackers...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>evo_9</author><text>It's funny but I'm hesitant to answer this truthfully.<p>I'm not sure if that's because I have aspirations to submit to YC at some point and wonder how PG might view this (and whether it would affect any decision making one way or another). Or if it's just the general concern with unnecessarily putting myself 'out there' somewhat publicly.<p>So yes, I do smoke and code. I don't know if I would say I'm 'stoned' though; I find that if I have just a wee bit I'm more focused and on point. It's similar to when I play music; not for the 'creative release' often claimed (though seldom experienced by me), but rather for this deep-focus aspect.</text></comment> | <story><title>Gmail Creator Joins Facebook Co-Founder, Donates 100K To Legalize Marijuana</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/29/marijuana/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roadnottaken</author><text>Are there any hackers out there that like to code stoned? My marijuana-days never really overlapped with my coding days, but I can't imagine that would be a very good combo. I'm all for legalization tho I no longer partake -- I'm just wondering if it's a regular part of the lifestyle of many successful hackers...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JeremyBanks</author><text>I find it isn't as terrible as you'd expect if you're caffeinated at the same time. I think it can be genuinely helpful while initially thinking them out certain things on paper. When I'm actually writing code it sometimes causes me to lose sight of the big picture and to spent forever "perfecting" a function or two. Fun, though not overwhelmingly productive.<p>I wouldn't recommend doing most of your coding high, but if you do so every now and then it might help you think about things in a different way.</text></comment> |
24,475,004 | 24,474,666 | 1 | 3 | 24,466,929 | train | <story><title>The compositor is evil</title><url>https://raphlinus.github.io/ui/graphics/2020/09/13/compositor-is-evil.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>PaulDavisThe1st</author><text>It is fascinating to me, as someone who has been doing real time audio work for 20 years, to see how two fundamental processes have been at work during that time:<p><pre><code> * audio developers recognizing the parallels between the way audio and video hardware works, and taking as many lessons from the video world as possible. The result is that audio data flow (ignoring the monstrosity of USB audio) is now generally much better than it used to be, and in many cases is conceptually very clean. In addition, less and less processing is done by audio hardware, and more and more by the CPU.
* video developers not understanding much about audio, and failing to notice the parallels between the two data handling processes. Rather than take any lessons from the audio side of things, stuff has just become more and more complex and more and more distant from what is actually happening in hardware. In addition, more and more processing is done by video hardware, and less and less by the CPU.
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In both cases, there is hardware which requires data periodically (on the order of a few msec). There are similar requirements to allow multiple applications to contribute what is visible&#x2F;audible to the user. There are similar needs for processing pipelines between hardware and user space code.<p>(one important difference: if you don&#x27;t provide a new frame of video data, most humans will not notice the result; if you don&#x27;t provide a new frame of audio fata, every human will hear the result).<p>I feel as if both these worlds would really benefit from somehow having a full exchange about the high and low level aspects of the problems they both face, how they have been solved to date, how might be solved in the future, and how the two are both very much alike, and really quite different.</text></comment> | <story><title>The compositor is evil</title><url>https://raphlinus.github.io/ui/graphics/2020/09/13/compositor-is-evil.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>monocasa</author><text>I&#x27;ve always really liked the Nintendo DS&#x27;s GPU, and thought something with a similar architecture but scaled up would make a lot sense in a few places in the stack. Unlike most GPUs, you submitted a static scene, and then the rendering happened pretty close to lock step with the scan out to the LCD. There was a buffer with a handful of lines stored, but it was pretty close; the latency was pretty much unbeatable. In a lot fo ways it was really a 3D extension to their earlier 2D (NES, SNES, GB, GBA) GPU designs.<p>Something like that sitting where the scan out engines exist today (with their multiple planes the composite today) would be absolutely killer if you could do hardware software co design to take advantage of it.<p>I&#x27;ve also thought that something like that would be great in VR&#x2F;AR.</text></comment> |
10,843,999 | 10,843,682 | 1 | 3 | 10,837,634 | train | <story><title>Ten years later, did Boston's Big Dig deliver?</title><url>https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2015/12/29/years-later-did-big-dig-deliver/tSb8PIMS4QJUETsMpA7SpI/story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chrisweekly</author><text>Short answer: yes.
I&#x27;ve lived in or around Boston for ~36 of my 41 years. The word &quot;expressway&quot; is no longer farcical, and the hideous rusted green monstrosity that used to cut off the waterfront from the rest of the otherwise very walkable city has been replaced by the aptly-named &quot;greenway&quot; linear park.... it&#x27;s so much better I can hardly believe it. Yes, public transit needs more and better investment. Yes, the BD suffered from corruption and inefficiency. But, this lifelong Bostonian sees it as a messy, expensive, insufficient but necessary step in bringing this awesome little city into modernity.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deveac</author><text>I lived in Boston in the mid nineties for about three years, doing shipping logistics that served the downtown &amp; surrounding areas. I didn&#x27;t have a frame of reference, and really only ever knew the city in the midst of that debacle, having to design courier routes throughout the area. Needless to say I was intimately familiar with the Big Dig.<p>I had the pleasure of returning to the city in 2015 for a brief bit of work with my current company and was utterly blown away at the transformation of the boulevard, the green spaces, the visual beauty...and just the sense of openness and lightness. I felt like I could breath easier just walking down the street.<p>It&#x27;s a shame to have had to overpaid so dearly for that, but what an amazing result. It was a great city before, but this just felt next-level.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ten years later, did Boston's Big Dig deliver?</title><url>https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2015/12/29/years-later-did-big-dig-deliver/tSb8PIMS4QJUETsMpA7SpI/story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chrisweekly</author><text>Short answer: yes.
I&#x27;ve lived in or around Boston for ~36 of my 41 years. The word &quot;expressway&quot; is no longer farcical, and the hideous rusted green monstrosity that used to cut off the waterfront from the rest of the otherwise very walkable city has been replaced by the aptly-named &quot;greenway&quot; linear park.... it&#x27;s so much better I can hardly believe it. Yes, public transit needs more and better investment. Yes, the BD suffered from corruption and inefficiency. But, this lifelong Bostonian sees it as a messy, expensive, insufficient but necessary step in bringing this awesome little city into modernity.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>prplhaz4</author><text>I completely agree. I returned to Boston after 10 years away and was floored by the transformation.<p>I see it as flushing away a huge amount of technical debt that we had incurred over the last 100 years, hopefully setting us up for modernization on many fronts - which is quite a big deal when you consider it&#x27;s competing to be a top tech hub.</text></comment> |
21,379,260 | 21,379,009 | 1 | 2 | 21,378,471 | train | <story><title>Alphabet in bid to buy Fitbit</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-fitbit-m-a-alphabet-exclusive/exclusive-google-owner-alphabet-in-bid-to-buy-fitbit-sources-idUSKBN1X71NY</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>atlasunshrugged</author><text>Something definitely has been off at Fitbit - I had their first device and then after swearing off smartwatches got a new Fitbit for Christmas. 10 months later I&#x27;m on my 3rd watch from them - the first one stopped taking a charge after a few months, the second one the screen went out in a week or two. I&#x27;m hoping the third time is the charm</text></item><item><author>MaximumMadness</author><text>Every person I&#x27;ve talked to over at Fitbit (pre-this news) has been down on the company. Sounds like they&#x27;ve had trouble effectively scaling software&#x2F;new hardware to the level of success that the initial device had.<p>While this could easily be another money sink for Google as they attempt to figure out some sort of Android wearable, it also has the potential to be an Instagram level-acquisition. Non-Apple wearables seem to be ripe for the picking</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AgloeDreams</author><text>Meanwhile try one, then try an older Apple watch, the Fitbit is straight up trash (with nicer battery life.) Fitbit UX is bad, and requires tons of interaction between the phone and watch and is remarkably hard to use, even switching watch faces requires digging multiple screens into the fitbit app and a 30+ second sync period, on the Apple watch this is known as &#x27;swiping right&#x27; or at worst, holding down and tapping &#x27;add new&#x27;.<p>The Pebble was worlds better at this, when I used the Versa I was surprised by it. It sells tons even though Wear OS is way ahead.</text></comment> | <story><title>Alphabet in bid to buy Fitbit</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-fitbit-m-a-alphabet-exclusive/exclusive-google-owner-alphabet-in-bid-to-buy-fitbit-sources-idUSKBN1X71NY</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>atlasunshrugged</author><text>Something definitely has been off at Fitbit - I had their first device and then after swearing off smartwatches got a new Fitbit for Christmas. 10 months later I&#x27;m on my 3rd watch from them - the first one stopped taking a charge after a few months, the second one the screen went out in a week or two. I&#x27;m hoping the third time is the charm</text></item><item><author>MaximumMadness</author><text>Every person I&#x27;ve talked to over at Fitbit (pre-this news) has been down on the company. Sounds like they&#x27;ve had trouble effectively scaling software&#x2F;new hardware to the level of success that the initial device had.<p>While this could easily be another money sink for Google as they attempt to figure out some sort of Android wearable, it also has the potential to be an Instagram level-acquisition. Non-Apple wearables seem to be ripe for the picking</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hobo_mark</author><text>Meanwhile my Pebble2 still holds a charge for a week after years or careless daily use...</text></comment> |
18,534,315 | 18,534,345 | 1 | 2 | 18,534,155 | train | <story><title>Amazon’s own ‘Machine Learning University’ now available to all developers</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/amazons-own-machine-learning-university-now-available-to-all-developers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>waynecochran</author><text>All that machine learning and they still send me reviews for products I haven’t received.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon’s own ‘Machine Learning University’ now available to all developers</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/amazons-own-machine-learning-university-now-available-to-all-developers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DEDLINE</author><text>I loved AMZN&#x27;s cloud certifications. Not a Data Scientist &#x2F; ML Developer, nor am I trying to be, but I love sitting for these exams as I believe the amount of study gives you enough credibility to have thoughtful conversations with specialists.<p>Looking forward to reading sentiment to see if the curriculum is industry relevant and worthwhile!</text></comment> |
11,909,805 | 11,909,245 | 1 | 2 | 11,908,704 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Bot to steer discussions from Slack to Discourse</title><url>https://medium.dgraph.io/wisemonk-a-slackbot-to-move-discussions-from-slack-to-discourse-22a53ddce78f#.5zv27u6mt</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Kratisto</author><text>Wow until about half way through the article I read Discourse as Discord, and it didn&#x27;t make any sense to me. Now that I understand, this seems like a pretty cool solution. I have been really loving both slack and discord for personal use. Unfortunately, my work use Skype for business. I have been pushing for a switch to slack.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Bot to steer discussions from Slack to Discourse</title><url>https://medium.dgraph.io/wisemonk-a-slackbot-to-move-discussions-from-slack-to-discourse-22a53ddce78f#.5zv27u6mt</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bhaak</author><text>&gt; Discourse has become such an integral part of our company that we abandoned making decisions in meetings entirely.<p>That&#x27;s really impressive and cool.<p>Being an old Usenet fart, I have some problems with Discoure&#x27;s linear discussion threads (I don&#x27;t have that problem with twitter&#x27;s similar structure though).<p>But I guess if you can keep people on topic and open up new threads for discussions that get side-tracked, it can be a really cool tool.</text></comment> |
33,695,508 | 33,695,097 | 1 | 2 | 33,693,646 | train | <story><title>NASA’s Orion spacecraft reaches the moon, flying 81 miles above the surface</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/21/orion-moon-orbit-arrives/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>areoform</author><text>There are some people saying that the onboard cameras are very bad and badly positioned. While the imagery is breathtaking to me, it&#x27;s just a tiny taste of what&#x27;s yet to come — most of the images&#x2F;videos haven&#x27;t been downlinked yet.<p>Orion is the most media consumption focused craft that NASA has ever sent out. There are 16 cameras on the mission, ranging from,<p><pre><code> — 7 COTS GoPro Hero 4 Black derived cameras that shoot video in, 4k&#x2F;30fps, 1080p&#x2F;120fps, 720p&#x2F;240fps. 4 of these are mounted on tips of the solar panel. Most of the pictures that you are seeing are from these cameras.
- Cameras around the service module and the Orion capsule that are (mostly, AFAICT) wired cameras derived from PixeLINK PL-D725, these shoot in color and B&amp;W, and record at 75fps on a single channel.
- 3 internal Cameras that are a part of Callisto a Lockheed Martin thing.
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On the ground, we&#x27;ve gotten used to fairly high bandwidth communications system, but Orion is using NASA&#x27;s Deep Space Network. There just isn&#x27;t enough bandwidth to downlink the kind of pristine imagery that people want.<p>We&#x27;ll have to wait until the capsule comes back home to watch all of the 4k video that this machine is capturing.<p>We have come a long way though, when the Apollo missions were going on, all they had were grainy TV broadcasts. They had to wait for weeks to get those gorgeous images out.</text></comment> | <story><title>NASA’s Orion spacecraft reaches the moon, flying 81 miles above the surface</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/21/orion-moon-orbit-arrives/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>geuis</author><text>One issue that I really don&#x27;t understand is why the onboard cameras are so bad and are badly positioned.<p>A huge part of this program is to generate buzz and interest in the public about the human space program. A large part of that is pretty pictures, to be honest.<p>The onboard video quality looks like 720p at best and the exposure is for the Orion vehicle, not Earth or the moon. And the video seems horizontally distorted.<p>I&#x27;d have to look, but I&#x27;m guessing this is an engineering camera meant to primarily view the physical state of the craft.<p>That being said, after billions of dollars to get this thing into space, they should have accounted for the need and benefits of better footage.</text></comment> |
3,262,917 | 3,262,979 | 1 | 2 | 3,261,863 | train | <story><title>Ask Sen. Wyden to read your name during his Protect IP filibuster</title><url>http://stopcensorship.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zheng</author><text>This is an honest question that I realize will seem very tin-foil hatty, but I can't seem to brush it off.<p>Does anyone ever worry that doing something like this (supplying your name, email, etc.) will come back to bite you later? Say, in 15 years if the American government by some twist outlaws decent. Does anyone worry that you might be persecuted?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>georgemcbay</author><text>If things ever get to the point where the US Government is actively rounding up people for having their name on a list because they oppose "Protect IP", I like to think I will be too busy actively revolting to worry about my name being on this list.<p>And I'm a tree-hugging, liberal hippie.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask Sen. Wyden to read your name during his Protect IP filibuster</title><url>http://stopcensorship.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zheng</author><text>This is an honest question that I realize will seem very tin-foil hatty, but I can't seem to brush it off.<p>Does anyone ever worry that doing something like this (supplying your name, email, etc.) will come back to bite you later? Say, in 15 years if the American government by some twist outlaws decent. Does anyone worry that you might be persecuted?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rosser</author><text>That would be an example of an <i>ex post facto</i> law — punishing behavior that occurred before such behavior was made criminal — the creation of which is explicitly forbidden to the Congress in Article 1, Section 9 (and to the States in Section 10) of the US Constitution.<p>That's not to say your name wouldn't end up on a list of people who should be watched for further seditious behavior or something, but I'm pretty sure that kind of thing already happens, and has been for a very long time, anyway.</text></comment> |
34,334,034 | 34,333,679 | 1 | 3 | 34,333,210 | train | <story><title>Crypto.com will delist Tether in Canada to comply with Ontario regulator</title><url>https://decrypt.co/118812/crypto-com-delist-tether-canada</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>polygamous_bat</author><text>I think people are underestimating the problems that a blanket Tether ban from North American markets would cause. You think a Tether ban would cause people to switch to USDC? Ok, but that means some Tether needs to vanish and some USDC needs to be created. How does that happen? Ideally, it goes from Tether -&gt; USD -&gt; USDC... and there lies the problem. We don&#x27;t know if there is enough USD in Tether&#x27;s coffer to redeem all the withdrawals. And if there is not, or even if there is a doubt about it, then it becomes a game where the last person to withdraw loses. How would that look for crypto in general? How would people react to USDC if they or someone they know just got burned by another stablecoin last week?</text></comment> | <story><title>Crypto.com will delist Tether in Canada to comply with Ontario regulator</title><url>https://decrypt.co/118812/crypto-com-delist-tether-canada</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cwkoss</author><text>I wonder how Tether getting broadly delisted would impact crypto prices.<p>Theoretically, its cash on the sidelines, so shouldn&#x27;t impact the price.<p>Increases the likelihood of tether imploding as withdrawals shrink the proportional size of any reserve issues. That could certainly create a lot of negative attention, raising fear and dropping price.<p>Practically, I think tethers are often cash set aside <i>for purchasing crypto</i> in the future, so I wonder if this will lead to a significant portion USDT converting into BTC and other cryptos to become more &#x27;liquid&#x27; in terms of transferability within the crypto banking system. (Not all exchanges people hold Tethers on are necessarily hooked up to their banking info for a wire transfer). Some might trade to BTC to move the value, which could increase price.<p>Who knows, will be interesting to see how it plays out if&#x2F;when it plays out.</text></comment> |
28,502,892 | 28,502,704 | 1 | 2 | 28,501,740 | train | <story><title>OpenAI Shuts Down Chatbot Project by Indie Developer</title><url>https://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/news/openai-chatbot-gpt-3-samantha-shut-down-dilute-jason-rohrer-possible-misuse-2537388</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Ansil849</author><text>&gt; OpenAI learned about the project and gave Rohrer the option to either dilute the project to prevent possible misuse or shut it down. Rohrer was also asked to insert an automated monitoring tool, which he refused.<p>Why is this article so vague, as are the Tweets by the project creator. What actually happened here, concretely?<p>What, specifically, did OpenAI want to &#x27;dilute&#x27; and how? What does the automated monitoring tool do? I expect a news article to explain these things.</text></comment> | <story><title>OpenAI Shuts Down Chatbot Project by Indie Developer</title><url>https://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/news/openai-chatbot-gpt-3-samantha-shut-down-dilute-jason-rohrer-possible-misuse-2537388</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jbuhbjlnjbn</author><text>I get the impression this story is warped quite a bit by the source Jason Rohrer.
If I understand correctly, the so called &quot;censorship&quot; were safety precautions for AI development.<p>The response of some posters seems to be to discard the safety topic alltogether as something &quot;old&quot;, that &quot;neanderthals&quot; do.<p>I think it is exactly those &quot;curious&quot; people AI research has to worry about most, who do not take the time to think about the consequences and possible outcomes of what they are doing.
Maybe a chatbot will not gain superpowers and take over the world, but it can surely do lots of other harm.
Then, when AI tech moves beyond narrow AI and includes more abilities, this will in fact lead to desaster, as the same careless people with the greatest &quot;curiosity&quot; will throw caution overboard as was the case with the narrow AI before...<p>It&#x27;s not a slippery slope, we are right in the territory AI safety researchers warn about for a decade now, write lengthy books about and try to create awareness for in the public and governments.</text></comment> |
37,206,028 | 37,206,115 | 1 | 3 | 37,205,053 | train | <story><title>FreeBSD replaces bubblesort with mergesort on SYSINTs</title><url>https://twitter.com/cperciva/status/1693127769901969772</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>srcreigh</author><text>Very OT, but I concur. I need a DSP for my car audio system. I considered a rpi3 with a DAC attachment.<p>I tried the raspbian OS with some moderate overclocking and removing unneeded startup processes. Couldn’t get it under 25 seconds for boot. Kind of a deal breaker (remote start unit could help, but…)<p>Apparently somebody can start the rpi3 in &lt;3 seconds. I’ll believe it when I try their image myself. Their setup disables USB and networking (maybe audio too who knows) which is a giant pain for configuring my system.<p>Maybe I’ll try again with an RPi 4 and usb3 nvme. or maybe I’ll just pay hundreds of dollars for a dedicated DSP unit.<p>In case anyone cares, my main use case is parametric EQ for phon adjusted low bass frequencies. 90dB 20Hz sounds as loud as 70dB 50Hz (give or take) and subwoofers are generally quieter at lower frequencies. Hence, audio processing unit to cut as you go higher than your lowest decently loud frequency.<p>The lowest cost option for this is about $230USD plus some electrical components (miniDSP 2x4HD). I figure the rpi would cost around $100 including the DAC unit, open source audio software, just need some power source to link the battery to the rpi power cord.<p>Edit: I don’t want to spam thanks comments for helpful replies, so I’ll just say it here (possibly in advance): thanks!!!</text></item><item><author>atmosx</author><text>There was an article about a Linux embedded system handling a car back-camera that had to boot within 3-5 seconds or something along those lines.</text></item><item><author>timmaxw</author><text>For people (like me) who are wondering why a kernel needs to boot in under 28ms: It&#x27;s for virtual machines that get launched on-demand in services like AWS Lambda. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.daemonology.net&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2022-10-18-FreeBSD-Firecracker.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.daemonology.net&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2022-10-18-FreeBSD-Firecrac...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JeffeFawkes</author><text>If you make your own buildroot image, you can get VERY quick boot times - here&#x27;s a random vid I found [1] with 3.5 seconds on a pi zero w (which is considerably less powerful than a Pi3.<p>I&#x27;ve worked with similarly underpowered boards (licheepi zero, only has 64mb ram and uses the cpu from a dashcam!) and those will still boot and start an SDL app in under five seconds.<p>If you can identify the bare minimum that you need for your EQ solution, you can probably get similar boot times.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ZehLyumyMvE">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ZehLyumyMvE</a></text></comment> | <story><title>FreeBSD replaces bubblesort with mergesort on SYSINTs</title><url>https://twitter.com/cperciva/status/1693127769901969772</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>srcreigh</author><text>Very OT, but I concur. I need a DSP for my car audio system. I considered a rpi3 with a DAC attachment.<p>I tried the raspbian OS with some moderate overclocking and removing unneeded startup processes. Couldn’t get it under 25 seconds for boot. Kind of a deal breaker (remote start unit could help, but…)<p>Apparently somebody can start the rpi3 in &lt;3 seconds. I’ll believe it when I try their image myself. Their setup disables USB and networking (maybe audio too who knows) which is a giant pain for configuring my system.<p>Maybe I’ll try again with an RPi 4 and usb3 nvme. or maybe I’ll just pay hundreds of dollars for a dedicated DSP unit.<p>In case anyone cares, my main use case is parametric EQ for phon adjusted low bass frequencies. 90dB 20Hz sounds as loud as 70dB 50Hz (give or take) and subwoofers are generally quieter at lower frequencies. Hence, audio processing unit to cut as you go higher than your lowest decently loud frequency.<p>The lowest cost option for this is about $230USD plus some electrical components (miniDSP 2x4HD). I figure the rpi would cost around $100 including the DAC unit, open source audio software, just need some power source to link the battery to the rpi power cord.<p>Edit: I don’t want to spam thanks comments for helpful replies, so I’ll just say it here (possibly in advance): thanks!!!</text></item><item><author>atmosx</author><text>There was an article about a Linux embedded system handling a car back-camera that had to boot within 3-5 seconds or something along those lines.</text></item><item><author>timmaxw</author><text>For people (like me) who are wondering why a kernel needs to boot in under 28ms: It&#x27;s for virtual machines that get launched on-demand in services like AWS Lambda. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.daemonology.net&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2022-10-18-FreeBSD-Firecracker.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.daemonology.net&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2022-10-18-FreeBSD-Firecrac...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>red0point</author><text>It doesn‘t always have to be a RPi, sometimes there is dedicated hardware for that use case that is also kinda cheap.<p>Check this thing out, it‘s a programmable audio DSP:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thomannmusic.ch&#x2F;the_t.racks_dsp_4x4_mini.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thomannmusic.ch&#x2F;the_t.racks_dsp_4x4_mini.htm</a></text></comment> |
38,735,659 | 38,735,402 | 1 | 3 | 38,734,909 | train | <story><title>The Hyperloop was always a scam</title><url>https://www.disconnect.blog/p/the-hyperloop-was-always-a-scam</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Closi</author><text>This (thunderf00t) is the same person that said that the Falcon 9 was a scam and a reusable rocket wasn&#x27;t going to work.<p>The defence of Musk is &quot;Musk has lots of ideas, and some worked out and some didn&#x27;t&quot;.</text></item><item><author>junon</author><text>Related thunderf00t videos: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;ZHjrFKfyZrw" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;ZHjrFKfyZrw</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;RNFesa01llk" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;RNFesa01llk</a><p>Those are for Elon&#x27;s; Virgin also has a hyperloop which he&#x27;s covered too: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;VrbstnzbhZA" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;VrbstnzbhZA</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;EeWcQf9QCmg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;EeWcQf9QCmg</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>preisschild</author><text>The fastest Falcon 9 turnaround time was still 54 days, the same as the fastest Space Shuttle refurbishment. Gwyne Shotwell herself said that it needs to come down to a few hours.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Hyperloop was always a scam</title><url>https://www.disconnect.blog/p/the-hyperloop-was-always-a-scam</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Closi</author><text>This (thunderf00t) is the same person that said that the Falcon 9 was a scam and a reusable rocket wasn&#x27;t going to work.<p>The defence of Musk is &quot;Musk has lots of ideas, and some worked out and some didn&#x27;t&quot;.</text></item><item><author>junon</author><text>Related thunderf00t videos: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;ZHjrFKfyZrw" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;ZHjrFKfyZrw</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;RNFesa01llk" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;RNFesa01llk</a><p>Those are for Elon&#x27;s; Virgin also has a hyperloop which he&#x27;s covered too: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;VrbstnzbhZA" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;VrbstnzbhZA</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;EeWcQf9QCmg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;EeWcQf9QCmg</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>x3n0ph3n3</author><text>I really appreciated thunderf00t for a long time and liked his debunking videos. There came a point where he had such a hard-on for hating Musk that he seemed to lose a lot of objectivity, particularly when it comes to SpaceX.</text></comment> |
1,638,299 | 1,637,999 | 1 | 2 | 1,637,862 | train | <story><title>"Don't argue with me. $100,000 is fair, and you know it."</title><url>http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Switcher.txt&characters=Steve%20Jobs&sortOrder=Sort%20by%20Rating&detail=medium</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>10ren</author><text>This story inspired me tonight: reading about how he didn't know if it would work or not, and how he fixed bugs as they arose is true hacking style. And it's definitely a way to get things done. So that's what I did tonight, and made a ton of progress; just hounding down and stomping on bugs mercilessly.<p>Why wasn't I doing that already? I'd been reading too much Dijkstra, that the "competent" programmer can show whether his code will work or not. It's definitely possible to do it that way, but it's (very sadly) too high a standard for me to reach in reasonable time (or maybe at all), for more than toy problems. Dijkstra used this approach to write a multitasking operating system. I'm pretty sure I couldn't do that.</text></comment> | <story><title>"Don't argue with me. $100,000 is fair, and you know it."</title><url>http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Switcher.txt&characters=Steve%20Jobs&sortOrder=Sort%20by%20Rating&detail=medium</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rodh257</author><text>"Well, I think you are. How long do you think it will take to do this project? A month or two? I think a really good programmer like you could get it done in less than two months."<p>In my limited experience negotiating on fees for programming or selling software I've heard this line a few times. "You seem like a really good programmer, that program probably would have only taken you say 2 days, times that by an average hourly rate and thats the rate I'm willing to pay for the program and all source code".<p>Always a sign for me that things aren't going to go well.</text></comment> |
3,038,628 | 3,038,619 | 1 | 3 | 3,038,264 | train | <story><title>One of the Best Bits of Programming Advice I ever Got</title><url>http://objology.blogspot.com/2011/09/one-of-best-bits-of-programming-advice.html?spref=tw</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mcherm</author><text>I am unconvinced. Any absolute deserves close scrutiny, and "real nouns only" is an absolute. In this case, it fails my test. I find that many things I work with (especially huge Java libraries) tend to have convoluted and difficult-to-understand webs of classes with the most confusing pieces named things like "FooManager" or "FooController". So the author of this piece is reacting to a genuine excess.<p>But Travis is overreacting. The REAL goal is to find a collection of abstractions that is powerful enough to accomplish what the program requires but as simple as possible (and as local as possible) to allow humans to comprehend (and maintain) it. There are quite a few times when I have found that one of these "verb-like" abstractions (a word ending in "-er") made things more comprehensible.<p>For example: the Gang-of-Four patterns "Builder" and "Observer" both end in "-er" and strike me as being well-named. "Builder" is an object with no purpose other than to create (initialize) another object or data structure. HAVING such an object is useful when something requires extensive setup or initialization, because it is easier to understand if the extensive initialization is kept separate from the core functionality. "Observer" is the name for an interface of things that observe... the names of interfaces FREQUENTLY work well as "verbs" since the interface frequently represents "anything that does X".<p>Similarly, I have often had a class such as "DatabaseConnection" and then created "DatabaseConnectionWrapper" -- a class whose purpose is to wrap a DatabaseConnection to do something like logging, error reporting, pool flushing, driver-bug-patching, and so forth. Suggestions that I call these "LoggingDatabaseConnection", "ErrorReportingDatabaseConnection" and so forth misses the key point: a different mix of features may be required at different times (eg: logging in QA but not in Prod); the fact that they are transparent wrappers that can be added (or not) in any order is a key feature of the design.<p>So my own advice would be weaker than Travis'. Instead of "Don't make objects that end with -er.", I would say "Be wary of confusing objects; those ending in -er are often confusing."</text></comment> | <story><title>One of the Best Bits of Programming Advice I ever Got</title><url>http://objology.blogspot.com/2011/09/one-of-best-bits-of-programming-advice.html?spref=tw</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ctdonath</author><text>Amazing how small linguistic changes can cause large semantic shifts.<p>Comparable to the post's rule: in English, a few rules I've picked up are<p>- avoid words ending in "ly" (suffix weakens concepts; suggestion from Stephen King)<p>- never start a sentence with "I" and otherwise minimize its use<p>- "but" negates everything that came before<p>- avoid "to be"<p>Any other such suggestions, in natural or artificial languages?</text></comment> |
2,134,809 | 2,134,638 | 1 | 3 | 2,134,542 | train | <story><title>The Inside Story of How Facebook Responded to Tunisian Hacks</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/01/the-inside-story-of-how-facebook-responded-to-tunisian-hacks/70044/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dansingerman</author><text>I have a bit of a problem with the description of the hack as "The software was basically a country-level keystroke logger"<p>I think this is unnecessary dumbing down.<p>For most readers who already knows what a keylogger is, it should be fairly obvious to them that this is not what they were doing.<p>For any reader who does not know what a keylogger is, describing the hack as being like a keylogger is not going to help them understand.<p>Furthermore, if you are in the demographic that know what a keylogger is, but can't see how that it is obvious that is not what was going on here, it just obscures what was really at play here: authenticating over (unencrypted) HTTP.<p>The writer probably did not want to make this a story about authenticating over HTTP, but misdescribing a central feature of the story is misleading.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Inside Story of How Facebook Responded to Tunisian Hacks</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/01/the-inside-story-of-how-facebook-responded-to-tunisian-hacks/70044/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Matt_Cutts</author><text>Good for Facebook. From the article, it sounds like they did two major things: 1) shift all Tunisian IP addresses to https instead of http. 2) anyone who logged out/in while the keylogger code was running was shown a social CAPTCHA. The CAPTCHA asks you to identify friends in photos.</text></comment> |
20,784,893 | 20,784,832 | 1 | 2 | 20,779,868 | train | <story><title>Software was eating the world – now landlords are eating everything</title><url>https://medium.com/@sbuss/software-was-eating-the-world-now-landlords-are-eating-everything-e21ba6802f54</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>beamatronic</author><text>Is it really still cool? So much of the authentic character has evaporated away, compared to the mid 90’s. I’m curious what people consider an authentic San Francisco experience in 2019.</text></item><item><author>Vadoff</author><text>People want to live in SF because it&#x27;s cool.<p>A lot of people who work at Facebook and Google would still rather live in SF and commute 2-3 hrs roundtrip each day rather than live in Menlo Park&#x2F;Mountain View (or surrounding cities).<p>Tech companies are going to start where the talent is, and a bulk of that talent want to live in SF.</text></item><item><author>xtiansimon</author><text>Maybe all the tech companies should leave SF for San Jose. It has an airport. And SJ isn’t so precious about it’s history.</text></item><item><author>thorwasdfasdf</author><text>This is a very good point that I wish would get more attention: &quot;Politics is an organizational problem, not a technological one.&quot;, &quot;If we want to lower the cost of living, the cost of housing, the cost of doing business in the Bay Area, tech must get involved in politics.&quot;<p>People don&#x27;t realize how conservative SF is: &quot;The most innovative solutions don’t matter when your government has been captured by interests that want to freeze the city in amber&quot; SF won&#x27;t even allow companies to put more buses on the road (something that would benefit everyone!)<p>This was news to me: &quot;Support for More HOMES in San Francisco was even stronger, at 74%. Despite this popular support, every member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to oppose More HOMES, except for Asha Safai and Vallie Brown &quot; It seems that politics in SF doesn&#x27;t represent the majority view.<p>This is part of a much larger set of problems. As we continue into the future all the tech problems get solved or already have been solved. What we&#x27;re left with is all the problems that can&#x27;t be solved: those are all political. There will come a day when instead of starting software companies, we&#x27;ll be starting companies that solve political problems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lozaning</author><text>Even if SF exists purely as a simulacra of it&#x27;s past, cool self, it&#x27;s still leagues ahead anything offered in the south bay.<p>I lived in cupertiuno for 2 years and you could cut off all my fingers and I could still count how many times my friends that live in the city would rain CalTrain south to come visit me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Software was eating the world – now landlords are eating everything</title><url>https://medium.com/@sbuss/software-was-eating-the-world-now-landlords-are-eating-everything-e21ba6802f54</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>beamatronic</author><text>Is it really still cool? So much of the authentic character has evaporated away, compared to the mid 90’s. I’m curious what people consider an authentic San Francisco experience in 2019.</text></item><item><author>Vadoff</author><text>People want to live in SF because it&#x27;s cool.<p>A lot of people who work at Facebook and Google would still rather live in SF and commute 2-3 hrs roundtrip each day rather than live in Menlo Park&#x2F;Mountain View (or surrounding cities).<p>Tech companies are going to start where the talent is, and a bulk of that talent want to live in SF.</text></item><item><author>xtiansimon</author><text>Maybe all the tech companies should leave SF for San Jose. It has an airport. And SJ isn’t so precious about it’s history.</text></item><item><author>thorwasdfasdf</author><text>This is a very good point that I wish would get more attention: &quot;Politics is an organizational problem, not a technological one.&quot;, &quot;If we want to lower the cost of living, the cost of housing, the cost of doing business in the Bay Area, tech must get involved in politics.&quot;<p>People don&#x27;t realize how conservative SF is: &quot;The most innovative solutions don’t matter when your government has been captured by interests that want to freeze the city in amber&quot; SF won&#x27;t even allow companies to put more buses on the road (something that would benefit everyone!)<p>This was news to me: &quot;Support for More HOMES in San Francisco was even stronger, at 74%. Despite this popular support, every member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to oppose More HOMES, except for Asha Safai and Vallie Brown &quot; It seems that politics in SF doesn&#x27;t represent the majority view.<p>This is part of a much larger set of problems. As we continue into the future all the tech problems get solved or already have been solved. What we&#x27;re left with is all the problems that can&#x27;t be solved: those are all political. There will come a day when instead of starting software companies, we&#x27;ll be starting companies that solve political problems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flyinglizard</author><text>Market Street circa 6th to 3rd, thanks for asking.
What kind of a dysfunctional municipal administration allows this and for what reason?</text></comment> |
38,119,412 | 38,119,366 | 1 | 2 | 38,117,795 | train | <story><title>Google Adsense is transitioning to per-impression payments for publishers</title><url>https://blog.google/products/adsense/evolving-how-publishers-monetize-with-adsense/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>GoRudy</author><text>Google&#x27;s premium ad network for professional publishers is AdX which is run via the google ad manager product and has been on a CPM basis for over a decade. Only small sites are on adsense which pays CPC.<p>The net change here is probably almost nothing, just the smaller sites that never use google ad manager will see the change but any publisher of note will have been operating with this for as long as they can remember.<p>With click through rates continuing to decrease it&#x27;s likely they needed to make this change to keep the long tail sites happy and generating some revenue, they would back out the CPC to an effective CPM anyway.<p>Me:13+ years in digital publishing and advertising.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Adsense is transitioning to per-impression payments for publishers</title><url>https://blog.google/products/adsense/evolving-how-publishers-monetize-with-adsense/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JohnMakin</author><text>&gt; For years, AdSense has been transparent about the fee we charge for our service, which is consistent with industry rates. When publishers have chosen to use AdSense to monetize their content, they have kept 68% of the revenue.<p>Unless, of course, when you go to cash out you run into their absurd KYC that will arbitrarily get rejected (you only get 1 chance), or they cancel your account for <i>reasons,</i> and there is absolutely no recourse.<p>They are happy taking your business before that though, of course.</text></comment> |
29,239,256 | 29,239,208 | 1 | 3 | 29,238,700 | train | <story><title>Python: Please stop screwing over Linux distros</title><url>https://drewdevault.com/2021/11/16/Python-stop-screwing-distros-over.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danieldk</author><text>And yet, other languages ship package managers [1] that are widely loved within their ecosystems and cover everything from microcontrollers to server applications.<p>I think what it makes it more difficult in the case of Python is that it has decades of legacy to deal with. No consistent semantic versioning, packages that expect that they can modify their package path in-place (this is a nightmare for immutable systems, like NixOS or OSTree-based system like Silverblue), a wide variety of build systems that sometimes hook into <i>make</i>, etc. Solving this is a hard problem.<p>This is why an authority like PSF has to step in and say: this is how it is going to be done from here onwards.<p>[1] E.g. Rust&#x27;s Cargo.</text></item><item><author>mangecoeur</author><text>Everyone complained, no one addressed the fact that for years the whole of python packaging was handled by like 2.5 people.<p>But as a rant this, like most of the ‘but just fix it’ rants, fails to acknowledge the hugely diverging needs of different users. I could not live without conda, since it’s the only sane way to get a working recent geospatial stack. Others need to run embedded environments, or portable ones, some need long term stability while others need bleeding edge packages that haven’t been released yet. Solving for a single case is straightforward; solving for all of them , not so much.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>uranusjr</author><text>Rust has and “advantage” here that it’s not generally shipped with your distro’s package manager. I think my biggest problem with this article is that the distros put Python there in the first place, and all of them apply patches to make Python work how they want it. And when it doesn’t work, it’s Python’s fault…? I mean yeah Python can definitely do something to make distributing Python easier, but it can only do so much without distros’ direct involvement.<p>I’ll add that most of Linux distro packaging contributors are generally very nice people, understand the problem at hand, and are very open to collaboration. But sometimes you see this kind of “it’s all your fault” complaints and it’s doing exactly the opposite of helping the cause.</text></comment> | <story><title>Python: Please stop screwing over Linux distros</title><url>https://drewdevault.com/2021/11/16/Python-stop-screwing-distros-over.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danieldk</author><text>And yet, other languages ship package managers [1] that are widely loved within their ecosystems and cover everything from microcontrollers to server applications.<p>I think what it makes it more difficult in the case of Python is that it has decades of legacy to deal with. No consistent semantic versioning, packages that expect that they can modify their package path in-place (this is a nightmare for immutable systems, like NixOS or OSTree-based system like Silverblue), a wide variety of build systems that sometimes hook into <i>make</i>, etc. Solving this is a hard problem.<p>This is why an authority like PSF has to step in and say: this is how it is going to be done from here onwards.<p>[1] E.g. Rust&#x27;s Cargo.</text></item><item><author>mangecoeur</author><text>Everyone complained, no one addressed the fact that for years the whole of python packaging was handled by like 2.5 people.<p>But as a rant this, like most of the ‘but just fix it’ rants, fails to acknowledge the hugely diverging needs of different users. I could not live without conda, since it’s the only sane way to get a working recent geospatial stack. Others need to run embedded environments, or portable ones, some need long term stability while others need bleeding edge packages that haven’t been released yet. Solving for a single case is straightforward; solving for all of them , not so much.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>__float</author><text>Is it fair to compare an interpreted language and its package manager to Rust and Cargo? Python packages ship their source (in most cases), depend on a locally installed interpreter (with semantics possibly changing by version).<p>Yes, Python packages often make poor assumptions about what setup.py can do (i.e., _anything_), and so you end up choosing between &quot;tested, supported by the author, and old&quot; or &quot;untested, unsupported, but up to date&quot;.</text></comment> |
8,048,555 | 8,048,354 | 1 | 3 | 8,048,083 | train | <story><title>Malaysia B772 has crashed near Donetsk</title><url>http://avherald.com/h?article=47770f9d&opt=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>k-mcgrady</author><text>Some interesting info on the speculation it was shot down:<p>A defence expert has told the BBC that shooting down a plane at 10,000m (9.7 miles) would have required a long- range surface-to-air missile - possibly guided by radar.<p>That suggests it is unlikely it could have been downed by a portable air defence missile, or Manpad, which has a much shorter range.<p>The only other possibility is for an aircraft at that height to be downed by a fighter carrying air-to-air missiles.<p>The US will have access to satellite imagery that should be able to identify ultra-violet plumes if a long-range surface-to-air missile was fired.<p>Source: <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28354856" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-europe-28354856</a><p>Edit:<p>Amateur video reportedly showing aftermath of the crash (from a distance):<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/jul/17/malaysia-airlines-flight-mh17-crashes-ukraine-video" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;video&#x2F;2014&#x2F;jul&#x2F;17&#x2F;malaysia-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>austenallred</author><text>Our startup lets you track the event in real-time, and has thousands of people actively confirming and refuting content as to its validity. There is <i>a lot</i> of fake info floating around on Twitter (and even some mainstream media organizations), so act with caution. <a href="http://grasswire.com/#/newsfeeds/1e4b388a-8ea7-461d-8acf-ba171941eb12" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;grasswire.com&#x2F;#&#x2F;newsfeeds&#x2F;1e4b388a-8ea7-461d-8acf-ba1...</a><p>Confirmed: Malaysia Airlines confirms it has lost contact with #MH17 from Amsterdam. Last known position over Ukraine. Was shot down, all passengers dead.<p>The pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine deny shooting it down, and are blaming the Ukrainian armed forces.<p>The Ukraine Defense Ministries claim it was shot down by a BUK missile, which the separatists <i>do</i> have, and it would reach. We also have this interesting translation of Ukraine rebel leader’s VKontakte (Facebook) post regarding another downed airplane: <a href="http://pastie.org/9400258" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pastie.org&#x2F;9400258</a>. (I translated it, so forgive me for any inaccuracy).</text></comment> | <story><title>Malaysia B772 has crashed near Donetsk</title><url>http://avherald.com/h?article=47770f9d&opt=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>k-mcgrady</author><text>Some interesting info on the speculation it was shot down:<p>A defence expert has told the BBC that shooting down a plane at 10,000m (9.7 miles) would have required a long- range surface-to-air missile - possibly guided by radar.<p>That suggests it is unlikely it could have been downed by a portable air defence missile, or Manpad, which has a much shorter range.<p>The only other possibility is for an aircraft at that height to be downed by a fighter carrying air-to-air missiles.<p>The US will have access to satellite imagery that should be able to identify ultra-violet plumes if a long-range surface-to-air missile was fired.<p>Source: <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28354856" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-europe-28354856</a><p>Edit:<p>Amateur video reportedly showing aftermath of the crash (from a distance):<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/jul/17/malaysia-airlines-flight-mh17-crashes-ukraine-video" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;video&#x2F;2014&#x2F;jul&#x2F;17&#x2F;malaysia-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smoorman1024</author><text>Alternate speculation<p><a href="http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_06_29/Donetsk-militia-takes-control-of-Ukrainian-anti-air-installation-1561/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;voiceofrussia.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2014_06_29&#x2F;Donetsk-militia-tak...</a><p>Air-To-Air Missile seems highly unlikely.<p>Rumors abound that Militia groups were bragging about downing a Ukrainian Transport<p><a href="http://itar-tass.com/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama/1325017" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;itar-tass.com&#x2F;mezhdunarodnaya-panorama&#x2F;1325017</a><p>Take everything with a grain of salt!</text></comment> |
14,950,203 | 14,949,605 | 1 | 2 | 14,947,361 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Is the stock market going to crash?</title><url>https://isthestockmarketgoingtocrash.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PDoyle</author><text>Wow, really interesting read. Thanks for the link.<p>Only trouble is that once people find patterns like this, they have a habit of disappearing. Hopefully this one is based on solid enough fundamental market forces that it persists after its publication. It was published in 2013 so we won&#x27;t know for sure until after 2023.</text></item><item><author>pdog</author><text>If you&#x27;re looking for The Single Greatest Predictor of Future Stock Market Returns[1], here it is: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.philosophicaleconomics.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;12&#x2F;the-single-greatest-predictor-of-future-stock-market-returns&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.philosophicaleconomics.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;12&#x2F;the-single-gre...</a><p>This is a long read, but it&#x27;s worth it. The metric can be calculated in FRED[2], and as a predictor of future returns, it outperforms all of the most common stock market valuation metrics, including cyclically-adjusted price-earnings (CAPE) ratio[3]. (Basically, the average investor portfolio allocation to equities versus bonds and cash is inversely correlated with future returns over the long-term. This works better than pure valuation models because it accounts for supply and demand dynamics.)<p>[1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.philosophicaleconomics.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;12&#x2F;the-single-greatest-predictor-of-future-stock-market-returns&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.philosophicaleconomics.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;12&#x2F;the-single-gre...</a><p>[2]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;fred2&#x2F;graph&#x2F;?g=qis" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;fred2&#x2F;graph&#x2F;?g=qis</a><p>[3]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.multpl.com&#x2F;shiller-pe&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.multpl.com&#x2F;shiller-pe&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>babaganoosh89</author><text>I actually made an automatically updating chart for this using FRED data: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;financial-charts.effingapp.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;financial-charts.effingapp.com</a><p>TLDR: The correlation did go down a bit since publishing but still seems alright.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Is the stock market going to crash?</title><url>https://isthestockmarketgoingtocrash.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PDoyle</author><text>Wow, really interesting read. Thanks for the link.<p>Only trouble is that once people find patterns like this, they have a habit of disappearing. Hopefully this one is based on solid enough fundamental market forces that it persists after its publication. It was published in 2013 so we won&#x27;t know for sure until after 2023.</text></item><item><author>pdog</author><text>If you&#x27;re looking for The Single Greatest Predictor of Future Stock Market Returns[1], here it is: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.philosophicaleconomics.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;12&#x2F;the-single-greatest-predictor-of-future-stock-market-returns&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.philosophicaleconomics.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;12&#x2F;the-single-gre...</a><p>This is a long read, but it&#x27;s worth it. The metric can be calculated in FRED[2], and as a predictor of future returns, it outperforms all of the most common stock market valuation metrics, including cyclically-adjusted price-earnings (CAPE) ratio[3]. (Basically, the average investor portfolio allocation to equities versus bonds and cash is inversely correlated with future returns over the long-term. This works better than pure valuation models because it accounts for supply and demand dynamics.)<p>[1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.philosophicaleconomics.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;12&#x2F;the-single-greatest-predictor-of-future-stock-market-returns&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.philosophicaleconomics.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;12&#x2F;the-single-gre...</a><p>[2]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;fred2&#x2F;graph&#x2F;?g=qis" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;fred2&#x2F;graph&#x2F;?g=qis</a><p>[3]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.multpl.com&#x2F;shiller-pe&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.multpl.com&#x2F;shiller-pe&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seanmcdirmid</author><text>&gt; Only trouble is that once people find patterns like this, they have a habit of disappearing.<p>It took me a few seconds to figure out that you meant the patterns and not the people as the targets for disappearing.</text></comment> |
14,374,285 | 14,374,269 | 1 | 3 | 14,373,783 | train | <story><title>AAC Licensors</title><url>http://www.via-corp.com/us/en/licensing/aac/licensors.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whyleyc</author><text>Except Fraunhofer did not promote MP3 as “dead&quot;. They put out a press release announcing the &quot;termination&quot; of various MP3-related patents[1].<p>As Marco noted[2] news orgs took that original announcement and twisted it into a &quot;creators announce MP3 is dead&quot; story, presumably because there are more clicks to be had there than a story about patent expirations.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iis.fraunhofer.de&#x2F;en&#x2F;ff&#x2F;amm&#x2F;prod&#x2F;audiocodec&#x2F;audiocodecs&#x2F;mp3.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iis.fraunhofer.de&#x2F;en&#x2F;ff&#x2F;amm&#x2F;prod&#x2F;audiocodec&#x2F;audi...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marco.org&#x2F;2017&#x2F;05&#x2F;15&#x2F;mp3-isnt-dead" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marco.org&#x2F;2017&#x2F;05&#x2F;15&#x2F;mp3-isnt-dead</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>msravi</author><text>The press release from Fraunhofer is extremely misleading:<p>&gt; mp3 licensing program for certain mp3 related patents and software of Technicolor and Fraunhofer IIS has been terminated<p>This gives the impression that the patents are valid but will no longer be available for licensing, and you can&#x27;t buy licensing rights to build your mp3 player - in reality, the patents expired, making them free.<p>&gt; ...there are more efficient audio codecs with advanced features available today<p>Assert that mp3 is dead today<p>&gt; However, most state-of-the-art media services such as streaming or TV and radio broadcasting use modern ISO-MPEG codecs such as the AAC family or in the future MPEG-H. Those can deliver more features and a higher audio quality at much lower bitrates compared to mp3<p>Reiterate that mp3 is dead today<p>I&#x27;m not surprised that the media took this as &quot;mp3 is dead&quot; and ran with it. The blame lies as much with Fraunhofer for their misleading statements as with the rest of the media.</text></comment> | <story><title>AAC Licensors</title><url>http://www.via-corp.com/us/en/licensing/aac/licensors.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whyleyc</author><text>Except Fraunhofer did not promote MP3 as “dead&quot;. They put out a press release announcing the &quot;termination&quot; of various MP3-related patents[1].<p>As Marco noted[2] news orgs took that original announcement and twisted it into a &quot;creators announce MP3 is dead&quot; story, presumably because there are more clicks to be had there than a story about patent expirations.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iis.fraunhofer.de&#x2F;en&#x2F;ff&#x2F;amm&#x2F;prod&#x2F;audiocodec&#x2F;audiocodecs&#x2F;mp3.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iis.fraunhofer.de&#x2F;en&#x2F;ff&#x2F;amm&#x2F;prod&#x2F;audiocodec&#x2F;audi...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marco.org&#x2F;2017&#x2F;05&#x2F;15&#x2F;mp3-isnt-dead" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marco.org&#x2F;2017&#x2F;05&#x2F;15&#x2F;mp3-isnt-dead</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arrrg</author><text>Exactly, Fraunhofer is blameless in this. They did in no way even suggest that MP3 was dead. Maybe the press release was a bit lacking in detail so that complete doofuses with no knowledge of the matter could misinterpret it, but that’s more on them.</text></comment> |
838,345 | 838,173 | 1 | 2 | 837,842 | train | <story><title>Persuade xor Discover</title><url>http://paulgraham.com/discover.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tsally</author><text>I've never met Arrington, so whether he's nice or not doesn't really apply to me. I also don't own a startup, so there's no conflict there. My personal beef is that TechCrunch is a 'serious journalistic entity' when they get documents leaked to them, but the second people start trying to hold them to the standard of real journalism suddenly it a blog. It's difficult to pinpoint, but there's something two-faced about TechCrunch that I don't like. It's some combination of the sensationalism, exaggeration, and in some cases outright fabrication that really get to me. Since Arrington is the founder and figurehead of TechCrunch, my feelings about the blog naturally extend to him.<p>The fact that page views and advertising revenue are the ultimate goals is fine. I applaud TechCrunch and Arrington for being successful. That doesn't mean I have to like their methods. Google was successful through technical merit. They never did anything flashy and eventually won because they were better. I'd like to see a startup blog succeed because of journalistic merit, instead of link-bait headlines and baseless speculation. TechCrunch has its gems to be sure, but there's too much garbage there for me.<p>An example for your consideration:<p><a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/22/the-secret-strategies-behind-many-viral-videos" rel="nofollow">http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/22/the-secret-strategies-b...</a><p>For those too lazy to read, it's an article about making viral videos. Some choice advice: <i>"Content is NOT King, Make it short, Make it shocking, Use fake headlines, Appeal to sex"</i>. It also goes on to tell you how to spam yourself to the Most Viewed page on Youtube. Arrington is the founder and an editor, so either himself or someone he appointed approved this article for publication. That's why I don't like Arrington.<p>Perhaps the reason why people don't hate Paul like they hate Arrington is because Paul has produced things of value? Hell, having the PDF of <i>On Lisp</i> online available for free is more valuable than the aggregate of TechCrunch's entire publication history.<p>EDIT: Hate is a strong word. If you hate anyone over the internet for any reason, that's pretty stupid. Dislike is what I was getting at.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pg</author><text>"I've never met Arrington, so whether he's nice or not doesn't really apply to me."<p>Sure it does, if you've read his articles. Obviously most of the people who complain about him in comment threads have not met him in person. The reason they dislike him is that he uses the same un-ingratiating style in his articles.<p>When he reports something he's heard, he just reports it, without the usual boilerplate disclaimers that it's just a rumor, or pro forma protestations about how he hopes it's not true, or most dishonest of all, waiting for someone else to cover it, and then covering that coverage. This sort of sanctimoniousness is so universal in established media that it seems shocking when someone just skips it.<p>Speaking of intellectual honesty, it seems hypocritical to me that you're willing to accuse TechCrunch of "outright fabrication" and "baseless speculation" and the best evidence you can produce is a 2 year old guest post by a Stanford student.<p>If you have any examples of "outright fabrication," let's see them.</text></comment> | <story><title>Persuade xor Discover</title><url>http://paulgraham.com/discover.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tsally</author><text>I've never met Arrington, so whether he's nice or not doesn't really apply to me. I also don't own a startup, so there's no conflict there. My personal beef is that TechCrunch is a 'serious journalistic entity' when they get documents leaked to them, but the second people start trying to hold them to the standard of real journalism suddenly it a blog. It's difficult to pinpoint, but there's something two-faced about TechCrunch that I don't like. It's some combination of the sensationalism, exaggeration, and in some cases outright fabrication that really get to me. Since Arrington is the founder and figurehead of TechCrunch, my feelings about the blog naturally extend to him.<p>The fact that page views and advertising revenue are the ultimate goals is fine. I applaud TechCrunch and Arrington for being successful. That doesn't mean I have to like their methods. Google was successful through technical merit. They never did anything flashy and eventually won because they were better. I'd like to see a startup blog succeed because of journalistic merit, instead of link-bait headlines and baseless speculation. TechCrunch has its gems to be sure, but there's too much garbage there for me.<p>An example for your consideration:<p><a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/22/the-secret-strategies-behind-many-viral-videos" rel="nofollow">http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/22/the-secret-strategies-b...</a><p>For those too lazy to read, it's an article about making viral videos. Some choice advice: <i>"Content is NOT King, Make it short, Make it shocking, Use fake headlines, Appeal to sex"</i>. It also goes on to tell you how to spam yourself to the Most Viewed page on Youtube. Arrington is the founder and an editor, so either himself or someone he appointed approved this article for publication. That's why I don't like Arrington.<p>Perhaps the reason why people don't hate Paul like they hate Arrington is because Paul has produced things of value? Hell, having the PDF of <i>On Lisp</i> online available for free is more valuable than the aggregate of TechCrunch's entire publication history.<p>EDIT: Hate is a strong word. If you hate anyone over the internet for any reason, that's pretty stupid. Dislike is what I was getting at.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattmaroon</author><text>I agree with you on the general principle about TechCrunch having far too low standards, but that article you linked was incredibly useful. It gave significant insight on how to game a system that can be very lucrative, from someone who has done it. It highlights the flaws in YouTubes counts and display methods that can be taken advantage of.<p>That's actually the sort of thing I want to see on a blog or in a tech-focused newspaper. I could totally see that being a Wired Article (though copy-edited to be less like a how-to and more like a story).</text></comment> |
17,084,740 | 17,084,811 | 1 | 2 | 17,083,224 | train | <story><title>Browser extension that strips Google Analytics tokens from URL query strings</title><url>https://github.com/jparise/chrome-utm-stripper</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>emgee_1</author><text>Marketing is evil.<p>It is lying on a massive scale.<p>If I want something I’ m go to look for it not the other way around.<p>If you track me I will dispise you and will root you out. Sort of &#x2F;r</text></item><item><author>annabellish</author><text>&gt;Marketing is not evil. It&#x27;s how the world works. You need to market something to be able to sell it.<p>Tracking of all kinds aren&#x27;t inherently evil. If companies didn&#x27;t abuse the various ways they tell us are &quot;how the world works&quot;, then nobody would ever have needed tracking or ad blockers.<p>Reality is that no matter how often marketing departments tell us that marketing is vital to the future of the species, people are generally running pretty short on goodwill in these areas. The responsible actors, if there are any, are swimming in a poisoned pond.</text></item><item><author>pastullo</author><text>Why do you need this? Is it because you are paranoid of being tracked?<p>UTMs offer a transparent, honest way of tracking where a user is coming from. This is super important for any company that runs multiple channel marketing.<p>Making impossible for company to track their marketing effort doesn&#x27;t protect your privacy. It just makes it tougher for companies to manage their marketing spending.<p>Marketing is not evil. It&#x27;s how the world works. You need to market something to be able to sell it.<p>I feel there is a paranoia about being tracked and privacy, where anything that is somehow tracking, is evil and must be stopped.<p>UTMs parameters are absolutely harmless and stripping them away offer no privacy benefit whatsoever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kbenson</author><text>&gt; Marketing is evil. ... It is lying on a massive scale.<p>&quot;Marketing&quot; spans a very large area of activity. At one end, it&#x27;s the signage in front of a store, or even on the door, that tells you what the place is.<p>You probably aren&#x27;t trying to insinuate that store signage (or the online equivalent, a domain name), is evil, but that&#x27;s essentially what you&#x27;re saying by being so broad. That doesn&#x27;t help the argument, doesn&#x27;t help you, and doesn&#x27;t result in useful discussion, so it&#x27;s probably worth being a bit more concise.</text></comment> | <story><title>Browser extension that strips Google Analytics tokens from URL query strings</title><url>https://github.com/jparise/chrome-utm-stripper</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>emgee_1</author><text>Marketing is evil.<p>It is lying on a massive scale.<p>If I want something I’ m go to look for it not the other way around.<p>If you track me I will dispise you and will root you out. Sort of &#x2F;r</text></item><item><author>annabellish</author><text>&gt;Marketing is not evil. It&#x27;s how the world works. You need to market something to be able to sell it.<p>Tracking of all kinds aren&#x27;t inherently evil. If companies didn&#x27;t abuse the various ways they tell us are &quot;how the world works&quot;, then nobody would ever have needed tracking or ad blockers.<p>Reality is that no matter how often marketing departments tell us that marketing is vital to the future of the species, people are generally running pretty short on goodwill in these areas. The responsible actors, if there are any, are swimming in a poisoned pond.</text></item><item><author>pastullo</author><text>Why do you need this? Is it because you are paranoid of being tracked?<p>UTMs offer a transparent, honest way of tracking where a user is coming from. This is super important for any company that runs multiple channel marketing.<p>Making impossible for company to track their marketing effort doesn&#x27;t protect your privacy. It just makes it tougher for companies to manage their marketing spending.<p>Marketing is not evil. It&#x27;s how the world works. You need to market something to be able to sell it.<p>I feel there is a paranoia about being tracked and privacy, where anything that is somehow tracking, is evil and must be stopped.<p>UTMs parameters are absolutely harmless and stripping them away offer no privacy benefit whatsoever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>annabellish</author><text>Marketing isn&#x27;t _intrinsically_ evil. If you buy widget A from FooCorp, but wish it had some piece of functionality it didn&#x27;t and make a post on their feature request tracker saying you wished it had that functionality and then, upon the release of widget B they email you telling you they&#x27;ve released that and it does that thing you wanted, then that&#x27;s a) marketing, and b) not evil.<p>Not only is it not evil, it&#x27;s a targeted ad! You were _tracked_ to produce that ad!<p>In reality, that isn&#x27;t how a good 90% of marketing really works. Instead, you got an unsolicited letter about widget 1 from a different company who bought your data from FooCorp, and widget 1 doesn&#x27;t even do what you want, and because you don&#x27;t buy it they sell your data to even more unscrupulous companies to get some return from their purchase.<p>I think it&#x27;s important to recognise, though, that this didn&#x27;t happen because marketing is evil. If everybody had just stuck to ethical forms of marketing then everyone would be better off, and we wouldn&#x27;t need extensions like this which do screw things up for the people trying to be ethical.<p>It&#x27;s just like ads: You can do ads well, and we _didn&#x27;t_, and now good ads need to be thrown in the trash alongside everything else. The next thing we try and do we should _remember_ these common stories, and maybe next time we can be a bit more ethical and not poison our own well.</text></comment> |
16,914,407 | 16,914,091 | 1 | 2 | 16,913,514 | train | <story><title>Chart of the Milky Way Includes More Than 1B Stars</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stellar-effort-chart-of-the-milky-way-includes-more-than-1-billion-stars/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>binalpatel</author><text>I love thinking about the sheer scale of it all. This is a billion stars of the ~200-400 billion stars in our galaxy. The Andromeda Galaxy (the closest to us) has ~1 trillion stars.<p>There&#x27;s an estimated 100 billion planets in the Milky Way alone, and who knows how many in the Andromeda galaxy.<p>There could be another satellite somewhere in this galaxy charting space just like this and we&#x27;d just be a bright dot to them among billions of other bright dots.</text></comment> | <story><title>Chart of the Milky Way Includes More Than 1B Stars</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stellar-effort-chart-of-the-milky-way-includes-more-than-1-billion-stars/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sunsunsunsun</author><text>Since the article seemed to neglect actually linking to the data, it is publicly available here:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gea.esac.esa.int&#x2F;archive&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gea.esac.esa.int&#x2F;archive&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
35,706,367 | 35,706,322 | 1 | 2 | 35,706,005 | train | <story><title>Google announces Q1 2023 earnings [pdf]</title><url>https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2023Q1_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alexb_</author><text>Cloud turning a profit is a good thing, and makes sense. But cloud is also a super competitive market - not so for Search or Ads. Those two feel like the places Google can rely on money coming from - revenue falling for those is worrying!</text></item><item><author>Crash0v3rid3</author><text>Disagree.<p>The market is reacting to Cloud turning a profit for the first time, and faster than expected.</text></item><item><author>alexb_</author><text>More importantly, it announces a 70 billion dollar stock buyback. That&#x27;s what the market is reacting to.<p>Interestingly enough, it looks like everything except cloud grew at a rate less than inflation.<p>Ad revenue is falling. What implications does this have for internet companies reliant on the assumption advertising revenue will be going up forever?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Vt71fcAqt7</author><text>I would question just how competitive cloud is. Companies with banks worth of cash and an existing army of technical knowhow are few and far between. The only companies that could enter the market right now are facebook and Apple.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google announces Q1 2023 earnings [pdf]</title><url>https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2023Q1_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alexb_</author><text>Cloud turning a profit is a good thing, and makes sense. But cloud is also a super competitive market - not so for Search or Ads. Those two feel like the places Google can rely on money coming from - revenue falling for those is worrying!</text></item><item><author>Crash0v3rid3</author><text>Disagree.<p>The market is reacting to Cloud turning a profit for the first time, and faster than expected.</text></item><item><author>alexb_</author><text>More importantly, it announces a 70 billion dollar stock buyback. That&#x27;s what the market is reacting to.<p>Interestingly enough, it looks like everything except cloud grew at a rate less than inflation.<p>Ad revenue is falling. What implications does this have for internet companies reliant on the assumption advertising revenue will be going up forever?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Andys</author><text>If its so competitive, why are profit margins so high? I understand AWS is at nearly 30%.</text></comment> |
18,555,849 | 18,555,702 | 1 | 3 | 18,554,333 | train | <story><title>Dot Dot Considered Harmful</title><url>https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/docs/+/HEAD/the-book/dotdot.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>delinka</author><text>&gt;If a handle is provided to a directory, it should imply access to resources within that directory (and additionally, their subdirectories).<p>Maybe within Fuschia, but not in my UNIXy systems. All users on a system need r-x on &#x2F;Users, but that doesn&#x27;t give them r-x on every user&#x27;s home directory located as a subdirectoy of &#x2F;Users - a handle acquired by bob to &#x2F;Users does not imply access to &#x2F;Users&#x2F;delinka.<p>Further, if your process is treating &#x27;..&#x27; as a subdirectory, you&#x27;re doing it wrong. Paths must be normalized (e.g. ~ expanded, . and .. resolved) before requesting a handle via absolute path.<p>Lastly, this document reads as if knowing a full path grants access to that path and its subdirectories. If that&#x27;s the case ... oy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wahern</author><text>&gt; Further, if your process is treating &#x27;..&#x27; as a subdirectory, you&#x27;re doing it wrong. Paths must be normalized (e.g. ~ expanded, . and .. resolved) before requesting a handle via absolute path.<p>&quot;..&quot; is required for atomic traversal (similar to symlinks), which is important in some situations, such as making sure a file tree you&#x27;ve descended isn&#x27;t removed out from under you in a way that breaks your state. (The directory itself can be moved while you hold the handle, but the important thing is that being able to rely on &quot;..&quot; permits certain algorithms that are safer and more consistent.) Canonicalizing paths introduces race conditions between canonicalization and actual access, which is why this is performed in the kernel.<p>Canonicalizing paths makes sense if you&#x27;re accepting paths from untrusted sources and you cannot make use of POSIX openat() + extensions like O_BENEATH. HTTP GET requests are supposed to be idempotent, anyhow, so there shouldn&#x27;t exist any sort of race condition as a conceptual matter.<p>But in regular software, it&#x27;s better to just pass paths as-is. The shell performs &quot;~&quot; expansion, but it doesn&#x27;t resolve &quot;.&quot; or &quot;..&quot;. And the shell performs other expansions, like file globbing, for which there&#x27;s rarely any reason to implement in regular software. Supporting &quot;~&quot; expansion but not file globbing is inconsistent; if you&#x27;re not the shell, don&#x27;t implement shell-like features as it just creates confusion and unnecessary complexity.<p>Calling &quot;..&quot; a holdout from POSIX is misleading. The semantics exist for legitimate and even security-relevant reasons, albeit not necessarily reasons that an embedded smartphone OS may care about. What POSIX lacks is O_BENEATH (from Capsicum) or a similar flag for tagging a directory descriptor to prevent relative paths or otherwise ascending the tree. Capsicum extensions make POSIX perfectly capable of implementing strict capability semantics, and they do so by <i>extending</i> semantics in a manner consistent with POSIX. POSIX isn&#x27;t inherently broken in this regard, it&#x27;s just perhaps too feature rich for some use cases and not feature rich enough for others.<p>There&#x27;s no end of complaints about POSIX--either it&#x27;s <i>too</i> complex or <i>too</i> simple. The fact is, no single specification will ever please anybody, so griping about how POSIX is broken is not only pointless but belies a failure to appreciate the underling issues. The alternative to POSIX is basically <i>nothing</i>. Standardizing on Linux is, at best, a lateral move. Adding optional components to specifications has proven the worse of all worlds, and like most other standards POSIX has been slowly removing some optional components altogether while making others mandatory.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dot Dot Considered Harmful</title><url>https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/docs/+/HEAD/the-book/dotdot.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>delinka</author><text>&gt;If a handle is provided to a directory, it should imply access to resources within that directory (and additionally, their subdirectories).<p>Maybe within Fuschia, but not in my UNIXy systems. All users on a system need r-x on &#x2F;Users, but that doesn&#x27;t give them r-x on every user&#x27;s home directory located as a subdirectoy of &#x2F;Users - a handle acquired by bob to &#x2F;Users does not imply access to &#x2F;Users&#x2F;delinka.<p>Further, if your process is treating &#x27;..&#x27; as a subdirectory, you&#x27;re doing it wrong. Paths must be normalized (e.g. ~ expanded, . and .. resolved) before requesting a handle via absolute path.<p>Lastly, this document reads as if knowing a full path grants access to that path and its subdirectories. If that&#x27;s the case ... oy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ninkendo</author><text>The answer to that for a capability-based system would be to not grant a process access to &#x2F;Users, but instead give it an opaque handle that grants access to &#x2F;Users&#x2F;delinka. It&#x27;s definitely not how unix systems work (where you need read access to all of the parents to access a child directory), but in a capability-based system it makes sense IMO.</text></comment> |
6,110,786 | 6,110,731 | 1 | 2 | 6,110,398 | train | <story><title>Porting dl.google.com from C++ to Go</title><url>http://talks.golang.org/2013/oscon-dl.slide</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joebo</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand the need for the payload server from the slides. That makes me wonder - why not just use a HTTP server to serve the static files (e.g. nginx)? I&#x27;m sure I&#x27;m missing the obvious, but I&#x27;m probably not the only person wondering it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>evmar</author><text>It appears from slides 14, 21, and 24, that copying all of the static files that needed be served onto a single machine could take over 12 hours. Another way to say that is that the totality of content that is served from that single host is too large to put on a single machine. The &quot;groupcache&quot; abstraction lets the http-serving machines dynamically serve the hot subsets of the larger file set (represented by &quot;storage svc&quot; on slide 55).</text></comment> | <story><title>Porting dl.google.com from C++ to Go</title><url>http://talks.golang.org/2013/oscon-dl.slide</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joebo</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand the need for the payload server from the slides. That makes me wonder - why not just use a HTTP server to serve the static files (e.g. nginx)? I&#x27;m sure I&#x27;m missing the obvious, but I&#x27;m probably not the only person wondering it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>awj</author><text>From the looks of it, they wanted support for putting files in place before a release date and easy per-file header&#x2F;caching&#x2F;access control. Add in a few other miscellaneous features <i>and</i> make it available to everyone and you&#x27;re at a point where an HTTP server probably won&#x27;t cut it.</text></comment> |
17,195,433 | 17,195,544 | 1 | 3 | 17,194,167 | train | <story><title>High-quality schools can increase academic achievement among the poor (2010)</title><url>https://scholar.harvard.edu/fryer/publications/are-high-quality-schools-enough-increase-achievement-among-poor-evidence-harlem-c</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sonnyblarney</author><text>I didn&#x27;t say it was easy, or that it wasn&#x27;t hard work, or that I didn&#x27;t value it.<p>Teaching is &#x27;hard work&#x27;, it requires educated, dedicated people, and it&#x27;s very important work.<p>But it&#x27;s not rocket science. Doing it is not risky - especially if you&#x27;re teaching something that&#x27;s been taught a million times before. Most well educated people I think could teach at least one subject, though they may not have the wherewithal or stamina to stick it out, or may not have the empathy&#x2F;social skills to do it well.</text></item><item><author>andy_ppp</author><text>&gt;&gt;&gt; but teaching is not rocket science<p>I actually think teaching children is a really difficult and important part of society but I think many people don&#x27;t value the contribution incredible teaching can make to individual students lives.<p>A great school and teacher obviously can change the lives of children in poverty but it&#x27;s astonishingly difficult and requires immense talent to achieve. Not commenting on the quality of this study however.</text></item><item><author>sonnyblarney</author><text>Essentially this.<p>It&#x27;s not really the schools or teachers - they are generally decent. Some better than others ... but teaching is not rocket science. Basic education is not some magical, mysterious thing. It&#x27;s mostly straightforward, and a little mundane.<p>If you have decent students, prepared to learn a bit - which mostly comes from a reasonably positive and stable home - then all you need is <i>basic</i> things to get them to a decent level of literacy.<p>Surely some systems are better than others but I think it&#x27;s far more about homes and communities than it is dumping &#x27;bad teachers&#x27; and certainly not about making teaching &#x27;competitive&#x27;.</text></item><item><author>silvestrov</author><text>The kids were a self-selected group because attending the school required that the parents had to do something active to get their kids into this school.<p>They try to control for this by comparing those kids to kids who lost in the lottery. But this only tells us about kids who have engaged parents. You cannot generalise to kids who have non-engaged parents.<p>Having engaged parents is the single most important condition for getting a good education.<p>Secondly, not having disruptive kids in class.<p>And only thirdly are quality of teachers.<p>If &quot;free dental, medical, and mental health services&quot; were all it took, then no school in Scandinavia should have any problem with poor kids. But we do have problems because some parents don&#x27;t care at all about their kids education.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Angostura</author><text>&gt; Doing it is not risky - especially if you&#x27;re teaching something that&#x27;s been taught a million times before. Most well educated people I think could teach at least one subject<p>I think this is something that many well educated people think, right up until they are placed alone in a class-room of 30 children who aren&#x27;t desperately interested in what they have to say.</text></comment> | <story><title>High-quality schools can increase academic achievement among the poor (2010)</title><url>https://scholar.harvard.edu/fryer/publications/are-high-quality-schools-enough-increase-achievement-among-poor-evidence-harlem-c</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sonnyblarney</author><text>I didn&#x27;t say it was easy, or that it wasn&#x27;t hard work, or that I didn&#x27;t value it.<p>Teaching is &#x27;hard work&#x27;, it requires educated, dedicated people, and it&#x27;s very important work.<p>But it&#x27;s not rocket science. Doing it is not risky - especially if you&#x27;re teaching something that&#x27;s been taught a million times before. Most well educated people I think could teach at least one subject, though they may not have the wherewithal or stamina to stick it out, or may not have the empathy&#x2F;social skills to do it well.</text></item><item><author>andy_ppp</author><text>&gt;&gt;&gt; but teaching is not rocket science<p>I actually think teaching children is a really difficult and important part of society but I think many people don&#x27;t value the contribution incredible teaching can make to individual students lives.<p>A great school and teacher obviously can change the lives of children in poverty but it&#x27;s astonishingly difficult and requires immense talent to achieve. Not commenting on the quality of this study however.</text></item><item><author>sonnyblarney</author><text>Essentially this.<p>It&#x27;s not really the schools or teachers - they are generally decent. Some better than others ... but teaching is not rocket science. Basic education is not some magical, mysterious thing. It&#x27;s mostly straightforward, and a little mundane.<p>If you have decent students, prepared to learn a bit - which mostly comes from a reasonably positive and stable home - then all you need is <i>basic</i> things to get them to a decent level of literacy.<p>Surely some systems are better than others but I think it&#x27;s far more about homes and communities than it is dumping &#x27;bad teachers&#x27; and certainly not about making teaching &#x27;competitive&#x27;.</text></item><item><author>silvestrov</author><text>The kids were a self-selected group because attending the school required that the parents had to do something active to get their kids into this school.<p>They try to control for this by comparing those kids to kids who lost in the lottery. But this only tells us about kids who have engaged parents. You cannot generalise to kids who have non-engaged parents.<p>Having engaged parents is the single most important condition for getting a good education.<p>Secondly, not having disruptive kids in class.<p>And only thirdly are quality of teachers.<p>If &quot;free dental, medical, and mental health services&quot; were all it took, then no school in Scandinavia should have any problem with poor kids. But we do have problems because some parents don&#x27;t care at all about their kids education.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dhimes</author><text><i>Most well educated people I think could teach at least one subject</i><p>And in essence you have hit on the problem. Everybody thinks they can be a teacher. And for some value of $teacher they can, but it&#x27;s hard to be really good.<p>You might watch LeBron James play basketball and think &quot;I can do that,&quot; go out on the court and take a few shots, and think you&#x27;re pretty good. But you&#x27;re likely not.<p>This is why assessing teachers is soooooo important. We need reliable, verifiable ways to separate the good from the bad.</text></comment> |
39,276,652 | 39,274,522 | 1 | 2 | 39,269,949 | train | <story><title>Mozilla's abandoned web engine 'Servo' project is getting a reboot</title><url>https://news.itsfoss.com/servo-rust-web-engine/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EasyMark</author><text>too many gotchas with LGPL to become a universal solutions. I wish that gtk was more stable across all platforms. I have a few on macos and some are less than ... stable... compared to on linux.</text></item><item><author>coldacid</author><text>Qt?</text></item><item><author>diath</author><text>Until there&#x27;s a viable solution for desktop native GUI, this trend will continue.</text></item><item><author>jojobas</author><text>Yeah, it&#x27;s an awesome idea to waste few hundred megabytes of RAM to run your app.<p>This browser-in-a-box cancer needs to die a painful death.</text></item><item><author>thinkingemote</author><text>I would like to see Positron rebooted. Positron is to Firefox what electron is to chromium.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mykzilla.org&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;08&#x2F;positron-discontinued&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mykzilla.org&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;08&#x2F;positron-discontinued&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skeletal88</author><text>What gotchas are there? The stuff required for doing guis is lgpl, without any kind of other licenses</text></comment> | <story><title>Mozilla's abandoned web engine 'Servo' project is getting a reboot</title><url>https://news.itsfoss.com/servo-rust-web-engine/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EasyMark</author><text>too many gotchas with LGPL to become a universal solutions. I wish that gtk was more stable across all platforms. I have a few on macos and some are less than ... stable... compared to on linux.</text></item><item><author>coldacid</author><text>Qt?</text></item><item><author>diath</author><text>Until there&#x27;s a viable solution for desktop native GUI, this trend will continue.</text></item><item><author>jojobas</author><text>Yeah, it&#x27;s an awesome idea to waste few hundred megabytes of RAM to run your app.<p>This browser-in-a-box cancer needs to die a painful death.</text></item><item><author>thinkingemote</author><text>I would like to see Positron rebooted. Positron is to Firefox what electron is to chromium.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mykzilla.org&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;08&#x2F;positron-discontinued&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mykzilla.org&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;08&#x2F;positron-discontinued&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rubymamis</author><text>I don’t think it’s as bad as you make it to be. Qt is a great option imo.</text></comment> |
38,968,019 | 38,968,005 | 1 | 2 | 38,966,875 | train | <story><title>Post Office lied and threatened BBC over Fujitsu dev whistleblower</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67884743</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ziddoap</author><text>For someone not familiar with the acronym, what is CBE?<p>A quick search shows me 371 different matching acronyms, ranging from the &quot;Calgary Board of Education&quot;, to &quot;current best estimate&quot;, to &quot;Central Bank of Egypt&quot;.</text></item><item><author>grumpyprole</author><text>It also remains to be seen whether there will ever be any accountability. So far there has only been the promise to hand back a CBE.</text></item><item><author>rich_sasha</author><text>If this scandal was about incompetence only, it would be outrageous.<p>But this was at least a deliberate, criminal cover up at the expense of hundreds of innocent people, maybe worse, implemented with tools intended for fighting serious crime. It seems unbelievable that this could happen in a civilized country.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Two9A</author><text>&quot;CBE&quot; refers to Commander of the most excellent order of the British Empire [0] which is a title conferred by the monarch on those deemed to have performed especially well in the service of the nation.<p>So you can see how its value might be diluted by this instance.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Order_of_the_British_Empire" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Order_of_the_British_Empire</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Post Office lied and threatened BBC over Fujitsu dev whistleblower</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67884743</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ziddoap</author><text>For someone not familiar with the acronym, what is CBE?<p>A quick search shows me 371 different matching acronyms, ranging from the &quot;Calgary Board of Education&quot;, to &quot;current best estimate&quot;, to &quot;Central Bank of Egypt&quot;.</text></item><item><author>grumpyprole</author><text>It also remains to be seen whether there will ever be any accountability. So far there has only been the promise to hand back a CBE.</text></item><item><author>rich_sasha</author><text>If this scandal was about incompetence only, it would be outrageous.<p>But this was at least a deliberate, criminal cover up at the expense of hundreds of innocent people, maybe worse, implemented with tools intended for fighting serious crime. It seems unbelievable that this could happen in a civilized country.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pi-e-sigma</author><text>Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
This is awarded for having a prominent but lesser role at national level, or a leading role at regional level. You can also get one for a distinguished, innovative contribution to any area.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gov.uk&#x2F;honours&#x2F;types-of-honours-and-awards" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gov.uk&#x2F;honours&#x2F;types-of-honours-and-awards</a></text></comment> |
7,671,254 | 7,670,198 | 1 | 3 | 7,668,653 | train | <story><title>The origin of “log in” (2011)</title><url>http://www.designcult.org/2011/08/why-do-we-call-in-logging-in.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>philfreo</author><text>Login is a noun (and adj). Log in is a verb.<p>So the right one to use depends somewhat on the context. It&#x27;s the &quot;login page&quot; but &quot;you need to log in&quot;. But it&#x27;s not super clear in all cases.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cleaver</author><text>Thank you. Now someone please take on &quot;set up&quot;&#x2F;&quot;setup&quot; and &quot;back up&quot;&#x2F;&quot;backup&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>The origin of “log in” (2011)</title><url>http://www.designcult.org/2011/08/why-do-we-call-in-logging-in.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>philfreo</author><text>Login is a noun (and adj). Log in is a verb.<p>So the right one to use depends somewhat on the context. It&#x27;s the &quot;login page&quot; but &quot;you need to log in&quot;. But it&#x27;s not super clear in all cases.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rickdale</author><text>I always catch myself saying &#x27;I got it <i>offline</i>&#x27;, but I wonder if it is incorrect to say that and instead to say I got it online. What&#x27;s your take?</text></comment> |
39,517,365 | 39,505,362 | 1 | 2 | 39,504,304 | train | <story><title>Notes on paper (2023)</title><url>https://voussoir.net/writing/notes_on_paper</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stettberger</author><text>You would not believe it, but I just created (this week) a Latex TikZ library that helps me to create templates &#x2F; journal inserts for the use case of handwritten notes. Although I believe in DIN A5 paper, it might be useful for someone:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;stettberger&#x2F;notebook">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;stettberger&#x2F;notebook</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Notes on paper (2023)</title><url>https://voussoir.net/writing/notes_on_paper</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>voussoir</author><text>Hi, this is my article and your post came into my RSS feed. I&#x27;m surprised my website has visitors! Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks</text></comment> |
32,513,965 | 32,511,308 | 1 | 3 | 32,508,668 | train | <story><title>Delphi still exists and is actively developed</title><url>https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>magicalhippo</author><text>We use Delphi at work. We&#x27;ve gotten a lot of pressure from customers to move to the web.<p>However the lack of ways to design non-trivial UIs quickly does not make it seen feasible at the moment.<p>Then there&#x27;s the fact that Win32 is like bedrock in terms of stability. We&#x27;ve got forms that&#x27;s been designed and coded over 15 years ago which still works just as fine as they did back then.<p>We&#x27;ve got input-heavy UIs, the one I&#x27;m working on right now is a single window with &gt;150 input fields including multiple child tables up to levels 3 deep with their own grids. Getting the UI layout done and components connected to the DB will take me a day tops, it&#x27;ll look great and based on history should work for the next 10+ years. The web seems like such a step back whenever I try it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shrubble</author><text>What no one in the responses is talking about ...is <i>speed</i> of using the UI during day to day operations.<p>Web interfaces are extremely clunky to use when trying to do things via only-keyboard (which is the only way to have muscle-memory help you zip through forms) methods.<p>They are slow to update and in some cases, the Web browser&#x27;s UI is fighting with you, such as offering to replace your input with the previous data you put in a form field of the same name, etc. In certain cases the tab method of navigation between fields gets broken or something else that interrupts the person&#x27;s flow happens.<p>Having worked in a case where the ticketing system and related interfaces were half-Web and half-Java-application-on-Windows - even the Java application was better to use via the keyboard.<p>If you are paying people on a regular basis, whether hourly or per-shift, and the UI slows people down by 5% , what is the cost over the (perhaps) 3 years of that application&#x27;s life?<p>Even 4 users at $50k&#x2F;year each in the USA (with healthcare and other business expenses etc. that means a $20&#x2F;hour full time job) means $10K&#x2F;year (5% * 200K salaries) in extra expense.</text></comment> | <story><title>Delphi still exists and is actively developed</title><url>https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>magicalhippo</author><text>We use Delphi at work. We&#x27;ve gotten a lot of pressure from customers to move to the web.<p>However the lack of ways to design non-trivial UIs quickly does not make it seen feasible at the moment.<p>Then there&#x27;s the fact that Win32 is like bedrock in terms of stability. We&#x27;ve got forms that&#x27;s been designed and coded over 15 years ago which still works just as fine as they did back then.<p>We&#x27;ve got input-heavy UIs, the one I&#x27;m working on right now is a single window with &gt;150 input fields including multiple child tables up to levels 3 deep with their own grids. Getting the UI layout done and components connected to the DB will take me a day tops, it&#x27;ll look great and based on history should work for the next 10+ years. The web seems like such a step back whenever I try it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yrgulation</author><text>“ &gt;150 input fields including multiple child tables up to levels 3 deep with their own grids”<p>Yeah i’ve built single page apps with more input fields than this and grid tables all in a single view. Are you sure this cant be easily done?<p>Coincidentally that was first 15 years ago with extjs, second time with react 3 years ago - the latter being a slower process but still pretty much doable.</text></comment> |
37,559,966 | 37,559,691 | 1 | 3 | 37,559,161 | train | <story><title>iOS 17 is available today</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/09/ios-17-is-available-today/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WA</author><text>One thing missing (and has been for years): fine-tuned Contacts access control. Like the one for Photos.<p>Apps want to access contacts and it’s all or nothing right now. But Contacts also is quite integrated and is better if you fill in more details such as addresses and birthdates.<p>So an app requesting access gets everything if you grant it.<p>For Apple‘s pro-privacy stance, this oversight is quite painful.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lancesells</author><text>In conjunction, I would love the ability to have a flag that tells anyone that adds me to their Contacts in iOS to not give my info to any apps. Basically, take me off the share list.<p>I&#x27;m not saying the end-user shouldn&#x27;t be able to ignore this, but as part of these controls that would be great. I don&#x27;t need or want a shadow-profile on Clubhouse or anything else.</text></comment> | <story><title>iOS 17 is available today</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/09/ios-17-is-available-today/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WA</author><text>One thing missing (and has been for years): fine-tuned Contacts access control. Like the one for Photos.<p>Apps want to access contacts and it’s all or nothing right now. But Contacts also is quite integrated and is better if you fill in more details such as addresses and birthdates.<p>So an app requesting access gets everything if you grant it.<p>For Apple‘s pro-privacy stance, this oversight is quite painful.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>judge2020</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;contactsui&#x2F;cncontactpickerviewcontroller" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;contactsui&#x2F;cnconta...</a><p>iOS 9.0+. The blunder is Apple not deprecating CNContactStore, but then many apps really only work if they get your full contacts list (e.g. knowing when a friend joins Snapchat)</text></comment> |
20,592,293 | 20,591,751 | 1 | 2 | 20,591,609 | train | <story><title>Contributing to the Mozilla code base</title><url>https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Introduction</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>userbinator</author><text>Several years ago I did want to fix something in Firefox, and it was far easier to just patch a few bytes in the binary (I think it might&#x27;ve been a string constant) than go through the whole build process with all the resources that takes, including trying to find where in the original source to actually make the change, and then still have a totally different binary than the one you wanted to fix, with other (bug-causing) changes you <i>didn&#x27;t</i> want due to the different environment you built it in.<p>Of course, if you try to fix&#x2F;revert something that was purposely broken or removed for some Mozilla reason, it is not going to accept your changes either.<p>One of the ideals of open-source was to make it easy to modify and share software. For a lot of the larger projects, I feel like that has missed the mark. I write (mostly small and always portable) software, yet the &quot;build bloat&quot; is a huge turn-off. On the other hand, I&#x27;ve had good experience with the smaller open-source projects, those that need a minimal amount of tooling and resources to build. Some examples I can think of include libpng, zlib, and even OpenSSL.</text></comment> | <story><title>Contributing to the Mozilla code base</title><url>https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Introduction</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bovine3dom</author><text>Some shameless begging: if anyone picked up <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tridactyl&#x2F;keyboard-api" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tridactyl&#x2F;keyboard-api</a>, it would make Vimperator-style WebExtensions much better as we&#x27;d be able to respond to user input everywhere in Firefox. We haven&#x27;t been able to find the time to work on it. I&#x27;d be delighted to help anyone who was interested get started.</text></comment> |
41,051,220 | 41,051,343 | 1 | 2 | 41,046,773 | train | <story><title>Open source AI is the path forward</title><url>https://about.fb.com/news/2024/07/open-source-ai-is-the-path-forward/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stavros</author><text>&quot;Open weights&quot; means you can use the weights for free (as in beer). &quot;Open source&quot; means you get the training dataset and the methodology. ~Nobody does open source LLMs.</text></item><item><author>causal</author><text>&quot;Open weights&quot; is a more appropriate term but I&#x27;ll point out that these weights are also largely inscrutable to the people with the code that trained it. And for licensing reasons, the datasets may not be possible to share.<p>There is still a lot of modifying you can do with a set of weights, and they make great foundations for new stuff, but yeah we may never see a competitive model that&#x27;s 100% buildable at home.<p>Edit: mkolodny points out that the model code is shared (under llama license at least), which is really all you need to run training <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;meta-llama&#x2F;llama3&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;llama&#x2F;model.py">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;meta-llama&#x2F;llama3&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;llama&#x2F;model.p...</a></text></item><item><author>the8thbit</author><text>&quot;Eventually though, open source Linux gained popularity – initially because it allowed developers to modify its code however they wanted ...&quot;<p>I find the language around &quot;open source AI&quot; to be confusing. With &quot;open source&quot; there&#x27;s usually &quot;source&quot; to open, right? As in, there is human legible code that can be read and modified by the user? If so, then how can current ML models be open source? They&#x27;re very large matrices that are, for the most part, inscrutable to the user. They seem akin to binaries, which, yes, can be modified by the user, but are extremely obscured to the user, and require enormous effort to understand and effectively modify.<p>&quot;Open source&quot; code is not just code that isn&#x27;t executed remotely over an API, and it seems like maybe its being conflated with that here?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>larodi</author><text>Indeed, since when the deliverable being a jpeg&#x2F;exe, which is similar to what the model file is, is considered the source? it is more like open result or freely available vm image, which works, but has its core FS scrambled or crypted.<p>Zuck knows this very well and it does him no honour to speak like, and from his position this equals attempt ate trying to change the present semantics of open source. Of course, others do that too - using the notion of open source to describe something very far from open.<p>What Meta is doing under his command can better be desdribed as releasing the resulting...build, so that it can be freely poked around and even put to work. But the result cannot be effectively reversed engineered.<p>Whats more ridiculous is that precisely because the result is not the source in its whole form, that these graphical structures can made available. Only thanks to the fact it is not traceable to the source, which makes the whole game not only closed, but like... sealed forever. An unfair retell of humanity&#x27;s knowledge tossed around in very obscure container that nobody can reverse engineer.<p>how&#x27;s that even remotely similar to open source?</text></comment> | <story><title>Open source AI is the path forward</title><url>https://about.fb.com/news/2024/07/open-source-ai-is-the-path-forward/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stavros</author><text>&quot;Open weights&quot; means you can use the weights for free (as in beer). &quot;Open source&quot; means you get the training dataset and the methodology. ~Nobody does open source LLMs.</text></item><item><author>causal</author><text>&quot;Open weights&quot; is a more appropriate term but I&#x27;ll point out that these weights are also largely inscrutable to the people with the code that trained it. And for licensing reasons, the datasets may not be possible to share.<p>There is still a lot of modifying you can do with a set of weights, and they make great foundations for new stuff, but yeah we may never see a competitive model that&#x27;s 100% buildable at home.<p>Edit: mkolodny points out that the model code is shared (under llama license at least), which is really all you need to run training <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;meta-llama&#x2F;llama3&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;llama&#x2F;model.py">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;meta-llama&#x2F;llama3&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;llama&#x2F;model.p...</a></text></item><item><author>the8thbit</author><text>&quot;Eventually though, open source Linux gained popularity – initially because it allowed developers to modify its code however they wanted ...&quot;<p>I find the language around &quot;open source AI&quot; to be confusing. With &quot;open source&quot; there&#x27;s usually &quot;source&quot; to open, right? As in, there is human legible code that can be read and modified by the user? If so, then how can current ML models be open source? They&#x27;re very large matrices that are, for the most part, inscrutable to the user. They seem akin to binaries, which, yes, can be modified by the user, but are extremely obscured to the user, and require enormous effort to understand and effectively modify.<p>&quot;Open source&quot; code is not just code that isn&#x27;t executed remotely over an API, and it seems like maybe its being conflated with that here?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nine_k</author><text>Linux is open source and is mostly C code. You cannot run C code directly, you have to compile it and produce binaries. But it&#x27;s the C code, not binary form, where the collaboration happens.<p>With LLMs, weights are the binary code: it&#x27;s how you run the model. But to be able to train the model from scratch, or to collaborate on new approaches, you have to operate at a the level of architecture, methods, and training data sets. They are the source code.</text></comment> |
15,618,850 | 15,617,761 | 1 | 3 | 15,616,959 | train | <story><title>Why Do We Still Commute?</title><url>https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2017/11/why-do-we-still-commute/544733/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BjoernKW</author><text>I think that the &#x27;importance of face-to-face interaction&#x27; argument is a helplessly contrived one, an attempt to avoid the elephant in the room.<p>There are plenty of examples that show that working remotely without daily face-to-face interaction can work very well.<p>What&#x27;s markedly different about environments that successfully adopted remote work are aspects like:<p>- a lack of cargo cult work organisation and office politics<p>- an atmosphere of trust rather than petty control freaks who need to constantly keep an eye on their subordinates in order to know they&#x27;re still &#x27;working&#x27;<p>- adapting to different forms of communication<p>When people say that they can&#x27;t communicate as well with someone who isn&#x27;t in the same room that doesn&#x27;t necessarily mean that a remote setup doesn&#x27;t work. It could simply mean they&#x27;re just lazy and not willing to adjust to a different kind of work environment.<p>Working remotely requires the participants to be much more communicative because in such a setting communication for the most part doesn&#x27;t just happen serendipitously, you have to work to make it happen.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tbrownaw</author><text><i>When people say that they can&#x27;t communicate as well with someone who isn&#x27;t in the same room that doesn&#x27;t necessarily mean that a remote setup doesn&#x27;t work. It could simply mean they&#x27;re just lazy and not willing to adjust to a different kind of work environment.</i><p>It could also mean they actually have sufficient social skills that they&#x27;re able to make full use of the higher bandwidth available face-to-face, and aren&#x27;t willing to suffer thru the markedly inferior communications that are all that&#x27;s possible over the &#x27;net.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Do We Still Commute?</title><url>https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2017/11/why-do-we-still-commute/544733/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BjoernKW</author><text>I think that the &#x27;importance of face-to-face interaction&#x27; argument is a helplessly contrived one, an attempt to avoid the elephant in the room.<p>There are plenty of examples that show that working remotely without daily face-to-face interaction can work very well.<p>What&#x27;s markedly different about environments that successfully adopted remote work are aspects like:<p>- a lack of cargo cult work organisation and office politics<p>- an atmosphere of trust rather than petty control freaks who need to constantly keep an eye on their subordinates in order to know they&#x27;re still &#x27;working&#x27;<p>- adapting to different forms of communication<p>When people say that they can&#x27;t communicate as well with someone who isn&#x27;t in the same room that doesn&#x27;t necessarily mean that a remote setup doesn&#x27;t work. It could simply mean they&#x27;re just lazy and not willing to adjust to a different kind of work environment.<p>Working remotely requires the participants to be much more communicative because in such a setting communication for the most part doesn&#x27;t just happen serendipitously, you have to work to make it happen.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>majewsky</author><text>Another huge problem is the transition path from &quot;everyone in the same office&quot; to &quot;everyone working remote&quot;. If you have 60% of your team sitting in the office, and 40% remote, you can be absolutely certain that those 40% will be out of touch on all those important decisions that just emerge during a watercooler conversation. (The watercooler also provides a way for different teams to get to know each other, even if they do not work with each other directly, thus forging bonds that might later turn out helpful.)<p>With all that (plus what you said), most individual employees will prefer the office over remote access. So remote would only work if you moved <i>everyone</i> from the office to remote access at a single point in time.</text></comment> |
39,215,156 | 39,214,335 | 1 | 3 | 39,206,731 | train | <story><title>Testing how hard it is to cheat with ChatGPT in interviews</title><url>https://interviewing.io/blog/how-hard-is-it-to-cheat-with-chatgpt-in-technical-interviews</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notfed</author><text>LLMs are too powerful. It&#x27;s basically like having someone next to you telling you what to say in the interview, if not <i>better</i>.<p>The point of (software engineering) interviews is to demonstrate <i>how</i> you solve problems. &quot;Type the question into ChatGPT and do what it says&quot; is <i>not</i> the &quot;how&quot; that companies are looking for.</text></item><item><author>babyshake</author><text>IMO asking people to not use available tools in interviews is a bad idea, unless you are trying to do a very basic check that someone knows the fundamentals.<p>Allow them to use the tools, with a screenshare, and adjust the types of tasks you are giving them so that they won&#x27;t be able to just feed the question to the LLM to give them the completed answer.<p>Interviews should be consistent with what day to day work actually looks like, which today means constantly using LLMs in some form or another.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GuB-42</author><text>Unless you can&#x27;t use ChatGPT for some reason (ex: security), I think it is a totally valid way of solving problems.<p>The interesting part is what to do when ChatGPT does it wrong, and if the problem is not trivial and an exact solution is not available online, it is usually wrong. Sometimes, not by much, but it takes skill to notice the problem and fix it, either manually or by asking ChatGPT for it.<p>Same idea as for libraries. One could argue that those using the &quot;sort&quot; function don&#x27;t know how to write a sorting algorithm, but in real life, unless there are particularly good reasons, rewriting a &quot;sort&quot; function would be crazy, and probably not what you want from your employees.<p>If you want your candidate not to use the tools at his disposal, you may frame it as a requirement. &quot;on this test, imagine you are working on a sensitive project, you are not allowed to upload any details to a third party service, you can search the internet for generic information, but do as if your development machine has no internet access, so no copy-pasting&quot;. Or, for libraries &quot;on this test, imagine we absolutely want to limit dependencies on third party libraries, even if it means sometimes reinventing the wheel, so only &lt;list of libraries&gt; are allowed&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Testing how hard it is to cheat with ChatGPT in interviews</title><url>https://interviewing.io/blog/how-hard-is-it-to-cheat-with-chatgpt-in-technical-interviews</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notfed</author><text>LLMs are too powerful. It&#x27;s basically like having someone next to you telling you what to say in the interview, if not <i>better</i>.<p>The point of (software engineering) interviews is to demonstrate <i>how</i> you solve problems. &quot;Type the question into ChatGPT and do what it says&quot; is <i>not</i> the &quot;how&quot; that companies are looking for.</text></item><item><author>babyshake</author><text>IMO asking people to not use available tools in interviews is a bad idea, unless you are trying to do a very basic check that someone knows the fundamentals.<p>Allow them to use the tools, with a screenshare, and adjust the types of tasks you are giving them so that they won&#x27;t be able to just feed the question to the LLM to give them the completed answer.<p>Interviews should be consistent with what day to day work actually looks like, which today means constantly using LLMs in some form or another.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blitzar</author><text>&gt; &quot;Type the question into ChatGPT and do what it says&quot; is not the &quot;how&quot; that companies are looking for.<p>Then interviewers should stop setting tasks that require either a) copy and paste answer from leetcode or b) copy and paste answer from chatgpt.<p>Unfortunately that requires skill and awareness on behalf of the interviewers; who typically served in the leetcode wars and want their employees to go through the same.</text></comment> |
15,575,043 | 15,573,628 | 1 | 2 | 15,567,650 | train | <story><title>Absinthe – GraphQL implementation for Elixir</title><url>https://github.com/absinthe-graphql/absinthe</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>benwilson-512</author><text>The Github page may not be of much interest unless you&#x27;re trying to get started, so let me say a couple words about our subscription implementation that&#x27;s in the 1.4 release candidate.<p>The idea with GraphQL subscriptions is that a client can submit a document that is run in response to an event on the server, which pushes the result of that document to the client. So if you had a UI showing new orders, you might have a subscription that looked like:<p><pre><code> subscription {
orderPlaced {
id
customer { id tableNumber }
}
}
</code></pre>
When an order is placed you can publish an event to this subscription field either manually, or setup pubsub relationships in the schema itself.<p>Here&#x27;s the challenge: Suppose loading the customer of an order requires a DB lookup. If you have 100 people who all submit that subscription, and you run each of those subscriptions independently, you&#x27;re going to end up with 100 individual database lookups for the same customer.<p>De-duping documents can help; if the documents are identical and the context you&#x27;re executing them in is identical, you can just execute it once and push the values out. The problem is if you have authentication or authorization rules in the document then you can&#x27;t really do that, each document needs to be executed individually within the context of whoever submitted it.<p>One of the main features of our subscription implementation however is that the batch dataloading mechanisms we have to avoid N+1 queries within a single document can also work with sets of documents. When an order is placed we take the full set of documents triggered by that event and run them as a batch, so any redundant DB lookups can get coalesced into a single query.<p>Elixir itself has been a huge help here. We can achieve this batched document storage and execution without any external dependencies like Redis and, because we integrate easily with Phoenix PubSub (other backends possible) we get cluster support for free also without any external dependencies. Add in linear scaling with the number of CPUs and it&#x27;s really been a fantastic platform to build this on.</text></comment> | <story><title>Absinthe – GraphQL implementation for Elixir</title><url>https://github.com/absinthe-graphql/absinthe</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pcmonk</author><text>We&#x27;re in the final stretch of migrating our old node&#x2F;mongo&#x2F;REST stack to elixir&#x2F;postgres&#x2F;graphql (with Absinthe), and I&#x27;m absolutely loving it so far. Elixir is a great language, and Absinthe is very easy to use, even for a graphql noob like me. Even new&#x2F;experimental features like absinthe_phoenix and absinthe_ecto have been virtually flawless.<p>I guess the real test will be when we deploy it to production on Tuesday!</text></comment> |
38,678,275 | 38,677,909 | 1 | 2 | 38,673,973 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Get any piece of Google Earth as a single normalized glTF 3D model</title><url>https://github.com/OmarShehata/google-earth-as-gltf</url><text>Google released an API in May to get fetch 3D Tiles of anywhere on Earth. Using this in standard 3D engines like Blender is tricky because (1) the tiles are in a geographic coordinate system (2) you get a lot of little tiles at varying quality levels<p>I wanted to simplify this so all you need to do is get an API key, select a map region and a zoom level, and get one combined glTF file that you can throw into any engine. Especially if you&#x27;re just prototyping and want to see how this data looks in your engine before investing in figuring out all the nuances of the API &amp; coordinate system.<p>(Note that the API prohibits offline use, as in you can&#x27;t distribute a processed glTF file like this. But you can do this preprocessing in memory whenever you&#x27;re fetching tiles).</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gia_ferrari</author><text>Super cool that it includes high(ish)-resolution buildings! Folks interested in using this data may also be interested in OpenTopography[0], which is a repository of topographical datasets (some very high resolution) with possibly more friendly licensing terms. I used some data from them to make a physical topographic map of a mountain peak. The tooling is a little opaque from a newcomer&#x27;s standpoint, so I wrote up a quick howto[1]. In short you go from GeoTIFF to an STL surface with phstl, then extrude into a volume using Meshmixer (could use something else).<p>0: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;opentopography.org&#x2F;start" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;opentopography.org&#x2F;start</a>
1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;giferrari.net&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2023&#x2F;1&#x2F;2023-1-13-printing-lidar-topography&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;giferrari.net&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2023&#x2F;1&#x2F;2023-1-13-printing-lidar-t...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Get any piece of Google Earth as a single normalized glTF 3D model</title><url>https://github.com/OmarShehata/google-earth-as-gltf</url><text>Google released an API in May to get fetch 3D Tiles of anywhere on Earth. Using this in standard 3D engines like Blender is tricky because (1) the tiles are in a geographic coordinate system (2) you get a lot of little tiles at varying quality levels<p>I wanted to simplify this so all you need to do is get an API key, select a map region and a zoom level, and get one combined glTF file that you can throw into any engine. Especially if you&#x27;re just prototyping and want to see how this data looks in your engine before investing in figuring out all the nuances of the API &amp; coordinate system.<p>(Note that the API prohibits offline use, as in you can&#x27;t distribute a processed glTF file like this. But you can do this preprocessing in memory whenever you&#x27;re fetching tiles).</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>savef</author><text>A couple of years ago Troy Hunt printed a map of where he lives in Gold Coast[0], using a separate piece of plastic underneath to show off the canal running by his house. I spent a while trying to replicate this and eventually gave up as I was missing way too many skills (as well as a printer). I might have another bash at it using this project - thanks!<p>As an aside, has anybody in the UK used a 3D printing service that they would recommend?<p>0: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;troyhunt&#x2F;status&#x2F;1460146136514134021" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;troyhunt&#x2F;status&#x2F;1460146136514134021</a></text></comment> |
9,875,605 | 9,875,606 | 1 | 2 | 9,875,549 | train | <story><title>Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata has died [pdf]</title><url>http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2015/150713e.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jtchang</author><text>It is always amazing for me to read about Nintendo&#x27;s history, especially during the 80s and when they released the NES. It is even more amazing when you think about everything that has changed about gaming since then.<p>It is kind of sad to me that the newer generation does not get to grow up playing old school games like Final Fantasy and Zelda. Some of the games these days really focus too much on graphics and not gameplay. I felt a lot of games back then were much harder and more unforgiving than games today.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zobzu</author><text>i find graphics and environment are actually much nicer in games with &quot;no 3d engine&quot;.<p>they&#x27;re not nearly as detailed, but they&#x27;re just more artistic&#x2F;pleasant, as if more time was spent in that direction to &quot;compensate&quot; for the lack of detail</text></comment> | <story><title>Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata has died [pdf]</title><url>http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2015/150713e.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jtchang</author><text>It is always amazing for me to read about Nintendo&#x27;s history, especially during the 80s and when they released the NES. It is even more amazing when you think about everything that has changed about gaming since then.<p>It is kind of sad to me that the newer generation does not get to grow up playing old school games like Final Fantasy and Zelda. Some of the games these days really focus too much on graphics and not gameplay. I felt a lot of games back then were much harder and more unforgiving than games today.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sneak</author><text>&gt; It is kind of sad to me that the newer generation does not get to grow up playing old school games like Final Fantasy and Zelda.<p>What makes you think they don&#x27;t?<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Classic-USB-Super-Nintendo-Controller-PC&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B002JAU20W" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Classic-USB-Super-Nintendo-Controller-...</a></text></comment> |
18,357,597 | 18,357,631 | 1 | 2 | 18,351,109 | train | <story><title>Linus Torvalds announces Linux (1991)</title><url>https://web.archive.org/web/20100104211620/http://www.linux.org/people/linus_post.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drinchev</author><text>Although I’ve read this probably a dozen times. What I think about this today, as I’m about to reviel my next project is that it’s so crazy how things evolved for open source. Nowadays people compete with companies and having an announcment like this usually includes :<p>- website explaining as a pitch what is better about your software<p>- ready to use examples and templates to support your claim<p>- branding with a logo that makes you look more professional<p>- issue tracker<p>- github repository ( even mirror of yours )<p>- bugfree software ready for production from day one.<p>And many more which I probably miss.<p>Writing something “cool” nowadays is not enough to be taken from the folks seriously.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>duxup</author><text>And yet with all that ... I likely still won&#x27;t understand what exactly the product or thing is or does.<p>Meanwhile I understand Linus&#x27;s email well enough.</text></comment> | <story><title>Linus Torvalds announces Linux (1991)</title><url>https://web.archive.org/web/20100104211620/http://www.linux.org/people/linus_post.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drinchev</author><text>Although I’ve read this probably a dozen times. What I think about this today, as I’m about to reviel my next project is that it’s so crazy how things evolved for open source. Nowadays people compete with companies and having an announcment like this usually includes :<p>- website explaining as a pitch what is better about your software<p>- ready to use examples and templates to support your claim<p>- branding with a logo that makes you look more professional<p>- issue tracker<p>- github repository ( even mirror of yours )<p>- bugfree software ready for production from day one.<p>And many more which I probably miss.<p>Writing something “cool” nowadays is not enough to be taken from the folks seriously.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>slededit</author><text>I think that is a little simplistic, the main thing that got Linux going was sustained and continued effort. If this first message had been a flop Linus would likely have continued working and pushing it through. It was almost a decade before Linux could be considered a &quot;real&quot; operating system ready for production.</text></comment> |
9,859,391 | 9,858,373 | 1 | 2 | 9,857,678 | train | <story><title>VirtualBox 5.0 officially released</title><url>https://blogs.oracle.com/virtualization/entry/oracle_vm_virtualbox_5_07</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>bane</author><text>As a fun experiment, I do my day-to-day computing entirely in a Virtualbox Windows VM guest that I&#x27;ve given 2 cores, 150GB of storage and 4GB of RAM. I&#x27;m about a year and a half into the experiment and still chugging along.<p>It&#x27;s a surprisingly performant day-to-day system, which I can snapshot to try out things, move to other machines if I need to, make backups etc. About the only thing it doesn&#x27;t do well is really CPU intensive or GPU intensive operations.<p>But it works fine for 2 monitors, web browsing, watching videos, etc.<p>It&#x27;s kind of surprising actually.<p>From time to time I&#x27;ll also spin up some Linux VMs and do various dev activities in a real Linux, which I usually just background and ssh into from my Windows VM. It&#x27;s kind of nice having a virtual rack of machines to monkey around on.<p>Less impressive has been trying to get Ubuntu to not feel terrible, but Centos works fine.<p>If I need better performance, I&#x27;ll dive back to the host OS and do those things, but it&#x27;s mostly just for gaming or music production.<p>Bonus, my host OS has stayed relatively free of junk and stays really snappy, even all this time later.<p>My only recent problem is that the Windows 10 updater won&#x27;t qualify the VM guest for the upgrade. So I&#x27;ll probably have to grab the ISO and try it that way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>signal11</author><text>&gt; the Windows 10 updater won&#x27;t qualify the VM guest for the upgrade<p>I was able to get my VM to qualify. Make sure you have the required hotfixes, otherwise you will not qualify -- KB3035583 and KB2976978 for Win8.1, KB3035583 and KB2952664 for Win7 SP1.<p>Then reboot and run the batch file given here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;superuser.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;922442" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;superuser.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;922442</a></text></comment> | <story><title>VirtualBox 5.0 officially released</title><url>https://blogs.oracle.com/virtualization/entry/oracle_vm_virtualbox_5_07</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>bane</author><text>As a fun experiment, I do my day-to-day computing entirely in a Virtualbox Windows VM guest that I&#x27;ve given 2 cores, 150GB of storage and 4GB of RAM. I&#x27;m about a year and a half into the experiment and still chugging along.<p>It&#x27;s a surprisingly performant day-to-day system, which I can snapshot to try out things, move to other machines if I need to, make backups etc. About the only thing it doesn&#x27;t do well is really CPU intensive or GPU intensive operations.<p>But it works fine for 2 monitors, web browsing, watching videos, etc.<p>It&#x27;s kind of surprising actually.<p>From time to time I&#x27;ll also spin up some Linux VMs and do various dev activities in a real Linux, which I usually just background and ssh into from my Windows VM. It&#x27;s kind of nice having a virtual rack of machines to monkey around on.<p>Less impressive has been trying to get Ubuntu to not feel terrible, but Centos works fine.<p>If I need better performance, I&#x27;ll dive back to the host OS and do those things, but it&#x27;s mostly just for gaming or music production.<p>Bonus, my host OS has stayed relatively free of junk and stays really snappy, even all this time later.<p>My only recent problem is that the Windows 10 updater won&#x27;t qualify the VM guest for the upgrade. So I&#x27;ll probably have to grab the ISO and try it that way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jokr004</author><text>I do this because my employer has some silly policies and it was the only way they would let my run Linux on my localhost. Really I forget that I&#x27;m in the VM.. RAM is a little scarce, but all in all it works surprisingly well.</text></comment> |
15,073,316 | 15,072,800 | 1 | 2 | 15,072,666 | train | <story><title>US Income Inequality: All for the Top 1%</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/07/opinion/leonhardt-income-inequality.html?mcubz=1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sctb</author><text>Previous discussions:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14956698" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14956698</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14959346" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14959346</a></text></comment> | <story><title>US Income Inequality: All for the Top 1%</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/07/opinion/leonhardt-income-inequality.html?mcubz=1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>arcanus</author><text>Real title was, &#x27;Our Broken Economy, in One Simple Chart&#x27;.<p>Despite some of the recent coverage, this chart indicates that gains are not going to the top 20%: they are going to top 1%, and particularly &lt;1%.<p>To be clear, this is not many programmers:
&quot;In 1980, the top 1% of adult earners in the U.S. made $420,000 a year, on average (before taxes and measured in 2014 dollars) — 27 times as much as the average for the bottom 50% of earners. Today the top 1% of earners make an average of $1.3 million a year — 81 times as much as the average for workers in the bottom half.&quot;<p>HBR also found that gains are increasingly going to the top firms: there is a global set of winners and losers. Inequality is growing everywhere, in all fields. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hbr.org&#x2F;cover-story&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;corporations-in-the-age-of-inequality" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hbr.org&#x2F;cover-story&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;corporations-in-the-age-...</a></text></comment> |
17,099,324 | 17,099,241 | 1 | 3 | 17,098,426 | train | <story><title>Amazon’s Mechanical Turk Has Reinvented Research</title><url>https://daily.jstor.org/amazons-mechanical-turk-has-reinvented-research/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Radim</author><text>Mechanical Turk is great for &quot;open&quot;, public research. We used to use them a lot for machine learning tasks (data cleanup, model comparisons, label annotations), along with similar services like CrowdFlower &#x2F; Figure Eight. We saw two primarily issues when applied to &quot;non-open&quot; (commercial) projects:<p>- business-related data too sensitive to share with strangers (contractual obligations, too much risk)<p>- some tasks required non-trivial subject matter expertise and context to annotate properly (quality control issues)<p>For this reason, we gradually moved to an in-house team of long-term annotators. It&#x27;s not much more expensive (moms on maternity leave, students…), but infinitely more flexible and safer for our purposes. YMMV.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon’s Mechanical Turk Has Reinvented Research</title><url>https://daily.jstor.org/amazons-mechanical-turk-has-reinvented-research/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chx</author><text>Data cleanup is also a great use. For example, we needed to parse an amount of address data, we just needed country, state (or equivalent), city, we gave out each address three times, whatever results were the same at least twice was accepted. We had over 92% where all three were the same, another 7% with 2-1 (required review), less than 1% needed either manual cleanup before re-Turking or just manually entering some of the more gnarly cases. We considered it a truly massive success, price efficient and absolutely unbelievable quick.</text></comment> |
37,081,413 | 37,080,782 | 1 | 2 | 37,080,404 | train | <story><title>Turns out lowly thymus may be saving your life</title><url>https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/08/turns-out-lowly-thymus-may-be-saving-your-life/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Calavar</author><text>This is a fluff piece. We&#x27;ve known for decades that the thymus is an important part of the immune system. It&#x27;s not an organ that&#x27;s been believed to be vestigial, like the appendix.<p>&gt; For the study, Kooshesh mined data from 1,146 adult patients who had undergone thymus removal, alongside demographically matched control patients who had undergone similar surgeries but kept their thymus<p>Sure, you can demographically match all you want, but I don&#x27;t think this is a research question that can be answered with a retrospective analysis. The problem is that you haven&#x27;t controlled for <i>why</i> surgeons decided to remove the thymus in some cases and not in others. Was the disease more severe in patients who got thymectomies? Was it differences in training between the surgeons? Was it just an arbitrary decision on the part of the surgeons? This is a critical confounder regardless of whether you&#x27;ve matched the demographics. You really need a randomized control study to answer this sort of question.<p>&gt; Although the risk of autoimmune disease did not differ substantially between the groups in the overall primary cohort (relative risk, 1.1; 95% CI, 0.8 to 1.4), a difference was found when patients with preoperative infection, cancer, or autoimmune disease were excluded from the analysis (12.3% vs. 7.9%; relative risk, 1.5; 95% CI, 1.02 to 2.2)<p>What? What is this? Was this subgroup analysis preregistered, or did they just go fishing when their primary hypothesis didn&#x27;t pan out?<p>I&#x27;d categorize this study as mildly interesting, but not groundbreaking the way the press statement is selling it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Turns out lowly thymus may be saving your life</title><url>https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/08/turns-out-lowly-thymus-may-be-saving-your-life/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xeromal</author><text>I&#x27;ve always felt us removing things like tonsils and appendix without a high barrier was always premature. I remember kids wanting to have their tonsils removed to eat ice cream for a few weeks. lol.<p>Even if we have legacy parts in out body, I&#x27;m fine just letting it fester in my body as long as it&#x27;s not trying to kill me.<p>Feels very similar to thinking farming just needs 3 nutrients. Turns out better farming requires a lot more.<p>I am just a plain old bozo though so I could be talking out me ass</text></comment> |
37,317,631 | 37,317,612 | 1 | 2 | 37,316,831 | train | <story><title>Discovery of spherules of likely extrasolar composition in the Pacific Ocean [pdf]</title><url>https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/Interstellar_Expedition.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>What is Loeb&#x27;s reputation among astrophysicists?<p>He&#x27;s written &quot;over 800 scientific papers&quot;. Is that... a good thing in his field?</text></item><item><author>sxp</author><text>Avi Loeb is an interesting scientist. I read a longer article about him that gave some more background about his work [1]. While he is famous for going on podcasts and making wild claims about objects being signs of alien intelligence, the actual hard science that he&#x27;s doing is interesting. E.g, this expedition he managed to get funding to recover these extrasolar particles. The clickbaity pop media says that this is &quot;alien tech&quot; but reading his blog [2] shows some hard science about how his team isolated the extrasolar candidates and launched an expedition. He&#x27;s also trying to fund another project to watch the skies for more UFOs&#x2F;extraterrestiral technology [3]. Even though the clickbaity aspect is that this is for hunting aliens, the likely worst case scenario is that he managed to raise a bunch of funds using the current UFO hype to gather more evidence about meteors entering Earth&#x27;s atmosphere. I think it&#x27;s unlikely that any of the unknown sightings are aliens, but I fully support Loeb because the science he is doing will have interesting results even without the discovery of aliens.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;08&#x2F;24&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;avi-loeb-alien-hunter.html?unlocked_article_code=4mbvH8chkVNv_Yr5SB9xVpLeKYvCHdo7lPkeMN6Lc4djpVavmHFuuRYI1LHZX-H80DJzJ73A61MttxYhBO0LVSNcyQQzpMsbUhwBn7-s87s4NR30CYS6wJlqOQogTlJgjhATy9kHRsxf9fS67EZEt6TH9eKvG1hWjDLGIcZMgL-UYBf6_rjsc1z6nZ6rvZnnK5GR5BSuZj-V6nH5DQqGnqe30qtdNAwIWnRF61qYN74r_Nw0PZgqRO1fmTod1kH15Wk9hmEfg-gn_Le0K2o2UiCvb1--n95ts2e9-gfuCJrtxWu6lhUpskFytfF89HmBExj3NmuRpZrfVUedTJEF8g&amp;smid=url-share" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;08&#x2F;24&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;avi-loeb-alien-h...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;avi-loeb.medium.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;avi-loeb.medium.com&#x2F;</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;projects.iq.harvard.edu&#x2F;galileo&#x2F;home" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;projects.iq.harvard.edu&#x2F;galileo&#x2F;home</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>consilient</author><text>&gt; What is Loeb&#x27;s reputation among astrophysicists?<p>Not an astrophysicist but several friends are. The consensus seems to be that he was a good scientist at one point but has turned into a sensationalist attention monger.<p>&gt; He&#x27;s written &quot;over 800 scientific papers&quot;. Is that... a good thing in his field?<p>He&#x27;s <i>been an author</i> on over 800 scientific papers: that includes his work, work he&#x27;s been a significant collaborator on, and student work he&#x27;s supervised. 800 is a lot for someone his age but not unheard of. People care <i>much</i> more about paper quality (or less charitably, citation count) than quantity.</text></comment> | <story><title>Discovery of spherules of likely extrasolar composition in the Pacific Ocean [pdf]</title><url>https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/Interstellar_Expedition.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>What is Loeb&#x27;s reputation among astrophysicists?<p>He&#x27;s written &quot;over 800 scientific papers&quot;. Is that... a good thing in his field?</text></item><item><author>sxp</author><text>Avi Loeb is an interesting scientist. I read a longer article about him that gave some more background about his work [1]. While he is famous for going on podcasts and making wild claims about objects being signs of alien intelligence, the actual hard science that he&#x27;s doing is interesting. E.g, this expedition he managed to get funding to recover these extrasolar particles. The clickbaity pop media says that this is &quot;alien tech&quot; but reading his blog [2] shows some hard science about how his team isolated the extrasolar candidates and launched an expedition. He&#x27;s also trying to fund another project to watch the skies for more UFOs&#x2F;extraterrestiral technology [3]. Even though the clickbaity aspect is that this is for hunting aliens, the likely worst case scenario is that he managed to raise a bunch of funds using the current UFO hype to gather more evidence about meteors entering Earth&#x27;s atmosphere. I think it&#x27;s unlikely that any of the unknown sightings are aliens, but I fully support Loeb because the science he is doing will have interesting results even without the discovery of aliens.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;08&#x2F;24&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;avi-loeb-alien-hunter.html?unlocked_article_code=4mbvH8chkVNv_Yr5SB9xVpLeKYvCHdo7lPkeMN6Lc4djpVavmHFuuRYI1LHZX-H80DJzJ73A61MttxYhBO0LVSNcyQQzpMsbUhwBn7-s87s4NR30CYS6wJlqOQogTlJgjhATy9kHRsxf9fS67EZEt6TH9eKvG1hWjDLGIcZMgL-UYBf6_rjsc1z6nZ6rvZnnK5GR5BSuZj-V6nH5DQqGnqe30qtdNAwIWnRF61qYN74r_Nw0PZgqRO1fmTod1kH15Wk9hmEfg-gn_Le0K2o2UiCvb1--n95ts2e9-gfuCJrtxWu6lhUpskFytfF89HmBExj3NmuRpZrfVUedTJEF8g&amp;smid=url-share" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;08&#x2F;24&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;avi-loeb-alien-h...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;avi-loeb.medium.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;avi-loeb.medium.com&#x2F;</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;projects.iq.harvard.edu&#x2F;galileo&#x2F;home" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;projects.iq.harvard.edu&#x2F;galileo&#x2F;home</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>defrost</author><text>He&#x27;s numerically sound (astrophysics is <i>a lot</i> of math) but stretching things on alien interpretations.<p>His wikipedia page captures both facets:<p><pre><code> Loeb is the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University. He had been the longest serving chair of Harvard&#x27;s Department of Astronomy (2011–2020), founding director of Harvard&#x27;s Black Hole Initiative (since 2016) and director of the Institute for Theory and Computation (since 2007) within the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Loeb is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Physical Society, and the International Academy of Astronautics. In July 2018, he was appointed as chair of the Board on Physics and Astronomy (BPA) of the National Academies,
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and:<p><pre><code> In June 2023, Loeb announced the project had found interstellar material on the ocean floor..
These claims were criticized by other scientists as hasty, sensational, and part of a pattern of improper behavior.
Peter Brown, a meteor physicist at the University of Western Ontario, argued the material can be explained as non-interstellar, [...] Brown further said he was disturbed by Loeb&#x27;s lack of engagement with relevant experts.
Astrophysicist Steve Desch, at Arizona State University, commented &quot;[his claims are] polluting good science—conflating the good science we do with this ridiculous sensationalism and sucking all the oxygen out of the room&quot;, and said several of his colleagues are consequently refusing to engage with Loeb in the peer review process.
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As noted elsewhere about a competant brain surgeon believing pyramids to be hollow, it&#x27;s entirely possible to reason well about physical forces and black holes and to also be utterly incorrect about material science of metallurgy.<p>quotes from: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Avi_Loeb" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Avi_Loeb</a></text></comment> |
18,572,996 | 18,572,988 | 1 | 3 | 18,571,426 | train | <story><title>Poverty in America: Greater Than Statistics Indicate</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-11-26/poverty-in-america-greater-than-statistics-indicate</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>post_break</author><text>People cannot buy a phone outright. It&#x27;s that bad. We&#x27;re literally financing a $500-1000 device because they can&#x27;t take the hit up front. Now I&#x27;m sure most people here could swing a phone tomorrow if they needed to say theirs was stolen, but you gotta think about how many people just can&#x27;t. How about tires, there are places to rent tires. Financing a car? Common. 8 payments to put two front tires on your car? Seems insane, but for a lot of people in America it&#x27;s either that or you keep the donut on for a few more months.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>umvi</author><text>I&#x27;m a well off software developer. I&#x27;ve been using a $50 Nokia Lumia 520 for the past 3 years or so. When this one dies I&#x27;ll likely &quot;splurge&quot; and buy a Nokia 2 ($100). That our I&#x27;ll buy a Blu phone ($50).<p>I would consider my neighbors poor. They have state-subsidized rent, for example. They use food stamps. They also smoke a pack a day each. All they need to do to buy a new phone is not smoke for 5 days. Not that it matters, they all have iPhones inexplicably. It&#x27;s just a viscous self-feeding cycle and I don&#x27;t know how to help them break out of it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Poverty in America: Greater Than Statistics Indicate</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-11-26/poverty-in-america-greater-than-statistics-indicate</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>post_break</author><text>People cannot buy a phone outright. It&#x27;s that bad. We&#x27;re literally financing a $500-1000 device because they can&#x27;t take the hit up front. Now I&#x27;m sure most people here could swing a phone tomorrow if they needed to say theirs was stolen, but you gotta think about how many people just can&#x27;t. How about tires, there are places to rent tires. Financing a car? Common. 8 payments to put two front tires on your car? Seems insane, but for a lot of people in America it&#x27;s either that or you keep the donut on for a few more months.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zaroth</author><text>I think there’s nothing inherently wrong with spreading out payments for durable goods over the lifespan of the device, <i>only</i> if it can be done at a reason APY.<p>The problem with pay-as-you-go is the interest rates, penalties, fees, etc.<p>When AT&amp;T or Apple sells me a phone with a monthly payment, I take it because it’s literally the price divided by 24 payments. Zero percent interest. No brainer.<p>Better debt servicing and better risk assessment and higher trust in buyers would bring down default rates and decrease APY making these programs reasonable and proper. At the extortionate rates necessary due to the extreme default rates and difficulty in collecting payments, they are terrible.</text></comment> |
3,211,220 | 3,211,210 | 1 | 3 | 3,210,671 | train | <story><title>The Knife Maker</title><url>http://thisismadebyhand.com/film/the_knife_maker</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kitcar</author><text>I don't totally get the thought that handmade is always better.<p>Specifically, reminds me of a skit from Portlandia (IFC) about hand made light bulbs - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P85vZpYF3Yg" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P85vZpYF3Yg</a> .</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>diego_moita</author><text>&#62; I don't totally get the thought that handmade is always better.<p>This. I live in a 3rd world country (Brazil) and see a lot of truth in what you say. This film talks about art, not about consistent production of quality.<p>Take a man with passion, resources, intelligence and immense dedication and he will produce a work of high quality; doesn't matter if it is shoes, painting, engineering, suits or knives.<p>But it just doesn't scale. You won't find many more people with the same skills. You won't be able to produce as much as 15 robots in Germany. And you also need an extremely up-scale market for your product (NY food scene, in this case). And you also need very efficient marketing (in this case a photographer to introduce him to the chefs community).<p>Bottom line: this guy is like a panda living in a extremely rare and delicate niche environment. Once the NY food scene vanishes he is toast. Find someone in India or China willing to do the same for 1/10 th of the price and he is toast. Have smarter knife making robots in Germany and he is toast. Any tiny little perturbation can get him out of the market.<p>There's a reason why industrial revolution succeeded. There's a reason why families of hundreds of years of pottery makers in India are going extinct (lighter, cheaper and uglier plastic bowls). There's a reason why my wife's father gave up on beautiful handmade carpentry. The reason is that ugly but cheap and good enough is what almost everyone wants.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Knife Maker</title><url>http://thisismadebyhand.com/film/the_knife_maker</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kitcar</author><text>I don't totally get the thought that handmade is always better.<p>Specifically, reminds me of a skit from Portlandia (IFC) about hand made light bulbs - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P85vZpYF3Yg" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P85vZpYF3Yg</a> .</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>subpixel</author><text>Making and selling handmade products does not guarantee happiness or success (see <a href="http://nyti.ms/srgRtu" rel="nofollow">http://nyti.ms/srgRtu</a>). I think in the vast majority of cases, 'doing it by hand' is probably not the answer.<p>What's inspiring about this guy is that he's succeeding by serving a vibrant professional market. The chefs who drop a grand on a couple of his knives are using them in the kitchen to make money. They want the best tools for the job, and everyone wins. It's product/market fit.<p>So kudos to him.<p>But don't get so inspired you drop everything to build the most beautiful product in the world believing people will buy it _because_ of how hard you worked on it or how awesome it is.</text></comment> |
41,285,696 | 41,285,419 | 1 | 3 | 41,284,335 | train | <story><title>Micro-libraries should never be used</title><url>https://bvisness.me/microlibraries/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ristos</author><text>Micro-libraries are really good actually, they&#x27;re highly modular, self-contained code, often making it really easy to understand what&#x27;s going on.<p>Another advantage is that because they&#x27;re so minimal and self-contained, they&#x27;re often &quot;completed&quot;, because they achieved what they set out to do. So there&#x27;s no need to continually patch it for security updates, or at least you need to do it less often, and it&#x27;s less likely that you&#x27;ll be dealing with breaking changes.<p>The UNIX philosophy is also build on the idea of small programs, just like micro-libraries, of doing one thing and one thing well, and composing those things to make larger things.<p>I would argue the problem is how dependencies in general are added to projects, which the blog author pointed out with left-pad. Copy-paste works, but I would argue the best way is to fork the libraries and add submodules to your project. Then if you want to pull a new version of the library, you can update the fork and review the changes. It&#x27;s an explicit approach to managing it that can prevent a lot of pitfalls like malicious actors, breaking changes leading to bugs, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>foul</author><text>Micro-libraries anywhere else are everything you said: building blocks that come after a little study of the language and its stdlib and will speed up development of non-trivial programs.<p>In JS and NPM they are a plague, because they promise to be a substitute for competence in basic programming theory, competence in JS, gaps and bad APIs inside JS, and <i>de-facto</i> standards in the programming community like the oldest operating functions in libc.<p>There are a lot of ways for padding a number in JS and a decent dev would keep an own utility library or hell a function to copy-paste for that. But no. npm users are taught to fire and forget, and update everything, no concept of vendoring (that would have made incidents like left-pad, faker and colors less maddening, while vendoring is even bolt in npm and it&#x27;s very good!). They for years copy-pasted in the wrong window, really, they should copypaste blocks of code and not npm commands. And God helps you if you type out your npm commands because bad actors have bought the trend and made millions of libraries with a hundred different scams waiting for fat fingers.<p>By understanding that JS in the backend is optimizing for reducing cost whatever the price, becoming Smalltalk for the browser and for PHP devs, you would expect some kind of standard to emerge for having a single way to do routine stuff. Instead in JS-world you get TypeScript, and in a future maybe WASM. JS is just doomed. Like, we are doomed if JS isn&#x27;t, to be honest.</text></comment> | <story><title>Micro-libraries should never be used</title><url>https://bvisness.me/microlibraries/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ristos</author><text>Micro-libraries are really good actually, they&#x27;re highly modular, self-contained code, often making it really easy to understand what&#x27;s going on.<p>Another advantage is that because they&#x27;re so minimal and self-contained, they&#x27;re often &quot;completed&quot;, because they achieved what they set out to do. So there&#x27;s no need to continually patch it for security updates, or at least you need to do it less often, and it&#x27;s less likely that you&#x27;ll be dealing with breaking changes.<p>The UNIX philosophy is also build on the idea of small programs, just like micro-libraries, of doing one thing and one thing well, and composing those things to make larger things.<p>I would argue the problem is how dependencies in general are added to projects, which the blog author pointed out with left-pad. Copy-paste works, but I would argue the best way is to fork the libraries and add submodules to your project. Then if you want to pull a new version of the library, you can update the fork and review the changes. It&#x27;s an explicit approach to managing it that can prevent a lot of pitfalls like malicious actors, breaking changes leading to bugs, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ivan_gammel</author><text>&gt; So there&#x27;s no need to continually patch it for security updates, or at least you need to do it less often, and it&#x27;s less likely that you&#x27;ll be dealing with breaking changes.<p>Regardless of how supposedly good or small is the library, the frequency at which you need to <i>check</i> for updates is the same. It doesn’t have anything to do with the perceived or original quality of the code. Every 3rd party library has at least the dependency on platform and platforms are big, they have vulnerabilities and introduce breaking changes. Then there’s a question of trust and consistency of your delivery process. You won’t adapt your routines based on specifics of every tiny piece of 3rd party code, so you probably check for updates regularly and for everything at once. Then their size is no longer an advantage.<p>&gt; Copy-paste works, but I would argue the best way is to fork the libraries and add submodules to your project. Then if you want to pull a new version of the library, you can update the fork and review the changes.<p>This sounds “theoretical” and is not going to work at scale. You cannot seriously expect application level developers to understand low level details of every dependency they want to use. For a meaningful code review of merges they must be domain experts, otherwise effectiveness of such approach will be very low - they will inevitably have to trust the authors and just merge without going into details.</text></comment> |
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