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33,053,404 | 33,052,081 | 1 | 3 | 33,050,270 | train | <story><title>Stellarium 1.0</title><url>https://stellarium.org/release/2022/10/01/stellarium-1.0.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joshumax</author><text>Funny I should see this on the front page of HN the day before I finish my Stellarium port for Nintendo Switch [1]. Unfortunately a lot of the UI code in the 1.0 release made it harder to port so I&#x27;m currently basing the Switch version on the 0.xy tags, but it&#x27;s still a great accomplishment for the Stellarium team!<p>1: Unless I get approval from Nintendo AND Noctua you will need an RCMed Switch with Atmosphere to run it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stellarium 1.0</title><url>https://stellarium.org/release/2022/10/01/stellarium-1.0.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sva_</author><text>&gt; Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.<p>In case someone was wondering.</text></comment> |
19,969,430 | 19,969,346 | 1 | 2 | 19,969,014 | train | <story><title>Facebook and Google pressured EU experts to soften fake news regulations</title><url>https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/facebook-and-google-pressured-eu-experts-soften-fake-news-regulations-say-insiders/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>akavel</author><text>Oh wow, that&#x27;s really rough:<p><i>&quot;Monique Goyens – director-general of BEUC, which is also known as The European Consumer Association – is blunter. &#x27;We were blackmailed,&#x27; she says. [...]</i><p><i>Facebook’s chief lobbyist, Richard Allan – another member of the expert group – said [...] to another group member: &#x27;He threatened that if we did not stop talking about competition tools, Facebook would stop its support for journalistic and academic projects.&#x27;&quot;</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>szbalint</author><text>I think the really damning bit is:<p>&gt; According to Frau-Meigs, independent funding for academics as well as journalists is extremely important. “Google and Facebook are paying these partnerships from their direct marketing arm, not through more neutral foundations,” she says.<p>This seems to be implying that Facebook and Google are paying these partnerships partly or mainly to coopt the researchers in order to avoid public relations or regulatory issues.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook and Google pressured EU experts to soften fake news regulations</title><url>https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/facebook-and-google-pressured-eu-experts-soften-fake-news-regulations-say-insiders/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>akavel</author><text>Oh wow, that&#x27;s really rough:<p><i>&quot;Monique Goyens – director-general of BEUC, which is also known as The European Consumer Association – is blunter. &#x27;We were blackmailed,&#x27; she says. [...]</i><p><i>Facebook’s chief lobbyist, Richard Allan – another member of the expert group – said [...] to another group member: &#x27;He threatened that if we did not stop talking about competition tools, Facebook would stop its support for journalistic and academic projects.&#x27;&quot;</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mc32</author><text>All of this “do good” nonsense FB and Google do is just another tool in their arsenal to support and serve their main business. They don’t care who it helps <i>or</i> hurts. They only care that these proxies help them.</text></comment> |
39,046,081 | 39,046,063 | 1 | 2 | 39,029,279 | train | <story><title>RSA is deceptively simple and fun</title><url>https://ntietz.com/blog/rsa-deceptively-simple/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>glial</author><text>I always hear this caveat, and I&#x27;m sure you&#x27;re right, but I&#x27;m curious about the threat model here. If I roll my own RSA using e.g. GMP[1], what would it take to find vulnerabilities? Is there some automated software that could do it automatically for free&#x2F;cheap, or would it take the resources of a highly specialized org?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gmplib.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gmplib.org</a></text></item><item><author>lisper</author><text>The basics of RSA are deceptively simple and fun but if you actually care about security then there are dozens of details you have to worry about which are deceptively nuanced and complicated. It&#x27;s fine to play around with toy implementations like this, but you should never ever use such an implementation in an application where security actually matters. (In fact, if security matters, you probably should not be using RSA at all because there are so many ways to shoot yourself in the foot with it if you are not extremely careful. ECDH and ECDSA are much better, especially when used with Edwards curves like Curve25519.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>woodruffw</author><text>Generally speaking: if your RSA decryption implementation has <i>any</i> timing sidechannels, then it is probably vulnerable to some kind of Bleichenbacher variant.<p>As far as I know, GMP doesn&#x27;t many any attempts to be generally resistant to timing channels. This year&#x27;s Bleichenbacher variant[1] specifically calls out GMP&#x27;s modular exponentiation API (which is what you&#x27;d use for RSA) as being susceptible to timing.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;people.redhat.com&#x2F;~hkario&#x2F;marvin&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;people.redhat.com&#x2F;~hkario&#x2F;marvin&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>RSA is deceptively simple and fun</title><url>https://ntietz.com/blog/rsa-deceptively-simple/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>glial</author><text>I always hear this caveat, and I&#x27;m sure you&#x27;re right, but I&#x27;m curious about the threat model here. If I roll my own RSA using e.g. GMP[1], what would it take to find vulnerabilities? Is there some automated software that could do it automatically for free&#x2F;cheap, or would it take the resources of a highly specialized org?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gmplib.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gmplib.org</a></text></item><item><author>lisper</author><text>The basics of RSA are deceptively simple and fun but if you actually care about security then there are dozens of details you have to worry about which are deceptively nuanced and complicated. It&#x27;s fine to play around with toy implementations like this, but you should never ever use such an implementation in an application where security actually matters. (In fact, if security matters, you probably should not be using RSA at all because there are so many ways to shoot yourself in the foot with it if you are not extremely careful. ECDH and ECDSA are much better, especially when used with Edwards curves like Curve25519.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pvg</author><text>Random nerds on the internet with little more training than a few of the cryptopals exercises will likely find gaping, game-over vulnerabilities in an RSA implementation you threw together with an arbitrary precision maths library.</text></comment> |
9,040,647 | 9,040,833 | 1 | 2 | 9,040,266 | train | <story><title>Principal component analysis explained visually</title><url>http://setosa.io/ev/principal-component-analysis/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jrullmann</author><text>Seeing how each visualization adjusts as I change the original dataset is so useful. The technique reminds me of Bret Victor&#x27;s amazing work.<p>Ladder of Abstraction Essay: <a href="http://worrydream.com/#!2/LadderOfAbstraction" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;worrydream.com&#x2F;#!2&#x2F;LadderOfAbstraction</a><p>Stop Drawing Dead Fish Video: <a href="https://vimeo.com/64895205" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;64895205</a><p>This is awesome, thanks for sharing!</text></comment> | <story><title>Principal component analysis explained visually</title><url>http://setosa.io/ev/principal-component-analysis/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kaitai</author><text>Very nice! I actually used the featured example from Mark Richardson&#x27;s class notes on Principal Component Analysis (<a href="http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/richardsonm/SignalProcPCA.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;people.maths.ox.ac.uk&#x2F;richardsonm&#x2F;SignalProcPCA.pdf</a>) in teaching. It was astounding how clear it was to some people and how unclear to others.<p>I did a singular value decomposition on a data set similar to the one Richardson used (except with international data). The original post here looks at the projection to country-coordinates, looking at what axes describe primary differences between countries. My students had no problem with that -- Wales and North Ireland are most different, in your example, and &#x27;give&#x27; the first principal axis. But then I continued to do it with the foods, as Richardson did (look at Figure 4 in the linked file). Students concluded in large numbers that people just don&#x27;t like fresh fruit and do like fresh potatoes. Hm. They didn&#x27;t conclude that people don&#x27;t like Wales and do like North Ireland; they accurately saw it as an axis. But once we were talking about food instead of countries, students saw projection to the eigenspace as being indicative of some percentage of approval.<p>How could we visually display both parts of this principal component analysis to combat this prejudice that sometimes leads us to read left to right as worse to better?</text></comment> |
24,595,989 | 24,593,418 | 1 | 2 | 24,593,028 | train | <story><title>Swift System Is Now Open Source</title><url>https://swift.org/blog/swift-system/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FlyingSnake</author><text>Swift is slowly evolving into a formidable competitor to C++, and Rust. SwiftNIO, Swift on Windows and now this multiplatform System library, Swift is truly on its way to become a mainstream systems language. Exciting Tim times indeed!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whatever_dude</author><text>Only that Apple&#x27;s track record for supporting anything long term, cross platform, &quot;open&quot;, is non-existent.<p>At this point I don&#x27;t even care about how good their language is. Apple has a very, very long way to go before I can trust them on anything of that magnitude. I would instead assume they WILL pull the rug from under developers for any random reason.<p>(And I say this as an iOS developer)</text></comment> | <story><title>Swift System Is Now Open Source</title><url>https://swift.org/blog/swift-system/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FlyingSnake</author><text>Swift is slowly evolving into a formidable competitor to C++, and Rust. SwiftNIO, Swift on Windows and now this multiplatform System library, Swift is truly on its way to become a mainstream systems language. Exciting Tim times indeed!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjmlp</author><text>On Apple platforms yes, on the other ones still needs to learn to walk, before it can fight.</text></comment> |
38,468,528 | 38,467,547 | 1 | 3 | 38,456,230 | train | <story><title>Exploring Self-Hosted Email Services</title><url>https://synergeticlabs.com/email-alchemy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ishandotpage</author><text>The corporates are pretty good at keeping self hosters emails out of their user&#x27;s inboxes citing &quot;Spam&quot;</text></item><item><author>chatmasta</author><text>I&#x27;d like to be a purist about email, but I just can&#x27;t bring myself to care, because as long as my correspondent is a corporate whore, why shouldn&#x27;t I be too? A copy of the email is going to end up on their servers anyway.<p>In other words, I can only protect email from my provider as long as everyone else on the email protects it from theirs. And it only takes one gmail user on the thread to ruin it for everybody.<p>If I&#x27;m corresponding with people who also care about this kind of thing, we aren&#x27;t using email. If we absolutely have to, then we can encrypt it with PGP.<p>My email use cases are: (1) b2b professional emails, which you expect to be retained for compliance, etc. and (2) transactional emails, which my provider unavoidably has access to and which I protect with strong passwords and 2FA. (That said, I would like to obscure the list of my internet accounts from google, so maybe one day I&#x27;ll migrate my transactional emails somewhere else.)</text></item><item><author>baz00</author><text>I used to run mail server for a large corporation in the late 90s. I always get really excited and nostalgic about running my own mail server when I see these articles. I have a spare domain I use for testing stuff on so occasionally I&#x27;ll futz with postfix and dovecot for a bit etc and get something working on Vultr or some other cheap VPS. Then I&#x27;ll spend an hour getting Thunderbird and K-9 working and I&#x27;ll send and receive a few emails.<p>Then I&#x27;ll remember I just spent 6 hours of my Saturday fucking around with it and now have to live with it and maintain it. So I go crawling back to outlook.com like the pathetic corporate whore I am and go and do something less painful the day after.<p>I&#x27;ll just keep my private comms off email.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Ayesh</author><text>This certainly seems to be the consensus about self hosting email, but but I&#x27;m now convinced otherwise.<p>I send a couple newsletters (one tech related, other for marketing for a coffee shop&#x2F;bakery I own), and it was fairly easy to land on inboxes. Now, I don&#x27;t know with a 100% certainty that they were delivered, but if DMARC records and bounces are anything to go by, self hosted emails aren&#x27;t all that hard.<p>When you buy a VPS, it helps to check if the IP you receive is already blacklisted. After that, it&#x27;s easy to use some outside service to monitor DMARC responses and blacklist. There are about 40 black list databases. My domains and the IP address are on none of them.</text></comment> | <story><title>Exploring Self-Hosted Email Services</title><url>https://synergeticlabs.com/email-alchemy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ishandotpage</author><text>The corporates are pretty good at keeping self hosters emails out of their user&#x27;s inboxes citing &quot;Spam&quot;</text></item><item><author>chatmasta</author><text>I&#x27;d like to be a purist about email, but I just can&#x27;t bring myself to care, because as long as my correspondent is a corporate whore, why shouldn&#x27;t I be too? A copy of the email is going to end up on their servers anyway.<p>In other words, I can only protect email from my provider as long as everyone else on the email protects it from theirs. And it only takes one gmail user on the thread to ruin it for everybody.<p>If I&#x27;m corresponding with people who also care about this kind of thing, we aren&#x27;t using email. If we absolutely have to, then we can encrypt it with PGP.<p>My email use cases are: (1) b2b professional emails, which you expect to be retained for compliance, etc. and (2) transactional emails, which my provider unavoidably has access to and which I protect with strong passwords and 2FA. (That said, I would like to obscure the list of my internet accounts from google, so maybe one day I&#x27;ll migrate my transactional emails somewhere else.)</text></item><item><author>baz00</author><text>I used to run mail server for a large corporation in the late 90s. I always get really excited and nostalgic about running my own mail server when I see these articles. I have a spare domain I use for testing stuff on so occasionally I&#x27;ll futz with postfix and dovecot for a bit etc and get something working on Vultr or some other cheap VPS. Then I&#x27;ll spend an hour getting Thunderbird and K-9 working and I&#x27;ll send and receive a few emails.<p>Then I&#x27;ll remember I just spent 6 hours of my Saturday fucking around with it and now have to live with it and maintain it. So I go crawling back to outlook.com like the pathetic corporate whore I am and go and do something less painful the day after.<p>I&#x27;ll just keep my private comms off email.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>radiowave</author><text>One pragmatic solution to this is to use an email relay service to handle the outbound mail. Now, the hair-shirt self hoster&#x27;s response to this idea might be, &quot;But that means trusting a third party!&quot; And indeed it does. But as the parent comment points out, in the vast general case we&#x27;re committed to trusting whichever third parties our correspondent uses (or finding alternive means of communication.)</text></comment> |
21,315,911 | 21,315,579 | 1 | 2 | 21,312,109 | train | <story><title>Elm 0.19.1</title><url>https://elm-lang.org/news/the-syntax-cliff</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sunseb</author><text>I built a project using Elm last summer. Here is my quick feedback:<p>+ The language syntax is very nice and refreshing.<p>+ It&#x27;s a joy to work with the compiler.<p>+ If it&#x27;s compiling, it&#x27;s working! No runtime exceptions.<p>+ Static typing!<p>+ Functional programming!<p>- The language doesn&#x27;t have component composition (like in React or Vue) and you end up having huge chunks of spaghetti code (but to be fair, it kind of works because of the compiler).<p>- It&#x27;s complicated to implement routing and to build a Single Page Application.<p>- Only pure functions in Elm, so doing API calls and generating random numbers are unnecessary hard.<p>- It&#x27;s a pain to parse JSON.<p>- There is no variable shadowing, so naming your stuff is harder than it should be.<p>- Vue embraces HTML, Elm avoids HTML, and it&#x27;s really a pain to build HTML view in Elm. &lt;div&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;hello&quot;&gt;world&lt;&#x2F;a&gt;&lt;&#x2F;div&gt; becomes div [] [ a [ href &quot;hello&quot; ] [ text &#x27;world&quot; ] ]<p>- There is a lack of leadership and community building in this project. We don&#x27;t know what&#x27;s going on and where the project is going. It&#x27;s like a black box. No roadmap. All issues on Github, all posts on Elm Discourse get no response.<p>So in the end, Elm is an interesting beast, but I think it&#x27;s too academical and not really practical for serious projects.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>quickthrower2</author><text>I had the same viewpoint, but something keeps me coming back to Elm for curiosity. I think if NoRedInk can use it for all their client side stuff then it must be capable and all of the advantages outweigh the annoyances enough to stick with it for a commercial setting.<p>My analogy there is Agile. Years ago no company would do agile and probably because no other company was doing it. Then Thoughtworks etc. started doing it, and slowly the proof that it can work spread around. I think this could happen with Elm.<p>But like agile I think there is some counter-intuitive ideas, sort of &#x27;go slow to go fast&#x27; type of things that you need to get your head around.<p>I struggled and still struggle but I want to give Elm a fair go. My peeves were:<p>1. Can&#x27;t component-ize like React.<p>2. Lots of &#x27;boilerplate&#x27; to wire things up.<p>3. No promise like API for async, you need to do stuff via pub&#x2F;sub and ports.<p>However the counter points seem to be that.<p>1. You don&#x27;t need components - design a good model data structure and work out from there. There is a good video talk about this at an Elm conf.<p>2. By making us us wait and use ports for a lot of things in the meantime (and not just adding everything to the language or letting anyone use vanilla JS in their packages) the modules that you do use are &quot;pure&quot; and are almost guaranteed not to crash. And the API&#x27;s of Elm are well thought out because there is no rush to fill in all of the web platform.<p>This sort of thinking sounds like the &quot;100 year language&quot; way of thinking that PG writes about. What sort of language will we be using in 100 years? Hopefully something well thought out, not full of baggage because it was rushed.</text></comment> | <story><title>Elm 0.19.1</title><url>https://elm-lang.org/news/the-syntax-cliff</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sunseb</author><text>I built a project using Elm last summer. Here is my quick feedback:<p>+ The language syntax is very nice and refreshing.<p>+ It&#x27;s a joy to work with the compiler.<p>+ If it&#x27;s compiling, it&#x27;s working! No runtime exceptions.<p>+ Static typing!<p>+ Functional programming!<p>- The language doesn&#x27;t have component composition (like in React or Vue) and you end up having huge chunks of spaghetti code (but to be fair, it kind of works because of the compiler).<p>- It&#x27;s complicated to implement routing and to build a Single Page Application.<p>- Only pure functions in Elm, so doing API calls and generating random numbers are unnecessary hard.<p>- It&#x27;s a pain to parse JSON.<p>- There is no variable shadowing, so naming your stuff is harder than it should be.<p>- Vue embraces HTML, Elm avoids HTML, and it&#x27;s really a pain to build HTML view in Elm. &lt;div&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;hello&quot;&gt;world&lt;&#x2F;a&gt;&lt;&#x2F;div&gt; becomes div [] [ a [ href &quot;hello&quot; ] [ text &#x27;world&quot; ] ]<p>- There is a lack of leadership and community building in this project. We don&#x27;t know what&#x27;s going on and where the project is going. It&#x27;s like a black box. No roadmap. All issues on Github, all posts on Elm Discourse get no response.<p>So in the end, Elm is an interesting beast, but I think it&#x27;s too academical and not really practical for serious projects.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KurtMueller</author><text>&gt; - The language doesn&#x27;t have component composition (like in React or Vue) and you end up having huge chunks of spaghetti code (but to be fair, it kind of works because of the compiler).<p>Um... yea it does. Elm makes functional composition very easy which which means it&#x27;s very easy to compose &quot;components&quot; (which are just functions anyway).<p>&gt; - Only pure functions in Elm, so doing API calls and generating random numbers are unnecessary hard.<p>I would say that Elm makes doing API calls and generating random #s appropriately hard. Elm strives to corral side effects into one part of the Elm architecture: &quot;commands&quot;. By doing this, you&#x27;re keeping all code that contains side effects at the fringes of the walled garden you&#x27;re growing.<p>I think this explicitness&#x2F;discipline is needed in more codebases.<p>&gt; - It&#x27;s complicated to implement routing and to build a Single Page Application.<p>I agree, it&#x27;s no Ember, which comes with all the bells and whistles of a full router system, including page transitions, transition errors, data fetching, etc. Richard Feldman has an elm SPA example on github that shows how to create routes, pages, etc. The official Elm Guide also has sections on routing, etc.<p>&gt; So in the end, Elm is an interesting beast, but I think it&#x27;s too academical and not really practical for serious projects.<p>Too &quot;academical&quot;? Tell it to these devs: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogg.bekk.no&#x2F;using-elm-at-vy-e028b11179eb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogg.bekk.no&#x2F;using-elm-at-vy-e028b11179eb</a>.</text></comment> |
1,969,390 | 1,969,410 | 1 | 2 | 1,968,994 | train | <story><title>Sick Linux Commands</title><url>http://blog.urfix.com/25-sick-linux-commands/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notyourwork</author><text>Can I ask why not to just use tail? What benefit does this serve?</text></item><item><author>samstokes</author><text>Here's one more people should know about:<p><i>11) Make ‘less’ behave like ‘tail -f’</i><p><pre><code> less +F somelogfile
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<i>Using +F will put less in follow mode. This works similar to ‘tail -f’. To stop scrolling, use the interrupt</i> [i.e. Ctrl-C]. <i>Then you’ll get the normal benefits of less (scroll, etc.).</i><p><i>Pressing SHIFT-F will resume the ‘tailling’</i> [sic].<p>This is really useful for watching logs while debugging - if you see something interesting scroll past, Ctrl-C to freeze it, then you can use ? with a regex to search back for previous occurrences of the interesting thing.<p>To explain the cryptic +F syntax: anything you pass after the + is interpreted by less as if you'd pressed those keys while less was running, and Shift-F enables follow mode. So +F just puts less straight into tail mode.<p>Conversely, you can enable regular command-line options once a less session is already running, by just typing them. For example, I usually run 'less -i' for case-insensitive search, but if I forget the -i, I can just type -i once less has started to disable case sensitivity.<p>less is actually much more powerful than its standard use as a mere pager would suggest.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jfb</author><text>Can modern tails stop following and search back up the buffer? That's why I use less +F, personally.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sick Linux Commands</title><url>http://blog.urfix.com/25-sick-linux-commands/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notyourwork</author><text>Can I ask why not to just use tail? What benefit does this serve?</text></item><item><author>samstokes</author><text>Here's one more people should know about:<p><i>11) Make ‘less’ behave like ‘tail -f’</i><p><pre><code> less +F somelogfile
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<i>Using +F will put less in follow mode. This works similar to ‘tail -f’. To stop scrolling, use the interrupt</i> [i.e. Ctrl-C]. <i>Then you’ll get the normal benefits of less (scroll, etc.).</i><p><i>Pressing SHIFT-F will resume the ‘tailling’</i> [sic].<p>This is really useful for watching logs while debugging - if you see something interesting scroll past, Ctrl-C to freeze it, then you can use ? with a regex to search back for previous occurrences of the interesting thing.<p>To explain the cryptic +F syntax: anything you pass after the + is interpreted by less as if you'd pressed those keys while less was running, and Shift-F enables follow mode. So +F just puts less straight into tail mode.<p>Conversely, you can enable regular command-line options once a less session is already running, by just typing them. For example, I usually run 'less -i' for case-insensitive search, but if I forget the -i, I can just type -i once less has started to disable case sensitivity.<p>less is actually much more powerful than its standard use as a mere pager would suggest.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>halfasleep</author><text>less allows you to stop and resume easily, without losing any of the output of your command (useful if you are watching the output of a process as well). Also less doesn't clutter the scrollback of your terminal with output from tail.</text></comment> |
11,544,546 | 11,544,708 | 1 | 2 | 11,544,254 | train | <story><title>Argentine government favors farmers in dispute with Monsanto</title><url>http://en.mercopress.com/2016/04/15/argentine-government-favors-farmers-in-dispute-with-monsanto</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hodwik</author><text>If you don&#x27;t like Monsanto&#x27;s work, don&#x27;t pirate it. If you like it, pay the royalties.<p>It&#x27;s really very simple; if you don&#x27;t uphold their ability to defend their intellectual property you destroy the business model, and you&#x27;ll lose the research.<p>The US Government needs to step in here -- exactly the same as they would if Chinese companies were selling computers with pirated copies of Windows into US stores.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rauljara</author><text>The problem here is that Monsanto had defacto pressured Argentine shipping companies into inspecting cargo and demanding documentation from farmers. Monsanto just doesn&#x27;t have the right to do that, and Argentina is absolutely right to make that clear. It&#x27;s the same way record companies don&#x27;t have the authority to hire private police to break into your home and check if you have pirated mp3&#x27;s on your computer.</text></comment> | <story><title>Argentine government favors farmers in dispute with Monsanto</title><url>http://en.mercopress.com/2016/04/15/argentine-government-favors-farmers-in-dispute-with-monsanto</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hodwik</author><text>If you don&#x27;t like Monsanto&#x27;s work, don&#x27;t pirate it. If you like it, pay the royalties.<p>It&#x27;s really very simple; if you don&#x27;t uphold their ability to defend their intellectual property you destroy the business model, and you&#x27;ll lose the research.<p>The US Government needs to step in here -- exactly the same as they would if Chinese companies were selling computers with pirated copies of Windows into US stores.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>1_2__3</author><text>&gt; you destroy the business model, and you&#x27;ll lose the research.<p>Okay. Let&#x27;s try that for awhile and if that doesn&#x27;t work we can go back to acting as if companies are saving the world every day and if just us stupid constituents would acknowledge that everything would be awesome.</text></comment> |
15,883,084 | 15,882,745 | 1 | 3 | 15,880,724 | train | <story><title>Whale Watching: Many companies earn a huge portion of sales from a few customers</title><url>http://blog.secondmeasure.com/2017/12/07/whales/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>watwut</author><text>Game industry calls people who spend a lot of money on games &quot;whales&quot;. I guess it is because whales are supposed to have a lot of meat. None of people who use it knows a lot about biology and whale is likely the only big animal that can be eaten they know.</text></item><item><author>grawprog</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand I think that&#x27;s my highest rated comment on HN. I gotta admit I wrote it before I actually read the article. I really thought it was going to be about whale watching. I&#x27;ve been trying to figure out if there&#x27;s some kind of brilliant metaphor in that comment but honestly I can&#x27;t see one now that I&#x27;ve actually read it.</text></item><item><author>jnmandal</author><text>I think you are taking the metaphor a little bit too literally. :)</text></item><item><author>grawprog</author><text>When I was in school for Wildlife Management, we learned pretty much the same thing about hunting. More money gets made by, outfitting companies, tour guides and local communities by having a lottery style big game hunt than an open season. It attracts a few people who are willing to spend upwards of $20000 just to shoot one animal as opposed to many hunters coming in and not spending as much overall. It also tends to be better for the survival of the population as a whole though it does tend to lead to an overall weakening of the population though as only the biggest and strongest animals, that should be breeding, get removed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chickenfries</author><text>No it comes from Whaling, as in hunting whales for their spermaceti which was used as a fuel and to make many products. Whale meat is actually not usually sold by whalers. Not a lot of good methods for preserving meat in the 19th C on a boat.<p>Whaling is compared to businesses that rely on a small number of big spenders to be profitable because whaling is a similar high risk high reward business, compared to fishing. Whaling is even more dangerous than fishing, requires being at sea for a month at a time... if you fail to catch a whale, no one on the ship gets paid. Whalers were paid in equity. A lowly deckhand would make a very small amount compared to a spearman who killed a whale or the captain, but there were rewards for spotting the whale and even the deckhand would probably make enough money to take off work for a while before having to return to sea.<p>(Anyone else enjoy Moby Dick?)</text></comment> | <story><title>Whale Watching: Many companies earn a huge portion of sales from a few customers</title><url>http://blog.secondmeasure.com/2017/12/07/whales/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>watwut</author><text>Game industry calls people who spend a lot of money on games &quot;whales&quot;. I guess it is because whales are supposed to have a lot of meat. None of people who use it knows a lot about biology and whale is likely the only big animal that can be eaten they know.</text></item><item><author>grawprog</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand I think that&#x27;s my highest rated comment on HN. I gotta admit I wrote it before I actually read the article. I really thought it was going to be about whale watching. I&#x27;ve been trying to figure out if there&#x27;s some kind of brilliant metaphor in that comment but honestly I can&#x27;t see one now that I&#x27;ve actually read it.</text></item><item><author>jnmandal</author><text>I think you are taking the metaphor a little bit too literally. :)</text></item><item><author>grawprog</author><text>When I was in school for Wildlife Management, we learned pretty much the same thing about hunting. More money gets made by, outfitting companies, tour guides and local communities by having a lottery style big game hunt than an open season. It attracts a few people who are willing to spend upwards of $20000 just to shoot one animal as opposed to many hunters coming in and not spending as much overall. It also tends to be better for the survival of the population as a whole though it does tend to lead to an overall weakening of the population though as only the biggest and strongest animals, that should be breeding, get removed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kevin_thibedeau</author><text>It comes from the casino industry where the big gamblers are &quot;whales&quot;. They get all the perks so they can keep on losing money to the house.</text></comment> |
41,753,421 | 41,752,905 | 1 | 3 | 41,751,568 | train | <story><title>World-first therapy using donor cells sends autoimmune diseases into remission</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03209-4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kiba</author><text>Is there a way to speed up trials without compromising quality?</text></item><item><author>thebeardisred</author><text>In the US, my &quot;back of the napkin&quot; estimate tends to be 8-15 years, if it passes trials.</text></item><item><author>sosuke</author><text>For the sake of my question let’s assume this is legit and magically works for a wide range of autoimmune conditions. How many years away are we from being able to sign up for this treatment? 10 years? 20? 30?<p>It would be nice to dream of it happening sometime soon.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwup238</author><text>Only for orphan and ultra orphan diseases where there are so few patients that it’s not economically viable to do full clinical trials.<p>There is also a breakthrough therapy designation where the clinical evidence is solid enough to release the drug while they finish full trials but that’s only in exceptional cases.</text></comment> | <story><title>World-first therapy using donor cells sends autoimmune diseases into remission</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03209-4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kiba</author><text>Is there a way to speed up trials without compromising quality?</text></item><item><author>thebeardisred</author><text>In the US, my &quot;back of the napkin&quot; estimate tends to be 8-15 years, if it passes trials.</text></item><item><author>sosuke</author><text>For the sake of my question let’s assume this is legit and magically works for a wide range of autoimmune conditions. How many years away are we from being able to sign up for this treatment? 10 years? 20? 30?<p>It would be nice to dream of it happening sometime soon.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Retric</author><text>Not really, the process gets shortcut when the benefits of moving fast are dramatic enough.<p>So sure we could speed things up by killing more people undergoing medical experiments. But the current approach of validating safety in humans then efficacy in humans is inherently serial. Further a lot more stuff is going into the pipeline than actually ends up working.</text></comment> |
9,806,701 | 9,804,503 | 1 | 3 | 9,801,904 | train | <story><title>Reality doesn’t exist until it is measured, quantum experiment finds</title><url>http://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/experiment-confirms-quantum-theory-weirdness</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>antimagic</author><text>I always find it fascinating at just how much of our fundamental physics ends up being constraints on information movement. The laws of thermodynamics are about entropy, general relativity puts constraints on the movement of information (for example, Spooky Action as a Distance(tm) is faster than light, but you can&#x27;t transmit information with it), the Uncertainty Principle puts limits on how much information you can have on a given system.<p>Information information everywhere you look in fundamental physics. It does make me wonder why.</text></item><item><author>zw123456</author><text>And perhaps someday we&#x27;ll get to meet the great programmer in the sky the developed the simulation we are living in and we will ask him why he designed it that way and he will say something like &quot;oh I just wanted to optimize the code so I simply excluded reality subroutines when there were no beings looking. I just never thought you guys would notice. As soon as I saw that you guys noticed the flaw, I was going to load a patch but then the confusion it was causing with the simulated beings became interesting and so I just left it in as an accidental feature of the game.&quot;
Meh, but probably not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marcosdumay</author><text>You can reconstruct every mathematical theory as information flow and restrictions. That&#x27;s a property of mathematics (Turing found that), not physics.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reality doesn’t exist until it is measured, quantum experiment finds</title><url>http://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/experiment-confirms-quantum-theory-weirdness</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>antimagic</author><text>I always find it fascinating at just how much of our fundamental physics ends up being constraints on information movement. The laws of thermodynamics are about entropy, general relativity puts constraints on the movement of information (for example, Spooky Action as a Distance(tm) is faster than light, but you can&#x27;t transmit information with it), the Uncertainty Principle puts limits on how much information you can have on a given system.<p>Information information everywhere you look in fundamental physics. It does make me wonder why.</text></item><item><author>zw123456</author><text>And perhaps someday we&#x27;ll get to meet the great programmer in the sky the developed the simulation we are living in and we will ask him why he designed it that way and he will say something like &quot;oh I just wanted to optimize the code so I simply excluded reality subroutines when there were no beings looking. I just never thought you guys would notice. As soon as I saw that you guys noticed the flaw, I was going to load a patch but then the confusion it was causing with the simulated beings became interesting and so I just left it in as an accidental feature of the game.&quot;
Meh, but probably not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheOtherHobbes</author><text>It&#x27;s hard to imagine a universe with infinite resolution. You&#x27;d effectively have an infinite number of bits in an infinitely dense space, which would potentially require infinite energy to flip.<p>But I suspect (on no basis whatsoever, except the fact that all previous metaphors have been wrong) that the &quot;universe = Turing machine model&quot; is wrong in some fundamental ways.<p>I have no idea what the universe is, but I&#x27;m open to the possibility that it isn&#x27;t <i>just</i> an information processing system.</text></comment> |
24,414,446 | 24,413,658 | 1 | 2 | 24,393,178 | train | <story><title>Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees during Covid-19</title><url>https://www.cnet.com/news/tech-firms-face-growing-resentment-of-parent-employees-during-covid-19/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CydeWeys</author><text>In modern society it&#x27;s basically required that both parents work full-time jobs. It&#x27;s not the 50s anymore; you can&#x27;t support an entire household with children on one income. So you can&#x27;t have the expectation that one of the parents give up a large chunk of their salary just to have kids. If you do structure society in this way then you get rapidly declining birth rates and very bad long-term population demographic problems (which many countries are already dealing with). Personally I think the best solution would be to have universal child care going down to age 0 (rather than just age 5 as it is now), which is common in many other countries. Because of efficiencies of scale, that&#x27;s cheaper than subsidizing all the foregone salary required by parents all individually giving up one of their two household jobs to devote to child-rearing.</text></item><item><author>ng12</author><text>What I&#x27;ve seen is the complaints are largely coming from couples that want to raise kids while both parents work full time jobs. Asking for fewer hours so you can continue that lifestyle is asking your employer and fellow employees to subsidize your second income, not your ability to have and raise children. My coworkers with SAH spouses aren&#x27;t feeling the burn anywhere near as badly -- it&#x27;s just an extended summer for them.<p>I feel a lot of empathy for single parents but those seem to be relatively rare in the field.</text></item><item><author>mc32</author><text>I agree. Parents are making sacrifices which benefit society as a whole. Those children the parents are taking care of now will be the ones who will provide for the one complaining now via taxes as well as services rendered to them.<p>If anything, companies should be providing more childcare so that more women (as well as some men) will have less of a burden balancing career and caregiving.<p>I see these people as being petty complainers who wouldn’t raise their own children (own or adopted) but complain someone else is willing to be a productive member of society engaging in the workforce and raising the productive adults of tomorrow when these complainers will be asking for benefits and services that would be unavailable without future adults.<p>It&#x27;s similar to &quot;I don&#x27;t take the bus, why should my taxes pay for public transit.&quot;<p>I would concede if there are people exploiting this privilege then that’s a problem and management should address it.</text></item><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>I am a middle-aged adult with no children who&#x27;s worked at tech firms for the past couple decades. To be honest, the &quot;resentment&quot; of those without children have for &quot;benefits&quot; those with children get strikes me as extremely selfish, immature and displaying a total lack of empathy. This is time off specifically to take care of children, something now that has become exceedingly more difficult in Covid times.<p>What&#x27;s next, complaining that the cancer patient gets extra time off so why don&#x27;t I?<p>If anything, I&#x27;m thankful for all those people with kids who will (a) take care of the continuation of the human race, and more selfishly (b) support our society and economy when I am too old to do so.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GuB-42</author><text>Ok, it is not the 50s but why could people do it in the 50s and why can&#x27;t we do it now?<p>We are hearing &quot;automation will destroy jobs&quot; left and right and for some reason, we can&#x27;t afford stay at home moms.<p>The &quot;universal child care&quot; argument makes me feel uncomfortable. It one step short of a dystopia. One where women would surrender their child to a state sponsored center where child care specialists make them productive members of society. Freed from their child rearing duty, &quot;mothers&quot; can continue working efficiently.<p>Why not just let mothers be mothers? What&#x27;s the point of progress if we can&#x27;t even do that. And also turn gender equality the right way, by letting fathers be fathers instead of requiring both parents to work full time.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees during Covid-19</title><url>https://www.cnet.com/news/tech-firms-face-growing-resentment-of-parent-employees-during-covid-19/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CydeWeys</author><text>In modern society it&#x27;s basically required that both parents work full-time jobs. It&#x27;s not the 50s anymore; you can&#x27;t support an entire household with children on one income. So you can&#x27;t have the expectation that one of the parents give up a large chunk of their salary just to have kids. If you do structure society in this way then you get rapidly declining birth rates and very bad long-term population demographic problems (which many countries are already dealing with). Personally I think the best solution would be to have universal child care going down to age 0 (rather than just age 5 as it is now), which is common in many other countries. Because of efficiencies of scale, that&#x27;s cheaper than subsidizing all the foregone salary required by parents all individually giving up one of their two household jobs to devote to child-rearing.</text></item><item><author>ng12</author><text>What I&#x27;ve seen is the complaints are largely coming from couples that want to raise kids while both parents work full time jobs. Asking for fewer hours so you can continue that lifestyle is asking your employer and fellow employees to subsidize your second income, not your ability to have and raise children. My coworkers with SAH spouses aren&#x27;t feeling the burn anywhere near as badly -- it&#x27;s just an extended summer for them.<p>I feel a lot of empathy for single parents but those seem to be relatively rare in the field.</text></item><item><author>mc32</author><text>I agree. Parents are making sacrifices which benefit society as a whole. Those children the parents are taking care of now will be the ones who will provide for the one complaining now via taxes as well as services rendered to them.<p>If anything, companies should be providing more childcare so that more women (as well as some men) will have less of a burden balancing career and caregiving.<p>I see these people as being petty complainers who wouldn’t raise their own children (own or adopted) but complain someone else is willing to be a productive member of society engaging in the workforce and raising the productive adults of tomorrow when these complainers will be asking for benefits and services that would be unavailable without future adults.<p>It&#x27;s similar to &quot;I don&#x27;t take the bus, why should my taxes pay for public transit.&quot;<p>I would concede if there are people exploiting this privilege then that’s a problem and management should address it.</text></item><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>I am a middle-aged adult with no children who&#x27;s worked at tech firms for the past couple decades. To be honest, the &quot;resentment&quot; of those without children have for &quot;benefits&quot; those with children get strikes me as extremely selfish, immature and displaying a total lack of empathy. This is time off specifically to take care of children, something now that has become exceedingly more difficult in Covid times.<p>What&#x27;s next, complaining that the cancer patient gets extra time off so why don&#x27;t I?<p>If anything, I&#x27;m thankful for all those people with kids who will (a) take care of the continuation of the human race, and more selfishly (b) support our society and economy when I am too old to do so.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>It’s not just the cost of childcare. Since divorce became acceptable, it became a huge liability for women to exit the workforce and permanently give up earning power to raise children. I’ve seen this first hand in my family and it’s really difficult.</text></comment> |
7,078,416 | 7,078,315 | 1 | 2 | 7,077,982 | train | <story><title>Obama's NSA 'reforms' are little more than a PR attempt to mollify the public</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/17/obama-nsa-reforms-bulk-surveillance-remains</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>spikels</author><text>Obama admits this is &quot;to restore public confidence&quot; not to fix a broken system. He doesn&#x27;t even think there is an actual problem. This is all about PR and very little, if anything, about reform.<p>Our power-mad leaders never give up any of their power without a long protracted fight. We have to continue to keep the pressure on until this is actually fixed.</text></comment> | <story><title>Obama's NSA 'reforms' are little more than a PR attempt to mollify the public</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/17/obama-nsa-reforms-bulk-surveillance-remains</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lukejduncan</author><text>If nothing else comes of this PR stunt I hope it&#x27;s more energy thrown into the EFF February 11th Campaign.<p>&quot;February 11th: The Day We Fight Back Against NSA Surveillance&quot;<p><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/01/february-11th-day-we-fight-back-against-nsa-surveillance" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2014&#x2F;01&#x2F;february-11th-day-we-f...</a></text></comment> |
30,020,407 | 30,020,308 | 1 | 2 | 30,018,763 | train | <story><title>The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward</title><url>https://www.pcworld.com/article/549576/the-windows-11-taskbar-is-an-annoying-step-backward.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gibolt</author><text>I hated the Ribbons. Nothing was categorized where I expected and none of the icons or sizes match their use or frequency of use.<p>Drop down menus are so much quicker to scan</text></item><item><author>cjbgkagh</author><text>UX at MS is this weird consulting style org. Maximum visibility with minimal accountability. I think the Office 2007 Ribbon was the last new thing they did that I liked, it just needed a search function to quickly refine the buttons. That wasn’t allowed externally because needing a search function was an indication that the UX designer failed. I know devs tend to hate the Ribbon but I thought it was well thought out.<p>UX was constantly trying to remove the start menu, I remember hearing that it was Bill Gates who was adamant that it stay in. I had a good laugh at Win8 when they finally got their chance to remove it and totally messed it up.<p>Now the Win11 UI is so slow that it feels like every click must be hitting telemetry first. When I right click I see the normal context menu briefly before the simplified context menu. Sometimes it’s so slow enough that buttons will move right before I click on them.<p>I now have a stutter in games making them unplayable. Having to boot into Linux for games is not something expected to happen so soon. I still use Windows for legacy reasons but few things would make me happier than deleting my windows partition for good.</text></item><item><author>Arainach</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s almost like some tiny extremist faction has gained control of Windows<p>This has been the case for a while. I worked on the Windows Desktop Experience Team from Win7-Win10. Starting around Win8, the designers had full control, and most crucially essentially none of the designers use Windows.<p>I spent far too many years of my career sitting in conference rooms explaining to the newest designer (because they seem to rotate every 6-18 months) with a shiny Macbook why various ideas had been tried and failed in usability studies because our users want X, Y, and Z.<p>Sometimes, the &quot;well, if you really want this it will take N dev-years&quot; approach got avoided things for a while, but just as often we were explicitly overruled. I fought passionately against things like the all-white title bars that made it impossible to tell active and inactive windows apart (was that Win10 or Win8? Either way user feedback was so strong that that got reverted in the very next update), the Edge title bar having no empty space on top so if your window hung off the right side and you opened too many tabs you could not move it, and so on. Others on my team fought battles against removing the Start button in Win8, trying to get section labels added to the Win8 Start Screen so it was obvious that you could scroll between them, and so on. In the end, the designers get what they want, the engineers who say &quot;yes we can do that&quot; get promoted, and those of us who argued most strongly for the users burnt out, retired, or left the team.<p>I probably still know a number of people on that team, I consider them friends and smart people, but after trying out Win11 in a VM I really have an urge to sit down with some of them and ask what the heck happened. For now, this is the first consumer Windows release since ME that I haven&#x27;t switched to right at release, and until they give me back my side taskbar I&#x27;m not switching.</text></item><item><author>userbinator</author><text>The strange trend of &quot;authoritarian minimalism&quot; design that seems to be working its way through the majority of newer software is very strange. I wonder who actually wants this stuff, and is not content to merely make it a default, but instead forces it to be the one and only way.<p>Monitors are bigger than ever with huge resolutions, and yet UIs are being dumbed down to uselessness and alienating an increasing number of users.<p>A recent related article <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29954266" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29954266</a> seems to indicate that not even people <i>inside</i> Microsoft --- who are being forced to use Win11, because MS --- have any say in the matter. It&#x27;s almost like some tiny extremist faction has gained control of Windows and is determined to show everyone else how much power they have by making these changes and gloating sadistically at seeing everyone object, but still end up using Windows.<p>I wonder how much damage they will inflict before people start turning to WINE and a saner Linux distro, just to run their Windows applications.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KronisLV</author><text>&gt; Drop down menus are so much quicker to scan<p>Another commenter mentioned OpenOffice (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openoffice.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openoffice.org&#x2F;</a>) but i&#x27;d also like to suggest LibreOffice (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.libreoffice.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.libreoffice.org&#x2F;</a>) as a capable and reasonably compatible alternative to MS Office, which retain the old look of dropdown menus.<p>If you don&#x27;t have the need to support very particular features of Office, then it might just be suitable to retain your preferred way of navigating the UI of an office suite app - on my personal computers i have just LibreOffice (with which i finished my bachelor&#x27;s and master&#x27;s thesis), whereas on my work computer i have both LibreOffice and Word, for those few exceptions when the latter is necessary.<p>That said, i can understand why many would also find the ribbon UI to be easy to navigate, should they get used to it. That&#x27;s why some Office clones, like WPS Office (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wps.com&#x2F;office&#x2F;linux&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wps.com&#x2F;office&#x2F;linux&#x2F;</a>) and FreeOffice (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.freeoffice.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.freeoffice.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;</a>) seem to copy it with varying degrees of success. That said, personally i like the open source nature of LibreOffice too and the file format itself not being proprietary.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward</title><url>https://www.pcworld.com/article/549576/the-windows-11-taskbar-is-an-annoying-step-backward.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gibolt</author><text>I hated the Ribbons. Nothing was categorized where I expected and none of the icons or sizes match their use or frequency of use.<p>Drop down menus are so much quicker to scan</text></item><item><author>cjbgkagh</author><text>UX at MS is this weird consulting style org. Maximum visibility with minimal accountability. I think the Office 2007 Ribbon was the last new thing they did that I liked, it just needed a search function to quickly refine the buttons. That wasn’t allowed externally because needing a search function was an indication that the UX designer failed. I know devs tend to hate the Ribbon but I thought it was well thought out.<p>UX was constantly trying to remove the start menu, I remember hearing that it was Bill Gates who was adamant that it stay in. I had a good laugh at Win8 when they finally got their chance to remove it and totally messed it up.<p>Now the Win11 UI is so slow that it feels like every click must be hitting telemetry first. When I right click I see the normal context menu briefly before the simplified context menu. Sometimes it’s so slow enough that buttons will move right before I click on them.<p>I now have a stutter in games making them unplayable. Having to boot into Linux for games is not something expected to happen so soon. I still use Windows for legacy reasons but few things would make me happier than deleting my windows partition for good.</text></item><item><author>Arainach</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s almost like some tiny extremist faction has gained control of Windows<p>This has been the case for a while. I worked on the Windows Desktop Experience Team from Win7-Win10. Starting around Win8, the designers had full control, and most crucially essentially none of the designers use Windows.<p>I spent far too many years of my career sitting in conference rooms explaining to the newest designer (because they seem to rotate every 6-18 months) with a shiny Macbook why various ideas had been tried and failed in usability studies because our users want X, Y, and Z.<p>Sometimes, the &quot;well, if you really want this it will take N dev-years&quot; approach got avoided things for a while, but just as often we were explicitly overruled. I fought passionately against things like the all-white title bars that made it impossible to tell active and inactive windows apart (was that Win10 or Win8? Either way user feedback was so strong that that got reverted in the very next update), the Edge title bar having no empty space on top so if your window hung off the right side and you opened too many tabs you could not move it, and so on. Others on my team fought battles against removing the Start button in Win8, trying to get section labels added to the Win8 Start Screen so it was obvious that you could scroll between them, and so on. In the end, the designers get what they want, the engineers who say &quot;yes we can do that&quot; get promoted, and those of us who argued most strongly for the users burnt out, retired, or left the team.<p>I probably still know a number of people on that team, I consider them friends and smart people, but after trying out Win11 in a VM I really have an urge to sit down with some of them and ask what the heck happened. For now, this is the first consumer Windows release since ME that I haven&#x27;t switched to right at release, and until they give me back my side taskbar I&#x27;m not switching.</text></item><item><author>userbinator</author><text>The strange trend of &quot;authoritarian minimalism&quot; design that seems to be working its way through the majority of newer software is very strange. I wonder who actually wants this stuff, and is not content to merely make it a default, but instead forces it to be the one and only way.<p>Monitors are bigger than ever with huge resolutions, and yet UIs are being dumbed down to uselessness and alienating an increasing number of users.<p>A recent related article <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29954266" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29954266</a> seems to indicate that not even people <i>inside</i> Microsoft --- who are being forced to use Win11, because MS --- have any say in the matter. It&#x27;s almost like some tiny extremist faction has gained control of Windows and is determined to show everyone else how much power they have by making these changes and gloating sadistically at seeing everyone object, but still end up using Windows.<p>I wonder how much damage they will inflict before people start turning to WINE and a saner Linux distro, just to run their Windows applications.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zentr1c</author><text>Ranting in Gibbons:)<p>Still i wonder how much it effects my productivity decline in Office since i still search sometimes for functionality.
In anyway it made me hate office and made Switch to open Office wherever i can.
However I attribute it to having kicked of my quest for a plaintext workflow because beeing f*ked over by feature bloat and Designer circle jerking once to many times.<p>Simplicity is king. Maybe its just the age that makes me realize that there are just to many layers of complexity.<p>I feel for the young learners that get thrown into this world and dont even understand the concept of a file system tree anymore. It has been abstracted away. it&#x27;s not in the cloud! It&#x27;s in the app with 3 klicks reachable or doesn&#x27;t exist.</text></comment> |
20,136,788 | 20,136,679 | 1 | 3 | 20,135,938 | train | <story><title>Huawei Accused of Technology Theft</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2019/06/08/730898429/huawei-accused-of-technology-theft</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>walrus01</author><text>It&#x27;s well known in the telecom&#x2F;internet infrastructure business that Huawei:<p>a) bugged the hell out of Nortel&#x27;s ottawa area offices, both physically, by rootkit, and by getting their own people hired to physically smuggle out documents and design data<p>b) Copied the entire DWDM &#x2F; optical transport product line<p>c) Released a nearly identical product a few years later, and sold it at a ridiculously low price, effectively killing Nortel.<p>Many years later the vacant ex-Nortel office buildings came up for lease. One of the candidate tenants for that large of an office space were parts of the Canadian federal government, ministry of defence, etc. Every serious tenant passed on the space because it&#x27;s so riddled with bugs.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ottawacitizen.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;national&#x2F;defence-watch&#x2F;the-mystery-of-the-listening-devices-at-dnds-nortel-campus" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ottawacitizen.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;national&#x2F;defence-watch&#x2F;the-my...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ctvnews.ca&#x2F;canada&#x2F;dnd-may-abandon-1b-move-to-former-nortel-site-because-of-surveillance-bugs-1.1477766" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ctvnews.ca&#x2F;canada&#x2F;dnd-may-abandon-1b-move-to-for...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theglobeandmail.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;politics&#x2F;department-of-national-defences-new-1-billion-facility-falls-short-on-security&#x2F;article31685234&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theglobeandmail.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;politics&#x2F;department-of-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fc373745</author><text>&gt;So what happened? Were listening devices found at the Nortel Campus or not?<p>The Department of National Defence keeps changing its story on that issue.<p>&gt;But after the Citizen article was published, Julie Di Mambro, spokeswoman for then Conservative Defence Minister Rob Nicholson, noted in a statement that, “security officials have assured us that they have not discovered any bugs or listening devices.”<p>The first article seems to heavily imply that there is no definite conclusion to this matter.</text></comment> | <story><title>Huawei Accused of Technology Theft</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2019/06/08/730898429/huawei-accused-of-technology-theft</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>walrus01</author><text>It&#x27;s well known in the telecom&#x2F;internet infrastructure business that Huawei:<p>a) bugged the hell out of Nortel&#x27;s ottawa area offices, both physically, by rootkit, and by getting their own people hired to physically smuggle out documents and design data<p>b) Copied the entire DWDM &#x2F; optical transport product line<p>c) Released a nearly identical product a few years later, and sold it at a ridiculously low price, effectively killing Nortel.<p>Many years later the vacant ex-Nortel office buildings came up for lease. One of the candidate tenants for that large of an office space were parts of the Canadian federal government, ministry of defence, etc. Every serious tenant passed on the space because it&#x27;s so riddled with bugs.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ottawacitizen.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;national&#x2F;defence-watch&#x2F;the-mystery-of-the-listening-devices-at-dnds-nortel-campus" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ottawacitizen.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;national&#x2F;defence-watch&#x2F;the-my...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ctvnews.ca&#x2F;canada&#x2F;dnd-may-abandon-1b-move-to-former-nortel-site-because-of-surveillance-bugs-1.1477766" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ctvnews.ca&#x2F;canada&#x2F;dnd-may-abandon-1b-move-to-for...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theglobeandmail.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;politics&#x2F;department-of-national-defences-new-1-billion-facility-falls-short-on-security&#x2F;article31685234&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theglobeandmail.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;politics&#x2F;department-of-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>codedokode</author><text>&gt; Released a nearly identical product a few years later, and sold it at a ridiculously low price,<p>If it violates the patents, then why did the company not sue Huawei and get a compensation? If it doesn&#x27;t violate the patents then what&#x27;s the problem?</text></comment> |
2,972,244 | 2,971,947 | 1 | 2 | 2,971,723 | train | <story><title>PHP will switch to git</title><url>http://news.php.net/php.internals/55293</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>socratic</author><text>Git appears to be fast becoming the standard DVCS.<p>Is there any reason that all reasonably well-run projects should not be using git?<p>GitHub seems vastly superior to BitBucket, and git itself seems pretty much isomorphic to hg (albeit with worse syntax). (This ignores darcs, bzr, etc., but those never seemed terribly competitive for mindshare.) Furthermore, the network effects (with pull requests on Github, not having to have people learn a new DVCS to commit to your project, etc.) seem huge.<p>Aside from some new innovation on the scale of switching from a centralized VCS to a distributed VCS, I can't imagine anything that would cause me to try to start a project in something other than git, learn another VCS other than git, or try to convert someone to another VCS other than git. Is this the wrong attitude?<p>Is there any chance that Python might see the light and switch to git from hg? At this stage, choosing hg over git for reasons that seem increasingly irrelevant (better Windows support at the time, written in C/shell rather than Python) is starting to look like a worse and worse historical decision.</text></comment> | <story><title>PHP will switch to git</title><url>http://news.php.net/php.internals/55293</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>beaumartinez</author><text>The votes are a <i>stark</i> contrast to those of the core Python developers when they were voting on which DVCS to migrate to[1]—although understandably they favoured Mercurial, they <i>disfavoured</i> git. (Bazaar got a good share of votes as well.) The victor's margin was much smaller.<p>This was all early-2009, though. I wonder if git's increasing popularity has swayed the core PHP developers?<p>[1] <a href="http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0374/#why-mercurial-over-other-dvcss" rel="nofollow">http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0374/#why-mercurial-over-...</a></text></comment> |
30,616,234 | 30,616,390 | 1 | 3 | 30,615,411 | train | <story><title>Senior devs. Is anyone else insulted by coding exams?</title><text>After an invitation to apply for a job with a YC company yesterday (an email from the CEO offering to &quot;have a conversation&quot;) I got a generic invite to take an online coding test in Javascript.<p>I&#x27;ve written JS and shipped numerous apps in it over the last 20 years and let me tell ya, if anyone worked for me and wrote code like I saw on those tests, I&#x27;d fire them.<p>My favorite was a sort question that had an obvious bug. Both sides of the sort had the same test (so no sorting would happen). But the question wasn&#x27;t about that... it was about which input would tell you the code was wrong. This is most ridiculous way to diagnose or fix a bug that I&#x27;ve heard of.<p>Nobody who really works on software works on these kind of bugs. And this diagnostic technique of arbitrarily working backwards to force a multiple choice solution is probably the worst method of programming that I&#x27;ve ever come across. No wonder so many companies are hiring shitty programmers and writing garbage code.<p>Without an actual problem and an understanding of the problem domain, no programmer is going to write anything useful for you. Frankly, I&#x27;m frustrated by this method of interviewing and selecting candidates. It makes me not want to work at places that do this.<p>Anyone else have a similar experience? Also, hiring managers... Do you find these kind of tests useful? Why? How?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>juancn</author><text>I&#x27;ve interviewed hundreds of programmers, and really, you cannot trust pretty much anyone.<p>There&#x27;s so many people that think they can code, or just say they do that really don&#x27;t, that some sort of basic coding test is necessary if the job requires it.<p>Our hiring rate for some roles is 200:1, but we pay handsomely for those.<p>Think it the other way around, interviews are a two way process, you&#x27;re also interviewing the company, and the way they conduct the interviews, in many ways also tells you what they value. What they&#x27;re like.<p>Take it as an opportunity to get to know each other. Bring this up in a constructive manner. It may make all the difference and provide a stronger signal to both of you, you learn how do they react to feedback and at the same time you show that you&#x27;re capable of critical thinking and care enough about your craft to call bullshit when you see it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>commandlinefan</author><text>If those tests actually filtered out incompetent programmers, I&#x27;d say they were great, but my experience is that they all test very shallow knowledge that doesn&#x27;t relate to ability to produce software that performs under load.<p>If you <i>could</i> come up with such a test, it ought to just be used as a standard for everybody to take.<p>And yes, as unpopular an opinion as it is around here, I&#x27;d <i>love</i> to see a &quot;bar exam&quot;&#x2F;licensing board for software developers.</text></comment> | <story><title>Senior devs. Is anyone else insulted by coding exams?</title><text>After an invitation to apply for a job with a YC company yesterday (an email from the CEO offering to &quot;have a conversation&quot;) I got a generic invite to take an online coding test in Javascript.<p>I&#x27;ve written JS and shipped numerous apps in it over the last 20 years and let me tell ya, if anyone worked for me and wrote code like I saw on those tests, I&#x27;d fire them.<p>My favorite was a sort question that had an obvious bug. Both sides of the sort had the same test (so no sorting would happen). But the question wasn&#x27;t about that... it was about which input would tell you the code was wrong. This is most ridiculous way to diagnose or fix a bug that I&#x27;ve heard of.<p>Nobody who really works on software works on these kind of bugs. And this diagnostic technique of arbitrarily working backwards to force a multiple choice solution is probably the worst method of programming that I&#x27;ve ever come across. No wonder so many companies are hiring shitty programmers and writing garbage code.<p>Without an actual problem and an understanding of the problem domain, no programmer is going to write anything useful for you. Frankly, I&#x27;m frustrated by this method of interviewing and selecting candidates. It makes me not want to work at places that do this.<p>Anyone else have a similar experience? Also, hiring managers... Do you find these kind of tests useful? Why? How?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>juancn</author><text>I&#x27;ve interviewed hundreds of programmers, and really, you cannot trust pretty much anyone.<p>There&#x27;s so many people that think they can code, or just say they do that really don&#x27;t, that some sort of basic coding test is necessary if the job requires it.<p>Our hiring rate for some roles is 200:1, but we pay handsomely for those.<p>Think it the other way around, interviews are a two way process, you&#x27;re also interviewing the company, and the way they conduct the interviews, in many ways also tells you what they value. What they&#x27;re like.<p>Take it as an opportunity to get to know each other. Bring this up in a constructive manner. It may make all the difference and provide a stronger signal to both of you, you learn how do they react to feedback and at the same time you show that you&#x27;re capable of critical thinking and care enough about your craft to call bullshit when you see it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>starlust2</author><text>I&#x27;ve recently had multiple candidates recently with inflated resumes. Not mere embellishments, but claiming advanced degrees in computer science when they can&#x27;t solve a simple algorithmic problem (something that can be coded in &lt;10 mins).<p>I dislike most take home problems, especially longer ones. But there&#x27;s few exceptions where I could move forward with a candidate who refuses a technical interview. In almost all cases it&#x27;s egotistical and a glaring red flag.</text></comment> |
24,307,696 | 24,307,889 | 1 | 2 | 24,306,705 | train | <story><title>Redis Labs Raises $100M</title><url>https://redislabs.com/press/redis-labs-raises-100-million-series-f-financing/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jnwatson</author><text>With all this free money floating around, it feels nice that some of it landed on good people.<p>That said, being overcapitalized is perniciously corrupting. I saw first hand what happens when there&#x27;s too much money floating inside a company. Malinvestment is an issue at the company level just as much as at the macroeconomic level.<p>Management starts acting like trust fund kids, forgetting that, one day, the money might run out, and making a profit is the only sustainable way to run a company.</text></comment> | <story><title>Redis Labs Raises $100M</title><url>https://redislabs.com/press/redis-labs-raises-100-million-series-f-financing/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>redm</author><text>I&#x27;m curious what the key value Redis Labs is bringing that justifies so much money (other than a sales team, support, and other minor changes to Redis). In other words, what key tech are they adding? The page dedicated to the software is really generic:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;redislabs.com&#x2F;redis-enterprise-software&#x2F;overview&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;redislabs.com&#x2F;redis-enterprise-software&#x2F;overview&#x2F;</a><p>I started using KeyDB and the project is great. I&#x27;m more inclined to support the tech they are integrating that check things off my Redis wishlist such as Active-Active replication and true multi-core support (not just IO treads).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;keydb.dev&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;keydb.dev&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
1,378,430 | 1,378,344 | 1 | 2 | 1,378,152 | train | <story><title>How (and Why) to Stop Multitasking</title><url>http://blogs.hbr.org/bregman/2010/05/how-and-why-to-stop-multitaski.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kscaldef</author><text>I think it's more interesting to look at what the crossing point is where it becomes useful to multitask.<p>Surely, when on hold with some company listening to "your call is valuable to us; please do not hang up; the expected wait time is 45 minutes" he wouldn't advise to just be on the phone.<p>When I need to run a 5 minute test suite before checking in some code, should I go read my email while I wait? What if it's 30 seconds instead?<p>Where is that point where switching to another task is the right thing to do?</text></comment> | <story><title>How (and Why) to Stop Multitasking</title><url>http://blogs.hbr.org/bregman/2010/05/how-and-why-to-stop-multitaski.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kristiandupont</author><text>I've made a pomodoro timer app that also gives me a summary over which apps and websites I have used during the last 25 minutes when a pomodoro is over. (<a href="http://www.beatpoints.com/cherrytomato" rel="nofollow">http://www.beatpoints.com/cherrytomato</a>)<p>This is good feedback about whether I actually managed to focus on the task that I planned.<p>However, I find that pomodoros are not the right granularity - to really be productive, I need to focus on one task for an entire day (related: pg's Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule: <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html</a>). This is still really hard for me to do.</text></comment> |
21,326,628 | 21,325,759 | 1 | 3 | 21,323,015 | train | <story><title>Google clamps down on free storage</title><url>https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/gmail-hooked-us-on-free-storage-now-google-is-making-us-pay</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>linsomniac</author><text>This article seems awfully doom and gloom. I find that:<p>- Google provides really good tools for archiving your data. If you want to reduce your storage footprint, you can use Google Takeout to grab it, archive it somewhere else, and then clean up items you no longer want. I recently did this with my photos, I knew I had some huge videos that had been uploaded that I didn&#x27;t need (I had edited them into a Youtube video), so I was able to find and delete them and open up quite a bit of space. I toyed with the idea of deleting photos 5 years old, once I archived them, but I didn&#x27;t need to because of the above.<p>- Google provides a lot of value to me for the $3&#x2F;month I&#x27;ve been spending. Photo enrichment and searching is something I use all the time. Storage of my documents and files is very useful and google has been super reliable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crispinb</author><text>I found it good value until they removed local syncing of Google Photos from their Gdrive client. That was where most of my data was. Making it only accessible via a web form download was a huge product downgrade that I don&#x27;t think a more customer-responsive company would have risked. So I cancelled my subs &amp; won&#x27;t be going back (I&#x27;m sure they&#x27;re quaking in their billionaire boots).</text></comment> | <story><title>Google clamps down on free storage</title><url>https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/gmail-hooked-us-on-free-storage-now-google-is-making-us-pay</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>linsomniac</author><text>This article seems awfully doom and gloom. I find that:<p>- Google provides really good tools for archiving your data. If you want to reduce your storage footprint, you can use Google Takeout to grab it, archive it somewhere else, and then clean up items you no longer want. I recently did this with my photos, I knew I had some huge videos that had been uploaded that I didn&#x27;t need (I had edited them into a Youtube video), so I was able to find and delete them and open up quite a bit of space. I toyed with the idea of deleting photos 5 years old, once I archived them, but I didn&#x27;t need to because of the above.<p>- Google provides a lot of value to me for the $3&#x2F;month I&#x27;ve been spending. Photo enrichment and searching is something I use all the time. Storage of my documents and files is very useful and google has been super reliable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mywacaday</author><text>Second that, I paid for extra storage as I want to save full resolution images.
Currently getting 2TB for $99 a year that good lets me share with my family, is a no brainer and good value.</text></comment> |
9,930,872 | 9,930,809 | 1 | 2 | 9,928,879 | train | <story><title>Snowden Meets the IETF</title><url>https://www.mnot.net/blog/2015/07/20/snowden_meets_the_ietf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>s_q_b</author><text>The more I consider the ramifications of these news reports, the more I realize we need full decentralization and total encryption.<p>We have the tech: Strong encryption, Tor-like relays, and the blockchain. What we need is a way to make services based on these technologies not just <i>as easy to use</i> but <i>easier to use</i> for the average Jane.<p>If the internet as we know it is to survive, we have to crack this nut.</text></comment> | <story><title>Snowden Meets the IETF</title><url>https://www.mnot.net/blog/2015/07/20/snowden_meets_the_ietf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Panino</author><text>It must have been an exciting surprise for attendees.<p>I&#x27;m glad Snowden said DNS should be encrypted. From the tweet stream provided by @conflictmedia, that was tied for 1st for most re-tweeted, along with making the Internet for users, not spies. (It should be noted that DNSSEC is not encrypted.)<p>Too bad his appearance wasn&#x27;t recorded, but HUGE thanks to Niels ten Oever and Rich Salz for tweeting major points!</text></comment> |
33,800,850 | 33,800,282 | 1 | 2 | 33,797,143 | train | <story><title>Being fatter than Homer Simpson</title><url>https://nicky.bearblog.dev/fatter-than-homer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vgatherps</author><text>I had been somewhat overweight in the past, but not so heavy. Definitely emphasise with people here noting how it snuck up on them.<p>Something that really was game changing for me was logging everything I ate with relatively legitimate counts of the calories and macros. Before even getting towards goals I realised that those random handfuls of cashews I might grab from the kitchen on the way to the restroom weren&#x27;t say 60-100 calories, but more like 400!!! Fruit and especially fruit juices are another secret killer. There was just instant change in my calorie intake because so many things I was eating were much denser than I expected.<p>Now, many of these counters aren&#x27;t perfect, all people are different, and you don&#x27;t absorb at consistent rates across food. Don&#x27;t try and optimise down to 10s or even say order of magnitude 100 calories. But you might find some massive surprises in your food intake this way.<p>I also did the whole diet &#x2F; macro planning. Alongside going out of my way to log all food intake, having the plan added enough mental barriers to get snacking under control. Not everybody has success with these plans, but I&#x27;d still recommend the tracking and logging just to see if there&#x27;s any surprises.<p>edit:
You don&#x27;t even have to keep the tracking up. Just do it for a a few weeks so you at least know. I don&#x27;t really track calories anymore but it&#x27;s largely since i have a much better idea of what I&#x27;m eating after tracking in the past.<p>edit 2:
If you take care to track your macros, you can observe pretty significant differences in strength training results.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sasaf5</author><text>Tracking macros for a few months is huge lesson about your body&#x27;s needs and the food supply around you. It clears away all the uncertainty and lets you know what you really like to eat and what is just dead weight.<p>It also protects you from the food industry marketing departments.<p>In 6 months I learned:<p>- Everything sold in packages blows the fat or carb budget;<p>- I don&#x27;t really like sodas or icecream;<p>- I cannot live without bread. I would always make sure there was some carb budget available for bread;<p>- Tofu, eggs and milk pack a lot of energy compared with their protein content. Careful there!<p>- Fruits can cause quite a dent in the carb budget;<p>- Many thing sold as healthy pack an obcene amount of calories;<p>- (Sugarless) Milk tea is a powerful tool to fend off hunger.<p>I lost 14kgs in 6 months, and kept that result for 2 years now. Most importantly, I am more satisfied with what I eat.</text></comment> | <story><title>Being fatter than Homer Simpson</title><url>https://nicky.bearblog.dev/fatter-than-homer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vgatherps</author><text>I had been somewhat overweight in the past, but not so heavy. Definitely emphasise with people here noting how it snuck up on them.<p>Something that really was game changing for me was logging everything I ate with relatively legitimate counts of the calories and macros. Before even getting towards goals I realised that those random handfuls of cashews I might grab from the kitchen on the way to the restroom weren&#x27;t say 60-100 calories, but more like 400!!! Fruit and especially fruit juices are another secret killer. There was just instant change in my calorie intake because so many things I was eating were much denser than I expected.<p>Now, many of these counters aren&#x27;t perfect, all people are different, and you don&#x27;t absorb at consistent rates across food. Don&#x27;t try and optimise down to 10s or even say order of magnitude 100 calories. But you might find some massive surprises in your food intake this way.<p>I also did the whole diet &#x2F; macro planning. Alongside going out of my way to log all food intake, having the plan added enough mental barriers to get snacking under control. Not everybody has success with these plans, but I&#x27;d still recommend the tracking and logging just to see if there&#x27;s any surprises.<p>edit:
You don&#x27;t even have to keep the tracking up. Just do it for a a few weeks so you at least know. I don&#x27;t really track calories anymore but it&#x27;s largely since i have a much better idea of what I&#x27;m eating after tracking in the past.<p>edit 2:
If you take care to track your macros, you can observe pretty significant differences in strength training results.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>civilized</author><text>A big benefit of tracking and logging is that it makes eating annoying enough that you don&#x27;t want to do it lightly.<p>I guess this is also why I&#x27;m not great at keeping up with tracking for more than a couple weeks at a time.</text></comment> |
36,651,382 | 36,649,229 | 1 | 3 | 36,648,794 | train | <story><title>PdfGptIndexer: Indexing and searching PDF text data using GPT-2 and FAISS</title><url>https://github.com/raghavan/PdfGptIndexer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hi</author><text>Keep your data private and don&#x27;t leak it to third parties. Use something like privateGPT (32k stars). Not your keys, not your data.<p>&quot;Interact privately with your documents using the power of GPT, 100% privately, no data leaks&quot;[0]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;imartinez&#x2F;privateGPT">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;imartinez&#x2F;privateGPT</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>woeirua</author><text>It’s significantly worse than OpenAIs offerings, and I’m tired of people pretending as though these models are totally interchangeable yet. They are not.</text></comment> | <story><title>PdfGptIndexer: Indexing and searching PDF text data using GPT-2 and FAISS</title><url>https://github.com/raghavan/PdfGptIndexer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hi</author><text>Keep your data private and don&#x27;t leak it to third parties. Use something like privateGPT (32k stars). Not your keys, not your data.<p>&quot;Interact privately with your documents using the power of GPT, 100% privately, no data leaks&quot;[0]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;imartinez&#x2F;privateGPT">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;imartinez&#x2F;privateGPT</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leach</author><text>How does this run on an Intel Mac? I have a 6 core i9. Haven&#x27;t been able to get an M series yet so Im wondering if it would be more worth it to run it in a cloud computing environment with a GPU.</text></comment> |
17,633,730 | 17,633,852 | 1 | 2 | 17,633,055 | train | <story><title>Parinfer – Simpler Lisp Editing</title><url>https://shaunlebron.github.io/parinfer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>modernerd</author><text>I loved using Parinfer when I was writing ClojureScript, but it also made me question the value of Lisp syntax.<p>If brackets can be inferred from indentation, doesn&#x27;t this imply that they&#x27;re extraneous — that indentation only would be sufficient to write many Lisp structures?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lispm</author><text>One can do that, but most Lisp programmers value the direct &quot;source code is data&quot; nature of Lisp - using s-expressions.<p>Alternative notations were originally planned for Lisp when it was designed - some books were published using it, but for actual programming it wasn&#x27;t used too much - especially since most implementations actually a) didn&#x27;t support it or b) had s-expressions as a default&#x2F;internally.<p>Then several attempts to modernize Lisp with a different syntax mostly failed to get traction or failed big (like the Lisp 2 effort).<p>Then some efforts failed to provide more than one syntax and also failed to appeal to people (Dylan).<p>What we saw is a bunch of languages derived from Lisp with different syntax (ML, Logo, ...) and a bunch of Lisps for mathematics with different syntax (Reduce, Macsyma, ...).<p>But the core Lisp programmers were never willing to give up the s-expression-based syntax. It has some clear advantages when manipulating code, especially in interactive programming.</text></comment> | <story><title>Parinfer – Simpler Lisp Editing</title><url>https://shaunlebron.github.io/parinfer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>modernerd</author><text>I loved using Parinfer when I was writing ClojureScript, but it also made me question the value of Lisp syntax.<p>If brackets can be inferred from indentation, doesn&#x27;t this imply that they&#x27;re extraneous — that indentation only would be sufficient to write many Lisp structures?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kazinator</author><text>&gt; <i>If brackets can be inferred from indentation, doesn&#x27;t this imply that they&#x27;re extraneous.</i><p>Yes; this deduction is valid.<p>However, can brackets be inferred from indentation.<p>Let&#x27;s start with a trivial case:<p><pre><code> [indent]15
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Is this object 15? (15)? Or ((15))? How do we apply indentation to distinguish them?<p>Do we count the spaces? Indentation is two-space so that 15 preceded by no extra indentation relative to the current level is just 15, then 15 preceded by two space is (15), and so on?<p>And is that really going to be readable?<p>What if there is whitespace?<p><pre><code> material material
;; .. vertical break
15 ;; this is (15) but could be 15 if I don&#x27;t see the preceding material.
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There is ambiguity in indentation. If I see this:<p><pre><code> (1 2 3
4 5 6
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where 4 5 6 is the last line in my edit window, I know that this list is not well-formed: zero or more items must follow, and then a closing parenthesis. If indentation is used, I have no idea: I could be looking at the complete thing.</text></comment> |
27,490,846 | 27,490,881 | 1 | 3 | 27,480,281 | train | <story><title>Taildrop was kind of easy</title><url>https://tailscale.com/blog/2021-06-taildrop-was-easy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>apenwarr</author><text>Post author here. I&#x27;m happy to answer any questions &#x2F; respond to any rants if you like.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oarsinsync</author><text>In a world moving towards &quot;zero trust networking&quot;, this appears to be going in the opposite direction, where the network is now being implicitly trusted.<p>This enables unauthenticated file transfers between hosts on the same network.<p>Given the world we live in today is that RCE vulnerabilities are relatively common, what happens when host1 gets some malware and uses this to transfer itself onto host2?<p>I assume this has been considered, and it&#x27;s been decided that the convenience of the feature outweighs the security and reputation risk considerations?</text></comment> | <story><title>Taildrop was kind of easy</title><url>https://tailscale.com/blog/2021-06-taildrop-was-easy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>apenwarr</author><text>Post author here. I&#x27;m happy to answer any questions &#x2F; respond to any rants if you like.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JacobiX</author><text>I use Tailscale every day I like the simplicity of setting up a new node. My problem is that I don’t know how to separate my nodes into isolated groups, so my question is does it support some form of multi-tenancy ?</text></comment> |
39,727,420 | 39,726,665 | 1 | 2 | 39,711,725 | train | <story><title>Vision Pro: What we got wrong at Oculus that Apple got right</title><url>https://hugo.blog/2024/03/11/vision-pro/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lynndotpy</author><text>For me personally, it&#x27;s definitely the platform. Requiring a Meta &#x2F; Facebook account for already-purchased Oculuses, retroactively bricking devices and deleting software which was bought before that requirement, has put Oculus firmly in the &quot;hardware I will never consider in my life&quot; camp.<p>It&#x27;s an incredible amount of goodwill to burn from a company with so little to spare, and I&#x27;m surprised it hasn&#x27;t come up yet in this thread or in the blogpost. Meta has fundamental trustability issues.</text></item><item><author>zmmmmm</author><text>Coming from a senior Oculus lead, the most interesting thing about this write up for me, is what it lacks: it says almost nothing about the software stack &#x2F; operating system. Still 100% talking about hardware at the bottom and end user applications at the other end. But there is no discussion of the platform which to me is actually the highest value proposition Apple is bringing here.<p>In short: Apple has made a fully realized spatial operating system, while Meta has made an app launcher for immersive Unity&#x2F;Unreal apps for vanilla Android. You can get away with an app launcher when all you want to support is fully immersive apps that don&#x27;t talk to each other. But that fails completely if you are trying to build a true operating system.<p>Think about what has to exist, to say, intelligently copy and paste parts of a 3D object made by one application into a 3D object made by another, the same way you would copy a flat image from photoshop into a Word document. The operating system has to truly understand 3D concepts internally. Meta <i>is</i> building these features but it is stuck in a really weird space trying to wedge them in between Android underneath and Unity&#x2F;Unreal at the application layer. Apple has had the advantage of green field engineering it exactly how they want it to be from the ground up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ericmcer</author><text>That isn’t really what the parent is talking about at all…<p>If your issue is with the device requiring connection with an external account, Vision Pro requires an AppleID which will tie it to way more of your digital things than a Facebook login.</text></comment> | <story><title>Vision Pro: What we got wrong at Oculus that Apple got right</title><url>https://hugo.blog/2024/03/11/vision-pro/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lynndotpy</author><text>For me personally, it&#x27;s definitely the platform. Requiring a Meta &#x2F; Facebook account for already-purchased Oculuses, retroactively bricking devices and deleting software which was bought before that requirement, has put Oculus firmly in the &quot;hardware I will never consider in my life&quot; camp.<p>It&#x27;s an incredible amount of goodwill to burn from a company with so little to spare, and I&#x27;m surprised it hasn&#x27;t come up yet in this thread or in the blogpost. Meta has fundamental trustability issues.</text></item><item><author>zmmmmm</author><text>Coming from a senior Oculus lead, the most interesting thing about this write up for me, is what it lacks: it says almost nothing about the software stack &#x2F; operating system. Still 100% talking about hardware at the bottom and end user applications at the other end. But there is no discussion of the platform which to me is actually the highest value proposition Apple is bringing here.<p>In short: Apple has made a fully realized spatial operating system, while Meta has made an app launcher for immersive Unity&#x2F;Unreal apps for vanilla Android. You can get away with an app launcher when all you want to support is fully immersive apps that don&#x27;t talk to each other. But that fails completely if you are trying to build a true operating system.<p>Think about what has to exist, to say, intelligently copy and paste parts of a 3D object made by one application into a 3D object made by another, the same way you would copy a flat image from photoshop into a Word document. The operating system has to truly understand 3D concepts internally. Meta <i>is</i> building these features but it is stuck in a really weird space trying to wedge them in between Android underneath and Unity&#x2F;Unreal at the application layer. Apple has had the advantage of green field engineering it exactly how they want it to be from the ground up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mark_l_watson</author><text>Thanks for your comment. I love just a few things on my Quest 2, and several times a week I take ten minute breaks for ping pong, something meditative, tai chi, etc.<p>You reminded me of the negative aspects of the Meta&#x2F;Facebook corporate mass, and they should clean up their act in privacy, etc. for VR in the same way they have basically purchased good will in the AI community for releasing LLM model weights.<p>Apologies for going off topic, but Apple similarly really needs to trade a little profit for buying themselves a better “look” because they are looking a little tarnished also.</text></comment> |
15,961,080 | 15,960,971 | 1 | 3 | 15,960,133 | train | <story><title>In Raising the World’s I.Q., the Secret’s in the Salt (2006)</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/16/health/16iodine.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acdanger</author><text>&gt; In many places, like Japan, people get iodine from seafood, seaweed, vegetables grown in iodine-rich soil or animals that eat grass grown in that soil. But even wealthy nations, including the United States and in Europe, still need to supplement that by iodizing salt.<p>Where did Western people get iodine before it was necessary to add it to salt? Has our soil been so depleted that iodine is no longer present in the vegetables grown in it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&gt; Where did Western people get iodine before it was necessary to add it to salt?<p>Some lived near the sea and had high seafood diets, but most were just iodine deficient, which doesn&#x27;t stop a population from surviving, though it leads to suboptimal outcomes in a number of dimensions.<p>There is this wierd pervasive mythology that before modern times people lived in an ideal state (at least in terms of nutrition), so any present deficiency from the ideal must reflect a difference between modern and premodern society. Past conditions were at least minimally adequate for survival and reproduction, or we wouldn&#x27;t be here, but there&#x27;s no real basis for assuming that they were in any way ideal.</text></comment> | <story><title>In Raising the World’s I.Q., the Secret’s in the Salt (2006)</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/16/health/16iodine.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acdanger</author><text>&gt; In many places, like Japan, people get iodine from seafood, seaweed, vegetables grown in iodine-rich soil or animals that eat grass grown in that soil. But even wealthy nations, including the United States and in Europe, still need to supplement that by iodizing salt.<p>Where did Western people get iodine before it was necessary to add it to salt? Has our soil been so depleted that iodine is no longer present in the vegetables grown in it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Turing_Machine</author><text>&gt; Where did Western people get iodine before it was necessary to add it to salt?<p>Iodine is so soluble that it&#x27;s quite scarce other than in the ocean. And yep, people who lived inland (and thus didn&#x27;t eat seafood) in premodern times were often iodine deficient.</text></comment> |
40,897,014 | 40,896,116 | 1 | 2 | 40,895,441 | train | <story><title>Why Italy Fell Out of Love with Cilantro</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-are-italian-herbs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wheels</author><text>In general, most cuisines and culinary trends are far more modern than we tend to assume. Until the last 3-ish centuries:<p>Italy didn&#x27;t have tomatoes or basil. Nor was there corn for polenta. India didn&#x27;t have chilies. The Irish and Germans didn&#x27;t have potatoes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PestoDiRucola</author><text>&gt; Nor was there corn for polenta<p>Before corn, polenta was made with barley: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;historicalitaliancooking.home.blog&#x2F;english&#x2F;recipes&#x2F;ancient-roman-barley-polenta&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;historicalitaliancooking.home.blog&#x2F;english&#x2F;recipes&#x2F;a...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Why Italy Fell Out of Love with Cilantro</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-are-italian-herbs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wheels</author><text>In general, most cuisines and culinary trends are far more modern than we tend to assume. Until the last 3-ish centuries:<p>Italy didn&#x27;t have tomatoes or basil. Nor was there corn for polenta. India didn&#x27;t have chilies. The Irish and Germans didn&#x27;t have potatoes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ginko</author><text>&gt; The Irish and Germans didn&#x27;t have potatoes.<p>True, but fwiw I wouldn&#x27;t consider potato to be particularly important in German cuisine. Sure you&#x27;ll see it used quite a bit, but many of the more iconic dishes don&#x27;t really need them or can be replaced like with bread dumplings for instance.</text></comment> |
13,925,145 | 13,924,898 | 1 | 3 | 13,924,192 | train | <story><title>AMD Ryzen Machine Crashes on a Sequence of FMA3 Instructions</title><url>http://forum.hwbot.org/showthread.php?t=167605</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yeukhon</author><text>Interesting. I guess unlike software, these sorts of bugs can&#x27;t be fixed without producing a new one right?<p>Do CPU and GPU manufactures do any types of fuzzing?</text></item><item><author>jjuhl</author><text>Well, it&#x27;s not like Intel CPUs don&#x27;t have similar bugs.<p>See Skylake for example - the list of known errata starts on page 27 and continues on through page 63 : <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.intel.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;dam&#x2F;www&#x2F;public&#x2F;us&#x2F;en&#x2F;documents&#x2F;specification-updates&#x2F;desktop-6th-gen-core-family-spec-update.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.intel.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;dam&#x2F;www&#x2F;public&#x2F;us&#x2F;en&#x2F;documents&#x2F;...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matthew-wegner</author><text>In this case the fix is adding a resistor:<p>&quot;If your system does not use SERIRQ and BIOS puts SERIRQ in Quiet-Mode, then the weak external pull up resistor is not required. All other cases must implement an external pull-up resistor, 8.2k to 10k, tied to 3.3V&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www-ssl.intel.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;dam&#x2F;www&#x2F;public&#x2F;us&#x2F;en&#x2F;documents&#x2F;specification-updates&#x2F;atom-c2000-family-spec-update.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www-ssl.intel.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;dam&#x2F;www&#x2F;public&#x2F;us&#x2F;en&#x2F;docum...</a><p>Depending on the motherboard, those pins may be exposed already. Here&#x27;s what the fix looks like a Synology unit: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;synology&#x2F;comments&#x2F;609u1l&#x2F;c2538_clock_fix_confirmed_ds2415&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;synology&#x2F;comments&#x2F;609u1l&#x2F;c2538_cloc...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>AMD Ryzen Machine Crashes on a Sequence of FMA3 Instructions</title><url>http://forum.hwbot.org/showthread.php?t=167605</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yeukhon</author><text>Interesting. I guess unlike software, these sorts of bugs can&#x27;t be fixed without producing a new one right?<p>Do CPU and GPU manufactures do any types of fuzzing?</text></item><item><author>jjuhl</author><text>Well, it&#x27;s not like Intel CPUs don&#x27;t have similar bugs.<p>See Skylake for example - the list of known errata starts on page 27 and continues on through page 63 : <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.intel.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;dam&#x2F;www&#x2F;public&#x2F;us&#x2F;en&#x2F;documents&#x2F;specification-updates&#x2F;desktop-6th-gen-core-family-spec-update.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.intel.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;dam&#x2F;www&#x2F;public&#x2F;us&#x2F;en&#x2F;documents&#x2F;...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rrdharan</author><text>They do tremendous amounts of validation. I believe random generation of input data is part of that.<p>Here&#x27;s an old heavily cited paper from Intel on the topic; I&#x27;m sure their state of the art has advanced considerably in the intervening 17 years since its publication:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dl.acm.org&#x2F;citation.cfm?id=623013" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dl.acm.org&#x2F;citation.cfm?id=623013</a></text></comment> |
33,870,076 | 33,868,442 | 1 | 3 | 33,867,039 | train | <story><title>AI Homework</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2022/ai-homework/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rednerrus</author><text>Couldn&#x27;t this help a 10x engineer become a 100x engineer? The secret is still going to be in understanding what to ask for and ensuring that what gets spit out works. It&#x27;s just going to be so much faster. Is there anyplace in the world for a .5x developer or even a 1x developer in a chatgpt world?</text></item><item><author>thundergolfer</author><text>Over the weekend Twitter was 30% ChatGPT screenshots and 20% engineers frothing about how ChatGPT would replace programming, article writing, even Google Search.<p>Such engineers must be juniors, or have persisted in their life with a totally wrong idea of how engineering is done and engineering is built. I can&#x27;t imagine thinking that one could build software systems or essay arguments by trusting an AI system you don&#x27;t understand to provide answers you don&#x27;t understand.<p>Like you say, we very well could faceplant society with this misconception that regurgitation plausible code and prose is what education and understanding looks like.</text></item><item><author>fellerts</author><text>There has been a lot of &quot;well, we had a good run&quot; comments on ChatGPT threads from engineers lately. I get where this sentiment is coming from, but I also think that the article paints a good picture of how we must &quot;pivot&quot; as a species to avoid faceplanting completely. Zero Trust Homework sounds like a strategy we will be forced to implement:<p><pre><code> the system will frequently give the wrong answers (and not just on accident — wrong answers will be often pushed out on purpose); the real skill in the homework assignment will be in verifying the answers the system churns out — learning how to be a verifier and an editor, instead of a regurgitator.
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If done well, I believe this can prepare the next generation well for a future we cannot even imagine. The next 10 years will be interesting to say the least.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bogwog</author><text>Writing code is the equivalent of swinging a hammer. A more experienced engineer might swing it better than a junior, but swinging hammers isn&#x27;t what makes an engineer valuable.<p>These AI models don&#x27;t actually understand anything about what they&#x27;re generating, not to mention the world they&#x27;re supposed to building solutions for. They&#x27;re just using statistics to predict the next likely output based on some input. Maybe there is a way to incorporate these things into the development process today, but I think we&#x27;re still far away from seeing an AI replacing a human engineer.</text></comment> | <story><title>AI Homework</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2022/ai-homework/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rednerrus</author><text>Couldn&#x27;t this help a 10x engineer become a 100x engineer? The secret is still going to be in understanding what to ask for and ensuring that what gets spit out works. It&#x27;s just going to be so much faster. Is there anyplace in the world for a .5x developer or even a 1x developer in a chatgpt world?</text></item><item><author>thundergolfer</author><text>Over the weekend Twitter was 30% ChatGPT screenshots and 20% engineers frothing about how ChatGPT would replace programming, article writing, even Google Search.<p>Such engineers must be juniors, or have persisted in their life with a totally wrong idea of how engineering is done and engineering is built. I can&#x27;t imagine thinking that one could build software systems or essay arguments by trusting an AI system you don&#x27;t understand to provide answers you don&#x27;t understand.<p>Like you say, we very well could faceplant society with this misconception that regurgitation plausible code and prose is what education and understanding looks like.</text></item><item><author>fellerts</author><text>There has been a lot of &quot;well, we had a good run&quot; comments on ChatGPT threads from engineers lately. I get where this sentiment is coming from, but I also think that the article paints a good picture of how we must &quot;pivot&quot; as a species to avoid faceplanting completely. Zero Trust Homework sounds like a strategy we will be forced to implement:<p><pre><code> the system will frequently give the wrong answers (and not just on accident — wrong answers will be often pushed out on purpose); the real skill in the homework assignment will be in verifying the answers the system churns out — learning how to be a verifier and an editor, instead of a regurgitator.
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If done well, I believe this can prepare the next generation well for a future we cannot even imagine. The next 10 years will be interesting to say the least.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>localhost</author><text>Last night I had ChatGPT write a streamlit app for me and I felt it was like talking to an enthusiastic junior dev who takes feedback really well and works incredibly fast. This is an incredibly high leverage technology and we&#x27;re just figuring out how to use it.</text></comment> |
22,305,212 | 22,304,893 | 1 | 3 | 22,304,131 | train | <story><title>Experience report on a large Python-to-Go translation</title><url>https://gitlab.com/esr/reposurgeon/blob/master/GoNotes.adoc</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mappu</author><text>Here&#x27;s another experience report: I ported a small 1 KLOC PHP project to Go this week (in some spare time between large C++ compile times). The primary goal was to reduce the number of supported languages we use.<p>The port happened in the mechanical line-by-line way, copying each PHP file to a *.go and fixing all the syntax. The project was small enough that automation wasn&#x27;t interesting.<p>I agree with the &quot;1&#x2F;3 time spent debugging the result&quot;. Another complicated facet was the lack of insertion-order preserving maps, that PHP applications end up relying on heavily. The error&#x2F;exception impedance mismatch was not a problem in practice at all.<p>According to cloc, the original PHP project (excluding vendor) is 1.0 KLOC, the resulting Go application is 1.2 KLOC. I imagined Go would have been more verbose than this, but actually most lines remained 1:1 conversions, and the Go standard library happened to cover a lot of small utility functions that had to be separately written in PHP (e.g. for string suffix matching).<p>Another interesting point is the number of comment lines in cloc appeared to drop dramatically, since real type annotations are much less verbose than PHPDoc.</text></comment> | <story><title>Experience report on a large Python-to-Go translation</title><url>https://gitlab.com/esr/reposurgeon/blob/master/GoNotes.adoc</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>melling</author><text>Go is probably more verbose because it’s missing List comprehensions, for example.<p>It needs map, filter, reduce to reduce line count. Swift, while probably not as performant as Go, makes writing in a more Pythonic style.<p><pre><code> [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9].filter {$0 % 2 == 0}.map {$0 * 2}.reduce(0, +)
[&quot;550&quot;, &quot;a&quot;, &quot;6&quot;, &quot;b&quot;, &quot;42&quot;, &quot;99&quot;, &quot;100&quot;].compactMap{Int($0)}.filter {$0 &lt; 100}
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32,275,292 | 32,275,316 | 1 | 2 | 32,274,077 | train | <story><title>Map showing birthplaces of "notable people" around the world</title><url>https://tjukanovt.github.io/notable-people</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmfayard</author><text>Jean-Paul Sartre is shown as the most famous people born in Colombia<p>I think Simon Bolivar or Shakira or Gabriel Garcia Marquez or many others have a better claim to the title<p>Especially since Jean-Paul Sartre was born in Paris<p>What&#x27;s weird is that wikidata has the correct info
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wikidata.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Q9364" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wikidata.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Q9364</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eesmith</author><text>Changed from Paris to Bogotá on 9 November 2018 by someone from 190.145.246.250 . <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wikidata.org&#x2F;w&#x2F;index.php?title=Q9364&amp;diff=785288689&amp;oldid=781356427" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wikidata.org&#x2F;w&#x2F;index.php?title=Q9364&amp;diff=785288...</a><p>Change back to Paris on 22 December 2018.<p>On 17 March 2019 2a01:e35:8ab4:ac00:75c3:3673:f22b:4a45 changed to Tokyo.<p>On 30 September 2019 201.187.105.154 changed to Chile.<p>On 16 January 2020 changed to Efflamm.<p>On 16 January 2020 changed to Paris, where it&#x27;s been ever since.<p>This signature tells us the dataset for the paper was extracted in November or December of 2018.<p>Various other bits of high-schooler sabotage:<p>30 September 2019 201.187.105.154 changed place of death to Easter Island.<p>29 November 2018 190.247.191.178 changed place of burial to Bikini Bottom.<p>7 March 2019 201.164.233.103 changed cause of death (P509) to cocaine.</text></comment> | <story><title>Map showing birthplaces of "notable people" around the world</title><url>https://tjukanovt.github.io/notable-people</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmfayard</author><text>Jean-Paul Sartre is shown as the most famous people born in Colombia<p>I think Simon Bolivar or Shakira or Gabriel Garcia Marquez or many others have a better claim to the title<p>Especially since Jean-Paul Sartre was born in Paris<p>What&#x27;s weird is that wikidata has the correct info
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wikidata.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Q9364" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wikidata.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Q9364</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lentil_soup</author><text>Simon Bolivar was born in Caracas, Venezuela, though, it is shown as the most famous person there</text></comment> |
23,518,848 | 23,518,517 | 1 | 3 | 23,518,176 | train | <story><title>American Indian tribes thwarted in efforts to get coronavirus data</title><url>https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/11/native-american-coronavirus-data-314527</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>y-c-o-m-b</author><text>From down-playing the threat of COVID-19 in the early stages to the mixed messaging on mask effectiveness and the timidly inconsistent guidelines for managing the outbreak, I&#x27;ve lost trust in both the WHO and the CDC. This issue only erodes that trust further. I fear the erosion in trust between the public and public health agencies is causing permanent damage in our abilities to mitigate future disasters. I have the same distrust for social services that purportedly protect kids from abuse yet turn kids over to abusive foster parents. There&#x27;s zero accountability for the damage these events contribute to and if you ask the people in charge they just shrug their shoulders.</text></comment> | <story><title>American Indian tribes thwarted in efforts to get coronavirus data</title><url>https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/11/native-american-coronavirus-data-314527</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mehrdadn</author><text>Actual article is linked there: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.politico.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2020&#x2F;06&#x2F;11&#x2F;native-american-coronavirus-data-314527" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.politico.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2020&#x2F;06&#x2F;11&#x2F;native-american-cor...</a></text></comment> |
12,761,785 | 12,759,767 | 1 | 3 | 12,759,520 | train | <story><title>Massive Dyn DNS outage</title><text>Sites down:<p>- DYN<p>- Twitter<p>- Etsy<p>- Github<p>- soundcloud<p>- spotify<p>- heroku<p>- pagerduty<p>- shopify<p>- intercom (app, not landing page)<p>Note that if these sites seem to be up to you, it&#x27;s likely that your machine has cached the DNS response for these sites.<p>Some of these sites seem to work when using a UK VPN</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>6d6b73</author><text>All this talk about redundancy, real-time apps, scalable architecture and and a &quot;simple&quot; DDOS against DNS architecture brings half of the internet down.
Honestly did nobody think about having a spare dns at some other company? or even backup dns server exactly for a situation like that?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mancerayder</author><text>If ONLY they had 10X developers ...<p>EDIT: joking aside, the issue with multiple DNS providers is primarily (in my experience at the company I&#x27;m at having investigated this in the past) intelligent DNS entries. Example, &#x27;return these A records, in this order, based on the number of requests, roughly balanced&#x27;.<p>There&#x27;s no universal standard, just common aspects. DNS Provider A has one set of features, names for returning A records in some way, based on some weighted averaging, provider B has a different mechanism. So as an infrastructure person you have to:<p>1. Investigate provider A and B features for intelligent DNS (it&#x27;s not even universally called intelligent DNS!), and mentally parse the commonalities and differences<p>2. Create a custom mechanism to keep them in sync internally. So you hope that A and B have an API for maintaining the records.<p>3. Ensure that when someone in your org wants to make an update, A and B update at the same time in the same way<p>4. APIs don&#x27;t change.</text></comment> | <story><title>Massive Dyn DNS outage</title><text>Sites down:<p>- DYN<p>- Twitter<p>- Etsy<p>- Github<p>- soundcloud<p>- spotify<p>- heroku<p>- pagerduty<p>- shopify<p>- intercom (app, not landing page)<p>Note that if these sites seem to be up to you, it&#x27;s likely that your machine has cached the DNS response for these sites.<p>Some of these sites seem to work when using a UK VPN</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>6d6b73</author><text>All this talk about redundancy, real-time apps, scalable architecture and and a &quot;simple&quot; DDOS against DNS architecture brings half of the internet down.
Honestly did nobody think about having a spare dns at some other company? or even backup dns server exactly for a situation like that?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ljosa</author><text>The TTL for the glue records of a .com domain is 48 hours, so even if you have Route53 set up and ready to go, it takes a long time to switch the zone away from Dyn.<p>We switched from Dyn to Rout53 a few weeks ago. It took about 12 hours before half of the traffic had shifted over.</text></comment> |
25,079,285 | 25,078,623 | 1 | 2 | 25,078,096 | train | <story><title>Google Widevine Content Decryption Module DMCA</title><url>https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/11/2020-11-09-Google.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bawolff</author><text>Level 1 means everything is done in a secure enclave from what i understand.<p>I wonder if google does something similar to bluray AACS where if a level 1 device is compromised they can revoke just that device (or manufacturer&#x27;s key). If not, i wonder why they don&#x27;t.<p>(To clarify my curiosity is in an abstract way, i am ideologically opposed to DRM)</text></item><item><author>resynth1943</author><text>Only Level 3, sadly, which means it can decrypt Standard Definition (480p) videos. This has been out for a while.<p>Some reputable people in the pirating industry have actually cracked Level 1, which means they can decrypt 4K! :-)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rndgermandude</author><text>Yes, they can revoke or downgrade the level. And sometimes devices share the same key<p>Recent instance of such a downgrade, causing a ton of (Philips) TVs to stop playing HD content apparently:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;netflix&#x2F;comments&#x2F;jq9wdb&#x2F;netflix_capped_at_166mbps480p&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;netflix&#x2F;comments&#x2F;jq9wdb&#x2F;netflix_cap...</a><p>This is the tracker from the screenshots by the way: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;t.me&#x2F;s&#x2F;wvcrl" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;t.me&#x2F;s&#x2F;wvcrl</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Google Widevine Content Decryption Module DMCA</title><url>https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/11/2020-11-09-Google.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bawolff</author><text>Level 1 means everything is done in a secure enclave from what i understand.<p>I wonder if google does something similar to bluray AACS where if a level 1 device is compromised they can revoke just that device (or manufacturer&#x27;s key). If not, i wonder why they don&#x27;t.<p>(To clarify my curiosity is in an abstract way, i am ideologically opposed to DRM)</text></item><item><author>resynth1943</author><text>Only Level 3, sadly, which means it can decrypt Standard Definition (480p) videos. This has been out for a while.<p>Some reputable people in the pirating industry have actually cracked Level 1, which means they can decrypt 4K! :-)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gruez</author><text>&gt;If not, i wonder why they don&#x27;t.<p>mainly because it&#x27;s hard to trace back which device key got leaked, especially if all you have to go on are whatever the ripped videos. if you had the tools it&#x27;d be much easier, but that&#x27;s probably kept under tight wraps by the piracy groups.</text></comment> |
2,936,719 | 2,935,775 | 1 | 2 | 2,935,661 | train | <story><title>H-P's One-Year Plan</title><url>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904787404576535211589514334.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alexqgb</author><text>On dumping the PC Business: "A beautiful absurdity...like McDonald's getting out of the hamburger business."<p>Zing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CrLf</author><text>No, it's like McDonalds getting out of the McFlurry business.<p>HP has a large enterprise hardware business with much bigger profit margins. This includes servers, storage, ethernet switches, etc. Everybody seems to forget this.<p>Given the onslaught of chinese PC manufacturers and the diminishing profit margins, this makes some sense (like it did for IBM, that also dropped their PC business but kept their server business).</text></comment> | <story><title>H-P's One-Year Plan</title><url>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904787404576535211589514334.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alexqgb</author><text>On dumping the PC Business: "A beautiful absurdity...like McDonald's getting out of the hamburger business."<p>Zing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>daemin</author><text>HP did 'pivot' in the early days, first into making electronic calculators and then into PC's.<p>Though this latest 'pivot' into a services company smells a lot like what IBM has done, abandon its hardware manufacturing and go into software services and consulting. Some part of me hates that radical a change, especially since how many of these massive software consulting companies are actually needed?</text></comment> |
21,302,609 | 21,299,816 | 1 | 2 | 21,298,920 | train | <story><title>Periodic Planar Three-Body Orbits</title><url>https://observablehq.com/@rreusser/periodic-planar-three-body-orbits</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>NotSammyHagar</author><text>I searched around for observablehq. I hadn&#x27;t see it before. Checkout <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;observablehq.com&#x2F;@observablehq&#x2F;five-minute-introduction" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;observablehq.com&#x2F;@observablehq&#x2F;five-minute-introduct...</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20184181" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20184181</a>.</text></comment> | <story><title>Periodic Planar Three-Body Orbits</title><url>https://observablehq.com/@rreusser/periodic-planar-three-body-orbits</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>raverbashing</author><text>I wonder how many of those would be feasible in real life situations<p>For example, a celestial body coming in proximity to another will impart tidal forces, might involve some kind of mass exchange or simply find form of atmospheric drag.</text></comment> |
16,241,339 | 16,241,340 | 1 | 2 | 16,240,874 | train | <story><title>Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange hacked, losing $530M: NHK</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-cryptocurrency/tokyo-based-cryptocurrency-exchange-hacked-losing-530-million-nhk-idUSKBN1FF29C</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LAMike</author><text>The 0x protocol will allow for decentralized exchanges, so hacks like this would be a thing of the past if it gains adoption.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;0xproject.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;0xproject.com&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ReverseCold</author><text>It&#x27;s still impossible to have a decentralized exchange convert between USD and a coin.<p>XEM (the coin that was stolen) doesn&#x27;t have plans to implement 0x, but there are other plans for decentralized exchange.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange hacked, losing $530M: NHK</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-cryptocurrency/tokyo-based-cryptocurrency-exchange-hacked-losing-530-million-nhk-idUSKBN1FF29C</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LAMike</author><text>The 0x protocol will allow for decentralized exchanges, so hacks like this would be a thing of the past if it gains adoption.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;0xproject.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;0xproject.com&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coralreef</author><text>0x is specific to ERC20 tokens though, staying strictly on the Ethereum main chain.<p>There are some other decentralized exchanges in development however.</text></comment> |
19,461,163 | 19,460,979 | 1 | 2 | 19,457,324 | train | <story><title>Repl.it GFX: Native graphics development in the browser</title><url>https://repl.it/site/blog/gfx?ref=updates</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amasad</author><text>Repl.it co-founder here -- happy to answer questions :)<p>This is just coming out and lots of users are building impressive games; here is quick small sample of things I found interesting:<p>- Super Mario: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repl.it&#x2F;@JONASRAINS&#x2F;SMOB3-Python" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repl.it&#x2F;@JONASRAINS&#x2F;SMOB3-Python</a><p>- Pacman: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repl.it&#x2F;@argthe1st&#x2F;Pacman" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repl.it&#x2F;@argthe1st&#x2F;Pacman</a><p>- Flappy Bird (hold space to fly): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repl.it&#x2F;@rennecastro&#x2F;FlappyBird" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repl.it&#x2F;@rennecastro&#x2F;FlappyBird</a><p>- Dungeon game: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repl.it&#x2F;@AbrahamTinajero&#x2F;VOLTHEGAME-V-061" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repl.it&#x2F;@AbrahamTinajero&#x2F;VOLTHEGAME-V-061</a><p>- LOVE2D Ant: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repl.it&#x2F;@Essentuan&#x2F;AntLove" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repl.it&#x2F;@Essentuan&#x2F;AntLove</a><p>- Evolution simulator: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repl.it&#x2F;@dumfing&#x2F;OutpaceEvolution" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repl.it&#x2F;@dumfing&#x2F;OutpaceEvolution</a><p>- Doom style 3D maze: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repl.it&#x2F;@KatyaDelaney&#x2F;GameJam-3DMAZE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repl.it&#x2F;@KatyaDelaney&#x2F;GameJam-3DMAZE</a><p>I&#x27;m personally bullish on Pyxel -- the pico-8-like Python environment. Here is one of the example games running: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repl.it&#x2F;@amasad&#x2F;jumper" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repl.it&#x2F;@amasad&#x2F;jumper</a> (make sure to check the sweet asset editor; instructions in the comment).<p>Also, I forgot to mention in the post but this works great with friends on Multiplayer -- you&#x27;ll be able to interact with the same machine and output. Earlier this morning I watched YouTube with a bunch of random Twitter users: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;amasad&#x2F;status&#x2F;1108804242393821184" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;amasad&#x2F;status&#x2F;1108804242393821184</a> ^^</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AmIDev</author><text>How many people were working on repl.it before the first public release, and for how long?<p>I have been following Repl.it since it&#x27;s first release. We were quite amazed when repl.it was released. We, a bunch of students, were building a project very similar to what repl.it was in it&#x27;s initial days, during the same time period. we never managed to get our project to an usable stage, and eventually everyone abandoned it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Repl.it GFX: Native graphics development in the browser</title><url>https://repl.it/site/blog/gfx?ref=updates</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amasad</author><text>Repl.it co-founder here -- happy to answer questions :)<p>This is just coming out and lots of users are building impressive games; here is quick small sample of things I found interesting:<p>- Super Mario: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repl.it&#x2F;@JONASRAINS&#x2F;SMOB3-Python" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repl.it&#x2F;@JONASRAINS&#x2F;SMOB3-Python</a><p>- Pacman: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repl.it&#x2F;@argthe1st&#x2F;Pacman" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repl.it&#x2F;@argthe1st&#x2F;Pacman</a><p>- Flappy Bird (hold space to fly): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repl.it&#x2F;@rennecastro&#x2F;FlappyBird" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repl.it&#x2F;@rennecastro&#x2F;FlappyBird</a><p>- Dungeon game: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repl.it&#x2F;@AbrahamTinajero&#x2F;VOLTHEGAME-V-061" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repl.it&#x2F;@AbrahamTinajero&#x2F;VOLTHEGAME-V-061</a><p>- LOVE2D Ant: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repl.it&#x2F;@Essentuan&#x2F;AntLove" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repl.it&#x2F;@Essentuan&#x2F;AntLove</a><p>- Evolution simulator: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repl.it&#x2F;@dumfing&#x2F;OutpaceEvolution" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repl.it&#x2F;@dumfing&#x2F;OutpaceEvolution</a><p>- Doom style 3D maze: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repl.it&#x2F;@KatyaDelaney&#x2F;GameJam-3DMAZE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repl.it&#x2F;@KatyaDelaney&#x2F;GameJam-3DMAZE</a><p>I&#x27;m personally bullish on Pyxel -- the pico-8-like Python environment. Here is one of the example games running: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repl.it&#x2F;@amasad&#x2F;jumper" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repl.it&#x2F;@amasad&#x2F;jumper</a> (make sure to check the sweet asset editor; instructions in the comment).<p>Also, I forgot to mention in the post but this works great with friends on Multiplayer -- you&#x27;ll be able to interact with the same machine and output. Earlier this morning I watched YouTube with a bunch of random Twitter users: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;amasad&#x2F;status&#x2F;1108804242393821184" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;amasad&#x2F;status&#x2F;1108804242393821184</a> ^^</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Lerc</author><text>Why do you go the path of using LD_PRELOAD?<p>Could you not provide an alternate DISPLAY environment variable pointing to a little proxy X11<p>Either way it&#x27;s a neat hack. Is the source for the redirector available? It would undoubtedly have wider applications.</text></comment> |
11,652,601 | 11,652,529 | 1 | 2 | 11,652,318 | train | <story><title>Where Can a Ph.D. Take You? Back to School, Usually</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/06/science/phd-post-doc-positions-study.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>scott_s</author><text>I found some of the phrasing in the NYT article odd, and this sentence clued me into why: &quot;The authors, who did not get postdoctoral degrees themselves ...&quot;<p>I think the NYT reporter thinks that people in postdocs are pursuing another degree. They are not. It&#x27;s just a way for people with PhDs to remain in academia, doing research, so that they can build up their publication list to land tenure-track academic positions. (And, sometimes, even industry positions.) Perhaps what the study authors told the NYT reporter that they did not do postdocs, and the NYT reporter translated that to &quot;did not get postdoctoral degrees&quot;.<p>I agree this is a holding pattern, as the author says it is. But it&#x27;s not quite &quot;back to school&quot;, as the title implies. (I know the person who wrote the article probably did not supply the title, but I suspect they both have the same confusion.) They&#x27;re not pursuing another degree.</text></comment> | <story><title>Where Can a Ph.D. Take You? Back to School, Usually</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/06/science/phd-post-doc-positions-study.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pmiller2</author><text>Academia, as a career path, is a non-starter for the huge majority of people who even want to go down that path.<p>Universities are not growing at the same rates that they were in the 60&#x27;s and 70&#x27;s. If you&#x27;re a graduate student, not only are your classmates your competition, but every professor who supervises more than 1 PhD thesis is actually contributing to the overpopulation of PhDs. These two things in combination are why we have so many adjuncts on campus doing most of the teaching of undergrads.<p>Even if the above weren&#x27;t true, the path to a tenured position is not something I&#x27;d wish on a mortal enemy. Start off with several years in grad school making poverty-level wages. Add on 1-3 postdocs at a minimum, making probably 3&#x2F;4 or less of what an assistant professor would. Then, there&#x27;s the 6 year job interview (i.e. the tenure process). And, then, factor in that you don&#x27;t get to choose where you live during all this. You have to go where the jobs are, and there might only be a handful of jobs in your subfield any given year.<p>That all amounts to about 6-10 years of post-baccalaureate slog before you can even start a career and begin living like an adult.<p>If you come out the other end without a job, then your next search becomes even harder. If you get the job, then, yes, congratulations, it&#x27;s now very hard to fire you, but good luck finding another tenured position if you decide you want to move. Oh, and the people you work with, you&#x27;re going to see most of them every day for the next 10, 20, or 30 years.<p>In spite of all that, I might have actually ridden the train to the end, had I not realized that I was preparing to enter a field where I&#x27;d literally have to wait for someone to die before I got a job. Nobody told me any of this until I was already in grad school for a couple of years, and even then I ended up figuring most of it out on my own.</text></comment> |
15,174,236 | 15,174,046 | 1 | 2 | 15,173,781 | train | <story><title>A collection of things software developers should know</title><url>https://github.com/mr-mig/every-programmer-should-know</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lawn</author><text>Statements like &quot;every programmer&quot; are bad as they usually mean &quot;every low level programmer&quot; or &quot;every web programmer&quot; or similar.<p>For example why is it important that <i>every</i> programmer knows about SEO?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>soneca</author><text>The same about all the stuff regarding equity and stock options. Currently looks like a list about what every web developer that works for funded startups should know.</text></comment> | <story><title>A collection of things software developers should know</title><url>https://github.com/mr-mig/every-programmer-should-know</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lawn</author><text>Statements like &quot;every programmer&quot; are bad as they usually mean &quot;every low level programmer&quot; or &quot;every web programmer&quot; or similar.<p>For example why is it important that <i>every</i> programmer knows about SEO?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baldfat</author><text>I find that learning how to work with list is like having a crescent wrench in your tool box. Not every tool box have one but I sure think they should.<p>If you don&#x27;t know list you won&#x27;t know when that is the right solution. I have seen many people just use a SQLite DB for something as simple as a 20 item list.</text></comment> |
14,054,159 | 14,054,210 | 1 | 3 | 14,050,974 | train | <story><title>Planck.js – JavaScript rewrite of Box2D physics library</title><url>https://github.com/shakiba/planck.js</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>d0vs</author><text>It baffles me that all those JS physics library never provide proper docs or even an API reference and always link to the C++ Box2D manual as if it was an acceptable alternative. Always have to guess what the JS equivalent is but even then you&#x27;re in for a surprise: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;shakiba&#x2F;planck.js&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;CHANGES.md" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;shakiba&#x2F;planck.js&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;CHANGES.md</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>munchbunny</author><text>I&#x27;m guessing it comes down to &quot;writing docs takes lots of time, and when you&#x27;re a lean operation priority goes to making stuff work.&quot;<p>I&#x27;m sure once the project matures it&#x27;ll get a documentation pass, but the project is quite young.</text></comment> | <story><title>Planck.js – JavaScript rewrite of Box2D physics library</title><url>https://github.com/shakiba/planck.js</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>d0vs</author><text>It baffles me that all those JS physics library never provide proper docs or even an API reference and always link to the C++ Box2D manual as if it was an acceptable alternative. Always have to guess what the JS equivalent is but even then you&#x27;re in for a surprise: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;shakiba&#x2F;planck.js&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;CHANGES.md" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;shakiba&#x2F;planck.js&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;CHANGES.md</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shakiba</author><text>Those are changes to internals, there are only few API differences which are explained on readme page. Anyway, I agree with you, a new API doc would be very helpful.</text></comment> |
35,845,905 | 35,845,950 | 1 | 3 | 35,845,504 | train | <story><title>I downloaded all 1.6M posts on Bluesky</title><url>https://worthdoingbadly.com/bsky/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SeanAnderson</author><text>I would just like to say that I am excited for Bluesky to exist. It might go poorly, but I&#x27;m unwilling to write off weird attempts at innovation before the technology has had a chance to evolve in the wild.<p>I&#x27;ve seen several posts lately that have made me feel like the HN sentiment towards Bluesky is negative. Throwing them under the bus for the domain validation mistake. Hatred at commercialization of a protocol. Questioning why Bluesky would do anything but become a worse Twitter since Jack Dorsey is at the helm.<p>C&#x27;mon! At least give it the benefit of doubt while in beta! I, for one, frequently lament how fragmented my IM programs have become. I felt like there was an ideal point where Pidgin + XMPP interfaced with <i>everything</i> and we&#x27;ve slowly walked away from that high water mark. So, approaching communication at the protcol level has a certain appeal. I get the reasoning behind the goal.<p>Do I have concerns that this is another attempt at building a walled garden around something I wish to be open and interoperable? Of course! Do I think it&#x27;s a net negative on society for someone to be making their attempt? No! Bring on the new tech!<p>I wish I had a more nuanced argument to make my case because I&#x27;m sure there will be tons of replies here telling me why my opinion is bad and I&#x27;ll be unable to refute them. And those responses will likely make very fair points, but oh well! I needed to at least try to throw some optimism about technology into the HackerNews foray.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jug</author><text>I&#x27;m also trying to stay positive.<p>In that spirit, I really enjoy:<p>1. The very good documentation this early in the project! This is not common.<p>2. The very rapid response developer team that does it live! Once the combination of surprisingly rapid membership growth + no blocks blew up and it became an urgent moderation feature, they had blocks within weeks despite the technically challenging task due to the kind of federated protocol and distributing blocklists. You can tell they have seasoned developers on the team. This is not just any kind of gimmick network trying to cash grab on Twitter exodus like I feel Hive Social was. It is an actual attempt at something better than Mastodon that has a fun, social experience with good onboarding and solving account migration headaches in mind.<p>3. The rare service disruptions despite the developers having their plates full and commonly introducing updates to the service. This speaks loudly about software architecture skills and being humble to risk management with good software hygiene. This again is not something that just happens but takes effort, experience and intent.<p>4. The exciting model of DNS approval which I still like. It&#x27;s bloody fantastic to self-verify in a way that actually makes sense, and it feels very &quot;World Wide Web&quot; in a Tim Berners-Lee way. It uses pillars of the modern Internet in a way to strengthen a service and promises verification at scale. It can do company-wide verifications (domain.tld) as well as contributor-specific ones (username.team.company.tld). So, I dearly hope any misuse can be countered.<p>5. I worry they are overreaching with the AT protocol and federation but there is the &quot;Shooting for the stars and aiming for the moon&quot; saying here. I can only wish them the best and if I refer to the points above, the developer team seems surprisingly capable and full of actual intent here.</text></comment> | <story><title>I downloaded all 1.6M posts on Bluesky</title><url>https://worthdoingbadly.com/bsky/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SeanAnderson</author><text>I would just like to say that I am excited for Bluesky to exist. It might go poorly, but I&#x27;m unwilling to write off weird attempts at innovation before the technology has had a chance to evolve in the wild.<p>I&#x27;ve seen several posts lately that have made me feel like the HN sentiment towards Bluesky is negative. Throwing them under the bus for the domain validation mistake. Hatred at commercialization of a protocol. Questioning why Bluesky would do anything but become a worse Twitter since Jack Dorsey is at the helm.<p>C&#x27;mon! At least give it the benefit of doubt while in beta! I, for one, frequently lament how fragmented my IM programs have become. I felt like there was an ideal point where Pidgin + XMPP interfaced with <i>everything</i> and we&#x27;ve slowly walked away from that high water mark. So, approaching communication at the protcol level has a certain appeal. I get the reasoning behind the goal.<p>Do I have concerns that this is another attempt at building a walled garden around something I wish to be open and interoperable? Of course! Do I think it&#x27;s a net negative on society for someone to be making their attempt? No! Bring on the new tech!<p>I wish I had a more nuanced argument to make my case because I&#x27;m sure there will be tons of replies here telling me why my opinion is bad and I&#x27;ll be unable to refute them. And those responses will likely make very fair points, but oh well! I needed to at least try to throw some optimism about technology into the HackerNews foray.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>snickerbockers</author><text>TBH I haven&#x27;t paid much attention to it, but as somebody who was already using Mastodon as their primary social network for years before Musk took over, I&#x27;m not sure I understand what niche BlueSky is even supposed to fill that ActivityPub&#x2F;Fediverse doesn&#x27;t already fill. It just seems like a bunch of guys who got ousted from their jobs trying to invent a new commercial social network.<p>And one of the things that needs to be emphasized that a lot of people seem to have forgotten is that twitter was already terrible a *long* time before Musk bought it. Jack and his cronies aren&#x27;t actually any better than Musk is, they&#x27;re just smart enough not to make an ass of themselves in front of the entire world. I don&#x27;t trust them.</text></comment> |
15,748,192 | 15,748,175 | 1 | 2 | 15,747,313 | train | <story><title>Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30?</title><url>https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/why-does-man-print-gimme-gimme-gimme-at-0030</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>craigc</author><text>I think people here need to lighten up. I know we are all programmers, and we are sometimes portrayed as snobby and entitled, but we don&#x27;t have to live up to those stereotypes.<p>I understand it&#x27;s frustrating when a tool you use is expected to work a certain way and it doesn&#x27;t. I understand it&#x27;s even more frustrating when the output could change depending on the time of day. That doesn&#x27;t mean it is our place to gang up on an open source tool that is designed to make our lives easier.<p>I think we should be allowed to have some fun every once in a while, and this &quot;gimme gimme gimme&quot; easter egg is awesome.<p>It seems the maintainers didn&#x27;t realize that this easter egg was affecting a command that was designed to have a predictable output so that is the real issue here. Just a simple bug. If this was output on some help screen or something like that then no one would be complaining.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30?</title><url>https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/why-does-man-print-gimme-gimme-gimme-at-0030</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Omnius</author><text>Year&#x27;s ago i was coding a warehouse management system and in this edge case, that required a moon full and blood sacrifice to even have it occur i stuck some debug code&#x2F;message that was only ever meant for me to try and figure out how it was happening.<p>5 years later i get a call. &quot;We have a weird error message it says ... How did i even get here! This error is bad and you should feel bad.&quot;</text></comment> |
8,036,868 | 8,036,189 | 1 | 2 | 8,035,726 | train | <story><title>Meet ‘Project Zero,’ Google’s Secret Team of Bug-Hunting Hackers</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2014/07/google-project-zero/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>majke</author><text>People here seem to miss an important point.<p>&quot;Unsafe&quot; internet is not an inconvenience for Google. It&#x27;s a mortal enemy.<p>With botnets all around clogging networks they will not be able to serve videos, search results or ads. With malware stealing your credit card details you will not buy stuff online and firms will stop buying ads.<p>Basically, it&#x27;s not a matter of choice for Google to make internet safer. It&#x27;s an absolute necessity long term. The big questions is exactly _how_ to make internet safer - and this announcement shows they at least have an idea where to start.</text></comment> | <story><title>Meet ‘Project Zero,’ Google’s Secret Team of Bug-Hunting Hackers</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2014/07/google-project-zero/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ShaneWilton</author><text>It&#x27;s incredibly exciting to consider just how much talent Google has managed to amass on this team. Say what you will about whether it&#x27;s an entirely altruistic endeavour or not, but I don&#x27;t think anybody can dispute that devoting a team of this calibre to vulnerability research can turn out as anything but great for the internet as a whole.<p>I&#x27;ve seen Ian and George work in passing, and if the rest of the team is half as capable as they are, I&#x27;m expecting some really great findings to surface from the project.</text></comment> |
17,779,789 | 17,778,288 | 1 | 2 | 17,776,766 | train | <story><title>FDA approves first generic version of EpiPen</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/08/16/fda-approves-first-generic-version-of-epipen/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikeyouse</author><text>This isn&#x27;t typically true -- If a doctor writes a Rx for Lipitor, it&#x27;ll almost never be filled with the Brand Name Lipitor. All insurance and most formularies expect that the generic will be provided. Doctors have to write &quot;DAW&quot; or &quot;Dispense as Written&quot; on the Rx for the patient to receive the brand name when a generic is available.<p>AJM Confirming that all states have Generic Substitution laws to lower drug costs: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amjmed.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;S0002-9343(10)01087-9&#x2F;abstract" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amjmed.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;S0002-9343(10)01087-9&#x2F;abstrac...</a></text></item><item><author>da_chicken</author><text>&gt; This got me thinking that consumers are at fault as well.<p>It&#x27;s also partially the doctors. If a doctor writes a prescription as &quot;EpiPen,&quot; then the pharmacist has to provide a drug with the brand EpiPen. The doctor has to specify &quot;EpiPen or generic equivalent&quot; on the prescription in order for the pharmacist to be able to fill it with a generic. If doctors don&#x27;t realize that EpiPen is a name brand -- and &quot;EpiPen&quot; is so ubiquitous as to be nearly genericized at the point -- then doctors may not realize the issue.</text></item><item><author>forkerenok</author><text>From the article<p>&gt; <i>Other epinephrine injectors have been approved before, but they struggled to gain market share against a brand that used lobbying and marketing to establish a virtual monopoly on the market.</i><p>This got me thinking that consumers are at fault as well. But then I read the following from the linked article[0].<p>&gt; <i>“Their most brilliant maneuver, clearly, was giving them [EpiPens] away to schools and making it the thing that they could say, ‘Well, the nurse knows how to use it,’ ” said R. Adams Dudley, a pulmonologist at the University of California at San Francisco. “What are the parents afraid of? Their child will be away from them, and they won’t be there to use it. If they can say the school nurse knows how to use an EpiPen; she’s never seen an Adrenaclick ... It’s just a fear thing.”</i><p>With such (understandable) absolute risk averseness what is the way out?..<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;economy&#x2F;2016&#x2F;08&#x2F;25&#x2F;7f83728a-6aee-11e6-ba32-5a4bf5aad4fa_story.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;economy&#x2F;2016&#x2F;08&#x2F;25&#x2F;7...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dboreham</author><text>This is the whole point of the article btw : there have been &quot;non-Mylan&quot; EpiPen products on the market in the US for the past year (that are low cost) but they aren&#x27;t magically associated with the SKU &quot;EpiPen&quot; in the Pharmacy -- you have request them by name. This news is about an alternative autoinjector being approved for that special &quot;Pharmacist can substitute for the real thing regardless&quot; status.<p>Source : son with severe peanut allergy and insurance that doesn&#x27;t cover epipens. Made several trips to Canada (for other reasons); bought Epipens there for us and various friends.</text></comment> | <story><title>FDA approves first generic version of EpiPen</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/08/16/fda-approves-first-generic-version-of-epipen/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikeyouse</author><text>This isn&#x27;t typically true -- If a doctor writes a Rx for Lipitor, it&#x27;ll almost never be filled with the Brand Name Lipitor. All insurance and most formularies expect that the generic will be provided. Doctors have to write &quot;DAW&quot; or &quot;Dispense as Written&quot; on the Rx for the patient to receive the brand name when a generic is available.<p>AJM Confirming that all states have Generic Substitution laws to lower drug costs: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amjmed.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;S0002-9343(10)01087-9&#x2F;abstract" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amjmed.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;S0002-9343(10)01087-9&#x2F;abstrac...</a></text></item><item><author>da_chicken</author><text>&gt; This got me thinking that consumers are at fault as well.<p>It&#x27;s also partially the doctors. If a doctor writes a prescription as &quot;EpiPen,&quot; then the pharmacist has to provide a drug with the brand EpiPen. The doctor has to specify &quot;EpiPen or generic equivalent&quot; on the prescription in order for the pharmacist to be able to fill it with a generic. If doctors don&#x27;t realize that EpiPen is a name brand -- and &quot;EpiPen&quot; is so ubiquitous as to be nearly genericized at the point -- then doctors may not realize the issue.</text></item><item><author>forkerenok</author><text>From the article<p>&gt; <i>Other epinephrine injectors have been approved before, but they struggled to gain market share against a brand that used lobbying and marketing to establish a virtual monopoly on the market.</i><p>This got me thinking that consumers are at fault as well. But then I read the following from the linked article[0].<p>&gt; <i>“Their most brilliant maneuver, clearly, was giving them [EpiPens] away to schools and making it the thing that they could say, ‘Well, the nurse knows how to use it,’ ” said R. Adams Dudley, a pulmonologist at the University of California at San Francisco. “What are the parents afraid of? Their child will be away from them, and they won’t be there to use it. If they can say the school nurse knows how to use an EpiPen; she’s never seen an Adrenaclick ... It’s just a fear thing.”</i><p>With such (understandable) absolute risk averseness what is the way out?..<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;economy&#x2F;2016&#x2F;08&#x2F;25&#x2F;7f83728a-6aee-11e6-ba32-5a4bf5aad4fa_story.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;economy&#x2F;2016&#x2F;08&#x2F;25&#x2F;7...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mjcl</author><text>But to date, delivery devices like the adrenaclick have not been considered equivalent to epipen. Some states permit a substitution in these cases (a &#x27;BX&#x27; rating instead of &#x27;AB&#x27;), but many do not allow it without getting clarification from the prescriber.</text></comment> |
34,373,369 | 34,371,992 | 1 | 3 | 34,366,610 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Do you hate software engineering but love programming?</title><text>I have come to a realization that I don&#x27;t really enjoy Software Engineering(&amp; the processes that it comes with) but I do love programming &amp; solving problems.<p>Finding and fixing bugs is a lot of fun. Incidence response is a lot of fun. Hacking on new projects is a lot of fun. Writing unit tests is fun too.<p>Refactoring, rewriting, sprint, agile, rearchitecting things etc aren&#x27;t that fun. I like a few languages and I am not too keen on learning new paradigms or languages unless I have to. I&#x27;d rather get to value now by making something that just works(and is adequately tested) than engineer something thats future proof but takes longer to get out.<p>What are some good jobs for a person like this?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>peoplefromibiza</author><text>[flagged]</text></item><item><author>schrodinger</author><text>There&#x27;s a slight implication because it only covers men that women are the source of unhappiness (e.g. the nagging wife trope), but I agree it&#x27;s trivial and likely unintentional. Agree with sibling, just as applicable as &quot;happy married people are happy partners, unhappily married people are great philosophers&quot;.</text></item><item><author>massinstall</author><text>Why is this saying misogynistic?<p>Because it’s a statement about men or because of the implied possibility they could be unhappy in their marriage?<p>Also, why is it horrible?<p>It appears this world has become manically trigger-happy to label something as <i>-ist or </i>-istic, when it contains even only a hint of something someone could possibly understand the wrong way.<p>It would be curious to examine in a psychological study if this reinforced behavior has developed more due to a subtle social reward system for the “labelers”, or due to a punishment system for the “non-labelers”.</text></item><item><author>kraig911</author><text>1000x times this. It&#x27;s a weird thing our profession. There&#x27;s a horrible but apt (misogynistic even) saying. Happily married men are happy husbands - Unhappily married men are great philosophers. I really feel agile has killed the happiness of our industry because it&#x27;s met with a lot of back and forth, meetings, rituals, and meta-work and not actual productivity (If agile is done well though it can be amazing but that&#x27;s another topic to me)</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&gt; I have come to a realization that I don&#x27;t really enjoy Software Engineering(&amp; the processes that it comes with) but I do love programming &amp; solving problems.<p>I can almost guarantee that you’re just at the wrong company.<p>Some software companies can turn even the simplest tasks into a grueling series of processes, endless meetings, and joint work across a big number of “stakeholders”. These companies will take the joy and productivity out of programming and replace it with a series of rituals and set of language that people use to go through the motions every week so they can collect paychecks.<p>Start interviewing around. Talk to your network. Find a company that values programming and real productivity but discourages unnecessary meetings and process. You will be much happier. There is no escaping the fact that you’ll have to work on legacy code, document your work, and meet with people some times. However, it doesn’t have to be a miserable process-filled slog.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>feoren</author><text>You&#x27;re clearly passionate about something here, but it&#x27;s not totally clear what it is or why. It might be interesting to read what you have to say, but you need to chill, organize your thoughts, and stop calling other posters idiots for disagreeing with you. Right now it feels like we&#x27;re catching half of an angry shower argument against someone who&#x27;s not here.<p>I can tell, because I&#x27;ve made posts like this before, and I always regretted it later. Have your angry argument in a journal or text file (Lately I&#x27;ve really liked Markdown with source control). Then revisit it later, and add in the side you&#x27;re arguing <i>against</i>. Then revise it so that you&#x27;re actually making a clear point, and remove all the personal insults. Then post it here, because I want to read it. But until then, I have no idea WTF you&#x27;re on about or why you&#x27;re so defensive of a very-long-dead philosopher.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Do you hate software engineering but love programming?</title><text>I have come to a realization that I don&#x27;t really enjoy Software Engineering(&amp; the processes that it comes with) but I do love programming &amp; solving problems.<p>Finding and fixing bugs is a lot of fun. Incidence response is a lot of fun. Hacking on new projects is a lot of fun. Writing unit tests is fun too.<p>Refactoring, rewriting, sprint, agile, rearchitecting things etc aren&#x27;t that fun. I like a few languages and I am not too keen on learning new paradigms or languages unless I have to. I&#x27;d rather get to value now by making something that just works(and is adequately tested) than engineer something thats future proof but takes longer to get out.<p>What are some good jobs for a person like this?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>peoplefromibiza</author><text>[flagged]</text></item><item><author>schrodinger</author><text>There&#x27;s a slight implication because it only covers men that women are the source of unhappiness (e.g. the nagging wife trope), but I agree it&#x27;s trivial and likely unintentional. Agree with sibling, just as applicable as &quot;happy married people are happy partners, unhappily married people are great philosophers&quot;.</text></item><item><author>massinstall</author><text>Why is this saying misogynistic?<p>Because it’s a statement about men or because of the implied possibility they could be unhappy in their marriage?<p>Also, why is it horrible?<p>It appears this world has become manically trigger-happy to label something as <i>-ist or </i>-istic, when it contains even only a hint of something someone could possibly understand the wrong way.<p>It would be curious to examine in a psychological study if this reinforced behavior has developed more due to a subtle social reward system for the “labelers”, or due to a punishment system for the “non-labelers”.</text></item><item><author>kraig911</author><text>1000x times this. It&#x27;s a weird thing our profession. There&#x27;s a horrible but apt (misogynistic even) saying. Happily married men are happy husbands - Unhappily married men are great philosophers. I really feel agile has killed the happiness of our industry because it&#x27;s met with a lot of back and forth, meetings, rituals, and meta-work and not actual productivity (If agile is done well though it can be amazing but that&#x27;s another topic to me)</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&gt; I have come to a realization that I don&#x27;t really enjoy Software Engineering(&amp; the processes that it comes with) but I do love programming &amp; solving problems.<p>I can almost guarantee that you’re just at the wrong company.<p>Some software companies can turn even the simplest tasks into a grueling series of processes, endless meetings, and joint work across a big number of “stakeholders”. These companies will take the joy and productivity out of programming and replace it with a series of rituals and set of language that people use to go through the motions every week so they can collect paychecks.<p>Start interviewing around. Talk to your network. Find a company that values programming and real productivity but discourages unnecessary meetings and process. You will be much happier. There is no escaping the fact that you’ll have to work on legacy code, document your work, and meet with people some times. However, it doesn’t have to be a miserable process-filled slog.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jgil</author><text>&gt; Was Aristotle misogynistic?<p>Yes. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Aristotle%27s_views_on_women" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Aristotle%27s_views_on_women</a></text></comment> |
25,383,467 | 25,383,504 | 1 | 2 | 25,381,397 | train | <story><title>Finding Critical Open Source Projects</title><url>https://opensource.googleblog.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Buetol</author><text>Top 10:<p>- Python: salt, core (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;home-assistant&#x2F;core" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;home-assistant&#x2F;core</a>), pandas, scikit-learn, numpy, airflow, erpnext, matplotlib, pytest &amp; pip<p>- Rust: servo, cargo, rust-clippy, tokio, rust-analyzer, tock, tikv, alacritty, libc &amp; substrate<p>- JS: node, react-native, react, gatsby, three.js, bootstrap, material-ui, odoo, next.js &amp; Rocket.Chat<p>- Java: elasticsearch, flink, spring-boot, hadoop, netty, jenkins, beam, bazel, alluxio &amp; pmd<p>- C++: tensorflow, ceph, pytorch, bitcoin, electron, Marlin, Cataclysm-DDA, llvm-project, rocksdb &amp; QGIS<p>- C: git, linux, linux, php-src, openssl, systemd, curl, u-boot, qemu &amp; mbed-os</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>megous</author><text>Which of these match the image in the article, where some random Nebraskan is maintaining some obscure dependency?</text></comment> | <story><title>Finding Critical Open Source Projects</title><url>https://opensource.googleblog.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Buetol</author><text>Top 10:<p>- Python: salt, core (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;home-assistant&#x2F;core" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;home-assistant&#x2F;core</a>), pandas, scikit-learn, numpy, airflow, erpnext, matplotlib, pytest &amp; pip<p>- Rust: servo, cargo, rust-clippy, tokio, rust-analyzer, tock, tikv, alacritty, libc &amp; substrate<p>- JS: node, react-native, react, gatsby, three.js, bootstrap, material-ui, odoo, next.js &amp; Rocket.Chat<p>- Java: elasticsearch, flink, spring-boot, hadoop, netty, jenkins, beam, bazel, alluxio &amp; pmd<p>- C++: tensorflow, ceph, pytorch, bitcoin, electron, Marlin, Cataclysm-DDA, llvm-project, rocksdb &amp; QGIS<p>- C: git, linux, linux, php-src, openssl, systemd, curl, u-boot, qemu &amp; mbed-os</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stonogo</author><text>I&#x27;m interested in the gulf between low-level systems code and effectively end-user code here. Things like GLib, Cairo, Harbuzz, etc -- none of the end-user tools work without them. It really demonstrates just how difficult this evaluation can be.</text></comment> |
12,113,199 | 12,112,861 | 1 | 3 | 12,112,352 | train | <story><title>Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring</title><url>https://twitter.com/phlsa/status/754337623964053504</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sesutton</author><text>The way the screenshot is cropped is misleading. The actual page makes it clear this feature is opt-in.<p>If you&#x27;re logged into a Google account and haven&#x27;t already made a choice on the page you can see it at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;settings&#x2F;ads" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;settings&#x2F;ads</a>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Dr_tldr</author><text>It&#x27;s explicitly not &quot;opt-in&quot; since the default setting is turned to &quot;on&quot; (tested with multiple accounts) without any prompting. Opt-out is better than nothing, but it&#x27;s a pretty suspect move to say &quot;oops, you were accidentally opted in to something that would make us money without your permission.&quot;<p>I&#x27;d respect them a lot more if they came right out and said &quot;let us sell your data or start paying for our services.&quot; That would at least be a fair choice, and I&#x27;d be happy(ish) to pay google 10 bucks a month if they promised not to sell my information on the side.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring</title><url>https://twitter.com/phlsa/status/754337623964053504</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sesutton</author><text>The way the screenshot is cropped is misleading. The actual page makes it clear this feature is opt-in.<p>If you&#x27;re logged into a Google account and haven&#x27;t already made a choice on the page you can see it at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;settings&#x2F;ads" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;settings&#x2F;ads</a>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bruxis</author><text>I don&#x27;t recall ever enabling this but this is enabled already for me.<p>(note that not recalling doesn&#x27;t mean I never enabled it, however it would have had to have been fairly inconspicuously for me to &quot;opt-in&quot;)</text></comment> |
5,723,908 | 5,723,983 | 1 | 2 | 5,723,685 | train | <story><title>Why I have left Samsung</title><url>http://dream-force.com/post/27437342468/i-left-samsung</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ArekDymalski</author><text>Every time (~5/month) I hear the "managers are idiots" rant I start to wonder, how is it possible that all the smart people:
1. aren't managers.
2. aren't able to convince the "idiots".<p>I'm also curious why smart people become idiots when they're promoted.<p>Come on. Managing is hard and definitely looks different depending on your position. To make it even more "funny" I can tell you that "employees are idiots" is a frequent manager's rant too.</text></item><item><author>seivan</author><text>It's not a question of scale, it's a question of management. Companies like Samsung, <i>others</i> and etc are managed by idiots. Pure and simple. Suit wearing, non-technical morons.<p>Congratulations on your new job, exercise, fresh air and freshly picked berries and vegetables. Sounds pretty decent compared to sitting in front of a screen slaving for knock-off phones with shitty vendored junk.<p>Seeing the company you work for doing commercials like <a href="http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2013/04/29/a-terrible-idea-samsungs-reworks-gangnam-style-to-promote-the-galaxy-s4-at-a-launch-event-in-india/" rel="nofollow">http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2013/04/29/a-terrible-idea-...</a> (even if it was by a third party PR company) is kinda.. weak.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>w0utert</author><text>&#62;&#62; <i>Every time (~5/month) I hear the "managers are idiots" rant I start to wonder, how is it possible that all the smart people: 1. aren't managers. 2. aren't able to convince the "idiots".</i><p>I guess you must have worked for completely different companies than I did, because in my experience it's not the smartest people who work their way up into management, just the loudest ones that don't have any specific skill that would make them hard to replace elsewhere.<p>IMO the smartest people I know at my workplace are the engineers who manage themselves into a position where they can work on interesting projects without getting dicked around by managers distracting from the real work all the time, and make a good living doing it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why I have left Samsung</title><url>http://dream-force.com/post/27437342468/i-left-samsung</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ArekDymalski</author><text>Every time (~5/month) I hear the "managers are idiots" rant I start to wonder, how is it possible that all the smart people:
1. aren't managers.
2. aren't able to convince the "idiots".<p>I'm also curious why smart people become idiots when they're promoted.<p>Come on. Managing is hard and definitely looks different depending on your position. To make it even more "funny" I can tell you that "employees are idiots" is a frequent manager's rant too.</text></item><item><author>seivan</author><text>It's not a question of scale, it's a question of management. Companies like Samsung, <i>others</i> and etc are managed by idiots. Pure and simple. Suit wearing, non-technical morons.<p>Congratulations on your new job, exercise, fresh air and freshly picked berries and vegetables. Sounds pretty decent compared to sitting in front of a screen slaving for knock-off phones with shitty vendored junk.<p>Seeing the company you work for doing commercials like <a href="http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2013/04/29/a-terrible-idea-samsungs-reworks-gangnam-style-to-promote-the-galaxy-s4-at-a-launch-event-in-india/" rel="nofollow">http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2013/04/29/a-terrible-idea-...</a> (even if it was by a third party PR company) is kinda.. weak.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kamaal</author><text>You don't have to be smart to be a manager. I mean in our(developer circles) definition of smart is some one who gets the job done. I mean the real job. Something that is of value. Most people managers don't do that.<p>In most corporates management really is book keeping. Managing vacations, leaves, holidays. Filling up appraisal sheets, expense documents, coordinating with HR, forwarding Information, arranging meetings and all these kind of assorted chores. This classifies under what you can call as 'running the affairs' as they are.<p>This has nothing to do building something awesome. That is a different territory. What managers in most companies do ideally is enforce sanity by bringing in mediocrity. Much of their work is in bringing in a process so that their life gets easier. They need numbers, so they have to deal and force people to do things like fill in time sheets, constantly update some system to keep the their managers alerted. You get the point?<p>Situation only gets worse because, sooner or later all managers realize- they hit a career dead end unless they are politically well connected within an organization to get that next promotion or a travel opportunity. In many ways they are forced to, their position encourages them to. Imagine having no coding skills, no ideas, no ways to show that you got something real done in years. Over time your own value in the market will fall down to point you know you can't really get any real work done any where. This is the story of many middle managers in big corporates.<p>Most managers are really cost and work accountants.</text></comment> |
2,634,653 | 2,634,195 | 1 | 2 | 2,633,962 | train | <story><title>MIT students develop liquid fuel for electric cars</title><url>http://i.autoblog.com/2011/06/08/mit-students-develop-liquid-fuel-for-electric-cars/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jws</author><text>The highest energy density listed for the electrolytes on the wikipedia page for flow batteries is 75 watt hours/kg, that is about 0.25Mj/kg. Gasoline is 42Mj/kg.<p>The original MIT release claims a 10 fold improvement in energy densities over existing flow batteries, but that is still more than an order of magnitude worse than the incumbent fuel.</text></comment> | <story><title>MIT students develop liquid fuel for electric cars</title><url>http://i.autoblog.com/2011/06/08/mit-students-develop-liquid-fuel-for-electric-cars/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ender7</author><text>Original article: <a href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/flow-batteries-0606.html" rel="nofollow">http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/flow-batteries-0606.html</a></text></comment> |
35,168,044 | 35,153,238 | 1 | 2 | 35,152,851 | train | <story><title>Launch HN: CodeComplete (YC W23) – Copilot for Enterprise</title><text>Hello HN! We’re Max and Lydia, co-founders at CodeComplete AI (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codecomplete.ai">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codecomplete.ai</a>), an AI-powered coding assistant for enterprise companies. Many large companies can’t use products like GitHub Copilot because of the security and privacy risks, so we’re building a self-hosted version that’s fine tuned to the company’s codebase.<p>We love Copilot and believe that AI will change the way developers work. Max wanted to use Copilot when he was an ML engineer at Meta, but leadership blocked him because Copilot requires sending company code to GitHub and OpenAI. We built CodeComplete because lots of other companies are in the same boat, and we want to offer a secure way for these companies to leverage the latest AI-powered dev tools.<p>To that end, our product is really meant for large engineering teams at enterprise companies who can’t use GitHub Copilot. This generally means teams with more than 200 developers that have strict practices against sending their code or other IP externally.<p>CodeComplete offers an experience similar to Copilot; we serve AI code completions as developers type in their IDEs. However, instead of sending private code snippets to GitHub or OpenAI, we use a self-hosted LLM to serve code completions. Another advantage with self-hosting is that it’s more straightforward to securely fine-tune to the company’s codebase. Copilot suggestions aren’t always tailored to a company’s coding patterns or internal libraries, so this can help make our completions more relevant and avoid adding tech debt.<p>To serve code completions, we start with open source foundation models and augment them with additional (permissively-licensed) datasets. Our models live behind your firewall, either in your cloud or on-premises. For cloud deployments, we have terraform scripts that set up our infrastructure and pull in our containers. On-prem deployments are a bit more complicated; we work with the customer to design a custom solution. Once everything’s set up, we train on your codebase and then start serving code completions.<p>To use our product, developers simply download our extension in their IDE (VS Code currently supported, Jetbrains coming soon). After authentication, the extensions provide in-line code completion suggestions to developers as they type.<p>Since we’re a self-hosted enterprise product, we don’t have an online version you can just try out, but here are two quick demos: (1): Python completion, fine-tuned on a mock Twitter-like codebase: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;YqkqtGY4qmc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;YqkqtGY4qmc</a>. (2) Java completion for &quot;leetcode&quot;-style problems, like converting integers to roman numerals: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;H4tGoFNC8oI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;H4tGoFNC8oI</a>.<p>We take privacy and security seriously. By default, our deployments only send back heartbeat messages to our servers. Our product logs usage data and code snippets to the company’s own internal database so that they can evaluate our performance and improve their models over time. Companies have the option to share a subset of that data with us (e.g. completion acceptance rate, model probabilities output, latencies, etc), but we don’t require it. We never see your code or any other intellectual property.<p>We charge based on seat licenses. For enterprise companies, these contracts often demand custom scoping and requirements. In general though, our pricing will be at a premium to GitHub Copilot since there is significant technical and operational overhead with offering a self-hosted product like this.<p>Having access to these types of tools would have saved us a bunch of time in our previous jobs, so we’re really excited to show this to everyone. If you are having similar issues with security and privacy at your current company, please reach out to us at [email protected]! We’d love to hear your feedback.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>phkahler</author><text>Not to be confused with the software development book by the same name:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Code_Complete" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Code_Complete</a><p>Taking that name would not fly under trademark rules, but fortunately books are copyrighted. But then again it&#x27;s published by Microsoft Press - the publishing arm of your biggest competitor.</text></comment> | <story><title>Launch HN: CodeComplete (YC W23) – Copilot for Enterprise</title><text>Hello HN! We’re Max and Lydia, co-founders at CodeComplete AI (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codecomplete.ai">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codecomplete.ai</a>), an AI-powered coding assistant for enterprise companies. Many large companies can’t use products like GitHub Copilot because of the security and privacy risks, so we’re building a self-hosted version that’s fine tuned to the company’s codebase.<p>We love Copilot and believe that AI will change the way developers work. Max wanted to use Copilot when he was an ML engineer at Meta, but leadership blocked him because Copilot requires sending company code to GitHub and OpenAI. We built CodeComplete because lots of other companies are in the same boat, and we want to offer a secure way for these companies to leverage the latest AI-powered dev tools.<p>To that end, our product is really meant for large engineering teams at enterprise companies who can’t use GitHub Copilot. This generally means teams with more than 200 developers that have strict practices against sending their code or other IP externally.<p>CodeComplete offers an experience similar to Copilot; we serve AI code completions as developers type in their IDEs. However, instead of sending private code snippets to GitHub or OpenAI, we use a self-hosted LLM to serve code completions. Another advantage with self-hosting is that it’s more straightforward to securely fine-tune to the company’s codebase. Copilot suggestions aren’t always tailored to a company’s coding patterns or internal libraries, so this can help make our completions more relevant and avoid adding tech debt.<p>To serve code completions, we start with open source foundation models and augment them with additional (permissively-licensed) datasets. Our models live behind your firewall, either in your cloud or on-premises. For cloud deployments, we have terraform scripts that set up our infrastructure and pull in our containers. On-prem deployments are a bit more complicated; we work with the customer to design a custom solution. Once everything’s set up, we train on your codebase and then start serving code completions.<p>To use our product, developers simply download our extension in their IDE (VS Code currently supported, Jetbrains coming soon). After authentication, the extensions provide in-line code completion suggestions to developers as they type.<p>Since we’re a self-hosted enterprise product, we don’t have an online version you can just try out, but here are two quick demos: (1): Python completion, fine-tuned on a mock Twitter-like codebase: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;YqkqtGY4qmc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;YqkqtGY4qmc</a>. (2) Java completion for &quot;leetcode&quot;-style problems, like converting integers to roman numerals: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;H4tGoFNC8oI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;H4tGoFNC8oI</a>.<p>We take privacy and security seriously. By default, our deployments only send back heartbeat messages to our servers. Our product logs usage data and code snippets to the company’s own internal database so that they can evaluate our performance and improve their models over time. Companies have the option to share a subset of that data with us (e.g. completion acceptance rate, model probabilities output, latencies, etc), but we don’t require it. We never see your code or any other intellectual property.<p>We charge based on seat licenses. For enterprise companies, these contracts often demand custom scoping and requirements. In general though, our pricing will be at a premium to GitHub Copilot since there is significant technical and operational overhead with offering a self-hosted product like this.<p>Having access to these types of tools would have saved us a bunch of time in our previous jobs, so we’re really excited to show this to everyone. If you are having similar issues with security and privacy at your current company, please reach out to us at [email protected]! We’d love to hear your feedback.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alsodumb</author><text>GitHub and other companies like Amazon have the advantage of the scale in terms of dataset. What’s the guarantee that the pre trained model you have that you’ll fine tune on a company’s code base is as good as say Copilot? It makes it even hard to evaluate when you don’t have a demo to try - it’s not that hard to setup a pipeline to run your model in cloud and send invites to potential customers if you want to.</text></comment> |
640,599 | 640,594 | 1 | 2 | 640,530 | train | <story><title>CrunchPad Prototype</title><url>http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/03/crunchpad-the-launch-prototype/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SwellJoe</author><text>I'd certainly choose this over, say, a Kindle. If they can actually deliver, and at the price they've bandied about, I'd love to have one.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>viggity</author><text>One big bonus for the kindle is the battery life (2 weeks? vs a few hours). Obviously, the crunchpad has lots of other things going for it. I guess my point is that they're really meant for two different purposes.</text></comment> | <story><title>CrunchPad Prototype</title><url>http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/03/crunchpad-the-launch-prototype/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SwellJoe</author><text>I'd certainly choose this over, say, a Kindle. If they can actually deliver, and at the price they've bandied about, I'd love to have one.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zhyder</author><text>It'd be great if it (or v2) has one of those Pixel Qi or OLPC XO screens. Better compromise between E-Ink's (sunlight) readability &#38; low power consumption, and LCDs' refresh rate &#38; color production.</text></comment> |
34,845,952 | 34,845,958 | 1 | 3 | 34,844,716 | train | <story><title>John Carmack on Functional Programming in C++ (2018)</title><url>http://www.sevangelatos.com/john-carmack-on/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seanalltogether</author><text>&gt; A large fraction of the flaws in software development are due to programmers not fully understanding all the possible states their code may execute in.<p>I think this probably the most important concept for programmers to keep at the front of their minds when working day to day. So many of the problems I see come from developers (myself included) adding new business logic to a process, or fixing a bug and not thinking through the side effects of the change</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mightybyte</author><text>It took me awhile to realize but this is one of the big things that algebraic data types (ADTs) help you to do...design your data types so they have exactly the number of valid states that your domain has. To use another common FP way of saying it...make invalid states unrepresentable.</text></comment> | <story><title>John Carmack on Functional Programming in C++ (2018)</title><url>http://www.sevangelatos.com/john-carmack-on/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seanalltogether</author><text>&gt; A large fraction of the flaws in software development are due to programmers not fully understanding all the possible states their code may execute in.<p>I think this probably the most important concept for programmers to keep at the front of their minds when working day to day. So many of the problems I see come from developers (myself included) adding new business logic to a process, or fixing a bug and not thinking through the side effects of the change</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>louthy</author><text>&gt; adding new business logic to a process,<p>Adding logic is the smallest part of the problem: adding types, that aren&#x27;t constrained to represent the smallest set of values needed for the problem at hand, that&#x27;s the biggest problem. This &#x27;looseness&#x27; doesn&#x27;t show up as a compilation error and looks on the surface to be just fine. Then the real-world comes along and creates a value that should never exist and the code falls over.<p>Constraining the data by properly defining types is the (primary) way to reduce the possible states an application can get in. This can be via sum-types (discriminated unions), or even making sure you don&#x27;t use `int`, `string`, etc. and other types that are just one step away from being dynamic.<p>When doing <i>pure</i> functional programming, along with properly constrained types, you tend to find the code <i>writes itself</i>. What I mean by this is that it becomes very much about composing functions via &#x27;type lego&#x27;. Once the types fit, your code works [1]. This is a very profound feeling once you grok it, because it gives oneself a feeling of confidence in ones own code that doesn&#x27;t happen in imperative land. I will sometimes go days or weeks without even running the code I&#x27;m writing because I just have confidence in it.<p>[1] It&#x27;s still possible to write logic errors, but they&#x27;re the only major class of bugs you get really.</text></comment> |
27,410,765 | 27,410,669 | 1 | 2 | 27,409,978 | train | <story><title>Apple employee group rejects planned return to the office</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/apple-employees-reject-return-to-office-plans-153302337.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Vadoff</author><text>I never understood why someone would live over an hour away from where they work. There&#x27;s been numerous studies showing the number one cause of unhappiness&#x2F;dissatisfaction at work is commute time, especially when it reaches over 40 minutes one way.<p>If you live in San Jose, getting to Apple would only be 15-20 minutes.<p>I once had a coworker who lived an hour and 40 minutes away, literally wasting almost 3.5 hours of their day.</text></item><item><author>cgb223</author><text>Not an Apple employee but for me it would be the commute not the office that’s the pain point<p>Driving or even bussing down or up or across the bay to get to Apple is a huge stressor. Doing it every single day both ways easily kills 2 hours of my life.<p>If I stay home and work instead I am better rested, more relaxed, and consequently more productive</text></item><item><author>mensetmanusman</author><text>As others have mentioned, I also wonder how much of this annoyance to return has to do with the failed open-office concept.<p>People more-or-less occasionally like having their own place during work where they can some action (e.g. closing their door) to focus 100% without interruption.<p>Cost-cutting open-office plans that let management see their flock typing away destroyed this option, and covid has reminded people how valuable and productive this option is&#x2F;was (for those at home with this option).<p>We are now in new territory, as we are experiencing the end of the first pandemic during the information age. What we decide now will resonate for many years.<p>Something to think about: for most millennia of human experience, where one worked and where one lived amongst the family and community were one and the same. It’s only a blip in post-industrial history have we had this situation of leaving the family (et al.) behind to pull levers and receive $coins.<p>If the internet lets us go back… that would be huge</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>closeparen</author><text>- It&#x27;s thrifty: houses further away are cheaper.<p>- It&#x27;s good for the kids: suburban schools perform better.<p>- It&#x27;s a sacrifice: a family man is supposed to prioritize his own comfort last.<p>- It&#x27;s accessible: we don&#x27;t look at bankers or tech workers and say how great it is that they&#x27;re doing so much for the families. That&#x27;s just classism and privilege at work. Maybe, if we&#x27;re feeling charitable, natural-born talent. But we, too, could deliver a better life to our families by driving longer hours. We just don&#x27;t have the stomach for it. So we respect those who do.<p>Of course no one cares what it&#x27;s doing to the environment. That really ought to factor in the moral calculus. But right now super-commuting is just about the most virtuous thing an American middle-class adult can do.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple employee group rejects planned return to the office</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/apple-employees-reject-return-to-office-plans-153302337.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Vadoff</author><text>I never understood why someone would live over an hour away from where they work. There&#x27;s been numerous studies showing the number one cause of unhappiness&#x2F;dissatisfaction at work is commute time, especially when it reaches over 40 minutes one way.<p>If you live in San Jose, getting to Apple would only be 15-20 minutes.<p>I once had a coworker who lived an hour and 40 minutes away, literally wasting almost 3.5 hours of their day.</text></item><item><author>cgb223</author><text>Not an Apple employee but for me it would be the commute not the office that’s the pain point<p>Driving or even bussing down or up or across the bay to get to Apple is a huge stressor. Doing it every single day both ways easily kills 2 hours of my life.<p>If I stay home and work instead I am better rested, more relaxed, and consequently more productive</text></item><item><author>mensetmanusman</author><text>As others have mentioned, I also wonder how much of this annoyance to return has to do with the failed open-office concept.<p>People more-or-less occasionally like having their own place during work where they can some action (e.g. closing their door) to focus 100% without interruption.<p>Cost-cutting open-office plans that let management see their flock typing away destroyed this option, and covid has reminded people how valuable and productive this option is&#x2F;was (for those at home with this option).<p>We are now in new territory, as we are experiencing the end of the first pandemic during the information age. What we decide now will resonate for many years.<p>Something to think about: for most millennia of human experience, where one worked and where one lived amongst the family and community were one and the same. It’s only a blip in post-industrial history have we had this situation of leaving the family (et al.) behind to pull levers and receive $coins.<p>If the internet lets us go back… that would be huge</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dredmorbius</author><text>Apple is in Cupertino, one of the most expensive housing markets in the U.S. Numerous of the competing cities are in the immediate vicinity.<p>&quot;Cheap&quot; housing is at best across the Bay. Commutes from Santa Cruz (itself small and not cheap), the East Bay, or Central Valley are not uncommon. Traffic is insane.<p>Mean housing price is &gt; $1,000,000. Median gross rent $3,335&#x2F;mo. Population density is 5,418&#x2F;mi^2 (compare SF at ~17,000, NYC at ~27k, and Guttenberg, NJ at ~57k&#x2F;mi^2).<p>California has had an utterly dysfunctional housing &#x2F; work &#x2F; transport policy for the past 50 years. Cupertino makes the state as a whole look sane.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.city-data.com&#x2F;city&#x2F;Cupertino-California.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.city-data.com&#x2F;city&#x2F;Cupertino-California.html</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_United_States_cities_by_population_density" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_United_States_cities_b...</a></text></comment> |
27,854,597 | 27,854,270 | 1 | 2 | 27,853,739 | train | <story><title>Open Insulin Foundation</title><url>https://openinsulin.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ganafagol</author><text>Looked cool, until i scrolled further down. Not only is any info lacking on how it&#x27;s done and what the status is. There are even a bunch of &quot;community projects&quot; listed. Among them &quot;Real Vegan Cheese and Narwhal evolutionary genomics&quot; and &quot;Mushroom Lovers&quot;. Not judging those, but that&#x27;s far off from &quot;let&#x27;s provide the poor with safe and affordable insulin&quot;. Feels dishonest, tbh.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rafaelferreira</author><text>Their &quot;What We Do&quot; page has some more detail, but not a whole lot: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openinsulin.org&#x2F;what-we-do&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openinsulin.org&#x2F;what-we-do&#x2F;</a><p>&gt; <i>To produce the protein needed for insulin, we need to grow microorganisms with a bioreactor and purify the protein from the culture with a protein purification system (FPLC). Proprietary examples of this equipment come at a very high initial cost and with high ongoing costs of support from the manufacturers. Our goal is to develop easy to manage, easy to repair, and affordable equipment to sustain local and community-built insulin production.</i>
&gt; <i>Our FPLC design is in the early stages, and we are steadily developing mechanical and electrical designs to detect UV-C absorbance and manage the concentration of two buffers via peristaltic pumps and a mixing chamber. We plan to use Arduino microcontrollers as well as the Raspberry Pi, and the finished device will make use of the open-source Ender 3 3D Printer to facilitate automated fraction collection with G-CODE input. The bioreactor design makes use of quite a few commercial off-the-shelf parts and is ready for prototyping.</i></text></comment> | <story><title>Open Insulin Foundation</title><url>https://openinsulin.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ganafagol</author><text>Looked cool, until i scrolled further down. Not only is any info lacking on how it&#x27;s done and what the status is. There are even a bunch of &quot;community projects&quot; listed. Among them &quot;Real Vegan Cheese and Narwhal evolutionary genomics&quot; and &quot;Mushroom Lovers&quot;. Not judging those, but that&#x27;s far off from &quot;let&#x27;s provide the poor with safe and affordable insulin&quot;. Feels dishonest, tbh.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sschueller</author><text>Wouldn&#x27;t it be easier to raise funds and lobby Congress to get laws passed to make insulin basically free in the US and defacto pushing that globally?<p>Trying to make your own has a lot of steps that need to go right or people die. You also have to deal with regulators.</text></comment> |
24,568,768 | 24,569,135 | 1 | 2 | 24,568,533 | train | <story><title>Los Angeles hid power plant methane leak for a year</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2020-09-23/los-angeles-hid-a-methane-leak-for-a-year-activists-want-the-power-plant-shut-down</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mc32</author><text>I don’t know the particulars of this location; however, often times it’s not dirty industry invading and settling in poor neighborhoods but rather poor neighborhoods sprouting up next to these industries because land is cheaper.<p>For example the Sriracha company settled in the middle of nowhere, the north San Jose water treatment facility was in the middle of nowhere but now you have housing next to them and people complaining about smells or pollution.<p>To avoid this you’ll need better more stringent zoning laws with bigger buffer zones.</text></comment> | <story><title>Los Angeles hid power plant methane leak for a year</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2020-09-23/los-angeles-hid-a-methane-leak-for-a-year-activists-want-the-power-plant-shut-down</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Cactus2018</author><text>NASA post about CA Methane:<p>&gt; A Third of California Methane Traced to a Few Super-Emitters<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jpl.nasa.gov&#x2F;news&#x2F;news.php?feature=7535" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jpl.nasa.gov&#x2F;news&#x2F;news.php?feature=7535</a></text></comment> |
25,112,097 | 25,110,578 | 1 | 3 | 25,108,599 | train | <story><title>Apple Addresses Privacy Concerns Surrounding App Authentication in macOS</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2020/11/15/apple-privacy-macos-app-authenticaion/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jb1991</author><text>&gt; The bitterness that flies around whenever Apple comes up around here is almost inexplicable.<p>or more specifically, not so much inexplicable (as actually I think it is quite predictable), but rather it is just exhausting.<p>I&#x27;m never going to buy a Windows computer. Period. I&#x27;m probably never going to switch to Linux either. I don&#x27;t go around shouting my reasons why I won&#x27;t, and I think most Apple users behave this way.<p>But for a certain segment of the non-Apple crowd, yelling consistently about their opinions is an odd recurrence.</text></item><item><author>skibble</author><text>Oh please. Just because there’s someone shouting this in every such thread doesn’t make it automatically true. You can set up a Mac without ever connecting it to the internet and it will work perfectly.<p>These are defensive measures to protect the general user base from malware. Yes, using HTTP in 2020 is worthy of scrutiny, but not using every such incident as a new piece of armour for this tedious narrative. Apple’s entire platform offering is based around curation. If you disagree with it, there are many other platforms out there you can elect to use. The bitterness that flies around whenever Apple comes up around here is almost inexplicable.</text></item><item><author>devwastaken</author><text>The problem should have never existed. Phoning home in this manner should never have existed. This problem is not a bug, it&#x27;s a fundamental problem with the culture of software development apple curates. They don&#x27;t believe you should own your computer, that apple always knows better, and if you don&#x27;t use it the way they force you to, it&#x27;s unsupported behavior.<p>To them this is natural, they get away doing anything with the Iphone. Doing it to macos is the natural result of that precedent.<p>There&#x27;s a downvote brigade in this thread. The downvote button is not a &quot;I disagree&quot; button.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AsyncAwait</author><text>&gt; or more specifically, not so much inexplicable (as actually I think it is quite predictable), but rather it is just exhausting<p>Weird how I feel the same about all the pro-Apple comments in every Linux thread, specifically to the effect of:<p>&#x27;Unlike Linux, macOS just works. When I was younger I used to play with Linux too, but now I do actually work I just need shit to work and macOS does that&#x27;, followed by a bunch of outdated, showing knows nothing about what they&#x27;re talking about shit about PulseAudio.<p>But when Apple completely and utterly screws up, to the point when you can&#x27;t even launch non-Apple apps on a machine you paid thousands of dollars for, then people are all too sudden overreacting?<p>Funny how that works.<p>&gt; I&#x27;m never going to buy a Windows computer. Period. I&#x27;m probably never going to switch to Linux either.<p>Good. And most FLOSS people don&#x27;t want you to either. What is my problem is when people have crazy high expectations of FLOSS maintainers, but a trillion dollar company screwing up is filled under the category of &#x27;shit happens&#x27; so to speak.<p>Especially considering Apple&#x27;s a commercial entity that DOES NOT and WILL NOT care about you or what you think and does not need anyone&#x27;s advocacy as they have a massive marketing budget of their own. Aside from that, there is a feeling in the FLOSS community that Apple&#x27;s conducting a war on general purpose computing as we know it, which is not an unreasonable thing to be fearful of considering their influence.<p>&gt; I don&#x27;t go around shouting my reasons why I won&#x27;t,<p>I am glad to hear that, but there&#x27;s an awful number of your fellow Applers who are doing exactly the opposite.<p>&gt; But for a certain segment of the non-Apple crowd, yelling consistently about their opinions is an odd recurrence.<p>Right, which is totally not a thing for the Apple crowd, is that it?</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Addresses Privacy Concerns Surrounding App Authentication in macOS</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2020/11/15/apple-privacy-macos-app-authenticaion/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jb1991</author><text>&gt; The bitterness that flies around whenever Apple comes up around here is almost inexplicable.<p>or more specifically, not so much inexplicable (as actually I think it is quite predictable), but rather it is just exhausting.<p>I&#x27;m never going to buy a Windows computer. Period. I&#x27;m probably never going to switch to Linux either. I don&#x27;t go around shouting my reasons why I won&#x27;t, and I think most Apple users behave this way.<p>But for a certain segment of the non-Apple crowd, yelling consistently about their opinions is an odd recurrence.</text></item><item><author>skibble</author><text>Oh please. Just because there’s someone shouting this in every such thread doesn’t make it automatically true. You can set up a Mac without ever connecting it to the internet and it will work perfectly.<p>These are defensive measures to protect the general user base from malware. Yes, using HTTP in 2020 is worthy of scrutiny, but not using every such incident as a new piece of armour for this tedious narrative. Apple’s entire platform offering is based around curation. If you disagree with it, there are many other platforms out there you can elect to use. The bitterness that flies around whenever Apple comes up around here is almost inexplicable.</text></item><item><author>devwastaken</author><text>The problem should have never existed. Phoning home in this manner should never have existed. This problem is not a bug, it&#x27;s a fundamental problem with the culture of software development apple curates. They don&#x27;t believe you should own your computer, that apple always knows better, and if you don&#x27;t use it the way they force you to, it&#x27;s unsupported behavior.<p>To them this is natural, they get away doing anything with the Iphone. Doing it to macos is the natural result of that precedent.<p>There&#x27;s a downvote brigade in this thread. The downvote button is not a &quot;I disagree&quot; button.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vagrantJin</author><text>Pardon my rather simplistic view.<p>I&#x27;m a windows user primarily and linux user by choice. To my dismay, at my workplace I have to use MacOS because everyone uses iMacs which belong to the company and have no choice in that regard. This means MacOs is tied directly and non-trivially to my livelihood. My complaint of apple and what I percieve as shenanigans by Apple are due to that very fact that it is tied to my livelihood. Ofcourse you can say <i>switch jobs because you dont like the brand the company uses</i> and I will concede that as a somewhat valid point- but a reasonable person may look askance at the suggestion. We can agree it&#x27;s a stupid reason to plunge myself into financial uncertainty. There is a non-zero chance that there are others in my position and who must exercise the right if not courtesy to complain.<p>&gt; But for a certain segment of the non-Apple crowd, yelling consistently about their opinions is an odd recurrence.<p>There is a certain group which self identifies as <i>fanboys</i> which is their right and that group is not comprised of Windows or * nix users. This segment of <i>fanboys</i> I can assure is equally if not more vocal. Amusing if nothing else.</text></comment> |
37,792,645 | 37,792,510 | 1 | 2 | 37,792,030 | train | <story><title>Unreal Engine will no longer be free for all</title><url>https://www.creativebloq.com/news/epic-games-unreal-engine-charge</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lholden</author><text>Very misleading article title.<p>The licensing changes target big commercial usages outside of game development. (With revenue thresholds, similar to how it already works right now for game development.)<p>For example, up until now Unreal has seen use in vfx for movie and tv production. The licensing model for Unreal was primarily oriented for game development, which meant that this wasn&#x27;t generating any revenue for Epic unless that company opted into the optional support plan.<p>Unlike the crazy situation with Unity, these changes are being announced in advance without affecting usage of previous versions of Unreal.<p>(Not saying I like or care for subscriptions for software. But context helps understand what&#x27;s going on here.)<p>I&#x27;m surprised they didn&#x27;t make this change sooner.</text></comment> | <story><title>Unreal Engine will no longer be free for all</title><url>https://www.creativebloq.com/news/epic-games-unreal-engine-charge</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>raytopia</author><text>Honestly it makes sense. I was always a little confused that non-gamedevs had to pay 0. Of course that could&#x27;ve also just been the plan to get VFX and other industries onto Unreal Engine so Epic Games could start charging them later.<p>I&#x27;m also confused how Epic Games has become unprofitable suddenly. I think I read somewhere it was in the last 10 weeks but I could be wrong about that.</text></comment> |
19,978,218 | 19,978,365 | 1 | 2 | 19,975,862 | train | <story><title>Procrastination is not a time management problem, it is an emotion</title><url>https://cognitiontoday.com/2019/05/you-procrastinate-because-of-emotions-not-laziness-regulate-them-to-stop-procrastinating/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hashberry</author><text>Procrastination is an addiction because it offers relief from anxiety and instant gratification. Also, being a chronic procrastinator and a skilled developer is a deadly combination. I&#x27;ve been praised for my excellent work and rewarded with raises and bonuses, even though I often procrastinate until the very last minute.<p>Tip: to make your git logs look socially acceptable to co-workers and management, don&#x27;t commit at 3AM Monday morning, wait until 9AM.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Benjammer</author><text>I definitely feel it like an addiction, and I often try to describe it like a drug. I build up this anxiety for a task, in small increments throughout the day. Then, finally, mercifully, at some point, my brain finds a way out. I find something easy to replace the thing I was worried about, or I find a somewhat valid justification for why I can do it tomorrow, and the anxiety just vanishes and I get this hit of dopamine that feels a tiny bit like weed, honestly.</text></comment> | <story><title>Procrastination is not a time management problem, it is an emotion</title><url>https://cognitiontoday.com/2019/05/you-procrastinate-because-of-emotions-not-laziness-regulate-them-to-stop-procrastinating/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hashberry</author><text>Procrastination is an addiction because it offers relief from anxiety and instant gratification. Also, being a chronic procrastinator and a skilled developer is a deadly combination. I&#x27;ve been praised for my excellent work and rewarded with raises and bonuses, even though I often procrastinate until the very last minute.<p>Tip: to make your git logs look socially acceptable to co-workers and management, don&#x27;t commit at 3AM Monday morning, wait until 9AM.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toomanybeersies</author><text>Are you sure you don&#x27;t have ADHD? Because that sounds a lot like what you&#x27;re describing.<p>ADHD is an addiction to procrastination in a sense. It could be that you missed diagnoses at a young age due to being intelligent enough to cruise through school and university with little effort, so your problem was never picked up as you never suffered any serious negative effects from ADHD due to your intelligence and ability to get tasks done quickly.<p>That&#x27;s basically what happened to me. I&#x27;d be able to do an assignment that would take people several days, in half a day. So I&#x27;d be able to procrastinate and delay up to the last minute and still manage to pull through, usually not with great grades, but I&#x27;d pass. I always thought I was lazy, and never considered the fact that it could be a deeper neurological problem.</text></comment> |
38,135,656 | 38,129,659 | 1 | 2 | 38,119,463 | train | <story><title>Louis Armstrong's Last Word</title><url>https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/louis-armstrong-archive/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Aloha</author><text>Two musicians of this era I do love are Louis Armstrong and Nat Cole - both virtuosos in their own right. Everyone I think knows how important Armstrong is - Nat Cole kinda gets a short shrift - he was probably the best jazz pianist of his generation, but is remembered today for his vocals (which are good in their own right) - but not where he sparkled -<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=1RcoUfSAUWs">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=1RcoUfSAUWs</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=jbwPKIPVcPw">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=jbwPKIPVcPw</a><p>Nat Cole died at only 45(!), his brothers each lived another 30-40 years - I wonder what we would have gotten from him had he not died so young. He had many of the same political issues Louis Armstrong did, was seen as an appeaser on racial issues.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deprecative</author><text>Then you get to me going &quot;Who the fuck is Nat Cole?&quot; only to realize you meant Nat King Cole. Now I know exactly who it is.</text></comment> | <story><title>Louis Armstrong's Last Word</title><url>https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/louis-armstrong-archive/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Aloha</author><text>Two musicians of this era I do love are Louis Armstrong and Nat Cole - both virtuosos in their own right. Everyone I think knows how important Armstrong is - Nat Cole kinda gets a short shrift - he was probably the best jazz pianist of his generation, but is remembered today for his vocals (which are good in their own right) - but not where he sparkled -<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=1RcoUfSAUWs">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=1RcoUfSAUWs</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=jbwPKIPVcPw">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=jbwPKIPVcPw</a><p>Nat Cole died at only 45(!), his brothers each lived another 30-40 years - I wonder what we would have gotten from him had he not died so young. He had many of the same political issues Louis Armstrong did, was seen as an appeaser on racial issues.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>epiccoleman</author><text>Nat just had such a distinctive and beautiful voice, it&#x27;s so warm. I love his recording of &quot;Almost Like Being In Love,&quot; which plays at the end of Groundhog Day. If you listen to another version, like for example Sinatra&#x27;s... it&#x27;s just not the same! Ella&#x27;s is pretty nice though.</text></comment> |
28,042,292 | 28,042,052 | 1 | 3 | 28,036,169 | train | <story><title>The UK’s delta surge is collapsing</title><url>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/08/the-u-k-s-delta-surge-is-collapsing-will-ours.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arbuge</author><text>Most news articles I see focus solely on the number of vaccinated people when estimating how far away countries are from herd immunity, which seems odd to me. Left out in the discussion seem to be the unvaccinated but already infected. As far as I know, prior infection confers at least some degree of immunity.<p>It may also be the case that those inclined to be skeptical of vaccines were also the ones who exposed themselves to infection most during the pandemic, through disdain for social distancing, mask-wearing, etc. In other words those still unvaccinated in Western countries with easy access to vaccines have a pretty good chance of having been infected by now.<p>Adding those two populations together would seem to indicate that most Western populations are already at herd immunity by this point, which would mean that these surges can be reasonably expected to become smaller and smaller. Unless of course some totally new variant capable of evading all existing vaccines and immunity from prior infection emerges.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostrademons</author><text>The herd immunity threshold changed with Delta, which I&#x27;ve heard has an R0 of 8-10 (compare 3.5-4.5 for the UK Alpha variant, and about 2.5 for the original strain). Instead of 60% vaccination, you&#x27;d need 90%, and will likely overshoot that.<p>It wouldn&#x27;t surprise me if the UK&#x27;s cases are now dropping because they reached that threshold, but I doubt the US is there now. Probably Delta will blow through literally <i>all</i> the remaining unvaccinated people and that&#x27;ll be the last surge, at least unless we get a vaccine-resistant strain.</text></comment> | <story><title>The UK’s delta surge is collapsing</title><url>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/08/the-u-k-s-delta-surge-is-collapsing-will-ours.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arbuge</author><text>Most news articles I see focus solely on the number of vaccinated people when estimating how far away countries are from herd immunity, which seems odd to me. Left out in the discussion seem to be the unvaccinated but already infected. As far as I know, prior infection confers at least some degree of immunity.<p>It may also be the case that those inclined to be skeptical of vaccines were also the ones who exposed themselves to infection most during the pandemic, through disdain for social distancing, mask-wearing, etc. In other words those still unvaccinated in Western countries with easy access to vaccines have a pretty good chance of having been infected by now.<p>Adding those two populations together would seem to indicate that most Western populations are already at herd immunity by this point, which would mean that these surges can be reasonably expected to become smaller and smaller. Unless of course some totally new variant capable of evading all existing vaccines and immunity from prior infection emerges.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ikawe</author><text>&gt; and it may also be the case that those who have a tendency to be skeptical of vaccines also were the ones most out and about and exposing themselves during the pandemic, i.e. the ones with the highest chance of being infected.<p>Sure, _maybe_.<p>&gt; [...] would seem to indicate that most Western populations are already at herd imnmunity by this point<p>Given that infections are still rising pretty hard, what indicates to you that we are _at_ this point, and not, say, 6 months out?</text></comment> |
33,661,078 | 33,659,028 | 1 | 3 | 33,656,909 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Why do some people not communicate clearly?</title><text>This is something that&#x27;s bothering me from time to time, so I&#x27;m interested in knowing if others are struggling with it as well.<p>It seems to me there are some people (my experience is with SWEs but probably not limited to that) that:<p>- don&#x27;t directly address the point of your question &#x2F; provide a much complex answer (or even worse, a non-answer) to a simple question<p>- don&#x27;t stay focused to the point of the discussion<p>- don&#x27;t have some level of clarity in their train of thought and speech<p>- generally over-complicate matters by wandering off to other related subjects and extending the scope of the discussion<p>In such cases I find it hard to have technical discussions at the point where I&#x27;m frustrated thinking of all the pointlessly-spent energy required to have those discussions the first place.<p>Anyone else feeling like this at work? Why do you think this happens? Is it an intentional choice to communicate like this, is it lack of some skill (on theirs or on my part) or something else?<p>P.S. Apologies for this rant (that probably lacks clarity as well)<p>---<p>EDIT: Fixed title and some missing words (oh the irony).</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>awb</author><text>Here are some altruistic reasons these events might occur:<p>&gt; - don&#x27;t directly address the point of your question &#x2F; provide a much complex answer (or even worse, a non-answer) to a simple question<p>&gt; - don&#x27;t stay focused to the point of the discussion<p>I often dive deeper if the question itself raises suspicions that the question asker might not fully understand the topic. For example, if someone asked: &quot;can you unbatch those 1k RPCs?&quot;, I might go into more detail than a &quot;yes&quot; or &quot;no&quot;. I do it to spare the question asker from making a bad decision, without wanting to embarrassing them by saying that the question is too simplistic, or makes no sense.<p>&gt; - don&#x27;t some level of clarity in their train of thought and speech<p>You yourself are missing words in your communication like the word &quot;have&quot; in the quote above. Also, I don&#x27;t know enough linguistic rules to correct you, but colloquially at least your title is better understood if you write it as &quot;Why do some people not communicate clearly?&quot; So some compassion when others misspeak might be good. Often it&#x27;s possible to read between the lines.<p>&gt; - generally over-complicate matters by wandering off to other related subjects and extending the scope of the discussion<p>Creativity is often the expansion of a topic, or the merger of multiple topics. Maybe your question sparked their creativity and they&#x27;re taking the opportunity to show you some of their creative thought process.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomg</author><text>&gt; For example, if someone asked: &quot;can you unbatch those 1k RPCs?&quot;<p>&quot;Can we do _________?&quot; is the worst question to ask me as an engineer. Like, yes, we probably _can_ do literally almost anything, with enough hours and money. But what&#x27;s the budget? What really is _______?<p>Eg: If it&#x27;s &quot;analytics to a page&quot;, what do we want to track? Where does the data go? How do people view the data? I need to know the answer to those questions, plus the &quot;budget&quot;, before even entertaining a yes or no answer. Which I think sounds like I&#x27;m beating around the bush by asking, but I&#x27;m not! :)</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Why do some people not communicate clearly?</title><text>This is something that&#x27;s bothering me from time to time, so I&#x27;m interested in knowing if others are struggling with it as well.<p>It seems to me there are some people (my experience is with SWEs but probably not limited to that) that:<p>- don&#x27;t directly address the point of your question &#x2F; provide a much complex answer (or even worse, a non-answer) to a simple question<p>- don&#x27;t stay focused to the point of the discussion<p>- don&#x27;t have some level of clarity in their train of thought and speech<p>- generally over-complicate matters by wandering off to other related subjects and extending the scope of the discussion<p>In such cases I find it hard to have technical discussions at the point where I&#x27;m frustrated thinking of all the pointlessly-spent energy required to have those discussions the first place.<p>Anyone else feeling like this at work? Why do you think this happens? Is it an intentional choice to communicate like this, is it lack of some skill (on theirs or on my part) or something else?<p>P.S. Apologies for this rant (that probably lacks clarity as well)<p>---<p>EDIT: Fixed title and some missing words (oh the irony).</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>awb</author><text>Here are some altruistic reasons these events might occur:<p>&gt; - don&#x27;t directly address the point of your question &#x2F; provide a much complex answer (or even worse, a non-answer) to a simple question<p>&gt; - don&#x27;t stay focused to the point of the discussion<p>I often dive deeper if the question itself raises suspicions that the question asker might not fully understand the topic. For example, if someone asked: &quot;can you unbatch those 1k RPCs?&quot;, I might go into more detail than a &quot;yes&quot; or &quot;no&quot;. I do it to spare the question asker from making a bad decision, without wanting to embarrassing them by saying that the question is too simplistic, or makes no sense.<p>&gt; - don&#x27;t some level of clarity in their train of thought and speech<p>You yourself are missing words in your communication like the word &quot;have&quot; in the quote above. Also, I don&#x27;t know enough linguistic rules to correct you, but colloquially at least your title is better understood if you write it as &quot;Why do some people not communicate clearly?&quot; So some compassion when others misspeak might be good. Often it&#x27;s possible to read between the lines.<p>&gt; - generally over-complicate matters by wandering off to other related subjects and extending the scope of the discussion<p>Creativity is often the expansion of a topic, or the merger of multiple topics. Maybe your question sparked their creativity and they&#x27;re taking the opportunity to show you some of their creative thought process.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>echelon</author><text>Verbal communication is a different skill apart from engineering and written communication.<p>People have to plan how to break subjects down before and during speaking. Not everyone has adequate practice.<p>Some people have trouble with eye contact and might be fighting subconscious social anxiety while simultaneously scrambling to put their thoughts into words. If an audience wasn&#x27;t present, it would be easier for them.<p>Some truly brilliant engineers struggle with this.<p>Edit: If you don&#x27;t intuit this or perhaps struggle, I strongly recommend taking an improv class. It should be a fun and safe environment where you&#x27;ll experience your brain lighting up all the communication pathways at once. If you want to go more subtle and read people&#x27;s body language and tone, take a Meisner class. These both help tremendously for people that don&#x27;t get in the daily &quot;exercise&quot; as a part of their normal day to day. I&#x27;ve also heard good things about Toastmasters.</text></comment> |
12,532,473 | 12,531,306 | 1 | 2 | 12,527,098 | train | <story><title>iTunes will never work well</title><url>https://medium.com/@firasd/itunes-will-never-work-well-973674420fa4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Razengan</author><text>&gt; all of their stuff is terrible.<p>As a PC-only user since the days of DOS up till Windows 8, and having used Windows 10 after jumping ship to Macs a few hours ago, macOS has demonstrably more discoverability than Windows.<p>One example: Just click on the Help menu, in any app, and type something like &quot;show&quot; or &quot;find&quot; or any other operation, and it will show you all the menu items which have that word in their name.<p>That feature is a part of the Cocoa subsystem and comes for free with every app, and very handy when you know an app <i>has</i> a certain feature but you&#x27;re not sure which menu it&#x27;s buried in (like standard operations and filters in different image editing apps.)<p>Also, all the shortcuts and standard menus are the same in every macOS app, and can be discovered&#x2F;modified from System Preferences -&gt; Keyboard, again for any app.<p>Take &quot;Preferences&quot;, which in Windows is sometimes under Edit, Tools, or the app name menu (which imitates macOS.)<p>I could go on and on, but &quot;zero discoverability&quot; is an undeserved hyperbole.</text></item><item><author>jheriko</author><text>i don&#x27;t understand how apple have a reputation for good ui... all of their stuff is terrible.<p>the main problem: zero discoverablity - i need to google how to do things, then get some snotty fanboy answer about how easy and obvious it is, but there is literally no way to infer the functionality from the design.<p>they do love to steal context too... and interrupt your flow...<p>... i could go on and on, but having zero-discoverability is highly unforgivable, its an entire, rock-solid argument on its own.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>moogly</author><text>It could be argued that is not &quot;discoverability&quot;. IMO, that&#x27;s a feature to handle bad discoverability and unintuitive UI.<p>Discoverability is when you can see what&#x2F;how to do something by just looking or clicking around a bit.</text></comment> | <story><title>iTunes will never work well</title><url>https://medium.com/@firasd/itunes-will-never-work-well-973674420fa4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Razengan</author><text>&gt; all of their stuff is terrible.<p>As a PC-only user since the days of DOS up till Windows 8, and having used Windows 10 after jumping ship to Macs a few hours ago, macOS has demonstrably more discoverability than Windows.<p>One example: Just click on the Help menu, in any app, and type something like &quot;show&quot; or &quot;find&quot; or any other operation, and it will show you all the menu items which have that word in their name.<p>That feature is a part of the Cocoa subsystem and comes for free with every app, and very handy when you know an app <i>has</i> a certain feature but you&#x27;re not sure which menu it&#x27;s buried in (like standard operations and filters in different image editing apps.)<p>Also, all the shortcuts and standard menus are the same in every macOS app, and can be discovered&#x2F;modified from System Preferences -&gt; Keyboard, again for any app.<p>Take &quot;Preferences&quot;, which in Windows is sometimes under Edit, Tools, or the app name menu (which imitates macOS.)<p>I could go on and on, but &quot;zero discoverability&quot; is an undeserved hyperbole.</text></item><item><author>jheriko</author><text>i don&#x27;t understand how apple have a reputation for good ui... all of their stuff is terrible.<p>the main problem: zero discoverablity - i need to google how to do things, then get some snotty fanboy answer about how easy and obvious it is, but there is literally no way to infer the functionality from the design.<p>they do love to steal context too... and interrupt your flow...<p>... i could go on and on, but having zero-discoverability is highly unforgivable, its an entire, rock-solid argument on its own.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jheriko</author><text>i would say that i think recent windows 8&#x2F;10 are considerably worse than OS X - they approach iOS levels of undiscoverability.<p>maybe i am overstating it a bit - maybe unforgivable sounds really bad, but what i find it hard to believe that most people couldn&#x27;t trivially improve on the more confusing or poorly implemented UI elements.</text></comment> |
27,028,582 | 27,027,306 | 1 | 2 | 27,025,829 | train | <story><title>Practical SQL for Data Analysis</title><url>https://hakibenita.com/sql-for-data-analysis</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>m16ghost</author><text>&gt;Pandas is a very popular tool for data analysis. It comes built-in with many useful features, it&#x27;s battle tested and widely accepted. However, pandas is not always the best tool for the job.<p>SQL is very useful, but there are some data manipulations which are much easier to perform in pandas&#x2F;dplyr&#x2F;data.table than in SQL. For example, the article discusses how to perform a pivot table, which takes data in a &quot;long&quot; format, and makes it &quot;wider&quot;.<p>In the article, the pandas version is:<p>&gt;pd.pivot_table(df, values=&#x27;name&#x27;, index=&#x27;role&#x27;, columns=&#x27;department&#x27;, aggfunc=&#x27;count&#x27;)<p>Compared to the SQL version:<p>&gt;SELECT
role,
SUM(CASE department WHEN &#x27;R&amp;D&#x27; THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) as &quot;R&amp;D&quot;,
SUM(CASE department WHEN &#x27;Sales&#x27; THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) as &quot;Sales&quot;
FROM
emp
GROUP BY
role;<p>Not only does the SQL code require you to know up front how many distinct columns you are creating, it requires you to write a line out for each new column. This is okay in simple cases, but is untenable when you are pivoting on a column with hundreds or more distinct values, such as dates or zip codes.<p>There are some SQL dialects which provide pivot functions like in pandas, but they are not universal.<p>There are other examples in the article where the SQL code is much longer and less flexible, such as binning, where the bins are hardcoded into the query.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kbelder</author><text>I&#x27;ve been doing a lot of data analysis in Pandas recently. I started off thinking that for efficiency&#x27;s sake, I should do as much initial processing in the DB as possible, and use Pandas just for the higher level functions that were difficult to do in SQL.<p>But after some trial and error, I find it much faster to pull relatively large, unprocessed datasets and do everything in Pandas on the local client. Faster both in total analysis time, and faster in DB cycles.<p>It seems like a couple of simple &quot;select * from cars&quot; and &quot;select * from drivers where age &lt; 30&quot;, and doing all the joining, filtering, and summarizing on my machine, is often less burdensome on the db than doing it up-front in SQL.<p>Of course, this can change depending on the specific dataset, how big it is, how you&#x27;re indexed, and all that jazz. Just wanted to mention how my initial intuition was misguided.</text></comment> | <story><title>Practical SQL for Data Analysis</title><url>https://hakibenita.com/sql-for-data-analysis</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>m16ghost</author><text>&gt;Pandas is a very popular tool for data analysis. It comes built-in with many useful features, it&#x27;s battle tested and widely accepted. However, pandas is not always the best tool for the job.<p>SQL is very useful, but there are some data manipulations which are much easier to perform in pandas&#x2F;dplyr&#x2F;data.table than in SQL. For example, the article discusses how to perform a pivot table, which takes data in a &quot;long&quot; format, and makes it &quot;wider&quot;.<p>In the article, the pandas version is:<p>&gt;pd.pivot_table(df, values=&#x27;name&#x27;, index=&#x27;role&#x27;, columns=&#x27;department&#x27;, aggfunc=&#x27;count&#x27;)<p>Compared to the SQL version:<p>&gt;SELECT
role,
SUM(CASE department WHEN &#x27;R&amp;D&#x27; THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) as &quot;R&amp;D&quot;,
SUM(CASE department WHEN &#x27;Sales&#x27; THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) as &quot;Sales&quot;
FROM
emp
GROUP BY
role;<p>Not only does the SQL code require you to know up front how many distinct columns you are creating, it requires you to write a line out for each new column. This is okay in simple cases, but is untenable when you are pivoting on a column with hundreds or more distinct values, such as dates or zip codes.<p>There are some SQL dialects which provide pivot functions like in pandas, but they are not universal.<p>There are other examples in the article where the SQL code is much longer and less flexible, such as binning, where the bins are hardcoded into the query.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ziml77</author><text>I&#x27;ve always been disappointed by the SQL pivot. It&#x27;s hardly useful for me if I have to know up-front all of the columns it&#x27;s going to pivot out into. The solution would be to use another SQL query to generate a dynamic SQL query, but at that point I would rather just use Pandas</text></comment> |
23,112,649 | 23,112,508 | 1 | 2 | 23,111,523 | train | <story><title>Stack Overflow reduces global workforce by approximately 15%</title><url>https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/05/07/the-way-forward/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wiradikusuma</author><text>I understand they had to do it (I&#x27;m sure we—their users—understand), but I can&#x27;t understand the need for bullshit business-speak.<p>Just say, &quot;Due to circumstances you all familiar with, business is slow, so I have to let go of some people from X department.&quot;<p>Putting up bullshit like this is like adding insult to injury. Especially, since their user demographics are mostly people who don&#x27;t like bullshit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sytelus</author><text>When Spolesky brought on this guy, I was shocked. He had no profile or activity on Stackoverflow. He wasn’t even a developer and his resume indicated he was just generic management talking head. Given how much Spolesky emphasis “product person” to be in charge as opposed to white label MBAs, none of that made any sense. I’d to only imagine he was cashing out and part of the deal from investors was to place this guy who they trusted to grow “enterprise” business. Just why every beautiful startup must make their owners billionaires while getting ruined?</text></comment> | <story><title>Stack Overflow reduces global workforce by approximately 15%</title><url>https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/05/07/the-way-forward/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wiradikusuma</author><text>I understand they had to do it (I&#x27;m sure we—their users—understand), but I can&#x27;t understand the need for bullshit business-speak.<p>Just say, &quot;Due to circumstances you all familiar with, business is slow, so I have to let go of some people from X department.&quot;<p>Putting up bullshit like this is like adding insult to injury. Especially, since their user demographics are mostly people who don&#x27;t like bullshit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>franze</author><text>I worked for a company with a horrible PR&#x2F;communication department. The CEO was making a clear, precise, sometimes intense statement.<p>Gave it to PR. Then the CEO dealt with other stuff.<p>The weak communication department had meetings after meetings, internal drama shows, delegation games and then a) either nothing was communicated at all b) business b#llshit speak came out.<p>Communication is just as strong as it&#x27;s weakest link.</text></comment> |
12,819,550 | 12,819,006 | 1 | 3 | 12,817,722 | train | <story><title>Zcash begins</title><url>https://z.cash/blog/zcash-begins.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mostly_harmless</author><text>&gt; Zcash is a technology, and like any technology it has multiple uses. I suspect that many of the best applications of this technology haven&#x27;t been conceived of yet.<p>&gt; 10% pre-mine to founders<p>This smells super fishy. Altogether, I&#x27;ve yet to see anything to do with cryptocurrencies be useful. Nothing but scams, hiding illegal activities, and hopeless optimism so far.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eloff</author><text>A lot of the replies here demonstrate a significant amount of ignorance about just how hard it is to pay for things outside of the US. It&#x27;s not too bad in Canada and Europe, but once you have an address and credit card in a small developing nation, you have substantially limited payment options. With my Panama credit card (which is a premium card) I can&#x27;t buy from most places outside of Amazon.com. PayPal fortunately accepts my card, so I shop anywhere PayPal is accepted online.</text></comment> | <story><title>Zcash begins</title><url>https://z.cash/blog/zcash-begins.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mostly_harmless</author><text>&gt; Zcash is a technology, and like any technology it has multiple uses. I suspect that many of the best applications of this technology haven&#x27;t been conceived of yet.<p>&gt; 10% pre-mine to founders<p>This smells super fishy. Altogether, I&#x27;ve yet to see anything to do with cryptocurrencies be useful. Nothing but scams, hiding illegal activities, and hopeless optimism so far.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>komali2</author><text>I was about to argue that I found cryptocurrency tremendously useful when I wanted to shift a largish volume of money from HK to the USA without messing around with banks and immigration, and then I realized that probably fell a bit under &quot;illegal activities.&quot;<p>Heh, you may be right.</text></comment> |
5,677,663 | 5,677,557 | 1 | 3 | 5,677,126 | train | <story><title>Tesla Smashes Earnings And Revenue Expectations</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-q1-earnings-2013-5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cloudwalking</author><text>This is the first of many profitable quarters for Tesla. The Model S is a better car <i>in every single regard</i> (except for range), than any other car on the market. It is safer, faster, roomier, more fun to drive, has more storage, quieter, more convenient, and less polluting.<p>Electric vehicles will displace combustion vehicles. Everything that makes a car, the electric car does better.<p>Right now the electric vehicle market is small, but soon (one decade?) it will eclipse the combustion market. Tesla is ahead of ALL other vehicle manufacturers, and that lead will translate into significant market share. As the electric vehicle market grows, so will Tesla's value.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lambda</author><text>&#62; in every single regard (except for range)<p>And price, and convenience.<p>&#62; more convenient<p>No it's not. The lower range, low number of charging stations, and long charging times make it quite inconvenient for long trips.<p>I bought a used car 3 years ago for less than the cost Tesla charges for replacing the batteries on its car (which you are estimated to need to do after about 8 years). This car is a station wagon, so has much more storage space than a Tesla. I go camping every year, about 550 miles from where I live. I can make that trip in about 10 hours including food and gas stops. For the same trip, I would need to make at least two hour long charging stops at Supercharger stations along the way (if I had the highest-end battery option). But there are no Supercharger stations along my route; so I would need to find places to charge with ordinary power sources. If I used ordinary 10 kW 240 V sources, it would charge at a rate of about 30 miles of range per hour, effectively tripling the length of the trip; now what was a long 10 hour drive has turned into a 30 hour trip, which means finding places to stop and sleep overnight (which hopefully can give you a charge).<p>Furthermore, I live in an apartment, without a dedicated parking space. I need to park on street. So there's nowhere I could charge my car at home; I can't exactly run a power cord down and across the sidewalk to my car. Neither is there anywhere to charge my car at work. There's no way I could even use a Tesla for commuting right now, let alone longer trips.<p>With a gasoline powered car, I just fill up at any gas station, my car holds the gasoline overnight so it doesn't matter where I park, and for the above describe trip, I need to stop for gas once before leaving and once on the trip, each a 5 minute stop.<p>The Tesla Model S is an amazing car. But claiming that it's more convenient, or is a better car in every way but range, is a vast overstatement. It would be absolutely awful for me, and many other people with similar needs.<p>Some of these problems are solvable; there will be more Superchargers installed, the price will probably come down, there will probably be more electric vehicle infrastructure. But it's still a gamble to say that they will completely eliminate all of these advantages that a gas powered car has over an electric car, at least unless the price of gas spikes dramatically.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla Smashes Earnings And Revenue Expectations</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-q1-earnings-2013-5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cloudwalking</author><text>This is the first of many profitable quarters for Tesla. The Model S is a better car <i>in every single regard</i> (except for range), than any other car on the market. It is safer, faster, roomier, more fun to drive, has more storage, quieter, more convenient, and less polluting.<p>Electric vehicles will displace combustion vehicles. Everything that makes a car, the electric car does better.<p>Right now the electric vehicle market is small, but soon (one decade?) it will eclipse the combustion market. Tesla is ahead of ALL other vehicle manufacturers, and that lead will translate into significant market share. As the electric vehicle market grows, so will Tesla's value.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whatusername</author><text>Hyperbole much?
The model S is a great car. It has a great combination of features. But aside from maybe its dashboard -- I can't think of a single attribute where there isn't a car that specialises in that to beat it. An M5 is faster, a 911 is better looking, a Hilux has more towing capability, a Tarago has more passenger space, a ft86 is more tuneable, a Camry is cheaper, etc, etc.</text></comment> |
18,486,274 | 18,486,097 | 1 | 3 | 18,485,109 | train | <story><title>Čezeta e-scooter: The rebirth of the chicest communist-era scooter</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/18/cezeta-electric-scooter-rebirth-of-communist-era-bike-chic</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>freddie_mercury</author><text>£11,000! I can buy an electric scooter here for $700.<p>Unfortunately, the article is really just a Press Release. So it doesn&#x27;t go into any detail about what you get for all that money and whether it is worth it.<p>Where I live (not the US) there are a growing number of electric scooters. I&#x27;d guesstimate maybe 20-30% of vehicles on the road now are electric scooters.<p>It is amazing how much quieter it makes...everything. Internal combustion engines are so noisy yet we&#x27;ve become so accustomed to them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rasz</author><text>Its an artisan rebuild of 60 year old rusted East block engineering corpses targeted at hipster clientele.</text></comment> | <story><title>Čezeta e-scooter: The rebirth of the chicest communist-era scooter</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/18/cezeta-electric-scooter-rebirth-of-communist-era-bike-chic</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>freddie_mercury</author><text>£11,000! I can buy an electric scooter here for $700.<p>Unfortunately, the article is really just a Press Release. So it doesn&#x27;t go into any detail about what you get for all that money and whether it is worth it.<p>Where I live (not the US) there are a growing number of electric scooters. I&#x27;d guesstimate maybe 20-30% of vehicles on the road now are electric scooters.<p>It is amazing how much quieter it makes...everything. Internal combustion engines are so noisy yet we&#x27;ve become so accustomed to them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dwd</author><text>An ICE scooter is usually in the 70-80db range. More lawn mover noisy than a car, and almost embarrassing to ride at night when it&#x27;s quiet.<p>I finally tossed my old 50cc scooter just yesterday. Too noisy and while it got about 25km&#x2F;l it only had a 5l tank which is less range than this electric.</text></comment> |
6,097,629 | 6,097,727 | 1 | 2 | 6,097,336 | train | <story><title>Google Launches The Chromecast To Bring Chrome To The Living Room</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/24/google-chromecast/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tsycho</author><text>The obvious question: Why would you buy this if you already had an Apple TV (or were considering buying one)?<p>* Cross-platform support, not just iDevices<p>* For apps that integrate with the SDK (currently Youtube &amp; Netflix, but I am sure more will be coming soon), the processing of the content can be transferred to the the Chromecast. Hence, once you &quot;flick&quot; your Netflix content to Chromecast, your phone is free and not processing content anymore unlike Airplay, which is a huge win for your phone&#x27;s battery.<p>* All your phones&#x2F;tablets&#x2F;computers become your remote&#x2F;controllers.<p>* The price (at $35, it&#x27;s a relatively low-risk impulse buy)<p>* UPDATE: It automatically switches to the HDMI input channel when streamed, atleast on my LG TV. My 3rd gen Apple TV doesn&#x27;t so I have to find the TV remote to switch HDMI inputs, which can sometimes be annoying.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saturdaysaint</author><text><i>For apps that integrate with the SDK (currently Youtube &amp; Netflix, but I am sure more will be coming soon), the processing of the content can be transferred to the the Chromekey. Hence, once you &quot;flick&quot; your Netflix content to Chromekey, your phone is free and not processing content anymore unlike Airplay, which is a huge win for your phone&#x27;s battery.</i><p>If that&#x27;s the case, I wonder why Chromebooks (other than the Pixel) aren&#x27;t compatible.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Launches The Chromecast To Bring Chrome To The Living Room</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/24/google-chromecast/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tsycho</author><text>The obvious question: Why would you buy this if you already had an Apple TV (or were considering buying one)?<p>* Cross-platform support, not just iDevices<p>* For apps that integrate with the SDK (currently Youtube &amp; Netflix, but I am sure more will be coming soon), the processing of the content can be transferred to the the Chromecast. Hence, once you &quot;flick&quot; your Netflix content to Chromecast, your phone is free and not processing content anymore unlike Airplay, which is a huge win for your phone&#x27;s battery.<p>* All your phones&#x2F;tablets&#x2F;computers become your remote&#x2F;controllers.<p>* The price (at $35, it&#x27;s a relatively low-risk impulse buy)<p>* UPDATE: It automatically switches to the HDMI input channel when streamed, atleast on my LG TV. My 3rd gen Apple TV doesn&#x27;t so I have to find the TV remote to switch HDMI inputs, which can sometimes be annoying.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hullo</author><text>That sounds smart to me, but for Netflix at least, generally everyone would use the Netflix app on the Apple TV (which is solid) rather than airplay from their device. YouTube is another story, though, it&#x27;s a disaster on the Apple TV and I&#x27;ll almost always stream from my phone. Of course, if I&#x27;m streaming to my Apple TV I&#x27;m by definition at home with a charger nearby, so this isn&#x27;t a key differentiator.<p>But that brings up what I think is the most interesting use case – portability: put it in your bag and forget it until you need to present&#x2F;watch something for work&#x2F;at a friends house.</text></comment> |
15,194,734 | 15,194,379 | 1 | 3 | 15,191,012 | train | <story><title>Release of GnuCOBOL 2.2</title><url>http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2017-09/msg00003.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>guessmyname</author><text>Does anyone knows a job board for people interested to work with COBOL?<p>I have been interested in this language for quite some time, moved to a different country just to try to find a job where I could learn more about it and build up a career, unfortunately the city that I chose doesn&#x27;t seems to be have many offers. Most of the jobs require several years of experience doing low level programming, and although I work with system programming languages (C++, Go) I don&#x27;t have relevant experience working with COBOL which seems to be killing my opportunities.<p>It&#x27;s like the chicken or the egg causality dilemma, I want a COBOL job but everyone requires someone with relevant experience, but how can I get experience if no one hires me to work with COBOL? LOL — I am willing to take a junior-intermediate position if necessary, if anyone has a suggestion (company names, job boards, etc).<p>Thank you in advance.<p>EDIT: I am in Vancouver, BC, Canada if anyone is interested.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paulirwin</author><text>Here in Jacksonville, FL the COBOL market is very much in demand. There are companies like transportation, financial, and insurance companies here that have mainframes using COBOL and hire COBOL developers. I believe I remember hearing that these companies have even funded a COBOL program at one of our local universities so they have more talent available, which means they are open to entry-level developers. I don&#x27;t want to mention any of the company names on the chance that I might misrepresent them (and some of them are my customers), but you can easily find them by searching job boards like Indeed. I&#x27;m sure if you mentioned to a recruiter with national&#x2F;international connections that you wanted a COBOL job you could find one, although you might have to move.</text></comment> | <story><title>Release of GnuCOBOL 2.2</title><url>http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2017-09/msg00003.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>guessmyname</author><text>Does anyone knows a job board for people interested to work with COBOL?<p>I have been interested in this language for quite some time, moved to a different country just to try to find a job where I could learn more about it and build up a career, unfortunately the city that I chose doesn&#x27;t seems to be have many offers. Most of the jobs require several years of experience doing low level programming, and although I work with system programming languages (C++, Go) I don&#x27;t have relevant experience working with COBOL which seems to be killing my opportunities.<p>It&#x27;s like the chicken or the egg causality dilemma, I want a COBOL job but everyone requires someone with relevant experience, but how can I get experience if no one hires me to work with COBOL? LOL — I am willing to take a junior-intermediate position if necessary, if anyone has a suggestion (company names, job boards, etc).<p>Thank you in advance.<p>EDIT: I am in Vancouver, BC, Canada if anyone is interested.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rpeden</author><text>I think the best way to get into this area will be through networking. Perhaps work on finding a good conference or meetup group where you&#x27;re likely to meet a Cobol developer.<p>Now, as the exactly what sorts of events you&#x27;re likely to meet a stereotypical Cobol developer at....I&#x27;m not sure. Perhaps look up your local shuffleboard and canasta clubs and go from there. :)</text></comment> |
1,772,143 | 1,771,642 | 1 | 3 | 1,771,361 | train | <story><title>Babbage's heart-warming message for the middle-aged</title><url>http://blog.jgc.org/2010/10/babbages-heart-warming-message-for.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jakevoytko</author><text>I believed that age mattered until I met a super-coder for the first time. He is over 60 years old, and completes entire projects by himself. A team of five decent programmers would likely complete these projects late and over budget. He has high standards, a razor-like focus on implementing The Right Thing, has a great eye for reusing old code, and isn't afraid to split the world apart to make life easier for the client. I'm glad I met him as early in my career as I did; I unlearned a lot of falsehoods about software engineering.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BrandonM</author><text>I think this is where the current attitude towards programmers and how we hire them is wrong, or at least a little off-base. A lot of people here seem to look down on someone who just works his ass off and gets the job done unless that person has a web presence and a github repository. Why would a guy like this even have a blog? Why would he care about our opinions of him? The contrast is striking between the blogging, coding-a-personal-project nature of our generation of programmers and the get-things-done-efficiently-and-go-have-fun nature of an entirely different generation. Many miss that "completes entire projects by himself" and "razor-like focus" often preclude many of the activities we now expect to see in a good programmer. Many think that if a programmer is not giving something away for free -- likely something that few will use or read -- then he is just a hamster-wheel cubicle drone.<p>Your comment reminded me that the reality of the programming world is that there are countless unsung amazing programmers who have stuck to the same platform for years, if not decades. They know their IDEs, libraries, and code bases inside and out. They get an assignment, go into crazy-productive genius-coder mode, and get a high quality product out the door. And then they go home and enjoy themselves, and none of us are the wiser. But we sure do appreciate the reliability of our cell phone networks, our vehicle computer systems, and countless other amazing pieces of software that we take for granted. Thanks for reminding us that you can be a great programmer without having a huge following, programming open source, or even working for a startup. Building something people want and getting things done are all that matters.</text></comment> | <story><title>Babbage's heart-warming message for the middle-aged</title><url>http://blog.jgc.org/2010/10/babbages-heart-warming-message-for.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jakevoytko</author><text>I believed that age mattered until I met a super-coder for the first time. He is over 60 years old, and completes entire projects by himself. A team of five decent programmers would likely complete these projects late and over budget. He has high standards, a razor-like focus on implementing The Right Thing, has a great eye for reusing old code, and isn't afraid to split the world apart to make life easier for the client. I'm glad I met him as early in my career as I did; I unlearned a lot of falsehoods about software engineering.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>darwinGod</author><text>That is a strong departure from the stereotype!
I'm really interested to know more.. Does this person have a blog?What type of projects has he worked on? Would be great be if you could elaborate on what had unlearned!</text></comment> |
40,635,444 | 40,635,365 | 1 | 2 | 40,634,465 | train | <story><title>Gainax, known for 'Evangelion' anime production, goes bankrupt</title><url>https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/06/08/evangelion-anime-production-company-bankrupt/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>looperhacks</author><text>Let&#x27;s face it, Gainax was only an empty shell of its former glory. Most of the &quot;important&quot; people left for Khara and Trigger and Gainax has done nothing of importance for more than ten years or so?<p>Also, financial troubles is probably the most Gainax thing possible</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>creamyhorror</author><text>Alongside their general mismanagement under their President Yamaga[1] e.g. giving their management unsecured loans of company funds[2], they&#x27;ve been doing random crap like tomato farming.[3] They wouldn&#x27;t have lasted so long without Hideaki Anno&#x27;s (<i>Eva</i>) support for old times&#x27; sake.[1] They&#x27;ve been a deadbeat since 2012; it&#x27;s just been a long downhill road to the inevitable end.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;evankaiser.medium.com&#x2F;hideaki-anno-on-gainax-tainting-the-evangelion-brand-ba16f30161b5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;evankaiser.medium.com&#x2F;hideaki-anno-on-gainax-taintin...</a><p>[2] (Japanese only) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oricon.co.jp&#x2F;news&#x2F;2330666&#x2F;photo&#x2F;1&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oricon.co.jp&#x2F;news&#x2F;2330666&#x2F;photo&#x2F;1&#x2F;</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.animenewsnetwork.com&#x2F;interest&#x2F;2016-04-12&#x2F;gainax-expands-into-the-world-of-tomato-farming&#x2F;.100982" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.animenewsnetwork.com&#x2F;interest&#x2F;2016-04-12&#x2F;gainax-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Gainax, known for 'Evangelion' anime production, goes bankrupt</title><url>https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/06/08/evangelion-anime-production-company-bankrupt/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>looperhacks</author><text>Let&#x27;s face it, Gainax was only an empty shell of its former glory. Most of the &quot;important&quot; people left for Khara and Trigger and Gainax has done nothing of importance for more than ten years or so?<p>Also, financial troubles is probably the most Gainax thing possible</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PaulHoule</author><text><i>Evangelion</i> is almost 30 years old. The fact that they can&#x27;t name a newer hit anime for them is the problem. I don&#x27;t know about the economics but from a creative standpoint the anime industry seems quite healthy having recently produced a lot of great shows like <i>Sousou no Frieren</i>, <i>Oshi no Ko</i>, and <i>Konosuba Season 3</i> in the last year or so.</text></comment> |
13,208,919 | 13,208,385 | 1 | 2 | 13,207,556 | train | <story><title>The Longflow Manifesto</title><url>https://github.com/Nax/longflow-manifesto/blob/master/README.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AbrahamParangi</author><text>No offense intended to the author, but it sounds like they&#x27;ve mistaken the purpose of their job. For most engineers, their job is <i>not</i> to produce exceptionally wonderful engineering.<p>It is to produce whatever god-forsaken clusterfuck is required to get the product out before the holiday rush. Or more generally to do whatever the business needs to do in order to keep making enough money to continue existing.<p>If engineering doesn&#x27;t directly serve business goals, maybe that business doesn&#x27;t really need that engineering department.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>taneq</author><text>&gt; If engineering doesn&#x27;t directly serve business goals, maybe that business doesn&#x27;t really need that engineering department.<p>This is the hardest lesson to learn for fresh young engineers. Their job isn&#x27;t to create wonderful new designs, it&#x27;s to serve the needs of their company - which may involve creating wonderful new designs, if they&#x27;re lucky, but it may not.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Longflow Manifesto</title><url>https://github.com/Nax/longflow-manifesto/blob/master/README.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AbrahamParangi</author><text>No offense intended to the author, but it sounds like they&#x27;ve mistaken the purpose of their job. For most engineers, their job is <i>not</i> to produce exceptionally wonderful engineering.<p>It is to produce whatever god-forsaken clusterfuck is required to get the product out before the holiday rush. Or more generally to do whatever the business needs to do in order to keep making enough money to continue existing.<p>If engineering doesn&#x27;t directly serve business goals, maybe that business doesn&#x27;t really need that engineering department.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>parenthephobia</author><text>Producing whatever god-forsaken clusterfuck is required to get the product out before the holiday rush only serves business goals in a very unlucky or very badly run business.<p>A properly run business cares about selling products tomorrow but also cares about selling products next year. A properly run business therefore invests time in quality engineering so that the products they build now still work next year, or can be easily modified to fit whatever next year&#x27;s requirements are.<p>It&#x27;s just good sense. Rushing out a horrible bodge job is only okay if you don&#x27;t plan to be in business <i>after</i> the holiday rush, or at least not the same business. Otherwise, if you&#x27;re doing the minimum viable work to keep the company ticking over from day to day, you&#x27;ll usually find that the quickest way to do it today makes for more work tomorrow when you have to undo whatever horrible kludge made it work.<p>There&#x27;s a quote I like from Dave Thomas, one of the original codifiers of &quot;Agile&quot;: <i>When faced with two or more alternatives that deliver roughly the same value, take the path that makes future change easier.</i></text></comment> |
20,822,081 | 20,821,534 | 1 | 2 | 20,820,173 | train | <story><title>The Myth of Consumer-Grade Security</title><url>https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/08/the_myth_of_con.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>For a while the President was tweeting from a consumer-grade Android (!) phone, likely made by China, in the Oval Office. It makes me wonder how many groups pwned that phone and have access to critical national security information.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>duxup</author><text>I used to work for a company that serviced a very secure site (military).<p>The rule was NOTHING electronic went in that wasn&#x27;t accounted for, and NOTHING ever left. We sent people onsite with what were effectively disposable laptops that were single use items and never left the location.<p>Showing up at the gate with anything extra was said to be a very bad idea. It never happened so I don&#x27;t know what would happen.<p>You drove to the site in a car with only what you needed in it. Your license, keys, the equipment you were scheduled to bring. Smartphones weren&#x27;t ultra common yet, but were absolutely forbidden. The car itself was searched too even though it was in a parking lot far from anything sensitive. You were warned that anything suspicious would not be in the car when you came back (like the extra stuff rule I don&#x27;t know of anyone that happened to as nobody was foolish enough to drive out with anything but a clean rental car).<p>I honestly think that is the only security that makes sense. That should be the status quo for some areas the White House too IMO. At least as far as meetings and etc.<p>Maybe one day we get physical switches that power off cameras and mics, but hard to trust anything until that day....maybe not then.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Myth of Consumer-Grade Security</title><url>https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/08/the_myth_of_con.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostrademons</author><text>For a while the President was tweeting from a consumer-grade Android (!) phone, likely made by China, in the Oval Office. It makes me wonder how many groups pwned that phone and have access to critical national security information.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mieseratte</author><text>&gt; For a while the President was tweeting from a consumer-grade Android (!) phone, likely made by China, in the Oval Office. It makes me wonder how many groups pwned that phone and have access to critical national security information.<p>You mentioned tweeting, was he doing NATSEC-relevant work from the phone or was he using an official device for those purposes?</text></comment> |
21,874,505 | 21,874,603 | 1 | 2 | 21,874,276 | train | <story><title>I don’t know if whoever flagged the typos in my eBook thought they were helping</title><url>https://twitter.com/ursulav/status/1209518819397505024</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MBCook</author><text>So what am I supposed to do when I buy an ebook and it’s full of typos or OCR errors? Just suck it up? “Oh well, next time I just shouldn’t buy from MAJOR PUBLISHER?”<p>It’s sad it can be used to grief, but as a user it’s the only method I have of pointing out the issues and asking for them to be addressed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Baeocystin</author><text>If someone genuinely spent the time to help catch errors in my manuscripts, I&#x27;d be thrilled. Editors are expensive!<p>That the automated system as described can be abused is a real problem, and that needs to be addressed. But that is a separate issue from the generally bad state of what passes for final edits in many books nowadays. That the author in question can&#x27;t be bothered to keep a current copy of their manuscript leaves me lukewarm on the issue.</text></comment> | <story><title>I don’t know if whoever flagged the typos in my eBook thought they were helping</title><url>https://twitter.com/ursulav/status/1209518819397505024</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MBCook</author><text>So what am I supposed to do when I buy an ebook and it’s full of typos or OCR errors? Just suck it up? “Oh well, next time I just shouldn’t buy from MAJOR PUBLISHER?”<p>It’s sad it can be used to grief, but as a user it’s the only method I have of pointing out the issues and asking for them to be addressed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Marazan</author><text> The problem is not you the reporter. The problem is the automated Amazon system that processes your report and the obviously fucked up way it operates.<p>It is abuseable as all hell as demonstrated in the replies to the tweet. Even when not being used to make people&#x27;s life miserable it is a failure of a system.</text></comment> |
40,019,160 | 40,019,100 | 1 | 2 | 40,018,087 | train | <story><title>Defeated CEOs are now conceding hybrid working is here to stay</title><url>https://fortune.com/2024/04/12/kpmg-study-us-ceos-accept-hybrid-working-employee-return-to-office/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cookie_monsta</author><text>My boss (middle management) is very staunchly opposed to more than 1 day per week of WFH. She spends about 90% of her time on video calls, so I was always confused by that until she was telling me that when she does WFH she&#x27;s always distracted by other things which doesn&#x27;t happen in the office.<p>Maybe a lot of the WFH opposition is really just managers projecting their own work ethic onto others?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Terr_</author><text>&gt; projecting their own work ethic<p>Alternately, they&#x27;re projecting their own home environment, which won&#x27;t always be the same level of distractions&#x2F;benefits across different employees life-styles&#x2F;situations.<p>&quot;My house is filled with screaming two-year-olds and my commute is five minutes away, so obviously office-work is superior.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Defeated CEOs are now conceding hybrid working is here to stay</title><url>https://fortune.com/2024/04/12/kpmg-study-us-ceos-accept-hybrid-working-employee-return-to-office/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cookie_monsta</author><text>My boss (middle management) is very staunchly opposed to more than 1 day per week of WFH. She spends about 90% of her time on video calls, so I was always confused by that until she was telling me that when she does WFH she&#x27;s always distracted by other things which doesn&#x27;t happen in the office.<p>Maybe a lot of the WFH opposition is really just managers projecting their own work ethic onto others?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kcrwfrd_</author><text>When I work in the office I’m distracted by other things which don’t happen at home</text></comment> |
9,490,074 | 9,489,886 | 1 | 3 | 9,489,558 | train | <story><title>Call me maybe: Elasticsearch 1.5.0</title><url>https://aphyr.com/posts/323-call-me-maybe-elasticsearch-1-5-0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>teraflop</author><text>&gt; How often the translog is fsynced to disk. Defaults to 5s. [...] In this test we kill random nodes and restart them. [...] In Elasticsearch, write acknowledgement takes place before the transaction is flushed to disk, which means you can lose up to five seconds of writes by default. In this particular run, ES lost about 10% of acknowledged writes.<p>Something bothers me about this: if the bug was merely a failure to call fsync() before acknowledging an operation, then killing processes shouldn&#x27;t be enough to cause data loss. Once you write to a file and the syscall returns, the written data goes into the OS&#x27;s buffers, and even if the process is killed it won&#x27;t be lost. The only time fsync matters is if the entire machine dies (because of power loss or a kernel panic, for instance) before those buffers can be flushed.<p>So is the data actually not even making it to the OS before being acked to the client? Or is Jepsen doing something more sophisticated, like running each node in a VM with its own block device instead of sharing the host&#x27;s filesystem?</text></comment> | <story><title>Call me maybe: Elasticsearch 1.5.0</title><url>https://aphyr.com/posts/323-call-me-maybe-elasticsearch-1-5-0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Meekro</author><text>Elasticsearch has its flaws, but are there really any alternatives that do what it does? In my case, I need to do fulltext search across millions of documents -- nearly a TB of text in all, and still growing. Many database engines can do basic fulltext, but what else can scale like Elasticsearch does while offering powerful fulltext features like fuzzy matching and &quot;more like this?&quot;</text></comment> |
3,468,452 | 3,468,398 | 1 | 2 | 3,467,631 | train | <story><title>Redmon - A web interface for managing redis: cli, admin, and live monitoring</title><url>https://github.com/steelThread/redmon</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cgbystrom</author><text>Redis should get an an HTTP API. Would enable you to implement something like this purely in the browser.
UIs are really useful from a sys admin point of view. I can also imagine adoption increasing if Redis supported a UI out-of-the-box.</text></comment> | <story><title>Redmon - A web interface for managing redis: cli, admin, and live monitoring</title><url>https://github.com/steelThread/redmon</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>swanson</author><text>Somewhat related - is there any project for viewing the key/value pairs in a redis instance in a more friendly way than via the command-line?<p>I'd like to be able to enter a key-matching pattern 'users:*' and see the list of all the keys (and metadata like expiration time, number of accesses, update/created time).<p>EDIT: Found this - <a href="http://www.servicestack.net/RedisAdminUI/AjaxClient/#" rel="nofollow">http://www.servicestack.net/RedisAdminUI/AjaxClient/#</a> looks like what I was searching for, or at least 80% of it.</text></comment> |
24,265,987 | 24,263,624 | 1 | 2 | 24,261,826 | train | <story><title>Being OK with not being extraordinary</title><url>https://www.tiffanymatthe.com/not-extraordinary</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wjossey</author><text>This is my career so far in a nutshell.<p>I’m an average programmer.<p>I’m an excellent problem solver.<p>I have an above average work ethic.<p>I’m an excellent communicator.<p>Basically, I combined all of these traits and found roles that leveraged these traits to maximize my impact.<p>Not for nothing, but this is why my liberal arts college was profoundly impactful for me, despite not getting a “top tier” CS education. My writing abilities were given a shot in the arm, because I had to write so many analysis papers for my government minor. My understanding of human behavior was expanded by my psychology courses. My understanding of how I should never design a UI was solidified by how poorly I did during a year of art classes.<p>Some days I wish I was as strong mathematically as my friends who went to MIT, or as talented with programming languages as my friends who went to Cambridge, but each one of us have been able to have successful careers, despite our differences in breadth&#x2F;depth.</text></item><item><author>umvi</author><text>&gt; Climbing to a higher vantage point can also unlock new forms of extraordinary that you might have never noticed before.<p>I read an article once about how the amount of work to get into the top tier in a single area is astronomical, but the amount of work to become top tier in a combination of 2-3 fields is attainable by almost anyone.<p>For example, becoming a top tier statistician is hard. But becoming a top tier statistician&#x2F;programmer is easier. In other words, if you can get to a state where you know more statistics than your average programmer and more programming than your average statistician, then suddenly you are an above-average programmer&#x2F;statistician. Keep improving those two skills and you may start to &quot;unlock new forms of extraordinary&quot;. Or maybe you are a music teacher, and also pretty good at programming, and so you can make extraordinary music teaching software that is way better than the competition&#x27;s because you understand the nuances of music teaching intimately enough that you capture them clearly in software requirements. Or maybe you are pretty good at art, pretty good at music composition, pretty good at programming, pretty good at story telling (not necessarily top tier in any one category though)... and you combine all of those skills to single-handedly create a game that by many measures is extraordinary[0][1].<p>Something like that. Anyway, the point being, you may not be extraordinary in any one field, but it isn&#x27;t too hard to achieve extraordinary things due to a combination of skills in multiple fields if you work at it.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;undertale.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;undertale.com&#x2F;</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cavestory.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cavestory.org&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dominotw</author><text>&gt; I’m an excellent problem solver.<p>Don&#x27;t mean this to be a mean comment but how did you assess this?<p>I think i am good problem solver but i don&#x27;t know if i am better than anyone else.</text></comment> | <story><title>Being OK with not being extraordinary</title><url>https://www.tiffanymatthe.com/not-extraordinary</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wjossey</author><text>This is my career so far in a nutshell.<p>I’m an average programmer.<p>I’m an excellent problem solver.<p>I have an above average work ethic.<p>I’m an excellent communicator.<p>Basically, I combined all of these traits and found roles that leveraged these traits to maximize my impact.<p>Not for nothing, but this is why my liberal arts college was profoundly impactful for me, despite not getting a “top tier” CS education. My writing abilities were given a shot in the arm, because I had to write so many analysis papers for my government minor. My understanding of human behavior was expanded by my psychology courses. My understanding of how I should never design a UI was solidified by how poorly I did during a year of art classes.<p>Some days I wish I was as strong mathematically as my friends who went to MIT, or as talented with programming languages as my friends who went to Cambridge, but each one of us have been able to have successful careers, despite our differences in breadth&#x2F;depth.</text></item><item><author>umvi</author><text>&gt; Climbing to a higher vantage point can also unlock new forms of extraordinary that you might have never noticed before.<p>I read an article once about how the amount of work to get into the top tier in a single area is astronomical, but the amount of work to become top tier in a combination of 2-3 fields is attainable by almost anyone.<p>For example, becoming a top tier statistician is hard. But becoming a top tier statistician&#x2F;programmer is easier. In other words, if you can get to a state where you know more statistics than your average programmer and more programming than your average statistician, then suddenly you are an above-average programmer&#x2F;statistician. Keep improving those two skills and you may start to &quot;unlock new forms of extraordinary&quot;. Or maybe you are a music teacher, and also pretty good at programming, and so you can make extraordinary music teaching software that is way better than the competition&#x27;s because you understand the nuances of music teaching intimately enough that you capture them clearly in software requirements. Or maybe you are pretty good at art, pretty good at music composition, pretty good at programming, pretty good at story telling (not necessarily top tier in any one category though)... and you combine all of those skills to single-handedly create a game that by many measures is extraordinary[0][1].<p>Something like that. Anyway, the point being, you may not be extraordinary in any one field, but it isn&#x27;t too hard to achieve extraordinary things due to a combination of skills in multiple fields if you work at it.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;undertale.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;undertale.com&#x2F;</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cavestory.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cavestory.org&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>j45</author><text>An HR leader once shared with me: &quot;Because every hire is a compromise between available candidates.. there is no perfect hire, and no two candidates are truly comparable.&quot;<p>It&#x27;s really an eye-opening statement for tech roles, and how formally taught and self-taught&#x2F;transferred folks can work side by side successfully.<p>The unique thing about tech skills is there&#x27;s more than one valid way to solve a problem or do something &quot;right&quot;. It&#x27;s hard to measure that.<p>Not even two CS majors who may be equivalently capable (in different ways) on the outset will be identical, nor will be the outcome of how they grow their strengths and capabilities.<p>I look forward to HR continuing to evolve better to understand technical roles and contributions as being beyond a binary yes&#x2F;no measurement.<p>Current hiring practices continue not to extend well from a bricks and mortar approach to a abstracted online&#x2F;digital measurement.<p>In the meantime... knowing how to leverage and communicate your skillet in a transferable way is really what&#x27;s important. There&#x27;s no better way to do that than learning to write and communicate well, and better than others.</text></comment> |
10,581,341 | 10,581,430 | 1 | 2 | 10,580,208 | train | <story><title>VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris attacks</title><url>https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2015-November/105002.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crusso</author><text><i>Significant numbers of non-Islam subscribers hold ideas that are incompatible with an open society too</i><p>If that&#x27;s your contention then you&#x27;d need to account for the high terrorist attack output of Islamists vs other non-Islam subscribers.</text></item><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>&gt; a significant number of adherents of Islam hold ideas that are incompatible with an open society.<p>Significant numbers of non-Islam subscribers hold ideas that are incompatible with an open society too. All these people have at least one thing in common: they would like to change society to suit their ends.<p>And a very large number of people in my country would happily throw back those fleeing the carnage to become victims of that 40%. Which in my opinion makes them just about as bad.</text></item><item><author>cygx</author><text>Of course it&#x27;s not &quot;all Muslisms&quot;. But those who claim &quot;it&#x27;s only the terrorists&quot; or &quot;it&#x27;s all politics&quot; do not grasp the scope of the problem, ie that globally speaking, a significant number of adherents of Islam hold ideas that are incompatible with an open society.<p>If you naively extrapolate from the 2013 Pew Poll <i>The World’s Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society</i> (which in principle represents nations with a total Muslim population of about 1 billion), 40% of these think you should be killed for leaving Islam.<p>To me, that&#x27;s a scary number.</text></item><item><author>iamthepieman</author><text>I work with a Muslim and I&#x27;m a Christian. Since we are both very conservative, I actually have more in common with him than with my secular coworkers and friends. Unfortunately we both work remotely and live several hundred miles from each other. I think we could be good friends if we lived closer.<p>One thing I have learned talking with my Muslim coworker is that, just like in Christianity, there are many divisions and sects within the religion. I am Atlantean and go to an Atlantean church. I would not want to be called a Phoenician or Liliputian christian (made up names cause I don&#x27;t want to offend anyone this early in the morning).<p>Just as with anything else, the closer and more involved you are with something the more you see distinctions between different categories of that thing. As a total outsider your categories tend to be large, all encompassing and dominated by the loudest, most visible or most discussed sub category. For most westerners I think that sub category is, unfortunately radicalised Muslims.<p>I&#x27;m fortunate that my coworker has given me a different perspective. I never believed all Muslims were radicalised but the true revelation for me was that my Muslim coworker was more like me than most non-muslims. It saddens me to see states in my country rejecting refugees from Syria. They are depriving their residents of potential friends and coworkers, potential spouses, neighbors or playmates that can give them a new perspective and help make their world a little larger and more interesting.<p>Edit: I&#x27;d love to have a discussion with anyone who disagrees with me. (Not really making an argument but whatever) if you&#x27;re down voting at least make a comment please.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lars</author><text>&gt; the high terrorist attack output of Islamists vs other non-Islam subscribers<p>I wonder if this is really true though. Some statistics:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fbi.gov&#x2F;stats-services&#x2F;publications&#x2F;terrorism-2002-2005&#x2F;terror02_05#terror_05sum" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fbi.gov&#x2F;stats-services&#x2F;publications&#x2F;terrorism-20...</a><p>While Anders Breivik was shooting kids on the island in Norway, the Norwegian media were speculating that it was most likely perpetrated by muslim extremists. Even though we&#x27;ve historically had way more examples of terrorism perpetrated against immigration related targets by right-wing Norwegians (which was the case with Breivik as well).<p>The average Norwegian won&#x27;t remember any of the mosques, immigrant reception centers and immigrant stores that were bombed in Norway in the past. I guess terrorism is quickly forgotten when it isn&#x27;t your own group that is targeted.</text></comment> | <story><title>VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris attacks</title><url>https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2015-November/105002.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crusso</author><text><i>Significant numbers of non-Islam subscribers hold ideas that are incompatible with an open society too</i><p>If that&#x27;s your contention then you&#x27;d need to account for the high terrorist attack output of Islamists vs other non-Islam subscribers.</text></item><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>&gt; a significant number of adherents of Islam hold ideas that are incompatible with an open society.<p>Significant numbers of non-Islam subscribers hold ideas that are incompatible with an open society too. All these people have at least one thing in common: they would like to change society to suit their ends.<p>And a very large number of people in my country would happily throw back those fleeing the carnage to become victims of that 40%. Which in my opinion makes them just about as bad.</text></item><item><author>cygx</author><text>Of course it&#x27;s not &quot;all Muslisms&quot;. But those who claim &quot;it&#x27;s only the terrorists&quot; or &quot;it&#x27;s all politics&quot; do not grasp the scope of the problem, ie that globally speaking, a significant number of adherents of Islam hold ideas that are incompatible with an open society.<p>If you naively extrapolate from the 2013 Pew Poll <i>The World’s Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society</i> (which in principle represents nations with a total Muslim population of about 1 billion), 40% of these think you should be killed for leaving Islam.<p>To me, that&#x27;s a scary number.</text></item><item><author>iamthepieman</author><text>I work with a Muslim and I&#x27;m a Christian. Since we are both very conservative, I actually have more in common with him than with my secular coworkers and friends. Unfortunately we both work remotely and live several hundred miles from each other. I think we could be good friends if we lived closer.<p>One thing I have learned talking with my Muslim coworker is that, just like in Christianity, there are many divisions and sects within the religion. I am Atlantean and go to an Atlantean church. I would not want to be called a Phoenician or Liliputian christian (made up names cause I don&#x27;t want to offend anyone this early in the morning).<p>Just as with anything else, the closer and more involved you are with something the more you see distinctions between different categories of that thing. As a total outsider your categories tend to be large, all encompassing and dominated by the loudest, most visible or most discussed sub category. For most westerners I think that sub category is, unfortunately radicalised Muslims.<p>I&#x27;m fortunate that my coworker has given me a different perspective. I never believed all Muslims were radicalised but the true revelation for me was that my Muslim coworker was more like me than most non-muslims. It saddens me to see states in my country rejecting refugees from Syria. They are depriving their residents of potential friends and coworkers, potential spouses, neighbors or playmates that can give them a new perspective and help make their world a little larger and more interesting.<p>Edit: I&#x27;d love to have a discussion with anyone who disagrees with me. (Not really making an argument but whatever) if you&#x27;re down voting at least make a comment please.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DanBC</author><text>US citizens are at greater risk of harm from police officers (who kill about 1,000 people per year) than from Islamist terrorists.<p>US citizens are at greater risk of far right or Christian extremists than they are of Islamist extremists - see the numbers of people injured and killed by various mass shooters or clinic bombings.</text></comment> |
24,011,980 | 24,010,386 | 1 | 2 | 24,008,244 | train | <story><title>To Understand Jio, You Need to Understand Reliance</title><url>https://diff.substack.com/p/to-understand-jio-you-need-to-understand</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>reactspa</author><text>This article delivers a very good understanding of what it&#x27;s like to be an entrepreneur in India. Kudos.<p>One of the coolest things I&#x27;ve read about Jio is something I read on a previous post on HN: that the name and logo were designed to be the mirror image of oiL.<p>&gt; Later, Reliance profited from other parts of India’s protectionist regime. Their synthetic fiber arbitrage worked like this: to make manufacturers self-sufficient, the Indian government allowed them to import raw materials only in proportion to the goods they exported. Ambani persuaded the government to let him import polyester filament yarn in proportion to the nylon goods he exported. Nylon was available cheaply in India, polyester filament was 600% more expensive when locally sourced in India than its cost when imported. So Ambani set up a closed loop: make nylon clothes from locally-sourced materials; sell them abroad; use the import quota to import polyester filament; sell it at home. And, just to be safe, he took care of the demand side, too: at least according to The Polyester Prince, Ambani sent money abroad to buy his own products at duty-free ports, and then sold them for cheap, gave them away, or even dumped them in the ocean.<p>All true except in many cases, the exporters didn&#x27;t need to actually export anything. If the right bribes were paid (Congress Party&#x27;s modus operandi), it was all a &quot;receipts game&quot;... you just needed receipts that &quot;proved&quot; that you had sent goods abroad, that money had hit the bank, etc.<p>There was a huge fertilizer subsidies scam in India a couple decades ago which was another case of &quot;receipts game&quot;. (The scam involved subsidies [given by the government] for using fertilizer [similar to Agricultural Subsidies in the USA]. Turns out that most of the subsidies were going to politicians who weren&#x27;t using any fertilizer, they were just providing the correct receipts that &quot;proved&quot; that they had bought -- and presumably used -- fertilizer.)<p>Finally, I worked at a bank in India for a short while, just after the major devaluation of the currency in the nineties (the Indian Rupee was devalued by over 50% in two phases). Around midnight, the day before the surprise announcement by the Reserve Bank of India (and the Government of India), a bunch of treasury operations staff at the bank got marching orders to go to the office and sell off, as much as they could, the Indian Rupee, and buy foreign currencies. They worked all night. The client made millions from this bank&#x27;s operations alone. The client? Reliance.</text></comment> | <story><title>To Understand Jio, You Need to Understand Reliance</title><url>https://diff.substack.com/p/to-understand-jio-you-need-to-understand</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>samdung</author><text>For those looking for the banned book &quot;The Polyester Prince: The Rise of Dhirubhai Ambani&quot; ... here&#x27;s the link to donwload: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dropbox.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;e1kdqqnqpl9uhfv&#x2F;The-Polyester-Prince.pdf?dl=0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dropbox.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;e1kdqqnqpl9uhfv&#x2F;The-Polyester-Prin...</a></text></comment> |
29,166,772 | 29,164,575 | 1 | 2 | 29,163,856 | train | <story><title>Microsoft and the Metaverse</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2021/microsoft-and-the-metaverse/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>suby</author><text>All of the discussion around the metaverse as if it&#x27;s something we should take seriously has me baffled. It&#x27;s an ill defined concept and the effort is being led by a company that hardly anyone trusts or even likes.<p>As far as I can tell it&#x27;s the internet but in VR with an avatar. Or in other words it&#x27;s the internet but with extra steps in the way of obtaining the information or completing the transaction, not to mention the increased hardware costs (VR headsets are expensive) and bandwidth costs associated with this superfluous fluff.<p>I just don&#x27;t understand how they aren&#x27;t being laughed out of the room. This is fantasy level stuff and it&#x27;s going to be an absolutely massive failure.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ALittleLight</author><text>When I was a child I was in an &quot;Odyssey of the Mind&quot; group and in one competition we had to solve some problem and the plan my team came up with had a few steps, one of which was &quot;Build a robot&quot;. We were all children and none of us had even the slightest idea of how to build a robot or any relevant technical experience or ability. But somehow, we never realized this deficit and came up with our plan and tried to execute it.<p>It wasn&#x27;t until we had destructively disassembled a power tool that one of us had access to, on the theory that we could use whatever motor was inside of that tool to drive our robot, that we realized we had no idea what we were doing nor any conception of how to build a robot. I had a feeling of amazement that sticks with me today that we were able to articulate our plan to solve the problem, which depended on our robot helping us with some sub-task, but were completely unaware of the fact that the robot was far beyond our ability to construct. Our plan was like something that might have worked in a cartoon but not in reality.<p>That feeling comes back to me as a kind of &quot;Build a robot&quot; moment in cases like this. &quot;In our virtual reality metaverse people will be able to attend concerts with one another and save the tickets as NFTs!&quot; Okay, but what you have is a screen that you can strap to your face and is nothing like a virtual reality metaverse and you have no idea how to get there.<p>Another way of thinking about it is taking the hardest part of the problem and hand waving it away to solve the easier parts and then forgetting that there is a big blank spot in your plan. It&#x27;s easy and fun to think about all the stuff you can do in a compelling virtual reality metaverse, but you don&#x27;t have one and aren&#x27;t likely to get one any time too soon.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft and the Metaverse</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2021/microsoft-and-the-metaverse/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>suby</author><text>All of the discussion around the metaverse as if it&#x27;s something we should take seriously has me baffled. It&#x27;s an ill defined concept and the effort is being led by a company that hardly anyone trusts or even likes.<p>As far as I can tell it&#x27;s the internet but in VR with an avatar. Or in other words it&#x27;s the internet but with extra steps in the way of obtaining the information or completing the transaction, not to mention the increased hardware costs (VR headsets are expensive) and bandwidth costs associated with this superfluous fluff.<p>I just don&#x27;t understand how they aren&#x27;t being laughed out of the room. This is fantasy level stuff and it&#x27;s going to be an absolutely massive failure.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jayd16</author><text>&gt;VR headsets are expensive<p>Quest2 is $299, so actually on the scale of a very cheap phone.<p>Maybe some things are more tedious but some things are better. Ever more ubiquitous computing and contextual&#x2F;spatial computing of AR is really interesting.<p>You don&#x27;t get it but others find AR&#x2F;VR compelling and Microsoft and FB smell money. It&#x27;s worth talking about why these large companies are spending the effort.</text></comment> |
29,477,749 | 29,477,591 | 1 | 2 | 29,475,714 | train | <story><title>Over 200 newspapers now involved in lawsuits vs. Google, Facebook</title><url>https://www.axios.com/1-local-newspapers-lawsuits-facebook-google-3c3dee3a-cce3-49ef-b0a2-7a98c2e15c91.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gerash</author><text>The most important factor is that on the internet local news media lose their geographical monopoly. So everyone can subscribe to NYT or WSJ no matter where they live. This effectively creates a winner takes all situation like in many other industries which get closer to a free market.<p>Add to that the fact that classified ads have been taken over by likes of ebay, LinkedIn, craigslist, etc. Basically the business model of the old newspapers have been disrupted and trying to blame it on popular targets like Google and FB is pointless.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alex_young</author><text>&gt; ...local news media lose their geographical monopoly<p>I realize what you&#x27;re saying, but really, local news will always have a geographical monopoly.<p>Can the NYTimes or WSJ even think about covering local issues? How will investigative reporting function for say a local office holder or a local environmental problem?<p>To my knowledge the real problem is that the traditional business model supporting reporting has dried up. Running classified ads or selling marketing inserts is an obsolete practice. This doesn&#x27;t really change the need for local reporting though.</text></comment> | <story><title>Over 200 newspapers now involved in lawsuits vs. Google, Facebook</title><url>https://www.axios.com/1-local-newspapers-lawsuits-facebook-google-3c3dee3a-cce3-49ef-b0a2-7a98c2e15c91.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gerash</author><text>The most important factor is that on the internet local news media lose their geographical monopoly. So everyone can subscribe to NYT or WSJ no matter where they live. This effectively creates a winner takes all situation like in many other industries which get closer to a free market.<p>Add to that the fact that classified ads have been taken over by likes of ebay, LinkedIn, craigslist, etc. Basically the business model of the old newspapers have been disrupted and trying to blame it on popular targets like Google and FB is pointless.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>netcan</author><text>I agree with most of this, but I suggest a 2nd look at the concept of free market. Free from what? Geographic locality? It&#x27;s notable that Adam Smith&#x27;s free market seems to have been free also of monopolies and cartels.<p>In any case, whether an open internet would have resulted in newspapers&#x27; bankruptcy is speculative... even though I share your speculation. What actually happened was that FB &amp; google achieved control over who sees what on the internet, who earns ad revenue and how much. That is how their business models actually died. It makes sense to sue, lobby, beg or otherwise try to get what you can from them. There is no market, just them.<p>Maybe it would have happened anyway in a free market, but it didn&#x27;t happen that way. What happened was that big tech took over content delivery and online advertising.</text></comment> |
23,443,845 | 23,443,859 | 1 | 2 | 23,440,752 | train | <story><title>Building the most inaccessible site with a perfect Lighthouse score (2019)</title><url>https://www.matuzo.at/blog/building-the-most-inaccessible-site-possible-with-a-perfect-lighthouse-score/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joan_kode</author><text>Wow, CSS system color keywords seem like a massive privacy leak. I just tested setting the property:<p><pre><code> background: Background;
</code></pre>
on an element, and then changing my Windows desktop background. The element immediately changes color to match my desktop. Then if I call getComputedStyle on the element, I get my desktop background color in javascript. This is in Firefox private mode, and apparently every website can read all my system colors. Why in the world is this enabled by default?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.w3.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;Properties&#x2F;color&#x2F;keywords#System_Colors" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.w3.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;Properties&#x2F;color&#x2F;keywords#System...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dharmab</author><text>It&#x27;s already trivially easy to fingerprint a user in about a dozen other ways via:<p>User Agent String (being fixed soon by the Chrome team)<p>HTTP_ACCEPT headers<p>Browser plugin metadata<p>Time zone<p>System fonts<p>Supercookies<p>Canvas and WebGL fingerprinting<p>AudioContext<p>Device CPU and memory<p>What&#x27;s one more bit of information?</text></comment> | <story><title>Building the most inaccessible site with a perfect Lighthouse score (2019)</title><url>https://www.matuzo.at/blog/building-the-most-inaccessible-site-possible-with-a-perfect-lighthouse-score/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joan_kode</author><text>Wow, CSS system color keywords seem like a massive privacy leak. I just tested setting the property:<p><pre><code> background: Background;
</code></pre>
on an element, and then changing my Windows desktop background. The element immediately changes color to match my desktop. Then if I call getComputedStyle on the element, I get my desktop background color in javascript. This is in Firefox private mode, and apparently every website can read all my system colors. Why in the world is this enabled by default?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.w3.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;Properties&#x2F;color&#x2F;keywords#System_Colors" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.w3.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;Properties&#x2F;color&#x2F;keywords#System...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>traverseda</author><text>Huh, neat. If anyone else is curious I threw all the color codes on my site here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;traverseda.github.io&#x2F;code&#x2F;cssColourTest.md.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;traverseda.github.io&#x2F;code&#x2F;cssColourTest.md.html</a></text></comment> |
27,491,507 | 27,491,080 | 1 | 2 | 27,490,769 | train | <story><title>Gemini's "uselessness" is its killer feature</title><url>https://alex.flounder.online/gemlog/2021-01-08-useless.gmi</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>squiggleblaz</author><text>I am not convinced. Gemini is useless, and the Web is tracked, because Gemini is a platform for distributing data&#x2F;documents, and the Web has become a platform for distributing random executable code.<p>If Gemini documents could support static HTML and CSS (i.e. without anything like SCRIPT elements or cookies), it would be more useful to the people who it is intended to benefit - you could port Wikipedia or distribute journal articles - without being a tracker haven. I don&#x27;t hate the modern web because I can read the results of a scientific study that mentions its statistics in tabular form. I hate the modern web because the first thing I have to do is sign away my right to be treated like a customer in business, a curious child in a library or a guest at a friends house, and instead must agree to involuntarily yield wealth for the company.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dvfjsdhgfv</author><text>&gt; I am not convinced.<p>Frankly, I don&#x27;t think that it even makes any sense to convince anyone. There are people who like Gemini and for them it&#x27;s good enough, the rest will never use it. Both camps have excellent arguments and I see no point of arguing here. It&#x27;s like Vim vs Emacs wars in the old days, as if people couldn&#x27;t use their $EDITOR of choice.</text></comment> | <story><title>Gemini's "uselessness" is its killer feature</title><url>https://alex.flounder.online/gemlog/2021-01-08-useless.gmi</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>squiggleblaz</author><text>I am not convinced. Gemini is useless, and the Web is tracked, because Gemini is a platform for distributing data&#x2F;documents, and the Web has become a platform for distributing random executable code.<p>If Gemini documents could support static HTML and CSS (i.e. without anything like SCRIPT elements or cookies), it would be more useful to the people who it is intended to benefit - you could port Wikipedia or distribute journal articles - without being a tracker haven. I don&#x27;t hate the modern web because I can read the results of a scientific study that mentions its statistics in tabular form. I hate the modern web because the first thing I have to do is sign away my right to be treated like a customer in business, a curious child in a library or a guest at a friends house, and instead must agree to involuntarily yield wealth for the company.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>minitech</author><text>A client for HTML and CSS is much more complicated to implement than a client for Gemini and its rich text format. But you can serve HTML pages over Gemini either way.</text></comment> |
22,175,616 | 22,175,452 | 1 | 2 | 22,158,462 | train | <story><title>Hacking on Clang is surprisingly easy</title><url>https://mort.coffee/home/clang-compiler-hacking/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>atq2119</author><text>The article mentions debug build time as a legitimate pain point about the LLVM project. General good advice, which unfortunately isn&#x27;t enabled by default: use dynamic linking, make sure you&#x27;re using lld, enable split dwarfs (and -Wl,--gdb-index for faster gdb load times!), enable optimized tablegen[0]. ccache doesn&#x27;t hurt but isn&#x27;t actually such a big benefit unless you switch between branches a lot.<p>Oh, and buy a Threadripper. Seriously, you won&#x27;t regret it.<p>[0] TableGen is LLVM&#x27;s internal DSL swiss army knife. You can separately enable optimizations for TableGen independently of optimizations in the resulting LLVM builds, which you should basically always do unless you&#x27;re working on TableGen itself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ridiculous_fish</author><text>It&#x27;s not the compilation that kills you, it&#x27;s the sudden link at the end. Linking requires so much RAM it routinely succumbs to the OOM killer.<p>Do you have a trick to link serially? I usually just do a `ninja -j 1` after the main build has failed.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hacking on Clang is surprisingly easy</title><url>https://mort.coffee/home/clang-compiler-hacking/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>atq2119</author><text>The article mentions debug build time as a legitimate pain point about the LLVM project. General good advice, which unfortunately isn&#x27;t enabled by default: use dynamic linking, make sure you&#x27;re using lld, enable split dwarfs (and -Wl,--gdb-index for faster gdb load times!), enable optimized tablegen[0]. ccache doesn&#x27;t hurt but isn&#x27;t actually such a big benefit unless you switch between branches a lot.<p>Oh, and buy a Threadripper. Seriously, you won&#x27;t regret it.<p>[0] TableGen is LLVM&#x27;s internal DSL swiss army knife. You can separately enable optimizations for TableGen independently of optimizations in the resulting LLVM builds, which you should basically always do unless you&#x27;re working on TableGen itself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrisseaton</author><text>Do you know why isn&#x27;t it easier to offload compilation to the cloud yet? Compilation is an embarrassingly parallel problem and shouldn&#x27;t need take longer than than slowest file plus linking. Compilation is also a pure function (I know it&#x27;s not quite set up like that in practice but it is in theory) so it&#x27;s stateless and cacheable. I would have thought developers could share a massive cluster and have thousand-way compilation instantly. Doesn&#x27;t seem to be a thing people are building or using in practice for some reason.</text></comment> |
15,854,922 | 15,852,278 | 1 | 2 | 15,851,868 | train | <story><title>Virtual Keyboard Developer Leaked 31M Client Records</title><url>https://mackeepersecurity.com/post/virtual-keyboard-developer-leaked-31-million-of-client-records</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tambourine_man</author><text>These guys write Mac malware for a living and use nefarious tactics to fool users into installing it, while making it really hard to uninstall. I&#x27;ve seen it on the Mac of many less technically inclined people.<p>Things like: “your Mac has been infected, click here” while the user is downloading some torrent or watching porn. Faking the system&#x27;s dialog boxes, using chatbots “is your Mac slow?”, etc.<p>I&#x27;m amazed Apple hasn&#x27;t banned them from the Mac App Store. I don&#x27;t know how these people sleep at night.</text></comment> | <story><title>Virtual Keyboard Developer Leaked 31M Client Records</title><url>https://mackeepersecurity.com/post/virtual-keyboard-developer-leaked-31-million-of-client-records</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lamlam</author><text>&gt;When researchers installed Ai.Type they were shocked to discover that users must allow “Full Access” to all of their data stored on the testng iPhone, including all keyboard data past and present. It raises the question of why would a keyboard and emoji application need to gather the entire data of the user’s phone or tablet?<p>I have a suspicion that due to how cheap bulk storage is these days, that companies collect as much information as they can get away with in hopes that _maybe_ it will be useful one day. That mixed with poor security practices is just going to keep leading to these sorts of events happening.</text></comment> |
24,790,631 | 24,790,355 | 1 | 2 | 24,788,850 | train | <story><title>Dropbox Converts to Permanent WFH</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/dropbox-letting-all-employees-work-from-home-permanently-2020-10</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>derefr</author><text>&gt; collaborative work in &quot;studios&quot;, basically reimagining the offices into collaborative&#x2F;convening spaces that you go into from ~once&#x2F;week to once a quarter depending on team&#x2F;role.<p>I’m forgetting their name for them, but IBM has been doing this for decades now. They buy up office space in every major city, and then, rather than permanently stationing any teams there, essentially make all such spaces into private-access coworking spaces.<p>In these IBM offices, there’s cubicles, hot desks, and meeting rooms, all set up with runs of Intranet-accessible Ethernet + wi-fi + softphones; and you can either just drop in to work, or freely reserve any amount of these from the office’s concierge for days&#x2F;weeks&#x2F;months at a time — for yourself, or for your entire team, if you’ve brought your whole team with you to another city&#x2F;country to do a high-touch customer deployment or something.<p>At least in the office I went to (Burnaby BC), it was almost entirely empty most of the time. So there was plenty of spare “capacity” in this network for any random need a team or individual might have.<p>It’s a very nice model. Slap an API on it and you could call it “elastic office-space IaaS.” :)</text></item><item><author>dhouston</author><text>To be clear (if you only read the headline :)), not entirely remote. Solo work at home, collaborative work in &quot;studios&quot;, basically reimagining the offices into collaborative&#x2F;convening spaces that you go into from ~once&#x2F;week to once a quarter depending on team&#x2F;role.<p>Remote-only cuts out the in-person experience entirely, which is problematic for building teams and culture; and ad hoc &quot;WFH whenever you feel like it&quot; gets a sort of worst-of-both-worlds situation where you neither get the same kind of flexibility nor the sense of community you typically get from an office (since a large percentage of the team isn&#x27;t there on any given day, and folks that come in the office less tend to be at a disadvantage in terms of visibility &amp; recognition).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>koboll</author><text>&gt;They buy up office space in every major city, and then, rather than permanently stationing any teams there, essentially make all such spaces into private-access coworking spaces.<p>Well, this makes sense, since IBM is effectively a consulting firm now. This is how all consulting firms operate -- there are tons of these all over the place in DC.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dropbox Converts to Permanent WFH</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/dropbox-letting-all-employees-work-from-home-permanently-2020-10</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>derefr</author><text>&gt; collaborative work in &quot;studios&quot;, basically reimagining the offices into collaborative&#x2F;convening spaces that you go into from ~once&#x2F;week to once a quarter depending on team&#x2F;role.<p>I’m forgetting their name for them, but IBM has been doing this for decades now. They buy up office space in every major city, and then, rather than permanently stationing any teams there, essentially make all such spaces into private-access coworking spaces.<p>In these IBM offices, there’s cubicles, hot desks, and meeting rooms, all set up with runs of Intranet-accessible Ethernet + wi-fi + softphones; and you can either just drop in to work, or freely reserve any amount of these from the office’s concierge for days&#x2F;weeks&#x2F;months at a time — for yourself, or for your entire team, if you’ve brought your whole team with you to another city&#x2F;country to do a high-touch customer deployment or something.<p>At least in the office I went to (Burnaby BC), it was almost entirely empty most of the time. So there was plenty of spare “capacity” in this network for any random need a team or individual might have.<p>It’s a very nice model. Slap an API on it and you could call it “elastic office-space IaaS.” :)</text></item><item><author>dhouston</author><text>To be clear (if you only read the headline :)), not entirely remote. Solo work at home, collaborative work in &quot;studios&quot;, basically reimagining the offices into collaborative&#x2F;convening spaces that you go into from ~once&#x2F;week to once a quarter depending on team&#x2F;role.<p>Remote-only cuts out the in-person experience entirely, which is problematic for building teams and culture; and ad hoc &quot;WFH whenever you feel like it&quot; gets a sort of worst-of-both-worlds situation where you neither get the same kind of flexibility nor the sense of community you typically get from an office (since a large percentage of the team isn&#x27;t there on any given day, and folks that come in the office less tend to be at a disadvantage in terms of visibility &amp; recognition).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ViViDboarder</author><text>IBM calls it hotelling. You can book a desk and check in at any office.</text></comment> |
12,164,116 | 12,164,055 | 1 | 2 | 12,163,838 | train | <story><title>Ember.js 2.7 and 2.8 beta released</title><url>http://emberjs.com/blog/2016/07/25/ember-2-7-and-2-8-beta-released.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Longwelwind</author><text>Over-reliance on strings is a pattern that I&#x27;ve seen a lot in the Javascript environment. For example:<p><pre><code> var arr = [{ value: &#x27;a&#x27; }, { value: &#x27;a&#x27; }, { value: &#x27;b&#x27; }, { value: &#x27;b&#x27; }];
arr.uniqBy(&#x27;value&#x27;); &#x2F;&#x2F; [{ value: &#x27;a&#x27; }, { value: &#x27;b&#x27; }]
</code></pre>
Wouldn&#x27;t be better to do something like this ?<p><pre><code> var arr = [{ value: &#x27;a&#x27; }, { value: &#x27;a&#x27; }, { value: &#x27;b&#x27; }, { value: &#x27;b&#x27; }];
arr.uniqBy(element =&gt; element.value); &#x2F;&#x2F; [{ value: &#x27;a&#x27; }, { value: &#x27;b&#x27; }]
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You have to write a little bit more (I could have used &quot;e&quot; instead of &quot;element&quot;, though) but if you do a typo in the name of the property, it can be caught by a linter&#x2F;compiler, and you don&#x27;t get the feeling you&#x27;re relying on Vodoo magic.<p>Are there any advantages to use a string instead of a &quot;static&quot; way of accessing the property ?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>orf</author><text>EmberJS uses strings as property paths. You can use &#x27;foo.bar.firstObject.baz&#x27; as a unique key the same as any other function that takes a property paths (like a computed property). In Ember you write a <i>lot</i> of these so any small overhead like a lambda is a bit of a waste.<p>Also I don&#x27;t think ember would work with functions instead of strings, the whole point of the strings is that the unique function is <i>only called when one of the items in the property paths changes</i>, and you can&#x27;t get that from functions. You can only evaluate them.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ember.js 2.7 and 2.8 beta released</title><url>http://emberjs.com/blog/2016/07/25/ember-2-7-and-2-8-beta-released.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Longwelwind</author><text>Over-reliance on strings is a pattern that I&#x27;ve seen a lot in the Javascript environment. For example:<p><pre><code> var arr = [{ value: &#x27;a&#x27; }, { value: &#x27;a&#x27; }, { value: &#x27;b&#x27; }, { value: &#x27;b&#x27; }];
arr.uniqBy(&#x27;value&#x27;); &#x2F;&#x2F; [{ value: &#x27;a&#x27; }, { value: &#x27;b&#x27; }]
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Wouldn&#x27;t be better to do something like this ?<p><pre><code> var arr = [{ value: &#x27;a&#x27; }, { value: &#x27;a&#x27; }, { value: &#x27;b&#x27; }, { value: &#x27;b&#x27; }];
arr.uniqBy(element =&gt; element.value); &#x2F;&#x2F; [{ value: &#x27;a&#x27; }, { value: &#x27;b&#x27; }]
</code></pre>
You have to write a little bit more (I could have used &quot;e&quot; instead of &quot;element&quot;, though) but if you do a typo in the name of the property, it can be caught by a linter&#x2F;compiler, and you don&#x27;t get the feeling you&#x27;re relying on Vodoo magic.<p>Are there any advantages to use a string instead of a &quot;static&quot; way of accessing the property ?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>topaxi</author><text>The xxBy methods are just for convenience, usually you can provide your own function for each method.<p>Example:<p><pre><code> Ember.computed.map(&#x27;myArray&#x27;, function() {
return foo.bar;
})
</code></pre>
vs.<p><pre><code> Ember.computed.mapBy(&#x27;myArray&#x27;, &#x27;bar&#x27;)
</code></pre>
What you are asking for, would need a change to Ember.computed.uniq, allowing it to accept a custom function.</text></comment> |
14,546,857 | 14,547,145 | 1 | 2 | 14,545,923 | train | <story><title>Tesla Model X Is First SUV to Achieve 5-Star Crash Rating in Every Category</title><url>https://www.tesla.com/blog/tesla-model-x-5-star-safety-rating</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jamesred</author><text>I know Tesla likes to tout a best in class crash rating. It just isn&#x27;t true for the Model S.<p>The Model S gets a &quot;A&quot; for acceptable on the front small overlap test from the IIHS. The highest grade is a &quot;G&quot;.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iihs.org&#x2F;iihs&#x2F;ratings&#x2F;vehicle&#x2F;v&#x2F;tesla&#x2F;model-s-4-door-hatchback&#x2F;2017" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iihs.org&#x2F;iihs&#x2F;ratings&#x2F;vehicle&#x2F;v&#x2F;tesla&#x2F;model-s-4-d...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jamesred</author><text>If you compare the images of the Model S on:<p>Small overlap front:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iihs.org&#x2F;frontend&#x2F;iihs&#x2F;ratings&#x2F;images&#x2F;api-rating-image.ashx?id=4125&amp;width=800" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iihs.org&#x2F;frontend&#x2F;iihs&#x2F;ratings&#x2F;images&#x2F;api-rating-...</a><p>Moderate overlap front:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iihs.org&#x2F;frontend&#x2F;iihs&#x2F;ratings&#x2F;images&#x2F;api-rating-image.ashx?id=4221&amp;width=800" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iihs.org&#x2F;frontend&#x2F;iihs&#x2F;ratings&#x2F;images&#x2F;api-rating-...</a><p>You can clearly see a difference where the structural integrity of the door area begins to fail.<p>Compare that to the BMW 5 series in small overlap front:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iihs.org&#x2F;frontend&#x2F;iihs&#x2F;ratings&#x2F;images&#x2F;api-rating-image.ashx?id=4344&amp;width=800" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iihs.org&#x2F;frontend&#x2F;iihs&#x2F;ratings&#x2F;images&#x2F;api-rating-...</a><p>There doesn&#x27;t appear to be any structural damage to the door area.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla Model X Is First SUV to Achieve 5-Star Crash Rating in Every Category</title><url>https://www.tesla.com/blog/tesla-model-x-5-star-safety-rating</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jamesred</author><text>I know Tesla likes to tout a best in class crash rating. It just isn&#x27;t true for the Model S.<p>The Model S gets a &quot;A&quot; for acceptable on the front small overlap test from the IIHS. The highest grade is a &quot;G&quot;.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iihs.org&#x2F;iihs&#x2F;ratings&#x2F;vehicle&#x2F;v&#x2F;tesla&#x2F;model-s-4-door-hatchback&#x2F;2017" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iihs.org&#x2F;iihs&#x2F;ratings&#x2F;vehicle&#x2F;v&#x2F;tesla&#x2F;model-s-4-d...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cookingboy</author><text>Tesla optimizes for NHTSA testing, which doesn&#x27;t test a lot of very high end vehicles.<p>Tesla fares more poorly in the more difficult IIHS and EuroCAP tests, which actually test high end vehicles frequently.<p>But nothing stops Elon from bragging about how this makes the Model X the safest car blah blah.</text></comment> |
36,436,302 | 36,433,568 | 1 | 2 | 36,432,595 | train | <story><title>RSS Autodiscovery (2006)</title><url>https://www.rssboard.org/rss-autodiscovery</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ozarker</author><text>I&#x27;ve been discovering different tools to make the content I consume available via RSS. Some of those tools:<p>nitter: Alternative Twitter frontend that provides RSS feeds<p>teddit: Alternative Reddit frontend that provides RSS feeds (Reddit itself still has RSS feeds, we&#x27;ll see how that plays out though)<p>rss-bridge: Can generate feeds for a ton of different sites. I use it for Twitch feeds.<p>invidious: Alternative YouTube frontend that provides RSS feeds<p>It&#x27;s been refreshing to subscribe to the feeds I want to see and not have &quot;recommended&quot; content stepping all over what I want to see. Recent trends make me worried some of these services are going to go away in the near future though.</text></item><item><author>samwillis</author><text>The &#x27;00s were such a wonderful time, the explosion in open access information, mashups (how I miss mashups!), easy publishing and the reach you could get from your sofa. RSS is the epitome of that, it&#x27;s such a shame we have ended up with these walled garden social publishing platforms that lock <i>our</i> content down.<p>This, adding the RSS icon to the address bar, was an inspired move to surface discoverability. Compare that with the fight to get Apple to surface the availability of PWAs!<p>The big thing that has changed since that time is the monetisation, these walled platforms have had to instigate revenue share with large creators. But still, the wish for a simpler more open web is in the background. There is evidence of a swing back that way (the fediverse, blue sky?), I just hope &quot;big business&quot; doesn&#x27;t destroy it (the rumour of Facebook embracing the fediverse...).<p>RSS isn&#x27;t dead, it&#x27;s the backbone of podcasts, but it&#x27;s such a shame our Twitter feed, our Facebook, or even our Twitch isn&#x27;t available as RSS.<p>Back in &#x27;06, my &quot;mashup&quot; was a social feed aggregator, it gave you a single &quot;homepage&quot; with all your activity from Myspace, Facebook, Reddit, Digg, Flickr, and many other sites. A lot of that was built on RSS, and you could add any RSS fead to your page. Sadly it went nowhere, but I learnt a lot...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ittner</author><text>&gt; rss-bridge: Can generate feeds for a ton of different sites. I use it for Twitch feeds.<p>A bit of a shameless self-promotion plug: rss-bridge is great but I wanted to do the same from a command line program sending the output to stdout and without running a dedicated local web server, so I wrote newslinkrss ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ittner&#x2F;newslinkrss&#x2F;">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ittner&#x2F;newslinkrss&#x2F;</a> )<p>It allowed me to replace a bunch of dedicated scripts at the cost of some complex command lines. It works pretty well for people who prefer desktop news readers to web-based ones.<p>Feedback is welcome.</text></comment> | <story><title>RSS Autodiscovery (2006)</title><url>https://www.rssboard.org/rss-autodiscovery</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ozarker</author><text>I&#x27;ve been discovering different tools to make the content I consume available via RSS. Some of those tools:<p>nitter: Alternative Twitter frontend that provides RSS feeds<p>teddit: Alternative Reddit frontend that provides RSS feeds (Reddit itself still has RSS feeds, we&#x27;ll see how that plays out though)<p>rss-bridge: Can generate feeds for a ton of different sites. I use it for Twitch feeds.<p>invidious: Alternative YouTube frontend that provides RSS feeds<p>It&#x27;s been refreshing to subscribe to the feeds I want to see and not have &quot;recommended&quot; content stepping all over what I want to see. Recent trends make me worried some of these services are going to go away in the near future though.</text></item><item><author>samwillis</author><text>The &#x27;00s were such a wonderful time, the explosion in open access information, mashups (how I miss mashups!), easy publishing and the reach you could get from your sofa. RSS is the epitome of that, it&#x27;s such a shame we have ended up with these walled garden social publishing platforms that lock <i>our</i> content down.<p>This, adding the RSS icon to the address bar, was an inspired move to surface discoverability. Compare that with the fight to get Apple to surface the availability of PWAs!<p>The big thing that has changed since that time is the monetisation, these walled platforms have had to instigate revenue share with large creators. But still, the wish for a simpler more open web is in the background. There is evidence of a swing back that way (the fediverse, blue sky?), I just hope &quot;big business&quot; doesn&#x27;t destroy it (the rumour of Facebook embracing the fediverse...).<p>RSS isn&#x27;t dead, it&#x27;s the backbone of podcasts, but it&#x27;s such a shame our Twitter feed, our Facebook, or even our Twitch isn&#x27;t available as RSS.<p>Back in &#x27;06, my &quot;mashup&quot; was a social feed aggregator, it gave you a single &quot;homepage&quot; with all your activity from Myspace, Facebook, Reddit, Digg, Flickr, and many other sites. A lot of that was built on RSS, and you could add any RSS fead to your page. Sadly it went nowhere, but I learnt a lot...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nordsieck</author><text>&gt; invidious: Alternative YouTube frontend that provides RSS feeds<p>Youtube natively offers per-channel rss feeds.</text></comment> |
24,951,697 | 24,951,656 | 1 | 3 | 24,951,157 | train | <story><title>Sean Connery has died</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-54761824</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>arpa</author><text>I will be forced to modify my long running bad joke: &quot;How did Sir Sean Connery use to shave? CTRL+Sh!&quot;. Rest in peace, sir.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sean Connery has died</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-54761824</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>redvenom</author><text>RIP. Awesome actor. Wonderful bond.</text></comment> |
21,199,261 | 21,198,950 | 1 | 3 | 21,198,670 | train | <story><title>Report: WeWork expected to cut 500 tech roles</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/08/wework-layoffs-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cagenut</author><text>I kinda wish there was a job for like, DevOps Hatchet Men. I don&#x27;t want to lay people off, but after they&#x27;re laid off I feel like I could probably delete about a million dollars a year worth of their AWS bill right now and they&#x27;d never even notice the stuff missing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Merrill</author><text>I sort of did that for a while. The differences between what management thinks they have, what is actually running, what data centers are charging back, what licenses are being invoiced, what finance is depreciating, and what is actually needed for operations can be astonishingly large.</text></comment> | <story><title>Report: WeWork expected to cut 500 tech roles</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/08/wework-layoffs-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cagenut</author><text>I kinda wish there was a job for like, DevOps Hatchet Men. I don&#x27;t want to lay people off, but after they&#x27;re laid off I feel like I could probably delete about a million dollars a year worth of their AWS bill right now and they&#x27;d never even notice the stuff missing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lprubin</author><text>Sounds like a great consulting niche. It&#x27;s a simple to understand value proposition and I imagine there is somebody powerful at many successful companies that would love to see the huge server cost line item go way down on their P&amp;L.</text></comment> |
23,418,475 | 23,418,199 | 1 | 2 | 23,402,014 | train | <story><title>Personal Wiki for Vim</title><url>https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hd4</author><text>I want to put in a good word for zim-wiki here. Its a shame the Windows port seems to be on indefinite hiatus for now. Its by far the easiest GUI-based wiki to deal with, easily handles just dropping in files into a hierarchy and simply working with them after a refresh. Sorry but being able to use a mouse to navigate a wiki beats out a keyboard-based wiki any time.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zim-wiki.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zim-wiki.org&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marvinblum</author><text>Have you tried one that&#x27;s controlled by keyboard? I haven&#x27;t used Vim since I think rich text formats provide more value, but I like to control as much as possible by keyboard if possible. There are certain applications where you really need a mouse (like image editing), but I feel like the keyboard is under appreciated.<p>I&#x27;ve been working on the new user interface for Emvi [1] for the past three months or so and once you have build the muscle memory, you can use it blindly. You can read about it here [2] if you like and find current screenshots&#x2F;gifs on Twitter [3].<p>One thing that might have turned people away from learning keyboard controls is that they get overwhelmed by a ton of different shortcuts. We (hopefully) solved this issue by using commands (words) you can type out instead of remembering two or more keys.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;emvi.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;emvi.com&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;emvi.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;a-new-experimental-user-interface-QMZgmZG1L5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;emvi.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;a-new-experimental-user-interface-QMZg...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;emvi" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;emvi</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Personal Wiki for Vim</title><url>https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hd4</author><text>I want to put in a good word for zim-wiki here. Its a shame the Windows port seems to be on indefinite hiatus for now. Its by far the easiest GUI-based wiki to deal with, easily handles just dropping in files into a hierarchy and simply working with them after a refresh. Sorry but being able to use a mouse to navigate a wiki beats out a keyboard-based wiki any time.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zim-wiki.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zim-wiki.org&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pge</author><text>I just started a project to get 0.70 running for windows on my own machine. If I’m successful, I will share with the community.</text></comment> |
8,748,421 | 8,748,124 | 1 | 3 | 8,746,229 | train | <story><title>Small Bank in Kansas Is a Financial Testing Ground</title><url>http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/12/13/small-bank-in-kansas-is-a-financial-testing-ground</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>davidw</author><text>&gt; In the coming weeks, it is expecting to roll out what it refers to as a bank account of the future, which will make it possible to send wire payments and create customized debit cards online.<p>Or at least a bank account of a normal European bank. At least for the moving money part. I can do that easily and with no fees here in Italy, which isn&#x27;t the leading light of banking it was 600 years ago.<p>Hopefully that kind of thing will finally take off in the US. I wonder what the difference is:<p>&gt; But hastening the movement of money creates risk for banks, because it generally means less time to catch fraudulent transactions.<p>That&#x27;s got to be a risk in Europe, too, no? How is it dealt with differently?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacques_chester</author><text>&gt; <i>How is it dealt with differently?</i><p>I can&#x27;t speak for Europe. I once griped about the slowness of US banking to an Australian acquaintance who worked in banking technology in Australia and Britain. Here follows my half-remembered, probably inaccurate understanding.<p>In Australia, a bank has a very high confidence of that a transfer is going from real, physical person A to real, physical person B.<p>This is because of the &quot;100 Point&quot; identity check you need to perform when you open account. To open a bank account, you need to present multiple, independent forms of ID, including at least a driver&#x27;s licence or a passport and some identification showing your current residential address.<p>It can absolutely be circumvented, but the bar for doing so is significantly higher than casual small-time fraudsters are interested in.<p>In the USA, I can find a small-town bank who will open my account without looking at me too closely, then start issuing dodgy cheques much more easily. In Australia, <i>no matter where I go</i>, I will be required to prove that I am who I say I am. So the ability for banks or police to lay hands on me or my money is significantly strengthened, and consequently the rate of fraud is lower.<p>I see this also with online shopping. In Australia I never once, in my entire life, had a credit card purchase rejected. In the USA my Bank of America card regularly locks up and waits until I login to assure them that it hasn&#x27;t been stolen.</text></comment> | <story><title>Small Bank in Kansas Is a Financial Testing Ground</title><url>http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/12/13/small-bank-in-kansas-is-a-financial-testing-ground</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>davidw</author><text>&gt; In the coming weeks, it is expecting to roll out what it refers to as a bank account of the future, which will make it possible to send wire payments and create customized debit cards online.<p>Or at least a bank account of a normal European bank. At least for the moving money part. I can do that easily and with no fees here in Italy, which isn&#x27;t the leading light of banking it was 600 years ago.<p>Hopefully that kind of thing will finally take off in the US. I wonder what the difference is:<p>&gt; But hastening the movement of money creates risk for banks, because it generally means less time to catch fraudulent transactions.<p>That&#x27;s got to be a risk in Europe, too, no? How is it dealt with differently?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maxerickson</author><text>I think most of the difference is in the legal frameworks and contracts. Most US electronic payments (ACH) can be disputed for quite some time after the initial transfer.</text></comment> |
26,285,162 | 26,284,511 | 1 | 3 | 26,283,348 | train | <story><title>Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL (2016)</title><url>https://eng.uber.com/postgres-to-mysql-migration/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blowski</author><text>I spent a whole decade saying &quot;Why do I need Postgres? MySQL is fine.&quot;<p>Started using Postgres a couple of years ago, and I now can&#x27;t believe I ever lived without window functions, native arrays, custom types, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tpetry</author><text>The best part is transactional ddl statements. You can do your database migration in a transaction, if something fails the transaction is rolled back compared to an invalid state with mysql.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL (2016)</title><url>https://eng.uber.com/postgres-to-mysql-migration/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blowski</author><text>I spent a whole decade saying &quot;Why do I need Postgres? MySQL is fine.&quot;<p>Started using Postgres a couple of years ago, and I now can&#x27;t believe I ever lived without window functions, native arrays, custom types, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bombcar</author><text>I’ve wanted to try post geese but have never really had a chance - everything I do is “prepackaged” and things like Wordpress or Confluence really don’t seem to care if it is MySQL or Postgres.</text></comment> |
11,181,941 | 11,182,036 | 1 | 2 | 11,181,742 | train | <story><title>GCC 6: -Wmisleading-indentation vs. “goto fail;”</title><url>http://developerblog.redhat.com/2016/02/26/gcc-6-wmisleading-indentation-vs-goto-fail/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>strommen</author><text>Making braces optional in single-statement if&#x2F;else&#x2F;while&#x2F;for clauses is one of the biggest anti-features in C. It&#x27;s frustrating that it was ported forward to more modern languages like Java, JavaScript, C#, etc.<p>I&#x27;m glad Python (with semantic whitespace) and Go (with gofmt) solve this problem.</text></comment> | <story><title>GCC 6: -Wmisleading-indentation vs. “goto fail;”</title><url>http://developerblog.redhat.com/2016/02/26/gcc-6-wmisleading-indentation-vs-goto-fail/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>andybak</author><text>The argument for significant white space in Python goes as follows:<p>You need indentation for humans to understand the structure. Why do you also need braces for the parser to understand the structure when the parser can use the same information that your eyes use? You therefore avoid the possibility of the two signals contradicting each other.</text></comment> |
3,964,214 | 3,964,091 | 1 | 2 | 3,963,297 | train | <story><title>The SIM-less Phone Is Coming. And It Should Scare The Shit Out Of You</title><url>http://shkspr.mobi/blog/index.php/2012/05/the-sim-less-phone-is-coming-and-it-should-scare-the-shit-out-of-you/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>st3fan</author><text>I look forward to the moment when I can buy a world-wide subscription from Apple as an MNVO that just works all over the globe without the almost criminal roaming rates and hassles that we currently have.<p>Earlier this year I was on a trip to Europe and accidentally turned on my iPhone in Paris. It automatically checked my email and I probably reloaded my twitter stream. It was just 700 KB but I was charged a good $25 for that. That roaming rate translates to roughly 35000 CAD/GB.<p><i>THIRTY-FIVE-THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR ONE GIG OF DATA</i><p>Someone please end this madness. Please let this be Apple.</text></item><item><author>stephengillie</author><text>In short, Apple is becoming an MNVO. With Mobile Network Virtual Operators, you don't know which carrier your connection is actually going over.<p>Apple is signaling to the rest of us that the "dumb pipe" future which carriers are facing is quickly approaching.<p>None of us will care who provides the future 4G/5G/6G connection; we'll just go with the cheapest carrier at the time. Apple here is just streamlining this process so their customers won't have to waste their time and money figuring it out, and they probably won't be alone in offering this type of service to the public.<p>---<p>Edit: The article makes a big deal about not being able to remove the SIM card from your phone. CDMA phones have never had SIM cards - to switch phones with Verizon or Sprint, you have to update which MEID or IMEI (number from the phone) is attached to your account. For many years, we were locked into brand-only phones because they were the only ones in the "allowed" database.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kamechan</author><text>In my experience, Apple actually made this process of "global roaming" worse, not better.<p>Case in point: I spend about 2 months a year in Japan and a month in London. I live in the US and have a plan through ATT. I used to have an iPhone 3gs, and then a 4 (now a Galaxy Nexus).<p>The first time I travelled to London with my iPhone, I knew enough to be paranoid about overages and activated my global roaming service and bought 25MB of data coverage just so I could use it in a pinch. ATT customers were supposed to be able to get free WiFi at Starbucks. That turned out to be false. Fortunately, almost every pub in London has free wifi and I tend to spend more time in pubs than Starbucks anyway.<p>The second or third day I was there I called ATT to try to get them to give me the unlock code so I could swap my US SIM out for one from O2. After about 30 minutes on the phone, I finally got someone who put it plainly, "Sir, if you had any other phone besides the iPhone, we'd be glad to let you unlock your phone so you could use the SIM from the local carrier. But we are under strict orders from Apple not to." I bought a 20£ throwaway Nokia the next day which had a free 30£ top-up with it and used it for the duration of the trip.<p>I have had similar experiences in Japan, except I have always had a Japanese phone (because I use the NFC-based Suica card for the Metro and in convenience stores). A couple years ago, I needed to be on-call whilst in Tokyo and wanted to be able to answer my iPhone if it rang. Long story short, my iPhone didn't even work in Tokyo ... regardless that the global roaming was turned on (and I was paying for it).<p>Was in Tokyo from Nov-Jan this last year. Brought my [unlocked] Galaxy S2 I had at the time. Went to Softbank with my wife, and went through the normal procedure of proving citizenship (hers, not mine) etc. to get Japanese rate plans. Also had brought my Japanese phone. SIM swapped into my GS2, worked perfectly. No more global roaming/iPhone drama. Had tried to do similar with iPhone previously, carriers in Tokyo wouldn't touch it. Same thing, "Under strict orders from Apple not to …"<p>Went back with my Nexus recently. Put SIM from GS2 into Nexus. Worked flawlessly, as unlocked phones have been doing forever. I do not yearn for an Apple-controlled MNVO. a) I like specifically choosing whatever carrier works best for my needs at the time (via a SIM card) b) my experiences roaming with iPhone so far have been much MORE expensive than with any other phone.<p>Edit: wanted to make it clear that the "unlocked" GS2 was an ATT GS2 which ATT voluntarily gave me the unlock code for when I called and told them I would be travelling with it.</text></comment> | <story><title>The SIM-less Phone Is Coming. And It Should Scare The Shit Out Of You</title><url>http://shkspr.mobi/blog/index.php/2012/05/the-sim-less-phone-is-coming-and-it-should-scare-the-shit-out-of-you/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>st3fan</author><text>I look forward to the moment when I can buy a world-wide subscription from Apple as an MNVO that just works all over the globe without the almost criminal roaming rates and hassles that we currently have.<p>Earlier this year I was on a trip to Europe and accidentally turned on my iPhone in Paris. It automatically checked my email and I probably reloaded my twitter stream. It was just 700 KB but I was charged a good $25 for that. That roaming rate translates to roughly 35000 CAD/GB.<p><i>THIRTY-FIVE-THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR ONE GIG OF DATA</i><p>Someone please end this madness. Please let this be Apple.</text></item><item><author>stephengillie</author><text>In short, Apple is becoming an MNVO. With Mobile Network Virtual Operators, you don't know which carrier your connection is actually going over.<p>Apple is signaling to the rest of us that the "dumb pipe" future which carriers are facing is quickly approaching.<p>None of us will care who provides the future 4G/5G/6G connection; we'll just go with the cheapest carrier at the time. Apple here is just streamlining this process so their customers won't have to waste their time and money figuring it out, and they probably won't be alone in offering this type of service to the public.<p>---<p>Edit: The article makes a big deal about not being able to remove the SIM card from your phone. CDMA phones have never had SIM cards - to switch phones with Verizon or Sprint, you have to update which MEID or IMEI (number from the phone) is attached to your account. For many years, we were locked into brand-only phones because they were the only ones in the "allowed" database.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pmjordan</author><text>You might want to disable the data roaming setting in the "Cellular Data" section of the phone's Settings. It actually defaults to off in my experience, but maybe some SIM-locked ones have it enabled by the carrier by default?<p>Otherwise, I agree, the typical data roaming charges are ridiculous. I don't see why they should be more than, say, twice your home rate (as there are 2 companies involved). Many of the mobile networks are giant multinationals anyway - the fact that roaming in, say, Vodafone.de's network as a Vodafone.co.uk customer, costs a made-up amount of money is just ridiculous. Hutchison 3G ('3') actually have a system called '3LikeHome' in some countries, which let you roam in foreign '3' networks for the same price as your home network - this only includes calls and texts to other 3 numbers, but also, crucially, data. It's great, but there aren't many countries covered by it. And I can only assume it's not driving enough customers away from other operators to affect their bottom lines. But then most people don't seem to choose their phone tariffs rationally anyway. (OMG! A free phone! Only €50 a month! [NB: minimum contract 2 years])<p>I'm just fearful that taking the SIM card out of the equation will leave us in a <i>worse</i> position, where we can't even work around the problem by buying prepaid SIM cards when abroad.</text></comment> |
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